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loNDoN, JANUARY 13 (IANS): A team of European scientists has discovered two new species of very elusive frogs that live in the rainforests of Tsaratanana Massif, the highest mountain in Madagascar. “Those mountains are home to a high level of native species and are very rarely visited by researchers seeing as there are no roads and barely any paths that lead to the base,” said one of the study authors David Vieites, scientist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid (MNCN-CSIC), Spain. In spite of this, the team of scientists from Germany and Spain ventured into these remote rainforests and as a result of the expedition the biologists found a number of species including two new species of frogs -- Rombophryne ornata and Rombophryne tany. “Both species live on the forest floor among the fallen leaves and are difficult to spot,” Vieites noted. Rombophryne ornata, which received its name owing to its colour and decorative features, can be told apart from other frogs of the same genus by the reddish colour it presents. It has a black mark between each eye as well as on its back, and it also presents spines located over its eye sockets. The species Rombophryne tany has brownish colour, and also has the tendency to spend time on the ground. This species also presents spines over each eye, the researchers said. Discovering this species “is another example of the great diversity of animals in tropical areas that have yet to be described before many of these areas disappear as a result of the deforestation suffered by tropical regions - especially Madagascar,” the researcher said. The findings were detailed in the journal ‘Herpetelogica.

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union Minister for Youth Affairs & sports, sarbananda sonowal being felicitated at the 31st langpangkong students’ Conference (lKM) General Conference cum sports Meet at Tuli town at Mokokchung on Wednesday, January 13. (Morung Photo)

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Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports, Sarbananda Sonowal today said that the youths of the North East region have a great responsibility on their shoulders in the nation building process and added that the Government of India is keen on skill as well as personality development of the younger generation. Speaking as the Chief Guest on the second day of the ongoing 31st General Conference cum Sports Meet of the Langpangkong Students’ Union (LKM) at Tuli town, the Union Minister highlighted some of the flagship programmes initiated by the Prime Minister. “Digital India, Skill India and Make in India, the flagship

schemes initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the greatest turnaround in history of India,” claimed Sonowal. He also highlighted the National Young Leaders Programme (NYLP) launched by the government in 2014. He said that the NYLP, which is a central sector scheme, has been designed in tune with the promises made to the people. He said that the scheme has five programme components namely: Neighbourhood Youth Parliament (NYP), Youth for Development Programme (YDP), National Youth Advisory Council (NYAC), and National Youth Development Fund (NYDF). “The purpose and objective of the scheme is to develop leadership qualities in the youth to realize their full po-

tential, to motivate the youths to strive for excellence in their respective fields, to bring them to the forefront of the development process and to harness the immense youth energy for nation building,” said the Union Minister. In this connection, Sonowal urged the youths to organize youth parliaments in Nagaland so that development and other issues can be tackled from the grassroot or village level. While quoting Swami Vivekananda, Sonowal said that ‘all power is within you. You (youths) can do anything and everything. Believe in that; do not believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you’. In this regard, Sonowal said that youths represent the most dynamic segment of the population and are the future of the

nation. “India is one of the youngest nations in the world and is expected to have a very favorable demographic profile in the time to come,” he said. While stating that Indian youth in the age group 15-29 constitute 27.5 percent of the population, Sonowal said that this demographic dividend offers a great opportunity and the challenge before the nation to develop and empower its youth population as a productive work force. Also encouraging the young people to take up sports seriously, Sonowal maintained that “sports is a way of life, apart from being just a medium of fun, also imparts life skills that come in handy throughout the journey of life.” “It (sports) is a way of bringing everyone together towards a common goal. We must respect this level of union. We must use sports as a channel to bring about unanimous approach towards national pride and loyalty,” he said. A host of dignitaries from the Nagaland State Government, including Parliamentary Secretary for Industries & Commerce, Amenba Yaden also attended the programme. The function was chaired by former NSF President, Tongpang Ozukum; while LKM President, Taliyanger Jamir delivered the presidential address. More than 2000 delegates from nineteen villages under Langpangkong range are participating in the four day conference which commenced on Tuesday evening. The programme will conclude on Thursday, January 15 with Parliamentary Secretary for Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, S Chuba Longkumer as the guest of honor. The conference is being held on the theme ‘Resilient foundation’.

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 13 (MExN): A report from the media watchdog website ‘The Hoot’ has observed that 2015 was a year when journalists in India were at their most vulnerable. The report stated that deaths of journalists and writers, attacks against media houses and threats against the media were at an all time high in 2015. It reported that there were 10 deaths (8 journalists and 2 writers) in the previous year. It further revealed that there were 30 instances of attacks on the media, 3 arrests of media persons, and 27 threats against journalists. The deadly year for writers and journalists began with senior communist leader, rationalist and writer Govind Pansare being shot at by two persons on February 16, 2015. He succumbed to injuries five days later. The report further cited that on June 8, Shajahanpur based journalist Jagendra Singh died of burn injuries eight days after he alleged in a video that he was set on fire by a group of police and supporters of UP Minister for Dairy Development, Ram Murti Verma. On June 12, Kanpur based journalist Deepak Mishra was shot by unidentified persons, after he wrote a series of articles on gambling dens in a small newspaper Dainik Mera Sach. On June 22, Sandeep Kothari, a journalist from Jabalpur was killed after he was allegedly kidnapped and set

on fire. He had written against illegal mining mafia and was being pressurised to withdraw a case he had filed on this topic, the report said. The next month, on July 5, Akshay Singh, a reporter for the Aaj Tak channel died under mysterious circumstances; minutes after interviewing the father of a student whose body was found near a railway track in Ujjain district of MP. On August 8, Raja Chatruvedi, a journalist in UP was shot dead outside his house by unidentified persons. On the same day, Sanjay Pathak, a stringer with a local newspaper in UP was killed by two persons. On September 30, freelance journalist, Ajay Vidrohi was shot dead in Sitamarhi days before the Bihar state elections were to be held. On October 10, Hemant Yadav, a journalist with a local news channel was shot dead by motorcycle borne gunmen in Chandauli district of UP. Further, on October 27, Mithilesh Pandey, a reporter with Dainik Jargan was shot dead in his house in Khastha village in Gaya district of Bihar. These figures, the report said are based on incidents reported in the press and “should be treated as conservative estimates.” It may be noted that figures on attacks against journalists collected by the National Crime Records Bureau for 2015 are not available as of yet.

NE state capitals to be linked nPcB: coal mining ops a source by rail by 2020: MoS Railways of water pollution in nagaland

AgARtAlA, JANUARY 13 (PtI): Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha today said the capitals of all northeastern states would be connected by rail by 2020 and Agartala would be brought onto the map of broad gauge network by March. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accorded priority to the development of the northeastern region and taking the rails to hilly areas is a major challenge for us,” he added. “The capitals of the Northeastern states would be connected by rails by 2020 and this capital city (Agartala) would be

on the country’s broad gauge railway map by March this year,” the Minister said here. Sinha today received the first broad gauge trial train here in the presence of state PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury and Transport Minister Manik Dey. He said the construction of 15 km-long railway track to connect Agartala with Akhaura in Bangladesh “is a top priority”. The project is funded by the Government of India for connecting Tripura and West Bengal via Bangladesh, he said. The process of acquiring land in Bangladesh was com-

plete and in India, it would start soon, he said adding a 3.7 km-long railway track on Indian side would be a viaduct (through an elevated corridor) to reduce the cost of acquisition of land. Laying of railway line from Agartala to Sabroom in South Tripura district bordering Bangladesh would be completed by 2018, he said. To a question, the Union Minister said Tripura’s demands for setting up a railway division and a railway recruitment board here are genuine but decision on it cannot be taken in a hurry.

Release Backward Region Grant Fund

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 13 (MExN): The Nagaland State VDB Association (NSVDBA) on behalf of the Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) benefiting Districts has appealed to the Nagaland State Chief Minister to release the Backward Region Grant Fund for the year 2014-15 by January 2016. A press note from the association said that the Ministry of Panchayati raj had released the payment of central assistance under BRGF to the state of Nagaland for the year 2014-15 from August 21, 2014 meant for the development of the most developmentally backward areas in Nagaland. It however lamented that the amount meant for development of poor villages has not been released till date.

The association said that on February 24, 2015, “certain amount meant for payment to the beneficiaries of Urban Local Bodies had been released by the Government of Nagaland.” “Whereas, even after a lapse of more than a year, the fund which is meant for poor villagers is still kept pending without asserting any reason, as a matter of fact, the beneficiaries of the above district have been deprived of their legitimate shares,” it lamented. The association stated that the state government’s nonpayment of sanctioned amounts on time meant for development and various welfare schemes for common people in the villages of Nagaland, has made the various ministries at the cen-

tre unable to accord further sanction. It said that this is affecting the developmental activities in the entire state of Nagaland. It informed that a delegation of the Nagaland State VDB Association met the Chief Minister on October 19, 2015 and had apprised him on the issue. The Chief Minister had reportedly given assurance to release the said amount by November 2015. It however lamented that the assurance has not materialized till date. As such, it appealed to the concerned authority to release the BRGF amount for the year 2014-15, so as to enable the villagers to proceed with various developmental projects which have already been earmarked.

our Correspondent Kohima | January 13

The Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB) in a report has expressed concern at coal mining operations in Nagaland being a major source of water pollution. Coal mining, being an environmentally unfriendly activity has attracted attention from the stand point of environmental impacts and their mitigation, the report titled ‘Study of coal mining areas in Nagaland and its impact on environment,’ said. Mining, it stated affects all components of environment and the impacts are permanent/temporary, beneficial/harmful, repairable /irreparable, and reversible/ irreversible. The NPCB particularly pointed to the carry-over of the suspended solids in the drainage system of the mines. In some of the coal mines, acidic water is also found in the underground aquifers. In addition, waste water from coal preparation plants and mines are other sources of water pollution, it stated. The report said that in Nagaland coal mining is done mostly in the hills except for some low lying areas bordering Assam. The excavated soil and coal residue in this terrain are left exposed and during rain, leaching takes place and the water containing SO2 gets into the streams thereby making the water acidic, affecting aquatic life and making the water unhealthy for consumption. The Acid Mine Drainage

(AMD), the NPCB explained, is a form of metal-rich water produced from the chemical reaction between water and rocks containing sulphur-bearing minerals. The runoff formed is usually acidic and frequently comes from areas where ore or coal mining activities

stated. The NPCB said that water pollution from mine waste rock and tailing may need to be managed for decades, if not centuries, after closure. In addition, the NPCB stated that ground-water pollution can also occur both directly and indirectly as a result of surface mining. Direct degradation can occur to ground water situated downhill or down gradient from surface mine, by flow of contaminated drainage from the mine during mining and after reclamation. Indirect degradation of ground water could result from blasting, which causes a temporary shaking of the rock and results in new rock fractures near working areas of the mine, the report stated. It warned that blasting can also cause old pre-existing rock fractures to become more open or permeable, by loosening mineral debris or cement in these fractures; this could affect nearly vertical leakage of ponded mine drainage from nearby abandoned deep mines to underlying aquifers. The NPCB report cautioned of the varying effects that these sediments have on aquatic wildlife. High sediment levels can kill fish directly, bury sprawling beds, reduce light transmission, alter temperature gradients, filling pools, spread stream flows over wider, shallower areas, and reduce production of aquatic organisms used as food by other species. These changes, it lamented, have destroyed the habitat of valued species, and could enhance habitat for less-desirable species.

Study of coal mining areas in Nagaland and its impact on environment- Part III have exposed rocks containing pyrite, a sulphur-bearing mineral. This toxic water leaks out of abandoned mines contaminating groundwater, streams, soil, plants, animals and humans. The NCPB warned that these heavy metals are linked to serious health problems including an increase in birth defects. Coal mining also consumes, diverts and dangerously pollutes local water supplies. It pollutes fresh water through the dumping and leaking of toxic waste. “This contaminate rivers, streams, underground water and soil, threatening the lives of animals and humans,” the report stated adding that even after a mine is closed, the impact of pollution still continues. The high –risk period for water contamination from coal mines occurs in the post-mining phase, when water pumping and treatment of the closed or abandoned mines are left to flood. It may take years or decades for a new water cycle to re-establish at the mine site, and by the time AMD occurs, the mine operators and regulators are often no longer monitoring, it

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JBCCTK 1st general conference conducted

Dimapur, January 13 (mExn): The First General Conference of Japfuphiki Baptist Church Council Thepfuko Krotho (JBCCTK), Men’s department held with the theme – “Strive for Maturity” concluded on January 10 at Jakhama Baptist Church More than 600 delegates registered from 14 villages and more than 1350 attended the Sunday Morning worship service followed with the main feast, a press note from JBCCTK President, Nosevol Kin and Secretary, Vizade Zao informed. “The delegates went to

all eight different khels in Jakhama village and conducted a special prayer session at 6.00 a.m” it said adding that every delegates and members of Jakhama Baptist Church were blessed in through worship session, workshop, talent show, singing competition, praise and worship and other events. During the event, the JBCCTK, Kezhokhoto Savi said that the hosting church had stressed the importance of organic food by providing organic items such as rice, pork, fish, chicken, vegetables, etc throughout the conference.

It served fishes from their own fishery pond, organic chicken, pigs within Jakhama village and vegetable such as cabbage from Dzukou road and jungle, it further informed. A new team of office bearers for the tenure 2016-2020 led by Rev. Keholeshu Tepa , Senior Pastor BCK were also elected during the conference. The office-bearers of JBCCTK also expressed its heartfelt gratitude to all the speakers, choirs, delegates, volunteers and the hosting church of Thepfuko Krotho for all the amenities provided.

CIH Nagaland participate in 3rd Assam International Show

Guwahati, January 13 (mExn): Central Institute of Horticulture, Nagaland participated in the 3rd Assam International Agri Horti. Show held at College of Veterinary, Khanapara, Guwahati, Assam from January 6 to 9. The event was organized by Department of Agriculture, Government of Assam in association with Assam Agriculture University and Indian Chamber of Commerce. The show was formally inaugurated by Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam. The four days show

was organized with focus on advancements in agriculture and horticulture, promotion of international trade, protected cultivation, fertigation and farming technologies, processed foods and post harvest technologies, agri finance/insurance, cold storage and other Hi-tech technologies and had participation from various National and International organizations CIH Nagaland participated in the show as an exhibitor and highlighted the various activities being carried out as per the man-

dates of the Institute. The focus horticulture crops available in the NEH region were displayed. Folders and other publications on production technologies, package of practices PHM on fruits, flowers, vegetables and spices were displayed and distributed during the programme. Quality planting material of major fruit crops propagated in the Institute was also displayed. More than 300 people from different parts of the country visited the stall and interacted with technical staffs.

Plans formulated to facilitate mineral-based industries in state Our Correspondent Kohima | January 13

Nagaland is richly endowed with a variety of minerals, according to annual administrative report 2014-15 of Nagaland State Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (NSMDC). Coal, limestone, nickel, cobalt, chromium, magnetite, copper, zinc, and recently discovered platinum, petroleum and natural gas are the major minerals available in Nagaland, the report stated. The report stated that the government wants to exploit the rich minerals to enhance the economic status of the state with a view to uplift the living conditions of the rural people where rich minerals deposits are available. With this objective, the report stated that the NSMDC, fully owned by the state government was set up by the Government of Nagaland and incorporated in May 1981 under Companies Act 1956 with the main objectives of initiating commercial exploitation of limestone, coal and other mineral deposits and promoting, establishing and developing economic activities in mines and mineral based industries. “The successive plans

Lime stone outcrop at Ziphu, Meluri Subdivision. According to the annual administrative report 2014-15 of NSMDC Ltd, the major minerals available in Nagaland are Coal, limestone, nickel, cobalt, chromium, magnetite, copper, zinc, and recently discovered platinum, petroleum and natural gas. (Morung File Photo)

have been formulated with the basic aim to promote and facilitate mineral-based industries in the state for economic growth as well as for generation of employment opportunities,” the report stated. The investments will also be justified by cost benefit analysis, the report stated. According to the report, the planning strategies are focused to achieve the following objectives: Development of infrastructure such as con-

struction and up gradation of mineral link roads and improvement of power in collaboration with relevant departments, initiation of mineral-based industries by facilitating and involving the people/private sector with technical guidance and assistance from the government through the Corporation so as to generate economic growth and employment with full justification in quantified terms and to enter into profit

sharing ventures with private Companies in various limestone and other mineral based projects. The main established mineral reserves comprise of the following: Petroleum and natural gas (prognosticated reserve of 600 million tonnes) in the northwest along Nagaland-Assam border, coal (with inferred reserve of 150 million tonnes) in Tuensang, Mon and Mokokchung district, limestone & marble (with inferred

reserve of 1000 million tonnes),magnetite with Nickel, Cobalt and Chromium (5 million tonnes of proved reserved),rich deposits of varieties of decorative and dimensional stones and other associated metals like Zinc, Molybdenum and other possible precious metals such as gold, and platinum groups of elements (with ophiolites and meta sediments) in Phek, Kiphire and Tuensang districts of south east Nagaland.

St Paul Phesama conducts ‘in-service’ programme Ato Area Students’ conference held

Teacher from all over the Northeast attend the annual in-service programme at St Paul Institute of Education, Phesama.

Kohima, January 13 (mExn): St Paul Institute of Education, Phesama the oldest Teacher training Institute in Northeast started its annual in-service programme. Every year the institute gives an opportunity to the in-service teachers of

Northeast to refresh themselves with the latest skills and techniques of teaching. Total 101 teachers from all over the Northeast are benefitting at present from this much sought after course. The 13 days crash course is loaded with the-

ory as well as practical. This annual course which has been conducted by the institute for the last 16 years includes areas like skills and techniques of teaching, Classroom Management, Behaviour Management, Accelerated

Learning, study of the Brain and its Implications in the Learning System, Adapting Teaching to the Modern Students, RTE, etc. The resource persons include Rev. Dr Anand SJ, Rev. Fr. Boniface SJ, Fr. Charles SJ, Fr. Gerard SJ,

Rev. Adv. Ravi Sagar SJ, Sr. Tessin FCC and Felix SJ. Apart from the various areas of teaching-learning the programme also includes various activities and rhymes to make teaching-learning an enjoyable activity for the teachers. The activities like Rhymes, dancercise and dynamic games are taught by Zapuvino, Kevisedeno, Thejaseno, Mhasivino and Asiu. This crash course gives an opportunity to the teachers to realize that teaching profession is a creative and enjoyable one. The teachers from all over Northeast learn practical aspects of teaching which will equip them to cater to the needs of their students. The programme began with the ice-breaking session conducted by Bro Leo Florence SJ. The Vice-Principal of the Institute Sr. Tessin FCC welcomed all the teachers.

Khehoto Assumi addressing the students at Ato area students’ conference.

Dimapur, January 13 (mExn): The Ato Tokukujo Kiphimi Kuqhakulu held its 17th annual conference from January 5 to 7 last at Ghokuto village. ‘Know thy Roots’ was the theme of the conference. Khehoto Assumi, Assistant General Manager, Nagaland State Co – operative Bank Ltd graced the con-

ference as chief guest. Dr. Vekuto Muru, Veterinary Officer, Meluri was the guest of honour while Er. V. Hukato Jimo, SDO, Power Department exhorted the students. Head GB of host village Shikavi Zhimomi welcomed the delegates. Various sports, cultural and literary competitions were conducted

during the 3 day event. Office bearers of the union also presented their activity reports before the congregation. President of the union Joel H. Sumi proposed vote of thanks acknowledging the selfless contributions of all concerned towards the success of the conference.

CMO Kohima informs

Kohima, January 13 (mExn): Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Kohima has informed that 1st round IPPI (Intensive Pulse Polio Immunization) for all children 0 to 5 years would be held on January 17 followed by house to house visit on January 18 and 19. All parents, community leaders, women representative, youth representative and church leaders of all villages and colonies under Kohima district have been requested to mobilize children to avail polio vaccine in the nearest booth.

Healthy lifestyle camp at Peren

pErEn, January 13 (mExn): The inaugural programme of the ‘Healthy Life Style Camp’ was held on January 13 at Jalukie CHC with Deputy Commissioner, Peren, Peter Lichamo as the chief guest. In his speech Peter Lichamo said that Healthy Life style programme is a national programme carried out in different parts of the country. It is a continuous programme which will be available in all the health centres. He said that anyone can be afflicted with diseases and it is the duty of all citizens to avail the chances. The programme was chaired by CMO, Peren, Dr. Ngangshimeren. Keynote address was delivered by Medicine Specialist, Athibung CHC, Dr. Thangman. Vote of thanks was given by Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Peren, Dr. Tiala Longkumar.

KVGOA biennial conference

Kohima, January 13 (mExn): The Kohima Village Gazetted Officers’ Association (KVGOA) will hold its biennial conference on January 15 at 2:00pm in Kohima Village Council Hall. All registered members and newly appointed/promoted gazette officers of Kohima Village have been requested to attend the conference and contribute for ‘Ramia Dzevi.’

Peren DPDB meeting held

pErEn, January 13 (Dipr): A monthly DPDB meeting was held at DC’s conference hall, district headquarter Peren under the chairmanship of DC & Vice Chairman DPDB Peren, Peter Lichamo. After reviewing the last meeting minutes the board discussed and recommended the agenda for de-linking of Higher Secondary School from Peren Government College from 2016 session. The board recommended for construction of DFO and staff quarter in district headquarter Peren. The house also discussed on the work distribution for the forthcoming Republic Day celebration at Peren. Earlier, the house welcomed new members, EAC Peren, Tsidi and SDO Electrical Jalukie S. Yanbomo.

Colours of Phoyisha cultural festival The Morung Express presents glimpse of the 21st session of Phoyisha cultural festival held from January 5- 8 at Hutsii village under Meluri Sub Division of Phek district. Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero

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Manipur quake victims await help Imphal, January 13 (IanS): Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi on Wednesday visited a relief camp at Kanglatongbi near here even as many of those affected by the January 4 earthquake complained of no government relief reaching them. Accompanied by some ministers and MLAs and district officials, the chief minister visited the camp for a few minutes and left after assuring the affected of help. At least 75 people are staying in the relief camp set up in a school in Kanglatongbi along National Highway-2. Some 179 houses were damaged there, local resident Shiva

Kumar Das said. Ibobi inaugurated a power sub-station at Sekmai, a few km from Kanglatongbi that is about 30 km from Imphal. Official sources said on Wednesday that hundreds of people in Tamenglong district were affected, for whom two relief camps were set up. Five camps were set up in Senapati district, where over 1,000 houses were damaged. At least seven people were killed and over 100 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale rocked Manipur and other north-eastern states before dawn. Many affected villagers as well as local wom-

en vendors said that the state government was yet to provide them basic relief materials or monetary compensation. The chief minister was yet to visit the damaged market complexes in Imphal, just a few metres away from his office, they added. "The complexes are closed down and made out of bounds. We have been requesting the government to give us alternative sites to ply our businesses but there has been no positive response," lamented local street vendor K. Sorojini. In the absence of an alternative site, some women vendors were selling

vegetables, fish and other consumables by the roadside, leading to resentment among other street vendors. "Licence holders inside the complexes used to abuse and chase us away. Sometimes we were manhandled as they said that customers do not go inside as we ply our trade at the entrance. The government should see to it that our business is not affected," said fish vendor Ibemma. Another displaced vendor Priya said: "We are selling our wares by the roadside not by choice. We are daily wagers and have to somehow feed our children." Apart from the two

marketing complexes, most parts of the state capital are closed as some high rise buildings have been partially damaged by the quake. Officials said owners of buildings and houses higher than three storeys were issued notices last year, asking them for certificates from structural engineers on constructions but there was not much response. The Manipur government had sought Rs.500 crore from the Centre. In the face of alleged inadequate government relief, some BJP activists and non-governmental organisations have distributed some materials among the affected.

Assam: Militants-turned-politicians Mnp youth wins Icon Award are kingmakers for BJP & Congress Our Correspondent Imphal | January 13

to the militant group. Hojai was then underground and the commander-in-chief of DHD's Black widow faction led by Garlosa. Hojai is now chief administrator of the 30-member council. But on Tuesday, the ruling Congress 'paid back' the saffron party in its own coin when a 17-member delegation of elected members of the council led by former council chief Debojit Thousen, met Assam governor PB Acharya and requested for a special session of the council to move a 'no confidence' motion against Hojai. According to Congress sources, the latest coup was masterminded by Garlosa who has moved with majority of council members to the Congress on Tuesday from the saffron party waging a ''political war' against Hojai, his long term comrade during their underground days. In fact both Hojai and Garlosa joined the BJP in October last year. Garlosa was, however, arrested within two days of joining BJP in connection with a 2008 murder case. He later got bail. While both the Congress and the BJP talks about 'zero tolerance' towards people with 'terror' background, the fact remains that in the 2016 As-

sam polls leaders of various militants groups who have now joined the 'mainstream' are key political henchmen. The BJP is all set to form an alliance with the Bodoland Peoples' Front (BPF) that was once an ally of the ruling Congress in Assam and now rules the Bodoland Territorial Council. The Bodo Council chief Hagrama Mohilary is also a former top gun of the now disbanded Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) which has been responsible for widespread bloodshed in the restive Bodoland region of Assam, party sources informed dna. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Assam on January 19 and in all likelihood announce a special package for the region, a poll bonanza for which BJP believes other ethnic groups and their leader will follow suit.

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Thang-Ta exponent Gurumayum Biseshwor Sharma has been honoured with the Youth Icon Award 2016 by Youth Pathshala Foundation supported by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations. The award was handed to him on the occasion of Yuva Diwas—the birth anniversary of India’s youth icon Swami Vivekananda—held at the auditorium of Azad Bhavan, New Delhi on January 12. Biseshwor Sharma is a practitioner of Thang-Ta, the Manipuri martial art of sword and shield. He uses his martial art skills for theatre, art and aesthetics. Born in 1983, Biseshwor has also been garnering accolades for himself and received the Manipur State Kala Akademi’s Young Talent Award for Thang-Ta in 2011. The Delhi based foundation conferred the award to Biseshwor Sharma in recognition of his contribution in the field of martial arts. Youth Pathshala Foundation, A non-governmental organization (NGO), works towards the promotion of sustainable development.

Meghalaya HC issues warrant against Union Secretary ShIllonG, January 13 (IanS): The Meghalaya High Court on Wednesday issued a bailable warrant against Union Minority Affairs Secretary Amarendra Sinha after he failed to appear in court in a case related to minority tribes being deprived of fundamental rights and human rights. On December 12, the court directed the state secretary of minority affairs and chief secretary P.B.O. Warjri to appear before it in connection with a writ petition that said the Niam Khasi and Niam Tre tribes and other minority tribes were being deprived of their fundamental rights and human rights, particularly those guaranteed under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution. Issuing the bailable warrant for a sum of Rs.20,000, the bench of Chief Justice Uma Nath Singh, Justice T. Nanda Kumar Singh and Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen directed the Delhi Police Commissioner to execute the bailable warrant and secure the appearance of Sinha in court

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No. of posts Medziphema CHC, Dimapur 1 Noklak CHC, Tuensang 1 Pungro CHC, Kiphire 1 Bhandari CHC, Wokha 1 Noklak CHC, Tuensang 1 Pungro CHC, Kiphire 1 Bhandari CHC, Wokha 1 Jalukie CHC, Peren 1 Noklak CHC, Tuensang 1 Pungro CHC, Kiphire 1 Longchem PHC, Mokokchung 1 Mangmetong PHC, Mokokc1 hung Baghty PHC, Wokha 1 Lakhuti PHC, Wokha 1 Yamhon PHC, Wokha 1 Wezihu PHC, Phek 1 Dzülhami PHC, Phek 1 Lephori PHC, Phek 1 Ruzazho PHC, Phek 1 Sakraba PHC, Phek 1 Thetsumi PHC, Phek 1 Thipuzu PHC, Phek 1 MBBS from rec- Ghukiye PHC, Zunheboto 1 General Duty Medi- ognized institu- Ighanumi PHC, Zunheboto 1 4 cal Officer (GDMO) tions/ university 1 under MCI Act V. K. PHC, Zunheboto Angangba PHC, Tuensang 1 Chessore PHC, Tuensang 1 Chimonger PHC, Tuensang 1 Old Tsadanger PHC, Tuensang 1 Shri Nagesh PHC, Tuensang 1 Angphang PHC, Mon 1 Shangnyu PHC, Mon 1 Tang PHC, Mon 1 Wanching PHC, Mon 1 Yangkhao PHC, Mon 1 District Hospital Kiphire 1 Likhimro PHC, Kiphire 1 Seyochung PHC, Kiphire 1 Place of posting

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Interested applicants may submit all relevant documents along with phone no. on or before 15th February 2016, addressed to the Mission Director, National Health Mission, Nagaland, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Ruziezou, Kohima 797001. Interview shall be conducted on 19th February 2016 at 11:00 am at the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Kohima. All incumbents are to bring original documents on the day of interview. No separate calling letter shall be issued for the above mentioned interview. For any queries, applicant may contact 0370 2270565 on working days between 11:00 am to 3:30pm. -Sd/(Dr. Sukhato A Sema), Mission Director, NHM.

ed: "We are surprised that the state of Meghalaya has constituted this committee after 23 years of coming into force of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992..." The court also asked the commissioner and secretary of the social welfare department, Tining Dkhar, who is also the chairperson of the task force committee, whether the committee has given any interim report to the central government. Dkhar assured the court that the committee will submit its report within three weeks. The court directed the Meghalaya government to send its recommendation to the central government and inform that these tribes have been declared as minorities and, therefore, the same benefits of central and state scholarships and other benefits available to the minorities should also be extended to them. The court directed that the entire exercise should be completed within eight weeks.

NAGALAND STATE e-GOVERNANCE SOCIETY (NSeGS) DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (Below New Secretariat) Thizama Road Nagaland: Kohima 797001 No. NSeGS/Composite Team/2010(Vol.I)

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A) Two Week Entrepreneurship Development Programme For SC/ST/Women/PH /General candidates (from 21.01.2016 to 04.02.2016 at Dimapur) Objective: 1) To motivate their decision making capabilities resulting in higher productivity and profitability for the potential / new entrepreneurs 2) EDPs are being organised to nurture the talent of youth by enlightening them on various aspects of industrial activity required for setting of MSEs Qualification:-10th Pass /BA/B.com/MSE units Batch Size: 25 Nos. Age: 18 to 40 yrs Selection Criteria: First come first served basis Registration Fee: Rs 100/- for general, Rs.50/- for women/ PH, No fee for SC/ST Venue: Nagaland Tool Room and Training Centre (NTTC), New Industrial Estate, Near Sub-Jail, Tinali, Dimapur For further details contact: M.Govindaraj, Assistant Director, Mob: 9436882304 Rovisatuo Naprantsu (NTTC): 8415070564

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Applications are hereby invited to fill up the following posts under National Health Mission (NHM), Nagaland;

on the next date of hearing on January 27. "We are informed by the central government counsel that the last order of summoning of the secretary, minority affairs, government of India, has already been communicated, but till date, there is no response," the court said "Thus, we issue a bailable warrant in the sum of Rs.20,000 against the secretary concerned to secure his appearance on the next date of hearing," it added. Warjri clarified that there was no discrimination in grant of benefits to all the minorities in the state. It was, however, strongly refuted by defence counsel H.S. Thangkhiew on the ground that none of the schools where children of the minorities were studying and applying for minority scholarships, grant benefits of such scholarships on the ground that there was no declaration/notification to the effect. Warjri also said the Meghalaya government has constituted a task force committee on minorities. However, the court not-

Applications are invited from eligible candidates for setting up the Composite Team to monitor and coordinate various technical activities for management of eGovernance infrastructure in the State with the Department of Information Technology & Communication on contract for a period of 1 (one) year as per criteria mentioned below: I. Technical Manpower requirement for State Data Centre (SDC) under Composite Team.

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GuwahatI, January 13 (Dna): A decade ago the enchanting hills of Dima Hasao in Assam, home to several tribal and ethnic groups, was a hotbed of insurgency unleashed by now disbanded militant outfit Dima Halam Doagah (DHD) and its ferocious 'Black Widow' group led by Jewel Garlosa and Niranjan Hojai. Their tyranny was such dodgy that Indian Railways had to use bulletproof locomotives with the security forces guarding an entire train with heavy weapons like light machine guns (LMGs). Over the years, both Garlosa and Hojai have become militant-turned-politicians, and in the run up to the 2016 crucial Assam Assembly polls they are 'kingmakers' for both the ruling Congress and BJP. In October last year, Hojai who had joined the BJP, masterminded a coup in Congress-led North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council and BJP came to power in the council which is infamous for a Rs 1,000 crore money laundering scam, in which the National Investigation Agency has charge sheeted Hojai along with 15 others for diverting government funds meant for the Council

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Linux Support, Windows , Server Admin, Database Administration(PostgreSQL), Red Hat Clustering, Amanda Backup Server Configuration, Nagios Monitoring Server, NFS (Network file sharing),LVM (Logical Volume Management), VNC (Virtual Networking Computing) 1. JBoss Portal, JBoss Application Server, Core Java Struts J2EE 2. Sound understanding of Eclipse IDE & deployment tools (Maven) 3. Knowledge in Red Hat Linux, Apache Web Server, Application Clustering & Load Balancing 4. Sound experience in PostgreSQL DB 5. Good understanding of HTML, CSS & Java Script

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RHCE, RHCSA, MCP, JCHNP, DCE Fixed pay of with minimum `. 40000/4 years experience in relevant field

B.E/B.Tech with minimum Fixed pay of 4 years `. 35000/experience in relevant field

1. Must be well versed with JSR 286 API, Web Services (SOAP), JBoss Portal, JBoss Application Server, Core Java Struts J2EE 2. Sound understanding of Eclipse IDE & deployment tools (Maven) 3. Knowledge in Red Hat Linux, Apache Web Server, Application Fixed pay of Clustering & Load Balancing B.E/B.Tech `. 25000/4. Sound experience in PostgreSQL DB & PGAdmin DB Tool 5. Good understanding of J2EE Design Patterns, Logging & Exception handling Framework 6. Good understanding of HTML, CSS & Java Script 1. eGovernance project management 2. Alfresco CMS 3. System Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Preparing weekly Quarterly Service performance reviews and SLA’s 4.Coordination with client, technical/development team, networking team, carrying out UAT’ 5. Knowledge of HTML, Java, PostgreSQL, Form Builder

B.E/B. Tech/M. Sc (IT) or equivalent with science background Fixed pay of `. 25000/having minimum experience of 1 (one) year in relevant field

Only eligible candidates may submit application along with their resume on or before 3 PM, 25/01/2016 at the address given below: The Member Secretary, Nagaland State eGovernance Society (NSeGS) Directorate of Information Technology & Communication (Below New Secretariat) Thizama Road Nagaland: Kohima 797001 Website: www.nagaland.gov.in Sd/- K.D Vizo, ITS CEO, NSeGS & Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Nagaland

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Coal India plans biggest tech overhaul to check rampant theft NEW DELHI, JaNuary 13 (rEutErs): Coal India Ltd is making its biggest tech overhaul in four decades to check rampant theft and shed its image as an inefficient behemoth, spurred by an impending opening up of the sector to private firms for the first time since the 1970s. The state-run company’s monopoly had allowed it to delay the use of modern technology common in international mining, but it cannot afford to wait any longer as the government is set to soon announce a plan to allow private competitors like Adani Group to mine and sell coal. Coal India’s productivity is estimated at just one-eighth of its technologically advanced rivals in the United States, and as much as a fifth of its annual output is stolen, costing the company up to $1 billion each year. Local “coal mafias” have fought for years to

prompted criticism that the world’s third-largest carbon emitter is not doing enough to check climate change. To build on those output gains and meet a target to double production to 1 billion tonnes by 2020, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup is prioritising tech modernisation already implemented at Mahanadi Coalfields, a Coal India unit. Swarup wants all seven of Coal India’s producing units to use a GPS-based tracking system for their trucks and Google maps to electronically “fence” mining areas, which will alert managers if a truck diverts from its route. Swarup will review the units’ preparedness this month. Labourers rest as a boy playfully shovels coal at a yard in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (REUTERS File Photo)

control rackets that prey on the industry and feed a vast black market. Tactics range from infiltrating unions and transport op-

erations to bribery, extortion and outright theft of coal. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gov-

ernment, Coal India has raised output at a record pace, helped by accelerated environmental clearances, though this has

LINING UP The upgrade is expected to cost around 3.5 billion rupees ($52 million) initially, but the attraction of working with the world’s largest coal mining company and the promise

of follow-on business is luring some major companies. Indian software giants, including Wipro, as well as U.S. firm Honeywell and France’s Orange, are lining up for contracts, with fresh tenders to be launched possibly by March, Mahanadi executive Deepak Srivastava said. Azim Premji, the billionaire chairman of Wipro, India’s third-largest software services exporter, recently met Swarup to offer some of the company’s tracking technologies. “This is Coal India’s biggest technological overhaul, and its impact would be in billions of dollars,” Swarup told Reuters. “The whole shift towards supplying quality coal to customers further increases the use of technology to avoid pilferage.” Last year, Mahanadi blacklisted third-party contractors of 36 trucks, each carrying up to 17 tonnes of coal, after man-

agers received telephone The company has inalerts of route violations stalled CCTV cameras at that could have led to shipment sites, hooked theft, said Srivastava. up trucks with satellites and fitted them with raCHANGING PERCEP- dio frequency identificaTIONS tion tags to automatically The tech overhaul transfer data to a control may also help Coal In- room at the company’s dia change perceptions headquarters. that it’s a slow-moving It is also replacing government giant, deter- static electronic weighring investors from buy- bridges with in-motion ing its shares despite its bridges that can gather dominant position in a data without trucks havresource-rich and energy- ing to stop, easing delivhungry country. ery backlogs. Other local firms such Srivastava said the as CMC Ltd, ARS Soft- measures have tightened ware Engineering and control over errant truck Arya Omnitalk Wireless drivers, and up to 90 perSolutions have shown cent of the coal mined is interest in bidding for now weighed. But there is contracts to supply Coal still scope to improve. India with tracking and “As of now, we can monitoring devices, in- only detect route violacluding CCTV. tions, but there should be Srivastava said that a system so an alert goes when he joined Mahanadi out if the GPS is removed in 2011 there were wide- or tampered with,” Srivasspread discrepancies in tava said. “There should weighing coal-laden ve- also be a way to ensure hicles, and un-monitored the weight of coal at the loading and offloading loading site and offloadthat encouraged theft. ing site is the same.”

Airbags might soon be mandatory in India Govt okays new crop insurance plan for farmers at low premium NEW DELHI, JaNuary 13 (agENcIEs): Safety had always been a cause of concern in India and considering that road accidents in the country are rising at an alarming rate, there needs to be some government stipulated rules made to make our roads safer. We’ve already seen steps taken in this direction. After the cars from Indian car manufacturers failed crash tests, there was an active debate which finally led to crash tests being made mandatory in India from 2017. Following this, we will see more such initiatives fall into place. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to-

day said “no car will be built without airbag and trucks cabin will require mandatory air-conditioned fittings”, which clearly points in the direction of making such safety features mandatory in cars manufactured and sold in India soon. Car makers like Toyota, Maruti Suzuki, Volkswagen and others have already started providing safety features like ABS and airbags as part of standard equipment and there are many others following suit. Marking the start of the Road Safety Week with a ‘Walkathon’ from India Gate, Gadkari said the government has

identified and started work on 10 major accident black spots in Delhi and the government will spend 11,000 crore over the next 5 years to improve the road infrastructure. Gadkari further said that India is among those countries that suffer a very high number of road accidents every year and even wars do not witness such a high number of casualties the nation is suffering due to this menace. Putting out figures he said that 5 lakh accidents take place in the country every year, of which 1.5 lakh people die and another 3 lakh are crippled for life.

SC seeks clarification from Mysore lab on Maggi samples NEW DELHI, JaNuary 13 (PtI): The Supreme Court today asked the government laboratory in Mysore to further clarify whether test reports relating to lead and glutamic acid in Maggi noodles are within permissible parameters under the law. The apex court passed the order after perusing two communications re-

ceived from the Mysore laboratory which had carried out the test about the monosodium glutamate (MSG) content in the samples. While Nestle India, makers of Maggi, claimed that the lead content was within the permissible limit prescribed under the Food Safety Act, the Centre said there was a need for comprehensive

findings of all other parameters. Making it clear that it was not passing any interim order, a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said there was a need for the clarification. “We have perused the test reports. We would like Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore to apprise this court on two aspects, whether

the test report relating to lead and glutamic acid are within the permissible parameters and to clarify that those are within parameters prescribed under the Food Safety Act,” the bench, also comprising Justice N V Ramana, said. The court said the entire exercise has to be carried out within eight weeks and posted the matter for April 5.

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NEW DELHI, JaNuary 13 (PtI): Faced with two consecutive drought years, the Centre today cleared a crop insurance scheme under which farmers’ premium has been kept at a maximum of 2% for foodgrains and oilseeds and up to 5 per cent for horticulture/cotton crops. To be rolled out from the kharif season this year, the much awaited scheme - Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana - was cleared at the Cabinet meeting, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PMFBY will replace the existing two schemes National Agricultural Insurance Scheme as well as Modified NAIS which have had some inherent drawbacks. “The cabinet has cleared the Agriculture Ministry’s proposal on new crop insurance scheme,” sources said. It has approved farmers’ premium between 1.5 to 2% for foodgrains and oilseeds crops, and up to 5% for horticultural and cotton crops, they said. The farmers’ premium would be 1.5% for rabi foodgrains and oilseeds crops, while 2% for kharif foodgrains and oilseeds crops. For horticutural and cotton crops it has been fixed at up to 5% for both the seasons. According to sources, PMFBY will increase the insurance cover-

A farmer winnows paddy crops at a field on the outskirts of Agartala. (REUTERS File Photo)

age to 50% of the total crop area of 194.40 million hectare from the existing level of about 25-27% crop area. The expenditure is expected to be around Rs 9,500 crore. In PMFBY, there will not be a cap on the premium and reduction of the sum insured, they said. Besides, 25% of the likely claim will be settled directly on farmers account and there will be one insurance company for the entire state as well as farm level assessment of loss for localised risks and post harvest loss.

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Private insurance companies, along with the Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd, will implement the scheme. All claim liability will be on insurer and the government would give upfront premium subsidy. The new scheme is significant as the country is facing drought for the second straight year due to poor monsoon rains and the government wants to enhance insurance coverage to more crop area to protect farmers from vagaries of monsoon.

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STD CODE: 03862 232224; Emergency229529, 229474

Metro Hospital: Faith Hospital:

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District administration Kma Minister Vikheho Swu graces SAKK conference informs on parking areas our Correspondent

Asukiqa (Pughoboto) | January 13

on the right side of the Kohima, January 13 road wherever per(DiPr): Sub-Divisional mitted. Officer (Sadar), Kohima, • NSF Martyrs park Kethosituo Sekhose has injunction via Bethel formed that in pursuance Hospital to PHQ juncof the Provisions given untion: vehicles are alder sec 117 and sec 127 of lowed parking only on the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 the left side of the road and sec 34 of the Indian Powherever permitted. lice Act 1881, the Regional • Mhonkhola-AG juncTransport Authority (RTA) tion towards BSNL has notified the following office via SDO PHE Parking and No Parking Office: vehicles are areas and one way in addiallowed parking only tion/modification to earlier on the right side of the notified areas/locations as road wherever perfollows: mitted. 1. Vehicles shall be al• AIR to old/new Minlowed to be parked only on ister Hill road: vehione side, i.e. on the valley cles are allowed to be side of the, road in the folparked only on the left lowing locations/routes: side of the road wher• Census Directorate ever permitted. junction via Hotel Legacy towards the 2. Vehicles shall be alexit near High School junction: vehicles are lowed to be parked only on allowed parking only one side, i.e., on the hill side

BJP Dmp endorses its new Party Chief DimaPur, January 13 (mExn): Welcoming its newly appointed State President Visasolie Lhoungnu the Dimapur District Unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today expressed hope that the Party would expand its horizon in the state and bring positive changes to both the party and the state. The BJP Dimapur district team lead by its president, vice presidents and general secretary extends its full support and cooperation to his leadership to strengthen the party in Nagaland and achieving its goals, a press note issued by the Unit President, K Nikhevi Yeputho stated. It also welcomed the new Chief encouragement to the unit to fight the forthcoming assembly election with good preparation and enthusiasm and his statement that Dimapur needs special attention as it is one of the most important base of the party in the state.

of the, road in the following locations/routes: • Upper Paramedical Colony junction towards Lady’s Mile Road via Mizo Church below Red Cross building: vehicles are allowed parking only on the left side of the road wherever permitted. • New Market via Pentecostal Church towards NST junction: vehicles are allowed parking only on the left side of the Road wherever allowed. 3. NO PARKING shall be applied on both side of the road on the following routes between 08:00 AM TO 05:00 PM on all Government working days. • Fira Hotel junction to Paramedical Colony

KiPhirE, January 13 (mExn): The 19th General Session of the Singti Area Students’ Union (SASU) was successfully held at Langzanger Village from 5 to 7 January with Additional Commissioner Excise

elf-Introduction is usually followed by designation of the person in almost any group get together. And that had been the vogue for the last many years. Looking back at Naga culture, the practice of selfintroduction was to tell the name of the person; his/ her father's/and mother's name. If necessary brother's and sister's name. Then the name of his / her village. To this end, it is our natural identity to identify oneself to others. No one will dare to give wrong information. This is the primary and permanent identity of a person. To me, I am nobody without my parents; family members and the society of

These rules are hereby brought into force with immediate effect and any vehicle found violating these rules shall be towed away by the traffic police and the cost of which including penalties thereof shall be borne by the owner of the concerned vehicle. Further, all concerned are informed that as and when checking is carried out defaulters will be penalized as per law and the ignorance or non-information of the same shall not be taken as an excuse.

NagalandPitongse Sangtam as Chief Guest and Finance Secretary, USLP Lipio Sangtam as the cultural Chief Guest. Hundreds of delegates from 6 Sangtam villages under Sitimi Block attended the 3

days session which included sports competition as well as Cultural and literary presentation. Meanwhile, SASU extended its appreciation to all who have contributed for the event.

A four-day long 44th general conference of Sümi Aphuyemi Kiphimi Küqhakulu (SAKK) got underway this morning at Asukiqa village under Pughoboto sub-division of Zunheboto district with minister for roads & bridges, Y. Vikheho Swu as the chief guest. SAKK is the apex students' organisation of Pughoboto sub-division comprising of 24 villages. The conference is being held on the theme “Retrospection our footprints”. Addressing the gathering, Vikheho said that the state has been going through bad financial condition not only because the central government is yet to make NITI Ayog fully functional and also discontinuation of the special category state from Nagaland, but also “we are also unable to generate our own resources”. Therefore, he said that it is high time for Nagas to realize to stand on our own feet instead of always depending on the Central government for assistance. The Minister was of the view that the educated youths and government employees should go back to the villages and

TuEnSang, January 13 (DiPr): District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of January was held on January 13 at DC’s Conference Hall, Tuensang under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner, Tuensang, Alem Jongshi. I Atokhe Ayemi, CEO of Dimapur Municipal Council today inaugurated M/S Royal The meeting started Machineries & Tools at Dhobinala, Dimapur. Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry President Hokivi Chishi and Mukibur Rahman, Vice-President, East Di- with the review and updates of previously apmapur Business Association were also present at the opening.

es, channelization of canal, sanitation activities through Village Health and Sanitation Committee, covering of open water containers etc. Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) is a newer & effective intervention to prevent human-mosquito contact by acting as a barrier and it also kills the mosquitoes coming in contact with net. The Directorate of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW), Govt. of India has supplied about (9,20,000 approx) LLINs for needy people of high risk areas of Nagaland for free of cost distribution in the months of January and February 2016. The community is advised to: • Always use a long lasting insecticidal net while sleeping inside or out-

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my origin-my village. I am empowered by them in every order. Without my identity, I am nothing. Yet, in today's Nagas get together, as I see, is more interested in the designation. The criteria to identify a person is preceded by the designations and not the person first . Remember designation can never become a person. Nevertheless, our attitude towards a person is not anymore the person. It is always preceded by the designation to recognise his/ her personality. Such is the irony even in gathering of the educated of our Naga society. If this practice continues then someone may very soon introduce oneself

Minister for roads & bridges Y.Vikheho swu (3rd left) pose for lens along with saKK officials and advisor after the inaugural function of the four-day general conference at Asukiqa on January 13. (Morung Photo)

play pivotal role in reviving the three basic things in the village councils. He the village councils need to be strengthened by reviving the system of accountability, transparency and honesty in carrying out different developmental programmes. If such revival takes place and are established properly in the villages, the society will progress and development, he said. He said that knowledge can be achieved through personal initiatives but wisdom comes from God and only a person who can utilize knowledge and wisdom wisely can be a perfect human. The Minister also encouraged the young stu-

dents to attain quality education and also be hardworking to achieve success in this competitive world. Further expressing that in the past Pughoboto subdivision was landlocked, he said that presently people travelling to and fro Zunheboto and some part of Tuensang are passing through Pughoboto. The sub-division is turning into a hot-spot and one of the most economically viable place, he said while calling upon the people of the area in properly building up Pughoboto. He encouraged the people to take entrepreneurship and also indulge in surplus cultivation to gain economically.

Vikheho also unfurled the SAKK flag and also declared the various sporting event and literary session open. Compered by K A Jacob Achumi and Alibo Wotsa the inaugural session commenced with Executive Secretary NCRC Sümi, Rev. Kohishe Assumi pronouncing the invocation while benediction was offered by Pastor NCRC Sumi Laza Khulaqa, Kivishe Kive. Lino Awomi, winner of 1st Sümi Singing Star-2014 enthralled the gathering with special number while warrior dance along with folk song and dance was presented by Kitami villagers. The conference will conclude on January 15.

Tuensang DPDB discusses R-Day work plan proved agenda and further deliberated for the establishment of the Nagaland State Transport Station at Panso Tuensang. The meeting decided to take up the matter after necessary procedures are completed. An agenda for the posting of the police personnel at police Thana, Sangsangnyu EAC HQ and creation of Grade -1

LASu general session concludes

Awareness on Long Lasting Insecticidal nets

4. Vehicles shall not be allowed to proceed towards NSF Martyrs Park from PHQ junction via Bethel Hospital. No entry rules to be applied.

SASu session conludes at Langzanger

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alaria is a mosquito borne disease and a major public health problem in North Eastern states including Nagaland. This disease is curable & preventable. The drugs & diagnostics are supplied free of cost at all public health facilities. The Govt. of India provides all required assistance to the state in the manner of logistics, technical support and financial assistance. In the year 2014, there was a substantial increase in the number of cases and deaths due to Malaria in the NE states. To reduce mosquito population for controlling malaria, a number of methods are available like larvicidal fish, Indoor Residual Spray with insecticides, elimination of breeding sites by methods like filling up of small pits and ditch-

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side the house and keep the four strings of the net properly tied & tuck its bottom edge under the mattress or mat. • After use, fold the LLIN properly and keep it in a clean place. • When the net gets dirty, certain precautions have to be taken like scrub the net gently & wash with clean water but never with detergents. • Do not use hot water or brush while washing the net and do not beat the net against a rock. • Do not wring after washing and dry the net in shade & do not expose the net to direct sunlight. • Do not use the net for fishing Dr. Kevichusa Medikhru Jt. Director (NVBDCP) Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Nagaland: Kohima

as, "The Managing Director of my family" by virtue of being the head as a father who also manages the finances and gives direction in the institution of a family. Well, what is designation after all without the person and his/ her personal sacrifices towards a better society of Nagas! Let us recognise the person his/her natural identity and his/her personal sacrifices. And not please, just the designation. Because in some, designations can be bought with money directly or indirectly without proper procedures. And most of all, let's revive our cultural values. Lolly Bashu, Dimapur

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DimaPur, January 13 (mExn): Under the theme “ Onward and Upward,” the 20th general session of the Longmatra Area Student's Union was successfully held at New Longmatra Village from January 8-10. The session was formally inaugurated by K. Langshen Khiamnugan, BDO Longmatra as the Chief Guest on January 9 by hoisting the LASU flag. It was followed by Presidential address and welcoming of delegates by

LASU President. A press note from the event informed that the chief guest in his speech exhorted the gathering by narrating his struggle during his student’s life and encouraged the gathering to work hard and not to take a shortcut to success. The inaugural function was followed by the lightning of torch and declaration of games and sports by the chief guest, it added. Other speaker in the session included S. Throngethsi Youth Pastor i/c

Tethuyo Village Baptist Church; Tsaseo Pastor, New Longmatra Village Baptist Church; Col. Rtd. T T Athrong Tatar Cum CAO NSCN/GRRN; Lishemong ABSI, Mon; Thronginchu Hd. Gb, Tsongphong Village; and C Wangan EAC, Longmatra. T Apongba was awarded the Tsomukuen Keor Academic Excellence Award for securing the highest percentage among the students of Longmatra Area during the HSLC exam, 2015, it added.

CondolenCe Messages NPF 58th ShamatorChessore A/C mourns The NPF 58th Shamator-Chessore A/C mourned the demise of late Chilula Yimchunger, mother of S. Throngkila Tohanba who expired on December 30 last after a brief illness. She was 82 years and a woman of lovable, peace loving and integrity, according to a condolence message issued by H. Shihtoba, president NPF 58th Shamator- Chessore A/C. The members of NPF conveyed condolence to the bereaved family members

and prayed that her soul let her soul rest in peace. rest in peace. CSS Mkg condole ANCSF mourns The Care and Support The All Nagaland Co- Society Mokokchung operative Societies Federa- have expressed its pain tion (ANCSF) mourned the at to learn about the suduntimely demise of Late den demise of the NagaLonyi-ii Wetsah, mother land State Disability Foof Kedoutsolhi Wetsah, rum’s General secretary, president ANCSF who was Petekhrielie on Januexpired on January 1 at Za- ary 7. In a press note repami village. ANCSF Gen- ceived here, the society eral Secretary (Administra- conveyed deepest contion) Mohokiya Ghaponza dolences to the bereaved conveyed deepest condo- family and prayed that allence to the members of the mighty God continues to bereaved family and prayed comfort them at the hour that Almighty continue to of grief.

police station at Sotokur EAC HQ was discussed and passed for the governments further approvals. Proposal for the construction of the CDPO’s office building, staff quarters and creation of Grade –III and Grade- IV staffs respectively was also discussed and decided to be put up to the District Programme Officer, Welfare

office Tuensang for further clarification before submitting for the approval at the government level. Creation of PHCs at Sangsangnyu and Sotokor ECA HQS were also kept in abeyance due to want of feasibility reports. The members discussed on the work distributions for the forthcoming Republic Day celebrations.

ERSU joint meeting DimaPur, January 13 (mExn): The Englan Students Union (ERSU) has convene a joint meeting with the federating units, Village councils, advisors of Englan Range on January 16, 10AM at Hornbill Restaurant, Wokha. A press note from ERSU President, Thungchamo Humtsoe has requested all the president, chairman, Englan range area DB’s and Advisors attend the meeting positively.

DoSE notifies seniority list DimaPur, January 13 (mExn): The Directorate of School Education, Nagaland Kohima has notified all the officers of Elementary & Secondary Education that the final list of seniority list is completed. A press note from DoSE Director, Senthang informed all the officers to collect the list from Lienkhohao Chongloi, Deputy Director at Room No.38 during office hour.

NPCC to embark on mass contact tour DimaPur, January 13 (mExn): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee will launch its Mass Contact for Change Tour Program from January 2130. A press note from NPCC General Secretary (Admn) Yona Konyak informed that the tour will cover all the Eleven District of the State starting from Kohima. In this connection, NPCC had requested all the DCCs, ACCCs, Congress men and Women, general public and authority co-operate with the schedule tour program. It further appealed to all the Frontal Chiefs, NPCC official, special invitees to take part in the tour to make it a successful programme.

CorrIgendum Apropos to the news item titled ‘Visasolie Lhoungu elected as Nagaland BJP President’ published on January 12, 2015, it is clarified that the phrase

‘...Parliamentary Secretary, Paiwang Konyak...’ should be read as ‘...Minister, Paiwang Konyak...’ The inadvertent error is regretted.

“Echoes from the Hills” – a Coffee Table Book released Kohima, January 13 (nEPS): A coffee table book entitled “Echoes From The Hills” has been formally released by Parliamentary Secretary for Soil & Water Conservation Pukhayi Sumi here at the private residence of DR TM Lotha, Adviser, Treasuries & Accounts today. The “Echoes From The Hills” has featured selected photographs taken over the last one decades by M Shanthungo Ezung who also wrote the accompanying features. The book that has one hundred and two pages has featured rare pictures of almost all the tribes, rare and most enchanting locations including famed Dzukou

Parliamnetary Secretary Pukhayi Sumi (2nd Right), M Shanthungo Ezung (Right), Dr Tm Lotha, Adviser to Treasuries & Accounts (2nd Right) And Oken Jeet Sandham (Left) after releasing the coffee table book – Echoes From The Hills – On January 13 at Kohima.

Valley, Shiroi Lake and used to swarm. Doyang where Amur FalReleasing the book, cons, the migratory birds, Pukhayi Sumi thanked the

author, Shanthungo Ezung, who is also the eldest son of Dr TM Lotha, Adviser, Treasuries & Accounts, for coming up with such a book treasuring the priceless photographs of Nagaland. “I am sure this book – Echoes From The Hills – will open the window of the rich treasures of the Nagas,” he said and further added that it would not only educate the Nagas particularly the younger generations but also give immense values of theirs to the outside world. Shanthungto Ezung, author of the book, gave a brief account of his work on the book and was happy that his dream had been fulfilled today. He thanked many of his friends who

had supported him throughout for realization of his dream and also his parents who backed him to complete his work on the Coffee Table Book. Dr TM Lotha, Adviser, Treasuries & Accounts, Y Vandanshan Lotha, Additional Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Sophy Lasuh, journalist, were among others who spoke briefly on the occasion of the book releasing program which was chaired by Oken Jeet Sandham, senior journalist, Nagaland. Rev Dr L Tsanso, conducted invocation prayer. Invitees and family members of the author also attended the function.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express Xi volume issue 12 X issue 185 Thursday 9volume July 2015 By Tungshang Ningreichon

Changes, of hearts and climates The wind mocked me as I swept; Dried leaves and weak twigs Papers and wrappers It gently blew on my face with the chill and bite of a frosty December morning It said ‘why do you resist and fight against what you cannot stop’ I started to think ‘You seem to think and talk a lot, On how to save and conserve How to lessen the burden Of the guilt and crime Of your wealth and greed That does not know wisdom and justice’ I paused. ‘You call it climate change But remember! We have not changed ever since we took form We gave all that we had We are still the same It is you who changed hearts And stopped thinking Of your children and posterity You took what you could More than what you need And applied your maths and profit We carried the load and bore the brunt Now you turn to us and say We must protect!’ We nod! ‘Your finest engines, your smartest techniques and your negotiations will have little impact. Change your heart the seasons will be kinder then the sun warmer it will cease to tan and burn The cold will be milder and memorable Yes the climate will change with your heart’ I smiled Hope smiled too My grandfather spat! And said what a weather It has never been this cold. He spat again. Of COP21 and indigenous peoples and rights Climate change; an outcome of human actions that affects everyone has turned states into negotiators. The narratives of COP 21 did not embrace human rights, especially the rights and voice of the indigenous peoples whose ways of life have aided in reducing the impact of climate change. The Indigenous peoples protect their land, forests and territories; resist and fight destructive development activities and are key in controlling climate change impacts yet they continue to remain marginalized. Climate conferences will not be meaningful till the indigenous peoples are taken on board.

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Animals are getting smarter, which worries me

ome lost dogs can traverse mountains and cross continents to find their way home, but mine can't find a lump of meat she's sitting on. And then I check my email and read a report about animal intelligence. A wild monkey in India got into a truck, used the ignition key to turn it on, and managed to put it in gear, driving across a stockyard, the media reported. This makes it considerably more intelligent than the humans I once tried to teach to drive. Me: "Turn left." Learner: "Which way's left? No, don't tell me, I can Google it." Clearly this Indian monkey is proof of evolution. I wonder if I can persuade it to swap jobs with the guy who drove the bus I took home one night last week. He flew over bumps so fast that we passengers spent much of the ride in mid-air, like Sandra Bullock in the movie "Gravity", except for the final few seconds, when we were all pinned to the ceiling. The only comfort was a fellow passenger's comment that Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie and Katy Perry have reportedly paid $200,000 to experience zero gravity in a Virgin Galactic spaceship due to be launched later this year, while we get the same thing regularly for small change. Actually, I would pay that much to send Mr. Bieber into space, as long as it was a one-way ticket. Animals are getting smarter. A turkey recently thrice broke out of a high security turkey farm in the UK, I read in a news link sent to me by reader Aalia Shan. The bird has been named Houdini and turkey-farmer Geoff Mellin took it off death row, telling a local reporter that it was no coincidence that Houdini's escapes happened during peak turkey consumption time. "He obviously knew what was going to happen," he said. And remember that guy in Taiwan who got his talking mynah bird to say nasty things about his neighbor? Every time Wang Han-chin went to work, a voice shrieked out after him: "You clueless, big-mouthed idiot." Wang tried to take out a lawsuit but prosecutors said there was legal no way to charge "lower forms of life" with slander. (Thought: Can nationalist politicians use this defence?) My plan for world peace is to get a flock of talking mynah birds and teach them to say three things. 1) "Help, I've been turned into a mynah bird." 2) "You are the chosen one who has to find a way to reverse the spell." 3) "Hurry up, idiot." Then I will release them into the world's trouble zones to distract people from fighting. Worth a try, right? A colleague says blue parakeets have the biggest vocabularies, and "a famous one called Puck knew 1,728 words". This is definitely more than some humans I know, who get through their lives with a dozen utterances, most of which are just grunts. Now my stupid dog is in a bad mood because she thinks I have hidden the piece of meat she is still sitting on. And talking of snacks, where did I put my chocolate bar? Uh-oh.

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Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle New York Times

When Philosophy Lost Its Way

he history of Western philosophy can be presented in a number of ways. It can be told in terms of periods — ancient, medieval and modern. We can divide it into rival traditions (empiricism versus rationalism, analytic versus Continental), or into various core areas (metaphysics, epistemology, ethics). It can also, of course, be viewed through the critical lens of gender or racial exclusion, as a discipline almost entirely fashioned for and by white European men. Yet despite the richness and variety of these accounts, all of them pass over a momentous turning point: the locating of philosophy within a modern institution (the research university) in the late 19th century. This institutionalization of philosophy made it into a discipline that could be seriously pursued only in an academic setting. This fact represents one of the enduring failures of contemporary philosophy. Take this simple detail: Before its migration to the university, philosophy had never had a central home. Philosophers could be found anywhere — serving as diplomats, living off pensions, grinding lenses, as well as within a university. Afterward, if they were “serious” thinkers, the expectation was that philosophers would inhabit the research university. Against the inclinations of Socrates, philosophers became experts like other disciplinary specialists. This occurred even as they taught their students the virtues of Socratic wisdom, which highlights the role of the philosopher as the non-expert, the questioner, the gadfly. Philosophy, then, as the French thinker Bruno Latour would have it, was “purified” — separated from society in the process of modernization. This purification occurred in response to at least two events. The first was the development of the natural sciences, as a field of study clearly distinct from philosophy, circa 1870, and the appearance of the social sciences in the decade thereafter. Before then, scientists were comfortable thinking of themselves as “natural philosophers” — philosophers who studied nature; and the predecessors of social scientists had thought of themselves as “moral philosophers.” The second event was the placing of philosophy as one more discipline alongside these sciences within the modern research university. A result was that philosophy, previously the queen of the disciplines, was displaced, as the natural and social sciences divided the world between them. This is not to claim that philosophy had reigned unchallenged before the 19th century. The role of philosophy had shifted across the centuries and in different countries. But philosophy in the sense of a concern about who we are and how we should live had formed the core of the university since the church schools of the 11th century. Before the development of a scientific research culture, conflicts among philosophy, medicine, theology and law consisted of internecine battles rather than clashes across yawning cultural divides. Indeed, these older fields were widely believed to hang together in a grand unity of knowledge — a unity directed toward the goal of the good life. But this unity shattered under the weight of increasing specialization by the turn of the 20th century. Early 20th-century philosophers thus faced an existential quandary: With the natural and social sciences mapping out the entirety of both theoretical as well as institutional space, what role was there for philosophy? A number of possibilities were available: Philosophers could serve as 1) synthesizers of academic knowledge production; 2) formalists who provided the logical undergirding for research across the academy; 3) translators who brought the insights of the academy to the world at large; 4) disciplinary specialists who focused on distinctively philosophical problems in ethics, epistemology, aesthetics and the like; or 5) as some combination of some or all of these. There might have been room for all of these roles. But in terms of institutional realities, there seems to have been no real choice. Philosophers needed to embrace the structure of the modern research university, which consists of various specialties demarcated from one another. That was the only way to se-

cure the survival of their newly demarcated, newly purified discipline. “Real” or “serious” philosophers had to be identified, trained and credentialed. Disciplinary philosophy became the reigning standard for what would count as proper philosophy. This was the act of purification that gave birth to the concept of philosophy most of us know today. As a result, and to a degree rarely acknowledged, the institutional imperative of the university has come to drive the theoretical agenda. If philosophy was going to have a secure place in the academy, it needed its own discrete domain, its own arcane language, its own standards of success and its own specialized concerns. Having adopted the same structural form as the sciences, it’s no wonder philosophy fell prey to physics envy and feelings of inadequacy. Philosophy adopted the scientific modus operandi of knowledge production, but failed to match the sciences in terms of making progress in describing the world. Much has been made of this inability of philosophy to match the cognitive success of the sciences. But what has passed unnoticed is philosophy’s all-too-successful aping of the institutional form of the sciences. We, too, produce research articles. We, too, are judged by the same coin of the realm: peer-reviewed products. We, too, develop sub-specializations far from the comprehension of the person on the street. In all of these ways we are so very “scientific.” Our claim, then, can be put simply: Philosophy should never have been purified. Rather than being seen as a problem, “dirty hands” should have been understood as the native condition of philosophic thought — present everywhere, often interstitial, essentially interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary in nature. Philosophy is a mangle. The philosopher’s hands were never clean and were never meant to be. There is another layer to this story. The act of purification accompanying the creation of the modern research university was not just about differentiating realms of knowledge. It was also about divorcing knowledge from virtue. Though it seems foreign to us now, before purification the philosopher (and natural philosopher) was assumed to be morally superior to other sorts of people. The 18th-century thinker Joseph Priestley wrote “a Philosopher ought to be something greater and better than another man.” Philosophy, understood as the love of wisdom, was seen as a vocation, like the priesthood. It required significant moral virtues (foremost among these were integrity and selflessness), and the pursuit of wisdom in turn further inculcated those virtues. The study of philosophy elevated those who pursued it. Knowing and being good were intimately linked. It was widely understood that the point of philosophy

was to become good rather than simply to collect or produce knowledge. As the historian Steven Shapin has noted, the rise of disciplines in the 19th century changed all this. The implicit democracy of the disciplines ushered in an age of “the moral equivalence of the scientist” to everyone else. The scientist’s privileged role was to provide the morally neutral knowledge needed to achieve our goals, whether good or evil. This put an end to any notion that there was something uplifting about knowledge. The purification made it no longer sensible to speak of nature, including human nature, in terms of purposes and functions. By the late 19th century, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche had proved the failure of philosophy to establish any shared standard for choosing one way of life over another. This is how Alasdair MacIntyre explained philosophy’s contemporary position of insignificance in society and marginality in the academy. There was a brief window when philosophy could have replaced religion as the glue of society; but the moment passed. People stopped listening as philosophers focused on debates among themselves. Once knowledge and goodness were divorced, scientists could be regarded as experts, but there are no morals or lessons to be drawn from their work. Science derives its authority from impersonal structures and methods, not the superior character of the scientist. The individual scientist is no different from the average Joe; he or she has, as Shapin has written, “no special authority to pronounce on what ought to be done.” For many, science became a paycheck, and the scientist became a “de-moralized” tool enlisted in the service of power, bureaucracy and commerce. Here, too, philosophy has aped the sciences by fostering a culture that might be called “the genius contest.” Philosophic activity devolved into a contest to prove just how clever one can be in creating or destroying arguments. Today, a hyperactive productivist churn of scholarship keeps philosophers chained to their computers. Like the sciences, philosophy has largely become a technical enterprise, the only difference being that we manipulate words rather than genes or chemicals. Lost is the once common-sense notion that philosophers are seeking the good life — that we ought to be (in spite of our failings) model citizens and human beings. Having become specialists, we have lost sight of the whole. The point of philosophy now is to be smart, not good. It has been the heart of our undoing. Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle teach in the department of philosophy and religion and the University of North Texas. They are co-authors of the forthcoming “Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy.”

Reflections at the start of the year Mari Marcel Thekaekara New Internationalist

One always hopes for the best, Mari Marcel Thekaekara writes looking toward 2016

ended 2015 on a note of optimism. A wise old uncle used to say 'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.' Now, is that cynical or merely pragmatic, I wonder. I always hope for better IndoPakistan relations. For the fighting to end. For the soldiers, on both sides to stop losing their lives so tragically and pointlessly. I pray for peace. The idealist in me wants an end to the arms race, an end to war. Yet, I wonder, if I were in charge of the nation's safety could I sit back and begin an end to defence, even though our neighbours have their nuclear armaments ready to go and make threatening noises all the time? Could I jeopardise the future, the lives of our children and grandchildren? I think of our soldiers who lost their lives a few days ago in the terrorist attack in a Pathankot airbase, in Punjab.

They have been hailed as martyrs. They join the ranks of the nation's heroes. But isn't that cold comfort, dreadfully poor compensation for their widows and children, condemned to a life without the love and laughter of a husband and father? What does one do in such terrible nightmarish situations like these? I read reports of young German women sexually attacked, their bodies grossly groped and violated in Cologne. The Germans opened their borders and their hearts to welcome refugees. Now Angela Merkel faces abusive criticism from several quarters. The sexual predators are described by newspapers as North African and Middle Eastern. How much patience can you demand from the victims? It is situations like these which bring out the worst in people. Even the kindest of people. It fuels fears, the worst imagined scenarios, the most nightmarish imaginings coming true. Facile right wing solutions will not answer. But neither will ultra liberal, head in the sand, ostrich like protestations, that immigrant men were blameless, help find a way forward.

Since 2002, when I covered a genocide in Gujarat, I have empathised specially with my country's Muslim population. It’s terrible to always live with your neighbours suspecting your sons and young male relatives of being terrorist sympathisers. Yet I cannot pretend not to be uneasy about the West Bengal governments encouraging thousands of Bangladeshis to cross the border into India unchecked. Pure votebank politics. A recipe for disaster in a country with millions already living in dire poverty. Violence breaks out regularly, in parts of Assam and Bodoland, where once docile tribal communities have turned violently militant to protect their meagre agricultural lands from encroachment by the more aggressive Bangladeshi immigrants. I'm sympathetic to poor Bangladeshis. We were involved in refugee relief during the 1971 Bangladesh war when over a million Bangladeshi refugees were welcomed into Kolkata. But can Bengali Hindus whose ancestors were butchered and driven out of their homes relentlessly and systematically, be expected to welcome the immigrants with

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open arms? It’s a dilemma. It’s what always comes up when I have my 'on the other hand' moments of introspection. A few days ago, Bengali Muslims in Malda, West Bengal went on the rampage burning jeeps, cars and Hindu homes during a protest against anti Islamist comments of a rabid politician. Our liberal journalists, yours truly included, have been accused of keeping a selective silence about Muslim violence, whereas they would bay for the blood of Hindutva fanatics. The equivalent are liberal western journalists who unequivocally condemn anyone who questions the wisdom of mass immigration while keeping silent about the latest Cologne crisis. Or about the attacks on young white girls in Rotterham by mostly Pakistani British men. Its reverse racism. Shying away from allowing the victims sympathy and making excuses for the perpetrators. I strongly feel we should stop taking ideological stands which are not based on reality, and judge each case with a modicum of common sense. We are at a frightening crossroads at the start of the New Year. We need more than sanity and good sense to steer us out of the mess we are in. Pray God we find sensible solutions, somewhere, somehow.

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India Needs to “Save its Daughters” through Education & Gender Equality Neeta Lal

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omen constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in politics, economics, education or health — is still a distant dream for most. This fact was driven home again sharply by the recently released United National Development Programme’s Human Development Report (HDR) 2015 which ranks India at a lowly 130 out of 155 countries in the Gender Inequality Index (GII). India trails behind most Asian countries, including lesser developed Bangladesh and Pakistan which rank 111 and 121 respectively, and fares not much ahead of war-ravaged Afghanistan at 152. The GII reflects gender-based inequalities on three vital parameters: reproductive health, empowerment, and economic activity. India’s record, dismal on all three counts, is especially disquieting when it comes to representation of women in Parliament. Just 12.2 per cent of parliamentary seats in the world’s largest democracy are held by women as against 19.7 in Pakistan, 20 in Bangladesh and 27.6 percent in Afghanistan. Even some of the poorest nations — such as Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Uganda, Mozambique — are way ahead by having over a third to half of their parliament seats occupied by women. Health remains a niggling worry as well with Indian women’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) being one of the world’s highest. The country witnesses 190 deaths per 100,000 live births as compared to 170 pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 births in both Bangladesh and Pakistan, states the HDR. Even in terms of the percentage of women receiving secondary education, Bangladesh at 34 per cent outsmarts India at 27 per cent. On labour force participation rate for women, as compared to Bangladesh’s 57 per cent, India is at 27 per cent. The only parameter where India scores marginally better is the adolescent birth rate or the number of births per 1000 women aged 15 to 19 years. Here, over the last couple of years, India’s GII values have improved marginally from 0.61 to 0.563. However, activists say India’s low GII scores are hardly surprising given the country’s fierce resistance to change and entrenched patriarchal mindsets. “We’ve been featuring at the bottom of the gender equity pyramid for years. So what’s new?” Dr. Ranjana Kumari, Director, Center for Social Research, a New Delhi-based non-profit, told IPS. “Though the gender agenda has higher visibility in India now, that positive momentum hasn’t really translated into higher investment for women in different sectors due to continued discrimination and ineffectual laws and policies.”

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B Kumari points out that one of the most pivotal instrument of change — the Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to grant 33 per cent of the Parliament’s seats to women — has still not been passed by the upper house (Rajya Sabha) despite being cleared by the lower house (Lok Sabha) in 2010. “The non-passage of the Bill due to splintered views of different political parties has severely inhibited women’s participation in politics. Until this basic requirement is addressed, Indian women can’t truly be empowered,” observed the activist. According to some women politicians, bias underlines the selection of women as political candidates. National and regional Indian parties continue to follow the policy of exclusion while allotting seats to women. The common perception is that they lack the ‘winability’ factor. Those who manage to win elections have to work doubly hard to prove themselves as compared to the men,” one senior woman politician told IPS on the condition of anonymity. The current gender picture appears even more disconcerting, say experts, as the principle of gender equality as enshrined in the Indian constitution. The framework of Indian laws, development policies, plans and programs too, are aimed at women’s advancement and equality. India, also a signatory to the Millennium Declaration adopted at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2000, has reaffirmed its commitment towards promoting gender parity. “These goals are not only desirable in themselves but are critical for achieving UN’s other Millennium Development Goals,” opines Dr. Abha Khatri, former professor of political science at Delhi University. “These include 33 per cent reservation for women in local bodies, state legislatures and Parliament; elimination of all forms of violence against women; skill development for women; making women’s

participation in education safe and secure; elimination of sex selection before birth; and universal access to sexual and reproductive health.” The benefits of India becoming a 2-trillion dollar economy, Asia’s third largest, have also not percolated down to its women, point out economists. On the contrary, Indian women’s workforce participation has plummeted from 35 per cent in 1990 to 27 per cent in 2013. According to a 2012 report on global employment trends by the International Labour Organisation, many Indian women are able to find only marginal work in the informal economy, with low wages and little or no job security. Well-qualified young urban women too, admit to having limited job options. Though over 60 per cent of urban females are a part of the informal sector, unemployment among those with graduate degrees and above qualifications continues to be a high 15.7 per cent, states the report. Even educated urban women are unable to find opportunities that fit their profiles. Close to 20 per cent of urban females work as domestic help, cleaners, vendors, hawkers and salespeople. Nearly 43 per cent of urban women were self-employed and the same proportion of women had regular wage salaried jobs, according to the National Sample Survey Organisation 2011. Nearly 46 per cent of urban women with regular wages have no social security or employment benefits, while 58 per cent have no written contract for their jobs. The example of Archana Desai, 35, is illustrative. New Delhi-based Desai had to give up her job at a global retail chain when it started downsizing due to budget cuts. Despite an MBA degree, Desai is currently employed as a part-time tutor at a coaching institute earning a fraction of her previous salary. “Though I’m technically qualified to hold a manager’s position, I’m stuck with something I don’t have any pas-

sion for. Why can’t the government provide jobs for women like us?” Addressing women’s unemployment or underemployment issues can be deeply transformative for the country’s economy, says a McKinsey Global Institute report, “The Power of Parity: Advancing Women’s Equality in India”. The report states that improving gender parity at the workplace can help India add a whopping 2.9 trillion dollars to its GDP in 2025. If this isn’t incentive enough, what is question activists. Besides, Indian women constitute almost 30 per cent of the total workforce in the country. Stricter policy and legislative measures need to be adopted as there is statutory recognition of the principle of equal job opportunities and equal pay under the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976. To be fair, some measures have been taken by the Center to address the gender parity skew. The government has announced a 33 per cent reservation for women in police forces of union territories, including Delhi, for posts from constables to sub-inspectors to make the police more gender-sensitive. Another scheme — ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ (Save the Daughter, Educate Her) — focuses on improving the life of the girl child in 100 districts with low child sex ratio (CSR), meaning many fewer girls than boys. The initiative is especially critical for a country like India which hosts one of the world’s lowest CSRs. Daman and Diu records a CSR of 618 girls per 1,000 boys. “The key to achieving gender parity is resources. We need gender-responsive budgeting and money to be allocated and spent effectively on achieving these goals,” elaborates Kumari. Any breakthrough on gender equality also requires changes in the mindsets of all stakeholders –including legislators, administrators as well as the public — so that every social, economic and political issue can be made gender-sensitive, sums up the activist.

How is citizen journalism transforming Newsroom practices?

Lisette Johnston

ser-generated content offers new ways of covering ‘black hole’ stories such as the Syrian conflict. But how do journalists make sense of what is happening on the ground? We are living in a digital world. The BBC, as the world’s biggest broadcaster, has had to adapt to that world, particularly across social and mobile platforms. That evolution looks set to continue as the ways audiences consume news changes, and breaking news is one of the best examples of this. During November’s Paris attacks, 80% of those accessing the BBC News’ updates and livestreams from the website were doing so via mobile. There has been an increase in what Stuart Hughes calls ‘social media newsgathering’, with journalists scouring sites such as Facebook and Twitter for content, commentary and contributors, and this has been well documented. What has been examined less is how these digital relationships work, and how BBC journalists are engaging with people creating content found and distributed online. While working as a senior producer for BBC World News TV in 2012, I was awarded a PhD scholarship from City University to study how user-generated content (UGC) has been used by the channel to cover the conflict in Syria, and also look at how journalistic practices have changed to incorporate UGC and activist voices into coverage. This remains key in the Syria conflict five years on, but the findings are also important and relevant for other news events from which it is challenging to report, either due to logistics or safety. While Lyse Doucet, Paul Wood, Ian Pannell and Quentin Sommerville, among others, have provided amazing journalism from inside Syria

they cannot be everywhere at once. My study found that limited access to the country has led to greater interaction with citizens and activists whose voices were marginalised at the start of the conflict in 2011. Media activists are now perceived to be akin to ‘correspondents’ by some news outlets, and news organisations’ relationships with them are evolving. The current Syria conflict began in March 2011 and for the first six months foreign journalists were unable to enter the country. Since then, correspondents from the BBC and other organisations have sporadically been able to enter, yet the risks in doing so are high. The death of Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin in Baba Amr in February 2012, and the beheading of US freelancer James Foley in October 2014, highlight how dangerous a Syria assignment can be. And it is getting more risky not less, with continued bombings, the rise of Islamic State and foreign airstrikes. While journalists do still report across parts of the country, UGC is a vital storytelling tool, particularly where there are no journalistic ‘boots on the ground’. It could be footage of the aftermath of barrel bombing in Homs, or of the airstrikes in Idlib, which was distributed by media activists at the end of last year. These individuals are no longer just citizens but have become ‘produsers’ – both users and producers, and identifying what can, or should, be used from these sources, is a skill journalists have had to learn. All of those interviewed for the research said they had experienced a steep learning curve in developing new practices and measures to ensure non-BBC content could go to air. These ranged from becoming proficient at ‘verification’ processes using a variety of technologies and developing relationships with those providing the content. BBC journalists were frequently in

contact with groups such as the Local Co-ordinating Committees (LCCs) across Syria, and Shaam News Network. Many meetings began on Skype, or with BBC journalists tracing the owners of YouTube accounts who had uploaded content, in some cases via interaction on Facebook. Footage these groups filmed would be triangulated with reports from agencies and other source. Other relationships developed after BBC Arabic staff contacted people they trusted inside Syria. Conversations would snowball, resulting in journalists speaking with other ‘trusted’ individuals. In other situations, members of Syrian diaspora in the UK helped locate individual activists via phone, e-mail and social media. Staff also found that activist groups became more organised by cataloguing content posted on social media. For example, the LCCs provide both English and Arabic descriptions of the videos uploaded on their Facebook page, and their content has frequently been proved to be accurate. This means, certain groups’ footage, contributors and intelligence have been used more regularly by the BBC. BBC staff said they did try to engage with Syrians from across different groups, and there was an active effort to get pro-Assad voices on air to try to balance coverage, particularly at the start of what has become a complex and fractured conflict. However, as time went on, civilians and government officials were either harder to research or unwilling to speak. Interviews with them, while welcome, are rare. Therefore activists, keen to engage, became regular voices, and relationships between them and BBC producers further developed. Journalists are nonetheless conscious that some of those sharing content are doing so along political lines, and may exaggerate reports of deaths or violence in a bid to highlight their

cause. This raises questions of balance, and it is for the BBC journalist, using their learned skills, to try to make sense of it all. The high-profile hoaxes of the Syrian Hero Boy video, which turned out to be the work of a Scandinavian filmmaker, and the ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ case, where a US-Syrian lesbian blogger was in fact an American man writing from Edinburgh University, highlight the challenges facing journalists reporting events in the region. Despite this, as the dangers inside Syria have grown, at times, so has the reliance on eyewitnesses. Amid fears about security of communication, journalists talked about a ‘duty of care’ to contributors, which might be another reason at times the voices on air have been predominantly activists. A ban on routinely calling satellite phones was imposed at the UGC Hub, the department which verifies eyewitness content, due to safety concerns. Skype is now the preferred medium for contacting people inside Syria. Producers use anonymous Gmail and Skype accounts which do not mention the BBC in a bid to ensure anonymous contributors will not be linked to the organisation. The media landscape has undoubtedly become more collaborative and interactive, and audience participation at all levels is now a consideration for journalists who harvest content from websites, tweet the audience directly and encourage contributions to their programmes. While one cannot generalise, it seems the relationship between BBC journalists and people within Syria has changed throughout the course of the conflict with journalists in many ways acting more like a facilitators of news coming out of a journalistic black hole. With the rise of the Islamic State, and more 'produsers' than ever before, it looks likely that the BBC will have to continue developing these practices both in Syria and beyond.

anks are profit-making private businesses, just like retail stores and supermarkets. Some banks are quite small, with just a few branches, and they do business in a limited area. Others are among the largest corporation, with hundreds of branches spread across many states. The key role that banks play in the economy is to accept deposits and make loans. By doing this, they create money. What constitutes money, anyway? In the narrowest sense, money refers to all the cash and coins that are in circulation. But it also includes the value of traveler’s checks, the value of checking account balances, saving account balances, certificates of deposits (CDs), balances in money market deposit accounts, plus all non-institutional money market fund shares. Paper money (cash) accounts for less than 3 percent of the total stock of money in many advanced economies. All other forms make up the remaining 97 percent of the money supply, and most of these are deposits in commercial banks. This, however, doesn’t mean that all this money are physically kept within the banks, as vault cash, or on deposit with the Reserve Bank. Commercial banks are required by law in most countries to keep around 10 percent of their checking account deposits as reserves above the threshold level. These reserves are called “Required Reserves” (RR). Indeed, banks must always keep at least the required reserve ratio to guard against the possibility that many depositors may simultaneously make withdrawals from their accounts. But in reality, individuals and business firms normally keep the amount of currency they hold constant relative to the value of checking account balances. So, we would expect to see people increasing the amount of currency they hold as balances in their checking accounts. Deposits are liabilities to banks because they are owed to individuals and business firms that have deposited the funds. If you, for example, deposit Rs.1000 into your checking account, the bank owes you Rs.1000 and you can ask for it back at any time. Besides, banks don’t earn interest on the “Required Reserves.” For all these reasons, banks must make use of all their excess reserves (90%) to create money. Banks can lend out many times more than the amount of cash and reserves they hold. When commercial banks make loans, they increase checking account balances, and the money supply expands. That is, commercial banks can create new money through the accounting they use when they make loans. While this is often hard to believe at first, it’s common knowledge to the people who manage the banking system. In March 2014, the Bank of England released a report called “Money Creation in the Modern Economy”, stating: “Commercial (i.e. high-street) banks create money, in the form of bank deposits, by making new loans. When a bank makes a loan, for example, to someone taking out a mortgage to buy a house, it does not typically do so by giving them thousands of pounds worth of banknotes. Instead, it credits their bank account with a bank deposit of the size of the mortgage. At that moment, new money is created.” In other words, new money is created by commercial banks when they extend or create credit, either through making loans or buying existing assets. In creating credit, banks simultaneously create deposits in our bank accounts, which, to all intents and purposes, is money. The flip-side to this creation of money is that with every new loan comes a new debt--- not borrowing from someone else’s deposits, but money that was created out of nothing by banks. Eventually the debt burden can become too heavy, resulting in the wave of defaults that trigger a financial crisis, as in the case of the housing financial crisis in 2008 in the United States. The primary determinant of how much banks lend is not interest rates, but the confidence that the loan will be repaid and the confidence in the liquidity of the mortgage assets and/or the collateral against the loan amount. More specifically, here are some of the ways commercial banksmake money: First, they make money by providing loans and earning interest income from those loans. When customers deposit money, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and certificates of deposits (CDs), they earn interest on these deposits from the banks. However, the interest rate paid by the banks on money they (the banks) have raised is less than the rate charged on money they lend. Or, commercial banks may borrow money from larger banks at a preferred interest rate to fund loans. This is how they make money from the loan itself. For example, suppose a customer purchases a fiveyear CD for Rs.100,000 from a commercial bank at an annual interest rate of 3%. On the same day, another customer receives a five-year auto loan for Rs.100,000 from the same bank at an annual interest rate of 7%. Assuming simple interest, the bank pays the CD customer Rs.15,000 over five years, while it collects Rs.35,000 from the auto loan customer. The Rs.20,000 difference is an example of spread – or net interest income – and it represents revenue for the bank. Second, commercial banks make money from mortgage loans. For example, when you buy a home by taking out a loan from a bank, that bank would start charging you several fees, such as a loan origination fee, application fee, underwriting fee, processing fee, etc.In addition, the bank that owns your loan would collect interest charges for the first 10 to 20 years for a 30-year, fixed-rate loan. And often, the total amount on interest due on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan could exceed the original amount of the loan taken. This interest is the profit a bank earns for lending you the money to buy a home. Third, commercial banks make money from credit cards. Certainly not all banks do credit card lending, but those that do make a lot of money. For example, some issuers of credit cards may charge annual fees on their clients. Of course, annual fee amounts vary wildly depending on the card, but they can run into the hundreds of thousands of Rupees for some premium plastic. There are penalty fees for overdrafts and for late payments on bank-issued credit cards. These fees, and more, can add up to a large part of the average annual profit for the commercial banks that issue credit cards. When it comes to the current banking system in Nagaland, our Nagasbasically depend on the State Bank of India and other commercial banks which are designed with Indian people in mind. While these banks certainly provide some services to us, sometimes they seem hesitant, if not reluctant, to provide loans to the public because our houses and landed properties cannot be used as collaterals against their bank loans.Unfortunately, this problem cannot be easily resolvedsince our Nagas have a unique land-holding system. Because of this reason, we Nagas may do well to develop our own banking system. And yes, those who get into the banking business can make a lot of money as well.

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Pathankot attack: Pak detains JeM chief Masood Azhar

New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (PTi): Pakistan today arrested Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother and “several individuals” belonging to his dreaded outfit, which is suspected to have engineered the Pathankot terror attack, and sealed its offices after India demanded action on the group linking it to the fate of Foreign Secretarylevel talks. Azhar’s brother Abdul Rehman Rauf has also been arrested, Geo TV said. While the arrest of several individuals was announced in a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, there was no official word on Azhar’s detention. Officials said Azhar, the dreaded terrorist and two other terrorists who were released from an Indian prison in 1999 in exchange for release of 155 passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane, has been taken into protective custody after raids on several JeM offices. Pakistan has also said it’s considering sending a special investigation team to Pathankot as more information would be required to carry forward the process of cooperation with India.

NIA recovers Chinese wireless from militants' car

Maulana Masood Azhar. (REUTERS File Photo)

The Pakistani action, which was reviewed at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, come as the fate of the FS-level talks scheduled for Friday hung in balance with just two days for Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to go to Islamabad for talks with his counterpart on resuming the bilateral dialogue process. Terrorists belonging to

the JeM are believed by India to be behind the Pathankot terror attack on January 2 in which seven security personnel were killed. A PMO statement issued after the meeting today said it noted with satisfaction that as part of Pakistan’s commitment to eliminate terrorism from its soil and the expressed national resolve not to allow the territory to be used for

acts of terrorism anywhere. It said “considerable progress has been made in the investigations being carried out against terrorist elements reportedly linked to the Pathankot incident. “Based on initial investigations in Pakistan, and the information provided, several individuals belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad have been apprehended. The offices of the organisa-

New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (iaNS):The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said it had recovered a "Chinese wireless set" from a car used by terrorists to reach the Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot which they attacked on January 2. The set was similar to one recovered after a failed assault at Samba army camp in March last year. The anti-terror probe agency claimed that the car was used by the terrorists to reach the IAF base on the intervening night of December 31, 2015 and January 1, 2016. "Data in the wireless set was deleted," an NIA official told IANS here on condition of anonymity, adding that the set has been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) here to retrieve the deleted data, if possible. The official said the set was similar to the wireless set recovered from tion are also being traced and sealed. Further investigations are underway,” the statement said. In the spirit of the cooperative approach, the statement said, it was also decided that in order to carry the process forward, additional information would be required for which the government of Pakistan is considering sending a SIT to Pathankot in consultation

the army camp in Samba on the Jammu-Pathankot highway where two terrorists opened fire on March 21, last year, in which the militants were killed and three army personnel and one civilian were injured. At the Samba army camp, the militants had used a modus operandi similar to that used at the Pathankot air base. They came to the military camp dressed in army fatigues and tried to enter it to destroy defence assets. However, they failed to carry out their plan due to the tight security at the camp. The official further said that NIA sleuths have traced the route the terrorists took to reach Pathankot air base from the point of abduction of Punjab Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh, his cook Madan Gopal and jeweller friend Rajesh Verma on December 31 night. The NIA teams, headed by an

with government of India. “The meeting reiterated that in line with our decision to counter and completely eliminate terrorism, Pakistan would remain engaged with India on this issue,” the statement said. Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif, Director-General ISI Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Adviser on For-

War hero Lt Gen J.F.R. Jacob is dead Bihar CM Nitish takes aloo out of samosa New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (iaNS): Lt Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), one of the last of the Indian Army veterans to have seen action in World War II and who played a steller role in the 1971 war that led to the creation of Bangladesh, died in a hospital here on Wednesday, an official said. Jacob, 93, a bachelor, passed away around 8.30 a.m. at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral) due to pneumonia, a hospital official said. He had been admitted on January 1. Enlisting in the British Indian Army in 1942 much against the wishes of his father, the Calcutta (now Kolkata)-born Jacob, who traced his roots to Baghdadi Jews from Iraq who settled in the city in the 18th century, saw his finest moment on Dec 16, 1971 when he flew to Dacca (now Dhaka) and persuaded the Pakistani Army commander in the then East Pakistan, Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi, to surrender along with some 93,000 troops to bring the war to an end. It was a campaign that was to have concluded in three but did so in two, largely due to Jacob's dramatic flight to Dacca. Niazi would later claim

with 13.5% luxury tax on samosas, jalebis

New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (PTi): The Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government on Tuesday decided to impose 13.5 per cent tax on luxury items. The tax will be charged on sweets priced more than Rs 500 a kg and mosquito repellant, among others, to mop up additional revenue for carrying development work in the state. Decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Briefing about cabinet Lt Gen JFR Jacob. (FIle Photo)

that Jacob had arm-twisted him, but the Hamoodur Rahman Commission, which probed the Pakistani Army's debacle, had this to say: Â“He displayed a shameful and abject attitude in agreeing to surrender when he had himself offered a ceasefire to the Indian commanderin-chief; in signing the surrender document agreeing to lay down arms...." The last word on Jacob, came from Pakistan's National Defence College, which concluded in a study that "the credit really goes to General Jacob's meticulous preparations

in the Indian eastern command and to the implementation by his Corps commanders." Jacob was then a major general and soon picked up his third star to head the Eastern Command, of which he was chief of staff under Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora during the Bangladesh operations. Prior to this, he commanded the 12 Infantry Division and saw action in the 1965 war with Pakistan. after retirement, he served as the governor of Goa and Punjab and as the security advisor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

41% of India's population below 20 yrs New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (PTi): Around 41 per cent of India's population is below the age of 20 years with Muslims having the highest proportion of children and teenagers among all religions, according to just released Census 2011 data. The share of the young population has, however, declined in the country since the previous census in 2001 when it was 45 per cent for the whole country. Forty-seven per cent of Muslims are aged below 20 years, the highest among all religious communities, while children and teenagers make up 40 per cent of the Hindu population, according to the 2011 data. As per the Census data, just 29 per cent population among the Jains are in the age group of 0-19 years while among the Christians, it is 37 per cent, Sikhs 35 per cent and Buddhist 37 per cent. Among India's total population, around 41 per cent is below 20 years old and nine per cent above 60 years, leaving 50 per cent in the intervening 20-59 age group. According to 2001 census data, among the Hindus, 44 per cent were below the age group of 20 years, among Muslims 52 per cent and Jains 35 per cent. Overall, life cycles of different religious communities in the country have shown common trends of declining proportion of children and teenagers and increasing share of elderly citi-

zens, the 2011 data showed. The proportion of elderly people in the country has risen across all communities as life spans have generally increased. According to the Census data, people of the age of 60 years and above make up about nine per cent of the country's total population. Interestingly, among the Muslims, just 6.4 per cent of the population is over 60 years, almost 50 per cent lower than the national average. Among Jains and Sikhs, the share of elderly is around 12 per cent each. Age-wise population shares reveal another important aspect of the lives of people - dependency. Both children and the elderly are dependent on the able and adult population. Overall, the young dependency ratio -- the number of children aged up to 15 years dependent on every 1,000 members of the working age population -- has declined from 621 in 2001 to 510 in 2011. This is a direct consequence of declining number of children. At the other end of life spectrum, the old dependency ratio has increased from 131 in 2001 to 142 in 2011, in accordance with the growing elderly population. Across religious communities, Muslims have the highest total dependency ratio of 748 compared to the lowest ratio for Jains which is just 498. For Hindus, the ratio is 640.

decisions, Principal Secretary, Cabinet Coordination Department, Brajesh Mehrotra told reporters that 13.5 per cent tax would be imposed on sweets priced more than Rs 500 a kg. He said 13.5% tax would be taken on salty items like samosa, kachauri and branded namkin among others. Sale of all kind of UPS would attract 13.5% tax, Mehrotra said, adding, similar rate of tax would be imposed on auto parts and battery parts. Sand, cosmetic items, scent and hair oil would

also attract 13.5% tax, he added. The Bihar cabinet put its seal of approval on 23 proposals of different departments. The cabinet decided to waive off entertainment tax on the movie "Chalk N Duster" which gives a strong social message. The Nitish Kumar cabinet also decided to consider in future on providing Non Professional Allowance to doctors and those in teaching faculty in medical colleges and super speciality hospitals in a bid to ban their private practise.

Articles against Nehru, Sonia: Cong issues show-cause notice to Nirupam New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (PTi): Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam appears to be in for trouble with the party high command seeking an explanation from him over the issue of articles in a party journal slamming Jawaharlal Nehru and terming Sonia Gandhi's father a "fascist soldier". The Disciplinary Action Committee of AICC headed by senior leader AK Antony has issued a show-cause notice to Nirupam in the wake of the controversy. Committee sources said that Nirupam has been asked to respond within a few days over the articles in the magazine 'Congress Darshan'. Ghulam Nabi Azad and Sushilkumar Shinde are members of the committee while Motilal Vora is its member-secretary.

An embarrassed Congress had last month distanced itself from its "defunct" mouthpiece in Mumbai as some articles in it criticised Nehru's Kashmir policy and alleged that Sonia's father was a "fascist soldier". Miffed with the editorial, the party had forced its editor and Nirupam to apologise for the gaffe. Sudhir Joshi, who looked after its editorial content, was sacked from the job. Nirupam had later said that he was unaware of the content that had been published in the said edition.Recently, some Mumbai Congress leaders, including AICC General Secretary Gurudas Kamat, had met Sonia and complained about the matter.

Inspector General (IG)-rank officer, in coordination with Punjab Police and local villagers are carrying out searches on the routes taken by the terrorists to find evidence like clothes and electronic devices. The officials of NIA's 8 separate team have been conducting searches at those villages falling on the route taken by the terrorists to reach the IAF base. Meanwhile, the agency questioned Salwinder Singh at its headquarters in New Delhi for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. Salwinder Singh's cook Gopal and Somraj, the caretaker of Panj Peer Dargah -- located a few kilometres from Bamiyal village from where the terrorists were suspected to have infiltrated into India before mounting the attack -- were also summoned to reach the NIA headquarters for questioning on Thursday.

eign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and other senior officials attended the meeting. Last week India put the ball squarely in Pakistan’s court, linking the FS-level talks to Islamabad’s “prompt and decisive” action in the Pathankot terror attack for which it has provided “actionable intelligence”. An official said that

close to a dozen militants have been held so far and were being questioned. He refused to give further information like where they have been held or when they could be produced before any court. In the terror attack on Pathankot Air Force base that began on January 2, six militants were also eliminated in an operation that lasted four days.

SC refuses to permit Jallikattu New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (iaNS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to vacate its order barring the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu that is held during Pongal festivities beginning on Thursday. An apex court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice N.V. Ramana declined to lift an earlier order that put on hold a central government notification allowing Jallikattu and bull races. Rejecting the contention of petitioner Ramakrishna, the judges said they were not inclined to vacate the Supreme Court order of Tuesday prohibiting Jallikattu on grounds of cruelty to the bulls. Jallikattu, an ancient sport, is held in rural parts of Tamil Nadu during Pongal festival. It involves young men clinging on to the hump of bulls to win prize money.

Earthquake jolts J & K Jammu/SriNagar, JaNuary 13 (iaNS): An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, forcing panicky residents in various cities and towns to run out of their homes onto the streets. "The quake at 1.34 a.m. today (Wednesday) had its epicentre in the Hindukush mountains in Afghanistan at a depth of 220 km," local Meteorological Department director Sonum Lotus told IANS in Srinagar. No loss of life or damage to property has so far been reported from anywhere in the state.

Foreigners to be allowed to book train tickets online New Delhi, JaNuary 13 (PTi): Foreigners will soon be allowed to book train tickets online from abroad using their credit/debit cards as the IRCTC is strengthening its ticketing site to meet the demand. We are incorporating certain checks and balances in our website to provide booking facility for foreigners, IRCTC Chairman and Managing Director A K Manocha told PTI. Currently, foreigners book their tickets online through tour operators. Earlier, the facility was existing but it was withdrawn after a few cases of misuse of credit cards came to light, Manocha said, adding the issues have been addressed to prevent misuse making the system a safe booking exercise.

Denied entry to temples, low-caste Hindus tattooed their bodies & faces Adnan Abidi

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enied entry to temples and forced to use separate wells, lowcaste Hindus in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh first tattooed their bodies and faces more than 100 years ago as an act of defiance and devotion. Bishram, 70, a follower of Ramnami Samaj, has the name of the Hindu god Ram tattooed on his face. Mahettar Ram Tandon is still proud of the indelible message he carries almost five decades after he had the name of Ram tattooed on his entire body. Dressed in a simple white lungi, a traditional Indian garment, and wearing a peacock feather hat called a “mukut”, Tandon is part of the Ramnami Samaj religious movement in the state, one of India's poorest regions. “It was my new birth the day I started having the tattoos,” he says. “The old me had died.” Ramnamis, as the followers are called, first wrote the Hindu god Ram’s name on their bodies as a message to higher-caste Indians

that god was everywhere, regardless of a person’s caste or social standing. Now 76, Tandon’s purple tattoos have faded over decades under the harsh sun of his village of Jamgahan. In the nearby village of Gorba, Punai Bai, 75, spent more than two weeks aged 18 having her full body tattooed using dye made from mixing soot from a kerosene lamp with water. “God is for everybody, not just for one community,” says

Bai, who lives in a one-room house with her son, daughterin law and two grandchildren. Nowadays the tattoos of Ramnamis, who number 100,000 or more and live in dozens of villages spread across at least four districts of Chhattisgarh state, are usually on a smaller scale. After caste-based discrimination was banned in India in 1955, the lives of many lower-caste Indians have improved, villagers said. As young Ramnamis today

also travel to other regions to study and look for work, younger generations usually avoid full-body tattoos. “The young generation just don’t feel good about having tattoos on their whole body,” says Tandon, who has always lived in his village of small mud houses surrounded by fields of grazing cattle, wheat and rice. “That doesn’t mean they don’t follow the faith.” Children born in the community are still required to be

tattooed anywhere on their body, preferably on their chest, at least once by the age of two. According to their religious practices, Ramnamis do not drink or smoke, must chant the name “Ram” daily, and are exhorted to treat everybody with equality and respect. Almost every Ramnami household owns a copy of the Ramayana epic, a book on Lord Rama’s life and teachings, along with small statues of Indian deities. Most followers’ homes in these villages have “Ram Ram” written in black on the outer and inner walls. Despite the 1955 legislation, centuries-old feudal attitudes persist in many parts of the country and low-caste people, or Dalits, still face prejudice in every sector from education to employment. Tandon is optimistic about the Ramnamis’ relative change in fortunes since he had his body tattooed all those years ago. “The world is changing, the times are changing,” he says. “We have all realised that we are all same.”

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Obama voices optimism to set 2016 tone WASHINGTON, JANuAry 13 (reuTerS): President Barack Obama took aim on Tuesday at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and accused critics of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech meant to cement his legacy and set a positive tone for his final year in office. Obama, delivering his last annual State of the Union speech to Congress as president, called for leaders to “fix” U.S. politics and criticized candidates such as Trump for using anti-Muslim rhetoric that betrayed American values. “When politicians insult Muslims ... that doesn’t make us safer,” he said, drawing applause from the crowd in the House of Representatives chamber. “It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world. It makes it harder to achieve our goals.” Trump, whom Obama did not mention by name in his speech, is leading the Republican field ahead of the Nov. 8 election to pick the next president. The billionaire businessman, citing national security concerns, has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States and a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, ideas the White House strongly opposes. Obama sought to contrast his more optimistic view of America’s future with those of the Republican candidates trying to replace him. He said it was “fiction” to describe the country as

Obama launches mission to cure cancer ‘once and for all’

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) is applauded by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Vice President Joe Biden (L) while delivering his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington on January 12. (REUTERS Photo)

being in economic decline. While acknowledging that al Qaeda and Islamic State posed a direct threat to Americans, he said comparing the effort to defeat the militants who control swaths of Iraq and Syria to World War Three gave the group just what it wanted. “Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks, twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages: they pose an enormous danger to civilians; they have to be stopped. But they do not threaten our national existence,” Obama said. Republicans say the president’s strategy to defeat Islamic State is flawed and insufficient. “His policies aren’t

working. He didn’t have an answer for how to defeat ISIS,” Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement after the speech, using an acronym for Islamic State. Obama’s address to lawmakers, Cabinet members and Supreme Court justices was one of his last remaining chances to capture the attention of millions of Americans before the November election. The next president will take office in January 2017. Trump, in a posting on Twitter, called the speech “boring” and lacking in substance. “New leadership fast!” But South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who delivered the Repub-

lican response to Obama’s address, took her own jab at Trump and other less moderate candidates in her party. “During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation,” said Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants. “No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country,” she said. Obama’s address came as 10 sailors aboard two U.S. Navy boats were taken into Iranian custody. Iran told the United States the crew members would be “promptly” returned, U.S. officials said. The event

WASHINGTON, JANuAry 13 (reuTerS): U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to undertake a historic push to develop a cure for cancer, tapping Vice President Joe Biden to lead the effort. Obama, in the last State of the Union address of his presidency, said America must use its spirit of innovation to help tackle the challenge of cancer. “For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all,” Obama said. As Biden smiled from his seat behind the president, Obama said he would put the vice president in charge of “mission control” for the effort. Biden, who lost his 46-year old son to brain cancer last year, received a standing ovation

gave Republicans further fodder to criticize Obama’s nuclear deal with Tehran. Obama did not address the issue in his speech. The White House expects the situation to be resolved quickly. LEGACY, REGRET Obama, who is constitutionally barred from a third term, stuck to themes he hopes will define his legacy, including last year’s nuclear pact with Tehran. He noted areas where compromise was possible with Republicans in Congress including criminal justice reform, trade and poverty reduction. He called for lawmakers to ratify a Pacific trade pact, advance tighter gun laws

from lawmakers when Obama made the announcement. Following his son’s death, Biden said he would not run for president in 2016, but he promised he would focus his remaining time in office on working on a “moon shot” to end cancer. In a blog post released during the State of the Union address, Biden said the White House would focus on increasing public and private resources to fight the disease and to improve information sharing among researchers and medical professionals. “It’s personal for me,” Biden said, regarding the push. He will travel on Friday to the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine to speak with physicians and next week he will meet with experts at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Swit-

and lift an embargo on Cuba. The president also said he regretted not having been able to elevate U.S. political discourse during his time in office. “It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,” he said. To help “fix” U.S. politics, Obama pressed for an end to “gerrymandering,” the practice of drawing voting districts in ways that gives advantage to a particular party; reducing the influence of “dark money” or political spending in which funding sources do not have to be disclosed; and making voting easier. Obama also said he had tasked Vice President Joe

zerland to discuss the initiative. The cancer initiative will build upon the $2 billion increase in funding approved for the National Institutes of Health last year, White House chief economist Jason Furman told reporters ahead of Obama speech. Earlier this month, private companies and academic cancer centers joined together to launch their own mission to fight cancer. The Cancer Moonshot 2020 program is aimed at developing a vaccine-based immunotherapy to combat cancer by the end of the decade. Companies involved include Celgene Corp, Amgen Inc and NantKwest Inc. In his speech, Obama also stressed that the United States should continue to help fight against disease in African countries and around the world.

Biden, whose son died last year of cancer, to lead an effort to find a cure for the disease. The president noted some outstanding promises from his own 2008 campaign. He pledged to continue to work to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and called on Congress to lift the embargo on the Communistruled island nation. Obama, whose 2008 victory was driven partially by his opposition to the Iraq war, said the United States could not serve as policeman of the world. “We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis, even if it’s done with the best of intentions,” he said. “It’s the les-

son of Vietnam; it’s the lesson of Iraq; and we should have learned it by now.” Obama is eager for a Democrat to win the White House to preserve his legacy, but anger over his policies and fears about security threats have helped push non-traditional candidates to the fore in the Republican and, to a lesser extent, the Democratic races to succeed him. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas are at the top of the Republican field, while self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, is giving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tough competition in early voting states for the Democratic primary contest.

Fearing escape, Mexico moves Chapo constantly Iran releases US sailors after brief detention

Recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, Mexico on January 8. (REUTERS Photo)

MeXICO CITy, JANuAry 13 (reuTerS): Deeply concerned that the world’s most notorious drug kingpin, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, could escape for a third time, Mexico has beefed up security at his prison, reinforcing the floor of his cell and placing a guard on his door 24/7. Guzman, captured on Friday six months after a brazen prison break via a mile-long tunnel that

burrowed right up into his cell, is now being held in isolation in another part of the prison, a Mexican security source said. The improved security measures also include reducing the number of inmates, quadrupling the number of cameras on the site and moving Guzman randomly, without warning, to different parts of the prison, Mexico government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez told Re-

North Korea’s Kim calls for expansion of nuke arsenal SeOuL, JANuAry 13 (reuTerS): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an expansion of the size and power of his country’s nuclear arsenal, state media said on Wednesday, a week after a nuclear test that drew condemnation from its neighbours and the United States. Last week’s nuclear test was North Korea’s fourth, although the United States and experts doubt the North’s claim that it was of a more powerful hydrogen bomb, as the blast was of about the same size as that from an atomic bomb test in 2013. “(Kim) called for bolstering up both in quality and quantity the nuclear force capable of making nuclear strikes at the U.S.-led imperialists any time and in any space ... if they encroach upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and make threatening provocations,” the official KCNA state news agency said. The North’s official name is Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kim “set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled to bolster up the nuclear force,” it said, and called for the “detonation of more powerful H-bomb in the future.” Kim was speaking at a ceremony to award scientists and others behind last week’s nuclear tests, which North Korea has been touting in state media as a major achievement. In April, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may have 20 nuclear warheads and the capability to produce enough weapons-grade uranium to double its arsenal by 2016. That estimate exceeded most previous U.S. assessments, which ranged from 10 to 16 bombs at the time. On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously to pass legislation that would broaden sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear program.

uters. “He is being moved randomly from cell to cell ... Since arriving, he’s been in 8 different cells,” said Sanchez. Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman’s lawyers, said his client was physically very weak and complained he was being exposed to “brutal psychological pressure”. “He is in a different, very cold zone (of the prison) and in complete isolation,” Badillo told Reuters on Tuesday outside the Altiplano prison where Guzman is being held. None of Guzman’s relatives have visited him yet, Badillo added. Armored vehicles and light tanks stand guard outside the prison walls, while security forces man sand-bagged checkpoints beyond the gates of the prison, which is about an hour from the capital. Local media said cells in the prison had been fitted with electronic sensors, additional CCTV cameras and in some cases a mesh of steel bars to reinforce the floor and stymie any efforts to tunnel out. On Sunday, various senior officials, including National Security Commissioner Renato

Sales and Federal Police Chief Enrique Galindo, inspected the improved security measures. “Today, conditions in the prison fully comply with international standards,” the National Security Commission, which runs Mexico’s federal jails, said after the four-hour tour. An interior ministry security official, who has visited the jail on various occasions, said the problem with housing kingpins like “Chapo” was that they could easily buy off the entire prison staff. In a prison break worthy of Hollywood, Guzman’s accomplices apparently obtained the plans to Altiplano and during his 17 months inside built a tunnel fitted with a tiny rail system mounted with a motor bike that he then rode to freedom. Mexico’s government detained around two dozen people in connection with his escape, including the former director of the prison. CCTV video footage showed prison officials watching impassively as Guzman ducked behind a shower wall in his cell and out of sight as he escaped through a hole in the floor.

DubAI, JANuAry 13 (reuTerS): Iran released ten U.S. sailors on Wednesday after holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had freed the sailors after determining they had entered Iranian territorial waters by mistake. The sailors had been detained aboard two U.S. Navy patrol boats in the Gulf on Tuesday. “Our technical investigations showed the two U.S. Navy boats entered Iranian territorial waters inadvertently,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by state television. “They were released in international waters after they apologised,” it added. Confirming the sailors’ safe release, the Pentagon said there were no indications they were harmed while in Iranian custody. A carefully worded statement did not explain how the sailors and their two riverine command boats ended up being detained by Iran, saying

only that “the Navy will investigate the circumstances that led to the sailors’ presence in Iran”. The sailors were later taken ashore by U.S. Navy aircraft, while other sailors took charge of the boats and headed towards Bahrain, their original destination. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he was pleased the sailors had been freed and appreciated “the timely way in which this situation was resolved”. He added: “I want to personally thank Secretary of State John Kerry for his diplomatic engagement with Iran to secure our sailors’ swift return.” IRGC Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi had earlier said that the two U.S. Navy boats entered Iranian territorial waters due to a broken navigation system. The incident raised tensions between Iran and the United States, which, along with other world powers, reached a deal last year under which Iran will curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Some conservatives in both countries, enemies since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, have criticised the deal that

is due to be implemented in the coming days. NuCLEAR DEAL Iran’s armed forces chief, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, said the incident should demonstrate Iranian strength to “troublemakers” in the U.S. Congress, which has sought to put pressure on Iran after the nuclear deal. And at a presidential campaign rally in the United States, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who accuses President Barack Obama of being weak on foreign policy, described the incident as “an indication of where the hell we’re going”. Attributing the boats’ incursion into Iranian waters to a navigation error marked a de-escalation in rhetoric. Earlier, the Guards had said the boats were “snooping” in Iranian territory and said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had demanded an apology from Washington. The IRGC, the Islamic Republic’s praetorian guard, is highly suspicious of U.S. military activity near Iran’s borders and many senior officers suspect Washington of pursuing regime change in Tehran.

Suu Kyi’s surprise attendance seen as boost for Myanmar Peace Talks yANGON, JANuAry 13 (reuTerS): Aung San Suu Kyi’s last-minute decision to join Myanmar peace talks she had previously criticised took some attendees by surprise, and could boost the chances of progress with rebel groups who have so far resisted joining the process. The democracy champion, who led her party to a landslide election victory in November, shared the stage in the capital Naypyitaw with members of the former military junta, which kept her under house arrest for years and persecuted her allies. Suu Kyi has already shown she is willing to do business with former foes, and, despite a constitutional ban on her becoming president, has also made clear that she intends to lead the country. Her appearance at peace talks this week attended by the military, members of parliament and some of the armed guerrilla groups waging local insur-

gencies across Myanmar underlined that sense of pragmatism, experts said. Until now, Suu Kyi had dismissed the ceasefire agreed last year as a preelection stunt by outgoing President Thein Sein to win votes in ethnic areas. “Today’s conference shows how the talks over the political transition and change of government in Myanmar are progressing unexpectedly quickly and smoothly as the parties learn to trust one another,” said Yohei Sasakawa, a peace envoy for Japan who has been involved in the talks for the last three years. By appearing to endorse Thein Sein’s efforts, Suu Kyi is also signalling to rebel groups to trust her and return to the negotiating table, Sasakawa added. “I think this has sent a very powerful message toward the groups that have thus far withheld their support for the ceasefire,” he told Reuters. Thein Sein was on stage with Suu Kyi on Tuesday for

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi gives a speech during talks between the government, army and representatives of ethnic armed groups over a ceasefire to end insurgencies, in Naypyitaw on January 12. (REUTERS Photo)

called a nationwide ceasefire agreement, but seven of 15 rebel groups invited to participate declined to sign, including some of the most powerful. Other groups were not invited to take part or TEST OF MILITARY’S showed little interest in INTENTIONS the process. This week’s In October, Thein Sein’s five-day meeting attended government signed what it by hundreds of representhe talks, as was army chief Min Aung Hlaing and other leading members of the former junta that ruled the country for 49 years until a semi-civilian government came to power in 2011.

tatives of guerrilla groups was arranged to advance the peace process. While ostensibly a conciliatory step towards former enemies, Suu Kyi’s move also carries considerable risks, Western diplomats and political analysts said, because it means she has associated herself with a process she cannot fully control.

Since October, the army has been engaged in an offensive against ethnic rebel groups in the north and the east of the country, displacing thousands of people. Suu Kyi’s involvement in peace talks will also test how far the military, which maintains considerable influence over Myanmar politics, is willing to submit to civilian control. Experts and some participants at the talks said Suu Kyi’s appearance is likely to be only the start of her formal engagement, and major breakthroughs in peace talks are unlikely until her government is formed. Clinching a lasting ceasefire would be a historic feat for Suu Kyi and could help tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting, as well as open up areas of the country where conflict has prevented development since as long ago as World War Two. It would also bring a more integrated state with a fuller representation of its ethnic nationalities, delegates said.

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SWA celebrates 25th Anniversary NASA-C silver jubilee

celebrations underway

Guest of honour Vetetso Lasuh, Parliamentary Secretary Deo Nukhu, and others release the Secheku Wrestling Association's silver jubilee souvenir. Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu and others after unveiling the monolith in commemoration of the 25th anniversary celebration of Northern Angami Sports Association Group ‘C’ at Zhadima on January 12. (Morung Photo)

Besuhvo is Secheku Wresting Champ 2016

Wrestlers in action during the Secheku Wrestling Association 25th Anniversary Celebrations.

KOHIMA, JAnuAry 13 (MExn): The Secheku Wrestling Association (SWA) celebrated its 25th Anniversary at Mesulumi village today with Par liamentary Secretary for Higher and Technical Edu cation, Deo Nukhu, as chief guest and Vetetso Lasuh, Vice President, NPCC as guest of honour. According to a press re lease received here, Deo Nukhu speaking on the oc casion extended his appre ciation to the SWA while im

pressing upon that Secheku area has exhibited unity and referred to it as a “sym bol of unity.” He said that the people of the area speak four different languages and also follow four differ ent denominations, but are united and in this regard called upon the gathering to continue upholding the spirit of unity. He further said that wrestling is a sport that unites people irrespec tive of their political parties, religion or languages and called upon the players to

give their best while urging them to maintain discipline which, he said, is a very im portant aspect in sports. Guest of honour, Vetet so Lasuh said that wrestling is one of the best sports while stating that it is an in dividual’s game and does not require much of a team spirit. He impressed upon that a wrestler earns rec ognition through his own skills and tactics displayed while wrestling. Earlier, the Anniversary Monolith was unveiled by

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The 25th anniversary celebration of North ern Angami Sports Association Group ‘C’ got underway at Zhadima Sports Complex on January 12 under the theme “Commit ment to sports excellence.” The celebra tion will go on till January 15. Over 500 athletes from eleven villages under NASA GroupC are taking part in the fourday event which is being hosted by Zhadima Village Youth & Sports Or ganisation (ZVYSO). The 11 villages are Meriema, Tsiesema, Tsiese Basa, Phek erkriema, Zhadima, Nerhema, Nerhe Model, Chüziema, Keviphe, Viphoma and Ziezou. Gracing the inaugural function on January 12, Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, Chair man, Nagaland State Mineral Develop ment Corporation said, “It’s time the Naga sportspersons should uplift their standard towards professionalism.” “Onetime season player won’t excel in sports. It’s time youngsters change their mindset towards becoming full time pro fessional players,” the MLA said. He also advised the sportspersons to maintain consistency and discipline, underlining it as the topmost priority to reach at the highest level of competition. Dr. Keditsu also assured to render as sistance and support to the committed and dedicated players. The welcome note was delivered by

Besuhvo Vadeo today emerged as wrestling champion at the 25th anniversary celebrations of Secheku Wres tling Association (SWA) held at Mesulumi village in Phek district. Son of Cuvehu Vadeo from Porba village, Besuhvo pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh. Venuzo Va deo, son of Pukrocuyi Vadeo from Porba village stood 2nd position and was awarded Rs. 70,000. Vevoshe Chiero, son of Nucuzo Chiero from Porba village, and Kukuo Getsa, son of Vemurha Getsa from Pholami vil lage, stood 3rd and 4th position and were awarded cash prizes of Rs. 50,000 and Rs.30,000 respectively. the chief guest while the guest of honour released a souvenir. The administer ing of oath was overseen by Tewetso Tsühah, Technical Secretary, SWA, while reign ing champion, Vekhota Chiero was the torch bearer. Altogether 54 wrestlers participated in the tourna ment today. It may be noted that since the formation of SWA in 1972, the Association has produced prominent wres tlers like Veswüvo Chüzho, champion of CWA in 1978,

Vermurha Getsa, cham pion of NWA in 1978 and Hüvesü Puro, champion CWA in 1996, 2002 and 2004 apart from being champion of NWA twice during 2002 and 2004. SWA comprises of twelve affiliated villages and three towns including Porba, Sakraba, Sakraba town, Pholami, Gidemi, Mesulumi, Enhulumi, Chizami, Chizami town, Sumi, Thetsümi, Tsüpf üme, Zelome, Razeba town and Zhavame.

Phek area wrestling meet from Jan 19

KOHIMA, JAnuAry 13 (MExn): The 24th wrestling meet of Phek Area Wrestling Association (PAWA) will take place from January 19 to 20 at Phek Town Local ground un der the motto, “We shall earn the feather.” More than 40 wrestlers for Naga style are expected to take part. 12 best wrestlers will be selected to represent PAWA in the 25th Wrestling Meet of the Chakhesang Wrestling Associa tion (CWA) to be held at Pfutse ro Town on February 18 and 19. The inaugural ceremony will be graced by MLA Ku zholuzo (Azo) Nienu while Phek Deputy Commissioner Murohu Chotso will be the guest of honour. The champion in Naga Style will fetch a cash prize of Mr International India 2013, Hukupa Thuluo, participates at the 26th wrestling Rs. 70,000, while, 2nd, 3rd and meet of the Chokri Area Wrestling Association at K. Bawe village in Phek dis- 4th position holders will walk trict on January 12. (Morung Photo) away with Rs. 50,000, Rs. 35,000

Record-equalling Khawaja into Australia squad Sania-Martina in Sydney Int'l semis as Warner takes paternity leave SydnEy, JAnuAry 13 (IAnS): Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis clinched their 28th consecutive vic tory to equal the record for most wins in a row in wom en's doubles with a straight sets triumph in the quarter finals of the Sydney Inter national tennis tournament here on Wednesday. The IndoSwiss combi nation overcame the Chi nese pair of Chen Liang and Shuai Peng 62, 63 to enter the semifinals and keep on track for their second title of the year. They have thus pulled level with Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva, who won 28 consecutive match es in 1994 to set the present record. Sania and Martina hardly broke sweat, breaking their opponents' serve twice to win the first set easily. The top seeds were a bit erratic in the second set, wasting seven break points. But they did man age to break the Chinese pair twice, which proved to be enough. Sania and Martina, who are currently the top ranked team in women's doubles, have won 10 titles together. They won titles at Indian Wells, Miami, Charleston, Wimbledon, US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Bei jing and WTA Finals in 2015. They have already notched up a title win this year, winning the Brisbane International last week.

SydnEy, JAnuAry 13 (rEutErS): Top order batsman Us man Khawaja was brought into the Australia squad for the next two oneday internationals against India on Wednesday after opener David Warner was granted paternity leave. Warner scored five runs in Australia's innings as the hosts reg istered a fivewicket victory in the opening clash of the fivematch series in Perth on Tuesday but will miss matches two and three in Brisbane and Melbourne. Khawaja, who recently made a successful return to test crick et in the home series against New Zealand and West Indies, will replace his fellow lefthander, whose wife Candice is expecting their second child. "Usman has been in fantastic form this season and was unlucky to miss out on a place in our squad ... in the first place," chief selector Rod Marsh said in a news release. "This call up is a reward for that form and it is great to have someone of his quality to step into the squad in David's absence. "We wish both David and Candice well and look forward to wel coming David back into the squad when circumstances allow." Khawaja has played only three oneday internationals, the last coming against West Indies in Perth nearly three years ago. The second match against India takes place in Brisbane on Friday with the teams meeting at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday before the series concludes with fixtures in Canberra and Sydney.

and Rs. 20,000 respectively. The best two free style wres tlers from each category will also be awarded cash prizes along with citations. Chivotso Nienu, president NPF, Phek Division, will be the chief patron of the tournament along with other patrons Nie husa Nakro, Under Secretary, RD department, Neiko Kan uo, District & Session Judge, Dimapur, Vekusheyi Rhakho, EAC, Phek, Api Vadeo, Presi dent, NPF, 19th Phek A/C, Ku pota Khesoh, Ex Chairperson, Phek Town Council, Vezhiehu Vero, President, Phek Area Public Organization and Kuni esa Vero, PA to MLA Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu. Hukhoneyi Sohoformer NWA champion, Zewepe K. Swuro, Vekuta Lohe, Surhoneyi Soho and Dzuthoshelu Venuh will be referees in both Naga style and free style wrestling

while, Shekutu Lohe, Vilie Luruo, Pokuye Khesoh, Kho saneyi Venuh, Shekhota Chizo, Shevota Rhakho, Zachineyi Vero and Wepelo Mebou will act as panel of Judges. A new team of PAWA Ex ecutive Council for the tenure 20162018 will be announced by the Nomination Committee during the closing ceremony. A sum of Rs. 200 shall be realised from each Naga style wrestlers as an entry fee while Rs. 150 shall be realized from each free style wrestler. Business Hour will be held on January 18 by 3:30 p.m. at Phek Town Council Hall, where 2 representatives from each unit will be eligible to attend the same. Free seat shall be provid ed to all former PAWA champi ons during the 2 days event. Weight measurement for free style wrestlers will be held on January 18.

MDCA Tourney: Skylark, Sovran enter semifinals MOKOKcHung, JAnuAry 13 (MExn): Skylark CC and Sovran CC today registered comprehen sive wins to enter the semifinals of the ongoing 25th MDCA Inter Club Cricket Tournament. Playing the third quarter final and the first match of the day, Sky lark CC knocked Sovran Kings by 73 runs. Electing to bat first, Skylark set a huge tally of 194 runs losing 3 wickets in 20 overs. Aosashi scored an unbeaten 98 runs while Nirpen made 50 runs. Sovran Kings bowlers Deo, Wapang and Aja took 1 wick et each. While chasing the target, Sovran Kings managed to score 121 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. Ma ongchuba top scored with 27 runs. Skylark bowler Aosashi downed 2 rival wickets. In the last quarter final match, Sovran CC won against Brotherhood

CC by 6 wickets. Electing to bat first, Brotherhood could set a target of just 74 runs losing all their wickets in 20 overs. Kumzuk contributed 33 runs. Sovran bowler Yangerlong claimed 4 wickets while Imliwati took 3 wick ets. Chasing the target, Sovran man aged to score the 74 runs in the 12th over while losing 4 wickets. Wapong scored 33 runs while Brotherhood bowlers Arong picked 3 wickets and Chubaodang took 1 wicket. Team Bendangsunep will face two time and reigning champion, Titans CC, on January 14 in the first semi final match while Sovran will face Skylark in the second semi final. Match Day 9 Fixture: 1st Semi Final (8 AM) Titans CC vs Team Bendangsunep 2nd Semi Final (11 AM) Skylark CC vs Sovran CC

India punished for shunning DRS: MS Dhoni

PErtH, JAnuAry 13 (IAnS): Indian cricket captain M.S. Dhoni has hinted at a conspiracy against the tourists following the team's fivewicket loss to Australia in the first OneDay international match. Dhoni was unhappy with some of the umpires' decisions after the match on Tuesday, particularly the one that saw George Bailey given not out, before he had scored, after he appeared to glove a catch down the leg side, reports Xinhua. Replays later showed the deci sion would have been overturned had the Decision Review System (DRS) been in action as the hot spot

showed a mark on Bailey's glove. Bailey (122 off 120), together with skipper Steve Smith (149 off 135) helped Australia chase down a challenging 310run target with ease in 49.2 overs to win by five wickets. Dhoni did not hold back when questioned at his postgame press conference on Tuesday, saying the Indians were punished for failing to embrace the DRS technology. DRS is a technology based system that allows teams to review con troversial onfield decisions in an attempt to rid the game of poor umpiring.

"It could have (changed the outcome of game) but, at the same time, we need to push the umpires to make the right decision and you have to see how many 5050 deci sions don't go in our favour and it always happens. Then (in that case) you have to take it, but I'm still not convinced about DRS," Dhoni said. "If you see the deviations in DRS, there are quite a few devia tions, even the makers agree that there's a bit of deviation that can happen." "Now you have to also take into account whether it was given not

out or not. If it's given out, it needs to touch the stump, if it's not out half the ball needs to hit the stump. That itself makes the vari ables too big and in cricket every inch matters, it's millimetres that really matter." The president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Sha shank Manohar, said in December that the Indians would not adopt DRS in oneday or Test match cricket until it became "foolproof". Australia lead the five match series onenil with the second game to be played in Brisbane on Friday.

Roko Angami, Convenor, Organizing Committee, while Chiephobozou Bap tist Youth Department and Ruokuovotuo Pfusenuo & friends presented a special number. NASAC presidential address was delivered by Kevipusa Kezieo, while Vit seizolie Sorünuo, president, ZVYSO deliv ered greetings. The oath of administration to the players was led by Zhabu Miario, Wrestling Secretary, NASAC. Earlier, Dr. Keditsu unveiled a monolith raised in commemoration of the 25th an niversary celebration. The monolith was dedicated by Thepfusalhou Khoubve, Pas tor, Assembly of God Church, Zhadi Bawe. Dayone of the 25th anniversary cele bration witnessed Naga wrestling, where in, a total of 70 wrestlers are vying for the title. The silver jubilee celebration will also include games such as football (men & women), volleyball (men & women) and marathon race. The marathon race took place to day and was flagged off by Neilalhou lie Soliezuo, Additional Director, Youth Resources & Sports, Government of Na galand. This event was sponsored by Naga land State AIDS Control Society (NSACS). Apart from games and Naga wres tling, Cultural and Extempore Nite marked day two. Talent Nite will take place on December 14. Meanwhile, the closing function will take place on January 15 at 12 noon with K.T. Vilie, Chairman Zhadima Village Council and Vice President APO as chief guest.

PDVFA convenes general meeting KOHIMA, JAnuAry 13 (MExn): The Phek District Veteran Football Association (PDVFA) will hold its gen eral meeting on January 19 at 6 PM at the residence of Er. Abija Khing, Executive Engineer PWD (Roads &Bridges), Phek, who is also vice president of PDVFA. The meeting will select a new team of office bearers and players. The association has also invited agenda(s) from the members. Stating this in a release, PDVFA president Salie Khesoh requested all office bearers, executives, team manager, assistant manager, captain, assistant captain, and all members of the association and invitees to attend the said meeting.

Zasituo is winner of Cherüdiki Wrestling Meet Our Correspondent Kohima | January 13

Veteran wrestler Zasituo Tsükrü of Dihoma village emerged as the champion of Cherüdiki (Northern Anga mi Sports AssociationB) Wrestling Meet held at Rüsoma village ground on January 11. 38 yearold Zasituo, who was the 1st runnerup at last year’s Angami Sports As sociation Open Wrestling Championship held in March 2015, downed Khriesanguzo Zuyie of Rüsoma village in the final to lift the title. The third and fourth positions were bagged by Vi kuosieo Chakrüno and Kezhavizo Thevo respectively. Both of them hail from Chedema village. The other se lected wrestlers are Kehousalie Kiekho, Khrievizo Tsükrü, Mhalevizo Thevo, Thepfukhotuo Medom, Vilasietuo Talie, Visezhü Lhoungu, Pekrusielie Kiekho, Ruokuov otso Zhale, Neithozo Yashü, Mhasivituo Kera and Kekhri eneituo Terhase. The selected wrestlers will represent Cherüdiki at the forthcoming Northern Angami Sports Association wrestling meet scheduled from January 19 to 20 at Khuo chiezie (Kohima Local Ground).

NWA Committee invites articles, photos KOHIMA, JAnuAry 13 (MExn): The Nagaland Wres tling Association (NWA) is all set to hold 25th anniversa ry tournament in March 2016, and in commemoration, a Souvenir is being published. The souvenir committee invites articles, photos etc. from well wishers and wres tling lovers, which will adorn the pages of the souvenir af ter final scrutiny by the NWA (preferably 1980 & before). Any photos of wrestlers in action/group during past Naga wrestling tournaments, any document relating to NWA tournaments, group photo of Office Bearers of NWA and write up of any interesting episode of tournaments etc. may be submitted within January 31. Contributors will duly be acknowledged alongwith the articles published. Contact Heirang Lungalung, Convenor, Souvenir Committee, NWA @ 9436000812; email: heirangz@yahoo.com

Kutsapo Wrestling Meet held PHEK, JAnuAry 13 (MExn): The 27th wrestling meet of Kutsapo Wrestling Association (KWA) took place on January 8 last at Kutsapo village. Gracing the meet as the chief guest, Solezhol Neikha, Deputy Superintendent District Jail, Phek called upon the villagers to maintain unity and peaceful atmosphere. He also called upon the youth to maintain discipline and be sincere in their ap proach to excel in the field of games and sports, a press release received here stated. Kutu Lohe emerged cham pion while Rukungulie Vadeo, Shevezo Khesoh and Kuto Lohe stood 2nd, 3rd and 4th position respectively. The four winners along with Vedevoyi Rhakho, Shevekhoyi Rhakho and Vebuto Khesoh will represent the KWA at the forthcoming Phek area wrestling meet at Phek town from January 19, the release informed.

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David Bowie's "Lazarus" video is a parting gift for his fans

David Beckham honoured at UNiCeF ball

avid Beckham was supported by a bevy of beauties at the 6th Biennial UNICEF Ball in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. Selena Gomez, Mariah Carey, Nicole Kidman and Heidi Klum were among a host of sultry stars dazzling on the red carpet at the lavish Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel, and helping to raise over $2.5 million for the charity's lifesaving programs. David was being honoured with the charity's Humanitarian Leadership Award during the ceremony, for his work helping children through his Seven Foundation. The 40-year-old football star looked

very handsome as he arrived at the bash, sporting a classic black tuxedo and bow tie; almost stealing the limelight from his glamorous companions. Sir Elton John, an old friend of the famous British footballer, presented the award to Beckham thanks to the fatherof-four's help for the international charity over his expansive career. Presented by Louis Vuitton, the UNICEF Ball marked the launch of LOUIS VUITTON for UNICEF, a global partnership between the humanitarian organization for children and the luxury fashion house to help support children affected by conflict, disease, natural disasters, and other situations that threaten their safety and well-being.

DaviD Bowie to be honoured at Brit Awards I was scared of everything in

owie died peacefully Sunday January 10th at the age of 69 after an 18 month battle with cancer. He celebrated his 69th birthributes will be paid to rock legend David Bowie day on Friday January for his "extraordinary life and work" at the Brit 8th and also released Awards next month. what will be his final alThe late rock legend, who died of cancer on Janubum. Tony Visconti, the ary 10, will be honoured at the show here on February producer of Bowie's new 24, reports bbc.com. album "Blackstar", has “David Bowie was one of the most important and confirmed that Bowie influential songwriters and performers ever and, like planned it to be a final so many fans around the world, we’re devastated to farewell to his fans. hear of his loss. A visionary and ground-breaking In a statement on Vispioneer, he has inspired generations of musicians conti's Facebook page, he and will continue to shape music for many years to said: "He always did what come," said Brits chairman Max Lousada. he wanted to do. And he “Naturally, we wish to honour his extraordinary wanted to do it his way life and work at the forthcoming Brit Awards and pay and he wanted to do it the a fitting tribute to one of our greatest icons, ” he added. best way. His death was Bowie, who was 69, was named best British male no different from his life singer at the 2014 Brit Awards, becoming the oldest - a work of Art. He made recipient of a Brit Award in the ceremony's history. Blackstar for us, his partBowie's death will also be marked by a memorial ing gift. I knew for a year concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on March 31. this was the way it would The concert, titled "The Music of David Bowie", be. I wasn't, however, was already arranged before the star's death, but was prepared for it. He was an originally intended as a tribute show. extraordinary man, full of "The Music of David Bowie" was billed as a tribute love and life. He will alshow featuring his songs, but has now been changed ways be with us. For now, to a memorial. it is appropriate to cry." The album release was planned to be at the end of "Lazarus" have a more sig- ingly beautiful and make an the great singers life. The nificant meaning after Bow- extraordinary addition to videos for "Blackstar" and ie's passing. They are haunt- his vast musical legacy.

my 20s: Reese Witherspoon

eese Witherspoon, Reese Witherspoon movies, Reese Witherspoon upcoming movies, Reese Witherspoon news, Reese Witherspoon latest news, entertainment news Reese Witherspoon said, “I’m much more open now. In my twenties, I was scared of everything. I didn’t know what my career was.” Actress Reese Witherspoon has revealed that she was “scared of everything” in her twenties. While some celebrities hate the idea of ageing, Witherspoon, 39, is thrilled about her advancing years as she feels more comfort-

able in her own skin, reported Us magazine. “I’m much more open now. In my twenties, I was scared of everything. I didn’t know what my career was. I didn’t know why people liked my movies. I was wary of interacting with people,” she said. The Oscar-winning actress said that although three of her biggest films were released during her twenties, she was terrified and unable to enjoy her success. “I was 25 when Legally Blonde came out, 26 for Sweet Home Alabama, and 29 for Walk the Line. And I was scared, really scared.”

Victoria Beckham to perform with Spice Girls

inger-turned-designer Victoria Beckham, who was earlier part of Spice Girls, has reportedly agreed to perform with the group here. The 41-year-old had initially refused to be a part of the 20th anniversary reunion tour with former bandmates Geri Horner, Emma Bunton, Mel B and Mel C, but has now come up with a compromise that will see her take part in a handful of shows, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "There are still lots of details to sort out but Victoria said she'll perform with the girls,” Closer magazine quoted a source as saying. "However, she stressed she needed to focus on her husband David and their four kids this year after a stressful 2015 of trying to juggle work and family life, so committing to all the dates would be too much. She already has a lot on her plate with her design empire,” the source added.

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Amitabh Bachchan plays football with kids in Kolkata

ollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday (January 12) took time off to play some football with the kids at the Mohammedan Sporting ground where he

had gone for a film shoot. Bachchan, who entered the famous ground at 7.45 in the morning, spent the entire day in the club premises shooting some scenes of his upcoming film “Teen”. He

was seen sitting in the gallery, the club tent and the ground. The actor, who sported a black stripe T-shirt, a muffler around his neck and black trousers, had some fun on the ground of the

iconic club which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. Known as a trademark lefty, the superstar was seen kicking the ball with his left foot and at times he kicked it very high. (Also read: Amitabh Bachchan thanks world for success of ‘Wazir’) The club felicitated Bachchan and made him it honorary life membership of the club. The club also invited the legendary actor to be the chief guest of the club’s 125th Aanniversary gala to be held later in the year.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ‘adopting baby boy Allouy from Cambodian slums’

he Hollywood stars are said to have adopted a baby boy from a slum in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where the actress is directing her new

film First They Killed My Father. The 40-year-old is believed to have decided to adopt Allouy Shoun due to his close relationship her daughters Shiloh, nine, and

10-year-old Zahara. Angelia is thought to have been left shocked by the little one's living arrangements, and the pair will now sponsor his large family. A source said: "Angie has pledged to pay more than $1 million US dollars to help support the family and to adopt baby Allouy." His older sister, Leida Shoun, 16, is reported to have approached the famous couple's girls when they were out with the actor. She told US website Radar Online: "We only had one bicycle for the en-

tire family and it was old. So for us this is an amazing gift. Shiloh and Zahara are very good, very nice people. "We have known them for a while. They sponsor us. I play with Shiloh or Zahara. They take us to the arcade in the Angkor Centre. I like it when we play ball." Angelina previously adopted her eldest son Maddox, 14, from the country as a baby. The couple are also parents to twins Vivienne and Knox, seven, as well as 12-year-old Pax, who was born in Vietnam.

Biopic on Buddhist Monk to release in India and China together

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mega Sino-India historic biopic on the life and times of famous Chinese Buddhist Monk Xuanzang, who brought Buddhism from India to China is ready for release. The film, made with a USD 22 million budget, has been completed but its release may take some time after clearances by Chinese official bodies, Prasad Shetty, partner of Strategic Alliance, a Chinese firm promoting Indian films told PTI in Beijing on January 12. Earlier, officials said it may be released next month coinciding with the Chinese New Year. But Mr Shetty said it could be released sometime in May this year. The film was made in Chinese and will be released simultaneously in both the countries. The Hindi dubbed version will be released in India. Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming played the lead role of the famous monk who brought important Buddhist scriptures from India to China. The agreement for the co-production of the film was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to China in May last year. It was jointly produced on the life and times of Zang's 17-year-long journey to India in the sixth century. Part of the film was shot in Maharashtra and Nalanda in Bihar, tracing the areas traversed by the monk in the seventh century. The other two India-China co-productions include Kung Fu Yoga, by Hong Kong-based director Stanley Tong and comedy film Lost in India, featuring the star from China's 2012 blockbuster Lost in Thailand. These two films are expected to be released this year.

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LOnDOn, January 13 (rEuTErS): Aston Villa beat Crystal Palace 1-0 to win a Premier League match for the first time since August while a late goal from Paul Dummett earned a 3-3 draw for Newcastle United against Manchester United on Tuesday. Joleon Lescott's second-half header, fumbled in by keeper Wayne Hennessey, handed Villa manager Remi Garde a first victory in charge, the bottom club's first in the league at home this season, and ended a run of 19 games without a win. Wayne Rooney's 79th-minute strike, his second goal of the game, put United 3-2 up at Newcastle but Dummett struck in the last minute for the relegationthreatened hosts who had battled back from 2-0 down. West Ham United moved above Manchester United into fifth place after coming from a goal down to win 3-1 at Bournemouth, Enner Valencia netting twice for the London side. Villa, still eight points from safety, were gifted victory when Hennessey allowed defender Lescott's 58th-minute effort to squirm through his hands. The home team had appeared to be in for another 90 minutes of struggle when Palace's Wilfried Zaha struck Villa's post inside the opening minute but Garde's men held firm. The Villa players, abused by their fans after drawing with fourth-tier Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup at the weekend, this time received a standing ovation as they left the pitch.

Sachin recalls near-death experience

MuMbai, January 13 (ianS): Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday recalled a scary experience which he underwent during his school days while crossing the rail tracks here. The former India batsman was speaking at the launch of two initiatives by the Mumbai Railway Police -- SAMEEP (Safety Alert Messages Exclusively For Passengers) and B-Safe. "Right from the age of 11, I travelled by trains in Mumbai. When I travelled, I had a kit-bag. I have also experienced jostling, being pushed in and out of trains...these experiences will stay with me," Tendulkar said. "In school, I had gone to Vile Parle to a friend's place. We -- five or six boys -- had practiced in the morning and had gone to his place for lunch. Then we decided to watch a movie. After watching the movie, we got late for practice and hence we decided to cross railway tracks and go to the platform, and board the train at Dadar," he added. The 42-year-old talking about the horrific incident said, "While crossing the tracks, halfway, we realised that trains were coming fast on all the tracks. We ended up crouching on our knees in between the tracks with our kits. That was a scary experience and then onwards we never crossed train tracks."

Draw felt like a defeat: Van Gaal

Wayne Rooney of Manchester United scores their third goal during the Premier League match against Newcastle United at St James' Park on January 12.

"We suffered so much in the previous weeks and today we are very happy. Definitely the players showed pride and we deserved to win," Garde told Sky Sports. NICE FEELING "It was a nice feeling to feel the crowd behind the players, it's very important. We cannot be happy too long -- we have to build on this one." Newcastle remain in the relegation zone, one point behind 17th-placed Swansea City, but manager Steve McClaren was delighted his side had shown "what we are about". McClaren's side trailed 2-0 after Rooney converted a ninthminute penalty and laid on the

second for Jesse Lingard following a swift counter attack. Aleksandar Mitrovic nodded down for Georginio Wijnaldum to pull a goal back just before halftime. Serb Mitrovic then levelled from the spot after 67 minutes when Chris Smalling was penalised for pushing. Rooney's neat finish put United back in front but Dummett lashed the ball in from the edge of the box to earn his side a point. "People said Manchester United were boring and we lacked character but we kept fighting until the end and we have got a goal that feels like a winner," McClaren said.

"People thought it would be a 0-0 and it was a classic at 3-3." Dimitri Payet kickstarted West Ham's comeback at Bournemouth after they had trailed to a fine first-half strike from Harry Arter. West Ham lost striker Andy Carroll to injury early on but Payet levelled midway through the second half with a sublime free kick. The French midfielder then set up Valencia to make it 2-1 in the 75th minute and the Ecuadorean striker thumped in a free kick to seal victory nine minutes later. Leaders Arsenal visit Liverpool on Wednesday while second-placed Leicester City travel to Tottenham Hotspur.

LeBron to the rescue as Cavs edge Mavs in OT

DaLLaS, January 13 (aP): LeBron James had 27 points and the go-ahead layup in overtime, Kyrie Irving added 22 points and some big 3-pointers and the Cleveland Cavaliers extended their winning streak to eight games with a 110-107 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night. James’ layup with a minute left in overtime pushed the Cavs ahead 106-105. After an attempted 3 by Deron Williams rattled out for Dallas, Irving beat the shot clock with a 3-pointer from the top of the key. Cleveland never led until Irving made a 3-pointer with 10 minutes left in regulation to make it 75-74. That was the first of nine lead changes over a span of less than 4 minutes that Irving capped with another 3 to put the Cavs up 85-83. Chandler Parson led Dallas with 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting. LAKERS 95, PELICANS 91 Lou Williams scored nine of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, and Los Angeles rallied late to snap its four-game losing streak. After Julius Randle hit the go-ahead shot with 43 seconds left, Williams added a clutch running jumper with 18 seconds to play. Los Angeles hung on to win the meeting of the Western Conference’s worst teams, surviving a back-and-forth fourth quarter for just its ninth win of the season. Kobe Bryant scored seven points in 16 minutes before leaving for good shortly before halftime due to a sore Achilles tendon. Tyreke Evans scored 21 points for the Pelicans, who lost their fourth straight. New Orleans struggled late without Anthony Davis, who sat out with a bruised back. SPURS 109, PISTONS 99 In Auburn Hills, Mich., Tony Parker scored 31 points, LaMarcus Aldridge added 22 points and 13 rebounds, and San

LOnDOn, January 13 (rEuTErS): Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said a 3-3 draw at Newcastle United in the Premier League on Tuesday felt like a defeat after the hosts denied his side victory in the last minute. United led 2-0 and then 3-2 at St James' Park but Paul Dummett equalised for the hosts in the 90th minute to leave Van Gaal fuming. "Of course it feels like a defeat," the Dutchman told Sky Sports after United slipped to sixth place, overtaken by West Ham United." "We have given it away -- I have told that to my players. When the referee gives a penalty for nothing -- it is a duel I think and you cannot decide who is worse -- but we gave it away." "We could have scored six goals easily here and we did not," bemoaned Van Gaal. "If we had, it would have been three successive wins at the start of the year going into Liverpool (on Sunday). United Captain Wayne Rooney agreed with his manager in casting a downbeat tone. "It does feel like a defeat. After scoring three good goals, it was maybe a lack of concentration -not staying with runners for the third -- and that is disappointing," he said. "If you take a two-goal lead, we should be taking all three points and killing the game off. We didn’t take all our chances and we have been punished for it. "We always want to try and play entertaining attacking football that is what we work on and try and do, and hopefully we can come up with more solutions."

Maria Sharapova (REUTERS)

MELbOurnE, January 13 (rEuTErS): Multiple grand slam champion Maria Sharapova has declared herself fully fit and ready for next week's Australian Open after having her preparations hampered by a forearm injury. The Russian world number five was forced to withdraw from the Brisbane International last week with the ailment, sparking fears she might miss the first grand slam of the year which begins on Monday. The 2008 Australian Open champion and last year's runner-up opted to arrive in Melbourne early to practice rather than seek matches at one of the other warm-up tournaments taking place across the country this week. "The injury was a bit of a roadblock but the great thing is that I've been healthy the three days and everyone's been away playing so I've had a lot of court time which has been really beneficial," Sharapova was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Press on Wednesday. The 28-year-old, who missed the U.S Open last year because of a leg injury, was among a quartet of top players who were a doubt for Melbourne because of nagging ailments. World number one Serena Williams (knee), Simona Halep (Achilles) and Garbine Muguruza (foot) all pulled out of matches last week but Sharapova said it was understandable for players to be wary ahead of a major. "I think everyone sees the bigger picture and that's one of the things that I thought about -- you want to do what you can to be healthy and be a part of the grand slam so sometimes that's a decision you have to make."

FIFA fires secretary general Valcke

Zurich, January 13 (aFP): FIFA has fired secretary general Jerome Valcke, who is under investigation for misconduct, world football's governing body said Wednesday. The former right-hand man to Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president banned for eight years, has been accused of aiding a scheme to sell 2014 World Cup tickets on the black market. "The FIFA emergency committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA secretary general with immediate effect," said a statement. It said all of the Frenchman's employment with FIFA had been "terminated." Valcke was suspended on September 17 after the ethics committee started an inquiry into allegations that he helped sell 2014 World Cup tickets on the black market. The suspension was renewed on January 6. He has also been linked to a $10

million payment made by South Africa to corruption-tainted former Caribbean football chief Jack Warner. US investigators reportedly believe this was a bribe to secure votes for the 2010 World Cup. Markus Kattner is acting secretary general of a body currently fighting scandals on several fronts. US authorities have charged 39 individuals -- including top FIFA executive mem-

bers -- and two companies over bribery in football contracts. Blatter is under criminal investigation in Switzerland for criminal mismanagement over a two million Swiss francs ($2 million/1.8 million euro) payment to FIFA vice president Michel Platini. Both have been banished from football for eight years. Swiss prosecutors are also investigating the attribution of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively. Valcke is no stranger to controversy having also been sacked in 2006 over a battle with credit card sponsors Mastercard. Valcke negotiated a deal with Visa that excluded long-time sponsors Mastercard. FIFA had to pay $90 million in compensation. A New York judge said Valcke had lied to both companies. He was sacked as marketing director, but after the compensation deal, Blatter reappointed him as his deputy.

LeBron James goes up for a block against Dirk Nowitzki late in the Cavaliers’ 110-107 OT win Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Caption: LeBron James goes up for a block against Dirk Nowitzki late in the Cavaliers’ 110-107 OT win Tuesday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Antonio beat Detroit for its ninth straight victory. Detroit had its three-game winning streak snapped. Manu Ginobili added 15 points while Tim Duncan had 14 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, who return to San Antonio trying to extend their 31-game home winning streak Thursday against Cleveland. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope led the Pistons with 25 points, while Andre Drummond added 17 points and 10 rebounds.

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