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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment — Horace

Driven by passion, fueled with inspiration and creation

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reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

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Donald trump sworn in as 45 Us President th

WAShINGToN, JANUARY 20 (REUTERS): Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, succeeding Barack Obama and telling a bitterly divided country he will pursue “America First” policies at home and abroad.

As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right handandputhisleftonaBible used by Abraham Lincoln and repeated a 35-word oath of office from the U.S. Constitution, with U.S. Chief Justice We must employ the same John Roberts presiding. tactics in the upcoming “This moment is your general election!! moment, it belongs to you,” Trump told a large crowd that had earlier booed Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate.

Revisiting themes from his improbable campaign victory, Trump said his DIMAPUR, JANUARY presidency would aim to help struggling middle20 (MExN): The Chumukedima Town Youth Organization (CTYO), Chumukedima Village Youth Society (CVYS) and New Chumukedima Village Youth Organization Morung Express News (NCVYO) have cautioned Dimapur | January 20 ex-communicated members of any tribe not to re- As the uncertainty over the locate to their area. A joint upcoming municipal polls statement from the three lingers, the Joint Coordinaorganisations expressed its tion Committee (JCC) has firm stand on the directives opted for a public rally to register its protest against of the Angami Youth Orga- the conduct of polls schednization, and that “any de- uled on February 1. The faulters detected shall be rally on January 23 will be dealt with as per custom- held at the State Stadium, ary law of the land.” It also Dimapur and will begin at cautioned house owners 11:00 am. not to harbour any such The decision to hold the persons who has been ex- rally was resolved followcommunicated by his/her ing discussions that lasted own tribe for not adher- over 3 hours at the Lotha ing to the call of their apex Hoho Ki today.

Called by the JCC, the tribal leaders, and that any person found going against meeting had representatives from the Sumi Hoho, the warning “shall be doing Lotha Hoho, Angami Pubso at his/her own risk, as lic Organisation, Chakhethe youth shall not be held sang Public Organisation, responsible for any untow- Ao Senden, ENPO, CNTC, ard incidence thereof.” The Naga Council Dimapur, youth organisations also DUCCF, GBs union and appealed to all citizens of poll candidates, who have Chumukedima to “adhere withdrawn candidature.

Uncertainty and the to this warning.”

CTYO, CVYS, NCVYO caution excommunicated candidates

from pneumonia.

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) takes the oath of office from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (R) with his wife Melania, and children Barron, Donald, Ivanka and Tiffany at his side during inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20. (REUTERS)

class families, build up the U.S. military and strengthen U.S. borders. “We are transferring power from Washington D.C. and giving it back to you,” he said.

“From this day forward a

new vision will govern our land,” Trump said. “From this day forward it’s going to be only America First.”

Away from the Capitol, masked activists ran through the streets smash-

ing windows several blocks from the White House. They carried black anarchist flags and signs that said, “Join the resistance, fight back now.”

Police used pepper spray and chased them down a

major avenue, a Reuters eyewitness reported.

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate who Trump defeated, attended the ceremony with her husband, former Presi-

dent Bill Clinton. Former presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were also present with their wives.

Bush’s father, former President George H.W. Bush, 92, was in Houston recovering

TRUMP’S AGENDA Trump campaigned on a pledge to take the country on a more isolationist, protectionist path and has vowed to impose a 35 percent tariff on goods on imports from U.S. companies that went abroad. His desire for warmer ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin and threats to cut funding for North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations has allies from Britain to the Baltics worried that the traditional U.S. security umbrella will be diminished.

In the Middle East, Trump has said he wants to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, at the risk of angering Arabs and stirring international concern. He has yet to sketch out how he plans to carry out a campaign pledge to “knock the hell out of” Islamic State militants.

Jcc protest rally on January 23

India’s envoy to Myanmar Wokha Village candidates forfeit candidature poses with NSCN (K) members WokhA, JANUARY 20 (MExN): ment with the public of the village in that polling officers and presiding of- on Naga New Year day ficers who take the Election Duty CerDays after the deadline to withdraw this regard on January 19.

nomination for the Urban Local Bodies’ elections has passed, all the intending candidates belonging to Wokha Village have decided to forfeit their candidature for the Wokha Town Council. This was done under pressure of the village which had made a resolution not to allow any of its members to contest in the election. The candidates signed an agreepressure to deliver were evident as the candidates who have withdrawn broached the question of ‘justice’ in the backdrop of other candidates who have chosen to stay in the fray.

“One cannot live in isolation in a society and based on this belief, I withdrew my candidature. The question now is will you be able to take action against those who went against the will of the ‘people’,” stated Tiala Sapuh at the meeting,

This was informed by leaders of Wokha Village and some candidates during the meeting called by Lotha Hoho Joint Action Committee on January 20 in Wokha Town. One woman candidate from Wokha Town also declared to forfeit her candidature during the meeting, according to the Lotha Hoho Joint Action Committee.

Meanwhile, the meeting resolved

who withdrew her candidature from Ward 1.

A major part of the meeting revolved around strategy and weighing options - either taking the legal route or taking to the streets. The options though were left in the back-burner for the time being with the house focussing on the rally scheduled on January 23.

The rally, as per the JCC, will draw some 20,000 people. JCC co-convenor, Vekhosayi Nyekha brief-

tificate will be held responsible for any eventuality that befalls on Lotha people.

The polling officers, presiding officers, polling agents who allow even a single vote to be cast in their Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were also warned the same. The meeting reiterated that the Lothas will boycott the election until and unless the norms of the Nagaland Municipal Act are modified.

ing the media following the meeting said that the respective tribe affiliates of the JCC has been assigned to mobilise as many people as possible for the peaceful rally. A minimum of 5000 people each from the Angami, Ao and Sema units and no less than 3000 from the Lotha unit will be requisitioned, Nyekha informed. 1000 people each from the ENPO and Chakhesang units are expected, he added.

He further urged the people attending the rally to come attired in traditional clothing “to signify the safeguarding of our customs and traditions.”

While acknowledging Temsulemla (Ward 1, Independent) and Kerielhouvü Pfukha (Ward 23, NPF), who Nyekha said have voluntarily withdrawn, he expressed hope that more candidates in the fray will withdraw at the earliest possible time.

‘one ancestor, one inherent territory’ Pangsha border fencing issue should be taken up at the PM’s level: ENPO

People from Khiamniungan Naga villages of Myanmar & India apprise GoI representative on border fencing at Pangsha Morung Express News ITC Dan | January 20

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“Our existence is like this- a father may live in Kenphu village (Myanmar) while his son will be here in Pangsha (India).

We are all the same,” a villager who had come all the way from Kenphu village in Myanmar to meet the representative from the Government of India (GoI) explained the kinship of the Khiamniungan Nagas, coexisting from two countries-India and Myanmar.

Representatives from the Khiamnungan Naga villages under Myanmar namely Henphu, Solo and Kenphu, had come to ITC Dan village, a Khiamniungan village in the Indian side of the border to attend a consultative meeting with Maj Gen Girish Kumar, head of the boundary cell, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India.

The MEA-GoI representative was at Pangsha to conduct the spot verification of the border fencing carried out by the Government of Myanmar along the IndoMyanmar border along with Special Secretary (Home) Government of Nagaland, Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) Advisor, Khiamniungan Tribal Council (KTC) and others.

Brethrens from the Indian side - Old and New Pangsha, ITC Dan and Wansoi

A Khiamniungan Naga village in Myanmar (Morung Photo)

villages were also at hand to speak their mind at the meeting. The Khiamniungan Nagas from across the border were unison in their apprehension- on how the fencing of the border would tear apart the very soul of the Khiamniungan tribe, who despite being in two countries, has one ancestor, one inherent territory and one traditional one customary practice- in a time-tested existence.

The fencing of the border will not only affect the cultivation practice of the Khiamnuingan people but it will also severe the trade/barter practices among the villages along the border, which for many is a source of livelihood, a representative from Henphu village in Myanmar said.

Many Khiamniungan Naga villages under Myanmar cross the border to buy essential items at Pangsha and Noklak town.

New Pangsha village council chairman questioned the validity of the claim

made by the Government of India that it was not aware of the construction of the fencing at the border. He also questioned why India was keeping silent when large tracts of land belonging to her would go to Myanmar once the construction of the international border fencing is completed.

“We will not be happy if the boundary line is physically fenced to divide us,” the chairman said.

Old Pangsha village students’ union president said the representative from the GoI had arrived at a right time-before any serious conflict erupted and appealed for a solution at the earliest. The student leader lamented that the turn of event has transformed to such that “we have no rights in our own land.”

In his response, Gen Maj Kumar assured the villagers he would convey their messages and appeal to the GoI for further action.

ENPO Advisor Toshi Wungtung, who apprised the MEA representative on the ground situation said the ENPO and the Nagas were skeptical over the assertion of the Government of India that it was not aware of the ongoing construction of border fencing along the international border at Pangsha village under Tuensang district.

The fencing construction, which the Government of Myanmar through its foreign ministry had stated that it planned to build the fence in the Naga Self Administered Zone, 10 meters from the demarcated border with India, will cut off 3,500 acres of arable land belonging to the Khiamniungan Naga tribe.

Even if India is not involved in the construction of the border fencing, the claim that it is not aware what is going on at the border is highly questionable, Wungtung told the MEA representative. “We need to go deeper, we need to get to the bottom of it, before things go out of hand,” the ENPO Advisor stated.

According to the ENPO Advisor, unlike Pakistan and India, Myanmar and India are “friendly country” and therefore the claim that it was not aware of the ongoing activities at the international boundary sounded dubious.

On this, India need to be more transparent in its dealings, Wungtung said while demanding that the issue at hand be taken up at the Prime Minister level.

“However, we are hopeful and confident that India will protest our interest before things go out of hand,” Wungtung said.

NEW DElhI, JANUARY 20 (IANS): In an obvious diplomatic faux pas, the Indian envoy to Myanmar, Vikram Misri, has been pictured along with top members of the banned NSCN-Khaplang faction, including its “military commander” Niki Sumi, who has a bounty of Rs 10 lakh on his head.

In the picture, posted by a cadre of the banned Khaplang faction on his Facebook page, Misri is seen smiling along with Niki Sumi and senior Khaplang member Isak Sumi, and European Union envoy to Myanmar, Roland Kobia. The picture was put on his Facebook page by Isak Sumi.

The picture was said to have been taken earlier this month in Lahe, in the so-called Naga Self Administered Zone in Sagaing region of Myanmar.

TheIndiangovernment banned the NSCN-Khaplang faction in November, 2015. Its leaders, including chief S.S. Khaplang and “militarycommander”Niki Sumi, were proscribed with bounties of Rs 7 lakh and Rs 10 lakh on their heads, respectively.

The Ministry of External affairs, however, sought to downplay what it said were “some casual pictures” taken on the oc-

casion of Naga New Year.

“It would not be appropriate to attach any significance to them,” MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup told IANS. Ambassador Misri did not respond to an email sent to him by IANS. Swarup said in response to a query that “the Indian Ambassador to Myanmar was present at a state level festival organised on January 1315, 2017 in Lahe, in the Naga Self Administered Zone in Sagaing region of Myanmar. This festival was organised with the assistance of the Government of Myanmar on the occasion of celebrations of the Naga new year festival, which traditionally falls on January 15, after the harvest.”

He said that “very high ranking dignitaries of the Myanmar government, including the President and many Union Ministers, Sagaing Region Government Ministers, and Ambassadors of several countries to Myanmar were present on the occasion.

“Various Naga leaders were naturally also present on the occasion and some casual pictures were taken with the visiting Ambassadors. It would not be appropriate to attach any significance to them,” Swarup said.

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Driven by passion, fueled with inspiration and creation Ketholeno Neihu Kohima | January 20

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realistically looking picture of a wrinkled Naga elder of Konyak Tribe hadn’t just been an attractive piece to display, much of it been prized to fervent effort and passion, let a British tourist named Chris purchase the artistic painting of Vineizotuo Tase during the Hornbill Festival 2016. Describing the work presided with acrylic paint and water on canvas measured 64/49 inches, his painting was sold at whopping amount worth lakhs of rupees. A moment of such significance sets a historical stance to the people of the land and the festival in awe itself.

27 years old Vineizotuo Tase who hails from Jakhama Village, shares his moment of accomplishment through local artists who not only bears an inspiring mark but also mentored him to acquire different forms and techniques of art and painting.

Recalling the impression and support he had

Vineizotuo Tase

from M. Duolo and Vikhor Tepa, had set him a tinge of motivation to undertake more challenging ones as realistic pictures and portraits while heightening his skills and abilities also. “Besides sculpturing, I do all kinds of painting as pencil sketching, oil, charcoal etc,” he said.

The particular picture formerly sold off had him engrossed for at least nine months, meanwhile he had his service rendered for other art works for the

town beautification project and the “wall of hope” project perfectly seen beside the highway near the PHQ point, Pr. Hill, Kohima.

Discovering his interest in early schooling days, he attributes an event during his 9th standard, the class captain whom he had close acquaintance with chose him to participate in an inter-school drawing competition organized by the Land Resource department where he came third.

Although after graduation

RK Road Doyang Pangti village inaugurated

his dream to pursue diploma/degree courses in fine arts couldn’t be accomplished it had never hindered his dream in becoming less than a professional.

While he has huge collection of art and painting in his home studio and some major works at the ‘Art Works’ studio and shop of M. Duolo he also does various artwork on commission, his hands on his tools has never a day rested to compromise on a busy

day where he is demanded to engage in social life.

The artist whose focus of work is on the Naga people and culture for which the particular painting sold was from the series “For the forgotten Bat-

tles” based on Naga Warrior. The painting sold was much to his satisfaction and awe a good amount as he shares that in the selling of a work sometimes ones loses the prize by setting it very high or at times the

returns too low adding to ones discouragement.

He loves tranquility and peaceful surroundings which exactly suits his personality as an artist staying focused and undisturbed.

Art and painting to him

has always been a gratification and re-recreation of reality. Setting his goals straight to continue with his vocation at home and higher levels too.

The writer is currently an intern at The Morung Express.

‘Oldest press club’ in Nagaland observes 16th foundation day Our Correspondent Kohima | January 20

Minister for School Education & SCERT Yitachu cuts bamboo as a mark of opening RK road recently. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent deputy commissioner Naga dao, which is considWokha | January 20

Minister for School Education & SCERT Yitachu recently inaugurated RK Road Doyang Pangti village under Wokha district in the presence of Wokha

and additional director (HoD) school education, Nagaland.

The uniqueness here is, instead of conventional cutting of ribbon, the minister opened the road by cutting a bamboo using a

ered or the first of its kind in Naga history.

The road was constructed by Renbomo Kikon, general secretary NPF Central at his own expenses for the welfare of the people of Sungro range.

The Kohima Press Club (KPC) on Friday observed its 16th Foundation Day at KPC Conference Hall. KPC president Xavier Rutsa said heralding a new chapter in the press and media history of Nagaland, some few pioneers in the field of media based at Kohima initiated the formation of KPC on January 20, 2001.

He said, “KPC is the oldest press club in the state and has been pioneering in leading the fourth estate to a greater height.”

Over the last 16 years, the KPC has done a commendable yeoman service to the society and today KPC is able to stands on its feet and well recog-

KPC members during 16th foundation day held in Kohima on January 20. (Morung Photo)

nized amongst the society, he said. With the humble beginning with handful of members, today KPC has 46 registered mem-

bers, working both in print and electronic media and more members to join the Club soon.

Rutsa acknowledged

the pioneers and all the members for the active support and cooperation rendered to KPC on all occasion. “True to its motto

“To Serve,” let us all rededicated oneself to serve the society and also continued to uphold the ethics of journalism,” he said.

KPC general secretary Alice Yhoshü informed that the Club will be visiting KRIPA Centre on Republic Day on January 26 and sought active participation of the members.

Earlier, special number presented by Thejano Ethel Kirha, finalist Naga Talents Promo 2016. Keduovilie Linyü, Member, KPC & Associate Pastor, Baptist Revival Church Kharüzou prayed the programme while vote of thanks as proposed by KPC vice president Atul Sharma. KPC former president H. Chishi and senior journalist Oken Jeet Sandham also exhorted the gathering.

‘Revive the Culture of Traditional Weaving’ Dimapur stores lament decline of CD sales Myingthungo Shitio

Vishü Rita Krocha

Dimapur | January 20

Zhavame | January 20

While women have naturally inherited the art of traditional weaving in the past, many young girls today grow up without acquiring this unique skill.

With the passage of time, as more and more rural families also move to towns in pursuit of both education and employment, traditional weaving is soon becoming a fading art.

It was with this deep concern that the Zhavame Women Society (ZWS) organised what it called “Handicraft Day” on January 19, 2017 in the village gallery wherein women of all ages gathered to exhibit, share, teach and learn the art of weaving. Emphasizing that the fading art of traditional weaving is one of their greatest concerns, President of Zhavame Women Society, Shone Pohena underlined the need to revive the culture of weaving. “We are going to bring out more of these, teach the young girls…we will not leave this great culture behind”, she stated.

She further impressed upon that some cannot afford western clothes and if they weaved more, they would not only be able to make their own clothes but also reap economic benefit out of it. Pointing to “Lusa” (a shawl made of the stinging nettle), she said, there are four types in this regard and went on to say that these shawls do not hurt the skin, are hygienic and good to wear. She hoped that the culture of weaving will pick up among young girls in the days to come.

Additional Secretary (Retd.), Horticulture, Vechisalu Nukhu, who was also present on the occasion, as-

Store owners who depend on Compact Disks or CD to make earnings are facing challenges as CD sales continue to drop everywhere. The option of purchasing CDs has been gradually abandoned as downloading and streaming has become the platform of choice.

It is generally observed in Dimapur itself that the market of CD has declined and now that selling CD is not doing well like before and business have slowed down, some CD retailers have closed their shop.

Ryan, who owns a CD store in Thesuohie Shopping Arcade, opposite to Christian Higher secondary School in Dimapur called ‘Hok's Collection’ said, “Business has been slowing down because people these days tend to download directly from the internet.”

However, Ryan adds, “not everyone knows how to access the internet so even if things are slow; it is still okay for business.” Hok's Collection’ store has a lot of original game CDs on display.

There are also a few old CD stores around Hong Kong market area in

People pass by one of the cassettes stores in Hongkong market area in Dimapur.

Dimapur where they sell all sorts of CDs with games, movies and music from different times and genre.

One of the CD store sales girl said, “These days, we even directly copy to pen drives that the customer brings taking a charge of Rs. 20 to 30 instead of selling them the CD.” The result is that they find their business facing challenges owing to the digitalization while waving goodbye to the CD. Almost all the store owners, in the course of their talk mentioned about ‘Reliance Jio network.’ They said that the free services it provides has also

been a factor of causing slow business. People are no longer interested in buying CDs but prefer to download everything online.

A closer look shows that the steady sales that have sustained the CD store business for years are way down, and it is hard to see how they could ever return to where they were even a decade ago. A store owner mentioned about how they have a lot of old stock of Game CDs but due to the slow business, they are considering of closing down the store in the near future.

The writer is currently an intern at The Morung Express.

Seitheke Basa Sub-Centre building inauguration Women from different age group take part in “Handicraft Day” of Zhavame Women Society (ZWS) organised on January 19, 2017 in the village gallery.

serted that traditional weaving is something we should not forget or abandon. Stating that it is especially important for young girls to learn this art, she expressed that education is not only about academic knowledge but also includes the skills to weave, stitch, cook, etc.

“We have to learn and pass it on to the next generation”, she asserted, while particularly stating the need for the young girls dwelling in towns to learn.

On the warm January day, while the elderly remi-

nisced their girlish days of growing up, the skilled women demonstrated the various procedures of weaving and young girls either watched or practiced the art themselves. A 75year old woman recalled with delight that when she was young, girls her age would gather in the evenings and gladly weave after a long day’s work in the fields. “We didn’t have to go to school in our time, and we relished these evenings of working together and making our own attires”,

she said.

On the other hand, a 12 year old girl named Rakovine Domeh, who was probably the youngest participant of the Handicraft Day expressed excitement to be learning the skill. She was weaving a traditional belt and expressed interest to further her knowledge even as a school going girl.

The Handicraft Day witnessed weaving of 15 traditional bags, 18 Shawls (Saparadu), 2 other shawls, and 4 traditional belts among others.

Dimapur, January 20 (mExn): Seitheke Basa new Sub-Centre building was inaugurated by Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi, Chief Medical Officer Dimapur district on January 20.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Kinimi assured to assist in bringing necessary facilities to make the SubCentre functional at the earliest. He appreciated the village authorities for their initiatives in making health care facility accessible for the villagers.

Dr. Moa, DPO(NVBDCP) also urged the village authority to monitor the functioning of the health unit and to co-ordinate and cooperate with the health personnel for smooth and efficient func-

Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi, Chief Medical Officer Dimapur (fourth from left) with others during the inauguration of the Seitheke Basa new Sub-Centre building on January 20.

tioning of the health unit.

Mesotso Sekhamo, Hd G.B while delivering the vote of thanks also narrated the hardship that the villagers faced even to access basic health care facility

and appreciated the Medical Department for making health care easily accessible for the villagers.

A press release informed that the programme was chaired by

Mhasisalie Chusi and short speech were delivered by Keneingulie Seyie, GB and Binathung, Head Assistant and dedication prayer was pronounced by Pastor Ngusakhou Mero.

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Now Assamese say ban on Bulbuli fights marring Bihu fun

Guwahati, January 20 (ianS): Come January and there's festivity in the air in the northeastern state of Assam. With the harvest season coming to an end, it's time for feasts, bonfires, makeshift huts, "Bulbuli fights" and much more -- it's Bhogali Bihu time!

This year, Bhogali Bihu, also known as Magh Bihu, was celebrated on January 15, which usually coincides with Makar Sankranti, Pongal and Lohri festivals in other parts of the country -- all celebrated at the end of the harvest season.

Although there was no dearth of fun, frolic and merriment even this time round, there was something missing -- the traditional "Bulbuli fights" (nightingale fights) at the Haigriva Madhav temple in Assam's Hajo township.

Following a ban imposed by the Supreme Court on animal fights, the Bulbuli fight did not take place this Bhogali Bihu.

Hundreds of people have been engaged for generations in catching and training the nightingales or Bulbuls -- as the bird is commonly known in other parts of India -- for the unique event.

Those engaged in catching and training of Bulbuli birds said the court order did not just snatch

imphal, January 20 (ianS): A court in Manipur on Friday sentenced Nongthombam Ajay, son of state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson N. Biren, to five years imprisonment. High court advocate A. Romenkumar said: "As the sentence will run concurrently, he will be in prison for five years."

The District and Sessions Court, Imphal west, sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment for murdering a student, Irom Roger, on March 21, 2011 near the Tulihal international airport in Imphal.

He has been fined Rs 10 lakh and failure to pay it would make him liable for a prison term of a further two years. He was also sentenced to four years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 under the Arms Act. The court directed that the fine of Rs 10 lakh be paid to the victim's family.

would start a month in advance.

"The number of Bulbuli birds increases around this time of the year, as they come in large numbers. Each catcher nets 20 to 25 birds using traps made of nylon ropes and takes them to his home.

They would become part of the family for one month...

"My mother, brothers, nieces... everyone would get involved in the process for a full one month," said Kalita, adding that everyone would be busy bathing the birds, drying them and feeding them regularly.

He said that the birds would be given special diet during the month, so as to keep them healthy. He, however, declined to give the details of the "special diet", as his rivals would come to know his "secret".

The birds would be trained and then divided into two teams -- "Bharalitola" and "Sonaritola" -- indicating two localities in the area, and the fight would be directed by experts called "Masing" in each team.

The fight would continue for several hours before three of them emerged as first, second and third winners, and then the birds would be released in the forest.

Kalita's story is similar to hundreds of others, who had been en-

Newmai News Network Imphal | January 20

seven phases. Punjab and Goa will go to polls on February 4 while UP’s first phase of polls will be conducted on February 11. Uttarakhand goes to poll on February 15.

All political parties in Manipur have put on hold the announcement of candidate names for the election. But now the BJP Manipur Pradesh will be the first party to be able to announce its candidates for the polls.

The campaign trail is very slow as of now. Political parties, particularly the ruling Congress and opposition BJP seem to have felt the chill of the ongoing blockade imposed by the United Naga Council since November 1, 2016.

Door-to-door campaigning for the crucial election by political parties and aspiring candidates is taking place at a slow pace.

Stakes are high for Indian National Congress (INC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has been making efforts to penetrate deep into the state in the upcoming polls. The Congress won 42 seats in the last Manipur assembly polls held in 2012 while the

Political parties in Manipur are yet to announce the list of candidates despite the polls being only two and a half months away. The BJP though is likely to officially announce its first list of candidates by Saturday, January 21, early afternoon.

“The BJP has already finalised 31 candidates for the ensuing Manipur polls and that will be officially announced tomorrow,” sources in the state BJP said. A meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Board finalised the list in New Delhi yesterday evening.

The two-phased Manipur polls for the 60-member House will be held on March 4 and 8. Counting of vote will take place on March 11. In the first phase of the 11th state assembly election, altogether 38 assembly segments will go to poll.

Manipur goes to polls along with UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Goa. But, elections to Punjab, Guwahati, January Goa, Uttarakhand assem20 (ianS): Accusing As- blies will all be in a single sam Governor Banwarilal phase while UP will have Purohit of acting on behalf of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), forCentre for Development of Advance Computing mer Assam Chief MinisRECRUITMENT NOTICE ter Tarun Gogoi on Friday Advt. No: PUNE/Tech — Contract on Cons. & said the Raj Bhavan here is CNSLT/01/2017 gradually turning into an RSS office.

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gaged in this traditional source of earning their bread for generations.

Although the Supreme Court banned the animal fight, Bulbuli fight was held in the temple until 2014.

In 2015 and 2016 too birds were caught and brought to the temple for the fights, but they could not be held, as the district administration strictly implemented the court order.

This year, however, they did not catch the birds as the temple authority had announced in advance that the Bulbuli fight will not take place.

Apart from being part of a legacy and cultural tradition, the Bulbuli fight had also become a top tourist attraction in this part of the state. Hundreds of thousands of tourists, including domestic and foreign, used to throng the Haigriva Madhav temple every year to witness the Bulbuli fight.

"It is also a matter of emotion for all the people of Hajo. We cannot defy the Supreme Court ban.

But the court should have considered the fact that the birds are never hurt by their keepers as in other animal fights.

"The Bulbuli fight is unique and it does not fall in the category of cruelty to animal of birds," said Ranjir Das, a local resident.

Manipur political parties put on hold announcement of candidates BJP failed to open its account.

In the last assembly polls, though the Congress was able to make an impressive win, this time the party is expected to face a stiff challenge from the BJP. The saffron party is making efforts to make inroads into Manipur after Assam.

The 2017 Manipur assembly election promises to be a grand affair in the wake of the developing political scenario in the state.

District creation issue, territorial integrity, Inner Line Permit (ILP) related issues, Armed Forces (Special

Powers) Act and demand of ST status for Meiteis are some of the major issues that will dominate the 2017 election in the trouble-torn Manipur.

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NOTICE

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late T. Chemlong Sangtam has filed by Smti.

Sepila Sangtam (wife) R/o Thilixu Vill. H/No: 31, Block III, Dimapur: Nagaland to draw his:- 1. Family Pension Benefits, GIS, GPF, NPEIS, Gratuity, leave Encashment, Payment Allowance. 2. SBI savings account bearing A/C No. 31036267770, who expired on 19/12/16.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased may if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before the said day of 20th February, 2017.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this 19th day of January, 2017.

Principal, District & Sessions Judge, Dimapur: Nagaland

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL JUDGE, FAMILY COURT- II, Regd No .01/17

KOHIMA : NAGALAND

Dated: Kohima: 20th Jan 2017

NOTICE OF INTENDED MARRIAGE

(Under Section 5 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954.)

Notice is hereby issued under Section 5 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 that Shri. Mangyangtoshi Jamir S/o Shri Shijong Jamir R/o Agri colony, House No. 149 ‘C’ Kohima, Nagaland and Smti.

Tulusenla D/o Lt. Mapulepzung R/o Agri Colony, House No. 7,Kohima, Nagaland are intending to solemnize their marriage before the Principal Judge, Family Court-II, Kohima, Nagaland.

Therefore, objection if any in regard to the said marriage may be filed before the undersigned within the period of 30(thirty) days from the date of publication of this notice.

Given under my hand on this the 20th day of Jan 2017.

(S. HUKATO SWU) Principal Judge, Family Court-II Kohima: Nagaland.

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away their bread and butter but also took away the sheen from the festival.

"I did not feel the spirit of Bhogali Bihu this time. What is Bhogali Bihu without the Bulbuli fights?

This year we did not catch the birds due to the Supreme Court ban," said 55-year-old Krishna Kalita, who had been catching and training the birds since he was six.

"For me and others like me, the Bulbuli fight is the most important element of Bhogali Bihu... We had just no reason to celebrate the festival," said Kalita.

Although there is no documented history about when Bulbuli fights started, old-timers say it was started by the great Ahom King Swargadeo Pramatta Singha during his rule between 1744 and 1751.

People believe that the king saw two Bulbuli birds fighting while descending the stairs of the temple. The king was so amused by their fight that he instructed his men to catch Bulbuli birds and organise their fights.

Later it became a part of tradition and a unique signature event of the temple during the Magh Bihu. Kalita reminisced that their preparation for the Bhogali Bihu

The Angami Public Organisation expresses our sincere appreciation and gratitude to everyone who sacrificed their efforts towards the initiative undertaken. It is our strong stand that the issue cannot be compromised under any circumstance or condition. Almost every districts and townships who have nominated are clearly withdrawing their nominations. No force can deter human spirit in standing for justice, fairness and freedom. This was amply displayed in the last few days.

We are proud of our children, youth, villages and every Naga participants for their unflinching and steadfast support and endeavor. The issue raised is not settled yet. Anytime soon you will be called for duty again. We are confident to expect your support yet again. We are confident to expect your support yet again even in the near future. The responsibility undertaken by our people from West, South, North and Chakhro is an exceptional story.

Mention must be made to appreciate Medziphema and Chumokedima for holding on till the last breath. Kohima Village Council and Kohima Village Youth Organization, we thank you for your tireless efforts in everything which were delivered. We are also extremely grateful to all those who financially and materially assisted us for the past many days from 31st December, 2016 till today.

We also acknowledge some officials in the Government who helped in averting ugly situation from happening.

1. Governor, Nagaland 2. Chief Minister and his council of Ministers 3. Election Commissioner, Nagaland 4. Principal Secretary, Urban, Nagaland 5. Principal Secretary, CMO Nagaland 6. Sr. SP Kohima and team 7. Deputy Commissioner and team In conclusion, we hold no grudges against anybody.

Our intention is clear. What is wrong is not right even if anybody is doing it.

Dr. Vilhusa Seleyi President

K T Vilie Vice-President

AFFIDAVIT Regd. No: 72/17 Date: 19/01/17 I, Shri. INASHI YEPTHO S/o. Late Khetovi Yeptho permanent and presently residing at Old Town Colony, Zunheboto, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as under: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India belonging to Sumi (Naga) Community resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That I am Govt. Employee serving as UDA under Arts & Culture Zunheboto.

3. That my name is inadvertently recorded as INASHI SUMI in my SBI passbook, K. INASHI SEMA in my Service Book, INASHI SWU in my Service ID Card and in my AADHAAR CARD, but my actual name is INASHI YEPTHO Which is recorded in my appointment order and all other documents.

4. That the above mentioned names INASHI SUMI, K. INASHI SEMA, INASHI SWU, INASHI and INASHI YEPTHO are one and same person which is referred to me.

5. That, from the date of this declaration, my name shall be used by the name as INASHI YEPTHO for all official purpose and legal proceeding and at all times and occasions.

6. That the statement made in pars 1-5 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing material is concealed therein.

DEPONENT Solemnly affirm and declared before me by the deponent on this 19th day of January 2017 1st Class Magistrate, Zunheboto

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION NO.ED/MNE/REG-1/2015

NAGALAND: KOHIMA

Dated Kohima 19th Jan. 2017

PRESS RELEASE

It is notified to all concerned Adhoc employees (Teachers & Vocational Teachers) having completed 3 years or more of continuous service as on 31/12/2015 are directed to submit all their documents alone with the ‘Identification Proof’ format signed by the respective controlling Officers for Suitability Test on service regularization. The same should be submitted to the Directorate on or before 31st January 2017. No cases shall be entertained after the expiry date.

Identification Proof format: 1. Name of the candidate 2. Name of Father/Husband 3. Date of birth 4. Date of appointment 5. Present Posting 6. Designation 7. Aadhar No

Mobile No

8. Twp passport dully attested by DEOs/SDEOs/Controlling Officers.

Sd/- (WONTHUNGO TSOPOE) Addl. Director (HOD)

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Department of Posts Recruitment 2017

594 posts, Salary- Rs 69,100 Department of Posts has released a notification inviting interested, eligible candidates to apply for the posts of Postman, Mail guard. The candidates may apply to the posts in a prescribed format on or before February 14. The examinations will be held on April 9.

Vacancy details: Total posts: 594

Post wise vacancy details: Postman- 583 Mail Guard- 11

Eligibility criteria: Education qualification: The candidates should clear Class 10 examinations from a recognised board or institute.

Age limit: The upper age limit of the candidates must not exceed 27 years. However, the reserved category candidates may apply in the prescribed format as per notification.

Pay scale: The candidates will be in the pay band between Rs 21,700 and Rs 69,100.

Selection process: The candidates will be selected on the basis of an aptitude test.

How to apply: Application fee: The candidates have to pay an application fee of Rs 100.

Examination fee: General/ OBC- Rs 400 However, the Physically Handicapped, ST, SC, Women candidates are exempted from paying the examination fee.

Steps to apply: The candidates have to apply online through the official website, www.keralapost.gov.in Important date: The candidates have to submit their online application within February 14.

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Councils special Financial Literacy Camp for rural women Village meeting on Republic Day

Kohima, January 20 (mExn): A Financial Literacy Camp was organised by Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB), NMDFC, SRCW and PSK in collaboration with NABARD and Financial Institutes supported under Financial Implication Forum (FIF). The programme was held at Regimental School Auditorium, Thizama, Kohima on January 20.The participants included women from the village and also wives of the police personnel.

The Secretary & Mission Director, Daisy Mezhur while delivering the keynote address encouraged the women that it is time that women should actively participate in the economic development to empower ourselves and to take advantage of all the participating financial institutions who are keen to support.

Vekhosa, Commandant, 4th NAP Battalion, Thizama thanked

A section of the gathering attending the Financial Literacy Cam held at regimental school Auditorium, thizama, Kohima on January 20.

the organisers for taking the initiative reaching out to the grassroot.

He further encouraged the participants to be committed and sincere in the endeavours they would be ensuring through the support of the financial institutions.

Saran Kumar Chetri, Manager, UCO Bank shared on the importance of having a bank account and the various benefits linked with it including the insurance policies on health, accident etc.

Social Welfare conducts sensitization prog in Mkg moKoKchung, January 20 (Dipr): In an effort to create greater awareness on schemes and activities being undertaken by the Department of Social Welfare for the welfare of 0-6 years, pregnant and lactating mothers in the state, high level officials from the Directorate led by Director, T. Merangtsungba Aier are undertaking 3-day tour programme of Mokokchung district to conduct sensitization on various welfare schemes and activities of the department.

In Mokokchung town, the programme was held at town Hall for the ICDS blocks of Ongpangkong North & South and Kopulong where field officers, Angangwati Workers, village council members, leaders from wards in the towns and the public attended the programme.

T. Merang Aier who was the main speaker at the programme said that the main objective of the department is to improve health and nutritional status of children belonging to 0-6 years, pregnant and lactating mothers by extending supplementary nutrition, immunization, referral services and health care services to these targeted groups in the state. He said one of the concern areas of the department is to help children to prepare for formal school education by providing pre-school education at all Anganwati centres. He said Pre-school education at Angangwati centres is the back bone of Integrated Child Development Scheme of the department.

The Director also appealed to village council members, ward leaders in the town and the public to extend their cooperation towards Angangwati workers as they are responsible for healthy growth of a child besides tackling malnutrition.

He also said that the department has sent proposal for establishment of two more ICDS for Tuli and Tsurangkong which, he said is expected to materialize soon. There are 347 Angangwati centres in Mokokchung district and efforts are on to set up more centres to strengthen the scheme in the district. The programme was chaired by Bendangkokba, District Welfare Officer, Mokokchung.

On January 19, the officials held similar programme at Tuli town for the ICDS block Changtongya. For Mangkolemba and Longcxhem Blocks sensitization programme will be held at Mangkolemba on 21st January.

The Director is accompanied by Joint Director, Tulula and State Programme Officer (SPO) E. Yarenthung.

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loan facilities, which if properly channelized, can improve the quality of life. He emphasise the importance of digital payment and adopting cashless banking processes which will save time, energy, money and most importantly ensure transparency while availing scholarship, insurance, pension benefits and other schemes. He also introduced the benefits of forming Joint Liability Groups (JLG) under NABARD. Information about Women Helpline (181) and Childline (1098) was introduced by Visekolie Khate and Asilie Sorhie respectively. The programme was chaired by Vekhwüsalü Dawhuo, Supervisor- Women Helpline while Wete invoked God’s blessings.

The programme concluded with vote of thanks by Asalie Kruse, Programme Manager, NSSWB.

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Seikhao Sitlhou, Chief Manager, SBI and Lead Bank Manager of Kohima District shared his concern to be cautious of sharing account details and the risks associated with it. He also shared instances of many north eastern people being easily deceived and conned.

Bendang Aier, AGM, NABARD highlighted the various schemes and processes to avail them particularly the financial support/

Prof Mithilesh Kumar sinha Finance Officer Nagaland University, LumamI

The short-term disruptions in certain segments of the economy, cash crisis may not have hobbled economy. In the postdemonetisation phase, the government’s tax revenues have ended up soaring in the month of November 2016 over the year of November 2015. This is in stark contrast to the expectations of widespread economic disruption dragging down tax revenues.

Data published by the Controller General of Accounts, the gross tax revenues rose by 54 per cent in November 2016 up from the last year, with both direct and indirect taxes registering strong growth. Within direct taxes, both corporate and income tax collections rose sharply in the same period. Collections from corporate tax have risen despite expectations of corporate top lines being hit by demonetisation (from -85.1% to 44.3%), Indirect tax collections have also seen robust growth (from 22.2%

to 44.3%). But it is perplexing that Union Excise duties have shown robust growth (-85.1% to 43.4%) despite industrial production being lacklustre.

Initial reports of industrial and economic activity in November and December2016 have shown mild to strong growth in some sectors, belying fears of a calamitous fall in performance due to demonetisation.

An analysis of various indicators made by Economic Times Intelligence Group revealed growth in rail freight, port tonnage, fuel consumptions and power generation. Tractor sales are up and industrial output for November rose 5.7% contradicting expectations of tepid growth. Capital goods output was up 15% in November, the first time the sector has growth in nearly a year, Tw0-wheeler sales were down in November and December, but Maruti’s car sales grew 5% in December in rural areas.

Data for December 2016, to a large extent, captured the full impact of demonetisation since some payments may have been

made in old currency notes before November 8. Data from the Central Electricity show power generation, which is considered a proxy to the trend in industrial activity, grew 6% year-on-year, nearly twice the pace in December 2015. Power plants in south India led overall growth.

Other key indicators of industrial activity such as rail freight, diesel consumption and port tonnage also grew in December. Rail freight grew 4% compared with a 5.4% drop a year ago. Port tonnage grew 13.7% compared with just 2% a year ago. Diesel consumption rose by 1% in December.

Exports were up 5.72% in December. Central Excise tax collections were 31.6% higher in December. State Vat collections witnessed 18.1% rise in November and 8.9% rise in December.

Rabi sowing was 5.9% that is higher crop area in 2016.

As per the data published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), the country’s GDP growth rate for the current financial year is set to slow to 6% on account of demonetisation

and is expected to maintain the same rate for five years.

Steps for Building India: Consumption demand and investment cycle needs to be boosted reducing personal income tax. India’s human potential with strengthening the services sector through “Skill India” initiative and ‘Training the trainers’ initiative. Demonetisation would lead to digitisation in a major way. However, adequate investment in Cyber Security must be made to protect the data and people. Political Governance and transparent political funding is required to ensure check on sources of black money. For helping the rural economy, focus should remain on irrigation, rural road building and rural health and education.

The fiscal deficit has already reached 86 per cent of the budgeted amount, but since tax revenues are likely to end up overshooting expectations, they may create extra fiscal space for the government to boost spending in order to offset the adverse impact of demonetisation.

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tively participate in the meeting. The respective Administrative Officers are also directed to involve themselves in organizing these meeting in their respective circles. This should be given utmost seriousness as inputs received from the Village Councils will be collated by the District Administration as part of the vision of the District and submitted to the NITI Ayog. The priorities of the Villages will be given serious consideration for the submission to the Prime Minister of a Citizens' Vision of India.

This was informed in a press release issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome IAS.

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Dimapur, January 20 (mExn): NITI Ayog is preparing a 15-Year Vision Document for India.

Towards this objective it has been decided to organize special village council meetings on the Republic Day, January 26 across the country.

All village councils in Dimapur are directed to hold special meeting on the Republic Day and to list out their top priorities in order of importance to them. The sectors they may consider include education, employment, health, sanitation, agriculture, infrastructure like roads etc.

All the residents of the Village are advised to ac-

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Morung Express News

Changtongya | January 20

MLA Imkong L Imchen, former Ao Students’ Conference (AKM) and Ao Senden president today stated that the mechanism of governance and their action should reflect the basic interest of the people, but the recent notification for Urban Local Bodies’ (ULB) elections by the government did not reflect the interest of the people.

He was addressing the culminating programme of the 67th general conference of AKM at Changtongya village in Mokokchung.

Imchen said that the present municipal and town council elections infringe on the very tenet of Article 371 (A) of the Indian Constitution, especially with reference to the provision of Naga customary practices and its usage.

“If you want to do something for the people you should prioritize to discover the basic interest of the people,” he asserted. “It is rather unfortunate that Naga public should be given to agitate to such an extent, which I found that it is rather a personal ego than people's interest.”

He also appealed to the 67th AKM general session to ponder over the issue of the usage of ranges by the Aos which was given during the British rule.

• The 67th AKM conference expressed its appreciation to the EW Clark University committee for the progress made towards implementing the Resolution 1 adopted at the 66th conference 2014. In order to make this project a success, all individuals and different organizations should support this project.

• Preservation of land and natural resources in Ao areas comes under ambit of “Survival Mokokchung.” In this regard, the conference resolved to form a committee to work in coordination with different organizations for its successful implementation. The Committee will be headed by a Secretary in-charge.

• To assist students preparing for different competitive exam, the 67th AKM conference resolved to open a coaching centre by finding proper ways.

• The appointment process of the AKM office bearers shall be done in a rotational basis and the whole process should be completed atleast two months before the commencement of general conference.

• A committee will be appointed to look after the properties and preserve the inventories of the AKM. • The AKM resolved to support the Clean Election Campaign from the upcoming general election.

• The landowners in Ao areas shall not obstruct the construction of roadways but will give ample support towards the same.

• The AKM, in coordination with the Changtongya Village Council, resolved to undertake a project in the village in commemoration of the 67th AKM conference in Changtongya Village.

AKM workshops – a multi-facet orientation Morung Express News

Changtongya | January 20

Monyakshu, Mon said that there is a need for rectifying the concept of government services in Nagaland.

Using the biblical concept of leadership, he urged the students to have a heart to be a ‘servant.’

“It is not about how much persons are serving under you, but how much you are serving,” Ozukum said exhorting the students seeking jobs in government sector to “bring about atleast a change in the system.”

He also told the students not to be disheartened with failures but to preserve till their objectives are reached. Success is summation of many failures, he maintained.

The last day of the ongoing AKM’s 67th general conference here at Changtongya today saw multi-facet orientation of students through workshops divided into three different groups and technical sessions. In the different sessions, resource persons from various walks of like gave talk on different topics such as civil services, technical profession, and entrepreneurship and media.

Besides, the students were oriented on “Importance of Choosing a Right Career” and “Personality and Soft Skills Development.” It culminated with a joint session where the whole panel had an interactive Smart techniques for students session with the students and clariEAC Tuensang, Nukshimafied their varied doubts and queries. tong while advising the students on career in civil services said that Not to be served but to serve around 90% of the candidates sitSpeaking in a session on civil ting for competitive exam in Naservices, Sentilong Ozukum, EAC galand often do not have any idea

about even the syllabus. “Be thorough with your syllabus first,” he said, further telling the students that revision and making one’s own notes are added advantage.

Practise and revise previous questions and maintain a schedule, he added.

Answering queries about correcting negative marking in the exams, he compared it to a cricket batsman – who plays the easy balls and blocks the dangerous ones.

The smart technique for MCQs is to mark the ones you are sure of first and later analyse the rest depending on time, he said.

Speaking on personality and soft skills, K Wabangla Imchen, Asst Prof (HoD), Department of Management, C-Edge College Dimapur said that soft skill is equally important as hard skill. She also said that work ethics and professionalism are some skills “we” lack.

Imchen also called for inculcating

and cultivating positive attitude and empathy among the youth.

The other resource persons were Limalenden Longkumer, President, Mokokchung Press Club; Yutsung Imchen, Principal, Model Higher Secondary School, Mokokchung; and Watila Longkumer, Proprietor, Naro Ki on Entrepreneurship and Media; Er Inmameren, Executive Engineer Feeders Road Division Tuli on Technical Profession; and Amba, Development & Policy Advisor and Executive Director, SDFN on Importance of Choosing a Right Career.

A presentation on Indian Armed Force was also presented

by Major Himanpur of 44 Assam Rifles, Mokokchung. The sessions were moderated by Roselinda Longchar, Inspector of Taxes Nagaland; Anenla Jamir, AIR Kohima; and Limasenla, Asst Prof, Jubilee Memorial College.

NSCB profit shows increase of 275.12 percent last financial year Morung Express News Dimapur | January 20

The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Limited (NSCB) today held its 47th annual general meeting here at its premise at Churches Colony.

Secretary of Co-operation, Li-

throngla L Chishi, in her introductory address said the bank has made improvements in the recent years and with the advent of the drive to move towards a cashless society, there is a need for the bank to sensitize people about digital payments by holding seminars and other ca-

pacity building programmes.

Imtilemba Longkumer, Managing Director of the bank, delivered the annual report of NSCB during the last financial year which ended with an operating profit of Rs. 215.92 lakh against Rs. 57.56 lakh comparing to the

financial year 2014-15 showing an increase of 275.12%.

The increase in the operating profit has led to decrease in the accumulated loss of the bank from Rs. 3954.05 lakh to 3738.14 lakh and CRAR increased from (+) 9.68 to (+) 9.97.

The bank also opened 19,141 number of No Frills Account covering 104 numbers of villages in all 11 districts during the period.

Board of directors including vice-chairman, Kekhewengulo Lea, and shareholders attended the meeting.

Hokivi renews commitment to work for people Vote for Cong, Independent candidates to show disapproval of demonetization: NPCC

BJP candidates and party leaders during the candidature declaration programme of H. Hokivi Chishi at New Market on January 20. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | January 20

BJP candidate from ward no 19 for the ensuing DMC polls, H. Hokivi Chishi on Friday renewed his commitment to work for the welfare of the people of ward no 19.

Addressing hundreds of people during his candidature declaration programme at New Market, Dimapur, Hokivi said he was overwhelmed with the support received from the people owing to whom he could give a facelift to the New Market area by re-

questing the authorities to look into several issues.

“I have been living with you for the last 20 years and have a sense of satisfaction working for the welfare of the people,” he said.

Hokivi expressed his desire to put in more efforts to work towards progress and development of ward no 19 if the people voted him to power.

Stating that he would stand for responsibility and good governance, Hokivi appealed to the voters of ward no 19 to extend their support and cooperation to him.

Intending candidate from ward no 19, Joseph Sumi who withdrew his candidature to support Hokivi appealed to the people to vote in favour of the latter.

Representatives from Muslim Community, Nurul Haque; Marwari Community, Shivpal Joshi and Bengali Community, Dipak Acharjee also spoke at the programme.

The programme was attended by State and District level BJP leaders, BJP intending candidates including Vikheho Zhimo, Ikato and Meweu Lasuh.

DiMaPur, January 20 (MExn): President of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), K Therie today appealed to all urban voters to send a message of disapproval (of demonetization) to the Prime Minister by voting for the “few brave-heart” Congress nominees and Independent candidates left in the ULB election.

“Voting for DAN nominees would mean you are approving demonetization. It will be a terrible mistake,” Therie stated in a press release.

On the other hand, the NPCC leader expressed sadness that the State Government has chosen the path of confrontation with civil societies.

Observing the situation, many of the Congress workers fully co-operated with civil societies and did not search candidates, he said. On January 7, 2017, the release added, few Congress nominees had filed nomina-

tions assuring the tribe hohos that if DAN nominees withdraw, they will also withdraw. “Our intention was to give clean and cor r uption-fre e councils. For a decade, NPF nominees have corrupted all the resources and ruined urban habits.”

Many of the Congress nominees were forced to withdraw, however, NPF and BJP nominees could not be prevented and some councils and nominees will be elected unopposed, he pointed out.

Stating that the important thing in the coming ULB elections is to provide clean and decent councils and send a strong message of denouncement of demonetization to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, Therie added, “We also must tell him that we live in democracy and do not agree to diktats. Such a major policy impacting the entire population of the nation must be routed through the House of

Representatives.”

He maintained that every person in Nagaland is suffering because of the demonetization. “Excepting few corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, Nagaland’s public has no black money. Whatever money people have are hard earned money, whether it is in the bank or at home. This belongs to the people and we are entitled to have freedom over our own hard earned money,” he asserted.

Therie further stated that the advice of Cashless Economy is “without thought over the required infrastructure such as Banks, ATMs and Swipe machines; the eternal link failures and that over 90% of the rural population do not have bank accounts.”

Supporting the charter of demands Rahul Gandhi has launched, NPCC also demanded that all rules floated after demonetization be withdrawn.

MEx FILE AR apprehend NSCN (K) cadre Mon, January 20 (MExn): 40 Assam Rifles apprehended an NSCN (K) cadre identified as Pichung Konyak (25) with one pistol and three rounds in Monyakshu on January 17, according to a press release from Assam Rifles. The cadre was apprehended during an operation carried out based on “specific input with respect to likely execution of sabotage activities by underground cadres in Manyaksho.” The apprehended cadre was handed over to Police Station, Tobu.

Media persons asked to obtain Municipal Elections Pass KohiMa, January 20 (DiPr): The Department of Information & Public Relations (I&PR) has informed all the Media Offices/Agencies to provide names of journalists along with two passport sized photos each to the Directorate of I&PR in order to obtain Pass for the Nagaland municipal elections 2017.

All the offices have been directed to submit the details on or before January 25.

Coordination meeting held in Tening TEning, January 20 (DiPr): The monthly coordination meeting cum work distribution for Republic Day 2017 in Tening was held at ADC’s chamber on January 18. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Tening, Thsuvisie Phoji, chaired the meeting, where government employees were directed to attend the Republic Day celebration and PWD department was instructed to take care of the roads in the town areas. Health and Family Welfare was entrusted to take care of any medical help during the Republic Day celebration. Information and Public Relations Department will be installing the sound system. 36 Assam Rifles will provide light refreshment along with tents for Republic Day. The ADC and Returning Officer of Tening Council Election also cautioned against failure to perform election duty with disciplinary action as per election rule of conduct. The house also decided to conduct mass social on January 23 for Republic Day.

ADC Aboi meets departments and NGOs aboi, January 20 (MExn): Additional Deputy Commissioner of Aboi, Wasu Katiry held a meeting on January 20 at ADC’s conference hall here to chalk out the programme for celebration of Republic Day 2017.

He also informed that there will be a mass social work on January 24 starting from 7:00 am onwards. Therefore, all the citizens and town dwellers have been asked to participate in the mass social work. The meeting was held with all head of departments, institutions, CO 9th Bihar regiment, Vice Chairman (AATC), Presidents of KU, KNSK, ATSU, AASU, Head GBs and all ward GBs.

Meetings & AppointMents Training of polling personnel in Longleng All the polling personnel listed for polling duty under Longleng district for election to Longleng Town Council have been reminded that their training will be held as per the schedule, i.e., January 24 and 30 at GHS Auditorium, Longleng from 10.00 am onwards. Therefore, all polling personnel have been directed to attend the training without fail. DC Longleng, Y. Denngann Avennoho Phom informed in a press release that necessary action will be initiated against any person failing to attend the training without valid reasons.

Mass social work in Phek on Jan 24 The Deputy Commissioner of Phek, Muruho Chotso has informed that in view of the forthcoming Republic Day celebration, a mass social work will be held at Phek Town on January 24 from 6:30 am onwards. All departments and public have been requested to extend fullest cooperation.

Kapamodzü Society Zhavame meeting The Kapamodzü Society Zhavame of Phek district has convened a meeting on January 28 from 12:00 noon at Catholic Association Nagaland’s (CAN) conference hall at D-Block, Kohima to discuss important agendum in connection with future plan of action for the Society. A press release from Thonyi Krocha, Convener, Kapamodzü Society Zhavame informed that it is compulsory for all the members to attend the meeting.

Public SPace Who is the government: the people or the ministers? Comments and Justifications

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Democratic government is rightly defined, by Jonas Yanthan, The Morung Express 17.01.2017; as well as Robert Silverstein, also The Morung Express, 18.01.2017, as “government of the people, by the people and for the people”. Accordingly we, the Nagas, have an absolute right to insist that India, being the largest Democracy in the world and Nagaland being an Indian state, the Nagaland state government should be “Democratic”. Then are we satisfied that our Nagaland state government is democratic? What about imposing CrPC 144 to launch a contractor against the rights of the land owners, or dispersing peaceful rallies with water Cannon and tear gas? Are Peaceful demonstrations and rallies, not democratic? I am not a lawyer; but as far as I understand, such forms of expressing displeasure are democratic means of showing people’s resentment.

What about the Hongkong public demonstrations against Chinese high-handedness or Seoul public demonstrations against President Park Geun Hye? Were these demonstrations dispersed with either water can-

non or tear gas? And compared to Hongkong or Seoul demonstrations, our Nagaland demonstrations are insignificant. Also, what about convening a Consultative meeting with Naga Tribal bodies, on the 16th November 2016, for amendment of Nagaland Municipal Act (NMA) 2001, amended in 2006, in which all tribal bodies, expressed their opposition to the said NMA; and then within the same month, instead of listening to the people, our elected leaders had revoked their earlier Resolution of 22.9.2012 against Woman Reservation? Oh, so that is Nagaland democracy, Eh? Let us come to the point of Robert Silverstein, who clarifies to Jonas Yanthan, who asked “in whom does power lay, the elected members or the people?” Excuse me; but I am not sure as to who Robert Silverstein is, whose name seems to me to be a Non Naga!

If you, Robert Silverstein, is a bonafide Naga, kindly bear with me. My point is ‘let the Nagas speak for themselves’, since nose-poking is also illegal. Silverstein explains what a ‘Republic’ is and justifies that “in a democratic republic, the supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exer-

cised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law”. It is not clear to me, what he means by “them” (…responsible to them).

Anyway, Silverstein, you are absolutely correct, in your definitions. But the billion dollar question is “are the elected representatives exercising their voting right and power in the best interests of the electorate or are they doing so in a dictatorial manner?” You see, Mr. Silverstein, we the electorate, have elected our representatives, to protect us, stand for our rights, to do our welfare, listen to us and show accommodating attitude, so that we go together for the common good, including their good: not definitely for using their entitled voting right, to rule us with an iron hand.

We also do not question you, Silverstein, or our representatives, as to whether they are doing according to law, as enunciated by you.

Yes, our representatives are definitely doing and passing Acts and Resolutions, etc perfectly according to law. But once again the billion dollar question is “are they (our representatives) passing Acts and Resolutions,

for the good of the electorate, their people, or are they doing so to infringe on the rights of their electorate and to torture them and make them slaves, in their own land?” In short, Silverstein, we are not defining what a Democracy or Republic is; or in what way our elected leaders carry out their proceedings, whether according to law or illegally; but we are asking whether our elected leaders are passing Acts and Resolutions, for our good or against us.

Let us also go to some other points, Silverstein. We see in the Election Manifestoes of most political parties, many idealistic mottos explicitly highlighted for the welfare of the electorate. There is an old saying “during election campaigns politicians promise to build bridges even where there is no river”.

Of course, not where there is no river and not even across every river; but we expect them to do so at least across some of the existing rivers. But instead, they prefer to wade through the rivers water instead of building bridges.

So also many, many more such dissatisfactions are there; but why waste space and time unnecessarily, it is not going to be of any use, and this is exactly why we question.

Are our elected leaders carrying out their entitled and oath-taken duties? What about the Enquiry and Investigations into the recent Fuel Adulteration or misuse of Public Distribution System cases? Should our elected representatives exercise their mandated power to do things with ulterior motives, in connivance with unscrupulous elements? In our present context, what we mean by “Government of the people or the Ministers”, is “are our elected leaders, truly our representatives or foes?”. If South Korea, as a Democracy, can make its “world class” President, to step down, what about the Nagas??? Finally, I am all in all, with Jonas Yanthan. Readers will kindly pardon me for the delay, the reason being, I am at Wokha, and our elected, representative state government, had stopped data service for Wokha and Phek, with its iron hand, yes, against freedom of speech and expression, guaranteed by the Indian Constitution; and this is exactly why we question them, Mr. Silverstein!

Er. Mhondamo Ovung, Retired Chief Engineer, PHED, Nagaland, Wokha.

The Morung Express “Public Space” is to provide space for diverse opinions to be expressed and heard. The opinions in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper nor the editor.

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25 Things You Need to Know About Stress Right Now Danielle Groen

1) What happens to your body under pressure?

Stress gives us the energy to fight or flee, which is pretty useful if you're staring down a sabre-toothed tiger but not quite as productive in the lead-up to a job interview.

Here's what happens in your brain when you sense danger: 1. The eyes and ears pass that information along to the amygdala, a jelly-bean-shaped region deep in your temporal lobe involved in decision-making and emotional responses.

2. The amygdala decides the danger is real and sends a distress signal to the hypothalamus. That's the part of the brain responsible for the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which heads up involuntary body functions like your heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure.

3. The hypothalamus cues a part of the ANS called the sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for your fight-or-flight response. Often compared to the accelerator in a car, it sets off the adrenal glands.

4. The glands flood the bloodstream with adrenalin. Your heart starts racing, getting more blood to your muscles, and fats and sugar are released, providing you with extra energy. The lungs' airways open to the limit so the maximum amount of oxygen gets in, which is sent to the brain, sharpening your senses and making you more alert. (Now, go fight that tiger!)

5. Once the danger passes, another part of the ANS, the parasympathetic nervous system, is engaged. Much like your car's braking mechanism, it has a restand-digest function that counters the stress response and gets your body back to normal.

2) There's a formula to help you determine what's triggering those fight-or-flight feelings.

After 60 years of research, scientists have determined what provokes stress, says Dr Sonia Lupien, director of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress in Montreal. There's even a handy acronym: NUTS. N is for Novelty: "This is something new you've not experienced before, like the first day of school or a new job."

U is for Unpredictability: "When you don't know how something is going to [take shape, as is the case during] a trip to the dentist."

T is for Threat to the Ego: "When your competence is threatened, such as in front of colleagues. We're very sensitive to this."

S is for Sense of Control: "When you feel you have little or no control over the situation, like being stuck in traffic."

It's helpful to identify your sources of stress, Lupien says, because "a problem well-defined is a problem

almost solved". She notes that the opposite of stress is not relaxationit's resilience. "If you tell your brain that you can deal with this, it will stop producing the stress hormone and you will calm down." But if you need a quick fix, Lupien suggests these techniques:

erage of 27 minutes a day) boosted density in the hippocampus.

20) Seriously, start meditating.

A 2013 meta-analysis of 200-plus studies on mindfulness-based therapy, conducted by psychologists at Boston University, the University of Montreal and Quebec's Laval University, concluded that meditation reduces anxiety and stress. And a 2015 study of Ohio nurses on an intensive care unit found that eight weeks of meditation cut stress levels by 40 per cent.

Breathe deeply: "Extend your diaphragm; once the muscle is activated, it will stop the stress response."

Sing: "Singing makes you do abdominal breathing without you even realizing-it's funny like that."

Exercise: "You have to use the energy that you mobilize. Then it is eliminated."

Laugh: "The same region that makes you stressed, the hippocampus, makes you laugh. When we laugh, we produce hormones that stop the stress response."

3) 40.5% Percentage of corporate employees in India who sleep for less than six hours a day due to high stress levels, as released by a 2016 study conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). In fact, 45.5 per cent of the respondents reported general anxiety or depression.

4) Men and women have different stress dreams.

In 2013, psychologists from the University of Montreal found that while men's nightmares tended towards the catastrophic-earthquakes, the apocalypse, verminwomen were twice as likely to have bad dreams about interpersonal conflict, betrayal and humiliation.

nology provided more proof of second-hand stress. Thirty per cent of people showed spiked levels of cortisol after simply observing someone in a stressful situation, and 24 per cent of them still experienced stress when they were watching that tense person in a video recording, 5) Science is trying to build a stress instead of face to face.

Breathalyzer.

8) It's especially contagious if you In a small 2013 study out of the love the person.

United Kingdom, participants were When our romantic partners are subjected to a super-stressful ex- involved, it's even easier to "catch" perience (a tricky maths test) and second-hand stress. The German a neutral one (hearing classical study found that 40 per cent of submusic). After testing for six com- jects felt triggered after being expounds in the breath, researchers posed to a loved one's anxiety. found that, after the quiz, two were Get on your bike! elevated and four reduced, potenAs various bits of research have tially due to more rapid breathing. shown, cycling will lower your stress This could be the first step towards levels, whether you're doing a quick a 'stress-alyzer', allowing doctors to errand or committing to a lifetime more quickly diagnose a problem on two wheels. that, over time, increases your risk for heart attack and stroke.

9) 15 MINUTES LATER 6) You can smell the stress on A 2013 study out of Japan showed someone. a marked drop in people's cortisol Emotional stress releases levels after they pedalled for just 15 odours that aren't present during minutes on a stationary bike. exercise. In 2009, researchers from New York's Stony Brook University 10) AN HOUR LATER School of Medicine had some subResearchers from California's jects run for 20 minutes and others Stanford University found in 2015 fall from the sky for 20 minutes (with that, compared to their cycling colan instructor). When members of a leagues, those who drove or took the third group entered brain scanners subway breathed more shallowly an and sniffed the stressed-out sample, hour later-a sure sign of stress. it lit up the amygdala, which governs emotional responses. The runners' 11) 18 YEARS LATER After following 17,985 adult sweat had no effect. commuters for 18 years, UK re7) Stress is contagious. searchers discovered in 2014 that A 2013 German study published those who walked or biked reported in the journal Psychoneuroendocri- being happier, more confident and

better able to face their problems.

12) If you have to drive somewhere, plan ahead.

In a 2012 study from the University of California, drivers in San Jose reported they felt less stressed after using traffic-navigation technology for their commutes than when they chose to just wing it.

13) Chew gum; cut down stress.

At Cardiff University in Wales, 133 volunteers were tested on memory, motor skills and reaction time while sitting in silence and when industrial noise was played at the volume of a vacuum cleaner. Chewing gum during the blasting noise was associated with better performance and a better mood than those who went without.

16) Stress shrinks your brain …

According to Yale University scientists in Connecticut who, in 2012, examined tissue donated from a brain bank, chronic stress leads to a loss of synapses between brain cells, specifically the ones responsible for emotion and cognition. That, in turn, leads to a loss of brain mass, making your noggin a little lighter.

14) Toys can do the trick. … but you can build it back up to Being conscious for an opera- size with: tion is a preposterously stressful situation. So in 2015, psychologists 17) DIET: A 2014 study out of the at the University of Surrey in Eng- University of California, Los Angeles land asked nearly 400 patients to ei- (UCLA) found that the hippocamther listen to music, talk to a nurse, pus-related to memory and emowatch a DVD or fiddle with a stress tional resilience-was 14 per cent ball while undergoing minimally larger in seniors who ate baked or invasive vein surgery. Music made broiled fish on a weekly basis than no difference to their reported lev- those who didn't. els of anxiety or pain, while subjects 18) EXERCISE: Scientists from the who used stress balls experienced University of Illinois, USA, followed 18 per cent less anxiety and 22 per 120 elders for a year. In 2010, they cent less pain than those undergo- found that the volume of the hiping treatment with no distraction. pocampus jumped by two per cent A good conversation can help, too: in those who walked for 40 minutes, While the balls were best for manag- three times a week. ing physical discomfort, interacting with a nurse resulted in the biggest 19) MEDITATION: Based on 2010 drop in participants' anxiety levels, research out of Harvard University, eight weeks of meditation (for an avat 30 per cent.

Zuckerberg 2020, Could it Happen?

Adrienne Lafrance

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here’s a long-running theory that Mark Zuckerberg has presidential aspirations. It makes sense to wonder. After all, if the civically engaged and ambitious billionaire leader of the most powerful media company on the planet wanted to take on a new challenge, why not try running a country? It’s not like he has many other opportunities for a promotion.

But only in recent weeks has a Zuckerberg run for the American presidency started to seem like a legitimate possibility. First there was his personal challenge for 2017: Zuckerberg’s aiming to visit and meet with people in all 50 states by the end of the year.

And not just that, but he framed the exercise in a way that sounds, well, political: “Going into this challenge, it seems we are at a turning point in history,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “For decades, technology and globalization have made us more productive and connected.

This has created many benefits, but for a lot of people it has also made life more challenging. This has contributed to a greater sense of division than I have felt in my lifetime.

We need to find a way to change the game so it works for everyone.”

Another post, which Zuckerberg published on Facebook last night, has a similarly campaign-esque vibe to it: “Heading back home after a great few days in Texas. Today we drove down to Waco and stopped in smaller towns along the way. I had lunch with community leaders in Waxahachie who shared their pride

15) You can read your way out of stress.

Neuropsychologists at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, discovered a pretty terrific formula: six minutes of reading is all you need to reduce stress levels by 68 per cent. That's better than listening to music (at 61 per cent), having a cup of tea (54 per cent) or taking a walk (42 per cent).

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in their home and their feelings on a divided country. I met young moms in West who moved back to their town because they want their kids to be raised with the same values they grew up with. And I met with ministers in Waco who are helping their congregations find deeper meaning in a changing world ... We may come from different backgrounds, but we all want to find purpose and authenticity in something bigger than ourselves.”

He also announced he’s starting a Facebook page for photos from his travels in 2017, which is another thing a political candidate would do.

And back in April, buried in a clause in this SEC filingfrom Facebook, was another clue: “Mr. Zuckerberg’s leave of absence or resignation would not constitute a Voluntary Resignation if it were in

connection with his serving in a government position or office.”

If Zuckerberg decides to run for president in 2020, no one who’s paying attention will be shocked. (For what it’s worth, the tech columnist Nick Bilton, writing forVanity Fair, suggests it’s more likely that the 32-year-old Zuckerberg would run in 2024.)

And if Zuckerberg is indeed laying the groundwork for a possible run for office, the role of Facebook during such a race raises several huge questions. Facebook is a dominant force in the flow of news and information, and its engineers can—with the tweak of an algorithm—grab the attention of its users on a massive scale. Facebook can even toy with its users emotions, as a secret mood manipulation study revealed in 2014. So there are sev-

eral ways that Facebook could use its power to skew an election, and that’s before considering how much personal data it has on the American people: Facebook, in the hands of a political operative, would put ordinary voter rolls to shame.

That’s not to say that Zuckerberg would use this data improperly—or at all. (We don’t even know if—or when—he’s actually considering running for office! Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for information about Zuckerberg’s potential political goals.) But it does help highlight why people ought to begin thinking through the implications of a possible Zuckerberg presidential run.

After all, journalists started casually asking Donald Trump whether he might run for president in the 1980s.

Tomorrow he takes the oath of office.

22) Hug your family!

In a 2015 study, researchers from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, subjected 66 teen girls to a stress test. Some of them held their mothers' hands during the test; others had to do it alone. The girls who had contact with their mums were able to manage stress more effectively. It's what psychologists refer to as emotional load sharing.

23) Stress doesn't make it harder to get pregnant.

A 2011 British Medical Journal meta-analysis of 14 studies found that women with extreme levels of emotional distress were as likely to get pregnant as women with milder levels after one round of in-vitro fertilization.

24) Get a companion.

In a 2007 University of California, Los Angeles study, some patients hospitalized for heart failure spent 12 minutes with a therapy dog, while another group interacted with a volunteer. The canine crowd experienced greater decreases in their adrenalin and anxiety levels compared to those patients whose visitors could actually talk back.

25) Self-esteem is a natural stress buster.

Researchers from Concordia University in Canada met with 147 adults over 60 for four years. After factoring in economic and marriage status, they found that high self-esteem levels produced lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Let us help kick-start that confidence: We think you're great.

ID cards being issued to cows, camels, trees Nury Vittachi

Mark Zuckerberg

21) Try mindful breathing.

A 2016 Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy study found that Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique (PMRT), which is systematically tensing and relaxing all your muscles, and mindfulness breathing, reduced stress levels among employed Indian women and home-makers. To give mindful breathing a shot: 1. Keep your back straight.

2. Breathe naturally, through the nostrils.

3. Don't try to control the breath.

4. When your mind wanders, concentrate on the breath. Count if it helps keep you focused.

5. Breathe this way for 10 to 15 minutes each day.

6. Gradually, distracting thoughts subside.

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hey say the easiest way to bring people together is to unite them against a common enemy; so I would like to propose that scientists declare Neptune a Hostile Planet.

All humans can then be enrolled in an anti-Neptune campaign, Trump can send angry tweets skywards and Rodrigo Duterte of the Phillipines can shoot at it. We'll be so busy waving our fists at the sky that peace will break out on Earth.

It won't even be that difficult.

People will believe anything these days if you say it in the right "breathless internet factoid" tone of voice: "Amazing facts! Penguins can't fall over! Bald men can't lick their elbows! Planet Neptune identified as main cause of celebrity deaths!"

I tried out the idea on regular contributors to this column and one suggested that a more distant heavenly body be nominated for safety's sake.

He said that in December, astronomers released the biggest-ever night sky catalogue, with an ID number for every star. This revealed that there were a billion-trillion stars in the universe, a staggeringly huge number, almost as high as the number of Snapchats my teenage daughter sends every day.

The distribution of ID numbers is huge at the moment. The Indian government has just announced a scheme to give ID cards to all 88 million cows and buffaloes in the country before the end of this year. This is not a joke. Since cattle often go out without their handbags, the cards will be stapled to their ears. As aforementioned teenage daughter recent-

ly mislaid her (human) ID card, perhaps the ear-stapling trick should be used more widely. Just a thought.

Anyway, that piece of news arrived on my desk at the same time as the Saudi Arabian authorities unveiled a plan to give registration numbers to camels. This also sounds like a joke but isn't. Until now, carcamel traffic collisions have resulted in only the cars being identified.

By making camels identifiable, the system will be fairer, officials say.

No doubt witty camels will register "4 legs better than 2" and "I poop on U" and other cheeky number plates.

At the same time, officials in New York recently announced that they have just completed a two-year programme to issue every tree in the city with an individual ID number.

Again, we have the problem that trees rarely carry purses. So the authorities have put a map on the internet. If a tree forgets its ID card number, it simply looks up its location and it will find its number, its vital statistics (including trunk diameter) and a photograph.

The irony is that because of the very strong individual rights lobby in western countries, the authorities now have a highly detailed database of all the trees in New York (there are 683,918 of them) but know almost nothing about the humans there.

On the plus side, if terrorism spreads to our leafy friends, then New York's trees, or Arboreal-Americans to use the politically correct term, can be identified and tracked.

I hope that makes you feel safer.

Because I have a feeling we are going to get some very bad news about the planet Neptune soon. Could someone kindly tell Presidents Trump and Duterte?

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10 beauty products you shouldn’t be wasting your money on!

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here are some beauty products out there that unfortunately aren’t worth the splurge. They may have an attractive packaging, but for the price and everyday utility, they certainly don’t make the cut. Here are 10 such beauty products you shouldn’t be spending on because you don’t really need them in your life.

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Try THIS instead: Make a mix using olive oil and sugar crystals. Apply it to your lips, and use the bristles of a toothbrush to scrub the dead skin off. Once you’re done, wash your lips and pat dry. You can apply a bit of good old Vaseline afterwards so 4. Anti-Cellulite Cream Who doesn’t want firm legs, right? that your lips become soft, supple and That doesn’t mean that you have to invest smooth. in a body firming lotion especially for that.

2. Shaving Cream Most of these lotions do well in the market Shaving creams are believed to help only because they contain caffeine that soften hair follicles and enable the ra- helps improve blood flow and hydrates zor to glide with ease. In reality, shav- skin - it does NOT reduce cellulite. ing creams do cost a lot of money and Try THIS instead: you can totally live without them.

If you really want to lose that cellulite, you should start eating food that Try THIS instead: Your regular soap can be used in doesn’t contain much sugar and sodiplace of a shaving cream. You can um as well as try dry brushing in the also use your hair conditioner to do shower. The other way to lose weight the trick. After shaving, don’t forget to is by hitting the gym and exercising slather a layer of cream on your skin to regularly. Remember this ladies - no pain, no gain! keep it moist and fresh.

Try THIS instead: A face wash or rosewater do a fab job at removing dirt from the skin. If you have combination skin and don’t want to experiment with products, you can use cucumber slices. They absorb oil and hydrate your skin at the same time! For dry and sensitive skin, you could boil a cup of water on slow fire and add a few mint leaves to it. After a couple of minutes, turn off the gas and dip a ball of cotton into the liquid. Apply it to your skin and give it a gentle rub. Works like a charm all the time.

5. Shower Gel Shower gels may seem hygienic and smell divine, but they’re not good for your skin in the long run. Most of them contain lauryl sulphate, parabens and diethanolamine - harsh chemicals that can dry out skin and penetrate into your bloodstream in extreme cases.

Try THIS instead: Choose an organic bar of soap rather than shower gel because it’s milder and much gentler on the skin. Instead of damaging your skin, it will nourish and soften it.

6. Hand, Neck & Foot Cream Trust us, you really don’t need different creams to cater to different parts of your body, you needn’t fall for such marketing stunts. In reality, you require just ONE good cream for your body to do the needful.

Try THIS instead: days ahead!

Invest in just one good body moisturizer or a plain body lotion to nour- 9. Body Scrubs Body scrubs are pretty expensive, ish, moisturize and hydrate dry and but most of them are packed with flaky skin. harsh chemicals which may not agree with your skin. If you really want to ex7. Eye Cream You have to understand that dark foliate your skin, there are cheaper and circles and puffy eyes are caused due healthier options out there! to three common factors - diet deficiency, genetics and sleep deprivation. Try THIS instead: Yes, the ingredients lying around An eye cream can serve as a temporary in your kitchen are your answer! They solution, but if you ask us, it’s expenaren’t expensive and do a fabulous job sive and you could do much better by at nourishing your skin and giving it a going natural. radiant glow. You need 2 lemons and 2 ½ tablespoons of sea salt. Squeeze Try THIS instead: The key is to moisturize regularly the juice of both lemons and add a and drink lots of water so that your skin couple of drops of almond oil and sea stays hydrated and glows throughout salt. Blend all the ingredients well, and the day. Get enough of sleep and eat apply the mixture all over your body. healthy, leafy veggies as they are abun- Wash it off with room temperature water after 30-45 minutes. For more natudant in vitamins and minerals! ral body scrub recipes, click here!

8. Dandruff Shampoo What if we told you that dandruff 10. Lip Balms Have you been told that the only shampoo doesn’t get rid of it, but only aggravates it? Yes, the truth stings like a bee. way to hydrate and moisturize your Dandruff shampoos can do more bad lips is to use a lip balm? That’s not than good by drying out your scalp. If you true. Since the skin on the lips is dry and doesn’t produce oil, it needs a bit must, use them once a week or less. of protection and care. Most lip balms Try THIS instead: contain alcohol and you know what alBrush your hair often, massage cohol does, right? It dries your skin out! your scalp, get good rest, and consume food that’s rich in minerals and vita- Try THIS instead: Make use of natural ingredients mins. All these factors stimulate your scalp, redistribute natural oils and aid like coconut oil, olive oil or beeswax as skin shedding. There are plenty of nat- they’re super effective and will make ural remedies to get rid of dandruff too. your lips smooth, supple and baby soft!

(Source: POPxo) Change your lifestyle for better hair

Why our eyes don't blur when we blink

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ver wondered why we are not plunged into intermittent darkness when we blink? Researchers in Singapore may have the answer.

It is because our brain works extra hard to stabilise our vision, without which our surroundings would appear shadowy, erratic and jittery after we blink, a study has showed.

Blinking lubricates dry eyes and protects them from irritants. However, when we blink, our eyeballs roll back in their sockets and do not always return to the same spot when we reopen

our eyes.

This misalignment prompts the brain to activate the eye muscles to realign our vision, the researchers said.

The finding showed that when we blink, our brain repositions our eyeballs so we can stay focused on what we are viewing.

"Our eye muscles are quite sluggish and imprecise, so the brain needs to constantly adapt its motor signals to make sure our eyes are pointing where they're supposed to," said lead author Gerrit Maus, Assistant Professor at

Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

"Our findings suggest that the brain gauges the difference in what we see before and after a blink and commands the eye muscles to make the needed corrections," Maus added.

For the study, healthy young adults participated where they sat in a dark room for long periods staring at a dot on a screen while infrared cameras tracked their eye movements and eye blinks in real time.

Every time they blinked, the dot

was moved one centimetre to the right.

While participants failed to notice the subtle shift, the brain's oculomotor system registered the movement and learned to reposition the line of vision squarely on the dot.

After 30 or so blink-synchronised dot movements, participants' eyes adjusted during each blink and shifted automatically to the spot where they predicted the dot to be.

The study was published in the journal Current Biology.

(Source: IANS)

Remember these 7 things the next time you meet sexist trolls on social media Sonali Kokra

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5) Call the cops There is a time to ignore and a time to make them wet their pants in fear. Most online bullies are glorified cowards in real life. The relative anonymity of the Internet gives them the courage to say vile things without the fear of law. While you can't possibly go after everyone who abuses you online, if you feel threatened by the violence in a person's comments, make sure you register a complaint with the cyber crime cell. More often than not, the merest hint of legal trouble will make them grovel at your feet for forgiveness.

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ocial media is a fascinating, wonderful and powerful thing; but it is also a breeding ground for stupidity. You only have to breathe the words 'feminism' or 'women's empowerment' or just 'women' for a certain breed of humans to come sprinting out of the woodworks, hurling abuses and cracking nasty 'jokes'.

People -- often nameless, faceless and always spineless -- sitting behind their computer screens and hurling abuses.

And let's be honest, more often than not, these barbs can be hurtful and horrifying. Sometimes, they make you want to leave the place to the vultures, just so you can get some peace of mind. While it's perfectly acceptable to do that if you have to, here are some tips to help you deal with sexist trolls.

1) "Ooh, look, catfight!"

You're having a fiery difference of opinion with another woman online.

It doesn't matter whether you're debating Lady Gaga's sartorial choices or the civil war in Syria, there will be at least one, or, more realistically, half a dozen sexist dingbats who will start alluding to catfights and mud-wrestling. Don't give them what they want by making an argument personal or dirty. Women are exposed to so much abuse just for having an online presence, don't make it worse for another woman by opening up the doors to abuse during a dis-

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1. A Lip Exfoliator A lip exfoliator sounds exciting and tempting, but do you really need one?

That’s the real question! A lip exfoliator is basically like a lip balm that’s packed with scrubby bits with the goal to remove dry, chapped skin from your lips.

If you ask us, it’s kind of overpriced. Go natural instead!

3. A Toner Even though toners help cleanse your skin of makeup residue, dust, grime and bacteria, they’re still an unnecessary splurge. The alcohol content and astringents in them can strip skin of its natural oils and dry it out.

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agreement. Make your point, listen to what the other person is saying and let the trolls go back under their pathetic little rocks, disappointed.

no way to win against a person who spends 16 hours a day on the computer, looking for women to harass. Sometimes, ignoring them really is the only way to get them to go away. Summon 2) Keep your nose clean some pity for their sorry existence, and As difficult as it sometimes is, resist block, report, repeat. the urge to let out a stream of expletives when people are being sexist beyond 4) Stay, don't leave belief. Abuse begets abuse, and even if Celebrity and popularity are like they're going to use language that be- magnets for trolls. If you're even a longs to the gutter regardless of how teeny tiny bit famous, you'll probyou choose to speak, you never fall to ably face a staggering amount of sexism and nastiness for absolutely no their level of depravity. reason. Don't let that drive you away 3) Pity is practical from social media or keep you from Some people exist purely to lower saying your piece. After a while, you'll the online world's collective IQ. There realise that most trolls are too dumb literally exist trolls who specifically to come up with anything smarter search for feminism-related hashtags than "You're fat and ugly" when they on social media simply so they can go disagree with you. It is equal parts and spread their hatefulness. There is amusing and pathetic.

6) Friends don't get a free pass Dumbledore is always right. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." It's not okay to give your friends a free pass when they're being gross, but get offended when others do. Sexist jokes, gaslighting and belittling women is not okay, even if it's "nice" people doing it. Neither is it okay when other women are doing it. Shut it down, no matter who starts it.

7) Sexism VS sexism The answer to discrimination against women is not male-bashing or discriminating against men. When we waste time trying to counter sexism with sexism, we are only limiting the conversation to a meaningless war of the genders.

Zirenthung Yanthan: One of my relatives is “mistiri” and has local “jukalis” under him. He has become an expert now for constructing buildings. Once a man from our community decided to construct a building, knowing this my “mistiri” relative approached him to let him construct his house, to give him the 'Thika' (contract). The owner told him that he will think about it. One month just passed by and no news of confirmation from the owner. After some weeks, trucks came day after day carrying bricks, sand, cements, etc etc. My relative overwhelmed seeing those went again to approach him for the second time. What an unlucky day for him , the owner had already given contract to a non-local labour (Thikadar), so speechless with his face turned red and a broken heart he just went back home. So he came at our home after two or three days and started sharing us this story to us. I was touched when he said "had he given me the opportunity I would have worked with my local labours and the money will be given to our local people instead of giving it to outsiders, this is one of the reasons why our economy is very poor." Why not you and me, why others, we also can do like anyone does, let's give each other an opportunity to grow, learn and stand so that we all have a bright future.

Rozelle Mero: I feel for your relative. Here is a suggestion for future works. Get permission from owners whose house he has built to be used as reference so a potential candidate can check their work as at the end of the day no one would like to have their house used for experiment if the people are not as experienced. Secondly, when they know their work is good they don't have to under quote but at the same time not over price. And just like any laborer around the world our local people need to carry their own lunch and snacks. I have used local people in Pfutsero, some with great workmanship far better than even non locals, but would hesitate using some of them again as it is not worth the expenses they demand. On the other hand as slow as they maybe some are real craftsman and even with their quirky habits just like any artist, their work is outstanding.

Have used locals in Dimapur house building with hits and misses.

Kaulakbe Zeme: It might be easier for salary paid people to completely boycott the non locals, when you don't mind paying higher prices for the same product or services. It's not the same for everyone. Some people have to save every penny they can. It's no secret that our people think their time or work or products are worth more than the non-local counterparts. I once met a local auto driver who was trying to change the stereotype of Naga autos always overcharging. It was a long ride and he told me how he never overcharged because every time he did he was just confirming the stereotype. He said this type of thinking was affecting the business of locals. I'm glad I met him.

When there are more people like him, obviously every Naga would buy from their own brothers, till then there'll be some who do and who don't. I don't judge. After all it’s their own (hopefully hard-earned) money. They can do whatever they want.

Nokchem Angth: This practice isn't new to our society. Not only in a particular place but it is prevailing in almost all of our state. We talk about unemployment now and then everywhere and its eradication but we never try practically as we are too conservative for oneself. Had the Naga elite people used local youth in all their work instead of “plain manu”, we could have seen some changes but this isn't happening and it will take another decade to change our mindset. For one and all, we should try using our local youth in every work that we are doing as we find, now, the local are more sincere and dedicated than those non local. Our selfishness to save few hundred now will make us slaves in future. We all should be warned ourselves for its impact.

Visato Sale: One rejection shouldn't let anybody down.

Nor a few of them. Be patient. Maybe that non local had more experience. We must compete with our skills with everybody else. Tomorrow another work will come your way. All non locals also face joblessness at some point since there are many masons out there in the market. Have other options to earn when work is less. In any profession, only the true ones will shine through amidst all obstacles. No one should be forced to do a particular job. Mostly, it will take about 5 to 10 years for a person to discover his interest, strengths and skills. We must have additional source of income if we want to live a well rounded life. But not through unfair means :-) Do farming and retail business besides your regular job. Never waste time. You will have enough time when you are well off Rugo Iralu: If I may pitch in here, I don't think the To-be Owner is entirely to be blamed here. Mind you, it's easier said than done. While we must acknowledge the existence of highly skilled workers among the "local" populace, we are yet to see reliable and long-term workmanship which will, for once prove our efficacy and put some aging stereotypes to rest. I believe in people like the PM mentioned to keep going and gather many more young people into their fold. On our part, we too have a few strings to tighten. In my view, mastery in one particular job is much more productive than being a "jack of all trades". Also, most of us avoid "local" people in many situations as pointed out in this thread simply because we lack basic courtesy expected of a service provider. Toning down our egos just a little might do wonders here I believe. Yes, we all are for our own people but that shouldn't necessarily mean we hire/pay a service that isn't satisfactory. Our workforce should be right up there in terms of skills and customer satisfaction. Only then can we, without flexing a muscle, send those Biharis and "Bengalis'' back to their villages! If so many non-locals with no formal training can build our homes, fix our pipes, lay our tiles and connect wires in our homes, why can't we? :) We need just a dedicated few to start the fire. And as customers, I believe it is every Naga's obligation to promote another Naga's tried-tested-&-satisfactory services- even in virtual platforms like these.

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Trapped in struggling tea gardens, workers lose children to traffickers

JALPAIGURI, JAnUARy 20 (Thomson ReUTeRs FoUndATIon): Fagua Ooraon was running late for work when traffickers stopped outside his hut and said they were taking his teenage daughter with them to the city for better employment.

Ooraon said 'no' and went to work.

When he got home that evening, his daughter was gone.

"They took her anyway," he said, sitting in his home in Diana Tea Estate in West Bengal.

"If I wasn't late that morning, I would have stayed and talked my daughter out of it. But they had lured her with the promise of good clothes, a new mobile, better education and money - everything I have been struggling to give my family since the tea gardens started closing."

Tea gardens began shutting in 2002 and within five years, most had fully closed because manage-

ment said they were unviable to run or struggled with big loans.

Sabita, 16, is among the growing number of adolescent girls coerced to leave the tea-growing belt of West Bengal, whose pickers endure severe poverty, social isolation and health problems now their jobs have gone West Bengal reported 14,671 cases of missing children in 2014, according to Child Rights and You, a non-profit organisation that analysed government data. One in every five missing children in India is from West Bengal, it stated.

"There is a close linkage of missing children to organised crime," said Atindra Nath Das of Child Rights And You. "Large number of missing children are actually trafficked, kidnapped or abducted."

In the 276 mostly closed tea gardens of West Bengal, young girls are dropping out of high school and "dis-

appearing" with agents, according to a Child Welfare Board official, who did not want to be identified.

"Parents are helpless and in many cases don't even file a missing person's report in the hope that their daughter will safely return home," said Victor Basu of

Dooars Jagron, a non-profit group fighting for child rights in the region.

"In some cases the parents are given a few thousand rupees and told that everything is fine, " he said.

"Then the money stops coming and all contact with the child is lost."

LURED BY LIPSTICK Not very far from Ooraon's hut, Rukmani Naik holds up a passport-size picture of her 14-year-old daughter, Alisa.

"She went in the first week of January," Naik, a temporary picker in the Diana Tea garden, told

the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"She was taken last year also but we managed to find her and bring her back.

Then a man who came to my neighbour's house this month managed to convince her a second time and she's gone."

Campaigner say many young girls are directly approached by agents - an outsider and a local resident usually work together - and that fancy clothes and make-up are the biggest lure.

Earlier this month, undergraduate student and activist Sulochana Naik joined a group of students to prevent a teenager from being trafficked.

"The agents said they would buy her lipstick, cut her hair fashionably and buy her new clothes," the 21-year-old member of an anti-trafficking campaign said.

"They said she would be enrolled in a school and all she had to do was babysit for a couple of hours. The

girl told us that she thought she would earn, help her parents and become more beautiful."

Reports of human trafficking in India increased 25 per cent in 2015 compared to the year before, with more than 40 per cent of cases involving children, according to government crime data.

GROWING DESPAIR Hunger and death are deep set in the tea gardens.

But for the nearly 200,000 families that still live here, despair is only growing.

Most live in abject poverty. Women who once plucked leaves for some of the finest tea blends now break boulders on the river bank, earning 150 rupees ($2) a day.

"The girls have dropped out of school, mostly because their parents can't even afford the bus fare," Basu said.

A team from the National Commission for Women, a statutory body that advises the Indian

government on women's issues, last week visited the tea gardens to assess the conditions and were met with anguished questions about missing children.

At the Red Banks tea estate, Shanti Kesh stood up and told the commission: "Children are seeing our struggle and are moving out to earn money.

"But many are not coming back, some die there and most of us have no contact with them at all.

We want our jobs back so that our children are safe with us."

Ooraon believes his daughter is in the neighbouring state of Sikkim, a new destination for many trafficked children who are then employed in the booming tourism industry, anti-trafficking campaigners say.

"I miss her terribly," he said quietly. "She would always have my lunch box ready when I left for work.

My wife thinks I sold her for a little money. I didn't, she was just taken."

Free expression in varsities Centre gives nod to ordinance on Jallikattu under threat: Manmohan

KoLKATA, JAnUARy 20 (IAns): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said independent thinking and free expression at Indian varsities were under "threat" in the wake of unrest at the University of Hyderabad (HCU) and Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

He stressed that attempts to suppress peaceful dissent were undemocratic.

"I believe every university must give the freedom to pursue knowledge even where the knowledge may be at odds with established intellectual and social traditions. We must guard this freedom zealously," he said at the Presidency University here on the occasion of its bicentennial celebrations.

"Regrettably, independent thinking and free expression at Indian universities are now under threat," he said.

Political interference in university curriculum and academic appointments is highly shortsighted, he said.

"Recent attempts to interfere with free expression of student community at the HCU and JNU are of particular concern," he said.

"Attempts to suppress peaceful dissent are not only inimical to learning but also undemocratic. We must make every effort to protect the autonomy of our universities and to foster the right of our students to express ideas that

powerful interests may not always agree with," he added.

Protests marred HCU on Tuesday on the first death anniversary of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula.

Noting the "rise in new nationalist tendency", Singh cautioned against these "destructive" trends.

"We are witnessing around the world the rise in the new nationalist tendency responding to populism and directing hatred against backward classes and minorities, in disregarding reason and rationality. These tendencies can be extremely destructive," he said.

Elaborating, Singh emphasised: "We must protect India from this trend and universities have a vital role to play in this regard, for it is our universities that prepare Indian citizens to distinguish fact from fiction, to disregard propaganda and to be unafraid to speak their minds."

Quoting from Jawaharlal Nehru's 1947 December speech recognising that "our national objective was a strong, free and democratic India where every citizen has an equal place and full opportunity of growth", Singh reiterated the importance of free thinking among students.

The former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor underscored the importance of dissent.

"True nationalism is found wherever our students are encouraged to think freely and to speak freely, where dissent is en-

couraged and not suppressed. It is only by constructive engagement with dissent that we can truly build a stronger, more constructive and self-sustaining democracy in our country," he explained.

He highlighted India "must do this".

"India can and must do this.

We are a mature, vital democracy.

We are not afraid to look at ourselves and think about how we can do better. Our willingness and ability to engage with dissent is a sign of our inherent strength," he said.

"India is a country with a vast potential. Among her countless assets are our young people who depend upon universities like Presidency to prepare them in critical thinking, to become contributing members of Indian society but notwithstanding 70 years of progress made since Independence, we obviously have to do much more," he said.

Further, Singh called for solving internal tensions in a non-violent manner.

"India must grow and grow rapidly, to find pragmatic solutions to the problems of poverty and inequalities and to create a climate in which internal tensions can be resolved without recourse to violence. We have to find effective means to address the systematic disadvantages suffered by individuals on account of their caste, tribe, religion or gender," Singh added.

new deLhI, JAnUARy 20 (IAns): The central government on Friday gave its nod to an ordinance enabling the holding of Jallikattu as proposed by the Tamil Nadu government, officials said.

They said the Home Ministry cleared the ordinance after the Law Ministry approved the draft ordinance proposed by the Tamil Nadu government to enable resumption of the ancient bull taming sport of Jallikattu.

Swwarming mass of youth in Chennai's Marina Beach and in Madurai were in no mood to call off their protests for Jallikattu on Friday, and declared they would end their spontaneous demonstration only after the bull taming event takes place.

The youth protest in support of Jallikattu - a hugely popular ancient bull taming sport -- was continuing despite assurances given by Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam that legal steps were being taken to enable holding of the sport and that it would be held in a couple of days.

Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Panneerselvam on Friday said the state government would promulgate an ordinance to conduct Jallikattu.

He said he had detailed discussions with constitutional experts on the matter.

The Chief Minister said the state government has drafted an amendment to some provisions in the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and has sent it to the central government on Friday morning.

He said the amendment will be promulgated as an ordinance after getting the assent of President Pranab Mukherjee and state Governor C.H. Vidyasagar Rao. Once the Governor approves it, the

ordinance would be promulgated following which Jallikattu can be held in the state, he said.

The Chief Minister urged the demonstrators to withdraw their protests.

However, the protesting students at Chennai's Marina Beach and also at Madurai categorically declared that they would call off their protest only after it takes place.

"We will call off the protest only after Jallikattu is held in Tamil Nadu. The measure announced by the Chief Minister seems to be a stop-gap arrangement.

The permanent solution is that the central government by a notification remove bull from the list of performing animals in The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act," said a protester.

Even several hours after Panneerselvam's announcement the number of protesters at Marina beach continued to swell.

In several localities groups of youth carrying placards assembled playing drums.

Many young people, including married couples with children in tow, gathered at Marina.

"Jallikattu is Tamil Nadu's identity and pride. We want Jallikattu," Venkatesh employed in a private company told IANS while going to Marina with his family.

His daughter and son were carrying a "We want Jallikattu" placard.

"The student protest is the culmination of the stand taken by the central government on various issues concerning Tamil Nadu, like the Cauvery river water sharing, attacks on Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy, Jallikattu," R. Arul, secretary, Pasumai Thayagam, a non-government organisation (NGO), told IANS.

"Perhaps the centre's stand vis-a-vis Tamil Nadu on several issues was the tipping point for former World Chess Champion V. Anand to extend his support to Jallikattu and claim "Tamizhanda" (I am a Tamilian)," Arul said.

"Normally people like Anand and others would always claim that they are Indians first," Arul added.

He said the central government whether it is headed by Bharatiya Janata Party or the Congress - should accept the diversity of culture and civilisation that prevails in the country.

Arul also said there are no chances of the protest turning into a Tamil nationalist movement as those days are over.

"People are not supportive of such movements in Tamil Nadu," he added.

Meanwhile, the DMK held protests on rail tracks in Tamil Nadu and its Working President M.K. Stalin was detained by police for some time.

In some districts schools were also closed while shops downed their shutters across the state in support of Jallikattu.

The Supreme Court in May 2014 banned Jallikattu, saying that bulls cannot be used as performing animals including bullock-cart races.

Since then, people have been urging the central government to take steps to allow the sport.

The common complaint among the protest leaders was that the Supreme Court had insulted Tamil culture by disallowing the traditional sport observed during the harvest festival of Pongal.

In Tamil Nadu, the protests began on Tuesday morning following the arrest of protesters in Madurai district's Alanganallur town, well known for conducting the sport.

Government spends Rs 3.09 Japan threatens India with WTO on steel per Rs 500 currency note: RTI as Trump era heralds rising trade tensions

ToKyo, JAnUARy 20 (ReUTeRs): Japan is threatening to take India to the WTO over restrictions that nearly halved its steel exports to the South Asian nation over the past year, a step that could trigger more trade spats as global tensions over steel and other commodities run high.

Such action is rare for Japan. The world's second-biggest steel producer typically tries to smooth disputes quietly through bilateral talks, but with global trade friction increasing, Japan's defence of an industry that sells nearly half of its products overseas is getting more vigorous.

Besides concern over India's protection of its domestic steel industry, Japan is also worried about the more rough and tumble climate for global trade being engendered by incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, and feels it must make a strong stand for open and fair international markets.

"We need to stop unfair trade actions from spreading," said a Japanese industry ministry official, explaining a Dec. 20 request for WTO dispute consultations with India over steel safeguard duties and a minimum import price for iron and steel products.

India imposed duties of up to 20 percent on some hot-rolled flat

Chimneys of a steel factory are pictured at an industrial area in Kawasaki, Japan, January 16, 2017. Reuters Photo)

steel products in September 2015, and set a floor price in February 2016 for steel product imports to deter countries such as China, Japan and South Korea from undercutting local mills.

"If consultations fail to resolve the dispute, we may ask adjudication by a WTO panel," the industry ministry official said. Such action could come as soon as 60 days - in February - after its consultation request was filed in December.

Tokyo says India's actions are inconsistent with WTO rules and

contributed to the plunge in its steel exports to India, which dropped to 11th-largest on Japan's buyer list in 2016 through November, down from sixth-largest in 2015.

"We are following the WTO guidelines," said a top official at India's steel ministry, though adding that New Delhi is ready to sit across the table for trade talks.

As of Friday, the date of a WTOled consultation had not been set.

GROWING GLOBAL TRADE DISPUTES There has been a series of trade

disputes over the past few years amid massive exports of cheap steel products from China, the world's top producer, with Vietnam, Malaysia and South Africa taking or planning measures to block incoming shipments.

China's steel exports dropped by 3.5 percent in 2016 to 108 million tonnes, still about as much as Japan produces in a year.

Japan is also monitoring its small volume of imports for signs of dumping, fearing that steel products with nowhere to turn because of import restrictions may head to it own market.

"All trade need to be fair. If there are trades that violate the rules, we will take necessary actions while consulting with our government," Kosei Shindo, chairman of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, told a news conference on Friday.

But in an environment where a new U.S. president is threatening to tear up trade treaties and impose import duties in the world's biggest economy, Tokyo may be at risk of helping to set off a trade war it is trying to avoid.

"We may see a battle of trade litigations especially after Trump takes the helm in the U.S.," said Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at Canon Institute for Global Studies.

mUmbAI, JAnUARy 20 (IAns): The RBI spends Rs 3.09 for each Rs 500 note as cost towards paper, printing and other charges, an RTI query has revealed.

The information was given to Mumbai Right To Information activist Anil Galgali.

RBI Deputy General Manager P. Wilson said in a written submission that the 'selling price' is Rs 3,090 per thousand pieces of Rs 500

denomination new currency notes, or Rs 3.09 per note for the current year, 2016-2017.

The RBI buys the currency notes from the Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd, its official supplier and printer for currency notes. The BRBNMPL said it did not have information pertaining to Galgali's RTI query on the Rs 1,000 currency notes. However, the RBI

declined to provide info on rders placed for total quantity of notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, its value, total contract amount, amount released and pending.

Galgali said it was surprising why the government was not revealing the actual data on the number of the new Rs 500 printed and proposed Rs 1,000 currency notes even almost two-and-half months after demonetisation.

India, UAE hold first strategic dialogue

new deLhI, JAnUARy 20 (IAns): Ahead of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's arrival here as chief guest for this year's Republic Day celebrations, India and the UAE held their first strategic dialogue on Friday.

The External Affairs Ministry said in a statement that during the meeting, which was co-chaired Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar and his UAE counterpart Anwar Mahammed Gargash, "the two sides discussed a number of issues ranging from

cooperation in the areas of trade and investments to expanding the bilateral cooperation to new areas under the strategic partnership, inter alia in the areas of energy security and renewable energy, defence and security, electronics and information technology and space." It added that "the two sides agreed on a number of new initiatives to further strengthen the bilateral cooperation and on signing of fresh instruments of cooperation."

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the UAE in August 2015, the

two countries had agreed to elevate the mutually beneficial relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Bilateral trade between India and the UAE stood at about $50 billion in 2015-16.

Sheikh Mohamed, who reaches here on January 24, will be on his second visit to India since February 2016.

The Gulf nation is among the top investors in India in terms of FDI and was the fifth largest supplier of crude oil to India in 201516. At 2.6 million, Indians form the largest expatriate group in the UAE.

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El Chapo - From most wanted kingpin to extradited jailbird MEXICO CITY, JANUARY 20 (REUTERS): Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most notorious kingpin who escaped two maximum-security jails, shipped countless tonnes of drugs around the world and became one of the world´s most-wanted fugitives, was extradited to the United States on Thursday.

Mexico's struggle with drug cartels and its chief adversary, Guzman, was a tapestry of corruption, violent deaths and billions of dollars in smuggled contraband - a business that put the kingpin onto the Forbes world's billionaires list.

But El Chapo, or Shorty, was the drug trade's shining light, an almost mythical figure whose audacious real-life exploits captured the world's imagination and turned him into a folk hero for many in Mexico, despite the thousands of people killed by his brutal Sinaloa cartel.

In January 2016, Guzman was finally caught in his native northwestern state of Sinaloa. Six months earlier, he had humiliated Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto by escaping from prison through a mile-long tunnel dug straight into his cell.

It was the second time in his career the 59-yearold capo had escaped a federal Mexican jail and he spent the following months awaiting extradition to the United States.

"I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than

anybody else in the world.

I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats," Penn said Guzman told him during their discussion at the drug lord's mountain hideout.

On Thursday, Mexico´s government finally extradited Chapo, on the eve of Donald Trump´s inauguration as U.S. president, from a prison in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S. border.

Mexico has been riled

by Trump´s vows to build a massive border wall and force Mexicans to pay for it.

But Pena Nieto´s administration has sought to keep Trump on side, first inviting him down to visit and then reaching out to his transition team.

Top Mexican officials are set to meet with Trump´s incoming administration in Washington next week, and the timing of the extradition appeared to be a gesture to both sides of the U.S. partisan divide.

Guzman's legendary reputation in the Mexican underworld began to take shape in 2001, when he staged his first jailbreak, bribing guards in a prison in western Mexico, before going on to dominate drug trafficking along much of the Rio Grande.

However, many in towns and villages across Mexico remember Guzman better for his squads of assassins who committed thousands of murders, kidnappings and decapitations.

Violence crept up in the 2000-2006 rule of president Vicente Fox, and his Na-

and extradited him to Mexico. Guzman used money to ease his eight year prison stay, smuggling in lovers, prostitutes and Viagra, according to accounts published in the Mexican media.

US authorities escort Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman from a plane to a hangar at the Long Island McArthur Airport after he was extradited to the US on Thursday.

tional Action Party (PAN) successor Felipe Calderon, staked his reputation on bringing the cartels to heel.

Instead, the killings spiralled, claiming nearly 70,000 lives under Calderon while Guzman's fame grew. In February 2013, Chicago dubbed him its first Public Enemy No.1 since Al Capone.

Guzman's Sinaloa cartel went on smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, and crystal meth across Mexico's 2,000 mile border with the United States. Indictments allege Guzman's narcotics were sold from New England all the way to the Pacific.

Guzman's capture in February 2014 was a big victory for Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) - making his flight the following year all the more embarrassing.

"THE FACE OF CORRUPTION" Security experts concede the 5 foot 6 inch gangster was exceptional at what he did, managing to outmanoeuvre, outfight or outbribe his rivals to stay at the top of the bloody drug trade for over a decade.

"El Chapo Guzman is the most flagrant, the most brutal, and the starkest face of the corruption in Mexi-

China urges foreign diplomats for closer cooperation in anti-graft war

BEIJING, JaNUaRy 20 (REUtERs): China urged foreign diplomats to help "weave a cooperative network against corruption," state media said on Friday, as it scrambles to build international support for President Xi Jinping's fouryear war on graft.

Xi has vowed to fight deep-rooted graft at all levels of the ruling Communist Party until officials "dare not, cannot and don't want to" be corrupt, and has warned that failure to stamp out the rot could threaten the party's future.

China has taken the battle global, publishing a list of the 100 most-wanted corruption suspects who have fled overseas to countries such as the United

States, Canada and Australia, often taking their wealth with them.

Authorities have said they clawed back 2.3 billion yuan ($334 million) in graft proceeds from more than 70 countries and regions in the first 11 months of 2016.

But China has struggled to win full cooperation in tracking and repatriating such fugitives, with foreign countries blaming an under-developed legal system for their reluctance to sign extradition treaties.

In an unusual step, Wu Yuliang, deputy head of the top graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), briefed representatives of 113 diplomatic

missions and 13 international bodies on Thursday about China's efforts to fight graft, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

It did not list the countries, but said the Greek ambassador to China, Leonidas Rokanas, was among those who attended.

Efforts to strengthen supervision constitute a "major political reform", Wu said, giving examples such as tougher laws against corruption and the establishment of a national supervisory body.

The campaign to return corrupt officials and other overseas fugitives adhered to the law, not only that of China, but also other countries, Wu added.

Looking to allay doubts

about China's legal processes, Liu Jianchao, who leads the efforts to bring home corruption suspects, said details of 105 repatriation cases had been released, according to a transcript on the watchdog's website.

He also offered to arrange for diplomats to visit corruption suspects in detention or under trial, saying he hoped to dispel concerns and spur more countries to sign extradition pacts.

China's top legal body this month clarified the procedure to seize the illgotten gains of corruption suspects who are dead or have gone missing, in a step state media hailed as key to recovery of overseas assets.

Four killed, 20 injured after car strikes pedestrians in Melbourne MELBOURNE, JaNUaRy 20 (REUtERs): MELBOURNE, January 20 (Reuters): A man deliberately drove into pedestrians, killing four and injuring more than 20, in the centre of Australia’s second largest city of Melbourne on Friday, but police said the incident was not terrorism-related.

Police eventually rammed the car and shot the 26-year-old driver in the arm, before dragging him from the vehicle and arresting him. Police said the man had a history of family violence and was wanted over a stabbing earlier in the day.

Pursued by police cars, the man had been seen driving erratically before speeding into a pedestrian mall, ploughing into people, police said. A shop video showed several people diving into a convenience store as the car raced along the footpath.

“We witnessed about half a dozen people that ricocheted off the car one way or another. I saw one person fly up almost roof level of the car as they got thrown up against one of the retail stores,” Sharn Baylis, 46, told Reuters by telephone.

co," said Anabel Hernandez, author of 'Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers'.

Rising through the ranks of the drug world, Guzman carefully observed his mentors' tactics, their mistakes and where to forge the alliances that kept him one step ahead of the law for years.

Mexican soldiers and U.S. agents came close to Guzman on several occasions but his layers of body guards and spies always tipped him off before they stormed his safe houses.

Guzman was born in La Tuna, a village in the Sierra Madre mountains in

IN-rESpECT oF

AGGrEGATE rEVENUE rEQUIrEMENT ANd TArIFF pETITIoN FILEd BY THE SUpErINTENdING ENGINEEr, dEpArTMENT oF poWEr, GoVErNMENT oF NAGALANd WITH NAGALANd ELECTrICITY rEGULATorY CoMMISSIoN For FY 2017-18 1. Notice is hereby given to all consumers and stakeholders that the Department of Power, Government of Nagaland a deemed engaged in the distribution and retail sale of electricity has filed before the NERC Kohima, the Multi Year Tariff (MYT) application for determination of Aggregate Revenue Requirement (ARR) of distribution for the control period of 2017-18 to 2019-20 and tariff for retail sale of electricity for the year 2017-18 under section 62 of the Electricity Act, 2003 and NERC (Terms and Conditions for determination of Tariff) Regulations, 2010.

The Commission now admitted the Petition of department of Power and registered the petition vide case no: _________________of 2016-FY 2017-18 The summary of ARR for the year 2017-18 is given in Table below: SL. No: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

One of the dead was a child. Four children, including a three-month-old baby, were taken to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, said a hospital spokesman.

“We’re not regarding this as a terrorism-related incident,” Victoria state police commissioner Graham Ashton told reporters on Friday.

Police had earlier chased the driver, who was wanted over a domestic assault and driving offences, Ashton said.

‘GUNS DRAWN’ Video from a witness showed a maroon coloured car driving around in circles in an intersection outside Flinders St railway station in the city’s central business district, with the driver shouting at people and hanging his arm out the window. Two people approached the car, apparently trying to stop it before it drove off with police chasing.

Witness Maria Kitjapanon told Melbourne’s Age newspaper that police eventually rammed the car.

pArTICULArS Cost of Power purchase Cost of Generation Cost of Fuel O&M expenses Transmission Charges SLDC fees & charges Intra – state Transmission Charges Interest & Finance Charges Depreciation Interest on Working Capital Return on Equity Prior period expenses Provision for Bad Debt Total revenue requirement Less: Non Tariff Income Less: Revenue from Sale of Power -Exchange Net revenue requirement (14-15-16)

FY 2017 – 18 (proJECTEd) 243.20 15.40 00.00 110.61 40.58 0.88 0.00 105.12 82.13 8.16 90.47 0.00 0.00 696.20 9.86 6.26 680.08

2. The distribution losses for the year 2017-18 have been projected at 25%.

3. It is proposed to cover the revenue shortfall through additional revenue from proposed Tariff revision. Copies of the filling and application referred to at Para -1 above are available in the offices of the Chief Engineer (D&R), Department of Power Government of Nagaland, Kohima and the Superintending Engineers, Power Department, Nagaland, Kohima.

4. Interested parties may peruse the said ARR and Tariff proposals and take note thereof during the office hours at the above office of charge.

5. Copies of the above documents can also be obtained from the above office on payment of Rs. 100/- per Petition either in cash or through DD form Chief Engineer (D&R), Department of Power, Government of Nagaland, Kohima.

6. Summary of Tariffs and charges for retail supply of Electricity to consumers proposed by the Department of Power for the year 2017-18 are indicated in the schedule.

7. Objections/suggestions, if any on the ARR fillings and Tariff proposals submitted by the Department of Power, Government of Nagaland together with supporting material may be filed with the Secretary, NERC, Kohima, Old MLA Hostel Complex Nagaland, Kohima – 797001 in five copies in person or through registered post so as to reach him on or before 2nd Feb. 2017.

8. The objections/suggestions as above should be filed in five copies and carry full name and postal address of the person sending the objections and should be supported by an affidavit duly attested. If the objection is filed on behalf of any organization or any class of consumers, it may also be specifically mentioned if the person putting in objections/ comments also wants to be heard in person.

9. The NERC after perusing the written objections received in response to this notice may invite such objectors as it considers appropriate for a hearing on the specified dates, which will be notified by the Commission in due course.

Summary of Existing and proposed Tariff Schedule

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“You could hear the gasping and the screaming from people, then you just started hearing the screams and the crying as it sunk in,” she said.

Baylis said she rushed across tram tracks and with other bystanders and gave cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) first aid to a badly hurt man who had been run over.

“I think it was pretty much in vain at that point.

The seriousness of his injuries, he was probably the worst I saw.”

WAR After escaping, his fame spread to the United States, and Guzman expanded his turf by sending in squads of assassins with names such as "Los Negros," "The Ghosts" and "The Zeta Killers."

Agents say Guzman hid near his childhood home in the Sierra Madre mountains but rumours abounded of him visiting expensive restaurants with his entourage and paying for all the diners.

In 2007, Guzman married an 18-year-old beauty queen in a village in Durango state in an ostentatious ceremony.

The archbishop of Durango subsequently caused a media storm when he said that "everyone, except the authorities," knew Guzman was living in the state.

Guzman's bride gave birth to twins in a Los Angeles hospital in 2011.

Between 2004 and 2013, his gangs fought in all major Mexican cities on the U.S. border, turning Ciudad Juarez and Nuevo Laredo into some of the most dangerous places on the planet.

In one attack in Nuevo Laredo in April 2013, 14 bodies were left mutilated on the street under a note that was signed "El Chapo," and read "Don't forget that I

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Members of the public watch as police and emergency services attend to an injured person after a car hit pedestrians in central Melbourne, Australia. (REUTERS Photo)

Sinaloa state where smugglers have been growing opium and marijuana since the early twentieth century.

He ascended in the 1980s under the tutelage of Sinaloan kingpin Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, alias "The Boss of Bosses," who pioneered cocaine smuggling routes into the United States.

The aspiring capo came to prominence in 1993 when assassins who shot dead Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas claimed they had been gunning for Guzman but got the wrong target.

Two weeks later, police arrested him in Guatemala

am your real daddy."

Guzman's Sinaloa cartel often clashed with the Zetas, a gang founded by former Mexican soldiers that created paramilitary death squads. The Sinaloans fought fire with fire, arming their troops with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns.

Guzman also turned on his own allies. He waged one of his bloodiest campaigns against childhood friend and longtime business partner Arturo Beltran Leyva, alias "The Beard."

In 2008 hitmen hired by Beltran Leyva murdered Guzman's son Edgar, a 22-year-old university student, outside a shopping mall in Sinaloan state capital Culiacan. Guzman reportedly left 50,000 flowers at his son's grave, then returned to war.

When Beltran Leyva was finally shot dead by Mexican marines in 2009, a head was dumped on his grave.

In the 1990s, Guzman had become infamous for hiding seven tons of cocaine in cans of chili peppers. In the 2000s, indictments say Guzman's crew took drugs in tractor trailers to major U.S. cities including Phoenix, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Forbes put the kingpin's wealth at $1 billion, though investigators say it is impossible to know exactly how much he was worth.

Mexican prosecutors say Guzman used his money to buy off politicians, police chiefs, soldiers and judges.

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Existing rate rs./kWh

proposed rate rs./kWh

2 3 4 CATEGorY ‘A’ doMESTIC (a) 0 to 30 kWh 3.50 3.70 (b) 31 to 100 kWh 4.70 5.00 (c) 101 to 250 kWh 5.70 6.00 (d) > 250 kWh 6.50 7.00 CATEGorY ‘B’ INdUSTrIAL (a) <500 kWh 5.00 5.40 (b) 501 to 5000 kWh 6.00 6.40 (c) > 5000kWh 6.90 7.50 CATEGorY ‘C’ BULK 6.00 6.40 CATEGorY ‘d’ CoMMErCIAL (a) < 60 kWh 6.40 7.00 (b) 61 to 240 kWh 7.60 8.20 (c) >240 kWh 8.70 9.50 CATEGorY ‘E’ p.W.W. 5.80 6.20 CATEGorY ‘F’ public Light To be recovered from consumers* To be recovered from consumers* CATEGorY ‘G’ INTErSTATE 5.50 CATEGorY ‘H’ AGrICULTUrE 3.00 3.30 CATEGorY ‘I’ TEMporArY DLF Rs. 9.00 CoNNECTIoN Others Rs. 12.00 Kutir Jyoti (point) Same as SPM SINGLE poINT METErEd rUrAL 3.40 3.70 SINGLE poINT METErEd UrBAN 4.40 4.80 Charges for public lighting have to recovered from the Consumers of Domestic, Commercial, Industrial and Bulk categories at the rates shown below: domestic Rs. 10/- per connection/month Rs. 10/- per connection/month Commercial Rs. 15 per connection/month Rs. 15 per connection/month Industrial Rs. 20 per connection/month Rs. 20 per connection/month Bulk Supply Rs. 25 per connection/month Rs. 25 per connection/month Sd/- Superintending Engineer department of power, Government of Nagaland, Kohima

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List of candidates for ULB polls 2017 BHANDARI TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Issac Mozhui N.Thungdemo Kikon W2 Khonthungia Odyuo Nzamo Lotha W3 ( R ) Merilin Kikon Nzanbeni Ezung W4 C.Jungithung Yanthan Meriyamo Lotha W5 Ezanthung Mozhui Tachow Lotha Emilo Yanthan Zuchobeni Humtsoe W7 Ntsemo Odyuo Zuchanthung Tsopoe W8 Konathung Ezung T.Likao Odyuo Nzio Lotha W9 ( R ) Konthunglo Kikon Lucy Yanthan

KIPHIRE TOWN COUNCIL

Name of Political Party BJP NPF NPF BJP BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP IND NPF BJP INC IND NPF BJP NPF

EAST DIMAPUR TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W5 Columbus Lotha K.Hokuto Murumi W9 (R) Aoienla Ao Hema Mech W10 Phushito Sumi Purkumzuk Jamir

Name of Political Party BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF

PEREN TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Lungsungheing Namteibul W2 Hunganbou Tahikambou W3 (R) Gumbeule Sangsile W6 (R) Akaina Thou Sibeule W7 Ada Nsanglung Kiezeu W9 (R) Kewisiwang Newmai Paunile

Name of Political Party INDP NPF NPF INC INDP NPF NPF INDP NPF INC NPF INC

JALUKIE TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Hailamsong Kuhei Thou W2 Hangyi Ireuga Zeliang Jamesong W5 Keyiteibuing Nzangbeu W6 (R) Akangna Iheilung Elizabeth Newmai W7 Kezen Mbailang W8 Alak Ntung Tingba Hegui W9 (R) Alungle Gracy Chawang

Name of Political Party NPF INC IND IND NPF BJP NPF IND NPF NPF INC IND NPF IND NPF

TENING TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W3 (R) Kelanlu Pauranghungle W6 (R) Champhung Kichun W7 Namthiu Ramlungbo

Name of Political Party NPF INC NPF INDP NPF INDP

NAGINIMORA TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W4 Wangkap Pulong W5 Yopong T. Phuhnyei W6 ( R ) Nnginjai H. Shikna Konyak W7 H. Chingak Chingtick W9 (R ) Yenshom Lamlen Konyak

Name of Political Party NPF BJP NPF IND NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP

SHAMATOR TOWN COUNCI

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 ( R ) K.Chilula S.Yanjila W2 Muzungchim.M Pongkhu Yimchunger W5 T.Bumba Yimchunger Thsangla W6 ( R ) Akiuche Yimchunger T.Narola W8 B.Ramji Y.Tokiu W10 M.Kejingkhum R.Throngshe Yimchunger

Name of Political Party NPF IND NPF BJP NPF IND BJP NPF BJP NPF IND NPF

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 (R) Koktila Elise Litongla Sangtam W2 Likyuse Lithrichem W3 (R) Akala Sangtam C.Atongla Sangtam W4 Chotingse Yangkhaba Sangtam W5 R. Joseph Tikhir Likhumba Y. Sangtam W8 Horiba Tsaseto W11 Daniel Sangtam Justin Khatomong T.

Name of Political Party INDP NPF NPF INC IND NPF IND NPF IND NPF NPF IND NPF IND

TSEMINYU TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Shalozu Kemp Zenyhunle Kent Sokenye Kent W2 Khwenzenlo Magh Tegibu Tep W3 (R) Roseline Tep Kedale Tep W4 James Tep Daniel Tsela W5 Achanbi Kez Yhuntilo Kent Hyunsinlo Seb W6 (R) Jehile Kath Yhunyule Khing W7 Hilo Kent Kegwalo Tep W8 Kenyusinlo Himb Sentilo Wanth Soyhunlo Seb W9 (R) Kenyele Khing Ruth Thong

Name of Political Party NPF BJP INDP NPF BJP NPF INDP NPF INDP NPF INDP BJP NPF INDP INDP NPF NPF INDP BJP NPF INDP

PUNGRO TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Khamong Yimchunger Francis K. Yimchunger W2 K.Lenpithong Yimchunger K.Throngkila Yimchunger W3 (R) Susanna Resangla R.Atsula Yimchunger W4 Desangmew Daniel Kurakmong W5 Khongthrong Yimchunger K.Setemew Tennyson Jankhiunger W6 (R) Athrongla Yimchunger Yanshila Yimchunger W7 Thsantsumong C.Alila T.Shophu Yimchunger

Name of Political Party NPF IND NPF IND NPF IND NPF IND BJP NPF IND NPF IND NPF IND IND

LONGLENG TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 ( R ) P. Yongmei Phom Watila Phom W3 (R ) Moichem Phom P.Ophen Phom Khamnyu Phom W4 H. Bulong Phom B. Shamlom Phom A. Shonglen Phom M.Phulong Phom W5 L.Chingai Phom M.Pongkep Phom W6 ( R ) S.Limei Phom N.Ayenla Phom W7 Emei Phom Longphe Phom Longshen Phom W8 Oyuk Phom Chinglong Phom C.Lakmei Phom W11 B.Lauphong Phom Y. Nyampong Phom

Name of Political Party NPF IND INC NPF IND BJP INC NPF IND NPF IND NPF IND NPF INC IND NPF IND IND NPF IND

ZUNHEBOTO TOWN COUNCI

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Rokato K Awomi Shikahoto W3 ( R ) Alito Inakali Vitokali W7 Howoto Kheshito W10 K.Aboto Zhimo Hoito W11 Khehoto Tokihe

Name of Political Party NPF IND IND IND NPF NPF IND IND NPF NPF IND

TIZIT TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 C.Ayan Konyak Z.Khoalyam Beaham K.Mansen Konyak P.Noklem Konyak W2 W.Aman Konyak W.Khampei Konyak W3 ( R ) Anei Konyak Apeh Konyak W4 Pumen A.Zankai Konyak W5 Penchoak H.Shaknyei Konyak W6 ( R ) Angun Konyak Jeentai Wangcha W7 A.Khampei A.Mihjat Konyak W8 Bosa Konyak K.Teijat Konyak W9 ( R ) Angin Zeihngam Konyak

PHEK TOWN COUNCIL

NOKLAK TOWN COUNCIL

Name of Political Party NPF IND IND BJP NPF BJP BJP NPF NPF BJP NPF BJP BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF NPF BJP

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Pushan C.Pamo N.S Lam W2 K.Changye T.Suthem H.Pokho Khiam W4 T.Thangpong S.Thangpong Tanghiu W5 M.Ngon P.Khou W6 ( R ) N.Hoamniu T. Chongcham W7 Sulem T.Penglang Khiamniungan W9 ( R ) Cham Khiamniungan Kum.P.Chongphe

Name of Political Party NPF IND NPF IND IND NPF IND IND IND IND NPF IND NPF IND NPF IND

LONGKHIM TOWN COUNCI

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 T. Hopichem Sangtam L.Tsilise Sangtam W2 T.Thronglise Sangtam Thepongse W3 (R ) Yongpitongla H.Akhumla Sangtam Lihola W4 S.Yonghochem Sangtam C.Chemjongliba Sangtam Tsiresela Sangtam T.Tsarise Sangtam O Likokla Sangtam W5 R.Chempise Sangtam T.Joseph Sangtam W6 (R) Alemjila Sangtam T.Sentilemla Sangtam W7 Serichem Sangtam Horili W8 Y. Sepongchem Suliri Sangtam W9 (R) Loyibeni Lanutula

Name of Political Party INDP BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP INDP BJP NPF INDP INDP INDP BJP INDP BJP INDP NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP

ABOI TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Eshu Heangpa N.Angpa W3 ( R ) Pongkam Konyak K.Ngipthreih Konyak W4 H.Achai T.Moiwa Konyak W5 H.Helan Konyak N.Honton Konyak Pangkhah Konyak W7 Banwang P.Eshu Konyak W8 Pangnyei Konyak Nokto Konyak Angjan

Name of Political Party NPF BJP IND NPF NPF BJP NPF INC BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP IND

WOKHA TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Lichamo Kithan Morithung W3 ( R ) R.Mhalo Lotha Thungabeni Jami W4 K.Thungchibemo Murry Kilosao W5 Akhyow Kithan Khyojamo W6 ( R ) N.Grace Murry Z.Mhalo Humtsoe W7 S.Abenthung Ngullie Vungathung. C. Murry W8 Khozamo Murry T.Khyolamo W9 ( R ) Abeni. M. Murry Thungchano W10 Therali C.Amongi Tsanglao W11 N.Mhabemo Ezung Motsuthung Lotha W12 ( R ) Nzanbeni Odyuo Yanchi W15 ( R ) Nyanbeni.M. Kikon T.Lothunglo Ezung

Name of Political Party NPF BJP NPF IND NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF IND NPF BJP NPF BJP BJP IND NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP

BHANDARI TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with Ward Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 Issac Mozhui N.Thungdemo Kikon W2 Khonthungia Odyuo Nzamo Lotha W3 ( R ) Merilin Kikon Nzanbeni Ezung W4 C.Jungithung Yanthan Meriyamo Lotha W5 Ezanthung Mozhui Tachow Lotha Emilo Yanthan Zuchobeni Humtsoe W7 Ntsemo Odyuo Zuchanthung Tsopoe W8 Konathung Ezung T.Likao Odyuo Nzio Lotha W9 ( R ) Konthunglo Kikon Lucy Yanthan

Name of Political Party BJP NPF NPF BJP BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP NPF BJP IND NPF BJP INC IND NPF BJP NPF

Nominations at the end of Ward scrutiny with Nos name and party status (10.01.17) W1 (R) Wetsole Rhakho Kuchotalu Kapfo Nesucho W2 Keyho Nuyi Hoshi

Nominations Name of at the end of Political withdrawal Party on NPF Withdrawn on 12.1.17

withdrawn on 17.01.2017 IND NPF

Kekhroche-u Thora Seyiengoyi W4 Soho Tusove Venuh Vezhopra W5 Thingo W6 (R) Vekunulu Khamo W7

Senokha

W8

NPF withdrawn on NPF 13.1.17 Withdrawn INC on 12.1.17 NPF

Salie Khesoh

NPF

Azole W10

withdrawn on IND 17.01.2017 withdrawn on NPF 17.01.2017 withdrawn on IND 17.01.2017

Panyi Movi

Zhokhochi Venuh Neiwekhe-u W9 (R) Khesoh Viketou Nienu

withdrawn on 17.01.2017 IND NPF withdrawn on13.1.17

Rakho Venuh withdrawn on 17.01.2017 Vesekho Withdrawn Chizo on 12.1.17 Beduhu Withdrawn Khamo on 12.1.17 Khuvepa withdrawn on Chizo 17.01.2017

W11

UNCONTEST

IND NPF

W3 (R) Veduhulu

Whether unopposed or contested

UNCONTEST UNCONTEST

VACANT

UNCONTEST UNCONTEST UNCONTEST UNCONTEST UNCONTEST

IND NPF IND

VACANT

IND INC

VACANT

NPF

MELURI TOWN COUNCIL

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with name and party status (10.01.17) Mutuolo Joshoury Rieneisie Ngouri Riepetho S. Nyuwi Sutsutho Pochury

Ward Nos W1

W2

Nominations at the end of withdrawal on

Name of Political Party

Whether unopposed or contested

NPF

UNCONTEST

withdrawn on INDP 16.01.2017 withdrawn on NPF 17.01.2017 withdrawn on INDP 17.01.2017

Siechutho

INDP

W3 (R) C.Sachuthsu

INPF Withdrawn on INDP 12.1.17 withdrawn on INDP 17.01.2017

Siwatsu Shikaholi W4

Jursie Pojar

W5

Virhosie Nyuwi Penthu Pochury

NPF withdrawn on INDP 17.01.2017 NPF

W6 (R) Z.Tsenda

NPF

W7

NPF

S.Kachu Thuu Chusietho Tholapa

W8

withdrawn on INDP 16.01.2017 Withdrawn on INDP 12.1.17

Y.Pili

NPF

Chulekhu Nyusou

withdrawn on INDP 16.01.2017

W9 (R) K.Daham

NPF

Surhothsu Phoji

withdrawn on INDP 16.01.2017

UNCONTEST UNCONTEST

UNCONTEST UNCONTEST UNCONTEST UNCONTEST

UNCONTEST UNCONTEST

TULI TOWN COUNCIL (All seats are uncontested)

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with name and party status (10.01.17) W1 VACANT W2 O.Noklen Jamir W3 (R) Bendangnungla W4 Temsunungba W5 Imlionen W6 (R) Marchila W7 M.Tsukjemyanger W8 Tsungonukshi W9 (R) Temsulemla Ward Nos

Name of Political Party NPF NPF NPF NPF NPF NPF NPF NPF

TOBU TOWN COUNCIL

Ward Nos W1 W3 ( R ) W4 W5 W6 ( R ) W7

Nominations at the end of scrutiny with name and party status (10.01.17) Ansao Laoba. S Yenso Neamang Neshe Y. Langsao Thongo L.Kaiba S.Tiangzh C. Neangnyu K. Neangmai T.S Akai S. Teyeang

Name of Political Party IND NPF NPF IND NPF BJP NPF IND IND NPF NPF IND

Source: Nagaland State Election Commission

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From an orphan to being the voice of Hope Akangchila Longchar Morung express News

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love you just the way you are”… these powerful words saved the life of contemporary Christian music artist James Basnet, just when he was about to give up and commit suicide at the age of 16. Today, he is saving and changing many lives through his music and personal testimony of God’s love.

He is a Songwriter, Worship Leader, and Singer of ‘James Basnet Band’.

As a musician, his accomplishment is a first for anyone from Nagaland and the whole of India to have ever achieved from the Christian music industry. He is the winner of four International Music and Entertainment Award (IMEA), and the Akademia Music awards, L.A., USA for the Best Gospel/ World Beat Song in 2014.

His aim is to teach people about God’s unfailing love, to heal the hurting, and especially to reach out to the youth through his simple, honest, and heartfelt music. No wonder, he admits that he is happy and comfortable to stick to the Gospel genre despite having achieved international acclaim for his talented songwriting and singing skills. He simply states, “I have achieved something that some only dream of and I want to take advantage of this and make a difference in whatever way I can for this generation.”

If today he is standing tall, life had not al-

ways been easy. He grew up an orphan, worked as a shepherd and an orchard caretaker. Forsaken by his mother when he was just 15 days old and left in a dustbin, he has never met his parents. He looks back and says, “Being an orphan is not easy and I’ve lived a difficult childhood. People would be unkind to me and I’ve witnessed countless cruel situations because of my status as an orphan. When I was 11 years old, I started to take drugs which ultimately resulted in not completing my studies.”

Life seemed to be spiraling downwards for James, when one day at the age of 16, he was home alone and high on drugs, he heard a man’s voice urging to kill himself. The voice kept on insisting that he was good for nothing and that it was there to take him away. Convinced, he was on the verge of committing sui-

cide when he heard another voice say, “James I love you just the way you are.” Having never heard someone say that to him in his 16 years he broke down and cried. This was the moment God promised to him, “You are going to sing for me. You are going to tour the world doing that and the world will be your stage.”

James has numerous testimonies of how God keeps showing his love to him. In 2014, when he was performing at a concert in the US, a young man came up to him saying that God has asked him to give him something.

The man had a sparkling Mercedes car key in his hand. Right at that moment, God took him back to a childhood memory, where as a kid he would go to the river near his house straight after school and look for rocks shaped like a car to play with as a toy. He would then take a piece

of chalk and draw wheels and windows on the rock. God then said to him, “James you have lost everything and this is the day I want to restore everything to you.” And if you are wondering, he did not accept the Mercedes that was offered to him, the fact that God remembered his dreams was more than enough.

So after all the international acclaim why come back to Nagaland? After living in Bangalore for a while James and his wife were headed to Dubai. However, a visit to Nagaland changed all that as the place had really begun to feel like home. He shared, “My focus is to touch the lives of the young people so I visit schools, colleges, and churches. I want to build hope through music because when I see young people I see them full of musical talent.” However, his biggest goal is to let talent go out from Nagaland and build an international platform for Naga musicians.

This vision is reiterated by his wife Imlinaro Longchar who plays the keys in the band. She says, “James has this vision to take Naga music and musicians internationally. We should capture this vision and take it forward, whatever category of music be it. I feel that maybe God has brought him here to revive and make people realize to not give up and follow their calling.” Also speaking on behalf of the band, Imlinaro acknowledges that they are all very excited and blessed to be a part of the journey, ‘for our heart’s desire is the same and God has brought all of us together to make music and sing about his love’.

“Am I wasting my time singing and writing gospel songs?” James asks rhetorically. “I’m not because I have people writing to me or telling me how their lives have changed after listening to my songs or being present at a concert. As for me, touching even one life is a huge blessing. To reach where I am today, I know I could not have done it on my own, it can only be God. For he loves me just the way I am.”

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he Rattle & Hum Music Society is launching the India Edition of the Handshake Concert to commemorate the 10th Year Anniversary at Bengaluru on January 21. The event is being organised in collaboration with the Naga Students’ Union of Bangalore and Governor of Nagaland P. B. Acharya and Member of Parliament Neiphiu Rio are slated to grace the occasion as chief guests. Member of Parliament from Karnataka, Rajeev Chandrasheker will be the special guest.

(Second from right) Tali Angh and (extreme left) Yanger Imchen, worship leader of The Lighthouse Church with the band members at the release of the album held on January 20.

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ver yone Goes Down’ – the debut album of Disciple of Love, an upcoming band from Longleng was released in Dimapur on January 20. According to the band - comprising D. Denlei Angh (vocals), Shambit Sharma (drums), Monglang Phom (bass) and Francis B. Lungthah (lead guitar), the album was the fruition of an eightyear dream.

Formed in 2008, the band was earlier known as P-Branch with late Lungpang Angh on vocals, Francis B Lungthah on lead guitar, Monglang on bass, Shinglong on drums. After the demise of Lungpang,

The first of the India Edition will feature international acclaimed tabla virtuoso Pandita Anuradha Pal, folk-pop band from Nagaland Coloured Keys, Grammy Award nominee Lama Tashi from Arunachal and folk-rock band Swaratma. MTV Europe Music Awards winners Alobo Naga and the Band will also feature in the concert.

One of the main objectives of the Handshake Concert is to promote music, art and culture and spread the message of oneness and

friendship ‘one Handshake at a time.’ Already the Handshake Concert has two other editions, namely the Raj Bhavan Editions and the International Editions.

A press release from the Media & Communications Secretary informed that the India Edition aspires to strive towards the same vision by bringing artists and cultural ambassadors from different regions and corners of the country under the Handshake umbrella and not only promote the performers and our more than

3000 year old heritage but also contribute towards understanding, mutual appreciation and unity.

A team of artists, officials and technical organisers have arrived in Bengaluru led by the President of the Society, Theja Meru, who is himself a renowned musician, activist-promoter and a recipient of the Governor's Award. Air Asia is the travel partner of the event and Rolling Stones is the official magazine partner. Other sponsors include Myntra.com, Rapsri and Royal Enfeild.

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Releasing the album at the Lighthouse Church, Tali Angh urged the band members not to under-estimate humble beginnings or be carried away by fame and success; rather be motivated by the purpose of

God. Pursue “character, presence of God and Excellence,” Angh said.

The 8-track album, recorded at Tribes Studio, Dimapur, features Faith, The memories, Walk, Why she cried, Out of control, You my everything and Inside you.

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Murray, Federer masterclass wows Australian Open

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MELBOuRNE, JANuARy 20 (AFP): Andy Murray and Roger Federer put on a masterclass on Friday as they swept into the last 16 of the Australian Open, hoping to take advantage of Novak Djokovic's shock exit.

Murray swamped Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 and Federer humbled Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in just 90 minutes, maintaining his 100 percent record over his old rival at Melbourne Park.

Women's world number one Angelique Kerber also hit form as she dropped only four games against Kristyna Pliskova to race into a fourthround meeting with America's Coco Vandeweghe.

Murray and Federer had both watched from afar on Thursday as Djokovic, the defending champion and six-time winner, suffered a stunning defeat to 117th-ranked Denis Istomin.

Querrey also upset Djokovic at Wimbledon last year but Murray, made a knight in Britain's New Year honours, never looked like slipping on any banana skins in round three.

He put Querrey away 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in just under two hours, winning 77 percent of points on his first serve and facing only three break points in a clinical display.

The Scottish world number one also showed no signs of discomfort in his right ankle, after he rolled it painfully during his second-round win over Andrey Rublev.

"I felt better and better as the match went on in terms of my move-

Sania advances, Bopanna beaten

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[LEFT] Britain's Andy Murray makes a backhand return to United States' Sam Querrey during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo) [RIGHT] Switzerland's Roger Federer hits a shot for his Men's singles third round match against Czech Republic's Tomas Berdych. (Reuters Photo)

ment," he said. "The ankle was a litMurray and 17th-seeded Federer tle sore and I was a little tentative at are on course to meet in the quarterthe start but it got better and better finals, with the Scot next facing Misthrough the match." cha Zverev and the Swiss veteran up against Kei Nishikori.

- Not the 'practice king' Japan's Nishikori should provide Federer, 35 and returning from an a stern test for Federer and the fifth injury lay-off, said he even surprised seed underlined his confident form himself with an imperious win over by seeing off Slovakian qualifier LuBerdych that left the Czech shaking kas Lacko 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. his head as he departed.

Stan Wawrinka, the 2014 cham"In practice things were going pion, survived a four-set tussle with well, but I've never been the practice Viktor Troicki 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (9/7) king. I was winning tons of sets," Fe- and now faces Italy's Andreas Seppi, derer said, adding: "It's been unbe- who ousted Steve Darcis of Belgium.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also came lievable. I did surprise myself."

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East Timor kicked out of 2023 Asian Cup KuALA LuMPuR, JANuARy 20 (REutERs): East Timor has been expelled from the 2023 Asian Cup for falsifying documents of several Brazilianborn footballers, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Friday.

The AFC launched a probe, in conjunction with FIFA, in June last year into the eligibility of certain The three-day long 37th Meet of Khezha Area Games and Sports Association (KAGSA) con- players after qualifying cluded today at Khezhakeno village under Phek district with Kevekha Kevin Zehol as the matches for the 2019 Asian guest speaker at the closing ceremony.

Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

"The investigation identified twelve Brazilianborn footballers that were registered in the AFC Administration System with falsified Timorese birth or baptismal certificates," the governing body said in a statement.

Nine of those footballers participated in a total of 29 matches in AFC events, and seven matches falling under the jurisdiction of FIFA. East Timor forfeits all 29 matches played under AFC, which also announced a suspended fine Nagaland Sports Climbing Association of NAAME organized a trek to Mt. Japfu as part of of $56,000.

The FFTL (East Timor National Youth Week on January 19 with the theme “Experience the beauty of nature.”

FA) was also fined $20,000, while the AFC disciplinary committee has ordered a three-year ban on general secretary Amandio de Araujo Sarmento.

SC allows officials to serve state bodies, BCCI for 9 years each NEw DELhi, JANuARy 20 (iANs): The Supreme Court on Friday modified its earlier order to allow any official to be an office bearer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) or state association for nine years each.

The court in its January 3 order had said a person can cumulatively hold the office for nine years both in the BCCI and state associations, thereby taking total tenure in the country's cricket administration to a cumulative period of 18 years.

However, the officials willing to serve state and BCCI will have to undergo a compulsory "cooling off" period of three years before taking up their next position.

The bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud received a list of nine names in a sealed envelope given by lawyers Gopal Subramaniam and Anil Divanas for the appointment of a committee of administrators

ania Mirza advanced to the women's doubles third round but Rohan Bopanna ws knocked out in his men's doubles match at the Australian Open tennis tournament here on Friday.

Sania and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova beat AustralianChinese pair of Samantha Stosur and Shuai Zhang 6-1, 6-4.

The fourth seeds needed an hour and 21 minutes to win. The Indo-Czech pair will play against Japan's Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato.

But Bopanna and his Uruguayan partner Pablo Cuevas lost to unseeded Australian pair of Alex Bolt and Bradley Mousley in the second round 6-2, 6-7 (2), 4-6.

The 15th seed were beaten in one hour and 55 minutes. Bopanna's loss ended India's challenge in the men's doubles competition after veteran Leander Peas, partnering Brazilian Andre Sa, and Purav Raja and Divij Sharan lost in the first round on Thursday.

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who will run the BCCI. The two lawyers have submitted the list to the Supreme Court for BCCI's interim administrative committee to oversee the implementation of the Lodha panel reforms. The apex court directed not to make the list public until its decision.

The apex court, however, questioned the list as some of the people named in the list are aged over 70. The Lodha panel recommended that no one above 70 can hold an administrative position in the BCCI or any of the state associations.

The bench indicated that it may opt for a slimer committee of administrators as it fixed next hearing on January 24.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi and the BCCI on Friday urged the Supreme Court to recall its July 18 order of downgrading full membership of Railways, Services and the Association of Universities to that of an associate member.

The BCCI and the Centre sought recall of the judgment contending that some of its founding member have been put into rotatory mode for being a voter of the apex cricketing body, effectively stripping them of their voting rights.

Rohatgi also argued that the implementation of the Lodha reforms should be referred to a larger bench as it requires a bigger debate.

The court earlier this year sacked BCCI President Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke for not complying with its orders to implement the Lodha panel report.

Since then, BCCI CEO Rahul Johri is handling the board's operations.

The court also decided to initiate contempt proceedings against Thakur.

The court also said Thakur could be held liable for obstructing the implementation of its directives.

The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict on the interim panel to administer BCCI on January 24.

through in four sets against American Jack Sock and will play Briton Dan Evans, who beat Australia's Bernard Tomic 7-5, 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/3).

In the women's draw, Kerber finally got into her stride with a 6-0, 6-4 destruction of Kristyna Pliskova, the 58th-ranked twin sister of Czech fifth seed Karolina.

The German defending champion was an early loser at both of her warm-up tournaments and was taken to three sets in unconvincing wins in round one and two.

But Kerber clicked into gear against Pliskova, winning in just

55 minutes to set up a last-16 clash with America's Coco Vandeweghe, who ousted Canadian starlet Eugenie Bouchard.

"I'm looking forward to the next one. Yeah, I think that I find my rhythm to the tournament now," Kerber said.

Svetlana Kuznetsova outlasted fellow thirty-something Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 5-7, 9-7 and will next play fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Venus Williams beat Duan Yingying 6-1, 6-0 to end Chinese interest, earning a match with German quali-

fier Mona Barthel who overcame Australia's Ashleigh Barty in three sets.

French Open champion Garbine Muguruza was a 6-4, 6-2 winner against Anastasija Sevastova, setting up an encounter with Romania's Sorana Cirstea.

Titans win fourth consecutive MDCA Tourney

MOKOKChuNg, JANuARy 20 (MExN): Titans CC defeated Sovran CC by 28 runs to lift their fourth consecutive MDCA Inter Club T20 Cricket Tournament on Friday at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex.

With this win, Titans are on a 23 game unbeaten streak in the tournament.

Asked to chase 135 to win the title since 2004, when they claimed the prestigious MDCA T20 crown, the Sovran CC were bundled out in 19.1 overs mustering just 106 runs.

The match, a wonderful advertisement for cricket in any format, was a roller-coaster of runs, reality checks and reasons to wonder what would happen next.

Most magical of all in the Titans’ innings of 134/4 was the inning of Longsasunep. As feisty as the Sovrans were in the field, they also cost themselves when they failed to run out Longsa-

sunep with the first ball of the 19th over. Longsasunep finished not out on 25, and more importantly survived to marshal the last 6 balls of the innings.

Imliwapang was the only bowler from among the six the Sovran used on the day, who gave some hard time to the Titans batsman. Thejasol and Tiaakum picked 1 wicket each.

Akumdong with 38 runs was the top scorer for Titans while Surendra Singh chipped in with 29.

Despite their shaky batting, the Titans had brought their A game.

Chasing the target, Sovran CC lost their opener as early as the first over.

Yongsamong (18 runs) and Thejasol (39 runs) built a good partnership to keep Sovran CC in the hunt.

But the introduction of Longsasunep in the bowling attack choked the Sovran batsmen. Longsasunep who was later adjudged man of the match took a hat trick – the second of

the tournament – and finished with 5/11 in 3 overs. Bikash Singh and Toshimeren took 2 wickets each.

Awards: Man of the Final Match: Longsasunep (Titans CC) Most Promising Player: Odilemba (Jovail CC) Best Batsman: Talikaba (Rainbow CC) Best Bowler: Temjentoshi (Zungamedem) Man of the Series: Akumdong (Titans CC) Synopsis of the Tournament Total No. of Matches: 27 Total run scored: 5665 runs Total Wickets fallen: 227 wickets No. of 6s: 81 No. of 4s: 628 100s: 1 50s: 12 Hat-tricks: 2

Barca beat Sociedad, Atletico cruise in Cup

BARCELONA, JANuARy 20 (REutERs): King's Cup holders Barcelona beat Real Sociedad 1-0 in their quarter-final first leg to end a nine-and-a-half year barren spell at home of the Basque side while Atletico Madrid crushed Eibar on Thursday.

Brazil forward Neymar won and scored a penalty in the 21st minute after being tripped by Aritz Elustondo to decide the game but spurned two clear chances after the break that would have given Barca a more comfortable lead in the tie.

Sociedad had not lost to Barcelona at their Anoeta home in any competition since 2007 and could have struck an early blow when Willian Jose went down in the box in the first minute after a challenge from Gerard Pique but was denied a penalty.

Spain defender Pique made a vital block later in the first half to prevent Asier Illarramendi levelling from the edge of the box after a lay off from Carlos Vela.

Teenager Mikel Oyarzabal, scorer of the only goal in a Sociedad victory over Barca last April, came closest for the home side, firing just wide of the far post in a

Barcelona's Neymar converts a penalty to score Barcelona's first goal.

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sweeping breakaway move midway through the second half.

"We had to work very hard for this result. The win gives us a lot of belief because it's such a difficult stadium for us but seeing how Real Sociedad play we know it's still

going to be complicated," Barca coach Luis Enrique told reporters.

"We focused very hard to stop their transitions and limit their high pressing game. This is the first step to the semi finals but 1-0 is still a result which gives the op-

ponent a chance."

The second leg at the Nou Camp takes place next Thursday.

Earlier, Atletico Madrid put one foot in the semi-finals as they eased to a 3-0 win over Eibar, thanks to goals from Antoine Griezmann, Angel Correa and Kevin Gameiro.

Griezmann headed Atletico in front in the 28th minute and Argentine winger Correa doubled their advantage on the hour by sweeping the ball home after a run

by Yannick Carrasco, netting Atletico's 500th goal under coach Diego Simeone.

Substitute Gameiro stretched Atletico's lead by heading in from close range in the 67th after replacing Correa to give Eibar little chance of turning the tie around in the second leg at their Ipurua stadium next Thursday.

"The victory makes me very happy, the team gave the right response in an important game," Simeone said.

Real Madrid lost 2-1 at home to Celta Vigo in their first-leg on Wednesday while Alaves beat second division Alcorcon 2-0.

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