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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other

Terror havens in Pakistan unacceptable; India true partner: Obama [ PAGE 8]

Pete Doherty working with elephants to stay off drugs

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ANTA apprehends ‘illegal immigrant’ [ PAGE 2]

Powerful Saudi Arabia King Abdullah dies

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Sensational Seppi dumps Federer [ PAGE 12]

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nPf stalemate: no end in sight

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

• Governor remains non-committal to make an intervention • Shurhozelie led NPF insist on “vote of confidence” on the floor of the house • Noke led NPF demands “minority government” should step down Morung Express news Dimapur | January 23

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Shürhozelie dismisses allegations as ‘childish’ Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): NPF president, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu, has termed the latest allegations levelled against him by the NPF (Noke group) as “childish, unfortunate and shameful.” Reacting to the ten charges directed at him, the NPF president in a rejoinder said he does not find it necessary to go point by point, but to say that, on the whole, the charges demonstrated the frustration of the rival group and termed the allegations childish, unfortunate and shameful. “I have no ill feeling against anybody though some people, as it appears in the news, take me as their sworn enemy. I am going by the provisions of the Constitution to keep the Party on the safe side. I honestly feel I have not done anything wrong against anybody.

My conscience is clear and I sleep well at night,” Shurhozelie said. He advised the rival group to keep some “matured gentleman” to man their publicity cell “because what we write today will go down to the history of our people. Let us be more reasonable and be broad minded.”

HPC extended for one month

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Dimapur, January 23 (Dipr): The Home Department Political Branch, Government of Nagaland, has in a notification dated January 15, 2015, No. CON/ HPC/13/2014, extended the period of High Powered Committee to inquire into illegal and multiple taxation in the state for a period of one month initially with effect from January 13, 2015 for submission of the Committees report. Other terms of reference of High Powered Committee remain the same, the notification stated.

A tribal Tiwa man displays his catch during a community fishing event as part of the Jonbeel festival near Jagiroad, India, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. Tribal communities like Tiwa, Karbi, Khasi, and Jaintia from nearby hills come down in large numbers to take part in the festival and exchange goods through barter rather than money. Community fishing and cockfights are also held between tribal and non-tribal groups during this festival. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

noke-nPf petitions eci CM accepts

Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The NPF under the leadership of president, Noke Wangnao, and Legislature Party Leader, G. Kaito Aye, today submitted petitions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) in New Delhi and to the State chief electoral officer, informing them the election of a “new NPF president and the legitimate removal of the former president as per the laid down norms and procedures of the NPF Constitution.”

NPF press and media cell (Noke group) in a press release said the party has also informed the ECI that Noke Wangnao is the legitimate president of the NPF and therefore the Cock

symbol and party nomenclature rightfully belongs to the NPF under Noke’s leadership.

Both the petitions submitted in the office of the CEC, New Delhi and the CEO, Kohima have been officially received by both the offices, the medial cell said.

Further, it informed that the NPF has issued show cause notices on why disciplinary action should not be taken against TR Zeliang, Yitachu, Y. Patton, CL John and Kiyaneilie Peseyie. “If they fail to reply satisfactorily to the Disciplinary Action Committee, appropriate disciplinary action shall be initiated against them,” the release added.

resignations

Kohima, January 23 (mExn): Nagaland chief minister, TR Zeliang, has accepted the resignation of five parliamentary secretaries and advisors with immediate effect, an official bulletin stated.

The parliamentary secretaries and advisors whose resignations have been accepted are Er. Kropol Vitsu, Parliamentary Secretary, Art & Culture, Printing & Stationery; Torechu, Parliamentary Secretary Housing, Excise; E.E. Pangteang, Advisor, Tourism; Merentoshi, Advisor, SIRD & Chairman NSMDC and Naiba Konyak, Advisor, NEPED, NBMH. According to DIPR, the acceptance of the resignation was informed in a press release issued by the Cabinet Secretariat (Cabinet Cell), Government of Nagaland vide Notification No. CAB1/2008 dated Kohima the 22nd January 2015.

The crisis within the Naga People’s Front over the issue of leadership has entered the third week even as there seems no end in sight to break the stalemate.

Both the NPF groups headed by presidents Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu and Noke Wangnao respectively, are sticking to their guns and not budging from their positions.

While the Shurhozelie group insists on ‘vote of confidence’ in the assembly to prove that chief minister TR Zeliang still has support of majority in the assembly, the Noke camp is adamant that the “minority government” led by TR Zeliang should pave way for smooth transition.

Spokesperson of NPF (Shurhozelie group), Yitachu, reiterated that Chief Minister TR Zeliang still enjoyssupportofmajorityofthe 52-member Nagaland Legislative Assembly and that provision has not changed.

“The leadership of TR Zeliang has never been challenged. If there is any issue of change of leadership, the right and appropriate way to go about is on the floor of the house either by moving vote of confidence or no-confidence motion,” the spokesperson said.

Yitachu said that though the strength of NPF legislators outside the Assembly stands at 29, yet for all practical purposes, even the nine suspended NPF legislators have to abide by the party chief whip inside the Assembly. “Since they (suspended MLAs) contested and won the election

NBCC appeals for ‘highest wisdom’

To meet opposing sides of NPF today

The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) has initiated a move to meet the two groups of the NPF in an effort to bring reconciliation and understanding between the groups.

A senior representative of the NBCC team working in the peace effort disclosed that the team would be meeting both the NPF groups on Saturday, January 24 – first with NPF (Shurhozelie group) in Kohima at 10 am and later in the afternoon the NPF (Noke group) at Sovima in Dimapur.

The representative

said both groups have in their press statements and rejoinders explained their respective positions on the present crisis within the regional party.

“The crisis is an internal matter of the NPF Party and the Church has no say in this. But the Church is concerned about the consequences and further weakening of Naga society, which goes beyond the concern of the political party”, he said.

“The Church is not taking any side. All we are seeking for is an ‘inspired solution’ that the present time demands to end the crisis”, the peace maker added.

Appealing for “highest wisdom” from leaders of both groups, he expressed optimism that the crisis can be resolved amicably in true Christian spirit.

on Cock symbol, they have to abide by the order of the party chief whip in the Assembly,” he added.

On the other hand, spokesperson of Noke-led NPF, I Imkong Imchen, said that the one logical solution to end the crisis would be to immediately dismiss TR Zeliang as chief minister and install Kaito Aye as the chief minister.

Both the NPF groups agree that only the Governor can resolve the crisis, which has paralyzed normal government functioning in the state.

“It is an issue involving the incumbent chief minister of the state and has to be resolved soon. The

Governor cannot avoid his constitutional obligation and responsibility,” Yitachu stated.

“The crisis should not continue any longer. The ball is now in the Governor’s court and we hope he will apply his wisdom to solve the crisis,” Imchen said.

So far, the State Governor, PB Acharya, has remained non-committal to the petitions of both the NPF groups to end the stalemate. On Thursday (January 22), the Governor, it was reported, told a delegation of Angami Public Organization that the crisis is an “internal party strife and is not ripe for his intervention as the constitutional head.”

Morung Express news Dimapur | January 23

NE on the alert Vehicles with ‘I AM ACAUT’ shot

• Rebels call for boycott of Republic Day • General strike from 9 pm January 25 to 6 pm January 26

Shillong/imphal, January 23 (ianS): A massive security alert has been sounded across northeast India after separatist rebels announced a boycott of the Republic Day celebrations January 26, a home ministry official said Friday.

“We are aware that they (rebels) will be making attempts to disrupt the Republic Day celebrations. Therefore, we have placed security forces on high alert to thwart the rebels from disrupting the celebrations,” Shambhu Singh, joint secretary (northeast) in the home ministry, told IANS by phone from New Delhi.

Four frontline separatist groups in the region have called for a boycott of Republic Day and also a general strike from 9 pm January 25 to 6 pm January 26. Rebel groups in the northeast have for years boycotted national events and have staged violent attacks in the run-up to the celebrations. There has been a string of bomb blasts in Manipur triggered by rebels. “We are on full alert and shall see to it that we are able to foil any attempts by rebels to attack,” an Assam Rifles official said.

The four rebel groups announced their boycott through a joint statement e-mailed to several media houses. The call has been given by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),

KPLT to boycott R-Day, NAYO and ACAUT Karbi bandh on Jan 26 Nagaland condemn Morung Express news Dimapur | January 23

The Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) has called a bandh in the entire KarbiAnglong region on January 26. The 24-hour shutdown was called to boycott the Republic Day celebrations in the autonomous district, sources informed. The bandh will take effect from 1:00 am January 26 and continue till 1:00 am of January 27.

the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation and Coordination Committee (CorCom) - an umbrella organisation of major separatist outfits fighting for an independent state for the majority Metei community in Manipur. Moreover, the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council has also called for a 24-hour shutdown from 6 pm January 25 to 6 pm January 26 across the six districts of Khasi-Jaintia hills region in the eastern part of Meghalaya.

Thousands of army, police and paramilitary troopers are standing guard in other northeastern states to ensure that militants are not able to indulge in violence ahead of the Republic Day celebrations, particularly in Manipur.

Kohima, January 23 (mExn): Three vehicles which had “I AM ACAUT” stickers pasted on their windshields were vandalised at Pezieliecie and Kezieke Colony in Kohima around midnight of January 22.

A press release from Sub–Divisional Police Officer & PRO, Kohima, Atu Zumvü informed that one gunshot each was found on the windshields of the vehicles Bolero, Maruti Alto and City bus.

“All the three vehicles were found to have pasted ‘ACAUT’ stickers in their windshields and the unknown miscreant seems to have deliberately fired upon the ‘ACAUT’ stickers on close range resulting to damage of the windshields by the gunshots,” the release stated.

According to the release, the only statement the residents of the localities could give to the Police was they heard the three gunshots around midnight.

“Besides that, no other information regarding the mode of conveyance used by the unknown miscreants or the identity of unknown miscreant could be establish(ed) till the time of conducting preliminary investigation by the Police.”

The police recovered three empty cases of 7.65 caliber used in .32 pistol and two bullet heads from the places of occur-

A gunshot through the windshield of a vehicle with an ACAUT sticker.

rence. A regular case is being registered in this connection for further investigation, the release added.

Meanwhile, the Northern Angami Youth Organisation (NAYO) and Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland have condemned the incident.

Expressing “revulsion” at such “insane destruction” of private property, the NAYO urged the “miscreants” responsible to sort out differences through various “matured and beneficial platforms” available and not by such “illogical acts of aggression and threats.”

A press note issued by NAYO general secretary, Kekhrie Pfukha and president, Peter Rutsa further stated that citizens had informed NAYO that ACAUT stickers at times

are pasted on their private and commercial vehicles without their knowledge or consent. In this, NAYO requested organisations and individuals concerned not to indulge in such acts which can be considered as “encroachment and breach of privacy.” Sticking of bills of any kind on vehicles, be it private or commercial, without the knowledge and permission of owners can create misunderstandings, NAYO maintained.

It also urged the law enforcing agencies to investigate the “criminal act” with all means available and safeguard both public and private properties.

The NAYO also brought to the attention of the district administration and police department that many reports of “illegal consignments and anti social activities” are passing

right through check gates under Kohima as reported in the newspapers. “Bootleggers and ILP defaulters as well as migrant traffickers have been passing through Chumukedima and Peducha check gates like they are porous to criminals,” it alleged. “NAYO in fact wonder if at all the presence of excise personnel at various gates and locations is required.”

While applauding both the district administration and police for providing security and prompt solving of many other cases, NAYO urged both the agencies to “re-focus” on the above two mentioned “loopholes.”

In a separate press statement, ACAUT Nagaland expressed solidarity with the owners of the vehicles “who surely must feel their right to freedom expression has been robbed” and reminded the people “these acts are a direct affront to the values of democracy and freedom of expression of everyone.”

ACAUT through its Media Cell further cautioned “there are forces out there that are working hard to subvert the values of freedom and thus it is important to denounce this attack by one and all.” Asserting that it stands against “all forms of terrorism,” the Media Cell declared it will stand for freedom of expression and democracy.

“The voice of the people cannot be cowed down.”

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The Morung Express 2 LocaL Kevijau residents repair road ANTA apprehends Two bikes recovered in Kohima ‘illegal immigrant’ Dimapur

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Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, Kevijau Village Council members and some well wishers.

Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The residents of Kevijau village in Dimapur have undertaken the task of repairing the main approach road leading to the village from the IOC Junction of the Army Supply Road.

The repair work, which started on January 20 under the initiative of the Kevijau Village Council, was highly appreciated

by the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur who paid a personal visit to witness the work, stated a press release issued by Kevijau Village Council chairman, Er. M Tia Jamir and general secretary, Er. Nizal Tepa.

The Deputy Commissioner, according to the release, lauded the village council's initiative for taking up the noble work and

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Kohima, January 23 (Dipr): The 66th Republic Day celebration on January 26 will be held at the Nagaland Civil Secretariat Plaza, Kohima. The Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya will take the Republic Day salute and address the people. The celebration will witness march past by 12 contingents accompanied by 3 band parties.

There will also be entertainment programme followed by exhibition cum sale by the Agri and Allied sectors and Para Military Forces. The Republic Day celebration will conclude with the evening programme and the beating of retreat by the Brass Pipe Bands.

Transportation arranged The State Transport Department has arranged 6 NST buses to enable the public attend the 66th Republic Day celebration at Nagaland Civil Secretariat Plaza. The buses will depart from NST station, Kohima for Secretariat Plaza at 8:00 am for the morning programme. The same buses will depart from NST station at 1:30 pm for the evening programme. This was informed in a press release issued by Secretary Home Bendangkokba.

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Governor’s Award ceremony Marking the Republic Day celebration, the Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya will host ‘At Home’ along with Governor’s Award ceremony for distinction in the field of Art, Music and Literature. The function will be held at 12 noon at Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan, Kohima on January 26.

also encouraged the people to carry out such work in other areas as well, and not to depend on the government alone.

The release further noted that the repair work, "which is still continuing on war footing," was possible with the generous contributions of some residents of the village and the adjoining areas including Thahekhu Village.

Kohima, January 23 (mExn): Volunteers of Action Committee of the All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA), Kohima unit, on January 20 apprehended a Zonal taxi driver for “trafficking” an “illegal immigrant” in his vehicle.

Convenor, ANTA action committee, Dzieseneituo Rutsa, in a press release informed that the accused driver, Rajesh Sab, was apprehended while he was ferrying passengers, including the alleged illegal immigrant, in his taxi (NLOI -1/8871) from Dimapur Railway Station to Kohima.

According to ANTA, the accused driver was apprehended based on information given to the union by office of the Northern Angami Youth Organization.

ANTA said the alleged illegal immigrant identified as one Sabul Uddin was travelling without valid documents even as the driver claimed to possess ILP. “However the name on

the document didn't match with the name provided by the individual. On further search, another ILP was found in the driver’s possession, as such both the transporter and defaulter were handed over to North Police Kohima,” ANTA said, adding it had filed an FIR the same night.

ANTA (Kohima Unit) assured that the association would extend co-operation to all civil societies and government agencies concerned in curbing the “menace” the commercial vehicle drivers plying in ANTA (Kohima) jurisdiction are indulging in.

Conveying gratitude to NAYO for passing the “much needed information,” ANTA also urged all other organizations to do the same, “which can help ANTA confront its errant member.”

Further, ANTA warned that any taxi or private vehicle ferrying passengers without ILP would be dealt with as per the law.

Kohima, January 23 (mExn): The District Intelligence Branch (DIB) of DEF Kohima on Friday recovered two motorcycles at Zero Point Charali, Chakhabama.

Sub-Divisional Police Officer & PRO, Kohima Police, Atu Zumvü, in a press release said the DIB personnel were conducting surveillance duties at Zero Point Charali, when two unknown persons, “suspected to be Naga in their mid-twenties,” came riding in two different motorbikes and were heading

Morung Express News Dimapur | January 23

moKoKchung, January 23 (mExn): A team from Maharashtra came on an exposure trip to Mokokchung on January 22 to learn about communitisation activities in the district so they can implement in the tribal areas of Maharashtra. A press release received here informed that the team of six officials led

by Dr Raju Jotkar, Dy. Director, NHM Maharashtra, officials from Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Kohima, and

officials from CMO Mokokchung visited Mopungchuket village and Longkhum village on January 23. They interacted with different groups of people like village council, village health committee, ASHAs, Anganwadi workers, church workers and women groups regarding the communitisation activity in the respective villages.

They also visited the Impur Mission Hospital and interacted with the doctor and staff, the release added.

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eastern states have been constructed, which he said was favourable for picnics.

The Stone Garden was the brainchild of the former director of NEZCC, Hekali Zhimomi. It emerged out of a workshop that the centre had organised, involving stone sculptors from various parts of the country. Every stone erected in the garden is a descriptive of a portion of history in one way or the other. It not only represents grandeur, but depicts someone’s experience and also conveys messages through the sculptures.

The entry fee to the park is Rs. 20/- per head for adult and Rs. 10/- for children. NEZCC staffs stay on duty round the clock to meet any needs or clarifications. The stone park opens from 10 am-5 pm.

Pulsar (maroon colour) bearing Registration No. AR-01/4497, Chassis No. MD2DHDZZTCD84801 and Engine No. DJGBTD19426. (2) Yamaha Fazer (sky blue and silver colour) bearing Registration No. AR-09/5853, Chassis No. ME154BD35B2027146 and Engine No. 54B3027182.

The registered owners of the motorbikes have been informed to claim their bikes from Khuzama Police Station, Kohima with relevant documents within 6 (six) months time.

MEx File Sukanya Samriddhi Account for girl children

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AGBCN holds annual conference

The new Mahindra scooter ‘Gusto’ which was launched in Dimapur at Reliance Motors on Friday.

is also packed with innovative features including remote flip key, find-me lamps, guide lamps, bright halogen head lamp with LED pilot lamps, easy front kick and a quick storage compartment

The two wheeler is available at Rs. 51,000 (exshowroom Dimapur).

Earlier, associate pastor of Lotha Baptist Church, Dimapur, Lanlongo Yanthan, dedicated and unveiled the newly introduced Gusto in

the presence of territory sales manager, Mahindra two wheelers, Guwahati, Manas Pratim Chakravorty, proprietor of Reliance Motors, Zubeni Kikon, and a host of well wishers and prospective customers

ThiruVananThapuram, January 23 (ThE nEw inDian ExprEss): Animal keepers are set to arrive from Nagaland zoo to pinch a few tips and tricks from the tiger keepers in Thiruvananthapuram zoo. They will arrive on February 8, making the best of the delay in transfer of tigers.

The zoo-keepers in Thiruvananthapuram are well-versed in the peculiarities of the two tigers to be transferred. But a lot more will be shared with the keepers. Tiger, a solitary animal, takes a lot of time to get acquainted with keepers. Then there are contingencies which the keepers should be

ready for.

In certain Indian zoos, there have been cases of tigers killing their mates. In Thiruvananthapuram zoo, even before the arrival of the white tiger, the officials had thought of bursting crackers, should a problem arose while mating with an orange tiger. It is invaluable information such as these that will be given to the keepers from Nagaland.

In exchange for tigers, the Rangapahar Wildlife Sanctuary and Zoological Park in Nagaland has agreed on transferring a pair of Himalayan bears.

The transfer should have taken place before the hot months of summer. However, as the City Zoo opted

for a transfer by rail, it is still negotiating with the Indian Railways. Department of Museums and Zoos Director B Joseph said: “The Railways have not yet agreed on using a brakevan for the bears.”

Railways are the safest bet, according to zoo officials, as the road from Nagaland to Kerala has areas facing extremist threat.

Moreover, it is a tedious journey of thousands of kilometres. As the zoo waited for approvals from Railway, the mercury has risen in Kerala. The temperatures being quite high in January itself, the transfer of the bears might have to wait for the cooling showers for monsoon to begin.

NEZCC Stone Garden – Destination for youth and families

Kohima, January 23 (Dipr FEaTurE): Of late, the Stone Garden at NEZCC complex in Dimapur, most commonly known as Stone Sculpture Garden, has been attracting lots of visitors, both young and old.

Director NEZCC Lipokmar Tzudir while speaking to DIPR official said that the Stone Garden is now equipped with other modern amenities making it a destination for the youth and families to spend their leisure time.

The amenities include an amphitheater with 700 seating capacity. There is also an oval space field of about 15000 sq feet which facilitates social events, Tzudir informed. He further disclosed that traditional huts of all the north

towards Kohima.

When the suspected bike lifters saw the police team, they stopped suddenly and abandoned their motorbikes and fled below the highway, leaving behind the two bikes, two haversacks containing packet rice, dry-meat curry, cosmetics, clothes and some medicines.

Police took into custody the two motorbikes, which are suspected to be stolen, and the articles. According to police, the particulars of the two motorbikes are: (1) Bajaj

Kohima, January 23 (mExn): The Department of Posts, Kohima has announced the introduction of new scheme, “Sukanya Samriddhi Account” (SSA), by the Ministry of Finance. The scheme was launched by the Prime Minister of India on January 22, 2015. Under the scheme, girl children up to the age of 10 years can open an account; the interest rate is 9.1% per annum and two children in each family can open an account with a limit of Rs.1.5 lakh per child. Director of Postal Services, Kohima has informed that any interested person may contact the nearest Post Office for detail information or log on to www.indiapost.gov.in

Team from Maharashtra Zoo-keepers from Nagaland learn about communitisation to go on a Study Trip

The Maharashtra team with Deputy CMO Mokokchung, Mopungchuket Village Council, Women leaders and health workers.

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The motorbikes in the custody of Khuzama Police Station, Kohima.

Mahindra’s ‘Gusto’ scooter launched in Dimapur Indian motor giant Mahindra today launched its all new global scooter ‘Gusto’ in Dimapur at Reliance Motors, the authorized dealer of Mahindra two wheelers in Nagaland.

‘Gusto’ is derived from the word ‘gust’ (a strong current or wind), symbolizing the spirit of freedom developed indigenously at Mahindra’s state-of-the-art R&D facility in Pune. Gusto is India’s first scooter with a unique patented heightadjustable seat, making it easy to effortlessly adjust the seat height as per individual’s needs.

According to a company press release, Gusto’s distinctive, bold and inspirational styling has its origin in Italy. It’s advanced (M-TEC) engine and vehicle design offers superior performance, efficiency, reliability, ride quality and comfort. The two wheeler

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Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The Association of Gorkha Baptist Churches Nagaland (AGBCN) held its 7th Annual Conference from January 16 – 18 at its Mission Centre, Singrijan, Dimapur with the theme: “Moving forward in the legacy of Christ with victory” (2 Cor 1:21-22). About 270 delegates attended the conference, which had Dr. Zelhou Keyho, Academic Dean, Oriental Theological Seminary, Bade, Dimapur and Rev. Moa Longchari, Pastor, Baptist Mission Church, Kohima as speakers. A press release from AGBCN executive secretary, Rudra Ramauli informed that Pastor K. Mero of NBC Phek Town and Pastor Krishna Sundas of NBC Nuiland, Dimapur were ordained as reverends during the conference.

The meeting also made some resolutions concerning the ministry of AGBCN and selected new AGBCN executive council members for a term of three years.

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BJP appeals party officials to comply with order(s) Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): Stating that as per the party convention and constitution, the State president has the prerogative power to effect changes in the State unit and the president may re-shuffle the organizational set up as and when needed, the BJP Nagaland State unit today directed party officials to comply with the order(s) whenever issued in the interest of the party. A press release from Lachit Kachari, Office Secretary, BJP Nagaland State unit noted, “With the fast growing pace of BJP in Nagaland in recent times, it has become necessary for the State party unit to adapt to the situation. In order to strengthen the party and ensure smooth functioning of the organization, due consultation was made with the national BJP leaders.”

DC Phek directs to attend National Voters Day phEK, January 23 (Dipr): The DC & DEO Phek, Murohu Chotso, has notified to all concerned of Phek district that the 5th National Voters Day will be observed on January 25 (Sunday) at 12 noon in the DPDB Conference Hall, Phek with the theme ‘Easy registration, easy correction’. Therefore, the DC has requested all the newly enrolled electors, head of offices, principal of Phek Government College, GHSS Phek, political parties, NGOs, BLOs and Ward Chairman/GBs of Phek district to attend the function positively.

GBs Union Dimapur informs Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The GBs Union Dimapur has requested all the GBs of Dimapur to reach the celebration venue of Republic Day at 7:30 am on January 26.

Peren Village Council union informs

Visitors at the Stone Garden in NEZCC, Dimapur.

pErEn, January 23 (mExn): The Village Council Union of Peren District has reminded all the village councils within the district to complete their respective building construction in New District Hq. Peren within the stipulated period. The Union President, Namgong in a press note stated that the union will not be held responsible for cancellation of plot permit if the respective villages fail to construct the same within the stipulated period. Hence, it appealed to all the village councils to “immediately carryout” and complete the construction. The reminder was in reference to a notification of Deputy Commissioner, Peren on January 16, added the press note.

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Japan's 'Arunachal' stance a tactic against China: Daily Beijing, january 23 (ianS): Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida's remarks that 'Arunachal Pradesh' was an "Indian territory" is Japan's tactic of taking sides over a disputed territory, said China's Global Times newspaper.

The article Friday, based on an interview with senior researcher Geng Xin, also said that backing India showed that Tokyo's ambition went beyond merely strengthening its relationship with India.

Following a protest lodged by China, Kishida said he made the remarks taking into account the facts that "India basically and effectively controls (the region), and China and India are continuing

consultations on the border issue", according to the article.

"Since tensions between Beijing and Tokyo have risen in recent years, especially fuelled by the escalation of the Diaoyu Islands issue, Japan has more than once deliberately stepped into China's territorial disputes with other countries," the article said.

According to the article, this represented Japan's intent of "uniting" the countries that have territorial disputes with China in order to create a strong impression that Japan, along with China's other neighbouring countries, is bullied by a rising China.

This way, Japan could

put the blame on China instead of itself in the case of a conflict, it added.

The Global Times article pointed out that this was not the first time that Japan had cozied up to India.

According to the article, when Shinzo Abe visited India for the first time as prime minister in 2007, he told the Indian parliament that Tokyo regarded New Delhi as a good friend, and spoke of the high respect in Japan for Indian jurist Radhabinod Pal, who was the only one to cast a dissenting vote against convicting Japanese officials of war crimes during the Tokyo trials.

"Such inappropriate remarks hurt not only the

feelings of the Chinese people, but also the interests of Japan's ally, the US," the article said.

"But India is not going to fall for Japan's tricks easily. As an emerging power, India has made its political philosophy very clear when it comes to Japan's attitude toward history. Successive governments in India have all clearly expressed that Japan should reflect deeply on its wartime past," the article said.

It added: "New Delhi is well aware that it should seek a wise balance in its relations with China and Japan."

The article pointed out that the existing Sino-Indian bilateral trade volume exceeded $70 bil-

lion, almost three times the economic and trade volume between India and Japan.

"Not only that, China's experience of development is a positive lesson for India, and India has also showed its interest to learn from it," the article said, adding: "In this context, wrecking the relationship between China and India would only show that Japan is a country lacking noble manners, and that it will resort to any means in order to achieve its goals."

According to the article, China should not be too concerned about Japan's "improper" actions even though Sino-Japanese relations have hit a historical low at the moment.

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agarTala, january 23 (ianS): A deal must be finalised to leverage the Chittagong international port for expanding business between northeast India and Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said.

"Chittagong international port (in southeast Bangladesh) could play a catalyst role for the extension of business and economic growth between northeast India and Bangladesh. Governments of two countries must finalise a deal in this regard," Sarkar said here Thursday night.

After inaugurating a photography exhibition of Bangladeshi journalists, Sarkar said : "If the international sea port is allowed to

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ther strengthened."

Chittagong international port, 75 km east of southern Tripura, is one of the oldest sea port and Chittagong is the 10th fastest growing city in the world.

"Governments and the business communities in northeastern states have been demanding to get access the Chittagong port to ferry goods and heavy machineries from different parts of India and abroad saving time and costs," Sarkar added.

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guwahaTi, january 23 (ianS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Friday reconstituted his ministry by inducting 14 new ministers.

Governor P.B. Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers -- 11 cabinet ministers and three ministers of state (Independent charge). The cabinet ministers are Bhumidhar Barman, Sarat Barkataky, Ajanta Neog, Nazrul Islam, Rakibul Hussain, Chandan Kumar Sarkar, Khor Sing Engti, Sukur Ali, Ajit Singh, Basanta Das and Atuwa Munda. Sumitra Doley Patir, Girindra Mallik and Bismita Gogoi were sworn-in as ministers of state (Independent charge).

"The process of development will grow faster in the state now. There are mixtures of new and inexperienced with experienced ones in the ministry...

The new and inexperienced ministers will learn and would work better," Gogoi told reporters after the swearing-in ceremony. The chief minister denied that the reshuffle was aimed at the state assembly polls in 2016. He, however, added that the Congress would win the 2016 assembly polls. Gogoi said there were several criteria for selection of ministers. "All kinds of factors such as religion, caste, ethnicity and many other factors are taken into account while selecting them."

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graphs of 22 photo-journalists from Chittagong are being exhibited in the three-day exhibition, which has been sponsored

by Indian High Commission and Indira Gandhi Cultural Center in Dhaka.

Chittagong Photo Journalist Association general secretary Rashed Mahmud said that similar exhibition will be held in Kolkata, Kathmandu and Dhaka subsequently.

In a message about the exhibition, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said: "Our patriotic journalists would do their best for building a positive Bangladesh internationally that would prosper our country."

14 new Assam ministers sworn-in

A Tiwa tribal man laughs as he participates in the Jonbeel festival near Jagiroad on Friday, January 23. Tribal communities like Tiwa, Karbi, Khasi, and Jaintia from nearby hills come down in large numbers to take part in the festival and exchange goods through barter rather than money. Community fishing and cockfights are also held between tribal and non-tribal groups during this festival. (AP Photo)

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be used by the northeastern states, both economic prosperity and friendship among the people of the two nations would be fur-

Port can boost business in NE

She is being attended by a team of doctors from the government hospital, official sources said. Police has asked her to go to the government hospital at Porompat but she has refused, the sources said.

Sharmila began her fast in November 2002 after Assam Rifles personnel killed 10 innocent people in Imphal airport in a fake encounter. Central forces, including Assam Rifles, are deployed in Manipur under Armed Forces Special Powers Act to counter insurgents.

She had been arrested, released and then rearrested from time to time on the charge of attempting to commit suicide.

The maximum punishment under Section 309 of the IPC is a one-year jail term.

guwahaTi, january 23 (pTi): Tiger population in North Eastern hills and Brahmaputra flood plains has increased to 201 in 2014 from 148 in 2010, according to the latest status report on tigers. Assam registered the highest number of 167 tigers, an increase from 143 in 2010, while 28 tigers were estimated in Arunachal Pradesh, showing an increase over 14 in 2006, the report said.

The survey was not held in Arunachal Pradesh in 2010.

Besides Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, the other areas included in the status report are Mizoram and north Bengal. The region includes seven tiger reserves – Manas, Kaziranga and Nameri in Assam, Pakke and Namdapha in Arunachal Pradesh, Dampa in Mizoram and Buxa in West Bengal.

Kaziranga National Park in Assam has the highest tiger population of 125, while the minimum number of four each were recorded in Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh, the report said.

Another report ‘Connecting Tiger Populations for long term conservation’, released simultaneously on January 20, said the population of big cats in the area have historical evolutionary significance as they share the connecting gene pool with south east Asian tiger population and represent the entry point of tigers into the Indian sub-continent.

The region has two tiger conservation units(TCUs), one comprising Manas Tiger Reserve, stretching across Bhutan to Arunachal Pradesh in the north east while the other includes Kaziranga in Assam and stretches upto Meghalaya.

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Sharmila continuing her indefinite fast outside jail imphal, january 23 (pTi): Manipur rights activist Irom Sharmila, who was released from prison yesterday after a local court rejected charges of attempt to suicide against her, continued with her indefinite fast of 14 years at the market complex here demanding repeal of AFSPA. She was released at 7.30 PM yesterday by Imphal east district chief judicial magistrate, who dropped all charges against her, including attempt to commit suicide under IPC Section 309.

Immediately afterwards Sharmila accompanied by representatives of various women organisations went to Imphal market complex and began her fast. She sat fasting at the market complex through the night.

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guwahaTi, january 23 (Tnn): One constable and four home guards of Assam Police in Lakhimpur district have been arrested and sent to jail on Friday for allegedly molesting a woman in front of her husband at a police check point set up as security measure against militants on Wednesday night.

The alleged incident took place at Lakhimpur town in Assam's easternmost part on northbank of Brahmaputra, which borders Arunachal Pradesh.

Lakhimpur district police superintendent Prasanta Bhuyan told TOI that the woman filed and FIR on Thursday. The woman has also approached the court with her allegation.

"Today we have ar-

rested the five police persons and they have been sent to jail. The woman has alleged in her FIR that the five men molested her and misbehaved with her,"Bhuyan said. The SP said that the woman was with her husband when they were stopped at the check point.

The police check point was set up as the state government stepped up security measures ahead of the Republic Day. Every year there are threats from militants seeking sovereignty from India to disrupt Republic Day and Independence Day celebrations and security measures are beefed up across the state.

The alleged incident at Lakhimpur adds to soaring numbers of cases reg-

istered against crimes against women in the state.

In 2014 the state police registered a staggering 26, 532 cases of crimes against women. According to police records, 12, 813 of these were cases of cruelty by husband. Another 280 cases of murder of women by their in-laws for dowry last year while there were

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2,700 rape cases and 3800 cases of molestation were recorded.

About 5900 cases of kidnapping of women or girls were registered in 2014 while there were 62 cases of trafficking of women registered. In 2013 the total cases of crime against women registered in the state were 17, 449.

11 labourers killed in Arunachal road mishap guwahaTi, january 23 (agencieS): Eleven labourers were killed when a vehicle on way from Tezpur in Assam to Nafra in Arunachal Pradesh fell into a deep gorge in West Kameng district on Friday. Three others who sustained serious injuries were shifted to the government civil hospital in Tezpur.

West Kameng SP A Koan said the vehicle, a Cruiser, was carrying 14 persons, all contruction labourers from Sonitpur and Lakhimpur districts in Assam to a site in Nafra in West Kameng district, when it first collided with roadside railings and then fell off the road into a deep gorge near Sessa. The spot is about 75 kms from Tezpur.

It was on January 6 that six army personnel of the 11th Garhwal Regiment were killed in a similar road mishap in the same area. The army personnel were travelling from a location in Arunachal Pradesh to the Army’s 4 Corps headquarter in Tezpur.

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ethpage on the Mount of Olives, the Village from where Jesus got a Donkey and her colt for his journey to Jerusalem, is no longer in existence today. It has become part of Jerusalem City and the Mount Olive today is a succession of well maintained Terraces with snarled ancient Olive Trees.

I stood deep in thought, near a big stone at the top of the Mount where Jesus might have prayed on the night of his arrest. The place today appears like any well maintained Municipal Park of a modern City than an ancient place and this appearancedeflectssomeofyourwonderment;yet the place still gives the feeling of a solemn deep sense of an amazing loss and one is left in wonderment like when one see the unimaginably huge and awfully tall Pyramids of Egypt with millions of upon millions of big stones.

Away from the Mount of Olive in the distant is seen Mount Zion with its unmistakable golden Dome of Al Aqsa Mosque, where Abraham once horribly nearly killed his only son for sacrifice to his God, and as one descends from the Mount of Olive through ‘the Graveyard of the field of Blood’, bought with 30 pieces of Silver Judas Iscariot threw away at the feet of the Chief Priests stood in the days of Jesus, the ancient Temple of Jerusalem with spacious Courtyard where Jesus had serious confrontations with the Religious Leaders of the day that led to his arrest and crucifixion.

I pointed at the shining golden Dome of the Mosque to the Israeli Tourist Guide from the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Israel and jestingly told her: “You will not feel sad if today a Thunderbolt from the Sky fell on that Dome?”

“No” She said, smiling understandingly!

It was at the end of a long foot Journey 2000 years ago from Galilee to Judea late one day at the Religious Pass-over Feast, that Jesus reached Jerusalem and found in the Temple Court people doing brisk business in the Bazaars of the 5 sons of the Chief Priest Anna selling officially certified animals and Birds needed for the religious Sacrifices; there were the money changers too doing hugely profitable money Exchange business.

No one dared question the quality of the officially certified less than prime animals and Pigeons sold for the sacrifices or the value of the

Who Is Jesus? exchanged currencies because they are all under the patronage of Anna, the all powerful wily Chief Priest and his cawed down, obedient Sanhedrin.

The Gospel Writers wrote that Jesus made a whip of rope and drove away the shop keepers and upturned the Tables of the Money Changers.

He said: “It is written my House shall be called a House of Prayers, and you have made it a den of Robbers”. Mat. 21:13.

All marveled at Jesus earnestness and his courage.

Today’s well breakfasted Dr. Reverends usually preach conveniently in the Morning at 10. AM or Late in the Evening with steaming Dinner waiting!

Jesus was in the Temple Court at dawn without Breakfast and feeling hungry: many came very early to listen to him.

The Gospel Writers recorded: “The Blind and the Lame were brought and he healed them all” John. 7:26.

Just then (at Dawn?), the Teachers of Law and the Pharisees brought to him a woman “caught in the act of Adultery” and asked him what to do with her: the Law of Moses instructs “to stone such women”.

Jesus did not say anything; he only stooped down and wrote on the ground.

When the people persisted, ‘he straightened up and said to them’; “if anyone of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her”; again he stooped down and continued to write.

At this, the people left one by one, the older the first, and left the Woman and Jesus alone. Jesus stood up and asked her: “Has no one condemned you?

The woman said: “No one Sir”.

Then Jesus said: “Neither do I condemn you, go and leave your life of sin”. Jn.8:1-11.

[This story is recorded in none of the Gospels of Mathew, Mark or Luke; in the Gospel of John also, it is said not found in the earliest copies of Manuscripts. John, is said to be the last of the Apostle to die A.D. 90 – 100 in the Island of Patmos and he might have recollected

and added (personal view) at last so that “you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” John 20:31] The Gospel of Jesus is doing what the Law of Moses could not!

The Chief Priests and the Elders again came to Jesus while he was preaching in the Courtyard. They came and asked as to who gave him the permission to preach in the Temple Courtyard.

Jesus replied them: “I will also ask you one question and if you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things: ‘John’s Baptism’ -where did it come from?

Was it from heaven or from men?-’” The Chief Priests and the Elders knew there are only two options to answer: -one, ‘from Man’, in which case it will cause the ire of the Crowd surrounding them in the Temple Court and whose approval the Religious Leaders hanker after, for the People believe the Baptism of John came from God; -two, ‘from Heaven’, which will automatically attract further embarrassing questions from Jesus they try to avoid.

The Chief Priest and the Teachers of Law are intelligently wise hypocrites and so they said: “we do not know”.

Therefore to expose them, Jesus told a parable of Two Sons –one brashly honest, the other -intelligently suave prodigal.

The father asked his sons to go and work in their Vineyard: one said he will go and work but did not; the other said he will not but later went and worked.

Jesus asked the Chief Priest and the Elders in front of the Temple Court Crowd which of the two sons obeyed their Father. They replied it was: ‘the one who went and worked’: It is not Words but Deeds that that is the Gospel of Jesus.

Earlier in the Week on his way to Jerusalem of Judea from Capernaum of Galil; Jesus stopped at the world’s Oldest City of Jericho and stayed in the house of Zacchaeus the Tax Collector. Over the Dinner in the Host Zacchaeus said he would give half of his posses-

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sions to the poor and four times of anything if he had cheated anybody.

Jesus said, “Today, Salvation has come to this house”.

This was a week ago and later In the morning of the day Jesus was in the Temple Court, and had healed the soul of a Woman caught in the act of Adultery; when the Priests and the Pharisees did not reply his question whether John’s Baptism is from Heaven or from Man and when they replied they did not know, Jesus openly called Spade a Spade in their face.

Jesus told them: “Tax Collectors and Prostitutes are entering the Kingdom of God ahead of you”!

Jesus also taught the people in the face of the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees: “The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat.

So you must obey them and do everything they tell you.

But do not what they do, for they do not what they preach. They tie heavy load on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them”. Mt. 23: 2-4.

Some unlicensed Church Leaders in Nagaland today teach much Theology like Licensed Church Workers; but both do not what they preach. The Gospel of Jesus is doing it.

What harsh necessity and unpalatable confrontation it is! The Gospel of Jesus is not of knowing only or of giving sermon alone.

Jesus advised his followers to hear the Teachings of the Pharisees but not to adopt their life styles, for they preach but do not what they preach. The Gospel of Jesus is Love in action; not of preaching Grace and not doing it.

Teaching the Gospel alone of Jesus without action is ‘empty Vessels sound much’ and is concrete example of intelligent Hypocrisy.

This is a very serious condemnation of the Invited but not of the Selected. The Union Public Service Commission invites many applications for attractive top-class jobs in the Country but only a small fraction of the Applied is selected for the jobs.

The land of the Nagas has much preaching and much Sermons.

The Identity of Jesus is known to whoever does what Jesus Preached; the rest is all sounding Cymbals!

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Social Media is being misused

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acebook has become a Blessing for the Nagas especially the Youth. Various facebook groups have become platforms where Young Nagas can put out their frustrations on the mess that Naga Society has become. Young Nagas who for a long time was voiceless finally feel empowered. The Naga Blog, Nagalim Times, Naga Spear, We the Nagas, etc... leads the way in what many describes as Naga Facebook “ Revolution “. However there is a darker side too.

Many Older folks are trying to weed out TRIBALISM which i believe is the biggest Cancer in our Society. We are not Nagas first but Angamis. Lothas, Sümis, Aos, Konyaks, Sangatms,etc... first which is impeding the growth and progress of our Society. We should be Nagas first, hence many of the Older folks identified Tribalism as the first Obstacle that needs to be cleared and are trying hard to root it out. When some few are trying to root out this Cancer, some misguided youths are opening groups like Angamis vs Sümis, Ao vs Lothas, etc... groups in facebook. Some can dismiss these groups as harmless but I disagree. In these groups youngsters fight the whole day making fun of other tribes. These groups which appears harmless are subtly sowing the seed of Tribalism at a tender Age. These groups are Dangerous. I appeal to the Hohos and other NGOs to take corrective actions. While others can do our part by reporting such groups to the Facebook administration.

To those youngsters who are opening such groups. You are warned because some likeminded people have decided to file FIR against you. Trust me, it is no fun to have Policemen knocking at your door and spending time in Jail. You should know that there are Naga Cyber cops now.

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Hindunization of Naga Politics: Not to be Tolerated

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he Christians in India are children of Ram,” declared Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries. She, a BJP MP of Fatehpur (UP) adopted deceptive tactics in her attempt to misinterpret the identity of non-Hindus including Nagas who belong to the Mongolian race and have nothing to do with Ram historically, culturally or in any other ways. The question of the so-called Ghar Wapsi or “homecoming” conversion melas does not arise in the case of Nagas, including Gaidinliu’s Haraka or the Hindus of Manipur. Her statement is aimed at reviving the unsound idealism of the four varnas of her party’s One Book, One Religion, One Language and One Culture. The polemical attempt to promote the RSS brand of Hinduism

through BJP party politics and vice versa is unfair, unacceptable and dangerous. It is also irrational and obscurantist.

The proposal of renaming Dimapur Airport after Rani Gaidinliu by a BJP MP from Odisha in last Parliament Session seems to be a move in the same direction. The BJP with its outfits such as RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal has been making all sorts of forceful attempts to abolish the secular credentials of India down the ages.

It has partially succeeded with Modi at the helm in New Delhi but a culturally and religiously worked out Hindutva monolith cannot last. India will pay a very heavy price for the attempt BJP seems set to make.

It is difficult to understand as to why some Naga politicians talk of honourable political settlement on one hand and advocate BJP rule in Nagaland on the other

as not satisfied with the NDA alliance of which BJP happens to be the biggest partner. We must look into why the Hindu Rastra had to be ruled by Moghuls, British and then the Dynasty for over 800 years. Hinduism with its much hated, notorious track record of caste is horrible and a curse for India. A case in point is the snobbery of high caste towards Dalits who are fellow human beings.

The insanity does not go together with nationalism as darkness does not go with light. The severe social drawbacks produced by the Caste System explain why 665 million poor Indians cannot afford lavatories and are compelled to defecate in the open. India is known for the abject poverty, ignorance, and disease-breeding unhygienic living conditions of her poor people. More often than not, despised and segregated randomly by other civilised

countries since hundreds of years of slavery, till today. Mahatma Gandhi was against the evils of the Caste System and he tragically ended up being its victim.

A BJP MP’s glorification of his assassin Nathuram Godse is an ugly reflection of the philosophy and doctrine of life advocated by BJP, RSS, VHP or Bajrang Dal. We must see where the position of the Nagas would be in the future Hindu Rastra BJP is clearly committed to bring about.

A Brahmin tailor was doing alteration of my trousers thinking that I was from Japan. But when I told him of my Naga identity, he threw my trousers out into the street in Pune in 1982. I took the case to the Police then District Court of Pune. Several RSS youth constantly threatened me with dire consequences.

They broke most of my window panes at Symbiosis Internation-

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al Hostel, trying to force me to withdraw the case, compelling me to arm myself with an iron rod concealed in a leather cover and a helmet to be ready to accept their wild challenge to fight them physically. The threat went on for about eight months till.

The Court case went well, justice was delivered as there was secular character in the country backed by a strong political will of the Government in Delhi. As such caste and other discriminations could be effectively challenged at that point of time. I also received the strong support of several members of the Naga – Maharastrian Association.

The real challenge of caste discriminations, homecoming conversion and Hinduization of politics may come when BJP will get absolute majority in the the Rajya Sabha in 2016. It will be a crisis as well as an opportunity

to purify us Christians to grow deeper in truth, spirituality, love, unselfishness and holiness. The different BJP and Hindutva outfits committed to extremism may not burn us to death as was done to Graham Staines and his two sons in mainland India because the extremists did not like the anti – leprosy Christian mission of mercy the Staines were serving. But they will try to distort our origin, our unique political history and our priceless Christian identity by the excessive use of money for inducement, manipulation of power and unscrupulous interpretation of history and culture to achieve their mission. However these oppressive measures that resurgent RSS brand of Hinduism has started to launch to reconvert we may see they will not be able to weaken the Christianity, rather it will help Christians move for-

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This has resulted in random corruption, short-cut methods to achieve power and abuse of power. We need not be terrified by what they may do to fulfil their plans, if our lives demonstrate integrity and character worthy of respect. The time of decision for our stand as Christians is now; choose for yourselves this day who you will serve, as for me and my household we will serve the Lord by obeying Him. Joshua 24:15.

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YAA on Longtsonger village incident Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA), the apex student organisation of Yimchungrüs, has issued a press statement in regard to the confusion pertaining to the incident at Longtsonger village. The press release was issued by YAA Speaker Mosa Kvz. YAA, on January 22, visited Longtsonger village to discuss the said issue and had a consultative meeting with the concerned village council and Longtsonger Village Students’ Union (LVSU). The release informed that YAA ascertained historical facts and the background of the village during the meeting. “The

two local bodies viz. Village council and LVSU disclosed that the village was established in 1948 and LVSU in 1971. It was also noted that the Longtsonger village was donated by Zhimkiur and Zanger villages wherein, both the villages fall under the jurisdiction of Yimchungrü,” the release stated.

On the TSU claim that the 18th General Conference was held at Longtsonger village in 1999, the release stated, “YAA would like to make it known that the said conference was held in a forced way under the patronage of Tikhir outfits- LIMITSONG.” “The Tikhirs in lieu of holding its conference, even

assured to bear all expenses and threatened the Longtsonger villagers to host the conference lest they face dire consequences. Having left no option, the Longtsonger reluctantly accommodated. Hence, the claim of holding conference by TSU is baseless and unjustifiable,” YAA maintained.

Further stating that it is amused to read the press statement of the Tikhir bodies where, it was claimed that one Tiala had attempted to murder Mark Mürekiu, YAA stated that it “totally contradicts” the real incident. YAA expressed wonder as to how a schoolgirl would go out at midnight with a dao (machete) to murder Mürekiu

“when he was heavily escort by sophisticated armed personnel.” YAA added that it had queried and learned that there were no enmity between them. In this regard, YAA asked TSU “to substantiate their stand instead of giving false and invented stories.”

Furthermore, YAA expressed concern over the delay in delivering justice.

Stating that an FIR was lodged on January 10 and even after a lapse of two weeks, no visible headway has been made, it stated, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” In this, YAA strongly urged the law enforcing agencies to expedite the process.

More orgs condemn shooting NPF 17th Chizami demands KOHima, January 23 hours of January 23 at PeDeo Nukhu’s release (mExn): More organisa- zielietsie, Kohima. tions have come forward to condemn Thursday night’s shooting in Kohima which targeted three vehicles with “I am ACAUT” stickers.

The Gariphema Village Youth Organization (GVYO) has strongly condemned the incident where unidentified miscreants shot at a parked vehicle (Bolero) belonging to of one of its members, S. Kruso Chiese, in the early

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Terming the incident as “trying to create psychosis” in the mind of innocent public, GVYO urged upon the administration and law enforcing agencies to check and investigate into such mindless acts.

The Pezielietsie Youth Organization and Central Youth Organization, North Block Kohima have also condemned the incident.

pHEK, January 23 (mExn): The NPF 17th Chizami A/C in a press statement has expressed “strong resentment” over what it called “the forceful act of transporting" Deo Nukhu by "unscrupulous elements.”

The press release issued

by General Secretary Raruveyi Swuro and Shekhozo Thulu-o demanding the immediate release of Deo Nukhu “from captivity”

Public SPace CLARIFICATION

t has appeared in the local newspapers published on 23rd January, 2015 an Article written by Khekiye K. Serra, IAS (Rtd) under the Caption "Call in the Cavalry" wherein it is alleged that "This is an unforgivable dereliction of his Constitutional responsibility and an insult to his chair." In this context it is to

be made clear that in Nagaland even in the past the former Speakers used to attend the Legislature Party meetings convened by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister in charge by tradition and used to clarify the Rules and laws of the Assembly Procedure.

It is unfortunate and unbecoming for such a

high stature personality like him who served as Indian Administrative Service for a long time terming the august House as "Dirty legislative floor of the House".

This is issued to keep the record straight.

A.E. Lotha Special Secretary Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat

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f late, many writers have flooded all the local dailies with their opinions/ views in support of or against a particular group of NPF groups camped separately. While it is noticed that some of the writers are detached and impartial, many seems to be going to the press with vested interests. Many seem to be trying to influence the

minds of those at the helm of affairs and also to mislead the Nagas. Some of them have even gone to the extent of imploring the office of the Governor with their views and thoughts. As a concerned Naga citizen, I call upon all Nagas to stop writing articles in support of any group. We must remember that the Government of India has appointed a learned

person with vast knowledge of the constitution of India to be the Governor of Nagaland. The Governor also has, at his disposal the best constitutional experts in the country from whom he can take advice as and when the need arises. After all, He is the constitutional head of Nagaland state.

Thritongse Sangtam Duncan, Dimapur

stated, “The Party strongly believes in the integrity and commitment of Deo Nukhu and believe that the statement which appeared in local dailies was made under duress and against his will.” It further extended “unflinching support” to the leadership of Noke Wangnao and G. Kaito Aye. Mention maybe made that Nukhu denied being kidnapped. In this regard, Nukhu had also issued a court affidavit nullifying support to G. Kaito Aye.

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we are entitled as a distinct people. This would always be our fate and destiny no matter what we achieve as a people elsewhere.

This feeling never left me all through my growing years. Then as a teenager when looking through a stack of books, I came across a book entitled “Nagaland Files” by Nandita Haskar.

As I read the book, I felt hurt and anger at my people being treated so inhumanely. That was the moment I made up my mind that someday I would try to change this and do whatever I could to deliver my people from the injustices of the strong and powerful. This was how my life was forever changed from that of being a boy living a somewhat comfortable life, studying in the best of schools to what I did till today.

Though I have lived through many difficulties and experienced the good and bad, I have the solace of at least trying to follow my dreams. I have heard the anthem of the Naga Nation play in the jungles and seen the Blue Naga flag fly over the distant horizon. As I recollect my past as a soldier for independence I am pained by the divisions in our Naga society. The love

and respect we as a part of the movement got from the Naga peoples has turned to disgust. Though I no longer am active in the movement it hurts when people deride the sacrifices made by my comrades in distant lands far away from home. Dying in foreign lands attempting to bring the weapons of defense we Nagas sorely lacked.

But looking at the divisions and selfishness of a few can we blame the very public that sacrificed their last handful of rice so that we may not starve in the jungles.

Today I plead with all Nagas irrespective of which side of the artificial boundaries created by occupiers you come from. I plead with the young and the old, those in National service and those who support from the outside, I appeal to each and every Naga proud to call himself/herself a true patriot. My appeal is that we forget our petty differences and move beyond our narrow world view along narrow lines and strive in our own ways to unite this battered land so that once again as one we can strive for a greater LIM. Ao Temjen Jamir Dimapur.

The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor.

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‘Sovima campers wooing congress for support’ KOHima, January 23 (mExn): Days after the Noke-led NPF had alleged that TR Zeliang was seeking the support of Congress, the Shürhozelie-led Naga People’s Front today ridiculed the allegations while claiming that “Sovima Campers are wooing Congress for support.”

“After losing the number game within the DAN legislature party, with only 22 MLAs now in their camp, as against 26 in T.R. Zeliang's fold, and with the BJP MLAs having already left the Sovima camp for good, desperate efforts are being made by Sovima Camp to bolster their sagging morale,” a press release from the NPF Press Bureau stated.

“After loudly protesting that T.R.Zeliang is seeking the support of Congress party for survival, now they themselves are doing just that,” it stated. The release claimed that on Thursday, Kaito and Kuzholuzo (Azo) had approached Tokhehho Yepthomi, Leader of Congress Legislature Party and Sungit Jamir, State Congress President, to seek their support in their attempts to overthrow the Government.

“This shows the du-

plicity and chameleon like characteristic of the Sovima Camp leaders, who are now shamelessly wooing both BJP and Congress for their selfish purpose of capturing power by any means,” it stated. “We leave it to the people to judge the quality of their leaders, and who is right and who is wrong in this whole episode,” the release maintained.

‘Only a matter of time for Sovima camp to break’ In a separate press release, the Shurhozelie-led NPF has claimed that the “Sovima Camp will break up soon without achieving their goal.”

A press release from the NPF Press Bureau quoting the saying, "You may be able to deceive some people for sometime, but you cannot deceive all people all the time," stated that the Sovima Campers have “tried various strategies, including misinformation, plain lies forgery and chicanery of every kind” to overthrow TR Zeliang’s Government. This, it stated, was done to serve their selfish ends. “But the ground appears to be gradually shipping from their feet,” the NPF Press Bureau added.

Contending that “the

talk of Sovima Camp about their group being a majority, or T.R.Zeliang Government being a minority government” is without “any fact or logic,” the NPF Press Bureau claimed, “They seem to have lost the number game also. After losing Deo Nukhu, now the Sovima camp have 21 NPF MLAs and one Independent, totalling 22, whereas T.R.Zeliang now has 17 NPF MLAs, 1 JD(U), 1 NCP and 7 Independents, totalling 26. All these 26 MLAs are part of DAN III Government, and they have equal voice in deciding whether TR Zeliang enjoys the confidence of the House or the DAN.” The release further claimed that although BJP decided not to take side in the internal problem of the NPF party, they are part and parcel of DAN III Government under T.R.Zeliang, and they have not withdrawn their support to the Government. “They also stated that they are not interested in destabilizing the present DAN Government under T.R.Zeliang.

That's why they have withdrawn their MLAs from Sovima camp. In the event of a floor test, they are likely to vote in favour of the present

Government,” the release claimed.

Further, maintaining that the ‘Sovima camp’ had arbitrarily appointed their own parallel parliamentary party leader, party president, chief whip, without following any laid down procedures, the NPF Press Bureau stated, “Unfortunately, they have not been able to appoint their own Speaker at their Sovima Camp, because that will look even more ludicrous.”

Taking a dig at the former Home Minister, Imkong L. Imchen, the NPF Press Bureau stated, “With only 22 MLAs on their side now, which is also likely to shrink further following the departure of Deo Nukhu, their dream of forming Kaito's Government, with the cleanest and most capable MLA amongst them, Imkong L. Imchen as their Home Minister is turning out to be mission impossible.”

Claiming that “there are signs that tempers are already rising in the Sovima camp,” the NPF Press Bureau added, “They may soon need to requisition police in full riot gear to control the situation there.

It is only a matter of time when the camp will break.”

Government constitutes Central NPF Women Wing appeals “We as wives, mothers tions. “They are doing more January 23 State Medical Board KOHima, (mExn): The Central Of- and sisters sincerely appeal harm than good to their

KOHima, January 23 (Dipr): A State Medical Board has been constituted for the purpose of confirmation, invalidation, commutation of Pension etc. in respect of the Gazetted Officers of the state Government as well as of the Central Government staff posted in Nagaland.

The Board consists of: Chairman - Principal Director; Member Secretary Managing Director NHAK; Members - Medical Specialist NHAK, Eye Specialist NHAK, Surgical Specialist NHAK, M&G. Specialist NHAK (In case of lady Officer being a candidate), E.N.T. Specialist NHAK. The Medical Board will meet on the following dates in the Office Chamber of Managing Director, Naga Hospital Authority Kohima: First Board - February 3; Second Board - May 5; Third

Board - August 4; Fourth Board - November 3.

All the Heads of Department are requested to send the Name(s) and Particulars of the intending Candidates for the above purpose for which he/she desires to appear before the Board to the Managing Director Naga Hospital Authority Kohima before 7 days of the scheduled date indicated above.

Candidates coming to appear the Board directly without prior information to the Managing Director Naga Hospital Authority Kohima will be summarily rejected.

This was notified through the Government of Nagaland, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Nagaland Kohima vide No. DHFW-1/59/PT/2002-03 dated Kohima the December 11, 2014.

Recollection of a eureka 'Attend R-Day celebrations' moment & its impact on my life was around seven years old and in those days we had neither televisions nor VCRs. One day my father brought a small projector to view the highlights of the 1982 Moscow Olympics (A few years late I might add). I distinctly remember being enveloped by the atmosphere of the players competing on the screen. I was filled with joy as I watched the games being played. As the games ended, the mood became somber. I recall the winners going towards the podium to receive their medals.

As the gold medal winner stood up on his podium the beautiful music of their anthem rendered majestically and their flag was raised to flutter proudly in front of the whole world. This moment led me to my present awareness of my Naga national identity. I remember asking myself why no Naga could be present and that why no Naga flag or anthem was being played; I then realized that this was because we Nagas were under others. As long as we were under someone and we did not become masters of our own nation we would be unable to stand up as equals among the family of nations for which

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Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Elizabeth Ngully, has informed all Heads of Department/Offices under Dimapur District to attend the celebration of the 66th Republic Day function. A press release from the ADC informed that attendance of all Departmental Officers and staffs of Dimapur District will be taken at DDSC Stadium at 9 am and 4 pm on January 26. The attendance sheet should be handed over to the ADC Dimapur, the release stated. In this regard, the ADC requested all

HODs/Offices to inform their officers and staffs to attend the function accordingly.

The District Administration further requested the public to be a part of the celebration. It informed that different events are being organised to enthrall one and all. The events include: Different exhibition stalls, Dance by Cultural Troupes, Dog Show, Weapons Display, Special Presentation by different groups.

Furthermore, all markets and shops are to remain closed till 12 noon on January 26, the ADC stated.

to all party workers and Legislators who have parted ways with the mainstream of the Election Commission of India-recognised NPF to come back to the party fold without any further delay,” the women wing appealed.

It added, “As contained in our Election Manifesto with which we faced the elections, we, the NPF party had promised to provide a stable Government to the people and we must keep our promise as true Christians.”

It claimed that with each passing day, people are realising more and more that those in the rebel camp at Sovima are misleading themselves as well as the people of Nagaland with false claims and wild allega-

UBCA-NEI Sunday school training

New Church at Natsümi Village

Dimapur, January 23 (mExn): The Christian Education Department of United Baptist Churches' Association, North East India (UBCA-NEI) will be conducting Sunday School training for Sunday school teachers and supervisors under the association on January 24 at UBCA-NEI office, Notun Basti, Dimapur. With the theme, "Understand, grow and teach", Rev. L. Hevuto Awomi, executive secretary, UBCA-NEI, Ahokhe Awomi, regional co-ordinator, Awana NEI and Vitoli Yeptho, women secretary, UBCA-NEI will teach the participants. All the Sunday school teachers and supervisors have been informed to attend the training.

State gears up for Republic Day Dimapur, January 23 (Dipr): In view of the forthcoming Republic Day celebration, district administrations in the state are organising mass social works.

In Mon, the District Administration organised a Mass Social Work on January 23 from 8 am onward at Mon Town. Government departmental’ trucks of DEF, Mon Power Department, PWD (R & B), MTC, PWD (Mechanical), 100 RCC, Mon and PHED, Mon were provided for collecting and disposing garbages. Fuel expenses were borne by concerned HoDs. The Deputy Commissioner, Mon, Government of Nagaland, Angau

I. Thou, IAS directed the denizens to take part in the cleanliness drive in their respective surrounding and wards along with the students community, NGOs and general public.

Exhibition by Agri & Allied Departments and Departmental stalls by NRHM, SSA, UNDP (Soil), DPRO and Industries will be some of the highlights on the anniversary of 26th January, 1950 Republic Day. In Phek, a mass social work was held in and around Phek town, department offices, town areas and colonies under Phek district headquarter on January 22. The social work was organised by the Dis-

own personal integrity and reputation in the eyes of the general public,” the women wing maintained.

The women wing also expressed serious concern “as mothers" at allegations of illegal arms given to young boys who are reportedly entrusted to provide “security cover” to the confined Legislators. “If such reports are true, this will have grave ramifications on the society since the mentality of these youths will be immensely affected towards criminality,” the Central Women Wing asserted and “prayerfully” requested the leaders of the “rebel group” to immediately stop such dangerous activities.

fice of the Women Wing, Naga People’s Front has “fervently” appealed to all rank and file of the Party as well as Legislators at this juncture of political turmoil to seriously ponder on one’s own political principles and morality.

“As political functionaries, we all have to abide by the party principles and Constitution,” a press release from the Central Women Wing’s Working President Khriezobeinuo Sanchu and President Tonlih Wangsa stated. “As such we the Women Wing steadfastly rally behind the leadership of Party President Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu and Chief Minister T.R .Zeliang,” it added.

trict Administration.

DC Phek Murohu Chotso appreciated the efforts made by the denizens of Phek town and government employees in extending cooperation towards a “Clean and Green Phek town”.

Mass Social Work at Bhandari on Jan 24

The ADC Bhandari, Orenthung Patton has directed all government officials and citizens of Bhandari town to participate in a mass social work on January 24 in their respective offices and colonies. In this regard, all the sub-divisional HODs and colony GBs have been asked to supervise the work.

KOHima, January 23 (mExn): St. Stephen Church at Natsümi, under the Lazami Parish, was inaugurated on January 23 with Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima blessing the new church. A press release received here informed.

Kivixe Peter accorded a warm welcome to the Bishop, Priests, Sisters, community members and guests and also gave a brief history of the church. The Holy Eucharist was celebrated after the blessing of the Church.

The Bishop in his homily stressed the fact that building materials and physical edifice of the Church is easy but, he pointed, the real Church is made up of individual Christians. To build that Church is not that easy, he added. “The external physical Church should be an expression of the spiritual Church. The worship we offer in the material edifice should be the continuation and expression of our spiritual worship that we give to God in spirit and in truth.

In the midst of over three thousand denominations, people lose sight of the true Church founded by Jesus.

The question many people ask is how to recognize the Church founded by Jesus?” the Bishop maintained.

Citing the history of the Church, the Bishop said that the early Church Fathers gave the criteria for recognising a Church during the very first Council of the Church, the council of Nicaea in the year 325 AD. The very Council also proclaimed the doctrine

of the Holy Trinity, the fundamental doctrine of Christianity accepted by all Christian denominations.

“In the Nicene profession of faith we say, ‘We believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic’ Church. These are the four mark of the Church founded by Jesus and are found fully in the Catholic Church. Other Christian Churches share these marks to some degree,” the release stated.

Also saying that mere membership or baptism in the Catholic Church does not give one the passport to heaven, the Bishop pointed out that only a true and genuine Christian life according to the values of the gospel will lead us to our true homeland, that is heaven. St. Stephen, the patron of the Church and the first martyr for Christ should give us the courage and grace to live for Christ, even at the cost of one’s life.

The bishop further congratulated the community, Fr.Yesudas and Fr. Justine Vinoto, the Sisters and others who worked hard for the completion of the Church. Sr. Theresa SCCG, the Economer, undertook the ribbon cutting while Fr. Mathias, the delegate superior unveiled the monolith.

Priests and representatives from Tseminyu, Chepobozo, Atoizo, Aghunato, Dimapur, Zunheboto, Akhuluto etc. were present for the function.

The Natsümi Catholic community is hosting the All Nagaland Sumi Catholic Association seminar which got underway the same evening.

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People, life, etc...

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Detribalization of nagas: One Nation One People Joel Naga

Nations, like men, have their infancy -Henry Bolingbroke

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agas haveto create a new national identity. Every nation buildsone. Samuel P. Huntington, the Harvard professor describes America as “White Anglo-Saxon Christian who speaks English.”

America -and the Western civilization- has been built on the values of freedom, individualism, liberal democracy, secularism, equality, and the spirit of enquiry or Science & technology. Almost all cultures expound the inherent components of their heritage as their identity guiding their economic and social development. RSS propagates Hindutva not as a religion but a way of life to be imbibed by all the inhabitants of this land or Hindu-Rashtra, whether, Hindus, Muslims or Christians to make India resurgent and take its rightful place as the premier civilization it once was. The Chinese proclaims the superiority of their Middle Kingdom or their Confucius culture of Collectivism (as opposed to Individualism), thrift, family, work, loyalty and discipline. Confucianism advocates submission to authority, the eminence of the society over the wants of the individual and soft authoritarianism. It strives for primacy in a new world order based on their core cultural unpinning. Since their defeat in WW2, the Japanese have been trying to forge a new national and cultural identity. This new cultural nationalism as found in theory of ‘Nihonjinron’ advocates the uniqueness of the Japanese race, language and even their climate. The Turks adopted Western values and Western institutions to modernize their country after the defeat and end of the Ottoman Empire.To discard the Old order of our existenceand enter an era of progress, prosperity and social development, a Naga identity is to be formulated. To protect our cultural heritage, identity and our faith, the ideaof One People and Nation,to be above all tongues and tribes (withitsdifferent manifestations of division, strife, and maleficence)needs to be inculcated into our Consciousness.

AZ Phizo tried to form a comity of fiercely independent tribes into a nationstatebut ended in failure and it persists to this day.

The monumental tragedy of the Naga national movementis not that continued failure toerect theedifice of anation-state but also ironically, its contribution to the emergence of narrow tribal assertiveness during the latter half of the 20th century.

Ours is a crisis of being torn between loyalty to our tribe with its accumulated vested interest and the beckoning of collective Naga Consciousness.The downhill slide along the path of strife, tribalism, corruption and paganismis in danger of becoming our inheritance. Never-seen-before economic hardships, mind boggling corruption, the aloofness of the politicians, the illusion of democracy, the deviationof the NPGs from national principles, the insolence of the bureaucratic class, the haughtiness of the rich, the intellectual numbness of the tribal hoho and pan-Naga leaders, the dog-eats-dog race for leadership positions, the absence of rule of law&consensus, deepseated tribalism, the spinelessness of the judiciary, unabated influx of IBIs, the never-ending Naga movement for sovereignty, and the replacement of our true faith with endless merry

making and money – Bolero Culture, the Baals of our time has allbut collectively hindered Naga unity and creation ofcommon Naga identity.

Lee Kuan Yew, “the best bloody Englishman east of the Suez” discarded his English bearings and is credited with ushering in five sets of Singaporean “Shared Values” to protect his citizens from external influences and indoctrinate them into building Singapore into what it is now, a world class city state. Most remarkably, these five sets of values were passed by the Singaporean parliament in 1991.

1. Nation before community and society above self.

2. Family as the basic unit of society.

3. Community support and respect for the individual.

4. Consensus, not conflict.

5. Racial and religious harmony.

A New Order of cultural assertiveness- nation, identity, faith- built on the edifice of our cultural and Christian values of integrity, co-operation, trust, hard work and discipline is to be integrated into our consciousness. Some of the “Naga Values” are: 1. NATION BEFORE TRIBE AND SELF: Nagas are a nation. As it stands, despite our national awakening after the 1st WW and the emergence of Naga nationalism, we still have no national sentiment, ambition, or aspiration, and certainly no national pride. Patriotism is only a by-product of underlying cultural values that defines a community or nation and it cannot be THE binding force of a nation except during national crisis such as War. The colonization and subjugation of formerly free Nagasdid that much to instill patriotism and consciousness of national identity. To build upon this consciousness and usher in social development, progress and prosperity and to preserve the cultural identity of this nation, values underpinning the cultural uniqueness of our society have to be identified and internalized by all the individual members of the society. It’s time we become detribalized, from the perspective of Self or individual tribe and the idea of One people and nation ingested into our consciousness. Every decision, every policy, every legislation, every action and utterances should reflect national interests and every individual sacrifice Self or individual tribe interests for 4 national goals, namely; a) Abhor Corruption and treat it as a National Shame:It is necessary to treat corruption as a national shame. In eastern culture, shame is a very powerful tool to induce conformity in a society.

Asian identities are forged early on in childhood by learning that shame is used to bring about social order and harmony. Nagas are no different. When NSCN –IM raided Dimapur stadium and released the names of those people apparently caught in objectionable acts or positions, most of the villages took out innumerable Ads in the media clarifying that such and such persons were not from their village. Naga Villages regularly ostracize, ex-communicate or expel its citizens for bringing shame and disrepute to the community. Can our society treat corruption and its practitioners with the due abhorrence it deserves? Or shall we continue to look upto people who have illegally hoarded wealth

as “Para Manu Ase (He is a Go-getter)?”Internal Shame comes when a person has not lived up to the community’s rules and expectations and is a powerful conformity tool to control deviance. Mere legal conviction is not enough deterrent in this war against corruption. b) Exert Economic Control: Still another test of Nagaism- that ability to surrender Self to Nation- would be to stop the prostitution of our names against the business interests of non-locals. Income tax evasion to the tune of hundreds of crores of rupees takes place every year since non-locals conduct businesses registered in Naga names. Our state loses massive revenue because we are willing to sell our names for pittance.

Some of the biggest hardware dealers, firms dealing in supply of rice and wheat, wholesale importers of essential commodities, petrol pumps, gas agencies, transporters, timber export, hotels and restaurants, saw mills, brick fields, sand stockiest, etc., are all registered in Naga names. Hundreds of Zonal taxis in the state belonging to people of dubious nationality are registered in our names. Most retail shops and showrooms are also registered in our names. On paper, Nagas own the economy of the state but in reality we are only pawns and paupers. c) Stop patronizing IBIs: Another standard to measure the worth of any of us would be to stop the practice of adopting, patronizing and marrying IBIs. Already there are talks of IBI foray into state politics, or atleast with their support and economic clout.

The next general elections in 2018 for one of the seats in Dimapur will be a litmus test for Nagas’ resolve to tackle this issue. d) Stop family planning, increase our population: Nagas cannot allow resource centric family planning measures to limit the Naga population to one or two children per family having disastrous consequences economically, politically and culturally in the light of the superior numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal in our land. It’s not for nothing that Rightwing Hindus advocate atleast 4 children per Hindu family. Replacement Theory postulates that Standard replacement for population equilibrium requires that every couple produce two children and that each child does the same when they grow up.

However this model is too simple and needs to consider that: (1) One or both children may die before adulthood (2) One or both children may not marry or live in a relationship, or (3) They may have only one child or none at all.

Hence the fertility rate to sustain a culture has to be greater than 2.

(1) A culture can’t survive over generations if the fertility rate drops to below 2.11 (2) History tells us that even at a fertility rate of 1.9, no previous culture has survived (3) At a rate of 1.3, it is impossible to recover.

The averaged fertility rate over some 31 countries of Europe is just 1.38, a figure which suggests that not only is the culture dying, it is NOT recoverable (Source: Internet).

The Muslim conquest of Europe will not be through jihad but it will be done through population replacement.Presently amongst Nagas, most cou-

ples are not ready to have more than 2 children due to various exigencies. However, the most plausible explanation for this trend is to be found in our economic reality. 90% of the income families in the state are government servants. Due to the fixed nature of incomes, severe financial limitations are imposed on the family to provide quality education, health care and basic necessities especially in families with large number of children (unless one gets additional income through dubious means or is a topshot bureaucrat). This is a serious matter of concern to be left only to the families to decide. Unless, the median income level rises, our population level will continue to fall having dire consequences for our survival as a cultural and indigenous community. Our median income level can increase only when entrepreneurship is accorded due respect and hankerings for government jobs decreases.

2. FAMILY AS THE BASIC UNIT OF SOCIETY: A Family is the basic unit of a society. Family here means a father (male), a mother (female) and any number of children borne out of the institution of marriage. The institution of family is to be protected at all cost. The liberalism of the West has ensured that marriage and family has ceased to be sacred.Today, for young Nagas in Nagaland, it is fashionableto be gays and lesbians, something unthinkable even 5 years back. Nagas have been unable to decouple modernity from western culture and this meansan inability to imagine a community around core Naga values that could liberate and protect us.As the liberal tide sweeps over our land, we shall be seeing less of traditional marriages, more broken marriages, conscious coupling sans marriage, and samesex marriages gaining prominence and acceptance insociety oreven by the church. The depravity of the West is in danger of becoming our reality. Pope Francis blamesthe corruptive Western culture for the increasing same-sex marriagesin non-western societies which he describesas the ‘ideological colonization of the family’.

3 . I N D I VI D UA L I S M OVER COLLECTIVISM: "Collectivism ... treats society as if it were a superorganism existing over and above its individual members, and which takes the collective in some form (e.g., tribe, race, or state) to be the primary unit of reality and standard of value."

-- Prof. Fred D. Miller Individualism, that quintessential and celebrated Western valuethought sometimes places the individual even greater than the state and religion.

Other than this, Individualist cultures awards social status to personal accomplishments such as important discoveries, innovations, great sporting, artistic or humanitarian achievements and all actions that make an individual stand out. Collectivism, in contrast emphasizes embeddedness of individuals in a larger group. It encourages conformity and discourages individuals from dissenting and standing out. Naga society is Collectivist by nature.

Of late super-organisms such as the apex tribal Hohos, pan-Naga NGOs, and the village councils, etc., have become the new reality. Their writ runs large in every aspect of our lives, from curtailing individual rights during elections to

even banning books. Any dissent from the ‘collective decision’ of the tribe or kindred tribes is frowned upon or even invites excommunication. Tribal Hohos take decisions on behalf of the entire tribe on all matters. The Village Councils decides which candidates should win and be voted for. Dissenting voices are thrown out of the villages and exiled from the community. For MLAs and Ministers, tribal and kin loyalties take precedence during Government formation and distribution of portfolios. Various organisations representing tribal and kindred interests supervise even the development chart of the state government thereby giving rise to accusations of neglect and feelings of tribalism. Our Collectivism means that individuals though progressive and change-oriented cannot rise above the dictums of the social milieu where embeddedness to tribal interests takes precedence.

This is one reason why our sincere politicians cannot effect popular decisions and why our state will neverproduce outstanding bureaucrats or police officers like Gautam Goswami, IAS, who stopped the then Deputy PM, LK Advani from speaking during an election rally in Bihar with the words “Mr. Advani, your time is up” after the stipulated time limit of 10 pm.

To expose particular corrupt politicians or bureaucrats may mean upsetting their whole tribe or kindred tribes or regional conglomeration of tribeswith the core issue lost and replaced by accusations of tribalism which one is not prepared to wrestle with.

Though Individualism as a value has contributed much to nation and empire building for the West, militant feminism, gay and lesbian culture, and dysfunctional family are byproducts of this thought where individual rights and preferences are perceived as worthy enough to be fought over religious morality and social norms.

Atheism is also a high expression of this thought.

4. CONSENSUS, NOT CONFLICT:Resolving issues through consensus stresses the importance of compromise and national unity. The selection of leaders representing thetribal Hohos, pan-Naga NGOs, mothers’ associations, student bodies, village council leaders, etc., should be on Consensus given the sensitivity of our tribal diversity. Again, the greater question before us is whether armed conflict as a means to settle the Naga political issue should be pursued readily as has been the case the past 60 years. The NPGs pursuing peace-talks or ceasefires with the GoI and managing to bring an honorable settlement would be most welcome.

However, falling short of expectations, the Nagas should consider whether continued armed struggle is feasible or whether a moral movement appealing to the conscious of the world is worth striving for.

It wouldbe triumph of the human spirit if the leaders of the armed revolutionary groups become transformational leaders andfollow this moral path.

5. WORK ETHIC: Pastors and Reverendsin Naga pulpits rarely if not wholly skip sermons on work ethic. “Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a study of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and

the emergence of the spirit of modern capitalism. Weber argues that the religious ideas of groups such as the Calvinists played a role in creating the capitalistic spirit. Weber first observes a correlation between being Protestant and being involved in business, and declares his intent to explore religion as a potential cause of the modern economic conditions. He argues that the modern spirit of capitalism sees profit as an end in itself, and pursuing profit as virtuous. Weber's goal is to understand the source of this spirit. He turns to Protestantism for a potential explanation. Protestantism offers a concept of the worldly "calling," and gives worldly activity a religious character. While important, this alone cannot explain the need to pursue profit. One branch of Protestantism, Calvinism, does provide this explanation. Calvinists believe in predestination-that God has already determined who is saved and damned. As Calvinism developed, a deep psychological need for clues about whether one was actually saved arose, and Calvinists looked to their success in worldly activity for those clues. Thus, they came to value profit and material success as signs of God's favor. Other religious groups, such as the Pietists, Methodists, and the Baptist sects had similar attitudes to a lesser degree. Weber argues that this new attitude broke down the traditional economic system, paving the way for modern capitalism. However, once capitalism emerged, the Protestant values were no longer necessary, and their ethic took on a life of its own."(source: internet) Our work ethic will determine whether we can build ourselves intoa nation or disappear into the amalgamation of cultures converging upon us.

CONCLUSION: The world is a cultural landscape with civilizational groups pitted one against the other for survival and dominance. For Islamand Muslims the finality of their order is to bring the whole world under Dar-ul-Islam or Islamic realm where the Caliphate will be once again establishedunder Sharia law setting it on collision course with non-Islamic nations, entities, faiths and peoples.For the proponents of Hindutva, Christians and Muslims in the past were all Hindus or converted peoples. Formerly tribal animists like Nagas were all part of the great Hindu religious diversity since Hinduism does not subscribe to a single religiousdogma but is a pantheon of gods, worships, deities, writings, and religious experiences.

The liberal scourge of the Westhas jaded away many aspects of our traditional values, thereby reducing us to mere appendages where we are now susceptible to all kinds of philosophical and New Age hocus pocus such as eastern spirituality, mysticism, yoga, materialism, same-sex marriage and atheism, etc.The political boundary of Nagaland is by no stretch of imagination a bulwark against ideas and influences inimical to the continuity of Nagas as a people. A Naga renaissance has to emerge.

PS: The cultural underpinning of Naga resurgence listed here is not exhaustive and open for debate. It is for the intellectuals, social entrepreneurs, and the church to formulate a set of “Naga Values.”

Imagine Something different

Amy Goodman

“Imagine if we did something different.”

Those were just seven words out of close to 7,000 that President Barack Obama spoke during his State of the Union address.

He was addressing both houses of Congress, which are controlled by his bitter foes. Most importantly, though, he was addressing the country. Obama employed characteristically soaring rhetoric to deliver his message of bipartisanship. “The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” he assured us.

From whose lives has the shadow of crisis passed? And for whom is this Union strong?

“Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well?” Obama asked. “Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?”

Oxfam, the international anti-poverty organization, weighed in on the question, releasing a report the day before the speech called “Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More.” Oxfam analyzed data from the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2014 and the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires to determine some shocking facts about global inequality.

First, it found that, as of 2014, the 80 richest individuals in the world are wealthier than the bottom 50 percent of the world’s population. This bears repeating: The 80 wealthiest people, a group that could fit on a bus, control more wealth than 3.5 billion people. The wealthy are not only accumulating more wealth, but they are getting it faster. Between 2009 and 2014, Oxfam reports, the wealth of those 80 richest people in the world doubled. This, while the rest of the world was mired in the Great Recession, with rampant unemployment and people’s life savings wiped out. If current trends continue, Oxfam notes, by 2016 the richest 1 percent of the world’s population will control more wealth than the bottom 99 percent.

One way the wealthy manage to increase their wealth, Oxfam reports, is through lobbying. The report identifies two industries, finance/insurance and pharmaceutical/health care, as major sources of wealth for the richest, and as principal founts of political contributions. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by these industries annually to shape public policy and safeguard profits.

“For far too long, lobbyists have rigged the tax code with loopholes that let some corporations pay nothing while others pay full freight,” President Obama said in his State of

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the Union. “They’ve riddled it with giveaways the super-rich don’t need, denying a break to middleclass families who do.”

Obama has proposed increasing taxes on the very rich: “Let’s close the loopholes that lead to inequality by allowing the top 1 percent to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is an expert on taxes.

We spoke to him on the “Democracy Now!” news hour soon after the State of the Union. “The idea that we shouldn’t adjust the tax rates for people at the top and doing so is somehow class warfare is absurd,” he said. “The president is proposing that for those people in the top one-half of 1 percent—and almost all the money would be paid by the top tenth of 1 percent, people who make over $2 million—that their capital-gains tax rate be at the Ronald Reagan rate of 28 percent,” Johnston summarized. “And Republicans are saying that that’s outrageous. Well, I’m sorry, they’re always telling us Ronald Reagan is a saint.”

What would these taxes pay for? Among other things, Obama pledged to make child care more affordable. He promised free community-college education. These are genuine, good ideas. After his address, Republicans repeatedly said he was for the “redistribution of wealth,” code for socialism. But wealth IS being redistributed by the government— upward, from the poor to the rich—through policies promoted by both major parties, from tax loopholes to “free trade” deals that protect corporate profits over workers’ rights.

And who is promulgating these laws? The Center for Responsive Politics, a political contribution watchdog group, reports that, for the first time ever, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. The group states that this “represents a watershed moment at a time when lawmakers are debating issues like unemployment benefits, food stamps and the minimum wage, which affect people with far fewer resources, as well as considering an overhaul of the tax code.”

As President Obama said in his State of the Union, “To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, try it.”

Growing economic inequality not only hurts the poor, and the working and middle class, but destabilizes society overall.

Yes, we must “imagine if we did something different.” Everyone must have a stake in the state of the union.

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his write-up is actually a ghalo of what we already had, but with added very essential ingredients in trying to bring about a composite meal. If Nagaland has to survive and our now perfectly fitting jeans not go very loose, somebody had to bite the bullet, and then no matter how bitter the pill, that somebody had to also swallow it as well.

Nagas are at a cross-road, and this very fact cannot be over-emphasized. During the last decade or so, corruption by public servants was at its peak in India, and our state of Nagaland was not an exception in giving her competition. With the BJP capturing power in New Delhi and not wasting time to clean up the stables, for Nagaland too the time for cleaning up her stables cannot be postponed now.

Every individual politician have to, a must, introspect in the real sense of the term. Accountability cannot be compromised anymore. Today must never be like the yesterday and this goes equally to the voting public.

Politicians have their alibi and we the public have given it to them. Let us not shout our throat hoarse over corruption. Let us start from the village level. When the GBs of our villages have so much power as to see to it that he can ensure the solid vote bank of his village, and even be the sole representative of taking the trouble to vote for all the bonafide voters, there can never be any reason why the GBs can very well ensure that the votes are not sold, and every individual voter is given the liberty of exercising the franchise in favor of his or her candidate. Boast, village GBs, boast. Boast that it was your authority responsible for this liberty. Boast that for you this is no less than your religion. Stand up tall in the church pulpit and boast. This boasting will not be unacceptable to the Lord. If not, let us not waste our time and everybody’s time talking about corruption.

We have not been doing anything. We suck it up dry and then blame it with 1234. And again, when somebody is doing it, we shoulder it more or less as if it is our legitimate right to pass judgment. The parable of the eye being able to see only the brother’s eye comes into play. Designation alone is worthless. Anybody can be the first among equals, but it is very easy to see who have the substance and who have not. It is a request, indeed a prayer to our leaders to please kindly see beyond the nose and take pity on our state, on our land, on our people, on our children, if not of today’s atleast of tomorrow’s.

How many friends have one got in Delhi?

How many mainland intellectuals have one got as friends? How many friends have one got beyond the geographical boundaries of India? What is one’s knowledge about the many human faultlines that exists between our tribes today in Nagaland? What is one’s knowledge about the many rat holes in the granary? Have one any idea about how many sparrows feeds on the grain when one is helpless to plug even that tiny gap hardly fitting the body size of the tiny sparrow and thereby justify that it will hardly make a difference? More importantly, is one aware of the damage to the sub-conscious level of a man’s mind which can negatively impact on the close whole? Why is a sense of sacrifice, if one think it is so, very hard to

nestle within us?

It is the universal feeling of every individual as a human being to contribute towards the greater good of the society and the people, and given an opportunity to give one’s best. There is therefore no hesitation in making it known that it will not in the least impact one negatively for not having one. The good of the whole is what matters. When a stubborn pig of a person like me has ultimately seen a slice of reality and the light however dim to differentiate and understand why we Nagas are as we are today, there is no reason why any other will not be able to do so. Yours truly sees all the more a reason to be level headed and in our own little small ways try to make wise the reality of our existence. And all the more compelling reason is

not the potter but the clay fails. As a non-living entity, the songsmith wanted the clay to make up for its nonliving entity by conditioning itself to be a handful for the potter. And then without realizing and not reading between the lines, we simply miss that small kernel of truth of a message that the hymnstress wanted us to understand. And then again, when the clay cracks or breaks the potter is unfairly blamed. This blame game has to stop because we, the public are the clay. We have to give weight to our leader, instead of always subjecting him to a catch 22 situation. We have to respect his judgment if we want ours to be considered.

Under Neiphu Rio’s stewardship, there has been corruption. Elected individual public leaders and their henchmen with self-styled rank and figures have made a mockery of the wise saying, “making hay while the sun shines” according to their own interpretations and have forced the party leadership and partymen and women to look the other way round. The people of Nagaland must distinguish between the sane and the not so sane. Yes, there is always atleast a tiny kernel of truth in what a critic says, but destructive criticism in the sheepcoat of constructive criticism must not be encouraged. A solid mandated Government can be very stable providing very good governance if the elected representatives are disciplined, aware, and apply that missionary zeal in their work. However the same can turn out to be nothing less than a curse if the elected representatives just do not think beyond their nose.

Its simple logic. Ground reality dictates that what is happening in Nagaland today must happen. It is a real sign that all is not lost. Some two thousand years back, it was sent on the wings of a snow white dove. Today it need not be that. But Rio taking the stand is nothing less. Just think, meditate and pray over it, and again think. Nagas displeasing Rio could well turn out to be displeasing God. Drowning in sorrow was not a solution. Some teeth had to be there. Taking a step back and opening up the chest to see where the brush went wrong had to be undertaken. There is no point crying over spilt milk. What we are facing today in Nagaland is not just a fight for power. It is a fight for the prestige of the Nagas. It is a fight for the survival of the Nagas. It is a fight for the future of the Nagas. It is not, I repeat not, Rio fighting for his survival. It is a fight for our survival. Having been there and then for solid ten years and even before, Rio knows where the gaps and leaks are.

Rio knows where it went wrong. Rio knows what it takes to do what is being done. Rio has that diplomacy which you and I do not have. Rio is a unifier – not for the worse, but for the better. This is not sycophancy. This is a truth which yours truly believes must be told. It would be very unjust and selfish on my part to keep it to myself. Rio is simply giving back to the state that knowledge, that knowledge of what should not be done in running a government.

For once, let us Nagas not miss this bus. It will be our undoing if we miss it. And we will also not be able to say that we were not warned. May justice and liberty prevail, and may God bless us all.

'A solid mandated Government can be very stable providing very good governance if the elected representatives are disciplined, aware, and apply that missionary zeal in their work.

However the same can turn out to be nothing less than a curse if the elected representatives just do not think beyond their nose.' the truth of having being born and alive today in this particular age and time where inspite of the demerits overshadowing the merits if any, the Living God has not punished us as He did so to the many cities, citystates and the nations of people who knew He was God and yet professed to be unbelievers, not by the tongue, but by the nature of breathing and living.

Nothing can withstand the sands of time, and as we plunge headlong into that ocean of uncertainty, it is not as if we are the only one subjected to this ordeal. This has prevailed and continued since the time of the apple becoming the medium for sin. In this age and time of technology, where every aspect of our lives is being subjected to the insanity of fast living, only some of the few in the many offices of responsibility in Nagaland today are aware of the tragedy of it. And this is where leaders of every hue, size, color or shape must take the initiative of educating the people. As our Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi quoted during his speech in Kisama, “Seeing is believing” in a context of his own, in our context, much of a generation is being deceived with the straight forward meaning of “seeing is believing”. So many are not willing, or have not, or is not being conditioned to study the real truth of “seeing is believing” and therein begins the tragedy of the blame game. We have to take the initiative of educating the upcoming younger generation that things cannot and is not what is thrown on the face as we have so far come to believe. Lord Jesus said, “you see and yet not see” during his time. And it is exactly as it was, which it is today. The lyrics of the hymn goes, “Have Thine own way Lord, have thine own way, Thou are the potter, I am the clay”. However, however good the potter is, if the clay which is a non-living entity but unconditioned with its required moisture, evaporation and condensation, the end result cannot be the desired. There has to be harmony between the potter- the living entity’ and the clay- the nonliving entity. This is where,

Benito Z. Swu

Whose political problem to solve – A need for reflection Roviso Marza

Political Researcher, University of Delhi

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urrent political mess-up in Nagaland intrigues well to read the change of guard at power and uproar on the same without ease. To whose camp would the situation read true, or be it led to the job of Politicians on account being outside our description. Insightful comments and suggestions on the problem through this source and vice versa serve the heightened tussle a fit case to talk about; all yet critically relevant to present day crisis of the society. Politics is not bad to say and thereby would regard the development essential towards further liberated goals, ahead from today’s may-hem circuits. What kind of politics has our state evolved anyway, and to which society is this kind of politics responsible for? It supposedly runs every head spent on the local dailies connecting the toss and desires at this a deeper view from general mindscape of attributing factors at power formation and it’s under current trajectories. This requires looking beyond the camps Rio, Shurhozelie, Zeliang and their comrades released their declared charts of Naga solution for the people as top priority, after all held by the Party doctrine. However, does their claim on this impasse pull an ardent need to appeal mandate at all and concern those stake holders to give support.

The problem appears less issue centric than pertinent to internal disparities in respect to their take on Naga solution rhetoric and fiscal health dilemma for instance. Political despair

by Legislators in spate of accusations to individual leadership both past

and present is critical at squaring ambitious turns to these demands although a fair attempt of politics would gain strength out of this pursuit, testifying at hand NPF account in toppling the congress government a decade ago. Indeed, the hype about democratic conquests over better conditions for the people obscures the imposition of what can be called a mentored program that applies for rightful participation in the power contest theory to influence support, and justifiably so in effort to issues favoring such interest. The reality of contest may go into the chapters of history; however not necessarily mark the Candidates wasted enemies as does the Chief Minister remarks of his fling with these occurrences to be temporal. The price of democracy reigns on fair conduct of democratic institutions in respect to values and issues significant to the peoples’ interests.

The irony is the degree of warfare within a single Party which has recently been heard for its substantial mandate to the people and commendable brinkmanship. Given the unsolicited outcome of politics which is permissible within the constitution of India across the enormous scope of this twisted form of democracy, any dissident party in volition of concerted move against a particular development of the polity is not in term invalid. Even the Parliament of India is not confined to any prescribed rules of running the House – nevertheless organizes on constitutional standards of commanding majority through proper legislation and conduct both at the Centre and states. Before the need for a test of strength arise in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, which quali-

fies at the will of Legislators to prove confidence of the House against the Leader, the wisdom of the Governor is expected to be patient enough, and rightly is being taken by His Excellency P.B. Acharya harping for unity and ensuring measures of correction, upon allegiance to prevent further complication within the ruling Party connecting the crisis. The vulnerability is imminent, tantamount to the controversial rulings of NPF Party decisions in disqualifying some of its members from the privileges of the House. Even if present leadership wins the floor, it may possibly invite similar attack and disrupt normal functioning of the government which is so dear at the expense of losing elected machinery to turmoil.

Reorganize NPF and avoid Central Rule: It is important for the Governor in this respect to give reasonable time for necessary resolution of the ruling Party, which could be possible also with involvement from pressure Groups and civil societies outside the state framework whose acclaimed burden on corruptible entities in the state are to be of sense here. And within such designated time period, should the reorganization of Party lines be allowed around the same scope of party politics and contests democratically. President’s Rule at the power of the Governor is to be understood unhealthy and rigid for an ideal representation of democratic functioning and legislation of the state. Institutional disciplining at Centre’s command on account of fiscal position is considerably away from added urgency as well. The imposition is crucial to the constitutional provision recognizing the autonomy of the state not bound by usual politi-

cal manifestations of the Centre in so far as the present state is confidently governed by an elected representative and that not threatened by constitutional emergency under the purview of coalition partners and opposition Parties. In fact, Governor’s discretion to dismiss the House would harm the political atmosphere of the state with the Centre on which Parties alike have declared themselves to facilitate possible Naga solution at the earliest. The Central leadership if amounts to act at the recommendation of the Cabinet may resort so in utter satisfaction of shrewd deadlock at internal disputes of the ruling Party.

Whichever option strikes the fate of Nagaland, it is reflective to the test of destiny corresponding complex interests in society. Intrinsic to this politics however, the blend of tribal distinction and practices in society should not be misinterpreted towards such representation in the state structure. On political aspiration, besides the need for larger participation and support it requires prudent leaders to take the task forward efficiently without inclining anymore to those historical mistakes which could have been involved in the political journey of the state’s evolution. The percolation of these unchecked politics into the system has apparently gathered the moss. On a land nearly traumatized

by India’s brute state towards rightful struggle and respect, Nagas should worry amongst other things the antagonized division within itself without mutual resolution and dialogue, whose unresolved problem would certainly hinder at large the scope towards solving sincere political solution and understanding for the people and state apparatus.

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A practical approach to fight Corruption & IBI Menace in Nagaland Yanpvuo Kikon: Initiatives like Survival Nagaland are the only ones who are walking the talk and doing their part to fight the IBI menace and we should support them wholeheartedly by giving our inputs, ideas advices and even physical presence as much as possible. However, we also need to know the various Acts, Rules and Policies within the Administration before executing any plan of action.

Important Point to Note: 1. Dimapur is not covered by ILP(Inner Line Permit), so any bonafied citizen of India has the right to carry out any form of business activity in Dimapur.

2. ILP cannot be extended to Dimapur because ILP is a British system which was introduced before Indian Independence. Hence, this concept is outside the purview of the Constitution of India which cannot be implemented anywhere within India. Even other States like Manipur were demanding for ILP but it is impossible to introduce ILP because any law in India cannot be implemented outside the ambit of the Indian Constitution.

Challenges: The District Administration and Police does not have any other legal mechanism to identify a person as a IBI, because if a person is carrying a legal document proving that he is from Karimganj, Assam then he has legal rights to do any form of business in Dimapur "As long as the house owner gives him the space to carry out his business activity."

This is a big challenge because now the law enforcing agencies and district administration under the current system does not have any teeth to control the situation!

So what next? What are the Legal mechanisms to check the influx?

THE SOLUTION: 1. Adopt and Replicate the Mokokchung concept.

Mokokchung has been one of the best examples of solving the IBI issue, why are we not collaborating with those who initiated the movement?

Survival Nagaland and all other Organisation can organize a one day workshop by having the Survival Mokokchung Team come to Dimapur and give a presentation on how they implemented this successfully! After this, Survival Nagaland can adopt the Best practice and go for rapid replication of this Program in Dimapur.

Administration and Police have no teeth now, so the ball is now in the court of the Civil Society to act immediately. Pressure house owners and Taxi Union, DMC not to issue any Permits or Licenses to those IBI suspected persons hailing from 'KARIMGANJ' 2. AADHAAR, Biometric based solutions: Till date, Nagaland has registered only about 40% of our population in the Aadhaar card registration. Civil society, Surivival Nagaland and ACAUT must pressurize the State Government to speed up the enrollment process and cover 100% of our population in the Aadhaar enrollment!

Why? Because Aadhaar is the solution to IDENTIFICATION! Many people in Nagaland have the misconception that Aadhaar guarantees 'Citizenship' and 'Benefits' to those who have the Aadhaar card! That is one of the biggest blunder and misconception about Aadhaar. Aadhaar provides 'IDENTITY' and not 'CITIZENSHIP'. Anybody residing in India, be it foreigners or Indian citizens are supposed to get enrolled to Aadhaar because this will enable any Government Department to easily identify any person, whether he is a local, foreigner, legal or illegal immigrant.

Once we have Aadhaar in place and e-Governance projects are fully implemented, our Homeland security can become even more efficient than the US Homeland Security! Corruption will be almost eliminated because schemes such as NGREGA, PDS(Ration Cards to Below poverty), Widow Pensions, Tendering, Criminal Tracking and even giving Indigenous, ST Certificates and other documents will be completely digitized so that no corrupt officer will be able to manipulate data, provide fake any documents by taking bribes because these will be based on the system and linked to the central Aadhaar CIDR(Central Identities Data Repository). Aadhaar itself cannot completely eliminate all the problems but it is a solution towards improving the existing problems like Sikkim and the East Godavari PDS aadhaar based system.

Sikkim is one of the glaring examples in the success of the UIDAI Aadhaar/ Biometric because now their State Government is easily able to identify between a resident from Sikkim and an outsider with their own concept of 'Foreign UID'! For example, if a migrant worker named 'XYZ' from Bihar is being checked by Police or Administration. The worker will show his Aadhaar card. Since they have all the e-Governance systems in place, the police simply enters his UID number in their system.

After authentication from CIDR, the system directly shows that Mr. XYZ hails from ABC District, Bihar, Born in dd/mm/yy and other details.

While other States have gone ahead, even e-Procurement and e-Tendering have not gone ahead in Nagaland! Have you asked why? Because with this initiative all the cuts and percentages of Politicians and Bureaucrats will be almost eradicated! All Nagaland contractors and Suppliers Union, ACAUT and other Civil Society Organisations must pressurize to pass these Bills (e-Procurement and e-Tendering) in the Legislative Assembly or else the quality of all our Government Contracts and Supplies will remain as pathetic as it is.

Most of the problems in Nagaland starting from CORRUPTION and unable to identify legal/illegal immigrants can be controlled if aadhaar enrollment is completed. Because then we will have a solid database of all the people residing in Nagaland which will enable us to develop software solutions which will plug all the leakages within the existing system.

How did a country like Singapore transform from being one of the poorest, disease and corrupted infested country to become one of the Richest and least corrupted country in the world within one generation. It took one leader, 'Lee Kuan Yew', it took one Political Will to implement solid Policies and execute them with super effective administration supplemented by e-Governance(Easy, Effective and Electronic System).

All it takes to transform any society is Political Will which is PurposeDriven and People-Centric . However, the sad case in our present Nagaland context is that our 'Political Will' has become Ego-Driven and Self-Centric.

(UID - Unique Identification, UIDAI Unique Identification Authority of India) Rhanlamo Lapon: The person in the picture showing driving license issued by transport department is a whole sale shopkeeper at Dobhinala so he showed me this fake document. I seized it while the police were also watching and no action taken.

He is from Karimkanj, Assam. He is a IBI running a shop at city centre, the paper I seized was issued to him by an unknown person. He don't have any vehicle he said he rides bicycle, the seals are of transport department and it is a driving licence.

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Obama outlines India vision from natural to global partners New Delhi, JaNuary 23 (iaNS): As he arrives in India for a three-day visit, his second in six years, US President Barack Obama has exuded hope about enhanced ties with “natural partner” India, saying he would like to think that the stars are aligned to finally realise his vision of the two countries being “global partners”.

In an email interview with India Today weekly magazine, which is to be published in its upcoming issue, the US president, who arrives Jan 25, touched on several issues, including his relationship with former prime minister Manmohan Singh, acknowledging that the two countries have differences and can work around them, his appreciation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s desire for wanting to take the relationship forward, and also the reason for accepting the invite.

Obama, who is the first US president to be chief guest at the Republic Day parade, also spoke strongly on terror emanating from Pakistan, saying that Washington has made it clear that “even as the US works with Pakistan to meet the threat of terrorism, safe havens within Pakistan are not acceptable and that those behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks must face justice”.

He said Modi’s ”remarkable life story -– from tea-seller to prime minister -- is a reflection of the determination of the I dian people to succeed”.

Obama said Modi has a “clear vision of the big things he wants India to achieve, and I’ve been impressed

Obama’s ‘Beast’: All you need to know about a tank on four wheels

An Indian shopkeeper displays a kite with portraits of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama at a shop in Mumbai on Friday, January 23. Obama arrives in New Delhi on Sunday and will be the first American president to attend India’s annual Republic Day festivities marked annually on January 26. (AP Photo)

with his energy and his readiness to address many of the barriers that have stood in the way of greater economic growth... In particular, I appreciate the prime minister’s eagerness to take the India-us partnership to the next level”.

On former prime minister Singh, with whom he had interacted several times during bilateral summits, Obama said he had “a strong relationship with prime minister Singh, and he was a close partner”.

“Now, Prime Minister Modi’s election and his commitment to a new chapter in the relationship between our countries gives us an opportunity to further energise our partnership.”

“I’d like to think that the stars are aligned to finally realise the vision I outlined

in Parliament - India and America as true global partners,” he said. “That’s why I accepted the generous invitation to become the first US president to attend Republic Day as the chief guest,” he said and added that he was deeply honoured to join in celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Indian Constitution.

Acknowledging the differences between the two nations, the US president said: “No two nations agree on everything, and so, of course, sometimes India and the United States will disagree. But I believe that we can work through any differences in a spirit of mutual respect. Moreover, whatever differences we may have are greatly outweighed by the many interests we have in common.”

He said that for this, “good communication and coordination” is required not just between the leaders but between governments.

“When those of us at the leadership level agree on a course of action, our governments have to actually implement our decisions.

We have to make sure that words are matched by deeds,” he said, in a tacit indication of the delay in implementation of the IndoUS civil nuclear deal. The deal was inked in 2005 and the US Congress approved of the 123 agreement bill and it was signed into law in 2008. But India’s tough civil nuclear liability law, which puts the onus on suppliers, has held up implementation of the mega deal.

Obama also voiced keenness in working to-

New Delhi, JaNuary 23 (ageNcieS): The stunning features of the US Presidential vehicle makes it clear why the Secret Service wants to unleash the ‘Beast’ during President Barack Obama’s Republic Day outing in Delhi.

The ‘Beast’ is no different with its eight-inch thick body armour plating and five-inch thick bulletproof windows which insulate the President from all sorts of threats including chemical attacks.

Its doors weigh similar to those on a Boeing-757 aircraft. The eight-tonner runs on shred and puncture resistant Kevlar-reinforced tyres with steel rims underneath which ensure that the vehicle does not come to a halt even if its tyres

get damaged.

The stunning features of the US Presidential vehicle makes it clear why the Secret Service wants to unleash the ‘Beast’ during President Barack Obama’s Republic Day outing in Delhi.

The ‘Beast’ is no different with its eight-inch thick body armour plating and five-inch thick bulletproof windows which insulate the President from all sorts of threats including chemical attacks.

Its doors weigh similar to those on a Boeing-757 aircraft. The eight-tonner runs on shred and puncture resistant Kevlar-reinforced tyres with steel rims underneath which ensure that the vehicle does not come to a halt even if its tyres get damaged.

gether with India in multilateral fora, saying no country can alone meet the challenges thrown up by the world. “That’s why I’m committed to forging a greater partnership with India, both on a bilateral basis and within multilateral organisations.”

“And even as we expand our cooperation on a bilateral basis, we have to keep working to make sure that multilateral institutions are effective.

That’s why I pushed for elevating the role of the G20 to give emerging economies, including India, a greater voice in global economic decision making. And that’s why I believe that a reformed UN Security Council should include India as a permanent member.”

History incomplete until Sunanda Pushkar murder: Uber cab raPe caSe: Netaji mystery solved: Mamata Journalist Nalini questioned Fingerprints match, says expert

DarJeeliNg, JaNuary 23 (iaNS): India’s history will remain incomplete until the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is solved, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Friday.

Paying tribute to Bose on his 118th birth anniversary here, Banerjee said he did not get the honour that he deserved. “The final days of Netaji are still a mystery. What happened to him, no one knows. History is incomplete. There can never be a substitute for Netaji, one of the most inspirational people in Indian history,” Banerjee said in her address.

“Netaji has not got the honour he deserved from the powers that be,” she added. Banerjee’s comments come in the wake of a host of Netaji’s descendants and historians campaigning for declassification of over 100 of secret files said to be in the possession of the central and the Bengal governments.

Following repeated denials by the central government to provide information about the files citing public interest, activists and rights organisations have moved the Calcutta High Court seeking declassification of secret documents and a judicial review on whether the documents should remain secret in public interest.

New Delhi, JaNuary 23 (iaNS): Senior journalist Nalini Singh was questioned here in connection with the murder case of Sunanda Pushkar, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife, police said Friday.

Singh was called by the probe team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Prem Nath at Sarojini Nagar police station, where she was questioned for over an hour. Singh told IANS: “I met them (police) for about 80 minutes. This was my first meeting with the police.”

“Police asked me the sequence of my talk with Pushkar, before her death. They also asked the IPL (Indian Premiere League) angle as well,” Singh said. “I don’t know what she wanted to say. But she wanted to speak about the IPL,” the senior journalist added. “To understand background of the case, the probing team is calling people who are connected to it,” said Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi.

On the question of possibility of New Delhi, JaNuary 23 (iaNS): The Election Commission roping the Economic Offense Wing Friday censured AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for his remarks accusing the BJP of spreading communal hatred in the capital and asked him to be circumspect in his comments in future.

The poll panel, which had issued notice to Kejriwal Jan 17 following a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay, said the Aam Aadmi Party leader’s comments violated the model code of conduct. According to the report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Kejriwal had said: “The BJP has been responsible for inciting communal riots in various parts of Delhi in the recent past.”

The notice said: “Now, therefore, the commission hereby conveys its displeasure and censures you (Kejriwal) for the above violation of the model code of conduct and expects you to be more circumspect in your public utterances in future.” In the commission’s views, Kejriwal’s statement had the effect of aggravating existing differences or creating mutual hatred or causing tension between different castes and communities. The commission also noted that Kejriwal has not denied his statement in his reply submitted before the poll panel Jan 22. The Delhi assembly polls would be held Feb 7 and votes will be counted Feb 10.

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(EOW) into the case, Bassi said: “For understanding the background, if it is required, will do that.” On Thursday, the investigation team questioned another journalist, television anchor Rahul Kanwal of Headlines Today, to whom Pushkar had wanted to give an interview on certain undisclosed issue.

Later, Kanwal posted the contents of his talk with police on social media, stating Pushkar was keen to give an interview. “On January 16, when the spat between Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda splashed all over the news channels, I reached out to Sunanda asking her if she was keen on doing an interview to talk about the ‘IPL scam’ she had been referring to in her tweets,” Kanwal wrote in his Facebook account.

Both the journalists were questioned soon after Bassi told media Thursday that they would take the help of those journalists who had talked to Pushkar before her death to corroborate the sequence of events.

Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel’s room here Jan 17, 2014.

New Delhi, JaNuary 23 (iaNS): A forensic expert Friday told a court here that the fingerprints of the women executive allegedly raped by the Uber cab driver matched with the fingerprints obtained from the vehicle in which she was attacked.

Senior scientific officer in the Central Forensic Science Laboratory Harender Prasad told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that a few fingerprints were found in the car, inside which the woman was allegedly raped. Testifying as a prosecution witness in the case, he told the court that the discovered prints matched with the fingerprints of the woman allegedly raped by Uber taxi driver Shiv Kumar Yadav.

Prasad denied the sug-

gestion by defence counsel that he prepared the report under the instructions of police. Meanwhile, police also filed documents related to the palm prints obtained from the car and the prints of the accused and the victim.

The court recorded the statement of two other officials of the forensic lab, a doctor who examined the taxi driver and four police officials. Hindu Rao Hospital’s doctor Alok Kumar told the court that he found multiple abrasions on the face of the accused when he was brought to him Dec 8.

Yadav, 32, was arrested jointly by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police Dec 7 from his hideout in Mathura.

Sub-Inspector Devender said he did not ask any public person to join them while arresting the accused

in Mathura, fearing something untoward might happen as the accused was a local resident.

The court also recorded the statement of head constable who attended the woman’s call at the Police Control Room. The trial will continue Saturday and the court will likely record the statement of two police officials. Yadav allegedly raped the woman executive in the car she hired to head back home in north Delhi’s Inderlok area Dec 5 night.

The court last week framed charges of rape and causing grievous bodily harm or endangering the life of a woman, kidnapping a woman, criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against Yadav.

Clashes erupt in Kashmir over Charlie Hebdo cartoon

CBI registers fresh case in coal scam New Delhi, JaNuary 23 (iaNS): The CBI Friday registered a fresh case in its ongoing probe in the alleged coal allocation scam against Hindalco and conducted searches at four places in Mumbai and Odisha. The agency registered the case against Indal, now Hindalco Industries, under sections of cheating, criminal conspiracy and Prevention of Corruption Act in its probe related to the allocation of Talabira I coal block to Hindalco in 1994.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) teams also conducted searches at the office premises of the company at four places, one in Mumbai and three in Odisha, a CBI official said. “Some incriminating documents have been seized during the searches,” he said.

“Allegations are that the coal was used in unauthorised manner in the existing power plant whereas allocation was done for expanding the capacity of new power plant. Further mining was started without mine opening permission,” the official added. “The public servants facilitated the allocation of coal block by not taking action against the unauthorised use despite their knowledge,” the official said. Earlier, the CBI registered 37 First Information Reports (FIR) in coal allocation cases.

A Kashmiri Muslim man beats the burning effigy representing the French magazine Charlie Hebdo during a protest in Srinagar on Friday, January 23. Businesses and shops closed Friday in Indian-held Kashmir in a strike called by separatists and religious parties protesting the publication of a caricature of Prophet Muhammad in the latest issue of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. (AP Photo)

SriNagar, JaNuary 23 (aP): Government forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir fired warning shots and tear gas Friday to disperse Muslim protesters angry at the publication of a caricature of Prophet Muhammad in the latest issue of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Protests broke out in the

main city of Srinagar after Friday prayers, with worshippers carrying placards reading “Down with Charlie” and chanting slogans against Indian rule. Security forces fired shots and tear gas in at least at three places, while the protesters responded with rocks, police said. There were no reports of injuries.

Police detained a top proindependence leader, Mohammed Yasin Malik, who had called the protests and a day-long strike over the magazine’s latest issue, which shows a drawing of a tearful Prophet Muhammad holding a sign saying “I am Charlie” in French. It was published following a Jan. 7 attack on the magazine’s Paris

office that killed 12 people.

Thousands of people also rallied in cities across Pakistan against the French magazine, although the demonstrations remained peaceful. In the capital of Islamabad, hundreds of people gathered outside the famed Red Mosque, which has been a center of religious extremism in the country, after Friday prayers. Later, thousands of supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami political party attended a rally in another part of the capital.

Smaller protests were also held in other cities, including Peshawar, Karachi, Multan and Lahore. “Europe is challenging the faith of Muslims. They are teasing Muslims by the desecration of prophets,” said Siraj ul-Haq, the head of Jamaat-eIslami, at a rally in Islamabad.

Many Muslims believe their faith forbids depictions of the prophet. The region has witnessed several protests against the latest cartoon, but Friday’s strike was the first major reaction in Kashmir since the Paris attacks.

“By encouraging and allowing the reproduction of the highly provocative and insulting caricatures of our beloved

prophet, the West has contemptuously disregarded sensitivities of the Muslim world,” wrote Hassan Zainagairee, a columnist in Greater Kashmir, the region’s largest English newspaper.

Pakistani officials have condemned the violence against the French magazine, but have also objected to the magazine’s decision to publish another image of the Prophet Muhammad on its first cover after the shooting.

Many Muslims view such acts as deliberate attempts to humiliate them and incite violence.

“We don’t understand why they play with our emotions,” said Roz Din, one of the protesters in Islamabad. “They want us to take action and then we are called terrorists.” Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, and both have claimed it in its entirety since British colonialists left in 1947.

Since 1989, several rebel groups have been fighting to win Kashmir’s independence or have the Indian-controlled portion merge with Pakistan.

More than 68,000 people, mainly civilians, have died in the armed uprising and subsequent Indian military crackdown.

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Powerful Saudi Arabia King Abdullah dies rIyADH, JAnUAry 23 (AP): Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who fought against alQaida and sought to modernize the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, including by nudging open greater opportunities for women, has died. He was 90.

More than his guarded and hidebound predecessors, Abdullah assertively threw his oil-rich nation’s weight behind trying to shape the Middle East. His priority was to counter the influence of rival, mainly Shiite Iran wherever it tried to make advances.

He and fellow Sunni Arab monarchs also staunchly opposed the Middle East’s wave of pro-democracy uprisings, seeing them as a threat to stability and their own rule.

He backed Sunni Muslim factions against Tehran’s allies in several countries, but in Lebanon for example, the policy failed to stop Iranian-backed Hezbollah from gaining the upper hand. And Tehran and Riyadh’s colliding ambitions stoked proxy conflicts around the region that enflamed Sunni-Shiite hatreds — most horrifically in Syria’s civil war, where the two countries backed opposing sides. Those conflicts in turn hiked Sunni militancy that returned to threaten Saudi Arabia.

And while the king maintained the historically close alliance with Washington, there were frictions as he sought to put those relations on Saudi Arabia’s terms. He was constantly frustrated by Washington’s failure to broker a settle-

ment to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He also pushed the Obama administration to take a tougher stand against Iran and to more strongly back the mainly Sunni rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad.

A royal court statement said the king died at 1 a.m. on Friday. His successor was announced as 79-year-old half-brother, Prince Salman, according to the statement carried on the Saudi Press Agency. Salman was Abdullah’s crown prince and had recently taken on some of the ailing king’s responsibilities.

President Barack Obama expressed condolences and offered sympathy to the people of Saudi Arabia. “As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions,” Obama said. “One of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.”

Abdullah was born in Riyadh in 1924, one of the dozens of sons of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. Like all Abdul-Aziz’s sons, Abdullah had only rudimentary education. Tall and heavyset, he felt more at home in the Nejd, the kingdom’s desert heartland, riding stallions and hunting with falcons. His strict upbringing was exemplified by three days he spent in prison as a young man as punishment by his father for failing to give his seat to a visitor, a violation of Bed-

ouin hospitality.

Abdullah was selected as crown prince in 1982 on the day his half-brother Fahd ascended to the throne. The decision was challenged by a full brother of Fahd, Prince Sultan, who wanted the title for himself. But the family eventually closed ranks behind Abdullah to prevent splits.

Abdullah became de facto ruler in 1995 when a stroke incapacitated Fahd. Abdullah was believed to have long rankled at the closeness of the alliance with the United States, and as regent he pressed Washington to withdraw the troops it had deployed in the kingdom since the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The U.S. finally did so in 2003.

When President George W. Bush came to office, Abdullah again showed his readiness to push against his U.S. allies.

In 2000, Abdullah convinced the Arab League to approve an unprecedented offer that all Arab states would agree to peace with Israel if it withdrew from lands it captured in 1967.

The next year, he sent his ambassador in Washington to tell the Bush administration that it was too unquestioningly biased in favor of Israel and that the kingdom would from now on pursue its own interests apart from Washington’s.

Alarmed by the prospect of a rift, Bush soon after advocated for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

The Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks took place in the United States, and Abdullah had to steer the alli-

ance through the resulting criticism. The kingdom was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers, and many pointed out that the baseline ideology for al-Qaida and other groups stemmed from Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.

When al-Qaida militants in 2003 began a wave of violence in the kingdom aimed at toppling the monarchy, Abdullah cracked down hard. For the next three years, security forces battled militants, finally forcing them to flee to neighboring Yemen. There, they created a new al-Qaida branch, and Saudi Arabia has played a behind-the-scenes role in fighting it.

The tougher line helped affirm Abdullah’s commitment to fighting al-Qaida.

He paid two visits to Bush — in 2002 and 2005 — at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

When Fahd died in 2005, Abdullah officially rose to the throne. He then began to more openly push his agenda. His aim at home was to modernize the kingdom to face the future. One of the world’s largest oil exporters, Saudi Arabia is fabulously wealthy, but there are deep disparities in wealth and a burgeoning youth population in need of jobs, housing and education. More than half the current population of 20 million is under the age of 25. For Abdullah, that meant building a more skilled workforce and opening up greater room for women to participate.

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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 24, 2009 file photo, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, waves to members of the Saudi Shura “consultative” council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On early Friday, January 23, Saudi state TV reported King Abdullah died at the age of 90. (AP Photo)

increasing scholarships abroad for Saudi students.

Abdullah for the first time gave women seats on the Shura Council, an unelected body that advises the king and government. He promised women would be able to vote and run in 2015 elections for municipal councils, the only elections held in the country. He appointed the first female deputy minister in a 2009. Two Saudi female athletes competed in the Olympics for the first time in 2012, and a small handful of women were granted licenses to work as lawyers during his rule.

One of his most ambitious projects was a Western-style university that bears his name, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, which opened in 2009. Men and women share classrooms and study together inside the campus, a major departure in a country

where even small talk between the sexes in public can bring a warning from the morality police.

The changes seemed small from the outside but had a powerful resonance.

Small splashes of variety opened in the kingdom — color and flash crept into the all-black abayas women must wear in public; staterun TV started playing music, forbidden for decades; book fairs opened their doors to women writers and some banned books.

But he treaded carefully in the face of the ultraconservative Wahhabi clerics who hold near total sway over society and, in return, give the Al Saud family’s rule religious legitimacy.

“He has presided over a country that has inched forward, either on its own or with his leadership,” said Karen Elliot House, author of “On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines.” “I don’t think

he’s had as much impact as one would hope on trying to create a more moderate version of Islam,” she said.

“To me, it has not taken inside the country as much as one would hope.”

And any change was strictly on the royal family’s terms. After the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings in particular, Saudi Arabia clamped down on any dissent.

Riot police crushed street demonstrations by Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority.

Dozens of activists were detained, many of them tried under a sweeping counterterrorism law by an antiterrorism court Abdullah created. Authorities more closely monitored social media, where anger over corruption and unemployment — and jokes about the aging monarchy — are rife.

Regionally, perhaps Abdullah’s biggest priority was to confront Iran, the Shiite powerhouse across

the Gulf.

From the multiple conflicts, Sunni-Shiite hatreds around the region took on a life of their own, fueling Sunni militancy. Syria’s war helped give birth to the Islamic State group, which burst out to take over large parts of Syria and Iraq.

Fears of the growing militancy prompted Abdullah to commit Saudi airpower to a U.S.-led coalition fighting the extremists.

Toby Matthiesen, author of “Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t,” said Abdullah was not “particularly sectarian in a way that he hated Shiites for religious reasons. ... There are other senior members of the ruling family much more sectarian.”

But, he said, “Saudi Arabia plays a huge role in fueling sectarian conflict.”

Abdullah had more than 30 children from around a dozen wives.

Thai ex-premier says ‘democracy is Saudi’s new king, Salman, a dead’ after being banned from politics force for unity in royal family

BAnGKOK, JAnUAry 23 (AP): Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday that democracy in her country was dead, after the military-appointed legislature voted to ban her from politics for five years and the prosecutor announced plans to indict her on criminal charges in connection with a money-losing rice subsidy program.

The twin actions by the legislature and the attorney general against Yingluck are widely seen as an attempt by the military junta to cripple the political machine founded by Yingluck’s brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, another ousted prime minister, and prevent them from returning to power.

The legislature voted 190-18 to impeach Yingluck for her role in overseeing a government rice subsidy program that lost billions of dollars. The vote results in her being banned from political office for five years. Separately, the attorney general’s office said it would indict her on criminal charges for negligence related to losses and alleged corruption in the rice program. If convicted, Yingluck could face 10 years in jail. She was forced by a court ruling last May to step down from her job for illegally transferring a civil servant, and just days later the army staged a coup against her government.

On her Facebook page, Yingluck said she still wants to see reconciliation

and democracy in Thailand strengthened, “even though today Thai democracy has died, along with the rule of law.” She cancelled a scheduled news conference after her lawyers said the military authorities advised she risked violating martial law.

In her appearance before Parliament on Thursday, she denied she was responsible for any corruption and questioned the fairness of an investigation by the state anti-corruption commission, which had recommended charges against her. The rice subsidy program, which paid farmers double the market price for their crops, ultimately incurred national losses of more than $4 billion and temporarily cost

Thailand’s place as the world’s leading exporter.

After the army ousted her brother in 2006, Yingluck led the pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai Party party to victory in 2011 with an absolute majority of seats in the lower house.

The five-year ban on Yingluck’s political activities “represents a show of confidence by the junta, which feels that it has broken the back of the Pheu Thai Party” and their supporters, the Red Shirt movement, said Kevin Hewison, a Thai studies expert who heads the Asia Research Centre at Australia’s Murdoch University. “With Yingluck banned and Thaksin in exile, the military junta and its appointed bodies will feel more confident in

gradually preparing the way for an election, probably in 2016. They will be more confident that they can be heavy-handed in changing the political rules to prevent any pro-Thaksin party having any chance to do well electorally,” he said.

A mass political protest by the Red Shirts remains unlikely for now, said London-based analyst Ambika Ahuja of the Eurasia Group consultancy. “Thaksin will likely continue to hold off on any active political movement, maintaining a long-term strategy rather than pushing for an immediate end game. However, there will be a rise in antimilitary rhetoric and more opponents will openly question the army’s legitimacy,” she said.

Yemen’s US-backed president quits; country could split apart

Activists carrying flowers and a wreath march to offer prayer for two female ethnic Kachin teachers, Friday, January 23, at a park in Yangon, Myanmar. The United States has called on authorities to investigate allegations by activists that the women were raped and killed by army soldiers. (AP Photo)

SAnAA, JAnUAry 23 (AP): Yemen’s U.S.-backed president quit Thursday under pressure from rebels holding him captive in his home, severely complicating American efforts to combat al-Qaida’s powerful local franchise and raising fears that the Arab world’s poorest country will fracture into mini-states.

Presidential officials said Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi submitted his resignation to parliament rather than make further concessions to Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, who control the capital and are widely believed to be backed by Iran.

The prime minister and his cabinet also stepped down, making a thinly veiled reference to the Houthis’ push at gunpoint for a greater share of power. Houthis deployed their fighters around parliament, which is due to discuss the situation on Sunday.

Yemeni law dictates that the parliament speak-

er — Yahia al-Rai, a close ally of former autocratic ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh — will now assume the presidency. Saleh still wields considerable power and is widely believed to be allied with the Houthis.

There were conflicting reports suggesting that authorities in Aden, the capital of southern region of Yemen, would no longer submit to the central government’s authority. Even before the Houthis’ recent ascendance, a powerful movement in southern Yemen was demanding autonomy or a return to the full independence the region enjoyed before 1990.

Southerners outrightly reject rule by the Houthis, whose power base is in the north. The Houthis are Zaydis, a Shiite minority that makes up about a third of Yemen’s population.

Concerns were also mounting about an economic collapse. Two-thirds of Yemen’s population are already in need of humani-

tarian aid, according to reported U.N. figures. Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia, which has long been Yemen’s economic lifeline, cut most of its financial aid to Yemen after the Houthis seized the capital in September.

The Houthis deny receiving any Iranian support.

Hadi’s resignation comes four months after President Barack Obama cited Yemen as a terrorism success story in a September speech outlining his strategy against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, which involves targeted U.S. strikes on militants with the cooperation of a friendly ground force.

Obama called it an approach “that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.”

The resignations mark the collapse of an internationally backed transition that compelled Saleh, who ruled for three decades, to resign in 2012 following months of Arab Spring protests.

DUBAI, JAnUAry 23 (AP): Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman bin AbdulAziz Al Saud, is a veteran of the country’s top leadership, versed in diplomacy from nearly 50 years as the governor of the capital Riyadh and known as a mediator of disputes within the sprawling royal family.

Salman, 79, had increasingly taken on the duties of the king over the past year as his ailing predecessor and half-brother, Abdullah, became more incapacitated. Abdullah died before dawn Friday at 90 years old.

Salman had served as defense minister since 2011 and so was head of the military as Saudi Arabia joined the United States and other Arab countries in carrying out airstrikes in Syria in 2014 against the Islamic State, the Sunni militant group that the kingdom began to see as a threat to its own stability.

He takes the helm at a time when the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom and oil powerhouse is trying to navigate social pressures from a burgeoning youth population — over half the population of 20 million is under 25 — seeking jobs and increasingly testing boundaries of speech on the Internet, where criticism of the royal family is rife.

Salman’s ascension hands throne to yet another aging son of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, who is thought to have had more than 50 sons from multiple wives. Salman’s health has been a question of concern. He suffered at least one stroke that has left him with limited movement on his left arm. The Saudi throne has for decades passed between Al Saud’s sons. Prince Muqrin, the youngest of the sons at 69, was named crown prince in the royal court statement that announced Salman as king.

Each succession has

FILE- In this Jan. 6, 2015, file image released by the Saudi Press Agency, Crown Prince Salman gestures during a session at the Shura Council. On early Friday, January 23, Saudi state TV reported King Abdullah died at the age of 90. Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman, is a veteran of the country’s top leadership. (AP Photo)

brought the kingdom closer to a time when the next generation — Al Saud’s grandsons — will have to take over. Although the family has successfully managed to close ranks throughout the years, a generational change would raise the specter of a power struggle by placing the throne in the hands of one branch at the expense of the others.

King Abdullah had carried out a slow but determined series of reforms aimed at modernizing the country, including increasing education and nudging open the margins of rights for women.

Salman appears to back those reforms, but he has also voiced concerns about moving too fast.

Salman was one of socalled “Sudeiri Seven” — seven sons born to one of Abdul-Aziz’s most favored wives, Hussa bint Ahmad Sudeiri. The seven fullbrothers were seen as a center of power within the family. Salman appears to have played a frequent role in ensuring the Al Saud family’s unity. The 2007 U.S. Embassy memo said he “is often the referee in family disputes.” It pointed to an incident after King Abdullah formalized the Allegiance Council, a body of top royals that is tasked with voting on

succession issues based on merit and not just age.

Salman’s eldest living brother, Abdul-Rahman, was outspoken in his criticism of the arrangement, but Salman bluntly told his brother to “shut up and get back to work,” according to the memo.

Salman is also known to have extensive contacts among the country’s tribes and his influence is further extended through a network of family businesses, including a stake in the pan-Arab newspaper ASharq Al-Awsat.

At a relatively young age, Salman became the governor of Riyadh in 1963 and over the next 48 years he oversaw its transformation from an isolated desert town into a crowded city of skyscrapers, universities and Western fastfood chains.

In discussions with U.S. diplomats in 2007 revealed in several memos, Salman spoke out against militancy, but added that Jewish and Christian extremism has fed Islamic extremism — even warning that the United States will one day see a threat from Jewish and Christian radicals. He told the Americans that the key to bringing stability to the Middle East is to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding that Israel is “a burden on the U.S.”

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CriCket World Cup 2015 CountdoWn: 22 days to go

South Africa Team Profiles

StrengthS In terms of ability, the top four comprising of Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock (subject to fitness), Faf du Plessis and AB De Villiers is the strongest compared to any team. South Africa’s fielding need not be elaborated. With a pace battery that contains as good as a good bowling as a bowling attack as one can hope for in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, South Africa are well armoured. Throw Vernon Philander in the mix and on their day, they can skittle out any batting attack.

Can South Africa break their World Cup jinx in 2015?

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Chokers!

That is word used for South Africa in cricketing parlance, thanks to their unenviable record of crashing out in crucial World Cup matches.

The Proteas despite their status as a cricketing power, have not yet reached a single World Cup final, let alone win the tournament, a fact which has hung like a monkey on their backs.

As the 2015 edition draws near, the Proteas can do well to roll back the clock and ponder on the umpteen occasions when they have come up short in a crucial cup games. So why do South Africa collapse miserably in the World Cup given their rich cricketing history which has saw them throw up players of top-class calibre from time to time?

Bad luck and losing their nerve in crunch games have proved to be the telling factor for the Proteas, and the 2015 edition presents yet another opportunity for them to shrug off the 'chokers' tag and trail blaze to glory.

Given their current form, the way in which they manhandled West Indies in recent ODI and T-20 games on home soil only highlights the fact that they are a team who cannot be taken lightly despite their long-standing cup jinx.

Skipper AB de Villiers is in the form of his life, as he recently scored the fastest cen-

tury in ODI cricket against West Indies at Johannesburg, thus sending shock waves through w o r l d cricket.

E v e n their bowlers are firing on all cylinders, as the evergreen Dale Steyn has led from the front, with Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander for company, as they have hounded West Indies like a hunting pack.

Apart from a beleaguered West Indies, South Africa have the likes of India and Pakistan to contend with in their World Cup group, teams which they are expected to steamroll with relative ease. On paper the Proteas have probably the best batting line-up in world cricket, and as far as bowling is concerned they have enough ammunition to destroy any team in the World Cup. If De Villiers and David Miller can kickstart a run-blitzkrieg, then the likes of Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy and Faf du Plessis are other pillars in their batting line-up, who can stand up and be counted when required.

Coming to the bowling department and if the fearsome quartet of Steyn, Morkel, Philander and Wayne Parnell can cause carnage amongst the opposition, thanks to

NBA: Bulls shake off form wobble to trounce Spurs

CHICAGO, JAnuAry 23 (AP): Chicago shook off its poor recent form with an authoritative 104-81 win against NBA champion San Antonio on Thursday, building their lead in the NBA Central Division while handing the Spurs their heaviest loss of the season.

As convincing as the Bulls' victory was, it was put in the shade by the Los Angeles Clippers 39-point win over a disappointing Brooklyn, while the day's other games saw Boston and Utah record narrow victories over Portland and Milwaukee respectively.

Chicago built its Central lead out to 4-1/2 games by cruising past the Spurs.

Derrick Rose scored 22 points, hitting 9 of 16 shots, to lead six Chicago players in double figures including Pau Gasol who had 12 points and 17 rebounds. The Spurs' Kawhi Leonard scored all of his team-leading 16 points in the first half, but as he fell away, so did his team as Chicago outscored its opponent 31-20 in the third quarter.

The Clippers recorded their biggest-ever win over Brooklyn, taking the game 123-84. Blake Griffin scored 22 of his 24 points in the first half, when the Clippers led by 33 points, while J.J. Redick and Jamal Crawford added 17 points each.

With Kevin Garnett resting, the Nets were led

some lightning quick pace, then spin looks to be the only weak-link for South Africa, as Imran Tahir, Aaron Phangiso and Rilee Rossouw definitely cannot be counted amongst the league of world class tweakers.

Though South Africa recently lost 4-1 to Australia in a five-match ODI series Down Under in 2014, De Villiers, Amla and De Kock emerged as beacons from that watershed tournament thanks to some superlative batting, with Morkel also giving the Australians a harrowing time, extracting great pace and bounce.

Also that 2-0 ODI series win over New Zealand in 2014 saw the above mentioned batting trio come up trumps once again, thus highlighting the fact that the Proteas have the ability to deliver in Kiwiland in limited over games.

Putting aside their recent Australian

6th Silver Cup t-20 tourney KOHImA, JAnuAry 23 (mExn): The 6th edition of the Silver Cup T-20 Cricket Tournament organized by Youth Department of Nepali Baptist Church Kohima will be held at Kohima Local Ground from first week of March 2015. A press release informed. Interested teams, clubs and sports associations may collect further details and information from the Convener of the Organising Committee John Thakuri @ 9774039646 or Secretary @ 9774416162.

PSG fans file lawsuit against FFP

Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose (1) shoots past San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green (14) during the first half of an NBA basketball game on January 22, in Chicago. (AP Photo)

by Mason Plumlee with 16 points. The Clippers put the game away in the first half, when they shot 66 percent and Jordan had already secured his double-double.

Boston's Evan Turner hit a 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left to give the Celtics a 90-89 win against a Portland

team missing LaMarcus Aldridge, who will miss sixto -eight weeks with a torn thumb ligament. Utah's Gordon Hayward scored 13 of his game-high 24 points in the fourth quarter as the Jazz held on for the 101-89 win after the Bucks missed their last five shots.

PArIS, JAnuAry 23 (AP): A group of Paris Saint-Germain supporters is challenging UEFA's financial regulations in a French court. The fans are suing the French football federation and the league "to denounce the multiple infringements of European Union law caused by the UEFA break-even requirement."

According to their lawyer, the supporters have asked the Paris court to declare UEFA's Financial Fair Play rule "null and void."

Lawyer Emmanuel Daoud argued in a statement that the rule goes against the fundamental principles of competition law within the European Union. The fans have launched a similar action with the European Commission, and a court in Brussels.

PSG was among the first clubs sanctioned by UEFA for overspending on player transfers and wages last May.

Profile Beginning their World Cup journey in 1992, the competition’s perennial underachievers have at some point — before or during the tournament — been tipped to win the tournament. Apart from the 2003 campaign, on home soil, the Proteas have not had one bad tournament. Cricket has played a pivotal role in the nation’s revival to the sporting arena in the post-apartheid era.

In the last two decades, the South Africans have produced the best fielders and some of the best bowlers. This is to noway brush aside the achievements of the previous era. Barry Richards is one of the finest to ever hold a bat. With Jacques Kallis, the team got a man who went to the top and by the sheer volume of numbers, has got to be the best all-rounder in the history of the game. He almost singlehandedly took the team to its first ever win in an ICC Tournament, the Champions Trophy (Knockout) in 1998.

The following years were the darkest in its history.

Getting knocked out the semi-finals in the 1999 World Cup against Australia, which was followed by skipper Hansie Cronje admitting to match fixing. Graeme Smith picked up the pieces in 2003 and after tough beginnings, forged a power packed team, which went on to conquer all three formats. South Africa have never progressed to the finals of the World Cup or won a single knock-out match.

humbling, it can safely be said that come the group opener against Zimbabwe on February 15 at Hamilton, it won't be a surprise if De Villiers' side come out all guns blazing and kickstart their campaign amidst a trail of runs and wickets.

What remains to be seen is whether South Africa (if they do negotiate past the group stages), do manage to hold their nerves this time around in the latter stages of the tournament, where sterner tests await for them.

With the World Cup looming large, De Villiers would do well to take his stellar form into the tournament and also inspire his team to a path-breaking win this time around.And if he does achieve that, then rest assured the ghosts of South Africa's previous World Cup disasters would be laid to rest...once and for all!

WeakneSSeS Contrary to the strong first XI, their bench strength is the weakest compared to the other top teams. With De Kock remaining a doubtful starter, the batting order looks slightly weaker. Neither Imran Tahir nor Aaron Phangiso are world class spinners and this is where JP Duminy’s off-spin will be vital. Keeping the chinks in the squad aside, it is South Africa’s bad history in the tournament that will be their biggest nemesis. After getting past the group stage, the Proteas need three wins in three knockout games to win the cup. It must be noted that South Africa have never won a knockout contest in any ICC tournament. Will the batting maverick, De Villiers get the Rainbow Nation their elusive crown or will he continue the notorious tradition that his predecessors, Kepler Wessels, Hansie Cronje, Shaun Pollock and Graeme Smith were a part of?

Prediction Title Contenders. This side lacks precious little compared to the South African teams of the past and have already shown over the years that they can compete in the most brutal of surroundings. The crème de la crème of the team’s nucleus have just touched the 30 mark. Having the best bowler in Steyn and stewarded by the best batsman, De Villiers, South Africa have the best shot wipe out their bad history.

Squad: AB de Villiers (c), Hashim Amla, Kyle Abbott, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Vernon Philander, Rilee Rossouw, Dale Steyn.

Tunisia wins, takes leads in Group B

mALABO, JAnAury 23 (AP): A late goal gave Tunisia its first win at this year's African Cup of Nations, and some quality saves a few hours later kept Congo in the mix in Group B. Yasine Chikhaoui headed in a cross from Youssef Msakni in the 89th minute to give the Tunisians a comeback 2-1 win over Zambia on Thursday.

Emmanuel Mayuka gave Zambia the lead in the 59th, smashing in a cross from captain Rainford Kalaba, but Ahmed Akaichi equalized with a header in the 70th following a flicked-on corner. "We had some problems in the first half trying to find our balance. It was the same in our game against Cape Verde," Tunisia coach Georges Leekens said.

"In the second half, the players took more responsibility, and we deserved to win."

The victory gives Tunisia four points in Group B. Congo and Cape Verde, which drew 0-0 in the second match at Ebebiyin Stadium, have two points each. Zambia is last with one point. Tunisia will play its final group match against Congo on Monday in Bata, while Zambia will take on Cape Verde in Ebebiyin.

The Zambians came close several times in the first half against Tunisia, with Kalaba and Mayuka linking up well. After Mayuka finally scored, he did back-flips in celebration.

In the 67th, Kalaba again sent a cross for Mayuka, but the Zambia forward was injured as he slid

to reach the ball. He was soon taken off the field on a stretcher, and Akaichi scored the equalizer for Tunisia before Mayuka was replaced

by Jackson Mwanza. "I don't know what came into the mind of my colleagues after we scored. I was shocked to see the way they played," Kalaba said. "That was not the Zambia I know." In the second match, Congo goalkeeper Robert Kidiaba made three tough saves in the final minutes to preserve the scoreless draw with Cape Verde.

Kidiaba stopped a header from a corner in the 87th minute and blocked the resulting shot from the rebound. One minute later, he stopped a shot from Cape Verde forward Heldon.

Hakuho rewrites sumo history with 33rd title

TOKyO, JAnuAry 23 (AP): Mongolian grand champion Hakuho beat Kisenosato at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday to capture his 33rd title and move ahead of Taiho as the most successful wrestler in Japan's ancient sport.

Hakuho forced out Kisenosato in the day's final bout before a capacity crowd at Ryogoku Kokugikan to improve to an insurmountable 13-0 while securing the Emperor's Cup with two days to spare. Kisenosato, who dropped to 10-3, was one of two rikishi who still had a chance to deny Hakuho his history-making title. Grand champion Harumafuji was the other, but he lost the previous bout to fellow Mongolian and grand champion Kakuryu to give both wrestlers a 10-3 record.

Taiho's 32nd championship came in January 1971. At 29, Hakuho has Sumo grand champion Hakuho of Mongolia performs his ring entry forms to a chance to extend his champion- dedicate to the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo Wednesday, January 7. The Shinto ritual is ship run even further. part of the annual New Year's celebrations at the shrine. (AP Photo)

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Ashton Kutcher Prepares to Pete testify Against Accused Killer Doherty working

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shton Kutcher is preparing to take to the witness stand to testify against the man charged with the grisly murder of the actor's thengirlfriend. Michael Thomas Gargiulo stands accused of murdering three women, including Ashton's thengirlfriend, 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, on February 21, 2001.

And ahead of the trial new court documents have revealed the full horror of the killings. Ashley, who lived just 400ft away from Gargiulo in Los Angeles, was attacked while she was showering and stabbed 47 times.

New court documents published in the National Enquirer claim: 'He slashed Ms. Ellerin’s throat so violently [he] nearly decapitated her. 'After she was murdered her body was left displayed in a… demeaning pose that was sexual in nature.'

Kutcher is due in court to testify in the trial of Gargiulo within the next few months, the report claims.

The 36-year-old actor has rarely spoken about the death of Ellerin - but his written testimony to police reveals shocking details of

what he saw on the night of the murder.

On February 21 in 2001, Kutcher had received a call from Ellerin. The student, aspiring model and parttime Las Vegas stripper had tried to make a date with the then 23-year-old actor - but Kutcher had fatefully turned down the offer. Instead Ellerin and her father spent the day doing some remodeling and painting at her apartment.

After dropping off her father at the airport she called her landlord, Mark Durbin, asking if he could fix her ceiling fan and move some furniture. Ellerin and

Durbin, who had bit parts on Frasier and Six Feet Under, then made love.

Durbin testified in June last year that he and Ellerin were involved in a 'blossoming' relationship. Ellerin was said to be playing the field, having recently broken up with her boyfriend, an acting coach.

LAPD Detective Tom Small told LA Weekly: ‘She had tons of boyfriends.

At that time Kutcher was still coming up. 'He hadn't established his big-time credentials yet. They met through a mutual friend. It was a friendly thing. They went out a couple of times.’

Ellerin had also dated Pitch Perfect star Vin Diesel and Law And Order's Jeremy Sisto, who reportedly flew her to a set in Toronto, where he was filming 2001's Angel Eyes. It was a few minutes after Durbin left, that Ellerin called Kutcher to ask him if she should go with him to his friends to watch the Grammys.

He turned her down but said instead he would later visit her at her Hollywood bungalow - just behind the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

Kutcher later told police that he tried to call Ellerin twice during the evening

BoB Dylan Says Billionaires Should Solve Unemployment

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ob Dylan has put forward a solution for unemployment in America – let the billionaires sort it out. In an interview with AARP magazine, the discussion turned to the state of the nation’s job market and the prospects for the future.

“The government's not going to create jobs," he said. "It doesn't have to.

People have to create jobs, and these big billionaires are the ones who can do it.”

The current situation, in his view, is so bad in some inner

city areas that there’s an inevitability of people “turning to alcohol and drugs.”

He said that there are many underprivileged people in these areas “oppressed by lack of work. Those people can all be working at something. These multibillionaires can create industries right here in America. But no one can tell them what to do.

God's got to lead them.”

“They could all have work created for them by all these hotshot billionaires," the singer said. "For

sure, that would create lot of happiness. Now, I'm not saying they have to — I'm not talking about communism — but what do they do with their money?”

The lengthy discussion arrived at this point after the interviewer had touched upon the issue of happiness.

Dylan, as someone who’s dealt with religion extensively throughout his career, hinted that he believed that materialism did not necessarily equate with happiness.

The 73 year old, who re-

leased his first album in 1963, was talking ahead of the release of his latest record Shadows In The Night on February 3rd. It consists solely of cover versions of songs once sung

by Frank Sinatra, and will be his 35th studio album.

Earlier this week one of his most famous albums, 1975's Blood On The Tracks, passed its 40th anniversary.

Since 1988, he’s maintained a relentless touring schedule that keeps pretty much constantly on the road, dubbed the ‘Never Ending Tour’.

but she did not pick up her phone. Kutcher drove to her apartment at 10.45pm in the hope of smoothing over what he thought was a looming argument, and found that the lights were on in her apartment and her car was parked outside.

After knocking on the door and calling out to her with no answer, Kutcher said he looked through a window into the apartment and saw what he thought was red wine pooled on the floor. Kutcher, already starring in That 70s Show, thought she was angry at him for not making the earlier date and left.

Unbeknown to Kutcher, Ellerin was lying dead just beyond his view from the window. The red wine he had seen pooled on the floor was her blood. Ellerin's body was found by her roommate, Justin Peterson.

Kutcher's testimony will be crucial for prosecutors to prove the time of death and strengthen their case.

Gargiulo knew Ellerin and friends of hers say that he had taken an intense interest in her in the time before her murder. He had even allegedly visited her home, and offered to fix her heater.

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Elephants have been helping Pete Doherty to stay off drugs after he started working at a Thai elephant sanctuary in the Southeast Asian country following his treatment for heroin addiction.

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he Libertines frontman has been helping out at the centre in Thailand since finishing his treatment for heroin addiction at the Hope Rehab Center in the country on December 19, and being around the animals is said to be helping him out ''enormously''.

A source said: ''Pete helps them to clean and feed the elephants every day. ''He's not even bothered about dealing with their dung. ''He just loves being around them and says they're helping him enormously with his recovery.'' The Thai elephants have also been getting the 35-year-old star's creative juices flowing as he has penned several new songs while sitting next to the

beasts as they sleep.

The source added to The Sun newspaper: ''Pete stays up with them at night and writes songs on his guitar while they sleep. ''He finds it incredibly relaxing and believes he's writing some of his best work ever as a result. ''Not that he's even really thinking about the next step in his music career. At the moment, he's content with tending to his new elephant friends.''

The singer's Libertines bandmate Carl Barat flew out to the Southeast Asian country last week to help Pete - who has previously been treated for drug addiction in a number of clinics - work on the group's third album, their first in 11 years.

Pete previously re-

vealed he was selling a ''huge elephant collection'' after being left with several models of the beasts after splitting from Kate Moss, who he used to buy them for, and he even planned to send some to her anonymously as a wedding present following her nuptials to Jamie Hince.

Speaking in February 2012, he said: ''Kate used to collect elephants, so I'd buy them for her wherever I went. ''When we split up she destroyed all my stuff, but she didn't destroy my elephants. Because I couldn't get over her for a while I just kept buying elephants and now I've got a huge elephant collection for sale. ''I might post them anonymously to her as a wedding present.''

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kshay Kumar starrer ‘Baby’ which is about an Indian spy on a mission to catch a dreaded terrorist has been banned by the Pakistan censor board.

“Censor boards in Islamabad and Karachi have decided to ban the film because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film also have Muslim names,” the Dawn newspaper said.

All CDs and DVDs of the film have also been banned in Islamabad. A representative of the film’s distributor, Everready Pictures informed the paper that the film has been banned in Pakistan.

Although, the film was set to release on January 23 across Pakistan, cinemas in Karachi had removed it from their websites leading to speculations about its imminent screening.

The film stars famed Pakistani TV drama actor Mikaal Zulfiqar as well as Rasheed Naz, who played the villainous cleric in Shoaib Mansoor’s ‘Khuda Ke Liye’.

Earlier, director Neeray Pandey was quoted as saying that the film was not “anti-Pakistan” or “antiIslam”.

In an interview with The Hindu, Pandey said, “I feel people can be wrong but a religion or a nation can’t be wrong. And we

are cognisant of it. We have three Pakistani actors in the film. There is no Pakistan bashing and there is no jingoism towards a particular country or religion. The core DNA of the film is fighting against terrorism ...”

The board routinely bans films deemed to have ‘antiPakistan’ themes. In the past, the local censor board banned ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ that featured an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent.

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Paes, Bopanna, Sania crash Sensational Seppi dumps Federer out in Australian Open doubles

Sharapova, Murray survive in Australian Open

Melbourne, January 23 (aFP): A stunned Roger Federer was dumped from the Australian Open Friday in his worst showing since 2001 as Maria Sharapova, Andy Murray and Eugenie Bouchard battled to stay in the title hunt.

In the tournament's biggest upset to date, the Swiss world number two had no answer to unseeded Italian Andreas Seppi who he had conquered in their past 10 meetings.

"Just a bad day. I wish I could have played better but clearly it was tough losing the first two sets," Federer said after crashing out in the third round 6-4, 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 7-6 (7/5).

"I had chances to get back into it but let it slip. It's a disappointing loss."

The defeat was the 17time Grand Slam winner's earliest exit in Melbourne in 14 years and aside from his second round Wimbledon flop in 2013, was the Swiss legend's worst performance at a major in more than a decade.

Federer was chasing his fifth Australian Open crown, but has now not won a Grand Slam title since Wimbledon in 2012. He started sluggishly and when he was broken to love in the first set, giving Seppi a 5-4 lead, it was clear something was

Andreas Seppi of Italy, right, is congratulated by Roger Federer of Switzerland after winning their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, January 23. (AP Photo)

amiss with Federer's game.

"To beat Roger first time, especially in a Grand Slam, best-of-five, is a special moment for me," said the 46th ranked Seppi, who had only taken one set off him in their previous 10 matches. In contrast, Sharapova blitzed her way past Zarina Diyaz of Kazakhstan 6-1, 6-1, erasing memories of the massive scare she was given in her second round clash when she had to save two match points. "I started really focused, I knew I had a tough, long match previously, so I

wanted to start off strong and finish strong," said the Russian second seed.

"I think I did a good job of that." Murray was also in form, easily beating Portugal's Joao Sousa.

The Scot, who won 6-1, 6-1, 7-5, has yet to be seriously tested at Melbourne Park, with a first-match tiebreak the closest he has come to dropping a set.

He will next meet Bulgarian 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov, who struggled against 2006 Open runner-up Marcos Baghdatis

with the fired-up Cypriot pushing him to five gruelling sets. Murray has now reached the round of 16 for the seventh consecutive year as he bids to track down an elusive Australian title after losing to Federer in the 2010 final and Novak Djokovic in 2011 and 2013.

"I lost to Roger and to Novak a couple of times against some of the best ever players here and playing in front of a packed arena here is always fun," Murray said. "Grigor has improved a lot over the

last couple of years and it should be a fun match."

Dimitrov, Sharapova's boyfriend, looked headed for defeat when Baghdatis won the third set before rallying to claim an exhausting 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory.

"I'm not going to hide my excitement of winning the match because it meant a lot to me," he said.

Rising star Bouchard also progressed, but made heavy work of downing France's Caroline Garcia, taking 56 minutes to get through the first set before moving up a gear to win 7-5, 6-0. "I don't think it was the prettiest tennis out there today," admitted the seventh seeded Canadian, who has a big fan base in Australia.

Bouchard is seen as one of the new generation tipped to take the reins from the old guard of Serena Williams and Sharapova, with Dimitrov regarded as a contender in the men's game.

Third seed Simona Halep, a quarter-finalist last year, limped through against American world number 258 Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4, 7-5 and will next meet Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer.

Czech seventh seed Tomas Berdych was a more convincing winner, powering past Serb Viktor Troicki while women's 10th seed Ekaterina Makarova also went through.

Melbourne, January 23 (PtI): On a largely disappointing day for Indian tennis players, Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza lost their respective doubles matches in the second round of the Australian Open leaving the country's challenge restricted to the mixed doubles competition.

Sania, who recently reached her career best doubles ranking of No.5 for the second time, and her Chinese Taipei partner Su-Wei Hsieh were stunned by the unseeded Canadian-Polish pair of Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska 6-7, 4-6.

Sania though restored some pride in the mixed doubles event, when she combined with Bruno Soares of Brazil, and the top-seeded pair dispatched Timea Babos and Eric Butorac in double quick time 6-1, 4-6 [10-3]. Bopanna and Daniel Nestor were outplayed in their second-round men's doubles match by Feliciano Lopez and Max Mirnyi 5-7, 3-6. Paes, alongwith

South African partner Raven Klaasen, went down to Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini 6-2, 4-6, 1-6. Earlier the second-seeded Sania and Hsieh, who had an easy first outing against the Argentine-Swiss combine of Maria Irigoyen and Romina Oprandi in the opening round, were up against a resilient Gabriela and Alicja this time around.

Fighting hard for the first set, Sania and Hsieh finally went down in tie break after an intense 58-minute battle.

Their relatively inexperienced opponents then gained confidence in the second set to comfortably dispatch the much fancied pair. The Indo-Canadian pair of Bopanna and Nestor also struggled against the Spanish-Belarus pair of Lopez and Mirnyi as the seventh-seeded failed to cross the second hurdle. Paes though did put a good show alongwith Klaasen but the tenth-seeded duo went down to the Italian pair after letting go of a first set advantage.

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Steve Smith ton guides Australia to final

Hobart, January 23 (aFP): Steve Smith's incredible summer continued when he produced an unbeaten century on captaincy debut to guide Australia to a three-wicket victory over England in a tri-series one-day international in Hobart on Friday. Promoted to the captaincy with regular skipper George Bailey suspended for a second slow over rate breach in 12 months, Smith's unbeaten 102 enabled Australia to chase down England's imposing total of 303 for eight.

Australia, also missing the rested David Warner and Shane Watson, made 304 for seven to win with a ball to spare and remain undefeated in the competition, guaranteeing themselves a berth in Sunday's final. Ian Bell's brilliant 141 set up the

England total, which appeared to be enough for much of the game. England were still in pole position when Brad Haddin strode to the wicket for Australia with the home side at 216 for five. Another 88 runs were needed from 76 balls, but Haddin's 42 off 29 balls as part of a quickfire 71-run stand turned the game.

Smith, who hit four centuries in Australia's four-Test series against India that finished earlier in the month, faced 95 balls, hitting six fours and a six. When the two sides previously met earlier in the tournament, England were beaten by four wickets with more than 10 overs remaining.

However, England bounced back with an impressive ninewicket win over India in Brisbane

on Tuesday and carried that form into Friday's innings. After being sent in to bat, England got off to a solid start through Bell and fellow opener Moeen Ali. Bell, who was unbeaten on 88 against India, made his fourth one-day international century before being caught by Starc from the bowling of rookie paceman Gurinder Sandhu, who finished with figures of 2/49.

He faced 125 balls, hitting 15 fours and one six, and passed two significant milestones during the innings. Bell started the innings just five runs shy of becoming only the second Englishman to pass 5,000 one-day international runs.

In his 153rd ODI, he passed that mark in the third over, and

later went on to overtake Paul Collingwood as England's highestever run scorer in the format as he neared his century.

His opening partnership of 113 with Ali, who scored 46, set up the English innings. It ended in bizarre fashion, however, with Australia completing a team hat-trick in the last three balls. Two batsmen, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler, were run out while Ravi Bopara was bowled by Mitchell Starc.

Brief ScoreS: England 303/8 in 50 overs (Ian Bell 141, Joe Root 69; Gurinder Sandhu 2/49) lost to Australia 304/7 in 49.5 overs (Steven Smith 102*, Shaun Marsh 45; Moeen Ali 2/50, Chris Woakes 2/58) by three wickets.

Our Correspondent Kohima | January 23

The 56th Games and Sports Meet of Northern Angami Sports Association (NASA) 2015 being held at the Kohima Local Ground entered the second day.

In athletics, NASA- A topped the list of medal tally with 13 Gold, 13 Silver and 6 Bronze followed by NASAC (5 Gold, 5 Silver, 6 Bronze ), NASA- B ( 4 Gold, 5 Silver, 7 Bronze) and NASA- D ( 1

Gold, 2 Bronze).

Menuokhrielie SoloNASA- A (4 Gold) emerged as men’s individual champion while Dziivichiinuo Rutsa –NASA- A and Vilobeinuo Miachieo- NASAA (3 Gold each) jointly bagged women’s individual champion.

Khrielasakuo Keretsii of NASA- A made a new record in discuss throw with 33.24m against old record of 32.57m in 2009 held by Kedilelhou Belho of NASA-

A. The meet will continue till January 24. Valedictory function has been scheduled at 3:00 PM with Keneingunyii Sekhose, advisor Angami Public Organization as the guest of honour.

Xavier Rutsa and Riikravolie Riilho will lead the function while Khou Metha will announce NASA team selection list for ASA Meet 2015.

Vote of thanks will be proposed by Kechangulie Kense.

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