July 29th, 2015 by The Morung Express

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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities —Mark Twain

Third term? Obama says no thanks [ PAGE 9]

Commissioner of Police Dimapur informs on Sarias Act

Bayern Munich signs Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal

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Nagaland electricity situation to ‘worsen’

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indian Prime Minister narendra Modi pays respect after the body of former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam arrived at the Palam airport in new Delhi, Tuesday, July 28. Kalam, known as the father of the country’s military missile program, died Monday after collapsing while delivering a lecture, a top state official said. He was 83. (AP Photo)

NPCC slams NLA resolution on Naga issue

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DimaPuR, July 28 (mExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today continued its criticism of the present political leadership in the state by stating that the recent NLA discussion on the Naga issue “failed to even bring out any tentative suggestions.” A press note from the NPCC President, K Therie said that the NLA legislators have “tried to remember the past and have regretted their own action of ceasefire abrogation between NSCN (K) and GoI.” If at all the legislators are really sincere to revive the ceasefire, then there should be a concrete suggestion as to how to bridge the gap

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minating in the adoption of a resolution on July 27. The NPCC President further stated that he is “amused by the use of early settlement of Naga political issue without any concrete suggestions.” “From the Resolution we can

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Nagaland to observe weeklong mourning for late Abdul Kalam Kohima, July 28 (DiPR): As a mark of respect to Dr A.P.J.Kalam, the former President of India who passed away at Shillong on July 27, Nagaland State will observe a week long mourning and the national flag shall be flown at half mast in all Government Institutions till August 2. During this period there will be no hosting of official parties by the state government departments. This was notified in a circular by the Chief Secretary, Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar.

• Power Engineers Association laments meager fund allocation for department • Cautions that dept will not be able to restore power in case of major breakdown

nagaland owes least amount to neePco ShilloNG, July 28 (PTi): Nagaland state owes the least amount of outstanding dues among NE states, to the North-East Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO), officials informed today. Assam and Meghalaya together owe the highest amount of outstanding dues, nearly Rs 1,000 crore. “NEEPCO is to receive Rs 536.64 crore from Assam and Rs 429.4 crore from Meghalaya against sale of power,” NEEPCO Chairman and Managing Director P C Pankaj said today. He said the actual amount due for receipt from Assam and Meghalaya was Rs 269.2 crore and Rs 288.21 crore, respectively, with a surcharge of Rs 267.44 crore and Rs 140.83 crore. Similarly, other north-eastern states that have pending power dues with NEEPCO include Tripura (Rs 89.74 crore), Manipur(Rs 68.14 crore) and Arunachal Pradesh (Rs 26.16 crore), Pankaj said. Taken together, NEEPCO is to receive an amount of Rs 1,186.24 crore as cumulative power dues from these states as of June 2015. fund allocation” and its impact on the power supply system of the state, the APEN cautioned that under the present deficient fund allocation the department will not be in a position to restore power supply in the eventuality of major breakdown of machinery and equipment. It further informed that the “worsening situation” of power interruptions due to power line failures and transformer breakdowns is

“imminent.” Therefore in order to avoid suffering of the public/consumers from prolonged power outages, the APEN asked the Nagaland state government to be “more realistic” in allocation of funds to the state’s Power Department. The APEN further stated that the activities of the Power Department comprising of the three main areas viz: generation, transmission and distribu-

tion is “dynamic in nature.” Its infrastructures require constant upgradation/ development and capacity enhancement involving power transformers, distribution transformers, EHV lines, HT & LT Lines, including consumer servicing etc in order to keep pace with the load demand which stands at 10% annual growth rate, it informed. It said that the rise in load demand is predominantly due to increase in consumers, development and expansion of new areas, change in life style (usage of energy intensive appliances) etc. Without proper supply of electricity, it cautioned that the livelihood of the people of the state will be adversely affected and would also bring discouragement to the entrepreneurs and the entire business community. While acknowledging that the Power Department has other central sector funding from schemes like World Bank, NEC, NLCPR, IPDS, DDUGJY for development of infrastructures, the APEN however said that these schemes are long term in nature and targeted towards the specific objectives of achieving 24X7 power supply and ‘Power to All’ in 5 to 10 years from now. To address the existing requirement, it stressed on the critical need for the Nagaland state government to provide adequate fund under the State Annual Plan.

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CBI judgment a warning to the corrupt in Nagaland: ACAUT Wuzu killing reopens 1960 conflict wound

DimaPuR, July 28 (mExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland while referring to the recent CBI Special Court judgment on a corruption case in Nagaland which occurred in 1998, stated that this case “should send shivers down the spine of the powers that be in the state.” The 1998 case of misappropriation of Rs. 2 crores in the Nagaland Flood and Irrigation Department resulted in the recent jailing of a former Union Minister PK Thungon, also the former CM

see that they have no interest to play effective role but wanted ceasefire on the pretext of working out early settlement which is a clear sign of shifting responsibility,” he added. Therie further referred to point number 5 of the NLA resolution, “wherein they have used the word ‘expedite’ and ‘formula’ for an early resolution of the Naga political issue are all blame games.” “It only shows that they don’t have the initiative or wisdom to resolve political problems,” he said. The NPCC President lamented that two “precious” days have been “wasted without any tentative or suggestive roadmap to resolve the Naga political issue.”

NLA failed to even bring out any tentative suggestions, says NPCC President

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between warring groups, he stated. It may be noted that the NLA had conducted discussions on the Naga political issue on July 23 and 24, cul-

Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Association of Power Engineers Nagaland (APEN) has expressed concern at the deficiency in allocation of state annual plan fund to the Nagaland state Department of Power during 2015-16. In a letter to the Secretary for Power, Nagaland, the APEN President, Er Penrithung Yanthan and General Secretary, Er Keviletuo Yiese termed it “very disturbing” that the state government has allocated only Rs. 7.11 Crores to the Department i.e. 1.48% of the total untied State Plan Outlay. This amount is against the department’s total projected requirement of Rs. 140.00 Crores during the current financial year. The APEN expressed concern that the state government is “not considering the Power Department as a priority department of the state for ushering all round development.” It said that the Power Department has been “struggling for deliverance” from the daily power failures and outages due to power line and transformer breakdowns. The existing infrastructure and machinery particularly in Dimapur are all overburdened needing urgent upgradation of transformers, lines and upkeep of Sub-station equipments to avoid prolonged power outages, it revealed. Taking serious note of the “meager and deficient

of Arunachal Pradesh, and his 3 other associates, namely, Tali Ao, C. Sangsit and Maheshwari by a Special CBI Court. Terming it interesting that the judgment came after almost 22 years, ACAUT opined that the rest of the 5 charge sheeted persons, including a former Naga Minister and the department’s former top bureaucrat, “will probably face the same fate of conviction in Delhi trial court.” While welcoming the verdict, the ACAUT said that Naga bureaucrats and politicians “can no

longer indulge in corruption with impunity without the long arm of the law beckoning them.” The ACAUT meanwhile expressed support to the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) demand to the Nagaland state government for a ‘justification report’ on 25% job reservation for eastern Nagaland students. It said the shortage of people from eastern Nagaland tribes in government jobs despite job reservation being in force since 1977 points to “rampant manipulation by bureaucratic elites and to an ex-

tent, politicians.” Most posts meant for the poor and deprived eastern Nagaland students have been manipulated and filled up as backdoor appointments, it alleged. “While it has become the norm to whip politicians for all the wrongs, it’s the elite bureaucratic class which wield the real powers, albeit without accountability, and thus the most manipulative and corrupted lot,” ACAUT said. The state government, ACAUT further added, should “ponder deeply as to why the demand for Frontier Nagaland surfaced in the first place.”

Myanmar: Alarm sounded over betel habit yaNGoN, July 28 (aFP): As he manoeuvres his taxi through the barely moving traffic of downtown Yangon, Myo Min Htaike’s jaw methodically pounds a pulpy mass of nuts and tobacco, his teeth stained a dark blood-red. Plying his trade in the seemingly eternal gridlock of Myanmar’s now booming commercial hub, he is more than used to spending long days on the roads and “kun ja” -- better known as betel nut or quid -- is the one thing that keeps him going. “I’m so sleepy when I start driving the taxi,” the 32-year-old tells AFP. “So I eat kun ja to help me stay awake.” Kun ja is an enormously popular stimulant chewed throughout Myanmar. But it comes with a long list of serious health downsides including addiction, deeply stained gums and a high risk of mouth cancer. The small parcels of tobacco, areca nuts, slaked lime and optional spices, wrapped in the vivid green leaves of the betel plant, are ubiquitous across the former junta-run nation. Users sing its praises as a pick-me-up that increases alertness, boosts energy and freshens the breath. “When I started eating betel quid for my tooth pain, I didn’t like it much. But it made my toothache go away and I came to like it,” Myo Min Htaike says, the tell-tale red stains visible on his lips. ‘It’s Myanmar’s habit’ Yangon is a city in a constant state of change since decades of brutal junta rule gave way to a reformist government in 2011 that resulted in the lifting of most western sanctions. Cranes jostle for space on an increasingly crowded skyline as locals furiously tap away on mobile phones that just a few years ago

A betel seller preparing ‘kun ja’ at his shop near naypyidaw in Myanmar (AFP Photo)

were far beyond their reach. But some things have not changed, as the vivid red splashes of spat out betel on virtually every pavement and wall testify. Chewers queue up at small kiosks across the city selling the wraps for 200 kyats (around 20 US cents). Hawkers carry them in trays hung around their necks and sell them to passing motorists at busy junctions. For sellers, feeding the national habit can provide a good living. Myo Myint Tun rises at 3:00 am every morning to sell quids to commuters at a city train station. On top of his 20 regulars, he estimates another 80 people stop by each day, earning him around $40 -- a good living in a country where the average wage in 2012 was less than $100 a month. “Most of the people in Myanmar eat betel quid -- it’s Myanmar’s habit. It’s been that way since long ago,” he says. But doctors warn that the national appetite for the stimulant is dam-

aging health in a country with a threadbare medical system. “Myanmar has one of the highest (number of) users of smokeless tobacco globally, especially among males,” Dr Dhirendra Narain Sinha, a specialist at the World Health Organization (WHO) told AFP. His research has found just over half of Myanmar’s men use the substance, in addition to 16 percent of its women. But doctors say the message to stop chewing is not getting through. “People do not know what are the side effects or the health effects of eating betel quids in Myanmar,” warns Dr Than Sein of local advocacy group the People’s Health Foundation (PHF). Low healthcare spending According to the latest WHO figures, Myanmar spends the lowest proportion of its GDP on healthcare in the world -- just 0.5 percent in 2013, lower than South Sudan and Haiti. In common with neighbouring countries, cigarette packs in Myanmar now carry gory photographic warnings of the health risks, but betel is free of any packaging. The PHF has produced leaflets and posters aiming to get its message across, and wants warnings placed at betel kiosks. But helping Myanmar kick the habit will not be easy. Betel-chewing is a deeply-rooted cultural practice throughout south and southeast Asia, thought to date back several centuries. Sitting behind the wheel of his taxi, Myo Min Htaike says he is more than aware of the health risks, but after 12 years sees no prospect of quitting. “I’m afraid (of suffering health problems),” he admits. “But I can’t live without it.”

GuWahaTi, July 28 (hT): War killed Meghazu in 1960. Fractured peace took his granddaughter’s life 55 years later. Aso, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, was allegedly gunned down along with Tiizali, a 14-year-old boy, by the paramilitary Assam Rifles (AR) on July 15 at Wuzu village in Nagaland’s Phek district. This followed an encounter in which the soldiers killed two members of the militant group National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) nearby. AR officials said the rebels’ bullets might have killed the children they used as human shields. Encounters with the armed forces and ambushes have returned to haunt the Northeast after the NSCN (K) junked a 14-year-old ceasefire in March. The group has since then killed about 30 security personnel across Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. The official theory cut little ice with Wuzu residents, accustomed to civilians perishing at regular intervals in the Indo-Naga conflict raging since 1955. One such victim was Meghazu during the battle of Thuda Phor between the Indian and Naga armies more than five decades ago. The battle was infamous for the first Indian Air Force (IAF) plane shot down during an internal conflict. Phor village adjoins Wuzu, both dominated by the Pochury tribe. A four-day war broke out in August 1960 after Naga fighters raided an Indian army camp at Thuda nearby. Locals say the soldiers torched houses, destroyed granaries and vio-

lated the women to inflict psychological scars. “The killing of Aso has reopened old wounds that we thought would heal after the ceasefire (between New Delhi and NSCN-Isak Muivah in July 1997). How many more people will die for peace to reign?” Wuzu village chairman Pitu said. Experts say children are increasingly falling victims to conflict between government forces and rebel groups in the Northeast. In August last year, members of the National Democratic Front of BodolandSongbijit (NDFB-S) killed 16-year-old Priya Basumatary in western Assam’s Chirang district as punishment for being an “informer”. Four months later, the outfit gunned down 18 Adivasi children along with 48 adults in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts of Assam. “This (the July 15) incident is yet another example of the misuse of Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 that gives soldiers the licence to kill,” Neingulo Krome of Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) told HT from Kohima. “It could have been avoided had New Delhi been serious about arriving at an honourable solution to the 18-yearold Naga peace process.” The NPMHR and Naga Students’ Federation sent a fact-finding team last week to Wuzu to probe the July 15 firing. The report indicated that AR personnel had overreacted after some Wuzu villagers sought the body of an NSCN (K) “captain” killed in an encounter hours ago. Puhachu, the NSCN (K) member, belonged to Wuzu.

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Commissioner of Police Dimapur informs on Sarias Act

Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): As per the Government of Nagaland Notification NO.POL-1/ ESTT/13/2014/E Dated 17th November 2014, the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur has been conferred the power to exercise all the functions of Magistrate of the District in respect of Dimapur with regard to the Sarias Act 1867. While informing this, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police/ PRO, Dimapur stated in a press release that the Commissioner of Police would exercise any licencing power emanating from the said Act. As per the Sarias Act, 1867, “sarias” means any building used for the shelter and accommodation of travellers, and include, in any case in which only a part of the building is used as a sarai, the part so used of such building come under the preview of this Act. In other words, all Hotels, Lodges, Inns, Guest Houses, Resorts used for the shelter of travellers, etc falls under the definition of a Sarai. The Commissioner of Police, Dimapur in accordance with the powers granted under the Sarais Act do direct all owner/proprietors of Hotels, Lodges, Inns, Guest Houses, Resorts, etc under the jurisdiction of Dimapur to register their Sarai with the Office of the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur. Detailed provision of the Act along with the application forms may be obtained from the Special Branch of the office of the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur. The filled up application forms along with necessary supporting documents should be submitted to same office for registering the Sarai as per the Act within one month from the receipt of this press release. Defaulters will be penalized as per the Law thereafter.

KDTODU emergency meeting

Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Kohima District Truck Owners and Drivers' Union (KDTODU) will convene an emergency meeting at its office premise (opposite High School Petrol Pump) on August 2 at 2 pm. The meeting will discuss on the new rules laid down by the Dimapur Traffic establishment wherein heavy vehicles are restricted entry to Dimapur from 8 am to 5 pm. A press note issued by Khriesalie üsou, President has invited all drivers and owners of heavy vehicles and concerned citizens/unions to the attend the meeting.

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NECU resolve on contract work

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Supports Indian Electricity Rules and Acts

Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Nagaland Electrical Contractors’ Union (NECU) has reaffirmed that under no circumstances any unauthorised individual/party shall be allowed to undertake any electrical installation work including internal wiring and re-wiring works within the state of Nagaland. “Any contractor found lending/giving contractor’s writing pad to unauthorised individual/party to undertake contract work shall have his/her license cancelled as per the Nagaland Electrical Licensing Regulations- 2005, Article(9) which has also been specifically notified by the Chief Electrical Inspector, Rampant and random stone mining taking place in Chathe River located in the outskirt of Dimapur. Despite the effort of Di- Nagaland,” said HS Rotmapur District Administration to look into rampant mining and extraction of sand, sand gravels and boulders in the Dhansiri okha, General Secretary, and Chathe rivers, the extraction of riverbed resources continues unabatedly. (Morung Photo) NECU in a press release.

It informed that the Union held an emergency meeting on July 22 and deliberated on various important issues relating to the activities of the Union for its better functioning. The Union resolved that neither service connection nor test certificate would be provided for unauthorised work as per the Indian Electricity Rules 1956 for which an order has also been issued by the Additional Chief Engineer & HoD, Directorate of Distribution & Revenue, Nagaland. All the consumers are informed to insist the contractor’s valid license to award/offer any electrical installation work. If any work is done by an unauthorised individual/party, the work shall be deemed as “Unauthorised work”.

The Nagaland Electrical Contractors’ Union, in support of the Indian Electricity Rules and Acts, Government existing order, Power Department norms and the Union resolution, has informed all Head of the Departments and the Executive Authorities in the state Government Departments to abide strictly by the Indian Electricity Rules and Acts to avoid any complications between the Authorities and the Union. Only the individual/party possessing valid electrical contractor’s license is the authorised person/party to undertake electrical installation work. “This is for the general information and awareness of the public, all the departments and the members of the Union,” added the press note.

Te-I Khukhu Festival celebrates innocence of children

JaKhama, July 28 (Dipr): Te-I Khukhu festival was celebrated at R. Khel Viswema on July 26 with much enthusiasm when hundreds of children dressed in traditional attires were served with food. Te-I Khukhu is a festival that falls on the 13th of Chünyi (July) and it is dedicated and celebrated only by innocent head shaven damsels during the olden days. It is a time of giving and sharing of food with each other. This is the only Children dressed in traditional attires served with food during the Te-I Khukhu festival celebrated at R. Khel Viswema on July 26. festival dedicated for girls. festival, they start collect- CHOKRWU (eaves) at the eaves and roof opening and while pithanü’s will be During preparation Young village damsels ing flowers in advance to entrance of the house). roof including KIKA (a ‘V’ lined on the inner walls of of Te-I Khukhu men cut are abuzz with preparaPHSÜ (Oak) trees and tions for the Te-I Khukhu decorate the particular ( The flowers are put on the Shaped wooden board), the Phyokhru.

collect OLO (Carpenter Worms),womenfolk start grinding OTHSÜ (Millet) and catch KONA (Edible snails) for the fest. The cooked foods are served in NAKAWU (Type of peepal) leaf rolled into cone shape and pinned with small bamboo pieces, with the advent of Christianity on the serene land of Viswema, the shaven head damsels are no more seen and rituals no more performed, yet the significance of Te-I Khukhu can be told and be revisited by encouraging every Viswema damsels to partake in the festival every year on the 13th of Chünyi (July).

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Rotary Club Kohima 12th installation ceremony held Naga students complete International Space Camp

Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Rotary Club Kohima held its 12th installation ceremony on July 26 last at Hotel Japfu, Kohima with parliamentary secretary for labour & employment, skill development and border affairs Mmhonlumo Kikon as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, he stressed on the need to give special attention towards proper health care system in the state. He also emphasized on the need to put a concerted

effort to bring quality education in the state. Further, Kikon also urged upon the Rotary Club Kohima to continue to render humanitarian services. Earlier, lighting of installation candle was done by Laila Gatphoh, Asst. Governor Zone-IX, R.I- 3240 while welcome address was delivered by Dr. Viketoulie Pienyii, outgoing president Rotary Club Kohima. Meanwhile, the club officials for the year 2015-16, headed by Richard Dziivichii as presi-

dent had been installed. Secretary report was given by Thiala Chang, secretary Rotary Club Kohima. Felicitation was led by Rtn. Temsumenla Ao and Rtn Arepla Shancho while introduction of chief guest was made by Dr. Rosemary Dviivichii. The function concluded with vote of thanks by Dr. Neisatuo Mero.

lie Pienyu; Vice President: 1. Impalong Longkumer & Kezhokhoto Savi; Secretary: Thiala Chang; Joint Secretary: Seyiekhrielie Rio; Treasurer: Dr. Neisatuo Mero; Sgt-at-Arms: Tokishe Sema Directors: Community Service: Dr. Viketoulie Pienyu; Youth Service: Ase Yhome; Club Service: Er. Dr. Vekoutuolie Angami; Vocational Service: AreRotary Club Kohima pla Shancho; Internationofficials 2015-16 President : Richard al Service: Dr. Rosemary Participants at the International Space Camp (ISC) held at the US Space and Rocket Center Dzuvichu; IPP: Dr. Viketou- Dzuvichu. (USSRC), Huntsville, USA. Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): Two both of their mental and physical ability. Lalhnuna Hauhnar, who has been students from Nagaland have successfully completed an International Space Camp designated as the Space Camp Ambas(ISC) at the US Space and Rocket Center sador, has initiated this programme in the northeast to encourage high school aged (USSRC), Huntsville, USA. Mezong Jamir, a class XI boy and Khri- students as well as teachers to experience esetuonuo Solo, a class XII girl of the Liv- ‘a space-life environment’. The students ingstone Higher Secondary School, Di- also learn space science, technology, enKohima, July 28 mapur, spent a thrilling week (July17-24) gineering and mathematics (STEM). (mExN): Due to un- at Alabama, one of NASA’s five Marshall “This is an experience of a life time, avoidable circumstances, Space Flight Centers, where they trained which does not come so easily even if you the Consultative meet- in all kinds of routines just like an astro- have all the money,” says Hauhnar, who ing on Assam-Nagaland naut does. Teacher-educator Andrew had also attended such camp. “The stuBorder, which was sched- Ahoto Sema accompanied the students. dents are chosen after a thorough interuled to be held on July A press note stated that the course is view and personality test.” 30 at Capital Convention self-funded, part of which is subsidized by The Camp, which is held annually for Centre, Kohima is post- the US Space Center to encourage foreign school students and teacher-educators is poned till further intima- students. Each year, hundreds of students open to all countries in the world. So far, as tion. While informing and trainees from all over the world join many as 35 countries participated in the this, Commissioner & the international space camp for a week camp since the program was launched in Secretary to the Govern- of fun-filled hands-on drills and activities. 1990. Beside this international camp, which During the weeklong programme, is a scheduled annual event where only two FIGHT CANCER: Dr. Moatoshi Aier of Eden Medical Centre, Dimapur delivering a ment of Nagaland Sentilecture on cancer awareness titled "Cancer Screening & Early Detection." He spoke at the yanger Imchen IAS has trainees are exposed to challenging tasks students and a teacher can participate, the Mokokchung Town Baptist Church on July 26 and ABAM Impur and CTC Aolijen on July 27 expressed regret for the that include underwater Scuba-based mi- USSRC also encourages a larger group of as part of the effort to impart basic information on Cancer to the people. inconvenience caused. crogravity, multi-axis simulation that test students from any country to visit the center.

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Consultative meeting on Assam-Nagaland Border postponed

NEN launches Resource Centre at Kohima

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Prevention includes use of insecticidal nets by people at risk and indoor residual sprays to control mosquitoes.

Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Resource Centre of the North East Network was launched by Dr. Temsula Ao, Chairperson of the Nagaland State Commission for Women at Kohima on July 28 in the presence of NEN team from Shillong, Guwahati and Chizami and well-wishers . NEN’s Executive Director Dr. Monisha Behal in her introductory speech shared the journey of NEN’s engagement with women and young people in Nagaland through innovative programmes, with its humble beginning in Chizami village that has now expanded. She stated that it is encouraging to observe ‘a positive reaction to women’s voices’ as she cited the example of Chizami village that has made ‘parity of wages for both gender in unskilled labour’ a reality. NEN with its extended office in Ko-

Chizami Weaves Sales Outlet

hima and through the Resource Centre hope to facilitate sharing of knowledge, opinions and new ideas, and build networks and collaborations. She further expressed appreciation for the support of the Women’s Development Department that allotted NEN a space at Kohima earlier from where NEN has operated as their office. Chairperson of the Nagaland State Commission for Women Dr. Temsula Ao in her speech ar-

ticulated that ‘Naga women have been playing a significant role in sustaining her family and community. They are talented and open to new ideas such as doing things collectively’. She lauded NEN’s effort for tapping on this – collective action, for ‘channelizing energies of young people to positive things’, and cooperating with State agencies. In her closing remark, Team Leader of NEN Nagaland Seno Tsuhah shared

that ‘having a Resource Centre at Kohima has been a long felt need as well as a dream for NEN and it is a proud moment to finally see this come true’. She reiterated that the Resource Centre will cater to the needs of young people, research scholars, activists, etc as resources (books, journals, reports, films) on varied topics (but with special focus on gender, women’s rights ) will be made available. The Resource Centre will be ‘a space to meet, share and move together towards social justice and gender equality’ Seno stated. The Resource Centre is located at North East Network office, Themezie, High School Road, Kohima. Attached to the Resource Centre is a sales outlet of ‘Chizami Weaves’ where hand-woven products of 400 weavers from Phek district are available.

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IIM-Shillong in shock over Kalam death

Shillong, July 28 (iAnS): A sense of shock and disbelief pervades among the students and staff of the Indian Institute of Management here who were witness to former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's final moments when he collapsed while delivering a lecture. The disbelief - that the "Missile Man" they looked up to is no more - is compounded by the fact that the former president was brimming with enthusiasm and energy till the time he passed out. There was not the slightest of hint of what was in store when Kalam, who was president in 2002-07, began his lecture on 'Creating a Liveable Planet' to the second year students of IIM-Shillong. About 15 minutes into his speech, while sharing his experiences, he suddenly fainted and fell down around 6.30 p.m. The medical officer of IIM in the Meghalaya capital tried to revive him but failed. Kalam was then rushed

to the Bethany hospital where a team of doctors from the military hospital and North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Health and Medical Sciences tried to revive him. He was declared dead due to a massive cardiac arrest by a team of doctors at 7.45 p.m. "The IIM-Shillong community is still in a state of shock and sorrow that our former president is no more. I have still not come to terms with the passing away of Kalam," IIM-Shillong director Amitabha De said. Students who saw the last few minutes of the former president said he entered the IIM-Shillong auditorium full of energy. "It was a tragic moment for the entire IIM-Shillong fraternity when the unexpected happened," Bhawana Saraf, a student, told IANS. Kalam began his lecture by sharing his recent experiences at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose students jointly organised a lecture

On the day he died, Kalam showed his humanism The assignment which Kalam could not give

new Delhi, July 28 (iAnS): As he drove into Shillong on the day he died, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was worried that a soldier providing him security had to remain standing in an open gypsy. According to his advisor Srijan Pal Singh, Kalam expressed his concern for the soldier while driving from the airport to the Indian Institute of Management. "Why is he standing? He will get tired. This is like punishment. Can you ask a wireless message to be given that he may sit?" Singh recounted Kalam as saying. It was a telling example of the humanist the former president was known to be. In one of the vehicles in Kalam's convoy, the soldier was standing guard in an open Gypsy. Two other soldiers were seated in the vehicle. In a touching post on Facebook, Singh said that one hour into the road journey, Kalam enquired about the standing soldier. that he delivered. "When he was about to dwell further, Kalam collapsed," Saraf said. "There was no sign that our former president was frail. He was full of energy and enthusiasm. We could

"I had to convince him that he had been probably instructed to keep standing to provide better security. But Kalam did not relent. "We then tried radio messaging but that did not work. "For the rest of the journey, he reminded me thrice to see if I can hand signal him to sit down. Finally, realizing there is little we can do, Kalam told me: 'I want to meet him and thank him'. "When we reached IIM Shillong, I got hold of the standing guy. I took him inside, and Kalam greeted him. "He shook his hand, said 'Thank you buddy. Are you tired? Would you like something to eat? I am sorry you had to stand so long because of me.' "The young lean guard, draped in black cloth, was surprised... He lost words, and just said, 'Sir, aapke liye to che ghante bhi khade rahenge (Sir, for you I can stand even for six hours)',” Singh recounted.

sense his eagerness to interact with us," said another student, Kailash Chandrashekar, who was in the first row in the auditorium. Some of the students of the B-school were supposed to make a presenta-

tion on conservation of water resources on earth. "Though Kalam is no more, his strong will and grit will be an inspiration for the student community," said IIM-Shillong student Raghav Bhatnagar.

KolKAtA, July 28 (Pti): Working tirelessly even on his last day, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam had planned a surprise assignment for the students of IIM Shillong on finding innovative ways to end disruption in Parliament. Kalam's close aide Srijan Pal Singh, who was with him on his last day, said that while travelling from Delhi to Shillong, they were discussing about disruptions in Parliament. "He was very worried and said he had seen the tenures of many governments but disruption keeps on happening every time. He had told me to prepare a surprise assignment question for the students which would be given to them at the end of the lecture," Singh, who co-authored two books with Kalam, told PTI from Shillong. He said the former President wanted students to come up with three innovative ideas to make Parliament more producKrishna Ashok said he was looking forward to the opportunity to speak in Kalam's presence when "the unexpected happened". Sanjeev Kakoty, a teacher, said the students and staff on Tuesday

tive and vibrant. "We had also decided to include this topic of disruptions in Parliament into our next book 'Advantage India' which would be released in September-October. I'll do that now before the book comes into the market," the IIM Ahmedabad alumnus said. When asked about Kalam's last wish, he said Kalam always wanted a billion smiles on a billion faces in the country. "He wanted rural India to develop and also he kept on talking about youth empowerment. Now his ideas are more alive as the man who was leading it from the front is no more," he said. The only regret the 'Missile Man' had in his life was not being able to provide facilities like 24-hour electricity to his parents during their lifetime. "That is I think one regret he always had in his life," Singh said.

pledged to be the ambassadors of Kalam's ideals. The IIM named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was started in 2008 and functions from a makeshift campus at the Mayurbhanj complex, the summer

palace of the erstwhile kings of Mayurbhanj in Odisha. The Meghalaya government has allotted a 120acre plot, on which construction work is on for a state-of-the-art academiccum-residential campus.

Social orgs warn indefinite Manipur bandh: House destroyed, scooter torched KA bandh from July 30 Our Correspondent

DiPhu, July 28 (Mexn): The People’s Ranger for Fundamental Rights (PRFR), All Assam Bengali Students and Youth Federation (AABSYF), Karbi Anglong Bhojpuri Students Association (KABSA) and the Rengma Naga Students’ Union (RNSU) have warned of a “total and indefinite” Karbi Anglong bandh starting July 30, 5:00am onwards, if their demands concerning corruption in medicine distribution at the Diphu Civil Hospital (DCH) are not met by the Karbi Anglong

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Autonomous Council. The Karbi Students Association (Mrijeng Kro) will support the bandh as well as other demands. A joint press release from the organisations concerned informed that a probe by them into expiring medicines at the store room, alongside claims of perennial shortage of medicines, at the DCH on July 27 led to filing of FIRs against them. “Medicines (from National Health Mission and District Medical Store) are not being distrib-

uted to patients. Patients are instead being directed to local pharmacies with which the DCH has pacts,” alleged the leaders. One of the leaders involved has already been arrested by the Assam police and is behind bars. The organisations have called for the immediate release of the leader as well as withdrawal of all cases filed against all leaders concerned. They have also called for a judicial enquiry into the medical department’s distribution of free medicines to the people.

Tripura to give allowance to domestic workers, transgenders AgArtAlA, July 28 (iAnS): The Left Front government in Tripura on Tuesday announced monthly allowances for female domestic workers, transgenders, leprosy and AIDS patients and anganwadi workers. Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar said after a cabinet meeting that the state government had implemented 20 schemes to provide allowances to different categories of people, benefiting 107,060 people every month. "In today's (Tuesday) cabinet meeting, we decided to extend allowances ranging from Rs.350 to Rs.500 per head to women

domestic workers, transgenders and leprosy and AIDS workers," Sarkar told the media. This will put an additional burden of Rs.2.33 crore on the state exchequer. The council of ministers also decided to give monthly allowances of Rs.500 and Rs.350 to anganwadi workers and helpers respectively after they retire at the age of 60. The chief minister said that one-time lump sum payment of Rs.50,000 and Rs.30,000 would be given to anganwadi workers and helpers respectively in case they do not opt for monthly allowances.

Angry bandh supporters destroyed a house and torched a scooter following a melee in Imphal East’s Khurai Ahongei area on Tuesday during the 38-hour total shutdown call given by a joint action committee (JAC) fighting for justice in the killing of a 16-year-old student in police crackdown. Normal life was crippled due to the strike that began at 5 a.m. All major roads wore a deserted look

in the valley with public transport staying off the road. But protesters came out on the streets since early morning in most local areas and blocked them. There was little traffic on all main roads and National Highways as inter-state and inter-district transport services came to a halt. Reports that a non-local woman made scathing remarks against the strike at Khurai Ahongei irritated a group of bandh supporters who attacked her house and burned down a Honda Activa scooter around 3:30

p.m. The enraged strike supporters also vandalized her belongings. T h e w o ma n w a s identified as one Gulabi Prasad, 40. A large number of police used tear gas canisters to control the angry crowd. But there were no casualty reports in the melee. A Class 11 student named Sapam Robinhood from Imphal East’s Lairikyengbam Leikai was killed when police here tried to disperse a group of agitators demanding ILP on July 8. The JAC for Sapam

'Lack of judges stalling formation of rights panel' AgArtAlA, July 28 (iAnS): The Tripura government is keen to constitute a human rights commission but paucity of suitable retired judges has become a stumbling block in forming the rights body, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here on Tuesday. "We had initiated the process to constitute the state human rights commission many years back but lack of suitable retired judges to head the body has become an obstacle to form the constitutional body," Sarkar said. He said: "According to the rule, a retired high court chief justice or a retired Supreme Court judge must be the chairman of the state human rights commission. For

many years we are looking for such a retired judge but failed." A few years back, we proposed to share the authority of the Assam human rights commission, but the Assam government did not respond positively, Sarkar said. "In 2007, the state government had constituted the Police Accountability Commission with provisions to protect human rights of the people. Cases of human rights violations are extremely low in Tripura," Sarkar added. The Tripura Police Accountability Commission has been constituted under the Tripura Police Act, 2007 with the powers of a civil court to summon and enforce attendance of witnesses under the

civil procedure code 1908. The Supreme Court on Friday had said it was the statutory duty of the state governments to set up state human rights commissions. A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice T.S.Thakur and Justice R. Banumathi in their judgment said it was a matter of regret that despite the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) strongly and repeatedly recommending setting up of state commissions, they have not been set up. The court directed the Tripura, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Arunchal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland governments to set up human rights commissions.

Inner line permit row: What Manipuris want

new Delhi, July 28 (iAnS): Even as Manipuri students in the national capital took out a protest march on Monday in support of the demand for an inner line permit system (ILPS) back home in Manipur, the process to frame a bill to regulate entry of "outsiders" into the northeastern state has entered a crucial phase. As raging protests continue over the demand, the state's Congress government has formed a committee to frame the proposed new bill in view of the demands by the protesters. The demand for an ILPS to check unregulated entry of non-Manipuris into the state - mostly in the Meitei people-dominated Imphal Valley - has been simmering ever since the 2011 census results came out. Things came to a boil in March when the Manipur assembly passed the "Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers (MRVT&MW) Bill 2015". On July 9, a day after class 11 student Sapam Robinhood died after being hit on the face by a rubber bullet in police firing, Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh said that the bill was now with the gov-

ernor for assent. The demand is for an ILPS in line with that in force in three other northeastern states - Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland. "You know, according to the 2011 census, the population of Manipur is a little over 27 lakh (2,721,756)," K.H. Ratan, convenor-incharge of the Joint Committee on ILPS (JCILPS) that is spearheading the ongoing movement, told IANS over phone from Imphal. "Of this, only 17 lakh (1.7 million) are indigenous people and 10 lakh (one million) people are outsiders," he said, alluding to those people whose roots are outside of Manipur. Ratan explained that prior to Manipur's merger with India in 1949 - it became a full-fledged state in 1972 - it had an "ILPS-like rule" to regulate the entry and exit of non-Manipuris. "However, the then chief commissioner of Manipur, Himmat Singh, abolished the rule on November 18, 1951, allowing unregulated influx of outsiders into the state that has led to the present situation (of demographic imbalance)," he said. The JCILPS has submitted a five-point charter

of demands to be included in the proposed new bill: issuance of a pass or permit to all non-indigenous people coming to Manipur, a cut-off base year of 1951 to check the influx of non-Manipuris into the state, no land ownership rights for non-indigenous people in the state, a fullfledged labour department for registration and regulation of inter-state migrant labourers, and detection and deportation of all illegal migrants. So, how justified are these demands in the context of other northeastern states, as also the rest of India? "They (Manipuris) feel insecure against the backdrop of an overarching trend of neo-liberal onslaughts marked by the unregulated inflow of exploitative capital, mercantile monopolists, trained or skilled labour and professionals, whose presence also has cultural and political ramifications," Malam Ningthouja, a fellow at Shimla's Indian Institute of Advanced Study, said in an e-mail interview with IANS. "Since the fear is natural, their demands are the logical outcome of the fear. In that sense, the demands are justified." But those non-indig-

enous people who have been living in Manipur for generations since 1951 feel the demands are unjustified. According to a WhatsApp message doing the rounds, the number of Manipuris living outside or having land and property outside far outnumber non-indigenous people in Manipur. If the demands of the protesters are to be met, all other state governments must bring legislation at par with the proposed new law in Manipur "making it compulsory for Manipuris to carry inner line permit outside Manipur", the mes-

sage reads. How practical and logical is it to deport all non-indigenous people living in Manipur since 1951? "...If the ILP demand is being fulfilled, it is the responsibility of the government of India to take up the concrete measures to identify, evacuate or deport the outsiders on the basis of adequate compensation and rehabilitation of those who will be resettled somewhere," Ningthouja stated. The JCIPLS has now given three riders to the Manipur government for holding talks: an August 15 deadline to pass the

new law, inclusion of its five demands in the new law and suspension of all police personnel involved in Robinhood's death before initiating a judicial inquiry. On Saturday, following a meeting of the newlyformed bill drafting committee, state Law Minister Th. Debendra Singh told the media that the draft would be finalised in "three or four days". He has sought cooperation from all quarters so that the new bill has constitutional validity and is acceptable to the president of India and the governor of the state.

Robinhood is refusing his body now lying unclaimed at the mortuary of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences here. It has vowed not to take the body until the Manipur Government punished all police personnel involved in Sapam Robinhood and passed an ILP bill that can protect the interests of the indigenous people. The Government has already ordered a judicial enquiry into the killing, but the JAC is demanding that all police personnel responsible

for the death of the student must be placed under suspension before initiating the probe.

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I, Shri. Luther S/o, Shri. Ningtam Diezielie Theunuo and Neirhieu Theunuo aged about 34 years resident of Seiyhama Village, Kohima District and presently residing at Kenuozou Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby, solemnly affirm and declare as follows.:1. That, I am a bonafide citizen of India hailing from Angami Schedule Tribe. 2. That as per my HSLC certificate my name is entered as Shri. Luther Theunuo. 3. That my official name as per Indian Passport is Shri. Luther. 4. I hereby change my Indian passport name from Shri. Luther to Shri. Luther Theunuo. 5. That from today onwards I shall be known as Shri. Luther Theunuo for all my official/legal purpose and hereby undertake to give wide publicity through newspaper to let everyone know about the change of my surname From- Shri. Luther to Shri. Luther Theunuo. Deponent

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I, Shri. Luther Theunuo aged about 34 years S/o, Shri. Ningtam Diezielie Theunuo and Neirhieu Theunuo resident of Seiyhama Village, Kohima District and presently residing at Kenuozou Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby, solemnly affirm and declare as follows.:1. I am the deponent herein and law-abiding citizen of India, 2. That inadvertently, my 'late' father's name was entered as Shri. Ningtam Diezielie in my Indian Passport, 3. That Shri. Ningtam Diezielie and Shri. Ningtam Diezielie Theunuo are same and only one person, belongs to the deponent herein under. 4. That by virtue of this declaration my 'late' father's name that appeared as Shri. Diezielie Theunuo in HSLC Admit Card and other Documents pertain to shall be deemed to have rectified and corrected as Shri. Ningtam Diezielie Theunuo respectively. Deponent

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KohiMa, July 28 (DiPR): CSD tax increased: In supersession of Government notification of even No. dated 14th September 2011, the Government of Nagaland has ordered that the rate of tax on all sales, by or to the Canteen Store Department (CSD), Government of India, for the purpose of resale to Unit Run Canteen (URC) or defence personnel strictly for their personal consumption shall stand Increased from 4.75% to 5%. This notification shall come into effect from the first day of August 2015.

(iii) In Schedule VIII, the rate prescribed on works This notification shall come into effect from the first contract under Entry 1 and Entry 2 shall stand increased day of August 2015. from 4.75% to 5% and from 13.25% to 14.5% respectively. This notification shall come into effect from the first day Nagaland Amusement Tax Act of August 2015. Government of Nagaland has made the following amendments to the Schedule of the Nagaland AmuseSale of Petroleum &Petroleum Products ment Tax Act, 1965:In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section 3 (i) In the existing Schedule, the rates of tax prescribed of section 3A of the Nagaland (Sale of Petroleum and Pe- in Entry 1, 2 and 3, shall stand increased as follows:troleum Products including Motor Spirit and Lubricants) Taxation Act, 1967 (as amended), the Governor of Naga- S l . Class or mode of entertain- Rate of tax Nagaland Value Added Tax Government of Nagaland has made the following land has notified that the rate of tax prescribed under EnNo. ment amendments to the Schedules of the Nagaland Value try Serial Number 1, 2, 5, 7 and 8 of Schedule-II of the Act shall stand amended as follows:Added Tax Act, 2005. 1 Proprietor of a Cable Television (i) Schedule IV; Existing Amended Network providing service to(a) The rates prescribed in all the Entries including S l . Description Entry 45- “Declared Goods as specified in Section 14 No. rate (Pai- rate of tax (i) An individual subscriber Rs. 25 per subscriber of the CST Act, 1956 (Central Act 74 of 1956) other than se in Ru(Paise in per month goods specified in Schedule I” shall stand increased from 4.75% to 5%. pee) Rupee) (ii) Hotels and Guest Houses Rs. 25 per TV set per (b) “Spare parts of motor vehicles” listed in Entry 353 1 Crude Oil 4.75 5 shall stand deleted. month 2 Petroleum coke 4.75 5 (ii) In Schedule V; 2 Proprietor of a hotel having its Rs. 25 per TV set per (a) The rates prescribed in all the Entries, except En- 5 5 Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) 4.75 try 154 – “Tobacco and tobacco products” shall stand inown Cable TV month sold to Turboprop Aircraft creased from 13.25% to 14.50%. (b) The rate prescribed under Entry 154 – “Tobacco as specified in clause ii (d) 3 Direct to home service providing Rs. 25 per TV set per and tobacco products” shall stand increased from 18% of section 14 of the Central multi-channel distribution of pro- month to 25%. (c) After entry 174, a new Entry shall be inserted Sales Tax Act, 1956 (Central grammes direct to subscriber’s namely:Act 74 Of 1956)

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SpiceJet offers Rs 999 ‘Red Hot Fare’ 160 petrol, diesel outlets shut for malpractices new Delhi, July 28 (agencies): Budget carrier Spicejet has hit the market again with a Rs 999 offer. SpiceJet launched the limited period sale offer today, which is offering tickets at a starting price of Rs 999 one way (taxes and fees not included) for travel on direct (non-stop) flights on its domestic network – this Spicejet offer is not valid for connecting, via, and international flights. The three day SpiceJet sale launched today will be open till midnight, July 30, 2015, for travel period between August 4 – October 15, 2015. Tickets under this offer are non-refundable (taxes and fees are refundable), though changes are permitted at a charge of Rs 2,000, plus fare difference. This sale is not available through the SpiceJet call centre or at airport ticket offices. Spicejet sale offer: Highlights * Booking period: July 28 – July 30, 2015 * Travel Period: August 4 – October 15, 2015 * Applicable on: Direct (non-stop) domestic flights * Limited seats, offer available on First-Come, First-Served basis In the offer list unveiled by Spicejet, routes available at the starting fare of Rs 999 include Ben-

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pulses, which it imports heavily. Top officials from the ministries of farm, food, trade and finance have now agreed to bring in a duty for the first time since 2006 to cut imports, said a high-level source directly involved in making the decision on the duty. Another official involved in the discussions confirmed the meeting and its outcome. The senior source said the duty is all but finalised, but did want to comment in public as it needs to pass through by Modi’s office. India was forced to import millions of tonnes of expensive wheat from Russia and Australia in 2006/07 after unusually high temperatures wilted its own crop.

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MuMbai, July 28 (ReuteRs): Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, India’s biggest carmaker by sales, said on Tuesday first-quarter net profit rose 56 percent helped by lower costs, favourable foreign exchange rates and higher sales, but still missed bullish analyst estimates. Maruti, controlled by Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T), said profit for the April-June quarter was 11.9 billion rupees ($185.94 million), up from 7.6 billion rupees in the same period a year earlier. Analysts had expected a profit of 12.35 billion rupees, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Net sales rose about 18 percent to 130.8 billion rupees, the company said. “During the quarter, higher volumes, cost reduction efforts, lower sales promotion expenses, and favourable foreign exchange helped improve the performance,” the company said in a stock exchange statement.

Microsoft to launch Windows 10 san FRancisco, July 28 (agencies): Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system debuts tomorrow, as the longtime leader in PC software struggles to carve out a new role in a world where people increasingly rely on smartphones, tablets and information stored online. No one’s expected to line up overnight for Windows 10, the way people did 20 years ago for Windows 95. But Microsoft is counting on tens or even hundreds of millions of people to download its latest release for free in the coming months. The launch will be accompanied by a global marketing campaign for an event the company hopes will be pivotal – both for its own future and for a vast audience of computer users around the world. Windows 10 is coming to PCs and tablets first, but it’s also designed to run phones, game consoles and even holographic headsets. It has new features, a streamlined Web browser called Edge and a desktop version of Cortana, the online assistant that is Microsoft’s answer to Google Now and Apple’s Siri. Still, the company insists Windows 10 will seem familiar to users of Windows 7, the six-yearold operating system still running on most PCs. Microsoft and PC makers want to erase the memory of the last big update, 2012’s Windows 8, which alienated many with its jarring, unwieldy design.

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Crime News

Person accused of killing wife, child arrested Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): Dimapur Police on July 26 arrested the absconding person wanted for the murder of his wife and son at Kirha Village on July 23. The accused has been identified as Bikash Borah alias Melow alias Mahesh Borah of Bhelowguri village under Merapani, Golaghat, Assam. He was tracked down and arrested from Assam after considerable effort by the staffs of Diphupar Police Station, a press release from PRO, Dimapur Police stated. Necessary investigation on the case is under progress, it added. 17 ILP defaulters detained Dimapur Police personnel manning the Chumukedima check gate detained 17 persons who were trying to pass without valid ILP on July 28. They have been forwarded to the competent authority for legal actions, according to the release from PRO. PAP defaulters In a separate incident on July 28, Dimapur Police detained and deported 15 Chinese nationals for entering the State without Protected Area Permit (PAP). The release informed that they have been deported outside the State by the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur & Foreigners Registration Officer (FRO). Stolen vehicles recovered One 407 mini truck with fake registration bearing Chassis No. RVN1045JWY12606 and Engine No. KWY649902, and one Royal Enfield (Motorcycle) bearing Chassis No. ME3U33S5COEE459990 have been recovered by Dimapur police. Owners of the vehicles have been asked to Diphupar Police Station with necessary documents.

DGC offers condolences Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): The principal, faculty members, and staff of Dimapur Government College (DGC) have expressed deepest sympathy at the demise of Dr. Chandan Debnath, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, DGC. Dr. Debnath passed away on July 28 after pro-

longed illness, informed a condolence message from principal of DGC. The message remembered Dr. Debnath as a sincere and dedicated teacher appreciated for his humility and simplicity. The college further extended condolences to the bereaved family, especially to his two children.

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Nagaland pays homage to former president Dr. Kalam Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The chief minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang today expressed shock and sorrow at the sudden demise of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India, in Shillong on July 27. “The people of Nagaland fondly remember his visit to the State of Nagaland and how he endeared himself to the Naga people,” stated a condolence note from Media Cell, Chief Minister’s Office. “Nagaland joins in grieving the loss of a powerful personality who was not only known as the Missile Man of India but also as the Peoples’ President.” Stating that Kalam’s valuable contributions to India will be remembered for all times to come, the chief minister and the people of Nagaland joined the nation in paying tribute to the “man who made India proud.” The chief minister on behalf of the Nagas further conveyed deepest condolences to the family of the former president. Governor: Expressing sorrow at the passing of APJ Abdul Kalam, governor of Nagaland PB Acharya declared that his death is a great loss to the nation and world. In a message, Acharya informed that Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, born on October 15, 1931, came from a poor background and started working at an early age. “Poverty was a challenge not a hindrance and he became achiever and Icon to the people of India

Chief minsiter TR Zeliang rushed to Delhi to pay respects to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He was accompanied by minister Y Vikheho Swu, and Temjen Toy, Principal Secretary to CM.

especially to the youth,” the governor said. Dr. Kalam joined the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defence Research and Development Organisation as a scientist in 1960. His contribution towards the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is remarkable and he is known as the Missile Man of India, it added. He was also recipient of prestigious Awards —Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. “The human side of Kalam’s personality was a legendary as his scientific acumen,” Acharya noted. Asserting that to build a strong, prosperous and peaceful India will be one true tribute to Kalam, the governor on behalf of all the people of Nagaland conveyed heartfelt condolences to his kith and kin. MCC: Model Christian College conducted a short gathering at the college campus to pay homage to the late Dr.

APJ Abdul Kalam. The principal of the College Dr. Anthony V. Richa gave a brief note on the life and career of the late former president. He mentioned that late Dr. Kalam was not only a brilliant Scientist, but also a visionary and an icon for the youths. A few moment of silence was observed in honour and remembrance of the great man and the college declared holiday for the day.

27–31, 2008, organized by NIHESW. Kalam was not only a great Scientist and a wonderful person, but inspiration to many, the note added. NIHESW further offered thoughts and prayers to the bereaved family. “Lt. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam will remain one of the finest human beings to have ever lived. He lived an illustrious and successful life, and his legacy will continue to inspire people around the world in the coming years.”

BJYM: The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Nagaland State unit condoled the sudden demise of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The Yuva Morcha stated that Dr. Kalam was an inspiration to entire people of the nation; he always encouraged people for positive impact, it said. “He lived an illustrious and successful life and his legacy will continue to inspire peoNIHESW: Expressing sad- ple around the world in the ness at the death of Dr. APJ coming days.” Abdul Kalam, Nagaland Institute of Health, Environ- NCSU: Nagaland Contracment and Social Welfare tors’ and Suppliers’ Union (NIHESW) said Kalam was (NCSU) expressed sorrow widely loved and admired at the passing of former by people of all age groups president Dr. APJ Abdul and was very popular with Kalam. NCSU acknowlchildren. “He utilized any edged that Dr. Kalam was a opportunity to address stu- highly learned man, a great dents, especially school- statesman, a renowned scichildren, asking them to entist, and a good teacher dream big so that they can with exemplary qualities of become achievers in life.” humility and selflessness, NIHESW in a note recalled who dedicated all his life for that Kalam was the chief the cause of the poor and guest at the 16th National downtrodden. The union Science Congress held in also conveyed condolences Dimapur from December to his family.

Land Resources dept to supply fingerlings Bill for withdrawal of over Rs. 12,000 crore passed Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): The Department of Land Resources, Dimapur, after constructing number of water harvesting structures under Integrated Wastelands Development Project (IWDP), has shifted its focus on supplying fish fingerlings to the beneficiaries in order to assist in their livelihood productivity. Applying its best efforts to maintain a systematic approach after the construction of water harvesting structures, Land Resources Dimapur district has laid emphasis on proper management of fishery farming for its beneficiaries. In this regard, Land Re-

sources in collaboration with the Fishery Department conducted one day training on Fishery pond management on July 28 for all beneficiaries under IWMP. The training saw two sessions, which included pre-stock management and post stock management. Session on pre-stock management was conducted by Nochet (Assistant Inspector, Fisheries Department) and session on post stock management was conducted by Adizenuo Dolie (Fishery Demonstrator, Fisheries Department). District Project Officer, Land Resources Dimapur

Hekato Yeptho also spoke at the training encouraging the participants. A total of 50 beneficiaries from IWMP 3 to IWMP 9 Dimapur participated in the training at Fishery Office, Nagarjan, Dimapur. Besides this, an arrangement for supply of Fingerlings to these beneficiaries has been scheduled for July 29 at 3:00 pm at the Fishery office, Nagarjan. In total, 24000 fingerlings have been arranged for supply on July 29. The amount of fingerlings to be provided to the beneficiaries will be based on the size of the water harvesting structure.

Our Correspondent Kohima | July 28

The Nagaland Appropriation (No.8) Bill, 2015 which is for withdrawal of Rs. 12592,69,47,000 (Rupees twelve thousand five hundred ninety two crores sixty nine lakh forty seven thousand) from and out of the consolidated fund of the state of Nagaland for the financial year 2015-16, was passed in the state assembly session here Monday. The bill was moved for consideration and passing by Chief Minister TR Zeliang, who also holds fi-

nance portfolio. This Bill is to authorize payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the consolidated fund of the state of Nagaland to the services of the year ending on March 31, 2016. The Bill stated that “From and out of the consolidated fund of the state of Nagaland there may be paid and applied sums not exceeding those specified in column (4) of the schedule amounting in the aggregate to the sum of Rs. 12592,69,47,000 (Rupees twelve thousand five hundred ninety two crores sixty

nine lakh forty seven thousand only) towards defraying the several charges which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the thirty first day of March, 2016 in respect of services specified in Column (1) of the schedule. It stated that the sums authorized to be paid and applied from and out of the consolidated fund of the state of Nagaland under this Act shall be appropriated for the services and purpose expressed in the schedule in relation to the year ending on March 31, 2016.

Nuklutoshi urges for simplifying National prayer days from July 30 to August 5 ‘sophisticated system’ of Naga talks

Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): The Council of Nagalim Churches (CNC) has decided to observe July 30 to August 5 as National Prayer Days of Confession and Thanksgiving. A press release from CNC general secretary Rev. Seksim Kasar informed that it is mandatory for all CNC working staff, pastors and chaplains to fast and pray for the seven days, while all NSCN members are to fast and pray for one day on August 2. The pastors and chaplains will have their programs at respective Region and Unit churches, and all the national authorities and workers living within the reach of Hebron will attend the Sunday Service at CHQ Church and GHQ Church. “Others who are unable to come and attend at the Headquarters churches owing to distance, should also take up this prayer at homes or wherever they are, for it is obligatory for all the national workers,” the release said. It also welcomed voluntary participation of individuals, families and churches in the prayer programme. Rev. Kasar also asked to pray for Chairman Isak Chishi Swu and Ato Kilonser Th. Muivah. Informing that Swu’s health is improving, Rev. Kasar asked to give thanks to God for answering our prayers. He also asked to thank the Lord for granting Muivah every blessing.

The CNC appealed to the people to participate in the prayer for the sake of “our National Salvation.” Order of the programme as given by CNC July 30: It is required of us, individually, to confess our personal sins to the Lord for his forgiveness. The Lord is merciful. He will hear and forgive us if we confess our sins (Suggested scriptures for meditation, Psm 51: 1-10; 1 John 1:8-10). Thus we are to consecrate our live to him (Suggested scripture for meditation Jos. 5: 1315; Rom 12:1-2). July 31: We have to intercede for the sins of all the National Workers (both Army and Civil). We all have to exercise the responsibility of priesthood of the believer (1 Pet 2:5). It is necessary to intercede even for our fore-fathers’ sins (Suggested scripture for meditation, Neh. 1:511; 1 Tim. 2:1-3). August 1: We have to confess and intercede to forgive and heal our nation. We have to pray for the entire Naga people that the Lord may forgive us and heal our land (Suggested Scripture for meditation, Neh. 1: 5-11; Matt. 3:1-8). August 2: It is advised that the Sunday Worship Service is divided into two sessions. In the first session, the congregation, on behalf of the Nation, shall offer a prayer of National Confession and Repentance. The congregation,

on behalf of the Nation, must consecrate our Nation to the Lord (Suggested Scripture for meditation, Lev. 26; 2 Chro 7: 12-22; Luk. 13: 1-5; Acts 17: 29-31). In the Second Session, the congregation, on behalf of the Nation, shall offer a Prayer of National Thanksgiving to the Lord and Commitment of our loyalty to Christ (Suggested scripture for meditation, Psa 103: 1-5; Psa 33:12; Rom 7: 24-25; 1 Cor 15: 53-58). August 3: We shall offer a prayer of thanksgiving for preserving, saving and leading us through the ages to be a nation of God (Suggested scripture for meditation 1 Sam 1:2728; Mk 5: 19-20). August 4: We shall offer a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord for providing us many capable leadership in the years, past and present. When the Lord stops giving Leadership that nation is doomed (Suggested scripture for meditation (2 Sam 7: 18 ff; Acts 12:5-8). August 5: We shall offer a Prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord for bringing us upto this stage where a solution which is honorable to the people and to the Lord is arriving at. We also have to offer a prayer of our Commitment to the Lord to remain true and faithful to the cause of the people and the Lord (Suggested scripture for meditation Psa 23; Rev. 21:1-8).

Kohima, July 28 (NEpS): Minister for National Highways Nuklutoshi today said Nagas were yet to grasp the “sophisticated system of Naga talks” and explained that unless the sophisticated system generated by high profile leaders of the country is simplified, it would be difficult to fathom the depth of the issue. Talking to NEPS here, the minister, who was part of the 19-member Parliamentary Working Committee (PWC) to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Interlocutor RN Ravi recently in Delhi, elaborated why he informed the House in the two-day discussion on Nagaland political issue that the Nagas were yet to grasp the “sophisticated system of Naga talks.” When the members of PWC met the Prime Minister at his official residence in Delhi, Modi told them: “You expect 100. (But) If I give you 80%, (it) doesn't mean I will not give 20%.” “If I give you a solution and if it is not accepted to you, I am afraid (that) my solution will be more problem to you.” “Will Naga people accept what I decide? When it happens, it should not go unresolved.” “If peace comes, it must come in toto.” “Every single Naga is important in bringing the solution.” Nuklutoshi described as “highly sophisticated”

the aforementioned words of the Prime Minister and that they would not be easily understood by the people. “We seem to know but in reality, we should admit that we are far behind the mainland Indians,” he said. “My fear is unless our Naga people understand the sophisticated system of the Naga talks, things will simply remain as it is.” Stating that the undercurrent of what the Prime Minister had hinted should be consequentially dissected so they would be able to know in which direction they had to act first, he said, it would be unworkable if tomorrow the Prime Minister takes decision on the Naga issue and gives to us without the consent of their people. “It would just be another “16-Point Agreement,” he said. “That is why I said we have to go back to the people in villages with the slogan ‘Unity for Solution’ and go according to our cultures and traditional systems while discussing the issue and we should simplify the very sophisticated system of the Naga talks and finally take decision from there,” the Minister pointed out. In this, he said that even the Village Council cannot take a decision if a clan objects and this traditional systems and cultures are still strongly prevailing in the Naga villages He further stated that RN Ravi knew very well why

solution to the 68 years old Naga issue defied solution till date and he informed them that they were working out for a “comprehensive solution and not for a piecemeal solution.” The Interlocutor also explained that an “inclusive approach” would be initiated while working for finding solution to the Naga political issue “keeping in mind the basic Naga ethos, Naga culture and Naga traditional systems.” Nuklutoshi reiterated that they must go back to the people and start working from their respective village levels to range levels to tribal body levels and culminate at State capital Kohima with their decisions to take final resolution to be submitted to the Government of India. “The Government of India is asking us to come with solution formula, whereas we are still demanding solution from them.”

Dimapur

MEx FILE NSCN (R) informs business establishments Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): NSCN (Reformation) today informed all the business establishments that few individuals in and around Dimapur, particularly by the name of AK Naga has been collecting taxes in the name of the group without authorization of the Finance In-charge. In this regard, NSCN (Reformation) warned that it “will not spare him for his mischievous acts.” The process is on to track him and initiate appropriate action, according to a press release from MIP, NSCN (R). Further, the Finance In-charge of Dimapur informed all the business establishments not to entertain any individual regarding taxes without consulting the following in-charges: Tsathrichum Sangtam, Dy. Kilonser, Finance In-charge, Dimapur - Mobile No. 8014578859; Newell Sumi, Secretary, Finance Incharge, Dimapur - Mobile No. 9615128172 / 8256950432.

Pochury Baptist Church Kohima invites Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Women Department of Pochury Baptist Church Kohima has cordially invited all Pochury women married to other tribes and living in and around Kohima, to a fellowship on July 30, 9:30 am at Pochury Baptist Church Kohima, Midland.

Kohima Science College fresher's social Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Kohima Science College (Autonomous) Jotsoma will hold its 54th fresher’s social on July 30 at the college auditorium from 10:00 am onwards. Imjung M. Panger, secretary, higher & technical education will grace the occasion as the chief guest.

KSUD to issue ID cards Dimapur, July 28 (mExN): The Konyak Students' Union Dimapur (KSUD) will issue its members’ Identity Card from July 29 at the residence of its treasurer C. Noklem, former minister, located near DC Office, Dimapur. In this regard, the Union has requested all the students and members from Dimapur to come and collect the ID card. For any queries contact: Sangti Konyak, President KSUD – 9612292843; Wenkang Konyak, Statistical Secretary – 9612849688.

Chiechama Village social work Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Chiechama Village ‘annual social work day’ will be held on July 30 to sanitize in and around the village. Therefore, all the concern members both residing in the village and other places are requested to attend the social work without fail.

Awareness programme on tobacco Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Anti-Tobacco Cell of KROS College and National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), directorate of health & family welfare, will conduct an awareness programme with the theme “Tobacco Free Living” on July 30 from 9:00 am onwards at Lerie Panchayat Hall here. Dr. H Hotokhu Chishi, Joint Director, State Nodal Officer, NTCP and Dr. Arenla Walling, District Nodal Officer, District Tobacco Control Cell, Kohima will be the resource persons. All the shopkeepers within Lerie colony, teachers and students of St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School and Vineyard School, Central Reserve Police Force Lerie have been requested to attend the programme.

NSBSG Association meeting Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Nagaland State Bharat Scouts and Guides (NSBSG) Association has convened its annual state executives meet on July 31 11:00 am at the SHQ Life Members Building, Bayavü Hills Kohima. All the State Executives Members and district representatives are requested to attend the meeting without fail. For further information contact @ +918575955743 (M)

NLF convenes consultative meeting Kohima, July 28 (mExN): The Nagaland Legislators’ Forum (NLF) on Naga political issue has convened a consultative meeting with tribal hohos and civil societies on July 31. The consultative meeting will take place at 11:00 AM at Regional Academy of Performing Arts and Music (RAPAM), Jotsoma. Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker Chotisuh Sazo informed this during the assembly session on Monday.

NASU holds musical nite to promote musical skills Morung Express News Kohima | July 28

The Northern Angami Students' Union (NASU) held a musical nite cum dinner on July 28 at its Academy Hall. The main purpose of the event was to raise funds for the education drive in the Northern Angami area. Rokovizo, President NASU informed that Northern Angami has 31 villages, which the NASU plans to cover in their education drive and check the quality of education and interact with the students in each unit. Another objective of the event was to promote the musical skills of young students.

Khriehu Liezietsu, Chief Patron of the event mentioned that to be a student is probably the most liberating period of one's life where a person experiences the joy of learning. Stating that students’ union is the youngest organization in the society, Liezietsu highlighted some essentials of a student body such as statistical reports, seminars and workshops etc. Various young artists under NASU performed in the musical nite. A welcome note was delivered by the President NASU while a prayer was invoked by Mengusielie Mere Kesi, PBKK, Youth Promoter.

Prayer prog held for drowned persons Kohima, July 28 (mExN): Yimchunger Union Kohima (YUK) has informed that after failing to find the bodies of S Pinthang Yimchunger and Tarkal Bahadur, who were drowned at Dzü-ü river near Wzwu bridge on July 20, a short prayer programme was held for the departed souls under the initiatives of YUK at Wzwu bridge on July 27. A press release from

YUK informed that YUK officials in collaboration with the neighbouring villages of Rusoma- Dihoma, Thizama, Tuophema, Gariphema, Kijumetouma and Home Guard, Civil Defence and others searched for the bodies for two days on July 21 and 22. However, due to incessant rainfall and increase in water level, YUK took a break for few days. Even during the break days,

families of the victims and people from neighbouring villages kept searching for the bodies till July 27 noon, according to the release. The prayer programme was held after having known that the bodies cannot be found, the release stated. The programme was attended by neighbouring villages, YUK officials, families of the deceased, well wishers and friends.

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The Morung Express WEDnEsDAy July 2015 volumE IssuE 205 THursDAy 929 July 2015 volumE XX IssuE 185 By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

12th NLA Session… Some Reflections

concerning highlight of this year’s Nagaland Legislative Assembly Session, among other pressing issues was the presentation of the Nagaland Budget for 2015-16 by our Chief Minister showing a whooping 1426.29 Crore deficit by the close of the current financial year with an estimated negative balance of 1308.32 during the current years transaction. Nonetheless, the CM showed optimism in presenting his “reformative and innovative” budget that would “improve production, streamline resources and revenue mobilization.” Besides the issues concerning its implementation, while it is opened to interpretations, on the whole, it needs to be seen in the light of how the developmental innovations are addressed, implemented and undertaken. Corruption is a roadblock to any form of development. Before the start of the NLA session; Lokayukta Bill was spilled out as likely to be introduced. Passing this bill would facilitate establishment of a Lokayukta in the state and subsequent check on the rampant corruption in the state in bringing the politicians and government officials under scanner. The Lokayukta Act will only come into force with effect on such a date as the government may, by notification in the state gazette. This anti-corruption ombudsman can be a necessary tool to curtail corruption but skepticism looms large on this issue because of the lack of sincerity on the part of the state government to even bring to table the High Powered Committee report and recommendations on illegal and multiple taxations that implementing Lokayukta bill seems a distant reality. The raise in taxes has been done to increase internal revenue even as the state government continues to ‘willfully’ pay the salary of those 70,000 excess government employees. On the issue of raising revenue, the NLTP Act was left untouched and quietly laid off in silence. This could have been a reformative and innovative point towards generating revenues. On a lighter note, just a week back, the Nagaland Government permanently prohibited the manufacture, storage, sale and distribution of all forms of processed sweets flavored/scented chewable tobacco under Food standards and Safety Act. But contrary to such ban imposed the Budget proposed to raise the Value added tax (VAT) on tobacco products by 7 percent which was taken as a dual move to increase internal revenue as well as ‘discourage’ tobacco users. On a serious note, if the government can pay for an excess 70,000 employees, definitely something positive could have been done for the Nagaland Foothill Road. The construction of the Nagaland Foothill Road has hit a major setback with the government’s inability to allocate budgetary provisions for the Foothill Road. The reason being, that the fund for the project comes from Special Plan Assistance (SPA) which is yet to be finalized due to the Central funding pattern. This is another point of contention where CM’s idea of the budget as ‘reformative and innovative’ lacks substance considering the fact that issues related to roads and corruption holds the distinction of being the stumbling block in the economic development of Nagaland. Coming to the Naga political issue, the state government has adopted five resolutions including the demand for integration of contiguous Naga Inhabited Areas under one administrative umbrella. Though the Government of India’s interlocutor to the Naga political issue, R. N. Ravi is hopeful for a solution within this year, it comes contrary to the fact that the government of India is only prepared for an 80% solution even as the general public is kept in the dark. While it is not known which aspect of the political issue constitutes the ‘20% solution-less.’ Such adoption of the political issue in terms of percentages is in itself a mockery to the Naga political issue. So long as the will and consent of the Naga selves remain out of the ‘dialogue,’ a permanent solution remains a distant reality. On the whole, the drawback of an ‘opposition-less’ government was the obvious shift from ‘questions and debates’ to ‘views and opinions.’ Sadly, this NLA session will be long remembered and compared to a ‘silly’ game of football. (Dr. Asangba Tzüdir is an Editor with Heritage Publishing House. He contributes a weekly guest editorial to Morung Express. Feedback and comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

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Nora Happel Inter Press Service

UN Vision of “Just Security”

mid a range of new and old challenges, from climate change to gender equality and war crimes, a new report by the Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance emphasises the need to reform the U.N. system. Highlighting a vision of “just security”, the report titled “Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance” provides reform proposals to address key global challenges at the intersection of justice and security. It is based on three thematic categories: state-fragility and violent conflict, climate and people, and the interconnected global economy. The 12 reforms suggested in the report range from U.N. conflict mediation, empowerment of women, implementation of the responsibility to prevent, protect and rebuild, climate governance and green climate technology to a reform of the U.N. Security Council and the creation of a parliamentary advisory body for the U.N. General Assembly to encourage civic participation. The Commission was co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State and Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright and former Nigerian Foreign Minister and U.N. UnderSecretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari. Albright, who spoke at Tuesday’s launch event, pointed to major shortcomings of the current U.N. system, including the workings and composition of the Security Council and a deficit of democracy shown by a lack of civil society involvement. She said the aim of the report is to present concrete ideas for solving these problems. According to the former U.N. ambassador, last week’s veto of the Security Council resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 as “genocide” is a “sign that the international system in this regard is not keeping pace with our problems”. “The work of the Commission is about Security and Justice. In Srebrenica, there was a breakdown of security and actions at the U.N. show how hard it still is to achieve justice.” On the other hand, she said, examples such as the concept of “responsibility to protect” show that the U.N. is able to “[adjust] itself to changed situations”. The report was released amidst ongoing international debates on the post-2015 development agenda, including the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September and the Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in November and December. In this political context, the goal of the report is to ensure key challenges to global governance such as rising numbers of political conflicts within states, fragile states, forced displacements, migration crises, continued discrimination of women, especially in terms of education, employment and reproductive health, climate change and environmental degradation are being given appropriate consideration by the international community.

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Expect the Barometer to Rise in Mexico

fter the polls closed in Mexico on June 7, embattled President Enrique Peña Nieto stepped up to claim a victory that he didn’t win. “In Mexico, democracy advances,” he declared triumphantly in a polished television address. He announced that the Mexican people had expressed their will through institutions and channeled their differences through the democratic system. Though there are calls throughout Mexico for the president to step down, there was nothing conciliatory about his speech. He called the voter turnout — which fell just under 50 percent — a “mandate to reject violence and intolerance and work together toward prosperity and peace.” He touched only obliquely pre-electoral conflicts over protesting teachers, disappeared students, and other controversies. He threw down the gauntlet to the thousands who have protested neoliberal educational and privatization reforms by concluding: “The reforms are going forward.” But in reality, the results of the elections were far from a vote of confidence for Peña Nieto’s government — or even for the electoral system itself. Punishment of the Major Parties With more than 2,000 posts up for grabs — including the whole lower house of Congress and nine governorships — Mexicans turned out at a rate of around 48 percent. That’s high for a midterm, when the presidency isn’t up for a vote. Yet that participation hasn’t dissipated discontent. Mexico’s incoming politicians will face as much — or even more — protest and mistrust as the old ones. Polls showed that an astounding 91 percent of those surveyed don’t trust the political parties, and only 27 percent are satisfied with the level of democracy in Mexico. In other words, people voted even when they had little faith in the system or the results. In some cases voters might’ve had real enthusiasm for candidates, but in others people opted for the lesser of evils, took money for votes, or were coerced by employers. To interpret that as a unified statement in support of institutions that most people believe are corrupt is a purposeful error designed to paper over deep and growing dissent. All the major parties — the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the right-wing National Action Party (PAN), and the left-of-center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — suffered setbacks. The PRI lost around a dozen seats in the Chamber of Deputies, though it will still control a majority of seats thanks to a coalition with the Green and New Alliance Parties. Peña Nieto took the result as an endorsement of his administration, yet polls show that 85 percent of Mexicans don’t trust the president, and 60 percent believe that corruption has increased during his administration. So continued PRI control could actually raise the temperature of the pressure pot Mexico is rapidly becoming. Peña Nieto has suffered months of bad press. Investigators published exposés about a mansion purchased for his family by a major government contractor, and other dubious dealings have affected him and members of his administration. His popularity plummeted after his administration first ignored then blocked an investigation into the case of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa and alleged extrajudicial executions in Tlatlaya. To top it off, the economic outlook for Mexico has been repeatedly readjusted downward since the year began. The conservative PAN maintained its level of about 20 percent of the national vote. It will govern in Baja California Sur and the central state of Queretaro. The PRD, though, won only 10 percent of the vote, losing some 40 congressional seats. Its downfall reflects the strong showing of the Movement for National Regeneration, or MORENA, a new party split off from the PRD and led by former PRD presidential candidate Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. MORENA gained about 8.5 percent of the vote, a significant showing for its first time out. It snatched the majority in the Mexico City Assembly and at least five of the city’s 16 boroughs from its progenitor.

early to the day of the first successful test of a nuclear bomb in 1945, and just a few weeks from the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed through legislation to give his country’s military the power to strike offensively for the first time since the war. It is hard to understate the potential impact of this development. Domestically, Abe is putting his own job on the line. Voters oppose the new legislation roughly two to one, opposition parties walked out of the vote in protest and the government’s support ratings fell to around 40 percent. The lower house of parliament’s decision to approve the legislation set off the largest demonstrations in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear accident; a crowd of 100,000 people gathered with signs reading “Abe, Quit.” Abe took this action knowing that 55 years ago similar protests forced his grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, out of the prime minister’s job after he rammed a revised U.S.-Japan security pact, seen as too militaristic, through parliament. Abe’s move is also darkly symbolic both in and outside Japan. Most Japanese remain proud of Article 9 in their postwar constitution, through which they became the only nation in modern times to renounce the use of offensive force. Abe’s walking his country away from this achievement represents the end of the last great ideal to emerge from World War Two, and an almost contemptuous disregard for his citizens’

Notably, the victory of independent gubernatorial candidate Jaime Rodriguez in the border state of Nuevo Leon is a slap in the face to all of the political parties, especially the PRI. Rodriguez developed his career in the PRI and served as mayor of Garcia, where he gained international attention for confronting organized crime. He harvested the discontent of the people with the party system and of PRI members disgruntled about the party’s internal selection process. Nuevo Leon’s major city is Monterrey, the industrial center of the nation, making it a very significant win for an independent candidate. Persistence of Illegal Electoral Practices Mexico’s elections were exceedingly expensive, costing some 8 billion pesos. That, however, did not save them from accusations of dirty tricks. The recently renamed National Electoral Institute, or INE, proved once again that it’s very efficient at absorbing public funds, but not so much at guaranteeing fair elections. The PRI-allied Green Party, for example, ran a propaganda campaign that saturated Mexico’s media and public spaces beginning well before the designated campaign period and intensifying in the weeks before elections. The INE ordered a fine of 11.4 million pesos for disguising party propaganda as public affairs announcements, but later slashed the amount to a painless 1 million. The party was also fined 70,000 pesos for handing out food baskets in the state of Quintana Roo. The Electoral Institute levied a total of 517 million pesos in fines against the party for multiple violations of election laws, sparking a citizen movement to rescind its registration. The INE criticized the Green Party’s blatant violation of the principle of fairness, but the damage was done. The party reported a huge leap in its electoral cache, guaranteeing the PRI coalition a ruling majority in Congress. In another glaring problem, when the INE released its results of the vote count, it reported 100.61 percent of districts. In one district with 500 polling places, 550 were reported counted. While the INE blamed a “computer glitch,” opposition parties railed at its loss of credibility, which was low to begin with. It’s currently carrying out recounts involving 60 percent of the national vote. Social networks, meanwhile, have been full of citizen reports of vote buying, coercion of public employees with threats of firing, and militarization at the polls. Sadly, much of this hasn’t been adequately documented or sanctioned, much less prevented. Though electoral laws and regulations have undoubtedly improved over the years, the INE seems to have little ability, and little desire, to make enforcing them common practice.

Institutional Violence The government patted itself on the back for an election day “free of incidents.” The loved ones of Antonio Vivar would reject this evaluation. According to witnesses, Vivar was shot and killed by government security forces in Tlapa, Guerrero in the midst of election-day conflict. There, the government raided the office of a protesting teachers’ union and then occupied the town with tear gas and full riot gear. Vivar was murdered in the offensive, and many others were injured. In fact, some analysts have said these elections were the most violent since 2008. Human rights organizations protested the high level of armed military and police presence at the polls. In the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacan, and Chiapas, the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center reported that “an alarming number of state and federal security forces were deployed, as well as soldiers.” It called the deployments and others incidents “a clear signal of authoritarian regression.” Lower-intensity conflict characterizes the country from coast to coast, and from one troubled border to the other. Clashes and protests formed the backdrop for the elections and will be the foreground for the shaky governing forces that, by all indications, will continue to publicly boast of stability while employing force to put down rising protest. The one immeasurable factor in these elections was the participation of organized crime. The shadow posers remained in the shadows, with numerous reports surfacing of places where they assigned candidacies, murdered unwanted candidates, and manipulated the vote. Deep Discontent So about half of eligible Mexicans turned out to vote, and the PRI kept its majority. Does that mean ordinary voters have confidence in the electoral system, the parties, and the politicians? No. Mexico’s savvy populace is skeptical but wants to express itself. That’s good for a democracy. What’s clear is that people will not limit their expressions to the voting box — a fact made clear by an active boycott-the-vote movement leading up to the election. The nation is still far from a U.S.-style system, where maintaining democracy is defined as going to the polls when elections are held. In Mexico, citizens are actively striving all year round for a democracy that seems to be receding. Corruption will continue to be a big factor in driving popular anger. As we’re seeing in Honduras and Guatemala, Mexican politicians may also have to face the music in the near future. Mexicans have gone to the ballot box, but they’ll also turn up in the streets. Expect the barometer to rise.

Japan’s pacifism fades, but most Japanese are not happy about it Peter van Buren Reuters view of themselves. In addition, as China contests islands in the seas south of Japan, North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and Japan’s Southeast Asian neighbors remember their own World War Two experiences, the new legislation throws additional fuel onto the coals of East Asian tensions. China’s foreign ministry said the move called into question Japan’s postwar commitment to “the path of peaceful development” and urged Abe to learn the lessons of history. Chief among the practical concerns in Japan is that Abe’s legislative endrun around the constitution will block case-by-case debate on the use of the nation’s military. For example, Japan’s only postWorld War Two deployment of troops abroad, a single battalion to Iraq in 2004 in support of U.S. reconstruction efforts, met intense scrutiny to the point where the government published images of the small arms the soldiers carried, which were to be used only for self-protection, to assure the public of

its non-martial intent. A separate, onetime-only law, passed in the wake of 9/11 to allow Japan to refuel American ships in the Indian Ocean, restricted Japanese vessels to “areas where no combat is taking place.” The new legislation does not immediately become law. The measure moves to the upper house, where no vote is expected to be taken. After 60 days, the measure will automatically return to the lower chamber, where Abe’s coalition holds a comfortable majority. In theory, the decision could then be challenged in the supreme court as being in violation of Article 9, though the court historically rules in favor of the government. That addresses the “what.” The “why” remains much harder to discern. Abe says the legislation is in response to threats facing Japan, including from China. He also cites the murder of two Japanese hostages by Islamic State, suggesting his military could have rescued them. While these views play well to the ultranational-

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ists who help fund the prime minister’s party, Abe’s critics see them as blather; American security guarantees protect Japan without a (Japanese, at least) thumb in the eye of its neighbors. And even if Japan had the special-forces capability to pull off a hostage rescue, such an action seems well within the intent of Article 9. Abe also says that the new legislation would allow Japan to help defend the United States, something his critics feel could lead to entanglements in U.S. aggression against China, or even in the Middle East. Abe’s own arguments about defending Japan aside, one real factor is the United States pushing the leader into a more aggressive stance under the banner of “collective defense.” However, the real “why” likely rests deep inside Abe. He has long held a hyper-conservative view of World War Two. He stated, for example, that Japanese leaders charged with war crimes were “not war criminals under the laws of Japan.” American occupiers arrested Abe’s grandfather, Kishi, as a war criminal for his role in the war. Some say Kishi, who helped raise Abe, pressed into his grandson his own dream of remaking Japan as a military power and throwing off the postwar constitution. Abe is a politician who found himself powerful enough to act on his own ideas, apart from what many feel are his nation’s legitimate security needs. Abe is apparently willing to pick a fight, risk his job and anger his country, all in service to his own ideology.

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7 PERSPECTIVE Transforming the Fight against Poverty in India

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29 JUly 2015

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

siddharth George and arvind subramanian

ransferring cash to poor families, on the condition that their kids attend school and get vaccinations, has been shown to be an effective way to reduce poverty and improve human health and well-being. Latin America is widely recognized as the pioneer of large-scale conditional transfer programs, starting with Mexico in the late 1990s and expanding across Brazil over the past decade. Now these programs have the potential for making a serious dent in poverty in India. Under the acronym JAM — Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, Mobile — a quiet revolution of social welfare policy is unfolding. Jan Dhan is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship program to give poor people access to financial services, including bank accounts, credit and insurance. Aadhaar is the initiative to issue unique biometric identification cards to all Indians. Together with mobile money platforms, they will enable the state to transfer cash directly to those in need — without the money going through intermediaries that might take a cut. India, the world’s largest democracy, is also the world’s largest poor country. The legitimacy of any elected government turns on its ability to provide for the poor. As such, both our federal and state governments subsidize a wide range of products and services with the expressed intention of making them affordable for the poor: rice, wheat, pulses, sugar, kerosene, cooking gas, naphtha, water, electricity, fertilizer, railways. The cost of these subsidies is about 4.2 percent of India’s gross domestic product, which is more than enough to raise the consumption level of every poor Indian household above the poverty line. Sadly, government provision of these subsidies is associated with significant leakages. For example, as much as 41 percent of subsidized kerosene, which poor families use to light their homes, is “unaccounted for” and is probably lost to the black market. Dealers sell it on the side to middlemen who mix diesel into fuel and resell it, which is bad for both health and the environment. Furthermore, some subsidies benefit those who do not need them. Power subsidies, for example, favor the (generally wealthier) two-thirds of India who have access to regular grid-provided electricity, and, in particular, wealthier households, which consume more power. Why, then, do product subsidies form such a central part of the Indian government’s antipoverty policies? Subsidies are a way for states that lack implementation capacity to help the poor; it is easier to sell kerosene and food at subsidized prices than to run effective schools and public health systems. The three elements of JAM are a potential gamechanger. Consider the mind-boggling scale of each element. Nearly 118 million bank accounts have been opened through Jan Dhan. Nearly one billion citizens have a biometrically authenticated unique identity card through Aadhaar. And about half of Indians now have a cellphone (while only 3.7 percent have land lines). Here’s one example of how these three elements can be put to work. The Indian government subsidizes households’

ow that we Iranians have begun breaking out of our three-decade antagonism with the West, it is time to initiate a long overdue reconciliation at home. For 35 years now, Iranian people have been categorized as insiders and outsiders by the state. To understand the structure of this division, the key lies in the narrative of the Iran-Iraq war. Last month, even as the nuclear talks between Iran and the negotiators from six foreign powers were grinding toward the agreement, the remains of 175 combat divers killed during the Iran-Iraq war were buried in Iran. They died during a failed offensive in 1986, known as Operation Karbala, to capture Basra in southern Iraq. Their remains, which were returned in May, had been found in a mass grave. Still wearing their diving suits, some of them had their hands tied; the authorities said the men had apparently been buried alive. Photographs of their corpses, bound and suffocated, proved compelling for Iran’s younger generation. They honored the divers on social media and, on June 16, attended the funeral procession through Tehran’s streets in unexpected numbers. It was surprising for me to watch on social media, while here in London, the unprecedented outpouring of emotion across the spectrum of Iran’s population. For years, intellectuals and the middle classes in Iran had turned their backs on the war, because what began in 1980 as a defense of territory snatched from revolutionary Iran by Saddam Hussein soon turned into an elongated offensive that was mythologized along the same righteous path taken in the Karbala desert in the seventh century by Imam Hussein, a religious figure revered by Shiite Muslims. Before each major operation, a call to arms that heavily emphasized Shiite religious motivation alienated the secular even as it inspired the pious. It didn’t take long for the war to become the property of the truly devout — meaning those truly devoted to the Islamic revolution. The war and its martyrs marked a line dividing Iranian citizenry that created its own lexicon: “Khodi” (insider) and “Gheir e khodi” (outsider). Now something about the divers’ fate has broken the emotional distance from the war that secular Iranians had long assumed. They flocked respectfully to join a proces-

Indian passengers sleep as they wait for trains at a railway station in Ahmadabad, India on Friday, July 3, 2015. India has released new socio-economic and caste census data on Friday that covers the period between 2011 and 2013 to show the wealth, living conditions and other details of the country's 1.2 billion people. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

purchases of cooking gas; these subsidies amounted to about $8 billion last year. Until recently, subsidies were provided by selling cylinders to beneficiaries at below-market prices. Now, prices have been deregulated, and the subsidy is delivered by depositing cash directly into beneficiaries’ bank accounts, which are linked to cellphones, so that only eligible beneficiaries — not “ghost” intermediaries — receive transfers. Under the previous arrangement, the large gap between subsidized and unsubsidized prices created a thriving black market, where distributors diverted subsidized gas away from households to businesses for a premium. In new research with Prabhat Barnwal, an economist at Columbia University, we find that cash transfers reduced these “leakages,” resulting in estimated fiscal savings of about $2 billion. The scope for extending these benefits is enormous. Imagine the possibility of rolling all subsidies into a single lump-sum cash transfer to households, an idea mooted decades ago by the economist Milton Friedman as the holy grail of efficient and equitable welfare policy. JAM makes this possible. To realize the full benefits of JAM, the government needs — and has begun — to address both “first-mile” and “last-mile” challenges. The “first-mile” challenges are identifying eligible beneficiaries and coordinating between states and government departments. To deliver means-tested benefits via cash transfers, the government will need a way of identifying the poor and linking beneficiaries to their bank accounts. Further, eligibility criteria and beneficiary rosters vary, and technology platforms, where they exist, may not be seamlessly interoperable. Hence the need for an extensive coordination exercise under the national government,

which can incentivize states to come on board by potentially sharing fiscal savings with the states. The “last-mile” challenge arises because cash transfer programs risk excluding genuine beneficiaries if they do not have bank accounts. Indeed, even if they have an account, they may live so far away from a bank — India has only 40,000 rural bank branches to serve 600,000 villages — that collecting benefits is arduous. Extending financial inclusion to reach the remotest and poorest will require nurturing banks that facilitate payments via mobile networks, which has achieved great success in countries such as Kenya. India can then leapfrog from a bank-less society to a cashless one just as it went from being phoneless to cellphone- saturated. Over all, JAM offers substantial benefits for government, the economy and especially the poor. Government finances will be improved because of the reduced subsidy burden; at the same time, government will also be legitimized and strengthened because it can transfer resources to citizens faster and more reliably. Experimental evidence from the world’s largest workfare program — the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme — found that delivering wages via a biometrically authenticated payment system reduced corruption and enabled workers to receive salaries faster. With the poor protected, market forces can be allowed to allocate resources with enormous benefits for economywide efficiency and productivity enhancement. The chief beneficiaries will be India’s poor; cash transfers are not a panacea for eliminating their hardship, but can go a long way to improving their lives. Siddharth George is a doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard. Arvind Subramanian is the chief economic adviser to the Indian government.

Iran’s Next Need: Internal Healing Haleh anvari

sion of mourners second only in size to the funeral of the Iranian revolution’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The reaction to the repatriation of the divers’ bodies suggests that Iranian society is finally ready to engage more openly with the legacy of the Iran-Iraq war, and to mourn, on their own terms, those who died. Using the memory of martyrs to legitimize political platforms has been normal practice for Iran’s hardliners. Even though families of war martyrs increasingly deplore the use of their dead for political propaganda, the hard-liners tried to turn the mourning procession into a political rally against the centrist administration of President Hassan Rouhani. They distributed placards and delivered speeches criticizing the continuing nuclear negotiations with the outside world as a break from the ideals for which the divers perished. Thirty-five years after the revolution, Iran may look post-revolutionary in the fancy cars of its newly rich classes or in its attempts at rapprochement with the United States. But the country cannot truly say its revolution has come of age until it accepts that the war has marked the psyche of the whole

nation — not just the devout, the underprivileged or the political insiders. The time has come for these insiders to recognize that what the country needs most is internal rapprochement. This issue is particularly important now, because the nuclear negotiations have posed an existential threat to the powerful minority of hard-liners, who have created a social and financial ecosystem around the memory of the war and the portrayal of the United States as an archenemy. For them, watching these twin pillars of their revolution dismantled is unacceptable; they may not accept the outcome of the nuclear talks with grace. Iranians have not forgotten the logistical and material support given to Iran’s adversary in the eight-year war by the United States and other countries who negotiated Iran’s nuclear rights in Vienna. In an article citing unclassified United States documents, Rajanews, a hard-liner website, claims that Karbala 4 would not have failed if American intelligence hadn’t helped Saddam Hussein — who also used gas against Iranians, leaving horrendous physical and psychological casualties. But the persistent mentality of war that sees enemies in every corner,

years after the end of the event, has exhausted many Iranians who now wish to look to the future. Some even harbor a romantic notion that making amends with the United States will end all the woes of their daily lives. It would be naïve, of course, to think that a final agreement will immediately set us on the path to a freer society. In fact, our immediate chances of waking to find a Starbucks in our neighborhood are greater than finding freedom of speech or free elections. It is equally unrealistic to expect the hard-liners to abandon their isolationist stance overnight. Some Iranians fear that a final agreement would make life harder, because of the reaction it would provoke from this faction, who remain powerful, above the law, and unafraid of violence. Our supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s doublespeak — at times supporting the negotiations and at other times setting red lines — has been interpreted in this newspaper and elsewhere in the West as an attempt to hedge his bets. His zigzagging may be better deciphered as a form of re-acclimating the hard-liners and the devout, who are used to a steady diet of anti-Western rhetoric, to a political sea change — one that is turning the early revolutionary goal of “neither East nor West” to “both East and West.” In other words, whatever assures the survival of the state and the security of the country. As the self-appointed guardians of the war’s narrative, the hard-liners need now to adapt their use of the memory of Iran’s sacrifices from a tool to oppress and estrange outsiders to one that helps the marginalized feel co-ownership of an event that helped build the identity of contemporary Iran. Reaching a final nuclear agreement may turn out to have been as defining a moment in Iranian history as the revolution itself. Now we need to end the monopoly of a minority over interpreting Iran’s past and, through that privilege, designing its possible future. We should all be allowed a legitimate share in the collective memory and grief of the war. That done, we can then move forward as a nation united, no Iranian more Iranian than the other, against a backdrop of increasing uncertainty in our region. Haleh Anvari is an independent Iranian artist and writer and the founder of AKSbazi.com, a crowdsourcing site about Iran.

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APJ Adbul Kalam’s sudden demise on Tuesday has left the nation shocked and in mourning. An unexpected incident like this makes us reflect on the fact that while life is short, it is also long enough for us to make an impact just like APJ Abdul Kalam did as the Former President of India, a great scientist and a noble and inspiring human being. Everyone undergoes change in their life and they each react differently. It may be the loss of a loved one, a new job, a different place or a new task. While some transition quicker, others have a harder time accepting the changes that they face. In life,we maynot always be in control of our circumstances, but we can certainly choose how we react to it. They say that the only constant in life is change, and the sooner we realize it, the better prepared we will be to live our lives to the zenith.Sometimes all we need is a little push out of our comfort zonesand the determination to face reality head on.

The Only Constant in life is Change Patomi yepthomi

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t is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the ones who are most adaptive to change.”- Charles Darwin. The fact that change is inevitable in every aspect of life has been a significant factor in the process of human civilization. Whether we accept it or not, we all have to go through periods of change at some point. It is a necessary element of growth and in a way inherent in the laws of nature that changes may take place every now and then. We get so accustomed to things being in one particular way that we feel worried and scared when things change. Our minds create an imaginary zone in which a person feels comfortable, but if we want to broaden our vision and upgrade our life, then it is a must to break this comfort zone and to adjust ourselves with new circumstance and ideas. If we have been complacent with the happenings around us, maybe it is time for a change. For instance, if there is someone seeking job transition, they are probably in a career right now doing the same thing for quite a long time. Though they are very good at these jobs, they have become complacent, and it doesn’t challenge them anymore. They desire to do more and do something differently. We only want certain things to be different, and in other things we are hesitant to bringthe change. No matter how we perceive the need of change, necessary or unnecessary, we cannot prevent it from happening. The society or the environment we live in change, our relationships changes, if not entirely, the circumstances change, our feelings change and nothing is ever exactly the same each moment. Therefore, it is more important to find ways to deal with change, rather than ponder on whether or not it is necessary. The best way to handle change is to be flexible and not resistant. When we begin to realize that change is not something to be feared and avoided, we can learn to let go of the fear of change and the part of us refusing to change and often causing stress. Sometimes, day to day changes can be subtle but, in sum, can make a significant impact depending on how we address or not address them. We should adapt ourselves to the changes around us and be vigilant about changing trends. Change is the motivating force that helps us realise that we should never become complacent and accept mediocrity. It makes us grow as a person and makes our life interesting. The willingness to get out of the comfort zone and learn continuously as a way of adapting to the changed surroundings makes a key difference between thriving individuals and the less motivated. There are times when we have no control over what is happening in our lives and our surroundings. Then there are other times when we become the thoughtful leader or the force driving that change and this is when we are prompted to decide on how to come up with a proactive approach to the situation. There is a well known Chinese proverb that says that the wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher. This is where we have to stop being the victim and blaming others. We have to take up the responsibility for our happiness, take control and not put such power into the hands of another person. We should be change-ready individuals and have flexible culture sharing certain traits that allow us to progress and not stay stagnant. We need people who are able to quickly evaluate and shed weaknesses and build strength in new avenues. The negative things we hang onto will not serve any purpose. The more we begin focusing on more positive things, the more we’ll start attracting positive situations. The most important thing to remember is that we are only humans and at times we will fall to our weakness and take poor decisions. However, we can supplement to that by quoting “life is a learning process” and we need to dust ourselves off and get back on track and take it up from where we let off. Eventually, we will change our habits entirely and no longer feel the urge to make those poor decisions. Successful people aren’t successful because they have managed to rid themselves of all their flaws, weaknesses and poor habits. Rather, they have gotten to know themselves so well that they sense any potential stupid decisions before they make them. They then outsmart themselves and don’t give themselves the chance to make those mistakes. If we are to live a free and prosperous life, we need to change beyond the usual expectation, and the challenge is to revolutionize attitudes in a race against time. Life would be easy and smooth if we avoid changes, but if we are determined to pursue a more challenging and interesting life, set aside the grievances of the past and do not hesitate to make the necessary changes- the habits, beliefs, cultures, attitudes, social order, etc. that have lost their utility, and have become a barrier to the enhancement of a progressive culture. “degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a naaC accredited UGC recognised Commerce and arts College. For feedback or comments please email: admin@tetsocollege.org”.

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Prez leads nation in paying tributes to Kalam State Funeral on Thursday in Tamil Nadu

Touching and Inspiring: Nuggets from Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s President All iNDiA, July 28 (PTi): Former President, Bharat Ratna Recipient and the father of India's nuclear programme, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was all of this and much more. Selfless, humble, undying quest for knowledge and his utmost amicably endears him forever with the masses, especially the children. Simplicity and humility that was the hallmark of his public life. Here are some glimpses from his extraordinary life.

PIC 1: India's flag is flown at half-mast at Rashtrapati Bhavan, or the Presidential Palace, as a mark of respect for former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam who died at the age of 83, in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 28. PIC 2: An Indian student offers flowers to a portrait of former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at CMS School in Lucknow on Tuesday, July 28. Kalam, known as the father of the country's military missile program, died Monday, July 27, after collapsing while delivering a lecture, a top state official said. . (AP Photo)

New Delhi, July 28 (iANS): President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation on Tuesday in paying tributes to former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Thousands of people visited the 'Missile Man's' official residence here to pay their last respects to the "people's president" who collapsed while delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management in Shillong on Monday evening. The two houses of Parliament were adjourned for two days as a mark of respect to Kalam as political parties gratefully recalled his contributions to the nation. The union cabinet met in the morning to formally pay tributes to Kalam who rose from humble beginnings to become one of India's leading scientists and later a popular president. Kalam's body, wrapped in the Tricolour, arrived on Tuesday at the Palam technical area of Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 12.30 p.m. in a special Indian Air Force plane. After a ceremonial guard of honour at the airport in the presence of the three service chiefs, Kalam's mortal remains were brought in an army vehicle to his official residence at 10,

Rajaji Marg in central Delhi. Thousands of people visited his residence to pay homage as cries of "Abdul Kalam amar rahe" and "Long live Abdul Kalam" rent the air. The prime minister and the president went to the airport to pay tributes to the late leader. Other dignitaries present at the airport included Vice President Hamid Ansari, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. While the central government declared a seven-day mourning on Monday, the Goa government declared a sevenday mourning on Tuesday. Kejriwal announced that the Delhi government will name its scheme providing educational loan up to Rs.10 lakh after Kalam. Modi, who addressed a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party on Tuesday, paid glowing tributes to Kalam and said India had lost a "ratna (jewel)". Kalam was president from 2002-2007 and assumed the highest office when BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was in power. Modi said Kalam was "rashtra ratna" (country's jewel) and his "personality was special".

"His life inspires us; it inspires the youth," Modi said. The former president died on Monday evening in a private hospital in Shillong after he collapsed while delivering a lecture on 'Liveable Planet' to students of the Indian Institute of Managment, Shillong. Kalam will be accorded a state funeral with full military honours at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. His family had wished that his last rites be performed in his hometown. After the Lok Sabha met on Tuesday morning, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan read out a condolence message and said Kalam was a "real gem" of the country and a "sagacious statesman". The members stood in silence for two minutes to pay their respects. In the Rajya Sabha, Chairman Hamid Ansari said the country had lost a true son. "His contributions to the nation as a man of technology, a teacher and a leader will be deeply cherished by a grateful nation," he said. Both houses will now have their next sitting on July 30. The union cabinet, which met on Tuesday to pay its condolences to Kalam, said the country lost a visionary sci-

entist, a true nationalist and a great son. "Kalam made significant contribution in developing India's first indigenous satellite launch vehicle and made India an exclusive member of space club," the resolution said, adding that strategic missile systems were developed and the Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted during Kalam's term as scientific advisor to the defence minister. It said Kalam was responsible for evolving policies, strategies and missions for many development applications and piloted India Millennium Mission 2020. Born on October 15, 1931 at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, Kalam specialised in aeronautical engineering from Madras Institute of Technology. He was the recipient of many national and international awards, including honorary doctorates from 48 universities from India and abroad. He received the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997. Tributes continued to pour in for Kalam with political leaders from the BJP, CPI-M and the Congress recalling his decades of dedicated service to the country in various fields.

way and IAF personnel lit up the runway with lanterns, flaming torches and bonfires to facilitate take-off, the aide said. The President's aides too were concerned about his decision to take off at night from an airport that had only basic equipment and privately asked IAF officials whether such a flight would be safe. The IAF officer's answer was spine-chilling - "you can take off but there may be some problems if you have to return." At around 9 pm, the PresiWhen President Kalam took dential Boeing took off with Dr off from an Airport lit by lan- Kalam and his entourage of 22. terns and torches A P J Abdul Kalam was a When Abdul Kalam refused to daring President who went on sit on the President's chair Once during an event, Dr a submarine sortie, flew a Sukhoi jet and visited the Siachen APJ Abdul Kalam who was then glacier, the world's highest President, refused to sit on a battlefield, and interacted with chair that was designated for troops at the Line of Control. him -because the chair was largBut none of these was probably er in size than the other chairs. as daring as flying out of Aiza- This was one of the several inwl airport in the night with the stances where Kalam's actions runway illuminated with lan- became synonymous with simplicity and humility. terns and torches. At a convocation of IIT On that evening in 2005, Dr Kalam, then 73, had complet- (BHU) Varanasi, Kalam was the ed all his official engagements chief guest and there were five during his visit to Mizoram chairs on the stage, the centre and was scheduled to leave the one being for the President. The next morning. But a restless Dr other four were designated for Kalam decided to take off for the top university officials. Noticing his chair being Delhi at night, one of his senior bigger in size than the others, aides recalled. The local Indian Air Force Kalam refused to sit on it and station's head was summoned offered the chair to the vice and informed of the President's vhancellor to sit instead, acwish to fly to the national capital cording to a published account. as his work in Mizoram was over. The VC couldn't, obviously and "But there are no facilities another chair was made availfor taking off from the airport able immediately for the "Peoat night," the IAF officer said, ple's President". thinking the matter was settled. However, his explanation did Utmost love for children When youngsters and teennot cut ice with Dr Kalam, who retorted: "What if there is an agers sought a meeting with emergency? Will the IAF wait him, Kalam, who always wore a genial smile, not only obliged for the morning?â&#x20AC;? His aides went to the IAF and gave them his precious officer and conveyed the mes- time, but he also listened caresage from Dr Kalam. The IAF fully to the ideas the kids had. Soon after it was declared commander immediately got in touch with his seniors in that Kalam would be the next Delhi, who did not come to his President in 2002, he visited rescue and instead asked him a modest school to deliver a to comply with the orders of the speech. His security detail was minimal, and he didn't mind Missile Man. Finally, Dr Kalam had his taking control of the situation

when the power went off. Speaking to around 400 students, Kalam ensured the power cut didn't cause any interruption. He walked right in the middle of the crowd and asked the students to surround him. He then spoke to them with his bare voice and delivered, like always, an inspiring keynote. When a Cobbler was invited as presidential guests And, who did President Kalam invite as the "presidential guests" to Kerala's Raj Bhavan during his first visit to the state after becoming the President? A roadside cobbler and owner of a very small hotel. As the President, Kalam was entitled to invite anyone as "presidential guests" to the Raj Bhavan during his first visit to Thiruvananthapuram. Kalam had spent a significant time as a scientist in Trivandrum and he invited a roadside cobbler -who was quite close to Kalam during his scientist days in Kerala; and the owner of the small hotel where he would often have his meals. Kalam could not finish his dream book Former President APJ Abdul Kalam completed seven chapters of a book in Tamil with a vision for the growth of Tamil Nadu and almost till his end he had discussed about the initiative, his aide said on Monday night. The book was titled "Ennathil Nalamirunthal Kanavu Tamilagam Uruvagum, Puyalai Thandinal Thendral," and seven chapters of the book was completed after detailed discussions, co-author of the book and scientific advisor to Kalam when he was President, V Ponraj said. On July 23, he said he had a last discussion with Kalam on the book. Kalam was active till the end. In his twitter account he spoke of his Shillong lecture which turned out to be his last. "Going to Shillong... to take course on Livable Planet earth at iim. With @srijanpalsingh and Sharma," he had tweeted

Guidelines issued for gender champions New SC bench to hear Memon's plea Punjab attack: GPS New Delhi, July 28 monitor progress towards identifying gaps in the activi- New Delhi, July 28 (iANS): Chief order on its plea for stay of execution. points to Pak angle Earlier on Tuesday, Supreme Court ties of schools and colleges Justice of India, Justice H.L. Dattu, will (iANS): Guidelines for the gender justice. appointment of gender champions, who will facilitate an enabling environment within academic institutions for girls to be treated with dignity and tackling crimes against women, were issued on Tuesday. The guidelines were issued by the ministry of women and child development, an official release here said. Gender champions can be both boys and girls above 16 years of age enrolled in schools, colleges and academic institutions. They will strengthen the potential of girls and boys to advocate for gender equality and

The broad mandate of gender champions is to provide an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and cultural constructs of gender that shape the experiences of women and men in society. "The aim is to make boys and girls gender sensitive and create positive social norms that value the girls and their rights," the release said. Gender champion clubs are also envisaged in educational institutions. These clubs can organize focused group discussions, debates, poster competitions, thematic plays and workshops

vis-A-vis gender and make recommendations on how to address these gaps. The club can organize school's annual function or college fest on the theme of gender equality and women's empowerment and encourage students to sign up and express their support for gender justice and equality. The decision on the gender champions was taken at a meeting of committee of secretaries held under the chairmanship of secretary (coordination) on June 5 on the issue of how to tackle the menace of sexual crimes against women.

constitute a new bench on Wednesday that will hear 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast convict Yakub Memon's plea seeking stay of his execution slated for July 30 and quashing of death warrant on the grounds that it was issued even before he could exhaust his legal remedies. Chief Justice Dattu said "I will constitute a bench tomorrow" as Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi informed the bench about the split verdict earlier in the day, with common order asking the court registry to place before the chief justice for reference the matter to be listed before an appropriate bench. Senior counsel Raju Ramachandran, appearing for Yakub Memon, urged Chief Justice Dattu to grant stay of execution of Memon slated for Thursday. However, the court did not pass any

judges Anil R. Dave and Kurien Joseph took differing stands on Memon's plea challenging his death penalty and urged the chief justice to set up "an appropriate bench" to hear the case. Recounting the sequence of the court proceedings from 1993 till the curative petition was dismissed on July 21, 2015, Justice Dave dismissed Memon's plea. But Justice Kurien found fault with the composition of the bench which heard the curative petition, and stayed the operation of the death warrant issued by the TADA court on April 30. Justice Kurien said the case should be re-considered after constituting a bench in accordance with Supreme Court rules. The judges then referred the matter to Chief Justice H.L. Dattu.

Return Kohinoor to India, Shiv Sena joins opposition says Bristish origin MP meeting on Land bill strategy

lONDON, July 28 (PTi): Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz on Tuesday called for the world-famous Kohinoor diamond to be returned to India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's UK visit in November. Vaz's comments came in response to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's recent stirring speech at the Oxford Union calling for Britain to pay reparations to India for 200 years of its brutal colonial rule. "I welcome Dr Tharoor's speech and the endorsement of its message by Prime Minister Modi. I share their

views. These are genuine grievances which must be addressed. Pursuing monetary reparations is complex, time consuming and potentially fruitless, but there is no excuse for not returning precious items such as the Kohinoor diamond, a campaign I have backed for many years," said Vaz, the longest serving British MP of Asian descent. Modi is due to arrive in the UK in November. "What a wonderful moment it would be, if and when Prime Minister Modi finishes his visit, which is much overdue, he returns to India with the promise of the diamond's return," Vaz said. The Kohinoor was mined in medieval times in the Kollur mine in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district. At one time it was considered the largest diamond in the world. The diamond was originally owned by the Kakatiya Dynasty, which had installed it in a temple of a Hindu goddess as her eye. It passed through the hands of various invaders and was finally appropriated by the British during the Raj. Today the diamond is a part of the Crown of Queen Elizabeth II. However, till now Britain has refused demands to return the diamond to its country of origin.

New Delhi, July 28 (PTi): NDA constituent Shiv Sena, which has reservations on the Land Bill, today huddled with Opposition parties to work out a strategy to thwart the proposed changes in the 2013 Act which are up for consideration before a Joint Committee of Parliament. While the main Opposition Congress today submitted its list of amendments to the parliamentary panel seeking withdrawal of changes in the Act and asking for uniform compensation, CPI(M) will submit its recommendations soon. The parliamentary joint committee headed by BJP MP S S Ahluwalia had yesterday decided to seek two more days' time till August 5 to submit its report, for which Congress and some other opposition parties are striving to come up with joint amendments. The meeting that took place at the residence of NCP chief Sharad Pawar today was

attended by Anandrao Adsul from Shiv Sena, members from Congress including K V Thomas, Kalyan Banerjee from Trinamool Congress, YSR Congress MP Vara Prasadarao Velagapalli and Md Salim from (CPIM) among others, sources said. Sources in Congress said that it had sought restoration of the consent of 80 per cent of land-owners to be obtained for private projects and that of 70 per cent for PPP ones. The present bill exempts five categories from this provision - defence, rural infrastructure, affordable housing, industrial corridors and infrastructure projects, including public-private partnership (PPP) projects where the government owns the land. The 2013 Act also required that a social impact assessment be conducted to identify affected families and calculate the impact when land is acquired. This provision has been done away with.

BJD and Trinamool Congress have already written to the Joint Committee of Parliament about their amendments seeking total withdrawal of the NDA's bill. The strategy of Congress is to somehow get a majority of members in the panel to oppose the main amendments being brought by the government in the UPA's land Act. In the meeting at Pawar's residence, Congress, Trinamool Congress and CPI-M said that they are for "total withdrawal" of the NDA's land bill. Shiv Sena is not seeking total withdrawal of NDA's bill but has its reservations against the amendments, which removed provisions of consent clause and social impact survey from the bill that existed in UPA's land law. Today's meeting at Pawar's residence was aimed exploring the possibility work out a joint amendment, the sources said.

Daughter, center, and son of Amarjit, who was killed in Monday's rebel attack, wail near his body at Jagatpur village on the outskirts of Dinanagar on Tuesday, July 28. (AP Photo)

DiNANAgAr, July 28 (iANS): The global positioning system (GPS) sets recovered from the three terrorists killed here clearly indicates to a Pakistan link in Monday's terror attack in Punjab's Dinanagar town, sources said on Tuesday. The terrorists were killed by the special units of the Punjab Police after fierce gun-battle lasting over 11 hours. Sources in intelligence agencies and Punjab Police said here on Tuesday that the track of the GPS sets revealed that the terrorists had moved from Shakargarh area in Pakistan along the India-Pakistan border on Sunday and entered India. "The terrorists used the route of rivulets along the border belt and reached Bamiyal town. While observing that security in the Jammu region, which is very close, was tight, the terrorists moved towards Dinanagar town," a police official told IANS on condition of anonymity. Forensic experts from Chandigarh have arrived at the police station complex here to search for clues about the identity of the three terrorists who besieged the complex for over 11 hours on Monday. The forensic team was examining the building where the terrorists were holed up. The car, which was hijacked by the terrorists and on which they came to the police station complex, was also being examined. "We are examining clues from their clothes and other things that they were carrying," a forensic team official said.

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Libyan court sentences Gaddafi son Malaysia, Cuba taken off US Saif and 8 other ex-officials to death human trafficking blacklist WASHINGTON, JULY 28 (AP): Democratic lawmakers and rights groups on Monday accused the State Department of politicizing its annual rankings of nations on their efforts to combat modern-day slavery, as key trading partner Malaysia was taken off a blacklist. Cuba was also given an upgrade, a week after the U.S. and Cuba formally restored diplomatic relations, ending a half-century of estrangement. But Thailand, downgraded with Malaysia last year because of pervasive labor abuses in its lucrative fishing industry, remained stuck on “tier 3” — the lowest ranking in the department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Undersecretary of State Sarah Sewall denied political considerations had come into play. Secretary of State John Kerry formally launched the annual U.S. assessment of how 188 governments around the world have performed in fighting the flesh trade and other forms of exploitative labor, which he described as a “battle against money.” He said the report was not intended to “name and shame” but to galvanize action against an illicit trade that the U.N. estimates generates $150 billion in profits each year, in industries also including mining, construction and domestic service. Critics contend that Malaysia’s upgrade is related to its participation in a U.S.-backed trade agreement among Pacific Rim countries. Thailand is not

for the deal’s eventual ratification by Congress limits the president’s ability to secure free trade agreements with countries assigned to tier 3. Like Thailand, Malaysia has faced intense international criticism over trafficking of stateless Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladesh aboard overcrowded boats. Dozens of graves as well as pens likely used as cages for migrants have been found in abandoned jungle camps on both sides of the Thai-Malaysian border. “Migrants are being trafficked and abused with impunity, Rohingya victims’ bodies are being pulled from shallow graves at the border and convictions are down this year compared to last year — so

Non-genetic cancer mechanism identified LONDON, JULY 28 (IANS): Calling in question the effectiveness of genetic screening alone in preventing cancer, a new study of ovarian cancer has found that the deadly disease can be caused solely by protein imbalances within cells. The discovery is a major breakthrough because, until now, genetic aberrations have been seen as the main cause of almost all cancers. The findings suggest that measuring and preventing dangerous imbalances in cells can lead to new cancer therapies. “There has been huge investment in sequencing the human genome with the idea that if we get all the relevant genetic in-

Among other nations upgraded from tier 3 were Uzbekistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia. Those downgraded to tier 3 were Belarus, Belize, Burundi, Comoros, the Marshall Islands and South Sudan. The 23 nations on the blacklist also include Iran, Libya, North Korea, Russia, Syria and Zimbabwe. President Barack Obama now has 90 days to determine whether to apply sanctions against tier 3 governments. The president can block various types of aid and could withdraw U.S. support for loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. But the U.S. often chooses not to, based on its national security interests, as it did last year for both Thailand and Malaysia, which Washington views as important partners in its strategic outreach to Asia. The Thai Embassy in Washington “strongly disagreed” with its retention on tier 3, saying it didn’t reflect reality and the government’s efforts to combat human trafficking. On Friday, Thai state prosecutors recommended charges against more than 100 people, including a Thai army general, implicated in trafficking of migrants. Thailand also remains under the spotlight over slavery in Southeast Asia’s fishing industry. A yearlong Associated Press investigation has led to more than 800 people being rescued or repatriated in recent months.

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on July 27, on the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report. The State Department has taken Malaysia and Cuba off its blacklist of countries failing to combat modern-day slavery, leaving the U.S. open to criticism that politics is swaying the often-contentious rankings in its annual human trafficking report. (AP Photo)

part of the proposed agreement. “Upgrades for Malaysia and Cuba are a clear politicization of the report, and a stamp of approval for countries who have failed to take the basic actions to merit this upgrade,” Democratic Senator Robert Menendez said in a statement. Sewall cited a strengthening of Malaysia’s anti-trafficking law and an increase in trafficking investigations and prosecutions on the previous year, although convictions decreased. Malaysia is one of 12 nations seeking this week to finalize negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the key economic plank of Obama’s Asia policy. An anti-trafficking amendment to legislation crucial

formation we can predict whether you have a predisposition to cancer and, ultimately, use a precision medicine-based approach to develop a therapeutic approach,” said lead author John Ladbury, professor at the University of Leeds in Britain. “Our study demonstrates that genetic screening alone is not enough,” Ladbury noted. The research focused on two proteins; Plc?1 (pronounced “plc-gamma-1”) and Grb2 (pronounced “grab-2”). These proteins compete for binding to a cell wall-bound receptor FGFR2. “This competition for binding to the receptor represents an unexpected way in which cancer can occur,” lead researcher

Zahra Timsah from the University of Leeds noted. “We found that in cells where Grb2 is depleted, FGFR2 was vulnerable to Plc?1 binding and that this triggered uncontrolled proliferation,” Timsah pointed out. The researchers looked at whether imbalance between Grb2 and Plc?1 was predictive of the progress of ovarian cancers in patients. Measuring the levels of the proteins in patient tissues followed by database analysis of clinical information revealed that a high level of Grb2 relative to Plc?1 and FGFR2 was associated with a significantly more favourable progress of treatment than patients with elevated levels of Plc?1.

Third term? Obama says no thanks ADDIS ABABA, JUULY 28 (AP): Could President Barack Obama win a third term in office? He’s convinced that he could, but would really rather not. Obama used his own history of electoral success to rib African leaders who overstay their welcomes by refusing to leave office after their terms expire. In his speech Tuesday at the African Union headquarters, he conceded unfamiliarity with that concept because as a second-term U.S. president, he’s constitutionally barred from running again. “I actually think I’m a pretty good president,” Obama said. “I think if I ran, I could win. But I can’t!” That’s just fine with the president. Obama said he’s looking forward to leaving behind the trappings of office, including his presidential security detail, and having more flexibility to do things like travel to Africa after he leaves the White House. He said although he’s still relatively young, he knows a new president with new insights will be good for the U.S. “The point is, I don’t understand why people want to stay so long,” Obama said with a sly grin. “Especially when they’ve got a lot of money.” He compared one of his personal heroes, former South African President Nelson Mandela, to America’s first president, George Washington, noting that both were willing to leave office and transfer power peacefully to their successors. In Rwanda, lawmakers are considering removing presidential term limits from the country’s constitution in a process that

could see President Paul Kagame extend his rule beyond two terms. Burundi also currently faces political unrest over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term in elections set for July 21. Obama’s go-to catchphrase in Ethiopia and Kenya has been that “Africa is on the move.” He could also say the continent is taking flight. Just before boarding Air Force One to go home, Obama stopped to examine “Africa First,” the inaugural Dreamliner aircraft that U.S.-based Boeing Co. is delivering to Ethiopian Airlines. The aircraft also known as the 787 is valued at up to $1.3 billion. Obama was joined on the tarmac by the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, as well as the country’s prime minister. With bright green umbrellas shielding visitors from the rain, Obama inspected the aircraft — white, with thin red lettering. Obama lamented to reporters traveling with him that big business opportunities for Boeing and other U.S. companies are at risk because Congress hasn’t reauthorized the Export-Import Bank, a U.S. federal agency that guarantees loans to foreign companies buying American products. The Senate voted late Monday to put the bank’s renewal into a highway bill heading for passage, but the House remains opposed to re-upping the bank, leaving its prospects in question. “We’ve got to get that done,” Obama said before getting aboard his own ride for the flight back to Washington.

TRIPOLI, JULY 28 (AP): A court in Libya on Tuesday sentenced a son of Moammar Gadhafi to death by firing squad after convicting him of murder and inciting genocide during the 2011 uprising. The Tripoli court that sentenced Seif al-Islam, who is being held by a militia that refuses to hand him over, also sentenced to death eight others, including former Libyan spy chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, who is in government custody. It was unclear whether the sentences in the mass trial of 38 Gadhafi-era figures, only 29 of whom were present, would be carried out. Six others were sentenced to life in prison and four were cleared of charges. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said the trial was “undermined by serious due process violations,” and called on the Supreme Court to independently review the verdict. “This trial has been plagued by persistent, credible allegations of fair trial breaches that warrant independent and impartial judicial review,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director. “The victims of the serious crimes committed during the 2011 uprising deserve justice, but that can only be delivered through fair and transparent proceedings.” Libya has slid into chaos since the overthrow and killing of Gadhafi, who ruled the country for four decades. It is now bitterly divided between an elected parliament and government cornered in the country’s east, with little power on the ground, and an Islamist militia-backed government in the west that has seized the capital, Tripoli. Since the end of the

how can the State Department call this ‘progress’?” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch. Sewall said the discovery of the mass graves in Malaysia happened almost two months beyond the current reporting period that ended March 31. She said Malaysia still has “much room for improvement.” In Cuba’s case, Sewall cited progress in addressing sex trafficking but she voiced concern the island nation’s government has failed to recognize the problem of forced labor. Cuba, which had been on the blacklist for several years, has denied allegations of coerced labor on Cuban government work missions abroad.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT & CRAFTSMEN TRAINING NAGALAND, KOHIMA

Dated Kohima the th July 2015

NO.DET-7/11/2015: Applications is invited from interested candidates to undergo North East Council (NEC) sponsored training programme in Employment Oriented Training in general works Supervisor, Site Accountant and other related construction activities to be conducted by Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC), New Delhi, as per the details below: Minimum Duration Training start No. of seats Training Centre Qualification of course date available 10 CIDC Centre, Dispur, Class 10th pass 2 months 10th August 2015 Guwahati, Assam. Contact No: 08811934951

Note: 1. The course fees, boarding and lodging and travelling by train or bus will be sponsored by NEC. 2. Selection will be on first come first serve basis. 3. Application should be submitted to this office during working hours. 4. Last date for receipt of application is on 05/08/2015. Sd/-(MUTHINGNYUBA SANGTAM) Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland, Kohima

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF TREASURIES & ACCOUNTS NAGALAND :: KOHIMA

NO.DTA/ESTT-101/87 (PT)/2270-72

Dated Kohima, the 27th July, 2015

Applications are hereby invited from Naga Local Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland to fill up the following posts under the establishment of the Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts as follows:Sl.No Name of the Post No. of Post Pay Scale 1 Junior Accounts Assistant (JAA) 9(nine) Pay Band Rs.5200-20200 Grade Pay Rs.2000 2 Accounts Assistant 3(three) Pay Band Rs.5200-20200 Grade Pay Rs.2000 3 LDA-Cum-Computer Assistant 3(three) Pay Band Rs.5200-20200 Grade Pay Rs.2000 2. The minimum qualification shall be Graduate in any discipline from any recognized University. In respect of the backward tribes, the minimum qualification shall be 10+2. The applicant should indicate clearly the post for which application is submitted. 3. Candidates are expected to possess good working knowledge of computers, Preference shall be given to candidates possessing diploma certificate in computers 4. Reservation of seats for Backward Tribes shall be as per the existing policy of the State Government as notified by the P & AR Department. 5. The minimum age of candidates should not be less than 21 years on 31.07.2015 and not more than 30 years of age as on 31.07.2015. The relaxation of the upper age limit will be governed by the existing policy of the State Government, including those relating to serving State Government employees and Physically Handicapped applicants. 6. Serving Govt. employees are required to furnish "No Objection" Certificate duly signed by the Head of the Department with name and Official seal, indicating the date of initial appointment of the candidate. 7. The written examination shall consist of General Knowledge, Test of Reasoning, Simple Arithmetic and General English. The questions shall be set in MCQ format consisting of a total of 100 marks, 80 marks for written and 20 marks for oral, 8. Prescribed Application Form may be collected from the Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts and maybe submitted on or before 31.08.2015 during Office hours. 9. Incomplete applications shall be summarily rejected. No applications shall be received after the specified date. All applications should contain details of contact number and address of the applicant. 10. Those who have submitted applications earlier for the above posts are hereby informed to withdraw their applications, and may submit fresh applications as per requirements.

(Z. MESEN), Principal Director

In this Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 photo, Seif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan. A court in the Libyan capital has sentenced Seif al-Islam to death over killings during the country’s 2011 uprising. The Tripoli court handed down the sentence Tuesday for Seif al-Islam, who is currently being held by a militia that refuses to hand him over to the central government. The court sentenced eight others to death as well, including former Libyan spy chief Abdullah al-Senoussi. (AP File Photo)

civil war, Seif al-Islam has been held by a militia in Zintan, which is allied with the Tobruk-based internationally recognized government against the Tripoli one. The court that convicted him is affiliated with the Tripoli-based government. He is also wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity. During the trial, Seif al-Islam was accused of recruiting mercenaries who were given Libyan nationality, planning and carrying out attacks on civilian targets from the air, forming armed groups and shooting into crowds of demonstrators. Among the charges he was convicted

of were incitement of murder and rape. Hundreds of militias in Libya are battling for power and turf in a lawless environment has allowed human traffickers and kidnappers to flourish. The U.N. envoy for Libya, meanwhile, has urged the Islamist-led government in Tripoli to sign a peace deal that would establish a unity government. Members of the Tobruk government and regional leaders signed the unity accord in Morocco on July 11. Also sentenced to death on Tuesday were foreign intelligence chief Abu-Zeid Omar-Dawarda and Gadhafi’s former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi.

NOTICE

Due to some unavoidable circumstances, the New Office Building inaugural programme of the Nagaland Government Registered Class-I Contractors’ Union will be held at 5:00 p.m. on 29th July 2015 and not as stated earlier. Inconvenience is regretted. Nagaland Government Registered Class-I Contractors’ Union HQ : Kohima GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND : KOHIMA

NO.DTE/TECH-A/6/2015

Dated Kohima 28th July 2015

NOTIFICATION In continuation of this office Notification of even No Dated 24th July 2015, few State Quota Seats in respect of Medical and Allied courses are yet to be occupied. The vacancy arising is due to the non-acceptance by selected candidates to various courses even after the 3rd round of selection. The list for the 4th phase of selection is enclosed along with waiting list for the courses where seats are available. Due to shortage of time for admission to various Colleges and University the selected students are directed to adhere to the following instruction positively. 1. Last date for Submission of acceptance/refusal (forenoon) : 30th July 2015

Nomination will be issued on the same day. Wait list candidates are also requested to be in contact with Directorate officials on 30th July 2015 Non submission of acceptance within the stipulated time shall be treated as refusal for undergoing the courses.

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Dimapur

Wednesday 29 July 2015

The Morung Express public discoursE Bad Pictures of Nagaland and the

The Church Postmodern Naga Society R

ost modernism, as a worldview and as a secular trend, has made its impact greatly in our contemporary world. One area where postmodernism has made tremendous inroads is in the field of literary criticism. Whether it be the method of deconstruction, structuralism, historical criticism, reader response criticism; the methods of literary criticism employed by the postmodern thinkers seek to eliminate the relevance of the author in the interpretation of the text. This has led to the development of a secular ideology, defined through the phrase “the death of the author,” which in turn resonates the famous phrase, “God is dead,” popularized by German atheistic philosopher Frederich Nietzsche. Postmodern literary critics attempt to dethrone the author and enthrone the interpreter. For postmodern critics the author is dead or irrelevant and the meaning of the text is redefined by the interpreter. Christianity is a religion that believes in the divine revelation of God and formulates all its doctrines and beliefs from the revealed words of God (the text) in the Bible. God has spoken and His words are recorded in a propositional format in the text of the Scriptures. Applying postmodern methods of literary criticism on the Biblical text will yield dangerous consequence and results. Such literary criticism isolates the text and treats the text independent of the author. To eliminate the author or the authorial intend in interpretation is to rob the text of its purpose and the truths embedded within the text. In writing the text of the Scripture, God inspired the human authors in such a way that they recorded God’s word to man without any errors (inerrant). This inerrant document that God has passed unto us has God’s authority vested upon it. God (the author of the text) cannot be separated from His Word (the text) and vice versa. To neglect His word is to neglect Him; to undermine His word is to undermine Him; to exclude His word from our

plans and schemes is to exclude Him from the same. A society or a people that neglects God’s word and has no room for God’s word in its midst destroys the only lifeline for its stability and coherent existence. Relativism, another major ideological arrow in the quiver of postmodern thinking, has been stealthily making its insidious influence upon our society. For a postmodernist, truth is a social construct. Anyone can determine and decide what truth is, based on his own situation and personal taste. What you hold as true might not be true for others and viceversa. There is no objective standard for measuring what is morally right and wrong. An example that will best illustrate this point is the March 5th incident, when hundreds of people publicly tortured and murdered a man at city tower in Dimapur, without proper and legal trial. Many condemned the killing, deeming it as morally and ethically wrong, and unlawful. But at the same time there were hundreds of people who were involved in shouting slogans of capital punishment, taking the law into their hands, controlled by the mindset that what they were doing was right and justifiable. Through this incident our society got a graphic glimpse of the chaos and destruction that a state of Anarchy can bring about. Postmodernism places total freedom to the individual to decide what is right or wrong, to construct his own definition of truth. The end result is Anarchy. The only tangible objective standard by which the society can establish proper principles of moral and ethical conduct and the purpose for its existence is within the text of the Scriptures. From the Old Testament times through the early centuries of the New Testament era, only trained scribes and priests were given authorization for the interpretation of the Biblical text. In Church history, from early medieval up to the pre modern times, only the elite of trained theologians were granted

ecclesiastical permission for the interpretation of the text of the Scripture to the people. The pastor-teachers and theologians, who have academic credentials, are the interpretive agents of the text for the society. This is not to say that everyone who has gone to a Bible college or seminary automatically becomes an expert in its interpretation; nor does it mean that academic credentials alone are necessary for the interpretation of God’s word. The Bible, being a divine book needs divine enablement in understanding and interpretation. No matter how many theological degrees a person has earned for himself, without the divine enablement of the Holy Spirit known as illumination, it is impossible for any interpreter to draw out the author intended meaning from the text. But that being said, the knowledge and study of the historical-literary-grammatical context of the text, the application of proper hermeneutical principles and basic understanding of systematic theology are indispensable in deriving the authorial intent of the text. Therefore, to commit the pulpit to a person who is not trained and equipped from a theological college or seminary is to place the text at the mercy of someone who would very likely misinterpret the meaning, thus distorting the authorial intent of the text. For this reason, no matter how fluent or eloquent a person may be in his oratory and rhetoric aptitude, the Church must exercise the utmost caution as to whom it endows the permission to interpret the text. The solution to our societal problems is not economical, political, nor physical. The solution lies in the clear indoctrination of the Word of God and the impartation of sound biblical teaching by the Church and its preachers to the people. If the Church, which is God’s secondary (the Holy Spirit being the primary) transforming agent, is sick within, it cannot function efficiently in its mission to the secular world. Clear exposition of God’s word by trained pas-

tor-teachers, and sound biblical doctrinal teaching is the key to a healthy Church. The vigor and the vitality of the church depend on the Word of God, preached as God intended it to be preached: unbiased towards denominational trends; unprejudiced towards any particular class; not bounded by unscriptural traditions and norms of the Church. The wave of the postmodern world, characterized by such traits as relativism, breakdown of authority, deconstruction of moral foundations, liberation of the individual free will, freedom of expression etc., is upon our society. There is an uncontrolled growth of organizations, unions and groups mushrooming, which seek to uphold its own vested interest and principles. The very authority and institution of the Government has been questioned an attacked many times. If this continues, postmodern worldview will triumph in bringing about its desired goal the breakdown of the Government and establishment of total anarchy in the state. The only safeguard against this postmodern and secular worldviews, trying to destroy the very fibers that hold our society together is God, through His Words. The Church, theologians, pastor-teachers have a tremendous responsibility in implementing the authority of God in the society through clear exposition of His words to the people. Our only chance at achieving stability and coherence in this degenerated, decadent and depraved society is to anchor ourselves to the Word of God. Our society needs a revival not of euphoric emotional experience, not of the latest contemporary worship songs, nor celebrity like preachers and pastors who are mere motivators than expositors (of the text), nor display of extravagance crusades. A revival of clear exposition and delivery of God’s truth and doctrines to the people is need of the hour. Petekhrietuo Mhasi Asian Mission College Seikhazou, D.Khel, Kohima Village

The Bird leaves behind wings of fire

he bird has flown away to rest in his heavenly bower. But he has left behind the wings of fire for us to flap and mount up to the firmament of enlightenment. Who is that philanthropic bird? Who is that great and noble bird? Who is that harbinger of revolutionary vision? Who is that legendary bird? It’s A.P.J Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India. This succinct note is not a venture to fathom the deep sea of the precious contributions Abdul Kalam has made to make a new nation. It is also not an attempt to recount every great deed he accomplished to rise up to the height of greatness. It is also not a meticulous biographical sketch. It is a humble effort to redirect to the upcoming youth his divinely inspiring message. His message to the young generation bears the

secret of success. It reasserts the presence of divine enlightenment in every young heart. It reinforces the power hidden in every child. The power hidden in the children, once ignited, can give birth to a new nation. He was like an angel, a bird sent by God to parch on the budding hearts. He did it. He accomplished his divine assignment. He flew to the trees of young hearts. He parched on them. He echoed his clarion voice to them asking them to rise up, blossom and bear fruits for the nation. Every child is gifted with talents, he believed. Every mind is the storehouse of power and strength. Every child has the power to do something great. Only the minds need to be ignited. He writes in the preface to his “Ignited Minds”, I relied on the power and potential of youth. My strength has been my young teams

who never let me down. And what satisfaction there was in working with them on some of the most complex projects in some of the most challenging situations! Given the freedom to achieve and guided properly, I am convinced the youth of India can accomplish far more.” Thus goes his message to the children and his conviction in their power. The nation relies on the youth. It is the youth who will rediscover their latent talents and utilize them for shaping a new nation. The youth can take his life as an inspiration. His diligence, his perseverance, his revolutionary vision, his commitment, his patriotic spirit, his wisdom, his dream, his idealism and all the facets of his legendary life may lend a spirit of determination and a ray of enlightenment and inspiration in every young mind.

His life has made an era of success and challenge in Indian history and his sad demise has set an end to this era. He has left us physically. But spiritually he is alive. He will be alive in the heart of the nation for every great deed he has done for us. The bird came to this earth. He lived to accomplish his task. He accomplished it. He responded to the call of Time. He has left us. But he has left his footprints for us to follow and a make new India. If determined we can surely realize his dream he left in his book “India 2020”. The bird has left us for ever. But he has left behind his wings of fire in the shape of his great work ‘Wings of Fire”. Let’s add the wings to our arms and flap them and fly together in the firmament of success. Gopal Talukdar PGT-English, JNV, Kohima

India can never defeat the Nagas

he recent killing of two students in Wuzu village in Phek District on July 16 by Indian Army is yet another provocative action of Indian Army and an insult to the whole Naga people. The soldiers fired their guns without given order by their Commander and the commander did not stop such indiscriminate firing on unarmed Naga people,is a clear indication that they would kill any Naga/s whenever they wanted to. It is not the first time but they have been killing the Nagas since undeclared war started against the Nagas by Indian Army in1954. In order to avert such unwanted war, the Naga leaders met the Indian national leaders in 1947, where they assuredly said to the Nagas that the Nagas have every right to become independent, and the India has no right to force the Nagas to join the Indian,nor has the right to attack the Nagas. But seven years after it became independent the Indian Government sent its armed forces to Nagaland and started undeclared war against the Nagas in 1954 without any provocative action or belligerent attitude shown towards India by the Nagas. Since unwanted war started by

India, the Nagas have no choice but to defend our sovereignty at all cost and fought against aggressor, and we are defending our nation. This is nothing wrong from our part. The question is; why the Indian Army is killing and torturing the Nagas? Why they have burned the Naga villages into ashes? Why they destroyed the properties of Naga people? Why did they impose draconian law on Nagaland such as AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Power Act) and, DAA (Disturbed Area Act? In the pass more than sixty years we have lost hundreds and thousands of lives and everything that belongs to us in the hands of Indian Army but we did not lost the spirit of our nationalism at any point of time. India can never defeat the Naga national spirit by pounding and killings or by divide and rule policy, or cannot buy it by money. The Nagas shall overcome someday as sung the song by the protesters on 23rd July 2015 in the Kohima rally against the recent killing of two students by the Indian Army. As we sing a song “we shall overcome someday”, we should also retrospect why we have been failing to achieve our national goal.

The meaning “we shall overcome” should not be to overcome the enemy alone, but also it must be to overcome our weakness and mistake as well. Because why we are failing is not only because of the enemy, but because of our weakness too. The great mistakes committed in our history are at first accepting a puppet State under the Indian Union, and secondly the formation of NSCN. The fruits of these mistakes are delaying of our achievement and building up corrupted society. As a result of it our people are suffering today not in the hand of our enemy but in the hands of our own people. Now realizing our mistake and weakness, Nagas from all walks of lifemust firm on our national stand andmust have one voice for one issue alone, as former NNC General Secretary Tubu Kevichusa stated in August in 1995 that “It is not only important to speak one voice. It is equally important to speak on one issue only.”That is; Nagaland is a sovereign and independent nation, go back Indian Army from Nagaland, as a slogan shouted by protesters on 23rd July in Kohima. We can take as agood sign for the Nagas that the Indo-Naga con-

flict is now discussing even in the so-called Nagaland State Assembly. I pray that they do not commit mistake or mislead our people. Most importantly they must know that the Nagas have no demand of chatter to be put up to any other nation for solution, but what they must do is to disown 16-Point Agreement of 1960 by their assembly.IfBaltic countries (Russia Military occupied nations) declared their independence from their State assemblies in August 1991 and became independence, why not the Nagas? It is now time for us to fight against the enemy with the might of truth and historical facts through peaceful means. Let us therefore once again honor the peace brought by God our Lord and through His power, let us work together to achieve our national goal. God has bestowed our sovereignty and has been protecting our nation till date even if we are sinners. We have the power of God and have nothing to fear. Desan Tagor (Indian) said “India can never defeat the Nagas because their power comes from the Lord, who is opposed to the Hindu rulers.(Quote; Israel in India p. 7). Thomas, NNC Member

eaders, please permit me to say that we are all equally accountable for what has transpired the present bad picture of Nagaland, I mean to say that we are all equally responsible to start painting a good picture of Nagaland. Know that “Voice of the people” is the driving force of nation’s development as rightly said by Aristotle. Allow me to begin by saying that we, especially our guarding angels (NGOs) should be able to raise your voice and action against anybody who are corrupt, antisocial and immoral ( including our legislators) even at the cost of your beloved side income. First, our biased deafening silence on tribal, protocol and selfish lines are to be broken if we are to develop Nagaland in one piece. Because we live in a tiny place called Nagaland (Nailand) with uncountable tribes. We have nothing (Nai) even as we proclaim to be a proud nation of festivals. Yes, we are the unique people with unique history with a unique SLOGAN “Nagaland for Christ” with full of parasites always extorting our own people and begging the central governments by becoming very expert in saying “NAMASTE” at Delhi with folded hands in hindu style without any local production of our own or for that matter any commendable resource-harvesting infrastructure for sustaining state revenue even though we have the potential to do so. I don’t mean to hurt anybody, I only wish that all of us should revolutionize our self-prided mindsets and start thinking differently. By “DIFFERENTLY” I say that, now we should stop thinking of only getting something from our state government but start thinking of giving something to our motherland. To develop our Nagaland , we (especially the youngsters) should reboot your mental processor and start exploring our state resources instead of wasting your life time running after a stagnant and less-productive Govt. job (less-productiveness of a govt. jobs as already experienced by Nagas for 50 years). The unemployed youths should urgently start thinking of utilizing our abundant wealth in agri and forestry sectors, animal husbandary avenues and power potentialities in our state, in doing so you are developing our state as well as giving employment to others who are less

capable than you. Also, It is time to have a guilty-conscious peep at our roads and electricity scenario apart from almost all the sick departments in our country called Nagaland/Nagalim (Nailand) .Why guilty-conscious ? Because 99 percent (%) of Naga people sell their votes every election, so everyone(excepting 1%) knows from the bottom of his wolta-polta heart (sorry for duplicate language) that the horrible roads and frightening electricity supply… etc are his own making (though he blame the ministers to save his chameleon skin). Coming to the excessive taxation and brotherly-threatening of our Law-immune NPGs, I want to put up few simple question to my brothers-in-arms with folded hands:a)Who can pay taxes to 8 (eight) NPGs and 1(one) state govt. and do a profitable business? b) If West and East Germans being two separate countries can break their Berlin wall and unite, why can’t our NPGs (still in one country) unite and serve us a single tax (we will consider it as a love letter) ? c) Did Mahatma Gandhi, during his freedom struggle with British imposed multiple and unbearable taxes on his own country men ? Let us now go to the issue of less privileged people within our own state. I strongly believe that all the right thinking people will agree with me in saying that a nation can only prosper if its economy and life standard is uniformly balanced among its inhabitants. The economically (not mental) more advanced tribes like Angamis, Aos, Lothas and Sumis bears a brotherly and Christian obligation towards our other less established fellow Nagas by sacrificing some part of our comfort zones. Not only in the govt. machineries, but more assignments lies on the populace in giving our time, space and things to our fellow brothers and sisters whose lands are less developed. Don’t ever expect that Delhi people will come down and develop Nagaland and uplift its people, it is only we to help each other and jointly propel our state to fame. Er. Kiyeto Sumi Valley View Colony Full Nagarjan, Dimapur

Endless uncertainty; & an unnerving silence “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some new decision, offering each bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.”

ello Nagaland! The above quoted lines poignantly reminds of the dilemmas each one of us face every day; from the most trivial to ones that may determine the course of our destiny, our lives are defined by the choices we take, the decisions we make. Today we are witnessing a very unique era of camaraderie amongst our elected representatives transcending political party affiliations and ideologies; the air is rife with contemplation and speculation on this stupefying and potentially trendsetting arrangement. And as I prepare to draw your attention to share an observation, may we turn our focus on that structure upon which the burden lies to transform the value based decisions of our political dispensation into tangible implementations – the bureaucracy. The permanent “steel framework”, that stands amongst the flowing tides of different political era. Further drawing from it, let us consider the supply system to this steel framework. Nagaland like the rest of the union of India has a constitutionally envisaged body to undertake the supply process. Aside from the handful of All India Service cadre, it is Nagaland Public Service Commission that serves as the lifeline for Nagaland’s bureaucracy. Most of us are witness and some partakers to the tumultuous times the commission has been through. I believe the functioning of NPSC today can be considered as one of the most transparent and efficient among the state public service commissions across the union. Although the standard/quality of questions asked in the examinations conducted may be debatable, one cannot ignore the progressive measures adapted by the commission, especially in the recent years, making the various examinations conducted by NPSC a predictable, regular and annual affair. Eco sensitive e-governance initiatives like paperless online application, SMS confirmation, ehall tickets etc had been already in place even as a technologically advanced state like Andhra Pradesh’s APPSC was still following the traditional method of issuing/ receiving paper application. The prompt grievance redressal system, the shrinkage of time gap between examinations conducted and result declaration are also remarkable and commendable indeed. Infact, one can conclude that the initiatives taken by NPSC towards efficient streamlining of its mandated functioning may well be studied and adopted as a model by the public service commission of the other states. Unlike the controversy mired PSCs of states like Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala etc., NPSC has indeed successfully kept itself almost at a comparable standing with the UPSC in terms of its functioning over the couple of years. This hard earned reputation however stands threatened of late. The unnerving delay and silence over decla-

-James Russel Lowell ration of the Civil Services Examination, 2014 may prove to be detrimental to the morale of the aspirants, present as well as future. Suspicious speculations and the probability of allegations gain credence, and can thereby wean off the trust built gradually over a long period. The present crisis apparently is a result of circumstances beyond the control of NPSC, the pending case at the Hon’ble Guwahati High Court; however the commission may initiate measures to assure the hapless hopefuls with adequate information about the steps being pursued to hasten the end to this unnerving uncertainty. It is also remarkable to note that none seems to be interested, or voicing any opinion visibly in the mainstream local media on the issue despite the abnormally longish delay. The public apathy is indeed ironical, considering the sheer dependence/aspiration of the populace on “gazetted government jobs”. In addition to the parties concerned, it would be much appreciable of the rainbow of organisations and thinking individuals to speak out and voice concerns on such issues as well, aside from the particularistic felicitations/condemnations. As a layman, I also find the time taken by the court to sit on the matter to be questionable, especially on a matter of such importance having a definite bearing on the lives and careers of many, not to mention the far reaching consequential prospects of that particular batch who’d be eventually recruited. This issue can also be sought to be understood in the larger context of a need for a separate high court for Nagaland, much like those of Manipur and Tripura. Finally, the purpose of this write up is an attempt to encourage a healthy and active public discourse. Preoccupied in the pursuit of larger issues, many may write it off as a non entity but it could have an impacting effect on the moral character of our society in the long run. In this context I quote Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a scholar, a leader (28th President of USA) and considered as the “father of Public Administration”, he says, “If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.” Having solemnly pledged ourselves as a democratic republic, we must endeavour to give ourselves an enlightened society devoid of subjugation and indignation; where information is freely shared and where healthy debate brings forth abundant solutions. And most of all, this is in no way intended to be a vindictive dig against NPSC. What I hope at most is that the commission looks at this as a well intentioned constructive feedback from a deeply concerned neutral citizen. This issue can be a litmus test opportunity for NPSC yet again to prove the commission’s high standards of probity, both within the court room and outside, with respect to the people’s perception. N.O.K. Naga, New Delhi

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Wednesday 29 July 2015

Dj Ashba quits guns n' Roses

Dimapur

Harry Styles

launches One Direction's global education message

u n s N’ Roses guitarist Dj Ashba has quit the legendary band after six years in the line-up. The 42-year-old rocker posted a three-page handwritten letter on his website announcing his departure, reported Rolling Stone magazine. “It is with a very heavy heart and yet great pride that I announce that I’ve decided to close this chapter of my life and encapsulate the wonderful times that I’ve shared with GUNS N’ ROSES into fond memories. “I have reached a point in my life where I feel it’s time to dedicate myself to my band Sixx:A.M., my adorne Direction's Har- school could literally change futures forever.' Meanwhile, ing wife and family, and to the many new ry Styles has made a their lives, but for now all they the One Direction boys have adventures that the future holds for me,” plea to fans saying he can look forward to is a life of been keeping a low profile he wrote. 'wants to live in a world where struggle and they deserve so since news broke that Louis Ashba, who was recruited by frontman every child can go to school' as much more.' Tomlinson is set to become Axl Rose to replace guitarist Robin Finck part of a new charity campaign. As part of the campaign, a father with his former fling in 2009, went on to share his gratitude to Styles posted a YouTube video 1D have asked their fans to Briana Jungwirth. the singer, writing, “As I sit here writing this to his Twitter account to de- describe the kind of world The boy band - who are in letter, I want to take a moment to thank Axl liver the message, as part of the they want to live in, using vid- the midst of their On The Road from the bottom of my heart for not only Action/1D initiative, in collab- eo snippets and photos. Each Again tour - have broken their the most incredible experience of my life, oration with Action/2015. band member will in turn post silence one by one on social but for truly believing in me! “You are a true The campaign sees the their own video saying 'I want media, with Harry recently friend & a champion of mine & I am forevOne Direction boys helping to live in a world where...'. thanking fans for their super grateful. And even as I move on to purto bring about global changes Among the issues they hope port. 'Every single day we are sue other endeavours, I will always remain as they tackle some serious is- to tackle are poverty, inequal- thankful for the platform that one of your biggest fans. “I also would like sues. ‘I really loved my school ity and climate change. you incredible people gave to thank each n’ every one of you fans for days,’the 21-year-old singer They launched their in- us,' he began. 'What an amazyour love & support throughout the says.‘When we went to Ghana volvement in the global cam- ing 5 years it's been!! 'You have years... I hope that you all join me we met children whose only paign, supported by numer- been by far the most incredias I forge ahead! Let’s conquer dream was to get an educa- ous other A-list celebrities, ble fanbase and nothing you this world together!!” tion. ‘At the moment they have with a video message, which do goes unnoticed. We are so Ashba was the 10th to work all day, every day just they signed off saying: 'Make lucky to have you guys! Thanks guitarist for Guns to earn enough to eat. Going to 2015 the year we change our so much.' N’ Roses since forming 30 years ago, although he never performed on an album. He plans on ayal Deb was declared the winner Guwahati along with certificate. The Evcontinuing his of Dancing Star 2015 Best Moms eryday Iodised Salt Family distributed work with MotDance Competition, organised by Murti special Everyday silver coins to all the ley Crue bassist Films Pvt Ltd, powered by EveryDay Io- participants, organisers, judges and Nikki Sixx and dised salt and co-sponsored by GioNEE host as a token of love and appreciation. singer James Samrtphones on July 26 in Town Hall Basu Damani, General Secretary (FiMichael in Dimapur. nance), NPF, graced the programme as the band The winner received a cash prize of the chief guest and Dr. M. Chuba Ao, State Sixx:A.M. Rs. 25,000/- from Everyday Iodised Salt President BJP was the guest of honour. along with a Trophy and Certificate. All total 12 participants were seNorth East Naga Traders Pvt. Ltd de- lected for the grand finale but due to clared a Health insurance of Rupees 3 unavoidable circumstances four could Lacs for the Winner and her family. The not turn up for the competition. The parwinner also received a gift hamper from ticipants were judged by Nekib Rehman IIBIT Guwahati. and Nikkitasha Boro from Guwahati and The other Top 5 consolation winners Mamta who are well know choreograreceived mobile phones from GioNEE phers with great achievements in the Smartphones, Gift Hamper from IIBIT field of dancing.

Payal Deb wins Best Moms Dance Competition

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Dj Ashba

Tom Cruise's assistant goes HugH Jackman asks public with her bOyfrienD fans for

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om Cruise's assistant Emily Thomas has shut down dating rumours with the "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation" star after she posted a picture with her current boyfriend. Thomas, 22, changed her Facebook profile picture with a photo of her and 25-year-old partner Alex Roberts together, reported Ace Showbiz. She met Roberts on the set of "Rogue Nation" and they have been dating for five months but have been enjoying romantic trips to Rome, Venice, Miami, Atlanta and Abu Dhabi. Rumours about Cruise, 53, and Thomas surfaced ahead of a heavy promotional schedule for his new blockbuster "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation".

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ideas for

Wolverine

ollywood star Hugh Jackman has taken to Twitter to ask his followers what they want to see happen to his character Logan in 'Wolverine 3', his final outing as the superhero. The 46-yearold actor is portraying the superhero, known as Logan, in 'Wol-

Gigi Hadid is new face of Topshop

you want to see happen? 50 words or less. I'll read as many as I can. (sic)'' Jackman has previously revealed the film will feature a much older Logan but would only tease ''read into that what you will''.

lands acting role

d Sheeran has landed a recurring role in new FX TV show 'The Bastard Executioner'. The Grammy nominee will take on the part of Sir Cormac, ''an ambitious and deadly protégé of a highranking church elder'', in 'The Bastard Executioner', according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new FX drama has been created by 'Sons of Anarchy's Kurt Sutter. It is being billed as a ''bloodsoaked medieval epic that tells the story of a 14th century warrior whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of a jour-

neyman executioner''. It will also star Stephen Moyer and Katey Sagal Ed, 24, was a huge fan of biker gang drama 'Sons of Anarchy' and recorded Foy Vance's 'Make It Rain' for the penultimate episode Although Ed's new role has just been announced, he previously gave some details, saying: ''It's a medieval TV show and it's really, really dark. It's gruesome and it's going to be fine because my friend wrote it. ''He had a musician in his last show and I said, 'Oh did he audition for that?' And he said 'No, but I just thought he would be good in it.' So I said, 'Can you put verine me in your show next?''' 3' and after numerous outings as the claw-wielding mutant in his own standalone films and the 'X-Men' franchise he is walking away from the able statements regarding the death character. penalty of 1993 Bombay bomb blast Jackman has now takconvict Yakub Memon! The complaint en to Twitter to ask his folhas been filed under the section 124A lowers for suggestions as (sedition) and others of Indian Peto what should happen to nal Code. It has been filed by a lawyer Logan. Along with an imnamed Sushil Kumr Mishra will continage of himself in characue to be heard on July 28. Mishra said in ter accompanied with the the petition that they are anti-nationals hashtag ''#onelasttime'', he as they defended a person who has altweeted: ''My last time putready been awarded the death penalty ting on the claws. What do by the court.

Sallu gets booked for defending Yakub Memon!

ou would expect Salman Khan’s controversial remarks on Yakub Memon’s hanging on July 30 on Twitter to have run its course and die down after nationwide protest against the actor. He even apologized for creating any misunderstanding whatsoever. But it seems not everyone is appeased with his apology. A case has been lodged against Salman Khan and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi for giving out objection-

Gigi Hadid

'Wolverine 3' is set for release in March 2017 and the Hollywood hunk is definitely ready to retire his adamantium claws. He said: ''It felt like it was the right time to do it. And let's be honest, 17 years. I never thought in a million years it would last, so I'm so grateful to the fans for the opportunity of playing it ''I kind of have in my head what we're going to do in this last one. It just feels like this is the perfect way to go out.''

igi Hadid is the new face of Topshop's autumn/winter campaign, following in the footsteps of Cara Delevingne who fronted the campaign last year. The 20-year-old model - who signed to IMG in 2011 - will front the retailers' autumn campaign, with the news being announced through Topshop's Twitter. In images for the autumn/winter campaign, Gigi has been styled by Kate Phelan and shot by Tyrone Lebon and is shown wear-

ing a variety of outfits including leather jackets, a faux fur coat and a plaid hoodie. And the chairman of the Arcadia Group which owns Topshop, Sir Philip Green, said she was the obvious choice for Topshop in order to ''strengthen'' their ''international vision'', ahead of the opening of new stores in Canada, Germany and Panama later this year. He said: ''Working with Gigi Hadid on this campaign continues to strengthen our internation-

al vision for the Topshop brand. ''We are continually developing our footprint across all markets with ambitious plans both in the U.K. and internationally, and I feel like Gigi is an ideal ambassador to underpin these efforts.'' The blonde beauty who is currently believed to be dating Joe Jonas - is following in the footsteps of her 22-year-old supermodel pal Cara Delevingne with her new role, as Cara previously fronted the campaign in 2014.

CAS suspends rules on women athletes with high male hormones

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lAUSANNe, JUly 28 (AP): In a victory for individual athletes over governing bodies, sport's highest court has suspended IAAF rules governing women who have high levels of male hormones. The rules requiring some female athletes to get medical clearance were introduced in 2011, after South African 800-meter runner Caster Semenya was sidelined for almost a year after winning the 2009 world title when she was 18. However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday the world athletics body failed to prove that women with naturally high levels of testosterone had a competitive edge. "In the absence of such evidence, the CAS Panel was unable to conclude that hyperandrogenic female athletes may benefit from such a significant performance advantage that it is necessary to exclude them from competJapan's Atsushi Abe and Yumi Adachi perform during the synchronised swimming mixed duet ing in the female category," free preliminary at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia on July 28. (AP Photo) the court's interim ruling

1st Nagaland Women Football Championship

KoHIMA, JUly 28 (MexN): The 1st Nagaland Women Football Championship 2015 organised by Classic Club, Kohima under the aegis of Nagaland Football Association will commence from August 20 at Khuochiezie (Kohima Local Ground). Interested teams may collect bye-law from Sports World w.e.f. August 3. For further information, contact Tournament Director Atei-ü Sekhose, @ 9436000651 or Tournament Secretary Zakiekhotuo Kiso @ 9436001089.

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Chand eyes Olympics after gender ruling

New delHI, JUly 28 (AFP): Indian sprinter Dutee Chand said Tuesday she was "super excited" about returning to athletics after a landmark ruling on the validity of so-called gender tests. Chand's hyperandrogenism -- a condition that produces high testosterone levels -meant she fell foul of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) rules on gender. But in a ruling Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) suspended the consaid in an appeal brought by sprinter Dutee Chand of India. Chand was cleared to compete by the court which gave the IAAF body until July 24, 2017, to present new scientific evidence. The IAAF's rules on hyperandrogenism— or the presence of high levels of testosterone — will be declared void if no evidence is presented by the deadline. Responding Monday, the athletics body said the rules were passed after "a lengthy and comprehensive consultation" with

troversial regulation for two years, allowing her to compete again. The CAS also said the rule would be scrapped permanently if the IAAF failed to prove that enhanced testosterone levels led to improved performance in hyperandrogenic athletes. "I am very happy and relieved," India's reigning under-18 100 metres champion told AFP by telephone from the southern city of Hyderabad. "I have gone through a lot of suffering and humiliation.

the International Olympic Committee. "The IAAF will now meet as soon as possible with its experts and with the IOC and its experts to discuss how best to address this interim ruling," it said in a statement. Chand, now 19, appealed to CAS after India's athletics body barred her from competition last year, forcing her to miss the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She challenged the legal validity of the IAAF's rules — at a

Now I want to forget everything and start afresh," said Chand, now 19, her voice choked with emotion. Chand, who missed the Commonwealth and Asian Games due to the ban imposed last year, had challenged the rule, which she said did not take into account athletes who were "born this way". The IAAF introduced the rule after a controversy over the treatment of South African runner Caster Semenya, whose ban was lifted following an investigation.

four-day hearing at CAS in March — rather than undergo medical treatment. CAS had previously let Chand run in international events pending a verdict. In its interim ruling published Monday, the court panel of three lawyers said officials at the Monaco-based governing body had acted with good intentions. "The panel wishes to reiterate that its conclusion does not reflect any bad faith or incompetence on the part of the IAAF," the ruling said.

In the Semenya case, she was eventually cleared by the IAAF to return to competition, and won a silver medal in the 800 at the 2012 London Olympics. The court's 161-page ruling noted that the IAAF has dealt with other athletes under the hyperandrogenism rules since April 2011. The exact number was redacted in the document. "None of the athletes involved has ever been named in the press as the subject of an investigation," the ruling stated.

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Filipe Luis rejoins Atletico from Chelsea

BARCeloNA, JUly 28 (ReUteRS): Defender Filipe Luis has rejoined Atletico Madrid from Chelsea in a reported 16 million euro ($17.66 million) deal, the Spanish club said on Tuesday. The 29-year-old returned to the Calderon having played 26 matches for Chelsea last season, but he never fully won the confidence of manager Jose Mourinho. "Filipe Luis is again a player of Filipe Luis (File Photo) Atletico Madrid. The rojiblanco and Chelsea have reached an agreement site. "The Brazilian has signed for the for the transfer of the fullback," Atlet- next four seasons." Filipe Luis joined Chelsea on the ico said in a statement on their web-

back of an impressive campaign for Atletico in which his surging runs from left-back helped his side win La Liga and reach the Champions League final in 2014. "We wish him all the best for the future," Chelsea said on their website. Coach Diego Simeone brought in Guilherme Siqueira and Cristian Ansaldi after Filipe Luis left but neither was convincing last season. Atletico have been busy in the transfer market, with Jackson Martinez, Luciano Vietto and Stefan Savic among the players arriving. Arda Turan and Miranda have left the club.

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MUNICH, JUly 28 (AP): Bayern Munich completed the long-anticipated transfer of Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal from Italian champion Juventus on Tuesday. The Bundesliga champion said Vidal signed a four-year deal. "I wanted to take another big step in my career," Vidal said in a brief interview on Bayern's website. "I want to develop further as a player, and I want to win important titles, such as the Champions League. And I see Bayern as the best opportunity for that." Arturo Vidal (AP Photo) Bayern did not disclose financial details of the contract. But Italian me- to 40 million euros ($44 million) with dia reports suggested Bayern paid 36 bonuses, to bring the 28-year-old Vimillion euros ($39.5 million), rising dal back to the Bundesliga. If correct,

the figures would make Vidal one of the most expensive Bundesliga transfers. Vidal scored 15 goals and set up 21 more in 117 league games over four seasons for Bayer Leverkusen before leaving for Juventus in 2011. The rugged midfielder is expected to fill the gap left by the departure of Bastian Schweinsteiger for Manchester United, and to give Pep Guardiola's team more toughness. Vidal was brought to Germany at age 20 from Chilean club Colo-Colo by then Leverkusen squad director Michael Reschke. Reschke ended his 35-year association with Leverkusen when Bayern appointed him as a director in June.

Platini to announce FIFA presidency bid

FILE - This is a Sept. 7, 1987 file photo of Nottinghamshire's South African captain Clive Rice, as he holds the trophy surrounded by team mates, after winning the NatWest Trophy on the balcony of the pavillion at Lord's after his team's triumph over Northamptonshire. Rice, South Africaís first post-apartheid international cricket captain and a formidable player who never got the opportunity to showcase his talent in test matches, died on Tuesday July 28, 2015, aged 66. (PA/File via AP)

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CAPe towN, JUly 28 (IANS): Clive Rice, South Africa's first cricket captain in the post-apartheid era, passed away on Tuesday after losing his battle with septicaemia -- a potentially life threatening infection in which large amounts of bacteria are present in the blood. Rice's family confirmed the news stating that he was admitted to a hospital on Sunday night after suffering from severe stomach ache. The 66-year-old had also been suffering from brain cancer and had to undergo a surgery in India in March to get rid of a tumour. Condoling Rice's death, International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive and former South Africa international David Richardson described the deceased as a "giant of the game, not just in South Af-

rica, but across the cricketing world". "Though his international appearances for the Proteas were limited to just three ODIs, Clive was a hugely inspirational figure for those of us who had the privilege to represent our country since readmission to international cricket in 1991 and it was fitting that Clive was named captain of the national team on that historic first tour to India," he said. Over a first class career spanning 25 years, Rice scored 26,331 runs in 482 matches, including a highest score of 246. A hugely respected fast bowler, he claimed 930 wickets at an average of 22.49 in a career where he also represented Nottinghamshire, Transvaal, Natal and Scotland with distinction. In 1981 he was named the Wisden Cricketer of the Year.

ZURICH, JUly 28 (ReUteRS): Michel Platini, the head of European soccer's governing body UEFA, is to announce in the next few days that he will stand for the presidency of FIFA, a source close to the former France international told Reuters on Tuesday. The 60-year-old Platini, a former France and Juventus midfielder, has been UEFA president since 2007 and had been widely expected to throw his hat into the ring to succeed Sepp Blatter, who announced his plan to stand down two months ago. South Korea's Chung Mong-joon, a former FIFA

UEFA President Michel Platini. (REUTERS Photo)

vice-president, is expected to announce his candidacy next month, while Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein,

beaten by Blatter in May's presidential vote, is also considering running in next February's election.

Cavani banned for two matches MoNtevIdeo, JUly 28 (AFP): Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani has been suspended for two matches over his flareup with Chilean defender Gonzalo Jara at the Copa America, the South American Football Confederation announced. The ban means he will miss his country's first World Cup qualifying tie away to Bolivia in October. Cavani, who plays for French champions Paris Saint-Germain, was sent off midway through the second half of Uruguay's stormy 1-0 Copa America quarterfinal defeat for a second yellow card after he flicked a hand into Jara's face. But Cavani and the Uruguayan camp claimed he had been the victim of provocation which should have been spotted by the match officials. Video footage appeared to show Jara attempting to goad the star by inserting a finger into his backside.

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Jara was initially suspended for three matches, which was later reduced to a two-game ban on appeal. But he still missed Chile's semi-final against Peru and the final victory 4-1 on penalties over Argentina. Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez has been handed a three-match touchline ban over the incident for insulting the referee.

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