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Israel criticizes upcoming UN report on Gaza [ PAGE 9]
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CL John visits Wazeho cement factory
India-B’desh rain-marred Test ends in tame draw
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education neglected in border areas: YAA DIMAPUR, JUNE 14 (MExN): The Yimchunger Akheru Arkihako (YAA) today lamented that education in the border areas of Nagaland state is being totally neglected. The YAA came to this conclusion after a team visited the Yimchunger jurisdiction under Dimapur, Tuensand and Kiphire districts from May 26 to June 1, as part of its yearlong 50th Golden Jubilee. Informing that most of the schools “have been totally neglected in the border areas,” the YAA detected lack of teachers or no teachers in many schools; dilapidated school buildings and classroom facilities. It further expressed concern at the “irregularities and non-performance of duty by the teachers wherein putting hundreds of innocent students’ career at stake.” It said that teachers posted in far flung regions “never wanted to teach and when asked about their non-performance of duty, there were multiple reasons to state for not being in their posting place.” The YAA slamed such teachers and cautioned that it would not tolerate and compromise in such issues. It directed the federating units to strictly monitor schools in their regions and furnish school progress reports once in every three months in order to ascertain their proper functioning. The concerned VEC’s were also asked to strictly comply and adhere to the YAA directives and guidelines. It further appealed to DEOs/SDEOs to streamline the teachers’ position and carry out interval inspection of schools to ensure that teachers perform their duties.
DIMAPUR, JUNE 14 proach was right, why was there (MExN): The Nagaland state no solution during UPA’s reunit of the BJP today alleged gime? When UPA government The Morung Express that the Nagaland Pradesh had set unity among Nagas as Committee (NPCC) the pre-condition for solution, Poll QuEsTion Congress is “trying to take political mile- the claim of talks without preVote on www.morungexpress.com age” of the recent outbreak of condition was just a political SMS your anSwer to 9862574165 violence in the region as a re- gimmick,” the BJP said. It further claimed that the sult of the Ceasefire abrogation Is the Indian national media reporting on North East issues between the NSCN (K) and the Congress, during its 60 years further alienating the people of of ruling India, had “messed Government of India. the North East region? A press note from the Naga- up the Naga political issue.” land BJP President, M Chuba “When their approach had not Yes no others Ao said that the ceasefire agree- changed in over sixty years of Is the Government of India ment was not abrogated by the handling the problem, they sincere in its approach GoI but was unilaterally abro- have no moral right to question while addressing political gated by NSCN (K). The NPCC, the approach of BJP or NDA issues in the North East? he said, “should not try to fur- government,” it added. Yes 19% Reminding that “Congress ther vitiate the atmosphere with 70% no legislators have joined the NDA its misleading statements.” 11% others While acknowledging that government on one point agenDetails on page 7 the approaches of previous da of finding early solution to UPA government and the pres- Naga political problem” the BJP ent NDA government to the reasoned that they are now “duNaga political issue are differ- ty-bound to uphold NDA govent, the BJP however said that ernment’s approach.” It further this does not mean that UPA hit out that “a party that has no government’s approach was control over its own legislators right and NDA government’s has no moral right to point finNEw DElhI, JUNE 14 approach is wrong. “If their ap- gers at others.” (IANS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday admitted she had helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi procure docuour Correspondent ments to travel to Portugal last July on “humanitarian Kohima | June 14 grounds” for treatment of his cancer-afflicted wife. The World Blood Donor Sushma Swaraj, in a series Day was observed today in very second, there is someone who requires of 14 tweets, said she helped Kohima with Deputy Comblood. But unfortunately, in India, every year 12 Lalit Modi, who has been missioner Rovilatuo Mor million units of blood are required, out of which staying in London since gracing the occasion and only 9 million units come off the blood bank’s shelves 2010 following allegations participating in the blood through voluntarily donated blood. of financial impropriety, af- donation drive. The event Due to blood unavailability, many people lose lives ter he said his wife was suf- was held at the Naga Hos- in the face of accidents/emergencies or complicated fering from cancer and was pital Authority Kohima surgeries. Several blood disorders like sickle cell anaeto undergo surgery in Por- (NHAK). mia, thalassemia and haemophilia affect children Under the theme who require repeated blood transfusions. Innocent tugal. She, however, denied having sought any favour ‘Thank you for saving my lives are lost due to repeated blood shortage and infor her nephew Jyotirmay life,’ the World Blood Do- consistencies in their transfusion. Blood transfusion helps patients suffering from vaKaushal with regard to his nor Day in the state capiadmission in a law course at tal was organized by the riety of life-threatening health conditions and stimuDistrict AIDS Prevention lates them to live longer. Sussex University. So don’t shy away! Anyone between the age group “What benefit did I pass & Control Unit (DAPCU) on to Lalit Modi - that he in association with Blood of 18 to 65, weighing above 45 kgs, and having a haecould sign consent papers Bank, NHAK, Nagaland moglobin level of 12.5 or above can easily donate for surgery of his wife suf- State AIDS Control Society blood. The blood donated is less than half of the exfering from cancer? He was (NSACS) and Nagaland tra blood that your body does not need. You can and in London. After his wife’s State Blood Transfusion should donate blood every three months. surgery, he came back to Council (NSBTC). Several blood is a very simple and is an annual event desigLondon. What is it that I people including media painless procedure. The do- nated by the World Health persons also joined the volchanged?” Sushma said in untary blood donation. nor can resume to normal Organization (WHO) to tweets amid the envelopSpeaking on the oc- work after donation,” she recognize and thank the ing row. Sushma Swaraj casion, the Kohima DC said. She further informed millions of people around is reported to have met stressed on the need to that blood can be donated the world who donate their Prime Minister Narendra strengthen blood donation every three months. She blood to help save lives and Modi to speak to him about activities in the state. In this, said that the blood given by improve health. the row, even as Bharatiya he underlined the need to donors can save the life of Earlier, the significance Janata Party (BJP) chief sensitize the families, vil- someone who is undergo- of the day was briefed on Amit Shah and Home Min- lagers and leaders of differ- ing surgery or has lost blood by NSBTC director, Dr P ister Rajnath Singh came ent organizations to come in an accident or during Tia Jamir while welcome out in support of the senior forward and improve blood child birth. address was delivered by minister. Her clarification donation activities in the “In order to make blood DAPCU district programme came after Britain’s Sunday state. Mor also stated that it available the local people officer Sentimongla Tzudir. Times reported an email is imperative that the stigma have to come to donate Aotoshi, a blood donconversation between in- associated with blood do- blood voluntarily,” she er shared his experiences fluential Labour MP Keith nations be removed from said. Equating blood dona- while the School of NursVaz and head of UK Visas the minds of the people. tions to sharing one’s life, ing NHAK presented a speand Immigration Sarah NHAK blood bank Dr Khamo said: “Donation cial number. The function Rapson, citing Sushma MO, Dr V Khamo said any of blood means a few min- was chaired by Ayangla ImSwaraj, to facilitate travel healthy person between utes to you but a lifetime to chen, while District ICTC supervisor, Avio Naleo prodocuments for Lalit Modi. the ages of 18- 60 years can someone else.” World Blood Donor Day posed the vote of thanks. More News on Page 8 donate blood. “Donating
Sushma in row over helping Lalit Modi with travel documents
Pointing out that the large presence of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in Dimapur was “complicating the daily life of genuine Indian Muslims,” Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang on Sunday strongly urged upon the Muslim Council Dimapur (MCD) to cooperate with the state government in identifying illegal immigrants. Speaking during the 13th Nagaland Muslim Students’ Felicitation Programme organized by the MCD at Holy Cross Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, Zeliang highly appreciated the MCD and other genuine Muslim communities for their positive and constructive role in the aftermath of the March 5 incident and during the 2012 exodus of northeast students from different Indian metros. “During the two incidents, the MCD has played an active and major role in diffusing tension and prevented escalation of the situation,” Zeliang recalled. The Chief Minister said that the MCD was living true to its motto of “Unity, Integrity and Communal Harmony” and encouraged the members to continue working in similar manner. Meanwhile, Zeliang also pointed out that certain sections of Muslim fundamentalists in the country were seen practicing terrorist activities by engaging in violence much to the embarrassment and predicament of law abiding Muslims. He said such anti-national activities have hindered the genuine Muslim community in many ways and had placed them at a disadvantageous position. He called upon the community to collectively overcome such problems. However, the state Chief Minister noted that the Muslims in Nagaland were “by and large law abiding citizens” and that they were at par with other communities in socio-economic life. He appreciated the contributions made by the Muslim com-
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munity to the socio-economic progress of Dimapur. Zeliang noted that the Muslim community is less represented in the defense and civil services but said that the reason could be historical in nature after the partition of India when communal violence erupted from time to time. He expressed happiness that the community is gradually coming up in the field of education which was visible from the recent declaration of HSLC and HSSLC results where a Muslim student secured high top rank besides many other students coming out in flying colours. The Chief Minister heartily congratulated all the successful students and wished them more success in their future endeavours. Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, MTF and State Lottery, Khriehu Liezietsu who was the guest of honour also said he was impressed with the Muslim community for tactfully handling the March 5 incident and projecting the actual position thereby preventing the situation in turning from bad to worse. All meritorious Muslim students from Nagaland wereCITIZEN felicitated UMBRELLA during the programme. Wholesalers may contact CITIZEN UMBRELLA LTD. Vice President All IndiaMANUFACTURER Muslim MajH.O.: 147, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata-7 lis-E-Mushawarat (AIMMM) and2271-2152 FoundPh. No. 033-2268-1396, Fax :Muslim (033) 2271-2151 ing Member All India Personal E-mail : citizenkolkata@gmail.com Law Board, Jonab Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury and Political Advisor to Chief Minister of Meghalaya and Former Health Minister, Meghalaya, Jonab Sayeedullah Nongrum were some of the dignitaries from outside the state who attended the programme.
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VATICAN CITY, JUNE 14 (REUTERS): Pope Francis will call on all people to be “stewards of creation” and address the hot-button topic of climate change on Thursday in the most feverishly awaited papal encyclical in decades. By making environmental protection a moral imperative, his intervention could spur the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to lobby policymakers on ecology issues. Francis has already used his twoyear-old papacy to lead in areas such as the resumption of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States, a deal the Vatican brokered. Francis has said he wants the document, called “Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home,” to be part of the debate at a major U.N. summit on climate change later this year. Speaking to tens of thousands people in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, he said it was “addressed to everyone”. He hoped it could spark “renewed attention to situations of environmental degradation and to recovery” and lead to “greater responsibility for the common home that God has entrusted to us”. People familiar with
the encyclical say it will note the impact of climate change on the poor and discuss inequalities of wealth -- already a major theme for the first pope from Latin America, where poverty is widespread -and population issues. Rich nations will be asked to re-examine “throwaway” lifestyles. Politicians have increasingly acknowledged religion’s role in the environmental debate, although anxious conservatives and climate change skeptics, particularly in the United States, have excoriated the pope for delving into science. “If you are concerned about God, a creator and his creation, then you have to be concerned that his creation is not destroyed,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will host the make-or break summit in Paris from Nov. 30-Dec 11. The first papal encyclical, or teaching letter, dedicated to the environment is expected to have particular sway over Latin American nations whose votes could be crucial at the summit. The Vatican will hold a private briefing for ambassadors from some 170 countries after it is published on Thursday. “I have
strict orders, as do many of my colleagues, to send it instantly to my government,” said one ambassador. Much of the pre-publication frenzy has focused on what it might say about climate change. Environmental activists are hoping to use the pope’s words as a big gun in their arsenal to clinch international agreements to stem global warming. Persons familiar with the document say it gives credence by default to scientific consensus that much of global warming is caused by human activity but that neither climate change activists or skeptics will be able to claim total victory. MAN MOSTLY TO BLAME Francis took his name from St. Francis of Assisi, patron of ecology and the title of the encyclical comes from one of the saint’s prayers in praise of nature. The pope hinted at what he would say while talking to reporters about climate change in January. “I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,” he said. “I think man has gone too far ... thank God that today there are voices that are
speaking out about this.” At a conference at the Vatican in April, the Holy See teamed up with the United Nations and came down firmly against skeptics who deny human activities help change global weather patterns. The final statement of the conference, attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and some 60 scientists, religious leaders and diplomats, said “Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality ...” US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a Catholic and climate change skeptic, said the Church would be “better off leaving science to the scientists”. Maureen Mullarkey, a commentator for the conservative U.S. website First Things, published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life, called Francis “an ideologue and a meddlesome egoist” who was “sacralizing politics and bending theology to premature, intemperate policy endorsements (on climate change).” A papal encyclical is part of a pope’s “ordinary magisterium”, or teaching function, meaning it is authoritative but not infallible.
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Minister for rural development & REPA CL John on Thursday visited Wazeho cement factory under Meluri sub-division of Phek district. He was accompanied by parliamentary secretary for art & culture Eshak Konyak and officials from geology & mining and Nagaland State Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. Later, on June 12, CL John spoke at the inauguration of Tizu Bridge and Chizuti Bridge, where he declared that Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) is sailing smoothly. Minister for school education & SCERT Yitachu was also present at the inauguration. CL John claimed that DAN stands strong like a ‘solid rock’ and is commit-
On the other hand, John said that public should not seek financial help and jobs alone, but also give constructive suggestion to the government and be a major contributor to the developmental process. The minister further reiterated that DAN is committed to a policy of inclusiveness with special attention given to the development of backward regions and weaker sections of people. Stating that development is touching every nook and corner of the state, he urged the people to do away with backward tag. Also stressing on the need to do away with tribalMinister for rural development & REPA CL John and others during their visit to Wazeho cement factory in Meluri on ism, factionalism, clanism and partyism, he made a June 11. (Morung Photo) fervent appeal to the Naga ted to work for the welfare “Development for Peace upon the people to main- stated development is pos- people to maintain a sense and development of the and Peace for Develop- tain peace for all round de- sible when there is peaceful of oneness and march ahead together. state. Citing the DAN slogan ment,” the minister called velopment of the state. He atmosphere and unity.
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The recovered vehicle.
kohiMa, JuNe 14 (MexN): One white Maruti 800 bearing registration number ML-05C-9218, which was stolen from Delhi, has been recovered in Kohima. According to a press release from SDPO/ PRO, Kohima police, the vehicle is wanted in connection whit KN Katju Marg, outer District, Delhi P.S Case No. 0072/2010. The SHO of KN Katju Marg, Delhi has already been informed to make claim of the stolen vehicle from Kohima police with all relevant vehicle documents, the release said. The original registration number of the said vehicle is DL6CE-3845 as per official records, it added.
Media seminar today kohiMa, JuNe 14 (MexN): The Brahma Kumaris Meditations & De-addiction Centre, Kohima is organizing a media seminar of media persons for their inner empowerment on June 15 from 10:00 am onwards under the theme “Value based media for healthy & happy society.” Brahma Kumaris Meditation & De-addiction Centre is located at PWD Shopping Complex, opposite Butcher shops, Kohima. The chief speaker will be BK Sushant Behura from Delhi.
Training held for ECCE teacher trainees kohiMa, JuNe 14 (MexN): Training for in-service teacher trainees who have completed one year diploma course in Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) was conducted at SCERT, Kohima recently. Gracing the valedictory programme, SCERT director Vipralhou Kesiezie urged the trainees to deliver their services with zeal and commitment. Meanwhile, the teacher trainees reaffirmed their commitment to their profession. Earlier, SCERT project director Kevi Liegise also shared on the importance of providing joyful learning to the children. A newsletter titled "Impression", an annual ECCE report was also released on the occasion.
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kohiMa, JuNe 14 (MexN): The Indian Red Cross Society, Nagaland State Branch is all set to conduct the ceremonial function of the annual general meeting 2014-2015 on June 24, 11:00 am at the Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan here. During the function, PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland, who is also the president of IRCS Nagaland state branch, and TR Zeliang, chief minister of Nagaland and the vice president of IRCS Nagaland state branch will deliver the presidential and vice presidential address respectively. This was stated in a release issued by Dr. Kepelhusie Terhüja, general secretary, IRCS Nagaland state branch.
NPCC office bearers’ meeting kohiMa, JuNe 14 (MexN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) will hold its office bearers’ meeting on June 19, 11:00 am at Congress Bhavan, Kohima. Therefore, all the office bearers have been requested to attend the said meeting.
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Dimapur Municipal Council Administrator, H. Atokhe Aye receiving the Appreciation Award for Town Development from Chief Minister TR Zeliang in Dimapur on Sunday. The Appreciation Award has been instituted by Muslim Council Dimapur (MCD) and was presented to DMC for undertaking numerous development activities in Dimapur. The award was given away during a successful students’ felicitation programme organised by MCD during which CM TR Zeliang was the chief guest. (Morung Photo)
NYO denounces Naga Hoho meets Arun Jaitley highway robbery
DiMapur, JuNe 14 (MexN): Strongly reacting to the report of an arrest of three persons involved in extortion within its jurisdiction, the Nerhema Youth Organisation (NYO) today condemned the incident vehemently and warned against such activities in future. Three persons identified as Ketholetuo Angami, Videsielie Kense and Asou Angami were arrested for extorting money from truckers parked in Nerhema jurisdiction on June 9. A press note from its general secretary, Menuoneituo Chadi said that while the NYO with the collective effort of every citizen is making all out endeavor to weed out such illegal activities from its area, for which it was once notoriously known amongst
travelers, it is pained to learn about the incident. “It is no less than an act of insult to their efforts of peaceful co-existence,” it added. Consequently, the Youth Organization has warned that it will not “sit idle and watch” if such activities happen within its jurisdiction in the future and will take prompt action. It further lauded the timely action taken by the Chiephobozou police personnel in apprehending the extortionists and hoped that they will continue with the same effort in future. The NYO also requested travelers to immediately inform citizens or police personnel at Chiephobozou Police Station if they face any harassment within its jurisdiction.
Delegation of Naga Hoho with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi on June 12.
New Delhi, JuNe 14 (MexN): The Naga Hoho led by its president P. Chuba Ozukum met the Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley on June 12 in his official chamber. In a signed memorandum, the Naga Hoho urged upon
the Union minister for restoration of DGM (Deputy General Manager) office of SBI in Dimapur, which was shifted to Jorhat Assam in 2013, according to a release from Naga Hoho publicity cell. Further, the Naga Hoho impressed upon the
Finance Minister to maintain status quo with regard to special status enjoyed by Nagaland ever since the signing of Political Agreement in 1960 between the GoI and the Naga Peoples Convention, the release added.
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Minister for school education & SCERT Yitachu, minister for rural development & REPA CL John, parliamentary secretary for art & culture Eshak Konyak, MLA from Myanmar, officials from geology & mining department, contractor Viu Angami and others during a visit to the ongoing construction of international trade route along International Trade Centre Avakhung in Meluri sub-division of Phek district on June 12. This route will connect Nagaland with Myanmar. Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero
Special prayer fellowship for Chakhesang leaders pfutsero, JuNe 14 (MexN): The Chakhesang Leaders’ Special Prayer Fellowship was held at CBCC Mission Centre on June 13 in Pfutsero. The meeting was organised by the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) with an objective to bring about transformational and godly leadership
through introspection and retrospection in the light of God’s Word, said Rev. Dr. V Tetseo, CBCC Executive Secretary in a press release. The participants included all the past and present legislators, national workers, bureaucrats, ordained ministers, CPO officials and all the frontal organisation leaders rep-
resenting CSU, CYF and CMA. The meeting was addressed by some of the prominent senior church leaders including Rev. Dr. VK Nuh, Rev Dr. P Dozo and Rev. K Luruo. Special prayers were offered separately for each of the following categories of leadership - legisla-
tors, bureaucrats, NGOs and national workers. The meeting ended with the leaders reaffirming their commitment to work for the welfare and unity of the Chakhesang community thereby ensuring the promotion and support to the peace and unity of the Nagas in general, the release added.
phek, JuNe 14 (MexN): The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), Phek conducted a district level meeting cum sensitization programme on child rights, protection, and street to school campaign at SIRD Training Centre Hall here on May 27. District officers from child related departments, youth leaders from different wards of Phek Town attended the programme. Deputy Commissioner of Phek Murohu Chotso graced the event as chief guest. Chotso, who is also chairman of the DCPU, highlighted that there are many cases of child abuses and child trafficking in the society. “Therefore it is our duty to protect the children,” he asserted. Satahi Shujo, Program Manager, State Child Protection Society, Nagaland was the resource person during the programme, where he stated that every child is entitled to basic rights and their rights have
to be protected. He highlighted the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) components such as Child Welfare Committee, Juvenile Justice Board, and Special Juvenile Police Unit and further talked about street to school campaign. SDPO Phek Velule Tureng in her short speech assured that the police team will give their best co-operation to the concerned department in the protection of children. Meanwhile, Block Development Officer of Phek Kuhucuyi Vadeo requested the concerned department to carry out the sensitization programme even to the grassroots level for better implementation of the same. The programme was chaired by Moajungla, Legal Cum Probation Officer Phek while welcome address was delivered by Samuel Kapu, DCPO, Phek. Vote of thanks was proposed by Venesa Nienu, Protection Officer, Phek.
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Of Life: A collection of poems released
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DiMapur, JuNe 14 (MexN): ‘Of Life’ authored by Shitiri Renthunglo, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Unity College, was released by Mmhonlumo Kikon, Parliamentary Secretary for Labour & Employment & Border Affairs on June 13 at Unity College here. The college faculty members, students, family, relatives, friends and well wishers attended the programme. Krelo Vincenza, the chairperson, hailed the occasion as a great day for poetry lovers and a return to different shades of emotions within the social realities. Stating that poetry holds a special place as it gives one hope, she said the event marked a celebration of hope. Prof. Avikasit, in his book review drew a reflection from the early 70’s as a student when they were asked to write an essay on
“When Science and technology advances, poetry declines.” He toppled the claim saying, “technology cannot produce emotions and poetry will always hold its relevance.” Beyond scholarship, he tagged the poetry of Renthunglo “poetry of fulfillment.” Releasing the book, Parliamentary Secretary Mmhonlumo Kikon congratulated the author for turning her inspiration into a “work of art.” He also highlighted the prominence of history and tradition and certain pertinent issues that were lifted up in the book. Meanwhile, the author termed the day as special one that saw the birth of her book as her 5th baby which began as a documentation of her scribbling. She thanked Heritage Publishing House for pioneering the work of publication and providing platform and promoting the work of
Naga writers and described Heritage Publishing House as “a place where professionalism meets human warmth.” She further thanked Mmhonlumo Kikon for launching her book. She thanked the students, staffs, colleagues, administrator and the principal of Unity College for their help and support. Her teachers were also given due credit for igniting her imagination. She profusely thanked her husband and daughters, parents, brothers and in-laws for their constant prayer support. She also thanked Prof. Avitasit for the book review and also Fr. Abraham Lotha and Easterine Kire for insights and wisdom and also writing blurbs for her book. Special thanks was given to Etson Ngully who illustrated her book. Dr. Lanusangla Tzudir, publisher and chief editor
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into play. The programme concluded with dedicatory prayer and benediction by Rev. Dr. Ezamo Murry. Book Review on page 5
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Pressing for its long-pending demand for ‘Alternative Arrangement’ for the Nagas in Manipur, the powerful United Naga Council (UNC) has called for a 48hour bandh along National Highways which pass through the hill areas in the state, beginning June 16 midnight. The council reminded in a statement that the last seventh round of ‘tripartite talks’ on Alternative Arrangement held on February 6, 2014 at Tahamzam (Senapati) settled that a high level committee would be constituted to implement the political demand. It appealed to all Naga frontal and regional apex organizations to enforce the strike in their respective jurisdiction. However, UNC informed that educational institutions, medical, water supply, electricity and media will be exempted from the purview of the bandh. UNC stated that the Nagas have their own distinct history, culture and tradition and evoked the 3rd Naga Peoples’ Con-
Meanwhile, ATSUM has decided to close down all Govt Higher Sec Schools in hill districts from today vention (NPC) held on July 1, 2010 declaring severance of political ties with the 'communal Government of Manipur' and to demand Alternative Arrangement outside the Government of Manipur pending Indo-Naga political settlement. It reminded that the demand was registered with the intervention of the then Prime Minister of India and the first round of ‘tripartite talk’ on it was held on September 21, 2010 in New Delhi. Meanwhile, the All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) has decided to close down all Government Higher Secondary Schools in the hill districts
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CRPF personnel donate blood on World Blood Donor Day in Tripura SAlbAgAn (TriPurA), June 14 (Ani): The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers, soldiers and their family members donated blood on the occasion of the World Blood Donor Day today. They donated blood during a mega blood donation camp here at Salbagan in Mohanpur. Beside the mega camp here, three other similar camps have also been organised in the state. The CRPF group centre organised the blood donation camp under its civic action programme in association with Agartala's ILS hospital. The programme aimed at overcoming the crisis of blood that arises during the onset of monsoon season. Over 200 bottles of blood were collected during the camps which will be used to save the lives of needy patients at the civil hospital. Many of the donors, who donated blood for the first time, said that they are feeling proud after donating their blood which will save precious lives. Moreover, the camp was being organised to spread awareness about the killer disease HIV-AIDS among the soldiers. World Blood Donor Day is being observed across the world today to raise public awareness about the need for safe blood donation. The campaign theme this year is "Thank you for saving my life".
Assam govt's special thrust to development of sports guwAhATi, Jun 14 (PTi): Assam government today said it has given special thrust to the development of sports in the state by adopting special schemes to set up state of the art sports infrastructure. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had directed the construction and development of 70 sports infrastructure during the last three years at the cost of Rs 1090.00 lakh, an official release said here today. The state department of Sports and Youth Welfare, has also undertaken the construction of a mini stadium at Chandkhira Football Field, at an estimated cost of Rs 100 lakh under Chief Minister's Special Package for Barak Valley, it said. The government has also released fund for construction of two lawn tennis courts and one basketball court at R G Barua Sports Complex in Guwahati. The state government has also enhanced the rates of scholarships and sports pension from Rs 3,600 to Rs 6,000 annually for performance at state level, from Rs 4,800 to Rs 8,400 annually for performance at National level and from Rs 15,000 to Rs 50,000 annually for performance at International level, it stated. A total amount of Rs 72.54 lakh and Rs. 76.00 lakh were given to 1125 sportspersons in 201314 and to 1150 in 2014-15 for Sports Talent Search Scholarship. Meanwhile, the rate of monthly sports pension was enhanced from Rs 2,000 to Rs 4,000 while the rate of one time financial assistance was increased from Rs 25,000 to Rs 40,000, the release said. A total of Rs 152.00 lakh was given for giving Sports Pension in 2014-15 and one time financial assistance (Ex-gratia) to 166 sportspersons, it added.
from June 15, Monday to protest against the Manipur Government for failing to meet its long-pending demands. ATSUM president Muan Tombing announced the fresh strike at a press meet at the union office here on Saturday. Tombing said that the State Government was ignoring ATSUM’s demands and hence the union would force all government-run higher secondary schools to shut down from Monday. The key demands of the union include establishment of ST Commission, regularization of contract lecturers of Higher Secondary Schools and bifurcation of power from Education (S) Director to Additional Director (Hills). Transferring of land records from valley districts to the hill districts, guaranteeing tribal quota in appointment to backlog posts in Manipur Legislative Assembly, holding a special recruitment drive in Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal are the other demands that the ATSUM has been pushing for a long time.
AizAwl, June 14 (PTi): With the signing of ceasefire between the centre and the eight Mizo insurgent groups under the banner of United People's Front (UPF) on Tuesday last, the talks with the groups was ungraded to political level from official level, according to former Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga. Zoramthanga, who was present in Delhi during the signing of the Suspension of Operations (SoO) told PTI here today that delays in peace talks between the centre and the ethnic Mizo militant groups was harming mutual trusts between the two sides. "Years have passed after signing SoO earlier, but without any formal parleys," he said, adding that the
groups did not sign SoO during the last nine months making the situation explosive in the north east", he said. The former revolutionary leader said that he helped in brokering peace between the groups and the government of India without actually participating in the talks. He said that his main role was to create mutual trust between the groups and the centre, lacking due to prolonged hostilities between the two sides. "I did not want to be called as interlocutor or as any official mediator as my main role was to build mutual trust between the two sides," he said. The UPF constituents were the Kuki National Front (KNF), Zomi
Eight Independent winners in Manipur ADC join NPF KohimA, June 14 (mexn): Eight Independent candidates who won in the recent Manipur Autonomous District Council (ADC) election have joined hands with the Naga People’s Front (NPF). The eight Independents – four from Senapati, namely Tingau Hau, K. David Khrasi, L. Thomar Luba and RK Thokru, and four from Chandel, namely Manglan Mangsa, Holngam Anal, Tongsing Willingson and KT Hare – were given the oath of office and secrecy this afternoon by President Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu at the party Central Headquarters in Kohima. They
have been accepted as Associate Members of the NPF with immediate effect. A release from NPF Press Bureau (Central) stated that the development has ensured that the NPF could form the council in Senapati, where it had already bagged 11 seats on its own out of 24 seats. The NPF has also increased its chances of forming the council in Chandel where its tally has increased to nine with the Independents, the release added. In Ukhrul, the NPF had secured absolute majority by bagging 17 out of 24 seats, while in Tamenglong, NPF emerged as the second
single-largest party with 8 seats. The release informed that in a meeting today in Kohima, the NPF Central Office leadership expressed satisfaction with the ADC election and exuded confidence that the party will gain strength in the coming years in Manipur. The leadership thanked the electorate for exercising their franchise and for casting their votes in favour of NPF. They assured that the electorates’ trust and confidence will never be forgotten and election promises would be fulfilled as early as possible. The meeting was attended by all the eight In-
dependent elected members who have joined the NPF and also most of the NPF successful candidates. The meeting further resolved to continue the party’s endeavour to strive for improving the living standards of the hills and tribal people of Manipur and to ensure that their rights and dues are not deprived. Asserting that the NPF will strive for judicious and equitable development of the hill districts at par with the valley in Manipur, the meeting also resolved to endeavour to find an early and honourable solution to the protracted Naga political problem, the release said.
At border village, recalling Army’s Myanmar operation PhAiKoh, June 14 (The indiAn exPreSS): In this last Indian village in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, there is no telling where India ends and Myanmar begins. The boundary is not demarcated visibly, and the small teak huts standing on wooden stilts could be in either country. On the morning of June 9, sleepy, isolated Phaikoh was jolted by the sounds of Indian soldiers attacking Naga militant camps in the area in retaliation against the June 4 ambush of the 6 Dogra Regiment. “Suddenly, we heard a lot of shooting and bombs going off in the near distance. Boom, boom, boom. We were wondering what was happening. We didn’t see any soldiers go through our village or in the surrounding jungles. We assume they must have gone very quietly at night, on foot,” 55-year-old Hemlet Guite, a village elder, said. It was approximately 8 in the morning when Phaikoh first heard the “sounds of the battle” — around the time its 16 schoolchildren had just begun classes at the village school. “We did see them coming back, though,” Guite said. “In the afternoon, it must have been two or three o’clock, a stream of Indian Army soldiers started walking into the village. Then the helicopters started coming. They landed on our football field, and the soldiers started to get on. It looked as though there were at least a hundred soldiers. There were two helicopters, and each made three trips. Some of the soldiers left on foot,’’ Guite added. Sixty-five-year-old Hemkhoshei, a minister of the village council, said it
was the first time he saw an Army chopper. “I was very excited. One Armyman told me to shut my eyes because there would be a lot of dust as the machine landed,” he laughed. Sauntering easily into Myanmarese territory, stepping over the shallow, muddy trench that marks the border, Hemkhoshei pointed to the grey-blue hill rising above the treetops, its peak surrounded by wispy white clouds. “That is Angko Chingbo hill,” he said. It is about 15 km inside Myanmar. The UNLF, PLA and KYKL have their camps there. That is where the Army went that day. “We have heard that nothing is left of the PLA camp now. But we do not know if the Army managed to reach the UNLF camp. It is on the other side of the mountain, and very difficult to reach,” Hemkhoshei added. According to him, the PLA camp had more than a hundred residents. Residents of Phaikoh said insurgents often travelled to border villages on the Indian side “for patrolling”. Cadres of the UNLF were the most frequent visitors, they said. “They come at least once a month, sometimes more often. They talk to us, eat their lunch, and go back. But we never have to feed them. They give us money to buy rice, and cook for themselves. Twenty, or even 40 insurgents come at a time. We haven’t seen any since Tuesday (June 9), though,” said Janghen Jangkhohem, secretary of the village council. Guite said the villagers have a good rapport with the UNLF. “There is no doctor or pharmacy in the village. So the UNLF insur-
gents sometimes give us medicines. Malaria is endemic here, and they often hold medical camps in the village, to which they bring a doctor. In return, they ask us for information — on who comes here, and what we hear about the Army. Last Christmas, the UNLF gave us money to buy a pig or cow for a feast,” Guite said. He m k h o s h e i s a i d UNLF cadres sometimes held meetings with the village council or elders. “They talk to us of development… roads, better schools, medical facilities, electricity. They have told us that they would help us get all these things,” he said. No resident of Phaikoh has ever visited any of the camps, however. What they know about them is based on what they have heard from friends in Myanmar who visit the camps to sell their wares to the insurgents. “Since Tuesday, Myanmar has completely sealed off the border. We can’t even go to Mongjang, the neighbouring village on the other side. But hopefully, the restrictions will be lifted soon,” Guite said. Across a range of three hills closer to the Indian side of the border, at the village of Nampisha, villagers recalled the happenings of June 9. “Helicopters were flying in and out. Huge helicopters. We could here gunfire in the distance. We gathered at the church and I told my congregation to pray. I warned them not to stray far from the village. Not to even go out hunting. To just stay indoors and pray,” said pastor Akhui Kamkara. The 44 Assam Rifles has an outpost at Nampi-
ONGC uses new technique to find more gas in Assam, Tripura
AgArTAlA, June 14 (iAnS): The state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has undertaken the latest multistage hydro-fracturing method to find more gas in Assam and Tripura, a top official said here on Sunday. "The ONGC had undertaken the hydro-fracturing method in Assam earlier this year to explore more natural gas. A similar system has been carried out in Tripura now," ONGC's executive director V.P. Mahawar told reporters. He said: "The ONGC has undertaken hydro-fracturing in Khubal gas field areas (in northern Tripura) to assess actual reserves of the field and in Baramura (in western Tripura) to enhance produc-
Revolutionary Army (ZRO), Kuki Revolutionary Army (United), Zomi Defence Force (ZDF), United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF), Kuki Revolutionary Front (KRF), Zomi Defence Volunteers (ZDV) and Hmar People's Convention (Democrats), he said. The militant groups headed by UPF chairman S T Thangboi were represented by leaders of the groups while the centre was represented by Ministry of Home Affairs officials headed by Sambhu Singh, joint secretary (north east) of the MHA. Earlier, Zoramthanga, went to Myanmar and Bangkok two times to broker peace between the Myanmar government and 17 ethnic-based insurgent groups in that country.
tion from tight sands." The official said that to operate the hydro-fracturing system, experts, machines and chemicals were gathered from Ahmedabad, Karaikal, Rajamundry, Bokaro and Assam. The ONGC, which has found huge gas reserves in various gas-bearing fields in Tripura over the years, established its first gas reserve in the mountainous Baramura areas in 1974. "To arrest the declining production of the ageing Baramura gas field and to enhance productivity from tight reservoir sands of this area, it was decided to undertake hydro-fracturing," the ONGC executive director said. Mahawar, who is also the officer-on-special duty (onshore),
said that to conduct more hydrofracturing operations in other gas bearing fields of Tripura, a permanent Well Stimulation Service (WLL) unit would be set up in Tripura. According to him, ONGC has so far drilled 190 wells in Tripura and more than 50 percent wells are gas-bearing. "At present, our capacity to produce gas is 4.43 million standard cubic metres per day (MSCMD) and it would increase to 5.10 MSCMD in two years," he added. ONGC has also commissioned its first mega commercial power project in outhern Tripura by floating a company -- ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC). The Rs.10,000 crore 726 MW capacity gas-based thermal power
project (using both water and natural gas) at Palatana, 60 km from here, is ONGC's first commercial power project in India. ONGC, in association with Rajasthan-based Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited and the Tripura government, would also set up a Rs.5,000 crore fertiliser plant in northern Tripura. "The process is on to set up the fertiliser project," said Mahawar, who was accompanied by senior ONGC officials. The journalists were taken to the Baramura gas field to showcase to the media persons the complicated method of gas exploration. The ONGC would soon deploy a Chinese-made rig as well to intensify its gas exploration activities in Tripura.
sha, villagers said, and they had tightened their vigil. No one was going towards Phaikoh, villagers said.
TezPur, June 14 (PTi): Assam government has asked the Forest Department to set up a forest battalion camp inside the Behali Reserve Forest to prevent recurring violence along the border with Arunachal Pradesh. Leading a delegation yesterday comprising top officials of the state government to the violence site, where one person was killed earlier this month, Assam Chief Secretary VK Pipersenia said the camp should be set up as soon as possible to avoid repeat of any violent incident in the area. The team visited the disputed areas in the Behali Reserve Forest along the Assam-Arunachal border and took stock of the situation arising out of the recent killings allegedly carried out by miscreants from Arunachal Pradesh. Pipersenia and other officials discussed the security scenario with local officials and directed them to ensure safety of the Reserved Forest and the people residing there. Later, the team met representatives of several local organisations and discussed the problems being faced by local people near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border
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What is spooking Indian equities?
New Delhi, JuNe 14 (iANS): From an all-time high that was touched in the first week of March to the latest trading day, two key equity market indices have taken a beating of around 12 percent. This, at a time when India’s growth forecasts have been upgraded by a host of global financial institutions. IANS analyses what’s gone wrong. On March 4, the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) touched an all-time high of 30,024.74 points during the intra-day. From there, the barometer index of 30 shares has dipped 3,599.74 points, or 13.62 percent, to 26,425 points. In the case of the broader CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), comprising 50 shares, the fall has been a little sharper -- from an intra-day peak of 9,119.20 on March 4 to 7,982.90 points at close on Friday is a fall of 1,136.30 points or 14.23 percent. Till mid-April, Nifty was still comfortably placed at 8,850 points. But there onward the fall began. This was also when foreign funds turned net-sellers. Having bought Rs.48,194
FPIs outflow touches Rs 4,700-cr in June New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): Foreign investors have pulled out over Rs 4,700 crore from the Indian capital markets in first two weeks of the month, primarily on account of attractiveness of its Asian peers, worries over a slow revival in corporate earnings and continued worries over taxation issues. The debt market has seen steeper outflows than equities. The net outflow by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) from equities stood at Rs 1,310 crore during June 1-12, while the same for the debt markets was at Rs 3,431 crore taking the total to Rs 4,741 crore, shows latest data from depositories. “FPIs have been withdrawing money from the domestic capital markets as they are finding China more attractive than India. Besides, FPIs are worried over a slow revival in corporate earnings. “In addition, FPIs are apprehensive crore worth of equities in the first four months of 2015, they pulled out Rs.7,078 crore from May 1 to June 12. “Mainly global rise in bond yields, poor corporate earnings vis-a-vis the higher expectations had a negative impact,” said Devendra Nevgi, chief executive of ZyFin Advisors. “The premium valuation of some stocks, lack of
that the government would impose a 20 per cent Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on profits earned by them,” UTI Mutual Fund EVP and Fund Manager V Srivastava said.In the short-term, there is no trigger for FPIs to pump in money in the domestic capital markets but in medium to long term, India is an attractive place for investment,” he added. During January to April, investments by FPIs totalled Rs 94,241 crore, but monthon-month analysis shows the fund flows are witnessing a declining trend. FPI investments in January this year stood at Rs 33,688 crore, before dropping to Rs 24,564 crore in February, Rs 20,723 crore in March and Rs 15,266 crore in April and finally an outflow of Rs 14,272 crore in May.Since January 2015, overseas investors have invested a net amount of 75,295 crore in the capital markets (equities and debt).
reforms momentum, the private capex and consumption not taking-off, and the central banks’s reluctance in cutting rates further have been other reasons for fall,” Nevgi told IANS. Sachin Shah, head of Emkay PMS elaborated to IANS that sometime around January-February 2015, the markets valuations were running a bit ahead of time, considering
the third quarter results, which clearly showed the trends of lower aggregate demand. “In the fourth quarter, the markets once again got the confirmation of a slowdown in consumption. Markets gave therefore corrected to factor-in low economic and earnings growth in the short-tomedium term,” Shah said. While weakening of
rupee against dollar, forecast of less than average rainfall, Greece default and the expectation of US Fed rate hike by September were others for the downward trend Gaurav Jain, director of Hem Securities cited to IANS. Even the impact on the markets, thanks to the dramatic win for Prime Minister Narendra Modiled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was perceived as being the most businessfriendly, also seemed to have been waning. “There is generally a lag between expectation and reality. In the new government’s case, the expectations had risen way bit quickly,” said Anand James, co-head of technical research with Geojit BNP Paribas. He said foreign investors also got worried and began to pull out funds as since they felt that the government’s failure to push key reforms -- like the two crucial bills on goods and services tax and land acquisition -- due to lack of majority in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament. “Issues such as policy normalisation by the US Fed
and weak Indian macros and micros, hare making investors to roll back their long trades,” said Anindya Banerjee of Kotak Securities, adding also that the hang-over effect of the cocktail of a major political change was also getting cured. But Shah and other analysts felt the markets still hope the government will be able to push some major reforms. They said the coming six months will prove if investor confidence is re-built with massive spending on infrastructure and companies manage to improve their balance sheets. Banerjee said improvements are also necessary on ease of doing business and access to funds. “The financial system is to the economy, what an engine is to a car. Unless it is cleaned and oiled well, the engine will keep breaking down,” he said. “Another major trigger will be the timing of the US Fed rate hike -- before or after September,” said James. “A steep and sustained rate hike may turn out to be negative for Indian markets. But that’s not anticipated at this point of point.”
BSNL to launch free roaming from today New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): State-run BSNL will launch free roaming, starting tomorrow, which will allow all its mobile customers across the country to receive incoming calls at no cost. “Now BSNL mobile customers will not need to carry multiple SIMs and handsets during roaming. They are free to talk as long as they want without worrying of any charges during incoming calls. “In fact, it is like a dream of ‘One Nation One Number’ coming true,” BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava said in a statement. One June 2, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had announced that the telco would be launching free roaming scheme from June 15. The company also clarified that it has not received any communication from sectoral regulator TRAI regarding the roaming scheme. BSNL has announced this scheme with the consent of Minister of Communications & IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad who himself had announced it in a press conference held on June 2. BSNL had a mobile subscriber base of 7.72 crore as of March-end.
CIL now sixth largest mining Co in world: PwC
New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): Country’s top dry-fuel miner Coal India (CIL) has become the sixth-largest mining company in the world in terms of market capital, says a recent PwC report. Earlier, the company was at the eighth spot among top 40 global mining firms, according to the report. Another state-run company, NMDC, the country’s top iron ore miner which also figures in the list, has improved its position by coming to the 21st slot from 24th earlier. The report “Mine 2015”, which analyses the financial performance of the top 40 mining companies by market capitalisation, says though there have been improvements in most financial statement metrics across the top 40 companies, market values continued to decline. “The top 40 miners lost US $156 billion, or about 16% of their combined market value, in 2014,” the report said, adding that the good news is that it is only half of last year’s slide. The market capitalisation for the top 40 was US $791 billion at the end of 2014, which is where it sat 10 years ago, it said. About coal, it said coal Increasing the character miners in the BRICS countries saw their value increase limit will definitely provide more 19% over the period, recovering under half of the value flexibility. they lost in the prior year. “It will be a novelty,”said Sachin Doon, co-founder, Digital Research and Technology Solutions. “On the positive side, it could be used by businesses as well, like including product newsletter too in direct messag- MuMbAi, JuNe 14 (PTi): India Post, which has startes,” Doon told IANS. ed issuing personalised debit cards to its savings account “On the other side I feel it holders, is planning to issue 5 lakh new debit cards over good for those who still love the next 2 months, a senior official has said. The Departto write descriptive letter-like ment of Posts (DoP) started issuing the cards from last things to each other, people year and so far, it has reached close to 10,000. might actually start to use proper “In the pilot project itself, we have issued 10,000 debit grammar and punctuation.” cards. Now, we are aiming to issue 5 lakh new cards to Inversely, consumers will our customers” India Post Deputy Director General L N also find it convenient to reach Sharma told PTI here. out to brands from any location. In the current phase, he said, debit cards will be is“Brands have trained and sued to customers from 2,600 large branches where core integrated their team to handle banking solution (CBS) has already been implementcustomer relations. Now Twit- ed. The account holders will be able to use these cards ter’s direct messaging service only at 115 India Post ATMs.“For now, these cards can will come to their rescue. They be used at our ATMs only. Once inter-operability is alcan have one-on-one conversa- lowed, it can be used at other ATMs also,” he said. India tions, they can have customers’ Post is looking at opening 1,000 additional ATMs by the personal details, since the ser- end of March. It has 25,000 branches across the country vice will use Twitter’s platform,” and some 34 crore account holders from CBS-enabled and non-CBS branches. Samuk added.
FSSAI asks state food commissioners What made Twitter look beyond 140 characters? “We’ve done a lot to improve Delhi, JuNe 14 to test all packaged products New (iANS): What could have made direct messages over the past New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): Central food safety regulator FSSAI has asked state food commissioners to inspect and evaluate all packaged products available in markets across the country in the wake of Maggi controversy. “There are hundreds of packaged food products which are being sold in the country without registration, they need to be inspected and evaluated,” a source said. The directions were given by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to the state food safety commissioners in a meeting earlier this month. “It has also been suggested during the meeting that the state food safety commissioners should prepare their line of action for the year and collect samples of all the packaged products, even those which are not registered with FSSAI,” the source added. The state officials were also told to take action if required. FS-
SAI had also handed over a list of 500 products rejected by it as of April 30, 2015 to the state food safety commissioners. Earlier this month, the FSSAI had banned Nestle’s Maggi saying it was ‘unsafe and hazardous’ after tests found presence of lead and Monosodium glutamate above permissible limits. Nestle had also withdrawn the instant noodles brand from the market. Following this, FSSAI had ordered testing of noodles, pastas and macaroni brands such as Top Ramen, Foodles and Wai Wai sold and manufactured by seven companies, to check compliance of norms. In a letter to Commissioners of Food Safety of all States and UTs, FSSAI had asked them to test samples of noodles, pastas and macaroni (with tastemaker) on a set of comprehensive parameters. Cake and masala/tastemaker should be tested separately, the letter said.
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The Morung Express
LYO meat shop opened Our Correspondent Kohima | June 14
The Lerie Youth Organization (LYO), Kohima has opened a ‘quality’ meat shop along National Highway-2 here to cater hygienic meat to the citizens of the colony as well as create opportunities to support and help its members. The venture is a collaboration of LYO and department of Industries & Commerce and sponsored by National Mission on Food Processing. This Meat Shop was inaugurated by Minister of Environment, Forests & Climate Change Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire. Dr. Kire lauded LYO for their endeavours and becoming the first to avail the government aided scheme. He encouraged the LYO members to prove their efficiency by concentrating on catering to the needs of the customers. Dr. Kire also asked the meat shop management
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DDCI lauds MCD ‘harmonious’ message Dimapur, June 14 (mexn): The Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) has express its appreciation to the Muslim Council, Dimapur (MCD) for giving out a strong message of “harmonious co-existence” between the two communities – Muslims and the Nagas - by inviting the Chief Minister, TR Zeliang to be the
chief guest at its felicitation programme today. In a press note received here, DCCI president, Hokivi Chishi further maintained that gesture has “renewed” the close affinity and communal harmony that exist between the two, which had been threatened by the unfortunate March 5 incident. “DCCI sees the felicita-
tion programme as an opportunity to bridge the gap between the two communities and make the bond stronger. We commit to work along with the Muslims and other communities in the state particularly in Dimapur towards bringing in social and communal harmony in the interest of all,” the DCCI added. Meanwhile, the DCCI
also expressed its happiness over the selection of Chandu Agarwal as the Governor in the Rotary Club, the first Rotarian from Nagaland to achieve this feat. Congratulating Agarwal, DCCI hoped that he will continue to render his tireless efforts towards social works and bring positive changes in the society.
World Blood Donor Day at Tuensang
Forest minister Dr Neikesalie Kire and DC Kohima R Mor with LYO members.
committee to be sincere in keeping standard weighing scales. LYO president said that the initiative was taken up in view of the distance that the
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Chandmari Higher Secondary School organized a threeday student fellowship under the theme “Deepen Your Shine” at the Harvest Hall (school auditorium) from June 11-13. The school principal stated that during the fellowship, the students experienced an ‘awakening praise and worship’ session led by James Basnet and the band. Shan Kikon (Faith Harvest Church), Imlinaro Basnet (CHSS), Kedo Peseyie (City Church), Mhathung (James Basnet band) and Youth Evangelist Yanpolumi Tsopoe (KLBC) were the resource persons for the event.
The Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, an autonomous organization under Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, in collaboration with Alaphra Group gave free training on accountancy with tally to 30 Naga youth in 250 hours. The certificates for the same were given away at a programme held at Hotel Ura in Kohima on June 13. The speaker for the event was Weyelo Doulo, Assistant Director, Department of Tourism.
colony was placed from the main markets of the town, and also with the objective to provide quality and hygienic meat to citizens. Industries & commerce
additional director I Bendangliba also spoke on the occasion. Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilatuo Mor was also present on the occasion.
Withhold fees payment till clarification: SSPA Dimapur, June 14 (mexn): The Sainik School Parents’ Association (SSPA) today informed all the parents of the cadets studying in Sainik School, Punglwa to withhold the payment of fees for 20015-16 session until a clear clarification is issued by the school authority. The resolution for the same was taken at a meeting of the parents’ body on June 13. In this context, a press note from SSPA general secretary, Achakbou Newmai has requested the parents to wait till such clarification is given and further informed them that any fresh development on this regarded will be intimated to them via SSPA email – Passpnagalnd@gmail.com – as and when required.
DGU relief team returns Dimapur , June 14 (mexn): A group of Dimapur Gorkha Union (DGU) members today returned safely to Dimapur after executing relief operation in far flung areas and hilly terrain in Nepal. The 3 members DGU delegation was lead by its chairman, Kumar Subba along with Chandra Subba and Danny Subba. They were assisted by local NGO members from Kathmandu. According to a press note from its chairman of action committee, Dipak Lama and chief advisor, Sanjay Pandey informed that the delegation visited interior places in hilly terrain in several villages bordering China. “The relief operation was also broadcasted by Nepali TV on several occasion under the
Wokha, June 14 (mexn): The 1st foundation day of Wokha District Entrepreneurs’ Association (WDEA) will be held on June 15 from 10AM at LTC Hall, Wokha under the theme “In unity, we improvise and excel.” The Advisor to Treasuries & Accounts and Relief & Rehabilitation and MLA, Dr. TM Lotha will grace the function as chief guest, while the Deputy Commissioner of Wokha, A Robin Lotha and Functional Manager (Adm.), Myingthungo
various part of the body to others and let others live a happy life and donating blood can also be the greatest gift to the society, A regular blood donor, Joshua, while sharing his experience happiness in donating blood and he urged the youth to do their duty and save life. The program was chaired by advisor of Gabriel ministry, Moses while the invocation and benediction were pronounced by Esther and Secretary VBDA Tuensang, Langa, respectively. A special song was also presented by Alemba and friends. A voluntary Blood donation was organised after the programme where 11 people donated their blood.
9 chosen for SBM campaign in Mon Dimapur, June 14 (mexn): On the advice of the governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, the Brand Ambassador of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), for Mon and Mokokchung S Supongmeren Jamir and his attaché Secretary Alemkokba I Jamir today nominated Nine (9) eminent persons of the district to supervise and upgrade awareness of Swachh Bharat Mission in Mon.
By Shitiri Renthunglo Dimapur Heritage Publishing House, 2015, pp.65, First Edition Keshaw Prasad Avikasit Associate Professor (Retd)
Teaching, singing and writing poems are serious passions that Shitiri Renthunglo has been assiduously pursuing over the years. Of Life is a selection of her writings beginning from her college days till date. Divided into five sections viz. “ Of Shadows”; “ Of Faith”; “Of Longing”; “Of Existence”; “Of Fulfilment”, the poems embody her hopes and fears, her passionate concern for issues of women, her love and admiration for Nature, her family and above all her unflinching faith in God. Literature of all types has dealt with social problems for quite some time now. The problem of evil, particularly collective and institutionalised violence splits open the poet’s sense of harmony and her resistance is immediate: Gotta stand up Take the plunge to ascend Start the process To purge this diseased land. (Standing Up, pg.3) A Mother’s Tale and The Battle record her agony at the prospect of deviant behaviour leaving the young and chivalrous in disarray. To quote H. Coombes (Literature and Criticism, Kitab Mahal, (wholesale Division) Pvt. Ltd Allahabad,1963), “ The quality of our living as human beings, depends very largely on the kind and quality of our feelings, and the quality of our feelings depends partly on our having
Kikon will exhorts the gathering. The District Industries Centre, Wokha will also give a presentation entiatled, ‘Entrepreneurship Skill Development.’ A press note from WDEA vice president (press), Thunglamo Odyuo and Vice President (Adm), Rentsamo Jami has invited all Local entrepreneurs/business unit(s) and well wishers to attend the function. It further informed all to attendees to participate at the short discussion after the formal programme. Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilatuo Mor donates blood during the World Blood Donor Day in Kohima on June 14. (Morung Photo)
banner as Dimapur Gorkha Union, Dimapur, Nagaland (India),” the press note added. The relief team were welcomed home by Sanjay Pandey, Uttam Chetri GB, Nepali Basti, Dipak Lama and Tsetan Ngodup and well wisher of DGU at the Dimapur railway station upon their arrival today.
Of Life
In a delayed celebration of World Environment Day, the Yimyu Ward Yimten along with Yimyu Ward Development Committee, Ongpankong Compound Youth Union and Yimyu Ward Mitkar, conducted a mass tree plantation drive on Saturday, June 13 by planting around 1000 saplings in and around the ward.
delivered by Dr Toshi where he highlighted the importance of blood donation in human life. Motivating the gathering, Rovi Mor acknowledged the donor who saved life everyday by donating their blood and encouraged them to continue their good works. He also highlighted the importance of blood donation in human life and needs for voluntary donation at district level by sharing the data of such activities. During his speech, the resources person TY Sangtam encouraged the youth to live a healthy lifestyle and all round development and help the society as expected of them. He further stressed that in life one can donate
WDEA to observe first foundation day on June 15
Book Review
Addl Chief Engineer PHED, Walter Longchar presents the meritorious cash award to HSSLC Topper Lanunuchetla Longchar during the felicitation programme organised by Nokpu Gazetted Officers Telongjem on June 13.
Tuensang, June 14 (mexn): Along with the rest of the world, World blood donor day at Tuensang was observed today under the theme, “Thank you for saving my life”, at Eleutheros Christian Society Hall, Tuensang. The program was organized by District Aids Prevention Control Unit Tuensang, Blood Bank and Gabriel Ministry Tuensang with TY Sangtam, secretary Indian Red Cross Society, Tuensang unit and retired DSO as resource person. The program was attended by officers from medical dept, Nursing school Tuensang, leaders and youth from various NGOs in Tuensang. A sharing on blood science was
According to a press note, the meeting which was held at the resident Konyak Union’s president selected the following individuals:- Manlip Konyak Chairman (SBM) Mon; Tongang Konyak ex-G/Secy K. U – Secretary; T. Yato Konyak Press Secy; Lomei President KNSK (Member); Loungai, President KSU (Member); Howing President MCCI (member); Ponwang P.A to DC (Rtd) (member); Takyong President DCC Mon (member); and Yonglong Konyak S.D.O (Rtd) (Member). Meanwhile the newly nominated committee under SBM while welcoming these new project, also thank the Governor of Nagaland and the state government and expressed hope that the Programme as listed in the SBM guidelines will be implemented for the successful Sanitation Campaign in the district
Volunteer blood donors, who turned up at the Dimapur district hospital Blood Bank on June 14 to observe World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The theme for this year’s campaign is ‘Thank you for saving my life’ – a tribute to donors for their life-saving gesture. 72 units were collected during the day. WBDD was established in 2004 to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and to thank blood donors.
learned to distinguish true from false feeling, and on our own readiness to accept for ourselves ,when necessary, the re-adjustment consequent upon such recognition.” Renthunglo’s passion and courage come through in her poems: ... But oh! Aren’t you flying on borrowed wings? ... ... ... When can we fly higher and higher still? With pride, owning the skies Having fashioned our own wings? (Borrowed Wings, pg 4-5) The duality of what is socially prescribed for her sex, and what is defined on the basis of the self, is beautifully explored. Her role as a daughter, sister, mother, wife makes her passive whereas the poet in her has limitless freedom and vitality. The pain of being a woman in society, where inheritance rights are denied to the fair sex, spills out: ... a roof over my head My children as my crowning glory But not mine to claim. ... ... ... Veiled under the flimsy cover Of freedom accorded I remain unseen and unheard Because I am a woman. (The Enigma, pg. 10-11) The poems in the section titled “Of Faith” do full justice to the title. They bear out the poet’s unflinching faith in God; that God is the source of her inspiration and her poetry of celebration: Hope renewed In the sprouting of life Unbeaten by death’s wintry call (April Showers, pg. 19) However grim the situation, she does not give in to despair: A day will surely come When faith will be restored Hope, renewed Vibrant life, revived. (Resilient Hope, pg. 20) The act of writing poetry is first an act of opening one-
self to experience in such a way that the unique essence or inner nature of a person, place, thing or event especially depicted in poetry or a work of art becomes revealed to us. Mesmerised by a singer, the poet finds herself transported to the world of sheer joy, where the earthly experience uplifts her to the heavenly and she glimpses “His pristine truth and splendour” ( Enslaved pg. 38). The Cherry Villa, bedecked like a bride and in the height of its glory is etched in her memory reiterating Keats’s famous phrase “A thing of beauty is joy forever” ‘Blessed’ to be a woman – ‘humbled, empowered and endowed with all that is promising’- ‘ a lodestar in the journey of life’ ( Lighthouse pg. 54-55) and reliable, unswerving, pretty, soft and tender, with immaculate taste and habits, wide-eyed, angelic and crackling- “ Lilium Blooms”, Renthunglo’s poetry is the poetry of fulfilment. Her poetry is characterised by a rare simplicity of diction and economy of expression. Using the medium of free verse, she has struck a note with her readers. Etson Ngully’s illustrations add to the beauty of the poems. He deserves to be praised for making the impact sink.
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express
C O M M E N T A R Y
Eilish Brennan
If only they knew. If only they knew lives blinded by content and ignorant bliss that severed and strewn like disheveled dust now settles amidst our blackened abyss. She was breathing still when gear and rig turned; when they uprooted trees from beneath her crust, when they cut and hacked at her fragile bones. Although tears she shed, in them she did trust. But her wounds grew deep till her sullen flesh bled; spread broad and flooded the dried out land And the pain that she cried lulled the truant men that in suit and tie conserved their hand. They basked in the warmth of the feverish sun and curiously poked at the beached Big Blues while on she looked with thwarted eyes and surrendered to Death, by then so suffused. Her kin howled mournfully in fallowed fields to a silent moon and deadened sky And all the while man continued still to mutilate land where upon she did die. Now here is left the vacant Great Ark where years ago two of each thrived and ridded of all its captain and crew stands erect amongst the Waters Contrived. Beneath metres of decaying waste and grime we descendants of man and murderer two have seen the blood upon our own hands and forcedly stick her together with glue.
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Lynsey Chutel Associated Press
Journalist needles Angola's power elite from his kitchen
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ften writing at his kitchen table, Rafael Marques de Morais, a journalist and human rights advocate, needles Angola's ruling establishment with reports on alleged wrongdoing by officials, military figures and business executives. A rare voice of criticism in this southern African country, he is often in trouble. Last month, for instance, Marques was found guilty of libel and defamation after publishing a 2011 book that alleged that a group of generals and three companies were linked to human rights abuses at diamond mines. The book details more than 100 killings and 500 instances of torture that Marques alleges were carried out by private security firms owned by the generals, with members of the Angolan army allegedly participating in some of the abuses. The generals denied the accusations. Marques, who runs Maka Angola, an investigative news website, asked the attorney general to look into his book's findings. Instead, he was sucked into a legal battle that at times bewildered him. He was charged, then the charges were dropped, then they were reinstated and he went to trial, at the end of which he was given a six-month suspended sentence, meaning he can be jailed for six months if his reports are believed to be defamatory or libelous during the next two years. "They put this cloud hanging over my head so, anything they don't like for two years, they can lock me up for that," Marques said. In April, his site was hacked and he is unable, at least for now, to post updates. Marques has received awards abroad and international rights groups criticized his trial, accusing the Angolan government of manipulating the court. The U.S. State Department said it was concerned by the negative impact Marques' conviction will have on freedom of expression in Angola. His investigations are not widely known inside Angola, though, because of its restrictive media environment, said Lara Longle, editor and writer for news outlet Rede Angola. Angola's minister of justice and human rights, Rui Mangueira, said Angolan citizens and the press can express themselves freely as long as they do so "appropriately" and do not undermine the Constitution, state-run news agency Angop quoted him as saying in May. Marques, 43, has long been an agitator. In 1992, as a rookie newspaper reporter, Marques pushed for better working conditions. More than 40 journalists shared 10 typewriters and one telephone that was held together with a rubber band, he said. Their reports were increasingly censored by the newspaper's editors. Marques said in a Skype interview with The Associated Press that he was once detained for calling President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, in power since 1979, a dictator in a newspaper article. That time, Marques was detained for 43 days and sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for two years, which he learned about via state radio. After Angola's civil war ended in 2002, the country became one of sub-Saharan Africa's top two oil producers. Rapid development followed, creating more opportunities for corruption. Angered by what he saw happening to his country and branded a troublemaker in local media circles, Marques founded Maka Angola in 2009. In Kimbundu, Marques' first language, maka means a problem that must be solved. Marques co-authored, for Forbes, a story on how Isabel dos Santos, the president's daughter, became a billionaire. He said that state media, in apparent retaliation, reported that Marques was a CIA spy and a traitor. For Marques, investigative reporting remains a passion, and he must also keep pushing not only for the means to publish his findings but also for the right to do so. "Here I cannot only write," he said. "I have to defend the space for me to be able to write because that space is under constant harassment, under constant threat."
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awyers are behaving like school children. It's like school students pleading with their madame to grant them leave because of the heat outside. This is quite unfortunate. Heat is not something which can desist a person from discharging his duties. The lawyers should have paid due attention to the advice of the chief justice.” West Bengal Governor KN Tripathi
Chris Hedges Commondreams
Thou Shalt Not Kill
MonDAy 15 JunE 2015 voluME X IssuE 162
Upon Our Hands
THE EDIT PAGE
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he military in the United States portrays itself as endowed with the highest virtues—honor, duty, self-sacrifice, courage and patriotism. Politicians, entertainers, sports stars, the media, clerics and academics slavishly bow before the military machine, ignoring its colossal pillaging of state resources, the egregious war crimes it has normalized across the globe, its abject service not to democracy or freedom but corporate profit, and the blind, mind-numbing obedience it inculcates among its members. A lone soldier or Marine who rises up inside the system to denounce the hypermasculinity that glorifies violence and war, who exposes the false morality of the military, who refuses to kill in the service of imperial power, unmasks the military for what it is. And he or she, as Chelsea Manning has learned, swiftly pays a very, very heavy price. Spc. Robert Weilbacher as a new Army combat medic stationed in South Korea listened to stories told by combat veterans, many suffering from trauma and depression, about the routine and indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was horrified. He had believed the propaganda fed to him over the years. He considered himself a patriot. He had accepted the notion that the U.S. military was a force for good, intervening to liberate Iraqis and Afghans and fight terrorists. But after hearing the veterans’ tales, his worldview crumbled. He began to ask questions he had not asked before. He began to think. And thinking within any military establishment is an act of subversion. He soon decided he did not want to be part of an organization that routinely snuffed out the lives of unarmed people, including children. He applied in February 2014 for a classification known as Conscientious Objector (1-0). He instantly became a pariah within his unit. No one wanted to associate with him. He was taunted as a “traitor,” “coward,” “faggot” and “hippie.” He was assigned to the most demeaning jobs on the base. And the military bureaucracy began making him jump through hoops that he is still trying to negotiate two years later. He became an example to his fellow soldiers of the physical and emotional harassment, as well as humiliation, that is visited on all who dare within the military to challenge the sanctity of war and discipline. “I feel as if my own government is torturing me,” he said when I reached him by phone in his barracks at Fort Campbell, Ky. Weilbacher, 27, grew up in poverty, raised by a single mother, in the inner city of Columbus, Ohio. As a student at Ohio State University, where he was a political science and English major, he started two organizations to help feed the homeless. He was an idealist. He wanted to serve humanity. And, in the warped culture in which he lived—American culture—the best way to do that was to join the military, which was organized, he thought, around “noble ideals.” “The public perception, including at Ohio State, which has a big ROTC program, is that soldiers are heroic,” he said. “They’re serving their country. They’re in the best Army in the world. I didn’t question this. I watched the commercials with the climatic background music for the Marine Corps—‘the few, the proud, the Marines.’ The Marines have the biggest masculine factor. I thought, I have the credentials to be a Marine officer.” “Every message given to me by popular culture was that violence was a means of conflict resolu-
tion,” he said. “This was especially true in the inner city where I grew up and where there is a lack of education. Video games, such as ‘Call of Duty,’ normalize violence. You don’t realize the impact it has. Your conscience is subverted. In ‘Call of Duty’ you get rewarded for killing—you rank up in the system. The message is if you like ‘Call of Duty’ you’ll like the military. And, of course, the military also incentivizes killing. If you do well at marksmanship you get rewarded with threeday passes. You only think about the points you can get from becoming an expert marksman. You don’t think about the act of taking a human life. Every aspect of popular culture incentivizes violence, from television shows to movies like ‘American Sniper.’ Killing is presented as noble. Those who kill are supposed to be heroes. And this prepares us for the military.” When he graduated from college he signed up for Marine Officer Candidates School and was sent to Quantico, Va., for boot camp. “When we marched in formation we shouted out cadences,” he said. “Most of the cadences were about killing. We shouted ‘Kill! Kill! Kill!’ We shouted ‘What makes the green grass grow? Blood! Blood! Blood!” We shouted ‘AT&T. Reach out and touch someone.’ The intent of OCS [Officer Candidates School] was to normalize violence, to condition us. It was very effective. Again, I didn’t think about what I was doing. All I was thinking about was being a Marine Corps officer.” But four weeks into his training in early 2012 he was injured and had to drop out. He was devastated. He did not want to begin the whole application process again with the Marines, and he enlisted in the Army in April 2013. He went to Fort Sill, Okla., for basic training. He was then trained as a medic (68W) at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He enrolled in airborne school at Fort Benning, Ga., and during the second week of training was injured during a practice for landing falls. In December 2013 he was deployed to Camp Hovey in South Korea, 10 miles from the border with North Korea. He was attached as a medic to the 4-7 Cavalry. He began to hear disturbing stories about the wars in the Middle East, not the glorified stories spun out by recruiters, the media or the entertainment industry, but stories about whole families being blown up or gunned down by U.S. troops in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan. He lived among soldiers who were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Many were drinking heavily. He listened to them talk about being prescribed anti-depressants by Army doctors and then being redeployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He may have been a medic, but he was required to carry a weapon and to use it in combat. He knew that for him, to do so would be impossible. “I joined the military because I wanted to help people, to fight for the greater good,” he said. “And then I learned about innocent people being routinely blown up in war. I started researching the statistics on collateral damage in Iraq and Afghanistan.” “A medic in the Army weaponizes soldiers so they can go back out and kill,” he said. “When we are trained as medics we are told that our task is to preserve fighting strength. Being a medic in the Army is not about helping the people who need it most. Treatment is first directed towards casualties that have the best chance to survive. Army medics exist to perpetuate warfare.” He discovered the Iraq Body Count website and was appalled by what he learned there. He
began to devour the writings and statements of Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, the Rev. John Dear, Muhammad Ali and the Dalai Lama. He could no longer watch violent movies or play violent video games. “I began to read about the wars in Vietnam and World War II,” he said. “I read about Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Agent Orange, radiation and how it’s still affecting people today, how people are still dying or being born with congenital defects. I found Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. I had never heard of them. I guess there was a good reason I had never heard of them. I read ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ by Zinn. I read ‘Understanding Power,’ by Chomsky. A lot of my influences, even though I am an atheist, came from religious figures like Gandhi, Father John Dear and King. I read ‘Pilgrimage to Nonviolence.’ I know why they do not tell us the truth about war. We have a volunteer Army. If people knew the truth it would decrease the numbers who want to join. I had been betrayed.” Then, in early February of 2014, he went online to the website of the Center on Conscience & War, led by Maria Santelli and Bill Galvin. Soon he contacted the two activists and told them he was a conscientious objector. Everything about the military culture, from its celebration of violence and hypermasculinity to its cult of blind obedience, began to disturb him. He was disgusted by the military’s exploitation of Filipino women who worked in the numerous bars and clubs near the base where he was stationed in South Korea. “Filipino women were brought over to sing in the bars,” he said. “They were great singers. They worked in bars where Korean women had been ‘comfort women’ during the Japanese colonization. The bar owners took the passports of the Filipino women. ... Soldiers bought drinks and sexual services from these exploited women. I had a big issue with that. It demonstrated a lack of values.” When he was off base he would meditate in Buddhist temples. That helped, he said, to keep him sane. Although Army regulations required that his application be sent to the Department of the Army Conscientious Objector Review Board (DACORB) within 90 days, it took more than 200 days for the document to arrive there. On Dec. 16, 2014, he was granted status as a conscientious objector and an honorable discharge. But the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for review boards, Francine Blackmon, unilaterally overrode the DACORB determination and denied his application, even though Army regulation AR 600-43, Par. 2-8, states that a review board decision is final. Now, in a final bid to achieve conscientious objector status, he has turned to the American Civil Liberties Union. “I have obeyed the rules during the whole process,” he said. “But in the military there is a double standard. If I do not obey the regulations I get court-martialed. If they do not obey the regulations nothing happens. It is I who suffers. If I lose this last bid I cannot reapply.” This will be his last bureaucratic battle with the Army. He has followed the rules for two years. He will not, he said, be in the Army in 2017 at the scheduled end of his tour. “If I’m forced to remain in the Army, I expect to eventually receive an order that I—as an objector—will be unable to comply with, resulting in a court-martial.”
A sustainable earth - duties to future people?
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n a recent article in the Huffington Post, Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the World Future Council, claimed: “In Wales, the government has just passed a Well-being of Future Generations Bill to strengthen existing governance arrangements to ensure that present needs are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. A part of this Bill is the establishment of a Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, to speak on behalf of future generations.” The Well-Being of Future Generations Bill aims to build on the insights of the Future Generations report that was intended to “provide an assessment of how public bodies should better safeguard the ability of future generations to meet their needs and take greater account of the long-term impact of the things they do”. An in-depth analysis of what this proposal entails is beyond the scope of this article, but I want to question the underlying assumption that we have duties to future generations, that we in some way owe something to people who are not yet born. Political theorists refer to this as intergenerational justice, which is a subfield within the discipline, concerned with the duties we can be supposed to have vis-à-vis people who do not exist yet. The reason this is a subfield of the more general field of justice, i.e. the duties we have to existing persons, is that there are a number of normative problems posed by being unable to specify the individuals to whom we may have duties. The first issue
The future is shaped by what we do now, but our first obligations should be to the living, not the unborn, argues Scott scott is how, if future people’s existence is dependent on current actions, can we be said to owe anything to anyone whose very life is a result of what we do now. This is called the “non-identity problem”. Given that we do not know who will exist in the future, how should we assess the risks of gearing current policy towards ensuring that their needs are met? What happens if we cause harm to existing people, for the sake of helping non-existent people? Finally, how can we fulfil duties to future people, when we do not know who they are or what their preferences are? The second, third and fourth issues will not be addressed here but concern similar issues to the nonidentity problem. The non-identity problem is a challenge to the idea that we can have duties to non-existent people because the possibility of future people having rights enforceable against existing people is dependent upon existing people’s decisions and actions. The issue is that whatever action we take now will deter-
mine who lives in the future, and therefore what rights/claims they will have. For example, we could use up all of the Earth’s fossil fuels and yet those who live in a future without fossil fuels cannot claim a right to us setting aside enough resources for them, since their existence is dependent on living in a world wherein we haven’t protected their share of the resources. How, then, can we owe duties to future people, or take into account their well-being, when their very existence is dependent on whatever we do now, even if that action is something that w o u l d hy p o thetically be to some non-existent person’s detriment. So, imagine that a government instituted a policy that aimed to increase the welfare of existing people through intensive use of existing resources. Opponents might argue that this is harming future people as it will predictably lower their quality of life. But, surely, we can reply that almost all of our current actions will have a constitutive effect on the future – what
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we do now will determine the future, and therefore the number and identity of future people is determined by what we do now. Those who live in this future with a lower quality of life only live there because we have acted as we have done in the present. If we did not institute such a policy, the people who populated the future would likely have different identities. Therefore, we have to ask, who can have a legitimate complaint if their very existence depends on us having taken a course of action which leads to their lower quality of life, compared to presently existing people? Now, the most likely response to this would be for proponents to claim that this does not establish that we shouldn’t be concerned with sustainability, and I would agree. But, what it does establish, is that we must be wary of how we conceptualise and situate the sustainability debate. We do not owe duties to non-existent persons and therefore cannot defend policies on the basis that we “owe” something to future generations. As regards the Well-Being of Future Generations Bill, there is a need to take a pragmatic approach to sustainability. It would be great to leave enough for the future but where people live lives of severe deprivation, a significant problem in some parts of Wales, we should avoid prioritising the future over the present. It is no comfort for those living in poverty - according to Oxfam this is 1 in 4, or around 700,000 Welsh people - to be told that their sacrifice is necessary to ensure the wellbeing of non-existent people.
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15 June 2015
PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
Puanga Kai Rau – Happy New Year! Well done on the land deal, but what about illegal immigrants?
Mirembe! by Babu Ayindo
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ear readers, today I want to take a break from sharing the stories of my learning and encounters with my grandparents in rural western Kenya and reflect with you some recent experiences from a place called Parihaka in Aotearoa New Zealand. Aotearoa is the Māori name of New Zealand. In Te Reo Māori, Aotearoa means the “land of the long white cloud.” The Māori, as you may know, are the indigenous people of Aotearoa. But, of course, all of you know too well the typical story of what happened when “Columbus” arrived on the shores of the land of the Māori. I will be brief: the hospitable Māoripeople assumed the strange sailors were lost so they invited them for a hot meal and to keep warm for the night. Of course, the Māori people assumed that, like other visitors they had hosted before, these sailors with strange weapons would leave after a few days. However, having felt warm enough, the visitors turned around and claimed that it is they who ‘discovered’ the Māoripeople and everything in the universe of the indigenous people. The rest, as they say, is history. Last night (12 June 2015), we gathered in Parihaka, in northern Aotearoa, to begin commemorations and celebrations of Puanga Kai Rau, the New Year of the Māoripeople. Part of the celebration last night was to dedicated to reeducating ourselves about the significance of Puanga Kai Rau in our lives. For instance, when marking a new year, we remember in a special way those ancestors who have passed on in the last year, we reeducate those of us who are alive today on our holistic relationship with the land the universe, and we request our gods and ancestors to guide us into the future. As we gathered in the Marae (Māorisacred meeting place), all generations were represented. Through incantations and music the conversations are inspired and serenaded. It was a scared moment for reeducation and rededication for everyone present. This was followed by a shared meal and lighting of the fire. The lighting of the fire and the sharing of the stories around the fire resonated with my experience in various parts of the world where I have lived, learned and worked with indigenous peoples. Each story built a layer of flame that rose
above to our ancestors and the universe around us. Parihaka became both local and global but devoid of the politicization and commercialization that often permeates such events. Last night at the fire side, I was reminded of my own education in rural western Kenya. It was always special when my grandfather, Kwara Odera K’Ogwande lit the fire in the open grounds in our village and called on us to gather to share stories of who we are and who we are not. It was even better after a dinner when my grandmother, Dana Josephina Ongecha Nyo’ Tenda stoked the embers in her backyard as she told us the stories of this clever animal or that eternally stupid animal. Last night, when I was told to introduced myself at the fire side, I brought these memories to the fire of Puanga Kai Rau. I could feel the presence of my ancestors with me as I was welcomed in the circle and share who I was and who I was not. At dawn this morning, we gathered at a small hill in Parihaka to await the sighting of the star Puanga that mark the beginning of the New Year. But it was not all laughter and celebration. At the hill where we gathered this morning had yet another painful significance in the shameful history of colonialism in Aotearoa. It was atop this the hill where that British colonial army stationed itself to begin a “no battle” with unarmed indigenous Māori people. In the dawn of 5 November 1881, over 1,600 British troops invaded a village that had retained a strong nonviolent resistance. While the soldiers were greeted with children bearing gifts of food, the hearts, minds and spirits of the colonial power remained frozen. The story of Parihaka evokes pain and shame in equal measure. It is a story that for the most part people in power today would rather deny. Even in the academy, there is a loud silence regarding the tragic events of Parihaka. It is as if Parihaka never happened. History teaches us that you cannot simply wish away history. Or you cannot sanitize history. If you want to heal, a painful past must be confronted with same dedication we deal with a wound with pus that would not let us sleep. The remembrance of Parihaka is done in song, storytelling, incantations and other arts forms. We are reminded that our ancestors hardly used the al-
phabet to record and pass on our history. However painful, the history of most indigenous people was recorded and passed on through storytelling, song, dance, weaving and other forms of communication that captures the holistic knowledge and ways of communication of our people. At a personal level, I wrestled with this question while I stood at the hill overlooking Parihaka village: would I send out my own children, essentially as the first line of defense, against a swashbuckling colonial army with canons and soldiers on horseback? Or, would I remain committed to nonviolence the way the ancestors of the Māori were in Parihaka and other sites in Aotearoa? For now, I will let those questions trouble you as they continue to trouble you too. So, as I write, we have continuing with the gathering today: working together in the gardens to accept the blessings of a new planting season; sharing more stories of our journeys to justice and healing; watching painful films to remind ourselves; sharing foods and drinks to connect to each body and soul present; and, engaging in deep formal and informal reflections on how we can break cycles of violence. We are recommit ourselves to a more just and peaceful society for generations to come. Hopefully, at the end of the ceremony tomorrow, some of my questions and paradoxes would have become better questions: how do we face the pains of the past while searching for inspiration in the stars of the future? What is the role of artists and storytellers in continuing to ask the critical questions in a beautiful way while creating poetics of true justice and peace? These are the questions I wrestle with. But as I also look at the faces of those children sitting in our gatherings, I acknowledge that they, too, have their own questions as they listen to the historyand narratives rendered in through performance. I am afraid most of the questions the children might have might remain unasked. Therefore, their questions might remain unanswered for yet another year. The documentary film, The Children of Parihaka, is asking more questions through the voices and lenses of children. For now, I wish you Puanga Kai Rau! (Happy New Year!) from Parihaka in Aotearoa. And may your new year be full of new and troubling questions!
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hen Narendra Modi landed in Bangla- young girls coming from across the border. desh last weekend, he was greeted by Not such a simple solution! all the high and mighty of Bangladesh. The Indo-Bangla border divides the IchamatBangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and iRiver, which is guarded by the BSF. A number of all her senior cabinet ministers queued up to brick kilns have come up by the side of the river greet the Indian PM. For Narendra Modi, who, owing to the highly fertile soil which supports by now, must have gotten used to getting off the brick making. Employment opportunities in aircraft and being greeted by world leaders, this these kilns attract illegal Bangladeshi immigrants was the chance to take forward a historic rela- in huge numbers. According to BSF, patrolling tionship that has been facing blockades for the of the river is usually done by hired boats. A few past four decades. speeding boats and three floating border outposts Land deal? Check! are the only supporting equipments that the BSF India’s relationship with Bangladesh is a clas- has at its disposal to control the thousands of imsic case of a faulty and flawed foreign policy. It migrants looking to cross into India. Beefing up won’t be incorrect to say that Bangladesh owes BSF’s resources, rather than long talks should be its existence to India. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first step towards arriving at a solution. Bangladesh’s first PM and father of Sheikh HaAccording to one of the agreements signed besina, expressed his gratitude towards Indira Gan- tween the two nations, neither side can erect fencdhi and “the best friends of his people, the peo- es within 150 yards of the border. This makes the ple of India”for India’s role in Bangladesh’s liberation. Yet somehow, we have been not been able to develop sweet relations with Bangladesh due to long unresolved issues. While Bangladesh ratified it in 1974 itself, the Indian Pardr. Munish Kumar Raizada liament could only ratify it last month. The conclusion of the deal villages laying between the fence and the border would lead to transfer of 51 enclaves to India an ideal breeding ground for smugglers. While the and 111 enclaves to Bangladesh, with the resi- BSF has been constantly taking up the issue with dents of these enclaves getting a choice to be- the Government, the centre is shifting the responcome acitizen of either nation. sibility towards the state Government and asking To give a further push to the newly revived the force to convince the states. This kind of tickdiplomatic ties, Modi extended a $2 billion line tack with BSF doesn’t auger well for the future. of credit to Bangladesh and flagged offa Bus serModi forgetting his own words? vice from Dhaka to four Indian cities. AdditionOne of Modi’s major pre-poll promises was ally, two of Modi’s frequent travel companions, to send all the illegal immigrants back to BanglaAmbani and Adani pledged to invest over $5 bil- desh.He carried on his form till November last lion in Bangladesh’s power sector. While steps year when as Prime Minister, he remarked, "I will such as these would undoubtedly play a major make such an arrangement that all the roads that role in sweetening our ties, the PM overlooked are today helping Bangladeshis enter and dean extremely significant thorn in the relationship stroy Assam are closed." between the two countries – the issue of illegal Last year in August, BJP announced the Bangladeshi immigrants. revival of an Action Plan of 2005 according to Illegal immigrants issue? Ignored! which, the states were asked to build detention A porous Indo-Bangla border gives ample op- centres for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. For portunities to Bangladeshi citizens to cross over all the hard talks that our Government has done into India and mix up with the local villagers. on the issue, there are only 7 such centres in the Despite a strict vigil by the Border Security Force country (Assam-3, Delhi-2, one each in Gujarat (BSF), lack of adequate resources at their disposal and West Bengal). means that each year, a considerable number of Hoping for a domino effect? Bangladeshis manage to cross the border with the Modi’sassumption that exchange of enclaves help of dalals(agents). will strengthen the borders and stop illegal imData published by the Ministry of Home Af- migration has a number of flaws. For one, most of fairs in 2012 showed that 16,530 Bangladeshi resi- the illegal immigrants aren’t the citizens of these dents overstayed in India after the expiry of their enclaves. India shares its largest International permit. These are just the official numbers and border with Bangladesh (4096 km) which runs highlight the Bangladeshis travelling with valid through complex terrains including hills, forests, travel documents. The illegal number is expected rivers and plains. In such a situation, infiltration to be at least 1 crore. proof borders would need much more than the The North East states and West Bengal have land swapping deal. Sealing of borders isn’t the been bearing the brunt of this issue ever since ideal solution to this decades old problem. Bangladesh came into existence. Though close to The year 2015 has already seen over 20 deaths 85,000 BSF troops are stationed at the Indo-Ban- of Bangladeshis by the hands of the Indian secugla border, a highly difficult terrain gives enough rity forces. If this number is to be checked, both the opportunities to the dalals on both the sides to sides must not bask in the glory of the Land Boundrun their business. ary Agreement for too long, and turn their attention Lack of job opportunities in Bangladesh is also towards this grave issue of illegal immigrants. forcing a number of young girls to take up flesh The author is a Chicago-based columnist and cotrade in India. Illegal brothels in Delhi, Kolkata convener of NRI wing of AamAadmi Party. Email ID: pedia333@gmail.com Twitter@DrMunishRaizada and Mumbai are always on the lookout for such
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POLL rESULTS
Is the Government of India sincere in its approach while addressing political issues in the North East?
Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • I think the Indian Government needs to be sincere while addressing the political issues in the North East. Without peace in this region how will the Look East policy be applicable. This region has been in turmoil even before India got independence. The Indo-Pak conflict is like two brothers fighting and when two siblings fight, it gets dirty. But in the case of the Northeast there is no relation between India and NE and so the approach needs to be different. India must be sincere. • Yes, sincerely. Let me cite some examples: Looters sincerely loot, exploiters sincerely exploit, cheaters sincerely cheat. They do sincerely to achieve what they stands for. Similarly India government sincerely does everything that it does for the Northeast. • Yes. When we look at it from the Indian point of view. Yes. The Indian government is doing all that it is for their own interest and to see that North East is full of divisions. They have very cleverly seen to it that the different northeastern people are fighting one another. Whereas like blind people we are just following and dancing to the tune of the Government of India. The government will never be serious because their motive and interest is keep the people divided and under their rule. Lets wake up to this reality. Some of those who voted NO had this to say: • No. India is more concern about Kashmir. India treat NE as second class citizen, some termed as illegal immigrants. If India does not take a serious pragmatic steps to tackle NE problems, in the near future there will be heavy national catastrophe. • Certainly not, more than sixty years of failed accords and agreements should be proof enough. India has only one agenda and that is to exploit our land and decimate our population by making us a minority no matter how they sugarcoat things. • No--its understandable even without a question • NO. India needs to control and keep North East
under its feet due to its strategic location but its peo- ourselves of any responsibility. We have to realize ples and problems can go to hell. That’s why it uses the fact that no conflict between two groups can be ‘divide/rule/corrupt’ policies. resolved without sincere efforts from both the par• Indian central govt will never grant federal auton- ties. In other words, the sincerity and commitment of omy to states in NE, in order to maintain its imperial both the parties is a prerequisite for resolving any ishegemony sues. Looking at the present mess we've created for • No the Government of ourselves i.e. our NPGs India is not sincere bebeing divided into several cause it still does not groups although fighting really understand the isfor the same cause and sues of the North East. our people's apathy toThey look at us as tribal wards them for reasons and they think that we best known to all of us, are not capable of thinkwe can't really expect ing for ourselves and the Government of Inthat we are below them. dia to take us seriously. • No. What can we exThe ball is in our court as pect from India, a counmuch as it is in them. try that’s steeped in its • The recent ceasefire own murky/dirty/smelly abrogation is a classic politics. Look at its politicase of misunderstandcians bickering like moning of the emerging situkeys even petty probation from both sides. lems. While sensitivity is one • No, the Government aspect which needs to of India doesn't seem to be properly addressed, I be serious with resolvfeel that the Govt of Ining the political issues dia is not sincere enough of the northeast. All that for bringing a political is heard and seen so far solution. Not sincere beis more of political rhetocause of their 'divide and ric bereft of any sincerity rule' approach. Not beto resolving the issues ing able to create a comand concerns of the remon platform in order to gion. Having said that, generate a dialogue is we also need to take a their biggest failure. YES no OTHER look at ourselves, make • No. the Idian Governa critical self assessment without that aura of self ment show no commitment in the issue. Taking righteousness and see if we're really worthy of being the note of Indo-Naga political issue we can see taken seriously by GoI. It is when we concentrate too their ignorance in many ways. The way they welmuch on the weaknesses of others that we forget come the voice of the Nagas is too poor. Every our own shortcomings and become too 'holier than time talks would held it only become an introducthough' beings, ever ready to accuse while excusing tion of the next talk or meeting. I should say that
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they are not sincere in the issue. Things are always extended to unknown time. Talks have held for several rounds but the attitude of the Indian Government remained the same. They cannot give or fixed any specific time or days to declare what solution would be all about. things which is a serious concerned has become a secondary to them. infact, the issue has become a political gain for those national leaders. After these much decades of talks we cannot see any interest on their part, we can only see more military forces pouring in the region. counting the years and numbers of meeting held the Indian government has practically become a failure in the issue. • No. Absolutely not. If yes, then how many cabinet ministers visited just like Bihar and U.P. which new policies are specifically made for ne people. None. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: • Look at the other way. Are we sincere? What do we actually want? I think we should tell what we want and let India respond maybe a better way. • Others. The Naga people need to be honest with themselves about what they want. Freedom or no freedom. • We can't club together northeast as one entity as far as political problem is concerned. Nagas' case is totally different from the rest. GoI lackadaisical and insincere attitude in addressing the issues on time in its right perspective is compounding more problems. • GoI has already recognized the uniqueness of Nagas' history. If so, they should (1) Apologise for the aggression and untold atrocities inflicted upon the people over the years. (2)Confess that the Statehood was engineered and imposed against the wishes of the general public. (3) Appeal the NPGs and public leaders to come together with concrete proposal for final settlement. Such transparency on the part of GoI will show the maturity and magnanimity of Indian leadership and it will surely win the hearts of Nagas towards a win-win solution once and for all.
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Lalit Modi visa row: Congress wants Sushma to go, drags in Narendra Modi
New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): Party seeks to know if the Prime Minister was aware of Swaraj’s help to the former IPL chief. The Congress on Sunday demanded the resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for her help to former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in getting British travel documents and dragged Prime Minister Narendra Modi into the raging row, saying “needle of suspicion rests” at his door. The main opposition party also posed 11 questions to the Prime Minister, including “what happens to transparency and noncorruption promise” made by him and how the government would bring back black money if it “supports” such people who are accused of money laundering to the tune of Rs. 700 crore. “People are asking ‘is (PM Narendra) Modi helping (Lalit) Modi,” Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala told a press conference. Rejecting Swaraj’s defence that she helped Lalit Modi on “humanitarian grounds”, Surjewala alleged quid pro quo, saying the former IPL Commissioner had helped her husband Swaraj Kaushal in securing admission for his nephew
Govt, BJP, RSS stand by Sushma New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): Rejecting opposition demands for Sushma Swaraj's resignation, the government, the BJP as well as RSS today defended the External Affairs Minister over the Lalit Modi travel documents issue, asserting that she had done no wrong and only acted on "humanitarian" grounds. "We want to make it clear that whatever she has done is right. We justify it and the government completely stands by her," Home Minister Rajnath Singh said after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the controversy. Swaraj also reportedly talked to the Prime Minister. Singh's comment came after reports that Sushma had written to British lawmaker Keith Vaz to recommend travel documents for Lalit Modi, scam-tainted former IPL commissioner, for visiting Portugal. Swaraj said she had written to Vaz on "humanitarian grounds" in a U.K. university in 2013 and he enjoyed proximity to BJP leaders, including party president Amit Shah. The AICC in-charge of communications also wondered if the government had come out with a policy to help criminals on humanitarian ground and if it would be extended to wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim too if he sought such a help. “What we have witnessed today involves blatant quid pro quo, direct help to a fugitive from law,
after Lalit Modi said his wife was ill. The Home Minister said Swaraj told Vaz to do only what was "allowed" as per the rules and regulations of the UK. He said "any person with humanitarian approach" should do the same as Lalit Modi had said that his wife was suffering from cancer and he needed travel documents to visit her in Portugal. When referred to opposition demands for her resignation, the Home Minister said, "I don't agree". BJP chief Amit Shah also strongly defended Swaraj, saying she had acted in a "humanitarian" manner and "no big moral" issue was involved. Decrying "uproar" over the issue, he said attempts to gain "political mileage will not yield any results" as he attacked opposition Congress by referring to the Bofors scam and Union Carbide controversies.
internecine warfare between the top echelons of government and unravelling of the nexus between BJP leadership and its crony criminal friends... Swaraj should immediately step down,” he said. He sought to know if the Prime Minister was aware of Swaraj’s help to the former IPL chief and said he must come out with a statement to make facts clear. “The role of the Prime Minister is under a cloud of suspicion as to whether
there was a tacit endorsement of the action... The needle of suspicion rests at the door of the office of the Prime Minister,” he said. Noting that Lalit Modi was wanted in cases involving money laundering of Rs. 700 crore, he took a dig at the Prime Minister over his promise of bringing back black money. “What happens to the transparency’ and no-corruption claims of the Prime Minister when it is apparent that his own government is
actively helping a fugitive from Indian law accused of financial bungling and money laundering?” he said. The party also released several emails purportedly exchanged between Lalit Modi and British MP Keith Vaz over the issue. According to one such email, Vaz said, “From the horse’s mouth! I will do a thank you we will need her again.” Surjewala also sought to know if the BJP government had changed India’s stand on Lalit Modi’s extradition from the U.K. as the previous UPA dispensation had been pressing for it. The then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had written twice to the U.K. government besides taking up the issue in his meeting with his British counterpart in 2013, the Congress spokesman said. “What action do the Prime Minister and Finance Ministry propose to take against Lalit Modi in light of the fresh revelations? Do they propose to compound and close all the offenses of financial bungling, illegal betting and money laundering against him...,” he asked. Taking a swipe at the Narendra Modi government, he wondered if this is its new policy to help all fugitives of law on humani-
tarian grounds. “Is this declaration of policy per se not against national interest and shameful?” Noting that the BJP had demanded resignation of the then Union Minister and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as his wife allegedly owned a “small” stake in an IPL team, Surjewala asked if the Prime Minister and BJP will now apply the same yardsticks of “moral and constitutional propriety and accountability“. Hinting that Lalit Modi’s equations with several BJP leaders, including Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje besides Shah, might have played a role in Swaraj’s help to him, the Congress leader wondered if it was done with the prior approval of Narendra Modi. In one of the emails released by Congress, Vaz wrote to U.K. Visas and Immigration Director Sarah Rapson, pushing for grant of travel documents to Lalit Modi, saying, “Foreign Minister of India (Sushma Swaraj) has spoken to me making it very clear that the Indian Government has no objection to the travel document being granted which is contrary to what the refusal notice has stated... Frankly everyone has been involved in this apart from Ban-ki-Moon.”
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Three-year-old girl raped in Delhi New Delhi, JuNe 14 (iANS): A three-year-old girl was raped and a wooden object inserted into her private parts by unidentified assailants here in the national capital, police said on Sunday. The minor girl was in critical condition after having undergone surgery at the Safdarjung Hospital. A case has been registered against unknown people in south Delhi's Sarojini Nagar police station, and efforts were on to identify the accused, police said. According to police, the girl, who lives with her parents in a slum cluster in Pilanji village near Sarojini Nagar, was lured and raped at an isolated plot on Saturday night. The incident came to light when the girl was seen crying near her house, and found to be bleeding.
Medical experts hail new MCI’s ALL CAPS prescription format CheNNAi, JuNe 14 (TNN): Now one need not peer into a doctor's prescription and wonder whether the slanting squiggles hold the answer to their illness. In an effort to boost a uniform, standard and clear prescription for better safety of patients, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has come out with a new prescription format that should be followed by all allopathic doctors across the country and the move has been hailed by many. The new format which is available on the website of MCI instructs doctors to write prescriptions legibly and in capital letters as well as furnish a detailed prescription. Welcoming the move, former director of public health Dr S Elango said the highlight of the new format is that it allows physicians to write generic medicines based on the efficacy, affordability and availability of drugs. "Hardly 1% of patients know what medicines they are consuming. Now they will have a better idea," said the doctor. However, the doctor also pointed out that though medical bodies like IMA might insist upon following the format, some physicians may object to prescribing generic drugs instead of branded ones. Doctors point out that mentioning dosages in prescriptions would work in favour of doctors as it would help them avoid allegations of medical negligence.
Veterans sign petition with blood, protest over OROP delay New Delhi, JuNe 14 (iANS): Angry over the delay in implementation of 'One Rank One Pension', ex-servicemen on Sunday launched a protest at Jantar Mantar here. Signing a petition with blood they prepared to return gallantry medals to the president. The veterans will now start a hunger strike from Monday, led by Colonel M.B. Ahluwalia (retd). At least 50 others were expected to join the hunger strike, while hundreds were set to participate in the protest action. A delegation of the protesting ex-servicemen went to Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet President
Pranab Mukherjee, who is the supreme commander of the country's armed forces -- but failed to meet him. "We went to the Rashtrapati Bhavan with the petition, but we were informed that the president is in Shimla," Sujata Singh, daughter of 1965 war veteran Brig. Umrao Singh (retd) who was also part of the 11-member delegation that went to Rashtrapati Bhavan, told IANS. The delegation handed over the petition, and around 1,500 gallantry medals to a Rashtrapati Bhavan official. "We have returned around 22,000 medals in the past, but the
president refused to accept them," Major Vijay Sharma (retd) told IANS. Colonel U.B. Singh (retd), a veteran of the 1971 war, said it was not a protest against the government but an expression of their views. "We are not protesting against the government... We are just expressing our views," he said. According to the United ExServicemen of India, an umbrella group formed by the ex-servicemen, the protest was held at 55odd centres across the country. The centres included Jammu, Jalandhar, Ambala, Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Secun-
derabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Bhopal, Meerut, Chennai, Jaipur, Nagaur, Alwar and Kota, among others. The veterans said they were also geared to go on a relay hunger strike starting Monday. With 'One Rank One Pension', defence personnel who retired in the past would be able to draw the same pension as officers and soldiers of the same rank retiring now. One Rank, One Pension (OROP) policy is expected to benefit 25 lakh ex-servicemen and widows of defence personnel.
Punjab Ammonia Leak: 115 patients still hospitalised luDhiANA, JuNe 14 (PTi): At least 115 patients, who fell ill after inhaling ammonia gas which leaked from a gas tanker yesterday, are still in hospitals across the district even as authorities assure that the situation is "under control." G K Singh Dhaliwal, officiating Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana, today said that 213 persons were hospitalised after the tragic gas leak in Doraha. At present, a total of 115 patients are still admitted in 10 different hospitals of the district.
The remaining patients have been discharged after their treatment and all the admitted patients in these hospitals are now stable, he said. "Out of which 23 patients are admitted in Civil Hospital Ludhiana, 23 in Christian Medical College and Hospital, 17 in Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, one at Fortis Healthcare Hospital, 23 in SPS Apollo Hospital, one at Civil Hospital Payal, five at Mohan Dai Oswal Hospital, five at Civil Hospital Sahnewal, one at Civil
Hospital Khanna and 16 at Ivy Hospital Khanna," Dhaliwal said. "To make sure the victims get proper treatment and there is no panic like situation, Senior Medical Officers (SMO's) and Duty Magistrates have been deputed for full time in all 14 government-run hospitals of the district till further orders," he said. Three help desks have also been set up at Doraha, Khanna and Payal, which would be monitored directly by the area SDM's, he said.
The DC urged the area residents not to panic because the situation is "under control" and all the patients in different city hospitals are now stable and would be discharged soon. He said that the Punjab government would be bearing all expenses incurred on their treatment. Five persons were killed and nearly 200 others fell ill after inhaling ammonia gas which leaked from a gas tanker after it accidentally brushed against a flyover near here, triggering panic
in the area. The incident had occurred when the tanker got stuck under a flyover along a canal on the Doraha Bypass Road, about 25-km from here. After gas leakage incident at Doraha town of Ludhiana, the District Administration has been working overnight on warfooting, Dhaliwal said. Besides, the health department has started a special medical checkup camp at a Dharamshala (near the Gas leakage spot) in Doraha.
An Indian Muslim man performs Yoga exercises at a garden in Ahmadabad on Sunday, June 14. The United Nations has declared that June 21 will be observed as the International Day of Yoga. (AP Photo)
Mobile Blood Bank Locator App launched New Delhi, JuNe 14 (PTi): On the occasion of World Blood Donors Day today, the government has launched a Mobile Application for easy access of information regarding the nearest blood bank in the country. The National Blood Transfusion Council has made available directory of all 2760 licensed blood banks at National Health Portal, an official release said. It also said that data of all 76 blood banks in Delhi NCR and 524 blood banks from across the country has been made available and the process of uploading data of remaining licensed blood banks in the country is under process and will be
made available soon. The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare observed the "World Blood Donor Day" today under the aegis of National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC). The theme for this year's campaign is "Thank you for saving my life." It focuses on thanking blood donors who save lives every day through their blood donations and encourages more people across the world to donate blood voluntarily and regularly with the slogan "Give freely, give often. Blood donation matters, the release said.
Amendments to bill will legalise child labour, fear activists New Delhi, JuNe 14 (iANS): The government has approved amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Bill that prohibits employment of children under 14 years in all occupations, allowing them to work in family enterprises and the audiovisual industry. This has raised questions about children being deprived of education, increase in school dropout rates and the legalisation of child labour in specific industries. Rallying against the amendments, scheduled to be tabled during the JulyAugust monsoon session of parliament, child right activists fear that, if passed, it will "legalise" child labour in home-based enterprises and audio-visual entertainment industries. "All forms of child labour up to 18 years of age should be prohibited; there should not be regulation of
A schoolboy sits and watches other children leave as he rests after participating in an awareness rally against child labor in Chennai on June 13. Despite the country's rapid economic growth, child labor remains widespread in India, where an estimated 13 million children work, with laws meant to keep kids in school and out of the workplace routinely flouted. (AP Photo)
child labour," P. Joseph Victor Raj, national convenor, Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), told IANS. W h i l e a p p rov i n g amendments to the Bill on
May 13, the government had said: "However, the prohibition will not apply if a child is helping his family or family enterprise, which is other than any hazardous
occupation or process, after his school hours or during vacations." An exception has been made for a child working as artist in an audio-visual
entertainment industry, except in a circus, provided the child's school education is not affected. "This will also deprive the children of enjoying the right to free and compulsory education, which was ensured by the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, because allowing children to work before and after school hours will result in loss of interest in studies, drop-outs and tendency to continue working as child labourers," he added. Social activist Swami Agnivesh told IANS: "This is a retrograde step being taken by the government," adding that with an amendment like this, the country was being taken back by decades. Sanjay Gupta, director of NGO Chetna, agreed and said that the move would give rise to fake admissions in educational institutions.
"All you would then need to employ a child as a labourer would be a school certificate. Who would check if the child is actually attending school? Also, once it is passed, it is likely that the police and labour department would stop taking action, saying that child labour was now allowed," Gupta told IANS. According to Census 2011 figures, India has 10.12 million child labourers aged between five and 14 years. An International Labour Organisation (ILO) report said that almost 17 million children between five and 17 are engaged in child labour in South Asia and one in five of these are aged 11 or under. The report, "Measuring children's work in South Asia: Perspectives from national household surveys", revealed that of these child labourers, 5.8 million were in India, the highest in the region. This is followed by 5
million in Bangladesh, 3.4 million in Pakistan and 2 million in Nepal. The government had said in approving that a child can help his family or family enterprise, it was striking a balance between the need for education and the reality of the country's socio-economic condition and social fabric. "No work is non-hazardous for children. Any work will be detrimental to their health and will affect their education and leisure time. There have been instances of long hours of work and child sexual abuse in the entertainment industry," Raj added. An analysis of census data by NGO CRY (Child Rights and You) revealed that child labour has been decreasing at a mere 2.2% per year over the last ecade, contrary to popular perception of its substantial reduction. The report also said
that at this pace, it would take more than a century to end the menace, adding that child labour in urban areas in the country has increased by 53% over 20012011. The changes in the law, however, provide for stricter punishment for employers for violations. While there is no penalty provision for parents for the first offence, the employer would be liable for punishment even for the first violation. Suggesting measures, Gupta said the government could instead look at providing children with life skills at schools, where they are also taught about laws and rights. He added that while there should be a blanket ban on child labour up to the age of 14, those between 15 to 18 years can be taught skills in formal school set ups.
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Israel criticizes upcoming UN report on Gaza JErUSALEM, JUNE 14 (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized an upcoming United Nations report into last year’s war in the Gaza Strip, calling it a waste of time. Instead, he said an indepth Israeli report — and another unofficial report compiled by a group of retired Western generals — show “the truth” behind the fighting. Both documents say Israel did its utmost to avoid civilian casualties and said Gaza’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers deliberately attacked Israeli civilians while using their own people as human shields. “Those who want to know the truth should read this report and read the report of the top generals,” Netanyahu told his Cabinet. “Whoever wants a baseless, automatic accusation against Israel can waste their time reading the U.N report. As far as we are concerned, we will continue to protect our soldiers and they will continue to protect us.” Over 2,200 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, were killed, while 73 people died on the Israeli side. Israel says Gaza’s Hamas rulers are responsible for the civilian casualties because it launched attacks from residential areas.
Israeli cabinet backs bill to force feed Palestinians on hunger strike
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting with Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit, right and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, left, at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 14. (AP Photo)
Palestinians have said that the Israeli army violated the rules of war, which include giving adequate warning to civilians, using proportionate force and distinguishing between civilians and combatants. Israel has said its efforts during the war to minimize civilian casualties were unprecedented in modern warfare, referring to its system of delivering evacuation
warnings through text messages, automated calls and leaflets dropped from planes ahead of military strikes. The U.N. Human Rights Council’s report is expected to be released this week. In anticipation, Israel prepared a report it says proves Hamas’ criminal intentions and exonerates Israel of the war crimes allegations against it. In a boost to the Israeli
case, the High Level International Military Group, made up of 11 former chiefs of staff, generals and other senior American and European officials who conducted a fact-finding mission, came to similar conclusions. It said: “None of us is aware of any army that takes such extensive measures as did the (Israeli military) last summer to protect the lives of the
civilian population in such circumstances.” The Israeli report released Sunday said “Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip intentionally and systematically used strategies designed to maximize harm to civilian life and property, both in Israel and in the Gaza Strip.” It said that by using that strategy of “conduct-
JErUSALEM, JUNE 14 (rEUTErS): Israel’s cabinet approved on Sunday a proposed law that would enable authorities to force-feed Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike, a practice opposed by the country’s medical association. Israel has long been concerned that hunger strikes by Palestinians in its jails could end in death and trigger waves of protests in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. But Israel’s Medical Association, which considers force- feeding a form of torture and medically risky, has urged Israeli doctors not to abide by the law if it is passed. Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who sponsored the bill, said the cabinet’s support for the legislation would allow him to re-submit it to parliament for two final votes in the near future. It already passed a preliminary vote in the legislature before Israel’s parliamentary election in March. “Hunger strikes by imprisoned terrorists have become a weapon with which they are trying to threaten the State of Israel,” Erdan wrote on Facebook. “The cabinet’s decision today sends a clear message: ing hostilities from within civilian surroundings, Hamas and other terrorist organizations frequently turned civilian structures into military objectives, exposing them and surrounding civilians to risk of harm, in a manner which violated the Law of Armed Conflict and often constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The report pointed out
we will not blink in the face of any threat.” Qadoura Fares, chairman of the Palestinian Prisoners Club that advocates on behalf of Palestinians in Israeli jails, called the legislation racist and a violation of international law. Under existing Israeli law, patients cannot be treated against their will, although an ethics committee can be asked to intervene. Demanding an end to his detention without trial, a Palestinian prisoner, Khader Adnan of the Islamic Jihad militant group, has been on a hunger strike in jail for the past 41 days, refusing solid food and drinking only water. Adnan went on hunger strike for 66 days during a previous detention period in 2012, the longest such Palestinian protest. It ended when Israeli authorities promised to release him. He was jailed again in July 2014 under so-called “administrative detention”. Israel’s use of a decades-old policy of detaining some Palestinians without formal charge has drawn international criticism. Israel says the procedure is necessary to avoid exposing confidential information in trials.
that Hamas and other Palestinian groups used U.N. facilities, schools, hospitals, mosques, residential buildings, and their immediate vicinity, for military purposes. It accused Hamas of characterizing militants killed as civilians for propaganda purposes, and of endangering non-combatants by disguising themselves as civilians while
carrying out attacks. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri rejected the Israeli investigation. “The report turns the truth and is valueless because part of these crimes was committed live in front of the cameras, apart from the huge amount of martyrs, wounded and wide destruction that confirm that these crimes were deliberate.”
Britain pulls out spies as Russia and Hong Kong braces for democracy showdown China crack Snowden files: Report LoNdoN, JUNE 14 (rEUTErS): Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported. Security service MI6,
which operates overseas and is tasked with defending British interests, has removed agents from certain countries, the newspaper said, citing unnamed officials at the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Home Office (interior ministry) and security services. The United States wants Snowden to stand
trial after he leaked classified documents, fled the country and was eventually granted asylum in Moscow in 2013. Russia and China have both managed to crack encrypted documents which contain details of secret intelligence techniques that could allow British and American spies to be identified, the newspaper
said citing officials. However an official at Cameron’s office was quoted as saying that there was “no evidence of anyone being harmed.” A spokeswoman at Cameron’s office declined to comment when contacted by Reuters and representatives from the British intelligence services did not respond to requests for comment.
Genes may decide Exercise helps people overpower depression if a child is good LoNdoN, JUNE 14 (IANS): Exer- of this cocoon that I am in’,” said PhD has a positive effect on depres- student Louise Danielsson. People at science or arts cise sion, a dissertation from Sweden’s who participated in exercise aimed at increasing their physical fitness
LoNdoN, JUNE 14 (PTI): Parents, take note! Genes may decide whether a child will be good at science or arts, according to a new study. Robert Plomin, a professor at King’s College London, has found that there is a genetic component to whether one is good at arts or science. Plomin is conducting research to identify the genes that underpin the intelligence of more than 10,000 sets of twins born between 1994 and 1996. Initial results suggest that chances of identical twins both choosing either science or arts at A-level was 80% compared with 50% for typical siblings.
Sahlgrenska Academy has revealed. The researcher evaluated exercise as an add-on therapy to antidepressant medication. The study divided 62 individuals with diagnosed clinical depression into three groups, in which two participated in two different types of exercise with a physiotherapist twice a week for 10 weeks while the third, the control group, did not participate in systematic exercise. “In our follow-up interviews for the study, participants spoke about how they felt alive again and became more active. One woman expressed... the workout ‘kickstarts my body and helps me get the strength to crawl out
clearly improved their mental health compared with the control group. Even participants who were taught about their basal body awareness by the physiotherapist reduced their depressive symptoms, although not as significantly. The studies show that the participants who exercised felt that they had the strength to do more at home and engage with more social contacts. The dissertation’s results supports previous research on the antidepressant effects of exercise. “Our results show that exercise can be used within primary care with the rehabilitation of people with depression,” Danielsson said.
HoNG koNG, JUNE 14 (AP): Thousands of people, many holding yellow umbrellas, marched in Hong Kong on Sunday to urge lawmakers to vote down Beijing-backed election reforms that sparked huge street protests last year, although the turnout was lower than organizers had been expecting. With a crucial vote on the southern Chinese financial hub’s political future days away, pro-democracy supporters were marching to city government headquarters to rally support for a veto of the government’s electoral reform package. At issue is how Hong Kongers will choose their top leader, who’s currently handpicked by a panel of Beijingfriendly elites. Under the reforms to be put before lawmakers starting Wednesday, the government proposal would allow direct elections for the first time but also require screening of candidates by the panel. Pro-democracy activists — who caught the world’s attention last autumn by occupying parts of the city for 11 weeks to demand greater electoral freedom, turning umbrellas and the color
Aung Suu Kyi wraps up visit to China BEIJING, JUNE 14 (AFP): Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wrapped up her first visit to China on Sunday, a trip that saw her meet the country’s President Xi Jinping ahead of Myanmar elections in November. Pictures of her trip posted online showed her meeting Xi and other Communist party officials, visiting the Great Wall of China and practicing calligraphy. Suu Kyi visited Beijing, Shanghai and Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar. Beijing was a key backer of Myanmar’s former military junta while it was under Western sanctions -- most of which have been lifted since 2011 -- and a muchneeded international ally for a brutal regime that crushed dissent and kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for more than 15 years. She met Liu Jiheng, the Communist Party secretary of Yunnan, in Kunming, the provincial capital, on Saturday, according to the Yunnan Daily.
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, greets supporters of her National League for Democracy Party upon her arrival at Yangon International Airport as she returned from China on Sunday, June 14, in Yangon. (AP Photo)
During the meeting, Suu Kyi said Yunnan’s experience with economic development was a model worth bringing to Myanmar, according to the report, with Liu emphasising the shared ethnic populations across the two sides of the border. “Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to China will strengthen ties between the two sides as well as mutual under-
standing between Chinese leaders and the renowned Myanmar political figure,” said a commentary from the official Xinhua News Agency on Friday. But China-Myanmar relations have cooled as the country has introduced democratic reforms and opened up economically to the West while in recent months an ethnic insurgency in the Kokang region
of Myanmar has spilled over the border into China. The visit comes as Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party is expected to perform strongly in elections later this year and China looks to develop a rapport with the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Suu Kyi came to China at the invitation of the Communist Party, of which Xi is the general sec-
retary. “China and Myanmar are close, friendly neighbours,” Xi said during their meeting, according to Xinhua. “China always looks at the China-Myanmar relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective,” he added. “We hope and believe that the Myanmar side will also maintain a consistent stance on China-Myanmar relationship and be committed to advancing friendly ties, no matter how its domestic situation changes.” It is rare for China to invite an opposition leader to visit, given its policy of avoiding involvement in what it calls the internal affairs of other countries. Still, Suu Kyi’s welcome has all the hallmarks of an official visit -- the imposing Great Hall of the People is where Xi regularly welcomes visiting heads of state. Since launching reforms in 2011, Myanmar President Thein Sein has reached out to the United States and other countries.
yellow into symbols of their movement — have blasted the proposals as “sham democracy” and called for genuine universal suffrage. Organizers had said they expected 50,000 people to join Sunday’s rally, but turnout appeared to be in the low thousands. People marching in the blazing afternoon heat chanted “I want genuine democracy” and “Veto fake universal suffrage.” A large yellow banner mounted on a truck read “The citizens against pseudo-universal suffrage campaign.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Friday that the proposal was “in line with Hong Kong’s current circumstances, taking into account the interests of and appeals from different social groups and sectors in Hong Kong.” Authorities are bracing for renewed tensions, with both pro-democracy and pro-establishment groups planning to rally outside the government complex. They worry that protesters may try again to occupy roads, though organizers, who hope tens of thousands will turn out for daily rallies this week, have ruled out such action. Last year’s student-led
People march in a downtown street to support for a veto of the government’s electoral reform package in Hong Kong on Sunday, June 14. The rally was held ahead of a crucial vote by lawmakers on Beijing-backed election reforms that sparked huge street protests last year. (AP Photo
protest movement caught the world’s attention with its mostly peaceful street demonstrations. Protesters said China was reneging on a promise that the city’s top
leader would be chosen through “universal suffrage” agreed when Communist leaders were negotiating the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain.
Your social media activity reflects your personality NEw York, JUNE 14 (IANS): Your social media activity reveals much more about you than you can imagine. A new study by Fractal Analytics and BuzzStream - both digital analytics platforms - establishes the connections between gender, education, political leanings, and preferred publications of Facebook users, adweek.com reported. It found that across all publications studied, from the BBC and Fox News, to Wired and BuzzFeed, most audiences were primarily men. Yahoo and BuzzFeed were the only publications preferred by women. The Guardian and Wired had audiences that were overwhelmingly male at 97 percent, Much like how different sites attract users with different levels of education, people of varying education levels are also attracted to different publications. For instance, Yahoo readers are 16 percent more likely than the average Facebook user to
‘Like’ it or not, Facebook knows your interests NEw York, JUNE 14 (IANS): We already know that we only get the similar kind of content in our Facebook feed that we like/share/comment on. That’s called echo effect. But we don’t always press ‘like’ or ‘share’ buttons on every post that pops up in our Facebook feed, even if we like it or care about it. Now, Facebook would know even without any of your ‘labelled’ activity whether particular stuff in the News Feed interests you or not. Facebook is tweaking its algorithms to account for a new metric: the amount of time you spend looking at things in your feed, regardless of whether or not you actively interact with it, TechCrunch reported. Stop on a post for a bit, and Facebook starts the timer behind the scenes. This change allows Facebook’s algorithms to take the hint without requiring you to lift a finger. Once things shift toward passive behaviour analysis, Facebook’s News Feed begins to understand what you care about more than you ever could. only hold a high school diploma. Business Insider, Forbes and BuzzFeed audiences are more likely to hold graduate degrees. In fact, any user who read the publications studied was more likely to have received higher education than the average Facebook user overall. Most publications also seem to attract
liberal leaning audiences. BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Fox News were the only publications where conservatives outweighed liberals. Around 20% of the audience for every publication, even the most conservative and liberal, identified as moderate, which may be a result of social media reducing political polarisation.
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3rd Altrura open football tournament from June 23
KOhimA, JuNE 14 (mExN): The 3rd edition of Altrura Open Football Tournament will begin from June 23 tillJuly 2 at Chumukedima Town Local Ground under the theme "Goal for Peace." The tournament will be held under the aegis of Altrura Society Dimapur with Huzo Meru, Director of Operation, NorthEast Christian University Nagaland as special guest. Altrura Society games and sports secretary said winning team will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 along with trophy while the runner-up will pocket Rs. 30,000 alongwith trophy. The best discipline team will be awarded with a cash prize of Rs 10,000. There will also be prizes for individual excellence.
Interested teams have been informed to collect forms from Kiran Sports Dimapur; CM Bazaar 4th mile; Exceed Computers 6th mile; Akholie Bakery Chumukedima; Popular Bakery , Medziphema, Altrura Society Office Chumukedima Ward No.4. The teams have also been requested to submit entry forms at the earliest in the Altrura Society office, located at Chumukedima Ward No.4, Opp. Saturday weekly Bazaar. The office will be opened from June 17 to 20 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Match fixture will be drawn onJune 20 at 2:00 PM at Altrura Society office. All the team coach/captain/manager should be present. For further detail, contact organizing committee chairman at 8575127849/ 9615264166.
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ronaldo nets 3, portugal beats Armenia in European qualifier
GTc chess grand prix 2015
KOhimA, JuNE 14 (mExN): Tridev Buragohain clinched the 6th edition of the GTC Chess Grand Prix 2015, which concluded in Guwahati recently. Altogether, 56 players participated in this event. The tournament was played in two categories viz Under 9 and Under 19. The tournament was conducted by Swaraj Buragohain as the chief Arbiter and assisted by Padma Gogoi and Nandan Buragohain as Deputy Arbiters. The closing ceremony was graced by Ranjan Choudhury, Director, Pune FC and Adviser, Gauhati town Club football Academy, Siben Dutta, President, Akshayam and Deep
Borah, executive Member, BEST UNDER 13 Sahil Sethi Gauhati town Club Gulang Talukdar Henguljyoti Gayan PRIZE WINNERS UNDER 19 CATEGORY UNDER 9 CATEGORY Tridev Buragohain Prangovinda Parasar Uddipta Kakati Kashyap Debanga Kalita Jayaditya Das Abhilekh Mahanta Shaurya Jalan Abhilash Gautam Neeraj Pratap Hazarika BEST GIRL Daiyaan Ahmed Reshal Agarwal Nitish Das Ananya Deka Maharnav Deka Archi Gupta Vishesh Bajaj BEST GIRL Jenifa Islam Anoushka Priyam Shruti Kothari
UNDER 7 CATEGORY Mrinmoy Rajkhowa Priyangshu Goswami Biwaswan Choudhury
BEST UNDER 11 Dhrupad Kashyap Aryan Dutta Vedant Chhawchharia
BEST GIRL Afsheen Afsa Zaman Dhritishree Das
Registration for Naga Wrestlemania 4 Our Correspondent
Registration for the forthcoming Naga Wrestlemania 4 (King of the Ring Series 2015) is on at the various outlets across the state. 3E Nagaland stated that Naga Wrestlemania was approved by Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) and it will take place from October 29 to 31 this year at Kohima Local Ground. Registration forms can be obtained from 3E Office, 2nd Floor, Dzevi Building, Near Local Ground North Gate, Opposite UBC, Kohima, Youth Snooker Café & Restaurant, Near Jagdish Bus Counter, Jalukie, Peren, Universal Sports, Church Road, Dimapur and Life Centre, Near Co-operative Bank, Pfutsero Town. Registration form cost Rs. 50. Registra-
tion fee has been fixed at Rs. 500 (non-refundable) and security deposit at Rs. 1000 (refundable unless forfeited for by-law violation). For communities other than Angami, Chakhesang, Zeliang and Poumai, 3E will offer free registration but compulsory security deposit. Online registration can also be accepted for outstation wrestlers but final weight measurement will be compulsory prior to event. More details will be available at: www.3enagaland.org or Facebook group/ page with key search <3enagaland>. The three days event will feature Lightweight Championship (Below 65 Kg), Middleweight Championship (65 – 78 Kg), Heavyweight Championship (Above 78 Kg) and conclude with a final Series– Best 48 (i.e. 16 each from 1st, 2nd & 3rd Series). Registration opens till July 31.
GENEVA, JuNE 14 (REutERs): Sepp Blatter may seek to stay on as the president of FIFA, a Swiss newspaper quoted an anonymous source close to Blatter as saying on Sunday. The report comes less than two weeks after Blatter resigned as head of the world soccer organisation. The Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper said it had information that Blatter had received messages of support from African and Asian football associations, asking him to rethink his decision to step down. Blatter was honoured by the support and had not ruled out remaining in office, the anonymous source told the paper. FIFA did not immediately reply to an
emailed request from Reuters for comment on the newspaper story. Blatter said on June 2 he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation, having led soccer's world governing body since 1998. FIFA is expected to pick his replacement at an emergency meeting in Zurich in December. Blatter's renewed interest in the job was also a reason for the departure of Walter de Gregorio as FIFA's director of communications, since he had argued for a completely new start and advised Blatter to go, the Swiss newspaper said. De Gregorio declined to comment to the newspaper.
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Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, right # 7, scores the first goal in Armenia's gate during the Euro 2016 Group I qualifying match between Armenia and Portugal in Yerevan, Armenia, Saturday, June 13. (AP Photo)
YEREVAN, JuNE 14 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo's hat trick gave 10-man Portugal a 3-2 win at Armenia in a 2016 European Championship qualifier on Saturday. Marcos Pizzelli scored from a free kick for Armenia in the 14th minute, but Ronaldo converted a penalty to level before the half-hour mark. The Ballon d'Or holder scored twice more in the 55th and 58th to secure victory and keep Portugal top of Group I. The treble took Ronaldo's competition record to 26 goals. Portugal's Tiago Cardoso was sent off with a second yellow card in the 62nd, and Hrayr Mkoyan scored the hosts' second goal 10 minutes later. "An oddly difficult victory? No. We knew that we would face a good team," Portugal midfielder Joao Moutinho said. "Fortunately we have a player like Cristiano, who can decide the match at
Germany thrash Gibraltar
FARO, JuNE 14 (AFP): Andre Schuerrle scored a hat-trick as Germany eased to a 7-0 win over minnows Gibraltar in Euro 2016 qualifying on Saturday. In a game played in Faro in Portugal's Algarve, the World Cup holders answered coach Joachim Loew's calls to improve on the finishing that had let them down in their 2-1 friendly defeat at home to the United States on Wednesday. And the win keeps Germany in second place in qualifying Group D, a point behind leaders Poland and two points above Scotland in third position. Their evening did not start well, Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger having a penalty saved by Gibraltar goalkeeper Jordan Perez in the 10th minute. The breakthrough eventually arrived courtesy of Wolfsburg forward Schuerrle in the 28th minute before the massive gulf between the sides was finalany moment." Portugal tops the group with 12 points, while Denmark remained second on 10 after beating Serbia 2-0.
ly laid bare in the second half. Max Kruse, the Borussia Moenchengladbach forward who will be a team-mate of Schuerrle's at Wolfsburg next season, replaced Mario Goetze late in the first half and made it 2-0 two minutes after the restart. Ilkay Gundogan and Karim Bellarabi added further goals before the hour mark and Schuerrle netted twice more to complete his hat-trick, leaving Loew relaxed enough to concentrate on filing his fingernails in his seat in the dugout. Kruse added his second of the evening to make it 7-0 with nine minutes left, leaving Germany well placed before a doubleheader of games at home to Poland and away to Scotland that is likely to prove decisive. Gibraltar have now lost all six matches in their first ever qualifying campaign for a major tournament, scoring just once and conceding 34 goals.
Serbia and Armenia were left at the bottom of the group with one point each. Albania was third with seven points and a game to
play. Armenia went ahead through its only shot on target in the first half when midfielder Pizzelli struck home a free kick from 25
meters (yards) out. But Ronaldo didn't waste his chance to pull the visitors level in the 29th, firing in a penalty kick after Henrikh Mkhitaryan fouled Moutinho. Portugal toiled the rest of the way to halftime, and mustered only a shot by Fabio Coentrao, which was saved by goalkeeper Roman Berezovski a minute before the interval. Ronaldo then scored two more — first chipping Roman Berezovski before hitting from long range— to give Portugal the cushion it needed after Mkoyan scored a rebound from Rui Patricio's save. In Copenhagen, Yussuf Poulsen got his first international goal to put Denmark ahead in the 13th. Daniel Agger missed a spot kick for Denmark in the 34th, but substitute Jakob Poulsen sealed the win over Serbia three minutes from time.
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June 15: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day The events unfold delhi
Proverbs 16:31 Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.
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ow old is old? The concept of ‘being old’ has changed drastically over the years due to the advancement of medical sciences, which has contributed hugely towards extending a person’s life span. Many churches in Nagaland observe a Sunday as ‘Senior Citizens’ Sunday’ for those who have attained 65 years of age. This is an effort to honor and respect the legacy our elders have set for us. As a child, I grew up on the village hills of Nagaland with my grandparents and I yearn for those gaiety days spent with such joy. I would listen to the folk tales of our culture from my grandparents. Growing up with grandparents has embedded great values in me which shall continue to guide my social as well as spiritual life. Those are treasures worth more than gold and that is the legacy I’m mentioning about, which no amount of money can buy. The inheritance of our Naga culture, our heritage, and our traditions are all within them and can only be passed down to us only when we give extra effort to connect ourselves to them. Now the questions are, do we continue to respect, and value them every day or is it only on that particular Sunday as I mentioned, that you are done away with all your responsibilities just by buying them a gift? This reminds me of a very heart touching story where an old man took his mobile phone to a repair shop, but to his amazement the technician replies that nothing is wrong with his phone, which made the old man in tears reply, “ then why is it that my children never call me?’. Ageing individuals experience many losses, potentially leading to bereavement
overload. They are vulnerable to depression and to feelings of low self-worth. Much age related ailments are being experienced at this stage, as part of the ageing process, such as Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, weak immune system, and so on. Some people term this stage as ‘Second Childhood’ where they fuss about little things but we should know that this is the time that they need our support, the most. However, I have many a times witnessed and heard of people who keep their aged parents in old age homes, just because their parents were very forgetful or became aggressive at times. Aren’t they the ones who bore and reared them up? I want to ask those people “weren’t you among those, who honored your parents on Mothers’ and Fathers’ day just few years back, when they were healthy or when in fact helping them out”? Many practices from the west are adopted at a rapid pace and one among them is establishing of old age homes in our places too. The concept of ‘old age home’ may be fitting in the west but I personally feel that keeping our elders at old age home to wait for death, along with the other ailments they may be suffering, is just too harsh on them. If our parents can help us take our first baby step then why can’t we help them take their last step with love and care? What is the honor of saying and/or keeping our parents at old age homes? Will you proudly say “oh? my father? He is living at a home with good facility”. But hey can’t you provide a comfortable home like that? Abuse of elderly individuals is a serious form of family violence. Studies indicate that individuals older than age 65 are the victims of abuse or neglect. Many suicides among the elderly are thus being reported due to abuse and neglect. Abuse of elderly may be psychological, physi-
cal, and financial. Psychological abuse includes yelling, insulting, harsh commands, threats, silence, and social isolation. Physical abuse includes striking, shoving, beating, or restraint and last but not the least is financial that is described as misuse of the elderly income, theft of property, or material possessions. Neglect implies failure to fulfill the physical needs of the individual who cannot do so independently. Some of the neglect experienced by the elderly individuals is withholding food and water, providing unclean clothes and bedding, lack of needed medications, lack of eye glasses, hearing aids, and false teeth. Some of the reasons why the elderly are abused can be due to longer life and/or dependency on relatives which is considered as a burden to caregivers. June 15th is observed as ‘World Elder Abuse Awareness Day’ with a purple ribbon symbol. People all over the world, decorates their own town or workplace with purple ribbons, wears purple colored shirts or ribbons, to show support for this approach. The reason of why I am addressing this is because we are here today enjoying the fruits of our elders and thus we ought not to neglect them and if at all the caregivers feel burdened to take care of the aged let them seek counsel as they are available. Caring for elderly individuals requires a special kind of inner strength and compassion. The willingness to love and to add a little deed of kindness everyday such as making a phone call or brewing their favorite dish or any little thing (you know the things that delights your parents) that can make them feel good, is all that matters to them, for their short stay here on Earth. Nukshijungla Ao Lecturer; College of Nursing CIHSR, Dimapur
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have never come across such massive news coverage in print and electronic media nationally and internationally of the ambuscade on the Indian Army convoy by the combined team of NSCN (K), KYKL and KCP in Manipur’s Chandel district bordering Myanmar. 18 soldiers were killed while 11 left injured in the ambush. The post-ambush news coming in is more interesting. It is even more interesting after Indian Army started operation and surgical precisions from Mi35 attack helicopters of the Indian Air Force against the militants by even entering into Myanmar’s air space. Soon after this mission, several conflicting news came in TV Channels….Indian Army after crossing international border could launch surgical strikes and destroy militant camps and killed 100 militants inside Myanmar…sometimes, news came in as 40 militants killed… sometimes 20 militants killed who were believed to be responsible for the deadly ambush on Indian army in Chandel. The highly controversial Indian army commando team’s victorious picture with their chopper after their mission in Myanmar went viral in Social Media and it has extensively damaged the image and integrity of the Indian Army. In spite of all these doubtful supply of news materials to the media, the media, particularly based in Manipur, have been maintaining their professionalism. In fact, release issued by Defense Wing did not mention figures of any casualty. The media in Manipur acted professionally in covering the Army operations. Now Myanmar authority denied Indian army entering into their territory and killed the militants involved in Chandel ambush. Their denial is as important as Indian army’s claim of entering into their territory to the media people. However, Indian army’s image and integrity is badly dented more by the controversial victorious picture. Anyhow, finally they said they recovered seven dead bodies of the militants. Why had all these unwanted things suddenly happened? It is because of the Center's failure to keep the NSCN (K) in the loop. The outfit has been
in truce with them since 2001. In fact, they would not have abrogated the truce if the news of Center’s reluctance of extending the ongoing ceasefire with them did not come in mass media. Having ceasefire with them for 14 years is a very costly affairs and every effort should be made to keep them in the loop. Had the Government of India asked them to prepare “Charter of Demands” for starting at least some preliminary talks? The outfit entering ceasefire with Myanmar Government is in fact a blessing in disguise for India for the fact that the burden would be lesser on them. After all these 14 long years of truce, a news item doing the round of not extending the ongoing truce with them was actually an humiliation, besides making them mockery in the eyes of the world. Expectedly, soon after the abrogation of the ceasefire, they started attacking on the Assam Rifles in Nagaland’s state capital, Kohima and even in Arunachal Pradesh. Their desperation was high after Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju’s remark that NSCN (K) had got nothing to do with the Naga issue. All these careless remark gave them to commit to any audacious attack on Indian army. This was expected and one wonders why Indian intelligence did not have such thinking. What is our Intelligence quality? NIA’s role in this became more questionable after wrongly naming high profile functionaries of another outfit as NSCN (K)’s masterminding the deadly ambush. They later clarified. How poor Intelligence input and system they have and this can put many innocent persons’ lives into danger during such volatile situation. With this level of intelligence of our Agencies, the doubts on varied news items after Indian army attacks on militant camps by entering into Myanmar territory will be proven otherwise. If one studies the whole events very carefully, the Center seems not knowing the historical backgrounds of the Northeast people. And unless they try to know this, to start for finding solution to any issue is not even thinkable. The country needs professionals. Oken Jeet Sandham
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Rixton - 'Let The Road' track-by-track album review
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ixton make the best move with the starting song and title track of their debut album 'Let The Road', showcasing each individual's member's ability to really give it some welly in a Warblers Glee-esque tune. It's an inspired choice and something we were yet to hear from the group. We knew they could do catchy pop numbers, but this really shows off the talents of the foursome. With 'Let The Road' being more like an introduction to the guys rather than an opening track, things really get going with 'Wait On Me'. Benny Blanco's stamp is felt immediately alongside Stargate on production in a tune that has the perfect formula for a smash hit. It may seem excessive to have seven writers for a single offering, but if this is the standard of song we'll get from such a thing I'm all for it. 'Appreciated' is your standard emotional boyband piece. It's not quite in the same league as One Direction's 'Night Changes' - sorry to make compari-
sons - but it can stand on its own two feet as something unique for the band to deliver, paving the way perfectly to transcend into the superior ballad 'Beautiful Excuses'. Usually with a debut album, a boyband will go straight for the pop jugular and deliver a bunch of infectious beats that embed themselves in the minds of teeny-boppers, never daring to push the boundaries of what an all-male group are expected to produce. 'Beautiful Excuses' shows that Rixton aren't like the rest - they'll allow their walls
to fall down and take a risk, and it's one that pays off exponentially. Better still, you actually believe every word they sing - it feels like they may actually have some experience in this area. Look at the writers on this track in particular and that's backed up with the fact that all four members of the band wrote the song without co-writers. 'Me And My Broken Heart' is of course a little slice of pop heaven, whilst 'Hotel Ceiling' once again strips thing back for an emotional and passionate performance of a song detailing a hard break-up
- something a lot can relate to. Writing here comes from Ed Sheeran as well as Benjamin Levin, and it's not difficult to imagine the former with guitar in hand taking it on solo. Though it's not quite single material, it's definitely one of the most exciting moments on the LP, or at the very least, one that will stay with the listener long after indulging. Mike Posner joins writers Levin and Ammar Malik to put together 'I Like Girls' - a song in a celebration of the female gender which quickly paints the ladies
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as "teases" - not something we can fully get behind, but luckily it's the shortest song on the collection. 'Speakerphone' is another tune the group have written alone it's not as rewarding as their former tune 'Beautiful Excuses' but it won't be found offensive. Released ahead of the album, 'We All Want The Same Thing' is a song that's perfect for summer. The band have the knack of being able to weave their way impressively through a track like this one, delivering the best song from their catalogue to-date. Rounding things off is the incredible 'Whole' where the band are allowed to leave you in the knowledge that they're not just another group formed for the fame and money. They're passionate about the industry they've stepped into and their music is a perfect standard for those that will come after. The era of the boyband is now, and Rixton should well and truly be leading the way. Rixton's debut album 'Let The Road' is offi- ‘Silver Lining Skies’ featuring Polar Lights, the debut single from Virie Kts was released cially released on Monday, on June 14 at www.indihut.com . The song was originally written by Mar Jamir (Polar June 15. Lights) and recorded at Jam Studio 11.
News in Brief Bradley Cooper to produce TV series Beyonce sued for $7 million for plagiarism
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icole Scherzinger has been dumped by her record label. The 36-year-old singer is believed to have parted ways with RCA Records after experiencing a bad run of sales of her second solo album 'Big Fat Lie' in the UK charts. A source told The Sun newspaper: "There is the feeling that Nicole didn't get the support she needed on the release to make it a success." They added: "A number of new songs leaked online a few weeks ago and fans were angry that they weren't on her last album." The brunette beauty saw a dive in sales of singles released from the album. Her latest single - ironically titled 'On The Rocks' - only managed to reach number 90 in the UK charts whilst her first single 'Your Love' went in at number six in the charts but the second track 'Run' climbed to number 46. The international recording artist collaborated with a string of top producers in an attempt to boost her performance including will.i.am, Dallas Austin and Beyoncé collaborator Toby Gad. And the news comes after a difficult year for Nicole - who split from her long-term boyfriend the British Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton, 30, earlier this year after seven years together. The former X Factor judge has been unavailable for comment.
New Love & Mercy Trailer
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f you are looking for a little drama on the big screen this summer then look no further than Love & Mercy, which promises to be one of the big screen gems of the next couple of months. Directed by Bill Pohlad, Love & Mercy is a movie that focuses on Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson from the 1960s at the height of the Beach Boys fame to the 1980s when he has been left a broken and confused man under care of therapist Dr Eugene Landy. John Cusack and Paul Dano will play Wilson at these two different periods of his life, while Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti are the other two big names on the cast list. The brand new trailer for Love & Mercy has arrived and we have it for you to take a look at: Cusack is one of the most versatile actors of his generation, while Dano is one of the most exciting young stars - there performances are already winning over critics and I cannot wait to see the pair of them in action and tackling the same role. Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalogue of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. Love & Mercy is released 10th July.
ollywood star Bradley Cooper is bringing the incredible world of Dan Simmons' classic "Hyperion" book series to television. The 40-year-old actor is partnering with "The Hangover director" Todd Phillips and "The Departed" producer Graham King to turn the 1989 Hugo Award-winning novel into a series for Syfy, reported Los Angeles Times. "Hyperion" follows seven travellers seeking to answer some of the universe's greatest questions while a
warring galaxy teeters on Armageddon. Cooper announced the Syfy partnership, saying: "It is an absolute honour to enter into the world created by Dan Simmons that is arguably one of the greatest works of science fiction, and help realise it for television audiences." Network boss Dave Howe added: "As Syfy continues to forge important partnerships with awardwinning talent on and off screen, this powerhouse team led by Bradley Cooper, Graham King and Todd Phillips brings an extraor-
dinary track record in producing entertainment of the highest creative ambition. "Epitomising the gold standard of science-fiction storytelling, Hyperion tackles smart and provocative themes that help define Syfy's development vision." Cooper, Phillips and King will serve as executive producers for this "Hyperion" television series. Cooper is also producing - and will make guest appearances in - a television spin-off of his sci-fi film "Limitless", premiering on September 22 on CBS.
Zayn Malik wants to explore fashion industry
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ormer One Direction star Zayn Malik is reportedly keen to enter the world of fashion. The singer wants to secure an endorsement deal with a huge fashion brand, reports www.femalefirst.co.uk. "Malik has always been very creative and introverted. He tried out various looks and styles during his time in One Direction, which has led to interest from top fashion houses," The Sun newspaper quoted a source as saying. The 22-year-old star is not putting his career in music on back-burner, but plans to take fashion industry seriously. "Music will always be his priority but fashion could be more than just a side project. The long-term aim could be to potentially earn a big-money endorsement deal with a huge fashion brand," the source added. The news to venture into the fashion world comes after it was speculated that Malik plans to try his hand at stage acting with a role in the Old Vic Theatre's '24 Hour Plays' series, staged in the autumn.
Demi Moore wants to go on DWTS?
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emi Moore reportedly wants to follow in daughter Rumer Willis' footsteps and compete on 'Dancing With the Stars'. The 52-year-old actress is reportedly eager to take to the dance-floor in a bid to revive her career, but her eldest daughter Rumer, who recently won the latest series, is said to be unhappy that she wants to follow in her footsteps. A source told America's
Star magazine: ''She thinks 'DWTS' will reinvigorate her lagging career. ''Rumer doesn't get why her mom, who's already an A-list star, needs to try to outshine her.'' The 'Joneses' actress is eager to be paired up with Rumer's former partner Val Chmerkovskiy, who helped her daughter take home the mirror ball trophy. The insider added: ''It's a little annoying for Rumer. But it is the first
project she's seen her mom get excited about in years, and she wants her to be happy.'' Demi recently admitted she was so proud of Rumer for winning the reality TV series. Asked about the 26-yearold actress' success, she said: ''It is thrilling! I am so proud of her and excited for people to be seeing what I have seen since she was a little girl. She is incredibly talented, and I love seeing her light shine!''
inger Beyonce Knowles has been sued $7 million by a backing singer who claimed the star had plagiarised her music to write hit song “XO”. The 33-year-old and her company Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records have been taken to court over her hit single “XO” after Ahmad Lane filed a federal lawsuit claiming she had stolen the music for the track, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Lane claims that Knowles's current backing singer Chrissy Collins gave her a copy of his song “XOXO” after he passed on the track to her when the pair were working together for another artist. However, the Grammy Award winner has denied the claims in court documents. The response reads: "The two works at issue are entirely different songs that share no lyrical or musical similarity, other than perhaps the letters X and O. The two songs are distinct from a thematic perspective." The “Crazy in love” hitmaker also states that Lane hasn't filed a "copyright registration" for his track and asks for the $7 million payment to be dropped.
India-B'desh rain-marred Werdum defeats Velasquez to Test ends in tame draw become heavyweight champion Carlos Rodriguez Associated Press
India’s captain Virat Kohli, left, and Bangladesh’s captain Mushfiqur Rahim pose for photographs with the winner's trophy at the end of the final day of the cricket test match against Bangladesh in Fatullah, Bangladesh, Sunday, June 14. (AP Photo)
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Fatullah, June 14 (IanS): The frustrating, rain-marred one-off cricket Test between India and Bangladesh ended in a tame draw as the hosts finished at 23 for no loss in their second innings after being forced to follow-on on Day 5 at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium here on Sunday. After showers washed out the morning session, Bangladesh were first bowled out for 256 while chasing India's first innings total of 462/6. The hosts were then forced to followon being 206 runs in arrears. Both sides agreed to call it a draw after Bangladesh played just 15 overs in their second innings. The rain Gods allowed two full sessions postlunch. Resuming the day at 111/3, Bangladesh were reduced to 219/7 by India at tea before bowling then out. Bangladesh added 145 more runs to their overnight score before being bowled out.
All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan (9) did not last too long at the crease after the start of the afternoon session as he walked back to the pavilion after just 2.3 overs of play as ace offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin (5/87) had him stumped. Overnight batsman Imrul Kayes and Soumya Sarkar (37) then struck a 51-run fifth-wicket partnership before other offie, the veteran Harbhajan Singh (3/64) clinched his second wicket when Kayes was stumped. Kayes topscored with 72, hitting 12 boundaries. Sarkar lasted just five balls more before being bowled by Varun Aaron (1/27), who became the first non-spinner to claim a wicket in the rain-curtailed Test. Thereon debutant Litton Das (44) and Shuvagata Hom Chowdhury (9) struck a 43-run stand for the seventh-wicket before Ashwin claimed his fourth scalp when Chowdhury
was caught by Rohit Sharma, leading the umpires to call tea. India took only eight more overs to wind up the Bangladeshi tail before captain Virat Kohli enforced the follow-on with a lead of 206 runs. Ashwin was the star bowler as he picked up his 10th five-wicket haul of his 25 match-old Test career. Tweaker Harbhajan, making a comeback to the international scene after more than two years, also snared three wickets. Openers Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes were batting on 16 not out and 7 not out respectively when both teams decided to call it a day. Both teams shared the trophy as Indian batsman Shikhar Dhawan was awarded man-of-thematch for his first innings knock of 173. The two teams will play a three-match One-Day International (ODI) series, beginning June 18.
Fabricio Werdum of Brazil defeated a rusty Cain Velasquez by tap-out in the third round to become the undisputed heavyweight champion at UFC 188 on Saturday night. With 2:13 left in the third round, Werdum (20-5-1) took down Velasquez, who was coming of a 20-month layoff after suffering injuries in his shoulder and knee. It was Werdum's sixth straight win. The Brazilian jiujitsu specialist was able to cut local favorite Velasquez (13-2) in the left eye since the first round and the former heavyweight champion struggled through the rest of the fight to overcome it. Werdum was the interim champion after taking down Mark Hunt last November at UFC 180. That night he was supposed to take on Velasquez, who injured his knee and canceled the fight. Prior to the main event, Mexican-American middleweight Kelvin Gastelum (12-1) got a TKO in the second round to defeat Nate Marquardt (36-15-2), a 36 year-old former strike-
Charles Rosa, left, of the United States battles against Mexico´s Yair Rodriguez during a men's Featherweight UFC 188 mixed martial arts bout in Mexico City, Saturday, June 13. Rodriguez won the fight by decision. (AP Photo)
out champion. Velasquez started off strong coming after the Brazilian but slowly began to wore down and looked tired by the end of the second round, while Werdum, who came to Mexico 40 days before the fight, looked ready to go all five rounds. The Mexican-
American Velasquez, who has a strong following in Mexico, apologized with the fans for his below-average performance. Gastelum, who missed the welterweight limit in two of his last three fights, was coming off the first loss of his career on Janu-
ary against Tyron Woodley. After Saturday's win, he wants a chance to go back to his former division. In the lightweight division, Eddie Alvarez defeated Gilbert Melendez by split decision despite fighting with his left eye closed after taking an elbow to the face in
the first round. Also, Tecia Torres remained undefeated (6-0) with a unanimous decision over Angela Hill (2-1) in strawweight. In another fight, up-and-coming Mexican Yair Garcia (6-1) got a split decision victory over Charles Rosa (10-2) in a featherweight combat.
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Brazil advance to U20 WC semis
Portugal's Domingos Duarte heads the ball past Brazil's Joao Pedro, left, and Marlon, right, during their U20 soccer World Cup quarterfinal game in Hamilton, New Zealand, Sunday, June 14. (AP Photo)
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haMIltOn, June 14 (aP): Brazil survived its second-straight penalty shootout, beating Portugal 3-1 Sunday to advance to the semifinals of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup. After beating Uruguay 5-4 in a shootout in the Round of 16, five-time champion Brazil again showed its aptitude from the spot and will now face either Senegal or Uzbekistan on Wednesday. Portugal had been by far the better team in normal time, repeatedly stretching the Brazil defense through Gelson Martins, Rafa and Nuno Santos. But Brazil held on to force the match into extra time, then into a shootout. Manchester United signing Andreas Pereira scored for Brazil and Manchester City's Rony Lopes replied for Portugal to start the shootout. Then Raphael Guzzo, Andre Slva and
Santos all missed for Portugal while captain Danilo and Gabriel Jesus scored to send Brazil through. Portugal was by far the more creative and more threatening side in a match which failed to live-up to expectations as a clash of bitter rivals and football superpowers. Brazil seemed lethargic at times, possibly a result of its extra time clash with Uruguay but also a sign of the wariness which seems to have infected it throughout the tournament. Its clash with Uruguay was also locked at 0-0 after extra time. Portugal made the running from the outset and Nunos had the first real chance after only three minutes, pushing his shot wide of the posts. Martins provided an outstanding left-wing cross from Lopes in the 10th minute but Lopes' header was wide. The talented Martins was again the provider for
Silva in the 14th minute but Silva headed wide with just the keeper to beat. Fullback Rafa put a slanted shot across the face of goal in the 28th minute, which inched wide of the far post. Among all those chances and against the run of play, Danilo seemed to have put Brazil ahead, rising to head the ball into the back of the net but the whistle had already sounded for a free kick. Portugal had perhaps the best chance of the match at the end of the first period of extra-time when Santos made a long run out of defense and put the ball perfectly at the feet of Martins who, in a one-on-one with the goalkeeper shot wide. Brazil's Lucao was the first to miss in the penalty shootout, pushing his shot wide of goal. That was immediately negated when Guzzo shot straight at the keeper.
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