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Assam Rifles arms catch for 2015

DiMAPuR, JANuARy 28 (MExN): The Assam Rifles has affected a recovery of 263 firearms and 19,157 rounds of ammunition in operations conducted during 2015 in Nagaland. The PRO of the AR while highlighting the seizures made by the para-military unit in the state informed that a total of 516 persons were apprehended during the same period for involvement in anti-social activities. Of the people apprehended, 230 were cadres of the various Naga Political Groups and 286 were civilians. 170 of the firearms and 16,812 rounds of the ammunition were recovered from civilians “not associated with any underground faction,” the PRO stated in a press release.

The seized firearms included 142 pistols of various calibres, 10 AK and M16 series rifles, one lathode rifle and 24 types of “local made weapons.” The release further stated that the AR is doing everything possible to contain proliferation of unauthorised/illegal arms and ammunition in the society.

Earthworms could threaten plant diversity: Study finds

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tORONtO, JANuARy 28 (iANs): A study of correlation between the number of earthworms and the abundance and diversity of certain understory species has found that the earthworm could be a threat to plant diversity in natural ecosystems. Researchers from Canada’s Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke visited sugar maple forests in Quebec province and found that new shoots of red maple, striped maple, American beech, and two fern species became rarer as earthworm populations increased. “The most likely explanation is that the earthworms consume organic matter in forest litter,” said Line Lapointe, a professor at Université Laval’s faculty of science and engineering and the study’s lead author. “This results in soils that can’t hold as much moisture, and that in turn interferes with seed germination and the ability of some species’ plantlets to survive,” she added. Earthworms have started to change plant composition in sugar maple forests, according to the researchers. “If nothing is done, these changes could become more pronounced and spread to other forest communities,” Lapointe said.

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WHo extremely alarmed by Zika, could reach four million cases

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He used to be very intelligent. Now look at what he’s become...a full fledged idiot!!

Pucca his smart phone is sucking up his intelligence.

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GENEVA, JANuARy 28 (REutERs): The World Health Organization (WHO) expects the Zika virus, which is spreading through the Americas, to affect between three million and four million people, a disease expert said on Thursday.

The WHO’s director-general said the spread of the mosquito-borne disease had gone from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions.

Marcos Espinal, an infectious disease expert at the WHO’s Americas regional office, said: “We can expect 3 to 4 million cases of Zika virus disease”. He gave no time frame.

There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, which is a close cousin of dengue and chikungunya and causes mild fever, rash and red eyes. An estimated 80 percent of people infected have no symptoms, making it difficult for pregnant women to know whether they have been infected.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the organisation’s will convene an emergency committee on Monday to help determine the level of the international response to an outbreak of the virus spreading from Brazil that is believed to be A group of Naga men in traditional attire share a light moment at a vil- linked to severe birth defects. lage in Tuensang. Photo by Toshi Kichu “The level of alarm is ex-

Cases of Zika Virus reported in twenty three countries

Mothers with their children, who have microcephaly, await medical care at the Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, in Recife, Brazil, January 26. (REUTERS)

tremely high,” Chan told WHO executive board members at a meeting in Geneva. “As of today, cases have been reported in 23 countries and territories in the (Americas) region.”

Brazil’s Health Ministry said in November 2015 that Zika

was linked to a foetal deformation known as microcephaly, in which infants are born with abnormally small heads Brazil has reported 3,893 suspected cases of microcephaly, the WHO said last week, more than 30 times more than in any

year since 2010 and equivalent to 1-2 percent of all newborns in the state of Pernambuco, one of the worst-hit areas.

Chan said that while a direct causal relationship between Zika virus infection and birth malformations has not yet been established, it is “strongly suspected”.

“The possible links, only recently suspected, have rapidly changed the risk profile of Zika from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions,” she said.

Other countries in the Americas are likely to see birth defects linked to the Zika virus, the head of the World Health Organization’s Americas arm told Reuters on Thursday.

“Certainly in the Americas, Brazil is the first country with a massive outbreak of Zika and the other countries are now beginning their outbreaks so if we are going to see microcephaly we have to wait for 9 months,” said Carissa Etienne, Regional-Director for the WHO Pan American Health Organization.

“We don’t know if Zika causes microcephaly but that is our guess, that we are going to see microcephaly because of Zika,” she said, referring to the brain damage in babies born with small heads.

Appoint Lotha language teachers ‘GBs an integral part of Naga identity’ under RMSA, LHW tell State govt

WOKHA, JANuARy 28 (MExN): The Lotha Hoho, Wokha (LHW) has asked the Commissioner & Secretary, Nagaland State Education Department to immediately appoint Lotha Language teachers under the RMSA. The LHW, in a press note from its General Secretary, Mhondamo Ovung, referred to an advertisement dated January 27, 2014 for appointment of second language teachers, and the result of the selection declared on November 30, 2015, by the Mission Director, RMSA, Nagaland.

It alleged “discrepancy in number of posts advertised and the appointments made for Lotha teachers,” and said that as per the advertisement,

“the number of posts for Lotha language teachers was 10 (ten) and that of Tenyidie was 21 (twenty one).” However, the LHW expressed surprise that the “number of teachers appointed as Lotha teachers is 3 (three) only, against 10 (ten) posts advertised, where as that appointed as Tenyidie teachers is 30 (thirty) against 21 (twenty one) posts advertised, plus 5 (five) in waiting list.”

“Since 12 (twelve) Lotha candidates have sat for the selection Interview, the appointment of the 10 (ten) Lotha teachers may be done immediately, in order of merit,” it demanded.

The LHW further questioned as to why the department could not complete the recruitment process

even after two years, and has “instead set qualifying prerequisites for the candidates, such as to have studied Lotha up to Class XII (twelve).” “This prerequisite is like asking candidates to have Engineering or Medical Degree from the Nagaland University which has no such college; because so far the Education department has not made any appointment of “Designated Language (Lotha)” teachers, even in schools,” it said.

At present, the LHW informed that teaching local languages like Lotha, is done by local teachers, discretionally assigned to do so by the controlling teachers, “which is to say that local language learning is in infancy.” Therefore, it said

that the concerned department needs to first streamline the appointment and posting of designated language teachers, with set syllabi, at all levels and then conduct the needed examinations, for awarding qualifying certificates.

Then only can the Recruiting authority set prerequisite qualifications for appointment, it reasoned.

The LHW further asked the RMSA authority to clarify, in written, the reason(s), within a month (thirty days), as to “why Lotha teachers appointed are short, the Tenyidie teachers are appointed in excess, and why it should take 2(two) long years (after GBs who participated at the inaugural ceremony of the silver jubilee celebration of GB’s 27/01/2014), to complete Union Chessore Area held at Chessore town public ground on Wednesday. the process of recruitment Morung Express News custodian of the customary ment desire for a peace to of teachers.” laws and practices, which reign in Nagaland, this GBs Chessore | January 28 also implies safeguard- union comprising of 13 vilParliamentary Secretary ing the inherent rights the lages and Chessore town, for Municipal Affairs, and Naga people, GBs should should also contribute toEconomics & Statistics, R follow the principle of nat- wards bringing an environHowever, recent admission Tohanba, said ‘gaonburas’ ural justice and deliver jus- ment where each one of us

by Head Constable Herojit (GBs) are an “integral and tice without fear or favour. can co-exist in peace and Tohanba said unlike harmony”, Tohanba said.

Singh revealed that he was indispensable” compoThe Parliamentary Sectold by then Additional SP, nent of the unique identity the Indian judiciary sysImphal West, Akoijam Jha- and history of the Nagaland tem, delivery of justice by retary further expressed Naga customary courts is optimism that with the lajhit, who is now SP of the people.

The Parliamentary Sec- quick, cheap and accessi- signing of the Framework same district, to “finish him off.” Herojit also admitted retary said the role of GBs ble by one and all. He how- Agreement between the that Sanjit was unarmed assumes greater signifi- ever lamented that in re- Government of India and and had been compliant cance in the light of Article cent times, there has been NSCN (IM), Nagas would with the police, when he was 371 (A) of the Indian Con- a decrease in the number of experience a new dawn of stitution, which gives spe- appeals and cases in Naga peace and prosperity. detained.

SDO (C) Chessore, K This shows, maintained cial provision to the State of customary and village Furhesie; President Yimthe NEFIS, that “the way Nagaland in respect of re- courts. in which Manipur Police ligious or social practices, “But as long as the GBs chungrü Tribal Council, Z Commandos have been Naga customary law and keep their integrity intact Keozih and President Yimallowed to function by the procedure and adminis- and deliver justices with- chungrü GB’s Union also Manipur Government and tration of civil and criminal out bias, the institution of addressed the jubilee celhave consequently become justice involving decisions GB-ship will flourish even ebration. NPF central Vice adept at ‘finishing off’ peo- according to Naga custom- in the days to come”, he President, Lepshi Ao, acple in extra-judicial kill- ary law. said and added that as the companied the Parliamenings and fake encounters.

“Nagaland is unique name suggests “gaonbu- tary Secretary.

This is a clear case of state- not only because of its co- ras” should exhibit matuEarlier, President GB’s sponsored fake encounter, lourful tribes and their rich rity, wisdom and have in- Union Chessore Area, denying people their basic cultural heritage but also depth knowledge of Naga Neoji Yim, delivered the right to be tried through a because of institutions like traditions and customs. welcome address and due legal process.” NEFIS the GB-ship”, Tohanba said The Parliamentary Sec- Chairman, jubilee planhas pledged to continue its in his address as chief guest retary also said GBs and ning committee, Shokum, struggle and build a “huge of the inaugural ceremony village councils being the proposed vote of thanks. movement” against the of the silver jubilee celebra- grassroot representatives Troupes from ShipManipur Government un- tion of GB’s Union Ches- of the Government, it is wonger village, Huker viltil such extra-judicial kill- sore Area held at Chessore their bounden duty to act lage, Chessore village and ings and fake encounters town public ground on as a bridge between the Sholünberü Culture Club “stop and the culprits are Wednesday. people and government. presented cultural dances brought to justice.”

“As much as the govern- and songs.

He said GBs being the

NEFIS protests 2009 Imphal fake encounter

NEW DElHi, JANuARy 28 (MExN): People from different North-East communities gathered today at Manipur Bhawan in New Delhi, under the banner of North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) to protest the encounter killing of Chongkham Sanjit by Manipur Police Commandos (MPC) in 2009.

A by-stander Rabina was also killed in this encounter, which took place in a busy market area in Imphal.

NEFIS submitted a Memorandum to the Resident Commissioner, Manipur Bhawan demanding an independent inquiry of the case by an International Organization like UNO, since Chief Minister too is implicated in this “statesponsored fake encounter,” stated a press release from NEFIS Convenor, Chinglen Khumukcham.

The Forum demanded that the then Additional SP, Imphal West, Akoijam Jhalajhit, be “immediately suspended” and an inquiry initiated on him. They also

Protestors from the NE community at Manipur Bhawan, New Delhi on Thursday, January 28.

demanded that appropriate compensation be provided to the victim’s family and that the Government of Manipur tender an “immediate apology not only to the victim’s family, but

to the people of Manipur for brutally violating their democratic rights.”

It may be mentioned that the Police, in 2009, had alleged that Sanjit had been killed in retaliatory firing.

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NEISSR organises workshop on non violence

Dimapur, January 28 (mExn): The North East Institute of Social Science and Research (NEISSR) organised a two days workshop on non-violence in collaboration with University of Rhode Island, USA as a build up to the second National Peace Convention.

The workshop was animated

by Dr Paul B Mesquita and Kathryn Johnson - Bueno de Mesquita, School of Education and Centre for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, University of Rhode Island, USA on January 27 and 28.

Rev. Dr. C. P. Anto, Principal NEISSR welcomed the participants and stressed on the need of building a society which values the principles of non violence and practice it in everyday life. He expressed that it is fitting for the National Peace Convention to be preceded by a workshop on non violence.

The workshop will create a conducive ambience and environment for the participants as they partake in the Second National Peace Convention, he added.

Dr Paul stated that violence has been lauded as the supreme solution and consistently has been excused as acceptable behaviour for human being. The tentacles of violence stretch into almost all aspects of our lives. It is in this context, the non violent principles of people like Martin

'Following in the footsteps of Dr King'

Dr. Paul Interacting with the participants of the workshop conducted by the NEISSR.

Luther King, Jr., he added.

The two days delved into topics like definitions & myths of non violence, principles of Kingian non violence, dynamics of social conflicts and Hegelian thinking. The participants were also enlightened about the life, the works and the contribution of Martin Luther King, Jr. The workshop will be followed by the Second National Peace Convention by National Peace Movement in collaboration with Rotary International Dist. 3040 & 3240; North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research (NEISSR), Peace Channel, Universal Solidarity Movement (USM) and other NGOs from January 30 to Feb-

ruary 1 at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur. The main highlights of the convention are enlightening talks by experts, penal sessions on various issues, preparation for action plan for peace and conflict prevention, Peace Award and peace declaration.

The resource persons and their topics are Dr. Paul B. Mesquita, University of Rhode Island, USA “Peace building in International Perspective;” Niketu Iralu Peace Activist “Peace and Conflict Resolution in the context of North East India;” PV Rajgopal, Social Activist and Gandhian from Rights to Duties; Anuradha Shankar, IPS, ADGP Railways, MP “Human Development and Promotion of Peace;” Dr. Jill Carr-

Harris, Social Activist in Asia and Africa “Economic Empowerment and Justice to the Marginalized;” Prof. A. Lanunungsang Ao, Pro-Vice Cahncellor, Nagaland University “Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in the Socio-political Scenario of India;” K.J. Alphons, IAS (Rtd.) and a host of other eminent National and International personalities.

For more information on the National Peace Conventnion, contact the Local Organizing Committee Office: Peace Channel P.B. no.3, Dimapur–Nagaland, Phone: 094362-60435; 098565-42215 Email: nationalpeaceconvention2016@gmail. com/peacechannel05@gmail. com/cpanto@gmail.com

KoHima, January 28 (mExn): More than 500 students of St. Joseph College were trained on inculcated training on the in the philosophy and principles of Martin Luther King Jr. at its college premise on January 25.

Nonviolence and Peace’s philosophy of the famous leader of the American Civil Rights Movement was imparted to the students by two professors from the United States - Dr. Paul Bueno de Mesquita, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island and his wife and fellow nonviolence co-trainer, Professor Kay Johnson-Bueno de Mesquita, also a follower of Gandhi’s philosophy.

Recalling Dr. King’s famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, the two professors outlined how everyone can realize their dreams if they follow the principles of nonviolence to address inevitable conflicts and to improve social conditions contributing to violence.

Contrary to popular misconceptions that nonviolence is for passive and timid peo-

ple, Dr. Bueno de Mesquita explained that nonviolence is actually an active way of life for courageous people.

King’s vision of the “beloved community” was built on equality and justice for all, he noted stressing that the cornerstone of outward nonviolent social change is internal nonviolence of the spirit, known as unconditional Agape love.

“Nonviolence means not just refusing to shoot another, but also refusing to hate another” Dr. Paul opined quoting Dr. King.

Citing recent research by social scientists, He also explained that an analysis of hundreds of nonviolent social change movements over past one hundred years showed them to be twice as successful as political uprisings that resort to violence.

An interactive session which followed afterward session offered witnessed animated interaction between students and the visiting peace professors where the former’s intellectual curiosity regarding the former Human Rights activist was answered by the visit-

ing professors.

It ranges from current status of race relations and gun violence in the US to realization of Dr. King’s dream in US to the possibility of establishing a Center for Nonviolence at SJC. The programme concluded with a rousing rendition of “We Shall Overcome” the American civil rights anthem of nonviolence where the inspired students joyfully raised their beautiful voices in harmony and singing with conviction the refrain, “Deep in my heart, I do believe, that we shall overcome some day.”

Hopefully, one day soon their dreams of nonviolence will flow like a river spreading peace throughout Nagaland, SJC Principal Rev.Dr. Sebastian said thanking the resource persons and Peace Channel for initiating the network with the University of Rhode Island USA. This was a part of the the College Week 2016, which formally kick-started today with Station Commander, Zakhama Military Station Brigadier H. S. Cheema as the Chief Guest at the inaugural function.

Child Welfare Committee informs DAPO DHEP holds 2nd General Assembly

The girl child who was found on September 28, 2014. The CWC has appealed for concerned persons or family of the child to get in touch with the DCPU, CHILDLINE Dimapur or CWC.

name is Kamni but could not provide any further information that could help in tracing the child’s family. A press release for this girl child was published in the local dailies on October 1, 2014 and October 2, 2014. However, till date, the CWC stated that no one has come to claim the child “and despite every possible effort the child’s parents/residence could not be traced.”

The CWC informed that this is the final appeal/ notice from the CWC Dimapur to the concerned individuals, families or relative to get in touch at the following given number within a month from the date of publishing this notice for any claims or counter claims about the girl child. Thereafter, in the absence of any such claims, she will be declared legally free for adoption, the CWC informed.

The CWC has informed the family of the girl child to contact the DCPU at 9856628130; CHILDLINE Dimapur: 1098 (Toll free) 03862-224151/248744 or the CWC Dimapur at 9402832493/9436260005.

Dimapur, January 28 (mExn): The Downstream Affected People’s Organization, DHEP (DAPO) held its 2nd General Assembly at Menshangpen Village on January 23, and agreed on several resolutions.

DAPO consists of 10 villages (Menshangpen to Pyotchu) on the right bank below the Doyang river dam.

The assembly the adopted the following resolutions; A press note from the DAPO informed that the assembly decided and en-

dorsed the Executive Council of the organization to approach the appropriate authority namely, the Chairman and Chief Managing Director (CMD) NEEPCO, Shillong for redressal of its grievances. It further decided that if the authorities at NEEPCO fail to address or heed to the demands of the people of the 10 villages it shall be restrained to take legal recourse by way of filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL).

The assembly also

decided to ban any proposed dam in the NAPA or Pyotchu area which falls within its jurisdiction either by a private company or by a government agency till further notice.

It resolved to ban any reservoir dam project/projects within its areas/jurisdiction. “Any dam/project which does not include constructing of reservoirs may be allowed. Provided, the organization be consulted on all such matters,” it stated.

The assembly agreed

Bank fraud on the rise in Nagaland

KoHima, January 28 (Dipr): The Nagaland Police have cautioned that bank fraud is on the rise in Nagaland and there are criminals who are involved in buying and selling Bank Accounts of innocent people.

A press release from the SP Crime & PRO, PHQ Kohima informed that there are also people who are opening accounts using fake/forged documents just to sell them to big time criminals (for easy money). Criminal activities using these accounts are increasing manifold. The real problem is those who have sold off their accounts to criminals are not even aware of the illegal activities being undertaken using their accounts, let alone being involved. Nevertheless, it is a crime to sell off one’s account; it is a crime to open an account using forged documents; it is a crime to buy and sell bank accounts; it is a crime if we are letting criminals use our bank accounts to further their activities.

The police have requested the public to help spread the word that it is a crime to be involved in any of the activities mentioned above. They cautioned not to share bank details such as account number, ATM card number, Secret Pin etc and other personal details with anyone. They have also reminded that banks will never call or SMS or e-mail asking for these details. Criminals can do transactions using other’s accounts if they have the above details. Very recently, some people lost lakhs of rupees because they gave out their bank details to criminals over the phone, it was informed.

“More often than not, the public become victims of crimes because of our ignorance. For awareness we need to educate our family members, neighbours, friends, villagers etc. Visit facebook page‘CID, Nagaland’ for more information.” the release informed.

Dimapur, January 28 (mExn): The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) today informed that a young girl around 3 years of age was found loitering alone around Fire Brigade area, Dimapur, on September 28, 2014 at around 6:30 am by a concern citizen.

The child was handed over

to the CHILDLINE Dimapur by the Women Cell.

As per the rules the child was produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Dimapur, and the CWC took up the matter and she was referred to a shelter home for her rehabilitation.

The girl child said her

YRS to organize 12th SAG torch relay

‘Be responsible for your heart’

KoHima, January 28 (Dipr): For the first time a mega sports event, 12th South Asian Games (SAG) is being organised in North East India from February 5 to 15 at Guwahati and Shillong. The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India has directed the organizing committee of the 12th SAG to conduct Torch Relay covering the entire capital of the North Eastern States.

In this connection, the torch relay will arrive at Kohima on January 31. A relay programme will be organised by the Department of Youth Resources & Sports, (YRS) Nagaland, Kohima in the state capital on February 1. The relay will start at TT Indoor Stadium at 6:30am and culminate at Khuochiezie (Local ground) Kohima. Torch relay team, State renowned sports persons, School children from Education Department, College students from Higher Education Department, NSS volunteers, NCC Cadets, Bharat Scouts & Guides, NYKs, Indira Gandhi Stadium Academy from Department of Youth Resources & Sports, Dignitaries & Officials of the State Govt, will participate in the Relay. The YRS Department has also invited all the Sports Association affiliated under the aegis of Nagaland Olympic Association, Sports enthusiast and citizens to participate in the relay.

Morung Express News Dimapur | January 28

On Thursday, January 28, hundreds of people from all denominations gathered at the State Stadium, Dimapur and prayed for salvation, healing and spiritual deliverance. This was during the first day of the four-day mega event the “Kingdom Invasion India Conference- Awakening the Body of Christ”.

People suffering from various ailments came expecting to have their needs met. The attendees had come from all areas of the country like Delhi, Punjab, Sikkim, Mizoram and Meghalaya. There were also delegates from Singapore and Canada.

The Crusade began with an invigorating praise and worship time led by Faith Harvest Church, Kohima.

The speaker for the first day was Pastor Shan Kikon, of Faith Harvest Church Kohima who enlightened the attendees on what the “Kingdom of God” truly means. He began by talking about how everyone is looking for happy marriages, for families to be restored, businesses to prosper, and for peace. “How do we get it? This Kingdom of God? It does not merely come from observation, or by searching for it here and there,” he said.

He then stated that when an alcoholic gives

Hundreds attend ‘Kingdom Invasion’ Crusade

Speaker for the first day of “Kingdom Invasion Crusade” Pastor Shan Kikon and translator, Missionary Imtimongba. (Morung Photo)

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onvener Wabang Longchari has extended invitation to all interested people. Evening Sessions are free for all and the service starts at 4:00 pm. While, Workshop and teaching sessions are for registered delegates only and it will be held from January 29 to 31, 2016 at 10:00 am onwards at the same venue. The organizers have also setup food stalls, medical camp, and Kids Corner.

up drinking, when a marriage is restored, when the Church begins to experience revival that is the “Kingdom” that we are all looking for. However, Pastor Shan cautioned that the Kingdom’s way is not

just what one does on the “outside”, and not everything Christian is also the Kingdom. “Most of all what we see in Christianity is not Kingdom. All the buildings we see are not the Kingdom, but they are built for

the Kingdom,” he stressed.

Also touching on core issues of Nagaland, he said that a lot of us think if there is no corruption and extortion in Nagaland then we’ll have peace. He felt that we blame everyone around us, the gov-

ernment, economy, society for disturbing our peace. A lot of us think peace depends on our situation- if only our husband stops drinking then I’ll have peace, if only my wife stops nagging then I’ll have peace”.

Exhorting the gathering, Pastor Shan stated that the Kingdom begins in your heart, because what is in you affects the situation and what is inside you will change the outside. “If you want to transform your life change your inside first. We are justified and made righteous by faith and not what we do outside but by what we believe in our hearts,” he encouraged.

To this, he added that the head of man can be educated but in the end, man will do what is in his heart. For instance, we all agree that corruption is bad because education tells us that, but in the end our heart will dictate our actions. He advised people of Nagaland to follow what the Bible says, “Guard your heart- be responsible for your heart because your life is a result of what is inside your heart.”

The event which is organised by 13 different churches and ministries is being held from January 28 to 31 at State Stadium, Dimapur. The four-day mega event will be covered by God Tv while necornertsonetv.com will do the online streaming.

that if any of the concerned villages had given No Objection Certificate/s (NOCs) to any company/ agency for construction of reservoir dams within its jurisdiction it shall be considered as withdrawn or deemed null and void.

Further it was resolved that, the General Assembly shall be held and hosted by the respective 10 member villages on rotational basis.

The DAPO claimed in its press note that it is the “sole and legitimate orga-

nization representing the 10 villages on all matters concerning the Doyang river dam downstream (right bank).” “Therefore, it is made known to all that any proposal/agreement for construction of reservoir dams in the DAPO areas by individuals or groups with any company/agency whether government or private without prior consent and knowledge of the organization shall be doing so at their own risk,” it cautioned.

MEx File

A Nagaland Forest Department Beat Staff is seen freeing three Koel birds recently at the Kanglatu Biodiversity Reserve in Changtongya, under Mokokchung by Nagaland Forest Department. According to a press note from Forest Beat Staff of Changtongya, the three birds were ‘presented’ by L Thomson, Deputy Central Intelligence Officer (DCIO), SIB Mokokchung. In December, the same officer donated a ‘flying squirrel’ which was released in the same reserve. The Kanglatu Biodiversity Reserve area is 700 hectares and approximately 7 kilometers away from Changtongya village. The whole area is rich in flora and fauna and an ideal place for biodiversity conservation and the area is being kept reserved by the villagers since 2008.

JDU new appointees Dimapur, January 28 (mExn): The Janata Dal United, Nagaland unit have appointed its General Secretary (State party affairs cum Publicity), Lakiu Kips as General Secretary (Administration), Elvis Lotha to Senior Vice President and Asobah to treasure. Further, they are asked to report for acceptance and to discharge the duties of assignment in consultation with the unit President, Rhekhum Yim, a JDU press note informed.

Kiphire observes National Voters Day KipHirE, January 28 (Dipr): The National Voters Day was observed at Kiphire on January 25 at the Deputy Commissioner’s Hall with Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kiphire, A. Chumremo Odyuo as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, the DC called upon all to co-operate to work towards cleaning the electoral roll so that the objective of the National Voters Day 2016 is achieved. On the occasion, Deputy Commissioner & DEO Kiphire also presented best BLO awards to Tsidongse under 59 A/C and Lumlise under 60 A/C. He also distributed EPIC to newly enrolled voters after which he administered the voters pledge. Keynote address was given by ADC & ERO Kiphire, Dr. Tinojongshi Chang where he stressed on inclusive and qualitative participation of electors in all election and electoral roll process. Assistant Election Officer, Joybell chaired the programme and also delivered welcome address while SDO(C) Benjamin Longkap proposed the vote of thanks.

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arunachal Guv cites ‘cow slaughter’ as sign of law and order collapse New Delhi, JaNuary 28 (The iNDiaN expreSS): “Cow slaughter” was cited

by Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa as a sign of complete collapse of law and order in Arunachal Pradesh while recommending imposition of President’s Rule in the state. Claiming breakdown of the constitutional machinery, the Governor also attached photographs of a “cow” — a Mithun — being slaughtered outside Raj Bhavan as a material justifying the proclamation of emergency.

This was disclosed Wednesday by the Governor’s counsel Satya Pal Jain in the Supreme Court which asked the central government and Rajkhowa to adduce all relevant materials showing good reasons for imposition of President’s Rule in the state, and observed that the “matter is too serious”.

Jain, who had been asked by a Constitution Bench led by Justice J S Khehar to place the Governor’s report before it, said a series of reports had been sent by the Governor

to the President and the Union Home Ministry, but he would not want to share them with the Congress and its leaders who are petitioners in the matter. “We will show everything to the court though. We will show you (judges) the photographs of cow slaughter too… it is there in one of the reports,” said Jain, an Additional Solicitor General and a former BJP MP. On December 17, after the High Court kept in abeyance the Governor’s decisions to advance the assembly session which led to the toppling of the Congress government in the state, several Congress leaders, according to the Governor’s letter to the President, sacrificed a Mithun, the state animal, outside Raj Bhavan.

Asking Jain to place in a sealed cover all the reports forwarded by the Governor for its scrutiny on Monday, the five-judge bench issued notices to the Centre and Rajkhowa, and asked them to file their replies by Friday to the petitions challenging the Governor’s recommen-

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Sonowal is BJP's CM candidate in Assam

New Delhi, JaNuary 28 (iaNS): The BJP on Thursday named union minister Sarbananda Sonowal as its chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly elections in Assam. "The (BJP) parliamentary board has decided that the Assam assembly elections will be contested under the leadership of Sarbananda Sonowal," union Health Minister J.P. Nadda told reporters here. The decision was taken here at a meeting of the party's parliamentary board attended, among others, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Assam assembly polls are due in April-May this year.

KNF cadre apprehended imphal, JaNuary 28 (mexN): Troops of the 2 Assam Rifles, 11 PARA (SF) and Thoubal Police Commandos during a search in Bongbal Khullen village apprehended one KNF (N) cadre on today. A press release from the AR identified the cadre as Assistant Finance Secretary, Satkithang Kipgen alias Ranjit, 29 years. One 9mm Pistol (Country made) along with a magazine and nine live rounds were recovered from his possession. The apprehended individual along with the recovered item has been handed over to the Yairipok Police Station.

Three policemen injured in grenade attack in Assam hafloNg, JaNuary 28 (pTi): Three policemen were injured, one of them critically, when unidentified persons hurled a grenade at them during patrol duty in Assam's Dima Hasao district in the wee hours today, a police officer said. The grenade was hurled at the policemen at 2 am while they were on duty in Ram Nagar under Haflong police station here injuring three of them, the officer said, adding, the condition of one of them was said to be critical. The injured have been identified as Dharmendra Das, Tilak Nath and R K Rajesh Singh, whose condition, doctors said was critical. They have been admitted to Haflong Civil Hospital. Investigations are on and a search has been launched to nab the miscreants, the officer added.

‘Do not destroy the spirit of unity among the Mizos’ aizawl, JaNuary 28 (pTi): Mizoram Health Minister Lal, Thanzara today said that international or state boundaries should not destroy the spirit of unity among the Mizos. Addressing a function, Lal Thanzara urged all Mizos to remain united. The former Lok Sabha member said that the union government should take steps to protect the rights of the indigenous people like the Mizos living in the country.

Central Govt's 5 points on PR in Arunachal NE prone to PR, Arunachal Pradesh is the 30th instance

1. The speaker together with the Government prevented the meeting of legislative assembly from taking place in the Assembly premises. As a result the assembly session had to be held in a different premises. It is worth mentioning that locking of Assembly Premises amounts to locking of the Constitution of India.

2. Minority government has tried to defeat the basic principle of democracy and the basic requirement of the constitution that the CM must command majority of the house and such majority should be tested on the floor of the house. dation. “It is a matter of priority for us… file your replies

by Friday and we will take it up on Monday… also, we will make it clear that we will not pass any order until we have heard all the parties. It is a constitutional issue and we will not pass order just like that… this proclamation has to be defended by the Attorney General,” the bench told Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi who represented the Centre.

Rohatgi, however, said

story of individuals, families caught between a violent state administration and an even more violent insurgency. “My mother used to work in the government, so we would get demand notes all the time.

There was one particular group which had been asking us for money every other month – one time they asked us to deliver Rs 20 lakh. Where would we get such an amount? We had to sell off all our land, our paddy fields, everything we had to meet these demands. When I was in class XI my parents got me a Hero Honda bike. But the insurgents would take it away from me and use it. I rarely got to ride it. So I was furious. I asked them to leave us alone. I asked them why they were harassing us. They said we’ll stop harassing your family if you join us. So I agreed,’’ says Singh.

It’s only when his parents pleaded with the militants that they let him go.

“But not before giving me

the petitions by the Congress leaders were “misconceived” and should not be entertained since they had challenged the Governor’s recommendation but not the President’s notification, the substantial cause of action.

But the bench asked the Attorney General not to delve into technicalities and accept the notice for filing a response. The bench also accepted a plea by senior advocates Fali S Nari-

not even single arrest was made.

• The governor who is the nominee of the President of India is being publicly insulted, humiliated.

4. Reports also indicate about involvement of the ruling party, through third parties, with the outlawed under round outfit NSCN (K) for the purpose of pressuring dissident MLAs. 5. As per Article 174 of the constitution, six months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the legislative assembly in one session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next session.

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man and Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the Arunachal Pradesh speaker and chief whip of the Congress legislature party, to amend the petitions to counter the Governor’s report as well as the President’s notification.

It directed Jain, the Governor’s counsel, to share with the petitioners the date of his report recommending proclamation of emergency. It said it would decide on February 1 whether the petition-

ers should also be given the Governor’s reports. It also expressed “doubts” regarding secrecy of the Governor’s report.

During the proceedings, Sibal requested the bench to ensure their plea is not rendered infructuous by swearing-in a new Chief Minister followed by a floor test. The bench said it acknowledged there are “alive” issues and that it would examine his requests on the next date of hearing.

India, ADB sign loan deal on Aizawl, Agartala infrastructure New Delhi, JaNuary 28 (iaNS): The government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed an $80-million loan agreement to continue improving infrastructure in Agartala and Aizawl, respective capitals of the northeastern states of Tripura and Mizoram. “The loan is the third tranche of a $200-million financing facility under the North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Programme and will be used for investments in water supply, solid waste management and sanitation in Agartala and Aizw-

al,” the ministry of finance said in a statement. “It will also support urban reforms, benefiting nearly a million people in the two cities,” it added. Apart from these two cities, previous programme tranches have provided assistance to three other cities in the northeast -- Shillong, Kohima, and Gangtok, the capital cities of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Sikkim, respectively.

Thursday's agreement was signed on behalf of the Indian government by Raj Kumar, joint secretary (multilateral institutions) in the department of economic affairs, ministry of finance.

CPI demands withdrawal of Prez rule in Arunachal New Delhi, JaNuary 28 (pTi): Hitting out at the NDA government over imposition of President's rule in Arunachal Pradesh, CPI today demanded withdrawal of the "anti-constitutional" decision and the removal of Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa. "We condemn the imposition of President's rule there (Arunachal Pradesh). It is an anticonstitutional step by the NDA government. We demand withdrawal of the decision and recall of Rajkhowa in the interest of democracy," CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said in a statement.

Reddy also targeted Rajkhowa for allegedly taking "over-initiative" in helping BJP impose central rule in the north-eastern state.

Why Manipur head constable Herojit Singh became an encounter policeman

imphal, JaNuary 28 (The iNDiaN expreSS): Suspended head constable Herojit Singh’s confessions on the events which unfolded on July 23, 2009 leading to the death of a former PLA insurgent Sanjit Meitei and that of a pregnant bystander Th Rabina has opened a can of worms.

Associates close to Herojit in Manipur’s police force say that this may have been the most high profile incident (the incident which got most media attention) that the encounter cop was involved in but he is alleged to have been involved in 133 killings. He was Manipur police’s main “hitman” till the Sanjit-Rabina case.

Singh himself says that a diary containing the details of numerous encounters is now in the possession of the CBI. “If they ask me about these cases I can give them precise details of each case,’’ he claims off camera.

Singh’s story is common in Manipur. It’s the

3. There is a complete breakdown of governance including law and order in the state. The indicators of such constitutional break down are: • Governor's letters to the Chief Minister on matters of public importance concerning State Administration are mostly not responded to, in violation of Article 167 (b) of the constitution.

• Even the Raj Bhavan premises were under seize by the supporters of Nabam Tuki and Nabam Rebia for several hours, as the district administration and police did not enforce the prohibitory orders and

a sound beating,’’ he recalls. Singh never forgot the humiliation of that day.

“That’s when I decided to join the police,’’ he says.

In 2001, he trained to be a Manipur commando and eventually became the man with one of the highest encounter counts to his name. “As far as I was concerned, what I was doing was in the service of the nation,’’ claims Singh. Singh came out with his startling revelations about the encounter because he feels he has a target on his back now. With the knowledge that he possesses, he has become an encumbrance for his police force and his colleagues.

The 2009 fake encounter reported in The Indian Express is still under the CBI radar which is yet to complete its investigation.

In all, there are nine accused in the case – Singh and eight other Manipur commandos – all of whom are under suspension.

None of them have been arrested.

He dismissed the Governor's reported remarks that there was law and order problem in the state (before the central rule was clamped).

Teresa Kho, country director in ADB’s India resident mission, signed on behalf of the ADB. Separate subproject agreements were also signed between central government officials and representatives of the governments of Tripura and Mizoram. “The loan will support further investments to increase access to sustainable and improved urban services, with Aizwal and Agartala cities, selected for financing under the third tranche of the programme based on their progress on reforms and implementation performance under earlier tranches,” the minis-

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try statement said The third tranche loan from ADB’s ordinary capital resources has a 20-year term and the urban development ministry is responsible for implementing the third tranche's activities and overall programme, which are both due for completion by June 2019.

guwahaTi, JaNuary 28 (hT): The imposition of President’s Rule (PR) in Arunachal Pradesh on Republic Day was the 30th instance for the eight-state Northeast since 1967. Political instability triggered by dissension and insurgency have primarily been the reasons.

No state has undergone PR as many times as Manipur. The first of its 10 spells – Uttar Pradesh follows with nine – was for 66 days from January 12, 1967 to facilitate the first elections in the state, then a union territory.

Manipur had another bout of PR that year, induced by secessionism and statehood demand led by separatist group United National Liberation Front founded in 1964.

Insurgency of the Unit-

ed Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) kind was responsible for the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta government being dismissed on November 28, 1990. It was the last of the four phases of PR in Assam, violence during the antiforeigners Assam Agitation having triggered the earlier three between 1979 and 1982. Nagaland, which has experienced longest spell of insurgency, experienced PR four times like Assam but defection or party-hopping was the reason in each case.

The first of Mizoram’s three brushes with PR for more than a year in 1977 was also due to insurgency. Chhunga had that year quit as chief minister apparently for facilitating peace talks with the underground Mizo National Front led by Laldenga.

ACKNOWLEDGEmENT Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima would like to give sincere thanks and appreciation to Nagaland Women's Voluntary Association for their generous contribution to the patients of our hospital in cash and kind on account of the 67th Republic Day Celebration. And also for their contribution of Rs. 1 Lakh towards the general poor patients fund and Rs. 1 Lakh towards ICU poor patients.

We are greatly indebted for their selfless service and contribution towards our hospital. It is our prayer that the Almighty God will bless you richly in return.

Managing Director Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima

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LECTuRE by REv. CHINGmAK CHANG On

‘A people’s approach to development’ Date: 28/01/16

I, Smti. Alem Limalemla D/o Noksanglemba Subong Aier, resident of Aoyimkum Village H/No. 248, Dimapur, Nagaland solemnly declare that I wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former names known as Alem Limalemla and Alem Lima Lemla/ Limalemla entered in the Indian Passport and Birth Certificate. The above referred names pertain to one and single person.

From today onwards my name Alem Limalemla shall be used in all my official documents and correspondence.

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IN THE COuRT OF DEPuTy COmmISSIONER DImAPuR: NAGALAND NOTICE Dt. Dimapur the 27th Jan’16

NO.REV-1/90-D/17451-52/ Notice is hereby given that Tangit Jamir resident of Dimapur who has apply for issue of mortgage clearance concerning to Patta No. 82, Dag No. 194 measuring and area 00-01-10, located at Block No/Village Naharbari, Mouza No. 03 which has been mortgage in the SBI Bank/Society.

Claims & Objection if any ion the aforesaid land may be submitted in written in the Court of the undersigned on or before 03/02/16.

Sd/- Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur: Nagaland

Development of Nagaland State has been an uphill task. Various policies and programs of the Government towards uplifting the populace have not engendered a desired outcome. Increasingly, people’s initiatives are going the extra mile in bringing sustainable development.

Rev. Chingmak Chang has been at the forefront of such initiatives in East Nagaland. In this context, he will talk about Nagaland State’s Communitisation Act, initiated as a unique partnership between the Government and communities to improve public service delivery. Has the outcome been desirable? If not, did the Government fail, or the community failed communitisation?

Followed by a short documentary film on his work, Rev. Chang will put the policy under scrutiny incorporating various initiatives he has undertaken.

Date : Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Time : 3:00pm Venue : DABA Elim Conference Hall, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur Limited Seats. Those interested to participate, kindly send us your name and phone number to:

 morung@gmail.com (OR)  +91 (3862) 248854 The Morung Lectures is an initiative of The Morung for Indigenous Affairs & Just Peace and The Morung Express

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Centre clears new financing model for highway projects nEw DElhi, January 28 (agEnciEs): The union government on Wednesday approved the hybrid annuity model for building national highways, paving the way for construction of 28 projects worth Rs. 36,000 crore this fiscal year.

The move will speed up the construction of roads in the country by renewing interest of private developers in highway projects as the risk will be distributed between the government and the private players.

“The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the Hybrid Annuity Model as one of the modes of delivery for implementing the Highway Projects…

The main object of the approval is to revive highway projects in the country by making one more mode of delivery of highway projects,” according to a statement from the Ministry of

Road contracts simplified, 10,000-km target by March: Jaitley nEw DElhi, January 28 (ians): The government has begun awarding road construction contracts following a simplification of procedures in this regard and plans to award a total of 10,000 km of road projects by the end of the current fiscal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.

“All procedures have been simplified. There is an exit policy, there is a hybrid model and so on. Various options of flexibility are there in the sector,” Jaitley said after a meeting here with bankers and contractors along with Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

He said 6,800 km of highway projects have already been awardRoad Transport and Highways.

The government plans to build 28 national highway projects worth Rs.36,000 crore this fiscal year, a senior Road Ministry official told The Hindu.

Under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, the government will invest 40 per cent of

the construction cost for building highways and the balance will come from the private developer. The government will invest money in five equal instalments based on the targeted completion of the road project.

The private developer will recover his investment from the government by re-

ceiving annuity payments over a period of 15 years.

Under this model, the highway toll tax will be collected by the government unlike the build, operate and transfer (BOT) toll model where the private sector collects it. “So, there is no revenue or traffic risk on the part of the developer,” the official added.

“It is a fairly sensible risk-sharing model because it requires the private sector to focus on areas which bring in efficiency mainly in capital cost, project completion time and quality. This model will bring in long-term infrastructure funds like pension funds into the sector,” said Manish Agarwal, part-

ed and by March this figure would go up to 10,000 km. “With such large projects being awarded, I think it has a spiral effect on steel, cement, auto sector, and all is going to take place,” Jaitley said.

The success of highway programmes has taken the stress out of the banking sector and a large number of contractors are wanting to execute projects, the finance minister said. “You didn’t have a single contractor responding to the tender. And today all major contracts attract multiple contractors’ bidding,” he said.

Jaitley said the government, the financial sector, financial services and the contractors who execute projects

ner and leader, infrastructure at PwC India.

A government official said this model will double the speed of highway construction in the country as the government will no longer will be dependent on its limited financial resources and the expertise of private sector will be utilised to operate

were currently meeting on how to expedite the national highways programme. Gadkari told reporters that the meeting with the ministers is to be followed by a separate one of the stakeholders of 19 stalled road projects involving blocked investment of Rs.40,000 crore.

“My department says 5-6 of these problematic projects can be solved. In this meeting we hope to do it,” Gadkari said. “In case we need to do some out-of-the box thinking on some difficult cases, I have suggested setting up a committee under the finance minister and with the secretaries of finance and road transport to decide on these,” he added.

and maintain the roads.

5,000 km highway projects In the next two fiscal years, the government will build more than 5,000 km of national highways based on the hybrid annuity model, the official said. In the present fiscal year, 1,000 km national highway proj-

ects were awarded through the BOT model – where a private operator funds the project, operates it for a period and transfers it back to the government – and 3,000 km through the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model in which the government pays the contractor a sum to build the project.

Farmers’ Club sensitised Usages of bio-pesticides imparted to farmers Farmers trained on bee keeping on joint liability groups Kohima, Janaury 28 (mExn): The members of Phenwhenyu Farmers’ Club were sensitised about Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) during an awareness programme conducted in Phenwhenyu village of Tseminyu block on January 26. The programme was conducted by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

A press note from NABARD Assistant General Manager Bendang Aier informed that the Farmers’ Club decided to promote activity based JLGs from amongst their members with an objective facilitate them to take up Income Generating Activities (IGAs) by availing loan from financial institutions without collateral but purely on the strength of peer partnership.

This will thereby create a win-win situation for all stakeholders including banks who will be able to tap a good loan portfolio through the group liability mechanism, it added.

The Farmers’ Club and their

JLGs will receive suitable support from Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Kohima, Development Wing of CRBC (Council of Rengma Baptist Churches), banks and NABARD in their endeavour.

According to NABARD, rearing of poultry birds through SHGs (Self Help Groups) has already been popularised in the village through intervention and support from KVK Kohima and NABARD respectively.

As of December 31, a total of twenty three (23) JLGs have already received credit amounting to Rs. 32.50 lakh from banks under Kohima district for undertaking various IGAs, it added.

The awareness programme was chaired by Joshua Chen, Secretary, VDB and attended

by Bendang Aier, AGM, NABARD ; Longma Yanger Pongen, KVK Kohima; Arhunlo Semp, Development Secretary; and Hyulonyu Kesen, Finance Secretary, CRBC, Zunpha. Gwanino, Senior Pastor and Anosha Tep pronounced the invocation and vote of thanks respectively.

Dimapur , January 28 (mExn): In order to promote the management of nutrients, Pest and diseases organically, a demonstration on “Use of bio-pesticides for the plant disease and health management in vegetable crops” was conducted under TSP in Moava village on January 23. Fifty-two farmers participated in the training program organised by ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Jharnapani, Medziphema.

During the event, Dr. G. Rajesha,

Farmers club organise sales day KiphirE, January 28 (mExn): Altogether 12 SHGs from Amahator area took part in the sales day organised by Amahator Area Farmers Club on January 25 with Lankonsen Tsanglao SDO (Civil) Kiphire as Chief Guest. The sales day was sponsored by the department of Land Resources, Kiphire where more than 100 products were displayed for sale.

Speaking at the program Lankonsen Tsanglao batted for holding such event regularly, at least - monthly or weekly basis - so that people do not depend on Dimapur for vegetable requirements. Expressing happiness, the Chief Guest also encouraged the club to organise such program in Kohima or Dimapur. He also asked the organiser to encourage more of organic food which is healthy and nutritious.

Ahozhe DPO LRD who attended the program as judges for best SHG also appreciated the club for organising such consistently assured all possible help in future as well. Hurong Village SHG was adjudged the best SHG while Changchore and Yingshükur Village SHG bagged second and third prize respectively.

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Scientist (Pathology) briefed about the use of several bio-control and bio-pesticides for the management of pest and diseases in vegetables followed by demonstration on the methods of application in the field level. Further, James Kikon, SMS (Soil Science) elaborated about the use of different bio-fertilizers available for the farmers and their use at field level. He also stressed about the importance of soil health after distributing of soil health cards to the farmers.

Dimapur, January 28 (mExn): Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH) and National Bee Board (NBB), DAC, Government of India, New Delhi jointly organized two days each farmers training on ‘Bee keeping for enhancing horticulture crop production’ at Seithekema A and Seithekema C village, Dimapur from January 21 to 24.

The training was held to promote bee keeping among the farming community as bees plays a major role in enhancing horticulture crop production through pollination and also bee keeping as a profitable enterprise for farmers to earn additional income.

The resource persons Dr. A. K. Singh, Asst. Scientist, AICRP (Honey bees & pollinators) SASRD: NU and Ngukho, Apiarist AICRP (Honey bees & pollinators) , imparted training on various aspects of bee keeping like Scope & Importance of Honey bees and its colony management, Importance &

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impact of insect pollinators on Vegetable crops, Pest of honey bees & their management, Desertation- causes & preventive measure, Apiary site selection and hands on demonstration on handling of scientific tools & equipments transferring of bee colony from traditional to scientific hives, handling and up care of scientific hives.

Visit to Multi utility centre, NBHM, located at 5th Mile, Dimapur was also done as a part of the training where Temjenchuba Kichu, Team Member, NBHM explained on the various activities of the centre.

Certificates were distributed to all the participants along with reading materials. The participants expressed their gratitude to the organizers for conducting such practical oriented training programme at the village level and also requested to help them provide bee boxes and honey extractor so that interest can be created among the farmers.

Altogether 48 vegetable growers attended the training programme. The programme was coordinated by Sentiyangla, Horticulture specialist, CIH, Medziphema.

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NPcc tour reaches Mkg, Zbto bJP ST Morcha slams NPcc

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 28 (MExN): The NPCC, as part of its Mass Contact Tour for ‘Change’, today addressed public meetings at Mokokchung and Zunheboto Towns.

A press release from the Media Cell, NPCC stated that Therie, during his address, clarified that the current tour was not a campaign tour but a tour to connect with the public to build a future with ‘Change’ from the present problems, as the theme.

Therie, in his address, stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi still thinks he is the Chief Minister of Gujarat and not the Prime Minister of 29 states and 7 Union Territories. He cannot think beyond his state and therefore how can anyone expect him to run the nation successfully, the NPCC chief argued.

Contending that even a Hindu nation like Nepal voted for secularism, the NPCC President exuded

confidence that the Central Government will change after the next Parliamentary Elections “because the BJP itself is now fractured into two groups and the people have come to see the communal and intolerant nature of the BJP”.

Accusing the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre of appointing RSS agents for every project in the Central Ministries, Therie asserted that the BJP Government “will not help any Christian state”.

Affirming that Art 371 has given Nagas special status whereby nobody except the elected members of NLA can make policies for the Nagas, the NPCC chief said, “I am pained to part with the MLAs, but the NPCC cannot compromise on its principles and ideologies.”

Further arguing that the split within the NPF has reached a point of no return, Therie said the next election will be fought be-

tween “communalism and secularism, money power and ethnic values.” The time has come for Nagas to be honest and exhibit Christianity as we all profess, he added.

Therie also called to attention the visible damage being done to the environment through the practice of burning jungles for jhum cultivation in the state, and said that mitigation can be facilitated by the efficient delivery of the various schemes under Civil Supplies “which are all being manipulated”. He highlighted various aspects of the NPCC Roadmap and called on the people to join hands with the party to bring about much needed “Change”.

Others who addressed the public meetings included NPCC officials General Secretary Dokiu Kecham and Secretaries Alemba Chang, Moa Imchen, Athang Chongloi.

DIMAPUR, JANUARY 28 (MExN): BJP’s National Vice President ST Morcha, Johny G Rengma, has slammed the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee over statements made

by NPCC President, K. Therie, while addressing public meetings in Tuensang, Tobu and Mopong Towns as a part of NPCC’s mass contact tour for ‘Change’.

Therie during the public meetings had accused the present BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for dividing the nation on religious line.

In a press release, the BJP Vice President accused Therie of having revolted against Dr. SC Jamir. According to the release, Therie, then a cabinet minister, revolted not because of his opposition to Bedrock of Naga Society, which was published by NPCC and Congress government, but because he was not comfortable with his portfolio at

that time.

Further stating that for nearly 60 years, the “Dynastical Congress” regime has never seriously attempted to dialogue with Naga underground except outside the Nerhuvian family when Narasimha Rao extended unconditional dialogue, the BJP Vice President claimed that subsequent BJP led NDA government did try to resolve the Naga issue. Rengma went on to accuse the Congress led UPA government for putting the Naga issue into a “cold storage.”

He maintained that, for the Congress, the Nerhuvian policy of Statehood was and is the final settlement to Naga problem.

On Rani Gadinliu and allegations of religious conversions, the BJP Vice President argued that Jawaharlal Nerhu picked Gadinliu and awarded her with the Padma Bushan as one of the Freedom fighter.

“The inherent Government is implementing whatever Central government has in the past initiated,” Rengma contended.

On accusations that the BJP was dividing the nation on religious line, Rengma recalled the burning down of Churches in the Northeast, the numerous Missionaries who were driven out from Northeast, especially from Nagaland, under Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi’s governments.

On allegations of corruption, Rengma reminded NPCC Chief that “he was an important cabinet minister under the same government where Nagaland media not by BJP or erstwhile (NNDP) presently NPF branded the then Congress government as ‘Ali Baba and forty thieves.'"

Further appealing for less cynicism towards each other, Rengma called for contributions on moving forward for the people.

Chi Village connected Pangti Education Employees Forum formed with tarmacked road MoN, JANUARY 28 (DIPR): Widening and black topping of approach road to Chi village in Mon was inaugurated by Advisor DUDA and LM & CP and Chairman DPDB, Mon, N Thongwang Konyak, in the presence of Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police, W. Honje Konyak and Yangba Konyak respectively on January 27.

In his inaugural speech, Thongwang called upon the people to extend their cooperation and support to the Government irrespective of their party affiliation to ensure that there is development and tranquility in the state. He informed that black topping of approach road to Chi was the fulfilment of the demand and desire of the Chi villagers in the last election campaign.

He advised the people to maintain the road and lead the people of Mon in the right direction as the owner of the Mon headquarter.

The Deputy Commissioner, Mon in his short speech lauded the Advisor DUDA for initiating and implementing various developmental activities in the district. Asserting that Chi village is a tourist attraction village which will boost social economy of the people if facilities provided are maintained properly, Honje appealed to the

gathering to work for community development and quality implementation of various social welfare schemes and other developmental activities of the village. Informing that Chi and Mon villages are the owners of the Mon headquarter and reflects the image of the whole district, he urged them to set good example to others in all activities. To maintain the road, he urged the village council to utilize the existing PWD labourers and also to help them in their needs.

Speaking on behalf of the Department, SDO DUDA, Mon, Moba Konyak highlighted that widening and black topping was done at an estimated cost of Rs. 66.50 lakhs from Aboi junction road to Chi village under DUDA 2014-15. He lauded the contractor for extending the work beyond the targeted estimate. The contractor, Akai Konyak, also spoke and exhorted the public.

Earlier, a monolith was dedicated by Rev. A. Langkhu, Pastor, Chi village and Angh of Chi village, Aching welcomed the gathering. Deacon Zeiwang did the invocation while VCM Wangyeih pronounced the benediction. Special numbers and cultural dances were also presented by the Chi villagers.

WoKhA, JANUARY 28 (MExN): The first coordination meeting of Pangti Government School Teachers and Officers under School Education was held on January 14 at GMS-1 Pangti in Pangti Village, Wokha and during the meeting, it was decided to form a forum called

Pangti School Education Employees’ Forum.

According to a press release, the employees’ forum was formed to look into the welfare of government schools and students under its jurisdiction. The main purpose of the meeting was towards the improvement of Gov-

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he lingua franca called Nagamese is nothing, but primarily broken Assamese, and a wild mix of languages, imported from here and there to Nagaland. It is a well known fact that language is one of the most important identities of a people, anywhere in the world. Therefore it is clear that Nagas shall in no case accept pidgin Nagamese, as their official language, as this will dilute their identity, culture and social fabric.

According to MHA sources as published on 23/12/2015 in Nagaland Post, the Modi government is keen to promote and accord recognition to Nagamese, as a language.

It must be understood that under no circumstance, language can be imposed upon a community, unless people willingly accept it. The central government trying to encourage and promote Nagamese by awarding recognition in the Schedule VIII of the constitution of India will amount to arrogant imposition on the Nagas, which will do much more harm than good at this juncture, when Nagas are anticipating an honourable political settle-

ment in the ongoing talks.

Languages recognised under Schedule VIII of the constitution of India are all more academic in nature and cannot be likened to the preparation of a mere project report done by the central government, as mentioned in the above referred news item. I wonder how linguistic and constitutional experts ‘are on the job to prepare the required procedure’ at New Delhi, without the knowledge of the Naga people at home, as the article referred to above says. I am sure no linguistic expert will ever agree to this immature proposal of the central government, if one works with integrity, remaining true to one’s profession. Nagamese absolutely has neither grammar nor literature.

Nagamese does not fulfil any academic criteria except one, i.e. numbers of speakers using it as a crude market language. To develop Nagamese as a language will have endless requirements. It will take at least a generation or two to lay just the foundation of the language like any other since it has no grammar, literature, vocabulary nor origin; it has to be introduced first in the schools, thousands of teachers have to be appointed to teach the subject. These

the meeting. The team include: S Paulus Jamio AHM – Chairman; N Thungchio Shitiri AHM – Secretary; K Nzanbemo Tsopoe LT – Vice Chairman; Thungchio Kikon JEO – Asst Secretary; Rose Ngullie AHM – Treasurer; K Limhathung Odyuo HM – Advisor.

SKKC to celebrate silver jubilee DIMAPUR, JANUARY 28 (MExN): The Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu Chumukedima (SKKC) is set to celebrate its Silver Jubilee on January 30 and 31 at Sumi Baptist Church, Chumukedima under the theme "Rise and Build". Commissioner and Secretary PWD (work & housing) I. Himato Zhimomi and Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Mission Director (NHM) Dr. Sukhato A Sema will be gracing the programme as chief guest on January 30 and 31 respectively. SKKC has requested all its former office bearers and members of Sumi community Chumukediam to attend the Jubilee celebration.

TGOUN to release new book DIMAPUR, JANUARY 28 (MExN): A Book titled "Nagaland, Past, Present and Future" brought out by The Global Open University Nagaland (TGOUN) for the first time in the country containing a foreword from Nagaland State Governor, PB Acharya is almost ready for publication. A press release from the university informed that the book covers several topics including “the history, people, festivals, art and handicrafts, natural resources, music, cuisine, languages, hills, tribes, districts, politics, communications, education and the action plan for the integrated development of Nagaland.” The salient feature of the book is the action plan envisaged by The Global Open University Nagaland for addressing challenges facing the state. The book also deliberates on the integrated development of Nagaland by proposing ecological and sustainable tourism.

NCSU Phek district informs KohIMA, JANUARY 28 (MExN): The NCSU Phek district informed that Razou Lohe has been officially appointed as General Secretary Phek District NCSU. With this, Razou will now assist the president and others in his capacity for the welfare and upliftment of the contractors fraternity till the completion of its term. This was stated in a release issued by Kuzhosheyi (Alex), president NCSU Phek district

GPS inaugurated at Tompang ward Mon

MoN, JANUARY 28 (DIPR): Thongwang Konyak Advisor DUDA & LMCP and Chairman DPDB, Mon formally inaugurated the new GPS at Tompang Ward in Mon on January 26. Speaking at the inaugural function Thongwang lauded the landowner for donating the land for construction of the school. Asserting that many new schools were open and upgraded without adequate teachers and poor enrolment of the students in the past, he said to redress the issue the education department has started rationalization of teachers in the state. Pointing out that government schools were neglected by all concerned in the state, he exhorted the ward leaders and the public of Tompang ward to take proper care of the School and to avail the facilities provided to educate their children. He donated Rs. 50,000/to meet urgent requirement of the school and assured to ADGP, Rupin Sharma (Third from Left) and Case Manager-ICIC, Bariphylla Lyttan (Sec- provide the furniture requirements of the school.

Orientation programme for police officers on ICIC Morung Express News Dimapur | January 28

An orientation programme for police officers on the ‘Impulse Case Info Centre (ICIC) Software’ began on January 28 at the Rhododendron Hall, NAPTC, Chumukedima. The two-day programme is being organised by Shillong-based Impulse NGO Network in collaboration with the Nagaland Police to familiarize police officers with the ICIC software – a computer application, which maintains a database of information on human trafficking cases.

Through the database, the police or other stakeholders can access updated information on human trafficking cases and suspected human traffickers.

Introducing the software, Case Manager-ICIC, Bariphylla Lyttan said that through the software, Impulse aims to create a network of stakeholders in South East Asia, while joining the in-

ond from Left)alongwith the resource persons and participants.

ternational collaboration to address trafficking of people within the region. In her presentation, Lyttan highlighted the various objectives of the software like networking on a shared approach to combat human trafficking, sharing information using methodology developed by Impulse NGO Network, build strategies for long term growth and sustainability of the network, etc.

ADGP (Law & Order), Rupin Sharma, who was the chief guest at the programme, noted the need

teachers will require university qualifications. Then we have some serious questions such as, which university would qualify and recognise the teachers’ qualifications?

Who could be the experts or qualified persons from university to work for its development? What factors would determine the authenticity of the language?

Can there be a conclusion without a beginning?

From the linguistic point of view, it has no merit to be considered as a language. Though in the past, it was widely used in the rural areas of Nagaland, the situation has now drastically changed. I am proud to state that Nagamese is diminishing fast, as recognised official common languages of Nagaland, English and Hindi have found its place among the young educated Nagas, who form the majority of the population, owing to its global importance and market value.

Attempt to promote Nagamese, a language without roots in Nagaland is an exercise in futility, totally unacceptable and should not be allowed at any cost.

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for such a database. While stating that Nagaland state is yet to have one, he said that it would greatly aid enforcement agencies and other stakeholders.

According to Sharma, Nagas still have not realised the gravity of human trafficking as an issue though it is prevalent in the state.

Though noble in concept, keeping children as domestic helps in exchange for education is one among many others that is related to human trafficking, he said.

As regards the officers

at the orientation programme, Sharma called for training of those who are not familiar with computers. Quite a few of the officers present has no working knowledge of computers for whom, Sharma said the Police Headquarters will conduct a workshop soon.

IGP (Crime), Toshitsungba Aier, acknowledging the role played by NGOs, urged for greater coordination between stakeholders while dealing with issues such as human trafficking.

Interner Assessor training conducted KohIMA, JANUARY 28 (MExN): A two day training programme on the Interner Assessors training for the district Medical Superintendant and Chief Medical Officer’s got underway at the conference hall of Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Kohima on January 28 with Dr Sukhato A Sema, MD, NHM as the chairperson. He urged on the cleanliness not only in the hospital but also its surroundings. He also asked the staff to be friendly for better performance and supplement each other. Deputy Secretary, Akunu S Meyase stressed on quality and requested that guidelines on quality assurance be implemented in all district hospitals. The resource persons for the event were Dr Parminder Gautam, Dr. Deepika Sharma (NHSRC) and Sanyukta Kashyup (RRC-NE).

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Broken Assamese: Not to be Naga Identity Kuolachalie Seyie

ernment Schools at Pangti Village particularly management of its status quo in terms of adequate enrolment and performance of academic results.

A team of office bearers along with block representatives was also selected for a term of 3 years (2016-18) during

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Consensus on Eastern Nagaland

hilst one appreciates the fast approaching dawning of a new era in and among the Eastern Nagaland at every level, one has to be mindful of the old adage "less haste more speed".

Those of us who have had the privilege of making a pilgrimage to the territory and touring extensively on foot in excess of 2500 kilometers are painfully aware of what terrible calamities have befallen you.

Aside from the fact that certain villages were almost wiped out by people from the Western Nagaland masquerading as national workers such as Thingniungan (311 dead) and Chukie (67 dead) respectively during Partition.

The subject of an international film "The Nine Nagas" which takes it's title from Akira Kurasawa's 1954 film "The Seven Samurai".

Whether it is a nation's plight against invasion and subsequent occupation or a village's plight with marauding bandits the storyline is wholly appropriate.

Eastern Nagas have been subjected to the worst deprivations it is hu-

manly possible to imagine. Whilst the Burmese army have raped, burnt and butchered their way through your territory at seasonal intervals. While your western Naga counterparts can feed their children and their own bellies with their ill-gotten gains you have literally starved and been plagued with famine. With very few exceptions your brethren in the west have not shared basic humanitarian needs with you. We don't hear of even 10% generated from The Hornbill Festival being turned into basic medical necessities for your territory while your children die before your eyes from perfectly preventable diseases. The state government collaborators whose children are all in foreign universities with their looted dirty money will never give you a second glance.

The churches have been struck blind to the concept of christian charity regards their eastern brethren.

As if adding insult to injury people such as Nephieu Rio and Ajit Duval have been rushing to Yangon and Burma to manipulate and negotiate over

your heads. Mr Rio met with the Military Junta who occupies and ravages your land and the Delhi government sanctioned a paltry US$25,000 for so-called border development when he went in February 2014.

This actually amounts to less than Rupees 1000 per eastern Naga village, but does ENPO or anyone for that matter know how and through who this was implemented if at all? In reality it would take a 20 Billion US$ to bring your territory even up to the half way point Nagaland State is at today.

Mr Doval the Indian Central Government's National Security Advisor is not a Dove he is a Hawk who's doctrine is based on the flawed solution of "Hot Pursuit". He is not a person to be trusted with regards the Eastern Nagaland and its future options. However, it is best that you do not have western Naga soldiers in your defense forces and do not operate beyond your own territory.

We know too that the British caused your political turmoil by illegally demarcating the so-called McMahon Line in 1914.

Rest assured the ever pragmatic British will support Ms Suu Kyi and Burma when it emerges into fully fledged democracy as it does with India's hypocrisy. The West is after resources that you do not control and the moral high ground is immaterial to them when it can be sacrificed for trade. Ms Suu Kyi is no great friend to any of the "ethnic nationalities" let alone the Nagas, who she chooses to term as "minorities". You must know by now that it is a pointless and futile exercise to trust either the Indian or the Burman because they are separate entities.

Eastern Nagas are no more to be treated as second class citizens in their own land or "Sakhans" (head load porters) for outside national workers.

Be very aware of the characters on your own border and ask them who is your father? Which village and tribe do you belong to, and last but not least, on who's authority and mandate do you speak? Whilst intentions and sentiments may be true they are unlikely to shoulder the bur-

den with you and will reside far away in the west.

Until they have marched the length and breadth of the Eastern Nagaland like Amotsu Phizo had done in the west they cannot know your suffering.

Do the western Nagas know the names of the tribes and villages of the Eastern Nagaland? They do not. They are shy to say sorry and many of their Pators have become impostors. You must take consensus with your neighboring village, tribe, region and nation before marching ahead as one people. There is no rush so less haste will bring more speed.

When a people come out of a very dark and depraved period of history they must take stock and be allowed to articulate what has happened to them. Unless this burden is released the pain will always be with you. If your own brethren from whom you were separated do not comprehend or understand then it is also pointless. In which case never the twain will meet or be one entity.

Kuknalim David P. Ward Edinburgh Scotland.

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

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 26

By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

Officially (Y)ours, Nagamese

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s opinions are shared among the Nagas on the issue of India’s move to promote Nagamese as an official language, certain realities needs to be drawn on the status and function of Nagamese. The issue seems to have raised more skeptical and suspicious eyebrows with contempt against this proposal.

Looking at the existing realities, besides the usage of Nagamese for enhancing communication among the Naga tribes as well as with others in our everyday lives, one may abhor Nagamese but it has become the first dialect in many Naga homes giving preference over one’s mother tongue.

Language has been produced to enable communication and Nagamese has come a long way in enabling communication and bridging the gap among tribes and communities. Even as Nagamese becomes more popular, our own mother tongue faces the threat of extinction. Statistically, the fact that 10% of the students cannot read, write and speak their mother tongue while 80% of them converse in Nagamese does not help the cause making ones mother tongue slowly become irrelevant. More so, culture is rooted in our language and if that language is not applied to truly express ones culture meaningfully or make one’s language more intelligible, then it becomes irrelevant where both culture and language loses its significance and value.

Yet, coming to Nagamese, it has rather been given a stepmotherly treatment in being branded as a bazaar language.

But this bazaar language has sustained the mode of communication amongst the Nagas over the years. English may be the official language but it fails to find applicability in all places among the Nagas and Nagamese has served both as complimentary as well as a supplement to English. Besides, Nagamese has been the unifying force and threby, the move to promote Nagamese as an official language can be seen in the larger context of unity and peaceful coexistence among the Nagas as well as others who have also adopted Nagamese.

But, having said that, our state can go for adopting Nagamese as the second official language besides English.

Besides the issues related to the adoption of Nagamese as an official language and the questions regarding its necessity, at this juncture if one of the Naga tribes language is to be officially recognized, it may only create tension and cause resentment among the various Naga tribes or can even spark conflict thereby making it a very difficult proposition. Considering the status and function of Nagamese, what is imperative is the need to further develop Nagamese so as to make it more richer. There is no doubt about its limitations but that should not deter from developing Nagamese. In our day to day Nagamese expressions, often one finds oneself supplementing with English words. Such English words can be coined in Nagamese.

This is one way to develop Nagamese and make it more richer.

Developing a dictionary in Nagamese will be a good step in this regard and to make it more intelligible rather than simply branding it as a bazaar language that is spoken popularly.

Having said so, our own vernacular language needs to be given due attention because therin lies our true Naga identity and no other language can be a substitute to one’s cultural expressions. It holds primacy that should never be ignored. The fast diminishing of Naga culture is becoming a risky phenomenon and it is here the skeptics locates such a move in a tricky terrain and to the extent of seeing it as a threat to our culture and heritage. If we lose our identity and our culture, then the fault will not be Nagamese but it will be because we failed to hold on to the roots of our identity.

There is no harm in knowing and being able to speak many language as one moves in different ‘zones of life’ neither making a language official does not mean that the rest are inferior or that it should be totally done away with. One may even question the credibility of Nagamese in not having the potential to become globally relevant; or it simply a Lingua Franca; or even the necessity of making it official but Nagamese has been effortlessly serving the purpose of communication among the Nagas and the proposal to promote it as an official language can rather be seen in the larger context of Naga unity and not as a threat to our own culture through a so called bazaar language.

Officially or unofficially Nagamese is here to stay and therefore it should not be condemned as a ‘bazaar dialect’.

Along with English, maybe its promotion as the second official language may uphold its status and function within its value and beyond placing it as a bazaar language.

(Dr. Asangba Tzüdir is an Editor with Heritage Publishing House.

He contributes a weekly guest editorial to the Morung Express. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the position of the paper.

Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

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Late-night texting affects sleep, grades

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essaging in the dark affects sleep, health and performance in school, says a study.

Students who text for longer duration in the dark sleep only for a few hours and thus remain sleepier during the day than those who stopped messaging when they went to bed, the researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, said.

Texting before lights out did not affect academic performance, the study showed.

Although females reported more messaging overall and more daytime sleepiness, they had better academic performance than males. The researchers attributed this to the fact that the girls texted primarily before turning off the light.

"We need to be aware that teenagers are using electronic devices excessively and have a unique physiology," said Xue Ming, a professor at the Rutgers University.

Adolescents should be getting eight and a half hours of sleep during a night, the researchers said, adding that deficiency in sleep can affect their Rapid Eye Movement (REM) -the period during sleep most important to learning, memory consolidation and social adjustment in adolescents.

When falling asleep is delayed but rising time is not, REM sleep will be cut short, which can affect learning and memory, the researchers explained.

The effects of "blue light" emitted from smartphones and tablets are intensified when viewed in a dark room.

This short wavelength light can have a strong impact on daytime sleepiness symptoms since it can delay melatonin release -- a hormone that helps control sleep, making it more difficult to fall asleep - even when seen through closed eyelids, the researchers noted in the study published in the Journal of Child Neurology.

To conduct her study, Ming distributed surveys to three New Jersey high schools - a suburban and an urban public school and a private school - and evaluated the 1,537 responses contrasting grades, sexes, messaging duration and whether the texting occurred before or after lights out.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Andrew Sayer

MORAL ECONOMY: a different way of thinking about the future

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ou know something is grotesquely wrong when the 80 richest people in the world have as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population, when the combined wealth of the 1000 richest people in the UK is nearly five times the size of the annual NHS budget, and when unending growth is assumed to be possible in a finite, rapidly overheating planet. But conventional approaches to economic matters can’t explain what is wrong.

To understand these problems we need a radically different approach that goes back to basics.

Most basic of all is this: the point of economic activity is simply to enable us to live well. Economies are systems of provisioning—ways of providing us with the wherewithal to live a decent life—and of course some ways of doing this are much better than others.

Provisioning involves two kinds of relations: Relations between people, whether as buyers and sellers, employers and employees, lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, citizens and governments, or as providers and beneficiaries of unpaid work.

Our relations to the environment, as all material wealth ultimately depends on this. Looking after the environment should make economic sense, degrading it does not.

No one ever got rich or poor outside these two sets of relations. ‘Moral economy’—unlike mainstream economics—focuses on these and examines whether they are fair or unfair, functional for provisioning or not, and sustainable or unsustainable. Particularly at this time of economic and environmental crisis, it can provide us with signposts to a different way of doing things.

Mainstream economics misunderstands people.

‘Homo oeconomicus’ is assumed to be a free-standing, adult man, self-interested and entering only into contractual relations with others where he wishes. But a society comprised wholly of such individuals is an impossibility. We are social beings. That means not merely that we happen to live in groups, but that we are inherently dependent on others. Entering into social relations is not only necessary but unavoidable.

Most fundamentally this is because we all start off as helpless babies, utterly dependent on our carers. This is a universal. And particularly in old age or illness we again become dependent on others. Dependency can be good (having good parents), or it can be bad, a source of exploitation. It’s important to know the difference, but mainstream economic thought ignores the first and largely conceals the second.

The road to riches To recognise the difference we need to notice that there are three ways you can get money: 1. First, you can produce some goods or services that others want and for which they are able to pay (something-for-something).

2. Second, if you’re not able to produce goods or services or provide for yourself—because you’re too young, old or infirm to work, or because there are not enough jobs to go around— others may agree to meet your needs, whether privately or through democratically agreed transfers via the state.

3. Third, you can get money from others by controlling existing assets like property or money that they need but lack, and can therefore be forced into paying for them. If the assets already exist and have been paid off, then the income is unearned (something-for-nothing). And since the money the owners get only has any value if there are goods and services they can buy with it, then those who produce them must be producing more than they themselves can buy with their pay in order to support this free riding.

As I show in my book Why We Can’t Afford the Rich, the astonishing rise in the wealth of the rich

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he Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, one of the most senior scientific communities in the world, could be about to announce that it is pushing forward its Doomsday Clock.

The clock is used as a way of conceptualising the danger that humanity is in. The closer it gets to midnight, the more likely a catastrophic event - and the clock is already as close to midnight as it has ever been before.

Here are all the things that might make The Bulletin push the clock even further than three minutes to midnight. At that point, the group - which is taken incredibly seriously and includes 16 Nobel laureates - will be proclaiming that humanity is more at-risk than at any other time in its existence.

Nuclear weapons The Bulletin was formed in the depths of the nuclear age, and destruction by atomic weapons is still one of the biggest motivating factors behind changes to the clock. The group pointed explicitly to "nuclear proliferation concerns, including the recent North Korean nuclear test", in its preview of the announcement.

It was largely nuclear weapons that led The Bulletin to push the clock forward by two minutes last year, taking it closer to midnight than it has ever been before. "Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernisation of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin, last year. "And world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. "These failures potentially endanger every person on Earth."

The committee pointed out that the optimism about the nuclear situation that characterised recent years has

in recent decades is mainly the result of the growth of the third source of income—‘asset-based unearned income’. A prime example of the somethingfor-nothing economy is windfalls going to property owners from inflation in property prices. The neoliberal economic ideology of the last three decades expands this third source of income at the expense of the other two, squeezing wages and salaries of the majority of the population while shrinking the transfers organised by the welfare state. It is a system that has promoted wealth extraction under the guise of wealth creation, producing poverty on one side and extreme wealth on the other.

The difference between wealth creation and wealth extraction can be concealed by playing fast and loose with the word ‘investment’. Investment surely sounds laudable, but it can mean two very different things. Sometimes it refers to funding and providing new sources of goods and services, like infrastructure, new technologies, or training people.

Here the focus is on objective benefits—wealth creation. But it’s also used to refer to things that need have no connection to this, such as getting interest on savings, or capital gains from the rise in value of existing property or financial products. Here the focus is on financial gains to the ‘investor’—wealth extraction. Of course, an investor could be funding objective investments in the first sense, though as long as they get a good return they tend not to care.

In a neoliberal economy where delivering ‘shareholder value’ is the prime goal of companies, unearned income based on control of existing assets is the chief source of ‘investment income’.

The stock market exemplifies this. At any moment, only a miniscule proportion of share transactions are for newly issued shares; the rest are second hand. So if you buy, say, some M&S shares, the money goes not to the company but to the previous owner of the shares. But having bought them you’ll normally get a stream of unearned income from the company in the form of dividends, and you may be able to get more by selling the shares on at a higher price. And share prices have tended to rise overall, as the growth of pension funds and other big investors wanting to buy shares has not been matched by a growth in the availability of shares.

So it’s only an investment in the second, extractive sense; you haven’t created any new wealth.

for-nothing economy is not only unjust in allowing free riding on the labour of others, but it is dysfunctional for the economy. An alternative economy that is both feasible and fair must be one that blocks or taxes away asset-based unearned income, and restores transfers and objective, wealth-creating investment.

But it also needs to be sustainable in environmental terms. Our relations to the environment should be central to economics, not left to a marginal, low-status sub-discipline called ‘environmental economics’.

On a finite planet, never-ending growth is an absurdity, and yet the vast debts that the financial sector has created through over-lending can only be repaid through such growth. Even if that were attainable it would be utterly unsustainable environmentally.

The amount of carbon dioxide released in making and using particular items may be falling, but nowhere near fast enough to offset overall growth in consumption and population. Forty-five percent of global emissions are attributable to the richest ten percent of the world’s population. Rich consumers and producers emit far more emissions than their share of what the earth can sustainably absorb, trashing the environment of the majority who live sustainably, as well as their own. If we are to stop runaway global warming they will have to cut their consumption, otherwise it will be too late by the time renewable energy resources displace fossil fuels.

Doing so need not lower their quality of life.

Plenty of research on well-being and happiness has shown that beyond a moderate level, increases in income do not improve our lives; good relationships with others and fulfilling work are more important.

Yet few among the top ten percent will cut their consumption voluntarily, so the 90 percent need to push for policies that reduce their income.

Our democracies are increasingly operating in the shadow of a global plutocracy of the super-rich and major companies, which finance and lobby political parties to do their bidding. Where fossil energy companies are concerned, that means business as usual. So too for a financial sector which, even after being bailed out by the public, has retained its power to extract and hide its vast flows of unearned income.

Now is the time to confront those powerful interests.

As the Pope’s encyclical made clear, saving the planet depends on achieving greater social justice.

Our relations to each other and to the environment are thoroughly intertwined. We will only find solutions to the climate crisis if we have climate justice.

A more just economy Obviously, an excess of wealth extraction over This is why we need to rethink economics in terms or wealth creation is ultimately unsustainable—hence relations between people, and between people and the crash of 2008 and its aftermath. So this something- the environment. That means moral economy.

Doomsday Clock: Why humanity is closer to the end than ever before Andrew Griffin The Independent mostly disappeared. Many countries are looking to build up their armoury, and the groups that were pushing for disarmament appear to have lost momentum, The Bulletin pointed out.

Some progress has been made this year, with the US opening up towards Iran after it committed to a new nuclear programme. But with North Korea claiming to have successfully tested hydrogen bombs and increased tensions between many nuclear states, the fear is growing.

Global warfare The Bulletin also pointed to "Tensions between the United States and Russia that remain at levels reminiscent of the Cold War".

Those largescale issues have been reflected in places like Syria, and the rise of murderous groups like ISIS and Boko Haram are likely to contribute towards The Bulletin's assessment of the fate of humanity.

Climate change The world is getting close to dangerous levels of global warming, which could bring with it massive changes to the environment. That could lead to the widespread destruction of large parts of humanity and other animals.

Changes in sea levels are likely to

bring flooding to many parts of the world, and could eventually lead to large parts of the world going underwater. Large parts of major cities including London, Shanghai and New York could become inaccessible, and people are likely to have to migrate to other parts of the world.

Continued changes in temperature will also have huge effects on ecosystems inland, too. They will in turn bring threats to human life that could include new viruses and bacteria, starvation from food shortages and major wars as people fight over dwindling resources.

Many of those effects are already happening. But The Bulletin has warned that if politicians and companies don't work harder to avoid the worst effects then the result could be apocalyptic pushing us further towards midnight.

Artificially created biological weapons One of The Bulletin's big concerns is that the advances in genetics and biology that have been made in recent years could soon be turned on humanity itself.

The new knowledge has mostly been used for good - but it could just as easily be turned on us. Those could be anything from "new types of "nonlethal" agents, to viruses that sterilize their hosts, to others

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that incapacitate whole systems within an organism", The Bulletin has said.

"The wide availability of bioengineering knowledge and tools, along with the ease with which individuals can obtain specific fragments of genetic material (some can be ordered through the mail or over the internet), could allow these capabilities to find their way into the hands of groups bent on violent disruption."

Even scientists with the best intentions might accidentally create harmful biotechnology that could wipe us out. The Bulletin has previously pointed to examples like an event in 2001, when Australian researchers said that they had accidentally created a new and virulent strain of mousepox wile they were trying to make a method for controlling rodents.

New, murderous technologies Cyber and internet technology is being applied everywhere from industrial manufacturing to the design of tiny systems and computers. And that's mostly good - but the Bulletin point out that there are few ways of guaranteeing it will stay that way.

"Whether by governments or nonstate actors, technologies can be unleashed on societies causing grave and irreversible harm. And even with the best intentions, deploying technological solutions, say in geoengineering to combat climate change, may lead to unintended consequences with devastating effects," the Bulletin has written.

"Furthermore, some of these emerging technologies are being developed for military applications that may increase the effectiveness of military operations, the accuracy of weapons in combat, and the control of weapons systems.

But such knowledge cannot be kept secret. By utilizing powerful new technologies, militaries may create new methods of killing and subduing populations that could come back to haunt us."

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Why understanding gut reactions is key to building powerful movements

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Brian Martin Waging Nonviolence

any protesters are driven by their emotions, including anger at injustice and sympathy for victims of oppression. Acts of resistance, such as by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama in December 1955, can trigger an outpouring of support. Yet, at other times, people are acquiescent to injustice. What happened to their emotional responses?

Insight into the role of emotions in nonviolent action can be obtained from studies by psychologist Jonathan Haidt and colleagues into “moral foundations.” These are six basic factors that shape human judgments about good and bad: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity. These have great relevance to activists. Here I will first describe Haidt’s perspective on the operation of the human mind. Then I will examine each of the six moral foundations for relevance to nonviolent action.

Our two minds Most people think they have a single mind, the one we recognize every day when we think. However, Haidt, like other psychologists, subscribes to the view that humans have two minds. One, the intuitive mind, usually operates without conscious awareness, and is automatic and high-capacity. For example, if you notice a dark moving spot in your visual field, you don’t have time to consciously calculate its speed and direction; instead, you instinctively duck to avoid the rock.

The second, higher-order human mind, the rational mind, is slow, careful and requires more effort.

In practice, people often make a decision about right and wrong based on their gut reactions, using the intuitive mind, and then use their rational mind to produce a rationalization for the decision. Haidt developed some ingenious scenarios that would cause perplexity, because people had an intuitive response but no rational justification for it.

Haidt calls the intuitive mind the elephant and the rational mind the rider, sitting on top. The rider imagines it is in control, but actually the elephant usually goes its own way and the rider has no choice in the matter. If you’ve ever had a discussion with someone about whether nonviolent action can be more effective than violence, you may have observed this phenomenon. If the other person is sure violence always triumphs over nonviolence, then it doesn’t matter how many arguments or examples you bring up: They will always dismiss or counter them with some different argument or example. Their intuitive mind is convinced about the superiority of violence, and their rational mind keeps coming up with ways to justify this belief.

The intuitive mind, or the elephant, is also responsible, in many cases, for automatic responses to violence.

A protester might want to remain nonviolent, yet when physically attacked be provoked into fighting back. This is the intuitive mind overriding the rational mind. Nonviolence training is an attempt to overcome this automatic response. However, it usually takes weeks or months of changed behavior before the intuitive mind changes its assessment and adopts a new automatic response.

The problem is that the rational mind cannot communicate directly with the intuitive mind: It’s not possible to switch automatic responses overnight. Nevertheless, the intuitive mind can be influenced, but more gradually. If you change your behavior — for example pretending to be outgoing and confident when actually you feel shy and insecure — eventually the intuitive mind will respond to the changed behavior and adopt different automatic responses. It’s like the saying, “fake it until you make it.” This applies to developing a commitment to nonviolence as much as anything else.

The operation of two minds can also be observed in all sorts of public policy debates — for example, over gun laws, drugs, abortion and vaccination. Politicians, like others, have their gut reactions, and can be impervious to arguments and evidence. Their elephant drives their beliefs, and they can come up with all sorts of strange justifications for these beliefs. The rider searches for any justification that sounds halfway plausible and latches onto it. An endless “war on terror” has become an article of faith for many politicians, and it seems nothing can dislodge it.

The two-minds hypothesis is fruitful for understanding how people respond automatically, without careful consideration. The intuitive mind generates a gut response, and the more intelligent a person is, the easier it is to come up with a plausible justification for this gut response. But what determines a person’s gut response? Haidt says six “moral foundations” influence human judgments about right and wrong. He argues that each moral foundation has an evolutionary rationale, and he and his collaborators have carried out ingenious experiments to show the influence of each moral foundation in people today.

Care The first moral foundation is care for others; its op-

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t was December 30th 2015 when I had started writing this piece. Then Pathankot incident involving an armed attack on an Indian Air Force base happened. I am not a brave man. I thought, should I write this, now, when tri-colour steroids are the hottest media-item of the week? But it's also true that barely a week ago, on December 27th 2015, two Indian Border Secutity Force (BSF) jawans allegedly gangraped a child after a third Indian Army jawan forced her to drink alcohol on the Howrah-Amritsar Express inside their 'specially reserved' army compartment. In the same week, in brown people's social media, some American celeberity's sexual crimes evoked greater outrage. There was no whimper of protest in Delhi – the city where the BSF and the Indian Army are head-quartered. I guess the victim was just Bengal's daughter and not India's and she had the added misfortune of having Khaki-clad brave men allegedly committing the crime. Allegedly. It's a word that many drop when talking about other rapists but never about these guys, not now. What is it about the ideologies and holy cows that are fed to us that the we think that the ejaculate of the rapists have a tricolour hue and hence worthy of respect and a conspiracy of silence? Hence, it is precisely now that we must speak up. If not now, when?

The group of 3 valiant Khaki jawans who were allegedly involved in gang-raping the child were Shri Pankaj Kumar, Shri Balak Yadav and Mr Triptahy. Investigation was seriously hampered by the fact that the Railways

posite is harm. In evolutionary terms, care for children was essential for the survival of human groups, and this care response has become generalized so that many people care about strangers and about nature.

The care response is highly important for most people. It can be triggered by images, for example the famous photo of a napalm-burnt child in Vietnam and, more recently, the photo of a dead refugee child on a beach in Turkey. These images of harm create concern.

The care response inspires people to protect their own families, but also to help strangers, support welfare policies and join tree-hugging actions.

Haidt calls the moral foundations the “first draft of human nature.” The care response may have some instinctive basis in the human mind, but it can be modified, and often is. Politicians, corporate executives, religious leaders, advertisers, and all sorts of lobbyists and campaigners seek to direct the care response to serve their priorities. Governments raise the alarm about terrorists, invoking the need to protect citizens from harm. On the other hand, governments hide the harm caused by their own terrorist actions, such as invasions, drone strikes and torture. They may condemn the targets of their attacks as terrorists, criminals or aliens, namely as not worthy of being cared for.

Many political struggles thus involve continual attempts to trigger the care response for desired goals and to inhibit it for undesired ones. The intuitive mind is like an elephant Nonviolent ac- (Photo: Wikipedia) tivists should be aware that in challenging repression and oppression, they can draw on people’s care response, but that their opponents will try to manipulate the care response in different directions.

Fairness The second moral foundation, fairness, can be seen in children who feel cheated if their siblings receive a larger helping of food or a more desirable gift. Fairness is a powerful motivator in campaigning. The Occupy movement’s slogan “We are the 99 percent” appeals to people’s sense that it is unfair that the richest 1 percent of the population has such a large proportion of total wealth.

Fairness is an extremely potent factor in nonviolent actions. When police beat peaceful protesters, many people see this is unfair: One side is using force whereas the other is not, and this is a violation of a gut sense of justice. When police shoot a defenseless person, they will try to hide their action or denigrate the victims as a threat, and thus reduce or deter the fairness response.

Fairness is the basis of one of the most powerful tools serving nonviolent campaigns: political jiu-jitsu. This occurs when police or troops attack peaceful protesters, generating public outrage and causing an increase in support for the campaigners. This occurred due to beatings of protesters during the salt satyagraha in India in 1930, the massacre of protesters at Sharpeville in South Africa in 1960, and the massacre of protesters in Dili, East Timor in 1991. For these attacks on protesters to backfire on the attackers, many people need to see them as unfair and information about them must be communicated to receptive audiences. The fairness moral foundation helps explain the importance of protesters maintaining nonviolent discipline: If some activists use violence, the encounter seems more like a fight and the fairness response is diluted.

Liberty The third moral foundation is liberty; its opposite is oppression. According to Haidt, humans have a natural tendency to support liberty and oppose oppression, something vital for most nonviolent campaigns. Indeed, it helps explain why nonviolent action is most commonly used for rather than against greater freedom. However, rulers seek to suppress the liberty response through laws, surveillance and policing. Corporate managers suppress the liberty response among workers through bureaucratic systems of hierarchy and the division of labor. The liberty response can also be channeled into less significant domains: Fashion trends are labeled transgressive

and pet products sell themselves as “revolution.”

The three moral foundations of care, fairness and liberty are powerful allies for nonviolent activists.

The challenge is to overcome the techniques used to modify and suppress these evolutionarily conditioned responses. However, the next three moral foundations — loyalty, authority, and sanctity — less easily align with activist methods and goals.

ist markets, in which many members play multiple roles (for example as buyer and seller), the role of the authority response is less clear. The authority in such cases is the system itself: Rules need to be followed.

Global justice campaigners, opposed to corporate domination, can tackle particular instances of exploitation — for example, poorly paid work in unsafe conditions — more readily than the market system and its rules. But by the same token, the authority response is probably more powerful when attached to authority figures, such as bosses, than to abstract systems of rules in markets and bureaucratic organizations.

An especially important role for the authority response is within the military and police, who are usually defenders of the existing system of rule and have been trained to obey their commanders. For police and troops, the loyalty and authority responses combine; campaigners against a repressive government, or against an oppressive policy, need to either appeal to the commanders or appeal directly to troops. In either case, in the long run there is the problem that troops will support some new ruler. Perhaps the ultimate solution, for creating a nonviolent world, is dissolving authority systems based around use of violence and replacing them with ones based on participatory alternatives. Much more needs to be done on this.

Sanctity The final moral foundation is called sanctity; its obverse is degradation. The word “sanctity” has connotations of religion, and certainly religion is tied with this moral foundation, but there are other elements too. Try this: First swallow, then spit into a clean glass and drink your spit. If this seems disgusting, it’s your sanctity response speaking through your gut reaction, because there’s no logical difference between the two actions.

The sanctity response can be triggered by food — there are prohibitions in several religions and cultures — sexual behavior, and a host of religious and political symbols. Manifestations of the sanctity response include the outrage of Muslims over cartoons making fun of Mohammed, of patriots over burning of the flag, and of animal rights activists over factory farming.

Governments and religious leaders, and their followers, foster particular sanctity responses. The U.S. government, for example, tries to make being American something sacred. This effect is so powerful that many U.S. peace activists avoid seeming unpatriotic and claim that they too are pro-American and do not criticize U.S. troops in foreign wars, but only the warmaking itself. In the United States, thus, patriotism has become something sacred, and making fun of selfstyled patriots can trigger the same sort of rage that occurs elsewhere over making fun of religious prophets.

Rather than buying into government-promoted sanctity responses, activists can develop their own. In some circles, maintaining strict adherence to nonviolence or following formal consensus decision-making procedures rigorously can become new bearers of sanctity responses. Language is another arena in which purity is expected in some groups — for example, avoiding language that is racist, sexist or speciesist. The questions for nonviolent activists are whether to challenge conventional sanctity responses — like pledging allegiance to a flag — and whether to promote their own new sanctity responses — for example, about the purity of nonviolence. Answers will not be easy but are worth pursuing.

Loyalty Loyalty had survival value in human evolution: In a group of a hundred early humans, disloyalty could threaten the group’s capacity to deal with threats. The loyalty foundation is most natural for small groups in which you know most members. In many contemporary societies, though, extended families are breaking down. Governments attempt to redirect the loyalty response to the nation or state, most obviously through national holidays, remembrances and in war-fighting.

This has no evolutionary analog: modern-day loyalty to nation or state involves identification with thousands or millions of people who are strangers except for a label.

Yet this abstract loyalty to an imagined community can be manipulated — for example to fight enemies or oppose immigration. Inside large organizations, loyalty is mobilized by employers to support managerial control. This is especially notable within the military and police, which are defenders of the state and often the immediate antagoand the rational mind is like its rider. nists of protesters.

Campaigners often come up against the loyalty response: Governments commonly attempt to paint challengers as disloyal, as traitors and as threats to the social order. A few protesters may embrace this identity, but it makes more sense to try to build loyalty to something different. In a campaigning mode, there is loyalty to other protesters. A few individuals might feel loyalty to abstract concepts like freedom and equality, but for most people loyalty to individuals or groups is more potent. Possibilities include loyalty to the oppressed, to the working class, to the 99 percent, to the global community, to future generations and to nature.

More commonly, campaigners transfer their loyalty to their own leaders, especially charismatic ones.

When challenging repressive regimes, loyalty shifts may unseat a ruler but then become the basis for a new repressive ruler. This suggests that finding a suitable recipient for the human loyalty response should be a priority for nonviolent activists.

Conclusion People’s intuitive feelings about right and wrong are Authority The moral foundation called authority can pose a powerful influences that affect recruitment into social dilemma for activists. Many people automatically de- movements, participation in actions, strategic choices fer to authority, whether this is government leaders, and relationships with each other. Governments and corporate executives, church leaders, police officers other powerful groups do what they can to shape these or family patriarchs. In this context, there can be a gut intuitive feelings. Activists need to take them into acreaction against challengers to authority, something count and work out their approaches.

There are two important lessons from Jonathan seen in the antagonistic emotional response to spies, whistleblowers, heretics, and, in patriarchal cultures, Haidt’s research on intuitive moral psychology. The first outspoken women. The authority response varies is that most people are primarily driven by automatic refrom person to person and situation to situation, but actions, what Haidt calls the elephant; these reactions overall can pose a problem for protesters, who inevi- are then justified by the rational mind, the rider that usutably challenge some form of authority: They are seen ally goes along with the elephant’s preferences. The imas subversive. This helps explain why it is easier to plication is that activists need to recognize intuitive regain support to defend, for example against a military sponses and build campaigns taking them into account.

When planning actions and campaigns, it is worth coup, than to bring about social change.

One way to counter the authority response is to dis- paying attention to the six moral foundations — care, tinguish between good and bad leaders, so it is seen as fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity — that legitimate to challenge bad leaders and reasonable to are the criteria people use to make judgments about acknowledge good ones. Campaigners point to the cor- right and wrong. However, the application of these ruption, abuse and human rights violations by current foundations is constantly being shaped by “moral rulers, thus weakening the authority response as applied entrepreneurs,” including governments, advertisers, to them. However, there is a risk: Deference to authority media and religious leaders, who seek to mobilize may be transferred to new rulers, who in turn become human feelings for their own advantage.

Three of these foundations — care, fairness and liberty as corrupt and authoritarian as the old ones. Campaigners seeking to unseat a ruler and help transform a society — are a natural fit for nonviolent activists, and deserve atneed to find new sources of authority, for example the tention to ensure they are used to maximum effect. Three authority of local community groups. Shared authority other foundations — loyalty, authority, and sanctity — are is less likely to be oppressive. In families, shared author- more likely to be obstacles when activists challenge reity is a way for equality between men and women to be pressive systems. The challenge is to know how to counter the manipulation of these responses to serve oppression compatible with the authority response.

In systems of dispersed authority, such as capital- and whether it is worth developing alternatives.

Khaki Impunity in India and beyond did not even have the list of Tripathis and Kumars inside that “specially reserved” compartment. That is the norm for special people.

Deployed far away from native areas, where people can't understand their gangraping conspiracies beforehand, largely hatched in the lingua-franca of the army, the sick perverts who gang-rape children are the scum of the earth. It is important to note that this sort of criminality sits comfortably with their service to Bharatmata and that opens up interesting questions, but that is a wholly different story. When the citizens of the Indian Union subsidize liquors for Mr Tripathi, are they not complicit in the alleged crime? The prohibition debates have never sounded so morally hollow with alcohol subsidy to army being a holy cow.

Why am I absolutely sure that no one will be jailed or hanged for raping and murdering Thangjam Manorama Debi or the gangrapists of many women of Kunan Poshpora village? Why is it nearly impossible to prosecute monsters, cold-blooded killers and gang-rapists if they happen to wear khaki dresses supplied by the government and their salary is paid by the people, including the victims and their parents and their near and dear ones? Why do they get “different” treatment and trial even in cases of rape and

Garga Chatterjee murder? Why? What kind of an organizations' morale goes down if rape allegations are pursued in normal courts or if alleged rapists in Khaki are treated as alleged rapists without Khaki? What is this morale made up of? If shielding gang-rapists is integral keeping up certain morales, that morale needs to be smashed – for our collective security and sanity. What kind of woman-hating, impunity-promoting culture have we built that all that I have said can be dismissed by the simple, empty tag called “anti-national”. And why does “anti-national” immediately bring in silence. Isn’t that silence anti-women, anti-humanity? Are women who are allegedly raped and killed not part of the nation? And attacks on them are not anti-national? How would you characterize a trci-colour force whose members allegedly molest or rape every year, year after year? A case of few bad apples? Would you characterize any other armed group – Islamist, separatist or whatever – with such a track record in the same bad apple way? Is there no poison-tree in this tri-colour garden? There are no nirbhayas.

There are "nirbhays". When they wear Khaki clothes, they are even more "nirbhay".

For Khaki crimes, there will be no calls

for emasculation, or hanging. There are rapes and there are rapes. There is truth and there are tri-colour blinders. What is this disease many are afflicted with that makes them assess the criminality of a rapist based on his occupation? If it comes to notice that members of organizations that are banned in the Indian Union or any organization that government and mass-media teaches us to hate had been allegedly committing at least one rape or molestation per year, some of them allegedly being brutal gangrapes, some of them allegedly ending in murder of the alleged victim, how would the media portray such an organization? Would we say that it is a stray incident? Why not?

How does the attitude of the government towards an organization decide whether an organization is criminally bent towards sexual violence and similarly, what do attitudes of determine that organizations harbouring hundreds of alleged rapists is clean and the incidents stray? When is it a bad apple and when is it a poisoned tree? Why is this distinction invoked? Who does it serve? Not those who are gang-raped. Not those who are murdered. Not our mothers, daughters, sisters and in many cases our fathers, brothers and sons who don’t speak up about sexual violation. Something is deeply flawed in

a system where one can’t question an organization that produces alleged rapists, molesters and murderers every year. It makes you think that this impunity imparts stability to a system. What kind of a ''protection” system demands impunity at this cost? Is it a system based on truth or criminality?

Why does the system defend this impunity so strongly – deflecting criticism by labels like “anti-national” and other treansonous aspersions? What is the sick game here?

And why must victims, of all genders, and their near and dear ones, put up with this?

Are non-Khaki humans, whose non-Khaki clothes have been allegedly ripped apart by Khakis, before rape, second-class citizens?

Where is the hatred that was in display in the case of Delhi rape? In what kind of a flawed moral universe does ásking for the punishment of a bunch if gang-rapists is equal to supporting Pakistan or China or whatever?

What does a bunch of sick perverts in the Howrah-Amritsar train have to do with Pakistan? Will they get their full salary and retirement benefits and subsidized liquor and reservations benefits for their next generation, thus signalling to others physically fit perverts where to sign up for impunity with benefits? How shall we protect us from our protectors - – those 'protecting' Indian Union citizens in Kolkata, those 'protecting' People's Republic of Bangladesh citizens in Khagrachhari, those 'protecting' Pakistan citizens in Turbat?

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'Never aspired for Prime Ministership'

NEW DELHI, JaNuary 28 (PtI): President Pranab Mukherjee has sought to scotch long-standing speculation about his aspiring to become interim Prime Minister after Indira Gandhi's assassination and termed these stories as "false and spiteful".

In the second volume of his memoir, The Turbulent Years: 1980-96, released today by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Mukherjee says "Many stories have been circulated that I aspired to be the interim Prime Minister, that I had staked claim and had to be persuaded otherwise.

"And that this created misgivings in Rajiv Gandhi's mind.

These stories are completely false and spiteful."

In the book published by Rupa Publications, the President has written in detail about the conversation he had with Rajiv Gandhi in a bathroom about Prime Ministership.

"Time was ticking away and I was very keen to talk to him. I went near the couple (Rajiv and Sonia) and gently touched Rajiv on the back of his shoulder to indicate that I had some very urgent work with him.

He released himself from Sonia's arms and turned around to talk to me.

"Knowing that I would not have disturbed him unless the matter was very urgent and confidential, he quickly led me to the bathroom attached to the room so that we could talk without being noticed by anyone else who may enter the room," Mukherjee said.

The two had a discussion on the political situation then and views of partymen about appointing Rajiv as the Prime Minister, which he had agreed to become.

Later, "I came out of the bathroom and conveyed Rajiv's decision to everyone".

Talking about circumstances that led to his ouster from Rajiv's Cabinet and then from the party, Mukherjee admitted to "have sensed Rajiv's growing unhappiness and the hostility of those around him and taken pre-emptive action".

"To the question of why he dropped me from the Cabinet and expelled me from the party, all I can say is that he made mistakes and so did I. He let others influence him and listened to their calumnies against me. I let my frustration overtake my patience," he said.

The President was forced to leave Congress in April 1986 after which he formed Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress (RSC).

'Indira knew of threat to life before Blue Star' NEW DELHI, JaNuary 28 (IaNs): Indira Gandhi knew her life was at risk when she decided to go for militarily storm the Golden Temple, President Pranab Mukherjee reveals in the second part of his memoirs released on Thursday. "The Turbulent Years, 1980-1996" (Rupa) says that "criminals, smugglers and anti-social elements" had joined the Khalistan movement and recalls that the Golden Temple had become a safe haven for them.

The president writes that talks with the Akali Dal failed due to its rigid stance, and last ditch efforts were made shortly before "Operation Blue Star" - as the military operation was codenamed - was launched.

"Even a few days before Operation Blue Star, an attempt was made to find a solution by holding a meeting with the Akali Dal leaders who were brought from jail to the lounge of the Chandigarh airport at midnight...Unfortunately, the talks remained unsuccessful," he says in the book.

"By May 1984, it became increasingly clear President Pranab Mukherjee reading excerpts from his memoir "The Turbulent Years: 1980that there was no alternative but military action 96" during its release at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

to flush out the terrorists within the Golden Temple, particularly as the negotiations and discussions had not yielded the desired results."

The decision to storm the Golden Temple was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) but no official was present at the meet, Mukherjee writes. Operation Blue Star was launched at the Golden Temple on June 3, 1984.

Mukherjee then writes how Gandhi told him she was aware of the threat to her life.

"I still vividly recall Mrs Gandhi telling me, 'Pranab, I know of the consequences.' She understood the situation well and was clear that there was no other option. "Aware that her own life was at risk, she took a conscious decision to go ahead in the best interest of the nation."

Mukherjee defends the operation, calling the situation in Punjab at that time "abnormal". Gandhi was assassinated on October 31, 1984, at her Safdarjung Road residence in New Delhi by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star.

Opening Ayodhya temple doors error of judgement by Rajiv: President NEW DELHI, JaNuary 28 (PtI): The opening of Ram Janmabhoomi temple site in Ayodhya was an “error of judgement”

by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the demolition of Babri Masjid an act of “absolute perfidy” that destroyed India’s image, President Pranab Mukherjee has said in his memoir released on Thursday.

“The opening of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple site on February 1, 1986 was perhaps another error of judgement. People felt these actions could have been avoided,” the President has written in the book titled “The Turbulent Years: 1980-96”.,

“The demolition of Babri Masjid was an act of absolute perfidy...

It was the senseless, wanton destruction of a religious structure, purely to serve political ends. It deeply wounded the sentiments of the Muslim community in India and abroad. It destroyed India’s image as a tolerant, pluralistic nation,” he says.

Mukherjee says implementation of the Mandal Commission’s recommendations “contributed to reducing social injustice in society though it also divided and polarised different sections of our population“. The period of 198991, Mukherjee says, was a phase

dominated by violence and bitter divisions within Indian society.

“Insurgency and cross border terrorism broke out in Jammu and Kashmir; the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir-Babri Masjid issue rocked the nation. Finally, a suicide bomber brought Rajiv’s life to an abrupt and tragic end on 21 May 1991,” he says.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s campaign by mobilising activists to collect bricks from all over the country and take them in a procession to Ayodhya caused communal tension, he said.

Recalling the Shah Bano case, the President says Rajiv Gandhi’s

action eroded his image of a modern man.

“Rajiv’s actions on the Shah Bano judgement and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Bill drew criticism and eroded his modern image,” the President said.

Shah Bano, a Muslim mother of five children, was divorced by her husband in 1978. She filed a criminal suit in which the Supreme Court ruled in her favour and she won the right to alimony from her husband.

However, the then Congress government, enacted the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on

Divorce) Act, 1986. The most controversial provision of the Act was that it gave a Muslim woman the right to maintenance for the period of iddat (about three months) after the divorce, and shifted the onus of maintaining her to her relatives or the Wakf Board. The Act was seen as discriminatory as it denied divorced Muslim women the right to basic maintenance which women of other faiths had recourse to under secular law.

Mukherjee says Rajiv Gandhi has been criticised for his excessive reliance on some close friends and advisers who installed the socalled babalog government.

Seven killed in landmine blast in Jharkhand SMART CITIES: 20 cities selected raNcHI, JaNuary 28 (IaNs): Seven people, including 5 policemen, were killed by the banned Maoist group, CPI-Maoist, in a landmine blast in Jharkhand's Palamau district on Wednesday evening, police said on Thursday.

The blast, which took place near Kalapahari area of the district, around 170 km from here,

was so powerful that it was heard by people in nearby villages.

Besides the five policemen, one driver and a guard were also killed in the explosion around 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday that hit a vehicle carrying more than 12 policemen.

Six policemen who were injured in blast were airlifted to Ranchi in the night.

According to police sources, Maoist guerrillas trapped the security personnel by spreading rumours that the bodies of the a few Maoists belonging to the TPC-Maoist faction were lying in the area.

The sources said that a gunfight had erupted between the Communist Party of India-Maoist and another Maoist group,

Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), in the same area for last three days.

"Based on the information about the bodies, the policemen moved in two vehicles -- a police jeep and a mini bus. Maoists blew up the mini bus to edffect maximum casualties," a police officer told IANS. An anti-landmine vehicle was not used during

the movement, the sources said.

In the past, Maoist guerrillas have detonated landmine blasts and targeted police vehicles on more than 20 occasions since the creation of the state in 2000.

The last landmine blast was during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in which five policemen were killed in Dumka district.

Getting Indian passport becomes easier NEW DELHI, JaNuary 28 (IaNs): The process of getting a fresh Indian passport has become easier with the government introducing two significant changes to further liberalise the procedure.

“The first is that the ministry has implemented a solution whereby applicants can book their appointments as per their choice,” external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup explained at a media briefing here on Thursday.

“The new provision will allow applicants to choose any of the latest five available working days while scheduling or rescheduling an appointment for passport-related services,” he said.

Under the earlier system, the

appointment was assigned by the Passport Seva system based on its availability and on first-in-firstout (FIFO) basis.

Swarup said that now an applicant can fill up his or her particulars online and pay the requisite fees.

“He or she will then be redirected to a 'pay and book appointment' screen allowing him or her to choose a date from the displayed calendar,” he said, adding that the calendar would display the latest five available dates at the Passport Seva Kendra selected.

“The second and more significant set of changes are in the police verification process,” the spokesman said.

He said the digital integration

of police districts into the Passport Seva Project (PSP) has resulted in the reduction of days taken to complete verification from 49 in 2013 to 34 in 2015.

“But now, under this system, normal passport applications of all first time applicants who furnish three documents -- Aadhar, electoral photo identity card and permanent account number or PAN card -- and an affidavit stating their address, citizenship and swearing that there are no criminal cases pending against them will be processed on a postpolice verification basis without payment of any additional fees subject to successful online validation of the Aadhar number,” Swarup said.

Basically, he said, a citizen who has these three relevant documents would be issued the passport “virtually immediately” and the police verification would follow later.

“The ministry has also launched an mPassport Police App which allows for police verification to enter the status of verification digitally and in real time, thus cutting down further on the time required for verification,” he said.

The changes have come into effect as of Wednesday which, Swarup said, was a Republic Day gift from the external affairs ministry.

As of December 31, 2015, 63.3 million Indians held valid passports, the spokesman added.

for $7.5 billion smart makeover

NEW DELHI, JaNuary 28 (rEutErs): India named 20 cities on Thursday which it says will be provided with uninterrupted power and water supplies, proper sanitation and public transport in a $7.5 billion makeover to turn them into smart cities with living standards comparable to Europe.

India's cities lack basic infrastructure such as toilets and are bursting at the seams with the influx of tens of thousands of people from the countryside.

Thirteen of them are in the WHO's list of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, topped by the capital New Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to create 100 new smart cities by 2022 that will have internet connectivity, e-governance along with quality infrastructure such as waste management and efficient public transport.

The plan is also intended to boost investment and create jobs for millions of people, but it has faced criticism for being a slow starter.

The federal government has struggled to pass reform legislation making it easier

to acquire land and build roads and it was not immediately clear how it would be able to provide high-quality infrastructure to these cities within five years.

On Thursday, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu named the first set of cities that will be targeted for a transformation.

These include Chennai in the south, which

was ravaged by floods last year because of flawed urban planning, as well as a part of New Delhi. Other proposed smart cities are the tourist destinations of Jaipur and Udaipur and Bhubaneswar in the east."This game-changing mission marks the end of a business-as-usual approach," Naidu told a news conference. About 35 million people live in the 20 cities.

Chhattisgarh: Rights group seeks probe Doctors warn against brain-eating bug into police inaction over rape complaints

KOLKata, JaNuary 28 (tNN): A fatal microbe that invades the body through the nose and travels through nerve fibres into brain where its feeds on cerebral tissues could be active in Kolkata. Even though extremely rare -with less than 150 cases recorded worldwide since 1965 -primary amoebic meningoencephelitis or PAM struck a 14-year-old boy in Kolkata earlier this month.

Doctors suspect he contracted the bacteria while swimming and have warned that pools and other fresh waterbodies in the city may be harbouring the bacteria which has the macabre name 'brain-eating amoeba'.

The mortality rate for PAM is a staggering 98% but the boy survived.It was touch and go for three weeks because his kidneys were also badly affected, but a team of doctors at CMRI Hospital refused to give up on him and tried

out-of-the-box techniques child suffered a kidney fail- was approached for the which pulled him back ure, a common side effect. drug and the directorate of from the brink. He is ex- Then, we had to act very fast. health procured it quickly .

After 2 weeks of being used in combination, the cocktail of medicines managed to control the infection.

His kidneys stabilized and other symptoms like headache and vomiting gradually re ceded.

By the end of the third week, he was declared fit to leave the hospital.

"Initially , it seemed like meningitis".

The doctors were surprised by the findings and spoke with family members to find tremely lucky to be alive, The principal drug was dis- out more about the boy . said one of the doctors, continued and we decided The feedback revealed that adding that they had to to try three other drugs that the youngster was a regular seek a rare drug with the have been used in recent swimmer. This prompted help of the state health de- PAM cases elsewhere. One doctors to dig deeper and partment to save the boy . It of these was Miltefocin, a ask for a test to detect PAM. A rare kind of meningitis is only the fifth known PAM new drug not yet widely available in the market but associated with swimming survival in India.

"The principal drug very effective," said Sush- in fresh water lakes, rivers -amphotericin B -is very mita Banerjee, paediatric and pools, it is a devastating infection caused by a freetoxic. It was used along with nephrologist at CMRI. The health department living microscopic amoeba three other drugs but the

called naegleria fowleri. It enters the body through the nose, makes its way to the brain and causes PAN. In the brain, it feeds on nerve tissues and multiplies, causing necrosis and bleeding. Cases of PAM are extremely few and research on the infection is also rare, said a doctor.

In USA, only 135 cases have been recorded in the last two decades -of whom merely 4 survived. Four cases of survival have been reported in India. According to a tropical medicine expert, swimming pools are the principal source of the infection. "While PAM could be triggered by either an amoeba or protozoa, usually pools are the source.

It could be risky to use a pool that has not been properly chlorinated," he said.

But PAM could even spread through other sources of water, said Indranil Ray , consultant microbiologist, CMRI, who was a part of the team treating the youngster.

cHENNaI, JaNuary 28 (tHOmsON rEutErs FOuNDatION): Police in Chhattisgarh face mounting criticism for delays in registering complaints of rape during operations against Maoist rebels, with Amnesty International India demanding an independent probe into police inaction. One of India's poorest regions, Chhattisgarh has seen major security operations to flush out Maoist rebels who say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers to land and a greater claim on mineral wealth.

According to Amnesty's India office, 13 women from the Adivasi group said they were raped and sexually assaulted by police and security forces during anti-Maoist raids in Nendra village between Jan. 11 and 14. .

"Instead of helping the women, the police have made it difficult for them at every step," human rights lawyer Shalini Gera told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"And we feel even the filing of the FIR is just a bureaucratic step and the investigation will not be started any time soon, since there is no indication on when the statements of the complainants will be recorded." Rape victims in India have to contend with an archaic, poorly funded and insensitive criminal justice system, campaigners say.

Those brave enough to go to the police face numerous challenges such as hostile police officers, unsympathetic forensic examinations, a lack of counselling, shoddy police investigations and weak prosecutions in the courts, they say. The tribal women, who left their children and homes to camp at the district headquarters in Bijapur to ensure their complaint was heard, travelled back to their forest homes after medical tests were done last week.

Official statements from the women are required for the probe to proceed. "The team investigating the case must also be sensitive towards the affected women, and ensure that their statements are recorded in a manner that takes their safety and convenience into account," said Gopika Bakshi, women's rights campaigner at Amnesty International India.

In emailed comments to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Bakshi called for a swift, thorough investigation into the rape allegations. Critics say police have dragged their feet over similar reports of sexual violence in the region last year..

Bijapur Police Superintendant K L Dhruv said the investigation would begin once the basic paperwork was completed.

"How soon it is wrapped up depends on the investigating officer," Dhruv told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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Unease stirs as Suu Kyi reaches out to former foes YANGON, JANuArY 28 (reuters): When leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy huddled this month to discuss the transfer of power in Myanmar, they quickly reached decisions on who from the party should take the key posts in the next parliament.

But as attention turned to a candidate from the junta-linked Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), a heated argument erupted over his track record and suitability for office, a senior NLD official who was present at the meeting said.

The issue of how far to go in reaching out to former foes from nearly half a century of military rule may prove one of the first faultines to emerge within the NLD, with the potential to threaten or even derail Suu Kyi’s ambitious agenda.

“Some rank-and-file members are worried and not happy about the NLD working closely with the military. They never kept their promises so they don’t trust the army,” said Aung Myo, a mid-ranking NLD member.

Eventually NLD leaders agreed at the early January meeting to offer the posts of deputy parliament speakers to T Khun Myat from

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

the USDP and Aye Thar Aung from Arakan National Party (ANP), an ethnic party from Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State.

The nominations were made as a token of national reconciliation as Suu Kyi’s party prepares for office after winning about 80 percent of the elected seats in parliament at a

historic general election late last year.

That the nomination provoked such heated debate underscores a growing sense of unease among some party members at the speed with which Suu Kyi has sought to build ties with powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing and former junta leader Than Shwe.

“Breaking down the distrust and convincing everybody to work together represents the single biggest challenge for the incoming administration,” said Myint U, an independent consultant and expert on Myanmar bureaucracy.

“Failure here may slow down or even stop reforms and could cost the country

billions of dollars in lost investment.”

“GRASSROOTS DON’T LIKE THEM” The NLD, which will take office around late March after a drawnout transition, is a broad church of views united by the shared experience of the decades-long struggle

for democracy and held together by Suu Kyi’s charismatic leadership.

Many members, including the Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi, suffered years of persecution and imprisonment by the junta that had ruled Myanmar for 49 years until a semicivilian government took power in 2011.

“There’s a history, a past that is hard to forget for many people,” said Lin Htoo Maung, a sales executive at a Yangon-based bank.

Suu Kyi is barred from becoming president by the 2008 constitution, which experts say was drafted by the military to entrench its influence on politics.

The charter also gives her little choice but to engage with the military, despite her huge election win.

The army controls a quarter of the seats in parliament - giving it a constitutional veto - a large number of seats at the security council and three security ministries: defence, border affairs and home affairs.

At the closed-door leadership meeting, it was also agreed to give the powerful post of the lower house speaker to Win Myint, one of the closest party acolytes of Suu Kyi, said the NLD official pres-

ent at the meeting.

Another NLD leader familiar with the meeting told Reuters that, while Suu Kyi was firmly in charge and led most decisions, the mood among party grassroots was already having an influence on the speed and depth of rapprochement.

“We are worried, or concerned that our people have little or no experience in actual governance,” the NLD leader said, explaining why the party had been discussing who from the outgoing administration might be retained.

“The majority of the cabinet will be NLD. But there will be some technocrats from ethnic parties and other parties,” he said.

“It would be difficult for us to keep any current ministers. The rank-and-file, the party grassroots don’t like them.”

Both NLD leaders, who belong to the party’s 15-member Central Executive Committee, spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.

BITTER LEGACY One of the areas that arouses most bitterness in dealing with the legacy of junta-rule would likely be land grabs that the military and army-linked enterprises were accused of

by rights activists, said Win Min, who runs the NLD office in southern Yangon.

“They tortured villagers, grabbed the land and forced them to move out by setting crops on fire,” said a rank-and-file Yangonbased NLD member who did not want to be identified out of fear of retribution. “I’m not saying that our senior members are making the wrong move, but I think we need to be careful while working with them.”

No one from the military or USDP was available for comment.

To be sure, many political prisoners and the top echelons of the party support Suu Kyi’s reconciliatory approach.

Tin Oo, NLD’s “patron” and one of its most deeply respected leaders, told Reuters that the NLD did not want to put any pressure on the military or push for the constitutional amendement immediately.

“We will agree to anything that would make them feel comfortable to make the transition stable,” said the 88-year-old, who served as army chief in 1970s.

“We know that we will win in the end anyway, but we don’t think it’s the right time to prioritize it now.”

Taiwan president says visit to Myanmar’s outgoing Prez promises to help new govt disputed island promotes peace tAIPeI, JANuArY 28 (reuters): Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, ignoring U.S. criticism, flew to a disputed island in the South China Sea on Thursday to reaffirm Taipei’s sovereignty and said the trip was aimed at promoting peace.

Ma’s one-day visit to Itu Aba came amid growing international concern over rising tensions in the South China Sea, especially in the wake of Beijing’s rapid creation of seven man-made islands in the Spratly archipelago.

Washington, Taiwan’s biggest ally, on Wednesday called Ma’s trip “extremely unhelpful”, adding it would not do anything to resolve disputes over the waterway.

But Ma, who steps down in May, said he had told the United States about his trip a few days beforehand.

“The U.S. and we (Taiwan), when it comes to the big direction for the South China Sea, are the same,” Ma told reporters. “We all hope for peace, hope there is no conflict or war.”

Beijing on Wednesday reiterated that China and Taiwan had a common duty to protect Chinese sovereignty in the South China Sea. Beijing, recognised by most of the world as the head of “one China”, deems Taiwan a wayward province to be taken by force if necessary.

Taiwan has just finished a $100 million port upgrade and built a new lighthouse on Itu Aba, known as Taiping in Taiwan.

The island, which lies in the Spratlys, also has an airstrip, a hospital and fresh water.

Both China and Taiwan claim most of

the South China Sea. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei also have competing claims.

Vietnam’s top official in Taiwan said Hanoi “resolutely opposed” Ma’s visit.

The Philippine Foreign Ministry said all parties had a shared responsibility to refrain from actions that could increase tensions.

Ma said the visit was now or never.

“This was the time to go,” he said. “If I didn’t go now, it would have been too late.”

Given the tensions over the South China Sea, few senior political officials from any of the claimants have visited the contested region in recent years.

Ma’s visit follows elections won by the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which declined a request by Ma to send a representative along. The DPP said Taiwan had a responsibility to maintain peace and stability in the area.

The claims of both China and Taiwan are based on maps from the late 1940s belonging to the Nationalists, when they ruled all of China. The Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong’s Communists.

China has appeared unfazed by Taiwan’s upgrading work on Itu Aba. Military strategists say that is because Itu Aba could fall into China’s hands should it ever take over Taiwan.

The 46-hectare (114-acre) island supports around 180 people, about 150 of them coastguard personnel.

NAYPYItAW, JANuArY 28 (reuters): Myanmar President Thein Sein on Thursday called on political parties to work together for the national interest and said he would help the new government of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi. Speaking to lawmakers who served the last five years and whose terms expire on Friday, as well as those chosen in the poll swept by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), Thein Sein outlined the biggest achievements of his five-year term.

The soft-spoken, bespectacled president, who came to power in 2011, stunned the world with an ambitious programme of political and economic change that transformed the impoverished nation of 51.5 million people from pariah state into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

Thein Sein released political prisoners, scrapped censorship, legalised trade unions and protests, sought peace with ethnic minority insurgents and pushed through legislation on everything from land re-

Myanmar’s President Thein Sein (C) arrives at the Union Parliament in Naypyitaw on January 28. (REUTERS Photo)

form to foreign investment.

In his last act in power, his administration organised credible elections in November praised by international observers and has worked on the transfer of power to Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi’s government.

“As the winning party needs to work for the national interest, the minority parties also need to cooperate and, sometimes, criticize if necessary for the country,” said the 70-yearold president whose term expires at the end of March.

“Our government will help the new government.”

While he will likely be remembered for his re-

N Korea may be readying long-range missile launch soon

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) watches a firing contest of the KPA artillery units at undisclosed location in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on January 5. (REUTERS Photo)

seOuL, JANuArY 28 (reuters): North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range missile as soon as within a week, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported early on Thursday, citing an unnamed Japanese government official.

The official cited signs of possible preparations for a missile launch, based on analysis of satellite imagery of the North’s Tongchang-ri missile test site on its west coast.

The report came as U.N. Security Council members discuss fresh sanctions against the North after it conducted its fourth nuclear test on January 6.

The North is already under sanctions for its nuclear and missile programmes.

North Korea last conducted a long-range rocket launch in late 2012, successfully putting into orbit an object it claimed was a communications satellite, in what experts saw as

part of an effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok declined to comment on whether there were pre-launch activities at the site, citing a policy of not discussing intelligence matters. However, he said the North had issued no international warnings on navigation, as it has ahead of previous long-range rocket launches.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited a government source as saying there had been steady activity at the missile base, with screens set up at key areas, probably to deter spy satellite surveillance.

Much of the site’s operation is automated and rails are set up to move rocket components quickly for final assembly and launch, Yonhap quoted the source as saying.

The site was upgraded last year to accommodate the launch of a longerrange rocket, experts have said.

Isolated North Korea says it has a sovereign right to run a space programme and its long-range rockets are built to deliver satellites into space.

The North is also seen to be working to miniaturise a nuclear warhead to mount on a missile, but many experts say it is some time away from perfecting the technology.

In Beijing, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday agreed on the need for a significant new U.N. secu-

rity resolution against the North, but there were few signs of progress.

U.S. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said before publication of the Kyodo report that he supported reviewing the possibility of converting a U.S. Aegis missile defense test site in Hawaii into a combat-ready facility to bolster U.S. defenses against ballistic missile attacks, an initiative first reported by Reuters last week.

Harris also told reporters after his speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington that it made sense to put a mobile missile defense system known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense in South Korea.

That decision must be made jointly by the United States and South Korea, he said.

North Korea said on Jan. 6 it exploded a hydrogen bomb, although the United States and other governments and experts voiced scepticism that it had made such a technological advance.

form push and transfer of power to pro-democracy activists, Thein Sein’s reputation suffers from his role as a close acolyte of former dictator Than Shwe, who during 19 years in power jailed political opponents, killed pro-democracy protesters and commanded a military accused of human rights violations on ethnic minorities.

On Thursday, however,

Thein Sein struck a conciliatory tone, explaining his collaboration with his former foes.

“I have tried my best for not turning back to the situations in the past - I made the most reasonable decisions in my right and power as the president. We tried to forget personal feelings and worked for the country and the people,” said Thein Sein.

The new NLD-dominated parliament, which convenes on Monday, will pick its speakers and other key positions in the chamber before electing president over the next few weeks.

The upper house, the lower house and the military bloc in parliament will put forward one presidential candidate each. The combined houses will vote on the three candidates the winner will become the president and form a government.

The NLD, which won about 80 percent of all elected seats, has enough votes in the chamber to choose its own president.

But Suu Kyi is ineligible because the junta-drafted constitution prevents people with foreign spouses or children from doing so. Suu Kyi has two sons with British citizenship.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT NAGALAND::KOHIMA

NO.MA-68/2015 (Pt-I) :

Dated Kohima the 27th January, 2016.

ADVERTISEMENT As per Housing For All Guidelines for implementing “Housing for All (HFA)”Mission, the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA) will provide assistance to the States for enhancing different competencies like Planning, Engineering, Social mobilization, Financial planning etc. Therefore, for the constitution of the State Level Technical Cell in the State Nagaland applications from interested eligible candidates are invited for filling up the various posts as given under:1. Housing Finance and Policy Specialist 2. Municipal Finance Specialist 3. Social Development Specialist 4. Capacity Development Specialist 5. MIS Specialist 6. Environmental Specialist

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Interest candidates may submit their application to the undersigned on or before 12th February, 2016. The application should be accompanied by supporting certificates/ documents in support of the qualifications and experience. The date of interview shall be intimated at a convenient date and the undersigned reserves the right to reject any application that does not possess the requisite qualification/criteria.

(DR. MAONGWATI AIER), IAS Secretary to the Government of Nagaland

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De Bruyne sends Man City to League Cup final

MANChEstER, JANuARy 28 (AFP): Kevin De Bruyne met with controversy, glory and injury as Manchester City defeated Everton 3-1 on Wednesday to set up a League Cup final showdown with Liverpool.

Everton extended their 2-1 advantage from the first leg when Ross Barkley scored a fine individual goal in the 18th minute, but Fernandinho quickly equalised before substitute De Bruyne levelled the tie and then set up Sergio Aguero to complete a 4-3 aggregate victory in the 76th minute.

Replays, however, suggested that Raheem Sterling had taken the ball beyond the byline before cutting it back for De Bruyne to score and the former Wolfsburg winger finished the match on a stretcher after his knee buckled in a late challenge with Ramiro Funes Mori.

"To play a final at Wembley is very important. I am very happy," said City man-

ager Manuel Pellegrini.

On suggestions De Bruyne's goal should not have stood, he added: "That is not why we won. We won because we scored three goals and Everton had just one chance." But Everton manager Roberto Martinez said: "Everyone that has seen the replay can clearly see the ball is out of play.

"It's very, very hard to take. If they score three goals in the right way, then you accept it."

City's win deprived Everton of a meeting with Liverpool -- who overcame Stoke City on penalties on Tuesday -- in what would have been the first all-Merseyside major final since the 1988-89 FA Cup and the first League Cup final to feature the Goodison Park club since 1984.

Pellegrini's side had to come from 3-1 down on aggregate at the Etihad Stadium after Barkley swelled Everton's advantage with a goal that demonstrated both his own brilliance and

Everton midfielder Gerard Deulofeu (L) vies with Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne for the ball. (Photo/AFP)

City's defensive porousness. The Everton number 20 evaded the sliding Nicolas Otamendi and foxed Fabian Delph with a stylish

feint before steering a low shot into City goalkeeper Willy Caballero's bottomright corner.

Barkley's strike left City

needing two goals to stay in the tie, but after Sterling had tested Joel Robles and Yaya Toure had curled over, they halved the aggregate

deficit in the 24th minute.

Aguero's shot was blocked by returning Everton skipper Phil Jagielka, but Fernandinho followed

‘Whistleblower’ helps Swiss investigation against Blatter

ZuRiCh, JANuARy 28 (REutERs): An important witness has offered information to help criminal proceedings against long-time president of the world soccer body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Thursday.

Spokesman Andre Marty said in an interview with TV programme "Morgenmagazin", broadcast on German channel ARD, that it should be clear by the end of 2016 to mid-2017 whether there was evidence to bring a charge against Blatter whose presi-

that point in the emailed statement.

Swiss prosecutors last year opened a criminal investigation of individuals on suspicion of mismanagement and money laundering related to allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

In September the Swiss attorney general's office also announced that it had opened a criminal investigation into FIFA president Sepp Blatter over a 2.0 million Swiss franc payment made by FIFA to European Members of the Nagaland Sepaktakraw team pose for lens. The team will be participating in soccer boss Michel Platini. the 26th Senior National Sepaktakraw Championship at Goa from February 2 to 5.

Kohli's Pakistani fan arrested, faces up to 10 years in prison

Van Gaal under scrutiny as ManU go to Derby

LAhORE, JANuARy 28 (iANs): A Pakistani fan of Indian star batsman Virat Kohli is facing up to a decade in jail after being taken into custody for raising the Indian tricolour on the roof of his house in Punjab province.

The fan arrested on Tuesday was identified as Umar Draz, who hails from a town in Okara district of Pakistan's Punjab province, about 200 km from here.

Police said the 22-yearold went "against the ideology of Pakistan" when he hoisted the flag on his rooftop celebrating Kohli’s blazing knock of 90 not out, which set up India’s 37run win in the first of three Twenty20 Internationals

cricket series against Australia.

Regional police officer Faisal Rana said Draz was charged under Pakistan's penal code with acting against Pakistan’s sovereignty and that he could face a fine and 10 years in jail. "Draz initially told us that he is a true Pakistani but likes Kohli and never knew that was a crime," Rana was quoted as saying by dunyanews.tv on Thursday. "His act is against our country's sovereignty and is against the ideology of Pakistan." The officer also said Draz’s home was full of pictures of Kohli. "He is a diehard fan of Kohli and there were big posters pasted on the walls of his house," he said.

66th minute by replacing Toure with De Bruyne, City's record £55 million ($78.3 million, 71.9 million euros) signing, and four minutes after coming on the 24-yearold levelled the tie.

Sterling had moved to the left following Navas's entrance and he showed England colleague John Stones a clean pair of heels before pulling the ball back for De Bruyne, who side-footed home. To the fury of Evertonians on social media, replays showed that the ball had just crossed the line before Sterling played it into the box.

And the mood of those in royal blue plummeted six minutes later when De Bruyne shaped a cross into the box from the right and Aguero glanced a deft header past Robles to send City to Wembley.

However, De Bruyne's night was to end prematurely when he had to be carried off on a stretcher, with Pellegrini suggesting that he had damaged the medial ligament.

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dency has ended with the worst corruption scandal in FIFA's history.

"In the name of the office of the attorney general of Switzerland I can confirm that a witness has given us interesting information that is relevant for the case and should be essential for the investigation," Marty said in an emailed statement.

In the TV interview, Marty used the term "whistleblower" to describe the witness, suggesting he might be a FIFA insider. He declined to comment on

LONDON, JANuARy 28 (REutERs): All eyes will be on Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal when he takes his team to Derby County for an FA Cup fourth-round tie on Friday with the fans' boos from their home defeat by Southampton still ringing in his ears.

Frustrated supporters roared for the Dutchman to be sacked after Saturday's 1-0 loss at Old Trafford, but he still holds the reins despite media speculation he had offered to resign.

That may change if second tier Derby knock United out of the Cup, especially given mounting speculation that the club have lined up Jose Mourinho as their next manager after the Portu-

in with a right-foot drive that clipped Leighton Baines's heel and left Robles clutching at thin air.

City almost levelled the tie nine minutes before the interval, Aguero thumping a shot against the righthand upright from outside the box and Sterling seeing his follow-up swatted behind by Robles.

Barkley created a chance for Gerard Deulofeu early in the second half, the Spaniard drawing a save from Caballero with a side-foot shot, but with Jesus Navas on in place of Delph, City had a new outlet on the right flank and they began to bang on the door. Aguero miscued, uncharacteristically, from a Navas cross, David Silva headed a Pablo Zabaleta cross against the post and Tom Cleverley had to produce a sliding block to thwart Sterling.

Martinez added fresh legs in the form of James McCarthy and Arouna Kone.

Pellegrini responded in the

guese was sacked by Chelsea last month.

Derby were riding high in the Championship at the end of last year but Paul Clement's men have recently lost their way. Their only win in five matches in 2016 was a 2-1 victory over Hartlepool in the last round of the Cup. However, United captain Wayne Rooney, who scored a stoppage- time penalty to squeeze past third tier Sheffield United in the third round, knows the 11-times Cup winners cannot afford to be as erratic as they have been in the Premier League, in which they lie fifth.

"Derby have nothing to lose. No-one is expecting them to win and they will try to cause an upset.

We know that and have to

be ready for that," Rooney told MUTV. Milton Keynes Dons are another Championship side facing elite opponents as they take on Chelsea on Sunday for a place in the fifth round.

With Chelsea playing catch up after a poor start to the season -- they are in 13th place in the Premier League and their League Cup title defence ended in the fourth round -- their only chance of salvaging silverware on home soil is the FA Cup. Since Guus Hiddink took charge over a month ago following Mourinho's sacking, Chelsea are unbeaten in all competitions.

"We have to try to win the games we have left in the league, we are work-

DiMAPuR, JANuARy 28 (MExN): The Old Jalukie Village Youth Organization is organising the Peren District Open Volleyball Tournament from January 30 at Old Jalukie Village. Masang Hiekha will be the chief guest during the opening ceremony. For further details, interested teams/clubs may contact 9436843332/94028 67677/9612631823.

Sumi Hoho Football & Volley tourney underway

DiMAPuR, JANuARy 28 (DiPR): Minister for Road & Bridges, Vikheho Swu, inaugurated the 8th Sumi Hoho Football (Men) and Volleyball (Women) trophy at Pughoboto football ground on January 28. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Minister encouraged the players to have the spirit of sportsmanship and stated that participation in the event in itself was a great privilege. Altogether 15 teams are vying for the trophy out of which 10 teams are football teams and five are volleyball teams with participation from all Sumi communities in Nagaland. The sports event is being hosted by Sumi Aphuyemi Games ing very hard and I think and Sports Association and will conclude on February 4. it shows on the pitch," goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois told Chelsea's website (www.chelseafc.com).

Champions Arsenal DiMAPuR, JANuARy 28 (MExN): The 1st Badminwill take on second tier ton Championship organised by the Orija Sporting Club Burnley on Saturday as commenced here at Changki village today. The tournathey try to take another ment was formally declared open by the Chief Guest, step towards becoming Imjung M. Panger, IAS, Secretary, Geology and Mining the first club since Black- Department, Nagaland.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Guest opined that burn Rovers in 1886 to win the tournament was a much needed impetus to revive the FA Cup three years in the dying sports lifestyle among Changkis who are otha row. erwise very vibrant in the field of games and sports. He A packed Saturday expressed the hope that the tournament would serve as schedule will also feature the beginning of a revival in competitive sports, educathree all-Premier League tion and other professions as well. He further urged the ties, Aston Villa v Man- gathering to stop basking in the past glories achieved by chester City, Crystal Pal- the forefathers and parents and encouraged the youngace v Stoke City and Liver- sters to come out from such comfort zones and to take up pool v West Ham United. challenges more diligently.

Third-round giantIt may be mentioned that Orija Sporting Club is an ofkillers Oxford United will ficial organ of the Changki Ayim Asem Senso Mungdang be eager to build on their (Changki Citizen's Forum) and the ongoing tournament win over Swansea City is being organised with special patronage by Taliakum J. when they host second Longkumer, IPS, ADGP Chhattisgarh. Altogether, 25 playtier Blackburn Rovers. ers are participating in the tournament.

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Konta hungry for more slam Barca sink Bilbao as Atletico crash out of Cup success after semi-final loss

Britain's Johanna Konta prepares to serve during her semifinal match against Germany's Angelique Kerber at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 28. (REUTERS)

MELBOuRNE, JANuARy 28 (REutERs): Johanna Konta's exhilarating run at the Australian Open was finally halted by Angelique Kerber in the semifinals on Thursday, but the Briton leaves Melbourne Park "hungry" for more grand slam success.

On her main draw debut in Melbourne, the world number 47 became the first British woman into the last four of a grand slam in over 30 years and only the third in Australia in the professional era after Virginia Wade and Sue Barker. On the way, she

knocked out Venus Williams and last year's semi-finalist Ekaterina Makarova, so she was philosophical about her 7-5 6-2 loss to German seventh seed Kerber at Rod Laver Arena.

"I don't think I missed an opportunity. I played against a better player today who earned her right into a grand slam final," the Sydney-born 24-year-old told reporters.

"That's how I view it.

She played a really, really good match. That's why she is the winner and I'm not today. "But I'm really tak-

ing a lot of positive things from it. I'm really hungry to keep improving and keep enjoying what I'm doing.

So that's where I'm at."

Konta showed nerves early against Kerber with eight unforced errors in the opening two games and conceded a 3-0 lead.

But she hit back to win the next four games and battled hard in a tight first set before the German sprinted away to wrap up the match in 82 minutes.

Konta's rise over the last 12 months has been a revelation. Her last trip to Melbourne Park ended at qualifying when she was ranked 147th in the world.

The Eastbourne resident plans a full schedule to continue her progression but was not getting bogged down in tangible goals. "I look to be the best I can be.

Like I keep saying, I don't look at myself in the mirror and say, 'You're number this in the world'," she said. "That's not how I view my career and my life. I just will go back, keep working hard, keep improving the things that I want to improve and keep enjoying what I'm doing."

BARCELONA, JANuARy 28 (REutERs): Holders Barcelona produced a second-half blitz to come from behind and beat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 to book a place in the King's Cup semifinals after Atletico Madrid crashed out in a shock 3-2 defeat by Celta Vigo.

Inaki Williams put Bilbao ahead after 12 minutes against a lacklustre Barca who held a 2-1 lead from the first leg.

The Catalan side woke up in the second half with in-form Luis Suarez knocking in the equaliser. A Gerard Pique header after 81 minutes put Barca ahead and Neymar cracked in a drive in stoppage time.

"We went out with a good advantage but then conceding made it complicated for us," Suarez told reporters.

"It was a poor first half from us but then we went out (for the second half ) with a different attitude and that made the difference."

Pablo Hernandez scored twice for Celta to stun Atletico who lie second in La Liga.

The first leg had finished 0-0 but the return was a feast of attacking football

Barcelona's Neymar (L) fights for the ball against Athletic Bilbao's Aymeric Laporte. (REUTERS)

in which Celta showed the greater cutting edge.

Hernandez nodded home after 22 minutes and although Antoine Griezmann pounced on a rebound to equalise, John Guidetti struck to restore the visitors' advantage after 56 minutes.

Celta extended their lead through another Hernandez header and Atletico could only pull one goal

back through substitute Angel Correa nine minutes from time.

Barcelona were missing Arda Turan while Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta were also only fit enough for the bench, so coach Luis Enrique started with Javier Mascherano and Sergio Roberto in midfield.

The home side were unsettled by Bilbao’s pressing and Williams latched on

to a defence-splitting pass from Aritz Aduriz to put them ahead with a clinical finish.

Barca were far from their best but they clicked into gear after the break with Suarez getting his 30th goal of the season from close range having been found by Lionel Messi.

Barca went close to scoring again through Neymar and Pique before the

latter headed home a Dani Alves cross and a minute into stoppage time Neymar found the top corner with a left-foot strike from the edge of the area.

Atletico coach Diego Simeone again left striker Jackson Martinez on the bench with Luciano Vietto partnering Griezmann in attack.

Both sides went into the game struggling for goals with Atletico’s 0-0 draw against Sevilla on Sunday costing them the lead in La Liga.

Atletico's Koke struck an early shot just wide before Celta took a surprise lead with Hernandez given space to head in a Fabian Orellana cross.

Griezmann slotted home after a Yannick Carrasco shot was parried into his path by Blanco but Celta took charge in the second half.

Guidetti powered home a 25-metre drive and Correa struck the crossbar at the other end before Hernandez got his second with a header from Hugo Mallo's cross. Correa finished clinically after a fine run but Celta held out to reach the semi-final of the cup for the first time in 15 years.

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‘Jon Snow is dead’

Aamir Khan hires International Wrestlers for Dangal!

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amir Khan has been taking a lot of inspiration from Salman Khan lately.

Earlier, he took the help of Salman’s trainer to get the exact look and body for Dangal and now it seems he has copied his idea of flying in International wrestlers for fighting scenes in the film too.

Aamir, who is playing a wrestler in the film, has flown in wrestlers from many countries for fight scenes with his screen daughters. Says a source, “In Dangal, you can witness international level wrestling, for which they needed real wrestlers. Aamir’s screen daughters have trained for over a period of

Stone-faced Kit Harington confirms his character WAS killed in Game of Thrones... but expertly sidesteps questions on whether he's coming back

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one year and have now become thoroughly skilled with the sport.

They will be wrestling with four international wrestlers — two from Poland, one from Cameron and the other from UK. Presently they are staying with the cast and crew in Ludhiana. It was expensive to bring them on board, but Aamir and the director Nitesh Tiwari wanted the best for the film.

The script demanded international wrestlers as Mahavir’s daughter Geeta is shown fighting with them. The film will also deal with the wrestler’s relationship with his daughters.”

Dangal is set to release in December this year.

'Deadpool' taught Ryan Reynolds to take life 'less seriously'

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yan Reynolds lost his father last year and the actor says his “Deadpool” character helped him overcome the pain. The 39-year-old actor said he transformed the pain of losing a parent into something constructive,

reported People magazine.

"I understand the idea of filtering pain through a prism of comedy. I think this character does that quite well. He obviously takes it too far. He wakes up in the morning exclusively to annoy everyone around him.

But for your average civilian like me, I think there's something really relatable about that idea, that there's something to be learned by taking life a little less seriously," Reynolds said.

The actor, who first played a version of Dead-

pool in 2009's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," always wanted to do a standalone movie. "It's something I needed to do. Because I really identified with this character. Laughing can serve you in those dark moments and even help you

crawl your way back out.

"In my dad's dying moments, we were making him laugh. We were all in there together, me and my brothers, just joking with him. And of course we end up busting each other's chops."

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onam Kapoor has reportedly bagged her first English single in collaboration with popular British band Coldplay. Yes! If you remember the band was here in Mumbai last October to shoot the music video for their new single, “Hymn for The Weekend. And it can now be confirmed that Sonam will be seen doing a cameo opposite Beyonce in this latest single.

Sonam who is currently gearing up for Neerja biopic is equally excited to be a part of this project. While talking to a leading daily, she said, “I love Coldplay’s music and so does the world. It was a huge honour to be a part of the video. It’s a great concept and I had a lot of fun shooting for it.”

Sonam plays a mystical muse where she’ll be seen extending her Indian connection by going all desi in the song.

Speaking of which, Sonam’s sister Rhea Kapoor too was quoted saying, “They zeroed in on a desi look with Sonam in a ghagra choli and wearing the traditional mang tika and a nose ring.” It can be noted that Sonam shot for a day last October at the Golfa Devi Temple in Worli and the Vasai fort.

Rihanna’s new album ‘Anti’ now available after leaking early, and singer offers code for free download

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and illegal snippets were shared widely across social media. The album was later made legally available exclusively on Tidal. The singer is signed to the rapper's management company Roc Nation. Moments later, Rihanna tweeted the album could be downloaded for free with code "anti." Though those interested, had to sit through advertisements for Samsung. The album was a long wait for fans, who are used to Rihanna’s steady flow of new music. She has released seven albums from 2005 to 2012. Rihanna pushed the release date sever-

al times since the album was announced in 2014 and fans only recently learned her eighth album would come sometime before Jan. 29.

Only two days ago, the “We Found Love” singer teased fans on Twitter that she had finished the longawaited album. The Barbadian singer will go on a world tour next month, with the first stop in San Diego. Singles the artist released in 2015, like her collaboration in “FourFiveSeconds” with Kanye West and Paul McCartney didn’t make the album's track list.

Oprah Winfrey made $12m out of one tweet! Michael Jackson drama sparks controversy

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prah Winfrey's tweet can surely earn bread as the media mogul made some serious cash from just one post! According to Market Watch, 'Journey to Beloved' writer racked in a whopping 12 million dollar for merely writing about how the

61-year-old media proprietor was able to lose weight and still eat bread, reports E! Online.

Winfrey's post, included a 30-second video clip, which was to promote her journey with Weight Watchers, and captioned it, "Eat bread. Lose weight. Whaaatttt?

Katrina Kaif's red hair in 'Fitoor' costs Rs 55 lakh!

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ollywood stars Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur are rigorously promoting their upcoming film Fitoor. The two stars are leaving no stone unturned for the promotions of their intense romantic film, which releases February 12.

Katrina Kaif is undoubtedly a very versatile and talented actress of Bollywood and the dedication that she gives to her films is surely appreciated.

This time, for her upcoming film Fitoor, the actress coloured her entire hair red, as you can see in the trailer of the film itself.

But, did anyone wonder what the red hair colour must have cost the

producers of the film?

According to Rajeev Masand‘s piece in the Open Magazine, Katrina Kaif’s red hair has cost whopping amount of Rs 55 Lakhs.

Yes, the makers of the film Fitoor have spent Rs 55 Lakhs for Katrina’s tresses.

Well, its surely surprising that Katrina Kaif’s hair color has solely cost such a big amount. The piece from the magazine also reads, that apparently Katrina couldn’t find any professional locally, who could give the desired red color to her hair, according to her character in the film. However, later she ended up finding one in London!

As she recruited Lon-

because the source material was so 'bizarre'... and his original wig was so bad.

'I remember what I thought when I first read it, which was [this is] the most bizarre thing I've read, ever,' he said. I thought: how is this going to work?

Is this ever going to work?

Are people ever going to watch this?

'So I think it was a really pleasant surprise for us all when it took off the way it did.'

He continued: 'I had a horrible wig on in the pilot, it just didn't work. No one has ever seen it, it's in some back room somewhere, and I'd like it to stay there I think.'

Game Of Thrones returns with season six on April 24.

Sonam Kapoor to share screen space with Beyonce!

Rihanna releases new album ‘Anti’ after it leaks online

he singer's first album in three years was released Wednesday night after it was leaked online earlier in the day. The album came hours after the pop star released her single “Work” featuring Drake, which quickly topped iTunes charts across several countries.

And within hours, the highly anticipated album was accidently available on Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal. The site quickly fixed the error but fans were quicker

e's definitely dead.

But that doesn't mean Jon Snow is gone from Game Of Thrones.

Kit Harington confirmed that his character was 100 per cent killed at the end of season five in an interview with BBC Breakfast on Tuesday. But as the interviewer tried to trap him into revealing he will come back 'in some respect', the 29-year-old parried him off with all the expertise of a dancing master.

'I think anyone who wants to know what happens in season six has to wait until it comes out,' he replied stone-faced, when asked why he was in the promotional material and why he was spotted on set. 'All I can tell you is Jon Snow... is dead,' he said.

'He died at the end of last season.'

'But his spirit lives on...?' the interviewer harried.

'Who knows? We'll have to wait and see. It's going to be a very exciting season,' he recited, before adding with the slightest of smirks: 'so I'm led to believe.'

Even general questions about the show, the actor carefully answered just like any other unconnected fan. 'I think they usually release it around April, so I'm expecting it to come out then,' he said. 'I can't wait to see it. I'm really looking forward to it.'

The interviewer threw one last desperate bolas in an attempt to trip him up: 'You're not going to miss it?'

'I'm not going to miss it,' he stoically repeated, knowing any other answer would have given the game away.

He insisted the fact that beloved characters - such as his own - could die at any point in the brutally unpredictable series was what made it such an exciting show.

'It has been a theme for the show and I think it's what makes the show very exciting, it's what people love about it; there's no safety there, there's no one lead character that's going to make it through,' he said.

'You can't trust that anyone will do that.'

Earlier in the interview, Kit admitted he didn't think the Game Of Thrones would ever be a success,

don based hair coloring expert, she had to visit London many times for a fresh coat. Well, the high maintenance actress flew in first class while her manager accompanying her in Business class for her red hair colour touch up. Wait, also adding up her stay at the five star hotel, it has cost a big bomb to the makers of the film.

Talking about film Fitoor, film is directed by Abhishek Kapoor and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, is based on Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. The film features Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif and Tabu in lead roles, releasing this February 12.

#ComeJoinMe." An hour after her story was sent into the Twitterverse, Weight Watchers' shares climbed slightly over two dollar a share and since Winfrey owns roughly six million shares, the surge in share prices made the celeb 12 million dollar just like that.

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n upcoming drama has sparked controversy after casting British actor Joseph Fiennes as the late King of Pop Michael Jackson. The special being produced by Sky Arts will focus on an alleged road trip where Jackson was joined by late actors Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.

Having been in the pipeline for several years, the drama will also feature Stockard Channing as Taylor and Brian Cox as Brando. However, it's the casting of Fiennes that has annoyed some people, reports mirror.co.uk. While Jackson was born AfricanAmerican, his appearance changed drastically during his career. The singer's changing face was down to

him suffering from vitaligo, as well as his dependence on cosmetic surgery.

Still, many people have stormed social media to criticise those in charge for casting Fiennes in the role.

One person tweeted: "Even getting white actors to play black people now #outrageous #OscarsSoWhite."

Another wrote: "i love joseph fiennes but wtf were they thinking casting him as michael jackson?" A third added: "Appalled by the Joseph Fiennes casting. Somebody so hideously rich has the freedom to choose what roles they say yes to. He saw no issue." Fiennes has revealed that he considers the role a 'challenge'. He said: "It's a challenge.

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Novak Djokovic

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Roger Federer

Angelique Kerber

Serena Williams & Agnieszka Radwanska

Djokovic, Serena hit new heights in Melbourne semis

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MElBOurnE, January 28 (rEutErs): Novak Djokovic hit some spectacular shots and showed true grit to hold off a Roger Federer fightback as he reached the final of the Australian Open for the fifth time in six years with a 6-1 6-2 3-6 6-3 victory on Thursday.

For the first two sets, 17-times major champion Federer looked as powerless as Agnieszka Radwanska had earlier on the same court when the Pole was taken apart 6-0 6-4 by the reigning women's champion Serena Williams.

Federer restored some pride by taking the third set and made the champion work hard through some breathtaking rallies in the fourth before the Serbian took his place in a title decider against Andy Murray or Milos Raonic.

"These were probably the best two sets I've played against (Roger) over my career," said 28-year-old Djokovic, who will be bidding for a record-equalling sixth Australian

Open title on Sunday.

"This was I think a different level than from before. I'm just very, very pleased that I was able to perform the way I did from the very beginning till the end." Williams was in similarly dominant form in her semi-final as she set up a date on Saturday with Germany's Angelique Kerber, who reached her first grand slam final by ending Briton Johanna Konta's fairytale run 7-5 6-2.

The 45th showdown between Djokovic and Federer, the best two hardcourt players of their generations, was always going to be the highlight of day 11 of the tournament.

Four days after he racked up 100 unforced errors in a messy fourth round win over Gilles Simon, Djokovic started brilliantly and played 55 minutes of near flawless power tennis to take a commanding two sets to nil lead.

With the crowd making clear their desperation for the Swiss to avoid a humiliating defeat, however, Federer managed to find another gear to

Mirza-Dodig enter semis, knock out Paes-Hingis

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he top seeded tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig totally outclassed defending champions Leander Paes and Martina Hingis to march into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park here on Thursday. Mirza and Dodig took just an hour and 13 minutes to completely outplay the Indo-Swiss pair of Paes and Hingis 7-6(1), 6-3 on Show Court 3. Mirza, who last won the title here in 2009 with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi, is already in the women's doubles final with Hingis while Paes is her former partner. The Indo-Croat pairing will next take on Russian-Brazilian fifth seeds Elena Vesnina and Bruno Soares for a place in the final.

(IANS) his serve, charged the net more frequently and snatched the third set.

Now playing under a closed roof, Djokovic took some time to regain his level in the fourth but grabbed the crucial break for a 5-3 lead and served out comfortably to reach his fifth straight grand slam final.

"You've got to try and stop the bleeding at some point," said Federer.

"It was tough to get back into it but I found a way and made something of a match of it. But clearly I'm still disappointed."

Williams's 20-minute first set against Radwanska was as short as Djokovic's start against Federer and only slightly less impressive because of the Pole's lack of grand slam pedigree. "There was just no mistake,"

said fourth seed Radwanska. "Unbelievable serve. Everything, she was going for it. Yeah, I couldn't do much.

Not at all, actually.

"I don't think anyone can really play on that kind of level at all."

Radwanska made the second set more of a contest but she had neither the power nor the skill to prevent the world number one marching on to her 26th grand slam final.

"I've always said that when I'm playing at my best, it's difficult to beat me," said 34-year-old Williams, who has won all six of her previous finals at Melbourne Park.

Kerber stands between Williams and a 22nd grand slam singles title, which would allow the American to match the record of the German's compatriot, childhood hero and mentor Steffi Graf.

The 28-year-old seventh seed raced to a 3-0 lead in the opening set of her match against Konta but the Briton shed her early nerves and won the next four games to get back

on serve.

Kerber kept her own nerve, however, and secured a decisive break for 6-5 in the first set before overwhelming the world number 47 in the second. "I've had a lot of ups, I had a lot of downs. I think the final cames to the right moment," said Kerber, the first German in the women's final at Melbourne Park for 20 years "I am a top player right now. I've been working very hard in the last few years. Here I am. I'm in the final for my first time. I will for sure try and enjoy it."

Konta was the first British woman into the last four at the Australian Open for 39 years after a remarkable run on her main draw debut at Melbourne Park.

The Sydney-born 24-year-old had no complaints about her defeat, however.

"I played against a better player today who earned her right to a grand slam final," she said. "But I’m really taking a lot of positives out of it."

Visevo is 54th SASA Wrestling champ Newcastle sign Townsend Our Correspondent Kohima | January 28

Visevo Zashümo today emerged as the undisputed champion of the 54th Southern Angami Sports Association (SASA) Wrestling Meet held at Kohima Local Ground.

Standing 5.9 feet and weighing 86 kg, the 30 year old from Phesama village was declared champion after his opponent Sahovi John Phinyo from Kidima village failed to compete in the final bout due to injuries.

Swedevil Vitsu and Külto Toso bagged the third and fourth places respectively.

The champion in Naga style, Visevo walked away with cash prize of Rs. 80,000 while the 2nd, 3rd and 4th position received Rs. 60,000, Rs. 40,000 and Rs. 20,000 respectively. Quarter finalist pocketed Rs. 5000 each.

SASA general secretary Vilekho Bio chaired the inaugural programme while presidential address was delivered by SASA president Er. Zale Neikha and oath to wrestlers was administered by SASA wrestling secretary, Zaprani Mekro.

Meanwhile, the National Free Style wrestling will be held on Friday, wherein the champion in every category will get Rs. 6000 and runner-up will get Rs. 4000. Prize of junior/cadet category is set at Rs. 4000 for winner and Rs. 2000 for runner-up.

Need to promote Naga Wrestling: Dr Kire Morung Express News Kohima | January 28

Wrestlers in action during the 54th SASA Wrestling Meet on January 28.

Commemorating the 54th Wrestling Meet of the Southern Angami Sports Association (SASA), 76 Wrestlers from the Southern Angami region participated in the Naga style wrestling championship which got underway here today.

The inaugural function was graced by Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire, Minister for Forest, Environment & Climate Change, as Chief Guest and Vikho-o Yhoshü as Guest of honour.

In his speech, Dr. Kire stressed on the importance of Naga wrestling as an indigenous sport which has gained immense popularity among the people but at the same time continues to confine itself only among the Tenyimi tribes. Talking about the need to promote the sport, Dr. Kire emphasized on documentation of theoretical and practical knowledge to impart it to the younger generation and further suggestions were given on improvising the indigenous wrestling and introduction of weight category system. As a medical practitioner, Dr. Kire also outlined the physical consequences that wrestlers suffer due to the absence of weight categories in the unique feature of the Naga wrestling where wrestler can wrestle with an opponent of any weight.

The minister asserted the need of wrestlers to stress more on physical fitness rather than concentrating on their diet, viewing that diet will not improve their performance in the ring. If wrestlers strive to keep fit physically, their physical agility as well as prowess will advance, affirmed Dr. Kire.

In conclusion, the Minister reminded the wrestlers that winning is important but not as important as participation and the display of sportsmanship.

lOndOn, January 28 (Ians): English football club Newcastle United has confirmed the signing of English midfielder Andros Townsend from league rivals Tottenham Hotspurs for a fee of 12 million pounds.

The confirmation that the 24-year-old has put pen to paper on a fiveand-half-year contract came on Wednesday.

Townsend will in all probability make his debut against Everton next Wednesday and has taken the vacant number 25 shirt. Townsend is the the third signing of the January transfer window for the club, following on from Jonjo Shelvey and Henri Saivet. Reportedly an initial bid of 10.5 million pounds was rejected by Tottenham but when the revised offer of 12 million was made Spurs accepted it and Townsend flew in here hours later. Confirming the move, Townsend tweeted: "excited for my new adventure at @NUFC can't wait to step out on the field at St James Park for the first time."

Warriors avenge Mavericks defeat

Oakland, January 28 (aFP): Klay Thompson outshone teammate Steph Curry as the Golden State Warriors avenged last month's loss to the Dallas Mavericks with an emphatic 127-107 victory.

Thompson on Wednesday poured on 45 points and five rebounds in a superb display as the Warriors romped home against one of only four teams to defeat them this season.

The Mavericks had beaten a Curry-less Warriors line-up in Dallas last month, winning 114-91 in a rare off night for the reigning NBA Champions.

But with Thompson in blistering form and Curry restored to the lineup on Wednesday, there was never much chance of the Mavericks pulling off a repeat victory. The Warriors surged into a double-digit lead in the first quarter and kept the Mavs at bay thereafter as they extended their unbeaten home record to 21-0 this season, 42-4 overall. Dallas fell to 26-22.

The Mavericks, with German star Dirk Nowitzki given a night off, flickered briefly in the third quarter when Chandler Parsons drained

a three-pointer to cut the Warriors lead to 65-54.

But the Mavericks fightback was snuffed out as the Warriors went on a 30-point blitz to build a comfortable 95-77 lead. Curry finished with a relatively modest 14-point haul, just ahead of Harrison Barnes (13) and Draymond Green (10).

Wednesday's win follows blowout victories over the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs in recent weeks. Having opened the season with a record unbeaten streak, the Warriors are now on track to eclipse the Chicago Bulls' 72-win season in the Michael Jordan era set in the 1995-1996 campaign.

The Warriors next big hurdle as they aim to edge closer to the Bulls record mark is likely to come against Western Conference rivals the Oklahoma City Thunder early next month.

The Thunder, who have the third best record in the West, improved to 35-13 with a battling 126-123 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. Kevin Durant led the scoring for Oklahoma City with 27 points, with nine rebounds and five

assists. Durant's haul included nine points during a nervy final quarter where the momentum swung wildly. Thunder guard Russell Westbrook finished just short of a triple-double with 24 points, 15 assists and eight rebounds.

In Cleveland, the Cavaliers ensured new coach Tyronn Lue would be in charge of the Eastern Conference team at next month's All-Star Game with a 115-93 win over the Phoenix Suns.

Lue has only been in charge of the Cavaliers for three games since the shock dismissal of David Blatt last week. Yet he will take charge for the All-Star game after Cleveland made sure that they will finish January with the best record of any team in the Eastern Conference (32-12).

"It's a tribute to Coach Blatt and the players and the hard work the assistant coaches put in to get us to this point," Lue said Wednesday. "It's going to be a great honor to represent the Cleveland Cavaliers and having a chance to do this, I know my coaches are excited, and I know it's going to be a surreal moment."

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