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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers

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By Sandemo Ngullie

Dimapur | July 11

Vote on www.morungexpress.com sMs your answer to 9862574165 The Nagaland govt is silent on many allegations – the latest being the fuel adulteration issue.

Is the “Oppositionless” Government unconcerned with such problems? Why? Yes

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Theresa May will be UK PM

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Monopoly-Corruption: Thorn in the flesh Moa Jamir

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Portugal stun France to lift Euro 2016

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Part 1 on Issues and Challenges for Nagaland Vision 2030

Ban dog meat? But what will happen to the sick?

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Eastern Nagaland girls undergo multi-skill development training

Fresh violence in Kashmir as toll mounts to 32

reflections

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“Policy making has been monopolized by the elite class, and even where the policy is suitable for the common good, the system has been hijacked by the entrenched vested interests so much so that nepotism and back door appointments, rather than merit, has become the norm of the day.”

This is the foremost issue, besides corruption, that needs to be addressed before embarking on a ‘vision’ mission for Nagaland. This was expressed by a broad spectrum of young bureaucrats and professionals consulted by The Morung Express.

The process for an exclusive ‘Nagaland Vision 2030’ document was set rolling on June 6 with the launching of a website, Facebook account, Whatsapp and email address for the public to share opinions on issues to be included in the document.

An expert group of secretaries headed by former Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir, has been constituted to carry forward the vision document, which aims to be inclusive by soliciting views from all sections of society.

Incidentally, Nagaland was a pioneer in bringing out the State Human Development Report in 2004, including a chapter called ‘Vision 2020.’ However,

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gainst the backdrop of the launching of the ‘Nagaland Vision 2030,’ Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF) has urged the State Government to work collaboratively with people with disabilities and their representatives in the development of policies, programmes and systems that affect people with disabilities.

In a presentation titled ‘A Nagaland where ‘No one is left behind,’ Diethono Nakhro, Member, National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NCRPD) and Advisor, Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF) asserted that there cannot be a sustainable, progressive and viable Nagaland if Nagas with disabilities are left out from the Nagaland Vision.

Giving an overview of the disability scenario in Nagaland, Nakro stated that people with disabilities represent the In this file photo, taken on October 30, 2015, people of Nagaland get ready to walk from Dimapur to State Capital Kohima to protest against entrenched issues of corruption in Nagaland most excluded of all groups in Naga soState. Of late, voices against corruption in governance are gaining momentum as citizens ciety. They are completely missing from the development landscape. call out for transformation. (Morung Photo) it can’t be denied that almost all the objectives envisioned in the documents remain ‘unfulfilled’ or underachieved.

Present policy maladies

with State politics to issues of (mis)governance to infrastructure and human resource development to provision of services.

“The Vision document is a welcome move in the light of increasing social and economic differentiation within Naga society where the elite political class and non- state actor are filching the larger share of the pie, with the common public increasingly marginalized,” a young Naga central government officer, who does not wished to be named, stated.

Further, every kind of policy, be it from the declaration of road shows to development policies, are so detached from ground

In an editorial piece for The Morung Express, Dr. LoNDoN, JULY 10 (REAsangba Tzüdir noted, “As UtERS): Interior minNagaland prepares the Viister Theresa May is set to sion 2030 plan, the begging become Britain’s prime minister on Wednesday question is what we have with the task of steering its achieved from the Vision withdrawal from the Euro2020 plan, and where we pean Union after her only are today and what should rival abruptly pulled out. be our way forward.”

May, 59, will succeed David He goes on to say that Cameron, who announced currently no sector in Nahe was stepping down afgaland escapes the need for ter Britons unexpectedly urgent attention considvoted last month to quit the ering the mess, beginning EU. Cameron told reporters in front of his 10 Downing Street residence that he expected to chair his last cabinet meeting on Tuesday and take questions in parliament on Wednesday before tendering his resignation to Queen Elizabeth. LoNDoN, JULY 11 (IANS): ry, France and Spain.

Veteran journalists say cerPhysical violence is not the only method being used to tain countries, including Syria, stop truth being published. are becoming almost impossiKidnappings, murders, finan- ble to cover. Citizen journalists cial pressures and defamation in Syria say they are under enorlegislations are common now mous pressure to stop reporting to suppress journalists from but feel a responsibility to carry NEW DELHI, JULY revealing truth to the masses, a on despite the risks, particularly 11 (REUtERS): Monsince so few international joursoon rains will cover the significant study has revealed.

“In many countries around nalists are left in Syria. whole of India in the next “All we can do is persevere, 48 hours, the country’s the world, journalists have lost weather office said on their status as observers and coping with the fear and the Monday, boosting hopes now come under direct attack,” risks,” one journalist told Index.

“In Iraq, providing safety of a rise in farm output and said Rachael Jolley, editor of incomes after two straight the report titled “Danger in training is not only necessary, it’s a duty for international originayears of drought. The mon- Truth: Truth in Danger.”

There’s an increasing trend tions who care about journalsoon has yet to cover parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat to label journalists as “extrem- ists and activists in dangerous and rains will be 107 per- ists” or “terrorists” so govern- zones,” said Laura Silvia Battacent of long period average ments can crack down on re- glia who trains journalists in in July, B.P. Yadav, head of porting they don’t like, said the Iraq. “Local journalism is vital the national weather fore- report that appeared in the In- if the Iraqi people are to know casting centre of the India dex on Censorship magazine. what is happening in their Meteorological DepartAccording to Index’s Map- country, and to do that journalment told Reuters. Mon- ping Media Freedom project, ists need to continue to protect soon rains, the lifeblood of India’s agriculture-depen- which tracks attacks on jour- themselves,” Battaglia added.

The special report is part dent economy, arrived a nalists in more than 40 counof the 250th issue from global tries, 35 incidents were reweek later than usual this year and are crucial for the ported where journalists were quarterly magazine Index on planting of summer-sown being linked to “extremism” to Censorship which explores the crops such as cotton, rice, restrict reporting, 11 in Russia increasing threats journalists and others in Belgium, Hunga- are facing globally. soybean and sugar.

Journalists being kidnapped, killed to suppress truth: Study

Monsoon rains likely to cover entire India in next 48 hours

reality of the majority that it has resulted in trust deficit, he added.

Many felt that while several schemes and policies exist, often information is not properly conveyed at the grassroots level, ultimately leading to corruption as well as misgovernance.

An NCS Officer (who did not wish to be named) said the numerous seminars, employment skills trainings, foreign exposure tours, road shows, etc that mark the activities of the State Government are “superficial” and, therefore, do not beget any fruit.

Dejectedly, the government in not known to af-

Traffic regulations during 12th NLA assembly session our Correspondent Kohima | July 11

In view of the twelfth session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), which will commence at the State capital from July 12 onwards, the following traffic regulation will be enforced as part of the security arrangement. According to a press release issued by SP Kohima, only vehicles with appropriate car passes will be allowed entry to the Assembly Secretariat.

No vehicle will be allowed to be parked by the roadside from 6am onwards on July 12 and July 14 at the following routes- (a) from BSNL Telephone Exchange till Classic Island, (b) from Raj Bhavan till Classic Island, (c) from Classic Island till Assembly Secretariat via Razhü Point.

Heavy vehicles will not be allowed to ply from High School junction to Assembly Secretariat via Sanuoru subway during assembly session, except Government departmental buses. Heavy vehicles will not be allowed to ply in Kohima town during assembly session from 7am till the session is over. All loading and unloading of goods in Kohima town should be completed by 7am during assembly session. Heavy vehicles will not be allowed to be parked along the “D” Block road.

While anticipating positive co-operation from the public, the police will tow away the defaulting vehicle and towing charges will be borne by the vehicle owner, the press release added.

AIDS epidemic ‘over’ in Australia: Scientists

MELboURNE, JULY 11 (IANS): Australia’s top scientists and health experts have declared that AIDS is no longer a public health issue in the country.

The number of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) cases diagnosed now is so low that researchers from the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute and New South Wales’ Kirby Institute, have announced that the syndrome in Australia is now “over”, Xinhua news agency reported.

AIDS cases in Australia have dropped significantly since the

A Nagaland where ‘No one is left behind’

introduction of anti-retroviral medications in the mid-1990s, which stops HIV from advancing to AIDS - where the immune system is so badly damaged that it cannot fight off the infection.

The infection is contracted when a person has bodily fluids (usually through unprotected sex or by sharing needles/syringes) passed into their bloodstream. At the peak of the epidemic through the 1980s and 1990s, AIDS killed about 1,000 people each year.

Professor Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

(ABC) on Monday that anti-retroviral drugs had been the key to the epidemic’s decline, allowing people with HIV to live a long and healthy life. “I’ve actually seen a dramatic transformation of HIV from a universal death sentence to now a chronic, manageable disease,” Lewin said.

AFAO CEO Darryl O’Donnell said the number of AIDS-related deaths in Australia was now so low that it was not recorded.

“AIDS is over in the way we knew it. We’ve got access to treatment that has had extraordinary effect, and community activism since the very early years of AIDS

in the ‘80s and ‘90s has helped the efforts to fight it,” O’Donnell said.

However, despite researchers announcing the remarkable progress with the syndrome, they said the end of AIDS did not spell the end of HIV. According to the ABC, 1,000 new cases of HIV are reported in Australia each year.

AIDS advocates will now target the 35 million people around the globe who are living with HIV, particularly those countries the Asia-Pacific region, where 180,000 cases of AIDS and 1.2 million cases of HIV are reported each year.

ford priority to where it is needed - for instance the health and education sector, or basic needs like road, power and water supply, which are found wanting in most of Nagaland State.

Governance and transparency is another issue closely related to development. Dr. Longri Kichu, associated with the World Health Organization, pointed out, “We can plan, talk, discuss and dream but unless we are serious about tackling corruption at all levels (as cliché as it sounds), 2030 will be worse than 2016.”

The foremost task, a young officer in the Home Department, said, must be to include “how to effec-

To shift the present gear on disability, the presentation suggested that a State Disability Strategy must be developed with a time-bound State Plan that addresses issues in all areas of life that exist solely on the basis of disability.

The strategy must articulate longterm goals across key policy areas which impact on people with disabilities, their families and careers, it added.

“Our vision is a Nagaland where no one is left behind. A Nagaland where all citizens have equal opportunities to realise their rights, achieve their potential and live in dignity, free from poverty, exclusion, stigma, discrimination and violence. A Nagaland where people with disabilities have a voice, choice and control over the decisions that affect them; where they participate in and benefit equitably from everyday life, everywhere,” further stated the presentation, which was addressed to the Nagaland Vision 2030 expert group.

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tively prevent corruption at the government department level.”

The young officer elaborated, “Every year a few hundred crores are being embezzled by government department officers without the knowledge of common people. My concern is if we can formulate checks and balances to plug this leakage.”

For this, a mechanism must be in place to check correction at all levels. In a ‘policy paper’ for The Morung Express, Vyasan R, a Nagaland cadre IAS officer, argued that as the government is the largest player in many sectors, to achieve any goals set in the Vision

2030 document, improvement in governance is pertinent and vital.

From agriculture and horticulture to education and health, the presence of government is pervasive in Nagaland but does not necessarily translate to good governance, thus it needs enhancement, he elaborated.

“Keeping in mind the current cornucopia of problems and issues, the vision plan should be based on an ‘out of the box’ approach and focus on the realm of possibilities in translating this working vision into reality,” Tzudir suggested.

(With inputs from Vishu Rita Krocha)

Mkg citizens cautioned against “Weekly Bazaar”

DIMAPUR, JULY 11 (MExN): The Ao Students’ Conference (AKM) and the Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce & Industries (MCCI) has sounded caution on what it described as “imminent threats posed and adverse affects caused by the mushrooming of a so called “Weekly Bazaar” in Mokokchung, specially around the periphery of the district headquarters.

A public appeal from the two organizations on Tuesday called upon the people of Mokokchung to be also wary of the traders involved in the weekly bazaar while alleging that they are of “dubious origin and identity.”

It also alleged that there exist a “diabolical nexus between some influential but reprehensible individuals with insatiable greed for easy money and a sophisticated syndicate of black-marketing goons from across the state border working together to destabilize the local economy by hijacking the formal market…”

According to the two organizations, this so-called weekly bazaar is in effect a daily bazaar as they are open at different locations around the district on a different day but each day of the week.

“By purchasing from them, you are encouraging an illicit business activity as this

weekly bazaar is an illegitimate shadow market where economic activity is not recorded.

You are not contributing to the economic development of the district by purchasing from them as theirs is a shadow business. You are not contributing anything to the state’s revenue, as they do not pay any taxes,” it stated.

The two organizations also shed light on the July 9 detainment of eleven undocumented traders allegedly involved in the shadow business by police at Mokokchung DEF area, it stating, “The fact that they somehow managed to slip through the inter-state check gate without ILP is proof that all is not fair in their business.”

Again, the bailout of the “dubious traders” along with their vehicles and consignments reportedly by some patrons of good influence, indicate the possible involvement of some well connected and influential “Judases,” it pointed out.

Expressing alarm on the “perilous state” the weekly bazaar is taking the fragile local economy, the AKM and MCCI has urged all to come together, be vigilant and tackle the issue earnestly in the interest of securing “our local economy and safeguarding our long-term socio-economic wellbeing.”

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Chang and Yimchungru resolve to restore peaceful coexistence DIMAPUR, JULY 11 (MExN): In pursuance to the meeting held between Chang Khulei Setshang (CKS) and Yimchungru Tribal Council (YTC) on June 29 in Kohima on the initiative of mediators on the Chang/ Yimchungru issue, a follow up meeting was held on July 8 in Tuensang town between Tuensang and Kuthur village.

At the meeting, it was unanimously agreed to restore the peaceful relationship between the two villages, which the gathering asserted, was prevalent from the time of forefathers.

Accordingly, the two communities resolved to reaffirm the traditional friendly relationship between the two villages, a press statement from the Office of the Mediators Chang/Yimchungru Issue, Government of Nagaland informed on Monday.

Should there be any misunderstanding between the two villages either on individual capacity or between groups, a joint meeting of the two villages shall be held and appropriate action meted out against the defaulters, the meeting resolved.

The meeting also made a resolution that there shall be no tribal colour if any problem arise between the two villages, which shall be settled amongst themselves locally and amicably.

The meeting also decided to arrange a peace feast to mark this landmark occasion.

The above-mentioned resolutions were declared in the presence of Nagaland Government mediators, Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) Peace Committee Convener, CKS, YTC and the district administration.

Signatories to the resolution include H Wongto, president TVCU, N Yemjong, council chairman, K Khel, Tuensang village, Sangkum, head GB, C Khel, T Chingmak, head GB, L Khel and N Chingmak, head GB, K Khel, H Shophu Yim, head GB, S Neojchung Yim, 2nd head GB, J Shokum Yim, chjairman, Khutur Village Council, I Mongko Yim, GB, T Royim Yim, GB, MP Noksang, president CKS, Keozhi, president YTC and YP Chillio, convener, Peace Committee, ENPO.

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TTSUD condemns arrest of student by 37 Assam Rifles DImaPuR, July 11 (mExN): The Toulazouma Tenyimi Students’ Union, Dimapur (TTSUD) has ‘vehemently condemned’ the arrest of a student from their area by the 37 Assam Rifles.

“The indecent act of the 37 Assam Rifles is shocking to all the citizens that even after showing the identity that he is a student and on his vacation, the Security Forces did not heed the plea of the student identity and arrested him,” stated the President of TTSUD Veshosü Nyekha and its Speaker Muluneyi Khamo in a press release today.

They informed that on July 8, around 4:00am, a group of personnel from the 37 Assam Rifles, with “full arms and ammunition,” entered and “raided” the house that the arrested student was living in.

The Union also affirmed that the student, Relhu Venuh, is pursuing his Master’s degree in Personal Management from the Poona Institute of Management Science & Entrepreneurship, Pune, and was home for a vacation.

While condemning the arrest and appealing to all citizens to condemn the act of the 37 AR, the Union questioned why an “innocent student” and “future leader” of the country was arrested. “The students are not the enemy of the Armed Forces,” the Union maintained, noting how students are not secure in their own land from the people who are “supposed to be our security.”

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Eastern Nagaland girls undergo Y Patton for concerted effort multi-skill development training to contain population growth

Commissioner & Secretary, DUDA, L Kire, Joint Director, DUDA, Dr. Anungla Imdong Phom, Rev. Dr. Coppe Mero and Dr. Adela Mero of ‘Resource Centre’ along with the trainees of ‘multiskill development programme’ sponsored by DUDA. Morung Express News Dimapur | July 11

Thirty girls from the Eastern districts of Mon, Tuensang, Longleng and Kiphire successfully completed a 3-month multi-skill development programme sponsored by the Department of Under Developed Areas (DUDA) under UDAP programme.

The girls were trained at Tabitha Craft & Design, a livelihood wing of ‘Resource Centre’ located at Darogapathar. The multiskill development training comprised of cutting and tailoring, garment and bag making, beading and accessories, toy making, card making with pressed flower and photo frames, counseling, and value and self-esteem sessions.

The training is in line with the State government’s policy on gender budgeting and one of DUDA’s mission to provide livelihood sustenance to the backward and weaker sections.

Commissioner & Secretary, DUDA, L Kire, IFS,

who was the chief guest at the culmination programme of the training held here at ‘Resource Centre’ on Monday, lauded the “holistic approach” of the Centre in imparting training to the trainees.

Kire said the exemplary commitment of the husband-wife duo, Rev. Dr. Coppe Mero and Dr. Adela Mero, is an inspiration and that other people should draw lessons from them.

“In just three months, you (trainees) have been transformed into new individuals. Imbibe whatever you have learnt into your character and share them with your friend and others when you go back home,” Kire told the trainees.

The Commissioner & Secretary also said it was high time to change the “backward tag” and said the Eastern Nagas have lots of qualities including positive outlook, which other Naga tribes can also learn.

He stated the Eastern Nagas should not only aspire to be at par with the socalled “advanced tribes”

but strive to outdo the “advanced tribes.”

Kire further stressed on discipline and time management as the determining factors in one’s life. The chief guest also handed training completion certificates to the trainees.

Rev. Dr. Coppe Mero, in his briefing on the training report, said the focus of the Resource Centre is not only imparting skills but also building relationship amongst the trainees belonging to different tribes, instilling dignity of labour, giving counseling and value and self-esteem sessions. He also thanked DUDA for giving the Resource Centre the opportunity to “minister” the trainees.

Joint Director, DUDA, Dr. Anungla Imdong Phom, who chaired the culmination programme, said this is the third consecutive year that DUDA has entered into partnership with ‘Resource Centre’ to impart skill development training to Eastern Naga girls.

Wokha, July 11 (DIPR): State level advocacy on World Population Day, launching of Family Planning Health Mela Fortnight and Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight was held on July 11 at Tiyi Town Hall, Wokha with Minister for Home, Y. Patton as the chief guest.

Addressing the gathering, Patton said the alarming growth of population in India has become a concern for citizens of the country, particularly the creamy layers, including the government agencies.

This calls for concerted effort from all sections of society, he said, adding it is the responsibility of all development departments, ministries, NGOs and civil societies and not only the Health & Family Welfare department alone to actively partake in playing a vital role to contain the abnormal population growth.

The Home Minister also said Government of India has adopted numerous measures to check the ever increasing population growth. The government has introduced several schemes under family planning programs and all these have been disseminated to the States and made operational since May 2012, he added. He informed that under these measures, the government has given more emphasis on spacing methods, quality care in family planning services by establishing quality assurance committees at the State and district levels.

Patton urged all the developmental departments to work in cohesion towards improving the quality of life of the people through proper

Home Minister Y Patton with doctors and others on World Population Day programme in Wokha on July 11.

‘Take Responsibility, Make Plans’: Population Stabilization Fortnight

kohIma, July 11 (mExN): Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Kohima along with District Health Society, Department of Health & Family Welfare, NHM observed World Population Day and Population Stabilization Fortnight under the slogan “Take Responsibility, Make Plans” (Zimmedari Nibhao, Plan Banao) at the CMO’s conference hall here on July 11.

The programme was chaired by Dr. Avino Metha, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Kohima. The technical session was conducted by Dr. Avile Zao, DPO (RCH-UIP), where she gave a presentation on World Population Day & Population Stabilization Fortnight.

A press release from CMO, Kohima informed that the Population Stabilization Fortnight, from July 11 to 24, will be called Family Health Mela and observed under the theme “Take Responsibility, Make Plans”.

During the fortnight, advocacy and awareness campaigns will be carried out dissemination of information, education and communication which must be area-specific, need based and community oriented.

Population stabilization campaign, he said, should be made “People’s Programme” by involving local leaders, NGOs, civil society and reli-

in all the blocks and villages under Kohima district. The campaigns will include exhibition of Family Planning methods, counseling of clients on the basket of choices, motivation of eligible couples for availing Family Planning services, and awareness on HIV/AIDS. During the ongoing advocacy, following messages should reach the people as part of awareness generation: delaying age at marriage, healthy spacing at birth, post partum family planning, male participation in family planning, post abortion family planning, the release said.

Meanwhile, Focus Group Discussion will be carried out in selected health units to observe the fortnight and Basket of Family Planning Services, including distribution of OCP & condoms, IUCD Insertion, Tubectomy & Vasectomy, pamphlets, leaflets and putting up of banners and posters at prominent places will be done in line with New Family Planning Media Campaign.

gious leaders, schools, colleges and teachers through print and electronic media and all other means of advertisements and communication in creative and innovative methods.

Dr. Noune, O&G spoke on methods of Family Planning, while Dr. Khriemenuo,

Pediatrician highlighted on control of diarrhoea. Keynote address was delivered

by Dr. Zathung DPO (RCH/ UIP). The programme was chaired by Dr. Robin Mozhui, MS District Hospital Wokha while vote of thanks was proposed by Deputy CMO, Dr. Tumchobeni.

Bhanu Jayanti celebrated in Dimapur Mangkolemba SDPDB meet discusses various issues of subdivision

Governor, PB Acharya paying homage during the 202nd Bhanu Jayanti in Dimapur on Monday.

Governor Acharya exhorts people from remote areas not to feel inferior to others

mokokchuNg, July 11 (DIPR): The Mangkolemba Sub Divisional Planning and Development Board (SDPDB) meeting was held on July 5. Vice-Chairman of the SDPDB & ADC, Mangkolemba, T Imtiwapang Aier reminded all the members to avail proper leave in written when the members are unable to attend the meetings.

The board members deliberated on the proposal submitted

by Sub Treasury Officer (STO), Mangkolemba for construction of multiple flat type building for their officers and staffs since the department presently has no accommodation thereby hampering the smooth functioning of the office. The meeting decided to recommend the proposal for onward submission to the government for approval.

Regarding the agenda for construction of EAC office building in Alongkima, EAC Alongkima apprised the members on the deplorable condition of the office stating it is unsafe and beyond repair. The members decided to submit the

dia cannot progress as long as the North East lacked in terms of development along with the rest of the country.

He said India was a secular country with rich diversity having respect for all religion, community, caste or colour. The Morung Express News Governor also reiterated his statement Dimapur | July 11 that the practice of Yoga was a preventive The 202nd Bhanu Jayanti was celebrated and curative activity.

Others who spoke during the proon Monday with Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya as the chief guest at Town Hall, gramme included the guest of honour, Bishnu Bhattarcharjee, Vice President Dimapur.

The programme was organized by North East Bengali Samaj, Chairman Gorkha Youth Club Dimapur and Gorkha Gorkha Union Dimapur, Kumar Subba and President Gorkha Youth Club DimaStudents’ Union Dimapur.

Speaking at the programme, Acharya pur, Shiva Kumar BK. Eminent social workers from the Gorkcalled upon the people from remote areas not to feel inferior to others as they were ha community and toppers of HSLC and second to none. He referred to Prime Min- HSSLC exams were felicitated during the Wokha, July 11 ister, Narendra Modi’s statement that In- programme. (mExN): A mass social work was organized at Lotha Baptist Ekhümkho Sanrhyutsü (Lotha Baptist Churches Association) Mission Headquarter extending till Wokha-Merapani road on July 9 from 7:00 am till 1:00 pm. Led

by Rev. Nyanchumo Lotha, Executive Secretary, LBES and Principal of Witter Theological College (WTC), all staff and students of Lotha Baptist Ekhümkho Sanrhyutsü (LBES) and WTC participated in the mass social work, informed a press release from LBES Executive Secretary.

The release said that several major works were undertaken during the social work. Major repairing, bolder and mud-filling of a water-logged area was done at Wokha-Merapani road below All India Radio A major landslide has cut off the road connectivity between Phek Town and Losami village. Station, Wokha by engagIn this connection, Deputy Commissioner, Phek in a press note has informed the public and villagers of Losami, Khomi, Pholami, Porba, Sakraba, Pfutsero and others to avoid the ing a JCB with the Association’s fund, it added. above-mentioned road until it is repaired.

proposal to the government for approval.

The house further deliberated on the extremely bad quality of water supplied in all the four Administrative HQs, namely ADC HQ Mangkolemba, EAC HQ Longchem, EAC HQ Alongkima and EAC HQ Merangmen under the subdivision. It was pointed out that the water is supplied directly from the streams and is unhealthy for human use, especially during rainy season. In this regard, SDO PHED, Mangkolemba was directed to submit a concept note on augmentation of water supply through stream water source in all the four HQs for onward submission to the government for approval.

Meanwhile, the Vice Chairman of the board expressed dismay regarding the attendance performance of the Government officials and staff posted in the subdivision and requested all the Head of Offices to maintain attendance register which will be inspected by the ADC office.

The recent picketing of the

SDEO and BDO office by the Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT) was also discussed. In this regard, SDEO highlighted the problems faced by her office due to the absence of the HA who has not reported for duty since the last three years. The ADC assured that all efforts will be taken to settle the issue at the earliest.

BDO, Mangkolemba was directed to run the office regularly from the subdivision and not from Mokokchung since they have to be in constant touch with the villagers or the Board will take the matter to the highest level befitting penalty for the erring officers.

SDO (C) Longchem submitted a proposal for repairing the Longchem-Naganijan road which is in a deplorable condition for commuters to travel. He further requested the PWD department to assist and help the people during the repairing of the road which will be undertaken by the villagers as voluntary social work this month.

With the transfer of Sub Treasury Office from Mokokchung to

Mangkolemba and the up-gradation of SBI Mangkolemba from Asst. Manager to Branch Manager thus increasing the Bank Cash Retention limit, the ADC directed all the VDBs Account under the subdivision to be transferred to SBI Mangkolemba. Meanwhile, the department concerned when asked to furnish the details of the accounts expressed their difficulties involved to transfer the accounts citing various problems faced by the BDOs. The issue will be taken up with the Deputy Commissioner & Chairman VDB and Project Director (DRDA), Mokokchung at the earliest.

With regard to the District Award 2016 to be given on Independence Day celebration, the ADC asked the house to nominate deserving candidates from their respective departments and submit to ADC office for onward submission.

The next SDPDB meeting is scheduled on August 5, where work distribution of the Independence Day celebration will be chalked out.

LBES initiates Agriculture office conducts training on MOVCD in Peren July 11 (mExN): District the scheme aims to develop certified mission will be implemented by the mass social work PEREN, Agriculture Officer’s (DAO) office, organic production in a value chain State Level Executive Committee

Landslide cuts off Phek Town-Losami traffic

Peren organised a one day sensitization cum training on Mission Organic Value Chain Development (MOVCD) on July 11 at DAO office conference hall, New HQ Peren.

Delivering the keynote address, District Agriculture Officer, Atoi Sema briefed on the Mission Organic Value Chain Development scheme for North Eastern Region. He said

mode to link growers with consumers and to support the development of entire value chain starting from inputs, seeds, certification to the creation of facilities for collection, aggregation, processing marketing and brand building initiative.

He also mentioned that the scheme will be implemented in a mission mode. At the state level, the

(SLEC) and executed through a designated state lead agency in the form of State Organic Commodity Board or Organic Mission.

SDAO Tening, Dr. Zeliegai Ndang explained on the implementation of MOVCD and PKVY. Around 20 farmers from different villages, including VCC and members, attended the training.

Northern Rengma dictionary released

TsEmINyu, July 11 (mExN): The Nthenyi (Northern Rengma) Literature Sub Committee released a Northern Rengma dictionary titled “Nthenyi Ajüübvü” authored by Kewachu Semy at Chunlikha in Tseminyu sub-division on July 10.

Viyekha Apon, former MLA who attended the event as chief guest, dedicated the book to the Northern Rengma (Nthenyi) dialect speaking people. He stated that dialect is a gift of God which should be preserved as much as developed, according to a press release received here. He further

iterated the importance of language/dialect and stressed that dialect helps one identify oneself and builds a sense of oneness and unity among people.

The author, while introducing the book to the gathering, conveyed his gratitude to the many persons who supported and enabled him in publishing the book which is aimed at conserving and developing the ‘nthenyi’ dialect by reaching out to a greater audience, especially the younger generations.

The book, which has more than 6000 words in

A Northern Rengma dictionary titled “Nthenyi Ajüübvü” authored by Kewachu Semy was released on July 10.

Nthenyi (Northern Rengma) dialect, contains a separate section on word modulation, alphabets and

phonetics, number system, names of birds, flora, days of the week and months of the year.

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One killed in Assam floods, situation critical in 6 districts North East India receives deficient monsoon rains

A Truck stranded on an overflowing road in Assam.

MorigAoN, July 11 (PTi): One person was killed after being swept away by flood waters in Assams Morigaon district while the situation in five other affected districts remained "critical".

About 1.35 lakh people have been hit by the devastating floods that have distroyed embankments and roads.

The deceased belonged to Bhuragaon circle, which is facing a serious threat as the raging waters of the Brahmaputra river have eroded the rock spur of Kupatimari portion of its embankment, Deputy Com-

missioner Rakesh Kumar said.

The erosion is of serious concern and the water resource department has been detailed to work round-the-clock to protect it, he said.

The situation in floodravaged Mayong revenue circle is also critical as 60 villages under Pokoriya and Ghagua local revenue units are inundated, affecting over 70,000 people, Kumar said, adding mechanised boats were used to evacuate them.

The six districts affected by the floods are Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Morig-

aon, Barpeta, Jorhat and Dhemaji.

Flood waters also damaged embankments in Lakhimpur districts Bhoroluwa, Boloma and Lothujan areas, besides at Gayan Gaon in Jorhat district, sources in Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.

PWD road culverts were also breached in Lakhimpur district, they said.

Food and essential items were distributed by the district administrations and relief camps have been set up for deluge-hit people, the sources added.

AgArTAlA, July 11 (iANS): Except Mizoram and Sikkim, most parts of northeast India have so far experienced deficient monsoon rains, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday.

Mizoram and Sikkim recorded average rainfall while the other northeastern states - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura - recorded around 35 per cent deficient rains, said the IMD report.

Until Sunday evening, Manipur recorded 73 per cent deficient rainfall, followed by Meghalaya (58 per cent), Tripura (38 per cent), Nagaland (37 per cent), Assam (25 per cent) and Arunachal Pradesh (12 per cent).

"Among the IMD's four regions, the rainfall deficiency in the eastern and northeastern region of the country has been a whopping 21 per cent," the report added.

The IMD's eastern and northeastern region comprises West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and eight northeastern states. Jharkhand and Bihar recorded 18 per cent deficient rainfall so far while West Bengal recorded four per cent shortfall in rains.

IMD Director Dilip Saha told IANS: "Due to lack of depression and low pressure circulation in the northeastern region, the region has so far recorded scarce rainfall. However, the deficiency would be covered in the remaining part of the monsoon."

In the northeast, the normal monsoon period is June to September and sometimes it continues until October 10, Saha said.

The IMD report said that heavy rain is very likely to occur in most parts of the northeastern region by July 14.

An expert of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) said deficient rains would not affect crops in the Northeast as there was good pre-monsoon rainfall recorded in most parts of the region.

Mizo Peace Accord pique UGs interest in Myanmar: Zoramthanga AizAwl, July 11 (NNN): Mizo National Front (MNF) president Zoramthanga said the underground groups in Myanmar are interested to learn about the uniqueness of Mizo Peace Accord signed between the Indian government and the erstwhile underground MNF in 1986.

Giving a brief report of his visit to Thailand, Zoramthanga who has just returned to Aizawl after attending workshop on federalism in Chiangmai, Thailand recently as part of his Burma peace mission, said that the inclusion of Mizo peace accord under the Indian constitution was one of the wonders of the underground groups participating at the event.

Imphal | July 11

In a dramatic turn of events, the Manipur Police has filed as many as 75 different criminal cases against former leader of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), Ratan Khomdram who is wanted by the police on the charge of being linked with the proscribed United National Liberation Front (UNLF).

Imphal West Police’s Superintendent of Police duly submitted the counter affidavit to the High Court of Manipur on Monday, a local news TV channel said.

The new development comes after the court was preparing to hear a petition filed by Khomdram himself against a wanted tag labelled against him by the state police after he was charged with having link with UNLF. Former JCILPS convener Khomdram, 48, of Singjamei Wangma Kshetri Leikai Mongkhang Lambi, filed a writ petition in the Manipur High Court against the Government of Manipur through

OMTF lauds President of India for withholding bills

iMPHAl, July 11 (NNN): The Outer Manipur Tribals’ Forum (OMTF) in meeting held today in Imphal lauded the President of India to the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee and the Government of India for "exercising their wisdom" in withholding infamous and "anti-tribal" bills, viz., the Protection of Manipur Peoples Bill, 2015 passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly on the 31st August, 2015.

According to the tribal forum, the continued discrimination and marginalization of the tribals in Manipur have entered a new phase with the passing of the 3 "Anti-Tribal Bills" on August 31, 2015, "which intended to finally exclude" them from the citizenship of Manipur State particularly and of India in general.

The press note of the tribal forum said that to resist such "systematic designs" of the State for institutional exclusion of the tribals, the various apex civil organizations of the hill tribes formed the Outer Manipur Tribals’ Forum (OMTF).

It then "recognizes and expresses" its appreciation for the initiatives taken by the Joint Action Committee Against the AntiTribal Bills (JAC-AATB) and the Manipur Tribals’ Forum, Delhi (MTF-D) in spearheading a movement of Manipur tribals against the State’s encroachment of the tribals’ land, rights and identity.

Additional Chief Secretary Home, DGP of Manipur Police, PRO of Manipur Police Department, Superintendent of Police, Imphal West and Officer-

The OMTF aslo has take cognizance of the fact that the tribal MLAs who "failed to protect/defend or resign from membership no longer represented and enjoyed the mandate"of tribal peoples, as it has been manifested since the passing of the three "anti-tribals" bills.

"As a consequent upon which the JAC, Churachandpur and various tribal organizations have boycotted them for they could not carry out their responsibilities as peoples’ representative both inside and outside the Manipur Legislative Assembly and accordingly the OMTF endorsed the boycott".

It then said that in view of the above stated "facts", the OMTF unanimously resolved and declared that: If any Bill, which is detrimental to the hill areas and its peoples, be introduced and passed in Manipur State Legislative Assembly, the tribal peoples of Manipur shall never accept under any circumstances and it will be considered as further insult and challenge to the tribal peoples.

It also appealed to all the tribal peoples to remain alert and not to be misguided by the vested interest persons.

Any individual, representative, Association or Organization who defy this declaration shall be treated as betrayal and also be held responsible at his/her own risk, it further cautioned.

in-Charge of Singjamei Police Station.

Acting Chief Justice Rakesh Ranjan Prasad of Manipur High Court had earlier served an order to

the state government to deposit all records related to declaration of ‘wanted’ tag on Khomdram before the Junior Magistrate First Class (JMIC) Imphal

West by July 11.

The wanted tag against Khomdram was declared on June 2 last by the Manipur Police after proofs on his being linked with UNLF were obtained from social media WhatsApp and Facebook.

JCILPS, a conglomerate of citizens, has been pressurising the state government through a sustained public movement for introduction of ILP to curb illegal inrush of migrants into the state.

The police have claimed that the former leader of the joint committee has been absconding.

On July 7, the police conducted coordinated raids at his Mongkhang Lambi and Singjamei Bheigyabati Leikai residences here.

Sit-in protests were organised at different localities of Singjamei area today under the banner of a joint action committee constituted against the wanted tag declared against Khomdram. The same demonstration was also staged yesterday.

The protesters condemned the police action raiding Khomdram’s residences. The JAC has de-

New DelHi, July 11 (PTi): A Manipuri woman has alleged that she was subjected to racial harassment at the international airport here following which an inquiry has been ordered into the incident. Monika Khangembam alleged that on Saturday an immigration official at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport hurled racist remarks at her when she was on her way to Seoul for a conference.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said today that an inquiry has been instituted into the allegation of racial harassment. The inquiry will be conducted by the Bureau of Immigration. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj expressed regret over the

manded that the wanted tag on Khomdram should be withdrawn warning intense agitation.

excavated the archaeological site near Lummawbuh village in the northern slopes of Sohpetbneng (heavens naval) peak near the NH-40.

Mitri said they found megalithic stone structures, and iron implements which dates back to the prehistoric period in the ridge spreading over 1.5 km.

The excavation at Lummawbuh is the first one of a Neolithic site in Meghalaya.

"We had sent over 20 tools and implements including grains to Beta Analytic, a Miami-based laboratory for radiocarbon dating to confirm their age. The tests confirmed that these were dated to 12th century BC," Mitri

told PTI. The megalithic structures are used in the traditional mortuary practice which was popular among the tribesmen till a few decades ago.

"These Neolithic structures were first discovered in 2004 and it took at least a decade to confirm the existence of a settlement in the area till about 200

years ago," Mitri said.

The British Archaeological Reports had in 2009 published Mitris work - Outline of Neolithic Culture of Khasi and Jaintia Hills and the archaeologist had also edited a book titled Cultural?Historical Interaction and the Tribes of North East India published in 2010.

Handloom a fast growing industry of Manipur Newmai News Network Imphal | July 11

The Commerce & Industries Department, government of Manipur has said handloom continues to be the fast growing industry of the state which has a record number of loom workers.

Officials of the department were speaking during a conference held at the DIPR office which has been holding a series of conferences of heads and officials of various government departments in the past few days.

They said handloom industry which is the largest cottage industry in the state has been playing a vital role in boosting the

state economy. It has become a fast growing industry in the state, adding the handloom sector has gradually grown to the satisfactory level, they added.

Over 1.90 lakh looms are carrying out production activities across the state, according to a 209-10 report.

One of the special features of handloom industry in Manipur is that the women are the only weavers.

The Northeast has contributed more that 50 percent of handloom products of the country. Manipur enjoys a distinct place among the handloom zones in India.

Credit facilities have been providing to the weavers by the government under Deen Dayal Hathkargha Protsahan Yojna and

Integrated Handloom Development Scheme to over 18,272 weavers in the state. Work-sheds for over 17,042 weavers have also been constructed so far.

It is believed that Chitnu Tamitnu, a goddess, discovered the cotton and she also produced the yarn. When the threads are ready for weaving she arranged the required equipment and constructed the ‘Sinnaishang’ (work shed).

It is also believed that the goddess Panthoibee once saw a spider producing fine threads and making cowebs and from it she found the idea of weaving and thus started weaving in Manipur.

Most of the weavers who are famous for their skill and intricate de-

signing are from Wangkhei, Bamon Kampu, Kongba, Khongman, Utlou etc. in respect of fine silk items.

The rest of the villages of the state producing all varieties of fabrics. Tribal shawls are all varieties of fabrics. Tribal shawls with exotic designs and motifs are the products of five hill districts of the state.

Fabrics and Shawls of Manipur are in great demand in the national and international market.

Now, the major handloom production activities are undertaken by three government organisations namely Manipur Development Society, Manipur Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation and Manipur State Handloom Wavers Cooperative Society.

How was Mizo peace accord included in the Indian constitution and how was the UT government superseded by the MNF were some of curious questions raised by the underground groups during the workshop, he said, adding that the underground group paid high regard to the farsightedness of former MNF chief Laldenga.

Zoramthanga in reply to the members attending the workshop said as per no.4 of ‘sequence of events’ written in the accord it is said that the constitution bill would be tabled in the parliament and Mizoram would be granted statehood simultaneously. This was something which the members wondrously felt unique, he said.

incident and said she would take up the issue with Home Minister Rajnath Singh On her Facebook wall, Khangembam wrote that when she went to the immigration desk at IGI at around 9 pm on Saturday, an official looked at her passport and said, "Indian toh nahi lagti ho" (you dont look Indian). He then allegedly smirked at her and asked her how many states comprised the country, in an apparent bid to "know her Indianness".

She alleged that a lady official at the adjacent counter was giggling while the male officer paid no heed to her. When Khangembam told him she hailed from Manipur, the officer allegedly asked her to name the states Manipur shares its border with.

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Megaliths indicate Khasis presence in Meghalaya since 1200 BC SHilloNg, July 11 (PTi): Pre-historic megaliths and tools discovered in Meghalayas Ri-Bhoi district indicate that Khasi tribe, one of the major tribes in the state, had made the state their home since around 1200 BC. Archaeologist Marco Mitri and a team of academicians from the North Eastern Hills University

Zoramthanga said that he recently visited Thailand to attend Workshop on Federalism at Chiangmai, Thailand as part of his Burma peace mission.

The workshop organized as part of peace process between Myanmar government and ethnic based underground groups during 4 to 9 July was attended by over 40 members representing 17 ethnicbased militant groups including Kachins, Karens, Chins, Was, Arakanese and Shans.

Zoramthanga said he addressed the workshop on the second day and talked about the Mizo peace accord signed between the Indian government and the erstwhile underground MNF in 1986.

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June domestic passenger car sales slide New Delhi, July 11 (iANS): Passenger cars sales declined by 5.18 per cent in June to 154,237 units from 162,655 units sold during the corresponding month of last year, industry data showed on Monday.

In contrast, the utility vehicles' (UVs) off-take zoomed in the month under review. The segment's sales were buoyed by new launches.

Industry data showed that utility vehicles' sales accelerated by 35.24 per cent to 55,825 units.

"We have seen some recovery in sales during June.

However, the sales of passenger cars declined," said

Vishnu Mathur, Director General, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).

"The decline in passenger cars' sales was more or less compensated by the robust growth in the UV segment," Mathur said at an event held here to release the sales data.

Mathur credited the growth in sales of UVs' segment to the new launches of compact sports utility vehicles (SUV).

According to SIAM, the total passenger vehicle sales, which includes cars, utility vehicles and vans, went up by 2.68 per cent to 223,454 units in the month

under review.

The industry data disclosed a 5.63 per cent sales growth in the overall commercial vehicles segment, which is a key indicator of economic activity.

The commercial vehicles segment's off-take for June, 2016 stood at 56,032 units.

Three-wheelers sales, too, clocked a healthy growth of 10.22 per cent to 48,373 units last month.

Overall, sales of twowheelers, which includes scooters, motorcycles and mopeds, grew exponentially. The segment's sales rose by 12.26 per cent to 1,468,035 units.

Product-wise, scooter sales in the month under review grew by 21.32 per cent to 449,756 units, whereas the motorcycle sub-segment sales, logged a growth of 7.52 per cent to 943,680 units.

Besides, mopeds' offtake zoomed by 25.79 per cent to 74,599 units.

However, overall exports across categories declined by 10.70 per cent to 282,533 units which were shipped out during last month.

Total automobile sales last month were higher by 10.70 per cent to 1,795,894 units from 1,622,254 units sold in June, 2015.

Google to train 2 million mobile developers in India New Delhi, July 11 (iANS): In a fillip to government's Skill India initiative, technology giant Google on Monday launched its "Android Skilling and Certification" programme to help make the country a global hub of high-quality mobile developers.

The programme aims to train two million mobile developers by unveiling a slew of initiatives to skill up, educate and certify millions of talended students and developers in Android development.

"With nearly four million developers, India is expected to have largest developer population globally by 2018. But today, only 25 per cent of them are building for mobile," Caesar Sengupta, Vice President (Product Management) at Google, told reporters here.

India is uniquely placed to innovate and shape the internet experience of billions of users "who are and will come online on the mobile platform," he added.

Google also launched an instructor-led training programme on Android fundamentals to provide an in-person training to students in universities.

In addition to all public and private universities and training institutes of

issues notification to ensure secrecy New Delhi, July 11 (PTi): CBDT today issued a notification making it clear that information about those who declare their black money under the compliance window, ending September 30, will be kept secret.

The notification states that "no public servant shall produce before any person or authority any such document or record or any information or computerised data or part thereof as comes into his possession during the discharge of official duties in respect of valid declaration under the Income Declaration Scheme, 2016."

The fresh notification was issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), a senior official said, as the department was getting a number of queries

with regard to the confidentiality under the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) or the one-time domestic black money compliance window.

Trade associations and industry bodies had also taken up the issue during their meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently.

"The notification now gives legal sanctity to the word of the government that all information related to IDS will be kept confidential. It is aimed to end apprehensions in the minds of potential declarants that their information will find its way in the hands of other probe agencies or will reach the public domain," the official said.

The IDS is open for 4 months, between June 1 and September 30 and the

Flyers can now buy dutyfree goods worth Rs 25,000

Peter Lubbers, head of google developer Training explaining about Associate Android Developer Certification programme that would help developers get entry-level Android developer jobs in the industry. (IANS Photo)

the National Skill Development Corporation of India, the course will be available free of charge on NTPEL (an initiative of IITs and IISc) as part of its online "Mobile Computing" course, starting from July 18.

Google has tied up with training partners like Edureka, Koenig, Manipal Global, Simplilearn, Udacity and UpGrad who will operate as authorised Android training partners in India to help Google train the trainers and update Android courseware to prepare students for Android

certification.

"By building a worldclass curriculum and making it easily accessible to the students, we want to contribute to the Skill India initiative and make India the global leader in mobile app development," Sengupta added.

Google also announced the launch of its globally recognised job-oriented "Associate Android Developer Certification" exam that will help candidates get an entry-level Android developer job.

After training, the aspiring candidates can log

on to the Google Developer training website and take the certification exam priced at Rs 6,500.

"We introduced the Android Nanodegree programme in India last year with Udacity and today, we have over 11,500 students in India enrolling every month in our courses," said Peter Lubbers, Head of Google Developer Training.

Google will also opensource all Android Developer Fundamentals practicals and courseware and make these available to everyone for free.

Strike in SBI assoc banks today l e i s u r e CheNNAi, July 11 (iANS): Around 45,000 employees in the five associate banks of the State Bank of India (SBI) will strike work on Tuesday, said a leader of the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA). “Only the workmen (clerical and messenger cadre) will be on strike. However, work in the branches will be affected,” C.H. Venkatachalam, the AIBEA General Secretary, told IANS.He said the employees of SBI would not be on strike. The union is opposed to the government’s decision to merge State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Travancore (SBT), State Bank of Patiala (SBP), State Bank of Mysore (SBM) and State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) with the SBI.

New Delhi, July 11 (PTi): Flyers coming in from abroad can buy goods upto Rs 25,000 from dutyfree shops in international airports across the country, a five-time jump from the current limit.

The move follows complaints from the travellers that the limit was low and needed to be revised. They had cited instructions issued late last year by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that permitted export from and import into India of Indian currency up to an amount not exceeding Rs 25,000.

"Passengers can now purchase goods at duty-free shops in Indian rupees up Rs 25,000 as against the earlier ceiling of Rs 5,000," a senior customs official said citing a recent order by Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in this regard.

He said that the duty-free shops operators have also been suggested to display the rate of exchange published by the commercial banks for conversion of foreign currency or the rate of exchange notified by the CBEC on a fortnightly basis for import and export of goods.

The senior customs officials in-charge of the airports have been asked to ensure that information relating to the use of Indian currency should be displayed at all the duty-free shops.

Similarly, the websites of duty-free shops or the airports must be kept accurately updated with regard to the facility and limit in use of Indian currency for making purchases, as per the CBEC's order.

The duty-free shops operators have been asked that they display the prices of goods in Indian Rupees at the earliest, it said.

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Government sets up panel for MSP, pulse production bonus New Delhi, July 11 (iANS): To address the issue of escalating prices of pulses, the Union government on Monday set up a high-level committee headed by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian to consider a "reasonable increase" in minimum support price (MSP) for pulses and bonus for farmers. A ministerial committee headed by Finance Minister Arun Jatley also decided to increase the buffer stocks to 20 lakh tonnes from the existing 8 lakh tonnes. A Food Ministry spokesman said that on the suggestion of Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, a ministerial committee headed by Arun Jaitley decided that a committee headed by Subramanian will "consider reasonable increase in MSP for pulses and bonus for the farmers for producing pulses". Briefing reporters, Paswan said: "The government has decided to set up the committee under the chief economic advisor to frame a long-term policy on pulses, which will look into various options, including MSP and bonus." The committee will submit its report in two weeks.

SC extends Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy’s parole New Delhi, July 11 (iANS): In a relief to Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy, the Supreme Court on Monday extended his parole till August 3, 2016. The bench headed

by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, however, said Roy will deposit Rs 300 crore by August 3, 2016. Roy was granted parole on May 6 this year which was extended by two months on May 11. Monday was the last day of Roy’s extended parole.The Sahara chief was sent to jail on May 4, 2014, for his failure to comply with 2012 order directing him to return investor’s Rs 17,600 crore with 15 per cent interest that his two companies Sahara India Real Estate Corp.

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CBDT and the IT department have introduced a number of measures to make it a success.

CBDT has so far issued three sets of clarifications on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to clear doubts and answer queries about the IDS. The department has also published a countrywide list of registered asset valuers for those who wish to declare their untaxed funds and properties under this window. The CBDT has also directed the taxman to step up publicity by advertising about the IDS at posh markets, clubs and showrooms. Besides, it has promised full privacy would be ensured for those making disclosures for better collections. Under the scheme, the declarants will have to pay a total of 45 per

cent in tax and penalty by November this year. Individuals and entities making disclosures will have immunity from prosecution.

IDS was announced with an aim to flush out black money and will apply to undisclosed income whether in the form of investment in assets or otherwise, pertaining to financial year 2015-16 or earlier. Declarations under IDS can either be made online on the official e-filing website of the tax department or before various regional Principal Commissioners of I-T department.

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NRMSATA 2015-16 boycott: VECs extend support

Kohima Police arrest two persons kohima, July 11 (mExN): Kohima Police have arrested one “NSCN (R) sympathizer” identified as Mezhulhoukho (Bubu).

A press release from PRO/SDPO (South), Kohima Police informed that on July 9 around 11:45 pm, a joint team of South PS personnel and NAP (IR) stationed at South PS led by SDPO (South) conducted a search operation at New Reserve, Phesama based on information about presence of suspected NPG cadres there.

However, before reaching the residence where the

Dimapur, July 11 (mExN): The Nagaland RMSA Teachers’ Association (NRMSATA) 2015-16 today received support from various Village Education Committees (VECs) and SMDC towards its boycott of regular classes starting July 11 over non-payment of salary. The RMSA teachers have not been paid salary for almost six months.

GHS Pokhungri under SDEO Meluri, Phek district has appealed to the Education Department to release the pending salaries of the teachers appointed under RMSA. “The government should understand the fact that these teachers have been discharging their duties with sincerity and dedication for the last five months without their salaries,” stated a press release from Hansangthu ThuSDMC GHS Pokhungri The School Manage- vury, Chairman, SMDC ment and Development Pokhungri. It also pointed Committee (SMDC) of out that the class boycott

by the teachers will jeopardize effective and quality education imparted to the students; hence, appealed to the department to release the pending salaries at the earliest.

Training and demo on oilseed held

BTC students plant trees in Pfutsero Town

Wokha, July 11 (mExN): A training and demonstration on oilseed was conducted at L. Yanthung village in Wokha district on June 30 by the Department of Agriculture, Wokha. The resource person Nzanbemo T Erui (AFA) spoke on the package

and practices of soybean.

Hands on demonstration on how to maintain proper spacing and intercropping with maize were shown to the farmers by Mhathung Odyuo (A.O). Soybean and maize seeds were distributed to the farmers who attended the programme.

VEC Nyang village.

the aggrieved teachers, I give my full support and solidarity for their cause,” he stated, requesting the authority concerned to release their pending salaries at the earliest.

VEC Tamlu village Expressing sadness to learn that the NRMSATA 2015-16 are not paid “without any reason” from the authority concerned, L. VEC Nyang village Longly, Chairman, VEC VEC K. Basa The VEC of Nyang vil- Tamlu village gave his full VEC Khulazu Basa also lage under Longleng dis- support for their cause. appealed to the authority trict extended full support concerned to view the isand solidarity to the cause VEC Bhumnyu sue seriously so that the of the NRMSATA 2015-16 Chairman of VEC Bh- deserving teachers get regarding the non-release umnyu, Chingpu also en- their due share in timeof their salaries. “As such dorsed the ‘No Pay, No bound manner and they we endorse this letter to Work’ of NRMSATA 2015- will be more motivated in support their cause,” stated 16. “After carefully review- serving the students in the Chingak Phom, Chairman, ing the problems faced by days to come.

YWOK expels one from Kohima over theft

pfutsEro, July 11 (mExN): In line with their theme “Revitalizing God’s Creation” for the current academic year, the hostellers of Baptist Theological College, Pfutsero on two occasions in the month of June and July planted trees of local species (around 1500 saplings mostly alder and wild apple saplings) in Pfutsero – around NAP Camp, Glory Peak and Mission Compound.

“We believe that one of the best ways to take care of God’s beautiful creation is through planting trees,” stated a press release issued by ZK Pahrü Pou from BTC.

Philanthropic Asso St. Joseph’s College orientation

Pahrü pointed out that many people under the influence of market forces are clearing large part of forest and planting just one type of tree that fetch good price in market. “Therefore, our objective is starkly differently from that of money-oriented market ideologues who propagate, ‘money grows on trees’ and who encourage mono-culture of tree plantation to earn money.”

Plantation of only one type of tree on a large scale in a particular area, he stated, disturbs ecological balance rather than regenerating the nature. “In our land, one can see large scale plantation of teak, pine, eu-

calyptus and rubber trees.

Although we may be able to make the whole mountain look green by planting of a single species of tree, but in its truest sense, the definition of forest is lost because only one species of tree does not make a forest.”

He further lamented that today, development projects and state revenue demands are leading to destruction of forest resources more than by the needs of the forest dwellers. “More forest land was converted into national park and wild life sanctuaries. There are also strong commercial forces at work.

For many people, forest is

nothing but just a source of money-making industry and rampantly destroying forest for timber business.”

In many hill areas, with unabated deforestation, he said, water sources are depleting threatening agriculture and fishing activities.

He asserted that conservation and preservation of forest is the need of the hour to provide security of life to all living beings. He also stressed on educating “our” people about the importance of protecting and conserving forests, soil, and water “if we are to survive and live healthy life.” He appealed to join hands in “revitalizing God’s creation.”

Village Level Organization office in Padumpukhri inaugurated

Members of Philanthropic Association St. Joseph’s College Jakhama during the orientation programme on July 8.

Jakhama, July 11 (mExN): Philanthropic Association St. Joseph’s College Jakhama held its first orientation programme at the college on July 8 under the theme ‘Service to men is service to God’.

Welcoming the members, Y Benathung Kithan, president of the association, called upon all to be active members. The gen-

eral secretary, Tsalumli Ayonger highlighted the aims and objectives of the association.

Meanwhile, the director of the association, Prof.

Dihe Mao appealed to the young generation to promote and nurture love of humanity, the heart of all religion, and cultivate a sense of caring. He reiterated the association’s ob-

quently along with armed bodyguards.

Bubu was arrested during the process of investigation.

According to the release, the police retrieved two demand notes, one addressed to the all scrap businessmen under Kohima district to submit Rs. 50,000/- as yearly tax and the other addressed to the president of Sumo vehicle union under Kohima district to submit Rs. 1,500/per vehicle as yearly tax from the seized laptop.

A case under Kohima South PS Case No. 0041/16 U/S 384/212B/120B IPC R/W 25 (1B)(a)Arms Act R/W 7/8 NSR’ 62 has been registered against the arrested persons for conducting further investigation.

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BD final year students of Baptist Theological College, Pfutsero holding alder saplings during the plantation drive.

Leo Club of Dimapur planted various saplings at Prodigals Home, Duncan Basti, Dimapur on July 10. According to a press release from the Club, the event was a rare service activity as it was jointly done by Leo clubs of Dimapur, Jorhat, Nogaon, Tinsukia, Thoubal, Karimganj, Guwahati etc. and also by the Leo club of Battaramulla Synergy (Sri Lanka) and Leo club of 31DF Cavite city Philippines together on the same day at their respective places. In Dimapur, following the plantation, the members of Leo Club distributed soft drinks and spent time with the inmates of the Home.

suspected cadres were taking shelter, the cadres were alerted by barking dogs and they managed to escape.

The police personnel recovered 7 numbers of 7.65 mm live rounds, 1 knife, 1 lenovo laptop, 1 16 GB pen drive, 1 pistol holster and 1 vehicle (Maruti 800) B/R No. AS-01L-2249 with ignition key from the house, informed the release.

Accordingly, the owner of the house identified as S. Yashikaba Sangtam was taken into police custody.

During preliminary investigation, the release said, Yashikaba revealed that two of his friends, namely Bubu (sympathizer of NSCN-R) and Neibulie (Major NSCN-R) were staying in his rented house and Neibulie used to come fre-

jective to be a permanent elucidation to human needs, for which every philanthropist has the duty of relinquishing certain conveniences to play the role of a donor.

T h e p ro g ra m m e, chaired by Vekenshe K. Genevieve, concluded with a vote of thanks from the vice president, Nyiwalo Jemu.

GHSS Bhandari goes on educational tour

kohima, July 11 (mExN): The Yorübami Welfare Organisation Kohima (YWOK) has expressed shock over the July 2 incident in Kohima, where one Khone Lohe had committed a theft. Following the reported crime, the YWOK in its meeting held on July 9 resolved and expelled Khone Lohe from Kohima with immediate effect vide YWOK standing resolution No. IV(Four), informed a press release issued by YWOK Chairman, Lhüvesayi Lohe and General Secretary, Sekhoyi Nyekha. The organization condemned the act of robbery committed by the accused who was caught by Tsütuonuomia Youth Organisation of Kohima Village.

Meanwhile, YWOK expressed regret for tarnishing the image of Yorübami in particular and the Chakhesang community at large.

KDCC holds meeting kohima, July 11 (mExN): The Kohima District Congress Committee (KDCC) held its executive meeting on July 11 at its office. Kevi Vizo, President KDCC, who chaired the meeting, briefed the house on the RTI filed in some departments. He informed that the reports will be in public domain very soon, according to a press release from KDCC General Secretary, Abalie Medoze. The meeting also entrusted KDCC vice presidents in-charge of constituencies to organise an interactive programme with the ACCCs to have better understanding and to strengthen the party. As resolved earlier, the KDCC will be launching the tour of constituencies at the earliest, it was informed.

Phek DPDB meeting held phEk, July 11 (Dipr): The Phek District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) today re-affirmed opening of Vijaya Bank in Pfutsero. During the monthly meeting held at DC’s conference hall under the chairmanship of DC & Vice Chairman DPDB Phek, Muroho Chotso, the board also decided to send reminder to the state authority for immediate establishment of Police outpost at Phokhungri. Soil and water conservation department highlighted the departmental activities.

Other agenda discussed in the meeting included poor BSNL service in Phek Town, function of ATMA, and change of nomenclature of Ura Club Chizami Town to Global Trust Club.

9 Assam Rifles conduct medical camp Athel O Lotha, Joint Secretary and Mission Director of NSRLM (2nd row 8th from right), Menuoneituo Chadi, COO Livelihoods and Dist In-charge, M. Yimok Phom, BPM Chumukedima and VLO members at Padumpukhuri village, Dimapur.

Dimapur, July 11 (mExN): Office of the Padumpukhuri Village Level Organization (VLO) was formally inaugurated by Athel O Lotha, Joint Secretary and Mission Director of NSRLM on July 9.

Athel O Lotha, the chief guest, expressed happiness to learn of the full cooperation and support given by the village council members to the women SHGs, stated a press release received here. She also said Padumpukhuri is one of

the villages which showed transparency and trustworthiness by doing a joint venture Income Generating Activities through opening a daily market for sustainable livelihoods of SHGs. Meanwhile, Menuoneituo Chadi, COO Livelihoods and District In-charge highlighted about the core values and aims of NSRLM and talked about proper utilization of Community Investment Fund (CIF) and various other funds.

M. Yimok Phom, BPM

Chumukedima encouraged the SHGs to stand out as the best SHGs and also to stand out as model SHGs. Chenton Konyak, Area Coordinator and DMMU, BMMU Staff also accompanied the chief guest. Village Council Members and VDB Secretary, GBs and VLO members led by its President and all the SHGs were present during the program.

On the same day, VLO office at Diphupar A was also inaugurated.

Orientation on semester system at Cornerstone College

Dimapur, July 11 (mExN): A total of 197 patients were treated during a free medical camp conducted by 9 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North)/ HQ 5 Sector Assam Rifles at Pfutseromi and Tsiese Basa Villages on July 2 and 3 respectively, an AR press note informed. The camp was held with an aim to provide treatment to the local populace of Pfutseromi and Tsiese Basa Villages and adjoining areas where requisite medical facilities are not available, it added.

Boys trained by IGAR (N) clear recruitment exam kohima, July 11 (mExN): 76 Naga boys sponsored and trained by units/sectors of IGAR (North) successfully cleared the recruitment examination of Indian Army held recently in Dimapur. Around 700 boys were trained by IGAR (North) from all districts across Nagaland, informed a press release from PRO, Assam Rifles.

The successful candidates include 41 boys from Jalukie, Dimapur and Medziphema region, 28 boys from Wokha, Kohima, Phek district and 7 boys from Zunheboto alone.

Meetings & AppointMents

KSON All the Kuki Students' Organisation Nagaland (KSON) office bearers have been informed that there will be an emergency meeting on July 12, 4:00 pm at KCC campus, Dimapur. A press release from KSON President, Paotinsei directed all KSON office bearers to attend the meeting compulsorily.

Students of GHSS Bhandari with their teachers during the educational tour in Kolkata.

Wokha, July 11 (mExN): A team of 22 class 12 students of Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS), Bhandari visited important places of interest in Kolkata from June 28 to 30 as part of their 5-day educational tour along with their Principal, Vice Principal, and two PG Teachers.

A press release in-

formed that the team visited Victoria Memorial Hall, Science City, Indian Museum and Nicco Park in Kolkata. “Daring the hot summer, the students enjoyed getting exposed to the glimpses of historical events and wonders of science along with enjoying the fun of travelling together,” the release stated. They also had a day

of relaxation at the Nicco Amusement Park playing the various rides provided at the Water Park and the Main Park.

“The students were excited to see the life prevailing in the city and said that the tour has aroused their interest for exploring the wonders of the land and life through travel,” the release added.

Students and faculty of Cornerstone College with resource person.

Dimapur, July 11 (mExN): With an aim to equip the students about the semester system, Cornerstone College organised an orientation programme.

A press release from Media Cell, Cornerstone College informed that the Principal of

the college, Sentisangla delivered the welcome address.

The resource person, Dr Sanjay Chabbra, Principal of Unity College of Arts & Commerce, Dimapur presented on the semester system under Nagaland University. He also spoke in length about

the grading system. Further, he encouraged the students to work hard from the beginning of the academic session as it would impact their grades. The one day orientation programme was attended by all the faculty and students of the college.

Bhanu Janma Jayanti The North Eastern Region Service Nepali Association (NERSNA), Kohima will be celebrating ‘Bhanu Janma Jayanti’, the 202nd birth anniversary of ‘Adi Kavi’ Bhanu Bhakta Acharya on July 13 at State Academy Hall, Kohima. The celebration will be marked by poetry recitation, cultural and traditional shows, and felicitation to successful HSLC and HSSLC 2016 students of the community. All the participants in different sections have been requested to contact Tula Giri at 9856307400.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express Volume Xi issue 190

Democratization & Reconciliation If the process to finding peace is democratic, inclusive, participatory and reconciliatory in nature, then, there is a better possibility that the outcome itself will reflect these qualities.

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he challenge of peacebuilding is to ensure that any solution is principled and just in order to attain an enduring peace in which the root causes have been addressed and the armed confrontations have ended. It is important to further assure that the resolution or outcome agreed to is not the source of future conflicts. In other words two components crucial towards achieving such a synthesis are: democratization and reconciliation. It is through the interplay of democratization and reconciliation that the process for resolving and systemically addressing conflicting issues is given meaning and relevance that makes it possible for a society to reconstruct and coexist with dignity.

In the history of Indo-Naga peace initiatives the breach of transparency and absence of democratic process has often undermined genuine intentions and subsequently resulted in the failure to find just and durable solutions. Lessons drawn from the Naga experience clearly show that the process of arriving at a resolution is equally as important as the final outcome. In other words, the outcome lies in the process itself which has the potential to engage the parties at a deep level. If the process to finding peace is democratic, inclusive, participatory and reconciliatory in nature, then, there is a better possibility that the outcome itself will reflect these qualities. This is the road less travelled.

On the other hand, the road most travelled in the history of peace initiatives has been in the form of pragmatic political expediency that is usually focused on reaching an outcome quickly. By using the approach that primarily focuses on an outcome, the conflicting parties seem to take the easier and less time consuming and messy route that by-passes the arduous task of engaging in complexities which are critical to building trust, addressing the root causes and establishing democratic peace. All too often this has proven to be counterproductive and unsustainable, and, in many cases, has been responsible for generating future conflicts. The end therefore cannot justify the means. The temptation of conveniently bypassing due democratic process and focusing on the outcome has been the weakest decision-point of many a peace process.

Against the backdrop of the present Naga political situation it is important to remind ourselves that the characteristics of democratization and reconciliation have continuously raised critical questions. The nature of durable political solutions require the active interplay of justice, transparency, accountability, democratic participation and reconciliatory politics which are part of having visionary statesmanship.

And, therefore, those at the helm who are guiding the political process need to momentarily step back and engage in some sincere self-criticism.

An honest pathway to the future will inform us that an “enduring, inclusive and new relationship of peaceful co-existence,” and sharing of sovereign powers has meaning and relevance only through people-centered democratization and reconciliatory politics.

This highlights why it is in the interest of both Nagas and the Government of India for reconciliation to be given a chance to bloom and become the means for us all to pursue an inclusive and just future.

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Kathryn Doyle Reuters Health

What’s in cigarette smoke?

Most people don’t know

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any people in a recent study said they’d tried to find out what chemicals are in tobacco products or smoke, but most were not familiar with components other than nicotine.

Surveyed by phone, more than half the respondents said they’d like to see this information on cigarette packs and a quarter would like to have access to it online.

Of the 7,000 constituents of cigarette smoke, 93 in particular are quite toxic, said Dr. Kurt M. Ribisl of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “It’s pretty surprising how relatively few people have heard of these yet many were interested in hearing more about them,” Ribisl told Reuters Health by phone.

The most simple and effective messaging may be to list the chemicals and, briefly, their health effects, he said. For example, cigarette smoke contains arsenic, which causes heart damage, and formaldehyde, which causes throat cancer.

Ribisl and colleagues surveyed nearly 5,000 U.S. adults by phone, targeting high smoking/ low income areas and cell phone numbers. Almost a quarter of respondents reported being smokers, most saying they had smoked every day for the past month.

The researchers chose 24 harmful chemicals in tobacco and divided them into six groups of four. Each participant answered questions about one group of four chemicals, selected at random.

More than a quarter of respondents said they had looked for information on the constituents of tobacco smoke, most commonly young adults and smokers. More than half said they would most prefer to see this information on cigarette packs.

Only eight percent of respondents knew that at least three of the four chemicals they were asked about are present in cigarette smoke, the researchers reported in BMC Public Health.

“Many people seek information on smoke components but not many find it,” said Dr. Reinskje Talhout of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment at the Center for Health Protection in The Netherlands. “Here they also seek it but in general don’t understand it very well, so we developed fact sheets for the general public,” Talhout told Reuters Health by phone.

Having this information may help smokers make an informed decision, but there is no evidence yet on how it may change smoking behavior, Talhout said. “If people hear about these components they are quite shocked,” she said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a list of harmful and potentially harmful tobacco components available to consumers (online here: bit.ly/1lNyDVo), and tobacco manufacturers are obliged to send this list and amounts in their products to the FDA, Talhout said.

It’s still not clear how providing this information on packs might change behavior, Ribisl noted, and it is possible that listing amounts of chemicals will simply lead consumers to “comparison shop” and choose a brand with marginally lower amounts of the same dangerous chemicals, rather than quitting altogether.

“Both the Centers for Disease Control and FDA are very credible sources about this information,” he said. “One of the things I would like the FDA and others to think about is what they can put on the side of the cigarette pack, what kind of message can we put there to help create informed smokers,” he said.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Jeresa May C. Ochave Inter Press Service

Is Federalism Pro-poor?

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overty, according to the United Nations, is “a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society. It means not having enough to feed and clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to, not having the land on which to grow one’s food or a job to earn one’s living, not having access to credit. It means insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of individuals, households and communities. It means susceptibility to violence, and it often implies living in marginal or fragile environments, without access to clean water or sanitation.”

Constitutional experts contend that our unitary system’s centralized form is the culprit for poverty in the country. The top-to-bottom approach (pinatulo governance, as we call it) limits the powers, authority and resources of its own local governments, impairing gravely the decision-making process. Planning and programs for the communities are divorced from the realties on the ground.

In effect, local governance are inefficient in providing even the public services that majority of Filipinos need and expect—health care, education, employment and housing; a state of affairs contrary to the promise of the 1987 Freedom Constitution, where framers have been mandated to create one that is “truly reflective of the aspirations and ideals of the Filipino people.”

A research by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), in 2015, affirms that the Philippines remains one of the poorest in Southeast Asia despite robust economic growth in the past few years.

The current and slow increase of the minimum wage cannot partner with the rising prices of commodities; we have the highest income tax rate (32 percent) compared to our neighboring countries in the Asean: Singapore, 2 percent; Vietnam, 20 percent; Malaysia, 11 percent; Cambodia, 20 percent; Laos, 12 percent. We also are a highly corrupt country, ranked 85th out of 175 countries). “Leakages” in our country are far beyond normal—and we don’t prosecute. (The Napoles corruption cases involving senators and congressmen have barely gone up through our justice system and those nominal “name brands” incarcerated may be freed soon with the advent of a new administration).

Rogier van den Brink, of the World Bank (WB), says the perennial challenge is to channel economic growth toward the poor to make the economy inclusive, thus, ending poverty. Rogier adds this can be achieved if investments in infrastructure, health, and education are increased; including an enhanced competition to level the playing field; simpler regulations to promote job creation, especially for micro and small enterprises; and the protection of property rights.

Karl Kendrick Chua, senior country economist of the WB, says both tax administration and tax policy reforms are needed to generate the revenues required to finance the decades-old investment deficit in infrastructure, health and education.

While tax policy reforms can be implemented, however, under a unitary system, national taxes remitted to the center will still take away much of the wealth and revenues generated by agriculture and other industries in various local communities around the country. Major corporations, including banks, pay their taxes in Metro Manila whose cities benefit more from their activities than the provinces and other cities in which the branches of the corporations operate.

Local officials will continue to spend much of their energy and limited funds seeking the assistance and approval of national government officials in Metro Manila. Local dependence will continue to stifle local initiative and resourcefulness, and hamper local business and development.

Although new taxes and fiscal reforms have been initiated, the government lacks funds and is heavily in debt from too much borrowing.

Federalism, in contrast to our current unitary system (that only concentrates political powers and authority in the national government), emphasizes regional and local self-rule and self-reliance in governance based on the principle of subsidiarity. In short, the decisions are made at the lowest possible level where local problems can be solved. In addition, while regions or state governments are designed to be autonomous, the federal government will provide assistance to various regions and states, especially the less developed ones. In most federal governments this is called the “Equalization Fund,” designed to lift the less endowed states to a decent level, meeting the basic needs of its constituencies. This fund is raised by contributions from all the states in the federal republic and expensed by federal government.

As Atty. Josephus Jimenez emphasized in a Philippine Star column, “Once we are under a federal system, all component states collect their own taxes and contribute only a small fraction of their revenues to the federal or central government for only three centralized functions, namely: National Defense, including the National Police, Justice and Foreign Affairs. All the rest shall be left to each state, including health, education, labor and employment, trade, transportation, communication, agriculture, agrarian reform, justice, environment, natural resources.

The states will manage mining and forest matters and shall control all natural resources.”

A federal republic will provide better policies and implementation that will enable the people to raise their standard of living. At the same time, • Citizens will be more willing to pay taxes that will finance government programs and services for their direct benefits, as they see where their money goes; • Equitable regional development will be promoted; • Faster political, economic, social, and cultural development and modernization will take place; and • There will be inter-regional competition in attracting domestic and foreign investments and industries, professionals, and skilled workers.

It is true that there will be inevitably some “leakages,” but corruption on a local level is much more transparent through a vigilant local community now empowered to run its own affairs.

Let us take note at how America has empowered its people and become the most powerful country in the world through federalism: “So long as local affairs are reserved to the greatest possible extent for the localities themselves and so long as the people are both interested in and capable of understanding and handling their own problems, then the philosopher’s stone has indeed been discovered and a large measure of both freedom and order are possible.” – Dr. George Charles Roche III. Jeresa May C. Ochave is communications director of the Centrist Democracy Political Institute (CDPI). A graduate of the Mass Communications program in Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU), she currently serves as secretary of Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines (CDP) – Davao Chapter and was elected as regional chairperson of the Centrist Democratic Youth Association of the Philippines (CDYAP) – Region XI. Ms. Ochave is also a part-time professor at the University of the Immaculate Conception, in Davao City, and is taking her masters in Public Administration, major in Public Policy, at the AdDU.

What the FBI didn't say about Hillary Clinton’s email Peter Van Buren

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Source: Reuters

ederal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey's recommendation that no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton for her use of an unclassified email server while secretary of state is significant, but what he did not address is equally important.

What was not said about intent Comey stated some 110 emails were classified when they were transmitted and received via Clinton's personal email server. Comey stressed that he did not find evidence that Clinton intended to violate any laws, or that her actions rose to “gross negligence.” He did not explain the rationale behind this finding.

There was no electronic connection between the government's classified systems and Clinton's unclassified server. This indicates that on 110 separate occasions Clinton and/or one of her correspondents had to have retyped – or copied and pasted – information from a classified format; there is no other method to transfer data.

Classified markings (i.e., "Top Secret") were removed in the process (though Comey did say some marked classified emails were also found on the server).

The Inspector General for the Intelligence Community stated some of the documents were marked at the highest levels, including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. At least 47 of the Clinton emails released contain the Freedom of Information Act release exemption B3 CIA PERS/ORG, which indicates the material referred to CIA personnel matters. Some emails show semi-oblique references to CIA staffers, known as “talk arounds,” to avoid mentioning a name or position per se.

Comey made clear the sensitiv-

ity of some of the information, saying “seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received.

These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position... should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.”

Whether information was marked or unmarked is irrelevant. Standard Form 312, signed by Clinton and every security clearance holder in the government, specifically notes that the laws apply to both marked and unmarked classified material. The legality of retroactive classification has been tested by the Supreme Court, which let stand a lower court decision that the practice was legal.

While Comey maintains there was no intent or gross negligence by Clinton to violate the law, it is difficult to reconcile her actions and his statement.

What was not said about the Freedom of Information Act Comey did not discuss Clinton's actions and the Freedom of Information Act. During her tenure as secretary of state and for some time afterwards, the State Department maintained it had no Clinton email records to produce in response to requests. Those statements – while technically true in that State could not search Clinton's personal server – blocked journalists, private citizens, and for a time, Congress, from docuWhat was not said about precedent The standards applied in the Clin- ments they were lawfully entitled to see.

The State Department's own inspecton case are at variance with how clastor general found these actions to be in sified information violations elsewhere contravention of the Federal Records Act. in the government are handled.

As examples, the cases of CIA officer What will be said John Kiriakou (who served three years The director of the FBI labeled the in federal prison for exposing a single, leading contender for the presidency unmarked, unclassified business card and her staff as “extremely careless” with the name of in their handling of America's secrets. a CIA employee), In the current political climate, this and TSA air mar- is generally seen as positive news by shal Robert Ma- Clinton supporters, the new standard clean (fired for apparently being “not under indictexposing a text retroactively classified) ment.” The Trump campaign will no stand out. Major Jason Brezler, who doubt make this all a major focus of its sent classified information to fellow messaging going forward.

Marines in Afghanistan to warn them Few believed, rightly or wrongly, about a Taliban conspirator, was forced that Hillary Clinton would face crimiout of the service. Even General Da- nal charges over her handling of clasvid Petraeus, who transmitted classi- sified material. Yet, the questions not fied information via his Gmail account addressed by the FBI remain. Even if to his mistress, received limited legal the majority of voters in November see punishment and was forced to resign. the issue as put to rest, Republicans But perhaps with an eye toward in Congress will be unlikely to feel the others mounting a future national same come January. security violation “Hillary defense,” (Disclosure: Following the publication – during Clinton's time as secretary of state – of my Comey did add “To be clear, this is book critical of the State Department's role in the not to suggest that in similar circumIraq War, the department unsuccessfully carried stances, a person who engaged in this out termination proceedings against me. Instead, voluntarily.) Peter Van Buren, who served activity would face no consequences. Iinretired the State Department for 24 years, is the author To the contrary, those individuals are of "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People,” a often subject to security or administraat the waste and mismanagement of the Iraqi tive sanctions. But that is not what we look reconstruction. His latest book is "Ghosts of Tom are deciding now.”

Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent." not addressed.

In addition, Comey stated Clinton's lawyers deleted all emails they did not turn over to the State Department and then cleaned their devices in such a way to preclude complete forensic recovery. He added “It is also likely that there are other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere.” None of this was addressed in the context of destruction of evidence.

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What was not said about perjury and obstruction Hillary Clinton's earliest statements, that no classified information traversed her server, later changed to "no marked" classified information.

Comey explained emails found in others' inboxes, messages not turned over

by Clinton to the State Department, were work-related. Clinton claimed she turned over all work-related emails. Despite this, the questions of perjury and obstruction of justice were

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Biodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarized Mind

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Vandana Shiva CommonDreams

recent report from the National Academy of Science of The United States, titled "Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values," warns: “One possible goal of release of a gene-drive modified organism is to cause the extinction of the target species or a drastic reduction in its abundance.”

Gene Drives have been called "mutagenic chain reactions," and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the "gene bomb."

Kevin Esvelt of MIT exclaims "a release anywhere is likely to be a release everywhere," and asks "Do you really have the right to run an experiment where if you screw up, it affects the whole world." The NAS report cites the case of wiping out amaranth as an example of "potential benefit." Yet, the "magical technology" of Gene Drives remains a Ghost, or the Department of Defense of the United States Government's secret "weapon" to continue its War on Amaranthus Culturis.

The aforementioned study on ghost-tech was sponsored by DARPA (The Pentagon's Research Ghost) and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (The ghost of the Microsoft Monopoly). DARPA has been busy. Interestingly, Microsoft BASIC was developed on a DARPA Supercomputer across the street from MIT, at Harvard.

Where does DARPA end and MIT start? Where does Microsoft end and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation start. The orientation of our technologies has been dictated by the DARPA-Mind, a Mechanical Mind trained in War, and Gates continues to colonize meaning, just as gates had done to our lands, and the Green Revolution has done to our food.

Our planet has evolved, in balance, creating balance, for 4.6 billion years. Homo sapiens emerged around 200,000 years ago. About 10,000 years ago, Peasants developed the selection and breeding of seeds and domesticated agriculture began. Human creativity combined with nature to provide the abundance that allowed the evolution of societies and species. Humanity and Nature renewed each other, sustaining civilisation and providing the potential for the Industrial Revolution.

75 years ago DARPA-Mind began its Extermination Experiment, and sent humanity off-axis. The Chemicals, Materials, and Technologies acquired during "The War", and patented (interestingly, the Internal Combustion Engine Patent belongs to Texaco), were forced on Amaranthus Culturis - The Cultures of Living Cycles. DARPA-Mind called it "The Green Revolution", colonised the meanings of those two words, and began Stockpiling Chemicals of War in Our Fields; there is nothing "green" or "revolutionary" about Extermination, it must be a secret service code name for the assault that now has the names "Gene Drives", "CRISPR", or more accurately, Genetic Engineering.

“CASE STUDY 6: CONTROLLING PALMER AMARANTH TO INCREASE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY Objective Create gene drives in Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri also called pigweed), to reduce or eliminate the weed on agricultural fields in the Southern United States.

Rationale Palmer amaranth infests agricultural fields throughout the American South. It has evolved resistance to the herbicide glyphosate, the world’s most used herbicide (Powles, 2008), and this resistance has become geographically widespread.”

Palmer Amaranth has emerged as one of the superweeds. Instead of seeing the emergence of Palmer Amaranth as a superweed, as a result of the failure of the misguided approach of Herbicide Resistant GMOs, Monsanto & Co - which includes investors, scientists, corporations, DARPA, and Gates, are now rushing to drive the Amaranth species to extinction through the deployment of an untested Tool. The tool of gene editing and gene drives - genetic "Copy-Paste". Untested DARPAMind Tools have real impacts on our world. Intelligence requires that we stop, and assess why the tool of GMOs is creating superweeds, instead of controlling weeds, as it promised. Such assessment is real Science.

outcomes and harmful effects on vegetable crops, for example. Palmer amaranth in Case Study 6 is a damaging weed in the United States, but related Amaranthus species are cultivated for food in in Mexico, South America, India, and China.”

A scientific assessment would tell us that plants evolve resistance to herbicides which are supposed to kill them because they have intelligence, and they evolve. Denial of intelligence in life, and denial of evolution is unscientific. 107 Nobel Laureates - including two that have long passed on - "signed" a letter in support Genetic Engineering a few days ago. Clearly 'Science' did not prompt that "communication". Amaranth's root, the word amara— meaning 'eternal' and 'deathless' in both Greek and Sanskrit—connects two formidable Houses of the Ancient World. From the high slopes of the Himalayas, through the plains of north, central and south India, to the coastlines of the east, west and the south, Amaranth is a web of life in itself. Numerous varieties are found throughout the country. In fact, the Himalayan region is one of the ‘centres of diversity’ for the Amaranth.

Amaranth, Amaranto, love-lies-bleeding, tassel flower, Joseph's coat, or ramdana (gods own grain) is the grain of well-being. It is rich in names, nutrition, history and meaning. There are records of Amaranth cultivation in South and Meso America as far back as 5,000 B.C. The sacred Amaranth criss-crosses the Ancient World, nourishing cultures from the Andes to the Himalayas.

Amaranth is a sacred grain for the Indian Civilisation as much as it is for the Aztec Civilisation, civilisations in the shadow of time, yet very much alive. To force cultivation of cash crops that could be traded more easily, the cultivation of Amaranth was forbidden, and punishable by death. The "pagan" grain that built civilisations was outlawed, to pave the way for Cash Crops for traders. amaranto.com reports: "Amaranth was also used as a ceremonial plant in the Aztec empire. In several days the religious calendar, Aztec or Inca women grind or roasted amaranth seed, mixing it with honey or human blood, giving it the shape of birds snakes, deer, or mountains and Gods, ate them with respect and devotion as Food of the Gods."

The leaves of the amaranth contain more iron than spinach, and have a much more delicate taste. If Popeye—“the sailor man”—had Amaranth on his "ship", he wouldn't have needed canned food to fight off his nemesis—“the bearded captain". Besides rice bran, the grain of the amaranth has the highest content of iron amongst cereals. 1 kilogram of Amaranth flour, added to 1 kilogram of refined wheat flour, increases its iron content from 25 milligrams to 245milligrams. Adding amaranth flour to wheat/rice flour is a cheaper and healthier way to prevent nutritional anaemia; rather than buying expensive tablets, tonics, health drinks, branded and bio fortified flour, or canned spinach from the ship.

The Amaranth is extremely rich in complex carbohydrates and in proteins. It has 12-18% more protein than other cereals, particularly lysine—a critical amino acid.

It also differs from other cereals in that 65% is found in the germ and 35% in the endosperm, as compared to an average of 15% in the germ and 85% in the endosperm for other cereals. When Amaranth flour is mixed 30:70 with either rice flour or wheat flour, the protein quality The DARPA-Mind report casually states potential harm: rises, from 72 to 90, and 32 to 52, respectively. The Amaranth grain is about the richest source of calcium, other “Gene drives developed for agricultural purposes than milk. It has 390 grams of calcium compared to 10 could also have adverse effects on human well- being. Transfer of a suppression drive to a non-target grams in rice, and 23 grams in refined flour. wild species could have both adverse environmental The diversity of Amaranth Greens are incredible, edi-

bles that grow uncultivated in our fields. They are a major source of nutrition. Per 100 grams, Amaranth greens can give us 5.9 grams of protein, 530 milligrams of calcium, 83 milligrams of phosphorous, 38.5 milligrams of iron,14,190 micrograms of carotene, 179 micrograms of Vitamin-C,122 milligrams of Magnesium, 0.18 Zinc, 230 Sodium, 241 Potassium. Amaranth is nearly 500% richer in Carotene than GMO Golden Rice - which is being promoted as a future miracle for addressing Vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice has failed to materialise for 2 decades.

The poorest, landless woman and her children have access to nutrition through the generous gift of the Amaranth.

Industrial agriculture—promoted by United States Foreign Policy—treated amaranth greens as “weeds”, and tried to exterminate with herbicides. Then came Monsanto, with Round Up Ready crops, genetically engineered to resist the spraying of Round Up so that the GMO crop would survive the otherwise lethal chemical, while everything else that was green perished. As was stated by a Monsanto spokesman during the negotiations of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), Herbicide resistant GMOs “prevent the weeds from stealing the sunshine”.

This DARPA-Mind world view is distorted.

Firstly, what are weeds to Monsanto are food and nutrition for women of the South. Secondly, the sun shines with abundance for all. Sharing the sun's blessing is a right of all species. In Amaranthus Culturis—the world of biodiversity and the sun, scarcity is alien, there is merely abundance. Sharing abundance creates abundance. It is not stealing. Stealing is a concept created by Monsanto & Co. When farmers save and share seeds, Monsanto would like to define it as “stealing”. When the sun shines on the earth and plants grow, Monsanto would like to define it as a plants “stealing” the sunshine, while Monsanto Co. privateers our biodiversity.

This is exactly how seed famine and food famine are engineered through a world view which transforms the richness of diversity into monocultures, abundance into scarcity. The paradigm of Genetic Engineering is based on Genetic Determinism and Genetic Reductionism. It is based on a denial of the self organized, evolutionary potential of living organisms. It treats living organisms as a lego set. But life is not lego, meccano, or stratego. It is life— complex, self organized, dynamic evolution—auto poetic.

The right to food and nutrition of the people outside the US, and the right of the amaranth to continue to grow and evolve and and nourish people, can be extinguished by powerful men in the US because they messed up their agriculture with Round Up Ready crops, and now want to mess up the planet, its biodiversity, and food and agriculture systems of the world with the tool of gene drives to push species to extinction.

As in the case of GMOs, the rush for Gene Drives, and CRISPR-based Gene Editing are linked to patents.

Bill Gates is financing the research that is leading to patents. And he with other billionaires has invested $130 million in a company EDITAS to promote these technologies. Bayer, the new face on Monsanto & Co, has invested $35 million in the new GMO Technologies, and committed $300 million over the next 5 years.

"Biofortification" has been given the world food prize of 2016, yet biofortification is inferior to the nutrition provided by biodiversity and indigenous knowledge.

The same forces promoting biofortification are also promoting the extermination of nutritious crops like amaranth, as well as rich indigenous cultures of food.

The project of deliberately exterminating species is a crime against nature and humanity. It was a crime when Bayer and others, of IG Farben, exterminated Jews in concentration camps, and is a crime still. The very idea of extermination is a crime. Developing tools of extermination in the garb of saving the world is a crime. A crime that must not be allowed to continue any further.

We are members of an Earth Family. Every species, every race is a member of one Earth Community. We cannot allow some members of our Earth Family to allocate to themselves the power and hubris to decide who will live, and who will be exterminated.

The DARPA-Mind is obsolete.

A scientific assessment of the failure of herbicides and GMOs to control weeds, and the success of ecological agriculture in controlling pests and weeds without the use of violent tools will lead us to a paradigm-shift from industrial farming to ecological agriculture—to cultures of eternity.

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist and eco feminist. She is the founder/director of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology. She is author of numerous books and has also served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as NGOs, including the International Forum on Globalization, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization and the Third World Network. She has received numerous awards, including 1993 Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize) and the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize.

Powerless against genocide: Frustration of a UN peacekeeper

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Vikas Datta IANS

id-July marks the 22nd anniversary of the belated end of the Rwandan genocide - one of the worst mass slaughters in modern times with at least 800,000 people brutally killed in 100 days in 1994. Most victims were the minority Tutsis, but moderates of the Hutu majority were not spared, and the perpetrators included their long-standing friends, neighbours and sometimes families too. Meanwhile, the world not only remained passive but also hindered those in a position to make some difference.

There can be few more shameful instances for the global community, and its representative organisation, the United Nations, which did not cover itself with much glory in the early 1990s - remember Bosnia? It was however more humiliating for its peacekeepers in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), a manifestly insufficient force not only rendered ineffective by apathy and competing agendas, but its members forced to forsake their military honour, as its Canadian commander recounts in harrowing and heart-breaking detail.

There is no dearth of work on the Rwandan genocide - Alison Des Forges' "Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda" (1999), Philip Gourevitch's ominouslytitled but most disturbing "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda" (1998) while Samantha Power's "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" (2002) provides the American response, Michael Barnett's "Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda" the failure of the UN during the crisis and Shaharyar Khan's "The Shallow Graves of Rwanda" (2000) its continuing failure to help the survivors.

But Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire's account is especially piquant - for his honest and candid portrayal of his helplessness, despite his best efforts, in the face of a

Canadian General Romeo Dallaire at a memorial to the Rwandan Genocide his under-strength UN peacekeeping force could not prevent. (IANS Photo)

monumental tragedy that could have been averted, or at least mitigated, with a little courage and concern by responsible nations.

"Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" (2003) is his "story of what happened in Rwanda in 1994... a story of betrayal, failure, naivete, indifference, hatred, genocide, war, inhumanity and evil". Dallaire says he regrets not writing it earlier despite requests and trying to "find some respite" from his harrowing memories, which instead took him into "a disastrous mental health spiral that led me to suicide attempts, a medical release from the Armed Forces, the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder..." It was only after he retired in 2000 that he began work on it, and the title comes from his response to a Canadian military padre, who asked Dallaire how he could still believe in God after all he had seen and witnessed - "I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil...."

Beginning with the surreal experience of coming across a young oblivious infant in a forested area and finding what he thought a home still had the decaying bodies of his massacred parents and other siblings, Dal-

laire paints how the UN and the world ignored, or even abetted the genocide.

But he could have well discerned the outcome in the penny-pinching ways of the UN bureaucrats, the perceived partiality of its civilian representative (former Cameroonian foreign minister Jacques-Roger BoohBooh) and some unique ways of his troops. The Belgian troops of UNAMIR lived separately around the town since it was their policy that in Africa, their soldiers would not live under tents "because it was imperative that they maintain a correct presence in front of Africans".

Dallaire came to know about the impending genocide in January and given locations of the arms caches but permission to seize them was denied by his UN bosses and he was rebuked for even considering it.

As the genocide started in April, 10 Belgian peacekeepers were disarmed and murdered - prompting Belgium to pull out their troops. The UNAMIR, soon reduced to a 10th of its strength even as Dallaire pleaded for more troops to fulfill its mandate, could save some lives but were mostly spectators - thought there were heroes like Sengalese military observer, Captain Diagne Mbaye, who spirited murdered Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana's children to safety.

Dallaire was scathing about the Belgian withdrawal - remembering his own father and father-in-law had fought for liberation for Belgium in World War II while it was despoiling its African possessions like Rwanda and "now he was watching Belgian troops abandon us" only because "they had lost some of their professional soldiers to soldierly duties". But who all could he blame?

As he tells us: "Engraved still in my brain in the judgment of a small group of bureaucrats who came to 'assess' the situation in the first weeks of the genocide: 'We will recommend to our government not to intervene as the risks are high and all that is here are humans."

What else need be said to reveal what the "civilised, powerful" world thought? Has it changed since 1994?

What’s the BUZZ about….!!!

Imtipong Longkumer

Asst. Prof., BBA Dept.

St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama

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ave you ever wanted a job where you do minimal work, all the hard work will be done on your behalf and still better you get paid in full? Or you need a new hobby that is not only eco friendly, contributes to the beauty of the surroundings but also make some few “BUCKS!!” on the process or in other words “increase your disposable income”, as most economists will say. Well you don’t have look any further than our very own ‘busy-buzzy-stingy’ friend the BEE!!

“Owning something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.”

Beekeeping is one such activity which has been a part of our rich traditional history but also has immense prospect as employment generating activity.

Most of us, till late have been rearing bees in our back yard for honey for personal consumption, but none would have imagined the commercial prospect of rearing bee. Honey is consumed all round the world, it has universal taste. It is not only delicious but is nutritious and has medicinal properties.

It is not just the honey which is the product of beekeeping but other useful byproducts as well, like royal jelly, bee wax and propolis. Each of these byproducts has its own uses and has high commercial value. But the true potential can only be realized if it can be done in a large scale. But the good thing about beekeeping (large scale or small scale) is that it does not incur huge investment compared to other agriculture related activities or rather any other activity.

Physically also it is not that demanding. Just install the bee boxes at appropriate location and let the bees do the hard work and produce.

Beekeeping is a practice done almost all over Nagaland and globally, with relatively similar style but there is a unique way of rearing bees found nowhere else in the world but in the village of MIMA, located 8.8 kms from kohima town, it is also known as the ‘Honey Village Of Nagaland’. The unique way of rearing bee in Mima village is underground beekeeping.

Beekeeping is an age old traditional practice that is intertwined in the socio-religious rituals of the Nagas. Bees have been revered and used as vital indicators for many natural forces beyond their control by the animistic Naga of yore.

Bees and the Nagas have had a rather romantic relationship in the past; our forefathers have written songs regarding the bees and also find mention in many folklores, beliefs and rituals. Thus there is no dearth of traditional knowledge on bees, beekeeping and honey hunting amongst the Nagas.

Beekeeping as a profession has been gaining tremendous momentum in recent times in Nagaland.

It is not only because of factors related to economic sustenance alone but also environmental factors such as changing the mindset of the people to minimize Jhumming for apiculture and other eco-friendly agricultural activities.

Different species of honey bees are found in Nagaland. The common Apis species are:  Rock bee (Apis dorsata/laboriosa)  The little bee (Apis florae)  Asian Honey bee (Apis cerana) Some of the few advantages related with beekeeping as an income generating-saving activity:  Bee keeping requires less time, money and infrastructure investments. “More for less” a sound investment strategy which every investment guru will recommend.  Honey and beeswax can be produced from an area of little agricultural value. “Diamond from the rough” nothing is more satisfying than making something out of what people thought of as ‘nothing’.  The Honey bee does not compete for resources with any other agricultural enterprise. “Monopoly over the resources” a situation where you command not obeys.  Beekeeping has positive ecological consequences. Bees play an important role in the pollination of many flowering plants, thus increasing the yield of certain crops such as sunflower and various fruits.

“Green business” starts a business, save the planet too!!  Honey is a delicious and highly nutritious food.

“It’s not JUNK” rather makes you a HUNK.  By the traditional method of honey hunting many wild colonies of bees are destroyed. This can be prevented by raising bees in boxes and producing honey at home.

“A vigilante for the voice less”, modern ‘Robin Hood.’  Beekeeping can be initiated by individuals or groups.

“Joint venture” two is better than one.  The market potential for honey and wax is high.

“It falls under star in the BCG Growth Matrix” BCG is a matrix where your product is studied in terms of its ‘market share and market growth rate’.

STAR indicates a highest rating in both the two indicators.

However on the flipside, Beekeeping in Nagaland is presently characterized by low level technology, limited investment, low productivity, low quality and lack of market initiative. Government of Nagaland has been undertaking wide range of initiatives to diversify the agriculture sector with a view to strengthening the poverty alleviation efforts. To harness the potential of beekeeping and to implement programs and policies aimed at fulfilling the economic, social and environmental objectives through beekeeping and honey development activities in the state, Government of Nagaland has launched the “Nagaland Beekeeping And Honey Mission” during 2007-2008.

We certainly have the natural resources, we have the wealth of traditional and scientific knowledge at our disposal, we have the necessary skill required and we have the pioneers who showed its possible now all that’s left for us to do is make productive use of it.

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Fresh violence in Kashmir as toll mounts to 32 Srinagar, July 11 (ianS): Amid recurring clashes in curfew-bound Kashmir Valley, three injured protesters died in hospitals here on Monday, taking the death toll to 32 in three days of bloodshed following the killing of a top militant that has sparked fresh India-Pakistan tensions.

And for the first time, police opened fire hitting two civilians in embattled Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's hometown Bijbehara in southern Kashmir, which has accounted for all the deaths bar one since Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed by security forces on Friday.

At least 31 civilians and a police driver have been killed in clashes between the security forces and angry young demonstrators across the Kashmir Valley since Saturday, various informed sources told IANS. But police put the death toll at 23.

There were no fresh deaths on Monday. But the sources said nine more casualties were added to the toll after at least three people succumbed to injuries and five who had died earlier were counted on Friday.

Clashes, however, raged on in many parts of the valley as young men armed with rocks defied prohibitory orders to hurl stones at police and paramilitary pickets.

Bijbehara, Mehbooba Mufti’s hometown, some 40 km from here towards the south of the valley, was the latest to be consumed

Mehbooba Mufti appeals for calm, regrets role of troublemakers

Srinagar, July 11 (ianS): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday sought the cooperation of people in restoring peace and normalcy in Kashmir and regretted that "some elements" were bent on fomenting trouble and mayhem for their vested interests.

She said the government is taking various measures to restore calm and appealed to the people for support following the massive clashes in the valley over the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani, a poster boy of militancy in the state.

"I appeal to all sections of the society including political leaders, media, the religious heads, the business community Policemen patrol a deserted road during a curfew in Srinagar July 11, 2016. (REUTERS)

by the clashes, police sources told IANS. Sources in Srinagar’s S.M.H.S. Hospital said two civilians with bullet injuries were admitted on Monday afternoon and both were from Bijbehara.

“One of them was hit in the stomach and other in his left thigh,” a doctor told IANS requesting anonymity. Police sources said a mob set ablaze a police picket in Lassipora in Pulwama district in south Kashmir. Sopore, Handwara, Bandipora and Baramulla in north Kashmir also witnessed stone throwing incidents.

Another police camp was set on fire in north Kashmir's Sopore town.

Normal life across the valley was paralysed for the third day amid strict cur-

Panagariya front-runner for RBI chief new Delhi, July 11 (reuterS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi could name his policy adviser, Arvind Panagariya, as the next governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), two television channels reported on Monday, citing unnamed government sources. The TV channels - CNBC Awaaz and ABP News - also said that a formal announcement of the decision was expected in next 48 hours. Modi's office declined to comment, but said a decision on the new central bank governor would be made before July 18. Panagariya's office also refused to comment. Panagariya, who heads the government's main economic advisory body NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), is also India's Group of 20 summit negotiator.

Govt reaches to Cong for GST passage new Delhi, July 11 (Pti): Ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament beginning next week, the government has reached out to the Congress for passage of the long-pending GST bill in Rajya Sabha where it does not have a majority. The new Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar has already held telephonic talks with leader of the opposition in the Upper House Ghulam Nabi Azad and Deputy leader of Congress in the House Anand Sharma and formal talks are likely to take place shortly.

When contacted, Sharma made a strong pitch for evolving a "genuine" common market through the key tax reform, insisting that the GST should be both "meaningful and substantive". The GST, which is being touted as the most significant reform in indirect tax since independence, is being held up in Rajya Sabha because of stiff opposition by the Congress, which among other things is demanding a Constitutional cap on the GST rate. Dismissing suggestions that the Congress was against the bill, he said the party is the author of the bill and its only concern is that it should be "meaningful and substantive".

Hardik Patel gets bail ahmeDabaD, July 11 (ianS): The Gujarat High Court on Monday granted bail to Patidar reservation spearhead Hardik Patel in the last case against him, preparing the ground for his release after nearly 10 months in jail. Hardik Patel has got bail in two sedition cases and one on the attack on the office of Visnagar BJP MLA Hrishikesh Patel and other government properties during the reservation agitation. He had challenged in the high court the Visnagar court's refusal to give bail to him.

The appeal was heard on Monday. The 23-year-old Patel leader has been bailed out on the condition that he stays away from Gujarat for six months. Sources in the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) claim that Patel was likely to spend the next six months in election-bound Uttar Pradesh.

Police to probe Essar phone tapping case: Centre new Delhi, July 11 (Pti): The Delhi Police has been directed to carry out a preliminary enquiry into the allegation by a lawyer against corporate major Essar that it tapped phones of high-profile people and some union ministers, the Centre told the Delhi High Court today. In view of the submission made by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain, a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal reserved its verdict on the lawyer's PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by an SIT into the allegation of phone tapping. The bench said it will also pass orders regarding the issue of safety and security of the petitioner, Suren Uppal, and the sensitive material or data with him. During the brief hearing, ASG Jain suggested that the sensitive material with Uppal can be kept in the custody of the court. However, the bench did not agree with that.

few and a separatist-called shutdown.

Public transport went off the roads. Private cars plied at some places in areas where there were no restrictions. Shops and other businesses remained shut.

Government offices and banks were also closed as cellphone internet services remained suspended.

As the anger in Kashmir simmered, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called for a plebiscite in the "occupied" Jammu and Kashmir. India asked Pakistan to worry more about human rights abuses in parts of Kashmir it controls.

Radio Pakistan quoted Sharif as saying that the "massacre of citizens by Indian forces and use of brutal force against Kashmir is

regrettable".

In New Delhi, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said Pakistan should worry more about human rights violations in the “occupied Kashmir” -- Indian euphemism from Pakistani Kashmir than in the valley.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh reached out to political leaders, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, and discussed the Kashmir situation. He also spoke to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

The Kashmir Valley has been on an edge since Friday evening when senior militant commander Wani was killed by security forces. Wani, 22, a new face of Kashmir’s separatist war, was shot dead with two of

his associates in a south Kashmir village.

Four police stations, 36 civil administration offices and dozens of vehicles have been destroyed by unruly mobs in clashes over the weekend. Meanwhile, the government on Monday allowed the resumption of annual Amarnath pilgrimage which was suspended for three days.

"The convoy of the yatris is protected by the security forces who are escorting the pilgrims to the valley," a police official told IANS. But the pilgrimage will be allowed only through the north Kashmir route as the southern track to the Hindu cave shrine remains blocked due to simmering tension.

The shrine is located in the troubled south Kashmir.

and the prominent citizens to rise to the occasion and help the government in restoring peace and normalcy in Kashmir in the wake of the prevailing law and order situation," the Chief Minister said, interacting with the representatives of various civil society groups and prominent citizens at her private office here.

In an around two-hour meeting, Mehbooba Mufti apprised the civil society members of the initiatives being taken by her government to restore peace and normalcy and also sought their suggestions on how to bring things back on track.

The Chief Minister said the police and paramilitary forces have been asked to exercise maximum restraint to avoid loss of lives or grievous injuries.

India tells Pakistan to mind its own business new Delhi, July 11 (ianS): India on Monday rebuffed Pakistan's demand for a plebiscite in Kashmir and said its criticism of the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani reflected Islamabad's "continued attachment to terrorism" and its use of terror "as an instrument of state policy".

"We have seen statements from Pakistan on the situation in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. They reflect Pakistan's continued attachment to terrorism and its usage as an instrument of State policy. Pakistan is advised to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbours," said a Ministry of External Affairs statement.

The statement comes in the wake of comments by Pakistan alleging human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, where clashes between mobs protesting the killing of Wani, a poster boy of militancy in the state, and security forces has

claimed over 20 lives.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday called for a plebiscite in "occupied" Jammu and Kashmir to let its people decide if they want to be with India or align with Pakistan.

In a statement, Sharif also voiced "concern and deep sorrow" over the killing of Wani on Friday by security forces.

Radio Pakistan quoted Sharif as saying in a statement that the "massacre of citizens by Indian forces and use of brutal force against Kashmir is regrettable".

On Sunday, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said the "extrajudicial killing" of Wani "and scores of other innocent Kashmiris" violated the fundamental human rights of Kashmiris.

This, a statement from the ministry said, "cannot deter the people of Jammu and Kashmir from their demand for the realisation of the right to self determination".

Rains wreak havoc across India; 22 killed

new Delhi, July 11 (reuterS): Flash floods triggered by torrential rain in Madhya Pradesh and Assam have killed at least 22 people and forced more than 170,000 from their homes, officials said on Monday, as forecasters predicted more downpours in coming days.

India’s monsoon rains, though vital for agriculture, regularly bring death and destruction. The rain was 35 percent above average in the week that ended on July 6, the weather office said.

Twenty people were killed in Madhya Pradesh where 70,000 people were left homeless as water rose to dangerous levels along parts of the Narmada river.

Firemen waded through thigh-deep water to rescue women and children in flooded villages while rescue teams used inflatable boats to reach people stranded in urban areas.

“Thousands of people will be evacuated today. We are working on a war footing mode to

People travel on a horse drawn carriage through a flooded road on the banks of river Ganga in Allahabad, India July 10. (REUTERS)

set up relief camps,” additional home secretary Basant Singh said in Bhopal, the state capital.

“The health department is distributing medicines to prevent outbreak of water-borne diseases.”

Stormy weather also ravaged

parts of the remote northeast.

Heavy rain pounded the teagrowing, oil-rich state of Assam killing at least two people. About 100,000 people were forced to take shelter on higher ground, officials there said.

The rain has also swelled the

Brahmaputra river, which flows into Bangladesh, to dangerous levels.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ordered officials to distribute food, clothing and medicines to people who could not return to their homes.

RTI, a powerful tool that strengthens democracy: Vice Prez

lucknow, July 11 (Pti) Describing RTI Act as a powerful tool that strengthens democracy, Vice President Hamid Ansari today said it promotes good governance by enhancing the citizen's ability to participate in the process.

The legislative intent of the Right to Information Act was to empower citizens to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every Public Authority, reduce the gap between the information provider and the information seeker, en-

hance efficiency in administration of public authorities, mitigate corruption and promote good governance, he said.

Ansari was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the New Building of Uttar Pradesh Information Commission here.

The Vice President said there can be little doubt that this Act is one of the most empowering and progressive legislations passed in the post-Independent India.

"This Act provides for better governance, and impacts on the very nature of governance itself," he

said. Ansari said the basic tenets of the Act have been implemented, the institutional mechanisms are in place, and are being used by citizens as a tool to bring in transparency and accountability at all levels of Governance.

He said that while the Civil Society Organizations and Media can act as pressure points, most of the correctives need to be carried out by the Government and Information Commissions. "There is a need for a sustained mass awareness campaign, need for greater vol-

untary disclosure of information held with public Authorities, need to rid ourselves of the old mindset regarding secrecy of government processes and transactions and the need for person demanding information under the RTI to be emboldened and secure," he added.

Governor Ram Naik, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, senior Judge, Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court, Justice AP Sahi and the Chief Information Commissioner of UP Jawed Usmari were present on the occasion.

Preachers of hate threatening society, says PM

nairobi, July 11 (Pti): Amid the expanding footprint of ISIS across the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today warned that "preachers of hate and violence" are threatening the fabric of the society and asked the youth to build a counter narrative to extremist ideologies. He also emphasised that those giving shelter to terrorists and using them as political instruments must be condemned, an apparent reference to Pakistan.

Addressing the students at the University of Nairobi here, Modi pitched for a world free from terror and hate, saying safety and security of people and societies is essential for realising the benefits of the economic progress. "Preachers of hate and violence are threatening the fabric of our society," he said. Underlining the need to counter radicalization, he said "Youth can play an important role in building a counter narrative to extremist ideologies."

His comments assume significance in view of the expanding footprint of ISIS terror group, which is particularly attracting the youth through a campaign of radicalisation.

A recent case in point was the attack in Bangladesh some days back at a cafe by a group of six educated youth in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed. Some of these six attackers were allegedly influenced by the controversial Indian Muslim preacher Zakir Naik, who gives sermons on a TV channel.

Apprehensions of some Indian youth getting attracted towards ISIS is also gaining ground with 15 youngsters from Kerala going missing mysteriously. The Prime Minister, while speaking about developmental strides, said, "A steady march towards our economic goals is indeed a priority. But, we also cannot ignore the safety of our people.

WB warning on stunted children should worry India Prachi Salve

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“The reason I am pushing so hard on stunting is because we have spent a lot of time looking at possible paths of economic development in developing countries. It is my suggestion to the government of India to work with us on stunting. This is the bottom line: if you walk into the future economy with 40 per cent of your workforce having been stunted as children, you are simply not going to be able to compete.”

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim on his visit to New Delhi in June 2016 Jim’s warning was timely: India will indeed find it difficult to compete with other countries in the future if it cannot help its current generation of children grow

as they should and develop into productive adults.

As many as 39 per cent of Indian children five or younger are stunted - short for their age - higher than the global average of 24 per cent, according to the Global Nutrition Report 2015, threatening millions from the next generation with lower literacy, diminished cognitive skills, health risks and a greater likelihood of being poor.

In South Asia, only Nepal (41 per cent) and Pakistan (45 per cent) have a larger proportion of stunted children than India.

Sri Lanka has the sub-continent’s lowest percentage of stunted children: 15 per cent. Bangladesh and Bhutan have lower rates of stunting than India, which has been overtaken by its eastern neighbour. In 1997, when 46 per

cent of India’s children were stunted, the corresponding rate in Bangladesh was higher at 59.7 per cent.

India also has the highest stunting rate among BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations, followed

by South Africa with 24 per cent.

Stunting has long-term effects on individuals and societies, including diminished cognitive and physical development, reduced productive capacity and poor health and an increased risk of degenerative diseases like diabetes, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

As many as 61.8 million Indian children aged five or less are stunted, according to the Rapid Survey on Children 2013. That, as we said, is 39 per cent of all children in that age group.

This is an improvement from

48 per cent of children stunted, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2005-06.

The number of children aged five or less was 158.8 million in 2011, down by 3.1 per cent from 163.8 million in 2001.

If current global trends persist, 127 million children under five will be stunted in 2025. This is higher than the target of 100 million fixed under the Sustainable Development Goals, according to an WHO estimate. The main reason the target may not be met is the lack of funding, globally and locally.

Recent longitudinal studies (where the progress of children is tracked over many years) of children from Brazil, Guatemala, India, the Philippines and South Africa associate stunting with a reduction in years at school.

Adults who were stunted at

age two completed nearly one year less school than non-stunted individuals, according to a study conducted by University of Atlanta in 2010.

Similarly, a study of Guatemalan adults found that those stunted as children had less schooling, lower test performances, lower household per capita expenditure and a greater likelihood of being poor. For women, stunting in early life was associated with a lower age at first birth and more pregnancies and children, according to a 2008 World Bank study.

A one per cent loss in adult height due to childhood stunting is associated with a 1.4 per cent loss in economic productivity, according to World Bank estimates. Stunted children earn 20 per cent less as adults compared to non-stunted individuals.

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China’s military hospitals offer illegal experimental cures SHANGHAI, July 11 (ReuteRS): For student Wei Zexi, the lure of a miracle cure was hard to resist: he was dying from a rare cancer and a well-known Beijing hospital was offering treatment with an 80 percent chance of success and no side effects. It was, the hospital said, the ideal choice.

There was a problem: The military-run hospital did not have regulatory approval to offer the immunotherapy course it sold to Wei at a steep fee. The treatment itself - while promising - is widely considered by global cancer specialists to be at the experimental stage. Wei died at the age of 21, and the outcry his case provoked has thrown a spotlight on hundreds of hospitals run by branches of China's armed forces.

Reuters’ interviews with patients, doctors and lawyers show that military-run medical facilities across the country regularly provide – and advertise – treatments that are not approved by the Chinese Health Ministry.

Among a sample of around two dozen of the hundreds of military hospitals around China, Reuters found roughly fourfifths offered some kind of immunotherapy on their websites. Some of them said they had used it to treat thousands of patients.

The ready availability of unapproved treatments at major hospitals around China underlines serious regulatory blind spots in a healthcare system treating 1.4 billion people and which is the world’s second largest drugs market behind the United States.

Military authorities have acknowledged fault at the Second Hospital of Beijing Armed Police Corps,

where Wei was treated.

They would not comment on practices at other facilities. The hospital itself did not respond to requests for comment.

China's health ministry said that, while immunotherapy had great potential, there were still question marks around safety and effectiveness. It has never been approved for commercial clinical use in China, the ministry said in a statement to Reuters. Immunotherapy is classed as a category three treatment, meaning it is “ethically problematic", "high risk" or "still in need of clinical verification". However, China's health ministry has little oversight over military hospitals because its jurisdiction largely concerns the civilian health system.

The military facilities come under the control of the armed forces.

Lawyers involved in the healthcare sector say the combination of military oversight and the frequent civilian use create grey areas about whether national laws apply and how they should be enforced.

The health ministry would not comment on the wider issue of regulation of military hospitals. The defence ministry referred Reuters to a statement made at a regular news briefing in May in which it acknowledged the hospital in the Wei case had acted illegally.

It said oversight of such hospitals would be improved, but did not say how.

The Reuters review also showed that many of the hospitals surveyed offered patients stem cell therapy, a treatment which is only approved in China for clinical trials. The health ministry said in August last year research into stem cells to

The gate of the Second Hospital of Beijing Armed Police Corps is seen in Beijing, China on May 4, 2016. (Reuters Photo/File)

treat or prevent diseases was developing fast, but it was concerned some hospitals were violating government regulations to offer such treatments to boost profits.

Shanghai-based Yuan Liming, a partner at law firm Jones Day, said there is another problem: military hospitals often allow thirdparties to operate clinics within the hospital grounds.

The health ministry told Reuters it was illegal for hospitals to sub-contract certain therapies to private clinics and that it would investigate any public hospitals doing so. "It clearly violates Chinese law, but it's common," said Yuan.

BEST FACILITIES Some military hospitals are regarded, alongside university hospitals, as among the country's best

medical facilities.

They are overseen by military bodies such as the People's Armed Police, a paramilitary force that answers to the powerful Central Military Commission headed by President Xi Jinping.

"Military hospitals, generally speaking, are not subject to administration and monitoring by the health ministry, but are subject to supervision by the Central Military Commission," said Yuan.

There is no indication any of the military hospitals contacted by Reuters had special exemption to offer immunotherapy treatment. The Second Hospital of Beijing Armed Police Corps was not approved.

Another hospital, the General Hospital of Shenyang Military, said on its website it treated more

than 1,600 people with a number of immunotherapy treatments. No one at the hospital was willing to comment.

Others, including the 302 Military Hospital of China in Beijing, the 101st People's Liberation Army in Wuxi, the Nanjing General Hospital and People's Liberation Army No. 202 Hospital said on their websites they had used immunotherapy treatment. Repeated calls to the Nanjing hospital and the No. 202 hospital went unanswered.

The 302 Military hospital and the 101st PLA hospital said they had stopped offering the therapy and declined to comment further.

Gong Xiaoming, a senior Beijing-based gynaecologist and former physician at the prestigious Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said the main

Revising pacifist charter not easy for Japan toKyo/SHANGHAI, July 11 (ReuteRS): Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking to allay concerns he would divert energy from fixing a fragile economy to revising Japan's pacifist constitution after a big election win, said on Monday changing the charter would not be easy.

Abe's coalition and allies won two-thirds of the seats in parliament's upper house in Sunday's election.

That victory, with the ruling bloc's super majority in the lower house, opens the door to revising the constitution for the first time since its adoption after Japan's defeat in World War Two. China's official agency quickly warned that the victory posed a danger to regional stability.

"With Japan's pacifist constitution at serious stake and Abe's power expanding, it is alarming both for Japan's Asian neighbours, as well as for Japan itself, as Japan's militarisation will serve to benefit neither side," the Xinhua commentary said.

Abe said revising the

constitution was his Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) cherished goal, but forging agreement on changes in the diverse pro-revision camp would not be easy.

Revisions require a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament and a majority of votes in a public referendum. "To realise revision of the constitution is my duty as LDP president," Abe told a news conference. "But it is not that easy, so I hope debate will deepen steadily." Experts agreed that building such agreement would be tough.

"It's the first time to have two-thirds in both houses of parliament, but you can't find any issue on which the two-thirds can agree," said Gerry Curtis, professor emeritus at New York's Columbia University.

STRONG ECONOMY, REVISED CONSTITUTION Some in financial markets worry a focus on the constitution would drain attention from the economy, but Abe promised on Monday to craft a large stimulus package.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L), who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), shakes hands with Eriko Imai, singer and a candidate for the LDP, at a news conference after Japan’s upper house election vote, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan on July 10, 2016. (Reuters Photo/Toru Hanai)

"A public referendum is needed so he must boost support to advance revision. So for constitutional change as well, he will probably come up with a large-scale economic package," said Daiji Aoki, senior economist at UBS Securities Japan.

Doubts about Abe's policies persist even though his ruling bloc won big in terms of the number of

seats. Many voters felt they had no other option, given memories of the main opposition Democratic Party's rocky 2009-2012 rule.

Others stayed home.

Surveys show many Japanese voters are wary of changing the constitution's war-renouncing Article 9, which advocates see as the source of Japan's post-war peace and democracy. Conservatives see it as a symbol

of humiliating defeat.

If taken literally, Article 9 bans the maintenance of armed forces. Successive governments have interpreted it to allow a military for self-defence, a concept Abe last year stretched to allow Japan's military to aid friendly nations under attack. Formal revision of Article 9 would likely be largely symbolic - though nonetheless historic.

Convincing the Komeito party, the dovish junior partner in Abe's LDP-led coalition, to agree would be challenging. The pro-revision camp might therefore tackle another amendment first. One possibility is a clause giving the government more power in a national emergency, a move critics say would curtail civil rights.

Another option, floated by the Komeito, would be to add an environmental protection clause. That less contentious step would nonetheless break the political taboo on revision.

It is unclear whether that would satisfy Abe's political base.

problem was the small private clinics used by military hospitals. Without tighter regulation the illegal provision of immunotherapy and other banned treatments would likely continue, he said. Such clinics, though separate businesses, often operate on a hospital's premises and under its licence, putting them in another regulatory grey area, say lawyers and doctors. "It's like guerrilla warfare," said Gong. "Every few years they change location or change name and emerge once more."

COST COMPLAINTS In Wei's case the hospital had contracted Shanghai-based private immunotherapy technology company Shanghai Claison. Claison was not available for comment and a guard who answered the

phone said everyone had "gone on holiday".

Other patients complain of being given pricey and unnecessary treatments by military hospitals.

A receptionist at a steel trading company, who asked to be identified only by her family name Xu, went to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 411 Hospital in Shanghai in 2014 seeking treatment for ovarian cysts, a common condition. The doctor suggested infra-red therapy and she underwent three days of treatment at 700 yuan ($105) per session, eventually spending a total of 8,000 yuan.

Concerned with the ongoing treatment, she went to another doctor and was told she had only needed a small surgical procedure costing 500 yuan. That treatment was successful, she said. "Everyone trusts doctors," Xu, 25, told Reuters. "With this infrared therapy, they make you do it every day, and every day they charge you hundreds of yuan. It's all about making money."The PLA 411 Hospital said it was not aware of the case and hadn't heard of any other patient complaints.

SERIOUS PROBLEMS Before he died, Wei accused the Second Hospital of Beijing Armed Police Corps, and the search engine Baidu Inc that he had used to find it, of misleading advertising and disseminating false medical information.

China's health ministry said an investigation after Wei's death revealed "serious problems" at the hospital. It was found to have been illegally working with a private healthcare partner, unlawfully advertising

services and using unauthorised clinical technology, the ministry said.

The hospital did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment.

China's cyberspace regulator has since imposed limits on healthcare adverts carried by Baidu, which controls 80 percent of the Chinese search market, and the company's CEO has called on employees to put values before profit.

Baidu, which has since cut its revenue forecast, has said it accepted the regulator's decision and it would implement the requirements placed on it following the investigation.

As with other forms of immunotherapy the treatment given to Wei, known as "DC-CIK", uses the patient's own immune system to fight disease.

Archived articles and posts on the official website of the hospital that treated Wei, currently blocked, describe the treatment as wellproven. One, dated Aug. 12, 2013, said the success rate was more than 80 percent.

In another article, dated Sept. 26, 2015, it wrote that immunotherapy treatment had saved a late-stage cancer patient who had been given six months to live. Another patient with kidney cancer was completely cured.

Doctors questioned by Reuters, however, said the claims made by Wei's hospital overstated the potential effects. "Response rates to DC-CIK which are not approved - and in fact to all current immunotherapy are modest," said Andrew Furness, an immunotherapy expert at University College London. "Patients coming towards the end of their life or having exhausted all treatment options should not be given false hope," he said.

Fighting flares again in South Sudan capital after UN demand for restraint JuBA, July 11 (ReuteRS): Heavy fighting erupted again in South Sudan'scapitalonMondayaday after the U.N. Security Council told rivals President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar to rein in their forces and end days of violence that have left scores dead.

A Reuters witness saw two helicopters overhead firing apparently in the direction of Machar's political and military headquarters. The capital has been mired in fighting almost every day since Thursday when troops loyal to Kiir and soldiers backing former rebel leader Machar first clashed, raising fears of a slide back to a full-blown conflict after a two-year civil war.

It was not immediately clear who was leading the fighting or if either side was gaining the upper hand. The violence has raised concerns that Kiir and Machar, longtime political and military rivals, may not have full control of their forces.

There has been no official death toll but at least five soldiers died on Thursday and a Health Ministry source said 272 people, in-

cluding 33 civilians, were killed on Friday. After a brief lull on Saturday, Sunday's fighting appeared even more fierce. "We urge an end to these hostilities and hope they (political leaders) will return back to taking up all the action points of the peace agreement," Shantal Persaud, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission UNMISS, told Reuters by telephone.

She said gunfire had erupted on Monday around the U.N. headquarters in the Jebel area of Juba and also around a base near the airport. U.N. bases were hit by small arms and heavy weapons on Sunday.

One U.N. Chinese peacekeeper was killed.

UNMISS said it was "outraged" by renewed violence in the world's newest nation, which marked five years of independence from Sudan last week.

South Sudan's people remain mired in poverty. Oil production, the nation's mainstay, has plummeted.

The U.N. Security Council, after an emergency meeting, told the two leaders to "do their utmost to

control their respective forces, urgently end the fighting and prevent the spread of violence" and commit themselves to their peace deal.

Attacks on civilians, U.N. personnel and U.N. premises might amount to war crimes that would need investigation, it said.

On Friday, Kiir and Machar had been in patch-up talks after Thursday's shootings when gunfire erupted. Both said then they could not explain what happened.

The two men have long been rivals for power both in politics and on the battlefield. The civil war erupted in December 2013 a few months after Kiir sacked Machar as his deputy. They signed a peace deal in August 2015, but then spent months wrangling over details. Machar finally returned to Juba in April, at the time seen as step towards cementing peace.

But experts say the failure to implement swiftly key elements, such as the re-integration and demobilisation of combatants, has allowed tension to fester and risked igniting a new conflict.

Want to live happy, eat Theresa May set to be Britain’s next Prime Minister more fruits and vegetables loNdoN, July 11 (IANS): Apart from reducing the risk of cancer and heart attacks, consuming up to eight portions of more fruit and vegetables a day can substantially increase people's happiness levels in life, finds a new study.

"Eating fruit and vegetables apparently boosts our happiness far more quickly than it improves human health,” said Andrew Oswald, professor at the University of Warwick in London. The findings showed that happiness increased incrementally for each extra daily portion of fruitandvegetablesuptoeight portions per day. People who changed from almost no fruit and vegetables to eight portions of a day showed an increase in life satisfaction.

Usually people's motivation to eat healthy food is weakened by the fact that these were predictive

of alterations in happiness and satisfaction later in life.

“However, well-being improvements from increased consumption of fruit and vegetables are closer to immediate," Oswald added.

Large positive psychological benefits were found within two years of an improved diet consisting of more fruit and vegetables, the researchers said. "There is a psychological payoff now from fruit and vegetables -not just a lower health risk decades later," noted Redzo Mujcic, researcher at University of Queensland in Australia. The results could be used by health professionals to persuade people to consume more fruit and vegetables, said the paper to be published in the American Journal of Public Health.

For the study, the team followed food diaries of 12,385 randomly selected people.

loNdoN, July 11 (IANS): Theresa May is set to become Britain’s next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader.

The timing of the hand over of power from British Prime Minister David Cameron is currently being discussed, BBC reported.

May, 59, who backed staying in the EU, has been home secretary since 2010.

Leadsom, who campaigned to leave the EU, said Britain needed a “strong and stable government” and that May was “ideally placed” to implement Brexit.

In a speech earlier on Monday setting out her leadership campaign platform, May -- who rejected the argument that the next leader and prime minister has to be someone on the winning side of the EU referendum -- said: “Brexit

means Brexit and we’re going to make a success of it.”

Leadsom -- who was a leading light of the Brexit campaign -- said a nineweek leadership campaign at such a “critical time” for Britain would be “highly undesirable”.

A source close to the energy minister told BBC “the abuse has been too great” for Leadsom during the contest.

Leadsom had apologised to May on Monday after suggesting in a weekend newspaper interview that being a mother made her a better candidate for the job. May has no children.

Leadsom, who was flanked by some of her supporters, said: “Strong leadership is needed urgently to begin the work of withdrawing from the EU. A nineweek leadership campaign at such a critical moment is highly undesirable.”

She said May had the support of more than 60 per

Britain’s Home Secretary, Theresa May, delivers a speech at RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) in London, Britain on June 30. (Reuters Photo/Dylan Martinez/File)

cent of Conservative MPs and was “ideally placed to implement Brexit on the best possible terms for the British people and she has promised she will do so”.

Leadsom said she was “incredibly grateful” to the 84 colleagues who supported her leadership bid.

“Nevertheless, this is less than 25 per cent of the parliamentary party and

after careful consideration I do not believe this is sufficient support to lead a strong and stable government should I win the leadership election,” she said.

“There is no greater privilege than to lead the Conservative Party in government and I would have been deeply honoured to do it.

“I have however concluded that the interests of

our country are best served by the immediate appointment of a strong and wellsupported prime minister.

“I am therefore withdrawing from the leadership election, and I wish May the very greatest success.” The leadership contest is being overseen by the committee of backbench Conservative MPs. Its chairman, Graham Brady, said May would be formally confirmed as the new party leader as soon as the Conservative Party board had been consulted -- saying there would be “no need to re-run the election”. He declined to give an exact timetable for the next steps -- other than to say it would not be “nine weeks” until Mr Cameron’s successor was in place.

The contest was originally scheduled to finish on September 9. The time between Gordon Brown winning the Labour leader-

ship uncontested and succeeding Tony Blair as prime minister was 38 days. Reacting to Leadsom’s decision, Chris Grayling, May’s campaign chief, said it showed what a “principled and decent politician she is”.

Speaking outside the Houses of Parliament, he said May -- who is on her way back to London from Birmingham after her campaign speech -- was “enormously honoured” to be entrusted with the task of leadership, and would make a statement later. In a message to the party, he said: “Now is the time for us to unite ... and get on with the job of securing a strong, prosperous future for our country.”

Meanwhile, former London mayor Boris Johnson -- who was backing Leadsom’s leadership bid, said he had “no doubt” May would be an “excellent” leader and prime minister.

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A Nagaland where ‘No one is left behind’

A Presentation to the Nagaland Vision 2030 expert group Diethono Nakhro

WHAT DO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WANT? They want the same things that everyone else in the community wants. They want the opportunity to get a good education, get a job, lead worthwhile lives and be valued members of the society. They want to be able to go to church and worship, to go shopping, go out with family and friends, and enjoy a concert or festival celebration. They want a chance to participate meaningfully in the life of the community. They want their human rights recognised and realised. They want change and are hopeful that others will share their vision of an inclusive Nagaland that leaves no one behind, a Nagaland that enables people with disabilities to fulfil their potential as equal citizens, a Nagaland for all.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE CITIZENS WITH RIGHTS The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), ratified by India in 2007, recognises that persons with disabilities are right-holders instead of passive recipients of government schemes.

It affirms the dignity and human rights of all people with disabilities and rejects the link between ability and impairment. It does not create any new rights but clearly states that ‘persons with disabilities have equal access and a right to full and effective enjoyment of all human rights’. The principles of the UNCRPD are: inherent dignity, non-discrimination, effective inclusion, respect for differences, equal opportunity, accessibility, gender equality and respect for the evolving capacities of children with disabilities.

People with disabilities are not ‘objects’ of charity but ‘subjects’ with rights, capable of claiming those rights, able to make decisions for their own lives based on their free and informed consent and be active members of society.

OVERVIEW OF NAGALAND People with disabilities represent the most excluded of all groups in Naga society.

They are completely missing from the development landscape.

Majority of children with disabilities cannot attend school. Most adults with disabilities are unable to participate in community activities such as meetings, community programmes and functions, festivals and religious services. They have no access to the labour market and encounter serious obstacles and discrimination in seeking employment or income-generating activities. Girls and women with disabilities, particularly those with psychosocial disabilities, are extremely vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse.

To sum up, People with Disabilities in Nagaland: • Lack access to quality health services • Lack access to disability support services • Lack access to educational services • Lack opportunity to livelihood and economic empowerment • Excluded from participation in society due to environmental barriers

• Excluded from participation in society due Nagaland to attitudinal barriers FACT: There cannot be a sustainable, progressive and viable Nagaland if Nagas with disWHAT IS DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE abilities are left out from the Nagaland Vision DEVELOPMENT A viable Nagaland is one that includes Disability-inclusive development means people with disabilities in political, social, that people with disabilities are systematical- economic and environmental developments. ly and consistently included in and benefit from development.

WHY: • EQUAL RIGHTS: The entire community, • Because it is their human right to be included including persons with disabilities benefit • Because no effort at development will be successful without their inclusion equally from mainstream development processes. Disability-inclusive develop- • Because not to do so is to consign another generation of children with disabilities to a ment sets out to achieve equal rights for life of isolation and indignity without edupeople with disabilities as well as full/accation, with limited economic opportunity, tive participation in, and access to, all aswith poorer health and with no involvepects of society.

• PARTICIPATION: Persons with disabilities ment in the decisions that affect their daily lives participate in all benefits of mainstream Also, mounting evidence points to the programmes and thus also participate in HIGH ECONOMIC COSTS of excluding decision-making.

• ACCESSIBILITY: Environmental, institu- people with disabilities on the development tional and attitudinal barriers are identified agenda and the productive cycle – as it is esand addressed to ensure that people with timated that the global annual GDP loss due disabilities are fully included in all spheres to exclusion of disabled people from the laof life that they participate in society and bour market is between US$1.37 and 1.94 are optimally able to achieve their ambi- trillion. Furthermore, disability does not affect only one individual, but usually has ontions.

• SUSTAINABILITY: Inclusive development going repercussions on an entire household, is not a one-off activity; including persons especially in terms of time and money that is with disabilities needs to be embedded in all required to provide special care for an indithe veins of the organisational culture. This vidual with disabilities. (Social Analysis and will become visible in the organisations’ pol- Disability: World Bank) Our VISION is a Nagaland where no one icies, systems and practices. (Count Me In: is left behind. A Nagaland where all citizens Light for the World, Netherlands) TWIN-TRACK APPROACH: A ‘twin-track’ have equal opportunities to realise their approach must be adopted by the govern- rights, achieve their potential and live in digment. This means that the aim must be to nity, free from poverty, exclusion, stigma, dismainstream disability in all government pol- crimination and violence. A Nagaland where icies and programmes while also supporting people with disabilities have a voice, choice disability-targeted programmes. Full and ac- and control over the decisions that affect tive support must be given to programmes them; where they participate in and benefit that target people with disabilities directly, equitably from everyday life, everywhere. but it needs to go further to ensure that all mainstream government programmes are MAKING THE VISION A REALITY To make this vision a reality a State Disdisability-inclusive ability Strategy must be developed with a AN INCLUSIVE VISION FOR NAGALAND time-bound State Plan that addresses issues People with disabilities are vulnerable in all areas of life that exist solely on the babecause of the many barriers we face: atti- sis of disability. The Strategy must articulate tudinal, physical, and financial. Addressing long-term goals across key policy areas which these barriers is within our reach and we have impact on people with disabilities, their famia moral duty to do so. Beyond that moral duty lies and carers. It must also provide leaderwe would do well to remember the many oth- ship for a societal shift in attitudes towards er reasons to act. Legislation introduced to disability and people with disabilities. assist the disabled today will benefit nearly everyone at some point: almost all of us will The Disability Strategy must be geared towards: be impaired at some time in life or care for • establishing a policy framework to guide government activity across general and someone who is. disability-specific areas of public policy But most important, addressing these barriers will unlock the potential of so many • driving improved performance of mainstream/general services in delivering outpeople with so much to contribute to the comes for people with disabilities world. Governments everywhere can no longer overlook the hundreds of millions of • giving visibility to disability issues and increasing the understanding and imporpeople with disabilities who are denied actance of the needs of persons with discess to health, rehabilitation, support, eduabilities and ensuring that these needs are cation, and employment - and never get the recognised when policy is developed or chance to shine. when initiatives which impact on disabled - Stephen Hawking people are implemented STATED OBJECTIVE OF NAGALAND VISION 2030: To prepare a document that en- • providing state leadership toward greater inclusion and opportunities for people visions a sustainable, progressive and viable

with disabilities across all areas of society KEY POLICY AREAS • ACCESSIBILITY: Current situation: ZERO accessibility – in the physical environment as well as information and services.

Accessibility is at the core of inclusion.

Making the environment and services accessible must be the goal - the physical environment including public transport; buildings and housing, commercial spaces and all public places; digital information and communications technologies; civic life including social, sporting, recreational and cultural life.

• EDUCATION AND SKILLS: Current situation: Most children with disabilities have no access to education due to physical and attitudinal barriers, as well as lack of trained teachers – the repercussions of this situation echoes throughout their lives.

Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all must be given top priority - early childhood education and care, accessible schools, further education and vocational education • HEALTH SERVICES: Note: Having a disability is not synonymous with having a health problem: most people with disabilities live healthy lives. However, there is some evidence that, collectively, they experience poorer levels of health and require more healthcare than the general population (WHO & World Bank, 2011).

Health services must be made accessible and affordable. Early intervention and rehabilitation health services must also be put into place on priority. This can help reduce future costs of care and support. Establishing strong interface between health and disability systems is also critical.

• SUPPORT SERVICES: Current situation: ZERO disability services - there is not even a single rehabilitation centre or any other support service available for people with disabilities in the state.

There is urgent need for person-centred care and support provision by specialist disability services and mainstream services, as also informal care and support.

Sustainable funding models and service approaches must be adopted.

• ECONOMIC SECURITY: Work is the pathway to long-term economic security and wellbeing for most people. But while people with disabilities face greater direct costs than other people because of additional expenses with transport, personal and health care, diet and communications, and disability assistive requirements, they have little or no earning opportunities. People with disabilities and their families and carers suffer immense economic burdens as a result.

Barriers to employment and income generating opportunities must be identified and addressed, financial independence must be promoted and adequate income support must be provided for those not able to work.

Note: The inclusion of people with disabilities in work/employment can lead to greater economic self-sufficiency, which not only

improves their quality of life but also decreases demands on social assistance.

• RIGHTS PROTECTION AND JUSTICE: People with disabilities face discrimination in many areas of life.

Statutory protections such as anti-discrimination measures, complaints mechanisms, advocacy, and justice delivery systems must be put in place DISABILITY RESPONSIVE BUDGETING It goes without saying that no action will be possible if funds and resources are not made available. Therefore, it is critical that the State Budget must demonstrate and reflect a commitment to give people with disabilities and their families a serious start to a life of inclusion and hope.

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US “Nothing about us without us“(Latin: “Nihil de nobis, sine nobis”) is a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members the group(s) affected by that policy. This involves national, ethnic, disability-based, or other groups that are often thought to be marginalized from political, social, and economic opportunities - Wikipedia The Government must work collaboratively with people with disabilities and their representative organisations in the development of policies, programmes and systems that affect people with disabilities.

Disabled people are the experts in their own lives and their views are an essential part of any evidence base for action. Involving them in developing policy and development programmes will help identify gaps in knowledge and give an indication of whether the policy or programme will work in the short and long term.

Including and engaging People with Disabilities and local Disabled Person’s Organisation (DPOs) in the design, delivery and monitoring and evaluation of policy and programmes and in round table discussion with the government is critical to hear firsthand the challenges people with disabilities are facing and identify effective approaches for collectively addressing these challenges.

“Be participatory, actively and meaningfully involving people with disability in all matters concerning them in the process of forming policies and programmes; DPOs are key players in this process” (UN DESA 2011) CONCLUSION An Inclusive and Enabling Nagaland where ‘No one is Left Behind’ is not an impossible dream. All it needs is political will and a strong commitment to take EVERYONE along.

For too long, Nagaland has ignored, excluded, isolated and neglected its citizens with disabilities. This is discriminatory and wrong and it needs to CHANGE. *Member, National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NCRPD) and Advisor, Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF)

AFSPA, the Supreme Court and Human Rights An Appeal to the People of Mokokchung

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inally, the Supreme Court has taken the first step for protecting the human rights of civilians in the Northeast by declaring that the armed forces cannot use excessive force to put down insurgency. That judgement came in the public interest litigation involving 1,528 fake encounter deaths in some districts of Manipur. That is a fraction of the reality because according to a retired director of the intelligence bureau for the Northeast, no fewer than 8,983 people have been killed in fake encounters in Manipur 1991-2012, 6,023 in Assam 2001-2012 and 2,803 in Mizoram in a decade. It comes to more than 1,000 cases per year or three per day in these three States alone and there have been more such killings in Nagaland and Tripura. To these deaths one has to add the frightening reality of young women getting raped, wives becoming widows, children turning into orphans, youth remaining illiterate due to the closing down of schools, and houses reduced to ashes.

The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was enacted in 1958 in order to control what was called insurgency in the Northeast. It was to be an experimental measure for six months. Initially it applied only to Nagaland which alone had a nationalist struggle led by Angami Zaphu Phizo who demanded autonomy in the place of the centralised administration of the Indian Union. It became a nationalist struggle when autonomy was denied to the Nagas. AFSPA was then extended to parts of most other North Eastern States and later to Jammu and Kashmir. Though it was meant to be a deterrent to militant groups the reality shows that it cannot play that role. The Northeast had only the Naga Nationalist movement when AFSPA was enacted in 1958. Manipur had two groups when it was extended to it. Today Manipur alone has around 30 militant groups and the Northeast probably has more than a hundred of them. Instead of being a deterrent AFSPA seems to have become a tool of abuse in the hands of the armed forces as the number of killings in fake encounters show.

And yet AFSPA has remained in place

for nearly six decades. There seem to be many vested interests in retaining it and people’s security is not one of them. Giving the K. Subramanyam Memorial Lecture on February 6, 2013, at the Institute of Defence Studies, New Delhi, the then Union Home Minister Mr P. Chidambaram is reported to have said “We can’t move forward because there is no consensus. The present and former Army Chiefs have taken a strong position that the Act should not be amended (and) do not want the government notification … to be taken back. How does the government … make the AFSPA a more humanitarian law?” (The Hindu, February 7, 2013). In other words, the Government cannot even make the AFSPA more humane leave alone repeal it because the army chiefs do not want it diluted.

That raises some basic questions “Who rules India: The elected representatives or the army or the militants?"

“Who are the real threat to civilian peace and security?” “Can guns restore a society in which people can move around freely without fear?” Some commissions have attempted answers to these questions. In 2013, the Justice Verma Commission recommended that sexual crimes committed by armed forces should be judged under the act that applies to civilians but the law has not even been diluted in favour of this recommendation. The Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee report recommended a review of the Act. Mr R. N. Ravi, former head of the Intelligence Bureau for the North East is on record that AFSPA is the biggest obstacle to peace in the region. Former Home Secretary Mr G. K. Pillai has come out openly against the Act. These statements are not emotional outbursts. They come from persons who have worked in the system and know the dynamics of the Act and of running the Government. But AFSPA has remained on the statute book irrespective of whether the Ministry at the Centre is of the Congress or BJP or others. The army is opposed to any dilution of the Act leave alone its repeal. So it remains unchanged.

That raises the main question “Are we a democracy in which civilians are elected to rule the country or is the army supreme?” The elected civilians have the

responsibility to ensure that the security forces work under the Constitution. But in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir where AFSPA applies the armed forces seem to control people’s lives. This situation can easily turn the democratic State into a military ruled one as noticed in Nagaland less than a year ago when an Assam Rifles officer, nlt the civilian government, ordered newspapers not to publish the news releases of banned militant groups.

This situation is a challenge to civil society groups to find alternative ways of building peace based on justice. An important step towards it is confidence building measures and they are not possible as long as a draconian law like AFSPA is in place. The Supreme Court has struck the first blow by removing the impunity that the security forces enjoy. The people of the North East can take more steps by coming together to demand its repeal. As long as people live under such a draconian law they cannot feel secure. Without its immediate repeal the NSCN-IM-GOI peace negotiations make no sense. What peace can one expect when the priority of the State is to protect the territory and for this purpose it kills people in the name of national security? AFSPA can only increase insecurity, terrorism, violence against women, and loss of lives.

An important condition of an alternative is unity among people who are threatened by this anti-democratic measure. But one does not see such unity coming. Even the 1,528 cases mentioned in the PIL are mainly from the Imphal Valley with a few others added to it. When the Meitei demand its repeal Nagas and Kukis of Manipur do not join them. When Manipur demands it Nagaland and Assam are silent. Such disunity makes it easy for the security forces to “divide and rule” the communities of the region separately. It is time the people of the region came together and demanded its repeal and convinced the political rulers that territory is important but that the people who inhabit it are equally important. The State has to be convinced that the gun cannot solve political problems.

Dr Walter Fernandes works at North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati. walter.nesrc@gmail.com

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he Ao Students’ Conference (AKM) and the Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce & Industries (MCCI) make this ardent appeal to the people of Mokokchung district in respect of the imminent threats posed and adverse affects caused by the mushrooming of so-called ‘Weekly Bazaar’ in the district, especially around the periphery of the district headquarters, the perilous state this ‘Weekly Bazaar’ is taking our fragile local economy to, and therefore the urgency to come together and tackle this issue before it is too late in the interest of securing our local economy and safeguarding our long-term socio-economic wellbeing.

It so appears that there exists a diabolical nexus between some influential but reprehensible individuals with insatiable greed for easy money and a sophisticated syndicate of black marketing goons from across the state border working together to destabilize the local economy by hijacking the formal market in order to loot the unassuming locals to meet their selfish ends.

We call upon the people of Mokokchung to be wary of the traders involved in the ‘Weekly Bazaar’ as they are of dubious origin and identity. The products they sell are of inferior quality and are not inspected or certified by any competent authority. This socalled ‘Weekly Bazaar’ is in effect a ‘Daily Bazaar’ as they are open at different locations around the district on a different day but each day of the week.

By purchasing from them, you are encouraging an illicit business activity as this ‘Weekly Bazaar’ is an illegitimate shadow market where economic activity is not recorded. You are not contributing to the economic development of the district by purchasing from them as theirs is a shadow business. You are not contributing anything to the state’s revenue as they do not pay any taxes. This ‘Weekly Bazaar’ is not a registered business, there is no levying and computation of taxes on them as they evade VAT and all codified fiscal rules, they do not conform to the legal statutes that define the scope of legitimate forms of commerce theirs being an inter-state imports and sales business, and they are not bound by institutionalized rules, regulations and penalties that govern legal business activity. Their weighing scales are not calibrated and they hoodwink you into believing that they sell their goods at cheaper price whereas you are not receiving your money’s worth when you purchase from them. The quality and price of their food products are not regulated as they are not recorded or registered and therefore purchasing from them is not only harmful to the health of the local economy but may also be harmful to the health of your own body.

Eleven undocumented traders involved in the shadow business were apprehended by Police at Mokokchung DEF area on Saturday, July 9 for not possessing ILP. The fact that they somehow managed to slip through the inter-state check gate without ILP is proof that all is not fair in their business. The vehicles they were travelling on without permit yet laden with their unrecorded, uninspected and uncertified consignment to be sold without any formal regulation at the Weekly Bazaar shadow market were also reportedly brought to the Mokokchung police station but were not seized. At the news of the eleven dubious traders and their vehicles and consignment being brought to the Police Station, some patrons presumably of good influence are reported to have showed up to bail out the ILP defaulters and their unspecified consignment and vehicles. When AKM and MCCI leaders arrived at the Police Station, all the vehicles laden with unspecified consignment, probably with contraband items, were nowhere to be seen. The involvement of some well connected and influential Judases is highly probable here.

After the mushrooming of the shadow market in the form of Weekly Bazaar, the dynamics of capital creation, distribution and circulation in the local market have been adversely affected. Small time local traders in the affected villages have been unfairly put out of business. Possibility of inflow of contraband items and influx of illegal immigrants through the Weekly Bazaar leeway is treacherously wide open.

AKM initiated the Survival Mokokchung campaign to flush out illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and to safeguard our socio-economic future but this Weekly Bazaar is proving to be undoing what we have achieved so far. MCCI stands for safeguarding genuine traders and for promoting a free, fair and healthily competitive market but will be compelled to make drastic moves when shadow markets hijack the formal market.

It is the duty of the authorities to do the background check and do the needful but the onus of protecting our own rights, our socio-economic future and our wellbeing falls on our shoulders, we the people. AKM and MCCI therefore sincerely appeal to the people of Mokokchung to abominate the ‘Weekly Bazaar’ shadow market, to comprehend the long-term harmful consequences it entails, to be rational and vigilant as a people and as consumers and to spread awareness at homes and in public about the dangers posed by typical shadow markets.

We cannot afford to be “penny wise, pound foolish.”

Issued by AKM and MCCI Mokokchung

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

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A Joe Perry ‘stable’ after collapsing during concert

erosmith guitarist Joe Perry is "stable" after collapsing during a performance with American rock supergroup the Hollywood Vampires. After the concert, which was held on July 9 at the Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn, fellow bandmate Alice Cooper took to Twitter to inform fans that Perry "is stable right now, with family and is under the best care", reports aceshowbiz. com. Perry fell ill during the concert and collapsed about thirty seconds into the show.

According to fans, Perry looked "noticeably ill" that night. In a video taken at the gig, he was sitting on the drum riser while playing guitar, before walking off the stage.

He apparently lost consciousness and collapsed backstage, and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) on site revived him. He was immediately transported to Coney Island Hospital and was later transferred to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital for an unspecified reason.

Hollywood Vampires continued performing after Perry collapsed backstage. "If you notice one of our brothers is not onstage with us, he was very sick before show," Cooper said to address Perry's absence. He also asked the audience to chant "Get well, Joe." The band also features Hollywood actor Johnny Depp.

Source: IANS

Saturday night street show

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he fourth Saturday night street show was successfully held at Old MLA Hostel junction, Kohima with hundreds of people turning up. The show was launched recently

at New Secretariat Junction Kohima by DK's entertainment group on June 4.

It was encouraging to see the Forest Minister Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire on the street with the people

supporting 'Peace and harmony through music', according to the organizers.

The programme was supported by well wishers and various upcoming artistes with voluntary

support from a team of young people known as the 'Fun Tree Crew'. The programme was co-ordinated

by Khrievotuo Sekhose, while photo coverage was done by Tsetsholo Naro.

People close to me know the truth: Mawra on link-up rumours with Ranbir

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akistani actor Mawra Hocane has recently been in news for her rumoured closeness to actor Ranbir Kapoor. It is well known that the former is a

huge fan of Ranbir, and buzz suggests that the two spent time together in Berlin earlier this month. Mawra is there for her sister’s birthday, while Ranbir went

there with director Ayan Mukerji to discuss a film.

However, the actor denies these rumours. “There is nothing for me to say about this as nothing I say

will be enough to put these rumours to rest. People who are close to me know the truth so I don’t need to clear the air,” she says.

Meanwhile, the actor who made her Bollywood debut this year with her film Sanam Teri Kasam, is also seen on a Pakistani show Main Bushra. The actor says that she is open to Bollywood films, but would like to stay away from Indian television shows. “I feel that dramas dominate in Pakistan and films dominate in India, which is why I want to be part of films here. It’s not like I don’t find Indian TV shows interesting, I have grown up watching some of them. But I am not open to working in one of them as of now,” she says.

However, the actor insists that there is nothing

in Indian television shows which need to be changed.

“The shows are very different from dramas in Pakistan and there is nothing wrong in that. I don’t think we need to change them as there are so many people who enjoy this format as well. If we try to fix the number of episodes in Indian TV shows, like we have in Pakistani dramas, they might lose their charm,” she says.

Meanwhile, Mawra was on the lookout for a place to stay in Mumbai and says that she has been lucky to find a great place. “I am been so fortunate to be able to find a nice place. I am in Berlin at the moment, but once I am back, I will be doing up the house,” she says.

Sports helped me fighting years long depression: DeePika

Source: Hindustan Times

Julianne Moore positive about Hollywood 'changes' for women

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ctress Julianne Moore says she is feeling positive about there being "changes happening" for women in Hollywood. The "Still Alice" star is confident the industry is going in the right direction and says the important thing is to increase the number of women in filmmakers' roles, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"There are definitely changes happening. This movie is indicative of that.

When you talk about diversity in film, the only way

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John Abraham speaks up against animal culling

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n avid animal lover, John Abraham, in the wake of the circulated video that saw a pup being thrown off a terrace, raised a question that why doesn't one cull human beings too? According to a report, the 43-year old actor was quoted saying, "I think they were let off too easily and it's sad because animals can't speak. It sets a precedent that it's easy to cull an animal and that's what so many state governments are doing - culling wild animals just so that they can reduce the population and 'maintain ecological balance'. I just wonder just why they don't do that with human beings, too? It would be great, no? (laughs).

The 'Rocky Handsome' actor further said that there should be stricter laws to stop cruelty against ani-

mals. "Though I am not in a position to speak about this and I'm not completely aware about the laws, but I think we need stricter laws for animals. There is no other way. We need to have laws in place that could actually control and bring people to book and stop them from harming any living being. We are talking about a pup being thrown off a terrace! Sad, ridiculous and unheard of!" he said.

John has been seen time and again taking up initiatives for animals, whether he is auctioning his North-East United FC jersey for Animal Rahat NGO or calling on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to make all circuses in India animal-free. The 'Dishoom' actor has also starred in a PETA ad that called on everyone to let birds be free.

Source: ANI

you are able to achieve it is by broadening the diversity of the creators, the writers and directors," Moore told Australia's Sunday Style magazine.

"You don't say to a bunch of guys, 'Hey, you should write some more stories about women, as our experiences are so subjective. My husband (filmmaker Bart Freundlich) writes his own stories; he doesn't write stories about women. That's not where his creative impulse comes from," she added.

Fergie plays at first Britain show in three years

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ormer Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie enthralled audiences at her first gig in Britain in three years at the Wireless Festival here. The "Big girls don't cry" singer star wowed crowds at Finsbury Park here on Sunday with an electrifying set as she performed some of her biggest hits, including "London bridge", "Glamorous" and her new single "M.I.L.F.$", reports mirror.co.uk.

During her set, Fergie changed her outfit multiple times, starting with a red silk bomber jacket, then a black leather biker jacket with fringe arm detail and embellishment. Next she changed into a cream bomber jacket with detailing, finally ending up in a blue and green sequinned bomber jacket.

The mother-of-one who has Axl Jack, two, with husband Josh Duhamel -paired the ensemble with a white vertical striped latex bodysuit, completing the outfit with over-the-knee heeled boots.

Mesmerising crowds throughout her set, Fergie performed some tracks from her days with the Black Eyed Peas including "My humps", "Imma be", "Hey mama", "Boom boom pow" along with fan favourites "Don’t phunk with my heart", "Meet me half way" and "I got a feeling".

Source: IANS

The 55-year-old actress was honoured to win a Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for her role in "Still Alice". "You still feel like you are on pins and needles. But it felt great (to win). It's lovely. It's a wonderful, wonderful honour. I always say you can't take that stuff for granted," she said. "It's an industry award and it means that all these people in your business had to bother to tick the box next to your name," Moore added.

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ctor Deepika Padukone has revealed sports has changed her life and even taught her to fight with her two-year long depression. The 30-year-old "Bajirao Mastani" actress took to Facebook to motivate youth in playing any sport. The "Bajirao Mastani" star, who is a badminton player, stated about Source: IANS how sport has kept her going and helped her to face difficult situations.

"Sport has taught me how to handle failure. It has also taught me how to

handle success. It has kept me grounded. It has taught me humility." Deepika mentioned that the never dying athlete inside the actress gave her the strength to fight. "Two years ago I struggled with depression. I was sinking. I almost gave up. But it was the athlete in me that gave me the strength to fight and never ever give up!"

Appealing to the young minds, the actress wrote "every girl and every boy and every woman and every man...Play a sport... Because it changed my life...

Salman Khan’s Sultan Breaks The Internet!

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e have constantly been informing you about how Sultan is on a record breaking spree. The film is proving to be a huge milestone in the success story of the superstar. The film earlier aimed to break the opening day records held by Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. And to much of Salman’s fans pleasure, the film succeeded and achieved its aim of being the biggest Bollywood opener.

Well, the film just hasn’t stopped here. The film earned a grand amount of Rs. 38 crore net approx. ( 380 million) on the first day, on the second-day Rs. 35 crore net approx. (350 million), on the third-day Rs. 33 crore net approx. (330 million) and on the fourth day, Sultan collected Rs 36.73 crore (367 million). Sultan created history by becoming the first film to cross Rs 200 crore in Worldwide business.

Although this isn’t much of a surprise as the film had a long 5 day weekend owing to Eid, we simply cannot ignore the fact that the film didn’t have as much pre-release booking period as other big achiever projects in the past have had.

Well, keeping everything else aside, the big achievement is indeed a reason to celebrate. The news is trending high on Twitter and is like to break the internet considering the continuous series of wishes for the film being tweeted.

Source: Business of Cinema

And it will change yours too!" Calling sport one of the main reasons of her survival she went on writing, "Sport has taught me how to survive! It has taught me how to fight! It has made me unstoppable!"

The actress also mentioned about her father's formula to be perfect, "When I was growing up my father said to me, "To be the best, always remember the three D's - Discipline, Dedication and Determination.

Follow your heart. Do what you are passionate about.

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Portugal stun France to liFt euro 2016

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal (c) lifts the European Championship trophy after his side win 1-0 against France during the UEFA EURO 2016 Final match between Portugal and France at Stade de France on July 10, 2016 in Paris, France. (Getty Images)

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PARIS, July 11 (ReuteRS): Portugal found an unlikely hero as Eder's thunderous finish deep into extra time secured their first European Championship title after they overcame the early loss of Cristiano Ronaldo to snatch a 1-0 victory over hosts France on Sunday.

The substitute picked the perfect time to score his first competitive goal for his country, marauding forward before letting fly with a bullet shot from 25 metres in the 109th minute.

It was a magic moment for the 28-year-old who plays for French club Lille and delivered a devastating knockout blow to decide a tight and cagey encounter.

"It was amazing," the striker told reporters. "We fought with immense strength, we were amazing.

I think we deserve this title due to the work we put in, all the players and the staff."

It was a cruel outcome for Didier Deschamps' side, who had dominated the match and squandered a number of chances, in front of their devastated home support, who arrived at the Stade de France hoping to celebrate a third European crown.

The trophy was lifted triumphantly by Ronaldo, who broke down in tears at the final whistle after his own game had come to a frustrating end with 24 minutes on the clock when

he cried as he was carried off the pitch on a stretcher with a knee injury.

So much of the buildup had focused on Ronaldo and his hopes of crowning a glittering career with the only achievement missing from his CV, a piece of international silverware.

The script had been written for him to produce a performance to match his status as one of the game's truly great talents, but he had to settle for a backstage role after Dimitri Payet's challenge left him in a heap on the floor.

It was not how he would have envisaged his evening panning out, but having been part of the Portugal side that were stunned in the final as hosts by Greece in 2004, he celebrated wildly with his team mates as ticker tape rained down from the rafters.

DEBILITATING DEFEAT For France it was a debilitating defeat after they had come into the match as heavy favourites and hoping to lift the spirits of a nation still recovering from last November's attacks in Paris. "We missed a chance, maybe not a unique chance, but a great chance to become European champions," Deschamps said.

"Our disappointment is immense and will take time to digest. We won together, we suffered together and

Ronaldo told me I'd Euro 2016: Champions Portugal fly home score the winner: Eder to hero's welcome, presidential honour

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ristiano Ronaldo predicted Portugal's Euro 2016 hero Eder would score the winning goal in their 1-0 extra-time triumph over France and gave him the encouragement to settle Sunday's final. Eder came on in the 79th minute and, having played only 13 minutes at the tournament before his introduction, struck the winner with a venomous long-range strike in the 109th minute. Portugal were outsiders to win the final and were dealt a significant blow early on when their talismanic captain Ronaldo had to be replaced through injury in the 25th minute.

Eder, who plays for French side Lille, said his captain's words had inspired him to make the decisive contribution. "(Ronaldo) told me I would score the winning goal for the team," the striker told O Jogo. "He gave me this strength, this energy and it was vital.

"It was a goal I've been working for from the first minute of the Euros. "For all the work we did, for all of the Portuguese, it's fantastic," he added. "It's well deserved and we should all be congratulated."

France had better chances in regular time but were unable to capitalise on their superiority despite Ronaldo's exit. Portugal coach Fernando Santos brought on Eder for Renato Sanches and he broke the deadlock in the extra period after muscling his way past defender Laurent Koscielny before firing a low right-foot shot into the corner of Hugo Lloris's goal. "The disappointment is immense," his club Lille wrote on their official Twitter account, "but there is considerable pride to be able to count such an attacker in our ranks."

(Reuters) we lost together. It would have been magnificent to offer this trophy to our supporters, here at home."

For the much of the match, there had looked like being only one winner as France began with early attacking intent, fuelled by the bullish presence and

charging runs of Moussa Sissoko in midfield.

His 34th-minute shot was well-parried by Portugal keeper Rui Patricio, but by that point the match had settled into a pattern of France probing and pushing but struggling to break down their more defen-

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housands of fans greeted Euro 2016 champions Portugal as they landed in Lisbon on Monday, chanting the name of goal hero Eder, whose extra-time screamer sealed the 1-0 victory over France.

After travelling in a plane named after the late striker Eusebio, coach Fernando Santos and captain Cristiano Ronaldo were greeted by rapturous applause from the 5,000-strong crowd as they lifted the country's first major trophy aloft. They were due to meet President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who said he would honour them with an award for distinguished acts of public service.

"I have to praise everyone. I will commemorate them with the Order of Merit of Commanders - that is a decree that has never been given to the national team," he told broadcaster RTP.

sively-minded opponents.

Without Ronaldo, Portugal seemed in no hurry to rush the ball forward, happy to see the game descend into a cagey, tactical battle.

They had a scare, however, in the 67th minute when Kingsley Coman's cross found Antoine Griez-

Portugal's head coach Fernando Santos and Cristiano Ronaldo step off their airplane holding the EURO 2016 cup as their arrive home in Lisbon, Portugal, July 11. (REUTERS)

The team were then expected to parade the trophy in the streets of Lisbon before addressing delirious supporters at the fanzone in the capital after the country erupted into noisy mann unmarked six metres from goal, only for the tournament's top scorer to head a golden opportunity over.

Minutes later, Olivier Giroud, fed by sprightly substitute Coman, forced a diving save from Patricio, who then parried away a pile-driver from Sissoko as

jubilation late on Sunday.

Former Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who lost to Greece in the 2004 final hosted by Portugal, showered praise on the players. "Portugal had France turned the screw.

France's best chance of the night arrived in stoppage time when substitute Andre-Pierre Gignac turned his marker inside out before scuffing a shot past the keeper and against the post, with the ball bouncing across the face of goal and

deserved this European champion title since 2004.

Last night, Portugal was able to get back the title that we lost in 2004," he told Sport TV. (Reuters) then out of harm's way.

While Portugal continued to sit back in extra time, they had the better chances with Eder's header parried by Hugo Lloris and Raphael Guerreiro striking the crossbar with a free kick before Eder's moment of magic.

Sharapova's Rio dreams over I didn't have money, but I had dreams, hope: Serena top ranked American in as CAS delays doping decision The now mere two Slams away

GenevA, July 11 (IAnS): Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova's dreams of competing at next month's Rio Olympics were dashed after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday delayed the decision on her two-year doping ban to September 19.

In a statement published on the court's official website, the CAS said: "In her appeal to the CAS, Sharapova seeks the annulment of the Tribunal's decision to sanction her with a two-year period of ineligibility further to an anti-doping rule violation.

Sharapova submits that the period of ineligibility should be eliminated, or in the alternative, reduced.

The final decision will be announced and published by CAS when it is available." Consequently, Sharapova will miss the Rio Games that will take place from August 5 to 21.

Reacting to the development, Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) President Shamil Tarpishchev said Sharapova's absence from the Olympics is a great loss for the national team.

"Sharapova's absence is a loss for our national team at the Olympics. We hoped for her medal in singles. In the current situation, the composition of the women's team at the Games

to match the all-time record of 24 major titles.

new DelhI, July 11 (AGencIeS): A couple of days after winning her recordequalling 22 Grand Slam title, emotional Serena Williams spoke about her fairy-tale journey in the sport.

“I've had great dreams. I didn't come from money or anything, but I had a dream and I did have hope. That's really all you need,“ Serena, the seven-time Wimbledon champion, was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

The top ranked American in now mere two Slams away to match the all-time record of 24 major titles, a rare feat achieved

by Australia's Margaret Court before the start of Open era.

The 34-year-old also talked about the power and privilege of being Serena Williams. “We shouldn't put any female athlete in a box. Why do we have to be limited to just female athletes? We all work really hard. We want to be known as just athletes.

“I've been given a great opportunity.

I've been given so much talent. I've been put in a position where I can inspire ladies and men, as well. Anyone, any kid out there that wants to be something, who has a dream,“ added Serena.

The booing needs to stop, says Hamilton

remains unchanged," Tarpishchev told Tass. The RTF stated in late May that it decided to enter in the Olympic team Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavliuchenkova and Darya Kasatkina.

In e a r l y Ma rc h, Sharapova announced that her doping tests revealed the presence of performance enhancing drug meldonium in the body system. Following the announcement, former World's No. 1 was provisionally suspended from all tennis-related activities.

The drug meldonium (mildronate) was included

in the list of preparations banned by WADA (World Anti-Doping Authority) from January 1 this year.

The presence of the meldonium substance in the athlete's blood during and between competitions is a violation of anti-doping rules. The substance belongs to S4 class on WADA blacklist of hormones and metabolic modulators.

WADA announced on April 13 that the concentration of less than one microgram of meldonium in the body system of an athlete, whose doping tests were conducted before March 1, was acceptable.

lOnDOn, July 11 (ReuteRS): Triple Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has urged fans to be more sporting after boos were heard for the second race in a row at Silverstone on Sunday.

In Austria a week before it was Hamilton, now winner of four of the last five races, who was subjected to jeers and whistles after a last lap collision with Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg.

On Sunday, boos aimed at championship leader Rosberg mingled with the cheers after the German came second to Hamilton in front of a 139,000 strong British crowd. "Look at these guys, you don’t see this anywhere around the world. And you don’t hear a lot of booing, which means we’ve got good British spirit here," Hamilton had told the sea of fans from the podium. When the microphone was passed to Rosberg, and it was evident that Hamilton had spoken too soon, Australia's former F1 driver turned interviewer

Mark Webber interjected: "Come on guys, he fought valiantly. He did what he could."

Hamilton said later he had wanted to calm the fans down and would not have behaved that way himself.

"I feel like we are better than that. I didn’t really hear a lot of boos. But what you just have to understand is they are mad, passionate fans and something wasn’t right in the last one," said the Briton. "Maybe when I get to Germany, maybe we will have the same thing. I hope not, because I think in sport in general it's just not the done thing," he said. "If I went to a football game and the other team won, I would never boo the other team because they did a better job and that's real sportsmanship." Rosberg, who attended the post-race fan party, shrugged off what had happened. "Lewis had it in Austria, that the whole crowd was booing him. The majority of the British were really, really Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrates with his team after winsupportive of me this weekend," he said. ning the race. (REUTERS)

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