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12hr total bandh on February 17 DimaPur, February 16 (mexN): The phasewise agitation announced by the United Sangtam Likhum Pumji (USLP), United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) and the Akehda Sangtam Thsingmujanglaru (AST) will begin with a 12-hour Kiphire district shutdown on February 17. Terming it as the first phase of the agitation, the USSC through a press release informed that the three organisations unanimously decided to enforce “total bandh” on Wednesday from 5:00 am to 5:00 pm. “Total bandh shall be imposed strictly upon any individual/group/society. There will be no vehicular movement and individuals, strict action will be imposed to defaulters,” it warned. However, students appearing exams, security and medical personnel will be exempt.

KU objects to Sonari as district HQs

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DimaPur, February 16 (mexN): While congratulating the people of Cherideo Sonari subdivision for attainment of District status as a “milestone,” the Konyak Union (KU) today strongly objected to the establishment of District Head Quarter at Sonari before the complete resolution of border dispute between the Assam and Nagaland. A press note from KU President S Manlip Konyak and General Secretary, Y Hosea Konyak claimed that the present Sonari area falls well within the traditional land of Konyak Naga but was “encroached” upon

by Assam over the years.

“The Konyak Naga ancestral land extent up to Tuhotur Ali (your Road) which is well known to fore-fathers of Thai-Ahom Kingdom” it maintained adding that the Konyak Naga had cordial relations and shared the traditional boundary with Thai-Ahom people.

“Since the border issue of Assam & Nagaland is keeping pending with Supreme Court, and before any decision or judgment is delivered by the Supreme Court, the establishment of District Head Quarter in the disputed area will clearly prejudice (sic),” it added. The KU also informed that it is the apex body of the Konyak Naga under Mon district of Nagaland and represents the people of Konyaks inhabiting across the Indo-Myanmar Borders, inter State border of Assam- NagalandArunachal Pradesh.

— Edith Wharton

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no textbooks, no classes ennG has no intention to

‘create enmity’ or ‘division’

Oh yes, yes, yes! Let’s talk February 16, Tuesday, was a normal working day but Goverment Primary School, Mezoma is seen locked as the school remains close due to non-availibility of textbooks meant for teaching the students. Villagers and teachers said, the textabout Nagamese!! books usually arrive one month after the commencement of normal academic year. (Morung Photo)

USLP, AST and USSC 1st Phase Agitation

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Morung Express News Mezoma | February 16

Thepfukuokho Kuotsu, Teacherin-charge of Government Primary School, Mezoma can only recall a single occasion when textbooks for students in his village arrived on time. But he cannot recall when as it has been a “very long time.”

However there is nothing unusual about the late arrival. The ‘normal’ arrival of textbooks is late by a month, but no sooner than a month, said Kuotsu, adding that it is not restricted to Mezoma alone but many other villages too undergo the same cycle of late distribution of textbooks every year.

The Village Education Committee (VEC) Chairperson, K. Kuotsu, confirmed the information.

Along with the rest of the schools in Nagaland, the two Government Primary Schools and Government High School in Mezoma officially “reopened” in the first week of February.

But a visit to these schools on Tuesday, February 16 – a working day- was greeted with locked doors.

The reason: failure to provide textbooks on time.

Most of the teachers had either gone to field or out for other engagements as the schools were closed unofficially for the want of teaching ap-

paratus.

“We cannot start classes without textbooks,” said Kuotsu while also speculating ‘rumors’ of changes in the curriculum.

Kuotsu, like the many other teachers in the rural areas, has lost faith in the system. So has the VEC of Mezoma. “Despite the many complains and appeals voiced by the schools and students’ organisation, I

ment of teachers in other activities, it was informed.

While acute shortage of teacher is a common feature in most of the schools, the teachers are made to engage in other activities by the government such as deputing for Census enumeration works, as Booth Level Officers, appointment by Economic and Statistics department for assistance in Birth and Death rates etc.

Most teachers are made to attend trainings after which they have to send reports, it was noted.

As a result, the teachers have to juggle many activities along with teaching affecting their performance adversely. Requests were often made to concerned authorities to disallow teachers from engaging in such activities as it was hampering the education of the children. However, this has not stopped the authorities from involving the teachers.

The case of government schools in Mezoma is just a fraction of what most government schools in rural Nagaland face. Mezoma Village’s proximity to State capital, Kohima, which is just 8.8 km away, has not contributed to prompt delivery of public services.

The next Naga generation, then, will continue to live with this apathy from the Nagaland State Government and wait for their education till their textbooks arrive and schools resume.

Schools in rural areas suffering from Nagaland State Govt apathy have never experienced a time when textbooks arrived on time,” said the teacher-in-charge.

The late distribution of books, however, is not the only problem the government schools in Mezoma have to struggle with. Compared to four years ago, the mid-day meal ration distributions have decreased drastically.

“Now they don’t even provide us monthly (ration),” maintained Kuotsu.

In 2015, they reportedly received ration only three times and in each distribution the school received only about three bags of rice and a little money for buying other ingredients used in cooking the mid day meal.

Another problem plaguing the village school system is the engage-

DimaPur, February 16 (mexN): The recently formed Eastern Naga National Government (ENNG) has said in a press statement today that it has no intention to “create enmity” among the Naga political groups of western and eastern Nagaland or to create division within the Naga general public.

But the time has arrived for “every Naga to defend their own territories from being destroyed and mismanagement by wrong political ideologies,” noted the press statement from R. Stephen Naga, President of the ENNG, while informing all Naga Political Groups to “to refrain from bloodshed as in the past decades.”

The President of the freshly floated ‘Government’ also asked Nagas everywhere to be “sincere and honest” because the Naga has “nothing to achieve or demand sovereignty from their fellow Naga brothers” as “wherever you belong there is your 100% birth right to defend your nation.”

R. Stephen Naga further stated that no single Naga or group must have “evil intention” upon each other, or groups, as in the past decades. We must learn from past experiences, he noted. Almighty God getting furious is no good for the “course of our Nation.”

While appreciating the ongoing peace talks between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India, the ENNG President stated that one day the Nation will applaud the “permanent

NSCN (K) speaks out on formation of ENNG

DimaPur, February 16 (mexN): The NSCN (K) alleged today that the Eastern Naga National Government (ENNG) is an “initiative of India’s age old trademark divisive craft to sabotage Nagas sovereign struggle under SS Khaplang led NSCN/GPRN.” In a statement from its MIP, Col. Isak Sumi of the NSCN (K) stated that the “sly nature of furnishing bogus and non-existent identities of leaders of this newly flouted gang itself indicate insidious intent.”

Stating that their leader, R. Stephen is “none other than Mr. Toshan Mossang of Nampong under Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh and the rest of the leaders provided are all but fictitious,” the NSCN (K) MIP informed that it shall “not allow this India indoctrinated pariah gang to exist or function in Eastern Nagaland under any circumstance nor shall NSCN allow Eastern Nagaland to be used as solution.”

The ENNG also requested the “general public, missionaries, pastors and faith home keepers” to uphold and keep in prayers the Naga Political Groups and “keep on watching” that

breeding ground for anti-nationals, any individual or group associating with this gang shall be treated as collaborator and same yardstick shall be applied as with any anti-national element.”

The NSCN (K) further noted that Eastern Nagaland has “ever been the backbone of Naga struggle and have weathered many political storms without conciliation.”

Likewise, they shall “never forfeit the sovereign rights of the Nagas.”

The NSCN (K) also appealed to all Naga people to “broaden outlook and imbibe Pan-Naga National ideal and not to limit oneself within narrow confines of artificially created compartments such as Nagas of Nagaland, Arunachal, Manipur, Assam, Myanmar etc.”

“Any individual, group or organisation emphasizing on solution in tune with the existing forced arrangements will only be an act of perpetuating the political subjection of the Nagas further,” it asserted.

they do good work and bear fruit for the Naga people.

“Also mention to God, to turn the evils Naga leaders their evil heart and mindset to the Lord for the sake of Naga Nation,” the press statement read.

CFMG Chairperson finds YAA reacts to USLP, USSC, AST resolution movement restriction accusations “baseless” Terms as divisive and provocative Kohima, February 16 (mexN): Chairperson of the Cease Fire Monitoring Group (CFMG), Lt. Gen (Retd) NK Singh, has stated that accusations made against him by the NSCN (IM) at a press briefing in Dimapur on February 10 are “baseless.”

In a press release, Singh today found it “amazing and ironical” that the NSCN (IM) is “accusing” the Chairperson of “sabotaging and derailing” the peace process between the Government of India (GoI) and the NSCN (IM) when he is “in no way involved in the talks at the highest levels in New Delhi.”

Singh found NSCN (IM)’s statement that the “chairman is a trouble creator” as “unfortunate and misplaced” because “whenever some trouble (violation of Cease Fire Ground Rules) occurred the Chairman had to take cognisance of it and take appropriate action. And this would have created some discomfort for the perpetrators of the trouble/violation, but it is not the Chairman who created the trouble in the first instance.” Singh was only following the mandate given to the Chairperson as per the Cease Fire agreement, he asserted.

Maintaining that NK Singh’s only “motive and desire” is to “see genuine peace and good law & order in Nagaland,” where “common people” live “free from the fear of the gun, and a security environment conducive to encouraging increased economic activities and local employment,” Singh appealed to the NSCN (IM) to “abide by and honour the Cease Fire Ground Rules (CFGR) in letter and spirit.”

NK Singh further asserted that pointing out CFGR violations “cannot be construed as obstructionist and hostile.”

Clarifying on the Mon stand-off, the CFMG Chairperson stated that it had started on February 7, “whereas it was only on Feb 8 that the Chairman was informed and came into

the picture while he was out of Nagaland for a few weeks.”

Singh stated that he was informed only on February 8 by Convenor of CFGM (GoI) about “NSCN (IM) having set up a camp at Neitong (Mon district) comprising 6-7 thatched huts and about 30 cadres.”

The Chairperson then stated that he conveyed to the NSCN (IM) that “since the camp was not in the current list of designated camps it must be vacated by the NSCN (IM).” He termed as “misleading” the statement of the Convenor CFMC of NSCN (IM) that the camp was approved in 2004.

“Quite far away from Neitong a camp had been proposed in Nokyan in 2004 but was not occupied, and subsequently cancelled/denotified in July 2010, almost six years ago.

NSCN (lM) would be well aware of this because a copy of the denotification letter was endorsed to NSCN (IM) also in July 2010. Its recent setting up of unauthorised camp at Neitong and concentrating armed cadres there was obviously a violation of the CFGRs which is why NSCN (IM) was asked to vacate the said camp,” reiterated NK Singh.

Finding “totally baseless” the accusation that “frisking and raids on residences” of members of the NSCN (IM) by the Assam Rifles were ordered by Singh, the CFMG Chairperson clarified that “Such actions are undertaken by the forces based on their own inputs and Chairman CFMG has not ordered a single one of them, neither does his mandate permit him to do so.”

While NK Singh clarified on several other matters, including Beisumpuikam and the Rs. 3 lakhs seized in Dhasiripar area, he maintained that there is “nothing extraordinary” if CFMG Chairperson corresponds with the GoI “which is one of the signatories to the Cease Fire agreement.”

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DimaPur, February 16 (mexN): The Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) has strongly reacted to the statement jointly issued by the United Sangtam Likhum Pumji (USLP), United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) and Akedah Sangtam Thsingmujanglaru (AST). The YAA in a statement said that the three organisations have diverged from the issue at hand and are aggravating it further.

According to the YAA, it is equally aggrieved over the February 6 incident and in that respect is honestly working to find out the perpetrators and at the same time trying to bring about an amicable solution to the problem that might have arisen. While the process is in that direction, the YAA expressed regret that the three organisations are trying to turn it into “inter-tribal issue.”

Describing the Yimchungru as one peaceful unit, the YAA further questioned the credibility of the three organisations distinguishing the Yimchungru into different sub-tribes based on dia-

lect. “… It is unbecoming on the part of the three organizations to have emotionally and ridiculously plunged head-long into the media” without substantiation, the YAA said.

It also questioned the validity of the resolution restricting movement of Yimchungrus within Sangtam jurisdiction while terming it as divisive and provocative. According to the YAA, the situation has come to such that the February 6 killing has been given secondary importance and is being used to divide the Yimchungru consequently creating law and order problems.

nagaland PWc meet Amit shah, sharad Yadav; pushes for indo-naga resolution

Leaders of Nagaland State Government’s Parliamentary Working Group seen here at New Delhi on February 16 where they are lobbying with central leaders to press for a resolution to the Indo-Naga political problem. (DIPR Photo)

Kohima, February 16 (DiPr): In consonance with the Naga Peace Accord arrived at between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) in August last year, the Government of Nagaland, heeding the call and aspirations of the Naga people, have supplemented the efforts and endeavours for a peaceful resolution to the protracted by the negotiating parties by approaching national political party leaders to support the resolution as and when the matter comes up for discussion in the Parliament.

Leading a delegation of 19-member Parliamentary Working Committee (PWC), Nagaland Assembly Speaker Chotisuh Sazo and Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today met BJP President Amit Shah and JD-U National President Sharad Yadav seeking their support to the resolution of the Naga political issue which is expected to be arrived at very soon since both parties, the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) - the principal party representing the Naga side - are reported to

be having regular talks to arrive at a lasting, honourable solution without further delay.

Government of India’s Interlocutor RN Ravi has also been meeting various sections of the Naga society to make it an all-inclusive, all-on-board solution which will be acceptable to all sections of the Naga society.

The PWC, originally comprising of 21 legislators from erstwhile political parties having representation in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly,

and including the two MPs of the State (prior to the demise of Rajya Sabha MP Khekiho last year) were scheduled to meet leaders of all national political parties. Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio could not make it owing to prior engagements, but a 19-member delegation met BJP President Amit Shah this afternoon at his 11 Ashoka Road residence at New Delhi and the delegation was given a positive reassurance.

Later, the delegation met national president of the JD-U Sharad Yadav who went on to assure his party’s support for even a “constitutional amendment” that may be required for a peaceful solution to the vexed Naga political issue.

The PWC delegation is expected to meet other national leaders apart from the NDA leaders in the next few days since it is felt imperative to have wide-spectrum political support in case the Naga Peace Accord require majority support in both Houses of the Parliament.

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Illicit drugs, liquor destroyed Government employees attend induction training LongLeng, February 16 (mexn): Twelve days induction training programme for Group ‘B’ and ‘C’ State Government employees sponsored by DoPT, Government of India, and organised and conducted by Administrative Training Institute, Kohima in collaboration with District Administration got underway at DC Conference Hall, Longleng.

In the ITP, various topics on soft skills such as Motivation, Personal Effectiveness, Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication, Leadership & Team Building, e-Governance & ITC etc. will be taken up by the District Master Trainers, Dr. Toli Achumi, Konchem Phom and Thsingvi T. Sangtam who

were trained by the DoPT at Administrative Training Institute, Kolkata.

The other topics on Office Procedure such as File management, Noting & Drafting Skills, Govt. Servant Conduct Rules, Record Management etc. will be taken up by Faculty members from Administrative Training Institute, Kohima.

The ITP also includes two days visit to an NGO and field study The inaugural function was chaired

by Japeth Woch, SDO (C), H.Q. Longleng, Er. N. Moa Longkumer, Nodal Officer for ITP, Nagaland proposed the votes of thanks and Dr. A. Alem W. Longchar, Course Coordinator for ITP, Longleng District gave an introduction

to the programme.

Gracing the inaugural function as guest of honor Y. Denngan Avennoho Phom, Deputy Commissioner, Longleng District, Exhorted the participants.

In his speech the DC pointed out the as a government servant we should not forget that we were appointed in the interest of public service. The DC exhorted the participants that as far as possible office work should not be kept pending least it cause hindrance to the public. Further he stressed upon the participants to take full advantage of the programme which is being held in the district itself and also impressed on regularity for the whole 12 days.

SMC raise awareness on gender violence, legal rights and laws

The contraband liquor and drugs, which were destroyed on February 16 at the Directorate of Excise and Prohibition, Dimapur.

Morung Express News Dimapur | February 16

The Excise department disposed a huge quantity of illicit drugs and liquor on February 15. The disposed contrabands contained 19,538 bottles of assorted IMFL, 237 kg of ganja, 2 ½ kg of opium, 23,451 capsules of spasmo proxyvon and 505 tablets of nitrosun.

The IMFL were seized during

an 8-month period from May 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, while the drugs were seized during the period November 20, 2014 to November 20, 2015, informed Superintendent of Excise (Narcotic Cell) at the destruction ceremony held at the Directorate of Excise, Dimapur.

It was carried out in the presence of the ‘Destruction Board’ with Commissioner of Excise V. Maria Yanthan in attendance.

While the number of drug-related offences registered by the department was not disclosed, it was informed that as many as 480 liquorrelated cases were registered during May 2015 to December 2015. An amount of Rs. 5,76,500 was realised as monetary penalty from liquor-related offences, it was added.

The street value of the disposed drugs and liquor was estimated to be around Rs. 27,85,170.

DimaPur, February 16 (mexn): The Women Development Cell of Sakus Mission College organized and conducted an awareness programme on ‘gender violence, safety and working of Police System’ on February 5. It was held with the aim to sensitize and raise the awareness of the students towards various types of gender violence occurring in our society and their legal rights and laws in the current atmosphere of increasing violence against women.

Bem Thomsong, OfficerIn-Charge Women Cell Dimapur as resource person while delivering the presentation highlighted that female foeticide and infan-

ticide through illegal sex determination tests was the first level of discrimination against women.

She further went on to discuss various forms of gender violence such as rape, molestation, eve teasing, domestic violence sexual exploitation, assault and provisions for legal remedies. She also informed the working system of police and its women cell unit for women safety, and provided the basic ideas/formalities to be followed while lodging an F.I.R. She also informed that every woman was entitled to a legal counsel free of cost in case of any litigation.

The students actively participated and interacted with the speaker to query, clarify

and under various stand the legal position on various issues that concerned them.

About 200 students and all faculty members attended the programme.

The programme started with invocation by Amen Asst. Prof of Education Department followed by welcome speech by Pranati Das, convener of the Women Development Cell. Akala Asst Prof of History Department conducted the programme while vote of thanks was given by T. Gangte Asst Prof of History Department Meanwhile, to improve students’ attitude towards violence against women and give them greater confidence to intervene or speak

out against it and to enlist men as partners against gender-based violence, Women Development Cell members encouraged the students to write quotations on women’s equal right and against gender violence and launched an awareness campaign to “Stop Gender Violence and make a better world.” The students went on rally from college campus to DC Court junction displaying banner and placards on February 12 under the initiative of Pranati Das, Asst Prof of Political Science Dept and Tiasen Asst Prof of English Dept and other Women Cell members.

About 250 students and all faculty members attended the awareness campaign.

NHHDC Ltd informs on craft Scouts & Guides NE Regional level nature study held bazar and Gandhi Shilp Bazar

DimaPur, February 16 (mexn): The Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd (NHHDC) Dimapur will be organizing two craft bazar and one Gandhi Shilp Bazar during 2015-2016. The events are sponsored by the Office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

The dates of the event are as follows: Crafts Bazar

at Urban Haat, below old Dhansiri Bridge, Dimapur w.e.f February 29 to March 9; Crafts Bazar at Mokokchung town from March 15 to 24; and Gandhi Shilp Bazar at Urban Haat, Below old Dhansiri Bridge Dimapur March 29 to April 7.

Er.S.Temsulong Jamir, Additional Director Industries & Commerce & Managing Director in a press release had invited interested societies, NGOs, SHGs, artisans etc to submit their

application along with the respective Artisans card issued by the Development Commissioner Handicrafts, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

The last date fixed for submission of application for the event No.1 is February 26, and event No 2 is March 11 and the event No.3 is March 18 respectively during the office hour.

The stall shall be provided free of cost.

Tripartite Committee to discuss Majithia Wage Board Kohima, February 16 (DiPr): Consequent upon the constitution of the Tripartite Committee of the Working Journalist and Other Newspaper Employees" (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 Vide Notification NO.LAB- 14/5/2009-2010 dated 17-11-2015 and

published in the local dailies on 01-12-2015, Parliamentary Secretary, Labour & Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship cum Chairman of the Tripartite Committee has convened the first meeting of the Committee on February 22 in the Conference Hall, Directorate of Labour, near Nagaland Civil Secre-

tariat at 11:00 A.M. Since this being the first meeting of the Committee, important issues will be discussed in the matter of the recommendation of the Majithia Wage Board. Therefore all the concerned members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

Kohima, February 16 (DiPr): Governor of Nagaland & Assam, P.B Acharya, who is also the Chief Patron of Nagaland State Bharat Scouts &Guides, graced the North-East Regional level nature study cum trekking programme at Kohima on February 15.

While welcoming the Scouts & Guides from different states of the NorthEast Region, the Governor also thanked the state unit for hosting the programme.

Governor stated that the movement of scouts and guides is a unique platform available to the youth to learn through experience, the values of friendship, hard work, harmony and humanity. Through its activities like community services, integration camps, exchange programmes, outdoor activities, the scouts movement aims to inspire youth to contribute positively in the development of nation and the society.

Acharya also said that we need to involve and groom the youth of our country with the purpose and instill in them a spirit of brotherhood, love and compassion. Today

Governor, P.B Acharya and officials with Scouts, Guides, Rangers and Rovers at the North-East Regional level nature study cum trekking programme at Kohima on February 15. (DIPR Photo)

India is a young nation, with more than half of its population of the age of twenty- five years or less. In order to truly harness the potential of our youth, we need to inculcate in them the core civilization values such as compassion for all, love for motherland, truth and honesty in life, discipline and self –restraint in conduct and responsibility in action, the Governor stated.

The Governor further urged the Scouts & Guides to volunteer and participate fully in the national programmes of the government that aim to enhance the quality of life in our

country such as “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” upholding the “dignity of labour” the flagship programme of the government and expect that they would not only participate but also motivate others to keep our public places clean and hygienic. ‘Start from our own house, work place, school and where one live to find the differences’, the Governor further calling upon new initiatives like “world Scout environment Badge” and “Scouts Go Solar” to actively contribute in preserving the natural resources and to strive for a cleaner environment. The initia-

tive of scouts and guides to educate the young people about internet frauds through the newly introduced curriculum, “Surf Smart” is an important initiative to create awareness about responsible cyber surfing and internet usage, he also added.

Acharya also expressed his happiness that Bharat Scouts & Guides is promoting awareness about domestic violence against women, child abuse and female feticide. These are crucial issues that we face in our society, whereby, the Governor called upon the leaders of the organization

to commit themselves by their by action to make it a globally visible and self reliant premium youth movement.

Other highlights of the programme included welcome speech by State Chief Commissioner, BSG Nagaland and Former M.P Khyomo Lotha and significance of the camp, delivered by Asst. Director, BSG, NE Region, Ashok Kumar Mohapatra. More than one hundred Scouts, Guides, Rangers and Rovers from Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Nagaland is taking part in a five days programme.

MEx File AHODs & HODs meeting on February 19

wood, cattle fodder within its jurisdiction with permission from the authority concerned. It also warned that no outsider will be allowed to roam freely in the village area Kohima, February 16 (DiPr): The after 8:00 pm without genuine and proper meeting of AHoDs & HoDs will be held on reason to prevent any untoward incident.

February 19 at 11: 00 AM in the Secretariat conference hall Kohima as informed by the Home Commissioner Neihu C. Thur, IAS. All the AHoDs & HoDs have been informed DimaPur, February 16 (mexn): to attend the meeting positively. Agenda to In commemoration of golden jubilee celbe discussed include review of the minutes ebration of Holy Cross Higher Secondary of AHoDs & HoDs meeting on 24.11.2015, School, Dimapur, a Golden Jubilee MaraBudget Session 2016, Annual Administra- thon will be organized on February 20 at 6 tive report 2015-16, Governor’s speech and a.m. All participants are requested to gathBudget speech, Decontamination of inter- er in the school at 5.30 a.m. sharp. On this views for recruitment for Junior level posts occasion, the School Management also (Grade I, II, III & IV) and launch of Bio-met- invites the Alumni to take part in the event ric attendance system in Civil Secretariat. and make it successful.

HCHSS Golden Jubilee Marathon

Chakhroma GB's Union meeting-cum-seminar DimaPur, February 16 (mexn): The Chakhroma GB's Union will hold a general meeting of all its members cum a seminar on February 20, 10:00 am at Tenyiphe-1 Village Council hall. Therefore, all the members have been asked to be present. Meanwhile, the union extended special invitation to all the Chakhroma Public Organisation frontal/ subordinate organisations- office bearers of CYO, CSU, CSA, CWO, Chumukedima Unit, CAKU unit, Medziphema unit and Village Council Chairmen of all villages under Chakhrorna Region.

CVYS reiterates ban on fishing, hunting DimaPur, February 16 (mexn): Chumoukedima Village Youth Society (CVYS) has reiterated its stand to ban hunting and fishing in any form within its village jurisdiction. A press release from CVYS also informed the general public to refrain from jungle burning and warned that defaulters will be strictly dealt with.

Further, the Society said it will ban outsiders from picnicking, scrap collection, door-to-door business, collecting fire-

KDCC meeting held Kohima, February 16 (mexn): The KDCC President had a meeting with KDCC Vice President and General Secretary (Admn) on February 16 at its Office for reorganization of the 7 ACCCs of the District.

The house authorized the VP in-charge of their respective constituencies to complete the revamping of ACCCs and to submit the report latest by February 29. This was stated in a press release issued by Abalie Medoze, General Secretary (Admn).

NASU 1st Union Assembly on February 20 Kohima, February 16 (mexn): The 1st Union Assembly of Northern Angami Students’ Union (NASU) for the tenure 2015-2017 will be held on February 20 at 10:30 AM at Chedema Village. Therefore, all the Unit President’s / representatives has been requested to attend the Assembly without fail. Any proposal/Agendas may be addressed to the Speaker U/A 24 hours before the commencement of the sitting. The Union Assembly (NASU) has also informed that no personal invitation has been made and therefore has cordially invited all the senior leaders to attend the assembly.

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SC refuses to restrain Governor from NSF demands action against Manipur Commandos Submits three-point swearing-in new CM in Arunachal memo to CM Ibobi Singh

New Delhi, February 16 (PTi): The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to pass an interim order on a plea of Congress leaders that Arunachal Pradesh Governor J P Rakhowa be restrained from swearing in a new government in the politically-fragile state which is now under President's rule.

The five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice J S Khehar also declined the prayer of Congress leaders that status quo be maintained in the crisis-hit state and no new government formation be permitted. "We have heard your arguments on injunction. We don't propose to pass any order and we will hear the matter on merits," the bench, also comprising justices Dipak Misra, M B Lokur, P C Ghose and N V Ramana, said.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, who rushed to the court after coming to know that Congress leaders were seeking status quo on possible political developments in the state, said the courts cannot "pre-empt" a constitutional authority from taking any decision. "The decision of the constitutional authority can be annulled by the court, but this application is totally misconceived. Either today or tomorrow, President's Rule has to be revoked and the government has to be formed," he said while opposing the application in which Congress

DimaPur, February 16 (mexN): The NSF today asked Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh to terminate the service of the duty officer-in-charge involved in the assault of its members in Imphal on February 14. NSF has also called for the suspension of all police personnel involved in the incident.

The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) made this demand in a memorandum submitted to the Manipur Chief Minister contending that it is imperative to “set exemplary punishment to the security personnel who instead of providing security to the general public were rather involved in terrorizing them.”

The contents of the memo, which were released to the media by NSF President Subenthung Ki-

leaders have expressed apprehension that the proclamation of central rule is likely to be withdrawn.

The bench then told senior lawyers Fali S Nariman and Kapil Sibal, appearing for Arunachal Pradesh Congress leaders, that the only order, which it had deemed fit at this juncture, has been suggested and if these leaders do not accept it, then they should argue on merits.

During the hearing, Sibal cited a purported press note, issued on behalf of the Governor and said how can the Governor swear in a person as the Chief Minister, a rebel Congress leader who has been disqualified from the House. Sibal sought an order to ensure that no new government is sworn-in in the state till the apex court decides on the petitions.

The bench then sought Attorney General's view asking what the Parliament would do, if it passes some interim orders on the plea of Arunachal Congress leaders.

President's Rule is yet to be affirmed by Parliament and whatever is the verdict of this court, the only answer will be the floor test, Rohatgi replied. "Whatever is the verdict of the court, the only answer will be floor test and the ultimate answer will be the floor test. Whether 'A' becomes the Chief Minister or 'B' becomes Chief Minister, it will be decided on

the floor of the House," he said.

There was exchange of words between the senior lawyers appearing for both sides on the authenticity of the press note purportedly issued by the office of Rajkhowa. Nariman said he had information that the Governor has made a recommendation about revoking President's Rule in the state and the press note substantiated it.

T R Andhyarujina, who represents the Governor, said till now, the proclamation is very much in place and the assembly stands in "suspended animation". "Yesterday some leaders have met the Governor but he has categorically told them that nothing could be done till the proclamation is revoked. No report of Governor recommending revocation has been made till now," Andhyarujina said.

Sibal said at present, they were not asking for any order on the proclamation as they also do not wish to pre-empt the actions of the President on recalling of the proclamation. The bench then asked, "what does this status quo mean then?" "We have nothing to do with the proclamation but the court can't allow a person to be sworn-in as a Chief Minister who is disqualified," Sibal argued, adding that Congress leaders be given an opportunity to approach the Governor SivaSaGar, February 16 (iaNS): Congress once the proclamation is revoked. vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched another scathing attack on the RSS, saying it was suppressing the voice of Indian ernment's attempt to "send use of disproportionate youth across the country. democracy to the gallows". arm forces by the govern- Gandhi, who arrived in As"It is to be noted that de- ment. "It seems that JNU sam on Monday and admocracy becomes stron- has been raising some dressed three meetings at ger when it allows space to uncomfortable questions Gohpur, Bihpuria and Tidissent and the world will against anti-people poli- tabor, on Tuesday took part laugh at us if my country cies of any government, so at a road show in tea-rich lacks tolerance to opposi- BJP is trying to settle some Sivasagar district.

He walked six km from tion," Lahkar said in a Face- scores with them. If there is any evidence against the historic Ahom-era book post.

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versity, hoped that "sanity and congeniality" returns to the campus so the process of nation building in continues. Gauhati University Professor Emeritus Khanindra Chowdhury said the RSS and the BJPled central government got a "needle hole to infiltrate" into the issue of JNU as they want to push back the progressive and democratic voices. "What is RSS and BJP's contribution to India's freedom struggle?

They never took part in it.

What is the national work they have done so far? They are just taking mileage of the incident, which would have die down slowly," he added.

Leading theatre personality and former Principal of the premier Cotton College Sitanath Lahkar said that the police crackdown in JNU is completely disproportionate to the anti- India sloganeering in the campus and is a blatant testimony of the Modi gov-

The delegates were verbally abused “on communal lines”, accused of creating problems in the valley and threatened with physical assault, NSF claimed.

They even physically assaulted one of the officials and snatched away their phones, the NSF alleged adding that the harassment continued for almost one and half hour till one of its Federating Units' President and a senior social activist stopped over after noticing the vehicle in which the officials of the NSF were travelling.

At one time the duty officer-in-charge called for reinforcement and subsequently another duty party arrived at the

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Academics oppose Centre's handling of JNU issue GuwahaTi, February 16 (PTi): Academicians across Assam today strongly opposed the Centre's handling of the JNU issue saying excessive use of state power in campuses is against basic constitutional rights and deeply undermines the very act of collective living.

Some also alleged that the BJP-led government wants to push back progressive and democratic voices. "I think this is an excessive use of state power in such a way as to imperil some of our basic constitutional rights. The fact that many members of the faculty have come out in a demonstration of solidarity with the protesting students confirms that it is not a mere case of youthful adventurism," eminent scholar-educationist Hiren Gohain told PTI. The entire issue also brings to focus the issue of freedom of speech and thought, apart from the autonomy of the university, he added. "I think the government should retreat from its position gracefully and the ABVP should also concede the right of dissent," said Gohain, a retired Gauhati University professor.

Renowned poet and Tezpur University retired Pro-Vice Chancellor Amarjyoti Choudhury said the idea of nation as a way of collective living should never be compromised and at the same time political opportunism at the campus vitiates the process of knowledge sharing. "Further the bizarre act of assault on students and teachers in broad daylight also deeply undermines the very act of collective living. I believe these are digressions from reason and objective way of living," he said.

Choudhury, also a former VC of Gauhati Uni-

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The Chief Minister must also give his assurances to “provide safety and security of the Nagas and Naga vehicles in and around the Valley areas,” it further demanded.

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“Given that cases of fake encounter making news headlines, the motive of the duty officer to forcefully take the NSF team to a secluded place is highly unscrupulous and very much questionable,” it maintained.

Demanding that the Chief Minister intervene and set exemplary punishment, the NSF cautioned that if the Government of Manipur fail to take due consideration of the matter within 7 days on receipt of the memo, it will be compelled to initiate “its own course of action.”

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SC seeks list of companies defaulting No gender pay gap say men, women from developed nations: Survey on loans of over Rs.500 crore New Delhi, February 16 (iaNS): The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India to furnish a list of companies which are in default of loans by banks and financial institutions in excess of Rs.500 crore or whose loans have been restructured under corporate debts restructuring scheme.

While asking the RBI to file an affidavit, a bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice R. Banumathi and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit directed that the list be furnished to it in a sealed cover.

The court said that the list of the defaulting companies be furnished in a sealed cover after one of the counsel told the court about commercial confidentiality of the companies in making them public.

Seeking the list of the defaulters, Chief Justice Thakur asked the counsel for the RBI if it had the list of the "major defaulters today who run empires and yet default."

"You lend money, you know it will not come back, and then declare it bad loans," the court told Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, who seeking to shift the blame on the previous UPA government, said: "That had happened in last ten

years. (As a consequence) economy is not growing, we don't have money to pay."

Noting that default in payment of bank loans happens in other countries as well and it was part of the economic process, the court said that the banks should be vigilant in recovering the loans.

The court order came in the course of the hearing of a public interest litigation pointing to loans given by HUDCO in 2003 to some of the companies with questionable track records.

Addressing the court, Prashant Bhushan appearing for NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), told the court that there is a circle where the mortgaged assets of a defaulting company again go back to it when those

assets are auctioned to recover bad loans.

He told the court that the Central Information Commission had passed nine orders in nine cases, directing disclosure of defaulters' identity and each time the commercial confidentiality clause is invoked to block the information by the banks.

Bhushan told the court that the apex court by its December 16, 2015 order had said that the banks and their apex regulatory body, the RBI, could not withhold information on defaulters, losses and alleged illegalities of the banks by invoking the exception under the Right to Information Act. He said that this verdict had not yet been complied with.

New Delhi, February 16 (Pti): Amid raging debate over gender pay gap globally, a survey

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According to the survey, 7 in 10 employed adults in seven countries -- United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland -believe men and women are paid equally for equal work at their employer.

Women feel the pinch more than their male counterparts: 70% of women believe there is equal pay for equal work at their employer compared with 77% of men.

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Glassdoor survey noted that salary inequality between men and women is still a major issue

and topic of conversation globally, however, employee sentiments and perceptions may not match reality.

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Wilful defaulter tag has given after a due process, the PNB chief said, adding that as per the Delhi High Court order, these defaulters were allowed to be represented before the Committee constituted by the bank through their legal representatives.

"After hearing the representatives, the Committee declared them as wilful defaulters as per RBI guidelines," she said. As per RBI guidelines, once declared as wilful defaulters, no additional facilities will be granted to these borrowers by any bank or financial institution.

Besides, such companies and promoters will be debarred from institutional finance for floating new ventures for a period of 5 years from the date of removal of their name from the list of wilful defaulters.

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Punjab National Bank is the third public sector lender to declare the beleaguered air carrier and its two guarantors - United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd and Mallya - as wilful defaulters. Earlier, United Bank of India and State Bank of India had done the same.

"Wilful defaulters also blocks your (banks as well as general public) access to finance," Ananthasubramanian told PTI. The bank has already invoked all the recovery mechanisms like Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act with regard to Kingfisher, Mallya and United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd, she said.

"We have also filed recovery suit in the DRT (debt recovery tribunal) and all the legal steps have to be taken," she added.

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CAPF dismayed over restriction Mon DPDB recommends SDEO office in Wakching on movements of Yimchungers Says exempting sub-tribes from the restriction is ‘ridiculous and baseless’ Tuensang, February 16 (Mexn): The Chessore Area Public Forum (CAPF) today expressed dismay over the four-point resolution adopted by three Sangtam organizations on February 15, which restricted the movements of Yimchungers within Sangtam jurisdiction.

The Forum, while appreciating the measures adopted by United Sangtam Likhum Pumji (USLP), United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC), and Akedah Sangtam Thsingmujanglaru (AST) to avoid further misunderstandings,

WYWO condemns killing, violence DiMapur, February 16 (Mexn): The Western Yimchunger Women's Organization (WYWO) today stated that the February 6 killing of a couple in Shamator deserves to be condemned by all, however, there is no justification for burning down houses and destroying properties belonging to a particular community making them flee for their lives by mob in Kiphire and Shamator.

A press release from WYWO President, Kherila Yim and General Secretary, Asola Yim further maintained that has termed as “ridiculous and baseless” the decision to restrict the movement of Yimchungers in Sangtam jurisdiction while exempting the “sub-tribes”.

A press release from President, A Akhum and Press Secretary, K. Keyoungkhum of CAPF described the Yimchunger as “a homogenous group”

the situation of complete lawlessness indicated lack of interest on the part of the government.

The organization has urged the authority concerned to take the matter seriously by bringing the actual culprits to book and award befitting punishment as per the law without any partiality.

Further, it appealed to the government to adequately compensate the next of kin of the deceased as well as the victims whose houses and properties were destroyed and made homeless.

with a variety of dialects spoken and averred “the decision to impose and exempt some can be seen as an indirect act aimed towards spreading disunity and secession…”

“At a time when the Nagas as a whole are trying hard to maintain unity and to do away with 'ism' among the Naga brothers,

such irrational act will only lead to more hatred and prejudice.”

While urging Sangtam organisations to be sensible and refrain from creating confusion regarding the identity of Yimchungers, the CAPF held that the restriction if intended for good should have been imposed universally.

Mon, February 16 (Dipr): The Mon District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting on February 15 recommended establishing new Sub Divisional Education Officer’s (SDEO) office in Wakching. The agenda for the same was submitted by Parliamentary Secretary (CAWD) YM Yollow at the monthly DPDB meeting held here at DC’s conference hall.

Yollow apprised the house that Wakching is a pioneer not only in education and Christianity; it is also a place where the first administrative headquarter of Mon district was established. He said if opportunity is given for opening of new SDEO office, it will cover the EBRC of both Wakching and Naginimora and minimize the long distance burden faced by the people of his constituency.

Meanwhile, exhorting the officers to be active and regular in their assignment, Yollow said, “We are never too late to do any

good work and serve the people.” He admitted that elected members fail to attend DPDB meetings regularly due to various official engagements, but assured that one elected member of the district would be deputed in every DPDB meeting to represent the MLAs. In order to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas, he suggested for appointment of PA to Deputy Commissioner in Tizit and Naginimora for timely communication of law and order situation to the people and the authority.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commission, Mon, W Honje Konyak appealed to the officers to be sincere and regular in their official duties and function actively to do justice to the people. He informed that attendance of every official functionary would be reviewed after every three months and would be sent to the respective heads of the department. The Government employees are paid for their service and it

NNC supports CNA; appeals for unity Tampered cooking gas cylinders reach Wokha DiMapur, February 16 (Mexn): The Naga National Council (NNC) Working Committee today extended support to the Council of Naga Affairs (CNA), apex body of the Naga people in Myanmar, “which has taken the right political step at this juncture for the betterment and salvation of Naga Freedom of Sovereignty.”

In a press release, NNC Working Committee stat-

ed, “This is the right political spirit of the Nagas wherever they are who stand for the whole and all the Naga inhabited areas for sovereignty which was declared from the very inception of our political struggle by the Naga National Council.”

The Committee stressed that the very political nature of the Naga people and its territory is of international concern and the political problem needs to be

Wokha, February 16 (Mexn): Lotha Youth Hoho (LYH) in coordination with the district administration today conducted a surprise check at the Wokha Gas Agency at 9:00 am as the refilled gas cylinders truck arrived.

A press release from LYH Advisor & Media Incharge informed that out of the total 306 gas cylinders, only 52 were found to have their seals intact.

The rest were either without seal or were broken.

Meanwhile, while weighing the cylinders, it was detected that the cylinders whose seals were intact were accurate in their problems were also taken weight as written on the up to be forwarded to the cylinders, but the ones with tampered seals were higher authority.

The meeting was chaired

by Additional Deputy Commissioner Medziphema Sara S. Jamir. SASRD Medziphema and Medziphema Town Council gave a PowerPoint presentation on departmental activities. CDPO and VFATI Departments were asked to give departmental activities presentation in the next meeting. settled peacefully and internationally through nonviolent means. In this light, it appealed to all the Naga people to stand united to achieve “our freedom of recognition of one dream, one voice and one future.”

It prayed to God to “grant wisdom, strength and power to realize our freedom of sovereignty as we believe that our living God has a specific purpose for the Naga people as a whole.”

Meeting discusses encroachment on government lands in Medziphema MeDzipheMa, February 16 (Dipr): The encroachment on various government department lands in Medziphema was discussed at the sub division’s departmental coordination meeting held on February 15 at SAMETI hall, office of the Principal, IETC, Medziphema.

The meeting resolved that the matter be taken up to the higher authority and asked the department con-

cerned not to issue NOC for private allotment for the interest of future generation and departmental development activities.

Suggestions were also taken for the construction of restroom (paid toilet) in the Highway within the subdivision. Proper marketing facility and reservation of agricultural products produced from the area were also discussed. Proper road connectivity and power

2 kg to 4 kg short of the actual weight.

According to the release, the LPG consumers had been bringing complaints for several months about refilled gas cylinder seals being tampered and the content much below the actual weight.

The release said it has been learnt that the Wokha Gas Agency distribute the cylinders to the waiting consumers straight from the truck, hence, the question of tampering or mal practice at the agency depot does not arise.

The Agency Manager assured the inspecting team that a weighing machine will be made available at the depot for the satisfaction of the consum-

ers from next delivery. Regarding the seal tampering and less content of the gas for the past few months, appropriate action will be pursued as per the law, LYH said.

The Hoho has sought the attention of the Central government regarding the matter. It also lauded the district administration and the law enforcing agency for extending their support for the welfare of the public.

Meanwhile, it also requested the public for cooperation.

In the surprise check, the Lotha Youth Hoho was led by President R Nchumbemo Ezung and the district administration was led by EAC judicial Tsutsowe Kupa and DBs.

New uniform of KKMK unveiled

tempt to shift IISER to some to other place will be an “irresistible provocation” to Sumi community in general and western Sumis in particular, stated the statement issued by WSSU President, Atokiho Sumi and General Secretary, Aito Chishi.

WSSU recounted that earlier NIT was originally proposed to be set up at Hovukhu; however, it was “hijacked” to other place without the consent of the Hovukhu villagers. Subse-

quently, the Government assured to establish IIM at the village during the 12th five years plan, but it failed to materialize.

As an apex students’ body in western Sumi area, WSSU said it has been endeavoring to harmonize any kind of differences so far; “however, since everything has its own limit, the WSSU clearly declare its helplessness to intervene in the event of rubbing salt on the fresh wound of Sumi community.”

part to ensure completion of projects on time and to make date entries as early as possible. Zeliang also stressed that work projection should be based on reality and need based and properly monitored in all districts. He further suggested following the annual action plan and ensure that works are being implemented according to work projection.

Pointing out that utilising the man day generated against labour budget is still very low, Director, RD, Metsubo Jami urged them to take the matter into account while checking the MIS. The meeting deliberated on several agendas including status of implementation of Convergence projects and proposed activities under Convergence of MGNREGA and SAGY with line departments.

been selected for village/ ward adoption under DPDB Kohima for the year 20162017. ADC Planning and Member Secretary, DPDB Kohima, Ketoho Luho informed this during the monthly meeting of District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) Kohima held here on February 15.

The selected six units are: Hospital Colony under 8th Western Angami A/C; Lower Agri Colony under 9th Kohima Town; High School Area under 10th Northern Angami I A/C; Chiechama under 11th Northern Angami II A/C; Phesama under 14th Southern Angami I A/C; and Kezo Basa under 15th Southern Angami II A/C. All the village/ward Adoption Committees will be headed by the MLA of the concerned area as Adviser and Administrators as Conveners along with eight members each from various

MEx FILE Tuki offers condolences to Benjongliba iTanagar, February 16 (Mexn): Former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki today expressed sadness at the death of JN Aier, father of Parliamentary Secretary Benjongliba Aier on February 12. In a condolence message to the Parliamentary Secretary, Tuki said, “His (Aier) passing away marks the end of an era of selfless service from a remarkable man who left no stone unturned for the emancipation and progress of his people.” As a guardian and father figure who donned various social roles in a long and eventful life, Tuki said, Aier will be particularly remembered for his contribution towards enriching humanity in different spheres, including education, socio-economic uplift, theology among others. He further extended condolences to Benjongliba, his family and to the people of Yajang C village.

NSAP beneficiaries informed kohiMa, February 16 (Mexn): Director of Social Welfare, T Merangtsungba Aier, has informed all the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) beneficiaries that the IGNOAPS, IGNDPS, IGNWPS, BLIND, and scholarship pension for the year 2014-15 have been released by the Government to the districts for disbursement. The payment will start in the respective districts after necessary preparation from February 25 onwards, the Director said in a press release. The beneficiaries have been requested to produce life certificate obtained from the VCC and respective church pastors. The beneficiaries who have not submitted their Aadhaar number have also been asked to submit the same during the payment.

zunheboTo, February 16 (Mexn): The 4th session of Usutomi Urban Forum will be held from February 20-21 at Usutomi village with the theme, ‘The individual responsibility and goodwill life in the society.’

Yekuto Shohe, Associate Pastor, Purana Bazar Sumi Baptist Church will be the speaker. Election for the new office bearers cum meeting will be held on February 20 at Usutomi Council Hall. All the unions, welfare, and associations of Usutomi people, elders and members concerned have been requested to attend the session without fail.

Members of Kuda Kewhimiapfü Mechü Krotho in their new uniform on February 13.

DiMapur, February 16 (Mexn): Kuda Kewhimiapfü Mechü Krotho (KKMK) unveiled its new uniform during its 17th annual Nousikehou (conference) held on February 13 at Northern Angami Colony, Dimapur.

The programme was chaired by KKMK president, Rhenuo Kerhüo, while invocation was said

by Tsühieü Belho. Kemhievonuo Keretsü and Bounuo Khezhie presented the secretary and treasurer’s report respectively.

Meanwhile, exhortations were given by Northern Angamimiapfü Krotho (NAK) President, Khonuo Keretsü, Chumukedima KK President, Neithoü Sekhose, Tenyiphe KK President, Keviyaseü Suokhrie, and 4th Mile KK President, Khrieü Phewhuo.

RD Department holds review Six units selected for village/ward adoption under DPDB Kma February departments. Luho also in- should apply for renewal every citizen. On the issue meeting on Convergence kohiMa, 16 (Dipr): Six units have formed the Adoption Com- before three months of its of Arms License, the DC inkohiMa, February 16 (Mexn): Department of Rural Development held a review meeting on Convergence with the Project Directors of all districts, APCs and DEOs on February 15 at the conference hall of the Directorate of Rural Development.

As part of the convergence of MGNREGA in 2015-16, the RD department has taken up convergence programmes with Land Resources Department (Integrated Watershed Management Programme), Department of Forest, Ecology, Environment and Wildlife, Public Works Department (Roads & Bridges) - PMGSY, Department of Horticulture, and Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY).

Secretary RD, Kelei Zeliang urged all the district Project Directors to do their

charge their duties under certain rules and regulations. The officers are the most resourceful and technically experienced intellectuals, but are frustrated to discharge their proficiency, he added. Therefore, he appealed to the elected representative to utilize the talents and resources of the officers and to guide them with an assignment and at the same time to give them an opportunity to apply their skills, experiences, and innovative ideas.

Dr. Sepongmenla, DIO Mon briefed on the immunization programme in the district and distribution of mosquito net under LLIN. The Principal of Wangkhao College lauded the Awareness and Sensitization Committee under ‘I Love My Mon Town’ (ILMMT) for organizing awareness program at the college for the students and the staff.

He said the students and staff are well aware about the mission ILMMT after the programme.

Usutomi Urban Forum session from Feb 20

WSSU tells govt to set up IISER at Hovukhu without interruption DiMapur, February 16 (Mexn): Western Sumi Students’ Union (WSSU) today affirmed its stand in support of the Hovukhu Village Council, Niuland with regard to setting up of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) proposed at Hovukhu village.

In a press statement, WSSU called upon the State Government to ensure that ISSER is positively set up at Hovukhu Village without any interruption. An at-

is very difficult to function as DC with few dedicated officers, he added.

In order to avail the facilities provided by the Government to the targeted beneficiaries under the medical department, the DC urged the medical department to conduct orientation program for the administrative officers and NGOs of the district on various centrally sponsored schemes. He said the orientation program would assist the department in disseminating the information to the public. He also informed the HODs to avail land permit of their office and quarters from the administration to avoid encroachment on Government land by the public.

Emphasizing on urgent need of proper coordination between the elected members and the Government officers for proper implementation of development program and to do justice to the people, Honje said that Government officers are compelled to dis-

mittees that the six selected units have been sensitized recently for successful implementation of the programme and requested the committees to activate its members for further implementation of the programme in their respective units.

On the agenda for registration of society, the board deliberated the registration of Naga Traditional Museum and decided to endorse it to the SDO (Sardar) for initial verification and forward it to the Screening Committee. ADC Ketoho informed that it has been decided to take up registration or renewal of societies every three months and further requested all the area Administration officers to take note of the same and submit their reports accordingly.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner, Rovilatuo Mor, stated that all the existing registered societies

expiry in order to complete the necessary formalities.

He also reminded the concerned Screening Committee to verify all the necessary requirements for new registration and renewal before taking the approval of DPDB as per the guideline given by the Government of Nagaland.

On action calendar of DPDB, the DC informed that a core committee has been constituted to monitor and regulate the activities of various committees under DPDB. A desk calendar on DPDB action calendar 2016 was also distributed to all the members.

Besides the agenda, the DC apprised the members on Aadhaar Card, opening of Bank Accounts and Arm License. He requested the members to sensitize and propagate the importance of Aadhaar Card and opening of Bank Accounts by

formed that deadline for entry of Arm License has been extended to March 31, 2016

by Central Government.

Therefore, he requested the members to share the information to all the arm holders to produce their Arm License and get the UID registration.

ADC Tseminyu, Kevikweno Meratsu in her presentation on departmental activities highlighted the sub-divisional profile and activities being carried out in her sub-division. Asst.

State Co-ordinator, State Resources Centre for Women, R. Juliana Medom also gave a presentation on the introduction of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme by the Central Government.

The National Highway and Urban Development Departments were entrusted to present their departmental activities in the next DPDB meeting.

Liquor seized in Dimapur DiMapur, February 16 (Mexn): The Excise Mobile Squad Dimapur seized 980 bottles of assorted liquor during a raid conducted in some houses at LRC colony, Dimapur on February 15 around 8:00 pm, according to a press release from Superintendent of Excise (MS), Katoho Sumi. In another case, the Mobile Squad personnel stationed at interstate excise check gate in Chumukedima seized 360 bottles of liquor from the possession of one Seyie on February 14. The accused has been booked under relevant section of NLTP Act, the release said. The liquor seized from both the incidents has been deposited in the Excise Mobile Squad malkhana.

Dimapur Lizutomi Union meeting DiMapur, February 16 (Mexn): Dimapur Lizutomi Union (DLK) has called a general public meeting on February 20, 10:00 am at the residence of the union’s banker, Pukhayi Aye, at Thilixu village, Block II. Therefore, the President, Shiheto Yeptho bas requested all the members and individuals concerned to attend the meeting positively.

KMC informs on trade license renewal kohiMa, February 16 (Mexn): All traders/ shops/ financial establishment/ restaurants/ institutions in Kohima have been informed that renewal of trade license for the period of April 2016-March 2017 should be completed on or before March 31, 2016. A press note issued by KMC Administrator has requested all traders to comply with the notice for renewal of their licenses.

ANCSU assembly in March kohiMa, February 16 (Mexn): The 2nd Union Assembly of the All Nagaland College Students' Union (ANCSU) will be held on March 2, 11:00 am at NSF conference hall here. A press note issued by Mughato V Yepthomi, Deputy Speaker, ANSCU, has requested two representatives from each affiliated college to attend the same without fail.

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IN FOCUS The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 45

By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

“IMAG(IN)ING” A SMART DIMAPUR

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he year 1984 saw Kolkata Metro starting commercial operations and it was the first rail network in the country to have underground network. It just did not happen overnight. The initiative had to wait for two decades when in 1969 the Metropolitan Transport Project was initiated. The master plan prepared by them in 1971 envisaged a network of 97.50 kms consisting of three North-South corridors. What is interesting here is that the initiative had to wait for two decades before the work finally began.

Now, coming to our own Dimapur, the gateway and the commercial hub of Nagaland, she is heavily bearing the burden of rapid urbanization and its associated problems. The growing number of vehicles coupled with the absence of proper parking lot has only further augmented the problem of traffic congestion in spite of the much improved or to say, the best efforts of the traffic police to ease the traffic flow. Back then, the opening of the flyover must have been such a relief; its completion took such a long time that the denizens would have found it hard to imagine its completion.

It may seem unthinkable at the present juncture to imagine and envisage an underground metro rail in the city running till Chumukedima. Quite a daring dream to see even in ones wildest dream considering the present ‘crisis’ of development and caught up in a mental block that makes it difficult to carve out a way forward.

There is no harm in having a wild imagination of “Imag(in) ing” a Dimapur with underground metro train. In terms of applicability, it would seem a difficult proposition to think of how great cities have been rebuilt, and to take that as a parameter towards replicating such kind of efforts towards visualizing our own kind of development. Take the case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how the cities were rebuild from ashes. Kohima went through the turmoil and horrors of the World War II of the Burma Campaign leaving Kohima destroyed. Charles Pawsey remarked, “Nagas saw glimpses of modernity through the war.”

The impact is felt still, the imagination will never be erased but the destruction of the battle opened up alternative ways of development giving a new outlook and starting life afresh.

Here the ‘magnitude’ for metro is about creating space.

It may take decades to even accept the idea of metro in the city. When it comes to large-scale infrastructure projects, besides the cost, people should be able to accept and allow the huge level of displacement if at all besides other issues. The process of rehabilitation will be another pertinent issue that will require urgent attention. Auto rickshaws will be forced off the roads but it sure will inject alternative ways to earn one’s livelihood while at the same time easing the traffic to a great extent. Besides the associated problems, one may also, even as a passing thought, think about a smooth hassle free underground metro ride from Dimapur to Chumukedima. It may be only a dream or a wishful thinking today.

There is still a long way to go before even thinking about metro in Dimapur; to think about digging underground when we are still grappling with the amorphous nature of the problems overground. But we need to broaden the horizons of our thought and to start ‘thinking smart’ and ‘acting smart’ for a better Dimapur and for a better Nagaland. Therein lie our moral responsibility and the credibility of being a social animal.

(Dr. Asangba Tzüdir is an Editor with Heritage Publishing House.

He contributes a weekly guest editorial to the Morung Express.

Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

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Astrid Zweynert Thomson Reuters Foundation

To sustain its forests, Asia needs to invest in local people

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sia has a unique opportunity to fight climate change and lift many more people out of poverty if it invests more in the communities living in its forests, experts said.

More than 450 million people in the region rely on forests for income and food, but forest dwellers often struggle to make a living as rural poverty, deforestation and climate change threaten their livelihoods. "If we truly want to sustain Asia's forests, we need to address inequality and poverty by investing in people living in the forests," said Tint Lwin Thaung, executive director of RECOFTC, which promotes community forestry in Asia.

The Asia-Pacific region's forests, which account for almost 20 percent of the world's forested area, play a big role in fighting climate change because of trees' ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). Studies have shown that strengthening commmunity forest rights can cut CO2 emissions by reducing deforestation, and improve forest health.

Trevor Abrahams, secretary general of the World Forestry Congress, said Asia had a unique opportunity to ensure that its forests were managed in a more sustainable way, as attention focuses on global leaders' adoption of new development goals in September.

"But the question is not just how do we manage forests in a sustainable way, but how do we make sure that the people living in them are at the centre of decision making," Abrahams said. The World Forestry Congress, the largest global gathering of the forestry sector, will take place in Durban, South Africa, in September.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE Amid growing recognition that the people who live in forests are their most effective protectors, Asian governments have been earmarking an increasing amount of land for community forestry. In 2013, 8.8 million hectares of forest land were managed by local people through community agreements or forest titles in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, an increase of about one third since 2010, according to a RECOFTC survey. But this is still only 3.5 percent of total forest land in members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, RECOFTC said, noting that no data was available for Laos and Malaysia. The most notable expansions of locally managed land were in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

In northern Thailand's Mae Thae, forest communities have established a self-governing system and worked together to improve land management, deal with drought and address conflict arising from illegal logging. As a result, Mae Tha has become Thailand's first and only community to be awarded land tenure rights for 30 years for more than 1,000 hectares of forest land, according to RECOFTC. "We can save our forests by putting the whole community at the heart of development and focusing investment on the people," said Kanoksak Daungkaewroen, a local leader from Mae Tha who has worked at educating communities about their rights. Although more community forest agreements have been signed, progress in handing the land over to local people has been very slow, said Thaung. Less than than 10 percent of forest land covered by such agreements has actually been transferred to communities in Cambodia, Indonesia and Myanmar, according to RECOFTC. Thaung said inadequate legal frameworks, the complexities of land allocation and overly bureaucratic procedures contributed to the problem.

Progress in community forestry is also being hampered by governments' allocation to it of poor quality forest land, which reduces local people's chances of making a living out of it, he said.

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Mark Boyle New Internationalist

The violence of nonviolent protest The political landscape needs ‘rewilding’ too, argues Mark Boyle in this essay opposing ‘mindless nonviolence’

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t is a spectacle that is becoming all too familiar. Captured on the ubiquitous smartphone, intimidated protesters scurry away from a scene of unprovoked police violence. ‘This is a peaceful protest,’ they declare – words uttered as much in anxious defence as they are in defiance of the batons, rubber bullets, pepper spray and teargas that come their way.

Admirable as the words seem, the protesters are mistaken: by way of its fundamentalist approach to nonviolence, protest today is anything but peaceful.

When activists remind police of their right to assemble without being assaulted with impunity, they are correct to ask: ‘If we’re not being violent, why are you?’

Correct, that is, up to a point. While I don’t doubt the integrity of people who fight for the betterment of others, few ponder an uncomfortable possibility: when nonviolent methods prove ineffectual, time and again, at preventing industrial-scale systemic violence, those who dogmatically persist with them moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral may inadvertently be acting more violently than a goodness in using an ineffective weapon.’ balaclava-clad revolutionary.

Diversity in action Instead of acrimony and division over tactical Progress and normality Let me explain. Violence and nonviolence are issues, what activists and protest movements need urbane concepts. If the abstract ethics of nonvio- more than anything right now is unity – and imporlence were imposed on the natural world, ecolog- tantly, a unity that is founded upon an acceptance ical systems would collapse and we’d all be dead of diversity. While big business is admirably singlewithin weeks. Much of what passes as progress and minded in converting the splendour and majesty of normality is actually imbued with a hyper-violence the world into cash, those who want a fairer, more that most of us remain blissfully unaware of. For the ecologically harmonious world often find themsake of cheap furniture, games consoles and fizzy selves split over how best to achieve it.

We need only look to the natural world for evidrinks, we have reduced complex woodlands to lumber yards; people to cogs in the machine; an- dence of the importance of diversity in contempoimals to generic product; oceans to depleted fish rary activism. George Monbiot has done more than anyone to highlight how crucial wolves are to the farms; and paradise into parking lots.

Which of us considers the act of buying facto- health of our ecological landscapes. For, as conserry-farmed meat – produced from animals reared in vation pioneer Aldo Leopold once said, just as ‘a concentration camps – to be more violent than de- deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does stroying the property of those who produce it? Who a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer’.2 He recamongst us thinks that the industrial-scale process- ognized, sooner than most, that the fierceness of the es causing the sixth mass extinction of species are wolf has its own unique place amongst the diverse as violent as forcefully attacking the headquarters cast of creatures that share its environment: the genof those most responsible for it? Few, if any. Yet the tleness of the doe; the beaver’s enterprise; the salmviolence the corporate-state coalition – who control on’s indomitable will; the heron’s grace; and the fox’s the narrative and own the monopoly on violence – cunning. These animals – opposed in nature as they inflicts upon the great web of life is astronomical in may be – strike a balance with one another, but only comparison to anything victims and activists could if they are allowed to express their nature, and to give what it is they are here to give. dream of doing in response.

Movements for ecological and social justice The modern mind does not like such talk. Violence is bad – all violence – or so we have been led to would do well to observe nature’s example. The pobelieve. From most angles it appears a laudable be- litical landscape needs rewilding just as much as our lief. But there is one angle that we keep missing. And ecological landscapes. The eradication of the political wolf has diminished our potential to combat in our current climate, it is a crucial one.

This is not an argument for mindless violence. merciless systemic violence. Our ecological crisis It is an argument against mindless nonviolence. It became critical a long time ago, and is only getting should be obvious that tackling the major social worse. Around 21,000 people a day are dying for the and ecological injustices of our age in ways that are want of food that changes in political policies could legal and nonviolent is the first port of call. Which of provide, given the will.3 Billions of animals are senus wants more violence in a world already riddled tenced to cruel existences in prisons, for a crime no by it? What we must understand, however, is that worse than being born into a world of human suin persisting with ineffectual tactics we are failing premacy. Our efforts of the past 20 years – well intenthose we seek to help. Inasmuch as it is ineffective, tioned, creative and determined as they are – have nonviolent protest – in spite of its best intentions – simply not succeeded. We have a responsibility to be cannot help but end up as yet more violence, albeit honest with ourselves about this.

Activism – that phenomenon whose role is to concealed, removed and sanitized. Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela (who led a militant hold power to account when democratic processes sabotage campaign against the apartheid govern- clearly fail – is becoming so ineffectual it is now alment) once said: ‘For me, nonviolence was not a most irrelevant. Look at the largest protests of the

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new push to give farmers in developing countries better access to markets, led by the United Nations' food aid agency, could fall short of its goals if it does not prioritise helping poor farmers adapt to climate change, experts have warned.

Aimed at boosting incomes and improving food security, the project plans to help 1.5 million small-scale farmers across Africa, Asia and Latin America over the next three years with contracts to buy their crops, signed before they are planted, worth $750 million.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners - including agribusiness giants Bayer and Syngenta, the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, Rabobank and Norwegian fertiliser producer Yara International - will also offer farmers access to agricultural inputs, loans and insurance.

"The platform will enable some of the most marginalised farmers to access reliable markets for the first time," WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin said in a statement as the programme was launched in Davos, Switzerland, late last month.

Half of the world's 795 million hungry people are farmers, according to the WFP, and in some African countries up to 90 percent of the population are smallholder farmers.

The U.N. agency said the pre-agreed purchase contracts with local, regional and international buyers, together with financing and other resources, would enable more than 1 million of the world's poorest farmers in 25 coun-

last decade. Despite millions peacefully protesting, we went and created havoc in Iraq. Look at Occupy.

The largest mobilization and politicization of people since the 1980s, yet what did it achieve? It may have raised awareness of the huge disparity in wealth that is inevitable with capitalism, but what use is awareness-raising if it does not lead to meaningful change?

The ‘colour revolutions’ in central and eastern Europe worked to some extent, but only within their own very narrow terms. Nonviolent campaigns to stop factory farming or ecocide have gone on for as long as these injustices have existed – yet still they exist. While many good people are doing everything they feel they can, most are straitjacketed by cultural narratives around violence and nonviolence that are so simplistic it beggars belief.

Emma Goldman once said that ‘if voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal’. The same could be said of nonviolence. The fact that it is the Establishment’s preferred form of protest speaks volumes.

Upgrading the 3 ‘r’s Unless we address the major ecological and social challenges of our age with an honest approach – no matter how unpalatable the truth may be – our best efforts will be in vain. The Machine, owned and run by the Establishment for its own ends, must be resisted and revolted against, before it kills us all. The three ‘r’s of the climate-change generation need a serious upgrade. Instead of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’, I suggest we keep the following in mind: ‘resist, revolt, rewild.’

This isn’t to say that violence is always a safe bet for success or that there aren’t times when it has been used just as atrociously as the Establishment wields it. Yet, just as there are times when nonviolent means are appropriate, there will also be times when it is not. It is in these moments when we must decide how far we are willing to go in order to protect what needs protecting. And if we are not willing to go that far – perhaps it simply is not in our nature to do so – then how will we judge those who are willing? Do we condemn, or do we support? We live in a time of tough choices, when there is often no prescriptively right or wrong solution. Wise discernment is as important as it always has been.

If much of the beauty of the world is to be not only preserved but enhanced, we might do well to concern ourselves a little less about our protests being peaceful, and a little more about our actions being effective.

UN drive to lift up poor farmers must focus on climate - experts magda mis Thomson Reuters Foundation tries to shift from subsistence farming to market-oriented agriculture.

Experts said that, for the programme to succeed, climate change should be a key factor in deciding which crops to plant.

"Current climate risks which are affecting countries are a big player in the low level of agro-productivity in sub-Saharan Africa," said John Recha, a specialist with the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

"But I'm not seeing mention of (this) programme being tied to the risks which come aboard because of the changing climate," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from Kenya.

Global warming has led to shifts in rainfall, Recha said, meaning farmers should have the opportunity to grow a range of crops, such as sorghum, cassava or sweet potato, which are more drought-tolerant than the staple maize.

In Rwanda and Tanzania, where

the "Patient Procurement Platform" - so-called due to the long-term commitment required from producers and buyers - began in December, maize was the main crop covered by the contracts.

"If you promote more of the maize at the expense of the drought-tolerant crops like finger millet or cassava, then you are not helping these farmers adapt to climate (change)," Recha said.

Mack Ramachandran, who leads procurement for the WFP, said participating farmers would have access to climaterelated training, including water management and conservation.

"There will be a significant component of climate-smart agriculture," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from Rome.

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"HOOKED" ON FERTILISER CCAFS' Recha said it made sense to bring the private sector on board to support small-scale farmers and raise

their yields by providing them with access to fertilisers, which are underused in Africa.

But Teresa Anderson, a researcher with development charity ActionAid, warned of the risk that farmers could end up reliant on chemical inputs.

"Once you start adding fertiliser, it actually kills off the natural fertility (of the soil), so then you become dependent on it," Anderson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Unless you use fertilisers, your yields will go down, so you can't just use fertilisers and then stop: you get hooked."

She said the hybrid seeds farmers may be encouraged to buy from the WFP partners needed a lot of fertiliser, as well as reliable rainfall. That could leave farmers facing a disaster when rains - and their crops - fail, she added. "It's not an appropriate response to make farmers more vulnerable by getting them hooked on these chemicals and seeds," she said.

While insurance may enable them to survive extreme weather, it will not help them adapt their practices to shifting climate risks, she said. Many farmers are now going back to traditional methods, she noted.

According to Ramachandran, farmers in the WFP programme will be able to buy seeds from whichever supplier they prefer, but they will receive recommendations on which seeds are best for their soil and water conditions.

"The farmer choice can never be taken away - they don't have to buy from Syngenta," he said.

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The fear of ‘not enough to go round’ Global inequality lies at the root of our anxiety over migrants

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olice confrontations in Macedonia and Calais, suffocation in lorries, drowning at sea and shootings at borders, are, we are told, manifestations of a global migration problem. The ‘problem’ is not confined to the Mediterranean and the Balkans: consider the Rohingya abandoned in the Andaman Sea in May last year or the swelling refugee camps of Jordan and Lebanon; the detention centres on the Pacific island of Nauru and Australian ‘pushbacks’ of refugee boats, or deaths in the Sahara desert.

Migration is a ‘crisis’. Across the world, states are building walls and passing ever harsher immigration and asylum laws; violence and deaths at borders are increasing. But this idea that migration is a peculiarly contemporary problem does not chime with global history. Thousands of years of mobility for trade, exploration and colonialism – movement to marry, make war, convert or find resources – have shaped our world. The longstanding concern of rulers to control the mobility of the ruled has also played its part. The first immigration controls appeared towards the end of the 19th century, but their origins lie far earlier. In 1388, a labourer in England who strayed outside their area was required to carry an authorization letter that bore the King’s seal. By Tudor times in the 15th century, these ‘passports’ had developed into complex documents and false papers cost between two and four pennies.

Unstable borders However, while people have indeed always moved, they have not always ‘migrated’. It is the spread of nation-states across the world – and the internationalization of citizenship regimes – that has changed mobility into migration. This expansion dates from just after the Second World War – not even a human lifetime ago. Across the world, migration flows continue to fall and shift.

Global capital, finance and new technology are also proving highly resistant to state regulation. Despite this instability, international borders are often imagined as natural and fixed. The promise of strong control over immigration appeals to a desire for a national labour market and economy, a stable cohesive national society and representative democratic politics. The figure of the migrant exemplifies the fluidity of the relations between nation, people and state. In party politics, the presence of migrants has come to be represented as emblematic of waning state power and, in some cases, of mainstream politicians’ disengagement with everyday problems. Transatlantic Trends conducts an annual survey of the European Union (EU), US, Russia and Turkey, and consistently finds a core of hostility to immigration.

But who is the ‘migrant’ that is the subject of such anxiety? All mobility is by no means equivalent, but is constructed and experienced differently. Some is forced and some prevented, while other journeys

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our years ago I set off on a walking journey through England. I was looking for the love stories of the land, meeting with people on the path, in the fields, in the pub, in the villages and towns. Along the way I shared my stories with the people I encountered and they shared theirs with me, creating time and space to explore the notion of love together.

As the work progressed I began to record some of these powerful and compelling stories, creating an online audio collection so that more people could share in the experience. But as I stepped out of my front door on a cold and clear April morning in 2012 I had no idea where the work would lead me, nor how profound the implications might be of connecting love stories to the process of social transformation.

Four years later this project, now titled A Human Love Story, has taken me over 1,500 miles through England, and this year my journey will extend into Europe and beyond. I’ve held sharings in diverse locations from opera houses to prisons, from the calm of a forest path to the busy rhythm of summer festivals, from the rural to the urban. I’ve listened to hundreds of love stories, and the online audio collection has been listened to by more than 25,000 people in over 50 countries in every continent on the globe.

Through these shared experiences of storytelling I have come to the passionate conviction that love stories can change the world, and that sharing loving narratives can be a powerful tool for personal and social change. But how does that happen? And what is a love story anyway?

On my journeys I’ve found that love stories seem to express those moments in our lives when we experience deep connection—as an individual connecting with our interior world, or in connection with others, or with place and with the earth.

Love stories can describe instances, lifetimes, or fleeting moments of connection. They engage with the everyday as well as the highs and lows of our experiences. In a sense, love stories are life stories because they often reflect moments when we feel most alive— when we experience “the fullest expansion of our humanity” in the words of writer and activist Audre Lorde.

Such stories can be powerfully emotive because they express these mo-

are encouraged. Not everyone who moves across an international border is considered a ‘migrant’: students, backpackers, au pairs and expats, for example.

As far as public debate is concerned, the US banker working in Sydney or the British footballer coaching in New York does not count as a migrant – but their foreign domestic worker does. In the final analysis, the ‘migrant’ is a figure that represents the global poor and the desperate.

A logical response The fear of the ‘migrant’ is, in part, the fear that ‘there is not enough to go around’. These fears should not be dismissed – they are understandable in an ever more unequal world. We are living at a time of unprecedented inequality when the poorest 50 per cent of the world have 6.6 per cent of total global income. The World Bank estimates that three-quarters of income inequality can be attributed to differences between countries. In this context, when wealth and opportunity are tied to birthplace, migration should not be surprising. It is a response to problems shaped by colonial histories – and post-colonial presents – that have led to civil war, violence, and economic systems that in turn render the lives of many people in

the world unsustainable and impoverished.

While wealthy states see migration as the problem, from the perspective of those who move, migration is the solution. For migrants, the problem is the border.

It follows people even when they are inside their new country, blocking access to work, hospitals, lecture halls and housing. People are checked for their legality of residence and to ensure that they have not broken their conditions of entry. The responsibility of policing these borders increasingly falls to citizens – employers, lorry drivers and public servants.

Creating difference Take, for example, the use of immigration controls to ‘protect’ labour markets. In early 2004, researchers from Oxford research institute COMPAS and the University of Sussex interviewed the agricultural employers of Polish workers. Before EU enlargement in May of that year, many of these workers were on tied visas, and employers were fulsome in their praise of their work ethic, often contrasting them with British citizens who, they said, were lazy and preferred to live on welfare benefits. One year later, when Poles had the same rights as national workers, those same

employers complained that Polish people had lost their culture, and become like the British. The National Farmers’ Union told Parliament they needed migrants who were on permits, who could be guaranteed to stay in the fields at harvest time.

Immigration laws are typically imagined as a way to weed out unsuitable applicants, but they can also be a way to create differences in the first place. Thus the law and its practice are not neutral taps that turn labour supply on and off, but mechanisms that actively produce certain types of employment relations. Paradoxically, in this case, tied visas designed to protect British jobs in fact served to make those subject to immigration controls more desirable as employees than national workers.

Citizens fall foul The consequences of immigration controls and enforcement can weigh heavily on migrants. They affect employment and living conditions and their personal lives, particularly those who are living under threat of deportation. Citizens are not immune to these consequences. US Law Professor Jacqueline Stevens has found that approximately 20,000 US citizens were detained or deported as aliens between 2003 and 2010.

She noted that the group of illegally deported US citizens were overwhelmingly Black, with little education, and often with mental-health difficulties.

More routinely, citizens are directly affected by immigration controls when their parents, children and loved ones are taken from them by immigration powers – such as detention or deportation – or when they are prevented from living with them by immigration requirements. For example, in most EU states it is now necessary to be earning over a set income threshold before a partner can join you.

Anxiety about immigration can give rise to security measures which target not only migrants, but the population more generally. In Hungary it is now possible for state officers to enter any home where it is suspected a ‘migrant’ might be sheltering, and most states punish citizens who harbour or employ undocumented workers, knowingly or unknowingly.

Yet there are discernible shifts. The contradictions between human rights and deaths at borders and between democracy and mass document checks are becoming more exposed – and untenable. In Melbourne, plans announced in August 2015 by the Australian Border Force to check visas on the streets prompted a public backlash and a large spontaneous demonstration, which resulted in their cancellation. In Europe, the ‘Refugees Welcome’ mobilizations meant that some states, such as Britain, had to back-pedal on their hostility to Syrian refugees. Trade unions worldwide are organizing irrespective of immigration status, and health professionals in Spain are refusing to check their patients’ documents. Some social services departments are offering support to all children, not only those whose parents have papers.

All these efforts suggest that a world where justice and equality is not bordered can be carved out, even in the most challenging conditions.

Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Research Director at The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).

Can love stories change the world?

Matt Hopwood

ments of aliveness, or the shadow side of these experiences—lack of connection, loss of understanding, and loss of compassion. So love stories explore the range of our emotions and the edges of our experiences: joy, sadness and loss; our sense of home or of being found; pain, anger, bliss, and heart ache.

These deep emotions arise because, in most cases, love stories explore experiences where we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to open out to other people, to ourselves and to our environment. We loosen our barriers, we disarm, and we sensitize ourselves to others and the world.

On my first journey along the South Downs of England, for example, I met with an elderly man on the top of Beacon Hill. We started talking about love and he told me that every day, he and his dog walked the same path in remembrance of his wife who had passed away the previous year. Walking the same route was the only way he could re-awaken her presence with him. The walk was his love story, an epitaph to love and lost love. He expressed the depth of this daily connection, he felt her by his side, in communion with the fields and the sky and their dog, and love continued to unfold through this simple process.

Last year as I walked along a canal towpath through Birmingham a woman in her forties stopped me and asked what I was doing. We walked the path together for a while and she shared her love story with me. Tearfully she spoke of her pain as a mother struggling to let go of her child as he grew older and more independent. He had gone away with friends and she was out of communication with him. This was a love story of letting go.

In 2013 I was fortunate to collaborate with the Pimlico Opera, who worked alongside prisoners to create theatrical productions. I sat down with a group of eight prisoners for a couple of hours and we talked about what love might mean to them, both on the inside and in relation to the outside world. For them love was experienced as a brief

moment of connection, an open door, a pat of recognition or a nod.

One man, pointing a finger at his friend, said solemnly that ‘he is my love story’—not in the romantic sense but because he offered kindness, and there was acceptance in their friendship. On leaving I asked them if they would jot their names down on a piece of paper so I could remember them. Each one, without exception, wrote down their prisoner number first: loss of identity, separation—the antithesis of love.

A re-occurring theme on my journeys has been a lack of self love among many of the people I meet—an inability to value themselves, to offer themselves love and kindness. One woman who offered me hospitality for the night told me that she found it almost impossible to look at herself in the mirror, and refused to keep an image of herself on the wall.

Her mother had been asking her for a photograph for years, but she had been unable to give her one. She did not consider herself beautiful enough to look at.

Love stories often have their roots in hospitality, in providing welcome to a stranger, an acknowledgement of a shared humanity. In his autobiographical book “Letter to a Hostage,” the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry talks about the miraculous nature of a smile, not only to obscure the trauma of being taken hostage but to remove it all together, as if it never existed. As I have walked from place to place, the willingness of communities to welcome me in, to offer me hospitality and shelter, or just a kind word, has been life affirming.

But how can sharing love stories like these become part of a process of social change?

First of all, sharing your love story takes courage. It requires us to become vulnerable with others, and asks us to be present in the moment. Through becoming vulnerable we make ourselves visible to others, and this can be challenging— like an unmasking. But through this process we are given time and space to talk and be heard, and to be nurtured. Shar-

ing can create understanding, establish common ground, and build connection.

And through compassionate connection we can begin to find the foundations of community.

Secondly, the act of sharing encourages us to express moments when we experience our humanity profoundly, but it also provides an opportunity to create new and evolving narratives of love. For example, the woman in Birmingham who found it hard to look at herself was able to voice her fears and her sense of disconnection, but she also found the courage to take a photo of herself and give it to her mum—a small but not unimportant transformation.

It is these micro-changes that form the basis of transformation on a larger scale, and that’s my third point: the process of building loving narratives can be initiated and scaled up at every level of human interaction—in how we choose to respond to local or global issues, and in every aspect of society where there is division, injustice, fear, and separation; in every place where there is disconnection.

The ability to share openly, to listen and truly hear, provides us with the tools we need to connect with people we may not understand or do not recognize. Through this process the stranger becomes less strange. We see the mother in the refugee, the daughter in the prisoner. In loving narratives there is no ‘I’ or ‘you’, only ‘we.’

Where do these experiences lead us? Much like the powerful resonance that exists in the silence after experiencing a sound, or the ripples that spread across a pond when a stone is cast into water, the reverberations initiated through storytelling support deep healing and connection. The stories are merely vehicles, the first steps on a journey to more conscious and connected communities.

But in the end we must let go of our stories, of words, and move into action, living in the moment and responding to what we see and encounter. We must create new narratives that are not grounded in words, but are rooted in loving presence and connection. And we must be brave. We must engage in defiant acts of personal exploration, of vulnerability and sharing, of listening and understanding. Our activism must start with ourselves just as it extends to others. We must go out on the longest of limbs to practice love in action.

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Culture is always dynamic. It absorbs new elements into itself and keeps evolving. The cultures which don’t do this, die. However, there is a downside. Often the society starts to mimic foreign cultures and in doing so, loses its essence. What results is a faulty imitation of an alien culture. This week’s article looks at how Indian culture has been influenced by the West.

There are several advantages yes, like the undoing of the Sati custom, and women’s suffrage movements. There are downsides too, which undermine Indian culture as inferior, and imitate Western cultures.

Monjit Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce

India: A Cultural Melting Pot?

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ndia has a rich cultural heritage and is one of the most popular cultures in the world. People belonging to different religions, races, ethnic and linguistic groups exist together. Guests are considered God here and people welcome them with joined hands and a smile on their face.

With the change in time,Indian culture has evolved. The impact of westernization has great influence on our traditional Indian society.The impact of Western cultureis clearly visible in all forms in our society today like in our food habits, the way we dress etc.Change is inevitable and it is natural that the society adapts to new things. However, in the process of all this, we must not disregard our own culture and tradition. Sometimes we tend to imitate the foreign culture at the cost of our own culture. Our Indian culture has impressed the world for thousands of years and its richness is widely known.

Even students from different parts of India and abroad come to gain knowledge and education in the famous universities of ancient India like Taxila and Nalanda.

Great scholars and teachers like Chanakya,Aryabhatta,Ba skaracharya,Varahmihir,Dadhichi gave light to the history of India.Our Indian culture is rooted in the idea of moral values, honesty, discipline and respect. And these ideas can be seen in the famous epic like Ramayana where there are instances on the importance of relationship, high moral values etc.

When we look at our present society, are we still following the same values and practices which our ancestors practiced?

Instead, what we see today is quite the opposite. There isa lack of moral values, discipline and honesty; which of course is the reason for one of the social evils we find in our society, that is, corruption. Moving towards modernization is essential and adapting to western cultures has become a part of our society.

And this is bound to happen more rapidly with the change in time. Every culture has its share of good and bad and, we need to be rational enough to differentiate the good from the bad.

Inculcating western culture in our Indian culture is not a bad thing provided we do not forget our roots and blindly follow the western culture.Because when we do that it could have a negative impact on our own culture. It is not surprising to see that today, with all the technological developments it is very easy to follow the western cultures; and many people mostly youths have more liking towards the western cultures than their own culture. This is quite scary because if they continue to do so without looking back at their own culture and tradition, the roots will be soon wiped out. Sometimes, peer pressure could also be one reason that the young people tend to move more towards the western culture.

I do not mean to imply that the western culture is bad and we should ignore it, but giving more preference or blindly following someone else’s culture and neglecting our own may drown our culture to a great extent. Both the Indian culture and the Western culture are different in their own ways, and there is a lot to learn from both these cultures. In fact, we have learned and adopted many good qualities from the western culture and we will continue to do so. Likewise our Indian culture is also influencing the culture ofthe west, especially in food habits or in the field of meditation and good health like Yoga and Ayurveda.

Cultureis dynamic and we cannot ignore or stop the western cultures from influencing our own. However, let us not just blindly imitate the culture of the west but try to understand and inculcate the good things the western culture has to offer. Yes, our Indian culture is not the purest of all and there are some qualities that will diminish with time as cultures and societies keep evolving. However, one’s roots and origins should not be forgotten. Let usencourage one another, especially the younger generation to upholdand appreciate our culture and to be a proud Indian.

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Modi, opposition discuss JNU, FIR over attack on journalists New Delhi, February 16 (iaNS): The sedition case filed against a JNU student leader came up for discussion as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met opposition leaders here on Tuesday even as an FIR was filed over Monday's attack on journalists and students by a group of lawyers.

Opposition leaders raised the issue of sedition charge slapped against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar when they met at Modi's office.

The prime minister called the meeting to seek the cooperation of opposition parties for a smooth functioning of parliament's budget session starting on February 23.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal meanwhile denounced attempts to dub the JNU as "a terrorist centre" and urged Modi "not to convert nationalism into a device for creating fear psychosis" by using the state machinery.

He also sought action against "lumpen and anarchist elements" like Bharatiya Janata Party legislator O.P. Sharma, who was filmed thrashing a CPI activist outside a court here on Monday.

Tuesday's developments came a day after a section of lawyers shouting "Bharat Mata ki Jai" slogans attacked journalists and JNU students in the Patiala House Court here a day earlier.

The incident took place shortly before Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition, was to be presented before a magistrate.

'Kanhaiya might not have raised anti-national slogans'

New Delhi, February 16 (PTi): JNU students union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on sedition charges, may not have raised anti-national slogans or made an inflammatory speech at the JNU event which is at the centre of a raging controversy, according to inputs from security agencies.

Home Ministry officials have suggested that slapping of the serious charge of sedition against Kumar could be an act of "over enthusiasm" on the part of some Delhi Police officers.

Security agencies have conveyed to the Home Ministry that even though Kumar was present at the event commemorating the death of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, he possibly did not raise any anti-India slogan nor did he speak anything anti-national that invites the charge of sedition.

Officials said the anti-India slogans were raised by students belonging to Democratic Students Union (DSU), considered to be a front of CPI (Maoists). Kumar belongs to AISF, the students wing of CPI, while DSU is an extreme left group.

A students organisation of a mainstream political party can't get along with Journalists at a protest march from Press Club of India to the Supreme Court in protest against the Monday's attack on media persons an organisation of extreme left ideology, officials said. Besides, names of DSU and JNU students by lawyers outside and inside Patiala House Court. (PTI Photo) protest march demanding action against the guilty lawyers. They walked towards the Supreme Court, and submitted a memorandum to its registrar.

The journalists want the lawyers who thrashed reporters and students in the court to be arrested and action against police personnel who watched the violence but didn't act.

"We are looking into the matter," Bassi said at a function to mark the 69th Raising Day of Delhi Police. "We Journalists hold are taking all steps to identify the people and action will protest march A large number of be taken as per law." journalists earlier staged a Asked why police perKumar has denied allegations that he shouted "anti-India slogans" at a meeting at the JNU campus on February 9 during a meeting to mark the hanging of Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri militant who was hanged for the 2001 terror attack on Indian parliament. Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said they had registered a First Information Report over the attack on journalists at the Patiala Court by some lawyers.

Government nurses to go on mass casual leave on Feb 26

New Delhi, February 16 (PTi): Members of All India Government Nurses Federation will go on mass casual leave on February 26 as part of their ongoing agitation for a hike in their salaries and other allowances. The Federation has warned the government that work would be halted at every public hospital from March 15 onwards if their demands are not met. AIIMS nurses' union has also extended support to the strike and 50 nurses from the institute participated in the protest held at Jantar Mantar today.

"We have extended support to the strike called by All India Government Nurses Federation and on February 26, all of us will be on mass casual leave," Biju Kesri, President of AIIMS nurses' Union, said. Federation members said they wanted to discuss the issue with the government but were not being given an appointment. "We have been trying to

get appointment with the Health Minister but are not being given time. Also, they themselves have never tried to contact us over the issue," Federation's Secretary General G K Khurana said.

"We are protesting against the retrograde recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission. We are demanding that the entry pay grade for staff nurses should be enhanced to Rs 5,400 from the existing Rs 4,600. Also the nursing allowance should be enhanced by Rs 7,800.

Risk allowance and night duty allowances should be given to all nurses as it is given to all other government employees.

"We deal with the deadly infections daily but we are not provided enough risk allowance. If the demands are not met, we will go on an indefinite strike from March 15," Khurana said. Nurses across the country are already on a relay hunger strike since 12 till February 27 over the issue.

NSG withdraws 600 men from VVIP security duty

New Delhi, February 16 (PTi): Taking the first step towards reverting to its original role of undertaking counterterror operations, the NSG has pulled out over 600 commandos from its VVIP security unit and used them for the first time during the recent Pathankot attack.

According to the new blueprint, which has been in the making since the last two years, two teams out of the total three of the 11th Special Rangers Group (SRG) stand withdrawn from VVIP security duties and have been tasked to undertake counter-terror operations along with and in assistance of the primary strike units — the Special Action Group (SAG). While each of the two SAGs (51and 52) are tasked with counter-terror, counter-hijack and hostage rescue operations, the SRGs (11, 12 and 13) were used to render logistical support to the SAGs during such operations and have been primarily deployed

for guarding high-risk VVIPs. Officials said the results of the first experiment at Pathankot have been satisfactory, with about 300 commandos commandos deployed to undertake doorto-door sanitisation at the station that was attacked on January 2. NSG commanders said the force, has the least number of 15 such protectees under its cover and, after its request to not burden it further in this regard, the government has not given it any additional responsibility for over two years now. While one team of the 11th SRG and two units (12 and 13) are still tasked with security of high-risk dignitaries, commanders of the elite force foresee a time when even these units will be gradually pulled out of VVIP duties. "Not in the very near future but NSG is on it way to go back to its original charter of being a specialist counter-terror and an exclusive commando force," the officials said.

Sheena murder: CBI supplementary chargesheet against Peter Mukerjea

MuMbai, February 16 (iaNS): The CBI on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, an official said here.

The chargesheet was filed before an additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Esplanade Court after investigation unearthed more evidence against Peter Mukerjea. Peter Mukerjea was arrested on November 19, 2015, nearly three months after the arrest of his wife Indrani Mukerjea, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and her former driver Shyamvar Rai, who were arrested in August.

Among other things, the Central Bureau of Investigation has charged Peter Mukerjea with conspiracy in the kidnapping and killing of Sheena on April 24,

2012, and later burning and disposing of her body in the forests of adjoining Raigad district, around 90 km south of Mumbai.

During the investigation, a Medical Board minutely examined Sheena's skeleton and conducted superimposition of her skull to establish her identity from the remains found in the forests last year.

On September 28 last year, the CBI had taken over the case following a request from the Maharashtra government as it could have nationwide and even international ramifications pertaining to megafinancial transactions.

Since their arrest on August 25 last year from Mumbai and Kolkata, Indrani, Khanna and Rai have remained in police or judicial custody even as the CBI continues its probe.

sonnel didn't come to the rescue of journalists, he said: "If it is proved police didn't perform their duty or showed laxity, appropriate action will be taken against them as well."

At least four journalists, including Amiya Kumar Kushwaha from IANS, were attacked on Monday without any provocation.

The fight is not between the govt and students: BJP

With the opposition slamming the government over the arrest of the JNU student leader, the BJP said the government was

not fighting students but "anti-national" forces.

"The fight is not between the government and students but between the nation and anti-national forces," BJP spokesman M.J. Akbar said.

"The students did not raise just one anti-India slogan but many such slogans.

The constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but such freedom does not mean people can support secession," Akbar said.

Meanwhile, a protest was held outside the JNU here to demand the arrest of those who shouted antiIndia slogans at the cam-

leaders were only printed in the posters which were pasted in JNU campus, inviting the students to the event commemorating the death of Afzal Guru.

Security agencies told the Home Ministry officials that Kumar did deliver a speech but it could not be considered as anti-national, they said.

Slapping of sedition charge against Kumar could be an act of "over enthusiastic" police officers, officials said.

The event was also backed by the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPR), headed by former Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani, who was also arrested today on sedition charges.

Geelani was given charge of CRPR, which was originally floated by Maoist sympathisers, possibly to bring people with extremist ideology, including Kashmiri separatists and Naga separatists, into one umbrella group.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said on Sunday that the JNU event in memory of Afzal Guru had received "support" from terror outfit Lashkar-eTaiba founder Hafiz Saeed. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju yesterday had said Hafiz Saeed was backing the incident in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

pus last week and also de- Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, mandeding the shutdown Brown, London School of the university.

Economics and University of Toronto signed a Int'l community statement supporting the support students students, faculty and staff JNU students on Tues- of JNU "against the illegal day got support from over ongoing police action", 400 academics and intel- The Wire reported. lectuals from across the "We condemn police world who in a statement presence on campus and opposed the police action the harassment of stuagainst the students and the dents on the basis of their arrest of students' union.. political beliefs.

Titled An alibi for in"The charge of sedition, cursion of an authori- under the guise of which tarian regime onto the the police have been given university campus", the a carte blanche to enter scholars from some of the the JNU campus, to raid world's renowned insti- student hostels, arrest and tutions including Oxford, detain students, includ-

Tearful farewell to soldiers who died in Siachen

Hyderabad: Soldiers paying tribute to the mortal remains of Sepoy Mushtaq Ahmed who died in Siachen avalanche, at the old airport in Begumpet, Hyderabad on Monday. (PTI Photo)

C h e N N a i / Ku r N o o l (aNDhra PraDeSh), February 16 (iaNS): A tearful final farewell was given on Tuesday to four soldiers from Tamil Nadu and one from Andhra Pradesh who were buried alive in an avalanche on the hostile Siachen glacier on February 3.

All of them belonged to the Madras Regiment and their last rites were performed with full military honours.

The bodies of Havildar M. Elumalai, Sepoy G. Ganesan, Sepoy N. Ramamurthy and Lance Havildar S. Kumar were brought to Chennai on Monday night and later taken to their native places.

Elumalai was laid to rest with full military honours in Adukumparai village in Vellore district.

Ganesan was cremated in his native village Chokkathevanpatti in Madurai district, while Kumar was laid to rest in his home village in Theni district.

The last rites of Ramamurthy were performed in Krishnagiri district.

The Tamil Nadu government announced a solatium of Rs.10 lakh each to their families.

In Andhra Pradesh, Sepoy Mustaq Ahmed was laid to rest with full military honours in his native village, Parnapalle in Kurnool district.

Military, police and civil officials and politicians paid their last respects to Mushtaq, who was buried at a village graveyard.

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister K.E. Krishna Murthy and YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy were among those who attended the last rites.

The deputy chief minister later presented a cheque of Rs.25 lakh to the family of deceased soldier.

The body of Mustaq reached the village late Monday night from Hyderabad, where it was brought from New Delhi on Monday by a special aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF).

Mustaq, 30, is survived by his wife and aged parents, according to a defence statement.

It was February 3, when an

avalanche swept away one Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and nine Other Ranks (ORs) in the Siachen Glacier while they were on duty. The soldiers were buried under nearly 30 feet of ice and snow when the avalanche hit the Sonam Post on the Siachen glacier at an altitude of around 20,000 feet.

Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad was the only one found alive even though he was trapped under the snow for about six days.

He succumbed to multi-organ failure at the Army Hospital Research and Referral in New Delhi last Thursday. Koppad was cremated in his home town in Karnataka on Friday.

The other soldiers were Subedar Nagesha T.T. of village Tejur in Karnatakas' Hassan district, Karnataka, Lance Naik Sudheesh B. of village Monroethuruth in Kerala's Kollam district, Sepoy Mahesha P.N. of village HD Kote in Karnataka's Mysuru district, and Sepoy (nursing assistant) Suryawanshi S.V. of village Maskarwadi in Maharashtra's Satara district.

ing Kanhaiya Kumar is an alibi for the incursion of an authoritarian regime onto the university campus," the statement read.

"As teachers, students, and scholars across the world, we are watching with extreme concern the situation unfolding at JNU and refuse to remain silent as our colleagues (students, staff, and faculty) resist the illegal detention and autocratic suspension of students," it added.

The petitioners urged the vice chancellor to "protect members of the university community and safeguard their rights".

Bypoll results: PM says victory of 'politics of development' New Delhi, February 16 (PTi): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the victory of BJP and its allies in bypolls in various states showed that people had reposed faith in the "politics of development". In tweets after the bypoll results came, he said it was an "appreciable effort" by NDA. "Happy to see the victory of BJP and allies in by-polls in northern, southern, eastern, western and central parts of the country. I express gratitude to the people," he tweeted. "Appreciable effort by NDA. People across India reposed faith in politics of development, development & development.

'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas'," Modi added.

BJP wrested the communallysensitive Muzaffarnagar constituency in Uttar Pradesh where the ruling Samajwadi Party suffered a blow losing two of the three seats it had while the Congress was jolted in Karnataka where it lost two of the three seats.

BJP ally RLSP won Harlakhi constituency in Bihar, defeating Congress nominee in the state where the RJD-JD(U)- Congress coalition came to power with a massive majority in the Assembly elections only three months ago.

In four other states -- Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab and Telangana -- ruling parties BJP, Shiv Sena, Akali Dal and TRS emerged victorious respectively in one seat each. In Tripura, again it was the ruling CPI (M) which won the lone seat.

The by-elections were held for 12 seats across eight states, results of which were declared today.

Provident fund rate revised to 8.80%

New Delhi, February 16 (PTi): The Finance Ministry has cut interest rate on post office savings of 1, 2 and 3 year terms, Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) as well as 5-year Recurring Deposits, but left long-term instruments such as monthly investment scheme (MIS), PPF, senior citizen and girl child plans untouched.

Interest on short-term post office saving deposits was today cut by 0.25 percent while the rate on employees' provident fund was increased marginally to 8.8 percent.

The Finance Ministry

has cut interest rate on post office savings of 1, 2 and 3 year terms, Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) as well as 5-year Recurring Deposits, but left long-term instruments

from 8.75 per cent previously. The increased in interest rate on PF, announced after 211th meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees' Provident

term deposits, KVP as well as 5-year Recurring Deposits earned over similar tenure Government securities will be withdrawn from April 1. While the short deposits

Interest on PPF, NSC left unchanged; cut by 0.25% on Kisan Vikas Patra, 5-year RD such as monthly investment scheme (MIS), PPF, senior citizen and girl child plans untouched.

In Chennai, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced an interim hike in interest rate on employees' provident fund (PF) to 8.8 percent for 2015-16 fiscal

Fund Organisation (EPFO), was lower than the employees union demand for 8.9 percent. With a view to align small saving interest rates with broadbased banking rates, the Finance Ministry said the 0.25 percent higher interest rate that post office savings of 1, 2 and 3 year

currently fetch 8.4 percent interest, KVP doubles the investment in 8 years and four months (100 months).

The Ministry also announced that henceforth the rates on small savings schemes would be revised every quarter. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, Senior

Citizen Savings Scheme and the MIS, which currently command 0.75, 1 and 0.25 percent higher interest rate than G-sec, were not untouched as they are linked to social security goals. Similarly, there will be no change in interest rate on long-term instruments like 5-year term deposit and similar tenure National Saving Certificates as well as Public Provident Fund (PPF). Currently, PPF deposits get 8.7 percent interest rate while girl child scheme Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana commands 9.2 percent. MIS gets 8.4 percent interest rate.

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Obama starts work to pick Supreme Court justice amid political 'bluster' RANCHO MIRAGE, FEbRuARy 16 (REutERs): President Barack Obama has held preliminary discussions with his team about whom to nominate to the Supreme Court, the White House said on Monday, while accusing Senate Republicans of “bluster” for saying they would not confirm his pick.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters administration officials had started talking with Senate offices about the process, which is shaping up to be an epic fight between Republicans and Democrats in a presidential election year.

Republicans, who control the Senate, say Obama should put off naming a replacement for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died over the weekend, and leave it to the next president to decide. Democrats say it is the president’s responsibility and right to make the choice.

Americans will choose a new president in the Nov. 8 elections. Obama leaves office in January 2017.

Scalia’s death leaves the court evenly divided between liberal and conservative justices just as it is set to decide major cases on abortion, voting rights and immigration. A growing number of Republican senators have already said they will not support an Obama nominee, including a dozen who are up for reelection in November.

“This is not the first time that Republicans have

Scalia’s death boosts legal chances for President Obama’s climate plan

Flowers are seen in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. after the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on February 14, 2016. (Reuters Photo)

come out with a lot of bluster, only to have reality ultimately sink in,” Schultz said.

Republicans shrugged off the criticism, pointing to past political battles over Supreme Court nominees.

In 2006, Democratic leaders in the Senate, as well as then-Senator Obama, tried but failed to block President George W. Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, noted Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Memories tend to be short around here

sometimes,” he said.

OBAMA STRATEGY Obama, in California for a long-planned summit with Southeast Asian leaders, will return to Washington on Tuesday after a press conference at which he is sure to face questions about his strategy for filling the Supreme Court vacancy.

David Axelrod, a former adviser to the president, said the White House should not make an “overtly political” pick while Republicans were behaving in a such a political manner themselves.

“To me, it makes sense to nominate one of the stellar judges he’s already chosen who has been approved by this same Senate that now refuses to act,” Axelrod said. Schultz declined to speculate on names or strategy.

Obama will look for a nominee with “impeccable credentials” who believes in adherence to precedent and bringing one’s own ethics and moral bearings to decisions on the court in which the law is not clear, he said.

“The president seeks judges who understand that justice

is not about some abstract legal theory, or a footnote in a casebook, but it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of peoples’ lives,” Schultz said.

Leaving the vacancy unfilled could affect the court both this year and next, Schultz said, calling on the Senate to act. “The Constitution does not include exemptions for election years or for the president’s last term in office. There’s no exemptions for when a vacancy could tip the balance of the court,” he said.

WAsHINGtON, FEbRuARy 16 (REutERs): A vote to block the Obama administration’s ambitious climate regulation was one of Antonin Scalia’s last acts as a Supreme Court justice. His sudden death may have opened a new path to the rule’s survival.

Scalia died Saturday. Four days earlier, he voted with the other conservative members of the high court to put a hold on the administration’s plans to implement the Clean Power Plan while it is litigated.

The regulation is designed to lower carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels.

The rule is the United States’ main tool to meet the emissions reduction target pledge it made at U.N. climate talks in Paris in December.

It was challenged by 27 states, along with business and industry groups, in a case now before an appeals court in Washington D.C. The Supreme Court could be asked to weigh in again later this year.

Without Scalia, the conservative members of the court no longer have a majority, at least in the short term. The sudden shift has given a boost to the supporters of the emissions rule.

“Last week, the Clean Power Plan was basically dead,” said Brian Potts, a lawyer with the Foley & Lardner law firm who represents companies on environmental regulatory issues. “But with Scalia’s death, everything has changed.”

Environmental lawyers involved in the litigation who support the regulation told Reuters Monday that even before Scalia’s death they had been hopeful the Supreme Court would ultimately uphold it upon close consideration. But they said the change in the high court bolsters the rule’s chances.

“There are still no guarantees, but the Clean Power Plan faces much bet-

ter odds now than it did on Friday,” said Jack Lienke, a lawyer with the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, which backs the regulation.

Industry lawyers said they remained confident the regulation will be struck down.

“While Justice Scalia’s untimely passing creates more uncertainty, the Clean Power Plan is still predicated on an extraordinarily shaky legal foundation,” said Scott Segal, a lawyer with the Bracewell law firm, which represents companies that oppose the regulation.

In January, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit had unanimously rejected the same request for a stay that the Supreme Court granted last week. The appellate panel has set oral arguments on the merits of the case for June 2.

The randomly-drawn appeals court panel is viewed by lawyers on both sides as relatively favorable for the administration, featuring two Democratic appointees and one Republican appointee. One of the Democratic appointees is Sri Srinivasan, a judge many legal experts see as a leading candidate for President Barack Obama to nominate to replace Scalia.

If the appeals court upholds the rule and the challengers take the case to the Supreme Court, they would face an uphill battle in getting the five votes needed for a win without Scalia. The four liberal justices are seen as likely to uphold the rule. So, the best result the challengers would be likely to get is a 4-4 split.

When the court is evenly divided, the lower court ruling stands, meaning the regulation would survive.

An unknown factor is how soon a ninth member will be appointed and whether it will be a Democratic or Republican president who makes it.

Myanmar proposal calls for end to conflict in Shan state Pope Francis courts indigenous Mexicans NAy PyI tAW, FEbRuARy 16 (IANs): A proposal calling to put an end to the conflict in Shan state's North Palaung self-administered zones and Kyaukme township was submitted to the lower house on Tuesday, parliamentary sources said.

The House of Representatives agreed to make debate on the issue on Wednesday, Xinhua reported.

The fighting between ethnic armed groups of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA-S) and Ta'ng National Liberation Army (TNLA) three days ago has forced about 1,500 villagers to flee their homes and village schools have been shut down temporarily.

TNLA militants have been fighting RCSS/SSA-S militants in Namh-

kam township since last November, but their clashes have intensified during the past few days, according to local sources.

The SSA-S was one of the eight armed ethnic groups that signed the ceasefire accord with the government on October 15, 2015. The TNLA, along with two other armed ethnic groups, was not invited to sign the agreement.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, first U.N. chief from Africa, dies CAIRO, FEbRuARy 16 (AP): Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country’s landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as U.N. secretary-general, has died. He was 93.

Boutros-Ghali, the scion of a prominent Egyptian Christian political family, was the first U.N. chief from the African continent.

He stepped into the post in 1992 at a time of dramatic world changes, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a unipolar era dominated by the United States.

But after four years of frictions with the Clinton administration, the United States blocked his renewal in the post in 1996, making him the only U.N. secretary-general to serve a single term. He was replaced by Ghanaian Kofi Annan.

The current president of the U.N. Security Council, Venezuelan Ambassador Rafael Ramirez, announced Boutros-Ghali’s death at the start of a

In this May 27, 1997 file photo, former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali gestures during an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, May 21, 1997 in New York. (AP Photo/File)

session Tuesday on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. The 15 council members stood in a silent tribute.

Boutros-Ghhali died Tuesday at a Cairo hospital, Egypt’s state news agency said. He had been admitted to the hospital after suffering a broken pelvis, the Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday.

Boutros-Ghali’s five years in the

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United Nations remain controversial. Some see him as seeking to establish the U.N.’s independence from the world superpower, the United States. Others blame him for misjudgments in the failures to prevent genocides in Africa and the Balkans and mismanagement of reform in the world body.

In his farewell speech to the U.N., Boutros-Ghali said he had thought when he took the post that the time was right for the United Nations to play an effective role in a world no longer divided into warring Cold War camps.

“But the middle years of this half decade were deeply troubled,” he said. “Disillusion set in.”

In a 2005 interview with The Associated Press, Boutros-Ghali called the 1994 massacre in Rwanda — in which half a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days — “my worst failure at the United Nations.”

But he blamed the United States, Britain, France and Belgium for paralyzing action by setting impossible conditions for intervention.

sAN CRIstObAL DE LAs CAsAs, FEbRuARy 16 (REutERs): Pope Francis embraced the people of Mexico’s poor indigenous south on Monday, denouncing their “systemic” exclusion from society and encouraging the use of native languages in Catholic worship in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions. The region, mired in poverty and plagued by rising insecurity, has fallen far behind other parts of the country economically.

Preaching to a packed crowd at a sports ground in the southern state of Chiapas, the pope quoted the Popol Vuh, a sacred Maya text, and drew comparisons between Catholic and indigenous values.

“Today’s world, ravaged as it is by a throwaway culture, needs you!” he said as he celebrated a Mass that included bible readings in native tongues, referring to the mostly indigenous throngs who loudly cheered him. “You have much to teach us,” he said, lauding Mexico’s native peoples while denouncing “the systemic and organised way your people have been misunderstood and excluded from society.”

He said the Mass before a Hollywood-style stage set replica of the facade of the

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People try to protect themselves from the sun while waiting for Pope Francis to arrive in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico on February 15, 2016. (Reuters Photo)

colonial-era city’s main cathedral.

Many women wore indigenous dress of black skirts and colourful tops, their hair braided with ribbons. Parts of the Mass were said in the Tzeltal, Ch’ol and Tzotzil languages.

Factory worker Alma Gonzalez, 23, who speaks Spanish and Otomi and travelled from the State of Mexico to hear the pope, was touched he was reaching out to her people.

“I’m indigenous ... I want to thank him for pay-

ing attention to us, the poor,” she said.

The pope last year apologised for the role of the Church in the conquest of Latin America and left a Vatican decree while in Chiapas authorizing translations of the liturgy into indigenous languages.

The state of Chiapas was the scene of the Zapatista uprising of Maya rebels in the 1990s. It is now the frontline of a government crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States from Central

America.

When the Zapatistas burst onto the scene, more than two- thirds of Chiapas’ population was Roman Catholic. The expansion of evangelical Christianity through poor indigenous towns since has driven the number down to around 60 percent, making it Mexico’s least-Catholic region. The poverty rate in Chiapas, already the most impoverished state in Mexico, has risen in recent years to more than three-quarters of the population.

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Decade after Materazzi head butt, Zidane the focus in Italy

rOMe, February 16 (aP): Nearly 10 years after ending his playing career by head butting Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane will return to the international spotlight in Italy on Wednesday when he manages Real Madrid against Roma.

Having replaced Rafa Benitez as Madrid's coach last month, the game at the Stadio Olimpico will mark Zidane's managing debut in the Champions League.

While Materazzi is not likely to attend the round of 16 first-leg match, Zidane will come across some familiar faces from the 2006 final in Francesco Totti and Daniele De Rossi.

Zidane assumed international fame during five seasons as a player with Juventus, winning two Serie A titles, but his legacy in Italy will forever be linked to the incident with Materazzi. Zidane was sent off for head butting the Italy defender in the chest during extra time and the Azzurri went on to beat France on penalties for the title.

“Joy or torment? Zidane in Italy. The story continues,” read a headline in Tuesday's Gazzetta dello Sport next to a photo of the head butt.

But Zidane is revered in Spain, having scored the winning goal for Madrid in the 2002 Champions

FILE - Real Madrid's coach Zinedine Zidane, 3rd right stands next to Cristiano Ronaldo, 2nd left during his first training session in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday Jan. 5, 2016. (AP Photo)

League final against Bayer Leverkusen. Since he replaced Benitez, Madrid is unbeaten in six matches and looking to extend its unbeaten run in this season's Champions League.

Here are a few things to know about Wednesday's match: AVOIDING EMBARRASSMENT Having been routed by European powers in recent seasons, Roma will be hoping to avoid another embarrassment against 10-time European champion Madrid.

Roma was beaten 6-1 at Barcelona in November and fell 7-1 to Bayern Munich at home last season.

The Giallorossi also lost 7-1 at home to Manchester United in the 2007 quarterfinals - a match in which current Madrid star Cristia-

no Ronaldo scored twice.

However, Roma has shown signs of turning around a disappointing season since Luciano Spalletti replaced Rudi Garcia as coach last month, winning four straight in Serie A. Newly signed forward Stephan El Shaarawy has scored two goals in four matches and Edin Dzeko ended an 81-day drought with a score in a 3-1 win at Carpi on Friday.

INDESCRIBABLE RONALDO Seemingly at a loss for words to describe Cristiano Ronaldo's goalscoring quality this season, Zidane resorted to using expletives. “You are here to form opinions as to whether he's playing well or badly or if he's finished,” Zidane told journalists after Ronaldo

scored twice to help Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 4-2 on Saturday.

“What can I say? He has shown today that he is - I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say this,” said Zidane before using a Spanish slang term that is commonly understood to mean 'amazing.'

With 21 goals in the Spanish league, Ronaldo's tally is high. But only seven have been scored away from the Santiago Bernabeu, and the last time he did so was Nov. 29, leading some to question the 31-year-old's deadliness away from home.

However, Ronaldo arrives at Roma having scored 11 of Madrid's 19 goals in the group stage.

He netted a brace each in Ukraine and at Malmo.

CALMING INFLUENCE Having calmed Ma-

drid's notoriously fractious squad and super-critical fans, Zidane must now test himself in Europe, the club's favorite competition.

He has succeeded in turning disquiet surrounding striker Karim Benzema and midfielders Luka Modric and James Rodriguez to the team's advantage.

Benzema said he learns something from Zidane “every day,” and has upped his scoring rate to a goal a match, with 19 goals from 19 La Liga appearances and four in four Champions League matches.

James, who rarely appeared under Benitez, has now scored five goals, provided eight assists and was seen smiling again.

Modric singled out Carlo Ancelotti as his favorite coach at Madrid, but the Croatian's fabulous longrange strike six minutes from time against Granada clinched a 2-1 win for Zidane's team on Feb. 7.

Although Zidane will be without Gareth Bale against Roma due to the recurrence of a muscle injury, left back Marcelo looks to have recovered from a serious shoulder dislocation. Madrid will aim to avoid conceding goals against Roma, Benzema said. “We must pay attention to the speed of their players,” he said. “They can harm us.”

Paralympic Indian swimmer forced to wash cars for living new Delhi, February 16 (aGenCieS): Paralympic India swimmer Bharat Kumar who had won gold medals on international levels is forced to wash cars to sustain his livelihood. Bharat does not have a left arm since his birth and despite that he has won gold medals at the 2005 Junior National Level athletics, 2009 World Games and silver at the 2006 Junior World Athletics in Ireland.

According to an exclusive report in the DNA,

Bharat Kumar who hails from Haryana, could not afford the diet which is essential for an athlete.

"I didn't have enough money for a good diet. So I had to sit with beggars near the Sai temple to have my food. That was my diet,” said Bharat to DNA. "I am from a very poor family. Despite earning so many medals for our country, I still have to wash cars to earn a living."

"All I need is some support. I promise to bring medals in 2017 Asian Games

provided I get the desired support….I have written to Modiji for help and hope he does," he added.

Bharat is one of the six siblings in his family. He is the son of labourer who works as a soil digger. Earlier a foot injury in 2010 Commonwealth Games, had forced him to pull out of athletics. That changed his focus into swimming and he finally became a national level swimmer in 2011. He has won about 50 medals in swimming since then.

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Chairman CFMG responds to NSCN (IM)

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n a press briefing at Dimapur on 10 Feb the NSCN(IM) had levelled several allegations against Chairman CFMG. Details of the press briefing were published by newspapers of Nagaland and others on subsequent days.

It is amazing and ironical that the NSCN(IM) is accusing the Chairman CFMG of trying to sabotage and derail the peace process between NSCN(IM) and Govt of India when he is in no way involved in the talks at the highest levels in New Delhi. NSCN(IM) has also alleged that Chairman CFMG has some vested motives. Chairman NK Singh only motives and desire are to see genuine peace and good law & order in Nagaland, common people free from the fear of the gun, and a security environment conducive to encouraging increased economic activities and local employment.

NSCN(IM) has stated that the 'chairman is a trouble creator,' does only fault finding and creates issues out of nothing. It is an unfortunate and misplaced statement because whenever some trouble (violation of Cease Fire Ground Rules) occurred the Chairman had to take cognisance of it and take appropriate action. And this would have created some discomfort for the perpetrators of the trouble/violation, but it is not the Chairman who created the trouble in the first instance. Chairman has a mandate as per the Cease Fire agreement and that is what he is following. There is no unnecessary fault-finding.

Pointing out CFGR violations cannot be construed as obstructionist and hostile as alleged by NSCN(IM).

The job of the CFMG is to monitor the Cease Fire, and see that the CFGRs arc followed in letter and spirit. The NSCN(IM) must honour the Cease Fire Ground Rules (CFGRs) which they had agreed to abide by. This would also remedy the perceived deterioration in the Cease Fire situation alluded to by NSCN(IM) and help towards improving mutual understanding as mentioned by the Convenor of NSCN(IM) within the parameters of the CFGRs. Perhaps with some unknown intent the NSCN(IM) has alleged that the latest stand-off between Assam Rifles and NSCN(IM) in Mon district was the 'handiwork of the CMG Chairman'. The truth is that the stand-off had already started on 7

Feb, whereas it was only on 8 Feb that the Chairman was informed and came into the picture while he was out of Nagaland for a few weeks.

On 08 Feb Chairman CFMG was informed by Convenor CFMG (Govt of India) about NSCN(IM) having set up a camp at Neitong (Mon district) comprising 6-7 thatched huts and about 30 cadres. Chairman had it conveyed to the NSCN(IM) that since the camp was not in the current list of designated camps it must be vacated by the NSCN(IM). Statement of Convenor CFMC of NSCN(IM) that the camp was approved in 2004, or that it was in the process of approval in MHA is misleading. Quite far away from Neitong a camp had been proposed in Nokyan in 2004 but was not occupied, and subsequently cancelled/denotified in July 2010, almost six years ago.

NSCN(lM) would be well aware of this because a copy of the denotification letter was endorsed to NSCN(IM) also in July 2010. Its recent setting up of unauthorised camp at Neitong and concentrating armed cadres there was obviously a violation of the CFGRs which is why NSCN(M) was asked to vacate the said camp.

The NSCN(IM) has appreciated the good gestures of the Indian Army authorities to put off the stand-off, and said "who created the problem?" To this question the Chairman CFMG is very clear that it was not he who created the problem. People concerned may carry out their own introspection.

NSCN(IM) has accused the Chairman of ordering frisking and raids on residences of members by Assam Rifles. Such actions are undertaken by the forces based on their own inputs and Chairman CFMG has not ordered a single one of them, neither does his mandate permit him to do so. The accusation is totally baseless.

As part of their assistance to various villages, Assam Rifles had planned to set up some solar lighting in Beisumpuikam village in Feb-Mar 2015. This involved movement of some vehicles with solar equipment accompanied by Assam Rifles. Due to alignment of the public road, these vehicles had to pass close to Hebron Camp. As provided for in the CFGRs the NSCN(IM) was informed that such a movement would take place. However, due to resistance

from NSCN(IM) and to avoid creating further tension the Assam Rifles at the last minute decided not to go ahead with the solar lighting of Beisumpuikam village. In this matter the involvement of office of Chairman CFMG was only of coordination between both sides. Accusing Chairman CFMG of ordering Assam Rifles to go past the NSCN(IM) gate at Hebron is baseless.

NSCN(IM) has accused Chairman CFMG of showing lack of concern by failing to force Assam Rifles to return Rs. 3 lakhs seized from a cadre on 05 May 2014 in Dhansiripar area. While the Convenor of NSCN(IM) said the money was for their Mess, the Assam Rifles maintained that it was seized along with extortion slips and incriminating documents and therefore had to be dealt with as per their procedures.

NSCN(IM) has stated that Chairman CFMG has been writing letters to Govt of India. The work of Chairman CFMG entails interaction & correspondence on Cease Fire security related matters with various authorities/ entities like NSCN, State Govt, Govt of India, Nagaland Police, IGAR(N) and HQ 3 Corps. The NSCN(IM) also corresponds and interacts with Govt of India and others like HQ 3 Corps as mentioned by NSCN(IM) Convenor in connection with the latest stand-off in Mon district. So there is nothing extraordinary if CFMG Chairman's job entails some correspondence with Govt of India which is one of the signatories to the Cease Fire agreement.

NSCN(IM) has lamented the low frequency of CFMG meetings. These meetings are held at varying frequencies. There is no bar on any side to ask for a meeting. However, whenever some incident occurs, observations are conveyed at the earliest through letters/ email. In the recent past a meeting of the CFMG was proposed to be held in November 2015 before the festive season, but that was not found suitable by the NSCN(IM). Efforts are made every few months and meetings held when feasible for all stakeholders.

In the interests of peace and a conducive environment, Chairman CFMG once again appeals to the NSCN(IM) to abide by and honour the Cease Fire Ground Rules in letter and spirit.

NK Singh, Lt. Gen (Retd) Chairman, CFMG

Pacquiao apologises over gays ‘worse than animals’ comment

Manila, February 16 (aP): Boxing star and Philippine Senate candidate Manny Pacquiao apologized Tuesday for denouncing people in gay relationships as “worse than animals” but said he stood by his opposition to samesex marriage.

Fellow Filipino celebrities were among those criticizing his remarks, made when a TV network asked candidates about their views on same-sex marriage.

“It’s just common sense,” Pacquiao said in the remarks posted online by the TV5 network. “Have you seen any animal having male-to-male or female-tofemale relations?”

Animals, he said, were better because they recognize gender differences, and “if you have male-tomale or female-to-female (relationships), then people are worse than animals.”

Among those who reacted strongly was popular gay comedian and TV host Jose Marie Viceral, known as Vice Ganda. Vice Ganda tweeted that lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders are humans, not animals.

He said that they’re not saints, but that they’ll pray for the boxer, who is widely acclaimed for bringing his country honors.

Vice Ganda posted a picture of Pope Francis, suggesting that even the beloved leader of the Roman Catholic church does not condemn gays. He quoted the pope: “If a person is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

Danton Remoto, chairman of the LGBT group Ladlad, said Pacquiao’s comments betray a shallow understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity.

“He is running for a

national position and he should be a senator of everybody, not just over-thehill boxers and straight people,” Remoto said by phone, adding Pacquiao and his advisers “should bone up on LGBT issues” of the 21st century.

“Otherwise, they would be left behind in the Dark Ages, when the cavemen ruled and the numbskulls roamed the earth,” Remoto said.

Singer Aiza Seguerra, a former child actress in the 1980s who is now living with another actress, blasted Pacquiao on Instagram: “You might’ve done our country proud but with your statement, you just showed the whole country why we shouldn’t vote for you.”

“And yes, I think you are an ignorant, bigoted hypocrite,” Seguerra said.

Pacquiao, 37 and a current member of the House of Representatives, apologized in social media. “I’m sorry for hurting people by comparing homosexuals to animals,” he said in a Facebook video. “Please forgive me for those I’ve hurt.”

In an Instagram post, he said he was not condemning anyone, but was just expounding on a biblical truth and would rather obey God than obey “the desires of the flesh.”

Although he has come under fire for his chronic absences in Congress, Pacquiao is campaigning for a Senate seat and voterpreference surveys show him among the strong contenders. Many believe he’ll eventually take a crack at the presidency.

The poverty that hounded his childhood forced him to drop out of school and take on odd jobs before he embraced boxing, where he carved a legend and became one of the highest-paid sluggers by emerging as an eight-division champion.

As his fortunes brightened, he returned to school and later took a special course to prepare for his role as a congressman.

He has recently declared plans to retire after his third bout with Timothy Bradley on April 9 in Las Vegas with a guaranteed $20 million payday.

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t was the year 2014, the 5th may. I am a blessed 94 year old guided by God’s gracious hand. As I woke up to get another beautiful day of the Lord, having my usual quite time and spending precious hours with God, that I came upon a revelation from God. It was between 2:00 a.m and 3:00 a.m, I heard a very loud and powerful thunder like voice

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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2015, file photo, Manny Pacquiao takes questions at the Asia Society in New York. (AP Photo/File)

from the eastern horizon. It said: ‘Like my wrath upon the kingdoms of Babylon, Persia and Rome, my wrath shall be upon the vicious congress rule in India; their reign shall not revive again. I have chosen a new authoritative person and his authority shall be wide spread leaving no stone unturned to hunt the wicked. And I have chosen a person with ethereal quality to bring better world relations’. And the voice went down the eastern

horizon saying. ‘I honour and favour the Nagas’ pronouncement of NAGALAND FOR CHRIST’.

His concluding words: 1) Transformation-transformation.

2) Selection- selection 3) Separation- separation, and the voice faded away to the dusk of twilight.

Rev. Vitovi Yeptho Pastor (FCF)

Give them their desire

was assigned a text for the Hebrew class from the book of 1 Samuel 8 and as I was reading it, a thought strike me. Thepassage is a place where the Israelitesask God for a king. Right from the journey of Exodus,God was the main figure who led the Israelites.

But now the Israelites came to a point where they don’t want the rule of God anymore. They were inadvertently influenced by the pagan nations who followed the system of monarchy. God, therefore, told Samuel to grant the wish of the people because they were not rejecting him but the Lord Himself.

In this, God warned them of the harsh realities and consequences they had to pay in the installation of a human king. The people consented and God granted them their desire. What subsequentlyfollowed in the history of Israel openly unpacked the ramifications mentioned by God Himself. But then, it was too late.

Way back in the Exodus journey, the Israelites whined and complained about the food provided by God and cried for more indulgence of their appetites. God gave them their desires but while the meat was still in their mouths, God’s anger burned against them and countless numbers perished in the desert. In all this experience, the Israelites did not learn their lesson. God’s reluctant “Yes” was as dangerous as “No.” When I see all the debates on the prohibition of liquor in our state, the public are not in favour of banning it anymore. It’s still a

recurringissue discussed in the social networking. For many, the ban is not applicable to our context as all colonies and corners of our town are filled with pockets of wine shops. Some run to earn a living while some to meet their greed.

Our state depicts a whitewash tombstone. It’s only dead bones with foul smells everywhere. “Why publicise on the outside what’s not real on the inside?” some retort.

The churches and the social organizations are the ones who are restricting this prohibition act. So many have voiced out, “Church!

Why impose a rule when people are not willing to obey it? Why warn about the ramifications when people know better than you? Why ban something when people are out-rightly mocking your religiosity with no fruits? Why care for a people who do not realize your love for them?” and all other arguments as well.Frankly, the Churches have to admit that they have failed miserably. The impact of the churches upon our own society is only partial change but not total transformation. The silence of God’s people speaks volumes that something is really wrong within the churches. Therefore, an evaluation of our own faith is the need of the hour. At the moment, the Churches have no power and it’s a sorry state of affair.

But people, don’t rejoice! Don’t be so elated when your demand is achieved, you might cry tomorrow.

The real fall will soon come. The crumbling down of our morals and ethics will soon be evident once the curtain is pulled. The increase in

substance abuse, taverns, immoral lifestyle, illicit relationships, looting, sexual perversion, killing and complete breakdown of system will soon be the picture of our state. The lifting of the ban will add and embolden the practice of more serious concerns such as same sex marriage, homosexuality, lesbianism, etc. The Church has to be prepared to respond to the onslaught of all these sobering issues. By then, we will realize our folly. But it will be too late, you see! I am not here to argue and I know you will have you own set of good reasons and so the only way to end this noise is to listen to the voice of the people.

The citation of the history of Israel in the introduction was to bring an application here. My hermeneutics(art and science of interpretation) may not be so convincing here for some theologians.

But please bear with me for a moment.The Israelites history depicts the story of every people’s group, ethnicity, tribes and nations. The spiralling down of a civilization is seen when there is no law and restrictions set upon the people. The degradation of a society strikes when the voice of people becomes louder than God’s command. The churches today are acting as a goin-between God and the state. The authority vested upon the Church is from above and people do not want it. And the only possible solution now is to do what God said to Samuel, “Listen to them and give them their desire.”

Vebu Khamo Kohima Bible College.

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift win big at 2016 GrammyS

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t was a clean sweep for rapper Kendrick Lamar at the 58th Grammy Awards here on Monday, when he bagged five trophies for his album "To Pimp a Butterfly". Singer Taylor Swift was honoured with the Album of the Year Grammy Award for "1989" at the gala, where Indian-origin filmmaker Asif Kapadia won the golden gramophone for his film "Amy" but internationally acclaimed sitarist Anoushka Shankar lost yet again.

Kapadia's "Amy", a documentary on the life of late singer Amy Winehouse, got the Best Music Film Award at Grammys. The filmmaker, born and brought up in London, was excited more so as the Grammy Award comes to him after his victory at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards.

"Amazing! Thank you Grammys! 'Amy' wins Best Music Film," Kapadia tweeted.

Meanwhile, Shankar, who was nominated for the fifth time at the Grammys this year, failed to bag an award for her album "Home".

She has never won a Grammy, but was happy as this time she became the first Indian musician to be a

presenter at the event -- and she looked pretty in blue in a creation

by Indian designer Manish Arora.

The star of the night, where separate tributes were paid to David Bowie, Eagles's Glenn Frey and Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister and Michael Jackson, was Lamar, who not just impressed with his five-Grammy win but also with his performance.

Interestingly, Lamar and Swift were in a face-off in multiple categories of the awards, but both emerged winners when the Best Music Video category honour was announced as the all-star video for Swift's "Bad Blood" remix features Lamar.

There were other Indian connects too.

South African musician Wouter Kellerman's latest album "Love language", for which Bengalurubased Grammy winner Ricky Kej composed, produced and mixed "Aishwarya", lost the Grammy for the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album category to "Sylva"

by Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest.

The Best Intrumental Composition award went to "The Afro Latin Jazz Suite", composed by Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, featuring Indian artiste

Rudresh Mahanthappa.

Singers Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars's "Uptown Funk" nabbed the Record of the Year as well as Best Pop Group/Duo Performance; singer Meghan Trainor was named Best New Artist; while "Baby" hitmaker Justin Bieber walked away with his first ever Grammy in the Best Dance Recording for "Where Are Ü Now", his collaborative work with Jack Ü (Skrillex and Diplo).

Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü also took home the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album.

For the first time in three Grammys ceremonies, Ed Sheeran walked home with Song of the Year award and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Thinking Out Loud".

The event also saw Chris Stapleton winning the Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance for "Traveller", and lost out to Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" in the Best Country Song category.

The Weeknd, who had seven nominations, bagged Grammys for Best R&B Performance for "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)" and Best Urban Contemporary Album for “Beauty Behind the Madness".

D'Angelo and the Vanguard's acclaimed “Black Messiah” earned

Best R&B Album while "Really Love" claimed Best R&B Song at the event, which saw star performers like Lady Gaga, Adele and Bieber taking to the stage.

In the rock categories, Alabama Shakes band picked up three Grammys for Best Alternative Album (Sound and Color), Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song for "Don't Wanna Fight".

Muse's Drones bagged Best Rock Album, while mysterious metal outfit Ghost won Best Metal Performance for "Cirice".

Bob Dylan and the Band's comprehensive “The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11” nabbed the Best Historical Album while Maria Schneider won Best Arrangement, Instruments And Vocals for her work on the “Nothing Has Changed” version of David Bowie's "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" and Roger Waters's “Amused to Death” reissue earned Best Surround Sound Album.

Common and John Legend's Oscar-winning Selma song "Glory" won the Grammy for Best Song Written For Visual Media, with "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me" scooping up Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media.

Source: IANS

Rannvijay Singh refused Madeline Stuart returns to New York Fashion Week 'Bigg Boss' for seven years

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ctor Rannvijay Singh, best known for hosting adventure reality TV show 'Roadies' for over 10 years, says he will never be a part of 'Bigg Boss' as it does not appeal him. Rannvijay said currently he is into producing shows and web series, and does not have the time to invest in a show like 'Bigg Boss'.

"I have been offered 'Bigg Boss' for seven straight years...

Every year. I refused, every year. But in the last couple of years, I guess they have got the hint," Rannvijay told PTI. "I don't have the time. I produced shows like 'Squadron', 'RannVJRun'... So, I have to do a lot of things. I am also married. I don't want to go to 'Bigg Boss'. The show doesn't appeal to me at all. I do 'Roadies'," the 32-year-old actor said.

Rannvijay has done films like Salman Khan-starrer 'London Dreams' and 'Action Replay', featuring Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, but the actor feels no

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pressure to do more movies just for the sake of it. "I've done three Punjabi and seven-eight Hindi films. Whether they did well or not is not the question.

I will only do things that I want to and not because people want me to do a movie."

The actor was all set to join the Indian Army after passing the exams and clearing the medical test, before he participated in the first season of 'Roadies' in 2003 and emerged as a finalist. Post his win, he has been associated with the show as a host and a gang leader, a concept introduced in the last season of the series.

The upcoming 13th season, titled 'Roadies X4', will again see Rannvijay as a leader besides three other team heads- actress Neha Dhupia, actor Karan Kundra and 'Bigg Boss 9' winner Prince Narula.

Rannvijay said the reason the makers chose personalities from different fields as gang leaders is to inspire people.

"It's a very conscious decision, to have people, who are

inspirational. Neha Dhupia had not been in the biggest film and she says it. But from the age of 19, she has worked hard, she has done fashion, became Miss India. Karan Kundra has a huge fan following, people look up to him." "Similarly Prince, he was a contestant and now a judge. So a person who's auditioning can believe that if he does well, he too can get to a place. It's possible," he said. The show is known for its crude language, but Rannvijay says he is not bogged down by it.

He feels the show targets a certain audience, which has made it a success. "That certain audience is our biggest audience. People aged 35 and under...The biggest youth of the world is in India and they are our target audience. We haven't done anything specifically to target the masses." "When you try to cater to the masses you falter. Our's is a niche show but our following is huge," Rannvijay added. MTV 'Roadies X4' will air from February 20.

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hen Madeline Stuart first walked in a catwalk show at last year's New York Fashion Week, she made instant headlines around the world. The first professional adult model with Down Syndrome, her appearance on the FTL Moda catwalk was seen as triumph in an industry often criticised for a lack of diversity and presenting a narrow view of beauty.

So it's no surprise that the Italian design collection signed up Madeline to walk again in Monday's catwalk show. She appeared first in a wintry look by Lulu te Gigi, accessorised with white, fur hat and boots beSource: PTI fore returning in a gold and

Sonu niGam and 6-PacK band Bruce Springsteen unveil track inspired by a true story announces autobiography

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fter garnering over 3 million views on YouTube and Facebook as well as immense critical acclaim on its second music video, Sab Rab De Bande, a collaboration with India’s most loved singer, Sonu Nigam, the 6-Pack Band released its third single today. It is an acoustic version of the same song, but with

a key difference: the music video of the song is inspired by a true story that took place with one of the members of the band.

The song, which is an adaptation of the teachings of the ‘Guru Granth Sahib’ and gives the heart-warming message of us all being children of the same Almighty, features the story of one of the six members of the

Manipuri model, who lost out on 'Mary Kom,' bags 'Rangoon'

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anipuri model Lin Laishram, who was in consideration to play Mary Kom in Omung Kumar's biopic of the boxing champion, will now be seen playing an interesting role in Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Rangoon'. Calling her character special for more reasons than one, she says it means a lot to her, "not just as an actor, but also for my people back home". She explains, "My character in the film is very strong and also represents the women from my state."

Lin, who was stereotyped for her North-Eastern looks during her struggling days in Bollywood, says, "Even though the concept of the typical Indian beauty hasn't changed, it is certainly evolving. I'm not bound by boundaries, or by looks. And to be cast in a movie with such dedicated and talented actors like Saif Ali Khan, Kangana Ranaut and Shahid Kapoor does not feel like work. It's a treat for me."

Source: TNN

band in its music video.

One of them had faced discrimination at a job.

Although the video puts a positive spin on the story and gives it a happy ending, in real life, she was rejected on the basis of being a transgender.

The video attempts to make the world a more welcoming place for everyone from the transgender community, so that

they can break down the shackles of prejudice and discrimination and be accepted by the larger society. While the music is by Shameer Tandon, lyrics have been penned down by Nishant. The band constitutes among its members Asha Jagtap, Bhavika Patil, Chandni Suvarnakar, Fida Khan, Komal Jagtap, Ravina Jagtap.

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purple formal dress - and a broad smile.

Madeline's return to the catwalk is a significant moment for the model who hoped to prove her first Fashion Week appearance wasn't merely tokenism.

“I hope through modeling I can change society's view of people with disabilities, exposure to creating awareness, acceptance and inclusion," she wrote on her website.

As is often common of those people with Down Syndrome, Madeline struggled with her weight. She lost 44 pounds with a motive to become healthy and the decided to follow a lifelong dream of modeling.

She was given the opportunity to do just that last year when FTL Moda cast her. The Italian label is well known for embracing diversity on the catwalk. In 2015, wheelchairbound women, amputees, people on crutches and the able-bodied alike made up their SS16 show. The collection was done in collabora-

tion with Italy’s Fondazione vertical, an organisation that researches spinal chord injuries.

Her mother, Rosanne Stuart, said Madeline's second appearance proved she was more than a oneoff gimmick. “I think today is cementing her in the industry. She isn’t just a onehit wonder who walked in New York Fashion week once,” she told The Mighty.

“She’s settled in the industry. She’s a model now.”

As for Madeline's modelling ambitions, Rosanne told The Huffington Post: "Madeline would like to model for a very wellknown brand such as Forever 21, Versace or Gucci, so she would be cemented into the industry, as I still believe some people think this is a 'five minutes of fame' thing. But we also want to keep working for smaller companies, charitable companies or startup companies so we can continue to help people."

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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ock icon Bruce Springsteen has revealed his upcoming autobiography will be released later this year. Springsteen, 66, will release his memoirs, entitled 'Born To Run', on September 27 via Simon & Schuster, according to a Source: Deccan Chronicle press release and a statement via his official website.

Neither he nor his representatives gave any official comment on the eye-watering advance, but publishing insiders reckon that it will be a massive best-seller when it comes out. The Boss began writing the book soon after he played the 2009 Super Bowl halftime show, the press release reveals, choosing to tell stories with "disarming candour".

It will cover his childhood in Freehold, New Jersey, his beginnings as a bar band musician in Asbury Park to the formation of the E Street Band and their subsequent ascent to multiplatinum selling fame.

"Writing about yourself is a funny business. But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this," he said in a statement.

Source: PTI

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ZurIcH, February 16 (aFP): Disgraced FIFA President Sepp Blatter appeared before a FIFA's appeals committee on Tuesday to fight an eight-year ban from the sport for ethics violations. Blatter arrived at FIFA headquarters in Zurich 90 minutes before the start of the hearing at 0800 GMT. His hearing follows a similar appeal by the fallen head of European football, Michel Platini, on Monday.

Blatter and Platini were banned by FIFA's ethics committee in December after being found guilty of breaches surrounding a mysterious 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million, 1.8 million euros) payment Platini received from Blatter in 2011. Both men, once the most powerful figures in world football, have insisted that the payment was part of a legitimate oral contract reportedly for consulting work performed by Platini a decade earlier.

Former Man Utd midfielder Butt to head club's academy

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Blatter appears before FIFA's appeals committee

MaNcHeSTer, February 16 (reuTerS): Manchester United have named former midfielder Nicky Butt as head of their academy as the club continues to overhaul their youth coaching set-up.

The 41-year-old, who was part of United's 'Class of 92' along with the likes of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and David Beckham, made 387 appearances for the club between 1992 and 2004, winning six Premier League titles. He returned to the club in 2012 as a reserve team coach and was named assistant to caretaker manager Giggs for the last four games of the 2013-14 season after David Moyes was sacked. Butt's appointment follows the departures of youth academy director Brian McClair last June and last week's exit of under-18s coach Paul McGuinness. Butt said he felt honoured to be given the role. "As someone who learned his trade in the United youth set-up, it's a huge honour now to be given the chance to lead the academy and to instil its values and attitudes to continue to create future generations of Manchester United players," he said.

Footballer kills referee after receiving red card in Argentina

LONDON, February 16 (aNI): An amateur football match turned into bloodshed after a referee was gunned down by an enraged footballer for showing him a red card during the course of the game. According to the Guardian, police in Argentina are searching for the footballer, who pulled out a gun from his bag after being given his marching orders and shot 48-year-old Cesar Flores dead after returning to the field. According to local reports, a player was also injured during the incident, but is believed to be out of danger. Argentinean authorities have been struggling to deal with violence in football for a long time. A club match in the South American nation had to be abandoned last year after a played punched a referee unconscious after being shown a yellow card.

who ensured that India scored a ‘Perfect 10’ in boxing. After the men had scooped all the seven gold medals on offer, the women made a clean sweep on Tuesday.

London Olympics bronze-medallist M.C. Mary Kom (51kg), former world champion L. Sarita Devi (60kg) and Asian Games bronze winner Pooja Rani (75kg) picked up the top honours in their respective categories.

The judokas too showed good form, bagging two gold and two silver medals to finish on top at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor sports hall.

Four events were held on the last day of the judo competition and the Indians put up a dominating show once again to finish on a high.

Avatar Singh took just 49 seconds from the stipulated five minutes to prevail over his Afghan opponent Mohammad Ismail Kakar en route to the gold medal in the men’s under 90kg.

Pooja, on the other hand, overcame a strong challenge from Beenish Khan of Pakistan in an evenlycontested duel before the Indian sealed off the issue in 3:03 minutes from the stipulated four in women’s U-70kg.

Women’s U-78kg was tricky as there were only four contestants and Aruna (200 points) was edged out by gold medallist Fouzia Mumtaz (210) of Pakistan in the round-robin league.

It was the fifth battle of the day between the two rivals, and Mumtaz clinched the issue in just four minutes.

Pitted against Shah Hussain Shah in the men’s U-100kg final, Shubham Kumar simply lost against the celebrated Pakistani, who won in just one minute and 29 seconds to clinch the gold.

Indian judokas emerged overall winners, with nine gold, three silver from 12 disciplines, to push Pakistan (2-2-8) and Nepal (1-2-6) to second and third places, respectively.

F1 fans bored with Hamilton's win streak: Vettel

Shenhua terminate Tim Cahill's contract

SHaNGHaI, February 16 (aFP): Australia's top goalscorer Tim Cahill has had his contract terminated by Chinese club Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, he said Tuesday, a year after he joined. The 36-year-old veteran and former Everton star agreed to extend his stay just months ago, but said on Instagram: "I'm very sorry to announce that I have reached an agreement with Shanghai Shenhua to terminate my contract." "I'm not part of the new coach (Gregorio) Manzano's plans for the 2016 season," he said he had been told. A spokesman for Shenhua did not immediately respond to request for comment. Cahill, one of the biggest foreign names in the Chinese Super League (CSL), said in the posting he was "very sad", adding: "Regardless of whether my contract is being honoured and paid out in full, I would much rather have seen it out." He did not reveal his future plans, but said he would share more information once final details are completed.

FILE - Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP and Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP line up for the national anthem during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at Bahrain International Circuit on April 19, 2015 in Bahrain. (Getty Images)

LONDON, February 16 (aGeNcIeS): Formula One risks abandoning its roots with “overcomplicated” rules and could see interest in the sport fall even further if Lewis Hamilton’s dominance continues, Sebastian Vettel has warned.

In an outspoken attack on the eve of the new season made on his personal website, Vettel claimed F1 had become too lost in technology and the focus should return to the drivers.

Vettel himself was accused of turning people off the sport when he won four straight championships from 2010 to 2013.

This intervention almost exactly mirrors criticism of his reign made a few years ago by Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and others.

But Hamilton and Mercedes’ dominance has been unprecedented in its scale. They have won 32 of the last 38 races and with very few rule changes over the winter, the team head

NeW DeLHI, February 16 (PTI): Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels 'different' about captaining a new team in the Indian Premier League for the first time in eight years and says he has not moved on from his days at the now suspended Chennai Super Kings. "I would be lying if I say I have moved on. That is the special part of being a human being. There is got to be an emotional connect after eight years (with CSK)," said Dhoni at the jersey launch of his new team, the Rising Pune Supergiants here on Monday. Usually calm and composed on the field, Dhoni got a tad emotional when asked about the team he led since the inception of the IPL. "After eight years of IPL, it feels very different to play for any other team.

"But as a professional, I would like to thank the Pune team for taking me," said Dhoni. Other big players in the Pune team are Ravichandran Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Australia captain Steven Smith and South African Faf du Plessis.

Brazil court freezes Neymar assets

Players of India take participants march past, during the closing ceremony of the 12th South Asian Games-2016, in Guwahati on February 16. (IANS Photo)

SHILLONG, February 16 (PTI): India’s regional supremacy went unchallenged as the hosts were crowned overall champions for the 12th consecutive time, after notching up a record-breaking haul of 308 medals, at the South Asian Games.

With women boxers scooping all the three gold medals on offer and the judokas also bagging two gold and two silver on the last day of the Games, India’s final tally stood at 188 gold, 99 silver and 30 bronze medals.

It was a massive jump in medal count for the Indians, who had won 175, including 90 gold, in the previous edition of the Games in 2010.

At the distant second spot was Sri Lanka with a haul of 186 medals (25 gold, 63 silver and 98 bronze). Pakistan held on to the third spot with a final count of 106 medals (12 gold, 37 silver and 57 bronze).

On the final day of competitions, first off the blocks were the pugilists,

Would be lying if I say I have moved on from CSK: Dhoni

into this season as overwhelming favourites, even if there are hopes Vettel’s Ferrari have stepped up their challenge.

While Vettel was cautious on his team’s chances, he was remarkably frank on the state of the sport.

"In short, I think the sport should be in the spotlight and it should be about which driver is the fastest," the four-time champion said.

"Today the car plays an important role, like it did in

the past. But we shouldn't get lost in over-complicated rules. Our audience has to be able to identify with our cars again. At the moment F1 is just too complex and we're lacking sound.

"The dominance of Mercedes in the past two years took away a lot of excitement for the fans. Plus the new rules focus too much on details. I think we have to be careful not to lose the roots of motor racing and I certainly hope the cars of the future will be more within their grasp."

Formula One has been trapped in a debate about what it should be for years, but this was dramatically heightened with the introduction of more efficient, but quieter, hybrid engines at the start of 2014.

Bernie Ecclestone, F1’s chief executive, has been seeking to implement new rules for 2017 which make the cars significantly faster, but they appear to have been watered down amid endless bickering among the teams.

The first pre-season test starts in Barcelona on Feb 21, with the first race in Melbourne on March 20.

SaO PauLO, February 15 (aP): Brazilian authorities have blocked assets of Barcelona star Neymar, including a yacht, a jet and several properties worth almost $50 million. A Sao Paulo federal court rejected an appeal from the Brazilian striker last week and started issuing warrants to freeze the assets worth 192 million reals (almost $50 million), Brazilian media reported on Monday. Last year, Neymar, his family and related businesses were found guilty of evading 63 million reals in taxes (almost $16 million) between 2011 and 2013 when he was playing for Brazilian club Santos.

He has denied any wrongdoing. Iagaro Jung Martins, an auditor with Brazil's federal tax agency, told The Associated Press that Neymar isn't likely to go to jail if he pays what regulators say he owes. "He can still appeal that decision," Martins told the AP. "If he pays what he owes, the case is closed. Our legislation isn't too harsh."

Training clubs lose as agents receive record payments: FIFPro

bruSSeLS, February 16 (aFP): Football clubs received just 0.5 percent in training compensation from the record $4.2 billion transfer fees paid last year as agents received record payments, the international professional footballers union FIFPro claimed on Monday. The amount of compensation that clubs paid agents in 2015 rose by 15 percent to a record 228 million euros ($260m) overshadowing the global sum of 20.7 million euros ($23m) clubs received for youth training. In 2001, world governing body FIFA introduced training compensation for clubs that developed players between 12 and 21 years to try and encourage spending on youth academies. The latest data was compiled by FIFA and presented by FIFPro to Members of the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday to show how the transfer system is not effectively distributing revenue. "The transfer system is rewarding agents far more than football clubs that produce talent," FIFPro Secretary General Theo van Seggelen said. "How can this be right? It's critical the system is overhauled." FIFPro, which represents 65,000 footballers, in September 2015 filed a complaint to the European Commission about the player transfer system. The commission is studying the complaint and has asked FIFA for its response to the complaint.

I’ll be fit for World T20: Watson

SyDNey, February 16 (PTI): Australia allrounder Shane Watson has expressed confidence that he would fully recover from his abdominal injury and be eligible for selection for the ICC World T20, starting early next month.

The mega-event is scheduled to be held in India from March 8 to April 3. The 34-year-old flew home from the UAE, where he was playing in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), after suffering the injury. He underwent scans and said he should be ready in another couple of weeks. “I’m very confident I’ll be right for the World Cup,” Watson was quoted as saying by Cricket Australia. “This sort of injury, it’s not a huge injury,” he added.

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