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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not Xi, Modi unlikely to meet at G20 due to border row

Call to usher in economic revolution in Tuli area

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reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

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Morung Express News Dimapur | July 6

CMFG meets CFMC, CFSBs Morung Express News Dimapur | July 6

The Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CFMG) met in Dimapur on July 6. CFMG chairman, DK Pathak held separate meetings with the Ceasefire Supervisory Boards of the GPRN/NSCN and NSCN-R and also with the NSCN (IM)’s Ceasefire Monitoring Cell at the NAPTC, Chumukedima.

Unlike earlier CFMG meetings when the Chairman often briefed the media, today’s meeting was bereft of post-meeting media briefing. Pathak chose not to comment about the meeting. He only informed that the implementation of the Ceasefire Ground Rules was discussed with the 3 Naga Political Groups in ceasefire with the Government of India. Stating that it was routine meeting, Pathak when prodded further said, “The idea of such meetings is to resolve differences, not to create controversy.”

Supervisor of the CFSB, GPRN/NSCN, Jack Jimomi declined to make any comments. The CFSB, NSCN (R) also maintained a similar stance while terming the day’s talks as regular with some internal matter discussed. It was the CFMG’s 74th meeting with the CFMC of NSCN (IM), 13th with the CFSB of GPRN/ NSCN and the 3rd with CFSB of NSCN (R). DGP, Nagaland LL Doungel, Commissioner Nagaland, Sentiyanger Imchen and IGAR (North) Sanjay Gupta also attended the meetings.

This summer, 33 students of Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS) are on a unique mission. Perhaps, one of their biggest challenges– spiritually, emotionally as well as physically.

On a mission to spread the message of “Clean Election” as a part of their summer internship, the students are traversing through two constituencies of Nagaland.

The journey that kickstarted on June 20 will culminate on July 20. By then, the students, divided into 5 groups, would have covered more than 35 villages and towns in Tseminyu and Pughoboto areas.

Rev. Dr. Chekrovei ChoO, Associate Professor of Applied Theology in OTS said the mission objective is about “conscientising people” and spiritualizing with the Churches.

The mission briefing also involves meeting people from various walks of life and analysing the ground realities, observing practical challenges and findings ways out of it.

For instance, Dr. Choo opined that until there is clean e-roll, the idea of clean election does not hold waters. “This is beyond the jurisdiction of the church and needs people involvement at ground level.”

Prior to their mission, the students were given one-week total orientation especially on interpersonal relationship and group dynamics at the mission centre in OTS. While, six faculties dropped them to start their mission on June 20, they have been left on their own since then. A mid-way assessment was done by two faculties on July 5 at their respective locations.

The Council of Rengma Baptist Churches (CRBC) and Sumi Aphuyemi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (SABAK) are actively endorsing the mission.

Blame game, information deficiency When The Morung Express contacted the students on July 4, one group was in Tseminyu village.

We have covered around six villages so far, informed Ajung T Aier, a Master of Di-

A group of students and others during their stoppage in Kandinu Village.

vinity (M.Div) student.

Besides door-to-door education of households and church services, they hold interactions with various stakeholders, including Gaon Buras (GBs), Village Councils, members of Rengma Hoho; and other ‘important person’ including party political agents, youth and women.

While the response has been positive, many were skeptical. “It will take time,” was a common refrain.

At the ground level, people are still lost. The NBCC campaign is yet to have an impact in the interiors. It is quite a surprise, Aier noted. Election is viewed as a “One-time opportunity” for the people

Our Correspondent Kohima | July 6

2385, Mokokchung- 483, Zunheboto- 351, Wokha- 458, Dimapur- 1109, Phek- 6420, Tuensang- 460, Longleng- 800, Kiphire14, Kohima- 617, Peren- 492.

Of the total 4765 private proprietary establishments engaged in handloom and handicraft activity, Mon district has the highest in private proprietary ownership with 1264 (26.52%) establishments and Kiphire with the lowest with 7 (.14%) establishments. Out of 13, 589 persons engaged in handloom/handicraft establishment, private proprietary establishments employs the maximum number of workers with 13, 335 (98.13%).

Phek district employs the highest number of persons in the handloom/ handicraft establishments with 6424 persons in the state.

In the rural areas, out of the total establishments of 4140, male proprietary ownership was 2374 (57.34%) and female proprietary ownership was 1766 (42.65%).

Mon district has the maximum number of establishments under proprietary ownership with 1264 (26.52%) establishments while Kiphire had the lowest with 7 (.14%) establishments under proprietary ownership.

No-detention policy to go from next academic session: Minister

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to get back at politicians, who seldom visit them after election. In some cases, people considered OTS’ visit as another political party and assumed that the team “were coming with lot of money,” Aier added.

Youth involvement in politics was also a common concern. “If flow of alcohol is stopped, clean election is possible,” a group of women told the team.

One common trait was the “blame game.” As Aier pointed out “the church blames the public, who in turn blame the politicians, who return the favor equally.”

However, the CEC effort is definitely bearing fruits.

In Tseminyu village, for the next election, various NGOs

and people will collaborate and among others, stop door-to-door campaigns and provide a common platform for the candidates.

In Tseminyu Town, we had a positive interaction with members of influential youthgroup(club)andhopefully, their involvement in the process will have a deep impact, Aier further stated.

The group will be covering another 4-5 villages besides meeting different stakeholders before the mission ends.

‘Outside factors’ Another group - covering Asukiqa and Puhuboto areas under Pughoboto was camping in Lazami Village, their sixth village.

“Almost all the people agree that one of the most common problems is the involvement of villagers residing outside, during election,” said Vitoka Chopi, another MDiv student of OTS. Besides regular activities as the first group, another strategy is holding separate open discussion with women, youth, and men.

Most people are skeptical and reluctant to share, but once a person breaks the ice, it opens a floodgate, observed Chopi. In many villages, the involvement of non-state actors was a crucial concern and their influences, especially during election, were very high.

The Sumi Students Union (SKK)’s ‘Amikucho Kikishe’ (Clean Election) campaign launched in April is also making an impact. Most of the attendees have an idea about the concept, Chopi informed.

However, many are still ignorant and everything is not in black and white. For instance, in one meeting, a young man opined that ‘backdoor appointment is positive’ as most could not get through the competitive exam. It was seconded by another.

The team will be covering 5 more villages and towns, besides holding fellowship with SABAK, Kohima on July 20.

‘It is loss for us if it is done only in our areas or by us’ A group, covering the Northern Rengma area, was in Shisunu Village, their fourth stoppage.

Incidentally, Shisunu already has a Clean Election Sub-Committee while in Ehunu Village there was a Clean Election Monitoring Action Committee.

Kandinu, a candidate village since 1964 is not fielding anyone from the village next election, but has affirmed for clean election.

Sharing his experience, Shozenlo Thyug, another M.Div student said: “People were most interested with the Youthnet analysis of election expenditure in 2008 &13.”

A 60 plus old man during a meeting confided to the team that he had never allowed his wife to vote barring once or twice.

The election commission is faulted too. “They are sending security, but they never do anything when malpractices or other activities occur.”

In all the areas the teams visited, there is a common refrain perhaps felt across Nagaland. “It is loss for us if it is done only in our areas or by us.”

Finding solution to this predicament would be a key factor for the success of the CEC.

Handloom & Handicraft establishments Interlocutor meets Naga civil societies employing 13, 589 workers in Nagaland • ‘Framework Agreement Nagaland media’s one minute with RN Ravi may be implemented

There are 4813 establishment engaged in handloom and handicraft activity, employing 13, 589 workers in Nagaland.

Out of these 4813 establishment, 637 (13.23%) establishments are in the urban areas and 4176 (86.76%) establishments are in rural areas, according to the latest publication of Sixth Economic Census, Nagaland, brought out by Directorate of Economics & Statistics.

Mon district has the highest number of establishments engaged in handloom/ handicraft with 1265 establishments employing 2385 workers. Kiphire district has the lowest number of establishments and workers with nine establishment and 617 workers.

Handloom and handicraft establishment in other districts stand as follows: Mokokchung- 340, Zunheboto- 241, Wokha- 183, Dimapur- 606, Phek- 265, Tuensang-320, Longleng- 733, Kohima- 440 and Peren- 411.

District wise total number of persons DIMAPUR, JULY 6 (MExN): The Dimapur employed in handloom an handicraft District GB’s Association establishments stand as follows: Mon(DDGBA) called on the Nagaland Chief Minister, Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu at his office chamber on July 6 and presented before him pertinent issue for establishment of a separate Commissioner (West Zone) for civil adminis- AGARTALA, JULY 6 (IANS): Union tration in line with Police Minister of State for Human Resource Commissioner of Dimapur Development Mahendra Nath Pandey for all the foothill areas in on Thursday said the no-detention policy the border district of As- will be removed from the next academic sam. The DDGBA said that session as almost all states are opposed to Dimapur is the “most pro- this policy. gressive district and is rap“No-detention policy will be removed idly growing at a very fast from next academic session as almost all pace with the ever increas- states have expressed their concern over the ing population, thus need- falling quality of education since the introing a more comprehensive duction of policy under the Right to Educaassistance in the admin- tion Act,” he told reporters here. Under the istrative needs.” It men- no-detention policy, students in schools are tioned that Dimapur dis- promoted automatically to higher classes trict which is surrounded by adjoining areas of Peren, every year till the eighth grade.

After a two-day visit to the northeastWokha, Mokokchung and ern state of Tripura, the minister who is in Mon districts, needs more comprehensive overhaul- charge of higher education said: “There is a ing in its civil administra- unanimous view of almost all states across tion machineries. The CM the country to remove the no-detention on his part assured of “giv- policy from the Right to Education Act.” No-detention policy was statutorily ining his best in meeting the demand of the associa- troduced through the historic Right of Chiltion,” a press note from the dren to Free and Compulsory Education DDGBA informed.

Act, 2009 (RTE Act). A key component of the

DDGBA for separate civil admin commissioner

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Mission clean election: Ground realities & challenges

33 OTS students currently on a 1-month internship tour on clean election share their midway experiences and findings

If the price of Petrol is down by 75paisa, and price of dal and alu are up by 60 Rs, blame Modi’s math, not me.

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RTE Act, the no-detention policy unveiled by the previous UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government, came into force on April 1, 2010, with the intention of ensuring that every child aged between six and 14 received school education.

However, for the past many years, concerns have been raised about the negative impact of the policy on the academic performance of students.

The Minister also said that a probe was going on into the massive irregularities in the Tripura University, a central varsity.

Teaching and non-teaching staff of the Tripura University have been agitating for several months against alleged irregularities in the central varsity.

The Tripura assembly also recently unanimously adopted a resolution, urging the HRD Ministry to take action on the complaints. The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently directed a special audit of the university to check complaints of financial, administrative and academic irregularities. The UGC order follows an HRD Ministry directive.

this year itself’ • Settlement should be inclusive, including all Naga political groups, Naga civil societies tell Ravi Morung Express News Dimapur | July 6

Interlocutor to the Naga Peace Talks, RN Ravi today held consultations with various Naga civil societies in Kohima regarding the settlement of the Naga political issue with the Government of India.

The closed door consultative meeting which went late into the night was reportedly held separately with the Naga Mothers Association (NMA), Naga Students Federation (NSF), Senior Citizens Forum, Rengma Hoho, Nagaland Gorkha Association, Angami Public Organization, Chakhesang Public Organization, Nagaland Tribes Council and Western Angami Public Organization.

The local media was not made privy to the meetings despite requests. It is learnt that almost all the Naga civil societies attending the meeting reportedly made their feelings clear - that the settlement should be inclusive, including all the Naga political groups.

Sources from the civil societies quoting the words of the Interlocutor, disclosed that this may well be the last meeting before initiating the implementation of the Framework Agreement, which possibly could take place this year itself.

“We were told that settlement to the Naga peace talks is coming soon and that the Framework Agreement is likely to be implemented by this year itself,” a participant of the meeting who did not wished to be named stated. This could however not be independently confirmed.

Naga Mothers Association (NMA) Advisor Dr Rosemary Dzuvichu said RN Ravi appeared more positive this time, on the context of an early settlement being reached between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India on the Naga peace talks.

The NMA during the meeting also raised concerns on the ongoing ban against the NSCN (K) and urged for a peaceful dialogue between the GoI and the NSCN (K). “We also stressed

KOHIMA, JULY 6 (MExN): On July 6, the Government of India’s Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks, RN Ravi reached Nagaland to hold a two-day consultation with Naga civil societies. Today, he held a series of meeting at de Oriental, Kohima and will be holding another round of consultation on July 7 at the Police Complex, Chumukedima.

The closed door ‘consultative’ meet did not include the media.

After repeated requests and a two hour wait at De Oriental, media persons were given a “good one minute” with the Interlocutor, where he said, “We are close to a solution and we wanted to have one more round of consultation with the Naga civil society.”

According to Ravi, the consultations with the civil society are being held to get their views, perceptions, and their positions. “If they have something to say, we will take it,” said Ravi quickly stated. Asked whether the Government of India plans to

on our continued support to the peace process, for an inclusive settlement for peace, while taking cognisance of all stakeholders, one which is also gender sensitive,” Dr Rosemary stated.

Nearly two years after the Framework Agreement was signed between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India (GoI), the contents have been shrouded in secrecy, with both the parties refusing to divulge details, despite demands from state and nonstate actors that the finer points be made public.

WAPO not to be a party to piece meal settlement Western Angami Public Organization (WAPO), which was one of the Naga civil societies that attended the meeting said it shall never be a party to “piece meal settlement” and declared that whosoever “harbours such venture shall be held exclusively responsible if any bloodshed takes place out of the consequences of such half- baked factional settlement.”

A copy of the statement submitted to RN Ravi, Interlocutor for the Naga Peace Talks pointed out that a settlement which did not include all the major Naga National Political Groups was extremely dangerous and not acceptable to the Nagas in any way.

Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks, RN Ravi

persuade the Myanmar government towards abrogating ceasefire with NSCN (K), Ravi said: “No, not at all.”

Ravi called on Chief Minister Dr Shurhozelie and talked to him on the issue before interacting with civil societies, official sources said. Ravi is also the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

“Everyone, including your honour (RN Ravi) is well aware that not a single Naga National Political faction of Nagaland today in reality represents the Nagas as a community and a people. Therefore factional settlement in piece meal, without broad base, inclusive of all major Naga National Political Groups is extremely dangerous and not acceptable to the Nagas in any way,” WAPO, which was one of the Naga Civil Societies which met RN Ravi at Kohima on Thursday stated.

It said the heavy price of fratricidal killings, confusion and division the Nagas have paid because of settlements in the past with questionable antecedents must not be repeated again.

WAPO also reaffirmed its resolve to stand by the plebiscite of 1951 at all cost and always by democratic and non-violent means. “No Naga political movement can become unique or historical if the plebiscite of 1951 is to be subtracted, which is the only mandated stand of the Nagas for all till date,” it maintained.

On Friday, the Interlocutor will continue the consultative meetings with different NGOs including ACAUT Nagaland, CNTC, UNC, Naga Council, Dimapur, Naga Hoho, TirapChanglang-Longdin Peoples Forum, GBs Association Nagaland etc.

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Two person attempts to wade through a flooded area at Purana Bazaar B, Dimapur on Thursday morning even as incessant rain on Wednesday night inundated many parts of Dimapur on. Low lying areas of Dimapur are flooded every year during monsoon without any respite. (Morung Photo)

Call to usher in economic revolution in Tuli area DC Kohima notifies on arms license

Tuli, July 6 (MExN): The first ever Sub-District Industries Centre (SDIC) and a Common Facility Centre (CFC) for Bamboo, Cane and Wood-Based Handicraft cluster was inaugurated at Tuli on July 6. Addressing a public gathering at the inaugural function, Parliamentary Secretary, Industries & Commerce Amenba Yaden urged the public of Tuli Sub-Division to make full utilization of both the facilities in order to usher in an economic revolution in the area. He said that, although Tuli was declared an industrial zone long time back, it could not grow mainly due to absence of an enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem.

He hoped that the establishment of the SDIC would facilitate ease of doing business policy of the government wherein an entrepreneur will be assisted through single window system.

He said that the office would also catalyse industrial growth in tune with the Government of India's flagship programmes like Act East Policy and Make in India. “In order to dovetail our efforts with these policies, the State government is re-framing the Nagaland

Sub-District Industries Centre and Common Facility Centre for Bamboo, Cane and Wood-Based Handicraft inaugurated

Parliamentary Secretary, Amenba Yaden with others during the inauguration of first ever Sub-District Industries Centre and Common Facility Centre for Bamboo, Cane and Wood-Based Handicraft cluster at Tuli on July 6.

State Industrial Policy which will be user-friendly,” Yaden added.

Amenba said that the CFC on Bamboo, Cane and Wood-based Handicraft was established keeping in view the local expertise, particularly of women, in bamboo mat weaving and other

bamboo and cane based crafts.

He said that the CFC would be well equipped to promote production by local artisans and also for imparting trainings on identified trades in Bamboo, cane and wood based activities.

He further stated that the de-

partment of Industries & Commerce have acquired 100 acres of land in Tuli area for promotion of Food and Spice Processing, Citronella distillation etc.

He stressed the need for local youth to focus on self managed enterprises which will accelerate

economic development of self, family and the entire state rather than look for government job, an avenue which is fully saturated now. He urged the local residents to protect government properties and to act the good hosts to the government functionaries who are deployed at Tuli so that maximum benefits can be derived through their services.

A press release issued by Amrit Giri, Functional Manager, SDIC, Tuli stated that earlier, delivering the keynote address, Director of Industries & Commerce, Bendangliba informed that Tuli received the first of the proposed six SDICs looking at the potential of industrial growth of the area.

He expressed the hope that the establishment of the CFC would result in visible economic change in the area within a short span of time.

The function was chaired by Lipokwati, General Manager, District Industries Centre, Mokokchung. Invocation was led by Imliodang, Associate Pastor, Tuli Lenden Baptist Church, while the vote of thanks was proposed by Amrit Gid, Functional Manager, SDIC, Tuli.

KohiMa, July 6 (diPr): Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan, IAS has issued a notification that license for all categories of arms as prohibited arms/ bore can be issued only by the Central Government that requires prior approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Deputy Commissioner also stated that, the issuance of special permit for prohibited arms/bore by the State Government has been discontinued with immediate effect, and all such permit issued till date will stand cancelled. In view of cancellation of special permit the holders of such permit under Kohima District have been directed to surrender their license along with the weapon to the nearest /respective police station within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notification. The notification further directed the holders to apply for regular license from the Government, which shall be issued only with the approval of the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs.

Also in pursuance of the instruction of the Election Commission of India, the DC informed that all licensed arms holders of Kohima Town area, Kohima Village, Chedema and Chedema Model Village are directed to deposit their arms in nearest police station between July 15 and 22 without fail. This is for strict compliance of all concerned.

Political parties, candidates & party workers notified The DC has also notified that in view of the bye election to the 10 Northern Angami-1 AC, and in pursuance of the instructions of the Election Commissioner of India has informed to all concerned, particular the political parties, candidates and party workers that cash exceeding Rs. 50,000/- found in a vehicle carrying a candidate, his agent or party workers or carrying posters or election materials or any drugs, Liquor, arms or gift items which are valued at more than Rs. 10.000/- likely to be used for inducement of electors shall be subject to seizure. Members of the public carrying any amount in cash exceeding Rs. 50,000/- should always keep some relevant documents with them which substantiate the source and purpose of the money.

Mokokchung Press Club Chamber inaugurated BJP National General Secretary

MoKoKchuNg, July 6 (MExN): A two-room chamber for Mokokchung Press Club (MPC) was formally inaugurated by Imtikumzuk Longkumer, Parliamentary Secretary IPR Nagaland in the presence of Limawati Longchar, Director IPR, Sachin Jaiswal IAS, ADC Mokokchung, Ao Senden leaders and other officials at the DPRO building, Mokokchung on July 6.

Addressing the gathering, Imtikumzuk said it was a momentous occasion for the press fraternity of Mokokchung and asked them to utilise the facility sensibly for the greater purpose of disseminating information to the masses.

Stressing on the importance of media as the fourth pillar of democracy, he said media persons should strive to present information in a responsible and transparent manner since it wield an enormous power to take the society forward or to destroy it.

He also said that recognition of Mokokchung

Parliamentary Secretary Imtikumzuk, Director of IPR Nagaland, Limawati Longchar, ADC Mokokchung Sachin Jaiswal IAS, members of the Mokokchung Press Club and others at the inauguration of the MPC Chamber, July 6.

town as a vibrant town by the outside world was a result of an active media fraternity in the district.

He further encouraged the media persons to continue contributing about the social activities of Mokokchung town with equal responsibility in the future.

Sachin Jaiswal IAS, ADC Mokokchung in a

short speech encouraged the media persons to keep abreast with the changing times with special reference to social media which is fast emerging as a leading source in the dissemination of information and news. He also shared his optimism that the MPC chamber will become a melting pot for sharing

Info on cleanest colony competition

diMaPur, July 6 (MExN): All the wards and colonies authorities are informed that the panel of judges for the cleanest colony competition 2017, under the initiative of Dimapur Municipal Council will be visiting ward no. 1 to 8 on July 16, ward no. 9 to 16 on July 23 and ward no. 17 to 23 on July 30.

Therefore, all the GBs and chairmen of the wards and colonies are requested to take note of the visit and take initiative in mobilizing and sensitizing the resident of their respective wards and colonies for the competition.

The criteria for the competition will be based on garbage and drainage management, stagnant

water, road maintenance, and sanitation and colony community participation for cleanliness. The marks and grading will be five points each for the given indicators totaling to 30 points. The cash prizes are first prize – one lakh; second prize - thirty thousand and third prize- twenty thousand.

Consultation on Draft Nagaland Land Use Policy in Phek district

PhEK, J u ly 6 (MExN): Consultation on Draft Nagaland Land Use Policy meeting for Phek District was held on July 6 in the conference Hall of District Agriculture Officer (Co-Chairman) Phek chaired by Deputy Project Director (ATMA) Phek. He welcomed the members present and explained the Agenda for the meeting.

The Administrative Officer Neilezo Tep, SDO (C) Phek, highlighted the

needs and importance of Land Use Policy and to create awareness among the village community.

He also encouraged the stakeholders to take special interest and devote more time toward JRM programme for betterment of the District. The interaction with ATMA members and other stake holders was led by UNDP Team.

Land use committee at village level and Range level in co-ordination

with ATMA functionaries and Agri-allied Department has been discussed.

Members decided to conduct more awareness campaign at 8 Block level under ATMA members (BLO) by providing leaflet in various local dialects.

A press release issued

by Kevingutso Rutsa District Soil Conservation Officer & Member Secretary JRCM, Phek, Nagaland stated that vote of thanks was proposed by Member Secretary (DSCO, Phek).

ideas within the members and visiting media persons which will eventually benefit the townsfolk and the society as a whole.

Director IPR, Limawati Longchar in his speech expressed his gratitude to MPC for always maintaining mutual relationship with the IPR department in disseminating informa-

tion to the mass through co operation and collaboration. He also asked the members to maintain the reputation of being one of the best press clubs in the state by continuing on its endeavour of disseminating news based on truth and accountability.

MPC president, Limalenden Longkumer, in his speech thanked the Parliamentary Secretary and IPR department for the kind gesture shown to MPC by offering not only accommodation but also basic office amenities to the club, thus empowering the press in Mokokchung. He also thanked Mokokchung DPRO Chuba Walling and his staff for maintaining good relation with MPC at all times and hoped that the camaraderie shared between the department and MPC would continue to grow with the passage of time. “Now, we will be able to perform more efficiently as responsible journalists in disseminating information to the masses,” he said.

(Org) concludes tour programme

BJP National General Secretary (Org), V. Satish and State President Visasolie Lhoungu welcoming the new members to the party on July 5.

KohiMa, July 6 (MExN): The BJP National General Secretary (Org), V. Satish concluded his two day organizational tour programme at Kohima on July 6. During the period, he held several meetings with the party's Core Committee Members, MLAs, State Office Bearers, Booth Level Full Time Karyakatta party workers, State Frontal Presidents and General Secretaries.

He was accompanied by Vijay Kumar Gupta Chairman Assam Finance Corporation, Anil Kumar Das Vice-Chairman Assam Finance Corporation, Ranjit Mazumdar OSD to Chief Minister Assam, R.K Ghosh Vice Chairman Assam Linguistic Minority Development Board and Niren

Baishya General Secretary BJP Majdoor Morcha, Assam.

On July 5, V. Satish inaugurated the State BJP’s Office at C. K. Arcade, Kohima in the midst of a large gathering of party workers and the State President Visasolie Lhoungu along with State party officials.

This was followed by a formal function welcoming new members into the party where V. Satish, BJP National General Secretary (Org) and State President Visasolie Lhoungu welcomed four new members to the party’s fold.

This was stated in a press release issued

by Jaangsillung Gonmei, General Secretary (Media), BJP Nagaland.

ROLE REVERSAL: Students become teachers for one day

GHSS Bhandari conduct innovative student-teacher programme to lead towards better learning outcomes BhaNdari, July 6 (MExN): An innovative student-teacher programme was conducted at Government Higher Secondary School, Bhandari on July 5 where students from class 12 took over the responsibilities of the school administration for one day. Under the leadership of Student Principal, Susanna Kikon and Student Vice-Principal, Abeno Murry, the student teachers discharged the normal duties of Post Graduate Teachers of the school starting from conducting morning assembly to class room teaching.

Student Principal Susanna stated that she was excited with the privilege of acting as the Principal of the school for a day and this helped a lot to raise her confidence level and created an urge of achieving more in her life. Student Vice Principal Abeno stated that she realized the importance of team work

for the successful functioning of a school and also the vital role played by a Vice Principal in the day to day activities of the school. The student teachers stated that they realized that teaching is not an easy job and it required lot of preparations and patient to make the students understand the subject matter.

Student teacher Angely stated that now only she realized how teachers feel when students are not giving attention to their teaching in class room and another student teacher stated that he now understood that sharing of knowledge with friends makes him learn more and this would help to do better in the examinations and also in life. One student teacher expressed that this programme made her to regret for few of her behaviors in the past and stated that from now onwards she will be more responsible

Students with the staffs of Government Higher Secondary School, Bhandari during the innovative student-teacher programme held on July 5.

and try her best to learn well for a better future.

Student teacher Penchilo now she feels that her spirit has enlightened a lot and paved way for a new life. Student teacher Sharon stated that the programme inspired her a lot and the interaction she had with the students in the class room made her to realize the importance of taking active participation in class room teaching learning activities.

Student teacher Chumcahno also stated that she experienced the

importance of responding to questions asked by teachers in the class room.

Student teachers Daniel, Zubenthung, Maho, Mhabeni, Secelia and Loyibeni stated that the experience they gained from this programme would help them to concentrate in studies sincerely in the future.

It was stated in a press release that performances of the Student Teachers were assessed by the Principal of the school B Nellayappan and the Academic and Career Guidance Cell Coordinator Dr Sunepsungla.

Loybeni Jami was adjudged as the Best Student Teacher of GHSS Bhandari.

All the student teachers have expressed their gratitude to the Principal and Teachers for organizing the innovative programme and thanked all the students for the sincere co-operation extended by them. The Principal of the school expressed confidence that this programme would help students build better rapport with the teachers and thus would lead towards better learning outcomes.

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Debris of IAF helicopter, crew's bodies recovered new Delhi/itAnAgAr, july 6 (iAnS): The wreckage of the Indian Air Force helicopter that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday and the bodies of the three crew members and one policeman on board have been recovered, the IAF said on Thursday.

A court of inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the reason for the crash in the northeastern border state's Papum Pare district.

A defence statement said Arunachal Pradesh Police team spotted the wreckage of the helicopter on Wednesday evening during the search by joint rescue teams of Army, the National Disaster Response Force, police and the Indian Air Force.

The wreckage and the bodies were found in Sopho Yuha, near Hostallam village, about 30 km from Itanagar. On Thursday morning, rescue parties comprising IAF's Garud commandos and a medical team, Army, NDRF were able to reach the crash site along with the Arunachal Pradesh Police team that had sighted the wreckage.

"The bodies of three personnel have been recovered so far. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to investigate the cause of the accident," the IAF said. The crew comprised Wing Commander M.S. Dhillon, Flight Lieutenant P.K. Singh, Flight Engineer Sergeant Gujjar while Indian Reserve Battalion member Nada Umbing had boarded the helicopter from Pilputu Helipad near Sagalee on Tuesday.

The Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) of the IAF engaged in flood rescue mission in the state went missing at 3.50 p.m. on Tuesday after it took off from Pilputu.

The helicopter was evacuating people stranded in Sagalee and Dambuk due to massive landslides caused by heavy rains.

Papum Pare district official J.Pertin said the helicopter had made five sorties since it arrived there at around 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. "In the sixth sortie to Naharlagun, for unknown reason, the crew did not take the last batch of nine civilians and took off from Sagalee with just one policeman, who was deployed to help the two crew members and then went missing," Pertin told IANS.

‘China could stoke unrest in Sikkim’ Beijing, july 6 (iAnS): China could stoke unrest and aid "anti-India movements" in Sikkim to help it secede from India, an influential Chinese daily has warned in an unusually strong editorial, amid a soaring border row between New Delhi and Beijing.

Taking the anti-India rhetoric to a completely different level, the staterun Global Times, which on Wednesday virtually called for war over the stand-off in Doklam area, said: "Bhutan will also witness anti-India stir, which will negatively affect India's already turbulent northeast area and rewrite southern Himalayan geopolitics". The daily said creating trouble for India in Sikkim and neighbouring Bhutan was one of the "tools" to deter New Delhi from "provocations".

The newspaper said Beijing was not afraid of India using the Dalai Lama card which has been "overplayed".

"Beijing should reconsider its stance over the Sikkim issue. Although China recognized India's annexa-

tion of Sikkim in 2003, it can readjust its stance on the matter," the editorial warned.

"There are those in Sikkim that cherish its history as a separate state, and they are sensitive to how the outside world views the Sikkim issue. As long as there are voices in Chinese society supporting Sikkim's independence, the voices will spread and fuel pro-independence appeals in Sikkim."

Sikkim was a kingdom until 1975 and became India's 22nd state. It is one of five Indian states that share border with China. The latest standoff between India and China has occurred in the Sikkim sector over the Doklam region, which is disputed between Beijing and Thimphu.

The ownership of the area at the tri-junction of Bhutan, India and China is yet to be decided. The Chinese were building a road there which was protested by Thimphu and the Indian Army stepped in to stop the road construction.

"With certain conditions, Bhutan

Flood relief measures initiated in Manipur Newmai News Network Imphal | July 6

Manipur Chief Minister, N Biren Singh said that the State Government of Manipur has taken up various relief measures and immediate steps have been taken to tackle the recent flood situation of the State. This was stated by him today at the press conference held at CM’s Secretariat in presence of Minister for Agriculture, Veterinary and Animal Husbandary V. Hangkhanlian and Minister for CAF & PD Karam Shyam.

Highlighting the shortages of the daily essential commodities during the flood situation, the Chief Minister assured that 12,000 Metric Tons of rice is available under the CAF and PD department and is ready to be distributed to the general public of the State. Such rice would be made available at Rs 22.53 per kilo to the general public of the State, he added.

Mentioning that the flood hit farmers of the State need not to be panic of the situation, N. Biren Singh said that short duration paddy seed varieties which can be harvested in 100 days such as RC Maniphou-12(RCM12) and Maru Taru University-1010(MTU1010) are available for the flood affected farmers of the State. Either

paddy seed varieties or the rice seedlings will be available at free of cost to the people, he added. He further said that a total area of 40,000 hectares of agricultural land have been affected viz. 14,079 hectares in Imphal East, 7,700 hectares in Imphal West, 9,000 hectares in Thoubal, 9,210 hectares in Bishnupur and 20 hectares in Urkhul in the recent flood in the State. 20.51 percent of agricultural area has been affected out of the targeted area of 1,95,000 hectares in the State. Transplantation of such short duration paddy seed varieties can be taken upto the month of August, he added.

The Chief Minister said that the government would identify and verify the total submerged area affected by the flood in the State soon.

On the occasion, of Minister for Agriculture, Veterinary and Animal Husbandary V. Hangkhanlian said that certain measures have been taken up by the Agriculture and Veterinary department and mobile team, five Rapid Action Teams of the Veterinary department, headed by two doctors with field assistants have already been set up for treatment and necessary vaccination of the animals in the flood affected areas.

Mobile Plant Health camp has been set up for the farmers, he added.

New express train between Guwahati & Indore

MAligAon, july 6 (Mexn): Fulfilling another demand for better connectivity of NE region with the rest of the country, Railway Minister, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu will flag off a new weekly express train between Guwahati and Indore tomorrow.

The 19305 Indore – Guwahati Weekly Express will leave from Indore every Thursday at 14-00 hrs to arrive Guwahati at 14-25 hrs on Saturday. During return journey train number 19306 Guwahati – Indore Express will leave Guwahati every Sunday at 05-15 hrs to arrive Indore at 0710 hrs on Tuesday. The train will cover the distance of 2280 kms between Indore and Guwahati in less than 50 hours.

The inaugural train bearing number 09307 will be flagged off from Indore on July 7 (Friday) at 12-00 hrs by Hon’ble Railway Minister. During return journey the inaugural special train bearing number 09308 will leave Guwahati at 23-25

hrs on July 9.

Regular service of the train will start from Indore w.e.f. 13.07.2017(Thursday) and from Guwahati w.e.f. 16.07.2017(Sunday). The newly introduced train will run via Goalpara Town, Salmari and will have commercial stoppages at Kamakhya Jn., New bongaigaon, Kokrajhar, Alipurduar Jn. Hasimara, Binnaguri, New Jalpaiguri, Kishanganj, Katihar, Naugachia, Mansi, Khagaria, Begu Sarai, Barauni, Hajipur, Sonpur, Chhapra, Ballia, Ghazipur City, Aunrihar, Varanasi, Jaunpur City, Sultanpur, Lucknow, Kanpur Central, Jhansi, Orai, Lalitpur, bina, Vidisha, Bairagarh, Shujalpur, Ujjain and Dewas before arriving at Indore.

The train will have 10 sleeper class, 2 AC three tier, 1 AC two tier, 3 General class compartments apart from two Generators cum luggage van. All coaches will be of German model LHB type.

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and Sikkim will see strong anti-India movements, which will negatively affect India's already turbulent northeast area and rewrite southern Himalayan geopolitics," it said.

"New Delhi's regional hegemony is boldly shown by the border face-off this time. Using the excuse of 'helping Bhutan protect its sovereignty', India brazenly obstructs China's road construction in Chinese territory."

The daily said India "oppresses" Bhutan and "has startling control over" it. "Through unequal treaties, India has severely jeopardized Bhutan's diplomatic sovereignty and controls its national defence."

It said it was because of India that "Bhutan has not established diplomatic ties with its neighbour China or any other permanent member of the UN Security Council". "India imposed a similar coercive policy on Sikkim before. The small neighbour's revolts over sovereignty in the 1960s and 1970s were brutally crushed by the Indian military." "New Delhi deposed

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the king of Sikkim in 1975 and manipulated the country's parliament into a referendum to make Sikkim a state of India. The annexation of Sikkim is like a nightmare haunting Bhutan, and the small kingdom is forced to be submissive to India's bullying."

"After independence, New Delhi inherited the brutal colonial policies of Britain and pursues regional hegemony at the sacrifice of tiny Himalayan nations," it continued. "New Delhi's regional hegemony is swelling to a tipping point. The country has to pay for its provocations."

"The world should pay attention to New Delhi's bullying of tiny Himalayan countries. The international community must be aware of Bhutan's dilemma and prevent India from oppressing this small kingdom." "China should lead the international community in restoring Bhutan's diplomatic and defence sovereignty. Unfair treaties between India and Bhutan that severely violate the will of the Bhutanese people should be abolished. China needs to

Flood situation remains unchanged in Assam, CM holds review meeting guwAhAti, july 6 (iAnS): The flood situation in Assam remained unchanged on Thursday with close to four lakh people still affected in 15 districts of the state. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday reviewed the flood situation and directed Revenue and Disaster Management Department and district administrations to reach out to the affected people and step up relief and rescue operations across the state.

He also asked the MPs and MLAs to remain in their constituencies and supervise rescue and relief operations. The Chief Minister also took stock of the prevailing situation and directed district administrations to provide relief materials including pure drinking water, medical facilities and security to the camp inmates.

He also asked Revenue and Disaster Management Department to disburse an ex-gratia relief to the next of the family members of those killed in the current spate of flood within 48 hours. Sonowal also asked Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department along with SDRF to undertake operations to rescue the marooned animals and provide fodder to cattle and the Agriculture Department to ensure supply of superior quality seeds to the farmers whose crops have been devastated in the flood. He also asked APDCL to see that no casualties take place due to electrocution. The current spell of flood affected 47 revenue circles and 857 revenue villages as well as 3,94,000 people necessitating the Government to open 128 relief camps. Flood have already damaged more than 16,000 hectare crop area while 19 people lost their lives due to rising water levels of the rivers like the Brahmaputra, Dikhow Dhansiri, Jia Bharali, Beki, and Kushiyara.

LOST NOTICE I, Rocky Thapa S/o Ram Bahadur Thapa am applying for duplicate copies of 1st to 6th Semester Admit Card bearing Roll No: 14SP170, D.O.B. : 23/10/1994 of Patkai Christian College as I have lost it.

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(Change of surname) Regd. No 1358/17 Date 05/07/2017 I, Smti. Easterine Kire D/o Joshua Kire aged about 58 years, presently residing of Upper Mid Lane Colony, Kohima District, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows:- 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India, belonging to Angami Naga, 2. That my correct and official name is Easterine Kire, 3. That however in my permanent Account number (PAN) card bearing No. AERP17996A and Indian Passport bearing No. M7069892 and my SBI passbook bearing A/c No. 10530545481 and also in my PhD degree certificate issued by the University of Pune my name has been entered/recorded as Easterine Iralu, 4. That I hereby declare that henceforth and herewith revoke my surname ‘Iralu’ and use ‘Kire’ for all future references and correspondences, 5. That the above referred names Easterine Kire and Easterine Iralu are one and the same person, that is myself, 6. That henceforth I shall be name/known/called/ referred as Easterine Kire for all my official purposes, future references and correspondences, 7. That this affidavit shall be used as a piece of evidence of the fact and proof as mentioned above and also to be used for any rectication if arises in future.

Deponent Solemnly declared before me by the deponent on this day the 5th July, 2017.

Notary Public, Kohima: Nagaland

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No: 969/17 Date: 06/07/2017 I, Shri. IMLIWATI AO S/O IMTIYANGER permanent resident of Sungratsü Village, Mokokchung and presently residing at Police Reserve, Dist. Zunheboto, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as under:- 1. That my name is inadvertently recorded as WATI AO in my SBI Passbook bearing A/C No. 11736665232. But my actual name is IMLIWATI AO which is recorded in all other official documents. 2. That the above mentioned names WATI AO and IMLIWATI AO are one and same person which is referred to me. 3. That, from the date of this declaration, my name shall be used by the name as IMLIWATI AO for all official purpose and legal proceedings and at all times and occasions.

Deponent

Solemnly affirm and declared before me by the deponent

1st Class Magistrate, Zunheboto: Nagaland

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No: 973/17

Date: 06/07/2017

I, Shri. A. VISHIHO SUMI S/o LATE AKHAKHU SUMI permanent and presently residing at DC HILL COLONY, Dist. Zunheboto, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as under:- 1. That my name is inadvertently recorded as A. Vishiho in my SBI Passbook bearing A/C No. 30403572456, Visheho Awomi in my Pan Card bearing No. BKSPA5909F, A. Vishiho Awomi in my AADHAAR Card bearing No. 8694 8114 7943, but my actual name is A. Vishiho Sumi which is recorded in my service book and all other official documents. 2. That the above mentioned names A. Vishiho, Visheho Awomi, A. Vishiho Awomi and A. Vishiho Sumi are one and same person which is referred to me. 3. That, from the date of this declaration, my name shall be used by the name as A. VISHIHO SUMI for all official purpose and legal proceedings and at all times and occasions.

Deponent

Solemnly affirm and declared before me by the deponent

1st Class Magistrate, Zunheboto: Nagaland

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No.: 23/17

Date: 6/07/2017

I, Smti. VIKALI SEMA D/o KHEKUTO permanent resident of LITSA VILLAGE and presently residing at Thilixu Village under Dimapur district, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly swear an oath and declare as under: 1. That my actual name is VIKALI SEMA which is recorded in my appointment order. 2. That due to ignorance and technical mistake, my name is inadvertently entered and recorded as VIKALI CHISHI in my SBI Bank A/c No. bearing account No.11736641302 and K VIKALI SEMA in my Pan Card. 3. That the above mentioned names VIKALI SEMA, K VIKALI SEMA and VIKALI CHISHI refers to one and the same person and i.e. me. 4. That through this declaration I shall rectify the use of my name as VIKALI SEMA for all official and legal process and in all proceeding.

Deponent

Solemnly affirm and declared before me by the deponent

1 Class Magistrate, Zunheboto: Nagaland st

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put more efforts into establishing diplomatic ties with Bhutan at an earlier date as well."

"In the past, China was wary of India playing the Dalai Lama card, but this card is already overplayed and will exert no additional effect on the Tibet question. But if Beijing adjusts its stance on India-sensitive issues, it could be a powerful card to deal with New Delhi." "The Sino-Indian relationship is complicated. Beijing is more powerful yet unwilling to face a confrontation with New Delhi. But meanwhile, we must have enough tools to deter India from provocations."

The editorial comes a day after Beijing accused India of "misleading" its public about the proximity of Doklam to India. The Foreign Ministry maintained that Doklam, which the Chinese refer to as Donglong, is not at the tri-junction of India, China and Bhutan as claimed by New Delhi. China has also said that the present stand-off could hit border talks with India.

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I, No 14832525P Sep IMT Binay Kumar Binni, husband of Monika Kumari, resident of Gram-Daniyapur Post-Parsando Ps Haveli Kharagpur, Kharagpur, Munger, Haveli Kharagpur, Bihar, Present address C/o 99 APO 5003 ASC Bn MT Rangapahar905003. Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows:1. That, I am citizen of India. That, my wife correct name is Monika Kumari, 2. That, my wife name is recorded as Mona Sharma, in my marriage details due to inadvertent clerical mistakes in place of my wife actual and correct name Monika Kumari, 3. That, Monika Kumari, and Mona Sharma, is the same and one identical person. 4. That I swear this affidavit only to declare that my wife correct name is Monika Kumari, if any false information given by me mentioned above then I shall be fully liable.

Verification: - that I verify that the above statements made in para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Solemnly Sworn Before Me Chief Judicial Magistrate/Notary Public Nagaland

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I, Shri. NIHOTO K, Son of Late. Kiyevi, resident of House No.180/7, Ward No.1, NST Colony, Dimapur, in the district of Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly declare on oath as under: 1. That my name has been entered/recorded as Nihoto K in my Service Book and Aadhaar, whereas in some of my documents my name has been recorded as Nihoto K. Yeptho in my Permanent Account Number AOLPY2170G and Nihoto K. Yepthomi in my SBI, Savings Bank Account bearing A/C. No.30402731907, CIF No.85250411626.

2. That the names Nihoto K, Nihoto K. Yeptho and Nihoto K. Yepthomi are one and the same persons having single identity.

3. That this affidavit shall be used as a piece of documentary evidence and shall produce before any competent authority as and when required.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent Notary Public, Dimapur: Nagaland

Regd. No.: 576

CORRECTION OF NAME

Dated: 1/07/2017

I, SHRI. CHEWEPE AKAMI, S/o. SHRI KEWENGULO AKAMI, serving as Driver under Deputy Commissioner Office, Phek and a resident of Hebron-I Colony, Phek Town, District Phek: Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirmed and declare as follows:1. That my name was inadvertently entered as CHEWEPE in my Appointment Order.

2. That, my name was inadvertently entered as CHEWEPE KANUOH and my father's name was also inadvertently entered as KEWENGULO KANUOH in my Service Book. Whereas my correct name is CHEWEPE AKAMI and my father's correct name is KEWENGULO AKAMI per my documents.

3. That CHEWEPE AKAMI, CHEWEPE and CHEWEPE KANUOH refers to one and the same person and my father KEWENGULO AKAMI and KEWENGULO KANUOH also refers to one and the same person.

4. That, henceforth, my name CHEWEPE AKAMI and my father's name KEWENGULO AKAMI will be used for all Official and Legal purposes. The statements made by me are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing material is concealed.

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Aadhaar gets praise at global forum for financial inclusion Hamburg, July 6 (PTI): As the world debates use of big data and analytics to improve financial inclusion, India’s Aadhaar system has come in for praise by a global body on financial reforms for expanding banking reach and lesser use of cash.

In a progress report on efforts to assess and address decline in correspondent banking, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) said its action plan in this regard is making good progress but the fall in numbers is continuing.

“A decline in the number of correspondent banking relationships remains a source of concern for the international community,” it said, while flagging issues like problems in international payments and some payment flows being driven underground.

This may have adverse consequences for financial inclusion, as well as the stability and integrity of the financial system, it added.

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• Once the UIDAI software has verified your • Once on the page, under the ‘Aadhaar OnOTP, you will receive your Aadhaar numThe FSB has submitted its action plan in this regard to the G20 Summit, which begins here tomorrow and is being attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the leaders of the world’s other largest economies.

The FSB has been established to coordinate at the international level the work of national finan-

cial authorities and global standard-setting bodies in order to develop and promote the implementation of effective regulatory, supervisory and other financial sector policies.

It has established a Correspondent Banking Coordination Group (CBCG) to coordinate and maintain impetus in the implementation of the action plan.

On potential applications of financial technologies, the FSB said the CBCG had an initial discussion on whether advances in big data and analytics might be usefully combined with KYC utilities, better information in payment messages and the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) to facilitate due diligence on correspondent

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“Biometric technology and centralised databases have begun to be used as a means of verifying customers’ identities in some jurisdictions such as India, to support financial inclusion and thereby a lesser use of cash.

“This in turn could help address some of the issues

faced by remittances,” it added.

The FSB further said financial technologies can also facilitate secure sharing of information between financial institutions, while striking the right balance between supporting innovation and managing any ML/TF (money laundering/terror financing) risks that may arise.

Here comes a cellphone that works without batteries Nissan India cars get 3% waSHIngTon, July 6 (IanS): In a major leap ahead to life beyond chargers, cords and dying phones, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have invented a cellphone that works without batteries.

Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light.

The team also made Skype calls using its battery-free phone, demonstrating that the prototype made of commercial, off-the-shelf components can receive and transmit speech and communicate with a base station, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

“We’ve built what we believe is the first functioning cellphone that consumes almost zero power,” said study co-author Shyam Gollakota, Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

“To achieve the really, re-

ally low power consumption that you need to run a phone by harvesting energy from the environment, we had to fundamentally rethink how these devices are designed,” Gollakota added.

The researchers explained that the battery-free cellphone takes advantage of tiny vibrations in a phone’s microphone or speaker that occur when a person is talking into a phone or listening to a call.

An antenna connected to those components converts that motion into changes in standard analog radio signal emitted by a cellular base station.

This process essentially encodes speech patterns in reflected radio signals in a way that uses almost no power.

To transmit speech, the phone uses vibrations from the device’s microphone to encode speech patterns in the reflected signals.

To receive speech, it converts encoded radio signals into sound vibrations that that are picked up by the phone’s

speaker.

The team designed a custom base station to transmit and receive the radio signals.

In the prototype device, the user presses a button to switch between these two “transmitting” and “listening” modes.

Using off-the-shelf components on a printed circuit board, the team demonstrated that the prototype can perform basic phone functions -- transmitting speech and data and receiving user input via buttons.

Using Skype, researchers were able to receive incoming calls, dial out and place callers on hold with the battery-free phone, the study said.

“The cellphone is the device we depend on most today. So if there were one device you’d want to be able to use without batteries, it is the cellphone,” said Joshua Smith, Professor at University of Washington.

“The proof of concept we’ve developed is exciting today, and we think it could impact everyday devices in the future,” Smith added.

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Ex-showroom prices of the company’s products have been reduced by an average of 3 per cent, depending on city and model specification, Nissan Motor India said in a statement.

“The implementation of the GST is a positive move for both automobile manufacturers and customers. We are happy to pass on the benefits to our customers for a more attractive value proposition,” Nissan Motor India MD Arun Malhotra said.

The company sells a range of vehicles under Nissan and Datsun brands, ranging from hatchback Redi Go to SUV Terrano, in Indian market.

Yesterday, Tata Motors and Renault had announced reduction in prices. Companies like Mahindra & Mahindra Honda Cars India, Ford, Maruti Suzuki, Toyota Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi have already reduced prices to pass on the GST benefits.

Even two-wheeler makers like TVS Motor Company, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Royal Enfield, Yamaha and Suzuki Motorcycle have cut prices.

Apple unveils sixth beta versions of iOS, mac-OS Sierra San FrancISco, July 6 (IanS): A week after the last set of releases, Apple has launched the sixth beta versions of iOS 10.3.3 and mac-OS 10.12.6 for testing by developers.

The updates are intended for maintenance, bug fixes and security enhancements, said a report on appleinsider on Thursday.

The current iOS 10.3.3 beta is either build number “14G57” or “14G58” while the mac-OS current Sierra 10.12.6 build is “16G24b”.

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Wildlife Range in Wokha soon Wokha, July 6 (MExN): A Wildlife Range in Wokha would be created soon, a state government informed recently.

Speaking on behalf of Government of Nagaland, Imtienla Ao, Secretary, Forest Department disclosed this while discussing the financial condition of the Government and budget allocation to the Forest Department during ‘HumanElephant (Wild Animal) Conflict Mitigation’ awareness campaign on July 4.

It was organised by at Hammock Resort, Wokha Town by the Forest Department, Government of Nagaland with sponsorship of the MoEF & CC, Government of India on July 4.

Around 150 people, officers from the district administration, police, forest department, veterinary and animal husbandry department, chairmen and members of village councils of villages affected with Human-Elephant conflict

from Wokha-Zunheboto district participated in the programme.

RK Srivastava, Inspector General of Forest and Director, Project Elephant, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India who was the chief guest stated in his address that both the Government of India and Government of Nagaland are well aware and concerned with the protracted problem of Human-Elephant prevalent in the region. He disclosed that the Ministry will extend all possible assistance to address the issue by paying compensation and exgratia to the affected and for creation of elephant based community reserves.

While appealing the villagers not to harm elephants, he suggested following adoptive cropping pattern, insuring their domestic cattle in consultation with the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department for getting

ANHTU urges DDOs DiMaPuR, July 6 (MExN): While the Government of Nagaland has already released the salary of CSS Hindi Teacher for 5(five) months i.e., October 2016 to February 2017, some DDOs is yet to release the salaries. Information are being received from the District Unit that some of the DDOs have not paid the salary for the said months, the All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union stated in a press note. In this regard, ANHTU urged the concern DDOs to release the salary of the CSS Hindi Teachers at the earliest.

Methang Konyak appointed as Personal Secretary DiMaPuR, July 6 (MExN): The NSCN (K) President Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Khango Konyak has appointed Methang Konyak, a Central Council Member as the Personal Secretary to the President with immediate effect. The Personal Secretary will handle any personal or official correspondence to the President, a NSCN (K) MIP release informed.

NSSATA elects new officials DiMaPuR, July 6 (MExN): The Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) has elected its new officials for the tenure 2017-2019 during a General Executive Meeting cum Election held at Ungma Kiti Hall, Old Ministers’ Hill Kohima, on the July 6. According to a NSSATA press note, the new team will be headed by Penthungo Y. Yanthan as President; Neipusa as General Secretary. The association has also elected Kilangla Ajem as its Spokesperson. Another 18 other officials and 11District Representatives were also appointed during the meeting.

compensation against killing by wild elephants, show solidarity in elephant conservation and develop affected areas as tourist centres in the same pattern of protection of Amur falcons.

He requested the Forest Department, Government of Nagaland to strengthen the Wildlife Wing and create Wildlife Range at Wokha. He also suggested the Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland to pursue with the concerned authorities for possible infrastructural funding for the Wildlife Wing with the North East Council, Ministry for Development of the NorthEast Region, Government of India, New Delhi under Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources scheme.

Satya Prakash Tripathi, Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland, in his keynote address highlighted the policies of the State Government and the MoEF & CC, GoI, New Delhi for addressing the problem. He made

power point presentation, highlighting history, extent, assessment and payment of compensation/possible solution to the problem.

He appealed to the people for protection of forest and wildlife and contact forest officials in case of damage of their crop/ properties/ human life. He also presented on the status of community reserves in the state of Nagaland.

Power point presentation on different aspects of Human-Animal conflict was made by Meyipokyim, IFS, APCCF (Territorial).

Supongnukshi, CCF (EBR) made power point presentation on distribution of wild elephants in the region and also on possibility of opening blocked elephant corridors, connecting Assam and Nagaland.

Satyendra Singh, Director, Kaziranga National Park and representative of the Government of Assam, deliberated on possible adoption and mitigation of the

SDEOs, SCERT asked to prepare for board exams DiMaPuR, July 6 (MExN): In pursuance the April 4 decision by State level Education Committee to re-introduced broad Examination in schools, the Principal Director, School Education, Smita Sarangi

Parliamentary Secretary BS Nganlang addressing the Longleng DPDB meeting held on July 6 at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner. (DIPR Photo)

Supporting the Phom Peoples’ Council requesting the DPDB members for voluntary donation for renovation of Changtongya and Longleng road which is in a deplorable condition threatening the lives of the travelers and passengers, Nganlang enumerated the steps taken by the DPDB in the previous years for improvement of the road.

He asserted that many lives were lost and caused problems to the people due to depilating condition of this road and appealed to the members, NGOs, individual and other agencies of the district to volunteer their contribution. He expressed his view to file PIL, not against anyone but to compensate the road accident victims. He donated fifty thousand rupees for reno-

vation of this road and urged to utilize the donated fund judiciously for the purpose.

Briefing on Municipal Elections, he pointed out that the municipal election has resulted to untoward incident in the state. He said the Government has accepted the appeal of the NGOs and is trying to review the Nagaland Municipal Act as desired by the people of the state.

Citing that posting in Longleng should not be considered as a punishment the Chairman exhorted the Officers to consider posting to the district as a challenge and a blessing, and cater to the needs of the people. He advised the members to continue with the task of providing better service to the people and change the scenar-

io of the district and to attend the important official meeting compulsorily without deputing their subordinate officers.

He also urged the officers to utilize the Chopper service available in the district which is cheaply available on passenger’s basis.

While reviewing the previous agenda for creation of EAC Head quarter at Namching and up-gradation of EAC Headquarter, Yongnyah to SDO (C) post, Nganlang urged the respective administrative officers to arrange the particulars to fulfill the criteria and submit to the DPDB at the earliest for onward submission to the Government for approval.

The board approved the LADP schemes for the current year 2017-18 for two Assembly constituencies. The DPDB members also voluntarily donated cash according to the sizes and resources of the department.

ADC Longleng Temsu Wati urged the HoDs to submit the shortfall of officers and staffs in their respective department to the district administration for necessary arrangement for the forth coming general election. He also asked the PPC to report the progress of the road renovation in the next DPDB.

Bade village to be Assam Rilfes to conduct adopted as SAGY’s free coaching for army rally Model Village

Usütomi Students’ Union on a two day tour on July 3 and 4under the theme “Reach out” distributed stationeries to Primary and Middle School students at Usütomi Village. Coinciding with this tour the Union also planted around seven hundred tree saplings in an around the village. District Project Officer LRD Zunheboto provided the saplings and also Usütomi Union Dimapur and its members extended financial support to the Union.

Garo Students’ Union Nagaland Zone office bearers and others during the meeting held for reshuffling and induction of members on July 2 at the residence of Cliff Sangma, Eralibill Village, Dimapur. The new team will be led by Cliff Sangma- President; Sharmila Sangma-General Secretary; and Nijoy Momin-Information and Publicity Secretary among others.

A team of 17 youth members from the Kuki Baptist Youth Endeavour, Kohima as their annual Samaritan Mission outreach programme paid a visit to Yettrang Academy, a combined ministry of the Kuki Baptist Association and Korean future movement: Jesus Mission South Korea, at Ahthibung town on July 1. Established in 2017 with the aim to cater the needs of vast number of students from diverse background with the motto ‘Truth, Liberty, Love.’

Currently two of the teaching faculties are deployed by NBCC.

DiMaPuR, July 6 (MExN): The Nagaland Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) KG Kenye will be launching the adoption of Bade Village as Model Village under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) on July 8. It will be launched in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur and the State Nodal Officer, SAGY (Nagaland) at the Community Hall, Bade Village under Dhansiripar Block, Dimapur at 11AM. In view of that, the Government Officials, Public Leaders and well wishers are invited to grace the launching programme.

DiMaPuR, July 6 (MExN): The 32 Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters IGAR (N) will be conducting free coaching classes for CEE-2017 (Common Entrance Examination for soldier clerk, soldier general duty and soldier trade man) at Kashiram Basti, Dimapur from June 28 to July 29.

All together 22 youth will be attend the coaching, informed a press note from AR. The aim of the event is to enhance knowledge of the candidates to clear the exams, and to spread awareness amongst youth about a career in armed forces and other government jobs, it added.

Govt appoints monitors to oversee GSTs implementation in North East Rupinder Singh, Deputy Director General, UIDAI is in-charge of Nagaland NEW DElhi, July 6 (PTi): Senior IAS officers working with the Centre were today appointed as monitors to oversee the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in north eastern states.

Nikunj Kumar Srivastava and Vijayendra have been allocated various districts of Assam. Srivastava is working in the Commerce Ministry and Vijayendra with the Department of Defence Production here.

Manish Thakur, Joint Secretary in the Defence Ministry, has been put in charge of 11 districts of

take necessary action for timely conduct of the exams accordingly from this year.

For this academic year 2017, the broad exam will be conducted for the Government schools only, the notification added.

elephant problem, pros and cons of opening blocked elephant corridors, between Assam and Nagaland.

Dr C. Murry, former Minister appreciated the efforts of the department and appealed to the Department to provide sufficient elephants repellent materials. The ADC, Wokha spoke on the role played by the district administration in addressing the issue. Additional SP, Wokha spoke on the role of the Police Department in curbing wildlife crime and requested the Forest Department for trainings the police personnel on Wildlife Acts. There was good number of speakers from public who highlighted the problem caused by wild elephants.

Interaction was held where questions raised by the public were responded by the department officials followed by a demonstration on elephant repellents The Angami Sports Association (ASA) planted about 300 green plants at ASA Park, from the Wildlife Crime Phoolbari Y junction, Kohima under the theme ‘Go Green’ on July 5 with T. Husie LhouControl Branch, Dimapur. sa, DFO Social Forestry, Kohima as a special guest.

DPDB meet discusses Changtongya & Longleng road

loNglENg, July 6 (DiPR): The Longleng DPDB meeting was held under the chairmanship of Parliamentary Secretary Land Resource & Excise and Chairman DPDB, Longleng BS Nganlang on July 6 at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner.

Phom Peoples’ Council (PPC) president, Chingan appraised the house regarding deplorable road condition between Longleng and Changtongya. He informed that PPC is initiating renovation of this road starting from July 8 and urged the members for donation. He also added about the previous renovation work done voluntarily by the Drivers Union and Chamber of Commerce and contribution by the DPDB members in 2016.

IAS today notified that the exams will be conducted by respective SDEOs for Class IV level and by SCERT for Class VIII. In this connection, all the concerned SDEOs and Directorate of SCERT to

Arunachal Pradesh, according to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).

Senior bureaucrats Santosh Kumar Mall and Bharat Harbanslal Khera have been given the charge of select districts of Tripura and Mizoram respectively.

Rupinder Singh, Deputy Director General, UIDAI, New Delhi and K Moses Chalai, joint secretary in the ministry of women and child development have been allocated districts of Manipur and Nagaland respectively.

These officers will monitor the implementation of GST including registration of traders in the allocated districts.

They will obtain feedback from consumer associations, individual consumers, business associations,

district administration etc. on a daily basis.

The officers will also activate and utilise channels of feedback such as call centres, web portals, video conferences, social media etc.

The senior officers will monitor calibration of billing software by traders, with special focus on accounting and billing systems of public sector undertakings.

They will have to monitor availability of essential commodities and retail price trends. Specific instances of price rises have to be reported in real time to consumer affairs and revenue departments.

The officers have been asked to report sector-specific tax rate related issues to the revenue department.

Meetings & AppointMents DAN meeting The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) will convene for a meeting at IMC Hall, Dimapur, 4PM onwards on July 7. The Chairman, DAN has requested all the Legislators to attend the Meeting positively.

DUCCF emergency meet DUCCF has convened an emergency general meeting on July 8 at Forest Colony Council Hall from 3:30PM. All the Chairmen are requested to attend positively.

LDP emergency meeting The Liberal Democratic Party Nagaland will convey an emergency meeting on July 8 in the premise of its party president, at 5th mile, Unity Village Dimapur. All the members are requested to attend the meeting.

LAS Wokha alumni Meeting Little Angels School (LAS) Wokha has informed its alumni that there will be a general meeting July 8, 10:30AM in the School Campus. All alumni are requested to attend the meeting positively.

SDPDB Noklak meet rescheduled ADC, Noklak, Thsuvisie Phoji has informed that the SDPDB meeting for the month of July has been rescheduled to July 10. All the members have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

Phek DPDB meeting postponed The Deputy Commissioner & Vice-Chairman, DPDB, Phek, Kovi Meyase, NCS has informed that the monthly meeting of DPDB, Phek for the month of July has been postponed to July 12 at the same venue and time as notified earlier. All the members have been requested to note the change and attend the meeting without fail.

DC Zunheboto convenes meeting Deputy Commissioner of Zunheboto, T Roy has informed all officials and school representatives that there will be a meeting at the DC's conference hall, Zunheboto on July 11, 11 AM after the DPDB meeting to chalk out the programme for Independence Day 2017 celebration. All HODs, Commandant 5thAR, Commandant 8th NAP, Commandant 111BN BSF, Satakha, President Sumi Hoho, Chairman Zunheboto Town GBs Association, President STH, President SKK, Principals and Headmasters of colleges and schools, all sector GBs, Zunheboto, PA to DC, Head DB, Zila Sainik Welfare Officer, Zunheboto and President of NCC, Zunheboto unit have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

CSU executive council meeting The Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) will have its Executive Council Meeting on July 13, 2 PM at its office headquarters, Phek. Therefore, CSU president, Dode Nakro in a press release has asked all the executives to attend the meeting. The union also invited the tribunals and seniors to the meeting.

ZSUN presidential council meeting Zeliangrong Students' Union Nagaland (ZSUN) has convened its first Presidential Council meeting for the tenure 2017-19 on July 14, 11 AM at Town Hall, Peren.

All the executives, president of its federating units, exofficial and well wishers have been informed to attend the meeting positively.

Tuensang DPDB meeting The Tuensang District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) monthly meeting for the month of July will be held on July 14, 11 AM at Deputy Commissioner’s conference hall, Tuensang. Therefore, all the DPDB members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

CSU assembly All the units and sub-ordinate bodies of the Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) have been informed that the 4th Union Assembly for the tenure 2016-18 will be held on July 15, 11 AM at Pholami village, to be hosted by the Pholami Students’ Union. The Assembly Affairs of the Union has requested all the units and sub-ordinate bodies to positively send their representatives to the Assembly without fail.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

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The Morung Express

Azza Karam Inter Press Service

Has Religion become the New Colonial ‘Change attitude’ Frontier in International Development? volume XII Issue 184

By Witoubou Newmai

to fight corruption

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t is imperative for Naga society to introspect whether or not the public discourse is talking about corruption with abhorrence. Today, the practice of corruption in Naga society has gone up to the ‘next level’ in spite of the issue being the focus of many household discussions.

When it comes to tackling an issue like corruption, realizing and understanding the society’s position of its collective attitude, as well as, the depth and breadth of the moral vacuum are necessary. This is important because, as long as the collective attitude of the engaging society is indifferent towards such sordid indulgences, there cannot be talks of the issue with abhorrence towards corrupt practices. It is very important for the society to change its collective attitude towards corrupt practices if it is to engage in a genuine and effective fight against corruption.

The morality level of a society grounded in the lowest ebb engaging with an issue like corruption is something akin to attempting to grab a giraffe’s neck by a crawling child. So, campaigns against corruption cannot be effective as long as the moral vacuum is left unaddressed. It is high time for ‘concerned’ people to take this perspective seriously.

As commented earlier in this column, there are no quick fixes or smart strategies to address the challenge of corrupt practices and hypocrisy. The Naga tragedy is that, our present society considers slogans such as ‘Moral Soundness’ as another clichéd campaign since such slogans no longer stimulate the public mind. The society’s sense and loss of understanding to distinguish between morality and ‘otherwise’ is also responsible for this grim trend, thereby, making the campaign lay inert.

Sadly, such is the degree of moral crisis where our society is not in a position to appreciate someone’s progress propelled by talent and sheer hard work. Or for that matter, instead of raising eye brows in disapproval to the exploits of the powers that be, our society rushes to applaud them. In so doing, a sort of an aura around the corrupt is created.

It is high time our society realizes that, unlike other issues, the collective attitude of a society is indissolubly linked with the effectiveness of public campaigns on issues such as corruption. When the attitudes of people towards corrupt practices begin to change, then, they become more conscious of the consequences of corruption. Hence, the case for supporting campaigns against corruption will become compelling to them.

The Naga dilemma is that, ‘a blind leading another blind’ narrative is now defining our sorry story. If the collective attitude is indifferent towards corrupt practices, then, where will the required stimuli come from? This is the pertinent question today.

This situation demands for stimulating concerted discourses on how to correct our attitude towards corrupt practices and should be initiated as part of the ground laying measures to fight corruption. This suggestion, however, does not mean to say that the ‘conventional’ or ‘traditional’ measures to deal corruption should be smothered.

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Tharanga Yakupitiyage Inter Press Service

Progress on World Hunger Has Reversed

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orld hunger has increased, reversing years of progress, said a UN specialised agency.

During its biennial conference held in Rome, Italy from 3-8 July, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) noted that the world is facing it’s worst food crisis since World War II. “I wish I could announce here today some good news regarding the global fight against hunger…but, unfortunately, it is not the case,” said FAO’s Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva to member states at the opening of the meeting.

FAO has identified 19 countries facing severe food crises due to a combination of conflict and climate change including South Sudan, Northeast Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen where nearly 20 million are affected.

Though South Sudan recently declared that it no longer has areas in famine, millions are still on the brink of starvation as violence and insecurity ensues.

In fact, almost 60 percent of hungry people around the world live in areas affected by conflicts and climate change.

With no relief to be seen, many turn to migration, contributing to the doubling of global displacement, said Graziano da Silva.

The concerning trends comes just two years after the adoption the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals which includes targets to eradicate hunger by 2030.

“Strong political commitment to eradicate hunger is fundamental, but it is not enough. Hunger will only be defeated if countries translate their pledges into concrete action, especially at national and local levels,” said Graziano da Silva.

Though peace is important to end these crises, the international community cannot wait for peace in order to take action, he added.

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni similarly called for “renewed and extraordinary efforts” during a keynote address, particularly pointing to the influx of migrants into the European Union (EU) country’s shores.

Italy is one of the major destinations for migrants who embark on dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean sea.

In the first six months of 2017, Italy has taken in over 82,000 migrants. In the past week alone, more than 10,000 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded, unstable boats by the country’s coastguard.

Overwhelmed by the numbers, the country has threatened to close their ports to rescue ships unless other EU countries share responsibility and help take in migrants. However, responding to emergencies alone will not be sufficient.

“To save lives, we have to save their livelihoods. We cannot save people and put them in camps,” said Graziano da Silva.

FAO has highlighted the importance of work around climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable agricultural production, migration, and support of conflict-affected rural livelihoods among its key priorities.

“There is no peace without sustainable development, and there is no sustainable development without peace. Vulnerable people, rural people cannot be left behind…we have to build the conditions for them to thrive, for them to have hope, for them to exercise their human right to food,” Graziano da Silva concluded.

Around 1000 participants are expected to attend the 40th session of FAO’s conference, including a 176 member delegation. Participants will address pressing policy issues related to global food security and will review and vote on FAO Director-General’s proposed program of work and budget for 2018-2019.

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decade ago, it was difficult to get Western policy makers in governments to be interested in the role of religious organizations in human development. The secular mindset was such that religion was perceived, at best, as a private affair. At worst, religion was deemed the cause of harmful social practices, an obstacle to the “sacred” nature of universal human rights, and/or the root cause of terrorism. In short, religion belonged in the ‘basket of deplorables’.

Yet, starting in the mid-1990s with then President of the World Bank, James Wolfenson, and celebrated in 2000 under then UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan when the Millenium Development Goals were agreed to, a number of religiously-inspired initiatives coalesced, all trying to move ‘religion’ to international development’s ‘basket of desirables’.

The arguments used to begin to generate positive interest in the role of religious NGOs in international multilateral fora were relatively straightforward. Today they are almost a cliche: religious institutions are the oldest social service providers known to human kind, and several basic health and educational institutions of today, are administered or influenced to some extent, by religious entities.

So if we are serious about strengthening health systems and universal access to healthcare, enhancing educational institutions, content and accessibility, protecting our environment, safeguarding the rights of marginlised and vulnerable populations, countering social exclusion and ensuring human dignity, then – the argument is – we have to work with those who influence minds, hearts, and continue to provide and manage significant amounts of social services in most countries. Facts and figures as to how many social services are provided by/through religious institutions continue to be provided and roundly disputed.

The number of initiatives within the secular multilaterals – like the UN – which focused on ‘religion and development’ began to slowly attract the attention (and the money) of some western donor governments such as Switzerland and Norway, both of whom were keen on mobilising religious support for women’s rights in particular. Some governments (such as the USA and the UK) dabbled in engaging with religious NGOs both at home in their own countries, and supporting some of them in their development and humanitarian work abroad.

Nevertheless, from a multilateral perspective, the larger tapestry of western donor support to efforts around religion, tended to be marginal – dipping toes in the water rather than taking a plunge.

With the increasing presence of al-Qaeda on the world stage in 2001, and the subsequent war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world witnessed the emerging gruesome hydras of religious extremism, at once fueling, and being fueled by, the phenomena of ultra nationalism, racism, xenophobia and misogyny.

Some western governments spoke openly of engaging religious actors in counter-terrorism, but this narrative was fraught with political tensions.

It was only when migrants appeared to ‘flood’ European shores (albeit in numbers which are only a fraction of those ending up in developing countries), that there was a noticeable surge of keen interest by several western governments in ‘this religion thing’.

For the UN developmental entities who had invested significantly to generate the interest of their largest western donors in the relevance of religions to development, spurred by the learning from the MDGs and with a view to realizing Agenda 2030, there was a noticeable volte face which was taking

place right under their noses.

Almost overnight, UN-steered initiatives to engage with religious actors and enhance partnerships around health, education, environment, women’s rights, humanitarian work, all of which had been painstakingly prepared and backed by years of research, consultations, networking and shared practice (as the work of the UN Interagency Task Force on Religion and Development testifies) became the object of desire by some governments.

Rather than seek to support the UN in continuing to engage with this work and the critical partnerships developed and labored over for years, however, the objective of these governments is to seek to directly manage the convening, networking and funding roles of faith-based entities, ostensibly with the same objectives of achieving the SDGs. But there is a critical difference between the UN convening and working with faith-based organizations and religious leaders, and one or a handful of governments doing so. To survive, to thrive, and to protect human rights, the agenda of multilateral entities has to remain distinct from the national selfinterest of any one government – or a handful thereof – no matter how powerful this government (or these governments), may be.

This applies to all issues, constituencies and types of partnerships outlined in SDG 17. But the argument here is even more powerful: that where religions are concerned, the need for unbiased and non-partisan engagement with religious actors, distinct from any one nation’s self-interest, is crucial.

If there is suspicion about the role of a non-western government in supporting religious actors in countries outside of its own, then why do we not also suspect western governments of involving themselves in supporting religious efforts in countries

other than their own?

This question becomes especially pertinent when we begin to look at the religious composition of the western governments now keen on ‘supporting religion and development’ abroad – they are mostly Christian. And if we look at the governments viewed with much suspicion who have long been supporting religious engagement overseas (also for development and humanitarian purposes, one might add), they tend to be Muslim. A coincidence perhaps?

To avoid these kinds of questions, it would behoove all concerned parties interested in achieving the significant targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, and with a view to endorsing the United Nations’ mandate of safeguarding peace and security and protecting human rights, to support the efforts of the UN system in engaging the whole of civil society.

Rather than efforts driven by some governments, to work with select religious actors, in some countries, the challenge (which is fully achievable) is to strengthen the multi-faith and broad-based civic coalitions of legally registered, bona fide NGOs, working with and known to their governments and to the UN entities, at national, regional and global levels, to deliver for the world.

Otherwise, the danger is that such efforts will be misconstrued as the new colonial enterprise in international development, playing into rising religious tensions globally. History is replete with examples where mobilizing religious actors in other countries, no matter how well-intentioned, can create some rather unholy alliances.

Azza Karam is Senior Advisor, UNFPA and Coordinator, UN Interagency Task Force on Religion and Development

Time Stands Still for Nepal’s Conflict Victims marty logan

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econstruction and reconciliation require finances and physical structure, but the families of the victims of the conflict first and foremost need their integrity protected. Physical and financial compensation mean little without justice,” wrote Suman Adhikari nearly 11 years ago, during a ceasefire in Nepal’s Maoist insurgency.

The conflict ended later that year, leaving 17,000 dead over a decade, including Adhikari’s father. A teacher and headmaster in Lamjung district, he and his fellow teachers in January 2002 refused Maoist demands to hand over 25 percent of their salaries. Days later, cadres seized him as he was teaching a Grade 10 class, bound his hands and legs, and dragged the man out of the school to a forest, where he was stabbed in the stomach and shot in the head. His body was left tied to a tree.

Soon after, Suman returned to the capital Kathmandu, where he began talking to other conflict victims about their own horrible experiences.

They met with civil society organisations and political leaders, created an organisation and submitted their demands to political leaders then crafting the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).

Today, as chairperson of the Conflict Victims Common Platform, Suman finds himself repeating many of the same requests.

One of the Common Platform’s main demands is that the government provide needs-based compensation

to victims. The state has paid most of them Rs 500,000 (4,834 US dollars) as interim relief since the conflict ended but Adhikari says one-off payments can’t replace many of the breadwinners who families lost; without them, many are still struggling to find sufficient work or pay school fees.

“Many victims have been unable to get on with their lives. They are frustrated and suffer from psychological trauma,” he says.

While society moves on, with, for example, the political leader who was prime minister three times during the insurgency taking over as PM again last week from former Maoist supremo Prachanda, victims are being forgotten, Suman says.

“They still haven’t had the chance to speak of their pain properly, from the heart.”

A recent report found that victims have diverse demands for ‘truth’. Prepared by the Nepal office of the International Centre for Transitional Justice and local think-tank Martin Chautari from recent interviews with victims, it noted that many people needed closure and an end to their ambiguous losses. “Our people will come home today or tomorrow. We watch the roads,” said one woman in Bardiya, the district that had the most disappearances during the conflict.

Recognition is also a common wish, Aileen Thomson, head of ICTJ Nepal, told IPS. “They feel that the violation happened because of their membership in certain communities … a lot of times violations perpetrated by the

State were because of perceived associations with the Maoists, which was really tied to identity and community and where you lived.”

The survivors want society to know that their kin were innocent victims, caught in the crossfire, adds the report.

Just as victims’ demands varied, civil society also had different ideas about what transitional justice should achieve, says Mandira Sharma, cofounder of Advocacy Forum, an NGO that filed numerous court cases for conflict-era crimes. But those theoretical discussions were shelved when it became apparent that political leaders from both sides were hoping to use the process to avoid prosecutions, adds Sharma, who is now doing a PhD in human rights and law.

“We went to see the prime minister at that time, Girija Prasad Koirala, and he was very open and honest. He said ‘Look, I had concerns raised by the military, I had concerns raised by the Maoists, and I have assured them that nothing will happen to them… We have to turn now to development, and we have to forget what happened’.”

Instead, Advocacy Forum and other groups continued to take cases to court. After victims received their interim relief, “You could have closed the chapter forcing victims to be quiet with that, but that would have been temporary: this deep sense of injustice would have remained,” Sharma says.

“In that past that’s what we did (using commissions formed after earlier political milestones like Nepal’s return to democracy in 1990). That hasn’t

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helped us to heal, that hasn’t helped us to improve the justice system, to correct the sense that certain people are always above the law. And there’s a very deep sense of inequality in our system because of this. We identified this as something we had to fix.”

Today though, transitional justice appears at a near standstill. The government created truth and disappearances commissions in 2014, but the legislation was severely criticised on several fronts. The Supreme Court later struck down a provision that grants amnesty for serious human rights violations.

Human Rights lawyer Raju Chapagain says that while the laws creating the bodies must be amended, the truth commission could be making efforts to advance transitional justice, which would also help to diminish a strong sense of scepticism about the body.

“Nothing is preventing them inquiring into human rights violations. Commissions have powers equivalent to courts; they have adequate powers in terms of inquiries,” he says.

By taking action the commission could overcome its “credibility gap,” Chapagain adds, but it has failed to date, in part because it hasn’t engaged with victims.

The truth commission opened its office in Pokhara, west of Kathmandu, this week, one of seven regional centres, but Adhikari says the body still refuses to engage with victims.

“The commissions are not good, the appointments are political, the commissioners are new to this: they should at least have a willingness to learn and to collaborate – but they don’t listen to us.”

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Concept of Prevention, Control and Eradication of weed L.K. Baishya, I. Walling and D.J. Rajkhowa ICAR RC for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre

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eeds have been existing on the earth ever since man started domesticating/cultivating plants and animals around 10,000 B.C. Weeds have been recognized as a problem since then and the battle against weeds is a never ending one. Between humans and continuing food supply, there stand four natural hazards, e.g. weather, weeds, insect pests and plant diseases. Sometimes these hazards work independently and many times they work hand in hand. Weeds are the most underestimated crop pests in tropical agriculture although they cause maximum reduction/loss in the yields of crops than other pests and diseases. Of the total annual loss of agricultural produce from various pests in India, weeds roughly account for 37%, insects for 29%, diseases for 22% and other pests for 12% (Yaduraju, 2006). They decrease quantity and quality of produce/food, fibre, oil, forage/fodder, animal products (meat and milk) and cause health hazards for humans and animals. Thus weed control is indispensable in every crop production system.

1. Prevention of weed First prevention means stopping weeds from infesting an area. It advocates not permitting a weed alien to an area to enter into and infest that area. The area could be of any dimension, a block, a district, a state or a country. However, the success of weed prevention decreases vis-à-vis difficulty in achieving it increases if the size of area increases. In true sense, it was earlier intended towards prevention of exotic weeds. Secondly, in crop field situation, prevention highlights on the aspects how best the seed reservoir/bank could be exhausted, although complete exhaustion is a rare possibility. In this situation, preventing weeds to emerge from soil and grow vigorously and/or preventing existing weeds to come to seeds, tubers, rhizomes or other propagules for dissemination are considered to be preventive approaches. The weed control/management measure adopted the year before, in fact, may be a preventive approach for the coming year. Even certain cultural practices/methods such as stale seedbed; competitive crop and cultivar; time, method & rate of sowing; spacing; irrigation; time, method and rate of fertilization; intercropping; crop rotation; cover crops; etc have bearing towards reducing growth and seed production of weeds. Thus prevention requires a set of practices rather than a single practice to tackle the introduction and spread of weeds. Their individual effect is small, but the impact is enormous when the very/same practices followed together for a long period under certain situation. Impact assessment/quantification of prevention approach should focus on the combined effects of all practices adopted together rather than that of a single practice. In certain agro-ecosystems/crop field situation, a single option of prevention not attended may mar the effect of all other practices carefully attended towards prevention. This makes impact analysis on quantitative term difficult and prevention a more qualitative aspect. The measures/options normally suggested towards prevention of weeds seem to be simple and easy, but difficult to execute/follow and achieve the result compared with control.

Preventive measures/methods i) Pure and clean crop seeds and seed certification Always use pure, clean crop seeds, which do not add seeds of the exist-

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ing or new weed species to the soil seed bank. It acts as an insurance/ check against increasing weed (both existing and new weeds) problem in the long run. ii) Stale seed bed Stale seedbed technique is a cultural-cum-preventive measure. It is cultural from the point of view of pre-sowing 2-3 tillage invariably adopted by farmers since long time to prepare a good seed bed and to control early flushes of weeds. iii) Well-decomposed farm yard manure (FYM)/compost: Fresh or undecomposed farm yard manure/compost is a source through which weed seeds are added to soil. Therefore, it should be always well-decomposed/well-rotten and free from weed seeds. iv) Clean farm machineries and farm animals Farm machineries like tillage and harvest implements are another source from which weed seeds get into crop field. They should be cleaned properly and the soil sticking/adhered to the implements particularly ploughs, tractors must be removed before it is carried to another field. Accordingly similar treatment may be given to the farm animals since several weed seeds adhere/entangle with the furs and skins of animals by means of some hook like structures and disperse.

These are very small efforts towards weed prevention and have hardly been ever evaluated or quantified. v) Clean irrigation channels and water or alternative irrigation method/system Irrigation water carries soil and weed seeds to a crop field. Some sub-surface (drip) and over-head (sprinkler) irrigation systems may be installed as per feasibility and applicability in crops, soil and climatic conditions vi) Clean farm bunds, roadsides, fences and other non-crop areas Weeds on farm bunds, paths/roads and fences should be controlled occasionally always before they go for flowering to avoid weed perpetuation in the field. Similarly weeds not controlled by measures adopted should be removed from the field before they flowered vii) Sand, soil from an infested area should not be transported and used to a clean or cultivated area. viii) While up-rooting crop seedlings, weed seedlings up-rooted may be removed before crop seedlings are taken to main field. In transplanted crops like vegetables, rice, this may be an important mechanism of spread of weeds. Otherwise, weed control has to be exercised in the nursery. ix) Weed/plant quarantine laws An enactment is always required to check movement of noxious and pernicious weeds such as Striga sp, Orobanche sp, Parthenium hysterophorus, Eichhornia crassipes, Chromolaena (=Eupatorium) odoratum, Salvinia molesta, Lantana camara etc. It could be both interstate and inter-country movement.

Weed law prevents dissemination

by manual, physical or mechanical ways of weed species in general and noxious weeds in particular across regions, states or countries. It also prevents farmers from using mislabeled or contaminated crop seeds.

Weed law exists only in Karnataka in India, which declares Parthenium hysterophorus as a noxious weed. It should be enacted across states and countries and should include most of the noxious weeds. Again noxious weeds can be prohibited ones (having seed as well as vegetative propagation and difficult to control) and restricted ones (objectionable in cropping areas but controlled).

Weed Quarantine Law enforces isolation of an area where a serious weed has established and prevents further movement of the weed into a non-infested area. To achieve this, import of weed seeds separately or as admixture with crop, should be prevented strictly. To enforce the laws, a number of quarantine stations across the length and breadth of a country requires be operational in places from which possible entry of weeds through food grains, feed and other means is apprehended.

Airports for prevention of intercountry/inter-continental movement and rail stations, bus stops, for checking the intra-country/inter-state movement of weed seeds should have a strong regulatory authority of which at least a member should be weed scientist, preferably weed biologist. All noxious weeds of the world should be identified and enlisted before declaring weed laws. Similarly Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order was enacted/issued in 2003 and till June 28, 2006 nine Amendments have been incorporated into it. This imposes regulation on the import of plants, plant products, soil, earth, clay, compost, sand, peat, sphagnum moss, germplasm, transgenics or genetically modified organisms, live insects, microbial cultures, wood or timber. No consignment of plants and plant products such as seeds of coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and fodder seeds and seeds/stock materials of fruit plants for propagation, if found infested or infected with a quarantine pest or contaminated with noxious weed seeds shall be permitted to be imported. Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) and fumigation towards disinfection/ disinfestation as applicable will be pursued well before shipment of the product or in certain cases before unloading the materials in India. The order/law if function properly may prevent entry of exotic weeds including noxious.

2. Eradication of weed Eradication means complete elimination or removal of all live weeds/wild plants/plants including their seeds and vegetative propagules from certain area. It is taken to the belief that once a weed is eradicated from an area, it will not reappear unless introduced. Eradication is very difficult to achieve or hardly achieved in terms of complete exhaustion of seed bank and vegetative propagules of weeds from soil. On the contrary, very high dose of soil sterilants

and fumigants applied for the sake of eradication unnecessarily leads to soil and water pollution. That’s why it is not or rarely desirable and its adoption is discouraged nowa-days on the ground of high cost, difficulty in accomplishment and for urges in maintaining biodiversity for pest management in crop fields. Eradication brings about temporary or long sterilization effect of soil.

Better it is advised to apply/try in small areas such as vegetable and rice nurseries, flower beds, in industrial and factory premises, where immediate residue may not likely cause hazard. Eradication may lead to more soil erosion from the treated area.

Therefore, management of weeds to certain extent rather than their eradication is advocated and exercised. However, it may be adopted in certain crop fields if the reasons are justified, e.g. for perennial (Cyperus rotundus, Cynodon dactylon, Convolvulus arvensis, Cirsium arvense etc.) and parasitic weed control in some arable lands and noxious and invasive weed control in non-crop situations. Its adoption is justifiable around oil refineries, industrial and factory premises, housing complexes and railway tracts for fear of fire hazards from the existing/ growing weeds. Eradication may also be adopted in and around farm yards where harvested farm produces are kept for threshing and further processing. For eradication programme, whatever chemicals opted should be non selective and should act through soil since soil needs to be sterilized. Several soil sterilants, e.g. methyl bromide, metham, EPTC, NaClO3, chloropicrin (tear gas) and dazomet (DMTT) are recommended for the purpose. They are of course out-dated and their rate of application is very high. Therefore, certain triazines (e.g. simazine, atrazine), phenylureas (e.g. linuron, diuron) or even phenoxyalkanoic acids (e.g. 2,4,5-T but banned in India) may be used for the purpose, but the dose should be much higher than recommended for usual weed control in the crop fields. For example, in crop field, simazine (triazines) is used @ 1.0-2.0 kg/ ha depending on soil type, soil pH and organic matter content, but the same as a soil sterilant, may be used as high as 40 kg/ha or more on pathways, roadsides, fence lines, industrial and factory premises and other non-crop areas.

3. Control of weed Earlier there used to be spoken of three major concepts, viz., prevention, eradication and control of weeds. People did not think much about management of weeds.

They use to use “control” to mean control of weeds and definitely not to mean management of weeds. Unlike weed prevention, control is exercised normally after the weed problem arises/exists (Zimdahl, 1999) or known to users from previous history of weed infestation in a certain area/crop field.

Control is easier to practise than prevention and eradication and can be put/made to work well with short-term economic or cultural planning goals. However, prevention and eradication require long-term thinking and planning. That is why weed control options have been adopted widely among people. Methods/tools, severity of weed infestation in terms of population, species diversity and age/stage of growth, production systems and capital invested greatly affect the degree/level of weed control achieved in a farm. Generally when a single method is exercised towards control of pests/weeds, it is more a control than management aspect of pests/weeds. Employing one single method, e.g. herbicide, managing a weed

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eraniums are becoming very popular ornamental plants in Nagaland. While there is still a demand for the traditional florist or zonal geraniE. Lireni Kikon ums from cuttings (Pelargonium X hortorum) there is also a demand for seed grown hybrids, Ivy geraniums SMS, Plant Protection, KVK, Longleng, Nagaland (P. peltatum), Martha Washington or Regal geraniums (P. X domesticum), and scented and perennial gerani- disease is prematurely a problem for zonal geraniums. the lower leaves. Leaves become flaccid and branches ums (Geranium spp.). Geraniums are susceptible to wilt and dieback. Stems can blacken and shrivel into a different diseases with 45 diseases being reported but dry rot. Infected cuttings fail to root and slowly rot from 4. Black stem rot fortunately most of them don’t occur with any frequenthe base upward. Stems become dull black-brown and Cause organism: Pythium splendens cy. Geranium diseases are described by the type of the Symptoms: Fungus infects the full grown plants are drier than Pythium root rot. Plants with systemic incausal agent or pathogen. and causes dropping of leaves, stunting and eventually fection collapse and die. Systemically infected ivy geradeath of plants. Cuttings are also infected and the rot- niums don’t wilt but develop systems that can be conDISEASES ON STOCK PLANTS AND CUTTINGS ting starts at the base and progresses upward until the fused with nutritional or inset problems.

I. FUNGAL leaves wilt and die. Blackening of the stem of older plant 1. Leaf Spot Managementprogresses towards the tip, the lower parts become Causal organism: Alternaria tenuis, Ascochyta sp., sunken and defoliated.  Start with a clean house and equipment Cercospora brunkii., Pleosphaerulina sp.  Isolate stock plants from propagation area Symptoms: Different types of leaf spots occur and  Use disease-free cuttings 5. Black Leg cause considerable damage. Small water soaked spots  Keep geraniums from different suppliers sepaCause organism: Fusarium sp. of variable sizes develop on the lower surface of the rate Symptoms: Stems are affected by the fungus and leaves. Larger spots are brown with concentric rings.  Separate seedlings geranium from cuttings produce coal black lesions.  Avoid growing perennial geraniums (Geranium 2. Grey Mould Botrytis Leaf Spot or Blossom spp.) near Pelargonium spp.

Management: Blight  Avoid placing ivys in hanging baskets above  Practice good sanitation by using a clean house Causal organism: Botrytis cinerea seedling or cutting geraniums and equipment and a sterile, well-drained meSymptoms: Fungus attacks leaves, stems and flowers  Use drip irrigation if possible (esp. on stock dium under humid conditions and they rot in case of severe inplants)  Use disease free cuttings fection under favourable environmental conditions.  Rouge and remove diseased/symptomatic plants  Select the soil or rooting medium which are relaLEAVES: Symptoms vary from discrete spots or leas soon as possible tively sterilized by chemical means sions to large, dead areas often with concentric rings. V Wash hand frequently while handling the plants  Avoid overhead irrigation and water early in the shaped lesions can also develop. Lesion usually occurs  Avoid unnecessary handling of plant material day when spent flowers petals fall onto the leaves.  Minimize traffic flow in house  Use biocontrol agent Trichoderma harzianum CUTTINGS AND STEM: Symptoms appear at the  Use copper sulfate pentahydrate for cutting treatment and foliar spray base of cuttings as light to dark brown lesion which can  Spray Dithane Z-78 @ 2 g/litre water or Thiram result in complete basal rot. Stubs on stock plants can 2. Southern Bacterial Wilt 2.5 g/litre water for leaf spots and rust develop brown lesions after cuttings are taken. Petals Causal organism: Ralstonia solanacearum (for Benlate 1g/litre or Bavistin 1g/litre for grey are discoloured and the flowers wilt and fall. The pathomerly called Pseudomonas solanacearum) mould gen produces a brown decay on the cuttings Symptoms: Initial symptoms appear as a gener Drench the soil with Benlate @ 1g/litre for Black FLOWERS: The first evident symptoms usually leg and Captan 2g/litre or copper oxychloride al wilting of lower leaves followed by yellowing and premature fading and drying of flowers. Flowers turn necrosis. V-shaped chlorotic or dead areas similar to 3g/litre solution brown and drop prematurely. During periods of high those associated with Bacterial Blight can develop on moisture and relative humidity, senescing flowers are flaccid leaves. Brown discoloration of the vascular II. BACTERIAL covered with a gray, fuzzy mass.

1. Bacterial blight (Bacterial leaf spot, stem rot or system is sometimes visible. Roots of infected plants often turn brown or black and eventually collapse wilt) 3. Rust Causal organism: Xanthomonas campestris pv. and die. No discrete leaf spots are associated with Causal organism: Puccinia pelargonii-zonalis this disease.

Pelargonii Symptoms: Characteristics symptoms develops Management: same as Bacterial blight except------Symptoms: on the under sides of the leaves in the form of reddish -----------Chemical control is not effective in preLEAVES: Infected leaves typically develop two types brown spores in the concentric rings. Correspond- of symptom: small, discrete, water-soaked or brown venting infection since this pathogen generally infects ing yellow areas appear on the upper surface of the spots and V- shaped angular lesions. Some leaves de- through openings or wounds in the roots. leaves. Pustules break open and release the rusty col- velop distinctly darkened veins and wilt at leaf margins. ored spores for which this disease gets its name. Leaves III. VIRAL STEM: When infection is systemic, the entire plant eventually turn yellow, dry and drop prematurely. This develops typical wilt symptoms, often first appearing in 1. Cucumber Mosaic Virus:

population to the desired density or economic threshold level is hardly/rarely possible unless other options tried or exercised.

Sometimes a pesticide/herbicide may even kill pests/weeds to the level of 100 per cent, which assumes to be as good as eradication.

Therefore, for management necessarily more than one or several options/methods should be tried to bring down weed population below economic threshold value. Thus control remained as an old concept and in recent years it has got a different connotation, e.g. management. Management has become more popular because it has some significant bearing over control in terms of maintaining bio-diversity and for preventing sudden insurgence of other pests/weeds etc. However, control still bears significance when many farmers use only herbicide to control weeds in crops. For example, to control Phalaris minor or Avena ludoviciana in wheat, farmers resort mainly to herbicides in north-western wheat belt of the country. We talk of management of weeds much, management is hardly executed.

CONCLUSION: Knowledge of weed seed characteristics, morphology, ontogeny, nature of competition and degree of association with crops are pre-requisite for suggesting some efficient weed control measures. It makes the users/ scientists quite acquainted with the nature and spectrum of weeds existing in the crop fields and accordingly guides them to adopt certain measures. Identification and naming of a particular weed based on its genus, species or certain biological characters may not be much useful to users since weed control usually, unless specific weed problem in certain area, aims at composite weed culture and not on individual species of weeds.

Therefore, some common characteristics of the species, which are clearly visible and easily understandable by users, are to be exploited for making of their classes/groups and for recommending suitable control measures.

SUMMARY: Weed management decisions vary according to plant life cycles, infestation size, environmental parameters and management objectives. Hand-pulling a perennial weed species such as Canada thistle or leafy spurge is a futile effort, but very effective for control of a biennial plant such as diffuse knapweed. Releasing bio-control insects for control of dalmatian toadflax on a 500 acre property is wise, but relying on insects for controlling small patches on a 40 acre pasture is inefficient. Successful weed management requires proper plant identification, selection of effective management methods and monitoring the effects over time. Prevention is the most essential aspect of weed management. Eradication is very difficult to achieve or hardly achieved in terms of complete exhaustion of seed bank and vegetative propagules of weeds from soil. On the contrary, very high dose of soil sterilants and fumigants applied for the sake of eradication unnecessarily leads to soil and water pollution. That’s why it is not or rarely desirable and its adoption is discouraged now-a-days on the ground of high cost, difficulty in accomplishment and for urges in maintaining biodiversity for pest management in crop fields.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The author is grateful to Dr. T.K. Das, Principal Scientist, Division of Agronomy,IARI, New Delhi as many references were undertaken from his literatures.

Causal Agent: Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) Symptoms: Foliage appears mottled with light-green interveinal and dark-green veinal areas. Infected plants become dwarfed with small leaves and shortened internodes. Purple pigments are affected or rearrange on flowers. Symptoms are most severe in winter and are often completely masked during long summer days.

2. Pelargonium Flower Break Virus: Causal Agent: Pelargonium Flower Break Virus (PFBV) Symptoms: Most diagnostic symptom is a whitestreaking on the backs of the petals (= color - breaking).

A subtle chlorotic mottle or ringspot pattern can also develop on leaves and plant growth can be retarded.

3. Tomato Spotted Wilt and Impatient Necrotic Spot Viruses: Causal Agent: Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) and Impatient Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) Symptoms: Symptom is highly variable that ranges from stunting, ring spots, sunken purple-brown lesions on leaves, stems, and petioles. Symptoms vary with plant age and physiological condition, level of infestation, and timing.

Management for viral diseases –  Use disease-free, virus-indexed cuttings  Rogue and destroy symptomatic plants  Avoid unnecessary handling of plant material  Attention to insect control, when necessary; thrips monitoring and management are very important IV. ABIOTIC Oedema: Causal factor: It is considered to be caused by water imbalance which develops during periods of cool, cloudy weather or when the soil is moist and warm and the air is moist and cool.

Symptoms: First appear as chlorotic spots on the upper leaf surface which develop into water-soaked blisters on the undersides of leave that later become corky and rusty brown in color. Entire leaves may become yellow, die, and drop off and can sometimes mimic Bacterial Blight. It is most serious on ivy geraniums.

Management –  Use a well-drained potting medium and maintain pH levels approx. 0.5 pH unit lower than zonals  Maintain proper nutrient levels (increased N and Fe have been reported to reduce incidence)  Avoid overwatering during cool, humid weather  Reduce humidity and space plants to promote good air circulation

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Xi, Modi unlikely to meet at G20 due to border row

BeiJiNg, July 6 (iANS): Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are unlikely to meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit, with Beijing saying on Thursday that "the atmosphere is not right" due to their border stand-off.

The two leaders were expected to meet at the Hamburg summit in a bid to resolve the simmering border dispute in the mountainous Sikkim sector. "The atmosphere is not right for a bilateral meeting between President Xi and Prime Minister Modi," a Chinese Foreign Ministry official said.

The Foreign Ministry made it more evident by saying that the "trespass" by Indian troops into Chinese territory "had damaged the political foundations of bilateral relations between China and India.

"As for the arrangement of the bilateral meeting (at G20) between President Xi and Prime Minister Modi, I have to point out that recently Indian troops trespassed into China and obstructed normal activities of Chinese troops in Doklam region," said For-

eign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang.

"This endangers China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and damaged the political foundations of bilateral relations between China and India.

"Regarding the bilateral meeting of President Xi and PM Modi, we will release it in a timely manner," Geng added. "We hope India can immediately withdraw the border troops to the Indian side of the boundary and uphold peace and tranquillity of the China-India border areas. "I think this is the pre-condition for any meaningful peace talks between the two sides."

At the same time, Geng warned that India would have face "serious consequences" if it did not withdraw troops from Doklam.

The official said Doklam was well within the Chinese territory but India's action had changed the status quo. "Only when India pulls back troops, the status quo will be restored.

"Under the pretext of protecting Bhutan, India has illegally entered China's territory hindering negotiation process between China and Bhutan," the of-

China raises decibel over border stand off

ficial added.

Thursday's development came a day after calls by the state-run Chinese media for a war with India.

In its sharpest comment since the Indian and Chinese troops scuffled in Doklam, the Global Times said on Wednesday that China must teach India "a bitter lesson".

The newspaper said in an editorial that China would inflict greater losses on India than it did in the

1962 war if New Delhi incited a military conflict.

It also said that the Indians would be "kicked out" of Doklam by the Chinese military.

Beijing has also hinted that the development could derail the boundary talks between India and China.

China also said that India had "trampled upon" the Panchsheel pact by illegally entering into Chinese territory. Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged

in a stand-off in Doklam on the Sikkim sector since the middle of June.

India has said Beijing's action to "unilaterally determine tri-junction points" violated a 2012 India-China pact which says the boundary would be decided by consulting all the concerned parties.

The two countries, which fought a brief but bitter war in 1972, share a little over 200 km of border in the Sikkim sector.

New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): The Chinese Embassy on Thursday described India's claim of Doklam region belonging to Bhutan as "groundless" and said that for any meaningful dialogue Indian troops must pull back from the area "unconditionally and immediately".

Li Ya, Political Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy, in a video message said, "On June 18, Indian border troops crossed the Sikkim section of the ChinaIndia boundary triggering a close range face-off."

He said the Sikkim sector is "delimited" by the 1890 Sino-Britain convention relating to Tibet and Sikkim.

"In essence, China's territorial sovereignty has been undermined by the Indian border troops," the Chinese official said, repeating the accusations levelled by the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing.

The Chinese political counsellor said that following the face-off the Indian side has claimed that Doklam belongs to Bhutan and that China "changed the status quo" of the area and New Delhi cited its security concern.

He said India has given "three major arguments to justify its trespassing into Chinese territory".

Li, who claimed that he has first-hand knowledge of the area, said that based on his knowledge and work "for the past decade" India's "position is groundless".

Reiterating what the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been stressing in its brief-

ings in Beijing, Li said "Doklam belongs to China".

"We have strong evidence to prove that Doklam belongs to China. Doklam has always been the traditional pasture for Chinese border inhabitants. The archives of Xizang Autonomous region still retain some receipts of the grass tax paid

by Bhutanese herdsmen," he claimed.

"Today the Chinese border troops still patrol there and the herdsmen graze their livestock there, and production and living facilities have been built there," he said.

On India maintaining that China is changing the status quo of the region, he said that "since Doklam is part of Chinese territory, the activities conducted

by China in Doklam are within China's sovereignty".

"It is the Indian side that trespassed into Chinese territory and changed the status quo," he alleged.

"As to Indian security concerns, India crossed a delimited boundary into another country's territory in the name of security concerns, no matter what kind of activities it conducts there, which will not be acceptable to any sovereign state."

"As far as the solution is concerned, the Indian border troops must pull back to the Indian side of the boundary unconditionally and immediately. That is the precondition for any meaningful dialogue between China and India," Li added.

SC gives govt six months to show FSSAI to address concerns on health supplements results of PM's crop insurance scheme

New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the central government six months time to demonstrate the gains of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana on the ground level as it observed that a serious issue like this could not be dealt with overnight.

The bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice D.Y.Chandrachud said: "We are of the view that a serious issue like this can't be dealt with overnight, it will take time to implement it (PMFBY)." The top court gave six months as Attorney General K.K.Venugopal sought a year's time to see the gains of the scheme.

Urging the court to close the matter, he said: "Why should the court interfere when government is doing all to help the farmers."

He said the scheme that was launched just a year ago has covered 5.3 crore farmers, or 40 per cent of the country's 12 crore farmers and covered 30% of the total crop area in the country.

However, Chief Justice Khehar refused his demand, saying: "We are

not going to close the matter."

"Whatever needs to be done has to be done, not on paper. We are not going to close. We are keeping ourself in the loop to know what is going on. You may be doing a good thing."

Pointing out that inability to pay loans was the major cause of farmers suicide in the country, Chief Justice Khehar said: "Inability to pay the loans is the major cause of farmers' suicide. If all of them have been covered, then how can you say that only 40 per cent have been covered?"

At the outset of the hearing, Chief Justice Khehar called for some alternatives to address the farmers woes observing that paying compensation to the famers was no solution. "Don't worry about the directions, tell us what are you doing (to address the issue of farmers suicide)," the bench said as Attorney General referred to earlier directions issued by the court.

Suggesting an insurance policy with low premium, the bench said that there must be something to

soften the impact if a farmer was not able to discharge his loan liabilities.

Asking Venugopal to tell what the government was doing and how it was doing, the bench said: "First you decide what you are taking from the farmers. Rest will be divided between you and the states."

Appreciating the crop insurance policy, senior counsel Colin Gonsalves appearing for the petitioner NGO Citizens Resource and Action and Initiative (CRANTI) said that the Madhya Pradesh and other state governments were not fixing minimum support prices and as a consequence, the farmers were selling their agriculture produces at throw away prices. Rejecting the government's description of the NGO's suggestions as something in the "in air", he said that they were based on the expert reports including one by noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan.

CRANTI is seeking compensation to the families of the debt-ridden farmers who had committed suicide because of serious financial difficulties.

New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Thursday said it is in the process of addressing concerns raised by the industry on new standards for eight categories of products, including health supplements and nutraceuticals, which were notified in 2016.

"These standards will come into force for compliance from January 1, 2018, so we have a little time at hand before these come into compliance and hopefully we will be able to iron out those differences and concerns which will be addressed within the next 5-6 months that we have," Pawan Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer of FSSAI, said while addressing an 'Assocham National Symposium on Nutraceuticals'.

The FSSAI chief said the standards of nutraceuticals were released by the food regulator a few months ago after very prolonged deliberations by the scientific panel, scientific committee and then the authority. "There are associat-

Madhya Pradesh 'Kisan Mukti Yatra' halted, 300 arrested

BhoPAl, July 6 (iANS): The 'Kisan Mukti Yatra', taken out on Thursday to pay homage to the six protesting farmers killed in police firing in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district, has been halted by the police and as many as 300 persons arrested.

"The people involved in the Yatra have been arrested on the allegation of disrupting peace. Till now, as many as 300 persons have been arrested," Superintendent of Police Manoj Singh told IANS. Communist Party of India-Marxist state unit chief

Badal Saroj told IANS: "The Yatra, which began from Bhudha village, has been halted at Guddeli village.

These people were going to Peepli Mandi where farmers were killed in police firing."

The marchers included Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan convenor V.M. Singh, Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha General Secretary Hannan Mollah, CPI-M leader Subhashini Ali, Swaraj India's Yogendra Yadav, social activist Medha Patkar, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghathan's founder Raju Shetti,

farmers and women.

The Yatra, which began under the leadership of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, has representatives of more than 100 groups of farmers from all over the country. Their demands include loan waivers and fixing the maximum support price of the crop yield based on recommendations by the M.S. Swaminathan Committee.

"All of them have lifted ploughs on their shoulder while the farmers are waiving green flags," AIKSC state

chief Jaswinder Singh said.

"From Madhya Pradesh, this Yatra will go through Maharashtra and Gujarat to reach New Delhi on July 18, where a tribute will be paid to the six farmers killed in Mandsaur," he added. Tight security arrangements have been made for the Yatra and police forces have been deployed at many places. The farmers' protests that started in the state on June 1 for better prices for their produce and debt relief, turned violent on June 6 when five farmers were killed in police firing in Mandsaur.

Bedi defends decision Subramanian moves HC for courtto nominate 3 MLAs monitored probe into Pushkar's death PuDucherry/New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): The controversy over nomination of three MLAs in Puducherry snowballed on Thursday with the Congress party attacking the decision as unconstitutional and state Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi defending it strongly. Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said in New Delhi that Bedi has been at loggerheads with Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy and the elected Congress government from the beginning. He said the appointment of three MLAs -- V. Saminathan, President of the Puducherry BJP unit, party Treasurer K.G. Shankar and educationist S. Selva Ganapathy -- has been done without consulting the Chief Minister.

Even in Parliament the President nominates members on the basis of the recommendation by the central government, he said. Bedi took to Twitter to justify her action and cited provisions of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 in this regard. "Here is the Law under which 3 MLAs were nominated by GOI (Government of India) and I as an LG (Lt. Governor) administered the Oath," Bedi said in a tweet. One of the provisions cited by her said that three members can take oath before the LG or a person appointed by him/her for the purpose. "Since when is application of Law a 'murder of democracy'? "See the law. Central government has the power to Nominate and LG has the power of oath giving..!," Bedi added. "I am an agent of law, I am working according to that. Cabinet came to me asking why are you meeting people? Why solving civic problems? They said you are supposed to be a rubber stamp," she told reporters.

New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday filed a PIL seeking a time-bound court-monitored probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

Pushkar, 52, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a luxurious Delhi hotel on January 17, 2014.

Swamy sought a timebound probe in the case, saying "very influential people are involved in the case, leading to attempts to protect them, and the matter has faced a lot of unnecessary delay already".

The PIL sought a courtmonitored investigation by constituting a "multi-disciplinary SIT consisting of Intelligence Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, RAW, Delhi Police and headed by CBI", or a timebound CBI probe.

"It's an extreme example of

the slow motion of the criminal justice process and the extent to which it can be subverted by the rich and influential. It unfolds the apparent apathy on the part of all those concerned with the administration of criminal justice," said the plea.

The PIL has been filed against Delhi Police, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The PIL said that even three years after Pushkar's death, no charge-sheet has been filed and no arrests have been made.

"The fact that influential political personalities and their henchmen are involved in this case presents an added dimension to the issue and raises questions on the efficacy of the existing systems and practices to counter the moves of such influential persons facing serious criminal charges," it said.

ed standards and regulations, and the key amongst them being labelling regulations, claim regulations for which again the draft will soon be available on our website and we will be very happy to get feedback from the industry on those drafts," he said.

Agarwal added that these are also quite contentious issues considering that consumers' interest for any regulator is primary. "I think that is non-negotiable. So any food supplement manufacturer giving any kinds of claims has to be extra cautious and as a regulator we have to ensure that those claims are substantiated with evidence."

On the labelling, he said there may not be too many issues, however, adding that FSSAI has been getting reports from the field that increasingly large number of spurious products are available in the market today.

"The challenge with the food supplements is that there is no robust framework for testing of food supplements products. There are

also issues about good manufacturing practices around food supplements and nutraceuticals sectors," said the FSSAI chief.

He said that FSSAI had set up a technical panel with representatives from food supplement companies to put together the framework for goods manufacturing practices (GMPs) for nutraceuticals and food supplements.

Agarwal said though there are many companies that import food supplements, the FSSAI intends to provide them a level-playing field. But considering the 'Make in India' campaign of the government, their focus is on promoting much of processing and manufacturing within India.

The FSSAI chief added that it is imperative for both the industry and government to work together to provide a more robust framework for growth of food supplement and nutraceuticals sector in India.

J.P. Meena, Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), stressed

upon the need to make the food supplements and nutraceuticals affordable as about 43 per cent children across India remain malnourished while the sector mainly caters to the middle and upper-middle class consumers.

Meena said the MoFPI has particularly been focusing on making farmers/growers partners in the growth story of food processing sector.

"Unless the benefits to some extent are passed on to the farmers, I see that the future of industry will not be very stable and we may not be able to face challenges which will emerge in the future on account of health concerns," he said.

He also said that with regard to capacity expansion and creating new capacities, MoFPI has come out with a new scheme, 'Kisan Sampada', whereby the government will be investing Rs 6,000 crore over the next three years, which should bring an investment of about Rs 35,000 crore in the food processing sector as a whole.

Threat of GST unravelling if states follow TN's additional levy: Sinha New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): Former finance minister and BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha says that there is a threat of indiscipline and unravelling of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) if states follow the example of Tamil Nadu levying additional taxes over the agreed rate in a particular sector.

He also feels that the new law is not a perfect GST as it is fraught with multiplicity of rates and full of compromises.

Sinha warned of an imminent threat of indiscipline among states, if they follow Tamil Nadu in their desire to earn more revenue. Tamil Nadu has levied an additional 30 per cent entertainment tax along with the 28 per cent GST rate.

"Tamil Nadu's additional entertainment tax is baffling. Any additional levy by states, right in the beginning, was eminently avoidable. There is not only a threat of indiscipline. If the states go their own way and no not abide by one discipline, the whole thing will unravel, then what's the point of GST," he told IANS in an interview.

Such matters should be brought to the notice of GST Council, which should discuss and persuade states not to adopt such things, he said. "It is a matter of consensus."

Sinha, who has come out with a book on 'The Future of Indian Economy -- Past Reforms and Challenges Ahead', said the GST, which is being touted as the biggest tax reform since independence by the Modi government, was imperfect as the government chose multiplicity of taxes, hence losing out on the aim of simplifying the indirect tax regime.

"Is it a perfect GST? No, it is not.

It is a result of various compromises as a result of which we have re-introduced multiplicity of rates. We have brought back 6-7 rates. Mul-

GST realises 'one nation, one tax' dream: Jaitley

New Delhi, July 6 (iANS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that with Jammu and Kashmir assembly passing the State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) law, the dream of economic integration of India has come true. "Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel worked for the geographical integration of India and achieved it. But the country's economic rules continued to vary from state to state.

After 70 years, the Narendra Modi government has worked with zeal and successfully persuaded all state governments to give up 17 types of local taxes and 23 types of cess levied by them in their states and accept the GST system," Jaitley told a gathering of Bharatiya Janata Party workers at Talkatora Stadium here.

"With the implementation of the GST (from July 1) the dream of economic integration of India has come true," he added. Jaitley said the soul of Syama Prasad Mookerjee (founder of BJP's predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh) who propounded the idea of ‘Ek rashtra, ek vidhan' (one nation, one regulation) must have attained peace after the Jammu and Kashmir assembly passed the SGST Bill. "Mookerjee called for 'ek rashtra, ek vidhan' and the GST Bill was framed with this vision in mind. On Wednesday, when the Jammu and Kashmir assembly adopted SGST, it must have given peace to his soul," Jaitley said. tiplicity in indirect taxes is the enemy of simplicity. I am feeling disillusioned because of introduction of multiplicity of rates in GST," he said.

Refuting the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's logic that the multiplicity was chosen as an instrument to maintain equity between the goods meant for the poor and rich, Sinha said that direct tax and not indirect tax is used for equity.

"The point is that indirect taxes is not the instrument of equity in society, direct taxes are. That is why exemptions are given on income tax. All countries have used direct taxes to establish equity and not indirect tax. All countries which have GST have either one or two rates, not multiplicity of rates," he said.

"It will also lead to litigation and lobbying with all its ill-effects, loss of simplicity," he added.

Labelling the multiplicity of taxes as a measure of excessive caution, Sinha said that the idea of GST was a revenue neutral

rate and a simple tax with refund scheme, which is not the outcome.

"I think we have erred on the side of excessive caution."

He also dismissed GST as the biggest reform since independence, Sinha said that GST covers only indirect taxes out of the three types of taxes -- direct, indirect and customs. Moreover, almost 40 per cent of revenue stream in indirect taxes is outside the purview of GST currently, he noted.

"Is it the most important reform after independence? Clearly not. It relates to one out of the three taxes. Economic reforms is much wider subject. The kind of attempt that was made in 1991 to introduce budgetary reforms, change industrial policy, taxation, was much bigger than GST is today," he said.

"Also almost 40 per cent of revenue stream is outside GST in terms of alcohol, electricity, petroleum products. We are covering only 60 per cent revenue under GST," he added.

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Can US defend against North Korea missiles?

WASHINGTON, July 6 (ReuTeRS): Not everybody asserts as confidently as the Pentagon that the U.S. military can defend the United States from the growing threat posed by North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile capability.

Pyongyang’s first test on Tuesday of an ICBM with a potential to strike the state of Alaska has raised the question: How capable is the U.S. military of knocking down an incoming missile or barrage of missiles?

Briefing reporters on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said: “We do have confidence in our ability to defend against the limited threat, the nascent threat that is there.”

Davis cited a successful test in May in which a U.S.based missile interceptor knocked down a simulated incoming North Korean ICBM. But he acknowledged the test programme’s track programme was not perfect.

“It’s something we have mixed results on. But we also have an ability to shoot more than one interceptor,” Davis said. An internal memo seen by Reuters also showed that the Pentagon upgraded its assessment of U.S. defences after the May test.

Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on a multi-layered missile defence system, the United States may not be able to seal itself off entirely from a North Korean in-

Time for North Korea to Russia accuses US of trying to spoil decide - dialogue or not its North Korea ties with ‘fake news’ SeOul, July 6 (ReuTeRS): South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday dialogue with North Korea was more pressing than ever and a peace treaty to permanently end the Korean War must be signed by all parties to establish lasting peace on the peninsula.

Moon said in a speech in Berlin the North made a disappointing and misguided decision to conduct a test of a ballistic missile on Tuesday and it now faced the last chance to make the right choice.

“We do not wish for the collapse of North Korea and we will not pursue any form of unification by absorbing the other. We will not pursue unification by force,” he said.

contributor to the Washington-based North Korea monitoring project 38 North said the pace of North Korea’s missile development was quicker than expected.

“However, it will probably require another year or two of development before this missile can reliably and accurately hit high-value continental U.S. targets, particularly if fired under wartime conditions,” he said.

Michael Elleman, a fellow for Missile Defence at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that although North Korea was several steps from creating a dependable ICBM, “There are absolutely no guarantees” the United States can protect itself.

“These allegations are unfounded,” Zakharova told a news briefing. “They fabricate and publish this nonsense ... and then we stand and feel like justifying ourselves after this fake news.”

She said the presence of migrant labourers from North Korea stemmed from a 2007 intergovernmental agreement, that it was entirely legal, and that it did not violate any U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning Pyongyang.

Xi urges peaceful resolution

The intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 is seen in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on July 5. (REUTERS Photo)

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MOSCOW, July 6 (ReuTeRS): Russia on Thursday accused the United States of trying to spoil Moscow’s ties with North Korea by levelling false allegations about the abuse of North Korean migrant workers in Russia.

Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said she was responding to U.S. State Department accusations which she said spoke of North Korean workers toiling in forced Russian labour camps.

BeIJING, July 6 (ReuTeRS): Chinese President Xi Jinping urged a peaceful resolution of tension over North Korean on Thursday, telling his South Korean counterpart that China is committed to denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

The United States said on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s nuclear missile programme but said it preferred global diplomatic action against it for defying world powers by test launching a ballistic missile that could hit Alaska.

Meeting in Germany ahead of a G20 summit, Xi told South Korean President Moon Jae-in that China upheld maintaining the peace and stability of the peninsula, and that all sides should strictly abide by U.N. Security Council resolutions, China’s state news agency Xinhua reported.

China supported the new South Korean government’s efforts to re-

start dialogue and contacts with North Korea, Xi said, adding that the international community should work together to play a positive role to ease tension.

Ties between China and South Korea have soured over the basing in South Korea of an advanced U.S. antimissile system China sees as a threat to its own security, despite Washington and Seoul saying it is purely to defend against North Korea.

Xi told Moon that China did not want to see the “difficulties” that have been present in relations of late, and that South Korea should “clear obstacles” to bilateral ties and pay attention to China’s “legitimate concerns”.

The news agency did not elaborate.

Taking a major step in its missile programme, North Korea on Tuesday test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that some experts believe has the range to reach the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawaii and per-

haps the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

North Korea says the missile could carry a large nuclear warhead.

The missile test is a direct challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed to prevent North Korea from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile.

He has frequently urged China to press the leaders of isolated North Korea to give up their nuclear programme, and on Wednesday he denounced China’s trade with its defiant neighbour.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, speaking in Beijing earlier on Thursday, said China fully implemented UN resolutions on North Korea.

As a neighbour, China had “normal” trade relations with North Korea and U.N. resolutions were clear that they were not intended to impact upon “livelihood and humanitarian needs”, he added.

Digital devices blamed for dry Myanmar mulls change to law Chinese Nobel Peace laureate eye problem among children seen as ‘violating free speech’ Liu’s liver function worsens HOuSTON, July 6 (IANS): There is an increase in dry eye symptoms among younger patients due to excessive use of digital devices, a study has said.

Dr. Amber Gaume Giannoni, a local optometry specialist with the College of Optometry at the University of Houston, on Wednesday said the more children stare at a screen, the less they tend to blink, which results in dry eye symptoms, because blinking helps stimulate the glands used to moisturise the eyes.

The study also showed that children as young as eight can spend six hours a day in front of a screen, Xinhua news agency reported.

Giannoni suggested parents set limits to their children’s screen time and pay attention to such symptoms as forcefully blinking, eye rubbing and eye redness.

She recommended a method of 20-20-20 to decrease digital eye strain -- a 20-second break for every 20 minutes of staring at a digital device, and looking 20 feet (about six metres) away or somewhere off into the distance.

Hong Kong seizes largest ivory haul in 30 years HONG KONG, July 6 (ReuTeRS): Authorities in Hong Kong this week made their largest haul of contraband ivory in more than 30 years, amid surging illegal wildlife seizures fuelled by lax regulations and buoyant demand from mainland China.

The former British colony situated at the mouth of China’s Pearl River Delta is one of the world’s top global transit hubs for endangered species and their products, such as shark fin, pangolin skin and rosewood furniture.

Customs officials on Thursday said they had seized 7,200 kg (15,873 lb) of ivory tusks, valued at around HK$72 million ($9.22 million), at a cargo warehouse beside the city’s harbour.

The ivory was discovered in a 40-foot container from Malaysia declared to hold frozen fish, beneath which officers found the tusks.

“The 1,000 boxes were half-empty when we found them with frozen fish put around the ivory,” said customs official Raymond Chan.

Conservation group WildAid estimated the tusks had probably been taken from about 720 elephants.

Hong Kong’s agriculture, fisheries and conservation department said it was investigating the shipment’s final destination, probably a nearby country.

A special administrative region of China, Hong Kong has lagged other places, including the mainland, in adopting tighter rules against trading of ivory and other endangered species.

Regulatory loopholes allow traders to use a stockpile of legal ivory as cover to smuggle illegal ivory to unsuspecting buyers, say groups such as the World Wildlife Fund and WildAid. China, Singapore and the United States have all banned the ivory trade, with the mainland closing down all operations by the end of this year.

Hong Kong, however, has only timetabled a ban by 2021.

Legislators are set to discuss the issue on Friday and decide if traders should be compensated in the case of a total ban.

The teeming port city has the largest retail market for ivory, with 90 percent of consumers from the mainland.

Hong Kong has been trading ivory for more than 150 years, fashioned into jewelry and sculptures, but activists say illegal poaching is pushing elephants towards extinction.

The independent Environmental Investigation Agency last week identified Shuidong, a southern Chinese coastal town close to Hong Kong, as the hub for 10 to 20 Chineseled criminal syndicates bringing in ivory from Africa.

African rangers detailed harrowing firsthand tales of elephant poaching during a June visit to Hong Kong, an event marked by a tense standoff with traders who say their business is legal.

NAyPyITAW, July 6 (ReuTeRS): Myanmar is considering amendments to a law that human rights monitors say violates free speech and has been used to jail journalists and activists, leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday.

Following a recent spate of arrests of reporters, the United States and the European Union have raised concern that despite Myanmar electing its first civilian government in about half a century, its media face increasing curbs.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has a majority in parliament - and many of its lawmakers are former political prisoners - but the party has not until now prioritised repealing laws that previous governments used to quash dissent.

“About 66(d), the legislature is considering amendments to that particular law,” Suu Kyi told a news conference, referring to a broadly worded clause of the Telecommunications Law that prohibits use of the telecoms network to “extort, threaten, obstruct, defame, disturb, in-

appropriately influence or intimidate”.

Suu Kyi did not say what changes were planned, but Myanmar officials have indicated that the law may be changed to enable judges to release on bail those charged under the law, diplomats have told Reuters.

Some Senior NLD members oppose changes to the law, which they defend as a tool for curbing hate speech and false news as internet access expands in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi’s defenders say the Nobel Peace Prize winner - who spent years under house arrest for opposing army rule - is hamstrung by a military-drafted constitution that keeps the generals in politics and free from civilian oversight.

Last month, three journalists covering an event organised by an ethnic minority rebel group, that authorities have designated an “illegal organization”, were detained by the military and later arrested on suspicion of breaching a colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act. A newspaper editor is also on

trial under the telecoms law over a satirical article making fun of the military.

The cases have sparked outrage among the boisterous media community that has emerged in the commercial hub Yangon since the government lifted prepublication censorship in 2012.

They have also prompted statements of concern from both the European Union and the United States.

When asked about the case of the three arrested reporters, Suu Kyi said it was “not for us to comment on ... how the various cases should be tried in the court - that’s for the justice sector to take care of”.

“This should not be seen very narrowly as three journalists against the army or vice versa, but in general, as to whether the existing laws are in line with our desire for justice and democratization,” she said, without elaborating on her position.

The three journalists are due to appear in court in Shan State in the north of Myanmar on July 11. They face up to three years in prison.

BeIJING, July 6 (ReuTeRS): The liver function of China’s Nobel Peace Prize winning dissident Liu Xiaobo has worsened, the hospital treating him said on Thursday, while one source close to his family said doctors had halted medication.

Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” after he helped write a petition known as “Charter 08” calling for sweeping political reforms. He was recently moved from jail to a hospital in the city of Shenyang for treatment of late stage liver cancer.

Liu has been being treated for various conditions as side effects of his cancer, including a build up of fluid in his stomach caused by liver scarring. “Liu Xiaobo’s liver function has worsened, his bilirubin levels are gradually rising,” the hospital said in a statement, referring to a substance produced by the liver, high levels of which can indicate liver failure.

Asked about Liu’s condition on Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said he had nothing new to add and reiterated that China hoped other countries would not use “individual cases” to interfere in China’s internal affairs.

A liver expert from Beijing, Mao Yilei, had come to Shenyang to lead a consultation on Liu’s condition, the hospital said on Wednesday. The team decided to adjust his treatment plan and the family said they understood, the hospital said on Wednesday, without providing details.

However, Ye Du, a dissident who is close to Liu’s family, said a source with direct knowledge of the situation said the team of doctors treating Liu had decided on Wednesday to halt medication after the deterioration in his condition. “Liver function has worsened and it cannot take the medication, so Chinese and Western drugs to fight cancer have been halted,” the source told Ye in a message.

Reuters was unable to independently verify Ye’s assertion.

A message from more than 40 friends of Liu and his wife, Liu Xia, shared on instant messaging platforms called for friends to have access to the couple to provide support following the news of his deteriorating condition.

“From this moment, we urgently need the ability to visit, to bring Mr Liu Xiaobo and Mrs Liu Xia their friends’ care and well-wishes,” the friends said.

Hong Kong student leaders say they won’t contest Occupy protest charge ‘As an organizer of civil disobedience, I am willing to bear legal responsibility’

HONG KONG, July 6 (ReuTeRS): Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong, who helped lead the months-long “Umbrella Movement” in 2014 demanding full democracy, said on Thursday he would not fight a charge related to the protests in the spirit of civil disobedience.

The Hong Kong protests that Wong and others helped drive represented one of the biggest populist challenges in decades to the leaders of China’s Communist Party since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement in Beijing.

Wong was one of 20 protesters charged with contempt of court after refusing to obey a court order and leave a protest zone in the working-class district of Mong Kok. “I choose to plead guilty in this case to show, as an organizer of civil disobedience, I am willing to bear legal responsibility,” the 20-year-old Wong said outside the High Court, flanked by a few supporters.

“Although there’s a chance I might be put in jail, I have no regrets.”

In written statements to the court, Wong and several respondents, including another student leader Lester Shum, “admitted liability”, rather than explicitly pleading guilty, as is the case in a civil,

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong is detained by police as he takes part in a protest demanding the release of Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu Xiaobo, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit in Hong Kong, China on July 1. (REUTERS File Photo)

rather than criminal, lawsuit.

The former British colony that marked its 20th anniversary under Chinese rule on July 1 is governed under a “one country, two systems” formula that guarantees it a high degree of autonomy, civil liber-

ties, an independent judiciary and the promise of universal suffrage as an “ultimate” aim.

The movement was triggered in part

by Beijing’s longstanding refusal to grant the city of 7.3 million people a direct vote

for a new Hong Kong leader that would include pro-democracy, opposition candidates.

Although Beijing had offered Hong Kong a democratic reform blueprint for a direct vote, it envisaged the city’s next leader being drawn only from candidates essentially pre-screened by a small panel packed with pro-Beijing loyalists.

This package was vetoed in 2015 by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers who called it fake, China-style democracy.

Wong’s lawyer, Lawrence Lok, told judge Andrew Chan that Wong acted peacefully throughout the protests.

“This young man had a noble motive in doing what he did,” Lok said, adding that a jail sentence of three months or more would dash Wong’s hopes of running for a seat in the legislature in the future.

Wong has previously been found guilty of unlawful assembly on a charge also related to the 2014 protests, but he avoided jail time.

He was also arrested for “public nuisance” last week on the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Hong Kong, after he and 25 activists climbed up a symbolic golden flower statue that commemorates the handover.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Tennis: odds stacked against serve & volleyers Maradona joins Napoli fans

Dustin Brown in action during his second round match against Andy Murray. (Reuters Photo)

LONDON, JULY 6 (ReUteRs): Dustin Brown's audacious attempt to unseat defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray with a show-boating brand of serve and volley tennis was always likely to end in failure. And it did.

The crowd warmed to the dreadlocked German though, especially those pining for the days when grasscourt tennis really was grasscourt tennis and volleying was revered.

These days serve and volleyers are regarded as novelty attractions in a sport dominated by players more than happy to win back at the baseline.

Take a peak at the wear pattern on Wimbledon's lawns this week and the baselines are straw-coloured and dusty.

It's a far cry from the

days when net-rushing turf warriors like John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras left the baselines alone and chewed up the zone around the service boxes.

There are still players prepared to gamble though -- which is how Germany's Mischa Zverev describes his serve and volley game that bamboozled Murray at this year's Australian Open.

"It's like flipping a coin 200 times a day and then hopefully you win the majority of those coin tosses," the German 27th seed, who plays Mikhail Kukushkin on Thursday, says.

"You need to be ready mentally to (play serve and volley) for months and months at a time. Maybe lose 6-2 6-2, get passed 75 times, and still be okay the next time you do it."

There are multiple reasons, it appears, that only a handful of players -- Zverev, giant Croatian Ivo Karlovic, Luxembourg left-hander Gilles Muller, Queen's Club champion Feliciano Lopez and Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky -- are serve and volleying.

In 2002, when critics decried the shortness of the rallies, Wimbledon switched to a harder-wearing rye grass.

The result was less skid, and higher more trustworthy bounce -- giving baseliners crucial extra time to line up their passing shots.

Slower balls, enhanced strings -- offering more spin and control -- and the fact that modern groundstrokes have become so deadly are also contributory factors.

When Lleyton Hewitt,

essentially a baseliner, won the Wimbledon title in 2002, serve-and-volley made up 33 percent of total points in the men's draw.

Now it is in single digits.

Yet when utilised the success rate is high. Muller followed his serve in a relatively modest 32 times during a five-set marathon against Czech Lukas Rosol on Wednesday but won 81 percent of those points.

"You have to mix it up, you can't give these guys too many targets," Muller, who was bumped up to 16th seed from a ranking of 26 because of his grasscourt acumen, told Reuters.

"But I use it a couple of times a game, maybe more.

Back in 2001 when I was reached the junior final the courts were really fast. The bounce is still low, but it's slow too.

"That makes it harder."

Stakhovsky, who in 2013 famously beat Wimbledon king Roger Federer playing old-school serve and volley tennis, said the tactic can cause shocks every now and again but the percentages are loaded in favour of those who stay back.

"Dustin is one of the few that come in all the time but it's an unacceptable level of risk," the Ukrainian told Reuters after losing to Japan's Kei Nishikori.

"You won't get away with it. The pace of the courts are slow. It used to be a wide serve and volley into the corner, point done.

Now a deep volley is not dangerous any more and you can become a sitting duck."

"I understand the spectators want to see longer rallies, not just 180 serves in a match, but somewhere along the lines it just went too much towards the extremes."

There is hope though for lovers of the volleying arts.

Ultimate baseline warrior Rafa Nadal played some sublime serve and volley points against Donald Young on Wednesday and Federer will employ the tactic.

"If I were coaching a young player I would teach them to serve and volley," 34-year-old Muller said.

"95 percent of the top 100 are not doing it so that means they never practise to prepare for a serve and volleyer coming at them.

If you mix it up and throw in some serve and volley it makes the returner take more risks."

for 30th anniversary of 1st title

ROMe, JULY 6 (iaNs): Diego Armando Maradona, the Argentine football legend who led Napoli to their first-ever Italian league championship, was the star of the show as the Serie A club celebrated the 30th anniversary of that feat.

Shortly after accepting honorary citizenship from Naples Mayor Luigi De Magistris during Wednesday's celebrations, the man known in his prime as "El Pibe de Oro" (Golden Boy) addressed a crowd of some 10,000 club supporters in the city's Plebiscito Square,

reports Efe news agency.

Though the reason for the event was the 1987 title, the date was chosen to mark the passage of exactly 33 years since Maradona was first introduced to the Napoli faithful at a packed San Paolo Stadium on July 5, 1984.

Reflecting on his 19841991 tenure with the club, Maradona spoke about the racism he and his then teammates experienced at away matches.

"We Neapolitans suffered from racism when we played away from home," the 56-year-old Argentine

said.

The night began with a brief ceremony at city hall for the presentation of the certificate of honorary citizenship.

"When I travel around the world, I always see signs with 'people who love you don't forget' written on them. There are no people who love me as much as you Neapolitans," Maradona said.

Following the historic 1987 triumph, Napoli went on to win another league crown, a Coppa d'Italia, a UEFA Cup and an Italian Supercup with Maradona.

NF Railways excel at inter railway c’ship

The NF Railways Table Tennis team with coach.

MaLigaON, JULY 6 (MexN): The Women’s Table Tennis team of Northeast Frontier Railway comprising of Takeme Sarkar, Sagarika Mukharjee, Anushka Dutta, Sukanya Bose and Tanaya Dutta became champion in the 65th All India Railway Table Tennis Championship being held at Raebareli (UP) from July 3.

The NF Railway’s Women team won all the matches played during the team championship of the tournament. They beat South Eastern Railway (Kolkata) 3-0, Metro Railway (Kolkata) 3-1, Western Railway (Mumbai) 3-0, Central Railway

(Mumbai) 3-0 and Eastern Railway (Kolkata) 3-0 to become overall winner of the team championship.

In addition to this, in the recently concluded All India Railway Power lifting Championship which was held at Bilaspur from July 1, Amit Kumar of NF Railway won the silver medal in the 93 kg weight category. Nikhil Dihingia also from NF Railway won the Bronze medal in the same category. In the women’s category, Arannyni Gogoi won Bronze medal in the 63 kg and M Rajeswari also from NF Railway won Bronze medal in the 47 kg category.

Women's World Cup: India Klopp upbeat over improved Liverpool's busy start to campaign beat Sri Lanka by 16 runs DeRBY, JULY 6 (iaNs): Brilliant allround performance helped India beat Sri Lanka by 16 runs in a group stage match of the ICC Women's World Cup at the County Cricket ground here on Wednesday.

Chasing 233, Sri Lanka never looked in the contention as they lost their wickets at regular intervals. Middle-order players -- Chamari Atapattu (25), Dilani Manodara (37) and Shashikala Siriwardene (61) -- however, displayed some good batting, but Indian bowlers soon overpowered them.

Besides these, however, no other Sri Lankan batswomen stepped up to the occasion and losing wickets at the regular intervals, Sri Lanka went down to India.

For India, Poonam Yadav and Jhulan Goswami took two wickets each.

Earlier, winning the toss and electing to bat, Deepti Sharma (78) and skipper Mithali Raj (53) helped India post what turned out to be a decent 232/8.

After a poor start by the top order batswomen, Deepti and Mithali forged a 118-run third-wicket partnership in 26 overs to stabilise the Indian

innings.

But just when things seemed good at the middle, Deepti was sent packing in the 37th over by pacer Ama Kanchana. Deepti slammed 10 boundaries in her 110-ball knock.

New batswoman Jhulan Goswami (9) was dismissed in the 40th over and in the same over Miltali was adjudged leg before wicket off Slow left-arm orthodox Inoka Ranaweera.

Middle-order batswomen Harmanpreet Kaur (20) and Veda Krishnamurthy (29) added 50 runs for the sixth wicket before both players were dismissed by pacer S. Weerakkody in the same over.

Lower-order batswomen Sushma Verma (11) and Mansi Joshi (2) struggled in the slog overs, and as a result Sri Lanka managed to keep India below the 250-run mark.

For Sri Lanka, Weerakkody scalped three wickets while Ranaweera took two wickets.

Brief scores: India 232/8 (Deepti Sharma 78 Mithali Raj 53; Weerakkody 3/28) against Sri Lanka: 216/7 (Dilani Manodara 37, Shashikala Siriwardene 61; Poonam Yadav 2/23)

LONDON, JULY 6 (ReUteRs): Liverpool can handle the pressure of opening their Premier League campaign and taking part in a Champions League playoff within the same week as they have a stronger squad than last season, manager Juergen Klopp has said.

Liverpool's fourthplaced league finish sealed a spot in the playoff round for next season's Champions League, the first leg of which will be held on Aug.

15-16, with the second leg to be played the following week.

The Merseyside club start their league campaign on Aug. 12 at Watford and Klopp believes that they can make a good start and seal a return to the Champions League after two seasons.

"We all know in a few weeks we have these qualifiers and there will be pressure on the game," Klopp told the club's website.

"But now we have the time

to prepare for this and we have to use the basis we created last year...

"We are now one of the top four teams in England, so now we want to keep this situation and work with it and improve.

"The squad will be stronger this year than it was last year. That's a reason for real optimism."

Klopp's side begin their pre-season preparations with a friendly at nonleague Tranmere Rovers on July 12.

Kohima Town Club launches logo and season ticket

KOHiMa, JULY 6 (MexN): The Kohima Town Club (KTC) on Thursday officially launched the Club logo and season ticket for the upcoming Kohima Football League, 2017 at The Hub Kohima.

Club Members and officials from participating teams attended the function.

The Season ticket is fixed Rs.1000/- per head with 5 lucky

draw with Gift hampers and the gallery ticket is fixed at Rs.30 per head, a KTC release informed.

The football players planning to take part in the Kohima Football League, 2017 to adhere certain guidelines, it said.

The guidelines include registration of each player with Kohima District Football Association (KDFA).

The fee for registration is fixed at

Rs.50 per head and the last date has been extended July 15.

The participating Club/Teams are also informed that the League player’s registration should be done or before July 30, the release said.

The forms for registration can be obtained from William Koso, Technical Head KTC (9862835381) or from Smart-techies Service,

Printing Press, C.K Arcade, opposite Head Post office Kohima; and Sports Paradise, located near Old Tata Parking , below North Police Station, Kohima The Kohima Town Club (KTC), comprising of 18 members, was formed on December 1, 2016 under the motto, “For the Community, for the Game” kohimatownclub@ gmail.com

FIFA U-17 World Cup: India coach targets quarter-final finish Players boycott Australia ‘A’ tour in pay dispute

NeW DeLHi, JULY 6 (Pti): India's U-17 coach Luis Norton de Matos is targeting a quarter-final finish in the upcoming FIFA World Cup, his optimism emanating from the team spirit among the teens besides improvement in technique and tactic.

De Matos was appointed head coach in March this year and in a short span of time, he has tried to build a team ready to fight the best.

"When we talk about targets we usually associate victories, a finish in the quarterfinal. That is a legitimate dream. We will do everything to fight the favourites and the stronger teams," De Matos told PTI in an interview.

Talking about the larger scheme of things, he added, "The ultimate objective is to show the world our progress and growth that young Indian football players can practice fair and great football and that there is hope for an even better future."

A former manager with the Benfica reserve side, the Portuguese had replaced Nicolai Adam, who was forced to resign under controversial circumstances after a revolt from the players.

The team had an exposure trip to Europe as part of preparations for the mega-event, which will be held across six venues from October 6 to 28.

"The team has made progress during these three months of work.

They have a defined game idea which is yet to be perfected. But through the ongoing training exercises, game simulation, and our playing model, we are working on that.

"But there is something that no manager in the world can do in eight months of preparation, like the experience of 10 years of competition as the majority of World Cup teams have. Playing friendly games is not the same as official games."

He called the Europe outing a "decisive" one, and added they would look to reduce the gap further.

"The experience in Europe has been good and decisive for the progress of the individual objectives of the team. The willingness to learn from the players was of paramount importance.

"At the same time, I cannot forget the quality of the work of my support staff. Yet I am conscious that there is still a long way to go until the World Cup to further reduce the gap between India and the rest of the teams."

Asked to speak about the areas where the team worked on and improved during the tour, he said its passing has improved.

"These players have shown positive qualities -- focus, momentum, intensity, speed, learning ability, enthusiasm and sacrifice. The team has improved on its passing and has been intelligent in using the vacant spaces.

"The training process has stressed on that and the team has been able to create openings in every game we have played so far. But we need to work on the execution efficiency as we have missed many goals.

"The team has also learnt to play in close lines and improved immensely on pressing. The solidarity and the unity in the squad is exceptional."

The 63-year-old said each player in the team will have his role defined, besides playing collectively.

"I know each player very well and their respective capacities. Each opponent will have individual and collective characteristics for which we need to establish strategies to adapt and counter the opponent.

"It is not essential that the players need to stand out individually because they all have a vital role in the team. However, I am aware that during the competition some players will be hogging the limelight more than others."

His experience of handling youth teams in the past could hold him in good stead.

"Before the competition, I will never mention names because they are all being trained and prepared mentally for heroic roles in the team.

I also will not refer to weaker positions because it will be challenging to find players for them as our opponent teams should not know weak spots."

BRisBaNe, JULY 6 (aFP): Australia's players on Thursday boycotted this month’s Australia A tour to South Africa, escalating a bitter pay dispute which threatens to derail senior tours to Bangladesh and India as well as this year's home Ashes.

The Australia Cricketers’ Association (ACA) said the players were unavailable to tour South Africa for the Australia A team without an agreed pay deal or new Memorandum of Understanding, after their existing contracts with Cricket Australia expired on June 30 following months of increasingly acrimonious wrangling.

“It is with great frustration that with no progress towards resolving the current dispute, Australia A players confirm they will not tour South Africa,” ACA said in a statement.

“This decision is made in support of more than 200 male and female players who are now unemployed.”

Cricket Australia (CA) said it was disappointed with the players' decision not to go on the A team tour

of South Africa.

“CA regrets that players have made this decision despite progress made in talks between CA and the ACA in meetings over the past week, including regular communication between CEOs,” it said in a statement.

“While a new MOU has not yet been agreed, CA is of the view that these talks should have enabled the tour to proceed as planned.”

CA said it has advised Cricket South Africa of the players' decision.

The players, selected for the Australia A tour starting on July 12, had been training this week with captain Usman Khawaja and hoping for an end to the impasse before their scheduled departure on Friday.

The tour was to include four-day matches and a limited overs tri-series, also involving India A. Australia A’s squad of 19 for both formats included Test players Glenn Maxwell and Jackson Bird as well as Khawaja.

“By making this call, the Australia A players have

sacrificed their own ambitions for the collective — an incredibly selfless act that shows their strength and overall commitment to the group,” the ACA said.

There are fears now that the pay row could scupper next month's Test tour to Bangladesh, the one-day international series in India in September and even the Ashes against England, which are due to begin with the first of five Tests in Brisbane in late November.

CA and the players' union hit an impasse after the board attempted to scrap a 20-year-old arrangement giving cricketers a fixed share of revenues, in favour of dividing surpluses among elite players and offering a pay rise.

Former Australian captain Michael Clarke has urged the parties to extend the old deal for 12 months to allow for more negotiations in a bid to break the damaging standoff.

CA said it will continue to work towards a new MOU and called on the ACA to show “the flexibility clearly now needed to achieve that outcome.”

Friday 07•07•2017

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Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo to get married!

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11:00 AM | 05:00 PM

I want to play an Indian Spider-Man: Tom Holland

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om Holland got the lyrics of Hindi song "Eespiderman, eespiderman, tune churaya mere dil ka chain" right, and wouldnt mind playing the role of the superhero in an Indian film. But the English actor says he would like to see an Indian actor in the ‘desi version of the hit Hollywood franchise.

During a conversation with comedian Sahil Shah, Holland expressed his desire to see an Indian Spider-Man. The video was released on Tuesday by Comic Con India crew, who attended Sony India's "Spiderman: Homecoming" media event in Singapore last month, read a statement.

Holland was surprised when Sahil told him about the Indian avatar of the superhero that came out in 2004 through limited edition comics - a joint project between Marvel Comics and Gotham Entertainment Group.

After seeing the comic book and Spider-Man in a ‘dhoti', Holland said: "That is awesome. That is so cool."

Asked if he would like to play an Indian Spider-Man, Holland said: "I want to play an Indian Spider-Man but I think we should get an Indian actor to play Indian Spider-Man for sure... I am going to get that (Indian) comic."

He even went to sing a line of "Eespiderman, eespiderman, tune churaya mere dil ka chain" with Sahil's help.

Holland, 20, was introduced as Spider-Man last year in "Captain America: Civil War". He is now looking forward to his first solo movie "Spider-Man: Homecoming". The Sony Pictures Entertainment film will release in India on Friday.

He will also be seen in "Avengers: Infinity War", slated to release in 2018. Holland will follow up his act in "Avengers 4", and then a second solo outing is also planned.

Talking about being the youngest SpiderMan on the silver screen, Holland said: "The experience of being part of the movie has been crazy. It has been a whirlwind - a good one. I had

a time of life making this movie and promoting the movie.

"I just can't wait for the final stage for the movie to be released. But I have had the best time ever and the cool thing about it is that I got to experience it with my friends and family. It hasn't been something that I have done by myself."

Holland said he is still getting used to be associated with "Avengers".

"I have been a fan of the ‘Avengers' ever since I saw the first one. I cannot believe that I can nearly call myself an Avenger.

That is surreal to me."

Source: IANS

‘I don’t know why I was so against it’

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ctor Song Joong Ki and the actress Song Hye Kyo are reportedly getting married on October 31, 2017!

The representatives from both of their respective companies confirmed the news and stated, "Because marriage is not so simple but rather involves both of the family, we were very careful with everything - it is a very sensitive and significant moment in everyone's life and that is why

we're giving out this statement now. We hope everyone understands. We would like to ask for many blessings for the beautiful future of the two individuals, and the two actors will also share the news with their fans."

Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo met through their much popular drama 'Descendants of the Sun' and in a recent news, were together in Bali.

Source: allkpop

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Katrina Kaif on joining social media

fter staying away from social media for so many years, Katrina Kaif gave into the temptation only a few months ago. She took her fans by surprise when she made her debut on Facebook, and later added another address - Instagram.

Since then her fans cannot get enough of her gorgeous pictures. From film sets to her hot photoshoots to her mood swings, Katrina is giving a sneakpeek into her life, and we are not complaining.

In an exclusive inter view to India Today Television, the 3 3 - y e a ro l d a ctor talked about her fear of not joining social media

for so long.

She said, "I don't know why I was so against joining the social media. My mind was blocked completely, I wasn't even ready

for a discussion. But now that I have come on it, I really like it. I really enjoy it."

However, the Dhoom 3 actor added that she should have joined social media a long time ago. "I really wish I had because I would have done much more. I would have had that much time to grow my base of people who interact with me. But so far, it has been fun for me. I have things to say, and then there are these abstract pictures and thoughts in my head. And I want to have an audience to share them with. It makes me feel not so alone," said

Katrina.

On the work front, she has three films in hand after Jagga Jasoos and that too starring all the three Khans.

If Aanand L Rai's next has Shah Rukh, Thugs of Hindostan will see Aamir Khan and Tiger Zinda Hai will see Salman in the lead.

Katrina feels happy to have good projects in her hand. "These moves are not thought out by me.

After Jagga Jasoos, I had no film, and then everything kind of happened on its own," she added.

Source: India Today

Brooklyn BeckHam: Fame doesn’t affect me

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rooklyn Beckham doesn't think fame affects him too much. The 18-year-old star - who is the son of David and Victoria Beckham - says he is used to celebrity life, having grown up in the spotlight.

He said: ''A lot of young influencers feel pressure being in the public eye but it is something I have grown up. I don't think being in the public eye has affected me too much. I'm just used to it. Obviously I have to be more aware as a teenager that someone may be capturing shots of me unaware.''

And Brooklyn would love to pursue a career as a photographer and study the subject too.

He added to Compelo: ''I've been taking photographs for a few years now.

I take them of everything I do and see. I have been posting a lot of them on social media. Penguin saw what I was doing and offered me this opportunity to create a book of my favourite images which really told the story of literally what I had seen. ''Wow, yeah, I didn't realise just what a huge and lengthy process creating a book was! You know I found it really hard to choose what went in and what to edit out.

I guess that was really the most challenging aspect. I think this book really reflects me, my humour, what I like and how close I am to my family. It's really a snapshot into my life ... ''Absolutely! I am very keen to study photography and pursue it as a career. I have just done my photography A Level and have been offered a scholarship at an amazing college in New York to study photography further. I'll be heading out there later this year and will do my degree over there.''

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Source: Contactmusic

Kelly Clarkson takes body shamer by surprise

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elly Clarkson took a fat shamer by surprise when she replied saying she is ''awesome'' with it. The 35-yearold singer was told ''you're fat'' on the Twitter by a troll and she responded in a hilarious tweet which has been retweeted by thousands of her followers. She added: ''....and still f***ing awesome (sic)'', along with the wink face emoji.

The 'Heartbeat Song' hitmaker has been the brunt of negative comments about her weight for the duration of her career ever since she shot to fame after winning 'American

Idol' in 2002.

Kelly - who has threeyear-old daughter River Rose and 13-month-old son Remington with husband Brandon Blackstock - opened up in 2015 about the constant criticism of her figure.

At the time, she said: ''I love how people think that's new -- like, 'Welcome to the past 13 years. ''Yeah, I was the biggest girl on ['American Idol'], too. And I wasn't big, but people would call me big because I was the biggest one on 'Idol', and I've kind of always gotten that.''

However, the blonde

beauty insists that she never takes any of the nasty words personally and joked that she would rather drink wine than shed the pounds anyway.

She said: ''It's like, you're just who you are. We are who we are. Whatever size, and it doesn't mean that we're gonna be that forever. That's the thing.

Sometimes we're more fit. ''Like especially me, I'm such a creative person that I yo-yo. So, sometimes I'm more fit and I get into kickboxing hardcore. And then sometimes I don't, and I'm like ... I'd rather have wine.''

Source: Contactmusic

ender Musical Instruments Corp, whose electric guitars have powered music from Jimi Hendrix to Nirvana, is getting into the software business with an app for guitar lessons.

The Scottsdale, Arizona company is launching "Fender Play," an online system for learning guitar that Chief Executive Officer Andy Mooney, a veteran of Nike and Disney, hopes will cut down on the number of would-be guitarists who give up. He said 45 percent of the company's guitars sell to first-time players, but 90 percent abandon the instrument within a year and never become repeat customers.

"The 10 percent who make it through the first year own an average of seven guitars," Mooney said in an interview. "When we gathered the data and looked at the facts, we said, 'Oh my God, if we just reduced the abandonment rate by even 10 percent, we could perhaps double the size of the industry.'"

The musical instrument industry grew 9 percent to $7.1 billion in retail sales over the past five years but remains well below its 2005 peak of $7.7 billion, according to data from The Music Trades magazine.

Moreover, the electric guitar was virtually absent from the Top 20 music charts in the past five years. The guitar industry hoped video games like "Guitar Hero" would ignite interest among teenagers. Instead, electric guitar sales fell from 1.2 million units in 2011 to just over 1 million in 2016, according

to The Music Trades. The overall guitar market held steady at around 2.5 million units per year during that period, thanks to growth from acoustic instruments.

Fender Play aims to address some key trends, Mooney said. About half of first-time buyers are women, according to Fender's research, and they are buying acoustic guitars online and going to sites like YouTube for lessons. For those new players, he said, traditional music stores can be intimidating.

After a free introduction, Fender Play costs $19.99 a month and consists of a series of video lessons that assume no prior knowledge.

Mooney said his model was Lynda. com, the online learning platform acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion that defied expectations it could not compete with free videos on the internet.

Next year, Fender will make an instructor edition available to dealers so they can use it to manage their guitar students. Fender will compete with other fee-based sites like JamPlay, but is the first guitar maker to dive into the online learning market.

Brian Majeski, editor of The Music Trades, said including dealers should help Fender avoid the impression that it competes with stores for guitar students. He called the software initiative a credible strategy to try to spur growth.

"All the pieces are there," Majeski said. "But this is uncharted territory."

Source: Reuters

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Wimbledon 2017: Dominant TRANSFER WATCH Dimitrov thumps Baghdatis Manchester United agree 75 million fee for Lukaku

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Unseeded Ferrer will play either Czech Tomas Berdych or American Ryan Harrison in the third round.

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LONDON, JULY 6 (REUTERS): Grigor Dimitrov gave an exhibition of his enormous talent on Thursday, striding emphatically into the third round at Wimbledon with a 6-3 6-2 6-1 win over Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.

The 13th-seeded Bulgarian looked less like his "Baby Federer" nickname and more like the Swiss maestro all grown up as he made light work of Baghdatis, a former semifinalist at the All England Club.

The 26-year-old, who also reached the last four in 2014, has perhaps struggled to live up to his prom-

ise as a youngster.

Yet, having reached the semis at the Australian Open earlier this year before losing to Rafa Nadal in a titanic five-set battle, he showed on a sunbaked Court Two that he has the potential and the game to trouble the established favourites.

The Bulgarian looked intensely focussed as he raced through his opening four service games conceding just two points, before breaking for a 5-3 lead and then wrapping up the first set in the next game with his third ace.

It was then a case of simply tightening his

stranglehold, which he did by breaking Baghdatis in the first game of the second and again in the seventh, eventually taking the set after a behind-theback trickshot.

Dimitrov did not have everything his own way in the third, and was forced to save seven break points, but still broke three times himself to claim an emphatic win, which he sealed with a superb diving volley after one hour and 42 minutes.

was on court only briefly on Thursday as Wimbledonsecond round opponent Steve Darcis retired injured.

Ferrer, twice a quarter-finalist at the grasscourt slam, was leading 3-0 when Belgium's Darcis cried off with a back injury.

Darcis, who once beat Rafa Nadal at Wimbledon, is the eighth player to retire in the men's singles at this year's championships.

Two players - Martin Klizan and Alexandr Dolgopolov - failed to comFerrer through as Darcis plete their matches on becomes Wimbledon's Centre Court against Noeighth injury withdrawal vak Djokovic and Roger Spain's David Ferrer Federer respectively on

Kohima Inter District Football Tournament Ministers' Hill Baptist HSS move to Pool B finals Our Correspondent Kohima | July 6

Ministers' Hill Baptist HSS today moved to Pool - B finals after winning the 2nd quarter final match of the ongoing Ist Kohima district inter-school football tournament 2017 here at Khuochiezie.

In the second quarter finals, Ministers' Hill Baptist HSS registered 6-0 win over TM Govt HSS and moved into the Pool - B finals.

Gideon Leo, the Captain of Ministers' Hill Baptist HSS became the 3rd hattrick scorer of the tournament. He scored his hattrick in the 11th min (1st goal), 29th min (2nd goal) and 31st min (3rd goal).

Gideon went on to add the 6th goal in 87th min in

Bad Boys' Tomic and Medvedev receive fines Australian Bernard Tomic has been fined $15,000 after post-match comments saying he had been "bored" during his first round exit from Wimbledon and had faked injury.

The International Tennis Federation also handed Russian Daniil Medvedev three fines, totalling $14,500, after he threw coins at an umpire following his defeat on Wednesday.

Tomic's comments about being bored at Wimbledon received a barrage of criticism.

"It was definitely a mental issue out there.

Wasn't mentally and physically there to perform. I don't know why, but, you know, I felt a little bit bored out there to be completely honest with you," the 24-year-old had told reporters.

Tomic also said he had called for medical treatment during the match against German Mischa Zverev to "break a bit of momentum" and that he had no real injury.

Medvedev's fines focused on his second round loss on Wednesday to Ruben Bemelmans.

After shaking hands with his conqueror, Medvedev grabbed his wallet and pulled out some coins before hurling them toward the foot of the umpire's chair.

"In the heat of the moment, I did a bad thing.

I apologise for this," the 21-year-old Russian said in his press conference.

India rise to 96th in latest FIFA rankings

NEw DELhI, JULY 6 (IANS): India's football team has achieved its best FIFA ranking since February 1996 -- it has been placed 96th in the July rankings released on Thursday.

India's best ranking till date was 94, which was attained in February 1996, while 99 was India's second-best (November 1993).

India have risen by four spots in the past month after their impressive showing during the international break in June when they notched up a 2-0 friendly win over Nepal and a 1-0 win over Kyrgyzstan in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualiMatch in action between Ministers' Hill Baptist HSS and TM fiers group match.

Govt HSS on July 6. (Morung Photo) The national team have the second half.

3RD QUARTER FINALS been on an upsurge with a The other two goals string of good results leadJuly 7. 2:00 PM were scored by Sasang Sithing to a climb of 77 places in lou in the 48th (4th goal) St.Mary's HSS FIFA rankings over the last and 59th (5th goal). vs G.Rio School two years.

The Indians have now won 13 of their last 15 matches and are unbeaten in the last eight matches -- including an unofficial match against Bhutan.

India were ranked 171 when coach Stephen Constantine took over as national team coach for the second time in February 2015.

The rank slipped further to 173 in March 2015 in the FIFA ladder even before Constantine could have his first game in charge against Nepal, which India eventually won 2-0 on aggregate.

As far as Asia is concerned, India are the 12th ranked team while Iran continues to lead the chart at the 23rd spot.

Sports Minister Vijay Goel said: ""We are going through a golden period of football and the best is yet to come."

MPL: Medical XI beat MRH Sunrisers 8-0 to reclaim top spot DIMAPUR, JULY 6 (MExN): With a whopping 8 goals to nil victory over MRH Sunrisers, the Medical XI today temporarily reclaimed the top spot at the ongoing Morning Premier League in Kohima.

A dazzling performance from Kekhrie, who scored 6 goals, coming in the 3rd, 14th, 16th, 20th, 31st, and 70th minutes, took the Medical XI to the crest.

The other scorers for Medical XI were Theja who scored in the 16th and 20th minutes; Kenie who scored in the 14th minute and Vinyu who scored in the 70th minute.

However, the fate of Medical XI still hang in balance and will be decided by the outcome of the last match of the season on July 7 when the current leader PowerComm meets Amur Falcon Football Club.

A win for PowerComm would ensure them the MPL title for this season with superior goal differences over Medical XI. However, even a draw would assure Match in action between Medical XI (Blue Jersey) and MRH Sunrisers (Black& Yellow stripes) at the ongoing the championship crown to Medical XI. Morning Premier League on July 6.

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anchester United have agreed a 75 million pound ($97 million)deal for Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters on Thursday.

The move, which is not connected to any talks of a Wayne Rooney deal in the opposite direction, is expected to be formally announced within the next 36 hours.

Lukaku had been United's number one target for next season, the source said.

United will not now be pursuing any interest in Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata.

"Chelsea's interest in Lukaku allowed United to fly under the radar on this," the source said. "But he has been the club's number one target."

There had been much speculation that the Belgian international would return to Chelsea, which he joined in 2011.

Last season Lukaku became the first Everton player since Bob Latchford to score 25 goals in two consecutive seasons in all competitions.

The Belgian was named in the PFA Team of the Year for the first time, and was also included in the six player shortlists for the PFA Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the Year awards.

Arsenal sign striker Lacazette from Lyon

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rsenal have signed striker Alexandre Lacazette on a fiveyear contract from French side Olympique Lyonnais, the Premier League club said on Wednesday.

British media reported that Arsenal paid a club-record 46.5 million pounds ($60 million) for the 26-yearold Frenchman.

Lacazette scored 37 goals in 45 games last season as Lyon secured a fourth-placed finish in Ligue 1 and reached the Europa League semi-finals.

The France international has netted at least 20 league goals in the past three seasons and is Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's second signing this transfer window after defender Sead Kolasinac joined on a free transfer.

Pepe pens two-year contract with Besiktas

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ortugal international defender Pepe has signed a two-year contract with Turkey's top division football league champions Besiktas.

The Turkish Super League champions said in a statement on their website that Pepe, a member the Portugal squad that won the Euro 2016 title, joined them for 9.5 million euros (around $10 million) apart from other variables on Wednesday, reports Efe news agency.

The former Porto defender said on his new side's website that he was happy as Besiktas' officials worked hard to bring him in.

Pepe, who won the Champions League title three times with Real

Madrid, said he got offers from England, Italy and France, but opted for the Turkish side after 10 years with the reigning La Liga champions.

Real Madrid confirms loan of defender Coentrao to Sporting Lisbon

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trao to Sporting Lisbon until 2018.

"Real Madrid C.F. and Sporting Clube de Portugal have agreed the loan of the player Fabio Coentrao until 30 June 2018," the Spanish club said in a statement on its official website.

"Welcome to the Lions, @Fabio_Coentrao," the Portuguese club tweeted.

Coentrao joined La Liga champions in 2011 and his contract expires in 2019, but he had only minutes during the past season with the team, coached by Zinedine Zidane.

The Portuguese defender, who was also on loan at Monaco in the 2015/16 eal Madrid on Wednesday con- season, returns to the Portuguese firmed they have agreed the league, where he previously played in loan of defender Fabio Coen- Rio Ave, Nacional and Benfica.

Swansea sign Las Palmas midfielder Mesa for 11 million

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wansea City have signed midfielder Roque Mesa from La Liga side Las Palmas in a four-year deal for a fee of 11 million pounds ($14.25 million), the Premier League club said on Thursday.

Mesa, 28, played over a 100 matches for Las Palmas since joining in 2010 and made 35 league appearances last season as the club ended their second season in 14th place in the Spanish top tier.

"I'm very happy to be here. It's a new challenge and a new adventure," Mesa told the Swansea's website.

"One of the main reasons I had to be here was that the manager wanted me - that's a great incentive. I felt I needed a new experience and a new challenge."

Mesa is Swansea's third signing this summer after Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham joined on a seasonlong loan and goalkeeper Erwin Mulder signed on a free transfer.

(Source: Reuters)

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