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12th nlA session: first day lasts 15 minutes! our Correspondent Kohima | July 12

Silence is Golden - a timetested adage which the 60 lawmakers of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) apparently had a misreading of - going by the first day of the 3-day Twelfth Session of the 12th NLA which for all its worth lasted a measly 15 minutes.

As if chasing time for a far more important engagement, the Tuesday session started at 9:30am and swiftly ended at 9:45am. July 13 stands recess and the session will resume on July 14.

At a time when innumerable issues of pertinence continue to bog down citizens of Nagaland without respite, for instance: corruption, backdoor appointments, fuel adulteration scam, nonpayment of salaries, interstate border issues, the disinclination of the legislators to discuss anything has been taken as a clear expression of a “dysfunctional government.”

Irate citizens were left fuming with resentment after reports of the 15 minutes session of the 12th NLA quickly spread, especially to the social media platform.

This is not the first time that the lawmakers at the NLA chose to remain in the mute. In 2015, the 10th session of the 12th NLA lasted

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for 30 minutes. The last day of the 11th session of the 12th NLA on March 2016 lasted 13 minutes.

Apparently, this particular trend has increased after the 60 legislators discarded their shackles of hostility, abandoned the opposition bench during the February 5, 2015 floor test for trial of strength and have since become ‘friendly.’

Kohima residents had more reason to be annoyed. In view of the 12th NLA session, a tight traffic regulation was imposed for the public commuters to make unhindered passage for the 60 legislators to the Assembly Secretariat.

“All this never ending traffic torture of us common people for 15 minutes session of the NLA?” a dumbfound Tiayanger, student of Kohima Science College exclaimed.

If the affair at the Assembly Secretariat of the 60 strong lawmakers wasn’t outrageous, one of the few outcomes, hurriedly approved by the house during the 15 minutes session was the extension of the Nagaland Lokayukta Bill, 2015 select committee for another 6 months.

The bill, which has been long anticipated, if passed will check the alleged rampant corruption, backdoor appointments in government departments and ir-

Move for revision of CM, Speaker, Ministers & NLA members salaries

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nlA speaker Chotisuh sazo presiding over the 12th session of the Twelfth nagaland legislative Assembly on July 12. (DIPR Photo)

regularities in implemen- empowered to investigate tation of schemes. into allegations of corruptions against public funcNagaland Lokayukta tionaries and related matBill Select Committers. It is a quasi-judicial tee tenure extended body, which would act as Hope of getting ‘The Na- a watchdog to pinpoint galand Lokayukta Bill, 2005’ corrupt activities of the passed in the Assembly was administration, look into dashed on Tuesday after complaints of the victims Parliamentary Secretary for of corrupt elements and Housing Er. Levi Rengma recommend measures to moved for extension of the improve the efficiency of tenure of the Select Com- the State government. mittee bill with instructions Nagaland Governor PB to present its report within Acharya was reportedly six months. The House ad- fumed at the delay of the opted the motion. passing of the Bill, which, if The Committee is head- passed, will check alleged ed by Er. Levi Rengma as rampant corruption, backchairman with R. Tohanba, door appointments in govC. Apok Jamir, Pukhayi and ernment departments and Dr. TM Lotha as members. irregularities in implemenNagaland Chief Minister tation of schemes.

TR Zeliang had introduced Nagaland Chief Minthe Nagaland Lokayukta ister TR Zeliang presentBill 2015 in the last Assem- ed the Supplementary bly Session.

Demand for Grants for The ‘Lokayukta’ is an Regularization of Excess anti-corruption authority Expenditure for the year

2011- 2012. NLA Speaker Chotisuh Sazo informed that discussion and voting on this matter will be taken up on July 14.

Commissioner & Secretary N. Benjamin Newmai reported the assent of Governor of Nagaland to the three Bills- Nagaland Appropriation (No.1) Bill 2016, Nagaland Appropriation (No. 2) Bill, 2016 and Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Online Games of Skill Bill, 2015.

Earlier, NLA Speaker Chotisuh Sazo made an obituary reference to the passing away of Late R. Lisen, former member of NLA. Lisen passed away on May 3, 2016 at Dimapur. The House observed 2 minute silent as a mark of respect to the departed soul. The House also introduced St. Joseph Catholic University Nagaland Bill, 2016.

inister for Social Security & Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs, Kiyanilie Peseyie today moved the Nagaland salaries, allowances and other facilities of the Chief Minister, other Ministers, Speaker, Leader of Opposition, Deputy Speaker, other members of the NLA/Parliamentary Secretary & Pension for ExMembers (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 2016 for introduction on the floor of the House.

Peseyie stated that the financial implication for the revision of the Nagaland salaries, allowances, other facilities of the Chief Minister, other Ministers, Speaker, Leader of Opposition, Deputy Speaker, other members of the NLA/Parliamentary Secretaries & Pension for ExMembers Act 2005 (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 2016 for the existing members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly will be Rs. 60, 85,000.

The financial implication for the ex-members which has been raised in tune with the ex-IBM have a higher financial implica-

sCHEDulE i CHiEF MinisTER | sPEAKER Salary and other allowances *Salary *Vehicle maintenance pm per vehicle *Pol p.m per vehicle *Hospitality allowances *Newspapers/magazine

Enhanced salary Rs. 60,000 Rs. 15,000 Rs. 30,000 Rs. 15,000 Rs. 2000 Total Rs. 1, 22,000 DEPuTY sPEAKER | MinisTER | lEADER oF oPPosiTion Salary and other allowances Enhanced salary *Salary Rs. 55,000 *Vehicle maintenance pm per vehicle Rs. 15,000 *POL p.m per vehicle Rs. 25,000 *Hospitality allowances Rs. 10,000 *Newspapers/magazine Rs. 2000 Total Rs. 1, 07,000 MEMBERs (MlAs)/PARliAMEnTARY sECRETARiEs Salary and other allowances Enhanced salary *Salary Rs. 50,000 *Vehicle maintenance pm per vehicle Rs. 13,000 *POL p.m per vehicle Rs. 20,000 *Hospitality allowances Rs. 10,000 *Newspapers/magazine Rs. 2000 *Telephone allowance Rs. 5000 Total Rs. 1, 00,000 sAlARY oF THE PERsonAl sTAFF AnD PERsonAl AiD oF THE MlAs Salary and other allowances Enhanced salary *Personal staff Rs. 12,000 Rs. 8000 each (i.e Rs. *Two Personal Aid 16,000) Total Rs. 28,000 Monthly Financial implication Particulars Existing pay Enhanced Difference *For 60 members of NLA Rs. 41,08,000 Rs. 61, 40,000 Rs. 20,32,000 *Pension for ex-members Rs. 38, 99,000 Rs. 70, 50,000 Rs. 31, 51,000 (141 ex-members) *Family pension (87 family Rs. 10, 87, 500 Rs. 26,10, 000 Rs. 15,22, 500 pensioners) Total Rs. 90, 94, 500 Rs. 1, 57, 30,000 Rs. 67, 05, 500.

tion of Rs. 70, 50,000 and family pension of Rs. 26, 10,000 per month. The total financial implication of both the existing and exmembers including family pension will be Rs. 1, 57, 30,000 and Rs. 18, 87, 60,000 per annum.

Peseyie stated that the overall financial implication of this Amendment Bill

will be an increase of Rs. 67, 05, 500 per month which comes to Rs. 8, 04, 66,000 per annum.

Consideration and passing of this Bill would be taken up on July 14, said NLA Speaker Chotisuh Sazo. Amendment if any can be submitted till 12 noon on July 13, the NLA Speaker informed.

Nagaland Govt spent more than 320cr Attempted ‘march’ towards on ‘land acquisition’ from 2006-2015 Daldali reserve forest halted

Dimapur, July 12 (mExN): The plots for different departments for ment status of these plots. “For such Government of Nagaland has spent various developmental projects dereliction, appropriate step had a staggering Rs. 320, 43, 34, 909 (Ru- from 2006-07 to 2015. Out of these, been initiated against the authorities pees three hundred twenty crore, 162 were either paid for or duly com- who have failed to comply including forty three lakh, thirty four thousand, pensated with a total amount of Rs. Deputy Commissioner, Peren,” informed the press statement. nine hundred nine) on land acquisi- 320,43,34,909/-.

It was not possible to immeSeveral plots which were “altion between 2006 and 2015. ready paid (for) but not acquired This was informed in a press statement from a team of former RTI petitioners allege various by the respective Department concerned, example at Hovactivists of the Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK). The team had authorities in the government ukhu Village for NIIT and Gounearthed this data through the grossly mismanaging all the Carting, Padam Pukhuri, which was deliberately misplaced as use of RTI applications. possible opportunities for Chekiye village, raises lots of unThe press statement, signed urbanizations is affecting by Aheto V. Yeputhomi, Hukavi selfish aggrandizement at the answered questions for which the applicant shall initiate apT. Yeputhomi, Kitoho S. Rotus villager too. expense of the exchequer propriate step,” stressed the five okha, L. Khevishe Achumi and RTI applicants while providing The Morung Express S. Zhevihe Sumi—all former presidents of the SKK—felt that vari- diately estimate the average land the details of the RTI response from Poll QuEsTion ous authorities in the government compensation rate or the highest or the 11 districts of Nagaland as well Vote on www.morungexpress.com had been “grossly mismanaging” lowest amount paid for land by the as Shillong, from where the GovernSMS your anSwer to 9862574165 all the “possible opportunities” for Government—the 20-page docu- ment of Nagaland has acquired land “selfish aggrandizement” at the “ex- ment showed land measurements for various purposes.

The Nagaland govt is in terms of Sq. ft., Sq. Mtrs., acres and The public leaders made the silent on many allegations pense of the exchequer.”

– the latest being the The RTI applications filed by hectares, while some did not provide whole data available for public pefuel adulteration issue. them for data from “appropriate au- any measurement of land acquired rusal so that “all the common pubIs the “Oppositionless” lic may discern on how our Govthorities” including Deputy Com- for particular development work.

Government unconcerned 111 plots were shown either yet ernment works for over all round with such problems? Why? missioners of the various districts of Nagaland resulted in information to be paid for/compensated or in- development of the State and collecthat the Government of Nagaland formation was not provided by the tively pursue such issues of public Yes no others has acquired 273 pieces of land/ authority concerned as to the pay- importance in the days to come.”

SVC clarify on allegation of being mere ‘decorative arm’

Dimapur, July 12 (mExN): The Nagaland State Vigilance Commission (SVC) has responded to the aspersions cast

by Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland on its role as simply being a “decorative arm of the State.”

A rejoinder from I Meyionen, Director & Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vigilance & AntiCorruption Police on Tuesday, while acknowledging the concern expressed by ACAUT on issues that needs attention by the Commission, said it is investigating 90 cases (regular and preliminary enquiries), which is inclusive of SIT cases.

This requires the involvement of a good number of officers in every case and in addition, the investigating team requires touring the districts relating to the cases.

However, the Commission pointed out that it has only 13 investigating officers, 11 assisting investigating officers and 3 supervising officers including the director for

• Commission cannot run parallel investigation on fuel adulteration case • No direction from govt to investigate BDO backdoor appointment • No formal complaint received till date on the F&CS PDS scam • Clarification sought from govt on resolution of suo-moto cases the whole state.

On the issue of fuel adulteration scam, the Commission noted that the Dimapur Police has already registered 2 FIRs, one in Diphupar PS and another in West PS and investigation in full swing.

Stating that there is a policy of the State Government against parallel investigation and the law also prohibits the same, the Commission therefore said casting as-

persions and terming the SVC as a decorative arm of the State by ACAUT is therefore uncalled for.

On the issue of the Nagaland Excise Department case in 2014, the Commission said it had investigated the case and the findings and recommendation was communicated to the department for taking necessary action. Accordingly, the department had taken action by serving “administrative warning to one deputy superintendent of excise and one inspector while another inspector was also censored by the government.”

The Commission said it had also noted the poor maintenance of record by the department and recommended that the Excise department streamline the maintenance of all official records.

On the complaint of ACAUT with regard to backdoor appointment of BDOs in 2015, the Commission said this was addressed to the Chief Secretary and copy endorsed to State Vigilance Com-

missioner.

However, it informed that there was no direction from the government to investigate into the matter, for which reason the matter was not taken up by the Commission. On the PDS scam under the Department of Food & Civil Supplies, the Commission said it has received no formal complaint till date.

On the allegation of the SVC not taking up suo-moto cases, the Commission clarified that it functions as per the government resolutions and notifications adopted from time to time. It also said there was some technical issue with regard to the government amendments on the resolutions regarding suo-moto cases for which clarification has been sought from the government.

The Commission said ACAUT and the public should have faith in the police investigation on fuel adulteration and cooperate with the investigating team to ensure speedy investigation of the case.

Dimapur district administration and police officials are seen negotiating with an agitated crowd, who had barricaded the state stadium road intersection after they were prevented from entering Daldali Reserve Forest on July 12 in Dimapur.

Standoff; road blockade at DC Court junction after police restricts group from proceeding ahead Morung Express news Dimapur | July 12

An abortive bid to march towards the contested Daldali Reserve Forest, under KarbiAnglong Autonomous district by a group of people almost turned violent in Dimapur on July 12. The group, numbering some 100-150 people, who claims ownership over tracts of land within the Daldali Reserve Forest were thwarted by the Dimapur district administration from proceeding to the contested site at the District Jail (formerly sub-jail) junction, NH 36, later resulting in a standoff at the Dimapur State Stadium road intersection.

Unhappy over the pre-emptive act of the Dimapur district administration, the livid crowd barricaded the road obstructing vehicular traffic. The members of the crowd asserted they have the right to establish a settlement called ‘United village’ on land falling beyond Aoyimkum and Indisen villages, which the Assam Forest department claims to be part of Daldali Reserve Forest.

Plans for the day’s abortive act were reportedly made days earlier. The authorities in Karbi-Anglong, as per reports, also got wind of the plan and made necessary security arrangement at Daldali to thwart the attempt.

The Dimapur district administration stated that the preventive act of the police today was to avoid clashes at the inter-state border. “The agitated crowd was made to reason and understand the situation,” said a district administration official. According to the official, the crowd was categorically told that the Nagaland state government is taking up the issue of land between Assam and Nagaland seriously. With the Assam-

Nagaland border case being heard at the Supreme Court reportedly at a “crucial stage”, the official averred any development activity on contested border land could and might adversely affect the Nagaland state government’s case.

The representatives met the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur during which the district administration was assured of the former’s cooperation. The representatives also sought a meeting with the state Home Minister soon on the matter.

With regard to the Assam-Nagaland border case pending at the Supreme Court, it was learned that it is being expedited with the hearings taking place on a weekly basis. While the witness examination of the petitioner (Assam state government) has been completed, the examination of witnesses for the respondents (Nagaland state government and the Union government) is scheduled to be held by July end. The SC is reported to have fixed July 15 as the last date for submission of affidavits for the scheduled examinations.

The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA), in a press statement, held that “skirmishes and confrontations” like today’s will continue until Daldali Reserve Forest is evicted of “people of questionable origins from Assam”, including “Dillai Gate of Assam”, 6th Mile, Sunday Bazar and other habitations in the contested interstate border land. According to the UNTABA, “It will be unwise to stop our people from occupying their rightful activities since people from Nagaland side has been only trying to occupy the areas given and recognized by the District administration and the Government of Nagaland. It further appealed the public of the aforementioned areas to refrain from adopting confrontational approach against any authority “but to cooperate with each other in all eventualities.

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Enforcement officers equipped on harmful effects of tobacco and COTPA 2003

Kohima, July 12 (DiPR): A one day workshop for enforcement officers and anti-tobacco squad on harmful effects of tobacco and COTPA 2003 was held at Conclave Conference Hall, LCS Building, Kohima on July 12.

State Nodal Officer (NTCP) and Joint Director, Health & Family Welfare department, Dr. H. Hotokhu Chishi said that the workshop was important for the enforcement officers in order to equip them well informed about the harmful effects of tobacco so as to act as a role model while implementing the enforcement activities in their respective areas.

Speaking as resource person on the topic “Hazards of tobacco” Dr. Hotokhu stated that tobacco is the only legal product available in the market that kills 50% of its users globally where India is the third largest producer in the world next to China and Brazil and the second largest consumer in the world next to China which leads to largest number of oral cancer in the world resulting 2200 of its population dies every day and 10 lakh of its population dies every year due to tobacco use.

DC and Chairman DLCC Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor, IAS speaking at the workshop on Harmful effects of tobacco and COTPA 2003 held at Conclave Conference Hall, LCS Building, Kohima on July 12. (DIPR Photo)

As per GATS 2010 released by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Hotokhu informed that Nagaland Tobacco Statistic shows an overall 57% prevalence of tobacco with 26.3% of cigarette, 11.8% of Bidi and 45.0% of smokeless. He highlighted the burdens of tobacco in term of health, economy and environment and what it offers to our body and the consequences one has to pay off and also highlighted on the district wise tobacco profile. In this regard, Dr. Hotokhu said, the

Nagaland State has got advantages since there is no agriculture or job shifting problem, no production and processing industry, no tobacco support lobby and moreover a responsive community as being Christian majority.

He also added that it was not only the domain of Health & Family Welfare Department nor the District Administration but every individual to be a responsive to the cause and carry forward this problem in their respective levels for the benefit of our people

and to make Nagaland a State a Tobacco Free State, Smoke Free State and Environment Free State.

Legal Aid Counsel, JJB Kohima, Akumla Longchari speaking on “Tobacco Control Act (COTPA 2003) as resource person highlighted the main provisions of the Act which included prohibition of smoking in public places, prohibition of advertisement of tobacco products, prohibition on sale of product to and by minor and specific health warnings on tobacco prod-

ucts. On the Law dealing with ‘Smoking in public places’, she informed that Central Government or State Government may appoint one or more persons to take action against any person smoking in public places, which can be settled on the spot by the enforcement officer and further highlighted the ‘Role of Enforcement Officials’ where the notified officers could conducts surprise checks and routine inspections at restaurants, hotels, government and other public buildings and trans-

port and if caught violating the provision a penalty amount could be imposed to the violators. She also highlighted on the other laws beside COTPA’ and various suggestions for effective implementation of the Act. Deputy Commissioner Kohima and Chairman of DLCC, Rovilatuo Mor, IAS who also spoke expressed his optimism that the members have taken serious note of it and understand clearly about the harmful effects of tobacco through this workshop.

To control the harmful effects of tobacco, the DC has informed that the first steps taken by the DLCC was to make the Kohima City a Smoke Free City which was declared on April 28, 2016 followed by the guidelines and action plan laid by the DLCC for effective Implementation of Smoke free Kohima city.

He therefore requested all the enforcement officers to create awareness on the guidelines and take active part and initiative in their respective areas for the successful implementation of the smoke free city and create a healthy environment with equal participation.

DimaPuR, July 12 (mExN): Rotary International will help Rotary Club of Dimapur to continue its Heart to Heart Programme under which children suffering from congenital heart diseases are operated free of cost.

This was disclosed by Rtn Shekhar Mehta, past Rotary International Director and present Chairman of Rotary India Literacy Mission while speaking at the Installation ceremony of the 45th Board of Directors of Rotary Club of Dimapur on July 9 at Rotary Centre, Midland, and Dimapur as the chief guest cum Installation officer.

Rotary Club of Dimapur has been taking up the project of free heart operations of children for the last few years. At the installation ceremony, a new board for the year 2016-17, led by Rtn Neeraj Jain as President and Rtn. Uttam Singh as Secretary was installed by Rtn Shekhar Mehta. Rtn Shekhar Mehta also offered grants to open 50 e-learning centres as a part of Rotary India Literacy Mission to change the literacy scenario of the country.

On this occasion, 4th Rotary Entrepreneur of the year Award was given away to T. Jason Rengma of “I Watch Security & Allied Services” Dimapur. This award was bestowed upon T Jason Rengma for his contribution to the community as an entrepreneur and in the process becoming a role model. Rotary Entrepreneur of the year award was instituted

by Rotary Club of Dimapur to encourage entrepreneurship and is given to a first generation entrepreneur.

Life Insurance Corporation of India, Dimapur Branch was recognized with Rotary Vocational Excellence Award under corporate category. LICI has been serving the people of Nagaland since last 40 years & was selected because of its contribution to the community for giving self-employment to a large number of people as Life Insurance Agents & other social responsibilities activities.

W. Ruivah, Branch Manager LICI accepted the award on behalf of LICI Dimapur Branch. This was followed by vocational recognition awards to P. Demru Sweeper, Dimapur Municipal Corporation; Lohitson- Electric Lineman; T.N.Lotha – Postman; Hisule Keppen- Head Matron; Welhishe Letro- Fireman.

Outgoing President Rtn. Temsusenla Kichu, Secretary Rtn Rakesh Kochar and Treasurer Rtn Bajrang Bucha were also recognized for their services on this occasion.

Installation of new board of Rotaract Club of Dimapur was also done on this occasion. Rtn Chandu Agarwalla IPDG Rotary Dist 3240 & Rtn Lucy Akokla, Asstt. Governor Zone IX also wished the incoming Board of Directors a successful Rotary Year ahead.

Viyito villagers donate fruits to NZP

DimaPuR, July 12 (mExN): The Nagaland Zoological Park, Dimapur every now and then receives donation of wild animals and birds from various individuals, societies and villages.

Inspire of these generosity, housing the animals and birds due to overgrowing population, feeding is another challenge.

In the midst of all these issues a village by the name Viyito village under Niuland Subdivision under the leadership of Atovi Yepthomi (teacher) donated truck load of fruits such as jackfruits, star fruits and mangoes on July 9 and 13. “This sets an example by a humble village to all the citizens of Nagaland. It is a small step forward but will have a significant difference in the future,” Sentichuba Aier, Director, NZP stated in a press release.

The Director, NZP along with Obed Bohovi Swu (ACF) and the establishment of Nagaland Children and teachers at Totok Chingnyu during the World Vision India Mon Area Program’s Life School for Transformational Zoological Park have appreciated the Viyito villag- Development (LSTD) programme. It was conducted in 14 villages in Mon district. The programme was organized for five ers for coming forward in making such donations. days in each community and attended by 4295 students and 212 LSTD teachers were involved.

AKMWP reminds Kohima traffic police on corrective measures

Kohima, July 12 (mExN): The Association of Kohima Municipal Wards Panchayat (AKMWP) has issued a press statement in regard to traffic control in Kohima. AKMWP, President, Neibulie Kiewhuo and Secretary, Thejao Sekhose said in the statement that the matter was deliberately discussed along with Deputy A massive landslide occurred at North Point Colony, Akuluto on July 11 at around 11:00 PM. SDO (C), Akuluto, Kikumsangla Jamir who visited the area said five houses were damaged SP (Traffic), KMC officials badly and the road leading to colony was also blocked. Locality and 8th NAP, B COY helped in clearing the road and also the affected families. (DIPR Photo)

and Kohima ward chairman at KMC conference hall on March 3, 2016.

The Panchayat mentioned that the house shared their opinion and suggested corrective measures by respective ward chairman and also specifically pointed out that, the approach road from Mezhur Higher secondary school to the national highway, a ‘No Left Turn’

sign board was placed right at the ‘V’ junction, where traffic police are also deputed to control the traffic.

However, the AKMWP stated that, traffic police on duty at the spot stop the vehicles coming and going towards town and BOC side and allow the vehicle to take the left and right turn which causes traffic jam from both sides. The same case is also witnessed

Eco club students keep Viswema Village clean

at the approach from Midland to national highway near Dr. Dietho-o’s Pharmacy.

“Despite, taking note of the suggestion from the house by the Deputy SP (Traffic) and assuring to look into the suggestions, even after more than three months, the same traffic violation are still continuing till date,” the AKMWP lamented.

While requesting the Kohima traffic police in particular and the public in general to be a part of easing traffic in our Town, AKMWP requested to address the issue and added, “the traffic police are facing shortage of manpower and the lack of CIVIC sense from the public, but collectively if we put a little bit of effort, we can surely achieve some progress.”

Technical Education to conduct counseling Kohima, July 12 (mExN): The Directorate of Technical Education Nagaland will be conducting counseling for interested candidates desiring to pursue undergraduate course in engineering, agriculture and allied courses, nursing and paramedical courses in private institutions/ universities admission on July 14 and 15 in the office of the Directorate of Technical Education Nagaland, Kohima. Representative from various Private Technical Institutions and Universities will be participating in the counseling session. Candidates who did not get seat through the State NSEE 2016, JOSAA 2016 and other entrance examinations and are willing to study professional course may attend the counseling and avail the opportunity of interacting with these institutions/universities and take admission in course of studies of their choice. This was issued in a notification by Director Technical Education, Er. Arjun Singh.

BBBP to launch Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts

Members of eco club of GMS K Khel, Viswema Village collect waste from the waste bin.

Kohima, July 12 (mExN): To reduce littering of roads in the village, the eco club of Government Middle School, K Khel, Viswema Village placed few conical baskets made of bamboos in the main street of the village for pedestrians to throw waste materials.

The eco club members of GMS K Khel, Viswema village placed the bamboo baskets on the road sides on June 4 in observance of the World Environment

Day which falls on June 5. Later, on July 8 school Eco Club had a social work and collected the waste from the bins and disposed the same.

“It is hoped that this action will create awareness amongst the villagers about making use of waste bins and not to litter the village,” said Kenei Vitsu, Teacher- incharge, Government Middle School KKhel, Viswema in a press release.

Kohima, July 12 (mExN): Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) under the State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) in collaboration with Department of Post is launching the Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts (SSA) drive on July 15, at 11:00 am under the theme ‘Secure our Girl Child’s future.’ Kiyanilie Peseyie, Minister of Social Welfare & Parliamentary Affairs will be the chief guest and the programme is schedule to be held at the Minister’s Office Chamber, New Secretariat Complex, Kohima.

It may be mentioned that, the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi had launched the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme and the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana in 2015 to meet the expenses of the Girl child’s higher education.

This scheme envisions to secure the future of the girl child by having an insurance policy that can be started when they are 0-10 years and withdrawn when the account matures after 21 years.

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Senapati rallies against bomb blast Newmai News Network Senapati | July 12

Thousands on Tuesday took out a rally in Senapati district headquarters to protest the explosion that occurred at the district Deputy Commissioner's office complex last Sunday night.

In the blast, some damage was done to a room allotted to Planning Department located inside the premises of the deputy commissioner’s office, but there were no human casualties. The NSCN (K) Shepoumaramth region has claimed responsibility for the incident.

Normal life was halted due to the massive protest rally which kicked-off from Senapati Mini Stadium at 9 am. The rally participated by over 2000 people snaked through the streets of the district administrative headquarters located about 60 km north of Imphal.

The demonstrators which included village leaders rallied upto Senapati District Council office complex. Later, a mammoth public meeting was held at the Senapati Mini Stadium. The meet strongly condemned the blast.

The participants held placards which read, “Se-

(LEFT) Students take part in Tueday's rally. (RIGHT) Public of Senapati take out a rally protesting against the bomb blast which occured on Sunday night in the office complex of the district's Deputy Commissioner. (NNN Photos)

napati cry for peace and love”, “Senapati-not a terrorist district”, “Make Senapati a peaceful zone”, “We condemn Bomb & Gun culture”, “We don’t need Bombs & Guns to bring peace”, “No amount of bomb can change the world”, “Human race cannot coexist with bomb”, “Stop terrorism against humanity”, “We condemn bomb blast at DC Office”,

SC to pronounce verdict on role of Governor during Arunachal row New Delhi, July 12 (iANS): The Supreme Court is likely to give on Wednesday its judgment on the petitions challenging Arunachal Pradesh Governor J.P. Rajkhowa's decision to advance the state assembly session and directing it to take up the resolution for the removal of the then Speaker Naban Rebia as first item.

Rajkhowa had advanced to December 16, 2015 the commencement of the assembly session, earlier scheduled to meet on January 14, in the wake of dissident activities in the State.

He had directed that the resolution for the removal of Speaker Rebia moved by the dissidents including opposition BJP lawmakers taken up as item number one and the party composition of the state assembly would remain unaltered.

It was argued on behalf of Governor Rajkhowa that if Governor, under the constitution, had power to

prorogue the House then he could as well advance its commencement otherwise scheduled for later date.

While reserving their order on the petitions challenging the role of the Governor on February 22, 2016, the constitution bench comprising Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Justice N.V. Ramana had said that if they come to conclusion that Rajkhowa had exceeded his jurisdiction in exercise of his discretionary powers then it would put the clock back to the situation prior to December 16. The constitution bench declared its stance after Governor Rajkhowa had told the court that if it (constitution bench) came to the conclusion that he had exceeded his jurisdiction in the matter, then only these two decisions would be quashed and not his recommendation for the imposition of President's rule in the State.

“Respect public property”, “We want peace not war”, “Peace & Development our solution”, etc. during the rally.

Speaking to a host of media persons on the sideline of the public rally, Naga People’s Organization (NPO) president, Moses Kamba said that Naga civil bodies including NPO, tribe hohos and frontal organizations had earlier

declared Senapati to be a ‘Peace Zone’ after the first mass protest rally against placing of an IED at DC Office in 2014.

He continued that the mass protest rally today was organized after the collective resolution of all apex bodies including NPO, tribe hohos and frontal organizations in an emergency joint meeting yesterday against the bomb blast at

DC Office on July 10.

He further said that the rally was organized to show the people’s disapproval of such anti-social activities and it was also to convey the responsible group that things could turn ugly if any such anti-social activities occur again in future.

While strongly condemning Sunday bomb blast at DC office, Mao Council President, Dili

New Delhi, July 12 (hT): The Centre’s estimate of militants in Manipur shot up from 1,500 to 5,000 in a span of 10 days during the Supreme Court’s hearing into the fake encounters in the north-eastern state but the spike may have just been on paper.

The government had reported the two figures in affidavits filed on December 5, 2012, and December 15, 2012, to persuade the court to dismiss pleas that sought probes into the alleged fake encounters in the state. “It is emphasised that only around 1,500 militants are holding a population of about 23 lakhs in Manipur to ransom and keeping the people in constant fear,” the government said in the case decided last week.

In its judgment, the SC, however, said this estimate was different from the fig-

ure cited 10 days later (in 2012) by the Centre in a similar case. Parts of the second affidavit too were reportedly a cut-paste job but with a higher estimate of the number of militants.

A home ministry official said they would need to look up the records to figure how the error crept in. And this wasn’t the only goof-up. The court pointed out that the government also got Manipur’s population wrong in both affidavits, observing that the 2011 Census had put the state’s population at over 27 lakh, not 23 lakh.

Security expert Ajai Sahni said he wasn’t surprised at the slip-ups but the problem was a lot more fundamental .

“The government and the home ministry demonstrate no respect for data and have often manipulated figures over time to suit their narrative,” said Sahni, executive director at the In-

stitute for Conflict .

The Chhattisgarh government promptly stood up to junk the figures, asserting that the total number of armed Maoist cadres in the state alone were in excess of this estimate.

But does an estimate of 5,000 militants imply that the problem in Manipur is much more serious than in Jammu and Kashmir?

No, said Sahni, pointing that the size of an insurgency had nothing to do with the intensity of the insurgency. Brig (retd) Gurmeet Kanwal, distinguished 2012, and December 15, 2012, to persuade the court to dismiss pleas that sought probes into the alleged fake encounters in the state.

The SC said the Centre also got Manipur’s population wrong in both affidavits, observing that the 2011 Census had put the state’s population at over 27 lakh, not 23 lakh. fellow at the In-

Speaker and puja committee Chairman Pabitra Kar told IANS. For the past several decades, successive Tripura governments have been bearing the expenses of this festival, living up to the agreement with the erstwhile royal family of Tripura.

Writer and historian Panna Lal Roy said: "Though the Communist Party of India-Marxist does not believe in gods or pujas, its government is abiding by the 1949 merger agreement with the royal family to uphold the faith of the tribals year after year."

"Kharchi Puja is the biggest for the Hindu tribals in northeast India," Roy added.

"Over the years, Kharchi Puja has become an annual carnival of both the tribals and the non-tribals, besides people of all religions," Kar said.

"On an average, 10 lakh to 15 lakh people gather from all over the country and neighbouring Bangladesh to join in the Kharchi

According to Tripura royal family's chronicle 'Rajmala', Queen Hirabati once went to take a bath in the river Maharani and noticed a wild buffalo chasing the 14 gods. With the help of the queen's cloth the gods managed to kill the beast. Happy with Hirabati's help, the gods visited the palace and the royal family offered puja by sacrificing wild buffaloes.

Since then it's been an annual affair in the region's calendar.

Once there were gold idols of the deities, but these were stolen several hundred years ago. Then the king ordered their recreation with 'ashtadhatu' -- an alloy of eight metals.

After the monarchy came to an end when Tripura merged with independent India on October 15, 1949, it was agreed that the state government will bear the expenses of the puja. The agreement also made it obligatory for the Tripura government to continue sponsorship of 18 temples, pujas and festivals managed earlier by the royals. And that has been continuing for the past 67 years.

Roy, who wrote several books on Tripura's royal era, said: "Tripura is perhaps the only Indian state where the state government is at the forefront of funding such a religious festival."

AgArTAlA, July 12 (iANS): A senior Tripura government officer, missing and on the run for a fortnight after rape accusation, was arrested on Tuesday in neighbouring Assam's Karimganj, police said.

"Acting on a tip-off, a Tripura Police team went to Karimganj town and arrested Panna Ahmed, 44, from a house there. He will be brought here and presented in a court for seeking his police custody," West Tripura district police chief Abhijit Saptarshi told reporters.

The Tripura govern-

ment suspended Ahmed, who was a sub-divisional magistrate in Sonamura sub-division of Sepahijala district.

"The state government had recently requested the Union Home Ministry for issuance of a red corner notice to track the official," Saptarshi said.

A Muslim woman filed an FIR with the West Agartala police station here on June 27 that Ahmed called her to his private residence here and raped her.

The West Tripura District Magistrate and police are separately inquiring into the incident.

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‘Number of Manipur militants shot to 5000 from 1500 in 10 days’

Centuries-old Kharchi Puja begins in Tripura Rape accused Tripura he added.

AgArTAlA, July 12 official held in Assam Kharchi Puja," So how did it all begin? (iANS): It's that time of the year again when 14 Hindu deities are out in full glory, worshipped by thousands of tribals in Tripura. It's time for the Kharchi Puja -- the annual festival meant to cleanse the sins of mortal souls.

Seamless festive spirit is now sweeping through Puran Habeli, the erstwhile capital of Tripura, where the puja began on Tuesday.

With colourful marquees, illuminations, religious rites and chanting of the 'mantras' amid drum beats, the festival features 14 deities -- Shiva, Durga, Vishnu, Laxmi, Saraswati, Kartik, Ganesha, Brahma, Abadhi (god of water), Chandra, Ganga, Agni, Kamdev and Himadri (Himalaya).

As per the tradition, the week-long festival began with a procession. All along the deities and the priests were escorted by the Tripura Police which also presented a guard of honour for the chief royal priest known as the Raj Chantaia.

Other priests held bamboo umbrellas and followed the chief priest.

Thousands of devotees joined them en route to Howrah river for the customary bathing.

"Traditionally, the worship starts with the dip of 14 deities in the Howrah river, followed by the sacrifice of 108 animals in the presence of hundreds of thousands of devotees, all at government expense," Tripura assembly Deputy

Mao lamented that "bomb threat is not our culture and ethic".

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New Delhi, July 12 (PTi): According to the India 2016 Wealth Report, by New World Wealth growth in Indian HNWI wealth and volumes is expected to be strong over the next 10 years.

The number of millionaires in India is growing strongly and at the end of 2015 around 2,36,000 high net worth individuals were living in the country, with a combined wealth of USD 1.5 trillion, says a report.

According to the India 2016 Wealth Report, by New World Wealth, while most countries worldwide have experienced negative or negligible growth since 2007, India has performed "very well" in terms of wealth performance through this period.

"During our review period, Indian HNWI volumes increased by 55 per cent from 1,52,000 HNWIs in 2007 to 2,36,000 HNWIs in 2015. HNWI wealth rose 67 per cent, from USD 0.9 trillion in 2007 to USD 1.5 trillion in 2015," the report said.

Millionaires or HNWIs or high net worth individuals refer to individuals with net assets of USD 1 million or more.

The major factors that were re-

To touch 5,54,000 by 2025 sponsible for growth in wealth performance in the country include, strong growth in the local construction, financial services, IT, business process outsourcing and healthcare sectors; solid economic growth and increased levels of entrepreneurship.

The report further noted that growth in Indian HNWI wealth and volumes is expected to be strong over the next 10 years.

"We expect the number of Indian HNWIs to grow by 135 per cent, to reach around 5,54,000 by 2025. This will make India one of the top five performing HNWI markets in the world over this period (in terms of percentage of HNWI growth), along with Vietnam, Sri Lanka, China and Mauritius," it said.

The 135 per cent rise will be fuelled by strong growth in the local

financial services, professional services and media sectors. The main factors that encourage wealth growth in a country include, strong ownership rights and the country scored 9/10 in this metric, followed by strong economic growth (9/10).

A well-developed banking system and stock market was also a factor as it encourages the people to invest their money within a country and grow their wealth locally, the report said.

The report however, noted that excessive government regulations are a major hurdle for new businesses in India.

"Corruption is also a major problem - businesses often need to pay regular bribes to government officials in order to operate successfully.

This problem has improved over the past year since Prime Minister Modi took office," it said.

It further noted that India is often cited as a difficult place for overseas investors to do business - there is a lack of transparency in several parts of the economy and the cost of starting a business in India is very high.

"India also ranks as one of the worst countries in the world for the ability to enforce a contract, taking an average of 1,420 days," it said.

India sees 137% jump in travellers using e-Tourist visas MuMbai, July 12 (ageNCies): The number of tourists coming into India by using the e-Tourist Visa facility provided by the government jumped 137.7% in June compared to the same period last year, a release on PIB said.

In June, 36,982 tourists

used the facility, up from 15,557 in the same month last year.

In the first six months of the year, 4,17,909 tourists entered India on the eTourist Visa compared to 1,26,214 in the same period last year.

The e-tourist visa fa-

cility was made available by the government in November 2014. While it was initially only applicable to 76 countries, the scheme was extended to 150 countries earlier this year.

Most tourists came from the US, followed by

the UK and China, contributing 23.22%, 14.16% and 6.91%, respectively.

Most tourists reached India at the New Delhi airport (42.15% using the e-tourist visa facility, followed by Mumbai airport (22.94%), Chennai airport (9.80%).

New Delhi, July 12 (PTi): British explorer Cairn Energy has sought $ 5.6 billion in compensation from the Indian government for raising a retrospective tax demand of Rs. 29,047 crore on 10-year old internal reorganisation of its India unit.

In a 160-page ‘Statement of Claim’ filed with an international arbitration panel on June 28, the Edinburgh-based company sought withdrawal of the tax demand and declaring that India has “failed to uphold its obligations” under the U.K.-India Investment Treaty by not giving its investments in the country “fair and equitable treatment.”

It sought $1.05 billion in compensation for the loss of value its 9.8 per cent shareholding in its erstwhile subsidiary Cairn India suffered following Income Tax Department raising the tax demand in January 2014 and attaching the shares. “In the alternative, and should the (arbitration) Tribunal determine not to order India to refrain from enforcing its unlawful tax demand”, Cairn sought to be compensated of breaches of the Investment Treaty by being paid for the loss of value of its holding in Cairn India as well as interest and penalties, totalling $5.587 billion (Rs. 37,400 crore).

Tamil Nadu can create 90 lakh jobs in five years: Study CheNNai, July 12 (iaNs): Over the next five years, Tamil Nadu has the potential to create more than 90 lakh jobs, attract investments of around Rs 22 lakh crore and log double digit growth, a study by industry body Assocham states.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) and Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on Tuesday released a paper titled 'Action Agenda for New Government of Tamil Nadu' here.

According to the paper,

Tamil Nadu had attracted investments worth over Rs 11 lakh crore between 2006-07 and 2015-16.

"Effective implementation of the investment projects holds key to growth of industry sector that will in turn help in creating lakhs of fresh job opportunities for 29 per cent of youth population that forms the workforce in the state," the paper said.

On the agriculture side the paper suggested that the state government should look at doubling the output to five per cent to increase food grain produc-

tion to 170 lakh tonne.

As the state is not well endowed with water resources, Tamil Nadu should focus on water shed management, water conservation, dry land farming and other techniques.

Highlighting that industrial growth in Tamil Nadu had declined from 11 per cent in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07) to about eight per cent in 11th Plan (2007-12), despite the state being a leading manufacturer of automobile, textile, hosiery, pharma, leather, information technology (IT) and information tech-

nology-based enable services (ITeS).

According to the paper, the state should revive traditional labour-intensive industries of textiles, garments, leather, matches, fireworks and others comprising large number of small-scale industries.

Besides, significant industries in sectors like automobile, chemical and transport equipment are facing infrastructure, environment and labour-related issues in Tamil Nadu.

The state needs to address these issues on an urgent basis.

The total compensation sought is equal to the tax demand raised and the value of Cairn Energy’s 9.8 per cent shareholding in Cairn India. A threemember arbitration panel headed by Geneva-based arbitrator Laurent Levy began hearing Cairn Energy’s plea against tax demand in May and the company filed its ‘Statement of Claim’ late last month.

The Indian government will file its ‘Statement of Defence’ by November and evidential hearing is expected to commence in early 2017, sources said. The Income Tax Department had in January 2014 slapped a draft tax assessment of Rs. 10,247 crore on Cairn Energy on alleged capital gain it made

Bank strike deferred after high court order CheNNai, July 12 (iaNs): The two-day strike call given by major unions in the banking sector have been deferred following an restraint order by the Delhi High Court, said a top leader of All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA).

"In view of the Delhi High Court restraint order, our strike on 12th and 13th July stands deferred," said AIBEA General Secretary C.H.Venkatachalam.

The unions in the

banking sector had given the strike call protesting against the merger of the five associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI) with SBI and privatisation of IDBI Bank.

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.

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Acknowledging that road safety is a "big problem" in India, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that safety of roads is of highest priority for the government and the US has assured full cooperation in meeting the challenge by sharing its technical knowledge.

"Road safety is highest priority for our government," Gadkari told Indian journalists during a media round-table after his-day long meetings including that with US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and American business community.

"Today we discussed all our problems related to road safety with the (US Transportation) Secretary. The good thing is the Secretary promised me all types of co-operation with the rules, regulations, the software they have already developed, the system, the technology, the innovation. They are ready to cooperate with us in everything," Gadkari said.

Acknowledging that road safety is a "big problem" in India, Gadkari said every year more than 1.5 lakh people die in five lakh road accidents.

"We are taking the cooperation of the US Government in particularly in road safety and intelligent traffic management system, which we are also going to implement in India," he said.

Gadkari said the US has also promised to give "all technical co-operation for standardisation of our Indian code" for road con-

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"Their experience and their present rules and regulations, codification, all the manuals are there and they are ready to share all types of manuals, code and rules and regulations with us," he said.

"In India we are critically facing the problem of road accidents. We have 96,000 kms of road length as national highway and 40% of national traffic on this 2% of road. We are facing a lot of accidents on national highway," he said.

During the meeting the US also promised full cooperation in the development of inland waterways.

The Minister also spoke on new highways under construction in the country, financing mechanisms under PPP models, framing policies for logistics parks, modernisation of roads, building intelligent traffic systems for road safety and further innovation and technology to India's logistics sector.

Rohit Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, highlighted specific investment opportunities in the highways sector whereas Alok Srivastava, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Shipping, shared details on the Sagarmala Program the Ministry's flagship port-led development initiative to bring down logistics cost and boost investment, exports, and jobs. "India needs $1 trillion for developing new roads, ports, rail lines, and airports over the next few years and US companies can provide the necessary expertise as well as capital to enable the robust growth of this sector," he said.

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The British firm sold majority stake in Cairn India to Vedanta Resources in 2011 but still holds 9.8 per cent stake in the company, which was attached by Income Tax Department.

This year, a final assessment order was slapped on it that included a Rs. 18,800 crore of interest on top of Rs. 10,247 crore principal tax amount.

In the ‘Statement of Claims’, Cairn said it had an option to list Cairn India on U.K. stock exchange but decided to go for a local IPO with a view to “further Indianising” the business.

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‘Generating improvement through research and development in educational system’ Morung Express News Kohima | July 12

Realizing the dire need to improvise the current system of education in Nagaland, the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) held a one-day seminar on July 12 on the education system in Nagaland under the theme, “Generating improvement through research and development in educational system in Nagaland.”

The seminar, which was held at Hotel Japfü, Kohima focused on the secondary education and degree courses with resource persons from educational institutions and academicians deliberating on the topic with paper presentations.

Dr Bendangyapangla, Principal-in-Charge, State College of Teachers Education (SCTE) said Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) needs to be implemented in true

spirit while the system of management should be decentralized by giving community responsibility in management.

Further, Dr Bendangyangla emphasized that the contents of the curriculum should be made relevant to the socio-cultural, politico-historical, and geographical context of the learners while the evaluation should focus on “how learning takes place.”

Positing that the educational system has to be focused on the viable resources available in Nagaland such as agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, and human resource, Pheluopfelie Kesiezie, Administrator at Northfield School viewed that focusing on these areas will curb the issue of unemployment in Nagaland.

He also remarked that the best nation to emulate is Israel whose main resources are agriculture,

NSF conducts seminar on how to improvise current system of education in Nagaland

Resource persons of the seminar organized by Naga Students’ Federation in Kohima on July 12. (Morung Photo)

horticulture and human resources, and whose progressive developments have been created within a limited space.

“We may not be able to produce infrastructure but

we can produce human capital. For this to happen, the State has to open technical institutions. We have school of agriculture, a tool room and a handful of polytechnic schools.

However, we must talk in terms of hundreds. These technical institutes should be within the ambit of the viable sectors,” asserted Kesiezie.

While expressing the

need for Nagas to learn to critique and appreciate their own culture, Dr Venusa Tinyi, Assistant Professor, University of Hyderabad suggested for this to be translated into literary

forms for studies. “Without sufficient materials for critiquing and reflection in the form of literature, we can’t progress much, we can’t produce authentic intellectuals. We need text, a rich text, in order to make intellectual discussion possible.”

When there is so much in our culture and tradition, why try to borrow from others to shape and guide our lives,” Tinyi told the gathering. He further remarked that failure to address this issue would result in the bankruptcy of intellectuals, which is necessary to make transformation of culture possible.

Without the platform and required resource to critique one’s own culture, Tinyi pointed out, “a society faces the danger of not only breeding dogmatic and tribalistic mindset but also a culture of intolerance and racism.”

Research Scholar Lak-

pachui Siro stressed on the importance of ancestral ways of imparting education to children.

“It is very important to learn the knowledge of the world but can we afford to neglect to know our own people, geography, environment, history and culture? Are we putting in efforts to push our own space in the educational curriculum?” Siro asked.

“The more educated, we are distancing ourselves further. This could be because of the fact that all we keep learning is about everything except for our own.”

Discussions and questions were further raised after the presentation of papers. Short presentations were delivered by Rangumbuing Nsarangbe, controller of examination, Nagaland Board of School Education and Dr Abemo, controller of examination, Nagaland University.

St. Joseph Catholic University (Nagaland) Bill, 2016 introduced ‘Naga boys being harassed Our Correspondent Kohima | July 12

The St. Joseph Catholic University (Nagaland), Bill 2016 was introduced on the floor of the NLA session here today. It was introduced by the House after Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education, Deo Nukhu moved for introduction of the Bill.

The main objective of the University is to establish and incorporate a private university in the state with emphasis on providing high quality and industry relevant education in the areas of accounting, financial analysis and management, business management, applied sci-

ences, engineering and technology, agriculture, architecture, law, education, medical sciences and related areas approved by university from time to time, sponsored by the DMI Foundation Nagaland and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Nukhu in memorandum of financial implication stated that the establishment of St. Joseph Catholic University (Nagaland) shall not cast any financial obligation in any manner on the Government of Nagaland or its agencies. All Act and regulations shall be exclusively borne by the University.

The St. Joseph Catholic University (Nagaland) Bill-

2016 delegates powers to the Governing Council to regulate and determine matters concerning university.

The main objective of the University will be to design courses and programmes as enumerated in the Schedule of the Act. Other objectives of the University include; to provide instruction, teaching, training and research on specialized fields of finance and management including financial analysis (leading to the CFA Charter and Designation), accounting (leading to the CPA Certificate and Designation), banking, insurance, financial services, financial management, business management, law, architecture, agriculture, teach-

er education, medical sciences, various branches of science, engineering and technology and related subjects and make provisions for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge thereof, to establish a main campus at Dimapur in the state of Nagaland, and to have further campuses, regional centres, study centers and examination centers in Nagaland and at different places in India and abroad in accordance with the laws and regulations in force, to provide continuing, distance an regular education programmes, to institute degrees, diplomas, charters, certificates and other academic distinctions on the basis of examination, or

any other method of evaluation.

It is also to collaborate with other colleges or universities, research institutions, industry associations, professional associations, including the Council of Chartered Financial Analysts and the Society of Certified Public Accountants or any other organization, in India or abroad, to conceptualize, design and develop specific educational and research programmes, training programmes and exchange programmes for students, faculty members and others, to disseminate knowledge through seminars, conferences, executive education programmes, community development

programmes, publications and training programmes.

Other objectives are to undertake programmes for the training and development of faculty members of the university and other institutions in India or abroad, to undertake collaborative research with any organization in India or abroad, to create higher levels of intellectual abilities, to create higher levels of intellectual abilities, provide consultancy to industry, government and public organizations, to ensure that the standards of the degrees, diplomas, charters, certificates and other academic distinctions are in accordance with those laid down by AICTE/NCTE/UGC/MCI and pharmacy council etc.

YAA bans SRF from Yimchungrü jurisdiction MTLT reports against Hindustan Organisation TuENsaNg, July 12 (mExN): The Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) has banned the functioning of the Sovereign Republic of Freeland (SRF) in the entire Yimchunger jurisdiction in toto and with immediate effect.

The YAA stated this in light of the ‘Shopilak Declaration 2016’ adopted during the 15th ENSF Federal Assembly held on June 28 and subsequent joint meeting of ENPO with the frontal organizations in the presence of SRF. In keeping with this, the Yimchungrü students’ body issued a four-point standing order for “strict adherence” signed by its Acting Presi-

dent T Solumba and General Secretary L Akhang.

In that, the YAA has “directed” the SRF to “dismantle any of its based establishment/ Offices and that no SRF flags should be hoisted within Yimchunger jurisdiction with immediate effect.”

It also directed SRF ID card holders of Yimchungrü tribe currently involved in the organization to “immediately denounce” their membership from the “banned un-mandated” organization and submit their ID cards to the respective village council/ students’ union with immediate effect.

“Failing to submit, the

YAA would not remain a mute spectator but would initiate strong action against those individuals and the Yimchungrü students/ public should not be held responsible for any consequences,” it stated.

The YAA further warned that if any threat or intimidation is meted out to any students’ organization/ tribal leader, it “would not tolerate” the same.

It assigned the respective village students’ unions and village councils to “thoroughly investigate” the activities of SRF and implement the above mentioned orders “in the larger interest of Yimchungrü community.”

MEx FILE ANHTU Kohima unit urges to release salary Kohima, July 12 (mExN): The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers' Union (ANHTU), Kohima unit today highlighted that the salary of 1379 Hindi Teachers appointed under CSS has been pending since February 2016, due to which, the teachers are facing untold hardship in maintaining their livelihood and performing their duties. Therefore, it has appealed to the Department of School Education and the Government to kindly look into the matter at the earliest and release the pending salaries as the teachers have been performing their duties without being paid from February 2016 till date. This was informed in a press note issued by Kekhrieneilie Tsikhano, President and Nelson Yhokha, Info & Publicity Secretary of ANHTU, Kohima unit.

Food & Civil Supplies director informs on NFSA Dimapur, July 12 (mExN): The Director of Food & Civil Supplies, Nagaland, Alun Hangsing today informed that the department is taking up constant exercises to bring all the districts in the state under National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013.

The Act was launched for Kohima and Dimapur districts on June 27 this year. In this regard, all the beneficiaries concerned (under AAY and PHH) have been instructed to submit respective Aadhaar number for seeding in the Ration Cards as it has become necessary to produce Aadhaar number for the purpose of establishing identity of an individual as a condition for receipt of subsidy, benefit or service.

Tobu SDPDB moN, July 12 (mExN):The monthly meeting of Tobu Sub Divisional Planning & Development Board (SDPDB) will be held on July 15, 11:00 am at the ADC conference hall. All the Heads of Offices under Tobu and Mokha sub-division have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

moKoKchuNg, July 12 (mExN): The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) today registered grievances against Hindustan Organisation (Mokokchung Franchisee).

In a letter to the Administrator, Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC), which was released to the media, MTLT said it had met the Manager of Hindustan Organisation (Mokokchung Franchisee) on July 11 following grievances reports from customers of the Organisation. According to the letter, the sales executives of the Organisation had harassed customers in many instances by maintaining that it is mandatory for LPG owners/customers to get registered. “In some instances, it was maintained by its sales execu-

tives that failure to comply with registration would invite penalty of up to Rs 2000. In other instances, concerned customers had asked the sales executives to produce legal/official documents with regard to their statement that ‘registration is mandatory’ which they failed to produce and hence, these sales executives are at best bogus and running on self-interests,” the letter stated.

MTLT further pointed out that it has been 2-3 months since the Organisation was established in Mokokchung Town. Yet, when inquired about the original documents validating the franchisee office in Mokokchung Town provided by its head office in Kolkata or equivalent office with competent authority, the manager failed to pro-

vide so, the letter said.

It was also stated that the trade permit issued to the franchisee by the MMC does not include “door to door” selling, yet the sales executives (8 of them as per the Manager’s information) are engaged in “door to door” selling and “duping customers in the process for selfish gains.”

In this regard, MTLT petitioned the MMC to take stock of the issues at the earliest. “Besides, issuance of trade permit categories must be followed by stern and constant monitoring by the MMC in the interest of the citizens and customers,” it added.

The letter was appended by MTLT President, Imkummeren Jamir, General Secretary, Taliakum Pongen, and Convenor (Grievances Cell), Aolong Imchen.

and humiliated in mainland’

Naga Hoho writes to Home Minister for ‘fair & impartial’ investigation on Naga Sepoy death Kohima, July 12 (mExN): In the wake of mass recruitment of Naga people by the Indian Army and paramilitary forces, the Naga Hoho has written to Government of India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh on reports of “Naga boys being harassed and meted out undue humiliation after joining various professions in the mainland.”

The Naga Hoho was particularly referring to the demise of Naga Sepoy Vezota Vasa who died while on duty with the Jat Regiment at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh on June 23 last.

The Naga Hoho letter was sent to Rajnath Singh through Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, and was signed by the Hoho President, P Chuba Ozukum, and General Secretary, Mutsikhoyo Yhobu.

It may be noted that the Western Chakhesang Hoho (WCH) had written to PB Acharya on July 6 requesting him to “personally intervene” into the matter of Vasa’s death which was found to be “suspicious” by his family and community.

Now, the Naga Hoho has requested Home Minister Rajnath Singh to take up the case with the appropriate authorities to conduct a “fair and impartial” investigation, whereby, “the whole truth will be unearthed.”

The Hoho reiterated points raised by the WCH, concluding that Vasa’s “tragic death” appears to be one of “deep connivance of conspiracy and foul play.” They stressed once again on how the Sepoy’s post-mortem was conducted despite instructions from his family not to do so till they had seen the body, how the family was not allowed by the Jat Regimental Centre to see the body of their son until much later, when they were allowed to see only the upper part of the body that was stained with blood.

Contrary to the parents’ will to clean up the body of Late Vasa, the authorities cleaned and wrapped up the dead body and placed it in the morgue.

Moreover, it was also found that Vasa’s death was reported to the Barrack he lived in, with a number of others, nearly 40 minutes after it was found in the Barrack’s toilet 12 feet away, noted the Naga Hoho. The family was also denied permission to meet the person who had first witnessed and reported the matter.

“The photographs available with the Police, clearly indicates that it is not a matter/case of suicide as claimed by the authorities,” maintained the Naga Hoho.

In view of these circumstances, the Hoho requested Home Minister Rajnath Singh to look into the matter for a fair and impartial investigation.

“Your action will also allay the fears and the prejudices that our youth would have on the Indian Armed Forces in particular and the other professions in general,” noted the Naga Hoho.

NHRA demands to penalize NRMSATA 2015-16 calls off agitation all involved in fuel racket Dimapur, July 12 (mExN): Naga- the state receives fund from the Ministry

Dimapur, July 12 (mExN): The Nagaland Hotel & Restaurant Association (NHRA) has extended support to ACAUT Nagaland regarding the fuel adulteration racket the latter unearthed recently.

In a press release, NHRA appealed to the authority concerned to book and penalize those involved in the fuel racket. It demanded that all the properties – buildings and other immoveable properties – the accused have acquired at the cost of the public should be confiscated and used for development of the state.

The authority, it added, should not hesitate to issue arrest warrants and bring the kingpins wherever they may be evading arrest. Further, the Association demanded that all those involved in the illegal issue of licenses/ stockiest should also be apprehended.

“This racket is not only confined to the towns or cities but the whole state and beyond and this could be only a tip of the iceberg,” it stated. “The public have suffered in general and the poor have been greatly deprived in particular for the last several years. The artificial shortage of SK oil and price escalation is the creation/handiwork of such unscrupulous, greedy cheats.”

Meanwhile, the release asserted that politicians and bureaucrats who assume S.K oil as an extra perk depriving the public should also be penalized and judged with the same yardstick as “they are indirectly encouraging and protecting such fuel mafias and corruption to thrive.”

The NHRA also called upon all NGOs to stand united in rooting out evil and evil doers and extend unconditional support to ACAUT.

land RMSA Teachers Association (NRMSATA) 2015-16 has temporarily withdrawn their proposed agitation against nonpayment of salaries with immediate effect.

The decision was taken after assurance by the Mission Director to clear two months’ salary for phase I and one month salary for phase II and III, while the rest of the pending salaries would be released soon after

of Human Resources Development, Government of India, the NRMSATA stated in a press note. Meanwhile, the Association has requested its members not to seek any political assistance for any change of their posting place as it is directly or indirectly hampering the career of the students and also creating obstacles in the smooth functioning within the department.

BJP Peren holds meeting; resolves to tour district pErEN, July 12 (mExN): The BJP Peren district conducted its district executive meeting on July 5.

The members present emphasized on the growth of the party and decided to tour the five blocks of 6th Tening A/C, namely Athibung, Khelma, Nsong, Tening Town and Mbaulwa range, and Jalukie, Peren and Ngwalwa of 7th Peren A/C. This was resolved in order to strengthen the party from the grassroots level and

enroll more members into the party, stated a release issued by BJP Peren district president, NC Max Dailiam and general secretary (admin), Junang Chawang.

The 6th Tening A/C mandal president recommended setting up party candidate for the general election 2018. State council members, Yuva Morcha, District office bearers and senior party members also spoke in the meeting.

Prashant Arora, BJP gen-

eral secretary (organizing) for Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh highlighted the national flagship programmes and agendas of the party.

Among the agendas discussed were the district BP office construction, criteria in 12 points, bringing Peren team into the platform as Modi brought ‘Team India’, Swatch Bharat, and development of karyakatas. The meeting also resolved to strictly adhere to the party constitution.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 191

By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

The End of Impunity for Armed Forces?

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he recent pronouncement made by the Supreme Court that the Army cannot use excessive force in its ‘counter-insurgency’ operations in areas declared disturbed can be seen as a first step towards protecting the human rights that have been so ‘condemned’ by an extraordinary inhuman law. This ruling came on a plea by hundreds of families in Manipur for a probe by a Special Investigation Team into 1,528 cases of alleged fake encounters including the Army and the police. The apex court, making its stand clear stated that, “there is no concept of absolute immunity from trial by a criminal court” if any Army commits an offence. The question of immunity has been the point of contention between the Government that calls for immunity of the security forces, and the Supreme Court appealing for an “equally unsettling” picture of the citizens living under the fear of AFSPA. Notwithstanding the judgment of the apex court, certain things still remains uncertain on the challenging difference between ‘face value of law’ and ‘place value of law’, between theory and practice. The ruling serves as a judicial precedent to uphold civilian as well as human rights. Further, the court held that criminal courts do have the jurisdiction to look into cases of alleged excesses by the armed forces in areas declared disturbed. But, the tricky word ‘however’ in relation to law comes to play that, the bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit, however, reserved its verdict on the question of ordering a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into more than 1528 allegedly staged shootouts in Manipur. One may think whether this ruling will only lead to ‘exceptions to the rule.’ On another level, the degree of ‘excessive force’ is not clearly defined. The extremity of AFSPA is the license to ‘shoot to kill’ on mere suspicion. Beyond the extremity, a question needs to be addressed. How much can the Supreme Court’s ruling have an impact on the use of ‘excessive force’ by the Armies in disturbed areas? It only highlights an underlying impression that, so long as a ‘legal fiction’ produces an ‘extraordinary law’ that can unconstitutionally and undemocratically declare an area as disturbed, further ‘exceptions to the rule’ that legitimates a ‘state of necessity’ will continue to infringe on the Human rights.

Questions concerning Human rights cannot arise where legal fiction like AFSPA that contravenes with the very spirit of human rights is in place. Beyond the contentious issues related to the use of excessive force and the question of impunity associated therein, a tangible solution is for AFSPA and DDA to be repealed and revoked. Afterall, there cannot be legal cover for human rights when a legal fiction unconstitutionally declares an area as ‘disturbed.’ The Supreme Court judgment that the Army cannot use ‘excessive force’ may not produce the desired effect; however, such judgment should provide the catalytic impetus to push for repealing AFSPA as a ‘necessary condition’ to bring an end to impunity and to restore the peace that’s so long been ‘disturbed.’

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

He contributes a weekly guest editorial to the Morung Express.

Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

lEfT wiNg |

Amit Kapoor IANS

India needs to up its social development indices

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ocial development and environmental concerns are often not accorded the attention they deserve in public policy discourse. The reason for this is that they are often seen in direct conflict with economic prosperity.

However, over the years, development practitioners have realised that there is a strong link between social, environmental and economic development. This, they opine, is central to why there needs to be measurement and benchmarking across these vital dimensions of development.

So far several composite indices have been developed by development theorists and practitioners but very few look to solely measure social and environmental performance.

This is where the Social Progress Index (SPI) is a unique effort in measuring, tracking and benchmarking the social and environmental progress of locations. The Index originally started with measurement of countries but of late, there is an increasing realisation that measurement of social progress should be done at deeper levels of geography.

The most recent effort is the release of an annual global report on measuring and tracking social progress. The report defines social progress as "the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential".

This year's index ranks 133 countries on their level of social progress.

There are four important insights which merit attention.

First, there is a very strong correlation between countries on social progress and prosperity levels as measured by GDP per capita. The correlation is as strong as 0.89. This means that countries which perform well on social progress tend to perform well on GDP per capita. Some countries at a particular level of prosperity (GDP/capita) are over-performers while others perform poorly and are relatively under-performers.

The first category includes countries like Iceland while the second category includes countries like Saudi Arabia.

Second, there is significant overlap between sustainable development goals and social progress. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which have succeeded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are more comprehensive in scope; however there is still an ongoing debate on measurement and setting tangible targets on SDGs. This is where the Social Progress Index (SPI) puts various areas on the 17 SDGs under a broad level framework. The dimensions of social progress -- namely basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing and opportunity -- cover most areas of the SDGs. Third, India does not perform very well on the SPI. The country has improved its ranking to 98th but there is great scope for improvement. This is why India is categorised as a "low social progress" country. A look across the various dimensions of social progress for India shows that it has neither strength nor weakness across various components of basic human needs.

Along the foundations of wellbeing dimension India is weak on access to information and communication as well as health and wellness components. Finally in the opportunity dimension, India is relatively weak in areas of tolerance, inclusion and personal rights. This is where India should try to improve.

Overall, the index and report throw light on the crucial challenges of social development. Over the next few years, policymakers across the world at various levels of geography should use insights from the research done to make social development a key priority.

(The article is co-authored with Sankalp Sharma, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Competitiveness, India. Amit Kapoor is Chair, Institute for Competitiveness & Editor of Thinkers. The views expressed are personal. Amit can be reached at amit.kapoor@competitiveness.in and tweets @kautiliya)

C O M M E N T A R Y

Jeresa May C. Ochave Inter Press Service

Taking chances and innovating in human rights

In our research, human rights workers, academics, activists and funders gave us a lot of reasons not to innovate. But are the risks as big as some might think?

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t is undeniable in the human rights world that there is a pressure, including from funders, to seek "the new". It is also undeniable that our societies are undergoing changes we can not ignore. But when is innovation necessary? And how do human rights organizations — founded upon nonnegotiable values—feel about it? During 2015-2016, we interviewed 102 people to foster a public debate on how rights-based civil society organizations, including funders, are reacting and adapting to contemporary trends, such as multiplicity and pace of information, non-institutional activism and crisis of representation of the state. Interviewees for the research “Solid Organizations in a Liquid World” included key academics, representatives of NGOs and foundations from several countries.

Overall, resistance to innovation was a common theme. Respondents disagreed with the assumption that innovation is always good—or good in and of itself. Perpetually seeking the new can cause organizations to lose focus or remain continually distracted by new programs and projects. As Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos note, innovation is not a “holy grail” despite the fact that many people seem to be using it as a “panacea for all ills.” But, based on the responses we received, we believe that to resist innovation for fear of taking risks can also be a mistake. Innovation is important, but, at the end of the day, it is each organization's choice—not an imperative. It can be a simple or a complex process, that requires humility and ambition. How then, can NGOs use innovation wisely, without pandering to trends and buzzwords?

Innovation depends both on internal and external factors, related to the context in which the organization operates, as well as group factors and organizational factors. In this context, each organization needs to adjust the definition of innovation in order to make it useful to its mission, and be in tune with the modus operandi, values, structure and history of each organization.

Furthermore, some interviews pointed out to the fact that human rights values and principles are non-negotiable and this can make the idea of innovation very uncomfortable. In this case, the overarching fear is that innovation pushed too far could also cause core human rights values to be lost in an argument of relativism.

In addition, victims of human rights violations are already too vulnerable to be the target of experiments. Years of experience show, for instance, that there is a “protocol” to be followed when hearing victims of torture, to respect their suffering and their psychological needs. If we innovate by testing a completely new methodology, we risk disregarding these established and important protocols without due caution.

In many situations, however, innovation can arise from the need or demand of the victims or

A migrant reacts in front of a Macedonian police cordon during clashes between migrants and Macedonian police as the migrants protest against the building of a metal fence at the Greek-Macedonian border on November 28, 2015 near Idomeni, Greece. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

beneficiaries themselves. As Susi Bascon, from Peace Brigades International (UK), told us: “For me, the need (or not) to innovate and how we will do it [comes] from listening in-depth to human rights defenders and the victims, and not through other indicators…If we lose contact with people outside the organization, how will we know when and where to innovate?" Planning methodologies based on the so-called human-centered approach are a good example of this and can be helpful in keeping close and continuous contact with the beneficiaries, putting people in the center of an organization's action, including its staff members.

Also, innovation is often understood as solely adapting to new technologies and forms of communication, to make use of online tools and integrate "tech culture" to the day-to-day of the organization.

On one hand, technology can be the cause of new rights violations, including state surveillance and privacy threats by private corporations. Technological advancements can also deepen inequality, raise unemployment and further concentrate wealth in the hands of the powerful. Miguel Lago, from Nossas Cidades in Brazil, also stressed the ambiguities of the apparent dichotomy between online and off-line: "The first tends to create superficial involvement and relational ties. However, it often broadens the spectrum of participation, while the second tends to nurture deeper relational ties without necessarily the same power of mobilization."

On the other hand, technology and connectivity can be beneficial to NGOs. Technological tools such as mobile applications, videos and other tools “can help speed up the process of checking evidence and improving the quality and time spent in drafting reports on violations,” said one of the representatives of The Whistle, an app designed to address this challenge. Carroll Bogert from Human Rights Watch (US) illustrated this trend: "For the first time, the number of videos we made reporting violations exceeded the number of printed reports. Today a researcher goes to a country visit taking along a camera, s/he tweets during the investigation, etc. We have to adapt", she told us.

In addition, many interviewees highlighted that the funding model of an organization has a

lot of influence in its ability and willingness to innovate. There are no guarantees that new methods will work. "We cannot afford to make mistakes. The current model of financing of most organizations does not allow them to dare," noted Ana Valeria Araujo from Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos in Brazil. Respondents were also almost unanimous in saying that predictable, long-term and institutional support—rather than project-specific support—are more likely to foster audacity and risktaking. This type of financing also enables a more fluid and honest dialogue between the funder and the funded, where both sides win.

To innovate or not to innovate?

Innovation does not have to mean throwing out everything that has been built, ignoring its record, diminishing the importance of values, principles, persistence and expertise. To be bold and venture into new strategies, processes or activities may be well suited to address old challenges—or it may not.

One of our respondents told us that "an organization needs to be strong enough to be able to be fluid, to reinvent itself", stressing the importance of seeking a balance between persisting and innovating.

In addition, Johanna Mair was careful to point out that innovation should not be only driven by aiming impact: "The vital mistake we often make is to measure the success of an innovation only by its impact.

Innovating, if done well, also leads to improvements in internal processes, organizational environment, motivation and cognitive improvements."

NGOs should be curious when developing new methods. We recommend asking very specific questions about what innovation means for them, why, where and how they want to innovate, and who will lead and participate in this process. At the same time, innovating will always mean not having all the answers and assuming risks. For some organizations or individuals, this level of risk is acceptable, but it might not be for others.

What some organizations call innovation, others may call boldness, risk-taking or adjustment to the modern world. The question, then, is not “to innovate or not to innovate?” Rather, the real question is what are the very best ways to advance rights today.

With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to "earth bag" houses Joel Chirwa Thomson Reuters Foundation

he said, one reason the remaining trees solution for Malawi. need to be protected. "The weather we "I started to research the various have now is not the same we used to ways to build houses with sandbags instead of bricks. My idea was to try a first t the local brick kiln, a truck lad- have decades ago," he said. earthbag house as a prototype", worken with logs pulls up and uning with the youth centre in Rumphi, loads. Soon smoke is billowing, FEWER TREES, MORE DISASTERS According to statistics from the De- he said. If such houses catch on, Weas a new set of bricks bakes inside.

Malawi's construction industry re- partment of Forestry, Malawi annually gener believes they could become a lies heavily on bricks - and the wood has been losing about 1.6 percent to 2.8 major contributor to cutting deforestaneeded to make them is a major rea- percent of its forests to human activi- tion in Malawi.

"Sandbag houses can help because son the country's indigenous forests ties.

But in February, Ronnnie Chiram- they are cheap and simple to build," are fast disappearing.

But an unusual home construction bo, a tree planting officer with the De- he said. "Just fill used plastic or other technique - using dirt or sand packed partment of Forestry, told a local news- bags with soil, close them, stack them into plastic sacks and stacked - is now paper that the deforestation rate was into walls, leave space for windows and doors, put a roof being tried out in Rumphi, in the north now down to 1 on top, plaster of the country, as a way to cut back on percent a year, the walls. That's bricks and save what's left of the re- simply because there were too basically it, and gion's forests. it saves a lot of As part of the project, carried out few trees left to wood and time." by the Roscher Youth Development cut down.

As the forests have disappeared, He said the cost of the houses deCentre with German backing, young people are being given technical and natural disasters - including droughts, pends on the size and amenities addfinancial help to construct the environ- cyclones, landslides and floods - have ed, but a small village home withbecome a regular and costly threat in out electricity or a toilet should cost mentally friendly houses.

"We have lost a lot of trees and we towns such as Rumphi, located 67 kilo- around $1,400. now still continue losing them, at a metres from Mzuzu, the largest city in SAFER HOMES chilling rate. Our mountains and hills Malawi's Northern Region.

Heinrich Wegener of Support MaAllan Chitete, a civil engineer and that had thick forests are now bare except for a few trees and shrubs," said lawi Heidelberg, which has provided the Rumphi director of public works, Moir Walita Mkandawire, executive di- technical and financial backing for said he thinks the homes will ultimaterector of the non-profit youth develop- the housing initiative, said he first ly become widely used, and not just heard about "earth bag" homes in because they cut the need for wood for ment centre.

That loss of forest has led to more ex- 2012 while on a visit to South Africa. construction and for baking bricks.

"The building blocks (sacks filled treme weather and worsening droughts, He felt the homes would be an ideal

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with earth or sand) have a lot of advantages," he said. "They act like cushions or shock absorbers so that in times of earthquake or floods the structure cannot develop cracks or collapse," he predicted.

The idea of building low-cost structures of sandbags or soil-filled bags has been around for at least a century, and has been used in a range of places, from Africa to South Asia to North America.

Perhaps the toughest barrier to expanding use of the homes in Malawi will be winning over people to a dramatic change in the idea of what a house is made of, Wegener admitted.

Most homes today are built of brick.

He said the main disadvantage of the earth houses is that hammering a nail into the wall to hang art or portraits can be hugely difficult.

Their backers hope the homes may find backing from Malawi's government, which is trying to discourage the use of wood-baked bricks in construction in favour of cement blocks and "stabilised soil" blocks.

Chitete said he will try to sell the idea of more earth bag homes to members of Malawi's parliament and ward councillors. The youth centre also plans to train more young people in the district in the building technique, and hopes to roll out the initiative to other disaster-prone areas of the country.

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Is Social Media creating plagiarism in Nagaland?

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es social media, being viral, is indeed creating plagiarism in Nagaland. During the recent storm incident in Mokokchung, many of the local dailies made use of some photos which went viral in WhatsApp and Facebook. These photos were posted by the local people but the media made use of it in their papers which is plagiarism. Secondly, if someone posts a good write up in social media, it is just a touch away to copy or edit without any permission. Thus somebody's idea become everybody's idea (whether foolish or wise idea) through social media which is prominent in Nagaland.

Sentinaro Longkumer, CTC Mokokchung

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ccording to me, I think Social Media is not creating any problem of plagiarism in Nagaland. Now we no longer exist in the past where one’s tradition keeps going on one path. Social media is letting our people to see and learn what and how to do things. Just because one thing is followed by our people after seeing through social media, doesn't mean they are trying to copy them and act like theirs. We should inculcate what developed countries are doing and learn something or the other from them and behave like one instead of been a frog in the small pond.

Chitsoviloii Koza, Kohima Science College

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es. Authenticity has become the biggest casualty with the advent of social media. Copy pasting photos or write-up has become a norm in almost all prominent Facebook groups in Nagaland.

Rosemary S., Dimapur

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ot entirely. Social media, rather than create has only aided plagiarism to persist and occur at a level not witnessed before the advent of the digital age. The internet and the social media have only made the ‘unethical’ practice all the more blatant with people now exposed to mass information without having to sit at a library for hours. While it has made intellectual property vulnerable to infringement without acknowledgement due, it has also enabled utterly emulated works from being circulated without scrutiny. It acts as the aider as well as the thwarter.

Alem Walling, Dimapur

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This wEEk’s quEsTion: Should food habits be an individual choice or should it be controlled by the government?

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The Rio Olympics in 20 fun numbers

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hen Rio de Janeiro opens the Olympic Games on August 5, they will be the first ever staged in South America. And here are 20 more eye-catching statistics: 17,000 -- number of Olympic athletes and officials.

78,000 -- the capacity of Maracana stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies will be held.

206 -- countries competing in the August 5-21 Games.

1 -- team of refugees competing under the Olympic banner for the first time.

7.5 million -- tickets on sale.

10 -- miles (16 kilometers), length of the extension of the underground metro system, the biggest infrastructure project in preparation for the Games.

4 -- zones across Rio where events will unfold: the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca, Deodoro, Copacabana beach, and the Maracana and Olympic stadiums in the north.

25,000 -- number of journalists covering the Games.

500,000 -- estimate of tourists expected to attend the Games.

61 -- percentage of Rio residents in a recent poll who said the Games will be great. Another 27 percent fear a mess.

31 -- number of tower blocks making up the Olympic Village. The 3,604 apartments will be sold off after the Games.

60,000 -- meals per day to be served at the huge Olympic Village dining hall.

5 -- number of jumbo jets you

could fit into that dining hall.

80,000 -- chairs for the Olympic Village.

7 -- players in rugby sevens, which brings the oval ball game to the Olympics for the first time ever.

400 -- number of footballs expected to be used in Olympic competition.

0 -- times that football powerhouse Brazil has won an Olympic medal in the sport.

112 -- years since golf was last in the Olympics.

2 -- Brazilian presidents expected at the opening ceremony: Dilma Rousseff, who is suspended and on the verge of being removed from office, and her arch-rival Michel Temer, who is temporarily replacing her.

ORIGIN OF ANGH

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here lived a man in a certain village who was very kind, generous and wise. The people living in that village survived on agriculture. The village economy depends upon its agricultural products, and it so happened that in a certain year, the whole world was struck by drought and a famine broke out. Due to this drought and a famine, the products did not grow, and the whole world was on the verge of starvation.

Luckily the field of the kind and generous man flourished, and his crops were very healthy and productive. In his caring, generosity and wisdom, he felt pity for the villagers.

(Source: AFP)

He told them not to be worried and declared that he was ready to share whatever he had with the whole village. True to his word, that year he shared whatever he harvested from his field with his villagers and saved the people from starvation while the whole world suffered.

The village's people were very happy and from that year onward they started to pay tribute, and honor him for his generous and wise thinking. His ored by calling them Angh. next of kin were paid due respect Story by Ahon Wangnao; Extracted from the book “Retelling Naga Narratives: More for what he as one of their ancesthrice-told tales” edited by Richard tors had done. That is how partic- Carbo,than John Coakley and Abraham Lotha, and published by Heritage Publishing House. ular clan is paid respect and hon-

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Man of Anger Achele Therie

Baptist College Kohima

*Man of Anger_ I fear you; You are wild You blow like a wild trumpet.

Your voices rings wild, It is wild to my ears.

You are too quick to retort; You are violent You are not settled.

Are you always ready to fall and stumble?

Don't you feel pierced with many sorrows? *Man of Anger_ I fear you, You appear like a snake I fear to look at you.

You look the most dangerous, Your hiss is scary to my ears.

You bite incurably; You are venomous You have mighty foothold to devil.

Don't you feel trapped?

Why do you have wrong desires? *Man of Anger_ I fear you; You seemed hopeless As dried grass burning in the fire.

You burnt like a wild fire, You are disastrous.

You have little care; No one would dare to approach you.

Don't you feel guilty?

Don't you burnt yourself? *Man of Anger_ My mind conveys me; You don't have peace of mind and heart You will stumble and fall.

Resist and flee away, From the depths of your anger.

You were drifted apart; From your loved ones.

Don't you bother about them?

Do you still have soft corner for them? *Man of Anger_ I pray to my Almighty; To heal the depths of your anger To guide you perfectly proper to be wiser.

To keep you in perfect peace, To walk and not to faint.

For my God says; No temptation is irresistible For God still fashioneth you hearts He considereth all your works.

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Teachers: The Builders of a NaTioN

In the pre-Christian era of the Naga society, young boys would live in Morungs where they would be imparted knowledge needed to carry on their duties as future tribesmen.

Education has undergone a paradigm shift in the recent decade. We stand on the threshold of the ‘smart-class’ era, where the traditional structure of a classroom is now challenged.

The changes in the expectations and demands from education have only added more responsibilities to a teacher’s role. This week’s article explores the various roles a teacher must play in order to build a capable and successful generation of young adults.

2. which institute in nagaland aims to start a Plastic Processing Plant by the beginning of next year?

A. Nagaland Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) Limited B. Nagaland Tool Room & Training Centre (NTTC) C. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) D. Nagaland Pulp and Paper Company Limited (NPPC) Limited

3. a bio-fuel refinery, the first of its kind in india, have been inthe teaching profession being set up at the numaligarh refinery (nrL) in asfor the last 16 years. Having taught sam, will soon process biofuel from_______? students in both school and college A. Bamboo B. Pine level, I’ve learnt that teachers, whether in C. Sugarcane D. Rice remote areas or in cities, teaching in primary or university level,are not merely 4. who is set to be the next Prime Minister of Unit- teachers, but leaders as important as any ed Kingdom? political, business, or religious leaders.

A. David Cameron B. Theresa May They too have contributed in building a C. Andrea Leadsom D. Hillary Clinton nation as any other leader.

If any educational institution wants 5. who was awarded the Player of the tournament to grow and develop,they should deat UeFa euro 2016? velop their teachers first. Any nation A. Cristiano Ronaldo B. Dmitri Payet wanting to emerge as a powerful nation C. Antoine Griezmann D. Gareth Bale should empower their teachers first.

These teachers are those leaders who Send in your answers to the Morung Express Office (address take care of the most important resourcgiven below) or email to morunglearning@gmail.com or es of the nation, i.e. Human resource.

WhatsApp @ 8794005039/7085976283 Here, I would like to mention some of the steps which, from my experiences, Answers to Quiz#16 make for a smooth teaching and learn1.B 2.D 3.A 4.D 5.C ing process.

Winner of last week’s contest: A teacher should have a clear sense wongchum Kussen, New Colony Chumukedima of direction.It is just a common sense, Consolation prizes: Viloto Zhimomi, Chekiye Village, 3rd as a teacher if we can’t lead and manMile & Onito V chishi, Amiphoto Colony, Zunheboto age ourselves then how can we lead and manage others. As a teacher, it is First Prize- Rs. 300 + T-Shirt important that your students know Two Consolations – Rs. 100 + T-Shirt each your commitment to them. We must Winners may collect the prize money from The Morung Express try to refrain from taking outour perOffice, H/No.4 Duncan Basti, Dimapur sonal frustrations and failures on T-Shirt to be collected from G-Sports, Shop No 11, Joyce them. Teaching is tough and not everyComplex, 2nd Gate, Chumukedima

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- rajesh tanti, asst Professor, Department of commerce the situation may be. Don’t let your fol- rowlessons from ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of lowers see you as helpless as they are! needs’ and redesign the hierarchy needs People come to a leader with problems as per the needs of a student. and if a leader shares his/her problem Teachers should build up dedication with them then where will they go? and loyalty among their students by beA teacher should be aware of the goals ing ‘the example.’They should develop being pursued bykeeping in mind the mutual cooperation and self-discipline strength and weakness of the students. among students. Under a good teacher, For example, in mathematics subject, students work willingly and enthusiastiteachers should set the target such as cally. The teachers should also encourin one month my students should learn age students to take initiative and protwo chapters,or in 15 days one chapter, vide psychological support for them. or if there are 10 problems in one exer- They should serve as friends, philosocise than in 1 day 2 problems should be phers, and guides for their students. A solved, and so on. And as good leaders, teacher shouldn’t forget, students don't these lesson plans should be shared with care how much a teacher knows, they the students in detail and making them care how much a teacher cares for them. aware that we are going to work togethA teacher should be spontaneous, er to achieve these targets and for that, I because what works with one group need your support. of students may not work for others.

A teacher should always create an Therefore,leadership styles should urge for higher performance among change as per the students. students. In addition toigniting selfWhat I have learned from my teachconfidence and enthusiasm among the ing experiences is that in addition to the students, a teacher shouldtransform ones mentioned above, there are subtle lukewarm desire into a burning pas- nuances which a teacher ought to possion for success. Before starting a lesson, sess, such as good communication and teachers should not only explain how verbal skills, and sound knowledge of the such lessons willhelp them for their fu- subject matter. Good Communication ture career, but also how such lessonsare skillshaveproven to be effective meanrelevant to their day to day life activi- sto make my students understand the ties. Also, it would be helpful if teachers lessons. I’ve learned that as a teacher lis-

tion skills enable me to understand the students and motivate them.

In my career, public speaking and storytelling skills have also helped me create a good response amongstmy students. With the help of this skill, I influenced them, andgained their attention whenever they got distracted.

Moreover, the quest of acquiring more knowledge and information also helped me. I have never made them feel that I’m an outdated teacher. I keep challenging myself to prove to my students that I am a worthy teacher, which helps in directing and teaching them without much difficulty and resistance.

Lastly, dear friends, most of us spend the greater part of our lives on the job.

This means our attitudes toward our job can determine whether our days are filled with excitement and with a sense of fulfillment that comes from top performance, or with frustration, boredom, and fatigue. Nevertheless, don’t forget that you are a nation builder; you are a leader;hence, live like a leader.

“Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought delves into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College. The editors are Dr. Hewasa Lorin, Anjan Behera, Nivibo Yiki, Kvulo

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Kashmir calmer as Modi, Mehbooba appeal for peace

Srinagar, July 12 (ianS): Barring stray protests in rural areas where security forces shot dead a civilian, large parts of curfew-bound Kashmir Valley were calm on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti appealed for peace to end days of violence.

While curfew continued for a fourth day in most parts of the valley, the authorities said the situation was under control despite some incidents of arson and mob attacks.

After returning from Africa, Modi chaired a highlevel meeting and voiced concern over the incidents of violence in the Kashmir Valley that have left over 30 people dead and hundreds injured in widespread violence since security forces shot dead a top militant on Friday.

In Srinagar, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti described the situation in Kashmir as "a matter of concern for all of us" and

urged Kashmiri youths to show "patience and calm" at this "critical and sensitive" hour.

"Bloodshed will result in nothing. Life comes once. It is our duty to respect and appreciate this Godsend gift," Mebooba said in a passionate appeal in Urdu.

Violence erupted in the Kashmir Valley after security forces killed Burhan Wani, the 22-year-old commander of Kashmir's largest rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, and two associates in a village on Friday.

The killing of Wani, who had emerged as the new face of Kashmir's militancy with his Facebook and other social media photos and videos, triggered a vicious cycle of protests by angry mobs and counter violence by security forces.

The protests continued on Tuesday but their intensity was less compared to the last four days.

A police spokesman in Srinagar said a mob attacked a police station in

Curfew-hit Kashmir hit by shortages of medicines, food

Srinagar, July 12 (ianS): With shops shut for a fourth day due to official restrictions and separatist-called shutdown, curfew-bound parts of the Kashmir Valley are facing several shortages of essential items, including medicines.

Shops remained shuttered on Tuesday too while cellphone and mobile Internet services continued to be suspended in large parts of the crisis-hit valley in the wake of mass protests against the death of a top militant commander.

Scores of people IANS spoke to complained they were not being allowed to move out of their homes even to buy food and medicines from shops located in the interiors of their neighbourhoods.

The crisis has exploded into health emergencies with chemists and druggists - in certain areas where they were allowed to open their stores - complaining that they were running Kralpora village in Kupwara district in north Kashmir and set a police van on fire, trapping some policemen.

Police fired back, injuring a person who succumbed to

out of supplies.

A chemist store in uptown Hyderpora - where no curfew was imposed - said three buyers for life-saving insulin vials visited him on Tuesday morning. But he had only one in his refrigerator and naturally two had to return empty-handed.

The predicament is shared by thousands of patients and their relatives in the Kashmir Valley, which saw widespread violent protests and counter-violence by security forces following the Friday killing of militant Burhan Wani.

Doctors at various hospitals said medicine shortage had begun to hit health facility centres, particularly in rural areas, due to the large numbers of injured, some of them critically.

A doctor at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) who did not want to be named told IANS that the rush of wounded de-

his injuries. The latest killing took to 34 the number killed across the valley.

Earlier on Tuesday, Amir Nazir Latoo, who was injured in firing at Chief

spite a shortage of essential medicines has complicated the problem.

Not only life-saving drugs, people also complained of shortage of food items like milk, bread and vegetables.

Amid all these crises, a ray of hope has emerged from roadside kitchens set up by young volunteers, providing food to the needy.

"We provide food and juice to people voluntarily. We collect rice and spices from various families and cook in large quantities," Hakeem Ahsan, one of the volunteers, told IANS. Officials claimed that at least 1,000 truckloads of essential commodities were on the way to the valley "They will reach their destinations soon," Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Choudhary Zulfkar Ali said after a meeting to review the supply position of essential commodities in the valley and the Ladakh region.

Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s hometown in Bijbehara, succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Srinagar, doctors said.

Police said protesters

At least three police guard rooms were set ablaze in different villages of south Kashmir, which has been most volatile over past four days. The dead militant commander belonged to this region.

Srinagar remained calm throughout the day even as police reported that some "miscreants lobbed a petrol bomb" targeting paramilitary and police forces in the old city.

Official sources told IANS here that the curfew will continue on Wednesday - July 13 - the annual official “Martyrdom Day” to remember those who were killed in an uprising against the Dogra autocratic rule in 1931.

Separatist leaders, most of them under house arrest, have called for a march to the martyrs’ graveyard in the old city. The Chief Minister too is scheduled to lay a wreath there.Curfew in most parts of the valley

pelted stones in some areas of south and north Kashmir during which one was injured after he picked up a tear smoke shell that ex- Muslim clerics met with Rajnath ploded in his hand.

A group of Muslim clerics met with Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss ways and means to restore normalcy in the Kashmir Valley.

The clerics said the Minister assured them of all possible help in restoring peace in the disturbed valley.

Umer Ahmed Ilyasi of All India Organisation of Imams of Mosques told media later that they will visit Kashmir and urge people, specially religious leaders, there to help the valley to return to normalcy.

Ilyasi said he along with other Muslim religious leaders will also meet Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.

Amaranth Yatra resumes Meanwhile, the annual Amaranth Hindu pilgrimage that resumed on Monday after remaining suspended for two days continued as some 300 vehicles carrying pilgrims from different states of India entered the Kashmir Valley on Monday night.

13 children die of diarrhoea every hour 'One nation one rate': Fuel pump owners Union Ministers Najma & Siddeshwara resign

new delhi, July 12 (PTi): With 13 children under the age of five succumbing to diarrhoea every hour in India, the Health Ministry yesterday launched intensified efforts to check such deaths, a move which comes with the onset of monsoon during which a spurt in such cases have been noticed.

To be observed from 11-23 July, the Health Ministry yesterday launched the nationwide 'Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight' (IDCF) under which various activities have been planned including visits by ASHA workers to all such households which have children under the age of five.

The children will be administered ORS by the ASHA workers while they will also be counselled about the benefits and the process of preparing it.

According to figures of the Health Ministry, in India, about 1.2 lakh children under the age of five succumb to diarrhoea every year. This translates to 328 diarrhoea deaths every day and 13 every hour.

"ASHA workers will visit all households with children below five years of age for pre-positioning the ORS. They will explain its benefits. The importance of this activity is that ORS will be available in the household when needed at the time of diarrhoea. Secondly, all health facilities shall have ORS corners which

A mother attending her sick child at a hospital (Reuters File Photo).

shall continuously demonstrate the way to prepare the ORS mixture.

"These corners will also administer ORS and Zinc to children who are in need of these during diarrhoea.

With a sharpened focus on demand generation, an important component of the IDCF is IEC activities that shall not only create awareness but also generate demand," Health Ministry Additional secretary C K Mishra told reporters.

He said that the intensified community awareness campaigns on hygiene and promotion of ORS and Zinc therapy will be conducted at the state, district and village levels.

According to the Health Ministry, although various virus, bacteria and protozoa like rotavirus, E.Coli amongst others cause diarrhoea, the main reasons for diarrhoeal attacks amongst children are contaminated water, malnutrition, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and lack of immunisation.

The Ministry said that there are around 10 crore children below five years of age across the country and last year, due to the interventions carried out as part of IDCF, about 6.3 crore children were reached.

This year in order to expand the cover of this fortnight, the target is to cover all the under-5 children, officials said.

During last year's fortnight, 21 lakh children could be prevented from hospitalisation and death due to Diarrhoea, Mishra said.

He said that more than five lakh schools participated in the IDCF campaign while more than 3.5 lakh ORS corners were set up in the country.

In order to ensure a sturdy mechanism for monitoring, this year, 23 national monitors shall assess the efficacy of the activities and they will be complemented by monitors from the state governments and development partners.

Suggest ways to ban Santa-Banta jokes in 6 weeks, SC tells Sikh bodies

new delhi, July 12 (india Today): What can be done to impose a ban on the hugely popular Santa-Banta jokes? The Supreme Court today asked the Sikh bodies, who have been demanding a curb on such banter on the internet and social media. The apex court has asked the Sikh bodies to come up with a mechanism, within the next six weeks, to ban 'sardar' jokes. A high power committee has been constituted under the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Managment Committee to discuss the issue and decide on the probable solution. Both the Haryana Sikh Management Committee and Patna Gurudwara Committee have also been asked to provide their input in the matter.

During a hearing in the matter in April, the Supreme Court had stressed that it did not want Sikhs to be ridiculed and asked the community to come out with suggestions as to what could be done within the permitted jurisdiction of the judiciary to impose limited ban on 'sardar'

Chandigarh, July 12 (PTi): Fuel pump owners in the country have demanded one nation one rate for petroleum products in order to eliminate disparity in prevailing prices of petrol and diesel.

"We are demanding one nation one rate for fuel so that there should be no disparity in prices of petrol and diesel in the states. This step will help in controlling prices of this essential commodity," All India Petroleum Dealers Association President Ajay Bansal said here today.

He added that because of different VAT rates prevailing in states, there was a disparity in fuel prices, which vary between 60 paise and Rs 4 per litre in case of diesel and Rs 1 to Rs 7.50 per litre for petrol.

Bansal said maximum tax on petrol is levied by Tamil Nadu state, which is about 35 per cent while Goa imposes lowest rate of tax on the commodity.

In case of diesel, Hary-

ana charges lowest tax while states like Rajasthan and West Bengal levy 2024 per cent tax which is in higher tax slab, he said.

"We want the prices of fuel which is an essential commodity should be same throughout the country and states should build consensus on the same," he said.

The association, which claims to be a national body representing more than 52,000 petrol pumps in the country has been holding meeting with chief ministers and state finance ministers to convince them to bring parity in retail price of petroleum products.

Bansal said: "We also demand that petroleum products be brought under GST to ensure one nation one rate." But, he said, states are unlikely to agree on the same.

A delegation led by Bansal today met Punjab Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa in this regard and sought ministers

support on the issue.

Bansal said Dhindsa had assured the delegation to consider their demand to lower tax rate on petrol which was the second highest in the country after Tamil Nadu.

Because of high tax rate on petrol in Punjab, prices of fuel in the state is costlier

by Rs 6 per litre in comparison to that of in Chandigarh.

"Uniformity in VAT rates will lead to cheaper petroleum products to consumers and growth in tax revenue. And it will also cause jump in sale of fuel pumps located in the border areas which are now on the verge of closure due to high tax rates," said Punjab Petroleum Dealers Association President Sandeep Sehgal said here.

Dealers also expressed concern over the looting incidents at petrol pumps in the state and demanded adequate security at pumps to prevent any such incidents in future.

new delhi, July 12 (PTi): Minority Affairs minister Najma Heptullah and minister of state for heavy industries and public enterprises G.M. Siddeshwara resigned on Tuesday.

On the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee accepted their resigna-

Raj Babbar made UP Cong chief

new delhi, July 12 (ianS) The Congress on Tuesday appointed actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar as the party chief in election-bound Uttar Pradesh. "Congress President Sonia Gandhi has appointed Raj Babbar as new Uttar Pradesh Congress Chief," announced Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi here at a press conference.

Raj Babbar will replace Nirmal Khatri, who has now been appointed chairperson of the Screening Committee.

Meanwhile, Imran Masood, Rajaram Pal and Rajesh Mishra and Bhagwati Prasad Chaudhary sions, the video has been have been appointed Vice edited and voices added." Presidents of the Uttar The report said the role Pradesh Congress comof JNU student Umar Khalid, accused of raising antiIndia slogans, needed to be further investigated.

On February 9, an event was organised on the JNU campus to commemorate the third anniversary of Parliament terror attack Ballia, July 12 (PTi): convict Afzal Guru's execu- Two persons were arrested for allegedly raping a teention.

After anti-India slogans age girl and posting the were raised at the event, video of the act on a social JNUSU President Kanhai- networking site. Naushad ya Kumar was arrested on and Virendar Bharti were arrested yesterday for rapcharge of sedition.

He was granted bail for ing and posting the video six months by the Delhi on the social networking High Court on March 2. site, Superintendent of PoKhalid and another JNU lice, Manoj Kumar Jha said.

FIR against six perstudent Anirban Bhattacharya have also got bail. sons including the two was

JNU doctored videos: Delhi Police files status report, next hearing on Aug 24

new delhi, July 12 (ianS): The Delhi Police on Tuesday filed a status report in a court hearing a complaint filed by the Aam Aadmi Party government against three news channels for running 'doctored' videos of the JNU controversy.

The report was filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass, who fixed August 24 as the next date of hearing.

The Delhi government had urged the court to take action against Zee News, NewsX and India News for allegedly broadcasting doctored videos of the February 9 incident on the Jawaharlal Nehru Universtiy campus where "antiIndia" slogans were raised.

The Delhi government

said the accused knowingly and with malicious intent caused damage to JNU students and the university and disrupted communal harmony and security in Delhi by transmitting a forged, fabricated, doctored and altered video, which was shown as genuine.

A magisterial report submitted to the Delhi government on March 2 said that "no direct link" had been found between JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and the anti-India sloganeering of February 9.

It said seven videos related to the JNU incident were sent to Truth Labs, Hyderabad, of which three were found to be doctored.

"In those doctored ver-

tions on Tuesday evening, a Rashtrapati Bhawan communique said. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was assigned independent charge of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

In another portfolio change, Babul Supriyo, minister of state for urban development, was shifted to the ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises.

mittee.

Imran Masood is the son of senior Congress leader Rashid Masood. Imran is a controversial Muslim leader who had threatened to chop into pieces Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the 2014 parliamentary elections.

Congress General Secretary in-charge Uttar Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was also present at the briefing, refused to announce the party’s chief ministerial face in Uttar Pradesh.

Raj Babbar, a threeterm Lok Sabha MP, is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Uttarakhand. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1994. He is also spokesperson of the party.

Two held for raping girl, posting video on Facebook registered by the victim's brother, who alleged that his 17-year-old sister was allegedly raped on March 4 in Bansdeeh area here.

The accused were blackmailing the victim and forcing her to have physical relations with other persons but when the girl refused they uploaded the video on Facebook, he said.

Police is probing the matter.

Major earthquake lurking under India, Bangladesh: study

jokes. "We may say do not crack such jokes. But then how do we enforce the order? Of course we do not want you to be ridiculed, but please tell us in what way we can do something.

You come out with suggestions within six weeks," a bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur had told senior lawyer RS Suri, who represented the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee and main petitioner and advocate Harvinder Chowdhury.

Suri had said that he was not for any penal provision, but primarily wanted sensitisation of the public, especially the school students on the issue. On the first day

of hearing on October 31 last year, initially the court was in a mood to dismiss the petition till Chowdhury convinced the court that it was a matter worth serious hearing and the issue was related to the prestige of the community. She argued that such jokes amounted to humiliating and insulting the Sikh community.

"Why should we ban such a thing? The community is known for its great sense of humour. Did author Khushwant Singh not write jokes on Sikhs? And, he was a sardar. Perhaps the Sikh community will object to the banning of these jokes on the Internet," Justice Thakur had told Chowdhury.

dhaKa, July 12 (PTi): If researchers are right, a quake would probably turn urban areas in eastern India "into ruins," according to a sesismologist.

A huge earthquake that can turn urban areas in eastern India into “ruins” may be building beneath Bangladesh, a new study has warned. The study was published in journal Nature Geoscience.

World’s largest river delta Scientists said they have new evidence of increasing strain where two tectonic plates underlie the world’s largest river delta.

They estimate that at least 140 million people in the region could be af-

fected if the boundary ruptures; the destruction could come not only from the direct results of shaking, but changes in the courses of great rivers, and in the level of land already perilously close to sea level.

The newly identified threat is a subduction zone, where one section of the earth’s crust, or a tectonic plate, is slowly thrusting under another. All of earth’s biggest known earthquakes occur along such zones; these include the Indian Ocean quake and tsunami that killed some 230,000 people in 2004, and the 2011 Tohoku quake and tsunami off Japan, which swept away more than 20,000 and caused the Fu-

kushima nuclear disaster.

Up to now, all known such zones were only under the ocean; this one appears to be entirely under the land, which greatly multiplies the threat. The strain between the plates has been building for at least 400 years — the span of reliable historical records, which lack reports of any mega quake, said lead author Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at the Columbia University.

When an inevitable release comes, the shaking is likely to be larger than magnitude 8.2 and could even reach a magnitude of 9, similar to the largest known modern quakes, said Steckler.

The rise of the Himalayas A giant plate comprising India and much of the Indian Ocean has been thrusting northeasterly into Asia for tens of millions of years, researchers said. This collision has caused the Himalayas to rise to the north, bringing events like the 2015 Nepal quake that killed nearly 9,000 people.

Bangladesh and eastern India sit atop a landscape vulnerable even to moderate earthquakes: the vast delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, researchers said. This is basically a pile of mud as deep as 12 miles, washed from the Himalayas to the coast, covering the subduc-

tion zone.

In a quake, this low-lying substrate would magnify the shaking like gelatin, and liquefy in many places, sucking in buildings, roads and people, said study coauthor Syed Humayun Akhter, a geologist at Dhaka University.

“We don’t have a good idea of its geometry, we don’t know how far it goes down,” said James Ni, a seismologist at New Mexico State University.

He said that if researchers are right, and the slab is building strain, a quake would probably turn urban areas in eastern India “into ruins,” and effects likely would extend into Myanmar and beyond.

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‘China has no historic title over South China Sea’ AMSTERDAM/BEIJING, JULY 12 (REUTERS): An arbitration court ruled on Tuesday that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and that it has breached the Philippines' sovereign rights with its actions, infuriating Beijing which dismissed the case as a farce.

China, which boycotted the hearings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, vowed again to ignore the ruling and said its armed forces would defend its sovereignty and maritime interests.

China's state-run Xinhua news agency said shortly before the ruling was announced that a Chinese civilian aircraft successfully carried out calibration tests on two new airports in the disputed Spratly Islands.

And China's Defence Ministry announced that a new guided missile destroyer was formally commissioned at a naval base on the southern island province of Hainan, which has responsibility for the South China Sea. "This award represents a devastating legal blow to China's jurisdictional claims in the South China Sea," Ian Storey, of Singapore's ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, told Reuters.

"China will respond with fury, certainly in terms of rhetoric and possibly through more aggressive actions at sea."

China claims most of the energy-rich waters through which about $5

trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

Finding for the Philippines on a number of issues, the panel said there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within its so-called nine-dash line, which covers much of the South China Sea. It said China had interfered with traditional Philippine fishing rights at Scarborough Shoal, one of the hundreds of reefs and shoals dotting the sea, and had breached the Philippines' sovereign rights by exploring for oil and gas near the Reed Bank, another feature in the region.

None of China's reefs and holdings in the Spratly Islands entitled it to a 200mile exclusive economic zone, it added.

China's Foreign Ministry comprehensively rejected the ruling, saying its people had more than 2,000 years of history in the South China Sea, that its islands did have exclusive economic zones and that it had announced to the world its "dotted line" map in 1948.

"China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea shall under no circumstances be affected by those awards.

China opposes and will never accept any claim or action based on those awards," it said.

However, the ministry

Protesters display placards during a rally by different activist groups over the South China Sea disputes, along a bay in metro Manila, Philippines July 12. (Reuters Photo/Romeo Ranoco)

also repeated that China respected and upheld the freedom of navigation and overflight and that China was ready to keep resolving the disputes peacefully through talks with states directly concerned.

China's Defence Ministry said in a bilingual Chinese and English statement shortly before the ruling was made public that the armed forces would "firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and maritime interests and rights, firmly uphold re-

gional peace and stability, and deal with all kinds of threats and challenges".

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the case had been a farce from beginning to end and put the dispute into dangerous territory of worsening tensions and confrontation.

But Wang, in comments carried by state media, struck a more conciliatory tone too, saying the time had now come to put things back on the right track and noting the new Philippine government's

sincerity in taking steps to demonstrate its willingness to improve ties. The ruling also said China had caused permanent harm to the coral reef ecosystem in the Spratlys, charges China has always rejected.

The judges acknowledged China's refusal to participate, but said they sought to take account of China's position on the basis of its statements and diplomatic correspondence.

"The award is a complete and total victory for

the Philippines ... a victory for international law and international relations," said Paul Reichler, lead lawyer for the Philippines.

Vietnam said it welcomed the ruling.

Taiwan, which had maintained the island it occupies, Itu Aba, is legally the only island among the hundreds of reefs, shoals and atolls scattered across the seas, said it did not accept the ruling, which had seriously impaired Taiwan's territorial rights.

GROUND-BRE AKING RULING The ruling is significant as it is the first time that a legal challenge has been brought in the dispute, which covers some of the world's most promising oil and gas fields and vital fishing grounds.

It reflects the shifting balance of power in the 3.5 million sq km sea, where China has been expanding its presence by building artificial islands and dispatching patrol boats that keep Philippine fishing vessels away.

The United States and China often conduct military exercises in the area and regularly accuse each other of militarising the region.

"Our experts are studying the award with the care and thoroughness that this significant arbitral outcome deserves," Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay told a news conference, reading from a prepared statement.

"We call on all those concerned to exercise restraint and sobriety. The Philippines strongly affirms its respect for this milestone decision as an important contribution to the ongoing efforts in addressing disputes in the South China Sea." Japan said the ruling was legally binding and final. Oil prices jumped following the findings from The Hague, with international Brent crude futures up almost 3 percent at $47.87 per barrel at 1130 GMT. The deep waters of the South China Basin be-

tween the Spratly and alsodisputed Paracel Islands are the most direct shipping lane between northeast Asia's industrial hubs of China, Japan and South Korea and Europe and the Middle East.

The case, brought by the Philippines in 2013, hinged on the legal status of reefs, rocks and artificial islands in the Scarborough Shoal and Spratly Island group.

Manila's 15-point case asked the tribunal to rule on the status of the ninedash line, a boundary that is the basis for its claim to roughly 85 percent of the South China Sea. The court has no power of enforcement, but a victory for the Philippines could spur Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei to file similar cases. Ahead of the ruling, around 100 members of a Philippine nationalist group demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Manila, calling on Beijing to accept the decision and leave the Scarborough Shoal, a popular fishing zone off limits to Filipinos since 2012.

In China, social media users reacted with outrage at the ruling. "It was ours in the past, is now and will remain so in the future," wrote one user on microblogging site Weibo. "Those who encroach on our China's territory will die no matter how far away they are."

Spreading fast on social media in the Philippines was the use of the term "Chexit" - the public's desire for Chinese vessels to leave the waters.

earthquake Nepal: Maoists trigger fresh Action needed as decline in HIV cases stalls, AIDS agency warns ‘Potential in Bangladesh could jeopardize millions’ crisis with bid for new govt KAThMANDU, JULY 12 (REUTERS): Nepal was thrown into political crisis on Tuesday when the main Maoist party withdrew its support from the ruling coalition and called for the formation of a new government, threatening to topple Prime Minister K.P. Oli. The Maoists tried to unseat Oli in May but he clung on after reaching a powersharing deal. An official from the prime minister's communist UML party said Oli would meet officials later on Tuesday to discuss his next move.

Oli came to power in October when the Maoists offered his party parliamentary backing to build a coalition in the impoverished Himalayan country.

The Maoists - who ended a decade-long insurgency in 2006 before joining mainstream politics - said Oli had broken promises he made in May. They also accuse him of failing to resolve festering anger in the south of the country over the terms of

a new constitution, and of failing to speed up rebuilding of homes and roads destroyed in an earthquake last year.

"We believe that our decision to withdraw support to this government will help form a new alliance on the basis of national consensus among major political parties," Krishna Bahadur Mahara, a top Maoist official, told reporters in Kathmandu.

Mahara said the opposition Nepali Congress party was ready to throw its support behind Maoist leader Prachanda to form a new government. Congress party officials were not immediately available for comment.

Commentator Lok Raj Baral said the Maoists' move could force a no-confidence vote and end Oli's term in office.

"I suspect these two parties have already made a deal, but we will need to wait and see how Oli and the UML respond," he told Reuters, referring to the

Maoists and the Congress.

The Maoists' withdrawal of support is the latest political twist for Nepal since it adopted its first post-monarchy constitution in September.

The passing of the constitution looked like a rare moment of political consensus for the country, which became a republic in 2008, but it soon sparked protests.

Minority Madhesis, who live mostly in Nepal's lowlands near India, imposed a four-month border blockade to protest against a proposal to carve Nepal into seven federal states, which they say would divide their homeland and deprive them of a fair say.

More than 50 people were killed in clashes before protesters called off the blockade in February.

Neighbours India and China compete for influence in Nepal and are both likely to be concerned by the prospect of more instability.

LONDON, JULY 12 (REUTERS): Global efforts to prevent the spread of HIV infection must be stepped up after a long-term decline in the number of new cases in adults stalled, the United Nations AIDS agency warned on Tuesday.

In a report on the worldwide epidemic, UNAIDS said an estimated 1.9 million adults had become infected with HIV every year for at least the past five years. Globally, some 36.7 million were now infected.

New HIV infections among adults were now rising in Eastern Europe, central Asia, the Caribbean and Middle East and North Africa, the report said.

"We are sounding the alarm," said Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS. "The power of prevention is not being realised. If there is a resurgence in new HIV infections now, the epidemic will become impossible to control. The world needs to take urgent and immediate action."

The epidemic of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS has had a devastating impact since it began some 35 years ago. Since then, 35

A nurse (L) hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World Aids Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo December 1, 2014. (Reuters Photo/File)

million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses and an estimated 78 million have become infected with HIV. The World Health Organization says all people diagnosed with HIV should have immediate access to antiretroviral AIDS drugs, which hold the virus in check and give patients a good

Mass killings, forced evictions threaten indigenous, minority groups to point of eradication: rights group LONDON, JULY 12 (ThOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION): Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

From Ethiopia, China and Iraq, the combination of armed conflicts and land dispossession has led to the persecution of minority groups and the erosion of cultural heritage, according to a report by the Minority Rights Group (MRG).

Carl Soderbergh, MRG director of policy and communications, said while discrimination against ethnic or religious minorities is not new, the level of targeted abuse is getting worse. "The conflict that's happening in Syria and Iraq right now is leading to the massive displacement of smaller and very ancient religious minorities like the Yazidis and the Sabean Mandeans," said

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect walk towards the Syrian border, on August 11, 2014. (Reuters Photo File)

Soderbergh, lead author of the 'State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2016' report. "They are essentially at risk of being totally eradicated in their traditional areas of origin."

Civil conflicts and sectarian tensions have engulfed Iraq since 2003 when a U.S.-led coalition toppled Saddam Hussein.

In 2014, Islamic State militants declared a caliphate after capturing swathes of Iraq and Syria. Minorities including the Yazidi, Turkmen, Shabak, Christians and Kaka'i have been disproportionately affected by the recent violence in Iraq.

"It is getting worse.

Whether it's armed groups like ISIS or (Nigerian Islamist group) Boko Haram

or it's governments, there's this targeting of heritage that we're seeing, which is extremely worrisome," Soderbergh said.

He said many minorities and indigenous peoples also face forced resettlement or evictions from their ancestral lands to make way for large-scale infrastructure or agricultural businesses, which fur-

ther threatens their cultural heritage and identity.

For example, in parts of East Africa, governments are pushing for pastoralist communities to switch to settled farming with supporters saying such a move will create better food security, curb conflict between herders and farmers and free up land.

But Maasai herdsmen say the privatisation and subdivision of their ancestral lands threatens ancient pastoralist practices, endangering livestock on which they depend and eroding communal rights to land and natural resources.

"Once a community is removed from the land, they really struggle to maintain their cultures and convey their cultures to the next generation," Soderbergh said.

By 2115, it is estimated that at least half of the approximately 7,000 indigenous languages worldwide will die out, the report said.

chance of a long and relatively healthy life.

But the UNAIDS report found only around 17 million patients worldwide less than half of those diagnosed as HIV positive - are currently on treatment.

The UNAIDS report said significant progress had been made in stopping new HIV infections among children, with new cases

down by more than 70 percent since 2001.

But the decline in new infections among adults had stalled, at a time when donor funding for the fight against AIDS had dropped to its lowest levels since 2010, it said.

International donor contributions fell from a peak of $9.7 billion in 2013 to $8.1 billion in 2015.

Singapore jails four Bangladeshi men for terrorism financing SINGAPORE, JULY 12 (REUTERS): A Singapore court jailed four Bangladeshi men for between two and five years for terrorism financing on Tuesday in a case that has put the city-state's most marginalised migrant-worker community in the spotlight.

Authorities said the men contributed from S$60 ($45) to S$1,360 ($1,000) to fund attacks in their homeland in the name of Islamic State in Bangladesh. It was Singapore's first case of terrorism financing. "The amounts were significant relative to the salaries of the accused persons," said the prosecutor, who did not give his name for security reasons. The sentences would send a "strong message that every and all terrorism financing will be dealt with", he said.

The four were among eight Bangladeshi men detained under the Internal Security Act in April for planning attacks in their home country. The colonial-era law allows suspects to be held for lengthy periods without trial.

The group's leader, Rahman Mizanur, 31, a draftsman earning S$1,800 ($1,300) a month, was jailed for five years. "I wanted to learn my religion but they show me the wrong way, the wrong activities," Mizanur said in court.

"My intentions were wrong ...

I'm very remorseful."

Of the other four Bangladeshis detained in April, two who have yet to face trial pleaded not guilty when charged, saying they were unaware where their money was going. The remaining two have yet to be charged and remain in detention. No other details have been given.

Singapore authorities said the eight men, aged 26-34, plottedattacksinparkswherethey shared radical propaganda and videos. Five other Bangladeshis who came to the attention of authorities attention during the investigation were sent home in April and arrested upon their return. Bangladesh police said they were beinginvestigatedforconnections to the Ansarullah Bangla Team militant group.

NEW YORK, JULY 12 (ThOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION): A potentially giant earthquake may be building up beneath Bangladesh and eastern India and could endanger as many as 140 million people, a study said on Monday.

The earthquake is not imminent but inevitable as sections of the earth's crust press against one another, according to the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

No estimate on when such a quake may occur is possible without additional research, the study's lead author Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at Columbia University in New York, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Some 140 million people live within 62 miles (100 km) of the potential epicenter in eastern India and in Bangladesh, the world's most densely populated country and among the poorest, the study said.

In Bangladesh, shoddy, unregulated building construction abounds, and heavy industries, power plants and structures at natural gas sites would likely be destroyed, the study's authors said.

Mud that has accumulated some 12 miles (19 km) deep in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers could shake "like gelatin, and liquefy in many places, sucking in buildings, roads and people," said co-author Syed Humayun Akhter, a geologist at Dhaka University, in a statement.

The area at risk measures some 24,000 square miles (62,000 square km), the study said.

The damage could be so severe as to render Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, unlivable, Akhter said.

The area at risk lies along the same fault lines in the earth's crust where a 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed some 230,000 people, the researchers said.

The researchers used computer models to analyze ten years of data showing that the earth's plates under eastern Bangladesh and eastern India have been creeping northeast into neighboring Myanmar, causing instability.

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Isak Chishi Swu, a father and a leader: shared aspirations, passing the torch

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Ikato Chishi Swu

met my father for the first time in 1993. I was already 15 years old. I never knew how my father was and met him for the first time at Pokhara on 25th April 1993.

Likewise, my brothers also met my father only after they were grown up.

We grew up in different background, living with different people. My father and my mother were God-fearing people. They always listened to what God told them. They lived their life in accordance to the instructions of God. Through a prophet, God instructed them that we should all be sent to Nagaland and they should continue the cause. God promised them that all of us will be taken care of and none of us will be lost. Accordingly, my father entrusted people to take care of us and to ensure that we get education. God never fails his promises. We trusted God and he took care of us because of their faith.

My mother through another prophecy said “it’s about time we

should bring all the children.” God instructed them to bring the children together, so in the year 2000 for the first time we met as a family at Manila. Our time as a family was very brief. By the end of 2004 I decided to go back and so our time as father, mother and children-as a family under one roof was for about four years only in our whole life.

But during that that time-that short period of time my father taught us all the basic principles of life. He told us “son, daughter the basic principle of life is to do the will of God. You were made with a purpose and you have to fulfill God’s purpose.” That was the message we received for the first time.

He was a man of few words. He would not explain what he say in details but whatever he said, his words, were full of meaning. It took time for us to understand or comprehend but when we ponder later we could understand the deep meaning behind those words. He practiced what he preached and preached what he practiced. He taught us that we

should be patient. He also taught us that we should bear the fruits of the Spirit and when I remember my father I remember him as one of the meekest persons I have ever come across in my whole life. He possessed all the fruits of the spirit that is mentioned in Galatian 5:22-23 (But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and selfcontrol. Against such things there is no law.)

He told us that habits make a person so we should develop good habits. He maintained a disciplined life. He maintained consistency in his daily prayers. He told us to read the word of God and to be a man of prayer.

In this one year he has left us all his children, to come closer through his suffering. We were struggling. We were praying for him when he was in the ICU. We even fasted for seven days. We asked God ‘please if it is your will, you are the God who can even bring the dead back, please revive him. We want him to come back’

but what God has planned, we cannot go against His will. He had suffered so much and it was his will that he should be resting by now and we pray that God has already kept him in His bosom.

He was a man of integrity. He maintained his integrity. At times, as his sons we would ask him “Dad you are in such a high position, why don’t you exercise your power sometimes,” and he would simply smile and say “Son that’s not the right way. You have to seek the will of God. In everything you seek the will of God. That’s the most important thing.” For him doing the Will of God was the first and foremost thing. He maintained his integrity in every aspect and I am very proud to have a father like him.

In the year 2008, when my mother and father were to go back from Manila to Nagaland, God spoke to my mother through a prophecy saying that ‘when you go back you should exercise love, forgiveness and peace’.

Accordingly, when they came back, my father declared a clarion call- a clarion call for reconciliation of

all Nagas. His wish for the Naga people was that the Naga people should live together as one and seek for final settlement.

Someone has rightly said that the world is ruled by dead men. His ideas, his vision, his principles, his mission in life will still live on in us. All the people who understood him, who knew him are carrying the dreams with them – his comrades, friends and especially uncle Muivah who has stood together through thick and thin and now that we don’t have a father, we look up to him as our father. He will be our guide.

As firmly, and as strongly, my father stood for the rights of the Nagas, we the children will also stand up for that till the end. We will abide by the principles he has taught us. We will give our all, according to how he has taught us. We will do God’s will for the Nagas. For the Nagas we will stand.

He leaves behind the legacy of peace.

He leaves behind the legacy of reconciliation.

He leaves behind the legacy of

love.

Most importantly he leaves behind the legacy of “Nagalim for Christ.” He was for Christ, he lived for Christ and he has told us to do the same-to preach the gospel, the good news to the entire world. That is the legacy he has left us and we will carry it forward-his hopes, dreams and aspirations.

I would like to read out a scripture from Job 14:7-9 - “At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. Its rootsmay grow old in the groundand its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.”

I would like to end with a note saying that “the old tree has passed away, it has fallen but as we celebrate his life today, with his life like water if it touches you, may you bud, may we all bud together and become branches like him and become even a bigger tree in the near future.”

(Transcribed by Tungshang Ningreichon from his eulogy at a condolence service at Delhi on 29.06.16)

Visible changes under KMC Assu Isak Chishi Swu: An Immortal Icon

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hrough your esteemed paper, I would like to share some of my observations on the visible changes in the work of Kohima Municipal Council, Kohima over the past two years. This pertains to the developmental activities under taken by the council in its humble way despite many constraints. First of all, I gave Kudos to the leadership of the KMC for taking the initiative in visiting the entire Wards of Kohima town to have first hand information on the problem faced by the denizens vis-avis to establish personal relationship with colony people which is very important towards ushering progress and growth and also for the maintenance of cordial atmosphere. To what extent KMC has ascertained the grievances of the colony dwellers and its approach for redressal is a matter of debate and time. However, the gesture shown by KMC is a big encouragement, a morale booster for the colony leaders who sincerely and devotedly work for a better ambience. It is pertinent to point out that KMC after its interaction with the colony dwellers has done away with the “Service tax of 5%” which the colony/ ward has to pay back to KMC from the sanitation fee collected by them. This has come as a big relief keeping in view of the deteriorating conditions of the vehicles and its maintenance cost and also towards payment of salary to the driver and his co-worker.

Another tangible achievement of the present KMC is abolishment of the Coupon system and putting it directly under its control. This has got rid of the business monopoly enjoyed by few on certain commodities that had often lead to price hike of essential commodities at will in the past. It now gives ample opportunity for the petty business people also to earn their livelihood without any hindrance in procuring their commodities.

The Beautification of the main town

like painting of the Foot Bridges, construction of pay and use toilet, construction/renovation of drains and new public foot path on the road sides are all visible rooms of improvements that we are witnessing. With proper vending & allotted timing for street vendors there no much complain and constraints face by the pedestrian.

In recent time, one of the news magazine reports in its national survey has categorized Kohima as the 5th costliest living city in India. Perhaps this is attributed to the sky rocketing prices of commodities for reasons best known to us and also owing to lack of mechanism to control price hike. Here my humble plea and suggestion to the KMC is to atleast constitute a special squad to check whether commodities are sold at the prescribed rate issued by KMC in different markets of the town and defaulters are booked under appropriate section of the law. Evidently fruits, vegetables to poultry products etc are all sold at random prices fixed by the traders and the consumers are at their mercy. This is a matter of great concern as all our belly needs to be filled. Displaying of price hoardings and setting up of consumer complain cell by KMC will go a long way towards streamlining the price control.

Lastly, I exude confidence that if the KMC leadership continues with these small innovative developments, a day is not far when Kohima the mirror of Nagaland will be Smart City in reality. As the saying goes that “we cannot clap with one hand” it is our zealous responsibility also to come forward to help and support KMC in its endeavors. Here the Kohima citizens should also no longer bask in its legacy as the land owners but instill the sense of responsibility towards doing their duties by joining hand with KMC to echo the old song of “Kohima will shine today” Zeruuzo Norbert New Market, Kohima

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eople realize the real value of a person only after they’re gone. One’s true worth transpires or surfaces only after they become a memory. For a great leader like Assu Isak Chishi Swu who believed in relationships greater than the problems, losing him is not only a loss for a particular tribe or faction but for the whole Naga people. It is an end of an era in the history of the Naga Movement.

Assu Isak Chishi Swu’s dead came as a jolt to the collective conscience and emotion of our people and has send shockwaves throughout the Nagas living around the world. Assu Isak’s life and his passing away mark an important historic phase of the Naga National Movement. The greatest inherent factor of the great leader is not only the personality but humility. Assu Isak was denied what he deserved by many of his adversaries while he was alive but those who denied him that too wept along on his demise. Hate them or love them, but we cannot ignore that he along with Th. Muivah took the Naga Cause to newer heights on the world stage and international recognition.

As humans, they too surely had their own shortcomings and mistakes but the enormous sacrifices they made for the Nagas is remarkable and noteworthy which can never be denied. His departure leaves an irreplaceable vacuum as he left us during this crucial juncture when his presence was so much needed than before as he had been throughout his life. Maybe many felt his presence never mattered and thought it never made any difference but today we are proved wrong by his absence. Like salt we fail to notice its presence but become completely aware of its absence only when it is not there.

Today his absence causes more than mere heartaches, pain and sadness but of a great emptiness and a very huge void not only among the Sumis but to every Nagas beyond Nagaland. Everyone has grieved immensely and expressed the deepest sorrow over the demise of this great leader Assu Isak Chishi Swu. A noblest soul, a God’s servant, a freedom fighter to the fullest, a truest patriot, a visionary leader, an inimitable man of principles, Late Assu Isak Chishi Swu has left a irreplaceable vacuum with his extremely rare and exceptional qualities of a soldier, missionary, guide, philosopher and an astute statesman. In losing him Nagas has lost one of its great-

est sons of the soil. He will always remain as one of the greatest source of inspiration to many and an exceptional leader among the Nagas who was the rarest among the rarest. He was a man who placed God above everything. For him the Nation came before anything even before his own family and his own community.

Now after he has left, the rise of unpredictability increases in these rapidly changing dynamics of times and continuous upheavals of our long running Naga Movement. Great achievements require great sacrifices and Assu Isak without any doubt was one such person. Assu Isak’s death has made us realize Nagas need more of emotional unity and social integration and we need to be more calculative and wiser in our decision makings while navigating through the choppy and murky waters of divisions and hatred within us.

Our worries have only seemed to exacerbated by the uncertainties of turmoil and seem more difficult in charting a way through this hard road of a long drawn conflict with the passing away of this great legend. He gave his all and stayed completely focused on what mission he started out till the end of his life’s journey. True leaders take responsibility instead of always blaming others and he was one of them. He was one strong personality to stand alone when the time demanded. He was his own self to stand apart when situations compelled. To lead people you need to walk behind them was thus exhibited by this man.

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it and he proved it. Great leaders draw us to them with their universal humility and he was truly one of them. They derive clarity of vision inspite of the chaos and amidst extreme difficult circumstances or through turbulent phases and the test of times. Assu’s life was completely different from the multitude of today’s many questionable leaders who without any clear political and ideological vision, where amassing of personal wealth and glory has become a priority much to the channelizing in the growth of anger and resentment from the common masses. His enemies shed their tears and expressed their sorrow alike how his friends did at his passing away.

The people who hated him and despised his ideology and policies while he was alive grieved along too with those who loved him and started missing him from the moment the news spread that he was no more. Assu Isak was a devout,

God-fearing humble soul never complained about the silent attempts to discard and deny him the status of fatherly figure and an icon of the Naga Movement all his life but all that were due to him came as he left this world. Even his adversaries became forlorn, gloomy and sorrowful when they learnt that this great son of the soil was no more. Such things are rare, very rare. He relied on God as his source of strength and guide in the complexities and dilemmas he battled. Now how many more Assu Isak do we have? Or will we ever have? Maybe we will never. Nagas need to pragmatically think over it and must thoroughly introspect and retrospect. The realization of how Assu Isak’s presence mattered a lot came a little too late to the Nagas only after he was gone.

The worst thing we Nagas can do to ourselves and against the dream of this great man is destroy ourselves with our narrow nationalism. The video clip of him strolling around the lawn in a wheel chair and singing ‘Sailing for Home’ made me shed tears and it sure did to many who have watched it.

His failing health in the ever growing challenging situations for over a year did not even bother to awake our conscience. The sad consequence of losing such a great outstanding leader as Assu Isak after battling for his life for quiet sometime makes us now to ponder if only we should have given him his due share of credit while he was alive too like we did after he passed away.

Men make history and not the other way round. Throughout the ages, where there is no leader, society stands still. Progress occurs only when courageous and skillful leaders seize the opportunity to make things for the better. The Naga Nation today is certainly not what our great leader like Assu Isak Chishi Swu must have dreamt of. The picture that emerged from the long bloody conflict of nearly six decades maybe potentially great but now completely in state of disarray and chaos. Nagas now suffer from a fatty degeneration of conscience and dissolution of our moral values. The soul of great leaders like him will rest in complete peace only if we relearn and live the values to which they stood for.

Farewell Assu. You have lived well. Today our land has become a land of story-tellers, storytellers of your great heroic deeds. You are a true legend. You are a true hero. Legends never die.

Heroes live forever. You have left behind a great legacy of true patriotism that will be forever engraved in our minds and hearts.

Outcome of International Women’s Day –

Women Arrogance VS Men Ego in Naga Society

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ood morning ladies! We celebrate your International Day every year in March with gusto. It is time to assist the net result of such celebrations. On this day, many chivalrous Don Quixotes are thrown out with loud promises – never to sheath their swords till the last damsel in distress is restored to her rightful place with honour. These heroes are not visible the next day. This is called male chauvinism.

The display of valor by these gender warriors should not be trusted fully. Better view their patriotism with limitations. They openly glorify you, but their inner hearts are singing, “Halleluiah, despatch all females to Heaven, Glory to God in the Highest, And on earth peace.” They are spiritual by day but spirited by night. They pray by day and bray by night. In reality this so called martial race belongs to the partial race.

A lot is discussed on rights of women. A lot is resolved on how men should respect women better and to realize that women are as talented and capable as men and very often even more so. Men have to respect women’s wishes – dresses they wear, outings, kitchen holiday, etc. Men should never resort to violence or intimidation against women. Men have to maintain boundaries in the work places and make sure of their comfort at home. However, the pampered Naga male ego is a tough nut to crack.

Yes, for all the talk of women being denied their rightful place in society, ladies need to do some self reflection too. Let me attempt the unthinkable. Women need to correct the constant desire to judge other women. Women are by nature hard on themselves. They are harder on each other. An over-weight elderly woman struggle to cross the crowded street in a rush hour.

Pedestrains on the street are mostly women. They are watching her struggle with disgust. “This fatso, how terrible,” is the only support from these women around.

A working mother misses her Sunday church service due to an office dateline.

Others think,”what a sloppy mother she is.” A young woman in a short skirt makes other women go slut in their heads. A pretty young woman makes other women wonder what she has been upto to get that promotion in her job. Women are ready to judge other women right from the ill fated coiffure to bluntly cooked food. Can a woman let another woman breathe? After all, all the women are not roses, some are regarded by others as thorns.

A common female behavior is the easy adoptation to feed male ego. Praising of male vain glory is pure sycophancy and acceptance of raw deal in any assignment is reason enough of your weak-kneed personality. What is the point of collectively harping on equality when as individual you are

happy to lapse into flattery. Do not turn the other cheek, you may end up losing both.

This biblical novelty is old fashion now. After all, men would like to keep a girlfriend, though married. This is the modern art of the so called smart living.

In terms of finance too a good number of women generously give away their lawful earnings to son, daughter, husband, brother, etc. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but women are emotional fools and need to be told so.

So think seriously. You have your life too. It is only when a woman asserts herself she is taken seriously.

The way the Naga society is structured, women are not encouraged to be as ambitious as men. This is wrong. Women should become more ambitious and dream big.

For that matter all young people both men and women should have fire in their belly.

They should aspire to do well in life. Success only will finally humble men to respect women.

Another intriguing aspect of our women is the uncertainty of becoming a professional and the mild confusion over the thought of marriage and children. The first is easier said than done. The second is easier done than said. One need to work very hard to achieve a rewarding life as a professional, but to become a vibrant mother of a family one just need the goodwill of a loving husband. Both of these will contribute towards

upward mobility. But some believe in temporary delay in marriage. Truly you are testing the water. But you are growing older too.

Your indecisiveness on these two fronts will give you headache. One headache is bad enough but two can be unbearable.

Presenting many facets of Naga women in their amazing diversities have not been easy. They have played many crucial roles towards nation building. Yet they are still considered not suitable to hold traditional and customary posts in the clan or tribe.

Unfortunately, the patriarchal mindset seems yet to outgrow a false chivalry and misplaced concern for the “weaker sex”. Be patient, even the hard icy mountain will melt when the heat is charged upon continuously. Here Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion will come handy for all of us.

Ice is melting slowly. Earlier, “man proposes, God disposes.” Now, when man proposes, woman disposes. Nowadays, it is not fashionable among young women to enter kitchen. But they are happy to attend the state-of-the-art cooking classes with pen, pad and mobile phone along with men.

This food classes is changing the game. Men are more innovative and deliver delicious cuisine that will transport you to instant thrill by mesmerizing your palates, not just for the stomach but for your heart too.

Further, men are into big league venture to make your dreams come true and

to relish your insatiable desire in life with endless diversion – special ship-shape slimming exercises with spa and beauty salon attached. Huge shopping malls have come up stocked with designer garments, cosmetics, etc. Men are into fashion technology. There are now great opportunities for ladies to indulge themselves.

Gender issue is highly sensitive in every society. One cannot rule out a possible male backlash when pressed hard. Each is on the brink of insanity and each offer view on life strikingly different and alarmingly funny.

Men too face harassment. They are bread earners for the family. However, in extreme cases just desert them all. Soon boredom will strike them to temporary insanity curable only by the loving care of women.

Don’t worry, today we have many assertive women with modern spine. They are vocal, passionate and react appropriately even to ordinary situation like hailing an auto rickshaw or in fish market while the men are insecure, pessimistic and withdrawn.

The tug-of-war over 33% of seats for women to contest among themselves in Urban Local Bodies too is gaining ground – though the destination is a little distant away. Still let us bring up the family first on gender neutrality. We shall fight the good fight and shall run the race. Arise, awake we shall overcome someday.

Mapu Jamir I.A.S. (Retd.), Dimapur,

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.

Wednesday 13•07•2016

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Taylor Swift tops Forbes' list of highest-paid celebrities

Steve Jobs' biography changed my idea of business: SRK

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"At Red Chillies Entertainment, I was involved in multiple businesses.

But after reading the book (on Steve Jobs), I realised that focusing only on one thing will help," SRK said. "So, we stopped TV and ad production and focused entirely on films and visual effects," the actor said while interacting on #fame, a live entertainment application.

Shah Rukh, however, does not completely agree with all the rules given in the book. The "Dilwale" star revealed that another author Malcolm Gladwell's book "Blink" is

about doing business. "The book explains that in a competition, the guy who blinks first loses first."The "Fan" actor recommended Blake Snyder's "Save the Cat" for all aspiring writers.

"This is one of the best books on screenplay writing that I have read so far."It was during his shoot for Yash Chopra's "Jab Tak HaiJaan" in London when he got several copies of EL James' erotic-romance "fifty Shades of Grey", which he is yet to finish reading.

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New Michael Hutchence songs and a documentary to be released

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reviously unheard Michael Hutchence songs and a documentary on the final years of his life are set to be released to mark 20 years since the rock star's death.

A total of 15 songs recorded by the lead singer and lyricist of INXS will be released including two duets with 'very big' artists.

The Need You Tonight singer was found dead in a hotel room at Sydney's Carlton Ritz Hotel in 1997 when he was just 37. He hung himself at the height of a bitter custody row over Paula Yates' children with her ex-husband Bob Geldof.

Sydney entrepreneur Ron Creevey, who runs Kings Cross studio and The X Studio, has spent the past two years compiling the singer's unheard music with LA-based record producer Danny Saber. 'I heard some time ago about some unreleased music that was sitting out there and then I approached (Hutchence's) trust directly,' Creevey said.

'At least five songs are brilliant. There's going to be two duets that will come out with two very big artists that I can't legally name at the moment and then there's singles he did

himself.' Saber, a producer on Hutchence's self-titled solo album released in 1999, said he and Hutchence had been working on music together not long before he died.

Mr Creevey has also been gathering artefacts and documents belonging to Hutchence to build up a picture of the final years of his life. 'I do know every single individual and or company who interfere with INXS/Michael copyrights are about to find themselves in very deep legal trouble,' he wrote in an email to AAP. Creevey denies that Murphy has any claim over

the new music.

The first song is set for release before Christmas, close to Hutchence's 19th anniversary in November. The documentary is due for release next year with the rest of the music to be released in the run up to Hutchence's 20th anniversary.

Michael, who was born in Sydney, formed the band The Farriss Brothers in high school which went on to become INXS. They released a self-titled debut album in 1980 which was a hit in Australia and the band went on to be popular in the U.S. and UK. Source: Mail Online

Craig Morgan’s son found dead ‘Kra-Ker-Jak’: Music event

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ountry singer Craig Morgan's son Jerry Greer was found dead after he got involved in a boating accident at Kentucky Lake in Tennessee. According to the Ten-

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inger Taylor Swift has been named the highest-paid celebrity of 2016 by Forbes. The magazine has released its annual Celebrity 100 list, which features the 26-year-old at the top spot, thanks to the $170 million she earned from June 2015 to June 2016, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Most of her money came from her star-studded "1989" tour, which smashed rock band the Rolling Stones' North American touring record as it grossed more than $200 million. She also earned from her deals with Apple, Diet Coke and Keds. Swift last year landed at the list's

No.8 spot with her previous best of $80 million.

She overtook other famous names including One Direction (No.2 with $110 million), Kevin Hart (No.6 with $87.5 million), Howard Stern (No.7 with $85 million) and Adele (No.9 with $80.5 million). She also bests her former boyfriend Calvin Harris who lands at No.21 with $63 million and singer Katy Perry who sits at No.63 with $41 million.

Had Swift and Harris stayed together, they would have been this year's topearning couple, surpassing Beyonce Knowles and JayZ's total of $107.5 million.

nessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the 19-year-old's body was on Monday recovered from the lake hours after he was reported missing, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Greer's family has confirmed his death. "It is with deep sadness that I am confirming the passing of Jerry Greer, son of country music entertainer Craig Morgan and wife Karen Greer," a statement read.

"The family is grateful for the outpouring of support and requests prayers at this time as they privately mourn this terrible loss...

Funeral arrangements are pending," the statement read further.

Greer, who recently graduated from Dickson County High School, was on a raft with another man when they fell into the water. Greer never resurfaced though he wore a life jacket.

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Six Naga musicians cut ribbon during the launch of “Kra-Ker-Jak” at Dream Café, Kohima on July 12. (Morung Photo) our Correspondent Kohima | July 12

Alexander Skarsgard lived with drug dealer

Come last Friday of every month, the denizens of Kohima will be able to witness renowned and budding Naga singers at Dream’s Café in Kohima as Rattle & Hum Music Society launched a music platform billed as “Kra-Ker-Jak” here this evening.

The formal launching of the event was unique is in itself with six musicians jointly cutting the ribbon. The musicians were Oren Mozhui, Mhaseve Tetseo, Moajungla Jamir, Vehiitolii, Keviphriinuo Khezhie and Mele Pucho.

Moajungla Jamir and folk singers from Ruzazho village (Phek district) performed at the launching programme.

Rattle & Hum Music Society president Theja Meru said that “Kra-KerJak” is all about celebrating greatness and excellence. He said the event is to celebrate our artists and also identify the youth and motivate them to reach to higher level.

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ctor Alexander Skarsgard has revealed that he once lived in a Leeds basement with no heating and a drug dealer. The 39-year-old 'Legend of Tarzan' actor moved to England after a 15-month stint with the Swedish National Service at the age of 21, reported Digital Spy. "(My friend and I) just looked at a map. We both liked Leeds United FC so we thought, let's go there. We went there and studied, but it was basically just hanging out and having fun.

"We lived in this basement with no heating, used sleeping bags, and shared a bathroom with a drug dealer who was obsessed with the queen of Sweden for some reason. It was kind of scary.

Then I knew I had to decide what I wanted to do with my life," he said. After six months slumming Skarsgard decided to go back to acting.

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Meru also said that Dream Café and Rattle & Hum Music Society always go hand in hand for promotion of youth and music for so many years now.

Rattle and Hum Music Society seeks to educate artists from the fields of Art, Music, Dance, Theatre and Literature of their role in the formation of Culture/ Counter-Culture.

Rattle and Hum also strives to provide a platform for artists to showcase their works and to facilitate the building of networks, whether artistic or commercial.

The ultimate endeavor of Rattle and Hum is to invest in the youth and their creative abilities.

Dream Café is located opposite War Cemetery, Kohima. As the name goes, the interior and the ambience of the cafe are dreamy. The food is absolutely amazing. The cafe works up daily lunch specials. It is all time favourite of coffee lovers and writers where they come to sit and ponder. Dream Café is the sure way to refresh and relax after a busy weekday.

Chris Harrison to return as Host of Miss America

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hris Harrison will be giving out a crown in addition to his roses this September. The host of “The Bachelorette” will return once again to the Miss America Competition for his eighth year, People confirmed. This year, Harrison will be hosting alongside Sage Steele, the commentator for ESPN’s “NBA Countdown.”

"For 96 years, Miss America has

'2 Broke Girls' Star Beth Behrs is engaged to 'Mad Men' Actor Michael Gladis

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eth Behrs and her long-time beau Michael Gladis are engaged - and they took to their social media accounts on Monday to share the good news with their fans and followers. 'I said yes!!' the 30-year-old 2 Broke Girls star gushed in the caption for a collage of snaps of them both at their engagement party.

'6 years down a lifetime to go! #love,' Beth added

along with lots of hearts and engagement ring emojis. The shot included a collage of pictures taken at New York City's Parkside Lounge where they celebrated with family and friends at the weekend.

Michael, best known for his role as Paul Kinsey in AMC's Mad Men, shared one of his fiancée's photo collages via Twitter as he doesn't have an Instagram account. 'She said yes!!' the actor told his

followers. 'So happy. So relieved. So hung over!'

Meanwhile, Beth just wrapped a run in the offBroadway play A Funny Thing and will start work on the new 2 Broke Girls season soon. Michael has finished work on the first season of AMC's Feed The Beast, starring David Schwimmer, about two friends who open a restaurant together.

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shown light on some of the brightest and most talented young women in the country," Harrison said in a statement to People. "This year will surely be a funfilled night showcasing talent, glamour, fitness, presentation and community achievement as the country's brightest compete for the crown!" The event at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall will air live Sunday, Sept. 11, on ABC. Source: ABC News

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apper Lil Wayne has been hospitalised after suffering another seizure. The 33-year-old star was admitted to hospital last week after falling ill just minutes before he was due to take to the stage at the TAO nightclub in Las Vegas, reports tmz.com. He spent time in Intensive Care but is now recovering here.

The scare was reportedly blamed on an issue with his medication as doctors worked to get the correct

dosage for him.

The latest incident comes less than a month after the rapper's plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Omaha, Nebraska, during a flight from Wisconsin to California after he had a seizure. Wayne has a history of medical problems and it had previously been reported he had adjusted his lifestyle in order to take better care of himself.

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UEFA names Euro 2016 team of the tournament Antoine Griezmann named best player

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PARIS, July 12 (AFP): UEFA on Monday named French forward and tournament top scorer Antoine Griezmann as the best player of Euro 2016, a day after the hosts' 1-0 final defeat to Portugal. "Antoine Griezmann was a threat in every game he played. He works hard for his team and possesses technique, vision and quality finishing," said UEFA chief technical officer Ioan Lupescu, who led the panel that picked the striker.

Alex Ferguson, the former Manchester United manager, was among UEFA's 13-strong panel of technical observers.

Atletico Madrid man Griezmann, 25, for whom Sunday's defeat was a second major final loss in a month after the loss to archrivals Real Madrid in the Champions League, also won the Golden Boot award for his six goals. He also had two assists in France's run to the final, but had a rare offnight in front of goal on Sunday and was unable to haul the hosts to victory.

Griezmann and midfield schemer Dimitri Payet were included in the UEFA team of the tournament named Monday, as was Portugal skipper Cristiano Ronaldo, who was stretchered off injured and in tears after a

Duncan's retirement the latest in a summer full of goodbyes Jon Krawczynski

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Antoine Griezmann (top) and Cristiano Ronaldo (bottom) were among the UEFA Euro 2016 Team of the Tournament.

crunching tackle by Payet.

Portugal defensive lynchpin Pepe was also included, along with fellow Portuguese goalkeeper Rui Patricio and Raphael Guerreiro.

There was no place for Gareth Bale, but Wales team-mates Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen, both midfielders, were named in the

team of the tournament.

UEFA team of the tournament: Rui Patricio (POR); Joshua Kimmich (GER), Jerome Boateng (GER), Pepe (POR), Raphael Guerreiro (POR); Toni Kroos (GER), Joe Allen (WAL), Aaron Ramsey (WAL); Antoine Griezmann (FRA), Dimitri Payet (FRA); Cristiano Ronaldo (POR).

West Ham pin 50 million price tag on Payet

london, July 12 (ReuteRS): Dimitri Payet is worth not a penny less that 50 million pounds ($65.3 million), West Ham United co-chairman David Gold has said, but even that might not be enough to prise the France midfielder away from the London club. Payet, who joined West Ham from Marseille in June last year, scored 12 goals in all competitions in his debut season in England and was instrumental in helping France reach the European Championship final, scoring three times.

His performances for club and country have prompted speculation about a possible

move to Chelsea, Manchester City or Paris St Germain, but Gold said West Ham would be reluctant sellers even if someone matched the huge fee. "We wouldn't even listen to any offer under 50 million pounds and even then we need to keep our best players so we just don't welcome any offers at all for Dimitri," Gold told the BBC. "He's instrumental, he's important to us, the team is built round him and he's not for sale. He's settled in London with this family, the fans adore him and we're going to the Olympic Stadium. "We've done everything we possibly could do. I'm hoping that will be enough (to keep him)."

im Duncan and Kobe Bryant. Dwyane Wade and Kevin Durant. Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah.

Players synonymous with their cities and their franchises are now gone in a summer of upheaval the NBA has rarely seen before, and the teams left behind begin their searches for new identities after saying the hardest of goodbyes.

“You never would've been able to convince me a couple years back that Wade wouldn't finish his career in Miami or Durant would have moved on in his prime from that great Oklahoma City team, or Rose after his MVP year, four years later he's not in Chicago anymore,” ABC analyst Jeff Van Gundy said. “It just shows you. It's a hard league. It's hard to keep your group together.

And when it is able to stay together, stay relevant, stay competitive, you're very, very fortunate.”

Count the San Antonio Spurs among the chosen few. Duncan fell in their lap when the Spurs won the draft lottery in 1997, and coach Gregg Popovich has long credited that bit of luck for the franchise's unprecedented run of success.

Five championships, two MVPs for Duncan, the most enduring success story in American sports.

“Leadership can come from many different areas, but when your best player is the best leader, it's amazing how everybody else falls in line,” said Timberwolves GM Scott Layden, who was an assistant GM with the Spurs for the previous four seasons.

“The other thing is how he's done it with such humility

and modesty. Not looking for any attention and accolades.

It's more of what is good for the team. ... Both on and off the court, he set the tone dayin and day-out.”

Bryant beat Duncan out of the door by a couple of months, ending 20 colorful seasons with the Lakers with a 60-point outburst in his final game. The consistency wasn't the same as Duncan's, but the Lakers captured five titles as well during Bryant's time and vaulted back into the league's hierarchy.

Wade left the Heat for his hometown Bulls after 13 brilliant seasons and is perhaps the biggest sports hero in Miami history, having delivered three championships to South Beach and serving as an ambas-

sador for the glitzy city by the bay. “Moments like this, it sucks,” Wade said on Saturday after taking a twoyear, $47 million deal from the Bulls over Miami's offer of two years and $40 million. “The business side of the sport, sometimes it just sucks. That's what we're dealing with.”

Durant stunned the NBA by leaving his beloved Oklahoma City for the juggernaut in Golden State, ending a nine-year love affair between the low-key superstar and a city he and Russell Westbrook put on the basketball map.

“Kevin was a part of the renaissance,” Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett told ESPN last week. “This city has come so far, so fast, probably further, faster

than any city in American history. Kevin was right there along with us. There's a slight sense of panic.”

And finally, the Bulls traded Rose, a former MVP and one of the city's favorite sons, to the New York Knicks.

Noah followed his friend to the Big Apple in free agency, meaning two of the players who embodied the franchise's grit and determination are now elsewhere.

The departures came under different circumstances and by different means, but they have served to upend the NBA. Player movement is one of the league's hallmarks, but Dwyane Wade in a Bulls jersey?

All players see their careers end eventually. But Kobe and Timmy in the same summer? Injuries to

Rose and Noah no doubt forced Chicago's hand. But both of the proud fighters wearing blue and orange?

It will take some getting used to for everyone involved, and it stands to have a major impact on the playoff chases in both conferences.

Duncan may not have been the force of nature he was for the Spurs in his earlier days, and he may have passed the torch to Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge last season. But his loss in the locker room, and in the paint, will be hard for the Spurs to overcome.

With Leonard, Aldridge, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and now Pau Gasol in the fold, the Spurs should still be able to hang near the top of the Western Conference. Without No. 21 in the middle to keep things calm, it won't be easy.

“I think it goes way beyond the championships and the winning,” said Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer, a longtime Spurs assistant. “I think the culture that really, he's kind of the pillar it's been built around. It is almost impossible to quantify.”

In some ways, things have only gotten easier for the Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers, who have met in the NBA Finals the last two seasons. Durant's move to Golden State gutted the Warriors' chief rival in the West and assembled perhaps the most potent starting lineup in league history in the Bay Area.

Wade's move to Chicago weakened a challenger to LeBron in the East.

Maybe the only question left to answer going into next season is not who will be there in the end, but how each of these proud franchises will handle their new beginnings.

New UFC owner assures commitment to fighters Manipur’s Sushila to lead Indian

MAnIlA, J u ly 12(AGenCIeS): Even though there was a change in leadership at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), its new owner reassures the fighters of their role in the new management, and touts efforts to expand the organization’s global reach.

Zuffa LLC has sold the world’s premier mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion to William Mor-

ris Endeavor and International Management Group (WME-IMG) for a reported $4 billion.

The ownership group is headed up by WME-IMG, an entertainment agency headed by Ariel Emanuel, a longtime friend of the UFC. Backing the deal are private equity heavyweights such as Silver Lake, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and the investment firm of billionaire Michael S. Dell. Despite

the lucrative sale of the UFC, Emanuel and his WMEIMG co-chief executive officer (CEO) Patrick Whitesell stressed that the athletes will remain as the backbone of the organization.

“We’re now committed to pursuing new opportunities for UFC and its talented athletes to ensure the sport’s continued growth and success on a global scale,” they said in a joint statement.

Golfer Siddikur Rahman creates Olympic history for Bangladesh

Bangladeshi golfer Siddikur Rahman, seen in action during the Indian Open golf tournament in New Delhi, in 2015.

(AFP Photo)

dhAkA, July 12 (AFP): Golfer Siddikur Rahman has become the first ever Bangladeshi to directly qualify for the Olympics Games after cementing his status as one of the top 60 players for next month's tournament in Rio de Janeiro.

The 31-year-old's place was confirmed when he finished in 56th place in the rankings list published by the International Golf Federation on Monday, the cut-off date for qualification. Bangladesh is the most populous country never to have won an Olympic medal and all previous entrants have had to rely on wildcards provided by the International Olympic Committee and other international sports bodies. While several of the world's top golfers, including Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, are staying away from Rio, two-times Asian Tour winner Siddikur has made clear his excitement at the prospect of competing

for a medal.

Speaking to the Asian Tour's official website last week, Siddikur described the Olympics as "the top of the tree for sports". In a country otherwise obsessed with cricket, Siddikur has become a major star in Bangladesh and been dubbed the "Tiger Woods of Bengal".

He developed his love of the game by collecting balls at Dhaka's upmarket Kurmitola Golf Club before turning professional in 2005. Siddikur is now expected to carry Bangladesh's flag in the opening ceremony in Rio on August 5 as the head of a small contingent which will include four compatriots who have been granted wildcards. It is the first time in 112 years that golf has been staged at the Olympics, with 60 competitors each in the men's and women's events playing a 72-hole strokeplay tournament.

Lorenzo Fertitta will step down from his post as chairman and CEO, while Dana White will keep his position as UFC president.

White made sure that he is one with WME-IMG in continuing to build the UFC as an international brand and making MMA a global sport. “Our goal has always been to put on the biggest and the best fights for our fans and to make this the biggest sport

in the world. I’m looking forward to working with WME-IMG to continue to take this sport to the next level,” the 46-year-old promoter stated. Lorenzo and his brother, Frank Fertitta, purchased the UFC from Semaphore Entertainment in 2001 for only $2 million.

The Fertitta brothers will retain an ownership stake when the sale is complete, but it will be significantly smaller than their

current combined 81%.

White will also have an ownership stake as he presently has a 9% share in the company. Meanwhile, there will be no corporate restructuring with regards to the promotion’s Asian division, which is headed by general manager Ken Berger.

The UFC is set to stage its second live Philippine event on October 15 at the 20,000-seater SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

Giggs, Ronaldinho, Crespo to play in Premier Futsal

ChennAI, July 12 (IAnS): Football legends Ryan Giggs of England, Ronaldinho of Brazil and Hernan Crespo of Argentina will be playing in the inaugural edition of the Premier Futsal scheduled to start on July 15. The world’s first multi-national futsal tournament will kick-start its inaugural edition at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here on July 15.

The first edition of the league will see six franchises divided in two groups to battle it out over eight match days and 13 matches to make it to the final, which will be played in Goa on July 24.

The unveiling of Manchester United legend Giggs, Ronaldinho -- the 2002 World Cup winner and two-time World Footballer of the Year, and the former Argentine forward Hernan Crespo completed the signing of their six marquee players.

Premier Futsal has previously announced Manchester United’s midfield icon Paul Scholes and former Real Madrid star Michel Salgado as their other signings.

With former Portugal international Deco having to drop out last minute because of injury, the Pele of Futsal, Falcao will replace him as the sixth marquee player for the league. The Mumbai franchise has been picked up by the renowned car designer Dilip Chhabria, where as the Goa and Kochi franchises have been bought by Viiking Ventures Pvt. Ltd. and Dubai based Yes Events Management respectively. Premier Futsal recently announced Kannada film star Puneeth Rajkumar as the owner of the Bengaluru 5’s franchise. The Kolkata franchise was bought by Bengali superstar Jeet, while Janani Ramesh of the Hindu Group, was the first to pick a team

in its debut season.

Speaking at the event, Premier Futsal co-founder Nithyashree Subban said, “Amidst all the false allegations and attempts to tarnish the image of Premier Futsal, we are proud to kick-start our inaugural edition as scheduled on July 15 here in Chennai. It was a strategic decision to host the league in just two cities; Chennai and Goa, and with six franchises."

"We have managed to secure signatures of players who are the legends of the game and will be seen playing in India in a few days. As Premier Futsal Management, we are committed to grow Futsal here in India and we will expand the league to other cities in the future editions.” The teams which were announced on Tuesday, have been picked by an independent committee comprising of International Futsal experts with a view to make the teams balanced and the league competitive.

For the next season, all the futsallers will go back in to the bidding pool and the owners will have to pick their team through a bidding process. The marquee players which have allotted will remain with the six franchises for the next season as well.

Premier Futsal also concluded ‘Launchpad’, a talent hunt program which was conducted in eight cities to scout for Indian futsal players. The shortlisted Indian futsallers were hosted a boot camp in Chennai and five players from each of the franchise markets were announced today.

Each of these 5 players have been drawn in to the teams of their respective cities and will get a chance to play alongside the current best futsal players in the world and the marquee football players.

women's hockey team in Rio

Sushila Chanu (Getty Images/ File Photo)

new delhI, July 12 (ht): The Indian women’s team, which has qualified for the quadrennial spectacle for the first time in 36 years, will be led by 24-year-old Sushila Chanu.

The Manipur defender replaces Ritu Rani who has been dropped from the side allegedly due to form and attitude problems.

Deepika, the senior-most member of the team with 172 matches under her belt, will be her deputy.

Coached by Aussie Neil Hawgood, the team is going through a rough patch. The 13th-ranked team finished sixth at the eight-nation Hawke’s Bay Cup in New Zealand (April 2-10) and fourth at the invitational Four Nations Tournament in Darwin, Australia (May 25-June 5) under the stewardship of Chanu.

In between, Rani led India to a disastrous tour to England, where the girls lost all five matches. They have won just one game over the past three months, against Canada, ranked five places below them.

Sardar Singh’s eightyear reign at the helm of the Indian men’s team ended, and the baton was passed to his long-time deputy PR Sreejesh, who led India to

the historic Champions Trophy silver last month.

Sardar had recently led India to a fifth-place finish in the Six Nations Invitational Tournament in Valencia, Spain, before masterminding a second-place finish at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia in April. Forward SV Sunil was named vice-captain.

TEAMS Women: Navjot Kaur, Deep Grace Ekka, Monika, Nikki Pradhan, Anuradha Devi Thokchom, Savita, Poonam Rani, Vandana Katarya, Deepika (vice capt), Namita Toppo, Renuka Yadav, Sunita Lakra, Sushila Chanu (capt), Rani Rampal, Preeti Dubey, Llima Minz.

Standbys: Hinalum Lal Ruat Feli, Rajani Etmarpu Men: Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinderpal Singh, Kothajit Singh, Surender Kumar, Manpreet Singh, Sardar Singh, VR Raghunath, SK Uthappa, PR Sreejesh (capt), Danish Mujtaba, Devinder Walmiki, SV Sunil (vice capt), Akashdeep Singh, Chinglensana Singh, Ramandeep Singh,Nikkin Thimmaiah.

Standbys: Pradeep Mor, Vikas Dahiya

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