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Unhappy with suspension, MlAs blame nPf president for division Morung Express news Dimapur | January 11

The eight states of the North East live in one home—let us search for our roots. This is the message that Lepden Jamir (53), a Naga sculptor from Mopungchuket village, Mokokchung, Nagaland, will portray in his new wood sculpture. It will be exhibited at the ‘Maati Ke Rang’ Festival from January 13-17, 2015, to be held at the North East Zone Cultural Centre complex in Dimapur. Jamir and his team are artists who have learnt the tradition of sculpting from their ancestors, much like the other artists presenting their work at the Festival. “Art is one, only the language differs. Peace is within each of us; art is a message of peace,” says Jamir.

YPCC clarifies on ‘quit notice’ DIMAPUR, JANUARY 11 (MExN): The Yimchungru Public Coordination Committee (YPCC) has clarified its stand on the reported ‘quit notice’ attributed to the organisation. The YPCC in a press release stated that it had not used the term, rather it was a misinterpretation of ‘public notice’. The statement was appended by Lunthrungba Yimchungru, convenor and Lokhum Y.S. Yimchungru, general secretary.

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ing the appeals of the Tuensang civil society and the initiatives taken by the Chang Khulei Setshang to restore peace, the YPCC expressed unhappiness over the perceived apathy of the general public towards the Yimchungru affected by the dispute in Tuensang.

“It is a question on our part that if a single misprinting can cause such severe panic and havoc to all the other tribal communities dwelling in Tuensang, the YPCC is dismayed that

no condemnation statement was given by any organisation/union/tribal bodies in Nagaland…” said that YPCC referring to a series of events dating from August 2012 to January 2015, which occurred in Tuensang.

“In the light of the above, the inhabitants of Tuensang town in particular and the people of Nagaland in general are entreated to take the place of Yimchungrus and commit to urgency for peace as desired,” the YPCC appealed.

The NPF group supporting G Kaito Aye has reacted strongly to the suspension of PHE Minister Noke Wangnao from primary and active membership of Naga People’s Front (NPF) by NPF president Dr. Shürhozelie Lietsietsu.

Kaito is now one amongst the nine NPF legislators suspended for ‘anti-party activities.’

“In my 40 years, I have never strayed or defected to any other party; I don’t understand the reason to suspend me from the party membership,” the taciturn senior regionalist voiced out at a press conference held at Sovima Sunday.

Legislators supporting G Kaito Aye are camping at Sovima village.

Maintaining that the current state of affairs was not a ‘crisis’ but a ‘leadership change’ within the party fold, Wangnao alleged the NPF president was trying to tarnish his name. ‘Why doesn’t he suspend all the other members as well,’ he added.

“I however forgive Dr. Shürhozelie and hope God would also forgive him for his transgression,” Wangnao said.

Spokesperson Imkong L Imchen, also amongst the recently suspended members, termed the suspension orders as invalid.

He questioned the decision wherein the legislators were first given suspension order and later demanded show cause notice. “This only means the first order has been nullified by the second,” he concluded.

Laying the blame for division among the NPF legislators squarely on the president, Imkong alleged that NPF party leadership led by Dr. Shürhozelie, instead of pacifying the misunderstanding between the groups, started suspending party legislatures

Chief Minister refutes allegations DIMAPUR, JANUARY 11 (MExN): Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, today refuted allegations made

by NPF legislators calling for leadership change, and termed them as an attempt at “spreading misinformation.”

A press note from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) assured there has been no breakdown in state governance and termed it “unfortunate” that NPF Legislature Party Spokesperson, Imkong L Imchen “has directed state employees not to obey orders of the Government, saying that responsibility will be fixed on those officers failing to comply.” “Such a statement amounts to provoking employees to rebel against a constitutionally set up Government and is highly illegal,” it added. The note further clarified that appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries, Advisers, and Chairmen of various Government agencies was resorted to at the time of downsizing the government, in order to “effect better governance.” The CM, it said, “is only continuing this practice.”

Stating there is no dispute between the NPF and the BJP, the note asserted that the CM had “nothing to do” with the disqualification of three NCP MLAs. On the Naga political issue, the CMO informed the CM has already urged the PM on 3 occasions for early solution and “it was only after this that the post of Interlocutor, which had been lying vacant for quite some time, was filled up.”

Regarding the oil issue, the CMO pointed out that regulations on this were adopted after a unanimous assembly resolution in 2010 “after approval of the Ministerial Group, which was chaired by former CM, Neiphiu Rio, and of which Imkong L Imchen was a member.”

The CMO then said that while NCP was not part of the DAN pre-poll Alliance, its members were included in the DAN-III Ministry during the previous Ministry. “This arrangement is only being continued,” it stated.

The CMO also refuted allegations of

randomly and conveniently ignoring the NPF constitution.

“We were expecting Dr. Shürhozelie as president would emerge as the great communicator and healer of the party, but regretfully, our expectation were proved wrong,” Imkong said.

On the issue of proposal put up by Chief Minister TR

financial mismanagement and corruption and stated that the government had “inherited an empty coffer.” It assured the CM is “trying to clear the financial mess.”

Meanwhile, the NPF press bureau informed that appointments of Division office bearers are yet to be completed except for Kohima Division, and that the party’s Central Executive Council has not been constituted.

It said the January 10 Dimapur meeting with Nuzota Swuro and T. Shuya as Convener and Co-Convener respectively “holds no water.” “Both Nuzota Swuro and T. Shuya who were office bearers during the last tenure have not been elected or included in the current list of NPF Central office bearers,” it added.

It further said that as per the NPF Constitution “the President shall have general control over all offices of the party including those of the Frontal Organizations and Cells” including appointment of Chief Whip. It added that the official Legislature Party meeting can be called only by the incumbent Legislature Party Leader, which is the CM. Urging the Governor to summon the Assembly at the earliest, the NPF also appealed to “all misguided legislators and those illegally held against their wishes” to “come back to the party-fold at the earliest.”

The NPF central Youth Wing, in a separate note, clarified that it had not attended the NPF Co-ordination meeting on January 10 and extended “support and endorsement” to the NPF President and the CM. 7 independent MLAs extend support to CM Meanwhile, seven independent MLAs have issued a declaration extending support to the Nagaland CM “inside and outside the House.” The declaration was appended by independent MLAs including Levi Rengma, Jacob Zhimomi, YM Yollow, Picto Shohe, Toyang Chang, S Chuba and Amenba Yaden.

Zeliang for summoning a special session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly for trial of strength through voting, Imkong said the proposal was never offered to them.

He however responded they are willing to accept the voting suggestion if the Governor so decides, however, only after solving the

NPF party internal problem.

On the caution issued to State government machineries not to obey the order of the present government or clear any files, Imkong defended the action by maintaining that the present government has been reduced to minority and therefore not supposed to

be holding office anymore.

“We felt obligated to tell the government officials of their positions and caution them so they are not put into danger tomorrow,” he maintained.

With the Governor of Nagaland yet to decide on the fate of the imbroglio, it was informed that something concrete was expected to occur within a day or two.

SUSPENSE GROWS OVER KAITO’S MEETING WITH BJP LEADERS There is a feeling of suspense as to what news G Kaito Aye would bring from Delhi after his meeting with BJP central leaders.

The contending Chief Minister had left for Delhi on January 9 along with Nagaland MPs Neiphiu Rio and Khekiho Zhimomi in what was informed as an invitation from the BJP central leaders including the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Party sources at Kaito’s camp maintained that the central BJP leaders were obviously concerned because of the alliance enjoyed by the DAN led NPF government in Nagaland with BJP led NDA at the centre.

Nagaland has at present four BJP legislators.

Furthermore, the direct involvement of MP Neiphiu Rio whose recent fall out with NPF president Dr. Shürhozelie, his close aide of more than a decade, by orchestrating the change of leadership at the helm by supporting G Kaito Aye has also provoked reactions.

On the surface, Rio supported the leadership of TR Zeliang as chief minister after he relinquished the chair to contest for MP election.

Fantastic as it may sound, political analysts believe that Rio has been given an assignment by the Centre to bring about a political turnaround in the State with eye on the leading party at the Centre.

NPCC appeals Governor Goods truck catches fire in Kohima to end political impasse our Correspondent Kohima | January 11

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DIMAPUR , JANUARY 11 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has appealed the Nagaland Governor to “rescue the people of the state from the clutches of paralysed governance by executing his assigned role as the guardian of the constitution.” It also asked the Governor to end the ongoing political impasse without “any bias or favour through duly constituted mechanisms that will restore the principles of Democracy I am not fit to lead ? Ha ha, which has been hijacked by the It`s you who`s not fit to lead internal power struggle of the the naga nation. ruling NPF party.”

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NPCC said this showed “scant respect for established democratic norms.”

Maintaining that Congress “remains non-committal about its support to any of the groups,” it questioned the BJP if Congress support for any group is “unconstitutional,” thereby warranting imposition of President’s Rule? “If that be the case, will the same yardstick also apply to the state BJP unit whose leaders after enough of flip flopping has once again officially reaffirmed its support to the rebel NPF camp even though its central leaders are said to be closely watching the situation and treating the matter as purely internal matter of the NPF,” the NPCC wondered.

“Imposing President’s Rule at this juncture will not be the answer to the problems faced by the people of the state who had given the NPF a massive mandate despite their blatant misrule and corruption since 2003,” it asserted. The NPCC asked NPF leaders in both camps “who are blinded with greed to amass more power and wealth” to “wake up” and “provide a semblance of stable government for the given tenure.”

A truck carrying essential commodities caught fire near Classic Island, along the National Highway in Kohima on Sunday afternoon.

The incident occurred at around 1:00pm. The truck (a 2008 model) was reportedly travelling from Dimapur and was carrying commodities including kitchen utensils, gas stove, pressure cooker, sandals, detachable racks etc, which sustained substantial damage. The cabin of the truck was completely damaged while many goods were saved with the timely intervention of the Fire Brigade. Sources informed that the incident was caused due to a suspected short circuit in loose wires. Meanwhile, there were no reports of injury sustained by the occupants of the truck. Police have ruled out any foul play in A truck, carrying essential commodities, which caught on fire in Kohima on Sunday afternoon. the incident.

BJP calls for exclusive DAN legislators’ meeting

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 11 (MExN): The BJP Nagaland State unit stated today that the only option to end the current political impasse is for the Chief Minister to immediately call an exclusive DAN legislature party/ DAN legislators’ meeting where all DAN member legislature parties will have the opportunity to decide on the leader of the house.

It warned that failing to do so may invite “the inevitable” because more than one week had lapsed since the problem started. The BJP Nagaland declared

in a press release that if the situation compels the Governor to declare President’s rule on ground of break-down of constitutional machinery, NPF will be “solely responsible and answerable” to the people of Nagaland.

“There will be absolutely no room whatsoever, to put the blame on the NDA government in the centre or the BJP in Nagaland,” stated the BJP Nagaland.

It also made clear that it will “not be part of DAN that takes the help of Congress to form the government.” Given its experi-

ence in Jammu and Kashmir, the party asserted that “it is simply against the basic principle of two opposing parties, BJP and Congress, to have any common landing ground.”

The BJP Nagaland, as an alliance of DAN, stated that it had “taken a collective decision” to support the NPF group that “commanded the majority.” This is because, it said, “NPF being the major partner in DAN, the leader who commands majority will naturally be the DAN legislature leader

and the Chief Minister.”

“The issue in question is for change of leadership and not about losing confidence in the government; which means, leadership issue needed to be resolved first before demanding for floor test,” the BJP Nagaland maintained. Further, it said that NPF President Dr. Shurhozelie’s statement has “plainly implied” that the issue is “no longer the internal matter of NPF but an issue of DAN. That makes DAN legislature party as the only competent body to elect its leader.”

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Zunheboto, January 11 (Mexn): The V.K. Range Students’ Union (VKRSU) in Zunheboto district held its 39th general conference from January 8-11 at V.K. Town. President of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) and convenor of ACAUT Nagaland (Legal Cell), Kezhokhoto Savi (Advocate) addressed the conference as one of the main speakers. Speaking on the topic, ‘The importance of learning citizen’s rights and duties,’ Savi asserted that fighting for leadership amongst the NPF Party, which is almost leading to collapse of DAN-III ministry, amounts to playing with the rights of the citizens. “This is the second time the DAN-III NPF led government is camping for the fight of leadership particularly chief minister amongst the NPF Party.

This development simply shows selfishness, greed, thirsty for power and nothing good.”

Stating that “the so

called top Naga leaders fail to work for the welfare of its citizens be in infrastructure development or good governance,” Savi maintained, the leaders cannot simply emphasise on their rights without honouring people’s rights, which is their

the rate of corruption in Nagaland “mainly to check the corrupt ministers, parliamentary secretaries, advisors, MLAs, HOD, bureaucrats, etc.”

Further, the speaker highlighted that violations of Human Rights is a very

V.K. Range Students’ Union holds 39th general conference duty. “If you want your right to be your right then do your duty otherwise ‘Your right may not remain as your right’.”

Savi also showed a compilation of newspaper clippings entitled – “Corruption is the enemy of infrastructure development and good governance,” a press release from VKRSU president, Himahito G. Labo informed. Savi lamented that till date the State government has not taken up any initiative towards the establishment of Lokayukta, which he stated is the need of the hour to bring down

serious issue in the modern world, but the Government of Nagaland is yet to constitute State Human Rights Commission.

Savi, who is also an Asst.

Professor at Kohima Law College, touched on several topics such as sanitation, consumer rights, human rights, medical negligence, Lok Adalak, Nagaland consumer helpline with toll free No. 1800-345-3701, environment, legal services authority, etc.

While dealing on “Sanitation,” Savi emphasised on Mahatma Gandhi’ quote, “Sanitation is more

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important than independence,” and Mother Teresa’s saying, “If everyone would clean their own doorstep the whole world would be clean.”

He also stressed on the government standing order in banning cash collection at check-gates or any highways and a judgement & order dated 03.06.2014 passed by the Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench in disallowing NGOs/ federations/ unions/ associations from collecting cash on highways.

Pointing out that it is important for every citizen to be aware of one’s right and also do one’s duty, Savi stated, “Citizen’s duty is to learn their rights and raise your voice against the conduct of illegality.”

Further, he advocated that the culture of backdoor or political appointment be stopped and the government advertise every vacant post and the right/ competent candidate be selected to occupy the chair at public offices.

CSU 68th general session cum Sükrünye One arrested for

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Split firewood from coppiced Alder trees seen neatly lined along Khonoma-Dzüleke road. Coppicing of Alder tree is a popular method used for sustainable firewood, particularly in this region where temperature drops below minus degree during winter. Method of coppicing involves regular cutting of the trees down to a stump from where multiple new shoots regrow. The cutting is done on cycle. Advantage of coppicing is that there is no need to replant trees every time it is cut. (Photo by Imti Longchar)

KohiMa, January 11 (Mexn): The Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) will hold its 68th general session cum Sükrünye celebration from January 13 to 15 at Sakraba village. Introductory service will take place on January 13 at 1:00 pm with Phek deputy commissioner Murohu Chotso as the guest. The function will be followed

by Union Assembly at 5:30 pm.

Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio will grace the inaugural function on January 14 at 10:00 am.

The session will also witness introduction of CSU scholarship package. NPF president Tongpang Ozukum will also share greeting.

The function will be followed by

seminar and workshop at 2:00 pm on the topic “Channelizing education principles into practice.” The speakers of the seminar are Dr. Sao Tunyi, epidemiologist, directorate of health & family welfare and Vekhozo, ADC SSA, Phek.

Sükrünye celebration will take place on January 15 with exminister Zacilhii R. Vadeo as feast father. Valedictory function has been scheduled at 3:00 pm with Razouvolie Dozo, project director, DRDA Phek as the guest.

Meanwhile, the CSU has extended its invitation to frontal organizations, senior leaders, bureaucrats and intellectuals to attend the session.

fraud in Dimapur

DiMapur, January 11 (Mexn): The Dimapur police has apprehended one person identified as Simon Mech (28 years), a resident of Model colony, Purana Bazaar for making fake documents. According to a press note from Addl. Superintendent of Police/PRO, Dimapur, along with the accused, a cache of illegal items were recovered from his shop located at Purana Bazar. The recovered items include 2 illegal Village Council seals, 109 Residential Proof Certificates, 1 laptop, 7 fake driving license, 1 No objection Certificate (NOC), and a Designation seal and Round seal of District Transport Office, Wokha, Nagaland.

The Officer-in-charge of East Police Station, Dimapur has registered a regular case and further investigation is in progress.

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DiMapur, January 11 (Mexn): The first round of Intensive Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) programme in Nagaland for the year 2015 will be held on January 18. The Department of Health & Family Welfare is all geared up to administer Polio drops to over 2.46 lakh eligible children from 0-5 years throughout the State in 2,317 Polio booths to be manned by 9,268 vaccinators and 463 supervisors along with vaccines and other logistics, according to a press release from Dr. Chubatoshi, State Immunization Officer. Special focus will be

given to the migrant population with an aim to prevent importation of Polio cases, it added.

“This Programme is our nation’s contribution to the global effort of eradicating Polio disease from the world. Due to the active participation of all concerned, the State has had no case of Polio since 1997, which is indeed an achievement to be proud of,” the release stated.

“However, we cannot remain complacent till every corner of the country, in the world, is declared free of polio.”

While thanking everyone

for their past cooperation, the Department of Health & Family Welfare has appealed to all sections of the people, agencies (Govt. and Non-Govt., including the security forces and police), organizations, and especially community leaders and parents of children below 5 years to come forward and ensure that all eligible children receive the “two drops of life” (Polio drops).

For any further information, contact your nearest Health Centre or the Chief Medical Officer/ District Programme Officer (RCH-UIP) of your district.

DiMapur, January 11 (Mexn): The Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Union Dimapur (ENPUD) has condemned the incident where a grenade was hurled at the house of Imlong Chang, former MLA from Tuensang on January 8 at 5th Mile, Dimapur. In a press release, ENPUD president, A Neangba Konyak and joint secretary, P Pushu Nyukthan called it “a senseless act of unspeakable action that has targeted the lives of the innocent citizens.” The union further requested the Dimapur district administration and the police force to investigate and book the people responsible at the earliest. ENPUD also appealed to all the citizens to condemn such kind of “anti social” activities. Mount Japfü covered with snow on Friday. Kohima is reeling under severe cold wave. (Morung Photo)

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Manipur Encounters: Burying the Truth Imphal, January 11 (nDTV): In an overgrown field outside Manipur's capital, Basanta Nameirakpam points to the spot where his son, Nobo, lies buried. The 27-year-old was killed in an encounter by a joint team of Manipur police commandos and Assam Rifles in April, 2009.

His cousin, Gobind, was also shot dead that evening. Ordinarily the two men would have been cremated, but they have been buried should the need arise to exhume their bodies, as proof against their killers.

In March 2013, a Supreme Court-appointed commission of inquiry found six encounters, including Gobind and Nobo's, to be fake. Its report, authored by Justice Santosh Hegde, noted that the incidents were "egregious examples of AFSPA's (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) gross abuse" in the state. The Court was acting on a petition filed in 2012 by the families of encounter victims and a Manipurbased human rights group.

During the inquiry, it was found that the security forces had acted on unreliable intelligence, if any, and the weapons seized appeared to be planted. There was no proof that Gobind and Nobo had ever been militants. Claims about retaliatory firing were also debunked. The two men were fired at 89 times, 16 of which hit

'Green issues hijacking growth in power sector' nEw DElhI, January 11 (pTI): Concerned over green issues "hijacking" potential growth in hydropower sector, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has asked the Centre to take proactive steps for expediting early environmental clearance to power projects.

Tuki said Arunachal Pradesh, which has the potential of producing 58,000 MW of hydropower or 40 per cent of India's total assessed potential, has harnessed only one per cent of this due to regulatory constrains arriving out of environmental concerns and laws. "In India, though there has been a laudable progress in hydropower sector through the first 50 years after independence, of late the environmental concerns seems to have been hijacked by some activists by taking a very myopic stance with benefits to no one. "A large amount of focus has been on the negative aspects only. Less account has been taken of the benefits of hydropower and the knowledge and willingness which exists within the expertise to anticipate, mitigate or compensate for the negative aspects," he said while addressing a function on power sector here.

The Chief Minister said over the last two decades, development of hydropower sector has been faced with the controversies of environmental and social effects which need to be addressed. These competing and sometimes conflicting policy objectives need to be harmonised so as to achieve the highest levels of economic growth while ensuring equity and justice to one and all, he said.

Tuki said whether it is the state, or the public or the hydropower industries - none is gaining from this tirade of negativity.

One such example is the 2,000 MW NHPC Subansiri Lower HEP - the works of which have been stopped by certain organisations of Assam for many months now, he said.

The Chief Minister said with India embarking on the mission 'Make in India', there is very limited time in expanding and sustainable harnessing the hydropower potential. Tuki said harnessing the potential of Arunachal Pradesh will trigger an investment of about Rs 4-5 lakh crore, which will lead to increased industrial growth, employment generation, besides catering to the power requirement of the country as well as some of its neighbours.

Gobind alone, in breach of the court's guidelines on the use of force by the Indian Army.

"All the six encounters were actually out and out murder," Hegde told NDTV. "This was only a facade to show that it was an encounter."

In Manipur's bloody history, such unequivocal indictments of the armed forces have been rare.

But, even attempts to probe the army's excesses have been denied.

The Hegde commission could only learn that of the 66 complaints of human rights violations against the army since 2007, only 3 had been disposed of. The status of those cases wasn't revealed.

Manipur Home Secretary, Suresh Babu, couldn't remember a single instance when the state had sought the union government's sanction to prosecute army jawans, as prescribed under AFSPA. These circumstances, some say, have only perpetuated a culture of impunity, giving rise to fresh violence. "If you want to deal with the militancy, ensure that democratic institutions function," said Babloo Loitongbam, director of Human Rights Alert. "That is the core of people's anger."

In December 2014, two important court judgements further acknowledged that encounter killings were a reality in the state.

The first was in the case of the Ma-

lom massacre in November 2000, which saw 10 people killed by soldiers from the 8th Assam Rifles.

After an explosive was set off near their convoy, the Riflemen had gunned down bystanders at a bus stop outside Imphal town. Massive unrest followed, giving birth to Manipur's best known voice against AFSPA, Irom Sharmila. A recent judgement by the Manipur High Court disproved the army's claims that they'd been fired upon and ordered compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs to each of the victim's families.

The second was the Supreme Court's order of compensation to the family of Thangjam Manorama. On a night in July 2004, Manorama had been dragged out of her home in Imphal East district and killed by a team from the 17th Assam Rifles. Upendra Singh, who led an inquiry immediately after the incident, accused the soldiers of brutally killing her in a fake encounter.

The probe itself, Singh told us, had been repeatedly stonewalled by the armed forces and the state. The Assam Rifles didn't reveal the names of the officers who conducted the operation.

His summons, too, got no reply at first. "They appeared only after I issued warrant for arrest," Singh told NDTV. His report, submitted a few months later, was only made public last November, a de-

cade after the killing.

Repeated attempts to get the Assam Rifles to comment were unsuccessful. A source in the unit told us that they have internal processes to ensure action against such violations. But, he did not specify if there was any in these cases, or what that action could entail.

The court verdicts have been met with both relief and bitterness in Manipur. Victims's families are disappointed that neither judgements speak of prosecuting the guilty army personnel.

Our source in the Assam Rifles also claimed that extrajudicial killings are an exception, but this remains contested in the absence of credible data. Activists allege over 1500 such killings since the 1970s, but the Supreme Court could only investigate 6 and the Manipur government has rejected the longer list.

Last year, insurgency related deaths in the state had reduced to 48, from 485 in 2008. This has been attributed to the courts' pronouncements on Malom and Manorama.

Suresh Babu, the Home Secretary, said that the verdicts have also created an environment for insurgents to come back. After six decades of violent conflict, which has killed thousands, this relative peace could easily be shattered and the pleas for justice, if unaddressed, are potentially explosive.

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12 Bodo militants arrested in Assam GuwahaTI, January 11 (IanS): Twelve Bodo militants were Sunday arrested from three places in Assam along the international border with Bhutan, a day after an insurgent involved in the massacre of adivasis was shot dead, police said.

The cadres of the antitalk faction of the National

Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were arrested in Chirang district in operations jointly carried out by Assam Police, the Central Reserve Police Force and the Sashastra Seema Bal. "The 12 cadres include a member of the outfit's central committee, a deputy commander and a platoon

commander," said Inspector General of Police (BTAD) L.R. Bishnoi. They were being interrogated to ascertain their links with the recent violence in three districts, he added.

Four AK-56 rifles, five pistols, one .303 rifle, one .315 rifle, 12 magazines, four grenades and 785 rounds of ammunition were seized.

‘Assam lacks shelter homes for violence-hit children’: ASCPR GuwahaTI, January 11 (Tnn): The Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPR) and a city-based child rights voluntary organization have asked the state government to set up homes for children in districts affected by violence.

Representatives from the commission and a child rights activist visited four relief camps in Kokrajhar district on December 27 after the massacre, following which, a series of recommendations was forwarded to the state government. The setting up of proper homes was one of the recommendations made by the team, adding that the homes should be managed by the respective district administration, child welfare committees and local voluntary organizations. With only three state-run childrens' homes in the state, activists argued that the homes are almost full and not well equipped.

Besides the abysmal living conditions in the relief camps, children and infants were living in an atmosphere of fear and insecurity, said activist Miguel Das Queah. "It is

highly traumatic for children to be in such conditions. They were surrounded by people with bows and arrows at the camps. They were exposed to violence," said Queah, who is associated with Utsah (Universal Team for Social Action and Help).

The commission said the state government should be equipped with an emergency preparedness mechanism for protecting children in violence-prone areas.

Even most of the Angandwadi workers and others associated with the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) lack expertise in handling children during such crisis situations. "These children may develop post-traumatic stress disorder. However, many Anganwadi workers are not even aware of the disorder. Focus should be on separate training for the workers who would deal with these children," said Sangeeta Goswami, counseling psychologist and president of MIND India, a voluntary organization and training institute for children and women issues.

Multiple-murder accused produced in court Tells court he acted in a fit of rage, was denied a month’s wage aIzawl, January 11 (InDIan ExprESS): The man who killed five members of a family in Mizoram capital Aizawl on Friday night has told a court he had been working as a carpenter at the victims’ home and had not been paid a month’s wage, which he said he went to collect that night with plans to take home gifts for his two young children.

Laltlanchhuaha appeared before a camp court in the Central Jail just outside Aizawl on Saturday evening and confessed he did kill the five people he is accused of murdering, and that it began after the head of the family, Sangliansiama, told him he did not have the money and he would pay him when he did.

He said he had some

wares he was selling to supplement his income when he went to the house, which he offered to sell to them, but when Sabgliansiama said he did not want to buy it he asked for his wage.

A wood carpenter normally earns about Rs 700 per day in Aizawl, but the figure is not constant.

Laltlanchhuaha told the court he knew the family was well-off and he suddenly became angry when he thought of his own economic condition and his two children (Besides working as a wood carpenter on daily wage, he also used to assist his father, a butcher).

He said he was in a fit of rage when he stabbed Sangliansiama with a knife he said he always carried with him – he claimed he always kept it in the trunk of his scooter after he was attacked some time ago by a group of men at Rangvamual, a locality on Aizawl’s western outskirts infamous as a liquor den.

Laltlanchhuaha told

the court Sangliansiama’s wife then started screaming and made for the door, after which he pulled her back inside, stabbed her and killed her too.

He claimed before the court that he killed the rest of the family except the domestic help (who hid herself in the bathroom) because they all started screaming and “coming towards me”, saying this included the couple’s kindergarten-going son, a teenager who is their relative and was staying with them at the time, and Sangliansiama’s sister.

He was able to identify all his victims when their pictures were shown to him during the hearing.

When the judge asked him if he was under the influence, Laltlanchhuaha said he had drunk a bottle of grape juice – which is normally sold openly in shops although known to make some tipsy – but that he has never tried drugs.

He has had no criminal record until now.

Laltlanchhuaha said he knew Sangliansiama from before and they used to participate in church activities together – they both belong to the Salvation Army denomination, which locals say has only a few of members in the neighbourhood they both belong to compared to larger denominations there.

He told the court images of his wife and two children flashed in his mind during the murderous ordeal, which he recalls as having taken place over about half an hour.

The accused had to be produced before the camp court on a stretcher because of severe back injuries he sustained when he fell about 40-feet from the house’s balcony and landed on the tin roof of a shack downstairs, where a school hostel is located.

He was caught there by the hostel students and then by neighbours before police arrived and took him into custody. He was thrashed by locals but the injuries he

Two rhinos poached in Assam, toll rises to three GuwahaTI, January 11 (IanS): Within days of the year's first killing of a rhino at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, carcasses of two more rhinos have been found, their horns sawed off, authorities said Sunday. On Jan 9, the poachers killed a one-horned rhino in Dhing in Nagaon district and escaped with its horn.

The recovery of the two more carcasses Sunday has pushed the killings of rhinos to three this year, and raised the hackles of animal rights groups.

Of the two latest carcasses found Sunday morning, one was detected after a gun battle between the poachers and forest guards at Burhapahar range

of the park Saturday night. The other carcass was recovered from a sandbar in the Brahmaputra river inside Agaratoli range of the park, officials said.

The animal was possibly killed a week back, and its horn was missing, they added. "The gun battle continued till the early hours today. Today morning the forest guards recovered the carcass of a female rhino from the area.

The horn was missing," said Divisional Forest Officer of the park S.K. Seal Sarma Sunday. "Later, during the patrolling, another carcass of a male rhino was spotted on a sandbar of Brahmaputra river inside Agaratoli range of the park. The horn of the male rhino was

missing too, indicating it to be a poaching case," he said. This rhino was, however, killed about a week back.

Several groups, including the All Assam Students Union (AASU), Sunday held a protest in the Kaziranga park against the unabated killings of one-horned rhinos.

The Assam government has over years increased the number of park security staff from 49 in 1967 to 562 in 2001. More than 430 Assam Forest protection Force (AFPF) personnel have also been deployed in the park since 2013. Similarly, penalties have been enhanced under the amended Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Orange growth hit in Arunachal ITanaGar, January 11 (pTI): In the backdrop of widespread decline of orange growth in Arunachal, Bhekuliang and Bedagam in Lohit district equally bore the brunt of its effect.

Out of 200 hectares of orange coverage at these villages, 30-40 hectares are inflicted largely due to nutrient deficiency, Citrus Greening disease and viral infections indicating a signal of citrus declining in these picturesque foothills villages.

This pocket is one of the orange bowls of Lohit district. During his visit to the orange orchard after hectic public administrative affair, Lohit DC Dr B M Mishra expressed disappointment over the adverse effect of orange plants and

declared the situation highly alarming, an official release said here today. He immediately asked the horticulture's official intervention to educate and aware the villagers about its remedies to avoid further spread of the diseases.

Simultaneously, the department has decided to organize a result oriented practical trainingcum-demonstration programme with all necessary inputs in the farmers' orange gardens at Bhekuliang on January 20 next to rejuvenate senile and unproductive orange gardens.

The Arunachal Pradesh Horticulture Research and Development Mission (APHRDM) too has said that there was an alarming situation of "Citrus Decline" in the state, es-

pecially in Lohit and other districts, affecting orange cultivation in large scale.

According to department sources, citrus decline is caused by many factors. However, the survey team suspects three causes; Nutrient deficiency (especially Zinc deficiency), Citrus Greening disease and viral infections (Tristeza and Yellow corky Vein virus) to be responsible for present crisis.

Greening disease is caused by gram negative bacteria which get into orchards through infected planting materials and later is transmitted to other plants through a fly called Citrus psylla.

Control measures includes both controlling the bacteria as well as the insect carrier.

sustained amount mostly to bruises and cuts, including on his head.

Armed police have been posted outside the Central Jail as the authorities fear a mob such as that which asked Laltlanchhuaha be handed to them attempts to head towards the facility.

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Perks in Infosys, HCL Tech, others get fancy; top talent gets iPhones, Mercedes NEW DELHI, JANUARY 11 (PTI): When it comes to rewarding top- performing employees, many large corporates are giving out expensive gifts such as latest iPhones, Mercs, flats and jewellery – a trend started by a little-known diamond firm in Gujarat a few months back.

Last Diwali, Suratbased Hari Krishna Exports created a flutter by announcing expensive gifts like cars, flats and jewellery worth Rs 50 crore for its nearly 1,200 employees.

Each employee who passed a ‘loyalty test’, were given a Diwali gift worth at least Rs 4 lakh and were given an option to choose one

gift — from a Fiat Punto car, part-payment for a 2-bedroom flat or gold and diamond jewellery.

Joining this club, companies like Infosys and HCL Tech are now giving out expensive gifts to their respective top- performing employees.

Human resource experts believe that companies are thinking out of the box, when it comes to retaining top talent and are ready to dole out attractive perks in addition to hefty pay package and attractive annual bonus.

HCL Technologies has rewarded 130 of its top performing employees with a Mercedes or an all-expens-

panies would go the extra mile to retain them.

While compensation is one of the factors for retention, smart companies offer accelerated career opportunities for such people.

Hari Krishna Exports had selected 1,268 employees for the reward from its total workforce of about 6,000, for their exceptional work, devotion and loyalty towards the company.

“These are certainly good initiatives to keep the morale up in the company in the short term and adds to the feel good factor and sends a positive message that the company cares for its people,” global execu-

es-paid holiday abroad as a token of appreciation, while Infosys gifted iPhone 6S to 3,000 of its top performers.

“There are enough opportunities in the market in terms of new projects and hiring needs are increasing for every company across the industries so companies are looking at motivating their top performers and are ready to compensate them in terms of ‘kind’ which excites these performers,” Sunil Goel, MD GlobalHunt, a leading executive search firm said.

According to HR experts, star performers as always would continue to be differentiated and com-

WB praises Indian economy, red flags enduring caste bias GANDHINAGAR, JANUARY 11 (PTI): World Bank said India can grow at 6.4% in 2015 and accelerate further next year, but cautioned that an enduring “bias” on the basis of caste and other factors can impede prosperity.

The government, however, is well aware of this issue and the World Bank sees India as “a bright spot in an otherwise mediocre global economic outlook,” the multilateral lending agency’s President Jim Yong Kim said here. “Indian society has an enduring exclusion that is based, among other things, on caste identities. This bias can impede shared prosperity, serving as a basis for discrimination in many spheres, including in employment and other mar-

kets, as well as in public services,” he said.

Acknowledging the government’s efforts to address such issues, Jim said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has focused on programmes to promote “broad-sharing of its benefits”, in addition to action that will accelerate growth.

“Its (government’s) special allocation of a fund for entrepreneurs from among the Scheduled Castes, and its focus on fixing bottlenecks so that money earmarked for the Scheduled Tribes reaches them, are both ethically just and economically sound responses,” he added.

Speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat summit, inaugurated today by Modi, the World Bank chief said that there is much reason for

NEW DELHI, JANUARY 11 (PTI): eBay has joined hands with one of India’s largest fabric traders body DHMA as the global eCommerce giant tries to reach out to local traders and artisans to offer more options for online shoppers.

The move is part of efforts by the online marketplace to deepen engagement with local traders and offer customers both domestic and foreign - products that are made by local artisans and industries.

It is expanding to locations across India like Jaipur and Surat to bring local traders and artisan online so that it can provide more niche products to customers, while traders and artisans can reach out to markets -- domestic and global.

Towards that end, eBay India has signed an MoU with Delhi Hindustani Mercantile Association (DHMA), a 125 year old association of over 4,000 traders representing diverse sectors like clothing, textiles and transports.

“Our effort is to bring local and region based sellers on our platform so that

optimism among investors, entrepreneurs and CEOs thinking of doing business in Gujarat and the country as a whole.

“According to our projections, its (India’s) economy is expected to grow 6.4% this year and even faster in 2016, he said.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are quickly putting in place the building blocks for even more rapid growth, streamlining the national regulatory structure, using public funds more efficiently, and promoting social inclusion. After slowing to sub-five% growth in the previous two financial years, the economy has started showing signs of pick-up as it expanded by 5.7% and 5.3% in the second and third quarter of 2015.

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they can sell their products to customers in the region, country and even across the globe in over 126 countries,” eBay India Head (Retail Exports) Navin Mistry told PTI.

When asked if the firm will sign more such pacts, Mistry said: “We will sign bring online 25 such trader and artisan associations this year from places like Jaipur, Surat, Jodhpur, etc.”

On the association with eBay India, DHMA President Suresh Bindal said: “Change is important in trade.

Moreover, tying up with eBay gives our traders a huge opportunity to connect to global customers and businesses.”

It will help locals traders selling fabrics from places like Chandni Chowk reach out to customers in the US and Europe and make available to them the best quality products that are their to offer, which is a win-win position for all, he added. eBay India has tied up with bodies that promote artisans working with traditional arts and crafts like the Odisha State Cooperative Handicraft Corporation Ltd or Utkalika and Ahmedabad-based Caftroots.

It is also in talks with the Gujarat State Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation.

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pany) the remuneration package would include companies bringing up some top-up benefits like offering electronic devices, domestic & international travel, stock options, experts said.

According to a survey by leading global professional services company Towers Watson, differentiating between crucial talent, high potentials and average performers is becoming more essential than ever.

A well-defined employee value proposition (EVP) is increasingly important as cost pressures and the talent shortage become more acute.

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tive search firm EMA Partners International Regional Managing Partner-Asia K Sudarshan said.

Sudarshan further said that “in the longer term, to manage attrition and retain good people the company has to create sustained career growth opportunities for its people and needless to say, compensation has to keep pace with the rest of the industry”.

Experts believe measures like this help in containing attrition, as performance is the key to retention and these benefit schemes helps in encouraging all to perform better.

Going forward, apart from CTC (cost to com-

It will be providing these traders an opportunity to expand their business beyond the physical reach of their establishment and connect with eBay’s 152 million active eBay buyers across the globe, he said.

Last April, eBay had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Confederation of All India Traders, which is associated with over 20,000 small trader associations, to encourage small retailers to sell products through its platform. eBay India, which had around 45,000 sellers then, saw its seller base swell by about 30 per cent following the MoU.

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Reliance Industries to invest Rs1 trillion in Gujarat

GANDHINAGAR, JANUARY 11 (PTI): Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd, said that his company will invest Rs.1 trillion in Gujarat in the next 12-18 months.

Ambani urged companies across the globe to invest in India, while addressing the delegates at the seventh edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhinagar on Sunday, adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ programmes have energised the nation.

Vibrant Gujarat is a biennial business summit organized by the Gujarat state government in Gandhinagar to attract foreign investment. It was started in 2003 by Modi when he was the chief minister of the state.

Ambani said as part of the investment programme, RIL will partner and enable thousands of small businesses and Gujarati entrepreneurs to create virtuous cycle of prosperity.

“India is marching forward with a clear vision to emerge as global power even when as most of the world is struggling with low growth.” “India can chart a path under our Prime Minister in the next few years to really become the fastest growing economy in the world. A goal that is possible to achieve,” he said.

Facebook the leader of social media: Survey WAsHINGToN, JANUARY 11 (IANs): Facebook is the leader of social media, says a new survey, adding that the social networking site has also made inroads into becoming the popular choice among the elderly.

The findings of a survey by a US-based global thinktank Pew Research Centre that involved 1,597 internet users revealed that 71 percent of US adults were hooked to Facebook in 2014 - up significantly from 63 percent in 2013, Forbes magazine reported.

It also showed that 56 percent of Facebook users are in the age bracket of 65 years and older.

The social media websites LinkedIn and Pinterest had 28 percent adult users.

For micro-blogging site Twitter, the percentage of users logging in daily decreased from 46 percent in 2013 to 36 percent last year.

Fifty-three percent of internet-users, between the ages 18-29, use Instagram, also owned by Facebook.

The survey also found that 45 percent of internet users log in to Facebook several times a day.

Of the respondents, 52 percent use more than one social media website - an increase compared with 42 percent in 2013.

Kodak launches android phone IM5

MUMbAI, JANUARY 11 (AGENcIEs): Kodak, the once-leading manufacturer of cameras and photographic film products, has jumped into the smartphone market by launching its first Android phone, MI5 at the Consumer Electronics Show, 2015 (CES) in Las Vegas.

Built in collaboration with Bullitt, a British firm, the MI5 is Kodak’s first smartphone ever. The MI5 featurs a 5-inch screen with 720x1280p display resolution. It runs on Android 4.4 KitKat and is soon to get Android 5.0 Lollipop upgrade.

It is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-core processor along with 1GB of RAM. It comes with an internal memory of 8GB and can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card.

The devics has a 13MP back camera with an LED flash and a 5MP front-facing camera. So far, there has been no news about the pricing and availability in the market.

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NCP flays Imkong Imchen 'baseless' press statement ‘Reaffirm its fullest support to the DAN III Government’

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 11 (MExN): The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Nagaland State Unit taken strong “exception to the manner” in which Imkong L. Imchen, the spokesperson of the NPF Legislators dissident group, has dragged the NCP into what it termed the” present political crisis within the NPF Legislature party.”

In a strong worded press communiqué, the general secretary (Admns.) of NCP, Nagaland State, Miathou Krose stated that though, the NCP had not entered into pre-poll alliance with the DAN during the last election, after winning the 4 assembly seats, the party had extended unconditional support to the DAN III government headed by the then Chief

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NPF Tuensang reposes its ‘full faith’ in Dr Shurhozelie TUENSANG, JANUARY 11 (MExN): The Nagas Peoples’ Front (NPF), Tuensang division has “resolved and reaffirmed” to strengthen the party under the leadership of Dr. Shurhozelie Liezutsu.

A press note from the general secretary of NPF Tuensang Division, Yandipi Sangatam stated that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting held on January 9 in Tuensang division office.

Further, the district division reposed “full faith” on the Central Leaders of the party that the current “imbroglio” will be solved at the earliest through their “best and able wisdom.”

Minister, Neiphiu Rio. Subsequently NCP was accepted as a “post-poll” alliance partner of the present DAN III. “Hence, blaming the present Chief Minister, TR Zeliang for incorporation of NCP into the present DAN III Ministry is totally unfounded, baseless and

misleading,” the NCP added. A senior political leader like Imkong L Imchen forgetting such “political arrangements”, according to the NCP, was indeed “surprising.”

Again, arguing that the present Chief Minister should not be “implicated” in the disqualification

of 3 former NCP MLAs, the party maintained that the matter should “never” confuse the general public as the party had taken appropriate legal recourse regarding the issue in the Supreme Court through its legal cell.

“As far as disqualification of former 3 NCP MLAs by the Speaker of NLA is concerned, the said 3 MLAs had defected in total violation of the NCP constitution and…disqualified by the Speaker, NLA on 25th August 2014 in accordance to the provisions of the Tenth Schedule.”

The NCP Nagaland state unit further reaffirmed its "fullest support" to the DAN III Government under the leadership of DAN chairman, Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu and the Chief Minister, TR Zeliang.

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NTC calls for peaceful co-existence DIMAPUR, JANUARY 11 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) today expressed concern on the situation in Chessore and Chendang Saddle villages and appealed to both the Yimchunger Tribal Council (YTC) and Chang Khulei Setshang (CKS) to “explore all possible means to resolve the conflict and work out permanent solution to create conducive situation for members of both the Communities to coexist and restore the age old relationship.”

A press note from the

NTC media cell stated that Nagas at this stage are passing through a “very crucial stage in our history when unity is needed above all and we need to take up collective responsibilities to determine our own destiny.” The Nagas of Nagaland in particular, it asserted, “are facing a situation where our unity and collective actions are needed to maintain inter-tribes relationship while facing challenges from within and outside forces.”

The NTC added that “it is our collective responsibilities to create conducive at-

mosphere to usher in healing to all our self inflicting injuries to provide peaceful co-existence and the strength of unity to address all our issues that are confronting our day to day life.”

It appealed to both the parties to “exercise magnanimity above all differences” and give peace and reconciliation a chance to restore “time tested brotherhood between the two communities.”

It further urged the Nagaland state government to “give utmost effort to provide good governance and

strengthen the rules of law so that narrow tribal conflicts and differences are removed from our society.”

Sumi Hoho urges for calm The Sumi Hoho has also expressed concern over the recent developments in Tuensang district and stated that both Changs and Yimchungers shared friendly relationships and are neighbors of the Sumi people. A press note from the Sumi Hoho further appealed to both the communities to main calm and settle the matter amicably once and for all.

YAA launches year long jubilee celebration

KIPhIRE, JANUARY 11 (MExN): The Yimchungrü Akherü Arih-ako (YAA) launched its yearlong golden jubilee programme at Pungro Town on January 10. Akiuba, YAA President, in his address, reiterated that YAA should stand firm and shoulder the responsibilities placed upon it by the community. He also lamented the present imbroglio and called upon all for an amicable solution.

A press release from YAA Social and Culture Secretary, Achung Jangleh informed that while acknowledg-

ing the efforts of the Jubilee Planning Committee, the president appealed the Yimchungrüs to extend co-operation and support towards the Committee. He also spoke on the relevance of the jubilee theme, “Honouring the Past, Charting the Future” and urged them to uphold the legacy of the pioneers. He thanked those who have devoted tirelessly in the formation of YAA and in moulding the future of Yimchungrü. He lauded the federating units and various individuals for the success of Zhimkiur Village Stu-

dents’ Union golden jubilee-cum-YAA 49th federal assembly held at Zhimkiur Village from January 7-9.

Meanwhile, Thsesong, President, Yimchunger Tribal Council (YTC) exhorted the students to pursue their studies with dedication and hard work and appealed them to maintain a congenial atmosphere. All the Yimchungrü frontal organisations, former YAA officials and pioneers attended the programme, and the yearlong celebration would culminate in January 2016.

Dr Hukashe Zhimomi takes over Langpangkong Range 41st general conference concludes as new executive secretary of NPBCA DIMAPUR, JANUARY 11 lage Council, Kangtsung Village Morung Express News

DIMAPUR| JANUARY 11: Former director of Nagaland Development Outreach (NDO), Dr. Hukashe Zhimomi,on Sunday took over the reins of executive secretary of Nagaland Police Baptist Church Association (NPBCA) from the outgoing NPBCA executive secretary, Rev. Dr. N Mong Lotha.

Executive secretary of Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), Rev. Dr. Anjo Keikung, administered the farewell service of the outgoing NPBCA executive secretary and installation of the new executive secretary, held Sunday at NPBCA jubilee hall, Chumukedima.

The NBCC executive secretary in his installation speech said, “Servanthood and leadership in the context of church leaders should be based on humility and acceptance of a higher calling from the Almighty.” Stressing on the challenges of a spiritual leader, which he called as “servant leader”, the NBCC general secretary said the true quality of a “servant leader” should emanate from within oneself and not imposed from outside like the hierarchy in the police force.

The outgoing Executive Secretary of NPBCA, Rev. Dr. Mong in his farewell speech thanked all

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rank and files of Nagaland Police and NPBCA for their constant support and guidance. Rev. Mong who had dedicated his services in NPBCA for 18 years in various capacities prayed that peace, understanding and goodwill would prevail among the NPBCA units and members even as a new leader takes over.

The newly installed Executive Secretary of NPBCA, Dr. Hukashe Zhimomi, in his response said the attitude and style of worship in Christian churches have change over the years, especially in the present context.

Dr. Hukashe said in the 21st century, church leaders and “servants” are besieged with lots of opportunities and challenges and that the need of the hour is for prophetic leaders who can dare to call “white as white and black as black.”

Accepting the challenging role as shepherd (executive secretary) of Nagaland Police Baptist Church Association, the biggest flock in the state, Hukashe assured to live up to NPBCA’s motto “Unity, Faith and Witness”, and to be light unto others.

DIG, Nagaland Police, Bendang Lemtur; Rev, Manen and youth secretary, NPBCA, Aselie, also spoke on the ocassion. President, NPBCA, N Ritse chaired the farewell-cum-installation service.

(MExN): The two day 41st general conference of Langpangkong Range (Langpangkong Tsükong Mungdang) was held at Longkong village from January 8-9, under the theme “progress through unity” where representatives from all the villages under the range attended the conference. Langpangkong is one of the six ranges under Mokokchung district.

During the conference the members present decided to form a think-tank who would deliberate and analyse for educational and economic solutions in Langpangkong range.

The conference also resolved to form a Parent’s Association in every respective government schools under the range in order to impart quality education so as to attract the children to avail free education in government schools.

The conference reaffirmed its earlier resolutions to support the revival process of Tuli Paper

Council and Yaongyimti Old Village Council also presented folk songs.

During the conference a new team of office bearers have been elected for a term of three years with L.Talimoa Longkumer (Akhoya) as president, vice president- Moyalepden (Longkong ), general secretary- Lipokmar (Salulamang), assistant general secretary- Limawati (Jakpa), finance secretary - RongsenConference choir presenting special number during inaugural lemba (Chuchuyimlang), Treafunction of the 41st general conference of Langpangkong Range at surer-Süpongmatong (ChuLongkong village, Mokokchung on January 8. chuyimlang).

Mill and also to give full coop- Yaden, president, Ao Senden; eration to the ongoing foothill and Mayang Lima, Registrar, road construction.

Guwahati High Court and SecThe main speakers of retary, Legal Services Authorthe conference were Chuba ity, Nagaland also exhorted the Apropos to the news item Ozüküm, Administrative Offi- gathering.

“Five border trade centres in cer, Law and Justice, Nagaland Other highlights of the pro- Nagaland” which was puband K Temjen Jamir, Editor, Tir gramme were special numbers lished in this daily on Januby the conference choir and ary 5, it is hereby corrected Yimyim.

Bendang Longkumer, OSD, other local artists. Watsu unit that Pangsha is located in Industries & Commerce, Na- of Longkong and Merangkong Tuensang district, and not galand; Jongshilemba, former also presented special numbers as mentioned. minister, Nagaland; Prof. Sangyu in traditional tunes. Unger Vil-

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t is all very plain, simple, and clear. Allow me to refer as an example, of and from the local village level student union bodies to upto that of the Apex body of students as to where we are going all wrong. The Chief Guest business and the Guest of honor business. The eye to the package that determines who can and who cannot be the Chief Guest and the Guest of Honor.

The budget and the preparation for the student conference, more often than not, is predetermined, more or less, on the earlier “Letter of Credit” (LOC) system of work contracting by carefully studying the pocket of the guests. What is given is remembered and what is said is a formality. And this cuts both ways. Now, what is the take away for the students?

So many reams of paper and bottles of ink have already been used for nothing but the need to bring forth change and fast. And what do we have now for having done so? The logic and the justification that, as student bodies with no sustainability of its own, the practice very well may be wrong and thus the helplessness, and therefore the convenient side stepping of this issue. Another very fashionable saying is the “Thinking out of the box”. It is also a very convenient, pleasing to the ear, and a sure shot intellectual saying. It is just all too pleasing to hear and say for all concerned, again cutting both ways. But again, once again in reality it is nothing but passing the buck.

Dear Chief Guest and Guest of honor material leaders. Let me not beat around the bush. As leaders you all have that capacity and strength to assist the student bodies, and there are countless ways of doing it without all Tom, Dick and Harry knowing it. Do it, you all will be all the more blessed, but please let the students take home something that came because of your heart and tongue, and the all Almighty God given gift to only the human beings among all the living creatures that He has created, which is the vocal chord.

Let Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which can be in any form and from any quarter too get

and To conclude…! the privilege of assisting the student bodies transparently, and in doing so, directly and also indirectly, teach the students of what transparency, dignity of labor, and what experimenting of the many lifestyle habits of the elders is not worth emulating. That today’s time demands from the youngsters, an adult mind. Let the students ultimately see for themselves that two lefts do not make a right. Let students realize that the efforts of their parents to educate them till the time they stand on their feet will all be a huge waste if they end up with nothing after having eaten up their parents to nothingness. If such is to be the scenario, let the student themselves add up the whole and see for themselves, where, instead and infact, had all the efforts that has been invested or is to be invested for his or her education been saved in a deposit till the time they reach adulthood without education ofcourse, there will atleast be a quiet substantial handsome whole, enough to make a stepping stone of standing on one’s own feet.

Young minds are young, and will remain young in some quarter or the other, however hard the young mind tries to be more. And from among minds, be it the matured mind, the young mind, or that mind in between the two said minds, it is the young minds that has the requisite space and the dried summer leaves and twigs to ignite from just a spark.

What our leaders must give is that spark to ignite those young minds, and not anything that dampens. As for yours truly, with a mind that falls in between the two extreme, the ignition will take more than a spark irrespective of the space available. Such minds can and even must be wasted if found wasting.

Talking about minds, this is where Modi steps in. And we are not talking about that Kohima Modi served as a special menu during wedding feasts.

It is the Modi mind which has to be decoded by the Nagas.

Man and the mind of man, as

made and designed by the Almighty living God is meant to evolve and change with age and time. By virtue of being the powerful Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and the mind behind his self automatically becomes the focus of study and interpretation. The diversity of India and its challenges thereof sees to it that the mind of Narendra Modi cannot be hidden and remain exclusive.

Because in trying to do so he will only be paving his way down. Our Prime Minister is too shrewd a man to travel again the same road and the ladders that he climbed, one step at a time, to be where he is now. Doing so will take away all the elements of surprise.

And moreover his SPG cover will not allow him. His movement will become predictable and no SPGs of the world can sanitize predictability.

Modi weathered the storm before it became a blizzard or a typhoon by just only that much words – “I will quit the post if those under my guard does not quit from irresponsible divisive comments.” PM modi has a reputation which everybody now knows.

No loose words. It is just too apparent that Narendra Modi is on a mission because he knows that he has what it takes to change the perspective and apprehensions of the people towards the BJP as a very legitimate political party of Pan India. And in doing so, it will enable him to present the total outlook of the Hindu faith as that of a tolerant society’s faith in this world where extreme Islamic faith is purposely creating mayhem to dominate, intimidate and forcefully snatch superiority. He knows that nobody can pushfall or disturb his apple-cart now. And if at all the apples drop, it will be not because of what he says or does, but because of his silence.

Modi’s intolerance to hypocrisy is why many are falling in love with him.

Here is just an instance. The hypocrisy of maligning Modi for not allowing to place that skull cap on his head only reflected the desperateness and ill-informed ignorance of those fringe

elements to whom peace, love and prosperity are all in themselves equal words of allergy. PM Modi is practical and means business and not showbiz. Wearing that skull cap would have been like Rahul Gandhi taking up residence and breaking bread in a Dalit hut.

While on Modi, please kindly bear with yours truly as I decode the Modi visit to our Nagaland last December.

Among the North-Eastern states, don’t be surprised when I share this privileged information that our state occupies the most coveted part of the Prime Ministers heart. Just to avoid un-necessary speculation and heartburn, Modi scheduled the internal security meeting in Guwahati and the Imphal visit to coincide consecutively with his real intentioned and hearted visit to Kisama. Without looking below the surface, many of us jumped to a conclusion of a dry visit where even the words spoken were countable. How many realized that, in that short speech and the raised empty hand counting of his fingers contained everything, more than what even the most optimistic person could deduce of the visit?

For a start, Modi got three birds if not atleast two with just a stone.

“Seeing is believing” is what he said.

It was the same for us too. Seeing was believing. The message that our Governor P.B Acharya is somebody who is very close to him, a proxy of him here in Nagaland, was made known to us without saying a word. This I say because I do not believe in even simple co-incidence, but here it is just too much of a co-incidence. People these days do not even dress up their twin kids with the same. The same kurta of the same material, the same Nehru jacket of the same material, except for interchanging of the colour maroon and white between the jacket and the kurta and the same black footwear.

Thiiis guy, Modi, he is turning out to be too real to be true.

The same pitch of “Make in India” that he made in all the developed

world that he visited was also not left out for us. The raised empty hand of the thumb counting the fingers said it all. Nagas are going to be trained and Modi wants the laidback attitude of the Nagas to be changed. Women in Nagaland are going to be wooed

by Modi. Modi, not making even a pass-by comment on the Naga political headache is in itself a very wise and informed decision. Why make comments when he has yet to know about the indepths of the issue. It sure is a clear indication that he will not be like that of the former Prime Ministers who all raised hope but never followed up. Who all passed the buck.

While Modi, so considerate of us and not wanting to risk hurting the sentiment of the viewing people had an aide whispering nothing to his ear before leaving the stage, it was infact a little embarrassing when the host took the chair before the leader during the course of the programme. A faux-pass indeed. The biggest give away of Modi was when he mentioned the fact that a Prime Minister’s visit to the state of Nagaland is happening after more than a decade, and in both cases it was the BJP’s. His

comment that the distance between Delhi and Kohima is just a matter of a few hours is too pregnant with meaning. And so was his assurance that he will be visiting Nagaland more often if the people wanted him to. His preference to have his lunch in the confine of his helicopter too very clearly sends a message that he is not ready to break bread with the Nagas unless the government is streamlined and corruption checked. There is also atleast a pagefull or more of typed words in Modi’s Kuknalim if anyone cares to interpret.

OK, Well, all said and done, the writing is on the wall and only the interpretation remains. And this today’s writing on the wall is the role reversal of place, as to that of the Biblical writing on the wall. Earlier, it was the hand that wrote on the wall for the king to interpret. Today, it is the king writing on the wall and for us all to interpret. As for me, the first thing that I could achieve this new year is the correct interpretation of the writing on the wall. It is upto you all, still bickering for power, to follow me as I naturally become a fisher of not just men but women as well.

Praise God and thank you all. I take my leave, for now. Kuknalim.

Benito Z Swu

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he unfortunate political impasse inside the NPF camp has once again brought to the fore the famous attitude of Dr. Surhozelie for his tribal inclinations.

Dr. Surhozelie is popular among his peers in the political circle for his tribal mind set of the highest degree. It is said that you either have to be a Tenyimia or should be sworn allegiance to a Tenyimia to be favourable before him. Anything outside Tenyimia is allergic to him. It is in this context that the majority group of legislators headed by Kaito a non-Tenyimia is unsuitable to form the Government, thought they have the requisite numbers. Nagas have come of age and we should not allow leaders with narrow tribal mind set to divide Nagas on tribal lines. Naga society is intricately interwoven comprising of all Naga tribes, the roots of whose ancestors are traced as one. We will either sail together harmoniously or perish together.

Time and again, leaders with tribe affinities have done more damage than good to the Naga society. The intellectual Nagas should rise up against leaders who divide Nagas on tribal lines to suit their selfish agenda Long live Nagaland Atong Konyak, Khermahal, Dimapur

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Why President’s Rule may be good for Nagaland

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rue, a democratically elected government is better than having central rule imposed from Delhi because people have the right to have a government of their choice and therefore they elect their leaders or party to govern them. This is the essence of democracy—an elected government of the people, by the people and for the people. President’s Rule, whether in Nagaland or elsewhere, has never been popular, especially among those who have been elected to power. However when this power or people’s mandate and sacred trust continue to be abused and misused by our ruling politicians, the question arises as to whether President’s Rule would be a better alternative for people’s welfare. President’s Rule may be undemocratic in nature but it has been mandated by the constitution to be exercised as and when necessary.

Let us try and assess why President’s Rule may be good for Nagaland and its people at this juncture—keeping in mind the murky political situation, financial crisis and also the prospect of a time-bound solution on the Naga issue as stated by the BJP led NDA government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While the Governor should have as his first priority the need to explore all options to have a democratically elected government in place, he should however not remain oblivious to the current infighting and political stalemate within the ruling NPF, which is now clearly rampant without a meeting point. Even if the TR Zeliang government survives the present crisis or a new leader takes his place to form another government, the Governor should use the discretion allowed by the constitution to ensure that whatever political formation comes into place should be in a position to provide a stable government. The most recent imposition of President’s Rule in Jammu & Kashmir despite the recently concluded elections there is a case in point where no political parties or formation could satisfactorily guarantee a stable government. The Nagaland Governor will hopefully take all these into consideration before taking a decision on the current political crisis.

The other point to be noted is that this is perhaps a good opportunity to prepare the ground for the much talked about political solution, which the Modi government is proposing within the next 18 months or so. If the present Modi government delivers on a time-bound solution, as it has stated, in all probability this will be done before the next Assembly election, which is sometime in early 2018. So in any case the present Assembly and government may not last its full five year term if Modi delivers. And since past governments as well as the present one has assured to step down in the event of a solution, there is a strong case for President’s Rule to be effected so that the transition period is used to rebuild the State and to provide a stable and peaceful environment so that all Nagas irrespective of politics or factions, both overground and under-ground, can come together.

In any case if President’s Rule does indeed come, the fault will be no one else’s but ours because we invited this eventuality by our greed for money and power. Though undemocratic, President’s Rule may become a necessary evil, to cleanse and restore our polity. We have only ourselves to blame. In the end, a short spell of Modi’s rule in Nagaland may be just what the good doctor ordered, to cure our present ills and to prepare us for better days ahead.

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Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D

Day 5: Decentralized Power and Independent Nations Thought-Provoking Questions: Are only big and powerful people groups entitled to form independent nations? Does a big government efficiently serve the interests of the minority groups?

What does God say? Read Genesis 11:1-9 s From the beginning of human history, God's plan for mankind is that they would "fill the earth," that is, be scattered all over the world (1:28; 9:1, 7).

In defiance to God's clear command, many people groups came together to settle in the plain of Shinar (Babylonia). They said to each other, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

The idea of different people groups coming together was an attempt to form a "united nations." Their desire was to have a big government with concentration of power. As for their relationship toward God, they chose to have nothing to do with Him (Rom. 1:18-32).

How did God respond to their grand plan? The Bible says that the LORD came down from heaven and stopped their plan by confusing their languages and scattering them all over the earth.

Why did God do what He did? That way, He could prevent one person from becoming a worldwide dictator, which would be more horrible than any single evil government, because it would affect everyone and also there would be no other nation to challenge it. In the case of many people groups forming a united government, there is a potential danger of the more powerful groups taking advantage of the weaker ones. That was why the Lord brought about many people groups and scattered them to live in various places (Acts 17:26). He has intended to disperse government power in the form of having many independent nations all over the world.

Okay, so now what?

Although there are different tribes of Nagas, each of which speaks a different dialect, we all come from the same ethnic group which biblically speaking has the right to be an independent nation. And this, of course, has been the longing of every Naga since our forefathers' time. But now with many so-called "governments" among us, do we look like a credible nation? If we aren't conducting ourselves like one, how can we expect others to believe us? We can't fool anyone. Let's be realistic.

Prayer: Almighty God, help us to prove ourselves to be a distinctly beautiful people group You have brought about out of many kindreds and tongues. Amen.

Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro

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SOLAR POWER: helping the poor improve their prosperity Much of rural Thailand along the Burmese border is off the national electricity grid, but NGOs are installing solar panels in their homes to help their economic prospects and prevent fires

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ccess to electricity is a key element in development. However, Thailand has a significant gap between the rich and the poor with respect to access to energy that has persisted for many years, especially in rural areas. The situation is critical in some marginal areas, such as the Thai-Burma border. In these National Park areas, trees may not be cut down in order to bring in high voltage lines.

The lack of electricity makes these communities more vulnerable. In these areas, some villagers depend on candles that can only be used for a short length of time. They also use kerosene lamps; however, these are very expensive for the locals and have a negative effect on their health, creating chronic pulmonary health problems. The lamps also pose a serious risk to their livelihoods because their modest houses are mostly built with bamboo roofs with dry leaves that can easily catch fire.

“My house has burned two times because we forgot to extinguish the candles. We use four or five packets of candles every night. When we do the prayer meeting at our home, we need more than ten packs,” says Maung Luoel, a Thai Karen missionary who lives in Tot Pla Day. This village is located in a remote mountain four hours away from Mae Sot, a border town between Thailand and Burma. Locals in this area also burn wood for light and to satisfy their most basic needs. The wood is collected from the jungle, a task normally carried out by women that reduces their available time to accomplish other activities.

were installed in remote areas. However, according to a report from the French Development Agency in 2007, 80% of the systems installed have broken down.

Another study, from the German Solar Energy Society in 2006, shows that considerable questions remain concerning the sustainability of these solar electric systems. For example, local beneficiaries were given no information on how to repair solar home systems; there were no locally available replacement parts or information for users about the existence of the system’s warranty. The villagers agree that although the government installed the panels, they did not return to maintain them, so in most cases, the control boxes and special batteries stopped working.

“The battery for the solar system broke again and again. We had to buy new batteries. Then the entire system broke. We lived for two years without electricity again, using candles and fuel in order to see at night,” says Mite, 26, who lives in Tot Pla Day. Batteries are necessary to store the solar power, but they are very expensive and have a limited lifetime of four or five years; however, without maintenance, a battery may last less than a year.

NGO pilot projects In 2005, two Americans founded an organisation to refurbish the equipment provided by the government and to train local people on how to maintain it. They launched a pilot programme called Border Green Energy Team , providing 300 people with equipment and maintenance services in remote villages.

This project was registered as a Thai foundation by the female Thai engineer Salinee Tavaranan in 2011. She later started the company SunSawang, which operates on the Thai side of the border. The new systems installed by her company have to be paid for by the villagers, but the families have accepted this because of the lack of alternatives. “Villagers already know the technology and get it for free from the government, but agree to pay because they know it is valuable and a technician is available if and when it needs to be fixed. Before, no one was taking care of the batteries,” says Salinee.

In addition to recruiting and training local technicians in every village, SunSawang signs a five-year Maintenance problems contract with the villagers covering any problems The Thai government, in 2004, invested $250m in with the batteries or control boxes. “Every month I installing solar panels to bring electricity to house- check all of the equipment. If something is broken, I holds off the national grid. Almost 300,000 of these fix it,” says Lah May, one of the local technicians who

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suspicion that something exists is more than idle speculation whether something exists or not; it is a positive feeling of actual apprehension or mistrust but without sufficient evidence. As such, suspicion is closely aligned with any modern scientific endeavour. It is an invitation to look further, to explore with a sense of curiosity what seems to be peculiar or abnormal.

The problem is not suspicion per se but the extent and consequences of such a culture of suspicion in our puzzling violent world, leading to a craving for new and efficient intelligence and the deployment of programmes of mass surveillance.

When does a suspected terrorist cease to be a suspected terrorist?

What happens to former suspected terrorists?

Is it possible to shake off the social stigma of being once a terrorist suspect and lead a respectable life?

The line between suspicious and undesirable people is particularly thin.

Suspicion allows for the arrest and detention of people for possessing putatively subversive literature. An individual suspected of being affiliated with someone who might be in contact with someone else from an infamous group will see his freedom restricted in the name of prevention and the fight against terrorism. When intelligence services gather more intrusive information than they can cope with, when suspicion is presented as a virtue, it is itself not only suspicious but extremely dangerous. Suspicion is the territory of police and intelligence services, and a constitutive feature of their professional identities.

Since the revelations of Edward Snowden in June 2013, no one can ignore the alarming extent of mass surveillance. We know that the American National Security Agency (NSA) and the British security services are routinely collecting, processing and storing huge quantities of digital communications. The British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) mass-surveillance system “Tempora” has been recently declared perfectly legal. Yet its legitimacy and modus operandi are still highly dubious - and ultimately dangerous especially when members of the executive do not understand the process and its technicalities. These surveillance programmes are enabled by a culture of fear and suspicion, which mutually reinforce each other. Surveillance fosters suspicion and suspicion in return supports the

is also responsible for collecting the company’s fees.

Villagers now have more time to farm in the evening because they have light and do not need to rush home to start cooking dinner. Additionally, women can weave at night and sell products, and shops can stay open after dark to serve more customers.

The fee for the maintenance of the old solar home system is 4,000 baht (€100). A complete new system is 7,500 baht for a year (€186). Villagers, using candles and kerosene, spent around 2,500 baht a year (€62).

Salinee gives some panels free to schools and hospitals on the Burmese side of the border where they do not have access to power for needs such as keeping vaccines refrigerated and mostly lack the money to pay for it. The funding for this project comes through Green Empowerment, a US organisation that works with local partners around the world to strengthen communities by delivering renewable energy and safe water.

Saving lives, but not cooking food “On the Burmese border, before, there wasn’t a source of power at all. Now they can use microscopes, check malaria, check the blood, put vaccines in refrigerators, they can use computers,” she says.

“Solar power is key to the coordination of relief efforts. We use solar power to recharge our headlamps and flashlights, power our computers and satellite communications equipment, raids and all communication devices. In some areas there are no other realistic options because we are on the move most of the time in the jungle and in hiding places,” explains David Eubank, director of Free Burma Rangers.

Some 4,000 villagers have benefited. “But, when taking into account previous projects, there are many more both in Thailand and Burma, which would be a few hundred thousand,” explains Salinee.

Solar power seems to be a great and cost-effective solution for villagers living on the Thai-Burmese border who are completely isolated and without access to the electricity grid. However, energy generated by these panels is currently not enough to meet some of the basic necessities. “Villagers with solar power have light, can charge batteries and see movies at home. But there is not enough energy for cooking,” says Heh Htoo, one of SunSawang’s technicians.

Some villagers still need gas bottles for cooking, or need a larger solar system installed. Salinee’s team is now looking for an efficient cooking stove for them and will try to sell these as well.

How generalised suspicion destroys society Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet

Generalised suspicion is the ultimate destroyer of the social fabric: it thrives on betrayal, and fosters mutual distrust and demoralisation. And nowadays, it is impossible for anyone to be beyond suspicion logic of maximisation of surveillance.

These practices of surveillance and the underlying logic of anticipation have turned suspicion into legitimate, “actionable” intelligence.

If you see something, say something Worse perhaps, are the government anti-terrorist campaigns urging every single citizen to be part of this disreputable game and report any suspicious people and objects they encounter.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the number of “be alert”, “see something, say something” or “report suspicious activity” campaigns has grown exponentially.

Even the peaceful and green county of Wiltshire in South-West England, a paradise for people who enjoy walking, cycling and boating along the lanes, byways and canals has succumbed to this paranoia. The Wiltshire police website invites people to “Be aware of what is happening around them and think about anything or anybody that have struck them as unusual in their day-to-day lives.

We would ask people to think carefully about anyone they know whose behaviour has changed suddenly. What has changed - could it be significant?

What about the people they associate with? Have you noticed activity where you live which is not normal? We want people to have the confidence to trust their instincts. If you suspect it, report it”.

So let’s all be part-time snoops?

To involve every member of a community in a peer-to-peer surveillance mechanism is now part of the British culture. Watching for strangers in our neighbourhoods and being the eyes of the local police are now well established practices.

The problem is not one of a transformation of our western societies into police states where everyone might be an informant but much more the fact that these campaigns beget a vexing attitude towards the meaning of daily life and citizenship. They deny that there is such a thing as a normal situation for it is always only a seemingly normal one. We are all watchers and suspects at the same time.

According to the American Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, which was established in 2008 as a way for federal agencies, law enforcement, and the public to report in and share potential terrorism-related information, “demonstrating unusual interest in facilities, buildings, or infrastructure beyond mere casual or professional interest” is suspicious. This is bad luck for the train spotter or the enthusiast photographer of metro architecture. Are you nervous when your plane is taking off or landing? Odds are that you are just being suspicious.

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We are all suspects now That particular negative anthropological view of human beings where everyone is always a potential suspect is certainly reinforced by our reliance

on automated forms of identification and verification and by the monitoring surveillance technologies we use nowadays.

The more incidents of distrust one might witness through the lens of computing suspicion and patterns of deviance, the more it begets a generalised perception of natural human dishonesty. A general mistrust perhaps, such that even “regular” behaviour could come to be seen as too suspicious to be true.

There is no limit to suspicion. Everything and everyone can logically be part of it. In this view, the realm of surveillance ought to extend to a class of putative suspects so large that, in order to monitor and preempt their possible future violations, it becomes necessary to survey and scrutinise everyone.

The preventive logic of “far better to prevent terrorism before it happens than to investigate and prosecute after a tragedy” is largely shared. But excessive and forceful governmental reactions to real and alleged terrorist activity have very often resulted in the miscarriage of justice. From Northern Ireland to Guantanamo, we cannot ignore what happens when governments circumvent the fetters of criminal prosecutions and use military law to detain and deport individuals suspected of terrorist activities.

In too many cases we have witnessed how presumption of innocence has been transformed into a presumption of guilt.

People registered on “suspected terrorist lists” will inevitably struggle to prove their innocence because apart from the extremely complex jurisdictional matters at stake, at the very core of these listings of suspicion lies the classic double problem of inductive principle and probabilistic reasoning. In calling attention to the possibility that the future could be different from the past and present in unforeseeable ways, it raises doubts about the very possibility of definitive refutations of grounds for suspicion.

We might have been wrong that time but who knows actually what that particular individual might have done or, what he might do in the future? Generalised suspicion might be the ultimate destroyer of the social fabric as it thrives on betrayal and fosters mutual distrust and demoralisation. In effect, one might say that the possibility of being beyond suspicion has been forsaken.

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7 healthy body, unhealthy mind Suicides Spread Through a Brazilian Tribe

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12 January 2015

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ANY of my friends were shocked some years ago when I cut down on my junk-food intake. Even my wise old physician was a little put out.

He had more or less given me the green light to the “golden arches” a few years before when, one afternoon, following my annual checkup, he’d asked me what I consumed every day. “A Big Mac, medium fries and Coke for lunch,” I answered, “and frozen pizza from the convenience store for dinner.”

“Then,” he said, since my blood test numbers were more or less O.K., “I’d recommend you keep on with the junk food.”

I did, gleefully, for a while. But at some point — maybe around the middle of my fifth decade — my Happy Meals began to leave me feeling a little less than exuberant. They sat inside my stomach, wobbling, even as I somehow felt more empty than before I had devoured them. Finally, flush with pride, I put most burgers and fries behind me.

When I went to my doctor the following year, I could not wait to tell him how I’d mended my ways.

Sitting in his reception room, however, I needed something to munch on. I reached for the nearest magazine and gobbled down details of Monica Lewinsky’s secret life. I picked up a report on the news from Bosnia, then noticed that there was a far spicier update on Winona Ryder’s sticky fingers. When the time for my appointment came, I could hardly tear myself from all the savory nibbles. And when I told my doctor about my new regime, he didn’t seem impressed.

A few years later, my wise old physician retired, and was replaced by a doctor two years younger than myself. He was friendly and relaxed and had lots of numbers at his fingertips. As I grew older, he told me, I needed to be more proactive in my health routine.

“You should go to the gym,” he went on.

“But I hardly even visit KFC anymore!” I protested.

“I’m not suggesting triathlons. You’ve simply reached the age when you need to get your heart going,” he continued. “Only three times a week, 30 minutes on a treadmill.”

I wasn’t keen to do this, but he had my new (mysteriously higher) cholesterol figures in his

hands, engraved diplomas on his walls. Reluctantly, I signed on at a local health club. Soon my time there became a highlight of my day. The huffing and puffing left me at once calmer and invigorated. I felt even better than when renouncing nachos with extra cheese.

I proudly reported this breakthrough to a quiet, slightly older friend. “You’ve never thought of doing this with your mind?” he said, a bit ungraciously, I thought. “Just sitting still for a few minutes every day, to give your imagination a chance to take a walk?”

“I don’t have time!” I replied. “Especially now that I’m devoting 75 minutes to the gym.”

I’m not the type to meditate; I’d sooner give up Taco Bell for life than take on the rigorous disciplines of yoga or tai chi. But I recalled something a 17th-century mathematician and philosopher had whispered to me, which echoed what my friend now said. We run and run in search of contentment, Pascal wrote in his “Pensées,” and so ensure we’ll never be settled or content. We mindlessly race away from the one place where happiness is to be found.

I was, in short, what I’d call an externalist — a person who’ll exercise great care over what he puts into his body and never think about what he puts into his mind. Who will dwell at length on everything he can see, in order to distract himself from the fact that it’s everything he can’t see on which his well-being depends. Who will fill his head with so much junk that he can’t remember that wolfing down Buffalo wings is not the problem, but a symptom.

An externalist makes a point — even a habit — of cherishing means over ends, effects over causes and everything that fills him up over everything that truly sustains him. He interprets health in terms of his body weight, wealth in terms of his bank account and success in terms of his business card. He’ll go to the health club, and never think of the mental health club, like someone who imagines the only arteries to be unclogged are the ones that course with blood.

This past Christmas, I was all set to take myself on an exotic vacation, and then decided just to stay in my mother’s house in California — no long lines, no visas, no three-hour online reservation attempts foiled when you forget your second password. I’d come to believe that most destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them. And that spirit is better developed by sit-

ting still than by running all around.

As friends hurried off to the airport for Rio or Hawaii, I sat in my little room and watched the sun burn on the water down below. Light flooded into the space every afternoon and then, in the magic hour, the whole place began to glow. I nibbled at breakfast bars and listened to public radio and did nothing at all, the way it isn’t always easy to do if you’ve paid half your annual income to go to Mauritius. Moments carried a depth, a weight, of both emotion and association, they’d seldom have in Vegas. It’s not so much that we lack food, I remembered Simone Weil suggesting, as that we won’t acknowledge that we’re hungry.

The external world is always going to be my home, of course, and a place where I find each day’s savor and delight. And with Google Glass and Dreamliners and every hour’s new wearable, it becomes ever more like a supermarket, restocked each day with ever more astonishing options. Revisiting North Korea, four months ago, I was reminded of just how lucky I am, when it comes to choice and opportunity.

The only problem with such visible bounty, though, is that it becomes ever easier to feel, within yourself, like a gridlocked freeway at rush hour with no overpasses or offramps in sight. You start railing against fascism, as W. H. Auden suggested, and become a dictator at the family dinner table.

You hold forth against the destruction of the environment and never notice — or try to clear — the hazy skies and deforested spaces within you.

I still surrender — gratefully — to the latest congressional sex scandal or celebrity memoir whenever I’m killing time waiting for a plane, even though I know that any book by D. H. Lawrence or Marcel Proust will leave me feeling more alive, more myself, more in love with the world.

And even as I keep my distance from McDonald’s now, I have no hesitation in racing off toward organic, locally sourced, “food with integrity” Chipotle outlets instead. A life of daily visits to the gym demands some guilty pleasures.

But I know that one day my doctor is going to come into the room with a very dark look on his face and news that no treadmill or repudiation of onion rings is going to make better. And then the only thing I’ll have to turn to will be all I’ve done when going nowhere — and everything I might have stored in some less visible account.

Pico Iyer is the author, most recently, of “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”

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Charles Lyons NYT

RIENDS and family gathered around the limp body of a 15-yearold boy laid out on a bed in a thatched hut near the Brazilian town of Iguatemi, close to the border with Paraguay. A shaman shook a small wooden rattle while chanting and dancing — final rites for yet another victim of a suicide epidemic that has plagued the Guaraní Indians of the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The boy, Dedson Garcete, had hanged himself — one of 36 suicides among tribe members in 2014 through September, and one of about 500 among the tribe of 45,000 since 2004, according to Zelik Trajber, a pediatrician with the special secretariat for indigenous health within the Ministry of Health in Mato Grosso do Sul. Indigenous peoples suffer the greatest suicide risk among cultural or ethnic groups worldwide. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men ages 25 to 29 have a suicide rate four times higher than the general population in that same age group in Australia, according to the country’s Department of Health.

In the United States, suicide is the second leading cause of death, behind accidents, for American Indian and Alaska Native men ages 15 to 34, and is two and a half times higher than the national average for that age group, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Among the indigenous in Brazil, the suicide rate was six times higher than the national average in 2013, according to a study released in October by Brazil’s Ministry of Health. That translates into 30 suicides per 100,000 people. Among members of the Guaraní tribe, Brazil’s largest, the rate is estimated at more than twice as high as the indigenous rate over all, the study said.

In fact it may be even higher. The Indigenous Missionary Council says there were over 70 suicides in 2013, substantially more than the figure of 49 provided by Dr. Trajber.

The Guaraní have long made their home in the fertile land of Brazil’s southwest, where swaths of vast forests and savannas have been transformed into farms and ranches. In the process, the tribe has been dispossessed and uprooted from its traditional way of life. Many in the tribe face extreme discrimination and live in abject poverty close to the farmers and ranchers who occupy land that was once theirs.

“Living in this nonplace, they commit suicide,” said Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, an anthropologist at the University of São Paulo who for years has studied adolescent suicides among the Guaraní.

Nearly 100 years ago, the Guaraní, who today live primarily in Brazil and Paraguay, were forced off their ancestral land when the Brazilian government granted farmers and ranchers the legal title to that land.

Tribe members were placed in crowded reservations, and often separated from family members.

Then, in 1988, the Brazilian government created a new Constitution that established rights for indigenous people. Among them: giving Guaraní and other indigenous families the right to repossess their ancestral land, a process that has been slow and frustrating for both Indians and farmers and that has put them even more at odds.

In many cases, farmers, too, have lived in Mato Grosso do Sul for generations. They raised their families there, and worked and profited from the land, first from maté (a kind of tea), and later from sugar cane and soybeans. Like the Guaraní, they are rooted in the land, making the conflict between landowners and the Guaraní both cultural and material. Where the indigenous see repossession of their ancestral land as integral to revitalizing their cultural traditions and regaining their sense of well-being, ranchers and farmers view it as a hindrance to Brazilian progress and development.

James Anaya, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples from 2008 to last May, said suicides among indigenous youth, across the globe, are common in situations where tribe members have seen the upheaval of their culture, which produces in the indigenous a lack of self-confidence and grounding about who they are.

In the southwest of Brazil, he said, distress, poverty and violence against tribal leaders have led to despair among Guaraní teenagers, who feel they don’t have a future. “They see taking their own lives as unfortunately and sadly an option,” he said.

Professor Alcantara said that over the past 10 years tribe members have come to live between two cultures — the culture of nearby cities, where they are discriminated against, and the culture of their own tribe.

Young tribe members, in particular, feel that they don’t belong either to the city or to the tribe, she said.

Tonico Benites, a Guaraní and anthropologist, said that during Brazil’s dictatorship of the 1970s and ’80s, conditions on Guaraní reservations deteriorated: There was overcrowding and families were split apart. Today, the situation has grown even worse, he said, and many Guaraní feel lonely and isolated.

“At some point, many people I knew, friends, had lost their autonomy, their way of supporting themselves,” he said. “So they end up thinking about death.”

Off the reservation, Guaraní have suffered extreme prejudice, threats and worse, Dr. Benites said. “It happened to me three times, when I was waiting on the side of the road and a truck came at high speeds toward me,” he recalled. “I had to jump, otherwise it would have hit and killed me ... and later they’d say it’s an accident, but it isn’t.”

He said pistoleros hired by farmers have burned Guaraní huts, tortured his friends and killed tribal leaders.

Mr. Anaya, a law professor at the University of Arizona, said he believes that improving educational systems for the Guaraní and other indigenous groups can help. “We need education that doesn’t try to take out of indigenous children their identity but rather helps to reinforce it with all the modern tools that are appropriate to modern life,” he said.

Both sides want a peaceful solution, but in small Guaraní villages across Mato Grosso do Sul, Guaraní boys like Dedson continue to despair.

“Our biggest hope, for which we struggle every day,” Dr. Benites said, “is that our children may be happier in the future. That one day they can live another kind of life, a better one.”

POLL ReSuLTS

Are you optimistic thAt 2015 will be A better yeAr thAn 2014 for the nAgAs? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Why not, we can do many new good things, It depend on us nt a year..Remember new year for new record.

• Yes because by seeing the past years there had been a lot of changes in good ways as well as in bad ways. I believe there would be a lot of people who would want a changed world and would change it in a right way like the changes we have seen from our past years in Nagaland.

• Yes. No harm in expecting for good.

• Yes, if 1234 crore become 1234 paisa in 2015 • Yep...new year...new hopes...new challenges...

• Yes, why not. we can new year new idea. new year new technique new year new method. I strongly challenge nagas be better society.

• yes everything will grow healthier .....progressive year ..

• Yes, definitely will be a better year in 2015,because, you and me have already resolved to be a better person ...in heart and soul.

• Sure, 2015 will definitely be a better year. The lessons of the past and aspirations of the future will

surely make us more sombre, sensitive and sensible to choose the right path.

• Yes! N this how we start: drop ‘Honorable’ as prefix 2 MLAs. It disgusts. Honest.

48%

Some of those who voted no had this to say: • No, naga might became beggar • No, As long as the present political leaders/ bureaucrat are in power, der iz no hope for Nagas, infact, it will be worse.

• No, Because we have YES more deficit than our annual budget.

• Nothing will change with only false promises.

• nononononono.........until n unless d same leaders say bye to nagas.

• more worst will take place optimistically • NO. NPF led GOVT has run out of sorts and ideas.

• No because the Nagas are at a crossroads and whichever path we choose the consequences in the near future are bleak.

• 2015 will be a year of more corruption..

• No. 1. Financial instability. 2. Political instability.

This are two major reasons for my opinion.

• No, Because I think we need a good leadership no OTHERS (are current ones are lacking many qualities) Above all, there needs to be some decency from

38%

14%

women in our society.

Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: • Better for india as a country worse for nagaland as a state • the river never ever flow back.

• 2015 will be a year to eat anything we can digest • 1234 df plus no central grant and no source of incum to generate our natural resources so n so and whr wil we progress,,, • every year is a better year, bt do we see changes.. Lets hope fr d better. Kudos fr puttin up dis great question.

• Honestly there is no reason to be optimistic because we have the same people, same situation and same attitude. But I am willing to hope that 2015 will be better than the previous year because if we do not leave some space for hope than I might as well die.

• An incurable optimist I am always hopeful! And boy what a start! 101 issue are Screaming 4 attention and our leaders and their cronies in battle for power (read money). Selfishness of top order. Where’s their conscience?

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We are reviving economy, invest in India: Modi

GaNDhiNaGar, JaNuary 11 (iaNS): Making a decisive push towards generating investment to see the success of his ‘Make in India’ mantra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday his government was trying to revive the economy, and told global investors that India today was a land of opportunities.

“In a short span of seven months, we have been able to change the atmosphere of despair and uncertainty,” Modi told the seventh Vibrant Gujarat summit here attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as well as ministers and corporate leaders from 100 countries.

“Since the first day, my government is actively working to revive the economy,” he told the gathering which included US Secretary of State John Kerry and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. The summit, held at the impressive Mahatma Mandir convention centre, spread over a 55-acre complex comprising conference venues, exhibition halls and landscaped gardens, in the Gujarat capital, saw the biggest participation from other countries this time. Modi said there was tremendous interest in India, and “countries were coming forward to work with us. Today, India is a land of opportunities”.

Modi, who till 2013 used to seek investment for Gujarat where he was then the chief minister, urged countries, businesses and investors to be part of India’s growth story. “My government is committed to create a policy environment that is predictable, transparent and fair.”

Modi, speaking dominantly in English, went on: “We will have to change the way we have been approaching problems. Recession is often seen just in the context of business and industry. “Have we ever thought of recession as being the result of low per capita income in countries where a majority of global population lives?

“Have we ever thought of its solution in terms of enhancing the common man’s employability, income and purchasing power? He said his government was committed to changing and improving the economic and social condition of India, including the quality of life.

“We want to promote co-operative federalism in the country. At the same time, we want a competitive element among the states.” Visibly happy at the presence of global personalities and business leaders at the summit, Modi said: “This event is perhaps the biggest gathering on earth where a budding entrepreneur has opportunity to see

the president of the World Bank.

“And where a young farmer can listen to the views of the UN secretary general on issues like food security. “Your (world leaders’) presence today has enhanced the enterprising streak of 60 million Gujaratis and has boosted the morale of 1.2 billion Indians,” he added.

Without naming anyone, Modi refuted criticism that he was just making populist announcements.

“We are not only making commitments and announcements. But, we are backing them up with concrete action at the level of policy and action,” he said.

Citing examples, Modi said that opening of 100 million bank accounts in just four months, allowing 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in railways, allowing 49 percent FDI in defence and insurance sectors were some of the steps taken by his government after coming to power May last year.

“Sometimes it appears that Modi is hyping up things.

We do this to force us in the government to make faster corrections,” he pointed out.

In his address, the UN secretary general said 2015 was crucial for global action on issues such as sustainable development, climate change and inclusive growth. “This is the most

Make in India win-win opportunity: John Kerry

important and crucial year for humanity,” he said.

Kerry said that Modi’s ‘Make in India’ programme is a win-win opportunity for the world. “The prime minster has brought a particular energy... and made Gujarat synonymous with possibilities, change and energy,” he said in the presence of Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister Ananadiben Patel and dignitaries from over 100 countries.

Kerry described Modi as a “visionary leader”, while the World Bank chief said that India could take a lead in ending poverty.

Modi and Kerry also paid tributes to the victims of the Paris terror attack. Both leaders said all the countries should be ready to show that they were determined to fight terror in all forms.

The Mukesh Ambani led-Reliance Industries (RIL) announced that it will invest Rs.100,000 crore across its businesses, including the Gujarat petrochemical complex, in the next 18 months. “We will invest over Rs.100,000 crore in the next 12-18 months in contributing to the Make In India and Digital India initiatives,” Ambani said at the Summit.

The Aditya Birla Group will invest Rs.20,000 crore in Gujarat to increase capacity of various existing facilities, Kumarmangalam Birla said.

GaNDhiNaGar, JaNuary 11 (iaNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” programme is a win-win opportunity for the world, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. Kerry told the 7th Vibrant Gujarat Summit that began here that he considered it a privilege be at the summit as Gujarat was the “home state of your visionary prime minster.

“The prime minster has brought a particular energy... and made Gujarat synonymous with possibilities, change and energy,” he said in the presence of Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister Ananadiben Patel, UN Secretary General Ban KiMoon and dignitaries from over 100 countries.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the Vibrant Gujarat summit in Gandhinagar, India on January 11.

Kerry is in India to attend an international investment conference and push trade ties with the giant South Asian nation ahead of visit by President Barack Obama later this month. (AP Photo)

Tharoor in Delhi, likely to be questioned over Sunanda murder Odisha alerts health institutes on swine flu

New Delhi, JaNuary 11 (iaNS): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Sunday reached the national capital and is likely to be questioned by Delhi Police in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s murder. Tharoor arrived at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport from Kerala around 2 p.m. and went to his house in central Delhi’s Lodhi Estate.

Tharoor did not reply to questions from journalists, and merely said: “I have already spoken with the media (in Kerala).” He drove away in a car with his security staff. After reaching home, he consulted his lawyers and discussed the case. Policemen have been deployed outside his residence.

Tharoor was undergoing ayurvedic rejuvenation in Thrissur district of Kerala.

Soon after his discharge, he raised questions on the Delhi Police investigation and demanded a professional probe. He also said he wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi, assuring him full cooperation with the investigating team.

Pushkar, 52, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a luxury hotel here Jan 17, 2014. On Saturday, Delhi Police said

they will question Tharoor after the people who were in the hotel and in touch with Pushkar before she was found murdered.

Police have compiled a list of people to be questioned in the case. They have already questioned Tharoor’s domestic help Shri Narain Singh, who told them there was a fight between Tharoor and Pushkar, a day before she was

found dead.

In November last year, police also questioned Pushkar’s businessman friend Sunil Trakru - who had then dropped Pushkar at the hotel when she came to Delhi in January 2014. A police official said Pushkar’s viscera samples would soon be sent abroad for ascertaining the poisonous substance administered to her.

The case was registered Jan 1, almost a year after her death, following the final post-mortem report from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) that was submitted Dec 28, last year. Police had collected pieces of broken glass from Pushkar’s hotel room which purportedly implied that a scuffle took place inside the room before her death.

Bajrang Dal attacks Christian bhawan in Bihar town

An Indian woman shout slogans during a protest against the gang rape and murder of a 30-year-old woman in New Delhi, India on January 11. The woman was employed with an export company when she was allegedly gang raped and murdered and her body dumped at Delhi Development Authority (DDA) nursery in south Delhi area, according to local reports. The placard at left reads: "Violence of women continues. Where is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government." (AP Photo)

PatNa, JaNuary 11 (iaNS): A group of Bajrang Dal activists Sunday attacked and vandalized the Christian bhawan (building) at a Bihar town, police said. The incident created panic among the small Christian community -- who demanded police protection for their security -in Jehanabad town of the same district, 52km from Patna.

“Some Bajrang Dal activists attacked and vandalized the Christian bhawan at Jehanabad town,” a district police official said. They were apparently protesting against the alleged conversion of poor Hindus by Christians.

They also blocked National Highway 83 connecting state capital Patna to Gaya district. Later, however, the accusation of conversion was proved baseless.

According to police, the activists attacked the building at Jehanabad because the Christian priest at the bhawan had allegedly lured poor Hindus into converting.

The latter told the police that some people had informed them that Christians had been practising conversion at the bhawan.

“The fact was that local Christian residents used to gather at the bhawan for weekly prayers as well as to socialise with each other. There was no evidence of conversion,” police officials said. In the last one-and-half months, more than 200 poor Hindus, mostly Mahadalits, embraced Christianity across the state. The right-wing Hindu organisations -- RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal -- have alleged that the poor Hindus were lured into conversion.

Opposition combative on BJP government’s ordinances New Delhi, JaNuary 11 (iaNS): Bypassing the logjam in parliament, the Modi government has promulgated a slew of ordinances on various issues to gain investor confidence -but going by the opposition stance, it would not be easy to secure the legislative nod for them.

The slew of ordinances, unveiling major policy decisions post-winter session of parliament, has the opposition up in arms against what it terms “dangerous efforts” to bulldoze parliament.

Article 123 of India’s constitution allows the government to recommend to the president to pass an ordinance - essentially an authoritative order - when there is an urgent need to make policy decisions into law if parliament happens to be in recess.

According to PRS, ordinances must be approved by parliament within six

weeks of reassembling or they shall cease to operate.

They also cease to operate in case resolutions disapproving the ordinance are passed by both houses.

However, governments have promulgated some ordinances multiple times.

For example, The Securities Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2014 was repromulgated for the third time during the term of the 15th Lok Sabha.

The government has said the ordinance route was necessitated by the fact that the opposition blocked business in the Rajya Sabha during the winter session. The Rajya Sabha failed to transact any major business in the last session over many issues, the foremost being the opposition demand for a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of religious conversions.

“The prime minister has not bothered to speak

in parliament, but is ready to twist the constitution and bring in ordinances,” Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha told IANS. Since coming to power, the Modi government has promulgated more than half a dozen ordinances ranging from raising the FDI cap in the insurance sector and diluting the land acquisition law to opening up the coal sector and legalising e-rickshaws.

Of these, the ordinances on insurance and land acquisition are the most contentious and are expected to face the toughest test in parliament. Senior opposition leaders say that with the NDA in a minority in the Rajya Sabha, the government can get the bills passed only in a joint session.

“But for that it has to first get the bill passed in the Lok Sabha and then let it be rejected by the Rajya Sabha, which has the

discretion of referring it to a parliamentary committee,” CPI-M’s Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury told IANS. “Thus, the possibility of these bills receiving parliamentary clearance is not too strong and the opposition in the Rajya Sabha will always try and send them to standing and select committees of the house,” Yechury, a member of the CPI-M politburo, told IANS. While the government argues that the ordinances were necessary to promote investor confidence, the opposition argues that such moves will not help improve the economy.

“Do you think the investors will gain confidence knowing that most of these ordinances might not get parliamentary clearance,” asked Yechury.

The government’s problems seem compounded by the president

reportedly questioning the urgency to amend the land acquisition act. Usually, a president only rubberstamps the government’s decisions. Reports said three union ministers were sent to convince President Pranab Mukherjee, who signed it only thereafter.

The delegation comprised Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.

The budget session of parliament is likely to commence in the third week of February and the opposition already seems to have girded themselves to make it a stormy affair. The Congress seems to have specially taken to heart the ordinance on land acquisition, with the party having decided to take to the streets against the government’s decision. Party sources said it

has chalked out agitational programmes across all states ahead of the budget session.

Former Rural Development Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh briefed party leaders on the salient features of the ordinance and how to convey to the farmers that doing away with the consent clause will adversely impact them in the long run. The nationwide stir is aimed at painting the Modi government as “anti-farmer”.

The land acquisition act is a sensitive matter with the Congress as it was the brainchild of party Vice President Rahul Gandhi.

Accusing the government of bringing the ordinance to help “vested interests”, the party has pointed out that the land acquisition bill was finalised by a parliamentary committee headed by BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan, now the Lok Sabha speaker.

BhuBaNeSwar, JaNuary 11 (iaNS): The Odisha government has asked all the medical institutions in the state to be vigilant against swine flu, H1N1 virus, after a middle-aged man tested positive. “We have asked all the district medical officers and medical colleges to take precautionary measures to counter the seasonal disease. Even though it would not be an outbreak-like situation, we have directed them to be alert,” said Public Health director Kailash Das Sunday.

He, however, urged people not to panic as it would not be an epidemic like previous years. A middle-aged man was tested positive Saturday and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital here. This is the first swine flu case of the year. His blood samples, which were sent to the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, confirmed the presence of virus, said Das. The man had gone to Uttar Pradesh and then to Delhi before returning to Odisha Jan 6. Since Delhi and Gurgaon are affected by the H1N1 outbreak, the man is believed to have contracted the virus from a carrier.

The 2010 outbreak in Odisha had claimed 24 lives and infected over 90 persons across various districts.

Referring to cases of jaundice reported in Jajpur district, where several troopers were affected in a police training camp, Das said the department official had visited the area and were taking all precautionary measures to tackle the situation. He said it is believed that the spread of jaundice was due to contaminated water from a borewell which is near a latrine. He said the water sample has been sent for testing.

‘Difficult for army men to manage social, professional life’ New Delhi, JaN uary11 (iaNS): The Delhi High court has expressed concern over the lives led by military personnel, saying striking a balance between duty as a member of the armed forces and social obligations as a family member was always difficult. “Striking a balance between discharge of duties as member of disciplined force and social obligations qua family has always been difficult for the members of armed forces as well paramilitary forces,” the court said in its order.

The remark by the division bench of Justice Pratibha Rani and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog came Jan 6 while hearing a plea of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official Kulrawat Singh, who was removed from service followed by departmental inquiry after he deserted the Todapur Camp here May 16, 2003 unauthorisedly without permission of the competent authority to attend the marriage of his brother-in-law.

Kulrawat Singh had applied for leave for six days well in advance to attend the marriage, but it was neither rejected nor sanctioned. The bench set aside the penalty of removal from service and ordered his reinstatement.

However, it refused to grant him the benefit of arrear wages and said “denial of pecuniary benefits for the period he remained out of service would be a sufficient penalty for him”.

The court observed that a long procedure has to be followed for taking leave for attending social obligations and the CISF official was confused over deciding whether to face departmental action or attend the marriage as his own marital life was under threat.

Kulrawat Singh’s wife had already warned him of serious consequences if he failed to attend the marriage of her brother, the court noted.

“Caught in the above situation, though with no previous act of indiscipline ever committed by him, after losing hope of leave being sanctioned to him, he decided to leave the camp to attend the marriage... perhaps to save his family life and to avoid humiliation to his wife during the marriage ceremony of his brother-in-law,” the court said. It said Kulrawat Singh committed an act of indiscipline just to save his marital life.

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World leaders gather for Paris march Arsonists attack German paper that published French cartoons

A crowd gather in Republique square before the demonstration, in Paris, France on January 11. A rally of defiance and sorrow, protected by an unparalleled level of security, on Sunday will honor the 17 victims of three days of bloodshed in Paris that left France on alert for more violence. (AP Photo)

PARIS, JANUARY 11 (REUTERS): Dozens of world leaders including Muslim statesmen gathered in Paris on Sunday to join hundreds of thousands of French citizens set to march amid high security in an unpredecented tribute to victims of this week’s Islamist militant attacks. Hours before the march, a video appeared online apparently made by one of the gunman before he took hostages at a Jewish supermarket on Friday, killing four before he himself was killed by police. He sat wearing white robes, a

gun by his side.

Some 2,200 police and soldiers patrolled Paris streets to protect marchers from would-be attackers, with police snipers on rooftops and plain-clothes detectives mingling with the crowd.

City sewers were searched ahead of the vigil and underground train stations around the march route are due to be closed down.

The silent march, starting at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), reflects shock over the worst militant Islamist assault on a European city in nine years. For France, it raised questions of free

speech, religion and security, and beyond French frontiers it exposed the vulnerability of states to urban attacks. An Elysee official quoted President Francois Hollande as telling his ministers: “Paris is today the capital of the world. Our entire country will rise up and show its best side.”

Seventeen people, including journalists and police, were killed in three days of violence that began with a shooting attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and ended with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli

in which four hostages were killed. A video emerged featuring a man resembling the gunman killed in the kosher deli. He pledged allegiance to the Islamic State insurgent group and urged French Muslims to follow his example. A French anti-terrorist police source confirmed it was the killer, Amedy Coulibaly, speaking before the action.

Under a blue winter sky and bright sunshine, thousands gathered early to inspect wreaths for the victims on Place de la Republique, the square from which the march will head

BERLIN, JANUARY 11 (AP): Police in Germany have detained two men suspected of an arson attack early Sunday against a newspaper that republished the cartoons of French weekly Charlie Hebdo. The newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost said on its website the overnight arson attack destroyed several files in its archive, but didn’t injure anyone. Hamburg police said it had detained the two young men near the newspaper building. Police spokeswoman Karina Sadowsky told The Associated Press several stones and a Molotov cocktail were found in the newspaper’s archive in the basement of the building.

She didn’t identify or give any further details about the suspects. A spokesman for the Hamburg fire department said they were first alerted when a security company called them after the building’s fire alarms went off, shortly after 2 a.m. “We quickly managed to extinguish the fire,” spokesman Joern Bartsch said.

The Hamburg tabloid newspaper published the Charlie Hebdo cartoons the day after the attack against the newspaper in Paris to express its solidarity with the slain journalists. Several other national and local German newspapers also published the cartoons. They are now getting police protection.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Sunday called on all citizens to be vigilant in their everyday lives in response to the attacks in neighboring France. off through Paris later. Giant letters attached to a statue in the middle of the square spelt out “Pourquoi?” (“Why?”) Overnight, an illuminated sign on the Arc de Triomphe read: “Paris est Charlie” (“Paris is Charlie”). “I am here to show the terrorists they have not won - on the contrary, it is bringing people together of all religions,” said Zakaria Moumni, a 34-year-old Franco-Moroccan draped in the French flag.

Loris Peres, 12, there with his mother and brother, said: “For me this is like

paying respect to your loved ones, as if it were family ...

We did a lesson about this at school.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Italy Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will be among 44 foreign leaders due to march with President Francois Hollande. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu - who earlier encouraged French Jews to emigrate to Israel are expected. “(The march) will be an unprecedented dem-

US refuses NKorea proposal to suspend nuclear tests Sri Lanka to probe alleged coup attempt by ex-president

In this January 5 photo, then-Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa attends his final public rally for the presidential elections in Kesbewa, southeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for new President Maithripala Sirisena, said on January 11, Sri Lanka's new government will investigate an alleged attempt by former President Rajapaksa to stage a coup to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week's election. (AP File Photo)

COLOMBO, JANUARY 11 (AP): Sri Lanka’s new government will investigate an alleged attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stage a coup to try to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week’s election, a spokesman for the country’s new leader said Sunday.

A “special investigation” will be set up to probe the alleged coup soon after the newgovernment is formed, said Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power after winning Thursday’s election.

“Some say this was a very peaceful transition.

But that’s not the truth.

People should know what happened behind the scenes,” Samaraweera told reporters.

Until a few weeks ago, Rajapaksa was widely expected to easily win his third term in office. But Sirisena — his former friend and health minister — defected from the ruling party in November, and gathered the support of other defecting lawmakers, opposition parties and many of Sri Lanka’s ethnic minorities, making the election a fierce political battle. Sirisena contested as the combined opposition candidate.

After conceding defeat,

Rajapaksa left his office and the official presidential residence on Friday, saying he respected the people’s mandate.

Samaraweera, however, said Sunday that Rajapaksa had made an attempt to deploy the army and police to stop the counting of votes when initial results showed he was headed for defeat.

He said Rajapaksa convened the chiefs of the police and the army, as well as the attorney general, at midnight Thursday and asked them to come up with a plan to stop the vote counting. Samaraweera said the three officials opposed the move.

Calls to Rajapaksa’s media secretary and officials from his United People’s Freedom Alliance coalition were not answered on Sunday.

“People should know about the dangerous situation that existed and Rajapaksa’s coup to bury the country’s democracy,” said Samaraweera, adding that the newgovernment’s first task would be “to probe this coup and reveal to the country what really took place.”

Sirisena assumed his duties on Friday and the new government is expected to be formed on Monday, a day before Pope Francis arrives in the island nation for a muchanticipated visit.

WASHINGTON, JANUARY 11 (PTI): The White House has criticized North Korea’s proposal to temporarily halt nuclear tests if Washington cancels military drills with South Korea. Jen Psaki called the offer, reported in the media, “an implicit threat.”

“A new nuclear test would be a clear violation of North Korea’s obligations under multiple UN Security Council resolutions,” US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters.

According to Psaki, Pyongyang’s statement, which “inappropriately links routine US-ROK [South Korea] exercises to the possibility of a nuclear test by North Korea is an implicit threat.”

“We call on [the Dem-

ocratic People’s Republic of Korea] to immediately cease all threats, reduce tensions, and take the necessary steps toward denuclearization needed to resume credible negotiations,” she added.

Earlier, the KCNA news agency said that Pyongyang called on the US to suspend this year’s joint military exercises with South Korea. In exchange the North would halt its nuclear tests.

“The message proposed [that] the US contribute to easing tension on the Korean peninsula by temporarily suspending joint military exercises in South Korea and its vicinity this year,” KCNA said, as quoted by Reuters. “In this case the DPRK is ready to take such a responsive step as temporarily suspending

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the nuclear test over which the US is concerned.”

Relations between North Korea and the US became even more strained after Washington introduced further sanctions, designed to impede access to the US financial system in the wake of a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which the Obama Administration says was supported by the reclusive country.

Tensions have been rife on the Korean Peninsula for many years. The Korean War ended in 1953 with the Korean Armistice Agreement, which was signed by the UN Command (UNC), North Korea, and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. South Korea didn’t participate in signing the deal, so Seoul is still tech-

nically at war with Pyongyang. Relations between the two countries have been further marred by cross-border fire and mutual threats. Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests, as well as the joint Washington-Seoul annual military exercises – which North Korea sees as a threat to its national security – are stoking up tensions.

In 2014, Russia said it was concerned about the situation in the Korean peninsula, pointing out that the crisis in the region coincides with annual military drills between Seoul and the US. According to Psaki, the military drills were “transparent, defense-oriented, and have been carried out regularly and openly for roughly 40 years.”

onstration that will be go down in the history books,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. Twelve people were killed in Wednesday’s initial attack on Charlie Hebdo, a journal know for satirising religions and politicians. The attackers, two French-born brothers of Algerian origin, singled out the weekly for its publication of cartoons depicting and ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad.

All three gunmen were killed in what local commentators have called “France’s 9/11”, a reference to the September 2001 attacks on U.S. targets by al Qaeda. Across France on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people took part in rallies. Many carried signs saying “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie). The head of France’s 550,000-strong Jewish community, Roger Cukierman, the largest in Europe, said Hollande had promised that Jewish schools and synagogues would have extra protection, by the army if necessary, after the killings.

France’s Agence Juive, which tracks Jewish emigration, estimates more than 5,000 Jews left France for Israel in 2014, up from 3,300 in 2013, itself a 73 percent increase on 2012.

While there has been widespread solidarity with the victims, there have been dissenting voices.

French social media have carried comments from those uneasy with the “Je suis Charlie” slogan interpreted as freedom of expression at all cost. Others suggest there was hypoc-

risy in world leaders whose countries have repressive media laws attending the march. Far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen, whom analysts see receiving a boost in the polls due to the attacks, said her anti-immigrant party had been excluded from the Paris demonstration and would instead take part in regional marches.

In Germany, a rally against racism and xenophobia on Saturday drew tens of thousands of people in the eastern German city of Dresden, which has become the centre of antiimmigration protests organised by a new grassroots movement called PEGIDA. Separately, a building of the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which like many other publications has reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons, was the target of an arson attack and two suspects were arrested, police said on Sunday.

Turkish and French sources said a woman hunted by French police as a suspect in the attacks had left France several days before the killings and is believed to be in Syria. French police had launched in an intensive search for Hayat Boumeddiene, the 26-yearold partner of one of the attackers, describing her as “armed and dangerous”.

But a source familiar with the situation said Boumeddiene left France last week and travelled to Syria via Turkey. A senior Turkish official corroborated that account, saying she passed through Istanbul on Jan. 2.

52 people die after drinking poisoned beer in Mozambique MAPUTO, JANUARY 11 (AP): Contaminated traditional beer has killed 52 people in Mozambique, health authorities in the southern African country said on Sunday. An additional 51 people were admitted to hospitals in the Chitima and Songo districts in the northeastern Tete province, and 146 more people have reported to hospitals to be examined for the poisoning, district health official Alex Albertini told Radio Mozambique.

Those who drank the contaminated brew were attending a funeral in the region on Saturday, Albertini said. Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour. Authorities believe that the drink was poisoned with crocodile bile during the course of the funeral. Blood and traditional beer samples were being sent to the capital Maputo to be tested, said provincial health director Carle Mosse.

“We don’t have the capacity to test the samples,” she told Radio Mozambique. Mourners who drank the beer in the morning reported no illness, while those who drank the beer in the afternoon, fell ill, authorities said. They believe the beer must have been poisoned while funeral goers were at the cemetery. The woman who brewed the beer is also among the dead. Police are investigating the incident.

Health authorities have begun collecting food parcels and other items for donation to the affected families.

Karachi

bus accident

KARACHI, JANUARY 11 (PTI): At least 59 people, including women and children, were killed and scores injured today when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding oil tanker and caught fire on a highway in Pakistan’s Sindh province, in one of the deadliest road accidents to hit the country. Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Siddiqui said the accident took place on the Super Highway when the bus going from Karachi to Shikarpur collided with the oil tanker early today.

“It was the mistake on part of drivers of both vehicles as they were over speeding and the passenger bus was overloaded with some passengers even sitting on the roof,” Siddiqui told PTI. Ac-

Pakistani gather around and inside the wreckage of a passenger bus that was destroyed after colliding with an oil tanker on a highway about 50 kilometers (31 miles) outside of Karachi, Pakistan on January 11. More than 50 people were killed in the accident. (AP Photo)

cording to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) emergency department incharge Seemi Jamali, 59 bodies along with four injured have been shifted to Jinnah Hospital, where emergency has been declared.

There were around 60 to 70 passengers in the bus and those sitting in the back leapt out of the win-

dows to save their lives after the bus caught fire. At least 40 passengers out of the 59, including women and children, were burnt to death.

A family of eight were also among those who were killed.

One survivor told Geo News channel that the passenger bus was overcrowded and the driver

was also over speeding.

“He lost control and panicked when the oil tanker driver lost control and came the wrong way,” he said. Television channels showed both vehicles on fire as rescue workers and fire engines went about their work. Road in the Sindh province are notorious for being poorly maintained while lax checking

by the highway police also emboldens drivers to over speed during night time.

Last November, in a similar accident around 57 people including women and children were killed when a passenger bus collided with a goods truck loaded with coal near Khairpur on the Super Highway.

In March, 43 people were killed when an oil tanker

crashed into a trailer tractor on the highway. Close to 9,000 road accidents are reported to the police every year since 2011, killing over 4,500 people on average, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).

Bad roads, driver’s negligence, over speeding and overloading are the main reasons behind major accidents in Pakistan.

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Chelsea moves 2 points clear Gasol powers Bulls of Man City at top of EPL past Bucks, 95-87

Chelsea's Diego Costa, left, attempts an overhead shot on goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, January 10. (AP Photo)

LONDON, JANUARY 11 (AP): Chelsea overcame a difficult start to beat Newcastle 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, moving two points clear of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League after Manuel Pellegrini's side was held to a 1-1 draw at Everton.

Oscar led Jose Mourinho's team to victory, putting Chelsea ahead in the 43rd minute against the run of play after a quickly worked corner by Willian and Branislav Ivanovic.

Oscar then set up Diego Costa's second-half goal by controlling Eden Hazard's chipped pass and

flicking it into the path of the onrushing Costa, all in one movement, before the striker slotted in his 15th goal of the season to make the game safe.

Newcastle had started well and Chelsea had goalkeeper Petr Cech to thank for keeping out a fierce drive by Remy Cabella.

Cech was standing in for regular stopper Thibaut Courtois, who dropped to the substitute's bench with a finger injury.

At Goodison Park, City took the lead through Fernandinho's strike in the 74th, but Steven Naismith headed an equalizer for

Everton four minutes later to end its slide of four straight defeats.

City introduced Sergio Aguero in the 67th for his first appearance since sustaining a knee injury in December, but the Argentina striker was unable to find a winning goal for the Premier League champions.

In the late game of the day, new Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew began with a 2-1 comeback victory against Tottenham.

Harry Kane continued his formidable scoring form when he put Mauricio Pochettino's side ahead in the 49th. He received a low

pass from Nacer Chadli, turned into space and drilled a low shot across Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni and into the far corner of the net.

But Pardew's team equalized through Dwight Gayle's penalty, after Joe Ledley was felled by a challenge from Benjamin Stambouli. And substitute Wilfried Zaha then weaved beyond Tottenham defender Kyle Walker and teed up Jason Puncheon, who curled his shot low into the left corner of Hugo Lloris' goal.

Elsewhere, Swansea fought back to earn a point at home to West Ham. Andy

Carroll put the London club ahead with his fourth goal of the season before an own goal from Mark Noble brought Swansea level.

West Bromwich Albion took all three points in its first Premier League game under new manager Tony Pulis with a 1-0 triumph against Hull, courtesy of a strike in the 78th from Saido Berahino. Burnley consigned Queens Park Rangers to a record 10th straight league defeat away from home with a 2-1 win. Lastplace club Leicester, meanwhile, continued its resurgence with a 1-0 victory at home to Aston Villa.

CHICAGO, JANUARY 11 (AP): Pau Gasol had a career-high 46 points to go along with 18 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls bounced back from two ugly losses with a 95-87 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday. Gasol was 17 for 30 from the field and 12 for 13 at the line. Kirk Hinrich added 16 points for Chicago, and Jimmy Butler had nine points, 10 assists and eight rebounds in the opener of a three-game homestand.

The Bulls were coming off a pair of bad losses to Utah and Washington, when they shot a combined 36 percent from the field. They weren't much better against Milwaukee, finishing at 40 percent (35 for 88), but Gasol's big performance was enough to hold off the Bucks.

Gasol helped the Bulls close it out in the final period. He had a driving layup that made it 87-75 with 4:01 remaining. He finished with four straight free throws, surpassing his previous career best of 44 points for Memphis against Seattle on March 28, 2006.

Brandon Knight scored 20 points for Milwaukee, which had won its last five road games. Charlotte's Kemba Walker scored 28 points as the Hornets downed New York 110-82 to extend the Knicks' losing streak to 15 games. Charlotte won its fifth in a row and did it so easily that Walker played only three quarters.

Bismack Biyombo added 14 points, tying a career high, and 12 rebounds for the Hornets.

At Los Angeles, Blake Griffin scored 22 points, and Chris Paul had 17 points and 13 assists as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Dallas Mavericks 120100 for its sixth win in eight games and second in a row.

Chicago Bulls' Taj Gibson (22) battles Milwaukee Bucks' John Henson (31) for a rebound during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Chicago on January 10. (AP Photo)

Jamal Crawford added 19 points, Matt Barnes had 18 points, J.J. Redick 16, and DeAndre Jordan had 13 points and 15 rebounds in the Clippers' eighth win in their last 11 games against the Mavericks.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 25 points and Monta Ellis had 15 of his 23 in the first half for Dallas. The San Antonio Spurs handed the Minnesota Timberwolves their 15th straight loss 108-93 after Austin Daye scored a season-high 22 points and had 10 rebounds. Australia's Patty Mills scored 19 points and Tim Duncan

added 13 points and six rebounds in 20 minutes for the Spurs (23-15), who were missing Manu Ginobili and Marco Belinelli with injuries.

In other games, LaMarcus Aldridge scored 25 points as the Portland Trail Blazers downed the Orlando Magic 103-92, the Philadelphia 76ers edged the Indiana Pacers 93-92, the Detroit Pistons defeated the New Jersey Nets 98-93, the Toronto Raptors downed the Boston Celtics 109-96 and the Houston Rockets were 97-82 winners over the Utah Jazz.

Six things to learn from the New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 3 wickets Australia-India Test series Dennis Freedman

ber 3 spot for Australia. He is making runs. Watson should be made to battle for the number 6 spot against Mitch Marsh, Moises Henriques and James Faulkner.

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Steve Smith is the real deal Some of us had that little feeling deep inside that Smith was something special. He was Australia’s best batsman in the failed Australian tour of the UAE. He then won Man of the ODI Series against South Africa, despite being overlooked for the first game.

But put up your hand if you tipped him to break Sir Donald Bradman’s record for the most ever series runs against India with 769?

I don’t see too many hands up. We should have known after his 162* and 52* in Adelaide when emotions were at their highest given the team had just lost their little brother.

Come the 2nd Test in Brisbane and Smith is captain. He made four centuries and two half centuries from his eight innings. He finished with a series average of 128.16. A century in every game. It could so easily have been a century in 5 Tests in a row, given he made 97 in the last Test against Pakistan prior to this series beginning.

His next Test match will be in the West Indies and then onto The Ashes. He begins these campaigns averaging over 52.

A star was not necessarily born, nor was it necessarily discovered. But it has certainly has let its presence be known. ...and so is Virat Kohli Stepping into this series, Virat had just made 134 runs over a whole five Test series in England. Sundries contributed more for India.

Virat had been proven to be a world class ODI player, but one lacking when it came to the real stuff.

In fact, his ODI average is much better than his Test average. Five Tests later, three as captain, and Kohli has faced his critics head on, slapped them in the face

with a mixture of attitude, self confidence and results.

692 runs, four centuries and the strong feeling that Indian cricket is now led by a character that was born to do so. The first ball he faced in the series, he wore smack in the middle of his helmet courtesy of Mitch Johnson.

Only Virat could respond by turning that into a hundred…..and then making another in the second innings.

Welcome to the big time Virat. God knows, India needed a leader like you.

We don’t know who the best two openers in the world are Well, we knew who one was.

David Warner entered this series as a superstar.

His three centuries, including his unforgettable one in Adelaide for his mate Phillip only cemented what we already knew. Some were even asking whether he is the best batsman in the world.

However, we weren’t quite sure who was his partner in crime in the hypothetical world’s best Test team. We still don’t know.

Murali Vijay finished the Test series with more runs than Warner. He passed the 50 mark on 5 of the 8 times he went out to bat. Could it be him? What about Chris Rogers? There were jungle drums beating for his sacking from some quarters before the series started. They were misplaced drums. Six

…and Suresh Raina It is still unclear to many as to why Suresh Raina earns himself an Indian Test cap? Is he related to Indian selector Roger Binny?

Only one century (in his first Test) in 31 Test innings is a horrible return for a guy who averages 43 in First Class matches. He was given yet another chance in the dead rubber Sydney Test and subsequently made 0 (1) and 0 (3). We all cringed.

Surely in a country of over one billion people, there is a better number 6 than Raina to be found?

half centuries on the run prove just how much this man values his wicket. Although a century alluded him, he averaged over the magical 50 mark for the series. His catching in the field also set an example for others. Ironic given Rogers is the bloke with the worst India don’t have a bowleyesight. ing attack To win a Test match, you The inconvenient truth need to take 20 wickets. You about Shane Watson The last time Australia can worship your batsmen played India, Watson was all you like, but they don’t described as ‘cancer’ by his win you matches. Bowlcaptain. He was also sent ers do. India don’t have home after 'Homework any bowlers. Well, none Gate'. He wants to be an that scare anybody. Ishant opener or number 3. A few threatened after his Lord’s years back, he was Austra- performance in 2014 to be lia’s highest paid cricketer. that guy but his best return He has only made 4 centu- in this series was a three fer.

Bhuvi Kumar should ries in 105 innings.

Some say he is a dead never have played as he rubber specialist. This series wasn’t fit or ready. Shami didn’t alleviate those senti- and Yadav toil away like Pements. In a series where the ter Siddle, but without his all time record was broken accuracy. Ashwin looked for the most aggregate runs dangerous at times, but made in a four Test battle, spinners don’t win you a Watson was Australia’s Test series in Australia unworst performed specialist less Shane Warne is in your batsman with an average of squad. What happened to 29.75. The average across all Aaron? Only twice in the wickets for the series was whole series did India manclose to 45. His best Test was age to bowl Australia out in clearly the Sydney match. an innings.

India are currently Coincidentally, it was also a ranked 7th in the Test rankdead rubber.

Yes, his bowling can be ings, just above the dishandy, but he has only tak- functional West Indies, the en more than 1 wicket in underfunded Bangladesh an innings once in the last and the minnows of Zim25 Tests. An all rounder this babwe. Unless they learn to bowl sides out, this ranking doesn’t make.

It is time for Ed Cowan will not change in the near to step back into the num- future.

CHRISTCHURCH, JANUARY 11 (AP): Brendon McCullum lashed a half century from 19 balls, matching his national record, to spur New Zealand to a three-wicket win over Sri Lanka Sunday in the series-opening limited-overs international.

Opening the batting, McCullum gave New Zealand a blazing start as it chased Sri Lanka's 218-9, hitting three sixes and six fours. He reached his 50 with a six from spinner Sachithra Senanayake and was out three balls later, stumped by Kumar Sangakkara. New Zealand quickly lost middle-order wickets before allrounder Corey Anderson scored 81 to propel the home team toward its winning target in 43 overs.

Earlier, Mahela Jaywardene scored a masterly 104 to lead Sri Lan-

ka as it batted after winning the toss.

McCullum's innings was more remarkable because it came after his opening partner, Martin Guptill, was dismissed from the third ball of the innings before New Zealand had scored. Rather than being inhibited by that loss, McCullum struck out, opening his scoring with a streaky four over cover point from the second ball of a second over in which he hit three boundaries. He struck a four and a six from the last two balls of the next over, bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara, then greeted Senanayake by striking his first ball over long off for six. There were two more fours at the start of the sixth over, bowled

by Angelo Mathews, and then the six that raised his half century from the first ball of the seventh over.

When he was out, New Zealand was 63-2 in the seventh over.

McCullum's dismissal provoked a mini collapse in which four wickets fell for 38 runs before Anderson and Luke Ronchi (17) settled things down with a 48-run partnership for the sixth wicket.

Jayawardene made his 18th ODI century as the only Sri Lanka batsman to look comfortable against New Zealand's tight bowling and disciplined fielding. He put on 73 for the fifth wicket with Lahiru Thirimanne to revive Sri Lanka's innings after it had been 82-4 on the fall of captain Angelo Mathews, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Jayawardene fell during the 47th over in which Mitchell McClenaghan (4-36) took three wickets.

Bale's free kick helps Madrid end 2-game losing run

BARCELONA, JANUARY 11 (AP): Gareth Bale scored with an unstoppable free kick to help 10-man Real Madrid end a twogame losing run with a 3-0 win over Espanyol and stay top of the Spanish league on Saturday.

Ja m e s R o d r i g u e z scored first after a pinpoint long pass from Bale was skillfully tapped back to him by Cristiano Ronaldo at the Santiago Bernabeu in the 12th minute.

Bale made it 2-0 in the 28th when Espanyol goalkeeper Kiko Casilla could only watch as he rifled a left-foot free kick in off the post. Madrid played with 10 men from the 53rd after Fabio Coentrao got a direct red card for a low tackle on Jose Canas. The difference, however, was unnoticeable and substitute Nacho Fernandez netted in the 76th with Espanyol in disarray.

Bale had a great chance to score before Fernandez's goal when he sprinted onto Francisco "Isco" Alarcon's thoughball. But the winger drew both the reproach of some sectors of the stands and Ronaldo's ire when he didn't pass to his strike partner, instead rolling the ball wide. "Bale played a very good game," Madrid

Real Madrid's Gareth Bale, top, duels for the ball with Espanyol's Anaitz Arbilla during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 10. (AP Photo)

manager Carlo Ancelotti said. "The public asked him to pass to Cristiano, but all forwards want to score.

Bale is just as fundamental for us as Cristiano. They get along well and only want to take Madrid as high as we can go.

"Altruism is an important component of the group. If we see selfish behavior, we will deal with it."

Madrid's comfortable victory came after its Spanish record 22-win streak ended with losses at Valen-

cia in the league and Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Madrid built a fourpoint lead over Barcelona and Atletico, before the defending champion visits Camp Nou on Sunday. Madrid will still have a game in hand after the clash between its main title rivals.

Madrid hosts Atletico on Thursday needing to overturn a 2-0 first-leg defeat to keep alive its defense of the Copa del Rey title. "It will be a tough game, but

playing at home will help," Ancelotti said about the derby.

Elsewhere, Valencia drew 1-1 at Celta Vigo, while Villarreal drew 1-1 at Malaga. Eibar also continued to impress in its first season in the topflight with a 2-1 win over Getafe at home as it consolidated its hold on eighth place.

A moment of silence was held before the matches for the 12 people killed at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office in Paris.

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ne might suggest it’s the reviews Jamie Dornan should fear when the Fifty Shades of Grey movie finally hits the big screen next month – not the legions of adoring fans who will flock to see it and send it soaring up the box office chart. But the actor, who plays the S&M obsessed lead Christian Grey, has expressed serious concerns over his personal safety when he takes to the red carpet in February.

“I almost don’t want to put this out there into the ether, but I fear I’ll get murdered, like John Lennon, by one of those mad fans at the premiere,” he told Details magazine. “Because a lot of people are very angry that I’m playing this character. And I’m a father now, and a husband. I

don’t want to die yet.”

He added: “And when I do get murdered, people will say, ‘God, isn’t it haunting how he did that interview in Details magazine and predicted his own death on the red carpet?’” Lennon was shot dead by Beatles enthusiast Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived in New York City in 1980.

The film was recently given an R rating in the US, meaning teenagers under the age of 17 will embarrassingly only be able to watch it if they are accompanied by an adult. Dornan recently defended claims that Fifty Shades glamorised violence against women. Fifty Shades of Grey will be released in UK cinemas on 13 February.

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ctor Bradley Cooper is reportedly eyeing to make his directorial debut with ‘Honeymoon With Harry›, starring himself and Robert De Niro. The film›s story is about a man, whose fiancee dies 2 days before their wedding leaving the lover devastated. He then goes on a trip with her father, who despises him to, scatter the ashes, reported Deadline.

Dan Fogelman has written the movie›s screenplay, based on Bart Baker›s novel ‹Honeymoon With Harry›.

De Niro and Cooper have worked together on films like ‹Limitless› and ‘Silver Linings Playbook’.

nsel Elgort has revealed that he hates being treated like he’s famous and hopes his friends in his neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City continue to treat him like a normal guy. The ‘Fault in Our Stars’ actor - who plays Augustus Waters in the novel’s film adaptation - has urged his friends in his neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City to treat him like a normal guy. He told Town & Country magazine: ‘’Brooklyn is nice because it’s a little more chilled out. ‘’I played basketball with these kids at a local court - this was before any of the movies came out - and now they’re like, ‘What the hell, man? You got all famous.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, shut up.’ I don’t want to be treated like that.

I’m just trying to play basketball. ‘’I didn’t want my life to change. Once everyone starts treating me like I’m a famous person, it gets bad.’’ Meanwhile, the 20-year-old actor recently insisted that fame hasn’t changed him. He said previously: ‘’What’s changed is: ‘Oh, you can go to this restaurant,’ or ‘You can go to this nightclub,’ but I’m not really interested in that. I don’t really care that some trashy girl, like, now all of the sudden wants to f**k me. That’s not really that interesting to me.

Selena Gomez: Mistakes are lessons Singer Selena Gomez says the mistakes she has made in her life so far have taught her a lot about herself and the people around her.

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he 22-year-old pop-star experienced many ups and downs in 2014 splitting and getting back together with Justin Bieber on several occasions before seemingly separating for good, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Gomez also voluntarily checked into the Dawn at the Meadows rehabilitation centre in Arizona for personal reasons. She says everything she has gone through has helped her become a better human being and made her realise that it’s okay to be imperfect.

“I’m still young and going through the confusion women my age are feeling. Sometimes your mistakes are going to teach you more about life. I have to tell myself I can’t be perfect and that I should enjoy all the good things that are happening. I’ve learned a lot about myself (over the past year) and how I want to move forward with my life. I also took some time off to focus on the things that make me happy and the friends I need to help me stay grounded,” she told OK! magazine.

While she loves being a pop star, Gomez wants to focus on her acting career this year even though she hates auditioning for roles. “It’s tough to convince people that I’m right for certain films. I get so uncomfortable on auditions, and it’s humbling in a wonderful way and making me a better actress. Whatever comes next, I can’t wait,” she said.

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inger Avril Lavigne has announced the title of her new song as ‘Fly’. The 30-year-old singer will release ‘Fly’ in support of the Special Olympics World Games later this year after co-writing the track with husband Chad Kroeger and David Hodges, reported Digital Spy. The track will also help to raise money for The Avril Foundation, a charity set up by the star to support young people with disabilities and life-threatening illnesses. “I wrote FLY for Avril Foundation a while ago. I’m excited to share it soon to support Special Olympics!,” Lavigne tweeted. Lavigne is currently working on her sixth studio album, which will serve as the follow-up to her 2013 selftitled collection.

Prince Harry dating German model?

Prince Harry has sparked rumours he is dating German model Anastasia Guseva after reports emerged saying they were seen ‘’stroking’’ each other on a super-yacht in November.

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ritain’s Prince Harry has been linked to German model Anastasia Guseva. The 30-year-old royal was spotted partying with the stunning female at a yacht party in Abu Dhabi at the end of last year before leaving with her at 4.30am, suggesting he has ended his two and a half year relationship with former love interest Cressida Bonas.

An onlooker revealed: ‹›He was clearly very taken by her and kept touching and stroking her and they danced very closely. The two groups left together with Harry looking very happy with himself.›› The younger brother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, was in the United Arab Emirates capital for the city›s Formula One Grand Prix in November when the encounter occurred, meeting the beauty - originally from Frankfurt - after she took part in a catwalk on a super-yacht hired by London nightspot Mahiki, earlier in the day.

Reportedly bonding over shisha at the £700-a-ticket bash held on the boat later

that evening, the pair are thought to have clicked instantly, although several other women were also trying to charm the eligible bachelor.

One partygoer said: ‹›All the girls were after him and he seemed to enjoy dancing with a stunning blonde particularly. ‹›One of the dancers wearing just a red bikini and black hot pants was gyrating on stage to try to get his attention. It worked as she was asked to join his table.

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‘She is going to grow up to be a strong girl’ Kim Kardashian appears on cover of Vogue Australia and opens up about daughter North and her relationship with Kanye West

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im Kardashian is white hot on the cover of the latest issue of Vogue Australia. The 34-year-old reality TV star smoulders in a low-cut and see-through outfit as she graces the cover solo for the first time not only in Australia, but anywhere in the world. In the candid interview the mother-of-one also reveals her concerns for her daughter North West growing up in the spotlight. ‘I like sharing my world with people,’ she told the magazine, before adding: ‘Although I wish there could be just maybe a little bit more privacy just for our daughter,’ ‘But it is what it is. She is going to grow up to be a strong girl. ‘I love my life. I feel like I’m in a really good place right now,’ Kim added.

Opening up about her relationship with husband Kanye, the reality TV star admitted that their ten years of friendship before they got together helped build a solid foundation. Now the pair couldn’t be closer according to the star, who told the magazine: ‘We are absolute best friends; we know every last thing about each other.’ ‘We know our goals are to make each other’s lives really happy, and I think we know how to do that. ‘We have so much fun together. We laugh together.

We’re obsessed with our family. We love our daughter so much,’ she said.

Looking ethereal on the cover wearing all white, the fashionista is seen lifting her see-through pleated skirt as she walks along the beach, her hair blowing in the breeze. The ensemble is from fashion house Balmain, which Kim and Kanye did a campaign for recently, and also features a long sleeved top with a plunging neckline down to the navel, leaving her famous assets to be covered by a bandeau.

The shoot took place while Kim was Down Under in November for the launch of her perfume Femme Fatale. Vogue Australia editor-in-chief Edwina McCann believes

her cover star was a no-brainer, given Kim is one of the most Googled people in the world and has as many Instagram followers as there are people in Australia.

Edwina defends the ‘polarising’ and ‘awfully nice’ celebrity in her Letter From The Editor piece inside the latest issue.

She also praised the reality TV star’s work ethic in an interview with news.com.au on Sunday and revealed there were no diva antics on set. ‘Kim left her hotel at 6am and worked until dark and never complained once,’ Edwina told the website. ‹She treated everyone on set with respect and dignity, from the assistants to the creators,› she added. ‹People think they can just abuse her and think she doesn’t have feelings, ‹ she also told the news site. ‹She understands that’s the price of fame and she gets on with it.› This latest cover for Kim comes hot off the heels from her Love magazine cover and almost a year after her now infamous US Vogue cover with Kanye. The February issue of Vogue Australia, with Kim on the cover, goes on sale Monday, January 12.

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Roger Federer of Switzerland holds the winner's trophy and pose for photos after he won his 1000th career title in the men's final match against Milos Raonic of Canada during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, January 11. Federer notched his 1,000th career victory and collected his 83rd title with a seesawing 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-4 win over third-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada in the Brisbane International final on Sunday. (AP Photo)

BRISBANE, JANuARy 11 (AP): Roger Federer turned the Brisbane International final into a grand occasion Sunday, beating the up-andcoming Milos Raonic in three seesawing sets to register his 1,000th career match win.

It's a grand number for a 17-time Grand Slam champion, making him the only player after Jimmy Connors (1,253) and Ivan Lendl (1,071) to win 1,000 times on the men's professional tour. "Clearly it's a special day for me, winning a title plus getting to the magic number of 1,000," Federer said after his 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-4 win against thirdseeded Raonic. "It feels very different to any other match I've ever won. All those (milestone) numbers didn't mean anything to me, but for some reason 1,000 means a lot because it's such a huge number. Just alone to count to 1,000 is going to take a while."

Federer clearly wanted to reach the milestone before the Australian Open, breaking Raonic's serve in the third game and again in the opening game of the second set. He fired eight of his eventual 21 aces in the first set, taking on the big-serving Canadian's strength. Just as it appeared Federer would coast to a comfortable victory, though, Raonic shook off his nerves to break back in the fourth game of

the second set and swing the momentum. Federer had another halfchance to clinch it in two, getting an early mini-break in the tiebreaker, but Raonic went on a roll to win seven straight points and level the match.

The 33-year-old Swiss star responded by serving an ace to open the third set, but he needed all his experience to save three break-point chances in that lengthy game.

Tension continued to build as Raonic was forced to save two break points in each of the fourth and sixth games, and missed two chances on Federer's serve in the fifth.

Only one point went against serve in the next three games until Raonic was serving to stay in the match.

He was leading 30-15 when Federer produced a pin-point topspin lob that forced an error, and then came a double-fault — Raonic's first of the set and fourth of the match — to give Federer a championship point.

Raonic netted a forehand on the next point, and Federer raised his arms to acknowledge the "Federer 1,000" placards and red-and-white Swiss flags being waved around Pat Rafter Arena.

"Looking back it's almost nicer winning this way through a tight match with nerves and humid con-

ditions against a great player in a final," Federer said. "It means so much more than just running away with it. I guess I was much more happy having to go three sets in the end."

Raonic said he did everything he could but didn't quite have the answer to beat Federer for the second time in their eight head-to-heads.

Still, he didn't mind being part of the big occasion.

"It's great to see because you know how much he's done for tennis. He turned pro I think it was like 10 years before me," Raonic said. "It's great to see everything he's done for tennis. The fans he's brought, the media attention he's brought ... he's definitely the most popular tennis player of all time."

Ballboys held up 1,000 in big, white numerals near the net during the presentation ceremony, when Federer accepted mementos from Australian tennis greats Roy Emerson and Rod Laver: the Roy Emerson Trophy and, from Laver, a framed montage of images with the words "Congratulations Roger, 1,000 match wins."

"Special moment. I'm glad I got it," Federer said. "To get to 1,000 match wins in front of you guys ... it really means a lot to me. I'll never forget this match."

LONDON, JANuARy 11 (AGENCIES): A sublime Alexis Sanchez scored twice and created a third as Arsenal climbed level on points with fourth-placed Southampton following a 3-0 Premier League victory against Stoke City on Sunday.

Sanchez made Laurent Koscielny's opener and then netted his 17th and 18th goals of the season either side of half-time at the Emirates Stadium to lift Arsenal above Tottenham into fifth spot.

The battle for Champions League qualification is hotting up, with Arsene Wenger's side now level on points with fourth placed Southampton, who face third placed Manchester United at Old Trafford later on Sunday.

Just five weeks after Stoke's shock victory over the Gunners, Arsenal legends Thierry Henry and Robert Pires watched from the stands as French defender Koscielny started the revenge mission with a sixth minute header from Sanchez's cross.

Arsenal right-back Mathieu Debuchy was forced off with a shoulder injury after tangling with Stoke's Marko Arnautovic, but the hosts struck again in the 33rd minute.

Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, right, is felled by Stoke City’s Geoff Cameron during their English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Stoke City at the Emirates stadium in London, Sunday, January 11. (AP Photo)

It was another moment of magic from Sanchez as the former Barcelona forward took Tomas

Rosicky's pass and sized up his options before cleverly beating Asmir Begovic at his near post. Sanchez

wasn't finished yet and his deflected free-kick four minutes after the interval sealed the points.

Lampard finally signs for New York City

NEw yORk, JANuARy 11 (AP): Frank Lampard has finally signed his Major League Soccer contract to play for New York City FC. NYCFC confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday that this week Lampard signed a contract to start in July — midway through the new team's first season in MLS. The announcement followed the AP detailing repeated misleading public statements from NYCFC and partner club Manchester City about Lampard's status.

NYCFC stated last July that Lampard signed a

two-year contract to start in August 2014. Within two weeks, Man City said the former Chelsea midfielder was returning to the Premier League on "loan," having previously categorically ruled out playing for another English club.

But after the Man City stay was extended on Dec. 31 until June, it emerged that Lampard was in fact on a permanent deal in England. Such was the confusion, the Premier League this week investigated the contractual confusion and prompted Man City to eventually confirm that

Lampard was in fact only ever under contract with the English champion.

The Abu Dhabi-owned club's parent company, City Football Group, acknowledged on Friday that the announcement in July was an "error," and that Lampard had previously signed only a "commitment" to play for the New York team from January 2015 on a two-year contract.

City Football Group confirmed on Saturday that Lampard had now signed the same commercial terms that he committed to last year. CFG did not immediately say if Lam-

pard's contract runs to December 2016 as originally intended or for two years from July 1.

More than five months after NYCFC's erroneous announcement, MLS said on Saturday: "Frank Lampard has signed a contract for NYCFC." City Football Group's conduct over Lampard has been criticized by American pundits and fans of NYCFC as well as newspapers in England. Britain's Daily Mail newspaper said Man City's "reputation at home and abroad is in tatters" over the "trail of misinformation and confusion."

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