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ACAUT files FIR against NSCN (IM) Mokokchug Town Commander DIMAPUR, JUNE 5 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has filed an FIR against the NSCN (IM) Town Commander, Mokokchung Town for allegedly “demanding 24% of staff salary deduction from the office of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Mokokchung, and thereafter issuing individual demand letters to all the 70 primary health centres and sub-centres under CMO, Mokokchung district.” The FIR, dated June 2, 2016 was filed at Mokokchung Police Station (1), asking that the matter be “thoroughly probed and the culprit nabbed.” In a press release to the media, the ACAUT Nagaland urged the Mokokchung Police to “carry out the arrest without fear or favour.” It further appealed to the HoDs/DDOs at the directorate office as well as in the districts to refrain from deducting the salaries of their employees to “prevent the unpleasant situation of FIRs being registered against them.” ACAUT Nagaland informed that it had already filed a FIR complaint in the Zunheboto police station against a certain HoD of the district for which the Zunheboto police is investigating the case. “However, the ACAUT Nagaland would like to make it clear that it takes no pleasure in filing FIRs against government officials and therefore a time period of 1 week is being given to all the HoDs/ DDOs to return the entire amount deducted under 24% tax demand to their respective employees failing which FIRs would be registered irrespective of the reputation of the concerned officials,” it cautioned.

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DMc waste dump a ‘paragon of environmental law violation’ On World Environment Day, NGOs point to alleged violation of guidelines at DMC waste disposal site

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DIMAPUR, JUNE 5 (MExN): A team of NGOs including the Human Rights Law Network, Pro Rural and CanYouth today alleged that “major guidelines or conditions” requisite to run waste dumping sites is not being adhered to at the Dimapur Municipal Garbage/Waste dumping site at United North Block area. A joint statement from ID Gil, Human Rights Network; Athilu Khrasi, Pro Rural; and Jenpu, CanYouth said this after the organisations had visited the site on June 4. On inspecting the site, the NGOs stated that biomedical waste, hazardous waste and non segregated solid wastes are collectively and directly dumped onto the site just as they are brought and burnt, often times, against the explicit rules forbidding it. “There is no treatment of garbage, no segregation. The rest of the wastes are left untreated, uncovered and out in the open,” it revealed. Further it quoted people from localities as stat-

ing that “since last year, the DMC had, 4-5 times, unilaterally and arbitrarily reextended the shifting from the site against their token promises to the agitators.” Terming the current waste disposal site as a “paragon of environmental law violation,” it added that the DMC has “miserably and successively failed on all the major fronts.” Other problems, the NGOs pointed out were the lack of proper retaining wall to contain the garbage spilling over the road; and proximity of around 30 households living right around the dumping field. They stated that the site poses “equal threat” to 5,000 odd households of the locality and beyond in the form of contamination of ground water from decades of toxic-liquid seepage from the site and the dangerous air that emanates from the wastes. They further informed that there is no specific timing set for garbage dumping. “Residents can smell the burning of plastics and

A file photo of machineries being put in place to dig pits at DMC dumping site for dumping fresh garbage.

rubbers as early as 2:00am in the morning. The vehicles carrying garbage, as they cross the area, leaves huge amount of dusts in their wake due to pathetic conditions of the road. There are 10-20 garbage carrying vehicles plying on duty every day, so one can only imagine the amount of pollution the carriers

themselves are generating and creating nuisance to the residents in the area,” the organisations said. Meanwhile, the NGOs noted that the dumping ground is breeding ground for “endless supplies of flies and mosquitoes.” They stated that “direct affect” of the dangers are reportedly witnessed in the form of “acute

case of liver swelling in an otherwise healthy looking child, asthma and other respiratory problem especially in the older people, and many cases of water borne disease such as skin disease, diarrhoea, typhoid etc.” They reminded that Nagaland State comes under the purview of Municipal Solid wastes (Management

& Handling) Rules, 2000 which provides specific and mandatory guidelines with regard to site selection for proposed landfill, facilities required at landfill site, specification for landfilling, pollution prevention, water quality monitoring, ambient air quality monitoring, plantation at landfill site, closure of landfill site/ post closure, etc. These specific provisions are to be implemented as per the rules and need to be ensured starting from the planning and design stage. The adequacy and performance of these provisions are to be monitored by the regulating authorities (State Pollution Control Board) during issue of authorization and in regular intervals thereafter. Further, site selection is to be done based on examination of environmental issues, and the landfill site be planned and designed with proper documentation of a phased construction plan as well as a closure plan, and nearby a waste processing plant or an integral part of it. The proposed landfill site should be away from habitation clusters, forest areas, water bodies, monuments, national parks, wetlands and places

of important cultural, historical or religious interest. The rules also call for monitoring of ground water quality, installation of landfill gas control system including gas collection system, and ambient air quality monitoring. The NGOs said that “against the basic set standards, there was a drastic contrast on the ground and blatant negligence on the part of the relevant authorities since day one of the project.” The organisations lamented that irrespective of the mechanism that the DMC employs, “they can never rectify the loss to the environment they have caused.” “The Dhansiri River that is just alongside the site, the local residents who had to bear the difficult times cannot afford to see the site continuing at the present site,” they asserted. They advised that under the mentorship of the State Pollution Control Board, the DMC should relocate the site and install state-of-the-art processing equipments and all other criteria that a landfill site is supposed to have. “Let no citizen for another day go through the life threatening menace” they appealed.

PHED Minister on Peren water scarcity From modest beginnings, DGC turns 50 this July

DIMAPUR, JUNE 5 (MExN): Minister for PHED, Tokheho Yepthomi today issued a statement to clarify the PHE Department’s position with regard to the water supply issue in Peren. The Minister, while acknowledging the grievances of the public of Peren Town over water scarcity, stated that people “also need to know and understand hurdles being faced by the department while rendering its services.” He admitted that water supply to Peren town had outlived its life span for which the department has been engaging repair works. The department had restored water supply line to Peren town on May 20. In addition, the Minister informed that the department has also constructed three units of deep tube wells and distribution system connected to it is nearing completion. Assuring that the department is working to provide drinking water to existing water lines, the Minister informed that there are more than 52 villages and towns where water supply connection has outlived the 30 year design period and require overhauling. He further informed that the annual

state budgetary allocation to the department is “very inadequate” thereby preventing the PHED from taking up new schemes in all villages and towns. The Minister said that the department received an allocation of non plan fund of Rs 115 lakhs till 2014-15 which was enhanced to Rs 230 lakhs during 2016-16. This non plan fund is allocated to the department to meet all expenses of operation and maintenance of the state, whilst also meeting expenses of department buildings and other assets. Despite financial constraints, the Minister stated that the department has been consistently making efforts to improve existing water supply to both rural and urban areas for uninterrupted water supply in “every possible way.” He clarified that the PHED is not responsible for lodging complaints or setting up investigation teams to resolve issues and disputes arising between different parties and appealed to the public of Old Peren to either resolve the issues within the conflicting parties or report the matter to the administration and police.

In two years Health Dept recruited 804 without proper selection, allege NVCO DIMAPUR, JUNE 5 (MExN): The Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) today alleged that from 2014 to 2016, the Nagaland State Department of Health and Family Welfare had “recruited 804 candidates mostly on direct appointment i.e without following proper selection process and posted at all eleven districts in Nagaland.” The NVCO informed that of this, 319 candidates/ employees were allegedly found to be “appointed without vacancy and without government approval.” The NVCO based these allegations on replies to an RTI application filed on April 22, 2016 with the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare. The NVCO informed that the PIO of the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare had furnished the list of appointment orders

of Grade – III & Grade – IV made from 2014-2016 (till date). Basing its findings on the list of appointments, the NVCO alleged that a lot of the appointments “were made within a little more than two years time and all these appointments include backdoor, without vacancy, regularized without vacancy, with and without government approval and against retirement, etc.” The NVCO informed that the department had “terminated more than hundred employees just in one district whose appointments are without vacancy or without sanctioned posts.” However, itallegedthatthedepartment is “still continuing the same blunder and illegality which is also amounting to exploiting the livelihood and career of citizens given them false hope to the extent of regularisation.”

It demanded that the concerned administrative head/competent authority take stern actions against irregular appointments as per the Government of Nagaland O.M No: AR-3/Gen174/2007(pt) dated January 13, 2010. The NVCO meanwhile extended its support to the Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) in their protest against the Department of Tourism and Food & Civil Supplies with a demand to cancel alleged backdoor appointments. The NVCO further informed that it had submitted an RTI application dated May 23, 2016 to the PIO of Food & Civil Supplies seeking information on records of Kerosene allocation in the State (AOD as well as MD) including district-wise allocation for the last five years till date.

Morung Express news Dimapur | June 5

Dimapur Government College (DGC) is going to turn 50 this July. The oldest college in Dimapur, erstwhile known as Dimapur College (Arts & Commerce), it had its share of ups and downs on its journey to today transform into a highly sought after institution of higher education in Nagaland. The story has it that some prominent citizens of the town realising the need for a place of higher learning took the initiative to establish a college. It was a time when Nagaland was grappling with the challenges of governance as a new state of the Indian Union. The initiative materialised into Dimapur College (Arts & Commerce) in July 1966 with its campus based where the Public College of Commerce is today. It was a modest start with 83 students enrolling and a faculty of 7 jumpstarting the onerous task of transforming and shaping young minds. The 50 years journey has witnessed three university affiliations, a change in administrative control and nomenclature and importantly, NAAC grading. In its initial years, it was affiliated to Guwahati University before getting affiliated to North Eastern Hill University in 1974. Subsequent to the state government taking ownership of the college in February 1989, it was renamed as Dimapur Government College. It finally settled down with Nagaland University in 1994. Prior to the official takeover, according to an alumnus, the government acquired land to relocate to the present campus. Construction of the campus was started in tandem but the pace of work was slug-

The DGC building in the present day. The campus infrastructure has not changed much as against the progress made academically.

gish with the completion time getting extended. The anxious students preferring the serene environment of the new campus eventually took it upon themselves to relocate before construction could be completed. The alumnus recalled that the students tidied up the half done building one fine day in 1988. Construction had started over three years ago. The teachers also cooperated with classes resuming in the unfinished building without much amenity. While the government appeared content at constructing a building to run classes, the college received developmental aid from unexpected quarters and well wishers over the years. Neglect by the government in the initial years following the acquirement made the land vulnerable to encroachment. It today has a football field, a basketball court and a library building constructed with aid from the Army. The latter of the three however did not witness much use. At one time, the college gained local notoriety for rather unruly student behaviour and volatile politically influenced student elections. Former students of the time, also recall sneaking out of class mid-lecture after roll call

through gaps in the walls. But all that is past now with the college administration affecting a significant revival over the past two decades or so. The change in output was observable with the college gradually improving its results even in the midst of little or no improvement in infrastructure. The total ‘Pass’ percentage for the three-year integrated degree course was over 90 percent this year. Reward was looming too as the college received NAAC ‘B’ grade accreditation in 2015. Admission to the college has also got more competitive with the cut off mark set at 52 percent. Gone are the days when students with ‘simple pass’ percentage could easily get seats. The DGC website states that the present enrolment stands at 874 students, 50 faculty members and 55 non-teaching staffers. It has introduced Diploma courses in Hospitality and Tourism and is all set to offer 6-month certificates course in Floriculture. “DGC is emerging as a great centre of higher education in Nagaland,” said the alumnus while adding it was the result of the teachers that has helmed the college faculty not forgetting the foresight and the contribution of the pio-

neers and other concerned citizens. DGC Alumni Association readies for 50th year milestone The Dimapur Government College Alumni Association informed that it is all set to celebrate the 50th year anniversary alongwith the college. A member of the association said that marking the jubilee, the association is constructing two commemorative gates leading to the campus. The association is also set to construct a waiting shedcum-college canteen. According to the member, the side of the main road leading to the campus was being used as a garbage dumping site by residents in the vicinity. Stating it was not an inviting sight, the member said the garbage was cleared and informative banners were put in place to discourage the practice. The association was assisted by an NGO – Living for Environment in the effort. The spot will then be readied for building the cante en-cum-waiting shed, it was informed. The preparations will culminate with the college marking the golden jubilee year with a special celebration on October 16, 2016. The association requests all the college alumni and well wishers to contribute towards its success.

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DLSAs promote legal awareness on environmental issues

Kohima, June 5 (mexn): The District Legal Services Authorities observed World Environment Day across Nagaland in collaboration with NGOs, nodal departments, district administrations, schools, and social organizations on June 4. According to a press release from Nungsangchiba Jamir, Nodal Officer, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority, the goal was to reach to the varied and targeted groups of people to promote legal awareness on environmental issues and related legal aspects through awareness programme, posters/hoardings, social work and clean-up etc. Drawing and quiz competitions were conducted to sensitize the school students on protecting and safeguarding the environment under the provisions of law. Winners were conferred awards and cash prizes, the release said. In Dimapur, the Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) in collaboration with Life NGO and Dimapur Government College observed the event by organizing an awareness programme and mass social work with the students of Dimapur Government College. M. Glory Sema, Panel Advocate, DDLSA, spoke on environmental issues and highlighted various provisions of related laws. Other resource persons included Imyarila Changkire, Researcher, who dealt on environment and waste and also cited various judgments dealing with environmental issues. Yupangnenla Longkumer, journalist, who represented Life NGO, enlightened the participants on various aspects of waste management and disposal practices. The well attended program was followed by mass social work and plantation of tree saplings donated by the Forest Department. The Zunheboto District Legal Services Authority (ZDLSA) organized an awareness programme on the Environment Protection Act 1986 to mark the occasion at Observation Home, Zunheboto. Juvily Kitho, Superintendent of the Observation Home spoke on the significance of World Environment Day. She dwelled on global warming affecting the temperature of the earth and the need to plant more trees to counter its adverse effects on the environment. The resource person, Tovi Z. Yeptho, Panel Lawyer of ZDLSA gave an overview of the Environment Protection Act 1986. He spoke of the urgent need of citizens to realize the damages being caused by everyday pollution of the environment. He dwelled on the legal provisions for penalties and fines laid down in the Act for offences relating to damage to the environment, the release said. The programme concluded with planting of pine saplings around the premises of the Observation Home. Peren District Legal Services Authority (PDLSA) in collaboration with Forest Department, NGOs and student organisation observed the World Environment Day at the auto stand, Jalukie Town. The programme was led by resource persons, Rampaukai Mpom, ACF, Jalukie Division, Forest Department, Nagaland and Somet C. Chang, Secretary, PDLSA & Civil Judge (Jr), Peren. All the participants planted tree saplings. Mokokchung District Legal Services Authority (MDLSA) in collaboration with the Watsü Mungdang observed the World environment Day by conducting an awareness programme on pollution laws and a clean-up drive at MMC Shopping Complex. Meanwhile, Phek District Legal Services Authority and Tuensang District Legal Services Authority observed the occasion by organizing an awareness programme on environmental laws and other legal aspects. Painting and quiz competitions were conducted at school level to promote awareness on protection and safeguarding the environment in the two districts, the release added.

Tree saplings planted in Philimi Morung Express News Dimapur | June 5

Philimi Youth Front (PYF) observed the World Environment Day in the village by undertaking beautification works and planting 1500 tree saplings along Coco-Doyang Road and in and around the village. On the occasion, the PYF also announced financial support to underprivileged children from the village, who were committed to pursue further education or take up any vocational course. PYF President, Huska Wotsa appealed to the members of the village to work towards protecting the flora and fauna and encourage green environment by tending to the planted tree saplings.

Tuensang, June 5 (mexn): The Chang Students' Union (CSU), Saksi NAP sector, Tuensang observed World Environment Day on June 4 by planting trees in and around its jurisdiction. Around 600 saplings, mostly pines, were planted at institutions, churches, junctions and along road sides. The CSU has lauded C. Akum Chang (Teacher GHS Chingmelen) for providing the pine saplings from his pine farm.

Police personnel participate in tree plantation, social work

Dimapur, June 5 (mexn): The Chumukedima based units of Nagaland Police observed the World Environment Day by conducting mass tree plantation and social work within the Police Complex, Chumukedima. Altogether, 1600 police personnel of all ranks led by K. Martin Pienyu, IPS, Dy. Inspector General of Police (Training & Border), took part in the programme and 1700 tree saplings of various types were planted.

G Rio School organises plantation drive

Philimi Youth Front office bearers and other members of the village during the plantation Kohima, June 5 (mexn): NCC cadets and studrive on World Environment Day at Philimi village. (Morung Photo) dents of G Rio School participated in a plantation drive

The PYF thanked Secretary, Land Resources, Y. Kikheto Sema (IAS) for sponsoring the plantation

drive and Er. Levi, Land Resources Department, Zunheboto for the logistic support. Village Coun-

cil members, GBs, Church leaders and other members of the village took part in the plantation drive.

‘Go Wild for Life’: WED in Zunheboto Morung Express News Zunheboto | June 5

Green Club Zunheboto (GCZ) observed World Environment Day under the theme ‘Go Wild for Life’ at Natha Old Zunheboto with Nungsangmenla Imchen, ADC Zunheboto as the chief guest. Speaking on the importance of the World Environment Day, the chief guest focused on how GBs and village chairmen should take initiative for better environment and set example for others. She also assured to sponsor a seminar on environment and gave the charge to GCZ to organise the same. Tavinto Chishi, GCZ President, in his speech quoted, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” He also stressed that it is everybody’s responsibility to build better environment and not just on World Environment Day. Pikato V Jimo from NEPED stressed on the use

Chang Students' Union plants trees

to celebrate the World Environment Day. Principal Kevino Savino gave the inaugural speech highlighting the significance of the event followed by a presentation by the students and cadets on the theme of World Environment Day – Go Wild for Life. Brig MS Nikam, Group Commander of NCC in Nagaland commended the superlative performance by the cadets and students on the occasion encouraging them to take positive environmental action individually to help safeguard Mother Nature for future generations, a press release received here said. He also gave the example of Angola, where the civil war has taken its toll on the flora, fauna and natural resources. He highlighted the lessons which must be drawn in the context of Nagaland. He also commended NCC cadets in the state for taking the initiative to spread awareness on the degradation of common heritage and positive steps which should be taken by the youth to counter the threat posed by global warming. The participants took a pledge to be responsible and spread awareness. The event culminated with planting of tree saplings in the campus.

Plantation drive with Miss Dimapur

Nungsangmenla Imchen, ADC Zunheboto plants a sapling during the celebration of World Environment Day organised by Green Club Zunheboto.

of paper bag and encouraged the use of glass rather than plastic bottles during events. He further stated that civic sense is very important for healthy environment. Meanwhile, Zhekheto Awomi, DSCO Agriculture, Agricultural Technol-

ogy Management Agency (ATMA), spoke on organic food and how one could produce organic fruit juice and other food. He also urged the citizens to keep environment day as an every day event. The programme was

held in collaboration with Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, NEPED, Soil and Water Conservation, Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Fishery, and Horticulture departments.

Dimapur, June 5 (mexn): Save Environment Network (SEN) observed the World Environment Day at Urban Haat, Dimapur on June 5 with Miss Dimapur, Zehovire Avi Kechu, as special guest. Zehovire expressed the need to go beyond cleaning one’s own homes to have a healthy environment. Highlighting the need to create a world where environment doesn’t need protection, she articulated that it is the duty of every sensible person to give their best effort to save the environment. “The greatest threat to our society and environment today is the belief that someone else will save it,” she stated. General Secretary, Ethnic Group of Nagaland (EGoN), Watila Rasmi, who accompanied the reigning Miss Dimapur, stated that the deplorable standard of civic sense among the people mainly attributes to environmental degradation. She expressed that every sensible citizen should plant sufficient trees for survival of humankind. The SEN members along with Miss Dimapur planted tree saplings at the premises of Urban Haat and later distributed green pledge cards to all auto drivers at various parking areas in Dimapur and taxi drivers at railway platform.

DUCCF reiterates on NOC and RC

Children play with small stones and fruit seeds at Shajouba Village in Senapati district of Manipur on Sunday, June 5. Photo by Caisii Mao

Dimapur, June 5 (mexn): Dimapur Urban Councils Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) has reminded all the colony chairmen and councils under the municipal wards area of Dimapur district (74 colonies) to adhere to the DUCCF general meeting resolution which was adopted on June 24, 2015. The meeting had resolved that DUCCF will not issue any NOC and Residential Certificates to non-locals without proper authentication of their places of origin. Non-locals from main land India must produce proper and valid documents of their Indian citizenship in order to get any NOC from the colony chairmen. “This resolution was adopted specifically to check the suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from procuring any

Village Health and Nutrition Day held

mangKolemba, June 5 (mexn): The medical staff from Community Health Centre, Mangkolemba conducted Village Health and Nutrition Day at Govt. Primary School, Mangkolemba I in Hokiyong ward on June 3. A team consisting of Dr. Jetilo Magh, MO, Talirenla, Block ASHA Coordinator (BAC), Mangkolemba I, Narosangla, GNM, Wapang, Lab Technician, ASHAS and Anganwati workers provided Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources and Sports, Music Task Force and State Lotteries, immunization to children, conducted maKhriehu Liezietsu and others during a tree plantation drive of the Kohima Village Youth Organization (KVYO) titled “Go green- Advocating better environment” on June 4. (Morung Photo)

Nagaland Community Conserved Areas Forum (NCCAF) has invited all to be an agent of change by saying ‘No to Plastic’. In a release, NCCAF said an average plastic bag is used for only 5 minutes, yet it can take up to 1000 years to break down in the environment. Therefore, to work together for cleaner Nagaland, NCCAF has appealed to say ‘No to Plastic’ and help make the earth a better place to live in. Seen in the picture is a drainage in Kohima filled with plastic bags and wrappers.

legal documents,” stated a press release issued by Media Cell, DUCCF. “If any colony chairman violates this resolution, DUCCF will take action and the same certificate will be cancelled.” Further, DUCCF appealed to the Dimapur District Administration, ADHAAR registration cell, DMC, agencies issuing Birth Certificates, DTO, and banks not to entertain any certificates issued by colonies which suspected “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants” may produce, stating there are instances of fake certificate being sold and circulated. DUCCF urged the above departments and agencies to contact the DUCCF for verification of all Residential Certificates produced by such suspects and contact the Federation at 9862660296.

larial parasitic tests, blood sugar tests, typhoid tests and also extended antenatal care to the pregnant women, a press release received here informed. Altogether, 53 general patients were checked. Earlier in the morning, a short programme was held wherein Shijong Imchen, GB delivered the welcome speech and Talirenla, BAC stressed on the importance of Routine Immunization and Antenatal Care.

Assault on pastor denounced

Dimapur, June 5 (mexn): The Rongmei Baptist Church Burma Camp (RBCBC) has condemned the assault on Meingandai Gangmei, Pastor of Dimapur Rongmei Baptist Church by unknown persons in the wee hours of June 3 near Faith Hospital, Dimapur. In a press release, Rev. Gaidim Kamei, pastor of RBCBC, appealed to the God fearing citizens to condemn such “senseless act” and further asked the persons responsible to desist from such “ungodly” act in future. In a separate press release, the Zeliangrong Baptist Churches Pastor Fel-

lowship (ZBCPF), Dimapur also condemned the assault. The release from ZBCPF Dimapur Chairman, Hegui Pame appealed to all the right thinking citizens and church organisations to condemn the incident. It also urged upon the law enforcement agencies and competent authority to take prompt action against the miscreants and punish according to the provision of the law of the land. The Rongmei Council Nagaland (RCN) has also condemned the assault and demanded the authority concerned to immediately investigate and identify the miscreants and take

swift action against them. “It is a senseless and barbarian act,” RCN stated in a press release, asserting “the attackers must be brought to justice to awaken their consciousness.” Citing that the Scriptures strongly lambast those who use violence against the helpless and harmless, RCN in the release issued by its President, Chingkhiulung called upon all sections of people to condemn such “undisciplined and diabolical act of the perpetrators against innocent church leaders.” RCN also prayed for the pastor who sustained injuries to recover soon and continue with his ministry.

A young girl poses for a photograph beside an environmental protection notice in Dzüleke, where the community has been undertaking a conservation initiative to preserve and protect the fragile ecosystem and wildlife of the area. Dzüleke Village Ecotourism Board has also put up a Code of Conduct to be followed while in the village to ensure that the area’s biodiversity and cultural heritage are protected effectively.

EDSSU honours successful students Morung Express News Dimapur | June 5

East Dimapur Sumi Students’ Union on Sunday organized felicitation programme for successful students of HSLC and HSSLC at Sumi Baptist Church, Purana Bazaar. Speaking as the chief guest, SDO (C) Dimapur, P. James Swu lauded the students for coming out in flying colours and said that their success was only a beginning to bigger milestones ahead to cover. He talked about time

management in the life of a student as crucial to achieve success and reach greater heights. He discouraged students against impatience to become somebody in life. “Waiting with hope for God’s time is sweet,” he added. James was also critical of the youngsters senselessly emulating western culture forgetting their basic structure in the society. Hundreds of students, parents, and church leaders attended the felicitation programme.

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Anti-ILP bills battleground shifts to Delhi Green activists seek stronger New Delhi/imphal, JuNe 5 (iaNS): With the arrival of representatives of political parties from Manipur in New Delhi, the battleground for three contentious bills passed by the state assembly has shifted from Imphal to the national capital. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju assured the state BJP leaders from Manipur on Saturday night that if the three pending bills -aimed at regulating migrants -- are not against any community in Manipur he would extend support to the bills. The three legislative measures are awaiting presidential assent. He told state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Khetrimayum Bhabananda and others that several persons had come to him saying that the bills are against certain communities. Meanwhile, an indefinite shutdown was enforced from Saturday midnight on the Singja-

Girl students injured in Imphal protest, exams disrupted

imphal, JuNe 5 (iaNS): Several girl students of a school here were injured when they were allegedly beaten by police during protests on Saturday to press for release of two arrested students. Some of the students of the T.G. Higher Secondary school sustained fractures. Angry students said that though policewomen were present, several policemen beat them. "After scaling the boundary wall, we escaped. However some policemen followed us," said a student, also adding that police allegedly passed uncalled for remarks at the girl students. The students are demanding the release of two students, Bruce and Vidyalakshmi. mei side in Imphal West district. Besides paralysing normal life, the shutdown also hit legalised border trade since the Trans Asian Highway No.1 passes through it. Several women's groups staged a sit-in protest demanding withdrawal of the "cooked up"

Arms and ammunition recovered in Manipur imphal, JuNe 5 (pti): Security forces have seized a stockpile of arms and ammunition from Senapati district of Manipur, officials said today. During a search operation last Thursday by a joint team ofAssam Rifles and the Army's Red Shield Division near Tamphung village, the jawans spotted some bamboos lying on the ground covered with grass in the jungles, they said. After cordoning off the area and searching it, a stockpile of arms and ammunition were recovered which included one AK-47 series rifle with ammunition and one .22 assault rifle, officials said. These areas are frequently used by insurgent groups as a transit route between Manipur and Nagaland to carry out anti-national activities, they said.

Arunachal town to have one vehicle-free day per month Guwahati, JuNe 5 (ht): After Delhi’s odd-even experiment, a town in Arunachal Pradesh has fixed the seventh of every month as a vehicle-free day in a bid to breathe easier. But the Lohit district administration has restricted its “walk or cycle” order to government officials of district headquarters Tezu. It hopes to “set an example” for the 50,000 people of the town to follow. Urban Arunachal Pradesh, though sparsely populated, suffers from vehicular congestion. Traffic snarls, sometimes up to five hours long, are usual in twin capitals Itanagar and Naharlagun. “We did not want to be seen as enforcers. It is always better to set the benchmark for the general people to follow for the cause of the environment and personal health,” Lohit deputy commissioner Danish Ashraf told HT from Tezu on Sunday. The order was issued on Friday but announced on World Environment Day. “I have requested all government officers and employees to observe the vehicle-free day on Tuesday (June 7) and the seventh of every month thereafter. We hope to increase the number of such days per month,” Ashraf said. Apart from ensuring cleaner air, the vehicle-free day is also expected to cut down on government expenditure on fuel. The no-vehicle day has been relaxed for employees, particular for women, with health issues. Emergency duty has also been exempted. “The circular also does not apply to magistrates and police personnel, but their personal choice of using bicycles will be appreciated,” Ashraf said.

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Participants of the Free Yoga Health Camp organised in Balijan (A) on June 5.

Dimpaur, JuNe 5 (mexN): The Balijan Youth Club conducted a one-day free Yoga Health Camp on June 5 at Balijan (A), Karbi Anglong (Assam) under the motto " Do Yoga, Stay Healthy ". More than 70 people turned up for the event. A press note informed that Yoga instructor Shanti Debnath one of the founding member of Patanjali Yog Ashram, Nagaland unit said "our human body is made of five tattavas or elements comprises of earth, water, fire, wind and space. Yoga is a way of living with the aim, a healthy mind in

a healthy body. Yogic exercise recharge the body with cosmic energy and facilitates attainment of perfect equilibrium and harmony, promotes self healing, removes negatives blocks from mind and toxins from the body, help in attention, focus and concentration especially important for children. He stated that "Yoga helps us to manage stress and anxiety. Yoga is comprised of the asana (physical posture) and philosophy that offers tools to finding true and lasting happiness.

Women activists have condemned the beatings of the girl students. Students of C.C. Higher Secondary school also took out a procession and later they burned an effigy of Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh. There were also sit-in protests condemning the attempts to deflect the people's movement. Meanwhile, the College Students Council formed by ten colleges in Manipur disrupted the semester and university examinations for the release of the two students. Two groups of students - one wanting to sit for the examinations and the other opposed - had come to D.M.College of Arts, and the first group were allowed to begin the exam, under police protection. How-

charges against Khomdram Ratan, the former convenor of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System. T. Sakhi, a woman activist said: "The government plan was to suppress the popular movement. However, the people's agitation is going on in full swing even after Ratan's

ever within minutes the other students rushed inside, snatched the answer sheets which were then thrown out of windows. Examination began peacefully in the D.M.College of Sciences but were then disrupted. However, the agitating students went away when police assured them arrangements would be made for their meeting with top officials to talk about their demand. The examination in D.M. College of Commerce was also disrupted. Principal T. Ibomcha said that new examinations will be held on the date the university fixes. College Students' Council leaders said that their stir will continue till Bruce and Vidyalakshmi are released without conditions.

resignation". The outlawed insurgent group, the United National Liberation Front of Manipur (UNLF), has clarified that Ratan is not its member. Publicity secretary M. Shakhen said: "The UNLF has no connection with the Inner Line Permit movement in Manipur. The objec-

tive of the UNLF has no connection with the protection of the indigenous peoples." The Manipur Tribals Forum Delhi also held a protest in Delhi coinciding with the camping of the political party delegates, who are seeking to meet central leaders in the national capital.

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Guwahati, JuNe 5 (tNN): Conservationists and green groups have criticized the Centre's new draft Wetland Rules 2016, calling it a watered-down version of the 2010 rules. They claimed that Assam's rivers and wetlands, which criss-cross the state, may soon lose out on much-needed protection under the Centre's new draft rules. The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) recently released the draft Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules 2016. Biodiversity conservation group Aaranyak, in association with ActionAid, recently held a consultation on the ramifications of the new draft rules with various stakeholders. "Assam has more than 3,000 wetlands under different categories. These wetlands are part and parcel of the larger ecosys-

Driver shot at by suspected militants Newmai News Network Senapati | June 5

Suspected militants numbering about four who were fully armed with automatic rifles shot and seriously injured a truck driver identified as Sanjeev Pradhan aged 26 years s/o Rudra Bahadur Pradhan of Taphou Nepali village in Senapati district of Manipur. The incident happened around 9:30pm on Saturday near Changoubung turning when the assailants stopped the truck for monetary demands and fired 20-30 rounds which injured the driver in his abdomen. The suspected militants fled the crime scene after puncturing the tyres of the truck. The gunmen also damaged the windshield. Soon after the incident, the 35 Assam Rifles Hengbung post immediately rushed to the spot and helped the driver with first aid. Based on the in-

cident, a police FIR under U/S 400/307/338/427 IPC & 25 (I-C) Act has been lodged at Kangpokpi police station for further investigation. The police recovered more than 25 empty cases of cartridges from the spot on Sunday morning. Meanwhile, the Gorkha Samaj Senapati has strongly condemned the shooting incident. Such incidents of shooting, killing, harassing, kidnapping and other "inhuman activities" on drivers are common along the national highway. Strongly demanding justice to the victim and keeping the NH-2 safe from all such unwanted incidents, the Gorkha Samaj has warned that, it will be compelled to launch agitation if those responsible do not come out with clarification within three days deadline. The Gorkha Samaj Senapati has also expressed

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tem. We urge the Centre to make these new rules people-centric while keeping in mind the protection of the larger ecosystem of wetlands," ActionAid programme manager Swapan Singha said. Many participants at the consultation said in comparison to the Wetland Rules 2010, the new draft Wetland Rules 2016 offer few protective measures as far as Assam's wetlands are concerned. They demanded a complete revision of the draft Wetland Rules 2016 to ensure better wetland management and conservation in Assam. "Many important provisions which were included in 2010 have now been removed from the new draft rules, which is alarming from an environmental perspective. For instance, rivers have now been excluded from the definition of 'wetlands'," Aaranyak's wetland expert Partha J Das said. The consultation

recommended that at least those parts of rivers directly connected to wetlands be recognized as part of wetland ecosystems and provided protection. Apart from this, it was also recommended that in the context of Assam's wetlands, the connecting channels must be accorded similar protection, maintenance and restoration. Conservation India demanded that the ministry frame new wetland rules through a scientific, consultative and participatory process. "While the MoEFCC never implemented the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules 2010, it has now brought out a new and seriously watered-down draft Wetland Rules 2016. The new rules can jeopardize wetland conservation in the country and need to be rejected in their entirety," the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People said.

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Bank defaulters won’t be allowed Volkswagen launches Ameo to sleep well, warns Arun Jaitley Osaka, JuNe 5 (PTi): Amid 10 state-run lenders suffering losses of over Rs 15,000 crore in the March quarter, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has promised greater capital support to banks while warning that defaulters cannot be allowed to “sleep well”, leaving all the worry to bankers. He also rejected suggestions that huge losses being posted by public sector banks (PSBs) were like “skeletons tumbling out”, saying NPAs were mostly due to business-related losses in certain sectors, rather than due to frauds, and one must “distinguish between chalk and cheese”. Jaitley, who was on a six-day visit to Japan to attract investments, said the losses were because of provisioning to cover for bad debt and most of the banks including State Bank

of India and PNB had good profits at operational level. “Look at the balance sheets of these banks. Punjab National Bank operationally had a good profit, SBI had a good profit. It is the provisioning which makes it look like a loss,” the Finance Minister told PTI. Stating that non-performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans have always been there, Jaitley said: “Whether you keep it below the carpet or you bring it into the balance sheet... I think a transparent balance sheet is the best way of doing business and that’s what the banks are today doing. “I am very clear, the government will fully strengthen the banks and fully support the banks where it is needed. I have declared a figure in the Budget, but I am willing to look at a higher figure if that is necessary.”

“These are old loans which relates to sectors which have been under stress. Those sectoral problems have been addressed significantly. In many of those sectors, the balance sheet has started changing and therefore slowly it must relate to the banks itself and reflect on their balance sheet,” he said. Against the backdrop of mounting bad loans and record losses of public sector banks, Jaitley will hold a quarterly performance review on Monday with the heads of PSBs and Financial Institutions. He would “review the overall performance of PSBs during the financial year 2015-16 as well as with regard to the flow of credit to agriculture, insurance and MSE sectors among others”, the Finance MinisNew delhi, JuNe 5 try said in a statement. (PTi): ICICI Bank plans to go paperless by putting a host of banking services on a digital platform. It will reduce the carbon footprint as part of bank’s environmental sustainability drive. “As a responsible bank, shimla, JuNe 5 (iaNs): Market yards and small vegeta- ICICI Bank have always ble collection centres are being established across Himachal focused on all the societal Pradesh to help farmers market their produce, an official stakeholders, including the said on Sunday. Besides, the government is laying emphasis environment. We have been on marketing through cold stores and fruit vegetable yards. endeavoring to go paperEfforts to enhance agriculture production have less by introducing an array brought satisfactory results with grain production reachof digital banking services ing to a new height at 16.74 lakh tonnes in 2014-15. Bewhich will help us to reduce sides, the state produced 1.81 lakh tonnes of potatoes in the usage of paper,” ICICI the same year, an official statement said. Agriculture is the major occupation of the people of Bank Senior General ManHimachal Pradesh. According to the 2011 Census, it is the ager Saurabh Singh told PTI only state in the country where 89.96 per cent people live on the occasion of World in rural areas and 70 per cent of the people are directly Environment Day. Tab banking, internet dependent upon agriculture for livelihood, which contributes 10.4 per cent to the gross state domestic product. and mobile banking and A total of 5.42 lakh hectare is under cultivation in contactless mobile payment the state. The state’s climatic condition is favourable for solutions are among the efgrowing cash crops like potato, ginger, garlic and off-sea- forts towards managing son vegetables. A provision of Rs 482 crore has been made the environment alongside in the state’s budget in this fiscal for promoting off-season growth, he said. “We have also aligned and upgraded crops, especially vegetables. The state launched the Rs 321-crore Himachal our internal operations to Pradesh Crop Diversification Project with the assistance minimise the usage of paper. of Japan International Cooperation Agency in June 2011. We undertake image based The purpose of the project is to ensure crop diversi- processing at our central opfication by providing farmers irrigation facilities and by erations, the internal memconnecting their fields by roads, promotion of organic os are all digitised; even our produce besides vegetable production, and marketing income tax proof submisthrough self-help groups for which they are provided sion happens electronically,” Singh informed. technical knowhow.

well. So to say that these are all skeletons stumbling out (is not correct). A business loss is not a skeleton. A skeleton is something which is done as a scam or a scandal and therefore we must be careful to distinguish between chalk and cheese as far as the banking NPAs are concerned,” he said. The Finance Minister said once the problem climaxes and the sectoral results start turning over, the situation would change. Citing the example of PNB, he said the bank last year made a Rs 12,000 crore operational profit, which is not a low level of profit, but it declared loss because of NPA provisioning. “So it is the balance sheet provisioning which has led to that situation.” These NPA loans were not given recently, Jaitley added.

On measures being taken to empower the banks, he said bankruptcy law is one empowerment while the strategic debt restructuring (SDR) mechanism of RBI is also there. “What we are doing to several other recovery laws the Securitisation, Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) itself is an empowerment. Therefore you cannot indefinitely have a situation where people who owe money sleep well and bankers have to worry. I think the people who owe these monies will also have to act,” he said. Asserting that all NPAs are not bank frauds, he said there may be some improper loans but there were a large volume of loans resulting from business losses or on account of sectoral losses. “The loans were rightly given, sectors haven’t done

der to make him join investigations in the case personally. Mallya had left India on March 2 using his diplomatic passport and is believed to be in the UK. An RCN is issued “to seek the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful action” in a criminal case probe. Once the said notice is issued, the Interpol seeks to arrest the person concerned in any part of the world and notifies that country to take his or her custody for further action at their end. Mallya and others are being probed by the ED in the over Rs 900 crore IDBI loan fraud case in which it registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) early this year. Britain had recently made it clear that Mallya cannot be deported and asked India to seek his extradition instead and the agency is mulling invoking the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) existing between the two countries to get this job done. The British government said it acknowledges “the seriousness of allegations” against Mallya and was “keen to assist” the Indian government in this case. The ED is also mulling attaching domestic assets and shares worth about Rs 1,400 crore owned by Mallya in the first go.

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Vijay Mallya PMLA case: Interpol seeks clarifications from ED New delhi, JuNe 5 (PTi): Interpol has sought some “clarifications” from the ED before it issues a global arrest warrant against liquor baron Vijay Mallya wanted by the probe agency in a money laundering case emerging from a Rs 900 crore alleged bank loan fraud. Officials said the global police body had asked agency sleuths to provide to it certain detailed information on the legal processes undertaken by ED in the case before it can notify a red corner notice (RCN) against Mallya, sought by the investigating officer of the case to make the beleaguered businessman join probe in the alleged loan fraud of IDBI Bank, also being probed by CBI. “Interpol has sought certain clarifications that are in the nature of providing additional details of the money laundering case against Mallya. The global police has not said it is denying the ED request to get an arrest warrant against him issued. The clarifications are being responded to,” agency sources said. They said such seeking of information is done in many cases, like in the Lalit Modi case, and the agency was hopeful that it will be able to satisfy Interpol on these issues. The agency had first sought the RCN against Mallya last month in or-

New delhi, JuNe 5 (PTi): German automaker Volkswagen on Sunday launched its compact sedan Ameo in India, priced between Rs 5.24 lakh and Rs 7.05 lakh. Ameo, which has been developed specifically for the Indian market, is the German auto major’s first ever sub 4-metre sedan. The vehicle, which comes with a 1.2 litre petrol engine mated to 5-speed manual gear box, will be manufactured locally at the company’s Pune plant.“Today is a very special day for Volkswagen in India, as we introduce our first ever made-for-India carline, Volkswagen Ameo,” Volkswagen Passenger Cars India D i -

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DCCI condemns raid DiMaPur, June 5 (Mexn): The Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry has “in the strongest possible terms” condemned, what it termed, “unwarranted raid” by police in the residence of Akashe Z. Zhimomi GB, who is also the Convenor of Public Grievances Cell, DCCI. According to a press release from DCCI Secretary, Sanjay Sethi, the police came “in one police vehicle and two other unregistered vehicles loaded with IRB personnel.” Stating that the “nature of the police raid” reflects the way the law enforcing agencies treated its bona fide member “as a hardcore criminal or terrorist”, DCCI stated, “The detestable action of the police was most unwarranted and most condemnable since the raid took place without any warrant and that too in the absence of the house owner.” “Such action from the law enforcing agencies only befits terrorists and anti-nationals and not the likes of Akashe Zhimomi who is a respectable GB, a DCCI leader and most importantly a law abiding citizen sincerely working for the welfare of the people,” it added. In this regard, the DCCI extended strong support to the demand put forth by the Joint Council of DEEHA to take strong action, by way of immediate suspension, against the officer under whose command the unwarranted raid took place so as to prevent any untoward situations.

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16-Point Agreement has fulfilled selfdetermination to great extent: K Therie Phek, June 5 (Mexn): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) President, K Therie has said that the 16-Point Agreement signed between Government of India and NPC has fulfilled self-determination to a great extent. Speaking at a public meeting organized by Chozuba Range Public Organization on June 1 at Vamuzo Memorial Town Hall, Chozuba, he added that the discussion that is going on between Naga national workers and GoI should not be a mystery to Naga people. “The mandated government should know what is being discussed, participate and support the discussion by understanding what is good for the Nagas and what

is not,” Therie said, according to a press release from Media Cell, NPCC. The NPCC President also lamented that many schemes from outside the state plan have been misused and that the real beneficiaries are not getting their share as was envisioned by the past Congress Government at the centre, the release said. On the ‘Clean Election’ call of NBCC, he said it failed in implementation and that was perhaps the reason the Congress while trying to follow that principle failed in the 2013 general election. He expressed the need for people to nurture clean hearts which can only be cultivated from within and called for a “government that is not corrupted, does not believe in money

power and does not cheat people and a government that believes in moral and ethical rights and clean, good governance, be given a chance.” Therie also remembered the Chozuba assembly constituency's past leaders and said that the need of the people today is honesty and moral liberty. Emphasizing on the need for moral and ethical values in electing good leaders, he elucidated on the leadership in Chakhesang area that Chozuba constituency has produced and said that freedom of decision making was also important in life. Former MLA and AICC member Lanpha Konyak exhorted the meeting and said that Christianity came to the Chakhesang comparatively

Biker crusades against ‘women exploitation’ Morung Express News Dimapur | June 5

Fifty-three year old Shalija Gupta has been on the road on a motorcycle as long as she can she can remember or care to remember. After her husband's demise eight years ago, this fiery lady from Mumbai on a Harley Davidson, gifted to her by her late husband, took a u-turn and initiated a campaign called "Bikers against women exploitation." The campaign kicked off in New Delhi two months ago, then Ahmedabad and Dimapur is the third metro she landed Sunday afternoon. In Dimapur, Shalija Gupta was warmly welcomed by the Motrocycles Club Nagaland, at Clock Tower Junction, and the bikers gang rode up to Medziphema carrying the banner of "Bikers against women exploitation." "Exploitation means

Shalija Gupta along with the members of Motrocycles Club Nagaland in Dimapur.

sufferance and I have suffered a lot in the Indian patriarchal society and I have seen so many economically independent Indian women being harassed and exploited whether at home or work place," Shalija said. "If women are not strong, the home will not be strong, the family will not be strong and ultimately the nation will not be strong," she asserted. When asked whether

she faced any harassment from her late husband, the lady on a motorcycle did not give a direct comment but said her late husband and two children, a son and a daughter, treated her fine all along. Asked on her landing in Dimapur, Shilaji said she was overwhelmed by the bikers in Dimapur, all males, who volunteered to carry her message. Observing that bikers

spend a lot of money on fuel, she asked, “Why can't they invest their passion in riding at least for a good cause?” Admitting that rape and physical molestations alone do not constitute crime against women, Shilaji who worked in many corporate houses and international firms, admitted that physical violence is only a part of the violence against women.

earlier and that the Chakhesang community had elected clean leaders in the past. He therefore urged the community not to let money power be the agent for election in future and also appealed to the gathering to pray for the Nagas as the state is lagging behind in all spheres. Also addressing the meeting, President, DCC, Mon, Chingwang Konyak urged the people of Chozuba Range to “prayerfully elect” a corruption-free leader who has a clean heart to work for the future of the Nagas and called for the proper implementation of NBCC’s guidelines on Clean Election. The meeting was hosted by 18th Chozuba ACCC led by its President, Ketipra, who is also a PCC member.

Training on Mithun rearing concludes

khim Village to alleviate the problems of drinking water to villagers. People were facing acute shortage of water and water borne diseases due to un-

(Borewell) will resolve the problem of availability of safe drinking water to a large extent. The borewell was handed over to the Village Authority.

One discharged NPCSD consultative meet held June 5 (Mexn): The Nagaland Pradesh by NSCN (R) kohiMa, Congress Seva Dal held a consultative meeting on

DiMaPur, June 5 (Mexn): The NSCN/GPRN (R) has discharged Corporal Lüsüla of Phek district from active national service with immediate effect. Acknowledging her bravery and sacrifice toward the cause of the Naga nation, a press release from the MIP NSCN/GPRN (R) wished her success in all her future endeavor.

May 30 at DCC office, Dimapur. P Andrew Gurung, Organiser, All India Congress Seva Dal and In-charge of North East, who was the special guest, suggested building up political careers, organising social service, sporting events, training camps, and seminars in Nagaland for at least 3-4 days in the near future. He also advised appointing as many members to strengthen the organization and work together for a better country and better future. According to a press release, the main purpose of the meeting was to interact as well as build up the Seva Dal.

DiMaPur, June 5 (Mexn): Director of Peace Channel, Fr. Dr. C.P. Anto, has called on the state government to set up a special commission “for peace and reconciliation mission” in Nagaland to settle all the issues face by the people. He was speaking at a Peace Meet and Training for church leaders. With the theme “Ecumenical Coalition for Sustainable Peace in Nagaland,” the event was organised by the People’s Forum For Peace (PFP) in collaboration with Peace Channel at Holy Cross Church, Dimapur on June 4. “It should aim at establishing prevention, reconciliation and intervention

Baptist Mission School Jotsoma observed World Environment Day with the theme 'One child one plant'. Students along with teachers cleaned the school premises and planted saplings.

Trail Hounds Cycling Club in association with Seshat Tutorials, Mokokchung observed World Environment Day with the theme “Join the race to make the world a better place” with Dr. Tiasunep, Asst. Prof., NU Lumami as guest speaker. The participants also planted tree saplings and placed eco-friendly bamboo waste baskets at Mokokchung Town park.

DiMaPur, June 5 (Mexn): A three-day training-cumexposure visit, organized by ICAR-NRC on Mithun, for progressive farmers from East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, concluded on June 4. A press release informed that Mithun is primarily available in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram. Though Meghalaya shares similar agroclimatic conditions, Mithun is not reared in the state. ICAR-National Research center on Mithun, since last 28 years, has been striving to popularize the scientific rearing of Mithun and has successfully demonstrated the rearing of Mithun under semi-intensive system like other large bovine species of cattle and buffalo, the release said. With the changing climatic scenario and decreasing forest cover, it is becoming important to adopt to the alternative rearing system for Mithun, it added. Thirteen farmers from KVK- East Khasi Hills along with Bakordalin Chyne, SMS (Plant Protection) and Shanme- Students and teachers of Cornerstone Higher Secondary bansan Marbaniang, SMS (Extension) participated in the School, Zunheboto cleaned the Sumi Hoho Ki to observe training-cum-exposure visit. The farmers were shown World Environment Day. demonstrations on the different aspects of scientific production and management practices of Mithun rearing. Farmers were taken to the nearby Molvom village of Medziphema block to witness the recently launched semiintensive system of Mithun rearing at the farmers’ field. Dr. S. Mukherjee, Dr. Saroj. Toppo, Dr. M.H. Khan, Dr. J.K. Chamuah, Dr. V. Singh and Dr. Akhilesh Kumar deliberated on various aspects of Mithun farming. For popularization and increasing awareness about scientific rearing and role of Mithun in forest conservation, specially designed T-shirts were also provided.

AR provides water supply scheme ‘Urgent need to establish Peace and LongkhiM, June 5 ply scheme (Borewell) has hygienic water sources. Reconciliation Commission in state’ (Mexn): Continuing its been constructed at Long- Water Supply Scheme

endeavour towards improving the living standards and providing basic amenities to locals in remote villages of Tuensang district, a water sup-

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strategies to resolve and transform conflicts and conflicting situations,” Fr. Anto suggested. While training the religious leaders in Dimapur, he stated that Nagaland can be a model state in setting up such commission in the country like Philippines, Rwanda, USA etc. Remarking that the existing situation is making “our youth to miss many opportunities to develop themselves,” he contended, “This commission can bring lasting and sustainable peace in the state.” He also trained the church leaders to be skilled in “dialogue and peace building” so they can be “true pastors who can be

a channel of grace and peace to many lives” and “a source of bridge between the conflicting persons, families, communities and villages”, a press release from the Peace Channel desk informed. Noting that “conflict is natural and inevitable”, Fr. Anto contended that “Functional conflicts are good” as it brings positive changes and progress. But dysfunctional conflicts are always bad and produce negative effects, he maintained. During the programme, participants shared their views and took a decision to conduct such programmes every once in a month.

TNB Cycling Club in collaboration with Tetso College and Rincho Academy commemorated World Environment Day 2016 by planting saplings in and around the campus/compound.

DC Pool staff cleaned the office premises as Tuensang district celebrated the World Environment Day 2016 cum Swatch Bharat Mission’s cleanliness drive on June 4 at Clock Tower Tuensang. The celebration was attended by District head officers, Central Security Forces, GBs and all the ward representatives of Tuensang Town. Around two thousand plant saplings were planted to commemorate the event.

State Government giving step motherly NU Students’ Union condemns June 5 (Mexn): Nagaland University Students’ Union treatment to NH-2 for last 13 years: RSZ LuMaMi, (NUSU), Lumami has condemned the act of violence that took place on

May 19, where students, staff members and faculty of the university were harassed and assaulted by some local miscreants along the highway between Mokokchung and Nagaland University, Lumami. In a press release issued by its President, Chubalemba B. Chang and General Secretary, Zuthungbemo K.Ngullie, the union further appealed that such violence should not be repeated in the future. The students’ union also urged the authority to take strong legal action against the accused.

Rengma youths display posters during the poster campaign organized by Rengma Selo Zi (RSZ) within the stretch of 40 km to 72 km between Tseminyu and Wokha in support of Rengma Hoho and Lotha Hoho’s call for indefinite bandh of NH-2 after the government failed to respond to the two Hohos’ ultimatum. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent campaign launched by Reng- Sincerely, NH-2”; “Come sumKohima | June 5

“NH-2 on step motherly treatment for the last 13 years”; “Come rain, Come sunshine, NH2 awaits you with potholes”; “Planning to buy a new car, buy a Monster Truck”; “Please wear helmet inside your car”; “Handover NH-2 to tourism department for adventure tourism-huge scope”. These are the messages on some, among the many, posters along the stretch of 40 km to 72 km between Tseminyu and Wokha. The posters are part of a

ma Selo Zi (RSZ) on June 4 in support of Rengma Hoho and Lotha Hoho call for indefinite bandh of NH-2 after the state government failed to respond to the two Hohos’ ultimatum. Some of the other posters read: “Road money for roads, not for palatial private residences”; “NH-2 awaiting revival for the last 13 years”; “Good roads- mother of development”; “Welcome to no concern zone”; “When you go home, tell them of me and say for your tomorrow that you almost got drowned here today.

mer we give you experience of muddy slides, come winter we give you experience of dusts”; “Do not travel through NH2 if you do not know how to swim”; “NH2 pothole Hotspot of India”; “Please save lives, repair NH2”; “Warning!!! Swimming not allowed”; “Roads are meant to create better communication, not to create health complications”; “A decade-long preparation of DPR for NH2 construction is likely to be ready after One Decade. Maybe!!!”; “Watch the road, it's not safe to read and drive here.”

ATMA conducts training on summer crops cultivation DiMaPur, June 5 (Mexn): ATMA Medziphema and Chumukedima blocks conducted training and demonstration on summer crops cultivation, waste management, value addition, and Kisan Gosthi on May 16 at United Village and Piphema. The resource persons were Keneisano Krose (ATM), Zevosenuo Rutsa (ATM) and Neisetounuo (AHO). Neisetounuo gave a demonstration on tomato sauce making. She said that bulk agriculture produce during harvest season can be converted to such value added product to reduce post harvest losses and generate income at the same time. Keneisano gave training on to-

mato cultivation. She gave a live demonstration on seed bed preparation and line sowing of tomato seedlings. She also mentioned the water, soil and temperature requirement of tomato plants. Tomato is usually sown during may-July and Nov-Dec depending on the variety, it was informed. Zevosenuo spoke on waste management and how kitchen waste can be converted to rich manure for floriculture, backyard garden and how bottles can be recycled to useful things such as growing flowers, vegetables and decorative purposes etc. Six Self Help Groups (SHGs) attended the trainings, where summer crop seeds were distributed.

Youth of Zaklom ward and staff of Deputy Commissioner’s office plant trees on the road side near Government Hr Sec School, Mon. Members of Officer’s Club and Thamnan ward also cleaned Mon Town monolith on June 4. (DIPR Photo)

Zapami Village Council in Pfutsero sub-division of Phek district organised community tree plantation at 'Pfuchi' under Zapami village jurisdiction located at the interstate boundary between Manipur and Nagaland. The village community planted 2500 trees as part of village community initiative for forest area expansion and conservation.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 154 By moa Jamir

Are we a compassionate society?

ompassion is the basis of all morality," declared 19th century German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer while Mahatma Gandhi stressed that, “It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.” Literally referred as “to suffer together,” compassion is defined by emotion researchers as “the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering (University of Berkeley, California).” It is the core tenets of major religion as well as basic human ethos and moral value. Helping one another and working towards collective welfare has also been recognised as positive ‘social capital’ of the Nagas – an enriching traditional legacy. However, despite such attributes, if we look at the current state of affairs, it is quite paradoxical that endemic corruption has embedded every sphere of the society - sharp contrast from our religious teaching and the moral ethos we inherited from our ancestors. Is this a sign of fading compassion or to put it more specifically, is our society tilting towards an ‘indifferent’ society? Corruption watchdog, Transparency International argues that corruption translates into human suffering, failure in the delivery of basic services like education or healthcare, derails the building of essential infrastructure; while policies, institutions and rules of procedure in the allocation of resources and financing are manipulated by decision makers, who abuse their position to sustain their power, status and wealth at the expense of the public good. A familiar situation we encounter daily in our life which one can assert is a telling symptom. Compassion, however, has been recognised as a positive attribute and is now encouraged to be actively cultivated in every sphere of life. In the field of education, compassion is considered as “foundational to all we do in character education” by instilling a strong work ethic, a passion for knowledge, and social skills on the students, according to Legacy Educational Resources, Inc, an organization dealing with compassionate teaching. However, these qualities without compassion can prove to be detrimental, as it adds, “Without compassion, these traits can propel a dangerous narcissist to the head of company or a country.” Vinciane Rycroft of Mind with Heart, wrote in The Guardian that, “Teaching school children happiness, empathy, altruism and compassion has proven beneficial results for classroom learning as a whole.” How far such attributes are reflected in our educational system by educators, administrators and the government? In healthcare, compassion has long been recognised as a key factor in improving patient experience. It is about ensuring the patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect in a clean, safe and well-managed environment, runs a National Health Service manual in UK. In 2013, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center pinpointed at three specific elements of compassion: recognizing that the patient is suffering, emotional resonance and actually moving to address the suffering. Besides affliction with basic infrastructure bottlenecks, does a patient undergo such experiences in our hospital? Kanov et al (2011) noted that facilitating the process of compassion becomes paramount in any organization (business or otherwise) saying, “The experience of compassion— be it as a recipient, a witness, or a participant—can make an important difference for organizational members, customers, and whole organizations.” A neuroscientific study by Olga Klimecki & others of Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences also noted: “Development of social emotions such as compassion is crucial for successful social interactions as well as for the maintenance of mental and physical health, especially when confronted with distressing life events.” Beside empirical researchers, one can logically infer from our own experiences that compassion is a positive human attribute ensuring a healthy societal relationship. However, owing to pervasiveness of corruption, we seem to be directing our compassion towards a negative attribute. As Pierre de Vos, a South African constitutional law scholar once asked, if there are no tangible adverse consequences for those who are corrupt, if we show too much compassion and understanding and do not insist on the corrupt being punished, are we not contributing to it…? Seeking candid and honest answers to this difficult question will go a long way in bringing back compassion in our society again. For any comment, drop a line to moajamir@live.com

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Simba Sibanda and Chiedza Mazaiwana

African development goals powerless without clean and distributed energy

ne of the World Bank’s hashtags on Twitter is #endenergypoverty. It is a critically important goal. It is also just one of 17 “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) that the international community, led by the United Nations, has committed to meet by 2030. But not all goals are created equal. There is a massive blind spot in the development goals vision. In order for many if not all of the SDGs to be achieved within 14 years, universal access to affordable, modern and reliable energy (SDG #7) is a prerequisite. Energy is the “Intel Inside” of the SDGs. Unseen, but required to make the SDG framework deliver on its many intended benefits. No power means no water pumps to irrigate fields for food production (SDG #2); no refrigeration to store vaccines that ensure health (SDG #3); no lights for children to do homework at night and no power for Internet at schools to guarantee quality education (SDG #4). It is no coincidence that over half of the world’s out-ofschool children are in sub-Saharan Africa, which has 600 million of the 1.1 people worldwide who live without any access to any electricity. Yet as the African Development Bank gathers this week for its annual meeting, development agencies and banks, and their national government “clients”, still pursue energy infrastructure the old-fashioned way: namely through centralised power plants, often using fossil fuels, that according to the World Bank’s own internal audit take an average of nine years to get up and running. Nine years. We only have 14. Assuming power is needed to achieve the SDGs, using the business-as-usual approach to build Africa's future energy infrastructure leaves us no time to tackle them and lack sufficient urgency in embracing different approaches. One such approach that is showing rapid, marketdriven growth is distributed renewable energy, such as rooftop solar and mini-grids. These solutions are far more cost-effective, clean and able to be deployed almost immediately, especially in remote areas, where most of the unelectrified live. A new way of thinking is needed. And that requires leadership, by national governments and by their funders. The African Development Bank has announced ambitious plans for renewable energy in its "New Energy Deal" for Africa, including 75 million "off-grid" connections. That is an important start. When the development banks make their hashtag #endenergypovertyfaster, we will be moving down the right path. Simba Sibanda is secretary of the Renewable Energy Association of Zimbabwe. Chiedza Mazaiwana is Zimbabwe lead for the Power for All campaign.

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Rahila Gupta News Internationalist

Military fatigues and floral scarves Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping to stop the advance of ISIS while also leading a radical democratic charge against capitalist ideology. Welcome to the Rojava phenomenon

t is no exaggeration to say that a strip of land along Syria’s northern border with Turkey is home to the most radical experiment in democracy and gender equality, not just in the Middle East, but in the whole world. Western Kurdistan, or Rojava, ‘the land where the sun sets’, first entered popular consciousness in that lopsided way that news from elsewhere hits Western TV screens, when Kurdish women fighters liberated Yazidi women and children from ISIS on Mount Sinjar in August/September 2015. When the might of the US, the Free Syrian Army and the other regional armies in Iraq were unable to stop the advance of ISIS, young women in military fatigues and floral scarves defeated men who can barely tolerate fully covered-up women. Such film footage was undeniably eye-catching. Yet rather than leading to further information and analysis of the Rojava phenomenon, it was appropriated for the purposes of capitalist consumerism. H&M tried to sell a range of clothing based on the women’s uniforms, provoking outrage in the Kurdish community for trivializing their struggle. So who are the YPJ (Women’s Defence Units), and what kind of society are they defending? Inspired by the evolving ideology of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the banned PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in Turkey, and triggered by the ‘Arab Spring’, the Kurds of Rojava began their struggle for autonomy in 2011, and their autonomous self-administration was formally set up in November 2013. Öcalan, unlike any other male freedom fighter to date, has placed women at the centre of his vision of a liberated, democratic society with a system of copresidentship, a man and a woman sharing power at every level. The political vacuum created by the chaos in Syria allowed this experiment to flourish compared to similar attempts in southeastern Turkey, which have been met with the brute force of the Turkish government. Abused by patriarchy The YPJ, variously estimated to be 7,500-10,000 in number, is not to be confused with the Peshmerga army of the Kurdistan Regional Government across the border in Iraq. Alongside the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a force consisting of both men and women, the YPJ works closely with the military wing of the PKK and is also part of a newly constituted fighting force, the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Kurdish and Turkmen militias, which targets ISIS and other Islamists in the Syrian opposition. When I visited Rojava I was able to catch up with Nesrîn Abdullah, Commander and chief spokesperson of the YPJ. Nesrîn joined in 2011. ‘I had two reasons to become a fighter. We were under the control of the Assad regime, which abused us as Kurds; as women we were abused by patriarchy. If you are a person whose land is invaded, then you are invaded as a person also. As women we had to establish a defence force to protect ourselves; not only a military

or the millions of people whose lives have been uprooted by conflict and natural disasters the average amount of time before they can return home is now 17 years. Yet often the assistance provided to people living in these crisis situations is designed to only meet their shortterm needs. They may receive food, water and a roof other their heads, but the children are not in school, and the parents can’t find a job. It’s a problem which United Nations Education Envoy Gordon Brown says has created a “lost generation” who have never seen the inside of a classroom. “At present, education falls through the gap because humanitarian aid goes to food and shelter,” Brown told journalists here Monday. By contrast, said Brown, development aid, which traditionally addresses issues such as health and education “is long term and not geared to an emergency.” Brown says that a new education fund, which will be launched at the World Humanitarian Summit next week, “will be the first to bridge the gap between humanitarian aid and development aid.” Aid programs have traditionally been divided between humanitarian assistance — an emergency response when disaster strikes — and development assistance — which takes a longer term and more holistic approach. Bridging the gap between humanitarian and development aid programs is one of the issues on the agenda at the WHS to be held in Istanbul, Turkey next week. “Whether it’s called development funding or humanitarian funding to me is immaterial. As long as we are addressing the neediest people in these

A young woman in a guerrilla outfit at the Turkish border. The Kurdish community was outraged when H&M tried to appropriate this style of dress.

force but also a political and ideological force. Without this, there will be no social and political equality between the two sexes.’ At 37, Nesrîn belongs to a generation of Syrians that received military training at school between the ages of 13 to 16. She then received a month’s training when she joined the YPJ. She commands both men and women and does not report experiencing insubordination from men, as PKK women commanders did in the 1980s and 1990s. She believes that men are intimidated by strong women but also says that the training is aimed at producing fighters with shared values and is reinforced by an ongoing system of group criticism and self-criticism. The intake includes people joining with very different motives: defence of the homeland; liberation of the people; and escaping poverty and, in the case of women, conservative families. Sexual relations between fighters are banned and sexual violence is taboo: ‘If somebody dares to do it, he will be arrested.’ Men and women are allowed to get married, but the women are then expected to leave the force – the only evidence of institutionalized inequality that I unearthed, which was justified on the basis of ‘our conservative society’. Philosophy of peace Nesrîn was keen to emphasize that the YPJ is a defence and protection force: they would under no circumstances attack or invade someone else’s territory unless they were being threatened. ‘We believe in the philosophy of peace and defence, unlike other armies, which are based on authority and aggression. If all the world wants to invade us, we will fight to defend ourselves. Men’s unity is built on the idea of invading and killing, but women’s unity is built on peace and equality. If you have belief, your force will not be defeated.’ This may sound naively optimistic, but the YPG and YPJ have been successful in not only defending but also winning back territory from ISIS fighters who are arguably also spurred on by belief, albeit in a medieval and twisted form of Islam. But belief is not the only drug that ISIS fighters rely on; they also take captagon (a form of amphetamine) to make them feel invincible. A wounded YPG soldier confirmed

to me that he had found drugs on the ISIS fighters he had captured, alleging that captagon even stops them falling after they are shot. Money is a motivator, too: morale in ISIS has reportedly dropped in line with cuts in salaries as oil revenues have declined. The YPJ, by contrast, is a volunteer force. Nesrîn does not get a salary; she sleeps and eats wherever her work takes her – to a military camp or an office. The families of the poorer women in the YPJ are given some financial compensation, approximately 40,000 Syrian pounds (less than $100) per month. When I ask if she has fought face to face with an ISIS fighter, Nesrîn nods but refuses to be drawn into the details. When pressed, she says: ‘It is not important if I killed a Daesh [ISIS] fighter; the most important thing is to kill the ideology. They believe that a Daesh fighter killed by a woman will not go to heaven. Because we were on the frontlines, Daesh have passed another decree that any soldier who has died at the hands of a woman should not be buried, but left where he falls.’ Their role as the most effective fighting force against ISIS has brought US support in the form of air cover, much to Turkey’s chagrin. However, Rojava’s anti-capitalist ideology is almost more dangerous to the US than the religious fundamentalism of ISIS. The US has failed to use its considerable leverage to persuade Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government to lift the trade embargo on Rojava, yet without building materials and medicines, redevelopment is being choked off and human suffering exacerbated. In addition, the US is refusing to support Rojava’s demand for autonomous federal zones as a solution to the Syrian crisis. It is quite likely that the US will brand them PKK puppets and throw them to the wolves as soon as their usefulness is over. We should pre-empt that possibility, not just by asserting Rojava’s independence from the PKK, but by campaigning to remove the PKK from the US list of terrorist organizations. Not only have its leaders renounced violence, but its ideology has filled out the once-hollow institutions of democracy with a real grassroots enthusiasm for political change, driven by women’s equality. Rahila Gupta visited Rojava to research her forthcoming book with Beatrix Campbell, Why Doesn’t Patriarchy Die?

When Emergencies Last for Decades lyndal Rowlands Inter Press Service situations in order for them to lead productive lives and for the countries themselves to be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and get back on the track to growth and out of poverty,” Christina Bennett, a Research Fellow at the UK-based Overseas Development Institute told IPS. However Bennett noted that the humanitarian sector does need to adapt to the fact that crises are lasting longer. “We’ve got crises lasting 5, 10, 15 years and you’ve got humanitarian aid workers being deployed on 3 month, 6 month, year long contracts, and humanitarian funds being allocated on an annual and sometimes only semi-annual basis,” she said. “What you’re seeing is humanitarians doing work for decades but not necessarily having the capacity or the resources to be able to do a good job,” she said, noting that the reduced capacity is due to the structural limitations of the humanitarian aid system. One important proposal on the table at the WHS is the so-called Grand Bargain. It proposes that the largest humanitarian organisations will be offered more flexible and longer term funding in return for greater transparency and accountability. The Grand Bargain was proposed by a

high-level review of humanitarian financing ahead of the summit, published in a report titled “Too important to fail—addressing the humanitarian financing gap.” Another significant suggestion made by the report was that official development assistance (ODA), a technical term for aid given by rich countries to poorer countries, should be redirected to situations of fragility – meaning places where people are or have recently been affected by conflicts or disasters. “Because development is the best resilience-builder of all, the panel believes that the world’s scarce resources of official development assistance (ODA) should be used where it matters most – in situations of fragility,” the report stated. The proposal represents a possible shift of development funding away from poorer countries towards countries in crisis situations. However, there is often an overlap between the two, in part because poorer countries usually don’t recover from disasters as quickly and easily as richer countries. There may be some evidence to support the shift as well, with indications that countries in crisis are lagging behind poorer countries in at least some areas of health and education. According to research published

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by development organisation Save the Children last year, the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality are in countries that are at high risk of conflict, or particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters. Gains made in health and education in poorer countries can also be set back by natural disasters. These natural disasters include droughts, which will become more severe and frequent as the climate changes. “In Ethiopia with El Nino there are children who are not going to school. Because of El Nino they don’t have enough food to eat, the don’t have enough water,” Shannon Scribner, Oxfam America’s Humanitarian Policy Manager told IPS. Scribner says that Oxfam provides both development and humanitarian aid, and supports moves to improve coordination between the two separate fields. However both Scribner and Bennett noted that humanitarian and development aid workers are only one small part of a much bigger picture. Governments and local organisations have the most important role to play in responding to and preparing for disasters, and humanitarian organisations are often most needed when governments either aren’t able or willing to meet these needs. Oxfam America is supporting new legislation in the United States (US) which would require USAID – the US government aid program – to provide development funding directly to local organisations and governments for disaster prevention and preparedness. The legislation reflects the need for an increase in funding for disaster prevention and preparedness as well as the fact that local governments and organisations are best place to respond to disasters.

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Palestine’s forgotten children

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Do you agree that we need active smart citizens to successfully implement the Smart Cities Mission? 46% 42%

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Some of those who voted YES had this to say

Next year will mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Britain has a historic responsibility to challenge the Israeli government’s conduct in the West Bank and Gaza

Lord Norman Warner

ext year will mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration as well as the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. With no sign of an active peace process between the parties, here in Britain we have a historic responsibility to seriously challenge the Israeli government’s conduct in the West Bank and Gaza. On a recent visit to the West Bank, I saw powerfully for myself the need for better legal protection for young Palestinians. Without this I fear that we will engender an entire lost generation of forgotten Palestinian children. Yair Golan, the deputy head of the Israeli military, caused an uproar in April when he called for "national soul-searching" and warned that “there is nothing easier than to behave like an animal and to act sanctimoniously”. Earlier this year I understood better what he meant when I found myself sitting in disbelief whilst watching proceedings unfold in Ofer Israeli military court in the occupied West Bank. Israel is a democracy that claims to practice the rule of law. But here were Palestinian children, shuffling into court with their hands tied and their feet manacled. Waiting to go into the court room, we spoke to families who often haven’t seen their children for weeks and only then after struggling on lengthy journeys through numerous checkpoints. They told us – a cross-Party group of UK Parliamentarians – their personal experiences in a defeated, world-weary way. The courtroom itself was small, crowded and chaotic. A cast of actors jostled and moved around; prosecutors, defence counsels, ushers, warders, clerks, together with unidentifiable others who float in and out. Conspicuous by their absence were witnesses or indeed any process by which evidence is tested in court. Things became clear-

er when we learnt that after interrogation – sometimes when sleep-deprived and often without the presence of a lawyer – virtually every defendant pleads guilty in order to secure a shorter period in custody. The proceedings were presided over by a uniformed military judge whose main preoccupation seems to be ensuring that the prisoners in the dock are those on his flow of dockets. A series of brief exchanges followed between the judge and the prosecution, another soldier, and the defence, a civilian lawyer who has not met the defendants before. The judge then announces his decision, but not necessarily facing the defendants. If a family is willing to pay a fine – often substantial – the prisoner may be released, but only after payment. A father rushes out of court after securing the paperwork to try to pay in time for his son’s release for a family wedding. We subsequently learn that according to the military court's annual report for 2011, $3.4 million a year in fines is raised, so Palestinians seem to be funding their own misery. Over 160 children are now detained in Israeli prisons illegally outside the West Bank with a further 276 held near Ramallah. Military Court Watch say that the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has risen by 156 per cent since September 2015 and that many of these children are beaten and held in unsafe and abusive conditions. A lawyer with Military Court Watch said: “Palestinian children are treated in ways that would terrify and traumatize an adult.” Most of these children are arrested for throwing stones. Usually they will be in custody for about three months. If not detained at the scene of their alleged offence, they will have been picked up later, often during a terrifying raid on their family’s home by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the night – a terrifying experience for the whole family. They may have been given up by a Palestinian informant, possibly under duress, to the network of local military intelligence officers. It makes little difference whether or not they are guilty – they will plead guilty anyway and a regime based on intimidation and fear will have been reinforced. All this happens under the regime operated by the Israeli Defence Force in the West Bank – occupied for nearly 50 years – and fully sanctioned by the Israeli government, despite it being a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It appears that those rights apply only to children living in Israel itself and to

the children of illegal Israeli settlers living on the West. Of course, viewed from the Israeli government’s perspective, this military system has been very effective in controlling the 2.7 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank while protecting over 400,000 Israelis who have settled there illegally since 1967 (this figure does not include 200,000 settlers in East Jerusalem). There are now over 125 of these settlements, in reality towns, sanctioned by the Israeli government and over 100 so-called “outposts” which in turn will grow. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, this Israeli settler population is expanding at over three times the rate of the Israeli population as a whole. Each day in Palestine brings new demolitions of Palestinian structures sometimes those funded by international aid. Since the beginning of 2016 alone, nearly 600 structures have been demolished and over 800 Palestinians displaced, half of whom were children. There are now over 11,000 approved demolition orders for these structures awaiting execution, usually with little notice and sometimes in the middle of the night. The state of unrest in the West Bank remains troubling, with increasing deaths and serious injuries of both Palestinians and Israelis, although the numbers for the former are much larger than those of the latter. Palestinian children now grow up in a culture of fear, intimidation, suspicion and sometimes death. We saw this in sharp relief when we visited a house in Duma firebombed by settlers, killing the parents and their baby. For this generation of Palestinian children there is no horizon of hope that the misery will end. A divided and elderly Palestinian political cadre now seems powerless to halt the illegal annexation of their people’s land under the oversight of an occupying military force. The Israeli government allows the transfer of civilians into the West Bank to illegally occupy Palestinian land despite this being regarded by many legal experts as a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Is it really any surprise that teenagers throw stones in protest? Given our history in this part of the world, a responsible British Government should be considering now a more effective international challenge to stopping the Israeli government’s consequence-free ability to inflict illegal and inhumane treatment on the Palestinian children and their families. That is the least these forgotten children deserve.

Let’s learn about the ground beneath our feet

ver since the “news broke” that all references to Indian Union's first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru had been omitted in the Class VIII textbooks of the Rajasthan state board curriculum, there has been huge hue and cry. Syllabus content, especially those of non-science subjects, has always been a bone of contention where various political forces have wanted to introduce changes based on their conception of what students should know more of and more crucially, what students should know less of. Given the super-dose of Jawahar Lal Nehru worship that the citizens of the Indian Union have been fed for decades, the BJP has sought to downplay Congress (I)'s greatest family mascot. Congressites as well as those who think that the Congressite stream of politics represented the most glorious faction of politics before the transfer of power from the British monarch to the Indian National Congress, naturally were not amused. Usual suspects perched in Delhi's high wall universities who could care less about the state of school education in Rajasthan protested this de-Nehrufication. Some called it Saffronization – which is a trickier charge to establish given the simultaneous deletion of references to Madan Mohan Malviya, one of the great Hindu nationalist leading lights of the Indian National Congress and also a Hindu Mahasabha-ite. With Vallabhbhai Patel, Maliviya has been a figure that the BJP has carefully sought to patronize. Hence, this round of saffronization was haphazard at best. This is nothing compared to the NCERT syllabus tweaking of the Vajpayee years that had the Congress patronized Delhi-based left-liberal academic cliques up in arms. The BJP has got

At present, no Naga is taught about their homeland's past but the past of Delhi Garga Chatterjee on a backfoot and has promised that this oversight would be corrected and Jawahar Lal Nehru would be rehabilitated in the minds of Rajasthani students of Class VIII. In terms of setting the rules of the game, Congress (I) has had the first movers advantage and built up an entire academic bureaucracy by frank nepotism, with the parliamentary communists happy to play second fiddle in that game of infecting hearts and minds of young ones through their selective take on the past and, more importantly, through their particular spin on issues that couldn’t be excluded. The BJP and the Sangh earlier was quite amateurish at this game. It is slowly building up a counter-bureaucracy. It is in learning mode and hence some of their history-management moves appear very undignified. It is still learning and it has all the intent to fry the brains of students in their own particular snake-oil that will make proud sons of Bharatmata out of unsuspecting Rajasthani kids. One thing, however, unites the Congress (I)-communists and the BJP. Both want the state boards to be destroyedwhich is evident from their support of NEET in order to establish the dominance of CBSE. The other similarity is the stress on a make-believe 'national' centre and its politics over the various power-centres that were sequentially subdued or gobbled up by the British to manufacture

India. Thus we have the ridiculous things like the NCERT and the CBSE, which provides syllabus and content for a whole subcontinent. Given only BJP and Congress (I) have been in power with their unitary India imaginations, they have created history books which claim to be about the subcontinent but predictably end up being about the political forces of the Hindustani-belt in general and the rulers of Delhi in particular. A student of West Bengal or Nagaland who studies in such central boards will learn much more about the rulers who sat in a place thousands of miles away than the rulers and the past politics and culture of their own ethno-linguistic homeland. It is hardly different from the colonizer's history as in the USA – where students learn more about European and Greek history than the past of the people who were in charge before White men vanquished them physically through genocide and culturally through various methods – education being one of them. With the right inspiration and imbalance of power, 'education' aimed at 'unity' can be an effective tool of cultural genocide. The perverseness of the Delhi-ideology is that it silences the histories of most peoples and nationalities of the Indian Union. There is no uproar against this deletion since they were never included in the first place. That’s how their deletion is nor-

malized while one is also coerced to protest the deletion of Nehru. The difference between Congress (I) and BJP histories is about their assessment of Aurangzeb. None would mention that this Delhi imperialist's army led by Hindu general Ram Singh was resisted successfully by Hindu Ahom general Lachit Barphukan aided ably by his military officer Bagh Hazorika Ismail Siddique. A focus away from the exploits of Delhi rulers to the resisters of Delhi rule or even worse, the description of great rulers who could care less about the existence of North India, evokes deep anxieties in the mind of the deep state and its academic time-servers. Nehru ruled Rajasthan from Delhi. Usual suspects who have never protested the erasure of Manipur or Bengal or Tamil Nadu's rulers from the Indian syllabus are protesting the erasure of Nehru from Rajasthan's textbooks. At present, no Naga is taught about their homeland's past but the past of Delhi. When Delhi will learn about Phizo, then only should Nagaland be expected to learn about Nehru. It is rather simple. If there has to be an Indian Union wide history, Harshavardhans needs to be cut down to size and the Pulakesins and Shashankas need to rise. Along with glory stories of successful hunters from Delhi, there has to be as many stories of those hunted by Delhi's rulers, from whatever make-believe Indian antiquity up until 2016. Textbooks cannot simply be about Delhi ideology. Let’s learn about the ground beneath our feet. Let's remind ourselves the words of American poet Wendell Berry - “What I stand for is what I stand on.” Finally, that’s what matters and connects man to his surrounds, to his soil, to his soul. That’s what has ever mattered, here, there, everywhere.

• Yes, absolutely. We need majority of the citizens to be aware and responsible to public service and public duty. • Yes. lets see the mentality of the people living in clean and well establish cities. as far as my knowledge goes for instance the inhabitants of cleanest village in Meghalaya and most the European cities, they give the first and foremost priority to the in and around habitat neat and clean and each of the citizen are the stakeholder of smart city, thus to be a smart city it does not mean solely depend on the Government it the people movement. coming to our land how may of our people care and protect the government / public property?. most of nagas don't think the welfare of the others and are we all not responsible for this shamble state of Nagaland? Singapore once worst than Nagaland but with refinement of peoples mentality they have came thus far. • Yes. We need make citizens aware of their civic responsibilities to have a smart city • Yes. Yes. Smart cities actually means an active modern life. We need to change our way of living. So I agree that unless the citizens way of living changes, the mission will not be fully realized. This Modi government is disorienting everyone. With the introduction of yoga, skill, swach bharat and smart city, he is changing the Indian way of living. • Yes, but firstly we need to have a true effective man power from the state government as well as 100% cooperation and unity from the public. • Yes! But Nagas need to first understand and digest the meaning of ‘smart citizens.’ The chairman and members of every panchayat need to be a smart citizen – first of all then start implementing cleanliness in line with swatch bharat like proper drainage, public toilets and restricting rearing of pigs in residential areas which is the dirtiest of all polluting the whole environment. • Yes, if not, all the investment for public development will go to waste. Look at Dimapur. Even the pavement railing, throwing garbage anywhere and everywhere, people spitting out paan and tamul. With this kind of mindset, how does one expect our cities to be smart. • Yes. Smart does not mean in education. It is about common sense and civil sense. • Yes. First those involve in smart cities Mission must be smart themselves. It actually has to be planned for 1000 years to come. We cannot build a smart city with narrow roads and overcrowded houses in places like Kohima, Shillong and Aizawl. Maybe they can spread out to new satellite cities with better planning. Some of those who voted NO had this to say

• No. No we dont need active smart citizens. Rather we need honest responsible citizens to implement the smart cities Mission. Inputs will be given by technical experts. At the end of the day it is the citizens as a whole who will be responsible for successful implementation whether smart or simple. • No. What we need is smart planning and even smarter implementation. You will be amazed what ordinary citizens can do given the opportunity. • Not necessarily. While it may be important for the citizens to be enlightened and have basic civic sense, it does not mean that they have to be smart citizens. • No. We need dedicated and responsible public servants. Lets not always expect the public to do everything. • No, because the slogan 'Smart City" is only a marketing slogan to lure the naive and innocent public. When we look at the characters of what a Smart City is, we find nothing new or smart about it. Actually, every city in a developing country like India should be equipped with such features. The concept itself is politically motivated. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say

• When our land is swamped with corruption, factionalism, selfish leaders and an angry public, the smart city mission is the least of our concern. It is nowhere near our priority list. It is taking away the focus from the main issues. This is a side issue that has become the main issue for politicians who have nothing else to do. • Who are the 'smart citizens' here?? Change the mindset and go forward together instead of creating another Smart Citizen forum or organization or society. Enforce the laws and regulations stringently and the citizens will obey as they are all smart. • It’s not just active citizen but also honest bureaucrats and sincere politician who always keep state about their self interest. • Its not a question of smart or unsmart. Its a matter of fact that for all round development there should be basic civic sense in the public mind. This is what is lacking in our society today.

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India and Qatar pledge to fight terrorism, internet propaganda

DohA, JuNe 5 (iANS): India and Qatar on Sunday decided to address the menace of global terrorism through a comprehensive approach to stop flow of foreign terrorists, dismantle terrorist infrastructures and counter terror propaganda through internet among other things. "Both sides noted that addressing the menace of global terrorism should be based on a comprehensive approach which should include, but not limited to, countering violent extremism, combating radicalisation and recruitment, disrupting terrorist movements, stopping all sources for financing of terrorism, stopping flow of foreign terrorist fighters, dismantling terrorist infrastructure, and countering terrorist propaganda through the internet," a joint statement issued at the end of a series of high-level meetings Prime Minister Narendra Modi held here. Modi visited Qatar at the invitation of Sheikh Ta-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, witness the signing of agreements to strengthen India-Qatar ties, in Doha, Qatar on June 5. (PIB Photo)

mim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, and interacted with top leaders including the Emir and the Prime Minister of Qatar Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al-Thani. "The two sides discussed ways and means to

further promote cooperation in cyber security, including prevention of use of cyberspace for terrorism, radicalisation and for disturbing social harmony," the statement said. Leaders from both sides welcomed exchanges and

dialogue between religious scholars and intellectuals from both the countries and the organisation of conferences and seminars to promote values of peace, tolerance, inclusiveness and welfare, inherent in all religions.

Expressing appreciation for their ongoing bilateral cooperation in the area of security, the two sides agreed to enhance cooperation in counter-terrorism operations, intelligencesharing, developing best practices and technologies, capacity-building and to strengthen cooperation in law enforcement, antimoney laundering, drugtrafficking and other transnational crimes. The Indian side appreciated Qatar's participation in the International Fleet Review and DEFEXPO in India in February and March 2016, respectively, and the increasing visits of Qatari delegations to India's Naval and Coast Guard establishments. The Qatari side evinced interest in the opportunities offered under the "Make in India" initiative for joint production of defence equipment in India, the statement said. Both Prime Minister Modi and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad

Al-Thani at the delegation level talks highlighted that countering terrorism required a strong collective action by the global community. "They further agreed to strengthen their cooperation in combating terrorism within the relevant multilateral institutions," the statement said. "The two sides described bilateral trade ties as an abiding link between the two countries," it said, adding both sides also agreed upon the need to further strengthen these ties, particularly through diversifying the trade basket. They agreed to encourage regular participation in each other's trade fairs and exhibitions and to facilitate trade promotion measures. The two sides expressed satisfaction at the growing presence of Indian and Qatari companies in each other's markets and agreed to further encourage such participation, the joint statement said.

Death toll in Mathura clash rises to 29 Haryana: Jat quota stir begins

MAThuRA, JuNe 5 (PTi): The death toll in the clashes between the police and encroachers of Jawahar Bagh has risen to 29 with two more persons succumbing to their injuries even as police registered 45 cases against the occupants. An unidentified encroacher died during treatment in the district hospital here and one Pinakoo, resident of Azamgarh, succumbed to his injuries in SN Medical College in Agra, taking the death toll to 29, Chief Medical Officer Vivek Mishra said. Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh said 45 cases have been registered against the encroachers in

which 3000 persons have made the accused. He said some more arrests are possible in the case as police teams are trying to ascertain the accomplices of Ram Vriksh Yadav, the chief of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, who were providing financial support and arms to him. Operations in Jawahar Bagh would continue till Monday in search of explosives and weapons, he said. Bodies of ten encroachers, including two women, have been identified by their accomplices who are lodged in jail. Efforts are on to identify the other bodies, Singh said.

Narayanasamy-led Cong ministry to be sworn in today PuDuCheRRy, JuNe 5 (PTi): Congress Legislature Party leader V Narayanasamy will be sworn-in as Puducherry Chief Minister tomorrow. Along with Narayanasamy, five Congress legislators will be sworn-in as ministers. They include A Namassivayam, Malladi Krishna Rao, Shah Jahan, M Kandasamy and R Kamalakannan (all are former ministers), Assistant Director of Information and Publicity I.Ganapathy said. Lt Governor Kiran Bedi will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the six-member team of ministers at 'Gandhi Thidal' near the sea shore at 12.10 pm, Ganapathy said. 69-year-old Narayanasamy, who had served as Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the second UPA government after serving as MoS

Parliamentary Affairs in UPA-I, did not contest the May 16 Assembly polls and will now have to seek election to the legislature in a bypoll. The Congress leader had called on Bedi at Raj Nivas on May 30 and staked claim to form the ministry. Raj Nivas sources told PTI that the Lt Governor had invited Narayanasamy to form the government. He was elected leader of the 15-member Congress Legislature party on May 28. The party also has support of the two-member DMK in the 30-member Assembly. There was stiff competition between Narayanasamy and PCC president A Namassivayam, who was elected for a second consecutive term, for the post of Chief Minister, but the former emerged the unanimous choice at the CLP meeting.

on tepid note amid tight security

ChANDigARh, JuNe 5 (PTi): Three months after their violent agitation left 30 dead, Jat leaders today renewed their quota stir in Haryana which was restricted to small meetings in 15 districts amid tight security by the BJP government which had drawn flak over its handling of the protest last time. "It has been peaceful so far," Haryana's Additional Director General Police (Law and Order) Muhammad Akil said as nearly 20,000 security personnel from central and state forces kept a a close vigil across the state, including on national highways and railway tracks which the protesters had blocked for several days in February. Jat leaders in Jassia village of Rohtak district, the epicentre of violence during the stir, held a 'havan' as they started the second round of the agitation on a tepid note with influential Khap panchayats and some Jat factions distancing themselves from the protests. All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS), which gave the call for the protest, pitched a tent along the Rohtak-Panipat highway just outside Jassia and also held dharnas in 15 of the state's 21 districts. The Jat protesters are demanding quota under OBC category, withdrawal of cases

registered against community members during the previous stir, status of martyrs for those killed and jobs for their next of kin, besides compensation for the injured. The agitation this time was restricted to so called 'Jat belt' comprising districts like Jhajjar, Sonipat, Rohtak, Panipat, Hisar, Fatehabad and Jind. "There are small groups of protesters mainly in the rural areas. At some places, the protesters handed over memorandums to district authorities," an official said. Prohibitory orders were clamped at sensitive places in these districts and security forces conducted flag marches as the administration geared up to ensure that there is no repeat of earlier incidents when 30 people were killed, property worth hundreds of crores of rupees destroyed and key routes blocked by agitators. A special round-theclock control room was set up in Chandigarh to monitor the situation. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, senior officials including the Chief Secretary, the Home Secretary, the state DGP, were keeping a close watch on the situation, officials said. AIJASS Hisar president Rambhagat Malik said, "We are committed to holding dharnas in a peaceful man-

ner." After the Jat agitation, which paralysed normal life in Haryana and affected Delhi and other neighbouring states too, the state government recently brought in laws to provide reservation for Jats and five other communities under a newly carved Backward Classes (C) category. However, the High Court stayed it, acting on a public interest litigation, after which some Jat groups announced the fresh stir. In Hisar, members of the Jat community started an indefinite dharna at a stadium in village Mayyar away from railway tracks and national highway, police said. Addressing the protesters, Jat leaders accused the Haryana government of not being serious towards their demand for reservation. The Jat leaders said in case the government did not respond to their demands in a positive manner, they would be left with no other option but to take to the streets. "The dharnas have been peaceful. People have the right to put forth their views in a democratic set up but it should be within the ambit of law," state Agricultural Minister O P Dhankar said. "We had fulfilled their demand but it was challenged in court. The state government is doing the needful," he said.

NATION Briefs 17 killed in Maharashtra Expressway accident RAigAD, JuNe 5 (iANS): At least 17 persons were killed and 21 others injured in a ghastly road accident involving a bus and two private vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway (E-Way) near Panvel on Sunday. According to the state highway control, the accident occurred near Shendug curve on the Pune-Mumbai arm of the Expessway, around 4.00 a.m. Initial investigations showed that a tyre of a Swift car suddenly developed a puncture and halted in the first lane for repairs. The second private vehicle, an Innova, stopped by to offer help. Just then, a speeding bus came and rammed into the Innova from behind. Both the bus and the Innova were thrown into a 40-foot deep ditch. At least 10 passengers were killed instantaneously by the impact. Among the victims were eight women, six men and three minor girls.

Dalit shot at for fetching water from govt tubewell BhADohi, JuNe 5 (PTi): A 25-year-old Dailt was today shot at and injured for fetching water from a government tubewell outside a village here, triggering clashes between two groups. The incident occurred in Amva village in Chauri area when Pankaj Dhaikar wanted to take water from a government tubewell and Kailash Pathak prevented him, leading to a clash, Chauri police station SHO Vinod Yadav said. While people from both sides gathered and indulged in brick batting and clashed with sticks, Pathak shot at Dhaikar and fled from the spot, he said. Dhaikar sustained bullet injuries and was rushed to a hospital, where his condition is stated to be stable, police said. An FIR has been lodged in this regard and a manhunt has been launched to apprehend the accused.

Khadse should be booked for sedition: Kejriwal New Delhi, JuNe 5 (PTi): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded that former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse should be booked for sedition for his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He also came out in support of withdrawal of the sedition charge against Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is lodged in jail. Kejriwal said that while Patel is not "guilty of sedition", Khadse, who is in the eye of a storm over allegations of corruption, including irregularities in a land deal, is. Khadse had resigned yesterday. "Gujarat govt shud withdraw sedition charges against Hardik Patel. He is not guilty of sedition. Khadse is. Book khadse under sedition (sic)," the AAP chief tweeted. Kejriwal yesterday dubbed Khadse as a "traitor" for his alleged conversation with Dawood Ibrahim, saying, "Patel has been charged with sedition even when he has not done anything against the country, but on the other hand alleged call records show that Dawood Ibrahim, one of India's most wanted criminals working against the nation, made calls to Khadse."

Heat wave continues in Punjab, Haryana; Chandigarh gets rain ChANDigARh, JuNe 5 (iANS): Chandigarh and its surrounding areas were lashed by rain and hailstorm on Sunday evening even as most parts of Punjab and Haryana continued to experience heat wave conditions. Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, which saw a maximum temperature of 41 degrees during the day, got some relief towards the evening with rainfall, accompanied by hailstorm, in some areas. Haryana's Hisar town at 44.4 degrees Celsius was the hottest place in the northern region on Sunday as blistering heat conditions continued in the state and neighbouring Punjab. Most places in both states recorded maximum temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius. On May 21, Hisar recorded its highest temperature of the season at 47.8 degrees. In Punjab, the holy city of Amritsar and industrial city Ludhiana recorded 43.7 and 43.8 degrees Celsius, while Patiala saw a high of 42.1 degrees. Meteorological department officials said the heat wave will continue and the weather will largely remain dry over the 48 hours.

Rising ecological crimes, poaching pose challenges New Delhi, JuNe 5 (iANS): With eco crimes like ivory smuggling, illegal logging and toxic waste touching record high of $258 billion globally, discovery of 40 dead tiger cubs in Thailand's famed tiger temple and with more tigers poached in the first five months of 2016 in India than in the entire 2015, makes the "Fight Against Illegal Trade in Wildlife" a perfect theme for this World Environment Day on Sunday, June 5. "The amount of money lost due to environmental crimes is 10,000 times greater than the amount of money spent by international agencies on combating it -- just $20-30 million," says a report by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Interpol. "Go Wild for Life", says this year's theme -- and the crime syndicate has already turned towards "the wild". Eco criminals are flush with money, and the laws are not strong enough to stop such crimes. According to forest officials and wildlife conservators who stand as the first barrier between poachers and wildlife traffickers, the demand as well as rates for animal parts and specimens has increased over last year. "One kilogram of rare pangolin scales would fetch a poacher around Rs 9,000-10,000 till last De-

cember; now it fetches them between Rs.18,000-20,000," Vikram Singh Parihar, a forest officer of Madhya Pradesh, told IANS. India in April this year hosted the 'Third Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation', which failed to set a stronger mandate before the world to protect the endangered species. India, at the same time, also failed to focus on other species, many of which are on the verge of extinction. According to wildlife experts, pangolin, sea-horse, sea urchin, North Ring and Red Crown turtles, ghariyal, Gangetic sharks, Fishing Cat and Clouded Leopard are some of the species which might go extinct in a few years -- given the pace at which they are being targeted. Wildlife experts and investigators, like Debbie Banks of Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), have their hopes focused on the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties - CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) -- which is to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in September -- to force governments around the world to stop the "licensed victimisation" of wildlife species, like lion and tigers. "We hope that China would be

asked to disclose its stockpiles of tiger bones, which no one has access to," Debbie Banks told IANS in a conversation. Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has several times stressed on stiffening the penalties for eco-crimes. As per a joint report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Interpol, with an estimated 'black revenue' of $258 billion, the illegal environment trade or "Environmental Crimes" has outstripped the illegal trade in small arms. "International criminal gangs and militant groups profit from the plunder of Earth's resources," a UNEP statement released on World Environment Day said. The UNEP-Interpol report adds that environmental crime has notched an annual growth of 5-7 per cent. This is 1.9 to 3.9 times higher than Global Economic Growth, says the International Monetary Fund. Crimes like trafficking hazardous waste, poaching and logging cost the world economy between some $91-258 billion in 2015, which was 26 per cent higher than previous estimates, while it stood at $70-213 billion in 2014. According to government records, which experts claim widely

under-report, about 3,622 cases of wildlife crime were reported in India in the last three years. A group of elephant poachers was arrested last year from Kerala with 18 elephant carcasses and 538 kg of ivory. Most of the poachers, however, go free. "The biggest issue is sustaining prosecution and investigation efforts when it comes to wildlife crimes. Poachers arrested with tiger bones and hides get away with bail for a mere Rs 400 to 500. That is the problem we need to deal with to stop all this," Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder of wildlife conservation organisation Wildlife SOS, told IANS. Meanwhile, the wildlife organisation Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) on Saturday discovered the rare 'Eurasian Otter' in Madhya Pradesh. The fascinating discovery was made by camera trapping over a vast area of 5,800 sq. km. in extremely rugged terrain of the Satpura hills and the Kanha-Pench corridor in Madhya Pradesh done by the forest department in collaboration with WCT. Hope appears to be returning, but the question of how to protect this newly discovered species in the backdrop of existing laws remains ambiguous.

Prabhu flags off Tiger Express, promises more such circuits

New Delhi, JuNe 5 (iANS): Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off the inaugural run of the Tiger Trail Circuit Train on the occasion of the World Environment Day on Sunday and promised more such initiatives. Prabhu, who was on tour to Mumbai, flagged off this train through video conferencing, a railway spokesman said here. Speaking on the occasion, he said that Indian Railways is fully committed to address environmental issues and will launch more tourist circuit trains like elephant circuit, desert circuit etc, an official release said here. This train with 5 days/6 nights itinerary will start from Delhi's Safdarjung railway station and travel via Katani, to Jabalpur, Bandhavgadh, and Kanha in Madhya Pradesh. The semi-luxury train

will take the guests onboard to the world-famous Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Parks as well as to Dhuadhar Waterfall in Bedhaghat near Jabalpur, said the spokesman. Several dignitaries, including Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi and Congress MP Janardhan Dwivedi,

were present at the station here on this occasion. The launch of the Tiger Express on World Environment Day is to highlight the significance of environment in our lives, said the spokesman, adding that the train will be operated by Indian Railway's Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).

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Saudi Arabia expands anti-Iran strategy beyond Middle East RIYADH, JUNE 5 (REUTERS): Under King Salman, Saudi Arabia is expanding its confrontation with Iran well beyond the Middle East, no longer relying heavily on Western allies to smother Tehran’s ambitions outside the Arab world. Since Salman came to power early last year, and Tehran struck a nuclear deal with world powers, Riyadh has adjusted its strategy for countering the efforts of its Shi’ite Muslim rival to build influence in Africa, Asia and even Latin America. Most notably, the Sunni power has used Muslim networks to push states into cutting off contacts with Iran, including by creating an Islamic Coalition against terrorism without inviting Tehran to join. “Iran is the one that isolated itself by supporting terrorism,” Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a recent news conference. “That is why the world reacted to Iran, and particularly the Islamic world, and basically said ‘enough is enough’.” Tehran denies it sponsors terrorism, and points to its record of fighting the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State through backing for Shi’ite militias in Iraq and President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Riyadh is alarmed by Tehran’s support for the Shi’ite Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, and cut off military aid to the Beirut government after it failed to condemn attacks on Saudi

isters, perhaps during Ramadan. At the same time we prepare a coordination centre in Riyadh,” said Saudi Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri. This centre will have permanent staff members from each participating country, Asseri said, and would be a place where states could either request help in dealing with militancy or offer military, security or other aid.

(L-R) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi King Salman, and Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stand together as Saudi Arabia’s cabinet agrees to implement a broad reform plan known as Vision 2030 in Riyadh on April 25. (REUTERS File Photo)

diplomatic missions in Iran. Likewise, Saudi forces have launched a war on Iranian-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen. But all this is part of its long-standing diplomatic, economic and military efforts to contain what it sees as a pernicious expansion of Iranian activity in Arab nations. Now it is attempting to orchestrate support elsewhere, including from countries such as Pakistan and Malaysia through its creation last November of the coalition against terrorism. “In many ways the dimensions of the competition between Iran and Sau-

di Arabia are beginning to go beyond the Middle East. This is an interesting development that historically hasn’t been the case,” said Mehran Kamrava, a professor at Georgetown University-Qatar. OLD ORDER DEAD The strategy partly responds to implementation of the nuclear deal in January. Riyadh fears this will give Iran more scope to push its interests internationally by releasing it from many of the sanctions which have crippled its economy. With even the United States now saying Western

banks can resume legitimate business with Tehran, the Saudis believe their main Western ally is gradually disengaging from the region. “They understand the old international order is dead and they have to take responsibility,” said a senior diplomat in Riyadh. But the strategy is also driven by King Salman’s belief that Iranian influence has grown only because nobody has stood up to it, said Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi security expert with close ties to the Saudi interior ministry. The coalition against terrorism falls into this

context. When chiefs of staff from 34 Muslim states met after a joint military exercise in late March, a cartoon in the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat, owned by the ruling family, showed a bomber dropping leaflets with a no-entry sign onto Iran. The coalition, which caused some confusion as to its scope and membership when Riyadh first announced it, is now moving forward and work to establish a “coordination centre” may be formalised during the Muslim holy month which starts shortly. “The next step is the meeting of defence min-

TAKING THE FLAG Although not explicitly aimed at countering Iran, the coalition includes neither Tehran nor its allied government in Iraq. The alliance also aims to counter comment in some Western media that while Iran and its Shi’ite allies are fighting Islamic State, Sunni Saudi Arabia supports jihadist militancy on some levels. “This new coalition is basically to get the worldwide Islamic support for Saudi Arabia to lead the fight against terrorism and take the flag from Iran,” said Alani. Whether the coalition members see it that way is another matter. Mohammad Nafees Zakaria, spokesman for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, praised Riyadh for setting up the coalition and said Islamabad would be happy to share expertise. But he also said the arrangements would take time to develop and added that Pakistan sought “brotherhood” between Islamic states and was therefore concerned about the esca-

lation in tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Beyond the coalition initiative, Riyadh is trying to win the support of India and encourage it to isolate Iran. So far it has achieved mixed results. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited both countries last month, Saudi energy sales to India grew but New Delhi also agreed to build a port in Iran. Riyadh’s hosting of a summit of South American and Arab League states last year was also partly aimed at pushing back Iran, said a Saudi analyst who sometimes carries out diplomatic functions for the government. Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador in 2012 seeking diplomatic support from the left-wing states, with little apparent success. AFRICAN RIFT Some African countries have followed many Arab League states in recent months in cutting diplomatic ties with Iran. This followed the storming of Riyadh’s Tehran embassy in reaction to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shi’ite cleric in January. On Monday, Zambia’s president appeared in Riyadh on an official visit soon after speaking out against Tehran. Iran has devoted money to winning friends across Africa, investing in local industries and paying to spread its Shi’ite version of Islam in Muslim states. Playing on its anti-imperi-

alist credentials, Tehran’s goal appeared to be winning wider support at the United Nations. Not only is soft power at stake. In 2012 two Iranian warships docked at Port Sudan, just across the Red Sea from the Saudi coast, following years of close ties between Khartoum and Tehran. Since then Riyadh has invested around $11 billion in Sudan and ignored international arrest warrants on President Omar al-Bashir to allow him to visit the kingdom. In January, Khartoum cut off ties with Tehran. Djibouti and Somalia did the same. A document seen by Reuters in January showed Mogadishu had received an aid package of $50 million shortly beforehand. But Djibouti denied in February that its break was motivated by money and accused Tehran of spreading sectarian tension in Africa. Overall, Riyadh believes its approach is succeeding. “Iranian expansionism is almost stopped,” an adviser to Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said last month. But at Georgetown University-Qatar, Kamrava said it’s too early to declare winners and losers. “In international relations you can rent friends but you can’t buy them. For Saudi Arabia the long-term effectiveness of this policy is questionable because these alliances are based on purely tactical or commercial relations,” he said.

Thousands of anti-Abe protesters rally in Tokyo Spooked by Bangladesh heist, Asian security summit works on cybersecurity SINGAPORE, JUNE 5 (REUTERS): The South China Sea dispute and worries about North Korea dominated an Asian security summit at the weekend, but cybersecurity was also in focus as regional officials sought to improve coordination amid a rise in high-profile hacks. Alarmed by the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February, one of the world’s biggest ever cyber heists, cybersecurity was among the top concerns discussed at Singapore’s annual Shangri-La Dialogue. For the first time, the conference allotted one of its six special sessions to cybersecurity. “It was indicative that cyber has converted from being a logical threat to a physical threat,” said William Saito, special adviser to the Japanese cabinet on IT strategy. For Japan, safeguarding critical infrastructure was imperative, especially since it is the host for the 2020 Olympics,

and cybersecurity was a large part of that effort, he said. “Cyber, because it is so cross-cutting, will just make existing threats worse,” Saito said. Cybercriminals, whether from criminal gangs or rogue nations, usually operated beyond borders, the meeting was told. “Where restrictions differ, they exploit these differences in order to take advantage of our national systems,” said David Koh, chief executive of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. “We cannot defend or view cyber threats or issues within any national borders or within a regional border.” In the February heist, hackers stole money from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the New York Federal Reserve. One transfer to a Sri Lankan entity was reversed, but four transfers for $81 million went to the Philippines and wound up with casinos

and casino agents there. Most of the money remains missing and the identity of the hackers is unknown. India, with nearly 500 million Internet users, is preparing to set up an army of 500,000 cybersleuths within five years, a delegate from New Delhi said at the conference. “That can provide a bulwark for global cybersecurity efforts,” said Santosh Jha, joint secretary for cyber issues at the Indian external affairs ministry. TRUST FACTOR Building a transnational cybersecurity defence system is hampered by differences between countries and a lack of trust, delegates said. For instance, Western nations were focused on safeguarding the infrastructure of cyberspace while China and Russia were concerned about content. Also, rival nations use cyber techniques for espionage and potentially for sabotage.

After years of acrimony and allegations of cyber-spying, senior U.S. and China cyber officials held their first meeting last month since the two countries struck an antihacking agreement in September. “You have permanent members of the U.N. Security Council coming to the table with fundamentally different objectives, it probably isn’t a surprise that the accomplishments to date have been modest,” said Sean Kanuck, a former U.S. National Intelligence Officer for Cyber Issues. What was needed, he said, was to “find low hanging fruit, common interests that we all absolutely share, and build on those premises”. No country can achieve cybersecruity on its own, Singapore’s Koh said. “We need to recognise the urgency of the issue and start working together to take action, based on our common security interests.”

TOKYO, JUNE 5 (REUTERS): Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to call for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign and for a law allowing the military to fight overseas to be overturned, as an election for parliament’s upper house draws near. The protesters, many of them elderly, rallied in front of parliament and in a nearby park, holding placards with slogans such as “Step down, Abe government” and “Citizens change politics”. In the July 10 election, opposition parties hope to keep Abe’s ruling coalition from winning the majority of the 121 seats up for grabs in the 242-member chamber where it already commands an overall majority. Analysts say his Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner have a good shot at success. In the lower house, Abe’s ruling coalition enjoys a two-thirds “super majority”. Abe’s support rates rose by three percentage points to 56 percent after he hosted a Group of Seven summit in May and accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on a historic visit to Hiro-

People rally during a protest denouncing the policies of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on June 5. The placards read: “Citizen change politics.” (REUTERS Photo)

shima, a Nikkei business daily survey showed on Monday. Abe on Wednesday announced a widely expected decision to delay a sales tax increase by two-and-a-half years, and said he would seek the public’s mandate for his plan in the upper house vote. But some opposition parties are concerned that a strong election result for the ruling bloc may encourage Abe to press ahead

California or bust? Clinton hopes to strike gold in pivotal vote

A Hillary supporter yells out with a picture of Donald Trump on her phone as U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Fresno, California on June 4. (REUTERS Photo)

WASHINGTON/LONG BEACH, JUNE 5 (REUTERS): If Hillary Clinton ends up losing California to Bernie Sanders, it will be because of voters like Nallely Perez. Perez personifies what a Clinton supporter was supposed to look like: a 24-year-old Latina who grew up idolizing the former first lady as a groundbreaking woman in politics. But when she votes in California’s Democratic presidential nominating contest

on Tuesday, Perez will be supporting Sanders. “Everything that I would stand for, he has said it,” said Perez, a student at California State University, Long Beach, who said she likes Sanders’ promises of tuition-free college and universal healthcare. “We found our voice in him.” California is the final big contest in the long, bitter fight for the Democratic nomination. Opinion polls show the Democratic

race there tightening in recent weeks. Where Clinton, a former secretary of state, once held a big lead over Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, the two now are nearly tied. A University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times poll released on Friday showed Sanders with a one-percentagepoint lead over Clinton in the state, 44 to 43 percent, a swing from March when Clinton held a nine-point edge. On the Republican side, Donald Trump has earned the nomination for the November 8 election, and Clinton is close to capturing the number of delegates she needs to head the Democratic ticket. Her campaign expects that a win in New Jersey earlier on Tuesday will secure the nomination. But a loss in a populous Democratic stronghold like California could lend credence to Trump’s claim that she is a weakened candidate. “Clinton would like to go to the nominating convention with the wind at her back and tamp down the perception that she doesn’t excite Democrats,” said Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic strategist in Washington. A Sanders victory will not clear

the way to his nomination unless it triggers a defection by scores of superdelegates - party office-holders and officials from Clinton’s camp, an unlikely outcome. Sanders has vowed to use California as a springboard to the party convention in Philadelphia in July. A win, especially a big one, would validate the selfdescribed democratic socialist’s decision to stay in the race to the end and give him leverage to influence Clinton’s policies and cabinet picks. “The game he is playing is to be able to draw as many concessions as he can out of the party and the Clinton campaign,” Mollineau said. A SANDERS SURGE? The area around Long Beach, part of the 47th congressional district in California, has emerged as a key battleground. Sanders campaigned there a week ago; Clinton was in the area on Friday and may return again before Tuesday’s vote. The district’s congressman, Representative Alan Lowenthal, remains one of the few uncommitted Democratic members of the House of Representatives to either Clinton or Sanders. His district once leaned Republican,

but is becoming increasingly liberal thanks to an influx of Latino and Asian-American voters who comprise the majority of residents. The large minority population might be expected to translate into an advantage for Clinton, who has consistently shown strength with such groups. But a Reuters reporter who toured the area observed an abundance of Sanders supporters. In the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach, Sanders volunteers Gordon Winiemko and Jon Fellman manned a table on the sidewalk outside a coffeehouse. They had a long discussion with Shawn Coleman, a 24-yearold film student, who told them he preferred Sanders to Clinton because “I think I’m a little bit more for what Bernie has in mind for the future, I think he’s right, and Hillary doesn’t really seem on it.” Lia Roldan, a 42-year-old set decorator in the film industry who lives in Long Beach, said she was voting for Sanders because “he has a lot of experience in standing up for causes that benefit the working class.” Roldan said she would reluctantly support Clinton in a contest against Trump.

with his long-held aspiration to revise the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution. Organisers of the Sunday rally put the crowd at 40,000, while police declined to give a number. Some right-wing activists tried to approach participants but were held back by police. When a similar anti-Abe rally took place in the same locations last August, organisers said some 120,000 people participated.

Turkish warplanes target Kurdish militants, at least 27 killed DIYARBAKIR, JUNE 5 (REUTERS): Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey and the army killed 27 fighters near its borders with Iraq and Iran, the armed forces said on Sunday. Conflict in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast has been at its most intense level in two decades since a two-year-old ceasefire by the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) collapsed last July. Air strikes on Saturday destroyed gun positions and shelters and caves used by PKK fighters in the Gara area of northern Iraq and the countryside of Lice district in Diyarbakir province, the military statement said. It did not give a death toll but state-run Anadolu Agency cited security sources as saying small groups of PKK militants were killed in those strikes. Seven PKK militants were killed in a clash in Semdinli near the Iraqi and Iranian borders on Saturday, while air strikes in Semdinli on Friday killed 20 PKK fighters, the army said. PKK guerrillas also launched an attack on a military outpost in Sirnak province overnight and in the ensuing clash one PKK fighter was killed along with a member of the state’s ‘village guard’ militia, security sources said. In northeast Turkey’s Gumushane province, not usually an area of conflict, two soldiers were wounded when their military vehicle came under fire in a gun attack, local authorities said. Media reports said one of the soldiers subsequently died. It was not clear if the attack was related to the Kurdish conflict. The air strikes in Lice were conducted after the Diyarbakir governor’s office declared a curfew there on Saturday. It said the curfew was lifted on Sunday morning after the completion of military operations there. Turkish security forces on Friday concluded operations targeting PKK fighters in the town of Nusaybin near the Syrian border and in Sirnak near the border with Iraq. More than 1,000 people, mostly PKK fighters, were killed in three months of clashes in those areas, security sources say.

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public discourse Vargas keeps title after Waste disposal - civic sense & civic bodies bloody slugfest with salido

Los AngeLes, June 5 (AFP): A bloodied Francisco Vargas retained his WBC belt by battling to a draw with fellow Mexican Orlando Salido in a match that could earn him a second straight fight of the year award. The 31-year-old Vargas and Salido went toe-to-toe in a 12-round slugfest for the world super featherweight championship at the StubHub Center stadium. Vargas improved to 24-0-1 with 17 knockouts as he had to go the distance despite suffering bad cuts over both eyes which he claimed were the result of head butts from Salido. "It was a great fight that the fans liked," Vargas said. "Unfortunately the cuts are always with the head. But I never gave up. "I am very happy that I won and I am looking for more challenges." Rightly so. Vargas then added he needs some time to "relax" and recuperate. In November, Vargas got off the canvas and recovered from getting badly cut to take the belt from Japan's Takashi Miura by ninth-round technical knockout to win the fight of the year. This was another battle of attrition. Vargas will need time to heal as he had deep cuts over both eyes, but still managed to land heavy punches on Salido as the two pummelled each other right up to the final bell. Two officials scored

Orlando Salido throws a right at Francisco Vargas, left, during their WBC super-featherweight championship bout at StubHub Center on June 4. (Getty Images)

the bout 114-114 while the other had it 115-113 for the champion Vargas. Vargas's preparation for the fight was clouded by controversy after he tested positive in April for the banned stimulant Clenbuterol. Vargas claimed the substance came from contaminated beef he ate during his training camp. The 35-year-old former title holder Salido came into the ring wearing a tshirt with a picture of the late Muhammad Ali who died Friday at age 74 after a lengthy struggle with Parkinson's disease.

Salido thought he did enough to win on Saturday in front of a crowd of 7,300 at the outdoor facility in south central Los Angeles. "I felt I won. It was a close margin and a tough fight, but I feel I won," he said. Salido also brushed aside accusations of dirty tactics. "We banged heads at some point but those were punches," he said of the cuts on Vargas' face. "That is what happens in boxing. Head-butts are accidental, but it happens."

'Judgement Day' for Sushil as HC decides on trials

new DeLhi, June 5 (Pti): Fighting for an Olympic ticket on the unfamiliar legal turf, Sushil Kumar's glorious wrestling career may meet an unceremonious end when the Delhi High Court pronounces its verdict on Monday on who gets to board the flight to Rio between him and Narsingh Yadav. An unfavourable verdict for Sushil may not be the end on the legal front as he can still challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court. But it could well signal the end of the road for perhaps the greatest Indian Olympian, who won two back-to-back

medals. With less than two months left for the Olympics, starting August 5, future look bleak for the unassuming grappler from Haryana whose injuries played a part in the entire sequence of events leading upto Monday. The Delhi High Court, in its last hearing on Thursday, gave clear indications that it was likely to give a judgement in favour of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) in the tiff over selection trials in the men's 74kg freestyle category. The Delhi High court had observed that it did not find "any statutory mandate" to

hold trials before the Olympics. "Problem is that the sports code is nowhere prescribing that trial is mandatory. It has given flexibility and autonomy to the organisation to decide (mode of selection). I do not find the statutory mandate which you are trying to read into it," Justice Manmohan had said during the final hearing. Narsingh had secured the Olympic quota place for India last year at the World Championship in Las Vegas after winning a bronze medal. Since then the Maharashtra grappler has been staking his claim for the berth

and the WFI had also been steadfast in its stand to send Narsingh to Rio since he had grabbed the quota. Going by norms in WFI guidelines, a quota belongs to the country and not to an individual wrestler, and former world champion Sushil pointed out that there should be a trial in 74kg category to decide who would go to Rio. The 33-year-old, who had won a bronze medal in 2008 Beijing Olympics and followed it up with a silver in 2012 London Games, had moved the court seeking directions to WFI to hold selection trials.

Vardy wants to join Arsenal, says Giroud

England's Jamie Vardy during training. (Reuters)

LonDon, June 5 (reuters): France and Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud has fuelled speculation that Jamie Vardy is on his way to the Gunners by saying he has heard the Leicester City striker is keen to move. "I have been told that Jamie wants to join us and it's very good news for us," the striker told Sky Sports after scoring twice in France's 3-0 friendly win against Scotland on Saturday. British media reported on Friday that Arsenal, runners-up to champions Leicester last season, had triggered a buy-out clause in Vardy's contract with a bid of around 20 million pounds ($29.04 million). There was no immediate comment from Thai-owned Leicester, although Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper quoted manager Claudio Ranieri confirming Arsenal had made a bid. ESPN quoted a source close to

Arsenal as saying Vardy was due to undergo a medical on Sunday. "I am happy with competition. We have always had fantastic strikers at Arsenal and I want the best for this club. Hopefully he is going to help us win this title," said Giroud. "The boss (Arsene Wenger) wanted to sign at least one or two strikers, so I expected a top striker and I think it will benefit the club and hopefully he is going to score a lot of goals like he did at Leicester." Vardy, 29, is due to travel to France on Monday with the England squad for the Euro 2016 finals starting on Friday. He scored 24 Premier League goals last season as Leicester won the top-flight crown for the first time in their history, and was chosen as Player of the Year by the Football Writers' Association. Arsenal have not won the league since 2004 and finished second this season, 10 points behind Leicester.

lee chong Wei gets olympic boost with indonesia open win

JAkArtA, June 5 (AFP): Lee Chong Wei beat Denmark's Jan O Jorgensen in a hard-fought final to win the Indonesia Open Sunday, raising hopes the Malaysian badminton ace may be on course for Olympic victory. World number two Lee battled back from one set down to defeat Jorgensen 17-21, 21-19, 21-17 in a thriller that was marked by a series of long rallies and dramatic smashes. Fifth seed Jorgensen dominated in the early stages of the men's singles final and appeared to be heading for victory as he took the lead in the second set. But second seed Lee fought back doggedly, winning a series of tough rallies to cling on. By the final stages of the third set, Lee was firmly in control, winning point after point as Jorgensen's initial confidence faded. Lee said he was "very happy" to win his sixth Indonesia Open title after the tough match, that lasted one hour and five minutes, but admitted he did not play well at the start. "In the second game he was leading 19-17, I was preparing myself to lose," he said. Jorgensen said he was "very disappointed" at his loss in the tournament, which took place at the Istora Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta. "I felt that I had the game in my hand and I

Gold medallist Lee Chong Wei (R) of Malaysia and silver medallist Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark pose on the podium after the men's singles final at the Indonesian Open badminton tournament in Jakarta on June 5. (AFP Photo)

think I should have won it," he said. The victory will be a boost for Lee as he heads to Rio this summer, where the 33-year-old will again try to win Olympic gold. At the last two Olympics, Lee has lost in the final to his arch-rival, China's Lin Dan. In another boost for the Malaysian, Lin was knocked out of the Indonesian Open earlier in the week, losing in a shock defeat to unseeded Indonesian Jonatan Christie.

Top seed Chen Long of China withdrew, blaming an injury. Despite his loss in the final, Jorgensen's impressive performance will be a boost for the Danes, coming hot on the heels of their maiden Thomas Cup victory last month. Jorgensen said the performance "gives me confidence" going into the Olympics, and added: "I think I have shown today that I'm very dangerous."

ere comes another World Environment Day and where are we? Will we just plant some few tree saplings and leave it at that? Of course, planting trees is a noble task but how many trees are taken care of after the day is over? It all comes down to having basic civic sense. One biggest concern at this juncture is the ugly scenario of strewn waste all around us. We do not think beyond our own space/compound while disposing off our wastes. Our mindset is that “if my own space is clean, I don’t care”. Thus, wastes are thrown randomly – (in someone’s compound, on the road, in the drains/streams).... Is this civic sense? Just because we have thrown away the wastes does not mean it is disposed off – it is accumulating. Come rain, the wastes clog the drains/streams inundating entire colonies, roads turn to seasonal rivers aggravating the already bad condition of the existing roads. Come wind, the waste materials are blown everywhere making the already messy sights messier. Whom do we blame for this sorry sight? Do we blame the Government? The District Authorities? The Municipal bodies? The Village/Colony lead-

ers? If we are to put the blame on these entities, where are we as individuals? Are we not responsible? For instance – we have a social get together, after the program one sees the wastes strewn all over the area. Can we start with putting our own waste in a dustbin which can be provided by the organizers? We construct big offices, if we see the walls there are unsightly splatters everywhere (pan/tamul stains). Who is doing these? It is us, individuals. We have to discipline ourselves to develop basic civic sense and make our surroundings a pleasant sight and a clean place to live. We admire clean places – towns/cities and wish that those conditions exists in our place. But have we realized that in those places, people have developed strong civic sense along with proper systems put in place by the civic bodies? Even in those cities/places, there are strict rules and people are fined heavily for littering. We are very good at aping other people’s habits/culture etc. Can’t we ape their civic sense too? Isn’t it time to wake up and start owning our problems instead of blaming someone else. Our duty as individuals to maintain a clean

environment is to dispose off our wastes in designated dustbins. The duty of local municipalities is to provide proper dustbins while ensuring daily collection of the wastes and disposing off properly (not like the present situation where it is not collected for weeks on end causing health hazards to nearby residents and a real eye sore too), their duty is to strategize and bring out plans for segregating degradable and non degradable wastes and make sure that citizens practice it. The duty of the District Authority is to frame stringent rules and regulations for all to abide and make sure that it is implemented in spirit (need of the hour because civic sense is negligible and has to be enforced). If all these mechanisms are in place, we can look forward to a clean city/ town/village. When we individuals develop a strong civic sense and practice it in our daily life, only then we can blame the official entities for not performing their duties. Let us be conscious of our actions and do our part, let the official entities do their part. Together we can make our city/town/place something to be proud of. Losa Kayina, Prodigals’ Home

Bifurcation of secondary & elementary from higher secondary: A Genuine Reason

he recent ongoing tussle between Education Department and ANSTA, NSSFOF on Bifurcation of Secondary & Elementary from Higher Secondary has become the talk of the town. Both the parties have had several rounds of talks, sittings etc. Yet, it all ended in smoke. Nevertheless, the desire of the ANSTA, NSSFOF on bifurcation issue is still burning and it’s likely to go on. ‘’It takes a whole village to raise a child’’ says African proverbs. Thus, It is not only the responsibility of those working under Education Department. But it needs a constructive suggestion from all the right thinking citizens. Because the upbringing of a child is a communal effort. And this particular issue is likely to have a greater impact whether it is for good or bad. I on my part, who is not aligned with any parties who are in good books of bifurcation or vice versa, would like to pour out, what my inner voice urges me to do so. Initially, I wasn’t very much aware or well verse about the bifurcation issue. But, just during these few days of paper war on how bifurcation is important. Now it seems so clear to me that the demand put forth by the ANSTA, NSSFOF is purely based on genuine reasons. Some amongst many reasonable features lay down by the

Bifurcation Demanding Association are, say like: Separate Academic Session: Here, it is quite apparent, since they follow different academic session, there is every possibilities of overlapping while discharging each other’s duty and responsibility. Another major reason is stagnant promotion. There is no denying the fact that, not all the teachers can be AHM, HM, JEO’s, SDEO’s and the like in future. But the question is why not give a chance to the secondary and elementary teachers also, for what is due to them. On the other hand, the government with thousand excuses says: it is against the interest of the students, wasteful expenditure etc.etc. All these days they haven’t elaborated anything on how it is not function able or feasible. But, the ANSTA & NSSFOF has minutely elaborated the feasibility and non feasibility on how to go about or in what way to function in so many ways and means. Now, it is like readymade formulated policies for the department, just to take and apply without wasting time and energy. When we just undersee government excuses, promises, commitments etc. to handle any related issues. It seems, as if the sun will rise in the west. Let me just cite a very plain example here. The RMSA Teachers 2015-16 are almost five months old with-

out any remuneration. Time and again we have played the part of an alarmist reminding them either in person, group or through an open letter. But technically nothing appears to be working. Exhaust all options before launching stir, agitation etc. is what they say. But, despite all efforts to solve any matters, issues amicably in the forms of representations, memorandum, meetings, conventions etc. without going for agitation seems like watering off the duck’s back. And, as and when the time is ripe for agitation, they easily get infuriated. One finds it difficult to digest what is the real motive and policies are behind. So far as this particular issue is concern. Any sensible person without any hesitation will say that the demand is purely based on genuine reasons and needs to be taken care off and to nip in the bud without further delay. It is said that “When Elephants fight; it is the grass that suffer”. Let the students suffer not, because of you and me. But let’s just understand each other’s grievances and expedite the problem for the greater interest of the pupils. So as to bring back to the normal state without jeopardizing the career of the students. Renbemo Patton Saron colony, Wokha Convenor, RMSA Wokha Unit

let the wild get a life!

always hear this phrase, ‘Go get a life in the wild’. Strangely there is hardly any wild left now to go to. This year the world is gearing up to yet another day for celebrating the World Environment Day on June 5, 2016. The theme this year is ‘Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife Trade’. Wildlife is either outside our radar in today’s concrete jungle or it is an exclusive space which becomes inaccessible to many and comes as a package deal for those who can afford to go wild. Wildlife includes both flora and fauna not only the animals and birds but it also includes their habitats. Human needs are soaring upwards into a limitless sky which is threatening the habitats all other non-human beings sharing the same habitats. Zero Tolerance has an ambiguous connotation. Whether it means protectionist militarisation of wildlife sanctuaries, national parks or any natural habitat or does it have to do with legal sanctions and strictures which immobilises any human activity within the periphery of the wildlife sanctuary. Like animals, human beings also need their natural habitats for all practical purposes. But in recent years we can see how the natural environment is shrinking drastically in the name of development which is actually industrial assertion, capitalist extraction of resources and illusive craving for economic growth. Such development is breeding industrialisation of environmental resources which includes rivers, flood plains, forests, farmlands, tree covers, streams, lakes, grazing lands, hill tracts, mountains, oceans and any such natural ecosystem. In the name of protection, rampant illegal trade of wildlife resources like Ginseng, Wild Orchids, Wild Animals and Birds, An-

imal body parts, minerals, precious stones, natural gas, groundwater is traded internationally from across the world for money, fame, prestige and power. Environmental agencies and wildlife protection groups are conscious of such degradation and they are routing their struggles through campaigns, awareness drive and consciousness rising for future generations through schools, educational institutions, people’s support groups and community based agencies. But somehow such efforts are disconnecting people in power and those people whose lives are ruled by the powerful. Every year planting a tree, cycling, cleaning the garbage, wearing a cap to mark June 5 cannot regenerate the earth when the structural support is against the right to environmental regeneration. As human being we are selfish and we only think about our wellbeing, so in the effort to regenerate and develop a green economy we plant only those tree which will bring money back to us. Zero tolerance can be equated to environmentally insensitive and extractive planning, decision-making and programme implementation also. All trade legal or illegal which engages in loss of habitats for human, non-humans, flora and fauna needs to be reconsidered from a different perspective. Every ecosystem community needs to be supported, remunerated and restored for retaining the natural spaces and regenerating them in the best possible way which they have been doing ancestrally. Displacing communities from their habitats is also a form of illegal trade of natural resources which will have horrendous implications on the human population in coming years. For the elite, urban, and middle class, wildlife is a vacation desti-

nation, adventure sport, weight loss plan, business deal and some look at it as health and well-being commodity. For rural communities, nature dependent communities, wildlife habitats become their source of livelihood, identity, territorial space and even a conflict ground. Neither of the groups ever considers that habitat loss is making them extinct. Without a balanced environment with natural regeneration and food chain everybody is endangered. Every group competes with the other. If a multinational company is extracting minerals, oil, groundwater and timber, then the people’s collectives make noise and if common people trade in wildlife for a meal, farm, family and health needs then the people become polluters. Our country and particularly the North Eastern states have been reeling in this battle between the elite and the excluded sections of society where nature has endured maximum onslaught. Hope that people across class, caste, gender, ethnicity, race, disability, religion and age can reclaim their right to environmental regeneration which is also a third generation human right. In Nagaland luckily forests, hills, rivers and the entire ecosystem is protected constitutionally through Article 371 (A) but the moot question is whether such protection is really ensuring the right to environmental regeneration for flora, fauna and humans? Is there a constant turmoil of choosing between nature and culture? There is a growing need to ensure environmental regeneration in Nagaland as well like the rest of the world. Hope more hands joins the efforts of civil society in such initiatives to get a life for the wild. Samhita Barooah Researcher and Travel Writer

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

Monday 06•06•2016

EntErtainmEnt

Jacqueline to judge ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’

acqueline Fernandez is all set to make her TV debut as a judge on the upcoming season of 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' (JDJ). There were reports earlier that she's been approached to judge the show, and these reports have now been confirmed. According to sources, "Jacqueline shot for the promo of the show on Friday. The last season of the show had Shahid Kapoor and Lauren Gottlieb as judges along with Ganesh Hegde and Karan Johar. However, this season will see Jacqueline replacing Shahid as a judge. Lauren might also not be part of the show. Karan and Hegde might return to the show." JDJ will replace India's Got Talent next month. Contestants on the show this year include Helly Shah, Karishma Tanna, Shakti Arora, Arjun Bijlani, Siddharth Nigam and Sonali Raut. There have also been reports about Bigg Boss winner Gautam Gulati and Spandan Chaturvedi being approached for the show, Musicians who gathered at the ‘Naga Musician Meet Over Music’ at Dream Cafe, Kohima on June 3. The MOM is held in the first but this is not confirmed yet. Friday of every month, hosted by Oren Mozhui to “elevate the artists and to bring unity among the artists.” Source: TNN

Niall Horan joins new band

Blake Lively accused of endangering shark life

ctress Blake Lively has come under fire from shark conservationists for her starring role in new movie 'The Shallows.' The 28-year-old portrays a surfer fighting for her life after being attacked by a great white shark in the upcoming horror-thriller, and Valerie Faye, the writer of a new petition believes the movie poses a great danger for the sea creatures, reported CNN. Her online petition, which has already garnered over 21,000 signatures, reads, "In reality, we pose a greater danger to sharks than they do to us." Blake Lively is responsible for perpetuating the false belief that sharks should be hunted and not helped. Source: PTI

‘Britain’s loneliest dog’ lands role in Hollywood movie

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ritain's loneliest dog', who has been living in an animal shelter for six years and has been rejected by 18,000 potential owners, has landed a role in the new Transformers movie. Freya the Staffordshire bull terrier was dubbed 'Britain's loneliest dog' after spending al-

most her entire life living in animal shelters, watching more than 50 of her kennel mates be re-homed during her time at the centre. Freya was spotted on Facebook by animal loving Hollywood movie director Michael Bay , who decided to cast her in the fifth instalment of the blockbuster Transformers series . Bay, 51, said

that if the role did not find the dog a home, he would keep her, 'The Mirror' reported. "We are thrilled at the opportunity of a movie deal for Freya and at such interest and support from a major film director who is also a dedicated animal advocate," a spokesperson for Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre , where Freya is

ne Direction singer Niall Horan has formed a new band called One Lad and 2 Dads, along with comedian John Bishop and TV presenter Paddy McGuinness. Making the announcement on Twitter next to their first official band photograph, Bishop wrote: "New boy band -- me, Niall Horan Source: PTI and Paddy McGuinness...

currently lodged, said. Till now, Freya has been rejected by 18,000 potential owners, but staff at Freshfields hope that she will now find a loving home. "Freya is a beautiful dog with a beautiful personality, and that will shine through to the right person," said Debbie Hughes, fundraiser at the shelter.

Randeep Hooda and Kajal Aggarwal pledge to donate their eyes

laying a visually-challenged girl in the upcoming romance, 'Do Lafzon Ki Kahani', has been the most challenging role for Kajal Aggarwal . In fact, the actress, who worked with visuallyimpaired students to ensure that she depicts her character convincingly, was so inspired by them that she decided to donate her eyes. What’s more, seeing her conviction even her co-star Randeep Hooda pledged to do the same. During the shoot, he realised how difficult it is for such people to do simple things in their life that we usually take for granted. The actor feels this is the only way to help them and is happy to take this little step towards commu-

We are called One Lad and 2 Dads," reports mirror. co.uk. One Direction are currently on an extended hiatus. Former member Zayn Malik has also launched his solo career after quitting the popular British band last year. He released his debut album "Mind Of Mine" in March this year. Source: IANS

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nity service. Meanwhile Kajal says, "Randeep and I feel strongly towards this cause as eyes are one of the most important sensory organs in the human body since they render vision. There should be widespread awareness programmes and activities to impart the significance of eye donation and its usefulness for visuallyimpaired people. Medical researchers and scientists are working on developing artificial cornea, but till that happens, donating your eyes would be the best gift ever for a person suffering from corneal blindness."

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Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Back Together?

ctress Kristen Stewart is reportedly back with her ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson. Kristen and Robert recently were spotted at a coffeehouse in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles in April, reported Hollywood Life. Romance reignited between the Twilight costars following Kristen's split from girlfriend Soko last month. Kristen, 26, and Robert, 30, are dating again after the actress made some realizations about her former beau when she saw him at the Met Gala in May. She allegedly called it quits with Soko because she didn't have with the French

singer what she found only with Pattinson. Seeing Rob at the Met Gala helped Kristen come to terms with ending her relationship with Soko. She realized that she still hasn't found that deep connection with anyone since she was with Rob, Hollywood Life had quoted a source as saying in a report. He was like her soul mate and that's what she's looking for in a relationship. Hanging out with Rob, even for just a small amount of time, reminded her that what she's really yearning for is a soul bond. She's ok with holding out until she finds that kind of love, she said. Source: NDTV

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Djokovic wins first Bisping stops Rockhold to French Open title claim title in UFC 199 stunner

Novak Djokovic crushes Andy Murray in four sets to claim French Open title at Roland Garros and complete career Grand Slam

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Djokovic celebrates with the trophy after winning. (REUTERS)

PARIs, June 5 (AgencIes): For Novak Djokovic, the fifth time was the charm. The world No. 1 captured the French Open for the first time in his career, coming from behind to beat No. 2-ranked Andy Murray 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 and making history in Paris by completing the career Grand Slam. Djokovic becomes the first man to hold all four major titles at the same time since 1969. Djokovic, 29, had tried four times previously to win here having already won the other three majors in this sport. From 2012 to 2015, he reached the final three times, but Sunday he finally joined Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal as the only men to claim the career Grand Slam in the Open era. It’s the most precious jewel Djokovic can add to his already heavy tennis crown. He is by far the best man in the world over the last two years and winner of 12 majors, behind only Federer (17) , Nadal (14) and Pete Sampras (14) in Grand Slams won during the Open era. While Djokovic made more history on Sunday, he put himself halfway to the calendar Grand Slam, not done in men’s tennis since Laver in 1969. American Jim Courier was the last men’s player to get halfway to the Slam, having won the Australian and French Opens back-to-back in 1992. It’s another oh-so-close result for Murray, a known boxing fan who has become Djokovic’s punching bag at the finish line of the majors. Djokovic has won eight out of 10 meetings at the Slams between the two, including the last three finals: the 2015 and 2016 Australian Opens, and again here on Sunday. He lost the first set to Murray, after a rip-roaring start in which he broke the Briton to love before losing six out of the next eight games, Murray taking the set in 45 minutes when Djokovic netted a routine backhand. But Djokovic – with a loud Serbian con-

tingent willing him on – pounced in set two, taking a 3-0 lead and taking command in the match with his court-extending, carefully aggressive tennis. His buoyant, physical game is most apparent on clay, rarely a ball gets past him as he rules the baseline. He won the second set 6-1 in 33 minutes and then the third 6-2 in 43 minutes. While Djokovic-Murray battles are always characterized by lengthy baseline exchanges and are a test of which man is the fittest, this one lost its air after the first set. Djokovic appeared nervous early – perhaps mindful of the history he was on court to chase, again – as Murray came out as the aggressor. From there it was one-way traffic as he approached the finish line, Djokovic’s tennis suffocating an already-breathless Murray, who topped the 20-hour mark on court midway through the match. Djokovic sprinted to a 5-2 doublebreak lead in the fourth and looked to have the trophy in his hands as he served for the championship, but Murray had other ideas. In a final plot twist, the Dunbane, Scotland, native broke for the first time since the first set and then held, putting the pressure back on Djokovic’s shoulders. It was here, at 5-4 in the fourth, that Djokovic would finally realize his dream, however. He sped to a 40-15 lead only to double fault at his first championship point, then missed a backhand up the line on number two. As the clock ticked over the three-hour mark, however, he completed history, he and Murray exchanging baseline blows when Murray missed a backhand into the net, match – and career Slam – done. Djokovic fell to his back, then drew a heart in the clay with his racket, laying in the middle of it, an ode to former champion Gustavo Kuerten, the Brazilian who won here three times and was who watching from the crowd.

IngLeWooD, June 5 (AP): Michael Bisping waited 10 years and 26 fights for the chance to win a UFC title. When he finally got it, Bisping stunned Luke Rockhold and the mixed martial arts world. Bisping won the UFC middleweight championship with a first-round knockout of Rockhold on Saturday night, earning his first title belt at UFC 199. Bisping (30-7) spectacularly won the UFC 185-pound title just over two weeks after accepting the bout as an injury replacement for former champion Chris Weidman. Bi s p i n g a b r u p t l y knocked down Rockhold midway through the round with a left hand to the jaw of the backpedaling champion. Rockhold (15-3) bounced back up and engaged Bisping, who knocked him down for good with another left hand, finishing it with 1:24 left in the round. Bisping, an Englishman who lives in Orange County, had never fought for a title in a decade with the UFC. "This was my dream. Nobody was taking this away from me," Bisping said. "Two weeks? Two days, two hours, two minutes. I'll fight anybody on a moment's notice." Dominick Cruz also defended his UFC bantamweight title with a clear unanimous decision over Urijah Faber, settling a nine-year feud in the third bout between the two California fighters. But the crowd at the historic Forum south of downtown Los Angeles was left in disbelief by the main-event heroics of Bisping, who is having a jaw-dropping year after defeating longtime UFC champion Anderson Silva in February. "Apart from my children and my wife, this is the greatest day of my life," Bisping said. The 37-yearold Bisping was on set in

UFC confirms McGregor-Diaz rematch, Brock Lesnar to return at UFC 200

Michael Bisping reacts after defeating Luke Rockhold in their Middleweight Title Bout at UFC 199 at The Forum on June 4, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Getty Images)

Toronto — playing a villain in a new Vin Diesel movie — when he got the call last month to replace Weidman, who had to drop out of his rematch due to a neck injury. Bisping immediately began trading insults with Rockhold, who won his title in December with a fourth-round stoppage of Weidman. Although Bisping acknowledged he was an underdog, the loquacious brawler claimed he had learned enough to shock the world while losing to Rockhold by second-round submission 19 months ago in Sydney. Turns out it wasn't just talk from Bisping, who couldn't contain his emotions when the title belt was wrapped around his waist. Rockhold, who acknowledged training with a knee injury for this fight, took just his second loss in 16 bouts since 2007. He didn't argue with referee John McCarthy's stoppage after Bisping's final barrage of punches left him

g e L s e n k I R c h e n, June 5 (IAns): Germany cruised to a 2-0 win over Hungary in a friendly football match ahead of Euro 2016 thanks to an own goal by Adam Lang and Thomas Mueller's second-half strike. Reigning world champions Germany reaped a victory in the last friendly ahead the Euro in France, as a goal in each half was enough for Joachim Loew's men, here at the Veltins

Flowers are seen at a memorial following the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali outside the Muhammad Ali Center June 4 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Getty Images)

was known as the "Louisville Lip" early in his boxing career because of his playfully boastful nature. Fans gathered on Saturday at his modest childhood home on Grand Avenue, which has been converted to a museum, and at the Muhammad Ali

Center, a cultural and educational venue, to pay their respects. "Our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences are with the Ali family and friends at this time. He will be forever be remembered as The Greatest," the center said on its

a rematch victory in 2011. The bantamweights opened their bout at a breakneck pace, but Cruz landed the majority of the biggest punches, including a shot that dropped Faber early in the second round. Cruz repeatedly tagged Faber with left hands while largely staying out of range for Faber, who grew frustrated with his inability to engage the champion in the final four rounds. "He caught me in the second," Faber said. "Trust me, he's got a little power. He's a heavy hitter." Although the 37-yearold Faber is among the most accomplished fighters in MMA history, he has lost seven consecutive championship bouts dating to the defunct WEC promotion in 2008. Afterward, Faber said he will think about retirement. Dan Henderson also knocked out Hector Lombard with a spectacular back elbow to the head in the second round, giving the be-

loved 45-year-old veteran his third victory in nine fights. Henderson (32-14) also indicated he is strongly considering retirement from his 19-year professional career after he knocked the 38-year-old Lombard stiff with an elbow while Lombard (34-61) was holding his leg. Henderson, who fought at UFC 17 in 1998, posed for photos in the cage with his wife and four children, who all attended one of his fights together for the first time. "We'll see what happens, but that could have been the last one of my career," Henderson said. Featherweight contender Max Holloway also won his ninth consecutive fight, decisively beating Ricardo Lamas. The UFC paid tribute to Muhammad Ali with a highlight video narrated by President Dana White, who praised Ali's anti-war activism and leadership. The Forum crowd spontaneously broke into several chants of "Ali! Ali!"

Germany edge Hungary Brazil held by Ecuador, Peru in Euro warm-up match sole winners in Copa America Arena on Saturday, reports Xinhua. "It was important for us a complete the last game ahead of a tournament with a clean sheet and a victory. The win will boost our confidence for the Euro," Germany coach Joachim Loew said. Germany face Ukraine in their Euro Group C opener on June 12. Hungary meet Austria in Group F two days later.

Muhammad Ali to be buried in Louisville after hero's sendoff

Los AngeLes, June 5 (ReuTeRs): Muhammad Ali's hometown of Louisville will honor the former boxing champion on Friday with a procession through the Kentucky city and public funeral at a sports arena, a tribute befitting a local hero who achieved global stature as a humanitarian. The public service for Ali, one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century whose death brought accolades from around the world, will feature eulogies by former President Bill Clinton, broadcaster Bryant Gumbel and comedian Billy Crystal, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said on Saturday. The body of the former prize fighter, who died in Arizona after suffering for decades from Parkinson's syndrome, was expected to be returned within the next two days to Louisville, where flags were lowered at city hall in his honor. Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr in Louisville on Jan. 17, 1942, and

motionless with his back to the cage. "I should have fought my fight instead of messing around with him," Rockhold said. Cruz (22-1) largely dominated his 13th consecutive victory and his first title defense since reclaiming the 135-pound belt earlier this year after four years of injury setbacks. Although Cruz never appeared to be close to a stoppage, the clear victory was even sweeter coming against Faber (33-9), his longtime rival. "Nothing surprising," Cruz said about the win. "I'm just glad I'm here. It feels so good to be able to compete again. I thought I lost this at one point." Faber's beef with Cruz began in 2007 and it never cooled during their two previous bouts and Cruz's years out of the sport with knee woes that forced him to vacate the title. Faber beat Cruz in their first meeting nine years ago, but Cruz evened the series with

IngLeWooD, June 5 (AgencIes): The UFC kept dropping bombshells during the broadcast of UFC 199, and it had nothing to do with the action in the cage at The Forum in Inglewood, California. During the pay-per-view broadcast, in two separate announcements, the UFC announced that exheavyweight champion Brock Lesnar would return to fight against an opponent to be named later at UFC 200 on July 9 in Las Vegas. It also announced the rematch between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz for UFC 202 in Las Vegas on August 20. Lesnar won the UFC heavyweight title in just his fourth professional fight at UFC 91 when he stopped Randy Couture on Nov. 15, 2008. He battled diverticulitis during his UFC stint and was never fully healthy. Diaz posted one of the biggest upsets in recent UFC history when he beat McGregor by submission in the second round at UFC 196 in March. Diaz (19-10) won the welterweight bout and ended the 15-fight winning streak of McGregor (19-3), the UFC featherweight champion fighting 25 pounds above his usual weight. But McGregor told ESPN he wanted the fight to be at 170lbs again. “What kind of fighter would I be if I said, ‘Hey, I didn’t get you at 170, let me try to get you at 155,’” the Irishman said. “I’ll make my adjustments. I ate up to the weight. This time, I won’t do that.”

website. Friday's events were expected to begin with a private prayer service for family members at a Louisville funeral home. The procession will then proceed along the city's main streets, including Muhammad Ali Boulevard, to Cave Hill Ceme-

tery, passing locations that were significant to the former champion. The funeral service was scheduled for 2 p.m. at the KFC Yum Center, which seats more than 20,000 people, and will be livestreamed at the center's website. Ali was admitted on Monday to a Phoenixarea hospital and died Friday night of septic shock due to unspecified natural causes, Gunnell said. In his prime Ali spoke out against racism, war and religious intolerance, while projecting a brash confidence and sense of pride that became a model for African-Americans during 1960's and 1970's. Stripped of his world boxing crown for refusing to join the U.S. Army and fight in Vietnam, Ali returned in triumph by recapturing the title and starring in some of the sport's most unforgettable bouts. In later years, Ali was admired for his grace in coping with a disease and as an ambassador for humanitarian causes.

PAsADenA, June 5 (ReuTeRs): Eight times champions Brazil were held 0-0 by Ecuador in the glamour game as the second day of the centenary Copa America tournament mustered up only one, albeit spectacular, goal from three matches on Saturday. Paolo Guerrero's diving header helped put Peru in the driving seat in Group B with a 1-0 win over Haiti in Seattle after Costa Rica and Paraguay had also played out a goalless draw in Group A in Orlando. Neither Brazil nor Ecuador were able to dominate the match in Pasadena and it was the Andean side who might consider themselves unlucky not to have snatched all three points after having a goal chalked off 20 minutes into the second half. Miller Bolanos crossed the ball from the byline and Brazil keeper Alisson dragged it into his own net but the linesman ruled the ball had already gone out of play. Brazil had more chances at the Rose Bowl stadium where they won the 1994 World Cup with Esteban Dreer saving well from Philippe Coutinho in the third minute and substitute Lucas Moura almost grabbing a winner with just seven minutes left only to see his header whizz agonisingly wide. Brazilian midfielder Renato Augusto lamented the result but praised Ecuador, who lived up to their reputation as one of the continent's fastest sides with plenty of running and counter attacks. "Ecuador played very well tactically,"

Peru forward Paolo Guerrero moves the ball in the second half of a Copa America Centenario soccer match against Haiti, Saturday, June 4 in Seattle. (AP Photo)

he said. "They neutralised our strong points, they are a good team. The important thing now is to win the next two games and go through to the next round on a high." LEADERS PERU They result means that both sides trail Peru in Group B after the twice champions edged a competitive Haiti at Seattle's CenturyLink Field. Flamengo striker Guerrero got the winner after an hour when he dived full length to head home a pinpoint cross from Edison Flores. The goal, his 27th in internationals, made him Peru's all-time leading goalscorer, one ahead of

the legendary Teofilo Cubillas. Peru were the better of the two sides but Haiti should have equalised in the dying minutes only for substitute Kervens Belfort to head over when scoring looked easier. Brazil now play Haiti on Wednesday, while Ecuador face Peru. In Orlando, the Florida heat worked against both sides in Costa Rica's lacklustre 0-0 draw with Paraguay, a game that had more cards - five yellow and one red - than shots on target. Paraguay had the best of the first half but failed to put pressure on Patrick Pemberton, who was standing in for injured Real Madrid keeper Keylor Navas.

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