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Sushma, Hague discuss plans to broaden IndoBritish economic engagement [ PAGE 8]
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance Emma Watson named UN Women Goodwill Ambassador [ PAGE 11]
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 12 pages Rs. 4 –George Bernard Shaw
Keeping alive traditional values [ PAGE 2]
Shevardnadze: Fearless life, sad political ending [ PAGE 9]
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india seeks to invigorate its wobbly railways Increased allocation for rail connectivity in North East region
NEW DELHI, JULY 8 (REUTERS): The bulk of India’s future railway projects will be financed through public-private partnerships, the country’s railways minister said on NEW DELHI, JULY 8 Tuesday, in a bid to mod(IANS): The Indian Railways ernise the vast but underwill spend Rs.5,116 crore on funded network. In his projects in the Northeast to maiden budget, Sadananincrease connectivity in the da Gowda said his ministry region. This is 54 percent jump would also seek cabinet apover allocations in the previproval for allowing foreign ous fiscal. Also, the railways direct investment in the would take up eco-tourism state-owned network, but and education tourism servicpassenger services would es in the northeastern States. be excluded. “The bulk of Presenting the railway our future projects will be... budget in the Lok Sabha That`s it. I am selling the TV. by the PPP model,” he told Tuesday, Railway Minister India’s parliament, referD.V. Sadananda Gowda said ring to public-private partthere are 23 projects undernerships. way in the northeast, of which The decision to push 11 are national projects. private investment signals He hoped the Dudhthe appetite Prime Minisnoi-Mendipathar new line, ter Narendra Modi’s new Lumding-Badarpur-Silchar government has for taking tough and unpopular deci- Indian children of railway workers play in water from a tap inside a railway yard in Ah- gauge conversion, Harmutisions he has said are need- madabad on July 8. India’s new rail minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday proposed Murkongselek and Baliparaforeign investment to modernize the country’s cash-strapped state railways. ed to revive the economy. allowing India has one of the world’s largest railways, which transports 23 million passengers a Bhalukpong sections will be However, no details of how day. Indian Railways is one of the world’s biggest employers with more than 1.3 million commissioned soon. it would lure investors were employees. The network lost 300 billion rupees ($5 billion) last year. (AP Photo) Related news on page 3 given. Investors had harboured expectations for percent of revenues on op- tails of how the wider goals “There is nothing in this modernization, preferring Modi’s government to use erating costs, leaving next would be met and how entire budget which tells instead to use the system to the railways budget - which to nothing for investment. Gowda would get foreign you how they will make it provide cheap transport for precedes the full budget by Gowda’s speech promised companies such as Bom- attractive for private sec- voters, and jobs for 1.3 miltwo days - to detail wide- to get the railways’ finances bardier and General Elec- tor,” said Manish R. Shar- lion people. That sensitivity spread reform. India’s state- in order, complete long-de- tric to invest. Stocks fell ma, executive director of was on display on Tuesday, owned railways are the layed projects, seek cabinet sharply following Gowda’s capital projects and infra- when supporters of India’s fourth-largest in the world. approval for a long-standing speech, with the Sensex structure at PwC India. main opposition party They have suffered from plan to allow foreign direct closing down 2 percent af“Given that in the past gathered outside Gowda’s years of low investment and investment and jumpstart ter the government dashed PPP has not taken off in residence to protest against populist policies that have ambitious plans for high- investors’ hopes for greater railways...it would be very a recent fare rise, and one kept fares low. But that has speed rail. The budget con- spending on the railways, important to see how protester removed the minturned a once-mighty sys- tained some minor mea- while bond yields rose. they come up with imple- ister’s nameplate from his tem into a slow, badly-con- sures, such as a greater use India’s use of a railway mentable mechanisms gate, local TV showed. Mogested network that crimps of “mechanized laundries” budget separate from the which the private sector di’s government pushed economic growth. to eliminate the washing by national one is a relic of will buy,” he said. Reform through a fare rise last The railways cost the hand still employed to clean British rule, when the net- of India’s railways has long month, but partially rolled government around 300 bil- much of the bedding on work was the country’s proven politically sensitive. it back later, under political SENAPATI, JULY 8 lion rupees ($5 billion) a year sleeper trains. major industrial asset and Successive governments pressure. (MExN): The United Naga in subsidies and spend 94 But it was short on de- a major revenue earner. have backed away from Related news on page 8 Council (UNC) has urged the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Delhi administration to leave no stones unturned to book those responsible for the death of Wilungbou Chawang of Oklong village, Se- AgARTALA, JULY 8 BJP-led NDA government napati District, whose dead (IANS): The BJP led NDA came to power with the help body was found in South government at the Centre is of rich men and millionaires. Delhi, Chirag Dilli area on contemplating revocation Due to the MGNREGA, these July 6. A press note from of the rural job guarantee rich men and millionaires the UNC stated that “mur- scheme MGNREGA to help are not getting workers at a der, violence, rape, humili- millionaires, Tripura Chief cheap rate. “Hence, the central govation and discrimination Minister Manik Sarkar alernment is contemplating leged Tuesday. The scheme upon our people staying under the Mahatma Gandhi withdrawing MGNREGA to in Delhi for study or em- National Rural Employment help them (millionaires).” ployment has been taking Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) “After increasing rail fares and place unabated in spite of mandates 100 days of employ- prices of petroleum products the assurances of the con- ment in a financial year to at and cooking gas, the central cerned authorities to pre- least one member of each ru- government is now considvent such occurrences.” ral household. ering revoking MGNREGA,” It urged that such crimes “If the BJP government said Sarkar, a politburo memmust be stopped and called withdraws MGNREGA, a ber of the Communist Party of upon the authorities to en- storm of protests would rock India-Marxist. The chief minister said the sure the security and safety the nation,” he said while of the people “irrespective addressing a public gather- BJP-led government assumed of their looks or their place ing organised in connection office with a slogan that “good of origin.” The UNC further with the July 15 election to days are ahead”, but prices of Sumi women perform at the Tuluni festival in Dimapur, Nagaland on Tuesday, July 8. extended its condolences to the three-tier gram-pan- essential commodities are in- Tuluni is am important festival of the Sumi community and is marked by celebrations and feasting as it occurs in the bountiful season of the year. Photo by Caisii Mao the family of the deceased. chayats in the state. “The creasing every day.
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centre plans to revoke MGnreGA: tripura cM
RAIlWAy BUdGEt HIGHlIGHtS Receipts in 2014-15 estimated at Rs.164,374 crore, expenditure at Rs.149,176 crore Fare revision will bring in Rs.8,000 crore Receipts in 2013-14 were Rs.139,550 crore; expenditure was Rs.130,321 crore Spent 94 paise of every rupee earned, leaving a surplus of only 6 paise Twenty three railway projects underway in the northeast; Rs.5,116 crore allocated for this in 2014-15 - a jump of 54 percent from the previous fiscal First bullet train to run on Mumbai-Ahmedabd route Trains on select routes to be speeded up to 160-200 km per hour Ticketing to be further modernised to issue 7,200 tickets per minute Dedicated freight corridor projects to be closely monitored Rs.5 lakh crores required in 10 years for ongoing projects In the past 30 years, 676 projects worth Rs.157,883 crore sanctioned, of which 317 completed and 359 incomplete and would require Rs.182,000 crore Rs.40,000 crore needed for track renewal, elimination of unmanned railway crossings and for road-under and road-over bridges. To strengthen security, 17,000 RPF constables have been recruited; 4,000 women constables to also be recruited. Port connectivity taken up on priority in PPP mode Fifty eight new trains, among them five Jan Sadharan trains, five premium trains and six AC express trains to be introduced; run of 11 trains to be extended Special festival trains to continue Wi-Fi at select stations and on some trains Paperless railway offices in five years Innovation Incubation Centre to be set up Pre-cooked ready-to-eat meals to be introduced Food courts to be set up at major stations to provide regional flavour; pilot project on New Delhi-Amritsar and New Delhi-Jammu Tawi routes Forty percent increase in expenditure on cleanliness; CCTVs to monitor cleanliness at stations; cleaning activities at 50 major stations to be outsourced to professional agencies; separate housekeeping wing to be set up; onboard housekeeping services on 400 trains Railways backbone of supply chain of defence establishment Carry one billion tonnes of freight every year Decline in traffic growth in 2013-14 With 12,500 trains, railways move 23 million passengers every day; equivalent to Australia’s population Open mind to correct shortcomings
Misunderstanding can be discussed under proper platform: NSCN (IM) DIMAPUR, JULY 8 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today stated that it holds “Naga reconciliation with utmost importance and with all sincerity we will go by what we all have agreed under the banner of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR).” A press note from the MIP, NSCN (IM) stated that “misunderstanding of any kind can always be discussed across the table under the proper platform.” It further reminded the GPRN/NSCN that the “killing of late Maj. Athong of Yimchunger, who ran away with three arms after killing the then Security Commander Lieut. Thouthutho from Pochury tribe in 1998, has nothing to do with tribe or group affiliation but basing on the serious crime and humiliation he had committed against the nation deserving such unwanted consequences.” However, it lamented that the press statements by the GPRN/NSCN on July 4 and 8 have “crossed the limit of tolerance...” and stated that “...such unrelated and unfounded allegation will hold no water.” Further, the NSCN (IM) stated that allegations “saying late Maj. Athong Yimchunger was killed by Major Phongam Tangkhul is fabricated because no such names exist in our government.” It also said that the “allegation of mass killing by NSCN is most outrageous.” “It is a fact that factional clashes had happened many a time but NSCN does not target civilians and tribes,” it added. Full text on page 4
‘Will stand by contractors’: NFHRCC Weak monsoon affecting farmers in nagaland Morung Express News Dimapur | July 8
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The Nagaland Foothill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) has asserted that it will stand by contractors – A. Neangba Konyak and Yashitsungba Aier in the backdrop of Roads & Bridges Minister, Kuzholuzo Nienu serving legal notices against the contractors. While assuring the support of the committee, the NFHRCC appealed the contractors to “stand strong and firm in the endeavour to safeguard justice.” The contractors on their part have asserted their intent to “stand by justice”, the NFHRCC
stated following a meeting of the committee on July 8 in Dimapur. The NFHRCC have asked the Dimapur district administration whether necessary action has been initiated against the person(s) responsible for “provoking volunteers” during the bandh on June 30. The NFHRCC informed the media that during the July 1 meeting with the district administration, the latter had assured the committee that action will be initiated on the person(s) responsible “after observing the necessary protocol.” “(In this regard) The committee would like to ascertain the status as to
what extent the district administration has initiated to book the persons responsible, including the R&B Minister,” the Committee said. The committee further reminded the district administration to reveal the identity of the person who was apprehended with arms and ammunition on June 30. “Till date, for reasons best known to the authorities in concern, the same has not been done; and in view of which the committee fervently appeal to the Superintendent of Police, Dimapur to kindly do the same so as to avoid confusion among the general public,” it added.
Chizokho Vero Kohima | July 8
Farmers in Nagaland state are in distress due to their inability to carry out paddy cultivation, as a result of scanty rainfall this year. Due to low levels of rain, large pockets of paddy fields have been left unattended by the farmers in many parts of the state, particularly in Kohima and Phek district where large scale paddy cultivation is practiced by many people. It may be recalled that Phek Farmer’s Club (PFC) had recently encouraged farmers to cultivate alternative crops. The PFC had also requested the Agri & allied departments to look
into the matter by conducting spot assessment of the affected areas. PFC president, Chiekhunieyi Vero and Chief Coordinator Thuputhiyi Venuh informed that around 80% of the paddy field left unattended by the farmers till date in Phek is due to the shortage of rainfall. Many have expressed apprehension that the state could face drought-like situation if there is no improvement in the monsoon. Reports have emerged over the past weeks that the specter of drought looms large over several parts of India this year. Predictions of poor monsoon have gained ground, raising fears of water shortage and
Paddy fields left unattended in Kohima district due to scanty rainfall.
apprehension that there would be a fall in the output of food crops. The Centre, on its part, has asked for coordination from the states in order to tackle the situation. According to various re-
ports, vast swathes of farm land covering several lakhs of hectares in states such as Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka have not witnessed any sowing
this season as they brace for drought-like situation. According to the MET department, rains so far have been deficient by 43 percent in the country as a whole.
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Sumi Community in Dakalne celebrates Tuluni
Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): Hoto Yeptho, who is the Addl. Director, Land Resources, Govt. of Nagaland graced the 22nd Annual Cultural Day of Trinity Theological College at Thahekhu on July 8. A press note stated that in his short speech, he spoke on topic such as the exclusivity of the Christian faith i.e. Jesus is the only way to God. He opined and exhorted the biblical students that no matter what culture we follow and languages we speak; a Christian must never compromise his or her faith, for Christ is above culture. It could never approach the sublime beauty of Christ and his deity. He also delivered a polemic on the denominationbased doctrines, traditions and cultures that discriminate the society. Beside his appeal to the biblical student to teach the word of God in truth and honesty, he also offered a solution to the hardcore issue of the contemporary Naga society i.e. tribalism. He opined that tribalism cannot be eradicated by any Naga Frontal organization such as Naga Hoho, NMA, NSF etc but only Christ can.
Kohima: The Sumi Community in Dakalne, Kohima today celebrated the premier festival of the Sumis, Tuluni with pomp and gaiety. Speaking on the occasion, the host of for the festival, L. Pukhato Shohe highlighted the significance of the festival, how it was observed during the times of forefathers till the present day. He also appealed to the parents present in the celebration to inculcate those unique qualities left by the older generation to be practiced by the younger generation. He also urged all the parents to know the importance of making their children educated to become responsible citizens. Speaking on the importance of cleanliness, he called upon the citizens of Dak-
Kohima, July 8 (mExN): The Diploma Engineer Service Association, Department of Power, DESA (P) Kohima has convened a meeting on July 11 at 11:00 am at Zonal Council Hall, Kohima to discuss important issues. A press note issued by Er. N Thiya Jamir, President and Er. S. Yanpamo Odyuo, General Secretary has requested all members to attend the meeting.
pErEN, July 8 (Dipr): The monthly meeting of Peren District Planning & Development Board DPDB was held on July 8 at Deputy Commissioner’s Conference Hall, under the Chairmanship of DC & DPDB Vice Chairman, Peter Lichamo. The house welcomed the new members DEO, Peren Limainla Pongen and SDEO, Peren C. Zuponi. Monthly Department review was presented by District Aids Prevention & Control Unit (DAPCU) which works under CMO Office Peren. The meeting deliberated on the preparation and work distribution for forth coming Independence Day in the District. The house also discussed to put forward the Departments which are not yet established or functioning in Peren district. The members also congratulated the Principal and faculties of Peren College for the best pass percentage result among the state.
moKoKchuNg, July 78(Dipr): Treasury Officer, Mokokchung, Toshizemba, has informed all Heads of Departments/ Heads of Offices under Mokokchung district (including Changtongya and Mangkolemba subdivision) to send their Account Officer and Bill Assistant for a co-ordination meeting on July 11, 2014 at 11:00 am at the conference hall of the District Planning and Machinery Cell. Two senior officers from the Directorate of Treasuries and Accounts have consented to participate in the meeting. He also informed that uniform system of record keeping of National Pension System (NPS), Bill preparation and presentation at Treasury, Cheque draw system would be discussed during the meeting.
AYFD Tsungremmong festival on August 1
Men-folk of Nikhekhu village presenting aphilo kuwo during the celebration of Tuluni, the most important festival of Sumi community.
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Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): Ao Youth Forum Diphupar (AYFD) is organizing Tsungremmong festival at North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) ground on August 1 under the theme “Redefining cultural entity”. SC Jamir, governor of Odisha will be the chief guest and Minister Kuzholuzo (Azo) Neinu, Parliamentary Secretary N Jacob Zhimomi, and NEZCC Director Lipokmar Tzudir will be the special guests. A press release from AYFD general secretary Temjennungsang and president I Moachiba Aier informed that the programme is initiated with the blessing of Ao Senso Telongjem Diphupar and co-sponsored by NEZCC and various other well wishers to “promote, teach, and motivate youngsters the rich culture which we inherited from our forefather from generation to generation.” The programme will feature cultural dance from different tribes, traditional games, and play based on the culture and tradition of the Ao tribe. The AYFD has invited Diphupar Council, women, youth, and student unions, all the tribal hohos of Diphupar, departments, institutions, and well wishers to the celebration.
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Keeping alive traditional values
Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): Nikhekhu, the oldest village of Western Sumi keeps alive the traditional values of rich cultural heritage of Sumis. To mark the culmination of week-long celebration of Tuluni, the most important festival of Sumi community, Nikhekhu villagers organized a rich cultural gala this morning at village ground under the theme “our culture our identity”. V. Phutoi Zhimomi, Kilonser, Natural Resources, FGN graced the celebration finale as chief guest. A press note reporting on the celebration stated, addressing the festival gathering, Phutoi said it is imperative for one and all to know our culture and its significance for it is our identity. He also emphasized on the need to educate younger generations our culture and tradition and for which he said the elders must take the initiative to pass it down to youngsters. He also encouraged the villagers to organize cultural events from time to time as organizing of such events creates an ample opportunity to instill the practices of our forefathers in the minds of the younger generation and also keeping the youth away from habits those are harmful for the society. He also greeted the people on the occasion. The celebration witnessed a colorful display of folkdance by Nikhekhu cultural club, yarn spinning song by young damsels of the village, paddy sowing song by mother group and other items such as spear-kicking etc. Competitions of various traditional and modern games and sports, poetry, singing and other talents were conducted during course of week-long celebration and prizes given away to winners. The entire village was divided into five groups – Amlu Loji, Aghacho Loji, Chengu Loji, Achita Loji and Tsulichepu Loji and each group was led by a GB of the village. The cultural programme which saw the culmination of the festival commenced with invocation prayer by village pastor, P. Viyito while K. Hozheto, GB welcomed the guests and Isawoto Zhimomi, head GB proposed the vote of thanks.
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lane to keep their colony neat and clean and upgrade it. New office bearers for the tenure2014-2017 were appointed during the celebration. Cultural items by men and women folk and children marked the occasion. Earlier, Rev Zuhokhu Kiba, Pastor Sumi Baptist Church Kohima pronounced invocation, Thekrasau Swu presented the finance report while Pukhalu Kiho chaired the celebration.
Tuluni Festival at Sematilla
Dimapur: Along with the rest of the Sumi community, Sematilla Council Dimapur also celebrated Tuluni festival with traditional fervour and colour at GMS ground, Sematilla. Speaking as the chief guest, Dimapur Sumi Council Chairman, Kuhoi Zhimo urged upon Sumi community
to continue to uphold their culture and tradition as they progress with modernity. He also encouraged them to show more love and respect towards one another besides uplifting each other in all walks of life. Tuluni Father, Yeshito Chishi ex-minister spoke on the significance of the festival. During the programme, various cultural items were presented by menfolk and womenfolk of the colony while tug of war competition was held between the chief guest’s team and Tuluni Father’s team. Pork fat eating show and spear throwing competition mimicking killing of wild animals during forefathers’ time were also displayed. The festival celebration was attended by DCCI President Hokivi Chishi, SKK President Holuvi, elders, GBs and well wishers.
Vety & AH dept interactive meeting conducted
Kohima, July 8 (Dipr): Parliamentary Secretary, Vety & AH, Treasury & Accounts, LM&CP, Er Vikho-o Yhoshu called for collective efforts towards the improvement of Vety & AH department during an interactive meeting held at the Directorate of Vety & AH on July 8. He felt the need to talk about professional ethics from the qualified Veterinary Doctors and further said, “An individual may not make much difference by himself but collectively they can make surprising results”. He pointed out that much progress have been made but said that there is still room for improvement expressing his concern that many farms and institutes are lying in semi -abandoned or non-functional. He therefore called upon the Department to have a brain storming session as responsible officers on
Parliamentary Secretary Er Vikho-o Yhoshu with others during the interactive meeting held at the Directorate of Vety & AH on July 8. (DIPR Photo)
how to bring improvement and to make use of whatever facilities are available. Yhoshu also maintained that rearing of animals and its health is an important and essential part of life especially in rural areas and the department having
the mandate need to look after their needs in order to produce good results for the benefit of all. He also expressed concerned over the huge sum of money going outside for meat, egg and milk products. Faster progress of the departmental activities is in
need, he added. He also called the Vety Officers to walk the extra mile and give additional efforts to bring positive changes in the department which he felt will benefit the people in return and encouraged them to implement
the Schemes and Programmes carefully. He further stated that as a leader, he will leave no stone unturned in his mission to bring improvement to the department. He also sought the support and co ordination of all officers and staff and further assured all possible help to all for the betterment of the department. The programme was chaired by Secretary of Vety. & AH who also in his welcome address mentioned that with the new leadership of Parliamentary Secretary the department will make positive progress. During the programme, Director, Vety. & A.H. in a short speech gave the profile of the department and also the schemes and programmes that are being implemented by the department. The programme was attended by Officers and Staff of Directorate and district officers.
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Tuensang DPDB meeting conducted
TuENsaNg, July 8 (Dipr): District Planning and Development Board meeting for the month of July was held at DC Conference Hall Tuensang on July 7. The Deputy Commissioner of Tuensang T. Mhabemo Yanthan chaired the monthly meeting. The meeting started with the felicitation of the topper Phoment Chang who topped 18th ranked in the HSLC 2014. The forum also discussed and approved to provide grandin-aid to two schools namely United Welfare School, Tsadang and Christ King School, Tuensang. The chairman of the board also shared the importance of awareness of ‘Greening up Changki’, a youth movement for green and healthy environment, was organised on July 5 at Changki. With the initiative of Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari and Baptise Church Changki Youth Director, Lima Aier, the CYE Disaster Management to department youth planted 500 ornamental trees and flowers in and around Changki. I. Panger Jamir, Additional PCCF every officials present in the meeting and directed all Nagaland and T.N. Meren Jamir, DFO Mokokchung Division provided the tree saplings.
DC Tuensang T. Mhabemo Yanthan felicitates Phoment Chang who topped 18th ranked in the HSLC 2014. (DIPR Photo)
the concern officers to get its employees well trained in this sector. Deputy Commissioner also informed all the District Officers about the proposed visit of the State Chief Secretary to Tu-
ensang and advised the entire Officers to stay vigil and answerable to any enquires. The meeting concluded with the departmental review of the functioning’s and departmental updates.
NYK Peren conducts life skills education training programme
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Participants, resource persons and others during the seven days life skills education-training programme held at the Town Hall Jakukie, Peren.
pErEN, July 8 (mExN): The Nehru Yuva Kendra, Peren successfully organized seven days life skills education training programme at the Town Hall Jakukie, Peren from July 1 to 7 for the youth of the Peren district. John Makhabo DYC, NYK Peren, Ngapunyi Albert Krocha and Netu Rosy Shupao were the resource persons. Total 42 participants from different youth organisations in and around Jalukie attended the programme. The training programme emphasized on the ten core Life Skills (soft skills), which includes self awareness, empathy, creative thinking, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, effective communication, interpersonal relationship, coping with
emotion and coping with stress. The programme also includes two sessions on health education and substance abused. The resource persons thoroughly deliberated on the ten core life skills with numerous activities, games and examples for the better understanding of the participants. “Life Skills is to do with positive attitude and behavior,” said the resource person. “It is important to be optimist with positive attitude and behaviour to be a successful person and the Ten Core Life Skills Education had a means to help one to possess it,” said Ngapunyi Albert Krocha. He emphasized on the importance of self-awareness for personal development, need for empathy to understand the feeling of others, creative
thinking, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, effective communication and inter-personal relationship during the programme. Netu Rosy Shupao another resource person too emphasized on the importance self-awareness, empathy, coping with emotion and coping with stress. ‘Knowing our strength and weakness is the first step to personal development, therefore we should identify our strength and preserve them and also recognize the weaknesses and work to convert them into strength. Empathy is placing ourselves to the situation of others. Emotion is with everyone but it is important how we adjust ourselves with the emo-
tions’ said Rosy Shupao. The importance of education health and substance abuse was deliberated and discussed by John Makhabo DYC, NYK Peren. “Many of our young innocent boys and girls falls into the prey of addiction,” said John Makhabo. He said, “Addiction doesn’t come as an addiction but just as a dose to experience and it becomes too late when we were caught addicted.” He stressed on the preventive measures saying ‘prevention is always better than cure’. In the evaluation session it was highlighted by the participants that such life skill training programme need to be reached to more youth as these core skills are needed to make one successful in one’s life.
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incentives Seven new trains announced for GoItogives Maram Tribe northeast, Rail University mooted Newmai News Network Imphal | July 8
NEW DElhI, July 8 (pTI): It's good news for northeast India in this Rail Budget as government on Tuesday proposed seven new trains besides earmarking Rs 5,116 crore for various projects in the region. Railway minister DV Sadananda Gowda announced a premium train — Kamakhya-Bengaluru Premium Express — and an AC weekly express train between Naharlagun-New Delhi will be introduced in the current fiscal. Kamakhya station is within Guwahati city while Naharlagun is 12km away
from Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar. Two daily intercity express trains — Guwahati-Naharlagun and Guwahati-Murkongselek--will be introduced during 2014-15, Gowda announced while presenting the Railway Budget in Parliament. Kamakhya will also be connected with Katra in Jammu & Kashmir with a weekly express train. Two passenger trains have also been offered for the northeastern region. They are Guwahati-Mendipathar passenger (daily) and Rangapara North-Rangiya pas-
Northeast Briefs Blasts in Ukhrul Imphal, July 8 (NNN): Two civilians were injured when three IEDs exploded in Ukhrul district this morning. The IEDs were believed to be planted by suspected PLA cadres targetting the Assam Rifles. According to reports, IEDs in succession exploded in Kasom Khullen area about 1 km away from the post of 44 Assam Rifles in Ukhrul district at around 9:30 am. The injured are being treated in Imphal.
Mizoram CM seeks creation of Boundary Commission aIZaWl, July 8 (pTI): Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today told the state Assembly that he had asked the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to constitute a Boundary Commission to settle boundary disputes with Assam. Intervening during question hour, Lal Thanhawla said, "Constitution of boundary Commission was the need of the hour to prevent bloodshed and violence in the region by finding amicable solution to the border disputes with Assam." Replying to a query from Lalruatkima of the opposition Mizo National Front (MNF), Land Revenue and Settlement Minister R Romawia said that the state government's accepted boundary with neighbouring Assam was the border accepted in the treaty signed between the then Mizo chief Suakpuilala and the British government representatives in 1875.
ATM lifted from kiosk, money looted RaNgIya, July 8 (pTI): A State Bank of India's ATM was uprooted from its kiosk and Rs 5.38 lakh were looted from it by robbers in Kamrup (Rural) district, police said on Tuesday. The bank's agents had deposited Rs 45 lakh in the ATM near the Rangiya railway station last evening and a group of about 12 robber came late last night and lifted the entire machine and looted Rs 5.38 lakh while the remaining amount had been already withdrawn. The ATM was yet to be traced.
senger (daily). The railway minister said there are 23 projects underway in the northeast, of which 11 are national projects. In 2014-15, an outlay of Rs 5,116 crore is earmarked for projects of northeast and this is a 54 per cent jump over allocations in the previous year. "With higher allocations and by close monitoring of works in this region, I hope that Dudhnoi-Mendipathar new line, Lumding-BadarpurSilchar gauge conversion, Harmuti-Murkongselek and Balipara-Bhaluk-
pong sections will soon get commissioned. These measures will also give a boost to the state capital connecting projects in the region," he said. Govt may set up Railway University With an aim of providing railway-oriented education, the government is considering setting up of a Railway University for both technical and non technical subjects. The railway minister also spoke about the plans for skill development of the staff while presenting the Rail Budget for
2014-15 in the Lok Sabha. "I am contemplating setting up of a Railway University for both technical and non technical subjects," Gowda said. He said the railways could tie up with technical institutions for introducing railway-oriented subject for graduation and skill development. In the meantime, staff at the ground level will be sent for short duration courses of technical and non technical nature, involving locally available technical institutions. The exposure for specialised areas like high-
Assam Rifles trooper accused of sexual harassment ShIlloNg, July 8 (IaNS): The wife of an Assam Rifles trooper Tuesday accused another paramilitary personnel of sexually harassing and blackmailing her, and higher officials of the force of putting pressure on her not to highlight the case. Dan Singh Negi, a rifleman of the 40th Assam Rifles Battalion, was
tion to me and my family," the woman told journalists. "When I took up the matter with the higher-up of Assam Rifles, instead of listening about my sufferings, the officials asked me unpleasant questions," she said. Negi rubbished the accusations levelled against him, and said: "It's not true. I have never done anything
wrong. I have never said those things that are being alleged against me." The woman said she wants the Assam Rifles to conduct a thorough probe against Negi. The Assam Rifles, however, denied the allegations, saying the woman was yet to file a complaint with the paramilitary force.
Tamei sub-division in want of doctors
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Imphal, July 8 (NNN): Numerous diseases are affecting Tamei sub division but in want of doctors the plight of the patients is mounting by the day, rued Pougaibou, convenor of Zeliangrong Students Union, Tamei Area. Pougaibou said that there should be at least five doctors posted at the Tamei PHC but that was not done. "The transfer order of the only doctor who is posted at the Tamei PHC has also been issued adding to the woes of the people," Pougaibou further stated. The ZSU-TA convenor threatened to resort to serious forms of agitation along the national highways in collaboration with
accused of sexually harassing the mother of two over phone for the past four months. "I have filed a complaint against Negi about how he has been sexually harassing me over the phone for the past four months, but the officers advised me not to take the matter forward as it would bring bad reputa-
other students' bodies if the stipulated numbers of doctors are not posted at the Tamei PHC by the state government. The student leader also said that the whole sub division of Tamei is depending on the Tamei PHC "but the state government continues to show its callous and indifferent attitude towards the people of Tamei sub division." Meanwhile, according to Pougaibou, the class-8 student who died on July 3 in Tamei was due to typhoid and not due to malaria. Meanwhile, two more persons from Tamei subdivision have died today following some diseases. Both were brought to Imphal in serious condi-
tions and died today - one at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal ans the other at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal. Former president of Kuilong Area Students' Union Liangkebou stated that the two would have survived if doctors were there at Tamei PHC. On July 3, typhoid has claimed the life of a class-8 student of Hamai English School at Tamei under Tamenglong district and there has been rising number of patients at Tamei Primary Health Centre (PHC) but due to absence of doctors the situation is getting worse, according to ZSU-TA.
Consult us before decisions on Assam, state BJP tells Centre guWahaTI, July 8 (TNN): The Assam unit of BJP has sent a clear signal to the Centre saying that party leaders and MPs should be consulted before taking decisions concerning the state. This stand of the party unit came after the embarrassment it had to face following the Centre's recent decision to go ahead with the construction of the 2000MW Lower Subansiri project in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. Though the Centre, later, decided not to carry on with the construction, sources said the state BJP leaders told all-India chief for morchas and cells Mahendra Pandey
that the damage was already done. On Sunday, Pandey took feedback from the state on Narendra Modi government's completion of one month. Pandey also had a meeting with state BJP office-bearers where the issues concerning large dams in Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan, checking infiltration from Bangladesh and updating National Register for Citizens (NRC) were raised. Sources said during a meeting with Pandey, the leaders told him that as BJP was opposing the Subansiri project, the Centre should have consulted the state unit of the party or MPs before giving the nod to resume
construction. Work on the 2000MW power project at Gerukamukh in Arunachal Pradesh has been stalled since 2011 following stiff agitation by anti-dam organizations in Assam. The state unit of the party took a stand against the project for its possible environmental impact on downstream Assam. In 2010, Rajnath Singh also spoke against the Lower Subansiri project at a public meeting in Dhemaji district's Gogamukh. "We are happy that the Union minister of state for power Piyush Goyal, later, said there will be no construction before talks with stakeholders from Assam. But the damage was
already done by the first decision to go ahead with the construction," a BJP source said. They also told Pandey that even Modi's foundation laying for a 600MW power station in Bhutan last month was not taken with enthusiasm by the people in Lower Assam districts because they were already affected by the impact of existing power projects in the Himalayan country. The state BJP leaders made it known that people in the state are looking forward to BJP fulfilling promises made ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, especially stopping influx from Bangladesh and updating the NRC.
Locality in Imphal fears being wiped out by railway project Imphal, July 8 (NNN): Railways is reaching Imphal in the next few years time. But people in Yurembam locality of Imphal West district are spending sleepless night gripping with apprehension that their locality will be wiped out by the government to construct a railway station. On two occasions in the past parts of their locality were acquired by the government to build power projects. But today, the people of Yurembam pledged not to give in to the government this time. Yurembam is a village since 663 AD and is 6 km from Imphal. It occupies an area of around 6 Sq.km in area and is surrounded by Changangei and Tabungkhok (East), Patsoi (North), Malom and Bamdhiar (South), Sagoltongba and Konthoujam (West). The village is inhabited by Meiteis and Rongmei Nagas. Yurembam has already faced land acquisitions three times. The first time was about 40 years back for establishment of 132 K.V. Power Sub-Station with Store Division of Govt. of Manipur. The second about 20 years back for establishment of Power Station of NEEPCO Limited and the third time was in the year 2010 for expansion of 400 K.V. power
plant of the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. In those three acquisitions, there were prolonged agitations in the effort to prevent forcible acquisition. Yet again, the Government of India and Manipur is targeting to acquire huge chunks of land in Yurembam for construction of the Trans Asian Railway line and station, and this has caused fear and sleeplessness to the villagers. “We have collectively decided that we will no more give our land for any other purpose. "From our previous experiences, we have learnt that issue of forcible land acquisition for what is known as public purpose, compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement are but bitter experiences for those who lost their ancestral land. Who can replace our homes, agricultural land, spiritual and cultural sites, our community play grounds and grazing areas of our cows? While we will never part our land, but then we also know our lands will be taken away when we cannot fight the mighty state. And the only thing to fall back is a ‘good’ Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy," said the Joint Action Committee against the construction of railway station in Yurembam.
speed, heavy haul operations etc will be undertaken for all level of staff and officers at appropriate institutes in India and abroad, he said. Gowda also spoke about plans to harness solar energy by utilising roof top spaces of Railway stations, Railway buildings and land through the PPP model. He added that Indian Railways will start using Bio-Diesel up to 5 percent of total fuel consumption in diesel locomotives. "This will save precious foreign exchange substantially," Gowda said.
While appreciating the government of Manipur for coming up with the Draft Rules of “The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013,” the JAC said that the compensation is inadequate for those affected.
"First of all, English is not our language and most of us do not understand it properly for us to be able to comment on it. This will be true for most people in Manipur. One month is too little a time for affected people like us to give feedback. If the government is really keen to get real
experience feedback then they must translate it to our local language and extend the comment period for another three months. We will also urge the government to conduct some kind of public consultations so that we can provide official inputs to the Draft," the JAC stated.
Imphal, July 8 (NNN): A series of protests began today in Imphal demanding the implementation of Inner Line Permit system in Manipur. The protests will continue for the next few days pressuring the state government even as the Manipur assembly session begins on July 11. Under the banner of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), sit-in protests were held at Keishampat and also at Sangaiprou in Imphal today. Convenor of the JCLIPS H Ibotombi Khuman expressed his fear that the railway line is reaching in the state capital soon but since there is no law to protect the local population from being decimated by the large scale influx of non-locals the situation of Manipur is grim. Khuman also said that there should be an act to safeguard the indigenous people of Manipur. He also recalled that Manipur legislative assembly has passed the bill to implement the ILP in the state but nothing concrete has been materialised till date. The JCILP convenor then said the ministers and MLAs are too weak to pressure the Centre for the implementation of the ILP in the state.
The Government of India bestowed incentives to Maram people, the only community in Manipur that falls under the category of the 'Primitive Tribe' for the advancement of the tribe with the scheme name Conservative cum Development (CCD) Plan under the 12th Five Year Plan (from 2012 to 2017). The population of Maram community is 24,108 with 3136 households spreading over 37 villages in Senapati district--33 villages under Mao-Maram subdivision and the remaining 4 villages under Kangpokpi sub division. The total fund of Rs 100 lakhs has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India for the Maram community for various projects after several rounds of discussion, according to deputy chief minister Gaikhangam who is also holding the charge of Tribal Affairs and Hills, Government of Manipur. Home lighting, mobile medical care, road
connectivity, drinking water and minor irrigation are some of the development projects to cover by this Rs 100 lakhs. As part of commencing its implementation, the Tribal Affairs and Hills, Government of Manipur organised the dedication programme by handing over solar lamps and three ambulances to the Maram villagers. Rs 10 lakhs for road connectivity in two places, Rs 15 lakhs for rural water supply in three villages, Rs 10 lakhs for minor irrigation in two places, Rs 10 lakhs under economic development programme for 20 families, Rs 21.47 lakhs for 123 households under solar home lighting, Rs 10 lakhs to have special coaching for Maram students in three centres, Rs 15 lakhs for mobile medical care in 10 villages, Rs 1.53 lakh for low cost sanitation of 13 households, Rs 2 lakhs for Maram dialect development and finally Rs 5 lakhs for the updating of baseline survey. Meanwhile, deputy chief minister Gaikhangam said doctors, nurses and drivers have been engaged for the mobile medical care programme.
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In Remembrance of 9th July 1987
th July is remarkable, unforgettable and extraordinary day for Onaeme (people of Oinam Hill village), the victims and people who have been associated in one way or the other with the infamous Operation Bluebird. The 9th July is being observed solemnly by the Onaeme as “Onae Reh Dah- Great Battle of Oinam,” ‘a day of prayer’ paying tribute to the fallen martyrs, in retrospection of the painful past and anticipation of future that is hopeful. On this fateful day, the 21st Assam Rifles Outpost at Oinam Hill village was attacked and ransacked by the Naga Underground (NSCN) in the year 1987, killing nine soldiers injuring three and snatched way huge arms and ammunition. In retaliation to that, a counter insurgency code name Operation Bluebird was launched on 11th July, 1987. The operation was conducted under the command of General PL Kukrety, General Officer in Command (GOC), Manipur Sector. During the course of operation gross human rights violations were committed. There was terror and horror that have changed the lives of the people forever. The Naga People Movement for Human Rights filed Court case against the 21st Assam Files in Guwahati High Court on eight specific human rights violations (a) deaths of 27 persons during Operation Bluebird (b) rape and sexual harassment (c) torture of 300 persons (d) illegal arrests and detention (e) burning and dismantling of more than 100 homes (f) dismantling of schools and churches (g) looting of property (h) forced labour. After long legal battle, the judgement was never given. It is believed that the Government deliberately denied justice by delaying it. Nandita Haksar and Sabastian M Hongray concluded their book, “The Judgement That Never Came: Army Rule in North East India by asking, “Who will give the judgement? Will there be a judgement at all?” The hope for final judgement is still a farfetched dream. Many witnesses have died. Judges and lawyers were retired. Nevertheless, the agonies of the people can never be forgotten. The court may never give a judgement, however, the pains, sufferings, torments and the terrifying moments that people have gone through cannot be buried with the denial of court judgement. The village is known for its ingenious traditional earthen pot making called Pouli (in Poumai Language) and Oraela (in Onaeme language). The traditional earthen pot making was been practised before the dispersal of Naga tribes in Makhre (Makhel), a place where many Naga tribes are believed to be sojourned before final dispersal to their respective territories. Onaeme, in a sense is very prominent in term of its contribution in the field of social, economy and religion among the Poumai tribe and beyond, as earthen wares were used not only for cooking and kitchen purposes but have rich rituals and religious significance. The production and trading of earthen wares suggest the self reliant nature of its economy. The area surrounding the Oinam Hill
village, around forty villages suffered the brunt of Operation Bluebird. The whole area were sealed off, movement both vehicular and human were restricted. Press were denied access. Public leaders were detained and tortured. Medical supply/ services were cut off. Village schools were closed down. Village grounds became concentration camps. Churches became concentration camps. Every going out and coming in were vigilantly monitored even after the operation was officially over. The army stopped even the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police, Senapati to visit the affected villages. There was a case of Army person searching the Sub-Divisional Office at Paomata in the absence of the officer and took away official seal. There was also a report of Manipur State Forces and Assam Rifles came to confrontation at Imphal, when the later forcibly brought the villagers to carry out rally at Imphal. Even, the Chief of Manipur wrote Memorandum to Prime Minister of India to intervene and save the innocent civilians; however, there was no much affect to that regard. The Memorandum also demanded judicial inquiry to the incident, but, that was never done till date. The bestiality of the supposed to be disciplined armed forces were exhibited beyond limit. Our generation read stories and saw movies of the Nazi Camps, and we have witnessed in our own eyes the brutalities of 21 Assam Rifles during Operation Bluebird that terrorized the innocent civilians beyond human imagination. The rogues Army, from officers to the lowest soldiers have been wantonly indulged in most unethical actions. The villages were turned into theatres of war. A war was waged by the sophisticatedly armed Forces upon the unarmed innocent civilians, where the later were randomly picked, kicked, beaten, thrashed and later on killed labelling that they were killed in encounters. The villages were turned to prisons. The people became prisoners in their own homes. War was supposed to be fought between the groups who were equally armed in a battlefield. However, in the case of Operation Bluebird, the unarmed civilians were trampled upon the by the armed forces. In the FIR (First Hand Report) filed by the Assam Rifles, those civilians who were shot dead by the 21 AR were alleged as the undergrounds killed in encounters. Those were clear cases of fake encounters to cover up the misdeeds of the Assam Rifles. Those are the cases of extra judicial killings. The whole village will testify that those village leaders killed during the Operation Bluebird were never undergrounds, they were innocent civilians who were tortured to the highest degree, dragged to the jungle and shot by the army. It was a triple assault to those fallen martyrs. Firstly, by systematically torturing them robbing off their dignity, secondly by putting their physical bodies to dead after severest torture and thirdly, by labelling them as undergrounds. In their dead, the village and families lost their
most precious treasure chest which nothing on earth can replace them. The claim that they were killed in encounters was totally baseless, as the whole villagers saw them taken away by the Jawans even while they (those killed) could not walk properly as they were been systematically tortured. Instead of fighting with the insurgents, the innocent civilians were shot with sophisticated weapons. What a sad tragedy. Though, martyrs (those killed) were no longer with us and 27 years have passed, we proclaim to the world that they were mere civilians and not as claimed by the armed forces in the law court just to protect its misdeeds. Though, they no longer can speak for themselves, we will continue to speak the truth while we continue to pay our tribute and respect for their supreme sacrifice. In their dead they remain immortal in the history before the world in the case of ‘human rights violation’ committed by armed forces upon the civilians. In their death, they have died for their land and people. In their dead they have exhibited the courage. Every generation that heard the story will condemn the acts of ‘terror’ and ‘atrocities’ committed during the Operation Bluebird. The men, women and children, all suffered during the Operation Bluebird. Men folks were detained in dingy makeshifts dungeon subjected to third degree torture, many of the victims later died due to the injuries. Many survivors suffer from health complicacies. Women were harassed, assaulted, molested and abused. Sexually harassed and raped, disrobing the chastity and dignity of women. Children were not spared; they were made to sit in rain and scorching heat in open grounds for months together without midday meal. People were terrified. The act of terror had left the people psychologically and mentally disturbed till to this day. One of the victims shared that he never wants to go to town and see the army people. He fears seeing the army personnel. He says, he just wants to confine in the village without the noise of vehicle and where there is no army personnel. Many old people who were badly tortured are dying away day by day. The children who witnessed the most horrifying incident in life are grown up now. The memories are afresh and still very much alive. The villagers were forced to carry rations from one army outpost to the other in rain and sun. From the construction of new army outpost to the carrying of rations, the villagers were used forcibly. The villagers could not tend cattle and attend the fields. Cattles were let loose, thus the paddy fields and vegetable gardens were destroyed by the cattle. As a result the economic lives of the people were badly affected in many villages. This was substantiated by the Church Tithe records during that particular year, which indicated the very low return comparing to previous years. The armed forces also took away shawls, chickens and other materials in guise of searching captured arms.
Team of courageous activists, lawyers, student leaders stood for the villagers at that point of time, filing cases and fighting in the law court on behalf of the victims and the willingness and courage of the victims to give their testimonies have made the incident a ‘unique’ struggle in the fight against army atrocities and ‘human rights violation’. The prominent organisations that supported the legal processes were PUDR, NPMHR, NSF, MBC, ANSAM, UNC, Churches et al. Many individuals, societies have extended moral and material help to the displaced villagers especially in Kohima, Nagaland were various displaced camps were operated to help the victims that flee from their villages. Indeed, it is overwhelming to witness the solidarities across tribes and communities. In a sense, the Oinam incident brought people together to stand against ‘human rights violation’ and atrocities, excesses committed by the armed forces. It had shown the path that in collectiveness and unity, the world can defeat the ‘brutalities and atrocities’ and help victims survive and overcome the darkest moment of history. It is the moral support and prayers from the well wishers, fellow Naga tribes and beyond that help the villagers cope with the losses and survive the nightmare. The massive support, solidarity, concern and compassion shown by courageous people to the victims and for the cause of justice have earned the moral victory over the case, though the legal battle is never seen the light of the day. “A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of OB” (A humble tribute to civilians who were killed in the Operation Bluebird) Operation Bluebird wreaked havoc the hills The serene hills of Oinam was shaken The terror was unleash and horror haunt Draped with shawls men carry in tears Shoulders to shoulders, step by step Struggled through the slippery paths From thick jungles dared the fall They carry the lifeless bodies Home they brought their comrades Children cried, wives wept Villagers and comrades deeply mourned With full honour in best tradition With deepest loss, they bury you You names remain Beyond graves, you live on Leaving behind the legacy The legacy of supreme sacrifice The legacy of heroic endurance The legacy of courage and love You have given your best The best for the rest of your people You remain an epitome of Inspiration Yesterday you laid down your lives For our better today and Tomorrow To you! We give our respect To You! We give our honour To You! We pay our tribute You are fondly remembered Always!
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NSCN (IM) responds to GPRN/NSCN A
t the outset, Kehoi group is once again reminded that, the Killing of late. Maj. Athong of Yimchunger who ran away with three arms after killing the then Security Commander Lieut. Thouthutho from Pochury tribe in 1998 has nothing to do with tribe or group affiliation but basing on the serious crime and humiliation he had committed against the nation deserving such unwanted consequences. Yet the press release dated 4th and 8th July 2014 has crossed the limit of tolerance which we initially had hold back from responding to your first press statement knowing that such unrelated and unfounded allegation will hold no water. Firstly, the unwarranted boasting of having the capability if we have to quote from the 4th July press statement says “GPRN/NSCN also had the armaments and what it takes to unleash terror at any given time” (Unquote). Such childlike snobbishness will not help your intention to survive through the press without any political agenda. Besides nobody is stopping you to unleash your true colour of what you called as “terror”. Nagas do not expect any political statement from such terror minded group who will go to any extend for bull dozers and buildings. Such self indulging materialistic group cannot be more selfish and detrimental to the reputation of Naga nationalism. Secondly, the “ism” infested group from Kehoi will never grow up from being the epitome of communal and regionalist group. To quote “ the NSCN (IM) risks the real danger of all their hard-earned work and sacrifices for fellow Nagas being totally wiped out due to the silly and stupid antics of some Tangkhuls leaders who are interested only in serving their vested personal interest in the name of Naga national cause” (unquote), dated: 8th July, 2014. Such deliberate vitriolic propaganda of singling out a particular community is nothing but an attempt to create a negative image towards the Tangkhul community. The jaundice infected eyes of the Kehoi group which cannot see things beyond the tribal line need to be thoroughly medicated for the larger interest of Naga unity and peace. Thirdly, there is no Angami army, Sema army, Tangkhul army, Yimchunger army and what not in NSCN. There is “only one Naga Army” and they are not called by their tribe name. The allegation of Kehoi group saying late Maj. Athong Yimchunger was killed by Major. Phongam Tangkhul is fabricated because no such names exist in our government. The motive to mention Tangkhul is to flare up communal enmity and therefore very unfortunate; condemnable by all. Kehoi group should be more careful and responsible in what you say. Finally, the allegation of mass killing by NSCN is most outrageous. It is a fact that factional clashes had happened many a time but NSCN does not target civilians and tribes. Most of the cadres based in Kehoi group are defected from NSCN in the recent past. They could be the one who massacred many communities in the past while they were with us if at all such allegations are true! Therefore, take an about turn and give swift justice to those culprits who are in Kehoi group. NSCN hold Naga reconciliation with utmost importance and with all sincerity we will go by what we all have agreed under the banner of Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR). Therefore, misunderstanding of any kind can always be discussed across the table under the proper platform. Kuknalim. MIP-GPRN
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7. Bro or sis 8. Throw 9. Hissy fit 10. A nymph of lakes 11. Muse of love poetry 12. Scour 13. Culinary herb 19. Low heavy horse carts 21. Cards with 1 symbol 25. Bright thought 26. An aromatic ointment 27. Attired 28. An edict of the Russian tsar 29. Fine thread 30. Overgrown with ivy 31. Buff
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There is no shortcut to success: Kronu Our Correspondent Pfutsero | July 9
Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Coordination, Monitoring Cell & Evaluation, Neiba Kronu today stated there is no shortcut to success and encouraged students to take right decision and act immediately in order to excel in life. He stated this while formally inaugurating the Government Higher Secondary School Pfutsero under Phek district. Kronu expressed delight that GHSS Pfutsero recorded the highest number of enrolment among the 23 upgraded GHSS in the state, having 142 in higher secondary section and 320 in the secondary section. He called upon the students to up their performance and expressed hope the school would become one of the best in Nagaland. Kronu, who is an alumnus of the school, recalled other alumni like NLA speaker Chotisuh Sazo, Parliamentary Secretary Deo Nukhu, School Education Director Zaveyi Nyekha, Fisheries Director Chizu Kapfo, Roads & Bridges Chief Engineer Er. D. Mero, Patkai Christian College principal H. Epao, NPSC Chairman K. Puroh, Art & Culture Joint Secretary Kevekha Mero and several others. Kronu added that the world has become a global village and stressed on the need to inculcate hard work in order to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. Also stating that Naga
students can speak English much better than Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, Kronu maintained it as an advantage and called upon the students to venture out. School Education Director, Zaveyi Nyekha, in his speech, assured to send Post Graduate Teachers to the school at the earliest and also assured to take care of other requirements. Presently, there are 1794 GPS, 878 GMS, 273 GHS and 23 GHSS in the state, he said. Stating that educational institutions have now reached every nook and corner of the state, he urged the students to acquire the best education and asked them to be sincere and study hard. Khezha Committee Pfutsero president Sanyi Dukru also spoke on the occasion. GHSS Pfutsero principal Vechikhoyi Lohe in a representation urged the authority concerned to take up the construction of the school auditorium, more class rooms and also to provide necessary furniture. “Among the newly upgraded higher secondary schools, our school has the highest enrolment and we are compelled to make sections for which we need more PGTs,” the principal said. The function was chaired by T Nchumbemo Odyuo, ADC Pfutsero. Rev Dr V Tetseo, Executive Secretary, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council prayed for the programme. Vote of thanks was proposed by GHSS Pfutsero Headmistress Sekhonulu Thingo.
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ment, the truckload of sand was meant for a Church in Chizami Village. I, Kewekhalo Thopi Pastor Chizami Village Baptist Church vehemently deny the false statement of the accused. After my sincere enquiry in all the three churches in Chizami Village, no Church sent person or order sand to bring for the Church Work at this point of time.
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Nuklutoshi meets Uma Bharti Submits DPR for development of water conservation catchment area
NEw DElhi, July 8 (mExN): Nagaland minister for soil & water conservation, national highway and mechanical engineering, Nuklutoshi on July 8 apprised Union Minister Uma Barti about the State department’s water conservation. Nuklutoshi called on Uma Bharti, union minister for water resource, river development and Ganga rejuvenation at her office at Shanshati Bhawan, New Delhi. According to a press release issued by PRO, Nagaland House, New Delhi, during the meeting, the
shift their attention to irrigated and wet terrace cultivation. The Union Minister welcomed the minister and appreciated his approach. She assured to give a pilot project on water conservation in Nagaland, said the note. She further expressed her willingness to visit the State. Meanwhile, Nuklutoshi invited the Union Minister to visit the state Minister Nuklutoshi and state delegation pose for photograph with Union Minister Uma Bharti during their meeting in New Delhi on July 8.
State minister submitted tion catchment area de- state like Nagaland, which a detailed project report velopment in Nagaland. is largely dependent on (DPR) for water conserva- He also expressed that jhum cultivation needs to
One more falls off Old Dhansiri Bridge and dies Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): In light of the July 7 incident, where one person identified as Khehoto Yeptho fell off Old Dhansiri Bridge and died after sustaining serious injuries, the Dhansiri River Flood Control Board (DRFCB) has appealed to the Dimapur district administration to immediately block passage of vehicles through the bridge until its repair work is completed in order to prevent future incidents. In a press statement, DRFCB chairman Hokheto Kiba recounted that an-
Chizami Village Baptist Church refutes report
t was shocked to see in some local dailies appeared in local dailies dated July 8 — "Phek bound IMFL seized in Dimapur". It was said that the Truck was first loaded with 1116 bottles of Whisky and Beer and covered with Taupauline and a half feet sand parked in Thilixu Village was seized by Excise personnel. According to the accused confessional state-
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Rather due to paddy cultivation, work this time all construction works were at a halt. Therefore, the accused statement is totally false and the accused must come to Chizami Village and ask public apology and also publish the same in the local daily at the earliest. Kewekhalo Thopi Pastor Chizami Village Baptist Church Phek
other person lost his life on urging the government April 30, 2014 at the same and authorities concerned to take spot. Prior to the up the DRFCB urges formarepairing tion of administration to block and conD R F C B , passage of vehicles until struction the m a n y the bridge is repaired of similar bridge incidents at the had been heard of from the earliest, the chairman locals in the area, he added. stated. “However, nothing DRFCB had previously has been done for it rather published these incidents the bridge has caused the
and also to celebrate Hornbill Festival, which is one of the major festivals of the region. The Minister was accompanied by Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House Jyoti Kalash and department officials of Soil & Water Conservation - R. Nangshi Jamir, Director; Limameren Ao, Project Directo; Vengota Nakro, Joint Director; and Imkongneken Ao, Joint Director.
MEx FILE 37 AR apprehends NNC cadre Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): 37 Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters 6 Sector Assam Rifles on July 6 launched an operation in Forest Gate, Ward No 1 of Chumukedima, Dimapur and apprehended one NNC cadre. The cadre identified as Amos Ao (25), Rajapeyu of NNC, was in possession of one .22 pistol with magazine and assorted ammunition, stated Assam Rifles in a press release. The apprehended individual alongwith recovered items was handed over to Diphupar Police Station, Dimapur, it added.
death of another life due to the negligence of government.” The board has also requested the government to give compensation to the family members of the deceased. The statement further informed that, the Anti-malaria month board has already brought observed in Dimapur to the knowledge of the PWD and Traffic Police re- Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): In commemoration garding the repair and safe- of anti-malaria month, public awareness programme and blood examination have been held in Dimapur disty measures of the bridge. trict. A press release from District Vector Borne Officer, Dr. Moa Jamir informed that the campaign has been launched in Pimla and Zutovi under Dhansiripar block. Altogether, 20 villages in the rural areas with positive cases will be covered, said the note. Along with blood He also lauded the efforts examination of fever cases, awareness programme are of 11 Assam Rifles for un- also conducted by IEC in selected villages. dertaking extensive tree plantations on World En- Schools in Peren informed vironment Day by planting 3500 trees in Kikruma and pErEN, July 8 (mExN): Both government and pri1500 trees in Mimialekou. vate schools under District Education Officer Peren According to the re- have been informed that the one-day state level achievelease, the project is unique ment survey has been deferred to July 11 from July 10. as not only large scale The venue and timing will remain the same, informed a pineapple plantation was press release issued DEO Peren Limainla Pongen. undertaken but plastic Tangkhul Union Dimapur’s sheets were used to retain the moisture of the soil and half yearly sitting prevent growth of weeds. Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): The Tangkhul Union DiThe village chairman mapur will have its half yearly sitting on July 11 at 11:00 alongwith Phesaku land am at Tangkhul Baptist Church Diphupar. Therefore, all union chairman would be the members have been informed to attend the meetmanaging the orchard on ing positively. behalf of the community.
AR plant fruit saplings in Zadhima village Dimapur, July 8 (mExN): 11 Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters 5 Sector Assam Rifles has planted 25,000 pineapple saplings and 400 orange saplings in the community land of Zadhima village. The plantation was done with the support of ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) Medziphema after carrying out soil test and climate test to ascertain conducive environment for the growth of the saplings, informed a press release from Assam Rifles. The fruit orchard was
handed over to the village community by Deputy Inspector General, Headquarter 5 Sector Assam Rifles in the presence of KT Velie, Village Council Chairman and Kesovilhou, Chairman, Phesaku Land Union. Speaking on the occasion, he told the villagers the benefits they will accrue from the same by way of income generation once the saplings bear fruit. He also urged the villagers to take up these plantations in their private capacity as feasibility of growth of the fruits has been ascertained by the scientists from ICAR.
Broiler production and Management Broiler Broiler is a young immature chicken of 6-8 weeks of age may be of either sex with an average body weight of 1.5 to 1.8 Kg with a flexible breast bone cartilage and tendered meat. A broiler farmer should have a reputation for supplying healthy broilers and successful broiler production depends upon all aspects of the enterprise being well coordinated. Preparation of house between crops, chick quality, brooding, feeding, lighting, disease control, record keeping and marketing are some of the important factors which influence the economic broiler production. Preparation of the House between Crops 1. Feeders and drinkers used for the previous batch are to be removed from the house for cleaning and disinfection. 2. Remove dust and cobwebs from corners, walls, wire mesh etc. 3. Remove all litter material from the house. 4. Disinfect walls, floor, wire mesh and all surfaces by using flame gun. 5. Clean and disinfect the house with 5 per cent phenyl. Instead of phenyl, a combination of several disinfectants available in the market with different trade names can be used. Follow manufacturer’s instructions carefully for the effective utility. 6. Whitewash the building with 3 parts of lime and 1 part of bleaching powder as a good sanitary procedure. 7. Scrape, wash and disinfect all equipments like feeders, drinkers etc. 8. Allow the house clean and empty for a week at least to “Air out” drying. 9. If necessary fumigate the house with 10 per cent formalin. Preparation of House to receive Chicks 1. Spread, dry, mould-free litter
iii) Cold: Here all chicks huddle material to 5 – 7.5cm (2 – 3") together under the heat source height. Commonly paddy husk - heat should be increased. or groundnut hulls are used. 2. Fix hover or infra red bulbs at the centre of the brooder. Feeding 1. Change the different type of Place chick guards of at least feeders according to their 45 – 60cm (18 – 24") height, 60 age. – 90cm (2-3") from the edge of 2. Generally two phase feedthe hover to confine 200 – 250 ing programme is followed chicks to heat. in broilers i.e., starter mash 3. Old newspaper can be used on from 0-5 weeks of age, folthe top of the litter material in lowed by finisher mash from the brooding area for 3 days in 6-8 weeks of age or until marorder to prevent chicks coming keting. in contact with the litter mate3. Specification for protein and rial. energy levels of broiler starter 4. Chick feeders and drinkers are and finisher mash placed alternatively in a cart 4. Use always balanced mash. wheel fashion. 5. Provide proper feeding space 5. Spread feed for 2 days on the and sufficient number of newspaper. feeders. 6. Verify brooders 24 hours before 6. Brim of the feeder has to be in the arrival of chicks. Temperaline with the back of the bird. ture should be 35ºC (95ºF), 5cm 7. Feeders should not be filled (2") above the floor at the edge more than half. of the hover. Now the house is 8. Use properly designed feedready for receiving chicks. ers. 9. Mixed feed should not be Brooding stored for prolonged period. 1. Brooding means providing heat 10. Store feed bags on wooden to the chicks and the equipplatform of 1' height and ments used for this purpose are keep feed bags 1' away from called as brooders. the wall. 2. Brooder may be of hover type or infra red bulbs. 3. Brooding period under our Watering 1. Change drinkers according to conditions maybe extended their age. or removed earlier depending 2. Provide proper watering space upon the season. and sufficient number of drink4. Adjustment of temperature at ers. about 35ºC (95ºF) for first week 3. Brim of the drinker has to be in and reduce it by 2.8ºC (5ºF) evline with the back of the bird. ery week till the room tempera4. Provide always clean and fresh ture is reached. water. 5. Remove newspapers after 3 5. Drinkers should be cleaned days. daily. 6. Remove chick guards after 7 6. Avoid spillage of water. days. 7. During brooding period obLighting serve chicks for comfort: 1. 22 to 23 hours of light is recomi) Comfort: Under comfort mended for broilers. For first 3 condition chicks are spread days 24 hours of light with inthroughout the brooding area. tensity enough to locate feeders ii) Hot: Here chicks are away and drinkers to be provided. from the heating source and 2. Provide pulbs at 2.1M (7') spread out throughout beyond height and width. 3M (10') the edge of the brooder - heat spacing between two ordinary should be reduced.
bulbs or 4.5 M (15') spacing between two tube lights. Disease Control 1. Provide footpath with a disinfectant like phenyl or lysol at the main entrance of the farm and also at the entrance of each poultry house. 2. Follow the proper disinfection procedure recommended between crops. 3. Screen out rodents and wild birds. 4. Keep visitors out of your poultry houses. 5. Avoid management diseases. 6. Deworm the birds. 7. Dispose of dead birds daily. 8. Follow vaccination scheduled. 9. Control of Coccidiosis: Use Coccidial drugs Amprolium to control Cocidiosis. 10. Maintain litter condition properly i.e it should not be too wet or too dry and wet litters around drinkers should be removed periodically. Record Keeping Maintain records regarding cost of chicks, feed, medicine, labour etc. and also the receipts of sale of broilers, litter materials, gunny bags etc. Work out feed efficiency, cost of production of 1Kg of broiler for each batch and profit. Technical Standards 1. In broilers, profit depends upon liveability, body weight at marketing age and feed efficiency. 2. General standards for broilers. a) 96% livability b) 1.7 to 2 Kg body weight at 6 weeks of age. c) 1.9 to 2.1 feed efficiency. Viral Disease 1. Ranikhet: Birds may die without showing any symptoms. There is usually greenish or yellowish diarrhoea, twitching of neck, incoordination or even paralysis. Vaccine: Lasota vaccine - Intraocular - 1 drop 1st week.
appetite, closed eyes, head 2. Avian influenza: Birds may die and wings drooping and without showing any symptendency to huddle near the toms. Dullness ,drowsiness, source of heat. Yolk remains cyanosis of combs and watunabsorbed. tles and odema of face may Preventive/Control measures be seen. a. Furasol - 1gm per litre of water 3. IBD: Birds show dullness, depresfor 7 days. sion, trembling of body, ruffled b. Flumquin - 1gm per litre of wafeathers and death. Bursa of ter for 7 days. fabricus is knocked out. 5. Pullorum disease: Disease of Vaccine: I.B.D. vaccine - intranewly hatched chicks and ocular - 1 drop 12 to 15 days. symptoms includes as those 4. Fowl pox: There is formation of salmonellosis. of small nodules on hairPreventive/Control measures less part of the body such as a. Furasol - 1gm per litre of water combs, wattles and skins of for 7 days. face latter it becomes brownb. Bidox - N - 1gm per 2 litre of waish, blackish and drops off after for 5 days. ter 2 weeks. Vaccine: Fowl pox vaccine - 6 to 8 weeks - wing web method. Coccidiosis a. Caecal coccidiosis: Caeca may be filled with blood tinged Bacterial Disease contents and affected birds 1. Coryza: There is foul smelling show depression, loss of apdischarge from nostrils and petite, and dropping wings. eyes. The face and wattles b. Intestinal Coccidiosis: Bird may be shown. shows poor growth, paleness Preventive/Control measures of mucous membranes, loss a. Duaprim powder - 1gm per litre of yellowish colour of shanks, of water for 5 days. poor egg production and b. Suldin - 5ml per litre of water for sometimes diarrhoea but 5 days. presence of blood in the faces 2. Chronic respiratory disease: is not very common. The disease starts with sneezPreventive/Control measures ing, coughing, respiratory a. Amprosol - 1gm per litre of wadistress or gargling sound ter for 7 days. during respiration. Eyes may b. Cordinal - 4gm per litre of water show frothy exudate and confor 4 days. junctivitis. Preventive/Control measures Parastic Disease a. Bidox - N - 1gm per litre of water 1. Endoparasites: Round worm/ for 5 days. flatworms/ Cestodes. Birds b. Tetracycline powder - 1gm per show mild diarrhoea, weaklitre of water for 5 days. ness and slow growth. 3. Fowl cholera: There is loss Preventive/Control measures of appetite, bluishness of a. Levmisole hydrochloride combs, wattles, catarrhal 25mg per kg body weight. discharge from the nostrils, b. Albendazole - .5ml per bird fever, drooling of saliva and once in 3 months. diarrhoea. Diarrhoea latter 2. Ectoparasites: It causes severe becomes yellow and greenanaemia, emaciation retartish. Odema of wattles and ed growth, fall in egg produccombs are also seen. tion and itching of skin. Preventive/Control measures Preventive/Control measures a. Duaprim powder - 1gm per litre a. Pestoban - 1ml per 8 to 10 litres of water. of water for 5 days. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaurasia b. Bidox - N - 1gm per 2 litre of waProgramme Coordinator ter for 5 days. KVK, Zunheboto 4. Salmonellosis: There is loss of Nagaland University
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express WEDnEsDAy 9 July 2014 volumE IX IssuE 186
My Mother The Land Phill moncrieff
You are my Mother, my Mother the Land Your bloodline aches today The secret you spoke of remains no more Our hearts, they cry of dismay
C O M M E N T A R Y
Why Thailand needs a new social contract
So we turned to the land, our Mother the Land For comfort, our refuge at last But the feeling was gone, brown children now born Not black like you gave in the past Please take me back my Mother the Land The white man he'll never accept me The milk that you part will soothe my heart And your spirit of place will hold me The enchantment of night around camp firelight With your children black faces smile broadly As they talk of the day, in the Aboriginal way And the power of the land, so Godly They talk of your plains and inland rains That send your rivers raging And the animals that roam in their hot desert home But your landscape is rapidly changing
The sadness you feel as you weep on your own While your children remain scattered and torn The white system of life, it cuts like a knife And the Old People are weary and worn This gentle race which took it's place On your earth and your rivers and seas Now understands from the whiteman's hands That their skin is but a disease Broken pride in their hearts, they live torn apart And the colour is bred from their skin And ancient tribes whose culture was alive Are gone like a leaf in the wind Please take me back my Mother the Land Embrace me like Mother and Child The message goes out from your children who shout Only visitors and there for a while But the Mother has been raped by the white mans' greed Her spirit has turned into sand And the meaning of life to all mankind Remains with My Mother the Land
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Kate Aronoff Waging Nonviolence
Is social justice driven by emotion or reason?
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his spring, researchers at the University of Chicago published a study investigating how perceptions of justice and fairness relate to the human brain. As summarized last week by Erin Brodwin for News.Mic, the study’s main finding—or at least that most relevant to those of us who aren’t neurologists—is that “when people who are more responsive to injustice see things happen that they find morally wrong…their minds respond by accessing the sections of the brain responsible for logic and reasoning.” Brodwin’s conclusion from the study is that those interested in social change—especially around human rights and environmental concerns—should appeal to logic rather than emotion. While it’s certainly true that powerful fact-based arguments about climate change have catalyzed the movement against it, it is also true that such arguments have been successful largely in mobilizing those not directly impacted by its effects. Understandably so, researchers were not seeking to simulate lifetimes spent dealing with climate change, let alone the realities of abuse or race-based inequality. Over 40 years ago, Saul Alinsky dealt with this very issue in Rules for Radicals: Communication occurs concretely, by means of one’s specific experience. General theories become meaningful only when one has absorbed and understood the specific constituents and then related them back to a general concept. Unless this is done, the specifics become nothing more than a string of interesting anecdotes. It follows that regardless of the inherent logic of a concept, the logic by which a given person finds that logic compelling is rooted in their personal experience. Even activists and organizers operating from a place of relative privilege around the climate crisis, for instance, are not driven to act by facts alone; they interpret those facts through their own experience. Though useful for engaging those already responsive to injustice, the study doesn’t tell organizers how to motivate people to be responsive to injustice in the first place. As Alinksy and centuries of social movement history also tell us, most people act out of logical self-interest rather than a self-less desire to help others. A knee jerk reaction to displays of inequality is one thing, but sustained and active support for a movement confronting that inequality is quite another. The study, then, presents a dual challenge for organizers looking to communicate with the broader public: engage self-interest in a given issue and then—crucially—provide those activated with the means to tap into the logical, reasonable and arguably strategic parts of their brain. Why do so many people sign petitions or attend demonstrations and then drop out of movements entirely? The study seems to suggest is that the appeal is working, but the follow-up isn’t. Unfortunately, there is no magic formula for effective follow-up. On the local level, at least, forging strong relationships is hard to beat. In my own student organizing, we were most effective when we equipped as many leaders as possible with the tools they needed to run their own projects that fit within our most basic strategic vision and theory of change. As the study shows, people want to act strategically. It’s just up to organizers to give them the tools and framework to do so.
Marco Mezzera
Arrested democrAcy:
Our brothers before and them before that Felt the brunt of the whiteman's curse And as their blood hit the sun from the whiteman's gun The spirits began to disperse
You are my Mother, my Mother the Land You provide me for thousands of years But now your soul, like a rock waterhole Is drenched, not from water, but tears
THE EDIT PAGE
The Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly will not keep the country together in the longer term
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n 20 May 2014, after some seven months of political squabbling between two opposing popular movements and their political patrons, the Thai military finally decided to take matters into its own hands. This was the twelfth time the army had intervened in the political life of the country since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932; seven other such coup attempts failed. As in the past, its declared objective was the restoration of peace and order to a situation that ran the risk of spinning out of control, if violence were to escalate between the two main camps. These are the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, commonly known as the Red Shirts movement, and the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), originally defined as the Yellow Shirts movement. The Thai army has always had an inner distrust of, if not outright contempt for, any political confrontation which threatened to disrupt the country’s social harmony. And its most recent intervention clearly indicates that it thought the political quarrelling and indecisiveness had gone on for far too long. This time, however, the army approached the task in a more gradual and subtle way. Rather than dismissing civilian state authorities at the outset, it moved step by step, introducing martial law while formally preserving some of the country’s legislative and judicial institutions. Even the caretaker government was not immediately stripped of its powers. The main message was nevertheless clear from the start: a political comprise was to be reached within 24 hours or the army would enforce one in its own way. By summoning the main representatives of the opposing political parties and movements, the military attempted to play a mediating role from a position of force. Ironically, it put itself in what for many peace mediators and facilitators is an ideal situation—that of having the power to enforce an agreement. But apparently the summoned parties did not intend to play by the army’s script, thereby making a serious misjudgment of the gravity of the situation. Rather than acknowledging the ultimatum and abiding by it, they sustained their obstinate unwillingness to seek a compromise and even reiterated their intentions to continue with the demonstrations planned for the following days. Such a recalcitrant response was probably precisely what the military had been waiting for. Just two days after the introduction of martial law, the head of the self-appointed National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), General Prayuth Chanocha, announced the complete takeover of all state roles by the army, with the exception of some judicial functions. Turning back the clock Within hours of the coup announcement, it was clear that its meticulous planning included minimisation of the use and show of violence. On the morning of 23 May, from the international airport of Suvarnabhumi to the commercial centre of the “city of angels”—a stretch of highway and congested inner roads of about 30km—only one inactive military post could be seen. While some decisive action was undoubtedly taken at the demonstration sites, this intervention had been much more effective and violence-free than that four years earlier, when 91 people lost their lives in the attempt to disband the Red Shirts’ barricades. Although the TV blackout and severe media restrictions introduced by the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council immediately after the coup make it difficult to assess the facts as they
evolved on the streets of Bangkok, the dismantling of the protest sites evidently happened without major violent confrontations. Newspapers were even reporting on 24 May that thousands of protesters had been paid by government officials to abandon them. And the traditionally vibrant shopping in the many malls of the city seemed to return to normal, disturbed only slightly by the introduction of a curfew between 22:00 and 05:00. Judging from the way most Bangkok residents seemed to respond to the coup—immediately resuming their normal lives—the military was successful in attaining its primary declared objective of restoring peace and order. But the longer-term goal of making Thailand governable still seems very remote, especially if this is to be realised through democratic means. No matter how dysfunctional or factional the political process, a coup is bound at a stroke to turn back the clock. Take Pakistan, another Asian country imbued with the effects of regular military interference in state affairs. Every time a general claims the right to determine its destiny, whatever fragile democratic institutions have succeeded, however tentatively, in putting down roots in society are inevitably suffocated. And the process of democratic evolution will have to start all over again once civilian authority is legitimately re-established. But what if the “legitimate” political actors are entangled in such a struggle for power and dominance that they risk taking the state to the brink of self-destruction? What if their parochial interests are about to unleash a violent confrontation likely to affect the whole country? Is an “external” intervention which ostensibly acts on the principle of impartiality towards the conflicting parties not possibly the best—perhaps even only—remedy to prevent a descent into chaos? And is it not therefore a guarantee of a return to a democratic path as soon as conditions will allow? If the political game is going nowhere, as was the case in Thailand, with a seemingly insurmountable stalling of the electoral process, is it then not better to call in a superior force formally detached from the political framework— preferably with a monopoly on the use of violence— to dictate the (new) interim rules of the game? Hardly disinterested The problem with this Machiavellian approach to political crises is that the attribution of impartiality to the intervening, “non-political” actor is rarely accurate. An army announcing a coup is hardly a disinterested or apolitical player as it becomes involved in a country’s struggle over its future national identity and the reorganisation of power relations. Despite the Thai army’s attempts to present its intervention as politically neutral—that it is simply interested in re-establishing peace and order— reports emerging in the aftermath suggested that those affiliated to the Red Shirts movement were being particularly targeted. While representatives of both camps were initially summoned and detained by the army, those belonging to the Democrat Party and PDRC seem to have enjoyed a more lax treatment, with easier release procedures than those reserved for their opponents. Although the army has an aversion to political activism, regardless of its colour, the Red Shirts camp has been mainly at the receiving end of military attention since the beginning of the political crisis in 2006. The movement’s ideological leader, Thaksin Shinawatra, was the elected prime minister when military leaders removed him from power in September that year. Thaksin has been in self-imposed exile, fearful of becoming subject to biased judicial procedures, while his sister, Yingluck, acted as prime minister after the resounding victory of her Pheu Thai party in the elections of July 2011. This time, the military intervention eventually meant an abrupt end to her government—with no guarantee that she or her party would be reinstated any time soon. Since the movement’s inception, the Red Shirts have been defined by their opponents as anti-national and unsympathetic to the royal house. The self-aggrandising personality of their leader has certainly fuelled allegations that Thaksin was challenging the hitherto undisputed and symbolic authority of the ageing king, Bhumibol Adulyadej. Whether such claims can be substantiated, they have become part
of the discourse in Thai society and have been incorporated into the contest between the two camps. As the guarantor of national unity and protector of the crown, the army has thus had an easy argument to justify its intervention, particularly its targeting of Red Shirts’ representatives for their alleged offences against the monarchy. In the aftermath of the coup the NCPO indicated that the sections of the Criminal Code being subject to court-martial proceedings were those dealing with “national security” and, more precisely, offences against the royal family. But the apparent bond linking the Thai armed forces to the monarch seems more subtle and disputed than at first apparent. According to other interpretations of the coup, the army had grown increasingly concerned about the prospect of an alliance between the Thaksin camp and Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn. In April 2013, a decree by the king expanded the powers of the Royal Guard regiment, allowing it to engage in any action which its supreme commander, the prince, deemed necessary to protect national security. The likely problem with that move, in the eyes of the rest of the military, was that the regiment’s recruits come mainly from the north and north-east of Thailand—Thaksin’s traditional political stronghold. A few months later, another royal decree gave veto power to the crown prince over all decisions taken by the defence council, placing de facto all the heads of the armed forces under his control. There have also been widespread rumours that Thaksin may have paid some of the prince’s considerable gambling debts. These various developments are said to have upset the higher echelons of the military and may explain the prince’s sudden journey to Europe—just a few days before martial law was announced. In addition, there are indications that the army’s intervention may have had an economic dimension. With Thaksin’s peculiar style of merging political and economic interests, parts of the country’s elites represented by the opposing block may have feared being gradually excluded from the most important economic deals being negotiated by the government and its affiliates. Since Thaksin has been known for focusing mainly on transactions with large business conglomerates, the coup was received with a sigh of relief by the small and medium-sized enterprises sector. A last throw of the dice? In the final analysis, however, the coup has exposed a general failure of the governance system and of those institutions—the military included— supposed to keep the country together. The troubled Thai democratisation path has once again revealed its persistent weaknesses, primarily its continuing incapacity to avoid military interventions. The political parties have failed to provide a credible alternative to the authoritarian approach and their record in terms of internal democracy has been abysmal. The traditional establishment, which includes the military, the royal house and the upper classes of society, has failed to create an advanced system able to deal in a democratic, non-violent way with the new challenges brought about by Thaksin’s populist policies. And the coup has exposed a fundamental failure on the part of the military to reform itself in such a way as to make any intervention in national politics both impossible and unacceptable. The coup could thus be regarded as a last attempt by a system in retreat to counter the inevitable course of history, including the emergence of governance arrangements more responsive to the evolving demands of society. Thailand has been integrated into the global economy for decades. The increasing exposure of its population to the accompanying aspects of globalisation—such as the democratic mechanisms which regulate the political life of most of the societies with which Thais interact—must have left a mark on society. It can thus be expected that the Thai population, especially the younger cohorts, will increasingly demand proper access to and participation in the political processes which affect their daily lives. At the same time, democracy in Thailand will need to go beyond the winner-takes-all approach which characterises the country’s electoral contests. Checks and balances will need to be incorporated so that a more broadly based consensus can be achieved and sustained. The forces of the current establishment, which profess to be anti-Thaksin and resist the influence in politics of those rural masses whom they consider dangerously ignorant and unsophisticated, must also realise that power-sharing and acceptance of divergent political views is part of the democratic game. A new social contract needs to be negotiated between the wider society and the elites which have had privileged access to and control over power. In turn, society itself will need to come to terms with the polarising divisions of the new millennium threatening to tear it apart. A degree of social cohesion is needed—if not a common vision for the future of the country, at least widespread acceptance of the principle that those involved in political confrontations must renounce violence and instead interact according to accepted, institutionalised mechanisms. Thailand may be close to reaching the end of its current historical trajectory. At this critical juncture—with the uncertainty of the monarchical succession also playing an important role as events unfold—the dominant coalition which has controlled the fate of the country will have to give up part of its power and make decision-making more inclusive, if it wants to survive and avoid irreparable fractures in society. Space for a genuine dialogue and even ideological contest needs to be opened up, including on other thorny issues such as the conflict in the south of the country. Only then will state institutions be considered legitimate and a more resilient society eventually emerge.
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7 Expedience, pragmatism shape new Asian alliances
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oscow is cozying up to its old rival China. China is holding hands with Seoul. Tokyo is striking deals with Pyongyang. In the ever-shifting game of Asian alliances, where just about everybody has a dispute over something or can actually remember a shooting war with their neighbors, past grudges run deep. But expedience and pragmatism often run deeper. While U.S. President Barack Obama tries to develop his pivot to Asia policy, the region is rapidly spinning ahead in its own direction, energized by dynamic economies, expanding trade relations and a plethora of longstanding disputes and rivalries. For sure, the world's mightiest countries, themselves Pacific powers, still throw a lot of weight around. But as they jockey for advantage in the world's most populous region, relations across Asia are fluid. Many countries, both at the center of the power game and on the sidelines, have both a chance to capitalize and a risk of getting frozen out: Turning East Washington was long able to capitalize on Cold War rifts between Russia and China, but Dmitry Trenin, the director of Carnegie Moscow Center, recently wrote that the two are rebuilding a relationship likely to grow significantly stronger. This trend has accelerated in part because of Moscow's frustration with the West over its Ukraine sanctions. "They are not in a clear alliance, and have a number of diverging, even partially colliding, interests. But they both challenge the global order in which the United States is the norm-setter and the sole arbiter," he wrote. "The Chinese do this in a much subtler way than the Russians, but both appear to have come to the conclusion that working one's way into the U.S.dominated system is not worth it." Symbolic of Moscow's moves toward Beijing is a $400 billion deal they signed last month, after decades of negotiations that went nowhere, to supply China with natural gas through a new pipeline. President Vladimir Putin called the deal "epochal'" though he reportedly had to accept a lower-thanhoped-for price. In Russia, the effort to improve relations with China is called Putin's Pivot. "A strong Russian-Chinese connection has taken shape on the international arena. It is based on a coincidence of views on both global processes and key regional issues," Putin said earlier this month. Trenin noted that U.S. relations with China and with Russia are substantially worse than bilateral relations between Beijing and Moscow. He said that is in part because Washington has failed to take Russia seriously as a strategic player in the region. Beijing, meanwhile, may come out with access to more resources and a more secure northern front. "The unique position that the United States has held since the 1990s as the dominant power in Eurasia is now history," Trenin concluded. Trading Partners Here's a puzzle. Why would the president of China, North Korea's closest thing to an ally, snub Kim Jong Un and go to Seoul to woo his archrival, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, which he did to many a raised eyebrow last week? Fact is, China isn't getting a lot of love from its
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rowing up in a small upstate New York town, it was common knowledge that there were two things one didn't talk about in polite company: politics and religion. My family violated this rule constantly with respect to politics, and I grew up understanding that politics were a crucially important topic, rather than a forbidden one. This remains true in my intellectual and advocacy communities today, both in the United States and in Latin America, where I have done research and advocacy work for many years. Religion, however, suffered a different fate, particularly in the human rights community. For most, it became the domain of the right – of regressive policies against abortion and contraception, against the LGBT community, against "non-traditional" families, against science. And, of the attempt to mix religion with politics, which was understood as an assault on the secular state. To the extent most human rights advocates have wanted to get behind religion, it has been to defend the freedom to practice the religion of one's choosing. There are many good historical and political reasons for the human rights community to be wary about engagement with religious organizations and institutions. Some of these reasons are outlined in Nida Karmani’s discussion of the potential for damaging consequences, particularly for women and sexual and religious minorities. That said, organized religion has also played an important role over time in human rights advocacy, as discussed in Larry Cox’s post, which names figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Shirin Ebadi. To this list, I would add the many religious institutions and efforts that have been central to the human rights movement in Latin America, from religious organizations’ engagement with truth commissions, to the role of indigenous religious and spiritual practices in human rights advocacy, to the widespread influence of liberation theology on human rights and social movements across the region. Pope Francis – the first Jesuit Pope as well as the first Pope from Latin America – has of course made the most
In this May 21, 2014 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Chinese President Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony at the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Shanghai, China. Moscow is cozying up to its old rival China. China is holding hands with Seoul. Tokyo is striking deals with Pyongyang. In the ever-shifting game of Asian alliances, where just about everybody has a dispute over something or can actually remember a shooting war with their neighbors, past grudges run deep. But expedience and pragmatism often run deeper. (AP Photo/Mark Ralston, Pool, File)
Asian neighbors these days. Major trading partner Japan is outraged over what it sees as China's increasingly assertive claim to a set of small, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. Vietnam and the Philippines have similar beefs over islands in the South China Sea. North Korea, though still reliant on Chinese aid, trade and political backing on the international stage, continues to develop nuclear weapons, and sidle up to Moscow, regardless of Beijing's grumblings. So, while recalibrating its own relations with Moscow, why not try to sneak a kiss from one of Washington's better friends? China's overtures to South Korea — including the Seoul visit — play into its larger ambitions to build a China-centered network of alliances that sidesteps the U.S. and Japan, said Willy Lam, a political science professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He added that China is already South Korea's No. 1 trade partner. Beijing is also trying to show the South that China, and not the U.S., is the solution to the North Korea crisis, said Christopher Johnson, a former China analyst with the CIA who's now chairman of China studies at U.S. think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Obviously, (the South Koreans) are never going to break away from their alliance with the U.S.," he said. But he added that China has been "trying to convince the South that they, and not the alliance with the U.S. and Japan, are the key to Seoul's North Korea problem." Increasingly, that is seen as a persuasive argument — China's rise has unmistakably changed the power equation in Asia. Seen in that way, Johnson says, Beijing's choice of Seoul over Pyongyang makes perfect strategic sense. "Different tactics, different approaches for different partners," Johnson said.
Breaking Ranks, A Little Washington has had no closer and more reliable ally in Asia than Japan, which depends on the U.S. for protection and trade. But Japan's increasingly angry reaction to its territorial spat with Beijing, its fears of increased Chinese military might and its stalemate with Russia over a different set of disputed islands up north have made many in Tokyo wary. Breaking ranks with Washington and Seoul, hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revived bilateral negotiations with North Korea over the matter of Japanese abductees in the North. The issue is of key interest to the Japanese public but decidedly back-burner to Japan's allies, who would prefer to isolate the North over its nuclear weapons policy. Abe also led the charge last week as Japan decided to reinterpret its constitution to allow greater use of military force to defend its allies. The move was welcomed by Washington, which is bound by a security treaty to aid the country if Japan ever comes under attack. But it also underscored fears in Japan that it cannot simply expect Washington to come to the rescue anymore, along with hopes among some Japanese leaders for a bigger say in regional security. "Countries in the region are increasingly concerned about tension over China's high-handed approach, and showing high expectations for Japan's role," said Narushige Michishita, director of the Security and International Studies Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. "Previously, Japan could have said, 'We cannot contribute to the region because we cannot exercise the right to collective self-defense.' Japan now has lost that excuse." Playing The Field For those who can't throw their weight around like Moscow, Beijing or Washington, India has some words of wisdom — hedge your bets. India has long maintained a policy of nonalignment, deliberately keeping itself away from strong, exclusive alliances in favor of playing the field and pushing for a multipolar world order that would give India more say in global governance. In the unsure waters of Asia, hedging your bets isn't such a bad idea. "It's a frenemy kind of relationship," said Sreeram Chaulia, dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs in New Delhi. "Everyone is a frenemy to everyone else. It's a much more complex world. No one can clearly say 'I'm an ally of so-and-so.' "Our strategy is a hedging strategy — and every other player is also doing this. These days, the economy has been separated from security issues. You can have booming trade and healthy investment alongside territorial disputes," Chaulia said. India has more potential to be a major player than most in Asia, and good cause for worry about China. Its main concern — shared in many Asian capitals — is whether the Chinese military will become so mighty that Beijing can effectively dictate orders. India's most obvious partner in this is Japan, and the two have always been friendly. "India wants to counterbalance China to some extent. India believes that will give it some breathing space strategically," Chaulia said. "Despite its apparent political stability, China is a powder keg with no outlets for expression and an authoritarian regime," he said, echoing a concern held widely throughout Asia. "It could remain stable and keep on growing, as everyone seems to assume it will. But if it becomes unstable, it will have a huge effect on the region."
Let’s talk about religion Meghan L. Morris headline-grabbing of these interventions recently, including supporting anti-fracking campaigns in Argentina, hosting a conference at the Vatican on Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature, and just this month, hosting the Israeli and Palestinian presidents at the Vatican for a "prayer summit meeting". Human rights advocates’ responses to these initiatives and collaborations have largely been positive, seemingly indicating a move toward strategic engagement of religious organizations in advocacy campaigns. This openGlobalRights forum itself is a testament to the shift toward considering what “points of collaboration” there might be between religion and human rights. That said, I would argue that the question of whether and how to strategically engage religion in human rights misses one of the most important reasons why religion should be a topic of conversation in the human rights movement. And that reason has very little to do with movement-wide strategy, and everything to do with onthe-ground efficacy. How many human rights advocates work with people and/or communities who believe in a God or gods? I would argue that they are many. How many human rights advocates (with a few important exceptions, including those dealing with religious war) are actually talking about the specifics of those beliefs? I would argue that they are few. This is a mistake, not only for strategic campaigns, but also for the extent to which advocates in such circles – be they believers or non-believers themselves – can understand and effectively work with people of faith. Understanding the people and communities with whom we work is the foundation of effective practice. I conduct research in a region of Colombia where a significant percentage of the population has been displaced as a result of the internal armed
conflict. Some families have lost multiple loved ones to murders, forced disappearances, and recruitment by armed groups. The state has made efforts to provide reparations and compensation for some of these losses in recent years. However, its own acts and omissions over the course of the conflict have engendered a lack of confidence on the part of much of the displaced population, particularly regarding the likelihood that the state will protect them from further harm or ensure their welfare. In the absence of confidence in the state, I have found that many people instead place their hopes for their lives and livelihoods elsewhere: in God. At first, I considered this faith in God to be perhaps important personally to some of the displaced people with whom I was working, but peripheral to my own work. I was studying processes of displacement and dispossession, and whether or not people believed in God was their own business, not mine. But increasingly, I noticed what a crucial role faith in God played in the very processes I was attempting to understand. Displaced people attempting to reclaim their land – an often dangerous proposition in Colombia – explicitly called upon God to help them have strength, security, and material sustenance. When they were denied protection by state-sponsored bodyguards, they stated they would rely on God to keep them safe. When they did not have enough to feed their families or pay for their children's education, they asked God to provide for them, and thanked God when resources came their way. Some even held prayer sessions prior to my interviews with them, asking God to bless my work and the knowledge that it would produce, and to protect me from harm. A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of displaced people who were putting together a proposal for things they needed in the urban slum where they
now live. An activist who had been working with them presented a list of needs: home improvements, a school, garbage collection, a health clinic, a library, a space for urban gardening. Was anything missing, he asked? One of the participants raised her hand. A chapel, she said. A place to go and pray. The activist said that he couldn't address this. That a chapel was a private thing, and we were talking about public things. The woman, chastened, said she hadn't known there was a difference, and apologized for mentioning it. The meeting proceeded, and the discussion of religion and the need for a place to practice it was off the table. I, like many in my intellectual and human rights advocacy circles, do not identify as a person of faith. But I want to argue for the importance of talking about religion as part of advocacy work. Not just to defend the freedom to practice it, not just in the context of religious war, and not just because religious organizations might be strategic allies. But rather, because faith in a God or gods is often a crucial part of the social worlds in which we work. To understand these social worlds and effectively work with and within them, religion needs to be on the table as a topic of discussion, along with politics. To do so does not mean advocates must found their practice in religious principles, satisfy religious needs, or have faith themselves. But it does mean inquiring about, discussing, and attempting to understand the role that faith might play in the decisions, hopes, fears, and lives of the people with whom we work. This means going beyond an understanding of religion as institutions that might be rights violators or strategic partners, and beginning to think about the specifics of faith in the lives of people and communities, and how that might affect the potentialities and limits of our work with them. In the meantime, we can also go ahead and celebrate the “coolest Pope ever,” and hope that his efforts to combat climate change and move toward peace in Israel-Palestine are more successful than our world politicians' have been. That is – as the communities I work with would say – if God wills it so.
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Football teams around the world are battling it out to win the 2014 World Cup and we are now down to the semi-finals. Before a match you might have seen the teams gather around and hold a sign that said “Fifa says no to racism”. Racism and other forms of ‘ism’ destroy society from within by turning the focus of society away from the core issues which actually affect society. We talk about the corruption in Naga society, the sham liquor prohibition, the never ending NPG talks and unabated taxation. These types of issues will probably always remain, until and unless we are truly able to hear the voice of the people. The voice of the common people will never be heard if civil society and the government are in bed with each other in an, “I scratch your back and you scratch mine” arrangement. The public need to be educated and aware enough to see through doublespeak and fight for the right causes. We need a dynamic society where voices can be heard and not one where civil society parrots the voice of the elite or one where politicians have their followers unquestionably following them like lemmings. What we need to realize is that our future isn’t going to be bright and prosperous by solving only one big problem. When one of the problems is solved, new ones will eventually crop up. What we need is an environment where the many problems society keeps throwing at it, are solvable on a regular basis through the active participation of all stakeholders with their focus on the right goal. “It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.” Vahid “Vaha” Halilhodžic’ (*1952: former Bosnian football player and current manager of the Algerian national football team)
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his World Cup, I have been feeling like Paul the Octopus, picking match winners left, right and center, that is until I fell flat on my face when USA lost to Belgium in the second round. The US football team has always been weak and the American population least interested in football compared to the main football playing nations like Brazil, Germany etc. I would have been overjoyed to see the US football team progress further, because not only were they the underdogs but are also living proof of what happens when you combine youth with the right exposure, facilities, laws and a conducive environment. The current U.S. football roster is filled with players who got hooked on football during the 1994 world cup when the USA hosted the event. Eight years later, the U.S. would reach the quarterfinals of the men’s World Cup. And 20 years later, the 2014 U.S. team is filled with players who trace their interest in soccer or their first memory of the game to that 1994 World Cup. This world cup also brought increased viewership. According to the New York Times, 2014 World Cup “Television ratings in the United States blasted through ceilings, surpassing those of the N.B.A. finals or the World Series”. We could be seeing USA winning the World Cup in the next 10 to 20 years if they keep going at this pace. So, since USA is now likely to win the World Cup soon after having hosted the World Cup, that means if India hosts the World Cup, India will eventually win the World Cup, right?...Nah. I bet some of you reading this are laughing hysterically at the thought of India ever winning a football World Cup. Realistically speaking, it seems impossible to think of India ever winning the football world cup. It seems even more difficult to imagine in that team will be a talented Naga football player picked from our villages or from the streets, as was the case for Brazilian greats Ronaldo, Romario and Pele. India winning the world cup with a host of players picked from the villages might seem impossible right now… but we can hope. If we are going to make the impossible, possible then we need to look at our state and our society with undiluted realism and the unpleasant facts on the ground if we are going to solve the issues which prevent us from progressing. Every country is unique with its own set of unique strengths and problems. In a diverse country like India, we can narrow that down to every state being unique with its own unique set of strengths and problems. In football or any sport, while it is the players who actually win matches, it is these other factors which are needed to create the right environment so that those players can excel. Does Nagaland provide that environment? Well, on 12th May 2014 at an interactive session with a few All India Civil Service Officers and students at Tetso College, we had the pleasure to meet Samuel Changkija, IFS. Here, he proudly declared he was a 100% indigenous product of Nagaland. What he meant was that he did his entire schooling from class A to his Masters right here in Nagaland. After his studies he appeared for the civil service exams and was inducted into the IFS in the Jammu and Kashmir cadre. The irony is that someone who studied his entire life in Nagaland is now technically going to be working his entire life outside the state. I would have to say Nagaland did help provide the grounding in this case. The educational environment is heavily dependent on private players in Nagaland for quality education and they have been significantly raising the quality bar. However, the economic and commerce scenario is in a dismal state. In such a scenario, the dream of winning a World Cup is probably the last thing on our mind. Our society has problems, many of which our leaders and we ourselves seem to prefer to ignore or turn a blind eye to. But if we are to progress then we need decisive decisions and action taken on the delicate issues affecting progress in our state on major issues like prohibition, unabated taxation, corruption or talks with the NPG groups. We need a response from apex organizations and government on major issues like prohibition, unabated taxation, corruption or talks with the NPG groups. A stand needs to be taken and silence is just not a satisfactory answer anymore. We need leadership that can use its authority beyond narrow self-seeking ends or for opportunities which will provide an advantage for their ethnic group or tribe only. In today’s globalised world, just because you grew up in a village, it does not mean that you will die in that village. At the same time, this could also mean that even if you grew up in the city it’s possible you may make a village your final home. Our youth need to look both at Nagaland and beyond. Look at India and beyond. Good governance reveals itself when they can implement policies and enforce the rule of law to create an environment so that common people and our youth feel empowered and heard. If that can happen then we might witness unprecedented economic growth for society as a whole. It would result in a growing middle class and an emerging network of civil society organizations free from the constraints under which political leaders and their followers labour. But for this to happen, we need institutions capable of resolving disputes impartially free from any form of ‘ism’ to provide a platform for a fair and unbiased ‘level-playing-field’ competition. The flip side is that this enhanced social and economic complexity will come into increasing conflict with control-oriented political and state institutions. A balance needs to be found and maintained to create an environment which will allow someone to become a world renown entrepreneur or an ordinary poor Naga child from a village to one day become the next football World Cup superstar. Ref: Armour , Nancy. U.S. soccer success traces back to 1994 World Cup. USA TODAY Sports. June 27, 2014. “Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College. For feedback or comments please email: admin@tetsocollege.org”.
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Tech, commerce to power Indian Railways in future
New Delhi, July 8 (iANS): Bullet trains are set to become a reality in India with the first service between Mumbai and Ahmedabad as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government sought to run Indian Railways - one of the world’s largest - like a “commercial enterprise but serve like a welfare organization”. In the Railway Budget presented to parliament Tuesday, Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda unveiled many new measures to make Indian Railways, which runs about 20,000 trains and ferries 23 million passengers daily, a modern, efficient and commercially viable utility. He presented proposals, subject to parliamentary approval, for introduction of 58 new trains, paperless office in five years, digital reservation charts, wi-fi in select stations and trains, wakeup call for passengers, separate freight terminals, office-on-wheels for business travellers, more money for cleanliness and safety, food courts at stations, expansion of rail tourism and better connectivity in hilly areas and northeastern states. He also promised a diamond quadrilateral project of high-speed rail connectivity between the four metros. He said some identified stations will be developed like modern airports. Having already hiked passenger fares by 14.2% and the freight carriage charges by 6.5%, which is expected to fetch additional revenue of Rs.8,000 crore, Gowda focused on ways to earn from other sources, such as allowing foreign equity in areas excluding operations, as also publicprivate partnerships. Details, he said, would be worked out. He said Rs.500,000 crore ($83 billion) will be required over the next 10 years to fund the modernisation plans of the network, as against the actual spend of Rs.18,400 crore in the past 10 years, but noted that freight and passenger fare hikes alone could not fetch such large requirements.Gowda also
Hope my rail budget will meet expectations: Gowda
Indian Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda, left, shows the briefcase containing Rail budget for the year 2014 to media persons as he arrives in the parliament house to present the budget, as junior minister for Railways Manoj Sinha, center right, watches, in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 8. (AP Photo)
made it clear that commercial viability cannot be sidestepped. “An organisation of this magnitude vested with varied responsibilities, is expected to earn like a commercial enterprise but serve like a welfare organisation. These two objectives are like the two rails of the railway track, which travel together but never meet,” he said in his hourlong speech. Prime Minister Modi was quick to react. “The Railway Budget keeps in mind the development of India. We can see the great use of technology also,” he tweeted, adding: “This budget strengthens institutional mechanism. It focuses on transparency and integrity.” India Inc. largely welcomed the budget, saying it is reform oriented and opens up vast opportunities for the public-private partnership in a whole gamut of areas, including cleanliness, upkeep of major stations like the airports, and IT infrastructure. The industry bodies also lauded the government’s promise of encouraging domestic as well as foreign investments in the sector.
However, the stock markets reacted negatively with benchmark Sensex plunging by nearly 2%. Railwayrelated stocks tumbled on lower than expected increase in plan outlay. Texmaco Rail & Engineering slumped by 20%. Most other scrips fell at least 5%. Gowda pegged the total planned outlay for fiscal 2014-15 at Rs.65,445 crore, which is just 1.8 percent higher than Rs.64,305 crore announced by his predecessor in the interim budget presented in February. Ranked among the world’s top five, the Indian railroad network ferries 23 million people and 2.65 million tonnes of goods daily, or 1.1 billion tonnes annually, from 7,172 stations on 12,617 passenger and 7,421 freight trains over more than 64,000 route km. With a network stretching from Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir in the foothills of the Himalayas to the southern tip of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Railways is also among the largest employers with an estimated 1.4 million people on its rolls. Shifting to finances, Gowda pegged the total re-
ceipts at Rs.164,374 crore and the total expenditure at Rs.1,49,176 crore while expecting a 4.9 % growth in freight and a small growth in passenger traffic this fiscal. He projected an operating ratio, or the amount spent to earn one rupee, at 92.5 paise - one paisa more than in 2013-14. “The Indian Railways will improve system capabilities in e-ticketing to support 7,200 tickets per minute as against 2,000 tickets and allow 120,000 simultaneous users at any point,” the minister said, adding that coin-operated vending machines will also be launched. As regards the highspeed projects, the minister said Indian Railways would require more than Rs.900,000 crore ($150 billion) to complete the golden quadrilateral network and about Rs.60,000 crore ($100 billion) for introducing one bullet train alone. “It is the wish and dream of every Indian that India runs a bullet train as early as possible. Madam Speaker, Indian Railways is on its way to fulfil that long cherished dream. We propose bullet trains
by starting off with an already identified MumbaiAhmedabad sector, where a number of studies have been done,” Gowda said. Modi, in his election speeches, had talked about introducing bullet trains, after seeing them run in Japan and China, if he came to power. Gowda also listed four new ways to mobilise resources -- allowing foreign equity, more public-private partnerships, commercial funds augmentation by state-run railway firms and extending tax holidays for long gestation projects With a poor track record on safety, the railway budget also proposed a multi-pronged approach to make train journey safe, secure and comfortable for passengers, with more thrust on passenger amenities, cleanliness and efficient station management. In a report presented in 2012, an official committee chaired by noted scientist Anil Kakodkar had put the number of rail-related deaths at 15,000 people per annum. “No civilized society can accept such a massacre on their railway system,” the report said.
New Delhi, July 8 (iANS): Railway minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday said he was ready to present his maiden rail budget for the current fiscal and hoped it would meet people’s expectations. “Going to present my maiden budget as a rail minister of India today. Hope we are able to meet public expectations,” Gowda, former chief minister of Karnataka who represents the Udupi Chikmagalur constituency in Lok Sabha, tweeted. Last month he had listed safety and security of women and the elderly as also passenger amenities like drinking water, waiting areas and rest rooms, as his priority areas and said that effort will be made to make Railways efficient and passenger oriented. Gowda further said even though Indian Railways carried the largest number of passengers and freight, it stood much behind in efficiency, punctuality, cleanliness and services. “The Chinese Railways, as we know, is four times more efficient than
ours both in terms of number of passengers carried per employee and freight carried per employee,” he said, adding conventional thinking and the present style of functioning will not achieve anything. The maiden railway budget for the Prime Minister Narandra Modi government is also set to propose steps to boost the department’s revenues, as it is saddled with a huge cash cruch of Rs.26,000 crore amid a decline in the growth in passenger earnings. The new government has already increased railway passenger fares by 14.2 percent and the freight carriage charges by 6.5 percent. However, it will need more funds from international lenders to finance long gestation projects. In the interim budget, Mallikarjun Kharge, the then railway minister, had set a revenue target of Rs.1.65 lakh crore that included Rs.1.06 lakh crore from goods and Rs.45,255 crore from passenger fares, and the balance from coaching and other sources.
Lalu, Nitish criticise railway budget PAtNA, July 8 (iANS): Former railway ministers Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Tuesday criticised the NDA government’s first railway budget. Nitish Kumar described the railway budget as “directionless” and said: “The railway budget has no clear-cut direction to move ahead.” Lalu Prasad said the railway budget has made it clear that the
government will pave the way for private investment and will hand over railway to private players. “I strongly fear that railway budget has made a move in the direction to privatise itself at the cost of interests of people,” Lalu said in reference to stress on public-private partnership (PPP) model in the railway budget.
Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi termed the railway budget a big disappointment for Bihar. “The railway budget has ignored Bihar as pending projects failed to get attention and there is nothing new for the state in it,” Manjhi said. He said railway budget failed to fulfill the aspirations of 10.5 crore people of a backward state like Bihar.
Rail budget disappointing: Himachal CM ShimlA, July 8 (iANS): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Tuesday termed the railway budget a “disappointment” for the state. “The railway budget neither contains the proposal of extensions of rail lines nor the conversion of existing rail tracks into broad gauge,” he said in a statement. “I had personally pursued the state issues for extension of the Bhanupalli-Bilaspur-Beri-Leh rail line via Manali, which was important from the strategic point of view and also the Bhanupali-BilaspurBeri line till Pathankot,” he said. But two-time chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Prem Kumar Dhumal said the budget was futuristic and constructive, which would fulfill the aspirations of the people of the country.
A rail link was also proposed for the industrial belt of Baddi-Barotiwala from Pinjore but nothing except promises were given to the people of the state, Virbhadra Singh said. He said that last year during the Congress-led regime, a few surveys for new lines and extensions were announced in the railway budget but that also failed to find any mention this time. BJP Lok Sabha member from Hamirpur, Anurag Thakur, said the budget was “forward looking that focuses on better passenger facilities, modernisation and innovation for growth of the rail network in the country”. He said the announcement of two new rail line surveys in Hamirpur parliamentary constituency was the right step.
Sushma, Hague discuss plans to broaden India successfully tests BrahMos Crimes against supersonic cruise missile Indo-British economic engagement BhuBANeSwAr, women rise in India New July 8 faster than the US subsonic ity,” he said. Delhi, July 8 (iANS): Eco- to-people issues of Indian diaspora
Delhi records most number of rapes
New Delhi, July 8 (thomSoN reuterS FouNDAtioN): Reports of crimes against women in India such as rape, dowry deaths, abduction and molestation increased by 26.7 percent in 2013 compared to the previous year, government statistics showed on Monday. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said there were 309,546 crimes against women reported to the police last year against 244,270 in 2012, with the highest number recorded in Andhra Pradesh. Crimes included rape, kidnapping, sexual harassment, trafficking, molestation and cruelty by husbands and relatives. They also include crimes in which a woman was driven to suicide as a result of demands for a dowry from her husband or in-laws. “The new government should enforce all laws, policies and programs to address violence against women. The government should also ensure that there is respect for women’s rights to equality, freedom of movement and expression and that there is every effort to quell claims of ‘women’s safety’ as a justification for curtailing such freedoms,” said Meenakshi Ganguly from Human Rights Watch. The NCRB said the number of rapes in the country rose by 35.2 percent to 33,707 in 2013 - with Delhi reporting 1,441 rapes in 2013 – making it the city with the highest number of rapes and confirming its reputation as India’s “rape capital”. India’s biggest city and business capital Mumbai, known for being more women-friendly, recorded 391 rapes last year, while IT hub Bangalore registered 80 rapes. Police attribute the rise in reports to more women coming forward due to greater public awareness following the high profile gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in December 2012. The case sent shockwaves across much of urban India and led to thousands of people coming out onto the streets to protest over growing violence against women in the largely patriarchal and conservative nation. It also forced the Indian parliament to enact stiffer penalties for crimes against women, including death for repeat rape offenders, criminalising stalking and making acid attacks and human trafficking specific offences. Women’s rights groups say the figures are still gross under-estimates of the reality on the ground – women are often too scared to come forward to report rapes or domestic violence for fear their families and communities will shun them.
nomic pattnership between India and Britain remained the focus of discussion as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Tuesday exchanged notes on a “broad canvas” of issues with her visiting British counterpart William Hague here. “There were discussions on a broad canvas of issues. The external affairs minister focused on economic ties as these are robust,” MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told the media here. He said Sushma Swaraj stressed on the Bangalore-Mumbai economic corridor, and assured Hague that a perspective plan would be draen by end of the year to ensure British companies are involved in this infrastructure project. “There are great expectations from UK that India-UK economic partnership would move to the next level,” Akbaruddin said. Akbaruddin said Sushma Swaraj also discussed people-
in Britain, while also confirming she would attend Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to be celebrated in Britain in October. Akbaruddin added that Britain was keen for Sushma Swaraj’s visit. “The UK secretary of state said he would use the opportunity to pursue bilateral interaction,” he said. Visa related matter, extradition related issues, particularly the extradition of a paedophile wanted in Goa, skill development of Indians living in Britain, were the major issues discussed, Akbaruddin said. He added Sushma Swaraj and Hague also touched upon security issues and counter-terrorism. “The two ministers disccused security issues and counter terrorism. There were also talks on science and technology and nuclear cooperation. They also talked about the security situation im Iraq, Afghanistan, and reform and restructuring of UN Security Council,” Akbaruddin said.
(iANS): India Tuesday successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a defence base in Odisha, an official said. It has a range of 290 km and can carry a conventional warhead of up to 300 kg. The missile was launched from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur in Balasore district, about 230 km from here. “The test was successful. It was a land version of BrahMos. It was done with a total indigenous airframe,” M.V.K.V. Prasad, director of the test range, told IANS. The missile, developed by the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace, has a top speed of Mach 2.8, which is about three times
Tomahawk cruise missile. This makes BrahMos one of the fastest cruise missiles in the world. The missile can be launched from submarines, ships and aircraft. Sea and ground launched versions of the missile have been successfully tested and put into service with the army and the navy. During the latest launch, the missile flew through the designated 290 km distance at speed of Mach 2.8 and achieved high precision with steep dive, BrahMos Aerospace spokesperson Praveen Pathak said in a statement. “This was the 44th launch of BrahMos which was carried out with high level of reliabil-
BrahMos Aerospace chief A. Sivathanu Pillai confirmed that it was a text book launch achieving 100 percent results, executed with high precision from the Mobile Autonomous Launcher (MAL) prepared by the BrahMos 3rd regiment of Indian Army team. The missile’s successful launch will give a boost to the ongoing programme of future installations of BrahMos system in the Indian Army against hidden land targets for mountain warfare operations, he said. The launch of the air-version of BrahMos missile integrated with frontline combat planes Su-30MKI will be carried out by the end of this year, he said.
Poverty, child & maternal deaths still rack India: UN
New Delhi, July 8 (Pti): India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that said while several key global targets have been met, more sustained effort is needed to cover disparities by the 2015 deadline. The ‘Millennium Development Goals Report 2014’, launched by U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon here on Monday, said many global MDG targets on reducing poverty, increasing access to improved drinking water sources, improving the lives of slum dwellers and achieving gender parity in primary schools have already been met. Many more goals are within reach by their 2015 target date, the report said, adding that if current trends continue, the world will surpass MDG targets on malaria, tuberculosis and access to HIV treatment. It, however, said that some MDG targets related to largely preventable problems with available solutions, such as re-
ducing child and maternal mortality and increasing access to sanitation, are slipping away from achievement by 2015, despite major progress. “We know that achievements have been uneven between goals, among and within regions and countries, and between population groups,” Ban said, adding that unless imbalances are addressed through bolder and more focused interventions, some targets will not be met, including in key areas such as childbirth, maternal mortality, universal education, and environmental sustainability. The overwhelming majority of people living on less than 1.25 dollars a day belong to Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, with one third of the world’s 1.2 billion extreme poor living in India alone in 2010. India also had the highest number of under-five deaths in the world in 2012, with 1.4 million children dying before reaching their fifth birthday. While Southern Asia has made “strong and steady” progress in reducing child deaths by more than halving its under-five
mortality rate, yet nearly one in every three deaths still takes place in the region. Despite progress in all world regions, the maternal mortality ratio in developing regions - 230 maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births in 2013 — was 14 times higher than that of developed regions, which recorded only 16 maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births in 2013. Highlighting the extreme differences in maternal mortality among countries, the report said that almost one-third of all global maternal deaths are concentrated in the two populous countries — India and Nigeria. India has an estimated 50,000 maternal deaths (17 per cent) while Nigeria has an estimated 40,000 maternal deaths (14 per cent). The report further stated that despite a large increase in sanitation coverage, with an additional two billion people gaining access to an improved sanitation facility, it seems unlikely that the MDG target of 75 per cent coverage will be met by 2015. “In 2012, a billion people still resorted
to open defecation, a practice that needs to be brought to an end, as it poses a huge risk to communities that are often poor and vulnerable already,” the report added. Launching the final push towards the United Nations targets, Ban appealed to member states that the global post-2015 objective must be to “leave no one behind”. He added that the world is “at a historic juncture, with several milestones before us.” Citing gains made in the fight against malaria and tuberculosis and access to HIV treatment, Ban underscored that the report makes clear “the MDGs have helped unite, inspire and transform...and the combined action of Governments, the international community civil society and the private sector can make a difference.” “Our efforts to achieve the MDGs are critical to building a solid foundation for development beyond 2015. At the same time, we must aim for a strong successor framework to attend to unfinished business and address areas not covered by the eight MDGs,” said the U.N. chief.
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Shevardnadze: Fearless life, sad political ending Steven R. Hurst Associated Press
Eduard ShEvardnadzE was sitting in the front of the small Yak-40 jet that was screaming toward liftoff from Sukhumi. It was 10 p.m. The runway and cabin lights were off. The Georgian leader had spent the day with his troops who were defending the Black Sea city. abkhazian separatist forces were pouring in rockets. Shevardnadze, who died Monday at 86, made the dangerous journey to Sukhumi in early March 1993 to take symbolic charge of the Georgian forces. I and my Cnn television crew flew with the Georgian leader from the capital, Tbilisi. We spent the day wandering the city, darting into cellar doorways when rocket fire was heard. at a poorly equipped hospital, Georgian fighters lay bloodied on the floor, and triage doctors darted from one horribly wounded soldier to the next. Shevardnadze visited the clinic, offering comfort to the wounded. he then set off to visit his forces at hilltop positions on the outskirts of Sukhumi. In the wake of the Soviet union’s collapse and Georgian independence, separatists in the autonomous
regions of abkhazia and South Ossetia were trying to break free from Georgian control. Shevardnadze, once the vibrant and new-thinking foreign minister under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, had returned to his homeland — the former Soviet republic of Georgia — after Moscow’s sprawling Eurasian empire disintegrated on Christmas night 1991. Toward the end of that damp and chilly March day in Sukhumi, Shevardnadze drove up in a russianmade volga sedan — no armor plating visible — and sat down for an interview in the artillery-blasted regional parliament. he removed his bullet-proof vest and helmet. he spoke of the bloody ethnic cleansing at the hands of abkhazian fighters who were driving tens of thousands of Georgians from their homes in the region. Shelters in Tbilisi were full, and even what was then the best hotel in the capital was crammed with displaced Georgian families. Shevardnadze ducked a question about his own forces having behaved like the abkhazians. Ethnic hatred had reached extremes. Shevardnadze said a small country like Georgia could ill afford to lose
abkhazia and its Black Sea coastline, and could not surrender the important port at Sukhumi. The Georgian leader was calm, dismissing questions about having risked his life in the abkhazian bombardment. he said he had no choice but to visit the front lines to boost the morale of his forces. The city had been under siege for four months. I had been with Shevardnadze many times during my long stint in Moscow. also memorable was one night when Gorbachev was held captive during a failed coup against him in 1991. all our live broadcasting was done on the roof of our building in central Moscow. The only access was to clamber up a steel ladder and through a tiny hatch. Shevardnadze popped out of that hatch and spoke witheringly of the coup plotters. he and Gorbachev were both members of the ruling Soviet Politburo when Gorbachev was named to the top post of general secretary in 1985. They were old friends and men with a liberal bent. Shevardnadze said in a memoir that he was shocked when Gorbachev called him to Moscow to be foreign minister. Before Gorbachev took control of the Soviet union
and began his policies of perestroika and glasnost (restructuring and openness), I had heard from a KGB source that the two men met by chance in the southern russian city of Stavropol, near Gorbachev’s home village. I was never able to confirm the report. But the source said the two men had a long talk and agreed that the country needed to end its occupation of afghanistan and drop its Cold War stance toward the united States and the West. Once Gorbachev took power and Shevardnadze was foreign minister, the two men began a dramatic
restricted after Buddhist mobs attacked their residences and offices a month later. When complications in childbirth occur, patients cannot go to government hospitals without hard-to-get authorization and hefty bribes. nearby clinics are usually staffed by just
UN: Lone woman heads 1 in 4 Syria refugee families Syrian refugees women, who fled their home from Syria, pray inside their tent at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern town of Marj in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Sunday, June 29, 2014. (AP Photo)
GENEVA, July 8 (AP): More than 145,000 Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan are headed by women who are the sole caregivers and face daily threats of violence while often lacking the means to put food on the table, the united nations said Tuesday in a report meant to galvanize more support for those suffering from Syria’s civil war. The women’s struggles as the lone breadwinner for one of every four refugee family households in those nations often includes coping with the threat of violence or exploitation and grappling with their children’s mounting trauma and distress, according to the Office of the u.n. high Commissioner for refugees, known as unhCr. “Syrian refugee women are the glue holding together a broken society. Their strength is extraordinary, but they are struggling alone,” unhCr special envoy angelina Jolie said in a statement. The Geneva-based
China tightens state secrets rules for journalists
BEIJING, July 8 (REutERs): China will toughen curbs on journalists disclosing state and commercial secrets, a top media regulator said on Tuesday, in the latest effort by President Xi Jinping's government to muzzle critical speech, both in traditional media and online. news outfits must stiffen oversight of material obtained by journalists and other employees containing national and commercial secrets and information that has not yet been made public, the State administration of Press, Publication, radio, Film and Television said in a statement. The issue drew international attention in 2009 when an australian citizen and three Chinese colleagues working for mining giant rio Tinto were detained for stealing state secrets during the course of tense iron ore talks. Last month the regulator said reporters must not publish critical reports without prior approval. news employees must not store, copy or record secrets, the notice added. disclosing secrets in personal communications or via personal blogs and social media accounts is also forbidden.
In this Monday, July 14, 1986 file photo, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher welcomes Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on his arrival for talks at her 10 Downing Street residence in London. Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet loNdoN, July 8 (IANs): Twenty-four hours of sleep foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday, July deprivation can lead to conditions in healthy persons similar to the symptoms of schizophrenia, says a study. 7, 2014, at the age of 86 after a long illness, his spokeswoman said. (AP File Photo)
dismantling of Soviet control over its Central and East European satellite nations, pulled forces back inside the Soviet union and set off on successful negotiations with Washington to limit nuclear weapons. They moved as if taking care of a checklist of international problems — a list that originated in that Stavropol meeting. But by 1990, Shevardnadze, showing the convictions he had displayed on the Sukhumi journey, quit as foreign minister and warned of a dictatorship. he was worried, he later wrote, of a new dictatorship in the country, as Gor-
In this June 27, 2014 photo, the hands of Hasina reach down to hold her grand daughter’s tiny corpse in Dar Paing, a camp for Rohingya refugees in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The baby girl died and was buried just hours after she was born, another victim of a humanitarian crisis that is gripping western Myanmar. The family is among 140,000 Rohingya Muslims living in camps outside of Sittwe after rampaging Buddhist mobs chased them from their homes in 2012. (AP Photo)
ners of barrack-style homes and bamboo huts. They lost their main source of health care when the government kicked the aid group doctors Without Borders out of rakhine state in February. The activities of humanitarian workers helping deliver food and clean water were severely
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bachev was believed to be falling under the influence of communist hard-liners. But in the course of his leadership of the tiny country of his birth, Shevardnadze’s administration became increasingly akin to the dictatorial stance he had warned Gorbachev about more than a decade earlier. he was driven from office in a 2003 uprising, but had done much to pull Georgia back from the failed-nation brink it had reached when he took control. It was, for a time, Georgia’s great good fortune that the Yak-40 made it safely back to Tbilisi.
Myanmar camp baby a brief chapter in painful story sIttWE, July 8 (AP): hours after Shamshu nahad gave birth to her second child, a beautiful baby girl, her husband was digging its grave. The tiny corpse, wrapped in white cloth, was placed on a straw mat and lowered into the moist earth, neighbors and relatives bowing their heads as they quietly recited Muslim prayers. Like the child’s life, the ceremony was brief, over in a matter of minutes. For tens of thousands of rohingya Muslims trapped in displacement camps in western Myanmar, it is a scene that is becoming all too familiar. The predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million has been gripped by religious violence since it started moving from military rule to democracy three years ago, leaving up to 280 people dead and sending another 140,000 fleeing their homes. Most of the victims have been rohingya, who are denied citizenship by national law and are looked upon by much of the population with disdain. The suffering of pregnant women and sick babies goes on silently in the camps, in dark cor-
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agency’s report is based on the accounts of 135 women interviewed over three months earlier this year. all had taken sole responsibility for their families after their men were killed, captured or otherwise separated. The biggest difficulty the women said they face is their inability to pay rent, provide food and other necessities. a third of the women said their families aren’t getting enough to eat. Many said they have exhausted their savings, even sold off their wedding rings. Eighty percent of the women lacked paid work. Only a fifth of those were interviewed said they have any kind of support from other adult relatives. Some rely on the kindness of landlords who let them stay for free and some women send their children to find work. u.n. aid agencies including unhCr provide cash to a quarter of the women — and two-thirds of those who receive that cash said they are completely dependent on it.
one or two doctors, sometimes for only a few hours a day. Many emergencies are now handled by midwives and workers in illequipped village pharmacies. nahad didn’t even make it out of her makeshift bamboo hut to give birth. The 20-yearold lay on the floor for four days
before going into labor, writhing in pain, her body soaked in sweat. The young family was already deep in debt and could not afford to bribe anyone. and during her pregnancy, nahad could not afford to eat anything except small amounts of vegetables and rice. a midwife came, one of just three who serve more than 10,000 rohingya in dar Paing camp and surrounding areas. as the contractions intensified, she worked late into the night to finally coax the little girl into the world. Four hours later, the child was dead. nahad was grief-stricken. She broke down into tears with every sideway glance at the small corpse in the corner of the room. her only other child, 2-year-old Mohammed rohim, could not understand why he wasn’t allowed to go to his mother, who could barely move because the bleeding wouldn’t stop. he looked curiously at the baby, unaware it was his little sister. Finally he was shuttled from the room and placed under the care of neighbors.
“It was clear to us that a sleepless night leads to impairment in the ability to concentrate,” said professor ulrich Ettinger from the university of Bonn in Germany. “But we were surprised at how pronounced and how wide the spectrum of schizophrenia-like symptoms was,” Ettinger added. The chronic form of psychosis is referred to as schizophrenia, which involves thought disorders and misperceptions. This discovery was made by an international team of researchers under the guidance of the university of Bonn and King’s College, London. The study involved 24 healthy participants of both genders aged 18 to 40. In an initial run, the test subjects were asked to sleep normally in the laboratory. about one week later, they were kept awake all night with movies, conversation, games and brief walks. On the following morning, subjects were each asked about their thoughts and feelings. In addition, subjects underwent a measurement known as prepulse inhibition. “Prepulse inhibition is a standard test to measure the filtering function of the brain,” nadine Petrovsky from the university of Bonn said.
Hardline Buddhists want Pope Francis to apologize ColoMBo, July 8 (AP): A Buddhist group accused of instigating recent attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka says Pope Francis must apologize to Buddhists for atrocities allegedly committed by Christian colonial rulers of the South asian island nation when he visits next year. “We are waiting till the Pope comes to see what he is going to say about the crimes here,” rev. Galagoda atte Gnanasara, a leader of Bodu Bala Sena, or Buddhist Power Force group, told a meeting with foreign correspondents. “The Portuguese, dutch and the British are all the same to us,” he said referring to the countries that had established colonies in Sri Lanka one after another from 1505 to 1948. roman Catholicism was established in Sri Lanka by the Portuguese, while the dutch and the British established their own Christian denominations. “Previous Popes had made public apologies to certain countries because they destroyed, they killed. We had a similar situation, most of the Buddhist
temples were destroyed by them (they) killed Buddhist monks. We would like to see that public apology from him,” said Gnanasara, whose comments were made Monday but embargoed until Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the Catholic church. The monks leading Bodu Bala Sena have amassed a significant following in recent years, drawing thousands of followers. at rallies they have encouraged violence against minorities and called on Sri Lankans to preserve the purity of the Buddhist majority. human rights groups say those calls have been the reason for recent attacks on Muslims in southwestern Sri Lanka, which have resulted in several deaths and the looting and torching of businesses owned by Muslims. Though Muslims are their main target, they often accuse Christian sects of converting Buddhists through financial inducements. The Pope is expected to visit the Philippines and Sri Lanka in January.
Abdullah refuses to accept preliminary election results KABul, July 8 (AP): afghan Presidential candidate abdullah abdullah on Tuesday said he received calls from President Barack Obama and u.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after he refused to accept the preliminary result of the vote citing fraud. abdullah told thousands of supporters at a gathering in Kabul that Kerry would be flying to the afghan capital this Friday for meetings and help defuse the crisis. State department officials accompanying Kerry in Beijing declined to comment on his travel plans. he told his supporters that the results of the election were fraudulent, but asked them to give him a few more days to negotiate. “We denounce and do not accept the results of fraudulent vote. I assure you people of afghanistan that I will sacrifice for you, but I will never accept a fraudulent government,” he told his supporters, many angry over the result. “We announce that only the government elected through clean votes will come to power.” The afghan Independent Election Commission released preliminary election results Monday showing former finance minister ashraf Ghani ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner could be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud.
Preliminary results announced Monday showed that ahmadzai had about 4.5 million votes, or 56 percent, while abdullah had 3.5 million votes, or 44 percent, according to the commission. Turnout was more than 50 percent. The turmoil came as violence escalated around the country. an afghan official says that at least 16 people, including four Czech soldiers, were killed Tuesday in a suicide attack near a clinic in eastern afghanistan. The Czech Ministry of defense said Tuesday four Czech troops were killed and another was badly wounded after the blast. The ministry said it will release more details later in the day. Wahid Seddiqi, spokesman for the provincial governor of Parwan province said the soldiers, at least 10 civilians, and two police officers were killed when a suicide bomber attacked afghan and foreign forces near Charakar, the provincial capital. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to the media The announcement came as ahmadzai was locked in a standoff with abdullah, who has refused to accept any results until all fraudulent ballots are invalidated. a spokesman for his campaign rejected the results and called the decision to release them “a coup.” The election commission acknowledged that vote rigging had
Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah raise their hands and shout in support during his speech in a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 8. (AP Photo)
occurred and said ballots from about 7,000 more of the nearly 23,000 polling stations would be audited. abdullah charged that outgoing President hamid Karzai, ahmadzai and the election commission were colluding. “President Karzai, the election commissions and ashraf Ghani’s team are all one. They ignored us and announced the fraudulent results,” he said. There were fears that abdullah could ignore the result and declare victory, something he hinted at during his speech. “People across the county call on us to announce our government and I can’t not say no to
people’s wish, we don’t want civil war, we don’t want crisis. all of our lives we defended this country. We do not want crisis, we want national unity,” abdullah said. “We don’t want separation, we don’t want civil war.” u.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said during a visit to Tokyo that any action to seize power illegally in afghanistan would lead to the end of u.S. financial and security support. Kerry said suggestions of a “parallel government” in afghanistan were a grave concern and added that he expected afghan electoral institutions to conduct a full review of all reasonable allegations of irregularities.
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All eyes on Messi and Robben with Rio in sight
SAO PAULO, JULY 8 (ReUTeRS): The Netherlands are one win away from a second straight World Cup final while opponents Argentina head into Wednesday's last-four clash looking to end their 24-year wait for a place in Gloria Patri Open football Tournament the biggest game of all. Two teams with a rich Day 1 Result tradition and an abun1. Notun Bosti FC defeated FC Aviation 8-0 dance of motivation 2. Lotha Oriental FC defeated Kyong Colony YC 2-1 should produce a close 3. Naga Feathers defeated MBK 3-1 game, characterised by 4. United Boys FC defeated Padumpukhuri FC 2-0 tight marking, disciplined 5. United FC defeated Borolengri LBC 5-1 defence and threats on the break as they bd to reach Gloria Patri Open Football Tournament started on Tuesday at Don Bosco football ground Dimapur. Organised by Sinai Min- the July 13 final at Rio de Jaistry and Barak Football Club, the event will culminate on July 12. Altogether 24 teams are participating in the Tournament. neiro's Maracana. Pastor of Kingdom Culture Project, Visasier Kevichusa pronounced a prayer and kicked off the tourney. (Morung Photo) But for all the expectation, all the history and all the focus on the tactical approaches of Alejandro Sabella and Louis van Gaal, the clash at the CorinthiDIMAPUR, JULY 8 ans arena is likely to come (MexN): The Nagaland down to how two individuWrestling Association als seize the moment. DIMAPUR, JULY 8 has informed all memWith both teams set to ( M e x N ) : Mughaho bers that there will be a pack the midfield, regardAwomi from Nagaland general meeting on July less of what formal formawon the A2H 12th All India 22 at 10:00 am at Hotel tion they field, Argentine FIDE Rating Chess ChamJapfü, Kohima. The agenLionel Messi and Dutchpionship at Hyderabad, da for discussion on this man Arjen Robben will which was held from July 5 be charged with producday will be for the forthto 8. A press note from the ing thrilling moments of coming Jubilee CelebraNagaland Chess Associaskill that could decide who tion in 2016 and others. tion informed that more heads to Rio for the final. The units may also subthan 200 players particiThe narrative around mit their constructive pated in the event. Awomi the 27-year-old Messi's agendas 2 days ahead to was also the winner in the stature in the game has the President or General FIDE International chess long suggested that the Secretary for discussion. events in the year 2010 four-time World Player of NWA office bearers, adviat new Delhi and 2011 the Year needs to take his sors and all the unit office at Jammu and also won country to a World Cup tribearers are requested to more than ten times unumph to enter the list of the turn up positively, ingame's true greats. der top ten prizes at FIDE formed a press note. Whether that assesschess events.
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ic crescendo to an attack, Messi has evolved in this tournament into the conductor of the orchestra. The absence of Angel Di Maria on the right through injury is a blow for Argentina because the Real Madrid winger has provided the other main attacking threat for Sabella's team. It will be interesting to see whether the Argentine coach goes with the defence-minded Enzo Perez, who replaced Di Maria against the Belgians, or goes for a more attacking option. His Dutch counterpart Van Gaal has been willing to adjust his lineup and formation for each game, but the one constant is the reliance on Robben to terrorise defences with his highspeed dribbling. While much attention has focused on the tricky Conductor Messi So often the virtuoso winger’s tendency to go who provides the dramat- down easily in seeking penment is fair or not, Messi is certainly doing his best to prove that he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as compatriot Diego Maradona and Brazil's Pele. The forward has four goals, all in the group stage, but his contribution has gone well beyond finding the back of the net. Messi has always had the ability, for Barcelona and Argentina, to drop away from the opposing backline and run at defences from deep, but in the quarter-final win over Belgium he played almost as a classic playmaking number 10. In this withdrawn role, Messi successfully controlled the tempo of the game, slowing it down when needed and probing for spaces for striker Gonzalo Higuain to exploit.
No action against Zuniga for Neymar tackle - FIFA
Brazil's Neymar is fouled by Colombia's Juan Zuniga during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Brazil and Colombia at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Friday, July 4, 2014. Brazil's team doctor says Neymar will miss the rest of the World Cup after breaking a vertebrae during the team's quarterfinal win over Colombia. (AP Photo)
RIO De JANeIRO, JULY 8 (ReUTeRS): Colombia defender Juan Camilo Zuniga will not be punished for the tackle on Neymar that left the Brazil striker with a broken bone in his back and forced him out of the rest of the World Cup. After investigating the incident from Friday's quarter-final, won 2-1 by Brazil, FIFA's Disciplinary Committee ruled on Monday that no retrospective action could be taken. In a statement, soccer's world governing body said their own rules prevented them reopening the case because the incident had already been dealt with by the referee on the pitch. "After an analysis of the matter and the extensive submission and documentation received from the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), the chairman came to the conclusion that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee cannot
consider this matter in light of the conditions outlined in the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC) for the Disciplinary Committee to be able to intervene in such a situation," the statement read. "In particular, in this specific case, no retrospective action can be taken by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, since the incident involving the Colombian player Juan Camilo Zuniga Mosquera did not escape the match officials..." FIFA also said it could not consider Brazil's appeal against captain Thiago Silva's yellow card that will keep him out of Tuesday's World Cup semi-final against Germany. The governing body said there was "no legal basis" to grant such a request. The defender was booked against Colombia for blocking keeper David Ospina as he was taking a kick, and as it was his second of the tournament
he was automatically suspended. Neymar Disappointment FIFA, in a break from its standard formal statements, expressed its disappointment that Neymar - one of the host nation's most popular and charismatic players - had been ruled out of the World Cup because of the injury. But FIFA said the extent of the injury and the profile of the player involved could not have any bearing on their disciplinary rules. "It is important to note that the conditions by which the FIFA Disciplinary Committee can intervene in any incident have to be considered independently of the consequences of that incident, such as an unfortunate injury suffered by a player," FIFA said. "Finally, as a general remark, FIFA and the FIFA Disciplinary Committee regret any incidents occurring on the pitch that in particular have a negative impact on the health of players. "We wish Neymar a prompt and complete recovery as we wish the same for all players who have sadly been ruled out of the World Cup through injury." Neymar's premature exit from the World Cup has provoked a mixture of shock and anger in the samba nation. Brazilian television stations interrupted their normal programming on the weekend to broadcast live shots of Neymar leaving the team's training base on a helicopter while Brazil President Dilma Rousseff sent the injured player a letter. The initial shock over Neymar's injury quickly turned to fury as the collision with Zuniga was further scrutinised. Neymar was carried off the field in tears, and later diagnosed with a fractured vertebra, when Zuniga came rushing in from behind and kneed the Brazilian striker in the back. Zuniga was not booked over the incident and sent a personal note to Neymar explaining that it was an accident but not everyone agreed with his version of events with former Brazil striker Ronaldo calling it an "evil" tackle.
alties, that has distracted somewhat from the way his pace, directness and shooting have been the main focus of the Dutch attacks. Van Gaal's side have cut it fine on the route to the semi-finals though – they needed penalties to get past Costa Rica in the quarter-finals having only beaten Mexico by a controversial last-minute penalty in the previous round. They will need striker Robin van Persie to recapture his form from the group stage to give the Argentina defence something else to ponder apart from Robben's direct threat. The two teams have met four times before in the World Cup, including in the 1978 final which Argentina won 3-1 after extra time on home soil. That was their only win over the Dutch at the finals having lost twice and drawn once in the other matches.
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Parliamentary secretary for planning & coordination, monitoring cell & evaluation Neiba Kronu and others during the inauguration of Indoor Table Tennis Stadium at Pfutsero on July 8. (Morung Photo)
Japanese pro-wrestler plans Pyongyang extravaganza
TOKYO, JULY 8 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may have found a new friend for life. Hot on the heels of former NBA star Dennis Rodman's basketball antics in Pyongyang on the young leader's birthday, a Japanese pro wrestling legend turned politician is planning to entertain the North Korean capital with a martial arts extravaganza next month — and hopefully meet some senior leaders while he is there. Kanji "Antonio" Inoki was to leave for Pyongyang on Wednesday to set the final details for the Aug. 30-31 event, which organizers say will feature pro wrestling, taekwondo, the Japanese martial art aikido and a traditional Korean style of wrestling. Like Rodman, who said he
and Kim were friends for life even though his trip to Pyongyang in January was a publicrelations disaster, Inoki is both a savvy showman and charismatically eccentric. For a politician — he's serving his third term in Japan's parliament — he is also famously fond of being politically incorrect. During the Gulf War, Inoki organized a pro wrestling show in Iraq and he has visited North Korea nearly 30 times. His proactive position on Pyongyang ties has gotten him in trouble before. He was suspended in parliament last year for 30 days after making an unauthorized trip to the North. Government officials are not expected to protest his current plans, however. Though he is a household name in Japan,
the square-jawed, 6-foot-3 Inoki is probably best remembered elsewhere for fighting Muhammad Ali in Tokyo in 1976, though he spent much of the bout on his back kicking at Ali's legs. Inoki was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2010. He retired from the ring in 1998. If all goes as planned, this will be the second time Inoki has helped arrange a pro-wrestling show in Pyongyang — and the first was a huge success. In 1995, Inoki fought American Ric Flair in what was called the "Collision in Korea." That two-day event, held in Pyongyang's huge May Day Stadium, drew a reported 380,000 spectators and was the biggest pay-perview in pro-wrestling history. Ali was among the guest attendees.
LONDON, JULY 8 (IANS): Louis van Gaal might be completely swamped with the Netherlands preparation for their FIFA World Cup semi-final match against Argentina but his uncompromising approach was felt all the way in England when he ordered Manchester United players to take part in an evening session Tuesday on their second day of pre-season training. Van Gaal, who will leave the Dutch national team after the World Cup and take over the reins as manager of Manchester United, also wants England’s United World Cup contingent to be on the team’s flight to California next week as the Old Trafford club leaves for a US tour. The new manager is keen for Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Luke Shaw to report for duty 24 days after England’s draw with Costa Rica, media reports here said. Ryan Giggs was in charge of United's first pre-season training session. Midfielder Ander Herrera, signed from Athletic Bilbao for 28 million pounds, was joined by the rest of the squad not involved in the World Cup.
DFoN Open Volleyball Championship DIMAPUR, JULY 8 (MexN): The Dream Foundation of Nagaland (DFoN) informed that it will host its 3rd Open Volleyball Championship 2014 during the last week of July 2014 at DDSC Stadium, Dimapur. The event will carry a total cash prize of Rs. 1.20 Lakhs. A press note informed that for further information, interested teams and clubs may contact phones nos. 09436063433/09615182965. In this regard, DFoN has called for a meeting of its office bearers, executive members, advisors and members on July 12, 10 am at its office, Purana Bazaar, Dimapur.
Pistorius defense team closes case
Oscar Pistorius stands in court in Pretoria on July 8, at his murder trial for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on St. Valentine's Day, 2013. The chief defense lawyer in the murder trial of says he has closed his case, and the judge says final arguments will be held in court on Aug. 7 and 8. (AP Photo)
JOHANNeSBURG, JULY 8 (AP): The defense team for Oscar Pistorius closed its case in the athlete's murder trial on Tuesday, bringing a legal case that has transfixed South Africans and others around the world closer to a verdict. Final arguments are scheduled for Aug. 7-8. Lawyer Barry Roux said he had finished calling witnesses to testify in the trial of Pistorius, who killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp by firing through a closed toilet door in his home. "We close the case for the defense," Roux said. Some witnesses did not want to testify for the defense because of the publicity surrounding the case, he said, adding that he chose not to ask Judge Thokozile Masipa to compel them to appear. "There's nothing that we can do about it," he said in the woodlined, Pretoria courtroom where the trial of the double-amputee runner has been held since March.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said the prosecution will file closing arguments on July 30 and the defense will do so on Aug. 4. He and Roux agreed to return to court on Aug. 7 to give final arguments before Masipa. Pistorius says he killed Steenkamp by mistake, thinking an intruder was in the toilet and about to attack him. The prosecution says he shot her after a Valentine's Day argument last year. Pistorius, who is free on bail, faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty of premeditated murder, but he could also be sentenced to a shorter prison term if convicted of murder without premeditation or negligent killing. Additionally, he faces separate gun-related charges. Pistorius, who competed at the 2012 London Olympics, was born without fibulas, the slender bones that run from below the knee to the ankle. Part of his lower legs were amputated when he was 11 months old.
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livelihood and employment at the same time to show the satisfaction and contentment in one’s profession, be it small or big. The video The video has been dedicated to the progressive young Nagaland. With
this message, YouthNet has launched ‘Happy Nagaland’ on YouTube last night. The link to the video will be posted on the official site of YouthNet and also Facebook users can view from YouthNet’s Facebook page.
Model and former Mister International India Opang Jamir has appealed to all individuals/societies and organizations to support in prayers and also donate for 4-year-old Omentiba, who was born with heart problem and has undergone his first surgery. Omentiba underwent the heart surgery in 2010 with sponsorship from Rotary Club of Dimapur. He is now due for next stage surgery followed by Fontan Completion. Omentiba is the son of Aotoshi from Unger village under Mokokchung district, presently residing at Aoyimsen, Dimapur. For more information call these numbers - 9612196775/ 9089615825. Seen in the picture is Opang Jamir (left) with Omentiba and his father.
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Summer YouthNet interns launches Pharrell Williams' “Happy” (Nagaland version) video
harrell Williams' mega success 'Happy' which went viral in the internet with young people across the globe making their own version including India has also hit Nagaland. As part of their summer internship
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he voting for the second live round of “Guitar prodigy” (The ultimate guitarist hunt) will start from July 8 and will close on July 17. The voting cards are available at Dimapur- Crescendo & Sports life style, Kohima – Lineage enterprise, Wokha – Hills enterprises, Tuensang – Wacky Collection. Several music lovers
thronged Ozone Café on July 5 to witness the Kohima road show of Barefoot production presents Aircel “Guitar prodigy” (The ultimate guitarist hunt). The scintillating performances of the contestants evoked thunderous response. Kohima district partner - Lineage Enterprise, powered the event. In the first elimination round, out of 16 con-
testants, 13 contestants confirmed tickets for the next round. The thirteen contestants selected for the second live round are: (2) Kevisa Vivose, (3) Susa Sami, (4) Keviphruotsu Dzuvichu, (5) Honglep Sangle, (6) Veshehu Chuzo, (7) Kuzhohusa, (8) Lulantsi, (10) B.Temsuyabang, (11) Luntsu Yimchunger, (13) Sulanthung Odyuo, (14) Okoliba Ozukum, (15)
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Amos P. Ovung, (16) Waluniba Lemtur. Four contestants including Waluniba Lemtur, Honglep Sangle, Veshehu Chuzo and Sulanthung Odyuo has been selected to perform at the Grand finale of Brazil world cup, 2014 at City tower on July 13 organised by the Dorains Society, Dimapur on the basis of their performance of the 1st live round.
Emma Watson named UN Women Goodwill Ambassador
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opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. "Women's rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can't imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role." The recent Ivy League graduate is no stranger to promoting girls' education - she has previously visited young women in Bangladesh and Zambia as part of her humanitarian efforts.
ight, now we've got that depressingly foreseeable statement out of the way, let's rummage through the latest Michael Bay mess for some positives. Surprisingly, there are actually a handful. For all his faults past and present, Bay appears to have actually learnt from his previousTransformers trilogy whilst starting this new one. One of the series' many problems has been an over-abundance of comic relief characters that exist solely to be the butt of puerile jokes. Mercifully Age of Extinction is lighter on these characters – two or three versus upwards of eight – and that's due to the new darker tone, which may be a cliché in Hollywood franchise sequels but in the case of Bay's Transformers means a lot less trying (and failing) to be funny and lot more trying (and failing) to be exciting. It's a small mercy, but providing an exciting spectacle has always been easier for Bay than providing humour. Even here though, the action is just plain pedestrian - a cut and paste job from previous films with no invention or desire to differentiate. Oh right, I was meant to be talking positives. While Bay should in no way be applauded for this, Age of Extinction is markedly less sexist than its predecessors – but still in possession of many leering shots of various women. At least however, there are some attempts to make the women of this series more than just window dressing. Nicola Peltz's Tessa Yeager wants to go to college and is at one point seen reading a book – that, for Bay, is progress. Peltz is also a much better actress
than previous leading ladies Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and looks like a real person to boot. A final positive is that the human cast are a huge improvement over past films and each does the best they can with what they've been given. Mark Wahlberg is a much more likeable lead than Shia LaBeouf ever was, and he's supported well by Kelsey Grammer as the villain, Jack Reynor who bafflingly (perhaps to make Marky Mark look better) is portrayed as a bit of a wimp and Stanley
Tucci, the best of the bunch, who plays a Steve Jobs-like figure. So well done to the cast and congratulations to Bay for making a marginally better film than the last three. Now on to the negatives. Any film editor worth their salt could easily cut 45 minutes from Age of Extinction, and bring it down to a tidier two hours. Were that to happen the film's barebones plot could even have been pretty good, but there an incredible amount of unnecessary scenes – action or no action – that did nothing but make me roll my eyes and look to the exits. It says a lot that the best action scene (Wahlberg's fight with a black ops agent played by Titus Welliver) didn't have a single Transformer in it, and may not
have even had any computer imagery depending on how the stunts were handled. For the most part however it was just twenty foot robots beating the holy hell out of each, which should be more exciting than it is and yet there I was wondering what I should eat for dinner. How is that event possible? Bay makes it possible with a style of direction perfectly suited to this franchise.Transformers could be something knowingly silly, but let's not forget it is a series that only exists to sell toys and that makes former commercial director Bay a perfect fit. It also makes the absurd product placement in the film as laughable as it is depressing. His style is style over substance, but it's not even a style with some sense of invention or artistry like Zack Snyder's work. It's a hyper-kinetic, fast-moving and shiny style that one can only assume stems from an innate fear in Bay that he might ever lose the audience's attention for a second. This mean's Bay is always in a rush to get to his next fight or car chase, and that comes at the expense of characters you care about. Granted it does – once again – do a better job than previous films, but Wahlberg and his on-screen daughter have nowhere to go after the initial set up of "tough Texan on hard times trying to do best by his child." This is the Transformers series booting up for another trilogy, one that on this basis will be largely the same if perhaps deserving of a slightly more merit than the last. Don't take that as a compliment though, Transformers: Age of Extinction is still a bad film.
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aylor Swift has turned writer for The Wall Street Journal by penning an article defending the music industry. In honour of the newspaper's 125th anniversary on Tuesday (08Jul14), the Love Story hitmaker was commissioned to pen an essay for a section called The Future of Everything. In her article, the 24 year old offers her opinion on the state of modern music, dismissing fears that declining sales and increased piracy have sounded the death knell for the industry. She writes, "(I'm) one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying... it's just coming alive. "There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an economic entity. I am not one of them. In
my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work... Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently. "In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet... is that they all realize their worth and ask for it." Swift argues that music fans consume differently than they did 20 years ago, detailing the success of her recent record-breaking Red concert tour and the rise of YouTube.com.
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and thinks his religious beliefs and upbringing have given him the strength he needed to carry on, reported New York daily News. “I would say faith, being Irish, being Catholic, it’s ingrained in my DNA,” Braosnan said. The ‘Long Way Down’ actor, who is now married to Keely Shaye Smith, also admitted to being a keen artist. “I paint
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MANCHESTER, JuLy 8 (REuTERS): Goalkeeper Willy Caballero has joined Manchester City from Spanish outfit Malaga on a three-year deal, the Premier League champions announced on Tuesday. The 32-year-old from Argentina will provide competition for England stopper Joe Hart, following the departure of reserve Costel Pantilimon to Sunderland. "This is a new challenge and a new league for me. I have been doing well in the previous years and my goal is to go on and hopefully perform at the same level for City," Caballero told the club website (www.mcfc. co.uk). "I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the no.1 spot. I will do my best in the training sessions." Current City manager Manuel Pellegrini signed Caballero for Malaga from Elche when in charge of the La Liga side in 2011.
Before moving to Spain in 2004 Caballero won the Argentine championship, Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup with Boca Juniors. "The most beautiful moments of my career were under Manuel Pellegrini in Malaga, where we achieved big things and we made Malaga’s name known around Europe," he added. No transfer fee was disclosed but media reports estimate City paid around six million pounds ($10.21 million) for Caballero, who has not played for his country at senior international level. He is the third player to arrive at the Etihad Stadium since the end of last season, with Bacary Sagna joining on a free transfer from Arsenal and Fernando moving from Porto. The club have moved ahead with their transfer plans despite being fined up to 60 million euros ($81.84 million) and having their squad capped for next season's Champions League after breaching UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules.
Rare 5-test series for England & India
LONDON, JuLy 8 (AP): After being beaten by Sri Lanka in a test series on home soil for the first time, England will look to recover its reputation with five matches against India. It's the first five-test series in 55 years between the two countries. They will be played quickly, across 42 days, and will shape the futures of players on both sides. Here are five things to know going into the first test match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, starting Wednesday:
Cook Under Pressure: For England captain Alastair Cook, he simply must get a big score soon, preferably a century. He has gone 25 innings without reaching three figures and acknowledged after the defeat against Sri Lanka that not only his captaincy is in question, but his place in the team too. "No one has got a divine right to captain the side or play in the side if you're not performing," he said. "I am determined to turn this around." Fellow batsman Joe Root, who made a double-century in the first test against Sri Lanka, believes England collectively must play better. "We've obviously got a point to prove," he said. "We're going to have to play some seriously good cricket but we are more than capable of doing that as a side." India Seeks Revenge: Three years ago, the last time India travelled to England for a test series, it was thrashed 4-0 and in 2012 England won another fourmatch series 2-1 on Indian soil. Since then, a 5-0 Ashes defeat in Australia followed by the 1-0 series defeat to
rounder, who made 120 in his second test appearance and, in a total of four matches for England, has 15 wickets with best figures of 6-99. The English media expect him to start on Wednesday, but who Stokes replaces is a cause for debate. Liam Plunkett's name has been mentioned but the fast bowler took nine wickets against Sri Lanka at Headingley. Chris Jordan could drop out but he has shown confidence with bat and ball. With a potential 25 days of cricket out of 42 coming up, both teams might be forced to rotate to avoid fatigue. Ali And Ashwin: Moeen Ali is the closest England have to a spin bowler at the moment, but it seems that Cook needs to see more from him to be truly convinced. He relied almost incessantly on his fourpronged pace attack against Sri Lanka, and Ali would be forgiven for feeling he deserved to have the ball in his hand for more overs than he did. Granted, in both tests he averaged over 60, but he struck at crucial times removing key batsmen such as Kumar Sangakkara for his first test wicket.
England captain Alastair Cook. left, and India captain M.S. Dhoni pose with the Trophy during a photocall ahead of the first Test Match between England and India at Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham, England, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. England start the first Test Match against India at Trent Bridge on Wednesday July 9. (AP Photo)
Sri Lanka mean England look anything but as imperious. India will smell blood and look to exploit its hosts' problems. In India's 18man test squad, only three players have played test match cricket in England — Gautam Gambhir, Ishant Sharma and captain MS Dhoni. However, Dhoni will be confident batsmen such
as Virat Kohli, an elegant shotmaker, and Ajinkya Rahane, who likes to play aggressively, will leave their mark on England. "As far as our team is concerned, we have prepared really well," Kohli said. "We have some ideas in mind that we want to execute when we go onto the field."
No Review: India remains the only cricketing nation to refuse DRS, which means this test series will remove the safety net for umpires to improve the number of correct decisions. England would have won the first test against Sri Lanka if Nuwan Pradeep had not been able to challenge the lbw
dismissal awarded against him off the bowling of Stuart Broad, where replays showed he got a thick inside edge. Ben stokes back? The performance of Ben Stokes was one of the few positives England could take from its Ashes whitewash. He is an all-
For India, its spinner Ravi Ashwin will be encouraged to see the torment that Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath put England's batsmen through. Ashwin averages around five wickets a test, but 15 of his 19 appearances have been in India. The 27-year-old bowler now has an opportunity to remove any doubts about his ability to spin the ball outside of his home country against an England side under increasing pressure to get back to winning test matches.
First Indian-origin player to join NBA
WASHINGTON, JuLy 8 (PTI): Sim Bhullar has become the first player of Indian origin to be a part of the National Basketball Association (NBA) after he signed a summer contract with the Sacramento Kings, a professional basketball team in the US. 21-year-old Bhullar, who is 7.5 feet tall and weighs 360 pounds, is a centre from New Mexico State University. Originally from Canada, Bhullar's parents hail from Punjab. His height is in his genes with his father 6.5 feet tall and his being mother's height 5.10 feet. Bhullar's younger brother Tanveer, who is 7.2 feet, also plays college basketball at New Mexico
State. Bhullar's name was not originally drafted in last month's NBA Draft, and that might deter him from playing for the Kings when the 2014-2015 season begins later this year. The Indian-origin player made everyone took note of him in college as he averaged 10.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.4 blocks per game in his two-year career with the Aggies. In an interview with a Toronto paper 'The Globe and Mail', Bhullar said he wanted to make the most of it by dropping out of college after his sophomore year and enter the draft. "Guys my size don't have very long careers and you have to take advantage of it and do the best you can
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BERLIN, JuLy 8 (IANS): Corinna, wife of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, said that her husband's health is making slow but good progress. In her first public appearance since the skiing accident that left her husband in an induced coma last December, Corinna said that Michael's condition is slowly getting better, reports Efe. Corinna was smiling
and joking while handing out chocolates at a riding event in her native Switzerland. The former seventime F1 world champion is currently being treated in a rehab clinic near his family home in Lausanne in Switzerland after leaving Grenoble hospital in France where he had been hospitalised for months after a fatal skiing accident last December which left him comatose.
with the time you have to play," Bhullar was quoted as saying by the Globe and Mail. "I didn't want to get hurt in another college season and ruin my chances. And I'm not the kind of guy that's doing it just to make money right away; I just want to play at the highest level," he said. In 2013, the Kings became the NBA's first team to have an Indian-origin majority owner -- Vivek Ranadive. Since taking over the reins of the Kings, which was lying low in recent years due to less winning percentages and declining ticket sales, Ranadive has transformed the organisation into one of the better ones in the league.
After Wimbledon win, Djokovic to tie the knot PODGORICA, JuLy 8 (AFP): After winning his second Wimbledon title, world number one Novak Djokovic was expected in the tiny Adriatic republic of Montenegro on Tuesday where he will tie the knot. Djokovic and longtime girlfriend Jelena Ristic are due to wed in the luxurious Adriatic resort of Sveti Stefan on Wednesday in a closed ceremony, local media reported. Djokovic family spokesperson said only that a statement would be sent to the media, without revealing any details. The couple, who are expecting their first child later this year, reportedly wanted to have a private ceremony only with the closest friends and family present. Reporters at the scene said Sveti Stefan, as well as the nearby upmarket Kraljicina beach -- where the wedding banquet would be held -- were closed off for public by dis-
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creet but efficient security, to prevent possible intruders or paparazzi. Belgrade daily Blic reported that employees at the Sveti Stefan resort have signed a written pledge not to disclose any details relating to the wedding. They are also forbidden from bringing any cameras or mobile phones to the islet,
connected with the mainland by a stony strip which gives it the impression of being a peninsula. Montenegrin media reported that Djokovic's coaches Boris Becker and Marjan Vajda, as well as several tennis players -- among them Maria Sharapova and Andy Murray -- would attend the wedding.
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