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Nagaland’s stalled SARDP-NE 181 helpline for women project: PM asked to intervene Morung Express News

Governor assures memo will reach PM

Dimapur | June 23

A conglomeration of 5 tribe bodies of Nagaland has appealed to the Prime Minister of India for resuming work on the stalled 329 km SARDP-NE (Special Accelerated Road Development Programme – North-East) project in Nagaland.

The over Rs. 1000 crore 2-lane road project covers 4 sections: Mon-TamluMerangkong, LonglengChangtongya, Phek-Pfutsero and Chakabama-Zunheboto and was sanctioned by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) in early 2011. Subsequently, earthcutting work had started only to come to an abrupt halt in June 2012 for undisclosed reasons.

The half-done work has left the stated sections of roads in deplorable conditions; turning into sludge tracks during the monsoon and dust bowls during the dry season. While the project touches six districts, overall, the roads in question act as vital links within the state.

Considering the significance of the roads, 5 tribe bodies, namely: Phom People’s Council, Sumi Hoho, Chakhesang Public Organisation, Ao Senden and Konyak

Presidents of the Phom People’s Council, Sumi Hoho, Chakhesang Public Organisation, Ao Senden and Konyak Union handing over the memorandum to the Governor, PB Acharya in Dimapur on June 23.

Union through a joint memorandum has sought the Prime Minister’s attention for resumption and early completion of the project. The memorandum was submitted to the Governor of Nagaland on June 23 in Dimapur to be forwarded to the Prime Minister.

As per the memorandum, the work halted and could not be resumed pending non-approval of “Revised Estimate” by the MoRTH submitted by the company – M/S MaytasGayatri (Joint Venture).

While stating that numerous public representations to the authorities to revive the project have not had the desired impact, the memorandum said that “the affected par-

Kandi range village councils condemn assault DIMAPUR, JUNE 23 (MExN): The Kandi Range Village Councils, namely, Kandinu, Ehunnu, Yikhanu, Sishunu, Kandinu Station, and Tsonsa have condemned the alleged “manhandling” of Johny G. Rengma, National BJP Vice-President (ST Morcha) on June 19 at his residence at Kandinu Station, “by purported NSCN (IM) cadres.” A joint statement from the village councils of the aforementioned villages condemned the “humiliation meted out to one of our tall leaders who has not only been acknowledged at the national level but respected as well.” It informed that two miscreants “claiming to be cadres of the NSCN (IM), man-handled a bonafide Kandi citizen without any reason…” The statement asked that the NSCN (IM) authorities “give an appropriate clarification.” “After being caught by the youths, the miscreants confessed that they were sent to Johny’s residence by a certain NSCN (IM) functionary and therefore, the Kandi Range would like to publicly question the NSCN (IM) as to what action the organisation would take,” the statement demanded. “Since the miscreants have already been arrested by the police, the concerned authorities should also book the culprits under NSA as they were found to be in possession of arms,” it urged.

ties” filed a Public Interest Litigation in court.

“That after a gap of more than 2 years (which was learnt to be the grace period given to the authorities to approve and sanction the Revised Estimate of the Project) the Honourable Court had appointed an Independent Commissioner with direction to submit a detail report to the court after site inspection.” Consequent to the submission of the inspection report sometime in 2015, the PIL was disposed by the court through an order dated October 13, 2015; while directing “the respondents to do the needful within a month’s time,” it stated.

Despite this, the memorandum maintained that

there has been no visible reaction till date to resume the work. While stating that hardship of the people should not be ignored, the memorandum said: “Revised Estimate with higher Schedule of Rates had been approved by the Ministry” in other NE states. Terming it as a “clear case of discrimination”, the memorandum nevertheless expressed hope that this time appeal of the people will be acknowledged.

Further stating that “the undersigned will be compelled to take our own course of action” if the matter is not attended with urgency, it added, “and in such eventuality the Government shall be held solely responsible.”

NEDA seeks larger fund allocation

DIMAPUR, JUNE 23 (MExN): Leaders of the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) have pointed out to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi that annual fund allocation to the North East has been stagnant at Rs 800 crore and appealed to him to institutionalise budgetary provisions so that 10% of the funds of the Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) is mandatorily deposited with the Ministry of DoNER. A press note from the Nagaland CMO informed that this appeal was made in a memorandum jointly signed by Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang; Assam Chief Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, Arunachal Chief Minister, Kalikho Pul, Assam Minister and Convenor of NEDA, Himanta Biswa Sarma; Meghalaya MP Lok Sabha and President of NPP, Conrad Sangma; Ex Chief Minister of Mizoram and President of MNF ZoramThanga; Assam Minister and AGP President Atul Bora; Working President of UDP and former Meghalaya

Minister Paul Lygndoh, among others.

“What we require today is greater empowerment of the Ministry of DoNER and the NEC to serve as effective vehicle for transferring resources and capacities to the Northeastern States,” stated the memorandum.

It requested that annual fund allocation to the NEC be “substantially enhanced and mechanisms be created and systems put into place.”

In the recent past, it noted that the quantum of funds allocated to the Northeast under the NLCPR has been declining. At a time when the fund allocation to the Ministry of DoNER and the NEC should have increased with corresponding rise in cost index, it is ironic that it has stagnated, to the extent that it currently has only an annual allocation of about 800 crores, it said.

Lamenting that this has greatly impacted the growth of the states, the NEDA asked the PM for his personal intervention in this issue.

Monsoon brings joy to Naga farmers

A Naga woman working in a paddy field at Kigwema village under Kohima district. (Photo

by Chizoko Vero)

Our Correspondent Kohima | June 23

After years of enduring lack of rains, farmers in Nagaland this year are in a jubilant mood as adequate

rainfall has allowed them to have a successful paddy transplantation season.

“The farmers are attending their paddy fields normally with the availability of sufficient water

for cultivation,” this time, said Phek Farmers’ Club (PFC) Chief Coordinator, Thuputhiyi Venuh.

This has enabled farmers in the state, who practice terrace cultivation, to carry

out paddy cultivation in the appropriate time, thereby increasing the chances of a fruitful harvest. The best season for paddy cultivation start from last week of May till second week of July.

Unlike in the past, Venuh said most of the farmers have been able to get their work done early this year. The entire process of cultivation is likely to be completed by this month (June) end.

Over the past few years, the farmers were compelled to undertake paddy cultivation even up to the first week of August due to scant rainfall. This had also affected the yield in a negative way during the past years.

Moreover Venuh said there has been no report of major landslides or flashfloods that affected the paddy fields in Phek area out of heavy rainfall.

The Governor, PB Acharya responding to the signatories of the memorandum stated that it will be forwarded to the Prime Minister immediately.

Expressing his concern over the points mentioned in the memorandum, the Governor wondered as to what could have possibly compelled the company to halt the work midway and why the approval of the reported “Revised Estimate” is being delayed.

“Either it is a fraud company or we gave them trouble,” the Governor remarked when no plausible explanation was forthcoming.

Raising concern on the corruption prevalent, he held that the people should voice out to curb any form of malpractice detrimental to public good. According to him, development funds from the Centre are “flowing in freely” only with little or no visible result on the ground.

The signatories later queried as to what is dogging the SARDP-NE project replied, “We’re not concerned with what might be the internal problem. All we want is the completion (of the project).”

DIMAPUR, JUNE 23 (MExN): Governor of Nagaland and Assam, PB Acharya today launched a women helpline - 181 in the premises of the District Hospital Dimapur and also inaugurated Sakhi- One stop Centre, indented to support women affected by violence.

‘Sakhi-One Stop Centre’ is a centrally sponsored scheme by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) to be funded through Nirbhaya Fund. The objectives of the One Stop Centers are to provide integrated support and assistance to women affected by violence, both in private and public spaces under one roof and to facilitate immediate, emergency and non-emergency access to a range of services including medical, legal, psychological and counseling support to fight against any form of violence against women.

In the first phase, one centre is being established in every State/UT on a pilot basis and the OSC will be integrated with 181 (Women Helpline) and other existing helplines.

The women helpline will also provide 24 hour emergency response to all women affected by violence, through referral (linking with appropriate authorities such as Police, OSC or hospital) and information about women related government schemes and programmes across the country through a single uniform number -181.

In Nagaland, the State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) has been appointed as nodal agency to implement the OSC and 181.

Addressing the gathering, Acharya reminded that society is witnessing women who are marching ahead in every field. He also highlighted on the multi roles played by women as home makers, guardians of children

and the hard work put in by them in every field.

“Yet despite all these, sometimes women are taken for granted and not looked at as human beings due to greed for money and entertainment and we should change this mindset with all seriousness”, the Governor said.

He observed that domestic violence is committed by one’s own nearest and dearest people. Terming women as the living force behind the human species, Acharya reminded the gathering that women are our own mothers, our sisters and our daughters.

He was optimistic that problems of distressed women would be addressed through this project and also appealed to all stake holders for extending cooperation, so that violence against women would decline.

Nagaland Minister for Social Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs, Kiyanilie Peseyie, said Nagaland is committed to the welfare and safety of women and children. “Violence against women is being reported from all other districts and I look forward to having more One Stop Centers in Nagaland, which will be integrated with the 181 Women Helpline”, the Minister said.

Peseyie also remarked that the Union Minister for Women & Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, “has made a landmark change in the Ministry and her constant support for all kinds of development for our state.”

Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, Dellirose M Sakhrie, in her keynote address also highlighted on the objectives of the dual scheme for women. Chairperson, Nagaland State Commission for Women, Dr. Temsula Ao and DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome, also spoke on the occasion.

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Ajay Kumar Singh, Sr. Manager, Field Operations, CMS and others during the interacting held on June 23 at Aurora restaurant Kohima. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Kohima | June 23

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India, the nodal Ministry for Swachh Bharat

Mission (SBM) is conducting a National Level study on situational analysis and impact assessment of Swachh Bharat Mission.

Interacting with the press on June 23 at Aurora

restaurant Kohima, Ajay Kumar Singh, Sr. Manager, Field Operations, CMS mentioned that the survey has covered villages such as Khonoma, Jotsoma, Chiephobozou, Tuophema,

Botsa where the survey has been completed in 300 households. The main objective behind the assessment is to ensure that the schemes of the SBM reach the people. The next survey will be followed up in Mokokchung. The survey which is in its first phase is to be completed by June 30.

The study will cover 600 urban households and 600 rural households in all the states and union territories in India. To conduct the survey, the Ministry has assigned the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) to interact with stakeholders such as government officials, teachers, concerned house owners, media persons, and representative of local bodies. The survey is expected to facilitate the monitoring the policy level decisions towards the implementation and improvement of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

A six months certificate course in horticulture was inaugurated at Dimapur Government College by Watienla Jamir, Director of Horticulture on June 20. The Course is a flagship programme under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), a centrally sponsored scheme under the ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), GoI, for vocationalization of Higher Education in India.

Nagaland to observe World Drug Day

Kohima, June 23 (mexn): Nagaland State will be observing the ‘International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’ also knows as ‘World Drug Day’ with the rest of the world on June 26 with the theme ‘Listen First’ at Hotel Japfu Kohima, at 2:00 pm. It is jointly organized by Kripa Foundation, Social Welfare department, Narcotic Police and State Legal Services Author-

ity and Nagaland Users’ Network.

World Drug Day theme, 'Listen First' is a new campaign on sciencebased drug prevention has been launched to raise awareness around listening to children and youth as the first step to help them grow healthy and safe. The campaign targets parents, teachers, policy makers, health worker and prevention workers par-

Tree plantation marks opening of guest house in Tuensang

Crankers Cycling Club (CCC) from Kohima and Dimapur under the team leader Vitsi Yeptho visited Earth Friendly Generation, office Chiephobozou Town for promoting environment awareness through cycling and planting of trees for future generation at Bright Morning Star Children Home Kohima on June 20. EFG also acknowledge the Adolescent Girls Club (AGC) under the Nagaland State Social Welfare, Government of Nagaland headed by Ruovinuo for taking initiative to planting trees for creating awareness among the school and college students especially in Kohima and Nagaland in general.

Tuensang, June 23 (DiPR): The District Planning and Development Board meeting cum Inauguration of the guest house were held at Tuensang on June 23. The Guest House was inaugurated by the Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture and DB & GB, Kejong Chang. The Guest House was constructed by the contribution of the seven elected members of the Tuensang District which was initiated by the District Administration and supervised by the CAWD Tuensang.

After the inauguration, the chief guest along with the District Officers planted tree saplings around the guest house to commemorate the inauguration.

The chief guest of the programme advised all the district officers to work tirelessly so that the all the officers will be a mirror of development in the district and added that history only remembers the best and the worst.

The inaugural programme was followed by the District planning board meeting at the Circuit House Tuensang. The Deputy Commissioner of Tuensang, Alem Jongshi explained the detail report of the VIP Guest House Construction to the gathering. The meeting began with the review of the previous agendas. The board discussed the names of the societies proposed for

registration and decided to send the names of three societies for government approval.

The proposal for the renewal of the societies were also discussed and the board decided to send five societies for the renewal to the government.

The introduction of the project Traffic Related Accidents and Crime Response (TRACER) by SP Tuensang was also discussed and the board decided to implement it for the safety of commercial vehicles and public of Tuensang. SP Tuensang has been requested to submit the project details to the DPDB forum for better implementation.

ticularly, as well as the wider public.

Keyaneilie Peseyie, Minister for Social Welfare & Parliamentary affair and Pankaj Kumar, (IAS) Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland has consented to be the chief guest and guest of honor respectively. The chief guest will also release ‘The Nagaland State Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Policy.’

MEx File Baptist College freshers’ social Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Baptist College Kohima will hold its 34th freshers’ social 2016 on June 24 at 11:00 AM at Ura Academy Hall, Kohima. Prof. Pardeshi Lal, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema will grace the occasion as the chief guest.

Blood donation camp held moKoKchung, June 23 (mexn): A blood donation camp was organized in the ongoing NCC Camp at Mokokchung. A class was conducted by the Mokokchung Blood Bank Authorities for all the cadets. The benefits and the importance of Blood Donation and the requirement to have a blood bank were explained to cadets in the simplest words. It was also clarified which all organizations are autherised to collect blood and how to recognize them. The cadets were told what and how to check the implements like syringes for sterilization. Then they were told who all can donate blood. After thorough medical checkup, eligible 21 Cadets and 11 staff members donated blood.

Lerie Panchayat informs

Kohima, June 23 (mexn): As resolved by the Lerie Panchayat Kohima, all the residents of the colony have been directed to shift or remove the pipes from the drainage and culverts in order not to block the flow of muddy water and protect the main road. The residents have also been requested to bear with the inconvenience caused and Kohima, June 23 (mexn): A the country with all the 20 par- Department, he offered to share cooperate with the Panchayat as “it is for the welfare of all certification programme for solar ticipants getting certified (100%). the schemes and subsidy related the colony residents.” This was stated in a release issued by training was held at YouthNet Of- Each participant got a Govern- to the solar energy and to assist Shikato Sumi, Secretary, Lerie Panchayat Kohima. fice, Kohima. The Director of De- ment of India approved certificate those who wish to set up their own enterprises in the field. partment of New and Renewable and skill card.

The YouthNet training centre The team at YouthNet shared Energy, Er TS Angami, attended has also been selected amongst with the certified trainees about Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Lazami Social Welthe event as the chief guest.

This programme was under the top 100 centres selected for placement opportunities in Hy- fare Organisation, Kohima (LSWOK) has organised a one derabad and encouraged them day seminar for degree students and educated youth of the PMKVY training scheme with PMKVY for 2015/2016.

Er TS Angami congratulated to avail the same, get work experi- Lazami on June 25, 10 am at Hotel Eastgate, Kohima. A 2E Knowledge Ventures Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad and YouthNet as part- the certified participants and ence, and eventually set up their press note issued by Lutovi Phucho, General Secretary has informed all concerned students and youth to be ners. The month-long training mentioned that the Department own firms in Nagaland.

Atul Chimle from 2E Knowl- seated in the Hall by 9.30 am positively after registration at was attended by 20 participants would like to encourage more who were interested in solar pan- local entrepreneurs to get into edge Ventures Pvt Ltd. thanked the counter. Dr. Zabise Rume, Associate Professor, Guidel installation and maintenance, the renewable energy domain as the Department of NRE and ance and Counselling Cell, SCERT, Nagaland will be the and setting up and designing so- there is a huge scope of growth, YouthNet, and said that the team resource person at the seminar. lar plants. The assessment of the and highlighted that solar instal- plans to bring more training prolations need maintenance and grams such as mobile handset reDirector of Department of New and Renewable Energy, Er TS Angami PMKVY Solar Panel Training in give away certificate during the programme for solar training held at YouthNet, Kohima resulted in the state currently lack people pair, retail management and auto- Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Mid-Day Meal the highest pass percentage in with the skills. On behalf of the mobile repair.

YouthNet Office, Kohima.

(MDM) vehicle launching ceremony will take place on June 27 at Secretariat Plaza, Kohima at 10:00 AM. Minister for school education & SCERT Yitachu will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Terms and conditions for drivers and vehicles will be briefed by Wonthungo Tsopoe, noKlaK, June 23 (DiPR): Berila Tokiu, President Eastern nity in all aspects and to work additional director (HoD). The function will be chaired The Eastern Women organi- Nagaland Women Organization together so as to bring about by F.P. Solo, commissioner & secretary for school educazation of Noklak area orga- (SNWO) and Temsula Thing- transformational changes in tion & SCERT. nized workshop for men and chum, Member (KSCWR) also the area. She said woman has Kohima, June 23 (DiPR): The proof as prescribed in the forms. spoke and encouraged the men been bestowed with a role and The DC & DEO, Kohima further women from 22nd to June 23 Deputy Commissioner and District folk who have been affected for responsibility to play in the soat Komking Noklak under the Election Officer Kohima, Rovilatuo informed that on this Special Camp the last few months due to inter ciety. She also stressed on the Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Women Cell of theme ‘Together we build for day the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) Mor, IAS has issued a press release tribal clashes. importance of hygiene and Mount Olive College, Kohima conducted a special lecchanges’ which was sponinforming the general public of Ko- will be seated in their respective pollThey said such incident education and urged them to ture on ‘Gender Equality, Women’s Right to Justice & hima district that as part of National ing station with the current electoral sored by DUDA. was important for the people change their mindset. Leaders Peace in Naga Society’ on June 21 at the college campus.

Temsula Thingchum, who Electoral Rolls Purification drive, the roll and application forms to enterto shun violence as it strength- from various organizations at- The guest speaker was Dr. Rosemary Dzüvichü, Director, was the resource person poke “Third Special Camp” will be orga- tain the public and receive applicaWomen Studies Centre, Nagaland University. She spoke ened the growth of commu- tended the workshop. nized in all the polling station loca- tion forms. Therefore the public has on the topic ‘architect of society’. on the importance of sensitizing on gender equality and tions for making enrolment, deletion, been informed to contact their pollwomen’s rights and also stressed on women reservation correction and transposition in the ing station BLOs and visit their pollin Nagaland. Dr. Rosemary said, “Peace cannot come into Electoral roll from 10:00 AM to 4:00 ing station location to check name existence unless the women are empowered.” The college in electoral roll and file appropriate PM on June 25. faculty and the undergraduate students of B.A & B.Com He informed that fresh enrolment application form. For person having attended the programme. multiple enrollment in electoral rolls of names in the electoral roll will be done for those genuine Indian Citi- in different places or same place have zen who have attained 18 years and been requested to retain name only above as on 01.01.2016, is ordinarily in one place and make voluntary deKohima, June 23 (mexn): A National Lok Adalat resident in that polling station/con- letion in other place (s). The Village will be held on June 30 at 1:00 pm in the premises of the stituency and who have not enrolled Councils, Town Ward Panchayat, poGauhati High Court, Kohima Bench in Kohima for disname anywhere or in other polling litical parties, churches, students, all posal of the MAC Appeal cases. The parties in concern, other NGOs/Civil Societies and Govstation (s). i.e. the Insurance Companies, the State Government and Deletion of name of voters who ernment officials have been requestthe claimants or authorized representatives have been are dead, shifted, absentee, multiple ed to extend all possible help to their requested to be present so that the cases can be disposed entries; correction of particulars and polling station Booth Level Officer off on settlement between the parties. All concerned have (BLO) in this drive for purification of replacement of photo and transfer requested to attend. The cause List will be available at application will be done. For making electoral roll. www.kohimahighcourt.gov.in.

The Fourth and Fifth Special correction of particulars and replacement of photo, the old EPIC (Elec- Camp will also be organised on July tors photo Identity Card) should be 9 and 23. The public have been inreturned back while submitting the formed and requested to visit the DimaPuR, June 23 (mexn): The Satoi Town Youth application form. Following are the office of the District Election Officer Organisation will be organising environmental awarerequired Forms; Form-6 for fresh en- anytime on all working days to veriness programme cum plantation drive at Satoi Town on rolment of general voters, Form-6A fy their enrolment status in electoral July 6 with Nockpai Konyak (NCS), EAC Satoi as resource for Overseas (NRIs) voters, Form-7 roll and also invited positive and person under the theme “Global warming and its impact”. for deletion/objection, Form-8 for constructive suggestions/innovative correction and Form-8A for transpo- ideas in the campaign for purification K. Station Baptist Church Vacation Bible School is underway under the theme ‘triumph always.’ The 3 All the citizens of Satoi town, including the institutes and sition. All application should be ac- of electoral roll from all concerned days VBS will feature Children Bible studies, life application activities in worshiping one true god, art government establishments located in Satoi town have companied by relevant documentary citizens and stakeholders. been requested to attend the programme. and craft, dramatic play, exploration and discovery of Bible.

PMKVY Solar Panel training in YouthNet concludes

LSWOK seminar

MDM vehicle launch

NERP ‘Third Special Camp’ on June 25

Eastern Women Organisation holds workshop

Mt Olive College holds special lecture

National Lok Adalat on June 30

STYO plantation drive

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Senapati: Clash over land Manipur government wants early start of National Sports University dispute, 144 CrPc imposed Newmai News Network Imphal | June 23

ANSAM, Senapati DC appeal for calm Morung Express News Dimapur | June 23

A clash owing to a land dispute erupted early on Thursday morning around 3:30am between two villages in Senapati District resulting in serious injuries to 4 people, while an unidentified number of persons were reported to have sustained minor injuries.

The villagers of Maram Khunou Village and Khabung Karong Village near the Senapati District Headquarters, exchanged in pelting of stones while gunshots from Single Barrel Breach Loading (SBBL) were also fired resulting in the injuries, sources in-

formed.

According to Senapati Deputy Commissioner, Jacintha Lazarus, the clashes erupted when about a hundred villagers of Khabung Karong tried to dismantle houses from a disputed area where about 70 ‘kacha’ houses had sprung up.

The DC informed that CrPc 144 has been imposed in the area and villagers have been asked to deposit their arms to the Police Station.

The four persons who were seriously injured are being treated in a hospital in Imphal. They are said to be out of danger.

Appealing for calm between the two villages, the

Deputy Commissioner maintained, “This cannot continue further.”

The DC informed that a joint meeting between the two villages along with their tribe leaders is scheduled for Friday.

Meanwhile, the All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has also appealed for calm from the two villages.

Terming the prevailing situation “sensitive”, a press release from the Publicity Wing of the student body appealed to both the villages to “facilitate and provide” much needed space for peaceful and amicable settlement on the basis of traditional and customary

practices.

ANSAM placed its “utmost confidence” in the wisdom of the leaders of the two parties and made the humble submission “in hope that the spirit of peaceful reconciliation and resolution of the issue would prevail for the greater interest of the Nagas at large.”

Condemning the manner in which violence found a place in the dispute, ANSAM wished the injured early recovery and return to good health.

ANSAM further offered its humble assistance and services, towards finding a peaceful and amicable settlement.

Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh today called upon all civil societies and all concerned to help his government in pursuing the Central government to ensure early start of session of the yet to be established National Sports University at the temporary centre in Khuman Lampak Spots Complex.

“There is no question of negligence on the part of the Manipur government. It’s a gift from the Centre which has been satisfied with the performance of our talented sportspersons. The proposed Sports University is a future asset of Manipur,” Ibobi told a press conference at the cabinet hall of the CM’ Secretariat here.

The Chief Minister’s statement came close on the heels of a missive from the Centre telling the state government to steer clear of any obstruction at the selected site for setting up of the sports varsity within June this year.

“The Centre’s letter has turned out to be something which is against

Meghalaya CM asks BJP to snap out of euphoria ShIllong, June 23 (IAnS): Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday asked the BJPled Central government to snap out of its election "euphoria" and talk about development.

"No need for the BJP to be in euphoria. Elections happened not only in Assam but in other states too.

But one has to look at the vote share of the Congress.

It is time for them (BJP) to get out of the euphoria, and talk about development," Sangma told journalists.

The veteran Congress leader was reacting to BJP national spokesman, Nalin S. Kohli who on Tuesday claimed that the Mukul Sangma government would fall under the "burden of its own power games and contradictions".

"This government is not at the mercy of Kohli or anybody. Unless he makes such statements, (Prime Minister) Modi will sack him," Sangma said.

Attacking the Central government, Sangma said the railway project in the

Meghalaya sends bread samples to laboratory ShIllong, June 23 (IAnS): Food Safety Officers in Meghalaya have collected samples of bread from various bakery units across the state to check if they contain carcinogenic compounds.

"We have already sent the bread samples to the Assam Public Health Laboratory on Wednesday to check if they contain any hazardous chemicals like potassium bromate and iodate," Health and Family Welfare Minister Alexander Hek said on Thursday.

However, he said the government was yet to receive the reports from the laboratory.

On Monday, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India's (FSSAI) banned the use of potassium bromate as an additive in food products. Potassium bromate is known to be a category 2B carcinogen and is already banned in Britain, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Sri Lanka, among other countries.

Northeast inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the result of the initiatives of the previous Congress-led government at the Centre. Similarly, the East-West Corridor Project in Assam was also initiated by the Congress government which has boosted the economy and also resulted in setting up of showrooms of various big companies now.

"Peoples' memories are short, and they should be reminded again and again. Look at Assam, what

was happening 15 years ago, and after the Congress government under the leadership of Tarun Gogoi as Chief Minister. People should see and compare," Sangma said.

Reacting to the Congress' defeat in last month's bye-election to the Tura Lok Sabha constituency to the National People's Party, Sangma said: "We know when to win and when not to win elections," adding that he stood by his earlier statement that the NPP would be buried in 2018.

"I did not find people who can really connect to the ideology of the BJP. They have to tie up with other parties to reach to the people of Meghalaya, and when election comes, they will have contradictory objectives," he said.

Sangma was optimistic that the Congress would bounce back as it been able to withstand the test of times. "There was only a brief period that the Congress could not lead the government in Meghalaya," Sangma said.

the expectation of my government.

Hope the final hearing of the case currently pending in the court will be done and disposed of in the next twothree days,” Ibobi said.

The Manipur government acquired land measuring 336 acre at Yaithibi Loukol in Thoubal district which has been provided to the Centre for the purpose. But 34 acre of land is currently under litigation, preventing the Centre from going ahead with the plan. As per the Centre’s instruction, there shall not be any disturbance at the allocated land.

“The handing over and taking over of the acquired land was done in August 2015,” the Chief Minister said.

Repairing and renovation of rooms for opening offices of the Vice Chancellor and Registrar have already been started at Khuman Lampak Sports Complex so that the university can commence its session there temporarily until the proper buildings are constructed.

Ibobi said his government even attempted to acquire 400-500 acre of land for the varsity considering the

RPF rescues 44 trafficked children from trains in Assam

AgArtAlA, June 23 (IAnS): The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has rescued 44 children from trains in Assam while being trafficked and arrested 485 persons for various crimes last month, a release said here on Thursday.

The RPF personnel also recovered and seized stolen properties and contraband goods worth Rs 5.36 lakh in May. "Forty-four children were rescued from trains in Assam last month while being trafficking to other regions. These children were later handed over to their parents and local NGOs," sengers will be charged Rs 10 for the first NFR Chief Public Relations kilometer and Rs 5 for every subsequent Officer Pranav Jyoti Sharkilometer, as per the government fare structure.

While issuing forms for permit with a June-end submission deadline, the transport department has mandated that each two-wheeler must be two-years-old at most, have a 150cc engine at least and have black-on-yellow registration plates At Thilixu Village like other commercial vehicles.

Opp. Geological “Permit will be given for five years, renewable based on the fitness of the Park, two-wheeler. Also the rider must wear 4-Pura, 150 Sq.Ft ISI-marked yellow helmets and obtain a professional driving license,” a transport Contact: department officer said.

Navigate Mizoram’s winding roads on bike taxis, service to hit streets in July guwAhAtI, June 23 (ht): You can soon zip through the scenic state capital of Mizoram on a two-wheeler taxi following the state government sanctioning an appeal for the service. Mizoram follows in Goa’s footsteps, and is the first hill state to launch the service.

Coming three months after the Karnataka government forced Uber and Ola’s passenger-carrying motorcycles off the roads in Bengaluru, the move is aimed at tackling the traffic snarls that clog Aizawl’s serpentine narrow roads while also boosting employment amongst its youth.

To begin with, 200-250 motorcycles will operate on the roads from July. Pas-

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No. HC (K)12/2014/REG/1307 /:: This is for general information that pursuant to the decision given by the National Legal Services Authority, a National Lok Adalat shall be held on 30-06-2016 (Thursday) at 1:00 P.M. in the premises of the Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench at Kohima for disposal of the MAC Appeal cases. The concerned parties i.e. the Insurance Companies, the State Govt. and the claimants or authorized representatives are requested to be present so that the cases can be disposed of on settlement between the parties. All concerned are requested to make the National Lok Adalat a success.

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Dated Kohima, the 23rd May, 2016

ADVERTISEMENT This is to inform to all Solar Street Light applicants, 2011-2014 that last date for beneficiary’s share deposit has been extended to 12th July, 2016 beyond which, the same will be re-allotted to other VC from the waiting list.

The beneficiary villages are also requested to furnish the village map, marking the spot where Solar Street Light are to be installed. While remitting the above beneficiary share in this office.

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need for future expansion. But the Centre’s Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has asked only 200 acre of land for the establishment of the varsity.

He stressed on the need of help from the social organisations and other concerned in approaching the Centre to facilitate early commencement of the session at the temporary complex.

The Manipur Chief Minister said the Parliament is yet to pass the bill concerning the proposed sports varsity to become it an Act. “We also need to put pressure on the Centre to do what is needful at the earliest.”

Manipur Chief Secretary Oinam Nabakishore Singh who was also present at the press conference made it clear that there will not be any hurdle in starting the construction of infrastructures at the allocated site, revealing that the 34 acre of land now under litigation is located on the fringe of the proper site.

He informed that the construction could take two years and stated that the only thing needed now is for the Parliament to get the bill passed.

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2. Voluntarily disclose and delete your name in the electoral roll through Form 7 if your name is registered in more than one place.

3. Delete entries of dead, shifted, absentees, bogus electors through Form 7.

4. Get your particulars in the electoral roll and EPIC corrected through Form 8.

5. You can transpose your name to another polling station within the same assembly constituency through Form 8A. 6. Replace your poor quality/mismatched photograph through Form 8.

7. Submit your mobile number and email address to your BLO for easy communication during election and getting information on electoral roll related activities.

8. Ensure one man one registration. Avoid multiple registrations.

9. Check your enrolment status through ECI web site www.eci.nic.in or www.ceonagaland.nic.in.

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ma said in a release.

He said over 485 persons were arrested during May by the RPF for various crimes and handed them over to Government Railway Police (GRP) for prosecution.

The release said the crimes on trains and at railway stations for which they were arrested included trafficking of children, theft, carrying smuggled goods, injecting drugs to innocent railway passenger and looting their belongings, illegal hawking on trains and at sta-

tions, touting, stopping the trains by pulling alarm chain and unauthorised entry into the ladies compartments.

Another NFR official said that crimes aboard trains and at railway stations are increasing in the northeastern region.

"Earlier, there were almost zero crimes in trains and railway stations in the northeastern states. With the increase of crimes, the RPF stepped up their vigilance in the railway stations and running trains," the official said.

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I, Tsukumla (New name) previously called M. Tsukumla Yimchunger (Old name), R/o. H. No: 65, Diphupar, C. Khel, Lane 1, Dimapur: Nagaland solemnly declare:1. I am the deponent of this affidavit.

2. That the name M. Tsukumla Yimchunger and Tsukumla is of same person.

3. I hereby declared that my correct name is Tsukumla and shall be used for all official purposes in the future.

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1. That my name is ALEX as entered in all my educational document and not ALEX THIUMAI which is affected in my Bank account.

2. That both name mention above are the same person 3. That I hereby declare that my correct name is ALEX shall be used as official name in all documents from the date of declaration of this affidavit.

That the statement made above are true and correct to the best of knowledge and nothing has been concealed therein.

Date: 22th June 2016 Deponent

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I, Smt. PELEVITSO S/o ZAPUKEHIE HENINGKUNGLWA, permanent resident of HENINGKUNGLWA. 1. That my name is PELEVITSO as entered in all my educational document and not PELEVITSO RURHIA which is affected in my Bank account.

2. That both name mention above are the same person 3. That I hereby declare that my correct name is PELEVITSO shall be used as official name in all documents from the date of declaration of this affidavit.

That the statement made above are true and correct to the best of knowledge and nothing has been concealed therein.

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pushes back IndiaSBI says no law broken in funding cluster bomb maker ‘Brexit’ China financial dialogue

NEW DELHI, JuNE 23 (THomsoN REuTERs FouNDaTIoN): The State Bank of India (SBI) has defended financing a U.S. cluster bomb manufacturer, saying its investments were legal, after being put in a “Hall of Shame” along with several other major banks by a Dutch campaign group.

A report by PAX last week listed the government-owned bank as one of 158 lenders - including JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Bank of America and Credit Suisse - that violated an international ban for investing in cluster bomb firms.

India’s top lender by assets was the only the Indian company on the list. The SBI said it provided credit to U.S. firm Orbital ATK Inc as part of a syndicated deal with other banks but added there was no ban in India on financing such firms.

“To achieve its business growth objectives, SBI participates in syndicated credit deals to finance projects across the globe,” the SBI said in a statement sent to the Thomson Reuters Foundation late Wednesday.

“SBI always works in accordance with local laws and regulations and would

like to confirm that there is no prohibition whatsoever, either in (the) U.S. or in India, to finance such commercial projects.”

A cluster munition, or cluster bomb, explodes in the air and scatters smaller “bomblets” over a huge area that detonate when stepped on or picked up. They leave

behind large numbers of unexploded ordnance which can kill or maim civilians long after a war has ended, and have been used recently in Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine, Libya and Syria.

The weapons are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which has been signed by

119 states and came into force in 2010.

PAX said the lenders, which include banks, pension funds and insurance companies, had invested over $28 billion in seven cluster bomb companies from June 2012 and April 2016, adding that such weapons were banned under international law.

The majority of firms named by PAX, however, are from countries which are not party to the convention, including the United States, China, South Korea and India.

Only some 20 firms named in the “Hall of Shame” are from countries which are party to the convention - Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and Britain.

PAX said the SBI had invested about $87 million in Orbital ATK - a Virginia-

headquartered firm which makes space and rocket systems, tactical missiles, defence electronics and medium- and large- caliber ammunition - since June 2012.

The SBI did not provide any details of the amounts involved with Orbital ATK Inc, but said the firm met all compliance procedures laid out by the syndicate of lenders.

“The syndicated deal was arranged for Orbital ATK Inc. by major global banks viz. Wells Fargo Securities LLC, BoA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup J.P. Morgan, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey among others,” said the SBI statement.

“The mandated joint leaders had conducted due diligence and completed compliance procedures on the lendee company.”

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ATMA Dimapur, Medziphema and Chumukedima block conducted BFAC meeting on May 21 at DHO office and block office, Padumpukhuri.

ATMA Phek Chetheba Block held training, demonstration and capacity building programme on June 16 with Keduwete-ü Lomi, BTM, Kikruma Block as the resource person. The topics covered included scopes of floriculture under Phek district, IPM on rice and use of tricho cards as a natural enemy against insect pests. Methods on the preparation of dish wash gel and detergent powder were also covered. Farmers were provided with kits for making detergent powder and tricho cards were distributed for pests control on rice and vegetable crops. The programme was attended by 33 farmers.

Pension and GPF Final payment cases uploaded KoHIma, JuNE 23 (mExN): All retired State Government officers are informed that Pension and GPF Final payment cases settled upto the month of May 2016 have been uploaded on the AG Nagaland website. Pensioners may log on to this Office web-site at www.agnagaland.gov.in by clicking at felicitation and pension or GPF felicitation or by directly clicking on the Sticky Note written ‘Click here to view list of settled Pension/GPF final payment cases.’

The list has also been put up for display at the Public Relation Cell and can be view on any working days during Office hours.

AG (A&E) request all retired Government employees once again to record their personal mobile numbers in the pension documents to enable this Office to intimate them on the progress of their pension cases through SMSs. The SMSs will be triggered through Pension Database SMS gateway No.9402739265 and since this number is integrated with the system, pensioners are requested not to call this number but to note it down as all SMSs will be initiated through this number.

SMSs will be sent during the following stages.viz, 1. When confirmation on the pension case is received.

2. When the case is sent back to the department due to observation/objections.

3. When the pension case is completed.

Aggrieved Pensioners or government officials with genuine problems are requested to write directly to the Deputy Accountant General (A&E) Kahoto J Yepthomi via e-mail at kahoto_j@yahoo.co.in or agaenagaland@ cag.gov.in or through a handwritten letter on the address given below for immediate clarification and redressal of their grievances.

They can also submit suggestions to strengthen the delivery system to the given address: Kahoto J Yepthomi, IAAS; Deputy Accountant General (A&E); Office of the Accountant General (A&E); Kohima::Pin No.797001, Nagaland.

All Heads of Department in the state government are requested once again to ensure timely submission of all retirement related documents (that is, six months before the date of retirement ) to avoid harassment to retired officials at various processing stages. The Office as of now had been fully sensitized and is geared to settle all cases within the stipulated two months period as per commitments given in our ‘Citizen’s Charter.’

Cases of many officials received before the date of retirement have been settled by this Office on their retirement date/day as a demonstration of seriousness this office accords to sensitivities of retired officials and their retirement benefits. Departments may seriously take up the matter of timely submission of retirement documents, so as to enable the pensioners to receive their retirement benefits in time.

BEIJINg, JuNE 23 (agENcIEs): Xiaomi, as teased, has unveiled its first ever electric bicycle at an event in China.

Dubbed Qicycle Electric Folding Bike, the anticipated ‘Mi Smart Bike’ has been priced at CNY 2,999 (approximately Rs. 30,000).

At the launch event, Xiaomi stressed that it was not just a ‘smartphone company’ but a ‘technology company.’ The Chinese company already has a lot of products under its belt including smartphones, tablets, wearables, Internet-connected air and water purifiers, television models under the Mi TV series, Yeelight bedside lamps, Mi Power Banks, Mi Wi-Fi nano wireless routers, Yi Action Camera, Mi Rainbow 5 AA batteries, and two-wheeled self-balancing scooters among others.

The latest Qicycle (bicycle) is made of carbon fibre and packs a host of sensors while weighing only 7 kilogrammes.

The Chinese company touted that the bicycle obtained the Red Dot Design Award 2016.

Xiaomi claimed that since the Qicycle was foldable, people can now keep a bicycle in their cars without it taking up a lot of

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During the unveiling, Xiaomi touted that “Qicycle is not an ordinary bicycle” and instead is an electric folding bike with an integrated electric motor which can be used for propulsion. The Qicycle is backed by a 250W 36V electric motor and it uses Torque Measurement Method (TMM) to assist the rider’s pedal-power.

The bicycle uses Panasonic 18650mAh battery which can provide users cycle up to 45km.

The company added that the Qicycle comes with battery management system (BMS) which is an electronic system that manages a rechargeable battery and protects it from o p e rat i ng outside its safe operating a re a.

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They added that all the other meetings of Jaitley while in Beijing -- including an engagement with his Chinese counterpart Lou Jiwei on June 27 and interactions with investors and bankers -- were on schedule.

The Finance Minister will also represent India at the first meeting of the board of governors of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on June 25-26. The India-China Financial Dialogue was established during the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India in April 2005.

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Xiaomi revealed that the Qicycle can be paddled with the aid of Shimano Gear Shifters even after the bicycle runs out of battery. The Chinese company confirmed that the Qicycle can measure fitness-related parameters such as calories burned, distance traveled, and traveling speed. Xiaomi is yet to reveal whether the Qicycle will launch outside China.

BEIJINg/NEW DELHI, JuNE 23 (IaNs): Even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley arrived in Beijing on Thursday on a five-day official visit, an important financial dialogue between India and China was pushed back to July, as interlocutors were busy monitoring the referendum developments in Britain, officials said.

According to Finance Ministry officials in New Delhi, the 8th India-China Financial Dialogue was to be held in Beijing on June 27. But a week ago, the two sides decided to defer it by a month in the wake of the referendum in Britain to stay or pull out of the European Union.

Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das was to represent India in the bilateral dialogue. “If Brexit happens, India is ready,” Das had tweeted earlier on Thursday. “Brexit vote today. We are closely tracking developments in UK. India well prepared,” he added, referring to the crucial vote, the results of which are expected on Friday.

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Upper Agri Women Society flays alleged assault Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Upper Agri Women’s Society, Kohima has vehemently condemned the alleged “attempt to rape” of a minor girl by one Dilip Pradhan, a retired Government employee on May 31.

It is even more shocking that the shameful act was committed to a minor by a person old enough to be a grandfather, the society President Achü.M.Dzüvichü and General Secretary Shetoli Tungo stated in a press note.

“Such acts of mala-fide intent do not have a place in a civilized society.”

It further appealed all right thinking citizens to condemn the act and asked the law enforcing agencies to dispense with speedy justice.

“We offer our unflinching support to the victim and family members and also pray that such incidents which damage our society are done away for good,”it added.

Meanwhile, the Society further pointed out that the accused will no longer

be granted residency in the colony and anyone who gives him shelter will be doing so at their own risk.

It also requested the colony residents hailing from outside to co-operate with the efforts of the local bodies to maintain a safe social atmosphere for all.

Non-cooperation is a hindrance to justice and the society will not be responsible in future for those who prefers to remain outside the norms of the colony guidelines, it maintained.

NSCN (IM) Chakhesang Region condemns Dimapur, June 23 mexn: The NSCN (IM) Chakhesang Region has condemned the alleged rape of a minor girl by her step-grandfather Khuchopra Veswu, a leacy member.

The Caretaker-CAO of Chakhesang Region Neit-

solo Venuh in a press note expressed regret that it failed to “identify the degenerated mind set of the accused when he first approached them 6 years ago.”

While stating that the accused deserved exemplary punishment for his

crime, the Caretaker-CAO also conveyed his sincere sympathy and solidarity towards the victim.

It also expressed its appreciated the youths of Ketsibozou Colony for being vigilant citizens, and the CAO Angami region for their cooperation.

dead body 260 kgs Ganja seized Unidentified found near Rail Bazar in Kohima, two arrested Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Kohima Police has recovered a total of 260 kgs contraband ganja which was found concealed inside a vehicle and arrested two persons in this connection.

A press note from SubDivisional Police Officer (South) & PRO informed that contraband ganja worth Rs. 13, 00,000 in the national market was recovered during a routine checking and frisking of vehicles by personnel manning Peducha check gate on June 22.

The ganja was found neatly packed and was found concealed inside one Tata Sumo ( AS19A-4786), it added.

Two persons identified as Psiina (31 yrs) of Setim Village under Senapati PS,

Dimapur, June 23 (mexn): The Dimapur Police has recovered an unidentified dead body (nonlocal) age around 35 years near Rail Bazar Dimapur on June 22.

The Addl. Dy Commissioner of Police/PRO, Dimapur in a press note informed that personnel from Sub-Urban Police

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Manipur and Felix (22 yrs) of Lairouching Village under Tadubi PS, Senapati were taken into police custody, it added.

The police has also registered regular case against them at Sechü(Zubza) PS for conducting further investigation.

Kandi Station VC flays assault

Dimapur, June 23 (mexn): The Village Council Kandi Station has vehemently condemned alleged intrusion and mishandling of the Vice President of BJP ST Morcha Johny G Rengma on June 19. Two youth had intruded his residence the Morcha Vice President and allegedly manhandled him.

Describing the incident

as an insult and uncivilized behaviour, the Head GB Kandi Station Village Teshenpfu Kath in a condemnation note said that no individual/s have the right to enter any private residences to manhandle or destroy any property according to the Naga Tradition.

The Village council further cautioned that any

individual or group taking the name of any NPGs for carrying out extortion and anti-social activity within its jurisdiction shall be “dealt according to the law as deem fit.”

The culprit involved in the Sunday incident should be punished accordingly as per the law to deter the occurrence of such incident in future, it added.

Sensitization prog on NULM held in Mon mon, June 23 (Dipr): Sensitization programme on National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) based on Employment through Skills Training and Placement (EST&P) was held at DC's Conference hall. The program was organised by District Urban Development Agency (DUDA) Mon with DC Mon, W. Honje Konyak as the Guest of Honour.

Honje Konyak inquired all the Trainees how far Along the Wokha Mokokchung road this area of about forty feet is sinking few centimeters everyday. If the concerned department do not attend to it with utmost urgency they are committed to their training and asked if the road will need another bridge to connect.

they are confident to live their life and earn for the family doing private jobs with the training they had under gone. He requested the chairman, UDO & member Secretary and Community organiser of DUDA to identify and introduce trades like plumbering, house painting and electronic mechanics under their programme.

He also requested the service providers and instructors to upgrade the capacity and standard of the training for better fu-

ture of the trainees. He requested all the trainees to be committed to their training soulfully for their success in life.

The programme was chaired by ADC Mon & chairman DUDA Mon, M.A. Shihab, IAS. Introduction and familiarization of the NULM/EST&P was given by UDO and member Secretary DUDA, Pat Keyhie and Community Organiser DUDA, L. Wanshom Konyak respectively.

The programme was attended by 90 trainees.

Meetings & AppointMents WSBAK joint meeting All the WSBAK Council members, Women Executives, Youth Executives and Christian Education Executives members are informed that there will be a joint meeting on June 25 at Aküvüto Mission Centre at 9AM. The Executive Secretary WSBAK has requested all the members to attend the meeting without fail.

Dmp GB’s Union 18th Session The 18th general session of GB’s Union Dimapur will be held on June 24, 10 AM at Lotha Hoho Ki, DC Court Junction Dimapur. All the GB members under Dimapur Sadar are requested to attend the programme positively wearing GB’s waist coat.

NRMSATA Wokha Unit As directed by the Central Forum to all the respective districts, Nagaland RMSA Teachers’ Association (NRMSATA) Wokha Unit, has convened a general meeting on June 28, 10:00 am, at local ground Wokha,. The Executives of wokha unit will not take any responsibilities for anyone failing to attend the meeting to register their names, current place of posting etc, for onward submission to the NRMSATA Central Forum. For further information one may kindly contact 8794668567/8732040650. This was informed in a press note issued by Janbemo Nugllie, Secondary Teacher,Govt.High School, Rachan (8794668567)

Wokha Dist Pensioners Association

Dimapur, June 23 (mexn): The electors of Dimapur district are informed that a Special Camp for inclusion, deletion, correction and transposition of entries in the photo electoral roll will be held in all the polling station under Dimapur district on June 25. The Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS in a press note has directed all the Booth Level Officers to organize the special camp in their respective polling stations. “The AEROs and Supervisors are informed to visit polling stations under their jurisdiction and ensure that all the BLOs are present for the camps,” it said.

SDEO Kiphire informs Kiphire, June 23 (mexn): The Sub-Divisional Education Officer Kiphire has informed all the teacher incharge/Head Teacher under Kiphire district to submit the actual enrollment from pre-primary to class-8 under the respective jurisdiction. It informed that the last submission shall be on or before July 4 and that the enrolment should be class-wise and school-wise with an abstract copy of the total number of class-wise enrolment under the jurisdiction.

Libraries in Dimapur Dist informed Dimapur, June 23 (mexn): The Officer-inCharge of the Department of Art and Culture, Dimapur, informed all the Libraries under the District enlisted with the Department of Art & Culture, Nagaland that books for 2014 —15 may be collected from the Office of the Registering Officer, Art & Culture, Chumukedima, Dimapur from June 27-28 during office hours. “All the Libraries must come with Library Round Seal and designation seal (Librarian / President / Chairman / General Secretary) without which books will not be issued,” it added.

NHRA resolves Dimapur, June 23 (mexn): The Nagaland Hotel & Restaurant Association (NHRA) in its general meeting has resolved not to allow any ‘non-local’ to run a hotel or restaurant in the name of any locals. NHRA in a press release stated that any locals allowing their names to be used in the trade license and run by ‘non-locals’ will be doing so in their own risk in case of being detected by NHRA and action taken by it as deem fit. NHRA, further appeals to Business Association of Nagas (BAN), Youth Association of Nagaland (YAN) and all other frontal organization to ban such practices of using local names by ‘non- locals.’ NHRA do not object to anybody doing any business whether locals or non-locals as long as the trade license are in the name of the person who runs the establishment. It may be noted that NHRA has observe that there are certain establishment managed by ‘non-locals’ in the names of locals and doing all sort of illegal activities.

IGNOU B.Ed Workshop

DDADU Emergency Meeting The President of Dimapur District Autorickshaw Drivers Union (DDADU) has convened an emergency meeting on June, 1PM at its office. All the advisors, office bearers and executive members are informed to attend the meeting positively.

Station on receipt of the information rushed to the spot and shifted the body to Civil Hospital Dimapur for conducting post mortem examination.

For any information regarding the identity of the deceased, one can contact Sub-Urban Police Station Dimapur at 7085055036, it added.

International Yoga Day was observed at Holy Cross Higher Secondary School on June 21. More than 300 students participated in the programme, which was graced by Rev Fr Philip Magh as chief guest. Yoga was conducted by Govind, a trained yoga teacher from Haridwar while M Gnana Dimapur Sutsah Academy conducting an examination on Nirmala, National and State Training Commissioner, and Secretary, Hindustan Scouts & Guides organised the event. spelling and reading at the Academy Hall recently.

ATI conducts training on ‘office courtesy’ Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Administrative Training Institute, Kohima conducted a training on ‘Office Courtesy’ for Grade-IV Staff on June 22. The activities taken up in the training were ventilating exercise by participants; guidance, presentation on their rights and responsibilities; basic rules

of the government; and basic office courtesy by Dr. Hovithal Sothu, Deputy Director, ATI. Altogether, 29 Grade-IV staff from various departments attended the training. They expressed gratitude to the ATI for arranging such a programme. Participatory Certificates were presented Participants posing for lens during the ATI's training on to all the participants.

‘Office Courtesy’ for Grade-IV Staff held on June 22.

NSCN (I-M) condoles

More condole late Rev. Lano Longchar

Wokha District Pensioners Association’s (WDPA) general meeting will be held on July 8, 10AM at the Lotha Dimapur, June 23 Tribal Council (LTC) Hall, Wokha. All the pensioners (mexn): The NSCN (I-M) have been requested to attend the meeting without fail. has expressed its profound grief to learn about the sad demise of Capt. (Retd.)

Queensberry Foundation Meeting Franklin Anal, a Tatar on The Queensberry Foundation under Peren District will June 23. He was a sincere be holding a consultative meeting on June 27, 10AM at National Worker who served Jalukie Town Hall. All Investors are requested to attend the Nation whole-heartedly positively as the meeting will discuss latest position of in various capacities and his the foundation. spirit will live forever in the hearts of all he touched, SecHASPO coordination meeting retary Ministry of Health for The Highway Area Sumi Public Organisation (HASPO) Cabinet Secretary K Among will be holding a Coordination Meeting to discuss the stated in a condolence mesupcoming Tuluni Festival on June 25, 2PM at Western sage. “At this moment, the Sumi Hoho Building, Dimapur. All Chairman of Sumi Nation extends its deepVillage Council/ Community and GBs under HASPO ju- est and heartfelt sympathy risdiction, officials of HASSA and HASSU are requested to the bereaved family and prays for the solace of the to attend the meeting without fail. departed soul,” it added.

Chakhesang Baptist Church Council T h e C ha k h e s a n g Baptist Church Council (CBCC) expressed its deepest sorrow and mourned the death of Rev. Lano Longchar on June 20 in Mokokchung. In a condolence message, Executive Secretary, CBCC Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo said that Late Rev. Lano was not just a renowned preacher but also a Spirit-filled Evangelist who was used by God to perform great miracles of healing, not only in Nagaland and India but also in foreign lands.

It further informed that

at a ‘Chakhesang National Revival’ held at Chozuba Town from September 2830, 2012, people from all denominations under the patronage of Rev. Lano adopted a resolution called, “Our Covenant with God” and set aside September 30 to be observed as a ‘Day of Prayer for National Repentance,’ every year.

“CBCC and Chakhesang community conveys our deepest condolences to Mrs. P. Amenla and children and our prayer for comfort to be granted by the Lord, and wishing the departed God’s servant to rest in peace.”it added.

GGCRC The Golden Gate Christian Revival Church (GGCRC) has also condoled the demise of Rev. Lano Longchar. In his condolences, GGCRC Pastor, Rev. Dr. Avi Sophie said he was humbled by Late Rev. Lano’s gentleness and honoring spirit whose ‘child-like faith and soul winning zeal’ was truly inspiring.

“On behalf of my family, I convey our deepest condolences to the Rev’s beloved wife, children and grand children,” he added.

“May God’s peace be with you all.”

Kohima, June 23 (mexn): The Study Centre 2009P in State College of Teacher Education, Kohima will conduct a 12 day IGNOU B.Ed Workshop from June 28 to July 9 for 1st & 2nd year simultaneously. Stating that the Practical Based Activities are carried out in partialfulfilment of the B.Ed programme, the Programme Incharge Runi Nakro in a press note informed that the attendance in the Workshop will be mandatory.

DMC to celebrate AMRUT anniversary Dimapur, June 23 (mexn): As a part of the 1st Anniversary of Atal Mission for Rejuvenation And Urban Transformation (AMRUT), the Dimapur Municipal Council will be organising a ‘Citizens cum Press Meet’ in DMC Office Compound at 11AM on June 25. A press note from DMC Administrator, H Atokhe Aye has informed all the all the Citizens, Representative of different Communities, Citizen Forum, Chamber of Commerce, NGO's and Press Media to attend the same.

Training of MAS at Mokokchung moKoKchung, June 23 (mexn): Training of Mahila Arogya Samiti (MAS) under NUHM held at Ongpangkong Salang Mokokchung on June 20 and 21. The resource person of the programme was R.K. Monsang, Puni Kokho, Chubala Pongen and Alokali Kiho from the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima. MAS is one of the key intervention under National Health Mission aimed at promoting Community participation in Health at all levels, including planning, implementing and monitoring of health programmes. MAS is expected to take collective action on issue related to Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Social determinants at the slum levels. It is envisaged as being central to local collective action, which would gradually develop to the process of decentralised Health Planning.

Seminar on women empowerment in Mon mon, June 23 (Dipr): A seminar on women empowerment organised by KNSK (Konyak Women's Association) and sponsored by DRDA was held on June 21 at KNSK office, Mon with DSP, District Jail Mon, Pangwao as the resource person. The programme was chaired by Alem, Vice President, KNSK, keynote address was delivered by Lomei, President, KNSK and special song was presented by Tompang ward. DPO, Manching and Manliph, President KU presented short speeches on VDB’s 25% women share and women protection respectively.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 172

By Witoubou Newmai

Intellectuals need to expose the lies

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e are left convinced that the prevailing situation in Naga society is attributed to the leadership vacuum. This trend has not only brought about a great deal of anxiety among the people but also caused disorientation and confusion. Consequently, the Naga people don't seem to realize the importance of the need to subdue such danger in this implicit disparagement of intellectual and leadership value.

Lack of a culture of retrospection, investigation and debate is further aggravating the situation. Our society is struggling to inculcate these habits since there is a growing lack of common concern for truth, which again, sprouts from the lack of genuineness.

Again, this is fueled by the fact that our society is simply driven by vested interest based approach, which becomes a source of mobilisation. This trend will continue as long as we are unable to garner enough courage and willingness to venture out to ask, why? In other words, we are allowing our sorry state of affairs to be controlled by endlessly indulging in a blame-game among us, thereby, creating a ‘scene of crisis.’

However troubling the reality of our situation is, it is the responsibility of the leaders and intellectuals not to deviate from their primary responsibility, which is to speak out the truth. But, intellectuals and leaders who do not value certain universal ideals cannot see a clear notion about what the society needs.

The credibility of the leaders and intellectuals lies in facing the reality and acting responsibly in the face of the problems with the truth as the basis. The principal objective of the intellectuals is to "expose lies" of our authorities, according to Noam Chomsky. He further points out that the duty of the intellectuals is to "analyse actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions."

Commenting on the sorry situation in our society, Isak Chishi Swu opined that, “The psychology of the Nagas needs to be rebuilt.” “Most of the people today are totally disoriented or not oriented at all," he argued adding that it is "meaningless” to accumulate wealth and learning knowledge without correct orientation. We should be future-oriented or else we will perish, Swu further stressed.

Today, we are going through the changing socio-political contours of our Naga society and our perception on our very struggle for dignity is also gradually being altered. Our nuanced understanding of the intricacies of today’s Naga situation is also creating hiccups to our movement amid an otherwise progressive narrative.

The Naga case, haunted and hobbled by our own creations, has given room for growing antagonism. It is high time we check the balkanization of our society.

We need to realise why all those tags—simplicity, honesty, unity, uniqueness— attached with our society have become a big joke today. In a trying time, such as this, when vested interests are making things very difficult for all of us, our adversaries and their affiliates are feasting on the development.

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Employees use Facebook to kill mental fatigue too

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osses please take note. If you find an employee looking at Facebook, it may actually means a break for him or her from tiredness at work. According to a new survey, workers use social media at work for many reasons and taking a mental break is one of the most common one.

Nearly 34 percent of the people surveyed said they use social media at work to take a mental break from their job, revealed a Pew Research Centre survey of 2,003 US adults.

“These digital platforms offer the potential to enhance worker productivity by fostering connections with colleagues and resources around the globe,” the survey said.

At the same time, employers might worry that employees are using these tools for non-work purposes while on the job or engaging in speech in public venues that might reflect poorly on their organisation.

“While 27 per cent use social media to connect with friends and family while at work, 24 per cent use it to make or support professional connections,” the findings showed.

Twenty per cent go to social media to get information that helps them solve problems at work while 17 percent use it to build or strengthen personal relationships with coworkers.

“Some 14 per cent of workers have found information on social media that has improved their professional opinion of a colleague; at the same time, a similar share (16 per cent) have found information on social media that has lowered their professional opinion of a colleague,” the survey said.

Younger workers are more likely to find information on social media that changes their opinion of a coworker.

Some 23 percent of workers ages 18 to 29 report that they have discovered information on social media that improved their professional opinion of a colleague.

Many workers report that their employers have policies about social media use on the job, or about how employees may present themselves in various online spaces.

Half of all full-time and part-time workers (51 per cent) say their workplace has rules about using social media while at work (45 per cent say their employer does not have these policies), while 32 percent report that their employer has policies about how employees may present themselves on the internet in general (63 per cent say their employer does not have these policies).

Workers whose employers have at-work social media policy are less likely to use social media for personal reasons while on the job, the findings showed.

Seventy-eight per cent of workers who use social media platforms for work-related purposes say social media is useful for networking or finding new job opportunities.

“In the end, a majority (56 per cent) of these workers believe that using social media ultimately helps their job performance. One-in-five (22 per cent) believe that it mostly hurts, 16 per cent feel that it doesn’t have much impact either way and 4 per cent see both the benefits and the drawbacks,” the researchers noted.

Indeed, some 17 per cent of workers report that they “hardly ever” use the internet on a typical day for work-related tasks while 25 per cent report that they “never” use the internet for this reason.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Aruna Dutt Inter Press Service

A Courageous Life

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velyn Amony’s bravery not only helped her survive and escape captivity from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), but has made her an advocate for thousands of abducted women and children who face long term consequences after returning home.

Raised in Amuru District, northern Uganda, Evelyn Amony’s family, neighbours, and friends were bound into a close community. Her happiest memory was when she received the second-highest grade in her class.

“When I was a child, my biggest interest was my education,” Amony told Inter Press Service.

“When my father heard the news, he slaughtered a goat and gave me the liver,” says Amony in her memoir, “I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life From The Lord’s Resistance Army.”

But the next term, she was abducted by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and did not get to attend Primary Five.

IPS spoke with Amony ahead of the launch of her book at the UN, organised by UN Women, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Liu Institute for Global Issues, the University of British Columbia and the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN. She recounts her 11 years in captivity – being trained as the personal escort of the notorious LRA leader Joseph Kony, wanted by the International Criminal Court. Too young to know that childbirth would be painful, Amony was forced to become Kony’s wife and bore him three children from age 14.

“I remember how hard it was to be forced to walk long distances from Uganda to Southern Sudan, to the point where my feet were swollen and I would ask God to just let me rest, and that if I was abducted for the purpose to be killed, then God should let them kill me as fast as they could,” she recalls.

Amony tried to convince Kony to end the war. She tried escaping for years, eventually succeeding ten years later. Shot at many times, surviving a violent ambush, Amony began her journey to freedom from Southern Sudan. “It was at that moment I knew God was really there,” Amony told IPS. On reaching Uganda she was reunited with her family and two of her daughters, one is still missing.

War of Reintegration For Amony and thousands of formerly abducted women, leaving war did not mean the war was over. In northern Uganda, coming back from the bush to communities where the LRA committed atrocities, meant facing further violence and discrimination.

Reintegrating into the community after over a decade of war, having missed school, meant finding a job was unlikely. Yet many women struggle single-handedly to raise their children.

One of these women may have to see the commander that abused her at the community market daily, says Ketty Anyeko of the Uganda Fund, an organisation that has helped reintegrate

some 2,800 war-affected women.

“Uganda has a culture of forgiveness, so these LRA commanders can live freely. But for sexual violence, it is not easy to forgive and forget,” said Anyeko. These women are also often rejected by their families, so do not have access to land or resources needed for them and their children to survive.

Of every five children in northern Uganda, 3 were born during the war in the bush, said Amony. More than 66,000 children have been abducted in the Uganda region by the LRA, according to UNICEF. Only about 6,000 have returned. Many are physically impaired. Amony’s younger daughter, Grace, has hearing problems because of loud gunfire; her elder daughter Bakita’s eyesight is affected. That is in addition to the trauma and experience of war.

“When I ask male children what they want to do when they grow up, many say they want to be soldiers.

When I ask why, they tell me that if you are a soldier you have the power to do whatever you want to do, you can get whatever woman you want, because you can use the gun. This is what they have been taught,” Amony says. It is not surprising then that children who returned are viewed negatively and seen as likely to take after their fathers who were part of LRA. In schools, children suffer stigma because some teachers refer to them as the “children of Kony.”

Unable to continue in that environment, many give up education. Girls are becoming pregnant as teenagers and male children are ending up on

the streets, Amony says. In short, children are punished for the crimes of the LRA commanders.

When a war-affected woman remarries, the husband often does not show love for the children born in conflict, and even refuses to pay school fees. For Amony, all these are challenges to be overcome.

“I love to speak to children to the point where on holidays many of the kids spend time with me,” she says.

They ask her questions to which she has no answers. They want to go to school but Amony does not have the resources to help them. “There are so many of Kony’s children, and they have an impression that I know where their father is,” Amony says.

Women’s Advocacy Network It was tough for Amony to reintegrate also. After her escape, she attended a tailoring school, where there were 7 other formerly abducted women.

When they went to get food, the other students would leave the serving table as they didn’t want to sit with them.

Because they shared similar hardships, Amony and the 7 women decided to start a small group to help each other. Their efforts soon expanded to organizing women in the larger community. But the LRA’s massacres had caused conflict between the communities. The group was sometimes pressured not to go to one community or another. But they persisted, angering one group or the other. Some in Amony’s group were very afraid. But when Amony told them her story, they cried.

Amony knew she had won the battle.

In Gulu District, they established three groups of survivors. The Transitional Justice experts Ketty Anyeko and Erin Baines, stepped in to encourage the work. “We started getting involved in community theatre exercises to narrate our experiences in a very visual way,” Amony said. “This was when we started telling the deeper stories about our lives and the war, and we would all cry together.” In 2011, more survivor groups were formed and Amony was elected the chairperson of the Women’s Advocacy Network. They began radio talk shows reaching out to the grassroots. They visited district offices to raise awareness. “It was not easy for me to introduce myself as the chairperson of Women’s Advocacy Network because whenever I went, they would say “Oh, you are the wife of Joseph Kony”.

They would reduce me to “rebel wife” and not see me as a “woman advocate,” Amony said.

“I come here as Evelyn Amony to explain to you what women who suffered the conflict want,” was her response. Today, there are about 16 WAN groups, growing from 20 to 900 formerly abducted women in the last three years.

But it was not easy. “When we introduced ourselves as children who were formerly abducted, their initial reaction would be that we were the ones who committed atrocities.” The survivors explained that they too were victims and that the community must join hands and work together.

“What can we do to ensure Ugandan children live a normal life?” Amony wants to know.

Colombia: the government is ‘a hammer that sees only nails’ seb muñoz and Charlie satow

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eace talks have become the big story to tell that things are going well when, in reality, the rights of the Colombian people, including the right to protest, are simply not respected Some were beaten. Others were stripped of their clothes and forced to endure the freezing cold. Many were robbed of their mobile phones and money. A human rights crisis is unfolding in Colombia and it remains largely unnoticed.

On 30 May, millions of Colombians took to the streets in protest to demand peace with justice and an end to the government’s model of ‘economic development’ that favours big business and the established land owning elite.

The demands were met with brutal violence. Three indigenous leaders were killed and hundreds more people injured during the two-week national strike.

“They kicked me from behind and then a police officer hit me with his truncheon. I put my hands up to defend myself but they threw me to the floor and then stepped on my neck.

They said the only thing I deserved was to be killed,” said Andrés.

Andrés was one of 150 protesters gathered in the town of Berlín, in Norte

de Santander province, eastern Colombia - one of many locations around the country where people had come together to call for peace with social and environmental justice.

The demands are modest: basic healthcare, the right to their land, and safety from paramilitaries, yet the government continues to dismiss them. Moreover, on the eve of the national strike, the governor of Norte de Santander province claimed that the peaceful protests would only bring “death, desolation, violence and looting,” before offering rewards for information about “terrorist acts.” A veiled message to paramilitaries.

This government is a hammer that sees only nails.

Blocking the road is a powerful expression of Colombians’ constitutional right to protest, yet the government’s controversial Safe Citizens law recently made it illegal. But as Luis Fernando, one of protestors in Berlín, put it: “If I stay at home, who else will step up?”

It’s a belief held by women, students, lorry drivers, indigenous people, afroColombians, farmers, teachers and workers who continue to put their bodies on the line.

Undeterred, the protesters in Berlín

blocked a key highway connecting the cities of Bucaramanga and Pamplona, and stretching toward the border with Venezuela. Predictably, the police responded with violence. Lorry loads of special operations officers, riot squads, and plain-clothes intelligence rolled in - the army followed soon after.

“First they mistreated us, they beat us; when they had us surrounded the ESMAD [riot police] fired tear gas and stun grenades at us,” said one protester, Víctor.

A total of 127 people, including 15 children, were herded into trucks, before being transferred to the city of Pamplona where they were illegally detained in an army barracks, initially without food. They were released thirty-six hours later when the public prosecutor decided there was no case to pursue.

Colombia has been gripped by conflict for 70 years: 220,000 people dead; thousands disappeared; and many more victims of sexual violence.

Almost 7 million people have been forced from their homes.

The national government trumpets the success of the latest round of peace talks held in Havana, Cuba, yet it continues to confuse formal agreements with lasting peace.

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For too long, negotiations to bring about an end to Colombia’s armed conflict has all too often centred on government talks with the two armed insurgency groups, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and the Ejercito de Liberacíon Nacional (ELN). The vast majority of Colombians have been side-lined.

Add to this government policies that continue to concede large swathes of land to deeply destructive mining projects, and are leading to the privatisation of basic services, already denied to most Colombians, and the source of anger and frustration is clear.

Today, the poverty rate in rural areas stands at 45.5%, double the national average. Rather than take responsibility, the government (aided by the mainstream media) talks of ‘ELN infiltration’, and continues to look on indifferently as protesters die trying to reclaim their rights.

But the people stand together. Ordinary Colombians refuse to recognise the moral authority of a state that takes their taxes but gives them only violence and catastrophic free trade agreements in return. They realise too that formal talks alone are useless without addressing the deep rooted social inequality.

The fight for a different kind of peace goes on.

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The Violence of Forgetting Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux The New York Times

This conversation is with Henry A. Giroux, a professor in the department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His latest book is “America at War With Itself” (City Lights) Brad Evans: Throughout your work you have dealt with the dangers of ignorance and what you have called the violence of “organized forgetting.” Can you explain what you mean by this and why we need to be attentive to intellectual forms of violence?

Henry Giroux: Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment. As James Baldwin rightly warned, “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

The warning signs from history are all too clear. Failure to learn from the past has disastrous political consequences. Such ignorance is not simply about the absence of information. It has its own political and pedagogical categories whose formative cultures threaten both critical agency and democracy itself.

What I have called the violence of organized forgetting signals how contemporary politics are those in which emotion triumphs over reason, and spectacle over truth, thereby erasing history by producing an endless flow of fragmented and disingenuous knowledge. At a time in which figures like Donald Trump are able to gain a platform by promoting values of “greatness” that serve to cleanse the memory of social and political progress achieved in the name of equality and basic human decency, history and thought itself are under attack.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability. The mass shooting in Orlando is yet another example of an emerging global political and cultural climate of violence fed by hate and mass hysteria. Such violence legitimates not only a kind of inflammatory rhetoric and ideological fundamentalism that views violence as the only solution to addressing social issues, it also provokes further irrational acts of violence against others. Spurrned on by a complete disrespect for those who affirm different ways of living, this massacre points to a growing climate of hate and bigotry that is unapologetic in its political nihilism.

It would be easy to dismiss such an act as another senseless example of radical Islamic terrorism.

That is too easy. Another set of questions needs to be asked. What are the deeper political, educational, and social conditions that allow a climate of hate, racism, and bigotry to become the dominant discourse of a society or worldview? What role do politicians with their racist and aggressive discourses play in the emerging landscapes violence? How can we use education, among other resources, to prevent politics from being transformed into a pathology?

And how might we counter these tragic and terrifying conditions without retreating into security or military mindsets?

B.E.: You insist that education is crucial to any viable critique of oppression and violence. Why? H.G.: I begin with the assumption that education is fundamental to democracy. No democratic society can survive without a formative culture, which includes but is not limited to schools capable of producing citizens who are critical, self-reflective, knowledgeable and willing to make moral judgments and act in a socially inclusive and responsible way. This is contrary to forms of education that reduce learning to an instrumental logic that too often and too easily can be perverted to violent ends.

So we need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

Michel Foucault wrote that knowledge and truth not only “belong to the register of order and peace,” but can also be found on the “side of violence, disorder, and war.” What matters is the type of education a person is encouraged to pursue.

It’s not just schools that are a site of this struggle.

“Education” in this regard not only includes public and higher education, but also a range of cultural apparatuses and media that produce, distribute and legitimate specific forms of knowledge, ideas, values and social relations. Just think of the ways in which politics and violence now inform each other and dominate media culture. First-person shooter video games top the video-game market while Hollywood films ratchet up representations of extreme violence and reinforce a culture of fear, aggression and militarization. Similar spectacles now drive powerful media conglomerates like 21st Century Fox, which includes both news and entertainment subsidiaries.

As public values wither along with the public spheres that produce them, repressive modes of education gain popularity and it becomes easier to incarcerate people than to educate them, to model schools after prisons, to reduce the obligations of citizenship to mere consumption and to remove any notion of social responsibility from society’s moral registers and ethical commitments.

B.E.: Considering Hannah Arendt’s warning that the forces of domination and exploitation require “thoughtlessness” on behalf of the oppressors, how is the capacity to think freely and in an informed way key to providing a counter to violent practices?

H.G.: Young people can learn to challenge violence, like those in the antiwar movement of the early ’70s or today in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Education does more than create critically minded, socially responsible citizens. It enables young people and others to challenge authority by connecting individual troubles to wider systemic concerns.

This notion of education is especially important given that racialized violence, violence against women and the ongoing assaults on public goods cannot be

solved on an individual basis.

Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies “on the side of belief and persuasion.” If we are to counter violence by offering young people ways to think differently about their world and the choices before them, they must be empowered to recognize themselves in any analysis of violence, and in doing so to acknowledge that it speaks to their lives meaningfully.

There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to contest various forms of oppression and violence, it is clear that in the absence of a formative democratic culture, critical thinking will increasingly be trumped by anti-intellectualism, and walls and war will become the only means to resolve global challenges.

Creating such a culture of education, however, will not be easy in a society that links the purpose of education with being competitive in a global economy.

B.E.: Mindful of this, there is now a common policy in place throughout the education system to create “safe spaces” so students feel comfortable in their environments. This is often done in the name of protecting those who may have their voices denied. But given your claim about the need to confront injustice, does this represent an ethically responsible approach to difficult subject matters?

H.G.: There is a growing culture of conformity and quietism on university campuses, made evident in the current call for safe spaces and trigger warnings.

This is not just conservative reactionism, but is often carried out by liberals who believe they are acting with the best intentions. Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

Yet troubling knowledge cannot be condemned on the basis of making students uncomfortable, especially if the desire for safety serves merely to limit access to difficult knowledge and the resources needed to analyze it. Critical education should be viewed as the art of the possible rather than a space organized around timidity, caution and fear.

Creating safe spaces runs counter to the notion that learning should be unsettling, that students should challenge common sense assumptions and be willing to confront disturbing realities despite discomfort. The political scientist Wendy Brown rightly argues that the “domain of free public speech is not one of emotional safety or reassurance,” and is “not what the public sphere and political speech promise.” A university education should, Brown writes, “call you to think, question, doubt” and “ incite you to question everything you assume, think you know or care about.”

This is particularly acute when dealing with pedagogies of violence and oppression. While there is a need to be ethically sensitive to the subject matter, our civic responsibility requires, at times, confronting truly intolerable conditions. The desire for emotionally safe spaces can be invoked to protect one’s sense of privilege — especially in the privileged sites of university education. This is further compounded by the frequent attempts by students to deny some speakers a platform because their views are controversial. While the intentions may be understandable, this is a dangerous road to go down.

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or Martin Luther King Jr.’s words, not to mention those of Malcolm X? It is the conditions that produce violence that should upset us ethically and prompt us to act responsibly, rather than to capitulate to a privatized emotional response that substitutes a therapeutic language for a political and worldly one.

There is more at work here than the infantilizing notion that students should be protected rather than challenged in the classroom; there is also the danger of creating a chilling effect on the part of faculty who want to address controversial topics such as war, poverty, spectacles of violence, racism, sexism and inequality. If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which they are challenged, can learn to take risks, think outside the boundaries of established ideologies, and expand the far reaches of their creativity and critical judgment. This demands a pedagogy that is complicated, taxing and disruptive.

B.E.: You place the university at the center of a democratic and civil society. But considering that the university is not a politically neutral setting separate from power relations, you are concerned with what you term “gated intellectuals” who become seduced by the pursuit of power. Please explain this concept.

H.G.: Public universities across the globe are under attack not because they are failing, but because they are they are considered discretionary — unlike

K-12 education for which funding is largely compulsory. The withdrawal of financial support has initiated a number of unsavory responses: Universities have felt compelled to turn towards corporate management models. They have effectively hobbled academic freedom by employing more precarious part-time instead of full-time faculty, and they increasingly treat students as consumers to be seduced by various campus gimmicks while burying the majority in debt.

My critique of what I have called “gated intellectuals” responds to these troubling trends by pointing to an increasingly isolated and privileged full-time faculty who believe that higher education still occupies the rarefied, otherworldly space of disinterested intellectualism of Cardinal Newman’s 19th century, and who defend their own indifference to social issues through appeals to professionalism or by condemning as politicized those academics who grapple with larger social issues. Some academics have gone so far as to suggest that criticizing the university is tantamount to destroying it. There is a type of intellectual violence at work here that ignores and often disparages the civic function of education while forgetting Hannah Arendt’s incisive admonition that “education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.”

Supported by powerful conservative foundations and awash in grants from the defense and intelligence agencies, such gated intellectuals appear to have forgotten that in a democracy it is crucial to defend the university as a crucial democratic public sphere. This is not to suggest that they are silent. On the contrary, they provide the intellectual armory for war, the analytical supports for gun ownership, and lend legitimacy to a host of other policies that lead to everyday forms of structural violence and poverty. Not only have they succumbed to official power, they collude with it.

B.E.: I feel your recent work provides a somber updating of Arendt’s notion of “dark times,” hallmarked by political and intellectual catastrophe. How might we harness the power of education to reimagine the future in more inclusive and less violent terms?

H.G.: The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and accountability, poses a dire threat not only to faculty and students who carry the mantle of university self-governance, but also to democracy itself.

The solutions are complex and cannot be addressed in isolation from a range of other issues in the larger society such as the defunding of public goods, the growing gap between the rich and the poor, poverty and the reach of the prison-industrial complex into the lives of those marginalized by class and race.

We have to fight back against a campaign, as Gene R. Nichol puts it, “to end higher education’s democratizing influence on the nation.” To fight this, faculty, young people and others outside of higher education must collectively engage with larger social movements for the defense of public goods. We must address that as the welfare state is defunded and dismantled, the state turns away from enacting social provisions and becomes more concerned about security than social responsibility. Fear replaces compassion, and a survival-of-the-fittest ethic replaces any sense of shared concern for others.

Lost in the discourse of individual responsibility and self-help are issues like power, class and racism. Intellectuals need to create the public spaces in which identities, desires and values can be encouraged to act in ways conducive to the formation of citizens willing to fight for individual and social rights, along with those ideals that give genuine meaning to a representative democracy.

Any discussion of the fate of higher education must address how it is shaped by the current state of inequality in American society, and how it perpetuates it. Not only is such inequality evident in soaring tuition costs, inevitably resulting in the growing exclusion of working- and middle-class students from higher education, but also in the transformation of over two-thirds of faculty positions into a labor force of overworked and powerless adjunct faculty members. Faculty need to take back the university and reclaim modes of governance in which they have the power to teach and act with dignity, while denouncing and dismantling the increasing corporatization of the university and the seizing of power by administrators and their staff, who now outnumber faculty on most campuses.

In return, academics need to fight for the right of students to be given an education not dominated by corporate values. Higher education is a right, and not an entitlement. It should be free, as it is in many other countries, and as Robin Kelley points out, this should be true particularly for minority students. This is all the more crucial as young people have been left out of the discourse of democracy. Rather than invest in prisons and weapons of death, Americans need a society that invests in public and higher education.

There is more at stake here than making visible the vast inequities in educational and economic opportunities. Seeing education as a political form of intervention, offering a path toward racial and economic justice, is crucial in reimagining a new politics of hope. Universities should be subversive in a healthy society. They should push against the grain, and give voice to the voiceless the powerless and the whispers of truth that haunt the apostles of unchecked power and wealth. Pedagogy should be disruptive and unsettling, while pushing hard against established orthodoxies. Such demands are far from radical, and leave more to be done, but they point to a new beginning in the struggle over the role of higher education in the United States.

Brad Evans, a senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol in England, is the founder and director of the Histories of Violence project (@histofviolence), dedicated to critiquing the problem of violence in the 21st century. His most recent books include “Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle,” with Henry A. Giroux, and “Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously,” with Julian Reid.

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Children of a Lesser God: Trafficking Soars in India Neeta Lal

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Inter Press Service

unita Pal, a frail 17-year-old, lies in a tiny bed in the women’s ward of New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Her face and head swathed in bandages, with only a bruised eye and swollen lips visible, the girl recounts her ordeal to a TV channel propped up by a pillow. She talks of her employers beating her with a stick every day, depriving her of food and threatening to kill her if she dared report her misery to anybody.

“I worked from 6am until midnight. I had to cook, clean, take care of the children and massage the legs of my employers,” Sunita recounts to the journalist, pain writ large on her face. “In exchange, I got only two meals and wasn’t even paid for the six months I worked at the house. When I expressed a desire to leave, I was beaten up.”

Sunita is one of the fortunate few who got rescued from her hell by an anti-slavery activist and is now being rehabilitated at a woman’s home in Delhi. But there are millions of Sunitas across India who continue to toil in Dickensian misery for years without any succour. Trafficked from remote villages to large cities, they are and sold as domestic workers to placement agencies or worse, at brothels. Their crime? Extreme poverty and illiteracy.

The Global Slavery Index released recently by the human rights organisation Walk Free Foundation states that globally, India has the largest population of modern slaves. Over 18 million people are trapped as bonded labourers, forced beggars, sex workers and child soldiers across the country. They constitute 1.4 percent of India’s total population, the fourth highest among 167 countries with the largest proportion of slaves. The survey estimates that 45.8 million people are living in modern slavery globally, of which 58 percent are concentrated in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan.

Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Australia-based foundation, told an Indian newspaper that all forms of modern slavery continue to exist in India, including inter-generational bonded labour, forced child labour, commercial sexual exploitation, forced begging, forced recruitment into non-state armed groups and forced marriage.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), trafficking of minor girls — the second-most prevalent trafficking crime in India – has surged 14 times over the last decade. It increased 65 percent in 2014 alone. Girls and women are the primary targets of immoral trafficking in India, comprising 76 percent of all human trafficking cases nationwide over a decade, reveals NCRB. As many as 8,099 people were reported to be trafficked across India in 2014. Selling or buying girls for prostitution, importing them from a foreign country are the most common forms of trafficking in India, say experts. Sexual exploitation of women and children for commercial purposes takes place in various forms including brothel-based prostitution, sex-tourism, and pornography.

Last year, the Central Bureau of Investigation unearthed a pan-India human trafficking racket that had transported around 8,000 Indian women to Dubai. Another report about a man who trafficked 5,000 tribal kids from the poor tribal state of Jharkhand also caught the public eye. Equally disconcerting are thousands of children which go missing from some of India’s hinterlands. Between 2011 and 2013, over 10,500 children were registered as missing from Chhattisgarh, one of India’s poorest tribal states. They were trafficked into domestic work or other forms of child labour in cities. Overall, an estimated 135,000 children are believed to be trafficked in India every year.

Experts point to the exponentially growing demand for domestic servants in burgeoning Indian cities as the main catalyst for trafficking. A 2013 report by Geneva-based International Labour Organization found that India hosts anywhere from 2.5 million to 90 million domestic workers. Yet, despite being the largest workforce in the country, these workers remain unrecognized and unprotected by law.

This is a lacuna that a national policy in the pipeline hopes to address. Experts say the idea is to give domestic workers the benefits of regulated hours of work with weekly rest, paid annual and sick leave, and maternity benefits as well entitlement of minimum wages under the Minimum Wages Act of 1948.

“Once these workers come under the ambit of law,” explains New Delhi-based human rights lawyer Kirit Patel, “it will be a big deterrent for criminals. But till then, domestic workers remain easy targets for exploitation.”

Despite growing awareness and media sensitization, however, registered human trafficking cases have spiralled up by 38.3 percent over five years from 2,848 in 2009 to 3,940 in 2013 as per NCRB. Worse, the conviction rate for such cases has plummeted 45 percent, from 1,279 in 2009 to 702 in 2013.

Not that human trafficking is a uniquely Indian phenomenon. The menace is the third-largest source of profit for organised crime, after arms and drugs trafficking involving billions of dollars annually worldwide, say surveys. Every year, thousands of children go missing in South Asia, the second-largest and fastest-growing region in the world for human trafficking after East Asia, according to the UN Office for Drugs & Crime.

To address the issue of this modern-day slavery, South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation recently held a conference on child protection in New Delhi. Ministers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan and the Maldives agreed to jointly combat child exploitation, share best practices and common, uniform standards to address all forms of sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking.

One of the pioneering strategies adopted at the conference was to set up a toll-free helpline and online platform to report and track missing children. “We need to spread the message to support rescue efforts and rehabilitate victims. With the rapid advance of technology and a fast-changing, globalized economy, new threats to children’s safety are emerging every day,” said India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the conference.

Rishi Kant, one of India’s leading anti-trafficking activists, says it all boils down to prioritizing the issue. “For poor Indian states, providing food, shelter and housing assume far greater importance than chasing traffickers. Besides, many people don’t even see trafficking as a crime. They feel it’s an opportunity for impoverished children to migrate to cities, live in rich homes and better their lives!”

Initiatives like anti-trafficking nodal cells — like the one under the Ministry of Home Affairs — can be effective deterrents, say experts. The ministry has also launched a web portal on anti-human trafficking, while the Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a programme that focuses on rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation of victims.

But the best antidote to the menace of human trafficking, say experts, is a stringent law. India’s first anti-trafficking law — whose draft was unveiled by the Centre recently — recommends tough action against domestic servant placement agencies who hustle poor children into bonded labour and prostitution. It also suggests the formation of an anti-trafficking fund.

The bill also makes giving hormone shots such as oxytocin to trafficked girls (to accelerate their sexual maturity) and pushing them into prostitution a crime punishable with 10 years in jail and a fine of about 1,500 dollars. Addressing new forms of bondage — such as organised begging rings, forced prostitution and child labour — are also part of the bill’s suggestions.

Once the law is passed, hopefully, girls like Sunita will be able to breathe a little easier.

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

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Afghanistan's dwindling Sikh and Hindu communities flee new abuses

Kabul, June 23 (ReuteRs): On a bright day in downtown Kabul, Jagtar Singh Laghmani was in his traditional herb shop when a man turned up, drew a knife and told him to convert to Islam or he would cut his throat. Only bystanders and other shopkeepers saved his life.

The incident earlier this month was the latest attack on a dwindling community of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan, a deeply conservative Muslim country struggling with growing insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency and economic challenges.

Once a thriving minority, only a handful of Sikh and Hindu families remain. Many have chosen to flee the country of their birth, blaming growing discrimination and intolerance.

"This is how we begin our day - with fear and isolation. If you are not a Muslim, you are not a human in their eyes," said Jagtar Singh, speaking in his tiny shop in the bustling centre of Kabul. "I don't know what to do or where to go."

For centuries, Hindu and Sikh communities played a prominent role in merchant trade and money lending in Afghanistan, although today they are known more for medicinal herb shops.

According to Avtar Singh, chairman of the national council of Hindus and Sikhs, the community now numbers fewer than 220 families, compared with around 220,000 members before the collapse of the Kabul government in 1992.

Once spread across the country, the community is now mainly concentrated in the eastern prov-

An Afghan Sikh holds his child inside a Gurudwara, or a Sikh temple, during a religious ceremony in Kabul on June 8. (REUTERS Photo)

inces of Nangarhar, Ghazni, and the capital Kabul.

Although Afghanistan is almost entirely Muslim, its constitution, drawn up after U.S.-led forces drove out the Taliban government in 2001, theoretically guarantees the right of minority religions to worship freely.

But as the conflict drags on, Avtar Singh said conditions were worse than under the Taliban, which imposed strict Islamic laws, staged public executions and banned girls from schools.

Hindus and Sikhs had to wear yellow patches that identified them in public, but were otherwise seldom bothered.

"The good old days have long

gone when we were treated as Afghans, not as outsiders," Avtar Singh said from a temple in Kabul, all the while keeping an eye on visitors using monitors linked to security cameras.

"Our lands have been taken by powerful figures in the government, especially by the warlords. We are facing threats, and this small community is getting smaller and smaller every day," he added.

Last week, dozens of Hindu and Sikh families left Helmand, where Taliban insurgents, who have a presence in much of the southern province, sent a letter demanding 200,000 Afghani ($2,800) a month from the community.

HOSTILITY Tensions have surfaced in Qalacha, an area on the outskirts of Kabul where the Sikh and Hindu community owns a high-walled crematorium.

As the capital has expanded in recent years, the neighbourhood has become densely populated and some newer residents oppose Hindu and Sikh cremations, a practice foreign to Muslims, who bury their dead.

"When they burn the body the smell makes our family sick and we don't want this to happen here," said Ahmad Timor, a Muslim resident in Qalacha.

The Sikhs say local Muslim hardliners have stirred up hos-

tility against them, and the community now requires police protection for their funeral rituals.

"They throw stones and bricks at us, at the bodies of the dead, whenever there is a funeral," said Avtar Singh, pointing to a newly built house next to the crematorium.

Dahi-ul Haq Abid, deputy minister for Haj and religious affairs, said the government had done what it could to improve the livelihood of Hindus and Sikhs.

"We agree that conflicts pushed them out of the country, but their condition is not as bad as they claim," Abid added.

"We have allocated them a place to burn their bodies because inside the city people complained about the smell, but they did not agree," he told Reuters.

Harassment is also common.

Jasmeet Singh, eight, stopped going to school because of what he said was daily harassment. He and other children from the community now either go to private schools or study inside the temple.

"While I was at school, other students were making fun of me.

They were removing my turban, hitting me and calling me Hindu and kaffir (infidel)," said Jasmeet Singh, as other boys nodded their heads in agreement.

Increasing numbers of Sikhs and Hindus have moved to India, their spiritual homeland, but some say they remain foreigners wherever they go.

"When we go to India, we are known as Afghans, but when we are here, we are seen as outsiders even if we are native Afghan," said Baljit Singh, a shopkeeper in Kabul. "We are lost between both worlds."

Apollo Hospital to pay Rs 10 lakh for wrong treatment new Delhi, June 23 (Pti): The Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here and a doctor have been directed by a consumer forum to jointly pay a compensation of over Rs 10 lakh to the kin of a woman for wrong treatment of a tumour in her head, leading her to undergo another surgery.

South Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum asked the hospital to pay Rs 10.5 lakh to the family members of Uttaranchal resident Chanda Devi, who died this year.

It noted that the South Delhi hospital had wrongly conducted an operation to remove the tumour from Devi's head in 2002 and, after suffering for two years, she had to undergo another surgery for the same ailment.

"We have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that it is a clear-cut case of deficiency in service on the part of Opposite Party-1 (hospital) and Opposite Party-2 (doctor who operated Devi)," the forum said, noting that "in fact the complainant (Devi) suffered a lot constantly".

According to the complaint, Devi was admitted to the hospital in September 2002 as she was suffering constant headache for around nine months.

She was suggested to undergo an operation due to the tumour. However, instead of removing it, the area of the tumour was suppressed in the operation, it said.

She had to be admitted to another hospital in 2004 and was operated there.

Mumbai hospital successfully fits woman with cow's heart valve MuMbai, June 23 (ians): A 52-year-old woman suffering from a severely damaged heart valve was successfully treated with a replacement surgery and implanted with a cow's pericardial valve at a Mumbai hospital.

Amita Patki was diagnosed with aortic aneurysm -enlargement of the aorta.

An aneurysm is a bulge or "ballooning" in the wall of an artery, which carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

An overstretched and weak aorta can burst, causing serious bleeding and leading to death.

A 2D Echocardiogram -- also known as echo test -- revealed to the doctors at Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital that the valve damage was in an advanced stage.

"We performed a surgery on her and replaced the defunct valve with a biological bovine pericardial valve," said Hemant Pathare, Surgeon (Cardiovascular and Thoracic) at Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital.

"The patient was also diagnosed with ascension in her aorta up to the base. The ascending aorta was also replaced along with a part of the arch of aorta," Pathare added.

The patient is responding well to post-surgery treatment and will be discharged soon, the doctor said.

Amnesty seeks justice No NSG consensus over India's membership bid NSG's closed-door plenary.

Ministry spokesperson Vikas for 1984 riot victims seoul/tashKent, June Turkey and Ireland.

SC to hear plea to ban WhatsApp Signing the NPT is one of But several diplomatic Swarup briefed reporters in 23 (ians): A lack of consen-

new Delhi, June 23 (ians): Amnesty International on Thursday said successive Indian governments had "failed" in giving justice to 1984 riot victims despite "evidence of political and police complicity" in killing of thousands of Sikhs following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

"The survivors and victims of 1984 have not received justice primarily because successive governments have failed to take action (against those involved)," Aakar Patel, the Executive Director at Amnesty International India, said. Patel was speakikng at an event "Insaaf84" held here as as part of Amnesty International India's two-year long "Chaurasi Ki Naa Insaafi" campaign.

The rights group and civil society members made recommendations related to "effective investigations, comprehensive remedy and reparation, and legal and police reform," to be submitted to the Home Ministry. Patel urged the BJP-led NDA government to "finally deliver justice to the thousands who suffered in 1984," he said.

sus amid strong opposition from several countries led by China thwarted India's bid for NSG membership in Seoul on Thursday night even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tashkent to consider New Delhi's bid on its merit.

The Indian application for membership to the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group was taken up at a post-dinner special session in the South Korean capital where heads of delegation of NSG are holding a plenary, highly informed sources in Seoul told IANS. The sources said several countries led by China opposed the idea of letting India in on the grounds that New Delhi was a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Those siding with China included Brazil, Austria, New Zealand,

the main requirements to be part of the elite club of nations that regulate global nuclear trade and technology.

China had earlier brought up Pakistan's NSG application that virtually stonewalled India's chances of getting into the bloc without signing the Nonproliferation Treaty.

China had been insisting that if any concession is given to India, the same should apply to Pakistan which has an alleged bad track record on nonproliferation after it was said to have sold atomic weapons technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

The sources said Pakistan's application didn't come up for the discussion.

The issue of considering applications of non-NPT countries, including India, was not on the main agenda of the

sources said that Japan raised the issue in the opening session. It was later decided that the matter would be discussed at the special session convened

by Chairperson Rafael Grossi of Argentina.

Argentina and South Korea along with several key member nations, including the US, Britain, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, France and Russia, have been supportive of India's NSG aspirations.

Earlier, Prime Minister Modi, who met President Xi in Tashkent on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Uzbekistan capital, urged China to judge India's application on its "merit".

"Prime Minister Modi urged China to make a fair and objective assessment of India's application and judge it on its own merit," External Affairs

Triple murders in two families rock Mumbai, Thane MuMbai, June 23 (ians): Two cases of triple murder rocked Mumbai and its neighbouring Thane on Thursday.

In the first instance in Malwani suburban area of north-west Mumbai, a 47year old woman and her two grandchildren were found killed in their home in No. 6 New Collector Colony, said Mumbai Police's official spokesperson DCP Ashok Dudhe.

While the woman, identified as Babli Shaw, was stabbed several times, the unknown assailants slit the throats of her grandson Aryan Shaikh, 13 and eight-year-old granddaughter Sania Shaikh.

The children were living with their maternal grandmother after their mother died a few years ago and their father remarried and lives nearby.

Police are questioning the children's father and exploring a possible motive of property angle behind the triple murder.

The incident came to light today when the house door did not open till 10 a.m. The Mumbai Crime Branch and local police are investigating the killings.

In Ulhasnagar town of Thane district, a three-member family comprising a couple and their young son was found axed to death in Karavali village

on the outskirts of the town, DCP Sunil Bharadwaj told media persons.

The victims have been identified as dairy farmer Shankar Bhandari, 62, his wife Fassubai, 50 and their 22-year old son, Sunny, while another son and his wife escaped death as they had gone out last night, he said.

The incident came to light this morning when none of the family members were seen by the people in the neighbourhood and the locals informed police.

Some household articles and foodgrains are reported missing from their home and police suspect it could a robbery bid gone awry.

Shiv Sena asks PM Modi if yoga will relieve pain of inflation new Delhi, June 23 (Pti): In yet another salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shiv Sena on Thursday said bringing yoga to the centre stage of the world was a praise-worthy effort, but will practising the ancient form of exercise relieve people of the pain of inflation.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves praise for making 130 countries perform yoga. The world bends if somebody makes it do so.

Through yoga, Modi made 130 nations lay on the ground.

"What is now needed is to make Pakistan lie down forever. This can only happen with the help of weapons. Pakistan deserves a per-

manent 'Shavaasan' (a yoga position that involves lying down like a corpse)," the Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana'.

It said that while chief

on this as well," it said.

The United Nations had last year declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga.

Lakhs of people across India and abroad stretched

'It would be good if a clarification is given on this' ministers of non-BJP states may oppose Modi, yoga is a science that should not be opposed.

"A lot can be achieved through yoga. But, in daily life, can yoga help in relieving the pains of high inflation and corruption? It would be good if a clarification is given

themselves in various postures to mark the second International Yoga Day as the Prime Minister maintained that yoga is not a religious activity.

Sena, which is part of the BJP-led governments in Maharashtra and at the Centre, has been critical of BJP and the

Modi government following strain in their ties since their alliance in Maharashtra collapsed ahead of the October 2014 Assembly polls due to problems over seat-sharing.

Though they did come together after the election, Sena has been reduced to a junior partner and has lost no opportunity to hit out at BJP leaders.

Recently, Sena had been critical of Modi's remarks abroad about India being plagued by corruption, saying they "maligned the nation's image", and questioned if scams in BJPruled Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat can be attributed to others.

Tashkent.

In Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the opposition to India's membership won't impact bilateral ties between them.

"We do not believe that it is an issue concerning the bilateral relationship between China and India," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the media, adding that the two countries "have agreed that we would make joint efforts to develop closely knit relationship".

Ahead of the Seoul plenary, India made hectic diplomatic efforts to secure the membership in the grouping which works on the principle of consensus and allows a new member only if all existing members agree.

Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar is in Seoul as part of India's diplomatic outreach to push through the NSG.

GuRGaon, June 23 (ians): The Supreme Court will hear next Wednesday a petition seeking a ban on WhatsApp on the ground that the messaging platform's endto-end encryption gives terrorists a means of communication that is impossible to intercept.

Filed by Sudhir Yadav, a Haryana-based right-to-information (RTI) activist, the petition said WhatsApp has from April started to enable its every message with 256-bit encryption that cannot be broken into.

"Even if WhatsApp was asked to break through an individual's message to hand over the data to the government, it too would fail as it does not have the decryption keys either," Yadav said in his petition.

Seeking a ban on WhatsApp in India, Yadav said any terrorist or criminal can safely chat on WhatsApp and make plans to harm the country and the Indian intelligence agencies would not be able to tap into their conversations to take necessary actions.

The petition said that in order to decrypt any message on WhatsApp, one would need a whopping 115,792,089,2 37,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640 ,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,935 key combinations, which is almost impossible for even a super computer.

Decrypting a single 256-bit encrypted message would take hundreds of years, Yadav said.

India denies training North Korean experts in ballistic tech at Dehradun new Delhi, June 23 (ians): India on Thursday strongly denied allegations in the media that a research centre in Dehradun may have violated UN sanctions by training North Korean experts who went on to occupy important positions in secretive military programmes of the reclusive communist nation.

The allegations came up in an Al Jazeera article, citing a UN Security Council report, that the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP) has trained at least 30 North Koreans in the last nearly 20 years of its existence.

The trained North Koreans included "Paek Chang-Ho, who was designated for his role in the launch of the Unha-3 rocket" on December 12, 2012, according to the UN Security Council report of February-March 2016. Paek is reported to be the vice director of Scientific Research and Development Department of North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration.

Currently, the centre has two students from that country studying there, the UN report said. One of them is affiliated with North Korea’s National Aerospace Development Administration, which plays a key role in the country's nuclear develop-

ment programme. But India denied that the institute conducted courses that could help North Koreans in training or transferring nuclear-related, ballistic missile-related or other weapons of mass destruction-related programmes as alleged in the Al Jazeera article.

“We have come across the article. The insinuation in the article regarding India’s assistance to North Korea’s UN proscribed activities is baseless and without any merit,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in a statement.

The UN report said one of the courses offered instructions that "could be directly relevant" to "designing and testing a launch vehicle using ballistic missile technology, such as those on launch vehicles, attitude control, and telemetry, tracking, command and data-handling systems".

Swarup said the UN report was the result of “subjective” and “limited understanding” of the experts “who have authored it”.

“India has made its position clear in this regard to the UN Security Council. The topics covered in the courses offered by CSSTEAP are very general and cover basic principles in the respective areas,” the spokesperson said.

The UN-sponsored centre was

established in 1995 to ensure that “no country in the region will have to look abroad for expertise in space science and technology application".

The UN report said the courses offered by the centre were not deliberately designed to assist ballistic missile development but the expert panel’s assessment “is that certain modules or sub-modules constitute specialised training that could be used by (North) Korea in its prohibited activities.

“Participation in the space and atmospheric science and global navigation satellite systems courses is a ballistic missile-related activity prohibited” under UN resolutions to impose sanctions against North Korea.

Refuting the contention in the UN report, Swarup said: “We believe that these courses are unlikely to contribute in any way to a violation of the various UN sanctions” against North Korea.

He said a representative of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA) is a permanent observer on the governing board of the institute and its advisory committee, which evaluates and reviews the course curriculum and criterion for the selection of candidates, is also chaired by the director of UN-OOSA.

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WORLD

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Brexit or no, Europe’s “realists” to contain “utopians” BruSSeLS, JuNe 23 (reuterS): Whether Britain stays or leaves the European Union after Thursday’s referendum, EU leaders are preparing for a clash over how to respond to popular disillusion with the bloc.

The Brexit debate is echoed in mounting euroscepticism across much of the continent. This is fuelling a struggle which, crudely put, pits those who want a more integrated Union against self-styled “realists”, who dismiss them as “utopian” dreamers disregarding democratic attachment to nation states.

Positions are more nuanced and few leaders are arguing for a big shift in power to Brussels.

But the confrontation can be seen in permanent tensions between the central institutions of the European Parliament and the executive European Commission on one hand and a majority of the 28 governments that wield ultimate power in the Council.

Nations’ resistance to ceding rights surfaces in fury among some governments at the Commission’s drive to force them to take in refugees or to accept more intrusive EU supervision of euro zone budgets.

It puts any federalists on the weaker foot -- not least

Juncker himself dismisses suggestions that he is a utopian. “I am no eurofanatic,” he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, though he stoutly defended his migration policy.

“The EU must not be constructed in opposition to the nations of Europe,” he added. “Europe’s future lies in a better Europe, not necessarily in ‘more Europe’.”

That view frustrates the most outspoken federalists such as Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian premier who leads the liberal bloc in the European Parliament, itself a bastion of left-right consensus on strengthening its own power.

“Europe will be totally different after June 23, whether it’s a Yes or a No,” he told reporters in Paris.

“We must take advantage of Brexit to refound EuChelsea Pensioners leave after voting in the EU referendum, at a polling station in Chelsea in London. (REUTERS rope. Political leaders have Photo) their backs to the wall.

They don’t have any other as France and Germany only fuel popular hostility strengthening of euroscep- refugees. prepare elections next year to the EU. tic moods,” he said earlier EU officials dismiss choice.” with eurosceptics riding “Whatever its result is this month. critics’ suggestions that high in the polls. going to be, we must take Juncker seeks a “great leap “FIX WHAT WE HAVE” German and French ofCouncil President Don- a long, hard look on the fu- NO “GREAT LEAP forward” in EU integration ald Tusk, who will chair a ture of the Union,” Tusk said FORWARD” after the British vote. What- ficials do not see it that way.

French President Fransummit on Tuesday and on Monday. “We would be Some in Brussels inter- ever his ideals, he recognisWednesday to react to the foolish if we ignored such a preted his barbs as aimed es there is no appetite for it cois Hollande, who lags in polls ahead of next April’s British vote, called on lead- warning signal.” at Commission President among states. ers to use the moment to The former Polish pre- Jean-Claude Juncker, the His focus if Britain presidential election bereflect on where Europe mier has denounced “uto- Luxemburger whose exec- leaves, the officials said, hind anti-EU populist has gone wrong. He has pian dreams” of a post-na- utive enraged some nation- would be to help keep the Marine Le Pen and mainalso argued that pushing tional Europe: “Promoting al leaders by pushing them other 27 from disintegrat- stream conservative rivals, will visit German Chancelfor “more Europe” would them only leads to the to accept binding quotas of ing in its wake.

lor Angela Merkel in Berlin next week to launch new EU initiatives.

But a senior French official, echoing EU officials, told Reuters there was no prospect of big change.

“We don’t need either a great federal leap forward or to try to cuddle up to the most fanatical sceptics by deconstructing the EU,” he said.

“It would look ridiculous to come out with a detailed blue-print for the way forward a day after Britain voted to leave.”

In Germany, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who in the 1990s advocated a much more integrated “core Europe”, has been clear in his view that the days of grand visions have passed.

At a meeting with Schaeuble this week, the Dutch chairman of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem showed that even among the hard core of euro states, few see a rapid deepening of integration. “Let’s not build further extensions to the European house while it is so unstable. Let’s fix what we have,” he said.

Lack of action carries risks too. A policy document known as the Five Presidents’ Report called last year for euro zone states to share more responsibil-

ity to stabilise a common currency battered by the debt crisis.

But differing French and German approaches, and next year’s elections, have stalled the process, and the voters’ mood has made leaders wary of pushing ahead.

“We can’t go on like we have,” said Schaeuble, who has been blocking proposals for a European bank deposit insurance scheme.

“Or people will say ‘They haven’t understood’.”

That argues against the option that smaller groups of states, such as the 19-nation euro zone or the core of the bloc’s six Western founders, might move soon towards deeper integration while others, including Britain if it stays, hold back from some of Europe’s projects.

Such two-track integration seems barely more likely if there is Brexit.

While some federalists might call for a dash for unity if the awkward British were to go, most key players favour avoiding rifts among those who remained inside the bloc. The priority would be to make the remaining EU irreversible.

As one senior EU official put it: “Europe’s got a slap in the face; let’s see what we have to do to keep the 27 together.”

Tornado, hail storms kill at Suu Kyi visit to Thailand spotlights migrant plight The three-day visit to JuNe 23 least 51 in east China - Xinhua MAHACHAI, Thailand is Suu Kyi’s sec(reuterS): Hundreds

A man stands on debris of houses after a tornado hit Funing county, Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China on June 23. (REUTERS Photo)

BeIJING, JuNe 23 (reuterS): A tornado and hail storms killed at least 51 people on Thursday in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, state media said.

The storms brought down power lines and houses, Xinhua news agency said.

“Downpours, hail storms and a tornado battered parts of Yancheng city ... caus-

ing many houses to topple,” it said.

Pictures posted by media online showed injured people lying amid overturned houses and cars, split tree trunks and broken power lines.

Severe floods in southern China killed at least 22 people and left 20 missing earlier this week.

of migrants from Myanmar on Thursday gave Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi a thunderous welcome on her first visit to neighbouring Thailand since her National League for Democracy swept to election victory in November.

Thailand is home to between two million and three million migrant workers from Myanmar, many of whom do back-breaking jobs most Thais are unwilling to do. Suu Kyi’s visit has prompted renewed calls for better protection for the workers, who are vulnerable to abuse, rights groups say.

“We hope she will pressure the Thai government to have sympathy for us,” said Ma Kout Shwe, a Myanmar steel-factory worker in the crowd at the Talay Thai market in Mahachai, a fishing port just west of Bangkok, the capital.

Suu Kyi and Thai junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha

Myanmar Foreign Minister and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (2nd L) arrives at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand on 23 June. (REUTERS Photo)

will sign a pact on Friday to help Myanmar migrants work legally in Thailand, according to a Thai government document distributed before the visit. Many of the workers are undocumented.

Their enthusiasm undimmed by the rain, the crowd chanted “Mother Suu” after Suu Kyi, dressed in a traditional blue dress, met workers and responded to questions. In Mahachai, migrants man the

fishing boats and work in seafood processing plants.

Thailand is one of the world’s top seafood suppliers, but the industry’s reputation has been tarnished by instances of human trafficking and forced labour.

ond official trip abroad since the NLD government took office on March 30.

It will see the first meeting of the democracy icon and members of the Thai military government that seized power in a bloodless May 2014 coup. She is visiting in her official capacity as state counsellor, a position created for her, and as foreign minister.

The Thai junta has been jittery over the visit. A press conference in Bangkok on the plight of Myanmar’s 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya minority ended abruptly on Thursday after the Thai authorities put pressure on the human rights groups that organised it.

Suu Kyi has been criticized overseas, and by some in Myanmar, for saying little about the abuses faced by the Rohingya, who live in apartheid-like conditions and are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says missile Eating brocolli may keep cancers at bay gives ability to attack US in Pacific SeouL, JuNe 23 (reuterS): North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said after supervising the test launch of a “medium long-range strategic ballistic missile” that the country now has the capability to attack U.S. interests in the Pacific, official media reported on Thursday.

South Korean and U.S. military officials have said the North launched what appeared to be two intermediate-range missiles dubbed Musudan on Wednesday. The first of the two was considered a failure.

The second reached a high altitude in the direction of Japan before plunging into the sea about 400 km (250 miles) away, they said.

The test-fire was successful without putting the security of neighbouring countries at risk, the North’s KCNA news agency said, referring to the missile as a “Hwasong-10.” Hwasong is Korean for Mars.

“We have the sure capability to attack in an overall and practical way the Americans in the Pacific operation theatre,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying.

The missile, which is fired from mobile launchers, has a design range of more than 3,000 km (1,860 miles), meaning all of Japan and the U.S. territory of Guam are potentially within reach.

South Korea and the United States condemned the launch as an unacceptable violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Japan’s Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said the launch was an indication that North Korea’s threat to Japan was intensifying.

The United Nations Security Council, which in March imposed new sanctions on the North following its fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February, met at the request of the United States and Japan.

Alexis Lamek, Deputy U.N. Ambassador of France, which holds the Security Council presidency for June, said after the meeting all 15 members believed the launches were in violation of UN resolutions.

“All expressed a strong concern as well as their opposition (to) these launches,” Lamek told reporters. He said he hoped a statement condemning the move could be agreed on soon.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking before the Security Council meeting, described North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launches as a “brazen and irresponsible act”.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he did not know if the test was a success but acknowledged one of the two missiles

New York, JuNe 23 (IANS): Consuming broccoli or brassica vegetable like kale or cabbage every three or four days may also lower the risk of cancers and other degenerative diseases, a new study suggests.

The scientists identified genes in broccoli that control the accumulation of phenolic compounds associated with a lowered risk of coronary heart disease, Type II diabetes, asthma and several types of cancer.

Phenolic compounds have good antioxidant activity that affects biochemical pathways affiliated with inflammation in mammals.

“We need inflammation

because it’s a response to disease or damage, but it’s also associated with initiation of a number of degenerative diseases. People whose diets consist of a certain level of these compounds will have a lesser risk of contracting these diseases,” said Jack Juvik from University of Illinois, in the US. As the phenolic compounds are flavourless and stable, the vegetables can be cooked without losing health-promoting qualities.

Once consumed, the phenolic compounds gets absorbed and targets certain areas of the body or gets concentrated in the liver and flavonoids spread through

the bloodstream, reducing inflammation through their antioxidant activity.

“These are things we can’t make ourselves, so we have to get them from our diets,” Juvik said. “The compounds don’t stick around forever, so we need to eat broccoli or some other Brassica vegetable every three or four days to lower the risk of cancers and other degenerative diseases,” Juvik noted.

In the study, published in the journal Molecular Breeding, the team crossed two broccoli lines and tested their progeny in terms of total phenolic content and their ability to neutralise oxygen radicals in cellular assays.

Diabetes ups risk of heart attack death by 50% North Korea leader Kim Jong Un visits the remodeled Pyongyang Cornstarch Factory in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 16. (REUTERS Photo)

“flew for a long time”.

North Korea had failed in at least five previous attempts to launch the intermediate-range missiles. South Korea said Washington and Seoul were analyzing whether the sixth missile launch was successful.

Japan and South Korea said the missile flew at a height of 1,000 km (620 miles) over a distance of 400 km (250 miles) off

its east coast. Experts said it appeared North Korea had deliberately raised the angle of the launch to avoid hitting any territory of Japan.

North Korea is believed to have up to 30 Musudan missiles, according to South Korean media, which officials said were first deployed around 2007, although the North had never attempted to test-fire them until this year.

LoNdoN, JuNe 23 (IANS): Individuals suffering from diabetes are at nearly 50 per cent increased risk of dying from the effects of a heart attack, a new study has found.

“The results provide robust evidence that diabetes is a significant long-term population burden among patients who have had a heart attack,” said lead researcher Chris Gale, Consultant Cardiologist and Associate Professor at University of Leeds in Britain.

The findings showed that people with diabetes were 56 per cent more likely to have died if they had experienced a ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) heart attack - in which the coronary artery is completely blocked - than those without the condition.

Further, they were 39 per cent more likely to have died if they had a non-ST elevation

myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) heart attack - in which the artery is partially blocked - than those without diabetes. The study indicated that the adverse effect on survival is linked to having diabetes, rather than other conditions people with diabetes may suffer from.

“Managing diabetes effectively can reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. This includes eating healthily, keeping active and taking medications as prescribed by your doctor,” added Anna Morris, Head of Research Funding at Diabetes UK -a research organisation.

For the research, the team analysed 700,000 people who had been admitted to hospital with a heart attack between January 2003 and June 2013. Of these, 121,000 had diabetes.

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Veteran badminton tourney from today

KOhima, JuNe 23 (mexN): The 3rd All Nagaland Veteran Badminton Tournament under the aegis of Evening Club Kohima with the theme “Inspire a new generation” will start from June 24 at the Indoor Stadium, Kohima. Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilato Mor, IAS will grace

the inaugural function at 10:00 AM. The inaugural function will be chaired by Dr. Vilar Solo while welcome address will be delivered by organizing committee convenor Arep Ao. The tournament will conclude on June 25 with Kethosietuo Sekhose, SDO (Sadar) Kohima as the guest of honour.

Kohima dist badminton summer coaching camp

KOhima, JuNe 23 (mexN): The Evening Club Kohima has successfully conducted Kohima District Badminton Summer Coaching Camp and Talent Search 2016 from June 1 to 20 last. The camp was super-

vised and coached by Alivoker Aier, ex- National player from Nagaland. 33 participants (12 girls and 21 boys) in the age group of 8-17 years under “Beginners” and “Advance Players” categories attended the camp.

Griezmann extends contract with Atletico

PaRis, JuNe 23 (ReuteRs): Influential forward Antoine Griezmann has extended his contract with Atletico Madrid by one more season, which will keep him at the club until 2021, the La Liga side said on Thursday.

The 25-year-old, who joined the club from Real Sociedad in 2014, has flourished under manager Diego Simeone, scoring more than 50 goals in his two seasons at the Vicente Calderon.

Griezmann also guided Atletico to their second Champions League final in

three years, but missed on the prestigious trophy, both times to local rivals Real Madrid. "I'm very satisfied, very happy to keep belonging to this family and this project," the France international said on the club's website (en.atleticodemadrid.com).

"I want to improve every year, and the club, the coaches and my teammates can help me to reach this goal." Griezmann, who was heavily linked with a move away from the club, is currently part of France's Euro 2016 squad and scored in his country's 2-0 victory over Albania.

Scholes signs for Premier Futsal

mumBai, JuNe 23 (iaNs): Premier Futsal, the world's first-ever multi-national futsal league, announced on Thursday the signing of former Manchester United star Paul Scholes as a marquee player for three seasons.

Scholes, part of Manchester United's memorable squad of 1992 -- the famous golden generation which included stars like David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and the Neville brothers Phil and Gary -- is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of modern football. He boasts a staggering 718 caps for Manchester United over an illustrious

career spanning 22 years.

"Premier Futsal will be a great way to introduce the sport to India and I’m looking forward to meeting the fans across India who I know are some of the most passionate in the world," Scholes said in a release. Scholes thus became the second of the eight marquee players who will be a part of Premier Futsal, a five-a-side variant of football. After roping in Alessandro Rosa Vieira, the sport's most renowned player fondly known as Falcao, as it's first big signing last month, the league signed former Portugal football star Deco and Scholes.

Vardy signs new contract with Leicester

LONDON, JuNe 23 (ReuteRs): Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has signed a four-year contract extension with the Premier League champions, seemingly ending speculation about a move.

Vardy, who scored 24 goals in Leicester's remarkable run to the title, had been linked with a move to Arsenal. "Leicester City have today agreed with the representatives of Jamie Vardy to ex-

tend the England international's contract with the Premier League champions for a further four years," the club said in a statement.

"Both parties hope that this announcement will end recent speculation regarding Jamie's future and confirm his long term commitment to Leicester City Football Club."

Vardy is currently part of England's Euro 2016 squad and scored an equaliser in his country's 2-1 victory over Wales.

rio bus missed but Mary Kom not quitting yet

New DeLhi, JuNe 23 (Pti): Her last hope for an Olympic berth might be over after the denial of a wildcard, but star Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom today said she would not hang up her gloves just yet. The 33-year-old fivetime world champion could not make the cut for Rio via the two qualifiers and lastditch attempts by the Indian Olympic Association and the ad-hoc committee administering boxing in India to fetch her a wildcard entry also fell through after the IOC declined the request.

"I have been duly informed that I won't be getting a wildcard for the Olympics. It is heartbreaking but it is something which I had no control on. I have to accept this decision but I am not quitting the sport right now. I will continue to compete till I am feeling fit and for the time being I think I am fit," Mary Kom told PTI from Imphal.

The London Olympic bronze-medallist missed two chances to book a Rio berth -- first in March at the Asian Zone Qualifiers and then last month at the

Boxer Manoj Kumar qualifies for Olympics

Mary Kom. Photo: M. Moorthy/The Hindu

World Championships.

After this, the IOA and the ad-hoc committee approached the International Boxing Association (AIBA) for a Tripartite Commission Invitation Place, which happened to be just one in her category. "The ad-hoc committee has had a word with AIBA President Dr Ching Kuo Wu. It was always going to be tough to get a wildcard," she said.

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Shooters Narang, Bindra disappoint at World Cup

BaKu, JuNe 23 (iaNs): Riobound shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang on Thursday finished sixth and seventh respectively in the 10 meter Air Rifle final at the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup here.

Narang, who had missed the 10m event in the Munich World Cup last month due to a heel injury, fired 123.1 points while Bindra finished with a disappointing 102.3 to be at the penultimate spot in the final.

Nepejchal Filip of the Czech Republic secured 206.8 points to clinch the gold medal while Iran's Bagheri Hossein and Sergy Rikhter of Israel fired 206.2 and 184.6 to settle for the silver and bronze respectively. This was Bindra's last World Cup before he retires from the sport on August 8, when the shooting events at the upcoming Rio Olympics conclude.

was eyeing a swansong Olympic appearance at Rio before calling it quits but has changed her mind at least for the time being.

"I am aware that retirement is something that would be talked about a lot but for the time being I have dropped the idea. Of course I would be spending more time at my academy training young kids but I will continue to devote as much time to my training as well,"

ChiCagO, JuNe 23 (ReuteRs): Chile beat Colombia 2-0 in the Copa America semi-final on Wednesday and will face Argentina in Sunday's final after surviving a tumultuous match in Chicago that was halted for more than two hours due to a torrential rain storm.

Chile were already two goals up at half time but the second half was delayed as an electrical storm powered towards Soldier Field and drenched the stadium with rain.

The teams came back to a waterlogged pitch and Colombia, who had a man sent off early in the second period, could not reduce the deficit.

"We played well but Chile are a very strong side," Colombian midfielder Juan Cuadrado said after the final whistle.

"We thought a comeback was possible but sometimes things don't work out like you want."

The result takes Chile into a mouth-watering final against Argentina in New Jersey on Sunday.

Battle of Kohima (1944) Facilitated the Rise of Naga Nationalism

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selves as a separate distinct entity. The enormous participation of Nagas in this war gave them experience and transformed their whole perception of things. They were able to grasp the fast changing political situation after the war and thus consolidated themselves to negotiate their future. The implication of the war can be gauged from how the people especially around Kohima who had experienced this war the most with the main battle fought at Kohima, pioneered to espouse the political future of the Nagas. Then Naga WW II veterans whether involved with the Japanese or Allied forces, got themselves involved in the fledging Naga nationalism in the later days signifying another direct impact of this war on the Nagas. Men like A.Z Phizo who was involved with the Japanese and the Indian National Army (INA) got much insight into the international politics during WW II and thus the NNC taking a drastic turn under his leadership may have lots to do with this event though not denying the influence of tradition of independent-mindedness of his native village autarchic tendencies against the colonial power that might have moulded his thinking. The large availability of weapons left behind by both the British and Japanese in Naga Hills district also produced far reaching implication as they were used by the later Naga army when direct armed confrontation with Indian Union exacerbated. The war brought new weapons into the hills; for the first time Nagas were using Tommy guns and stocks of Chinese rifles sold across the border from Burma (Keane, op.cit. p.409). Nationalism was stirred in the minds of the Nagas. But as a result of the war, isolation of the Nagas from the outside world was broken. Nagas experienced large scale arrival of people during the war and communication with the outside world greatly increased as a result of the military needs.

The British and the non-Nagas for this matter failed to grasp the changed disposition of the Nagas after the war. When Louis Mountbatten promised that British would never forget her debts to the Nagas, he never comprehended what political future really awaits the Nagas but was speaking in the bright glow of victory when nobody could have imagined a civil war in the hills (Keane, op.cit. p.443). In the immediate aftermath of the war, Charles Pawsey the then DC of the Naga Hills spoke with apparent confidence about returning to the old way of life. In June 1944 speaking to visitor, Pawsey said the presence of war and British and Indian troops on their territory is not likely to

Mary Kom said.

Without doubt the biggest name in Indian women's boxing, Mary Kom has been a much celebrated name internationally as well. The diminutive boxer was dubbed 'Magnificent Mary' by the AIBA after she claimed a historic fifth world title. She was most recently named one of the eight ambassadors of the World Championships, where she could progress

only till the second round.

"There are no competitions apart from Olympics this year. So I have a lot of time at hand to think and reflect. I will see how things go. It will all depend on my fitness, I feel fit right now. If I continue to feel the same way,I would continue for some time," she said. "I am not feeling good about how things have panned out but I am sure future is good for me," she added.

Chile beat Colombia to set up final against Argentina

public discourse eventy-two years ago, on 22nd June 1944, the battle of Kohima came to an end. This battle has been voted 'Britain’s Greatest Battle' the British Army has ever participated in all course of its history on 20 April 2013 conducted by National Army Museum at London. In the early part of March 1944, under the code name U-Go operation, the Japanese 15th Army under Renya Mutaguchi, divided into three Divisions started the invasion of India marching in three directions across the Indo-Myanmar frontiers. Moving across the Naga Hills was the 31st Division of 15,000 troops under Lieut. Gen. Kotoku Sato. In this fierce battle of 64 days (4th April- 22nd June 1944), the Japanese were defeated and they withdrew back to where they came from. The Japanese 15th Army, 85,000-strong, eventually lost 53,000 dead and missing in this entire U-Go operation and the British sustained 16,564 casualties. During the Battle of Kohima alone, the British and Indian forces lost 4,064 men, dead, missing and wounded, and against this, the Japanese had lost 5,764 as battle casualties in the Kohima area and many of the 31st Division subsequently died of disease or starvation (Louis Allen, Burma- the Longest war, p.643).

For these colonial powers of the time it was all about victory and defeat far from their respective mother countries. But for the people amidst whom the battle was fought, it was a cathartic moment of historical reckoning having far reaching consequences. The Nagas, hitherto living in their traditional world with little or no contact with outside world save the Britishers and Christian missionaries, were abruptly awakened, to face the vagaries of modern world in a harsh way when the two empires fought one of its fiercest battles in its heartland. The passage of such large modern armies back and forth across their lands, and the hunger and disease wrought by fighting had traumatised traditional communities (Fergal Keane, Road of Bones, p.409) leaving them deeply affected mentally and physically. Tens of thousands of Nagas were mobilised across the hills in the form of labour corps, stretcher bearers, informers and soldiers. In the battle of Kohima along 600 Nagas participated. One way or the other the whole of the Naga Hills was affected.

The battle of Kohima and WW II in general, had serious implication in the polity of the Nagas which left them awakened with a new sense of identity consciousness. This war brought them into contact with people of different nationalities and therefore they now began to perceive them-

BaKu, JuNe 23 (Pti): Former Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Manoj Kumar (64kg) today became the second Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympic Games after advancing to the semifinals of the AIBA World Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. Manoj thrashed Tajikistan's Rakhimov Shavkatdzhon in the quarterfinal 3-0. He will next face European champion Pat McCormack of Britain in the semifinal tomorrow. McCormack defeated Frenchman Amzile Hassan in his quarterfinal bout. "Given the terrible state in which boxing is right now, I am relieved to have qualified for the Games. There was lot of pressure on the team which is competing here and I am glad that came good," Manoj told PTI. Manoj, also a former Asian Championships bronze-medallist, had competed in the 2012 London Games as well and had lost in the quarterfinals. Before Manoj, Shiva Thapa (56kg) had made the cut for the Rio Games during the Asian Qualifying Tournament held in China in March.

have any profound influence on the Nagas (keane p.409). The British who were still busy fighting a war could not contemplate what political future they envisaged for the hills and would leave the Nagas to make their way with India. The British books recorded about what the Nagas did in those epic days, but not what they thought. Infact, Naga Hills and Kohima was remembered as a place but not as a people.

Though the first exposure of some 2000 Nagas during WW I to France and the subsequent formation of Naga club 1918 and the presentation of memorandum to Simon commission in 1929 can be traced as beginning of identity consciousness, yet what happened in 1944, transformed the Nagas once and for all. The formation of NNC (only mandated organisation ever formed by the Naga people in all course of its history) on 2nd February 1946 and the events that followed like series of negotiations, declaration of independence (1947), plebiscite (1951), etc are historical facts that will always act as the pivot giving perennial lives to Naga nationalism. Hence, any future solution not based on this historical facts will only prove ephemeral nor final solution can appear until it comes through the only given mandated organisation of the Nagas. The phoenix will always rise back from the ashes in the ebbs and flow of time until solution comes through the given mandate if permanent solution is to be found. NNC took right decision at the right time. It was a moment of historical decision, what was once decided will be final and binding and no more change can be done again. It was not a matter of fear to antagonise the powerful neighbour (which was prevalent) but of doing the right thing no matter the imminent consequences. As expected reaction (from Indian union) was sharp and suppressive but the historical decision of NNC is a reality that cannot be erased anymore.

The reason why Nagas took decision differently from other communities of NE as far joining Indian Union is concern is because it underwent a different experience in its experience with WW II. The impact of the event on the Nagas has been all pervading and permanent. Infact if WW II and battle of Kohima never occurred in the Naga hills, its doubtful if Naga nationalism would ever be there or even if it is there, the same magnitude might not be there and Nagas might just have accepted the Indian constitution like any other communities of the North east India.

Zhokusheyi Rhakho, PhD Phek Town.

The game will be a repeat of last year's final in Santiago that the host nation won on penalties.

The reigning champions came into the game on a high after beating Mexico 7-0 and took only six minutes to make their mark again.

Former Chelsea midfielder Cuadrado misdirected a header across his own goal straight to Charles Aranguiz and the Leverkusen midfielder had the straightforward task of sidefooting past David Ospina.

Chile doubled their lead four minutes later after an Alexis Sanchez shot rebounded off the post into the path of Jose Pedro Fuenzalida.

With Ospina beaten, the Universidad Catolica full back scored one of the easiest goals of his career by sidefooting into the empty net.

Chile, who were already missing midfielders Arturo Vidal and Marcelo Diaz, lost Pedro Pablo Hernandez after half an hour when he limped off injured and

the resulting reshuffle took the wind out of their sails.

Colombia came back into the game, with James Rodriguez coming close with two shots and creating chances for Roger Martinez and Edwin Carmona.

However, Claudio Bravo was in fine form and it stayed 2-0 at the break.

Colombia pushed on after the restart with a lively Rodriguez leading the attack but were dealt a huge blow in the 56th minute when influential midfielder Carlos Sanchez was sent off for a second yellow card offence.

Colombia did not give up and came close on several occasions but conditions underfoot were difficult for both sides and the score remained 2-0.

The Andean side will now play hosts United States in the thirdfourth place playoff on Saturday.

Argentina beat the United States 4-0 on Tuesday night to reach their second consecutive Copa America final.

Money Madness

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oney can’t buy happiness or health. Money is a terrible master but an expedient slave. From the market commodities reeling down to the basic necessities of life, money is indispensable. In today’s milieu, survival in such a commercialized world is inconceivable for the downtrodden and common people. Perhaps we are living in the times of prophet Amos where the poor are bought with silver and needy being sold for a pair of sandals. Without money, you can’t step out of your confinement. Now, the education based on business outlook has created a huge gap between the rich and poor. It’s not about competence or the desire for learning on the part of the kids anymore. It’s about whether the parents can afford to support them financially. Maybe that’s an overstatement in some sense but the fact of the matter remains. Poor families struggle to pay their school dues while the rich kids spend lavishly on their branded apparels. The poor have to be satisfied with two meals per day while the rich tosses the food for disposal. The poor and the rich have one thing in common: their Maker but it is not so while we live here on earth.

In a striking poem, “Money Madness” penned by DH Lawrence, he pointed out that the world has gone mad because of the seductions of money. Money makes people tremble and fear. Money enslaves and counts people on the basis of how much they are worth. If he has no money, then he is left to eat dirt and go cold. This thing called money has made every human a fool. The poem woefully retorts and ends with these lines, “We must have money to save us from eating dirt and this is so WRONG. Bread should be free, shelter should be free, fire should be free to all and anybody, all and anybody, all over the world.

We must regain our sanity about money before we start killing one another about it.” Indeed, we have lost our saneness in our rush for selfishness, possession and material gains.

Not only that, money seems to be the hidden face behind every profession of works. From the political arenas ranging to educational and religious spheres of responsibilities, the word “money” plays a major role in the decision process. Of course, none can escape from that reality but my point here is if money takes the upper-hand in every role, then truly and sadly, humans have become a slave of money. Dr. Ravi Zacharias in his book, “Recapture the Wonder” narrates a meeting that took place with an ambassador of the United Nations. Dr. Zacharias asked the ambassador if he was optimistic about the world scene and the role of United Nations. To this, the man gave a staggering reply. There was a tone of sadness in his voice as he quietly said, “I’m afraid that in the end it all boils down to money.

Whoever has the money calls the shots.” The spiralling of money-madness from the international politics down to national and state level is uncovered right before our eyes. The hunger for money has become insatiable. The rich craves to become richer and richer at the expense of exploiting the less fortunate while some wanting to get rich overnight has become the prey of the racketeer. Many unsuspecting Nagas have been hoodwinked by the money-monger from within and without. We love money too much but we don’t have enough! The delirium of seeking money is killing our society, families and individuals. Money is dividing walls between ‘the haves’ and ‘haves not.’We are not living for money nor are we living for ourselves! But when will we gain our sanity before we spin out of control?

When will we realize that human lives are much more valuable than gold or silver?

When will we, before we all get lost in a money-madness world?

The Bible says: For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs (1 Timothy 6:10).

Vebu Khamo, Bible Student

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Selena Gomez dances duet with 6-year-old battling rare disease

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riginally gaining national attention with her impressive Zumba moves, and again during an April appearance on Rachael Ray's show Rachael, Audrey, who suffers from the rare disease Diamond Blackfan Anemia, has added a dancing duet with Selena Gomez to her list of attention-grabbing experiences.

"Finally got to meet this sweetheart –she owned it fully,"

Gomez, 23, captioned a video of her meeting with Audrey on Wednesday. In the clip, the ladies groove to the former Disney star's "Love You Like A Love Song," before ending their number with a sweet embrace, at a stop on Gomez' Revival Tour.

This is the second time in two months that Audrey has had the chance to show off her dance moves in front of millions (Gomez's post received more

than 1.5 million views). In late April, she took the stage of Rachael by storm, dancing alongside a few of the Brooklynettes' dancers. "Every time I see her dance, even when it's just in her class, it makes me cry," Julie Haise, Audrey's mother has said in the past about her daughter's routines. "When she's dancing, she's happy and brings so much joy to everyone watching."

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'My heart stopped' Sir Tom Jones on the moment he discovered his wife had terminal cancer

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wo months on since the death of his wife, Sir Tom Jones' sense of loss is still profound.

The iconic singer has opened up about the passing of Linda, his partner of 60 years, and the moment he learned the devastating news that she had terminal cancer.

"We knew each other since we were kids," he told the Mail. "It was fast, she had cancer. I got the call that it was terminal, my heart stopped.

I flew back to Los Angeles, and she had a week left."

Sir Tom immediately cancelled the entire leg of his Asian tour to be with his wife, and he remained by her

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side until she passed away in April.

He recently made the decision to return to the stage this summer. "I have to be strong," he explained. "First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

"Linda wanted me to keep singing, she said not to stop. She was a strong woman."

Earlier this month, Sir Tom broke down in tears as he appeared in public for the first time since the death of Lady Linda. He wept as he reflected on his 59 years of married life at the Hay Festival, and insisted that the childhood sweethearts had enjoyed "a solid marriage that noth-

Johnny Depp's personal life not a concern for Disney CEO

ohnny Depp may be in news for his short-lived marriage with Amber Heard but Disney CEO Bob Iger is confident that it will not affect the actor on the professional front. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Iger didn't seem to worry himself with what's going on in Depp's private life.

Heard has filed for divorce and has also accused the actor of abuse. "Not worried about it," Iger said in response to Depp's personal problems. When asked if it's because the scandal will pass, Iger said, "I don't know whether it passes or not. We have Jack Sparrow." Iger believes people are able to separate Depp and Sparrow.

The actor has been a part of many Disney blockbusters including the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series and most recently he reprised his role of Mad Hatter in 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'.

Depp has stayed mum about his ongoing legal battle concerning his ex though his team released a statement after Heard filed for divorce. "Given the brevity of this marriage and the most recent and any of the salacious false personal life. Hopefully solved quickly," his repretragic loss of his mother, stories, gossip, misinfor- the dissolution of this sentative had said.

Johnny will not respond to mation and lies about his short marriage will be reSource: PTI

ing could shake".

The star said that recovering from the death of his wife was "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life". He revealed: "I was in the Philippines, that was when I got the call, that it was terminal. I had to stop. So I flew back to Los Angeles and she had a week left in the hospital."

Sir Tom said that he knew "she'd always been very important to me, always". But, he added: "Now I realise that she might have been the most important thing in my life. I realise even more now, how important she was to me."

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otha Musicians presents Summer Concert at Wokha in Likya community hall on June 28. The focus of Summer Concert is to provide a fun and unique opportunity for the Lotha community to come together to support the Lotha artists from all over Nagaland.

Through this concert the host, Oren Mozhui will bring awareness about HIV AIDS, Environment and Wildlife, Child Abortions and Blood donation. Some of the artists for the show are, Kenneth Kikon, Mega print Band, Renpi Kikon, Konthunglo Ngullie, Saronthung Kikon and Nzan Kithan.

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ctress Kangana Ranaut feels the future of cinema lies in making short films for the digital medium. At the launch of Shirish Kunder's short film "Kriti", Kangana said: "It's hard to make a short film. I myself have made a short film ('The Touch') and it's difficult."

"Everything is becoming smaller and smaller and I feel the future of cinema is internet movies. The two-and-half-hour film (culture) is not the future... Future is online and the sooner we catch that, we won't be lagging behind."

"Kriti" is written and directed by Shirish Kunder.

It features Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma in lead.

Manoj said: "Internet is a bigger and wider medium and we should explore it. I want to get used to it as it gives freedom to experiment and challenges us to explore characters that we don't get to play in feature films."

‘Future of cinema is internet movies’

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Nicholas joins celeb dating app to find love

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ctor Nicholas Hoult has signed up to celebrity dating app Raya . Hoult, who dated actress Jennifer Lawrence on and off for three years until 2014, is finding love online on Raya, which is preferred by discreet celebrities, reports pagesix.com.

Apart from Lawrence, Hoult's name has also been linked to actresses Dianna Agron and Riley Keough. Other celebrities who are available on Raya include Joe Jonas, Kelly Osbourne,Moby and Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte.

Hoult was recently forced to deny he was dating his 'Equals' co-star Kristen Stewart.

"Of course there's always going to be speculation. But there's also like a whole business behind people kind of fuelling those fires and creating speculation. There's kind of a whole industry behind that at play that has nothing to do with the actual people," he said at that time.

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Uma Thurman breaks multiple bones in horse riding accident Star WarS prequel Rogue One ctress Uma Thurman broke several bones when she lands Entertainment Weekly cover was thrown from a horse. Thurman, 46, was seen Source: IANS

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being helped into St Barts restaurant La Plage by her children, with onlookers commenting that the actress 'looked like she had hip surgery,' reported NewYork Post.

But a representative for the 'Pulp Fiction' star said she is suffering following an equestrian accident. "She was training on a young thoroughbred who got spooked," the spokesperson added. "She was thrown and broke a few bones." Mother-of-three Thurman has been a keen horse rider for many years, citing the sport as one of the main ways she maintains her slim figure.

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Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams officially divorced

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tar couple Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams have legally dissolved their marriage of six years. Moore and the “Come pick me up” hitmaker got officially divorced after 17 months of an ongoing battle between lawyers, according to a report by tmz.com on Wednesday. According to the court documents, the couple have agreed not to pay spousal support and, instead, split all their assets.

Moore wants to keep their plush condo in Beverly Hills and the lavish mansion in Griffith Park, California, as well as their car -- a 2012 Toyota Prius 00 -while the 41-year-old songwriter

will take the 2008 Porsche Carrera and a 1959 Cadillac. Adams will also keep his comic book collection, pinball machines and seven of their bank accounts.

The couple has agreed that the 32-yearold singer can take the houses while the furniture will be divided equally. Moore filed for divorce from Adams citing irreconcilable differences in January 2015, almost six years after they wed in March 2009 in Savannah, Georgia.

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he Star Wars prequel Rogue One is set to blast into movie theaters on December 16, 2016. And already the film has landed on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.

Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso and Diego Luna as Captain Cassian Andor are featured with various robots and aircraft in the back-

ground. One of the cover lines shouts, 'Darth Vader is back!' announcing the return of the menacing man from the Dark Side. Vader has not been seen since the last set of prequels from George Lucas.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story explores just how the Rebellion came to possess the information stored in-

side R2-D2 in 1977's Star Wars that revealed the fatal flaw in the Empire’s super weapon, EW explains.

The saga is set 40 before Force Awakens, which introduced Rey and Finn as well as BB-8. EW had several other details of the new film. On the cover new Imperial weaponry is shown.

That includes taller, slimmer walkers known as AT-ACTs hauling cargo, and flatter, fang-like interceptors known as TIE Strikers, it was revealed. It was added Erso - the outlaw who has clashed with both the Rebellion and the Empire - 'leads a mission for the good guys. It’s also personal – her father, played by Mads Mikkelsen, is a scientist whose knowledge is sought by both sides.'

Also new is the tidbit that Ben Mendelsohn is playing 'an ambitious officer, who’s eager to earn the favor of the Emperor – and avoid the wrath of his black-masked enforcer.' Rogue One also stars Jiang Wen, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker, and Alan Tudyk as a performance-capture droid.

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Ronaldo rescues Portugal, Iceland, Ireland into last 16

No fairytale ending for Sweden's Ibrahimovic as Belgium advance

Cristiano Ronaldo scores Portugal's second goal with a cheeky little backheel during the UEFA Euro 2016 Group F match Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden applauds the fans after defeat in the UEFA EURO 2016 Group E match between Sweden and against Hungary at Stade des Lumieres on June 22 in Lyon. (Getty Images) Belgium at Allianz Riviera Stadium on June 22 in Nice, France. (Getty Images)

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The Irish, Belgians, Iceland and Portugal join hosts France, Wales, Germany, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, England, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Northern Ireland and Hungary in the last 16.

The Republic will take on hosts France in Lyon on Sunday.

Ronaldo made a record 17th European Championship appearance against Hungary and twice rescued his side from an embarrassing early exit as surprise package Hungary took top place in Group F. The Real Madrid star had looked to be feeling the pressure when he threw a reporter's microphone into a lake when approached on a pre-match team walk.

However, after disappointing performances against Iceland and Austria, Ronaldo

came good just in time to set up a meeting with Croatia in Lens on Saturday. "It was an insane match," said the three-time World Player of the Year.

"Of course, we wanted to win and qualify in first place, but the main thing is we're through."

Zoltan Gera smashed Hungary into an early lead before Ronaldo slipped in a pass to Nani to equalise before half-time.

Hungary captain Balazs Dzsudzsak twice threatened to cause a massive upset by sending Ronaldo crashing out early in the second period.

Dzsudzsak's deflected free-kick put Hungary 2-1 up, but Ronaldo responded with a sumptuous backheel for his historic goal.

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other deflected Dzsudzsak effort restored Hungary's lead.

Yet Ronaldo was not to be denied as a towering header moved him to within one goal of Michel Platini's record mark of nine goals in Euros finals.

Traustason's strike at the death ensured Iceland their first ever win in a major finals and second place in the group and a date with England in Nice.

"I've always supported England at big international tournaments when we haven't been playing," said Iceland co-coach Heimir Hallgrimsson.

"It's a dream come true, but we go into the game to get a result. We believe in our ability."

Jon Dadi Bodvarsson swept Iceland into an 18th-minute lead at the Stade de France, with Austria paying dearly for

Aleksandar Dragovic's missed first-half penalty.

Substitute Alessandro Schoepf levelled for Austria on the hour, but Traustason's 94thminute strike condemned Marcel Koller's side, highly-fancied to shine before the tournament, to a premature exit.

- Farewell Zlatan Robbie Brady's header five minutes from time sparked wild scenes of celebration in Lille as Ireland ended a much-changed Italy's 100 percent record at the tournament to set up an enticing last 16 meeting with Didier Deschamps' French side.

It was Ireland's first win over Italy in a competitive match since the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

But Martin O'Neill's men had looked set to be denied by a

combination of Italy goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu and Romanian referee Ovidiu Hategan.

Sirigu, standing in for Gianluigi Buffon in the Italian goal, made a superb save to deny Daryl Murphy, while Hategan twice waved away Irish penalty appeals in the first-half.

However, Sirigu was at fault as Brady nipped in ahead of the Paris Saint-Germain 'keeper to head into an empty net for the winner.

There was no fairytale ending for Ibrahimovic who announced before the match that he would retire from international football when Sweden's Euro campaign ends.

Ibrahimovic alluded to his rags to riches story brought up in a tough district in Malmo as he said good-bye. "It's a nice story because where I came

from, a little..what people call the ghetto, and I made that country my country."

"I hope we can find another player, not a Zlatan as I don't think in a small country like Sweden you can find someone like that, he's really unique," said Sweden boss Erik Hamren.

Ibrahimovic did have the ball in the net midway through the second-half against the starstudded Belgians, but the goal was ruled out for a foul by Marcus Berg in the build-up.

Belgium had a series of chances to kill the game off with Romelu Lukaku particularly profligate. With six minutes remaining, Radja Nainggolan's arrowed drive into the far corner ended Swedish hopes to set up a last 16 clash with surprise package Hungary.

BCCI names Kumble as India’s head cricket coach

MuMBAI, June 23 (ReuteRs): Former captain Anil Kumble will be India's head coach for the next year, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Thursday.

"After discussions we have taken a final call that for one year Anil Kumble will be the head coach," BCCI President Anurag Thakur told reporters in Dharamsala. Former legspinner Kumble, 45, is India's most successful bowler and took 619 wickets in

132 tests and 337 from 271 one-day internationals.

The coach's post was vacant since Ravi Shastri's tenure as the team director ended with India's semi-final exit at the World Twenty20 tournament on home soil earlier this year.

For the post, the board received 57 applications which were made available to an advisory panel that included former captains Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly and former batsman VVS Laxman.

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Lyon, June 23 (AFP): Cristiano Ronaldo hit a double in an "insane" European Championship 3-3 thriller against Hungary that gave him a new record and secured Portugal a last-16 place.

Iceland set up a last-16 clash with England as substitute Ingvi Traustason's last-gasp winner earned the Euro debutants a famous 2-1 win over Austria.

Republic of Ireland scored their own memorable 1-0 win over Italy and Belgium beat Sweden by the same score to both move into the last 16, ending the international career of Swedish legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic in defeat.

"I am proud, this was my last game in the national team, I have many fantastic memories," said the 34-year-old Ibrahimovic.

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