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Small of man’s wit or his ne t Japfü, considered as resume d always ch toes. on one's toe my ng led to the other an keep you on your is the manifestati t forest fire at Moun t history, is also susery ev ep a will ke d one who is thi am today in Doha e unpredictability The recen y’s worst in recen elessness of trekas ha Do ntr eck. An l”, she d in car w”, Th here I one of the couve been caused by the ep themselves warm. Base w with the Qatar on ch taneous ought to love rking as a cabin cre soul of this job, I fee o the mpses int pected to ha ght have lit a fire to ke d much further, be- cabin cre Ajung Jamir has spon bit of it”, she says. wo e says. it, throws gli kers, who mi had eventually sprealunteers and commu- Airways, travelled the every scribing her two sh Before she got into life of a cabin crew. deat That little fire trol of hundreds of vo ir best to douse off extensivelyt has firmly re- De journey with Qatar e further recalls th s Ajung Jamir would ople world, bu ded to her years’ quite remark- sh ofession to her wa ibe herself as a pe yond the con who were trying the ers suming mained groun is extreme- Airways as es on to share this pr t a pretty face, scr n even as she elabo nity memb a week, con or, it abou perso e go the fire. fire had raged on for . According to reports, roots. For he to know one’s able, sh had the privilege all g good, smiling to es by saying, “I love pe m, est na The for of flora and fau y of India that the ly important and she that, “I've me amazing lookin ngers and doing rat working with the so ,a lot sse ntity tor along with it, first time in the his other than the newly- roots and ide awn valu- of meeting m around the the pa demo before take- ple king with them, helpthe this is also rce helicopters, none r, a military utility- has clearly dr m travel- people fro rn about life, a bit of t that opinion has tal them- I just love being pte Indian Air Fo ssian Mi-17 V5 helico used to combat the able lessons fro globe even globe, lea and growth, off. Bu changed a lot since ing und people. This being y the hip aro re are inducted Ru aerial machine are beingand. ling across t, “Trav- friends ubt I would clearl ned, even as she of course, the t and-comba o first tested in Nagal raging fire contained as she shares tha me about which I do I been home she joi add, “who knew said, when I require my d t forest fire, alss good news to have the does not end here. elling has taugh pect- it have had, ha gst people goes on to professionally times t space" (I’ll be inWhile it’ the issue of forest fire we stand in terms humility and res pect and just amon le with.” about being st aid, or se- "quie ut it), and this is y, fir res tho ere tab on the 7th daould make us think wh ich, technically speak- taught me how to board I am comfor e also re- trained on rtificate and a sane wi e I read, write and aner on end, sh r pro- curing a ce e is given the tim Rather, it sh g our environment, wh my To this equally a cle recent I would the CEO of members one of he llege, license before on fly? This think.” e is not flying, the of protectin . in ity to as co vers ck from eing the green card of brain When sh ieve the baing, is our life aginable loss of biodi le of this generation company.” y fessors ba ‘b The unim mething the peop best we can con- Working in a compan m who told them that, dis- job needs a lot Brain to she tries to ach as catch on r. so fro lp us such how forest fire is er upon and think of incidents from hap- of almost 7000 crew goes around people he tter and and will powe ember, the sics first, do her laundry, e nd ate es sh po , should rt such unfortun k years and decad all over the world first cover ourselves be re with study and rem take in ev- her sleep, for her famous tribute to ave near future. What too area had been wildly on to say, “when the s is I couldn’t agree mo real- will power to thrown at cook and sit d aloo fry dinpening in the ity conservation in the Imagine, how much estion a stranger ask it him because I now ved as erything that is rice, dal an . Once these of biodivers just a matter of days. the loss, caused by a qu here are you from?", ize how I have evol ofes- you.” ner or lunch complished, ow , there are "w pr ac consumed in it take us to rebuild portant to kn ty, a person and this d me Apparently for a cabin goals are d about Doha, im ry ve uld is longer wo of fire. rmal days is un- she is out an vie spree, to call upon e's roots and identi or sion has also helpe no d ha no t en small spark that the state governm reflection of the lack on remain grounded, hone my PR skills.’ s a crew. “Each flight n way, be it on a mo g a book in she wa predictable in its ow ers. shopping, readin catchThe fact tain the fire is also ch calamity. That to will be just one of rking as cab Yet, when con ng ve we just th su They are wo vel and to save the Centre to mechanism to deal wi w prepared we are else es that serve them , nobody would ha r thanks to the passe pas- in her room or ends. tra he kid the r fri on not only of our own us to the question of ho nment mechanisms the facen with rice.” her to be in as It won’t matter to had the ing up with he also abso- This professi s of meeting crew to ough money to go d ine ag s ver im also bring ers strike. Putting go also the duty and re- chick e would think the oes today. Because, s sengers if you just the She would e more open avenue erse back- -save en ir own home the when disast ething else but it is y a part in saving the On flight attendant is sh says, “as a child, I wa biggest heart break of had lutely encourag join a people from div o help in back to d start up their an t life of a th glamour she , mischievous and in place is somof every citizen to pla or you jus at- Naga youths to rs even grounds but alss own per- country n private law firm, ughty wh filled wi e' he ve century sponsibility active role in , one le, and while that na venturous. I don’t ha a your period because "have profession like ross that achieving on . I had the very ow for higher studies/ pro a y nt. pla sty y g me ity ms u ad ac d environ ople can especiall tem, our biodivers an true to a certain of ownin ever it may be, yo s- while putting vel and sonal drea ing with a finance ion or open up a s rie mo me pe Young heritage, our ecosys ness, by first of may be ofession is any a dress, I was out your pa s job pays to tra r privilege of fly micro- specializat pr attend to a thi aware our extent, the t without chal- Barbie or t exploring the fa- to" ers. Period. You will t only that, she furtheon lawyer from Cairo, n and clinic. ntd. on page 2 preserving way in creating more themselves. hra no d ou ng Co and lead the tious, careful and aware an entire forest. And certainly no hen I get ready and ab lak river near our se babies crying non- adds, “you get to spen and biologist from Te m South ve rn Mi fro ay re y cau r “W ha bu us nl lid he s. kt ing to cto tai ho mo ge be ou ko all, ion can cer len ty, I am clueless of rd/colony in Mo , stop, hyper active ill of yourself, help and then also a Do name a few). a little spark It takes only step in the right direct a ref for du ct out of that wa th my brothers uired n- Africa (to ng req nti if wa le re rs litt the therefore, a rld. what to expe The unpre- chung wimarbles, climbing make and wines, first tim- t to save in your perso ge save the wo day or flight.of this job is playing aling plum (fruit), beerstrying all the buttons bank account too. al dictability challenging trees, ste g school glasses, ers handset, and then d what I fin same time. breakin scare to the little on the the and Fun at ofession that giving a This is a pr

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eek te of the WKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice o u Q ir –Anton Chekhov m Ja rew, Ajunghave the difficult pas- hat we are doing to theflefoctreiostnsofofwthhae t c in b a c r mit fo boys who tease myofsistheterfa- wesengers who refckusleesuptoplusit s “Wworld is but a mirror rerselves and to one Sky is the li ou one d bu or just being ES and fight- down an lence. What am we are doing to Nicole ‘Strong State Commission for r.”

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india unveils reform minded budget ‘Violence is not the

MUMBAI, JULY 10 (AP): India’s new government introduced a reform-minded budget Thursday, telegraphing a contentious overhaul of populist subsidies and vowing to lift economic growth to rates of 7-8 percent by spending billions of dollars on infrastructure.

The budget for the fiscal year ending March 2015 was closely watched as an indicator of whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will act quickly to will deliver on promises to revive stalled eco- ntre land Job Ce nomic growth. The government Nagaalso galand ening in Na announced plans to ease limitsJob Opon st) foreign investment in defense1.Cookand (1po rden 10+2 (1 post) insurance businesses.

2. Hostel Wa te Or Gradua Finance Minister Arun Jaitley l) oca n-L (no t post) 3. Receptionisod in accounts (1 outlined the 18 trillion rupee ($301 12 pass go Centre/ l Nagaland Job billion) budget, which he said would tail please cal For more de r office into ou ke Wa be a departure from the “mere popu- r-Opp.ICICIBankMidland, pu NST Kohima-Old resume lism and wasteful expenditure” that Dima An yourIndian roadside vendor gives a fruit to a disabled man in Gauhati, India, Please bring has dragged down Asia’s third-largest Thursday, July 10. India’s new government introduced a reform-minded budget UThursday.

The country’s economic growth has slowed to less than 5 pereconomy.

ORdIASchoLol oo PRIMinitiaEtiveTof GreeTnwfor the last two years adversely affecting the 13 million young Indians India’s economic growth has cent An on se Admissi 14) the workforce each enter NDyear. (AP Photo) g Crash Cour 20 slowed to less than 5 percent for the who Announcin JEE (Main + Advance dents OF NAGALA OMMERCE / stu For AIPMT appearing + passed C ERNMENT Sin V & O S G IE R T last two years after a decade of ex- tory has witnessed three for Class XII India d F INDU HIMA 14de- sized factories. th boys an O E T stel for bo A Ho R O es: T EC long-dominant ary 20 : KO panding by an average of 8 percent, cades, ousting Jaitley also announced that the Special featur DIRthe ials NAGAL14ADaNteDd Kohima, the 14thFebu Girls - Study mater ility which is the minimum the govern- Congress DV/35/20 were fed up caps on foreign investment in the - Library fac ulty party. Voters /A ST /E fac NO.IND EMENT - First rate ck-Test ur) post of ADVERTIS curbgalanrunto fill up 4 (Fo ment says is necessary to provide with Congress’ - Weekly Mo failure to of Na d ustries & Commerce. th defense and insurance industries 1st March inhabitants indigenous of the Directorate of Ind ognized university wi conducted ond above will al be loc ll ga wi t Na nt m y rec ance tes jobs for the 13 million young Indians away and the would be raised to 49 percent from 70% an rminflation e from anecoinvited frowilting establishme y discipof • A perfo d students who secure age as an lin s are hereby t) under the 35 years of ent Application uter Assistant (Distric all be graduate from 2014 an fee discount. nm t more than 14. mp % on sh who enter the workforce each year. nomic years and no policy of the state gover 26 percent. be given 50 growth.

LDA cum Co e minimum qualificati 3rd March 20 21 n on es tha s nc les me 24 1. Th puter application. ate should not be verned by existing • Class com / 94350914 com by the head of a candid per age limit will be go Big spending on subsidies has limInvestors the The combination of infrastruc8974425485 initially diploma in e minimum agewelcomed duly signed on contact: on” Certificate 2. Th The relaxation of the up applicants. tiFor informati 89 Sd/h “No Objecti ed nis 4. pp fur 01 2 ica to 1. nment as no 0 nd 35 . ed uir ited the government’s ability to use budget in/ 961297 with theon 31 Sensex state Gover ture spending and relaxation of forysically Ha employees are reqstock ph the d of an s licy po employee ng Government l seal.

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5. Th es & Commerce, an uate with mark sh ustri /Grad my’s productivity in the long run.

0.3 percent. Expectations ment did not slash food and fuel subrector of Ind mit Cards of HSLC/P.U for a thoproy. rit Ad etent Au rtificate ficate issued by Comp In some quarters there was disap- growth budget were •high the in- sidies in its inaugural budget. That’s rti • Birth Ce enous Ceand ice of dig /In e.

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TO QUALIFICATIO BELOW 26 RS.5000/ly rejecte • 2 recen plete applications shall erce, during office hours ved after the specified annual VACANCY TOthe back from an immediate and radi- weeks before budget. monsoon season is likely to 20500/- PER ll be summari ei wi om 10 mm rec it Inc Co be ich ll & RS wh es sha 6.

YEA s ut 59 MONTH te of Industri o application of the applicant witho GRADUATE OR the Directora shall be 24-04-2014.N and Adcould MALE / FEMALE EQUIVALEthe dress NT cal slashing of the previous governJaitley said government reduce harvests this year and drive s nietuoKire) erce application ls of Contact Number kru he T Er. Sd/-( ustries & Comm detai ment’s populist policies, which pro- not rely only onAspending prices up further, which would ectorate of Ind NTACT contain cuts to re- Dirfood FOR DET ILS COdeficit A vide a social safety net but also swell duce the budget M and should make cutting subsidies even more I H O K L L I H S OFFICER’ economic 59 71 the budget deficit.

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get would an opportunity for the government to break away from the principles, the world views of the previous government. It did not do that,” said Jahangir Aziz, head of Asian emerging markets for JP Morgan Chase.

Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in May after the most decisive election vic-

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sult in higher tax revenue.

He said that a revival of manufacturing and building of new infrastructure are ways to provide jobs. He announced 500 billion rupees ($8.3 billion) in projects to expand and improve roads, ports and electricity plus tax exemptions to promote investment in small- and medium-

get deficit also could indicate the Modi government plans to generate revenue by selling shares in stateowned businesses, said Sumesh Sawhney of Jones Day, a law firm that works with investors in India.

“It’s not a big-bang budget, but it is not a disaster either,” Sawhney said.

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• Excise duty on cigarettes raised from 11 percent to 72 percent

• Rs.150 crore to improve safety of women in larger cities

• Rs.100 crore for ‘Protect the girl child, educate the girl child’ programme

• Rs.500 to support Kashmiri Immigrants for rebuilding their lives

• Total sanitation in every household by 2019

• Colour TVs to cost less on reduced customs duties

• Excise duty on footwear halved • Defence allocated Rs.229,000 crore • Allocation of Rs.200 crore for power reforms

• E-visas to be introduced at nine airports

• Five new tourist circuits to be established

• Sports university to come up in Manipur

• Thirteen more airports to get 24x7 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

customs facilities Gas pipeline grid of 15,000 km needs to be doubled Development of industrial corridors with emphasis on smart cities linked to transport connectivity Target of constructing 8,500 km of national highways in current fiscal Second Green Revolution to be launched with focus on protein revolution Sustainable growth of 4 percent in agriculture to be achieved Corpus of Rs.5,000 crore for longterm loans to farmers Rs.14,389 crore for rural roads Rs.500 crore to provide 24x7 power in rural areas Rs.8,000 crore to improve rural housing 500 crore to improve broadband connectivity in rural areas Allocation of Rs.500 crore for 5 more IITs and 5 more IIMs All states to get AIIMS like institutions To print currency notes with Braille signs Problem of black money to be fully addressed Expenditure Management Commission to be established this fiscal

way to reconciliation’

DIMAPUR, JULY 10 (MExN): The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) today reiterated that “violence is not the way to reconciliation.” The FNR, in a press statement, called for Naga national groups to “stop all forms of confrontation and violence that may result in any further divisions among Nagas.”

It lamented that the reconciliation process “remains on shaky ground,” and that “not all Naga national groups have been successful in their discussions to agree to an inclusive process whereby all Naga national groups can unitedly pursue the Naga historical and political rights.”

Recognizing that the path to reconciliation has been difficult and “riddled with tribulations,” the FNR stated that the forum’s “integrity and intentions have been questioned, our interventions have been mocked and ridiculed and we have become the convenient ‘punching bag’ for all to throw accusations and blame.”

However, it asserted that “there is no future without forgiveness and reconciliation” and assured that the forum “remains committed to an inclusive and genuine Naga reconciliation of all the Naga national groups.”

It pointed out that the “practice of exclusion has no future for the Nagahood,” and cautioned that unless the “will to inclusivity takes precedence Naga future will remain distant.”

Stating that violence “only sows the seed of hate and destruction,” the FNR stated that the Naga public “can no longer remain silent on this matter anymore.” The forum asserted that time has come to take a firm stand in putting an end to factional violence.

FNR urged for all groups to constructively work together in addressing differences and to co-ordinate and cooperate with each other in strengthening the process of Naga reconciliation and unity. It further called for the accommodation of all other Naga national groups who have not been a part of the reconciliation process.

Demanding that the groups uphold the values of human rights and self-determination by overcoming all forms of sectarianism, discrimination and exploitation without territorial demarcation among fellow Nagas, the FNR stressed on the need to forge an inclusive and united vision for the Naga people, to peacefully live together and also with other communities around.

The forum stated that the “existence of the Naga Reconciliation process is dependent on the active support of an alert populace.” As such, it appealed to the people to “make a decisive stand in this critical juncture when the Naga Reconciliation process is in peril of self-destruction.”

In the present context, FNR stated that “it is difficult to realistically and honestly imagine the Naga people realizing their rights without first achieving genuine reconciliation among ourselves.” It added that the Naga Reconciliation is closely intertwined with Naga political rights and historical rights, which it stated has been ensured by “prolonged divisions within the Naga national groups (factions).”

The FNR recalled that it was formed at a time when the Naga national movement was facing “deepening fragmentation and the outbreak of internal violence threatened to plunge the entire Naga people into an abyss.”

It added that series of interventions by the forum resulted in “landmark documents where Naga national groups declared they have reconciled on the basis of the historical and political rights in the spirit of forgiveness and acceptance.”

However, it said that inability to implement various agreements and the acts of “factional violence, killings, abductions and self justifications” have proved detrimental to the Naga reconciliation process.

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Naga Reconciliation process is in peril of self-destruction: FNR

Change attitude towards development: TR Zeliang

KOHIMA, JULY 10 (MExN): Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today stated that the proposal to set up Nagaland Special Development Zones (NSDZ) is not an attempt to “review or dilute the rights and privileges of the Nagas enshrined in the Article 371 (A)” or to “impinge upon the rights of the people.” A press note from the Media Officer to the Nagaland CM said If this Urbanization project comes up here we`re fin- that the NSDZ would allow “deished. velopment oriented innovation and facilitate changes in the development model of the state.”

He assured that the state government has been “protecting the special rights and privileges of the Nagas under Article 371 (A)” and clarified that he “never meant to say that Article 371 (A) itself is an obstacle to development.”

The Nagaland CM clarified that he “only meant to express that people, especially the land owners take undue advantage of the special rights enshrined in the clauses of the said article, therefore, become an obstacle in the development process.”

He further said that “people who enjoy special privilege under this

Article often fail to understand the common interest and become a hurdle to the development.” For instance, the CM cited that narrow and underdeveloped road in towns, villages, highways etc or unnecessary delay in project implementation “are all primarily because of the landowners issue, who refuses to part their land for

but are open for public debates. The Nagaland CM invited suggestions and iterated that “there is always a room for amendment.” To this end, he informed that the NLA has constituted a Ministerial Committee and a High Powered Committee to carry out intensive and extensive consultation with tribal hohos, mass based civil societies and all other concerned.

He further called upon people to understand that permanent infrastructures created in the NSDZ by the investors “will always stay and will become the permanent assets of the people.” “We only need to be cautious about our fragile natural resources, which once extracted and exploited and taken out of state will never come back, for which we need to frame proper rules and regulations based on Article 371 (A),” he added.

Urging the people to be open to new innovation, he stated that “we need to change our attitude towards development and economic policy.” “Perhaps, Nagas should take this project as a challenge and an opportunity and prepare to keenly participate,” he added

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development until unreasonable compensation is paid.”

Zeliang asserted that “our special rights should not be an obstacle to development and while enjoying these special rights we should also be conscious of our basic needs and facilitate development.” He added that this can happen only when people have a will to contribute for the common welfare. The CM further assured that “there is no precedent that the government has infringed upon people’s rights at any point of time.”

He however acknowledged that the assembly resolutions on the NSDZ are not final and binding

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for women vital in Nagaland’ Our Correspondent Kohima | July 10

A discussion on Naga Customary Practices organized by the Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) was held at Capital convention Hall, Kohima on July 10. Visiting members from the National Commission for Women (NCW) including NCW Chairperson Mamta Sharma attended the event.

Delivering her speech, Mamta Sharma stressed on the importance of a strong State Commission for women in Nagaland so that the body could exercise effective oversight over government in terms of women’s rights. Mamta Sharma briefed the participants on NCW’s mandate to uphold the constitutional and legal safeguards for women’s rights, safety and dignity, reviewing of laws, administrative structure and judicial processes and NCW’s oversight mechanism to monitor enforcing agents of the State and take cognizance of cases involving crimes against women.

Sharma asserted that times have changed and women must be given opportunity to participate in the decision making process of elected governments at various levels and that Nagaland must implement the Nagaland Municipal Act which provides33% of urban elected seats for women. Sharma further suggested that the state government should hold elections with 33% reservations regardless of the outcome of the Supreme Court judgement which is fixed on August 5 because according to her, Nagaland needs to internalize the process of emancipation of women without judicial intervention.

In his opening remarks, CJ Ponraj, Additional Chief Secretary, Justice & Law and P & AR Department stated that Nagaland has been confronted with the issues of transition, which is unique from the rest of the country. “Nagaland needs to focus on the issues of trafficking, Look East Policy and its progress for women and the need to give the Naga women a po-

Administrator KMC notifies

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Kohima, July 10 (Dipr): In view of the visit of the Second Nagaland State Finance Commission to Kohima, all the former Municipal Council Members, Ward Chairman and GBs have been requested to attend a meeting on July 11 at 11:00 am at DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima

Fresh fish sale today

Kohima, July 10 (mExN): The Directorate of Fisheries, Kohima has arranged Women Department, Sangtam Baptist Church, Kohima to sell fresh fish at PR Hill Junction, Kohima on July 11 from 6:30 am. onwards. The public is informed to avail this opportunity. Zenohol Angami Additional Director of Fisheries, Kohima in a press note said it may be mentioned that the Department has been encouraging for sustainable economic returns and livelihood development through fisheries sector.

litical space,” he added.

Abei-ü Meru, President, Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA), who spoke on Naga customary practices and women discrimination said that customary laws should be respected and followed to the extent that it continues to be reasonable and applicable and also asserted that it should not be a hindrance to the progress of the society. “In a state like Nagaland where we have unwritten customary laws, it is important to validate the case laws and codify them. However while doing so, it should be borne in mind the reasonableness and applicability of such practices.” added Meru.

A. Taku Longkumer, General Secretary, Nagaland GB Federation, shared on the Naga Customary law practices, usages, inheritance, divorce and crime against women.

Laldingliani Sailo, Member NCW was of the view that the position of Naga women stood challenged under the customary laws which cross through all tribes.

She further asserted that

change must come from within by seeking a local solution which will require a change in the mindsets, a mindset away from the deeply rooted patriarchy.

“It’s high time to say ‘No more of this’!” said Sailo while talking about violence and further urged the Naga men to come forward and protect their sisters, mothers and daughters.

The program was chaired by Bei-u Angami, Secretary, Social Welfare Department while the introductory speech was presented by Temsula Ao, Chairperson, NSCW. Short Speeches were given by Abei-ü Meru, President, Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA), Hovito Sumi , Dobashi Association, Nagaland, A. Taku Longkumer, General Secretary, Nagaland GB Federation, Laldingliani Sailo, Member NCW and Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, Member NCW. The NCW team which is on a three-day visit to Nagaland met Kiyaneilie Peseyie, Minister of Social Welfare and Banuo Z. Jamir, Chief Secretary.

Kiphire | July 10

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The long awaited aspiration of Kiphire has come true with the inauguration of Observation Home (OH) Kiphire on July 10. Khehoto Sema, Society Director State Child Protection Society inaugurated the OH at Kohima Road, Kiphire during a formal programme held at Hopongkyu memorial Hall Kiphire.

Thanking God for the new Observation Home (OH) at Kiphire, the chief guest seeks public cooperation for the successful implementation of the OH. He said that when children commit any wrong doing parents should not compromise but should teach them the right way for their

life. The chief guest said that the department has brought the Observation Home to Kiphire but it depends on Kiphire citizen to make use of it. While briefing the ICDC project in Social welfare department, the chief guest said that implementation of project depends on the public and if the people do not know its utilities, it will be a great lose for the people.

Lamenting on the wrong issue of recommendation for Old Age Pension by some leaders in the village level, the chief guest said that Old Age Pension should be given to the deserving people whose age is 60 years and above. He asked the leaders in the village and ward to have awareness on the imple-

Morung Express News Dimapur | July 10

The recent shifting of The Global Open University, Nagaland (TGOUN) headquarters to its new permanent campus at Sodzulhou village, Dimapur, is set to provide the right ambience to enhance the university’s unique technology enabled learning (TEL) and online examination for “self paced, self styled” anytime, anywhere learning.

With infrastructures shooting up in sprawling campus, the university has also plans to introduce as many as 150 academic, vocational and professional courses to prepare the youths of North East Region to face the competitive world with confidence.

At an informal interaction with the media at the new campus on Thursday, TGOUN vice chancellor, Dr. HN Dutta, and directorcum-registrar, Dr. Imotemsu Ao, highlighted on the roadmap of the university’s future activities and development.

(from right) The Global Open University, Nagaland (TGOUN) vice chancellor Dr. HN Dutta, director Dr. Imotemsu Ao and assistant PRO, Nchum Ovung, briefing media on the roadmap of TGOUN. (Morung Photo)

Explaining on the outlook of the university, TGOUN director, Dr. Imotemsu Ao, said the university would seek “a marriage between traditional courses and vocational and professional courses” so that students get maximum benefit both from academic and career viewpoints.

He also said plans are afoot to introduce engineering and medical courses, keeping in mind the growing demand for such courses.

The vice chancellor said TGOUN will be introducing as many as 150 academic, vocational and professional courses which are suited for every age group and that the

courses are designed in a unique way so that once the students complete their courses, they would not face unemployment hurdles in any sector.

Dr. Dutta also said that with TGOUN offering multiple courses at the doorstep, students from North East especially Nagaland, need not go to mainland and metros to pursue their education. This, he said would save a lot of resources as well as do way with hurdles and hostilities students from NE have to endure while studying outside the region.

TGOUN was established in 2006 and it is a “state university with self/external funding.” Besides the main

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campus (headquarters) in Dimapur, TGOUN has also two functional campuses in Wokha and Kohima. The main objectives of TGOUN include accommodation of students who cannot get entry in conventional education system; democratizing higher education by taking it to doorstep of the students; expansion of higher education opportunity and promoting and developing distance and online education.

The state university also offers need-based academic programmes by giving professional and vocational orientation of courses.

The university is funded

by World Institution Building Programme (WIBP).

Anti-narcotic actions earn award for State Excise dept

Dimapur, July 10 (mExN): The State Excise department in its effort to check inter-state trafficking and smuggling of narcotic, other drugs and liquor in the state, is keeping strict vigil round the clock.

Surveillance and patrolling duties have been set up on all entry and exit point in the district to thwart any attempt of smuggling or trafficking of drugs and liquor.

Dimapur Deputy Commissioner of Excise (NC)

mentation of project provided by the government.

Discouraging parents not to send their children to other place on pretext of free education, clothing etc, appealed them to identify the place and the owner where their children were. He however appeal the Kiphire NGOs to brought up the idea of having “Children Home” for the poor and needy children, which will be profitable for the entire district.

Seto Rhakho Superintendent of Observation Home Kiphire briefing on Observation Home said that the OB is an institution established for the temporary reception of “Juvenile in conflict with laws” during judicial proceeding or the pendency of his/her inquiry before the juvenile jus-

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Pitongse Sangtam in a press release said that a daylong programme on June 26 was organized to observe the International Day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking by displaying banner, pamphlets and highlighting the consequences of NDPS Act 1985.

Besides its normal duty and function, the State Excise department was engaged by the Election Commission of India and designated as ‘Election

Expenditure Monitoring’ agency during the last State General Assembly election 2013 by appointing Commissioner of Excise as State Nodal Officer. The Election Commission of India lauded the achievement of State Excise department for seizing, arresting and registering 353 offenders and seizure worth Rs. 50 lakhs and awarded Commendation Certificate to the department.

During the year 2013, the Narcotic Control Bu-

reau of India, awarded Commendation Certificate to the Excise department for making significant seizure during the year. During the year 2013-14, the Excise department was successful in effecting and registering 17460 offences under NLTP Act ‘89, NDPS Act ‘85 and DC Act 1940.

During the month of April 2014, the officer and staff of Excise, Narcotic cell along with NCB official, busted international drug racket,

by seizing 150 grams of Cocaine drug from a mail parcel at Dimapur and arrested two people, which was a first of its kind in the entire North East India. The value of the seized Cocaine drug is estimated to Rs. 1 crore and 50 lakhs.

During Lok Sabha General election 2014, the State Excise department was again designated as Election Expenditure Monitoring to check illegal smuggling/sale of liquor for smooth conduct

Observation Home at Kiphire inaugurated Englan Range to impose total Our Correspondent

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Late Mr. Viketo Sophie much-loved husband/ father/grandpa/ and great-grandpa who went to be with the LORD on 10th June, 2014. We wish to thank everyone for your support during this hard time. We greatly appreciate your presence, your constant prayer and moral support, your cards and floral tributes, and all the telephonic and email condolence.Please accept this message as an acknowledgement towards each one of you.

We would like to extend our special thanks to: 1. Rev. Dr. Neikedozo (President NCRC) 2. Rev. NeivotsoNeikha (North East Mission Late Mr. Viketo Sophie Director CRC) 3. Rev. Vevozo (Executive Secy.

Chakhesang Council CRC) 22. Lower Chandmari Taxi Association 4. Angami CRC Council, Kohima 23. Madam Nini Sekhose (Little Star High5. Chathe Prayer Center, Nagaland er Secondary School, Dimapur) 6. New ReserveCRC, Phesama 24. Manipur CRC, Kohima 7. Nagaland Christian Revival Church 25. Manipur CRC, Thenupfuko Kohima P.R. Hill, Kohima.

26. Naga Mother’s Prayer Fellowship, 8. NCRC P.R. Hill Women.

Chandmari 9. NCRC P.R. Hill Faith Home 27. NCRC women fellowship, Kohima 10. NCRC P.R. Hill Youth 28. Pfuchama CRC, Women 11. Child Evangelism Ministry, NCRC 29. Southern Angami Christian Revival P.R.Hill, Kohima Children Ministry 12. Khuzama CRC, Village 30. Southern Angami CRC, 13. Pezielietsie CRC, Kohima Thenupfuko Krotho 14. Hope Institute Of Theology, Sovima 31. Southern Angami CRC, 15. Immanuel Baptist Church, Chandmari Upuonuoko Krotho 16. Jakhama Union, Kohima 32. Southern Angami Miapuonuoko 17. Chandmari colony, Kohima 33. Southern Angami Women Association 18. Kawani Prayer Centre, Assam 34. Southern Angami Youth Union CRC 19. Khawakhrie Pelikro-u, Kohima 35. Women Department Chakhesang 20. Kigwema Christian Revival Church CRC, Upper PWD Kohima 21. Lerie CRC Thenupfuko Krotho, UpperAG 36. And many more individuals…….

Please forgive us for not being able to mention each one of you by name for your invaluable support. It truly means a million to us and will be forever remembered. It is our prayer that our loving Father, the God Almighty will bless each one of you and your family abundantly according to the richness of His love and glory.

Mrs. Tsovile Sophie and family.

tice board. He said that the OH would feed them with an animated idea to change their criminal mindset and for the safety and security of the children.

EAC (S) Benjamin who also spoke on the programme said that children are the asset of the parents.

He however encourages the Observation Home member to be an instrument of peace for the benefit of the district. SDPO Kiphire who delivered SP’s speech also assured to extend cooperation and support to the Observation Home Kiphire. James Kelimthong, Accountant Observation Home Kiphire, chaired the programme and vote of thank was delivered by Sevehu Chuzo, DCPCO Kiphire.

prohibition on liquor, banned drugs

Dimapur, July 10 (mExN): A joint meeting of various organizations in Englan Range like churches, village councils, women hoho, students’ bodies etc was held on June 14 at Old Riphyim Village Morashen hall.

The main agenda of the meeting was the various ongoing developmental works in the Range that are left incomplete and overflow of illegal IMLF (Illegal Matured Foreign liquor) and illegal banned drugs in Englan Range. After a long deliberating on total prohibition of selling liquor and banned drugs, the house unanimously resolved to

ban selling all sort of liquor and banned drugs within the Englan Range jurisdiction.

The house also constituted an Action Committee headed by the Area Command DB, as Committee Convener to look over the matters. The Action Committee comprises of village councils, women hoho, students’ leaders, and church leaders.

Subsequently, the Action Committee held a meeting on July 5 at Tourist Lodge Old Riphyim. Basing on June 14 meeting, the Action Committee strongly resolved to fine a sum of Rs, 5000 (Rupees five

thousand) only if anybody caught selling of liquor or banned drugs within the Englan Range jurisdiction.

This resolution will come into force from August 5.

Therefore, all the public of Englan Range are requested to co-operate with the Action Committee for effective implementation of the resolution. The meeting also discussed to organize total prohibition protest rally in the month July 2014.

This was stated in a press release issued by Englan Range Public Joint Forum Action Committee Convener, Area Command DB Nrisao Kikon and secretary T Hayithung Odyuo.

Footpath at Longwa village inaugurated

moN, July 10 (Dipr): Speaking at the inaugural function of footpath at Longwa village from 154 International Pillar to Langpi Hong under BRGF 2013-14 on July 9, the Deputy Commissioner, Mon Angau I Thou IAS called upon the people of Longwa to refrain from using of opium and focus on quality education to bring change and development in the area.

In order to implement any development in the right perspective, the DC said that consolidate effort of the Village functionaries and the Government officers is a must and added that without trust and confidence, no development can be implemented properly. The DC also informed that lots of money has been pump in Longwa under BRGF, BADP, ITC, VDB, etc. for development purpose and asked the people to justify whether funds have been judiciously implemented or not.

Asserting that Longwa is the highest attracting tourist spot in the State, Angau said that Longwa is a mirror of the Nagas and urged the people to expose the good old culture of the people to the tourist. She also exhort-

DC Mon Angau I Thou IAS with others during the inauguration of footpath at Longwa village from 154 International Pillar to Langpi Hong under BRGF 2013-14 on July 9. (DIPR Photo)

ed the people to have proper planning of the tourist spot with required infrastructure and other development for attractive tourism spot. Citing that deforestation is responsible for climate change and global warming, she appealed to the people to protect and preserved wildlife.

The SDO (Civil) Mon Sadar Keyilangding, SDO (Civil) Phomching Pakon Phom and BDO Phomching Nokto Konyak also spoke and exhorted the gathering.

Earlier, invocation was proposed by Pastor LBC, Wantin Kano while wel-

come address was delivered by VC Chairman, Longkhong. Council Secretary, Hongchah, chaired the programme.

Longpi Hong is a hillock above Longwa village that divides India and Myanmar with unique beauty of nature. It provides a beautiful landscape view of Myanmar in the east and charming topography of India in the west.

Langpi Hong has a unique legend. Although it is located just above Longwa, it is a virgin area restricted by the old belief that people who visit this

place dies there touch by the charming beauty of nature. It was also belief that people who visit the place once have to visit again or face death penalty. Because of this reasons people seldom go to this place.

Inspired by the frequent visit of tourist in Longwa and policy of the Government for development of tourism to boost economy, the village council headed by the chairman Longkhong took the initiative to preserve the place and convert it to tourism spot despite criticism by the elders of the village.

and violence free election the Excise department conducted nearly 400 plus raids and seized liquor, Drugs worth Rs. 22 lakhs. The total seizure of drugs/liquor during the year 2013-14 is estimated to be Rs.3 crores, 19 lakhs, 8 thousands, 280 and the total Revenue contributed by Excise department to the State Exchequer is Rs.4.5 crores during 201314, which is the highest Revenue contributed since Prohibition in 1989.

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Creating awareness on ICPS and Child Rights TuENsaNg, July 10 (mExN): The District Child Protection Unit, Tuensang under Social Welfare Department Nagaland, organized a sensitization programme on Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2000 from July 2 to 4 at Tuensang town, Shamator and Noklak respectively.

The programme was organized to create public awareness on ICPS and Child Rights. Resource persons from the State Child Protection Society Roko Programme Manager, SARA and Joicy Vizo, Account Officer spoke on ICPS and its component. Thekrusolie Vakha, Legal Cum Probation Officer (LCPO) shared on JJ Act and Child Rights. The District Child Protection Officer (DCPO) NS Khaikho highlighted on the present scenario of the district, child domestic labour, missing and run away children, exploitation and child abuse.

The district administration, Police, Church leaders, Student Leaders, women leaders, Anganwadi Workers, Gaon buras, dobashis, NGO's and concerned citizens participated. The programmes were successfully held with interactive session with much positive participation of all the delegates in terms of raising questions, clarifying their doubts, feedbacks and suggestion. The DCPO rightly said that implementation of ICPS and securing the Rights and future of our children should not only be the responsible of concerned department but it should be the responsibility of each and every concerned citizen.

The DCPU Tuensang in a press release expressed gratitude to the District administration, CDPO Shamator and ADC Noklak for making all the necessary arrangement for the programme at their respective level.

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Organic farming, connectivity Northeast can help improve India-Bangladesh ties: Dipu Moni among budget steps for Northeast AgArtAlA, July 10 (IANS): Tripura and other northeastern states can play a vital role to further improve relations between India and Bangladesh, former Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni has said here.

"There is vast scope of mutual investment in the resource rich northeastern states, which are geographically very close to Bangladesh. Northeastern states can play a key role in improving bilateral ties," she said. Moni, the chairman of Bangladesh parliament's standing committee on foreign affairs, was addressing a conclave Wednesday evening on the scope and issues between northeastern region and neighbouring countries.

"It is a fact that the India and Bangladesh have made significant progress in tapping

NEw DElhI, July 10 (IANS): Organic farming, agricultural research, surface connectivity, sports and entertainment are set to get a boost in Northeast India with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's first budget allocating funds for these purposes.

Renowned economist and Tripura University professor Indraneel Bhowmik said: "It is a practical budget in so far as making real estimates." Northeast India appears to be gaining from the funds allocated for organic farming and development of rail connectivity.” "The new and exclusive television channel for the northeast is also a welcome step," he added. In his budget speech, Jaitley noted that Northeastern region of India has tre-

mendous potential for development of organic farming, which can enable local people reap a rich harvest by developing commercial organic farming, and proposed Rs.100 crore for the purpose.

The finance minister noted that the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) at Pusa has been at the forefront of research and announced two more such institutions of excellence will be be set up at in Assam and Jharkhand.He further announced investment of Rs.3,000 crore in the eight northeastern states during the ongoing fiscal for developing roads. The allocation is part of the total proposed allotment of Rs.37,880 crore for the National Highways Authority of India. Jaitley said the northeast region

RAW officer booked

Mizoram becomes Wet State again

for molesting NE woman gurgAoN, July 10 (IANS): An officer of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has been booked on charges of molesting a woman from the northeast here, police said Thursday. The RAW officer, posted in Delhi, was booked after the 30-yearold Manipuri woman, residing in DLF-3 area, lodged a complaint against him. Police officer Sanjay Kumar told IANS they were probing as to why and how the accused officer came in contact with the woman.

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Mizoram will be a wet state again after 17 years.

Amid strong opposition from the Church, the Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition & Control) Bill, 2014 was passed today by the Mizoram legislative assembly today to replace the existing Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act, 1995 which had been enforced in the state for about 17 years.

Introduced by State Excise and Narcotics Minister R. Lalzirliana, the bill

A laborer carries a sack of onions at a shop in Guwahati on Thursday, July 10. Even as India’s new government introduced the budget on Thursday, a weak start to the annual monsoon season is likely to reduce harvests this year and drive food prices up further, which would make cutting subsidies difficult and a burden on the poor. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

was introduced in the assembly after a prolonged debate by 25 members including Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and strong opposition from the opposition party. The new bill, The Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition & Control) Bill, 2014, is a new legislation to replace the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act, 1995 after its enforcement in the state for about 17 years.

Excise and Narcotics Minister R. Lalzirliana, said the new legislation as anticipated is just a replacement for the MLTP Act which had

been enforced ineffectively in the state for 17 years and the bill does not envisages freeing of liquor as doubted by churches and the people. According to the new legislation, Lalzirliana said only a licensed person would be allowed to open retail wine shop and sell liquor in the state. However, there is severe punishment to the extent of 5 years imprisonment and imposition of fine on violation of the law, he added.

The Excise and Narcotics Minister stated that for several years the youths in

has suffered from underdevelopment and a sense of isolation due to lack of proper connectivity.

"Development of railway network is urgently required to remove this under development," he said, proposing allocation of an additional amount of Rs.1,000 crore over and above the amount provided for in the railway budget.

Considering the traditional skill and fame in sports sector in the northeastern states, Jaitley also proposed to set up a sports university in Manipur and for this purpose an allocation of Rs.100 crore has been earmarked in the budget.

Jaitley also announced 'Arun Prabha', a new 24X7 television channel exclusively for the northeast region.

Mizoram had been plagued due to the consumption of spurious and unhealthy liquor leading to the death of a number of youths.The minister had earlier said the state government will not consult the powerful church on the issue and that ban has caused serious problems in the Mizo society since its imposition on February 20, 1997. Clarifying this, Lalzirliana said he was not mean to challenge the power of the church, but to give respect and save the reputation of churches. “The new bill is for the

Complaints on crimes against NE people in Delhi remain high NEw DElhI, July 10 (MExN): Despite the Central government’s measures to deter crimes against North-East people in the national capital, people from the region continue to be at the receiving end.

According to a report from the Naga Students’ Union Delhi (NSUD) President, Maivio Woba, a total of 359

complaints on crimes were registered between February 14 and July 9 this year.

Security of the people from the North East in Delhi and the general apathy towards them became a rallying point after the Nido Tania killing. Tania, a student from Arunachal Pradesh, was killed in assault, suspected to be racially moti-

vated this January.

Since then, various initiatives have been taken up

by Delhi Police including deploying police personnel from the north-eastern states, setting up a special unit for the North-East people and starting a helpline (1093) and providing a dedicated mobile number to send complaints

Malaria Claims Over 100 in Tripura, Tough Road Ahead AgArtAlA, July 10 (MExN): With more than 100 malaria-related deaths and many others affected, Tripura has been struggling to contain the raging epidemic in its many villages.

World Vision India, a Christian humanitarian organisation, in a statement informed that medical personnel are currently being airlifted to remote locations, to combat the spread of the disease while many temporary health centres have been set up to treat malaria patients, like the CRPF godown in Mungiakami at Khowai district and Kasturbha Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya in Ganganagar.

Most malaria patients also have jaundice also, which makes it more dangerous especially among children.

Six-year-old Jenny tested positive for malaria at her village, and was taken to the hospital where she received treatment. The girl returned to the village on completion of her treatment in a few days, much to the relief of her family. The man behind the successful intervention was Chandra Halam, from the same village as Jenny. Halam, who had received medical training arranged by World Vision India earlier, has now helped about 75 malaria patients. But not all malaria victims are as fortunate like Jenny.

The need of the hour, World Vision India says, is to

through mobile messaging application Whatsapp.

Earlier in May this year, a Facebook page called “Delhi Police for North East Folks” was also launched, while an officer in the rank of IGP from the North-East was appointed Chief Nodal Officer for Delhi Police and 11 district DCPs as Nodal Officers for their respective

jurisdiction.

Of the 359 cases registered since the police started maintaining records, 275 were based on complaints made on the helpline number – 1093, while thirty two complaints were made through Whatsapp. It also received 28 suggestions from various quarters.

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With stiff opposition and counter argument from opposition MLAs, the bill was debated for a long time in the house. The opposition MLAs who opposed the passing of the bill left the house in frustration just before the bill was passed.

The government is estimated to receive about Rs 30 crores a year if The Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition & Control) Bill, 2014 is enforced in the state.

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Moni said: "After a good beginning between the two nations, there was a halt for a brief period a few years back but now the two neighbours have been closely working together for mutual benefits."

India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries president Abdul Matlab Ahmed said the Bangladesh government was also keen to boost trade and commerce with India's northeast. "There is enormous scope for investment by Bangladeshi businessmen in the rubber, fruit processing and bamboo sectors," Ahmed said.

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Reconciliation: A Journey of Common Hope

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he public yearning for Naga Reconciliation is not new. Various well-intended processes to strengthen and realize reconciliation have been initiated over the years by Naga civil society organizations and the Churches.

In today’s context it is difficult to realistically and honestly imagine the Naga people realizing their rights without first achieving genuine reconciliation among ourselves. The prolonged divisions within the Naga national groups (factions) have ensured that Naga Reconciliation be closely intertwined with Naga political and historical rights. They are different sides of the same coin.

The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) was formed in February 2008 at a time when the Naga national movement was

facing deepening fragmentation and the outbreak of internal violence threatened to plunge the entire Naga people into an abyss. It was in response to this situation that the FNR was formed. It was a series of public meetings which eventually led to Naga civil society organizations and churches agreeing to jointly work for Naga Reconciliation in a collective and concerted manner. This shared desire culminated with the formation of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation.

FNR’s initial task was to address the spiraling violence and counter-violence between the Naga national groups. After series of interventions and due to rising public dissent, the factional violence receded and with leaders of the groups committing themselves to Naga reconciliation, the next stage of the FNR’s task

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live in town not because of my inherited settlement but obeying His call and fearfully ministering in His divine call.

A town which is best known as a parish suburb with a population of 5600 or more as per the church’s membership (@ 2010-2011). The reflection of my short stay means a lot to my mind whether to felicitate the township giving the laudable lauds or to bring to the point that the massive is bullied or quiescent. Viewing the activities of the people, it pinches my heart to verbally describe the reality of a sub-division belonging to three ranges under Mokokchung district. At this point, I wish I am a school student to write an essay on “If I were the Chief Minister of Nagaland” or “The President of India.” Or “Richie-Rich missionary to the needy.”

The one laudable work done by some few futuristic individuals is bringing a weekly Bazaar to the town for all the neighboring villages just five months ago. The other group is the church who does the little developmental works through some reasonable officers coming in to the town such as, Er. Alang (Executive Engineer PWD) blacktopping the circular road around the church and extending it to some colonies two years ago in the name of the churches’ Golden Jubilee celebration. Er. Yanger Pongen (PHED) responding positively to our grievances and for that matter, he materialized a dozen of pipes to bring in the one basic

was to involve the groups in together creating a sustained period free of violence. This was to enable a safe environment that would facilitate leaders of the groups to engage in face-to-face meetings and discussions. These meetings yielded fruit in the form of landmark documents where Naga national groups declared they “have reconciled on the basis of the historical and political rights in the spirit of forgiveness and acceptance.”

Yet, the reconciliation process remains on shaky ground. Not all Naga national groups have been successful in their discussions to agree to an inclusive process whereby all the Naga national groups can unitedly pursue the Naga historical and political rights. Furthermore, the inability to implement various agreements jointly signed by them has been a

serious flaw in the Naga reconciliation process. All these pitfalls have been further complicated by acts of factional violence, killings, abductions and self-justifications. It is a tragedy that some groups have not fully realized that violence is not the way to reconciliation. These complexities have led to an unpredictable and unhealthy stalemate; thereby putting the reconciliation process in grave danger of self-destruction.

The path of reconciliation has been difficult and one that is riddled with tribulations. In the process the Forum for Naga Reconciliation has been accused at various points in time by individuals, organizations and Naga national groups. Our integrity and intentions have been questioned, our interventions have been mocked and ridiculed and

Laudable Lauds need: “WATER”. There are few people whom I cannot name them but I convey my gratitude to you all for all those who have rendered their services in polishing the abandoned town. The other group is the believers who persistently give their tithes and offering regularly.

Without which and whom, the church and the town will not be as it is today.

There are few things that need to liberate reflecting on the current activities: Firstly, the AdhocTown Committee is dissolved because of some few dishonest colleagues. The body of the sub-division town is headless (Absence of Addl. Deputy Commissioner until today) hence the name of the town itself when translated into English is best described as “distribution of head.”

Secondly, the few government offices and the staff quarters are locked (the keys must have been misplaced!). The government schools receive the longest vacations with few teachers under study leaves. Good for the students today, but their future is unpredictable. Thirdly, in politics everyone is a congressman and everybody is non-congressman hence, the first minute and the last minute monetary gift will decide their unattended candidate except for some hardcore party workers. Economically, people

are under pressure mining their coal, farming and other small scale daily wages. Religiously, every single individual is righteous and the rest are unrighteous.

However, his definition carries the same in the minds of the other individuals too. Their attitude speaks of “Thou art Holier” but as soon as one walks out from his divine cage, his testimony shift to another who comes in. The road from Longnak to Mangkolemba which is 11kms or 13kms (views differ) is the best off-road route for a championship cup possibly only for SUV segments. The road that leads to the one Primary Health center is an adventurous trip to experience a ride on a donkey. For that matter, proposal for a natural model township for a courageous tourist will be a hotspot. Receiving six to eight hours of electricity per day with frequent breaks to recharge our inverters is a big thanks to the department. The one reliable BSNL Network gives the maximum unreachable services but we are still paying the cost of dialing, God Forbids! Everyone opposes for selling alcohol but only few don’t drink. What else?

It’s frustrating to see the beautiful landscape with all these happenings around.

The question now is whom shall the people laud for such a town in particular and the other

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we have become the convenient ‘punching bag’ for all to throw accusations and blame. Nonetheless, the FNR holds the view: there is no future without forgiveness and reconciliation. The Forum for Naga Reconciliation remains committed to an inclusive and genuine Naga reconciliation of all the Naga national groups. FNR believes that the practice of exclusion has no future for the Nagahood. If truth, justice, and peace, is what we are seeking for, then without the will to inclusivity takes precedence Naga future will remain distant.

Persuaded by this moral conviction, the Forum for Naga Reconciliation today declares once again to the people that violence is not the way to reconciliation. It only sows the seed of hate and destruction. The Naga public can no longer remain silent on

towns of different districts elsewhere? This must be true in other sub-divisional towns where the public are ignorantly happy with the nomenclature “Town” because people presume, “Moi Bosti walla nohoi”. Breaking up the silence, when will the authority and public come to the point of realization for better livelihood? For those who follow my lines will understand the requirements of a healthy society and their needs beneath it. Though I am a church clergyman my podium demands the voice of truth and honesty, concerning self-belongingness, community development, pointing on to their rights that they deserve to get and to live a righteous person guaranteed with the seal of salvation through Jesus Christ. Being a preacher, I believe a flowery sermon on Bible stories, prosperity and pleasing sermons will never bring a local solution to affirm the doctrinal norms of a denomination. On the other hand, the culture of Chief Guest and guest of honor or laying of foundation stone by the powerful should not take for granted that we live in a sub-division silencing the citizen’s rights and liberty. Commitment to God and his subject’s, demands our faith in responding with truth to all types of people and places without any prejudices. In conclusion, I will felicitate to all the people who will stand for the community and work honestly with truth and dignity as their guide.

this matter anymore. It is time to take a firm stand.

If it is the desire of the Nagas to reconcile and jointly pursue the historical and political rights of the Naga people, we must all join hands and put an end to factional violence.

FNR’s vision of reconciliation entails a coherent set of beliefs about the nature of our faith and our relationship with; fellow beings also about the relation between justice and love which lies at the core of Christian faith. If our political engagement is to flourish it must be governed by this vision.

Hence, united in our shared desire for Naga Reconciliation, Unity and Peace, the Forum for Naga Reconciliations demands that the Naga national groups agree to jointly work in cooperation with credibility and transparency towards the following:

• To immediately STOP all forms of confrontation and violence that may result in any further divisions among the Nagas; • To constructively work together in addressing differences and difficulties of the ground realities; • To sincerely coordinate and co-operate with each other in strengthening the process of Naga reconciliation and unity; • To exhibit magnanimity by inviting and accommodating all other Naga national groups that have not been part of the reconciliation process; • To uphold the values of human rights and self-determination by overcoming all forms of sectarianism, discrimination and exploitation without territorial demarcation among fellow

Nagas; • To forge an inclusive and united vision for the Naga people to peacefully live together and also with other communities around; • To unitedly pursue the Naga historical and political rights; and • To pray for one another as we journey towards reconciliation.

These represent the core values on which we strive to establish trust and accountability.

Finally, the existence of the Naga Reconciliation process is dependent on the active support of an alert populace. We therefore appeal to the people to make a decisive stand in this critical juncture when the Naga Reconciliation process is in peril of selfdestruction.

Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR)

Football & Life’s ultimate Goal

Nothing is more exciting than the football action, specially the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

A grueling run with a great dribble… run with a great dribble and feint. A thrilling save, an accurate pass!

A tremendous and spectacular shot and ultimately … A GOAL!!

To win on the field, players must have a solid technique, a firm grasp of soccer tactics and a commitment to teamwork.

They must be skilled at controlling the ball, as well as passing and shooting.

Above all, it’s essential that they use their heads with intelligence and read each game quickly as it moves around them.

The truth is that soccer isn’t too different from the ultimate competitionlife. Each day brings a new “contest” that involves “opponents”, confrontations and challenges. Excellingand ultimately winning-is determined by dozens of split-seconds we make the right ‘choices’ or ‘decisions’ to win the game of sport and life.

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God gives you more than rules. He gives you ‘Reasons’. In fact, He gives you the best reason of all: “Life, Incredible, Abundant, Excitement and Eternal life”.

He wants the very best for you!!

Just as an athlete dependant upon his coach for guidance- you need direction, too. You need someone who will steer you past the opponents and trails you face… and on to the ‘Goal’. There is only one place to look - and that is ‘God’.

God started loving you long before you started even breathing in your mother’s womb. He created you: He puts you together- cell by cell- piece by piece. He knows every thought that crosses your mind and He feels every feeling you experience in your life, because He died for your sins.

You can call on ‘JESUS’ anytime and anyplace, He is waiting for you.

A Christian is a person who has said “No” to Satan and death: And said “Yes” God Has a Goal for Your to Jesus awesome offer to choose life – and win the Life He is like a coach who greatest goal ever! God be provides a playbook and with you!!! rules that enables his athThamsing Lamkang letes to fulfill their potential and play their best. God has (This article is extracted given you His playbook and from the book- “FootHis set of rules for success- ball Focus”, Author by Dr.Thamsing Lamkang at ful living – “the Bible”.

Sure anybody can give Sports Resource Center, Diyou a new set of rules. But mapur) to help people to be developed in the essential spheres of their lives using sports.

There is emptiness inside every person that can be filled only with God. But people filled it with varieties of replacement: The man who made the balls has something in mind before making and designing the balls for the product. Though different ball has its sizes and weight it has to fulfill the purpose of making it. Though it comes to its completion from the factory, one most important thing is needed, to make use of it to fulfill its purposes - “it needs air” – so is man’s life. God made us so wonderfully in “His own Image and Likeness” but that’s not fully complete. We need the Holy Spirit to fulfill our purpose to why God created us.

Or else, man’s life without God’s Spirit will be like a flat ball – though the balls looks so beautiful and colorful, it will never fulfills the purpose!

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Samsung to probe child labour charges in China Seoul, July 10 (PTI): Samsung Electronics Co said today it was “urgently” investigating allegations that one of its suppliers in China employed children and underage students. China Labor Watch (CLW) said the supplier, Shinyang Electronics, was believed to have hired at least five workers under the age of 16.

The New York-based watchdog cited other violations, including unpaid overtime wages, excessive overtime and a lack of social insurance and training.

“We are urgently looking into the latest allegations and will take appropriate measures in accordance with our policies to prevent any cases of child labour in our suppliers,” the South Korean Electronics giant said in a statement.

“We strictly maintain a zero tolerance policy on child labour,” it said, adding that the supplier in question had been subject to a series of audits and inspections in 2013 and earlier this year. “No cases of child labour were found,” it said. China Labour Watch called Samsung’s monitoring system “ineffective”.

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calls for establishment Zeliang apprises union ofRio‘Smart Cities’ in Nagaland Ministers on roads, food

NEw DElHI, July 10 (MExN): Nagaland Chief Minister T.R.Zeliang alongwith his Cabinet Colleagues Nuklutoshi, Minister for National Highways, Mechanical Engineering and Soil Water Conservation met Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways, Shipping and Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation Nitin Gadkari at his office Transport Bhawan New Dehli. This was informed in a press statement issued by the Media Cell, CMO. In the meeting, CM appraised Gadkari on the long pending 4-laning of the Nagaland Highway connecting Dimapur to Kohima and urgent need for the construction of foothill roads. Gadkari assured CM that his Ministry will deliver the result in two-year time frame. He even assured the CM that he would also instruct the

Nagaland Chief Minister T.R.Zeliang and Nuklutoshi meet Nitin Gadkari. (Photo/PRO Nagaland House Delhi).

National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to construct bye-passes road for Dimapur and Kohima for which it would be beneficial to the state. The Union Minister is to hold meeting very soon with the CM and his department official on these project.

In another meeting with Union Minister for Consumers Affairs, Food and

Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan he had discussed the need to increase the quota of food grain for the state due to increase in population and change in the food habits of the local population like any NonNaga. He also requested the Union Minister to release the wheat for the period from December 2013 -2014 which were replaced

by rice. The Union Minister has directed the Secretary (Food), Sudhir Kumar to look into the matter.

Later that day, Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang alongwith his Cabinet Colleagues Y.Patton, Nuklutoshi, Dr. N.Kire and Parliamentary Secretary for Housing and Excise T.Torechu had visited the construction site for the staff quarter at Dwarka and Nagaland Guest House R.K.Puram. The Chief Minister also instructed the contractor of both the builders to complete the project within a stipulated time frame. The Official present during the meeting and visit to the sites were Jyoti Kalash Resident Commissioner Nagaland House, Bendang, Commissioner & Secretary Housing, Dy. Resident Commissioner B.John Chawang and Chief Engineer Chambemo Lotha.

Training on Maternal and Child Tracking System held PEREN, July 10 (MExN): The Chief Medical Office, Peren District under the chairmanship of Dr. Ngangshimeren, CMO, Peren held it’s District Review Meeting on July 8, 2014 at IDSP Conference Hall, Chief Medical Office, Peren.

A press note issued by Pezanguno Celine Secii, District Media Officer, CMO Office Peren stated that the meeting was attended by, Dr Kikameren, Deputy Director, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Punni, State Facilitator, National Health

Mission, Dr. Tiasunep, IDSP-State Nodal Officer, Abeni, Assistant Program Manager-MCTS and District Program Officers, SMO CHC Jalukie, Medical Officers and Health workers from Health Centers. Chief Medical Office, Peren exhorted the gathering expressing his sincere respect and urged everyone to work as a team.

Dr Kikameren exhorted the gathering and gave a power point presentation cum training on USSD (Unstructured

Supplementary Service Data) for Maternal and Child Tracking System (MCTS). The training included important Instructions on USSD & operation of USSD Application for MCTS. He also requested to include implementation of USSD/MCTS services as an agenda in upcoming Review Meetings and Training Programmes during the year, so that all categories of staff are sensitized on MCTS services. He highlighted on the necessity & impor-

tance of Registers to be maintained by Health units and also the format formulated for block and district levels for ASHA reporting henceforth.

Also, addressing the gathering, Dr. Tiasunep, IDSP, State Nodal Officer gave a basic training on the importance of registering and maintaining “Cause of Death” Certificate. He also emphasized on the importance of registering Death Certificate which will help determine the actual mortality rate in the District/ State.

Awareness programme for building and construction workers held in Mokokchung

MOKOKcHuNg, July 10 (DIPR): An awareness programme for building and other construction workers was held on July 10 at Town Hall, Mokokchung.

The programme was organized by the Department of Labour Government of Nagaland (NBOCW Welfare Board).

Addressing the gathering, SDO(C) Rajesh S, stated that building and other

construction workers are one the most vulnerable segments of the unorganized labour in India with inadequate basic amenities and nonexistent of a welfare facilities. Taking all this into consideration Government of Nagaland has constituted the Nagaland Building and other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board (NBOCW) to provide social security

to this section of the workers by implementing different welfare schemes specially designed for the purpose. He also stressed on the need for the increase in the quality of work. He therefore urged upon the beneficiaries to co-operate with the welfare board and avail the various facilities provided to them.

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Project Officer, Directorate of Labour, who is also the Secretary of the Nagaland Building and Other Construction workers’ Welfare Board, conducted the Technical Session at the awareness programme.

Around 200 NBOCW beneficiaries attended the programme which was also attended by representatives from various Ward Authority.

DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): Member of Parliament from Nagaland state, Neiphiu Rio has apprised the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi ensure that Nagaland state is included in the Union Government’s plans of building 100 new smart cities in the country. He said that including Nagaland in the programme will provide a boost to the state government’s vision of developing new urban areas, thereby elevating the economy of the state. He stated this would create job opportunities for all sections of the people. This was informed in a press note from the PRO, Nagaland House, New Delhi.

He further stressed the need to promote tourism in the North East and in Nagaland. In a representation to

Train passenger arrested with drugs

DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): Railway Protection Force personnel arrested one man with restricted psychotropic drugs at the Dimapur railway station on July 10. The RPF personnel confiscated 13,000 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon and 13000 Nitrosun tablets from the man identified as one Faroq Uddin (31 years), hailing from Nilam Bazar, Karimganj, Assam. The consignment is estimated to be worth around Rs. 1, 50,000 in the illicit drug market.

According to R. Pucho, officer-in-charge of RPF, Dimapur, the man had arrived by the BP Mail and was arrested during routine frisking. As per his statement, the consignment was given to him by a co-passenger, who

KOHIMA, July 10 (NEPS): Former Congress leader from Phek, Dr K Hoshi, has formally joined the BJP on Thursday, saying that he had taken the decision to join the party in view of the fast changing political scenario across the country and for the larger interest of his people as well.

Talking to NEPS over phone from Dimapur on Thursday, the former Congress leader, who just resigned from the Congress on July 4, last week, stated that BJP-led NDA was already in power at the Center and said the BJP would come to power in Nagaland too.

Appealing to the people of Nagaland to give a chance to the BJP before

giving any pre-judgment, Dr Hoshi also disclosed that more like-minded people in the state would soon join the BJP and expressed the hope that the party would go from strength to strength.

Thanking the state BJP president, spokesperson and the general secretary for inviting him to the party, he assured that he would discharge whatever duties and responsibilities assigned to him by the party with dedication and commitment as a loyal party soldier.

It may be mentioned that Dr Hoshi contested twice as Congress candidates from 19th Phek Assembly Constituency unsuccessfully against present R & B Minister Azo Neinu.

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MEx FILE NFHRCC meeting on July 12 DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Foot Hill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) has called for a meeting at the Treasurer's Residence on July 12, 2014 (Saturday) at 2:00 PM. All the committee members are requested to attend the meeting. This was informed in a press note issued by W. Y. Kithan, General Secretary NFHRCC.

Provisional Prog for the forthcoming Budget Session finalized KOHIMA, July 10 (MExN): The Business Advisory Committee under the Chairmanship of Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly held its meeting on July 10, 2014 at 11:00 am in the Assembly Committee Room and finalised the Provisional Programme for the forthcoming Budget Session. This was notified in a press note issued by A.E. Lotha, Secretary , Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat Kohima. The Provisional Programme for the Session included Questions, Obituary References, laying of Reports/ Rules/ Annual Administrative Reports/ Assembly Committee Reports, introduction of Government Bills, introduction of Government Resolutions, presentation of Budget for the Year 2014 -2015 and presentation of C & AG Report for the year 2012-2013. The note also stated that after thorough deliberation, the Committee decided to hold the Fifth Session of Twelfth Nagaland Legislative Assembly from July 22 to 26, 2014.

DNSU informs DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): All the Organising Committee and Sub Committee members of 19th General Conference of DNSU are informed that there will be a meeting on July 14, 2014 (Monday) at 3:00 PM at its Office. A press note issued by Imjungmeren, Convener of the Organising Committee therefore asked all its members to attend the meeting without fail.

OTC Day of Prayer on July 13 DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): The Oriental Theological College (OTC), Yangli urges all the churches under the USBLA are requested to observe OTC Day of Prayer on July 13, 2014positively. A press note received here requested to pray for the staff, students and well being of the college in this auspicious day. Staff and students of the college will be visiting Dimapur and Kohima area churches under the USBLA.

NERSNA to celebrate 200th Birth Anniversary

The accused alongwith the seized drugs in police custody.

asked him to hand it over to one Nizam-uddin at the taxi stand in Dimapur.

His statement is however doubted by the police.

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CAO UT on saving the young Naga generation The CAO UT highly appreciates the Naga Mothers Hoho Dimapur (NMHD) and Nationalist Socialist Women Organization of Nagalim (NSWON), Dimapur Naga Student’s’ Union (DNSU), church leaders and all the surrounding residence for conducting raids on lounges, night clubs, and restaurants in and around Dimapur on July 9, 2014.

The CAO UT also appeals to all peace loving citizens to support with the aforesaid organization to save the Naga young generation from satanic culture before it is too late. The authority of union territory will do all possible with the cited organization at any point of time and shall fight till it will fully demolish.

The undersigned with the directive of CAO and other senior leaders from UT functionary has warned all the lounges, night clubs and restaurant to restrain from legal action, the authority shall impose high security personnel with special power to eliminate the menaces and the illegal activities act in near future.

Apparently the raid conducted on July 9, 2014 by the aforementioned organization, leaving aside many important duty and time, they voluntarily submitted it for the welfare of our society and to save Naga young girls from illegal activities. The authority also appreciated their wise decision and timely intervention in illegal business, in fact it is our collective responsibility to control the Naga young generation especially Naga young girls.

Khekuto Jakhalu Secretary, UT GPRN

Participants and others during the United Sangtam Baptist Lithroti Ashimukhong pastor’s wife training cum exposure programme held at Kohima last week.

Former Congress leader Dr K Hoshi joins BJP

the PM, Rio urged upon the latter to promote tourism in the north east and make the region a tourism asset for the country.

In a representation addressed to the PM, the MP from Nagaland stated that the North East region is capable of coming up with several tourist circuits. He highlighted Nagaland state’s initiatives in the tourism sector through the promotion of its culture. Rio informed the PM that the state has identified tourism and the service sector as a focused area for economic growth and employment generation and highlighted that Nagaland itself has the potential of accommodating tourism circuits on its own while also connecting with other circuits of the region and beyond.

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KOHIMA, July 10 (MExN): The North Eastern Region Service Nepali Association (NERSNA), Kohima would be celebrating the 200th Birth Anniversary of Nepali Poet and ‘Adi Kavi’ Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, which falls on July 13 every year. The Association is celebrating the program at State Academy Hall, Kohima from 11:30 am, with Wing Commander (Retd) and Dy. Director, Rajya Sainik Welfare Board, Rajeev Dong as chief guest and Milind Sonam, Inspector, PHQ Kohima as Guest of Honour respectively.

The Association requests every Nepali/ Gorkhali to make it convenient to attend the programme positively.

PFC appeals frontal org, agri dept, politicians PHEK, July 10 (MExN): The Phek Farmers’ Club (PFC) today made a fervent appeal to the frontal organizations of the Phek district to intervene into the drought like situation in Phek district owing the inability to carry out paddy cultivation for want of rainfall. Stating this in release, the Club president Chiekhunieyi Vero and chief coordinator Thuputhiyi Venuh also appealed to agri and allied departments to come to the rescue of the affected farmers by conducting spot verification and provide alternative crops or relief measures thereof. It also made an appeal to elected representatives of the Phek district and well wishers to support the farmers in time of distress. The Club stated that around 80% of paddy fields left unattended by the farmers till date due to scanty rainfall.

Seminar for Mao drivers residing in Kohima KOHIMA, July 10 (MExN): A seminar for the Mao drivers residing in Kohima is being organized by the Mao Union Kohima and co - sponsored by the Nehru Yuva Kendra on July 13 at 10:00 am at Ungma Kiti near Hotel Cimorb, above telecom office, old ministers’ hill Kohima. Therefore, all the Mao drivers residing in Kohima are requested to attend the seminar compulsorily.

ANHTU Phek Unit meet on July 18 DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union (ANHTU) Phek Unit has convened a meeting on July 18, 2014 for the upcoming Hindi Diwas which will be hosted by the ANHTU Phek Unit at Town Hall, Phek at 10:00 am. Therefore, all the Hindi Teachers under Phek District are compulsory to attend the meeting without fail. Failing which, the ANHTU Phek Unit will be compelled to take action against those absentees. This was stated in a press note issued by Pochizo, President ANHTU Phek Unit and Wechie Mero, Joint Secretary ANHTU Phek Unit.

Nagaland Police annual debate competition commences DIMAPuR, July 10 (MExN): To promote awareness on Human Rights Issues and Sensitization among the State police personnel, Nagaland Police conducts yearly debate at District, Range and State level, where Police officers, men and women from the rank of Constables to district Superintendent of Police & Commandants can participate in the debate competition.

A press note received here stated that the debate for Dimapur Range Level Competition was held at the Police conference Hall, S.P’s Office Dimapur on July 10, 2014. Two districts from Dimapur and Peren and Units from Chumukedima under Dimapur Range participated in

the debate competition on the topic “Human Rights and Social Justice is Devalued in Naga Society”. Seven debaters participated, out of which three were for the motion and four against the motion.

Khekali Y. S u m i , Dy.Commandant 1st NAP BN presidened over the debate as moderator and the panel of judges comprised of tTmjensenla, Commandant 15th NAP Mahila, Suponenba Longkumer, Director Child Line, Elizabeth Ngullie, ADC Dimapur, Merina, Sub-Editor Morung Express. Akumba Yimchnger, IPS DIGP (R/ NAP) Dimapur delivered the introductory speech.

Four debaters, two from each group who were selected to represent Di-

(Left) Judges and participators of the debate competition for Dimapur Range Level which was held at the Police conference Hall, S.P’s Office Dimapur on July 10. (Inset) In progress is the debate competition held at Mokokchung on July 9, 2014 at the ADC Planning Conference Hall, Mokokchung.

mapur range for the State Level Debate Competition to be held on August 27, 2014 are ABSI Mhonyamo Kikon (13th NAP/IR)- for the motion, ASI Taliakum

(DEF Peren)- for the motion, ABSI Kahito Achumi (13th NAP/IR)-against the motion, HAV.Imtiwati, 9th NAP/IR-against the motion.

The Debate Competition was also held at Mokokchung on July 9, 2014 at ADC Planning Conference Hall, Mokokchung.

A press note issued by the

Superintendent of Police, Mokokchung, Nagaland stated that the debate was conducted by DIG (Range) Mokokchung. The participants were from D.E.F. Mokokchung, Mon, Tuensang and Kiphire.

The panel of judges for the debate competition consisted of Murohu Chotso, NCS, D.C. Mokokchung, Niechochiyi Suyie, NJS, Dist. & Session Judge, Mokokchung, and J.H. Nakhro, NPS, S.P.(NPTO), Mokokchung. The winner of the Debate Competition, who will represent Mokokchung Range at State level Debate Competition are UBSI Anito Sema, ASI I. Nzanbemo, UBI Peter Shuya, ASI Yashipokba, UBSI Neizeu Yhome, and UBC Hopong Chang.

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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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few years ago, one of the cartoons carried in our regular Reflections section of the Morung Express was just too hilarious and perhaps it rightly depicted our Naga mindset as well as our action and behaviour when it comes to not just sports but the more serious game of life and how we as a people ought to build ourselves. The inspiring message in the cartoon was that “we Nagas will never win…because the Referee is going to get beaten up”. Perhaps this is in reference to our violent nature where even the poor referee will not be spared the typical Naga bossy behavior and the inclination to raise our hand i.e. to assault. Everywhere you go, we the Naga people seem to carry this disruptive behavior and to take law into our own hands. If we have no qualms about beating up even a referee or the mediator, just imagine what we are capable of doing to our opponents. It shows that we have no respect for law, authority, process and the sentiment of the other.

The cartoon depicts a setting where a Naga family is gathered around a television set, waiting to watch what is being depicted as “Nagas vs Government of India”. The referee in this case could be the peace interlocutor of the Government of India or even the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), which is mediating between the various Naga factions to find lasting peace. Whether it is in the context of a football match or more serious business of peace and dialogue, the players will have to show respect to what the referee is trying to do—to ensure fair play, enforce the laws of the game, create order and a conducive atmosphere for a meeting point etc. Similarly the parties or players must be courteous, respect opinions, perceptions and feelings of the other and refrain from personal attacks, intimidation, threats and verbal or physical abuse. So we need to approach a game or a negotiation with civility.

The same cartoon can be used to highlight another message or perhaps a lesson for us to learn. “Nagas can never win because everybody tries to be a Neymar, Ronaldo or a Messi”. In football parlance, no one wants to pass the ball around and create opportunities for scoring goals. In sports no doubt there may be individual brilliance or a stand out player, but at the end of the day, to be successful and to win requires team work. The FIFA world cup 2014 is prove that it is the better team that will outlast the rest and emerge successful.

Perhaps if Nagas can work as a team, there will be greater success in whatever we do. However it appears to be that we are not as successful in our economic or political venture/s in the last fifty to sixty years and the obvious reason could be that instead of playing as a team we are competing with each other and pulling each other down. We try hard to show our individual prowess but this is okay as long as it is contributing to scoring goals or the success of the Naga team. We are simply unable to create enough opportunities towards winning for the team. Perhaps we are okay with self aggrandizement or to bring glory to our self or our tribe/clan or organization etc. But we seem to be lacking in working for the common good or to succeed as a people. It’s never too late to start the process of team building among the Nagas and to feel like one. For this we need to reason together and reach out to each other.

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Stephen Wade AP Sports Writer

Brazil faces issues around race & racism

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ormer Brazilian national midfielder Arouca, playing for Pele's old club Santos, was doing a sideline TV interview a few months ago when opposing fans began to chant "monkey, monkey, monkey." Those taunting hit him with another jab: Go to Africa and find a team. Get out of here.

President Dilma Rousseff, who has pledged a "World Cup without racism," tweeted quickly: "It is unacceptable that Brazil, the country with the largest black population after Nigeria, has racism issues."

It does, and Brazilians are slowly waking up to it. Still, they are more accustomed to saying this is a country free of prejudice, and the subject is rarely discussed openly and seldom makes the news. Many hold to the myth of a "racial democracy" because the country never had laws separating the races.

"The Brazilian form of racism is worse than apartheid because it works on the basis of deception," said Elisa Larkin Nascimento, director of the Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute in Rio. "There is denial," she added. "Many people — particularly the ruling class — say there is no racism.

With that stance, you are left with nothing to talk about."

Over the last few decades, Brazil has begun to introduce affirmative-action programs, African diaspora history is being taught in schools, and a cabinet-level position has been created to deal with racial equality. "The biggest leap was to get the society to talk about racism and realize that, in fact, it does exist in Brazil," said Larkin Nascimento, who wrote the book "The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race and Gender in Brazil."

Settled by Portuguese and a mix of other Europeans, Brazil imported about 5 million slaves — 10 times more than the United States — and ended slavery in 1888. That was 25 years after the United States banned the practice.

Blacks in Brazil earn about half of what whites do, and there is only one black minister in Rousseff's cabinet. The first black justice on Brazil's Supreme Court — Joaquim Barbosa, who rose to chief justice — recently announced his retirement. Magazine covers seldom feature a black face, movies often feature all white casts and the very popular soap operas feature mostly white actors.

Brazil's present World Cup team is made up of 90 percent black or mixed-race players, though Brazilian fans attending World Cup matches — and Brazil's club matches during the season — are predominantly white. Its most famous player was Pele, who was known as "The Black Pearl." He would have been banned from playing early in the 20th century when the game, introduced by Europeans, was closed to non-white players.

Much of the game is still closed to the black and poor. "Nobody like me could ever get in there to watch," said Joacy de Silva, a dark-skinned man picking through an orange trash bin on Wednesday just 25 yards from an entrance to Rio's Maracana stadium where Spain faced Chile in the World Cup. He stuck his head and hand deep into a smelly mess of cans and rotting food, then came up to finish his thought.

"I can't say I am angry," he said. "I don't know. I have my life and the rich have their life."

Black and brown-skinned people are rarely customers in top-notch restaurants, elegant shopping malls or airports.

They tend to be cleaners, nannies or kitchen workers.

Figuring out who is black in Brazil can be tough, and a socalled "black community" doesn't exist. Brazilians self-identify. A light-skinned person may choose to seen as black, but others judge, too. "Who is black?" Larkin Nascimento asked rhetorically. "If you go into classy hotels or restaurant, you know who's not there. You can see it. The police, when they're rounding up people on the streets, they know who is black."

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oundaries in Europe may appear absolute, but there are still occasional reminders they are not. The debate on secessionism has been reinvigorated by the imminent Scottish independence referendum, whose outcome could radically undermine the terms of the Union between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. It is not the first time that a secessionism crisis has created the conditions for a new state to emerge from a previously established political union. In Europe the majority of countries that were created over the last century has emerged from the disruption of established political unions. However, the breakdown of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union bears little resemblance to the situation that is currently under discussion in the United Kingdom and with the debates on independence that are under way in Spain, Belgium, and Italy. While there is little doubt that these contemporary forms of self-determination claims have deep historical roots, they have not been caused a sudden change in the internal economic, political, or social conditions of the state. The puzzling question is why the political leaders of these regions are now successful in translating their long-term discontent into explicit demands for secession. The question is, in other words, what conditions allowed secessionism crises to gain momentum across Europe.

There are different answers to this question. Some have argued that the consequences of economic crisis have fuelled the flames of secession. Others have suggested the negative attitude of the central governments in power in the last few years has made a difference in most of these countries. These arguments help explain why the dream of nationhood is now being translated into a secession crisis across Europe. Yet, there is one crucial aspect that the debate on independence referendums has relatively overlooked, taking it for granted or treating it as something of marginal importance only. This concerns the international context and whether it has created more favourable conditions for secession. In this article I will explain that the changes that have occurred to the international environment in the course of the last twenty years have greatly contributed to turn secession into a viable political option for regions and their political leaders. My argument, in short, is that the contemporary international context has decreased the benefits that were previously associated with membership to a larger sovereign nationstate and has therefore contributed to augment both the desirability and the feasibility of secession.

A system where territorial adversaries no longer threaten each other There are two components of this argument: the first is about international security, the second is about international economy. The first claim I want to defend is that changing conditions of international security have facilitated claims of secession. Many political unions were initially established under the pressure of external or internal security threats. Federations and confederations such as the United States, Argentina, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland are all examples of states that came together to overcome military tensions. Also the European Community was established with the explicit purpose of ensuring peace in Europe following two world wars originating on the continent. The constituent units of these political unions have given up significant elements of their sovereignty to be part of a larger entity that can guarantee security and peace.

Incidentally, these historical examples show that the perception of a common threat binds a union together: the stronger the enemy, the more likely it is

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ith 17 months before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their targets by the December 2015 deadline, the United Nations is trumpeting its limited successes – but with guarded optimism.

“Global poverty has been halved five years ahead of the 2015 time frame,” says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the latest status report released Monday.

In 1990, almost half of the population in developing regions lived on less than 1.25 dollars a day. “This rate dropped to 22 percent by 2010, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty by 700 million,” the study claims.

Still, the overwhelming majority of people living in extreme poverty belong to two regions: Southern Asia and subSaharan African, according to the 56page Millennium Development Goals Report 2014. But some of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) closely tracking trends in social and economic development in the developing world are sceptical of the claims.

Roberto Bissio, director of the Uruguay-based Social Watch, told IPS the global average the United Nations celebrates is almost exclusively due to China – and most of that poverty reduction in China happened before the year 2000.

“Thus the MDGs are credited with outcomes that happened before they existed,” he said. “This is because the target is defined as lowering to half the 1990 global poverty line, not the 2000 figure as the Millennium Declaration implies by talking in present,” Bissio added.

The study singles out the increased access to drinking water sources, an improvement in the lives of slum dwellers and the achievement of gender parity in primary schools. “If trends continue,” says the report, “the world will surpass MDG targets on malaria, tuberculosis and access to HIV treatment (while) the hunger target looks within reach.”

As countries collaborate more and more, there is less and less need to band together in big national units

for the constituent units to perceive their common interests and entertain a union despite having to pay the price of a loss of sovereign power.

Nowadays, however, security threats are more blurred than they used to be in the past. In today’s western world, defence alliances have increased the feeling of security of small states. In its white paper ("Scotland's Future: Your Guide to Scottish Independence"), for instance, the Scottish Government explains its view that “NATO membership is in Scotland's interests, and the interests of our neighbours, because it underpins effective conventional defence and security co-operation”. This alliance implicitly acknowledges the inability of states to protect their own security: size, military strength and population have ceased to be crucial factors for the survival of a territory. In Europe, in particular, security threats have fallen dramatically since the end of the Cold War. The invention of nuclear weapons, complex interdependence and the role of the United States as a global hegemon have undermined the view that security could be achieved only through a large national army. In fact, it is not by accident that most secessionist movements in today’s world are mobilizing in Europe, where military defence is no longer perceived as a crucial necessity for states. In the report on Security in Scotland, with or without constitutional change, experts have showed that territorial adversaries no longer threaten western European states existentially and that the old Westphalian notion of sovereign state security is increasingly anachronistic. The leaders of seceding regions like Scotland realize that the lack of serious international threats and the presence of strongly interdependent alliances create more favourable conditions for the secession of a region from larger states.

A more interdependent economic system The changing international economic system is also conducive to secession crises. Historically, large economies of scale appeared more appealing than isolationism. In fact, in 1698 the nobles of the Kingdom of Scotland tried to elevate their country to a world trading nation by establishing a colony called "Caledonia" on the Isthmus of Panama. The colonization scheme failed and nearly bankrupted the country. Within a decade Scotland had signed the Act of Union with England to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Back in the 18th century, the Scottish leaders considered that sharing the benefits of being part of a major power was the only way for a dignified economic survival. In today’s interdependent economic system, instead, small European economies with similar geographies to Scotland are able to maintain both economic stability and growth.

It does not follow that smaller is automatically pref-

erable: small countries are not necessarily better off than the others, as they remain more vulnerable to economic shocks. In 2008 the British government had to bail out Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS, whose combined liabilities were more than 13 times Scottish GDP. Nonetheless, an independent Scotland would still be likely to remain deeply integrated with the global economy and receive support from international partners. Indeed, this is also the reason why membership of the European Union (EU) is one of the crucial factors at stake in the debate on Scottish independence. While the UK Government has recognized that the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the G8 and G20 membership would be largely unaffected by Scottish independence (see report on Devolution and the implications of Scottish independence), membership of the EU remains a more complicated affair. While there are many questions about Scotland’s position within the EU that remain to be clarified, it has been recently pointed out by Michael Keating that “it is in nobody’s interest to throw Scotland out of the single market – not Scotland, the rest of the UK, the other member states, business or anyone would gain from this”. In the end, the notion that an independent Scotland would be automatically excluded by the EU is problematic to implement, as well as complicated to justify on the basis of democratic and normative principles.

Conclusion Secession poses many hypothetical questions.

However, the recent evolution of the international system has clearly diminished the uncertainties related to the withdrawal from a previously established political union. In particular, the fall of security threats and the rise of international economic interdependence have contributed to reduce the benefits of membership to a larger state community. Security and economic concerns used to be part of high politics, and these in turn were responsibility of large and powerful nation-states.

As globalization blurred the boundaries of security and economics and created a more permeable environment, these concerns have faded. As a result, even small regions understand it is now possible to pursue secession at a much less costly price than before.

These conditions contribute to galvanize the hopes of those who support secession, but they also have another important effect: they contribute to change the meaning of independence itself. Scotland is, once again, a very powerful example of these changes. The political leaders who support secession talk about keeping five of the six unions, including – crucially – the monetary union. This is a very interdependent idea of independence. In short, the new context has contributed to a forging of a new understanding of what secession actually means.

It is for this reason that the debate surrounding the Scottish referendum on independence and, more generally, secessionism in the Western world should not overlook the crucial importance of the international context in making secession a viable political option. Indeed, newly independent regions would have a very tough life surviving on the world stage, but nowadays they can achieve a level of security and economic well-being that unthinkable until a few years ago. It follows that if they really want to convince citizens that staying together is the best option, defenders of the political union in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and Belgium should stop running negative campaigns that labour on the dire consequences of separation. In Scotland, pursuit of this strategy merely enables the nationalists to present the referendum as a choice between Britain and Scotland rather than competing visions of Scotland.

Amid Scepticism, UN Trumpets Successes in Cutting Poverty Thalif Deen Inter Press Service Other targets, such as access to technologies, reduction of average tariffs, debt relief, and growing political participation by women, “show great progress.”

Over the past 20 years, the likelihood of a child dying before age five has been nearly cut in half, which means about 17,000 children are saved every day, according to the report.

Yoke Ling Chee of the Malaysia-based Third World Network told IPS the MDG report is “over optimistic”, and avoids the systemic obstacles that continue to deprive large parts of the world from their right to development.

“A much-needed orderly sovereign debt work-out mechanism is still rejected by rich countries and we see Argentina on the verge of another crisis because of the greed of ‘vulture funds,’” she said. Failure to deal with structural barriers can negate any success made over the past two decades.

“Unfortunately,” she pointed out, “the trend in the U.N. Secretary-General’s office and many developed countries is to place hopes in private corporations and ‘multi-stakeholder partnerships’ that fudge the massive problems caused by many corporations.

“The vote on Jun. 26 at the Human Rights Council to start a process for a treaty to regulate transnational corporations is a clear signal that if we are to make development a reality, corporations cannot be the deliverer,” she added.

In a statement released Monday, the London-based WaterAid said the

U.N. report is a reminder of a terrible truth: that there are still 2.5 billion people in the world without access to basic toilets. Of the 2.5 billion, 644 million are in sub-Saharan Africa and more than 1.0 billion in South Asia.

“Going without this right is compromising the health, safety, security and dignity of billions of people,” said Fleur Anderson, global head of campaigns at WaterAid. As the U.N. works on a renewed set of development goals, it is critical that sanitation be made a central priority in development, activists say.

For the first time in history, bringing safe water and basic sanitation to everyone, everywhere within a generation “is in our grasp”, Anderson stressed. “But it will require political will and dedication to get there.

Without these basic building blocks, there is no effective way to address extreme poverty,” she added.

Bissio told IPS that by concentrating attention on extreme poverty, developed countries got off the hook and do not feel they have to report on their own commitments at home. Poverty in developed countries is ignored and inequalities are ignored everywhere, resulting in this being the major constraint now to economic growth (apart from all other considerations) as recognised even by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he noted.

The study also points out that after two years of declines, official development assistance (ODA) hit a record high of 134.8 billion dollars in 2013.

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“However, aid shifted away from the poorest countries where attainment of the MDGs often lags the most,” it said.

Eighty per cent of imports from developing countries entered developed countries duty-free, and tariffs remained at an all-time low. The debt burden of developing countries remained stable at about 3.0 per cent of export revenue, which was a near 75 per cent drop since 2000, according to the report.

Despite considerable advancements in recent years, the report says reliable statistics for monitoring development remain inadequate in many countries, but better statistical reporting on the MDGs has led to real results.

Chee told IPS the explosion of transnational corporations (TNCs) suing national governments in developing countries over environmental and health regulations by invoking corporate rights under bilateral investment agreements is sucking billions of dollars from those countries, she added. She also pointed out that developing countries that made some progress and continue to face huge challenges are increasingly excluded from the commitments of developed countries to provide climate finance, ensure access to affordable life saving medicines and transfer technologies for sustainable development.

This is because countries such as China and India are regarded as “competitors” by the U.S. European corporations assert undue influence over their home governments’ development cooperation policies, which in turn undermines the key U.N. treaties on climate change and biodiversity, she said.

The ongoing negotiations at the U.N. on sustainable development goals are mired in debate because developed countries refuse to put the systemic economic issues at the centre of the next development partnership – which should be primarily about inter-state responsibilities and commitments, not unaccountable “partnerships,” Chee declared.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Our 21st Century Energy Wars Michael T. Klare

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raq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame with new or intensifying conflicts. At first glance, these upheavals appear to be independent events, driven by their own unique and idiosyncratic circumstances. But look more closely and they share several key characteristics -- notably, a witch’s brew of ethnic, religious, and national antagonisms that have been stirred to the boiling point by a fixation on energy.

In each of these conflicts, the fighting is driven in large part by the eruption of long-standing historic antagonisms among neighboring (often intermingled) tribes, sects, and peoples. In Iraq and Syria, it is a clash among Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Turkmen, and others; in Nigeria, among Muslims, Christians, and assorted tribal groupings; in South Sudan, between the Dinka and Nuer; in Ukraine, between Ukrainian loyalists and Russian-speakers aligned with Moscow; in the East and South China Sea, among the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipinos, and others. It would be easy to attribute all this to age-old hatreds, as suggested by many analysts; but while such hostilities do help drive these conflicts, they are fueled by a most modern impulse as well: the desire to control valuable oil and natural gas assets. Make no mistake about it, these are twenty-first-century energy wars.

It should surprise no one that energy plays such a significant role in these conflicts. Oil and gas are, after all, the world’s most important and valuable commodities and constitute a major source of income for the governments and corporations that control their production and distribution. Indeed, the governments of Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, South Sudan, and Syria derive the great bulk of their revenues from oil sales, while the major energy firms (many state-owned) exercise immense power in these and the other countries involved. Whoever controls these states, or the oil- and gas-producing areas within them, also controls the collection and allocation of crucial revenues. Despite the patina of historical enmities, many of these conflicts, then, are really struggles for control over the principal source of national income.

Moreover, we live in an energy-centric world where control over oil and gas resources (and their means of delivery) translates into geopolitical clout for some and economic vulnerability for others. Because so many countries are dependent on energy imports, nations with surpluses to export -- including Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, and South Sudan -- often exercise disproportionate influence on the world stage. What happens in these countries sometimes matters as much to the rest of us as to the people living in them, and so the risk of external involvement in their conflicts -- whether in the form of direct intervention, arms transfers, the sending in of military advisers, or economic assistance -- is greater than almost anywhere else.

The struggle over energy resources has been a conspicuous factor in many recent conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, the Gulf War of 19901991, and the Sudanese Civil War of 1983-2005. On first glance, the fossil-fuel factor in the most recent outbreaks of tension and fighting may seem less evident.

But look more closely and you’ll see that each of these conflicts is, at heart, an energy war.

Iraq, Syria, and ISIS The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Sunni extremist group that controls large chunks of western Syria and northern Iraq, is a well-armed militia intent on creating an Islamic caliphate in the areas it controls. In some respects, it is a fanatical, sectarian religious organization, seeking to reproduce the pure, uncorrupted piety of the early Islamic era. At the same time, it is engaged in a conventional nation-building project, seeking to create a fully functioning state with all its attributes.

As the United States learned to its dismay in Iraq and Afghanistan, nation-building is expensive: institutions must be created and financed, armies recruited and paid, weapons and fuel procured, and infrastructure maintained. Without oil (or some other lucrative source of income), ISIS could never hope to accomplish its ambitious goals. However, as it now occupies key oil-producing areas of Syria and oil-refining facilities in Iraq, it is in a unique position to do so. Oil, then, is absolutely essential to the organization’s grand strategy.

Syria was never a major oil producer, but its prewar production of some 400,000 barrels per day did provide the regime of Bashar al-Assad with a major source of income. Now, most of the country’s oil fields are under the control of rebel groups, including ISIS, the alQaeda-linked Nusra Front, and local Kurdish militias.

Although production from the fields has dropped significantly, enough is being extracted and sold through various clandestine channels to provide the rebels with income and operating funds. “Syria is an oil country and has resources, but in the past they were all stolen by the regime,” said Abu Nizar, an anti-government activist. “Now they are being stolen by those who are profiting from the revolution.”

At first, many rebel groups were involved in these extractive activities, but since January, when it assumed control of Raqqa, the capital of the province of that name, ISIS has been the dominant player in the oil fields. In addition, it has seized fields in neighboring Deir al-Zour Province along the Iraq border. Indeed, many of the U.S.-supplied weapons it acquired from the fleeing Iraqi army after its recent drive into Mosul and other northern Iraqi cities have been moved into Deir al-Zour to help in the organization’s campaign to take full control of the region. In Iraq, ISIS is fighting to gain control over Iraq’s largest refinery at Baiji in the central part of the country.

It appears that ISIS sells oil from the fields it controls to shadowy middlemen who in turn arrange for its transport -- mostly by tanker trucks -- to buyers in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. These sales are said to provide the organization with the funds needed to pay its troops and acquire its vast stockpiles of arms and ammunition.

Many observers also claim that ISIS is selling oil to the Assad regime in return for immunity from government air strikes of the sort being launched against other rebel groups. “Many locals in Raqqa accuse ISIS of collaborating with the Syrian regime,” a Kurdish journalist, Sirwan Kajjo, reported in early June. “Locals say that while other rebel groups in Raqqa have been under attack by regime air strikes on a regular basis, ISIS headquarters have not once been attacked.”

However the present fighting in northern Iraq plays out, it is obvious that there, too, oil is a central factor.

ISIS seeks both to deny petroleum supplies and oil rev-

Global conflicts are increasingly fueled by the desire for oil and natural gas––and the funds they generate

In this December 13, 2009 file photo, an Iraqi worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil refinery near the city of Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The turmoil in Iraq has thrown the OPEC member’s ambitious plans to boost oil production into doubt, threatening to crimp its most vital economic lifeline. Northern oil fields imperiled by the militants’ advance have been shut down, and companies have begun evacuating workers elsewhere in the country. Iraq’s Kurdish minority has moved to solidify control over the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed areas, weakening Baghdad’s claims to the energy riches buried beneath while bolstering the Kurds’ aspirations of greater autonomy. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)

enue to the Baghdad government and to bolster its own coffers, enhancing its capacity for nation-building and further military advances. At the same time, the Kurds and various Sunni tribes -- some allied with ISIS -- want control over oil fields located in the areas under their control and a greater share of the nation’s oil wealth.

Energy also played a key role in Russia’s determination to take the Crimea by military means. By annexing that region, Russia virtually doubled the offshore territory it controls in the Black Sea, which is thought to house billions of barrels of oil and vast reserves of natural gas.

Prior to the crisis, several Western oil firms, including ExxonMobil, were negotiating with Ukraine for access to Ukraine, the Crimea, and Russia those reserves. Now, they will be negotiating with MosThe present crisis in Ukraine began in November cow. “It’s a big deal,” said Carol Saivetz, a Eurasian expert 2013 when President Viktor Yanukovych repudiated an at MIT. “It deprives Ukraine of the possibility of developagreement for closer economic and political ties with ing these resources and gives them to Russia.” the European Union (EU), opting instead for closer ties with Russia. That act touched off fierce anti-gov- Nigeria and South Sudan ernment protests in Kiev and eventually led to YanuThe conflicts in South Sudan and Nigeria are diskovych’s flight from the capital. With Moscow’s prin- tinctive in many respects, yet both share a key common cipal ally pushed from the scene and pro-EU forces in factor: widespread anger and distrust towards governcontrol of the capital, Russian President Vladimir Pu- ment officials who have become wealthy, corrupt, and tin moved to seize control of the Crimea and foment a autocratic thanks to access to abundant oil revenues. separatist drive in eastern Ukraine. For both sides, the In Nigeria, the insurgent group Boko Haram is fighting resulting struggle has been about political legitimacy to overthrow the existing political system and establish a and national identity -- but as in other recent conflicts, puritanical, Muslim-ruled state. Although most Nigerians it has also been about energy. decry the group’s violent methods (including the kidnapUkraine is not itself a significant energy producer. It ping of hundreds of teenage girls from a state-run school), is, however, a major transit route for the delivery of Rus- it has drawn strength from disgust in the poverty-stricken sian natural gas to Europe. According to the U.S. Energy northern part of the country with the corruption-riddled Information Administration (EIA), Europe obtained 30% central government in distant Abuja, the capital. of its gas from Russia in 2013 -- most of it from the stateNigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, pumpcontrolled gas giant Gazprom -- and approximately half ing out some 2.5 million barrels per day. With oil sellof this was transported by pipelines crossing Ukraine. As ing at around $100 per barrel, this represents a potena result, that country plays a critical role in the complex tially staggering source of wealth for the nation, even energy relationship between Europe and Russia, one that after the private companies involved in the day-to-day has proved incredibly lucrative for the shadowy elites extractive operations take their share. Were these revand oligarchs who control the flow of gas, whille at the enues -- estimated in the tens of billions of dollars per same time provoking intense controversy. Disputes over year -- used to spur development and improve the lot the price Ukraine pays for its own imports of Russian gas of the population, Nigeria could be a great beacon of twice provoked a cutoff in deliveries by Gazprom, lead- hope for Africa. Instead, much of the money disaping to diminished supplies in Europe as well. pears into the pockets (and foreign bank accounts) of Given this background, it is not surprising that a key Nigeria’s well-connected elites. objective of the “association agreement” between the EU In February, the governor of the Central Bank of Niand Ukraine that was repudiated by Yanukovych (and has geria, Lamido Sanusi, told a parliamentary investigatnow been signed by the new Ukrainian government) calls ing committee that the state-owned Nigerian National for the extension of EU energy rules to Ukraine’s energy Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to transfer system -- essentially eliminating the cozy deals between some $20 billion in proceeds from oil sales to the nationUkrainian elites and Gazprom. By entering into the agree- al treasury, as required by law. It had all evidently been ment, EU officials claim, Ukraine will begin “a process of diverted to private accounts. “A substantial amount of approximating its energy legislation to the EU norms and money has gone,” he told the New York Times. “I wasn’t standards, thus facilitating internal market reforms.” just talking about numbers. I showed it was a scam.”

Russian leaders have many reasons to despise the For many Nigerians -- a majority of whom subsist association agreement. For one thing, it will move on less than $2 per day -- the corruption in Abuja, when Ukraine, a country on its border, into a closer political combined with the wanton brutality of the governand economic embrace with the West. Of special con- ment’s security forces, is a source of abiding anger and cern, however, are the provisions about energy, given resentment, generating recruits for insurgent groups Russia’s economic reliance on gas sales to Europe -- not like Boko Haram and winning them begrudging adto mention the threat they pose to the personal fortunes miration. “They know well the frustration that would of well-connected Russian elites. In late 2013 Yanu- drive someone to take up arms against the state,” said kovych came under immense pressure from Vladimir National Geographic reporter James Verini of people he Putin to turn his back on the EU and agree instead to an interviewed in battle-scarred areas of northern Nigeria. economic union with Russia and Belarus, an arrange- At this stage, the government has displayed zero capacment that would have protected the privileged status ity to overcome the insurgency, while its ineptitude and of elites in both countries. However, by moving in this heavy-handed military tactics have only further aliendirection, Yanukovych put a bright spotlight on the cro- ated ordinary Nigerians. ny politics that had long plagued Ukraine’s energy sysThe conflict in South Sudan has different roots, but tem, thereby triggering protests in Kiev’s Independence shares a common link to energy. Indeed, the very formaSquare (the Maidan) -- that led to his downfall. tion of South Sudan is a product of oil politics. A civil war Once the protests began, a cascade of events led to in Sudan that lasted from 1955 to 1972 only ended when the current standoff, with the Crimea in Russian hands, the Muslim-dominated government in the north agreed large parts of the east under the control of pro-Russian to grant more autonomy to the peoples of the southern separatists, and the rump western areas moving ever part of the country, largely practitioners of traditional Afcloser to the EU. In this ongoing struggle, identity poli- rican religions or Christianity. However, when oil was tics has come to play a prominent role, with leaders on discovered in the south, the rulers of northern Sudan reall sides appealing to national and ethnic loyalties. En- pudiated many of their earlier promises and sought to ergy, nevertheless, remains a major factor in the equa- gain control over the oil fields, sparking a second civil tion. Gazprom has repeatedly raised the price it charges war, which lasted from 1983 to 2005. An estimated two Ukraine for its imports of natural gas, and on June 16th million people lost their lives in this round of fighting. cut off its supply entirely, claiming non-payment for In the end, the south was granted full autonomy and the past deliveries. A day later, an explosion damaged one right to vote on secession. Following a January 2011 refof the main pipelines carrying Russian gas to Ukraine -- erendum in which 98.8% of southerners voted to secede, an event still being investigated. Negotiations over the the country became independent on that July 9th. gas price remain a major issue in the ongoing negotiaThe new state had barely been established, howtions between Ukraine’s newly elected president, Petro ever, when conflict with the north over its oil resumed.

Poroshenko, and Vladimir Putin.

While South Sudan has a plethora of oil, the only pipe-

line allowing the country to export its energy stretches across North Sudan to the Red Sea. This ensured that the south would be dependent on the north for the major source of government revenues. Furious at the loss of the fields, the northerners charged excessively high rates for transporting the oil, precipitating a cutoff in oil deliveries by the south and sporadic violence along the two countries’ still-disputed border. Finally, in August 2012, the two sides agreed to a formula for sharing the wealth and the flow of oil resumed. Fighting has, however, continued in certain border areas controlled by the north but populated by groups linked to the south.

With the flow of oil income assured, the leader of South Sudan, President Salva Kiir, sought to consolidate his control over the country and all those oil revenues.

Claiming an imminent coup attempt by his rivals, led by Vice President Riek Machar, he disbanded his multiethnic government on July 24, 2013, and began arresting allies of Machar. The resulting power struggle quickly turned into an ethnic civil war, with the kin of President Kiir, a Dinka, battling members of the Nuer group, of which Machar is a member. Despite several attempts to negotiate a cease-fire, fighting has been under way since December, with thousands of people killed and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes.

As in Syria and Iraq, much of the fighting in South Sudan has centered around the vital oil fields, with both sides determined to control them and collect the revenues they generate. As of March, while still under government control, the Paloch field in Upper Nile State was producing some 150,000 barrels a day, worth about $15 million to the government and participating oil companies. The rebel forces, led by former Vice President Machar, are trying to seize those fields to deny this revenue to the government. “The presence of forces loyal to Salva Kiir in Paloch, to buy more arms to kill our people... is not acceptable to us,” Machar said in April.

“We want to take control of the oil field. It’s our oil.” As of now, the field remains in government hands, with rebel forces reportedly making gains in the vicinity.

The South China Sea In both the East China and South China seas, China and its neighbors claim assorted atolls and islands that sit astride vast undersea oil and gas reserves. The waters of both have been the site of recurring naval clashes over the past few years, with the South China Sea recently grabbing the spotlight.

An energy-rich offshoot of the western Pacific, that sea, long a focus of contention, is rimmed by China, Vietnam, the island of Borneo, and the Philippine Islands.

Tensions peaked in May when the Chinese deployed their largest deepwater drilling rig, the HD-981, in waters claimed by Vietnam. Once in the drilling area, about 120 nautical miles off the coast of Vietnam, the Chinese surrounded the HD-981 with a large flotilla of navy and coast guard ships. When Vietnamese coast guard vessels attempted to penetrate this defensive ring in an effort to drive off the rig, they were rammed by Chinese ships and pummeled by water cannon. No lives have yet been lost in these encounters, but anti-Chinese rioting in Vietnam in response to the sea-borne encroachment left several dead and the clashes at sea are expected to continue for several months until the Chinese move the rig to another (possibly equally contested) location.

The riots and clashes sparked by the deployment of HD-981 have been driven in large part by nationalism and resentment over past humiliations. The Chinese, insisting that various tiny islands in the South China Sea were once ruled by their country, still seek to overcome the territorial losses and humiliations they suffered at the hands the Western powers and Imperial Japan. The Vietnamese, long accustomed to Chinese invasions, seek to protect what they view as their sovereign territory. For common citizens in both countries, demonstrating resolve in the dispute is a matter of national pride.

But to view the Chinese drive in the South China Sea as a simple matter of nationalistic impulses would be a mistake. The owner of HD-981, the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), has conducted extensive seismic testing in the disputed area and evidently believes there is a large reservoir of energy there. “The South China Sea is estimated to have 23 billion tons to 30 billion tons of oil and 16 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, accounting for one-third of China's total oil and gas resources,” the Chinese news agency Xinhua noted. Moreover, China announced in June that it was deploying a second drilling rig to the contested waters of the South China Sea, this time at the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin.

As the world’s biggest consumer of energy, China is desperate to acquire fresh fossil fuel supplies wherever it can. Although its leaders are prepared to make increasingly large purchases of African, Russian, and Middle Eastern oil and gas to satisfy the nation’s growing energy requirements, they not surprisingly prefer to develop and exploit domestic supplies. For them, the South China Sea is not a “foreign” source of energy but a Chinese one, and they appear determined to use whatever means necessary to secure it. Because other countries, including Vietnam and the Philippines, also seek to exploit these oil and gas reserves, further clashes, at increasing levels of violence, seem almost inevitable.

No End to Fighting As these conflicts and others like them suggest, fighting for control over key energy assets or the distribution of oil revenues is a critical factor in most contemporary warfare. While ethnic and religious divisions may provide the political and ideological fuel for these battles, it is the potential for mammoth oil profits that keeps the struggles alive. Without the promise of such resources, many of these conflicts would eventually die out for lack of funds to buy arms and pay troops. So long as the oil keeps flowing, however, the belligerents have both the means and incentive to keep fighting.

In a fossil-fuel world, control over oil and gas reserves is an essential component of national power.

“Oil fuels more than automobiles and airplanes,” Robert Ebel of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told a State Department audience in 2002. “Oil fuels military power, national treasuries, and international politics.” Far more than an ordinary trade commodity, “it is a determinant of well being, of national security, and international power for those who possess this vital resource, and the converse for those who do not.”

If anything, that’s even truer today, and as energy wars expand, the truth of this will only become more evident. Someday, perhaps, the development of renewable sources of energy may invalidate this dictum.

But in our present world, if you see a conflict developing, look for the energy. It’ll be there somewhere on this fossil-fueled planet of ours.

Readers may please note that, the contents of the articles published on this page do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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BJP govt promises to arrest price rise

New Delhi, July 10 (iANS): Tax payers could save on their salaries and consumer goods like TVs, soap, footwear, processed food and computers will cost less as the Rs.18-lakh crore ($300-billion) maiden budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government promised to arrest price rise, boost investor mood, cut expenditure and restore India’s growth to 7-8 percent in three years.

During a 128-minute speech in the Lok Sabha

by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, with a five-minute break allowed by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan upon his request due to momentary discomfort, a host of other proposals, both welfare schemes and reformist policy measures, were also unveiled that were aimed at a wide range of stakeholders -- from the girl child to senior citizens and overseas investors to the defence forces.

At the same time, he acccepted as a challenge -- given the state of the flagging economy and rising prices -- the task to cut fiscal deficit, which indicates the extent to which the government overspends, to 4.1 percent of GDP for this fiscal, and further to 3.6 percent and 3 percent over the next two years.

As high expectations ran high from the first budget of the Modi government, after having been voted to power with a landslide victory mainly on promises of “happy days” for India’s 1.2 billion people, Jaitley also made it clear that putting the Indian economy back on rails remained a daunting task needing more than one dose of corrective action.

“The steps that I will announce in this budget are only the beginning of a journey towards a sustained growth of 7-8 percent or above within the next 3-4 years along with macro-economic stabilisation,” the finance minister said.

“Therefore, it would not be wise to expect everything that can be done or must be done to be in the first budget presented within 45 days of the forma-

‘Housing for all by 2022’

New Delhi, July 10 (iANS): The government is committed to provide housing for all by 2022, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Thursday while announcing a slew of measures to boost housing.

The government intends to extend additional tax incentive on home loans to encourage people, especially the young, to own houses, Jaitley said in his budget speech. He said the government will raise the housing loan interest deduction limit from Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.2 lakh to revive the housing sector.

“I propose the setting up

of a mission on low cost affordable housing which will be anchored in the National Housing Bank (NHB).

Schemes will be evolved to incentivise the development of low cost affordable housing,” Jaitley said.

The minister said he proposed to allocate this year a sum of Rs.4,000 crore for the NHB with a view to increase the flow of cheaper credit for affordable housing to the urban poor, economically weaker sections and low income groups.

Jaitley said that to encourage development of smart cities, which will also

provide habitation for the neo-middle class, requirement of built-up area and capital conditions for FDI was being reduced from 50,000 square metres to 20,000 square metres and from $10 million to $5 million respectively with a three-year post-completion lock-in period.

“The government is willing to examine other suggestions that would spur growth in this (housing) sector,” he said. Jaitley also said the government proposes to add slum development to the list of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities.

‘Budget lacks focus in crucial areas’ A sniffer dog inspects sacks containing copies of the 2014-15 union budget at the Indian parliament in New Delhi, Thursday, July 10, 2014. India’s new government has introduced an ambitious reform-minded budget focusing on promoting manufacturing and infrastructure, raising the tax base and overhauling populist subsidies. (AP Photo

tion of this government,” he added, setting the agenda for his speech.

“We are going in the right direction to overcome challenges faced in the last decade,” echoed Modi while congratulating Jaitley for the budget in which he provided a “new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of society.”

It was also in line with the “government’s vision to create a skilled and digital India,” the prime minister said.

One of the most appealing proposals for the average tax payer was the hike in the exemption limit for individuals below 60 years to Rs.250,000, and Rs.300,000 for senior citizens. Deductions under various heads such as investments in insurance, pension and house rent were also proposed to be raised by Rs.50,000 to Rs.150,000. Interest on housing loans will also get a higher exemption. This apart, the duty-free baggage allowance for Indians returning from abroad is also sought to be raised to Rs.45,000 from Rs.35,000.

Farmers will also stand to gain largely with Jaitley’s proposal for an integrated

Amit Shah stands for communal politics: CPI-M New Delhi, July 10 (iANS): The CPI-M said Thursday that the selection of Amit Shah as the BJP president showed that the party will pursue “communal politics” that was practiced in Gujarat. “The selection of Shah indicates the direction of politics the party intends to pursue,” the Communist Party of India-Marxist said.

It pointed out that Shah had been chargesheeted and was undergoing trial on murder charge “connected with false encounters when he was the home Minister in Gujarat”. “The Election Commission had prohibited him from participating in the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh during the Lok Sabha polls for making communal speeches.

“By this choice of president, the BJP has declared its intent to pursue the type of communal politics and agenda that was practiced in Gujarat,” it said.

10-yr-old raped allegedly on Panchayat chief’s order BokAro, July 10 (PTi): A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour on the diktat of a Panchayat chief in Bokaro district of Jharkhand on Tuesday, the police have said. The accused, 25, allegedly dragged the girl to a nearby bush and raped her on the directive of Bhopal Pasi, the Panchayat chief of Swang Gulgulia Dhoura village in Bokaro district’s Gomia police station area, at a panchayat meeting on Tuesday evening.

Both the rape accused and the Panchayat chief were arrested on Wednesday after the girl’s family complained. The police also arrested the victim’s brother after the accused’s wife lodged a counter-complaint accusing him of molesting and assaulting her.

The police said that the accused had allegedly entered the victim’s house in an inebriated state on Monday night and tried to molest her mother. But, her father beat him up and drove him out of the house, the police said. The next morning the accused went to the panchayat and complained to the Panchayat chief of being assaulted by the father, they said, adding that a meeting of the Panchayat was convened.

In the meeting, where both the families were present, the Panchayat chief allegedly directed the accused to rape the 10-year-old girl to avenge his assault, police said. The accused then allegedly dragged the girl away into a bush, little distance away from the Panchayat venue, ignoring the cry of the victim’s mother to spare her daughter, and raped her, they said.

An hour later, the victim’s mother brought the profusely-bleeding little girl from the bush before the Panchayat, the police said.

national market for agroproduce that will enable them to sell their crops directly to consumers and earn better prices. The subsidies to them, notably for soil nutrients, have also been enhanced.

For industry, he assured that the pan-India goods and services tax will be introduced by the yearend and a fresh view taken on the direct tax code. Retrospective tax, which creates liabilities not planned for and has been a matter of much concern for both domestic and overseas investors, will not be imposed at random. Customs duties and excise rates were also rationalised for a host of sectors.

He also sought to remove the perception of policy inaction and a freeze on economic reforms by hiking foreign equity in insurance and defence equipment to 49 percent from 26 percent, but left for later the much-promised overhaul of the subsidy regime after constituting an expenditure management commission and getting its recommendations.

In his speech, Jaitley also touched upon areas which few finance ministers in the past have done.

Such proposals included new schemes for conservation of sacred rivers, a sports university in Manipur, welfare fund for migrants from Kashmir, conservation of the Himalayas, support for organic farming and a 24X7 channel for northeast and protecting the heritage of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

He also promised at least four institutions modelled on the premier All India Institute for Medical Sciences and Indian Institutes of Management, and said the union government will look positively at every similar proposal forwarded by states.

For the defence forces, he said the allocation was being raised by about 12 percent to Rs.229,000 crore (nearly $40 billion), besides Rs.5,000 crore ($830 million) for the modernisation of the 1.2 millionstrong armed forces.

Other proposals, with enhanced monetary allocations, covered areas like education, urban renewal, transportation, malnutrition, minorities, infrastructure, food security, capital markets, banking, insurance, state-run enterprises, tourism, war and police memorials, interlinking of

rivers, space, sports and bio-tech.

As Jaitley was unveiling his proposals, the stock markets swung both ways with a key index gaining more than 300 points at one point, then falling by some 250 points, before closing with an overall loss of around 70 points or 0.25 percent.

Industry, nevertheless, welcomed the proposals and said it laid down the requisite ground for a medium-term course correction to revive the Indian economy.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) complimented the finance minister “on a pragmatic and extensive Budget that lays out a medium term vision for the economy and meets industry expectations on growth and employment creation.”

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) also reacted in a similar vein and said the budget laid the ground for rejuvenating the economy.

“There has been a mix of both short-term and longterm measures, geared towards boosting the confidence of all key constituents.”

BhuBANeSwAr, July 10 (iANS): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday expressed disappointment over the union budget and said it “lacked focus” in crucial areas. “Under the prevailing circumstances, with high inflation coupled with drought-like scenario, greater focus should have been on agriculture and the social sector. However, the union budget lacks focus in all these crucial areas,” Patnaik told reporters here. He said the fiscal consolidation without revenue gain through introduction of goods and services tax (GST) was a misnomer.

“The concern of the states for adequate compensation for loss in central tax has not been tackled,” he said. Nominal increase in allocation for flagship schemes will hurt the development of the states, he added. On the allocation made for his state, Patnaik said that except for the promise for an Indian Institute of Management, there was nothing for Odisha in the budget. “As usual, the textile mega-cluster bypassed Odisha in this budget,” Patnaik said. “Meagre allocation on ambitious programmes like rural electrification speaks of tokenism,” he added.

Jaya describes budget as forward looking CheNNAi, July 10 (iANS): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday described the union budget 2014-15 as “forward looking” and said it would lead to economic revival.

In a statement here, Jayalalithaa said: “The union budget reflects the seriousness with which the new government has set about the task of addressing the challenge of revival of growth and improving the macro-economic situation of the country.”

“On the whole, I expect that this forward looking budget will lead to economic revival and ensure that further incentives to growth can be afforded in the next two to three years,” she said. According to her, the budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is a very responsible document placing fiscal prudence at the forefront and at the same time addressing the heightened expectations from the government.

Welcoming Jaitley’s proposal to set up an expenditure management commission, she hoped it would address the issue of expenditure management in the appropriate socio-economic context of the country and keeping the welfare objectives in view.

Stressing that the proposals relating to allowing foreign direct investment should be approached cautiously, she said: “In particular, the proposal to permit manufacturing entities set up with FDI to sell their products through retail, including ecommerce platforms, should not extend to permitting FDI in retail.”

Thanking the central government for including the development of Ponneri near here as a smart city, the chief minister said the state was looking forward to the details.

She said the state expects to avail its due share of Rs.7,060 crore provision made for the project and the pooled funding provision of Rs.50,000 crore for urban renewal.

According to her, the ChennaiBangalore industrial corridor and the Vishakapatnam-Chennai industrial corridor would benefit only Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and not the many backward regions in the state.

Requesting the central government to extend these corridors within the state Jayalalithaa said: “The Madurai-Thoothukudi Industrial Corridor proposed to be implemented by Tamil Nadu can be considered as part of the East Coast Corridor by extending the Vizag (Vishakapatnam)Chennai corridor further south.”

‘Sikh group can’t file amended Three injured in blast outside Pune rights complaint against Sonia’ police station; Centre rules out terror act New york, July 10 (PTi): A US court has denied a request made by a Sikh rights group to file an amended complaint against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) had written to US District Judge Brian Cogan requesting “leave to further amend the complaint” against Gandhi was denied by the judge who said in his order that since the case against Gandhi was dismissed last month, there is no basis for SFJ to seek further amendment of the complaint.

“Final judgment has been entered in this case and thus there is no basis for further amendment of the pleadings. In addition, even if the case was still open, plaintiff has shown no grounds for permitting an amendment of the pleadings,” Cogan said in his order.

Cogan had last month dismissed the human rights violation lawsuit against Gandhi, granting her motion that there is lack of subject matter jurisdiction but did not bar SFJ from bringing litigation against her in future.

He had however denied a request

by Gandhi that the court should impose an “anti-suit injunction” prohibiting SFJ from bringing further lawsuits. SFJ has filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals against Cogan’s order to dismiss the case against Gandhi.

Gandhi’s attorney Ravi Batra expressed confidence that his client will win against SFJ’s appeal. “Despite my public request to SFJ not to exercise its right to appeal the legally sound dismissal order, SFJ has done so and will force us to re-win the case-dismissal” in appeals court, Batra told PTI. “Genuine victims deserve a lawsuit they can win, not one that only generates false hope and meaningless publicity, as publicity isn’t justice. “In addition, SFJ’s belated request of yesterday to file yet another amended complaint, which we filed our objection to was denied by judge Cogan’s order as essentially an exercise of futility,” Batra added.

SFJ and the other plaintiffs in the case had alleged that Gandhi’s conduct towards the perpetrators caused the victims, survivors and the Sikh community serious pain and suffering.

PuNe, July 10 (PTi): At least three persons, including a constable, were injured when an explosive device kept in a motorcycle in the parking lot of a police station went off here on Thursday, officials said.

It was a “low intensity” blast and police is probing the case keeping in mind “all possibilities”, including a terror angle, Pune Police Commissioner Satish Mathur told reporters.

The Centre, however, declined to term the low-intensity blast in Pune as a terror act, saying it was only a “minor” explosion. “We are examining all possibilities,” he said when asked if police suspected it to be a terror attack. He said a scooter parked adjacent to the motorbike in which the device was placed too was damaged.

Ball bearings and nails have been recovered from the spot and sent for forensic examination, he said, adding the explosive use in the blast was yet to be identified. Those wounded, he said, had received minor in-

Experts inspect the spot after a low intensity blast at a twowheeler parked near a police station at a Budhwarpeth in Pune.

(Source: PTI)

juries and included a constable. Only one of them needed hospitalisation, he said.

“It was a minor blast. Why do you think it could be a terror act?” Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami told reporters here when asked whether the Pune blast was a terror attack.

Goswami said the Director General of Maharashtra Police has briefed him about the ex-

plosion and the situation there.

The Pharaskhana police station is situated in the vicinity of the famous Dagdusheth Ganesh temple, which is said to be on the terrorists’ radar for quite some time. A suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Qateel Siddiqui, named in three terror cases, was alleged to have made an abortive attempt to bomb the Dagdusheth temple in 2010.

For quality learning, India to get more IITs, IIMs New Delhi, July 10 (iANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said the country needs a large number of “world class” centres of higher learning, and announced the setting up of five new IITs and IIMs. “The country needs a large number of centres of higher learning which are world class,” Jaitley said while presenting the national budget for 2014-15. “I propose to set up the Jai Prakash Narayan National Centre for Excellence in Humanities in Madhya Pradesh,” he said.

He announced the setting up of five more Indian Institutes

of Technology (IITs) in Jammu, The 13 IIMs are located in elementary education, the minChhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcut- ister said there was a residual gap Pradesh and Kerala. “Five IIMs ta, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode, in providing minimal school in(Indian Institutes of Manage- Shillong, Rohtak, Raipur, Ranchi, frastructure facilities. “The govment) would be set up in ernment would strive to provide toilets and Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and ...country needs a large number of drinking water in all girls centres of higher learning which schools in the first phase.

Maharashtra.

“I propose to set aside “An amount of are world class...

Rs.28,635 crore is being a sum of Rs.500 crore for funded for Sarva Shikthis,” he added. At present there are 16 IITs: one each in Tiruchirappalli, Kashipur (Ut- sha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rs.4,966 Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Mandi, tarakhand) and Udaipur. Jaitley crore for Rashtriya Madhyamik Delhi, Indore, Kharagpur, Jodh- added that the government also Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).” SSA is pur, Kanpur, Chennai, Gandhi- proposed to ease and simplify a flagship programme to achieve nagar, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar, norms to facilitate educational universalization of elementary Varanasi, Hyderabad and Guwa- loans for higher studies. education in a time bound manStressing the importance of ner. RMSA aims to enhance achati.

cess to secondary education and improve its quality.

Jaitley added that a school assessment programme was being initiated at a cost of Rs.30 crore.

“To infuse new training tools and motivate teachers, ‘Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya New Teachers Training Programme’ is being launched. I am setting aside an initial sum of Rs.500 crore for this.”

He also proposed Rs.100 crore to set up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge and online courses to take advantage of the reach of IT.

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Hoping to project power, China finds itself alone BEIJING, July 10 (AP): Nearly three decades after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously instructed his diplomats to “be good at maintaining a low profile and never claim leadership,” a new generation of rulers has made it clear that they’re ready to shed the humility and show off their country’s rising military and political power.

From Southeast Asian waters that may hold billions of barrels of oil to uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, China has stepped into territorial disputes with neighbors including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines — and in some cases, some would say, provoked them. At the same time, Beijing has pledged to build what it says will be a new security framework for Asia, replacing U.S.-dominated alliances that have defined the post-World War II period.

“We should work for a new architecture of AsiaPacific security cooperation that is open, transparent and equality-based,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told dignitaries from India and Myanmar last month. “The notion of dominating international affairs belongs to a different age and such an attempt is doomed to failure.”

Yet despite Xi’s depiction of China as a “peaceful, amiable and civilized lion,” the country’s moves have so far set off alarms across

In this file photo taken May 31, 2014, a Vietnamese protester, left, together with Japanese show placards against China during an anti-China demonstration in Tokyo, Japan. Nearly three decades after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously instructed his diplomats to “be good at maintaining a low profile and never claim leadership,” a new generation of rulers has made it clear that they’re ready to shed the humility and show off their country’s rising military and political power. From Southeast Asian waters that may hold billions of barrels of oil to uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, China has stepped into, and some would say provoked, territorial disputes with neighbors including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.(AP Photo

the region and pushed other Asian countries to seek backup from Washington. Promises to build a self-governing Asian community of nations have amounted to little more than words, while the reality has been what many see as Chinese bullying.

Xi, who has shown similar boldness at home since rising to power last year, is at the heart of the new strategy. For the first time in de-

cades, Chinese officials are emphasizing an “active” foreign policy that sets the regional agenda while touting China’s maritime strength.

“This is a very strong theme with him,” said Christopher Johnson, a former China analyst with the CIA who’s now chairman of China studies at the U.S. think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It’s bound up in

his view of himself as not only the savior of the party but kind of an instrument of history, with the goal being this great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

That means showing “strong willingness to counter U.S. influence in the region,” said Alice Ekman, head of China research at the French Institute of International Relations. Chinese officials have been especially criti-

cal of the Obama administration’s touted “pivot to Asia,” with diplomats openly mocking America’s ability to police the region.

“We are seeing at several levels — economic, institutional, political, security — a reinforced competition between China and the U.S. in the region since Xi’s arrival.” Ekman said at a recent lecture in Beijing on China’s foreign policy.

She said China’s growing dominance of the global economy, and its neighbors’ dependence on Chinese trade, is central to the strategy. “China’s moves in the region are based on the following hypothesis: Time moves in favor of China as long as the economic attractiveness of China will reinforce the balance of power in favor of China,” she said.

Xi’s immediate goal is to give his country’s forces tactical military superiority within what is known as the first island chain off the country’s shores, from Japan down to Indonesia, Johnson said.

In May, Chinese officials sent an oil rig into parts of the South China Sea claimed by both China and Vietnam, setting off repeated confrontations between the two countries’ ships and sparking antiChinese riots in Vietnam.

In the nearby Spratly archipelago, the Chinese have been adding sand to reefs and rocks so they can build military installations despite claims to the outcroppings by both Vietnam and the Philippines.

Farther north, China provoked rebuke from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. in November after declaring an air defense identification zone, which requires foreign planes to identify themselves to Chinese forces across much of the East China Sea. China and Japan are disputing

control of a scattering of rocky islands there, and Japan protested after Chinese fighter jets flew close to Japanese surveillance planes observing a joint China-Russia naval drill in May. China is also locked in longstanding territorial disputes with India along its southern border and has committed itself to defending with military force if necessary what it calls its core interests — chief among them, reuniting with the self-governing island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims, and holding on to Tibet.

China has appeared to be more active in defending territorial claims than it has been in pursuing a new alliance of Asian countries.

At a China-hosted summit in May of some four dozen countries and international groups, Xi touted what he said would be a new Asian security network that would exclude the U.S., but he left the meeting with few solid steps to actually building such a framework.

Australian Cabinet minister Malcolm Turnbull said China has found itself largely alone, at least diplomatically, as it shows its teeth to the region. “It has really no allies in the region, apart from North Korea,” Turnbull was quoted as saying at a recent security and economic leadership conference. “And the consequence has been how China’s neighbors are

drawing closer to the United States than ever before.”

With tensions high over China, U.S. President Barack Obama paid high-profile visits to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines in April, where he reassured governments that the U.S. would honor agreements to defend them.

Japanese leaders took matters into their own hands last week when they reinterpreted their pacifist constitution to let them expand the use of the country’s military to defend its allies. The move strengthens Japan’s alliance with the U.S. but also opens the door to new alliances with likeminded Asian countries.

“In the South China Sea, I think Chinese leaders have one purpose: They want to do as much damage as possible to U.S. credibility,” said Huang Jing, a China expert at Singapore National University’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. “China understands that if China appears soft, there’ll be no end of it, so China will appear tough and will not make compromises ... and (China believes) the U.S. will not come to help when push comes to shove.”

In capitals across Asia, he said, China is forcing governments to make a difficult choice: Will they bet on a future dominated by a newly confident China or one based on longtime U.S. assurances?

What now for Indonesia after poll dispute? Myanmar: 5 journalists jailed 10 yars for stories

This combination of photos shows Indonesian presidential candidates, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, left, and former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto after they cast their votes in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. The rival candidates in Indonesia’s presidential election each claimed victory Wednesday, raising the possibility of potentially destabilizing political and legal uncertainty in a nation that made the transition from dictatorship to democracy less than two decades ago. (AP Photo)

JAKARTA, July 10 (AP): Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and former army general Prabowo Subianto are both claiming victory in Indonesia’s presidential election based on unofficial “quick counts,” raising the specter of prolonged political instability in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Here is a look at which candidate has the stronger case for claiming victory, and what might happen in

the coming days and weeks.

Researchers tally votes at a random sample of polling stations, allowing them to make a reliable projection of the national vote. Civil society organizations have used the method to accurately forecast election results in scores of countries over the last 15 years. Proponents say making this data available reduces the risk of fraud in the aggregation process. Quick counts

have accurately forecast the results of regional and national elections in Indonesia since 2009.

What has happened this time around in indonesia?

At least 12 organizations, among them research groups and media organizations, carried out their own quick counts. Of those, eight show Widodo with a lead of between 4 percent and 5 percent. The rest project a Subianto victory by between 1 percent and 4 percent. Most of those projecting a Widodo victory have been carried out by independent organizations with a long track record of running quick counts and other opinion surveys, and have predicted the results of earlier elections, making them far more credible. Two of those projecting a Subianto win have been carried out by television stations openly supporting his bid.

What now?

All eyes are on the Election Commission of Indonesia, which is counting the votes and says it will announce them by July 22.

If Widodo wins, as is considered highly likely given the quick count data, then

Subianto could challenge the vote in the Constitutional Court if he can find evidence of fraud or other irregularities. Judges can reject the petition outright if they believe it lacks merit. If they agree to hear the case, they must rule before August 24.

Is Subianto likely to keep up the fight?

Subianto and the business, military and political elite backing his bid have invested many millions in trying to win the election.

Most analysts don’t expect them to give up now. But Subianto faces an uphill challenge. Few expect that he will concede on the basis of the quick counts, but public opinion is likely to turn against him if official results show that he has lost decisively. Widodo fears that voter fraud could still take place, and has urged his supporters to closely monitor the count. Corruption remains rampant in Indonesia and many of its state institutions are vulnerable to political pressure and bribery. Last month, the former head of the Constitutional Court was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes while ruling on a regional election dispute.

yANGON, July 10 (AP): Four reporters and a magazine CEO were sentenced Thursday to 10 years of hard prison labor for violating Myanmar’s national security by writing and publishing stories about a weapons factory.

The court sentenced the five men for violating the 1923 Burma State Secrets Act pertaining to trespassing in a prohibited area with prejudicial purpose.

The law was enacted when Myanmar was a British col-

ony called Burma.

The weekly Yangonbased Unity journal published stories over two weeks in January alleging the military had seized more than 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of farmland in Myanmar’s central Magwe Region to construct a weapons factory.

It reported allegations that the factory would produce chemical weapons, also printing a denial by authorities of the latter allegation.

Myanmar has made

sweeping reforms, including freeing the press, after emerging from a half century of brutal military rule in 2011. But media watchdogs say reporters still face intimidation and arrests, especially in rural areas, and that the situation appears to be worsening, even as official censorship has been lifted.

The authorities defended the arrests as a matter of national security. The magazine has since gone out of business. After the arrests,

Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut acknowledged that the factory belonged to the Defense Ministry, but told The Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based online news site, that claims it had anything to do with chemical weapons were “totally baseless.”

“The journal only quotes local people,” Ye Htut said, defending the arrests of journalists following allegations that the government was starting to trample on newfound press freedoms.

WHO: Basic hygiene can help prevent MERS spread MANIlA, July 10 (AP): A World Health Organization official on Thursday urged millions of Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to exercise basic hygiene as mass gatherings pose risks of spreading the Middle East respiratory syndrome.

The U.N. agency has recorded 827 cases of MERS and 287 deaths, mostly in Saudi Arabia. The virus is believed primarily acquired through contact with camels and spread among humans through body fluids and droplets. Hand washing and keeping away from coughing people are simple ways to prevent the virus’ spread, said Mark Jacobs, WHO Western Pacific region director for communicable diseases.

He said there’s a low chance of its

spread in most settings, but health workers caring for MERS patients, people exposed to camels and those in large gatherings are at some risk.

“Any gathering of large numbers of people can produce, can result, in risks of any sort of infectious diseases,” he added. Jacobs said cases of MERS have been found in a number of countries but they are linked to cases in a small number of countries in the Arabian peninsula.

“What we have been seeing is outbreaks in those countries but the occasional case in a traveler,” he said.

Unless the virus changes, the risk of spread in the Asia-Pacific region is small, he said. Philippine health authorities last week urged Muslim

Filipinos, especially the elderly and those with chronic ailments, to postpone their annual pilgrimage to Mecca because of MERS worries.

Mecca sees a constant stream of pilgrims throughout the year from around the world, and their numbers swell during the holy month of Ramadan, which begins in late June. The hajj pilgrimage — which Islam says is a duty of all able-bodied Muslims to perform once in their lives — brings even more gigantic crowds: Some 2 million pilgrims from all over the world, packed into the close quarters as they visit the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, and other locations in and around Mecca for a period of about five days.

Israel escalates aerial offensive on Gaza

JERuSAlEM, July 10 (AP): Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault in Gaza Thursday hitting hundreds of Hamas targets, as Palestinians reported 16 people killed in strikes that hit a home and a beachside cafe and Israel’s missile defense system once again intercepted rockets fired by militants at the country’s heartland.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said Israel struck more than 320 Hamas targets overnight, focusing on underground tunnel networks and rocket launching sites. That brought the total number of targets hit to 750 in three days of the massive offensive that has killed at least 80 Palestinians.

Lerner said Israel has already mobilized 20,000 reservists for a possible ground operation into Gaza, but for the time being Israel remained focused on maximizing its air campaign. A ground invasion could lead to heavy civilian casualties on the Palestin-

ian side while putting Israeli ground forces in danger.

Neither side is showing any sign of halting their heaviest fighting since an eight-day battle in late 2012.

Israel says that Hamas must cease rocket fire from Gaza for Israel to consider a truce.

Militants have fired hundreds of rockets, striking across the length of Israel and disrupting life across the country. No one has been seriously harmed as the “Iron Dome” defense system has intercepted at least 70 of the projectiles destined for major population centers.

“The ground option needs to be the last option and only if it is absolutely necessary. It is a carefully designed plan of action,” Lerner said.

The Israeli security Cabinet was meeting to discuss its next moves.

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said the operation was going according to plan, with Israel targeting various Hamas interests.

“The military’s success-

es so far have been very significant,” he said. “We will continue until they understand that this escalation is not beneficial to them and that we will not tolerate rocket fire toward our towns and citizens.”

Palestinian medical officials said a strike early Thursday struck a home in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing eight members of the Al Haj family. Tractors cleared away large piles of debris from the demolished building as one man laid atop a mattress and blankets that remained.

Earlier, at least eight others were killed when a strike hit a Gaza beach cafe where they were watching a World Cup semifinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands, said Mahmoud Sawali, who said he lost at least two of his brothers in the attack.

“We only ask of help from God. Here I have two brothers who are martyrs, and I’m looking for the third,” he said.

The Israeli military said it was investigating both incidents. It also said it struck a car in Gaza carrying three Islamic Jihad militants involved in firing rockets. The militant group confirmed that its men were killed in the strike. Hamas officials said that the Palestinian side of its border crossing with Israel had also been destroyed in Israeli airstrikes.

The Health Ministry in Gaza has reported 81 deaths thus far, saying about half were women and children though the exact breakdown remains unclear.

Israel accuses militants of deliberately endangering civilians by using homes and other civilian buildings for cover. The military has also directly targeted the offices and homes of known militants that it says are used as command centers.

The military typically contacts the families first to ask civilians to evacuate before striking its targets.

Yigal Palmor, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokes-

man, said Hamas is firing rockets from “within houses and streets and neighborhoods which are populated with civilians ... exposing these civilians to retaliation and to backfire.”

After an overnight lull, militants resumed their barrage toward central and southern Israel. Remnants of a long-range rocket fired from Gaza landed in a gas station in south Tel Aviv after being shot down by Israel’s “Iron Dome” defense system.

The longer range of the rockets fired from Gaza has disrupted life across southern and central Israel, where people have been forced to remain close to home, and kindergartens and summer camps have closed. Israeli television has been a constant news loop with updates from both sides of the border and even radio music stations were interrupting songs with news of every siren informing of incoming rockets.

“We heard the siren and we immediately entered the home shelter,”

Israeli soldiers ride on a tank to a position near Israel Gaza Border on Thursday, July 10. With rockets raining deep inside Israel, the military pummeled Palestinian targets Wednesday across the Gaza Strip and threatened a broad ground offensive, while the first diplomatic efforts to end two days of heavy fighting got underway. Egypt, which has mediated before between Israel and the Hamas militant group, said it spoke to all sides about ending the violence. (AP Photo)

said Avraham Nachum, from the southern Israeli town of Netivot. “One of the boys was in the shower. He didn’t manage to step outside of the shower on time.”

Besides firing toward Israel’s two largest cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Hamas also launched a

rocket that reached the town of Zichron Yaakov, more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Gaza.

Initially, Israel said that “quiet would be met with quiet” but as the rocket fire has reached deeper into Israel officials have taken a tougher stand saying the

rocket threat against Israel must be lifted.

“The state of Israel is ready for every scenario in order to protect its citizens,” said President Shimon Peres. “The Hamas is killing the citizens of Gaza by placing them where rockets are being fired.”

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Messi missing signature World Cup moment John Leicester

AP Sports Columnist

T

he World Cup can only hope that Lionel Messi is leaving his best for last. In the most important World Cup match to date in his epoch-shaping career, football's superstar was neither super nor a star. The fourtime world player of the year was a bystander, not a decisive protagonist, for large chunks of Wednesday's semifinal, his first on football's biggest stage.

The match dragged on into extra time and then still finished 0-0 in large part because Messi failed to leave his mark on it as he has done on hundreds of others for Barcelona, his club, but not for Argentina, his country that needs him now to step up.

Frankly disappointing.

In the penalty shoot-out, Messi did score the all-important nerve-steadying first goal that his teammates then built on, heaping intolerable pressure on the Netherlands after its first shooter, Ron Vlaar, saw his effort saved. But Messi's contribution to Argentina's win pretty much started and stopped there.

His thousands of fans in the Sao Paulo crowd chanted "Ole, ole, ole, Messi, Messi!"

But he didn't really do anything to deserve it.

Bottom line: Messi needs to be spectacular in the final against Germany on Sunday if he is to put his stamp on World Cup history like Diego Maradona.

Pub debates about who was/is a better footballer — Messi, Maradona or Pele — are always entertaining but ultimately can't be answered, because these judgments are very much a personal thing, because the three of them played in different eras and because their careers took different arcs.

Still, at this stage of the 1986 World Cup, Maradona was pretty much winning the thing single-handed.

Captain of Argentina, just like Messi, Maradona scored both goals against Belgium in the semifinal, carrying the team to the final where it beat West Germany, 3-2.

Maradona also scored both Argentine goals that eliminated England in the quarterfinals. The first was the infamous "Hand of God" punched in with his raised fist; the second was a gem after a sublime dribble past five England players.

Messi, on the other hand, hasn't scored since the group stage here in Brazil. He scored in Argentina's win against Bosnia in its opening match and made a splash with a fabulous injury-time winner against Iran. He also got Ar- Argentina's Lionel Messi controls the ball during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between the Netherlands and Argentina's first two goals in a gentina at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, July 9. (AP Photo)

3-2 victory against Nigeria.

Since then, zilch. Just an assist for Angel Di Maria's winning goal against Switzerland in the first knockout game. It doesn't add up to enough to put Messi on a higher pedestal than Maradona. We can have this conversation again if he scores the goals that beat Germany in the final.

Nigel De Jong can claim much of the credit for keeping Messi out of the action under damp, dark skies in Wednesday's semifinal that felt flat compared to the previous day's fireworks of Germany destroying Brazil 7-1.

De Jong glued himself to Messi so closely that when he shuts his eyes for days to come, he'll no doubt still be able to picture the face of the Netherlands midfielder and the feeling of him breathing down his neck.

In the first half, Messi did fire a free-kick hard and flat past the Dutch wall into the arms of goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen. In the second half, Messi wasted a free-kick by hoofing it harmlessly long.

The Netherlands allowed Messi no time on the ball and tackled him en masse when he had it. Jordy Clasie took over as Messi's handcuffs when De Jong tired and was taken off after an hour. After 105 minutes, data crunchers Opta noted that Messi still hadn't touched the ball once inside the Dutch penalty area.

"We didn't see Messi," said Dutch coach Louis Van Gaal.

Still, the Netherlands' suffocation of Messi couldn't alone explain his failure to make an impact.

Of all the Argentine players who stayed on the pitch for the entire 120 minutes, Messi covered the least ground. He strolled a lot of the time, fiddling with his captain's arm band, using his shirt to wipe his nose and watching play happen around, not through, him.

Perhaps the hope was that the Netherlands would eventually forget about him, giving him breathing space to exploit. If so, the tactic didn't work. In the second period of extra time, Messi did come alive for a brief instant, sprinting with the ball at his feet and riding tackles to then cut back a cross for Maxi Rodriguez. But Rodriguez's right-footed volley had neither the power nor accuracy to trouble Cillessen.

Messi's European and Spanish trophies with Barcelona and his world player of the year awards are enough, already, to make him one of football's greats. But to be considered a World Cup great, worthy of mention with Maradona and Pele, he also needs a signature moment in a big game in Brazil.

He has one last chance to do it.

Germany vs Argentina: How they compare Jaitley allocates Rs.400 Mattias Karen

AP Sports Writer

world has only grown in Brazil, where he has been one of Germany's best players throughout the tournament, especially in the knockout rounds. Aside from being a first-class shot stopper, the Bayern Munich goalkeeper showed his versatility by repeatedly rushing out to help the defense in the second-round win over Algeria. He then made key saves to deny Karim Benzema an equalizer for France in the quarterfinals, and a number of impressive stops against Brazil.

Sergio Romero has answered most sceptics who questioned whether he was good enough to play for a top team in a World Cup. Romero was only a backup for his club Monaco this past season, but came through big in the penalty shootout against the Netherlands with two saves to send his team into the final. He has kept three straight clean sheets in the knockout rounds, but will face his greatest challenge yet against the clinical Germans.

Advantage: Germany

The best player in the world goes up against the ultimate team machine, on the world's biggest stage.

When Lionel Messi's Argentina takes on Germany in Sunday's World Cup final, it looks at first glance like a meeting between brilliant individual scoring talent and the tight discipline of a collective unit.

But this game will be about much more than that.

Argentina has shown that it can play just as tactically as the Germans, eking out narrow victories and doing whatever is needed to win. Germany, meanwhile, has put on two of the most explosive displays of the tournament — beating Portugal 4-0 in its opening game and then demolishing host Brazil 7-1 in the semifinals.

Add in the rich history between these two teams — who faced each other in two straight World Cup finals in 1986 and 1990, winning one each — and it's anyone's guess who will come out on top at the Maracana Stadium.

Defense: Here is a look at how the two fiGermany's defense has imnalists compare: proved vastly since coach Joachim Loew took captain Philip Lahm out Goalkeepers: of midfield and put him back in his Manuel Neuer's reputation as favored position as right back after one of the best goalkeepers in the an erratic display against Algeria in

the second round. Mats Hummels has been a steady anchor in central defense, and Germany had little trouble neutralizing the explosive attacks of both France and Brazil.

Whether they can deal with Messi is another matter.

Argentina's defense was seen as its main weakness going into the World Cup, but the team has now gone 330 minutes without conceding a goal in the knockout rounds — including two extra time periods.

The back four, which includes Manchester City duo Pablo Zabaleta and Martin Demichelis, made Dutch strikers Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie look plain ordinary.

Advantage: Germany Midfield: This is Germany's biggest strength, a unit without weakness that plays together as a well-oiled machine. Bastian Schweinsteiger and Sami Khedira shore things up defensively while Toni Kroos and Mesut Ozil direct most of the attacks going forward. Germany's ruthless display against Brazil was orchestrated by the clinical efficiency of its midfield, and a similar display on Sunday might just be too much for Argentina to handle as well.

The Argentines, meanwhile, are hoping that Angel Di Maria will recover from a thigh injury to play

in the final. Di Maria's pace and ability to take on defenders on the wing was sorely missed against the Netherlands, when his team struggled to find ways forward. Defensive midfielder Javier Mascherano was one of the best players on the pitch against the Netherlands and is the key to keeping Germany in check.

Advantage: Germany

Attack: Germany has the highest-scoring player in World Cup history in Miroslav Klose. But Argentina has Messi, and two other top forwards to boot. While Messi hasn't scored in the three knockout games, his four goals in the group stage reminded everyone of why he's a four-time world player of the year.

Even with Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain in the team, Messi has always been the key to Argentina's success — and never more so than in the biggest game of his career. For Argentina to have a chance, Messi will have to create goals — either for himself or for his teammates.

Germany aren't bad up front either: Klose netted his 16th career World Cup goal against Brazil, and his teammate Thomas Mueller already has 10 in just two tournaments.

Advantage: Argentina

Gloria Patria Open Football Tournament

United Boys FC beat the Naga Feathers 3-2 (0-0) to reach the quarter finals.

Day 3 of Gloria Patria Open Football Tournament Results: 1) United Boys beat Naga Feathers 3-2 (0-0) 2) Lotha Oriental FC beat Notun Bosti FC 4-3 (2-2) 3) VJ’z Hostel beat United FC 3-2 (0-0) 4) Final Harvest Church beat Mao Baptist Church 3-0

5) Spartans FC beat Spirit of Faith Church 7-6 (1-1) 6) N-E Block Fellowship beat Rookie XI 2-1 Quarter Final matches on Friday: 1) Spartans FT Vs United Boys FC (7am) 2) Lotha Oriental FC Vs N-E Block Fellowship (8:30 am)

Robben, RVP empty-handed again at WCup

SAO PAULO, JULy 10 (AP): Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie came up empty again. The Netherlands forwards, and the rest of the team, essentially ran out of steam Wednesday in the World Cup semifinals, losing to Argentina in a penalty shootout following a 0-0 draw. How different to a month ago and the start of the tournament, when the teammates scored two goals each and the Dutch soared to a glorious 5-1 win over defending champion Spain. It was all downhill from there for the three-time World Cup runners-up.

The Dutch never again reached the heights of that win over the world champions in Salvador, trailing Aus-

tralia at one point, and then needing a last-gasp comeback against Mexico and their own shootout win over underdog Costa Rica to make the last four. On Wednesday in a grinding battle against Argentina in Sao Paulo, the Dutch were on their last legs.

Their fate appeared to be especially tied to the two front men, who both failed to score in open play in the knockout stages. And on Wednesday, the Argentine defense kept them covered yet again. The Netherlands' World Cup hopes faded through the last three games and finally ended with a 4-2 shootout loss to the Argentines at Itaquerao Stadium. "You can't blame anybody, also not the boys

who missed penalties," said Robben, who did score in the shootout. "You win together and you lose together."

As a team, the Dutch all appeared weary. Defender Bruno Martins Indi was substituted at halftime because he was struggling with the pace of Enzo Perez, and midfielder Nigel de Jong, only recently back from injury, had to come off after an hour.

Van Persie, the Netherlands captain, didn't even make the shootout. His World Cup ended as he was brought off in extra time, with coach Louis van Gaal describing his lead striker as "exhausted." Van Persie trudged off and still hasn't scored in the knockout stage of a major tournament.

crore for Indian sports

New DeLhi, JULy 10 (iANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday allocated Rs.400 crore for the development of Indian sports, including upgradation of sports infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir, a sports university in Manipur and training for athletes for the upcoming Commonwealth Games and Asiad.

The biggest beneficiary was the state of Jammu and Kashmir, where the government will be investing Rs.200 crore to upgrade indoor and outdoor stadiums to international standards.

"Jammu and Kashmir has a lot of sporting talent which is not finding expression due to inadequate sports facilities. I propose to provide a sum of Rs.200 crore for upgrading the indoor and outdoor sports stadiums to international standards in Jammu and in Kashmir Valley," Jaitley said while presenting the national budget in the Lok Sabha. Jaitley also said that a sports university will be

set up in Manipur. For this, Rs.100 crore will be provided in the current financial year. "I also propose to set up a sports university in Manipur. For this I am providing a sum of Rs.100 crore in the current financial year," he said.

Jaitley also allocated Rs.100 crore for the training of sportsperson for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games starting July 23 and the Asian Games in Incheon in September.

To encourage sports in India, the government will set up a National Sports Academy, Jaitley said in his maiden budget speech. The

government will also set-up a Centre for Disability Sports.

"Sports are an integral part of growing up and personality development. Unfortunately, in our country, sports have not been mainstreamed to date. The government will set up national level sports academies for major games in different parts of the country to mainstream sports," he said. These academies will provide international level training facilities at junior and sub-junior levels. Academies will also be set up for shooting, archery, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting and track and field events.

Nobody will die, says defiant Scolari

TereSOPOLiS, JULy 10 (AGeNCieS): Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari defended his record on Wednesday as the football-mad nation struggled to absorb the World Cup debacle against Germany.

A day after Brazil's hopes of a sixth World Cup had been crushed in a record 7-1 semi-final defeat to the Germans, Scolari awoke to find many newspapers calling for his head.

But in a combative press conference at Brazil's training camp outside Rio, Scolari batted away questions about his future, saying he would not discuss it until the World Cup was over.

And he insisted that despite the catastrophic end to Brazil's campaign, the overall performance in the tournament had not been as bad as suggested.

"Nobody will die (as a result of the loss). We will look to correct the path of our lives to deal with yesterday's tsunami," Scolari said. "If we had lost 1-0 it would not be a catastophe.

"It's the first time we reached a semi-final since 2002 so maybe our work wasn't so bad," Scolari said. "We win and we lose together. There are good and bad moments. I know people feel bitterness and shame.

"But life goes on. We shall look ahead to other goals, starting with securing third place on Saturday. "I thank my players. In a year and a half together we played 28 games and won 19, drew six and lost three. "In official games we won eight, drew two and lost this one -- ok, catastrophically.

But this episode is over now. We must look forward." Scolari has faced calls to go after Tuesday's debacle in Belo

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari

Horizonte.

"Go To Hell Felipao," the daily O Dia newspaper said along with a photo splash of the manager holding up seven fingers during the game.

Scolari was adamant however that his side had prepared well. "This defeat hurt us deeply but we had a system going in (to the event) and were confident it would get us results," Scolari said. "The first 10 minutes we were good but then we conceded and then there followed those six fatal minutes," he added referring to the disastrous spell where Brazil conceded four goals in six minutes.

"We have a good team, good players -- most did a good job," added Scolari, who bemoaned his team's ability to reproduce the form which won last year's Confederations Cup. "We did not have the same level as last year," he said. "We played pretty well in the opening phase but then it

was tough against Chile and we were not at our best against Colombia but we pulled out a result. "Against Germany, after those few fateful minutes we could not dig ourselves out."

Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning coach said his squad remained a work in progress compared to their conquerors. "You have to progress gradually as the Germans have been doing. They are now in their first final," he said. Scolari said his future would be settled after the World Cup. "We have a commitment with the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) until the end of the World Cup," he said. "And the end of the World Cup is Saturday," he added referring to the play-off. "It is only after this game we will talk with the direction of the CBF, that's when we will decide," added Scolari, who started a second stint as Brazil coach in December 2012.

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in catchy lyrical lines blending it with infectious groovy tunes which makes it almost impossible for anyone not to loop this song in their head after a listen or two. Shalo appears to have hit the right note when it comes to discovering his genre of music and his niche as an artist with a promising potential to perform in front of screaming fans with tunes ready-made for encore sessions. Shalo Kent has come a long way since his ‘Be With You’ days, after shying away from the spotlight, he is all set to take on the stage and reignite the fresh perspective to independent music in our region which lit up and faded four years back.

With the release of ‘And We Say’, Shalo should certainly gain the attention of many new fans and regain the love of his old fans from the underground scene. By maintaining the fresh, ‘Feel Good’ vibe with his sounds and catchy tunes, Shalo will go a long way even to the extend of playing the torch bearer and lead the rest of the musical wizards that lay in abundance in the extreme eastern corridors of the country.

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Nicole ScherziNger Claims She he 36 year-old singer joked about how bizarre it is to see the British boyband succeed all over the world. I can't believe I put together the group and then I'm at Walmart buying One Direction bags for my nieces, she claimed.

Nicole Scherzinger's recent claim will not sit well with Simon Cowell.

The 36 year-old singer seriously can't figure out why she hasn't received any kind of payoff for the success of One Direction.

After all, she was the one who put the five boys together in the first place.

Scherzinger worked as a guest judge on The X Factor panel in 2010, the year One Direction got their big break, and eventually stood in for Cheryl Cole during the bootcamp stages.

Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan initially didn't get through to the final

halo Kent made a grand entry to capture the hearts of music lovers with his brand new single 'And We Say' which has been dubbed by artists and critics as one of the best original pop music to emerge from Nagaland.

Shalo Kent has released his music on 'www.indihut. com' which can be downloaded for free from laptops and mobile phones.

Shalo never had any formal training in music where he picked up bits and pieces of musical instruments like the guitar from Akum Jams(Guitarist from Alobo Naga and the Band) and learned to tinker with the bits and waveforms by watching DJ INA cast his wizardry with the loops to produce digital music of impeccable standards. After a hiatus of almost two years away from music, Shalo Kent is back to finally put his passion in place by choosing to pursue a musical career as a solo artist with his first ‘official’ Debut single ‘And We Say’, a track which is all ready to set new benchmarks in the music industry with a very ‘Feel Good’ vibe to it.

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cently spoke to Heat magazine and joked about how bizarre it is to see the five boys dominate the music charts all over the world.

"I'm happy for their success. I can't believe I put together the group and then I'm at Walmart buying One Direction bags for my nieces. Like, something is wrong with this picture!" she told the mag.

"Can you guys please send me a box of One Direction goodies? Somebody help me out here," Nicole continued. "Not only do I not get a cut, but now I'm buying bags for my nieces, with the boys' faces on it. I was like, 'What?'... Where's my cut? Seriously? I'm a giver, what can I say? I gave the world One Direction." rounds of the singing competition as solo acts, but they did advance after joining forces. And Scherzinger is adamant this was all her idea.

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Show Host: Miss. Paukizonne Meriam (Miss Peren 2012 & Miss Dimapur 2nd runners up 2013) Mr. Monu Bhagat (Winner of Youngest Poet at International Level. Featured with bollywood writers and the World first Duet-poetry anthology, Holding the tag of Guinness World Record) Judge: Mr.Inaqhu Aye ( Band Manager UDX, Nagaland) Mr. Dayanidhi Rao (Yeshua Band, Hyderabad) Co-sponsored by: SK Bajaj, Live Sound, Sky View restaurant, Eastern Mirror.

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ArgentinA win shootout Sergio Romero saved twice as Argentina defeated the Netherlands 4-2 on penalties to set up a third World Cup final against Germany.

An Argentina supporter gestures before the World Cup semifinal soccer match between the Netherlands and Argentina at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo Brazil on July 9. (AP Photo)

FIFA rejects Suarez appeal against ban FILE - In this June 23, 2014 file photo, Uruguay's Luis Suarez listens to a question during a press conference at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil. Suarez was banned for nine competitive international matches, four months from all football and fined for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder during their group D World Cup soccer match. Football's international governing body on Thursday, July 10, 2014, said its appeals committee rejected Suarez's appeal against his ban for biting his opponent. (AP Photo)

RIo DE JANEIRo, JuLy 10 (AP): FIFA has rejected Luis Suarez's appeal against his lengthy ban for biting an opponent in a World Cup match.

Football's international governing body on Thursday said its appeals committee rejected the appeal

by Suarez and the Uruguay football federation in its entirety. Suarez can still appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The Liverpool star was banned for nine competitive international matches, four months from all football and fined 100,000 Swiss francs ($112,000) for biting the shoulder of Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's 1-0 win over Italy in a group-stage game in Brazil.

It is the third time Suarez has been banned for biting an opponent, after similar

incidents at both Ajax in the Dutch league and Liverpool in the English Premier League. The incident was missed by match officials, and FIFA's disciplinary committee studied video evidence before charging the Uruguay forward.

The ruling to uphold the sanctions was expected, as FIFA's appeals panel seldom changes disciplinary verdicts.

Suarez can now ask the CAS to freeze his sanctions during his appeal process.

If granted, Suarez would be allowed to train and play with his club until a final verdict is reached, likely in several months.

Suarez is believed to be negotiating a move from Liverpool to Barcelona.

FIFA said his transfer could proceed despite the sanction from football activity.

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the Netherlands. Brazil were consigned to the ignominy of fighting out a game Dutch coach Louis van Gaal has attacked as "unfair" after their 7-1 semifinal mauling by Germany.

Neymar's absence dominated the build-up to Tuesday's humiliation. The Barcelona striker missed out after fracturing a vertebrae in the quarter-final win over Colombia. "Ney-

Argentine players react after Maxi Rodriguez scored the winning goal during a penalty shootout after extra time during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between the Netherlands and Argentina at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo Brazil on July 9. (AP Photo)

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h e Wo r l d Cup's second semifinal was supposed to put the silky skills of Lionel Messi and Arjen Robben in the spotlight. Instead, a goalkeeper and two rocksolid defenses stole the show. Argentina goalie Sergio Romero saved two penalties Wednesday to send Argentina into the World Cup final with a 4-2 shootout win over the Netherlands after tough defending and a lack of creative spark from either team consigned the match to a 0-0 stalemate.

In a twist of fate, Romero credited Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal with helping launch his career when he arrived as an inexperienced youngster at AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch league. "I will be forever grateful to the coach for helping me out in a country that is so different from ours," Romero said.

A day after Germany lit up the World Cup with its clinical 7-1 destruction of host Brazil, the Dutch and Argentines could not manage a goal between them in 120 minutes before the shootout. Messi, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, will have to do play far better in Sunday's final at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium if he is to engineer a win over the powerful German team. The Barcelona star was muted throughout the match and extra time, rarely managing

Argentina's goalkeeper Sergio Romero saves a penalty from Netherlands' Ron Vlaar during a shootout at the end of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between the Netherlands and Argentina at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo on July 9. (AP Photo)

to shake off his markers.

At the Itaquerao Stadium, he was overshadowed by his goalkeeper and the man he replaced as Argentina captain, Javier Mascherano, who bossed the midfield for his team the way surprise starter Nigel de Jong did for the Dutch.

When Robben looked like deciding the match in stoppage time, Mascherano's perfectly timed sliding tackle blocked his shot at the near post.

"I would say that he is an outstanding player," Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said. "He is an emblem within our na-

tional squad, on the field as well as off it." Romero — thought to be a weak link for Argentina and not even a starter for his Monaco club most of last season — had almost nothing to do during the match, but blocked penalties by Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder in the shootout. For Argentina, Messi, Ezequiel Garay, Sergio Aguero and Maxi Rodriguez all converted their spot kicks. "It's luck, that's the truth. You can dive (the right way) and not make it, like happened to their goalkeeper," Romero said. "I had confidence, thank God things

turned out well." A Germany-Argentina final means an extra bitter end to the tournament for Brazilians, who will have to watch their fiercest rivals play for the world title in their most hallowed stadium against a team that humiliated their nation in the semifinals.

"We have a final to play, but with one day less rest and against Germany," Sabella

said. "We'll do everything possible to make it all the way to the top."

It was the second straight penalty shootout following a 0-0 draw for the Dutch. Against Costa Rica in the quarterfinals, Van Gaal brought on substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul in the last seconds of extra time to replace Jasper Cillessen and Krul saved two spot kicks.

This time, Van Gaal had used up all three substitutions by the end of extra time and Cillessen had to face the shootout.

The young Ajax goalkeeper collapsed onto his knees and sank onto his back when Rodriguez's powerful strike ended the shootout. Krul walked across the pitch to console him. Van Gaal also said he had a hand in Romero's heroics from their time together at AZ Alkmaar. "Penalties are always a matter of luck," he said. "And I taught Romero how to stop penalties so that hurts."

Many of Argentina's players stripped off their shirts in the rain at the Itaquerao Stadium and danced in front of their fans.

Argentina reached its fifth final, and its first in 24 years.

It won the title in 1978 — beating the Dutch — and in 1986. It lost the championship matches in 1930 and 1990. It played West Germany in both the '86 and '90 finals. The Netherlands, which has never won the World Cup, was seeking to reach its fourth final.

mar will come here (to Brazil's World Cup base), he's going to accompany the team to Saturday's match," confirmed Brazil football federation spokesman Rodrigo Paiva to R7.com.

Paiva announced the news at Brazil's World Cup headquarters in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janeiro. The Barcelona superstar's absence and as importantly that of suspended defender and captain Thiago Silva contributed to Tuesday's shocking Belo Horizonte battering by a Germany side that now faces Argentina in Sunday's final. Van Gaal's Holland find themselves in the play-off after Wednesday's 4-2 penalty shoot-out loss to Argentina. Afterwards van Gaal attacked the play-off, saying: "I think this match should never be played. "It's unfair also because we have one less day to recover, so that's not fair play But the worst thing is that chances are you lose twice in a row."

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