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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored —Jean de la Bruyere

BJP-Congress in allout war, parliament in stalemate [ PAGE 8]

School upgraded, but no building [ PAGE 2]

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‘Do not give us security if you are going to kill us’

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

Morung Express news Meluri | July 22

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The Morung Express Poll QuEsTion

Vote on www.morungexpress.com SMS your anSwer to 9862574165 Is the Government of India serious about tackling corruption in Nagaland government?

Police personnel stand in front of closed shops on Wednesday during a 12 hour business establishment shutdown. The shutdown was held in protest against the assault of a business employee at the GPRn/nsCn Designated Camp Khehoi. organisations that called for the shutdown said that the protest was a “success” and that they would initiate further bandhs if their demands are not adhered to. Photo by Caisii Mao

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AR cautions of ‘terror attacks’ in Nagaland

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DIMAPUR, JULY 22 (MExN): The Yimchunger Akheru Arihako (YAA) has directed candidates from the Yimchungru tribe not to participate in the ENPO police recruitment rally for the post of constable scheduled to be held at Kiphire on July 27. A press note from the YAA cautioned that “stern action” would be taken against individuals violating the directive. It further informed the authority responsible for conducting the instant recruitment rally not to allow any individual from Yimchungrü tribe to participate in the rally and to keep the specified Yimchungrü quota intact in such a way that not a single post meant for Yimchungrü tribe is shared or given away to any individual candidate.

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NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (PTI): An NGO today moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to take concrete steps to deal with the “increasing menace” of stray dogs and monkeys in the national capital and have them “eliminated”, saying they are “defiling” the Prime Minister’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’. The PIL filed by an NGO called Society for Public Cause, even suggested that that all pet dogs must be muzzled when brought in public and stray dogs/ monkeys be sent to Nagaland or exported. “Street dogs are defiling the ‘Clean India i.e.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” the NGO said, adding that “any person bitten by dog should be compensated suitably by the respondents (the Ministry of Environment and Forests) and in case of death, a minimum compensation to be paid to the next kin of the victim”. The petitioner’s counsel L S Chaudhary sought a direction to the ministry and municipal corporations that “if animal lovers want to set up kennels they should do so at their own cost and not at public expenses”. The court has fixed the matter for further hearing on August 17.

Chief Minister’s XI wins football exhibition match

DIMAPUR, JULY 22 (MExN): The Assam Rifles (AR) today informed that the United National Liberation Front of West South East Asia (UNLFWSEA) under the Chairmanship of SS Khaplang, who is also the Chairman of the NSCN (K), and supported

by Paresh Barua, Commander in Chief of the ULFA (I), had planned to carry out “major terror strikes” in Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

A press note from the PRO, Assam Rifles, revealed that the UNLFWSEA plans to launch a number of attacks in Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh during and before India’s Independence Day. It claimed that security

forces were successful in averting the “terror attacks” with the recovery of two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and two Military Grade Anti-Tank Mines recovered in the Jungles of Polubadze Mountain during the operation on July 21, in which one NSCN (K) cadre was killed. The recovered IEDs, the AR revealed weighed 4.5 kgs each.

The AR informed that over the past few months, intelligence inputs confirmed that a number of radio controlled IEDs were smuggled into Nagaland to specifically target the districts of Dimapur, Kohima, Wokha, Mokokchung, Mon and Tuensang. “These were to be exploded in populated areas with the aim of creating a fear

psychosis in the population and pressuring the State Government to accept the diktat of UNLFWSEA,” the AR said.

The AR lamented that the NSCN (K) has joined hands with “a terrorist organisation like ULFA (I),” and claimed that the “Nagas of NSCN (K) living in Myanmar are having a comfortable time since they have signed Ceasefire Agreement with Government of Myanmar and their leaders are misguiding the Naga youths on the Indian side to resort to violence against their own brethren.”

The AR has advised citizens to be “careful” and immediately report any suspicious items found lying unattended at any place to the Police and Security Forces.

Wuzu, a village of 105 households with a population of 303, is 92 km from Meluri (due to the road condition, it takes more than three hours to reach by vehicle), and another 80 km from Avankhung (also known Avankhu). Before 1996, the three villages belonged to one village called Phor. Even today they are collectively known as Phor. On July 16, around 6.30 pm, the Village Council Chairpersons (VCC) of three villages, namely Kotu (Phor), Chili (New Phor) and C Pitu (Wuzu), along with some 60 villagers stood near the road.

A five-vehicles-convoy of the Assam Rifles (AR), viz. three 407 trucks, one gypsy, and one tata truck (2.5 ton), were passing through with the bodies from the previous day’s ‘encounter’ with NSCN (K).

“We got news that Pahachu, our own boy who joined the faction, had been killed in Avankhung. We had no bad intentions. We thought we will try to request for the body. We did not even block the road. We were standing on the side of the road, and raised our hands when the vehicles passed. The first three zoomed by. But the Major stopped,” stated C. Pitu, VCC Wuzu, an eye witness. Major Surinder Singh was well acquainted with the village leaders, said Pitu. He would often call them and visit their house.

The three AR vehicles that went ahead stopped near the Wuzu village community hall on seeing the Major’s vehicle stop.

“Major Saab asked, ‘What happened?’ So we asked if it will be possible for him to hand over the dead body to us. He said the body had already been handed

over to the ADC and OC. But we saw the dead bodies being carried in the first truck that passed us!” exclaimed Kotu, VCC Phor.

On requesting that they at least take the coffins the village had prepared, the Major is said to have agreed saying, ‘Thik hai, thik hai.’

And then, “The jawans (from the Gypsy) near the community hall started firing,” affirmed Kotu, an eye witness to the July 16 firing. But “It was the jawans in the vehicle where the Major was who started shooting at the villagers. The Major was not aware that two children had died. But we saw the one who stood in the Major’s truck firing at the body level. The ones who were in the Major’s vehicle killed our children,” maintained Kotu.

The three leaders recalled Major Singh saying, “Jawan log goli mar diya,” right before he left. Bullet marks are seen on houses and trees in the whole stretch.

Public hai, Public hai.

Matt maaro!!

C. Pitu recalled pleading the AR with these words during the firing. Then the convoy left and the villagers noticed three jawans left behind. “I assured them that there are no factions here, that we will take them back to their company. ‘Idhar ajao’, I told them. But they didn’t come,” said Pitu.

On July 17, when the villagers were holding the funeral of Aso, Tüzali and Pahachu, a Chopper kept hovering above. “It was very disturbing. They almost reached ground level. They didn’t even think what was going on in the minds of the villagers during the funeral,” recalled C. Pituo, Secretary, Phor Social Action Committee, angered by the insensi-

tivity of the AR. By evening, the villagers were informed that food was air dropped for the three jawans who had run into the jungles.

Then the jawans sent signals so the Chopper could locate them, leading to their rescue.

Aso and Tüzali “Our children were young.

Think of them as your children.

Phor had high hopes that they would become somebody in the future. Iniga moi khan laga bacha ke mora-i di-a toh, mon bishi bikhai she (The way they killed our children, it really breaks our heart),” lamented Chili, New Phor VCC, another eye witness.

Aso (13), a Class 7 student of GHS Pholary, was the youngest in her family. She is said to have been a promising student. That evening she and her mother were ready to have dinner when, upon hearing about the gathering, Aso asked her mother if she could go watch. Her own grandfather was killed by the Indian Army in the 1960s during the battle of Thuda Post. She was inside a relative’s house when the jawans started firing. A bullet hit right below her armpit and came out on the other side.

Tüzali (14) was also a Class 7 student of GHS Pholary. He belonged to neighbouring Phor village, about a 7-minute walk from Wuzu. Tüzali was with three other friends, standing about 4 ft above the road when the shooting started. His friends escaped but he was shot in the chest and skull. His bloodstains marked the ground till late evening Friday.

“Do not give us the government. Do not give us security if you are going to kill us this way. Just let us live a free life,” said, Pitu, Village Council Chairman, Wuzu.

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NTC terms govt response to PM urged to reconsider NPCC slams DAN ‘unholy alliance’ Dzukou dispute as ‘pathetic’ DAA & AFSPA in Nagaland

DIMAPUR , JULY 22 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) today termed the government’s response to the land dispute between the Mao Council and the SAPO as “pathetic as it has been as evasive as possible by shifting its responsibility to NGOs.” “Yes, the dispute in question happened between two Naga communities, and yet it is a fact that one belongs to Nagaland State and the other belongs to Manipur State. Therefore, whatever may be the dimension of the dispute; it definitely falls within the ambit of inter-state boundary issue,” claimed the NTC in a press note.

It therefore said that the Nagaland government should try to settle the issue with its counterpart “through the arbitration of GOI.” The dispute in question and its settlements in that manner as above will then become legal and permanent but not otherwise, it said.

The NTC stated it is high time that the Nagaland government takes up the territorial issues “holistically” with GOI without further delay. While “respecting the aspiration of the Nagas for integration,” it however said that people of Nagaland “cannot sacrifice any area of land that belonged to its communities both historically and traditionally.” Besides, Nagas of Nagaland can no longer afford to continue the struggle and live in a “world of illusion” but “it is time for us to have a world of realism,” it said.

The NTC therefore urged the state government to uphold the claims of SAPO in Kezoltsa and Dzukou areas and practically protect it from encroachment

in any form by the Manipur government.

Referring to the Mao Council seeking intervention of the Manipur government, the NTC said that the “stance of Mao Council in this respect is a constitutional reality that they belong to the present State of Manipur despite of being a Naga community.” It is premature to comment on the merit and demerit of the claims and counter claims of the two communities over the disputed areas, it stated while maintaining that the action of the Mao Council to approach the Manipur government is not a mistake.

“If not to Manipur government, where will Mao Council go to seek protection? Similarly, if not from government of Nagaland, from whom SAPO seeks protection of its territory from legal and constitutional stand point?” the NTC questioned.

The NTC further demanded that the Nagaland government stop talking shelter under NGOs but appropriately and efficiently react to the situation by asking the Manipur government to withdraw the presence of its state armed forces from the disputed area immediately. It further called for the government to ensure the return of normalcy between the two contending parties.

The NTC further expressed concern as to how sincere and efficient the Nagaland state government is in handling the interstate boundary issue with the state of Assam.

It reminded that the Supreme Court has cautioned the Nagaland government against filing any pleas for adjournment of motion with regard to this case.

DIMAPUR, JULY 22 (MExN): The Naga Hoho has appealed to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi to reconsider the imposition of Disturbed Area Act (DAA) for the whole state of Nagaland and to remove existing and military and extra-judicial laws like the Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act. The Naga Hoho, in a memorandum to the PM, stated that extension of the DAA “brings the ghosts of yesteryears, where Nagas have suffered enough atrocities under the Indian Armed forces and where the memories of hurts and humiliation still runs strong in public and individual memories.” It lamented that the Nagas have perpetually lived under a “siege of war” since post-Independent India till today. It stated that the Nagas are eager for a political solution and peace, and added that the imposition of the DAA is “inimical to freedom of individuals, since the instruments are for warlike situations...” It further urged that the ongoing Indo-Naga talks should not be derailed at any cost. “Stray incidents should not put to threat the confidence measures that have been invested so far,” it said.

DIMAPUR, JULY 22 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today termed the current DAN government involving all legislators of the NLA as an “unholy matrimonial alliance,” and lamented that Congress legislators from the state “seeing the corrupt wealth and ability to buy votes have all eloped with NPF-BJP DAN Govt.”

A press note from the NPCC President, K Therie, said that the Governor’s address during the opening session of the ongoing NLA is “without soul and is hollow.” “We all know that for the love of money and power, the 60 MLAs have joined together to fight over the prey - the State Exchequer. The Govt. is no longer guided by ideology or principles.

The association is without moral ethics, political ethics or economic

Cancel oil permit to MOGPL: Lotha Hoho

DIMAPUR, JULY 22 (MExN): The Lotha Hoho has urged the Nagaland state Chief Secretary to cancel the permit issued to Metropolitan Oil and Gas Private Limited (MOGPL) for oil operations in Wokha district. A representation from the Lotha Hoho said that the permit issued by the then Chairman of the Nagaland Petroleum & Natural Gas Board “was found wrong” as the said board Chairman’s duties were “for a limited period only and hence outside the government’s functioning.” Therefore, the Lotha Hoho reasoned that the board chairman cannot act as a government department’s authority under rules.

However, at annexure ‘B’ the board has used Government of Nagaland’s nomenclature which is uncalled for and hence a blatant misuse of government machinery, it alleged.

The Lotha Hoho further said that in annexure –“B” of the permit, “no file number was quoted,” and therefore “cannot be treated as an official docu-

ment for all purposes.” It added that all such decisions or important subject matters need to be issued by concerned department only as per rule 4 and 6 of the Rules of Executive Business-1,1980 read with clauses (2) & (3) of Article 166 of the Constitution of India issued by P& AR department at annexure –‘A’ Considering this, it stated that the board chairman’s decisions at annexure ‘B’ “is found to be wrong as well as untenable.” A memorandum of understanding, it further informed, had to be issued by Geology and Mining department only and not as in annexure –‘D’

by Chairman of Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas Board.

In light of these points, the Lotha Hoho urged the Chief Secretary to cancel the annexure-‘B’ “once and for all in the interest of general public under article 14 of the constitution of India ‘’equality before law” at annexure – ‘C’...” Failure to do so, it cautioned would lead to litigation in the court of law.

ethics,” it said.

To the claim that the Congress legislators had joined the government for the sake of the Naga issue, the NPCC questioned: “we want to ask them who was against the solution?” “It is they who refused to intervene to play the role of mediator between the GOI and Naga Underground Groups, when Political Affairs Committee of NPCC under my Chairmanship suggested,” the NPCC President said.

Law and order, he said has severely deteriorated with Ceasefire abrogation and extension of Disturbed Area Act. While assuring the NPCC’s support to uphold the rule of law, he expressed hope that the Governor would “live up to his commitment or else own the moral responsibility.”

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AsseMBlY session: Budget presentation today our Correspondent Kohima | July 22

Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, who also holds the finance portfolio, will present the state budget for the year 2015-16 on July 23 in the 9th session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly here. The assembly session proceeding on July 23 will also witness discussion on the Naga political issue and debate on the Governor’s address.

It may be noted that the Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya during his NLA address on July 22, had expressed happiness at the ‘inclusive government’ in the state that “enjoys the trust and confidence of all the 60 members of the House, which presently does not have an opposition bench.” This is the first time in the history of the NLA, and perhaps in the country, that the government has been joined by all members of the House on a common agenda of peace and development, Acharya said. He was optimistic that “through this unique arrangement, all members woul;d be in a better position to contribute their wisdom and talent to take the state forward on the road to peace and development.”

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The Morung Express 2 LocaL State, national awards School upgraded, but no building given to scouts and guides Students’ union in Kiphire asks the contractor to immediately Dimapur

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start work at Government High School, Seyochung village

Governor of Nagaland giving away Rajya Puraskar Award to a Guide on July 22.

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KohiMa, July 22 (Dipr): Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides (NSGSG) today awarded 30 Guides and 19 Scouts with Rajya Puraskar (Governor’s) Award for the year 2015 and 13 Guides and 9 Scouts with Rashtrapati (President’s) Award for the year 2014 at the Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan. Governor of Nagaland and Chief Patron NSGSG, PB Acharya gave away the Awards.

The Rajya Puraskar is the highest award Scouts & Guides can earn at the State level. The award carries a badge and a certificate signed by the Governor of the state.

The Governor in his speech expressed happiness at a small state like Nagaland scooping the highest award in the national level. He said Bharat Scouts & Guides is a voluntary, non-political and educational movement for young people. Its mission is to create positive environment within which young people are encouraged to interact and provide an ideal and excellent opportunity to build a better society and also be self reliant and helpful to each other.

The Governor said that Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides was established in Nagaland in 1967 with a membership of just 540 Scouts and 50 Guides and at present it has about

2064 Scouts and 1870 Guides. Stating that NSBSG has played a major role in promoting the movement in the state, he noted that during 2014-15, NSBSG carried out numbers of activities like Swacch Bharat Mission, Advance Course for Scout Masters and Guide Captain testing camp nature study cum presentation programme, training camp, participating in various training centres outside the state.

While speaking on the vision of the state BSG, he said, the state unit has chalked out vision 2015 to improve youth programme, increase the membership by 10% annually, improve financial status of the organisation, improve the communication and public relations etc.

The Governor also urged the NSBSG to lead the youths to march ahead on the path of progress and prosperity and create a peaceful atmosphere in Nagaland. He also said the Government of India has restored the recognition of Hindustan Scouts & Guides (HSG) and is making an effort to carry forward the ideals of S&G. In this, he urged both the NSBSG and Nagaland state chapter of HSG to pool in their efforts so that the goals and objectives of the Scouts & Guides are realized in one state in more efficient and effective

Appeal to clear blocked road in Pfutsero

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pheK, July 22 (MexN): The BJP, Phek district on behalf of the Centre Chakhesang public has lauded Tiatemsu, Executive Engineer (EE), Pfutsero for taking keen interest in clearing the landslide area between Pfutsero and Khomi Area, NEC Road, which has been blocked for almost a week making it impossible for vehicles and wary travellers to ply. A press release from BJP Phek district general secretary (admin) stated that there has been no connectivity to more than 7 villages in the area. Food and other basic amenity supplies have been stopped and students and sick people in need of immediate medical attention are the most affected, it added. In light of the above, the BJP, Phek district has appealed to the Chief Engineer, National Highway (PWD) to provide adequate manpower and machinery to clear the road at the earliest.

NCD accepts resignation of GS

DiMapur, July 22 (MexN): As per the decision of its executive meeting held on July 22, the Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) today informed that the resignation of Joel Nillo Kath from the post of general secretary, NCD has been accepted. Henceforth, he is no more councillor of the Naga Council Dimapur, said a press release issued

by NCD president T Bangerloba. Meanwhile, the release said that Thsapongkyu Sangtam, Joint Secretary has been elevated to officiating general secretary with immediate effect. Therefore, for all official correspondence, following are to be contacted: T Bangerloba, president, NCD – 9436430370, Thsapongkyu Sangtam, officiating general secretary, NCD – 8974039132.

manner.

Meanwhile, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports & President State Bharat Scouts & Guides, Khriehu Liezietsu said that Scouting and Guiding is a movement which moulds the Scouts & Guides into responsible persons. He congratulated the Awards recipients and urged them to live up to the standards of their Awards.

He also encouraged all other Scouts & Guides to strive towards excellence as their senior Scouts & Guides.

The parliamentary secretary further encouraged the unit leaders to take equal responsibility to be trained and train the Scouts & Guides as advancement and training of the unit leaders are equally important and necessary for the uplift of the Scouts & Guides. The unit leaders have to be skilfully prepared so as to produce quality Scouts & Guides, he said. He encouraged everyone present in the function to help the movement grow from strength to strength in every way possible and to be reminded that “the children we mould today will become our leaders tomorrow”.

The programme was also attended by Minister for School Education Yitachu, Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar, leaders from different societies and various schools.

Kiphire, July 22 (MexN): The Joint Area Students’ Union of Kiphire as part of its area wise educational tour visited Government High School, Seyochung village recently. The union comprising Singti Area Students’ Union (SASU), Seyochung Area Students’ Union (SASU), Amahator Range Students’ Union (ARSU) and Longmatra Area Students’ Union (LASU) deliberated with the VEC, teachers, Goan Buras (GB), students and village council on the issues confronting the school.

According to a press release from the union, the Village Education Committee (VEC) chairman highlighted that though the school was upgraded from Government Middle School in 2013, regular classes are yet to start as the school building has not been constructed till date.

However, as per RTI re-

Joint Area Students’ Union of Kiphire with VEC chairman, village leaders and others during their visit to Government High School, Seyochung village.

port furnished to SASU, work order to build new school building was sanctioned in the year 2013 and the running bill was released to the contractor to start the work, the release said. Stating that there is no sign of starting construction of school building any time soon, the joint students’ union said it was stumped to find that not even a single pillar has been erected which is funded under RMSA.

In this regard, SASU president Ripise Yingbidhongru lamented that despite umpteen pleas and appeals imploring the department concerned to intervene and salvage the career of the under privileged students, there is no concrete response from the department so far.

The VEC chairmen further mentioned that the school has not received any benefit entitled to the

handicapped students for many years. Moreover, hampering the normal functioning of the class was also due to want of more teachers, especially Maths and Science, he noted.

The release further lamented that due to absence of the school building, students from the village are being accommodated in Government High School, Seyochung Town, thus incurring enormous hard-

ship to students who have to walk long distance for no fault of theirs.

Meanwhile, Goan Buras (GBs) urged upon the head of the department concerned to take necessary action and see that that school building in Seyochung village is constructed at the earliest so students from interior place are also given the opportunity to enjoy the fruit of education.

Meanwhile, the joint students’ union leaders asked the contractor to immediately start the work.

The students’ union leaders also apprised the ADC Seyochung of the matter, to which, he assured that education will be given top priority. Also, he stated that Seyochung town though ADC headquarters is deprived of many vital departments included in the criteria of ADC status and suffering from development deficit.

Mokokchung town: mute at 125 years ANIDJFA appeals to release Morung Express News Mokokchung | July 22

Mokokchung town was established in the year 1890, it celebrated its centennial in the year 1990, and 2015 happens to be its quasquicentennial year. However, the townspeople do not seem to be too keen to observe the 125th anniversary as nobody or no agency has announced or undertaken any initiative to commemorate the occasion as of date. It is now into the third quarter of the year but no civil society organization has till date organized any event to commemorate the occasion, neither has the government.

According to official records, the erstwhile British Government completed the formalities for the ‘incorporation’ of the Ao

country by 1889 and the new sub-division of Mokokchung was established the following year. The “addition of a new subdivision to the Naga Hills District, with its headquarters at Mokokchung” was formally announced vide Assam Government Notification No.749-J dated Shillong, February 28, 1890 with AW Davis, ICS as the first Sub-Divisional Officer of Mokokchung. Mokokchung town is one of the oldest towns in Naga soil and the third major town of Nagaland state today.

A senior officer at the district administration of Mokokchung headquarters when asked if there were any plans for commemorating the milestone replied in the negative.

The officer also admitted ignorance of 2015 be-

ing the quasquicentennial year of Mokokchung town and added that the matter would be discussed with the deputy commissioner.

Interestingly, when this correspondent inquired with the deputy commissioner if the district administration was aware of the milestone, he replied in the affirmative. While saying that a celebration would be observed to commemorate the milestone during the later part of the year, the deputy commissioner also mentioned that the matter will be discussed at the next DPDB meeting.

He also sought the cooperation of all the Heads of Departments as well as civil society organizations to support the district administration on the matter. He also invited ideas and suggestions from the people.

salary of WC field staff

DiMapur, July 22 (MexN): The All Nagaland Inter Department Joint Forum Association (ANIDJFA) today appealed to the State government to release the salaries of the work charged field workers pending from March 2015 to June 2015.

Questioning the government why there is always negligence of paying salaries to the work charged field staff, ANIDJFA stated that “the field staff are unable to meet their family needs accumulating credits everywhere facing problem and tension in the field of our children’s education, pending fees and many uncountable defaulters.”

The ANIDJFA stated

that the association is getting much blame, pressure, and harassment from the work charged staff and they are “unable to handle the situation for which we are waiting for positive response.” It warned that the association will be not be responsible for any event like strike and agitation.

Meanwhile, the ANIDJFA requested the work charged field staff to calm down and wait patiently.

The association further requested all head of departments to review the work charged and casual employees’ ROP and 30 years and above regularisation referring to the State government order No.AR3GEN-315/2015 dated 9th July, 2015.

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Lives lost to drugs, alcohol remembered

KohiMa, July 22 (MexN): The International Drug Users Remembrance Day 2015 was observed at the Rehab Centre of Kripa Foundation, Kohima on July 21. The programme, organized by Nagaland Users’ Network (NUN), KUN and Kripa Foundation, was a day for family, friends and people from the drug using community to remember those who died of drugs and alcohol. It was a day of mourning and to pay respect for the lost souls, a press release from Ketho Angami, Coordinator of NUN said.

During the programme, Ketho mentioned that the International Drug Users Remembrance Day was conceptualized by drug users, their families and

friends, and has its root in Germany in 1998. He recalled the loss of some of his friends to drugs and alcohol, who met with untimely deaths as a result of capital punishment, overdose, and other health problems

advocacy with pressure groups and the government. “The war on drugs/ alcohol and total prohibition strategy kills more people,” he concluded.

Nopi and Mezhü from Kripa Foundation also shared their experiences in losing their loved ones to alcohol and drugs. Both of them shared messages of hope and urged the partici- Lozi Hyundai, Kohima launched the most awaited SUV Creta on July 22. Mmhonlumo Kikon, pants to have con- Parliament Secretary for Labor and Employment, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship fidence in oneself and Border Affairs launched the new compact SUV Hyundai Creta. and give efforts to keep away from drugs and alcohol.

Chaired by Sazo, the programme started with a prayer led by Anyang. The gathering lighted a candle in memory of the departed souls and also to signify their presence amidst the gathering. The program ended with a Serenity prayer.

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‘The war on drugs/ alcohol and total prohibition strategy kill more people’ like HIV/AIDS and HCV infections. Calling on the need to further prevent such incidents, he asserted no one should further die of such reasons. This, he said, can be achieved through more provision of drug/ alcohol treatment programs, primary preventive and intervention measures and

PSC laments pathetic road, urges minister’s intervention

UK Naga Association celebrates 10th anniversary

The members of UK Naga Association during their 2015 annual gathering.

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DiMapur, July 22 (MexN): The UK Naga Association (UKNA) celebrated its 10th annual gathering at Coldwell Activity Centre, near Burnley in the North of England with over 50 attendees. The UK Naga Association's annual gathering was formed as a platform through which Nagas in the UK can keep

in touch, share events affecting their lives, and help each other in times of need, a press release from the association said.

For the past ten years, the group had been coordinated by Dr Tsikhen Kithan with the support of Lily Das as treasurer. This year, Dr. Kithan and Lily Das decided to retire and

hand the reigns to a new co-ordinator and treasurer. Following this, the group chose Temsuyanger Longkumer to succeed Dr Kithan as Co-ordinator, Khrienuo Kense-Wood as Deputy Co-ordinator, Atila Imsong as Treasurer, and Emilo Kithan as secretary.

In his resignation speech, Dr. Kithan said,

“We have come this far and will continue, hopefully, even better in future years under the leadership of our newly elected Office Bearers.” He wished the new office bearers best of luck and urged to keep UKNA going and growing from strength to strength in future years.

Meanwhile, Temsuyanger expressed honour

and pleasure to be elected the new Co-ordinator. “Our annual gatherings are always so much fun, with lots of food and chat and there are always new faces,” he commented. He welcomed anyone coming to UK and wants to be involved in the association to get in touch.

In a discussion with the new committee, Khrienuo Kense-Wood expressed her wish to develop the scope of the group to enable all Nagas, either residing in or visiting the UK, to have a sense of belonging to an identified group and opportunities to build relationships with their fellow Nagas, the release added.

To get in touch with UK Naga Association, visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook. com/groups/UKNAMembers/ or email: temsuyanger@hotmail.com

The Longleng portion of the Changtongya– Longleng– Merangkong– Mon road.

loNgleNg, July 22 (MexN): Highlighting the pathetic road condition of Changtongya– Longleng– Merangkong– Mon via Tamlu, the Phom Students’ Conference (PSC) has stated that since the construction of the road was abandoned in April 2012, the condition of the road has deteriorated caus-

ing inconveniences for vehicles to travel through the “knee-deep” potholes in the whole stretch.

A press release from PSC president Hongkam D Ngonyen and general secretary Lungchem stated that the said road construction under Longleng district was taken up by Gayatri Mytas/ Ratna (J.V)

under SARDP- NE (2-lane) and was abandoned by the company in April 2012.

In this regard, PSC has requested the State Minister for National Highway to intervene and initiate immediate necessary action within one month’s time for better road connectivity in the interest of Longleng district.

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Imphal-Ukhrul road Twelve kids rescued from ‘trafficker’ at Rangiya stn blocked by ILP supporters Our Correspondent Imphal | July 22 Imphal-Ukhrul road has been blocked by agitators since early Wednesday to put more pressure on the Government to pass a fresh ILP bill to safeguard the interests of the indigenous people without delay.

Sit-ins were staged in various parts of Manipur

by ILP supporters though the Manipur Cabinet entrusted to a committee with the task of drafting a bill on ILP yesterday. The Government had announced that the new ILP bill would be introduced in the Manipur Legislative Assembly within one month.

The five-member committee is headed by Law minister Th Debendra Singh.

The Cabinet also approved decision of the Congress Legislature Party to recommend the state Government to order a judicial probe into the death of Sapam Robinhood.

Sapam Robinhood, 16, resident of Khurai Lairik Yengbam Leikai in Imphal East, was killed on July 8 during ILP movement when police fired tear gas canisters on a group of protesters, largely students.

He was a class 11 student of Ananda Singh Higher Secondary School, Imphal.

Since the incident the Manipur Government in order to prevent further violence clamped an indefinite curfew in Imphal East and Imphal West, which is now in force during night time.

The controversial Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers Bill recently passed by the state assembly was withdrawn by the Government on March 15 after intense protest by the public under the banner of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS).

JCILPS, which has been spearheading the ILP agitation, in a statement on Tuesday rejected the Government’s assurance that

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Bangladesh bound contraband cough syrup seized aGartala, July 22 (Pti): Border Security Force today seized contraband cough syrup, worth Rs 27 lakh in the international market, from a truck in a village near the Indo-Bangla border, officials said. Acting on a tip off, BSF personnel along with Customs and state police stopped the truck this morning at Ushabazar village and recovered 9,300 bottles of a particular brand of cough syrup hidden under sacks of cement.

This brand of syrup is widely used by drug addicts in the North EastandBangladesh."Wehaveseized9,300bottlesofofcough syrup in a truck of cement. The consignment was meant for Bangladesh," said Customs Inspector Sraban Sourav. However, the driver and the helper of the truck managed to flee.

Four northeastern states - Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam - share a 1,880-km long border with Bangladesh, a portion of which is unfenced and running through dense forests, making it porous and vulnerable.

Students caned, probe ordered in Agartala aGartala, July 22 (thE hiNDu): Fifty-two students of a high school in Agartala were allegedly caned by a teacher, following which the Tripura government ordered a probe. Guardians and student organisations staged protests at the Ramkrishna Vivekananda Vidya Mandir on Tuesday and demanded that the teacher, Shivaji Debbarma, be sacked. The teacher punished the studentsof Class IX for being ‘disobedient.’ Several students sustained injuries. Fellow teachers later restrained Debbarma.

Story of Manipuri python at National Museum NEw DElhi, July 22 (iaNS): "Poubi Lai - The Story of a Giant Python", a single object exhibition based on a Manipuri folklore was inaugurated at the National Museum here on Tuesday. Mounted by Bhopal's Indira Gandhi Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) in collaboration with the National Museum, the exhibition will find depiction in the national capital for the next 42 days, as the pioneering sculpture of Manipur's Poubi Lai, a mythical reptile. In the recent past, the government has been making efforts to promote culture from the northeast, K.K. Mittal, additional secretary in the culture ministry, said at the inaugural event. "The National Museum, which is seen as a space for classical art, will now be showing the story of an ethnic community from the northeast," Mittal added. Conceived and chiselled by late wood carver Karam Dineshwar Singh, one of the successors of the royal family-associated Karigar craftspeople, the 21-foot-long artwork found expression in 2002 from a dream he had of Poubi Lai. Completed in six months, the sculpture had its inaugural exhibition the same year at the Manipur State Museum in state capital Imphal.

the new ILP bill would be passed within one month and insisted on passing the proposed bill in a fortnight and call on the public to continue with the movement Meanwhile, parents and guardians of candidates appearing in the CBSE-conducted All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) today appealed to the JCILPS to relax the ILP agitation on July 25.

At a press meet at the Press Club here, they informed media that around 6,500 students from across the state are going to give the examination.

All educational institutes in Imphal East and Imphal West, closed down by the Government following the death of Sapam Robinhood, are yet to reopen.

But All Manipur Recognised Private School Association in a meeting on July 20 decided to re-open all private schools on July 23 to resume normal classes.

Guwahati, July 22 (tNN): At least 12 children, including a girl, who were allegedly being trafficked to Mumbai and Goa, were rescued in a joint operation by officials of Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Rangiya Junction railway station in Kamrup district, some 68 km from here, on Tuesday morning. The trafficker, a resident of the Mazbat area of Darrang district, was identified as Kamal Daimary. He was arrested.

"The rescued children hail from the same area as Daimary. He lured

twice a Union Minister.

Patra, who was flanked by two Union Ministers Kiran Rijiju from Arunachal Pradesh and Sarbananda Sonowal of Assam, asked Congress to introspect and own up its leader convicted two days ago for corruption.

"Such is the level of corruption in Congress that ages have passed, the age of Indira Gandhi is over but still the corruption cases of that age is existing.

"This is called fossilised corruption. The corruption which does not die, the corruption which lives forever during the reign of Congress and look at the shamelessness of Congress that it is trying to gain a high moral ground as far as corruption is concerned," he said.

Rijiju said since Thungan was a prominent Congress leader from North

also depends on the health and skill of the child," the GRP official added.

The rescue took place on a day Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and chief minister Tarun Gogoi discussed ways of protecting child rights and curbing human trafficking in Assam.

A child welfare officer attending to the rescued children said poverty and illiteracy in remote areas of the state fuel trafficking. "Unfortunately, in many cases, parents seek the help of such agents to send their children for jobs," the officer said.

In the last month alone, around 62 children from the state went missing.

aGartala, July 22 (tNN): Championing Modi's Skill India Mission, the Left Front government in Tripura is going to set up a separate directorate for skill development. It is aiming to create a 3.25-lakh employable work force in the state by 2022.

The council of ministers, at a meeting on Tuesday, okayed a proposal to harness the fruits of National Skill Development Mission to feed Labour Market Information System (LMIS) which will provide institutional capacity to train 300 million skilled people by 2022.

Industries and commerce minister Tapan Chakraborty said Tripura is a pioneer in skill development mission in the country. "As many as nine departments will set up separate wings to deal with skill development under the new directorate," added Chakraborty.

As per estimates, the rubber sector in the state has a scope of 0.21 lakh employable workforce, 1.62 lakh in construction, 1.12 lakh in automobile sector, 0.09 lakh in electronic, 0.08 lakh in food processing, 0.01 lakh in finance market and 0.09 lakh in the health sector by 2022. Tripura has 13 ITIs having an intake capacity of 5,490 per year. But it provides vocational education to only 3.9 per cent people.

Chakraborty added the new directorate will start functioning from August 1.

make their lives miserable .

Kamrup (Metro) deputy commissioner M Angamuthu held a meeting with his counterpart from Meghalaya's Ri-Bhoi district, which shares a border with Assam in this area, and discussed the problem.

"Commuters from different parts of the state and the region face a lot of problems in this area, along NH-37, whenever it rains. Water carrying silt from the Meghalaya hills blocks drains and other channels here. We have discussed the issue with the Ri-Bhoi

DC and NHAI officials," said Angamuthu. Ri-Bhoi DC Pooja Pandey promised to work for an early solution.

Locals, however, painted a different picture. Unabated hill cutting and the presence of a number of stone quarries in the area would act as a hindrance in solving the problem, said a local.

"It's unfortunate that hill cutting is regularly and illegally done here. Owing to this, Jorabat faces the plague of waterlogging. It is the silt that creates the problem," said Tara Sharma, another local.

Tuki joins festival of trees plantation programme itaNaGar, July 22 (Pti): Stressing on his commitment to increase the forest cover percentage of the state from its existing 82 to 85 per cent and above Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today took part in the 'festival of trees' plantation programme organised by the environment and forest department here.

He along with a host of parliamentary secretaries including C T Mein, Phurpa Tsering, former APCS chairman Rinchin Dorjee, Chief Councillor of Itanagar Municipal Council Kipa Kaku, PCCF, DC capital, senior officers from the environment and forest departments and students from Kingcup school planted trees in the Gompa premises to mark the occasion.

Complementing the

department of forest and the people of Arunachal Pradesh for preserving the rich forests, which had convinced the 14th Finance Commission to recommend for higher grants for the state from the current year, Tuki appealed all sections of the society to join hands to increase the forest cover.

Tuki reiterated for setting up of Green Corps (Green Army) yet again in every school which was started in the year 20002001, but somehow got discontinued and directed the department to work out modalities in coordination with the department of education.

The Green Corps comprised of students who were directly involved in environment protection and organised plantation programmes in their re-

spective areas.

While directing the department of education to incorporate environment, forest and wild life protection in the school syllabus, Tuki said "We have around 1.5 lakh students in the state and if each student plants a tree a month, imagine how many trees can be planted the whole year."

He appealed the young minds to adopt plantation of tree as a hobby and plant economically viable trees which could fetch them good returns when they grow up.

Dwelling at length over tea, rubber and spices revolution taking shape in the state, Tuki pinned hope that these viable sectors which were gradually gaining importance, was expected to change the face of the state's economy in the days to come.

Local court strikes down arrest warrant against Bru leader aizawl, July 22 (ENS): A local court in Aizawl on Tuesday struck down an arrest warrant against Bru leader A Sawibunga in a criminal defamation case after Sawibunga said he would attend court hearings regularly. An arrest warrant had been issued against A Sawibunga by the Mamit District Court after he failed to turn up for several case hearings. Senior Civil Judge Lalramsanga struck down the warrant following Sawibunga’s promise that he would attend court hearings regularly.

Sawibunga said he was

scared of attending court hearings at Mamit, where the local unit of the Young Mizo Association had filed a defamation case against him for his alleged comments to a national newspaper. The newspaper had quoted him early last year saying that Mizos had burned down more than a dozen Bru tribals’ houses while tension prevailed in the state’s western regions because militants, among them some Bru tribesmen, had kidnapped several people for ransom. There had been no such houseburning incidents however

BJP seizes on Thungan conviction in graft case to hit back at Cong NEw DElhi, July 22 (Pti): Under attack on Vyapam scam and Lalit Modi row, BJP on Wednesday seized on the conviction of former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister P K Thungan in a graft case and sought to question Congress' credentials to raise the issue of corruption and stall parliament. BJP said skeletons of yesteryears continued to tumble out of Congress closet even now and it had no moral authority to talk of corruption and stall Parliament run on public money.

"Congress is talking of corruption, skeletons of corruption of yesteryears are tumbling out of its closet," BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said raising the conviction of Thungan, a veteran Congress MP from North East, who had been a two-time Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh and

them with the promise of finding them work in factories," a GRP official said.

Sources said Daimary had earlier trafficked many women and children, handing them over to fake agencies and service providers in other states. In most cases, the children ended up in brothels or in factories as bonded labourers.

"Daimary was engaged by 'firms' in New Delhi, Jaipur and Mumbai, among others, to tempt vulnerable children and women with job promises. Such rackets pay between Rs 30,000 and Rs 50,000 per child. The amount

East and was the chief minister for two terms and a two-time union minister, Congress should not "disown" him.

"Congress should own responsibility for the conviction of one of its very senior leaders," he said.

Patra said Thungan was considered a close confidante of Indira Gandhi.

"Today, if Congress needs to do something, it is introspection," he said.

He alleged Congress, which is responsible for some of the biggest scams of the country, has stalled Parliament.

"Congress should be introspecting, Congress should be asking questions from its own Ministers and Congress and refrain from wasting taxpayers' money when the government is ready to discuss, debate and reach a decision," he said.

and the YMA took Sawibunga to court.

He never turned up for the scheduled hearings, and the court issued an arrest warrant against him. A Sawibunga, president of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum, the main body looking after tens of thousands of Bru tribals lodged in six relief camps across two subdivisions in northern Tripura, has moved to the Gauhati High Court asking that his case be transferred outside Mizoram. The court however dismissed his plea and transferred the case instead to the Aizawl District Court.

Concerned over rapid urbanisation in the twin capital cities which has resulted in massive destruction of forests, Tuki appealed the Itanagar Municipal Council (IMC) to chalk out a strategy to contain it.

He asked them to prepare a realistic plan to plant more trees in and around the city with afforestation programmes.

"Planting of trees in the hills will provide us water and protect us from soil erosion, which will check landslides while the city will look green if we materialise plantations in town area," Tuki said.

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Kamrup(M) takes steps to curb Jorabat floods Guwahati, July 22 (tNN): The Kamrup (Metro) administration on Tuesday asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to take measures along NH-37 in the Jorabat area to prevent rain water coming down from the hills of Meghalaya from entering the city Routes from different parts of the region converge at this point to enter the city.

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He asked the department of environment and forest to help the IMC with funds for the purpose.

The Chief Minister further appealed the NGOs, media, panchayat leaders and environmentalists to create awareness on environment protection through all possible means.

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Why airlines keep pushing biofuels: They have no choice

NEW YORK, JulY 22 (AP): The number of global fliers is expected to more than double in the next two decades. In order to carry all those extra passengers, airlines are turning to a technology very few can make work on a large scale: converting trash into fuel.

They have no other choice.

As people in countries such as China, India and Indonesia get wealthier they are increasingly turning to air travel for vacation or business, creating an enormous financial opportunity for the airlines.

The number of passengers worldwide could more than double, to 7.3 billion a year, in the next two decades, according to the International Air Transport Association.

But many in the industry believe that without a replacement for jet fuel, that growth could be threatened by forthcoming rules that limit global aircraft emissions.

“It’s about retaining, as an industry, our license

In this Jan. 30, 2009 file photo, a Japan Air Lines staffer checks the biofuel-loaded No. 3 engine of Japan Airlines Boeing 747-300 before a demo flight at Tokyo International Airport in Tokyo. Using blend of 50 percent biofuel and 50 percent traditional Jet-A jet (kerosene) fuel, JAL conducted an hour-long demonstration flight. Many in the industry believe that without a replacement for jet fuel, growth in air travel could be threatened by forthcoming rules that limit global aircraft emissions. (AP File Photo)

to grow,” says Julie Felgar, managing director for environmental strategy at plane maker Boeing, which is coordinating sustainable biofuel research programs in the U.S., Australia, China, Brazil, Japan and the Unit-

ed Arab Emirates.

Cars, trucks and trains can run on electricity, natural gas, or perhaps even hydrogen someday to meet emissions rules. But lifting a few hundred people, suitcases and cargo 35,000 feet

into the sky and carrying them across a continent requires so much energy that only liquid fuels can do the trick. Fuel from corn, which is easy to make and supplies nearly 10 percent of U.S. auto fuel, doesn’t pro-

vide enough environmental benefit to help airlines meet emissions rules.

“Unlike the ground transport sector, they don’t have a lot of alternatives,” says Debbie Hammel, a bioenergy policy expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

That leaves so-called advanced biofuels made from agricultural waste, trash, or specialty crops that humans don’t eat.

United Airlines last month announced a $30 million stake in Fulcrum Bioenergy, the biggest investment yet by a U.S. airline in alternative fuels. Fulcrum hopes to build facilities that turn household trash into diesel and jet fuel.

FedEx, which burns 1.1 billion gallons of jet fuel a year, promised Tuesday to buy 3 million gallons per year of fuel that a company called Red Rock Biofuels hopes to make out of wood waste in Oregon. Southwest Airlines had already agreed to also buy some of Red Rock’s planned output.

These efforts are tiny

next to airlines’ enormous fuel consumption. U.S. airlines burn through 45 million gallons every day. But airlines have little choice but to push biofuels because the industry is already in danger of missing its own emissions goals, and that’s before any regulations now being considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and international agencies.

The industry’s international trade group has pledged to stop increasing emissions by 2020 even as the number of flights balloons. By 2050, it wants carbon dioxide emissions to be half of what they were in 2005.

Like airlines, the U.S. military is also supporting development of these fuels for strategic and financial reasons. For biofuels makers, it is a potentially enormous customer: The military is the biggest single energy consumer in the country.

Making biofuels at large, commercial scale is difficult and dozens of

companies have gone belly up trying. The logistics of securing a steady, cheap supply of whatever the fuel is to be made from can take years. Financing a plant is expensive because lenders know the risks and demand generous terms. A sharp drop in the price of crude oil has made competing with traditional fuels on price more difficult.

The airlines are now seeing some of these difficulties up close. A United program to power regular flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco with fuels made from agricultural waste was delayed when the fuel producer, AltAir, had trouble retrofitting the existing refinery. The companies now say the flights should begin in August.

Red Rock’s planned deliveries to Southwest have also been pushed back, to 2017 from 2016, and construction of the plant has not yet started.

But many in the industry say they are not surprised, or daunted, by the time and effort it will take to

bring large amounts of biofuels, at competitive prices, to market.

“We really are trying to create a brand new fuel industry,” says Boeing’s Felgar. “We’ve always known this is a long term play, and our industry is long term.”

And if any industry is going to crack fuel from waste on a big scale, the airline industry might be the best bet.

Instead of having to build the infrastructure to distribute and sell these fuels at hundreds of thousands of gas stations, jet fuel only has to be delivered to a small number of major airports. For example, nearly half of United’s passengers fly through its five hubs in Houston, Chicago, Newark, San Francisco and Denver.

Still, after the many disappointments that have plagued biofuel development, few want to promise an imminent biofuel revolution. “I’m not Pollyannaish about this,” says Felgar.

“I’m not optimistic, I’m not pessimistic, but I’m determined.”

Go online! E-stores a shopping haven for college-goers Microsoft posts record loss as it writes down Nokia NEW DElhi, JulY 22 (iANS): Craving for branded crop tops, skirts, dresses, tops, jumpsuits, shirts, shoes, bags, accessories and more to spruce up your wardrobe for college, but have limited pocket money? Online fashion stores are turning out to be a haven for youngsters, who log on for best bargains.

Portals like Jabong, Myntra, Fashionara, ShopClues, Koovs, FabAlley and LimeRoad, among a string of others, keep offering heavy discounts and luring offers, helping students to stock up their closets with trendy clothes at a lesser price.

“As a student, you more often than not live on a limited budget, and shopping online brings you convenience of choice, affordability, door step delivery and easy returns process. The college-going crowd is always on a lookout for what’s trendy and fashionable and these style edits definitely help make a quicker and smarter decision,” Praveen Sinha, managing director and co-founder, Jabong.com, told IANS. It’s not the fashion-conscious ladies who are logging on. According to a survey by Myntra, around 40 percent of clients are female, while 60 percent are male shoppers, with a majority of shoppers between 18

and 26 years of age. These are a mix of college students and first-time job-goers.

“College life is probably one of the most important chapters in one’s life.

Other than dreaming big and working for it, it is also the best time to show off one’s style,” Carlton D’souza, stylist, Myntra, told IANS. For years, college-going students have thronged local flea markets to get their hands on best deals -- be it Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar, Lajpat Nagar, Karol Bagh, Janpath, Paharganj, Sadar Bazar and Chandni Chowk, or Mumbai’s Fashion Street, Linking Road, Hill Road, Lokhandwala and Colaba Causeway. But with the surge of e-commerce, these online portals seem to have taken over brick and mortar stores.

Shopclues.com’s associate director Animesh Kumar considers the college-going crowd as an “important part” of their target market. So, the platform tries to come up with “interesting properties” to appeal to them.

“Since we understand this target group well, we also keep updating our inventory with brands and products that they would find relevant. Some of these products include graphic tshirts and casual dresses,” Kumar told IANS.

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Microsoft Corp reported a $3.2 billion quarterly net loss, its biggest ever, as the company wrote down its Nokia phone business and demand fell for its Windows operating system.

The company took a charge of $7.5 billion in the fourth quarter related to the restructuring of its Nokia handset business, which it bought last year.

Microsoft’s shares fell 4 percent to $45.38 in extended trading on Tuesday.

Under Chief Executive Satya Nadella, the company has been shifting its focus to software and cloud services as demand for its once-popular Windows operating system slows.

Sales of Windows to computer manufacturers to install on new PCs fell 22% in the quarter. The company is scheduled to roll out Windows 10 on July 29, a much-awaited launch after a lacklustre response to Windows 8.

A woman passes by a Microsoft store in Paramus, New Jersey July 8, 2015. (REUTERS File Photo)

Microsoft wants to generate revenue by building search and gaming into the Windows 10 interface, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said in April. Bing, the company’s online search engine, will be profitable in the year ending June 2016, Hood said on Tuesday.

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Major e-tailers have also come up with mobile applications to help their customers to shop with ease, and on the move. These dedicated apps offer discounts on a regular basis -- mostly weekends -- thus helping youngsters in buying branded clothes at a relatively cheaper price.

To cater to tastes of all people, there are items for less than Rs.50 to even Rs.5,000 and more -- including national and international designer-wear. Some platforms offering designer clothes may have higher priced offerings, but there’s always a good deal. For Latika Sharma, 19, online is the way to go to satiate her shopping craving.

“There are no queues for trying on clothes, no bumping into people, no waiting at the billing counter, and you can take your time or save what you want for a later purchase if you don’t have immediate cash in hand... what more do we want for convenience,” Sharma said.

Another student, Siddharth Gupta, an engineering student, said he loves e-stores for the variety of styles and brands they offer. “It’s as good as a multi-brand store, and you don’t even always have to wait for the seasonal sales as every day or weekend, there’s some offer or the other.”

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The Morung Express

Thursday 23 July 2015

Organisations condemn July 16 firing DimaPuR, July 22 (mExN): The Phek district unit of Nagaland Contractors’ and Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) has condemned the killing of two school going children (Tüzali and Aso) and injury of Esther Vitsürho at Wuzu village on July 16. Blaming the 46th Assam Rifles C. Coy under the command of Major Surinder Singh, Post commander at Akhegwo Village under Phek district for the killing and injury, NCSU Phek district unit stated, “The so called ‘Friend of the Hills People’ should be termed ‘Foes of the Hills People’ as it has created a highest crime against humanity.”

The Union through its president Kuzhoseyi Alex also appealed the Central government to immediately revoke the harsh laws as Disturbed Area Act (DAA) and AFSPA once and for all.

It also urged upon the Central government to take up the issue at the highest level and award befitting punishment to those responsible.

Moreover, the State government should compensate the bereaved family as well as those injured, it demanded. The Union further conveyed deepest sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family members and prayed for speedy recovery of the injured.

Yitachu condemns Wuzu killing

Kohima, July 22 (mExN): Minister for School Education, Yitachu has expressed deep anguish at the unwarranted action of security forces which led to the killing of innocent lives at Wuzu village under Meluri sub-division.

“The incident has dented the image of security forces in the minds of peace loving Nagas as a whole. Security forces are expected to instil a sense of security to citizens but such actions unleash a sense of terror in the minds of people and innocent public are left with no hope,” stated a condemnation note issued by the CNTC: Expressing pain at the killing of innocent students and injuring a civilian at Wuzu Village, the Central Nagaland Tribe Council (CNTC) opined that “this is the immediate impact of the declaration of the disturbed area all over the State of Nagaland and it foresee similar incidents, casualties to unarmed innocent civilians in any part of the State in future under the shadow of AFSPA.” CNTC stated that the declaration of the entire state of Nagaland as Disturbed Area was done in a hasty manner without ascertaining the ground realities and sentiment of the general populace. It alleged that “the Govt. of India has

Minister for School Education.

Further stating that the prevalence of Disturbed Area Act (DAA) and imposition of Armed Forces Special Power’s Act (AFSPA) is not a license for security forces to shoot and kill, Yitachu reminded the sequence of unwarranted actions of security forces beginning with June 10 incident at Kohima where 5 innocent persons were tortured for no reason and maintained that it bears testimony to the insensitivity of security forces towards basic human rights.

“Security forces are expected to maintain discipline and extreme re-

hidden agenda to finish the people of the State as has been done in the past which is not possible in the present world.” CNTC urged the Govt. of India to listen to the voice of the people and immediately revoke the disturbed area in the State of Nagaland before it is late. It also extended support to the initiative of the Naga Students’ federation in organizing public rally against Disturbed Area Act and AFSPA in Nagaland and urged upon all concerned to support the people’s movement.

PTCSu: The Phek Town Chakhesang Students’ Union (PTCSU) has also condemned the "unpro-

strain towards civilians. They must properly be sensitized with basic values of human matter of serious concern more so in the case of people living in geographically remote areas,” Yitachu stated. The Minister further expressed hope that DAA will be removed and the AFSPA be revoked from the state at the earliest, once and for all.

Yitachu conveyed his deepest condolence to the deceased family members and hoped the enquiry committee will pursue the matter with a sense of justice without fear or favour.

voked and mindless firing of some 46AR personnel upon the innocent civilian at Wuzu Village.” In a press statement, PTCSU stated, “It is quite baffling whether the ARs, the so called ‘Friends of the Hill People’ are there to really protect the lives of the innocent civilians or to mindlessly murder them in cold blood.” It further questioned whether the “notorious” AFSPA necessarily license them to go on a rampage, trampling the constitutional ‘fundamental right to life’ of the innocent peace loving citizens.

“Such mindless acts upon the civilians are nothing but reflective of their lack of sensitivity, professionalism, disregard to life and rather

grudge against the Nagas, which will in turn definitely erode their hard earned bit of good will and confidence of the peace loving citizens,” it added. Meanwhile, the Union appealed to the concerned authorities to immediately find out the facts of the incident and take befitting necessary actions.

WomEN WiNg NPF PhEK: The NPF Phek Division, Women Wing has condemned the July 16 incident at Meluri which resulted in the death of two innocent school children and injuring one woman from Wuzu village under Meluri Sub-division by the Assam Rifles. The Women Wing of NPF Phek Division

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MEx FILE NNC reviews national political scenario

also extended condolences Kohima, July 22 (mExN): The Angami Regional to the bereaved family.

Council (ARC) of NNC held an executive meeting on lEPhoRi STuDENTS’ July 18 and reviewed the present national political sceuNioN: The Lephori Stu- nario. A press release from ARC, NNC president Chosel dents’ Union (LSU) has informed that to strengthen the unity of NNC, the ARC strongly condemned the lauded the effort taken up by TS Keyho, vice president, “ghastly action” of the 46 NNC and pledged to extend its full support. Meanwhile, AR led by one Major Su- NNC, “the core of Naga national movement” urged rinder Singh wherein 2 stu- every Naga to unite, stand firm and strive forward to dents were killed and one achieve “our” political goal. injured on July 16. “Under the assured protection of NU, Department of Geology informs the much loathed AFSPA the India military went Kohima, July 22 (mExN): The Department of on a shooting spree tar- Geology, Nagaland University will be conducting a geting innocent civilians written test for admission to 1st Semester M.Sc Gewithout even the slightest ology Program 2015-17. All eligible candidates have of provocations from any been informed to appear in the written test schedquarter,” stated the LSU in uled on August 5 at 11:00 am in the Department of a condemnation note. The Geology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Union maintained that the Meriema. The list of eligible candidates is available act was "nothing but gross on the notice board of the Department. In case of any disrespect for human rights inquiry, the candidate may contact Dr. SK Srivastava and such actions of the AR (9436435610), Head-in-charge, Department of Geolwould only fuel further cy- ogy. The information is also available on the University Website: www.nagalanduniversity.ac.in cles of violence."

LSU also reminded the so called “Friends of the Ward panchayats Hill People” that even at its worst interpretation, AF- under KMC informed SPA is only a special act that Kohima, July 22 (mExN): All Ward Panchayats empowers the army to use under the jurisdiction of Kohima Municipal Council certain force for mainte- (KMC) have been informed that a Ward Community nance of public order. "It is Consultation Meeting on Smart City Mission will be not an outright license that held on July 24, 11:00 am at KMC conference hall. A allows you to butcher inno- press note issued by Kovi Meyase, Administrator, KMC cent lives at will," LSU main- has requested all the Ward Panchayats to attend withtained. The union extended out fail as the matter is of utmost importance and ofits support to the victims' ficial from the Directorate of Municipal Affairs will be families and further urged coming to brief the meeting. every law abiding and peace loving citizen of the country NSF informs students to condemn the unwarrantKohima, July 22 (mExN): Students who have been ed act of 46 AR. selected by the State selection board to undergo studies in MBBS, BDS and Agri & Allied course and are yet to verify their document in the first phase at NSF Office have been informed to compulsorily verify their documents in person at Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) ofshould not be disturbed fice on July 24 and 25 without fail. The required docuat any cost as Ze/Yang- ments include: Mark sheet & Admit card of Class 12; khullen has a boundary Schedule Tribe certificate; Indigenous certificate; Backwhich inter-connects with ward certificate; One passport size photo; and Permaboth the community Mao nent residence certificate. This was informed in a press and Angami in the eastern release issued by NSF Secretary Education Imtiyapang. side of the Dzukou valley.

However, the committee also appealed to both LSWOK thanksgiving service the Mao Council and the Kohima, July 22 (mExN): The Lazami Social WelSouthern Angami Public fare Organization, Kohima (LSWOK) is organizing Organisation to settle their thanksgiving service on July 25 at 12:00 noon at Sumi differences in the spirit of Aphuyemi Baptist Church, Kohima, Nagabazar Colony, true brotherhood.

Kohima. In this connection, all the members have been requested to attend the said programme positively.

TPO constitutes Board of arbitrators Ze-Dzukou Valley committee cautions, appeals to resolve Mao Council-SAPO dispute Kohima, July 22 (mExN): The Tenyimi Public Organization (TPO) held a General Body Meeting on July 21 at Heritage Hotel, Kohima and constituted a board of Arbitrators to resolve and adjudicate the imbroglio between the Mao Council and SAPO over Kezoltsa / Kozürü and Dzukou valley.

According to a press release from the TPO, the board will comprise one member each from the 10 TPO Units. The members as nominated by the respective units are: Benjamin Bance, Poumai Naga Union; Dr. Hiabe Mbung, Zeliangrong Baudi; Dr. Khanlo Magh, Rengma Hoho; Sovenyi, Chakhesang Public Organisation; L. Adani, Mao Council; R. Atathu, Pochury Hoho; Ng. Joseph, Maram Union; K.T. Villie, Angami Public Organisation; K. Gangsishim, Thangal Union; and B.T. Agwam, Impui.

The house endorsed the Board member to ap-

Sub-Division where two innocent students were killed and a women injured consequent to indiscriminate firing by 46 Assam Rifles without any compunction for human life. The house decided to visit the area of incident on July 22 with representative from all TPO units, the release informed.

The house also expressed serious concern of the intermittent shooting/clashes taking place in the Naga areas, especially in civilian areas. TPO appealed upon all armed groups, be it Assam Rifles or NPGs, to desist from firing in civilian areas which may cause harm to the innocent public.

TPO has also decided to support and participate in the Rally called by the NSF on July 23. In this regard, TPO has called upon all its unit members to participate in the aforementioned rally called by the NSF.

Condemns July 16 Wuzu incident; To participate in rally called by NSF point convener and member Secretary amongst themselves and also to formulate modalities to meet the purpose.

Also during the meeting, the following officials were inducted into the executive council of TPO as per the recommendation of the respective tribes: P. Sani Mao, Vice President; Vipopal Kintso, General Secretary; Eshuwo Krelo, Secretary Info. & Publicity; Dovikho Nagi, Finance Secretary.

The vacant posts were created owing to untimely demise and resignation of incumbent officials.

The meeting also vehemently condemned the July 16 incident at Wuzu Village under Meluri

DimaPuR, July 22 (mExN): The Ze–Dzukou Valley (Meikoi Rezai) Preservation Committee has cautioned and at the same time made an appeal against encroaching on their traditional boundary line without the knowledge of Ze/Yangkhullen.

It warned that doing so, would be at one’s own risk.

In a press release, the committee stated that it

had learnt through various media sources and organisations that the Dzukou valley land dispute case between Mao Council and Southern Angami Public Organisation issue is to be settled and resolved at the Tenyimi Public Organisation court and expressed that it was compelled to issue the press statement that Ze/ Yangkhullen jurisdiction

Coordination Meeting of KLWS Kohima, July 22 (DiPR): Kohima Liangmai Welfare Society Nagaland (KLWSN) will hold its Coordination meeting of Office Bearer and Advisory board at the resident of its treasurer N.K. Namty Newmai, Government High School Road, Kohima on July 25, at 12 Noon. The meeting will discuss on the forthcoming Zeliang festival 2015, and also to discuss some other important agenda for the community. President Kairinpibo and General Secretary Rutmakbo (KLWS) has informed all the members concerned to attend the meeting positively.

Arms license holders in Dimapur informed

Mokokchung, having received rain for the past few days, encountered two landslides.

However, there were no reports of any casualty. Two houses were damaged in the first incident which occurred in Salangtem Ward on July 20. Less than 48 hours later, the second landslide occurred at Mokokchung Compound where an acre of land in which the house of a working Clerk of Mokokchung Compound Baptist Church used to stand, slid from its present location to about 15 meters below. Three neighbouring houses, including one belonging to an Associate Pastor Women MBBC, suffered minor damages.

CSU undertakes ‘surprise Naga Market on Fridays and Saturdays July 22 ect is to instill the spirit of of the facilities provided by ket is just a project for checking’ of govt offices DimaPuR, (mExN): Continuing with economy independent SN in collaboration with a short period to proPhEK, July 22 (mExN): The Chakhesang Students Union (CSU) conducted a ‘surprise checking’ of government offices at Phek HQ and its three sub-divisions of Chozuba, Pfutsero and Chizami from July 6 to 17.

A press note from the CSU informed that the absence of employees in several departments was detected. “It comes as a surprise to the union for any Head of Department or government employee to be absent from duty citing that there is no work,” the CSU said.

While acknowledging that HoDs or certain staffs have to frequent their respective departments in Kohima, it however stated that many government employees use it as an excuse to take extended leave of absence.

The irregularity and absence of several HoDs is detrimental to the functioning of any office, which effects the administration of the works and functioning of the concerned department, it stated. The CSU further

lamented that the offices in Phek district are “not functioning as they should." Several offices were also found to be closed or doors opened but with no staff present, it informed. The CSU however informed that some departments were found to be functioning to the best of their capacities and acknowledged the HoDs and staff of those departments.

On completion of the tour, the CSU met the Phek Deputy Commissioner and urged his office to take action on erring government employees and also take steps to streamline all departments in the district.

The Union, it cautioned would not tolerate hindrances to public works or to the public due to the lackadaisical attitude of government officials. “If any department or employees are found to be lacking in their responsibilities in the next surprise visit, the Union will be compelled to take its own course of action against the same,” it cautioned.

its effort to promote dignity of labour and work culture in the business sector, Survival Nagaland Naga Market project will be held twice in a week on Fridays and Saturdays from 1:00 pm till 9:00 pm.

Survival Nagaland in a press release said that the central idea of this proj-

through the old adage of dignity of labour/work culture and becoming self-reliable, self sustainable for the Nagas.

Through the Naga market project, Survival Nagaland aims to destroy the barrier of stigma feeling by inviting all interested entrepreneurs to make use

Development Authority of Nagaland on Friday and Saturday till the project term last.

SN also appealed to all entrepreneurs to establish their own business whether big or small at their own locality or at their convenient place/ area because Naga Mar-

mote dignity of labour and work culture. It also urged all Naga citizens to be part of Naga Market either as entrepreneurs or promoters of their skills.

Interested people wishing to open stalls can contact @ 9436654182, 8794271840, and 9774020040.

Pochury Students’ Union holds protest rally DimaPuR, July 22 (mExN): The Pochury Students' Union (PSU) organised a public rally on July 21 to protest against the brutal killing of two of its members Aso and Tiizali and also injuring one pregnant woman Easter on July 16 by the 46 AR at Wuzu under the command of Major Surinder Singh.

According to a press release, around 4000 people from all walks of life attended the rally. After the rally, a memorandum was submitted to the ADC Meluri.

The progamne was chaired by Er. Joyson Pfithu President PSU. During the rally, various speakers spoke and condemned the actions of Security Force/ AR. Speakers included President Pochury Hoho Penthu Pochury, Pochury Mothers' Association President Machii Joshou, Pochury GB's Union President T. Nyupuchu, Pochury Youth Association General Secretary Thomas Feedhu, Pochury VCC's Union President Rholetho and Adhoc Town Council Meluri Vice

Chairman Ghachu Trakha.

While addressing the rally, President PSU condemned the action of the 46 AR 'C' Coy for intentionally killing the two students – both students of Class-7 at Govt. High School Pholary, Phor, and injuring a pregnant woman, Easter, at Wuzu village. Taking such innocent lives of the students without any reason cannot be accepted at any cost, the president stated.

The union maintained that the so called “Friends of the Hill people” had turned

into foes of the hill people.

Conferring the title of “martyrs” to the two students, the union stated that their sacrifices “made for the cause of Naga Nation shall be remembered for generation to come.” Further calling upon Nagas to realise the need to stand united against such atrocities and killings meted upon us, the union maintained that justice to the victims should be delivered at any cost. “The student body will not remain silent till justice is done,” PSU maintained.

DimaPuR, July 22 (mExN): All who have weapons entered in their arm license under Dimapur district have been directed to deposit their arm license to the office of the deputy commissioner for pasting of UIN number as per guidelines of Ministry of Home Affairs. A press release from SDO (C) Sadar, Dimapur Moa Sangtam informed that without the ID number or UIN number, the license will be invalid. The license holders have been asked to deposit the license and obtain receipt from the arm branch of the DC office on or before September 30 without fail. No further complaint or query shall be entertained after the last date, i.e., September 30 and license is liable to be cancelled without further notice, the SDO cautioned.

Agriculture department informs Kohima, July 22 (mExN): The Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland has invited the candidates who have already applied to appear for the interview (in response to the Advertisement dated May 14. No. AGR/KVK-MP/2005-06/810-13) for various technical posts - (i) Subject Matter Specialist (ii) Farm Manager (iii) Program Assistant under Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Tuensang on August 11, 11:00 am in the office chamber of the Director of Agriculture, Nagaland, Kohima. A press note issued by Bendangyanger, Director of Agriculture, further noted that no separate call letter for interview will be issued.

ANIEF notifies on collection Kohima, July 22 (mExN): The All Nagaland Industrial Entrepreneurs Federation (ANIEF) has notified all concerned that the collection of Rs 1000 per selected unit once completed should be submitted or handed over to the Treasurer ANIEF, S. Asenla Jamir, at Upper PWD Colony, Kohima (Contact No. 9856053185 / 8415828156) to maintain proper record and procedure as the Treasurer is the only authorised person to receive the collection. A press release in this regard informed that the collection would be taken up on District-wise basis and should be completed by July 31. In this regard, it requested all concerned to strictly comply with this information. According to the press release, the money is being collected in order to pursue pending cases under Central Transport Subsidy (CTS) and Central Capital Investment Subsidy (CCIS) for the year 2007 in Nagaland so as to further pursue the matter with the concerned Central ministry for release of funds under the schemes.

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By Aheli moitra

Informal interactions

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ast week the Assam Rifles (AR) in Dimapur, representing the North East of the sub-continent, invited the media to, what they interchangeably termed, a press conference/informal interaction. The event sought to “clarify” what had happened on July 16 that led to the killing of two children and injury of a woman in Wuzu/ Phor, in the eastern corner of Phek district.

The mood at this ‘informal interaction’ was some sort of jubilant. Would you like some drinks? Beer, vodka or whisky? That was the first question asked to journalists. The ‘press conference’ thus had a mood set for itself where senior officials addressed a grave issue with a drink in hand, slim lights to go with.

Servants in army fatigues circled the room constantly with snacks, as though a gala was underway. Detailed photos of journalists were taken by armed men.

The ensuing “clarification” was casual. Armed with lopsided information, the Inspector General of the AR (North) declared that he is 100% sure the children had not been killed by them.

He neither knew what kind of vehicles his AR personnel were in when the incident occurred nor the identity of the dead children.

He was, however, sure that NSCN (K) had fired upon the AR convoy. How did they know this in the 7:00pm jungle-darkness of Wuzu/Phor? They heard automatic weapons being fired.

Ensuing independent investigations have not corroborated this theory. The NSCN (K) has not issued any clarification. The people of Wuzu/Phor have reiterated several times that no armed group was present in the vicinity at the time. The AR shot at the civilians and their houses. Could it have been that a part of the AR convoy that went ahead, leaving its commanding officer behind (who stopped to speak to the civilians), fired in panic leading to an exchange of fire between the AR convoys, leading to the deaths of children, and injury of a woman and an AR rifleman?

But even if we consider the AR’s version, there remains a 50% chance that it was the AR’s bullets that killed the children.

The AR is too arrogant to admit this because the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 gives them the license to “shoot to kill” on suspicion. The AR chose to build upon this “suspicion” angle to complete its chain of impunity by stating that all civilians in the area were either hand-in-glove with the NSCN (K), or were “coerced” to take part in an “ambush”.

When the possibility of AR guilt was considered, the atmosphere at the ‘informal interaction’ became a bit like a ‘press conference.’ The AR went on a defensive. They accused the media of bias. They accused, bizarrely, the village pastor of having called off the day’s service a bit earlier than usual. They accused people expressing their opinion of ‘anti-national’ slur. Everyone but those with the actual, visible, heavy automatic arms—the Assam Rifles—were a problem.

The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights has now called for a United Nations intervention into the said matter.

Rightly so—India has taken active part in drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR). It is a signatory to the six core international human rights covenants, and also the two Optional Protocols to the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

These contributions India has made to the UDHR fall flat when facts are manipulated on the ground to constitute convenient truths. While the Naga people must ensure that the Naga armies operate in a just and accountable manner, it is up to the people of India to make the Indian army accountable for arms used with impunity. Without this responsibility, a genuine peace process between India and the Naga people can never take root.

Feedback may be sent to moitramail@yahoo.com

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Tim Ecott Intelligent Life

It’s A Wrap

Where the Wild Things Are: the Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles are home to some of the world’s largest bats. Tim Ecott eavesdrops on their shrieks and chatter

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y house was on the slopes of Bel Air—not the one in Los Angeles. The fruit bats always came to sup on the mangoes outside the bedroom window. It was like listening in on a large and boisterous cocktail party as they shrieked and chattered and scolded one another while fighting for access to the ripest fruit. They would stay for hours, shuffling along the branches, making their high-pitched squeals and cackling hysterically, or so it seemed to a human ear.

Along with smaller, more cryptic—harder to spot—sheathtailed bats, the fruit bats are Seychelles’ only endemic land mammals. With a wing span of a metre and a body the size of a small dog they are some of the largest bats on Earth. On these islands, they roost just below the ridges of the granite mountain slopes, sheltered from prevailing winds, but high enough to catch the rising thermals of late afternoon. The hour before sunset is the best time to see them cruising above the dense tropical tree canopy, sometimes flying several miles from one island to another.

Pteropus seychellensis are old-world megabats, commonly known as flying foxes. Their fur is golden-brown or russet and their large brown eyes make them appear friendly and curious up close. They have the endearing habit of shuffling, upside down of course, along a branch to snuggle up to one another during their daytime roost, and if you get too close they will often wrap each other in the dark stretchy wing skin of their upper arms.

No one is quite sure how many giant fruit bats remain in Seychelles, although on the main island of Mahé their habitat has been reduced by increased pressure from house building on the mountain slopes. The most recent studies suggest a population of around 10,000 bats on the half-dozen or so largest islands, with a particularly big colony on Silhouette. Twelve miles from Mahé, this prettiest of isles rises to 2,500 feet and covers around 5,000 acres. Inaccessible slopes and a tiny human population concentrated on one small stretch of coastline leave the bats free to exploit the mountain slopes with their dense stands of Albizia, Indian almond and breadfruit.

You don’t have to look very hard to see the fruit bats. They will fly along the beach at dusk, and even venture out in the middle of the day if conditions are right. Unlike smaller species, the megabats do not rely on echolocation to navigate, using their eyes instead.

Recently, on North Island, I stood under an Indian almond tree like the one pictured here to study a colony of more than 100 bats just a few yards from my hotel. They were impervious to my presence.

Happily, the local habit of making bat curry seems to be dying out. To me they are as emblematic of Seychelles as those other natives, the giant tortoises and the world’s largest plant seed, the mysterious coco de mer.

Tim Ecott is the author of several books, including “Stealing Water”, and a former Indian Ocean islands correspondent for the BBC

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en. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, the head of the Rwandan intelligence services who is now free on bail in London pending an extradition hearing in October, is an exemplar of the tightly knit group of diaspora Tutsis that ousted Rwanda’s Hutu-dominated government and rose to power during the 1994 genocide. Once a victim of human rights abuses, he now stands accused as a perpetrator. He is also a hostage — not of any justice system, but of an increasingly lone and erratic dictator, President Paul Kagame, who uses and abuses his inner circle as he grows more desperate to stay in power.

General Karake was arrested on June 20 at Heathrow airport on charges brought by a Spanish investigative judge, who accuses him of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between 1990 and 2002 in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In particular, he is suspected of ordering the killing, in 1997, of three Spanish nationals working for the relief organization Medicos del mundo.

The fact that General Karake was arrested in Britain, a country he has visited with impunity for years, and hitherto one of post-genocide Rwanda’s staunchest allies, suggests that Mr. Kagame himself is no longer beyond the reach of international justice. It also shows that the fate of the two men, so close for many years, is inextricably linked. General Karake has nothing to gain from a break with Mr. Kagame, beyond a stiff sentence from a foreign tribunal. But the reverse is equally true. Both men can only be free and powerful in Rwanda.

The arrest was only the latest twist in the wandering life of Mr. Kagame’s spy chief. Both men were raised in Uganda, where their parents sought refuge after a revolution in 1959 led to the creation of a Rwandan “Hutu Republic.” The young Mr. Karake earned degrees in business and international studies from universities in Uganda and Kenya, and an M.B.A. from the University of London before joining the Rwandan Patriotic Front, fighting to reclaim power in Kigali. The civil war, started in 1990 by the RPF, culminated in the massacre by Hutu extremists in 1994 of an estimated 800,000 civilians — mainly Tutsis but also Hutus who opposed the killing.

After the rebels took Kigali, Mr. Karake became a member of Mr. Kagame’s inner circle — mostly English-speaking Tutsi returnees from Uganda — that now rules Rwanda. But even as the new government won the favor of a Western leadership riddled with guilt for failing to halt the genocide, Mr. Kagame and his men orchestrated revenge killings. During the second half of 1994, at least 40,000 Hutus were killed inside Rwanda. Between October 1996 and May 1997, another 200,000 perished as they fled across Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Many died of hunger or disease or at the hands of RPF fighters and their Congolese rebel allies, whom a U.N. investigation accuses of crimes against humanity and possibly “acts of genocide.”

In 2007, General Karake was appointed deputy commander of the African Union peacekeeping force in the Sudanese province of Darfur. Though he was promoted deputy commander of the larger U.N. mission in Darfur in January 2008, the United Nations was embarrassed by allegations by Human Rights Watch that forces under his command had massacred Congolese civilians in the battle for Kisangani in 2000. Nevertheless, the U.N. extended the general’s tenure beyond its expiry in October 2008 after Mr. Kagame threatened to pull the Rwandan contingent out of Darfur. Both the United States and Britain, which have praised Mr. Kagame for his efforts to lift Rwanda out of atavistic poverty, also exerted pressure on the United Nations.

Since then, in the face of an increasingly vindictive and megalomaniac leader, the phalanx controlling Rwanda has broken up. Many of Mr. Kagame’s closest supporters have opposed the president’s iron-fisted methods on the grounds that they jeop-

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leading children’s charity tells us that child trafficking is child abuse. The largest online encyclopaedia goes so far as to describe it as the sale of children. Neither of these definitions, of course, is accurate. Nevertheless, they are representative of the discourse surrounding the movement of young people in the company of adults who are not their parents.

The actual, legal definition of trafficking is that which is laid out in the Palermo Protocol, formally known as the United Nation's (2000) Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. According to this protocol, the distinction between smuggling and trafficking is that the former refers to the movement of individuals where the individual has consented, while trafficking involves threat or the use of force or other forms of coercion. However, article three of the protocol makes it explicit that in the case of those under the age of 18, consent is irrelevant if their movement is considered to be for the purposes of exploitation.

Beyond the obviously questionable implication that those under the age of 18 are incapable of exercising meaningful choice, this definition entails a host of other problems. What constitutes exploitation is not clear beyond prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation; forced labour or services; slavery or practices similar to slavery; servitude; and the removal of organs.

Nor indeed is it clear how one is to establish intent to exploit. At its heart are certain assumptions regarding how young people should be spending

ardize not only their own future but the future of the minority Rwandan community. Rebuked and punished by Mr. Kagame, several of his former associates have fled into exile. Some have been assassinated, including one of General Karake’s predecessors, Col. Patrick Karegeya, who was murdered in a Johannesburg hotel room on Jan. 1, 2014. General Karake fell from grace in April 2010 when he was arrested for “immoral conduct.” Like many colleagues, he was cashiered and detained, but eventually rehabilitated after he was made to understand that his destiny is entangled with that of his boss.

Mr. Kagame can’t leave office without risking arraignment by the International Criminal Court, a threat from which even a trusted successor could not shield him — and Mr. Kagame no longer trusts anyone. Ignoring constitutional limits, he is orchestrating a “popular” movement to seek another term in 2017. Another election “victory” lies ahead, unless justice catches up with him. Thus the president is defending General Karake as if he himself were being forced to remain in London. He has denounced his spy chief’s arrest as a continuation of “colonialism” and accused the British of “arrogance and contempt” for complying with what is in fact a legal obligation.

Mr. Kagame has also called on his foreign allies for support. Cherie Booth, former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, leads the Karake defense team.

Two of the Rwandan leader’s most steadfast supporters have been Mr. Blair and Bill Clinton, who has said that one of his greatest regrets as president was not intervening to stop the genocide in 1994.

The post-genocide regime in Rwanda has many friends around the world for understandable — and in most cases, honorable — reasons. Horrified as we were by the bloodbath in 1994, and ashamed by our inability to prevent or stop it, who would want to believe that the good face Mr. Kagame has put on Rwanda — creating an image as a prospering and healing nation — is in fact a lie? Today, opposition voices in Rwanda have been completely silenced.

Yet, it is precisely the outside world’s need for a soothing moral tale — for a Manichean narrative to believe in — that betrays the reality in post-genocide Rwanda and renders us complicit, yet again, in more bloodshed. In a place where the absence of democracy and gross violations of human rights have already led to the ultimate collective crime, we simply cannot afford to continue to avert our gaze from Mr. Kagame’s violent and arbitrary rule.

General Karake’s case is a searing reminder of the need to hold Mr. Kagame accountable. He too belongs in the dock, standing trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Stephen W. Smith, is professor of African studies at Duke University and a former Africa editor of Le Monde and Libération.

Pathologising young people’s movement Iman Hashim

The independent movement of children is inevitably rendered as ‘trafficking’ due to core assumptions regarding what constitutes a proper childhood. Any deviation from these norms is assumed to be suspect their time and with whom; that properly loved children belong in the nonproductive world of home or school.

Any deviation from these assumptions, therefore, can only be the outcome of some pathological situations such as conflict, neglect or poverty and inevitably result in vulnerability to exploitation, harmful situations and/or abuse.

The case of Mali A detailed and sensitive study of children’s migration for work from Mali to Côte d’Ivoire demonstrates how weaknesses in the conceptualisation and application of trafficking frameworks result from the open question of whether or not an intermediary was involved in any given migration scenario. At the same time, it demonstrates the near necessity of intermediaries to facilitate the safe passage of young people and the near ubiquity of intermediaries in the social and economic activities that attract young workers. In their conclusions, the authors found that by criminalising routine cultural prac-

tices and service provision from benign intermediaries, young people are frequently forced into the hands of potentially unscrupulous intermediaries. As a result, the migrations of young people became more clandestine and potentially more dangerous.

The research in Mali found that few of the young people surveyed had been betrayed by an intermediary or tricked into work. This is not to say that harmful or abusive forms of work for children do not exist, only that they are the extreme minority of cases. This reality, however, has not substantially impacted the popularity of international efforts to combat ‘slave-like working conditions’ and ‘trafficking’. They remain a lucrative source of development funds for national governments, and thus in some ways create a perverse need to ‘find’ exploited children that can then be ‘rescued’. Follow this path to its logical end, and you reach the conclusion that any young person moving for work is trafficked. It also leads to the failure to address the very real needs of other child migrants.

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The case of Ghana My own research with young people from the upper east region of Ghana found that the children leaving their home communities independently of their families did so for a variety of reasons, not least among them was the need to earn an income. Many desired to learn a trade, experience new places, live with relatives, or simply do what their friends were also doing. Their experiences of migration ranged from pretty good to pretty grim. Most, however, were positive about their experiences, even when their pay was derisory and their living and working conditions were inadequate. Their responses are perhaps unsurprising. Most come from contexts of poverty and hardship, born into communities that lack income and training opportunities. Nevertheless, these communities value hard work and view productive labour as a central aspect of childhood.

Migration is not a single process.

Many of its positive or negative effects do not arise from movement itself but depend instead on a wide range of factors relating to the reasons for migration, the circumstances of the destination, the nature of the work found there, and the migrant’s relationship with their employer. A narrow focus on trafficking, the subsequent spotlight on intermediaries, and the dismissal of young people’s own choices have resulted in measures that increase the vulnerability of children regardless of their stated aims. A thorough and comprehensive understanding of young people’s movement is not possible without taking into account their economic, social and cultural contexts, and what the children themselves think about their movement and the role they play in it.

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7 The Revolt Against Tourism

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23 July 2015

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

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“I’ll resume talking in five minutes.”

Denmark is one of the world’s top destinations for conferences and a mainstay of trans-Atlantic cruise ships. Attracted by noir detective series and fashionable cuisine, nine million tourists last year visited this city, a record for Denmark, which has fewer than six million people.

The “quiet zones” are emblematic of the Danish philosophy toward tourists: They should blend in with the Danish way of life, not the other way around.

The Danes have prohibited foreigners from buying vacation cottages on their seacoasts; devised their famous bicycle-friendly transportation system to include tourists; and strictly limited bars and restaurants from taking over Copenhagen.

The question, says Henrik Thierlein, a spokesman for the city’s tourism office, is: “How do you take advantage of the growth in tourism and not be taken over by mass tourism?”

Outraged by tourists’ boorish and disrespectful behavior, and responding to the complaints of their constituents, local officials around the world have begun to crack down on tourism, and the tourism industry, even in the face of opposition from their national governments, which want the tax revenue from tourists.

Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million that receives over seven million people a year, represents the turn toward regulation. Taxis and tour buses have taken over entire neighborhoods, while souvenir shops and bars have displaced pharmacies and greengrocers.

The city’s mayor, Ada Colau, 41, who was elected in May, announced a one-year ban on new tourist accommodation citing the swarms of students who have all but taken over the Ciutat Vella, or Old City, of Barcelona. Last August, hundreds of residents erupted in spontaneous protest after images of three Italian tourists wandering naked in the neighborhood of La Barceloneta were circulated online.

Her greatest worry, Ms. Colau says, is Barcelona’s turning into Venice.

In Asia, alarm has centered on Chinese tourists; there are more of them than from any other nation.

China began loosening severe travel restrictions only about 25 years ago, and the rapid rise of the middle class has sent curious — but often naïve, rude or even destructive — visitors throughout Southeast Asia.

In Thailand a Chinese tourist was recently caught on video ringing and kicking sacred bells at a Buddhist temple as if he was in a game arcade.

There have been reports of Chinese tourists littering beaches and even defecating in public. One tourist even opened the door of an airplane, as it prepared for takeoff, reportedly to get fresh air. The Chinese government responded by promising to set up a tourist black list to ban notorious known offenders from traveling overseas for up to two years.

Of course, the Chinese aren’t the only culprits. In Cambodia, half a dozen foreigners, including three Frenchmen and two American sisters, were deported in February for posing nude in the temples at Angkor. I was in Cambodia when the scandal broke, leading a discussion near the temples about protecting cultural sites visited by tourists. The authorities are now considering a code of conduct that would ban not only nudity, but also the touching of ruins.

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further — it has restricted the number of tourism visas, curbed hotel construction and imposed a high tariff on tourism, all part of a strategy of “low-volume and high-value tourism.”

Battles like these have even reached the tourismfriendly United States.

A decade after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, city officials have eyed tourism as the best path for a revival. But homeowners in the French Quarter complain that the city fails to properly enforce zoning and noise regulations, inviting the party crowd into their streets. Last year, residents of Charleston unsuccessfully sued to block the South Carolina ports authority from opening up the port to more and larger cruise ships.

Tensions are bound to get worse. Notwithstanding worry about carbon emissions, more of the world’s peoples are crossing borders for leisure than ever before. Now tourism accounts for one in 11 jobs worldwide.

In 2012 the global tourism industry counted a record one billion trips abroad, and many more tourists travel within their home countries. Travel contributes $7.6 trillion to the global economy, nearly half the entire economic output of the United States.

One reason tourism is hard to regulate is its positive associations, not only with pastime and leisure but also with cultural prestige. People are proud of the vistas, landmarks and monuments that their homelands are best known for. So efforts to regulate tourism aren’t always popular.

France is an exception, which is remarkable given that it is also the most-visited country in the world.

In the 1950s, with American aid from the Marshall Plan, the French government used tourism to help rebuild the country. They discovered that tourism, when done properly, could underwrite the protection and nurturing of France’s culture, landscape and way of life.

In practical terms, that means tourism is promoted and subsidized, but also regulated, at all levels of government, in all matters of policy.

Tourism is considered, for example, in plans for preserving and protecting the countryside, the vineyards, forests, small villages and small farms, the coastline, the bicycling routes and the ski slopes.

(France is the world’s top skiing destination.) French officials debate whether Bordeaux needs another five-star hotel; which ski resort in the French Alps needs another lift; whether Provence needs more vacation rental homes.

The rules are enforced with impartiality. The special favors and corruption that mar tourism in other countries are mostly absent in France.

Patrimony and tourism feed each other. France invented the first Ministry of Culture and then spread festivals around the country to send visitors far from Paris: music in Aix-en-Provence, film and advertising in Cannes; photography in Perpignan and dance in Montpelier. Bordeaux undertook a mammoth 15year restoration of its 18th-century historic center — a project as complicated as Boston’s Big Dig — with tourism in mind, as Alain Juppé, the mayor (and a former prime minister of France), told me.

Like Copenhagen, Paris uses noise and zoning laws to keep tourism from getting out of control. And it handles the flow of tourists with the seriousness of a military operation.

The Eiffel Tower, with seven million visitors each year, is the world’s most heavily visited paid attraction. Tickets are limited and timed to the half-hour.

Visitors move up and down under the watch of discreet guards. The gardens surrounding the tower are kept manicured by a full-time crew of 38 workers. Loitering is forbidden; street vendors are strictly regulated. Similar restrictions apply for other tourist spots, like the gardens of Claude Monet in nearby Giverny. Paris is, first of all, for Parisians.

That was illustrated last month in a rare standoff between tourists and locals. For several years, tourists had disfigured the Pont des Arts by hanging padlocks on the pedestrian span as a sign of love. Parisians despised these “love locks.” After several compromises failed, the city government removed them.

The United Nations World Tourism Organization projects that by 2030, global tourism will reach 1.8 billion trips a year. It is now so big that it will inevitably be part of conversations about climate change, pollution and migration. Without serious government attention, many beloved places will be at risk of being trammeled and damaged — what those in the tourism industry call being loved to death.

A politics of hope and not hate P rahila Gupta

ragna Patel has won the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award, announced last week. In 1982 Praga almost single-handedly revived the semi-defunct Southall Black Sisters (SBS), a campaigning and advocacy group for BAME women.

Pragna was recognised for her ‘outstanding achievement’ and was joint winner with Mauro Cabral, CoDirector of Global Action for Trans Equality. With typical modesty, Pragna attributed the success of SBS to all the women who have been involved in its work.

Apart from Pragna’s sheer hard work, long hours, dedication and commitment to the cause, in which she was ably supported by the two stalwarts, Hannana Siddiqui and Meena Patel, it was her political nous and innovative thinking that has kept SBS at the forefront of black women’s struggles in Britain.

Pragna arrived in Britain from Kenya at the age of five, with her mother and younger sisters in 1965, to join her penniless father who had hitchhiked his way to London a year earlier. Looking back, the moment when Pragna’s feminist politics were awakened was at 17 when she was nearly forced into a marriage, an incident which Pragna describes with equal amounts of humour and pathos. She was taken to a village in Gujarat, India on ‘holiday’ by her mother and introduced to a boy with whom she was left alone in a room for 15 minutes while the rest of her aunts gathered in another room. She remembers sitting on a stool, weeping copiously as she is harangued by a group of women for saying no ‘without any good reason’, bringing shame on the family, setting a bad example to her four younger sisters and undoing all the hard work that her mother had put in to bringing them up alongside her long hours of factory work. Although Pragna was not particularly religious, in her naivety, she thought the local church would come to her rescue. She locates the priest, ‘a rotund, roly-poly’ man, taking his afternoon nap in the church courtyard – a perfect image of apathy. Annoyed by a young woman disturbing his sleep with complaints about being married off, the natural destiny of all women, he tells her ‘not to worry. Leave it up to God, my child’.

She returns to England, engaged. After a year of ‘civil disobedience’ during which she often finds herself clutching Portrait of an Artist as Young Man to her chest, sobbing and repeating the refrain of its hero,

Stephen Daedulus, ‘I will not submit’, her mother caves in, exhausted. And that is one of the key lessons Pragna brings to her work and success in later life: bloody mindedness or, more politely, persistence.

It was sheer persistence, in fact 20 years of it, which led to eventual concessions to the One Year Rule immigration rule and No Recourse to Public Funds which trapped non-British women in violent marriages. For Pragna, this campaign is her personal favourite of them all. And there were many: the first march against domestic violence in Southall when Krishna Sharma was driven to suicide by a violent husband and in-laws; the Kiranjit Ahluwalia campaign which brought SBS to national attention and led to a change in the interpretation of provocation so that it became more accessible to women who killed their abusive partners; the Zoora Shah campaign; the introduction of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007; the precedent setting challenge to Ealing Council’s attempt to withdraw funding from specialist services like SBS on the grounds of equality and cohesion; and the more recent victories against the UUK’s guidance on segregation of university students and the Law Society’s withdrawal of guidance on drawing up discriminatory sharia-compliant wills, to name only some of the bigger campaigns.

Highlighting the specific problems for migrant women with insecure immigration status facing domestic violence was an early example of SBS’s intersectional approach to its campaigns – before there was even a word to describe it. It is the impossibility of wringing any concessions in immigration rules in a hostile anti-immigration climate that makes even these small victories such a major achievement for Pragna, “When you’re prepared to let people die crossing the sea then there is something morally wrong at the heart of Europe. How do you climb this mountain? The very tools we have - legal aid – are being taken away. If legal aid goes, we might as well shut up shop.” The Destitution Domestic Violence Concession (DDV) has had a positive impact on the lives of thousands of women even though the government has tried to counterbalance it with harsh family rules which include the introduction of a five year probationary period for marriages to non-British spouses, a huge increase on the original one year rule.

The law has been an important arena for SBS where many of their battles have been waged although the importance of a wider mobilisation has

been central to SBS campaign strategies. Buoyed by the success of the Ahluwalia case, believing it was time for a change and wanting to get more educational qualifications, Pragna left SBS in 1992 to study law.

But ‘by end of my training, the writing was already on the wall regarding the end of legal aid especially in immigration. And that was one area I flourished in – it was adversarial between the state and the victim where the state was the clear enemy; family law had more grey areas and I was also uncomfortable with having to represent men.’ Her growing awareness of the law’s blind spots on gender, race and class also brought her back to SBS. I asked if the rights culture had been detrimental to feminist politics: for example ‘the right to a family life’ which provides the individual with some grounds to fight immigration law has also been used by men wanting access to children in whom they had shown no interest previously. While everything can be open to abuse and Fathers for Justice may have benefitted, the important thing was to analyse the abuse and propose refinements to the law. Pragna felt that the Human Rights Act, which is now under threat, has been ‘hugely important for women’. Feminist struggles have contributed to the evolution of human rights (HR) – domestic violence is now seen as gender discrimination and no longer considered a private act but something in which the state has a responsibility to intervene and protect women.

“What’s the alternative? We haven’t been able to come up with one. HR discourse is the only language we have left, socialism has been discredited whether we like it or not. We used the framework of HR to counter the detrimental impact of multiculturalism because it fundamentally violated women’s rights.’

The Bob Hepple award was given for progressing the cause of equality. Was that how Pragna saw her life’s work or was there more to it? ‘Equality is a critical part of it. I aspire to socialism, not the socialisms that have existed around the world but one infused with humanity, decency, justice, empathy and compassion. At the heart of it, is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist through mutual respect and rights. A politics of hope and not hate: if we have hope, we can dream about the possibilities. One of Mahatma Gandhi’s quotes that has really stayed with me is “I want the winds of all cultures to blow freely about my house”. I like the image of a house with open windows.’

ome politicians in India project themselves as champions of the poor by blindly opposing big corporations. For example, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did exactly just that when she opposed the industrialist Ratan Tata from acquiring some farmland to set up the proposed Nana Motor factory at Singur in 2008. By raising her rhetoric against Tata, Mamata caused herself to be seen as a protector of the poor and was able to easily win an unprecedented mandate in her state. In the meantime, Tata was forced to abandon his project in West Bengal and had to shift his company’s operation to Gujarat. In the middle of all this, the common people of Bengal ended up being the real losers because thousands of potential jobs were lost and tax revenue that could have been added to the local economy was gone as well.

Just last February, the Congress Party quickly reacted to Arun Jaitley’s presentation of the Union Budget 2015 as “anti-poor and pro-corporate.” More recently, Rahul Gandhi, while referring to the introduction of the controversial land bill, described the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre as anti-poor.As expected,the BJP leaders issued their response to these charges and claimed that they were not pro-corporate. The question, then, is this: Is being anti-corporate a good thing for a nation’s economic growth or even helpful for the poor in the long run?

It is unfortunate to see many political leaders in India taking an either/or position in regards to viewing big corporations and the welfare of the poor. They seemto assumethat all big corporations are bad for the poor. While acting as if they can provide hope for the poor, they often kill the job opportunities many big private firms can create for the common people.

Our Naga politicians are different in a sense: they don’t have to raise their voice against big corporations, maybe simply because we don’t have any big business firms in Nagaland. But as for mere talk about fighting for the poor, our society is certainly not short of such leaders either.

As pointed out in another article of mine, the Naga people would do well to have at least a few big private business firms in Nagaland. We can make this a reality if every one of us could extend our support to those individuals amongst us, who may already possess business acumen and personal integrity, so that they can grow their businesses unfettered by unnecessary governmental regulations or imposition of business taxes. Yes, when they succeed and prosper, we too could reap certain benefits in some form or another.

As a people, our Nagas see most natural resources as common properties and practice a culture that values social works or cooperative endeavors. This social system of ours could be easily expanded and extended to include undertaking common business ventures. To experiment this idea, I have been encouraging certain communities in Eastern Nagaland for the past two years to take up a Goat-Rearing Project for income generation and employment creation. If they are unable to do so on their own, I told them that we could try to get the help of outside investors to pay for and/or assume responsibilities such as: construction of sheds, training on rearing goats, purchase of does and bucks for breeding, delivery of veterinary services, and so forth. As for the villagers, their responsibility would be to grow the goats and sell them to the investors at wholesale prices, say, Rs.4000 per goat (16 kg/per head). If, for instance, each village can supply 50 fully grown goats per month, that will generate an earning of Rs.2 lakhs each month. Of course, this is just one example.

There are certainly many other business possibilities you too can possibly come up with. But our point here is this: various communities in Nagaland can easily put their resources and efforts together to launch many income-generating projects or even start some big business corporations that are funded and managed through public trading---that is, by expanding business ownership through the sale of stocks.

Now, let’s talk about the importance of having many small businesses. In a place like Nagaland, small businesses can possibly do better and be more profitable than big corporations. This is possible because of the Internet, cell phones, and the whole host of technology we have available today. As such, small businesses can sometimes cut labor costs but produce more goods or services than many older and larger companies, which tend to become overly bureaucratic and cumbersome.

The economic engine of the United States of America is really the small businesses. Approximately 80 percent of new job creation comes through small businesses. Because of all the positive things generated by small businesses, many American politicians would do everything in their power, using all the leverage the government can provide---often through the use of tax credits---to encourage the formation of small businesses.

Similarly, our Naga politicians should help our “little guys” to start businesses that can grow and thrive by providing economic incentives instead of creating more regulatory hurdles and/or tax burdens for them. When this happens, many of our young people will even venture out into the underdeveloped areas of our homeland, set up businesses, and work hard to prosper, thereby bringing dignity of labor and a productive work ethic to their communities. Indeed, the government must help such endeavors so that people will move away from government dependency and be empowered to solve a lot of their own socio-economic problems.

If we really want to be economically better off, we need to ask ourselves some hard questions: How long will we continue to depend on government handouts or go on looking for some scapegoat to take the blame for all our economic miseries?

Should we continue to indulge ourselves in a pity-party, victimized, woe-is-me mindset, which leads us nowhere except into more pain? When will we have the resolve and courage to create our own businesses to support ourselves and our families? Will we, out of our greed, decide to continue benefiting ourselves individually at the expense of our society?

To do so would be counterproductive, short-term thinking in which pride, ego, and greed would create disastrous results. So, will we as a society face up to the problems? No one created these problems for us; we created them ourselves.

Anyway, it’s never too late to correct our mistakes and get on the right path again. With proper guidance and a good dose of dedication on the part of each one of us, I believe, we can grow both our social system and the economy, which will benefit everyone in the long run. The challenge is ours!

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BJP-Cong in all-out war, parliament in stalemate

New Delhi, July 22 (iANS): The BJP and the Congress were on Wednesday locked in an all-out war over tit-for-tat corruption charges as continuing uproar over the demand for the resignations of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan chief ministers again crippled parliament.

Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha witnessed turmoil for the second day as the Congress and other opposition parties joined hands to target the government, which hit back aggressively -- both in parliament and outside.

The government flatly ruled out the resignations of Sushma Swaraj, who has been linked to former IPL chief Lalit Modi, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje -- also for her links with Lalit Modi -- and her Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is facing the heat in the Vyapam recruitment scandal.

As the impasse in parliament raged, the Bharatiya Janata Party opened a new front outside, accusing Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat and a close aide of corruption vis-a-vis liquor barons -- and demanded Rawat's resignation.

Rawat denied the charges but the Congress said an FIR has been registered, the aide asked to go, and a time-bound inquiry would follow.

Later, the BJP raised the issue of a chargesheet filed against former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister P.K. Thungon of the Congress over a 1998 corruption case.

Not all in Congress want to stall proceedings

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second right, talks to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah as party leaders Venkaiah Naidu, left and L.K.Advani, right sit beside during the BJP parliamentary party meeting before the start of second day of the monsoon session of parliament, in New Delhi on Wednesday, July 22. Indian opposition parties disrupted Parliament for the second consecutive day Wednesday to demand the resignation of two key ruling party leaders for allegedly helping a former Indian cricket official facing investigation for financial irregularities. (AP Photo)

There was ruckus in both houses of parliament all through Wednesday.

In the Lok Sabha, opposition members raised slogans against the Narendra Modi government.

Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and M. Veerappa Moily sought to move an adjournment motion on Lalit Modi, which Speaker Sumitra Mahajan rejected.

Opposition members, including those of the Congress and the Left, trooped near the speaker's podium wearing black bands and carrying placards. One placard in Hindi urged Prime Minister

Narendra Modi to break his "silence" on Lalit Modi and the Vyapam scam.

An exasperated Mahajan first adjourned the house till noon, then again till 2 p.m.

Later, as trouble continued, Deputy Speaker M. Thambidurai adjourned the Lok Sabha for the day.

The Rajya Sabha too witnessed ruckus throughout the day stalling business as the opposition pressed for the resignations of Sushma Swaraj, Raje and Chouhan.

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said his party wanted "action", not just a discussion. The opposition

appeared united.

Sushma Swaraj set the tone for the government's aggressive pitch in the morning when she tweeted that a Congress leader had pressed her to give a diplomatic passport to a Congress leader Santosh Bagrodia, a former central minister.

Challenging the BJP that state issues cannot be discussed in parliament, Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati told the Rajya Sabha that Vyapam was a national issue.

Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav said he and BJP leader L.K. Advani had quit

following hawala charges, suggesting that Sushma Swaraj must follow suit.

CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said there can't be a debate without the ministers concerned resigning.

Rajya Sabha leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accused the opposition of not wanting a debate and only being interested in making noise.

He said the whole country wanted to hear Sushma Swaraj in parliament.

"Pomposity without fact is not acceptable... I dare you to start a discussion. You don't have any facts, so you want to make noise," he said.

New Delhi, July 22 (AGeNCieS): As the monsoon session of Parliament got off to a tumultuous start, with the Congress stalling the Rajya Sabha, there were signs of discomfort within the party over its “disruption strategy”.

At a meeting of Congress Lok Sabha MPs, chaired by party president Sonia Gandhi and attended by vice-president Rahul Gandhi, party leader Shashi Tharoor is learnt to have expressed his disapproval over the “stalling tactics”.

Outside, too, Congress MP in Rajya Sabha M S Gill told The Indian Express that there are several pressing issues that need to be discussed. “I would like to see Parliament work. The country has many serious problems. The 130 crore people of the country have many grave problems. So, we need to discuss and decide something for them and solve their problems,” he said.

Sonia and Rahul met Congress Lok Sabha MPs at the Congress Parliamentary Party office soon after the House was adjourned.

Sources said Sonia asked the MPs to be aggressive and present in full strength in the House, and also signalled that the party should not cede any ground this week.

According to sources, Tharoor said the disruption tactics — a repeat of what the BJP did when it was in the opposition — may not be effective. He gave three reasons for this, sources said. First, the strength of the Congress is just 44, while the BJP had 110-plus members when it was in the opposition during the last Lok Sabha.

Second, it is not clear whether

the rest of the opposition will join the Congress, and it remains to be seen if the government can get them on its side. Third, Tharoor is learnt to have argued that the government will, in all likelihood, brazen out the opposition attack.

Tharoor, sources said, argued that the Congress should instead engage in discussion on all issues — be it Vyapam or the Lalit Modi episode — and use facts and figures to drive home its point. This will be heard by the media and the nation, he is learnt to have said.

Sources said Rahul agreed that facts should be presented to the people, and pointed out that even in Rajasthan, where he went last week, people were not fully aware of the Lalit Modi issue.

However, sources said, Rahul was not against the “disruption tactics”, and the general view at the meeting was that such tactics should be employed — at least this week.

There will be a review of the strategy next week. Sources said many MPs shared Tharoor’s views and felt they should not blindly follow what the BJP did during the UPA tenure. On Wednesday, the Congress is expected to raise the Vyapam issue in the Lok Sabha.

Accordingly, party leaders from Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia have given adjournment notices.

Before the House meets, Congress MPs wearing black bands would stage a protest in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue. Sources said both Sonia and Rahul would lead the protest. They would repeat the same protest on Thursday over the Lalit Modi issue.

Black money: Sebi busts billion-dollar IS Flag row: Curfew re-imposed in Rajouri ‘tax-evasion shops’ in stock market MuMBAi, July 22 (PTi): Suspecting tax evasion of at least Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 crore, regulator Sebi has clamped down on a large number of organized syndicates who had set up "shops" to convert black money into legitimate-looking funds through the stock market platform. While more than 900 entities have been banned from capital markets by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), it has also referred these cases to the income tax department for further investigations.

"We have banned more than 900 entities and my guess is that the tax avoidance that has happened in these cases is more than Rs 5000 to Rs 6,000 crore," Sebi chairman UK Sinha said.

"We have given all the details to the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) and we have told them that they should probe them," Sinha told PTI in an interview here.

Talking about the menace of money laundering and other marketrelated manipulations, Sinha said the regulator is trying to curb such cases one by one very successfully.

"As far as markets are concerned, one by one we are trying to curb the manipulation very successfully — be it IPO markets, GDR markets or secondary markets. But I must also say that this is an ongoing battle and I cannot say that we have controlled

every thing," he said.

Giving a "complete picture" on this menace, the Sebi chief said, "In any country or in any market, there are always people who are trying to find loopholes and take advantage.

"These are the people who have criminal intent. They are not here to help in the growth of the country.

They work with a desire to corner money with criminal intentions."

Giving example of the IPO market, Sinha said Sebi found "some people had virtually set up shops" there.

"If you want to raise Rs 200 crore, come to me, I will provide you the buyers, I will provide you the platform and I will provide you with a mechanism on how to go for the listing. They were manipulating the market after listing," Sinha said, while adding that Sebi was able to crack this.

Sinha further said similar activities were taking place in the GDR market also, where Sebi passed some orders which have now been upheld by the Supreme Court as well.

"So, segment wise, we have been able to control it — first in IPO market and then in the GDR market. Now let us come to the secondary market.

"Here our insider trading regulations have been strengthened now.

In addition, we found that there is a need for very active surveillance and therefore we strengthened our sur-

'Ban Indian doctors from wearing white coats' BeNGAluru, July 22 (iANS): Banning Indian doctors and medical students from wearing long-sleeved white coats could reduce the spread of infections in hospitals, says a new study. "Long sleeved coats spread infection and lead to avoidable harm and cost to patients," said Edmond Fernandes, a postgraduate at Yenepoya Medical College in Bengaluru. "Every hospital should have a committee to check and respond to hospital acquired infections," he added.

"But an easy win would be for India's ministry of health to ban doctors and medical students from wearing white coats, to reduce the harm and cost that results from hospital acquired infections," Fernandes said in the study published in the journal The BMJ. "Although long sleeved white coats have traditionally been worn by doctors since the 19th century, we now know that white coats harbour potential contaminants and contribute considerably to the burden of disease acquired in hospital by spreading infection," Fernandes added.

He said that in India, changing areas in hospitals are rare because of space constraints, so white coats are commonly worn by students coming from college and outside the hospital. They are also often left on chairs, tables, and in corridors. He added that in many cities in India some junior doctors are also now seen wearing white coats in shopping malls and cinemas too, and then they enter sterile zones in the hospital in the same attire.

"Given India's tropical climate, common sense indicates that we should discourage wearing white coats that are washed perhaps only every few weeks," Fernandes said.

veillance systems," Sinha said.

These measures helped Sebi crack a major organized and syndicated financial crime that was taking place in the stock market, he added.

"We found that there are these companies where the price has gone up by 10 times, 20 times and even more in some cases. Our surveillance systems caught this signal and we started probing. We started asking if your share price has gone up ten times, has your business also grown. Has your profit, turnover, order book, etc grown?

"We found that there was no correlation in the price and the business of these companies. Then we went to the next step and started getting into who were the buyers and sellers of these shares and from which bank account the money was coming.

"Then we realized that there was a racket going on. The same set of people were at play at all the levels and their intention was not just to manipulate the market, but their intention was actually to make the black money white.

"But they were doing it through our stock market mechanism. We caught then and we have banned more than 900 entities and my guess is that the tax avoidance that has happened in these cases is more than Rs 5000 to Rs 6,000 crore," he added.

SriNAGAr, July 22 (PTi): Curfew which was relaxed for two hours in Rajouri town today was again reimposed for the second consecutive day.

Authorities had relaxed the curfew for two hours today after which it was imposed once again to foil any untoward incident as the situation continues to be tense but under control, the police said.

Curfew was imposed in Rajouri town yesterday after some VHP activists reportedly burnt terror outfit IS's flag, leading to protests by minority groups who said that the flag bore religious scripture.

Clashes were reported in parts of Old city area as some youths, while defying curfew, pelted stones at policemen.

"Situation has started to return to normal but the curfew remains in the old Rajouri town under the limits of one municipality," DIG Rajouri Poonch Range A K Atri told PTI. He said that the situation became normal after leaders of the two community held talks and agreed to resolve the issue amicably.

A senior Kashmiri separatist leader of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Noor Mohammad Kalwal is detained by Indian police during a protest against Hindu hardline group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), or World Hindu Council in Srinagar on Wednesday, July 22. (AP Photo)

"The leaders of the two communities held a meeting last evening and decided to resolve the issue amicably," Atri said.

The officer said that the police has taken into custody 20 people who were trying to disrupt the law and order situation in the town, by resorting to stone pelting.

"Around 20 miscreants who were involved in the in-

cident of stone pelting have been booked by the police in the town," the DIG said.

Atri said that the police and the civil administration was keeping an eye on the situation and they are hopeful that the curfew would be lifted from the town as soon as the situation returns to complete normal.

He said that the army was not deployed, but it

was only the local police that was enforcing the curfew in the area.

"The army was called out for a flag march which they did on their vehicles, the army has not been deployed, but it is only the local police which has been deployed to enforce the curfew and it is the local police which is ensuring the law and order situation in the town," Atri said.

After brief mystery, Sushma back on Twitter as 'foreign minister' New Delhi, July 22 (iANS): Is she quitting?

Social media was agog with speculation that External New Delhi, July 22 (iANS): The Congress on Wednesday postponed a Affairs Minister Sushma silent protest against the BJP government over the Lalit Modi controversy and Swaraj may be thinking of the Vyapam scam. The protest which was to be held outside the parliament quitting over the Lalit Modi house complex was to be led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Vice episode after she deleted President Rahul Gandhi.

'Foreign Minister, GovernThe decision to postpone the protest came shortly after External Affairs ment of India' from her Minister Sushma Swaraj's tweet in which she has accused a Congress leader of Twitter bio. The bio was seeking diplomatic passport for a person accused in the coal scam. back on Wednesday afterThe party also moved an adjournment motion on the Lalit Modi issue in the noon.

Lok Sabha. The motion was moved by Congress leader of the house Mallikarjun Sushma Swaraj, who Kharge and senior leader Veerappa Moily. Asked to comment on the issue, Ratweets from the handle @ hul Gandhi told reporters before entering the parliament that he would speak SushmaSwaraj, had apin the Lok Sabha. parently deleted the words Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrives in the ParThe Congress has been demanding the resignations of Swaraj and Rajast'Foreign Minister, Govern- liament, on the second day of its monsoon session in New Delhi han Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over their links with Lalit Modi. ment of India', from her on Wednesday, July 22. (AP Photo) handle some time after On Tuesday, she had her name was linked withwith alleged corruption and after the Lalit Modi contro- was the argument in official Bio ? PM Modi will handle kya ? Wid the no. of Foreign tweeted: "I am ready for a former IPL commissioneris wanted for questioning in versy erupted, the sources circles.

However, by late tours, its feasible!" contem- debate today itself. I asked Lalit Modi, who is accusedIndia. He has been staying told IANS. Sushma Swaraj has been Wednesday afternoon, the plated another.

Shri Arun Jaitley to convey of financial impropriety. in Britain since 2010.

On Wednesday morn- this to Rajya Sabha. Shri Sushma Swaraj has According to sources making several personal bio was back.

"Ok. Sushma Swaraj is ing, she tweeted: "A senior Arun Jaitley has conveyed admitted to helping Modiin the external affairs min- comments on Twitter after with travel documentsistry, Sushma Swaraj may the Lalit Modi episode broke reappointed as India's For- Congress leader was press- this to the House. We are to go from Britain, wherehave deleted the words be- out, including taking pot- eign minister in twitter," ing me hard to give diplo- looking forward to the Ophe is now staying, to Por-cause she wanted to keep shots at a media personality. commented one Twitter matic passport to the Coal position's response."

The minister would not user.

Scam accused Santosh The government has tugal for treatment of histhe Twitter handle as a per"Why did Sushma Bagrodia. I will disclose ruled out her resignation or cancer-stricken wife. Modisonal one, and not as an of- have been able to make personal comments from Swaraj remove Foreign name of the leader on the of others in the line of the has been charged by theficial one. opposition fire.

Enforcement Directorate She deleted the words an official Twitter handle, Minister from her Twitter floor of the House."

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World mayors urge ‘bold climate agreement’ Nicole Winfield Associated Press

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ayors from around the w orld declared Tuesday that climate change is real, man-made and must be stopped as a matter of moral imperative, gathering at the Vatican to announce new measures to fight global warming and bask in Pope Francis’ ecological star power.

The Vatican invited the 60 mayors to a twoday conference to keep up pressure on world leaders ahead of U.N. climate negotiations in Paris later this year. The meeting also aimed to promote Francis’ environment encyclical, which denounced what he calls a fossil fuel-based world economy that exploits the poor and destroys the Earth.

One by one, the mayors lined up to sign a final declaration stating that “humaninduced climate change is a scientific reality and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.”

Francis told the gathering that he had “a lot of hope” that the Paris negotiations would succeed, but also warned the mayors: “You are the conscience of humanity.”

Experts have long said that cities are key to reducing global warming since urban areas account for nearly three-quarters of human emissions. Mayor after mayor made an individual plea Tuesday for the

Pope Francis greets Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino as he meets mayors gathered in the Synod Hall during a conference on Modern Slavery and Climate Change at the Vatican on Tuesday, July 21. Dozens of environmentally friendly mayors from around the world are meeting at the Vatican this week to bask in the star power of eco-Pope Francis and commit to reducing global warming and helping the urban poor deal with its effects. Next to Marino, at left, is Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, at his right is New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and between the two, one row back is Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. (AP Photo)

world to change its ways.

Drawing rousing applause, California Gov. Jerry Brown denounced global warming deniers who he said were “bamboozling” the public and politicians with false information to persuade them that the world isn’t getting warmer. California has enacted the toughest greenhouse gas emissions standards in North America.

“We have a very powerful opposition that, at least in my country, spends bil-

lions on trying to keep from office people such as yourselves and elect troglodytes and other deniers of the obvious science,” said Brown, a former Jesuit seminarian.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new greenhouse gas emissions targets for the Big Apple — committing the city to reducing its emissions 40 percent by 2030 — and urged other cities to follow suit.

“The Paris summit is just months away,” de Bla-

sio said. “We need to see it as the finish line of a sprint, and take every local action we can in the coming months to maximize the chance that our national governments will act boldly.”

De Blasio is a founding member of an alliance of world cities that have committed to reducing emissions by 80 percent by 2050 or sooner. San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee announced new measures of his own, saying the city that takes its name from

the pope’s nature-loving namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, would transition its municipal fleet of fire trucks, buses and trucks from petroleum diesel to renewable energy sources by the end of the year.

Stockholm Mayor Karin Wanngard said the Paris climate talks in December must take fossil fuels off the table and focus instead on renewable energy sources.

“Climate negotiators must dare to push boundaries and exclude fossil fu-

els as an option and reward solutions that are longterm sustainable and renewable,” she said.

Stockholm is one of the world’s leaders in using renewable energy sources, with 75 percent of the city’s public transport network running on renewable energy. Wanngard’s goal is to make the Swedish capital fossil fuel-free by 2040.

The climax of Tuesday’s inaugural session was the afternoon audience with Francis, who has become a hero to the environmental movement and has used his moral authority and enormous popularity to focus world attention on climate change and its effects on the poor.

Francis’ other main priority has been to raise awareness about human trafficking. The Vatican conference is aimed at showing how both are related: The exploitation of the Earth and its most vulnerable people, with global warming often responsible for creating “environmental refugees” forced to flee homes because of drought or other climate-induced natural disasters.

Francis told the gathering that while he had high hopes about the Paris climate negotiations, he also wanted the United Nations to focus more on human trafficking. “The United Nations has to deal with this,” he said.

The Vatican is angling for the U.N.’s new Sustainable Development Goals, to be finalized in Septem-

ber, to make a solid reference to the problems of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Day 2 of the Vatican conference was to deal specifically with the development goals.

“Addressing both of these phenomenon, climate change and modern slavery, is a herculean task for us as city administrators,” said Tony Chammany, the mayor of Kochi, India.

Chammany detailed how years of global warming-induced drought in India was pushing impoverished farmers into cities, making them ripe for the “dark dungeons of slavery” and exploitation.

The conference got off to a sobering start by hearing from two Mexican women who were victims of modern-day slavery.

Ana Laura Peres Jaimes showed the mayors photos of some of the 600 scars she suffered as an indentured servant, forced to iron for hours a day without food, water or even a bathroom.

She said she had to urinate in a plastic bag.

Karla Jacinto, a 22-yearold mother of two, told how she was forced into prostitution at the age of 12, servicing more than 30 men a day for the next four years until she was rescued.

“I didn’t think I was worth anything. I thought I was just an object that was used and thrown away,” she told the hushed audience hall.

Mayor William Bell of Birmingham, Alabama,

also offered a personal story that brought home the reality of slavery.

“At the time of my birth, I was born into a society in Birmingham, Alabama, that existed as a close cousin of slavery called segregation,” said Bell, who is African-American. “Segregation was designed to exploit individuals and groups based on race and race alone. It was for the economic purpose of cheap labor. It was to control society. It was to control human beings.”

The conference’s final declaration calls modernday slavery a crime against humanity and commits signatories to developing resettlement and reintegration programs “that avoid involuntary repatriation of trafficked persons.”

On climate, the conference’s final declaration calls for financial incentives to transition economies from using fossil fuels to low-carbon and renewable energies and to shift public financing away from the military to “urgent investments” in sustainable development, with wealthy countries helping poorer ones.

And it says political leaders have a “special responsibility” at the Paris talks to approve a “bold climate agreement that confines global warming to a limit safe for humanity, while protecting the poor and the vulnerable from ongoing climate change that gravely endangers their lives.”

Why Earth became Ant-ulcer drug may Myanmar talks resume on ceasefire deal habitable & not Venus? prevent stomach cancer TOrONTO, JulY 22 (IANS): A short course of two medicines commonly used to eliminate the bacterium that causes ulcers may reduce the risk of stomach cancer, research shows. Stomach, or gastric, cancer is the third most common cause of death from cancer worldwide, and people who are infected with the Helicobacter pylori bacterium are more likely to develop the disease.

It can be eradicated with a simple short course of antibiotics, often used with another medicine that suppresses the production of gastric acid. “The findings of this systematic review add to the increasing evidence that eradicating H. pylori in the general population has the potential to prevent gastric cancer,” said study co-author Paul Moayyedi, professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada.

“International guidelines for the management of H. pylori infection may change as a result,” he said. For the study, the researchers analysed all published randomised controlled trials which compared at least one week of H. pylori therapy with placebo or no treatment, in otherwise healthy and asymptomatic H. pylori-positive adults.

The review included only trials that followed participants for at least two years and that had at least two participants who developed gastric cancer. Six trials with a total of nearly 6,500 participants met the researchers’ criteria.

The studies mainly used a combination of antibiotics with medicines from a class of drugs that suppress gastric acid production (called proton pump inhibitors).

The researchers found that combining antibiotics with gastric acid suppressor therapy given for between one and two weeks prevented the development of gastric cancer compared with placebo or no treatment. The findings appeared in the journal Cochrane Library. “We feel our review provides sufficient evidence for countries with high gastric cancer rates to consider population H.pylori testing and treating,” Moayyedi said.

‘New fathers gain extra fat’ New YOrk, JulY 22 (IANS): While tracking the weight of over 10,000 men from adolescence to young adulthood, it has been found that men gain enough fat after they become fathers for the first time and it raises in them the risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer, a study says.

All those leftover pizza crusts they snatch from their kids’ plates add up, said researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

A typical six-feet man who lives with his child gained an average of about two kilogram (kg) after becoming a first-time dad. In the same period, a six-feet man who does not live with his child gained about 1.5 kg, the results showed.

That is a 2.6 percent rise in BMI (body mass index) for resident dads and a two percent rise in BMI for non-resident dads after controlling for other variables. By contrast, the average six-feet man who was not a father actually lost more than half-a-kg over the same time period.

“Fatherhood can affect the health of young men. The more weight the fathers gain and the higher their BMI, the greater risk they have for developing heart disease as well as diabetes and cancer,” said lead author Craig Garfield, associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University. The study controlled for other factors that could contribute to weight gain such as age, race, education, income, daily activity, screen time and marriage status.

It is already known that marriage results in a weight gain for men. The fatherhood weight gain is in addition to the increase resulting from marriage. New fathers’ weight gain is due to changes in lifestyle and eating habits.

“You have new responsibilities when you have your kids and may not have time to take care of yourself the way you once did in terms of exercise,” Garfield said.

“Your family becomes the priority.”

YANGON, JulY 22 (AP): The Myanmar government and armed ethnic minority groups resumed critical talks on Wednesday to reach a nationwide ceasefire agreement that would end 6 decades of fighting before an upcoming general election that threatens to upend hardwon progress toward a deal.

More than a dozen ethnic minority groups and government representatives have been in talks for more than 18 months and a key negotiator warned that failure to reach an accord could trigger a fresh round of fighting if the military takes action. The general election, which would usher in a new president, takes place in November.

“If negotiations fail and the military believe that the nationwide ceasefire agreement cannot be signed under the present government, they will have no choice but to launch military operations,” said Hla Maung Shwe, of the Myanmar Peace Center.

The center, funded by the European Union, was set up in 2012 to help with ceasefire negotiations and the ethnic peace process.

The prospect of reaching

Representatives from the government’s Union Peace Making Work Committee, left, and armed ethnic minority groups, right, shake hands during their meeting at Myanmar Peace Center on Wednesday, July 22, , in Yangon. They resumed critical talks on Wednesday to reach a nationwide ceasefire agreement that would end six decades of fighting before an upcoming general election that threatens to upend hard-won progress toward a deal. (AP Photo)

a deal as soon as possible, however, was uncertain.

Key details were still up in the air Wednesday, including which ethnic groups will participate. Negotiations hit a snag in June when minorities attending a summit asked the government to allow three other groups still at odds with the government to participate in the ceasefire signing.

When President Thein Sein assumed power in 2011, the armed groups operated in 55 townships across the country but that

number has grown to 110 townships in 2015, according to research conducted by the European-funded center. Some ethnic armed groups like the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have increased their strength, Hla Maung Shwe said, quoting from the center’s work.

He and Aung Min, the vice chairman of the government’s Union Peace-making Working Committee, were taking part in the Wednesday talks. Ethnic rebel group Karen National Union’s vice president Naw Zipporah

Sein led the negotiations on the ethnic minority groups’ side. In his opening remarks at the talks, Aung Min told ethnic leaders that the nationwide ceasefire agreement should be signed before the end of the tenure of Thein Sein government.

Peace negotiators suggested the agreement could be signed by 15 ethnic groups, but the ethnic leaders have insisted on a deal that also includes buy-in from the Shan state’s Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the Kokang group and the Arakan Army.

lONdON, JulY 22 (IANS): Information about the improbable evolutionary path that enabled Earth and not Venus to sustain life has been found, shows research.

Venus is the most similar planet to Earth in terms of size, mass, density, gravity and composition in our solar system.

While Earth has had a stable and habitable climate over geological time, Venus is in a climate catastrophe with a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere and very high surface temperatures.

According to researchers, Earth’s first crust, which was rich in radioactive heat-producing elements such as uranium and potassium, was torn from the planet and lost to space when asteroids bombarded the planet early in its history.

This phenomenon, known as impact erosion, helps explain a landmark discovery made over a decade ago about the Earth’s composition.

“The early loss of these two elements ultimately determined the evolution of Earth’s plate tectonics, magnetic field and climate,” said the team from University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of California-Santa Barbara.

“The events that define the early formation and bulk composition of Earth govern, in part, the subsequent tectonic, magnetic and climatic histories of our planet, all of which have to work together to create the Earth in which we live,” said Mark Jellinek, professor at UBC. It is these events that potentially differentiate Earth from other planets.

On Earth, shifting tectonic plates cause regular overturning of Earth’s surface, which steadily cools the underlying mantle, maintains the planet’s strong magnetic field and stimulates volcanic activity.

Erupting volcanoes release greenhouse gases from deep inside the planet and regular eruptions help to maintain the habitable climate that distinguishes Earth from all other rocky planets.

Worries grow about freelance Japanese journalist in Syria TOkYO, JulY 22 (AP): Worries are growing about the whereabouts of a freelance Japanese journalist, last heard from one month ago in war-torn Syria, where reporting assignments have become among the most precarious in the world.

It is not known why Jumpei Yasuda, who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2002, has not been in contact. He may not have access to communications or if he has been taken captive.

Yasuda was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004, with three other Japanese, but was freed after Islamic clerics negotiated his release.

Kosuke Tsuneoka, another freelance reporter, said Wednesday that he received a message from Yasuda in Syria on June 23, but has not heard from him since.

“It is not normal that

there has been no contact from him at all,” Tsuneoka said in a telephone interview, adding that no one should jump to conclusions about Yasuda’s fate.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said it was aware of the reports but has no confirmed information on Yasuda.

Three Spanish freelance journalists, who entered Syria separately from Yasuda, Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre, were also reported missing this week by a Spanish journalism association.

The four-year conflict in Syria has killed more than 220,000 people, and has been the scene of killings and kidnappings by Islamic State militants, including that earlier this year of freelance Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, who ran his own security company.

Most media organi-

zations, including mainstream Japanese ones, have pulled out of Syria. The Japanese government warns against travel to Syria. It is not known how many foreign and local journalists remain held in Syria, although the number is likely in the dozens.

Yasuda, who reported from Afghanistan and Iraq, wrote a book five years ago about laborers in war zones. He worked as a cook in Iraq for nearly a year to research his book.

His last Tweet was sent June 21, when he complained that his reporting activities were often obstructed and that he would stop Tweeting his whereabouts and his activities.

He did not give details.

“What you see by going to places is limited, especially in war, and no one goes there, thinking everything can be understood by just being there,” Yasuda tweeted June 18.

In this April 17, 2004 file photo, Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, right, is escorted after being released at Umm Al-Qura mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. Worries are growing about the whereabouts of the freelance Japanese journalist, last heard from late June, 2015, in Syria. It is not known why Yasuda, who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2002, has not been in contact or if he has been taken captive in the war-torn nation. (AP File Photo)

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THE CHRISTIAN DNA Open letter to the Home Minister and DGP

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he power of reasoning is one of the exclusive blessings that God Almighty bestowed upon mankind which distinguishes him from animals. However, many a times this rational ability is misappropriated for baser jaundiced intent and in the process we forfeit this distinction. So it is with the Hindu zealots, hell-bent on converting a diverse country like India into a Hindu theocratic Nation regardless of secularism being enshrined in the Constitution and in total contempt of other minority religions. An overwhelming presence of irrational bigots taking control of the Government system, as is exemplified today with BJP at the Centre having a clear majority in the Lok Sabha to abuse the fundamental rights of the minority, greatly endangers the sound health of Democracy. The front page coverage of Eastern Mirror on 19th July 2015 depicts a foreboding picture of a compliant Government under a stranglehold of RSS/VHP fanatics like Ashok Singhal standing shoulder to shoulder with External Affairs Minister Shushma Swaraj and senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi declaring that "entire India will be a Hindu nation by 2020". Carefully note that this, to them, is not a threat but a natural process they are putting in place to ensure its fruitation. Yet another headline coverage by Nagaland Post on the same day (19th July 2015) that read "Smriti deliberates on new edn policy" sharing prior platform with the likes of RSS general secretary Krishna Gopal on 9th June 2015, stressing on "complete overhaul" of Indian Education and emphasising that "only assimilation of Hindu thoughts into country's education can provide perfection of means and finish confusion of ends". The very fact that Central Cabinet Ministers share podium with bigots who proclaim such anti-constitutional prejudices is a clear indication of endorsement of the same by present Government at the Centre and a clear sign of things to come. The fact of starting a thought process of wanting to eliminate 'secularism' from the constitution or abrogating Article 371 pertaining to Kashmir, whether it is actually implemented or not, indicate the depth of BJP's sinister design of wanting to wipe out the religious rights of other minorities in this country.

The impending question therefore is: what stops them from also questioning Article 371 A concerning the Christian majority in Nagaland but an insignificant minority in India? With such a compelling storm headed our way, it is important that the Nagas try and remain human by reasoning together to recognise the challenges looming before us Christians in an unfortunate country called India. Remember that our elders, academically less qualified perhaps but well groomed by experience, clearly saw through the danger of the fate of a minority in an environment of adverse majority when they submitted the Nagas' Magna Carta memorandum to the Simon Commission on the 10th of January 1929. It would be an inglorious shame if the present generation of so-called literate Naga community cannot measure up to the foresight and courage of the poorly educated forbearers.

To my mind there are two glaring realities that the Naga Christians must envision with grave concerns: (1) The BJP Government at the Centre consists of compliant Hindus fanatics prepared to dismantle the fundamental principle of secularism enshrined in the Constitution at the dictate of Hindu bigots and their henchmen in the form of RSS and VHP because their Political survival depends on keeping their cows happy. In a diverse country such as India, 'to live and let live' is an inalienable part of coexistence in order to maintain communal harmony. Be that as it may, it is a foregone conclusion that the RSS/VHP has

boldly projected their unholy intention of wanting to convert India into a Hindu Nation at all cost now or later. That the unscrupulous Nagas have unfortunately spawned our own home-grown BJP along with RSS/ VHP wings within our Christian kitchen... all in search of power and money at the cost of our Christian identity... is an unambiguous writing on the wall which can no longer be written off as a fiction. We already have an infectious ailment within our Christian citadel. The surreptitious introduction of yoga and other "Hindu thoughts" as part of an educational curriculum in the daily routine of our school going children poses one potent threat. As a compulsory subject of study, our children have no option but to learn yoga and other Hindu thoughts in order to pass an exam. In the long process it will temper with their formative minds and maybe a day will come when they will turn around and start questioning their own Christian faith. The Hindus will not necessarily confront us with AK 47 like our own NPGs do but patiently work on the unstable minds of our children for a generational change. In contrast it would be of interest to study the efficacy of our church services down to the grassroots or how many families do conduct regular meaningful family prayer meetings to help our children in their spiritual growth. This will probably give us a rough indication of how vulnerably exposed our faith is, knowing well that these days being a Christian is less an issue of God fearing existence but more like being a part of a clan. (2) To make matters worse, we have a very compliant Opposition-less All Party Coalition Government in the State as well, looking for every possible opportunity to recuperate the Crores of rupees they had invested to get elected. Wear their shoes and you will understand what I mean.

Swimming in the vicious compulsive cycle of having to buy votes and recuperating it by hook or by crook, they are prepared to barter Christianity for money if ever such an opportunity is proffered. Remember how feverishly the Government apparatus prepared the welcome of Mr. Amit Shah, the BJP General Secretary, during his visit to Nagaland with our very own Chief Minister leading the charge to attend an appointment graciously given by Amit Shah instead of the other way round? This is a clear sign of where our Government stands. It would be the greatest insult to ourselves if the Naga electorates think that our elected representatives were simply performing a genuine social service by borrowing and mortgaging every bit of their movable and immovable properties to buy votes in a gamble to win an election. When we put these two realities together I do believe that every rational Nagas ought to be worried that we are at a very dangerous crossroad of needing to define our true Christian DNA not for fighting a physical war but that of faith against the Hindu incursion. The faster our Church leaders absorb this reality the better we can prepare ourselves to face the relentless oncoming Hindu tsunami.

The Church is perhaps the only organisation that has a very solid presence in every single village in Nagaland. Just as much as the brain controls the human body so can the Christian leaders at the helm of affairs nurture and strengthen the body of its congregation with the wisdom of keeping the faith. It is high time for the Church leaders to therefore, critically evaluate our Christian ground reality minutely. Consider what is being presented hereafter as a checklist and not a criticism. The first primary priority that the Church leaders must consider is to open their doors and windows and allow fresh theological and secular thoughts to cross ventilate. The present practice of deliberation mostly among the theologians in isolation is no longer viable enough. At least in the matters of improv-

ing management norms, candid insights can equally be shared by the secular world as a part and parcel of the congregational experience being received on the other side of the fence. There are issues which the Church leaders seem less disposed to address on their own without a prompt.

Take the case of many Theologians floating around with their Doctorate degrees which have been purchased from the illegitimate 'Doctorate market' for instance and yet there is no standard verification norm to validate such a qualification by the apex bodies of various denominational missions. When the Apex Missions like the NBCC/NCRC acknowledges dishonesty from those placed responsible to lead the Churches within their fold as their fundamental foundry by way of inaction, can one expect a naturally indifferent congregation taught by such questionable imposters to be of any better quality then them? Talking of quality, it would not be wrong to surmise that the Pastors are the most important cadre in the Church hierarchy. They are the direct representative of the Church interacting with the congregation they lead on a 24/7 basis. Yet the Pastors being sent on a mission to the villages are the most neglected lot. Not only are they poorly paid but basically abandoned without direction in matters of their spiritual support efforts.

The majority become regular rural cultivators roughing out for survival like any other labouring villagers. The business of prayerful, meditated sermon becomes a victim within the harsh schedule of a cultivator. As a result an uninspiring sermon becomes a mundane repetition Sunday after Sunday producing an indifferent congregation in his wake without being able to instil committed Christian values. The influence of all the government funds being directly pumped into the villages add to the heightened temptation against Christian ethics and values, and as a result attending Sunday devotional service has become more a social obligation to identify a belonging to a Christian Clan. The crippling impact of selling a vote during election is a direct offshoot of a malfunctioning management issue within the Church. Take another serious look at the ripple effect of Theological Collages that have mushroomed in every corner of Nagaland with Dimapur taking the cake. Does the Church apex body have a standard accrediting norm to allow such colleges to operate? Without a qualifying minimum yardstick in place these colleges will be churning out unsound theologians year after year to serve its congregation without commitment. The apex leaders have also not shown any initiative to set up any competitive platform for all the theological colleges to academically compete with one another to sharpen the minds and commitment levels of their respective students. These are just a few pointers. There are hoards of other relevant issues that need addressing. In short, all the negative attributes within the church did not grow in a day. Necessarily it cannot be rectified in a day either...but not starting an evaluation process in earnest will only multiply the problems and damn us all. This must surely give us a picture of the mountain we need to climb if we are to survive the Hindu madness. Admittedly, there are many good souls independently serving in the Mission field in their own sincere limited ways without an overall direction from the apex body. It is a humble recommendation therefore, that our Church leaders admit themselves into the ICU to ascertain the overall Christian DNA within themselves and their congregation and collectively take a candid appraisal for concerted corrective measures needed to guide the lost sheep home. Amen.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd) Forest Colony, Kohima.

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irstly it’s a fact that within the past few months there has been a backdoor appointment of approximately 18 A.S.I/S.I (close kin and aids of the home minister included) in Nagaland police maybe waiting to be sent for training along with the post which has been advertised.

Secondly there has been rumors going on with regards to the advertisement for the 28 post of A.S.I and S.I that some have started the old system of booking in advance- the rumors of which may be true or untrue- besides those rumors I have got to know a credible information told from a high ranking political personality currently working within the ruling government that the post are being asked or going for 7 lakhs 50 thousand?

Let’s put some numbers here the total employees of the police department as of march 31st 2011 is 26639(would have increased further as of 2015) including class-1= 293,class2=228,class-3=22566, and class-4=2552.Taking the service year as 35 and dividing it with the number of employees it turns out that every year there should be a retirement of 8 class-1 employees(8 multiplied by 35=280)using the same process there should be a retirement of 6 class-2 employes,644 class-3 employees and 72 class-4 employees totaling to

730 retirements every year(35 multiplied by 740=25900).employment in some years were few while some were high thus it should vary but if there was 300 retiring last year there should be some years where a lot were retiring some other year which the higher-up of the institution knows very well. So the current vacancies being published in the past years and now is just way too low below the truth.

Sir, with regard to the first issue I ask for all the recent backdoor appointment to be cancelled without further going ahead with the training for which the current heads of the said institution should be held responsible with further direct evidences to be published in case the appointment goes ahead and that the same be advertised for fair and equal appointment. No matter what we will shall be compelled to seek information that all the personal undergoing training in the various police academies are training for the posts only which were publicly advertised.

The said 18 post to which have been appointed without public advertisement is illegal and against the rule book for which any one is liable legally.

Sir, with regard to the second issue all I am asking for is credible assurance and to publically assure the common man that no unfair means are being used nor

should be used during any of the selection process not to make it morally depressing for candidates because the whole institution has a very doubtful reputation of the past. we have not heard from heads of any government institution that has been vocally against unfair means during selection and that’s what we want to hear from you, an assurance of truth nothing else I put this forward as an institution is liable and answerable to the people.

This time it will be none like others from seeking RTI for scores in physical, written and interviews to finding out the personal details of the qualified candidate because Nagaland has the state where co-incidence in government jobs happens the most-son/daughters whose parent is an officer in the same department, village man, supporter, clansman of the minister/officers in the institution we will make sure that there was no conflict of interest in the appointments. I may or may not clear the exam but what I’m very sure of is that this time I’m not going down without a fight. Besides that all we can do, we are still at the mercy of some process which is totally out of the purview from common people but this is where acts of a truthful leader shall come in(if) and for that we leave it to the unseen to judge.

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Open letter to CM of Nagaland

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llow me to congratulate you first for making history of becoming the first Chief Minister of the state to win cent percent support from legislators in the State Assembly Floor test and also of becoming the first Chief Minister of the state to successfully form a party less government with a vision to bring permanent solution of the protracted IndoNaga political crisis. Indeed, a historic moved made by your government.

Let me not waste your time by touching all messy things happening around us today but go straight to the core. The central government’s decision to declare Nagaland as disturbed area is not warmly welcome by one and all as is evidenced by dozens of condemnations pouring in daily from several corners.

I appreciate that you are also with the people on this matter, however, condemnation is not necessarily required from your esteem authority rather your assurance that such inhuman act would not be allowed to be imposed upon your people would have been more encouraging to the public.

You have promised us a permanent solution for Indo-Naga political problem through your party less government and at the same time reaffirming your po-

sition as the leader of the house.

When you formed the party less government, people expect something good must come out of it through your historic ideology of party less government. But in reality, the public now feels more insecure and unsafe due to the fact that they now have to protect themselves from the killing machines of Indian army under Disturbed Area Act on the one hand and to please the underground outfits by paying taxes in order to escape assault and harassment. Should your people be expecting you to protect them like a real Dad hero or expects you to run away like a coward disowning your own children from crisis? Every morning we keep our ears open expecting to hear your loud voice of assurance that we are going to be safe but still not even a faint sound could be heard from you. Where are you, Hon’ble Chief minister?

Are you running away from us in times of crisis like this?

It is really a matter of shame that the Chief Minister of the state is not even console when the centre decided to impose Disturbed Area Act in the state.

And yet you dare not to question or criticize the arbitrary action of the central government in a despotic manner. Have you become that much insignificant?

Disturbed Area Act is the prod-

uct of the British Colonial regime used to suppress the freedom movement. We are not in a colonial era but in the era of modern democratic world wherein the government is responsible to protect the rights of each individual and not to take away their rights from them. In case, if we are not facing leadership crisis at this hour, the present government has to prove itself by restoring back the rights of the citizen by removing the Disturbed Area Act and also protect them from extortion and harassment of the underground outfits.

Hon’ble Sir, on the issue of Indo Naga political conflict, still the solution seems pretty far and unpredictable. Some innocent lives have already being sacrificed like a valueless commodity because of this reason. Only God knows if this is the solution of the Indo Naga political problem that your party less government had promised so far. But as a matter of fact, neither we require Indian army to protect our lives nor need the underground outfits to bring sovereignty for us. All we want is-just leave us alone.

We earnestly hope that God give you more courage to act out rightly and defends the rights of your people.

Khrukroku Vero Lower AG Colony, Kohima

Can Nagaland revisit the Report on the firing incident special funding pattern? at Wuzu village on July 16

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each year for the development programs in Nagaland. (b) A fixed recurring sum (Annual Subvention) for meeting the cost of administration in Nagaland”.

Clause 11 of 16-PA stated; “To supplement the revenues of Nagaland, there will be a need for the Government of India to pay out of the consolidated fund of India as Grants-in-aid as follow:(a) Lump-sums as may be necessary

This clause clearly implied that the new State did not even have the revenue to bear the administrative cost. It was to be fully dependent on Delhi for both administrative cost and development programs. For India, creation of Nagaland was more a political compulsion than qualification. Delhi had no choice than to promise to bear both.

Delhi seems to have forgotten that clause 11 of 16-PA was not just a commitment but an obligation. Nagas will not forget that it was the price of peace paid by the blood of their brothers and sisters. The instrument of 16-PA did not give the right to Delhi to withdraw any part of it unilaterally. Needless to say, withdrawing special funding pattern was violation of that political agreement. Regrettably, the State government of that time failed to act politically by taking the people of Nagaland into confidence. It appears that the issue was taken as governance issue and not political issue. The people of Nagaland have suffered on account of those violations and failures.

Withdrawing special category status for Nagaland will further depress development programs and progress.

Therefore, if special category status is to be done away with, Nagaland should consider revisiting special funding pattern of pre-1989 status.

16-PA gives Nagas the political right

he possibility of discontinuing special category status to Nagaland and ten other States has captured the news headlines for quite some time now.

This will not be the first time that Nagaland will feel the pinch. Special funding pattern for Nagaland was withdrawn prematurely in 1989. That had badly affected the development programs in the State.

Special category status is common to eleven states in India. But special funding pattern of pre-1989 was unique to Nagaland because the situation and historical background under which the state was created was different. Barring Assam, other NEstates were not even born then. Even before India became independent, Naga Hills was unique in its own way.

Historically; Nagas and their territories were never part of Assam before the advent of the British. Unlike most other NE-states, Nagaland was detached from (and not carved out of) Assam. Nagaland was created on the basis of this historical right. Under the instrument of 16-PA, special funding pattern was the political right of Nagaland. The legislative powers were guaranteed in Article 371A of the Constitution of India.

to demand for restoration of the special funding pattern because, in the context of Nagaland, special category status more or less replaced special funding pattern.

However, if restoration of special funding pattern is not acceptable to Delhi, Nagaland should consider revisiting the 16-PA in toto. The reasons are very simple. While, some clauses of 16-PA are yet to be implemented even after fifty years of statehood; some clauses were blatantly violated

by Delhi. In such a scenario, there is no honor for Nagas to uphold an agreement that could not be honored by the other party.

Therefore, whether to continue with or abandon 16-PA should be decided by the people of Nagaland through a referendum. The slow process of de-oxygenating the Nagas should not be taken lightly. I would suggest that the all-party government of the 12th NLA pass a resounding unanimous resolution to that effect in the ensuing monsoon session.

Meanwhile, should even a new political deal be in the offing from the ongoing political talk as alternative option, Nagas should learn a lesson from failures and violations of 16-PA. Any new political deal; sans sovereignty, that does not guarantee a provision for fool-proof clause to automatically repulse any attempt of betrayal will end up like 16-PA only.

(This is a personal opinion and in no way reflect the views of the political party this writer belongs).

Dr. K. Hoshi, Phek Town

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irstly, on receiving the information that the corpse of the two slain NSCN (K) cadres namely Corp. Longwang and Capt. Puhachu, the later hails from Wuzu village, shall be transported to Meluri via Phor and Wuzu village, public leaders and relatives of the slain cadres agreed to humbly request if the corpse be handed over to them in the village itself. Supposedly, the AR declines to hand over the corpse, they agreed to request them to let the corpse be carried in a proper coffin which they had prepared.

Secondly, the convoy of the AR arrives at Wuzu village. Altogether, there were five convoy vehicles namely Truck 407, Tata Truck, Gypsy and two 407 Trucks (vehicles mentioned in series of their arrival at the village). Three leading convoy vehicles headed ahead despite the request of the villagers to halt and stopped near Wuzu village community hall. The last two convoy vehicles stopped near the residence of Shri Yichiili, left side of the road as per the direction of the convoy vehicles.

Thirdly, the village leaders met Major Surinder Singh, seated at Truck 407 and who is said to be well acquainted with the public leaders, and reminded him of their noble intentions. Fourthly, Major Surinder Singh expressed his reluctance to hand over the body citing that certain protocols have to be maintained and that the corpse must be first handed over to the District Administration at Meluri Town.

Fifthly, firing began from the leading convoy vehicles which was followed by indiscriminate firing from the last two -convoy vehicles and killed two innocent students namely Lt. Tilzali S/O Sukaho Of Phor village, Lt. Aso D/O T. Yeteli Wuzu village(both class 7 students . of GHS Pholary) and injured Vitsilrho Esther W/O Riitu of Wuzu village. Sixthly, firing 'continued unabatedly for nearly 20 minutes and the convoy vehicles finally fled from Wuzu village leaving behind three of their cadres who according to eye witnesses were seen chasing their convoy vehicles. Around 132 shells of bullet fired were recovered inside the village where still many unrecorded shells are being found aftermath of the police record. Seventhly, after fleeing from the site of the incident, Major Surinder Singh called up the chairman of New Phor Shri Chilli (at 7:14 P.M. as per the mobile record) and the chairman of Wuzu Shri. C. Pita Thurr (at 7:28 P.M. as per the mobile record) from mobile no. 8732891987 and accused the villagers of joining hands with the UGs in laying an ambush.

From various Pochury organizations 1. The organizations have a question to the administration and the police on how the death bodies be transported to Meluri by the convoy vehicles after they have received the death bodies and formalities were done at Phokhungri

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Town. Once recorded, those bodies should be in the custody of the police and not with the AR. The organization also put a question to the Assam Rifles on how the death bodies can be removed or shifted from the firing site to any other place without the consent and investigation of the police. That totally violates the law.

That Major Surinder Singh also should not have stopped at Wuzu with regard to the protocol of the convoy no matter he is known or unknown to any of the public leaders.

The claim made by the AR that UGs were present at the village taking the public as human shield is totally false and baseless. It is crystal clear that not a single UGs were present at the village during the firing incident nor any firing from the UGs. If the claim is to be believed those three jawans who were left behind by the convoy vehicles would have been kidnapped or killed by the UGs. Penthu Pochury, President, Pochury Hoho Er Joysun Pfithu, President Pochury Students’ Union Machu Joshou, President, Pochury Mothers' Association Nyupuchu, President, Pochury GB Union Thomas Feedhu, General Secy, Pochury Youth Association Rholetho, President, Pochury VCC Union

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

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Simon Cowell 'wants to clone his dogs'

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Factor' boss Simon Cowell is ' 'd e t e r m i n e d' ' to clone his dogs. The 55-year-old music mogul

is so scared of losing his beloved Yorkshire Terriers Squiddly and Diddly, he's reportedly looking into the possibility of having them cloned. A source said: ''Money is not an issue. Simon is determined to make it happen. ''Clearly, Simon wants to make sure that any cloning procedure is above board and safe for the dog. That's very much his priority.''

To this end, Simon has called on his aides to approach South Korean cloning company Sooam Biotech. The source told the Daily Mirror newspa-

per: ''He has briefed aides and they are looking to see whether Sooam is a viable option. ''Sooam seems to be the only plausible company at the moment and Simon is expecting a report back soon from his aides confirming whether it's a goer.''

Meanwhile, Simon's 'X Factor' co-star Cheryl Fernandez-Versini recently praised his strength following his beloved mother's death. She said: ''I don't know how he is coping.

I've always admired his strength and tenacity but now I have a whole new level of respect for him. He has that British stiff upper lip.''

Deane Sequeira: Meet the female rapper of ‘Bezubaan’

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who in addition to being an hotelier is a musician, artiste manager and producer. It is in this nurturing environment that Deane has developed her talent and passion for music coupled with watching her idols like Eminem, Akon, Iz z y , P i tbu l l , Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber.

At 14, Deane stepped into the studios and recorded her first original hip hopRnB rap song 'Random'. This was followed by her next hit dance single 'Only mine' and hip-hop track 'Nobody cares' which she composed, sung, rapped and wrote the lyrics to.

The songs are produced

by Arya Acharya. A sampling of some of her assignments got a positive audience response at a live performance during their music day live webcert. "My dream is to make India proud by winning a Grammy one day," she signs off.

part from her rap contribution with singer Mohit Chauhan in 'Bezubaan' for the first dance film ABCD, she has featured in 'Boat ma kukdo oko o' w i t h Mi k a Singh, Shivi and Rochak Kohli in the film Welcome 2 Karachi, 'Out of control munde' with Mika and Suzanne D'mello from 'Purani jeans' and the official mashup of 'Luv u soniyo'.

D e a n e has worked with a host of Bollywood music directors, arrangers and programmers including Pritam, Rochak Kohli, Sachin-Jigar, Meet Brothers, Ram Sampath, Stylebhai, Vipin Patwa, Arya Acharya, Jai-Parthiv, Kiran Kamat, Bharat Goel, Prasad Saste and Sameer.

Born into a GoanCatholic family in Mumbai, Deane first gained inspiration from her father,

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Argentinian Officials withdraw outstanding arrest warrant

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ourt Officials in Argentina have reportedly ordered the withdrawal of an outstanding arrest warrant against Justin Bieber stemming from an alleged attack on a local paparazzo in 2013. The Baby hitmaker become a wanted man in the Latin American country after failing to return to Buenos Aires for police questioning over an incident with photographer Diego Pesoa in November 2013.

Pesoa claimed the singer's bodyguards attacked him on Bieber's orders as he attempted to snap pictures of the star leaving a nightclub while on tour in Argentina, and he had to seek hospital treatment for his injuries.

Buenos Aires investigators sought to question Bieber over the alleged attack, and in November (14), a judge set a 60-day deadline for the pop superstar to appear before a court in the country or face having an international warrant issued for his arrest.

In April (15), the judge issued the warrant, and Bieber was facing up to a year behind bars if charged with causing minor injuries. However, an Argentinian court has now notified Interpol Argentina to withdraw the warrant and erase it from the system, according to a new report from TMZ. com. The reasons for the decision have not been made public.

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Taylor Swift launching Fashion Line in China

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aylor Swift is adding yet another string to her bow this year as the unstoppable star is set to launch her first clothing line in Shanghai, China to coincide with the arrival of the 1989 tour in the country in November. The collection, which is being made in collaboration with Heritage 66 Company, Bloomberg reports, will be sold through one of the largest e-commerce companies in China, JD.com, in a bid to specifically target Chinese shoppers.

It's a shrewd move for the star (she recently showed her business clout by taking Apple to task regarding royalties) who no doubt wants to capitalise on China's growing consumer markets, a large demographic of which is aged under 25 - the predominant age group in Swift's own fan base. The Bad Blood singer is a dominating presence on social media also, which has become an increasingly influential source when it comes to retail consumerism in the region.

The announcement comes on the same day that JD.com has opened its virtual "US Mall" - an area of its site where Chinese shoppers can buy products from American brands, safe in the knowledge that they are authentic. The e-commerce site hopes that it will create a major differentiation point between itself and its major online competitor, Alibaba, which has been plagued with allegations of selling counterfeit goods, despite its protestations to the contrary.

David Beckham to cameo in Guy Ritchie movie

Aamir Khan’s brother Faisal’s comeback film ready for release

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uperstar Aamir Khan’s brother Faisal is gearing up to make his comeback into films with “Chinar-DaastaanE-Ishq”, which he said is completed and ready for release as soon as they find distributors. “My film ‘Chinar-Daastaan-E-Ishq’ will release soon. The film is completely ready and the release will get finalized as soon as we get a distributor on board. We are planning to start showing the film to distributors and once someone takes it, it’ll release immediately,” said Faisal at a special screening of “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” where Aamir was also present.

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The film was earlier going to release in May. It is directed by Renzu Shah and is inspired from the novel “Jheel Jalti Hai” (Lake is on fire) and Faisal plays the character of Jamal. According to the makers, it is the first Bollywood film in over 25 years to exhibit Jammu and Kashmir without the backdrop of terrorism and conflict. “If the film becomes a hit and if the Almighty wishes, I’ll definitely focus on acting for a few years. Currently, my entire focus is on acting.

And then, I would also like to try my hand at direction later on. I want everyone to pray for me,” said Faisal.

etired soccer star David Beckham has found a new job in the movies, landing a part in Guy Richie's 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E'. The 40-year-old retired soccer star will appear in the action adventure movie, directed by his pal Guy Richie and starring Henry Cavill, about secret agents working to stop criminals using nuclear weapons.

A source said: ''He was very grateful to Guy for getting him a small role and it was a great experience.''

The Brit will appear early on as he plays the part of a projectionist who reveals the mission for the main characters in the film, set for release on August 1.

The insider told The Sun newspaper: ''Becks gets the plot going and sets the scene for the rest of the movie. ''He only needed a day on set to film it so it didn't take too much time out of his schedule. ''Guy thinks it's great Becks is involved. It would make great viewing seeing him pop up as random characters in future.

David was confirmed for the cameo following a snap that wife Victoria, 41, posted on Twitter of him pointing at a movie poster.

Meanwhile, Guy Richie told Access Hollywood: ''He's in the film. He's in there... He's marginally disguised, but he's in the movie. I mean, once you know who it is, you'll know who it is!''

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Charlie Chaplin on screen

Karlie KloSS launching Youtube Channel

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bout a month ago Vidya Balan revealed that she would be happy to play the legendary Charlie Chaplin on screen. When inaugurating a special Chaplin exhibit in the city she said, “I would love to do a Charlie Chaplin movie. I loved Sridevi as Charlie Chaplin in Mr. India. He has been

a huge inspiration in my life.” It looks like the actress’ wish has finally been fulfilled. According to reports the actress has been approached by Malayalam filmmaker R Sarath to play Chaplin in a Hindi movie.

The film in question is not a biopic, but a work of fiction. Sarath reportedly spoke about the idea with

Vidya during the inauguration of the exhibit, and the actress was very excited about the challenging role.

In her last film ‘Bobby Jasoos’, Vidya donned several disguises, and was able to captivate the audience with her brilliant performance.

We can’t wait to see the final outcome of the film.

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he former Victoria's Secret angel is expanding her Internet presence with Klossy, a channel which will include videos featuring all the aspects of her life, with footage she shoots herself. In the trailer for the channel, Taylor Swift's pal says, "I've spent the majority of my life in front of the camera, but not my camera, and that's where this is different.

"These are the things you didn't get to see before. Like the crazy things that happen on set and the thrilling moments before I step out on the runway. I could not be more excited to share my story and this adventure with you." In addition to her jet-setting life as one of the world's top models, Kloss runs her own cookie business and is heading back to school

this autumn (15) to study at New York University.

Kloss, 22, previously shared plans to study computer programming at the prestigious school, and has dreams of becoming a top coder. Earlier this year (15), she even launched a scholarship programme to help young women win places on a computer coding course in New York City.

Chief Minister’s XI beats Chief Secretary's XI Our Correspondent Kohima | July 22

A football exhibition match between Chief Minister’s XI and Chief Secretary’s XI took place here today at Nagaland Secretariat Plaza.

The winning goal for CM’s XI came through Mmhonlumo Kikon, Chotisuh Sazo, Y. Vikheho Swu and Dr. Imtiwapang. Chief Secretary’s XI netted two goals through L. Kire and Senti- Glimpses from the exhibition football match played between the CM’s XI and the Chief Secretary’s XI at the Nagaland Secretariat Plaza, Kohima on July yanger IAS. 23. Morung Photos/Chizokho Vero

Players list are as follows: Chief Secretary XI 1. Pankaj Kumar, Chief Secretary : Captain 2. Temjen Toy : Coach 3. Sentiyanger, Commissioner, Nagaland 4. F.P. Solo, Commissioner & Secretary, SE 5. M.K. Mero Commissioner & Secretary, Industries & Commerce 6. L. Singsit, IGP, Fire & Emergency Services.

Special Secretary, Home.

7. Ramongo, Secretary, Excise 8. Mhathung Yanthan, Director, LRD 9. Bendangyanger, Director, Agriculture 10. R.T. Ezung, Director, Vety & AH 11. Anden Konyak, Director, DUDA 12. Er. Khupi Natso, Chief Engineer, Police Engineering Project 13. L. Kire, Commissioner & Secretary, DUDA 14. Alan Gongmei, Secretary, LRD 15. Alun Hangsing, Director, Supply 16. T.S. Angami, Director, NRE 17. E M Patton, Commissioner & Secretary , Planning & Coordination 18. Bendangkokba, Secretary, Irrigation & Flood Control 19. Tongtiliba, Director, IT Deptt

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NWA informs

DIMAPUR, JULY 22 (MExN): The All the Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) officials, members of the constituent units and esteemed members of the 25th Year Celebration Committee have been informed that the meeting scheduled on July 24 has been postponed to August 1 at Ura Hotel near Red Cross Building, Kohima at 1 pm. A press note issued by Nikhrolo Khalo, President and Rangsam N Hau, General Secretary has requested the members to kindly take note of the changes and attend accordingly.

20. Himmato Zhimomi, Commissioner & Secretary, R&B 21. Imjung Panger, Secretary, UDD 22. M. Patton, Commissioner & Secretary, H&FW 23. Neibu Sekhose, officer representing RD 24. Jacob Yanthan , officer representing APC 25. Kevin Zehol, Jt. Secy., IT&C

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Chief Minister’s XI 1. T.R. Zeliang : Captain 2. Chotisuh Sazo 3. Naiba Konyak 4. Yitachu 5. Eshak 6. Yolo 7. Apok Jomir 8. Y.Vikheho Swu 9. Mmhonlumo 10. Khekaho 11. Dr.Neiphrezo Keditsu 12. Neiba Kronu 13. Dr. Nicky Kire 14. Khriehu Liezietsu 15. Imtiwapang 16. Dr. Longriniken 17. Jacob Zhimomi 18. Er. Levi 19. Nuklutoshi 20. Imtikumzuk 21. Shetoyi 22. Zhaleo Rio 23. Pukhayi Sumi 24. Dr. Benjongliba 25. S. Chuba 26. Tohanba 27. Hukavi 28. Nganlang 29. Toyang Chang

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Naga lad to take on Force Gurkha RFC extreme off-road competition

LVG furious over ManU's display

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SAN JoSé, JULY 22 (AFP): Louis van Gaal criticised new signing Bastian Schweinsteiger and his Manchester United team mates after the Premier League giants eased to a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes.

Juan Mata and man-of-the-match Memphis Depay scored first half goals for United before Brazilian youngster Andreas Pereira added a third in the second half. But a largely trouble-free opening 45 minutes was blotted shortly before half-time as San Jose pulled a goal back through Fatai Alashe.

But United boss van Gaal was furious at the performance of his team after the break when he made 10 changes, including the introduction of Schweinsteiger. "The first half I was satisfied -- the players have performed what we wanted in the defensive organization, and they have created a lot of chances, 10, and they scored two goals so I was satisfied," van Gaal said. "But the second half I thought we played very bad -- a lot of ball losses, very unnecessary. The only highlight was the goal from Pereira.

Asked to assess the performance of new signing Schweinsteiger, van Gaal didn't mince his words. "He was also bad," the Dutchman said, warning it would take time for the German World Cup-winner to settle in at United after arriving from Bayern Munich. "Everybody can think it is easy to step in but it is not easy. I thought the first match (Schweinsteiger) played very well and now he played bad but that is also a process."

United will play European champions Barcelona in their match of the International Champions Cup exhibition tournament on Saturday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, home of the San Francisco 49ers.

Yanren Jamio and Siddartha Santosh with their Maruti Gypsy King with 1.6L engine, the modified vehicle built for robust and extreme challenges. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | July 22

Naga lad Yanren Jamio, a member of the Association of Off-roaders Nagaland (AON), and a mechanical Engineer by qualification is all set to participate in the Second edition of Force Gurkha RFC India extreme Offroad driving Competition making him the First from the North East region to participate in an extreme Off road Challenge.

Yanren also runs an Off-road equipment Store and is a guest lecturer at NTTC. The competition which is the Indian version of the iconic Malaysian Rain forest Challenge (RFC) tests the endurance and technical ability of drivers on a track dotted by natural obstacles is to be held in Goa from July 24 to 31. This is one of the toughest Off-road Motor Sport challenges in the country and ranked among the top ten

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toughest motor rallies in the world.

Yanren participated at the first edition of RFC India as touring adventure and will be competing in the Second Edition of Force Gurkha RFC for the top spot as CoDriver with Siddartha Santosh, a member of BODA- Bangalore Off-road Drivers’ Association. Santosh was also a contestant in 2014 RFC India. The duo will be driving a Maruti Gypsy King with 1.6L engine, the vehicle is built up for RFC from ground up, equipped with competition tires, competition warn winch, differential lockers, 12 travel suspension with SPOA, crawlers and many more. Santosh and Yanren will be competing for Top honors and hopes to bring laurels to AON and BODA. Other AON members accompanying Yanren are Angulie Vupru, and Lhiche Mero from AON the duo will be participating as touring adventure.

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