June 18th, 2015 by The Morung Express

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Dimapur VOL. X ISSUE 165

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

J&K killings raise fears of new bloodletting [ PAGE 8]

Clean E-Roll info yet to reach grass root level [ PAGE 2]

By Sandemo Ngullie

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Solution to our political problem is not going to happen anytime soon. But, hey! No harm in expecting.

ENPO appeal to SAPO, Mao Council DimapuR, JuNe 17 (mexN): Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) has made an appeal to the Southern Angami Public Organisation (SAPO) and the Mao Council to resolve the ongoing boundary issue through peaceful means in the larger interest of the Nagas as a whole. “We believe there are ways and means where we can amicably resolve the issue if only we create a sense of brotherhood within the family, thereby giving space for a peaceful dialog across the table,” the ENPO, in a press note issued by S Khoiwang Konyak, president and Manlang Phom, general secretary stated. It expressed hope that both SAPO and Mao Council would consider the appeal made by the organisation in good faith.

Indian Muslim students practice yoga at a school ahead of first International Yoga Day in Ahmadabad on Wednesday, June 17. The United Nations has declared that June 21 will be observed as the International Day of Yoga. (AP Photo)

Irregularity at ITI ruining students’ career: PTCSU

Amguri-Kohima National Highway to be given 1st priority: Nuklutoshi

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LONDON, JuNe 17 (ThOmsON ReuTeRs FOuNDaTiON): The cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion in 2014, equivalent to the combined economies of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, a global security report said on Wednesday. The divide between the most and least peaceful regions deepened with many Middle Eastern and African countries sinking further into violence, according to research by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Syria ranked as the least peaceful country in the 2015 Global Peace Index, while Libya saw the most severe deterioration. Iceland remained the most peaceful. “The (cost of violence) has been largely associated with the increase of deaths in conflict, the ongoing economic consequences of conflicts in the countries where they’re occurring and also the increased cost associated with the displaced people,” IEP founder Steve Killelea told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview from London. The cost of supporting refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) has increased by 267 percent since 2008 to $128 billion as the numbers of uprooted people topped 50 million -- the highest level since World War Two. However, it is expenses related to the military, police forces and dealing with homicides that have had the highest impact on costs, accounting for more than 68 percent of the total, said the study. Despite conflict in the Ukraine, Europe continues to experience historic levels of peace, with a decrease in homicide rates and the withdrawal of forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. But Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan and Central African Republic have all become more violent than a year ago, according to the index of 162 states. The intensity of conflict has increased dramatically, said the study, with the number of people killed rising to 180,000 in 2014 from 49,000 in 2010.

‘Violence cost India’s economy $342 bn in 2014’

NeW DeLhi, JuNe 17 (pTi): Violence hit India where it hurts the most — it impacted the economy to the tune of USD 341.7 billion in 2014, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). This is equivalent to 4.7 per cent of India’s GDP, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. The country has been ranked at a lowly 143 out of 162 nations in this year’s Global Peace Index (GPI). According to the 2015 GPI published on Wednesday, escalating civil strife and the consequent refugee crisis have been among the major factors behind the rising cost of global violence containment. On India, the report said “the economic impact of containing and dealing with the consequences of India’s levels of violence was estimated to cost the national economy USD 341.7 billion in 2014. This is equivalent to 4.7 per cent of India’s GDP, or USD 273 per person.” Overall, scores of most countries in South Asia slipped, with only Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh registering gains. India ranked 5th out of seven countries in South Asia. Moreover, in the past eight years since GPI was first introduced, India deteriorated by 6 per cent largely due to “deteriorations in indicators measuring deaths from external conflict, political terror and perceptions of criminality.”

DimapuR, JuNe 17 (mexN): in covering their syllabus, both prac- ing staff at the ITI as per the official Non-attendance and apathy from tical and theory, owing to the irregu- attendance record. Highlighting the above issues, the teaching staff at Industrial Train- larity of the teaching staffs. In addition, the PTCSU listed out the students’ body has called for iming Institute (ITI), Phek is ruining the career of students, the Phek Town a number of grievances and prob- mediate redress of the same from the concerned departmental authorities. Chakhesang Students’ Union (PTC- lems faced by the students. Shortage of tools and materials It has demanded stringent action SU) and Chakhesang Students’ Union at the ITI which has compelled the against the head of institution and (CSU) has alleged on Wednesday. This was detected after the two students to buy hacksaw blades and the irregular employees, particular Middle East and Northern Africa are students’ bodies conducted a sur- other materials for practical courses, the instructors who have been nethe world’s most violent regions overtaking prise checking on receipt of com- stipend of 2013 trainees’ batch were glecting their duties. South Asia, which ranked worst in last year’s The PTCSU cautioned it would plaints from the concerned students yet to be released, motor mechanics study which covered 2013. “With the changon the irregularities of the ITI staffs, were left without instructor after first “pursue its own course of action ing dynamics within the region it’s very hard against the concerned authority to reportedly led by its “vice principal.” semester examination. to know what the solutions are and to make Further, the students’ body also reserve its educational rights and A press statement received from predictions for the next year,” said Killelea. Kudukhoto Tetseo, president, PTCSU said there is shortage of instructors; interest of the students” if the conThe study shows Guinea-Bissau, Ivory in this connection revealed that the with only 16 employees’ which in- cerned higher authorities failed to Coast, Egypt and Benin have seen the biggest improvements in peace. WashiNgTON, JuNe students were even finding difficulty clude both teaching and non-teach- meet their demands. 17 (iaNs): Consuming nuts is associated with a decreased risk of certain types of cancer, but not Type-2 diabetes, says new study. For the study, researchers conducted a systematic review of 36 observational KOhima, JuNe 17 he explained, adding “because DimapuR, JuNe 17 studies, which included (Neps): Minister for Nation- it is the lifeline of Tuensang, (mexN): Continuing its ef30,708 patients on the dis- al Highways and Mechanical Mon, Mokokchung, Zunhebofort to promote dignity of ease-preventive powers of Engineering, Nuklutoshi said to, Wokha and this will reach labour and work culture, nut consumption to create out of the five National High- till Mao and Imphal.” Survival Nagaland (SN), in The Minister further ina comprehensive analysis. ways declared in Nagaland, collaboration with the DisThe study was published in the construction works for formed that the concerned trict Administration, Dimathe journal Nutrition Re- the Amguri-Kohima National department has already comMorung Express News pur, Developmental Authorviews. “Our study suggests Highway would be taken up as pleted 25 % road expansion that nut consumption may first priority. ity of Nagaland (DAN) and work and was working on the Mokokchung | June 17 be associated with reduced Department of Handloom Talking to NEPS here on detailed report of the remainrisk of cancers, which may Wednesday, the Minister who ing 75% to be presented to the For someone who started a farm& Handicraft has once again have practical implication,” recently met the Union Min- Ministry. Next, the department ing enterprise with just a dao and invited local entrepreneurs/ said lead author Lang Wu at ister for Road Transport and plan to focus on the National two clucking hens way back in food item/vegetable sellMayo Clinic in Rochester, Highways, Nitin Gadkari in Highway 202 connecting Mo- 2003, Mejongkaba of Yimchalu ers to open stalls at SuperMinnesota. “Aligning with Delhi disclosed that he (Union kokchung-Tuensang-Kiphire village has come a long way in his market, Dimapur on June 20 the known beneficial effect pursuit as a ‘new age farmer.’ from 3pm to 9pm. district, he said. Minister) had asked them to of nuts on heart diseases, Hailing from Sungratsu village, This is in continuation of Nukutoshi also disclosed pick one National Highway our study may imply that Mejongkaba is one of the earliest the ‘Naga Market’ initiative that all work would be done road out of five in the state as individuals interested in which was first held on June under EPC (Engineering, Pro- settlers of Yimchalu village, a ‘farm making better food choices priority for starting work. “In which, after a series of curement and Construction) village’ which was established in An independent farmer, Mejongkaba at his farm ‘Yakong-villa at Yimchalu vil- 13, although without much to reduce the risk of cancer the year 2007 and is now a thriving lage, some twenty kilometers away from Mokokchung town. (Morung Photo) enthusiastic participation, and heart disease can con- discussions with my engineers Mode, which he added, is a farm village. apparently due to lack of sider consuming nuts, af- and other staffs, we decided to common form of contracttance, so far received, is Rs 10,000 by 150 meters. A commerce student who studpublicity and late approval ter considering the caloric take up the Amguri-Kohima ing arrangement within the “This fishery pond was cre- from the Land Resource Depart- for the location. and fat contents of different National Highway as first pri- construction industry and the ied in Guwahati, Mejongkaba, at the age of 28, ventured out to the ated gradually…first it was a small ment which he used to develop the The SN and collaborators ority for commencing work,” state has no hand. types of nuts,” Wu said. thick of Yimchalu forest, a fertile pond, then I made a little extension fishery pond and other miscella- arranged amenities such as area cultivated by his forefathers. and after the third extension (mov- neous works. tents, lightings and space for When asked about his expecta- displaying products. He had just a machete and two ing and digging earth), this fishhens to keep him company. But his ery came into being,” Mejongkaba tions from the State government, According to the organizdreams were optimistic, if not big. enlightens while talking about his Mejongkaba simply responds, ers, this Naga Bazaar initiasingle-handed expansion of the “government should do on the spot tive, which will continue on That was in 2003. inspection, indentify those who weekly basis, is purely a nonToday, twelve years down the fishery pond. are working hard and help them in profit endeavor with the sole He imports fish hatchlings line, Mejongkaba cultivates nearly NeW DeLhi, JuNe 17 tion and coordination on the cooperation on May 10, 2014, objective of giving a platform (iaNs): Days after the Indian Indo-Myanmar border as which provides a framework six acres of land with plantations of from Kolkatta and sells them to whatever way they can.” Mejongkaba is a recipient of for locals to promote their Army’s operation to strike at well as other bilateral issues”, for security cooperation and litchi, oranges and seasonal veg- fishery owners in the nearby villagexchange of information be- etables at Yimchalu. He has chris- ers. There are many buyers for fish Block-level Best Farmer under products as well as engenhideouts of northeast mili- the official said. Doval’s visit comes after tween the security agencies of tened his enterprise as Yakong-vil- hatchlings. He supplies to buyers Kubolong Block for the year 2011- dering business acumen. tants along the border with la, a tribute to the hills revered by from neighboring villages of Mo- 12 “in recognition of outstanding A press note from SN has Myanmar, National Security the June 9 operation along the two countries. pungchuket, Longjang and others. contribution and success in the informed that forms will be A key provision is that of his forefathers. Advisor Ajit Doval and For- the India-Myanmar borWith a tinge of a lament, the field of agriculture and allied sec- available at Bajaj Showroom, eign Secretary S. Jaishankar on der during which elite com- conduct of coordinated pa“I am the biggest producer of Wednesday visited the neigh- mandos of the Indian Army trols on their respective sides seasonal vegetables at Yimchalu,” young farmer however reveals he tor”. City Tower; PS 23, behind bouring country and held talks entered a few kilometres in- of the international border Mejongkaba announces with a is yet to receive any assistance from The young farmer’s latest proj- Traffic Control Room, Holy with the leadership, including side Myanmarese territory to and the maritime boundary sense of pride. With easy access the Fishery department. Nonethe- ect is a swimming pool for which Cross Junction, Tribal Hut destroy two camps of insur- by the armed forces of the to markets in Mokokchung town, less, he is not deterred and plans to he has already started digging the Restaurant, next to Jal MaPresident U Thein Sein. two countries. Both sides the farm products of Yimchalu find expand his fishery pond by about a earth. Doval and Jaishankar gents hiding there. hal Hotel & Opp. to Hotel The Indian Army opera- agreed to exchange informa- easy consumers. He grows maize hundred feet more. called on President Thein “But it will take time,” Mejongk- Acacia and High Noon ResSein and held discussions tion was in retaliation to the tion in the fight against insur- and other kharif crops during sum“But it all require money, so it aba says about his swimming pool. taurant, next to Town Hall, with him. They also met the June 4 ambush by northeast gency, arms smuggling and will have to come about slowly and He has to think about the ‘carpet Supermarket. For further inmer and mustards plants during Myanmar foreign minister, militants in Manipur’s Chan- drug, human and wildlife grasses, the water, construction formation, interested parties slowly,” says Mejongkaba. India’s external affairs minis- del district in which 18 soldiers trafficking, and to take steps rabi (winter) season. and so on’; so that people might have been asked to contact He also swears he has not reBut the biggest investment, actry spokesperson Vikas Swa- of 6 Dogra Regiment were to prevent illegal cross-borrup told IANS. The two sides killed. India and Myanmar der activities, according to cording to this robust farmer, is the ceived any substantial help from come and have a nice time out, be 9436654182, 8794271840, fishery pond measuring about 200 the government agencies. Assis- it family or friends. and 9774020040. discussed “security coopera- had inked an MoU on border the MoU.

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Dimapur

Thursday 18 June 2015

Clean E-Roll info yet to reach grass root level

mon, June 17 (mexn): One-day awareness and sensitization programme on NERPAP for political party functionaries, Village Council Chairman, VDB Secretary, student body of villages under Mon district was held on June 16 at Council Hall Mon Town. Speaking at the programme, W. Honje Konyak, DC & DEO Mon stated that in spite of repeated awareness programme at the district level, information of cleaning electoral roll under NERPAP has not reached the public at the grass root level. Keeping in mind the need of hour, awareness programme directly for all the village functionaries is conducted. He stated that as part of NERPAP campaign, 100% authentication of e-roll and correction of error is compulsory. Authentication is done through aadhaar card, Driving License, PAN card, Government Service ID card, Pension Card, Bank

pass book etc. He requested the village functionaries to spread this information to the public through Churches, Morung etc. He

should make best use of this advantages in getting rectified all the problem any time. Since awareness on clean electoral roll are given to all VCC, VDB secretary and the student leader of all villages, he reminded them that if deleted based on non-compliance shall not be held responsible to BLO, AERO, Election Department nor the District Administration. The programme got healthy response during interaction and question hour. During question hour, various issues and problem were raised and deliberated. Pakong Phom, SDO (C) Phomching, Thangpong SDO (C) Mon Sadar and Thejavizo Nakhro EAC Mon Sadar also facilitated the question hour. More than 340 representatives along with official and representative form KU, KNSK and KSU as special guest, attended the programme. Aketo Shohe AEO Mon chaired the programme.

NERPAP awareness for village functionaries in Mon conducted directed the village level functionaries to assist the BLO in listing out all bogus, double and multiple entries from the E-Roll. Calling out to the AC level political parties, he reminded them to appoint Booth Level Agent (BLA) for all the polling stations that can help the BLO in this exercise and in time of revision. Further, he stated that two special camps would be conducted on June 21 and July 19. He however lamented that, special camp are more relevant to the big cities where the BLOs are not know, but in the context of Nagaland and Mon district, as the BLOs are well known local, they

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Farmers attend jhum field near Meluri in Phek district. Nagaland has basically an agricultural economy. Over 70% of the population is dependent on agriculture. The two methods of cultivation among the Naga tribes are jhuming and terrace cultivation. The area under jhum cultivation is about 87.339 hectares and under terraced cultivation is about 62,091 hectares. A deficient rainfall left many farmers in dilemma for its inability to carry out cultivation activities in many parts of the state. (Photo by Chizokho Vero)

Dimapur Police arrest five for crime, detains six for ILP

Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): Five persons were arrested and six detained by Dimapur Police on different counts of crime on June 15 and 16. A press release from Dimapur Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police/PRO informed. On June 15, police while conducting MVCP, arrested one Nikheto Zhimo and recovered one Yahama R-15 with fake registration number. The bike was re-

ported lost on June 10. In another related case, one Yamaha FZ-16 was seized with fake registration from one Jusain Tandi of Golaghat on June 16. The case is under investigation at SubUrban Police Station. Based on reports of rampant extortion from vehicles plying in the brick kilns area, one person identified as Atsa Sangtam of Kiphire district was arrested on June 16 with

cash and demand slips of the FGN from Bamunpukhuri-B village. In another incident, two persons were arrested from Dillai gate area for collecting illegal tax from vehicles. They were identified as Maj Tia Ao of NNC (NA), a resident of Aoyimsen, Dimapur and Elamo Ngullie. Cash and extortion slips were seized from their possession. Meanwhile, six persons were detained at Chu-

FINGO DAP and Naga DAO team meets Union Minister Thawar

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Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): Members of North East Chapter of Federation of Indian NGOs on Drug Abuse Prevention led by its National Vice President WC Humtsoe and IDUF and N Naga DAO President Abu Mere had an interactive meeting with the Union Minister for Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Thawar Chand Gehlot at Hotel Pinewood Shillong on June 15. The meeting was held with the reprehensive from the eight NE Sisters States along with the MSJE Officials during the NE

Conclave on Drug Abuse Prevention workshop, organised jointly by MSJE and NSS, hosted by the Government of Meghalaya. A press note stated that during the interface, the FINGO DAP members from each representing states shared their experiences and grievances to the Minister and the MSJE officials. The Nagaland Team appraised on the current drug abuse scenario in the state while thanking the Minister and his department for revising the existing schemes on drug abuse

prevention after a span of many years. The team also retaliated its demand to set up a rehabilitation centres in each District apart from the existing five IRCA supported by the Minister. The team further requested the Ministry to expedite formulation on community friendly drug policy, strengthened the State specific Primary Prevention program in all aspects, and invited the Minister to visit the State, on which the Minister agreed on principle that he will look forward to visit Nagaland at the earliest.

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Kohima, June 17 (mexn): The Vivela Club, Kohima is organising four days free residential summer camp from June 18 to 21 at Gorkha Singha Devi Mandir Complex, Chnadmari, kohima on the, “Together We Can Make It.” The camp will be inaugurated by Dr. Budhi Lama, Joint Director, Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry, Nagaland at Gorkha Public Panchayat Hall, Chandmari, Kohima on June 18 at 5 pm.

Trainees along with officials during the training on Work Ethics and the Nagaland Government Servants Conduct Rules 1968 at Administrative Training Institute Kohima held on June 17. This program is for the District Officers from all the districts of Nagaland. The resource person for the programme is Dr. Hovithal Sothu, State Coordinator, DM, ATI. All together 23 officers are attending the programme, which will conclude on June 19. The activities include Lectures, Group Discussion, Group work and Report presentation.

Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): The Nodal ART Centre District Hospital Dimapur has recently been upgraded to ART Plus Centre under Nagaland State Aids Control Society With the upgradation, HIV positive clients who are suspected to be failing First Line ART need not be referred out to Kohima State AIDS Clinical Expert Panel team during the meeting held at ART Plus Centre Dimapur. ART Plus Centre or RIMS, COE Imphal but can be to second Line ART from Centre Dimapur in a press Centre Dimapur and 11 clients are taking second evaluated by SACEP (State Dimapur. release said that on June clients were evaluated and Line Treatment from ART AIDS Clinical Expert PanDr Hotoka Hesso, Med- 11, the first SACEP meet- recommended for HIV plus Centre Dimapur. el) team and switch over ical Officer I/C, ART Plus ing was held at ART Plus Viral Load testing. Nine The SACEP members

consists of Dr. Temsusashi MD, Nodal Officer ART plus Centre Dimapur; Dr. Ngopelo, MD; Dr. Kutsuto, Gynaecologist; Dr. Wapang, Pediatrician; Dr Sedevi Angami, Gastroenterologist; Dr. DJ Borah, Northeast Regional Co-ordinator, NACO/NERO; Dr. Vibetuonuo, Joint Director, Care Support & Treatment, NSACS; Dr Molusen Jamir, Medical Officer, ART Plus Centre Dimapur; and Dr Hotoka Hesso, Medical Officer I/C, ART Plus Centre Dimapur.

Kohima, June 17 (mexn): The department of school education is conducting two days workshop for the “All India Survey of Educational Administration for Nagaland state” from June 18 to 19 at Riizhiikhrie Government Higher Secondary School Kohima. The resource persons of the workshop includes; Khevishe Phucho, joint secretary school education, MC. Kikon, sr. academic officer SCERT and V. Meyase, Rtd director, Directorate of School Education. N. Janbemo Humtsoe and Kelhikha Kenye will act as moderators. The opening session on June 18 will start from 10:00 AM onwards. Introductory remarks will be given by Wonthungo Tsopoe, joint director (HSS) & nodal officer, “All India Survey of Educational Administration for Nagaland state.”

ANHTU Kohima Unit informs Kohima, June 17 (mexn): As per the All Nagaland Hindi Teachers’ Union (ANHTU) Kohima Unit resolution adopted in the meeting dated October 13, the collection for membership fee and Hindi Diwas an amount of Rs. 500 has been fixed, stated a press conference issued by Vizothal Zhotso (Secretary) and Kekhrieneilie Tsikhano (President). Therefore, for any further information, the concern may contact the following members. Kekhrieselie (Norther)-8014601114, Virevo (Southern)-9612324410, Shikhato (Town)9774687178, Vinguneinuo (Western)- 9856207907 and Shainilo (Tseminyu)-8415837813.

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ANTA Kohima unit meeting Kohima, June 17 (mexn): All the taxi drivers/ owners under All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Kohima unit have been informed that a general meeting will be held at LCS Building, near Ao Church on June 20 at 10:00 am. Informing that the meeting will discuss important issues, General Secretary Kekhriesetuo Keditsu and President Menuovilie Suohu in a press release requested all concerned members to attend the said meeting.

Kohima, June 17 (mexn): Angami Students’ Union has convened a consultative meeting on June 26 at 5:00 pm at de Oriental Grand, Themezie, High School Road, Kohima. ASU General Secretary Visako Rino in a press release said that all ASU seniors and concerned Angami leaders are invited to attend the meeting.

Tuensang, June 17 (mexn): The Tuensang District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of June is convened on June 19 in the conference hall of Tuensang Deputy Commissioner at 11:00 AM. All concerned DPDB members have been requested to attend the said meeting positively.

CHILDLINE for Kohima district

A young boy playfully jumps from the terrace of a building near DMC dumping site, Dimapur. Numerous children like him are born or come to Dimapur from neighboruing states like Assam to earn a living by picking and selling empty bottles, plastic, iron scrap etc. Though illiterate, they quickly adapt to the business community, many of them running independent businesses by the time they reach the age of 20. Photo by Imojen I Jamir

Committee discuss violation of COPTA 2003 provisions

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ASU consultative meeting on June 26

Tuensang DPDB meeting on June 19

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All India Survey of educational Administration for Nagaland

Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): Mao Hoho Dimapur has constituted a new team for the tenure 2015-2018 headed by its former president K. Lokho as president along with nine other office bearers. The new team shall officially deal all matters related to the Hoho from June 2015. For further information, contact the president @ 9436823548.

Kohima: Personnel of 19 Assam Rifles on Wednesday arrested one NSCN (K) cadre identified as lieutenant Khekikho Aye. According to a press release from Kohima Sub –

Vivela Club summer camp

Mao Hoho Dimapur elects new team

19 AR nabs NSCN (K) cadre

Divisional Police Officer & PRO Atu Zumvü, the cadre, who was travelling in a taxi, was intercepted after a brief chase from Classic Island, Kohima. One cash receipt of NSCN (K) and cash amounting to Rs 8480 were recovered from his possession. The cadre was handed over to Kohima South Police station where in a case was registered for further investigation.

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First State AIDS Clinical Expert Panel meeting held

mukedima Check Gate for non-possession of Inner Line Permit (ILP). They have been forwarded to the court for prosecution.

Kohima, June 17 (Dipr): The Kohima district level coordination committee on tobacco control held its quarterly meeting at DC’s conference hall, Kohima on June 17 under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, Himalayan International Ministries led by its director Rev B Rovilatuo Mor, IAS. The Amos Kaushal distributes rice, oil, dal and other commodi- meeting was held in conties to the earthquake-affected villages in Gorbung Diurali, nection with the violation of district Gorkha, Nepal on June 8. the main provisions of COP-

TA 2003 (Section IV & VI). In the meeting, Additional Director, Dental (Health & Family Welfare), Dr. N. Savino highlighted some important issues on National Tobacco Control Programme. He said that in India Nagaland State ranks the second highest consumer of tobacco with Mizoram the highest and Goa as the least consumer of tobacco.

He also said that Nagaland state ranks the highest user of smokeless tobacco with 53% of males and 37% of females. Dr. Savino also highlighted the aims and objectives of NTCP, which was launched by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. District Tobacco Control Cell, Kohima, Nodal officer, Arenla Walling also

highlighted on the activities carried out by the District Tobacco Control Cell, Kohima. The meeting also deliberated on the agenda of Tobacco Cessation Centre awareness programme for police jawans, public awareness of COPTA 2003 and its penalties and decided to take up more raids with the judicial administration.

Kohima, June 17 (mexn): The Nagaland Voluntary Health Association (NVHA), collaborative of CHILDLINE is launching CHILDLINE for Kohima district on June 23 at 11:00 AM at de Oriental Grand, Themezie, High School Road Kohima. Dellirose Sakhrie secretary social welfare department will grace the occasion as special guest. CHILDLINE 1098 is national 24 hour free phone emergency outreach service for children in need of care and protection linking them to services for long term care and rehabilitation. Any child or concerned adult on behalf of the child can dial 1098 to access emergency assistance. It functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. It is operational in 330 cities/districts in India.

ENSUD elects new office bearers Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): Eastern Naga Students’ Union Dimapur (ENSUD) handing and taking over programme chaired by former president, P Hanko Lukhem Konyak was held on June 13. The new team of office bearers includes President- Stephen Chang; General Secretary-T Mukamchim Qiunker Yimchunger; Finance Secretary- M Tokba Phom and Speaker- Khomo P Khaim. For further information, contact @ 9862442717.

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Manipur rebels may sit for talks with Centre AizAwl, June 17 (Tnn): Former Mizoram chief minister and Mizo National Front (MNF) chief Zoramthanga on Tuesday said the Union home ministry has agreed to upgrade the ongoing official level talks with eight Manipur-based militants to the political level. These rebels belong to Kuki-Chin tribal groups. Giving reports on the signing of Suspension of Operations (SoO) between the ministry of home affairs (MHA) and the eight Manipur insurgent groups under an umbrella organization called the United People's Front (UPF) in New Delhi on

June 9, he told party workers that the Congress-led government at the Centre neglected the problems of the northeast and stalled the peace process for seven years. Union home ministry officials, during the talks held at Janpath Hotel in New Delhi on June 9, agreed to upgrade the official level talks to the political level, said Zoramthanga, a former rebel leader. "Now, the militant groups would go home and consult the NGOs, church leaders and political parties," he said. He added that they would return to Delhi to hold talks on their respective political

demands. Zoramthanga slammed the UPA government for not being 'sincere' in solving the political problems of the northeast by using delaying tactics in holding peace talks with the Manipur-based militant groups. The SoOs were signed when the period was going to expire without holding formal talks with the militant groups, he said, adding, "The militant leaders came to Delhi to sign the extension of the ceasefire pact and left for their camps without holding talks with the Centre during the last 7 years." He said leaders of the

8 militant groups met him at his office when his second term as the chief minister was almost over. He added that they agreed to come together under the UPF on his advice. The UPF signed a ceasefire agreement with the Centre for a period of one year and extended it again and again, he said. "While the ceasefire was meant to create of a suitable atmosphere for parleys, the Centre was interested only in signing ceasefire but not in finding an amicable and lasting political solution during the Congress rule," he said. He added that the ceasefire agreement was

not signed during the last 9 months which created frustration among the militant groups. Zoramthanga said he had recently brokered peace between the NLFT and the MHA after which two rounds of parleys were held. Earlier, the former chief minister had brokered peace with the NSCN (IM) and even traveled to Bangkok a few times to meet Naga leaders, including NSCN chairman Isaac Chishi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah. His efforts culminated into resumption of talks between the Centre and NSCN(I-M).

Sohra receiving record rainfall in June Arunachal cabinet for timely SohRA (MeGhAlAyA), June 17 (PTi): World's wettest place, Sohra aka Cherrapunjee, has received bountiful rain this year breaching its 3500 mm mark of rainfall for the month of June, a first after 13 years. Residents of this hill top town said there was almost continuous rainfall since June 1 and thick fog and clouds prevented them from sighting the sun. The last time they experienced warmth was a meager one hour of sunshine two days ago. "We have recorded 3718.6 mm of rainfall for the month of June. This amount has already breached an average 2500 mm of rainfall for the same month," V Kumar Singh, head of the meteorologic office here told PTI. The last time rainfall here breached the 3500 mm mark was in 2002 when it recorded 3893 mm, he said. According to Kumar, if it continues to

rain at the same pace, this year Sohra will surely break its record of 4269 mm of rainfall almost 20 years ago in 1998. Local residents said rainfall has been so intense that they have to stay indoors for most parts of the day except when there is an emergency. "We are used to getting rainfall. But this year, it was extraordinary I guess. I and my family enjoyed sunshine only for an hour since June 1," Mimi Hujon said. Intense rainfall ensured that the monthly average of 2500 mm was crossed within the first ten days of June, Kumar said. Sohra's rival Mawsynram, which has been stealing the show for several years in the past, is clearly losing the rain battle this year. Until yesterday Mawsynram town which is about 10 km west of here recorded only 3429 mm of rainfall, an official at the Met office in Guwahati said.

No Bru turns up for verification for third consecutive day AizAwl, June 17 (PTi): As on the first and second day, not a single Bru appeared for the third consecutive day today before the Mizoram officials at the Khakchangpara relief camp in North Tripura district for identification. Mamit district deputy commissioner Vanlalngaihsaka told over phone that the makeshift verification office was closed by the officials at 3 pm after no one appeared for identification as bona fide resident of Mizoram. Vanlalngaihsaka said that despite this, the process would continue as scheduled till tomorrow, the last date set for identification in the Khakchangpara relief camp. Earlier, the proposed repatriation of Brus from Kaskau relief camp, scheduled to be taken up between June 8 to 12, could not be undertaken as no one came forward for identification during June 2 to 4. Following instructions from the Supreme Court to repatriate all Brus from the six relief camps in North Tripura district within six

3 insurgents apprehended in Manipur iMPhAl, June 17 (PTi): In separate incidents, three militants have been apprehended from Senapati district of Manipur by Army personnel of Senapati Brigade under Red Shield Division. A defence press release issued yesterday said a militant of Kuki National Front (Nehlun) (KNF-N) was arrested from Turibari village on June 15. The cadre was identified as Lunkhomang Kipgen (25) of Lhangnomphai village of the same district, the release said. A militant of United Naga People's Council (UNPC) was apprehended from Motbung village yesterday, the release said. He was identified as John Inpui (42) of Motbung village of the same district. In another operation yesterday, a cadre of outlawed militant organisation People Liberation Army (PLA) Maipaksana (24) of Leitanpokpi village was apprehended. A 9 mm pistol, two live rounds and one magazine were seized from his possession, the release said.

months, the Centre and the state government began the exercise of resumption of repatriation. Mizoram government

prepared Road Map - IV for Bru repatriation commencing from June 1 which will be continued till September 4.

release of central funds

iTAnAGAR, June 17 (PTi): The Arunachal Pradesh government has decided to press for timely release of state share against centrally sponsored social schemes in education, health and social welfare sector, a government spokesman said. As per the Centre's guidelines, a large number of employees are engaged under flagship programmes. However, because of delay in the release of central share and thereafter state share, the flagship schemes suffer, spokesman Bamang Felix said in a statement today. A cabinet meeting held yesterday decided that the state share in critical social sector schemes such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, National Health Mission and ICDS must be allocated in the beginning of the

financial year and released in two installments (August and December), he said. The cabinet also decided that the release of salaries must be only on receipt of the attendance details.

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Assam to make healthcare free for poor GuwAhATi, June 17 (BS): Assam will soon introduce Right to Health Services; where in free healthcare services would be given to all poor people, said state's chief minister, Tarun Gogoi. The spectrum of the services, further said Gogoi, would be gradually scaled up to cover all sections of the people of the state in future. "Providing affordable, accessible, accountable and quality healthcare services to all sections of the people has been a long cherished commitment and the government is working persistently to achieve this end," said Gogoi. He said with the Right to Health Services, the government would

ensure basic healthcare to citizen of the state. The chief minister said that the state government had passed on necessary instructions to the health and family welfare department to ensure better treatment, better medicines to reduce maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate and finally improving the overall health scenario of the state. He further said that with the existing medical college and hospitals and the four other proposed medical college and hospitals at Diphu, Dhubri, Nagaon and Lakhimpur, the government would be able to take healthcare services to the doorstep of everyone in Assam.

Reiterating his government's commitment to sustain social security schemes like Integrated Child Development Schemes (ICDS), Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) etc, Gogoi said that the state government would further provide financial incentives through several vocations to one lakh people of the state as their right to employment. Gogoi was speaking at the inauguration of a 200-bedded district hospital at Sonapur, near Guwahati. He said that the state government has already constructed 61 model hospitals and the services of 42 hospitals have already been dedicated to the people.

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4 businEss Greek central bank warns of ‘painful course’ to euro exit Dimapur

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ATHENS, JuNE 17 (rEuTErS): The Greek central bank warned on Wednesday that the country would be put on a “painful course” towards default and exiting the euro zone if the government and its international creditors failed to reach an agreement on an aid-for-reforms deal. It also said Greece risked a renewed bout of recession and predicted that the current economic slowdown would accelerate in the second quarter of this year. The Greek economy had started growing again last year after being pounded by years of austerity, but fell back into negative growth in the first quarter of 2015, contracting by 0.2 percent year-onyear. The ongoing crisis has prompted an outflow of deposits of about 30 billion euros ($33.84 billion) from Greek lenders between October and April, the central bank said. Time is fast running out for Athens and its creditors to reach a deal before a 1.6 billion euro repayment by Greece to the International Monetary Fund falls due

debt relief to Greece - a key demand from Athens - in greater detail. “An agreement would allow Greece to benefit from the favourable global environment and the ECB’s quantitative easing programme,” the report said. “Our top priority right now should be to create, as soon as possible, those conditions that would enable the Greek economy to benefit from the favourable global economic environment and the highly accommodative monetary policy at the euro area level and speed up a sustainable return to global capital markets. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) meets with leader of the centre-left To Potami party Stavros Theodorakis at his office in Maximos Mansion in Athens on June 16. (REUTERS Photo)

at the end of the month. But neither side appears willing to give ground, with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accusing the creditors of trying to “humiliate” his country by demanding more cuts. Despite the heated rhetoric, the central bank said that the two sides appeared to have reached a compromise on the main conditions attached to an

aid agreement, and that little ground remained to be covered for a deal to stick. “Failure to reach an agreement would ... mark the beginning of a painful course that would lead initially to a Greek default and ultimately to the country’s exit from the euro area and, most likely, from the European Union,” the Bank of Greece said in a monetary policy report.

“Striking an agreement with our partners is a historical imperative that we cannot afford to ignore.” Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, who has taken a relatively lenient line with Greece, was in Athens on Wednesday in a last-ditch bid to end the standoff. The Greek central bank urged the European Union to spell out promises of

Greek PM tears into lenders as ‘Grexit’ looms Meanwhile, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Greece’s creditors on Tuesday of trying to “humiliate” Greeks with more cuts as he defied a growing drumbeat of warnings that Europe was preparing for his country to leave the euro. The unrepentant address to lawmakers after the collapse of talks with European and IMF lenders at the weekend was the clearest sign yet that the

leftist leader has no intention of making a last-minute U-turn and accepting austerity cuts needed to unlock frozen aid and avoid a debt default within two weeks. Financial markets, for months indifferent to wrangling over releasing billions of euros of aid for Greece, reacted with mounting alarm. European stock markets hit their lowest level since February and the risk premium on bonds of other vulnerable euro zone states leapt in one of the sharpest episodes of contagion since the height of Europe’s debt crisis in 2012. The White House warned that agreement was needed to avoid shaking financial markets further and Tsipras assured U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew that Athens aimed to bridge the differences with creditors. But with senior German lawmakers now openly discussing the once-taboo prospect of a “Grexit” from the single currency area, his fiery words suggested confrontation rather than reconciliation.

Idea cellular Ltd Monsoon concerns weigh on Indian gold demand JuNE 17 (rEuTErS): store of wealth for millions who have no nearly 3 decades after the country’s launched Idea point mumBAi, weather office forecast below- averIndian gold demand remained slug- access to the formal banking system. “Farmers are giving priority to buy seeds and fertilisers. Farmers don’t have surplus money to buy gold as last year’s drought has affected their income,” said Mangesh Devi, a jeweller from Maharashtra. Policymakers in India are worried about the prospect of a 2nd straight year of drought for the first time in

gish this week as concerns over a weak monsoon forced farmers, key to the country’s bullion demand, to cut back spending. Indian prices are at a discount of around $1 an ounce to the global benchmark, said traders. Nearly 2/3 of India’s gold demand comes from rural areas where jewellery is a traditional

age rains this summer. “Demand will remain weak in next few weeks unless prices fall below 26,000 rupees (per 10 grams),” said a Mumbai-based bank dealer.A sharp slide in Indian demand could add to pressure on global gold prices. India was the top consumer of the metal in 2014.

Mother Dairy denies detergent Bill Gates world’s richest in milk, sends sample for retest self-made billionaire Rev. Zhotuo Kiehweuo along with the Idea Cellular Ltd officials after the launch.

KoHimA, JuNE 17 (mExN): With the main purpose to provide the best and prompt service to their customers, Idea Cellular Limited, a new idea point was launched at AA complex, near High School Junction, Kohima on June 15 with Rev. Zhotuo Kiewheuo, senior Pastor, Kononia Baptist Church Kohima as the guest of honour. The point will register any complaints, queries, requests and sales of the Idea customers and will handled in a professional approach.

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“The first test was conducted in Meerut by UP FDA and it found solid not fat (SNF) and there was no adulteration. We questioned SNF and sent the same samples for retesting to a lab in Kolkata, we are still awaiting the results,” Mother Dairy Managing Director S Nagarajan told reporters here. The milk sample was drawn even before reaching the chilling centre where the first level of testing happens to ascertain the quality of milk for further processing, he said.

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NEw DElHi, JuNE 17 (PTi): Mother Dairy today denied allegations that detergent was found in one of the samples of milk picked up from its collection centres, saying it has sent it for retesting in a lab in Kolkata. A day after the UP Food and Drug Administration said it had found detergent in one of the milk samples of Mother Dairy, the co-operative said the tested was done on “loose milk samples collected at village level” which were yet to be accepted by it.

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NEw DElHi, JuNE 17 (PTi): An ordinance that will allow filing of cheque bounce case at the place where the cheque was presented for clearance has been promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee. The President has promulgated the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, on Monday that will help lakhs of persons battling cheque bounce cases far away from their places, official sources said. The ordinance will enable filing of cheque bounce cases in the place where the cheque was presented for clearance or payment and not the place of issue. There are an estimated 18 lakh people facing cheque bounce cases across the country.

WB arm invests $35 mn in PFS India for clean energy NEw DElHi, JuNE 17 (iANS): The International Finance Corp (IFC), the private financing arm of the World Bank, on Wednesday said it has subscribed to $35 million worth of 10-year non-convertible debentures issued by PTC India Financial Services (PFS) to boost long-term financing for renewable energy projects in India. “The investment will help generate an estimated 129 GWh (gigawatt hours) of clean energy over five years,” IFC said in a statement here. “In 2011, IFC had provided PFS a senior loan of $50 million to fund four renewable energy projects,” it added. Renewable energy comprises 40 percent of the PFS portfolio. In April, PFS became the first institution in India and the 26th globally to sign IFC’s master cooperation agreement. The IFC’s master cooperation agreement was created in 2009 for financial institutions to collaborate more closely to help meet the shortfalls in private sector financing during the global financial crisis.

‘Mobile tower count in India likely to cross 5 lakh by 2020’ NEw DElHi, JuNE 17 (PTi): Mobile towers in India are likely to grow to over five lakh by 2020 from about four lakh at present due to increase in demand of wireless internet services, a study said. “Towers are expected to grow at 3% CAGR for next five years and the total number of towers is expected to grow to more than 511,000 by financial year 2020, of which 30,000 towers are expected to be only supporting data sites,” Deloitte India report said. The report Indian Tower Industry: The Future is Data estimates that there are about four lakh mobile towers which inlcude only 700 standalone 3G and 4G towers.

Mobile app launched to curb misleading ads KolKATA, JuNE 17 (iANS): Lodging and tracking complaints against misleading advertisements has become easier courtesy a mobile app launched by the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI), a statement said on Wednesday. Pegged as India’s first consumer complaint mobile app, the ‘ASCIonline’ app is currently available on Android and iOS platforms. Narendra Ambwani, ASCI chairman, said the app will ease access for lodging complaints. “It will be very useful as one can track the status of the complaints which he or she registered on our portal with the help of the app,” he added. The app enables consumers to lodge complaints by simply providing ad details and the objection to the particular ad. Other features include checking history of previously registered complaints, tracking status of complaints, managing profile and push notifications. There is no need to log out or log in. DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:

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1st batch of PMKVY Village church to levy ‘Passers tax’ launched in Dimapur Morung Express News Dimapur | June 17

First batch of Skill Development under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) was launched by Parliamentary Secretary for Labour & Employment, Skill Development and Border Affairs, Mmhonlumo Kikon at NIIT Dimapur. The launching programme coincided with the 15th Annual Day of NIIT Dimapur. In his speech, Mmhonlumo highlighted about the Skill Development policy of the central government which envisages to produce 5 million skilled workers. For this purpose, the government created a separate Ministry of Skill Development out of the Labour & Employment

Parliamentary Secretary, Mmhonlumo Kikon addressing NIIT students in Dimapur on Wednesday. (Morung photo)

Ministry, he added. In line with this, Mhonlumo said, that the state government was also focusing on the IT sector recognizing the high unemployment rate and lack of skills. He said that the gov-

ernment was also targeting to upgrade the skills of its employees. He challenged the students to do more than what they were doing currently adding that the government was working towards channelling their skills into a channel of creativity. MD NIIT Dimapur, Ajay Sethi in his welcome address informed that the institution was tied up with 13 other institutions across the country and has given placement to more than 2000 students in various companies. During the last 15 years, more than 20,000 students have passed out from NIIT Dimapur, he informed. The programme was attended by students and faculty of NIIT Dimapur and well wishers.

Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): The Zukihe Baptist Church has notified the public in regard to the suspension bridge over Diphu river connecting Shozukhu village and Zukihe village that it will levy “passers tax” on two, three and four wheelers using the bridge. A press note from the Project Chairman and Secretary Zukihe Baptist Church informed that the suspension bridge was constructed by the Zukihe Village Baptist Church as a “Mission Project” at a cost of over Rs. 4 lakhs. It added that the church spends Rs. 1.5 lakhs every year for repair and maintenance of the bridge. The bridge was neither constructed nor maintained by any government fund, the Church stated. Informing of the decision of the Church and the village council in a joint meeting to collect some

Highlighting the curriculum of these programmes which has enabled alumni of the University in securing jobs in public, private, international and independent sectors, the Chancellor TN Mannen, IAS (Retd.) mentioned the unique contribution of the Founder Chancellor Dr. PR Trivedi who had led a team of experts for compiling the reading and research materials running into more than one million pages for the benefit of local, national as well as international students. Students from South Asia and other parts of the world have enrolled in these Bachelor’s and Mas-

ter’s Degree Programmes with a view to becoming entrepreneurs and job givers for ensuring the appropriate solutions of the burning problems including insurgency, unemployment, pollution, faulty educational system and population explosion, Mannen added. Besides the 12.5 acres main campus at 6th Mile, Dimapur, a rural campus having an area of 72 acres at Jharnapani on the Dimapur-Kohima Highway will be developed with the sponsorship of the Central/ State Government, National and International Funding Agencies, he informed.

Amenba visits various ministries Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): Newly inducted Parliamentary Secretary for Industries and Commerce, Nagaland, Amenba Yaden, made a visit to the various line ministries of the department in New Delhi from June 8 to June 12. He was accompanied by the Commissioner and Secretary, Industries and Commerce and other officials from the department, a press release received here informed.

The team visited the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprise, the Ministry of Textiles and the office of the Foundation for MSME Clusters. Issues on schemes and proposals submitted to the different Ministries were taken up with the concern officials of the Ministries.

The Parliamentary Secretary made a courtesy call on the Union Ministry for Textiles Santosh Gangwar in his office during the visit and presented appraisals on schemes and projects being implemented in the State and those under submission to the Ministry of Textiles for favour of the central Government. The parliamentary Secretary also visited the State NHHDC Emporium in Delhi.

Stolen vehicle recovered in Kohima Kohima, June 17 (mexn): One Maruti Zen, bearing registration number NL-02C-1674, reported stolen from Uttar Pradesh in the year 2005 and wanted in connection with Noida Sector-20/ Gautam Buddha P.S Case No. 0148/2005 was recovered from Kohima, a press release from the Kohima Sub – Divisional Police Officer & PRO Atu Zumvü informed. The SHO of the concern P.S has been informed to make claim of the said vehicle with all relevant documents of the vehicle from Kohima Police. The original registration number of the said vehicle is UP-16E-6007 as per the available official records.

Elaborating on the Bachelor’s Degree under full time regular basis for the benefit of the local boys and girls from Nagaland, the Vice Chancellor Dr. H N Dutta said that the master plan paradigm envisaged by the Founder Chancellor in the year 2007 for conducting B.Sc. Degrees in Hotel Management/Catering Technology as well as Fashion Design and Technology have been yielding optimum results as all the students successfully completing their courses have

liang, Dr. Shurhozelie , NPF President and DAN Chairman and Shri. KG Kenye, Secretary General NPF. Congress legislators never gate crashed into the government whereas BJP has entered the government through backdoor after openly declaring their support to the dissident NPF group and having enjoyed their full hospitality in Sovima camp since January when political crisis started. As rightly brought out by the BJP, Congress legislators participating in the government is at the pleasure of the Hon’ble Chief Minister and Dr. Shurhozelie, NPF President and therefore it is none of their business to remind and question the actions of Chief Minister for inducting congress legislators. Talking about principles and personal integrity, congress legislators have never joined any party unlike the BJP which has been

flocking from one party to other since 2003. The state BJP President cannot refute that he himself made an open offer to congress legislators for merger and to take over the reins of power as BJP led government but was firmly rejected on matters of principles and belief. On the Naga political solution, the BJP is counting its chicken before it hatches. The BJP led NDA has been in power earlier from 1998-2004 and after coming back to power in 2014, their rhetoric speeches have generated high expectations. However, it may be too premature for the state BJP to celebrate at this juncture and blame the previous congress governments without achieving any signs of breakthrough in bringing the political negotiations to its logical conclusion. If Naga political issue has to be resolved with an agreement then the Government of the day has

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amount of money from the passersby using the bridge, it stated the this was done to recover what the church has expended and also to support the

been offered ready jobs in leading five star hotel chains and fashion houses all over the world. Based on the plan outlay and financial assistance from the State Government and other Agencies, an action programme for decentralizing the training activities will be implemented in a phased manner, Dr. Dutta added. Discussing the urgent need for promoting skill based short-term training and development programmes in the State of Nagaland and in order to

Mission Project. “Passers tax” will, however, not be levied on church leaders and carriages on students’ duty, it informed.

translate the vision of the Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and the hopes and aspirations of the people of Nagaland, the Registrar Dr. Imotemsu Ao declared that the University will soon submit proposals to the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Ministries of DoNER, Social Justice and Empowerment, Tribal Affairs, HRD besides leading public/private sector organizations contemplating to provide assistance under the Corporate Social Responsibility.

Kohima, June 17 (mexn): The Kohima District Congress Committee has convened its executive meeting on June 19 in its office at 11 a.m. A press release from the KDCC requested all DCC office bearers, PCC members, frontal chief and ACCC Presidents to attend the meeting.

Peren DEO informs peren, June 17 (mexn): The office of the District Education Officer Peren has informed all the institutions, both government and private, in Peren district that the amount of Pre-Matric Scholarship for Minority Students for 2014-15 is credited to the beneficiaries’ bank account. A press release from Peren Deputy District Education Officer L. Toshimenla Imchen, in this regard, has asked beneficiaries to withdraw the amount at their own convenience.

State BJYM meeting today Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Nagaland State has convened a meeting on June 18 at 10 a.m. at BJP Dimapur District office to discuss about the celebration of Yoga Divas and other important issues. A press release received here requested all the BJYM State Office Bearers and State Executive Members along with BJYM Dimapur District Officials and Executive members to attend the meeting.

WDEA celebrates first Foundation Day ‘We (Nagas) have developed a very negative mindset and are too lazy to work,’ Dr. TM Lotha WoKha, June 17 (mexn): The Wokha District Entrepreneurs' Association (WDEA) celebrated its first Foundation Day under the theme "In unity, we improvise and excel" on June 15 with MLA Dr. TM Lotha as chief guest at Lotha Tribal Council Hall here. WDEA was formed on June 15 last year by 17 likeminded businesspersons from Wokha with an aim to uplift local (Lotha) entrepreneurs and protect them from all sorts of threats and to assist the educated unemployed aspiring to start business avail the rights and benefits of various schemes in the government/ private sector. During the programme, Advisor, Treasury & Accounts and Relief & Rehabilitation, Dr TM Lotha stressed on how to become successful businessperson. In this advanced age of technology, economy, and fashion, the MLA said, an entrepreneur should have innovative ideas and creativity at the same time sincerity and commitment to the business they take up. “Business is not just about buying and selling, thus a young educated entrepreneur should have a new approach and methods with new

Advisor, Treasury & Accounts, Dr. TM Lotha and A Robin Lotha, DC, Wokha pose for photograph along with the WDEA officials.

ideas,” he added. Emphasizing on the present Naga lifestyle, Dr. Lotha pointed out, “we have developed a very negative mindset and are too lazy to work.” He encouraged the young entrepreneurs, “It is now the time to change and start growing as in the present world business and economy control the world and one has to give extra effort in order

Public SPace Rejoinder to State BJP’s scatting attack on congress MLAs ith an arrangement of an all party government in the state under the stewardship of Shri. TR Zeliang as Chief Minister, the continuous barking of the BJP against congress legislators joining the government is devoid of any substance but an attempt to weaken the Naga political issue. Despite claims of BJP that it was a pre poll alliance of NPF since 2003, it must be remembered that the BJP was kicked out from DAN-II in 2009 when both its legislators joined the NPF and DAN extended its unconditional support to Congress led UPA –II. BJP questioning the congress on not joining DAN –I or II is therefore immaterial and illogical. If the BJP wants to know why congress legislators joined the government, then they should seek clarification from Hon’ble Chief Minister, Shri. TR Ze-

Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): The Secretary-inChief, GPRN/NSCN has informed that the Central Secretariat will hold a meeting on June 24 at 10 a.m. The information released through its MIP directed all Central Secretariat Staffs to attend the same without fail. Absentees will be liable for Explanation Call which may even invite appropriate disciplinary action if the reason for being absent is found unsatisfactory, the release stated.

Global Open Univ to enter 10th year of Training & Research Dimapur, June 17 (mexn): The Global Open University Nagaland (TGOUN) is set to enter its 10th year of Training and Research, a press release from Martoshi, Planning Officer, TGOUN informed. Established in the year 2006 and further declared as a State University (self-funded) in the year 2011, the institute offers a unique, parallel, off-beat and employment centric programmes in the areas of disaster management, entrepreneurship, aviation management, diplomacy, green technology, organic farming etc. have been launched since its inception.

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a privilege to do so but if it is a settlement then all major political parties have to be taken into confidence for honorable solution. Not to be seen as a stumbling block in case of any breakthrough, the congress legislators have taken a leap of faith to join an all party government to pressurize negotiating groups for an early political settlement. The BJP seems to be cornered on this issue since they are unable to wriggle out of this unique arrangement of an all party government. Mocking or questioning the congress for joining the government by the BJP leaders will not have its desired effect since the public are weary of decade’s old political problem that has hindered the growth and development of the state and are yearning for a peaceful settlement. Tokheho Yepthomi, S I Jamir

eeping in mind, the several initiatives and actions so far ACAUT has taken up in its stride, this is a message to the concern. Till today ACAUT has stood against taxation and preened under the slogan "One Government, One Tax", if so, which `Government’? 'CORRUPTION'. The term is quite specific, it also denotes bribery, fraud, vices, sleaze etc. When ACAUT took on the word of Corruption as something they will go against and be totally 'Anti', shouldn't ACAUT live up to its name and check corruption too?. Shouldn't ACAUT be standing up against those Corruptions which is prevalent everywhere. Shouldn't ACAUT

to grow and excel.” He further highlighted the opportunities available in the government sector and urged the educated unemployed to avail the opportunities under Skilled Development Trainings and Micro Unit Development for small & medium unit under Refinancing Agency Bank proposed specially for ST/SC.

Meanwhile, introspecting on the present business scenario, Deputy Commissioner, Wokha, A Robin Lotha said 90% of the business establishment in Wokha town is run by Muslim community despite the presence of many local educated unemployed people who can take up various businesses seriously. The DC further cited two criteria to become a successful businessman discipline and attitude. James Ngullie highlighted the significance of WDEA during the programme, which was chaired by Lothungbeni Humtsoe. Short speeches on behalf of Lotha Hoho and WBCCI were delivered by Mhonlumo Odyuo and S. Abenthung Ngullie respectively. Functional Manager, DIC, Myingthungo Kikon gave a brief account on entrepreneur and skill development. Lobeno, voice of Wokha finalist 2014, enthralled the people. Rev. MC Kithan, Mission Centre, Vankhosung, Wokha invoked special prayer for the entrepreneurs, while Keshwenga Seb, Chairman, Wokha Town Pastor's Fellowship pronounced the invocation. Thunglamo Odyuo, VP, WDEA delivered the vote of thanks.

Message to aCaUt say or stand against those corruption that are quite rampant for years now on. Those back door appointments, those exchange of money, favors in exchange for grabbing contractual works? Those fixed salaried bureaucrats whose houses are taller and larger than that of Ministers etc. Those village developmental funds which were sanctioned by MGNREGA, out Of 100%, 40% were initially deducted by Heads of RD Deptt, these funds were deposited in the names of VDB's , however, they were instructed/given directions to deposit the same to the concern PDO's of respective villages, can't that be counted as Corruption? (For Further Info check NREGA.NIC.In). There

Theyeveyi (Head G.B) Head GB, Jalukiezangdi Village, Peren

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you will find that for the Financial Year 2014-2015, Grant-in-aid amounting to Rs. 123,51,24,000/-(Rupees One Hundred Twenty Three Crore Fifty One Lakh and Twenty four Thousand) to the state government of Nagaland was already implemented as Central Assistance, and it's just for One financial year. These are the real corruptions, we are facing. These are the situations which needs to be tackled with. These are not just gossips or tell tales, these are actually prevalent in our day to day lives. Those 'extra' taxes which are levied upon by police at Check posts, Several tax committees which are not government approved are being set up extensively and which sur-

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vives by collecting taxes from Dimapur Town etc, all these are corruptions and levied upon unnecessary taxes are the real problems and crisis Nagaland is suffering from, shouldn't ACAUT be more involved in dealing with problems like this instead of going against the one true Naga Nation which stands for freedom and unity of The Naga People. If for instance, one fine day, us Nagas gets freedom from India's Rule, does the representatives of ACAUT, and their successors/heirs deserves a seat/facilities or stand in the Naga nation? As all actions, deeds and initiatives taken up by ACAUT go against the Naga Nation. Stay true to oneself and to one's roots!

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express THursDAy 18 JunE 2015 volumE X IssuE 165 By moa Jamir

A Covert operation or an orchestrated media circus

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Christopher McLeod Commondreams

What Good is an Apology?

covert operation, according to the US Department of Defence’s Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, is defined as, “An operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor.” But how covert was the Indian Army’s ‘cross-border’ raid inside Myanmar on June 9? Or was it a carefully orchestrated moral boosting media circus? The aftermath of the operation clearly tilts toward the latter. The operation was apparently carried out in retaliation against the June 4 ambush on Indian Army’s Dogra Regiment in Manipur as Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted a "swift response" and a strong retaliatory counter offensive with a clear signal that: "You hit us, we will hit you badly," ran a story on leading news channel. In its aftermath, most national media went gung-ho about the whole operation. However, when the cacophony from the chest-thumping exercise settled down and sobriety set in, it was seen as another carefully orchestrated media blitzkrieg by the ruling dispensation which the national media consumed without any qualms. The government of India and the mainstream media seems to feed on each other leading to increasing posture as well as a high decibel rise in jingoistic fervour. Right after the attack, almost all the leading national electronic and print put the casualties over 100 invoking national pride and hawkish declaration from all concern. Quoting such figures, an exclusive “Inside story” in a leading National daily reported that the Army's strike against militants was so precise that the latter had no chance to recover from the first burst of fire. “The commandos safely returned to Indian Territory after silencing the insurgents' guns,” it ended. Narendra Modi himself sanctioned the 'hot pursuit' marking a shift in the security doctrine, ran another News channel. A leading news agency also carried (unrelated) photos purportedly of the said operation inviting a clarification from MOD spokesperson denying it. When junior information minister, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore entered a certain TV studio, the complexion of the war changed. The media seemed to have taken over where the military left, writes Subir Bhaumik in the Hoot (June 11) adding that the national TV channels and newspapers, have gone awry and haywire – with wild casualty figure and location – while reporting the trans-border strike even embarrassing the military formations involved in the attack. “The media is totally dependent on their sources in the defence and home ministries in Delhi -people who have no knowledge of ground realities,” he added. The reported discovery of only 7 bodies might have dampened their spirit but the damage was already done. While, the “Rambo” style strike was also praised in almost all the National papers, they “tut-tutted” the gloating over the affair stated another analysis of the event in the Hoot. Incidentally, the plot of the last instalment of Rambo series was located in Myanmar. The claim in the mainstream media was equally complimented by jingoistic posturing and tall statement by those associated with the establishment. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar declared that the “a simple action against insurgents” has changed the mindset of the full security scenario and those who fear India’s new posture have started reacting.” A sharp retort from Pakistan as well as Myanmar’s denial seems to bring that assertion to ground. Was it a mere co-incidence or a tacit statement, that a former Army Chief was seen giving his takes on the event wearing a Naga Waistcoat in a News Channel. For, Ajai Sahni of Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi , the operation was minor and not unprecedented with only ‘tactical and psychological significance” sending a messenge to the rebels that they have lost “their sense of impunity” but political posturing in the wake of the Myanmar operation undermines India’s long-term interests. The only 'unprecedented' element in the present case is the unseemly tamasha in its wake, he added. A group of eminent intellectuals also argued that the “thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments” by high-level representatives of the Government and BJP in the wake of the operation runs counter to the policy of peace and amity with the neighbours, spelt out time and again by the leaders since independence. The mainstream media still seems unrepentant from the outcome of the Nepal earthquake when thousands of people had taken to social media to vent their disdain about the reporting by Indian media organisations. Undeniably, it was a moral boosting exercise for the defence establishment. Sources in military establishment spoke about growing “apprehension” amongst the foot soldiers after the abrogation of the ceasefire with NSCN (K) and ensuing cycle of violence aftermath. The operation has allayed and soothed their nerves to some extent. Nevertheless, it raises two important but disturbing realities. The negligence of issues relating to North-East by most of the mainstream media resulting in “spoon-feeding” by the establishment and secondly, it results in misreporting or negation of realities at the ground level. No wonder, the region remain apprehensive and sceptical. For any comment drop a line to moajamir@live.com

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Biofuel from sugarcane to power airplanes

team of researchers that includes a number of Indian origin scientists has developed a process for producing drop-in aviation biofuel from sugarcane. The discovery could revolutionise the aviation as well as sugar industry and can bring down the carbon emissions. Currently, aviation is the source of two percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges. "Jet fuels must be oxygen-free, have the right boiling point distribution and lubricity and a very low pour point, meaning the fuel cannot become gelatinous in the cold temperatures of the stratosphere," said co-author Amit Gokhale. These challenges have now been met with a new technique developed by researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI). "The recyclable catalysts we have developed are capable of converting sugarcane biomass into a new class of aviation fuel and lubricants with superior cold-flow properties, density and viscosity that could achieve net life-cycle greenhouse gas savings of up to 80 percent," said corresponding author Alexis Bell. In a 2014 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the US pointed out that drop-in biofuels are the only viable alternative to conventional jet fuels. The process developed at EBI can be used to selectively upgrade alkyl methyl ketones derived from sugarcane biomass into trimer condensates with better than 95 percent yields. These condensates are then hydro-deoxygenated into a new class of cycloalkane compounds that contain a cyclohexane ring and a quaternary carbon atom. These cycloalkane compounds can be tailored for the production of either jet fuel or automotive lubricant base oils. The ability of the EBI process to yield jet fuel or lubricants should be a significant advantage for biorefineries. The study appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk at a sunrise ceremony at Mt. Shasta, California in 2013. When it comes to receiving an apology for historic and ongoing injustices—including violent massacres, the theft of ancestral lands, and being stripped of cultural heritage—just hearing the words "We're sorry" said both loudly and publicly could provide profound healing for Indigenous people. (Photo: Sacred Land Film Project)

’m a white man who has worked with Native Americans as a journalist and documentary filmmaker since 1977. Mostly, I have worked on exposing problems—environmental injustice, destruction of sacred places, hidden history. Finding long-term solutions has seemed overwhelming and elusive. But four decades of experience have clarified my understanding of our nation’s biggest obstacle to moving beyond the historical injustices confronting the cultures that share this land. There is a shadow in the American closet that will forever prevent healing and reconciliation—unless and until that shadow is recognized and acknowledged. The theft of country, the massacres, the inhumanity of forced boarding school captivity, the denial of historic trauma, and the ongoing injustice, racism and inequality will hold us back as a society until we collectively accept our painful history and change course. Opening the door to let the shadow out will require an apology. Two instructive stories came to light while filming our new film series, Standing on Sacred Ground. These stories help describe elements of the shadow. In 1851, treaty negotiations with tribal leaders in northern California resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Cottonwood Creek, which promised a 25mile by 25-mile reservation on the Sacramento River south of Redding. You can imagine how the Wintu and other native leaders who signed the treaty felt as the white negotiators returned to Washington— something like: "Well, at least now we have a treaty and all the land that has been taken will yield the security of a protected homeland." But there would be no reservation. Within weeks of the treaty signing, California squatters and military personnel moved onto the promised land. Due to opposition by California politicians and the U.S. Senate, the Cottonwood Treaty was sealed in a closet in the Senate and locked away, unratified and then forgotten by Washington. The now landless Wintu never forgot—not when they were hunted by newcomers, not when their children were taken away to Christian boarding schools, and not when the U.S. drowned their sacred sites in the waters behind Shasta Dam. In Alberta, Canada, across the street from the site of Fort Chipewyan’s residential Indian school, is a dirt road that disappears into a forest of darkness. While we were filming the tar sands segment of Standing on Sacred Ground, our Dené guide pointed

Canadian freelance journalist who was held by kidnappers for 15 months in Somalia seven years ago said Sunday that the Somali man arrested by Canadian police last week terrorized her mother by barraging her with threatening telephone calls with ransom demands. Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan were kidnapped by gunmen on Aug. 23, 2008. They were released in November 2009 after a $600,000 ransom was paid. Police said Ali Omar Ader, who was arrested on Thursday in Ottawa, was one of the main negotiators within the group that carried out the kidnapping. Lindhout called her kidnappers criminals seeking to collect a ransom payment. Police suggested that Ader was lured to Canada before being arrested but declined to reveal how he arrived in Canada. Lindhout released a statement on Sunday in which she said Ader "terrorized my mother, phoning her multiple times a day and at all hours." She later elaborated on her statement in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. She said she crumpled to the floor, crying, as police investigators broke the news to her about the arrest of her alleged Somali kidnapper. Lindhout said she and her family feel a tremendous sense of relief. Ader "was a deranged man in many ways," Lindhout told the AP from Canmore, Alberta. "There were two sides to him. He would call her and sometimes very sweetly refer to her as mommy and speak about and how he ... dreamed about coming to Canada and maybe he would see her here. And then he would

Restorative justice requires many steps, but it begins with acknowledgement of the crimes committed at the grassy road and said, "That’s where they secretly buried the aboriginal children who died. Some were beaten. Some ran away in the winter and didn’t survive. Some babies were conceived, born and discarded." More than any place we filmed, the historic trauma of residential schools was profoundly unsettling in Canada—and right on the surface. Everyone talked about it, and it was clear that deep wounds were nowhere near healed. (Most Americans do not understand that the exact same thing was occurring in the United States with equally devastating cultural and personal consequences.) These crimes and treaty violations are finally being addressed. With the release last week of the Truth and Reconciliation Report, Canada took a major step toward deeper acknowledgment of this historic trauma, and that’s a good thing. But this pain goes deep and spans the entire planet. How do we recover? Restorative justice requires many steps. In June 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a widely publicized speech to parliament and indigenous leaders, and made an official, public apology to survivors of the country’s residential school system. It was well-received by many First Nations people, and some said it helped them feel a sense of healing. Four months before that, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized in parliament to Australia’s Aboriginal people for laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss." He was apologizing for the treatment of "Stolen Generations" of children uprooted from family and country and placed in missions or white Christian homes. Scores of Aboriginal people attended the ceremony and were shown

on television with tears streaming down their faces. "Sorry Day" is commemorated every year. Both the Canadian and Australian apologies were essential first steps on a longer path. Last week’s Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission report details a century (1883-1996) of forced residential schooling for First Nations' children that resulted in more than 6,000 deaths. The report was 6 years in-the-making and 6,750 people testified. It speaks truth to power and illustrates how an apology is a process that slowly unveils hidden history: "The Canadian government pursued this policy of cultural genocide because it wished to divest itself of its legal and financial obligations to aboriginal people and gain control over their lands and resources," the report says. "A just reconciliation requires more than simply talking about the need to heal the deep wounds of history. Words of apology alone are insufficient; concrete actions on both symbolic and material fronts are required." Several U.S. presidents have offered apologies for historic wrongs. In 1988, President Reagan made a formal statement when he signed the Japanese Internment Apology law, which carried with it financial restitution. In 1993, President Clinton apologized to Native Hawaiians for the 1893 overthrow of their queen and their nation, and during a 1997 press conference, Clinton said that the government was sorry for its role in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment on African Americans. But for the twin sins of stealing a continent from America’s First People and the brutal enslavement of countless souls, there have been no apologies from the United States government. While filming Standing on Sacred Ground, we interviewed leading aboriginal thinkers from around the world about the importance of apology. Reflecting on Nelson Mandela’s wisdom and experience, Anishinaabeg activist Winona LaDuke revealed the cost of the unrecognized shadow: "If the destruction and genocide that occurred are not acknowledged, people suffer from the fact that what happened is invisible, and we remain unable to fully heal." An apology is just a first step, but it’s a necessary first step. The time has come for our American president to lead us in speaking the words, "I’m sorry." Christopher “Toby” McLeod directs the Sacred Land Film Project. His most recent film series, the award-winning Standing on Sacred Ground, tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world struggling to protect their sacred places.

Journalist talks about her Somali kidnapper rob Gillies Associated Press

In this photo taken on February 21, 2010, Amanda Lindhout attends a reception held in her honor by the Alberta Somali-Canadian community in Calgary, Alberta. Canadian police have arrested a Somali man for his role in the kidnapping of Lindhout and another foreign journalist who were held in Somalia for more than 15 months before being freed nearly seven years ago. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press via AP)

switch and he would threaten my life. I was threatened in captivity by him and by all the leaders that if the money wasn't paid we would be beheaded." The two journalists were kept apart from each other, beaten and tortured during their ordeal. Lindhout also re-

ported being raped but not by Ader, whom she knew as Adam while in captivity. She called him erratic and bullying and fully complicit in her suffering. "He never touched me or abused me but one day he did come into the room that I was being held in and he sat with me

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and he told me he had decided that he was going to make me his wife," Lindhout said. "He proceeded to tell me what my life would look like as his wife, what it would be like to be a good Muslim woman and to raise his children. This was really terrifying to me. He spoke in great detail about this. He left that day and then he called my mother and told her. This was also terrifying for my mother." She also said Ader expressed a desire to marry her mother. "He was really sick," she said. She added it's been a tough weekend for her mother who has now seen pictures of him for the first time. "She was the one who was on the phone with him all the time so she found seeing his face very difficult. Seeing his face on TV made him very real to her," she said. Lindhout said she is very grateful to Canadian police and looks forward to testifying against Ader, who made a brief appearance in an Ottawa court last Thursday and is due back in court next Friday. Lindhout is no longer a journalist but has co-authored a book about her experience called "A House in the Sky" and has founded a nonprofit organization that supports development, aid and education in Somalia and Kenya. "It was absolutely a terrible experience, about as awful as a person can imagine or endure but I survived and I'm here," she said. "I feel great. Something like this is upsetting because it brings back a lot of memories of the difficult things that happened to me, but it also feels really good because there is a real sense of justice."

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India: Rampant fraud at medical schools leave healthcare in crisis Andrew MacAskill, Steve Stecklow & Sanjeev Miglani

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ast December, Dilshad Chaudhry travelled with about 100 of his fellow villagers by bus to a local Indian medical-school hospital. They’d been told that foreign doctors were coming to tour the facility, and check-ups would be free. There was nothing wrong with Chaudhry; he was accompanying his brother, who had a back problem. But “every person was told to lie in a bed even if they’re not sick,” he said. The 20-year-old electrician said he never saw any foreign physicians that day, but the hospital’s Indian doctors kept checking that the phony patients were in bed. “They wanted to make sure no one escaped,” he said. That was the same month government inspectors visited the hospital, which is at Muzaffarnagar Medical College, 80 miles northeast of New Delhi. The inspectors checked, among other things, whether there were enough patients to provide students with adequate clinical experience. They determined there were. But a year earlier, inspectors had found that most of the college hospital’s outpatients “were fake and dummy and seems to be hired from nearby slum area,” according to the official report. “In paediatric ward all children were admitted ... without any medical problem and were hired from nearby area!!!!!” “I am not very keen to reply,” said Dr. Anil Agarwal, the school’s principal, when asked about the episode with Chaudhry. India’s system for training doctors is broken. It is plagued by rampant fraud and unprofessional teaching practices, exacerbating the public health challenge facing this fast-growing but still poor nation of about 1.25 billion people. The ramifications spread beyond the country’s borders: India is the world’s largest exporter of doctors, with about 47,000 currently practicing in the United States and about 25,000 in the United Kingdom. In a four-month investigation, Reuters has documented the full extent of the fraud in India’s medicaleducation system. It found, among other things, that more than one out of every six of the country’s 398 medical schools has been accused of cheating, according to Indian government records and court filings. The Reuters probe also found that recruiting companies routinely provide medical colleges with doctors to pose as full-time faculty members to pass government inspections. To demonstrate that teaching hospitals have enough patients to provide students with clinical experience, colleges round up healthy people to pretend they are sick. Government records show that since 2010, at least 69 Indian medical colleges and teaching hospitals have been accused of such transgressions or other significant failings, including rigging entrance exams or accepting bribes to admit students. Two dozen of the schools have been recommended for outright closure by the regulator. Paying bribes – often in the guise of “donations” – to gain admission to Indian medical schools is widespread, according to India’s health ministry, doctors and college officials. “The next generation of doctors is being taught to cheat and deceive before they even enter the classroom,” said Dr. Anand Rai. He exposed a massive cheating ring involving medical school entrance exams in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in 2013. Rai was given police protection after he received death threats following the bust. The poor state of India’s medical education reflects a health system in crisis. The country has the highest rates of mortality from diarrhea, pneumonia and tuberculosis, creating pressure to train more physicians. Patients are regularly denied treatment at public hospitals that are so overcrowded, often the only way to see a doctor is to pay a bribe. The causes of the crisis are manifold: Too few doctors. A government-backed surge in private medical schools which, to boost revenue, frequently charge underthe-table fees for admission. Outdated government regulations that, for example, require college libraries to keep paper copies of medical journals and penalize those that subscribe instead to online editions. Charged with maintaining “excellence in medical education” is the Medical Council of India (MCI). But this government body is itself mired in controversy. Its prior president currently faces bribery allegations. The council is the subject of a mountain of lawsuits, many of them pitting it against medical schools challenging its findings. The cases often drag on for years. “The best medical schools in India are absolutely world class,” said David Gordon, president of the World Federation for Medical Education. But, he added, the Indian government’s process of accrediting a “huge” number of recently opened, private medical schools “has at times been highly dubious.” India has been rocked by a series of recent medical scandals, including doctors accused of serious crimes. In November, a group of junior doctors at a medical college in the eastern city of Kolkata allegedly tied a suspected mobile phone thief to a pillar, slashed him with a razor and beat him to death with bamboo sticks, according to local police. Nine of the accused men remain in jail; they deny murder charges, say lawyers involved in the case. Three suspects remain at large.

THE SCALPEL THROWER The system’s problems are felt abroad, too. Tens of thousands of India’s medical graduates practice overseas, particularly in the United States, Britain, Australia and Canada. All of these countries require additional training before graduates of Indian medical schools can practice, and the vast majority of the doctors have unblemished records. But regulatory documents show that in both Britain and Australia, more graduates of Indian medical schools lost their right to practice medicine in the past five years than did doctors from any other foreign country. In the United Kingdom, between 2008 and 2014, Indian-trained doctors were four times more likely to lose their right to practice than British-trained doctors, according to records of Britain’s General Medical Council. (The U.S. and Canada lack publicly available centralized databases of disciplined doctors.) The British cases include that of Dr. Tajeshwar Singh Aulakh, who received his medical degree in 1999 from Punjabi University in Patiala, India, according to Indian government records. He was assisting during a hip operation in 2008 in Shropshire, England, when he allegedly grabbed a scalpel, slashed the patient’s stitches and threw it toward a nurse, according to British government records. The United Kingdom later struck him off its list of approved physicians. He could not be reached for comment. The Australian cases include that of Dr. Suhail Durani, who graduated from an Indian govern-

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A MEDICAL MAYHEM: India has been rocked by a series of recent medical scandals. These women underwent sterilization surgery last November at a government-run camp where a doctor operated on 83 patients in less than three hours; at least a dozen died. (REUTERS Photo/File)

ment medical college in the northern city of Jammu in 2003. He was imprisoned in Perth for more than 18 months after being convicted in 2011 of sexually assaulting a female diabetic patient who had shown up in the emergency room with symptoms of a potentially serious illness. In an interview, Durani maintained his innocence and described his medical training in India as excellent. He currently is not practicing medicine. Dr. Ramesh Mehta, vice president of the Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, said there are “major problems” with some private Indian medical schools. But he added that a doctor’s success depends as much on “personality and attitude” as on his or her college training. FAKE DEGREES About 45 percent of the people in India who practice medicine have no formal training, according to the Indian Medical Association. These 700,000 unqualified doctors have been found practicing at some of India’s biggest hospitals, giving diagnoses, prescribing medicines and even conducting surgery. Balwant Rai Arora, a Delhi resident in his 90s, said in an interview that he issued more than 50,000 fake medical degrees from his home until his forgery ring was broken up by the police in 2011. Each buyer paid about $100 for a degree from fictitious colleges. Arora was twice convicted and jailed for forgery. “There is a shortage of doctors in India. I am just helping people with some medical experience get jobs,’’ said Arora. “I haven’t done anything wrong.” India currently has about 840,000 doctors – or about seven physicians for every 10,000 people. That compares with about 25 in the United States and 32 in Europe, according to the World Health Organization. The shortfall has persisted despite India having the most medical schools of any nation. That’s because the size of graduating classes is small – typically 100 to 150 students. Indeed, gaining admission to India’s top medical schools is akin to winning the lottery. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi has been rated the best medical school in India Today magazine’s past five annual surveys. According to the registrar’s office, it takes in only 72 students for its undergraduate course each year out of about 80,000 to 90,000 who apply – an acceptance rate of less than one-tenth of one percent. As in the United Kingdom, most medical school students attend an undergraduate program. Similarly, Christian Medical College, a top-ranked school in the southern city of Vellore, received 39,974 applications this year for 100 places, according to a school official – an acceptance rate of 0.25 percent. By contrast, the acceptance rate at Harvard Medical School for its entering class in 2014 was 3.5 percent. Health ministry officials and doctors say India’s medical-education system began to falter following a surge in new, private medical colleges that opened across the country during the past few decades, often in remote areas. In 1980, there were 100 government-run medical schools and 11 private medical colleges. Thirtyfive years later, the number of government medical colleges has nearly doubled. The number of private medical schools, meanwhile, has risen nearly twenty-fold, according to the Medical Council of India. There are now 183 government medical colleges and 215 private ones. Many of the private colleges have been set up by businessmen and politicians who have no experience operating medical or educational institutions, said MCI officials. Sujatha Rao, who served as India’s health secretary from 2009 to 2010, said the boom in private colleges was driven by a change in the law in the early 1990s to make it easier to open new schools because the government was struggling to find the money to build public medical schools. “The market has been flooded with doctors so poorly trained they are little better than quacks,” Rao told Reuters. Not that a legitimate degree necessarily makes a difference. A study in India published in 2012 compared doctors holding medical degrees with untrained practitioners. It found “no differences in the likelihood of providers’ giving a diagnosis or providing the correct treatment.” The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, concluded that in India, “training in and of itself is not a guarantor of high quality.” Last year, an individual described as a “concerned” student at a rural government medical college in Ambajogai, in western India, posted a letter online with a litany of allegations about the school, Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural Medical College. There were professors who existed only on paper, he alleged, and “no clinics and no lectures” for students in the medicine and surgery departments. Conditions were unsanitary at the hospital, and pigs and donkeys roamed the campus, he wrote. The writer also alleged that students had to pay bribes to pass exams. “We are not taught in this medical college,” the letter stated. Students have graduated “without even attending a single day.” The writer said the letter had been sent to various government agencies and health officials. Records from the Medical Council of India, the body charged with maintaining the country’s medical education standards, show that an inspection of the college this January found numerous deficiencies, including a shortage of faculty, residents and lecture theaters.

Dr. Nareshkumar S. Dhaniwala, who served as the principal of the college between 2011 and 2013, said “there is some truth in the letter.” Animals, such as pigs and cows, do roam the campus, teachers and students don’t turn up for lessons, and there is a scarcity of running water in the dormitories, he said. And before he joined, he said, he heard students had to pay to pass final exams. “I found the students were not very interested in studying, they don’t come to classes, they don’t come to clinics,” Dhaniwala said. “Medical education has gone downhill all over the country because the teachers are not as devoted as they used to be.” Sudhir Deshmukh, the college’s current principal, did not respond to requests for comment. The Medical Council of India, which was established by the government in 1934 and oversees medical education, has itself been swirling in controversy. Dr. Ketan Desai, the council’s former president, faces criminal charges related to his arrest in 2010 for allegedly conspiring to receive a bribe to recommend authorizing a private medical college to accept more students. The case is still pending; Desai has denied the charges. In interviews, medical school officials complained that the MCI had onerous inspection requirements that were outdated and arbitrary. “The Medical Council of India is a junk body,” said Dr. A. K. Asthana, principal and dean of Subharti Medical College in the northern city of Meerut, which has been accused of demanding illegal fees for admission. Asthana denies the allegations. The council has tried – unsuccessfully so far – to close the school. “I’m totally frustrated with the MCI. Totally frustrated,” he said. Dr. Vedprakash Mishra, the head of MCI’s academic committee, told Reuters that the agency has created “discipline and accountability” among medical colleges by imposing fines and, in several cases, prohibiting schools from admitting students for up to two years. “We don’t compromise and mitigate on the requirements,” he said. Asked about allegations of corruption within MCI itself, Mishra abruptly ended the interview. “This is not what I want to be discussing,” he said. Under the government’s current regulations, private medical colleges generally must have campuses on at least 20 acres of land. Because urban real estate in India is expensive, many schools open in rural areas where recruiting qualified, fulltime doctors to teach is difficult because pay scales are low and living conditions are tough. Interviews and MCI records show that some private colleges solve the problem by cheating – they recruit doctors to pose as full-time faculty members during government inspections. The physicians work there for just a few days or weeks. Two MCI officials estimated that there are several hundred Indian companies involved in recruiting them. In October, a doctor in New Delhi received an email from a local company called Hi Impact Consultants with the subject line: “Urgent requirement of doctors for MCI Inspection in Ghaziabad” The email offered up to 20,000 rupees a day (about $310) if the doctor appeared for an inspection at Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences in Hapur, east of New Delhi. The doctor, who requested anonymity, has no connection with the college. “If interested please revert back ASAP,” the email concluded. The sender described itself as “a Medical Executive Search firm.” In an interview, Sanjeev Priyadershi, Hi Impact’s executive director, confirmed that the firm had tried to recruit doctors to appear during government inspections at medical colleges where they don’t normally work. “My client wanted to hire full-time faculty members for inspection purposes,” he said. Dr. Shailendra K. Vajpeyee, the principal of Saraswathi, said the college is constantly struggling to recruit qualified professors. Vajpeyee said he knew of Hi Impact Consultants, but denied he had employed them during his 18-month tenure. “I don’t know why that email was sent” by the company, he said. He declined to comment further about the matter. ‘BIASED’ INSPECTORS At Muzaffarnagar Medical College, where electrician Dilshad Chaudhry was taken in December, students can read medical journals and books in a sprawling, circular library and take classes in clean and modern lecture halls. But finding enough patients to provide students with clinical experience at rural, private teaching hospitals like Muzaffarnagar is a challenge. Many people in rural India simply can’t afford the cost of treatment. School principal Agarwal denied the allegations by MCI inspectors that the college’s hospital had inflated its number of patients during a 2013 inspection. “Sometimes the inspectors are biased, that is for sure,” he said. He also denied the hospital had ever recruited local villagers to pose as patients. But Dr. Vaibhav Jain, a former student at the college, told Reuters that the hospital would conduct “free check-up camps,” to lure rural villagers to the facility on inspection days. He said the hospital sometimes would promise free ultrasounds, but only a small number of people would be tested. Villagers often later complained about it to students at a clinic in Bilaspur where he worked, he said. “We used to say we can’t do anything, the machine was not working,” he said. Medical education is in trouble across India, said Jain. “The truth is that many medical students aren’t prepared to be doctors when they finish” college. “And the result is the patient suffers.”

ccording to a research conducted in 2009 by the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency, the lists of monthly average wages in some of its member countries are as follows: Luxembourg – $4,089; Norway – $3,678; United States – $3,263; United Kingdom – $3,065; South Korea – $2,903; France – $2,886; Canada – $2,724; Germany – $2,720; Singapore – $2,516; Australia – $2,616; Japan – $2,522; New Zealand – $2,283; Hong Kong – $1,545; Russia – $1,215; Malaysia – $961; Brazil – $778; China – $656; Thailand – $489; India – $295; Philippians – $279; Pakistan – $255. Now coming to Nagaland, the average salaryof a Grade III government employee is Rs.20,000 per month, which is about $330. For a GradeIV level job, the monthly salary is hardly Rs.18,000. As for an average worker in the private sector, the monthly earning is still much lower despite all the hard work involved. This is the sad state of our wage rate in Nagaland. Why couldn’t our Nagas earn as much as the Singaporeans or the South Koreans? The simplest explanation is this: because none of our Naga politicians was a Lee Kuan Yeh of Singapore or a Park Chung Hee of South Korea. Instead, our politicians chose to be like other corrupt Indian politicians who could only help to raise the wage of an average Indian citizen to Rs.17,700 per month. What determines a high wage? It is important to remember that high wages come out of good government economic policies that utilize its national resources wisely and bring out maximum production output. When the proper conditions for economic growth are created, each worker can produce more and thereby add wealth to the nation. In the narrowest sense, the more an employee is worth to his employer, the more he gets paid. The same is true at the macro level: when there is greater productivity in certain occupations or sectors, the demand for labor in those areas increases. In such a situation, the business firms become more prosperous and begin expanding. Hence, all employers start offering higher wages to hold workers or to attract workers away from other alternative job opportunities available to them. Or, if the total supply of labor is small in relation to demand, then the average level of wages will be higher. In other words, the labor demand and the labor supply interact to determine the level of wage rates or salaries in each occupation. That’s why the wages in industrially advanced countries are high because labors in these countries are highly productiveand hence are more in demand. So, government policy should be to create conditions for private businesses to make profit and expand, to invest in newer and better machines to increase productivity of workers, and to encourage increases in both employment and wage rates. But what if the governmentcan’t create conditions for higher pay? In that case, you have no choice but to find ways to create your own revenue generation. For instance, you may consider some of the following things: First, you need the best possible tools you can afford to acquire. Yes, machines and manufacturing equipmentcan exponentially increase production and thus your income. For example, workers in advanced economies have access to large amounts of physical capital equipment (machinery and buildings). In the United States there is $75,000 of physical capital available, on average, for each worker and therefore he can earn a lot more. Second, application of advanced technology and innovative improvements can greatly aid your business to be competitive (faster, better, and cheaper) and, as a result, more profitable. Likewise, getting better education and training for yourself as well as for your workers can immensely enhance labor productivity. A physician, for example, is paid much higher than a construction worker because he falls into a non-competing group (due to stringent training requirementswhich only few can qualify in), so many patients are willing to pay him almost any price to get well. On the other hand, training requirements in construction work are not as stringent. As such, the service of a construction worker can easily be obtained---that is, the supply of labor for construction work is large in relation to demand. So, wages are much lower for construction workers than for physicians. In other words, people will pay you more when you provide unbeatable quality services or superior products to customers. Third, prices and wages are determined at the margin. Allow me to explain what I mean. We all know, for example,that the salary of a professional footballer is much more than that of a garbage collector despite the fact that we can live without football but not without our garbage being hauled away. In this case, the difference in the wages is not determined by the utility value but by the demand of clients. Similarly, the price of a diamond is much higher because of its rarity and customers’ demand than that of water, although the latter is very valuable---we literally can’t live without it---but its price is very low. This means that increases in prices or wages sometimes depend on marginal value, not utility value. In other words, you can increase your prices or wages by creating customers’ interests inyour product.

But what if you cannot raise your wage on your own? One way to do this is by joining a multi-national company or a good business firm that pays its workers close to, more or less, the international standard wage rates. Many such firms hire knowledge-workers to help produce the goods and services the firms must sell for a profit---that is, workers are hired to advance the interest (profit) of the firms. However, these workers are often well compensated for their output or performance. In addition to monthly salaries, they are sometimes given other incentives such as bonuses, stock options, commissions, or profit sharing. Another common way to generate your income is this: investment in bonds, mutual funds, and/or stocks. Although there is no such thing as risk-free investment, most people in advanced countries use their money to make money by using the services of some financial experts or financial service institutions. Others who are knowledgeable enough about financial markets may choose to manage their own portfolio and become traders in the stocks, commodities, and options markets to attain financial rewards.And the good news is this: they can conduct their own business from almost anywhere with just a small laptop computer with Internet access. In the end,we all have a choice: be content as a government servant earning, say, Rs.20,000 a month, or work toward becoming your own boss earning a lot more,or workwith some business company that offers better financial rewards.

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

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Thursday 18 June 2015

J & K killings raise fears of new bloodletting

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel stand guard in front of closed shops during a strike in Srinagar on June 17. (REUTERS Photo)

SOPORe, /MuZAFFARABAD, JuNe 17 (ReuteRS): After years of sharply reduced political violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the gunning down of four men with links to militants has fanned fears of a new wave of bloodletting. No group has claimed responsibility for the killings, but the police blame a breakaway faction of Hizbul Mujahideen, the largest group in the region, which

has been fighting for Kashmir's merger with neighbouring Pakistan. "They have serious differences with ... other militant leadership over several issues," said Garib Dass, the chief of the police for northern Kashmir. "They feel that these people have damaged the movement and are targeting them." The killings have raised fears militants are regrouping and this could be the start of a new period of

unrest in Kashmir that has been the main flashpoint between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan. The bloodshed comes after five telecom workers and vendors were shot by militants last month after claims cell phone towers were being used to target their members. The murders have centred on the northern Kashmiri town of Sopore, about 30 miles (50 km) from

the border, that has long endured militancy, violence and a heavy military presence. In the last few days, India has deployed an additional 600 soldiers and police specialising in counterinsurgency operations to the area, police said. Soldiers are conducting searches for suspected militants and have put up posters offering a million rupees ($15,600) for information that can lead to the arrest of two militant commanders who are said to have plotted the attacks. Syed Salahuddin, supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, denied any members of his group were behind the murders. He said that Sopore was a stronghold of Hizbul Mujahideen but that the area has a sizeable presence of renegades, a term for former militants who switched loyalties to India. Salahuddin said they are close to identifying the renegades. Ajai Sahni, the executive director of the New Delhi-based Institute of Conflict Management,

said that a new generation of militants could be emerging who are trying to join militant groups or win backing from Pakistan by staging the killings. "These youngsters are likely self-radicalised over the Internet and do not have necessary linkages to established terrorist formations for recruitment, and therefore seek to give positive proof of their commitment," he said. For the last four days in Sopore, a town of almost half a million people, the roads have been deserted, and most of the shops and local businesses have closed. "There is fear psychosis here," said Mohammad Ashraf, president of the Traders Federation of Sopore. The attacks have come at a time of deteriorating relations between India and Pakistan. Both countries traded bitter verbal exchanges last week after India conducted a crossborder raid in Myanmar and a junior minister said it was a message to Pakistan that India will go after militants anywhere.

The Morung Express

Chidambaram bolsters Congress attack on Sushma on Lalit Modi link New Delhi, JuNe 17 (iANS): The controversy over Sushma Swaraj helping former IPL chief Lalit Modi continued to billow as senior Congress leader and former union finance minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday accused the external affairs minister of "nepotism" and abuse of authority even as the government reiterated its stand that she had committed no impropriety. Speaking to reporters in Chennai, Chidambaram also asked the government about the steps it has taken to bring back the former IPL chief, who faces an Enforcement Directorate notice for alleged financial impropriety. Chidambaram said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has confirmed that the Enforcement Directorate was investigating 16 cases against Modi and show cause notice was issued in 15 cases. Posing seven questions to the government, Chidambaram said if Sushma Swaraj wanted to facilitate Modi getting travel documents on humanitarian grounds, she should have asked him to get in touch with the Indian High Commission in London. "Why did she feel he should have UK travel documents rather than Indian travel documents?" he asked. Levelling a series of allegations, Chidambaram said it was "nepotism, abuse of authority and violation of rules". He also asked the National Democratic Alliance government to make public the letters exchanged between him and British Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne. Chidambaram said he wrote to his British counterpart Osborne that Lalit Modi was being investigated under Indian

laws and the British government should send him back to India as his passport was revoked by the Indian government. Calling him "Maun Modi", Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala questioned Narendra Modi's "conspiratorial" silence on the Lalit Modi controversy. "The prime minister is doing 'Maun Yoga' and his new name should be 'Maun Modi'," Surjewala said at a press conference. "He (Modi) has been quiet for four days now. There is no tweet from him," Surjewala said. On Wednesday, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad backed Sushma Swaraj, saying she did not commit an action of impropriety or corruption by helping Lalit Modi procure documents to travel to Portugal. On Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, whose name also cropped up in the controversy, Prasad said the details would have to be looked into."Vasundhara ji has spoken slightly yesterday (Tuesday). I am sure she will revert back," he said. The Congress on Wednesday demanded Vasundhara Raje's resignation over allegations that she testified in favour of former IPL chief Lalit Modi's British immigration application in 2011. "The chief minister has no right to continue in office," Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot said at a press conference in Delhi.The Rajasthan unit of the Congress passed a resolution at its executive meeting in Udaipur demanding Raje's ouster. In Kolkata, Youth Congress workers burnt effigies of Sushma Swaraj and Lalit Modi and demanded the sacking of the union minister as well as Raje over the controversy.

Kerry speaks to Sharif to reduce Indo-Pakistan tension wAShiNgtON, JuNe 17 (iANS): "Enormously concerned" over recent increase in tensions between India and Pakistan, US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to work out how to tamp them down, acknowledging that the latter had just finished a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The increase "in the tensions publicly between India and Pakistan" over India's surgical cross border strike against militants in Myanmar, was "of enormous concern to all of us for all the obvious reasons," he said via teleconference Tuesday. The 71-year-old diplomat, who

suffered a broken leg two weeks ago, made a surprise appearance at the State Department's daily press briefing on crutches on a television screen remotely from his Boston home. "These are two very, very important countries playing a critical role with respect to regional interests," said Kerry who broke his right femur in a bicycling accident in France and had surgery at a Boston hospital. "And it's very, very important that there be no misinterpretation or miscalculation with respect to any of the back-and-forth and the empowerment some entities might feel as a result of that," he said.

"The prime minister was extremely forthcoming," said Kerry adding, "He could not have been more direct. He had actually just finished a conversation himself with the prime minister of India," Narendra Modi. "And we welcomed some thinking together about how we can work, all of us, to try to reduce those tensions over the course of the next days and weeks," he said. Kerry, who was due to fly to Washington later Tuesday, did not say whether he had or planned to have similar conversations with Modi or other Indian officials. After introducing the department's new spokesman, John Kirby, on what was Kirby's first day at the

podium, Kerry gave a short statement starting with his conversation with Sharif earlier in the day about tensions between India and Pakistan. He also tackled questions from reporters about the Iran nuclear talks, Syria and other hot issues. After "spending a fair amount of time in the next few days focused on China for the Security & Economic Dialogue," he would be going to Vienna "to conduct what one hopes would be the closeout" of Iran nuclear talks. Kerry said the talks, which have a deadline of June 30, "remain tough," but insisted the US had not changed its position "one iota" in recent months.

Can't frame rules for transgenders in UPSC exams: Centre to HC New Delhi, JuNe 17 (iANS): The central government told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that rules for including transgenders in the UPSC examinations cannot be framed as the Supreme Court has not clarified the definition of a 'transgender'. An application seeking clarification on the term 'transgender' has been filed, the central government's Department of Personnel and Training and Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) told a division bench of Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice P.S. Teji. "Since the Supreme Court judgment did not clarify the term 'trangender', we have already moved an application for clarification on the definition of transgender. After

clarification, rules can be framed," the central government said, asking the high court not to pass any interim order in the case. The court was hearing a PIL seeking quashing of the UPSC notice for not including transgender as a gender option in the application form for civil services preliminary examination. The court had earlier asked the central government and the UPSC why the transgender category was not been included as an eligibility criteria for the examinations when the Supreme Court has declared such individuals as third gender. In April 2014, the Supreme Court created the "third gender" status for 'hijras' or transgenders and asked the central government to treat them as "socially and eco-

nomically backward". Earlier, transgenders were forced to write male or female in the gender column. The Supreme Court had said transgenders would be allowed admission in educational institutions and given employment on the basis of third gender category. Filing its response, the central government said that as the application for modification or clarification on the issue was still pending with the apex court, "no decision or order has been passed by the central government for declaring transgender persons as third gender". "As such, the inclusion of transgenders in the application form (of UPSC) at this stage has not been carried out," the government said. It added that the apex court judgment had ob-

Constipation has hit urban India's quality of life: Survey KOlKAtA, JuNe 17 (iANS): Bhaskor Banerjee had a tough time dealing with it in "Piku", but in reality, chronic constipation has significantly affected urban India's quality of life, a survey claimed on Wednesday. Chronic constipation significantly impacts people's quality of life due to lack of sleep, and mental and physical stress, compared to those who do not have constipation, according to the "Gut-Health Survey". It said 14 percent of India's urban population suffer from chronic constipation, an inability to pass stool for more than three times a week and for more than three months at a stretch. The findings showed 60 percent of people with chronic constipation opted for home remedies as the most preferred treatment option for relief. However, half the people who self-medicate eventually visited a doctor for cure, said the survey. Irritability, lack of interest in work, mood swings, worry and embarrassment were the most common effects, noted among 3,500 individuals across six Indian cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Coimbatore. The findings highlighted that inci-

dence of constipation was higher in India than the worldwide average of 10 percent. Leading causes for constipation were "significantly higher frequency of eating non-vegetarian food, low water intake, snacking and eating fried, oily, spicy, junk and processed food". The survey said: "Three out of four people with chronic constipation said it leads to other medical problems/complications with piles and haemorrhoids, ulcers, abdominal pain and anal fissures as the leading issues." "While the relief to this nagging issue is easy, people with constipation generally try out multiple self-medication options and come to a doctor only after the issue has become chronic. "Untreated constipation can lead to complications like faecal incontinence, haemorrhoids and anal fissures. Greater awareness, timely action, lifestyle modifications and eating right can help people lead a healthy and active life," said Jyoti Ranjan Mohapatra, consultant gastrointestinal and liver diseases, associated with Peerless/Apollo Hospital. The survey was conducted by pharmaceutical firm Abbott along with Ipsos, a global market research agency.

served that "even gay, lesbian, bisexual are included by the descriptor as 'transgender'". However, the stand of the government is that the concept of gay, lesbian, bisexual is based on the 'sexual orientation' of the person, while the term 'transgender' has to do with the person's own deep sense of gender identity. "Worldwide, the term used is LGBT, that is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender; that in view of the same, the transgender persons may also be gay, lesbian or bisexual because of their sexual orientation, but per se, gay, lesbian and bisexual are not transgender persons," the government said. "From a plain reading of the Supreme Court judgment, it appears that all transgender per-

sons have been treated and declared as 'third gender'. However, the definition of 'transgender' remains unclear," the government said. The petition filed by advocate Jamshed Ansari sought inclusion of transgenders as an eligibility criterion or gender option in the online application forms for the civil services exam, saying it would "benefit the transgender community who are socially excluded from public employment and are suffering from social backwardness in the society". In the absence of third gender option, transgenders were unable to apply for the civil services (preliminary) examination scheduled for August 23, the plea said. The court posted the matter for July 27.

An Indian woman bends as she prepares to walk in through an opening in an old gate decorated with horseshoes in Allahabad on Wednesday, June 17. Apart from strengthening the wooden panels, people believe that these horseshoes ward off the evil eye and bring good fortune. (AP Photo)

Centre, Kejriwal just making empty promises: Rahul Gandhi New Delhi, JuNe 17 (Pti): Rahul Gandhi today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying change cannot be brought by merely making promises and alleged that poor were being deprived of their rights in the name of development. Putting his weight behind sanitation workers from civic bodies agitating for payment of salary dues at Jantar Mantar here, the Congress Vice President sought to link their demands with the "honour" of the poor and said he would stand by them for any cause to put up a united fight. "This is not a fight for Delhi's cleanliness, a fight for the country's clean-

liness. This is a fight for your honour. I wanted to bring some of my strength amongst you.... Together we will show what your strength is," he said, offering his unstinted support for the oppressed sections of society. Attacking the Prime Minister and Delhi CM, he said, "Modiji and Kejriwal think that after merely making promises they can bring about a change. No change can be brought by making promises. A change can be brought only after standing here and exerting pressure." Addressing the safai karamcharis for the second time in six days, he said, "You may think I have come to speak for safai karamcharis. These speeches are for

the poor farmers, labourers, safai karamcharis and all those weak and oppressed of the entire country." Vowing to fight for the rights of weaker sections, which the party is keen to woo back, Rahul said, "I am standing with you, whereever you want. For one day, 10 days, 50 days or 100 days." He said whereever they wanted, he was available for the smallest of issues - be it their salary, contract labour or their honour. Earlier talking about his Chhattisgarh tour, where he undertook a 'padyatra' for the rights of farmers and tribals, he said while the rich snatched away the land of the poor for earning big money in the name of development.

Union Cabinet approves 'Housing for all by 2022' New Delhi, JuNe 17 (iANS): The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the launch of 'Housing for All by 2022' programme, aimed at rehabilitation of slum dwellers and promotion of affordable housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) through creditlinked subsidy. According to an official statement issued here, a central grant of Rs.1 lakh per house, on an average, would be available under the slum rehabilitation programme. It said a state government would have flexibility in deploying this slum rehabilitation grant to any slum rehabilitation project taken for development using land as a resource for providing houses to slum dwellers. "Under the credit-linked interest subsidy component, interest subsidy of 6.5% on housing loans availed up to a tenure of 15 years will be provided to economic weaker sections/lower income group (EWS/LIG) categories, wherein the subsidy pay-out on net present value (NPV) basis would be about Rs.2.3 lakh per house for both cat-

egories," the statement said. It said the central assistance at the rate of Rs.1.5 lakh per house for the EWS category will be provided under the affordable housing in partnership and beneficiary-led individual house construction or enhancement. State governments or their parastatals like housing boards can take up projects of affordable housing to avail the central government grant, it added. Addressing a press conference after the cabinet meeting, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said housing for all would a centrallysponsored scheme. "The scheme will be implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme except the credit linked subsidy component, which will be implemented as a central sector scheme," he said. The scheme will cover the entire urban area consisting of 4,041 statutory towns with initial focus on 500 class I cities and it will be implemented in three phases as follows - Phase-I (April 2015 - March 2017) to cover 100 cities to be selected from states/UTs as per their willingness; Phase - IIA (April 2017

- March 2019) to cover additional 200 cities and Phase-III (April 2019 - March 2022) to cover all other remaining cities.The dimension of the task at present is estimated at two crore houses. The exact number of houses, though, would depend on the demand survey for which all states/cities would undertake detailed demand assessment for assessing actual demand by integrating Aadhar number, Jan Dhan Yojana account numbers or any such identification of intended beneficiaries. Rs.3,900 crore for KVK The Cabinet chaired also gave its approval for the continuation and strengthening of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) and setting up new ones with an outlay of Rs.3,900 crore. The scheme envisages continuation of 642 existing KVKs and establishing 109 new KVKs during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17) to carry out a wide range of mandated activities. The scheme includes initiation of new components, namely information and communication technology (ICT) in agri-

culture, Farmer FIRST programme, creation of farm innovation fund, disaster management fund and technology information units, an official release said on Wednesday. It also includes mini-seed processing facilities, micro nutrient analysis facilities, solar panels, vKVK (voice KVK) and KVK net and specialised KVKs. Raising solar power to 100,000 MW Meanwhile, in a major decision to boost use of clean energy in India, the union cabinet on Wednesday decided to quintuple solar energy capacity under the National Solar Mission towards achieving 100,000 MW by 2022."The ministry of new and renewable energy intends to achieve the target of 100,000 MW with targets under the three schemes of 19,200 MW," the cabinet communique said. The CCEA on Wednesday also approved setting up of over 2,000 MW of grid-connected solar projects on build, own and operate (BOO) basis under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.

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Hong Kong debates election reform plan with veto likely HONG KONG, JuNE 17 (REutERs): Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers appeared to be standing firm on Wednesday in their pledge to veto Beijing-backed electoral reforms, as the Asian financial center’s legislature debated the package that will define its democratic future. The former British colony has reinforced security after mass protests crippled parts of the city late last year, presenting China’s ruling Communist Party with one of its biggest political challenges in decades. More than a thousand people converged outside government buildings as debate began on a blueprint that would allow a direct vote for Hong Kong’s next leader in 2017, but only from pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates. Opponents want a genuinely democratic election for the city’s chief executive in line with Beijing’s promise of universal suffrage made when the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Pro-democracy activists climbed over metal fences separating them from the Beijing supporters, many of whom were wearing numbered shirts, the significance of which was not immediately clear. The two sides cursed and threw garbage and fights broke out. The council adjourned in the evening without a

vote which is expected no later than Friday. Democracy activists swore at proestablishment lawmakers as they filed out of the building. “You don’t represent us, you represent the central government!” one middleaged woman shouted, using a common and colorful Cantonese expletive. Hong Kong’s 27 “pandemocrats”, who hold a crucial one-third veto bloc in the 70-seat Legislative Council, have vowed to oppose what they call a “fake” democratic model. Three democrats who spoke early during the debate reiterated that pledge. If the reform proposals are passed unexpectedly, pro-democracy groups have vowed to protest. “This morning I got a very long and well-written letter, which was from a student. (They) hope I will support the proposal,” democrat Ronny Tong, who was close to tears, told reporters before the debate began. “I cannot think of anyone in Hong Kong who is happy today. I have been a legislator for 11 years, with an aim to fight for universal suffrage. Today I will cast a negative vote for an incomplete and unsatisfactory political reform proposal.” Democratic lawmaker Claudia Mo called the package a “maggot-eaten apple”. “This motion, this resolution is a fraud,” Mo said.

“This bill makes nonsense of the word democracy. It is a very bogus version of universal suffrage.” Last year’s protests revealed sharp divisions in Hong Kong and public opinion on the reforms remains split. The final round of a rolling poll conducted by three Hong Kong universities showed 47 percent of respondents backed the reform proposal. Thirtyeight percent were against, while 15 percent were undecided. Pro-democracy lawmakers holding boxes of votes collected from public against the “Cannot Go On Like This” Beijing supporters easily outnumbered the roughly 400 pro-democracy protesters on Wednesday. Activist groups had said they expected 100,000 protesters to show up. “The bill needs to go through. We have to support Hong Kong stability. We cannot keep carrying on like this,” said a 60-yearold man surnamed Chan, who declined to give his first name. “We have worked so hard all these years,” said Chan, who was waving a Chinese flag. Pro-Beijing supporters also played the Chinese national anthem through loudspeakers. One pro-democracy protester wearing a black T-shirt which read “Reject Fake Suffrage” held a blackand-white banner that declared: “Overthrow the Communist dictatorship”. Inside the legislature,

North Korea says it has been hit by worst drought in 100 years sEOuL, JuNE 17 (AP): North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture. The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought has caused about 30 percent of its rice paddies to dry up. Rice plants normally need to be partially submerged in water during the early summer. “Water level of reservoirs stands at the lowest, while rivers and streams (are) getting dry,” it said in

a report Tuesday. An official from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, who asked not to be identified because of office rules, said precipitation in North Korea was abnormally low in May. Its production of rice and potatoes could decline by as much as 20 percent compared to average years if the shortage of rainfall extends to early July, he said. The official couldn’t confirm North Korea’s claim that it was experiencing its worst drought in a century.

KCNA said other crops were being planted in paddy fields in an attempt to reduce the agricultural shortfall. North Korea suffered a devastating famine during the 1990s that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. The famine is also believed to have loosened the authoritarian state’s control over the economy by damaging its public food distribution system and paving the way for private economic activity in unofficial markets.

“Me? Rich?” USA presidential hopefuls play middle-class card NEW YORK, JuNE 17 (REutERs): Don’t call Chris Christie rich. The Clintons say they still have bills to pay. And Mike Huckabee? Despite his wealth, he was born “blue collar, not blue blood.” Touting one’s humble beginnings has been part of U.S. presidential contenders’ playbook going back to Abraham Lincoln’s talk of his log cabin youth. But the 2016 hopefuls are working harder than ever to convince voters they are just like them. In burnishing their working- and middle-class credentials the hopefuls are following a shift in the political debate from jobs and a fragile economic recovery during the 2012 campaign to one now centered on income inequality. That reflects a deepening sense that seven years after the Great Recession any gains have gone to the wealthy, while millions of Americans continue to struggle. “The divide between the governing elite and the voters has never been so big,” said David Carney, a New Hampshire-based Republican strategist. Most of today’s presidential candidates, he noted, come from privileged backgrounds, leaving them open to criticism that they can’t relate to the money worries of so many families. John Weaver, a former advisor to 2008 Republican nominee John McCain, said candidates understand that. “Wide swathes of the country, geographically and demographically, have been left behind. Politicians are clever enough to figure that out.” Many respondents in Reuters polls say a candidate’s wealth would influence how they vote. The number of those who say they would be much less or somewhat less likely to support a “very wealthy” presidential candidate rose to 42 percent in March 2015 from 39 percent in November 2012. To be sure, Americans have elected plenty of rich presidents, such as John F. Kennedy in 1960. Tim Albrecht, a Republican strategist from Iowa, calls the current

phenomenon of candidates playing down their wealth “the Romney effect.” Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, often came across as distant or indifferent, a factor in his general election loss. Humbler Than Thou With a crowded field - at least 12 Republican hopefuls have declared so far even just a few percentage points could separate front runners from also rans, making it crucial to appeal to as many people as possible. Thus the humble roots card from many candidates, even if most are still among the wealthiest Americans. While many of them skew quite wealthy - such as former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, worth about $59 million - a few have more modest nest eggs, such as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose most recent financial disclosure suggests a net worth that is perhaps in the tens of thousands, but is possibly even negative. The humbler-than-thou game nonetheless favors candidates such as Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who often talks of his Cuban immigrant parents, his father a bartender, his mother a maid, and his own student debt. It is no coincidence that reforming student loans is one of his policy proposals. His net worth was $443,509 in 2013, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit group that tracks money in U.S. politics. And Walker often talks about penny pinching, bragging in New Hampshire this year that he once stacked so many coupons and discounts that he bought a sweater at discount department store Kohl’s for $1. At the other end of the spectrum are Republicans Fiorina and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Democrat Hillary Clinton. They are most vulnerable to criticism that they are out of touch not just because of their considerable personal wealth but also because of their association with powerful political families.

government’s controversial electoral proposal outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Hong Kong election reform proposals that sparked massive street protests last year in the southern Chinese financial center were presented Wednesday to lawmakers. (AP Photo)

democrats stood in a row with signs with crosses on them as they pledged to vote down the plan. Tension has been running high, especially after 10 people were arrested this week on suspicion of explosives offences. Six of them appeared in court on Wednesday charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion. The six were not asked to enter pleas. A 29-year-old woman was let out on bail of HK$20,000 ($2,580). Five men were remanded in custody. The Communist Party’s official People’s Daily said in a front-page commentary that the vote was fundamentally about ensuring long-term prosperity and stability. The proposed package, it added, was designed to

be a broadly representative one all sides could accept. “Looking around the world, some countries’ and regions’ universal suffrage systems are not in line with the actual situation on the ground, causing social chaos, economic hardship and difficulties too numerous to mention,” the paper said. Beijing has tried to lobby pro-democracy lawmakers to back the blueprint. Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption has also said it is investigating allegations by an unidentified legislator that he was offered a bribe to vote for the package. Hong Kong returned to China under a “one country, two systems” formula that gives it a separate legal system and greater free-

doms than the party-ruled mainland - and the promise of universal suffrage. Thousands of activists blockaded major roads across Hong Kong for 79 days last year, defying tear gas and pepper spray, to press China to honor that promise. While flawed, the package is still the most progressive electoral model ever offered by China’s leaders in what might be a pilot for other cities within mainland China, according to a source close to Beijing’s leadership. If the plan is vetoed, Hong Kong’s next leader will be selected as before by a 1,200-member committee stacked with proBeijing loyalists. Beijing would be unlikely to offer any fresh concessions to Hong Kong anytime soon.

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Amnesty accuses Myanmar govt of intimidating media

YANGON, JuNE 17 (AP): Myanmar’s government is using threats, harassment and imprisonment to intimidate the media ahead of national elections later this year, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The London-based human rights group said efforts to restrict freedom of expression have intensified over the past year, with at least 10 members of the media currently languishing in prison, all of them jailed in the last 12 months. Such actions belie claims of liberalization since the country started a democratic transition in 2011 from a military regime to an elected civilian government that vowed democratic reforms, Amnesty said in a 22page report. Significant changes have been made in moving the country to a free-market economy, and Myanmar has a parliament for the first time in more than two decades. Formal censorship has been dropped and the electronic and print media opened to competition, but the government has aggressively prosecuted publications and journalists over stories it has found offensive. “What we are seeing in Myanmar today is repression dressed up as progress,” Amnesty said in a statement that quoted its Southeast Asia research director, Rupert Abbott. “Authorities are still relying on the same old tactics — arrests, surveillance, threats and jail time to muzzle those journalists who cover ‘inconvenient’ topics.” Information Minister and presidential spokesman Ye Htut disputed Amnesty’s criticism. “We usually don’t pay attention to such statements by international organizations because they focus solely on freedom of expression,” he said. Ye Htut said that because Myanmar is still making a transition to democracy, it has to measure freedom based on “the country’s fragile social and political factors, freedom along with responsibility and abidance of media ethics.” Myanmar most serious challenges include placating armed ethnic minorities who for decades have been seeking greater autonomy, and ending often violent communal tensions between Buddhist and Muslims. The upcoming polls are expected to see Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party perform strongly against the current military-backed government, threatening the power of the army, which many see as still pulling the strings in running the country. Amnesty cited the cases since 2014 of at least 10 journalists imprisoned from two to seven years under criminal charges and “vaguely formulated laws” and the killing of a journalist in military custody. The group charged that the authorities are also often dragging the media through lengthy and costly legal processes, or relying on collective punishment where the response to one critical story is prosecuting several people from the same outlet to effectively shut down the whole outlet.

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Asian powers unconvincing in World Cup qualifying John Duerden

AP Sports Writer

he four power teams of Asian football avoided defeat in their opening World Cup qualifiers, yet none put in performances that will dispel the doubts about the strength of the region's teams following their combined winless record at the 2014 World Cup. Almost 60,000 saw Japan held to a scoreless draw at home by Singapore, ranked 154 in the world, in a disappointing first competitive game under new coach Vahid Halilhodzic; Iran too was held to a draw against lowly Turkmenistan; while Australia and South Korea — the two finalists from the Asian Cup in January — labored to wins over modest Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar respectively. Japan, boasting stars such as Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa and Shinji Okazaki, defeated Iraq 4-0 in a lead-up friendly but could not find the net against Singapore. The Blue Samurai are already two points down on what they would have expected in Group E of the second qualifying round, in which 40 teams are split into eight groups of five with first place yielding an automatic spot in the final round along with the four bestperforming runners-up. "I've never seen a situation like this before in my career," said Halilhodzic, appointed in February after Japan's dismissal of Javier Aguirre. "We kept creating chances and the players gave everything to get the win. The only thing that was missing was a goal. It's difficult to accept but there is no need to be despondent." Singapore, whose coach Bernd Stange said before the game that it would be a "world sensation" if his team took a point from Japan, tops the group with four points from its two games. Australia enjoyed a stroke of luck in the second

Australia's Aziz Behich, right, fights for the ball with Kyrgyzstan's Farhat Musabekov and Kyrgyzstan's Anton Zemlianukhin, background centre, during the 2018 World Cup qualifying Round 2 Group B soccer match between Kyrgyzstan and Australia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on June 16. (AP Photo)

minute against Kyrgyzstan. Mile Jedinak's free-kick took a freak bounce in the penalty area and went in. Thereafter, the Asian champion struggled to find any fluency against the committed host and was relieved to come away from Bishkek with a 2-1 win. "I'm glad it was that sort of game in some sense because it's given the guys a taste of what World Cup qualifying is all about." coach Ange Postecoglou said. Iran, still coached by Carlos Queiroz, was held 1-1 at Turkmenistan despite taking an early lead through star young striker Sardar Azmoun. South Korea was relieved to win 2-0 against Myanmar, which had to 'host' the game in Bangkok after recent crowd trouble at home. Uli Stielike's Koreans looked comfortable at the back but sluggish going forward, and both goals came from set pieces. Son Heung-min provided the first for Lee Jae-sung and the Bayer Leverkusen star added a second from a freekick. "We got the result we wanted and now it's time to look forward," Son said.

Myanmar was one of a number of nations forced to host games abroad: Yemen has hosted its home game in Qatar, Palestine in Saudi Arabia, Timor Leste in Malaysia and Afghanistan in Iran. Syria and Iraq will also need to find a second 'home' later in the round. Yemen lost 2-1 to the Philippines in Qatar due to the ongoing conflict around Sana'a. "At this moment, we can't play at home because there is a war," Yemen's Czech coach Miroslav Soukup told The Associated Press. "If we could you would see tens of thousands of passionate supporters in the stadium, the atmosphere would be amazing and the situation would be very different." With the major powers struggling, the smaller nations shone. Guam tops Iran's group with six points from the opening two games after beating India 2-1. In Group A, Palestine thrashed Malaysia 6-0 in Kuala Lumpur, and North Korea downed Group H favorite Uzbekistan 4-2 to move level on points with the Philippines.

Fresh beginning for india in odis against upbeat bangladesh

Mirpur, June 17 (pTi): It will be a fresh beginning for a full-strength India in limited overs cricket after the World Cup semifinal exit as they face a buoyant Bangladesh, who have more to gain then their famed neighbours, in the three-match ODI series starting here tomorrow. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is back at the helm, along with six other ODI specialists to take on a side that made the cricket world sit up and take notice by reaching the 2015 World Cup quarterfinals, where they were knocked out by an in-form Indian side. The series is a platform for the hosts to exact revenge for the World Cup defeat, which had turned ugly after the then ICC President Mustafa Kamal of Bangladesh accused the umpires of favouring India. As far as the Indian team is concerned, even a 3-0 result against the hosts will not be enough for the second-placed side to claim the number one spot

in the ICC rankings, while a favourable outcome for the home team will boost its qualifying chances for the 2017 Champions Trophy. Besides an opportunity to erase the memories of the World quarterfinal debacle Down Under, the prospect of earning a Champions Trophy berth will be motivation enough for the Tigers to roar. Arriving here with their main team, India have given enough indication of, in Suresh Raina's words, "how important a series this is for us". From the Indian squad's point of view, this series is a far cry from the one that played against the same opponents in June last year. Back then, eight first-choice players were rested for a three-ODI tour and seven of them are part of this one. The seven players - Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bhuvneshwar Kumar - were seen in the nets at the academy ground of the Shere

Berne, June 17 (reuTerS): Switzerland's attorney general said on Wednesday his office had seized around nine terabytes of data as part of a sweeping investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption at world soccer's governing body FIFA. Michael Lauber told journalists he would not rule out interviewing FIFA President Sepp Blatter and General Secretary Jerome Valcke, though no individuals were being targeted at the moment. "Our investigation is of great complexity and quite substantial," he said in his first public comments since his office seized FIFA computer data last month. "So far our investigative team obtained evidence concerning 104 banking relations (relationships between banks and clients). And be aware that every banking relation represents several bank accounts,"

Bangla National Stadium ahead of the first game. Asked if the series holds significance, Raina said, "Yes definitely. You saw

Lauber added in Berne. Sepp Blatter announced he planned to step down as the head of the Swiss-based organisation earlier this month as U.S. and Swiss authorities widened their investigations. Switzerland is particularly focused on the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively to Russia and Qatar. Asked whether the Swiss investigation could derail Russia's plans, Lauber said that decision was not his problem. He said that transactions investigators were looking at included 53 which had been flagged in suspicious activity reports by Switzerland's Financial Intelligence Unit, an anti-money laundering agency. Lauber added that his office had seized nine terabytes of data. By comparison, the U.S. Library of Congress has published estimates on its website that its entire collection of printed

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India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, left, teammates Virat Kohli, center, and Shikhar Dhawan attend a practice session a day ahead of their one-day international cricket match against Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 17. (AP Photo)

that after the IPL, the full Test team came and now the full ODI team has come. "Bangladesh have done well in ODIs recent-

ly, and this shows how important a series this is for us. We have done well in ODIs recently, and we are looking forward to it.

Swiss prosecutor says seized 9 terabytes of FIFA evidence

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nd so we drove past the welcome gate and on to the famous highway. Inside the car I switched on my electronic device to call home and friends to inform that I had reached safely. I had about 70 WhatsApp messages from 5 friends. Nothing new in receiving so many messages at one time. However, all of them decided to send me the same pictures. Pictures of people I do not know, of some girls with old men, some of them had drinks in their hands, some playing cards, some hugging, some sitting on one another’s lap, all of them looking so happy. I thought “Oh! Grand daughters khan America pura apotsa ke lok paboley ahikena celebrate kuria ase” and did not bother with it so much. Of course I did think about the playing cards and the drinks, but who said Nagas can’t play cards and have drinks. There are also issues with photo shopping pictures, and some few other thoughts. For a short while I was angry with my friends “If I want to pleasure my eyes and anything, I know websites that will fulfill my desires. Why this?” In any case I did not want to think about it for more than 5 minutes so I promptly expunged all thoughts of the pictures and began to concentrate on my beautiful land- Nagaland. To my utter surprise, the highway was plyable. Because, earlier I remember some people died when the vehicle they were travelling overturned as they tried to escape some gigantic craters. But this time I did not see any such craters that would overturn cars and kill people. As narrow as it can be, the highway was well tarred and we reached my transit house at Chumu and rested there for a while. I am not a Dimapur person. I find the place extremely unpleasant and too “wannabe” but cannot. I will talk about it in another piece. Therefore, I refuse to spend time there and had to whizz up the hills. So, when I say home, it always begins after Chumu, the first sign of the hills. It was time to head for Kohima, the capital town, the town where I was born, the town which nurtured me for the better half of my growing years. I was with my dad and we took the trip to Kohima together. Every single breath was fresh and precious. The smell of the mountains, the greens, the zigzag winding roads, the vegetables and fruitseverything seems original. Somewhere along the highway, the well melted highway, there was also a new bridge. My pride soared and my heart went “Wow development!” The only time

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we had a bump was when our car ran over a tiny pebble loosely lying in the middle of the road. That can happen even in Paris or London. My dad, famous for motion sickness, was not sick at all. Must be the highway- the well kept highway! I was madly blinded by the love for my hometown that I did not notice anything negative. On reaching Kohima, we were greeted by a huge traffic jam, but I was blinded, and I thought to myself “I love long line of cars moving slowly at 1 meter per 10 minutes”. So, we were moving slowly, which gave me sufficient time to turn my head around every direction to snoop. Like I saw most shopkeepers are nonNaga, but they looked like Nagas, because I was blinded by love. Even the roads were not as bad as it was before I left. It is not my fault that I thought what one of our ministers famously said was true- that the rain washes away the roads therefore it is unable to have good roads. Stop the rains? The rhetoric played along with my thoughts, but who am I to go against our minister’s wise observation? Slowly but surely we neared our destination. And Bang! Like a horror movie effect, our car gave a monstrous bump and our body jerked violently. “That thing” from Teen Patti towards DBHSS, is that a road? Why are vehicles plying on “that thing?” I was to have a big debate with one of my good friends on the question of whether it was a road or not. Since Adam, “that thing” was like that. Strangely people and cars move along pretending that it is indeed a road. I know a guy who was drunk one night and walking along “that thing”, stumbled and fell into a corner. When people asked him he said “ekta nala pura ekta nala tey kirishey”! Ordinary minds would not understand this cryptic statement. But he had spoken a truth, wherein lies mysterious answers that will substantiate my opinion whilst debating with my friend. With much topsy-turvy 5 minutes ride on “that thing” we managed to reach home safely. The next few days were gallivanting times. From those “headquarters” to “sunset boulevard” (Beyond New Secretariat), to friends place to cousins place I hopped along, never a moment of boredom. In the meantime, those pictures, which I received from friends immediately after landing in Dimapur, became the central foci of discussion in all gatherings with friends. Older generations do not WhatsApp much, therefore, it escaped many wise eyes. But the younger ones

are even more critical and techno savvy so it went viral. I, as a Naga from Nagaland where corruption is rampant, thought ‘corruptedly’ about the pictures “Stupid people! How careless! Why would they publicize it?” I was meaning to say “Do it, but behind cameraless bedrooms.” But the rooms apparently had cameras and the pictures became the bed and breakfast theme. With so much respect for individual rights and privacy we started to rationally debate about the subjects and objects of the pictures, which led to conjectures. I was stunned beyond rational thinking when we arrived at a conclusion that there should be CCTV running 24x7 in every room in all the offices. I panicked, and questions started to rumble through my head. How will people bribe now? How will people abstain from work? How will people steal? How will Nagas survive? - what will happen to the sole sources of income for many Nagas. Tears started to swell, but my best buddy took me on his shoulder and said “Don’t worry, God will make a way.” I smiled after what felt like eternal gloom. It is good to be a Christian! Our debate ended on a high note. It was about time to leave. I was to head back to Dimapur then to Delhi the next day. However, my stars would ensure that I will leave Kohima with my point rightly proven on “that thing” about which my friend and I had a hot debate. Earlier in the day, it drizzled leaving the ground muddy and full of quick-sand-like areas on “that thing.” Since I was leaving the next day me and this friend decided to visit some good ol’ friends, and we returned late, after all lights went down. It was difficult to see then. Like a child attracts to dirt and mud his right foot stepped on one of the quick-sand-like area, and as he struggled to free himself, his left foot stepped on another. He officially used many curse words which otherwise he will never. Now, I wanted to shout out loud “I told you!” My obnoxious side also wanted to remind him that we can also play “3,6”. I swear he would have killed me if I did, he did not look very friendly there. I swallowed my pride and slowly helped him out of his predicament. We wished cordial goodnights, and I rolled laughing immediately after reaching home. Thanks to “that thing.” The next day I headed for Dimapur- the city I love to dislike but end up going to! Toshi Longkumer, New Delhi

works amounts to 10 terabytes. Lauber said his work was completely independent of ongoing investigations in the United States. While Switzerland had received and fulfilled a request for legal assistance from the United States, Switzerland had not asked for any such help in return, he added. Lauber also said that while his investigation was looking closely at investigative materials generated by Michael Garcia, an American lawyer hired by FIFA as a special ethics investigator, the United States had not requested a copy of Garcia's report. Lauber declined to offer a timetable for developments in his investigation. "I don't care about the timetable of FIFA, I only care about my own timetable," Lauber told journalists. He said he had no complaints about FIFA's cooperation to date.

AFC general secretary quits amid probe

KuALA LuMpur, June 17 (Ap): The Asian Football Confederation says general secretary Alex Soosay has tendered his resignation with immediate effect. The AFC issued a statement Wednesday to announce the resignation, and to thank Soosay for his 20year career at the sport's regional governing body. Soosay was suspended last month amid allegations that he ordered a cover-up during an investigation into the organization in 2012. Malaysian newspaper The Malay Mail reported it had obtained a video from July 2012 which showed AFC financial director Bryan Kuan Wee Hong telling a FIFA investigator that Soosay had asked for any incriminating evidence potentially connecting him to wrongdoing under disgraced former president Mohamed bin Hamman to be concealed.

Leprosy: Symptom, Treatment & Care (A DIPR feature by Akummeren, Information Assistant)

eprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe disfiguring, skin sores and nerve damage in the arms and legs. The disease has been around since ancient times, often surrounded by terrifying and negative stigmas with tales of leprosy patients being shunned as outcasts. Outbreaks of leprosy have affected and panicked people on every continent. The oldest civilizations of China, Egypt and India feared leprosy as an incurable, mutilating, and contagious disease. However, leprosy is actually not that contagious. One can catch it only if he or she comes into close and repeated contact with nose and mouth droplets from someone with untreated leprosy. Children are more likely to get leprosy than adults. Leprosy is a chronic infection caused by Bacteria, Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. It mainly affects the peripheral nerves and skin. Initially, infections are without symptoms and typically remain this way for five to as long as twenty years. Symptoms that develop include granulomas of the nerves, respiratory tract, skin and eyes. This may result in a lack of ability to feel pain and thus loss of parts of extremities due to repeated injuries. Weakness and poor eyesight may also be present. Leprosy is spread between people and is believed to occur through cough or contact with fluid from the nose of an infected person. The two main types of disease are based on the number of bacteria present namely pauci bacillary and multi bacillary. How to suspect Leprosy: The main symptom of leprosy is disfiguring skin sores, lumps or bumps that do not go away after several weeks or months. The skin sores are pale-colored. The skin lesion can be single or multiple, usually less pigmented than the surrounding normal skin especially on ear lobes, face, trunk, arms and legs. Sometimes the lesion is reddish or copper-coloured. A variety of skin lesions may be seen but macules (flat), papules (raised), or nodules are common. Sensory loss is a typical feature of leprosy. The skin lesion may show loss of sensation to pin pick and/or light touch.

Thickened nerves, mainly peripheral nerve trunks constitute another feature of leprosy. A thickened nerve is often accompanied by other signs as a result of damage to the nerve. These may be loss of sensation in the skin and weakness of muscles supplied by the affected nerve. If such symptoms are noticed in a person, he or she should be taken to the Primary Health Center for confirmation of leprosy by the Medical Officer. Is leprosy curable? Leprosy is curable and can be cured if complete treatment (MDT) is taken regularly by the patient. The treatment of Leprosy is free of cost and is available at all Government Health Facilities (Centers). There are two group leprosy cases for treatment namely Pauci Bacillary (PB) – 1 to 5 skin patch and Multi Bacillary – more than 5 skin patch. In the case of Pauci Bacillary, a 6 monthly doses (to be completed in 9 months) treatment is prescribed while the Multi Bacillary is a 12 monthly doses (to be completed in 18 months) treatment. There can be some cases of reaction during the course of treatment. If the patches become red, swollen, warm and painful one should refer to the PHC Medical Officer. How to Monitor: Visit the patient under treatment every month to ensure about the drugs taken by checking the MTD packet. If the treatment is taken irregular or discontinued, refer the patient to the Medical Officer PHC to restart the treatment and ascertain the reasons. Self care practices: • Soak the hands/feet for about half an hour in lukewarm water • Apply cooking oil when hands/feet are wet • Protect hand against heat and friction • Use MCR footwear for anaesthetic feet and walk slowly with short steeps • Clean the wound with soap and water. Dress with clean cloth • Check eyes daily using mirror People with leprosy who take medicines given to them at a health centre regularly have less chance of disability. Take medicine everyday, even if the patches look better. Medicines for leprosy can cure the disease completely. (Source: National Leprosy Eradication Programme, H&FW, Nagaland)

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'Astronaut Wives Club' review: Seven interesting women, grounded in the '60s

BC branches out a little with “Astronaut Wives Club.” But don’t expect a completely different tree. “Astronaut Wives Club,” based on the Lily Koppel book, tracks the stories of the women who were married to America’s first astronauts in the 1960s. It explores serious issues, including the role and status of women then. To most of the men who ran the space program, and many other men as well, the wives were expected to be ornaments who stayed home, raised the kids and offered unconditional support. If they had an urge to be creative beyond that, they could whip up a new Jell-O dessert. The only problem, as we’ve come to realize in the subsequent half century, is that these women, like almost all women,

Chris Evans confirmed as new host of 'Top Gear'

V star Chris Evans has replaced Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all new line-up of "Top Gear" in 2016. Clarkson hosted the show Richard Hammond and James May from 2002 to March 2015. The official "Top Gear" site first posted the announcement that the "BBC Radio Two" presenter would be fronting a revamped version of the series, which is about motor vehicles, reported Contactmusic. "I'm so delighted that Chris will be presenting the next series of 'Top Gear'. His knowledge of and passion for cars is well-known, and combined with his sheer inventiveness and cheeky unpredictability he is the perfect choice to take our much-loved show into the future", said Kim Shillinglaw, the controller of BBC Two. "I promise I will do everything I possibly can to respect what has gone on before and take the show forward," the 49 year-old presenter said. "Top Gear" began in 1977 as a conventional motoring magazine programme, but over time, and especially since a relaunch in 2002, it has developed a quirky, humorous and sometimes controversial.

‘Princess Diaries 3’reportedly in the works at Disney

If invited to Shahid's wedding, I would go: Kareena Kapoor Khan

ctress Kareena Kapoor Khan is quite "happy" to hear about the upcoming wedding of her ex-boyfriend Shahid Kapoor and says she might attend the Dday. Kareena, 34, and the "Haider" star dated each other for three years before separating in 2007. The 34-year-old actor is getting married to a Delhi girl, Mira Rajput, soon. "I was aware about his marriage. Shahid had told me he is getting married. I am happy. Marriage is a beautiful commitment and I wish him all the best," Kareena told PTI in an interview. When asked if she has any piece of advice for Shahid, Kareena, who has been married to actor Saif Ali Khan for three years now, said, "I am nobody to advise anyone." On attending Shahid's wedding, if invited, she said, "Yes, I would." Before his wedding bells rang, Sha-

hid was linked to a series of Bollywood a c t re s s e s, including, Vidya Balan, Priyanka Chopra, Sonakshi Sinha, Nargis Fakhri, Bipasha Basu, Anushka Sharma and Huma Qureshi. The former couple will be next seen in 'Udta Punjab', though they will not be seen romancing each other. The film also featuring Alia Bhatt and Punjabi star Diljit Dosanjh. It revolves around the issue substance abuse in Punjab. "For us to come together in a film the script has to be good. There has never been a script. The script of 'Udta Punjab' required us. But we are not opposite each other, it is a three track film. My character is not romantically involved with him... We are part of the same drug dra-

ma," she said. "I am playing a doctor in the film. It is an amazing film... I loved the film. When Abhishek (Chaubey) was narrating me the film I found it brilliant. I wanted to be part of this film. I am sure people will talk about the film once it is released," she added. Kareena is happy with Shahid's recent success post his highly-acclaimed Vishal Bhardwajdirected "Haider". "I am happy for him. He is doing wonderful work... He is a good actor. I would love to work with him."

rincess Diaries 3" is in the works at Disney after eleven years according to a report from Tracking Board. The reason behind the production being hushed is allegedly because they are unsure if Anne Hathaway will be joining for the third round, or if they want her to. Sources told the site that they may not want to include the actress because they instead want to do a reboot of the franchise. The same producer from the other films, Debra Chase, will be returning in the remake according to reports. No more details regarding the project have been released and Disney has not yet confirmed anything. The original movies were based on Meg Cabot's book "The Princess Diaries" and follows young Mia as she discovers her ordinary life isn't so ordinary and that she's the princess of Genovia.

Donald Trump’s presidential bid forces NBC to put ‘The Apprentice’ franchise on hold

BC has elected to put "The Apprentice" franchise on hold for now as Donald Trump tries his best to be hired as president. Vowing to be "the greatest jobs president that God ever created," the 69-year-old billionaire and vocal conservative threw his hat into the ring Tuesday for the 2016 election. That means he will be too busy to host his signature reality competition series, which NBC already picked up for another season."We will re-evaluate Trump's role as host of 'Celebrity Apprentice' should it become necessary, as we are committed to

this franchise," the network said in a statement shortly after the Donald's speech. Using Trump on camera during his campaign is not an option for NBC, since federal regulations mandate equal time for presidential candidates. Still, it's a lucrative franchise to put on hold indefinitely — especially if Trump is busy for four years. "Our understanding is that NBC have said they will wait for him for as long as he's involved in the race," insider close to Trump told the Daily News' Confidenti@l. "And if he goes all the way, they'll find a replacement for him."

reveals her own line-up of Pop royalty for Latest video

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couldn’t be defined just within those parameters. They could support their husbands, raise the kids and still have a lot more to say and do. That’s what “Astronaut Wives Club” is really about, and it does a decent job of showing how these women, focusing on the original seven wives, navigated those unnecessarily choppy waters. With Yvonne Strahovski, Dominique McElligott, Odette Annable, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Erin Cummings, Azure Parsons and Zoe Boyle as the wives, the performances are strong. They quickly establish each woman as a distinct personality we care about. It’s also true that any time ABC gets a bunch of women together for prime-time drama, we can expect soap suds.

Actor Peter Dinklage poses for photographers to promote his upcoming film "The Angry Birds movie" at the Summer of Sony photo call in Cancun on Tuesday, June 16. (AP Photo)

ery few people break a trend before Queen of Pop, Madonna but it would seem Princess Pop Taylor Swift has pimped Madge to the post when it comes to video collaborations. Madonna recently teased a promotional poster on her Instagram for her latest video B**ch I’m Madonna which featured a party of pop perfection including Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Rita Ora. But haven’t we seen an artist draft in a host of her celebrity mates to make a big song splash before? Perhaps Swifty has just created some new Bad Blood with Madonna. Despite the imitation, or perhaps just delay in releasing the same idea, Madonna’s new teaser looks impressive as she ups the anticipation for her new song which is a collaboration with rapper Nicki Minaj. B**ch I’m Madonna is the latest release from her 13th studio album Rebel Heart and she is planning to premiere is on Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service of which she is a part owner. The Material Girl had promised the video would be ready for Tuesday; however, she admitted that it wasn’t yet ready. In a tweet, Madonna said: "Video coming soon! Just tryin to make it perfect for all of you. We are hard werking bitches! #bitchimmadonna."

Thursday 18 June 2015

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Warriors are NBA champs Golden State Warriors end 40-year drought

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CLEVELAND, JuNE 17 (AP): The Golden State Warriors clinched their first NBA championship since 1975 by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-97 in Game 6 on Tuesday, extending Cleveland's evenlonger title drought and denying LeBron James the fairytale finish to his homecoming season. League MVP Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala — named as an unlikely Finals MVP — each had 25 points for the Warriors, who won the final three games after Cleveland had led the Finals series 2-1. "To be able to hold this trophy and all the hard work we've put into it this season, this is special," Curry said. "We're definitely a great team and a team that should go down in history as one of the best teams from top to bottom." The Warriors overcame James' best efforts in the series and followed their 67-win regular season with a title despite none of their players having had any previous NBA Finals experience entering the series. James finished with 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists, falling just shy

of what would have been a record third triple-double in the series. "Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami or playing in Cleveland or playing on Mars," he said. "You lose in the finals, it's disappointing." He simply did not have enough support from an injury-stricken Cavaliers roster, and a half-centurylong title drought in Cleveland continues, with no team from the city having won a title in the top level of U.S. pro sports since the Cleveland Browns NFL team in 1964. Draymond Green recorded a triple-double for the Warriors, and for the first time since Gerald Ford was President, disco was in vogue and Rick Barry was flicking in free throws under-handed, the best pro basketball team resides in the Bay Area. After falling behind by two points early in the third quarter, the Warriors took control with Curry and Iguodala leading the way. They outscored the Cavaliers 28-18 in the third quarter, quieting a rocking Cleveland crowd and opening a lead even the brilliant James couldn't

The members of the Golden State Warriors celebrate after winning the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Cleveland, Wednesday, June 17. The Warriors defeated the Cavaliers 105-97 to win the best-of-seven game series 4-2. (AP Photo)

overcome. Golden State, having pushed its lead out to 15 points in the closing stages, allowed the Cavaliers to creep back within four points in the final minute and a remarkable comeback momentarily seemed possible, but the Warriors hung on. James returned from Miami to Cleveland this season to deliver a title to his home region, but the 30-year-old, left to do most of the work by himself after All-Stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured in the postseason, came two wins shy. James was superbly

dominant during the series, showing why he's the world's best player, but the Warriors were simply the better team. "We ran out of talent," said James, who sat facing his locker with a towel over his head for nearly an hour after the game. "We gave everything we had." Iguodala had the unenviable task of guarding James but did it so well — and contributed strongly to offense — that he was nominated as the player of the series. "This has been a long ride," Iguodala said. "It's been a great season." This series, which

opened with two overtime games in Oakland, flipped when coach Steve Kerr employed a small lineup in the fourth quarter of Game 3 and the Warriors nearly overcame a 20-point deficit before losing. Kerr stuck with revamped lineup in Game 4, giving Iguodala his first start this season, switching Green to center and benching the ineffective Andrew Bogut. The move was as golden as the Warriors, who finished with 83 wins, the thirdhighest single-season total in history. Only the 1995-96 and

1996-97 Bulls won more, and Kerr was on both of those teams. The fact that Iguodala, their sixth man, took MVP honors perhaps sums up the Warriors best. While Golden State had some solid teams in the past — the "Run TMC" version coached by Don Nelson and featuring Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond among them — the franchise has been undermined by dysfunction. Along with long playoff gaps, there were bad trades, poor drafts and numerous

coaching changes. Those days are gone, washed away by Curry and Thompson — the "Splash Brothers" — and a roster of selfless players who bonded under Kerr and have returned basketball glory to Oakland. "I remember coming to Oracle as a player year after year playing against lousy teams," Kerr said. "I could not be happier for our fan base." Kerr molded them. Hired last summer after spurning an offer from the Knicks, he won three of his five titles as Michael Jor-

dan's teammate in Chicago and two playing for Gregg Popovich in San Antonio. With Curry, the team's first MVP since Wilt Chamberlain, leading them, the Warriors outgunned everyone in the rugged Western Conference and entered the postseason as a No. 1 seed. They swept New Orleans, rallied from a 2-1 deficit to beat Memphis and then blew through Houston in five games to make the finals for the first time since '75. They then held off James and the Cavs, who just didn't have enough.

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US, Cameroon & Australia advance at WWCup Brazil to meet Serbia in

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WINNIPEG, JuNE 17 (AP): The United States beat Nigeria 1-0 to secure top place in its group at the Women's World Cup, while Australia and Cameroon got the results they needed to also reach the knockout stages on Tuesday. Australia drew 1-1 against Sweden at Edmonton to finish second behind the U.S. in Group D, and leave Sweden third, while Cameroon beat Switzerland 2-1 in Edmonton to take second ahead of the Swiss in Group C. In the day's other result, already-qualified Japan beat Ecuador 1-0 in Winnipeg to complete the group stage with three out of three wins. The best four of the six thirdplace teams will also progress to the last 16 in the Canada-based tournament. Those placings will be finalized by Wednesday's remain-

ing games in Groups E and F, but the Netherlands, with four points, and Switzerland, with three and a strong goal differential, are certain to be two of the four to advance. The United States needed a goal by veteran striker Abby Wambach late in the first half to beat Nigeria 1-0 in Vancouver. It was Wambach's 14th World Cup goal, putting her level with Germany's Birgit Prinz for second on the all-time list behind Brazil's Marta, who has 15. Wambach, who was used as a substitute in the previous game, started up front with Alex Morgan, who was making her first start of the tournament after working her way back from a bone bruise in her left knee. Australia knew a point against Sweden would be enough to reach the knockout stage, and secured its

place with a draw. Lisa De Vanna put Australia up 1-0 in the fifth minute after a breakaway behind the Swedish defense. Sweden equalized in the 15th on a strike from just outside the penalty box by Sofia Jakobsson. The Swedes had opportunities to go ahead but finished the group stage with a third straight draw, and will be sweating on Wednesday's results to know if that is enough to reach the next stage. Australia's opponent in the second round will be Brazil, which has already secured top spot in Group E with a game to spare. The game will be in the East Coast city of Moncton. Cameroon's Madeleine Ngono Mani came off the bench to score one of two second-half goals to beat Switzerland 2-1 and claim second place in Group C.

Switzerland led after Ana Maria Crnogorcevic's goal in the 24th minute, and it controlled the action for much of the half. However, Cameroon equalized on a powerful strike by Gabrielle Onguene straight after halftime. Mani, who came off the bench in the 57th, followed with her 40th career goal five minutes later for the win. Cameroon will play China in Edmonton on Saturday in the round of 16. Japan's Yuki Ogimi scored in the fifth minute and that was enough for the defending champion to beat Ecuador 1-0. It was the 54th international goal for Ogimi. Her shot from close range bounced in off the crossbar. Ecuador, which was outscored 16-1 in losses to Cameroon and Switzerland, kept this one close until the end.

Under-20 World Cup final

WELLINGTON, JuNE 17 (AP): Brazil beat Senegal 5-0 to join Serbia in the final of the Under-20 World Cup and bury on Wednesday the nascent suspicion football's great expressionists had embarked on a new, more sober course. After its latest matches against Uruguay and Portugal were scoreless and decided in penalty shootouts, speculation grew that a new generation was ushering in a more defensive style. A theory that Brazil's 7-1 loss to Germany at least year's senior World Cup forced a general reappraisal of its direction — a new emphasis on defense over attack — grew as goals dried up. Brazil exploded that theory on Wednesday, striking three times in the first 19 minutes to earn its final place opposite Serbia, which beat Mali 2-1 in extra time. An early goal to Andrija Zivkovic set

the tone early for an imposing Serbian performance but Youssouf Kone's equalizer helped Mali regain its confidence. The second half was played at a frantic pace and Mali had the best of it but neither side created the decisive goal. In extra time Milos Veljkovic's header found Ivan Saponjic, who nodded the ball past Mali goalkeeper Djigui Diarra. Kone received a second yellow card six minutes from time to all but end Mali's hopes, and the team's performance dissolved in bizarre scenes of petulance and recrimination. Five-time champion Brazil took all of its chances to advance to the final for the ninth time and to end the remarkable run of first-time qualifier Senegal. As good as Brazil was on attack, its defense has been its real strength; it has played 8 hours, 22 minutessince it last conceded a goal.

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Argentina beats Uruguay in Copa America

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LA SERENA, JuNE 17 (AP): Sergio Aguero scored early in the second half to give Argentina an important 1-0 win over defending champion Uruguay in the Copa America on Tuesday, moving the title-favorites into strong position to advance past the group stage of the South American tournament. Aguero scored the winner with a diving header in the 56th minute, leaving Argentina in first place of Group B along with Paraguay, which earlier Tuesday defeated Jamaica 1-0. Both teams have four points from two matches. Uruguay has three points and Jamaica has zero. A draw against Jamaica on Saturday will be enough to secure Argentina a spot in the tournament's quarterfinals. Uruguay will need to beat Paraguay on the same day to guarantee a place in the next round and keep its title defense alive. The top two teams in each of the three groups advance, plus the two-best third-place finishers. Lionel Messi and his teammates were coming off a disappointing 2-2 draw against Paraguay in the opener after conceding a late equalizer, and another setback on Tues-

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Argentina's Sergio Aguero, left, heads the ball to score the opening goal during a Copa America Group B soccer against Uruguay match at La Portada stadium in La Serena, Chile, Tuesday, June 16. (AP Photo)

day would have dropped Argentina to third place in the group going into the final round. The Argentines didn't play well, but controlled possession at the La Portada Stadium. Messi was not able to create many chances for his teammates and was not much of a threat throughout the game. "Uruguay had two scoring chances and when we tried to attack they could've equalized," Argentina coach Gerardo Martino said. "It

showed that it's important for us to keep possession, and when we have the ball, the real Argentina can be seen." Aguero scored the crucial winner with a remarkable header after a driving cross by his Manchester City club teammate Pablo Zabaleta, thrusting himself toward the ball and sending it into the top corner of the net. It was Aguero's second goal of the tournament, and 25th with the national team. Uruguay striker Diego Rolan had a great chance to

equalize off a rebound from Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero in the 75th, but he sent his close-range shot over the crossbar. Substitute Abel Hernandez also came close in the 90th, but his low shot from inside the area was stopped by Romero. Uruguay, which opened with a 1-0 win over Jamaica, is playing the Copa America without star striker Luis Suarez, who remains suspended for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini in last year's World Cup.

With a team filled with high-profile players, Argentina arrived as a top favorite to win the Copa America and end the nation's 22-year title drought. Argentina hasn't won a significant trophy since the 1993 Copa America in Ecuador, when Messi was six years old. The Argentines were eliminated by eventual champion Uruguay in the quarterfinals of the Copa America at home in 2011, and lost consecutive finals to rival Brazil in 2004 and 2007.

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