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Night curfew in border areas of Sivasagar DIMAPUR, JANUARY 27 (MExN): The Additional District Magistrate, Sivasagar, Assam, Moon Gogoi has promulgated prohibitory order under section 144 CrPC reinforcing night curfew from 6PM to 6AM in the 5 km belt in Assam side of Sivasagar district bordering Nagaland for 60 days with effect from January 29, 2017. According to a DIPR report, Moon Gogoi, in an order, said prohibitory order has been promulgated, as there were sufficient grounds that anti social elements/extremists/unlawful activities coming across Assam/Nagaland border may indulge in unlawful acts resulting in injury/loss of human life / extortion /destruction of public properties in the bordering areas falling within Sivasagar district.

During the dusk to dawn curfew, movement of any person/group of persons/ any-vehicular traffic in the 5 km belt in Assam side of Sivasagar district bordering Nagaland has been strictly prohibited. However, Magistrate, security personnel of army/CRPF/ Police and civil officials deployed on duty are exempted from the purview of the prohibitory order. Gogoi said any violation of this order shall be punishable under provisions of section 188 IPC.

— Julius Rosenwald

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Nagaland Cabinet to go ahead with ULB polls BaNdhS CaLLed iN dimapUr, Kohima, LoNgLeNg aNd pheK SChedULeS for differeNt BaNdhS DA & Police directed to take Dimapur— 6:00am to 6:00pm on Jan 28, 30, 31 & Feb 1 necessary security measures

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 27 (MExN): The Nagaland State Cabinet today decided to go ahead with the Urban Local Body (ULB) elections scheduled to be held on February 1, stating that it “cannot be deferred.”

The decision to go ahead with the polls was taken after a lengthy meeting of the state cabinet held in Kohima on Friday. A press statement from the Commissioner and Secretary to the Nagaland State Chief Minister said the cabinet decided that the polls would be taken to its “logical conclusion as per provisions of law.”

This decision came in the backdrop of appeals made by various organizations for deferment of the municipal elections.

The statement further asked that “adequate arrangements may be taken by administration and police for smooth conduct of elections.” It however also made clear that the state government is ready for dialogue with tribe Hohos and other organizations to “explain the position of the government.”

Bandhs in Dmp, Khm, Longleng and Phek

day and will resume on Monday. Announcing the bandh decision to the media on Friday evening, the JCC informed that it will be enforced during the day with certain relaxations.

JCC co-convenor, Vekhosayi Nyekha stated that the bandh in Dimapur will be of 12 hours and will take effect from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm daily.

Stating that pharmacies, medical establishments, para-military, police, district administration and the press will be exempt, Nyekha added that there will be relaxation for funerals, weddings, students on exams and patients seeking medical assistance, including attendants. Pedestrian movement will be restricted while all other government offices, banks and educational institutions will be shut, it was further stated.

“The Cabinet decided that the election cannot be deferred. So let them face the music,” said Vekhosayi.

The JCC further informed that 22 candidates “retired” from the election race today, while another did so a couple days back.

Stating that the candidates “appended their signatures to retire”, the JCC said that the “retired” candidates included 16 from the Sumi, 4 from the Lotha and 3 from the Ao communities.

Meanwhile, the Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) announced a bandh on January 28 from 9:00am to 4:00pm within its jurisdiction under Kohima and Dimapur districts.

However, the AYO has exempted the following

The decision of the state cabinet has prompted several organisations to call for bandhs in Kohima, Dimapur, Longleng and Phek, albeit with different timings.

In Dimapur, the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) announced a statewide bandh beginning DIMAPUR, JANUARY January 28 till February 1.

27 (MExN): The West- The bandh, however, will ern Sumi Kukami Hoho be totally relaxed on Sun(WSKH) has informed that it will oppose the ULB elections within its territory. A press note from the WSKH expressed solidarity to all tribe based organizations Freed from their enclosure, who have come together to the two female Hornbills oppose the State Government’s move to go ahead Ammu & Lulu have chosen with the elections that to stay inside the zoological will see 33% reservation park instead of making a of seats for women. “The hoho, which represents run for wilderness entire village chiefs under Morung Express News Western Sumi also feel that Dimapur | January 27 the democratically elected government should listen Two free-ranging hornbills at the to the voices of the people,” Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP) it added. have turned into a kind of special surprise attraction to visitors coming to the zoo.

Christened ‘Ammu’ and ‘Lulu’DIMAPUR, JANUARY 27 the two Oriental pied hornbills (MExN): The Ao Senden to- were released a year back into the day informed that the “cur- open to a natural non-intensive rent misunderstanding” condition instead of being conbetween it and the Chu- fined in enclosure like the rest of chuyimlang Riongsanger the animals and birds at the zoo.

Putu Tatar Salang “has been Free-ranging means birds or anithoroughly discussed.” A mals permitted to graze or forage in press release from the Ao the open rather than confined to a Senden stated that the mat- feedlot or enclosure.

The birds, already accustomed ter “has been solved amito the presence of humans, have cably between the two parties.” It further requested all garnered delight and thrill from Ao citizens to be “united in visitors, who, at first raised alarm all situations and circum- thinking that the birds have esstances for the betterment caped from their enclosure. For some lucky visitors, the birds would and unity of Aos.” land and perch right next to themclose enough even for a quick faceto-face photo shoot.

That is not all; the hornbill birds also entertain the visitors to the zoo during their feeding time. Akin DIMAPUR, JANUARY to the kingfisher, the hornbills ex27 (MExN): Christian hibit similar precision to scoop Higher Secondary School and snatch feeds thrown their way, Dimapur today informed which has become an entertaining students that the school live show. will reopen on February 6 While the birds fly around the with the exception of out- zoological park foraging for food, going class 10 and 12 stu- most of the time, they are perched dents. This was informed on the trees near the enclosures in a press release from where other Hornbills are kept. the school’s principal, S Thirumalainathan, Biologist Moatemsu Walling. at the NZP said the two hornbills,

WSKH to oppose ULB elections

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Exceptions: Pharmacies, medical establishments, para-military, police, district administration, press, funerals, weddings, students on exams and patients seeking medical assistance, including attendants.

Kohima —9:00am to 4:00pm on January 28

Exceptions: Hospitals, pharmacies, medical visitations and duties, hotels, bakeries, travelers to and from various destinations from beyond the state (ticket proof required), educational institutions, students, weddings (advised to minimize movement), church related programs, press and media (carry identification), newspaper vendors, petrol pumps, gas agencies and deliveries, KMC, MTC, CTC and any sanitation vehicles of village or urban panchayats, farmers moving to and coming from field, military and police (advised to avoid unnecessary provocative movement) and the district administration.

Phek —9:00am to 4:00pm on January 28

Exceptions: Hospitals, pharmacies, medical duties, wedding parties, police and paramilitary forces, district administration and press.

Longleng—January 31 and February 1

Exceptions: District administration, medical establishments, media, security, paramilitary forces and power department. essential and emergency services: Hospitals, pharmacies, medical visitations and duties, hotels, bakeries, travelers to and from various destinations from beyond the state (ticket proof required), educational institutions, students, weddings (advised to minimize movement), church related programs, press and media (carry identification), newspaper vendors, petrol pumps, gas agencies and deliveries, KMC, MTC, CTC and any sanitation vehicles of village or urban panchayats, farmers moving to and coming from field, military and police (advised to avoid unnecessary provocative movement) and the district administration.

The AYO further advised all government registered vehicles to “stay off the road so that further

tension is not caused to the already charged atmosphere.”

The Chakhesang Youth Front also called for a bandh on January 28 from 9:00am to 4:00pm in the Chakhesang region of Phek District. Hospitals, pharmacies, medical duties, wedding parties, police and paramilitary forces, district administration and press are exempted from the purview of this bandh.

The Phom Peoples’ Council (PPC) has meanwhile decided to impose a total bandh within Longleng district from January 31 to February 1 to protest against the ULB polls.

A press note from the PPC informed that the Phom Students’ Conference (PSC) and Longleng Town Students’ Union (LTSU) have been empowered for ensuring total

compliance in implementing the bandh. District administration, medical, media, security, paramilitary forces and power department have been exempted from the purview of the proposed bandh.

NCD calls for restraint

In the wake of the several bandhs called, the Naga Council Dimapur has called upon all to maintain peace and harmony in Dimapur and in the state. It urged all to maintain “maximum restrain from resorting to any kind of confrontation or bloodshed.”

It further informed that the office of the Naga Council Dimapur would remain open and “take all initiative to monitor the stock of situation during the ban.” It requested all councilors to be present at its office during the bandh period.

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 27 (MExN): The Nagaland State Government today directed the district administration and police to take all necessary security measures to ensure that agitation/bandh/demonstrations do not adversely affect the conduct of free and fair elections to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).

A statement from the Home Commissioner informed that the district administration and police have been asked to make it clear to the organizations/groups giving the call for demonstration/ agitation that the responsibility of ensuring that the demonstration/agitation is peaceful and within the four walls of the law rest on them. “In the event of unlawful act or violence on the part of the agitators or mob, the organizers/leaders shall also be held criminally and civilly liable,” it cautioned.

The state government further directed the district administration and police to take all measures to ensure that the candidates for the ULB polls are not harassed or forced by any individual/organizations to withdraw. It said that the government has taken serious note of reports of organizations/individuals resorting to intimidations/threats for forcing the candidates going for elections to Urban Local Bodies to disassociate from the electoral process.

“If any organization/individual is found indulging in such an act, appropriate action under the relevant sections of the law should be taken against the offenders,” it warned.

The government directed all concerned officials to take all necessary measures to ensure compliance of the above directives and cautioned that “any laxity or lapse on the part of any official in this regard would be viewed seriously and action would be taken against such officers.”

No official confirmation on internet & mobile blockage

Meanwhile, despite rumours that there would be a block on internet and mobile services, there was no such official information till the filing of this report. An official from the Nagaland government informed that there had been no such request made by the state government to service providers on Friday night.

Free-ranging Hornbills at NZP delights visitors Nagaland BJP & NPF issue election directives DIMAPUR, JANUARY 27 (MExN): With the Nagaland State Cabinet deciding to go ahead with the Urban Local Body (ULB) polls, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) and the Nagaland State Unit of the BJP issued their election directives today.

Nagaland State BJP President, Visasolie Lhoungu issued a notification in continuation of the party’s Election Whips issued on January 11

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The NPF, in a notice, meanwhile directed all party rank and file at all levels to “strictly observe party discipline and ensure that elections to the said bodies are held successfully.” This was informed in a party directive issued by the NPF President, Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu, Secretary General, KG Kenye, Working President, Apong Pongener and Working President Huskha Yepthomi.

ENSA oppose border fencing at Pangsha

Ao Senden informs

Christian Hr Sec School notifies

and 15 to party workers, officials and candidates statewide, by reiterating its earlier directives. The notification stated: “All party workers and officials should strive and work collectively to ensure the success of the party candidates while the party candidates should not withdraw but focus on their successes. The District Presidents as authorized shall coordinate with the candidates and party workers effectively.”

A free-ranging Oriental Pied Hornbill perched on a fence outside an enclosure at the Nagaland Zoological Park, Dimapur as visitors looks on in delight. (Morung Photo)

both female, were released owing to “socialization problems” among the birds when kept inside enclosure. There is a tendency of infighting when there is no compatibility amongst the Oriental Pied Hornbills, he revealed.

This is not the first time that the Oriental pied hornbills were freed to provide them “more space.” A couple of years back, four male hornbills were released after they encountered the same socialization problem. Despite having tried different strategies and routines for the birds to stay, the male ‘vagrant’ Hornbills chose to leave the zoological park area.

Heartrendingly, this time, the strategies employed apparently have succeeded on the two female hornbills, whose favorite food and a special treat, given on occasion, is the yellow egg yolk. A feeding routine have being developed such that the hornbills turn up right at schedule.

According to the biologist, the two hornbills have also become conditioned to their names; they

promptly respond when their names are called. The Oriental pied hornbill species are known to be more adaptable to disturbances and can even adjust in human dominated areas.

This success of being able to induce the two hornbills to make the zoological park its home has boosted the confidence of staff at NZP to refine their strategies in providing adequate resources for the birds, Thirumalainathan said.

“What the park needs now is to transform into a safe zone for the birds. We also need to identify trees with natural cavities for them to breed if they find their mate,” the biologist pointed out. Next, the zoological park plans to release suitable males for the two female hornbills for breeding programme.

Currently, there are 16 hornbills including the free-ranging ones at the NZP. Apart from one each of the Great Indian hornbill, Wreathed hornbill, Rufous-necked hornbill and Brown hornbill, the rest are Oriental pied hornbills.

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 27 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Association (ENSA) has opposed the ongoing International border fencing construction at Pangsha village by joint team of India and Myanmar Government.

“Nagas neither have cultural division nor social differences. Since time immemorial, we live as one family despite of India and Myanmar Government to attempt to ‘divide and rule policy’ and our inherent right to live together cannot be stolen,” a press release from ENSA president Reego Shonshei Tangshang and general secretary Jüvsangthong S. Makury stated.

Instead of spending crores of money on constructing walls and putting fencing which divides people, the ENSA has suggested that the government of both the countries to spend the money in establishing educational institutions for stu-

dents, better road connectiv- land because there would be ity, commercial hub, etc. so no free movement once the that poor living condition of fencing is put up. people in the region would be Alleging that the “sole idea is to divide our own brothers living within our ancestral land,” the ENSA has vowed to take any step to stop the border fencing improved. and urged every bonafide It went on to articulate Nagas to stand up against that by erecting border fenc- this movement. ing in the heart of Nagas’ soil, the governments of India Nagaland Cabiand Myanmar are not only net decides to hold dividing the Naga brothers but also demolishing the Naga Summit in Feb The Nagaland State Cabisovereign rights of Nagas to live together in God’s gifted net meanwhile discussed the boundary fencing issue Naga soil.

Also pointing out that in a meeting today. A press more than 10,000 students note from the Commissioner from Eastern Nagaland and Secretary to the Naga(Myanmar) are studying in land State Chief Minister inpresent Indian state of Na- formed that the cabinet degaland, the ENSA feared that cided to have a Naga Summit the border fencing would in February in Kohima to take directly hamper the career up the matter with all Naga of the students as it would tribe Hohos from Nagaland, stop the students from get- Assam, Manipur, Arunachal ting education in own home- Pradesh and Myanmar.

‘More than 10,000 Naga students from Eastern Nagaland (Myanmar) will be affected by border fencing’

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Training on SSA activities Nagaland IT&C inaugurates call centre at Sechu Zubza underway

Kohima DC Rajesh Soundararajan and others during the inaugural session of community mobilization & sensitization training on SSA activities at EBRC Sechu Zubza on January 27. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | January 27

A community mobilization & sensitization training on all the SSA activities including composition, tenure of SMC, roles and responsibility of SMC, civil works, RTE Act 2009 & state rules, inclusive education, special training, quality, computer aided learning, Swacch Bharat, social audit, Pedhe Bharat Badhe Bharat , media, MIS, ShaGun, accounting & financial matters etc. got underway today at EBRC Sechii- Zubza under the aegis of District Education Officer-cum- District Project Co-ordinator DMA, SSA Kohima.

Gracing the inaugural session as the guest of honour, Kohima Deputy Commissioner Rajesh Soundararajan, IAS, called upon the teachers and community leaders to be truthful and sincere in their approach and work together to promote education system, especially government schools in the state.

He also called upon the teachers of the respective

schools to set a target and put performance indicator into practice.

Also stressing on the need to indentify the strength as well as shortcoming, Soundararajan called upon all the concerned to re-dedicate themselves towards improvement of the education system.

A collective responsibility is needed to improve the performance of government school, he said.

Stating that management of the school is now empowered to the community through the concept of communitization, he said “There should not be any compromise as far as education is concern.”

Soundararajan, who is also ex-officio chairman of District Mission Authority, SSA Kohima also asked the Village Education Committee (VEC) not to show any partiality.

Rokovolhulie Angami, Sub Divisional Education Office Kohima and Chairman EBRC urged upon the teachers to give their best for children education.

Give you best and let the parents understand your dedication and commitment towards the growth of education,” he said.

He also stressed on the need to furnish a factual statisticstotheconcernedauthority based on UDISE format.

“Let us use the exact number without any manipulation,” he said. He also called upon the teachers to make classroom a joyful learning. Further, he urged the teachers to be sincere in their duty “as our job is a noble job and required by the society.”

Rokoneinuo Nakhro, project assistant DMA SSA Kohima assured Kohima DC that “we will strive together towards betterment of our children.”

Earlier, the inaugural session was chaired by Lovilie Vakha, co-ordinator EBRC Sechu Zubza while keynote address was delivered by Thongsenlo, assistant district co-coordinator DMA, SSA Kohima.

This training programme will go on till January 30.

Kohima, January 27 (DiPr): Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar, IAS inaugurated the Business Process Outsourcing (centre) at the Directorate building of IT&C on January 27.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Secretary expressed his appreciation to the Department of IT&C for the first phase of business process outsourcing which, he said, is very important for the young people of the State. He urged and encouraged the upcoming generation to join the IT sector in a big way.

Stressing on the importance of BPO, he said that the first job of the Department is to get this project going on and also assured that he would request the Government of India to have a special consideration for the north eastern states in general and the state of Nagaland in partic-

Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar, IAS speaking at the inauguration the Business Process Outsourcing (centre) at the Directorate building of IT&C on January 27. (DIPR Photo)

ular. He conveyed his best wishes to the Department for venturing a new project and wished the BPO a successful one.

Commissioner & Secretary IT&C, KD Vizo in his keynote address stated that Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), often called call centre, is a process of contacting the operations and responsibilities of a specific business pro-

FPS/Village Councils of Kohima Centre informed

Kohima, January 27 (mexn): The Department of Food and Civil Supplies has informed all the FPS/Village Councils of Kohima Centre that the PHH and AAY food grains will be released from January 30 onward between 10:30 am to 3:00 pm.

Therefore all the concerned FPS/Village councils are directed to collect their respective quota within the stipulated period: Kohima town

FPS- January 30 to 31; Kohima Sadar and Secu circle villages - February 2; Jakha Circle villages - February 3; Kezocha Circle Villages and Merema, Tsiese Basa & Bawe, Thizama & Rusoma- Feburary 6.

A press note issued by Kapenlo Thong, Assisatant Director has directed the concerned FPS/ Village councils to note the scheduled dates and collect their respective quota accordingly.

Volunteers paint walls in Mokokchung

(Left) The four volunteers who have taken up the work of painting the portraits of eminent Ao Naga leaders on walls in Mokokchung. (Right) The wall painted with portraits of eminent Ao Naga leaders on a wall. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Mokokchung| January 27

As the saying goes ‘volunteers do not have the time but the heart to do good deeds’, a group of five friends came together to do something good for the people of Mokokchung.

After collecting a few thousands

from their pocket money, these five men Tekamedang Imchen, Imotoshi, Chubawati, Chuten Jamir and Imchatsung embarked on a good will mission to paint the walls that stretched across the Imnameren road at Arkong ward, Mokokchung.

Sacrificing their time and mon-

ey, they have been working for four days painting the portraits of eminent Ao Naga leaders including Dr. Imkongliba Ao, Dr. T. Ao, P. Shilu Ao, Mayangnokcha and Dr. S. C. Jamir.

“Painting these portraits is a reminder to the young people of our great Ao leaders who worked towards the development of our

state. We have painted them with the hope that the youngsters will learn a lesson and walk in their footsteps,” Tekamedong said.

The group of friends hoped that more youngsters will come forward and work for the people because they believe that small things in time lead to greater changes.

cess to a third party service.

It is normally categorized into back office outsourcing which includes internal business functions such as human resources, finance or accounting and front office outsourcing which includes customer related services such as contact centre services.

He also added that, under the Digital India Programme, the Government

of India has launched the North east BPO promotion scheme (NEBPS) to promote BPO industry in north eastern region and prime objective of this scheme is to create job opportunities for the youth and also to attract involvement for all round development. This NEBPS scheme is meant to create the right eco-system required for in growth of small towns and the Naga-

land State e-Governance society (NSeGS) which is functioning under the Department of IT&C had grabbed this opportunity by forming a consortium with M/S Infinity Informatic Pvt. Limited to bring the single largest BPO in North eastern region with 400 seats.

He further said that, in Nagaland, the presence of large talented English speaking youth who can deliver service at par with global standards and with support of highly respected senior officers to support us and feel that our youths who are second to none will now get a chance to work in global environment by staging in our own state.

A power point presentation on BPO was presented by Infinity Informatics Private Ltd. Director, IT&C, Tongtiliba Longkumer proposed vote of thanks.

Community Edu & Recreation Centre at Fakim Village

Minister Kire with others at the unveiling of the Community Education & Recreation Centre inauguration stone at Fakim Village held on January 27.

KiPhire, January 27 (mexn): An inauguration programme of the Community Education & Recreation Centre constructed by the Department of Environment, Forest & Climate Change at Fakim Village was jointly organized by the Wildlife Division, Kiphire and villagers from Fakim on January 27.

Dr. Niekiesalie Nicky Kire, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change who was the chief guest on the occasion, stated that he will look into the problems faced by the villagers in conservation and extend full support through the Forest Department.

T. Torechu, MLA & Chairman, Nagaland Khadi & Village Industries Board in his speech requested the villagers to avoid deforestation and to co-operate with the Forest Department for the Preservation of forests and wildlife to attract tourism which can help in improving the economic status of the villagers.

The occasion was also

graced with the presence of Satya Prakash Tripathi (IFS), Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland; Wennyei Konyak, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Pungro; Samom Khelen Singh (IFS), Wildlife Warden, Kiphire; Chonpenthung Ezung, SDO, Pungro, Rohit, Captain, Assam Rifles Delta Company, Pungro and officials from other departments. It was also attended by the villagers from Thanamir and Vongtsuvong.

Samom Khelen Singh (IFS), Wildlife Warden gave a brief note on Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary and requested the Forest Minister to help the Wildlife Division by allocating more funds to help the villagers in and around the Wildlife Sanctuary since “the villagers is the first line of defence in the conservation and protection activities.”

Satya Prakash Tripathi (IFS), Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland informed about policies of Government of India regarding declaration of eco-sensitive

zones around Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary and notification of community reserves in Pungro sub-division and emphasized the need of allocation of fund by Government of Nagaland for Forest and Wildlife so that the scenario of Forest and Forestry can be improved with the active participations of local communities. He appealed the villagers from Vongstsuvong, Thanamir and Fakim to co-operate with the department for allowing their land for declaration of eco-sensitive zone around Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary.

A press release also informed that Dr. Niekiesalie Nicky Kire unveiled the inauguration stone of the Community Education & Recreation Centre.

Two short documentaries made by the Bhutan Glory Eco-club and the Wildlife Division, Kiphire were also screened during the programme which depicts the animal species available in the sanctuary and activities undertaken by them.

FAC bids farewell to former Principal SC directs govt to cancel Maytas-Gayatri work order

moKoKchung, January 27 (mexn): In a grand programme organised by the College, Vice-Principal, faculty, staff and students of Fazl Ali College along with well-wishers bid farewell to their former Principal Chubayangla on January 27.

It was stated in a press release that Chubayangla joined Fazl Ali College on December 1981. She was posted at Kohima Science College in 1984 and served there for a few years before returning to Fazl Ali College in the 1990s. Since then she had served her Alma Mater in the capacity of Lecturer, Vice-Principal and Principal for more than three decades.

FAC Vice-Principal, Arenla Lkr lauded the outgoing Principal for her dedication to service and for being an

exemplary figure of patience, kindness and humility. In her farewell speech, Chubayangla thanked the Almighty God for leading her and her family throughout her career and expressed gratitude for being associated with all the members of the faculty and staff.

She wished the remaining members well and expressed the hope that the foundation to ensure that the College soars to greater heights has already been laid and the future was bright.

A farewell message from Akok Walling, Principal of Dimapur Government College was read out by a Dr. I. Wati Imchen. Farewell speeches were delivered by representatives from FACTA, FACSU and non-teaching staff. The programme was chaired

by Watimongla Pongener.

Kohima, January 27 (nePS): The Supreme Court (SC) in a landmark judgment has directed the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&H) to cancel the work order issued to contractors, M/s MaytasGayatri (JV), for the construction of two laning roads in Nagaland, namely - (1) Mon-Tamlu-Merangkong, (2) Longleng-Changtongya, (3) Phek-Pfutsero and (4)

Chubayangla, outgoing principal of Fazl Ali College delivering speech during her farewell programme held on January 27.

Chakabama-Zunheboto.

The apex Court further directed the Ministry and the Nagaland State PWD (NH) to re-tender the Project by initiating a fresh process and to complete it within a period of three years and six months from the date of passing the “Judgement and Order, i.e. 11.01.2017.”

The Judgement, however, granted the M/s Maytas-Gayatri (JV) the

liberty to invoke the “Arbitration Clauses to claim their pending bills.”

In a statement issued here on Thursday, Temsu Soyah, Sr. Legal Officer, Works and Housing-NPWD, described the SC’s Judgement and Order as a “landmark” as it came in “favor of State of Nagaland for benefit of general public.”

“At one point of time the instant project was about to

be foreclosed, however, on the untiring initiative of all concerned, the Apex Court could be made to understand the genuine needs of the people and the hardships due to non-completion of the project,” he pointed out.

He also appealed all concerned to cooperate with the authorities while implementing the Court’s directions so as to complete the project in time.

ATMA Kiphire and Land Resources organises training Morung Express News Kiphire | January 27

Army Recruitment Rally from March 5 to 17

Kohima, January 27 (mexn): An Army Recruitment Rally will be held at Bhagat Stadium, Rangapahar, Dimapur from March 5 to 17 to enroll of male candidates for Soldier General Duty of Naga/Kuki, Hill Tribes and Indian Gorkha only into the Indian Army.

It is primarily for the youth of Nagaland and Manipur only, informed a press release issued by PRO (Defence) Col C Konwer. No candidate will be allowed except Naga/Kuki, Hill Tribes and Indian Gorkha during the Army Recruitment Rally at Dimapur, it stated.

For candidates from Nagaland and Manipur, vacancies are available only for Naga/Kuki, Hill Tribes and Indian Gorkha for Soldier General Duty category.

The screening of the candidates will be done as per admit card date depending on the total number of on line application. Effort will be made to club state wise on the basis of production of Admit Card generated after applying online at joinindianarmy.nic.in. The candidates are advised to report at rally site at 0400 A.M. strictly as per the dates given on admit card for the recruitment rally.

It is clarified that a candidate can register and apply only once during the rally and if an individual is found to have applied twice, one of his application will be cancelled. Candidates who have registered in the previous rally can login directly and check eligibility and apply fresh.

The online application is open

from January 25 to February 24. Candidates will get their admit card on their e-mail ID/joinindianarmy.nic. in on February 25. No candidate will be permitted to attend the rally without admit card.

For the tests on March 5 mostly all male candidates from Manipur will get their Admit Card. For March 6 candidates from Nagaland will get their Admit Card.

Written exam for all categories will be conducted at APS Shillong on April 30. Candidates are advised to check the rally poster for age categories, certificates required and other details displayed at each DC Offices, notice board of PRO etc. Help of Assam Rifle units can also be taken to ascertain the details.

The ATMA Kiphire along with Land Resources, Kiphire today organised training on post harvest management of cardamom and coffee cultivation at Agricultural Office Kiphire with DAO and PD ATMA Renbomo Ngullie exhorting the gathering.

Speaking at the occasion, Renbomo Ngullie asked the farmers not to just take up the crops but to see the suitability and the feasibility of the locality. He asked the farmers to lean sincerely so that they go back and teach those who cannot come. Expressing displeasure, the DAO also said that many training are

Participants with officials during the training organised by ATMA Kiphire and Land Resources, Kiphire held on January 27. (Morung Photo)

held but the end result is not fruitful and asked the farmers to be fruitful with the training.

Hukai Zhimomi, DPD

ATMA spoke on coffee and Setsiba BTT spoke on cardamom. Kekoseno Solo while welcoming the gathering expressed hope that

the training will boost the knowledge of the farmers.

Lipichem, AI, LRD Kiphire proposed the vote of thanks.

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Tripartite Talk on February 3 imphal, January 27 (nnn): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India has invited the United Naga Council (UNC) and the Manipur Government to hold a 'tripartite meeting' on the prevailing situation on February 3 in New Delhi. UNC General Secretary S Milan informed that an invitation letter signed by A Radha Rani, Deputy Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India addressed to the UNC was received this evening. According to the invitation letter, the 'tripartite meeting' has been fixed at 3 pm on February 3 to be held at the Conference Hall, North Block, New Delhi. However, the UNC is yet to take a decision on whether to participate or not in the tripartite meeting. "We will discuss it tomorrow on the invitation of the Government of India and take a decision," Milan said.

Manipur teens, in quest of American dream, end up at IGI airport nEW DElhi, January 27 (Tnn): Two boys from Manipur, aged 15 and 12, who wanted to live the American dream, ended up at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) wondering how to get to the US without any documents. The boys had filled their bag with around Rs 2 lakh in cash, which they had stolen from their grandmother's house, and come to the capital.

Senior CISF officers said that the duo was noticed by Air India staff members wandering around the ticketing counter on Wednesday. After some time, when the AI staff approached the boys, they sought help in going to America without any documents. "The boys were questioned and it was found that they had come to Delhi from Imphal without informing their parents.

The surveillance staff verified their credentials by calling up their parents. The officers found some clothes, books and around Rs 2 lakh cash from their bag," said a senior CISF officer. Their parents had lodged a missing complaint in Imphal a few days ago after they were found absent from home. A relative of the two boys, who is a senior police officer in Manipur, is in touch with the security personnel. Officers said that the exact reason why the boys left their house is yet to be ascertained. "The boys were taking a very daring step. They were saved from falling into the wrong hands. They have been handed over to the police, who will take further action in coordination with Manipur Police," the officer added.

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NSCN (IM) condemns Meghalaya's groups demand probe criminalizing innocent Nagas into Guv's 'innapropriate behaviour' Shillong, January 27 (ianS): On a day President Pranab Mukherjee accepted Meghalaya Governor V. Shanmuganathan's resignation, two civil society groups in the north-eastern state on Friday demanded an inquiry into Shanmuganathan's "inappropriate behaviour" and his prosecution.

The groups also demanded an inquiry against the former Governor's Secretary even as official sources said two Public Relations Officers and a Private Secretary of Shanmuganathan have been sacked.

In the meantime, the Meghalaya State Commission for Women has sent a letter to the National Commission for Women (NCW) about the allegations against the 68-yearold Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh veteran from Tamil Nadu who was the state Governor.

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who held the additional charge of Arunachal Pradesh also, tendered his resignation on Thursday to "ensure a free and impartial probe into the charges against me".

Civil society groups -the Civil Society Women's Organisation and Thma U Rangli, a progressive political outfit of Meghalaya -- demanded the inquiry against Shanmuganathan, and staged a protest in front of Raj Bhavan gate here on Thursday.

"The government should institute an inquiry. It should not be the case that he has resigned and the matter ends there.

Now that he's no longer the Governor, we don't need prior sanction from the President," TUR leader Angela Rangad said.

"A quick, speedy and decisive inquiry leading to prosecution should be made so that it sends out a strong message that nobody occupying any high

office in India can get away with abuse of power," she said.

"We have informed the NCW. We are seeking legal advice since the alleged victim is yet to file a complaint against him. The state government could set up a fact-finding committee to probe charges against Shanmuganathan," State Commission for Women chief Theilin Phanbuh told journalists.

Chief Secretary K.S. Kropha on Friday said the state government is consulting legal experts on how to go about regarding the alleged "inappropriate behaviour" of the now former Governor.

"The state police have sought legal opinion. The matter is being examined since there is no FIR by the woman who alleged sexual harassment," Kropha told IANS. On Wednesday, nearly 100 Raj Bhavan employees in Shillong sent a

signed five-page letter to the Prime Minister's Office and Rashtrapati Bhavan to demand the recall of the Governor for what they alleged was "turning Raj Bhavan into a Young Ladies Club". From the time Shanmuganathan took office on May 12, 2015, the employees alleged, they were going through "severe humiliation, mental stress and torture".

Meanwhile, the former Governor's Secretary H.M. Shangpliang told IANS that the Raj Bhavan Secretariat had terminated the service of Shanmuganathan's Public Relation Officers Chinmoyee Deka and Emdorimi Thangkhiew, Private Secretary Saurabh Pandey and his personal cook Bhanumati.

Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit, who has been given additional charge of Meghalaya, will be sworn in as the state Governor on Saturday.

Manipur finalises process to declare UNC unlawful imphal, January 27 (ianS): The Manipur government has given final touches to have the United Naga Council (UNC) declared an unlawful organisation as Congress spokespers on Khumkcham Joykishan said on Friday that the proposal would be forwarded to the central government.

"The UNC had imposed the indefinite economic blockade along the highways from November 1 protesting against the government plan to create two districts. During the protest, it had ambushed and killed two personnel and wounded several others," Joykishan said.

"Besides it had torched several trucks and pock marked others with bullets and had forfeited the right to remain as a civil society organisation," he added.

"The Manipur government move is in the larger interest of the people who

are floundering in this humanitarian crisis. In order to appease the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCNIM) the Centre has not intervened," he added.

The spokesperson further said: "The state unit BJP should urge the national leaders to do the needful in public interest. For 88 days people have been facing shortages of all sorts."

Attacking Assam's BJP minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who said that if Okram Ibobi Singh makes room, BJP could lift the blockade in two days, he said Sarma's announcement is unclear.

He wanted to know whether the BJP is planning a rollback of the creation of the seven districts once there is a President's rule interregnum. "The Congress ministry is ready to resign if it will benefit the people," Joykishan added.

He said, "As long as there

is a Congress government, Manipur's territory shall be intact. Even though all Congressmen are bloodied, the integrity shall be protected.

Sarma and other BJP leaders should come out with a clear cut statement since many things are incomprehensible on the basic stand of the BJP." Congress and the BJP have been trading barbs and trying to gain political mileage out of the blockade with an eye towards the upcoming elections. Manipur

accuses the Centre of not sending enough paramilitary forces with the result that the NH 2 that passes through Nagaland is still impassable.

Recently the Naga students in Nagaland had banned Manipur's vehicles in the state. The state government has been bringing about 300 trucks and oil tankers twice in a week. Taking undue advantage of the inadequate security cover, militants have been carrying out ambushes on the convoy.

Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): The NSCN (IM) has condemned the criminalization of innocent Nagas by the Manipur government.

Claiming that innocent Naga people and civil organizations are being wrongly implicated as NSCN members or sympathizers and put behind bars, the NSCN (IM) in a statement alleged that a “reign of terror” has been unleashed by the Manipur state government.

It cited the latest such case in which a Naga civilian was arrested and accused of being an active member of the NSCN monitoring movement of security forces along the NH-37.

The individual identified as Santhuanang Pamei, part

time sweeper at the UBI Bank, Tamenglong Bazaar Branch was arrested by the Imphal West Police Commandos on January 22 last.

Clarifying that Pamei is neither a member of the NSCN nor involved in antisocial activities, the NSCN maintained that the arrested individual is an innocent civilian working in a bank and who does not deserve to be “tortured inhumanly”.

Arguing that such acts only vitiate the peaceful atmosphere, the NSCN (IM) called for the immediate unconditional release of Pamei and also compensation for the physical and psychological suffering the victim underwent for no fault of his.

LOsT NOTICE

AFFIDAvIT

I, Lichonthung Jami, am applying for a duplicate copy of B.SC. III (Honours) admit card, as I have lost it.

School: Nagaland University Roll. No:- E0836207.

Registration No- 31047136(07-08).

Year of Examination-2010

Regd. No. 17

I, Shri. Maulak S/o Haigau of Dungki, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declared that: 1. That I am the deponent of this affidavit. 2. That the name Maulak and Maulak Haicuing is of same person.

3. I hereby declared that my correct name is MAULAK and shall be use for all official purposes in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

APPRECIATION

The New Beisumpui Village Council Would like to acknowledge and appreciate the following officers and Doctors for their generous and kind hearted in conducting animals check up by making third round follow up to both Buffalos and Cows. The village was relieved after saving hundreds of working buffalos was checked. The following teams visited with the initiative of EAC, Athibung, Lithrila Sangtam, on:- 14/01/2017: 1. Dr. Yavina Mekhro VAS. 2. DR. Doreen Peseyie VS, Peren. 3. Dr. Senowelo Krome DDO, Peren.

19/01/2017: 1. Dy. CVO, BL Achila VS Peren. 2. Dr. Doreen Peseyie 3. Dr. Yavino Mekhro VAS, Jalukiue. 4. Dr. Reebica VAS. 5. Dr. Suilube VAS. 6. Mr. Meren SVFA, Athibung 20/01/2017: Vitenary AH, Department of Peren along with Elisa Lab of Directorate Kohima; Nagaland, Dr. BL, Achila Dy. CVO Peren, Nagaland.

(Nteukut) Chairman New Beisumpui Village Peren: Nagaland

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

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Regd. No. 18 I, Smti. Lungchunthun D/o Lt. Kenuibo Newmai of Jalukie, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist.

Nagaland hereby declared that: 1. That I am the deponent of this affidavit. 2. That the name Lungchunthun and Athun K is of same person.

3. I hereby declared that my correct name is Lungchunthun and shall be use for all official purposes in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

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Date: 08/12/2016

NOTICE CALLING OBJECTION FOR THE ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE Shri/Smt. Ghukhuli Sema of Philimi village district Zunheboto has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate/Guardianship Certificate declaring that His/Her/Wife/Husband Late Ghotovi Sema has expired on 10-10-2016.

It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this certificate is received from anyone within a period of thirty (30) days w.e.f the date of publication in the press, the Certificate shall be issued, and no further complaint shall be entertained for issue of the same.

Tridibesh Roy IAS Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto

DIPHUPAR ‘B’ VILLAGE

Silver Jubile e Programme

Dated: 28th January 2017 Venue: - Local Ground Diphupar ‘B’ Village

Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur won the First position for school contingent during the Republic Day Parade, 2017

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 27th January, 2017

NOTIFICATION

Theme: - Unity And Harmony Chief Guest: - Shri Chotisuh Sazo Hon’ble Speaker, Nagaland State Legislative Assembly Dated : 28th January 2017 Time : 10:30 A.M.

Dedication of Jubilee Stone By Rev. Dr. Khehovi A. Shohe Director S.B.C. Unveiling of Jubilee Stone by Shri. Chotisuh Sazo, Hon’ble Speaker, Nagaland State Legislative Assembly

Time 11:00 A.M.

NO.NPSC/C/AK/2009:: This is to notify that as per the decision taken by the Committee constituted to examine the complaints filed by the candidates in regard to the Answer Keys of NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2016 the following corrections have been made to the answer keys published vide Notification of even no. Dated 24th October, 2016.

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ORDER OF PROGRAMME

COMPARES 1. B. Pauloi Phom 2. Tonika Awomi 1. Invocation

2. Opening Hymnal 3. Welcome Note

4. Special Song 5. Short Speech

6. Unveiling of Jubilee Souvenir 7. Presentation 8. Brief History of The Village 9. Cultural Programme 10. Speech 11. Vote of thanks

12. Benediction

: Rev.Thepupa Swuro, Principal Deshian Academy School : How Great Thou Art : Kahuto N . Chishi, Chairman, Village Council : Jubilee Choir : Shri. Kesonyu Yhome, (IAS) Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Chief Guest : : Shri. L.P. Therie Hd. GB. : : Chief Guest : Shri. O. Mangyang Jamir Convener, Planning Committee : Shri. Wojanthung Ngullie, Pastor Lotha Baptist Church, Diphupar ‘B’ Village.

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More observe National Voters Day in Nagaland Dimapur, January 27 (Dipr): Various districts and sub-divisions in Nagaland observed National Voters Day on January 25, which is the foundation day of the Election Commission of India (ECI), to promote participation in elections and increase voter enrollment, especially of youngsters in the 18 to 19 years age group.

CHANGTONGYA: Programme for celebration of National Voters Day was held at DBs Court Changtongya under the theme “Empowering Young and Future Voters”. The programme was chaired by Er Saponger, Supervisor 22 A/C who also delivered the welcome address.

Message of the CEC was read out by Chumlamo Humtsoe (NCS) SDO (C)

Changtongya. Felicitation of newly enrolled voters and voters pledge were the other highlights of the day.

MEDZIPHEMA: The seventh National Voter’s Day was celebrated for the first time at Medziphema. The programme was chaired by Manpai Phom SDO (C) and a short speech on ‘political rights as a citizen of country to exercise right to vote’ was delivered

by ADC Sara S. Jamir. EPIC and badge was also distributed to newly enroll young voters.

MON: Mon observed 7th National Voter’s Day on at the meeting hall, DC’s office Complex under the theme “Empowering Young and Future Voters”. DC & DEO, Mon W. Honje Konyak as the chief

guest gave away the prizes to the winners of the District Level Essay Competition; Campus Ambassador Dist. Level; District Level Best BLO; Best BLO for 43 & 46 A/C. He also felicitated the newly enrolled electors.

Relise Sangtam, EAC, Mon Sadar and Lemei Konyak, Miss Mon 2016 also spoke on the occasion while AEO, Mon Aketo Shohe spoke on the significance of the day.

Special number was presented by Loimei Konyak & Friends.

MANGKOLEMBA: The 7th National Voters Day 2017 for 29 Jangpetkong and 30 Alongtaki Assembly Constituencies was organized by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mangkolemba under the theme, “Empowering Youth & Future Electors.” ADC

Mangkolemba Imtiwapang was the chief guest.

The function was chaired

by Renbomo Ezung, SDO &AERO who read out the message of CEC while welcome speech was delivered by Nyempo Wallim, BM Tzurangkong & AERO.

land, who is the district icon, reminded the gathering to vote in true spirit for principled persons and create awareness and be an agent of change. She also gave away prizes to best Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and winners of essay competition. Assistant ZUNHEBOTO: The Election Officer 7th National Voters Day was celebrated at DC’s KIPHIRE: The 7th Conference Hall, Zun- National Voters Day was heboto under the theme celebrated at DC confer“Empowering Young and ence hall Kiphire under Future Voters”. SDO (C), the theme “Proud to be a Zunheboto, Holohon Yep- voters; ready to vote” with thomi spoke on the need Sedevikho Khro DC & DEO of initiating younger gen- Kiphire, as the chief guest. eration to develop sense Keynote address was of responsibility to vote given by Dr. Tinojongshi without being influenced Chang, ADC & ERO Kipby any unfair inducement. hire and short speech was Holohon also led in ad- delivered by Litila L. Miss ministering the Voter’s USSC 2011. The prizes of pledge. Kaheli Chophy, the winners of essay writRunners Up, Miss Naga- ing competition, both col-

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lege and high school level and best BLO’s of 29th A/C Seyochung and Sitimi, 60 A/C Pungro-Kiphire, and new EPICS were also given away by the DC.

mokokchung, January 27 (mexn): District review meeting of Programme Officers, SMOs, MOs, DPMU and BPMU staffs of Mokokchung District was held on January 27 at IDSP Hall IMDH Mokokchung. Dr. SS Akaba Longchar CMO, Mokokchung in his welcome speech thanked all representatives for their presence in the meeting inspite of their busy schedules. He directed the SMOs and MOs to review the monthly report before submitting and maintain the records and register properly and also requested to visit their respective Health Units within their jurisdiction. He informed the nurses and staffs not to keep proxy.

The Block programme managers and ASHA coordinators play an important role in the health sector and therefore, the CMO directed them to perform their duties and to update all their activities properly. Dr. Kibangkumba DY CMO in his short speech requested the different Health Units to keep properly displayed the IEC materials and the staffs to be in their place of posting. Dr. Temsuyanger DPO (RCH & UIP) explained in detail about the Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation (IPPI), Mission Indradhanush (MI) and National De-worming Day (NDD) and requested the health workers to co-ordinate in their assigned duties.

PFUTSERO: Pfutsero observed National Voter’s Day at the ADC’s Office chamber where the NVD pledge was read out by AERO and ADC, Sangmai C Imlong in the presence of BLOs, Voters and Office Staff. Commendation certificate in recognition of distinguished service rendered as Booth Level officer towards the successful conduct of special summary Revision of Electoral Roll was awarded to Daniel Kevie of Polling Station th No-10 F wing Pfutsero under 16th Pfutsero Assembly Constituency Phek tuensang, January 27 (mexn): The Khiamniungan Students’ Union (KSU) held its 54th general session District. at Kingjung village from January 21 to 23 under the theme ‘Nurturing Oneness’. The session was graced by Minister CL John, RD & REPA as chief guest, L Khumo, Parliamentary Secretary VG, Land Revenue and WRD as guest of honour and S Chonta Member NPSC as valedictory guest.

The session mainly focused on Literary activities with the theme “The Learning Edge” which includes solo competition where Shongmo.B emerged as the winner and Hongkinwas awarded the speller in the spell bee competition, C. Niamkoi Meya as first in essay competition, Khonglai as first in painting competition miss. Nokmei was adjudged first in elocution, and the session was graced by Hanenmu Semy, BDO Thonoknyu as special guest.

TheKSUfelicitatedachievers/toppersinvariousfieldand Chiuchang Lam, first Runner up of Miss Nagaland 2016 and Eastern Queen 2016 Pageant first Runner up was also felicitated by the office. Miss KSU 2017 beauty pageant was conducted with the theme ‘legacy of beauty with dreams’ where Thsarola Chillio graced the event as special guest. Niakthing LamwascrownedasMissKSU2017andHoamniuasThefirst Runner Up and Mokthoi as the second runner up.

The newly elected office bearers for the tenure 201718 are: President- P. Hatho, Vice president- H. Muchou, General Secretary- Puthai T, Asst. general Secretary- Talamong, women co-ordinator- Martha Tsumon, Finance minister for r&b y.

Secretary- Shing, Social Secretary- Chentei, Games and vikheho swu addresses the inauguration of the sports Secretary- Sheying, Literary Secretary- Chongti, the students who will be opening of the provision- Info.And Publicity Secretary- Shingnya. coming to appear the exam al hslC examination from their neighbouring center at pughoboto on January 26. (DIPR Photo) villages.

Aphuyemi Hobo, President Inavi Swu in his short speech expressed gratitude to the SDPDB, NBSE and the Education Department for meeting the reTUENSANG quirements of Pughoboto.

SAKK President and PATC KHOLARU Vice Chairman also spoke on the occasion.

Rs. 1200 per tin The programme was Dimapur chaired by Head Mistress GHS, Pughoboto Yhunyule Ph.no : Kent. Vote of thanks was delivered by SDEO Pugho8974595759 boto, Watisangla.

KSU 54 general session concludes

Maruti hikes prices by up to Provisional HSLC Exam center at Pughoboto inaugurated Rs 8,014 with immediate effect Zunheboto, January 27 (Dipr): Minister

new Delhi, January 27 (pti): Country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Friday hiked prices of its entire product range by up to Rs 8,014 with immediate effect. The price hike is in the range of Rs 1,500 to Rs 8,014 across models, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a statement. “The hike in car prices is because of increase in commodity, transportation and administrative costs,” it added. The company sells a range of models starting from hatchback Alto 800 to premium crossover S-Cross, priced between Rs 2.45 lakh and Rs 12.03 lakh.

In August 2016, MSI had hiked the prices of its compact SUV Vitara Brezza by Rs 20,000 and that of premium hatchback Baleno by Rs 10,000. On a select range of models, the price hike was between Rs 1,500 and Rs 5,000. In 2016, various car makers like Hyundai Motor India, Mahindra & Mahindra, Nissan, Toyota, Renault, MercedesBenz India and Tata Motors had announced hikes in prices of their vehicles from January citing rise in input costs and adverse foreign exchange impact.

BIRTHDAY GREETING Cutiepie Pepele Birthday is a time to celebrate God’s gift of life.

When we think of birthday prayers, we remind each other that everything comes from God. Birthday is an opportunity to re-dedicate ourselves to God and also acknowledge His blessings.

Have a blessed day.

Happy Birthday Lots of love Mom, Dad ,Ayebu & Ayeni

for R&B Y. Vikheho Swu inaugurated the opening of the provisional HSLC Examination center at Pughoboto on January 26 in the presence of ADC Pughoboto & School Managing Chairman GHS Pughoboto, Avelü Ruho.

Speaking on the occasion, Vikheho said that opening of Exam centre is to save time and economy and to build the image of Pughoboto which depends on the teachers, students and parents to bring achievements.

The Minister acknowledged the ADC and officers concerned who had restlessly given efforts to revive the school. He said that it is time the Pughoboto people give up the mentality of taking and expecting things from others and instead should contribute their services to the society.

Informing the people developments in the areas should be accompanied by a sense of responsibility, he encouraged the first batch of students to study hard with sincerity and build the image of School. The Minister also earmarked certain amount as incentive to

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ADC Pughoboto Avelü Ruho in her welcomed remarked that human resource is very important for development which also comes through education. She thanked the Minister R&B for his concern towards the students community in all aspects. She said that the achievement was made with the joined efforts of all concerned.

She also lauded the NBSE for taking necessary action. She further appealed to the people of Pughoboto to accommodate rooms to

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NAGALAND

urban local bodies' elections imbroglio

Phek Town Council candidates forfeit candidature

ENPO appeals to avoid conflict and confrontation

JACWR condemns forced withdrawals of women candidates

phEk, January 27 (mExn): Eight candidates for the Phek Town Council elections have decided to forfeit their candidature with effect from January 26. This was done in response to the appeal made by leaders of Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) with whom the candidates had a meeting on January 26 at Chakhesang Baptist Church Dimapur. The candidates are:

TuEnsang, January 27 (mExn): Against the backdrop of the debate on ULB elections vis-à-vis Article 371(A), the Eastern Nagaland Peoples' Organisation (ENPO) has stated that the said Article “is the functional foundation and a conditional political instrument of the state of Nagaland which is an outstanding and an extraordinary political monument in the constitution of the country.”

A press release from Media Cell, ENPO added, “It is a hallmark of Indian democracy and secularism which our founding fore-fathers laid as a historical and pre-requisite foundation for the generation of today before the birth of the state of Nagaland, and where, some of our founding fathers of this political instrument have made extreme sacrifices, for which we are within the comforts of the state of Nagaland through the spirit of Article 371(A).”

Meanwhile, the ENPO once again notified to all intending candidates to gracefully retire in the interest of peace and tranquility within ENPO jurisdiction and further appealed to the State government for an “indefinite postponement” of ULB elections till “a congenial environment is arrived at through mutual understanding and settlement on the issue in public inter-

kohima, January 27 (mExn): The Joint Action Committee on Women Reservation (JACWR) on January 26 deliberated on the reports of threats, coercion, forced withdrawals of women candidates from different towns as candidates for ULB polls and condemned such “undemocratic” actions. In its marathon meeting held with all its tribe constituent units and apex women organisations at Hotel Japfü here, the house also discussed at length the various appeals put forward to the JACWR and resolved

Nesücho Keyho (Ward No. 2, Zion Colony), Salie Khesoh (Ward No. 8, Jericho-1 Colony), Vezhopra Thingo (Ward No. 5, Bethel Colony), Avi Movi (Ward No. 7.

Bethany-II Colony), Viketou Nienu (Ward No. 10, Hebron-I Colony), Veduhülü Nakro (Ward No. 3, Mission Compound), Wetsole Rhakho (Ward No. 1, Bible Hill Colony), Neiwekhwe-ü Khüsoh (Ward No. 9, Jericho-II Colony).

BJP candidates of EDTC wait for other party candidates to forfeit first Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): In line with the resolution taken by the BJP candidates for DMC polls, the three BJP candidates for East Dimapur Town Council (EDTC) have also resolved to respect the views and calls of their respective tribal bodies to withdraw/forfeit

their candidatures. “However, we will forfeit our candidatures only if the other political party candidates first forfeit their candidatures,” stated the three BJP candidates Aoenla Ao (Ward No. 9), Columbus Lotha (Ward No. 5), and Phushito Sumi (Ward No. 10).

CNTC issues directives Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): The Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has informed all GBs/Chairmen and councils of different colonies and wards to immediately stop candidates of any political party from canvassing or any other electioneering activities in their respective jurisdiction. In a directive issued by its Media Cell, CNTC further asked all candidates of ULB polls to stop harboring youths from outside their localities for electioneering purposes, displaying their party flags or ferrying of youths in vehicles around the towns and localities.

The Council also directed all the

public to co-operate and present physically for volunteering during the enforcement of the statewide bandh called by the JCC. It maintained that the State government under TR Zeliang and NPF President Shurhozelie together with their legislators and JACWR has “brought to a point which has now almost become a war-like situation across the state.”

The CNTC further accused the JACWR of being “hand in glove for this entire imbroglio with some women taking the whole name of the Naga women and mothers... when mothers and women need to play a vital role of mediators at this crucial juncture.”

‘Stand united against any act detrimental to the interest of Nagas’

kohima, January 27 (mExn): The Angami Public Organisation (APO) has lamented that the Government of Nagaland has turned deaf ears to the appeals of the APO and other tribal hohos to have further consultations with the people and amend the Nagaland Municipal Act before holding elections to the Urban Local Bodies. Therefore, APO has appealed to the Naga people to “stand united

against any act detrimental to the interest of the Nagas that is being imposed on its citizens by the Government of Nagaland.” A press release from Vilhusa Seleyi, President and Keviselie Lhousa, General Secretary of APO further reiterated that the only way to bring about peace and understanding is to give time and space for dialogue and discussion to redress the grievances of the people.

est and democracy.”

It also appealed to the State government, the candidates and public at large to show restraint and avoid conflict and confrontation, as the situation appears to be tense and could possibly lead to violence and conflict.

USLP endorses support to ENPO The United Sangtam Likhum Pümji (USLP) has endorsed its support to the January 14 resolution of ENPO and resolved to oppose the ULBs elections within Sangtam jurisdiction. The decision was made during the emergency meeting of USLP Executive Committee on January 24 in Kiphire. According to a release from Vikheto Sangtam, Chairman and Lichumse, Secretary of USLP, the meeting further resolved that ENPO is expected to stand firm and oppose as resolved. “However, for any reason, if the election is allowed to be conducted within the ENPO jurisdiction, and out of this if any issue/s arises within the Tribal units the ENPO shall bear the sole responsible for the same,” it added. ENPO in a meeting with its six federating units on January 14 decided to oppose the ULBs elections within its jurisdiction and directed its units to abstain from participating in the polls.

NPF Tseminyu division refutes Rengma Hoho’s statement TsEminyu, January 27 (mExn): The NPF Tseminyu division has refuted the Rengma Hoho president’s statement published on January 24 about Rengma Hoho boycotting civic polls. A release from Ahino Tep, President, NPF Tseminyu division said the meeting the Rengma Hoho president referred to in the statement was called without any official circular letter nor published in local dailies for information of Executive Members of Rengma Hoho or any frontal oraganisations. “The so-called Consultative Meeting was convened through mobiles to some people within a short time of less than 12 hours before the meeting,” the division alleged. “As such majority of Executive Members (of Rengma Hoho) were absent and even those who were present majority of range representatives were in favour of Tseminyu Town ULB Election as per the Government Notification.”

The release further mentioned that Rengma Hoho along with all frontal organizations held a consultative meeting on January 14, 2017 at Rengma Hoho office, Tseminyu Town, in which majority of Executive Members and

range representatives were present and resolutions were passed. One of them was that Rengma people will go for the Municipal/Town Council Election if other Naga tribes take part in the election. “In order to go along with NBCC and CRBC slogan for clean election, the house mutually agreed to maintain the modalities for strict compliance of (a) to have common platform speech for all intending candidates, (b) to strictly maintain one man one vote, (c) to widely announced in all Churches in Rengma area and (d) to have similar for free election,” it added.

In light of the January 14 consultative meeting resolutions, the NPF Tseminyu declared that the statement of Rengma Hoho president “is irresponsible and not acceptable as when such major decision which will affect all Rengma people for generations to come cannot be taken in such a hurry with motives.”

Meanwhile, it informed all intending NPF candidates and supporters that the party will contest the ULB elections for Tseminyu Town Council.

NPF hopes good sense will prevail to enable harmonious conduct of ULB polls kohima, January 27 (mExn): Naga People’s Front (NPF) has stated that the party had selected its candidates to contest the municipal and town council elections with positive intention for multidimensional uplift of the state and citizens. “Accordingly, the party’s vibrant candidates, having filed their nominations on oath, are waiting for the appointed day for the elections,” said a press release from Media & Press Bureau, NPF. Given the constitutional opportunity to contest and get elected, the release said, “these promising NPF candidates are all set to work full swing, affecting developmental progress in their respective areas and deliver the goods in a befitting manner, upholding the party’s principles and ideology.”

“NPF respects the sentiments of the people. NPF is also the only political front that has taken upon the task of strengthening the pillars of democracy in our society. It is important to realize that inordinate amount of time and energy has been squandered ever since the tenure of the first Municipal and Town Council elections held in 2004,” it added.

Meanwhile, it expressed surprise that certain individuals or section of political party already in the ULB polls

Lecture on ‘Women Empowerment’ kohima, January 27 (mExn): A lecture on ‘Women Empowerment’ was conducted by 3(NH) Bn Assam Rifles at Jotsoma Govt High School on January 24 with Capt Gurjeet Singh Malhi as the speaker. The lecture covered issues to improve the social, economic, political and legal status of women, equality for women and ways to develop sense of worthiness. An AR press release informed that the speaker said women were educated upon the rapid pace of economic development and increasing demand for educated female work force in all fields. Capt Gurjeet further noted that women have been playing an important role in economic field as entrepreneurs, managers and investors and proven to be the best multitask force.

KT Thomas

Dimapur , January 27 (mExn): Director of Tourism, Nagaland, KT Thomas passed away on January 27 at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. Thomas, who entered the Department of Tourism as Tourist Officer in the year 1985, was promoted as Director on December 1, 2016.

Nagaland, TR Zeliang, and KPC have offered condolences to the bereaved family.

Neiphiu Rio: The Member of Parliament remembered Thomas as a sincere officer who was always committed towards his duties and responsibilities. Rio said the deceased was one of the hardworking officers who contributed to the success of the department and was a key figure who took the State's tourism plan forward. “In all these years, I have observed that he was always willing to walk the extra mile in the service of the government and he never lacked energy nor enthusiasm in his given responsibilities. He was a disciplined officer, mild mannered and a thorough gentleman. He also had commendable leadership qualities, was a respected writer and an excellent photographer,” he added.

TR Zeliang: The Chief Minister said the late Director was an intellectual colossus with vast knowledge on myriads of topics that many considered him a Walking Encyclopae-

fray as full fledged party candidates are harping that they would only forfeit their candidatures only after other political parties including NPF do first. “This is malicious, lacks discipline and an outright exposure of their very attitude that, their candidatures are bereft of vision and without an iota of agenda to benefit the masses through their participation,” NPF stated.

The party further hoped that good sense will prevail among all stakeholders to arrive at an amicable settlement so as to enable harmonious conduct of the slated ULB polls.

NPF Mon to go ahead with ULB polls NPF Mon division today reaffirmed to go ahead with the ULB polls scheduled for February 1. A press release from L. Yanlong Konyak, President and Wango Konyak, General Secretary (Admn) of NPF Mon division informed that no NPF candidate who had filed nomination papers to contest the elections has withdrawn so far under Mon division.

The division noted that it is committed to the DAN government’s decision and lauded the intending candidates. It also sought public cooperation and contribution towards peaceful conduct of the elections for the benefit of the masses.

Sumi village GBs informed

Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): All Sumi village GBs under Western Sumi jurisdiction have been urged to recall their youths staying at residences of ULB elections’ candidates or attached with candidates. “If any untoward incident happens owing to non-adherence of recalling the youths, then appropriate action would be initiated action the youths and their respective villages,” stated a press release from Akihito Sumi, President, Western Sumi Youth

Diphupar ‘B’ Village Nagaland Tourism Director passes away Member of Parliament (Lok Sab- dia. “I have personally witnessed in Council 25th anniversary ha), Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister of the last few years during the Hornbill

Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): Diphupar ‘B’ Village Council will celebrate its silver jubilee on January 28 at the village Local Ground with the theme ‘Unity and harmony’. Chotisuh Sazo, Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly will be the chief guest. The council has invited all the former village council members, VDB members, NWWS members, NYOD ‘B’ members, neighbouring villagers and all the village members to attend the celebration.

that if the State Government is able to give a written assurance for conduct of municipal polls as per the Interim order, the Special Leave Petition would be withdrawn in the interest of peace in the society before the elections, informed a press release from Abeiu Meru, Convenor and Dr. Rosemary Dzuvichu, Co-Convenor of JACWR. Meanwhile, the large delegation of women leaders called on the Chief Minister at his residential office and submitted a memorandum after the meeting, the release added.

Festivals that he was a very reliable person and he ensured that the tasks entrusted to him were completed in an outstanding manner,” Zeliang acknowledged. “He was indeed, a Government servant worth emulating by others.” The CM fondly remembered that in the last few years, Thomas had become passionate in farming of exotic fruits and “I was a grateful recipient of his first harvest last year when he gifted my family a basket of dragon fruit whose medicinal values he extolled so enthusiastically.”

KPC: The Kohima Press Club (KPC) stated Thomas had a vast knowledge in different fields, including media, and used to contribute to various international and local magazines/journals. He was a KPC member during the initial years of the club's formation from 2005-07 and was also closely associated with the club, KPC said. “In his demise, the state of Nagaland has lost a dynamic and dedicated officer who was always ready to work for the society and an established writer.”

Front. Meanwhile, all nine areas under Western Sumi jurisdiction were asked to mobilize and depute manpower of 1500 each for the JCC bandh. All Sumi public in Western Sumi area were also requested to support and cooperate with the JCC bandh. The release was issued as resolved during a joint meeting of Western Sumi Hoho, Western Sumi Kukami Hoho, Western Sumi Youth Front and Western Sumi Sports Association on January 26, 2017.

Polio immunization in Dimapur

Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): The first round of Intensive Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) will be held on January 29 in Dimapur district. The Chief Medical Officer of Dimapur has requested all parents to bring their children aged 0-5 years to the nearest polio booth in their locality for Oral Polio Vaccine (bOPV) from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm. An appeal was also made to all concerned citizens to mobilize children to avail the polio drops.

Fire burns down scrap godown, thatch houses

Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): A fire burnt down a scrap godown and six thatch houses located around it on January 27 in Dimapur. The fire started from a kitchen at the scrap godown situated at 2 ½ Mile (NH 29) around 1:00 pm, informed a Dimapur Fire Department personnel. It took one and half hour to douse the fire with the help of three fire tenders. No casualty was reported in the incident and the property loss was ascertained to be not much.

AR apprehend NSCN (IM) cadre

Dimapur, January 27 (mExn): 41 Assam Rifles apprehended two persons along with one .22 mm pistol and 339 bottles of IMFL at Ward No 9, Medziphema Town. The apprehended individuals have been identified as Vizoto Angami (40) and Supi Chaya Angami (35), informed a press release from Assam Rifles. Vizoto Angami, according to the release, is an NSCN (IM) cadre.

The apprehended individuals along with the recovered arms and liquor were handed over to Medziphema Police Station, Dimapur for further investigation.

Public SPace

NPF Legal Cell surprised by NBA statement

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he NPF Legal Cell is surprised to see the statement issued by Nagaland Bar Association (NBA) on the issue relating to Election of Urban Local Bodies vis-a-vis Nagaland Municipal Act 2001. The Legal Cell also wonders as to what has suddenly prompted the NBA to come up with such a statement, when the process for Municipal and Town Council election is almost on the verge of completion (which is only five days left now). As far as professional ethics of legal profession is concern, there is an ample scope for the Legal professionals to approach the hon’ble Court on any matter that concerns legal interpretation. The act of the NBA, appears to be politically motivated if we analyse the timing of their statement and views rendered thereof. If we go through

their statement carefully there is full of contradictions, and an attempt to confuse the common people. If the NBA has any opinion of their own in the implementation of Nagaland Municipal Act 2001, they should have approach the hon’ble Court rather than ventilating their anguish opinion in the local paper. The NPF Legal Cell maintains that a statement of the NBA has totally violated the professional ethics of the legal profession.

If we look at the opinion of the NBA from another perspective, they seem to be propounding a theory that Nagas should go back to village life, instead of settling in towns and cities. It also Means to say that Nagas should only remain primitive way of life rather than adopting modern ways of life and governance. When few citizens of Nagaland are already

confused because of spreading false propagandas on the present ULB election issue by some political desperados who are up in arms against the present government, a respectable platform like NBA is expected to contribute positively in making the common people understand about the significance of having the Municipal and Town Council election. However, instead of playing positive role, they seem to be fishing in trouble water, in order to promote the interests of some few politicians. The NPF Legal Cell reiterates that the decision of the present government to conduct the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) election is well within the scope and ambit of Article 371A of the Indian Constitution.

Achumbemo Kikon Convenor Legal Cell. NPF

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his reply of the Nagaland Bar Association (NBA) is directed to the rejoinder issued by the Municipal Affairs Department, Nagaland, and the Legal Cell, Naga People’s Front, (NPF) published in some of the local dailies regarding the views given by the Nagaland Bar Association in respect of Municipal Laws in the context of the provisions of the Constitution of India.

As regards the rejoinder issued by Menukhol John, Principal Secretary, Municipal Affairs Department, he has rightly quoted the provisions of Article 244 of the Constitution wherein Clause (1) provides that the Fifth Schedule shall apply to the administration and control of the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State other than the States of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Hence, we herein reiterate that the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order,

NBA responds to rejoinder

1950, (C.O.22), the Scheduled Part II – Assam, Item 12 – Any Naga tribe, followed by the Constitution (Nagaland) Scheduled Tribes Order, 1970 (C.O.88) the Schedule is under enforcement in the State of Nagaland by virtue of the words “Scheduled Tribes in any State” as provided under Article 244 (1) which is rightly cited in the rejoinder issued by the Municipal Affairs Department. However, the Government Authorities are contradicting themselves despite quoting the relevant provisions of the Constitution in their rejoinder. We ought also to make it clear that the Constitutional requirement under Fifth Schedule of the Constitution to notify is only in respect of Scheduled Areas and not Scheduled Tribes as because Scheduled Tribes are notified by the Scheduled Tribes Orders. Hence, the question of requirement of the Naga Scheduled Tribes to be notified under

the Scheduled Areas does not arise. So also, the Constitutional requirements of reservation of seats in Municipalities for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Women arises only where the State is dominated by General Category of people, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.

However, Nagaland being purely a tribal state, the question of applying Chapter IX A of the Constitution does not arise. As such, the authorities of the Government are fooling themselves and intellectual sections of the society shall not fall prey to this.

As regards the statement issued by the Legal Cell, NPF, as a collective body of the learned profession, the members of the NBA either singly or collectively are guided by the clear conscience in law that there is no question of challenging any policy matter of the Government before any legal forum. Needless to teach that poli-

cy matters of the Government cannot be challenged before a judicial forum. Also as appeared in some of the local English dailies, the NBA never convened any press conference or issued any press release with regard to Municipal matters.

However it was the members of the Press who personally approached the NBA office soliciting the opinion of the Bar on the current municipal issues. In this regard, we would like to make it clear that under the law of ethics or under any statutory enactments, there is no prohibition to talk to the media whenever called upon and our views solicited in matters of public interest. Hence, the Legal Cell, NPF, being manned by learned people under a political party is expected to know the law unlike private individuals.

Tali Ao President Nagaland Bar Association V. Hukavi Zhimomi Secretary Nagaland Bar Association

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Big Brother is still watching As a runaway bestseller in the Age of Trump, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to speak powerfully to our fears of a real-life Big Brother undermining personal liberties

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Michael Sheldon

ike Marilyn and Elvis, George Orwell has had a long and profitable afterlife.

Though he died in 1950 at the young age of 46, his last and best book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is one of the most influential works of the last 100 years. With more than 35 million copies sold since publication in 1949, the novel is now enjoying a sudden resurgence in popularity. As a runaway bestseller in the Age of Trump, it continues to speak powerfully to our fears of a real-life Big Brother undermining personal liberties.

Whether these fears grow or fade in the coming years, Nineteen Eighty-Fourwill always be here to show us how freedom is jeopardized by deception, evasion, hate, groupthink, and the worship of power. The book is a blueprint for the exercise of political control, and will never cease to be relevant as long as humans covet power for its own sake.

Beautiful in its simplicity is the message conveyed in the novel, “The object of power is power.”

As Orwell suggests, the road to tyranny often begins with a misplaced trust in a managerial elite promising simple solutions to hard problems. Big Brother’s ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty pretend to serve the greater good, but are merely bureaucratic shams rife with incompetence and infighting. With our own fondness for think tanks and government bodies bearing Orwellian names and dubious claims of competence, we are always in danger of waking up to find a Ministry of Truth feeding us “alternative facts.”

The great debates over the book used to be focused on the failings of Communism or Fascism, but this

was always misleading because Orwell hated any system that inhibited free thought. His ideal was always a world liberated from “all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls,” as he put it. He fiercely criticized lockstep political thinking on both the left and the right, and he insisted on challenging even the most cherished wisdom. “If liberty means anything at all,” he said, “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

Big Brother’s Thought Police are so insidious because they work to suppress ideas before any words are spoken. Keeping track of what people say and do is simply preparation for the day when they will be so self-conscious that they will banish “thoughtcrime” before it begins.

This process is Big Brother’s ulti-

mate safeguard. “Only the Thought Police mattered,” Nineteen EightyFour tells us. The idea is to establish a constant culture of intimidation that will force people to censor themselves.

Big Brother deals with dissent not only by crushing dissidents but by eliminating all traces of their existence, declaring them “unpersons.” The paper trail of a life is carefully assembled in order to destroy it or to eliminate traces of it in other documents, sending the evidence down a “memory hole.” Technology has allowed us to accelerate this trend to the point where we are now quick to doubt any photograph or narrative that challenges our views, scanning it for telltale traces of alteration. More alarming is the fact that as paper is being replaced by digital data, the process of alteration be-

comes much simpler for any power that controls the data.

It isn’t merely the latest political fears that have given rise to the current wave of Orwell-mania. There is something more fundamental at work – a growing fear that we have lost control over the most important details of our lives, and that real independence is no longer possible.

We have already surrendered any meaningful right to privacy. Google, Facebook and Amazon know more about us than some of our best friends do, and we are just one breach of a database away from discovering that our private information collected by “trusted” providers has landed in someone else’s hands.

More subtle are the pressures exerted by our growing dependence on social networks that exist in a virtual space where people often feel

radically this change has altered our lives. If we pick up an old-fashioned telephone connected to a land line at work, and learn that our boss is listening to every conversation, we’re outraged. But when we go online at work, we rarely question the employer’s absolute right to monitor every keystroke.

Though Nineteen Eighty-Four is said to be used in 60,000 classrooms around the world every year, it is a far more subversive book than many high school students or their teachers may realize. And one thing it’s meant to subvert is the classroom itself, where rules and authority matter more than genuine learning. As Orwell saw it, the first experience that many people have with a Big Brother figure is in school, and that experience often conditions us to accept rules over which we have no say.

Big Brother’s henchmen try to break dissidents by forcing them to relearn the most basic schoolroom equation and accept the lie that 2+2=5.

The book’s dire warning, “Big Brother is watching you,” is the most prophetic statement made in any novel of the last century.

Though Orwell won fame so late in his career that he didn’t appear in the BritishWho’s Who until the last year of his life, his genius has proven to be one of the great enduring gifts of British culture.

overwhelmed by the constant demands on their time and attention.

Though seemingly benign in concept, Facebook creates Orwellian traps for its users with its accumulation of digital trails that can destroy relationships and undermine careers. Portrayed only as a face in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother seems a ready-made mascot for a network that is easy to join but hard to leave, and that is, in effect, a vast Michael Shelden is collection of personal dossiers. the author of Orwell: the Our lives have been transformed by the shift from industrial-age ma- Authorized Biography, a finalist chinery to electronic devices that for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include Mark Twain: make centralized control much easMan In White and Melville in ier. Alone among his generation, Orwell saw that this massive shift was Love: The Secret Life of Herman coming, especially in his invention of Melville and the Muse of MobyDick, which was published the all-seeing telescreen that moniin 2016. He is a professor at tors life in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Indiana State University.

We have yet to understand how

You May Not Like Technology! But It Likes You How about bringing health, Science and the digital world have overhauled our world, but the stakes just got higher: Now technology wants to remake you, using everything from the internet to stem cells Scott Reardon

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The Daily Beast

n Greek mythology, Prometheus taught man how to farm. But when he gave man fire, the gods felt he had gone too far. And so as punishment, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where every day an eagle would come and eat his liver, which would regrow because he was immortal.

Prometheus’s story is about mankind’s dominion over its world and how much power is too much.

But counterintuitively it is Zeus, not Prometheus, who many artists and writers in the last thousand years have sided with. The story is relevant today because humanity is at a turning point, and two opposing forces are locked in a war that is just beginning to come into being. On one side are our innovations and the power that comes with them, and on the other side is the fact that when it comes to us ourselves, there seems to be no innovation.

For tens of thousands of years, technology has been directed outward—on the world at large. Now, for the first time in human history, technology has reached a point where it can be directed inward— back on its creators. Technology has found something new it would like to change: Us. In 2010, researchers at the University of Colorado performed what they thought would be an unremarkable experiment on lab mice.

They injured the mice’s limbs and injected them with stem cells to heal the damage. Then something strange happened. The muscles in those little limbs nearly doubled in size and strength. Not only that, the muscles stayed that way for the life of each mouse, defying even the aging process itself. Essentially the researchers had accidentally created a race of “super-mice.”

Another experiment in 2001 involved injecting human stem cells, of all things, into the brains of aging mice. Soon after, the mice began to perform better on the Morris water maze test. In other words, the stem cells had made them smarter.

When people think of stem cells, they usually think of a potential cure for diseases like Parkinson’s.

But there is another, potentially far darker, use for stem cells, and that is on people who are perfectly healthy.

It is this application, fundamentally changing the human body, that gave me the idea to write my novel, The Prometheus Man. We’ve all heard stories about a

mother who’s able to lift a car off her child as her body mainlines adrenalin. Imagine using stem cells to triple the size of a person’s adrenal gland. You’d produce something on par with one of those people who are so zombified on PCP that they get shot three times and still manage to beat up six cops. The military uses for such a technology, the parts of the human body that could be “improved,” pass through your mind like something from a sideshow in a bad dream.

And we haven’t even gotten to the most lethal part of the human anatomy: the brain. There’s a fixed amount of space in our skulls. Theoretically by growing the parts of the brain you want enhanced, like the part that controls reflexes and coordination, you could also shrink the parts of the brain you want diminished, like, say, the part that contributes to a person’s remorse.

Bear in mind things need not actually play out this way in the real world. As I attempted to capture in my book, it is often the attempt itself that is the true source of horror.

The 20th century saw the innovation of weapons of mass destruction. It also saw innovations in ideology that cheered the destruction of 200 million people, roughly 8 percent of the world’s population, in wars and oppression. But the technologies in their infancy today take things in the opposite direction. By augmenting our bodies, they increase our ability to commit more intimate—and thus more covert—violence. They take us back to our roots. And they do it at a time when wars aren’t fought by equals on a battlefield. They’re often quick attacks—over before most people know about them—where the goal is to inflict maximum despair not on the target but on the people

viewing at home.

But it doesn’t end there. Technology can weaponize the human body, but with the internet, governments and other actors have the ability to go after the mind.

The internet is the greatest source of data on the human spirit in history, and it’s about to go even deeper with virtual-reality. People’s hopes and dreams, their fears, their hatreds, it’s all right there. And over the last decade, we have witnessed the rise of something perfectly designed to make use of it: algorithms. Algorithms regularly outperform human analysts on Wall Street. They also make more accurate diagnoses of mental illness than psychiatrists. The algorithms are so much more effective than the doctors that the doctors underperform even when they’re given the results of the algorithm.

Algorithms are getting so good at predicting human behavior that they have the power to identify not just undesirable urges and interests but the activities that predict those undesirable urges and interests. Serial killers, terrorists, dissidents—it’s highly likely that their online habits cohere around some common patterns of behavior. Theoretically we could understand the direction of their lives better than they understand it themselves. And once you understand something enough to predict what it will do, you can control it.

Yet intervention isn’t the real goal. The real goal is to go much further. It is to alter something fundamental to who we are: our experience of reality.

Research is uncovering patterns in our most primal needs that can be exploited. If that sounds paranoid, consider Robert

Cialdini, PhD. Dr. Cialdini wrote a bestseller, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, about the ways others play on our programming to create impressions that aren’t true and compel behavior that isn’t in our interests. The stated goal of his book was to free us from this manipulation, but this ideal didn’t stop Dr. Cialdini from becoming an adviser to the Obama campaign. Obama’ objective merits were evidently insufficient on their own. The good doctor felt the candidate’s presidency was so thoroughly in your best interests that he had no qualms about using the dark arts to place his thumb on the scales of your mind.

There’s a conclusion here. People start out simply wanting to understand reality, but in truth they always hunger to change it.

But Dr. Cialdini was targeting something voluntary: voting. Consider, by contrast, the Reid technique, a nine-step algorithm of sorts that the FBI uses to pressure suspects during an interrogation. The Reid technique has been tested and refined on tens of thousands of suspects, but it has a bug. It produces false confessions. In other words, the technique is so effective it causes innocent people to sign away their freedom, just to make it stop.

The Reid technique, at the height of its powers, creates a false reality in the suspect’s mind more powerful than the fact-based reality outside it. Forget changing someone’s body. The Reid technique achieves the most fundamental change of all. And it is an innovation of perhaps the most frightening kind of violence, the kind that gets us to hang ourselves.

Manipulating our bodies, manipulating our minds—these are pretty scary things. In response, there are those who believe the ethical issues raised by these new technologies can be resolved through debate. But when have we ever done that before? Nuclear weapons could destroy the human race, and yet they still came into existence. Strike that. It was rational for some countries to bring them into existence. That says something pretty stark about us. That says that the larger truth may be the scariest thing of all: we’re not really in charge. It is us—our morality, our virtue—that lags technology, not the other way around. Maybe there was a reason that Zeus didn’t hash things out with Prometheus, but simply put a stop to him altogether.

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IANS fish, accompanied by salad. You can also prepare a king size burge often hear our parer with multigrain buns instead of ents and grandparents white bread or stir fried chicken reminisce about how and veggies with brown rice. healthy and tasty food * Watch that snack: Snacking, if used to be in the past and how the done the right way, can play a crunutritional values are being comcial role in managing hunger and promised today for taste. However also boosting nutrition. Whether one can follow a few basic steps like you are following a fitness regime watching the intake of snacks and ento shed those extra kilos or just joying lunch mindfully can add both to maintain a healthy weight and taste and health on the same plate lifestyle, keeping healthy and tasty Nowadays, people are spoilt for snacks such as almonds, fruits, choice, especially when they have wheat crackers etc. handy in your many exciting cuisines such as Japcarry bag can help you satiate anese, American, Chinese, Italian anytime and anywhere. and Thai to choose from. Nutritionist and fitness expert Madhuri Ruia, * For your dinner: The last meal of the day is quite important as you gives advice on how one may enjoy would not eat again for at least tasty food daily, without really comnext seven to eight hours. To give prising on its nutritive value. a tasty twist to your regular dinner, * Pep up your breakfast: Your first incorporate some unique ingredimeal of the day is an important ents in your regular dishes to make one as it may help replenish your it healthy and tasty. For example blood sugar level, which powrosemary leaf, an aromatic herb in ers your muscles and brain. Try the mint family, mustard sauce etc. a bowl of oats, drizzled with pure Avoid fatty foods late at night as it maple syrup, fresh fruits of your is harder to digest and break these choice and some almonds. This down and may lead to poor sleep. will not only be substantial but also provide you with nutrients * One for the sweet-tooth: If you are fond of pampering your sweet such as in vitamin E, protein and tooth, do it in a healthy way withdietary fiber from almonds, manout compromising on taste. Reganese, riboflavin and antioxiplace your regular sugar with dants from pure maple syrup and healthier alternatives such as pure sodium, potassium from the oats maple syrup. When used in modand fruits. eration, maple syrup can be a di* Lunch mindfully: Instead of optrect healthier substitute for liquid ing for unwholesome or fried food sweeteners, such as honey, treacle which lures taste buds, one may and corn syrup, without any adopt for sautéed veggies, maple justments. syrup glazed grilled chicken or

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How to kill a mountain N ope, not by dynamite, although that is certainly one of the tools.

Not by JCB, although that comes later. But by human greed, surely, and terribly, and effectively. That is how you kill a mountain and forever alter the ecoscape. I don’t know if villages mourn mountains, or if there are burial rites prescribed for dead mountains, because we have never had such phenomena in our cultural history. Perhaps someone should write a dirge and get the villages to chant it over the mountain that is being killed a few kilometers beyond the main landslide area along the Kohima-Dimapur road.

One day I will find out the name of that mountain and, even if I can’t lay roses at its foot, I will help unborn generations to remember that here used to stand a mountain. It was home to birds and smaller animals. It shielded the sun from falling on the road too early in the morning. It birthed wild plantain and scrawny trees. It did not yield soil for bigger trees, because it was made of rock. That

was its only flaw. Where other mountains are made of a thick top layer of soil, this particular mountain lacked the soil cover to hide its rocky frame from marauders.

Let’s give it a name for now; and a mouth to tell its sad story.

Let us call it Chüpo-o.

Once a little bird travelled a very long way from home. It came from a Burmese village in the east and kept travelling westward until the roar of the highway stopped its progress.

The little bird sought shelter at the foot of a tall mountain.

Soon the bird and the mountain became friends, because that is the way of all citizens of the natural world. “You may rest here as long as you want,” said the mountain, “and you will find food at my feet where the berries grow.” The bird thanked the mountain, and rested for many days at the mountain, eating berries and insects.

Laishena the bird, stayed on, al-

ways remembering to express her gratitude to her host. But one day she was saddened to see her host looking ashen-faced.

“What is it, Chüpo-o? Are you in pain?” she asked in great concern.

“I am dying, Laishena. Do you see those men driving up the road? They have been cutting me up every day for many months now.”

Laishena was alarmed. She looked at the place where he had indicated, and saw great gaping wounds in his side.

“How could anyone do this?

Murderers! We must get them to stop!” she cried.

“There’s nothing we can do about it, Laishena. They will spare no expense to blast out the rocks from my side. Unfortunately for

me, I am largely rock and that is what the men want. They are selling the rocks at great price and therefore, every day they come back to extract more rocks. Do you see that road curving up on my eastern side? That is where a man drives up a JCB and makes deeper inroads so they can take away the rocks they have extracted.”

“Isn’t there anything anyone can do?” Laishena had tears in her eyes. “Aren’t there any humans who could help me to stop this killing?”

C h ü p o - o ’s voice was low when he replied her. “It’s too late for me now, Laishena. They have already cut my arteries and made it impossible for my life to be rejuvenated. In a few months, if you come looking for me, I will no longer be alive. And the sun will curse them and shine more strongly than ever. It will dry up all the water sources so that people will have great difficulty trying to cultivate fields around here, or even

grow the hardiest of plants. And in the absence of vegetation, birds and squirrels will abandon the place. No natural force will be there to carry seeds around and help them germinate in the soil. If the birds leave, all that will be left will be silence. Silence and deadness.”

“No, no! I won’t let that happen to you, my friend,” Laishena cried despairingly.

“It’s too late for me, my little friend. No one can save me now.

But you can fly from place to place and tell my story to anyone who will listen. That will perhaps save some other mountain’s life.

Now go and dry your tears. I will endure their blows until I die.

But you must live to tell them to stop killing more mountains else they would end up dying themselves when they have killed the last mountain.”He then closed his eyes and sighed a great sigh and spoke no more.

This is how you kill a mountain: with something very dark, something as small as a seed-thought.

You kill a mountain with blind, unthinking greed that has no power to foresee the future.

Demonetisation: Decentralised emergency through whims of New Delhi leaders

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mong other things, the whole 500-1000 Indian Taka note ban or demontisation fiasco in the Indian Union has exposed the deep destruction of the Indian Union’s institutional structures that have set in during the present regime. This is not to say that such assaults have not happened before. After all, the declared Emergency of the 1970s was a Congress (I) operation and not a BJP one. But we live in these times and hence what happens in these times are more consequential and cannot be papered over by simple invoking crimes by others in the past.

Without going into the rights and wrongs of demonetization, which may be a matter of political opinion as well as partisan affiliation and loyalty, some facts are indisputable.

Tens of lakhs of the poorest of people have lost their jobs as evidenced by reports from the All India Manufacturer’s Association, a huge spike in the demand for 100-day work scheme in rural areas and most starkly by the train-loads of Hindi area people making the reverse journey from urban centres to their own vil-

lages. Thousands of manufacturing and trading units have been closed down. States like West Bengal, where the unorganized sector is disproportionately larger and hence more dependent on cash based transactions, have been hugely hit. For people like me with stable high paying jobs, it is a mess. For people with low paying temporary work in the unorganized sector and farmers and farm-hands, it is a disaster. No amount of 24*7 propaganda about black money hoarding demons having sleepless nights and militant insurgents losing their sacks of cash can reverse the permanent damage and value loss that the Indian Union economy has suffered, some states much more than others.

But what has also taken a hit is the faith of people in institutions.

The Reserve Bank of India is an autonomous organization that is in charge of monetary policy in the Indian Union. By manner of law, it is the Reserve Bank of India that has issued the notification that demonetized the Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes, making them worthless pieces of paper overnight. And the Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel has been extremely reticent

about the data based on which this decision was taken, the process in which this was taken and how this demonetization has progressed.

There are various news reports that indicate that almost all of the demonetized cash value has been deposited back to the banks – something that the Reserve Bank of India has neither confirmed nor denied, thus creating an intelligence agency like shroud of secrecy over facts that should be in the public domain. These are facts that every citizen of the Indian Union has a right to know – because it is in the name of their sovereignty that the Indian Union and its constitutional structure exist. The Reserve Bank of India is not a divinely ordained institution. It has been instituted by the citizenry to carry out specific functions and it is answerable to them.

Some facts are on the table about the process in which the demonetization decision was taken.

On November 16, freshly after the November 8 announcement by Narendra Modi, Union Cabinet minister Piyush Goyal declared in the upper house of the parliament that the decision was taken the by Reserve

Bank of India board, in its autonomous jurisdiction over monetary policy. This has been directly contradicted in the 7 page note submitted by the Reserve Bank of India to the Parliament’s Department Related Committee of Finance, where it is clearly mentioned that the Reserve Bank of India acted on the “advice” of the Union government on November 7, which asked it to ‘consider’ doing a note ban. The RBI agreed the very next day and by evening Narendra Modi was on television! They are so contradictory that it points to one shocking inference– either we have Cabinet Ministers of the Union government lying in the parliament or we have the RBI Governor lying to members of parliament and to the people. So whose idea was the demonetization decision?

The huge erosion of faith in the autonomy of the Reserve Bank was evidenced by the letter sent by employees of the Reserve Bank to its Governor Urjit Patel, asking him to protect the autonomy of the central bank. Things are extremely grim. The states have been hugely affected by the demonetisation and leaders like Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Ke-

jriwal who stand for protecting the federal structure of the Indian Union have channelized the huge public discontent and suffering in the form of massive protests. But none of this has mattered. Because the states don’t matter to the central bank’s functioning, but unsolicited “advice” from the Union government does.

This episode should also call for a relook at the constitution of the Reserve Bank of India, with an aim to federalise it, so that state government nominees are part of the board, to protect the states from the whims of a coterie sitting in New Delhi implemented through a spineless Reserve Bank of India leadership.

What we have is a pattern, where a set of technocratic and unelected bodies like the Niti Ayog and a small coterie around Narendra Modi are holding the whole republic at ransom, destroying institution after institution with their whims and diktats. Arun Shourie, a veteran stalwart of the 1970s anti-Emergency struggle best described the current state of affairs, that “it’s a Decentralised Emergency”, being implanted from Delhi by a “pyramidal Mafia State.”

8 foolproof ways to stay calm and be positive Tanu Shree Singh The Huffington Post

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wo years ago, on a trip to the middle of nowhere, I got one of my first tastes of online venom. At one point, the phone got lucky and found fleeting net connectivity. It barfed up a few private messages before dying a swift death. One was from a dear friend with animated emoticons blowing kisses, another was a query about the best place online to buy a book, and then there was one from a stranger, spewing venom for reasons best left in the mailbox's trash bin. For a few seconds I was at a loss for words.

The boys saw my face and asked me what the phone had hurled at me.

So I read it out. Verbatim.

There was a second's silence before they dissolved into laughter. "Whoa. That's a lot of hatred to fit into one message, Ma!" And that was that. The network left us and so did the negativity. Now, I consciously keep away from negative thoughts and if it comes to that, even people. And I am not apologetic about it. The thing is, when we let the negativity seep in, it brings in other devils with it, including self-doubt and hopelessness. So I am selfish. I keep the devils at an arm and a half's distance. Sometimes even a few miles.

Recently again, I faced some entirely uncalled for online ire. It never ends. The messages and outbursts also got me thinking about a couple of my friends, who in a similar situation would have developed a crack that would have taken a lot of love to mend. I do not exactly levitate a few feet above ground, nor am I beyond feeling hurt, nor am I the most peaceful creature there is. But I do manage to stay mostly positive. Here are a few things that help me keep afloat.

ready in front of the mirror every morning, look yourself in the eye and wrap your arms around yourself, and say it aloud, "I love you!" A simple glance before you set about your day should tell you that you are loved by one person at least. Yourself. Take time out for yourself—have a solitary cup of coffee, and always treat yourself with "me-time."

2. Surround yourself with positive people This takes practice and a thick skin. While growing up, there were several times I ended up being friends with negative people. They can sometimes be like termites—they gnaw you from the inside, suck your self-confidence, and leave you gasping for a breath of self-worth. Chances are you have met some yourself.

It is time now to ball them up and throw them in the farthest corner of your life. You might seem arrogant, but ask yourself what is of more importance—being perceived as arrogant or getting the breath of fresh air that positive people bring with them?

1. Love thyself This is easier said than done, and stacks of books have been 3. Re-adjust written on the topic. But one has comparison standards to start somewhere! When you get We are mostly running a race

against others, trying to set goals against other people. And in the process we feed the little beast that is self-doubt. Before we know it the tiny monster looms over our entire being and shrivels us up.

I am trying to get the boys to be their own competitors rather than spending days feeling insecure in the presence of the kid who is the star of the class, or wins every medal there is in vocal music.

Rather than that, how about setting our own standards independent of others? Everyone has their own set of skills, so rather than feeling terrible about ourselves on seeing others churn out fabulous work or achieving their weight loss target, we need to set our own goals that we pursue because we need to, and not because we are expected to.

ed ways. It could have backfired and she could have walked away in a huff, denting my self-respect had I built it around other people's reactions in the first place. But the smile was worth the risk. Take that risk. Appreciate good things, work and achievements when you see them without letting any insecurity creep in. Just because I compliment someone does not mean I am saying, "You are better than me." And your self-respect has nothing to do with how others react to you.

a hint of criticism, and at the first instance draw our weapons and charge, or send hate mails. Others take every word to heart and go to pieces—those very pieces that had taken a lifetime to put together. We need to sniff out constructive criticism and focus on it for a bit. This gets important since shutting our doors to all forms of criticism cannot be healthy if one aims to grow.

So dwell on it, absorb the positives and discard the rest. As for criticism by trolls, that's best removed even from the recycle bin.

5. Use your strengths We spend a big chunk of our lives trying to turn our weaknesses into strengths, while our existing strengths languish in a corner, waiting for their turn to shine.

Find out your signature character strengths and exercise them daily.

Studies so far have shown that this exercise positively increases an individual's happiness levels.

8. Face it. You cannot be in all good books We try to please everyone— from our family members to the newspaper man. And when we fail at even one count, we break down, analyse ourselves, question ourselves, and torture ourselves. Accept the inevitable. You cannot be in all the good books there are. Some will scratch your name in charcoal. In that case, just hope that they use a good font and put you on top of the list. Other than that, let it go. Your dog loves you? Great! The family adores you? Perfect! If no one else, you have yourself. We already agreed on being our own first love, right?

It is an uphill task. These eight changes just about scratch the layers of negativity that we allow to settle on our souls, but the scratch is enough to let the sunshine in, let the warmth of positivity radiate, and definitely enough to allow us to smile for no reason at all. So next time someone looks at you sarcastically, passes a snide comment, or whispers behind your back, feel sorry for them because unknown to them, they are letting the devil of negativity grow behind them, ready to engulf them into the folds of its dark shadows. You, on the other hand radiate joy. So congratulate yourself for being positive, for loving yourself, and for being the carrier of an infectious smile. Go on and infect the world.

6. Be grateful Gratitude is not merely a philosophical concept or something we crib about our children not having enough of. It is a fairly easy to make gratitude—which goes a long way in generating positivity—a part of our lives. On a friend's suggestion, I recently did an exercise during a workshop with children that can be easily emulated by all of us. We wrote the one thing we were grateful for in our lives and pinned it to the Gratitude Tree. By the end of the two weeks, the children were filled with awe on having so many things that they never really noticed or felt thankful for. So consciously look for and note down 4. Appreciate others stuff you are thankful for. Chances That is another tough one un- are, you'll run out of paper. til you scale the fabricated wall of so-called self-respect. Then, it is 7. Be open to a breeze. The other day I saw this constructive criticism lady in the most elegant skirt while On a scale of one to 10, I probI was running against time filling ably am currently at a 2.37. The up the grocery basket at a store. I man would probably rate me at tested my own theory and stopped 1.2, but we shall leave the domesto compliment her. She beamed tic squabble out of this for the mothe warmest smile that lingered on ment. We often stay at extremes. for quite some time after we part- Some of us shut ourselves to even

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Business venture as a career alternative for the Naga youths Renponi Lotha: Our economy will never be ours until we Nagas have our participation in vendor business. With no good location left for us to do business in the markets of our own economy, where do we Nagas stand?

Just because half the population has income source from backdoor appointed Govt jobs and some from Taxation of this and that, some from projects that show many digit bills but show no quality workmanship etc it doesn't do justice to take the name of the few Naga Businessmen who are earning through their skill, passion and sweat and remain calm that we Nagas, have command in the Markets of Nagaland.

Do we need only Carnivals and fairs to earn and showcase our talents? Do we need only occasions to come out and avail the opportunities in our land?

C'mon for the Non Nagas they are having 365 days of carnival in our land.

They are having 365 days of having stalls in the market. Do we need only a merry making season spending 1-3 thousands for 3-5 days for booking a stall?

We complain about the govt, yes! We have the right to complain but are we contributing anything apart from complaining? For the so many Unemployed youths, are you all waiting only for govt jobs?

Are you waiting only for big business of big brands to land so that you can start?

I bless and pray that be it govt job or big brand ventures, may success be upon you all. But, please do not hesitate to take up small vendor business also in the meantime before achieving your bigger goals.

Because you see, I am not requesting just for yourself, for you to earn. I am requesting you all because the society needs your contribution. Our Markets needs your presence.

When I say, ‘Non Nagas' have captured our economy, it is not a Racist remark as any Indian has the right to work anywhere in India.

But, will it be wise when, if tomorrow your younger generation would want to open even a roadside paan shop but will not get a space even for that because all the shops are booked by non Locals.

New Market, Hazi Market and Hong Kong Market ....the big markets in the commercial hub of the state that shine brightly as the glittering markets - can we Nagas say we have any participation there apart from buying ?

We have lost many good locations in many districts because of our elders' indifference to Entrepreneurship. I pray, if younger generation does not grab the few small spaces left by now then we will have to completely wash away our hands in dirty water and remain with a stinking hand forever.

Dear younger brothers and sisters, please do not hesitate or be lazy but please save our land and our future.

The latest Android phone which you bought from your parent's money and ask for recharge again from them, that amount of money or lesser than that would also suffice you to start roadside business.

It will be fun .You can learn and gain experience as well as earn and be proud of yourself.

But above all, you will be saving Nagaland, you will be saving our market from the hands of the many vulture like people who are flooding in here to earn.

Just like us, they also have a stomach to feed and survive hence; our land which is a land of opportunity attracts many people like crazy.

Just because we are not hungry today doesn't mean we will not starve tomorrow. Just because we do not need to work today, doesn't mean we will not need to work forever isn't it?

May God bless anyone of you who may or is thinking of govt jobs, starting big brand business or even roadside vendor business.

Asakho Chachei: Our people venture into business to get rich overnight. This attitude is the problem. Overcharging from the existing rates or selling product at a higher price than the next non-local shop is the norm of the day. Besides, we tend to find the Naga shop-owner or the attendant too busy to even open their mouth and entertain the customers.

Forget about throwing a sale pitch. Some Naga shopkeepers will directly quote the price (even without asking) to suggest that 'you cannot afford it' or 'don't waste my time by coming to my shop'. These are the reasons we can't help but forced to go to a non-local shop and helping their business even though we don't really want to do it.

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Rahul slams Modi for aligning with 'corrupt' SAD MaJItha, January 27 (IanS): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming to fight corruption, while aligning with the "corrupt" Shiromani Akali Dal regime in Punjab.

He also dispelled the long drawn speculation on who would be the Chief Ministerial candidate for Punjab, and announced that Amarinder Singh would be the one to head the government if the Congress wins.

Addressing a political rally here in the Akali stronghold, Gandhi said: "Narendra Modi talks of corruption and religion at various places. But how can he stand with the corrupt Akali Dal leaders and talk of fighting corruption."

The Congress leader said: "Modi will come here and say that I fight against corruption and I have done demonetisation. Can you tell me how one who talks about fighting against corruption, can stand with the Akalis?".

"Can you tell me how Modi can stand on the same dais with (Deputy Chief Minister) Sukhbir Singh Badal and still talk about fighting corruption," he said.

"Entire Punjab knows that the state has been destroyed by the Akalis and brought to its knees," Gandhi added.

Ending the guesswork Gandhi announced: "Your Chief Ministerial candidate is sitting here (on the dais). Amarinder Singh is our leader who will head the next government. He has worked hard for Punjab."

Tearing into the activities of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's family in the past one decade, Gandhi said that the Badal family has monopolised most businesses in the state and was destroying Punjab.

"Be it transport, cable TV, sand, hotels or other businesses, the Badal family has monop-

the Congress comes to power in Punjab after the February 4 assembly polls, the government would bring in a legal policy to take strictest action against those involved in the drugs trade.

"People who are involved in drugs trade should hear this that we will bring such a law that even the thought of drugs will scare you," Gandhi cautioned.

The Congress Vice President cautioned the people against the claims and promises made by the Aam Aadmi Party leaders.

"AAP government made tall promises to people of Delhi but has failed to implement anything. AAP is trying to mislead people in Punjab," he said.

The Congress is heading for a bitter political fight with the ruling Shiromani Akali DalBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) olised everything," he alleged. alliance and the Aam Aadmi Quoting the life of Guru Party (AAP) for the 117 assemNanak, the first Sikh guru, the bly seats on February 4.

Congress leader said that the guru patronised the concept of Congress a sinking ship, "tera" (yours) and "sewa" (ser- is history, says Modi Dubbing the Congress as vice), but the Akali Dal leadership only believed in the con- a "sinking ship" and "history", cept of "mera" (mine) as they Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called upon voters have looted Punjab.

Rahul Gandhi said that if not to vote for the opposition

party in the coming assembly elections in five states.

"The Congress is a sinking ship. The Congress is history.

It is on its last breath," Modi said at a joint election rally with Punjab Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patron Parkash Singh Badal here.

The SAD and Bharatiya Janata Party run an alliance government in Punjab since 2007.

"The Congress has no principles or rules. To survive politically, the Congress, which joined hands with the Communists in West Bengal earlier after opposing them for decades, has now joined hands with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh," Modi said.

"The country has seen the politics of destruction for 70 years and the youths of this country are suffering due to it. If you want to do politics, do politics of development," Modi said while challenging the opposition parties to change the political discourse in the country.

Talking about his fight against corruption, Modi said people who had accumulated black money in the last 70 years were affected by (demonetisation) action initiated by his government against the corrupt.

Referring to the controversial Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue, the Prime Minister said Punjab river waters were for its farmers only.

"We will bring the water of Indus river, which is flowing into Pakistan, for the farmers of this country," Modi said.

The Prime Minister said that in recent years, attempts were made to defame Punjab, its brave people and its youths and urged the people to beware of people doing it.

"Punish them (those defaming Punjab) in such a way that no one can point a finger at Punjab. This election is an opportunity to reject those trying to defame Punjab," Modi said.

Pointing out that Punjab's pride has been hurt, Modi lamented: "I cannot visualise that politics will stoop to such low levels."

Taking a dig at the Congress, the Prime Minister said the Congress was readying itself to return to power in Punjab five years ago also but the voters of Punjab decided otherwise and instead brought Badal back as the Chief Minister.

"The Congress is frustrated while sitting out of power. The Congress has no colour, shape or path," he said.

Fresh avalanches in Jammu & Kashmir, toll over 20 CBSE revises Class X, XII exam time table SrInagar/BanIhal, January 27 (PtI): Several avalanches and landslides hit the JammuSrinagar National Highway today even as the death toll in the series of snow slides that have hit Jammu and Kashmir crossed 20 with the recovery of the bodies of four soldiers.

The fresh avalanche in Banihal disrupted the work of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) that is busy clearing blockades due to snowfall in a bid to restore traffic on the highway

which is closed for the third consecutive day today.

In Srinagar, police officials said that bodies of four missing soldiers were recovered from avalanche-hit Gurez sector, taking the death toll in the incident to 14 "Four bodies of soldiers were recovered from the avalanche site by rescue teams in Gurez today. The death toll of army personnel has now risen to 14," a police official said.

Two avalanches hit army personnel in Gurez sector on Wednesday evening trapping several sol-

diers under the debris.

While seven personnel were rescued alive by the teams, bodies of 10 soldiers were recovered yesterday.

Meanwhile, a 60-yearold man died after he came under an avalanche in Uri sector of Baramulla district.

Fateh Mohammad Mughal ventured out of his home last evening when he came under an avalanche.

Local residents and police pulled Mughal out of the avalanche debris and removed him to a nearby hospital where doctors de-

clared him dead on arrival.

More than 20 persons, including 15 army personnel, have died in avalanches since Wednesday caused by fresh snowfall across Jammu and Kashmir over the past four days.

Authorities have issued a high danger avalanche warning in hilly parts of snow-bound Kashmir Valley in view of fresh snowfall. Several avalanches have also hit the highway at Shatani Nallah area in Banihal belt of Ramban district today, police officials said.

A number of landslides were also triggered by heavy rains in Banihal-Ramban sector, they said adding the clearance of the snow to make the highway trafficable is being disrupted due to avalanches and landslides in Banihal-Ramban stretch.

Efforts are on by BRO with their men and machines to clear the highway of landslides, avalanches and heavy snowfall to make it trafficable, they said. The highway was closed on Wednesday due to heavy snowfall.

nEW DElhI, January 27 (PtI): Addressing students’ concerns about the schedule of some papers, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has changed the examination dates of a few subjects of Class X and XII. The dates of three papers of Class X — Tamil language (006), Gurung (132) and National Cadet Corps (076) — have been changed. Also, the schedule of five papers of Class XII —— Theatre studies (078), Tangkhul (193), Physical Education (048), Sociology (039) and Food Service— II (736) —— has been altered.

The CBSE had advanced the board exam dates by nine days in the wake of elections in five states. The Tamil language paper has been postponed by eight days, from March 10 to March 18, while that of Gurung language has been advanced

from March 23 to March 10. NCC exam has also been delayed by eight days and it will be held on March 23 instead of March 15.

For Class XII, the date of Physical Education paper has been changed from April 10 to April 12 and of Sociology exam from April 12 to April 20. The new date of Theatre Studies paper is April 10 instead of April 20, Tangkhul language exam will be conducted on April 10 and Food Service paper, which was to be held on April 29, will now take place on April 26.

Students and their parents had earlier complained there was no sufficient gap in the dates of Biology paper and Joint Entrance Examination 2017, but the CBSE has kept the schedule for Biology exam unchanged. 10,98,420 students will appear for the Class XII board exam, while 16,67,573 candidates will take Class X exam this year.

nEW DElhI, January 27 (PtI): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking either a total ban on slaughter of cattle or the framing of a uniform policy to protect and preserve them from slaughtering and smuggling.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar and Justice N.V. Ramana said it cannot direct States to frame law banning slaughter of cattle. Various orders have been passed by the apex court in the past on measures to be adopted to prevent illegal inter-State transportation of cattle, the bench said, while refusing to entertain the PIL petition filed by Delhi resident Vineet Sahai.

During the brief hearing, counsel for Sahai referred to inconsistencies in various State laws on slaughter and transportation of cattle. Sahai said that in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, the statutes were stringent while in the neighbouring Kerala, slaughter was allowed, which led to illegal inter-State smuggling of cattle.

The plea, filed through lawyers S. Usha Reddy and Sarvesh Bisaria, sought

a direction to the Centre to frame “a uniform policy throughout India for protection of cattle and to preserve them for all purpose instead of slaughtering them and exporting the said cattle in market, despite the fact that we have the provisions under the Constitution ...to protect and increase our cattle”.

“Some States allow the slaughter of cattle with restrictions like a ‘fit-for-slaughter’ certificate, which may be issued depending on factors like age and gender of cattle, continued economic viability etc. Others completely ban cattle slaughter, while there is no restriction in a few states,” the plea said. It sought “a total ban on slaughtering of milch and draught cattle including calves; or in alternative, issue a writ of mandamus, directing the respondents to frame an uniform policy for banning the slaughtering and preservation of milch and draught cattle which includes calves”.

The court, while hearing another PIL petition, had asked the Centre to frame rules to stop illegal inter-State and internation transportation of cattle.

Aadhaar enrolment at 111 crore, Supreme Court to hear Jallikattu matters on Jan 31 fetched Rs 36,144 crore savings Supreme Court refuses to hear petition nEW DElhI, January 27 (PtI): The Supreme nEW DElhI, January 27 (IanS): generation as on May 31, 2014 was 63.22 seeking total ban on cattle slaughter Court on Friday said that it will hear all Jallikattu matters Even as the Aadhaar enrolment touched crore with a per day enrolment and update on January 31 after the Centre filed a plea seeking to withdraw the January 6 notification, allowing the bull taming sport in Tamil Nadu. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra allowed all the applications related to Jallikattu to be filed and said the matter will be heard on Tuesday.

Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi mentioned before the bench that Centre has filed a plea seeking to withdraw the January 2016 notification. Justice Misra said the appropriate bench which has heard and reserved the verdict will take up the matters. The apex court has earlier said that it will be hearing the matter on January 30. On January 25, the Animal Welfare Board of India and rights bodies had challenged the new Tamil Nadu legislation enacted to allow Jallikattu during Pongal festival.

Those challenging the bill, passed by the state assembly on January 23, were contending that it was against the mandate of the Supreme Court judgement which has held that the "sport is inherently cruel" towards animals and this real issue has not been addressed by the lawmakers.

The pleas were mentioned for urgent hearing before the apex court which had asked the Board and animal rights activists to file their applications.

In their applications, the animal rights group had said that the new law passed by Tamil Nadu Assembly to allow Jallikattu has over-reached the earlier verdict of apex court.

Nearly 70 caveats have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking prior hearing if pleas challenging the new legislation allowing Jallikattu in the state come up for consideration.

111 crore on Republic Day, the total savings by the central and state exchequers by deploying it stood at Rs 36,144 crore in two years, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here on Friday. The chunk of the savings came from the government's Pahal scheme for cooking gas cylinders where money is deposited directly in the consumers' accounts which are linked with Aadhaar.

In 2014-15, the government saved Rs 14,672 crore, and in 2015-16, Rs 6,912 crore on account of Pahal scheme. "Aadhaar generation has crossed the 111+ crore mark. It's a great achievement towards inclusion of everyone into national development fabric. It has come a long way in less than six and a half years of its journey from being a unique identification programme to transform itself into a critical development tool of public-centric good governance and targeted delivery of services, benefits and subsidies," the Minister said.

Aadhaar enrolment ecosystem with 135 registrars and 612 enrolment agencies working at 47,192 enrolment stations has been enrolling and updating 7-8 lakh requests per day, Prasad said. "Aadhaar

Russian man jumps to death at Thiruvananthapuram airport thIruvananthaPuraM, January 27 (IanS): Police are trying to unravel the mystery behind the death of a 30-year-old Russian man in the security hold area of Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.

The Russian, Dani, had allegedly jumped to his death from the security hold area at around 11.35 p.m. on Thursday. A probe has been ordered into the incident.

Speaking to IANS on Friday, Assistant Commissioner of Police Ajith Kumar said: "The CCTV visuals are being summoned and we will have a close look. We did speak to the people who witnessed the incident who said that he scaled the pipes near the security hold area and jumped down."

Kumar, who is conducting the probe, also pointed that Dani arrived here from Nepal on January 19 with a friend Alexander, who is also Russian.

"According to the information we have, the two later went to an ashram in the outskirts of the capital city. While Dani vacated the ashram yesterday (Thursday), his friend, whom he met in Nepal, is yet to leave the ashram," he said.

"We are on the lookout for Alexander so as to get more information on Dani and to see if he had any issues," Kumar added.

A senior Air India official told IANS

that Dani was booked on the airline's flight to Mumbai which was scheduled to depart at 8.10 p.m., but got delayed.

However, what exactly triggered the incident is not clear yet.

The flight official said that the incident occurred after the passengers had completed their security check and were waiting in the security hold area.

Describing Dani's fall, a person said: "The Russian man was seen walking up and down in the security area and performing yoga. After behaving in a restless manner for a long time he suddenly climbed on to the railing and then jumped."

"Being Republic Day, there should have been more security. Moreover, whenever there is any one behaving in such a manner, it's quite natural for security officials present or watching on the CCTV to act, which did not happen," the witness added.

Dani fell near the customs area located on the ground floor. He was declared dead on being rushed to a hospital.

"This is a serious security breach as the incident took place in the highly secured zone when the entire place is expected to be covered by close circuit cameras," a source said. The Kerala police has contacted the Russian Consulate.

trend of about 3-4 lakh which remained around 5-6 lakh per day till October 2016.

However, since demonetisation the Aadhaar enrolment and update requests are in the range of 7-8 lakh per day," he added.

Dispelling apprehensions on privacy and data security, Prasad said: "The Government is vigilant towards privacy protection and database security which is our paramount concern. We have Aadhaar Act 2016 which has strict provisions for protection of data and privacy." As of now, more than 47 crore bank accounts have been seeded with Aadhaar number out of which 38.5 crore are uniquely seeded. The present rate of Aadhaar linking to bank accounts is around 1.8 crore per month which was about 60 lakh per month prior to demonetisation.

Post demonetization, from Nov 9, 2016 till Jan 15 over 8.39 crore Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) transactions have happened in the field, of which over 3.73 crore transactions took place in December 2016 and 2.06 crore transactions in first 15 days of January 2017. Earlier AEPS transactions were about 2.57 crore and 2.69 crore in October and November 2016 respectively.

Spreading immunisation awareness in rural India Potka, January 27 (IanS): Ganga Das, 19 and pregnant for the first time, was determined enough to get her immunisation done at a Public Heath Centre (PHC) at Juri village of this block in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district.

Married at the age of 17, Ganga's determination was a result of an equally determined effort by Unicef and the "mobilisers" sent out by the state Health Department to spread awareness about routine immunisation (RI) and how it helps protect unborn children, creating their first wall of defence against diseases.

Jovial and optimistic, Ganga said that seeing other pregnant women come to the centre also encouraged her to do so.

"The RI programme is a boon for us. I have seen it here. I ask other pregnant women in the village to go for immunisation," said

Ganga, who is also pursuing her class 12 studies.

"If I get vaccines, I am not just protecting myself -- I am giving my baby some early protection too," Ganga told IANS at the PHC that was packed with women and toddlers who had come for their RIs. The enthusiasm is a result of the continuous awareness drives by Unicef and Jharkhand's Health Department, especially its team of dedicated "mobilisers" who travel to far-flung villages to encourage communities to immunise pregnant women and children.

Namita Pal, 25, who came with her one-anda-half-year-old son for vaccination, said she also has a six-year-old who has been protected from diseases thanks to regular vaccination.

"After the birth of my first son, I took him to the centre for immunisation.

Mobilisers make us understand the benefits of immunisation and, ultimately, our own benefit. It protected my elder son; so I bring my younger kid here too. To keep kids immune from diseases they have to get vaccines regularly," Namita told IANS. Auxiliary Nurses and Midwives (ANMs) and Anganwadi workers mobilise villagers to bring children or pregnant women to the immunisation camps.

Regular immunisation is one of the key interventions for protecting children from avoidable sickness, disability and lifethreatening conditions that are preventable.

Rajini Kumari, an ANM of Potka block, said she, along with Anganwadi workers, mobilises villagers, telling them about the benefits of immunisation, about hygiene, the diet kids should have, and ask them to drink boiled water.

"We maintain records of pregnant women and children about their immunisation. RI happens on Thursday and Saturday of every week," she told IANS, while vaccinating children in a room painted with informative pictorials on the benefits of immunisation and the Do's and Don'ts during and after pregnancy.

A regular immunisation cycle sees a child receiving BCG (primarily against tuberculosis) and polio vaccine at the time of birth. This is followed by pentavalent vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza when the newborn is 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 months old, respectively, along with doses of the polio vaccine, said Sahil Paul, Medical Officer of Potka block.

"We moniter the entire immunisation process. We help people to understand

about government facilities and urge them to become a part of it to save their children," Paul told IANS. East Singhbhum Civil Surgeon S.K. Jha said: "We try for maximum immunisation coverage in the area. If there is proper infrastructure like hospitals, doctors, roads and electricity, health care will not be a problem in the country."

District Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) officer Maheshwar Prasad, who is responsible for the complete immunisation process, said it can be improved by making people aware at the grassroot level.

"Village heads must play a pro-active role to make people aware about benefits of vaccines. The community should be involved. Still, there is some gap and so we all have to work together for the cause," Maheshwar Prasad told IANS.

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Red tape chokes off drilling on Native American Reservations FORT BERTHOLD, JanuaRy 27 (REuTERs): When the U.S. oil boom hit North Dakota a decade ago, wells sprang up quickly on the edges of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, an expanse of prairie and rolling hills three times larger than Los Angeles.

Tribe members here, facing a 40 percent unemployment rate and sending their children to 1950s-era school buildings, were eager to tap some of state’s most promising reserves.

But layers of federal regulation - applying only to tribal lands - slowed them down for years, frightened away investors and cost them millions of dollars.

“The reservation looked like the hole of a donut,” said Marcus Levings, who was chairman of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation’s reservation at the time. “Everything around us was moving, and there was nothing in the middle.”

Fort Berthold has since caught up to become one of the state’s most productive regions. But the initial delays undermined the MHA Nation’s sense of sovereignty and cost it badly needed revenue - an experience echoed in widespread complaints from other tribes and from energy firms, including some owned by Native Americans.

Now, with U.S. President Donald Trump in office and oil prices rising, their frustration is fueling a renewed push to streamline approvals for drilling and mining on Indian reservations.

Clearing regulatory hurdles for a single project on tribal lands can take as many as 50 steps, compared to a half dozen for oil wells on private

A service truck drives past an oil well on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

(REUTERS File Photo)

property. The process can take three times as long to complete, according to tribal leaders, lawyers specializing in Native American issues, oil company executives and federal regulators.

Officials at the agency overseeing that process - the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a division of the Department of Interior - did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

A spokesperson for Trump, who campaigned on a promise to slash energy regulation, declined a request for comment.

The stakes are high. Native American reservations cover just 2 percent of the nation’s surface, but by some estimates contain as much as a fifth of all U.S. oil and gas reserves, along with vast coal stockpiles.

Some tribes, for environmental or cultural reasons, have shunned the idea of developing these reserves, but many others

want to tap the vast wealth beneath their homelands.

A coalition of Native Americans appointed by Trump’s team to guide his Indian policy is researching proposals to make energy development easier on tribal lands - including the controversial idea of transferring them to private ownership.

That coalition met privately in Washington last month with tribal representatives and Trump’s team, and the group listed deregulation of energy development on reservations as a high priority, according to a person who attended the meeting.

Representatives of the coalition did not respond to requests for comment.

Congress, now firmly in Republican control after November’s election, also appears poised to act. The Indian affairs committees in the House

and Senate are planning to reintroduce legislation this year that would streamline Bureau of Indian Affairs approval processes for tribal energy resource agreements, said Senator John Hoeven, a Republican from North Dakota and the new chair of the Senate Indian affairs committee.

U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona, has opposed previous efforts to relax energy regulations on tribal lands, including a 2015 proposal he argues would have undermined public input before project approvals. That could weaken the legal arguments of residents impacted by environmental damage, he said in an interview.

“The regulations are there for the public, including tribal members, to know what the intended and unintended consequences of that project are going to be,” he said.

WAIT, WAIT, WAIT The United States holds title to about 56 million acres of tribal lands, a vestige of the treaties made between 1778 and 1871 to end wars between indigenous Indians and European settlers. The tribes have rights to the land – and the resources under the surface – but they do not own it.

On Fort Berthold and other reservations, energy development requires a uniquely large number of easements and environmental permits, all of which must be approved by multiple federal agencies in a process overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Former North Dakota Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan - who was in office when the shale boom hit his state - said he understood that regulations can preserve Native American culture by keeping tribal lands environmentally sound and off the real estate market. But he also said he recognized them as a bottleneck.

“It shouldn’t be a reason for holding up development,” Dorgan told Reuters in an interview. “If ever there was a place in North Dakota that needed this development most, it is on reservations.”

A 2015 report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the problems went beyond the processes in law and regulations. Poor management by the Bureau of Indians Affairs has hindered energy development and resulted in lost revenue for tribes, the office concluded.

One tribe, according to the report, saw permit reviews stretching to as long as eight years and missed out on than

$95 million in revenues it could have earned from royalties, oil and gas severance taxes and tribal permitting fees. The report also found that BIA offices were understaffed and had failed to keep adequate records.

Dave Williams, CEO of MHA Nation-chartered energy company Missouri River Resources, said his firm has learned how to work around the regulatory process, but called it frustrating. He said he knows most of the employees at the BIA’s regional office on the reservation in New Town, and tries to prod them to get things done “with a friendly touch.”

“It is discouraging because everything gets bureaucratized - just wait, wait, wait - especially if you’re an oil guy, and most of your life you are on time and get things done,” he said.

Deregulation could also benefit private oil drillers including Devon Energy Corp, Occidental Petroleum and others that have sought to develop leases on reservations through deals with tribal governments.

Those companies did not respond to requests for comment.

TRIBAL OPPOSITION, SOLIDARITY A substantial segment of the Native American community continues to oppose energy development on tribal land or would like to see it limited. The Northern Cheyenne in Montana, for example, live atop rich coal reserves but have shunned mining it because they fear it will bring pollution and undermine their way of life.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota has galvanized the U.S. environmen-

tal movement with its ongoing protests against a pipeline constructed near its reservation.

But many tribes that supported the Standing Rock protests were motivated by protecting a tribe’s right to govern itself rather than by opposition to fossil fuel development.

Among the tribes backing the protests were the Southern Ute Tribe in Colorado, the Ute Tribe of Utah, the Montana Crow and the Navajo Nation across the Southwest, all of which are pursuing energy development on their own lands.

Tribes are also seeking to curtail what they call unjust taxation of energy projects on tribal lands by states in which their reservations are located.

For many tribal leaders, the desire for more control over drilling projects is as much about self-determination as money.

“We’ve always wanted jurisdiction over our people and our land to the fullest extent possible,” said Jackson Brossy, executive director of the Navajo Nation’s Washington office.

Back in Fort Berthold, MHA Nation Councilman Fred Fox said he felt it was time for Washington to hand more responsibility for tribal lands back to the tribes. They should not be managed as U.S.-owned “public lands,” he said, but rather as sovereign Native American nations.

“We have ancestors that owned these lands,” he said, looking out over a snow-covered settlement in the White Shield section of the reservation. “Let us collect our own taxes. Let us create economic viability for our people. Let us create the regulatory system.”

South Korean and US Marines tussle in Israel: Netanyahu questioned for third time in criminal case “The goal is to pres- he is charged, but he could The first case -- referred snow in what North brands “madcap” drill to by police as Case 1,000 sure the attorney-general be pressured into stepping Maayan Lubell

PyEOnGCHanG, JanuaRy 27 (REuTERs): South Korean and U.S. Marines are conducting military exercises on ski slopes in sub-freezing temperatures, including shirtless hand-tohand combat in the snow, prompting warnings of retaliation from North Korea over “madcap mid-winter” drills.

More than 300 Marines are taking part, simulating combat on the ski slopes of Pyeongchang, host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, amid speculation North Korea could be planning another missile test in defiance of U.N. resolutions.

“U.S. Marine Corps and ROK (Republic of Korea) Marine Corps part-

nered together at every level to build a camaraderie and friendship of the two countries’ militaries but also to increase our proficiency in the event where we have to fight a war together,” U.S. Captain Marcus Carlstrom told reporters.

The training began on Jan. 15 and ends on Feb. 3 in Pyeongchang, about 180 km (115 miles) east of Seoul.

About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea in joint defence against North Korea, which is under U.N. sanctions over a series of nuclear and missile tests and which regularly threatens to destroy the South and the United States.

Poverty-stricken, reclusive North

Media should keep its mouth shut: Trump strategist states WasHinGTOn, JanuaRy 27 (ians): Stephen K. Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s Chief White House strategist has said the media should “keep its mouth shut”. Bannon laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organisations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call. “I want you to quote this,” Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country.

They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the US.” The scathing assessment - delivered by one of Trump’s most trusted and influential advisers, in the first days of his presidency - comes at a moment of high tension between the news media and the administration, with skirmishes over the size of Trump’s

inaugural crowd and the president’s false claims that millions of illegal votes by undocumented immigrants swayed the popular vote against him.

Bannon, who rarely grants interviews to journalists outside of Breitbart News, the provocative right-wing website he ran until last August, was echoing comments

by Trump this weekend, when the president said he was in “a running war” with the media and called journalists “among the most dishonest people on earth”.

During a call to discuss Sean M. Spicer, the president’s press secretary, Bannon ratcheted up the criticism, offering a broad indictment of the news media as biased against Trump and out of touch with the American public. “The elite media got it dead wrong, 100% dead wrong,” Bannon said of the election, calling it “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there”.

Of all of Trump’s advisers in the White House, Bannon is the one tasked with implementing the nationalist vision that the president channeled during the later months of the campaign, one that stemmed from Bannon himself.

Reuters

Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for the third time this month as part of a criminal investigation into abuse of office, Israeli media reported.

A police source confirmed the questioning took place but would not provide further details.

A Reuters cameraman at Netanyahu’s official residence, where the questioning took place, said investigators were on the scene for three hours.

Police confirm they are questioning Netanyahu as a suspect in two criminal cases, one involving gifts given to him and his family by businessmen and the other related to conversations he held with an Israeli publisher. He has denied wrongdoing.

If charges are brought, political upheaval in Israel would be likely, with pressure on Netanyahu, 67, to step down after 11 years in office, spread over four terms.

-- involves Netanyahu and family members receiving gifts on a regular basis from two businessmen. Israeli media have reported that the gifts include cigars and champagne.

The second involves a deal Netanyahu allegedly discussed with the owner of one of Israel’s largest newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth, for better coverage in return for curbs on competition from a free paper owned by U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.

Adelson is a supporter of the prime minister and his newspaper is staunchly pro-Netanyahu.

Israel Radio said Friday’s questioning mainly focused on the second case.

Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Netanyahu said there was nothing wrong with receiving gifts from close friends and that it was common for politicians to hold conversations with newspaper publishers. He accused opponents of trying to overthrow him.

Nuke ‘Doomsday Clock’ ticks closest to midnight in 64 years WasHinGTOn, JanuaRy 27 (REuTERs): Atomic scientists reset their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” to its closest time to midnight in 64 years on Thursday, saying the world was closer to catastrophe due to threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president.

The timepiece, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and displayed on its website, is widely viewed as an indicator of the world’s vulnerability to disaster.

Its hands were moved to two minutes and 30 seconds to midnight, from three minutes.

“The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been in the lifetime of almost everyone in this room,” Lawrence Krauss, the bulletin’s chair, told a news conference in Washington.

The clock was last set this close to midnight in 1953, marking the start of the nuclear

arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Thursday’s reset was the first since 2015.

Krauss, a theoretical physicist, said Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin carried a large share of the blame for the heightened threat.

The bulletin cited nuclear volatility, especially as the United States and Russia seek to modernize their atomic arsenals and remain at odds in war-torn countries such as Syria and Ukraine.

Trump has suggested South Korea and Japan could acquire nuclear weapons to compete with North Korea, which has conducted nuclear tests. Trump has also raised doubts about the future of a multilateral nuclear pact with Iran.

Chinese aid to Pakistan in the nuclear weapons field, as well as the expansion of India and Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals, were also worrisome, the bulletin said in a statement.

The climate change outlook

was somewhat less dismal, “but only somewhat.”

While nations had taken actions to combat climate change, the bulletin noted, there appeared to be little appetite for additional cuts to carbon dioxide emissions.

It said the Trump administration nominees raise the possibility the government will be “openly hostile to progress toward even the most modest efforts to avert catastrophic climate disruption.”

The world also faces cyber threats, the bulletin said. U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia intervened in the presidential election to help Trump raised the possibility of similar attacks on other democracies, it said.

The bulletin was founded by scientists who helped develop the United States’ first atomic weapons. Its Science and Security Board decides on the clock’s hands in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes Nobel laureates.

to press charges at any cost. There is no limit to the hounding, the persecution, the lies,” Netanyahu said.

In a research note published this week, Moody’s rating agency said the investigations into Netanyahu “are sufficiently serious that they could end his tenure as prime minister”.

“Should Netanyahu be forced to resign, it is likely that new elections would need to be held, since there is no clear successor in his Likud party.”

Under Israeli law, the prime minister is not obliged to resign even after

down. Opponents are calling for him to do so.

Netanyahu is not the first Israeli leader to have faced criminal investigation: former prime minister Ehud Olmert was convicted of breach of trust and bribery in 2014 and Ariel Sharon was questioned while in office over allegations of bribery and campaign financing illegalities.

Israel Radio and Channel Ten television reported this week that police were investigating two more cases involving Netanyahu. Police did not confirm or deny the reports.

Central Hindi Directorate Scheme of Financial Assistance for Publications in Hindi.

The above-mentioned scheme is being implemented by the Central Hindi Directorate, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development with a view to encourage Hindi writers to write in Hindi.

Financial Assistance for Publication of Hindi manuscripts:Under this scheme financial assistance will be provided for the publication of manuscripts of Hindi reference books, manuscripts of knowledge and science, linguistics, literature, critics, sociology, culture and translations into Hindi from other languages.

The manuscripts of fiction novels, dramas, poetry and thesises shall not be considered for financial assistance under the scheme. The scheme is applicable to writers only and not to publishers. The manuscripts should not be less than 100 pages.

Procedure for applying:The applicant may send his application on the prescribed performa to the Central Hindi Directorate alongwith one copy of the concerned manuscript latest by 28 February, 2017. Applications received after the last date shall not be entertained.

It may further be noted that under the scheme, the manuscript submitted must be neatly typed and bound (either spiral or properly stitched).

The illegible or unbound manuscripts shall be rejected.

The prescribed application form may be obtained from the following:Director Central Hindi Directorate, Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development West Block-VII, Ramakrishanpuram New Delhi-110066 For further details and the performa of the application please refer to our website:www.hindinideshalaya.nic.in

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South Korean and U.S. Marines participate in a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea on January 24. (REUTERS Photo)

Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

James Mattis, in his confirmation hearing as U.S. defence secretary, described “the Pacific theatre” as a priority and analysts expect new U.S. military spending under President Donald Trump to strengthen the U.S. presence in Asia.

Topping U.S. concerns in the region are North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programmes and China’s military moves in the South China Sea. North Korean media was dismissive of the exercises, but warned of retaliation.

“The colonial puppet forces, no more than a rabble, are keen on escalating the tension and the moves to ignite a war at a time when even their American master is at a loss how to cope with the DPRK’s powerful nuclear deterrent,” North Korea’s Minju Joson newspaper, quoted by the KCNA news agency, said. “... If the south Korean warmongers ignite a war against the DPRK, totally counting on the U.S., the revolutionary forces of the DPRK will wipe out the aggressors to the last man by fully displaying their tremendous might ...” DPRK stands for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s official name.

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Nagaland celebrates 68th Republic Day

Kohima, January 27 (mExn): As the Country marked the anniversary of its constitution coming into effect on January 26 1950 and celebrated the 68th Republic Day; Nagaland also joined the celebration by hosting the main function at the Secretariat Plaza, Kohima on January 26.

Gracing the function, Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya stated that considering the State’s large youth population, the ‘Nagaland Vision 2030’ emphasized more on generation of employment so that our youth are gainfully employed and they are not swayed towards undesirable and anti social activities.

Referring to the Urban Local Bodies, the Governor stated that the Department of Municipal Affairs has notified 13 new town council thereby bringing the total number of Municipal and Town Councils in the state to 32. He called upon the citizens to cooperate the provision of 33% reservation for women in Municipal and Town Councils.

On law and order, he said that in order to ensure the safety and security of the people, the headquarter of 12 Bn

(IR) was inaugurated at Longleng on September 27, 2016 and two full fledged Women police stations were established in Kohima on October 18, 2016 and in Dimapur on November 4, 2016.

The Governor, while launching on the Human Resource Development of the State, stated that through his initiative and support by the Indian National Fellowship (INFC), the state Department of School Education in collaboration with the Rotary club Mumbai (North) worked out a project to start e-learning in 28 selected Government higher Secondary School in Nagaland through Wockhardt Foundation, which is the prime donor providing the schools with equipment and assistance to strengthen education.

He said that to improve delivery of Midday Meal scheme in remote areas, with the involvement of the community and NGOs MOUs have been signed by the department of School Education with Eleutheros Christian Society (ECS) for Tuensang district and the Phoma Community Development Society (PCDS) for Longleng district. He further informed that the Education

department has decided to declare the year 2017 as the ‘Year of Research’ and accordingly, the SCERT in addition to its ongoing programmes would give special emphasis on the research aspect.

The Governor said that Naga boys and girls continue to excel in various sporting event they participate from time to time bringing laurels to the state.

He also reminded that the 100th birth anniversary of Dr. T. Ao was coming up in 2018 and called all to come together to celebrate the occasion.

In the health sector, the Department of Health & Family Welfare has expanded its reach by creating 109 new subcentres and upgrading 8 sub-centres to Primary health centres.

The Department of Social Welfare also coordinated sponsorship of 133 girl children under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme and an exclusive SBI bank account has been opened for this purpose.

The Governor also announced that for the welfare of the journalist in the state, the department of Information & Public Relations has notified the Nagaland journalists ‘Welfare Scheme’.

Governor’s Awards 2016

Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, on the occasion of the 68th Republic Day, awarded the Governor’s Award for distinction in the field of Art, Music & Literature on January 26 at Raj Bhavan, Kohima. The followings recipients were awarded with a certificate, a memento and a shawl along with a cheque worth Rs. 1 lakh: Neivotuo Keyho in Art Sculpture, Sandemo Ngullie in Art Cartoonist, Abiogenesis in music folk fusion, Nikolo Tsuzu in music, Medo Vizo and Senka Ao in literature.

Governor’s Gold Medal Awardees On the occasion of Republic Day 2017 the following were recommended the Governor’s Gold Medal Awardees at the Secretariat Plaza, Kohima on January 26.

• Albert Ngullie, Joint Director, Directorate of Land Resources, Kohima.

• P. Ajung Amer, Sr. Treasury Officer, Kohima (North) Treasury.

• Limathung Lotha, UBI, DEF, Mokokchung.

• N. Rasietho Kajiri, PA to DC Phek • Regina Razouseno, Lieutenant (NCC), St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama.

• T. Bendangsenla, Asst. Office Supdt. Office of the DG Prison, Nagaland.

Governor's Commendation Certificate Award 2017 • Seyiesezo Peseyie, NPS, ACP (Traffic) Zone-1, Dimapur.

• Kilemtoshi Jamir, NPS, ACP (SB), Dimapur.

• Imsutoshi Longkumer, UBSI, DEF, Kohima.

• Kethozelie Liezietsu, ABSI, 4th NAP Bn. Thizama.

• Er. Kasho Chishi, E.E (Electrical), Electrical Division, Chumukedima.

• Chopongse Sangtam, Sub-In-

spector of School, Longkhim.

• Yanithung N. Ngullie, NCS, EAC, Mopong.

• Sentilong Ozukum, NCS, EAC, Monyakshu.

• Chandu Kumar Agarwal, Chairman, Indian Red Cross Society, Dimapur & Rotary International Officer.

• Repjenyangba Ao, NPS, Asstt.

Commandant, 10th NAP (IR) Bn. • Kelevizo Nakhro, ABSI, DEF, Kohima.

• Pyingchamo Lotha, Office Peon, Finance Deptt., Expenditure ‘A' Branch.

• Seno Tsuhah, Chairperson of North East Network (NEN), Chizami, Phek.

• P. Nungsangwapang Jamir, NSS, Under Secretary, Agriculture Department, Nagaland Civil Secretariat.

• T. Wabang Longkumer, Fishery Demonstrator, Directorate of Fisheries, Nagaland.

DCCI visits orphanage

NAAME celebrated Republic Day with children of Kohima Nagaland Governor PB Acharya inspects the parade con- Orphanage & Destitute Home on January 26. Administrator tingents at the 68th Republic Day celebration at Nagaland of the KODH briefed about the Home. The programme was chaired and addressed by Khrieketoulie Kintso. Vimhaseo Secretariat Plaza Kohima on January 26. (DIPR Photo) George Richa gave a talk about Association followed by exhortation from Peleneizo Joseph Chadi. The KODH choir presented the theme song of KODH. The visiting team assured to extent a day-out trekking for KODH to Mt. Puliebadze with NAAME tentatively on February 11. As a token of love and affection, NAAME contributed some sports materials, vegetables, rice and sweets.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Lumami, Zunheboto celebrated the 68th Republic Day at its campus on January 26. The celebration began at the Assembly Ground in the school campus with the unfurling of the tricolor by KP Bhaskar, Principal JNV Zunheboto and march past by junior boys and girls of the school. Principal KP Bhaskar and Yogendra Akshay, PGT Geography spoke on the significance of the day. Short speeches on the occasion were delivered by Rohit of Class VIII and Baungan of class XI. Other highlights included Sumi Dance by Hikili and party and Patriotic song by class IX girls. Members of the Lions Club of Kohima (LCK) led by its President Lion Tali Jamir marked the Indian Republic Day Celebration by visiting inmates of the TB Hospital, Khuzama, on January 26. After a short service, the Club Members distributed eggs, sweets, lunch packs to the inmates and Nurses and spent time with them. (Photo Courtesy NEPS)

Kiphire district celebrated Republic Day with C. Kipili minister Power as chief guest. Kipile took salute of the seven parade contingent and inaugurated the seven stall of the agri and allied department and the weapon display of the 7th Assam rifles Kiphire. Lilongla Sangtam presented song while Taimetong cultural troupe Kiphire and Kiphire Village Women Society presented cultural dance. The Market Union also visited the inmates of the district jail Kiphire. Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department also organized a free vaccination camp in the district office. In the evening and exhibition football match will be played between DC & SP XI Vrs Hunters XI. (Morung Photo)

Sentinals of North East, the oldest Para Military Force of the nation took a lead and created history by participation of its first ever Republic Day Parade contingent of Rifleman (General Duty-Mahila) in the Republic Day Parade 2017 at Kohima.

It was a proud moment for the force to behold this laudable performance of the Assam Rifles women contingent that marched on the tunes of the exemplary pipe band of 3 (Naga Hills), the oldest of the Assam Rifles Batallions. The contingent comprised 38 women from various Assam Rifles’ units led by a JCO contingent cdr from 3 (Naga Hills) Assam Rifles.

The Naga Voluntary Women Association (NVWA) on the occasion of 68th Republic Day celebration visited the Spastic Society of Nagaland at Kohima. Kevi Rangkau, President, NVWA; Kakheli Jakhalu, General Secretary, NWVA; Dr Nandi- Members of Indian Red Cross Society, Mokokchung Branch donates trays of eggs to patients of Dr Imkongliba Memorial The Justice S. Serto, Judge, Gauhati High Court inauguratra; and Bano Z. Jamir spoke during the visit.

Dist Hospital, Mokokchung Chest & TB Hospital and Wood- ed the Kohima District Legal Services Authority’s (KDLSA) lands Nursing Home on the occasion of Republic Day 2017. stall at the 68th Republic Day of India celebrations at New Secretariat Complex, Kohima. The event also witnessed the launching of the Tenyidie version of ‘The Nagaland Village Council Acts, 1978’ with Home Department Nagaland notification Dated November 21, 1979 and Nagaland Village Development Board Model Rules, 1980. The function was chaired by. Mezivolu Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kohima. Also children related laws, Women related laws, Right to information Act, Legal Services Authority Act pamphlets and books among other Acts were distributed free of cost.

DCCI members and volunteers seen with inmates of St Joseph’s Children Home, Dimapur on the occasion of Republic Day. (Morung photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | January 26

A team of Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) and volunteers led by its Secretary, Sanjay Sethi on January 26 visited St. Joseph’s Children Home at United North Block ‘B’ Dimapur.

The DCCI team distributed fruits and eatables to the orphans and destitute children and interacted with them.

DCCI Secretary, Sanjay Sethi lauded the management of the Children

Home for taking care of the destitute children by providing them shelter, food, education etc. He urged the management to feel free to approach DCCI if it could help the destitute children in any manner in the future.

Director of St. Joseph’s Children Home, Fr. Abraham thanked the DCCI for its visit and highlighted about activities of the children.

The Home shelters 50 children from Manipur, Assam and Nagaland. The children presented special numbers during the visit.

The State BJP celebrated the 68th Republic day on January 26 at its Party Head Office Complex Dimapur. The State President Visasolie Lhoungu unfurled the National Flag in the presence of party members, State office Bearers, State Frontal Office Bearers, party Senior leaders, State Cell office Bearers, DImapur District Office Bearers and other party supporters.

Members of the Kohima Press Club (KPC) visited the Kripa Foundation Centre Kohima on the occasion of the 68th Republic Day on Thursday. Kripa Kohima director, Abou Mere shared in brief the history of Kripa Foundation. KPC president Xavier Rutsa delivered a brief speech. Two Kripa clients shared their struggles with alcohol and addiction and their journey to recovery. Bange Konyak, a counsellor at the institution proposed the vote of thanks Kripa Centre Kohima currently houses 29 patients. The KPC donated some essential items to the facility on the occasion. Altogether, 15 members of the club participated in the visitation.

Angami Catholic Union (ACU) led by Vice President Vikehielie Victor visited Eden Garden, Khuzama on the occasions Royal Club Kohima with children of Bright Morning Star Chilof the 68th Republic Day 2017. dren Home, Kohima as part of Republic Day visitation on January 26.

The Gorkha Public Panchayat Kohima (GPPK) visited State Mental health Institute, Aradhura, Kohima on the eve of the 68th Republic Day and distributed food to patients and staff of Institute.

Members of Indian Red Cross Society, Dimapur District Branch visited the Mothers’ Hope, Dimapur on the occasion of the Republic Day. Founder Director of Mothers’ Hope Moamenla Jamir; KK Paul, Honorary Secretary; Vice-Chairman Ajay Sethi; Hannan Tapadar, President, Muslim Council Dimapur shared during the event. IRCS donated rice, dal, sanitary napkins, baby powder, baby oil, milk powder besides cash and clothes in the member’s personal capacities.

Naresh Sethi, Divya Sethi and Jitesh Sethi were also present on the occasion.

Sainik School Punglwa celebrated 68th Republic Day with Gp Capt Sanjay Gaekwad, principal of the school as the chief guest who unfurled the Tri-colour. NCC cadets of Sainik School Punglwa performed a full ceremonial parade. Cdt Aboka M Kinimi and Cdt Suraj Kumar gave a speech in English and Hindi respectively, recalling the glorious history of the Republic of India. The drill competition was won by Patkai House. In the morning one contingent comprising of 31 NCC Cadets of Nagaland Sainik School (Independent) Coy participated in the Republic Day parade held at Peren District Headquarters.

As part of its legal awareness campaign, Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) manned a stall at the 68th Republic day celebration at the DDSC stadium to interact with the public attending the program. The team headed by Ajongba Imchen, Secretary DDLSA and Chief Judicial MagStudents and faculty of Public College of Commerce as part istrate, Dimapur, answered queries and distributed literature of the Republic Day celebration visited Mother Teresa Home, on legal topics to the attendees. The team thereafter visited Riverbelt Colony Dimapur on January 26. The team distrib- the District Jail where conditions were assessed and legal uted edibles and other items during their visit. servicers extended to the inmates.

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Nagamese film ‘Destiny’ to be released on February 3

T Iranian actress to shun Oscars in protest of Trump immigrant ban

he star of Iran's Oscarnominated movie "The Salesman" said on Thursday she would not attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood next month because of U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed ban on immigrants from Muslim nations. Taraneh Alidoosti, 33, a Tehran-born actress, said the move was racist. "Trump's visa ban for Iranians is racist.

Whether this will include a cultural event or not, I won't attend the #AcademyAwards 2017 in protest," Alidoosti said on Twitter. An executive order expected to be signed by Trump in coming days will block the entry to the United States of Syrian refugees, and suspend the entry of any immigrants from Muslim-majority countries Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen. In "The Salesman," Alidoosti plays one half of an Iranian couple whose life becomes strained as they take part in a production of the American stage classic "Death of a Salesman." The film,

by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, was nominated on Tuesday for a foreign-language Oscar, and has won prizes at film festivals in Cannes, Chicago and Munich. Alidoosti has also appeared in the popular Iranian TV soap opera "Shahrzad."

Source: Reuters

Rapper Moko Koza experiments with Tenyidie rap in new single

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he indistinct and adept Kohima based rapper Moko Koza who has been doing rounds in the local music circuit lately have released a brand new single titled “One Day-Khounhie Puo” which also features lyrical bars in Tenyidie.

Backed by his distinguished catchy tunes, extent of the past three minutes track highlights the determination to persevere and hustle through hardships of life and is a self transfused inspirational song.

Starting off with melodic guitar riffs the pro-

duction features a laid back drum arrangement backed by soulful piano tunes.

First verse of the single is filled with insights into the cordial character the young artist is. Correlating his perception with subtle metaphor he highlights emphasis on grinding with exertion and enthusiasm.

Chorus of the song is an emotionally charged lullaby with accompanying vocals backed by spontaneous chipmunk like effect.

The second verse features its debut in Tenyidie dialect covering aspects relating to culmination of life goals

Elton John to pen ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical

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egendary singer Elton John has been roped in to write the music for the Broadway adaptation of "The Devil Wears Prada".

John will work with playwright Paul Rudnick on the production, reports the guardian.com.

John has great experience within the genre, hav-

ing worked on hits like "The Lion King" and "Billy Elliot" in the past.

"Re-imagining ‘The Devil Wears Prada' for the musical theatre is super exciting. I'm a huge fan of both the book and the feature film and a huge aficionado of the fashion world.

I can't wait to sink my musical teeth into this hunk of

popular culture," John said in a statement.

The hit 2006 film was based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger and starred actress Meryl Streep as a tyrannical fashion magazine editor who made life miserable for assistants played by Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt.

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month of November 2016 by parliamentary secretary of Art and Culture Ishak Konyak but distribution of the movie could not be done due to demonetization.

The screening was also attended by Karo Trakha, president of Naga Awaz Film Society.

Shurhosenuo Yano, Jonah Ezung, Jasper and Imrong Jamir are in the leads of the movie.

Konyak’s previous works include ‘Just for Love’, ‘Load’ and ‘Journalist’.

The movie will be released in the market on February 3 and will be available in the stores.

Actor, Producer and Director Munna Yadav, proprietor of Murti Films pvt ltd (extreme right) along with his team members Apu Lam, Rinku and Shawnclinton Lazarus, Action Director of upcoming Hindi movie RUN (Daud) produced by murti films pvt ltd Distributed Mats, Foods and Juice items to the poor, Homeless people and Rickhaw Driver on the occasion of Republic Day 2017 at Dimapur Town.

Javed akhTar pens new Parle-G campaign

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Deepika, Priyanka trying to achieve ‘different things’

ctress Deepika Padukone, who is often compared with actress Priyanka Chopra, feels there is no need to compare the two as both are trying to achieve "very different things" for themselves.

Deepika, who returned on Friday after promoting her Hollywood debut film "xXx: Return of Xander Cage", said: "I don't think there is any need for comparisons. We both are in very different worlds and are trying to achieve very different things for ourselves." After making her debut in the popular American series "Quantico", Priyanka is now gearing up for her Hollywood project "Baywatch". Directed by Seth Gordon, the film also features Dwayne Johnson. Asked about the response to "xXx: Return of Xander Cage", Deepika said: "It was amazing. We received an extremely overwhelming response for our film and my performance. I am very happy."

The Bollywood star, who has been shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus "Padmavati", also shared her schedule for the film and her upcoming projects. "I think there will be an outdoor shoot for the film. Besides that, I have some endorsement commitments. I am going straight back to my work now," she said. The period drama also features Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh.

or strength of mind and will that may influence the path one embrace for entity. It may be ascertained here that the artist is one of the first to introduce Tenyidie influenced rap through standard form of song recording. On further correspondence the budding rapper concluded by stating that through this song he wanted to lay emphasis on the assumption that we all can make it someday no matter the strife or struggle and along the way a beautiful life awaits for everybody.

Link to the song http:// ow.ly/kQ2w308oZMs

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agaland Film Forum Production after refraining from releasing its latest movie in the market for three months due to the sudden demonetization move by the government of India, the local production house is finally set to release ‘Destiny’ on February 3.

Shot during June 2016, the Nagamese movie which will have English subtitle is directed and produced by Akash Atae Konyak who also happens to play a part in the movie and the script of the romantic flick is written by Florence.

The premier of the movie was screened in the

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eteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar has been roped in to write the new campaign, titled "Bharat Ka Apna Biscuit", for Parle Products Parle-G. The campaign brings back memories of the origin of the biscuit and further strengthens its positioning as one of India's most loved home grown brands.

Keeping the essence of Parle-G's previous ad campaign, "Roko Mat Toko Mat" alive, the new campaign highlights how young Indians, through their innovation and contributions in various fields, have been instrumental in making India a progressive and popular nation globally.

With the new television commercial, the brand aims to bring back the

nostalgia associated with Parle-G and celebrate its journey in India's evolution and success.

"Parle-G, which is one of the most loved brands of India, has always been a champion of excellence and today it continues to be a part of India's ad-

vancement as a global economy," said Mayank Shah, Category Head, Parle Products Pvt. Ltd. The campaign will be promoted through a 360-degree approach starting with a TV commercial.

It will be supported by a digital campaign and movie partnerships with "Raees" and "Kaabil".

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Fulfill our promise: Let's gift a Polio-free World to our Children Vietnam’s Le Hang competes during a national costume preliminary competition during the Miss Universe preliminaries, January 26, 2017. More than 86 women from all over the world gathered in Manila on Thursday to compete in the Miss Universe beauty contest that will culminate in a coronation in the Philippines capital on Monday. (REUTERS)

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Nadal edges Dimitrov to set up dream Federer final

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MELBOURNE, JaNUaRy 27 (REUtERs): Rafa Nadal had to be at his battling best to outlast Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 5-7 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4 at the Australian Open on Friday and set up a mouth-watering ninth grand slam final meeting with his great rival Roger Federer.

The Spaniard looked every inch a 14-times grand slam champion as he slugged it out with his 25-year-old opponent over nearly five hours on Rod Laver Arena to reach his first major final since the 2014 French Open and 21st overall.

"Grigor was playing unbelievable, it was a great match," the 30-yearold said.

"I think both of us deserve to be in that final, it was a great fight. Finally it was me, I feel lucky and I am very happy for that."

With 35-year-old Serena Williams facing her 36-year-old sister Venus in Saturday's women's final and a rested Federer, 35, waiting for Nadal on Sunday, it is the first time in the open era that all four grand slam finalists have been over 30.

Dimitrov, riding high on a 10-match winning streak and seeking his first grand slam final, did his best to keep the twentysomething standard flying into the weekend.

"It's never easy to lose a match like that," said Dimitrov, who hit 79 winners. "But it also shows me that I'm on the right path.

At least one thing I can say is I left it all out there on court."

Nadal missed a large part of the 2016 season because of a wrist injury but proved there was nothing wrong with his fitness as he scrapped to go 2-1 up, sealing the deal with a blistering forehand which Dimitrov parried into the net.

Another tiebreaker looked inevitable when the break points dried up in the fourth set, and Dimitrov quickly took control before serving up a 195 kph bomb to send the contest into a decider.

There were chances for both men in the fifth but, with midnight long past, Nadal came to the net to punch a backhand into the back court, break for 5-4 and earn the right to serve for the match.

Venus stands between Serena and history

Spain's Rafael Nadal hits a shot during his Men's singles semi-final match against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov. (Reuters Photo)

Still Dimitrov would not lie down, though, and Nadal needed three match points to win his 12th straight grand slam semifinal and reach his fourth Australian Open final.

"It's special to play Roger again in the final of a grand slam, I cannot lie," Nadal added.

"I need to go back to the hotel, to rest well, and to recover."

Nagaland gets bronze in Nat’l Youth Boxing C’ship

DIMaPUR, JaNUaRy 27 (MExN): Nagaland participated and won a bronze medal at the 1st Youth National Boxing Competition held at New Delhi from January 16 to 22.

Tenzingtseda Bhutia won the lone bronze medal for the state in the +91-kg category. Bhutia is also selected to attend the prestigious India camp to represent India outside the country.

The state youth team comprising of 7 male and 3 female Boxers were led by Boxing Coaches Tsungchetrenla and Ralyaveioo and Team Manager Gaurav Dewan Rai.

Organised by Boxing Federation of India (BFI) for both men and women between the ages of 17 and 18, the championship witnessed over 500 male and female boxers compromising of 30 teams from across the states vying for top honours.

Meanwhile, in a bid to push competitors, the BFI introduced prize money for the 80 medalists (both men & women).

There were 10 weight categories with each category having 4 winners. The gold medalists were awarded Rs. 20,000; silver – Rs. 12,000; and two bronze medalists were each awarded Rs. 7000.

Sania-Dodig in Australian Open final MELBOURNE, JaNUaRy 27 (IaNs): Ace Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig defeated local favourites Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth to enter the Australian Open mixed doubles final here on Friday.

The second seeded Indo-Croatian pair outplayed the Australian duo 6-4, 2-6, 10-5.

They will now take on the winner of the second semi-final featuring Elina Svitolina-Chris Guccione and Abigail Spears-Juan Sebastian Cabal.

Runguzu youth win volley tourney at Chesezu

PhEk, JaNUaRy 27 (MExN): Runguzu Nasa Youth Association emerged as the champion of 4th Open Volleyball Tournament at Chesezu Village, under Phek district. Runguzu Nasa Youth Association defeated Sotsukha Club Senior of Chetheba Town in the final. Altogether, 8

teams participated in the tournament organized by Concord Club Chesezu under the theme ‘Fraternity’. The opening ceremony was graced by Vezovolu Swuro, President, NPF Women, Phek Division, while closing ceremony was graced by Zulhunuyi Nyekha.

It was Venus who knocked Serena out in round two on her Grand Slam debut 19 years ago, and they have since played eight major finals against each other.

Serena leads 6-2 in those finals, and has an overall 16-11 win-loss record against her sibling.

While reluctant to speak about making history, she is happy to dwell on another all-Williams final, heaping praise on Venus.

The elder Williams has beaten injuries and overcome Sjogren's syndrome, a rare, energy-sapping autoimmune disorder, to reach a 15th Grand Slam final, nearly eight years after her last.

"After everything that Venus has been through with her illness and stuff, I just can't help but feel like it's a win-win situation for me," she said.

"I was there for the whole time. We lived together. I know what she went through.

"It's the one time that I really genuinely feel like no matter what happens, I can't lose, she can't lose. It's going to be a great situation."

"This probably is the moment of our careers so far," she said.

Venus admits her sister doesn't have many weaknesses in her game to exploit, but she is up for the challenge.

"When I'm playing on the court with her, I think I'm playing the best competitor in the game. I don't think I'm chump change either, you know," she said.

29th ZASA Sports Meet underway Kohli slips in ICC ODI rankings

ZUNhEBOtO, JaNUaRy 27 (MExN): The 29th Sports Meet of Zunheboto Area Sports Association (ZASA) got underway at Local Ground and Indoor Stadium, Zunheboto on January 27 with VicePresident Sumi Hoho and former Chairman, Zunheboto Town Council, H. Khehoshe Yepthomi as the chief guest at the inaugural programme.

Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest thanked the pioneers for being farsighted in establishing the ZASA which is

an apex body in Zunheboto area and for promoting sports for younger generations. Yepthomi also urged the players to create awareness and build relationship among areas and range through sports diploma-

cy while reminding them to play the tournament in true sportsmanship. The chief guest later declared the tournament open.

President, Zunheboto Area Kukami Hoho (ZAKH), Vikaho T. Zhimo in his short speech encouraged the players and the area people to live up to the expectations of the society while extending his full support and cooperation to ZASA. The two day tournament will see 17 villages compete in volleyball and badminton.

DUBaI, JaNUaRy 27 (PtI): Indian captain Virat Kohli today slipped a rung to third in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen but his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni gained a spot to be 13th in the latest list issued here.

Rohit Sharma slipped three places to be 12th, while Shikhar Dhawan was in the joint 14th spot with Englishman Jos Butler.

Among the bowlers, no Indian found a place in the top-10 with Akshar Patel being the highest placed at 12th, a drop of three posi-

tions. Following him closely was Amit Mishra at the joint 14th position.

The Indian team was unchanged at the third position in the team rankings.

Meanwhile, Australia opener David Warner wrested the top spot rankings for ODI Batsmen.

The attacking lefthander has attained the top ranking for the first time, leapfrogging South Africa's AB de Villiers and Kohli after amassing 367 runs in the five-match home series against Pakistan which his side won 4-1.

United reach League Cup Dzieselatuo is NASA Wrestling Champ final despite loss to Hull

hULL, JaNUaRy 27 (REUtERs): Manchester United reached the League Cup final but were made to sweat as Hull City won the second leg of their last-four encounter 2-1 on Thursday to come within one goal of forcing extra time.

Hull's Oumar Niasse scored in the 85th minute to reduce the aggregate deficit to 3-2, but there was to be no fairytale comeback for the Premier League relegation strugglers who were spirited in their efforts to overturn their 2-0 first-leg defeat.

Tom Huddlestone had put the hosts ahead after 35 minutes from the penalty spot, but they were unable to turn the screw and allowed a much-improved United to claw their way back into the match after the break when Paul Pogba stabbed in an equaliser.

Niasse steered home The Annual Sports Meet cum Golden Jubilee of Suruhuto Area Sports Association (SASA) got underway on January 25 at Suruhuto town. Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and a David Meyler cross Printing and Stationary Shetoyi Sumi Shetoyi who was the chief guest at the inaugural un- from close range but Jose veiled the golden jubilee monolith. Altogether 16 clubs are participating in the tournament while around 5000 delegates are taking part in the jubilee celebrations. The celebrations will conclude on January 28.

MELBOURNE, JaNUaRy 27 (aFP): Serena Williams is on the cusp of making Grand Slam history, 19 years after her first appearance at the Australian Open -- with only her greatest rival, sister Venus, able to stop her.

The 35-year-old American made her Grand Slam debut in Melbourne way back in 1998 and won the first of her major titles at the US Open a year later.

She has since accumulated 22 over an astonishing career, matching Steffi Graf's Open-era record. One more on Saturday -- her seventh in Australia -and she will hold the record outright, with only Margaret Court's all-time mark of 24 left to achieve.

Williams has refused to talk about the possibility of finally surpassing the German, after intense pressure over the long-standing record took its toll at last year's US Open, when she lost in the semi-finals.

But she now has a golden chance of further cementing her place in history, and at the same time reclaiming the top world ranking that Angelique Kerber seized from her last year.

"It is what it is. Like I said from the beginning, I don't really talk about that any more," Serena said when pressed on what breaking the Graf record would mean.

Intriguingly, it is her older sister who could ruin her day, with Venus, 36, turning back the clock to make her first Grand Slam final since Wimbledon in 2009.

Mourinho's side held on to set up a clash against Southampton in the final at Wembley on Feb. 26 after the Saints upset Liverpool on Wednesday at Anfield.

It was Mourinho's 54th birthday, but the Portuguese did not seem in celebratory mood as he cut short his post-match television interview after one question, having seemed visibly annoyed on the touchline with a number of referee Jon Moss's decisions.

"I just want to say congratulations to my players.

It was a difficult road to be in the final and we are in the final," Mourinho told Sky Sports after his side's 17-game unbeaten run came to an end.

"I don't want to say anything else. It is enough, I am calm, I behaved on the bench so no more words," added the Portuguese, who has been given two touchline bans this season.

Winners of NASA wrestling meet with officials. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | January 27

29 year old Dzieselatuo Keriitsii of Kohima village today downed his elder brother Sedevizo Keriitsii (30 years) in the final to emerge as the champion of the Northern Angami Sports Association (NASA) Wrestling Meet at the Kohima Local Ground. The wrestling event is part of NASA’s 58th Meet.

Dzieselatuo beat Menuosetuo Yiese and Zasituo Tsiikrii in the quarterfinals

and semifinals respectively while runner-up Sedevizo overpowered Keduovilie Zumu and Keneikhrielie Yhome.

Zasituo Tsiikrii of Dihoma village and Keneikhrielie Yhome of Kohima village stood third and fourth place respectively.

Meanwhile, the 14 qualified wrestlers to represent NASA at the forthcoming ASA wrestling meet are: Dzieselatuo Keriitsii, Sedevizo Keriitsii, Zasituo Tsiikrii, Keneikhrielie Yhome, Kezha-

bou Zumu, Keviyenyii Rutsa, Kezhavizo Thevo, Menuosetuo Yiese, Kikruvilie Zumu, Seyiekhrietuo Yiese, Keduovilie Zumu, Kekhriengulie Whuorie, Kevizolie Whuorie and Khrievotuo Sekhose.

Earlier, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, State Lotteries and Music Task Force Khriehu Liezietsu graced the wrestling meet as the chief guest while NASA Wrestling Secretary Zhakholie Metha administered oath to the wrestlers.

MDFA free football clinic cum talent hunt culminates MOkOkchUNg, JaNUaRy 27 (MExN): The Mokokchung District Football Association (MDFA) today expressed high hopes on the young Under-15 footballers who have been undergoing an intensive free football clinic cum coaching at Mokokchung for the past two weeks.

The free football coaching for the U-15, initiated by the MDFA for the second year, is aimed at identifying, tapping and promoting young football talents in the district. The free coaching, which was held on the theme ‘Talent Hunt’, saw forty young boys registering for the program. The youngest to register was a

Coaches, MDFA officials and participants of the Under-15 Free Football Clinic cum Talent Hunt organized by the MDFA pose for a picture on the last day of the camp at Imkongmeren Sports complex, Mokokchung, January 27.

young boy aged 9 years.

They had been intensively coached and trained by veteran football players roped in by the MDFA. The coaches were: Lanunukshi, Nungsangyanger, Kora Walling and L Achi.

After weeks of training, the young boys played an exhibition match for ninety minutes, and the MDFA gave away certificates and medals to the participants of the coaching camp.

The ‘Tournament Sec-

retary of MDFA’, Supongwati while speaking with media persons, expressed great hope that the youngsters, if they show the same consistency and dedication would one day become great footballers. He

further disclosed that the MDFA is planning to hold another special football clinic in the month of June, during the school summer break.

He further disclosed that the MDFA is planning to hold either an Inter-school football tournament or an Under-15 Inter-club tournament this calendar year.

Nonetheless, Supongwati deeply acknowledged the MDFA for holding the free football camp successfully for two consecutive years; he also appreciated the coaches, the parents, the football lovers and the participants for making the football clinic a great success.

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