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Dimapur | June 20

Power shutdowns in Wokha dist, Tseminyu and Pughoboto areas DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): The Power Department today informed consumers in Wokha district, Tseminyu and Pughoboto areas that there will be total shutdown of power from time to time in the next two to three days starting June 21. A press note from the Executive Engineer, Transmission division, Kohima said that this has been necessitated as commissioning of new circuit breakers at 132/33kV Wokha Substation is in progress. The department has asked the consumers to extend cooperation and bear with the inconvenience.

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‘Cannot control the taste buds of individuals’ Morung Express News

You went to Delhi, met Modi and he promised big developments, big projects?? Hoishey, hoishey pray kori kene function end kori tebo nee!

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“BJP is going to position itself as far as elections in the (Nagaland) state are concerned,” said Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (independent charge), Rajiv Pratap Rudy on June 20. Rudy, who reached Nagaland today, said that he was assigned Dimapur by the Prime Minister to lead the International Yoga Day celebration in Nagaland on June 21.

Speaking to the media at the Police Guest House, Chumukedima, he said that the BJP’s presence is growing across the country starting from municipal polls. Queried on the party’s prospects in Assembly election bound Nagaland in the backdrop of the ‘Cow Slaughter’ ban, Rudy was diplomatic while the citing the ‘rights’ as guaranteed in the Constitution of India.

At the same time, he added that a “constitutional con-

frontation” should not be created.

“We cannot control the taste buds of individuals… we have to respect the varied cultural sentiments of India,” he said.

According to him, the Prime Minister has a special focus on the northeast, Nagaland in particular, in terms of development and the Framework Agreement. While stating that the “narrative of the BJP led NDA government” in the 3 years since PM Modi took the reins has been to uplift the marginalised, Rudy said that the launch of over 100 people oriented welfare and development schemes by the Central government testifies to it.

He added that the objective of the schemes have been to help to the “last man.”

As far as the Ministry of Skill Development was concerned, he said that the Ministry has already rolled out proposal to set up 4 additional Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in Nagaland.

Union Minister assures to speed up skill development in Nagaland

Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Union Minister of State (I/C), Skill Development & Entrepreneurship meeting Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya in Dimapur on June 20.

Two of the 4 ITIs will be set up in Longleng and Kiphire – 2 districts in Nagaland which has yet to have ITIs. Accommodation at the ITIs

4 lane work should not be stalled: NTC

DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) today stated that work on the 4 lane Dimapur-Kohima road project should not be stalled by anybody under any circumstances, keeping in mind the recent setbacks the project has faced.

A press note from the NTC reminded the state government that unhindered execution of the work, quality work as per specifications, completion of the project on time and security of the contractors and their field workers are the primary duty of the government. “As much as

the credit of the successful completion of the project goes to the credit of the government; that much discredit will also go to them should anything go wrong with the project. We call upon the state government not to soft paddle with any element trying to stall the progress of the work,” it said.

The NTC further urged the contractors not to succumb to any pressure from any quarter for demand of money “which will have immense ramifications.”

“Whenever anyone faces any inconvenience due to threats and interfer-

ences, report it to appropriate authorities instead of discontinuing the work.

The contractors are also warned not to connive with unwanted and destructive elements with intension to take undue advantage on the people of Nagaland, we expect them to be transparent and proof their worth,” it added.

The NTC also acknowledged the ACAUT and the Nagaland Governor for taking up the issue and said that “if the state government is alive and sensitive enough, this initiative should be a sufficient embarrassment.”

in Nagaland has so far been only for boys. On this, Rudy said that hostels for girls will also be set up.

The Ministry’s pro-

posal to make ITI diploma courses equivalent to class 10 and 12 board certificates, which was recently approved by the Human

DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): Union Minister of State (I/C), Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Rajiv Pratap Rudy met Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya on Tuesday in Dimapur and discussed the progress of various schemes in the state.

They particularly discussed the ‘Enhancing Skill Development Infrastructure in NE States & Sikkim’ scheme and those related to the skill development mission. They also deliberated on the current on ground situation of setting up of skill development institutions in Nagaland.

Discussing skill development in Nagaland, Rudy said: “We have seen huge potential and dedication in the youth of Nagaland and have already realised that they have great entrepreneurial skills. There is big demand for such youth across the country in varied sectors. We will work closely with the Government of Nagaland to bring scale and speed to our programs here and create avenues for growth for the youth of this State.”

He meanwhile thanked the Nagaland Governor for his unconditional support, which he stated would “soon result in setting up of more ITIs in the State and promoting skill development and entrepreneurship.”

Resource Ministry, Rudy said will affect a major change that will benefit over 2.3cr students across the country.

Rudy will be at the Agri Expo site at 4th Mile on June 21, which will host the Yoga Day celebration this year. It will start at 8:30 am.

NSCN (K) pledges to carry forward Khaplang’s ‘dreams, hope & visions’ DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today reiterated its pledge to “carry on forward the unfulfilled dreams and hopes and visions of our great leader” and appealed to every Naga to uphold the spirit of nationalism exhibited by Chairman SS Khaplang during his life time.

In a statement issued through its MIP, the NSCN (K) urged the Naga people to “walk together in the everlasting footprints imprinted upon the rock of ages.”

While mourning the passing away of its Chair-

man, the NSCN (K) said that SS Khaplang’s “entire life, from dusk to dawn, winter to summer and for decades till his last breath was woven to the Naga liberation struggle choosing to live a pious revolutionary life in the jungles and makeshift camps along with comrades and followers rather than being swayed away by comforts, luxuries and materialism unlike many of his contemporaries.”

“Overcoming every political storm, overwhelming temptations and controversies during the

tumultuous decades of political sojourn of 54 years in the Naga national service, SS Khaplang was the lone Naga leader to have had firmly stood his ground uncompromisingly, salvaged the national struggle from demolishment on many occasions and raised the hopes of our people from nadir to higher level keeping thus the aspirations alive till today,” it stated.

It meanwhile extended gratitude and indebtedness to all the members of UNLFW and other revolutionary fraternities of the re-

gion, various civil societies, Hoho’s, NGO’s, Churches, faiths, student’s and women organisations, individuals, businessmen and especially the youths from various towns and cities who held candle light vigils “in honour of our departed leader.”

It particularly thanked the Naga Yuya, CNA, TNSA, NMA, NSF, NSO, ENSA, Poumai Students’ Union etc for “sacrificing physically, materially and for going all the way out without any reservation in ensuring a successful grand funeral for our departed leader.”

VHP calls for scrapping minorities’ panel Govt all set to ring in GST at NEw DElhI, JUNE 20 (IANS): The VHP on Tuesday accused National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Chair Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi of fanning separatism and demanded its scrapping, a charge Rizvi rejected and said the panel is bridging gaps between different communities.

The VHP’s criticism came after Rizvi, newly appointed to the NCM post, announced resumption of a commission helpline service to enable persons directly contact the statutory panel with their grievances.

“NCM Chairperson

Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi... is strengthening feelings of separatism in the Muslim community,” Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Joint General Secretary Surendra Jain said in a statement here.

“While informing about the decision to start a helpline number for Muslims, he (Rizvi) said the Muslims could call on this number in case any atrocity is committed against them.

This makes one feel that the atrocities against the Muslims have reached such proportions that the extreme step of opening a helpline for the community had to

be taken up,” Jain said.

He said “the very genesis of a Minorities Commission is encouragement to separatism”.

“Isn’t the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) more than enough to safeguard the rights of all the citizens of the nation,” Jain asked.

He demanded that the NHRC should be empowered while the Minorities Commission should be scrapped.

Reacting to VHP’s allegations, Rizvi said that the panel aims to safeguard the constitutional rights of all

minorities, not just Muslims, and that it cannot be wished away.

“The NCM was constituted in 1992 by an Act of Parliament to safeguard the constitutional rights of all minorities, not just Muslims. It does not matter what any individual or organisation thinks about it,” Rizvi told IANS. Rizvi said it must have been formed after a need for it was felt.

“Our job is to bridge the gap (between the majority and minority communities), not create any resentment,” he added.

“As for the helpline, we are just reviving an existing helpline that has been lying defunct for 4-5 years due to technical reason. The idea behind the helpline is that those who cannot approach the commission through written communication, can avail the service of helpline,” Rizvi said.

In August 2014, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court upheld the constitutional validity of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992, and held that the Act did not discriminate on the ground of religion.

Govts using Facebook, Twitter for promoting lies, propaganda: Report

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loNDoN, JUNE 20 (IANS): Governments and individuals are widely using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda to manipulate public opinion around the world, an alarming nine-countries study has said.

According to the new set of studies from the University of Oxford, countries like Russia, where around 45 per cent of active Twitter accounts are bots and Taiwan -- where a campaign against President Tsai Ing-wen involved thousands of heavily co-ordinated accounts sharing Chinese mainland propaganda -- contribute to the dirty politics on social media.

The reports, part of Oxford Internet Institute’s ‘Computational Propaganda Research Project’, include Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the US.

Citing Philip Howard, Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford, The Guardian reported on Tuesday that “the lies, the junk, the misinformation” of traditional propaganda is widespread online and “supported by Facebook or Twitter’s algorithms”.

One of the techniques to alter people’s opinion is to build fake accounts to automate them to like, share and post on the social networks. According to the report, these accounts serve to game algorithms to push content on to curated social feeds and drown out real issues by populating social networks with untrue information.

As the number of likes and shares is large, users tend to believe the content that manipulates their opinion.

The researchers found that in the US, the propaganda took the form of “manufacturing con-

sensus” -- creating the illusion of popularity so that a political candidate can have viability where they might not have had it before.

“The illusion of online support for a candidate can spur actual support through a bandwagon effect.

Trump made Twitter centre stage in this election and voters paid attention,” said the US report.

The report also found evidence of institutional support for the use of bots. “Bots massively multiply the ability of one person to attempt to manipulate people.

Picture your annoying friend on Facebook, who’s always picking political fights. If they had an army of 5,000 bots, that would be a lot worse, right?” Samuel Woolley, the project’s Director of Research, was quoted as saying in The Guardian.

One country that the researchers found different from others was Germany where fear of online de-

stabilisation outpaced the actual arrival of automated political attacks. Germany has implemented world-leading laws, requiring social networks to take responsibility for what gets posted on their sites.

“Germany leads the way as a cautionary authority over computational propaganda, seeking to prevent online manipulation of opinion rather than addressing already present issues,” the report noted. Last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused technology giants Facebook and Google of “narrowing perspective” and demanded that they make public their privately-developed algorithms.

Ever since the results of the US presidential elections were declared, Facebook was accused of spreading and promoting fake news that favoured the win of Donald Trump.

stroke of June 30 midnight

NEw DElhI, JUNE 20 (PTI): Reminiscent of India’s tryst with destiny at the mid-night of August 15, 1947, Parliament’s historic Central Hall will host a function on the intervening night of June 30-July 1 to ring in the nation’s biggest tax reform -- GST. Announcing that the switchover to the good and services tax (GST) will kick in at the stroke of midnight, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the hourlong function will mirror the contribution made by different political parties and states to the revolutionary new tax regime.

The circular-shaped Central Hall had previously hosted a function that marked 50 years of Independence.

President Pranab Mukherjee, who had piloted the first Constitutional Amendment Bill to bring in GST in 2011 when he was finance minister with the previous UPA regime, will share the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion.

Also on dais will be former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda, apart from Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

All Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament have been invited as also chief ministers and

cBec creates commissioner Office for GST in Dimapur

DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): With jurisdiction over the entire state of Nagaland, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has created the office of Commissioner of Central Tax Dimapur Office for administering the Central GST and Integrated GST portion of GST. The creation of office was stated in a notification from the Union Ministry of Finance on June 19 and will come into force on June 22. K Ashi Khieya a 1991 batch IRS (Customs and Excise) officer has reportedly been transferred to take over as Commissioner of CGST Dimapur.

The Dimapur office will come under the jurisdiction of Chief Commissioner Guwahati, which also has jurisdiction over the entire North East states except Sikkim.

Assam has two Commissioner Office – Principal Commissioner Office in Guwahati and Commissioner Office in Dibrugarh. All the other states have one office based in their respective capitals viz., Agartala, Aizawl, Imphal, Itanagar, and Shillong. The Central Government is set to roll out the Good & Services Tax from July 1. state finance ministers, Jaitley said, adding that all the members -- past and present -- chairmen of the GST Council and the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers have been invited.

GST, he said, over the medium to long term will lead to a rise in revenues of the Centre and states as the size of the formal economy will grow.

GST being a more efficient system will also result in better tax compliance, the finance minister stressed.

However, in the short term, “there will be some challenges” in switchover to GST, he pointed out

without elaborating.

Asked about industry bodies talking about small and medium enterprises not being prepared for the switchover to GST, Jaitley said July 1 as the rollout date has been announced well in advance and so “nobody had any business not to be ready”.

Besides, additional time has been given in the initial period for filing of the results, thus giving enough time to prepare for the transition, he said.

On the anti-profiteering clause in the GST law, he said the provision has been made as a deterrent which is not intended to be used unless forced to.

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Ralan orgs appeal CM to revoke SDO (C)’s transfer order FDWA empowers domestic Say his service still required; he knows the issues of the area well which are yet to be resolved

Wokha, June 20 (Mexn): The Ralan Area Eloe (women) Hoho and Ralan Area Baptist Churches Union have appealed to the Chief Minister of Nagaland to revoke the transfer order of the SDO (C), Ralan, Thungchanbemo Tungoe for the sake of the people in the area.

In an appeal letter to the CM,

Ralan Area Eloe Hoho (RAEH) stressed that the service of the SDO (C) is still required in Ralan.

“We understand that transfer and posting is a part and parcel of the Government servant. However, seeing the works of the incumbent SDO (Civil) with our own eyes, we strongly feel that his service is still required here at the border, Ralan,” stated the letter issued by Orenboni Lotha, president and Khonbeno Ovung, general secretary.

It emphasized that he knows the current Ralan issue inside out and there are many border and other land related issues which are yet to be resolved.

The Hoho further stated that at

the time when Ralan was burning because of the conflict between the Adivasi and Naga communities, Thungchanbemo was posted as SDO (C) cum Border Magistrate, Ralan on people’s demand and right from day one till today he has been sacrificing for the area with utmost devotion and sincerity. “Because of his dedication and hard work our fears are being removed gradually. Suddenly we were informed that he is being transferred out, like our hands and legs have been cut off,” it added, while also expressing shock and sadness at the transfer order.

In a separate letter, the pastors of Ralan Area Baptist Churches

Union attested that after the posting of the incumbent SDO (C), Thungchanbemo Tungoe to Ralan, “peace has ushered in the area due to his sheer dedication and sacrifice.” Besides the many land issues, the union said, the area is facing a “very sensitive religious issue” which created law and order problem. “With the intervention of the incumbent SDO (C) the situation has been saved. The issue is yet to be resolved. The incumbent knows the issue in detail and the matter is under study by him,” it added.

In this light, the two organizations appealed to the CM to revoke his transfer order and retain him as the SDO (C) of Ralan.

workers in North East Our Correspondent Kohima | June 20

The national estimate for 2004 to 2005 suggests that 4.75 million workers were employed by private households, of which, 3.05 million were urban women making domestic work the largest female occupation in urban India. Some reports say that the number of domestic workers in India may be up to 40-50 million.

There are about 3,75,000 domestic workers in Assam alone.

North East has a large number of women and young girls enrolled in domestic work yet unrecognized and a decent work status denied to them. They are often called maids, servants, kitchen girls and Aiyas.

“It is high time to ratify ILO C 189; ‘Decent Work for Domestic Workers’ so that their work is recognized, they are paid a decent wage and are treated as workers with respect,” Ferrando Domestic Workers Alliance (FDWA) asserted in a brochure.

An initiative of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help Chief Minister Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu handing over the computer set for government colleges to the Director, Higher Technical of Christians (MSMHC), FDWA’s objective is proEducation at his office chamber at Civil Secretariat on June 20.

CM hands over free computer sets for government colleges

kohiMa, June 20 (Mexn): Nagaland Chief Minister, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu today emphasized on the need to spread knowledge and impart education of Information Technology to every Naga student.

Speaking during the free distribution ceremony of computer sets to the government colleges in his office chamber at the Civil Secretariat, the Chief Minister pointed out that Nagaland is ranked No. 5 in IT sector in the country and expressed happiness to the IT department for achieving the ranking.

Shürhozelie maintained that the world is changing into digital world and so Naga students should not lag behind others, according to a press release from Media Cell, Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).

Stating that the Naga students will have no problem with the advancement

of technology, he further expressed hope to see Naga students emerge among the best in the field of Information & Technology in the near future.

He was also optimistic that distributing the computer sets, especially to the government colleges, will mark a new beginning in empowering computer education to government students.

He expressed happiness that IT department has made much progress in a very short span of time and brought laurels to the state.

The release mentioned that the computer sets were funded by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

Out of 100 sets, 50 sets will be distributed to the 5 accredited government colleges while 50 sets will be given to remaining 10 government colleges.

moting and realizing the rights, dignity and solidarity of the domestic workers in North East India.

The project is implemented through the social development office of the congregation, Centre for Development Initiatives (CDI) Guwahati, which has its regional offices in Shillong, Tinsukia (Loonpuria), Tezpur (Udalguri).

“The overall goal and objective of the project is sustainable improvements of the living and working situation of domestic workers who are mostly women and girls vulnerable to all kinds of exploitation,” the brochure stated.

The project specifically aims at organizing the domestic workers into union so that their voice is heard and they become empowered to argue for their rights. In the process, it also works towards inclusion of the domestic workers into social security system so that their economic condition can be improved and their livelihood sustained.

In a very extensive manner it also creates awareness among the domestic workers as well as in the public sector through campaigns,

OMHYO directs shops to close by 8:00 pm

kohiMa, June 20 (Mexn): The Old Ministers’ Hill Youth Organization (OMHYO) has decided that all the shops under its jurisdiction should close by 8:00 pm.

In its meeting held on June 17 at the colony Panchayat hall, the organization also directed all the shops, schools and hotels to put up proper sign boards with their names and correct addresses.

Every household or inhabitant, including shops, Sümi Aphuyemi Baptist Akukuhou Küqhakulu (SABAK), Council of Rengma Baptist hotels and schools under Churches (CRBC), and Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS) are jointly organizing NBCC Clean Election campaign from June 20-July 20, 2017. Students of OTS and volunteers from SABAK and CRBC will educating the people of Pughoboto and Tseminyu on the values and principles of Clean Election.

Directorate team inspects YOCW trainings in Kiphire, Phek

The Monitoring and Evaluation team with trainers and trainees of YOCW in Kiphire.

kohiMa, June 20 (Mexn): The Monitoring and Evaluation team of the Directorate of Employment, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Nagaland led by Joint Director C. Lotam Chang and Assistant Director Zubemo Lotha Tsanglao and staff inspected the Year of Construction Workers (YOCW) programme in Kiphire and Phek districts from June 16 to 19.

The team oversaw the

ongoing State’s flagship programme in re-skilling and up-skilling the Naga youths who are already self-employed in construction sector, informed a press release from Monitoring & Evaluation Cell, YOCW. Based on the NSDC curriculum, trainees under the programme are trained for one week and awarded certificate as Assistant Mason, it added.

The team from the Di-

rectorate of Employment, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship attended the valedictory programme in Kiphire and the inaugural programme in Phek and “found the training quite satisfactory while interacting with the trainees and stakeholders of the concerned districts,” the release said.

YOCW is carried out in partnership with Zynorique Initiative Society and YouthNet.

Massive repairing work along Chetheba-Chakhabama Road

The Village Council Chairmen/ Vice-Chairman of Chetheba jurisdiction would like to thank Chotisuh Sazo, Hon'ble Minister, Public Health Engineering Department, Govt. of Nagaland for his help towards repairing work of Chetheba-Chakhabama road.

The repairing work will continue. All the commuters are requested to co-operate with the construction workers for smooth execution of the work.

Sd/- Zhothiyi Dawhuo Muleyi Khesoh Chairman, Village Council, Thenyizu Chairman, Village Council, Chesezu.

the jurisdiction should not throw wastes and rubbishes improperly; sanitation measure should be taken around its area, the meeting also resolved.

Meanwhile, it decided that any student found under alcohol influence or in possession of intoxicated things will be strictly dealt with according to the constitution.

Double parking around the colony will not be allowed from 7:30 am to 4:30pm for the smooth flow

of vehicle passage, it added.

A press release from OMHYO president, Metevi Zao and secretary, Metenozo Savi further informed that any organization, group or party organizing any event or programme under the jurisdiction should give prior information to the colony youth president or the chairman of the colony for the smooth conduct and welfare of the people.

For any assistance within the colony, the general

NCC camp continues despite rains in Mkg

Mokokchung, June 20 (Mexn): The 10-day National Cadet Corps (NCC) camp in Mokokchung is carrying on despite heavy rains, informed a press release received here on June 20.

The cadets have undergone a Traffic Rules Lecture cum Practical Class. The classes were conducted by Sub Inspector C Patton and his team. Patton spoke to the cadets about what all they are supposed to adhere to once out of their house with respect to their documents, their duties on the road and how NCC cadets can contribute in making people aware of road safety, and decongestion of traffic during peak hours in towns of Nagaland. He also emphasized on

the volunteer duties given to SD cadets during major festivals in the town.

The release further informed that the blood donation camp began on June 20 under First Officer Nokpang Konyak and 3/O Imtilepba I. Three SD cadets donated blood and the rest will follow in the coming days.

The firing practice with an aim ‘Shoot To Win’ is also being carried out under First Officer Tzuwar, 3/O Hontin Konyak and 3/O Indenmongba in the presence of PI staff Hav Rajan.

“The cadets are progressing in all aspects and one can see them even practicing their tribal martial dances in the evenings,” the release added.

public can call the helpline numbers: 9436001384-Metevi, 7005605794- Roko, 9402717927- Metenozo.

The youth organization also informed that there will be mass social work on June 24 from 6:00 am to 9:00 am in the colony, where one member from every household will have to compulsorily take part.

The organization has requested the general public and its colony member to co-operate for peace and welfare of the colony.

Regional business meet in Kohima today

kohiMa, June 20 (Mexn): As part of its vision to change the landscape of entrepreneurship of not just the state of Nagaland but the entire North East region, Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) is organizing a one day regional business meet on June 21 at Jubilee Memorial Centre, Lerie, Kohima from 9:00 am.

“Through this meet, we look forward to exploring avenues for trade under the theme “Inter-state trade and land-linked opportunities: Nagaland & Manipur,” said EA CEO & co-ordinator Neichute Doulo.

He stated that the main aim is to break through long held unconstructive beliefs to one of focusing on opportunities.

To further showcase the possibilities, a mini trade fair will also be held featuring products from the participating states.

Pradip Phanjoubam, Editor, Imphal Free Press and Dr. Aküm Longchari, Editor, The Morung Express will be the speakers.

Mahindra launches construction equipment in Dimapur

Announces introductory offer for next 7 days Morung Express News Dimapur | June 20

Inaugurating P.L. Bagri & Co., a full range dealership of Mahindra construction equipment, the company also simultaneously launched its back hoe loader by Jacob Varghese, National Head, Sales & Customer Care, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd at DMC office premises on Tuesday.

The company also announced an introductory offer of Rs 25 lakh for SX model of its back hoe loader originally priced at Rs 26.5 lakh for the next seven days. The VX model of the same machine with joystick operation is priced at Rs 27.3 lakh.

Speaking at the programme, Varghese said, “Being a customer-centric company, it has always been the company’s endeavour to provide its customers with best-in-class sales and service experience.” He said that the inau-

lobbying and advocacy.

The project ‘Formation of domestic workers union structures’ is being implemented in 12 cities (Guwahati, Shillong, Tura, Aizawl, Agartala, Tezpur, Bongaigoan, Barpeta, Tinsukia, Sarupather, Kohima, and Imphal) of North East covering six states- Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Manipur.

Some of the highlights of the activities include; identification of domestic workers and registration and organization into groups, gathering of children of domestic workers into Ferrando children club, crisis intervention mechanism, information of domestic workers about unions and establishment of union structures, training of domestic workers in various topics in the realm of group formation and other events, information campaign and direct intervention in the sphere of human trafficking, awareness raising, advocacy and lobbying, networking with relevant stakeholders who are important for domestic workers training for the project staff.

MLAs informed on presidential poll

kohiMa, June 20 (Mexn): Commissioner & Secretary, NLA and Asst. Returning Officer, Presidential Election 2017, Benjamin Newmai has informed that the poll for the office of the President of India will take place in the annexe hall of the conference room, Assembly Secretariat, Kohima. The presidential poll is scheduled to be held on Monday, July 17 between 10:00 am-5:00 pm. The Returning Officer has informed all MLAs to “confirm action taken by return signal.”

On Int’l Yoga Day, Gov encourages to do yoga

kohiMa, June 20 (Mexn): On the occasion of International Yoga Day (June 21), Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya has appealed to all the people of the State to participate in the “great movement” initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He hoped this will continue to promote a healthy mind and body.

“Yoga is one of the most invaluable gifts of the ancient Indian tradition,” Acharya said in a press release. “It originated in India nearly 15000 years ago, which was universally accepted as one of the most ideal practices of mankind. Yoga embodies unity of mind and body and promotes harmony amongst the people and nature. It encourages more holistic approach towards good health and happiness.” He added that yoga provides physical and mental well being of the people. “For sound health and mind, we need to incorporate yoga as part of our daily life.”

Phomla Hoichem Tuensang demands not to grant bail to rape accused

Jacob Varghese, National Head, Sales & Customer Care, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd handing over a symbolic key to the first customer of its newly launched machine in Dimapur on Tuesday. (Morung Photo)

guration of P.L. Bagri & Co was in line with the company’s expansion strategy for Nagaland which he termed as an important market.

Varghese also said that the newly launched machine powered with Mahindra Di engine was 100% made in India.

Besides the sales/service/spare facilities, the

dealership would also provide facilities such as finance, exchange, quick repairs etc.

Zonal Manager – Services & Customer Care, Sandip Ghosh said that the company has the most fuel efficient back hoe loader in the industry with highest productivity in 80 HP range.

DMC administrator, Moa Sangtam who also attended the programme symbolically started the newly launched engine.

M/s P.L. Bagri & Co., which is the 61st Mahindra dealership in the country, assured all existing and future customers for best in class services at reasonable price from the dealership.

Tuensang, June 20 (Mexn): Phomla Hoichem Tuensang unit has condemned the rape of two children aged 5 years and 7 years in Tuensang Town on June 15 by a 21-year-old man.

Terming the incident “barbaric in nature” and “an act of brutality”, the unit reiterated its condemnation and called upon the right thinking citizens and responsible organizations to come forward and condemn the “heinous” crime. In a press statement, it further appealed to the responsible authority to book the accused under relevant sections of the laws and not grant bail under any circumstances. Meanwhile, it appealed to one and all to comfort the victims' family at this hour of shock and sorrow and requested all to stand by them.

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Nature's fury in North East

Mizoram: YMA to raise funds for victims of natural disaster Newmai News Network

YMA expressed sadness over the spate of disasters in the state since the past one week and shared its grief with the victims. . “The organisation has deeply condoled those people who have lost their lives due to flood and landslide and also other victims who were badly affected by the natural disaster caused by incessant rains,” the statement said.

Sources said that some NGOs including Mizo Zaimi Insuikhawm (MZI), Mumbai based Getto, Delhi based NGO Goonj and the Salvation Army international headquarters in London are raising funds in aid of Mizoram flood victims.

At present, the YMA has 5 sub-headquarters, 47 groups, 805 branches and 4, 04,722 members all over Mizoram and some parts of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura.

Landslides and floods triggered by incessant rains that lashed Mizoram

Aizawl | June 20

Mizoram’s largest civil organisation, the Young Mizo Association (YMA) on Tuesday said that it will raise fund for victims of floods and landslides that hit the state since June 9.

The Executive Committee of the Central Committee of YMA, who met on June 19, unanimously decided that the donation will be collected in all YMA branches across the state in aid of those victims who have been badly affected by floods, landslides and 'other natural calamities'.

The YMA also asked people to generously come forward and extend aids and helping hands to the victims.

It further urged other NGOs within and outside Mizoram to raise and donate fund in aids of the victims of Mizoram’s calamity as per their convenience.

Meanwhile, a statement issued by Central

since June 9 wreaked havoc in the state as at least 12 people were killed and 877 houses destroyed in different parts of the state.

State Disaster Management and Rehabilitation report said that at least ten people including a 3 year old boy died in Tlabung sub-division area in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district while one person each died in Aizawl and Serchhip districts during the past 11 days due to massive landslides and flash floods.

As many as 877 houses have also been damaged by landslides and floods triggered by incessant rainfall in different parts of the state. Landslides triggered by incessant rains also blocked national highway and state highways at several places which are now cleared of debris.

The flood situation in Tlabung sub-division area in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district and Sairang near the state capital Aizawl have improved.

A woman prays as she touches the carcass of a male elephant after he, according to forest officials, was electrocuted early morning in a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati on June 20. (Reuters Photo)

inhabited areas in five subdivisions of two districts of Tripura," the Disaster Management Control Centre official added. He said that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Tripura State Rifles teams and officials of the district administrations have been deployed to provide relief and rescue to the affected people. Several rivers including Howra and Khowai were flowing above the danger mark.

Chief Minister Manik Sarkar held a high level meeting here on Monday

night to review the situation. He also asked the district administrations to open the control rooms in the affected districts round-the-clock to monitor and to take immediate steps to assist the people, the official added.

Meteorological Department Director Dilip Saha said more rain was expected till Thursday. "In June, 695 mm rainfall was recorded in Agartala against the expected normal monsoon rainfall of 421 mm," Saha said.

Biren vows to protect agricultural lands All party meet in Darjeeling decides to continue strike Newmai News Network

Expressing serious concern over shrinking of paddy lands and wetlands at an alarming rate, the Chief Minister directed the officials concerned to review the performance of local, district and State level committees constituted under the Act and induct competent officials and social-minded locals into the committee.

He said that the new State Government would do whatever possible to effectively implement the Act. Observing that Manipur being a land-locked State, it is necessary to make it a selfreliant State in food production, Singh opined that it can’t be achieved without protecting agricultural lands and wetlands.

Imphal | June 20

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, on June 20, vowed to protect agricultural lands and wetlands in order to ensure sustainable development to the people and maintaining ecological balance.

He was speaking at the one-day interaction programme of local and district level monitoring committees constituted under the Manipur State Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2014, organised by Department of Revenue at Manipur State Film Development Society (MSFDS) Auditorium, Palace Compound here today.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, CHOZUBA DISTRICT, PHEK, NAGALAND

No. JUDL/SUCC-20/2012-13/24

Dt. Chozuba 16th June, 2017

NOTICE

Whereas Shri/Smt/Kumari Rüüsie-ü S/o, w/o D/o Lt. Dutsosi-o a resident of Rikhuba, Chetheba village/Town has applied for succession certificate in her/his name under the Indian succession Act of 1925, to enable her/him to draw/claim dues and benefit in respect of her/ his late Husband Lt. Shri/Smti Dutsosi-o who was working sweeper under the establishment of PHC-Chetheba (Department) and expired on 14-01-2017 Public are asked to file claims/objection if any, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice.

Sd/- Additional Deputy Commissioner Chozuba, Phek Nagaland

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSION JUDGE

The Chief Minister further maintained that he is in constant touch with the Agriculture Minister to find ways and means to introduce widespread practice of double-cropping in the State.

He further said that deliberations are also being made to construct small dams in the riverbeds of Imphal, Kongba and Thoubal rivers to harvest water for irrigation and water supply purposes.

Agriculture Minister V. Hangkhanlian said that the State Government is putting in serious effort to double State’s agricultural produces by 2020.

DArJeelIng, June 20 (unI): The all-party meet in Darjeeling Hills today decided to carry on the ongoing indefinite strike until the Central para-military forces were withdrawn as shutdown across this Himalayan sites, a tourists destination, entered the ninth day.

The second all-party meet, after June 13, convened by the Bimal Gurung-led Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on statehood demand for Gorkhas in North Bengal, was attended by almost all parties in the Hills, barring

West Bengal ruling Trinamool Congress.

GJM spokesman P Arjun told reporters that the meeting also adopted some resolutions, includ-

AFFIDAVIT

ONE DAY STATE LEVEL CONSULTATION PROGRAM: ROLE OF SCHOOLS IN CHILD PROTECTION

Organised by: State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) in collaboration with CHILDLINE, Dimapur Date : 24th June, 2017 Time : 10:30 am Venue : Auditorium, Holy Cross Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur

Dt. Tsg. the 16thJune'2017

OBJECTION NOTICE

BORDER ROADS ORGANISATION NOTICE INVITING TENDER (NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING) MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 1. The Commander 15 BRTF, PIN-930 015, C/O 99 APO on behalf of President of India invites tender(s) from the eligible contractors for the following work(s)

BEFORE THE NOTARY PUBLIC, KAMRUP (METRO):::AT GUWAHATI

Details of tender documents

AFFIDAVIT

Davp 37102/11/0104/1718

Tender No.03 of 2017-18 Supply and Stacking of Stone Aggregates and Sand for GSB work, Stone Metal 63-45 MM, Stone Chips (a) Cost of 26.5 MM, Stone Chips 13.2 tender : (a) Cost: Mm, Stone Chips 6.7 MM ` 75.67 lakh ` 1000/and Sand for WBM between (b) Period of (b) Availability KM 8.00 and KM 15.00 as On or after 22 completion: Part `A’ and Stone Chips June 2017 365 days 22.40 MM, Stone Chips (c) Submission: (c) Earnest 11.2 MM, Stone Chips 6.7 Up to 1100 money: MM and Sand for DBM & ` 1,38,500/- hrs on 13 July BC works as Part `B’ at 2017 HMP location KM 0.500 inside from KM 168.95 on Dimapur-Kohima-Mao Road under 89 RCC/15 BRTF Project Sewak in the State of Nagaland Note: Full notice of tender, any change in above details, tender document, (including eligibility criteria) and other details may be obtained from BRO Website www.bro. nic.in (link: Tender) or Central public procurement portal www.eprocure.gov.in for any queries, please contact on telephone 0370-2260207.

AEE (Civ) ASW For Commander

I, SIMON. N. am applying for duplicate copy of my 2016 HSLC Mark Sheet as I have lost the original.

Name- SIMON N F/ Name- K. NYAMKUP M/ Name-NGANLONG D.O.B- 20.08.1998 Roll No- 1620557 of 2016 School- MGHSS. Mokokchung

NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS), Nagaland RO requires Project Based Contract Staff (PBCS) for MELD of Watershed Projects for a period of one year for following positions.

1. Agronomy / Agriculture / NRM Expert (1 post) 2.Field Monitor (1 post) For more details please log-in on: http://www.nabcons.com/ Recruitment.aspx ICFAI University Nagaland 6 Mile, Sovima, Dimapur-797112, Nagaland th

Website www.iunagaland.edu.in

Faculty Development Program for School Teachers on Micro & Macro Skills of Teaching Organized by Department of Education From 3rd July 2017 – 7th July 2017 Qualification

: +2 with minimum one year teaching experience Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- (Registration starts from 19/06/17 till 30/06/17) Course Fee : Rs. 2500/Dr. V.T. Vasagan Ms. Retongkokla, HoD Course Coordinator Department of Education 09774806378 Contact no: 09856262433 Email id: retongkokla@iunagaland.edu.in

Government of India Ministry of Finance: Department of Revenue Office of The Commissioner Central Goods and Services Tax & Central Excise Naga Cemetery Road, Khermahal, Dimapur-797112, Nagaland.

Tel: 03862-224171, email: cestdmr061301@gmail.com TENDER NOTICE

Sl. Net Carpet Name of the Office Place No. Area (in sq. ft) 1 DIMAPUR CGST & CENTRAL EXCISE COMMISSIONERATE including Dimapur Divi- Dimapur 23796 sion, Dimapur-I Range, Dimapur-II Range and Chumukedima Range

Sd/- Principal District and Session Judge Tuensang: Nagaland

Cost &Time of work

LOST NOTICE

ShIllong, June 20 (Mexn): With the purpose of highlighting the growing importance of North East India, the Director General Assam Rifles will be conducting a two day National Seminar from June 23-24 at the Headquarters of Director General Assam Rifles in Shillong.

Titled,“Unravelling the Political, Economic and Security Influences in NE India and its Impact on the Nuances of Indo-Myanmar Border (IMB) Management,” the seminar is also aimed at making people aware of the potential and strategic importance of the region, a press note from AR informed. The seminar will provide a common platform for various personalities from fields of academics, military and other government organisations who have expertise and domain specialisation on the region.

Among others, it will be attended by Mizoram Governor Lt. Gen. Nirbhay Sharma, Nagaland Governor PB Acharya, Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy, and MoS for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju.

TENDER NOTICE FOR HIRING OF READY BUILT OFFICE ACCOMMODATION The Office of the Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax & Central Excise, Dimapur, Nagaland invites offers/bids from legal owners in the form of two bid system i.e.

Technical Bid and Financial Bid for hiring of office premises at Dimapur for an initial period of 3(three) years which may be renewed from time to time, if required by the Department.

The Net Carpet Areas should preferably be in a single independent building.

Whereas Shri. Longtok Phom of Medical Sector 'A' Tuensang Town has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to operate/draw/ transfer/withdraw the debts & security in respect of late. his son Shri. L. Nokshong Phom, who expired on 23rd May 2017 Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/ objections if any within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice.

Particular of work

ing going ahead with the indefinite strike and constituting a core committee with representatives from different parties to lead the struggle for statehood.

Regd. No: 1579/17 Date: 20/06/17 I, Shri. K. Zhetovi Kiba S/o Lt. Khetovi Kiba Permanent resident of Ajiqami Village V. K. Town Zunheboto, Nagaland, and presently resident at H/No 05 Block 06 TTC Thahekhu Village Dist:- Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and state on oath as follows:1. That in my Son academic records my name has been wrongly entered as JETOVI KIBA, whereas my real and actual name is K. ZHETOVI KIBA which is used in all official purpose 2. That the name K. ZHETOVI KIBA & JETOVI KIBA are same and one person.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent.

Notary Public, Dimapur: Nagaland

TUENSANG: NAGALAND

NO. PD&SJ. Tsg/Notice-1/2015-2016/121

guwAhAtI, June 20 (Mexn): 13 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSKs) will be set up in the North East states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Meghalaya. The places identified are Changlang, Tirap, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Karbi Anglong, Kokrajhar, Mangaldoi, North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Tinsukia, Baghmara, and Tura.

Meanwhile, a POPSK is already functioning in Silchar, Assam. It is one of the 52 POPSKs made functional across the country. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Department of Posts (DOP) are utilizing the Head Post Offices (HPO)/Post Offices in the country as POPSK for delivery of passport related services. A press release from Regional Passport Officer, Guwahati informed that following the successful functioning of the POPSKs, MEA and DOP have decided to open another 149 POPSKs.

AR to hold National Seminar on NE

Over 2,000 families displaced in Tripura AgArtAlA, June 20 (IAnS): Heavy monsoon rain disrupted life in Tripura as over 2,000 families were displaced after their houses were inundated by the flood water, official said here on Tuesday. The displaced families belonging to subdivisions - Sadar, Jirania and Mohanpur in West Tripura district and Khowai and Teliamura in Khowai district, were put up in 50 relief camps, the official said.

"Heavy monsoon rain since Sunday night flooded the low-lying areas, roads,

13 more POPSK to be added in NE

I, ASOJIINI RACHEL KASHENA, Daughter of M. Pfokrehe, aged 26 years, resident of C/o- SFS School, Dalli Village, Kangpokpi Sub-Division, P.O.- Kangpokpi, P.S.Kangpokpi, Senapati District, Manipur, Pin- 795129, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows:1. I am a Citizen of India by birth and permanent resident of the aforesaid locality.

2. That my actual and correct name is ASOJIINI RACHEL KASHENA, but in some documents my name has been recorded as PF ASOJIINI KASHENA instead of ASOJIINI RACHEL KASHENA. 3. That ASOJIINI RACHEL KASHENA and PF ASOJIINI KASHENA is one and same person having same legal identity i.e. my name.

4. That this affidavit will be used as a piece of documentary evidence to prove the above facts and same shall be produce before any concerned authority whenever necessary.

5. That, all the statements made in this affidavit are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Oath I swear that this declaration is true, that it conceals nothing and that no part of it is false, so help me God. I sign this affidavit on this 18th day of March, 2017 at Guwahati.

DEPONENT Solemnly affirmed before me this day, I certify that I read over and explained the contents to the declarant and that the declarant seemed perfectly to understand them and who is identified by Tabassum Hussain, Advocate, on this the 18th day of March, 2017 at Guwahati.

NOTARY::: GUWAHATI

Preferred location The place should be centrazally located, suitable for use as office and should be well connected by public transport like buses, taxis etc. and should wide approach road with car parking facility.

Net Carpet Area means area of premises less toilets, passage, walls/columns, stair cases, verandah, lobby, balcony, kitchen, portico, sanitary shafts, lift arches, air conditioner ducts, lofts.

2. Interested persons/parties (PSUs, Govt. or Non-Govt) who are legal owners can obtain the tender documents downloaded from the official website www.cbec.gov.in or www. cexcusner.gov.in or it can be collected from the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax Range, Dimapur on any working day between 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 3. The Tenders should be submitted in sealed envelope with distinct marking “Tender For Hiring of Office Premises for “DIMAPUR CGST& CENTRAL EXCISE COMMISSIONERATE including Dimapur Division, Dimapur-I, Dimapur –II Range & Chumukedima Range” containing two separate sealed envelopes for “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid”. The Tender/Bid should be submitted directly or through Registered Post to the Assistant Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax & Central Excise, Dimapur, Bulah Building, Naga Cemetery Road, Khermahal, Dimapur-797112, Nagaland on or before 15.00 hrs of 14.07.2017. The Tenders/Bids will be opened at 1200 hrs. on 18-07-2017. No Tenders/Bids submitted after the last date would be entertained.

4. The premises should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and preferably be ready to be occupied with partitions, cupboards, toilets, lifts etc. sufficient parking space, water facility (drinking & non drinking), standby power facility, fire fighting equipments etc. should be made available according to the size of the building. The location of the premises should be within excellent mobile/network coverage. The premises should be legally free from all encumbrances, well connected by public transport and should have wide approach road.

5. If any person/party is interested to submit for more than one location, he/she may submit their offer separately for each location/places.

6. Finalization of rent, based on location and quality of construction, earthquake norms and other amenities provided, is subject to certification by CPWD/Rent Negotiation Committee and final approval/sanction by the Government of India as per the Rules framed in this regard.

7. The Assistant Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax & Central Excise, Dimapur reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tenders without assigning any reasons.

Assistant Commissioner CGST & Central Excise, Dimapur

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

India’s Q1 GDP growth slowest No excuse for firms not to since Q4 2014: Fitch Ratings be ready for GST - Arun Jaitley NEW DELHI, JuNE 20 (REutERs): Indian small business has been given enough time to prepare for the July 1 rollout of a new national Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday, ruling out any further slippage in the timeline.

Jaitley, addressing a news conference, said there would be initial challenges after launching the tax, which will require all but the smallest businesses to file three detailed returns online every month.

But, with 6.5 million firms already registered for GST and more expected to sign up, there was no excuse for firms not to be ready for what has been billed as the biggest tax reform in India’s 70-year history.

A decade in the making, the GST would bring down barriers between more than 30 states and territories, unifying India’s $2 trillion economy and 1.3 billion people into a single market. The government says it will boost both commerce and state revenues.

“We have been saying for the last six months it would be July 1

india’s finance minister Arun Jaitley. (REUTERS File Photo)

- nobody has any business not to be ready,” Jaitley told reporters. “If he’s still not ready, then I’m afraid he does not want to be ready.”

To ease the transition, a GST coordination panel agreed on Sunday to allow companies to file simplified, aggregate tax returns in July and August before they have

to comply fully with the GST from September.

Any company generating a large number of invoices will need to adopt special software packages that enable them to format and reconcile invoices, then upload them to the GST Network, an IT system that will process up to 5 bil-

lion invoices a month.

If companies struggle to comply, that could block the flow of input tax credits that are a new feature of the tax, experts and business groups say. This would force firms to pay tax on the full cost of an item rather than just value added, tying up working capital and cutting into profits.

Jaitley said he expected there to be “some challenges” in the short term after the launch, but he dismissed concerns that registering for and complying with the GST would be too hard.

“Industry and trade have to prepare themselves. It’s not a complicated process,” he said.

Jaitley said he anticipated, over the medium and the long term, that improved tax collection under the GST would cause revenues to grow, and the spending capacity of India’s federal and regional governments would increase.

“Consequently, it should have a positive impact on the GDP,” said Jaitley. “The size of the formal economy should also increase.”

MuMBaI, JuNE 20 (IaNs): Global credit rating agency Fitch Ratings said the 6.1% year-on-year (yoy) growth of Indian gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2017 was the slowest growth rate since the fourth quarter of 2014.

The rating agency also said the recovery in global growth is strengthening.

According to its Global Economic Outlook issued on Monday, Fitch said: “Indian GDP growth slowed significantly to 6.1% yoy in 1Q17 from 7.0 % in 4Q16.

This was the slowest pace since 4Q14.”

Fitch said the domestic demand accounted for the bulk of the slowdown.

“It appears that the cash squeeze of November 2016 - whereby the government pulled 86% of cash in circulation out of the economy virtually overnight - finally did have a material impact on spending,” it said.

According to Fitch, the lagged effect of demonetisation on the economy is quite puzzling - as the ef-

fects would be expected to be quite rapidly felt but partly reflects the challenges of measuring spending in an economy with a large informal sector.

“Consumption growth fell substantially to 7.3 % yoy, although this was from an admittedly high rate of 11.3% in 4Q16. More worryingly, investment dipped into negative territory (2.1% yoy). This partly reflected poor construction activity, which fell by 3.7% yoy, an unprecedentedly low level in recent years,” it said.

This may have been affected by the demonetisation shock, but investment has been persistently weak in recent years, it said, adding that investment as a share of GDP has been trending down for several years and ongoing steep declines could spell risks for medium-to-long-term term growth potential.

“We do however expect investment to gradually pick up from current lows, on the back of the

transmission of supportive monetary policy of the past two years and stepped-up structural reforms,” the report states. The goods and services tax, expected to be applicable from July of this year, will facilitate trade within India and reduce transaction costs. Public spending on infrastructure is also set to rise, boosting investment, it said.

“This should help drive a pick-up in GDP growth, which we forecast at 7.4%t7.6% in the next two fiscal years,” Fitch said.

“Faster growth this year reflects a synchronised improvement across both advanced and emerging market economies. Macro policies and tightening labour markets are supporting demand growth in advanced countries, while the turnaround in China’s housing market since 2015 and the recovery in commodity prices from early 2016 has fuelled a rebound in emerging market demand,” said Brian Coulton, Fitch’s Chief Economist.

FB ‘bots’ write own language, start Wealthy Chinese rise to 1.6 million in Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 now in India NEW DELHI, JuNE 20 (IaNs): After thentication to login and can wirelessly communicating sans humans past decade, up nearly 9 times: survey launching it at the Mobile World Con- tether compatible devices to transfer NEW YoRk, JuNE 20 (IaNs): Adding to the fear that full artificial intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race, researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) have found that while they were busy trying to improve chatbots, the “dialog agents” were creating their own language.

Soon, the bots began to deviate from the scripted norms and started communicating in an entirely new language which they created without human input, The Verge reported on Tuesday. Using machine learning algorithms, the “dialog agents” were left to converse freely in an attempt to strengthen their conversational skills.

The researchers also found these bots to be incredibly crafty negotiators. “After learning to negotiate, the bots relied on machine learning and advanced strategies in an attempt to improve the outcome of these negotiations,” the report said.

“Over time, the bots became quite skilled at it and even began feigning interest in one item in order to ‘sacrifice’ it at a later stage in the negotiation as a faux compromise,” it added.

Although this appears a huge leap for AI, several experts including Professor Stephen Hawking have raised fears that humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, could be superseded by AI. Others like Tesla’s Elon Musk, philanthropist Bill Gates and ex-Apple founder Steve Wozniak have also expressed their concerns about where the AI technology was heading.

AI is now being used in applications from facial recognition software and cybersecurity to self-driving vehicles.

BEIJING, JuNE 20 (REutERs): The number of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in China has risen nearly 9 times since a decade ago, a private survey released on Tuesday showed, as strong growth in the world’s secondlargest economy has spurred wealth creation.

Chinese with at least 10 million yuan ($1.47 million) of investable assets hit 1.6 million in 2016, up from 180,000 in 2006, according to the 2017 China Private Wealth Report by Bain Consulting and China Merchants Bank. The overall value of the private wealth market increased to 165 trillion yuan in 2016, growing at 21 percent annually in 2014-2016.

But the growth rate of China’s private wealth market is expected to decline to 14 percent in 2017 to a total

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CROSSWORD # 3980

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Answer Number # 3976

Respondents said their top three reasons for investing overseas were to diversify investment risks, to capture market opportunities of overseas investments and to migrate.

Sixty-three percent of rich Chinese rely on financial service providers to manage their domestic financial assets and among them, around half use private banking services provided by commercial banks.

China’s wealthy are concentrated in major cities and coastal areas, the survey found, but now 22 Chinese provinces have at least 20,000 HNWIs. Most respondents said their top priorities. were “wealth preservation” and “wealth inheritance”, in contrast to 2009 when nearly half of HNWIs surveyed said “wealth creation” or “quality of life” were their main goals.

Overall value of private wealth market increased to 165 trillion yuan in 2016 with overseas investment increased to 56 percent in 2017, up from 19 percent in 2011, but the overall percentage of assets invested overseas has stabilised since 2013.

The top five destinations for overseas investment were Hong Kong, the United States, Australia and Canada although Hong Kong’s popularity fell 18 percent and the United States dropped 3 percent from 2015 to 2017.

gress in Barcelona, Spain, in February, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday brought Galaxy Tab S3 to India, featuring an advanced S Pen. The Rs 47,990 Galaxy Tab S3 with Quad speakers tuned by AKG and HDR-ready display delivers superior video and gaming experience along with multi-tasking capabilities.

The device will be available in black and silver colours across retail stores, starting June 20.

“The powerful Galaxy Tab S3 is built with premium technology that offers a productive and versatile experience to consumers, designed for users at home, work or on the go,” Vishal Kaul, Director, Mobile Business, Samsung India, said in a statement.

The S Pen does not require any charging or pairing and boasts a fine 0.7mm tip.

For a safe and secure login, Samsung Flow feature uses biometric austd code: 03862

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size of 188 trillion yuan.

Around 120,000 HNWIs had at least 100 million yuan worth of investable assets, up from less than 10,000 people in 2006.

The percentage of HNWIs

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northeast shuttles

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Sumi Pastors’ hoho underway Morung Express News Dimapur | June 20

Organized by the Sumi Baptist Convention (SBC), the Sumi Pastors’ Inter-denomination Hoho got underway today at the Sumi Baptist Church Kohima (SBCK) which is hosting the conference.

Pastors from various Sumi Church associations including, SBAK (NM), SBAK Aizuto, SABAK, WSBAK, Catholic, Pentecost etc. have converged in Kohima to attend the two-day conference.

Speaking at the programme, Chair man, Board of Deacons SBCK, Y. Kikheto Sema, IAS, ap-

preciated Rev. Dr. Khehovi Shohe, Director SBC, under whose leadership the conference is being held.

He said the SBCK was hosting the conference since it stood for peace building in the society and also informed that an inter-denomination Sumi Christian Fellowship has been started in Kohima.

He expressed the hope that the coming together of all Sumi pastors would contribute to peace building and a better society.

Kikheto urged upon the pastors to work towards unity among themselves and carry the message to the Naga national political groups. “If you do not

unite among yourselves first, then your preaching about unity to the NNPGs will not be taken seriously,” he said. “Our disunity in the church, NNPGs etc should not cause inconvenience to others,” he added.

Kikheto told the church leaders to live by example and bring positive changes in the society especially Sumi community where “no one is below the other and behaves like a Tiger.”

He stressed on the need for the Church to out-rightly condemn factional killings and all sorts of crime.

Pointing out to the huge number of associations within the Church, Kikheto called for minimizing such

associations and concentrate on winning souls for the Lord. “Even conferences and crusades are being conducted becoming more like a competition than to bring positive change,” he added.

Stating that the Church and the government were not enemies against either, Kikheto urged the pastors to preach their congregation about respecting the government as mentioned in the Bible.

Pastors of SBAK and SABAK presented special numbers during the programme. Pastor, SBCK, Dr. Hokheto delivered the sermon. The conference will culminate on June 21.

Villages along NH702 (D) for quality roads mokokchung, June 20 (mexn): The Mokokchung to Mariani Roadside Villagers Concern Forum which comprises of 14 villages along the NH702 (D) has made a resolution that the contractor should execute the work along the highway utilizing quality materials as per the standards of the authority concerned. The resolution was made at a joint meeting representing government, contractor, and the landowners on June 13, informed a press release from the Forum.

The meeting also decided that competent and qualified technical officers from the department concerned should supervise the execution of work.

The 14 land owner villages have also decided that it will not impose royalty on the government/ contractors, the release informed.

“The above decisions are made with an objective for quality construction of the road for benefit of all citizens especially exemption of royalty imposition by the landowners has been condoned under said object and therefore, any other organized groups especially from national workers are also not supposed to impose any taxes from the government/ contractors like that of our School children trying to cross a water logged portion of the road in Signal Basti, Dimapur on June 20. landowners,” the forum stated.

Dimapur Sakshi NCSU Dimapur unit calls for strict Union condemns compliance of open tender system

The National Service Scheme (NSS), Mount Tiyi College unit organised a cleanliness drive in Koio village under Wokha district on June 17 as part of community service. The NSS Committee along with the NSS volunteers cleaned the church compound and the community hall of the village and also placed dustbins there.

The unit also adopted Koio village under the National Service Scheme Community Service Programme.

Dimapur, June 20 (mexn): The Dimapur Sakshi Union has vehemently condemned the alleged rape of two minor girls aged 5 and 7 by one Thunglim Lemba in Tuensang Town.

Such crimes create a “fear psychosis” and stop girls from living fearlessly in todays's civilised society, the union stated in a condemnation note.

The union urged the state government agencies to expedite the inquest and “award the highest punishment” to the culprit so that such crime is not repeated again.

The union also urged every right thinking citizen and civil societies to stand by the victim's family until fair justice is received.

Dimapur, June 20 (mexn): In support of the Nagaland Contractors’ and Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) Head Office in regard to Government standing order for open tender system, the NCSU Dimapur in a press release has also cautioned all the concerned departments under Dimapur district to strictly follow the standing order while inviting tender for any contract or supply work.

The NCSU Head office in a press statement on June 15 called for strict compliance of open tender system and cancellation of work order in various departments without inviting open ten-

der and NCSU identity card.

“Failing to comply with the government standing order, the responsibility shall be fixed to the erring official of the concerned department,” the NCSU Dimapur unit cautioned while adding that it will refer such matters to the head office for further necessary action.

The NCSU Dimapur unit also reminded all the departments to keep and maintain records of all contract and supply works – both past and ongoing projects – for ready reference. The union shall depute its action committee for verification, the union informed.

AR organises awareness on drug abuse

Modern College, Kohima Principal, Dr HP Singh released a new brochure titled “Appraisal Brochure” on successful completion of 1 year of Bachelor of Vocation in Retail Management & IT programme. This course helps students to develop Skills, prepare them for the Industry and enhance employability of graduates.

First Batch will finish 3 months Internship programme with Food World and Health & Glow, Bangalore in July.

Dimapur, June 20 (mexn): The 28 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) carried out a joint counseling with District authorities on Drug abuse/Immunisation at the Chief Medical Officer’s office, Wokha on June 20.

The unit Senior Medical Officer and Regimental Medical Officer attended the counseling along with the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and representatives from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and district health officials, a defence press release stated.

Meanwhile, the 28 Assam Rifles also organized a lecture on

Drug Abuse at Don Bosco School, Tseminyu on June 15. The lecture was organised to provide general awareness to students and teachers on the ill effects of drugs, an AR press note informed.

During the lecture, Deputy Commandant MN Khama highlighted the menace and consequences of drug abuse in Nagaland especially amongst the youth and adolescents. A movie to highlight the same was also screened for benefit of the children.

All together 44 girls, 27 boys and 8 teachers of Don Bosco School, Tseminyu attended the programme.

Essay competition The 41 Assam Rifles organised an Essay writing competition on the theme ‘Drug Free Nagaland’ at Government High School, Chumukedima Village on June 19.

The aim of the event was to spread awareness about drug abuse and to identify and honour the skills of budding talents.

Students from various age groups participated enthusiastically in the competition and came out with interesting essays.

Thaknyei Konyak of 6th Standard won the prize for Overall Best Essay, a separate defence press release informed.

KROS College alumni celebrate TAYO organizes achievement of recent graduates cleanliness drive

The Red Ribbon Club of Unity College, Dimapur on June 17 organised inter house quiz competition on HIV/AIDS, drugs, and blood donation as part of its awareness campaign for the students. Assistant Professor Imkong Yanger as quiz master declared Panama House as the winner followed by Windsor House as runner up. All the four houses of the college, namely Vagator House, Dover House, Windsor House, and Panama House participated in the contest.

Kuhuboto public appeals for revoking transfer of SDO (C) Dimapur, June 20 (mexn): The public of Kuhuboto area have expressed surprise to learn of the transfer of SDO (C) Kuhuboto. Stating that SDO (C) Kuhuboto was only recently posted to the area, the Kuhuboto Ghakhu Public Organisation (KGPO) appealed the state government to “immediately revoke” the transfer order “in the interest of the public”. The decision to make the appeal was made during an emergency meeting of KGPO executive council – representing people of 23 villages and one town – at Town Hall, Kuhuboto on June 20, a press release from the KGPO informed.

Seminar on fruit & vegetable preservation kohima, June 20 (mexn): The women department of Assembly of God Lotha Church Kohima (AGLCK) organized one day seminar on fruit & vegetable preservation at AGLCK on June 15.

Chozhule Kikhi, (Rtd.) Deputy Director of Horticulture, who was the resource person, showed live demonstration on preservation of fruits and vegetables. “We should not sit idly & waste time when there is work to be done. So also we should not waste the surplus fruits and vegetables but instead we should go for processing & preservation as these are the products of the hard work that we put into the soil,” the resource person told the gathering, according to a press release. The programme was chaired by Renbeni Kikon, Women Pastor.

BJP Peren to observe 3 yrs of BJP rule peren, June 20 (mexn): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Peren district will be observing three years of BJP led-NDA government on June 21, 11:00 am at Tening Town Hall, under the theme "Saab ka Sath Saab Ka Vikash" in collaboration with the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).

kohima, June 20 (mexn): KROS College Alumni Association organized its first ‘Meritorious Programme’ on June 20 at the college campus.

The objective of the programme was to celebrate the achievements of the recent graduates of the college, acknowledge their hard work and at the same time to serve as encouragement to the students undergoing Bachelor degree in the college, informed a press release.

Khongalou Rosü and Chenithung Kikon were awarded as the

Best Graduating Student in Honours and General respectively.

The Principal of the college, Imsuinla Imti exhorted the students to work harder and be a source of motivation and inspiration. “Money may be stolen and strength may fail but education can never be stolen,” she stated.

Meanwhile, Kelühol Tase, Asst. Professor, Department of Commerce in his speech stressed on the importance of making the Krosian family stronger and contributing to it.

Wokha, June 20 (Dipr): Tsumang-A Youth Organisation (TAYO) in collaboration with colony union officials organized a cleanliness drive on June 19.

It started with clearing of waste bins at Tsumang daily market area.

The youth organization has urged all the public and business establishments in Tsumang-A colony to maintain cleanliness for a safe environment.

Meanwhile, the TAYO has thanked all members for their support in the drive.

HS&G invites students for Yoga Day

Meetings & AppointMents Meeting of Committee on Government Assurances cancelled The meeting for Consideration and Adoption of the 92nd Main report of the Committee on Government Assurances (2017-2018) and Oral Evidence with the Power Department which was scheduled to be held in June 2017 has been cancelled till further notice.

The meeting has been cancelled by N. Thomas Lotha, Chairman of the Committee on Government Assurances, a press note issued by Kungkamliu, Deputy Secretary, Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Kohima informed.

11th ANCSU Executive Meeting The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has informed all the tribunals and executive members that the 11th Executive Council Meeting for the tenure 2015-17 will be held on Thursday, June 22, 11:30 am at the ANCSU office. Therefore, all the tribunals and executive members are requested to attend the meeting without fail.

Kohima Childline Advisory Board meet Kohima Deputy Commissioner Rajesh SoundaraRajan, IAS, has informed all concerned that the Kohima District Childline Advisory Board meeting will be held on June 23, 3:00 pm in the office chamber of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima. In this connection, the DC has requested all concerned members to attend the meeting positively.

St. Joseph’s ENSU convenes alumni meeting The Silver Jubilee Planning Committee of the Eastern Naga Students’ Union, St. Jopseph’s College, Jakhama has convened an alumni meeting on Thursday, June 22, 1:00 pm at Conference Hall, Red Cross Complex, Near Indoor Stadium, Kohima. A press release from the committee in this regard has invited all alumni of ENSU and the erstwhile Tuensang-Mon Students’ Union of St. Joseph’s to attend the meeting positively. For confirmation, contact – 7085679873/9862633312.

Royal Club Kohima The General meeting of Royal Club Kohima is scheduled to be held on June 22, 4:00 pm at Local Ground to deliberate on the 1st Kohima District Inter School Football Tournament. The meeting will be followed by a press briefing at 5:00 pm.

KTDSSU Silver Jubilee The Silver Jubilee Planning Board of Kiphire Tuensang District Sumi Students’ Union (KTDSSU) has convened a meeting on June 24, 10:00 am at LCS Building, Kohima, near Ao Church. Therefore, the Planning Board has informed all its members, sub-committee Convenors, Co-convenors, Members, Ex-officio and KTDSSU executives to attend the meeting without fail.

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Dimapur, June 20 (mexn): The Hindustan Scouts & Guides has invited students from schools who are interested in Yoga and general public to witness and join the demonstration on the International Yoga Day on June 21. The event will held at Herbert Spencer School ground, Walford from 6:00-7:00 am.

Last academic year that this pre-matric scholarship Dearest Chief Minister of The reporting time is between 5:30-5:50 am and the participants are informed Nagaland Dr Shürhozelie was 2016-17 students who scheme is very helpful for to come along with a mat or a sheet of cloth.

Liezietsu, I on behalf of the were in class 7- 10 got Rs. poor students. “Speak up for students would like to state 5,700/- (Five thousand seven people who cannot speak these few and important hundred) only and students for themselves. Protect the words that people in Na- who were in class 1- 6 got Rs. rights of all who are helpgaland know very well that 1000/- (one thousand) only. less. Speak for them and be To apply this scholar- a righteous judge. Protect you are very prominent educationist and one of the ship parents spend about the rights of the poor and most lovers of the students. Rs.1000/- or more per stu- needy,” the Bible says. StuIt is already in your knowl- dent in order to obtain re- dents would so much be edge that sir, the Central quired documents. How- grateful to you sir, for your government has been giv- ever, when students get kind intervention in this ing Pre-matric Scholar- scholarship they get dis- matter for the benefit of the ship to the students of class couraged for less amount students in general and for 1-10 since seven eight years they get and more amount the pitiful students in parago and till now every aca- they spend. Students of ticular. Central government demic year it is continually Nagaland should get the gives this pre-matric scholgiving the same to the stu- amount what the other arship for the financial asdents. It was heard that in states’ students are getting. sistance of the students only Therefore, all the stu- but not for the ministers or the other states of India evThe newly inducted President ery year students get a good dents who are applying the education department offiDimapur, June 20 (mexn): The new team of Western Chakhesang Likalo Letro said that there was much and handsome amount of said scholarship in this cur- cers and so on. As Christian Youth Organization (WCYO) led by to be done and expressed confidence this scholarship, whereas if rent year will be extremely state (Nagaland) corrupLikalo Letro as President and Vekho that the new team would be able to de- we compare with the other happy and satisfied if you tion should not get involved Ruho as General Secretary was instat- liver. He also expressed gratitude on states, Nagaland state ed- could possibly check and in this centrally sponsored being entrusted to lead the new team ucation department has speak for children (stu- scholarship. ed today.

Speaking on the occasion, outgoing and thanked the outgoing team for been giving little amount of dents) whom you love so President Shelepa Rhakho expressed bringing the organization to its pres- money only to the applying much and also do justice to Rev. Rakhu Livi, gratitude for the support his team re- ent stature. students for last past years. them. You know better that East PS Colony, Dimapur.

The programme also saw handing ceived during its tenure and encourThe Morung Express “Public Space” is to provide space for diverse opinions to be expressed and heard. aged the new team to take the youth and taking over of files and discussion The opinions in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper nor the editor. forward with patience, love and unity. on various issues.

Letter to CM for pre-matric scholarship

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xii issue 168

By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

How Well Informed Are We

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ating the ‘Information Age’ to the early eighties when the internet came into operation and the computer had just been born, one can say, people around the world have become more well-informed since then. Today, in the so called age of information, the question is how ‘well-informed’ have we become and what exactly are people well informed about. Are people better informed about science and technology and various other fields of social science studies? Whatever the case, information and being well-informed should define our times. But in our case, ‘technology’ and ‘information’ is yet to come of age. It is here to stay but because of the ignorance to fully exploit its potentials and also its uses, we have not let it serve the real purpose. Rather, it has taken control over our lives and taking us through a merry ride in a virtual world, a testament that we are becoming less informed in this age of information.

This paper had carried a comprehensive three part series on the status of ‘Information Technology’ in the state and the status is indeed appalling. The case of the government websites clearly shows that it is poorly managed without being properly updated and thereby the masses are either ‘misinformed’ or ‘uninformed.’ It also sets a dangerous precedent because such inadequacies are bound to mislead the people especially those who access information from such websites. The not so serious attitude of the people towards these inadequacies and resigning to the present condition is also a sad reflection that we have not realised the importance and the need to be well-informed. But, it only shows how inadequate we are in this age of technology and information. On the other hand, it is also a reflection of how the government functions. The websites may be as good as dead but one is clearly aware of the many covert activities and the not so glorious ways by which things get done. As such, giving important information for general public consumption often becomes ‘hidden’ and ‘classified’ and by the time the ‘truth’ is revealed the matter is barked in social media but without sustaining it to the desired conclusion.

For a government that has been talking about good governance through transparency and accountability, and yet struggling to provide good governance, there are ways to ‘reach out’ to its citizens as a measure towards good governance. E-governance is one but the question is the ‘tech savvyness’ of our legislators. As the situation stands, there are only two plausible cases – it is either ignorance of proper usage or scared of interacting with the people on issues that concerns ‘developmental truths.’ The question of affordability does not arise here. There are various levels of governance, but whatever the case is, we are denied of a right to be informed coupled with our inability to pursue it which is more often compounded by the style of ‘covert functioning.’

On the other hand, technologies and the various medium which enable information are wide open but we have let technology and social media take control over our lives so much so that we rather enjoy ‘cheap and quick information’ while those hard information that not only broadens the spectrum of knowledge but also create a sense of awareness are seldom pursued. It is time that we realise the importance about the need to be both informed and well-informed and most importantly knowing what it means to be well-informed and about what.

(Dr. Asangba Tzüdir contributes a weekly guest editorial to The Morung Express. Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

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Prof. G.T. Thong Nagaland University

Extortion: The Bane of our Society

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ecently the NSCN (IM) was at it again, brutally manhandling a Volunteer at Peducha area and shutting down all ongoing works on highway expansion. Reason... Sovereignty Tax (read EXTORTION). This incurred the wrath of the Kiruphema Youth Organisation (KYO) and the Angami Students’ Union (ASU), and rightly so, with the ACAUT right behind. Not a whimper out of the State Government... perhaps it had not officially received information, like in the ‘Pillai Sir’ criminal case!

Our memory is so short! A few years back the GoIsponsored highway project through Chakhabama, Zunheboto, etc. was abandoned due to multiple commission/extortion by the concerned politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, etc. and various armed factions. To cover its misdeeds the State Government requested the Central Government to raise the construction value by an absurd percentage. Even the GoI, which is not bothered with the open loot here in Nagaland as long as there is some semblance of peace, smelt a huge rat. WHO SUFFERED because of this GRAND LOOT? We, the Public; and we will continue to ply on that excuse-of-a-highway because there is no other option.

For how long are we planning to continue to suffer (a really stupid question indeed)? The ULB election had generated so much disgust (partly for the wrong reasons) coupled with extreme violence (totally uncalled for). Was it because, as is famously known, the Government of Nagaland is a Paper Tiger? Now we are strangely silent, as if it is the problem of the KYO and ASU... and ACAUT, and we have nothing to do here. Maybe the barrel of the AK47 sends shivers down our spines? We are truly a generation of cowards, except for a brave few who stood up against the atrocities of some armed faction not so long ago. Our brave, honest ancestors would have hung their heads in shame if they were here today.

The AH 1 (Kohima-Chumukedima section) also faces the same fate as the other, almost forgotten highway (except for those regularly plying over it). Civil Societies of Nagaland... don’t shy away from your responsibilities.

Please come out in the open and support the KYO, ASU and ACAUT. It is not their fight alone. Their fight is OUR fight. The general public is looking up to you for leadership.

GOD SAVE OUR HIGHWAY!

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Maitreesh Ghatak The Wire

Why ‘Free’ Speech Is Not Always ‘Costless’

Confusion over what ‘free speech’ means stems from equating the two different senses in which it is used: free as in unconstrained, and free in the sense of not having a price or cost

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recent CBI raid at the premises of the owners of NDTV, over an old case involving a partial waiver of interest on a private bank loan that was settled, has sparked off yet another round of debates and soul-searching about freedom of the media, the spectre of authoritarianism and more broadly, freedom of expression in India.

Some of the positions are predictable and partisan.

To say that one should separate the owners of the company from the company itself (and therefore not see this as an attack on NDTV), or that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law, may be technically correct. However, they are rather disingenuous given the realities of India.

There is a long history of ruling parties in India using government institutions to settle political scores – after all, the CBI was described as a caged parrot by a Supreme Court judge during Coalgate and as the Congress Bureau of Investigation by the BJP when it was in the opposition. Given the power that the government has over the lives of ordinary citizens, it is not a stretch to say that the Soviet-era quip “You show me the man and I will show you the crime” rings true in this context.

Similarly, private and public organisations, from companies and political parties to various branches of the government, are all subject to disproportionate influence by their owners or leaders, though in an ideal world this shouldn’t be the case. Therefore, as much as they have to take the blame when something goes wrong (for instance, Vijay Mallya emerging as the poster boy of all that is wrong with crony capitalism in India) if they are targeted by a government organisation, the claim that it has nothing to do with their organisations rings hollow. This is especially true in the present case when the charges don’t appear compelling even to commentators generally sympathetic to the present government.

The public debate on this issue is marked by the usual partisan din of charges and counter-charges of selective outrage (whataboutery), and claims of extenuating circumstances for one’s own side (the ‘but’-brigade).

More interestingly, it also reveals some avoidable confusion regarding freedom of expression.

Perhaps the most pervasive of these muddles is caused by a tendency to equate the two different senses in which “free speech” is used: free in the sense of unconstrained and free in the sense of not having a price or cost.

Among private individuals, as much as one individual has the right to say what he or she wants to, the other individual has the right not to listen to

or engage with it. Therefore, for someone to block someone else on Twitter, such as in this case, is not a violation of freedom of expression.

Even in the private domain, speech is never free in the sense of not having any cost or consequence. If I insult a friend or hurt his or her feelings, I might be well within my rights to do so but I cannot rightly expect that there will be no impact on our future interactions.

The cost of free speech might become more dramatically visible in the relationship between individuals and organisations. A weather forecaster has the right to announce a rainy day when it is expected to be sunny, just on a lark, but the TV channel would be within its right to dismiss him or her from the job for neglecting to carry out his or her duty (although, given the nature of weather forecasts, an excuse of randomness can always be invoked). A teacher does have the right to say two plus two is sometimes five as much as the school has the right to fire him or her.

Similarly, a private TV channel does have the right to invite only those of a certain political leaning as commentators if it wishes or if that is what its viewers want. This does not violate the freedom of expression of someone with a dissenting view – he or she is presumably free to voice those on another channel. However, once again, “free” does not mean “costless”.

Exercising freedom in this context does affect the organisations’s public image. Fox News in the US calls itself fair and balanced but nobody in their right mind believes in that description.

Similarly, the Indian media has traditionally had a left-liberal slant, leaving aside the recent rise of scream-fromthe-screen TV phenomenon of the hy-

perventilating right. So long as viewers are aware of the slant, a media outlet is free to have a slant, but it will not be costless from the point of view of their reputation for objectivity.

However, facts should be separated from opinions in this respect. I am entitled to the opinion that my hometown is the best place to live on earth. I am not entitled to publish a news report that manipulates statistics and facts to try to objectively corroborate this view.

Similarly, defamation laws exist to protect individuals from unwarranted damages to their reputation. I can say I don’t like someone but I am not allowed to state that he or she did or said something when I can’t back up my allegation. One has the freedom to say what one wants, so long as it can be proved, otherwise, there will be a price to pay in terms of damages and settlements.

Fake news is not protected by free speech regulations since it is being sold as news or as accurate. In that sense, it is no different from false advertising or misleading people for private gains. It is protected by freedom of expression laws but not by penal codes against cheating. And of course, neither is any speech that directly threatens public safety or is deemed as inciting violence.

However, all this assumes there is a neutral arbiter in the form of the state that enforces laws and ensures that the rights of private individuals or organisations are protected. The state has coercive power over individuals and can punish them in many ways, including imprisonment. A private organisation, in contrast, at most has the right to exclude an individual as an employee, contractor, or a customer.

That is why freedom of expression is of paramount importance in the

context of the state’s relationship with private individuals and organisations.

Without enough safeguards, a democratic state can easily turn into an authoritarian one.

The distinction between private individuals or organisations and the state turns on two related factors: the state is in charge of enforcing the laws that regulate how private individuals and organisations interact, and because of this, it has coercive power. If someone thinks that NDTV is biased, he or she is free not to watch its TV channel or read its news website. No one has that option when dealing with the potentially punitive arms of the state.

As I wrote in this space earlier, freedom of expression can only be fostered in an environment where the rule of law works well. Otherwise, all the safeguards mentioned above in mediating among private individuals and organisations fall apart and mob-rule replaces rule of law.

But even if the rule of law works well, using the coercive institutions of the state in a way that makes it costly for individuals and organisations to express dissenting views, results in a violation of freedom of expression. Even if it starts with the silencing of the voices that you are not particularly fond of hearing, eventually this results in silencing every voice. And, you will no longer be able to protest if your other freedoms are at stake. Given that with the state one does not any way have the exit option that one has for private individuals and organisations, loss of voice is not a choice one can afford.

Maitreesh Ghatak is professor of economics at the London School of Economics and has previously taught at the University of Chicago

The Relentless March of Drought – That ‘Horseman of the Apocalypse’ Baher Kamal

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y 2025 –that’s in less than 8 years from today– 1.8 billion people will experience absolute water scarcity, and two thirds of the world will be living under water-stressed conditions. Now it is feared that advancing drought and deserts, growing water scarcity and decreasing food security may provoke a huge ‘tsunami” of climate refugees and migrants.

No wonder then that a major United Nations Convention calls drought ‘one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.’ See what the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) says in this regard.

By 2050, the demand for water is expected to increase by 50 per cent.

As populations increase, especially in dry-land areas, more and more people are becoming dependent on fresh water supplies in land that are becoming degraded, the Bonn-based Convention secretariat warns.

Water scarcity is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century, it underlines, adding that drought and water scarcity are considered to be the most far-reaching of all natural disasters, causing short and long-term economic and ecological losses as well as significant secondary and tertiary impacts.

To mitigate these impacts, drought preparedness that responds to human needs, while preserving environmental quality and ecosystems, requires involvement of all stakeholders including water users and water providers to achieve solutions for drought, explains UNCCD. “Drought, a complex and slowly encroaching natural hazard with significant and pervasive socio-economic and environmental impacts, is known to cause more deaths and displace more people than any other natural disaster.”

Drought, Water Scarcity and Refugees On this, Monique Barbut, UNCCD Executive Secretary, reminds that the world’s drought-prone and water scarce regions are often the main sources of refugees.

Neither desertification nor drought on its own causes conflict or forced migration, but they can increase the risk of conflict and intensify on-going conflicts, she explains.

“Converging factors like political tension, weak institutions, economic marginalisation, lack of social safety nets or group rivalries create the conditions that make people unable to cope. The continuous drought and water scarcity from 2006 to 2010 in Syria is a recent well-known example.”

drought alone, which is a lost opportunity to produce 20 million tons of grain.

“We cannot afford to keep degrading land when we are expected to increase food production by 70 per cent by 2050 to feed the entire world population.”

“Sustainable intensification of food production, with fewer inputs, that avoids further deforestation and cropland expansion into vulnerable areas should be a priority for action for policy makers, investors and smallholder farmers.”

Meantime, the Convention’s secretariat reports that the increase in droughts and flash floods that are stronger, more frequent and widespread is destroying the land – the Earth’s main fresh water store.

“Droughts kill more people than any other single weather-related catastrophe and conflicts among communiDisplacing 135 ties over water scarcity are gathering Million People by 2045? pace. Over 1 billion people today have According to Convention, the geono access to wapolitical and seter, and demand curity challenges will increase by the world faces 30 per cent by are complex, but 2030.” a better implementing good land management prac- National Security, Migration With up to 40 per cent of all intratices can simultaneously help populations adapt to climate change and build state conflicts in the past 60 years are resilience to drought; reduce the risk linked to the control and allocation of of forced migration and conflict over natural resources, the exposure of more dwindling natural resources and secure and more poor people to water scarcity sustainable agricultural and energy and hunger opens the door to the failure of fragile states and regional conproduction.

“Land truly is the glue that holds flicts, according to UNCCD. “Non-state actor groups are inour societies together. Reversing the effects of land degradation and de- creasingly taking advantage of large sertification through sustainable land cross-border migration flows and management (SLM) is not only achiev- abandoned lands. Where natural asable; it is the logical, cost-effective next sets including land are poorly manstep for national and international de- aged, violence might become the dominant means of resource control, velopment agendas…”

UNCCD informs that 12 million forcing natural resource assets out of hectares of productive land become bar- the hands of legitimate government.” ren every year due to desertification and The number of international mi-

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grants worldwide has continued to grow rapidly over the past fifteen years reaching 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010 and 173 million in 2000.

Here, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification reminds that behind these numbers is the links between migration and development challenges, in particular, the consequences of environmental degradation, political instability, food insecurity and poverty and the importance of addressing the push and pull factors, and the root causes of irregular migration.

Losing productive land is driving people to make risky life choices, it adds and explains that in rural areas where people depend on scarce productive land resources, land degradation is a driver of forced migration.

“Africa is particularly susceptible since more than 90 per vent of our economy depends on a climate-sensitive natural resource base like rainfed, subsistence agriculture. Unless we change the way we manage our land, in the next 30 years we may leave a billion or more vulnerable poor people with little choice but to fight or flee.”

Improving yields and land productivity will allow the time to increase food security and income of the users of the land and the poorest farmers, the UNCCD recommends. “This in turn stabilises the income of the rural population and avoids unnecessary movement of people.”

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification works with partners such as the International Organization for Migration to address the challenges arising from land degradation, largescale population movements and their consequences, while aiming to demonstrate how the international community could leverage the skills and capacities of migrants along with the remittances, sent home by migrants, to build resilience.

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he ‘Nagaland Vision 2030’ document was unveiled in December 2016 outlines the broad contours of development which the State envisioned to undertake over the next decades or so. In continuation of its series, The Morung Learning highlights key issues for Infrastructure and Connectivity introduction Infrastructure and connectivity are two basic requirements essential for economic development of a region. Visions 2030’ broadly defined the same into road, rail, air, power and communication.

One of the major issues in the NER in general and Nagaland in particular, the need for infrastructure is vital due to hilly and mountainous areas on the one hand and sparsely populated areas on the other. Speedy provision of infrastructure and connectivity becomes critical for the economic development of the State. roadways The plan for Integrated, Intensive and Inclusive Agriculture Clusters (IIIACs), urbanization and industrialization in Vision 2030 are all projected to be located along the ‘Approved’ and ‘Declared Highways’, the Nagaland Expressway and the Trans Frontier Nagaland Highway (see table). Thus, these proposals need to be pursued and implemented with utmost urgency as there have been instances of undue delay in implementation of some vital sanctioned projects. For example, the Dimapur-Kohima four lane highway, announced by the then Prime Minister of India AB Vajpayee in 2003 and slated to be completed in 2015, has been initiated only now. Similarly the roads under SARDP–NE meant to connect the district headquarters to the State capital have been embroiled in controversy.

The four-laning of AH1 to Moreh and development of highway connectivity to International Trade centres (ITCs) at Longwa, Pangsha and Avangkhu are scheduled to be completed in the medium term plan. It is expected that these will lead to growth of the tertiary sector in the

fields of IT, trade, hospitality, logistics, education, medical and healthcare sectors, power transmissions, transit, transport and financial services. The movements of goods and services and passengers to and fro from Nagaland to ASEAN and vice versa will truly make Nagaland the gateway to ASEAN.

Campus Ambassadors & Nodal Officers trained on ‘Special Drive’

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rientation training for Campus Ambassadors and Nodal Officers in connection with the ensuing ‘Special Drive’ was held on June 20 at DC’s conference hall, Kohima. Organized by the Election Department, the training had Additional Deputy Commissioner and Electoral Registration Officer, Kiusumong Tikhir and Assistant Election Office, Kohima, Toshimeren Aier as resource persons. More than 20 schools and colleges from Kohima and Nodal Officers attended the training.

At the event, Aier urged the student ambassadors to be the main channel in creating awareness on Clean Election among the students’ community and encouraged them to sensitize the people on the issues of

electoral practices at the grassroots level to enhance quality electoral participation. The electorate, particularly the civil societies of Nagaland, he said, needs deep introspection to fathom “how we fail to uphold the values we profess in our elections.”

Saying “Your vote is your right, exercise it; don’t let anybody take away your right,” he also appealed to them to promote the SVEEP campaign for clean electoral practices.

Tikhir also encouraged the gathering to create healthy and clean enrollment of electors required to achieve Clean Election and urged them to reaffirm their duties and responsibilities.

The Special Drive focusing on enrolment electors between 18 and 21 years will also be launched soon.

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Towards this end, in the deliverables of 2030, the Government will implement a two lane National Highway network connecting all the districts. Priority in particular will be given in the next five years to develop the Nagaland Expressway from Tizit to Khelma, the Trans-Eastern Highway from Mon to Avangkhu

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Here are a few examples of prepositions that illustrate some of the most common mistakes: to/at For e.g. - My sister loves listening music Dropping the ‘to’ from ‘listen to’ is one of the commonest mistakes made by English learners everywhere. In English we always ‘listen to’ something or someone.

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• My sister loves listening to music. example 2: - The train arrived to the station thirty minutes late.

You always ‘arrive at’ a specific place: school, a restaurant, the airport, your aunt’s house. (You ‘arrive in’ a city or a country.)

• The train arrived at the station thirty minutes late.

Another commonly made mistake is in the usage of For/Since: - I’ve been working here since five years You use ‘for’ with periods of time, such as: a few minutes, three months, twenty years Use ‘since’ with specific points in time, such as: this morning, September, the day we met • I’ve been working here for five years.

• I haven’t seen her since yesterday morning.

ate for an international airport and should be in place by 2025, creating a transportation hub for national and international carriers. net connectivity In the digital era, internet connectivity is crucial for communication especially in hilly areas where travel is difficult and expensive. Besides assessing real time information on markets and prices, the NER in general and Nagaland in particular are climatically well suited to plug into India’s growing IT commerce.

The status of digital /IT connectivity in the State is through Optical Fibre Cable and mobile technology and current status of connectivity indicates a tele-density of 69 percent. It needs to be raised to 100

percent by 2020 with at least 4G connectivity.

Side by side, the state has an extensive State Wide Area Network (SWAN) in place with 47 (Forty Seven) Nagaland SWAN Point of presence (PoP) Locations as well as services provided by the Common Service Centres (CSC). To create a unified e-Governance infrastructure, Government of India had rolled out National Information Infrastructure (NII) project on a pilot basis at the national level to provide horizontal connectivity upto Gram Panchayat level. Nagaland became the 1st State in North-Eastern region to start the pilot project for NII Peren district. This needs to be extended to the whole State of Nagaland in the next five years.

Way Forward for Digital Revolution • Internet / Intranet connectivity to all Government institutions including educational institutions. All Government to Citizen (G2C) services should be electronically / IT enabled.

• Adopt e-Office to promote faster delivery of services including online submission of plans, reports etc to Government. This will also help in conserving the environment through use of lesser paper.

• Broadband Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connectivity to every village in the State.

• e-Learning initiatives for schools and other educational services.

• Make Nagaland an Information

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Technology hub for the North Eastern Region and South East Asia.

Transform Nagaland into a digital society through transparency and accountability.

Enable all Government Departments to deliver services to citizens through online system.

Bring about a comprehensive IT literacy initiative throughout the State.

Generate direct and indirect employment for the unemployed youth.

Promote knowledge economy through the use of Information Communication Technologies.

(Source – Nagaland Vision 2030, Government of Nagaland, 2016)

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Naga Society: A Cry for Hope What is the youth’s opinion about our Naga society today? Read on to take a deeper look into the mind of a youth, who strongly feels disenchanted with the way Naga society has progressed.

Rukusheyi Rhakho voices out in downright frustration about the state of affairs in our State.

It’s time we asked ourselves, are we giving enough hope, guidance and the right environment to our youth to believe in a positive future for Nagaland? Can we give hope to our future?

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1. recently, the Officers’ Hill colony, Kohima become the first colony in nagaland to come under: a) GIS mapping b) GPRS mapping c) GPS mapping d) Google Street View 2. The first house call multi services firm in nagaland which was launched recently is called: a) Cleaning Sisters b) Cleaning Mothers c) Cleaning Fathers d) Cleaning Brothers 3. india’s rank in the 2017 Global innovation index (Gii) is: a) 70 b) 60 c) 50 d) 40 4. The theme of 2017 world Blood Donor Day (wBDD) was: a) Every blood donor is a hero b) Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often c) Thank you for saving my life d) Blood connects us all 5. who has won the 2017 Men’s singles indonesia Open Super Series Badminton tournament? a) Parupalli Kashyap b) Prannoy Kumar c) Kidambi Srikanth d) Chetan Anand

and the four lane highway from Dimapur to Moreh via Kohima (AH1), thus giving concrete impetus to the Act East Policy.

Further, the road connectivity within the State will be boosted by connectivity with Assam, Arunachal, Manipur, and last but not the least, the Government’s priority in conjunction with that of the Government of India to develop road linkages to Myanmar directly from the identified ITCs. Maintenance: Apart from National Highways, the State has over 11000 kms of various types of important roads, which connect districts to sub-divisions, villages and agriculture/ horticulture areas. These roads will have to be maintained by the State Public Works Department.

In the next five years, an amount of Rs. 300 crores per annum will be required as per the draft State Repair and Maintenance Policy 2016.

Funding for the same is proposed to be from the NLCPR and NEC schemes, apart from States own resources which will have to be mobilized by the Government for the roads sector. rail network In pursuit of multi-model connectivity, the plan for the railways is to connect Kohima with the rest of the country by a broad gauge railway line by 2020. The foothills of Nagaland are to be connected with a railway network from Tizit to Dimapur. To enhance international connectivity in the railways sector, the government will propose to build a railway line from Dhansripar in Dimapur district to Karong in Manipur which would logically connect to Moreh and touch lines with the network in Myanamr, thereby creating the possibility of concretizing the Trans-Asian Railway line by 2025. air connectivity- intra State Links In the field of air connectivity, the goal will be to shift the current airport at Dimapur to Razaphema to accommodate the demands for commerce and cargo that will emerge as the economy gets developed along the envisaged vision. The new airport will have to be created keeping in mind an infrastructure appropri-

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ately, I have been numbed out of my senses by the idle talks that my parents and elderly neighbours are engaging with. They seem enthusiastic to share and talk about the Naga Political Groups (NPGs); the stories of their exploits and the heroic sacrifices they made in the hands of the occupational forces. Naturally, these narratives seem interesting and there is no doubt that some of them were real heroes. Yet, relating and comparing them to how much of a hero they were, and the counsel to never forget their sacrifices on almost daily basis seem to astound me. And so I usually stop paying any attention to what they say. However, on pondering, something strikes my head - a brainstorm.

Imagine them on the battlefield during the final moment of their lives. They surely must have thought or presumed that “I’m doing this for my country; I’m doing this so that the future generations don’t have to go through what I have gone

- rukusheyi rhakho, Ba 3rd Semester (english Honours) through”. And the notion “for a better future” must have emboldened them to sacrifice. But sadly, somewhere along the way, the nation that they bled and died for has become so messed up. No doubt, our society has reached new heights and levels that things once unknown are within sights but sadly, not in a good way. Our society has gone down in terms of morality, integrity and values that the Nagas were once known for.

We have fallen to greed to such an extent that we have lost all our morality for the love of money and are ready to do whatever it is to get them. The new trend of trying to get easy money and become rich in no time has replaced our moral principles. Corruption has reached a new level that it is not only the government or the state that’s involved in it but the very nook and cranny in every level of the society. The love for worldly pleasures and comforts and declining morality (with topics I rather not mention) has taken root in our society. We were never this way

so why now? The hypocritical extent of our society is that we are willing to sacrifice others even to the extent of killing our own brothers over petty differences but are willing to take and steal as long as it means profit to us. When we are the affected we cry foul saying “it isn’t fair, it isn’t right” or that “ we should ban that or this” but when the time comes we are in the forefront indulging in it (I have even seen people going to the extent of demanding tax on old age pension meant for the elderly). We need to know that we just can’t always get a ‘scapegoat’ for every fault done by us out there but need to own up responsibility and accept the fact that we have ourselves to be blamed for almost everything. Are we not responsible for degrading and destroying whatever little hopes we are nurturing?

We the Nagas have rather a subtle way of doing those things we claim we don’t do and so we fail to see the broader vision or the sight of what we are actually doing and as such we can always deny it on the pretext of

one thing or the other. After all that has happened around us, do we ever think or realize that it all began when we decided to take that one wrong little ‘decision’? If only we could change what we did back then, not much can be said over the society that we have become. Like me, I do believe, there must be lots of people who share the same value and resent what we have become. Yet, all hope is not lost as we can see people coming out and trying to change the society that we live in. Their endeavors to change what have been wronged are encouraging signs. But the question remains can we accept the change? Can we accept that we too are at fault? If yes we are heading towards the rising sun if not we are heading towards the setting sun. As far as I’m concerned it would take a mammoth task to backtrack out of our mistakes.

Not that everyone has the foresight to see into our own mistakes and we seriously need one but our own ego and pride have stood as a stumbling block to everything. Have we become

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our own undoing? Are we the reason that our society is so messed up? Are we not the ones paying for the misadventure of some unmotivated idiot lost in his schemes? Can we hope in the new generation? Or will it be the same? To be honest, I have no hope on the present leaders in our society and on those who are in power now. Maybe the upcoming generation can instill the hope and endeavor and usher the will for a change. On the ending note, if God could show them what would become of the cause of the nation our forefathers fought so reverently for, what would they say?

What would they feel knowing that their dreams and ideals are degrading? Frankly, if I were in their place, I would have questioned everything.

Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College. The editors are Dr. Hewasa Lorin, Anjan Behera, Dr. Salikyu Sangtam, Nivibo Yiki, and Kvulo Lorin. For feedback or comments please email: dot@tetsocollege.org.

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Modi in Lucknow to lead Int’l Yoga Day celebrations

New Delhi/luckNow, JuNe 20 (iANS): The stage has been all set for grand celebrations of the third edition of International Yoga Day on Wednesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slated to lead thousands of yoga enthusiasts here.

The main event of the celebration is to be held in Lucknow's sprawling Ramabai Ambedkar Ground under a partly overcast sky. The Met Office, however, has forecast chances of rain are low.

Some 51,000 persons, including several dignitaries, politicians and bureaucrats, are expected to take part in the mass yoga demonstration in the Uttar Pradesh capital, where rehearsals have been going on for over a month.

Adityanath and Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik inspected the overall preparations, including the security arrangements, for the mega event, and attended full-dress rehearsals at the spruced up ground. Modi reached Lucknow on Tuesday afternoon.

According to private weather forecaster Accuweather, the

sky will be "partly cloudy" and the mercury will hover between 28 and 30 degrees Celsius in Lucknow on Wednesday morning. The chances of rain are less as precipitation level will go down from 28 per cent to 20 per cent from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., but humidity will be around 80 to 90 per cent.

An ardent advocate of yoga, Modi during his monthly radio talk "Mann Ki Baat" had asked three generations of the families to do yoga together on the International Yoga Day -- observed globally on June 21. The United Nations declared it on December 11, 2014, following a resolution moved by India and co-sponsored by a large number of nations.

The first International Yoga Day celebration was organised at Rajpath in New Delhi in 2015.

Yoga day events will also be organised in all states with the Union Human Resource Development Ministry directing universities and educational institutions to ensure elaborate arrangements to mark the event.

Modi's ministers will also perform yoga asanas across the country.

While Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari will head the events in Himachal Pradesh and Maharashtra respectively, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar will preside over the celebrations in Manipur.

Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu is scheduled to lead the event at the

national capital where at least seven main events are being organised by civic bodies and yoga organisations.

In Delhi, the main event will be held at the Cannaught Place.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will also hold an event to mark the day with faculty members and students performing yoga.

To familiarise citizens with

yoga and its asanas, the Ayush Ministry had started onemonth free yoga camp through the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy in almost every district of the country. The training programme started on May 21.

The central government has also launched a mobile application to enable people to share their day's experience with the

ancient Indian practice of physical, mental and spiritual union.

Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan launched the 'Celebrating Yoga' app that also provides information to users about studies conducted on yoga by the ministry.

However, Wednesday being a working day, some may not be able to attend the mass yoga participation programmes.

Crediting the Modi government for popularising the practice across the globe, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSSI) opined that the day should be celebrated on a Sunday instead of a working day.

"The government has of course done much to make it popular worldwide. Indian tradition of yoga is now recognised world over and millions of people practice it," YSSI Chairman told IANS. He, however, suggested that it should not be done on a working day but on a Sunday either or before June 21. "This will enable the working population to participate."

The day will also be celebrated across the globe at Indian missions and other places.

Some countries have already

Two more farmers end lives in Modi to discuss H-1B visa MP; 17 suicides since June 8 issue with Trump next week

BhoPAl, JuNe 20 (PTi): Two more farmers allegedly committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh in the last 24 hours due to distress over debts, taking the number of such deaths in the state to 17 since June 8, police said today. The latest suicides were reported in Narsinghpur and Hoshangabad districts.

In Hoshangabad, 40-year-old Babulal Verma, who had set himself on fire on Friday, succumbed to his injuries this morning, police said, adding the incident had taken place at Randhal village in Hoshangabad district.

Verma was admitted to Bhopal's Hamidia Hospital, where he succumbed to burn injures late last night, Dehat (rural) police station officials said. Verma's family alleged that the farmer took the ex-

Won't brand Masood Azhar a terrorist: China

BeiJiNg, JuNe 20 (iANS): A day after saying it shared India's concern about terrorism, China on Tuesday said it still had issues in declaring Pakistani militant Masood Azhar as an international terrorist.

This is a clear signal from Beijing that it will again block New Delhi's move to act against the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief. "At present, some members still have a disagreement over the listing matter," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said.

Beijing has in the past vetoed India's proposal at the UN Security Council to add Azhar to the list of international terrorists, citing lack of solid evidence against the JeM chief who is accused of plotting the terror attack on the IAF base at Pathankot. "We have talked about our position many times. We believe that the principles of objectivity and professionalism and justice shall be upheld," Geng said. "China stands ready to remain in coordination and communication with the relevant parties on this issue."

Beijing's reaction comes a day after India and China expressed growing concerns over terrorism and forged consensus with BRICS countries to step up the fight against terrorism.

At the BRICS Foreign Ministers meet on Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China was a victim of terrorism and shared India's concern. Indian Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh said India and China agreed that terrorism posed a challenge to the whole world. The issue of Azhar has caused friction between India and China, whose ties have taken a hit over a host of issues.

treme step as the private moneylenders were harassing him for the repayment of dues.

In Dhamna village of Narsinghpur district, 65-yearold farmer Laxmi Gumasta allegedly committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance at his home this morning, the police said.

According to Gumasta's family members, he took the extreme step as he was unable to repay the loan worth Rs four lakh. Besides, he had lost his crop, which was destroyed in a fire about two months back and he failed to get any relief as compensation.

Narsinghpur Sub-Divisional Officer Police (SDOP) Naresh Sharma said a case has been registered and further investigation was underway. Gumasta's family members, along with local

Congress leaders, today sat on a sit-in protest, laying the deceased's body on the road in Dhamna, demanding compensation. However, they ended the stir after district collector R R Bhonsle gave them assurance regarding the compensation.

Madhya Pradesh recently witnessed farmers' stir over loan waiver, farm produce prices and other demands. The death of five persons in police firing in Mandsaur district on June 6 during the unrest triggered a series of protests in various parts of the state.

So far, farmers have ended their lives in Sehore, Hoshangabad, Raisen, Dhar Neemuch and Vidisha districts. In Sehore alone, the home district of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, five suicides were reported.

New Delhi, JuNe 20 (ReuTeRS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take up the issue of visas for skilled workers when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump next week in Washington, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Trump has ordered a review of the U.S. visa programme for bringing highskilled foreign workers into the United States, putting technology firms and the outsourcing companies that serve them on notice of possible changes ahead.

The review threatens Indian IT services firm such as Infosys Ltd and Tata Consultancy Services which advise large companies on tech issues and carry out a range of tasks for them, relying heavily on the H-1B visa programme.

"The H-1B visa issue will be one of the issues on the table during the PM's visit," Trade Secretary Rita Teaotia told reporters. Modi will meet Trump in Washington on June 26. The first meeting between them is expected to lay the ground for a further expansion in ties,

which grew rapidly under former U.S. President Barack Obama.

However, Trump's focus on building ties with China, coupled with his protectionist trade policies and his characterisation of India as an unscrupulous negotiator in the Paris climate change agreement have raised concern in New Delhi about a drift in relations. Aside from the visa review, the Trump administration has launched an investigation of countries including India with which the United States runs a bilateral trade deficit.

Teaotia said the government would try to convince Washington that higher exports from India were a win-win for both countries as they helped American companies cut costs and create jobs.

The bilateral trade between the two countries more than doubled to about $115 billion in 2016 from $45.1 billion in 2006. However, the U.S. trade deficit with India also widened.

The trade shortfall was $30.8 billion in 2016, up from $12.7 billion in 2006.

IT Dept slaps benami transaction charges against Lalu's family PuNe, JuNe 20 (PTi): The Income Tax Department has charged the family members of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, including his wife, son and daughters, under the Benami Transactions Act in connection with its probe into land deals worth Rs 1,000 crore and tax evasion. The department has served notices of attachment of assets on Mr. Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti; her husband Shailesh Kumar; Prasad's wife and former Bihar Chief Minister, Rabri Devi; son and Bihar Deputy

Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav; and Prasad's daughters Chanda Yadav and Ragini Yadav.

Alleged benami deals linked to Lalu, kin: I-T Dept. conducts raids in Delhi, nearby areas The attachment notice, accessed by PTI, has been issued under Section 24(3) of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act and Prasad’s kin have been identified as “beneficiaries” of the benami assets.

The department has attached immovable assets such as land, plots and buildings in Delhi and

Patna that bear a “deed” value of Rs 9.32 crore but the taxman has estimated their current market value at Rs.170-180 crore.

A total of nine plots in Phulwari Sharif in Patna, where a mall is reported to have been coming up, has also been attached by the tax department.

The department carried out country-wide searches in this case last month.

Benami properties are those in which the real beneficiary is not the one in whose name the property has been purchased.

Violation of the Act carries rigorous imprisonment of up to seven years and a hefty fine.

The 1988 Act was implemented by the government from November 1 last year. Tax department officials had said Mr. Prasad’s kin held some of the properties under their scanner in a “benami” way.

Not scared, says Lalu The RJD chief, however, had sought to put up a brave face after the raids, saying he was “not scared at all” and would continue to fight against “fascist forces”.

“The BJP does not have the courage to stifle my voice... If it tries to silence one Lalu, crore of Lalu will come forward. I am not scared of empty threats),” he had said in a series of tweets after the search operation.

The BJP had also accused Prasad, Bharti and his sons Tejashwi and Tej Pratap, both Ministers in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government, of involvement in corrupt land deals worth over Rs 1,000 crore, and asked the Central government to probe one such transaction in Delhi.

observed the day while others plan the celebrations in coming days as Wednesday is a working day.

Some 1,000 Chinese yoga practitioners are expected to celebrate the day in Beijing, following a week of events across the country.

India's Permanent Mission to the UN as well as the Indian Consulate have also planned several events to mark the day.

A "Yoga Session with Yoga Masters" is planned for Tuesday at the UN with mass participation of diplomats, staff and visitors.

New York's Times Square, billed as the crossroads of the world, is holding the annual "Mind over Madness Yoga" celebrations on Wednesday, which is the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere.

In Israel, a yoga event will be held at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Thousands are expected to join in.

The Indian High Commission in Trinidad and Tobago has already announced 12-day activities to mark the International Yoga Day, which includes 108 Surya Namaskars among others.

244 new cyber threats reported every minute in Q1 2017 New Delhi, JuNe 20 (iANS): For each minute in the first quarter this year, researchers reported 244 new cyber threats -- a sharp increase of 53 per cent over the final quarter of 2016, a new report said on Tuesday. According to cyber security company McAfee Labs, more than half of 301 publicly disclosed security incidents in the quarter came from the health, public and education sectors.

There were 32 million malware samples recorded in the first quarter, and mobile malware doubled in growth in Asia, which contributed to a 57 per cent increase in global infection rates. The largest contributor to this growth was Android/SMSreg, a potentially unwanted programme detection from India. "The report reminds us that deception has evolved from simple threats on a set of simple systems, to complex threats across a wide variety of systems, to entirely new paradigms such as machine learning," said Vincent Weafer, Vice President McAfee Labs, in a statement. Due to "Congur" ransomware attacks on Android OS devices, the number of new ransomware samples rebounded in the first quarter. The number of total ransomware samples grew 59 per cent in the past four quarters to 9.6 million known samples. The report also noted that the total number of Mac OS malware samples grew 53 per cent in the first quarter.

No farm loan waiver, Centre has to meet fiscal deficit target: Jaitley New Delhi, JuNe 20 (iANS): Ruling out Central funding for any state's farm loan waiver, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that the government has to meet its fiscal deficit target. "We have got Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act and fiscal deficit target, we intend adhering to it," the Finance Minister told reporters here during a press briefing when asked about the farmers' agitation demanding farm loan waiver in various states. The FRBM committee has set a 3.2 per cent fiscal deficit target for the current year. Jaitley's response comes a day after Punjab announced farm loan waiver following Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Madhya Pradesh has been witnessing widespread protests by farmers demanding loan waiver and remunerative prices for their produce. The number of farmer suicides in the state has gone up to 10. On June 6, five farmers were killed in police firing while another died of his injuries later in Mandsaur district. Jaitley had earlier said that the states which want to go for these kinds of schemes will have to generate them from their own resources. Raising its concern on state governments waiving off farm loans, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had earlier said that such actions increase the risk of slippages and contribute to inflation sooner or later.

Retired Justice CS Karnan When RSS loyalist Kovind said arrested from Coimbatore Islam, Christianity are alien to India

New Delhi, JuNe 20 (AgeNcieS): Former Calcutta high court judge CS Karnan was on Tuesday arrested from Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore and was taken to Chennai.

"Karnan had been found staying in an apartment at Madukarai, near Coimbatore. We provided technical assistance to the West Bengal police, and they arrested him from the apartment," A Amalraj, City Comissioner of Police (Coimbatore), told TOI. Sixty-two-year-old Justice Karnan had been evading arrest since May 9 after being sentenced to six months imprisonment for contempt of court by the Supreme Court.

He won the dubious distinction of being the first sitting high court judge to be awarded a jail term by the apex court.

Karnan is facing six months imprisonment for contempt of the Supreme Court, retired on June 12,

probably escaping the odium of a sitting judge being arrested while in office.

Justice Karnan, who was transferred to Kolkata after he had kicked up a row by raking up issues against other judges of the Madras High Court, including the Chief Justice, has been untraceable ever since the apex court sentenced him for contempt on May 9. A seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar held Karnan guilty of contempt and ordered six months imprisonment for him.

A team of West Bengal police had rushed to Chennai and other places in Tamil Nadu looking for him but without success.

Reacting to the situation, senior counsel and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Dushyant Dave told IANS that "it reflects failure on the part of the police in not having found

him. .. It shows complete lack of respect of the Supreme Court by the Executive."

"Right or wrong the Supreme Court judgment has to be implemented and the state is fully responsible for the lapses and must be held accountable," Dave said, pointing out that "The whole saga reflects the sorry state of affairs in the judiciary."

Justice Karnan had left Kolkata on May 9 itself and remained elusive thereafter even though Director General of West Bengal Police constituted teams of police personnel which went to Chennai and other places looking for him.

He moved the top court for the suspension of his sentence and sought review of the May 9 order but he did not get any relief. His plea for review was declined on technical grounds without its coming before the seven judges bench.

New Delhi, JuNe 20 (iANS): "Islam and Christianity are alien" to India, NDAs Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind said seven years ago when he was just appointed a BJP spokesperson.

Kovind, then a little known BJP leader, addressed a press conference at the BJP headquarters here on March 26, 2010, sought that the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission, which had recommended inclusion of Muslim and Christian converts among the Scheduled Castes, be "scrapped" and called the move "unconstitutional".

Asked then by an IANS correspondent as to how Sikh Dalits could enjoy the quota privilege in the same category, he responded: "Islam and Christianity are alien to the nation."

A Supreme Court ruling on March 25 that year had upheld the Andhra Pradesh government's decision to allow four per cent job quo-

ta for backward Muslims.

The proposed reservation for backward Muslims was a burning issue then as the National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by Justice Misra, former Chief Justice of India, had in a report recommended that backward Muslim and Christian converts should be accorded Scheduled Castes status and given a quota.

Kovind, an RSS loyalist who worked for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, said the Misra Committee recommendations were not possible to implement. "Including Muslims and Christians in the Scheduled Castes category will be unconstitutinal," the lawyer-turned-politician said.

Dalit quota privilege in the country is presently only for Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. And the then Congress-led government had flirted with the idea of extending the reserva-

tion to Dalit Christians and Muslims under the Scheduled Castes category. But this triggered a vociferous opposition from the BJP. Kovind also did not agree that convert Dalit Christians and Muslims were educationally backward and said it was a "very well known" fact that they get better education in convent schools.

"The educational level of Scheduled Castes children remains much lower than that of convert Muslims. The children of converts will grab a major share of reservation in government jobs. They would become eligible to contest elections on seats reserved for Scheduled Castes. This would encourage conversion and fatally destroy the fabric of the Indian society," he said.

"Their special interest is not in getting reservations in government jobs, they want Scheduled Castes category reservation to

contest elections from village panchayats to the Lok Sabha. As they know, they cannot be eligible to contest elections on reserved seats under backward class reservation," he said.

The BJP government has already made its mind obvious about the Misra panel report with Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot saying if its recommmendations were implemented, it would "weaken the Hindu religion".

"Granting Scheduled Castes status to those belonging to minority communities will encourage conversion and weaken the Hindu religion. There is also no such provision in the Constitution," Gehlot said.

Kovind, a two-term member of the Rajya Sabha, was on Monday named by BJP President Amit Shah as the NDA candidate to become the 14th President of India.

He served as the chief of the BJP's Scheduled Castes Morcha from 1998 to 2002.

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Death of American detained in NKorea baffles experts SEOUL, JUnE 20 (AP): North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests, its carefully scripted propaganda bluster, even its military threats: Far from the scattershot workings of a madman, most of this fits the playbook of a small, proud country well used to stoking tensions to get concessions it would otherwise not receive from surrounding big powers.

What happened to Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died just days after North Korea released him from detention in a coma, is far more difficult to make sense of.

It jars so strikingly with the fates of most past detained Americans that outside observers are left struggling not only with the mystery of what killed Warmbier but also with what his death means for attempts by Washington and its allies to stop North Korea’s pursuit of a nuclear-tipped ICBM that can target the U.S. mainland.

“The treatment of Otto Warmbier is beyond the pale of North Korea’s usual standards,” said John Delury, an Asia expert at Seoul’s Yonsei University.

“It’s worth a forceful response. The U.S. government should not just throw up its hands and say, ‘This is just how North Korea is.’

But how do you do that in a smart way where there is some modicum of ac-

unlikely that North Korea intentionally harmed Warmbier because he was valuable as a political pawn. Poor hygienic conditions, diet or bad medical care may have been responsible for a coma that North Korean doctors couldn’t handle.

Or maybe North Korea concealed his medical condition for so long in the hopes that he’d recover.

In this Feb. 29, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier speaks as he is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP File Photo)

countability?”

What follows is a closer examination of one of the more perplexing and heartrending developments in North Korea’s long, antagonistic standoff with its neighbors and Washington.

The University of Virginia student was medically evacuated from North Korea last week, more than a year after a court sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda banner.

Early this month, North WHAT ACTUALLY Korean diplomats at the HAPPENED? United Nations urgently It may never be known, requested a face-to-face but there are some clues — meeting with U.S. offias well as widespread spec- cials in New York. During ulation. the meeting, Washington

learned of Warmbier’s condition.

His family said it was told he fell into a coma soon after his March 2016 sentencing after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill. Doctors in Cincinnati said they found no active sign of botulism or evidence of beatings.

They say he had severe brain damage but they don’t know what caused it.

Some observers believe that North Korea became

worried because Warmbier’s condition suddenly worsened.

“North Korea sent him back to the United States before he died because more questions would have been raised about his death and the situation would have gotten worse if it had returned his dead body,” said Cheong Seongjang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea.

Others believe it is

WHAT DOES IT SHOW ABOUT NORTH KOREA’S INNER WORKINGS? Some outside experts see an internal divide in North Korea between officials who believe solving the long standoff with Seoul and Washington is the best way to improve the country’s economy and international standing, and hard-liners who believe that outside pressure, isolation and animosity help keep the ruling Kim family in power by solidifying domestic support.

The last thing conservatives want, the argument goes, is curious American tourists talking with citizens and undercutting decades of propaganda that assures North Koreans that they are the envy of the world.

But North Korea has also consistently lobbied Washington for specific concessions that would need deep negotiations, something recent U.S. administrations have been re-

luctant to pursue because of the North’s weapons programs. North Korea’s demands include a peace treaty to officially end the Korean War and the removal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula.

“I’m sure there are high-ranking North Koreans who regret what happened to Warmbier and who think this was a mistake,” Delury said. “You’ve got to capitalize on this, and influence their internal debates to get them to recognize and acknowledge what happened.”

Another reading is that Warmbier’s death may simply show a pattern of North Korean callousness and a lack of concern over diplomatic repercussions.

Outside groups say North Korea tortures thousands of its own citizens at prison camps. And earlier this year the North was suspected of arranging the killing of the half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un with VX nerve agent at a Malaysian airport.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR DIPLOMACY? Outrage in the United States means that more pressure, not dialogue, is the more likely course.

But some analysts believe negotiations could happen because of U.S. worries about the safety of the three other Americans still detained in North Korea.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been unable to pursue the engagement with the North he favors because of a string of North Korean missile tests. Warmbier’s death could make it even harder, although some analysts think Moon could offer talks with the North as a way to get other detainees out of North Korea.

“It’s unlikely that Washington and Seoul will let Warmbier’s death entirely derail their efforts at talks because North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is such a serious and immediate threat,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University. Still, opponents will question whether such negotiations may give the North more time to expand its nuclear weapons program.

Delury said the Trump administration may try to pressure China to cut its large numbers of tourists to North Korea until the North apologizes and releases the other Americans.

Whether North Korea will actually respond to pressure or talks is unclear.

The country may not worry about much of anything externally, even the death of a young tourist, until it reaches its goal of building a nuclear ICBM that can ease what it sees as decades of U.S. and South Korean hostility.

Suspected Nazi artifacts Philippines launches offensive in hope of recapturing Marawi Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera, another CITY, JUnE 20 (RE- said military spokesman Briga- who fled from Marawi are being ‘GAINING GROUND’ found in Argentina’s capital MARAWI Fighting was intense early on military spokesman, although UTERS): Philippine aircraft dier-General Restituto Padilla, housed and apologised for their

Members of the federal police carry a Nazi statue at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 16. (AP Photo)

BUEnOS AIRES, JUnE 20 (AP): In a hidden room in a house near Argentina’s capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country’s history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a macabre medical device used to measure head size.

Some 75 objects were found in a collector’s home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to highranking Nazis in Germany during World War II. “Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces,” Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told The Associated Press on Monday, saying that some pieces were accompanied by old photographs. “This is a way to commercialize them, showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of him with the objects.” Among the disturbing items were toys that Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children, a large statue of the Nazi Eagle above a swastika, a Nazi hourglass and a box of harmonicas.

Police say one of the most-compelling pieces of evidence of the historical importance of the find is a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes. “We have turned to historians and they’ve told us it is the original magnifying glass” that Hitler was using, said Nestor Roncaglia, head of Argentina’s federal police. “We are reaching out to international experts to deepen” the investigation.

The investigation that culminated in the discovery of the collection began when authorities found artworks of illicit origin in a gallery in north Buenos Aires. Agents with the international police force Interpol began following the collector and with a judicial order raided the house on June 8. A large bookshelf caught their attention and behind it agents found a hidden passageway to a room filled with Nazi imagery.

Authorities did not identify the collector who remains free but under investigation by a federal judge. “There are no precedents for a find like this. Pieces are stolen or are imitations. But this is original and we have to get to the bottom of it,” said Roncaglia.

The main hypothesis among investigators and member of Argentina’s Jewish community is that they were brought to Argentina by a high-ranking Nazi or Nazis after World War II, when the South American country became a refuge for fleeing war criminals, including some of the best known.

As leading members of Hitler’s Third Reich were put on trial for war crimes, Josef Mengele fled to Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires for a decade. He moved to Paraguay after Israeli Mossad agents captured Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, who was also living in Buenos Aires. Mengele later died in Brazil in 1979 while swimming in a beach in the town of Bertioga.

While police in Argentina did not name any highranking Nazis to whom the objects might have originally belonged, Bullrich noted there were medical devices.

“There are objects to measure heads that was the logic of the Aryan race,” she said.

Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of the DAIA, a political umbrella for Argentina’s Jewish institutes, called the find “unheard of” in Argentina. “Finding 75 original pieces is historic and could offer irrefutable proof of the presence of top leaders who escaped from Nazi Germany,” Cohen told the AP.

and troops launched a renewed push against Islamist militants in a southern city on Tuesday and a military spokesman said the aim was to clear the area by the weekend Eid festival, although there was no deadline.

The offensive came amid worry that rebel reinforcements could arrive in the city after Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Fighting in Marawi City has entered a fifth week, and nearly 350 people have been killed, according to an official count. Fleeing residents have said they have seen scores of bodies in the debris of homes destroyed in bombing and cross-fire.

“We are aiming to clear Marawi by the end of Ramadan,”

as army and police commanders met in nearby Cagayan de Oro city to reassess strategy and operations against the militants, who claim allegiance to Islamic State.

But he added: “We are not setting any deadlines knowing the complexity of the battle. We are doing our best to expedite the liberation of Marawi at the soonest time possible.”

The seizure of Marawi and the dogged fight to regain control of it has alarmed Southeast Asian nations which fear Islamic State - on a backfoot in Iraq and Syria - is trying to set up a stronghold in the Muslim south of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines that could threaten the whole region.

President Rodrigo Duterte visited a school where people

plight, especially since it was Ramadan.

“I will help you, I will rehabilitate Marawi, it will be a beautiful city again,” he said at the school in Iligan City, about 40 km (25 miles) from the battle zone.

Padilla said the military aimed to prevent the conflict from escalating after Ramadan ends.

“We are closely watching certain groups and we hope they will not join the fight,” Padilla said.

Some Muslim residents of Marawi said other groups could join the fighting after Ramadan.

“As devout Muslims, we are forbidden to fight during Ramadan so afterwards, there may be new groups coming in,” said Faisal Amir, who has stayed on in the city despite the battle.

Tuesday as security forces made a push to drive the militants, entrenched in Marawi’s commercial district, south towards a lake on the edge of the city.

Planes flew overhead dropping bombs while on the ground, automatic gunfire was sustained with occasional blasts from artillery. Armoured vehicles fired volleys of shells while the militants responded with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades.

Fighting later died down as heavy rain fell but had resumed by evening.

Military sources said troops were attacking the militants from three sides and trying to box them towards the lake.

“We’re gaining ground and we’re expanding our vantage positions,” said Lieutenant

he declined to comment on specifics.

“We are moving towards the centre of gravity,” he added, referring to the militants’ command and communications centre.

An army corporal near the front line told Reuters soldiers were tagging houses and buildings that had been cleared.

“We still have to clear more than 1,000 structures,” he said, adding infantry units were left behind at “cleared” areas to prevent militants from recapturing lost ground.

As of Tuesday, the military said 258 militants, 65 security personnel and 26 civilians had been killed. Hundreds of people are unaccounted for, with many believed to be hiding in the basements of the city.

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India aim at berth in 2018 Asian U-23 football meet 31st Tuluni volleyball trophy New Delhi, JuNe 20 (iANS): India football team chief coach Stephen Constantine, who also takes care of the Under-23 team, on Tuesday said the aim is to qualify for the Asian U-23 Championship next year.

"Our aim is to qualify for the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship. The qualifiers are in a month's time and, hence, we can't just sit back," Constantine told www.the-aiff.com.

"New Delhi is the ideal venue to get acclimatised to the current weather of Qatar. Our focus was on working in conditions similar to Qatar," the Briton said.

The final preparatory camp ahead of the AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers kicked off at the Ambedkar Stadium here on Monday.

In all, 34 players have been summoned for the camp which will continue until July 1 before the team leaves for an exposure trip to the US. Besides players play-

ing in the I-League, Constantine has also called two players from the U-22 trials, players for which were scouted by the AIFF scouting network led by executive committee member Abhishek Yadav.

Yadav and his team had

selected players from interuniversity championships, inter-college tournaments, Santosh Trophy, Second Division League, Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (RFYS) as well as the overseas scouting programme.

India are slated to face

Syria, Turkmenistan and Qatar in Group C of 2018 AFC U-23 Championship Qualifiers which are scheduled from July 19 to July 23 in Doha.

"We are scheduled to go on an exposure trip to California early next month.

NSCN (K) condoles departed Chairman/President SS Khaplang

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ne of the most feared, revered and honoured by friends and foes alike, S.S. Khaplang, the Supreme Commander, the President and Chairman NSCN/GPRN and the legendary revolutionary patriarch and patron of the revolutionaries of West South East Asia peacefully departed for his home heavenly home at the Council HQ,Taka on 9 June 2017.

The ablest and the staunchest and the most consummate patriot ever who led thousands and inspired millions across the region and international arena with his undying spirit of nationalism, all the ranks and files of NSCN/GPRN pays our deepest respect and bow down in honour of our departing “Supreme Commander”.

The incredible journey spanning more than half a century in leading the Nagas towards national deliverance is indeed outstanding and unparalleled.

Late Shangnyu Shangwang.

Khaplang was born on April 7,1940 to Mr Langngee and Mrs Khapvi of Waktham Village, Tangshang Naga tribe, at the age of 23, he was elected as the President, Naga National Convention in the year 1963 and was instrumental in signing NagaKachin peace agreement with KIO/ KIA Chairman late.Zautu in October 1968 and with late Brangseng in 1977 thus ending the misunderstanding between the two brothers that arose during 1964 to 1968 and since then the relationship between the Nagas and Kachins had been peaceful hitherto.

In the year 1965, April 7, the nomenclature Naga National Convention was changed to Eastern Naga Revolutionary Council where Mr. Choboh was elected the Chairman, S.S Khaplang the ViceChairman and Mr. Kitiwon as the General Secretary, later in the year 1972 ENRC was again changed to Eastern Naga National Council with Nuri as the Chairman as the Chairman and S.S. Khaplang as the Vice-Chairman.

In January 1975 S.S. Khaplang was elected as the Chairman, ENNC with Brig. Thungbo as the Vice Chairman and on March, 1979, the Naga National Council

and Eastern Naga National Council signed a merger agreement and S.S. Khaplang was elected the President FGN and T. Venuh as Vice President, FGN respectively.

It was through S.S. Khaplang’s sincere endeavour that the artificially divided Nagas were united under the same political banner of Naga National Council. In the subsequent year 1980, 31st January, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland was formed under the Chairmanship of Isak Chishi Swu, S.S. Khaplang as the Vice-Chairman and Th. Muivah as the Gen. Secy.

In the year 1988 a political crisis erupted within the NSCN, however, due to S.S Khaplang’s resoluteness, the NSCN could withstood all the turbulence and sailed past the crisis safely and later became the Acting Chairman and Chairman of the NSCN with late Mongro Dally as the General Secretary respectively in the year 1988 and 1989 and remained the Chairman till his last breath on June 9, 2017.

Various accomplishments of NSCN/GPRN under the Chairmanship of S.S. Khaplang1. In 1990, Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front compromising of NSCN,ULFA and UNLF was formed.

2. In 1996 S.S. Khaplang attended UN Working Committee on Indigenous Population at Geneva.

3. In 2001, the NSCN/GPRN under S.S. Khaplang’s leadership entered into bilateral ceasefire agreement with India.

4. In 2012, upon the invitation of the Myanmar Government, S.S. Khaplang signed a ceasefire agreement with Myanmar Government.

5. On 27 March 2015, the NSCN/GPRN abrogated ceasefire agreement with India due to insincerity and divisive policies of GOI. 6. On 17 April,2015, Under S.S. Khaplang’s leadership, United Liberation Front of WESEA His entire life, from dusk to dawn, winter to summer and for decades till his last breath was woven to the Naga liberation struggle choosing to live a pious revolutionary life in the jungles and make shift camps along with comrades and followers rather than being swayed away by comforts, luxuries

and materialisms unlike many of his contemporaries.

Overcoming every political storm, overwhelming temptations and controversies during the tumultuous decades of political sojourn of 54 years in the Naga national service, S.S. Khaplang was the lone Naga leader to have had firmly stood his ground uncompromisingly, salvaged the national struggle from demolishment on many occasions and raised the hopes of our people from nadir to higher level keeping thus the aspirations alive till today.

While we mourn our great leader’s demise, with pride and glory, the NSCN/GPRN shares the testimony of our selfless, courageous and visionary leader in the person of S.S. Khaplang who left us at the ripe age of 77 and is survived by wife, three sons and a daughter.

May his soul be at peace with God. The NSCN/GPRN once again pledges to carry on forward the unfulfilled dreams and hopes and visions of our great leader and appeal to every Naga to uphold the spirit of nationalism exhibited by our departed leader during his life time and to walk together in the everlasting footprints imprinted upon the rock of ages.

The NSCN/GPRN also extends our heartiest gratitude and indebtedness to all the members of UNLFW and other revolutionary fraternities of the region, various Civil Societies, Hoho’s, NGO’s, Churches, Faiths, Student’s and Women Organisations, Individuals, businessmen and especially the youths from various towns and cities who held candle light vigil in honour of our departed leader, the Naga Yuya, CNA, TNSA, NMA, NSF, NSO, ENSA, Poumai Students’ Union etc for sacrificing physically, materially and for going all the way out without any reservation in ensuring a successful grand funeral for our departed leader. We regret our inability to acknowledge each and every person or organisation in name but it is our earnest prayer that Almighty God would bless each of you abundantly and we look forward to your cooperation even in the days to come.

Shurho-o my hero

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Dr. Viu Meru

was shocked to learn about Shurhoo’s departure in the Nagaland Post this morning in a very mysterious circumstance. Shurho was a very special person to me, not merely because we were in the same programme in the Government, but because he was a genuinely good person. He didn’t have a University degree, but he was street smart, very skilful in his work, never backed down on any given assignment, totally reliable, ever ready to help and very humble. For almost a decade we worked together- me as the Nagaland State MCH Officer and he as the Cold Chain Technician and I relied on him completely.

Many years before that, he drove me to my first post in Aghunato of Zunheboto Sub-division in Mokokchung district in July 1976 with shovels, spades and daos.

He knew that those tools were needed for in many spots along the way, we had to stop and cut away fallen trees & branches

and shovelled the mud clear of the narrow road till we reached our destination late in the evening. Since then we made many trips together around the State and those who know him will also know that travelling with him was always a joy, because he had many exciting stories to tell you, beginning from the invasion of his village by the Japanese soldiers during the WWII. Apart from our official works together, I am indebted to him for life because he used to solve many of my mechanical problems at home also. He was my hero at our work place.

But, long before we became official colleagues, when I was still a school boy in Kohima in the 1960s, Shurho-o was my hero in the Football field and continued to be so till he stopped playing in mid 2000s(?) and became a referee. He was a defender, a back and that was where few balls passed. I miss my hero, I miss his voice, I miss his quick and smart movements.

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We'll play three or possibly four competitive matches against some club agegroup teams and senior teams which will definitely come handy before we face Qatar, Syria and Turkmenistan in the qualifiers," Constantine said.

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ver since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission on 2nd October, 2014 there has been a great improvement of civic sense among the Indians. The mission aimed to make India a clean country. Therefore, cleanliness drives on regular basis is advised. The wisdom of Mr. NarendraModi found its place even in the farthest zone. Many States took up the mission seriously and created vast impact both at homes and in the cities. A standard of life is measured with cleanliness. Thus, many villages and cities began to keep clean with utmost care for environment and surrounding.

Nagaland too received the same call for cleanliness. I am sure there were schemes/ projects allotted for the same.

There were many VIPs who personally took brooms to clean up the streets and its surroundings. Some went even to the extent of publishing their kind works in many of the local dailies. The same should be emphasized time and again by every department both public and private. Cleanliness is not one day event with brooms in your hand only for camera sake. It is a process whereby the maintenance of towns and cities get its face clean.

Sometimes declaration becomes a big show than the actual implementation.

Almost every town has Municipal Council who also looks into the matter of cleanliness. Clearing waste materials is not only the work of the municipal. Everyone has a share in raising the standard of Nagaland to certain heights. Many towns and villages of Nagalandhave kept themselves exceptionally clean. A clean place or room invites better atmosphere for healthy living and interaction.

On the contrary, the red spittle of pan on the side walls and window grills of government offices, heaps of waste materials besides private

The list of players attending the camp is as follows: Goalkeepers: Vishal Kaith, Sukhadev Shivaji Patil, Kamaljit Singh, Phurba Tempa Lechenpa.

Defenders: Nishu Kumar, Lalramchullova, Chinglensana Singh Konsham, Salam Ranjan Singh, Sarthak Golui, Sairuatkima, Lalruatthara, Nitesh Deepak Aswani, Subhasish Bose, Jerry Lalrinzuala.

Midfielders: Nikhil Chandrashekhar Poojary, Raynier Raymond Fernandes, Isaac Vanmalsawma Chhakchhuak, Germanpreet Singh, Vinit Rai, Mawihmingthanga, Asharudeen Pulparamban, Saurabh Das, Enestar Malngiang, Robinson Singh Khumukcham, Vignesh Dakshina Murthy, Chesterpoul Lyngdoh, Lallianzuala Chhangte.

Forwards: Hitesh Sharma, Daniel Lalhlimpuia, Anto Xavier, Alen Deory, Manvir Singh, Azharuddin Mullick.

DiMAPuR, JuNe 20 (MexN): The VK Area People's Organization is organizing the 31st Tuluni Volley Ball Trophy (All Simi) at VK

Guidelines for Kohima Football League KOhiMA, JuNe 20 (MexN): The Kohima Town Club today informed the guidelines that teams taking part in the Kohima Football League, 2017 need to adhere to.

A press note from the KTC said that teams/ clubs need to get registration done with Kohima District Football Association (KDFA), with a fee of Rs.500. The last date of fixed on June 24.

Players also need to do registration with KDFA. Fee is fixed at Rs.50 per head. The last date is fixed on June 30.

Both forms can be obtained from William Koso, Technical Head

Swachh Nagaland!!!

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institutions are the best unforgettable sights. Thick and dark smokes of cigarettes from the office of public officers, the red tongues of the officer in charge are frightening and scary sides of daily life in most offices.

Adding to all this strayed behaviour, the Swachh Nagaland of potholes and dust give the best taste of being in Nagaland. All dirty vehicles that ply in Assam are likely to be NL.... They travel either via Assam to reach their destination or for other purposes.

That is why Nagas should not wonder when some vehicles could reach the southern part of India without any difficulty. Everything is possible in Nagaland for those who have money and power. The Government of Nagaland must open one servicing centre at Nagaland gate (to wash the vehicles clean before entering Assam if not the vehicles may become another animal in the reserved forest of Kaziranga). It could be a big income for the State. The tourist guides must be taught to say with a big smileshowing 32 teeth with dirty shoes on his feet, “Welcome to Nagaland. We warmly welcome you with good and trembling journey. Hope you return with a normal body.”

The big potholes (let’s call it Syntax holes) in Kohima and Dimapur are competing with each other. The holes that contain more water during rainy season will be awarded with “Swachh Nagaland” citation and cash.

The award shall be given to the Ministers and MLAs of the particular constituency through cashless transaction. To achieve this dream, almost all traffic point has big ravine. The traffic police are advised to cool themselves from such 5 stars pool at free of cost. They enjoy themselves at the sight of thevehi-

Town from July 4 to 7.Registration fee will be Rs 3000 per team. For more information contact Bokato Assumi at 8729971703/8575653775.

cles that swing to and fro inside the hole. To pass through such rotten road is like sitting on a see-saw. Some cars get lost inside the potholes and return only after some few minutes. We call this as “Metro-Cars”. We usually travel underneath the ground, not on road. Nagaland has become wonderland.

A big applause to the Western Sumi Students Union (WSSU) for initiating a good cause for the good of the people. They have opened their eyes wide to the realities of deplorable and deadly roads in and around Dimapur. I pray that some concern associations and unions do the same in Kohima and other districts of Nagaland before the denizen break their last remaining bone.

Earlier, many organizations have given ultimatum to the concern department of the Government of Nagaland but later pull back the same and throw it into the thin air before its fulfillment. Such organizations are less trustworthy. The demand of the public that are just and right should be met on time. The Government need not wait for bandh or another letter of ultimatum.

I wonder where the buses and cars would ply – road, river or cliff. There are less roads in Nagaland. Are buses inaugurated to swim on the road?

Let Naga Scientists and engineers build water proof buses and cars for Nagaland. Everything is initiated for good purpose, yet it has no ground to stand. Many Officers (government and private) look so tired at the early hours of the morning because they pass through many big holes to reach the nearest office.

If we count the number of potholes from Chumukedima to Dimapur, I am sure it will enter the “Guinness World Record, 2017.” Let us

KTC (9862835381) or from Sports Paradise, located near Old Tata Parking, below North Police Station, Kohima Further, the team/ clubs need minimum 25 players and maximum 40 players. The teams can have a maximum of four outside players. Players from outside the state can be brought in between the league provided slot remains (i.e. 4) and with valid interstate transfers or loan paper.

The KTC also stated that the teams must appoint a media officer at the earliest for public relations works and to liaison with the organizer.

not break the record. Remember, the former Chief Minister, Mr. T. R. Zeliang. He broke the record as the CM of Nagaland. He was bestowed ‘the Lifetime Achievement Award in Transformation’ at the 6th Global Leadership Award, 2016 at Indonesia but was asked to step down in his homeland in 2017. It was a real transformation.

Such transformation is seen every day in Nagaland. Every Naga shines so brightly outside. Therefore, outsiders are forced to think that Nagaland is green and virgin hilly state with good people until they set their foot on the sharp stones, dust and mud as per the seasons of the year. Oh yes, Nagaland is still natural. Everything in Nagaland is natural. It attracts lakhs of dust particles and potholes tourists every year.

Are Nagas looking for high class life style with the worst road in the world? Where are the people who said that we need change just few months back? All the Ministers and MLAs would say again and again (in every function) that Nagas need change. Thanks for changing/turning the roads of Nagaland into cliffs.

Can all the existing associations come together to seek our rights and privileges as Nagas. Shall we call all the officials who illegally ate up the finance of Nagaland to come and eat the dust or drink the distilled water from the beautiful pools on the road?

This will be the most satisfying dinner because you will surely praise your own cooking style. This is what they have cooked for Nagas to eat.

Innocent Nagas continue to eat such diet everyday without any strong and sincere complain.

This is the face of “Swachh Nagaland.” Mr. Narendra Modi must be invited to partake such dinner pack. Hats off to all those who have made Nagaland headless and roadless. I really salute you with two hands. You deserve it.

Clean Election Would Be a Triumph for the Nagas P. Achumse Sangtam

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onest Politician's' is now an oxymoron in Nagaland. The anti-corruption crusade which is at its crescendo of popularity and a diminished lost of public faith in the institutions is a direct result of public anger over persistent corruption, lack of transparency and accountability in political system. Nagaland has well-earned a place for itself among the most corrupt States in India. It's almost a non-issue to have politicians worth enough to stand the test of public trust and instances of campaign funding are hardly probed

into.

The Campaign for 'Clean Election' launched

by Nagaland Baptist Church Council(NBCC) has created a 'buzz', among Citizens and it has for good open a debate on why it is imperative on the part of Society to start taking responsibility in fixing the 'mess' which has accumulated over the years, where the ruling class remaining aloof and nonresponsive.

What has contributed to this is the mass-scale Corruption, Proxy Voting and cash-for-votes during election is a familiar phenomenon. Then what ethical qualities and morality, one can expect from the Candidates? Mortgaging of

votes makes one disenfranchised.

Clean Election is crucial because with vote comes a voice. Clean Election are an important steps towards empowerment and re-asserting the trampled voice. Critical development efforts cannot succeed without a legitimate and democratically elected government that is responsive and accountable to its citizens. Election provides an important opportunity to advance democratization and encourage political liberalization. Voters should be fully conscious of the value of his vote and the power of the ballot as the most potent instruments of Change.

There are certain elementary actions that need to be taken before electing a candidate that is responsive to the people. It has to ban the practice of outside funding of candidates during election, because most candidates after getting elected ends up been the puppet to their sponsors.

Voters should also ensure that no candidates with good appetite for corruption are elected. Various Political Parties would do itself a lot of good by empowering independent panels to make Policies in Public Interest. As a pledge to Clean Election all the intending Candidates should voluntarily declare the assets they hold.

There is no alternative to Clean Election at this juncture. It calls for embracing Change, an engine for the growth of Society. We cannot afford to walk over the corruption that has become the hallmark of our system.

We cannot allow communalization of politics to hijack good governance. As a voter we should be conscious and know the responsibility as to what we can do for the society.

Election ensures that the will of the people is reflected in the formulation of public policies and decision. Elections are the bastion of people liberties and mechanism of putting check on the growth of any dictatorial tendencies.

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

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Nargis Fakhri returns to India as a singer

Khekaho Assumi meets Nagaland Fashion Week - Delhi team

Bruce Springsteen to make Broadway debut

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he 67-year-old singer-songwriter will kick off his eightweek residency at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City in November, although dates are yet to be finalised. According to the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column, Bruce's set will be ''a pared-down version of what he usually performs in huge arenas and stadiums.''

A source told the publication: ''He wants to play a smaller house. He wants to try something more intimate, and he likes the idea of being on Broadway.''

Bruce's new gig in the big apple comes just months after more than 300 pieces of his memorabilia were put up for auction for $7.5 million.

The Ultimate Springsteen collection, as it has

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merican model-actress Nargis Fakhri who crossed over to Bollywood in 2011 with Imtiaz Ali's 'Rockstar' has been living it up in Los Angeles for the last eight months.

Even though the 37-yearold actress had three releases in 2016 -'Dishoom', 'Housefull 3' and 'Banjo' -she wasn't in the city to promote the films.

But now, she's making a comeback to the Maximum City to club-hop with her singing debut, an IndoCanadian single, 'Habitaan Vigaad Di'. Written by Kumaar, the song also features singer-composer Parichay, best known for his racy track 'Aaj Phir Peene Ki Tamannah Hai' from 'Loveshhuda', and reggae artiste and musician Kardinal Offishall, who frequently collaborates with Akon.

Nargis features as a 'fantasy chick' in the music video and has crooned the Punjabi chorus. Nargis picked the track, which has sexual undertones, out of two that Parichay had composed and sent to her in LA. In the first week of June, the duo subsequently filmed the video in Toronto, showcasing the

city's popular 1800-feet high communication's tower and other amazing views of the city.

"To give the song an East-meets West flavour, the team brought mainstream Canadian rap-legend Kardinal on-board to record and film with Nargis and Parichay," a source close to the development told Mirror.

Nargis, who doesn't speak Hindi or Punjabi, insisted that she didn't want her accent to sound disrespectful, so she rehearsed extensively. "For the main chorus line, she gave 100 takes because she couldn't get the Punjabi lyrics right.

She made sure to learn the correct pronounciation of every word from Parichay.

Her commitment to her singing debut was unparalleled," adds the source.

Next, Parichay and Nargis are teaming up for another track, in which the actress will have a lot more vocals. This week, as a runup to the release of the track, Nargis and Parichay will show up at clubs in the city and surprise revellers with a live musical performance of their track.

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been dubbed by dealer Moments in Time, features an impressive collection of items from the musician's legendary career, including guitars, lyrics and clothing. Moments in Time CEO Gary Zimet told Billboard: ''It's extraordinary that one person could assemble such a truly unbelievable collection.''

Among the items set to go under the hammer are Bruce's 4F card, which excused him from service in the Vietnam War, as well as various drafts of the lyrics of 'Born to Run'. Each item carries a set price, but Zimet has already confirmed he would consider selling the pieces on an individual basis.

Meanwhile, despite being among the best-selling musicians of all time, Bruce admitted earlier this year

Khekaho Assumi, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports with Harshit Dhingaun, Chairman, Delhi Fashion Club.

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hekaho Assumi, Nagaland Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports met the team of Nagaland Fashion Week - Delhi and expressed happiness on the noble initiative that aims to revive Naga culture, textile and tourism and expose the youths of Nagaland in the field of fashion and music to an international audience, according to a press release.

This fashion week will be organized

by NHHDC (Nagaland Handlooms and Handicrafts Development Corporation) in collaboration with Delhi Fashion Club.

The event will comprise of international designers giving Nagaland's youth like models an opportunity to get international acclaim, the release from Delhi Fashion Club said. NFW team will present an exhibition absolutely free for

that he still suffers from stage fright.

The icon has played in front of sold out crowds all over the globe, but Bruce revealed he is still bothered by last-minute nerves. He previously explained: ''It varies from night to night but whenever you're going out in front of a crowd of any size, your body knows it. ''This is what I do. This is the only thing I do. This is the only thing I'm qualified to do. So it matters how I do it at night. ''There's a lot of anticipatory anxiety which then translates into a raw shot of adrenaline once you're out there. We come out to press our case very hard, about what we think about everything, I suppose, and life itself. And so it's challenging nightly.''

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sales and promotion by local artisans and women entrepreneurs to encourage women empowerment.

Apart from free education to Nagaland's youth worldwide, which is being promised by Ratnadeep Lal, head of IIFT (International Institute of Fashion Technology), who is also a senior team advisor, NFW team is also planning to provide free platforms to all the women designers from Nagaland without any registration cost.

Nagaland Fashion Week is part of NHHDC initiative to promote Naga culture through fashion and handloom promotion in metro cities.

Interested designers and models can send their profiles at nagalandfashion@ gmail.com and for update keep following official Facebook page www.facebook.com/nagalandfashionweek.

‘It’s hard to be liked and successful’

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ctor Ansel Elgort says it's not a cakewalk for any actor to make it big in Hollywood. On the most recent issue of Billboard magazine, the "Fault In Our Stars" actor opens up about how he handles criticism. "I don't walk around calling attention to myself. It's important to be able to blend in; otherwise you turn into a Hollywood dou**e bag. "I'm sure plenty of people think I am one, too. I'm super easy to hate. But it's fine. It's hard to be liked and successful," Elgort says.

The actor insists he will not go "full leading man" and only accept certain roles. "It's easy to say, 'I'm going to just go full leading man right now. I'm going to not smile on red carpets, and I'm not going to say anything that offends anyone. I'm going to furrow my eyebrows and like, wear black suits, and only play roles where I'm really cool.'"

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Spanish prosecutors accuse Jose Mourinho of 3.3 million euro tax fraud MADRID, JUNE 20 (REUTERS): Spanish prosecutors said on Tuesday they had filed a claim against Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on two counts of tax fraud dating back to when he coached Real Madrid.

The Portuguese manager owes Spanish tax authorities 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million), a Madrid prosecutor said in a statement, adding it had presented a claim to a local court.

Mourinho left Real Madrid in 2013 to manage English club Chelsea for a second spell before signing with United in 2016.

Prosecutors said he had failed to declare revenues from his image rights in his Spanish income tax declarations from 2011 and 2012, "with the aim of obtaining illicit profits".

They said Mourinho had already settled a previous claim relating to his Spanish taxes, which resulted in a penalty of 1.15 million euros in 2014. But

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tax authorities later found that some of the information presented in that settlement was incorrect, the prosecutors said.

The claims against Mourinho come amid a lengthening list of tax fraud cases involving soccer stars in Spain.

Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo has been called to testify on July 31 in Madrid on allegations that he hid income from tax authorities between 2011 and 2014, according to a report in El Confidencial newspaper on Tuesday.

Real Madrid was not

15 arrested in MP for celebrating Pakistan's CT win

BURhANpUR, JUNE 20 (IANS): At least 15 members of a community were arrested on sedition charges in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district for celebrating Pakistan's victory against India in the finals of the ICC Champions Trophy, police said on Tuesday. "Some people in Mohad village raised slogans in favour of Pakistan and also burst crackers on Sunday night after Pakistan defeated India in the finals of the Champions Trophy," said Sanjay Pathak, OC of Shahpur police station.

"Subhas Koli filed a complaint on Monday stating that anti-national slogans were raised in the village after Pakistan's victory.

Following the complaint, 15 people were booked under immediately available for Section 120B and Section comment on the allega- 124 A of the IPC," he added. tions against Mourihno or Ronaldo's hearing.

Gestifute, a Portuguesebased soccer agency which represents Mourinho and Ronaldo, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Real prez not contemplating Cristiano Ronaldo's departure

MADRID, JUNE 20 (REUTERS): Cristiano Ronaldo has not spoken to Real Madrid officials about a transfer away from Spain and he is not expected to leave the European champions during the close season, club president Florentino Perez said on Monday.

The prolific striker scored twice to fire Real to a 4-1 win over Juventus in the Champions League final earlier this month but his future at the club was thrown into doubt last week when Portuguese newspaper A Bola reported that he wanted to leave Spain after being accused of committing tax fraud.

Spanish prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the player accusing him of defrauding tax authori-

ties of 14.7 million euros ($16.39 million) by hiding his image rights income between 2011 and 2014.

Ronaldo has denied any wrongdoing.

The 32-year-old signed a new contract with Real until 2021 last November and has a release clause of one billion euros ($1.11 billion).

"I haven't spoken with Cristiano, I learned about it because of what came out in the newspapers. I don't have any solution but Cristiano, like everyone else, has a contract and is a Real Madrid player," Perez told radio station Onda Cero on Monday after earning a third consecutive mandate at Real.

"I'm sure he will speak to us about what has happened (with the tax case),

which has obviously affected his credibility, and we'll see what happens."

Ronaldo, Portugal's alltime leading scorer, is the latest in a long line of soccer players in Spain -- among them Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Neymar -- to be caught up in cases over tax or transfers.

Asked about potential clubs Ronaldo could join, Perez said: "I'm not contemplating Ronaldo leaving."

Ronaldo joined Real from Manchester United in 2009 for a then world record fee of 96 million euros and is their all-time top scorer with 404 goals in 394 games. He has won three Champions Leagues, two La Liga titles and two King's Cups in his eight years in the Spanish capital.

MPL 2017: MRH FC beat Silver White 5-1

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Players of MRH FC and Silver White before their match in the MPL 2017 on June 20. MRH FC beat Silver White 5-2. Zakie scored three goals and Imti scored two goals for MRH FC, whil Rajen scored one goal for Silver White.

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