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NBA: Warriors beat Thunder to book title showdown with Cavs

Short stay home for People Living with HIV inaugurated

16 dead in fire at India’s biggest arms depot

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New breed of Naga officers strive to be different

Four young Naga officers in remote areas working to educate and motivate students Vishü Rita Krocha Kohima | May 31

Wah, Where did that building come from, and where is our hut? Etu encroachers bhi fast toh fast ase de!

GoI assures funds to kick start Tuli Paper Mill

DIMAPUR, MAY 31 (MExN): The Government of India (GoI) has assured to sanction Rs 30 crore to the Hindustan Paper Corporation (HPC), out of which an amount of Rs 12 crore would be made available to the Nagaland Pulp & Paper Company Limited (NPPC Ltd). The amount will clear outstanding dues amounting to around Rs 12 crore and machineries sent for repairs would be delivered at the earliest.

Informing this, a press release issued by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang had convened a meeting on Tuesday at his residential office to discuss various issues confronting the revival package of the Tuli Paper Mill.

The Chief Minister pointed out that out of the Rs 100 crore released by the Ministry of Heavy Industries in 2013, Rs 60 crore was diverted by HPC Ltd, and asked the Ministry to find the underlying cause of the matter and ensure that mistakes and errors are rectified.

He also reminded that the Tuli Area Joint Council Forum had submitted a Representation in connection with the revival of the Paper Mill. He instructed that works on the ground should commence without delay. The Chief Minister said the sentiments of the landowners in the area who have donated their land for the Paper Mill should be respected and they should not be given any reason to be disenchanted.

The Chief Minister further insisted that the number of State Government officials in the present Board of Directors should be enhanced, and that the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned district should be included in the Board.

Presently, only the Secretary, Industries and Commerce is a Director in the Board of Directors. He also insisted that a fulltime Managing Director should be appointed for the Tuli Mill.

The Joint Secretary and the CMD agreed to look positively into this matter and assured the Chief Minister that the revival works of the Paper Mill shall start as early as possible.

It may be mentioned that an amount of Rs 552 crore was announced as revival package for the Paper Mill in 2007, but only Rs 54.62 was released. Furthermore, another revival package was announced in June 2013 amounting to Rs 679 crore, out of which Rs 100 crore was sanctioned, but Rs 60 crore was inexplicably diverted by the HPC Ltd.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a new brand of young NCS (Nagaland Civil Service) officers posted in the interior areas of Nagaland, who are making a difference by voluntarily teaching school children and motivating young people in their spare time.

While most of these remote places have little or no access to basic human rights like electricity coupled with poor network connectivity, many schools in these areas also lack subject teachers, which is where the role of young officers fit in.

For 29 year old, Sentilong Ozukum, who is currently posted as EAC in Monyakshu, located 130 kilometers away from Mon, developing human resources is one of his major concerns. Education is one of the ways through which this can be developed, he stated. For the past three months, he has been voluntarily teaching Mathematics and Science in a church-run school called “Beijing School” before office hours. Prior to that, he has been helping students with their studies, while young people continue to gather at his house in the

evenings for a session of interaction, learning and motivation. During the summer break, he along with the teachers will also be providing extensive coaching classes to the students of GHS, Bumei, which is the only government high school under Monyakshu subdivision.

Stressing that without grassroot development, there cannot be development in the true sense, the young officer asserted the need to focus on issues such as education, sanitation and healthcare. Sentilong Ozukum has, in the meantime, taken initiatives in these areas in collaboration with the Eluetheros Christian Society (ECS) with the view to help people get basic health care. Few sensitization programmes on sanitation and medical camps have been conducted in different villages under Tobu also with assistance from the CMO Mon. Interestingly, he has received calls from parents based in urban areas like Kohima and Mokokchung asking if they could send their children to his place of posting so they could spend a month learning about village life. A staunch believer of education for all round de-

A batch of students from Beijing School, Monyakshu writing their exams.

Nockpai Konyak

Yanithung Ngullie

Sentilong Ozukum

James Renbi Kikon

velopment, Sentilong Ozukum is hopeful that change will slowly take place.

Yanithung Ngullie, who is serving as EAC, Mopong in Mon district has been instrumental in the performance of GHS Mopong that has set a record of 2 students passing the HSLC from the school in the current year.

Past records suggest that

students barely get through HSLC while the literacy rate in the Mopong circle stands at only 30% according to 2011 census. Here, one student passing HSLC is a big thing, he stated while insisting that it was with the collaboration of the teachers that the school has performed better.

He has been teaching

Social Studies and English in the government school before he attends office and hopes to make the GHS a model school. Shelling out from his own pocket, he has also procured notebooks and chairs for the needy students. Electricity being a big problem, the young officer further plans to procure solar lamps for

the school students. What he would call “supplementary teaching” has undeniably helped students perform better. “In other districts, we may not get so many opportunities but here, we have so many opportunities to work for the people”, he stated.

James Renbi Kikon, EAC, Phokhungri is a re-

cipient of Governor’s commendation certificate on Republic Day 2016 for his humanitarian work in Phokhungri under Phek district. There was tension in the area when he initially joined and students were afraid to attend school.

However, he helped them overcome the fear and taught in the GHS Phokhungri last year while also observing the shortage of subject teachers.

Pointing to the lack of access to many modern facilities, he said his involvement with the school keeps him active in a way, even while asserting that, “I just feel that being with students and interacting with them is a part of my administrative duty.”

Nockpai Konyak, EAC Satoi under Zunheboto district has been helping and motivating young students, who are preparing to appear for civil service examinations while terming it his duty to help school kids. He also pointed to the lack of subject teachers especially Mathematics, Science and Language in some government schools and said, “Considering the plight of the students, we are bound to help them.”

Impressing upon that many NCS officers fill this gap as part-time teachers, he felt that it also serves as an encouragement for the students to work harder and also be more sincere and obedient.

ANSTA, NSSFOF begin indefinite cease work protest from today BCCI prez weaves big

DIMAPUR, MAY 31 (MExN): The All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) and the Nagaland Secondary Schools Field Officers’ Federation (NSSFOF) have decided to undertake an indefinite total cease work protest starting June 1.

The cease work protest is part of the two organization’s 2nd phase agitation against the State Government’s failure to address the issue of total bifurcation of Elementary / Secondary from the Higher Secondary sections.

A press note from the two organizations informed all concerned members to “strictly comply with the directive for effective implementation of the agitation.”

Meanwhile, the ANSTA and the NSSFOF have reacted strongly to the Nagaland Education Minister’s response to the issue.

They asked the Minister to explain how “bifurcation is against the interest of the students.” They stated that “tussle in the schools between the two sections” has impact upon the students as “there is no peaceful environment in the school.”

The organisations further pointed out that the demand for bifurcation would

not affect the Composite School Policy, provided the village communities have accepted the policy.

Refuting claims that their demand would entail wasteful expenditure, the ANSTA and NSSFOF informed that they have provided an expenditure free bifurcation notification model on the request of the Commissioner and Secretary. “As committed by us to wait for the Government in respect of separate infrastructure and appointment of ministerial staff for higher secondary establishments in the state, we will stand by our commitment,” they added.

The organisations then stated that “milder approach as in the form of assignment distribution was demanded but not done properly.” Demands for rectification, they claimed were in vain, thereby accelerating the situation.

They added that the organisations have studied the feasibility of bifurcation before making their demands. They however lamented that the Minister’s “parochial attitude on his part is the problem to concede to any demand as it is.”

“We have no trust of any commitment

now and have no second option,” they said. The organisations then alleged that the Minister had given “different promises to different associations” attempting to allegedly “divide and rule the department...”

The ANSTA and the NSSFOF said that the multiple problems in the department including the practice of randomly establishing schools are “the creation of the Government.”

The Nagaland Government Primary Teachers Association (NGPTA) and the All Nagaland Graduate Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) have appealed to its members to “abstain from the second phase of ANSTA/NSSFOF agitation.” A joint statement issued by NGPTA President, Heikieleung Zeliang; General Secretary, Kezhalesa Kin; ANGPTA Vice-President, James Ruokuoselhou and General Secretary, Hoshika H. Sumi asked members to refrain from agitating “for the sake of students who are undergoing assessment and compartmental exam on humanitarian ground.”

Thilixu village organizations submit memorandum to Dimapur DC Morung Express News Dimapur | May 31

Thilixu villagers during the silent protest rally against the May 28 incident at the Deputy Commissioner’s office on May 31.

the persons, namely – Kughaho D. Chophy, Tokiho D. Chophy and Khekiye D. Chophy “as deemed fit and proper as per the Sumi customary law,” adding, “In the event of any untoward incident that may occur, the undersigned organisations shall not be held responsible.”

According to the memorandum, the May 28 incident was the fallout of an incident, which occurred on May 16, when a mob led allegedly by Kughaho and Khe-

The boost for Nagaland

• Indoor academy at SCS • A new BCCI funded stadium • Regional junior level tourneys Morung Express News Dimapur | May 31

NGPTA and ANGPTA ask BCCI president, Anurag Thakur on members to refrain from agitation Tuesday shared a dream of taking

48-hr ultimatum given to administration A conglomeration of organisations submitted a joint memorandum to the government today in connection to the alleged attack on a Gaonbura of Thilixu village on May 28. The memorandum, appended by the Thilixu village Head GB, Thilixu Village Council Chairman, President of Thilixu village unit of Sumi Totimi Hoho and the President of the village Youth Front, was handed to the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur. It was preceded by a silent procession as a mark of protest against the alleged incident.

According to the organisations, the memorandum has been submitted in the backdrop of police “inaction” and not treating with seriousness the FIR lodged against the incident.

While outlining the turn of events leading upto the May 28 incident, the organisations in the memorandum stipulated a 48-hour ultimatum beginning today to the Administration to arrest three people alleged to have been responsible for the act.

Failure to affect arrest within the stipulated time frame, the organisations asserted that it will be at liberty to put to trial

dreams for cricket in NE

kiye created disturbance during the inauguration of a daily market at Thilixu village Block III resorting to physical force and gunshots. An FIR was lodged in the aftermath but the police “wilfully” neglected its duty to apprehend the culprits which later resulted in the May 28 incident, the memorandum said. Subsequent to the May 28 incident, another FIR was lodged against Tokiho but according to the memorandum, the person was released.

the game of cricket in the North East Region to the next level. Two weeks since taking over charge of the cashrich Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Thakur landed in Dimapur as part of a whirlwind tour of the northeast igniting hopes of transforming the standard of cricket in the region, which was no less than a pariah in Indian cricket. His itinerary includes a trip to Shillong and then to Guwahati.

“In the next couple of years, we can create a new success story as far as cricket in the northeast is concerned,” declared Thakur. Taking his home state Himachal Pradesh as an exemplar, Thakur highlighted how, from “seven chairs, one iron cupboard and one typewriter,” cricket in hilly Himachal has transformed to now having 5-6 stadiums and its teams making remarkable stride in the national circuit in a little over a decade.

According to him, the state of cricket in Himachal was no better a few years ago than it is here (northeast) now. From a hill state himself, Thakur expressed empathy with the problems faced by NE associates representing hill states.

The significant changes expected to affect the sport in the region will include a new format of junior competition. According to Thakur, the BCCI will introduce junior level tournaments exclusively for affiliates (not full-fledged members) in the region. Giving a broad outline of how it will work, he said the affiliate teams would compete among themselves. Players at the tournaments will be picked by BCCI selectors to make regional teams. These teams will then compete in national level tournaments allowing the young players to get professional and regular playing experience.

Further, making a Nagaland specific announcement, Thakur said a full-fledged “indoor academy” will be established at the Sovi-

BCCI president, Anurag Thakur

ma Cricket Stadium (SCS) within a year’s time. This was in response to Lok Sabha MP and Nagaland Cricket Association president, Neiphiu Rio appealing for a ‘centre of excellence’ for cricket in Dimapur in the form of a regional academy under BCCI sponsorship.

On infrastructure, the BCCI president said that first priority should be to create a playing field, dressing rooms and academy. “I think you have taken the right steps,” he added referring to the facilities available at the SCS. The Board will also ensure that the stadium get ground equipments equivalent in quality provided to other stadiums in the country, he informed. In addition, Thakur also proposed a new stadium, fully funded by the BCCI. To this, the NCA was asked to find and provide land.

According to Thakur, the BCCI want to make a stadium each in every state of northeast complete with indoor academy.

On the pending funds for affiliates from the region, he asked for a comprehensive audit report after which funds will be released within 15 days.

On the Lodha Committee recommendation, Thakur held that some of the suggestions are not even practical. Limiting advertisements will affect revenue generation, which ultimately will affect the development of the game and the players, he said. On the ‘one-vote for every state association’ recommendation and demand by state affiliates for full-fledged membership and voting rights, Thakur’s comment was ambiguous. “I’m sure the Supreme Court will look into what is implementable and what should not be considered.” He though said that he was looking forward to NCA becoming a full BCCI member.

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Short stay home for People Living with HIV inaugurated Morung Express News Kohima | May 31

A short stay home for People Living with HIV was inaugurated at Cradle Ridge, Seithogei Kohima on May 31 with Chief Minister TR Zeliang as the chief guest. The short stay home for HIV patients at Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA) Cradle Ridge was funded by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities (FY 2014-15).

While delivering the welcome address, Abeiü Meru, President NMA, shared the works of NMA with PLHIV in Nagaland which was initiated during the time of Neidonuo Angami and Sano Vamuzo and many other prominent women activists. Without any regular funding NMA has been running the Cradle Ridge with support from the Church and well wishers.

The Cradle Ridge has 7 children under its care where the eldest is currently studying in

Class 12 in Kohima Science College and the youngest is studying in Class A. Call to remove stigmatizing Chief Minister TR Zeliang lauded the NMA for the tireless efforts and service to the Nagas ranging from the problems of drug abuse and AIDs to conflict management and peace in Naga society. “We must all collectively work towards removal of the stigma associated with HIV/ AIDS. We must spread the awareness that people affected are not necessarily people who had lived careless or promiscuous life style.

It can happen to anyone of us through circumstances beyond our control. Society must also remember that keeping these HIV patients within the community and family groups will enable them to have better quality,” stated Zeliang.

“Due to confidentiality and stigma many PLHIV do not want to put up with their relatives during the course of treatment. At the same time accommodation for patients coming

CM TR Zeliang addresses the inauguration of short stay home for People Living with HIV at Cradle Ridge, Seithogei Kohima on May 31. (Morung Photo)

for treatment from remote places has been a concern especially for economically weaker section that do not have family members here in Kohima,” stated Lanu, President NNP+.

He also highlighted the activities of Naga Mothers’ Association, who, at a time when the Naga society was stigmatizing and discriminating, became the voice of PLHIV by setting up

a hospice through which many PLHIV received not only medical assistance by love, care, support and motivation to look forward to life.

Plight of HIV/AIDs orphans highlighted Dr. Neiphi Kire, Former Principal Director, H & FW highlighted another critical issue, which is the plight of the

HIV/AIDs orphans. While states like Tamil Nadu has Community care centre for HIV/AIDs orphans, Nagaland does not have any centres except Cradle Ridge run by NMA. Dr. Kire informed that due to the lesser number of orphans compared to states like Tamil Nadu, Nagaland does not qualify for funding such centre.

However, Dr. Kire noted that

whether the number of orphans are few or more the plight of the children are the same.

“The children need education, medication, friends, and space to play. They need protection from being exploited by outside agencies. They need social services and they need religion,” affirmed Dr. Kire. Seeking the support of the Churches, Dr. Kire suggested that the Church can work towards adopting the orphans. Further asserting that Nagaland has a robust system of controlling HIV/AIDS where it has the Nagaland Legislator Forum on AIDS (NLFA), motivated and trained NGOs, Churches and Civil society organizations which has contribute tremendously care and support, Dr. Kire hoped that every institution and organisation will work together to stop the epidemic.

Dr Kire stated how the short stay home came up in 2013 which was discussed at length with the stakeholders. HUDCO provided 75 lakhs for the project while NMA leased out its

Nagaland observes ‘World No Tobacco day’

Kohima, may 31 (DiPR): Department of Health & Family Welfare Nagaland, Kohima organised ‘World No Tobacco day’ on May 31 at Capital Convention Centre with Minister, Health & Family Welfare, P. Longon as the chief guest and Minister, School Education, SCERT Nagaland Yitachu as the guest of honour, Addressing the gathering, the chief guest P. Longon stated that World Health Organization (WHO) has dedicated the 31st May every year to showcase tobacco related disease burdens globally and to spread awareness on tobacco hazards worldwide. He said tobacco is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world today which kills more than one million Indians every year. Adding that tobacco causes more death than HIV, AIDS, Diarrhea, dysentery, malnutrition and road traffic accidents combined globally.

The chief guest pointed out that Nagaland has the 2nd highest tobacco users in the country with the tobacco initiation begins at the age group of 8 years to 13 years of school children used tobacco and at present 41% of these age group buys tobacco products for their parents and relative which needs to control totally.

Longon assured that the department of Family Welfare would continue to invest resources and exercise their influence to protect non-smokers and children from tobacco hazards and also help tobacco users to quit habit through various initiatives.

The Chief Guest also requested the department of School Education and Higher Education to give co-operation and active participation in the fight against tobacco menace in the state to be ‘Tobacco free schools and institution in the coming days’.

He called upon the Police

department to intensify measures to control tobacco abuses in the state. He also appealed all the law makers, stakeholder, departments, administrative heads, heads of the departments and the responsible citizens of the state to set tobacco free role model lifestyles in work places and contribute towards tobacco free Nagaland.

Yitachu who also spoke on the occasion, urged the citizens to go beyond to eradicate smoke free from the streets, hospitals, schools, government offices, institution and public places. He appealed that whoever is a slave of it, to give up and those who have not taste it, not to try as it is not something to be experienced or to be tested. He also encouraged the children to influence the elders, as they have the power to do wonders not only for them but for the coming future.

He congratulated all the declared tobacco free schools, colleges/institute and Gariphema village and

encouraged them to initiate more success story to share to the state in particular and to the world in general.

Joint Director H&FW & State Nodal Officer, NTCP, Dr. H. Hotokhu Chishi announced the declared tobacco free schools awardees where the chief guest and the guest of honour gave away the Certificate to all the declared schools, colleges/institutes and Gariphema village. He also read out the guidelines and action plans for effective implementation of “Smoke Free Kohima City” during the occasion.

The programme was chaired by Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Senti while presentation by Additional director, H&FW Dr. John Sweyievisa and vote of thanks by Principal Director H&FW Dr. L. Watikala. Other highlights of the programme include special number from Don Bosco Higher Secondary School Kohima, voice of children by Kessica from Dainty Buds School Kohima, voice of tobacco victim from David.

sweets. Total of 470 stu- co Day with focus on camStudents sensitized on danger of tobacco dents and teachers attend- paign message ‘Tobacco free youth’. The programme District Legal Services ed the programme. included sensitisation on Authority observed World evil of smoking, chewing Speech competition on No Tobacco Day with school children at the vil- ‘Smoke Free Dimapur’ of tobacco and the signifilages and sub-divisions Dimapur District NTCP cance of creating awareacross the state. Legal tools observed World No Tobac- ness among adolescent as and activities undertaken co Day 2016 on May 31 at they are tye most vulnerto sensitise the students on Christian Higher Second- able groups to bet into ill the danger of tobacco and ary School, Dimapur by or- habits. the prohibition thereof ganising a prepared speech were simplified into paint- competition on ‘Smoke MITE Kohima highing, extempore speeches, Free Dimapur’ and recog- lights ill effect of posters and quiz competi- nising tobacco free schools tobacco tions. Prizes were awarded under Dimapur district.

Modern Institute of to winners by District Legal Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi, Teacher Education, Kohima Services Authorities.

Chief Medical Officer Dima- observed World No TobacLegal aspects on prohi- pur reiterated the dangers of co Day on May 30 at MITE bition and prevention and tobacco use and especially Auditorium. The principal control of use of tobacco warned the students that briefed about the ill effect of products, right to health and in addition to causing can- tobacco and its uses. He enHealthy living, Danger and cer and many other health couraged the students and Harmful effect of using drugs, hazards, consumption of teachers not to use and not child rights etc. were some of tobacco products can lead to let use the young students the topics, highlighted by the to nicotine addiction if to- the tobacco products. Pelee DLSAs Chairman, secretary, bacco consumption begins Hekha, Managing direcpanel lawyers and doctors. at an early age. tor gave a speech based on The day was observed in a Albert Ezung, SDO the topic ‘No Tobacco’ and befitting way with the par- (Civil) Dimapur urged the stressed on maintaining the ticipation of the DLSAs with students to be free from institution ‘Free Tobacco empanelled lawyers, para tobacco and lead a tobac- Zone’. A costume drama legal volunteers, doctors and co free life. Dr. C. Tetseo, was played with the theme school authorities.

Nodal Officer NTCP Dima- harmful effect of tobacco.

Kohima District Le- pur presented the keynote The programme was ended gal Services Authority ob- address while Moainla with the vote of thanks by served World No Tobac- Imchen, CHSS shared the Eunice and benediction by co Day with Don Bosco voice of children for Smoke Meitsu.

School, Cheiphobozou Free Dimapur and Highand Government Middle land Hall School students WNTB observed at School Nerhe, Model Vil- presented a skit on the dan- district hospital Peren lage at Don Bosco School ger of tobacco use.

World No Tobacco Chiephobozou. KekrienDuring the function, 50 Day was observed at disgulie, Retainer Lawyer, schools were awarded state trict hospital Peren with KDLSA chaired the pro- level certificates in recog- the theme plain packaggramme. Father Matthew, nition for making their in- ing on May 24 with ADC Chairman, Don Bosco stitutions a tobacco free Peren, Tainiu was the chief School Cheiphobozou school in Dimapur district. guest. Speaking at the prosaid the welcome address. Schools were urged to use gramme, she said that conMezivolu T Therieh, NJS, tobacco free school logo suming tobacco creates Chief Judicial Magistrate, in their prospectus in fu- problem in the family as Kohima and Secretary, ture. Certificates and priz- well as to the society. She KDLSA spoke on ‘Dangers es were distributed to the also said that every faction of using Tobacco.’ Speak- participants of Prepared of the people should be ing on ‘Right of Children’, Speech Competition. aware of the harmful effects Thejapfutuo Khezhie, PanLed by Dr. Antoly Suu, of consuming tobacco. The el Lawyer stressed on the Dy. Chief Medical Officer programme was chaired by POCSO Act. Nancy Lotha, Dimapur, the students, Dr. Tiala Longkumer who Panel Lawyer spoke on teachers and all partici- also delivered welcome the topic ‘Right to Health pants of the programme note while the keynote adand Healthy Living.’ Later, took Anti Tobacco Pledge. dress was delivered by Dr. a quiz was conducted by Atsungla and Dr. Sabino Apila Sangtem, Panel Law- ZMHSS campaigns for gave the vote of thanks. The yer, on the topics which ‘Tobacco free youth’ programme was attended were presented during the Zakietsato Memorial by Peren Town Students session followed by distri- Higher Secondary School Union, GBs, Town commitbution of pamphlets and observed World No Tobac- tee and other officials.

land for 30-40 years, mentioned Dr. Kire which will be of great help for PLHIV. LM Yanthan, Regional Chief, HUDCO highlighted about the activities of HUDCO which was established in 1970 and focused on providing affordable housing to the economically weaker sections and low income groups as well as providing basic infrastructure for the marginalized.

During the last three financial years, under its CSR activities HUDCO have sanctioned four schemes at a project cost of Rs. 147.55 lacs out of which 121.30 lacs have been already released in Nagaland. The NMA short stay home is a part of this scheme which was sanctioned to NMA in 2014-15 and channelised through the Medical department.

A special song was presented by the children of Cradle Ridge.

The inauguration was chaired by Smita Sarangi, IAS, Joint Secretary, H & FW with a dedication prayer by Rev. Dr. Rachülie Vihienuo, Pastor UBC, Kohima.

Jalukie Electrical Sub-division informs

JaluKie, may 31 (mexN): Due to the technical failure of the 0.5 MVA, 33/11 KV Power Transformer installed at Ngwalwa Village on May 20 around 5:30 am, the power supply to the following villages namely Heningkungla, Ngwalwa and its adjoining area would be disrupted till replacement of the power transformer, informed the Er. Yanpamo Odyuo, SDO (E), Jalukie Electrical Sub-division, Jalukie. Therefore, the public are requested to bear with the inconvenience caused.

SCPS call for formation of Village Child Protection Committee

Resource persons and others during a sensitization programme on “Child rights and its importance” at Viswema on May 31. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent ners of the state, in educatKohima | May 31

The State Child Protection Society (SCPS) today called for formation of the Village Child Protection Committee (VCPC) in all the villages in Nagaland.

The formation of VCPC has been necessitated to garner the participation of all the communities and villagers at the grassroots level.

Addressing a sensitization programme on “Child Rights and its importance” at Viswema village under Kohima district this morning, Raitale Zeliang, Programme Manager of SCPS shared the vision of SCPS to set up VCPC in all the recognized villages in Nagaland.

“The setting up of the VCPC is to encourage community participation and ownership on child protection mechanism.

The support and participation of the community greatly helps in fulfilling the aims and objectives of the scheme,” she said.

The SCPS, since the launching of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) in the state in 2010, has been rendering its best effort to reach out to all cor-

ing the people on the importance of child rights.

The effort to reach out to the grassroots is being carried out through the initiative of the District Child Protection Units (DCPU) which had been already set up in all the districts.

By 2015, it was learnt that the DCPUs have reached out to 536 villages across the State.

Megoneituo Kielienyü, Legal-cum-probation officer of SCPS briefed the gathering about the rights and laws laid down by the Government of India, particularly to protect and safeguard children in need of care and protection and those in conflict with law.

Kielienyü urged the village leaders to rise up “to protect children who are in need of care and those juvenile in conflict with law.”

He also told the village leaders to identify those children in need of care and support and those in conflict with law, so that they could be given care, counselling and corrective advice.

District Child Protection Officer, Povezo Puro highlighted the Integrated Child Protection Scheme.

Government Middle School, Mhainamtsi held it’s second literary cum cultural day on May 27 with C. Zuponi Lotha SDEO Peren as a chief guest. Keyigumpeule offered exhortation followed by competition rounds which included singing, spelling bee, bible memory verse recitation and painting. Debamleule delivered vote of thanks. N. Hydwa, retired Teacher invoked God's blessing while Pastor Kentipe MBC Mhainamtsi said the benediction. Mid day meal was provided to the students after the programme.

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‘Awakening Consumers’

LMCP Nagaland launches consumer awareness prog Mon, May 31 (DIPR): A consumer awareness programme with the theme ‘An alert consumer is the need of the hour’ was organised at Council Hall, Mon Town by the Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection Department, Government of Nagaland, on May 30.

Advisor, Department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection (LMCP) and DUDA, N. Thongwang Konyak was the chief guest.

In his opening remark, Joint Controller & Head of Department, LMCP Nagaland, Biso M. Kuotsu, emphasized on the need to be aware and exercise the rights of a consumer.

He also informed that such state level programme on consumer awareness was organised for the first time since the inception of LMCP and credited the Advisor LMCP for such initiatives. He also emphasized on checking the MRP, seal, trade mark, manufacture and expiry date etc and cash

memo while buying goods.

Thanking the LMCP Department for organizing such awareness programme in Mon, President of Konyak Union, Manlip appealed to the gathering to learn, disseminate and exercise their rights legally and do away with the traditional practice of taking law into their own hands.

The chief guest informed that the aim of organizing such program was to make people aware of their rights and responsibility. Under LMCP, he said, the consumer’s forums have been made active and awareness program will be conducted in all the districts to sensitize the masses.

Stating that the people’s participation and support is a must for implementing any Act, Thongwang urged the people to learn their rights and responsibility and exercise their rights by bringing their grievances to their respective Consumer

Redressal Forum for proper and full implementation of the Act. He also informed that there are only 30 Consumer Clubs/Societies in Nagaland.

While speaking on the theme, President, Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum and District Judge Mon, Mayang Lima highlighted the historical background on the formation of the Consumer Rights Forum and redressal mechanism as per Consumer Protection Act. He also emphasized on the need to organize a consumer rights organization/society in the district.

The programme was attended by members of Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum Mon, all HoDs, KU, KNSK, KSU, DB, Mon Town Chamber of Commerce, Ward GBs, Consumer Club from five schools, namely St. Mary’s School, Govt. High School ‘C’, Anghjong Mission School, Model School and Holy Cross School.

Advocacy workshop for WATSAN Committees cum Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQM&S) training under Kohima district was held at Ura Academy Hall Compound on May 31. The keynote address was delivered by Er. Jakpou Khiamniungan, Executive Engineer, Kohima rural division while Er. Ruokuovituo Vizo, SDO, Kohima Rural Div shared on Responsibilities of WATSAN committee. The importance of WQM&S was highlighted by Thepfulie Theünuo.

Interstate farmer’s exposure tour to Gangtok PeRen, May 31 (Mexn): With an aim to boost awareness and expose the farmers to new ideas of agricultural practises, ATMA Peren undertook a farmer’s exposure tour to Gangtok, Sikkim from May 11 to 15.

The team was led by Two Deputy Project Director’s of ATMA Peren. The team visited various experimental farms at ICAR KVK Institute such as horticulture farm, medicinal plants, piggery farm, Goatery farm, Poultry farm,

Maize farm, Cardamom farm, Kiwi farm & Off Season Crop such as Radish, Carrot, & Beet root, where the experts explained scientific methods of cultivation and its advantages followed by an interaction with the scientist. Apart from field visits, the team also visited Seven Point View and tourist places such as flower show, Handicrafts exhibition, Ropeway, Museum and Sales in Gangtok for recreational purpose.

The exposure trip was

quite a learning experience for all the participants and also had an incidental value of entertainment and sightseeing.

Handicraft training underway in Peren district PeRen, May 31 (Mexn): The inaugural function of Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Programme on handicraft training for six weeks was held on May 28 at Songlhuh Ahthibung, Peren district under the sponsorship of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). The training is organized by Rural Multipurpose Society (RMS),

Dimapur in collaboration with Kuki Inpi Nagaland.

The objective of the training is formalizing the informal by providing a hands-on training; laying a platform for days of training facilities to upgrade the skills of semi-kill handcrafters. Mainstreaming the trainees will not only help in improving the quality of life but contribute

PVSN Murty, MLA Dikho and others during the inauguration of SBI mao gate branch on May 31.

(Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Mao Gate | May 31

The State Bank of India (SBI) Mao Gate Branch with ATM facility was formally inaugurated by PVSN Murty, chief general manager, SBI North East Circle, Guwahati at Taxi parking, near SDO office.

With this, the strength of SBI branches in Manipur state has gone upto 34. Speaking on the occasion, Murty called upon the people to properly utilize the provided facility and gain maximum benefit from it.

Impressed by immense potential of entrepreneurship in the area with the production of vegetables, fruits and flowers in abundance, he assured that the SBI will open market linkages for the people.

He said the SBI desire to take the people to the front seat of economic prosperity.

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Government under no Pusa demands repeal of AFSPA ‘Nagaland obligation to hold ULB elections’ Kohima, may 31 (mExN): All India Congress Committee (AICC) member, KV Pusa today demanded repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Nagaland State.

He accused the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of “playing a double standard game” in dealing with the Naga political issue by not revoking the draconian law even as the peace process is underway.

He said despite demand from all sections of people, the centre has remained mute. The former Minister and ex-president of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) said the NDA government was not at all sincere to hammer out solution to the decades old Naga issue. He cautioned that using of AFSPA as a tool to contain the Naga issue would result in a backlash rather than solve the issue.

He urged that all citizens of the

country should be treated equally and added people of the NE have been subjected to a draconian law for decades vis-a-vis gross violation of human rights. He further asked the centre to contemplate more on finding the best solution to the problem rather than trying to push the people engaged in the peace process to the wall.

Reiterating Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi’s statement that the Framework Agreement signed last year should not disappear in thin air, he cautioned that “double standard game of the Union Government would get in the way to the ongoing peace process.”

Reacting to Union Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar’s statement that army cannot operate in civilian areas without AFSPA, Pusa said there are appropriate laws to deal with the situation and not with

the draconian law and demanded for repeal of the Act at the earliest to facilitate peace process in the region. He said there was no point for the army to operate in civilian areas armed with AFSPA. Referring to Nagaland, the Congress leader said “while peace process is underway and the Centre has issued special identity cards to militant leaders for their free movement, there is no reason why AFSPA should continue to stay in the state.”

He added that decades of imposition of AFSPA have not resolved the issue in the state and the NE. Meanwhile, Pusa also expressed concern at Kohima not being selected for the Smart City project.

He asked the Centre to implement such schemes in underdeveloped states. “Why such scheme should be implemented in developed states?” he asked.

Students and faculty of NU Lumami harassed, assaulted Teachers’ associations unhappy over inaction of University authority

DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): Central Executive Council, Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (CEC, NUTA), and Nagaland University Teachers’ Association, Lumami (NUTA-L) have strongly condemned the harassment and assault meted out to students, staff members and faculty by some miscreants along the highway between Mokokchung and Nagaland University, Lumami on May 19, 2016.

According to a joint press statement from the two associations, a group of miscreants forcefully halted and stopped the bus in which University students, staffs and teachers were travelling and even assaulted a senior teaching faculty without

any provocation from the victims.

After the harassment meted out in the highway, the miscreants reportedly entered the University campus disrupting the academic environment and threatened individual teacher with “dire consequences” on the pretext of tendering apology.

The associations also expressed concern that ten days since the life-threatening incident, Nagaland University authority was yet to inform the concerned district administration of Mokokchung district under whose jurisdiction the incident took place.

Such inaction on the part of the University authority is giving more scope to the perpetrators to further traumatise the University community, they stated.

The associations resolved that until appropriate and timely action is taken to redress the issue they will continue with its demand.

Kohima Police arrest four cadres Kohima, may 31 (mExN): Based on FIR lodged at Sechü (Zubza) P.S by the official of Cease Fire Monitoring Cell, NSCN/ GPRN (R), four NSCN cadres have been arrested by Kohima Police on the charge of stealing Rs. 1.25 lakh. A criminal case has been registered against the four vide Sechü (Zubza) P.S Case No. 0011/2016 U/S 380 IPC R/W 7 NSR’ 62, according to a press release from SDPO/ PRO, Kohima Police (South).

The arrested persons have been identified as Nukshi Chang, Captain of NSCN (R), Y. Nayang Sgt. Major of NSCN (R), B Ngaku Chang, 2nd Lieu-

tenant of NSCN (R), and Nasuyangbou Chang, RAO (Chang Region Chairman) of GPRN/NSCN. Apart from the cash, it was reported that the above mentioned cadres of NSCN (R) had fled along with the following arms, ammunitions, and explosive from “Lakpong Designated Camp” Yali of NSCN (R) on May 30, 2016: One G3 rifle with 250 live rounds, one MQ rifle with 150 live rounds, one Mark-III rifle with 100 live rounds, one 410 Musket rifle with 125 live rounds, one .22 pistol with 25 live rounds, and one live hand grenade (Indian made), the release added.

Cardamom plantation in 21 Tuensang villages

TUENsaNg, may 31 (mExN): In line with the objectives of the Department of Rural Development, Govt. of Nagaland to provide livelihood resources to the rural people of the state, DRDA, Tuensang has taken up cardamom plantation in 21 selected villages in nine RD Blocks under MGNREGA convergence programme during 2015-16.

To make the programme successful, first awareness training for farmers of the selected villages was organised at Tuensang HQ in November, 2015 and detail training-cum-demonstra-

tion for plantation was imparted in the fields by DHO, Tuensang and his technical team from April 11 - 14, 2016, informed a press release from Project Director, DRDA, Tuensang.

The field preparation work began with jungle clearance from December, 2015 - January 2016, pit digging was done in February - March, 2016 and plantation was carried out during April and May, 2016.

DRDA Tuensang has lauded Senka Jamir, DHO and all his technical team members for their technical support.

DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): The Directorate of Municipal Affairs, Nagaland has issued a clarification on the Order passed by the Supreme Court in Special Leave Petition (Civil) and Writ Petition (Civil) pertaining to the issue of 33% reservation to women in the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) in Nagaland and challenging the Assembly Resolution of September 22, 2012 which exempted the operation of Article 243-T [one-third reservation of seats for women in the ULBs] of Part IX-A of the Constitution of India to the State of Nagaland.

Joint Director & HOD, Municipal Affairs, A. Zanbemo Ngullie in a press state-

ment on Tuesday clarified that the Supreme Court order dated April 5, 2016 has “neither adjudicated upon the merits of the case nor has it issued any directions to the State of Nagaland.”

A bare perusal of the Order passed in the abovementioned matters reveals that the Supreme Court of India has been “pleased to convert the Special Leave Petition into a Civil Appeal,” it maintained.

It pointed out that the said Order only “entails that the matter shall now be argued on its own turn as a regular matter, which may take some time before it is finally decided.”

The press statement also

NSCN (R) questions NSCN (IM) & GPRN/NSCN on May 26 killing DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): The NSCN (R) on Tuesday asked both the NSCN (IM) and GPRN/NSCN to make inquiry regarding the “coldblooded killing” of one of its member in the rank of ‘Razou Peyu,’ identified as Hokuto Ayemi, at Green Land hotel in Mariani on May 26 evening.

A press statement received from NSCN (R) MIP Secretary alleged that the victim, who recently joined NSCN (R) from GPRN/NSCN, was reportedly taken away

from the hotel by assailants claiming themselves as belonging to NSCN (IM) command. The body was recovered the next morning with multiple bruises suspected to have been inflicted by sticks, gun butts and fists, it stated.

Condemning the incident, the NSCN (R) said the Naga national movement is not a personal issue or business that some individual or group can use it to do away with any Naga life.

The NSCN (R) has re-

quested the NSCN (IM) to inquire into the incident from their workers as well as the public whether the claim that the ‘killers’ are from the NSCN (IM) command is true or not.

It also appealed to the GPRN/NSCN to closely examine the incident, since there is the probability of misusing the situation by some of their workers as the victim was once under GPRN/NSCN. “Whichever faction the killers might be, no one can justify such action,” the NSCN (R) stated.

Assembly’s Resolution though the same was challenged in the afore-mentioned Writ Petition, thus, implying that the Assembly Resolution continues to hold the field.

In this connection, it asserted that the State of Nagaland is under no obligation to hold elections to ULBs and any communication or information to the contrary is misleading, while adding that the State awaits the final outcome of the Civil Appeal mentioned above.

“However, the Government of Nagaland may decide holding of Municipal/ Town Councils election as and when deem fit,” the press statement maintained.

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DC Phek issues strict order on hunting

PhEK, may 31 (DiPR): Deputy Commissioner of Phek, Muruho Chotso has strictly prohibited the people of Phek district from carrying any kind of fire arms and air gun or non-fire arms by any person or group of persons for the purpose of hunting in the district with immediate effect. This order comes in view of citizens in some villages under Phek district continuously indulging in hunting despite the standing ban order. The DC maintained that killing of wild animals and birds in violation of the standing ban order as well as environmental laws is very serious offence. He further warned that anybody or group of persons found violating this order will be liable to be punished under the provisions laid down under the environmental laws and wildlife protection laws.

HASPO condemns

DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): Highway Area Sumi Public Organisation (HASPO) has condemned the “attempt made on the life” of Tokishe Achumi, GB of Thilixu Village on May 28. “Barging into the residence of the GB at night or for that matter into any other citizen’s residence with weapons is a serious offence that can “Tobacco Free College” never be justified whatsoever,” HASPO stated in a rerespectively. lease issued by its President, Kaiho Zhimomi and GenGariphema village of eral Secretary David Zhimo. Standing in solidarity with Kohima district has been Tokishe, who is also its treasurer, HASPO stated that in declared “Tobacco Free a democratic society, any misunderstandings or issues Village” in 2014. State cap- should be sorted out through talks or understanding ital Kohima has also been and that resorting to intimidations and violence will declared “Smoke Free Ko- only aggravate the problem at hand. The organization hima City” this year. appealed to the district administration to take serious There was a total ban view of the matter and the police authorities to take on sale of tobacco prod- stern action against the accused. ucts in Kohima today in view of World No Tobacco Day as notified by the KMC informs Deputy Commissioner.

Kohima, may 31 (mExN): Painting and renovation of the footbridge at Mezhür Higher Secondary School is underway. Therefore, Kovi Meyase, Administrator, Kohima Municipal Council has requested all to avoid using the footbridge, placing banners and hoardings till the renovation works are complete.

Children voice concern on danger of tobacco “We want to survive in tobacco free society" Our Correspondent Kohima | May 31

“We want to survive in tobacco free society. We want to live in tobacco free house. We want to study in tobacco free school. We want to travel in tobacco free transportation,” con-

veyed school children during the observance of World No Tobacco Day here today organized by Health & Family Welfare Department.

Sharing “Voice of children,” Kessica from Dainty Buds School, Kohima questioned why government cannot ban all tobacco products in Nagaland and protect children from destruction. She also questioned why the gov-

ernment cannot enforce total and permanent ban of tobacco products during all festive and social gatherings. She further asked why parents are not telling the truth and continuing tobacco habit. She also made a plea to make Nagaland a tobacco free state.

In Nagaland, 69 schools and 3 colleges have been declared “Tobacco Free School” and

Empowering municipal councils for effective response to disaster Kohima, may 31 (mExN): The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) in collaboration with the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) organized training on disaster management on May 27 at the KMC conference hall.

Secretary NSDMA, Khrienuo Metha said that Disaster Management Committees will be notified soon to empower municipal councils for effective response to disaster and to take up mitigation activities.

Khrolou Koza, State Training & Capacity Building Officer, NSDMA presented a PPT on the need for community participation in disaster risk reduction. Johnny Ruangmei, OSD, NSDMA

The participants during the training on disaster management organised by KMC in collaboration with the NSDMA, Home Department on May 27.

oriented the ward members on ward level disaster preparedness planning.

Intensive group work and discussions were undertaken on ward level disaster preparedness planning. As an outcome of the one day workshop on community/municipal disaster preparedness planning,

Responds to R&B Minister eral public.

Stating that good quality roads and proper drainage cannot be compromised on the excuse of paucity of funds, the CCN in a rejoinder to the Minister appealed that the voice of the suffering citizens be placed as priority and necessity that needs urgent attention from the Centre as well.

CCN further mentioned that the road contractors are left with much less of the actual amount of contract budget because of “ugly corrupt practices in the form of commissions, departmental deductions, NPGs tax, etc. leaving the contractor to compromise on workmanship.” In this, it questioned, “Why can't these deduc-

NSCN (R) withdraws military finance of Dimapur DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): The NSCN/ GPRN (Reformation) has withdrawn Lt. Col. Shitokhu and Capt.

Atoka (Kughato) from the military finance in charge of Dimapur with immediate effect. In a press release issued by its MIP Secretary, the NSCN (R) has informed the various agencies and general public under Dimapur not to cooperate or entertain any kind of matter relating to financial transaction of military items with the duo. It also informed Lt. Col. Shitokhu and Capt. Atoka (Kughato) to report at the GHQ on or before June 5, 2016.

the Kohima Municipal Committee will be undertaking ward level disaster preparedness planning.

The NSDMA also committed to extend ‘handhold’ support to KMC in the initiative of municipal ward level planning and other necessary trainings.

Later, personnel from

CCN reiterates citizens’ rights for good roads DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): The Concerned Citizens of Nagaland (CCN), while acknowledging the State R&B Minister for his kind response to the Campaign for Good Roads, reiterated that the campaign was not against any individual, minister, party or the government, but was a collective appeal to all the collective authorities for the basic amenity which was overdue to the citizens of Nagaland. The Campaign for Good Roads was carried out on May 14 in Dimapur and other districts of Nagaland under the slogan, "Good Roads, Citizens' Right".

The campaign for good roads was an expression of serious concern by the public, it stated, adding there are growing evidences that roads in Nagaland with full of potholes and ponds is resulting in anger and dismay among the gen-

sought to highlight that the October 21, 2011 directions issued by the single judge were not sustained by the Division Bench and were replaced by the operative directions issued by the Division Bench on July 31, 2012.

The directions issued by the single judge were subsumed and merged with the impugned judgment passed by the Division Bench, it informed.

Further, the stay on the implementation of the impugned judgment by the Supreme Court does not operate to revive the single judge’s decision and directions, it said.

In addition, there is no stay of the Legislative

tions and commissions be stopped so that proper quality roads can be constructed. Bad roads affects all at the expense of the few benefactors.”

It also called upon the departments which oversee roads to strictly supervise the works of telecom companies, PHED etc and impose proper measures and remedies to avoid hindrance in deliverance of good roads. CCN appealed to the telecom companies and PHED to adhere to the norms and work judiciously so as not to cause hindrance during and after digging to install wires and pipes underground as “good road is equally a necessity as communication is.”

Regarding comment on roads being made by different departments/ agencies, CCN clarified it is neither suitable nor needed that different road campaigns be held for different departments or agencies, “hence, a collective campaign for the collective departments were made in a collective manner.” It requested all the authorities concerned of the different departments to take into consideration the appeal of the citizens and put into work its dynamic and quality workmanship for the people “as the citizens of Nagaland has for the past decades lost the sense and sight of having the luxury of good roads.”

The CCN assured to render support and co-operation towards the R&B Minister and the departments as and when needed in its pursuit to deliver good roads to the deserving people of Nagaland.

the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) drawn from the CD&HG gave demonstrations on how to conduct search & rescue, basic first aid etc. The training was attended by representatives from all the 19 wards of Kohima Municipal Council, informed a release from Secretary NSDMA.

SAVE condemns assault DimaPUR, may 31 (mExN): The Societal Action through Voluntary Expression (SAVE) has condemned the physical assault of one of its members Hokheto Chishi on May 16 during an inaugural programme of a market at Doyapur road, Dimapur by “unruly mob.” “Such act of un-mindful mob violence has no place in the present Naga society,” stated a press note issued by SAVE President, Er. Hokato Sema and General Secretary, Er. Hutoi Aye. The society further appealed to the law enforcing authority to bring justice without favour or bias.

Meetings & AppointMents Dimapur Naga Students’ Union

Dimapur Naga Students’ Union has convened an emergency presidential council meeting on June 3, 2:00 pm at DNSU office, Dimapur, near fire brigade. Therefore, all the federating unit presidents have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

Zeliangrong students in Kohima

All Zeliangrong students residing in and around Kohima, who have passed HSLC and HSSLC Examination 2016 with 75 percent and above, have been informed to submit a copy of their mark sheet to the office of the Zeliangrong Students' Union

Kohima on or before June 5 for the felicitation program of Zeliangrong Students' Union Nagaland on June 10. All concerned have been asked to contact - 801433939/ 8575741174/ 8974397171.

Pre-Matric Scholarship in Kohima

The Deputy District Education Officer, Kohima has informed all head of institutions, both Government and private, to collect the application form of Pre-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Tribe students of classes 9 and 10 from the District Education Office, Kohima. Forms will be issued during office hours starting from June 1. The

filled up application forms should reach the Office of the DEO, Kohima on or before June 30, 2016.

Tenyimi Union Longleng

The Tenyimi Union Longleng will conduct a social work at the union's plot of land at Noklangkong Ward (beyond Assam Rifles Camp) on June 4. Therefore, all the bonafide members of Tenyimi Union Longleng have been requested to reach the mentioned place at 8:00 am positively. Members may contact the following persons for any/further information: Japheth Woch - 8974999476, Keneingulie Zuyie – 9612581120, Takhütu - 9862242800.

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IN FOCUS The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 149

By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

Demand for Bifurcation Will it lead to quality education?

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he recent three days mass casual leave agitation spearheaded by ANSTA and NSSFOF demanding for bifurcation of secondary/elementary education from higher secondary is based on their ‘rationalization’ that such bifurcation will lead to quality education. This ‘rationalization’ can be taken as the premise in understanding the demand for bifurcation.

Reading through the paper reports, ANSTA and NSSFOF, on the ‘need’ and demand for bifurcation, highlighted the “differences of entry point, academic session, cadres, seniority, proportional channels, and mode of appointment between the higher secondary and secondary, elementary and primary cadres so as to promote smooth functioning and efficient management of the department towards quality and systematic education in the state.” It further stated that the different entry points into service have given a higher advantage to Higher Secondary teachers in matters of promotion, which is disproportionate; and since the cadre, seniority and promotional channel of the two cadres is different, they cannot be clubbed up together to work under one roof and there can be no meeting point in the service journey. This indeed is not only revealing but also quite a telling state of affairs. On the lines of freedom from interferences, there seems to a certain form of ‘ego’ clash as suggested by the demand for segregation of the two cadres in order that they can function independently without encroaching in each other’s areas or interfering in each other’s affairs.

From the above pointers, one can simply conclude that the demand for bifurcation is mainly on the lines of ‘territorial trespassing’ besides other things related to seniority, promotion, etc.

The clash of ‘egos’ is made more conspicuous from the allegation made by the federation leading the agitation that, “cadres of higher secondary were always trying to capture the secondary section by ways of directing, interfering and supervising the chapter as if the secondary cadre officers are not competent to handle their affairs” while at the same time maintaining that the secondary/ elementary section have never interfered with the affairs of higher secondary section. Further, this allegation is upfront that, every time the secondary/elementary cadres go for agitation for nonfulfillment of their genuine demand, the Nagaland Government Higher Secondary School Employees’ Association (NGHSSEA) under the leadership of a “mere officer of 8 years in departmental service will always play dirty game/childish game to please the government and to sabotage and dislodge our demand.”

Well, the forces are quite compelling, and the question raised

by Yitachu, Minister of School Education & SCERT, on whether ‘bifurcation is a requirement’ while at the same time opining that it is not appropriate, should be taken as the point of reference for further deliberation because bifurcation cannot happen overnight, if at all it is justified. Nevertheless, the question of justification for bifurcation should be viewed from the vantage point of delivering quality education which has been their highlight though overshadowed by issues of ‘territorial trespassing’ besides other things like seniority, promotion, etc. As one can see, the issues related to this demand for bifurcation, which has been on for the last 13 years, needs to be duly addressed in the larger interest of the education system so that the students are not sandwiched in between nor left at the receiving end of their egoistic game of what can be briefly summarized as ‘ego clash.’

For now, the whole system needs a complete revamping beginning with the ethical and professional integrity of the teachers if at all schools are to deliver quality education. Having said that, what is needed is to have the necessary bases for systems support.

The three days agitation on the demand for bifurcation has immensely affected students in 2069 government schools across the state if calculated in terms of working hours lost. This calls for a serious deliberation on the question of, whether bifurcation will lead to quality education, and whether it is really a necessity.

(Dr. Asangba Tzüdir is Editor with Heritage Publishing House. He writes a weekly guest editorial for the Morung Express. Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

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Bajinder Pal Singh IANS

How Thai research can help in Clean india mission

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wednesday 01•06•2016

s India grapples with an immense and seemingly insurmountable sanitation crisis, a Thailand-based international institute could show the way on tackling this challenge. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has unveiled four sanitation and toilet-related innovations as an example on how technology is emerging as a solution to sanitation problems.

"The biggest challenge is untreated waste, and we have successfully demonstrated how technology can be used to help solve this problem," said Thammarat Koottatep, an environmental engineer who unveiled four sanitation innovations. Among them is a truck that auto-cleans human waste.

"The concept is very simple. The vacuum operated truck collects all the human waste, and the equipment fitted inside the truck cleans the liquid and solid waste, converting it into fertilizer," Thammarat said.

Another example of innovative technology is a toilet that uses solar energy to degrade bacteria and kill pathogens, facilitates bio-degradation of organic matter and produces better quality of septic tank effluents. A prototype of the solar toilet, which was demonstrated at New Delhi during the World Toilet Fair in 2015, is now ready for implementation after a series of pilot tests and field testing.

A third innovation is a toilet based on the principle of a cyclone where the human waste is separated into solid and liquid using the principles of gravity. The fourth product involves retro-fitting a septic tank to ensure proper treatment of human waste.

"We realized that technology can help solve this problem, and that is why after four years of research and courtesy of financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have created four innovative products," the engineer added.

Doulay Kone, a deputy director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who helped support the project, stated that Thammarat and his team had been working on it since 2011.

"Now that the technology is ready, we are eagerly looking forward towards its implementation in both Asia and Africa," Kone said. Kone knows the region very well, and at the Fecal Sludgement Management Conference in Vietnam last year, he had led a team of experts and professionals from all over the world to salute the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign.

"One in three people or 2.4 billion people in this world are still without adequate sanitation facilities," said AIT president Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, adding: "These innovations show how universities and research organizations can come out of their ivory towers and work towards solving the problems of the people."

The World Bank estimates that inadequate sanitation costs India the equivalent of 6.4 percent of GDP. A staggering onethird of India's population defecates in the open.

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

C O M M E N T A R Y

John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus

Making China Great Again

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f the US and China think they can grow at each other’s expense, they’re snookering themselves.

The final of the World Snooker Championship took place this week in Sheffield, the hardscrabble town in England’s north perhaps best known as the setting for the movie The Full Monte.

Sheffield is a former industrial center so snookered by globalization that the laid-off steel workers in that 1997 film decide to become male strippers to make ends meet. Twenty years later, Sheffield’s steel industry continues to shed jobs, largely because of cheaper steel imports coming from China.

Still, the sector is creating some new jobs as investment is also coming in from China. In 2015, a major Chinese manufacturing conglomerate, CISDI Group, chose Sheffield for its trans-Atlantic headquarters. China thus emerges as the villain and the savior of Sheffield.

Back to snooker. Invented by Her Majesty’s soldiers in India at the end of the 19th century, snooker became a quintessential British pastime. I was introduced to the game when I studied at the University of East Anglia many years ago and instantly fell in love with it.

It’s basically pocket billiards played on a bigger table with narrower pockets. There are 15 red balls and six colored balls, and you alternate sinking the reds and the colors, accumulating different points for each color.

It’s an agonizingly precise game, and good players are as adept at snookering their opponents—trapping them in difficult positions—as they are at “potting” the balls.

The Crucible Theater in Sheffield has hosted the World Championship for the last 40 years. Going back to 1927, the winners have all been players from British Commonwealth nations— mostly Brits, a few Scots, a sprinkling of Welsh and Aussies, and even one-time winners from Canada and Ireland. All of the challengers in the final round have been from Commonwealth countries as well.

Until this year. At the 2016 World Snooker Championship final, the “jester from Leicester” Mark Selby squared off against Ding Junhui, the 29-year-old Chinese challenger. It was a close match. Coming of age in Dongguan City—the Sheffield of China— Ding has been the number two player in the world since 2014. He probably has the world’s largest fan base. Ding estimated, conservatively, that 100 million of his compatriots would tune in to watch the final match of the world championship.

This was no idle boast. There are now more snooker players in China than in the rest of the world combined.

There’s even a replica of the Crucible Theater outside of Beijing, where China hopes one day to woo the World Championship away from Sheffield.

In the end, Ding lost in a close match. But he’s still young. When it comes to snooker, China will not remain number two for very long. It will eventually produce a number one player and then probably dominate the game thereafter.

In the world at large, China has been number two ever since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Chinese economy eclipsed that of Japan. It’s not easy to chart China’s future trajectory from the picture presented by Western media and think tanks. For a while, China was portrayed as swallowing the United States in a few short decades.

More recently, the pendulum has swung the other way, and China has become the fragile superpower-inwaiting. For instance, this new Foreign Affairs essay argues that, when the US sees China in the rear-view mirror, it appears larger than it is really is: “In forecasts of China’s future power position, much has been made of the country’s pressing domestic challenges: its slowing economy, polluted environment, widespread corruption, perilous financial markets, nonexistent social safety net, rapidly aging population, and restive middle class. But as harmful as these problems are, China’s true Achilles’ heel on the world stage is something else: its low level of technological expertise compared with the United States.’”

But after enduring bubbles in the real estate sector and the stock market, the Chinese economy seems to have righted itself. Indeed, Beijing continues to trumpet its bold economic plan, the Silk Road Initiative, for the Asian region as a whole. The Communist Party is deep into its anti-corruption campaign as President Xi Jinping further consolidates his power. And the Chinese military is not slinking away from the South China Sea after the United States has made a

show of force in the region.

Snooker is a zero-sum game. There are clear winners and losers. But geopolitics is a multi-level game that offers various win-win and lose-lose scenarios as well. American-Chinese economic cooperation belongs for the most part in the win-win category, while a war between the two countries would inevitably fall into the other.

To become number one, Ding Junhui will practice, practice, practice. He or one of his countrymen will eventually displace the Brits. But in their quest to make China great again on the geopolitical playing field, to what lengths will the current Chinese leadership go?

Xi at the Center Xi Jinping has been the top Chinese leader for three years. Over the course of his career, he has acquired a reputation for being colorless, a dreamer, a Red princeling, a staunch nationalist, a reformer and a reactionary. Perhaps Xi is as large and contradictory as his country: he contains multitudes.

Or perhaps, it’s all a matter of Western perceptions (and misperceptions).

Take the issue of corruption. Virtually everyone inside and outside China acknowledges that it’s a major problem affecting the political and economic health of the country. Ordinary people have conducted tens of thousands of protests against the actions of corrupt officials. Many of these protests have targeted land grabs in which party officials have simply seized and sold collective property for personal gain. In 2012, furious at their venal local leaders, the residents of Wukan took over their village, forcing the central government to allow them to elect their own representatives through a secret ballot.

Then there’s the cost to the Chinese economy. Back in 2006, analyst Minxin Pei estimated that China was losing around $86 billion a year in the direct costs of corruption (kickbacks, bribes, stolen or misappropriated funds). He concludes: “This annual transfer, from the poorer to the richer, is fueling China’s rapid increase in socioeconomic inequality and the public’s perception of social injustice. Second, the indirect costs of corruption — efficiency losses; waste; and damage to the environment, public health, education, the credibility of key public institutions, and the morale of the civil service — are incalculable.”

But now that President Xi has launched a serious anti-corruption campaign, the Western press has turned around to focus on the costs of anti-corruption. Merrill Lynch estimated in 2014 that China stood to lose as much as $100 million as a result of the campaign against corruption—in terms of decreased consumption and less capital investment. Poor China: damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t.

More disturbing perhaps are the political costs, as outlined by Orville Schell in a penetrating analysis in The New York Review of Books. What might seem to be reform, Schell points out, is in fact reactionary: “Since it began in 2012, the campaign has already netted more than 160 “tigers” whose rank is above or equivalent to that of the deputy provincial or deputy ministerial level, and more than 1,400 “flies,” all lower-level officials. But it has also morphed from an anticorruption drive into a broader neo-Maoist-style mass purge aimed at political rivals and others with differing ideological or political views.

To carry out this mass movement, the Party has mobilized its unique and extensive network of surveillance, security, and secret police in ways that have affected many areas of Chinese life.”

Corruption is a key way for Xi to

consolidate his own power and that of his supporters.

But ultimately, his reputation will rise or fall based on the performance of the Chinese economy. The stock market crash in August 2015 and the dip in January 2016 prompted dire predictions of Chinese economic decline.

Growth is indeed down. The government is pumping stimulus funds into the economy to keep key industries afloat and workers employed (such infusions are creating the oversupply of cheap steel that is, for instance, adversely affecting the British industry in Sheffield). If Beijing can’t keep factories humming and people employed, it faces the prospect of imminent regime change from below.

But it’s also possible that the Chinese economy is simply stabilizing at a lower level of growth: between 6-7%, compared to the double-digit surges of the 1990s and 2000s. But even at this lower rate, Chinese economic expansion is the envy of the United States (current growth between 2-3%) and Europe (between 1-2%). China is becoming, slowly, a post-industrial country whose economy relies more heavily on consumption and services than production for export. Such transitions are never entirely smooth.

The question remains: Will China be satisfied with a post-industrial future like Europe (prosperity) or will it demand one more like the US (prosperity plus preeminent power)?

Dream or Nightmare?

It’s been nearly four years since Xi made his “China Has a Dream” speech outlining the path by which his country could achieve superpower status.

In talking with non-Chinese, Xi emphasizes that the dream is about making life better for Chinese people. But the “Chinese dream” means different things to different Chinese. Here, for instance, is the interpretation offered by an eminent Chinese professor of international relations, Shi Yinhong, as reported to Paul Hartcher in the Sydney Morning Herald: “First, Xi wants China to be acknowledged as a superpower equal to the U.S. Second, he wants China to become the co-manager of global affairs with the U.S., a Group of Two for world governance. Third, ‘China must be the preponderant power in the Western Pacific and have some advantage over the U.S.’” The two visions are, of course, related. US prosperity is built on the foundation of US superpower status. Why shouldn’t China aspire to the same felicitous combination?

But this second interpretation necessarily brings China into confrontation with the United States, particularly in the Pacific and, more specifically, in the South China Sea. In brief, China has claimed sovereignty over a large gulp of this critical waterway. Those claims directly clash with those of the Philippines, Vietnam and several other countries. The Philippines, after several direct maritime confrontations with China, decided to bring the issue to international arbitration through the judicial body of the International Law of the Seas convention, of which both countries are party. The decision of that body is expected in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, China has been asserting its territorial claims by, essentially, creating more territory.

Bringing up sediment from the sea floor, China has built seven little islands in the Spratly chain, which lies about 500 miles from the Chinese mainland and is much closer to the Philippines. These are not for holiday resort purposes. There are airstrips, port facilities and military buildings.

Some outside observers expect Chi-

na to react to an international tribunal ruling in favor of the Philippines by undertaking similar construction work on the Scarborough Shoal.

But take such predictions with a grain of salt. China specialist Bonnie Glaser, who is no “panda hugger,” doesn’t expect China to act rashly, as she told the publication Breaking Defense: “One People’s Liberation Army officer “with stars on their shoulders” told her island-building on Scarborough is “very, very unlikely,” because Beijing is well aware how badly the region would react. Such action would blatantly violate both China’s 2015 pledge to cease island-building and its 2002 Declaration of Conduct with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

China has broken both promises before, but never so egregiously as building on Scarborough would be.”

The US has fired some brush-back pitches at China, what it calls “freedom of navigation” operations, such as sailing a destroyer through the South China Sea and flying jets above it. But it’s important to point out that, for all the warnings issuing from Washington, the South China Sea is not a vital national security question. US territory is not at risk. China is not threatening the sea traffic that flows through the area. Rather, with its shows of force, Washington wants to remind everyone that it remains the preeminent Pacific power.

The same holds true on economic issues. Donald Trump recently made waves by asserting that America “can’t continue to allow China to rape our country” on trade issues. President Barack Obama made the same argument, but in more polite terms, in a Washington Post op-ed, in which he stated that America, not China, should write the international rules of trade.

These were both the economic equivalents of sending a shot across the bow to remind China who is—or should be—number one.

Trump keeps insisting that he will make America great again, harkening back to some mythic time when America ruled the world without opposition. President Xi similarly wants to make China great again, but he’s alluding to a much more authentic historical period when China was indeed the center of the world for hundreds and hundreds of years. America has suffered a few humiliations over the last couple decades—Vietnam, Iraq—but it remains the world’s strongest power.

China, meanwhile, spent a far greater time carved up and controlled by colonial powers. So, it’s entirely understandable why Xi’s message of national renewal resonates so strongly in China.

The reality, however, is that whatever greatness the United States and China can achieve in the future depends on their mutual cooperation.

The two countries have put forward rival trade plans. They have also articulated rival regional security frameworks. At some point, this kind of parallel play will lead to a zero-sum confrontation. And that’s when Washington and Beijing will suddenly discover that, in their separate attempts to become great again, they have quite irreparably snookered themselves.

John Feffer is Co-Director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

Previously, he was a Writing Fellow at Provisions Library in Washington DC and a PanTech Fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University. He is a former Associate Editor of World Policy Journal. Feffer has worked as an international affairs representative in eastern Europe and East Asia for the American Friends Service Committee.

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NAGALiM Oh the state went dry Liquour flows in corner streets Bang bang shoot brothers against brothers For freedom they say Development...

They proudly say...

The promise unanswered...

Land of festival they say.....

For Christ they say For evil they live But not all are same For some are sane...

Oh Nagalim.....

A history made by forefathers Destroyed by the offspring...

Little-known facts about the Human Body

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our body is many things: a mechanical device, a walking chemistry set, a sustainable life form, and an ever-changing biological phenomenon. There's a lot to know about the body. Were you aware of these amazing facts?

NAME- ALONG M JAMIR Kheloshe polytechnic Atoizu

Is the demand for bifurcation of secondary/ Elementary education from Higher Secondary justified?

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reedom of operation and its functions without any interference is the locus point in the issue of demand for bifurcation of higher secondary from secondary sections. Bifurcation is the need of the hour not necessarily due to the ever increasing population of higher secondary students, but role of disciplining and treatments of students are quite different from one another. Bifurcation is very important for both administrative convenience and financial management too.

The school will be stunted and slowly retarded from growth and development, if it still remains the same way as today thus hampering the careers of the upcoming generation. Therefore, the state government should take note of it seriously and give order for its total bifurcation without any delay.

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Tiatemsu Longkumer PGT, Jalukie

ifurcation of secondary/elementary from Higher Secondary is very much essential in educational boundaries. It tends to promote smooth functioning, efficient management and to produce quality education in state. Many educated unemployed youths in Nagaland are waiting for job opportunities especially in this sector. And this to some extent lessens the burden of unemployment problem in Nagaland. However, if we look on the other side, then we can say that there are some differences which cannot be shared between elementary/ secondary and Higher Secondary viz., different entry point, different cadres, different seniority list, different promotional channel, different academic session etc. So, it is the need of the hour to segregate these two cadres and promote the smooth functioning without interfering in each other’s affairs.

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Rama Shankar Pandey Balijan (A), Bokajan

veryone deserves their due share and has rights to pursue their service career and expect justice from authority without any bias. In the first place why has Govt. not exercised much thought on how the two sections would function – either management or promotion avenues for both the two cadres? Without laying the ground policy and putting the two under the same roof will definitely produce friction.

The cause of friction between the two warring groups is mostly to do with ego and status. Definitely the Higher Secondary Teachers should be respected as they have entered in the service as Class II Gazetted Officers whereas the GT are Class III. However, looking at the nature of experience and qualification, the PGT are mostly novice and the GT are more experienced who are also mostly equally qualified with MA and B.Ed. and with many years of teaching experience.

Besides other valid reasons, the GT/PT (Class III) are in terms of thousands whereas PGT (Class II) are in term of hundreds only and as such the promotional avenues of the later is faster while the former’s is very narrow. This is not logical at all if both are traveling in the same bogie.

To solve the present headache which is causing immense loss to the student community, the authority may agree for separation in principle till such time the required infrastructure is made available.

Nilhu Jonathan A concerned Retired Officer

Are ultimatums the only resort to accomplishing anything in Nagaland?

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New tissue needs blood supply, so your vascular system expands to accommodate it. This also means your heart must work harder to pump blood through the new network, which may reduce oxygenation and nutrient replenishment in other tissues. Lose a pound?

Your body will break down and reabsorb the unneeded blood vessels from the previous tissue.

2. Muscle tissue is three times more efficient at burning calories than fat.

This is why possessing more muscle should be a training goal for most people. More muscle = more calories burned = less fat = being more fit looking. Simple

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Would you believe a matchboxinch taller when you wake in the morning, thanks to excess fluid between size chunk of bone can support 18,000 within your spinal discs. While you are pounds? Compared to concrete, human sleeping, these fluids replenish. During bone is four times greater in support the day your body has to deal with the strength. stress of standing, so the discs become compressed and the fluid seeps out. This 7. Your skin is an organ.

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And, your skin replaces 45,000+ cells in only a few seconds. It's constantly growing new skin and shedding old skin. goals and simple math.

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As a part of the digestive process, your stomach secretes hydrochloric acid (HA). HA is a powerful corrosive compound also used to treat various metals. The HA your stomach secretes is also powerful, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps it within the digestive system. As a result it breaks down 8. By the age of eighteen your brain the food you consume, but not your stops growing.

From that age forward it begins to own stomach. lose more than 1,000 brain cells ev5. Your body produces enough heat in ery day. Only two percent of your body only thirty minutes to boil a half-gallon weight is occupied by your gray matter, but is uses up to 20% of your overall enof water.

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from producing REM dreams, your brain works overtime to replenish its ability to function normally during your daytime waking hours.

9. There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles and 206 bones in your body.

If all 600+ muscles contracted and pulled in the same direction, you could lift over twenty tons of resistance. Additionally, the adult skeleton is composed of 206 bones, but at birth an infant skeleton contains approximately 350 bones.

Over time, some of the 350 bones fuse together and eventually grow to the 206 adult figure.

10. You need to consume a quart of water each day for four months to equate to the amount of blood your heart pumps in one hour.

Additionally, over a lifetime, at your normal (resting) heart rate you will have pumped enough blood to fill thirteen oil super tankers. To further expound on this fact, on average, your heart beats 40,000,000 times per year. Doing the math, over your lifetime (both men and women averaged), that results in 2,600,000,000 heartbeats (two billion, six hundred million). This does not even factor in your increased heartbeats due to your love of exercise.

(Source: http://breakingmuscle.com/healthmedicine/10-awesome-and-little-known-factsabout-the-human-body)

Assam University, Silichar Admission notification for 2016-17 session

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ssam University Silchar has invited applications in prescribed form for admission to UG, PG, PG Diploma

Courses of study in Assam University, Silchar H.Q. and Diphu Campus for the academic session commencing from July 2016.

Candidates may apply online for the course(s) on payment of Rs.500.00 (for General, PWD and OBC students) and Rs. 300.00 (for SC/ST students) through e-chalan.

The weblink for the purpose shall be www.ausadmission.in

Website shall be active for application from 25th May 2016 to 05th July 2016. A help desk for filling up of online form is opened at the computer centre of Assam University for applicants not having access to internet connection. The candidates who have appeared/ are appearing in TDC Part III/6th Semester examination 2016 of Assam University or any other recognized university may also

apply for admission to PG Courses.

However, such candidates must submit their complete result of the TDC examination in the concerned department latest by 4.00 PM of 21st July 2016.

The last date of online application is 5th July, 2016.

For detailed information, visit www.ausadmission.in

This is My sTory A true account of a student who stepped right back up from the setbacks and challenges of being a failure to become a dreamer, and with an even fiercer determination to set his life back on track.

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e are often in a dilemma whether we should or shouldn’t do certain things.

We tend to doubt our capabilities and are afraid to fail when we face hurdles. We all have our ups and downs, and my life has been a testament to the unpredictability of life.

Wrong decisions and a desire to get back to what I was perhaps supposed to do made me take a U-turn in life. This is my story.

At a very young age, I was a victim of peer pressure and was unable to pursue the dreams I had set for myself. It was hard for me to believe andunderstand what was actually happening to me. I gave up all hope of studying because I felt like a failure. I thought it would be too difficult to study again and sit in a classroom. I thought my life had no meaning and I wanted to give up. I would often find myself questioning God as to why He is making me suffer.

In August of 2013, I ventured into cycling and gradually started to feel alive. Participation in various events made me realize my love for cycling. My passion continued to grow and I formed The TNB Cycling Club in 2013.After the ACAUT Rally in Dimapur, I told myself I will be the change. I realized the real meaning of life is to live for others and doing greater deeds with what we have and can do. And I finally realized that I must be educated. I have to graduate at least so that I can become a successful person. A game of badminton with my friends led us to share stories about our lives. I realized everyone has

- Tenyebinlo Himb, Class 12 arts problems. My friends encouraged me not to give up and it is never too late!

Unsure of my decision, I shared my thoughts with my parents. I remember Dad told me there is never any harm in trying again. So here I am today, a proud class 12 student who is running on my 23 years of life’s experiences. I decided to continue my studies after a gap of 5 years and joined Tetso College.

I had my doubts about whether I was making the right decision. For starters, there was a huge age gap between me and my new classmates. The key was holding on, and never giving up. Friends and family joined in their advice of ‘better late than never’, which I think was true.

Phew! It wasn’t easy for me to go back to being a regular student again, but learning never stops and has no limit. Many of us dream of becoming somebody who is honoured, respected, rich, and influential, but there are only a few who achieve it. Dreams should be transformed into actions. With hard work and perseverance, we can achieve our dreams.

There is a great saying, “Rome was not built in a day”. We should remember and know that it takes time for good things to happen, and for it to happen, we have to be patient and work hard without giving up. Abraham Lincoln was defeated eight times in various elections, but then he went on to become the 16th President of the United States of America. Success comes to those who do not give up. We are the author of our destiny. Nagaland can and will change only if youand

metogether as ‘WE’ march united, thinking for the greater good and transforming it into action.

Change will not happen overnight. It’s time we think out of the box and proclaim to ourselves “I will be the change”. So much is possible, so much is indeed possible, and I repeat, so much is possible! At times, we are too concerned about what people will think of us and our actions. This is something which we really have to change. We have to live a life where we can express freely and aim for a better world.

A few weeks ago, my mother showed me a video. In it, a person shows kindness to a young boy who was probably homeless. He feeds him with food from a restaurant and when the bill came,to the kind man’s surprise, it was printed, “We do not charge for humanity”. The manager smiled at the man. It was a lovely video indeed. By being humble, united, thinking out of the box, and not caring about what people might think, the person and the manager did something good. I was touched and amazed to see how two strangers can do a miracle, and a thought came to my mind, if they can, why not we?

I end with these words from an anonymous writer, “First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. Then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.

Then I was dying to retire…and suddenly I realized I had forgotten to live.” So much is possible if only we don’t ever give up.

Quiz #11

ParTiCiPaTe & win 1. Villagers from three villages in Mokokchung – Chungtia, aliba and Kinunger – recently repaired 35 kms of a national Highway. which national Highway? a) NH 102A b) NH 29 c) NH 702D d) NH 155 2. according to the world Health Organisation (wHO), tobacco smoking currently kills how many people a year worldwide? a) 5 million b) 100 million c) 20 million d) 800,000 3. a young naga, ruchinilo Kemp, developed an app for farmers in Udaipur, rajasthan. How does the app help farmers? a) Marketing and selling produce b) Availing low interest bank loans c) Availing free fertilizers and seeds d) Getting advice and assistance from experts 4. The Centre for Science and environment (CSe) recently warned about the presence of cancer causing agents in bread. what according to the CSe are the carcinogens found in bread? a) indole-3-carbinol and beta-carotene b) sulforaphane and benzaldehyde c) Potassium Bromate and Potassium Iodate d) Diallyl sulfide 5. which team won the indian Premier League 2016? a) Royal Challengers Bangalore b) Sunrisers Hyderabad c) Delhi Daredevils d) Mumbai Indians Send in your answers to morunglearning@gmail.com or WhatsApp @ 8794005039/7085976283 Answers to Quiz#10 1. B, 2. A, 3. D, 4. A, 5. A Winner of last week’s contest: Abeni Patton, C/o Nonghothung Kithan, Directorate of Geology and Mining, Dimapur Consolation prizes: Zubemo Patton, Medziphema & Along (Akumlong) K Ao, Mokokchung First Prize- Rs. 300 + T-Shirt Two Consolations – Rs. 100 + T-Shirt each Winners may collect the prize money from The Morung Express Office, H/No.4 Duncan Basti, Dimapur T-Shirt to be collected from G-Sports, Shop No 11, Joyce Complex, 2nd Gate, Chumukedima *Winners should bring along a valid ID to claim the prizes

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16 dead in fire at India’s biggest arms depot NEW DELHI, MAY 31 (PTI): At least 16 defence personnel, including two Army officers, were today killed in a massive fire that broke out at one of Asia's biggest ammunition depot in Maharashtra's Pulgaon that houses the largest stockpile of weapons in the country.

The fire which started at 1 AM at one of the sheds that housed "highly sensitive ammunition" in the high security central ammunition depot (CAD), spread over 7,000 acres, has been completely doused and the situation brought under control after an overnight operation.

"However, in efforts to douse the fire, two officers and 14 personnel (to include one Army jawan and 13 civilian fire fighting staff) lost their lives and two officers and 15 personnel (to include nine Army Jawans and six civilian fire fighting staff) were injured," Director General of Military Operations Lt Gen Ranbir Singh told reporters in New Delhi.

Loud explosions were heard one after the other as the raging firelit up the night sky. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained and the Army has instituted an inquiry into the incident, Singh said.

"Actions to assess the damage are in progress," the DGMO said. The Army had earlier put the casualty at 17 which has now been revised

With the most slaves globally, India improves Probe ordered into fire at response to the scourge ammunition depot: Army

An army jawan being treated in a hospital. (ANI Photo)

to 16. It had also earlier said the majority of personnel killed were Defence Security Corps jawans.

Following a directive from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was in Pune, rushed to the spot.

Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag also visited the site.

Modi tweeted, "Pained by loss of lives caused by a fire at central ammunition depot in Pulgaon, Maharashtra.

My thoughts are with the bereaved families.

"I pray that those who are injured recover quickly. Have asked RM @manoharparrikar to visit the spot & take stock of the situation", he said.

CAD, Pulgaon is located at

about 115 Km from Nagpur, in Maharashtra. The depot is spread over an area of more than 7000 acres and is an important ammunition depot of the Indian Army.

Stocks including bombs, grenades, shells, assorted rifles, missiles and other explosives from various factories comes here first and is then distributed to various forward areas.

As per initial reports, the fire started in one of the sheds at approximately 0100h this morning, and immediate action was taken by the fire fighting parties and Quick Reaction Teams located in the depot by putting the fire fighting mechanism into place as per the laid down procedures.

"This restricted the fire to one shed only which contained highly sensitive ammunition," Lt Gen Singh said.

The injured personnel have been evacuated to Multi Specialty Hospital, Wardha (35 Km from Pulgaon) and are undergoing medical treatment.

The medical condition of the injured personnel is reported to be stable, the DGMO said adding Army medical teams have been moved from Pune to provide specialist medical attention.

He expressed deep condolences to the families of the brave hearts who have lost their lives while protecting and securing the important ammunition depot.

NEW DELHI, MAY 31 (THoMSoN REuTERS FouNDATIoN): India has the most slaves in the world with over 18 million people trapped in debt bondage, forced into marriage, sold to brothels or born into servitude, according to a global slavery index, which noted an improved government response to the issue.

Forty percent of the world's estimated 45.8 million slaves are in India, although the scourge exists in all 167 nations surveyed by the Australian-based group Walk Free Foundation.

Fiona David, head of global research at Walk Free, said while estimates of slavery had risen by 15 percent in India from the previous figure due to better data collection, government efforts to curb such exploitation had also improved.

"The incidences of slavery in 2016 is larger than we thought. This doesn't necessarily mean the numbers have gone up since the last Global Slavery Index, but more because of a greater improvement in our measurements," David said.

"But what is new is that the Indian government is taking really exciting steps to bring all the different pieces of legislation together into one anti-trafficking act. It's a huge step forward."

The index found that India with a population of 1.3 billion had the largest number of slaves in absolute terms at 18.35 million, followed by China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan.

India however ranked fourth in the index in terms of prevalence of slavery as a percentage of the population at 1.4 percent - after North Korea, Uzbekistan, Cambodia.

NEW DELHI, MAY 31 (IANS): An enquiry has been ordered into the massive fire that engulfed one of the Indian Army's largest ammunition depots in Maharashtra's Pulgaon early on Tuesday and left 16 dead including two officers, a top army official said.

"The cause of the fire is not yet known. Actions to assess the damage are in progress.

The army has ordered an enquiry to investigate the incident," said Director General, Military Operations, Lt. Gen Ranbir Singh.

He put toll at 16 - three soldiers and 13 fire brigade staff, he said.

"The fire has been completely doused and situation brought under control. However, in our efforts to douse the fire, two officers and 14 personnel (one army jawan and 13 civilian fire fighting staff) lost their lives and two officers and 15 personnel (nine army jawans and six civilian fire fighting staff) were injured," Singh said.

"As per last reports, all the injured are stable," he added.

All the injured have been admitted to a super speciality hospital at Wardha and a team of especialised doctors from Pune has also rushed there, said the DGMO. Singh said that the fire started in one of the sheds at approximately 1 a.m. and immediate action was taken by the fire fighting parties and Quick Reaction Teams at the depot to putting the fire fighting mechanism into place as per the laid down procedures.

This restricted the fire to one shed only which contained highly sensitive ammunition.

Spread over an area of more than 7,000 acres, Pulgaon is an important ammunition depot of the Indian Army, storing a variety of ammunition.

Sunil Lanba takes over Cigarette brands in India implement 85% pictorial warnings DELHI, MAY 31 (IANS): Inter- line from the government on the date by that the warnings be brought down to 50 as Indian Navy chief NEW national cigarette companies including which these should be exhausted," said percent of the package surface area, as

NEW DELHI, MAY 31 (IANS): Admiral Sunil Lanba on Tuesday assumed command of the Indian Navy, as the 23rd chief of naval staff.

Prior to taking over as Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Lanba has been the Flag Officer commanding-in-chief of the Southern and Western Naval Commands.

"He provided impetus to training and skill development, synergising combat operations, coastal security, safety and infrastructure development along the Western seaboard and in the Lakshadweep and Minicoy islands," said a ministry of defence statement.

A navigation and direction specialist, Admiral Lanba served as the Navigation and Operations Officer onboard numerous ships in both the eastern and western fleets, the statement added.

"His nearly four decades of experience includes tenure at sea, ashore at various headquarters, Operational and Training establishments as well as tri-services institutions," it said.

He has also been the executive Officer of the aircraft carrier, INS Viraat and the Fleet Operations Officer of the Western fleet. On promotion as vice admiral, he has been the Chief of staff, Eastern Naval Command, and Commandant of the National Defence College.

"In his capacity as the Vice Chief of Naval Staff, the Admiral streamlined the frame work for transformation of Indian Navy's combat capabilities and infrastructure development as well as tri-services initiatives towards enhancing integration and jointness," read the statement.

ITC and Godfrey Phillips have implemented the rule requiring 85 percent pictorial warning, they said on Tuesday.

According to the companies, the decision was taken following the Supreme Court ruling making the new rule mandatory, even if the case was transferred back to Karnataka High Court.

"It is a welcome change to see old packets with 40 percent warnings on one side of the pack giving way to new packs with larger warnings... There was criticism against the industry that the companies had flooded the market with old stocks in the absence of any clear guide-

a statement from the companies.

"We have implemented the 85 percent pictorial warnings and now they can be seen on the new packets in the market," a company spokesman told IANS. The implementation comes after the Health Ministry under Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 (COTPA) increased the size of graphic health warnings on tobacco products from 20 percent to 85 percent. It came into effect on April 1, 2016.

The order came despite a parliamentary committee recommendation

FORCED MARRIAGE, CHILD SOLDIERS The third edition of the index was based on interviews U.S. pollster Gallup conducted with about 42,000 people globally - 14,000 of them in India.

All forms of slavery were prevalent in India, it said, including inter-generational bonded labour, forced child labour, commercial sexual exploitation, forced begging, forced recruitment into non-state armed groups and forced marriage.

Respondents admitted to being made to work to repay a loan taken by themselves or another family member.

Girls and women described being forced or duped into prostitution by traffickers and brothel owners, many of them locked in a room and repeatedly raped.

Domestic workers spoke of a lack of freedom, long working hours, little or no wages and physical and sexual abuse. Street beggars said they were made to beg by organised criminal gangs. The report said a preference for sons in India had led to the widespread, yet illegal practice of aborting female foetuses - resulting in fewer females in some parts of the country and fuelling the trafficking of girls and women for brides.

"It is reported that in some instances, girls are forced into marriage and then used as unpaid labourers — local day labourers cost $140 for a season but a bride can cost only $100 as a once off payment," the Global Slavery Index report said.

In Indian states such as Kashmir, Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, children were being forcibly recruited by opposition groups as informers or trained to fight, it noted.

it said 85 percent was too harsh on the tobacco industry.

Following the order, companies such as ITC -- India's largest cigarette making company, Godfrey Philips India, Marlboro, and Four Square as well as Red and White had stopped production from April 2 onwards and approached the court.

According to Tobacco Institute of India (TII), tobacco is an extremely important commercial crop for India as it contributes more than Rs30,000 crore in tax revenue annually besides earning about Rs6,000 crore in foreign exchange.

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE IMPROVES The index, which also rates government response to tackling slavery based on support for victims, a strong criminal justice system and effective coordination and accountability, said India's response had improved.

It upgraded India's rating, praising efforts a national Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into alleged involvement of policy on domestic workers, the introduction of a new level new charges every day Robert Vadra in the 2009 pur- anti-trafficking law and an online platform to find missand demanded that if there chase of a 'benami' or proxy- ing children. India unveiled a draft of its first-ever comwas anything against any- owned mansion in London. prehensive anti-human trafficking law on Monday which body in her family, a probe On the massive event put up focuses on greater protection for victims and provides for should be initiated. Such an in New Delhi on the comple- special courts. investigation, she added, tion of two years of the NaThe proposed law also provides for more shelters for would clear the air. "Doodh tional Democratic Alliance victims as well as a fund to help them rebuild their lives, ka doodh aur paani ka paani (NDA) government, Sonia and calls for a special investigative agency to boost conho jayega," she exclaimed.

Gandhi said: "Our nation victions. David said this was a critical step towards curbSenior BJP leader Kirit is facing drought, poverty, ing modern day slavery in India, but stressed that impleSomaiya on Monday sought farmers are in pain. At these mentation was key. detailed inquiry by the En- times, such a 'show' is not ap"After all, a law is just words on paper until it is impleforcement Directorate (ED) propriate." mented," she said.

Charges against Robert Vadra a conspiracy: Sonia Gandhi LuckNoW, MAY 31 (IANS): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday billed the allegations levelled against her son-in-law Robert Vadra of owning a house in London, funded by an arms dealer, as "yet another conspiracy of the BJP-led government towards Congress-Mukt Bharat". Talking to reporters in Rae Bareli, her parliamentary constituency, Sonia Gandhi also trained her

guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that he was prime minister and not an emperor that people of the country should listen to all that he says.

"Woh pradhanmantri hain, koi shehenshaah nahin ki janta unki saari baatein maane," she said. Speaking further on the allegations against Vadra, who is married to her daughter Priyanka, Sonia Gandhi said people in the

Agitation intensifies in Manipur for 'Quality of deliberation in Parliament deteriorating' and against three anti-migrant bills IMPHAL, MAY 31 (IANS): As Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh prepares to lead a delegation to New Delhi to muster support for three anti-migrant bills passed by the assembly, those opposed to the proposed laws said they will intensify their agitation.

There will be sit-in protests and prayers in churches on June 9 and a 12-hour shutdown in the tribaldominated areas on June 26 to mark the 300th day of the agitation, said tribal organisations.

The organisations are appealing to all tribals in Manipur to fly black flags on their homes as a mark of protest and continue to do so till the matter is resolved.

The Manipur Tribals Forum (MTF) has for many months been protesting in New Delhi against the three Bills and the death of nine young protesters last September in Churachandpur district of the state.

The tribal organisations have not yet claimed the nine that have been lying in a morgue all these months.

Also, early last week, four legislators of the Naga People's Front (NPF) met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi to "act against the heartless Ibobi Singh government and reject the three anti-hill area bills the Congress government passed in the assembly on August 31 last year."

The agitation in support of the Bills, on the other hand, has already

led to the state government ordering all schools and colleges to close down for three days starting Tuesday.

The state government said that a delegation of all political parties headed by Ibobi Singh will visit New Delhi on June 3 to discuss the matter with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh.

The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), which spearheads the movement for legislation to protect the indigenous population from migrants, announced its own shutdown against the delay in enactment of the three Bills.

JCILPS Convener Khomdram Ratan said, "All state and central government offices will be closed down from June 1 for three days."

The JCILPS demands an inner line permit (ILP) system for Manipur which has been encapsulated in the three anti-migrant bills passed by the Manipur assembly that now await presidential assent.

The ILP is a special permit required to enter certain restricted areas in the country. The system is already in force in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram.

It was first introduced by the British, restricting entry into these areas to protect their commercial interests.

Acceding to the demand of JCILPS, the Congress government in Manipur had last year passed

three Bills to protect the indigenous people inhabiting the valley districts of the state.

They were: The Protection of Manipur People Bill, 2015, The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2015 and The Manipur Shops and Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015, The first of these Bills proposes to issue a "pass" to any "non-Manipur person" while entering the state. The Bills have been strongly opposed by tribals, particularly Nagas, who mainly inhabit the hill districts of Manipur.

There is thus a clear 'hills versus valley' divide in Manipur with regard to the issue. The demand for the ILP has to do with the fear that outsiders are steadily migrating to the valley districts.

Many Meiteis, who have dominant presence in the valley district, give the example of Bishnupur, which has a large number of North Indian population.

The land in the hill districts of Manipur, on the other hand, is protected by the third schedule of the Constitution.

Any 'outsider,' including the people of the valley area wishing to buy land in the hill districts, needs the permission of the Hill Area Committee (HAC).

Those in the hill areas, however, can buy land in the Meitei-dominated valley districts.

AgARTALA, MAY 31 (IANS): The quality of discussions in parliament has been deteriorating and the lawmakers' viewpoint and participation must be improved, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said here on Tuesday.

"Quality of deliberation of parliamentarians has been deteriorating, and their viewpoint and participation must be enhanced," Mahajan said after inaugurating the two-day conference of North East Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (NERCPA). She said: "To improve the ideas of the parliamentarians and for a better understanding of the contemporary issues, they can take the support of the Speaker's Research Initiative (SRI), set up on July 23 last year".

The Lok Sabha Speaker also stressed on the need for holding quality debates to strengthen people's faith in the legislative institutions.

"The MPs must be trained to put their views appropriately," she said.

"Most of the times during their discussions in Parliament the MPs concentrate their views only on their constituency. In their speeches in Parliament they must reflect the entire picture of the country. They must keep in

their mind that the parliamentarians are policy-makers," she added.

Mahajan said that legislators in a parliamentary democracy represent the hopes and aspirations of the people. Therefore, they need to periodically introspect their roles and responsibilities.

Highlighting various issues of northeastern states, she said that India cannot be developed without the development of the northeast region.

"The present central government is also attaching high importance for an all-round development of northeast India," Mahajan said.

"On the political spectrum, northeastern states have two dynamic and experienced chief ministers -- Tripura's Manik Sarkar and Sikkim's Pawan Kumar Chamling. Recently, a young and dynamic leader has taken charge as Assam's Chief Minister (Sarbananda Sonowal). You have dynamic leaders in the northeast and have dynamic young generation," she added.

"I am sure that the leaders from the northeast with their energy, experience, vision and sense of purpose will write a glorious chapter in the development of the region".

"Northeast is considered as a place of sanctity and the most auspicious direction where most powerful, positive and progressive energies are generated. So peace, harmony and development in the region are very important," Mahajan said.

"Rs30,000 crore has been earmarked for the northeastern region in the current (2016-17) Union budget and most of this would go for development of rail, road, waterways and telecom connectivity in the region," the Lok Sabha Speaker said.

"India is working with Thailand and Mayanmar on a 1,400-km-long highway that would link India with South-East Asia by land, giving a boost to trade and cultural exchanges besides economic integration. The Railways Ministry is giving massive push to railway infrastructure in the northeast, and now Manipur and Mizoram are also on the broad gauge rail map," Mahajan said.

She said the northeast region is blessed with favourable gender equation, rich natural resources and high percentage of literate young rural population. "This youthful workforce can be harnessed as a national asset for nation-building," Mahajan said.

She said the northeast has been represented by 39 members in Parliament (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha), and they along with the close to 500 members of state legislative assemblies and other local representatives could collectively play an important role in the socio-economic development of the region.

NERCPA is currently chaired by Meghalaya Assembly Speaker Abu Taher Mondal.

The participants in the two-day NERCPA conference include Speakers, Deputy Speakers of seven of the eight northeastern states excluding Assam, some legislators and parliamentarians, Tripura Governor, Chief Minister and Parliamentary Affairs Minister.

The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the new Assam Assembly are yet to be elected.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said that to maintain transparencies, expenditure of elections should be met by the governments. "Use of money power during elections must be checked," he said.

Sarkar said the Representation of People Act should be amended for equitable representations of all caste, creed and religion in Parliament and legislative bodies.

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‘Attempted North Korea missile launch fails’ SEOUL, May 31 (REUtERS): North Korea attempted to fire a missile from its east coast early on Tuesday but the launch appears to have failed, South Korean officials said, in what would be the latest in a string of unsuccessful ballistic missile tests by the isolated country.

The launch attempt took place at around 5:20 a.m. Seoul time (2020 GMT), said the officials, who asked not to be identified, without elaborating.

Tension in Northeast Asia has been high since North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles.

Japan put its military alert on Monday for a possible North Korean ballistic missile launch.

“We have no reports of any damage in Japan. We are gathering and analysing data. The defence ministry is prepared to respond to any situation,” Japanese Minister of Defence Gen Nakatani told a media briefing.

“North Korea shows no sign of abandoning the development of nuclear missiles and so we will continue to work closely with the U.S. and South Korea in response and maintain

to have roughly 20 to 30 Musudan missiles, according to South Korean media, which officials said were first deployed in around 2007.

“It could have cracks and something wrong with the welding,” Lee said of possible causes for the latest failure. “But deployment before test-firing

ed on Tuesday that career diplomat Ri Su Yong, one of North Korea’s highestprofile officials, would visit China on Tuesday.

There was no indication of any link between the latest failed missile launch and Ri’s visit to China.

China is reclusive North Korea’s only major ally but

has been angered by Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests and signed up to tough UN sanctions against the reclusive country.

Ri was North Korea’s foreign minister until he was named a member of the politburo during the recent Workers’ Party congress.

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a close watch on North Korea,” Nakatani said.

South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said it appeared North Korea had attempted to launch an intermediate-range Musudan missile. North Korea attempted three test launches of the Musudan in April, all of which failed, U.S. and South Korean officials have said.

Yonhap quoted a South Korean government source as saying the missile was likely to have exploded at about the time it lifted off from a mobile launcher.

The flurry of weapons

tests of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.

“They must’ve been in a rush. Maybe Kim Jong Un was very upset about the failures,” said Lee Choongeun, senior research fellow at South Korea’s state-run Science and Technology Policy Institute.

This is for information of all concerned that in pursuance to Government approval vide letter NO.TPT/ NST/HELI-6/2012 Dt:19th May 2016. The State Helicopter service shall start operating a weekly temporary Helicopter service from Dimapur to Pungro w.e.f 1st June 2016 in order to facilitate the travelling public as per the details shown in Annexure-A. Consequent upon the introduction of the State Helicopter service to Pungro, the weekly service programme of the Helicopter is revised as per Annexure A.

REPEatED FaILURES North Korea has never had a successful launch of the Musudan missile, which theoretically has the range to reach any part of Japan and the U.S. territory of Guam.

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technology tests this year came in the run-up to the first congress in 36 years of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party early this month, where young leader Kim Jong Un further consolidated his control.

Tuesday’s attempted launch appears to have been its first missile test since then, and experts have said it was unusual to test-fire a missile so soon after a previous failure.

The South Korean military said Pyongyang’s continuous missile launches could stem from Kim’s order in March for further

Suu Kyi to lead new effort on restive Rakhine State yaNGON, May 31 (REUtERS): Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi will lead a new effort to bring peace and development to Rakhine State where violence between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims in recent years has cast a cloud over progress on democratic reforms.

More than 100 people were killed in violence in the western state in 2012, and some 125,000 Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless, took refuge in camps where their movements are severely restricted.

Thousands have fled persecution and poverty in an exodus by boat to neighbouring South and Southeast Asian countries.

Suu Kyi, who holds the office of state counsellor, will lead a new Central Committee for Implementation of Peace and Development in Rakhine State, the President’s Office said in an online announcement on Tuesday.

The group will consist of 27 officials, including all cabinet ministers.

The announcement, dated Monday, gave only the names of those in the

these to complete development seems unusual.”

The attempted launch took place near the east coast city of Wonson, one of the South Korean officials said, the same area where previous Musudan tests had taken place.

Separately, Japan’s Kyodo news agency report-

committee and offered no details on how the group would go about addressing the state’s multitude of problems.

The minister of border affairs, appointed by the commander-in-chief, and the state’s chief minister, a member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, will both be vice-chairmen of the committee.

Zaw Htay, spokesman at the state counsellor’s office, said the group would make a research trip to the state “very soon” but did not give a date or say if Suu Kyi be in the delegation.

Suu Kyi campaigned in the south of the state before a November election that her party won, but she avoided the state capital, Sittwe, and has never visited the camps for people displaced in the violence.

Her reluctance to speak out against the Rohingya’s plight has been sharply criticized by rights groups.

There is widespread hostility towards Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhistmajority country, including among some within

Taliban kidnap 200 bus passengers, kill 17 KabUL, May 31 (IaNS): taliban militants killed at least 17 people after abducting nearly 200 bus passengers in the early hours of Tuesday in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan. Local government officials, quoted

by Khaama Press, confirmed that the Taliban killed at least 12 of the abducted passengers.

However, a security official, Shir Aziz Kamawal, said the militants have killed at least 17 of the passengers after kidnapping them from the Kunduz-Takhar highway. The Taliban insurgents kidnapped at least 185 passengers after setting up a check post on the highway around 2 a.m.

The insurgents kidnapped the passengers from four buses, three vans and three cars and took them away, the security officials said. However, the majority of the passengers were released after they were interrogated but at least 17 of them were killed.

The officials also added that at least 18 of the passengers were still in the custody of the Taliban insurgents and efforts were underway for their safe release. The Taliban insurgents have not commented over the report so far and it was yet not clear why some of the kidnapped passengers were killed.

Kunduz has been witnessing deteriorating security situation during the past few months as the Taliban were trying to destabilise the northern provinces. The Taliban insurgents briefly captured the provincial capital of Kunduz last year but it was retaken by the Afghan security forces.

Under the new leadership of Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban have vowed that there will be no peace talks with the Afghan government. The newly-appointed leader of the terror group was elevated to the position after a US drone strike killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour and it was believed that under Akhunddzada, the group will follow the policies espoused by founder Mullah Omar, who died in Pakistan in 2013.

As the new leader was announced last week, the group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the capital that killed 10 people and injured four others, including two children.

Suu Kyi’s party and its supporters.

This month, Suu Kyi said the country needed “enough space” do deal with the issue and cautioned against the use of “emotive terms”, that she said were making the situation more difficult.

The term Rohingya is itself contentious, as the group is not one of the country’s 135 officially designated ethnic groups.

The previous militarydominated government re-

ferred to the group as Bengalis, insinuating that they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

Nationalist organisations and monks, have denounced people who use the name Rohingya.

In addition to the problems facing the Muslim minority, the state has seen a recent increase in clashes between the army and members of the Arakan Army, a Buddhist-dominated Rakhine nationalist guerrilla group.

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Annexure- A REVISED WEEKLY PROGRAME OF HELICOPTER OPERATION IN NAGALAND FARE PER FARE HIRING CASES Infant FLYING NO. OF PAX AT 25% PER PAX SECTOR (0-2 years) 75% Without TIME PAX. AFTER 75% WITHOUT @ 10% Subsidy subsidy SUBSIDY SUBSIDY 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Dimapur - Pungro 40 6 1850 7000 200 24930 99720 Pungro - Dimapur 40 6 1850 7000 200 24930 99720

REVISED WEEKLY PROGRAME OF HELICOPTER OPERATION IN NAGALAND MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Dimapur Dimapur Dimapur Dimapur Dimapur Dimapur Dep: 0915 hrs Dep: 0915 hrs. Dep: 0915 hrs. Dep: 0915 hrs. Dep: 0915 hrs. Dep: 0915 hrs.

Mokokchung Tuensang Mon Tuensang Kiphire Zunheboto Arr: 0950 hrs.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT NAGALAND :: KOHIMA

NO. UD/ESTT.-83/08(Pt-I)/

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ADMISSION NOTICE

Dated: Kohima, the 31st May, 2016.

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In continuation to this office letter of even number dated 11th February, 2016, the results of written examination conducted on 20/05/2016 for the post of LDA cum Computer Assistant and Draughtsman is hereby declared as under: 1. LDA- cum - Computer Assistant Roll No: 5, 28, 35 2. Draughtsman Roll No: 12, 13, 14, 32, 47, 48, 50, 64, 71 The date for conduct of Practical and Viva Voce shall be intimated in a later date through local newspapers.

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NAGA STUDENTS’ FEDERATION Felicitation Programme For HSLC Naga Toppers 2016

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Invocation

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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR ELECTRICAL INSPECTORATE NAGALAND: KOHIMA

NOTIFICATION In conformity to the Standard Labeling of Electrical and Electronic Appliances as issued by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Govt. of India, it is hereby mandatory for all Dealers of Electrical and Electronic Appliances/Products to sell those items carrying the “STAR LABLE” sticker on the appliances/Products which has become mandatory.

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Note: - An appeal to all customers to buy only “STAR LABEL” Electrical and Electronic Appliances/Products as these are Energy Saving products, which will reduce the Electricity Consumption and ultimately reduction in monthly Electrical Bill payments.

(Er. I. V. Chishi), Chief Electrical Inspector Electrical Inspectorate, Nagaland: Kohima

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ueFA looks to december decisions to shape champions league

GENEVA, MAy 31 (AP): UEFA is set to decide in December on changing the Champions League as Europe's top clubs chase a new format and bigger share of the competition's billion-dollar annual income.

Closed-door meetings of European soccer leaders in Milan around Saturday's Champions League final made slow progress shaping the competition for the three seasons from 2018, The Associated Press was told.

Talk of a breakaway Super League was fueled in January by some wealthy members of the European Club Association (ECA) who saw uncertainty over UEFA's leadership during the FIFA presidential election.

Though an American-style closed league is thought unrealistic, one aim is making the current 32-team group stage more attractive to the biggest clubs and global TV viewers.

Many fans, however, sense a grab for power and money by clubs like Real Madrid and Juventus that are already rich and influential.

UEFA's election on Sept. 14, to finally replace its banned president Michel Platini, is a key step for Europe's governing body to focus fully on its biggest asset.

The new president will lead a meeting

of the policy-making executive committee on Sept. 15, but Champions League decisions are foreseen for a December session in Nyon, Switzerland. ''We need a format by the end of the year,'' UEFA's director of competitions, Giorgio Marchetti, told The AP in Milan. ''We are consulting and we are listening.'' The July 20 entry deadline for UEFA election contenders will also speed the debate, with the Champions League format offering a campaign test for the next president. Options include more guaranteed entries for the strongest leagues, protected places for the biggest clubs, and playing matches on Saturdays rather than midweek to appeal to Asian and American audiences.

Change is possible only every three years. It must be agreed before UEFA's retained agency, TEAM Marketing, can start selling Champions League and Europa League rights to broadcasters and sponsors for the next commercial cycle.

In the last round of talks, for the 201518 cycle, the Europa League was boosted by rewarding the title-winner with entry to the Champions League.

There are concerns that a too-predictable money from UEFA each season through 2018. group stage turns off viewers, and that inStill, Juventus president Andrea Agnelli come - UEFA sales and top clubs' share of it has noted that the 32-franchise NFL gets much more TV revenue, despite a smaller core fan base and little broad appeal outside the United States. The Champions League final typically draws a global average TV audience of around 170 million, compared to 110 million in the U.S. for a Super Bowl. Some clubs also look enviously at England's Premier League which is watched avidly worldwide. Last-placed Aston Villa's share of TV rights - almost $100 million - will outstrip Champions League winner Real Madrid's income from UEFA. Agnelli and Real Madrid official Pedro Lopez are members of both key groups which met at Milan's opulent Principe di Savoia hotel in recent days: UEFA's club competitions committee and the ECA executive board.

Madrid president Florentino Perez declined to comment in Milan.

The UEFA club panel, including presi- is not keeping pace with expectations. dential contender Michael van Praag of the The 32 group-stage clubs will share al- Netherlands, will advise the UEFA execumost 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in prize tive committee. Agnelli and influential ECA

chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge of Bayern Munich also have seats at UEFA's top table and should take part in the December decision. The potentially divisive Champions League debate played out in Milan after the two city clubs, AC and Inter, plus Manchester United - all winners in the past 10 years - again missed out on qualifying.

However, English clubs seem happier with the present format and cash distribution by UEFA. Man United's executive vice chairman Ed Woodward also declined to speak with reporters after attending Saturday's ECA board meeting. The last match of the current Champions League commercial contracts - the final in May 2018 - still does not have a venue.

Kiev was the preferred option under Platini but the politics of Ukraine and Russia, plus UEFA's own, have delayed a decision.

Ukraine's most influential official, Hrigoriy Surkis, a UEFA vice president and former Dynamo Kiev president, declined a request in Milan to speak with The AP. UEFA should decide in December on the 2018 venue, at the same executive meeting that will shape the future Champions League.

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olitical convictions are very diverse and seem increasingly anger-ridden. The rhetoric used to challenge another view has become inseparable from the rhetoric used to attack another person. Consciously or otherwise the media generates feelings of affection or disaffection about people and intellectual debate has been sacrificed at the altar of personalities. The temperature and delirium of our politics has become abnormal because the principle is the missing factor. The suppressed truths of our mistakes have weakened all of us. Our politics has now reduced to a fierce confrontation of hidden agendas. We create fears and greed to resolutely hide our own agendas and attack others for hiding theirs. We seem to think that if the hidden agendas of other factions are exposed to the public, as if Naga problems will be solved. There is a thin line of difference between the legitimate pride of self acceptance and an illegitimate self-exaltation that fosters superiority and alienation. It is in this context that our attention is drawn to the second mood of contemporary society, that pluralization and a search for community as Naga and the evil it begets when it is misunderstood. An opinion is merely preference in a continuum of options. A person may prefer one color to another or one style to another. A conviction, on the other hand, is rooted in the conscience and cannot be changed. In a pluralistic culture, an opinion should not be given the same passion as the weight of conviction. And every conviction held must be done with the clear and required principle. Pluralization is defined as the existence and availability of a number of world-views, each vying for the allegiance of individuals, with no single world-view dominant. We need to evolve the mind that has to make a popular appraisal of what the world believes and then respond culturally to such varying description of reality. It is imperative that Nagas learn to differentiate between opinion and conviction.

Every nation needs a challenging aim to struggle for or the people perish. Aspirations, and struggle for them, are both vitally important for the full growth of any people. We Nagas have valiantly struggled for our aims and beliefs, and we have achieved much. It is profoundly moving experience to see all that is happening here today. What we see represents our deeply-felt and desperate attempt to be a people and to match a claim our elders and leaders have made for their people.

We are here to open our hearts to one another so that together we may succeed. After many ups and downs, our attachment to our aspirations to become a people and a nation has become a powerful reality, whatever the factional differences may be for the moment. Our struggle has developed out of the sacrifices of all tribes.

When men have learnt not to be frustrated because their wishes are not immediately fulfilled and not to be bitter because the world has proved tougher and more complex than they dreamed then they may be in a mood to value the truth very highly. They honestly seek to find and assert the truth-the kind of truth that does not pretend to be final or authoritative, but to fit the facts as they actually exist. We are talking about the solution or settlement that should be honorable and acceptable for all. When it is honorable then acceptability shall not be a problem.

Thus, we have to define, what is honorable? This honorable should be based on truth. Truth is an agreement between the situation and its interpretation and judgment over the interpretation with love is truth. Here the word love is the will to act to nurture the spiritual growth of oneself and others. Truth is the transformation of ‘what can you do for me to what can I do for you’. What is honourable is the unity of all the factions and consult the Naga people for a certain decision for all the Nagas.

The restoration of our struggle will

be possible only if we all agree to go beyond the present fruitless debate on ‘who is right? And accept a deeper search for ‘What is right? If what is right is your aim and commitment. This is so because God draws the battle line, not the people. Understanding the true meaning of our aspirations and how we are to struggle for them. Can our aspirations be achieved by a few national workers’ sacrificing everything and the rest of us living as we like, waiting for freedom to be brought to us like a picnic which we will enjoy? Has this not been the weakness of our understanding of the meaning of our aspirations so that our struggle has lost its appeal?

The big mistakes are made by those who attempt to do big things. Those of us who think we make no mistakes, and so can easily talk about others’ mistakes as I do, perhaps do not dare to do anything.

Often the biggest mistakes are forgiven if there is total transparency. Our stoutly defended or hidden mistakes are the logjam blocking the free flow of the river of understanding, trust, compassion and forgiveness.

Let us examine with what power we are trying to achieve Sovereignty. There are three types of power: 1. Violence 2. Wealth 3. Knowledge of right and wrong.

1. Violence. The most basic form of power is violence, or physical form of power. Might is right is their watchword and it is close to the law of jungle. The basic promise is “do as I tell you and you won’t get hurt. Those who gain the power of violence do so by controlling the mechanisms of physical domination, from armies and police forces to the ownership of specific weapons.

At this level, followers follow out of fear, they are afraid of what might happen to them if they don’t do what they are asked to do. This may be called Coercive Power. The leader in this case has created a fear in the follower that either something bad is going to happen to them or something good will be taken from them if they do not comply. So out of fear of potentially adverse consequences they acquiesce and get along by going along or giving ‘lip service loyalty’ at least initially. But their commitment is superficial and their energies can quickly turn to sabotage and destructive when no one is looking or when thread is no more present.

2. Wealth: Money is a more flexible form of power than violence as it can be exchanged for pretty much anything you want, from goods to services of all kind. A second level of responding suggests that followers follow because of the benefits that come to them if they do. This may be called utility power because the power in the relationship is based on the useful exchange of goods and services. The followers have something the leader wants (time, money, energy, personal resources, interest, talent, support and so on), and the leader has something they want (information, money, promotion, inclusion, security, opportunity and the like). These followers operate with the belief that the leader can and will do something for them if they maintain their part of the bargain by doing something for the leader.

3. Knowledge: Knowledge is the ultimate form of power and can be used to acquire both wealth and violence, if apply in the right way. ‘Knowledge is Power’.

Knowledge is the third level of responding, which is different in kind and degree from the other two. It is based on the power some people have with others because others tend to believe in them and in what they are trying to accomplish. They do not try to control others but they have self control. For which they are honoured. They are trusted. They are respected. And they are followed because others want to follow them, want to do what the leaders want.

This is not blind faith, mindless obedience or robotic servitude; this is knowledgeable wholehearted, uninhibited commitment,

this is Legitimate Power.

It is an appeal for our leaders to examine themselves with what power we achieve Peace Accord with government of India and with what power they are dealing with our own people. If they had used the wrong power let them ask forgiveness.

Everyone has experienced this type of power at sometime in their lives, as a follower, in their relationship with parent, teacher, employer, family member or friend who has profoundly and significantly affected their life. Each of these types of power has a different foundation and each leads to different result.

The longer we continue to make the wrong decisions, the more our heart hardens. The more often we make the right decisions the more our heart softens or better perhaps comes alive. With each step along the wrong road it becomes increasingly difficult for them to admit that they are on the wrong road. Evil is dangerous.

It will contaminate or otherwise destroy a person who remains too long in its presence. The central defect of the evil is not sin or corruption but the refusal to acknowledge.

Perhaps the best measure of a person’s greatness is the capacity for suffering. To grow, we must learn to discern between that which is self-destructive and that which is self-constructive. Carl Jung wrote, “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”. But the substitute can become more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.

The neurosis itself ultimately becomes the biggest problem. True to form, many will then attempt to avoid this pain and this problem, in turn, building layer upon layer of neurosis. Fortunately, however some possess the courage to face their neurosis and begin- usually with the help of psychotherapy- to learn how to experience legitimate suffering. In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without growth, without healing the human spirit begins to shrivel.

If we talk about our historical principle, we should live and fight with historical moral and spiritual principle. History proves that the loosening of moral bonds is often the first stage of the disintegration of a civil society as civil societies are built based on moral values. Trying to create a nation without common social values and moral standards is like trying to communicate without a language. A nation’s survival depends upon the ability of its individuals to communicate and to work together in order to accomplish that which cannot b e achieved by a person or group working alone.

Beyond the law of the land, there is a law of humanity which is above the law of the land. If the law of the land is against the welfare of the people, we need to replace that law of the land with a law of humanity. Gandhi said, ‘Cooperation is our duty only as long as government protects our honour. Non-cooperation is an equal duty when the govt. instead of protecting us, rob us of our honour. Now let us do some serious soul-searching and reconstruct a broken Naga with factional leaders at the forefront. As we engage in a war of our own, searching for an identity, the fires of internal conflict that burn within the heart which generates a cloud of cynicism. The world is watching. The winds of political change is the need of the hour which required to redefine the standard of right and wrong. Politics is nothing but the contest of egos. Anyway the expressions that we have are nothing but the mark of liberty. Respect freedom and integrity of every human being. To meet the challenges and solve our problems we need to accept a certain obligation that we live for each other.

Medongoi Rhakho, Research Scholar Department of Economics Nagaland University

would like to lay my humble viewpoint on the ongoing crisis within the NPF party, which has far reaching consequences to Naga society as a whole.

In Naga history, one observes that the Angami people have been blessed by the Almighty with leadership qualities and were given numerous opportunities to serve the Naga people in various capacities, both over ground or in the Naga national movement: One may recall the names of former chief ministers TN Angami, JB Jasokie, Vizol and Neiphiu Rio, and in the Naga movement leaders like AZ Phizo and others, these leaders were accepted by Nagas as a whole because they were/are visionaries and looked beyond tribal walls or village gates.

But in the present scenario, especially crisis within the NPF party, one wonders whether the NPF has lostd irection or whether the Angamis are losing the blessings of the Almighty.

The NPF under Dr Shurhozelie as the party president has crossed all limits of democracy and appears to be dictating like a God or an ancient king. How many leaders and elected representatives have been suspended/served show cause notices by the NPF in the last couple of years? Is it the Naga culture to behave like a dictator and dis-

miss other fellow citizens at one’s whims?

Earlier and till the time of Rio, Angami leaders did not suspend or serve random notices to anybody but rather sought the cooperation and blessings of all leaders and people in the interest of Nagas as a whole. With due respect to an elderly and respected leader I would at the same time like to point out why Dr Shurhozelie speaks only in English or Tenyidie. At least 90 % of Naga people do not understand Tenyidie and many Naga brethrens, especially in rural areas do not speak English. To be a true Naga leader, one also needs to also learn and speak Nagamese, to communicate with all Naga tribes. Is the NPF president really Nagamese illiterate or is there a motive behind the pretence?

For a true Naga leader to be respected by all Naga people, one has to give up the mentality of ‘this is my land, obey my command, speak my language’ as in the long run domineering attitude is liked by no one.

Can political party like the NPF, the oldest regional party in the NE region and the vanguard of the Naga people’s aspiration, remain a dumb and mute spectator to the dictates of any leader confined to the four walls of his own hearth or village?

Kevise Sogotsu, Ex-candidate, Northern Angami II A/C

Kingdom of God and Christendom

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here do you find the Kingdom of God according to Jesus? His beatitudes identify them as those to whom the kingdom belongs to Jesus, the one who heal the sick who take lepers to himself, who made friend with the sinner and the outcasts. The manifesto of kingdom of God was declared Luke 4: 18-19 “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed and denounce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people.”

The work for transformation of our society is to participate in the task of ushering the kingdom of God. Man and women who profess allegiance to the kingdom of God becomes a model of the rest of the society. Those who found Christ they discover people.

Becoming a child of God, it will cost you nothing. It is a gift, but becoming deceptive will make you loose everything.

Some people think that the Kingdom of God will be a different world which will come about when present life comes to the end. Some people believe that the eternal will be different life after death. This will follow when present life will finish.

Paul stressed that Kingdom of God means that this world be different and will born a new.

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ stand at the point of division between the old order and the new order. In the new ‘order’ new age is no longer the era of law or sin or of death, but the life and grace. Galatians 6:16 “Peace and mercy to all who believe.”

Who belong to the Kingdom of God practices this way; • Behold he prayed not only with lip but he work.

• Behold he prayed not word but he advocated for the poor.

• Behold he not only serve but he sacrificed.

• Behold he not only proclaimed but he won soul.

• Behold he not only warned but he pleaded for forgiveness.

Christendom A profession of religion has become popular with the world. Rulers, politicians, lawyers, doctors, merchants go to church as a means of securing the respect and confidence of society and advancing their own worldly interest. Thus they seek to cover all their unrighteous transaction under the profession of Christianity. The various religion bodies reinforced by wealth influences the baptized people still make a higher bid for popularity and patronage, splendid churches, established in the most extravagant manner are erected on popular armor. The worshipers array themselves in costly and fashionable attire. A high salary is paid for a talented minister to entertain and to attract people; his sermons must not touch popular sins but be made smooth and pleasing for fashionable ear. Thus fashionable sermon are popular in the church.

Unfortunately church of the present time has become a cultural apparatus to legitimize the ex-

isting exploitative system that is no operation. The meaning of spiritual life also has been reduced to a bourgeoisie system of denomination and exploitation.

Moreover, in the theological debate, God-image was minimized as a philosophical idea and allows no disturbance present from the idea of God. Prophecy is also a critique and rejection of false ideologies and perspective that reduce the meaning and function of faith in the reign of God. 1) Churches focus on their own good (For example, numerical or financial growth), rather than on God’s glory.

2) Churches became market-oriented seeks to please their customer rather than Bible based and Christ centered.

3) Entertainments replace the solid teaching of the word.

4) The gospel is replaced by a message that titives the emotions and sense.

5) God and his Salvation are reduced.

6) Christians find church services boring unless emotion and other sense are titived.

7) Church elders are built one another so that they occupied better position.

8) Churches became not less than a club.

9) Churches become function like co-operative society.

When the dead dog move along with the current of the river a living dog swim over the bank.

So also dead churches moving to worldly secular system, where as a living churches moving toward the call of God. The prophet of 7th and 8th century BC were spoken in the denunciation of formulism and hypocrisy of Israelite worship, Jesus then appeal their critique to the Pharisees of his day. Those people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far away from me. And his indictment of religion by Old Testament Prophet add by years is uncomfortably applicable to our church today.

In the middle of the part of 15th century Christendom, Martin Luther saw the same the formalism of church of Christendom and denounces the Christendom and changes the course of church history. In the same way 18th century Industrial Revolution of England People become rich but morally and spiritually came down lowest ebb, Zealous Christian leader John Wesley proclaim, the love of God is no end and Jonathan Edward warn the churches and the sinner are the hand of angry God, they challenge mere message without life, wake up the church and revived and the nation became new and strong again.

What a shameful thing when Indian mass media branded Nagaland State most corrupted state in India most backward in India, rank lowest poverty in India. We have no single profession collage, after 50 years statehood there is not a single industrial state is functioning, not single miles 4 land is developed. Above all 9 Government is ruling in the state, yearly state budget is only cash transfer Delhi to Kohima. Looking all stance of misfortune can we imaging the kingdom of God in Nagaland, where Nagaland is highest Christian population ratio entire Asia Country.

Rev. Dr. V. K. Nuh

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AR Rahman Receives Naga Talents Promo Japan's Fukuoka Prize Season 4 audition

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usician AR Rahman has an addition to his already vast collection of awards and honours. On Monday, he received Japan's Fukuoka Prize 2016 for his outstanding contribution to Asian culture through his music, news agency ANI reported.

Previous Indian recipients of the award include sitarist Ravi Shankar,

dancer Padma Subrahmanyam, historian Romila Thapar, sarod player Amjad Ali Khan and historian Ramachandra Guha.

The Fukuoka Prize was established by the city of Fukuoka and the Yokatopia Foundation. It honours individuals and organisations who preserve Asian culture. It has three categories - Grand Prize, Academic Prize, and Arts and Culture Prize.

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n order to give chance to those who could not join first rounds of District Audition, Pheto Music Association the organizer of Naga Talents Promo Season 4 has informed to all the inspiring and interested group/individual from various districts in Nagaland can come for the final audition on June 11 at Hotel Blue Haven Dimapur at 3 PM. They can also send their demo through Watsapp No 9436405817 or Naga Talents Promo in Facebook. Entry will be on the spot.

AR Rahman, 49, is known for composing music for films like Roja, Bombay, Dil Se, Taal, Rang De Basanti and Swades. In 2009, Rahman received two Oscars and a Golden Globe for his work in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. AR Rahman's honours also include four National Awards and several Filmfare trophies.

Kit Harington hits out at 'sexism towards men'

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inger Chris Brown is being reportedly sued by a fan who has accused him of stealing his hat at one of the concerts last year. In his lawsuit, the fan named Marq Stevenson claims that he was attending Brown's show in Dallas in 2015 when he gave his hat to one crew member to get it signed by the "Loyal" hitmaker, reports tmz.com.

In the end, not only

did he walk away without Brown's autograph, but he also failed to get his hat back. Instead, he claims that he got bullied by the 27-year-old star's crew.

Stevenson is now asking $25 from Brown for the stolen hat, $225 for the ticket to the show and $2,500 for suffering the bullying.

The news came days after Brown scored a major victory in his recent court

battle against his former partner Nia Guzman, who said that he was unfit to care for their child because of his alleged drug use and gang affiliation. A judge recently rejected Guzman's request to have Brown's visitation rights reduced and said that the couple should continue sharing joint custody of Royalty, their daughter who recently turned two.

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Is Kate Moss dating an 18-year-old?

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ate Moss has reportedly moved on from 28-year-old boyfriend Count Nikolai von Bismarck to someone a decade younger. According to a new report the iconic supermodel who is still technically married to Jamie Hince has been linked to the 18-year-old son of her close friend Richard Curtis, Jake.

"Yes, it is true that she and Nikolai are not currently together," a friend allegedly told the Daily Mail. "And it’s also true that she’s been enjoying spending time with Jake, who is clearly potty about her." Director Richard and partner Emma Freud are currently in New York and are said to be "pleased to see an old friend was keeping an eye on Jake who is a really sweet boy".

The age-gap isn't a problem for Moss, who apparently has a "thing" for younger men. "She’s had a thing about younger men ever since she hit 30," the source continued. "It’s like a badge of honour to her that she’s with the hip young crowd and not turning into an old fogey." Reps have been approached for comment on the allegations.

ame of Thrones" star Kit Harington has bemoaned "sexism towards men" in the entertainment industry.

Harington, who essays Jon Snow on the hit HBO fantasy drama series, believes there is a "double standard" towards men in showbiz and says he has been a victim himself, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"I like to think of myself as more than a head of hair or a set of looks. It is demeaning. Yes, in some ways you could argue I have been employed for a look I have. But there's a sexism that happens towards men," Harington told the Sunday Times newspaper.

"There's definitely a sexism in our industry that happens towards women, and there is towards men as well. At some points during photoshoots when I'm asked to strip down, I felt that," he added. Harington admitted that he is not always fond of receiving a lot of attention. "I don't want to seem ungrateful I’m lucky.

But I can't say that I like a lot of attention a lot of the time," he said.

"I think there is a double

standard. If you said to a girl, 'Do you like being called a babe?' and she said, 'No, not really,' she would be absolutely right," Harington

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rentes, or "schools that meet," is a foundation that links 400,000 schools and educational networks from various cultures and religions in 82 countries.

"It was a wonderful experience and it's a wonderful program that Scholas Occurrentes runs, causing so many different religions to speak of inclusion, because we know that hatred and

fundamentalist attitudes are learned and indoctrinated," Clooney, who attended the event with his wife Amal, said. Hayek was joined by husband Francois-Henri Pinault and daughter Valentina.

"Important values can be transmitted by celebrities," said Lorena Bianchetti, an organizer of the event.

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Johnny Depp’s band faces boycott at Swedish 'Balika Vadhu' enters Limca Book of Records elevision serial is married at a young age enters the Limca Book of for a love triangle between concert over Amber Heard abuse allegations “Balika Vadhu” to Jagdish. Her trials and Records and achieves this Nandini (Mahhi Vij), Amit

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has made its way to the Limca Books of Records as the longest running daily fiction soap in Hindi, with a run of over 2,000 episodes.

The show began by delving into the social issue of child marriages. It traced the life of young bride Anandi, whose life goes through ups and downs after she

tribulations, and her fight against the social system forms the crux of the story, which has now moved to telling her the journey of her daughter Nandini.

“The show’s meaningful content, endearing story-line and inspirational characters have created a strong impact on the mind of the viewers. As the show

brand new milestone, we would like to graciously thank our viewers for their everlasting support in making ‘Balika Vadhu’ an industry-wide benchmark,” Manisha Sharma, programming head of channel Colors, said in a statement.

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affect ticket sales at the concert. The Hollywood Vampires is a super-group featuring Depp, Alice Cooper and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. Photos taken outside the arena before the performance showed a large crowd assembling.

'Of course we renounce all violence. However, it is just as important not to judge people beforehand and that you are innocent until proven guilty,' a spokeswoman for the venue told The Local.

Depp's attorneys have strongly denied Heard's claims that he hit her, and the actor's ex-partner Vanessa Paradis and daughter Lily-Rose Depp have spoken out in his defense.

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(Avinash Sachdev) and Krish (Ruslaan Mumtaz).

“We are very honoured and delighted that ‘Balika Vadhu’ has created a record for being the Longest Running Daily Soap and is featured in the ‘Limca Book of Records’,” said Sunjoy Waddhwa, chief managing director, Sphere Origins.

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Emilia Clarke wants to be first female James Bond and a few days later won a restraining order against Depp when she provided photos to the court of her bruised and battered face.

While Depp and his group performed to ecstatic crowds in Germany on Sunday night, it appears the legal drama is causing more blow back in Sweden. Those planning to boycott the concert have been posting criticisms of Depp online with the hashtag #ImWithAmber. 'Are you taking a stand against this, Gröna Lund?' one commenter asked on the arena's Facebook page, according to a report by The Local. 'I hope that as many as possible do the right thing and boycott this.'

However, it's still unclear how the boycott will

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Pope Francis honors George Clooney, Richard Gere, Salma Hayek

ope Francis honoured Hollywood actors Richard Gere, George Clooney and Salma Hayek with the Olive Medal of Peace in an event to promote the Scholas Occurrentes foundation. The A-listers have agreed to work as ambassadors for the foundation's arts projects, said The Hollywood Source: Mid Day Reporter. Scholas Occur-

ohnny Depp is seeing fall out in Europe over estranged wife Amber Heard's allegations that he was physically abusive. The actor and his band The Hollywood Vampires are currently on a European tour and a social media campaign has started calling for a boycott of the super-group's concert in Stockholm, Sweden Monday night.

The backlash is in response to allegations Depp's soon-to-be ex-wife Heard made in court papers last week, claiming that the 52-year-old actor hit her in the head with a cell phone during a 'drug and alcoholfueled fight' at their home on May 21. Heard filed for divorce earlier this month,

added. Season six of "Game of Thrones" is premiered in India on Star World Premiere HD in India.

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mid rumours that actor Tom Hiddleston is in talks to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond, "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has revealed she wants to be the first female to essay the iconic British superspy.

The 29-year-old actress has revealed that one of her biggest professional ambitions is to break new ground by becoming the first woman to star as the iconic secret agent, reports dailystar. co.uk.

"I have a lot of unrealised dreams. I would love to play Jane Bond. My ultimate leading man would be Leonardo DiCaprio.

No doubt about it," Clarke said. "The X Files" actress Gillian Anderson hit the headlines last week by suggesting she could replace Craig as 007 and be called Jane Bond.

Clarke is currently promoting her first major leading role in director Thea Sharrock's "Me Before You", which is an adaption of a romantic novel of the same name written

by Jojo Moyes. Season six of "Game of Thrones" is premiered in India on Star World Premiere HD in India.

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NBA: Warriors beat Thunder to One-armed surfer stuns women's best book title showdown with Cavs

Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry tries to shoot under Oklahoma City Thunders' Enes Kanter in the first quarter during Game 7 of the NBA Western Conference Finals at Oracle Arena on Monday, May 30 in Oakland, Calif. (Photo: The Chronicle) C M Y K

los angeles, May 31 (aFP): Stephen Curry scored 36 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 96-88 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder and into an NBA title rematch with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors, trying to cap a sensational season that included a record 73 regular-season victories with a second straight title, sealed the 4-3 series victory in the Western Conference finals on their home floor in Oakland, California -clawing back after trailing 3-1 in the series.

The Warriors, who became the 10th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit to win a playoff series, host LeBron James and the Cavaliers in game one of the finals on Thursday. "You've got to be appreciative of this accomplishment -- and look forward to getting four more

wins," Curry said.

The Cavaliers won the Eastern Conference title, defeating the Toronto Raptors in six games to book a return trip to the finals, where they will try to avenge their six-game loss to the Warriors in last year's championship series.

The Warriors will be trying to become the league's first repeat winners since the Miami Heat -- then featuring James -- in 2012 and 2013. Golden State had to dig deep to get the chance.

After twice fending off elimination the Warriors trailed by as many as 13 in the first half on Monday and by eight early in the third quarter.

Curry, who earned Most Valuable Player honors for the second straight season, hit five of the Warriors' 10 second-half three-pointers as the reigning champions

rallied again to oust the thirdseeded Thunder. "I knew we were ready for the moment," Curry said. "We were a mature basketball team that tried our best not to listen to the noise when we were down 3-1. ... In that locker room, the talk was positive."

- Moving on Down by six points at halftime, the Warriors outscored the Thunder 29-12 in the third quarter to power into the lead Back-to-back threepointers by Klay Thompson and Draymond Green gave the Warriors an 88-77 lead with 4:44 to play in the contest.

The Thunder wouldn't go quietly, with a scoring drive from Russell Westbrook and seven straight points from Kevin Durant pulling the Thunder within 90-86 with 1:40 remaining.

"We survived by the

skin of our teeth," Golden State coach Steve Kerr said.

"We were able to pull it out, and we're moving on."

Curry, fouled on a three-point attempt, made all three free-throws, then produced a three-pointer that put the Warriors up by 10 with 26.8 seconds to play. Thompson's six threepointers made up most of his 21 points. Green finished with 11 points and a team-high nine rebounds for Golden State.

"No one had any doubts that we could get this done," Green said. 'it took a great, tremendous effort and fight to overcome (the 3-1 deficit)." Curry, who has dealt with ankle, knee and elbow injuries in the post-season, echoed his team-mate. "We never lost confidence, and every game just played with fearlessness and that confidence we could get back to the finals however we had to get it done," he said.

Durant admitted that surrendering that 3-1 series lead was painful.

"You've got to give credit to them," said Durant, who led the Thunder with 27 points and pulled down seven rebounds.

"They came out and played well the last three games of the series and won three in a row." Westbrook had 19 points and 13 assists, but connected on just seven of 21 shots from the field.

Overall the Thunder shot just 38.2 percent from the field -- which helped doomed their bid to become the first team in NBA history to beat two 65-win teams in the same post-season. The Thunder had eliminated Western Conference second seeds San Antonio in the second round.

"This could have played out entirely differently," Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. "There was opportunity for us to close the series out in (games) five and six and seven, and we came up a little short."

Bethany Hamilton of Hawaii (pictured) placing equal third at the Fiji Womens Pro, reaching the Semifinals at Cloudbreak on Tuesdaay May 31. (PHOTO: © WSL/Sloane SOCIAL)

suva, May 31 (aFP): One-armed American surfer Bethany Hamilton sealed third place in the Fiji Women's Pro on Tuesday after beating some of the world's best to make the semi-finals. Hamilton, whose left arm was bitten off in a shark attack in 2003, entered the event at Tavarua as a wildcard rated little chance of making an impact.

But the 26-year-old from Hawaii reached the final four with an incredible giant-killing run.

She defeated Australia's world number one Tyler Wright in the second round, then beat six-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore in the third. Another Aussie, the highly rated Nikki Van Dijk, succumbed in the quarter-finals before Hamilton finally fell to the competition's eventual

winner, France's Johanne Defay, in the semis.

"Beyond stoked to finish 3rd... as the wildcard! LOVED competing & looking forward to more adventures," she tweeted after the event. It is the sixth time Hamilton, who had a child last year, has competed on the elite tour, with her previous best a ninth place in 2010.

But the simple fact she is competing has already inspired a Hollywood movie, 2011's "Soul Surfer" featuring Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt.

Hamilton was a promising junior aged 13 when a huge tiger shark mauled her, losing 60 percent of her blood after it ripped off her arm.

But she refused to give up her dream of becoming a pro surfer

and was back on a board less than a month after the near-fatal attack.

She embarked on intensive physical therapy and strengthening exercises to adjust her balance and movements to compensate for the missing arm. The only concession made to her handicap is a handle on the surfboard, which allows her to duck-dive under approaching waves when she paddles out. She spoke after making the quarter-finals in Fiji about what it meant for her to compete among the best.

"I know I'm in a unique position to hopefully encourage young girls... to chase their dreams," she said. "Even after losing my arm I'm still doing everything I hoped I could do. I'm a reminder for young girls that you can do it if you set your mind to it."

Messi tax fraud trial begins in Barcelona

MaDrID, May 31 (reuters): Barcelona's five-times soccer World Player of the Year Lionel Messi went on trial on Tuesday along with his father on accusations of defrauding the Spanish state of millions of euros (dollars). Argentinian-born striker Messi and his father Jorge Horacio Messi, who have both denied the allegations, were due to appear in the Barcelona court on Thursday, according to a judicial document.

A previous court ruled that Messi, 28, could have known about and approved the creation of a web of shell companies allegedly used to evade

taxes on income from image rights.

Spain's tax office accused both men in 2013 of defrauding the government of 4.2 million euros ($4.67 million) between 2007 and 2009. According to the prosecutor's office, which has proposed jail terms of up to 22 months, revenue was hidden using shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Messi and his father paid five million euros to the tax authorities as a "corrective" measure after being formally investigated in June 2013. Messi has been resident in Barcelona since 2000 and has had Spanish citizenship since 2005.

Will uplift tribal people’s sports: Mary Kom

Mkhitaryan 'rejects' Dortmund extension

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BerlIn, May 31 (aFP): Borussia Dortmund could be set to lose another star for next season amidst reports Chelsea and Arsenal target Henrikh Mkhitaryan has turned down a contract extension with the German giants. "Why should we extend now?

Micki (Mkhitaryan) still has a contract until 2017 and we'll continue thinking about his future after that," Mkhitaryan's agent Mino Raiola told German daily Bild.

Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke refused to comment on the situation with Mkhitaryan. The Armenian international has had a stellar season at Dortmund, scoring 23 goals and creating another 32 in all competitions, as Borussia finished second only to Bayern in Germany's top flight. The 27-year-old netted a hat-trick for Armenia on Sunday in their 7-1 victory over Guatemala, and had a hand in six of their goals, with their next international on Thursday against El Salvador.

Rashford in England Euro 2016 squad lonDon, May 31 (aFP): Manchester United's teenage striker Marcus Rashford was included in England's final 23-man Euro 2016 squad announced on Tuesday as Danny Drinkwater and Andros Townsend dropped out. Rashford, 18, scored within three minutes of his England debut in Friday's 2-1 win over Australia, having netted eight times in 18 games since making his United debut in February. His emergence was thought to have cast doubt on Daniel Sturridge's place, but the Liverpool player was named as one of five strikers despite missing the Australia game with a calf problem. Originally named in manager Roy Hodgson's provisional 26-man squad, Leicester City midfielder Drinkwater and Newcastle United winger Townsend made way.

Injury victim Fabian Delph, the Manchester City midfielder, had previously been omitted.

England 23-man squad for Euro 2016 Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Burnley) Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United, capt), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City)

Imphal | May 31

Star boxer MC Mary Kom has today said that she will do her best in uplifting the tribal people’s sports in Manipur.

She was speaking at a programme organised by the Liangmai Naga Council (LNC) to felicitate her on being nominated to the Rajya Sabha as a Member of Parliament at her residence in Langol Game Village here in Imphal. A memento was also presented to Mary by LNC on the occasion. Clad in a traditional Li-

angmai dress which was presented by the LNC at the event, the 33-year-old said the tribal people in Manipur are at an early stage in the field of games and sports as compared to the majority community of the state.

The five-time world amateur boxing champion and Olympics bronze medalist said she will do her best to uplift the tribal people in sports. “I will try my best to uplift it. I cannot make any commitment. But I’ll make best effort to work for them as an MP. Hope the God has given me the task to elevate the minority peo-

ple,” she said.

“Even in my long career, I have never made commitment on getting gold medals. I always tell the press that I will try my best. But athletes always want medals.”

Kom failed to qualify for the upcoming Rio Olympics and she says it is God’s will. “Now, I’m an MP. I think I should not regret any more because it’s the will of God who wants me to take to a new path. I’m indeed very happy to take the offer from the Prime Minister and BJP,” she said.

However, she admitted that she needs experience which she

England coach backs Cook to top Sachin total

Chester-le- street, May 31 (aFP): England coach Trevor Bayliss believes Alastair Cook has it in him to surpass India great Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket's alltime leading run-scorer.

Cook became just the 12th player in history to score 10,000 Test runs during the course of his unbeaten 47 as England beat Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the second Test at the Riverside in Chester-le-Street on Monday.

The England captain was also the first Englishman to achieve the feat and, at 31 years and 157 days, the youngest to get to the landmark, breaking Tendulkar's record by more than five months.

Cook is unlikely ever to play white ball international cricket again having been dropped from the one-day side prior to last year's 50-over World Cup. But even without that burden, Tendulkar's aggregate tally of 15,921 Test runs is still some way off for left-handed opener Cook, who now has 10,042 to his credit.

However, given Cook has scored at a rate of around 1,000 runs a year for the past decade, only a career-ending injury or

a sharp decline in form could deny him the chance to surpass Tendulkar's haul.

"It will be about how long he wants to keep doing it," said Bayliss. "But certainly there is time on his side, so there is no reason he couldn't if his heart is still in it and his will to do it is still there," the Australian added. Former Sri Lanka coach Bayliss is no doubt of Cook's quality.

"He is right up there with any of the best international players. He has these powers of concentration," he said.

"He is not the biggest stroke-player of all time - (but) he knows his game very well, he is very patient and he sticks to it. "To be able to do that over the period of time he has

played and score as many runs as he has is a fantastic effort."

Victory at the Riverside, the headquarters of north-east county Durham, saw England take an unassailable 2-0 lead in their three-Test series with Sri Lanka.

England quickly announced an unchanged 12man squad for next week's third Test at Lord's. That means they still have the option of giving a debut to Nottinghamshire seamer Jake Ball.

Fast bowler Steven Finn, who plays at Lord's for Middlesex, could be vulnerable if England want to assess Ball in international match conditions ahead of their upcoming home Test series against Pakistan. But Bayliss indicated Finn and struggling number three batsman Nick Compton, another Middlesex man, would get a fair run to prove their worth.

"There have been discussions over the last month or so, but we have been about giving guys the opportunity to show us what they have got," said Bayliss. "The team has been a winning one, so there is no reason to change it just at the moment."

said would be able to get in onetwo years as soon as she starts her work as an MP. “I’m neither a huge celebrity nor a well-educated person.

I’m not eloquent either. I have to work hard and get experience.”

Kom studied only till standard VIII and never had a flair for studies. She was in love with the game of boxing and wanted to learn the art and skill.

She said, “My husband had told me my nomination was well deserved. He had said I would surely become a public leader one day. I did not even dream of

it. I was caught by surprise.”

Former MP Mani Charanamei, who was also present on the occasion, said the hill districts do not have proper sports grounds and sought help from Mary Kom in developing sports infrastructure for nurturing and identifying talented tribal sports persons.

“When I was an MP, the NEC and DoNER sanctioned for developing sports stadium in the hills but we do not see any of them till date,” he regretted.

He urged upon Kom to work towards all-round development of the hills.

Radwanska, Halep exit in French Open last 16 shocks Agnieszka Radwanska (AFP Photo)

ParIs, May 31 (aFP): Second seed Agnieszka Radwanska and former French Open finalist Simona Halep crashed out in the last 16 on another rain-hit day at Roland Garros on Tuesday. Radwanska appeared to be cruising into the quarter-finals as she led unseeded Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2, 3-0 before play was suspended on Sunday, with the tournament then suffering its first washout in 16 years on Monday.

But the Pole, who was hampered by a right wrist injury, dropped 10 straight games either side of another rain delay on Tuesday as world number 102 Pironkova extended her best run in Paris.

"It feels unbelievably great. I have no words right now, I'm so happy," said Pironkova, a former Wimbledon semifinalist. "It was very difficult with all the

rain, we waited almost three days to finish the match. But I can't complain, it turned out great for me." Sixth seed Halep, beaten in the 2014 final by Maria Sharapova, suffered a 7-6 (7/0), 6-3 defeat to former US Open champion Samantha Stosur of Australia.

The Romanian was 5-3 up when their contest, also held over from Sunday, resumed on Court One, but Stosur broke Halep as she tried to serve out the first set before racing through the tie-break to seize control.

Stosur, the 2010 French Open runner-up, again broke her opponent to begin the second set before clinching a quarter-final berth courtesy of a second break. The 21st seed will face Pironkova next, with the winner of that tie playing Spain's Garbine Muguruza or 108th-ranked American Shelby Rogers for a place in the final.

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