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Petroleum awareness ‘Saksham 2017’ launched in Nagaland

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• Credit agreement signed between GoI, World Bank and Nagaland govt • Total cost of project is $60 million, closing date set at March 31, 2023 Dimapur | January 16 I withdrew my nomination because they told me that this election is different, that ‘even if I win I will not become a minister!’

Petrol price hiked by 42 paise a litre, diesel by Rs 1.03 New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (iaNS): Following the recent spurt in oil prices to well over $50 a barrel, staterun Indian Oil Corp (IOC) hiked prices of petrol by 42 paise a litre, and of diesel by Rs 1.03, effective from Monday, with corresponding increases in other states. “The current level of international product prices of petrol and diesel and the INR-USD exchange rate warrant increase in selling price of petrol and diesel, the impact of which is being passed on to the consumers with this price revision,” IOC said in a release here late Sunday.

Government appoints Election Tribunal DiMaPur, JaNuary 16 (DiPr): The Nagaland State Municipal Affairs Department today informed that the Government of Nagaland has appointed LK Achumi, Retd District and Session Judge as the Election Tribunal to hear and dispose of petitions, pertaining to the Municipal/Town Council Elections 2017, if any. This will include calling in question the election of a member of Municipal Council or Town Council subsequent to the publication of the result of election under Section 42 of the Nagaland Municipal Act of 2001 by the State Election Commission, Nagaland, 2017. The notification informed that the Election Tribunal shall hear and dispose off all election petitions placed before it in the manner prescribed under the Nagaland Municipal Act of 2001.

The Government of India, the Government of Nagaland and the World Bank have signed a massive 48 million dollars credit agreement for the ‘Nagaland Health Project,’ which aims to improve health services across the state. The agreement for the project was signed by Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, on behalf of the Government of India; L. Watikala, Principal Director, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland; and Genevieve Connors, Program Leader and Acting Country Director, World Bank India, on behalf of the World Bank. Credit for the project, which was approved on December 19, 2016, is from the International Development Association (IDA) - the World Bank’s concessionary lending arm - with a maturity of 25 years, including a 5-year grace period. The total cost of the project, according to the World Bank is 60 million dollars, with the IDA providing 48 million dollars, and the borrower i.e. the Government of India committing the remaining 12 million dollars. With the Nagaland State Government being the implementing agency, the closing date of project is set at

March 31, 2023. The multimillion dollar health project aims to empower village health committees to deliver better health service delivery across the state and strengthen existing health systems and public health facilities. This will include capacitybuilding and results-based financing for village health committees, who are responsible for local health services, to improve services as well as enhance the knowledge and awareness of their communities. The project will also invest in improving health services in 177 facilities, including through water and sanitation and off-grid electricity backup. The project aims to strengthen statewide health system components, including information, procurement and supply chain management, and human resource management systems. A release from the World Bank quoted Genevieve Connors, Program Leader and Acting Country Director for World Bank in India as stating that “strengthening health and nutrition service delivery systems both at the local and at the state level will go a long way in improving the quality of health care services in Nagaland.” “We also hope the project will benefit from the World Bank’s experience over the years in financing health system de-

Genevieve Connors, Program Leader and Acting Country Director, World Bank India; Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance; and L Watikala, Principal Director, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland after signing the 48 million credit agreement for the Nagaland Health Project. (Courtesy: World Bank)

velopment projects globally as well as across several Indian states,” she stated Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance hoped that the project would help the Government of Nagaland improve the efficiency, quality and accountability of its health services by strengthening the Health Department’s management and systems capacity, its governance and accountability mechanisms, as well as its ability to engage effectively with health committees at the village level. “This will be done by complementing existing activities of both the state and the National Health Mission,” he said. Apart from state-wide investments to improve health systems, the project will focus on building knowledge and skills of Village Health Committees, including fostering involvement of women’s groups, to manage and

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oversee health services for their communities. An incentive strategy, according to the World Bank, will be used whereby funding will be provided to communities on the basis of progress on defined indicators of improved health and nutrition-related services and practices. In turn, communities will use the grants for activities and investments that are important to them and which have impacts on health and nutrition. Another key initiative of the project will be to improve the conditions of health facilities for both staff and patients. The World Bank noted that frequent outages of power supply in health centers and lack of safe drinking water and inadequate sanitation “are not only undermining the quality of health services in the state but also reduce patient demand for services while affecting the working conditions and motivation of health staff.”

Recognition the potential of solar energy generation in the state, the project will invest in off-grid electrical power solutions adapted to the needs of each targeted health facility. It will also support installation of solar water pumps and water heaters in these facilities. At least 100 health facilities are expected to benefit from improved power supply. Repair of existing water supply piping and storage facilities and installation of rooftop water harvesting systems at targeted health centres also come under the project. At least 125 health facilities are expected to benefit from improved water and sanitation. Patrick Mullen, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank and World Bank’s Task Team Leader for the project, stated that the “the project will support both community-level and state-wide capacity to improve delivery of essential health services in Nagaland.”

Nagaland among states warned by Supreme Court over speed governors New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (iaNS): The Supreme Court on Monday told the Transport Secretaries of 10 states to file their response on a plea seeking installation of speed governors in vehicles, failing which they would have to appear before it. An NGO, Suraksha Foundation, has challenged the April 15, 2015 government notification exempting some categories of passenger and transport vehicles from mandatorily installing speed governors. Apparently displeased over 10 state governments not filing their response to the plea for the installation of speed governors, the bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud observed: “Is this Supreme Court or a joke court? This is not a panchayat and can’t be taken lightly.” Having vented its ire over non-compliance of its order by Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Tripura, Bihar, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, the court adjourned the matter for four weeks. The top court had on November 20, 2015 sought response from the central government and all the state governments, including union territories, on a PIL by the NGO, seeking the installation of speed governors in transport vehicles across the country. The top court had also questioned the rationale for an exemption to these passenger and commercial vehicles from installing speed governors, which is a mandatory requirement under the Central Motor Vehicles (Sixth Amendment) Rules. According to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, the transport vehicles will be fitted with speed governors (speed controlling device) in such manner that those can be sealed with official seal in a way that the seal cannot be removed or tampered with without being broken. It also says that the speed governor of every transport vehicle shall be so set that the vehicle cannot be driven at a speed in excess of the maximum pre-set speed of the vehicle. Challenging the notification exempting the vehicles, the petitioner NGO has said that these exempted vehicles were responsible for a large number of road accidents.

RBI hikes ATM withdrawal Border fencing: MP Rio asks PM to interveve India and Myanmar have no limit to Rupees 10,000

Overall weekly withdrawal limit of Rs. 24,000 per card remains unchanged

New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (iaNS): The RBI on Monday hiked the daily ATM withdrawal limit from Rs 4,500 to Rs 10,000 and doubled the weekly Current Account withdrawal limit to Rs 1 lakh. The withdrawals from ATMs will be operative within the existing overall weekly limit of Rs 24,000, a Reserve Bank of India commu-

nique said. “On a review of limits placed on withdrawals from ATMs and current accounts, it has been decided to enhance the same with immediate effect,” the RBI said. On December 31, the RBI relaxed the daily ATM withdrawal limit to Rs 4,500 from the earlier cap of Rs 2,500. The enhanced Current Account withdrawal has been extended to overdraft and cash credit accounts, the RBI said. The caps followed the November 8 government decision to demonetise the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, a decision which triggered widespread cash crunch in the country.

DiMaPur, JaNuary 16 (MexN): Nagaland State MP to the Lok Sabha, Neiphiu Rio today wrote to the Prime Minister of India apprising the latter of the crisis created in Nagaland due to construction of border fencing along the international boundary between India and Myanmar in the Naga inhabited areas. The fence construction, the MP stated has disturbed social harmony and has potential to create a serious social and humanitarian crisis. “The masses have already objected and public demonstrations against the construction have been carried out. Civil society organisations, apex tribal bodies and civil society groups on both sides of the border have opposed the construction,” he informed. The fencing work, he lamented is

being executed without taking into consideration the sentiments and confidence of the local population. It needs to be stopped immediately or else a serious crisis is likely to erupt in the border regions, he cautioned. As such, he urged the PM to intervene and “undo the construction of the border fencing so that we do not disturb the prevailing peace and harmony, which has held good for centuries.” The Nagaland MP added that rich social fabric of the people in the fabric and the close ties across the border has always been a source of strength for both countries, and the presence of a common population on either side of the boundary has always been a genuine factor for unity and understanding between India and Myanmar.

right to divide Nagaland: NNC

DiMaPur, JaNuary 16 (MexN): The Naga National Council (NNC) today stated that India and Myanmar have no right to divide Nagaland between themselves and termed the border fencing as “nothing but contempt.” A press note from Retd General Thinoselie M Keyho, President, NNC stated that the “Naga people will never recognize the so called international border between India and Myanmar in Naga territory.” It stated that the border fencing in Khiumungam area is illegal and therefore demanded an immediate stop to it. It further asserted that the “friendship between India and Myanmar should not be at the cost of Naga National Rights.”

UlB polls: 15 more candidates withdraw nomination Morung Express News Dimapur | January 16

didates have withdrawn till date, the DIPR report added.

Candidates who filed nominations BJP candidates for DMC to withto the Municipal and Town Council draw nomination if NPF does

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elections continue to sit in a tight spot as threat of excommunication from tribal bodies on one hand and penalization under party constitutions on the other continue to shadow them. As deadline given by the different civil organizations to the intending candidates for withdrawal of the nominations drew close, more candidates succumbed to pressure and withdrew their nominations on Monday while others took to standing on the fence stating that they would withdraw only if the NPF candidates withdrew their nominations first. According to a DIPR report, all together 15 candidates for the Nagaland Municipal Elections withdrew their candidatures on January 16, 2017 which include four each from Meluri and Chumukedima, three from Dimapur, one each from Chozuba, Tening, Zunheboto and East Dimapur withdrew. A total of 68 can-

In Dimapur, eleven BJP candidates who filed nominations to the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) announced that they being bonafide members and affiliated to own respective tribal apex bodies have decided to respect and consider the decision of the apex bodies to withdraw from the race. However, the candidates spelled out that the final decision to withdraw their nominations would solely depend on the NPF candidates withdrawing their nominations in the first place. “This decision has been taken firmly since we cannot afford to be on the losing side if we withdraw our nominations first and the NPF candidates do not follow suit,” the eleven BJP candidates from ward 19, 22, 17, 23, 11, 16, 20, 21, 1, 7 and 6 informed. The Lotha Hoho on the other hand claimed that two candidates namely Echungbeni, Independent candidate, of ward No.6, and Khamongo Humt-

papers as and when directed upon. On behalf of intending candidates Shashikala, intending Independent candidate ward No-3 said the decision was taken in the interest of the Nagas and the ENPO joint emerhe Chuchuyimlang Village Council (CVC) has refuted the re- gency consultative meeting with 6 port on the 50-hour total bandh call along National Highway-2 (six) tribal federating units and fronby the Merangkong and Chuchuyimlang village councils, which tal units on January 14, 2017 in conwas widely circulated on social media platforms on Monday. nection to the impending issues to “Some miscreants are trying to malign the names of Chuchuyimlang and the ULBs election in Nagaland. Merangkong villages by circulating a forged document without bearing However, the candidates said it any signature declaring bandh in National Highway-2. We clarify that would withdraw the nomination in there is no social unrest or disturbances of any kind within the jurisdic- serial wise as per in nomination setion of Chuchuyinlang and Merangkong villages that would warrant call- rial number to the Returning Officer. ing a bandh,” a press note from Chuchuyimlang VC chairman, Ao Sanen In Zunheboto, one Independent Pongen stated. While strongly condemning such criminal act, it assured candidate Zhehoto from Alahuto that the wrongdoers would be dealt with seriously. ward 5 withdrew his nomination papers from the Zunheboto Town The Hoho also reminded that the Council election in order to support soe, BJP party candidate, of ward No.7, BJP candidates had assured to with- the NPF candidate Kikheto. The NPF have withdrawn their nominations. It also informed that NPF work- draw their nominations if the NPF Zunheboto Division president Akavi ing president Mhonthung Patton and withdrew theirs. Sumi said 7 NPF candidates are now press secretary Mhanthungo Kikon unopposed, out of 13 wards. apologised for inability to attend the 8 from Kiphire to Naga Council Dimapur January 14 meeting and signed an un- withdraw nomination dertaking to respect the decisions of the From Kiphire, 8 candidates for the summons DMC candidates Lotha Hoho during a meeting held on Kipihre Town Council said they have The Naga Council Dimapur has reMonday with the NPF party leaders. resolved to withdraw their nomination iterated its earlier resolution and urged

No 50-hour bandh along NH-2: Chuchuyimlang VC

the candidates to withdraw their nomination papers latest by January 17. It warned that failing to comply with the order, the NCD shall fully endorse and support whatever decision the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) comprising of Ao, Lotha, Sumi, Angami and Chakesang tribes takes in accordance with the Naga customary law. It further directed all the candidates irrespective of all political parties including Independent candidates and tribal union office bearers to report to Lotha Hoho ki, DC court junction at 9 am failing which it warned that the NCD, GBs and DUCCF of Dimapur would collectively take stringent action against the absentee (s).

KTC for Noklak town council elections

The Khiamiungan Tribal Council (KTC) in an emergency meeting on Monday resolved to hold town council elections at Noklak town, based on the January 4 resolution adopted by the ENPO to leave it to the understanding and responsibility of the respective tribes.

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Nagas receive ‘Bharat Ratna Petroleum awareness ‘Saksham Two Dr. APJ Abul Kalam Excellence Award’ 2017’ launched in Nagaland Dimapur, January 16 (mExn): Every year the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP & NG) conduct mass awareness drive on oil and gas conservation across the country on January 16. From this year onwards the theme of the programme has been redesigned as Saksham – 2017 and the programme duration has been extended to one month. Saksham – 2017 was inaugurated for the state of Nagaland in a small function organised at Unity College, Dimapur on January 16 amidst gatherings comprising of people from State Government, people from Oil sector, petroleum Dealers community in Nagaland, people from business community, college students particularly girl students etc. Commissioner and

Commissioner and Secretary Ramongo Lotha addressing the launching of Saksham – 2017 awareness programme held at Dimapur on January 16.

Secretary, Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Nagaland Ramongo Lotha graced the occasion as the chief guest in presence of DK Pathak, State Level Coordinator (SLC), Oil Industry,

Nagaland, Sr. Depot Manager and Sr. Plant Manager (LPG). In the welcome address, DK Pathak, SLC/Nagaland briefed the audience with this year directives of Petroleum Conservation and Re-

search Association (PCRA) under MOP&NG for the month long programme and the schedule of activities taken up this year for the state of Nagaland. A press release stated that speaking on the occa-

sion, chief guest Ramongo Lotha representing the Government of Nagaland explained the importance of fuel conservation in the present scenario. He emphasized on carrying out more and more awareness campaigns by the Oil Industry in line with MOP&NG directives and assisted that we must be handling this subject aggressively as otherwise our future generations will be in great problems. Chabbra, Principal of Unity College appreciated the great initiative taken by the oil industry represented by SLC / Nagaland cum Sr. Divisional Retail Sales Manager, Indian Oil, Tinsukia Division DK Pathak. Huwuto Sema, Sr. Depot Manager, Indian Oil, Dimapur Depot gave a brief talk on fuel saving tips and appealed the public to share the need across the mass.

Dimapur January 16 (mExn): Er. Dr. Vikuotuolie Angami and Hotoshe Sema of Nagaland were awarded with the prestigious 'Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence Award' by Meira Kumar, former Speaker, Lok Sabha in a glittering ceremony held at India International Center, New Delhi on January 14. A press release received here stated that the India International Friendship Society (IIFS) in its conference on ‘Economic Growth and National Integration’ honored some successful meritorious Indian Personalities who have specialized in various fields like education, industry, fine arts, politics, social work, science and technology in lieu of the yeoman services rendered for the growth of the nation with excellence in their respective fields. Prominent national leaders like Bhisma Narayan Singh, former Governor of Tamil

(Right) Er. Dr. Vikuotuolie Angami and (left) Hotoshe Sema recipient of’'Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence Award’ at the ceremony held at India International Center, New Delhi on January 14.

Nadu, Maj. Ved Prakash of ACCI, J&K Speaker also spoke on the theme of the conference. It may be noted that Er. Dr. Vikuotuolie Angami is a retired Engineer in Chief and now a renowned social and religious worker

and a recipient of many awards and Hotoshe Sema, a schoolteacher in a remote area is a tireless social worker in addition to his profession and a recipient of awards like Bharat Jyoti, National and Global Teacher awards.

Revival & Healing Convention from Jan 19-22 ‘Food, cooking, eating…’ at Culinary and Cultural Exchange

Organisers of the Revival and Healing Convention scheduled to be held from January 19 to 22 at Rüzhükhrie Government Hr. Sec. School ground, Kohima. (Morung Photo)

Kohima, January 16 (mExn): The Nagaland Christian Revival Church, Kohima city will be organising a Revival and Healing Convention from January 19 to 22 at Rüzhükhrie Government Hr. Sec. School ground, Kohima. Holding a press conference at the Christian Revival Church on January 16, Rev. Dr. Neivotso Neikha, Convenor informed that the convention will witness powerful sermons by Rev. Dr. Paul K. Ariga, President, All Japan Revival Mission, Japan, and Dr. Joram Dol, Director, Mission Out-Reach, Arunachal Pradesh CRCC. With a vision to revive Nagaland in all spheres of life, Rev. Dr. Neivotso Neikha stated, "We need revival in many respects. Be it the political system,

the economic system or the social system in Naga society, there are so many things that need to be revived and transformed." Claiming that the convention is being held after receiving a "Divine Revelation" and confirmation from various sources, the organising committee has also mentioned that the convention is a joint collaboration of the 35 Christian Revival Churches in Kohima and is also a first of its kind collaboration. A special feature of the convention is the healing service by Dr. Joram Dol, who, the Organizers has claimed, to have healing powers, and has healed the crippled, deaf and dumb. Further, Rev. Dr. Ariga, according to the organisers, is a spirit-filled preacher

who has a 'real burden, vision and burning heart for the spiritual welfare of the people of Nagaland'. The Praise and worship will be lead by Khriesakuo Keretsü, and Mezhüsevi Zütso along with the special appearance of Gocha Stankiewiez from Poland as the pianist at the convention. Inviting all the citizens of Kohima town to receive the blessings and revive oneself again, the organising committee mentioned that the convention is open to all denominations and religion and entry is free of cost. Transportation will also be provided for villages and colonies. For transportation, interested persons are advised to contact the following numbers: 8732090790/ 7005179080.

Dimapur, January 16 (mExn): As part of the MoU signed between the Korea Culinary Arts Science (KCAS) High School, Korea, and C-Edge College (CEC) Dimapur, the 2nd Culinary and Cultural Exchange was held on January 13 at the College Campus. The KCAS team comprised of 10 students and 3 Professors. In the Culinary Exchange Session, students from both the Institutions shared and displayed their indigenous cuisines. Through this, the students and the faculty in-charge learned the various food items and also its recipes. This was followed by Cultural Exchange program in the afternoon.

Team from Korea Culinary Arts Science and student of C-Edge College display Korean and Naga cuisine during the programme held on January 13.

Some of the items during the Cultural were – Nagas Unveiled, Ethnic Show, a Sumi folk song, Yimchunger folk song and special

Kiphire DPDB constitutes LADP 2016-17 Board

KiphirE, January 16 (Dipr): The monthly meeting of Kiphire District Planning & Development Board was held on January 13 in the Conference Hall of Deputy Commissioner under the chairmanship Deputy Commissioner & Vice Chairman DPDP Kiphire, Sedevikho Khro. After review of the last meeting minutes, the Board constituted verification team for Local Area Development Programme (LADP) 2016-17 for the two constituencies, 59 A/C Sitimi-Seyochung with Additional Deputy Commissioner Seyochung as Convenor, Executive Engineer R&B, Member, Block development Officer Sitimi, Member. For 60 A/C Kiphire-Pungro the committee was constituted with Additional Deputy Commissioner Pungro as Convenor, Executive Engineer PHED, Member and Block Development Officer Pungro, Member. With regards to constitution of Sub-Divisional Planning Board at Pungro the board is to clarify to the Government that Kiusam Area of the District falls under 57 Thonoknyu A/C of Tuensang district, however Administrative matter falls under Kiphire. The Board therefore decided that the Government may its own decision on the matter. The Board also discussed for forthcoming Republic day and distributed work assigned to the departments concerned.

presentation from KCAS. The cultural program culminated with the Unity dance by CEC members. At the end, members from

the two institutions share the Naga Unity Dance and Korean dance as a significance of Unity. In addition, there was

a dynamic lecture and interactive session by Rev. Chang-Sun Moon, visiting Professor Vision University, Korea, on the topic “Business as a Mission”, with the faculty and students of C-Edge College. A press release from the C-Edge College informed that the programme was hugely beneficial for all participating students and faculty, as the very concept of “food”, “cooking”, “eating” etc. which are generally considered as simply basic functions, actually requires a higher level of both science in knowledge of its ingredients and preparations for a healthier living, and an Art in its presentation of even the same food item.

BJP kicks off DMC election campaign Morung Express News Dimapur | January 16

The BJP has become the first political party to officially kick off its campaign for the forthcoming Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) election with a public meeting for BJP candidate of Ward 22 (Burma Camp), Hokuto Zhimo, held Sunday evening at Bazar area. Hundreds of BJP supporters, comprising mainly of business and vendor community, attended the public rally to extend solidarity and support to the BJP candidate. Hokuto Zhimomi, who is contesting from one of the most populous wards of the DMC, in his address assured to address the main issues and problems faced by resident of Burma Camp including bad road condition and poor drainage if the people choose him to represent their ward in the DMC. Appealing to the voters and

BJP candidate of Ward 22 for the forthcoming Dimapur Municipal Council election, Hokuto Zhimomi, addressing a public rally at Burma Camp bazaar area held on Sunday evening. (Morung Photo)

public at large not to sell their votes, Hokuto said those who sell their votes cannot demand for development. The BJP candidate said he would work day and night not only for development of his ward but to also to ensure peaceful co-existence

among all tribes and communities residing in the five colonies under Ward 22. He further assured to work for uplift of the business and trading community, which form the chunk of population of Ward 22. BJP candidates from New Market, Hokivi Chishi, and Vikheho Zhimomi (Ward 17) also appealed the voters to give a chance to the BJP to run the municipality this time. Hokivi claimed that though the BJP has fielded only 11 candidates for the DMC election, yet it has entered into a pre-poll alliance with the 20 Independent candidates to form the DMC. State BJP leaders and Dimapur District BJP president also spoke at the rally. The BJP candidate of Ward 22 is seeking support of the electorate with the motto ‘Together with all, development for all’ and ‘Build bridges, not walls.’

Doctor from Nagaland wins National award

Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari of Dental Touch & Facial Aesthetics Dimapur receives the Indian Health Professional Awards 2016 at Pune on January 14.

Dimapur, January 16 (mExn): Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari of Dental Touch & Facial Aesthetics Dimapur won a National award, the Indian Health Professional Awards 2016 at Pune on January 14. He won awards on two categories, “Best Practicing Dentist of the year” and “Dental Leadership Award” Indian Doctors/ Dentist from three countries, 24

states and 60 cities from India were nominated for the awards. “He is one of the first dental professional from Nagaland to win a prestigious National health professional award,” stated a press release received here. Indian Health Professional Awards is an initiative to appreciate the efforts of health professionals doing extra ordinary excellent outstanding work in medical and dental field.

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CPI-M slams formation of Mary Kom says Manipur needs to tribal party alliance in Tripura tackle insurgency and corruption

AgArtAlA, JAnuAry 16 (IAnS): A day after three tribal-based political parties in Tripura came together and called for a 12hour shutdown to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, the ruling CPI-M on Monday termed the move a "separatist action". "The CPI-M is also opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, and supports the IndiraMujib pact which determined March 24, 1971, as cut off date to detect illegal infiltration into India from Bangladesh," CPI-M central Committee member Bijan Dhar told reporters on Monday. Dhar, accompanied by another Communist Party of India-Marxist Central Committee member Gautam Das, said there is no justification to calling a shutdown on the issue. "The strike was called as a pretext for formation of alliance to destabilise developmental and welfare schemes undertaken for the development of tribals," said Dhar, also the state Secretary of CPI-M. "The three tribal-based parties are unhappy that peace has been estab-

lished in the state and the decades old terrorism has been tamed in Tripura," he added. The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) and the National Conference of Tripura (NCT) on Sunday evening announced the formation of the All Tripura Indigenous Regional Parties Forum (ATIRPF) to oppose the bill introduced by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. The parties also called a 12-hour shutdown on February 8 in the jurisdiction of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) to oppose the proposed bill that aims to recognise the illegal immigrants from across the border. The TTAADC was formed in 1987 under Sixth Schedule of the Constitution to protect and safeguard the political, economic and cultural interests of the tribals. The politically important council constitutes two third of Tripura's 10,491 sq. km area. "If the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016,

is passed in Parliament, the indigenous people in Tripura and other northeastern states would be affected," ATIRPF convenor Narendra Chandra Debbarma told reporters on Sunday evening. "Bangladeshi migrants through this proposed law would be settled in eastern and northeastern India depriving the original people of the region of basic rights," the tribal leader said. Tribals play a crucial role in Tripura politics as one-third of the 60 assembly seats in the state are reserved for the tribals and one out of two Lok Sabha seats is reserved for the tribals. The IPFT has been agitating for the creation of a separate state, carved out by upgrading the TTAADC area. Both the INPT and IPFT have been demanding more power to TTAADC, introduction of inner-line permit in Tripura to protect the tribals, recognition of tribal language Kokborok in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution and reservation of 50 per cent seats for the tribals in the 60-member Tripura Assembly.

KCP (Poirei Meitei) cadre remanded to judicial custody new DelhI, JAnuAry 16 (IAnS): A court here on Monday remanded a suspected female Manipuri militant of the proscribed KCP (Poirei Meitei) outfit to judicial custody until January 31. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh sent Inugbamsanatombi Devi to judicial custody after Delhi Police did not seek her custody. She was arrested on Thursday along with Khoirom Ranjit, a Commander-inChief of KCP (Poirei Meitei), who is in po-

lice custody until January 19. They were involved in a number of terror activities like lobbing of grenades, shootouts, killings, planting bombs and running an extortion network. According to police, Inugbamsanatombi and Ranjit were arrested on Thursday morning from Mayur Vihar in east Delhi, while another accused Pukhrihongbamibomcha was arrested later in a separate raid in Manipur based on information provided by Ranjit.

Hindustan Times January 16

Manipur has suffered from militancy for more than the 34 years I have been living on this planet. Geography has also been a villain of sorts. But Manipur has seen development in various aspects, though not on a scale comparable to the rest of the country. Had there been no obstacles and hindrances, we would have been much better than what we are today. I have seen Manipur change considerably from the days I spent as a nonentity in a backward village named Kangathei (under Henglep assembly constituency in Churachandpur district). The state has nurtured my sporting ability, given me the opportunity to make a name in the world

of women’s boxing, and earn laurels for India. Despite hurdles, many other sportspersons have made Manipur and India proud. They include Thoiba Singh in field hockey, Kunjarani Devi in weightlifting, Laishram Bombayla in archery, and Devendro and Dingko Singh in boxing. But the greatness that Manipur achieved in sports appears to have slanted downward in the last few years. Apart from a Sports Authority of India centre and state’s only Khuman Lampak (Imphal) stadium, there is hardly any good sports complex with all necessary facilities. Besides, we also need to have qualified coaches and trainers, beyond traditional experts. Everything, I believe, will fall in place with im-

ImphAl, JAnuAry 16 (IAnS): Union Minister Prakash Javadekar disclosed on Monday that the Bharatiya Janata Party is planning a Congress-free Manipur. The Human Resource Development Minister was talking to reporters in the BJP office here on the conclusion of his twoday visit to Manipur to short-list the names of the party candidates for the 60 assembly constituencies. Manipur goes to polls in two phases on March 4 and 8. Javadekar said: "The final list of the BJP candidates will be released shortly before the nomination of papers. Every BJP member has the right to aspire for the party ticket." However, each case would be examined by the election committee of ten party for allotting tickets, he said. One senior BJP leader told IANS that the delayed allotment of party tickets was to pre-empt "anti-party activities by those who miss the bus". With over six strong aspirants in each constituency, the five disappointed politicians in each constituency may join some other parties or work against the party candidates as a political vendetta, he said. All the BJP ticket aspirants have publicly pledged support to the party candidate. One such aspirant said: "Such a miracle had never happened in the past in Mani-

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Guwahati | January 16

nessing an intricate legal tussle for the last few years. According to agency reports Tamil Nadu police on Sunday foiled attempts to conduct Jallikattu, detaining several people even as 'Mattu Pongal', third day of the harvest festivities, was celebrated with fervour in the state. However, Assam bull fight

provement in the existing systems and planning and an end to strikes and blockades that have held Manipur back. An ideal Manipur would be one with

BJP planning Congress-free Manipur: Javadekar

did not face resistance from authorities. Interestingly, bull fight or no festival ritual with involvement of animal or birds is found in cities and these are exclusive aspects of rural celebrations. Bull fight in defiance of court orders this year has been held in places spread across rural

Assam, especially in the districts of Nagaon and Sivasagar. 25 pairs of buffaloes took part in the fight conducted in Ahotguri and bullocks belonging to Mukut Hazarika of Ahotguri, Moina Saikia of Sidhabari on the awards. Such fights were also held in several other places. Bull fight tradition dates back the Ahom rule in Assam. However, in 2014 the Supreme Court, while hearing the case of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) vs A Nagaraja and others, had passed an order banning all animal races and fights in the country and had asked both the AWBI and the Centre to prevent the infliction of pain on animals and birds. "We cannot do away with the tradition overnight. In fact, buffalo fights are an integral part of our life as agriculturists. Through these fights, we let the bulls release their pent-up energy. If we do not let these bulls fight, we cannot use them for ploughing," said one of the bull fight organizer in Assam on Sunday.

communities residing in the state need to respect each other genuinely. We need to instil a spirit of broad-mindedness and patriotism, stop being biased, reach out to the most remote and backward areas and communities to understand their needs and thoughts, making sure they get their rights and their shares. There is an urgent need to re-cultivate a mindset that Manipur does not belong to a particular community, but to all communities settled in the state. Everyone should maintain integrity with the right attitude, words and action. The people should choose the ones worthy of leading them, ones who can address sensitive and controversial issues diplomatically and neutrally.

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pur." Javadekar said: "On Sunday, I had urged Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh to tender resignation on moral ground as he is politicking the blockade." "Since law and order is a state subject, we cannot do anything except to rush paramilitary forces on request. But Ibobi is not making use of the forces to gain political mileage," the Union Minister said. However, a Congress leader said: "Despite the Manipur government's request for 60 companies of paramilitary forces, the Centre has sent just 29 companies and it is not enough." Javadekar also accused the Chief Minister of not reacting to his call for resignation. However, the Congress leader said: "Ibobi has been away in Delhi for party works. Javadekar will get a befitting reply when Ibobi is back." Though ticket aspirants have been thronging the party office here since Sunday, Javadekar, Lok Sabha member Prahlad Singh Patel and the state unit leaders have refused to meet anyone. Instead they were informed that the state election committee had short-listed the candidates and the list would be submitted to the election committee of the party headed by their national President Amit Shah.

Bull fight persists in Assam Bihu Contrary to a report in an English daily published from another state, Bull Fight was held successfully during Magh Bihu festivities on Sunday in different parts of Assam, in implied defiance of a Supreme Court directive and people have demonstrated their will and power to uphold and preserve the tradition in the face of all odds. The bull fight observed this year have been termed as ‘unofficial’, clearly to avoid legal entanglement, but the enthusiasm and tenacity of organizers do not fall. Guwahati dailies, culminating two-day holiday, has hit the stands today to display the news that there has hardly been an end to the bullfight organized as a part celebration of the harvest festival Magh Bihu in January 14 and 15 every year. The Bihu bull fight in Assam is comparable to jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, involving animals and wit-

more job opportunities for qualified youth, peace and security, reform in the education system, preservation of wildlife and forestation to cope with climate change, people-friendly atmosphere, and equal promotion of inherited cultures. In a nutshell, Manipur needs to address three prime issues – unemployment, insurgency and corruption. Survival of jobless youth is at stake. The number of militants is increasing each day; this has to be controlled with peaceful dialogues and understanding. Corruption is visible everywhere and development projects are not implemented properly by stakeholders. Manipur also needs to improve its image – that of not being inclusive. All

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CHAKHESANG SÜKRÜNYE FESTIVAL 2017

On behalf of the Festival Committee, Chakhesang Sükrünye 2017, the Chakhesang Hoho Kohima (CHK) express our heartfelt gratitude to one and all for extending outmost solidarity and support towards the successful celebration of Chakhesang Sükrünye 2017 organized by CHK on 14th January 2017 at Kohima Local Ground. We also extend our immense gratitude to all the programme participants, leaders of various Tribal Hohos, Guests and Invitees, Chakhesang Churches of Kohima, Governmental Authorities and Agencies, press/media, various Organizations, Individuals and most of all the generous Donors. We regret our inability to express in detail, personally or by names to all those who have contributed towards this celebration. However, we pray God to richly bless one and all for your tireless and selfless initiatives and support. We do acknowledge that your participation and contribution is a mileage, a step forward in ‘Strengthening Unity and Harmony’.

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TuesDAY 17•01•2017

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‘World’s economic model deeply flawed’ DavoS, JaNuary 16 (Pti): Terming the current economic model of the world “deeply flawed”, a new study today said sustainable business plans can open up economic opportunities worth at least USD 12 trillion and generate up to 380 million new jobs by 2030. Releasing the study ahead of the 5-day WEF annual meeting beginning today evening, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission said the next decade is critical for companies to open 60 key market ‘hotspots’, tackle social and environmental challenges, and rebuild trust with society. The study, conducted by a grouping of more than 35 CEOs and civil society leaders, showed that “sustainable business models could open economic opportunities worth at least USD 12 trillion and up to 380 million jobs a year by 2030”. Putting the Sustainable Development Goals, or Global Goals, at the heart of the world’s economic strategy could unleash a step-change in growth and productivity, with an investment boom in sustainable infrastructure as a critical driver, it said. “However, this will not hap-

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pen without radical change in the business and investment community. Real leadership is needed for the private sector to become a trusted partner in working with government and civil society to fix the economy,” it added. In its flagship report Better

Business, Better World, the Commission observed that while the last few decades have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, they have also led to unequal growth, increasing job insecurity, ever more debt and ever greater environmental risks. This mix has fuelled an anti-

globalisation reaction in many countries, with business and financial interests seen as central to the problem, and is undermining the long-term economic growth that the world needs. “This report is a call to action to business leaders. We are on edge and business as usual will

drive more political opposition and land us with an economy that simply doesn’t work for enough people. We have to switch tracks to a business model that works for a new kind of inclusive growth,” said Mark Malloch-Brown, Chair of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission. “Better Business, Better World shows there is a compelling incentive for why the latter isn’t just good for the environment and society, (but) it makes good business sense,” he added. The report said 60 sustainable and inclusive market hotspots in just four key economic areas could create at least USD 12 trillion, worth over 10 per cent of today’s GDP. The breakdown of the four areas and their potential values are energy USD 4.3 trillion, cities USD 3.7 trillion, food and agriculture USD 2.3 trillion, health and well-being USD 1.8 trillion. The Business and Sustainable Development Commission was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2016 as a grouping of leaders from business, finance, civil society, labour and international organisations.

China finally agrees to import India slips to 92nd rank on global talent competitiveness JaNuary 16 overall index, followed by at 89th on the index. The re- clearly,” the report said. buffalo meat from India DavoS, While India stood on a (Pti): India has slipped 3 Singapore and the United port noted that the BRICS New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (iNDiaN exPreSS): China has finally agreed to remove restrictions on beef export from India. A top official in the Commerce ministry said Beijing, which has sent quality inspection team to India earlier to examine buffalo meat facilities, has cleared 14 abattoirs for importing meat from here. Making China agree for direct import of bovine meat from India has been a top priority for Indian government since Narendra Modi government took over in May 2014. Officials said China has been buying Indian beef from Vietnam in the last few years and New Delhi was not getting any advantages in terms of changing the bilateral trade. Sources said Ministry hopes that the export of beef would make a considerable change in the bilateral trade deficit. India’s trade deficit with China increased to $52.69 billion in 2015-16 from $48.48 billion in the previous financial year. “We have been lobbying hard to make China agree on importing buffalo meat directly from India. Chinese traders were using Vietnam for channelling their meat trade and Vietnam’s buffalo meat import has gone up more than its consumption,” said the official. Vietnam is the number one destination for India’s buffalo meat export and in 2013-14 it was 5,24,370 MT and it rose to 633800.24 MT in 2014-15. China signed an MoU for importing bovine meat from India in 2013 during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit, but has not lifted the restrictions yet. “After moving at a very slow pace, finally they have cleared 14 centres for its import. This is a positive move and we hope once the restrictions are over, they will clear more centres. Indian buffalo meat – mainly of water buffalo – is considered to be cost competitive and much better quality than what’s exported from countries like Brazil,” said the official. The country has exported 13,14,158.05 MT of buffalo meat products to the world for the worth of, Rs 2,6681.56 crore and the main export destinations are Malaysia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq apart from Vietnam. FiRe StatiOnS

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countries are not getting stronger and both China and India have slipped from their year-ago rankings. “Although China attains an impressive 4th place in the sub-pillar of Talent Impact and is solid in the Grow pillar - mainly supported by good formal education (23rd) and lifelong learning (20th), the shortage of vocational and technical skills shows up

relatively solid pool of global knowledge skills compared with other emerging markets, the country is not able to retain and attract talent. In terms of retaining and attracting talent, India was ranked at a lowly 104th and 114th, respectively. “This is not likely to improve until India boosts performance in its regulatory (94th) and market (99th) landscapes,” the report said.

New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (aFP): Flip-flops bearing the face of India’s independence icon Mahatma Gandhi for sale on Amazon triggered fresh outrage Sunday, days after the e-retail giant was forced to stop selling Indian flag doormats. On Wednesday, India demanded Amazon apologise for selling “insulting” doormats featuring India’s national flag, with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj warning of tough action against the company. Amazon removed the offending products from its website, but the controversy had barely died down when Twitter users began posting screengrabs of the pink Gandhi flip-flops on sale on Amazon USA. The flip-flops, which cost $16.99 (roughly Rs. 1,150) are described on the website as “professionally printed” and a product that “will look great and make someone smile”. Amazon could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday but the flip-flops appeared to have been taken down from their site.

HP unveils world’s first mini workstation in India New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (iaNS): HP Inc. on Monday announced to make the world’s first workstation called Z2 Mini in India which is designed for users in Computer Aided Design (CAD) and other compute-intensive industries. The HP Z2 Mini workstation will be available in India from January 25 onwards at Rs 72,000 (starting price). At only 2.3-inch high, Z2 Mini is 90% smaller than a traditional business-class tower PC and has the ability to support six displays, the company said in a statement. “Designed for the workspace of the future, HP Z2 Mini Workstation is remarkably versatile and it showcases next level power by offering twice the power of a businessclass mini PC, a key for designers,” said Ketan Patel, Senior Director, Personal Systems Business, HP Inc. India. The workstation running Windows 10 Pro or Linux comes equipped with next-generation Intel Xeon processors, NVIDIA professional graphics and HP Z Turbo Drive for handling large files remarkably fast.

India fuel consumption to hit 200 million tonnes in 2016/17 New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (reuterS): India’s fuel consumption is likely to hit 200 million tonnes in 2016/17, an oil ministry executive said on Monday, in what would be the highest such level in at least 16 years. “Demand for petroleum products is increasing as the economy grows. India has the best growth amongst the large economies in the world ... we have massive hunger for petroleum products,” said oil ministry Additional Secretay A K Sawhney. India’s fuel consumption surged 10.9 % to 183.5 million tonnes in 2015/16. A level of 200 million tones would compare to over 750 million tonnes in the United States last year and 500 million tonnes in China.

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deflationary pressure for the fourth consecutive month. This was helped by a substantial price fall in onions, which stood at (-) 37.20%. While the prices of diesel shot up by 20.25%, petrol became dearer by 8.52%. The overall inflation index of fuel and power segment registered an increase of 8.65% in December. Besides fuel items, sugar, potato, pulses and wheat became expensive during the month. Overall, the food basket witnessed contraction, with inflation at (-) 0.70% in December as against 1.54% in November. Experts said that

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New Delhi, JaNuary 16 (iaNS): The number of users that encountered malware, capable of stealing money or valuable financial information, reached 3,19,000 in the fourth quarter of 2016 globally -- 22.49% more than in the same period in 2015, global internet security giant Kaspersky Lab reported on Monday. An increase in the number of attacks was spotted during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and during Christmas period. “Financial malware attacks are on the rise again and all their targets from owners and clients of e-shops, to credit card holders and banks should be aware of the dangers and take adequate steps to stay safe,” said Oleg Kupreev, Security Expert, Kaspersky Lab, in a statement.

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Tuesday 17•01•2017

NAGALAND

‘Join hands and settle the Naga common goal’ TL Angami, founder president of GB Federation of Nagaland writes to Governor

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 16 (MExN): The Founder President and Sr. Advisor of the GB Federation of Nagaland, TL Angami today submitted a memorandum to the Nagaland State Governor, PB Acharya drawing the latter’s attention to several issues including the troubling situation in Manipur, the Indo-Naga issue, 33 percent women’s reservation in Urban Local Bodies’ election, implementation of Article 371 A, oil drilling in the state and the Nagaland Foothill Road construction. With regard to the situation in Manipur, Angami alleged that the Manipur Chief Minister has “always threatened the Nagas,” and demanded that the Manipur CM must clarify as to whether the “area of land where the Nagas are permanently living belongs to Nagas of Manipur or to the Government of Manipur?” Pointing out the significance of the 9 Point Agreement, he urged the Naga National workers to speak out for the rights of the Nagas as enshrined in the said agreement. Meanwhile, he stated that if the Government of India is willing to bring about an amicable and honorable settlement to the Indo-Naga issue, the GoI “must tender her apology before the Nagas for the atrocities such as burning down of the Naga Native Villages into ashes, molesting the women folk, killing thousands of innocent lives of Nagas and destroying their properties including their worship places.” He also suggested that a reasonable compensation must be paid to the real victims. Referring to the Framework Agreement signed on August 3, 2015 between the NSCN (IM) and

the GoI, TL Angami termed this as a “door of Naga political final settlement…” He urged all Naga leaders to “join hands and settle the Naga common goal” through the Framework Agreement, and meanwhile cautioned that “if any faction failed to join the same in order to achieve the Naga common goal the same faction or the same section of Nagas shall be held responsible.” “And while leaders from two nation are trying to bring an honorable settlement between the Nagas and GOI, how can we allow the government of Nagaland to conduct general election in Nagaland?” he also questioned. Angami affirmed that till the Naga political final settlement is arrived at, no state general election should be held in Naga inhabited areas. With regard to 33 percent women reservation, he cited Naga customary law and Christianity, while arguing against the reservation policy. “According to Naga Customary Law and its practices, there was no game of competition between the men and women or there is no system of sharing of properties between the men and women since time immemorial. And according to the Christianity religion the women was created as partnership and helper of men...,” he said. He argued that unless the women reservation is implemented within other states, it should not be implemented within the Naga inhabited area on grounds of “violation of Christian religion doctrine as well as the Naga Customary practices.” Angami urged the state government to cancel the recommendation of the cabinet decision regarding this. He also stated that the ULB election is a separate matter not related to the reservation issue, and called for ULB polls without reservation.

Angami also chimed in on the oil exploration issue and stated that according to Article 371 A, land and its resources do not belong to Nagaland Government and as such, the Govt. of Nagaland and the landowner must work together amicably. He stated that land owners must also follow the government decision and if any dispute arises between the Govt. and landowner, it should be reviewed immediately according to landowners’ interest. He also urged the department concerned to try locating oil in other areas as well and not only the ones where oil has already been discovered. Regarding the Tuli paper mill, he suggested that the Government of Nagaland detail a team for “detailed verification, as to why and how the same full swing running factory has gone missing.” On the Nagaland Foothill Road, he stated that “the illegal immigrants of Assam as well as the govt. of Assam are still claiming the 1925 boundary between the Nagas and Assam marked as foot hill road.” “And as such, before the Naga political final settlement is arrived at if the government of Nagaland constructed the said Naga foot hill road as demanded by the NFHRCC, the illegal immigrants of Assam and the Govt. of Assam will continue to claim the said road as boundary between the two states and disturb Naga life by bandhs over the present approach road between the Nagas and Assam,” Angami claimed. He therefore stated that “before the Naga political final settlement is arrived at, the Govt. of Nagaland or NFRHCC will be better not to invite anymore problem for the Nagas by construction of such unsafe proposed project.” Regarding Article 371A, he appealed to the NLA to implement the Article within Nagaland immediately as endorsed by the GOI

SEC misguiding public by misinterpreting Nagaland Municipal Election rules: NPCC

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 16 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has expressed astonishment to the response of the State Election Commission (SEC) Nagaland for Municipal and Town Council elections over what it termed as “trying to misguide the general public by misinterpreting even the existing rule of the Nagaland Municipal Election Rules 2003.” According to the NPCC, the SEC had stated “under Rule 20 Section 7, the Commission can vary, modify and alter the election programme. Rule 30 of the Nagaland Municipal Election Rules vests the SEC with superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of elections to the Municipals and Town Councils and when such instances come to its notice, the Commission has to take such steps as may be nec-

PEREN, JANUARY 16 (MExN): Public of Jalukie Town today barred the “unwarranted meeting” convened by the “ghost media cell” of Zeliang People's Organisation (ZPO) at Jalukie Administrative Rest House purportedly to discuss the 33% reservation for women and the non-indigenous Nagaland state's candidate in the ULB election, according to a press release from Zeliang People’s Organisation Nagaland (ZPON). Massive crowd from Jalukie Town and its surrounding villages gathered at the Administrative Rest House premise holding placards and prevented the meeting, it stated. The public also held a People gathered at Jalukie Administrative Rest House to oppose the meeting on January 16. brief meeting and resolved that the purported meeting media cell of ZPO was the people and disrupt the to condemn and declare convened by the “ghost” “only an attempt to confuse smooth conduct of Urban

Model Code of Conduct Committee meeting Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome has called a meeting with the members of Model Code of Conduct Committee Dimapur district on January 18, 11:00 am in the conference hall of DC office with regard to the ensuing Urban Local Bodies’ election. The Committee members comprises of the following: DC as Convenor; SDO (C) Sadar as Member Secretary; members including RO Dimapur Municipal Council; One representative of Commissioner of Police; DPRO Dimapur; President DCC, Dimapur district; President BJP, Dimapur district; President NCP, Dimapur district; and President NPF Dimapur district. All Committee members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

WASU biennial general conference The 42nd biennial general conference of Western Angami Students' Union (WASU) will be held on January 19 at Mezoma village, Kohima. The conference will be graced by Kiyaneilie Peseyie, Minister for Social Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs as the chief guest and Kovi Meyase, Administrator, Kohima Municipal Council as the guest of honor. The WASU has informed that a registration fee of Rs. 20 will be taken from each delegate, and each unit has been advised to bring one flag each. Further all delegates have been requested to come with a “traditional touch” in their attire.

KPC 16th Foundation Day The Kohima Press Club (KPC) will observe its 16th Foundation Day on January 20 in the KPC conference hall, Kohima at 12:00 pm. All the members of the club have been requested to attend the programme. The KPC Executive Council has also informed that there will be an exchange of gifts, each worth Rs.500 and above, among the members following the formal programme. The KPC has also extended invitation to all the well wishers of the club to join the Foundation Day celebration.

Level Bodies election with 33% women reservation.” The release from ZPON President, Kezen Zeliang further said that the meeting decided to fully endorse and support the State Government's decision to hold ULB election with 33% women reservation. It also resolved to condemn the “racist motives propagated by the so called ZPO media cell and termed such move as only attempt to disrupt unity arid peaceful coexistence of the Zeliang people in particular and the Nagas in general.” Meanwhile, a resolution was also made to declare that at no level will the women reservation infringe upon the customary practices of the Nagas and that promotion of women by giving them opportu-

nity to serve the society will help Nagas to usher in new era of peace, unity and progress. Therefore, it appealed to all sections of people to be sagacious and allow the ULB election. The public meeting further declared that intimidation issued by various tribal bodies with a threat to ex-communicate/outcast a person for filing nomination to the ULB election with women reservation is “barbaric and disgraceful practices in the contemporary era.” It also resolved to initiate befitting action against any person who tries to create confusion and misunderstanding amongst the people by convening such “unwarranted meeting” in the name of ZPO in near future.

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Who is the Government: The people or the Ministers?

Jonas Yanthan

eaving aside all the differences prevalent in the ULB elections for a second let us try to understand the primary essence of what form of government we have. We all know that our system of Government is Democracy. The definition of Democracy states that “It is a Government of the people, by the people and for the people.” In this form of Government, in whom does power lay; the elected members or the people? Power is always with the people. Elected members of such a Government, as we know, are known as “representatives” of the people. Their prime duty is to listen to the voice and concerns of the people and deliver goods to the people and not to push in their personal interests and agendas. They are also to enact good laws based on the aspira-

for the purpose of office administration and functioning of the SEC and not for extension of nomination date, it went on to add. Moreover, the NPCC opined that an order has to be decided or judged by reasons given in the order itself and not by further clarification or justification thereafter. Therefore, it reminded the SEC that the January 7, 2017 notification for extension of the nomination date does not have any mention of the Rule 30, except Sub-Rule 7 of Rule 20 under Nagaland Municipal Election Rules. It also claimed that it is for the first time in the entire country that last date for nomination to the Urban Local Bodies' election has been extended. Further, the NPCC said it is willing to seek the opinion of the court of law to define the rules, which are in question in connection with the matter.

under its constitution and set up the provisions mentioned, including construction of office of the Naga Customary Law in each tribal headquarters and allow the Village Chiefs and tribal Hohos to exercise their customary law. On elections in the state, Angami said that a “One Day Census” is the only answer for clean election in Nagaland. The Indian election can never match with Naga selection system of Nagas as per the Naga customary practices since time immemorial, he claimed. “There is no bribery or purchase of leadership system in Naga selection issue. And according to a leadership selection system in Naga country, the Naga used to select the most capable candidate who acquired the maximum trust of the people and who do not have any blemish from his/her childhood…” Angami stated. “One Day Census all over the state of Nagaland should be carried out without delay and the same should be implemented by the concerned Department of Election Commission of India in order to bring accurate numbers of population, voters, households etc,” he proposed. He also argued for complete lifting of the Prohibition Act, by stating, “Arrest the drunkard fellow and keep him at lockup until surrender and allow the wife of the drunkard to draw his salary.” Angami also called for up-gradation of sub divisions to district level, by upgrading “the whole respective Naga tribal level sub division into district level at its headquarter for Naga tribal traditional equal right.” Finally, he also asked the Governor to “issue recognition order to Tikhir Naga tribe if available off NOC from the surrounding areas which Naga traditional tribes Executive Chairman of Khiamniungan Tribal Council, Noklak, Khaiko Meyo and Dr. could not be identified by the gov- Benjung presenting handicraft to the Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya during their ernment at the initial stage.” meeting at Raj Bhavan, Kohima on January 16. (Photo: PRO, Raj Bhavan)

Public bar meeting called to discuss ULB election in Jalukie

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essary to afford the opportunity to the candidates to file the nominations.” Contradicting the statement made by the Commission, the NPCC maintained that Rule 20, sub-rule 7 does not have the provisions for extension of nomination date. It also pointed out that Rule 30 of Nagaland Municipal Election Rules speaks about the “List of contesting candidates” and not about the “superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of elections to the Municipals and Town Councils and when such instances come to its notice” as has been quoted by the SEC. Whereas, it is under Section 30 of the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001, which provides provisions for “The superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of elections to the Municipals and Town Councils” but that too only

tions of the people and, in particular, in Nagaland since the people have a special provision in regard to customary practices and land holding system any enactment must be based on this system. The ongoing standoff between the State Government and the tribal bodies is a result of the Elected Members turning into arbitrators of the people’s issues instead of implementing the wish of the people. The use of the word “so-called” is unwise however, the contention of the elected members that the Tribal Hohos cannot take action against a Minister on the ground that they have taken an oath under the Constitution, even though they are at fault, is a faulty reasoning because in the strength of democratic principle, the constitution of the country, in itself, is to protect the interest of the people at all times and not the Ministers or MLAs. For

elected members, respect and concern will depend on their behaviors and actions. Another contention that Political Party’s interest is greater than Hoho’s interest is also wrong because, when a Minister is not above the people; political parties can in no way be above the Tribal Bodies. Political Parties, Ministers and MLAs must always be subservient to the people they pledge to serve or be phased out. Due to often occurrence of misbehaviors and arrogance exhibited by some MPs, Ministers and MLAs it is being mooted by the Election Commission of India to bring about a rule, in the interest of the people, by which an elected member can be recalled any time during the tenure on the demand of the Electorates. Hope this will come into effect soon for the sanctity of Democracy. In conclusion, in the

best interest and desire of the people of Nagaland, it will only be wise for the Government of the day to listen to the people, as they have all taken a tough stand, and postpone the scheduled ULB elections to avoid unnecessary conflict and untoward incidents. Then call for a people’s threadbare deliberation on the Municipal Act and the Women issue within a time frame so that the much needed elections to the Municipal and Town Councils could be held at the earliest. And let this exercise be the model for all future enactments and projects as well. After all there is no human society where there is no problem and there is no problem or issue that cannot be solved. The only requirement is wisdom, humility and selflessness. Arrogance, pride and greed will take us no where except destined losers and confirmed irrationals.

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DC Dimapur informs parade contingents

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 16 (MExN): Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome has informed all the parade contingents, including school contingents, under Dimapur district that the parade rehearsal for the Republic Day celebration 2017 will commence on January 18, 7:00 am onwards at DDSC Stadium.

Kohima Police seize drug worth Rs 1.3 lakh KohIMA, JANUARY 16 (MExN): Kohima Police personnel manning the Phesama check gate recovered 13,000 capsules of banned Spasmo Proxyvon drug worth Rs. 1,30,000/- from the possession of one person identified as Mujibur Rahman (19). The accused was travelling in a Manipur bound Tata Winger bearing registration number MN06L-8071, according to a press release from Atu Zumvü, Sub–Divisional Police Officer (South) & PRO, Kohima. He was taken into police custody for possession and transportation of the banned drug. Meanwhile, a regular case vide Kohima South PS Case No. 004/2017 U/S 21 (c) NDPS Act was registered against the arrested accused before he was remanded into judicial custody.

KSON wishes to celebrate Mimkut festival with peace DIMAPUR, JANUARY 16 (MExN): As the Kukis all over Nagaland celebrate Mimkut festival, Kuki Students' Organisation, Nagaland (KSON) has wished all to celebrate the day with peace and bring joy, reconciliation and strengthen “our” rich cultures and traditions. Kuki people celebrate Mimkut, the post harvest festival, on January 17 every year. “The festival adds colors and unity among Kuki society. People enjoy this festival for two days with different cultural activities and performances. Kuki people show their talent and spirit of festival during the event,” stated a press release from Paotinsei, President, KSON.

Nagaland Governor lauds Air India KohIMA, JANUARY 16 (MExN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya has appreciated and congratulated Air India Limited and its Chairman and Managing Director, Ashwani Lohani for reserving six seats towards the front of its every domestic flight for women passengers travelling alone with no additional charges. “This move is a respect to women and will ensure safety of women and enhance comfort level for female passengers travelling alone. I hope other Airlines also take a cue and follow this example,” Acharya said in a letter to Lohani.

BSF battalion repairs road ZUNhEboto, JANUARY 16 (MExN): 111 Bn BSF repaired the road between the battalion headquarters at Satakha and Kilomi. The Commandant and Coy Commander had surveyed the road and identified the worst patches prone to landslide and water logging requiring immediate repairs and the road maintenance project was undertaken, informed a press release from 111 Bn BSF. It pointed out that the state highway in the unit AOR connecting Zunheboto district with Kohima district has been left to nature’s mercy after the abandonment of the prestigious two lane road expansion project. “In view of the pathetic road condition, Adm and Ops activities of the Unit as well as the movement of the civilians have been greatly hampered specially during the rainy seasons. Moreover, travelling in such a road has not only become risky and dangerous but a challenge for the people,” it added.

IN FOCUS The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xii issue 15

‘The Danger of a Single Story’

n 2009, the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie while presenting “The Danger of a Single Story” during a TED talk eloquently pointed out that, “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Indeed, a single story cannot represent or embrace a people’s dignity as it negates their diverse experiences and stories while selectively creating a dominant narrative that sustains a culture of power through domination and dispossession of justice. The Nagas, too, are in danger of being subsumed by the single story. Today, the manner in which the Nagas are responding to the many crisis confronting them is based on a dominant single story, which is proving to be limiting and counter-productive. Above all, the Naga worldview has become frozen, hardened and is spiraling into a parochial regression. Consequently, this invasive narrative is reducing the Naga people’s many positive attributes and opportunities to evolve. There is much the Naga heart can learn and reflect from Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story.” The reflection process can be initiated by questioning why the complex, diverse and rich stories of the people have been reduced into one story that begins with the arrival of colonial powers. This timing in itself is false as Naga history began generations before the colonial project was instituted. The Nagas need to ask why the ‘Nagaland State’ of 1960 is the yardstick which gives legitimacy of being ‘Naga.’ The reflection process needs to systematically debunk the many stereotypes and assumptions which project false images of who Nagas are. Nagas can muster the courage, the collective will and heart to break the narrative of the single story and embrace the diverse and rich texture of stories which constitute the Naga realm. Undeniably, Adichie is urging the Naga heart to speak out “the stories that only [the Naga heart] can tell, about [its] experiences, hopes and fears, helps break down the power of clichés and stereotypes.” It is in recovering and sharing the many stories that the Naga journey towards rehumanization can be strengthened. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is encouraging the Nagas to reject the single story and states that they will realize that there is “never a single story about any place,” and when it does so, the Nagas will “regain a kind of paradise.”

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Laurie Goering Thomson Reuters Foundation

CURBING HUNGER, one (modest) breakfast at a time Making sure there’s enough food to go around requires more than producing it – and the changes could pay off for your waistline

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hile visiting my family over the Christmas holidays, I ate something unusual: A big American breakfast. There was a huge omelette, made from at least three or four eggs, plus melted cheese and mushrooms. Around it, on the restaurant platter, sprawled a virtual mountain of fried potatoes. A couple of pieces of toast topped off the impressive pile. Like many of the people around me, I tried my best but couldn’t finish that much food, so left some of it behind. Still, over a few meals of that kind, I managed to pack on some weight, despite getting plenty of exercise. When we talk about hunger and food issues in the world, we often focus on the world’s poorest countries, where more than a quarter of a billion people don’t get enough food each day. But rich countries – and even many of the richer developing ones – have their own serious problems with food, including growing rates of obesity and rampant food waste. Getting the world’s food systems sorted out is about to become hugely more important. Extreme weather and rising temperatures associated with climate change, as well as changing monsoon patterns and fast-disappearing groundwater, threaten to make growing enough food much more difficult in the years ahead, just as the number of us living on the planet continues to soar. Look at Zimbabwe, where a vicious, prolonged drought last year has left 4.5 million people hungry, or India, where decades of heavy pumping of groundwater for irrigation now threatens the long-term viability of one of the region’s major grain-producing regions. Think California can keep growing its almond industry in the face of longer and more frequent droughts? Think again. The need for more food around the world in turn threatens to drive more climate change, as farmers and commodity companies fell and burn their way into forests from the Amazon to Indonesia to Africa’s Congo Basin. Some plans to address climate change, aimed at holding global temperature rise to manageable levels, call for huge areas of land to be put to growing plants to turn into fuel. But what if that means further losses of forests and farmland? A smarter way to deal with the coming pressures may be to focus not so much on boosting food production but on making it – and how we eat – smarter. For instance, demand for meat and dairy products is growing as developing countries get richer, but those foods take much more land, water and climate-changing emissions to produce. Cutting back on those products – particularly in the rich countries that eat the most of them – could make a huge difference in the world food supply, and in our health and waistlines. Plenty of other smart ideas exist as well. Those are some of what I and others will be looking for as judges of the Food Sustainability Media Award that is being launched this week, focused on food paradoxes: obesity versus hunger; food for people versus animals and fuel; and food waste even as starvation lingers. Meanwhile, I’m trying to do my part. I’m eating meat less often and smaller amounts of it when I do. I’m buying from food companies with sustainable and green supply chains. And when I next visit that American omelette house, I’ll ask for a half portion – and make sure I eat every bite.

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Standing Rock and the Return of the ‘Nonviolent Campaign’ There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power

onviolent campaigns are often dramatic and catch the attention of millions—think of Standing Rock water protectors resolute in the face of a brutal police force. All the more puzzling that the concept of a “nonviolent campaign” is little known and often ignored when people talk about how to mobilize power, for example, to prevent Donald Trump from erasing gains made in addressing climate change. For many, the choices are limited to lobbying, petitions, and looking for promising progressive candidates to run a different kind of campaign— the electoral campaign. Thinking outside that box usually means a one-off march or rally, or possibly a protest. The trouble is, a nonviolent march or rally or protest is not nearly as effective as a nonviolent campaign. One or two of those actions could not have the impact of the enduring Standing Rock campaign. What marks a nonviolent campaign? Swarthmore College researchers have been digging into that question, analyzing over 1,000 nonviolent campaigns waged in almost 200 countries. Swarthmore’s publicly available database goes back historically to 12th century Egypt, when laborers building a tomb for the Pharaoh successfully campaigned for wages that were being unfairly withheld. The researchers found protests are usually one-off events that express grief, outrage, or plain opposition to an action or policy, and if the protest gets attention, it may be repeated. Campaigners, by contrast, carry out a strategy over time. They plan a series of nonviolent actions that continues until the goal is reached. That may be a matter of weeks, or months, or years. When Earth Quaker Action Team reached year three of its campaign to induce PNC Bank, the nation’s seventh largest, to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, the members of EQAT began to tire. They researched the Swarthmore database and discovered that the British campaign to force Barclays bank to divest from apartheid in South Africa took 20 years to succeed. The Barclays campaign gave EQAT fresh perspective on endurance. Two years later, the group won its “Bank Like Appalachia Matters” campaign. True, many campaigns are resolved in a much shorter time. America’s earliest recorded nonviolent campaign was in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, when Polish artisans—the first non-English settlers—campaigned for the right to vote equally with the English. The Poles won their demand in three months. The Allegany County Nonviolent Action Group in New York won its 1990 campaign to prevent a nuclear waste dump from being built there in less than a year. Citizens in Bodega Bay, California, with the help of Berkeley students and folksinger Malvina Reynolds, needed two years to cancel a plan to build the nation’s first com-

mercially viable nuclear power plant. tisegregation campaign. In spring 1963, SCLC brought adIn 1964, campaigners in Los Angeles won cancellation of a planned Malibu ditional organizers and trainers to Birmingham to join the local struggle. plant as well. Campaigners escalated their tactics, Campaigns have specific confronting the segregationists’ podemands and targets lice dogs and fire hoses with nonvioNonviolent campaigners know lent discipline. When mass jail-ins left what they want: clean water in North a scarcity of adults available for civil Dakota for indigenous people; the disobedience, children stepped in to Dream Act for students brought to this fill the streets. The sheer volume of discountry as children by undocumented ruption dislocating Birmingham and immigrants; a cleanup of chemicals at the national charisma of Dr. King efLove Canal in upstate New York; uni- fectively pressured the White House. versity goods and clothing made by Kennedy reportedly got on the phone workers who are treated fairly with safe with U.S. Steel President Roger Blough working conditions. and others of the power elite, gaining Campaigners also know who can agreement that the time had come for make the decision they need. Alice Paul a national civil rights bill that would led the National Woman’s Party cam- guarantee equal accommodations. paign for suffrage and targeted President Woodrow Wilson. As the film Iron Campaigns can build movements The civil rights struggle also illusJawed Angels reveals, the women demonstrating during World War I com- trates the way campaigns build mass pared the president to the German social movements. On Feb. 1, 1960, just emperor, calling him “Kaiser Wilson!” four college students initiated a sit-in In her later years, when I interviewed campaign at a segregated lunch counAlice Paul, she said she was confident ter near their campus in North Carolina. that Wilson could make the difference Inspired, students at other campuses folin persuading a balky Congress to pass lowed suit. Within a month there were the 19th Amendment, giving women student sit-ins throughout the South the right to vote. She was right. Her 1917 and a solidarity campaign at Woolworth escalation of the campaign brought vot- stores in northern cities as well. Multiple, replicated local campaigns turned a few ing to women just three years later. students’ efforts into the widespread and Escalation is an art iconic “freedom movement.” The 1960s civil rights movement When Gandhi faced the largest showed expertise in locating and se- empire the world had ever known, he quencing direct actions to escalate knew that India would need a massive pressure on their target. movement to sustain protracted strugWhen President John F. Kennedy gle and gain independence. Initially, refused Martin Luther King Jr.’s request he believed that his people were too to provide leadership for a civil rights disunited and disheartened to forge bill, the Southern Christian Leadership such a movement. So he led a series of Conference made an unusual strategic campaigns, using them to win smaller decision. Instead of taking the obvious demands, build leadership and organext step of focusing action in the na- nizing skills, and develop the necestion’s capital in order to gain victory sary self-confidence. The campaigns there, the SCLC decided to escalate in eventually built a large-enough nationBirmingham, Alabama, at that time a al movement to wage the famous Salt major industrial city. It was where the March of 1930–31, which in turn inRev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a member of creased the size of the growing moveSCLC, had for years led an ongoing an- ment by supporting more, smaller

campaigns involving still more people. A little more than a decade later, critical mass forced the British to give up the prize jewel of their empire. Overshadowed by politics The obsession of the U.S. mainstream media is electoral campaigning. In Denmark, a national political campaign is limited to six weeks and paid advertising is not allowed on TV. Danish voter participation is much higher than in the U.S. Mass media have a small window in which to present and clarify the issue differences among the parties and candidates. They do that efficiently. In the United States, media bombard citizens for at least a year with the horserace dimension of elections. People may not learn much about the issues, but they do gain a sense of how a political campaign works, including strategy. By contrast, no one hears how nonviolent campaigns won or what their strategic choices were. Context is absent: What mainstream media source gives us that kind of context about Standing Rock, comparing it with other campaigns waged by indigenous groups for their tribal and environmental rights? When do we hear academic experts on nonviolent struggle explain the dynamics behind breaking news in a nonviolent campaign? The result is a public ill-informed about its options when facing an authoritarian president or a wave of policy changes that diminish human rights and planetary sustainability. The good news is the reemerging art of the nonviolent campaign. Our choices are not limited to petitioning politicians or staging a protest. Instead, we can start something big. George Lakey designed the Global Nonviolent Action Database while a professor at Swarthmore College. In his new book he tells the story of nonviolent campaigns bringing economic justice to Norway and Sweden: “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too,” Melville House, 2016.

Bangladesh: The Key to India’s Look East through Northeast

SubirBhaumik

ndia’s Look East policy, now upgraded as ‘Act East’ by PM Narendra Modi, calls for a double look east. To make it successful and achieve its purpose of situating the country’s under-developed and conflict ridden Northeastern states at the heart of its robust engagement with Southeast Asia and possibly China, India needs to first look east from its mainland to Bangladesh. Bangladesh holds the key to India’s overland connection to its Northeast , which is linked by land through a tenuous 21-lms wide Siliguri corridor, often derided as a “Chicken’s Neck” . The access to sea for India’s Northeast is also easily possible through Bangladesh and somewhat more circuitously through Myanmar. So it would be no exaggeration to say that Bangladesh holds the key to India’s ‘Look East’ or ‘Act East’ policy. Boosted by the return of a friendly regime in Dhaka under the leadership of current Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India undertook a quantum leap in bilateral relationship with Bangladesh in 2010. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Dhaka with several chief ministers of Indian states bordering Bangladesh. Though West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerji spoiled the show by a last minute pullout protesting against an im-

pending agreement on the sharing of the waters of Teesta river, the IndiaBangladesh bilateral relations has only gone forward ever since. Narendra Modi’s government has only carried forward the process by developing rail-road-river-cyber connectivity between India and Bangladesh and used it to strengthen such links betw een the mainland and the northeast through Bangladesh. Dhaka’s decision to allow transit of goods through its territory to Northeast from Indian mainland was a game changer. It may take a while to operationalise and stabilize but there is no going back. It is clear that only if India can firm up its access to Northeast through Bangladesh, the next stage of ‘LookEast’ to link up to southeast Asia and China will work. India’s ‘Look East’ will work not through the Chicken Neck but through Bangladesh. India is therefore prioritizing linking up to Northeast through Bangladesh avoiding the ‘Siliguri corridor’ much as China is seeking to avoid the Malacca straits ( that its strategists see as a chokepoint) and trying to develop multiple land-to-sea access into Myanmar and Pakistan. The success of the Look East is key

for India’s future. Not only is the East and Northeast the Achilles Heel of India due to its sustained under-development and proneness to different layers of conflict, but this is also the area where Indian diplomacy has the necessary space to play out a new script of connectivity, culture and commerce that is denied to it in the West by an ever-hostile Pakistan . In fact, if India and Bangladesh succeed in carrying their relationship to a new heights, it will help dispel fears of ‘Big Brother India’ among its smaller neighbours.. An isolated Pakistan may thus feel incentivized to change track and attempt improving relations with India to avoid isolation. The security issues are also closely linked to connectivity as far as IndiaBangladesh relations are concerned. If the present spate of Islamist terror spins out of control in Bangladesh and/or encourages the political opposition to plunge the country into a new spell of street violence impacting very adversely on movement of goods and people, it will tell upon the positive connectivity infrastructure already developed. How can trucks plying through Bangladesh stranded for days due to ceaseless strikes (bandhs) or ships un-

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able to offload cargo from Indian ports meant for transshipment to Northeast be seen as reliable mode of transport for carrying goods to India’s Northeast ! One of the reasons India went in for the expensive and time-consuming Kaladan Multi-Modal transshipment project through Myanmar’s Rakhine province was because Bangladesh’s pre-Hasina regime was not willing to even consider the issue of transit. The uncertainties caused by the fluid security situation in Bangladesh would actually justify doing up the Kaladan project, despite time and cost overruns, as an alternative if transit through Bangladesh for India’s Northeast runs into difficulties. Mizoram is surely the major beneficiary of the Kaladan project but other Northeastern states are not much enthused by it, except as treating it as an emergency alternative for transit through Bangladesh. Subir Bhaumik is Senior Editor with Dhaka-based bdnews24.com and consultant editor with Myanmar’s Mizzima News. *The article is the outcome of the research project titled ‘Social Mapping of Logistics, Infrastructure and India’s Look East Policy’ conducted by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG) in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS)

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Nagas’ Unrealistic Expectations Dr. Salikyu Sangtam

Tetso College

hange is in the air, it seems. This is evident in the blaring demands for clean elections, good roads, women’s reservation, societal advancements, and an end to backdoor appointments, corruptions, nepotisms, etc. Countless NGOs along with equally innumerable other organizations have heroically on their own offered themselves, even though not invited, to be the agents of change. Many of us have even begun to expect that the demands currently occupying our newspapers and societal discourses will materialize, at least in our lifetime. What’s more, we also see a proliferation in admirable new leaders—young and old—from all sections of the society valiantly volunteering themselves, even gallantly going against the sensible advice of others, to lead our society. Given such unraveling of events, one is almost tempted to give in to the euphoria of ‘change.’ Nevertheless, it is essential to keep our feet on the ground, for what the current trends signify is: we seem to have adopted the idea that our innumerable noble leaders and NGOs, of the most upright characters, can transform the present corrupt sociopolitical structure and construct a new social system based on idealized reveries of no corruptions, no backdoor appointments, no nepotisms, and where women have more or less equal role in the operatives of our society. All these expectations seem rather unrealistic and are bound to disappoint our current rosy expectations. Certainly, everyone ought to indulge in idealism every now and then, but it is never a prudent basis from which to form an idea of a society, in the time to come, wholly based on unrealistic expectations framed by ignoring the existential societal realities, where anything wrong or unethical can be jettisoned for good. And only ethically and virtuously upright conducts prevail throughout the society. Of course, I do appreciate that sensible persons do not entertain such expectations, but a majority of us, sadly, do. In other words, most of us implicitly, even unconsciously, expect an end to corruptions, nepotisms, backdoor appointments, venal elections, etc. Thus, we demand ‘Clean Elections,’ ‘Good Roads,’ ‘End to Corruptions,’ ‘End to Backdoor Appointments and Nepotisms,’ and so on, as though we can live without them. The point is, we must be modest in our expectations as to what is actually possible and attainable, for the reality is far too complex than what our mind is able to conceive. And in most cases, we are ensnared into the trap of equating idealized expectations with reality. If we expect much from the modest changes being proposed, it creates a discrepancy between people’s expectations and what is actually materialized. This, in turn, creates additional disturbance and problems, which our society can certainly do without. When aspirations are unrealized, people become frustrated; thereby, creating a psychological need to compensate for the un-materialized objectives. That “psychological need” to vent off the frustration to compensate for the unfulfilled aspirations manifests itself through social violence and other forms of social delinquencies. As such, a society inhabited by frustrated citizens will invariably lead to numerous social disorders and delinquencies creating more problems

Education means & way

and, in the process, disturbing the whole society—be it through tribalism, violent behaviors, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction, among many others. Therefore, it is essential that our demands and expectations ought to be based on societal realities—i.e. political, socio-economic, and cultural conditions—of our society. Alas! We must, therefore, realize that ‘clean elections’ are not attainable. There invariably will be buying of votes and a whole lot of other ignoble deals that will go on during elections, whether we like it or not. Elections can never be clean, at least in our society. Much in the same way, there always will be corruptions, backdoor appointments, nepotisms (Don’t forget that ‘corruption’ is itself a very broad term, there are numerous forms of corruptions, not just one; much is also applicable to the terms ‘nepotism’ and ‘backdoor appointments’ as well. Furthermore, nepotism and backdoor appointments are themselves various manifestations of corruptions. Hopefully, the readers can appreciate the complexities involved). The best we can hope for is to lessen the degree of corruptions, nepotisms, and backdoor appointments. As for roads, it will take another generation or so before Nagaland is furnished with good roads. Because let’s be honest, if individuals responsible for constructing roads entirely utilize the capital, which has been allocated, in highway constructions, then what will they take home as profit? Hence, we mustn’t expect good roads at least in the near future. As for women’s reservation, it’s quite clear to any astute observers that our society is not ready for the reservation. Our socio-cultural values and beliefs have neither progressed nor matured to the stage where such steps are feasible. It’s no wonder, the opponents and proponents of this issue continue to address the matter in an incoherent, and sometimes even in a muddled, manner; thereby, missing some of its subtle nuances. Even if we acquiesce, for the sake of argument, to the claim that women’s reservation will benefit

and empower women, as well as reduce corruptions, nepotisms, and make local bodies more transparent and accountable, the fact remains that in practice, very few competent women will actually hold seats and win elections. Because, elections—no matter the gender—will always be venal, not clean; the unscrupulousness of elections does not discriminate. Moreover, it’s also an unthinkable a proposition to assert that women’s reservation will benefit women as a whole, because it will not. This is because, the bill is not designed to benefit women en masse, in India or in Nagaland; rather it is intended exclusively to include women in the realms of law making and societal governance. That is it, nothing more. And as to what the elected women representatives do in their tenure is solely based on their own interests, either they’ll actually work for the benefit of women en masse or they’ll give priorities to their own private self-interests, and my guess is that the majority will opt for the latter. In this case, the best scenario we can hope for is: there will be women representatives in local civic bodies. It is folly to expect anything more. My observations about the current trends may be erroneous. In the meantime, however, we face numerous impediments that not only burgeon our unrealistic expectations but also proliferate our complete lack of understanding of some of our society’s most pressing issues—which we display ever so often. Out of which, one of the major impediments, in my opinion, is the doctrine of habitually designating politicians and bureaucrats as leaders along with its corollary: our obsessional desire for government jobs. When fully considered, the linkages of these two aspects demonstrate the manner in which our society comprehends the term ‘change’ and their consequent effects inhibiting the fullest realization of any, even small, societal changes. We habitually entitle politicians and bureaucrats/government servants as community/society leaders. But, by that same logic, I should be a Michelin Star Chef because I can

boil an egg. Hopefully, the readers can appreciate the logical fallacy in designating someone as a leader by the virtue of being a politician or a bureaucrat. The problem which we consistently tend to overlook, implicitly or explicitly, is: leaders require sets of qualities very different from those essential for politicians or bureaucrats. In addition to the aforementioned problem is our society’s obsession with securing government employment since it not only elevates a person to the position of a ‘leader’ as default, but it also opens the means to secure jobs for one’s fellow tribesmen; allocate contracts to one’s friends, families, tribes; and secure access to one’s share of capital from the department’s budget and contracts. In other words, a means to nepotism, backdoor appointments, control over public resources, and allocations of contracts for government projects; all of which can be categorized under the term ‘corruption.’ As such, society designates them, as well as the politicians, as ‘leaders’ because of their socio-political connections and control over state financial resources, rather than their leadership skills, which serves only as a pretext to secure patronages. Unless these elements are tackled, even the simplest of proposed societal changes can hardly materialize since they invariably require the unwrapping of the Pandora Box, which no person with a vested interest in the existing system will allow. This is why our society’s demands for ‘women’s reservation,’ and an end to ‘corruption, backdoor appointments, nepotism,’ etc. are unrealistic. All we can hope for is that the innumerable virtuous leaders, NGOs, and other societal organizations, who most magnanimously volunteered themselves without even being invited, are aware of such intricacies and the difficult task involved in navigating through such labyrinths that are interwoven into the very fabric of our society. But on the other hand, I am sure they are aware of all these minutiae and have planned out rational schemes to confront such problems; after all, the majority of our righteous leaders—young and old—know everything under the sun.

The intertwined national, normal & the unapologetic in the age of ‘Great Expectations’

Devansh Shrivastava

n 16th December 1773, a group of Bostonian men guised as native Indians (the Mohawks) rebelled against the Tea Act by throwing about 42 tons of British tea into the sea. The courageous act which laid the foundations of the American Independence is a celebrated feature of the American roots. But what has been ignored in the interpretations by and large, as Benjamin Carp puts it, is that the rebellion was against the tea act not sugar whose trade was rooted in slavery (Carp 2011). Bostonians may have rebelled against the discriminatory tea act but slave trade could not emerge as a united cause against the British as it was the normal of those times. Such acts of defiance do have enormous significance but also echo several dark questions about glorification and ignorance of the past. Recently, against another similar normal, Colin Kaepernick refused to stand up for the national anthem before football match protesting police violence against the AfroAmericans and people of color. The arena of sports as a protest sight might appear unusual but evokes much more absurdities of the normalized paradoxes which reflect violent manifestations of past into present. In the age of great expectations and glorification, Colin’s act cuts through the barriers of normal and the rhetoric of being a national. It may not appear as glorious as the defiance of Bostonians but has triggered silent protest as a way of acknowledging the manifestations of racial violence and discrimination in the US. Such unapologetic acts have the potential of engendering eternal enquiry into the different understandings of nationhood. In the age of nationalities and nations, national anthem has acquired enormous importance socially and politically. Also, not standing up for the anthem and national flag could make you ‘unpatriotic’ and land you in jail. It happens irrespective of an individual’s belief and position as a dehumanized identity or class ridden survivor. The supposed expectation is- “stand up and take pride”, in

below the national pride. Glorifying the past and envisioning a united future seems to engender new hopes in the imagined shared future. But these glorious interpretations of the past also have enormous potential to normalize age old oppression and its manifestations. It would not thus be unfair to infer that histories and time have a peculiar relationship and potential to define and un-define and redefine the normal. As we look back, not only the relationship reflects tragedies and absurdities of the past but also evokes a sense of eternal inquiry into the injustices meted out to the numbers whom we account as dead. A crucial vantage point in these histories is the act of defiance. Far ahead of time, such histories have remained crucial as they are markers of a ‘becoming thought’ against tyranny. To make the enquiry more precise, think of the horrors during communal riots in India. Why is it that those narratives with possibilities of state compliance do not enter our everyday lives? Where are the dead placed in the pride that we take while standing for the national anthem on various platforms? Why does the inherent divide in our languages harden in the times of violence against the

or Periyar Ramaswamy have any space in the times of great expectations? How do dissent and the most pressing questions, say bounds of servitude, around us confront the contemporary ‘Great Expectations of the nationalized nationalisms’? Most importantly, in the glorification of almost everything around us, are we [too] acting blind to the new normalcy? Well, there lies no particular explanation to the questions posed above. What appears tangible is whether the narratives of dead can break the bounds of indoctrination and prejudice in everyday discourse/s around us. An uncritical approach to the past does not yield a politically engaged citizenry to the present and future either. Though states tend to follow a homogenization of paths to bind an obedient populace, it is hard or rather absurd to understand the idea of “national” what Benedict Anderson had called “Imagined Communities”. Not only such an approach tends to diminish the heterogeneity but also hardens who belongs to a boundary and who can never be a part. The remedy may be found in our school textbooks though the meaning of education remains a mooted topic since India’s political independence.

the violent histories of ‘national integration’ and absurdities of multiple heterogeneities belonging to the national. Maybe, such horrendous incidents of violence against minorities do not fit into the glorious past image but cannot be buried irrespective of several attempts to forget them. A fine line of distinction separates everyday forms of prejudice to pierce through the boundaries of sensitivity and transform into indifference. The nature of complex times, we live in, is that of what is believed and normalized to be the norm, its conflict with reason and the intertwined individual entangled into this complex set. The complex set is rather an outcome of the great expectations of the ‘collective interest’ for which we are made to live. While the accepted norm compels individuals to sway towards majoritarian beliefs, independent thinking gets endangered. Questioning police or extra judicial killings irritates the “nationalist” class and being critical invites rampant abuse on various platforms. Such great expectations of the status quo advocates have immense potential of exacerbating the ongoing politics of forgetting episodes of violence against minorities. It helps answering the most pressing questions of dissent of our times where what constitutes public order, sedition and hurt to religious sentiments often secludes a prominent section of this supposed “national”. Despotic efforts to nationalize nationalism in conduct do not make a nation; rather rebuilding the distorted social relationships and engagement with respective critical histories which re-build consciousness. Conscience, solidarity, empathy and consciousness are compelling forms of reconciling distorted relationships but are endangered by enormous attempts of the great expectations to normalize troubled pasts. It is high time that unapologetic acts of defiance, say Colin’s act, are contemplated and echoed again and again. Our times need much more such silent ways of making the national hear what does not amount to normal. Histories may be remembered or forgotten for various

ahatma Gandhi defines: ‘Education as the all round development of an individual personality; Physically, Spiritually and mentally’. Strive to the original interpretation of word education, deriving from the Latin word ‘Educare’ meaning the four wall teaching and learning, we understood randomly. In today’s modern period education relevantly is the need for emphasis on the ideal concept of ‘Mahatma Gandhi’s definition which has a vocational call to understand the true concept of education that can transform this modern era’. That recalls on for service education and not selfish money making by the educated individual’s. To be precise education is not the mere possession of writing and reading knowledge of a script or a language. Education in real term is the realising understanding of one’s understands comparatively with the public needs understanding. But today educated understanding is made almost on self. On the other hand, the public in common bears the suffering and loses of our society. Here not in particularly to any of the elected representatives, administrators, clerical employees nor the temporary in charges of various department and educators of our government and society. Let education be not business, make it a grooming men and women of tomorrow for opportunity change. Today education can mean different for differently economically categorised individual in our society. The rich and wealth to do section defines education, is fishing in a fishery pond or lake. They are availed with countless alternatives. Their certificates are made worth more than those high ranking performers of the poor financially unstable section of our society. The rich son and daughter certificates with minimum passing percentage are given more weightage, measured with monetary weights, as though those notes gave birth and buried all human potentials and values. For the poor they are deprived off in spite of their potential abilities. Or others are valued marginally in private institutions at the exploitation rate. They felt present educational outcome to be fishing in the desert mirage. Education which was suppose to meant for the transformation of the society in a good positive manner now almost are becoming a night mere for the public who are not backed with influential leaders. What misleading has done to the system by our educated many? Education has taught us many things in many different ways. We feel good for many transformations and feel not satisfied with some or many at the same. Through education competitions are compelled. We at time feel are minority and left out, thus we look on for mere reservation for the sectional group of the society. In reality it is not making the marginal section to grow but is it blocking the sectional group from competing with the advance group of the society, may it be in educational institutions or governmental offices, for one we may get through reservation, Intern the other many greater number are deprived of the same. We term reservation for some disabled individuals in the section and done away with many other potentials. Today reservations are demanded not only by the minorities and backward sections of the society but the advance sections of the society are demanding for the same. Thus the weaker sections are even weakening. Example is the Meitei’s in Manipur who are now demanding for the tribal status, who were never in the history of Manipur nor India. So is the Puthans of north India who are counted most advance section of the country. In the mean issue and challenges who gains, only the politician who can act to any extent to retain their position and party rule in the government. Heal the sickening system in what true education means to transform and not deteriorates what education can. Education is means for intellectual growth and enlightenment of an individual, to make mentally alert in the growth and progress of the society, to be physically fit in the society and spiritually moulded that which enables in creating and envisioning a role model in the life of the society. Education should not dishearten and discourage the individual potentiality and confident. Education is not selfish, narrow minded, destruction, depriving, corruption, ignoring, blunder, etc. The educationalist love education but the outcome of that education is disliked in our present society. They are now running way from education. Let us not inherit this system to our younger generation. Let us not put ourselves to the future saying of our younger generation, “we love our elders and fore-fathers but hate the system they had led us down in our society. Education has to be an iceberg tip signalling all possibilities and transformation in the conducive and brighter future of all who exist. R. Hingba Paul, Asst. Professor,

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Akhilesh wins 'cycle' war, blow to Mulayam Will contest against Akhilesh if he does not relent: Mulayam lUckNOw, JANUARY 16 (IANS): Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said he was prepared to contest against his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav if attempts to keep the party united fail. Mulayam Singh Yadav made the remarks during a visit to the party office here where he interacted with party members including state SP chief Naresh Uttam. Uttam had been appointed state party chief by the faction led by Akhilesh Yadav. A party worker, who was present at the meeting, told IANS that Mulayam Singh Yadav said he had been striving for unity in the party and "if Akhilesh does not agree, (I) will also contest against him" in the assembly election.

UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. (File Photo)

New DelhI, JANUARY 16 (IANS): The Election Commission on Monday recognized the faction led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav as the Samajwadi Party and allotted it the 'cycle' symbol, dealing a huge blow to Mulayam Singh Yadav. The decision, less than a month before the staggered Uttar Pradesh assembly election starts on February 11, was first announced by Akhilesh confidant Ram Gopal Yadav. A beaming Ram Gopal Yadav, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, urged the people of Uttar Pradesh to vote Akhilesh Yadav back to power in the coming election. "This is a just decision," he told the media. "The Election

Commission will get the blessings of crores of people of Uttar Pradesh." The decision triggered wild celebrations among Akhilesh supporters in Lucknow, where the Chief Minister immediately headed to the house of his father and party founder Mulayam Singh. The Samajwadi Party formally split on January 1 when the Akhilesh faction ousted Mulayam Singh as its President. Both factions then petitioned the Election Commission to allot it the 'cycle' symbol. After some two weeks of bitter fighting, the poll panel -- which heard both versions for hours on Friday -- on Monday voted in favour of Akhilesh Yadav. Mulayam Singh, who has lost

the support of the majority in the party, had been desperate to hold on to the symbol which he picked long ago. An Election Commission official said: "The group led by Akhilesh Yadav is the Samajwadi Party and is entitled to use the 'cycle' symbol." Celebrations in Akhilesh camp Celebrations broke out in the Akhilesh Yadav faction of the Samajwadi Party (SP) here on Monday evening after the Election Commission declared the 43-year-old Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as the rightful owner of the party symbol and name. Hundreds of party workers took to the streets with party flags and raised slogans hailing

Uttar Pradesh will go for sevenphased election from Feb 11 for 403 seats. The Election Commission is expected to give its verdict on Monday on demand of the Samajwadi Party factions headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav for the party symbol "cycle". Mulayam Singh is learnt to have told party members that he tried speaking to Akhilesh for rapprochement thrice but the latter did not respond properly. Mulayam Singh also said the Muslim community was "angry" as the Akhilesh government "had not worked for them" in the last five years. The party founder is learnt to have blamed Akhilesh for removal of some senior leaders from the party at the behest of Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav.

Akhilesh Yadav and Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav, who mentored the faction in the power struggle within the ruling party. "This is a great moment for us and we will go out to the elections with full confidence now and win more seats than last time to form the next government," said young party worker Anubhav Singh. Happy at the verdict, Ram Gopal Yadav, the estranged cousin of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, said he was thankful to the poll panel for its just and timely decision and added that he was with truth and not against any person. "This was a 'dharma yudh' like the epic Mahabharata, in which relatives were split between right and wrong," he said.

He also said the verdict was the first step towards his resolve to get Akhilesh Yadav back as the Chief Minister again. "I had made this commitment to myself and hundreds of our supporters and I am happy that we are heading in that very direction," he said. Ram Gopal Yadav also said that while he had no "definitive information" on any alliance with the Congress and other likeminded parties, the Akhilesh Yadav faction had all its options open. There are talks about the Congress, Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh and some regional parties like the Peace Party coming together to take on the BJP in the state assembly polls.

Cow only animal that inhales, exhales oxygen: Rajasthan Edu minister JAIPUR, JANUARY 16 (INDIAN exPReSS): Rajasthan Education Minister Vasudev Devnani has said cow is the only animal that inhales as well as exhales Oxygen. He made the claim while speaking at the Hingonia Goshala during an event organised by Akshay Patra foundation Saturday. The minister underscored the ‘scientific significance’ of the cow. “Gai ekmatra prani hai jo oxygen grahan karta hai, aur oxygen his chodta hai (The cow is the only animal that takes in oxygen and also releases oxygen),” he said, adding that “there is a need to understand the scientific significance of the cow and ensure that the message reaches all people…” The minister’s assertion about cows goes against the claims made by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, which in a 2006 report held livestock, including cows, responsible for large amounts of GHG emissions, from their digestive systems as well as manure decay.

Seven killed as SUV rams into group of school students BIShNUPUR(wB), JANUARY 16 (PTI): Seven persons, six of them school students, died after they were hit by a speeding SUV near Rashakunja area within the limits of Bishnupur police station in South 24 Parganas district today, the police said. A Thakurpukur-bound SUV was coming from Bankrahaat at very high speed and when it reached the busy Rashakunja intersection it rammed into a group of students, they said.The accident took place when the students of both Rashakunja High School for Boys and Girls came out of their respective campuses after classes, police said, the driver of the SUV did not slow down even after seeing them on the narrow road. "Three girls died on the spot after they were flung in a road side ditch from the impact of the speeding SUV. Two boys, a girl and a woman succumbed to injuries at a local hospital. The students were all within the age group of 10 to 15 years. Six others who were injured in the accident were later taken to M R Bangur Hospital for treatment," Additional Superintendent of Police (West) Chandra Sekhor Bardhan said.Agitated local residents of Rashakunja got hold of the SUV and damaged it badly. The driver, however, managed to escape. A search is o for the driver," Bardhan added.

India's entry into NSG cannot be a farewell gift: China Supreme Court notice on plea for privacy BeIJINg, JANUARY 16 (IANS): to the Nuclear Suppliers Group, re- ceeded by Donald J. Trump. regulations on WhatsApp and Facebook The US administration, under China on Monday said India's entry garding non-NPT countries admisinto the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) cannot be a "farewell gift" to the outgoing US President Barack Obama. Beijing's reaction came after US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal described China as an "outlier" in the process of letting India joining the nuclear trade bloc. "Regarding India's application

sion to the NSG, we have made our position clear before so I will not repeat it," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said here. "I just want to point out that NSG membership shall not be some kind of farewell gift for countries to give to each other," Hua said, obliquely referring to Obama who will be suc-

Obama, has strongly backed India's membership in the NSG, which regulates the global nuclear trade. China's has opposed India's entry into the 48-member grouping, which is one of the irritants in Sino-India ties. Beijing objects to New Delhi's inclusion in the bloc, citing India's non-signatory status to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Navjot Singh Sidhu says he is born Congressman New DelhI, JANUARY 16 (PTI): Having joined Congress after hectic negotiations, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu today said he was a "born Congressman" who was coming back to his roots and would be ready to work under anybody appointed by the high command and contest from where the party wants him to. Sidhu refused to comment on who would be projected as the Chief Ministerial candidate in poll-bound Punjab. "Gehun khet mein aur beta pet mein aur aap byah ki baat kar rahe ho,(it is premature to talk about the issue)," the former BJP man said when asked whether he would like to be the Chief Ministerial candidate of the party. Congress has not declared a chief ministerial candidate and was contesting the polls under the leadership of Amarinder Singh.

"In politics there are no ifs and buts. If my aunt has moustache I would have called her uncle," the cricketer turned entertainer said in remarks at the press conference which were replete with one-liners and wit. To another question, Sidhu said he was ready to work under anybody appointed by the Congress high command and would contest from anywhere the party wants him to fight from. "I am not here for (personal agenda) but for redemption of Punjab," he said while slamming the Badals, accusing the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of looting the state and making the prosperous state "a pauper". Without taking name of any BJP leader, he suggested that the machinations of "Manthra" (a maid in the epic Ramayana who convinces

Queen Kaikeyi that the throne of Ayodhya was for her son Bharat) made him leave Amritsar which he represented in Lok Sabha for four terms. However, he did not reveal who played the role of "Manthra" in the BJP. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had contested the Amritsar seat unsuccessfully in the last polls. In his 30-minute press conference during which he was welcomed into the party fold by senior leader Ajay Maken and AICC secretary Asha Kumari, who is in-charge of party affairs in Punjab, Sidhu said that he left BJP as it "chose alliance" with Akali Dal while "I chose Punjab". Insisting that he was a "born Congressman", Sidhu said his father Bhagwant Singh Sidhu was a freedom fighter and was in the Congress for 40 long years and, therefore, "I have come back to my roots."

Serial rapist says he targeted over 50 girls New DelhI, JANUARY 16 (IANS): A serial rapist arrested here has admitted to targeting more than 50 girls in Delhi alone, but the police on Monday said they had verified only seven cases. A tailor, Sunil Rastogi, 38, who hails from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, confessed to police that he had been preying on girls since 2004 - when he was just 26 years old. Rastogi first admitted to raping at least 13 girls but later claimed he had targeted over 50 but could not rape all of them, a police official who did not want to be identified told IANS. Sounding callous, Rastogi - a father of five including two girls - said he randomly scouted for victims. He told police he would travel to Delhi at least twice a month to satisfy his lust. The man was arrested from Kalyanpuri, a thickly populated area in east Delhi, on Saturday, police said. The officer added that Rastogi was making claims that could not be verified immediately. "How many girls he victimised will be clear once we complete his questioning and verify his claims," Deputy Commissioner of Police Omvir Singh Bishnoi told IANS. Rastogi came to Delhi in 1990 with his family but left in 2004. He lives in Rampur. Police suspect the number of his victims could be more as Rastogi also had cases registered against him in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. "We had sought details of paedophiles lodged within the last one year in seven jails in Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The reports confirmed his involvement in seven cases. Four of the seven cases were reported from Delhi, one from Haldwani in Uttarakhand and two from Uttar Pradesh," the officer said. "We are still verifying his statements by vis-

iting the locations where he committed the crime." Investigators said if Rastogi came to Delhi twice a month in the past 13 years and molested even one girl during every visit, he may have assaulted over 300 girls. However, he has confessed to victimising over 50 minors, the official said. "We were told by Rastogi that he managed to rape only 20 per cent of the victims." Rastogi allegedly raped a minor girl and molested two others -- aged between 9 and 10 years -- in New Ashok Nagar in east Delhi last week. He confessed to sexually molesting a number of minor girls in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Rudrapur in Uttarakhand besides New Ashok Nagar. Several cases of molestation, theft and drug abuse were registered against him in Delhi. According to police, 3 cases of child rape and molestation under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) were registered at the New Ashok Nagar police station on January 10 and 13. He allegedly threatened the victims with dire consequences and blackmailed them to prevent them from approaching the police. He would prowl near schools in Delhi when it shut for the day and would follow a group for a short distance and then pick a child who would stray from the others. Rastogi used to lure the minors claiming their father had sent him to give them clothes and other articles. He would then take his victim to an isolated spot where he would try to rape them. If he succeeded, Rastogi threatened the girls with death if they disclosed the assault to their parents. After each attack, he would return to UP to evade arrest and he would return again to Delhi after a gap to hunt for new victims.

New DelhI, JANUARY 16 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday sought the central government's response on a plea seeking to put in place regulation to protect the privacy of the messages of WhatsApp and Facebook users. The court also issued notices to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), online messaging service WhatsApp and the social networking site Facebook. As the petitioners Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Singhal contended that under the new policy of WhatsApp, the online messaging service could access, read, share and use the contents for commercial purposes, a bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud told them: "It is a private person extending a private service. You take it or leave it -- that is your right." Appearing for the petitioners, senior counsel Harish Salve told the court that it was the duty of the government to protect people's rights under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution and safeguard their privacy. As he urged the court to intervene in the matter as new policy of WhatsApp affected the privacy of the people using the site, the bench observed whenever the messaging service will change their conditions, they will gave a notice to its users. Telling the court that private communication between two persons had to be protected, Salve said that

SC allows 24-week pregnant woman to abort New DelhI, JANUARY 16 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a Mumbai-based woman with 24-week-old-foetus to undergo medical termination of pregnancy as its continuation could endanger her life. Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao allowed the termination after a board of seven doctors said there was no chance of the foetus with an undeveloped skull surviving outside the uterus. The medical board which examined the 22-year-old woman at Mumbai's KEM Hospital also said that allowing the pregnancy to complete its full course could "gravely endanger" the mother's life. The court permitted the termination of pregnancy taking into account the facts of the case and also that allowing the pregnancy take its full course may endanger the life of the woman. The court on Monday said that medical termination of pregnancy would be performed by the same team of seven doctors. While permitting the termination of pregnancy, the court also noted that decision to abort had the consent of the husband. Under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, a pregnancy could be terminated in the normal course if it is upto 12 weeks. But pregnancy between 12 to 20 weeks can be terminated if in the opinion of two doctors the continuation of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury physical or mental health. TRAI was not doing anything about it and government was under duty to regulate the online messaging site and the social networking site. The court was told that TRAI has inserted a condition which says that if you intercept a call without government permission, you would be prosecuted. Sareen and Singhal have challenged Delhi High Court's September 23 order by which it had allowed WhatsApp to roll out its new privacy policy but said it cannot share data of

its users collected up to September 25, 2016 with Facebook or any other related company. The High Court had further directed that WhatsApp would completely delete all data of users who chooses to opt out of the instant messaging app after the coming into force of its new privacy policy. The High Court had also asked the Centre to consider if instant messaging app WhatsApp and social networking site could be brought under the statutory regulatory framework.

Richest 1% own 58% of total wealth in India: Oxfam

DAVOS, JANUARY 16 (PTI): The study said there are 84 billionaires in India, with a collective wealth of USD 248 billion, led by Mukesh Ambani (USD 19.3 billion), Dilip Shanghvi (USD 16.7 billion) and Azim Premji (USD 15 billion). In signs of rising income inequality, India’s richest 1 per cent now hold a huge 58% of the country’s total wealth — higher than the global figure of about 50%, a new study showed on Monday. The study, released by rights group Oxfam ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting here attended by rich and powerful from across the world, showed that just 57 billionaires in India now have same wealth (USD 216 billion) as that of the bottom 70% population of the country. Globally, just 8 billionaires have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50% of the world population. The study said there are 84 billionaires in India, with a collective wealth of USD 248 billion, led by Mukesh Ambani (USD 19.3 billion),

A homeless boy holds biscuits that he received as alms as he takes shelter from rain in front of a fast food shop in Mumbai. (REUTERS File Photo)

Dilip Shanghvi (USD 16.7 billion) and Azim Premji (USD 15 billion). The total Indian wealth in the country stood at USD 3.1 trillion. The total global wealth in the year was USD 255.7 trillion, of which about USD 6.5 trillion was held by billionaires, led by Bill Gates (USD 75 billion), Amancio Ortega (USD 67 billion) and Warren Buffett (USD 60.8 billion). In the report titled ‘An

economy for the 99%’, Oxfam said it is time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few. It said that since 2015, the richest 1% has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet. “Over the next 20 years, 500 people will hand over USD 2.1 trillion to their heirs — a sum larger than the GDP of India, a country of 1.3 billion people,” Ox-

fam said. The study findings showed that the poorest half of the world has less wealth than had been previously thought while over the last two decades, the richest 10% of the population in China, Indonesia, Laos, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have seen their share of income increase by more than 15 %. On the other hand, the poorest 10% have seen

their share of income fall by more than 15%. “Due to a combination of discrimination and working in low-pay sectors, women’s wages across Asia are between 70-90% of men’s,” it said. Referring to the Global Wage Report 2016-17 of Indian Labour Organisation, the study said India suffers from huge gender pay gap and has among the worst levels of gender wage disparity — men earning more than women in similar jobs — with the gap exceeding 30%. In India, women form 60% of the lowest paid wage labour, but only 15% of the highest wage-earners. It means that in India women are not only poorly represented in the top bracket of wage-earners, but also experience wide gender pay gap at the bottom. It also said that more than 40 per cent of the 400 million women who live in rural India are involved in agriculture and related activities. However, as women are not recognised as farmers and do not own land, they have limited access to government schemes and credit, restricting their agricultural productivity.

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South Korea prosecutor seeks arrest warrant of Samsung chief for bribery SEOUL, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): South Korea’s special prosecutor on Monday sought a warrant to arrest the head of Samsung Group, the country’s largest conglomerate, accusing him of paying multi-million dollar bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye. Investigators had grilled Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee for 22 straight hours last week as a suspect in a corruption scandal, which last month led to parliament impeaching Park. The special prosecutor’s office accused Lee of paying bribes totalling 43 billion won ($36.42 million) to organisations linked to Choi Soon-sil, a friend of the president who is at the centre of the scandal, in order to secure the 2015 merger of two affiliates and cement his control of the family business. The 48-year-old Lee, who became the de facto head of the Samsung Group after his father, Lee Kun-hee, was incapacitated by a heart attack in 2014, was also accused of embezzlement and perjury, according to the prosecution’s application for an arrest warrant. “The special prosecutors’ office, in making this decision to seek an arrest warrant, determined that while the country’s economic conditions are important, upholding justice takes

Jay Y. Lee, center, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, arrives to be questioned as a suspect in bribery case in the influence-peddling scandal that led to the president’s impeachment at the office of the independent counsel in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday, January 12. (REUTERS Photo)

precedence,” special prosecution spokesman Lee Kyu-chul told a media briefing. Prosecutors have evidence showing that Park and Choi shared profits made through bribery payments, he said, without elaborating. Lee is due to appear on Wednesday morning at the

Seoul central district court, which will decide whether to grant the arrest warrant. Samsung, whose companies generate $230 billion in revenue, equivalent to about 17 percent of South Korea’s economy, rejected the accusation that Lee paid bribes. “It is difficult to under-

stand the special prosecutors’ decision,” it said in an emailed statement. Prosecutors have been looking into whether Samsung’s support for foundations and a company backed by Choi was linked to the National Pension Service’s 2015 decision to support a controversial $8 bil-

lion merger of Samsung C&T Corp and Cheil Industries Inc. Samsung has acknowledged providing funds to the institutions but has repeatedly denied accusations of lobbying to push through the merger. “It is especially hard to accept the special prosecutor’s assertion that there was improper request for a favour related to the merger or succession of control,” it said on Monday. NPS chairman Moon Hyung-pyo was indicted on Monday on charges of abuse of power and giving false testimony. Last month he acknowledged ordering the world’s third-largest pension fund to support the merger of Samsung C&T Corp and Cheil Industries in 2015 while heading the health ministry, which oversees the NPS. The special prosecutor’s office said in its indictment of Moon that Park, through her aides, ordered Moon to ensure the merger of the two Samsung companies succeeded. Park, 64, remains in office but has been stripped of her powers while the Constitutional Court decides whether to make her the country’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. Park has denied wrongdoing but admitted to careless-

ness in her relationship with Choi, a friend for four decades. Choi, in jail as she undergoes criminal trial and also denies wrongdoing.

over the years. Jay Y. Lee’s father Lee Kun-hee was himself handed a three-year suspended jail sentence in 2009 for tax evasion. He was later pardoned. Public opinion has in recent SHARES HIT years grown less tolerant of leProsecutors opted not to niency extended to the heads of seek the arrest of three other conglomerates, or chaebols, for Samsung executives they had the sake of the economy. questioned, including Vice Chairman Choi Gee-sung, a POLITICAL CRISIS group veteran who is seen as Jay South Korea has been Y. Lee’s mentor and a likely care- gripped by political crisis for taker head of the conglomerate months, with Park impeached in the event Lee is arrested. in December. Shares in flagship Samsung If the impeachment is upElectronics, the world’s biggest held by the Constitutional maker of smartphones, flat- Court, an election would be screen TVs and memory chips, held in two months, with forended 2.14 percent lower, un- mer U.N. Secretary General derperforming the 0.61 percent Ban Ki-moon expected to be a drop in the broader market. candidate. Investors say that while key Choi, in detention and on Samsung businesses are run by trial on charges of abuse of professional CEOs and would power and attempted fraud, not be hurt on an operational again denied wrongdoing on basis if Lee is arrested, his ab- Monday in an appearance at sence would slow bigger-pic- the Constitutional Court’s imture decision-making. peachment trial. The Korea Employers FedShe also denied having any eration, a business lobby, said prior knowledge of the Samarresting Lee would undermine sung Group’s controversial confidence both in Samsung 2015 merger of two affiliates. and the country’s economy, “Even if I knew, I could not Asia’s fourth-largest, and called have passed on any informathe special prosecutor’s probe tion because I have no knowl“very regrettable.” edge about mergers or hedge South Korea has seen nu- funds, anything like that, in the merous corporate scandals first place,” Choi told the court.

Beijing will take off the gloves, if Trump continues on Taiwan Turkish cargo jet crash kills 37 in Kyrgyzstan SHanGHaI, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): Two influential Chinese newspapers on Monday warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that Beijing will “take off the gloves” and Taiwan may be scarified if he continues to provoke Beijing over the self-ruled island once he sworn in on Jan. 20. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Friday, Trump said the “One China” policy was up for negotiation. China’s foreign ministry said “One China” was the foundation of China-U.S. ties

and was non-negotiable. Trump broke with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ingwen, angering Beijing which sees Taiwan as part of China. “If Trump is determined to use this gambit in taking office, a period of fierce, damaging interactions will be unavoidable, as Beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves,” the English-language China Daily said. The Global Times, an influential state-run tabloid, echoed the China Dai-

ly, saying Beijing would take “strong countermeasures” against Trump’s attempt to “impair” the One China principle. “The Chinese mainland will be prompted to speed up Taiwan reunification and mercilessly combat those who advocate Taiwan’s independence,” the paper said in an editorial. It said Trump’s endorsement of Taiwan was merely a ploy to further his administration’s short term interests, adding: “Taiwan may be sacrificed as a result of this despicable strategy”.

“If you do not beat them until they are bloody and bruised, then they will not retreat,” Yang Yizhou, deputy head of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, told an academic meeting on cross-straits relations in Beijing on Saturday. Taiwan independence must “pay a cost” for every step forward taken, “we must use bloodstained facts to show them that the road is blocked,” Yang said, according to a Monday report on the meeting by the official People’s Daily Overseas Edition.

Ban narrows gap in opinion poll for SKorean presidency SEOUL, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): An opinion poll released on Monday in South Korea showed former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in second place and narrowing the gap on the frontrunner among likely candidates to succeed President Park Geun-hye, who has been impeached by parliament. The Realmeter poll commissioned by the Maeil Business Newspaper showed former liberal opposition party leader Moon Jae-in maintaining his lead at 26.1%, compared with 22.2% for Ban. Ban, who has made several campaign-style appearances since returning to South Korea earlier this month, has narrowed the gap, having polled 21.5%

against Moon’s 26.8% a week earlier. Ban said on Thursday that he will make a decision “soon” on his political future. On Monday, Ban called President Park to inform her officially of his return, Ban’s spokesman Lee Do-woon said in a press release. “I should have visited you in person. It is unfortunate that the situation is like this,” Ban was cited as saying. “I hope you will manage the situation well.” Park was also cited in the release as congratulating Ban for his past decade working for the U.N., but did not mention her impeachment process nor the scandal at hand. South Korea has been gripped by political crisis for months, with par-

In a first, Myanmar’s largest city Yangon launches bus network impacting millions yanGOn, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): Myanmar launched a new public transport system in its largest city on Monday, for the first time introducing regular bus lines, timetables and salaries for drivers in a move that could transform the lives of some 5 mn Yangon city dwellers. The reform is the largest public-facing project with immediate impact on the city where country leader Aung San Suu Kyi won big in historic 2015 election, and a major test for her ability to meet the sky-high expectations of the public. With parliamentary by-elections looming in April, Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has overhauled the chaotic network of some 4,000 rickety public transport vehicles, half of them in use for more than 20 years, according to government data. The new system would also bring down and coordinate the number of bus lines to 61 from some 300. The changes are aimed at reducing traffic and commute time of some 2 mn commuters who have complained the buses are overcrowded, schedules unpredictable and driving unsafe. Phyo Min Thein, the NLD’s Yangon Chief Minister recited the long list of failures of the previous system that lacked professional management, was riven by corruption and has become notorious for poor service and recklessness of the drivers. “We will change the bus system first, and then continue to upgrade the electronic payment system, security and we’ll carry out controls to ensure the traffic rules are respected,” Phyo Min Thein told reporters at a news conference last week. As part of the overhaul, the government will set up the Yangon Region Transport Authority (YRTA) to manage a group of bus companies who would form a new public-private partnership.

liament voting overwhelmingly in December to impeach President Park over an influence-peddling scandal, a decision that must be upheld or overturned by the country’s Constitutional Court. If the impeachment stands, an election would be held two months later. The election to a single 5-year term is currently scheduled to take place on Dec. 20. Ban, 72, planned to tour the south of the country on Monday, visiting shipbuilding docks in Geoje and a traditional market in Busan. His representatives have said Ban aims to have as much contact with the public as possible as he gears up to make a decision on his future.

BISHKEK, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): A Turkish cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport on Monday, killing at least 37 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried to land in dense fog, Kyrgyz officials said. According to the airport administration, the plane was supposed to make a stopover at Manas, near the capital city Bishkek, on its way from Hong Kong to Istanbul. It crashed when trying to land in poor visibility at 7:31 a.m. (0131 GMT). The doomed plane ploughed on for a few hundred metres (yards) through the Dachi Suu village, home to hundreds of families, shattering into pieces and damaging dozens of buildings. Plumes of smoke rose above the crash site, with some mudbrick buildings razed to the ground and others pierced by parts of the plane. The torn-off tail assembly, rotated upside down, towered above a one-storey house. A football pitch-sized area nearby was completely levelled and covered with twisted pieces of metal. Locals said they had initially thought the area was struck by an earthquake.

Plane debris is seen at the crash site of a Turkish cargo jet near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport outside Bishkek on January 16. (REUTERS Photo)

“Around seven o’clock in the morning I heard a strong swat (noise) and after that all the nearest houses were shaken,” said local resident Andrei Andreyev. “Of course, everyone got frightened and started to run out of the houses to the street. Nobody understood what was going on because there was a fog, the weather was not good.” Initial estimates put the

death toll from the crash at 37, said Kyrgyzstan’s emergencies ministry. Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev announced Tuesday would be a national day of mourning. Turkish Airlines said in a statement that the cargo flight was operated by ACT Airlines and neither the Boeing 747-400 aircraft nor the crew belonged to Turkish Airlines. Turkish cargo

operator ACT Airlines also said the jet was theirs. “Our TC-MCL signed plane, flying on Jan. 16 from Hong Kong to Bishkek, crashed on landing at Bishkek at the end of the runway for an unknown reason,” ACT Airlines said in an emailed statement. “More information will be disclosed concerning our four-person team when we get clear information.”

World’s 8 richest as wealthy as half humanity, Oxfam tells Davos DaVOS, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, Oxfam said on Monday in a report calling for action to curtail rewards for those at the top. As decision makers and many of the superrich gather for this week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, the charity’s report suggests the wealth gap is wider than ever, with new data for China and India indicating that the poorest half of the world owns less than previously estimated. Oxfam, which described the gap as “obscene”, said if the new data had been available before, it would have shown that in 2016 nine people owned the same as the 3.6 billion who make up the poorest half of humanity, rather than 62 estimated at the time. In 2010, by comparison, it took the combined

Davos elite faces evaporating trust in ‘post-truth’ era DaVOS, JanUary 16 (rEUtErS): Trust in governments, companies and the media plunged last year as ballots from the United States to Britain to the Philippines rocked political establishments and scandals hit business. The majority of people now believe the economic and political system is failing them, according to the annual Edelman Trust Barometer, released on Monday ahead of the Jan. 1720 World Economic Forum (WEF). “There’s a sense that the system is broken,” Richard Edelman, head of the communications marketing firm that commissioned the research, told Reuters. “The most shocking statistic of this whole study is that half the people who are high-income, college-educated and well-informed also believe the system doesn’t work.” The 3,000 business, political and academic leaders meeting in the Swiss Alps this week find themselves increasingly out of step with many voters and popuassets of the 43 richest people to equal the wealth of the poorest 50 percent, according to the latest calculations. Inequality has moved up the agenda in recent

list leaders around the world who distrust elites. Governments and the media are now trusted by only 41 and 43% of people respectively, with confidence in news outlets down particularly sharply after a year in which “post-truth” become the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year. Trust in business was slightly higher, at 52%, but it too has declined amid scandals, including Volkswagen’s rigged diesel emission tests and Samsung Electronics’ fire-prone smartphones. The credibility of chief executives has fallen in every country surveyed, reaching a low of 18% in Japan, while the German figure was 28% and the US 38%. Trust in governments fell in 14 of the countries surveyed. As the first Chinese president to attend the WEF’s annual forum in Davos, Xi Jinping may be reassured to learn that his government was ranked as the most trusted, with a 76% rating among those questioned.

years, with the head of the International Monetary Fund and the Pope among those warning of its corrosive effects, while resentment of elites has helped fuel an upsurge in populist

politics. Concern about the issue was highlighted again in the WEF’s own global risks report last week. “We see a lot of handwringing - and clearly

Trump’s victory and Brexit gives that new impetus this year - but there is a lack of concrete alternatives to business as usual,” said Max Lawson, Oxfam’s head of policy. “There are different ways of running capitalism that could be much, much more beneficial to the majority of people.” SUPER-CHARGED CAPITALISM Oxfam called in its report for a crackdown on tax dodging and a shift away from “super-charged” shareholder capitalism that pays out disproportionately to the rich. While many workers struggle with stagnating incomes, the wealth of the super-rich has increased by an average of 11 percent a year since 2009. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man who is a regular at Davos, has seen his fortune rise by 50 percent or $25 billion since announcing plans to leave

Microsoft in 2006, despite his efforts to give much of it away. While Gates exemplifies how outsized wealth can be recycled to help the poor, Oxfam believes such “big philanthropy” does not address the fundamental problem. “If billionaires choose to give their money away then that is a good thing. But inequality matters and you cannot have a system where billionaires are systematically paying lower rates of tax than their secretary or cleaner,” Lawson said. Oxfam bases its calculations on data from Swiss bank Credit Suisse and Forbes. The eight individuals named in the report are Gates, Inditex founder Amancio Ortega, veteran investor Warren Buffett, Mexico’s Carlos Slim, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Debunking deniers of patriarchy in Naga culture Dr. Libenthung E Yanthan,

Senior Gynecologist, DoH&FW, Nagaland

(Let me start with a disclaimer. I am just a layman with no formal training in law, politics, or ethics and therefore if some of my arguments may seem invalid and facts inaccurate, I would like feedbacks so that the ongoing debate can arrive at meaningful and coherent conclusions.) The recent political crisis, if I may say so, has brought up interesting debating points and profound questions that seek honest and rational answers. Hopefully, these recent event will also allow us an opportunity to use our rational faculty to gain better insights into the current social, political, legal and ethical conundrums that have cropped up and help us arrive at solutions to the problems at hand. Contrary to popular opinions, I also would like to posit that misogyny is entrenched and endemic in our culture and that affirmative actions are necessary beginnings to fight this social menace. Even if, for the sake of discussion, we all agree to the idea that women should have equal social, political and economic rights and opportunities, our commitment to create a level playing field that respect the voices of women remain inadequate. Through this column I would like to first draw attention to some general opinions expressed by various individuals that have appeared in various dailies in the last few weeks. I’ll try to summarise some of them and hopefully show why most advocates on both side of the fence – those who are for and against women reservation - have failed to identify or address the core issues in totality. In an article titled, On women’s reservation - letter versus spirit of the law by Kahuto Chishi Sumi, G.B. Hevishe Village (Dimapur), the author appears to shift the onus of resolving the problem on the women folks by asking a series of rhetorical questions. The implied suggestion being that, women have not been prudent enough to see through the profound issues and the adverse implications of women folks plunging into politics. http://www.nagalandpost.com/PostMortem/PostMortemDetails. aspx?p=UE0xMDA3OTYx He even appears to think that women’s call for reservation is morally suspicious. He calls their effort a “self-gratification exercise” and also as trying to “take advantage of the genuine suffering of Indian Women, in mainland India, in their effort to gain easy entry into the various civic bodies in Nagaland”. Finally, he employs a guilt trap to buttress his argument by calling JACW “a group of radicals who are willing to sacrifice the future of all women in Nagaland so that some of them can ENJOY the benefits, TODAY”. Another article titled, Why politics of reservation? And why it is so dominant in our state? by Thepfusalie Theunuo , appear to deny that gender discrimination exists in Naga culture and that patriarchy is a myth. She denies any cultural roots to the problem. She writes that “apart from patriliny, the concept of patriarchal (male authority) is an ideology that we have created ourselves in the process”. http:// www.nagalandpost.com/PostMortem/PostMortemDetails.aspx?p=UE0xMDA3OTYw She considers reservation policy an extension or a by product of political expediencies and not a genuine socio-economic instrument to undo systemic oppression against women. She says that the “33% reservation policy in the state is highly a political project of the ruling party and does not deal or engages with inequality of gender in any form”. Her grand solution to “engage on the ontological and the epistemological construction of gender and inequality within the specific context of Naga culture” appears vague and inadequate; an observation that seems to ignore the actual exploitations faced by Naga women on a daily basis. Gender discrimination is real and the nature of oppression against women, which is usually demeaning and enslaving, is similar across cultures, though the degree and experience may differ. The above two opinions provide different perspective to the same issue – whether to allow women in decision making legislative bodies but fundamentally contend that the reservation policy is not applicable to Naga society. I have also taken the above articles for analysis, as they seem to reflect the general sentiments prevalent among Nagas vis-à-vis women’s reservation issue. The common assumptions on which the anti-reservation arguments are based upon are basically of three types, which are: Naga society is not a caste based society; Naga society is inherently enabling for women; and Patriarchy is a myth and that Gender discrimination is non-existent. I’ll try to show that the conclusions drawn from and based upon these three (or similar) assumptions are invalid or irrelevant as they seem to ignore empirical evidences or/and are logically flawed. Since the investiga-

tions and diagnosis, as exemplified above, are not thorough, the solutions they prescribe are bound to be inadequate. The main areas of disagreements between the pro-reservation and anti-reservation groups that are commonly expressed, both in print and in the common public online platforms can be enumerated as under: 1. Cultural: Tradition vs. Modern culture, Indian vs. Naga culture 2. Legal: Article 371(A), Nagaland’s Autonomy and Article 243T 3. Ideological: Patriarchy vs. Feminism 4. Ethics: Religion, Justice, Equality, Freedom etc.

Cultural: Traditional versus Modern: The current discussions, around the reservation of women in urban local bodies (ULB), give us an opportunity to re-evaluate the way our tradition is interpreted within modern political and ethical framework that cherishes ethos of equality, freedom and justice. The overall goal is to identify and subscribe those values that are conducive to human flourishing. The value propositions inherent in our culture need honest analysis and thorough exposition. That way we can understand the dynamics, impacts and consequences of our socio-political and cultural institutions, processes and actions. It will also allow us to judge whether the social edifice that we have built are beneficial or detrimental for the growth and health of a society. Understanding the values that a culture subsumes can allow us to elaborate a rational and enabling value system to cherish, live and stand for. The process of evaluation has to start with an honest appraisal of the value system of the society. And, the merits of women empowerment actions have to be judged on those foundations. A society that values dynamism and vibrancy is better than a society that values stagnation and mediocrity. Within our Naga context, tradition is synonymous with status quo, mistrust of exocultural values and discomfort with the idea of change. Whereas, modern culture is more open to new ideas, unafraid of criticisms and is dynamic. Naga tradition is still considered inviolable and static. The ancient and the old are of value, because they are so. It is time we discard aspect of our culture that are exploitative and those that create disparity within the society. The tradition-argument, that something is good because it has been in use since eons, is a dishonest appeal to history and past knowledge and experiences to give credence and legitimacy to archaic socio-political institutions and power structures that allow the continued subjugation of women in the society. Patriarchy in Naga culture is one such instance of rationalization based on the tradition-argument. Systemic oppression against women is considered as given or ignored, and the illiberal status quo remains seriously unchallenged. Patriarchal mode of thinking is so deeply internalised in our tribal subconscious that we fail to see the obvious bigotry. This mentality is crystallised in the pronouncement of the President, CNTC, Hokiye Sema while demanding the annulment of the provision of reservation of seats for women in the civic polls. Here is what he says: “In Naga society a woman is not considered to be equal to men. She is not even allowed to speak in Panchayat until and unless she is summoned by it. Providing 33% reservation to women amounts to giving her the same status as men and it gives men inferiority complex”. http://www.nelive.in/nagaland/politics/ nagaland-civic-polls-naga-tribes-boycott-elections-protest-33-reservation-women Such attitude is embarrassing and reflects a deep seated and systemic misogyny. It reflects a failure to appreciate the principle of autonomy with respect to women, which is the basis of human rights, freedom and justice. Women’s right are also human rights to begin with. She has a right to her person and to do as she pleases as long as the same right is respected and acknowledged in others. Women are beings with dreams and aspirations and not automatons with brains and body that belong to men or to be controlled and used by men, as most would like to imagine. A tradition that violates the right to life is immoral and therefore should be discarded. Many perspectives, seen online and in prints, also seem to conflate the issue of oppression in a caste stratified Indian society with that of women’s right issues further muddying the water in which we are fishing for solutions. Another risible sentiment that affirmative action policies are being imposed upon the Nagas by the Indian establishment is without any factual or rational basis. Firstly, women’s rights movement is not a particularly Indian phenomenon. In fact modern feminist movement is a continuation of the women suffrage movement that began in mid 19th century in the US. Secondly, oppression of women is not a by-product of the caste system.

Prejudices and discrimination against women is not unique to societies with caste based stratified social structure only. Though the caste system may aggravate the degree of oppression experienced by a women belonging to a lower caste, caste-systems per se does not create exploitative structures peculiar to women. In fact, suppression of women’s right is not uncommon in upper class societies or in developed countries. It is a fallacy to assume that women are not oppressed just because they belong to a particular privileged or dominant group. While the notion that Naga society is not a caste based society is true, it is not true that ONLY caste based society is discriminatory and oppressive against women. Men still are the decision makers, enjoy more freedom and are less likely to be sexualised in all societies. Even in developed countries women are not free from discrimination of all kinds. The whole argument that reservation of women is not applicable to Naga society just because caste based stratification does not exist is a non-sequitur. The assumptions fail on thorough empirical and logical analysis.

Legal - Article 371 (A) and Nagaland’s Autonomy: According to Pious Lotha, former Advocate General, “unless the state cabinet first resolves the September 22, 2012 Nagaland Legislative Assembly resolution which exempt Part IX-A of Article 243(T) on 33% women reservation in civic polls from applicability; holding civic polls cannot be enforced, as it would be going against the spirit of Article 371(A) as enshrined in the Constitution of Indian.” He makes clear that unless the assembly resolution on 22nd september 2012 is revoked, article 371 (A) will make holding civic polls invalid.http://www.nagalandpost.com/ ChannelNews/State/StateNews.aspx?news=Tk VXUzEwMDEwNDI5Mw%3D%3D. The urgency with which the DAN government went about revoking the 22nd September, 2012 Assembly resolution is suspect and is the root cause of the entire current logjam. The tribal bodies and Nagas in general are not being paranoid, when they say that Article 371 (A) is being compromised. There is a real possibility that the federal government would use such legislative ruse to assert her cultural dominance. But, the government has done little to allay the apprehensions expressed by the tribal bodies. The press communiqué from the desk of the Principal Secretary, Department of Municipal Affairs instead stresses for the need to give mandate to Article 243 (T). It also tries to downplay the concerns by stating that it “has already been in force since 1993, and since it has been found in the last more than two decades that Article 243 (T) has NEVER infringed on the rights of the Nagas as enshrined in Article 371 (A) and that holding of elections to the ULBs with 33% reservation for women too, would not infringe on Article 371 (A) of the Constitution of India”.Such apathy to the general anxiety and apprehensions is undesirable and reflects a tyrannical and authoritarian way of dealing with grave issues of public importance. Nagas have a valid reason to be apprehensive about the federal government’s attempt to undercut special autonomy guaranteed under Article 371 (A). We, Nagas, are a proud nation and we consider it vital to preserve our unique identity. Nagas’ desire to exist as a nation-state is a reflection of a deep rooted conviction in our rich tradition that cherishes freedom. It is a conviction in our intellectual capacity to formulate our own values and principles and a desire not to live as slaves under foreign values and edicts. India’s attempt at cultural and political hegemony through such clandestine legislative machinations need urgent expositions so that we are not forced or tricked into accepting any legislations that are detrimental to our survival and flourishing. Article 371 (A) also need to be interpreted carefully and applied consistently and not only to garner short term gains or suit narrow agenda. Given the above situation, the fear that the central government may use similar legislative instruments to undermine the special protection guaranteed under article 371 (A) is warranted and need to be thoroughly deliberated and proper measures taken to pre-empt any future legislation from violating the sanctity of the special autonomy status. Here is what a possible solution as suggested by Khekiye K Sema (IAS) should be: “ …. if we follow the rational route of FIRST amending our customary law that has become obsolete or out of tune with our present through customary amendment process by nobody else but our customary courts, the Constitutional empowerment of Article 371 A will remain as effective as it was meant to be.” http://morungexpress.com/ nagas-thinking-capability-reduced-33/. Can we expect other solutions from intellectuals, constitutional and tribal law experts and government?

a debate between patriarchy and feminism. Patriarchy is a social system and mentality begot by needs and compulsions of prehistoric societies and Feminism has brought to light the exploitative nature of the various social arrangements and economic structures inherent in such primitive societies. Discrimination against women may not be so openly visible in our society. But unfair bracketing of women into certain social and vocational roles and functions do exist. Fortunately, gone are the days when women were considered undeniably inferior - education were not considered important for women, math as beyond a women’s capacity to understand, kitchen as solely a woman’s domain, and considering women as men’s or social property. But some remnants and variants of those sentiments and attitudes still remain. Naga women with modern education are as good, if not better, than most men. But subtle subjugation of women is still prevalent. Women are still confined to what is known as ‘feminine occupations” such as hospitality, teaching, sales & services, clerical and entertainment. Sexualisation of women in media, sexual harassment, male-child preference, contracted reproductive rights, domestic violence and discriminative inheritance laws are still prevalent. Dr. Yelhi Mero in an article (NP), titled, “Empowering Women: Indispensable for human well-being”, notes that “ domestic chores such as cleaning, washing, cooking, taking care of children and sickness are mostly done by women folks”. Sexualisation of certain occupation is premised on the unsubstantiated notion about psychology that women are inherently docile and submissive and therefore need to work only as sub-ordinates or in servile positions while men, being the dominant and aggressive kind, should lead and boss around. Women and men are biologically different with nature fixing bio-sexual function i.e. maleness (XY) or femaleness (XX) is given and so unalterable. But gender (masculinity or feminity) and the roles attached to them are social constructs and learned conceptions. Breast feeding is a sexual role determined by biology while child nurturing is a learned gender role. In fact, various studies show that psychological and intellectual differences between members of a particular sex are greater as compared to the differences that exist between the sexes. That our Naga society is enabling for women is another myth perpetrated by cultural and male chauvinists. It is true Naga women are better off as compared to their Indian counterpart. But it does not mean that Naga women are enjoying equal status as men. And, definitely Naga women deserve a better benchmark against which to measure their rights and aspirations. Biased inheritance laws, denial of authoritative role in village polity and the church, prevalence of gendered profession, and restricted social roles are some examples of discriminative practices against women in our society. One opinion by a GB of a village that featured in NP - “that the lack of women in our various elected bodies is not due to any suppression on the part of the males in Naga Society; but due to a lack of confidence on the part of the women to face men on a level playing field” - is a glaring counter-example to the thesis that misogyny is alien to Naga culture. See how women are blamed for a situation they did not create for themselves. Naga culture is practically a male dominated society where all important decisions are taken by and for the male folks. Such kind of attitudes and arrangements have the effect of entrenching the exploitation of women even further. When oppression and suppression of women’s rights and aspirations are prolonged for generations it make psychological cretins out of them and have the unkindly effect of making women feel inadequate and diffident. Most men (and women) fail to appreciate that Affirmative Action policies can be positive legislative instruments to undo ages of injury against women folks. It is a reparative mechanism and creates a powerful platform that can allow women to assert their rights and pursue their aspirations as human beings.

Ethics - Religious (and Biblical text), Equality, Freedom, and Justice: Religious’ notion about the position of women in the divine schemes of thing has only reinforced the belief of women’s inferiority in the society. The common refrain is that woman should be subservient to man as commanded by God and as revealed by god through various religious texts. And that, it is our bounden duty to obey the Divine Laws. Such deontological view of rights is in direct conflict with liberal ethos - the concept of equity - that prescribes that women and men be treated as morally, socially and politically equal and be given equal opportunities to pursue their aspirations. Co-opting religious orthodoxy to Ideological - Patriarchy vs. Feminism: Inter- explain contemporary issues is disingenuous, estingly the current crisis has also brought us to given that one can also site contradictory pas-

sages from religious texts to dismantle the argument. I personally feel that any religion that is prone to misinterpretation in view of its inherent contradictory moral contents or one that propounds illiberal ideas should be discarded. I believe religion as a whole should be a personal affair and its tenets not be (ab)used to inform public laws. Dubious religious morality may be discarded for better ethical systems that are based on equality, justice and freedom. Another debate concerning ethical implications is whether Affirmative Action policies actually benefit the target group and whether justice is ensured in the long run. The contention that Reservation Policies (for women, SC, ST etc) may deprive more capable and meritorious people of opportunity is logically possible and is also empirically supported. Affirmative Action policies does seem morally ridiculous and as violating the principle of justice. But if we see Affirmative Action as restorative justice to undo generations of injury to a particular section of society, we may be persuaded to be a bit lenient about the whole issue. It is factually true that job reservation policies for underprivileged groups improve the standard of living in the long run. Nagaland’s job reservation policy is a good example. Research has also shown that empowering women and increasing participation of women in policy making has the positive effect of accelerating socioeconomic progress of a given society. When it comes to electoral politics and reserving seats for women in political institutions, it gets a bit interesting. The common notion that women are not capable and that they’ll become tools for men who will then ultimately assert their power may be partly true. But then it is also true that even some elected males are tools of other men. So the argument is moot. It also FALSELY assumes that ALL men into politics are capable or moral. How preposterous can we get? The assumption that women would be easily manipulated to suit men’s patriarchal project is based on male chauvinistic perspectives that regard women as without autonomy and a rational faculty. Nothing can be farther from reality. Such attitude equates women as property of men, to be used or discarded as situation demands. It is a morally despicable idea and should be condemned unequivocally. It is an assault on the sanctity of womenhood and a serious breach of the principle of autonomy that underlies the higher concept of right and justice. It is a direct assault on the right to life. Let the capable women contest, most proclaim! Modern elections are not contests of who is better but a battle of numbers – based on clanism and tribalism and won through money and muscle. Most capable men are not even elected. So, capability has never been a criterion to contest or get elected in elections. So why the double standards? Logically, this reservation policy being unfair to men is possible but given the systemic way in which many capable women have been denied opportunity due to the entrenched patriarchy and its exploitative institutions, the legislative action appear morally legit. The loss for some ‘capable’ men seem miniscule compared to the benefit that will accrue to women and the society as a whole. Researches show that women are inclined to support policies that are more humane and those that improve social security. It is true that statistics and numbers cannot decide matters of justice and desert but, given the evidences, ensuring women’s right is the most prudent thing to do at this juncture. Conclusion: Only a society that values liberating and enabling ethos can create a conducive environment and ensure, for all members of the community, an equal opportunity to flourish. Naga society is still a highly masculinised one, where force replaces reason to arbitrate disputes and also to achieve her social goals. May be we can take cues from the Motto of the APO that “RIGHT is MIGHT” to make things right for tomorrow. A review and overhaul of our value system, on which the entire edifice of Naga culture is built is also urgently needed. In view of the historical injustice perpetrated against women, restorative justice is needed as a reparative process to undo generations of suppression of their rights and aspirations. Affirmative action policies may eventually need re-analysis for empirical evidence of the benefits and to assess its social utility. But till such time, women’s reservation in political institutions definitely promises to add value our socio-economic capital and raise the moral stature of our society. Women’s reservation in civic bodies will also certainly neutralise some of the ill effects of only men running the show in contemporary politics. Refusal to acknowledge women’s right is a symptom of general obscurantism and will need a thorough treatment protocol involving all domain of human knowledge and a concerted team of enlightened people committed to cure the disease once and for all.

On the shallowness of the debunkers

Kahuto Chishi Sumi

very educated person knows the pitfalls of being quoted out of context. It's simple to sit back, pay no attention to what a person says or writes, then suddenly come to life when a word or sentence catches one's attention and use it, out of context, to give a totally different colour to the original intent of the speaker or author. One famous quote, often taken out of context, is from Isaac Asimov's famous sci-fi series," I, Robot". The original sentence is, “I see that you instinctively follow the great error-that the machine knows all." People quote only, "The machine knows all” which, as anyone can see, gives a totally different meaning from that which the author meant to convey. A local daily has published the first part of a letter titled," Debunking the Deniers of Patriarchy in Naga Culture", (16-1-17) in which the last of my letters on Women's Reservation has been mentioned and attacked. The author has not been named so far (pre-

sumably to be named at the conclusion of with the men of Nagaland. All I have meant to convey was that The Women's the series), but having read the letter, I feel Reservation Bill was passed by ParliaI would not be jumping the gun in issuing a ment because it recognised the plight few clarifications. of the vast majority of Indian Women 1. I have never, in all my letters, which the and that Naga Women could not claim Editors or, in the case of The Nagaland the same level of discrimination against Page, the Editor, were kind enough to them by Naga Men; and that we needed publish, denied that Naga Society was a a different mechanism to ensure that Patriarchy. To my knowledge, all societwomen were represented in the various ies, races or cultures are either Patriarelected bodies. chical or Matriarchical; so the fact that Naga Culture is based on Patriarchical 4. If the abovementioned author had taken a little of the stupendous amount of eflines has no bearing on whether women fort he/she seems to have put into showshould to entitled to reservation in any ing off his/her erudition and scholarship, way, shape or form. to go through all the opinions expressed 2. I have never stated that Women's Reservation was either non-violative of or on Women's Reservation in the various against Article 371A of The Indian Connewspapers of Nagaland, or if he/she had stitution. All I have ever stated was that the decency to look up my name in the the concerns of the Tribal Organisations search boxes of the websites of the selfshould be addressed. same newspapers; he/she would have 3. I have never claimed that women, in Nadiscovered that I had already written two galand, were on equal par, in all fields, previous letters on the same subject. And

he/she would have found out that I was the only one to have even suggested a way out of the current trouble we are in. 5. I stand by all my views and opinions on the J.A.C.W.R. expressed in my last letter. I believe that I have been proved right by the fact that the J.A.C.W.R. has decided to withdraw its Special Leave Petition from The Supreme Court. I once again put forth the assumption that there are radical elements within the J.A.C.W.R. who have their own axe to grind, and having done so, they are willing to leave the vast majority of the women who have been unable to file nominations in the lurch. I would trouble the abovementioned author and all those who would take my words out of context to know that if you insinuate, in any way, that I am against Empowering Women; you insult my late father, a barely literate man, who ensured that all his ten daughters got the best, in life and in education, he could afford, my mother,

who stood shoulder to shoulder with my father in a time when Naga women were not allowed out of their kitchens, my sisters, who stood and stand equally strong with their husbands, my brothers-in-law who, uniformly, accepted their wives as equals, my brothers, who treated and treat their wives as their equals and seem to favour their daughters over their sons, my many nieces, whose many achievements, no matter how small, have been obtained fair and square. And, most importantly, you insult me, a man who has always treated women with the respect and deference they deserve, a man who treats his wife as an equal in every way and a man who is trying to raise his three daughters to strive for and achieve the best that they can in life, without letting the fact that they are women hamper them and without expecting things to be handed to them on a platter because they are women. God Save My Nagaland

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'Dangal' girl Zaira Wasim Khan speaks on women empowerment and educating the girl child

L Priyanka Chopra and Michelle Obama to join hands for girls’ education campaign

riyanka Chopra might be taking over the glamorous world of film and television, and while doing so, she is also lending her star power to back social issues. According to latest reports, the 'Quantico' star is now allegedly joining hands with outgoing First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama for a campaign on girl's education. The actress had made news last year for being the first Indian star to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. It has now been revealed that Michelle discussed the work Priyanka did with UNI-

CEF and how the two could work together towards educating the girl child. PeeCee also seemed amazed and impressed at how the head of State knew all about her and kept in mind details of the guests attending the event. Priyanka had shared this news a while back when she shared a picture with the US president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama saying, "Lovely to meet the very funny and charming @barackobama and the beautiful @michelleobama. Thank you for a lovely evening. Cannot wait to start working on your girls education program." Source: TNN

I believe in democracy: Nicole Kidman

ctress Nicole Kidman, who faced criticism after her comment on the 2016 US presidential election results, says she believes in democracy. The Hawaiian-born actress raised in Australia and who has dual citizenship said earlier: "I just say, Trump's now elected, and we as a country need to support whoever's the President because that's what the country's based on." This invited the ire of several social media users then and she clarified her stance now, reports people.com. "I was trying to stress that I believe in democracy and the American constitution. It's that simple. I'm just, I'm out of it now. That's what I said. It's that simple," she said. She told the BBC 2 channel that she tends to stay away from speaking about politics. Having said that, Kidman maintained there were certain causes. "I'm issue based. I'm very, very committed to women's issues."

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istening to a 15-year-old, speaking about women empowerment while maintaining a poised demeanor, is bound to grab people's attention. That is exactly what happened, when 'Dangal' starlet Zaira Wasim spoke her mind out, on what was troubling her these days. "I recently heard in an interview that girls should learn wrestling for their own safety. This is very sad. This means we are living in such an environment and amongst such people where we need to learn how to wrestle for our own safety!" she said in an exclusive interview. The young girl, who hails from Jammu, seemingly finds the notion absurd and even questions the current situation of the society, which is not that safe for women, as she asks,

"Why can't we just educate them?" A student of tenth standard, she dreams of building a society 'which is safe for girls to live and where they are happy.' In spite of a huge fan following after her stint in the sports biopic, Zaira feels she cannot be someone's role model. "I feel really honored but I cannot be someone's inspiration. I strongly believe that the people in J&K should realise their talent, as they have a lot of potential and ability. I strongly believe that every person is different and has some or the other ability. The only thing is to recognize and realize one's potential." On the work front, Zaira will next be seen in Advait Chandan's debut directorial 'Secret Superstar,' in the titular character. Source: ANI

Selena Gomez Doesn’t Feel Guilty About New Romance elena Gomez doesn't feel guilty about her new romance with The Weeknd. The 24-yearold singer recently started dating the 'Can't Feel My Face' hitmaker and while his ex-girlfriend, Bella Hadid, 20, is upset about their relationship, Selena insists she has no reason to feel bad because she and Bella are merely acquaintances. Insiders told TMZ that although they are both part of Taylor Swift's squad, Selena and Bella have never been close and she didn't feel the need to inform her about the new romance. Bella is said to be ''really hurt'' by the romance because she is still in love with The Weeknd - whose real

name is Abel Tesfaye - who she split from two months ago. A source told E! News: ''She is actually not over The Weeknd. She still loves him. ''They are on fine terms, but she is

bitter about the romance with Selena. She was not happy when all of that gossip went everywhere between The Weeknd and Selena. ''It really hurt her seeing Selena be all up on her

man. She still feels like they have a connection.'' Bella unfollowed Selena on Instagram following the publication of pictures of the former Disney star locking lips with her ex outside Italian restaurant Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica. And The Weeknd, 26, has reportedly had a crush on Selena for some time. Thesourceadded:''Abelthough always had a thing for Selena. He thinks she is extremely talented and sexy. ''They recently started talking before the holidays but she has been on his radar before. They are on the same level with expectations and think the other is really fun. They are taking things slow and getting to know each other.'' Source: Contactmusic

Robin Thicke cleared of child abuse allegations

inger Robin Thicke has reportedly been cleared of child abuse allegations amid his custody battle with actress Paula Patton. According to a source close to Thicke, the Child Protective Service cleared him of the claims just a day after his former wife accused him of "excessively spanking" their six-year-old son Julian, reports etonline.com The source said it would take 20 days to process the paperwork. "Robin has had his head down and has been working on new music. He was a rock for his entire family when his father Alan Thicke died. Anyone who knows Robin knows that Julian is the light of his life," the source said. "Robin would never hurt Julian. He's not a bad guy. At his father's memorial, Robin and Julian were inseparable," the source added. According to earlier reports, Patton had asked a judge to limit Thicke's joint custody. However, the judge declined her request during a hearing on Thursday, citing, "there is insufficient showing of great or irreparable harm, immediate danger, or any other statutory basis" to Julian from Robin. Source: IANS

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ictoria Beckham has reportedly taken steps to prevent her ex-bandmates from performing classic Spice Girls tracks under the name GEM. The 42-year-old fashion designer is said to have called on lawyers in a bid to stop Geri Horner, Emma Bunton and Mel B performing the band's classic hits. According to The Sun, Victoria has left the three members of the new group 'devastated' after resorting to using her legal team. Speaking to the paper a source

close to the group said: 'The girls are devastated. It is an extremely sad way for things to end ... Victoria was a huge part of their lives and now she is using lawyers to block their comeback. 'Victoria is proud of her Spice Girls history but this suggests she wants to cut all links with the group which transformed her life. 'She is resorting to aggressive legal letters and it is an extremely sad way for things to end after all they have been through together.' MailOnline has contacted repre-

sentatives of Victoria and GEM for comment on the matter. It was announced in 2016 that Geri, Emma and Mel would be reuniting under the name GEM for a Spice Girls reunion, with the trio heading into the studio to record new music as well. However, the news that Victoria has resorted to legal action to block the reunion group performing the tracks comes shortly after Geri Horner allegedly put the group on hold. Source: Mail Online

able channel Lifetime is reportedly planning a biopic on the late king of pop Michael Jackson, tentatively titled "Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland". Currently in pre-production, the TV movie will begin filming in February here, reports aceshowbiz.com. The project is based on 2014's book "Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days", which was coauthored by two of Jackson's bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The book chronicles the singer's final years through Whitfield and Beard's lens while protecting the superstar and his family. It also details their time of solace and the singer's death. The King of Pop died at the age of 50 in 2009, when he was rehearsing for the comeback shows. Navi, who is considered as the world's most prominent Jackson's impersonator, will star in the film. He is joined by "The Walking Dead" alum Chad L. Coleman, who will star as Jackson's bodyguard Whitfield. Suzanne de Passe, who has a long-standing relationship with Jackson's family, will produce "Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland" alongside Madison Jones and Robert Teitel. The TV movie will be directed by Diane Houston while Elizabeth Hunter will pen its script. Final weeks of Jackson's life is also set to be the subject of a television series which is in development at Warner Bros. Based on Tavis Smiley's 2016 book titled "Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days", the project will recount the final 16 weeks of the singer's life. Source: IANS

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huntsman Kohli proves Andy Murray makes winning Master king of the chase once more start at Australian Open

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MELBOURNE, JANUARY 16 (REUTERS): World No 1 Andy Murray kicked off his Australian Open campaign with a hard-fought straight-sets victory against Illya Marchenko on Monday. The top seed had been expected to make short work of Ukraine's Marchenko, having beaten him in straight sets in the second round in 2011, but was pushed hard before prevailing 7-5 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 in two hours and 47 minutes. Murray conceded a 5-3 lead in the first set, but broke at a crucial time to eventually take it in 55 minutes. He then fought back from 4-2 down in a physical encounter to win the next in a tie-break, with temperatures touching 32 degrees Celsius. And he capitalised on a fading Marchenko with two breaks of serve in the third as he finally found his range to complete victory on Rod Laver Arena. Murray will be looking to improve on a scruffy performance that included 27 unforced errors when he faces world No 152 Andrey Rublev next after the 19-year-old Russian upset Yen-Hsun Lu, 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-0) 6-3. "I've never won here," said Murray, who has lost a record five finals at Melbourne Park. "Lost in the final a few times so I'm hoping to go one better this time." Dan Evans, who also enjoyed success in Sydney by finishing runner-up, continued his fine form by defeating Argentinian Facundo Bagnis. The British No 3 moved

Andy Murray during his match with Illya Marchenko at the Australian Open on Monday.

through to the second round in Melbourne for the first time with a 7-6 (10-8) 6-3 6-1 in under two hours. But he faces a tough encounter against seventhranked Marin Cilic next after the Croatian came back from two sets down to beat Poland's Jerzy Janowicz 4-6 4-6 6-2 6-2 6-3. Aljaz Bedene became Britain's first casualty after he lost in four sets to Dominican veteran Victor Estrella Burgos. Estrella Burgos, who turns 37 later this year, is the fourth oldest singles player in the men's draw in Melbourne but he proved too strong for an inconsistent Bedene, winning 7-6 (9-7) 7-5 0-6 6-3. It is the fifth time in a row Bedene has lost in the opening round in Melbourne, while world No

103 Estrella Burgos goes through to face Australian Bernard Tomic. Defending champion and top seed Angelique Kerber battled her nerves and faltered badly with victory in sight before finally overcoming Lesia Tsurenko 6-2 5-7 6-2 to reach the second round of the Australian Open on Monday. The 28-year-old German was starting the defence of a grand slam title for the first time and initially struggled with her serve and the accuracy of her groundstrokes on Rod Laver Arena. Once she found her range, however, Kerber proved more than a match for world number 51 Tsurenko, who was reduced to scrapping to save her serve and the odd pearl of a consolation point off her rasp-

ing backhand. The German's nerves returned when Kerber was serving for the match, however, and the world number one started ballooning shots all over the place, allowing her Ukrainian opponent to break back for 5-5. Tsurenko grasped her opportunity with both hands and broke the Australian and U.S. Open champion again after a marathon nine-minute game to send the match into a decider. The third set developed into a battle of wills but Kerber grabbed the key break for a 4-2 lead before rattling off the next two games to set up a second round tie against compatriot Carina Witthoeft. Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka survived a scare from Slovakia's Martin Kli-

zan on Monday, fighting back from a break down in the final set to move into the Australian Open second round with a 4-6 6-4 7-5 4-6 6-4 victory. It took the world number four more than three hours to knock out his opponent to cries of "Allez Stan" from the crowd after he had struggled early on to cope with Klizan's signature delicate dropshots. Wawrinka, a threetimes grand slam champion, gradually found the range on his lethal forehand, however, and he has never lost in the Australian Open first round in 12 visits to Melbourne Park. He will face American Steve Johnson in the second round after the world number 30 beat Argentina's Frederico Delbonis 6-3 6-4 6-4.

PUNE, JANUARY 16 (REUTERS): Virat Kohli appears able to produce miracles with his bat and the India captain masterminded yet another successful chase in Sunday's run-feast against England to enhance his reputation as the second innings king of one-day cricket. Batting second allows a batsman to set his tempo according to demand, yet it is considered a true litmus test of stroke-making excellence due to the constant scoreboard pressure. This was never more evident than when the opposition racked up 350 runs and reduced India to 63-4 like England did in Pune on Sunday, threatening to spoil Kohli's first match in charge since taking over the limited-overs captaincy. The 28-year-old replied with a sublime 122, forging a 200-run partnership with fellow centurion Kedar Jadhav, to help India chase down the steep target with 11 balls to spare. Kohli's ton equalled Sachin Tendulkar's record of 17 second innings centuries, a fact made even more remarkable considering he took 136 innings fewer than the retired great, who was quick to laud the centurions on Twitter. Former England captain Michael Vaughan was far more succinct in his assessment of the India captain, who is ranked among the top two in all three formats of the game. "VIRAT KOHLI IS FROM ANOTHER PLANET #Fact," Vaughan tweeted, following it with another entry in which he rated the right-hander as the top batsman in each format.

India's captain Virat Kohli acknowledges the crowd as he walks off the ground after being dismissed. (Reuters File Photo)

After winning the toss at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Kohli was probably unsure what would constitute a good total at the compact venue hosting only its second one-day international. Rather unsurprisingly he opted to field and despite cutting a frustrated figure as England bludgeoned India late in their innings, Kohli was calmness personified when his 27th one-day ton helped the hosts take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. This was the third time India has chased down a 350-plus target and on each occasion Kohli has struck a century. Since his 2008 debut, India have overwhelmed targets of 300 or more on eight occasions and Kohli

failed to get a century in just two of those wins. This was also the 15th time that a Kohli ton culminated in a successful chase, more than any other batsman has managed in this format. India's batting mainstay averages a mind-boggling 91 in successful one-day chases but his away record is slightly less impressive. Of his 17th second innings centuries, eight came in away matches and only four outside Asia, including one in Harare. Having built an almost impregnable game and fuelled by an insatiable hunger for runs, Kohli is unlikely to settle for just South Asian dominance and will look to export his second innings excellence to grounds all over the world.

44th RSA Football tourney 25th Khulu Memorial Trophy kicks off begins at Phenshenyu village Morung Express News

KOhiMA, JANUARY 16 (MExN): The 44th RSA football tournament kick started at Phenshenyu Lojvii Sports Association (PLSA) ground, at Phenshenyu village on 10th January 2017 under the theme ‘Fast and Accurate.’ The event hosted by Rengma Sports Association and cohosted by PLSA will culminate on the January 20. The inaugural function was held at Whenha Sports complex, Phenshiinyu on January 10. The event commenced with the unveiling of monolith and hoisting of flag by the chief guest, Er Y Tep (Superintending Engineer PHED Kohima Circle) who also graced the occasion. The programme was chaired by Jwenbu Semp (Gen Secy. RSA) followed by an invocation by Haiwalo Apon (Executive Secy. CRBC, Zunpha). Hisinlo Keppen (President PLSA) delivered the welcome speech after which

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the cultural dance troupe from Terogvunyu, who in their colourful attires regaled one and all with their graceful moves. Thereafter, in his presidential address, Isaak Khing (President RSA) encouraged the youths to develop the spirit of good sportsmanship as well as inculcate the values of sports in their lives. Up next, Nyecy Lorin and Hannah Lorin enthralled the gathering in a sweet harmonizing voice, and

conveyed a powerful message through their song. The teams were then introduced followed by a speech from the Chief Guest. The program concluded with G.K Rengma (Joint Secy. RSA) who delivered the vote of thanks. The oath was administered to the teams by Bentilo Apon, Match Commissioner, who solemnly pledged to uphold the spirit of true sportsmanship. The Chief Guest declared the tournament open.

MDCA Tourney QFs from today

MOKOKchUNg, JANUARY 16 (MExN): On the last match day of the group stages of the ongoing MDCA Inter Club T20 tourney played here today at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Rainbow CC and Sovran Kings won their respective games and booked their berths in the knock out stages. The first match of the day played between Rainbow CC and Zero Boys CC saw the first and only century of the tournament when Temjen of Rainbow CC got the better of all the Zero Boys bowlers. Temjen (106*) scored his maiden century off just 48 balls and became only the 6th player to score a century in the 25-year history of MDCA. Senior player Talikaba (49*) offered him the partnership and they help their team set an imposing total of 197 for the loss of 3 wickets. Zero Boys in reply could manage to score 132 runs in reply, losing the match by 55 runs. Zero Boys gave their best to chase down the mammoth total led by

Moabulong (33) and Lanuyanger 31) but they were never in the game. The second match was in contrast to the first match of the day as Sovran Kings bundled out the Gorkha Students’ Union for a paltry 55 runs in just 10.5 overs. Both teams playing for a ‘win or tie’, much was expected from the GSU team who had some of the most experienced players in their team but it was just not their day. Only Chambo (12) managed to reach the two-digit figure while Lisosungkum (4/17) and Sademmeren (3/8) wrecked havoc bowling for the Sovran Kings. In reply, Sovran Kings won the match after losing 5 wickets in 14.4 overs to book their berth in the quarter finals. The quarter finals of the tournament will begin from tomorrow.

The inaugural programme of the 25th (Silver Jubilee) H.C. Khulu Memorial Football Trophy organized by Atoizu Area Sports Association was held on Monday with Parliamentary Secretary for Justice & Law and SIRD, Er. Picto Shohe as the chief guest at Atoizu local ground. Speaking at the inaugural programme, Er. Picto appreciated the initiative of Additional Chief Secretary (retd) H.K. Khulu for starting the trophy in memory of his father Lt. H.C. Khulu. He also recognized all those who took active part at various stages of the memorial trophy. Er. Picto pointed out that the people of Atoizu area positively come together through the memorial trophy and urged them to take advantage of such gathering to unity and march with true spirit of oneness and unity. “Such event is an op-

Parliamentary Secretary for Justice & Law and SIRD, Er. Picto Shohe along with AASA officials and Atoizu elders after unveiling the silver jubilee monolith at Atoizu on Monday. (Morung photo)

portunity for the area people to renew their friendship, know each other and live in peace and harmony with one another,” he added. Emphasizing on the importance of maintaining sportsmanship spirit, Er. Picto said that a true sportsman with games spirit and principles needed to keep his health fit by avoiding harmful products which can have adverse effects in their performance

in the field. He also enlightened the players on the dangers of selfish game-play which would lead to their team losing on the ground. “If you win, do not be proud but rather humble yourself and strive to achieve greater heights and bring laurels to our area,” he appealed. Citing examples of football legends like Pele, Maradona, Dr. T. Ao and others who are recognized

by their respective countries and people globally, Er. Picto added “Similarly, through your ability and true games spirit, let your people talk about you and recognize you.” He also highlighted on the various developmental activities undertaken in Atoizu area during the last four years and appealed for support and cooperation from the public. Earlier, Er. Picto unveiled the silver jubilee

monolith while Rev Ahoto, Evangelist, SBAK, Nito Mount said dedicatory prayer for the monolith. Sunday School children of SBAK, Nito Mount performed opening act of the Silver Jubilee H.C. Khulu Memorial Trophy. The chief guest was accompanied by a host of officials including ADC Atoizu, Hito; Er. Vikishe JE (Electrical); Er. Toshika Swu JE (PHE);; village elders and GBs of Atoizu area.

Liverpool unlucky at 'long ball' United: Klopp

LONDON, JANUARY 16 (REUTERS): Juergen Klopp feels Liverpool were unlucky to come away with just a point from Sunday's 1-1 Premier League draw with Manchester United, the manager claiming the home side were saved by "long ball" tactics. The visitors led courtesy a firsthalf penalty from James Milner and with United struggling to breakdown a resolute Liverpool defence, Jose Mourinho brought on Marouane Fellaini and opted for a more direct route to goal. The change in tactics worked as United sprayed a barrage of long balls into Liverpool's penalty area in the final 10 minutes and finally scored the equaliser late on as Zlatan MDCA QFs Fixture today: Ibrahimovic pounced on a Antonio 8:00 AM – Titans CC vs Suzerain CC Valencia cross. 11:00 AM – Züngamedem CC vs "We were the better side. They Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp and Dejan Lovren after the game. (Reuters Photo) play long balls in a wild game. We Sovran Kings

played the better football and had the better plan," Klopp told British media. "In the end period of the game when United started playing long balls -- (to) Fellaini and Ibrahimovic -- after 80 minutes high intense football it is really hard," Klopp added. "Usually you can accept a draw at Manchester United but I think after the entire 98 minutes we could have deserved a win." The draw put Liverpool third in the league, seven points behind Chelsea after 21 games, while sixthplaced United lost ground in the battle for the Champions League qualifying spots. United next travel to Stoke City for a league game on Saturday, while Liverpool make the trip to face fourth-tier side Plymouth Argyle in an FA Cup third round replay on Wednesday.

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