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Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility — Dalton Trumbo Cameron bows out, May comes in PAGE 09

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

Young man, you are killing my optimism with your pessimism.

Five missing Naga youth traced

DImaPuR July 13 (mExN): Five Naga youth who were reported missing while travelling on a Rajdhani train from Dimapur to Delhi have been traced.

The five youth departed from Dimapur on July 11 by Rajdhani train but were reported to have gone missing either in journey or in Delhi as they were supposed to reach New Delhi Railway Station on Wednesday morning. Mobile phones of all five are switched off and there is no clue about their whereabouts, Delhi Police IGP Robin Hibu, who is also Nodal Officer for North East People, Delhi had earlier posed on social media websites. However, IGP Hibu, when contacted on Wednesday evening confirmed that the Naga youth have been traced. While he did not specify details, Hibu said they were reportedly detained on a case of “mistaken identity.” Inquiry is underway on the incident, he added.

Total shutdown of power supply KohIma, July 13 (mExN): The testing process for commissioning of 132kV Wokha-DHEP Transmission line is in progress and is likely to continue for the next 10 days. In the process, total shutdown of power supply is required from time to time. All consumers under Wokha district, Tseminyu and Pughoboto area are requested to extend co-operation and bear with the inconvenience, a press release issued by Executive Engineer, Transmission Division, Kohima, Nagaland informed.

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sc restores cong govt in Arunachal

NEw DElhI, July 13 (IaNS): In a major setback to the Centre, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restored ousted Congress Chief Minister Nabam Tuki in Arunachal Pradesh, elating the opposition, which hailed the verdict as a victory for democracy.

In an unanimous verdict, a Constitution bench of Justices J.S. Khehar, Dipak Misra, Madan B. Lokur, Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and N.V. Ramana directed the restoration of the status quo ante as it existed on December 15, 2015, effectively bringing Tuki back as Chief Minister.

The court quashed President’s Rule imposed in the state and all the decisions taken by Governor J.P. Rajkhowa leading to its imposition.

On December 16, the Nabam Tuki government was dismissed in an Assembly session called by the Governor. The bench called the actions of Governor Rajkhowa as “illegal” and violative of the Constitutional provisions.

Govt to study judgment before making any reaction

Commenting on the Supreme Court’s verdict, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government will study Supreme Court judgment in detail before making any reaction.

He said the court had

Arunachal governor ‘should be sacked’

A television journalist sets his camera inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi.

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ordered status quo ante from December 15 and a lot of developments have taken place after that, including withdrawal of President’s Rule and swearingin of a new government under Kalikho Pul. “What requires to be done requires detailed consideration,” Prasad said. Prasad dismissed that “there was any law mismanagement” by the Centre in the case.

No threat to government, claims Pul

In Guwahati, Chief Minister Kalikho Pul maintained that there was “no threat” to his government and he will file a review petition in the Supreme Court. He said a floor test would prove the numbers

backing his government.

“The government runs only with numbers. There is no threat to our government.

That will be decided on the floor of the Assembly.”

Tuki pleased by historic verdict

A visibly pleased Tuki described the Supreme Court judgment as a “historic verdict” and said the ruling would help protect “healthy democracy” in the country. “This is a historic and remarkable judgment.”

“According to the judgment, our government has been restored,” Tuki said.

“I’ll go to the state and talk to all the 47 Congress MLAs. We will call a meeting.”

It is the second such ruling by the Supreme Court

since May when it similarly restored the ousted government of Chief Minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat in Uttarakhand.

He met Congress President Sonia Gandhi after the court verdict.

Opposition leaders criticize Modi’s govt

Sonia Gandhi, welcoming the Supreme Court verdict, hoped the ruling would deter the central government from further misusing its power.

“The verdict will deter the Union government from any further misuse of power. Those who had trampled upon constitutional propriety and democratic norms have been defeated,” she said.

Taking on the Modi

NEw DElhI, July 13 (IaNS): The Congress on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court decision restoring the ousted Arunachal Pradesh government and demanded the sacking of Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa.

Talking to reporters here, Congress leader Kapil Sibal said the central ministers involved in taking the decision concerning Arunachal Pradesh “should apologize”. He also demanded a probe into the alleged tape recording of some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders with a businessman for conspiring to topple the Arunachal government.

“I have heard that Rajkhowa is on leave, he should go on long leave,” Sibal said. He said if the government

government, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi thanked the Supreme Court for “explaining to the Prime Minister what democracy is”.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been locked in bitter turf battles with the Centre, described the Supreme Court judgment as a “tight slap on (the) dictatorial Modi government”. “Hope Modiji would learn and now stop interfering in democratically elected governments,” the Aam Aadmi Party leader tweeted.

The CPI-M urged the Modi government to “stop its growing authoritarian tendency of invoking central rule in states” ruled by non-BJP parties.

“Following the Utta-

rakhand experience, this judgment poses an irrevocable question of political morality and accountability of this BJP-led central government,” the Communist Party of India-Marxist said.

BJP puts up brave front

The Bharatiya Janata Party put up a brave front, saying the ruling was not a setback to it. “This is not a setback for the BJP. The crisis (in Arunachal) was due to the internal differences within the Congress in the state,” Bharatiya Janata Party leader Srikant Sharma said.

The Constitution bench also quashed the direction of Governor Rajkhowa on the manner and the order in which the advanced session of the state assembly

conducted its business.

The Congress suffered a jolt when 21 of its legislators rebelled. Eleven BJP legislators backed the rebels. Later, 14 of the rebel Congress lawmakers were disqualified. The Governor advanced the state assembly session, in which opposition legislators and the rebels “removed” Tuki and Speaker Nabam Rebia in a session held in a community centre and a hotel.

In 2014 elections the Congress had won 42 seats in the 60-member assembly.

Peoples Party of Arunachal, which had only five members in 2014, now has 30 members including Congress rebels. The BJP has 11 members in the house.

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Accord top priority to teachers’ salary: ANSTA Keep the spirit of coalition alive: tr

DImaPuR, July 13 (mExN): Distraught with the recurring non-payment of salary to Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) teachers, the All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) on Wednesday put forward suggestions to Nagaland Government for due consideration.

The Association, in a press statement from its president Ponchulo Wanth and general secretary Visato Koso, suggested that to do away with the problem of pending salaries, the government should submit Utilization Certificate on time; remit State matching share in due time, salary component of teachers should not be diverted for other

purpose.

Also maintaining that the government should accord top priority to teachers’ salaries, the Association further suggested that salary for teachers’ could be paid from the state resources before the funding agency release fund.

On the non-release of 5/6 months salary to 623 RMSA and 1930 Hindi teachers, the Association asserted that none of the teachers wants to boycott classes or agitate against the authority since the teachers know their assigned responsibilities more than anyone else.

However, the Association rued that on many occasions, the deliberate negligence of govern-

ment in attending the genuine problem of the teaching fraternity has compelled teachers to take the road of confrontation for which students are made to bear the brunt of agitation.

“Salary is the only source of livelihood for any categories of teacher be it general, CSS, Adhoc, fixed pay or vocational teachers. When salary is not released in due time, it directly affect the teachers putting their survival at stake. When the very survival is threatened, situation compels one to act in contrary to his/her professional ethics though it is difficult to swallow,” it maintained.

While asserting strongly on

timely release of pending salaries, the Association also expressed regret that in the midst of its various activities for the common interest of teaching community, it might have overlooked certain section of teachers unknowingly.

In spite of certain technical failures and weaknesses, the Association vowed to work for the genuine cause of teachers of all categories as mentioned in the Constitution.

It has therefore urged upon to all categories of teachers to coordinate with the parent body and bring any genuine and realistic problem (s) to the Central body for redress.

Govt. initiates Oil spillage destroy Jotsoma paddy fields Nagaland ‘detailed inquiry’ into

Farmers suspects handiwork of depot owners selling adulterated oil fuel adulteration issue Kosievito Nisa, Viliebeinyü Our Correspondent Kohima |July 13

Six paddy fields under Jotsoma village in Kohima district were destroyed after spilledcar fuel (petrol/diesel) leaked into many acres of newly planted paddy fields.

On learning of the incident, a group of journalists rushed to the spot to gather information from the farmers. The destroyed paddy fields are located below the National Highway 29, above Dzüdza River.

The oil spillage is suspected to be deliberate. There was no sign of vehicle accidents, and the oil were found to have been disposed off from above the national highway from Kezharü, a small stream.

Talking to media persons, Razouneikho Nakhro, one of the paddy field owners, regretted that the effort of his family for the last six months have been destroyed by the act of some ‘irresponsible citizens.’

“We suspect that the oil could have been spilled intentionally by some depot owners who sell adulterated

does not quit, he should be sacked. “I also demand an apology of the central government ministers who were part of the conspiracy to topple the government. “My third demand is for a probe into the alleged taped conversations of BJP leaders with a businessman,” he added.

Sibal’s remarks came after the apex court restored ousted Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki after it quashed Rajkhowa’s decision of preponing the state assembly session in December 2015. “Today, it has been proved that judiciary can save democracy,” Sibal said. “The court cancelled the Governor’s order saying it violated Articles 174, 175 and 163 of the Constitution,” Sibal added.

A view of paddy fields below NH 29 destroyed by oil spillage (Morung Photo)

oil,” one of the farmers present at the site said.

He went on to add that the ongoing effort of ACAUT (Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation) Nagaland in checking adulterated oil must have led to this action.

He added that the depot owners must have spilledout the oil with the fear of being caught by ACAUT. The exact date when the oils were spilled could not be as-

certained, but the farmers informed that they came to know about it on Saturday.

The concerned district administration was also informed about the incident. A complaint letter was submitted along with photographs to the SDO (Civil), Sechü circle on July 11. An FIR was also lodged at Sechü Zubza Police Station today. The affected farmers include Thekrunguto Medoze, Kokehesie Suokhrie,

Nakhro, Sedevilie Gwirie and Razouneikho Nakhro, all hailing from Jotsoma village.

The farmers also made a plea to Nagaland Disaster Management Authority to extent grant relief.

Meanwhile, the Western Angami Youth Organization (WAYO) condemned the ‘irresponsible action’, which occurred within its jurisdiction.

“This is the act of some irresponsible citizens who have intentionally spilled the oil knowing that there are paddy fields below the highway.

Whosoever it may be, strong action will be taken once caught,” stated a press release issued by WAYO president Neidilhoutuo Sechü and vice president Neizevolie Nakhro.

The organisation also requested the district administration and disaster management authority to visit the affected paddy fields and grant relief accordingly.

Further, it appealed the concerned authority to investigate the matter to find out the culprits.

DImaPuR, July 13 (mExN): The Department of Food & Civil Supplies of the Government of Nagaland (GoN) has informed that it has initiated a ‘detailed inquiry’ into the matter of fuel adulteration in the State. In a press release today, Ramongo Lotha IAS, Secretary to the GoN, informed that the matter is under inquiry by informing the State Level Co-ordinator of IOC, Tinsukia on June 20.

Accordingly, a ‘joint team’ consisted of District Administration, Food & Civil Supplies Department, Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd “conducted inquiry” into the adulteration case on July 1 and 2. Their report is awaited.

Further, the Secretary stated that the case is also under investigation by the State Police. “Till the investigation/ inquiry into the matter is completed, SK Oil allocation from July 2016 will be issued to only those authorized dealers whose Agencies were not reported in the ongoing investigation/ inquiry.”

Meanwhile, if any SK Oil Agency is “found established” by the investigating/ inquiry agencies and “found involved,” the SK Oil License holder(s) “shall be moved for cancellation.” It was also informed that SK Oil allocation from July 2016 onwards will be “issued to the Priority Household (PHH) and AAY ration cards holders/ beneficiaries” under the National Food Security Act.

National BJP President launches the formation of NEDA in Guwahati

DImaPuR, July 13 (mExN): Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang on Wednesday appealed to all political parties under North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) to keep the spirit of coalition alive. Zeliang said when like-minded political parties get together and work for the over-all development of the respective States, the North East Region would develop at par with the rest of the country.

A press statement from Media Cell, CMO said Zeliang, in his address during the launching ceremony of the NEDA at Guwahati, recalled how in 2004 some BJP legislators in Nagaland merged with his party the NPF and said, “I realised that it was not the right thing.”

“No matter how small or big our coalition partners are, we should keep the spirit of coalition alive and should not attempt to lure them to merge with one’s political party. This is not a healthy development in this era of coalition politics,” he said.

“As coalition partners in few crucial North-eastern States, the BJP and other regional parties should respect and honor each other in order to strengthen the coalition and also to ensure smooth function of the coalition governments, Zeliang added.

Zeliang also went on to cite practical difficulties the States of the region face presently owing to defective funding pattern and pointed out that instead of hiking up the annual funds for the region, the fund allocation has been di-

minishing over the years.

“Moreover, rather than have separate sources of funds such as NEC, NLCPR and DoNER, it would be most convenient to have the funds for the region sanctioned to NEC directly from source,” he said.

Earlier in the day, BJP President Amit Shah launched the NEDA by lighting the traditional lamp.

NEDA consists of the BJP, the NPF, the AGP, the Bodoland People’s Front, Ganashakti, Mizo National Front, United Democratic Party (Meghalaya), Sikkim Democratic Party, Arunachal People’s Party and the National People’s Party (Meghalaya)

BJP President pledge to set up Hindi learning institutes in all district HQ

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang revealed today at the launching of NEDA at Guwahati that while sharing the dais with BJP President Amit Shah, he confessed that he can’t speak Hindi because the Government of India did not make serious attempts to introduce Hindi as a subject in schools during the 1960s and 1970s.

“Do not blame me for being unable to speak Hindi, blame the Government of India! If Mr Shah can teach me how to speak Hindi, I can teach him how to get rid of the Congress party in the States,” he said and revealed that when he told the BJP President this while interacting earlier in the morning, the latter promised to set up Hindi Learning Institutes in all the district headquarters in Nagaland.

Zeliang said Nagaland Government will soon prepare a proposal for the same and put up for the approval of, and sanction from, the Government of India.

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Combating human trafficking

Kohima, July 13 (DiPR): Two-member team representing the Nagaland Police has returned from a Cross Border exposure and learning trip to Myanmar and Thailand in connection with human trafficking issues.

The trip was organized by the Impulse NGO Network based out of Shillong, Meghalaya. The other delegations included police officers, lawyers and members of the civil societies from the various states of North East India. Impulse NDO Network has been working towards addressing human trafficking in the North East India and its neighboring countries in Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

While combating human trafficking, the Organization has developed the ‘Impulse Model’. The Impulse Model is a holistic approach which brings stakeholders from Law enforcement agencies, lawyers, CSOs’ public and private sector; under one umbrella to re-

Mokokchung observes World Population Day

moKoKchuNg, July 13 (mexN): District health Society, Mokokchung observed the World Population Day and launching of Population Stabilization Fortnight from July 11 to 24 under the theme ‘Take responsibility , make plans’ was held at IDSP Conference hall, IMDH Mokokchung on July 11.

During the launching programme, Sushil Kumar Patel IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung said World Population Day is a great event being celebrated all through the World annually on July 11. It is celebrated to increase the awareness of the people towards the worldwide population issues.

Dr. Kibangkumba, Dy CMO Mokokchung gave a brief introduction on World Population Day and Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF). He said that World population day is observed all over the world on July 11 with an aim to exploit the over population in the world. IDCF is also to be observed from July 11 to 23 with the rest of the Country. In this fortnight the main goal is to attain a free childhood diarrhoea and child deaths due to diarrhoea.

During this fortnight, ASHA are the main components. They will be distributing ORS to the families with children less than five years of age and also conduct demonstration and preparation of ORS, importance of hand washing etc. In this regard, the Medical Department in convergence with Education Department, Social Welfare Department, PHE Department , NGOs to take active part.

The programme was chaired by Dr. Temsuyanger DPO (RCH & UIP) and Vote of thanks and conclusion was delivered by Dr Medem Medical Superintendent, IMDH Mokokchung.

Nagaland Police undertakes cross border exposure to Myanmar and Thailand

spond to human trafficking cases effectively and efficiently through software –The Impulse Case Info Centre (ICIC). The model has received the Silver Prize for Japanese Most Innovative Development Project from Global Development Network (GDN) under the Japanese Social Development Fund, Government of Japan. Nagaland Police is also a user of the software and training has been imparted to all the Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTU) of the District Police.

A release by PRO, PHQ, M. Tungoe IPS stated that the trip comprised of the entities that supported the Impulse Model and the agenda primarily aimed at sharing of experiences with the Model to build linkages between the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of

Members of the Naga American Foundation during its 2016 conference held in Syracuse, New York on July 8 and 9. (Photo credit: Kaikho Paphro)

New yoRK, July 13 (mexN): The Naga American Foundation (NAF) held its 2016 conference in Syracuse, New York on July 8 and 9. The Syracuse conference, the 15th such gathering organized by the NAF, was hosted by Chris and Khati Prosonic of Solvay, New York. Over 100 individuals from across the United States attended this year’s event, marking the largest NAF conference attendance since the organization’s founding over 25 years ago.

NAF Secretary Justin Aier in a press release said that Dr. Kilangla Yanger, research scientist at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and Wungram Shishak, policy analyst at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the US Department of State in Washington, were Section of the road washed away by landslide along NH 702 in Alaphu, keynote speakers at the conference. connecting Zunheboto to Mokokchung.

Major landslide along NH 702 in Alaphu

ZuNheboto, July 13 (mexN): The Akuluto Range Students' Union (ARSU) has expressed concern on the major landslide which occurred along NH 702 in Alaphu, connecting Zunheboto to Mokokchung.

The ARSU requests the EE (PWD) Mokokchung, Parliamentary Secretary, Mechanical and National Highways and other departments concerned to take serious initiative at the earliest as the landslide is causing much distress to the people around. It should also be noted that the road connects Nagaland University Lumami to Akuluto and Zunheboto.

Meanwhile, the alternative road is far too dangerous even for light vehicle due to its condition. Therefore, ARSU also requests the authorities concerned to maintain the alternative road and make it safe for the travelers.

The ARSU, while extending support to the Government for tackling the situation at the earliest, added that the landslide has affected many people in Akuluto and Zunheboto, including the business community and consumers who depends on Mokokchung for their daily needs.

Dr. Yanger spoke of how her work as a stem cell scientist mirrors the experience of Nagas in America.

“Studying organ regeneration I see certain analogies with my work and NAF’s cultural goals,” she said.

“Whether the Nagas in the US were born here or in Nagaland, we’re all somewhat cut away from our native homes and hence trying to re-grow as a community in this new environment.”

Shishak talked about his path to working for the US government, and emphasized the “necessity of not giving up in the face of obstacles.” Both speakers recounted their upbringings in Nagaland, and stated the value of being rooted and connected in community, particularly for the Naga population in the US. Other conference events included a bazaar featuring Naga items, exhi-

bitions of photographs and artwork by Kaikho Paphro and Sano Ramos, musical performances by Naga groups from the states of Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Illinois, as well as several meals with a wide variety of Naga cuisine.

The NAF board also conducted its business meeting at the conference and announced that its next conference will be held in Felton, California in 2018. The board noted the appointment of Honili Sema, Director of Women’s Ministry at City team in San Jose, California, as the new president of the NAF, a position held by Meyi Aier of Plainfield, Illinois, for four years. Thanking everyone for attending the conference, Sema said, “Even in a country like the United States, we can so easily, and without any hesitation, come together as one community.”

NPF embarks on tour to formulate Angami Youth Org to celebrate 25 Years road map for general election Kohima, July 13 (mexN): The Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) will be organizing its 25 Years Celebration at Kigwema Village from November 4 to 5 under the theme, “Kelhou Kevi.” Detail schedule of events and activities for the Celebration is on the process of finalisation. Pertaining to this, the Organnizing Committee for the Celebration and the AYO has inform all the Frontal/Regional and Village organisations, different asso-

ciations and Unions not to schedule any of their programs or activities to the aforementioned dates.

A press note issued by Medo Yhokha, President and Kezhazer Angami, Secretary, Organizing Committee informed that a series of overture activities and programs for the Celebration are in the offing starting from August.

For the successful executions of the plans and programs which are focused to benefit the entire citizens, the Organ-

isation needs peace and tranquility. To this end, AYO is constrained to make public of certain built up activities harboured by certain faction (s) that could vitiate peace and breach AYO public resolutions. In reiteration of the Organization's urge for 'Peace, Tranquility, Social- Communal Harmony and Order', the AYO once again impresses and warns all with retributive acts against any that incites and creates societal tensions and insecurity.

AGOK inaugurates new office Nchumo Kikon, General Secretary NPF Central cum Mokokchung Incharge (Front row centre) along with his NPF central officials, NPF Mokokchung Division officials and 22 Arkakong A/C representatives at Chuchuyimlang Village on July 12.

moKoKchuNg, July 13 (mexN): A Central Nagaland people Front team of officials are currently embarking on a tour to reach out and strengthen the grass root NPF units in Mokokchung District.

A press note stated that the team is lead by Nchumo Kikon, General Secretary cum NPF Mokokchung incharge along with Yangerlemba Secretary NPF central cum Assistant incharge NPF Mokokchung, Aphien vice president and Abu Deseyei general secretary of NPF Women Wing central.

The team has reached out its first entourage today by meeting 21 Tuli and 22 Arkakong Assembly Constituencies officials and units representation.

Nchumo Kikon disclosed that the tour to reach out grass roots units of NPF

Wokha monthly DPDB meeting held

woKha, July 13 (DiPR): The monthly District Planning and Development Board meeting was held on July 12 at DC conference hall, Wokha.

The meeting was chaired

by Vice Chairman DPDB & Deputy Commissioner Wokha, Wezope Kenye.

During the meeting the board resolved that for the forthcoming Independence Day celebration the following departments and NGOs namely DRDA, Food and Civil Supplies Department, District Administration and Catholic Church Wokha will carry out feeding of Jail inmates and patients at District Hospital, Mhondamo Memorial

the North East India and the AntiTrafficking Taskforce of Myanmar for efficient repatriation of Human trafficking survivors from both countries.

Consultations were held at Nay Pyi Taw on developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in addressing cross border human trafficking between India and Myanmar. The trip included imparting of training on the use of the Impulse Case Info Centre Software to the Anti Trafficking Taskforce of Myanmar for efficient co-ordination between AHTU of North East India for combating cross border human trafficking.

The team also visited the ThaiMyanmar border in Myawaddy to observe the on-ground operation between Thailand and Myan-

mar in checking cross border human trafficking. The trip ended in Bangkok, Thailand on June 22 after meeting with anti trafficking in person division, Royal Thai Police to understand their approach towards human trafficking and explore the support mechanisms they adopt from implementing the MoU signed between Thailand and Myanmar to prevent human trafficking. The concluding meeting was with the United Nation Officer on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) which has been long term support of the Impulse Model.

Shouka Kakheto, Addl Dy. Commissioner of Police (Crime), Dimapur and Igwangheing Hemang, Addl.SP, Kohima along with Chenithung Humstoe, the Chief Functionary of the Bethesda Youth Welfare Centre, Nagaland represented the team from Nagaland. It may also be mentioned that Nagaland shares borders with Myanmar extending to 215 Kms.

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hospital and Assam Rifles hospital.

Power point presentation highlighting the various activities and policies of the departments were presented by Dr. Motsuo Memorial District hospital, District AIDS control Unit and District Legal Services Authority Wokha.

The Chairman requested all Officers posted under Wokha district to discharge their assigned responsibilities effectively and urged them to strengthen their activities during their tenure for the welfare of the community. All Officers were also directed to be regular in their respective place of posting.

is to interact with officials and get first hand information about the grievances and problems face by the units and draw a ‘formidable road map’ for the coming state general elections, which is drawing nearer about seventeen months or less.

NPF central team meets 21 Tuli A/C at Tuli and 22 Arkakong AC at Chuchuyimlang village on July 12 had a constructive interaction with the representatives of entire units.

Kikon also said that the tour objective is to observe the pulses of every Assembly constituencies’ and chalk out the problems and ensured doses for the problems.

The NPF general secretary also lauded the Assembly constituencies’ leaders for their dedication and selfless effort to strengthen

the party and said if the Assembly constituencies work hard it will affect the Division and central positively.

Saying that Mokokchung District has got the highest number of state assembly seats, he urged the party worker to prepare for the coming elections and to put tireless efforts to secure all the seats in the district as it did during the 70’s when UDF secured 10 out of 10 seats.

Meanwhile, motivational message was shared

by Yangerlemba Secretary NPF central cum Assistant incharge NPF Mokokchung and Aphien vice president NPF Women Wing central.

The NPF Central teams were accompanied by officials from NPF Mokokchung Divisions. The team culminates their tour on July 16.

Morung Express News Kohima | July 13

The Angami Gazetted Officers’ Krotho (AGOK) inaugurated its office cum conference Hall on July 13 at APO building with Dr. Neikiesalie Kire, Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change as the chief guest.

Er. Visekholie Nakhro, Convenor, Furnishing & Reconstruction Committee informed that the Krotho received seven lakhs from donors for the construction of the office in which expenditure costs came to almost 5.35 lakhs. Angami Public Organisation (APO) President, Dr. Vilhousa Seleyi stated that the APO building was the contribution of the peoples’ hard work and contribution, and further credited the former leaders, elders, and their wisdom and intellect for

Minister Dr. Neikiesalie Kire with the members of Angami Gazetted Officers’ Krotho during the inauguration of their new office on July 13. (Morung Photo)

which the APO has come this far and achieved milestones.

While exhorting the gathering, Dr. Kire shared the importance of meeting and dialoguing for an organisation or a group to be strengthened. Stating the

futility of a structure if the leaders do not continue to meet Dr. Kire said, “Let not the dust collect in our tables and chairs. We are looked upon as the elder brothers. I believe that the more we meet the more understanding we have.”

Further pointing out the drawbacks of the community where there is very less understanding and communication within the leaders and the public, Dr. Kire appealed for the leaders to develop friendlier attitude with each other. Dr. Kire also shared some concerns such as the need for career guidance for the young where they can be guided with the career options based on their skills and interest. Asserting the Angamis lack the attitude of helping each other and further hoping for better things to come, Dr. Kire concluded, “If I can do a small thing for society, if you can do a small thing for the society, all put together we are doing something big. In a small way if we can help people I think that matters. Let it not just be a house built by hands but a home build by hearts.”

TRGU Vocational Training Centre graduation held

DimaPuR, July 13 (mexN): TRGU Vocational Training Centre, Dimapur organised its graduation cum parents meet on July 12 with good number of attendance from parents of the trainees, a press release informed.

Rarenbenla Longkumer, Functional Manager, District Industries Centre, Dimapur was the guest of honor for the graduation function. She spoke about the need to realize and build the inherent potential in each of the trainees to be good professional. She further emphasized on the qualities of trainees, which include discipline and practical involvement and how these qualities and being creative, innovative and hard working can generate demand. While appreciating the TGRU Centre for giving such quality training to the

youths, she also spoke on the present scenario of employment and urged the trainees to take the training seriously and to stand on their own feet.

Tainla Jamir, Proprietor, TRGU Vocational Training Centre (TVTC) congratulated the successful candidates and highlighted the courses offered in the training centre – cutting and tailoring, fashion designing of industrial sewing machine operator, hobby course, and food processing to poorer women.

The trainings are mostly for widows, drop-outs, housewives, and unemployed youth to provide basic skills and empower them to earn their livelihood through self employment.

The function started with an invocation prayer by Knowledge Hub women hostel in charge.

Trainees with others during the TRGU Vocational Training Centre graduation cum parents meet on July 12.

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SC: Governor not conscience keeper of legislature

New Delhi, July 13 (iANS): In a major setback to the Centre, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the restoration of ousted Chief Minister Nabam Tuki in Arunachal Pradesh and quashed Governor J.P. Rajkhowa's decision to advance the assembly session by a month. The court said the Governor "cannot interfere in the activities of the Assembly".

In an unanimous verdict, by Justices Jagdish Singh Khehar, Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and N.V. Ramana in the main judgment and

by Justices Dipak Misra and Madan B. Lokur in their respective concurring judgments, directed the restoration of the status quo ante as it existed on December 15,

2015, effectively bringing back Tuki as Chief Minister. The constitution bench quashed the Governor Rajkhowa's December 9, 2015 direction to advance the assembly session from January 14 to December 16, and the message to the State assembly to take up the resolution for removal of Speaker Nebam Rabia as first item of the agenda.

The bench also set aside all the steps and decisions taken by the State assembly in pursuance to the Governor's direction and message. Holding that Governor can't act as an "ombudsman", Justice Khehar pronouncing the main judgment said, "The State Legislature, does not function under the Gover-

nor. In sum and substance, the Governor just cannot act as the Ombudsman of the State Legislature."

"The Governor cannot a interfere in the activities of the Assembly, for the reason that the Chief Minister, or the entire Council of Ministers, or an individual Minister in the Cabinet, or for that matter even an individual MLA, are not functioning in consonance with the provisions of the Constitution, or in the best interest of the State," said the main judgment pointing out that the Governor has no role, in the disqualification of members of the assembly as it solely rests with the Speaker.

Addressing the Governor's message to the State assembly asking it to take

up the resolution for removal of the Speaker as first item of the agenda, the judgment said that he was neither the "conscience keeper of the State assembly" nor could he "act as a marshal". "The Governor is not the conscience keeper of the Legislative Assembly, in the matter of removal of the Speaker. He does not participate in any executive or legislative responsibility, as a marshal. He has no such role assigned to him, whereby he can assume the position of advising and guiding the Legislative Assembly, on the question of removal of the Speaker (or Deputy Speaker). Or to require the Legislative Assembly to follow a particular course," the judgment

Immigration officer accused of racial harassment identified New Delhi, July 13 (PTi): An immigration officer, who allegedly racially harassed a Manipuri woman, has been questioned by intelligence officers after a Home Ministry inquiry identified him as the person who interacted with her in his desk at the IGI airport here.

The immigration officer has been identified by investigators after checking the CCTV footage of the immigration area in IGI airport here, a Home Ministry official said.

Monika Khangembam had alleged that on Saturday an immigration official at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport hurled racist remarks at her when she was on her

way to Seoul for a conference.

"The officer is being questioned about his behaviour and on the woman’s complaints," the official said.

After receiving the reports of the alleged racial harassment, Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said that an inquiry was instituted into the allegation of racial harassment and action will be taken if anyone is found guilty.

On her Facebook wall, Khangembam wrote that when she went to the immigration desk at IGI at around 9 pm on Saturday, an official looked at her passport and said, "Indian toh nahi lagti ho" (you don’t look Indian).

He then allegedly smirked at her

and asked her how many states comprised the country, in an apparent bid to "know her Indianness". When Khangembam told him she hailed from Manipur, the officer allegedly asked her to name the states Manipur shares its border with.

After learning about the matter, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had expressed regret over the incident and said she would take up the issue with Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The Home Ministry official said the Bureau of Immigration is expected to launch a sensitisation programme for immigration officials handling travellers in airports across the country.

NEZCC conducts orientation for cultural officers GuwAhATi, July 13 (MexN): North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) Ministry of Culture, Government of India conducted an orientation programme for District Cultural Officers of Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya at Shilpgram, Guwahati on July 13. The same programme for Nagaland and Manipur will be announced.

The main objective of the orientation programme was to draw a roadmap for identification and registration of artistes in their

respective states with NEZCC; with an aim to groom and promote them for wider excellence and appreciation.

The orientation programme also deliberated on action plans for effective implementation of schemes and programmes of NEZCC, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Given the wide area that requires dynamic cultural administration, Director NEZCC, challenged all stakeholders to take a proactive and dedicated role in their assigned re-

said. The court verdict came on plea by the Speaker Nabam Rabia contesting the Governor's direction of December 9 advancing the assembly session and the message that his removal as Speaker be taken as the first item of the agenda.

Referring to the Article 163(2) of the Constitution, the judgment said that there is "no room for any doubt, that the Governor cannot be seen to have such powers and functions, as would assign to him a dominating position, over

the State executive and the State legislature". "We are of the considered view, that in sofar as the exercise of discretionary powers vested with the Governor is concerned, the same is limited to situations, wherein a constitutional provision expressly so provides, that the Governor should act in his own discretion," the judgment said.

Holding that there was no "justification for a Governor to be disturbed" over the proceedings for disqualification of MLAs, the

court said, "The Governor could not in support of the protests and assertions of an invalid breakaway group, adopt a constitutional course, recourse whereof could be taken only in case of a constitutional crisis".

Addressing the question whether Deputy Speaker of the State assembly could have overturned the disqualification of 14 Congress lawmakers by Speaker Nabam Rabia, Justice Lokur in his concurring judgment said, "there is absolutely no question of the Deputy

Speaker setting aside the order of the Speaker passed under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution." On December 16, Deputy Speaker Tenzing Norbu Thongdok had ordered the removal of the Speaker, pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Assembly. Justice Lokur said that the decision of the Speaker disqualifying a lawmaker can only be challenged before the court and even the Speaker himself can't revisit or review his own decision disqualifying a lawmaker.

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"The NEDP would execute from this current financial year (2016-17) aiming to lead Mizoram from a subsistence-based economy to a market-based economy.

Rs 270 crore has been sanctioned to carry out the policy," said an official elease here quoting Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla.

"The success of Mizoram government's flagship programme -- New Land Use Policy (NLUP) -- has given birth to this new policy NEDP," the release quoted Lal Thanhawla as saying in a meeting on Tuesday.

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The Chief Minister said that the NLUP has brought a number of visible steps up and changes and has generated sustainable means of livelihoods and opened new avenues for the people.

"The success of NLUP needs to be augmented, supplemented and converged wherever possible within NEDP," the Chief Minister added.

The Mizoram government in 2010 launched the Rs 2,873-crore NLUP to give financial assistance to over 125,000 families and provide them training for permanent settled farming instead of 'jhum' cultivation.

Tribals in the northeastern states practise 'jhum' or slash-and-burn cultivation.

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Tribals constitute 27 per cent of northeast's 45.58 million people.

Lal Thanhawla said that NEDP had earned praise from various quarters of society and the people have a lot of hope and aspiration from the new policy.

The Mizoram government would launch Chief Minister's Rural Housing Scheme to improve habitations of the economically weaker sections of the society in rural areas.

The meeting on Tuesday also stressed upon the need to develop private-public partnerships with interested individuals or groups for adding value addition to various agricultural, horticultural and other produce.

The chief minister said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was recently signed between the Mizoram government and the Tata Trust wherein the latter would contribute Rs

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As long as India’s oil demand is driven by mopeds, it will not be the new China neW Delhi, July 13 (ReuteRS): Sanjay Kumar is beaming with joy.

The 23-year-old has just bought a used motor scooter, his first, for 30,000 rupees ($445), after years of saving together with his mother.

He says the Maestro Scooter by Indian motorbike maker Hero will let him ferry his mother for shopping trips as well as navigate New Delhi’s chaotic roads between parttime jobs.

“We never had the kind of income to buy a vehicle.

Now I can take my mother on my bike for local shopping, and work otherwise.

I can easily cut down on my travel time and avoid congestions by using my scooter,” he said.

Sanjay is one of millions of new motor scooter riders who have helped push the pace of India’s oil demand growth well past China’s.

Yet as long as this growth is driven by mopeds, not cars, the oil industry’s hopes that India will become a pillar of oil demand to match the giant

Motorists wait for their turn to fill petrol at a gas station in Lucknow. (REUTERS File Photo)

Chinese market are set to be disappointed.

India’s thirst for gasoline - the fuel most used by passenger vehicles - has soared 12.6 percent in the first six months of the year from 2015, growing at more than double the pace of China.

However, its overall gasoline consumption at around 544,000 barrels

per day is less than a fifth of China’s 2.8 million bpd.

At the core of India’s fuel consumption growth are small motorbikes.

Some 16.5 million new units were sold in 2015/16, according to industry and manufacturing data, up from 11.8 million in 2010/2011, making it the world’s second biggest

sales market after China, which sold 24.6 million motorbikes last year.

New motorbike sales in India are expected to reach 19 million by 2018, said Roy Kurian, vice president for sales and marketing at Yamaha Motor India Sales.

NO NEW CHINA But while India is catch-

ing China in motorbike sales, it lags far behind in cars, which use more petrol per journey.

Modern motorbikes have a fuel efficiency of over 100 miles per gallon (mpg). Older models may only reach around 50 mpg, but that’s still about twice as efficient as most cars.

Sales of new fourwheeled passenger vehicles in China hit almost 25 million last year, double the volume in 2010.

India’s car sales are measly by comparison.

New passenger vehicle sales have stagnated below 3 million a year since 2010.

Monthly sales of less than 215,000 are well below their historic peak of just over 300,000 half a decade ago.

India’s poor roads and choked cities favour bikes over cars, but the most important factor is price.

India’s average monthly salary of around $120 remains far below China’s average of over $9,000, making motorbikes the default choice for the swelling number of young commut-

ers.

Small motorized twowheelers cost 25,000 rupees to 50,000 rupees ($370 to $750) compared with 200,000 rupees to 500,000 rupees ($3,000 to $7,500) for the cheapest new cars.

India-based credit rating agency ICRA says the income levels of average Indians have risen 8-9 percent a year for the past five years. In a population where 65 percent of people are under 35, and where financing options are improving, this has supported the two-wheeler market.

“Commuting is a basic necessity, (but) in metropolitan areas and cities we have a public transport system that is not good enough,” said Yamaha’s Kurian.

“Two-wheelers have become an automatic choice because of the traffic chaos and parking issues in almost every city,” he said, adding that a lack of public transport and poor roads outside cities were also boosting sales in rural India.

10 lakh bankers to strike on July 29 Chennai, July 13 (ianS): Around 10 lakh bankers across the country are expected to go on a strike on July 29 to oppose the government policies related to the banking industry, a top leader of All India Bank Employees’s Association (AIBEA) has said.

At the call of United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) consisting of nine unions with an employee membership of around 10 lakh workers and officials, the bankers would go on a strike opposing the anti-people banking reform policies of the central government, C.H. Venkatachalam, General Secretary, AIBEA, said on Tuesday.

The employees of public sector banks, old private banks, regional rural banks, foreign banks and co-operative banks will participate in the strike, he said in a statement.

He said the notice for the strike was served to the Indian Banks’ Association on Tuesday by the UFBU.

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Soon, solar powered Pay less for flight ticket cancellations from August 1 (DGCA) has also made it from August 1, according to the Civil micro ATMs in rural areas ‘To ensure more trans- Aviation clear that airlines cannot levy addi- Aviation Requirement (CAR) issued ahmeDabaD, July 13 (agenCieS): Indian villages may soon be equipped with solar powered V-Set connected micro ATMs. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) will be providing funds to resolve power supply and Internet connectivity in villages and remote areas for bank correspondents (BCs) of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) and regional rural banks (RRBs).

Deputy Managing Director of Nabard, H R Dave, said: “Many villages face power shortage and lack Internet connectivity. With the support of technology we have decided to provide solar powered V-Set connected micro ATMs in those areas to provide basic banking facilities in remote villages.”

According to Nabard, by end of December, 2016, about 5,000 such micro ATMs will be operational across India for which Nabard will fund about Rs 250 crore to the SCBs and RRBs. This will benefit over 2.5 million people living in villages, who will gain access to basic banking facilities without any interruption.

Subrata Gupta, deputy general manager of Nabard said: “So far, we have received over 4,000 proposals for such sets from various stats SCBs and RRBs across India.

Installation will soon start and by end of December 2016, wherein we are expecting to install nearly 5,000 sets.”

parency, carriers would be required to indicate the refund amount in case of ticket cancellations’

neW Delhi, July 13 (Pti): Fliers will soon have a reason to smile as the revised norms that caps ticket cancellation charges and bars airlines from levying additional amount for refund process are coming into force from August 1.

Besides, carriers would have to indicate in an “unambiguous manner” the amount of refund admissible on cancellation of a ticket.

“Under no circumstances, the airline shall levy cancellation charge more than the basic fare plus fuel surcharge,” aviation regulator DGCA said.

The Directorate General of Civil

tional charge to process the refund.

The move would come as a relief to air passengers against the backdrop of many carriers hiking the cancellation charges in recent times.

Coming out with the fresh set of rules, the watchdog said carriers should refund all statutory taxes and User Development Fee (UDF)/ Airport Development Fee (ADF)/ Passenger Service Fee (PSF) to the passengers in case of “cancellation/ non-utilisation of tickets/no show”.

“This provision shall also be applicable for all types of fares offered including promos/special fares and where the basic fare is non-refundable,” the DGCA said.

The changes were first proposed by the Civil Aviation Ministry in June as part of putting in place passenger friendly measures.

These norms would be effective

Pokemon Go raises users’ l e i s u r e CROSSWORD # 3653 security, safety concerns neW Delhi, July 13 (ianS): The newly-launched augmented reality (AR) game Pokemon Go poses a great data security threat to users as the app gets “full access” to their Google account, allowing the gaming company to read all emails, a new report said on Wednesday.

According to security software company Trend Micro, for some users of iPhones, signing into the game with the most convenient option -- using your Google account -- allows the gaming company to read your emails.

“Other risks this game exposes are physical risks to actual life and limb,” the report said.

While enjoying the game, the user is exposed to many threats and introduces whole new categories of life risks.

Firstly, Pokemon Go’s real-world gameplay has been linked to armed robberies as criminals have used the game to locate and lure intended targets.

Secondly, there are reports of trespassing as enthusiastic players try to “find” and “capture” creatures on others’ property. In the US, gamers trespassing on others’ property face a real threat of physical harm from property owners who may use force to protect their property.

“And of course, there’s the risk of injury or death from not paying attention to your surroundings as you play the game,” the report added. Thirdly, the users can meet an accident while they are indulged in gaming.

The game requires users’ full attention immediately to the exclusion of all else. Although, there is a warning each time you start the game to be sure to pay attention but that warning is quickly overlooked.

In the US, where the game is very popular, police departments and safety agencies have warned players of Pokemon Go to stay safe and alert as hysteria over the popular mobile game swells. Since launch, the game has topped 7.5 million downloads and pulled in an average of $1.6 million a day in revenue, according to estimates from research firm SensorTower.

“Agencies have urged players to stay aware of their surroundings and be careful,” USA Today reported.

This is how the game works. It uses the GPS capabilities of your device in conjunction with Google Maps to “place” creatures in real world locations, which you then try to find them using your device as a guide.

Once you are in proximity to the “placed” creature, you then use your device’s camera to “view” the creature and try to “capture” it.

“This works with you using your device as a viewer to ‘see’ the creature near you by looking at an image from the camera with the creature superimposed on it. You then ‘capture’ the creature for points by throwing Poké Balls at it on the device’s screen,” Trend Micro stated.

The Pokemon Go is available on Google Playstore and Apple’s App Store in the US, Japan and Australia, Philippines, New Zealand and is coming soon in India, Singapore, Germany, Taiwan, Indonesia and Britain. However, a mirror file is available on the internet and people in India are already downloading the game from insecured sources.

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Also, the policy and amount of refund shall be displayed by the airlines on their respective websites, DGCA noted.

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THURSdAY 14•07•2016

NAGALAND

NSCN (IM) condemns NIA’s actions DimaPur, July 13 (mExN): The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN–IM) has condemned the actions of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Government of India (GoI), in attempting to summon its leaders to Indian courts.

In the 19 years of ceasefire, recalled the MIP of the NSCN (IM) in a press release today, “the political talks between the GoI and the Nagas represented by NSCN where both the parties are giving their best efforts to come to its logical conclusion at the earliest time possible, it is disheartening to note that NIA had been playing a spoiled brat by going against the princi-

ple and the spirit of ceasefire agreed ground rules and the peace process.”

It noted that on several occasions NIA has summoned NSCN (IM) leaders to “their Court to which we have clearly made our point that we are not in a position to comply because legal entanglements must not come in the way of solution.”

The NSCN (IM) brought this up in the context of the “undue questioning” of Kishore Jeedung, a Steering Committee Member of the group on July 12 at 1:00 pm at his residence at Dhansiripar, Dimapur, by the NIA. It informed that the team was led by one Dy. SP from Assam Branch who

came along with other staff and with three Nagaland Police Personnel. They asked many personal questions as well as on matters concerning his service as a National Worker; “even though he was not physically harassed but nevertheless, it is mentally quite disturbing. The purpose of their visiting was not disclosed,” informed the press note.

The NSCN (IM) took this opportunity to remind that through more than 70 years of armed conflict in the Nagalim, “there are thousands of human rights violation of the Nagas committed by the Indian Army and the Indian leaders alike.” It asserted

that if the NIA is justified to summon, interrogate, investigate or question any of the Naga Nationalists, then the Nagas also have traditional customary Courts that can, in much the same way, start summoning Indian Army personnel and Indian Agencies.

“If that were to happen it will certainly hamper the ongoing Indo-Naga political talks,” stated the political group. Therefore, the NSCN (IM) ‘strongly advised’ the NIA and the Assam Rifles not to “further indulge in illegal raid, abduction, summon, investigation etc. so that, the larger objective of achieving political solution is arrived at sooner than later.”

KU resolves conflict between NSCN (R) and F&CS dept Mon DimaPur, July 13 (mExN): The Konyak Union (KU) intervened on the conflict of interest arising between NSCN (R) and the Food and Civil Supplies Department (F&CS) over the alleged illegal storage of PDS rice in Mon town.

Recognizing the matter as concerning the welfare of the public, the KU in a press statement today said it was compelled to invite both the parties for thorough justification and deliberation on July 11 at Mon Town.

Highlighting the outcome of the meeting, the KU said it acknowledged the stand of the NSCN (R) on its motive behind the act, which was in delivering social justice for the poor.

It also acknowledged the justification statement made by the NSCN (R) on the sanctity of its ceasefire monitoring office. No baseless or defamatory accusation should be leveled against the government in future, the KU cautioned.

The KU also established that the

rented F&CS storage was official and not illegal as alleged.

Following the findings from both the parties, the KU resolved the following points for general understanding and peaceful co-existence.

It appreciated the good gesture shown by the NSCN (R) for returning the seized commodities back for the public through proper channel. It however appealed to the NSCN (R) to issue its directives/code of conduct to its military and civil official to abstain/refrain from any illegal and immoral activities within Konyak soil.

The KU also appealed to the F&CS department to implement all schemes judiciously to deliver justice to the poor Konyak public.

It has therefore directed both the parties to immediately withdraw all forms of complaints and in reflection to this resolved issue, no afterward incidences should arise in future.

Naga officer inducted into IFS DimaPur, July 13 (mExN): Along with 44 officers serving in the Ministry of External Affairs, one Naga officer has been inducted into the Indian Foreign Service. The Naga officer, Aliawati Longkumer, son of Late N.T Longkumer entered service as an Assistant in the Ministry of External Affairs through the Staff Selection Commission. Longkumer, in addition to postings in New Delhi in various capacities has served as Assistant in Doha (Qatar), Attache in the Commission of India, Suva (Fiji) Attache in the Consulate General of India, Frankfurt (Germany) and Second Secretary in the Embassy of India, Guatemala City (Gautemala). He was recently back-posted to New Delhi in March 2016 and is currently serving in the UNP Division in the Ministry of External Affairs.

List of land acquired by Government of Yemhi Memorial College celebrates first Graduation Day YMC established in memJuly 13 Nagaland (district wise) from 2006-2015 DimaPur, ory of Lt. Rev. Yemhi, who (mExN): Yemhi Memorial Sl. No

District

Numbers of Land Requisitioned

Numbers of Payment Made

Numbers of Payment Yet To Be Paid

Total Amount Paid In Rupees

1

Kohima

69

42

27

16,58,59,821

2

Dimapur

59

56

3

275,23,60,645

3

Mokokchung

44

10

34

4,82,82,180

4

Wokha

32

7

25

1,40,11,328

5

Zunheboto

22

8

14

3,04,21,600

6

Kiphire

14

5

9

2,38,81,290

7

Phek

9

9

Nil

2,37,38,189

8

Longleng

7

4

3

1,07,98,621

9

Peren

6

6

NIl

9,42,55,600

10

Mon

6

4

2

1,00,78,511

11

Tuensang

3

3

Nil

78,15,124

12

Shillong

2

2

Nil

2,28,32,000

Grand Total

: Rs. 320,43,34,909/-

Source: RTI response

College (YMC), Dimapur celebrated its 3rd Foundation Day cum 1st Graduation Day on July 11 at the college premises with Rev. Vitoshe Swu, Senior Pastor, Sumi Baptist Church Dimapur as special guest.

Speaking on the occasion, Joshua Sumi, Chairman, Managing Board YMC, told the graduates nothing in this world is free and that success comes with a price - the price in the form of hard labour and proper utilization of time.

He also asked them to have faith in oneself, a press release from YMC principal, Makan Chetia informed.

Rev. Vitoshe Swu encouraged the students while sharing his thoughts on what is happening in

First graduates of Yemhi Memorial College during the 3rd Foundation Day cum 1st Graduation Day of the college on July 11.

the society today. Stressing on the problems and challenges that the society is facing, Rev. Vitoshe maintained he does not want the

Pughoboto SdPdB ADC Pughoboto & Vice Chairperson SDPDB, Avelu Ruho has informed all the SDPDB members that the monthly meeting of the board will be held at Pughoboto customary court hall on July 15. The members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

There will be a general meeting of all the government Primary Teachers of Mokokchung district on July 16, 10:00 am at Penli ward community hall, Mokokchung. Therefore, all the Primary Teachers of all categories (state sanctioned posts, SSA, regular, adhoc) have been informed to attend the meeting positively.

naga Council dimapur All councilors of the Naga Council Dimapur have been informed that there will be an emergency meeting on July 16, 11:00 am at the office of Naga Council Dimapur. They have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

BJYm nagaland The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Nagaland state unit has convened a meeting at BJP State office in Dimapur on July 16 at 2:00 pm. Therefore, all the State office bearers and cells members have been informed to attend the meeting positively.

AnHTu Kohima unit The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers’ Union (ANHTU), Kohima unit has convened an executive meeting on July 22, 11:00 am at Rengma Hoho hall, Tseminyu.

A press release from ANHTU Kohima unit Info & Publicity Secretary, Nelson Yhokha has requested all the executive members and well wishers to attend the meeting without fail. Action will be taken against those executive members failing to attend the meeting, it added. For transportation and more information one can contact: Gen Secretary – 9089629973, Info Secretary – 9856171486.

Corrigendum Apropos the news item ‘Nagaland Govt spent more than 320cr on land acquisition from 20062015’ published on July 13, it has been corrected that Go Karting, Padum Pukhuri should be read as ‘Go karting, Dimapur’. A corrigendum from Hukavi T Yeputhomi, former president of Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) said that the Go Karting at Padum Pukhuri is solely owned by Toshi Longchari and family since 1980s and the family had opened Go Karting in 2002, and that it has never been sold to anybody or agencies including Government of Nagaland.

live with own hard work, and to exhibit the true value of education.

Principal of the college highlighted the history of

ACAUT to picket fuel outlets, F&CS office

Meetings & AppointMents

govt Primary Teachers mokokchung

graduates to be a part of the problems, but wants them to be healer of the problems. He also advised them to have dignity of labour, to

was the first among the Sumi Nagas to be ordained as Reverend in 1926. Lt. Rev. Yemhi’s love for Christ, education and concern towards the society led to his children establishing the college in 2013 in his memory to impart value education in the society, it was highlighted.

Also speaking on the occasion was M. Arangba, YMC Vice-Principal, who stressed on being useful to the society and excelling in everything good they (graduates) do.

Limanuksang, who was awarded the best graduate of YMC 1st Batch, also spoke of his experience in the college. He thanked God and YMC faculty for his success. .

Yeka Awomi and Vino Sumi were crowned Mr and Miss Freshers 2016 respectively of Cornerstone College, Dimapur on July 8. During the programme, the college principal, Sentisangla encouraged the students to have determination and inculcate values and characters to achieve success in life. She also exhorted the students to develop talent through discipline and hard work, utilize time, talent and strength to make the college one of the best educational institutions in Nagaland.

DimaPur, July 13 (mExN): The ACAUT Nagaland and concerned citizens will picket at several fuel outlets in different districts on July 14 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

The fuel outlets are Essar in Wokha (volunteer in-charge’s phone number - 8413843124); ZAPA in Phek (i/c 9612215757); K. Enterprise, Imphal road in Kohima (i/c 9436209438, 9436802130); Pherima (i/c 9089247803), Essar at 7th Mile (i/c 9862192364), NRL at 2 & half mile (i/c 8974761098), Essar, near West Police Station, Dimapur Town (i/c

District Level Science MMRVCF discusses issues Seminar in August of Mokokchung-Mariani road Kohima, July 13 (mExN): All the government and private schools under District Education Office, Kohima have been informed that the District Level Science Seminar 2016 on the topic, Pulses for Sustainable Food Security - Prospects and Challenges, will be held tentatively in the month of August. Students from class 8 to 10 are eligible for participation.

Interested participants have been reminded that that nothing other than PowerPoint presentation is recommended. Two best participants will be selected to represent the district at the State Level Science Seminar. Interested schools may submit name of participants on or before July 30 - one student from one school only. Exact date, time and venue shall be informed to all the schools after receiving the names of the participants. This was informed in a press release issued by Neizetuonuo, Deputy District Education Officer, Kohima.

moKoKchuNg, July 13 (mExN): The Mokokchung to Mariani Roadside Villagers Concern Forum (MMRVCF) held its first meeting at Care and Support Society office on July 13. It was attended by 12 village council chairmen and 23 active members.

According to a press release from MMRVCF, the meeting relayed that the forum had approached Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung and Executive Engineer, National Highway and apprised them of the depleting condition of the Mokokchung-Mariani road and advised for necessary action at the earliest.

The meeting also discussed and highlighted the problem of poor

maintenance of the road and requested the authority concerned to limit the plying of overloaded heavy vehicles on the same road.

For proper maintenance of drainage and safeguarding the stretch of road, village council chairmen were advised to maintain the roads which fall under their jurisdiction.

The meeting further nominated the following as office bearers of MMRVCF: Imchawati kichu (Chungtia) – Convener; Toshimeren (Japu) – Secretary; Temjenwapang (Mekuli) – Finance Secretary; Takuyuba (Advocate) – Legal Advisor. Twelve village council chairmen were nominated as Executive Members.

Animal rights organisation launches campaign against dog meat trade NEw DElhi, July 13 (PTi): Claiming that around 30 million dogs are killed annually for meat across Asia, an animal rights body today launched a campaign to end the "brutal and illegal" trade.

Humane Society International-India released a video showing gruesome killings of canines for meat in Nagaland and also shot off a letter to Chief Minister T R Zeliang urging his government to implement the existing ban on dog meat consumption.

The body said trade of dogs for human consumption is prevalent in Nagaland and a few other northeastern states despite the

practice being illegal.

It is estimated that more than 30,000 stray and stolen pets are smuggled every year and sold in live markets and beaten to death with wooden clubs.

"HSI/India has written to the Nagaland Chief Minister to urge the government to implement the existing ban on dog meat consumption, patrol trade routes and shut down markets. " The organisation launched an online petition calling on the authorities to enforce the dog meat ban immediately," it said.

The "disturbing" footage taken during visits to the local markets of Kohima and Di-

mapur show that the laws are being blatantly flouted with dogs packed in sacks with just their heads poking out, their mouth either stitched closed or bound tight with rope to keep them quiet, it said.

During transport and display in the markets, the animals are denied movement, food or water, before finally being clubbed to death, it said.

"In launching our campaign today, HSI-India is determined to end this trade, starting with working with the authorities to see that the ban is properly enforced," HSI-India Director N G Jayasimha said.

The campaign plans to

work closely with the government and law enforcement agencies in Assam and other neighbouring states of Nagaland to shut down the trade and spare the lives of thousands of dogs.

The body said across Asia an estimated 30 million dogs are killed annually for human consumption, with the trade most prevalent in China, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

The body said it is encouraged by reports that the Nagaland government has sent a letter to the municipal affairs department regarding a policy to stop the capture and slaughter of dogs.

8731809382), Essar at Duncan Bosti, between Church and DC junction (i/c 9856915353) under Dimapur districts.

Apart from the fuel outlets, there will be picketing outside the office of the Food & Civil Supplies Department, near DC court junction, Dimapur (i/c 9862588719) from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, according to a press release from Media Cell, ACAUT Nagaland All concerned citizens have been asked to contact the phone numbers given above of the respective volunteers in-charge of the fuel outlets/F&CS department for participation.

Vegetable shops asked to display rate chart Kohima, July 13 (mExN): As per the meeting of the district level price monitoring committee held on June 6 last, the local market rate of vegetables within the jurisdiction of Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has been notified.

All the vegetable shops have been directed to adhere to the revised market rates as notified. However, for business promotion, the traders are at the liberty to sell below the retail price, stated a press release received here. All shops should also display “rate chart” for the information of the customers. All such shops have also been directed to use only digital weighing machines.

Under no circumstances will the rate of vegetables be increased on the pretext of seasonal changes, unless after obtaining due approval from authority concerned, i.e.

KMC, the release said. Meanwhile, all wholesale dealers of vegetables are to submit a rate list every month to KMC office with effect from August 1, 2016.

Defaulters shall be penalized as per the provision of the Act, the release said, adding the order comes into force with immediate effect.

Sainik School Punglwa conducts quiz contest PErEN, July 13 (mExN): Inter house quiz competition was conducted at Sainik School Punglwa on July 12.

The quiz contest is one of the important annual co-curricular activities conducted with an objective of broadening the cadets’ horizon of knowledge and at the same time preparing them for appearing in UPSC, National Defence Academy examination, according to a press release received here from the school.

The event is also important as the position obtained in the quiz competition is added to the Cock House Trophy presented to the best house of the year.

A total of twelve cadets, having a team of two cadets each representing the six mother houses of the school, participated in the contest on July 12. The event had seven rounds consisting of Current Affairs, Literature, Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Audio, Visual and Rapid Fire rounds.

Saramati house represented by Cadet Ravi Kumar and Cadet Ngacho Yoka Heche emerged as winners and lifted the coveted trophy of the inter-house quiz competition 2016-17. Japfu House was adjudged the first runners up.

Gp Capt Sanjay Gaekwad, Principal, Sainik School Punglwa gave away the certificates and the trophy to the winners.

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IN FOCUS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 192

By Aheli moitra

Letter from a Legislator

D

ear Citizens, Greetings on behalf of 60 Legislators of the State!

As you know, we love you and swear by our bounden duty towards you; this has moved us to write directly to you for once.

We are afraid you have become far too impatient and unwise. You have been unable to see the consistent and just services we have been providing to you as a government ought to.

It has not gone unnoticed to us how more and more of you seem to be taking agitations on such, may we say frivolous, issues to the streets and newspapers in a manner most uncalled for.

To set the record straight, it’s a dog’s life for us. Not the one that sleeps all day and gets its food anyway—in fact, the one that works round the clock, toiling in the corridors of New Delhi to get you the basics you deserve in life. We fly to such places as Bangkok just to make sure HIV/AIDS does not become an epidemic back home. Foreign ‘exposure’ aside, we have to constantly prepare and give speeches (that we often do not even mean) in every part of the State, and sometimes even in neighbouring ones. Do you even know how hard it is to put on a mask everyday, day after day?

And do not go about thinking that we don’t read newspapers just because we called for austerity measures to stop subscribing to them on the state exchequer’s money (bless us). Now we are back to the subscriptions and we see what you’re doing!

What is all this talk of adulteration? If you have any idea of the Indian national political culture, you would know that adulteration—of oil, grain, milk, honey, liquor—is an essential feature of it. Hey, you are the ones who continue to take part in this political cycle to bring us back to power; we just adulterate and accumulate to pay you to do it. It is obvious to us that the system that exists (and yes, the system IS corruption. No further comments on this please) must continue to secure our future and yours. You help Us do this. Thank you for that (bless you).

But given all our denials, we must admit that we have made a dump yard of the education sector. We would like to pay teachers we hire but we need to take care of our salaries first.

How can we ask a teacher not to buy a job when they know we’re on a cut on every other project? Students have to learn our ways of life to survive. And what if teachers are not paid?

It always helps to have masses who are not educated on the sciences or do not understand their rights and democratic values. Using money meant for education to, say, fund our stays in luxury resorts to bring you no-questions-asked governance is a part of our bounden duty towards you.

And, seriously, women in political decision making? The rightful and customary place of the woman is in the kitchen from where she can make all our political choices—after all, what we eat defines who we are. Honestly, at times, even we are denied food at home. It is why we have no energy left to indulge ourselves in the Legislative Assembly. All the traffic regulations and media coverage of even our slight competencies gives us a sense of importance; we convene in all our glory to have tea, pass some laws (why do laws need discussion anyway?) and then get on with our lives. If we brought women into this picture, all the banter on important issues we will have in the Assembly would really destroy this 15 minutes of comfort and recess.

As you can tell from all this, we are completely equipped to formulate a vision for you. If we are given our rightful opportunity to just continue all that we have been doing for you, we can create an empowered future for us by 2030. And you, of course.

So let us join hands—let us accept that we are creating enough disturbance in our area to keep the funds rolling and status running, let us acknowledge that it is in our interest to keep the border problems burning, let us celebrate the blessings (cash brings land, resources and wealth) that festivals in our land bring, let us revel in the economy we create through bad roads, let us use our nationalism and religion to keep our precious 371-A-sovereignty intact.

Glory to our collective future!

Forever to stay, Your Loving Patriarch, Legislator This is a piece of fiction & does not relate to anyone in particular.

To comment, please write to moitramail@yahoo.com

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Ankit Sinha IANS

Films can start a dialogue, but cannot change society

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ilmmaker Leena Yadav's directorial "Parched" follows the lives of three ordinary women who begin to break free from centuries-old traditions in India, touching upon a "universal topic". She says movies can spark a dialogue on issues that matter, but can't alter the ways of society.

In an age where women-centric films like "Nil Battey Sannata" and "Angry Indian Goddesses" are being made in India, Yadav believes that the people's mentality is changing. "Films start a dialogue, but I don't think they can change society. Films can start a dialogue and dialogue is the beginning of change. We can't claim as filmmakers that we will change people. Even if a film makes five people think differently, then it's a big achievement. I know it's ('Parched') affecting people," Yadav told IANS. "Parched", which stars Radhika Apte, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Lehar Khan in key roles, will open the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival on Thursday. Backed by Ajay Devgn, the movie has garnered international acclaim.

Yadav, who has directed films like "Shabd" and "Teen Patti" in the past, said there's a need for distributors to support films that are not big-budget productions. "Distributors will say put them (films) out for the masses. Otherwise these films get labelled for the 'intelligentsia'. What is this intelligentsia? Films have an emotional language and everybody understands emotions. If a film made in a village in India is so widely appreciated in France then why not in India," she questioned.

She also made an appeal to stop labelling films. "Let's stop calling a film an art film or commercial film. At the end of the day even an art film has to make commerce, right? Why are these labels there? Just focus on content. Let's have variety. Let's have mindless entertainers too. Just give a completely different flavour to the audiences," Yadav said. "Now the audience is changing on a daily basis. The content has increased so much everywhere on the internet and television," she added. With the advent of online platforms like Netflix, films have got a much wider reach. Her film, she says, "is much more than gender". "It is about humanity, it is (a) universal (subject). It is very, very personal. It has been very different and overwhelming, and a very transformative film for most of us, for our personal selves," she said.

Although the film's premise is set in rural India, Yadav says that the issues that the women go through there are no different than in the cities. "When I was writing the film, these were revelations that happened with me. I had conversations in a village and then I came back to Mumbai and realised, 'Who am I fooling?' The same sh*t is happening here. We think we are more progressive. It is human tendency... we look for the problem elsewhere," Yadav asserted. She also slammed the perception that gender bias only happens in villages. "We have these misconceptions. We don't acknowledge that it's happening much more around us. As human beings I am saying even if it is happening in one part of the world, we are still responsible."

C O M M E N T A R Y

Larry Beck Fair Observer

When Anger Wins, We All lose

Political dysfunction is the most destructive component of failed governance in America’s version of democracy

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and seek common solutions to complex social and political problems. And this doesn’t even get to the economic ties that underpin European prosperity.

Yet for some reason, more Brits than not have let their “anger” trump good sense. Perhaps those who voted to leave the EU were so enchanted by the deluded dance with destiny of America’s Republican Party that they needed to try it out for themselves.

While protest voting can be a useful weapon in democracy’s flawed arsenal, it is best left to simple concepts with limited consequences. Those Brits who really didn’t like the EU could have protested effectively by boycotting German pretzels instead of cutting their kids off from easy access to German jobs and German education.

Regardless of how the UK’s independence from the EU ultimately turns out, it is likely that Britain will be the big loser in this one. It should be a really bad sign when protest voters wake up the next morning and want a do-over. (In this context, it is worth noting that many American Republicans seem to want a similar do-over from their presidential primary follies.)

merica is slowly coming to the climax of its painfully long presidential election process.

As usual, there is much talk about choices and little talk about the process for deciding which choices to make. With the present election cycle culminating in a choice between two candidates with a lot of negative baggage, it is even more essen- UP NEXT: AMERICA So it is now America’s turn to vote for something tial that voters take the time before voting to substancomplex and important. In the US, as in the UK, tively connect each candidate’s policy pronouncethere is a palpable disconnect between “anger” at ments to desired outcomes. political dysfunction and the public discourse required to seek solutions to complex problems. To LET BREXIT BE A LESSON TO US We have just been treated to the spectacle of the prevent protest at perceived governmental failures voters in the United Kingdom making a choice and from overwhelming good sense here in the upcomthen seemingly regretting that choice as soon as the ing presidential election, it is critical to ensure that consequences of the choice became obvious. This the sources of voter “anger” are defined in a way that can only happen when choices are made in a sub- connects voter expressions of anger to potential sostantive vacuum created by misinformation, irre- lutions to the problems underlying the anger.

Many in the American electorate, particularly sponsible rhetoric and, in this case, xenophobia.

As a bit of background for those of you wonder- on the far right, seem to blame their individual ills ing what the European Union (EU) is and why it is and the declining fortunes of their communities on important to America and should have been very im- unspecified immigrants and government interferportant to the Brits, let me fill you in on a few num- ence in their lives. It doesn’t seem to matter that the bers: 8.5 million battle dead in World War I and over vast majority of immigrants contribute to our com20 million battle dead in World War II, plus untold munities and that a functioning government can be millions of civilian deaths in Europe alone. The EU a significant part of the solution, particularly when has ended this carnage and the centuries of Europe- backed by community support.

It shouldn’t be necessary to point out, but 35 an carnage that preceded it.

The United States, relatively new to European years of right-wing denigration of government and carnage, entered late into World War I and World efforts to undermine the capacity to govern have War II. Even so, US participation in these wars came taken a huge toll on the institutions that have served America well. An often compromised and publicly at great cost to the nation.

So the EU does matter to both Europe and the fractious political class has only exacerbated the perUnited States if for no other reason than its collec- ception of dysfunction. Yet despite this, government tive will to peacefully address continental conflict employees go to work every day to do what most

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grew up believing that everyone was entitled to basic health care services.

It was only when I arrived in the Rakhine state’s township of Myebon that I realised how wrong I had been.

A serene township where villagers live on fishing and rice cultivation, Myebon is only accessible by a two-hour boat trip along a network of meadowfringed rivers from the state capital of Sittwe. The natural beauty of the riverside settlement is however overshadowed by the presence of one of the country’s largest settlements for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)–the Taung Paw camp.

Created after the violent ethnic conflict in 2012, Taung Paw is home to more than 2 900 Rohingya people who sought shelter here after the clash between the Muslim minority and the Buddhist community. They are currently not allowed to leave the now dilapidated site without formal authorisation – a document that is not easy to come by since members of the religious minority are not recognised by the government as Burmese nationals.

“We are prohibited from venturing outside,” reveals Daw Phya Ma, a 32-year-old mother of four who has been living in the camp since 2012.

“There is a military checkpoint just in front of the camp to make sure this rule is respected.” This restriction is in place without exception, not even for cases of medical emergencies. In practice, this means that residents are deprived of access to health care and other basic government services.

“As far as I can recall, at least 20

people want them to do: try their best to use limited resources to meet public needs.

If you are angry about government failures, you should applaud when government works for you— when highways get repaired, the forest fires get controlled, relief workers show up with food and clothing, first responders respond and you successfully get your driver’s license renewed. And if you are angry when government meets the needs of others in your community with different priorities than yours, you are a huge part of the problem. It just might be that your streets will get plowed so others can get to the grocery store with their food stamps.

The real anger should be directed at political dysfunction. This is the most destructive component of failed governance in America’s version of democracy. Political dysfunction will not change if we change the government. It will only change if we change the politicians who let their personal interests block any chance of encouraging the collective conscience necessary to design and implement solutions that address anger and restore institutional confidence.

As each voter makes a choice in the upcoming election, it can only be hoped that clear thinking about the type of government that will address the complex issues confronting the nation will prevail.

Better governance will not result from restricting authority and under-funding critical functions.

REAL CHALLENGE Let it be noted for the record that I am angry too— about the absurd proliferation of firearms, about hungry children here and abroad, about the failure to put labor to work repairing crumbling infrastructure, about the lack of universal access to health care and a lot more. But I know beyond a doubt that the real challenge is to get government working constructively to address these issues and the issues that make others angry, as well.

To meet this challenge, each of us has to think a little about the absurdity of America’s public discourse as this election nears. Think about this: You can’t be for gun control and against strong regulatory frameworks that meet public needs. And you can’t be against a government with the authority to restrict access to firearms and for a government with the authority to restrict women’s access to abortions.

I guess you can, but then government will not work to meet any needs. And anger will win.

This article is being republished with the permission of Fair Observer. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Fair Observer’s editorial policy. The original posting of this article can be viewed at: http://www.fairobserver. com/region/north_america/when-anger-wins-we-all-lose-32393/

Ensuring access to health care for ‘conflict victims’ in Rakhine State Mallika Panorat

Four years after one of the worst outbreaks of intercommunal violence engulfed Myanmar’s Rakhine state in June 2012, more than 140 000 mainly ethnic Rohingya individuals remain displaced and live in camps.

Government-imposed movement restrictions on Rohingya populations continue to bar them from accessing basic services, including health care.

The European Commission is providing funds to ensure that access to medical services remains in place for the victims of conflicts and for the most vulnerable communities in the affected townships. pregnant women have died in labour since we arrived here due to complicated referral procedures to other hospitals and other hardships,” adds Daw. This situation raises obvious humanitarian concerns about access to health care for the displaced people living in Rakhine, a state where deep-rooted ethnic polarisation prevails.

Thanks to funding from the European Commission, Relief International introducedahealth care project in several camps and remote villages across the coastal state to ensure that the victims of conflicts and the most vulnerable populations have access to basic health services. Within this programme, an in-camp clinic was opened in Taung Paw. Dr Aye Moht Moht is a 25-year-old physician from

Yangon and the camp’s only female doctor. She was invited to join the Relief International team as a practicing physician in the framework of a gender-sensitive approach to offer medical care to female patients with a specific focus on antenatal care for pregnant women. “Since I started working here, we have seen more and more female patients, especially pregnant women, coming to the clinic," explains Dr Moht in the bustling singlero o m c l i n i c.

"They are happy to see a female doctor because they feel more comfortable being physically examined or sharing their concerns with me."

Besides providing medical consultations, the team also refers patients to a more equipped health facility when needed. This process can make the

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difference between life and death in times of emergency, as Rohingya patients cannot access these facilities on their own. “On a December day last year, a 36-week pregnant woman came to the clinic saying she had persistent headaches and felt dizzy,” recalls Dr Moht. “After some tests, we realised that we needed to immediately request permission for an emergency referral to Sittwe Hospital.”

Dr Moht and her team continued to monitor the patient’s blood pressure throughout the night, until at sunrise a boat finally arrived to collect the woman. Upon reaching the hospital in Sittwe, the patient was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and low levels of amniotic fluid. The availability of more advanced medical equipment proved critical to save the lives of both mother and baby.

Back in the waiting room at the clinic, Daw Phya Ma is all praise for the medical staff looking after her. “It’s great that we can now come here and receive treatment,” she says. “Because of the restrictions on our freedom of movement outside the camp, we are completely dependent on this clinic.”

I leave Taung Paw camp with a flare of hope, knowing the necessary medical support for victims of conflicts is ensured despite all the obstacles that still exist. As we bid farewell Dr Moht tells me: "They are all my patients.”

The story was written by Mallika Panorat, Information and Communication Assistant for Asia-Pacific, European Commission's humanitarian aid department.

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The Battle for the Soul of Bangladesh The deadly attack on a bakery in Dhaka may have ties to ISIS, but its roots stretch deep into Bangladesh’s history

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he gruesome siege of a restaurant in Dhaka’s upmarket Gulshan area on Friday—an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS)— was a dramatic escalation of the low intensity jihadist threat Bangladesh has been facing over the past few years. Since 2013, jihadists in Bangladesh affiliated with a number of groups have targeted secularists, atheist and agnostic writers, religious minorities, and foreigners in individual attacks.

There is debate in the Western press as to what the attack on the Holey Artisan means, as it took place amid a global uptick in violence directed or inspired by ISIS. Some observers opine that the Dhaka attack is part of an effort by ISIS, having faced significant territorial losses, to assert itself internationally while also avoiding the ire of Sunni Muslims by sparing them from its attacks.

But there is, at this point, no clear indication of the extent to which the ISIS central leadership was involved in proposing and planning the attack, in which Muslims were largely let go by the six gunmen. The Islamic States’ news service ‘Amaq’ was the first to report that 20 hostages were killed by the terrorists. It also published images of the attackers taken before the attacks. So ISIS central was in direct or indirect communication with the terror cell that targeted Holey Artisan Bakery at some point during or preceding the attacks. It is possible that the ISIS central leadership was aware of the plot well in advance of its occurrence. But, for many reasons, we must resist the urge to reflexively make a direct connection between Dhaka and Raqqa.

One, the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery is the continuation of a pattern of jihadist activity that preceded the emergence of ISIS-linked groups in Bangladesh. Small jihadist cells pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda’s South Asia affiliate (AQIS) have targeted secular activists and bloggers in brutal hacking deaths beginning in 2014. The victims of Friday’s attack in Dhaka were also brutally hacked to death.

Two, while attacks by groups claiming linkage to ISIS in Bangladesh have veered from the al-Qaeda modus operandi, for example, by targeting ordinary religious minorities, the actual boundaries between al-Qaeda and ISIS-linked jihadist groups in Bangladesh are quite blurry. In some instances, individual jihadists have claimed affinity for both groups. We see similar confusion in Pakistan, where a May 2015 attack on Shia Muslims in Karachi has been linked by local security officials to both al-Qaeda and ISIS. Three, attacks on secularists and non-Muslim minorities go back to the birth of Bangladesh, which was born out of the bloody divorce between the two halves of Pakistan, a country founded on Muslim nationalism. During the course of the civil war between what was then West and East Pakistan, both Bengali intellectuals and Hindu civilians were attacked in a deliberate and organized fashion.

While the young, privileged, and educated men who perpetrated the Holey Artisan attack may have been inspired by the specter of a rising ISIS, the attack points toward a battle closer to home—a battle over the idea of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has never truly recovered from the trauma of 1971. The country’s ruling party, the Awami League (AL), was led by an East Pakistani and ethnic Bengali nationalist politician, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, who pushed initially for autonomy for the eastern half of Pakistan, and later for secession. But many in East Pakistan, especially those affiliated with the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, supported remaining within the Pakistani federation. They directly supported the Pakistan Army in its counter-insurrection campaign, often through violence, including the targeting of Bengali intellectuals and Hindus.

Mujib founded a secular state on the basis of ethnic nationalism and banned JI. Secularism, was, in fact, listed in Bangladesh’s original constitution as one of the country’s four founding pillars. But that clause was removed from Bangladesh’s constitution after a military coup in 1975 deposed Mujib. The military rulers who followed pivoted the country away from staunch secularism, modestly reincorporating some Islamic elements into its constitution and making Islam the country’s official religion.

Also, in 1975, JI reentered Bangladeshi politics following a military coup that deposed Sheikh Mujib.

Since returning to office in 2009, Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujib, has aggressively confronted both the opposition and their idea of Bangladesh. She has not only targeted Islamists, but also the center-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), moving the country toward a one-party state. Part of Hasina’s campaign has been readdressing the events of 1971 and reopening their wounds—punishing alleged perpetrators of war crimes, often through shoddy trials. Supported by secular activists, Sheikh Hasina has intensified her campaign against the JI in recent years. In December 2013, Dhaka executed Abdul Quader Mualla, a JI member and former parliamentarian. This year, the head of JI, Motiur Rehman Nizami, was also executed. He was accused by the Bangladeshi government of having served as the head of the

pro-Pakistan Al-Badr militia in the civil war. But he had subsequently served in parliament and was the head of JI Bangladesh at the time of his death.

With a rich linguistic tradition and cultural homogeneity, Bangladeshi nationalism is on solid ground. But the question of the role Islam should play in public life is still contested. Sheikh Hasina and her supporters have not only suppressed Islamist actors in her country, but she has also reinstated secularism as a pillar of the county in the constitution. And some of her supporters have proposed removing Islam as the state religion.

With the Islamists and their ideology under fierce attack, a campaign against non-Muslims and secular thinkers has renewed. With brute force, the jihadists are contesting the idea that Bangladesh can be a secular country based on ethnic nationalism, a country where Hindus and Muslims are part of the same nation. So, irrespective of whether and to what extent ISIS was involved in Friday’s attack, it was an event conceived and born in Dhaka, not Raqqa.

Hasina’s government, unfortunately, has been in a state of denial about the jihadist threat in Bangladesh, preferring to blame the political opposition. The country’s information minister blamed the BNP and JI this spring for recent attacks attributed to al-Qaeda and ISIS. Dhaka could be correct in its assessment that the reports of ISIS in Bangladesh are greatly exaggerated. The roots, motives, networks, and indeed, the style and methods of the violence are all local. But the continued targeting of the BNP and JI will only strengthen the hand of jihadist forces affiliated with AQ and ISIS. Bangladesh— which has remained immune from large-scale, complex terrorist attacks, in contrast to other South Asian states— may not be so fortunate in the future.

Arif Rafiq is a fellow at the Center for Global Policy (www.cgpolicy.org) and president of Vizier Consulting, LLC, which provides strategic guidance on political and security issues in the Middle East and South Asia.

Human Security a Must in a Chaotic, Confused World Baher Kamal

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he question is simple and the answer, short: does eating more mean being better nourished?… Not Necessarily!

On this, top United Nations agencies dealing with food and health have set a clear definition: food security implies access by all people at all times to the food needed for a healthy life, while nutrition security means not only access to adequate diet, but also to essential health services, safe water and sanitation, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

But simple as it is, this equation is too often neglected. Why? An answer can probably be found in a recent statement

by Shinichi Kitaoka, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is in charge of executing Japan’s Official development Assistance to more than 120 developing countries.

“The modern world is becoming increasingly chaotic. Problems related to conflict, extremism, poverty, disparities, infectious diseases and natural disasters are threatening the lives and dignity of many people across national borders and around the world,” he said. Then he highlighted “human security” as one of the world’s top priorities.

But what does food and nutrition have to do with all this?

Take the case of Africa as one of the most impacted continents by violence and catastrophes.

On the one hand, “human security” is strongly linked to food and nutrition security. In fact, on-going man-made disasters—such as armed conflicts and climate change—are the very direct cause of the current, unprecedented levels of human suffering. The United Nations estimates that the number of refugees, migrants and forcibly displaced at home has now hit allhigh record: 160 million worldwide.

On the other hand, the African continent, which is home to nearly 1,2 billion

inhabitants in 54 countries, has been suffering the impact of the meteorological phoneme know as “El Niño”, which has caused droughts and floods that has devastated harvests and livestock.

El Niño is the term used to describe the warming of the central to eastern tropical Pacific that occurs, on average, every three to seven years. It raises sea surface temperatures and impacts weather systems around the globe so that some places receive more rain while others receive none at all, often in a reversal of their usual weather pattern.

The lack of food and nutrition security and how to mitigate it, will be on the table of the JICA promoted Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-VI) on August 27-28 in Nairobi. This will be the first time TICAD is held in Africa since its inception in 1993.

The conference, which is expected to attract over 6,000 participants from Africa and Japan and various international organisations, will discuss the so-called Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA). Health, water and sanitation will be top on TICAD VI’s agenda, along with industrialisation and social stability.

No wonder—according to a FAO and WHO report, Africa is one of most critically in need of nutrition development. Not only: nearly 30 per cent of worlds’ undernourished populations live in Africa.

IFNA aims at strengthening collaboration with African governments and stakeholders, to “eradicate malnutrition in Africa” with emphasis on a practical and people-centred approach.

The Initiative, which was announced on April 29 at the FAO meeting of the Working Group on Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security, also aims at accelerating the implementation of African food and nutrition policies in alliance with civil society, private corporates, international organisations, and development aid agencies, among others.

In 2015, the international community agreed upon the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a United Nations

summit and took a first step toward realising a world in which no one is left out of the benefits of development. According to Kitaoka, the philosophy of “human security,” which Japan has advocated, is incorporated throughout the SDGs. In the view of development aid experts, IFNA is a “win-win” deal.

In fact, while the continent benefits from IFNA, for Japan, which largely depends upon its relationships with the rest of the world, it is a matter of national interest for the world to be peaceful, stable and prosperous,” said JICA chief. “If Japan can put its experience and expertise to work for world poverty reduction and economic growth, Japan’s presence will grow.”

Shinichi Kitaoka went on to say that JICA believes it is important to promote international cooperation that contributes to Japan’s own growth and development by implementing development cooperation that encompasses various actors, including the Japanese government, local governments, private companies, civil society, universities and research institutes.

For this, JICA will work to strengthen the strategic aspect and comprehensiveness of its cooperation, he announced: “Specifically, we will mainly develop the following themes based on the 2015 Development Cooperation Charter: 1) quality growth and mitigating disparities, 2) promoting peace-building and the sharing of universal values, 3) strengthening operational engagement on global issues and the international aid agenda, 4) expanding and deepening strategic partnerships, and 5) On this, increasing agricultural production and productivity on a sustainable basis are effective tools in reducing hunger and malnutrition through food and nutrition security and essential for poverty reduction and sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

In the specific case of Africa, ensuring food and nutrition security appear to be a must.

According to European Union-UN Children Fund (UNICEF) action plan, in

Sub-Saharan Africa, 54 million children under five years of age are suffering from chronic malnutrition. And more than a third of children under 5 years of age in Africa are stunted.

“This is a silent emergency with devastating and far-reaching effects, which is robbing millions of children of their full potential for growth and development”, EU-UNICEF say.

For its part, the Office of Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) confirms the fact that many African countries have sustained high growth rates for a decade, even weathering the global financial crisis of 2008 in impressive fashion.

“However, Africa still faces various economic challenges; accelerate the pace of poverty reduction, narrow income gaps, create decent jobs, especially for youth, build infrastructure, and promote regional integration.”

OSAA is one of the five co-organisers of TICAD, along with the Government of Japan, the African Union Commission (AUC), the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Meanwhile, the African industrialisation process will be also high on TICAD VI agenda.

But why exactly does Africa need industrialisation now? “First: To accelerate the pace of poverty reduction and narrow income gaps by increasing labour productivity,” Kitaoka answers.

The second aspect is to create more decent and productive jobs, especially for youth.

The fact is that Africa needs to meet growing demand for youth employment, with 18 million new jobs to be created every year in Africa from 2010 to 2035, the International Monetary Fund estimates.

There are few sectors outside labour-intensive manufacturing that have been capable of absorbing such large numbers of would-be workers, it says.

The third aspect, according to JICA’s chief, is to mitigate the impact of external economic shocks, such as sharp declines in the prices of oil and other commodities.

eople have been grappling with the thorny interface between money and values for centuries. One such person was Jesus, when he kicked some moneychangers out of a temple premise because they were making money with no consideration of any ethical value or spiritual sense.

Since then, arguments about how far our pursuit for money should be allowed to influence our lives have been contentiously going on.

There are those who see no wrong in separating their financial choices from their social or moral values. And they will tell you, “Don’t mix money with your ethics. Your ethical meddling will only spoil your bottom-line profits and even mess up the efficient functioning of the market.”

As such, people with this kind of mindset have no problems investing their money in any kind of business as long as it can generate a lot of money. For them, there is no such thing as social responsibility or ethics in their investing. No wonder we sometimes come across environmentalists owning stocks in some of the worst pollution-generating companies, health practitioners investing in tobacco-related products, and evangelical Christians holding a “sinful” portfolio in some shady business firms. Granted, many times they aren’t even aware of these contradictions. But the real question is: Could anyone shrug off his or her social responsibility and simply say, “business is business?” At the wider level, we see similar attitudes or practices with many big corporations, which are all about profit---corporate greed---even if it comes at the cost of harming innocent people.

What, then, is value-based investing? The Quakers, for example, are often credited in American history as the first socially responsible investors. These devout Christians in the 16th century believed that their business practices needed to be consistent with their value system. As one example, they refused to invest in slave trade because it clashed with their belief in the equality of all peoples before God. Of course, many indigenous peoples have long histories of social responsibilities. Even tribal capitalists were not business predators and investors who cared only for their own selfish interests. Their business dealings transcended the constraints of barter. They were the feast givers. Their capitalism began not with taking but giving, sharing their wealth and resources with their community members. Thus, in their own way, they were valuebased investors who recognized that, at the core, business arose as a means for them to serve others, while it also improved their status.

As human economies have grown more complex, the ethical questions surrounding business and investing have posed greater challenges to us today than ever before. But there’s also a gradual awakening of valuebased investing as more and more people are seeking ways to align their economic interests with their social responsibilities. In other words, people are increasingly upholding their social and environmental values while making a lot of money at the same time. Thus, they are bringing values back into economics.

Especially those born after the 1990s are now acutely concerned about the social imbalances and environmental degradations caused by unbridled greed for personal gain. This generation is leading the way to reintegrate economics with core human values. As a result, even politicians are slowly learning to work within the halls of power by paying attention to the ways in which money is directed. Many advanced countries, for example, are already developing their own unique forms of value-based investing. As in developing countries, some governments are providing loans to enterprises that are committed to alleviating poverty or serving the common good.

To understand the significance of these interconnected dynamics, let’s imagine global economics as a living entity such as your body. Think what would happen to you if certain parts in your body were mined as “raw materials” for production or sale. If that were to happen, how long could you survive, even though your blood cells are still plenty in other parts of your body? Of course, you can’t survive long because every part in your body makes up the whole and all of them are interconnected. And yet, we destroy nature this way for the sake of selfish gain. We treat our environment as mines and dumps; we take what we want from the earth and create waste.

As a result, nature’s life-support capabilities gets threatened.

Now, as it relates to investing, it is irresponsible to focus only on our profits … with little or no regard for our social and environmental costs. Put it another way, value-based investing calls for a balance in everything, because no venture is sustainable unless the social and environmental aspects are also given their due consideration.

To sum it up, every investment or business has a social and environmental dimension. Therefore, we should apply ethical standards to our investing and businesses.

By bringing life-changing values back into the center of our economic lives, we can make the world a better place for all, while creating clean wealth for ourselves.

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NATION Briefs Govt allows oil cos to raise kerosene price by 25p/month new Delhi, July 13 (PTi): Government has allowed state-owned oil companies to raise the price of kerosene by 25 paise a litre each month for 10 months to cut the subsidy burden. On July 1, kerosene price was hiked by 25 paise a litre, the first increase in rate of the highly subsidised cooking and lighting fuel in five years.

"Petroleum Ministry has conveyed to oil marketing companies to raise kerosene price by 25 paise every month till April 2017," a senior official said. The first increase has been notified by the oil companies but the rates have so far no reflected in the price of kerosene sold through public distribution system (PDS). It will happen after state governments concur.

5 arrested for beating up Dalits ahMeDabaD, July 13 (ianS): With more arrests on Wednesday, five persons have been rounded up so far on charges of beating up four Dalit youths who skinned a dead cow in Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat.

The five include Pramodgiri Goswami, the self-styled president of Shiv Sena. Police said they were looking for one more person. Goswami and the others from a cow protection group brutally assaulted four Dalit youths in Mota Samadhiyala village on Monday.

The victims, members of a Dalit family involved in leather trading, were skinning the carcass of a cow brought from a neighbouring village.

Not caring to find out any details, the hefty attackers started beating up the frail boys with iron pipes they had carried. The Dalit youths were rushed to a hospital where the conditions of two of them was said to be critical. The police have booked the six attackers under sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 395 (loot) of the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Citizenship Rules for minority migrants eases new Delhi, July 13 (ianS): In a bid to ease the lives of the foreign minority migrants in India living on Long Term Visa (LTV), the Union cabinet on Wednesday amended Citizenship Rules 2009. "The Union Cabinet approved facilities being extended to persons from minority communities of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians staying on Long Term Visa (LTV) in India," an official statement said.

The move is aimed at easing out the difficulties being faced by foreign migrants. Now the foreign migrants living in the country on the LTV can open bank accounts, get PAN card, Aadhaar card and driving licence. It also allows the migrants to purchase property for self-occupation and suitable accommodation for carrying out self-employment.The government also clarified that the Collector or District Megistrate would be empowered to authorise an officer not below the rank of Sub-Divisional Magistrate for administering the oath of allegiance to the applicant.

One more key accused in Godhra train burning nabbed ahMeDabaD, July 13 (ianS): The Crime Branch of the Ahmedabad police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested one of the main accused in the 2002 Godhra train burning incident from Malegaon in neighbouring Maharashtra. This is the fifth such arrest in the last one year in the case where miscreants set one coach of the Sabarmati Express train on fire near Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, killing 59 people, most of whom were returning from Ayodhya.

The incident snowballed into a massive communal conflagration in the state that saw over 1,000 persons losing their lives in the violence.

Giving details of the arrest, Crime Branch officials said they had picked up Imran Batuk alias Sheru, who lived in Malegaon, reported to be involved in illegal sand mining. He was one of those responsible for the train burning.

In May, the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had arrested Farooq Bhana, also a key accused in the case.

India's coal mining ambition hurts indigenous group: Amnesty MuMbai, July 13 (ThoMSon reuTerS FounDaTion): India's drive to ramp up coal output to meet growing energy needs has resulted in members of the Adivasi tribe being displaced from their ancestral lands and forced to wait years to be resettled, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

The global human rights group said the Adivasi had suffered disproportionately from India's push for coal. One in six of the 87,000 Indians who have been displaced over the past 40 years by state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) is Adivasi, Amnesty said. Laws to protect vulnerable communities such as indigenous groups are poorly implemented and regularly flouted, it said.

"Adivasi communities, who traditionally have strong links to land and forests, have suffered disproportionately from development-induced displacement and environmental destruction in India," Amnesty said in a report. "The domestic Indian legal framework does not fully recognise the rights of indigenous peoples," it said.

Coal accounts for more than 60 percent of India's electricity capacity, and the government plans to nearly double annual coal output by 2020, opening a new mine nearly every month.

Many of India's coal reserves are located in the central and eastern states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha where more than a quarter of the country's Adivasi population lives.

Indian villagers walk towards the Mahan forest during a protest against a coal mining project in Singrauli district in Madhya Pradesh February 27, 2014. (REUTERS File Photo)

"Coal is essential for our national security and we have to go where the coal is," said N. Das, a chief general manager at Coal India, the country's top coal producer.

"We follow all the laws, work closely with the local communities, provide jobs, set up welfare initiatives and take steps to minimise the environmental impact of mining," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

SERIOUS IMPACTS Adivasis are among the most marginalised communities.

They make up about 8 percent of India's population of 1.2 bil-

lion, but about 40 percent of the 60 million people displaced by development projects in past decades, the government estimates.

Adivasis are routinely shut out of decisions on the acquisition of their lands for coal mines with many evicted, poorly compensated and made to wait years for resettlement, Amnesty said.

"The violations of their rights to consultation and consent -around land acquisition, environmental impacts, indigenous self-governance and the use of traditional lands -- has led to serious impacts on their lives and livelihoods," it said.

Acquisition of land for public-

sector coal mining is governed by the Coal Bearing Areas Acquisition and Development Act (1957), a law analysts say is antiquated and falls well short of international human rights law and standards.

A 2014 law on land acquisition for development projects aimed for greater transparency by requiring the consent of affected families, and a social impact assessment study. But the law exempts land acquired for publicsector coal mining. Amnesty said in some cases legal requirements were adhered to but carried out in a way that did not help Adivasi communities. For example, the

intent to acquire land for the Kusmunda mine in Chhattisgarh was announced in the official government gazette and in a newspaper, yet more than a third of the residents near the mine were not literate, Amnesty said.

An environmental impact assessment hearing was poorly publicised and monitored by security personnel, it said. "We've lived next to this mine for almost 30 years, and watched our wells go dry, forests disappear and fields become unproductive," Amnesty quoted a villager, Mahesh Mahant, as saying. "What is the point of this environmental public hearing, except to tell us that we're not fit to live here anymore?"

Amnesty also highlighted the environmental damage, soil erosion and pollution caused by coal mining in India, which is largely open cast.

Among the 10 cities with the most air pollution, four are in India, according to the World Health Organization, with the use of coal in power generation a leading source of pollution. "We should be looking at ways to increase the efficiency of existing mines, rather than open new mines," Sreedhar Ramamurthi at the non-profit Mines, Minerals & People, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "The very nature of coal mining is so harmful," he said. "We must ensure stringent compliance of laws and resolve the issues of rehabilitation and resettlement to mitigate the damage."

Breakdown of Guv-Govt communication unfortunate: SC After Bihar, Jharkhand College comes new Delhi, July 13 (PTi): Justice J S Khehar, said in his sep- may 'take the matter into his own under scrutiny over mass cheating hands and act freely.'

The President can and must in- arate verdict. tervene in case of a complete breakdown of communication between the Governor and the Council of Ministers, as seen in Arunachal Pradesh, to break the impasse and restore constitutional order, the Supreme Court said today.

However, such a situation would be "most unfortunate" and "detrimental" to democracy, Justice M B Lokur, who concurred with the judgement delivered by

In Arunachal Pradesh, he said there was a complete breakdown of communication between the Governor and the elected Government which led to an unsavory confrontation between them. "If there is a breakdown in communication between the Council of Ministers and the Governor, then the Governor will not have the benefit of the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers. In that event, the Governor

Justice Lokur, however, said "if such a situation were to arise today in independent India, namely, a break-down of communications between the Governor of a State and the Council of Ministers, it would be most unfortunate and detrimental to our democracy. In the unlikely event of a complete break-down of communications, the President can and must intervene to bring in constitutional order."

Union Cabinet approves skill training scheme new Delhi, July 13 (ianS): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) with an outlay of Rs 12,000 crore to impart skills to one crore people, which also includes providing fresh training to 60 lakh youths, over the next four years.

Among one crore people, 60 lakh will be given fresh training while 40 lakh who are already skilled without any formal training in any institution will be provided certificates under the scheme.

"This scheme will impart fresh training to 60 lakh youths and certify skills of 40 lakh persons acquired non-formally under the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)," an official statement said. "The

scheme would move to a grant-based model where the training and assessment cost would be directly reimbursed to training providers and assessment bodies in accordance with the common norms," the statement added.

In this scheme, the financial support to the trainees would be given in the form of travel allowance, boarding and lodging costs. Post-placement support would be given directly to the beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). "In addition to catering to domestic skill needs, PMKVY will also focus on skill training aligned to international standards for overseas employment in Gulf countries, Europe and other overseas destinations.

DhanbaD (JharkhanD) July 13 (ani): In what may come as an embarrassment for Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das, who recently fired a salvo at the neighbouring state of Bihar over the recent merit scam, an unflattering picture has come to the fore where the students of the R.S. More College in Dhanbad can be seen cheating during their Class 11 exams. Over 100 students were seen sitting close to each other and writing their Class 11 examination paper on July 9 using unfair means in the college campus.

"There is no space in the college, that's why we are sitting outside. All the seats have been occupied," said one of the examinees.

The college authorities claimed that there was not enough room in the campus to accommodate all the students.

"I cannot see anyone cheating.

The students are honestly giving their examination. The capacity of the college is not much. Two students should sit on one bench, but as of now 4 to 5 students have

to adjust on one bench. It is a congested place," said Manoranjan Gupta, the college professor.

The students were seen with bags and mobile phones during their examination. The professor, however, said that they are not allowed in the campus. Talking about the Bihar School Education Board (BSEB) scam, Das had earlier on June 27 said that students of the neighbouring state could save their career and credibility by studying in 'education hub' Jharkhand.

BSEB chief Lalkeshwar Singh and his wife were arrested in the Bihar merit scam along with several others.The matter came to light after the results of the Class 12 board examination were declared and television footage showed that a number of toppers were clueless about the subjects they topped. Ruby Rai, who topped the Arts section, said political science was about the art of cooking, while Science topper Saurabh Kumar could not answer the relation between water and H2O.

Kashmir: Struggle for normal life amid unrest

Several wounded children in hospital, some may lose sight

Wedding receptions cancelled Srinagar, July 13 (ianS) The weddings are still taking place, albeit quietly, in the Kashmir Valley. But invitations to wedding receptions have been cancelled en masse amid violence, curfews and shutdowns.

The violent explosion took place when the valley was about to witness the beginning of marriage season after a month of Ramadan fasting.

The situation has forced families to take back their wedding invitations.

Local Urdu and English newspapers are filled with advertisements of the cancellations of gala receptions.

"Due to prevailing circumstances, Dawat-e-Walima of my son Nayeem Rizwan being organised on Sunday is being cancelled. Family regrets the inconvenience caused," reads an ad in an Urdu daily.

The marriage ceremonies, however, are being done in an austere manner.

The Nikah ceremonies are taking place inside houses minus the guests as the movements of people have been restricted by security forces. The Nikah is done in the presence of the groom, the bride and two

witnesses.

The celebrations that would have followed, however, have been axed. "We cancelled the entire decoration plans for the house. Now the marriage will be done in a humble and low profile way," an anguished parent told IANS. Added Muhammad Sultan, a resident of Qamarwari locality: "I had invited at least 800 people for the Walima of my son who was to get married on Friday. Now I have cancelled the invitation because of the killings that occurred in the past week.

Another family said it cancelled a wedding reception as there was no way to arrange the stuff required for the feast.

The ongoing turmoil has also affected trade in the city which would have otherwise picked up due to the marriage season.

"We would make most profits this time (post Eid) when marriages are at peak. But the financial loss is not comparable to the loss of lives. So I have no regrets," Ghulam Muhammad, a spice trader in Khankah in Srinagar, told IANS. "My shop will remain closed till the killings stop," Muhammad added.

A woman walks past a closed shop painted with graffiti during a curfew in Srinagar on July 11, 2016. (REUTERS Photo)

Kashmir calm but tense as curfew, shutdown continue Srinagar, July 13 (ianS): The restive Kashmir Valley, battling the deadliest spell of violence in years, appeared calm but tense on Wednesday amid sporadic incidents of stone-pelting clashes even as large areas continued to be under strict curfew for the fifth day.

Two more persons wounded in street fighting in the past four

days died here early on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 36 in the violence triggered by the death of a top militant on July 8.

Life remained paralysed almost across the valley due to the restriction and separatist called shutdown. South Kashmir - the worst hit in the latest bout of unrest - was virtually cut off from the rest of the state amid snapped pri-

vate cellphone services and strict prohibitory orders.

However, the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) cellphone network was functional.

The Jammu-Srinagar highway was blocked due to continuous curfew. Private traffic to and from Srinagar on the highway is allowed only at night, officials said.

Srinagar, July 13 (ianS): Just 12 years old, Junaid lies in the surgical ward of a hospital here, with a bullet injury. He will survive, doctors say, but he might become impotent. "Junaid has been hit in his pelvic area which has damaged his genital organs. He may turn infertile," Kaiser Ahmad, head of the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Hospital, told IANS. Junaid could not speak to inquisitive journalists and his attendants looked too worried to talk.

The young boy, with no knowledge of Kashmir's complex politics, was on a road when he took a bullet fired by police. Admitted in the ophthalmology wards 7 and 8 of the SMHS are other children with pellet injuries.

"There are 10-15 children with pellet wounds in our hospital alone. We have operated on most of them," said Kaiser. The situation is no different at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) at Bemina in Srinagar. It has nearly a dozen children admitted with various injuries.

The children are among the hundreds who have suffered bullet or pellet wounds after security personnel opened fire at mobs protesting against the July 8 killing of a top militant, Burhan Wani. Those attending to the children insist that it was the indiscriminate firing by security personnel -- including paramilitary troops -- that has led to this crisis. They argue that even if some of the children may have been part of the street protests, should they have been treated so callously?

Communication remains cut off with the restive south Kashmir, which has been worst hit by the violence, a family which managed to find its way to Srinagar from south Kashmir has brought with them a six-year-old girl who they say got a pellet while playing inside her home.

"My daughter received the injury when she was inside the main gate of our house. It will be the most depressing period of her life," said her anguished mother Shameema.

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China vows to protect South China Sea sovereignty BeIJING/MANIlA, JUly 13 (ReUTeRs): China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air defence zone, after rejecting an international tribunal’s ruling denying its claims to the energy-rich waters.

Chinese state media called the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague a “puppet” of external forces after it ruled that China had breached the Philippines’ sovereign rights by endangering its ships and fishing and oil projects.

Beijing has repeatedly blamed the United States for stirring up trouble in the South China Sea, where its territorial claims overlap in parts with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.

“China will take all necessary measures to protect its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests,” the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily said in a front page commentary on Wednesday.

The case, covering a region that is home to one of the world’s busiest trade routes, has been seen as a test of China’s rising power and its economic and strategic rivalry with the United States.

Underscoring China’s rebuffing of the ruling,

state media said that two new airports in the Spratlys, on Mischief Reef and Subi Reef, both received test flights from civilian aircraft on Wednesday.

Beijing called the Philippines’ claims of sovereignty in the South China Sea “baseless” and an “act of bad faith”. In a government white paper published on Wednesday, China also said its fishing boats had been harassed and attacked by the Philippines around the disputed Spratly Islands.

“On whether China will set up an air defence zone over the South China Sea, what we have to make clear first is that China has the right to...

But whether we need one in the South China Sea depends on the level of threats we face,” Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters in Beijing, adding that China hoped to return to bilateral talks with Manila.

“We hope that other countries don’t use this opportunity to threaten China, and hope that other countries can work hard with China, meet us halfway, and maintain the South China Sea’s peace and stability and not turn the South China Sea in a source of war.”

U.S. officials have previously said they feared China may respond to the ruling by declaring an air defence identification zone

control of law enforcement.

“The greatest struggle for both countries will be to rein them in, preferably before they get to sea, lest they disrupt the delicate peace,” Stratfor said in a note.

In moves likely to antagonize Beijing, the coastguards of Japan and the Philippines took part in simulated rescue and medical response exercises off Manila Bay on Wednesday, part of what the two countries have called efforts to improve maritime security and combat crime and piracy.

Japan and China are involved in a separate territorial dispute in the East China Sea and Beijing has warned Tokyo against meddling in the South China Sea dispute.

PIVOT PRESSURE

A satellite image released by the Asian Maritime Transparency Initiative at Washington’s Center for Strategic and Beijing’s ambassador International Studies shows construction of possible radar tower facilities in the Spratly Islands in the disputed to the United States earlier South China Sea in this image released on February 23, 2016. (ReuteRs Photo/File)

in the South China Sea, as it did in the East China Sea in 2013, or by stepping up its building and fortification of artificial islands.

China’s Liu also took aim at the judges on the tribunal, saying that as not one of them was Asian they could not possibly understand the issue and it was unfair of them to try.

for “restraint and sobriety”, but the mood at President Rodrigo Duterte’s cabinet meeting on Wednesday was “upbeat”, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said.

Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he had spoken to U.S. counterpart Ash Carter ahead of the ruling who told him China had assured COMPLICATED, the United States it would UNCLEAR exercise restraint, and the The Philippines react- U.S. made the same assured cautiously to the ruling ance. Carter had sought late on Tuesday, calling and been given the same

assurance from the Philippines, Lorenzana added.

“The ruling can serve as a foundation on which we can start the process of negotiations which hopefully will eventually lead to the peaceful settlement of the maritime dispute in the South China Sea,” Charles Jose, a spokesman for the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs, said.

One of the lawyers who argued the Philippines’ case said how and when the country would enforce the tribunal’s ruling was

complicated.

“There’s no timeline for this game. It might have an extended period of gestation,” said Florin Ternal Hilbay, a former solicitor general. “I would assume our diplomats have read the decision and understand the complexities and consequences of enforcing the decision.”

Global intelligence firm Stratfor said fishermen from China or the Philippines were the greatest potential disruptors in the region, beyond the easy

blamed the rise in tension in the region on the United States’ “pivot” towards Asia in the past few years. Cui Tiankai said the arbitration case “will probably open the door of abusing arbitration procedures.

“It will certainly undermine and weaken the motivation of states to engage in negotiations and consultations for solving their disputes,” Cui said at a forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington.

“It will certainly intensify conflict and even confron-

tation.”

South Korea on Wednesday announced the planned location of a U.S. THAAD anti-missile defence unit against North Korea’s missile and nuclear threats, a system that has angered China and prompted a North Korean warning of retaliation.

President Barack Obama’s top Asia policy adviser, Daniel Kritenbrink, said the United States had no interest in stirring tensions in the South China Sea as a pretext for involvement in the region.

“We have an enduring interest in seeing territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific, including in the South China Sea, resolved peacefully, without coercion and in a manner that is consistent with international law,” Kritenbrink said at the same forum.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen boarded a navy frigate in southern Taiwan ahead of its departure for the South China Sea early on Wednesday, a regular patrol pushed forward due to the Hague decision, which Taipei rejected.

“This patrol mission is to show the determination of the Taiwan people to defend our national interest,” Tsai said from the warship.

China considers selfruled Taiwan a breakaway province to be united with the mainland eventually, and by force if necessary.

Embattled Nepal PM refuses to resign David Cameron bows out, Theresa May comes in

KATHMANDU, JUly 13 (ReUTeRs): Nepal’s Prime Minister refused to resign on Tuesday after the main Maoist party that had supported his coalition said it would try to form a new government, throwing the impoverished Himalayan country into renewed political uncertainty.

K.P. Oli, who came to power in October when the Maoists offered his party parliamentary backing to build a coalition, faces the prospect of a noconfidence vote if he cannot persuade other partners to stick with him.

“There is no need for the prime minister to resign. If there is a no-confidence vote against him in the parliament the prime minister will face it,” Oli’s press adviser Pramod Dahal told Reuters after meeting junior coalition partners.

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

Oli survived an earlier attempt by the Maoists to unseat him in May after he reached a power-

sharing deal.

The Maoists - who ended a decade-long insurgency in 2006 before joining mainstream politics - said on Tuesday that Oli and his communist UML party had broken promises made in May. They also accuse him of failing to resolve 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. If that were to happen, Oli’s fate would depend on the support of a number of smaller parties. Congress party officials were not immediately available for comment.

Commentator Lok Raj Baral said the move by the Maoists, traditionally a rural party, could force a noconfidence 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 said, referring to the Maoists and the Congress.

Oli is Nepal’s seventh prime minister since its 239-year old monarchy was abolished in 2008 and a new constitution adopted in September.

The passing of the constitution looked like a rare moment of political consensus among the main political parties, but protests soon followed.

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.

lONDON, JUly 13 (ReUTeRs): Outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron urged his successor Theresa May on Wednesday to keep Britain close to the European Union, even as she embarks on the monumental task of ending four decades of membership.

Cameron is stepping down after Britons rejected his entreaties and voted to leave the EU in a referendum last month, severely undermining European efforts to forge greater unity and creating economic uncertainty across the 28-nation bloc.

"My advice to my successor, who is a brilliant negotiator, is that we should try to be as close to the European Union as we can be for the benefits of trade, cooperation and of security," he told parliament in his last appearance before resigning.

"The Channel will not get any wider once we leave the European Union, and that is the relationship we should seek."

May, 59, must try to limit the damage to British trade and investment as she renegotiates the country's ties with its 27 EU partners. She must also attempt

to unite a divided ruling Conservative party and a fractured nation in which many, on the evidence of the vote, feel angry with the political elite and left behind by the forces of globalisation.

Despite the serious backdrop, there was an atmosphere of hilarity in parliament as Cameron traded humorous jabs with beleaguered opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

"This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. Other than one meeting this afternoon with Her Majesty the Queen, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably light," Cameron said to laughter in a packed House of Commons.

The 49-year-old was due to present his resignation to the queen at Buckingham Palace at around 1600 GMT. Then May will pay her own visit to the monarch to be formally entrusted with the job, before entering 10 Downing Street to become Britain's second woman prime minister after Margaret Thatcher.

Cameron said the government was working hard to ensure that an estimated

Theresa May speaks during her Conservative party leadership campaign at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Birmingham, Britain on July 11, 2016.

(Reuters/ Photo/ Andrew Yates/File)

3 million EU citizens can stay in Britain, but this would depend on reciprocal rights for Britons in Europe.

He took the opportunity to trumpet his government's achievements in generating one of the fastest growth rates among western economies, chopping the budget deficit, creating 2.5 million jobs and legalising gay marriage.

Yet his legacy will be overshadowed by his failed referendum gamble, which he had hoped would keep Britain at the heart of a reformed EU.

Next UN chief ballots to remain secret, despite televised debates UNITeD NATIONs, JUly 13 (ReUTeRs): Ten of the 12 candidates vying to be the next United Nations Secretary-General took part in live televised debates on Tuesday, a first for the world body, but attempts to bring unprecedented transparency to the race will not extend to the Security Council selection process.

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly has sought to lift a veil of secrecy that has surrounded the election of the U.N. chief for the past 70 years by requiring public nominations and holding campaignstyle town hall events with each candidate. That transparency extended to two debates - with five candidates in each group - in the General Assembly on Tuesday, which was broadcast live around the world on the Al Jazeera television network and on the U.N. website.

Candidates w ere pressed by the Al Jazeera hosts, and took questions

from the audience, on issues such as leadership style, climate change, the International Criminal Court, the civil war in Syria and the recent eruption of fighting in South Sudan, where U.N. peacekeepers are struggling to protect civilians.

However, when the 15-member Security Council starts holding informal secret ballots next week to choose a candidate to recommend to the General Assembly for election later this year, the results of those closed-door polls will not be made public.

Council members will be given a ballot for each candidate with the options of encourage, discourage and no opinion. The council will tally the ballots and inform the nominating states of the results for their candidate, but the overall results will not be made known to the public. Ultimately, the five nations that hold a veto on the security council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - have to agree on a

Candidates vying to be the next United Nations Secretary General debate in the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, New York on July 12 . (Reuters Photo)

candidate and there is no requirement for them to pay attention to the popularity of candidates with the General Assembly. The council hopes to agree on a candidate by October, diplomats say.

Since the power to authorize military force or sanctions lies with the Security Council, the U.N. chief has little more than a bully pulpit. Many diplomats say the veto powers prefer a “secretary” rather

than a “general”.

STRENGTH WANTED Yet Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said on Tuesday that the more transparent process, particularly the individual candidate town halls with the General Assembly, had shown most member states wanted a strong secretarygeneral. “That’s an emerging consensus which wouldn’t have been obvious without these changes

in the (selection) process.

I think it makes it harder for someone who isn’t that strong to be chosen,” Rycroft said.

The search for a successor to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - a former South Korean foreign minister who steps down at the end of 2016 after two five-year terms - has sparked a push by more than a quarter of the 193 U.N. states for the world body’s first female leader.

Discussion on the pos-

sibility of a female secretarygeneral and the role of women in the world body received enthusiastic applause during Tuesday’s debates.

Half the candidates so far are women: U.N. cultural organization UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of Bulgaria; former Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic; Moldova’s former Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman; former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who heads the U.N. Development Programme; Argentinian Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra; and former U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica. Also in the race are Montenegro Foreign Minister Igor Luksic; former Slovenian President Danilo Turk; former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, who is also a former Portuguese prime minister; former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic; former Macedonian Foreign Minister Srgjan Kerim; and Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak.

'OUR ANGELA MERKEL' May, who has been interior minister for six years, is seen by her supporters as a safe pair of hands to steer the country through the disruptive Brexit process. "I think around the cabinet table yesterday the feeling was that we have our Angela Merkel," said Jeremy Hunt, health secretary in Cameron's team which met for the last time on Tuesday."We have an incredibly tough, shrewd, determined and principled person to lead those negotiations for Britain," Hunt told Sky News television.

The new British leader is expected to immediately start putting together a new cabinet, a complex political balancing act in which she will try to satisfy opposing camps in her party.

Before the referendum, May had campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU, albeit in a low-key fashion.

Since the vote, she has repeatedly said that "Brexit means Brexit" and her backers say she is determined to make the exit a success.

"Of course Theresa is going to want to make sure she's got a balanced ticket that represents the views of different parts of the party," cabinet minister Chris Grayling, who campaigned for Brexit and managed May's leadership campaign, told BBC radio.

May has said she plans to set up a new government department to lead the process of quitting the EU which would be headed by someone who had campaigned on the Leave side.

"That's very sensible. It will ensure confidence among those in the party who did campaign to leave that they have a champion who believes in what they campaigned for," Grayling said.

Japan emperor intends to abdicate “in a few years” TOKyO, JUly 13 (ReUTeRs): Japanese Emperor Akihito intends to abdicate eventually, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday, a step unprecedented in modern Japan.

The 82-year-old monarch has spent much of his 27year reign working to heal the wounds of a war waged across Asia in his father’s name and helped bring the monarchy closer to ordinary citizens.

Akihito, who has had health problems in recent years, expressed his intention to the Imperial Household Agency, NHK said, adding he wanted to step down “in a few years”. It did not cite a reason.

Officials at the agency could not immediately be reached for comment.

Born in 1933, he was heir to Emperor Hirohito, in whose name Japan fought World War Two. His heir is Crown Prince Naruhito, 56.

Akihito marked the 70th anniversary of World War Two’s end with an expression of “deep remorse”, a

departure from his previous remarks seen by some as an effort to cement a legacy of pacifism under threat from conservative Japanese nationalists.

“Looking back at the past, together with deep remorse over the war, I pray that this tragedy of war will not be repeated and together with the people express my deep condolences for those who fell in battle and in the ravages of war,” he said on August 15, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the war’s end.

A scientist by avocation, Akihito is the first royal heir to have married a commoner. Under the postwar constitution, the emperor is “the symbol of the State and of the unity of the People,” with little formal power. His efforts to draw the imperial family closer to the people in image, if not in fact, have played into a carefully crafted picture of a “middle-class monarchy” that has helped shield it from the harsh criticism suffered by flashier royals abroad.

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Adapting to Rio the key for India shuttler Nehwal NBA chief Silver wants more

BengALuRu, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): Adapting quickly to playing conditions at the Rio Olympics will pose the biggest challenge for players, says India's Saina Nehwal, who is aiming to better the badminton bronze she won in London four years ago.

After fighting her way back to fitness following an Achilles injury sustained at the end of last year, the 26-year-old's confidence was given a boost ahead of her third Olympics when she won the Australian Open Super Series title last month.

The Indian shuttler said, however, that victory would have little bearing on her chances at the Aug. 5-21 Olympics and she was more concerned about hitting the ground running in Brazil. "It all depends on how you get adjusted to the conditions there, that's more important," she told

Saina Nehwal. (Action Images/ Files)

Reuters in an interview in Bengaluru.

"If the Australian Open was one week before Olympics, maybe it would have an effect, but the gap has given all players time to prepare. They will all come stronger.

"There are a lot of things like time difference that will affect us only after we go there. How well you prepare here is not the main thing, but how you take

care of the other aspects there is important."

MORE AGGRESSION Nehwal added that she had surprised herself by her aggressiveness during her second Australian Open win in Sydney and wants to carry that trait into Rio. "I was not playing like that in the last couple of months. My net (play) was good, and I was very attacking in the tournament," she said. "I want to play at the

Olympics the same way I play at the tournament."

Nehwal, the first Indian shuttler to win an Olympic medal, topped the women's singles rankings in April last year but injuries stalled her progress and she currently sits fifth ahead of the Games.

The shuttler is targeting greater consistency to counter the threat posed by world number one Carolina Marin, defending

Olympic champion Li Xuerui and London silver medalist Wang Yihan of China.

"I am at a stage where I have improved a lot, but there is a lot more to go.

There are players like Carolina who are faster, Li Xuerui has a good technical game, Nozomi Okuhara is good in rallies," she added.

"I feel I need time to match these players. To be at your best you need the seven-eight weeks. Till now it's pretty good, hopefully in the next four weeks it goes well."

Several athletes, including a number of highprofile golfers, have pulled out of the Games citing health concerns over the Zika virus, but Nehwal said her mind was focused only on one thing.

"I am going there as an athlete, there is not a single thing other than badminton that I'm thinking about now," she added.

Klopp confirms Balotelli has no future at Liverpool

London, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): Manager Juergen Klopp has told Mario Balotelli that with so much competition for places up front at Liverpool he should look for another club.

Balotelli has returned for pre-season training following an unsuccessful loan spell at AC Milan but is well down the pecking order at Liverpool, who also have Daniel Sturridge, Christian Benteke, Divock Origi and Danny Ings on the books. "I have spoken to him about this," the manager told reporters.

"He's not at the stage of his career where he should be battling with four or five other players for one or two

positions... so it's clear we need a solution.

"There will be a club around who would be happy to have the new Mario Balotelli. I have spoken clearly to the player about that." Sampdoria have expressed their interest in the player, with president Massimo Ferrero saying they would be the perfect club for him to revive his career after scoring just three goals in 23 appearances for Milan last season.

Another player who is unlikely to be lining up for Liverpool for their Premier League opener against Arsenal on Aug. 14 is defender Mamadou Sakho, who underwent treatment for

Mario Balotelli

a long-standing Achilles problem. The France international has not played since April after being informed by European football's governing body that he had failed a dope test.

UEFA dismissed the

case against the 26-yearold last week, but Sakho missed Liverpool's Europa League final defeat

by Sevilla in May and was dropped from France's squad for the European Championship as a result

of the charge.

"Mama is injured. He had a little issue with his Achilles when he was playing, one day on, one off, this kind of thing," Klopp said. "When he had his little 'break' he used the time to have a little bit of treatment and that now means another three or four weeks before he can train again."

Klopp did not want to get drawn into whether the matter was now closed. "I cannot say too much as a manager," Klopp added. "I don't know exactly what will happen now from Mama's side or UEFA's side. "Others have to talk about this because I don't know what I am allowed or able to say."

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expresses concern after Kevin Durant signed with Golden State, a move which creates another super team. (AFP Photo)

Los AngeLes, JuLy 13 (AFP): NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday that the league might look at ways of maintaining competitive balance following Kevin Durant's blockbuster move to join the Golden State Warriors.

Silver expressed concern at the signing which creates another super team and indicated that the NBA's parity might be better served if changes were made to the collective bargaining agreement.

"Just to be absolutely clear, I do not think that's ideal from the league standpoint," Silver said of lopsided teams during a news conference at the league's annual board of governors meeting.

Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder to sign a two-year deal worth $54 million to join the Warriors, creating another NBA pow-

erhouse. Silver added that Durant did not break any rules by exercising his right to change teams.

"I don't think having two super teams is good for the league," he said.

"For me, part of it is designing a collective bargaining agreement that encourages the distribution of great players throughout the league.

"On the other hand, I absolutely respect a player's right to become a free agent and in this case for Kevin Durant to make a decision that he feels is best for him.

"I have no idea what's in his mind or heart in terms of how he went about making that decision.

"In a way, the good news is that we are in a collective bargaining cycle, so it gives everybody an opportunity -- owners and the union -to sit down behind closed

doors and take a fresh look at the system and see if there is a better way that we can do it. My belief is we can make it better."

The league's current agreement runs through June 30, 2021. Either side can opt out June 30, 2017, if it notifies the other side

by December 15. It was negotiated during the lockout five years ago.

Silver also said the league hasn't made a decision on moving the 2017 NBA all-star game from Charlotte in protest of North Carolina's controversial restroom privacy protection law.

"We're not prepared to make a decision today," Silver said. "But we recognize the calendar is not our friend. February is quickly approaching, especially in terms of big events like the all-star games if we're going to make alternative plans."

Rio's budget bash, by the numbers Final chance for India to settle Test combination

RIo de JAneIRo, JuLy 13 (AFP): Authorities in recession-struck Brazil boast that they have spent more wisely on next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro than past host cities.

Here are some key figures to show how much the approximately $12 billion total price tag breaks down.

- $4 billion Games The overall budget for the sporting side of the Games is $4.1 billion, according to Rio city hall, with 80 percent of that from private funds. Just over $2.0 million of that is for building stadiums and other infrastructure. The remaining half of the budget is spent on organizing the Games through the Rio2016 committee.

- $7.5 billion 'legacy' spending In addition, Rio authorities launched $7.5 billion worth of "legacy" investments, mostly in transport projects, with 57 percent of this bill footed by the taxpayer and the rest by private investors. The budget and legacy investments do not include the budget for the city's big security deployment during the Games. The federal government contributed $900,000 for that.

- Good deal? Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes says by avoiding overly flashy installations and expensive perks, the Games budget is 35 percent less than planned. However, a study by Oxford University's Said Business School indicated these Games actually overshot by 51 percent when compared to the budget presented in the host city's initial bid.

That is about average for a budget overshoot in the past four Olympics, said the report's author, Bent Flyvbjerg. The 2012 London Games cost the equivalent of about $14 billion for sports-related costs alone at the exchange rate of the time -several times the initial bid budget.

"In every single Olympics that we studied, we found that the cost in the bids were exceeded, and Rio 2016 is no exception," Flyvbjerg told AFP. "We know that Rio has actively been trying to reduce costs and curb the cost overrun."

Paes retorted that the overrun claim was "false."

"There is always someone ready to bring out a little study to suit themselves," he told AFP in an interview.

st KItts, JuLy 13 (IAns): Ahead of the four-Test series against the West Indies, India will have a final chance to work on their shortcomings when the Virat Kohli-led visitors take on WICB President's XI in a three-day warmup tie from Thursday.

India were far from impressive in their last two-day warm-up game with Kohli and star batsman failing to get a decent start while the pace battery struggled with their inconsistent show. Leg-spinner Amit Mishra with his four wickets was the lone highlight along with Rohit Sharma's unbeaten half century.

As Kohli along with head coach Anil Kumble sits to decide on the playing XI for the first Test, starting at Antigua on July 21, the players will be aiming for a decent outing spent enough time in the middle with openers Lokesh Rahul and in the three-day fixure.

In the batting department, the Shikhar Dhawan scoring fifties.

Dhawan, whose performance top-order looked solid after having

in whites came under the scanner, presented his case with a 90-ball 51 while Rahul also scored 50 off 99 balls which makes the competition stiff with Murali Vijay almost a certainty in the line-up.

No.3 Cheteshwar Pujara scored 34 off 102 balls before retiring out, while Rohit's unbeaten 54 off 109 balls came good.

Stumper Wriddhiman Saha also got some runs but Kohli (14) and Rahane (5) missed out and the duo will be eyeing Thursday's encounter to spend some time in the middle.

Kohli will be hoping for an improved show from his pacers -- Mohammed Shami, who is returning to competitive cricket after a long injury lay-off, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, veteran Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav.

While everyone except Shami was amongst the wickets, none of

the India pacers posed any serious threat to the hosts.

It will also be interesting to see if Kohli asks Mumbai rookie Shardul Thakur to bowl a few in the middle.

With the pitch giving assistance for the slower bowlers, leggie Mishra, who narrowly missed out on a hattrick, grabbed the opportunity with both hands with a four-for-67 with off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja warming the bench.

India: Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Lokesh Rahul, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Stuart Binny

Pakistan unites behind Amir ahead of Lord's return China gets its richest man to back

KARAchI, JuLy 13 (AFP): When Pakistan's convicted spot-fixer Mohammad Amir takes to the field at Lord's on Thursday, the bowler can expect overwhelming support from his homeland as he faces a potentially prickly reception from the English crowd. The 24-year-old appears almost certain to make his return to Test cricket at the home of cricket -where he and two teammates were found guilty of arranging no-balls to order as part of an elaborate betting scam devised by a tabloid journalist six years ago.

The trio served jail sentences over the affair in what was perhaps the biggest scandal to hit the sport.

England's captain Alastair Cook has already stated Amir can expect "a reaction" from English spectators while former English cricketers Kevin Pietersen and spinner Graeme Swann have joined the ranks of those calling for a life ban for all fixers.

Back home in Pakistan, however, ex-players and most fans have come around to forgiving the left-arm pacer, citing his youth at the time of his crime and early admission -though some still have reservations about what example his return sets to would-be fixers.

Legendary bowler Wasim Akram, who led the country to their last Test series win in England in 1996, said he believes Amir can weather the hostility. "People want Amir to do well so there will be enormous pressure on him but I am confident that he will come out a winner," he told AFP. Muhammad Asif, one of Amir's co-conspirators who is now playing club cricket in Norway, also pleaded for understanding. "I request to Eng-

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land players and fans to allow Amir to play freely. He and two of us others committed a mistake, were punished and now our bans are over so let us play," he said.

Despite initial resistance from certain players, Amir's current teammates have united behind him while fans almost unanimously back their hero.

Road to redemption?

"What happened with Amir is now past," said Shariq Mahmood from Karachi, a die-hard fan who travelled to India to watch the World Twenty20 in March this year.

"The way he (Amir) is bowling I think he will bamboozle England batsmen with his swing," he added, referring to the youngster's slew of wickets against Sussex in a warm-up match where his fast pace and late movement won wickets and praise.

Zaair Hussain, a project manager at a game studio in Lahore, added: "The return of Amir has been something I've been eagerly awaiting -- the redemption at the end of this long

tragic arc.

"A young man stupidly threw away one of the most promising careers of his generation over a pittance. From the first day, he said he would work to make himself worthy again. After five long years, his punishment served, he is back and a live wire on the pitch."

A few, however, expressed ambivalence because of Amir's perceived lack of humility since his return and the troubling signal his comeback sends in a country that has been tainted by the spectre of match-fixing since the 1990s.

Pakistan start the tour firm underdogs, though are considered to have their best chance of victory in the four-match Test series where much will rest on the ability of Amir and legspinner Yasir Shah. "Watching him bowl in Tests, especially in England was a thing of joy so I can't not look forward to that," said Sana Kazmi, an education consultant in Karachi.

"But also, personally, as a fan, I just needed him to say 'Sorry I screwed up' unconditionally and he never did that. 'I'm sorry I got misled' is not quite the same thing for me."

The differing approach by the Pakistan Cricket Board to Asif and Amir's former captain Salman Butt, both of whom remain out of national contention despite having also served their bans -- has also irked some.

"He's a phenomenal talent, phenomenal," said marketing professional Anthony Permal from Karachi.

"So we're teaching our children that if you're really good at what you do, we will forget your sins. But, if you're mediocre, get ready to be thrown under the bus."

'best football competition in Asia'

BeIJIng, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): China, backed by its richest man, has struck a deal with FIFA to host the first China Cup from next year, a competition that will pit its national side against three international "first-class" teams and hopefully pave the way to soccer glory.

Chinese property tycoon Wang Jianlin, whose Dalian Wanda conglomerate is already a high-level FIFA sponsor, said on Wednesday that his group and the Chinese Football Association would host the contest in the southern city of Nanning: four games played over a week every January.

European clubs often have a break around that time, potentially allowing national sides to pit their best - as China hopes.

Eventually, it wants a total of eight teams to play.

"We aim to become the best football competition in Asia," Wang told reporters in Beijing. "We will use all possible measures to ensure we achieve this."

China would qualify automatically for a contest that does allow them to earn points for global rankings - an opportunity for a country that wants to climb

Wang Jianlin (REUTERS File Photo)

the FIFA table where it is currently languishing at 81, below Equatorial Guinea and Haiti. China is preparing to compete for a spot in the 2018 World Cup. Soccer in China has been plagued by poor performances on the field and match-fixing scandals. But President Xi Jinping, a selfprofessed avid soccer fan, has spoken in the past of "three wishes" for China: to qualify for another World Cup since their first and only appearance at the 2002 finals, to host a World

Cup, and to eventually win one.

China has since said it wants to turn its team into one of the world's best by 2050. "We are duty-bound as people in the soccer industry, as members of the Chinese Football Association, to vigorously develop Chinese football," said Yu Hongchen, vice president of the Chinese Football Association.

"This is our responsibility and it is also the demand of the times." Dalian Wanda has been at the forefront

of China's push into the business of sport, building up a sports arm which already owns a 20 percent stake in Spanish soccer club Atletico Madrid.

Over the last 18 months, Wanda has sealed a series of high-profile sports investments to build up its sports business arm, from the purchase of the organiser of Ironman Triathlon races, World Triathlon Corp to the purchase of Swiss-based sports marketing firm Infront, in a $1.2 billion deal last year.

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Mokokchung reach out to Jorhat Free concert in aid of the flood victims at Assam Morung Express News

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ith the torrential rains ravaging and creating havoc in the plains of Assam, some citizens of Mokokchung are coming together to show their solidarity towards their immediate neigbour, the Assamese people and going for a fund raiser drive.

It all started with a past on the I Love Mokokchung group page on facebook by a member. The response was great. Humanity triumphed, and so the concert.

Members of I Love Mokokchung group resolved to organize a free concert in aid of the flood victims at Assam especially Jorhat.

The ILM members, who are mostly educated young professionals in Mokokchung town, decided to organize the reach out programme, keeping in mind that that Assam and Nagaland share an age-old relationship.

The project is being carried out on the theme – Know thy neighbor - and it is aimed at building bridges between communities and people.

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ctress Anushka Sharma, who is currently riding high on the success of her latest release “Sultan”, is keen to work in Hollywood, as she thinks it would be a “great opportunity”.

Other Bollywood actresses Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone have made their foray into international showbiz, and now Anushka has also shown interest in Hollywood. Asked if she would like to work in a Hollywood project, the “NH10” actress told IANS over phone from Mumbai: “Yeah, it would be a great opportunity, because as an actor you would want to do all kinds of work. Working in a different set-up will be interesting”.

However, Anuskha said she is “not actively trying to get work from outside”.

“I feel today is the right time for Indians and other representations we are getting in international films... So (I would like to do) something where I am not playing a stereotype of an Indian and something interesting and realistic,” she added.

The 28-year-old actress said that she wouldn’t do something in Hollywood that she hasn’t tried in the Hindi film industry.

“Something that I am not doing here (Bollywood), I would not do it in Hollywood either. It would always be a content or a challenge that would take me there,

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(and) for no other reason I would work there because ultimately for me everything is the same as long as I get to play a good and challenging role any place is most welcome,” Anushka said.

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Tom Hanks’ mother dies at 84, actor pens touching message

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ctor Tom Hanks’ paid tribute to his mother Janet Marylyn Frager on Instagram following her death at the age of 84. “This beauty? My mom,” he captioned a glamorous old portrait of Frager. “She was the difference in many lives. Many lives. We say goodbye to her today. Safe crossing, mom!” the Oscar-winner wrote.

The 60-year-old “Forrest Gump” star’s wife, Rita Wilson, also shared an image of her husband alongside his mom.

“This wonderful lady gave birth to my husband, and three other children. Thank you for bringing my love into the world. She is at peace now,” Wilson captioned the black-and-white photo. Frager shared Tom, as well as three other children, Jim, Sandra and Larry, with her exhusband, Amos Hanks. Tom’s father, Amos, and Frager divorced in 1960. Amos passed away in 1992.

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ennifer Aniston believes celebrity gossip is dangerous for society. In a new essay published by the Huffington Post, the actress opened up about being the subject of tabloid stories over the years and what she feels they represent for women everywhere. Though she’s been written about many times in the past, Aniston said that the recent stories about her body - some pointed to her stomach and questioned whether she was expecting were what prompted her to speak out.

“The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing. The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of how we see and portray women in general, measured against some warped standard of beauty,” she wrote, adding that girls are taught they’re not attractive unless they’re thin or exceptionally beautiful.

Taking aim at tabloids’ obsession with monitoring female celebrities’ waistlines, Aniston writes, “We use celebrity ‘news’ to perpetuate this dehumanizing view of females, focused solely on one’s physical appearance, which tab-

loids turn into a sporting event of speculation. Is she pregnant? Is she eating too much? Has she let herself go? Is her marriage on the rocks because the camera detects some physical ‘imperfection’? The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing.”

These practices affect the actress regularly. Aniston, 47, explained that she and her husband, actor Justin Theroux, 44, are relentlessly “harassed” by photographers “who will go to shocking lengths” to take their picture. But the stories that question whether she’s pregnant are what bother her most, as she feels they perpetuate the myth that women need to have children to be happy.

“Here’s where I come out on this topic: we are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone,” she wrote. “Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples. Let’s make that decision consciously, outside

of the tabloid noise. We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete.

We get to determine our own ‘happily ever after’ for ourselves.”

And though the actress, who is not pregnant, didn’t rule out the possibility that one day she’d become a mother (“I will be the first to let you know,” she added), she said that she wouldn’t do so because she felt there was something missing in her life. “I resent being made to feel ‘less than’ because my body is changing and/or I had a burger for lunch and was photographed from a weird angle and therefore deemed one of two things: ‘pregnant’ or ‘fat.’ Not to mention the painful awkwardness that comes with being congratulated by friends, coworkers and strangers alike on one’s fictional pregnancy (often a dozen times in a single day),” she wrote.

“I used to tell myself that tabloids were like comic books, not to be taken seriously, just a soap opera for people to follow when they need a distraction.

But I really can’t tell myself that anymore because the reality is the stalking and objectification I’ve experi-

enced first-hand, going on decades now, reflects the warped way we calculate a woman’s worth.”

As a result, Aniston urged readers not to buy into the tabloid stories about her or anybody else.

“From years of experience, I’ve learned tabloid practices, however dangerous, will not change, at least not any time soon. What can change is our awareness and reaction to the tox-

ic messages buried within these seemingly harmless stories served up as truth and shaping our ideas of who we are,” she wrote. “We get to decide how much we buy into what’s being served up, and maybe someday the tabloids will be forced to see the world through a different, more humanized lens because consumers have just stopped buying the bulls---.”

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Moajungla Jamir (L) and folk singers from Ruzazho village(R) perform during the launching programme of “Kra-Ker-Jak” at Dream Cafe Kohima by Rattle & Hum Music Society Nagaland on July 12.

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merican reality TV personality Kim Kardashian-West, who has featured on the Forbes’s highest-celebrity earners of 2016 list, poked fun at critics who say that she has no talent. The celebrity stood at the 42 position making $51 million last year from various business ventures.

Kim shared an image of herself on Forbes magazine’s cover and poked fun at people who brand her as having no talent, reports independent.co.uk.

Kim’s business and tech achievements have landed her on the cover of the most recent issue of Forbes magazine, a bi-weekly finance magazine. Sharing the cover on her social media platforms, she wrote: “Not bad for a girl with no talent”.

In its profile, the magazine pays particular attention to her gaming venture, the Kim Kardashian Hollywood Game, which invites

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fans to essentially live her life in virtual form. Forbes estimates that Kim made $45 million from the game alone since it launched

in 2014 and that the game contributed to 40 per cent of her earnings over the past year.

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x-supermodel Gisele Bundchen will strut her stuff in her native Brazil next month, this time swapping the catwalk for the stadium hosting the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio. Bundchen, who retired from modeling last year, will walk through a “futuristic gateway” at Maracana Stadium during the August 5 ceremony marking the start of the first Games hosted in South America, according to Extra newspaper.

Extra said the theme of the ceremony would be “the future.” Rio 2016 organizers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bundchen, now 35, who was once the highest paid model in the world, also participated in the prize ceremony for the 2014 World Cup final that pitted Argentina against Germany, in Maracana Stadium as well.

Extra said another highlight of the Olympics ceremony would be a performance by veteran samba singer Elza Soares, 79. Soares, the widow of football player Garrincha, is expected to sing about Rio’s favelas. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, two living legends of the South American giant’s music, are also expected to

participate in the ceremony. They will be joined by funk singer Anitta. “It’s very exciting to work for such a great event,” O Globo newspaper quoted her as saying. And in this capital of the Carnival festival, the 12 leading school percussion bands will have the crowd bouncing to the music in the huge arena.

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Nicole slams ex Lewis Hamilton as she Real-Life Sultan ‘Kabali’ to release in Hillstar files case against dedicates song to him at X Factor auditions 400 screens in the U.S. he faced her fair share of NOW SHOWING Saturday alongside her fellow Salman Khan outhern Superstar heartbreak during her sevjudges Simon Cowell, Sharon Ticket Rates Rajinikanth-staren year on and off relationOsbourne and Louis Walsh. case against actors Salman Khan,

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rer Tamil movie Kabali, which is slated to hit the screens worldwide on July 22, will release in 400 screens in the U.S., with special premieres planned for a day earlier. In the U.S., distribution company Cine Galaxy, which had released Theri and 24 earlier this year, will release Kabali. “It will be the biggest release for a Rajinikanth-starrer in the U.S.. The Tamil as well as Telugu version of the film will release in 400 screens,” Madhu Garlapati of Cine Galaxy said. According to Madhu, there’s unprecedented pre-release buzz for the film. “We opened bookings on Tuesday and in less than two hours tickets were sold out at Towne 3 cinemas, San Jose. The tickets for premieres are priced at $25, and there’s huge demand for tickets,” she said. Directed by Pa. Ranjith, the film also stars Radhika Apte, Kishore, Kalaiarasan, Dinesh, Dhansikaa and Taiwanese actor Winston Chao. Rajinikanth will be seen as a don who fights for Tamils in Malaysia in the movie, which will also dubbed and released in Hindi and Telugu.

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ship with Lewis Hamilton. And Nicole Scherzinger proved that the pain was still raw as she dedicated a song about heartbreak to her ex boyfriend, during the latest round of X Factor auditions. The 38-year-old was moved when one contestant sang her song Run, and explained that it was about moving on from negativity, before warning girls off Lewis.

Speaking at the auditions, Nicole said: ‘This song is about running away from bad things in your life.’ Simon then suggested that the song, which includes lyrics such as, ‘here’s some advice for the next one, don’t let him lead you to the dark’ and ‘he’ll leave you with a broken heart’, could be about the F1 driver. He said: ‘Why did this song make me think of Lewis Hamilton? It just came into my head listening to it.

‘Run away, Nicole, run away fast.’ And the brunette beauty agreed, as she replied: ‘Yes, let’s

do that. Let’s dedicate those lyrics and that song to Lewis as well, shall we?’ Nicole once again stole the show at the auditions in a sexy scarlet dress as she arrived at Wembley Arena in London on

Despite moving on from Lewis Hamilton with Bulgarian tennis ace, Grigor Dimitrov, 25, Nicole’s latest relationship has also been plagued with split rumours.

Earlier this year, a source reportedly told The Sun: ‘Nicole is at a different stage in life to Grigor. She really likes him but wants to settle down – something he’s not quite ready for. ‘It’s the situation she had with Lewis, which is why the relationship stalled.

She’s aware she is not getting any younger and wants kids.’

Nicole and Grigor reportedly began dating in July last year, shortly after he broke off his twoyear romance with fellow tennis star Maria Sharapova. At 25, the handsome Bulgarian is 12 years Nicole’s junior and the brunette beauty went public with the World no 28 as she was pictured kissing him at a tournament in Australia.

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Anushka Sharma, director Ali Zafar Abbas and others was heard in a local court in a case of alleged cheating. Mohammad Sabir Ansari alias Sabir Baba, a resident of Muzaffarpur, in a complaint filed in the chief judicial magistrate’s court on July 8, contended that Salman Khan, the lead actor of Sultan had promised to give him Rs 20 crores as royalty for making a film based on his life.

His counsel Sudhir Kumar Ojha said that Mr Sabir had narrated his story to Mr Khan in Mumbai in 2010 and the actor then promised the remuneration if a film was made based on it. The case came up for hearing on Tuesday before the chief judicial magistrate, Muzaffarpur, Ram Chandra Prasad, who transferred it to the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, S K Tripathi and fixed July 26, 2016 as the next date of hearing. The case has been filed under various sections of IPC including 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).

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German football player Bastian Schweinsteiger and Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic sit in a boat after get married in Venice, Italy, July 12. (REUTERS)

Sunderland confirm manager Allardyce in England talks

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London, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): Sunderland have given permission to the Football Association (FA) to speak to manager Sam Allardyce about the vacant England post, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Allardyce, 61, is one of the favourites to succeed Roy Hodgson, who resigned last month after England's humiliating exit from the European Championship at the hands of Iceland.

Sunderland said the ongoing speculation over the future of Allardyce, who, according to British media, has already been interviewed by a three-man FA panel, was "extremely damaging" to the club.

"Sam is very much key to our plans," the club, which narrowly escaped relegation last season, said in a statement.

"After what was an extremely challenging season, we are keen to see a period of stability, both on and off the field, and we want him to remain as manager of our football club." Sunderland said it allowed the FA to contact Allardyce at the manager's request but sought a quick end to the

uncertainty. "...we urge the FA to respect the disruption that this process is causing and bring about a swift resolution to the matter," the club added. Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe, former England coach Glenn Hoddle, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and United States manager Juergen Klinsmann have also been linked with the post by the local media.

Pacquiao plans to return to the ring in November

LAs VeGAs, JuLy 13 (AP): Manny Pacquiao isn't ready to give up his night job just yet.

Pacquiao, who said before his last fight in April that he would retire, now plans to return to the ring in November against an opponent who has yet to be selected.

Promoter Bob Arum said Tuesday that Pacquiao got permission to take a break from his new duties as a senator in the Philippines to take another fight.

It will be held Nov. 5, likely in Las Vegas.

“He likes to fight and he likes the attention,” Arum said of Pacquiao's return.

Pacquiao looked impressive in his last fight in April, returning from a layoff to knock down Timothy Bradley on his way to a unanimous decision. After the fight he wavered on his previous plans to retire.

“If you ask me to come back I don't know,” Pacquiao said. “I may be enjoying retired life. I'm not there yet so I just don't know.”

Pacquiao, who was formerly a congressman in his native country, was elected to the Senate in May and there were fears that increased duties would prevent him from fighting again.

But Arum said the head of the Senate told Pacquiao he was free to fight after the country's budget is settled on Oct. 15.

“He would train in the Philippines and leave on the 16th to come to the U.S., train for two weeks and then come to Vegas,” Arum said. “The only issue is getting an arena for the fight.”

Arum said he is talking with MGM Resorts about an arena to host the fight.

He had reserved the Mandalay Bay arena for Oct. 15, but Pacquaio can't leave his Senate duties that early.

The fight also could be at the UNLV campus arena, he said, though UNLV would have to move a scheduled basketball exhibition from the date.

There were reports that Pacquiao might fight Adrien Broner, but Arum said he wanted the same money as Pacquiao, which was a nonstarter. Another possible opponent would be Jesse Vargas, who fights for Top Rank, and holds a piece of the welterweight title.

Pacquiao was off for nearly a year after losing in May 2015 to Floyd Mayweather Jr., healing from a shoulder injury. But he seemed reinvigorated after beating Bradley in April in a performance that got good reviews from most, including trainer Freddie Roach.

“When I see Manny Pacquiao like that, this is the best Manny Pacquiao,” Roach said after the fight.

“He hasn't missed a beat. I would like to see him fight Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, celebrates after defeating Timothy Bradley in the WBO again.” welterweight title boxing bout Saturday, April 9, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/File)

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Los AnGeLes, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): The NBA approved rule changes on fouls away from the ball on Tuesday, which could held reduce intentional fouling.

Previously, if a foul occurred away-from-theplay in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime, it resulted in one free throw and possession

of the ball. That rule has been extended to apply to the last two minutes of all quarters.

Intentionally fouling poor free throw shooters has become a frequent strategy of the game, an often criticized one, and the rule tweak will limit the opportunities for teams to employ that ploy.

Atletico 'sign' Matt Damon

Actor Matt Damon (C) poses with a Club Atletico de Madrid jersey beside President Enrique Cerezo (L) and Brazilian player Filipe Luis during a promotional event for the latest release of the Jason Bourne film series in Madrid on July 13. (AFP Photo)

mAdRid, JuLy 13 (AFP): Atletico Madrid on Wednesday unveiled their latest big summer "signing" -- the Hollywood star Matt Damon. The actor, in the Spanish capital to promote his new film "Jason Bourne", was presented with a shirt of the Champions League finalists by club president Enrique Cerezo, a respected film producer, complete with Damon's name on the back. Damon, 45, said Atletico "remind me of my favourite team, the Boston Red Sox", the baseball team whose colours are also red and white. "It's our summer signing, joining next week, fresh from the US," joked Cerezo, who has similarly "signed" in the past movie stars Harrison Ford, Halle Berry and Samuel L. Jackson.

Frequently employed against former Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal, the strategy went on to be known as 'Hack-a-Shaq'.

"In looking at the data and numerous potential solutions to combat the large increase in deliberate away-from-the-play foul situations, we believe these steps offer the most

measured approach," Kiki VanDeWeghe, NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations said in a statement.

"The introduction of these new rules is designed to curb the increase in such fouls without eliminating the strategy entirely." Additionally, on inbounds plays, a defensive foul be-

fore the ball is thrown in will also be subject to one free throw and possession.

Flagrant foul rules were also adjusted and will now automatically be in effect for any dangerous or excessive deliberate fouls.

Previously, these types of fouls were subject to being called flagrant but were not automatic.

Sagan wins tour 11th stage, Froome gains time

montPeLLieR, JuLy 13 (AFP): Peter Sagan won his second stage of the Tour de France as Chris Froome extended his overall lead on Wednesday.

Sagan beat Froome in a sprint finish after the pair were amongst an inspired fourman breakaway group in the final 13km that took the other overall contenders by surprise. Froome gained six seconds on his rivals as well as picking up six more bonus seconds at the end of a rapid 162.5km 11th stage from Carcassonne to Montpellier.

He now leads fellow Briton Adam Yates by 28sec with Dan Martin third at 31sec.

But it was another stroke of genius from Froome to snatch a handful of seconds from his yellow jersey rivals following his victory on last Friday's seventh stage when he attacked on a downhill finish to gain 13sec plus another 10 bonus seconds. This time it was Sagan, who also won the second stage, and Maciej Bodnar who made the break in blustery conditions with Sky's Froome and Geraint Thomas attentive enough to latch onto the back of the Tinkoff pair. The rest of the peloton took time to react and the front four quickly had a 20-second lead.

Not only did the break cost the likes of Nairo Quintana time to Froome -- he's now fourth at 35sec -- but it also surprised the sprinters hoping for a stage victory as Sagan increased his grip on the green points jersey.

dimAPuR, JuLy 13 (mexn): 5 male and 4 female participants will represent the state team in the coming 3rd Open North East Karate Championship 2016 held at Don Bosco School Auditorium Hall, Pan

Lucas Digne joins Barcelona from PSG

with a potential four million PARis, JuLy 13 (AFP): add on.

France international de"His pace on the left makes fender Lucas Digne has him a threat going forward joined Barcelona on a as does his excellent technifive-year deal from Ligue cal quality on the ball," Barca 1 champions Paris Saint said in a press release. Digne, Germain, the Catalan whose buy-out clause is 60 club said on Wednesmillion euros, was part of Diday. The 22-year-old left dier Deschamps' 23-strong back spent last season on France squad for Euro 2016, a successful loan deal at but didn't play a single minute, Serie A's Roma and had with the experienced Patrice been expected to move Evra preferred in the starting there permanently. But XI. Digne will arrive in BarceBarcelona have sealed the stylish Lille-trained player's services in lona on Thursday to undergo a medical a deal worth 16.5 million euros ($18.26M) and sign his contract.

Skrtel set to join Fenerbahce after completing medical

istAnbuL, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): Slovakia defender Martin Skrtel is on the verge of completing his move to Fenerbahce from Liverpool with the Turkish

side saying he completed his medical on Wednesday. Skrtel, who joined the Premier League club from Russian side Zenit St Petersburg in January 2008, had an injury-hit season due to hamstring and tendon problems sustained in December.

The fee for the 31-year-old is about 5.5 million pounds ($7.29 million), according to British media reports.

The Merseyside club, who reached the Europa League final, finished eighth in the standings last season. Skrtel captained Slovakia at Euro 2016 in France where they were eliminated by Germany in the last 16.

henry quits coaching role with arsenal to continue tv job

Peter Sagan of Slovakia crosses the finish line ahead of Britain's Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, to win the London, JuLy 13 (iAns): French in the history of Arsenal with 376 goals in eleventh stage of the Tour de France cycling football great Thierry Henry has left his po- 228 matches, joined Sky Sports team in Derace over 162.5 kilometers. (AP Photo)

sition as youth coach at Arsenal club but will continue to work as a commentator in the United Kingdom with Sky Sports.

Henry, 38, who coached the Under-18 Gunners team, on Tuesday refused to man both in tests and the 50-over format, leave the post of commentator after the demanded more assistance for the bowlers coach of the first team, his countryman from the playing surface.

Arsene Wenger, said he could not com"The wickets need to change; they need bine both roles, reports Efe. The top scorer to be more helpful for bowlers," Tendulkar said. "In T20s, the greatest of bowlers are being reverse-swept. Three-hundred is no longer competitive in ODIs. "So there should be at least one format sAo PAuLo, JuLy 13 (iAns): Brazilwhere bowlers have a better chance of ex- ian legend Edson Arantes do Nascimenecuting their skills and making it more inter- to, better known as 'Pele', on Wednesday posted on his Twitter account that he has esting for spectators.

"I don't think it's got much to do with composed and recorded the song 'Esperbats, but I'm sure people on the (relevant) anca' (Hope) for the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, slated from August 5 to panel will be able to look into it."

Tendulkar's views echoed the sentiments 21. "I wrote and recorded a song called 'Esof Australian opener David Warner who said peranca' for the Olympics. I can't wait to last week that flat pitches rather than bats share it with you on July 15," the 75-yearwith thicker edges are the reason batsmen old legend announced. The tweet came have the upper hand in test cricket. four days after his wedding with Marcia

tendulkar calls for more help from pitches for bowlers London, JuLy 13 (ReuteRs): Cricket pitches need to be more bowler-friendly if the rising imbalance between bat and ball is to be addressed, Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar has said.

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) world cricket committee on Tuesday recommended limitations on the thickness and depth of bats amid concerns that the sport has tilted heavily in favour of the batsmen in recent years.

A report commissioned by the MCC, the guardian of the game's laws, in 2014 found the thickness of bats had marginally increased in the last century and that edges had broadened by 300 percent, meaning even mistimed shots could still find the boundary.

Tendulkar, who quit international cricket in 2013 as the game's most prolific bats-

Bazaar, Guwahati on July 16 and 17. According to a press release from the All Nagaland Karate-Do Association (ANKA), the team will be led by Thsathriba as team coach and Temsu as Assistant Coach.

cember 2014, just 15 days after retiring from soccer with the New York Red Bulls. Henry, who has an annual salary of around 4 million pounds ($5.2 million) from the private channel, worked for free for the north London team. The post of Under-18 Arsenal coach will be occupied by another former player, English defender Tony Adams, assisted by former player Steve Bould.

Pele composes, records 'Esperanca' song for Rio Games

Cibele Aoki, a Brazilian businesswoman of Japanese descent, reports Efe. Music has always been present in the life of Pele, whom the International Olympic Comittee (IOC) has declared 'Athlete of the Century'. Pele already has recorded songs with the late Brazilian pop superstar Elis Regina, sang next to the romantic idol Roberto Carlos, composed Christmas songs in the rhythm of samba, participated in one of the productions of musician Sergio Mendes and wrote children's songs.

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