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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

Asia’s human smugglers go to ground [ PAGE 9]

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— Stephen Hawking

Kohima getting popular Slick Barca wins as new pit stop for Champions League cycling enthusiasts [ PAGE 2]

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Myanmar key to curbing insurgency in north east

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Demonstrators dressed as the G-7 summit participants stage a protest demanding fight against global warming prior to the G-7 summit in Schloss Elmau hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Sunday, June 7. (AP Photo)

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GuwAhAti, JuNe 7 (iANS): Expressing strong resentment over exclusion of chief ministers of northeastern states from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bangladesh entourage, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday said it was contrary to the spirit of cooperative federalism. “The action implied as if neighbouring northeast states have no role to play in improving re-

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lationship between India and Bangladesh,” Gogoi said, adding that the move was “contrary to the spirit of cooperative federalism”. In a statement here, the chief minister said he has urged the prime minister to take up the issues of cross border infiltration and other related matters with the Bangladeshi leadership during his twoday visit.

‘Journalists’ financial state a matter of concern’

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NSCN (K) urges cadres to ‘recommit’ themselves DiMAPuR, JuNe 7 (MexN)): The NSCN (K) today urged every cadre to “recommit themselves to the struggle and be a part of glorious legacy transcending narrow selfish interest.” At this “crucial juncture,” the NSCN (K) in a press note through its MIP stated that “misleading favory politics of enimical forces definitely would tempt the fortitude of each cadre, whereas a true patriot must never bow down before such diabolical materialistic lures.” The NSCN (K) further notified that with “immediate effect from the day of official ceasefire abrogation any NSCN cadre both military and civil if found defecting to any factions will be treated as deserters and stern action shall be imposed as per Anti-National enactment.” It further asked the different Naga political groups not to “misinterpret or misunderstand in the event of such recourses the NSCN/GPRN exact on such members.”

financial situation of media people is a matter of concern. “We have to think seriously about the financial situation of media persons as they show direction to the society through their work. Due to media vigil, the governments work with complete alertness,” he said. “India is the biggest democracy of the world and media is an important pillar of the country. Safety, prosperity of this pillar is in

the interest of our democratic system,” he added. Naqvi said that social media, along with electronic and print media, has also created a space for itself in the society. He urged journalists, especially the young ones, to avail benefits of the central government’s welfare schemes such as Atal Pension Yojna, Pradhanmantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojna and Pradhanmantri Suraksha Bima Yojna.

New Delhi, JuNe 7 (iANS): As the Indian Army launched a massive combing operation in Manipur’s border areas post the ambush that killed 18 soldiers, strategic experts said India needs to coordinate with Myanmar if the terrorist bases in that country have to be destroyed. The attack, the biggest in more than three decades, has been seen as a major intelligence failure and the advanced nature of weapons used have raised suspicion of international involvement in the act. “Major combing operations are on in the area up to the Myanmar border. That is the routine drill after any incident,” Indian Army sources aware of developments told IANS. The ambush site, in fact, is just 10 km from the Myanmar border. The army has been tight-lipped over the situation and its plans in the area, which the army chief, Gen. Dalbir Singh, visited on Friday, but sources say a massive exercise is on to cull out more information on the insurgents. “Information is being culled out... The advanced nature of weapons used in the attack shows some international terror organisation is backing the insurgents,” a highly placed source told IANS. Experts said that unless there are combing operations on both sides of the border, the terrorists can’t be stopped. Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) cited the example of Operation Golden Bird that was launched in 1995. “As a result of this incident, the overall security environment received renewed energy; it is inevitable after a negative incident and especially of such intensity. The group

NSCN (K) attacks AR camp in Arunachal GuwAhAti, JuNe 7 (iANS): Within three days of an ambush of an Indian Army convoy in Manipur leaving 18 soldiers dead, suspected militants from Naga outfit NSCN-K on Sunday attacked a camp of the paramilitary Assam Rifles in Arunachal Pradesh. Officials said there was no casualty in the attack. Around 30 heavily armed militants started firing indiscriminately at the 1 Assam Rifles camp at Lazu in Tirap district in the early hours of Sunday, prompting retaliatory firing by the paramilitary personnel, an Assam Rifles spokesman said. The militants fled after their firing was retaliated by the Assam Rifles troopers, he said. “There was no casualty on our side. The forces were on alert and we had an intelligence report about the probable attack,” the spokesman said. The Assam Rifles camp was located close to the international border with Myanmar. Three Arunachal Pradesh districts -- Tirap, Changlang and the newlycreated Longding district -- share a 520-km international border with Myanmar. The recent resurgence of the NSCN-K has left security officials concerned. Meanwhile, the Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh governments have sounded an alert across the states. While Manipur had already sealed its border with Myanmar, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh has urged the Centre to take up with Myanmar the issue of a joint operation against the militants. that launched the attack is probably back in Myanmar,” Hasnain told IANS. “Trans-IB (International Border) operations are not launched by the Indian Army but it is heartening to hear that the Indian government is planning to approach its counterpart in Myanmar to conduct joint operations on both sides of the border and proactively target the militant camps known to exist in Myanmar’s jungles. This approach should be immediate,” he said. “Under pressure from either side, the militants take to the security of the jungles across the border; hence the necessity to launch co-

Few books, fewer readers

A walk across bookstores in Dimapur Morung Express news Dimapur | June 7

Finding most things is not very difficult in Dimapur. A growing town, it offers a lot; but looking for a book in this ‘commercial hub’ is a daunting task. For those who enjoy walking into a bookstore and browse through from one shelf to another, the town is a disappointment. There is no old man selling second hand books on the pavement and the few bookstalls that are shrouded by a myriad of other stores are crammed with school/ college books and civil service exam materials. At a small bookstore in Midland, students choke the counter while salespersons pace constantly with books in hand. Students simultaneously ask for textbooks as customers cannot enter beyond the counter. Obviously, the store mainly caters to students and civil service aspirants. One of the salespersons says the store does not keep novels, dismissing Dickens’s Great Expectations and a few other fictional novels – quite a few of HG Wells – stacked in a glass encased shelf. Along with these novels are few books written by local writers haphazardly stacked on top of each other. Few copies of a small booklet hide behind a bigger book. Nobody bothers to look at the shelf except two teenage

Signet Books located at Circular Road, Dimapur. The store offers an array of books by Naga writers.

girls picking fairy tale books. Everybody demands a specific book and leaves. The owner opines that low profit margin in the book business could be the reason for the dearth of bookstores in the town. Couple of minutes walk to Nyamo Lotha Road, the two full fledged bookstores have similar scenario. One of the stores – Readers Emporium – has been around for four decades. Unfortunately, it does not offer much variety. It mainly caters to students. A salesperson says the store, which has its floor crammed with books, is too small to accommodate other books; but he also mentions there is not much demand for them. Located a few steps away is the

famous Modern Book Depot – the largest in town in terms of diversity of books. The store has books suitable for students, people writing civil service exams, as well as serious readers. Teenage favourites like John Grisham, Danielle Steele, and Sydney Sheldon share a shelf with Mario Puzo. Majority of the Naga population is dispassionate about reading, but it is disheartening that among hundreds of shops located in the heart of the town at Nyamo Lotha Road, there are only three full fledged bookstores, including Christian Literature Centre (CLC). A salesperson in one of the stores confides that two bookstores on the stretch of the road had shut down due to multiple tax demands, adding that the sit-

uation is much difficult for new establishments. “For 1000 copies we sell, they (new stores) sell only 300, but the tax demand is the same,” he explains. Meanwhile, at stores which do not sell school/college books, visitors are rare. Signet Books located at Circular Road, near Notun Bosti junction has not had a buyer in six days. The place is ideal for those interested to read about Naga society, culture, folktales, or works by Naga writers. Owned by the Heritage Publishing House, the store is small, but its bamboo shelves are neatly adorned with books by renowned Naga authors like Easterine Kire, Monalisa Changkija, and Abraham Lotha, to name a few. The salesperson at Signet Books agrees that the culture of book reading culture among the Nagas is yet to be developed; hence, book selling is not so lucrative a business. The town also has some things to offer when it comes to Christian centric books. The CLC and LYNIJM Books & Collection Pvt. Ltd. located near Hill Star theatre on AH Road, Chakhesang Colony offer comfortable space and time. Away from the heavy traffic and noise, LYNIJM Books & Collection is even okay with customers spending long time in their air conditioned store. However, the lack of physical bookstores do not seem to bother many readers as most are turning to e-books and online shopping sites, where choices are unlimited and sales regular.

ordinated operations. In 1995, India and Myanmar launched Operation Golden Bird, in which they coordinated operations while remaining on their sides. When both armies are alert and step up operations, the militants remain in a dilemma,” he added. Operation Golden Bird was aimed at flushing out ULFA, NSCN and Manipuri fighters in camps along the border. The ULFA lost several top leaders and cadres like Monpa Rongpi and Madhurya Gohain, but the operation ended abruptly. India and Myanmar share an unfenced 1,643-km border and permit a “free movement” regime of up to

16 km on either side. Brig. S.K. Chatterji (retd) meanwhile pointed out that the leaders of several insurgent groups had travelled to China some time back, indicating Beijing’s possible involvement. “Around a month-and-a-half back, leaders of all these insurgent groups travelled to China... We may possibly see a surge in attacks in the near future,” Chatterji told IANS. In Thursday’s incident, a group of insurgents that came into India from Myanmar launched an attack on a four-vehicle convoy that was leaving after being de-inducted and was on its way to Imphal. The militants attacked the lead vehicle of the convoy with a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) and the maximum casualties were from this vehicle. The National Socialist Council of NagalandK led by S.S. Khaplang has claimed responsibility for the killings along with the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP). Hasnain, however, questioned why despite the army’s operations since decades, the government had failed to bring lasting peace in the northeast. “The real point is that the army and Assam Rifles have ensured peace in the northeast for the last 20 years. Why has the nation not been able to take this forward,” he asked. “The army can take the process up to a level. Beyond that, the political process has to take over. There has been a ceasefire in Nagaland for almost 17 years and a halt of operations with specific groups in Manipur for many years. What do we intend to do with the ceasefire? It cannot be endless,” Hasnain added.

‘Operation Salvage’ completes 14 years Morung Express news Dimapur | June 7

The 14th foundation day of ‘Operation Salvage’, a rehabilitation centre run by the NSCN (IM) at Heningkunglwa village in Peren district was held Sunday at the centre with NSCN (IM) Kilo Kilonser (Home minister), Vikiye Awomi, as the chief guest. The Kilo Kilonser in his address said the NSCN government had initially planned to open rehabilitation centres in all its administrative regions to facilitate drug and alcohol addicts to give up their addiction and lead normal and productive lives. However, due to various constraints, the plan could not materialize so far, Vikiye said. Extending greeting to staff and inmates (recovering addicts) of Operation Salvage on the occasion, Vikiye said Operation Salvage is a “success story” and one of the most successful rehabilitation centres in the Nagaland. He said from a humble beginning the rehab centre has matured over the years and presently there are two counsellors to give active guidance and counsel the recovering addicts. On comments made by some inmates in their testimonies that initially the centre was

run “military style”, the Kilo Kilonser said “we are also learning and improving step by step.” “If the inmates of this centre leave this place as changed and transformed people, then our humble effort will be rewarded”, he said and reminded the inmates of the centre that discipline is of outmost importance. Vikiye further said that the NSCN (IM) is fully committed to wage war against drugs. Two recovering addicts of the rehab centre in their testimonies said the centre has improvedalot,bothintermsofcare and amenities, over the years. “Things have improved a lot and now I’m confident to face the outside world once I leave this place,” said a recovering addict. “Now I am taking things one day at a time. This place has taught me patience and I’ve come to realize that everyone has a purpose in life,” said another. Representatives from Naga Women Hoho Dimapur, Western Sumi Totimi Hoho, chairmen and GBs of Heningkunglwa, Ngwalwa and Ruzaphema villages also delivered words of encouragement. Naga Idol 2014, Albert Hau, and inmates of the rehab centre presented special numbers to mark the occasion.

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Kohima getting popular as new pit stop for cycling enthusiasts

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Two doctors cycling 15,000 miles across 24 countries share their experience

Nicky and Tom building their bikes in UK.

The two cyclists in Tajikistan.

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ohima has a long-time reputation for being a sleepy town. Yet, the character of this sluggish town seems to have worked fine for bicycle enthusiasts on world tour. And, Morung lodge at Midland is trending as a popular host for more than half a dozen cyclists since last September. “With the relaxation of international border permits, Kohima can tap tourism potential of intrepid travellers. It can also generate more income for small time business owners like us, since these bikers do not have specific season to travel,” said Nino Zhasa, owner of Morung Lodge and Managing Director, Explore Nagaland. “India has been tough. Hot, loud and busy. Add in recurrent food poisoning and we were just about ready to pack it all in. But entering the Nagaland region, just before Myanmar border, we are starting to regain our sense of purpose,” Wrote Nicky Moore and Tom Roberts on their Facebook page ‘Cycling without borders.’ 27-year-olds, medical doctors Tom Roberts and Nicky Moore are pedalling their way to over 15,000 miles, across 24 countries for a good cause – raising funds and awareness for Medecins Sans Frontiers – a charity dedicated to responding to emergencies and disasters around the world. Set off from the UK last September, the two ecofriendly doctors’ mode of travel is a low-carbon footprint, bamboo frame bicycle, built by themselves, with the help of The Bamboo Bicycle Club, a UK-based project that provides people with the knowledge and tools to make their own bikes. The doctors have already covered 18 countries, numerous towns and villages across Europe, Middle East and India. En-route to Myanmar via Moreh and taking a few days off in Kohima, Nicky and Tom shared some of their ride experiences thus far. On challenges: Part of our journey took us through the freezing desert in Kazakhstan in January. One section was 400km long with no towns, the temperature was -20 Celsius at times and there was a very strong headwind. On the flat featureless landscape we had nowhere to hide from the harsh conditions. This was physically very demanding. It was at times like this that it was really tough to keep going. After an experience like that the thing that kept us moving was the people that we met along the road.

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On Humour: The funniest thing to happen recently was one night when we stayed in a Hindu temple in central India. The kids in the village were very interested in us and stayed around all night. At one point the gate opened and a confused and frightened goat was ushered into the area where we were sleeping. It stood over us, bleating, until I

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The bamboo frame bicycle used by Tom and Nicky.

eventually let it out of the gate. 10 minutes later the goat was pushed over the wall and was back in the grounds of the temple with us. Judging by the laughter, the kids thought this prank was the funniest thing that had ever happened in the history of the human race. Looking back, we would probably have to agree. On Nagaland: Our best experience is arriving in Nagaland, of course. This was such a pleasant surprise. For us the best aspect of cycling has always been scenery, especially hillside. So to see fresh hillside covered in rainforest on our way to Kohima was a lovely surprise. Add to that the friendly welcoming Naga people and we felt like we had found cycling heaven. People at home in Scotland don't know much about this region but we will definitely tell our friends to come. On Medecins Sans Frontieres: This is an issue close to our hearts. Medecins Sans Frontieres is a form of service to humanity, which is not bound by political or geographical divide. It is only by donation that MSF remains independent. Nicky and Tom try to keep in touch with their friends and well wishers through their Facebook page “Cycling without borders’ and theirblogcyclingwithoutborders. blog.com. If you are the adventure kind, enjoy excellent photography and humour, here’s an excerpt of what you As they bid farewell to Nagaland, an updated piece on will find on their Facebook page. their blog read: NAGALAND on the other hand. This is a place to bring your bike. Rolling hills, wildlife, temperate Slovenian border guard: "where you go on this bike?" climate, lovely people, good roads, nice food, fewer cars, Nicky: "to Singapore!" less pollution, hillside towns, historical relevance… The Slovenian border guard: "not on land!?" list goes on. Nicky: "yes, via Iran" Slovenian border guard: "ha ha you have big balls!" If you would like to donate to their cause, visit https:// Tom: "what?" www.justgiving.com/cyclingwithoutborders/ Slovenian border guard: "BIG. BALLS." Cue international Or, inspired to build your own bicycle, go to bamboobibig ball cupping with both hands gesture. cycleclub.org

Student leaders in Kiphire meet health minister Inspiring life of a physicist and his faith in God Our Correspondent Kiphire | June 7

The Joint Area Students’ Union in Kiphire met health & family welfare minister P Longon during the latter’s visit to the district on June 4. The Joint Area Students’ Union comprises of Longmatra Area Students’ Union, Seyochung Area Students’ Union, Singti Area Students’ Union, Amahator Area Students’ Union, and Kiphire Area Students’ Union. Interacting with the student leaders, Minister P Longon assured to give special attention to the health sector in the far flung areas, and also asked the students to support the medical fraternity in the district for better service to the citizens. The minister while ac-

Joint Area Students’ Union leaders with Health Minister P Longon on June 4 in Kiphire.

cepting the memorandum submitted by the students’ union stated that the issues raised are genuine and assured to look into them and initiate necessary action. He also promised to deploy more nurses and doctors in

AHODs and HODs meeting on June 11

Kohima, June 7 (Dipr): Home Commissioner Nagaland, Neiphu C. Thur has informed that there will be a meeting of all Administrative Heads of Department (AHODs) and Heads of Department (HODs) on June 11 at 11 am in the Secretariat conference hall. The agenda items to be discussed are: Review of Minutes of 07.04.2015 meeting; Presentation by Department on Salient Activities/New Initiatives during 2015-16 - Motor Vehicle, Transport, PHE; Advisory issued by Justice & Law Department; Nepal Relief Report; and New Secretariat Complex Garbage Disposal Truck Report.

Kiphire district, while acknowledging that shortage of doctors and nurses is a serious matter. The minister also lauded the Joint Area Students’ Union for bringing the issues to his notice and being

vigilant of developmental activities, especially focusing on health sector. He further advised the student union leaders to be constructive in addressing any grievances for the betterment of the citizens.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, who also accompanied the minister, assured the students’ union to provide state-ofthe-art ambulance to the district. In the memorandum submitted to the minister, the students’ union pointed out that due to non availability of basic medical equipment citizens have to undergo untold sufferings. The student leaders also appealed to the Head of Department and the minister to expedite the construction work of the district hospital which is underway. They also demanded that the need based requirements be solved within 90 days from the day of submission of the memorandum.

West Side School organizes inter-school painting contest

ENPO emergency meeting

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Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): The Eastern Naga People’s Organisation (ENPO) has convened an emergency consultative meeting of all the 20 ENLU members; ENGOA; ENWO; ENSF; 6 Federating Tribal Units (CKS/KTC/ KU/PPC/USLP/YTC,); Advisors of ENPO; 6 Executive Secretaries of the Baptist Associations; Eastern Nagaland and ENPO office bearers on June 9 at Anaki Hall, Khermahal TATA Parking, Dimapur from 10:00 am onwards. While urging all the aforementioned entities to attend the meeting positively, the ENPO in a press note issued by its general secretary, Manlang Phom specially requested the 20 ENLU members to make it to the meeting.

Winners of the painting contest with management of West Side School and officials of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Dimapur Branch on June 6.

Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): In commemoration of World Environment Day, West Side School at Kiyeto village under Dhansiripar subdivision organized an inter– school painting competition in the school campus on Saturday. The competition was based on the theme of World

Environment Day. The event was sponsored by ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Ltd. Dimapur Branch. More than 80 students from different schools participated in the competition that was held in three categories – Class LKGUKG, class 1-2, and class 3-5. The winners were award-

ed with trophies and certificates while all the participants with a certificate each. The competition commenced with an introduction remark by the chairman of the school, Rev. Dr. Phughoto Aye, who is also the director of North East India, Fire Around the World Society.

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There are some people who are destined to succeed in life. 30-year-old Dr Sentitemsu Imsong, a physicist who earned his PhD at the age of 27 years, is one of them. His life story is one of hard work, perseverance, and discipline, which is by all means inspiring. Sentitemsu is the eldest among the three children in his family. His father, T Imkong from Asangma village, is an LDA in the power department. He secured the ‘Top 7’ position in the HSLC exam conducted by the Nagaland Board of School Education in 2001 from Edith Douglas Hr Sec School, Mokokchung. He was Top 3 at the HSSLC examination and a Gold Medal winner in his BSc exams from Science College Jotsoma. He finished his MSc in Physics from University of Hyderabad with First Class. In 2012, the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore conferred PhD for his thesis, “Improvement on Hardonic for factors using analyticity and unitarily constraints”. His research was adjudged the best thesis in theoretical physics in the university for academic year 2012-2013. Thereafter, he pursued his post-doctoral studies in Germany (for two years) and in Israel (for nearly one year). Now, after a brief sojourn at his hometown Mokokchung, Dr Sentitemsu Imsong will be joining the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai as ‘Visiting Fellow’ and do more research. This young academic, since his high school days, was quite well known in the society for his brilliance and the society had great hopes on him. Today, while interacting with some media persons, Dr Sentitemsu Imsong bared it all about his studies, his life, his aspirations and his advice to the other young science students in the Naga society. One striking feature about his personality is his strong belief in God and his humility. “Most of my friends and professors are atheists. If I didn’t have this relationship (with God) then I would have been pulled back from my faith long time back,” said Dr Sentitemsu Imsong while talking about his faith in Christ. He agreed that science, especially physics, contradicted with the origin of the universe as said in the Bible. However, he pointed out that science has not disproved the existence of God, and added there are many scientists who have known more about God through their study of Science. “The question of religion, existence of God and science, will depend on who you

Dr Sentitemsu Imsong

ask the question. There are hundreds of scientists who have vouched the existence of God through their study of science,” said the physicist. On being asked about his early days as a student, Dr Sentitemsu Imsong disclosed that he spent not less than ten hours in study during his school and college days. He disclosed that he had to sacrifice a lot of things in life, especially spending time with friends who would play in the big ground just next to his house. But then, at the end, his hard work, perseverance and discipline paid off. “All this time, I have toiled a lot and worked hard, and I feel a deep sense of satisfaction in my life…in a good sense I feel proud of it,” said Dr Sentitemsu while paying rich tribute to God, his parents and his teachers for playing a great role in his life. About his observation of the present Naga students, he said most of the Naga students are “laidback, not sincere in their usage of time and don’t have perseverance in life.” He said that the people outside the state (be it mainland India, Germany or Israel) are very hardworking. “We have the same potential; the only thing is that they are more hardworking. During my young years, I never imagined that I can compete in the international front.” He said that he has three principles in life: focus in life, discipline, especially with regard to usage of time, and hardwork. These three principles became more prominent in his life through religion, spirituality, and reading of the Bible, he said. He advised the students to be more hardworking and try to understand the subject of science instead of memorizing the different theories and formulas. “Science it not difficult, but it is laborious,” said the intellect. Perhaps, the young science students can learn something from the life of this young achiever.

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UNMM urges army to allow IOC to invest Rs 1,500 cr to media in operation area ramp up storage in Northeast Imphal, June 7 (mexn): The United NGOs Mission–Manipur (UNMM) today requested the Indian Army to allow media in the area where operation is being undertaken following the deadly June 4 ambush on security forces in Manipur. It informed that till date the local media is not allowed in the area. The organisation also urged the Central and Manipur governments to allow civil administration to visit the villages to provide immediate humanitarian service. Further, it urged for involving women security forces in the operation. A press release from UNMM secretary U. Nobokishore expressed fear that security forces may commit crime, torture, sexual assaults on women etc during operation. At this juncture, UNMM stated, both the Union and State governments must not respond by following the dictum, 'violence for violence, guns for guns,’ suppressing

'Need to maintain friendly relations between Arunachal, Assam' Itanagar, June 7 (ptI): Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa today appealed to the people of the state as well as Assam to maintain the age-old friendly relations between the two states and not be swayed by baseless rumours. The governor termed the attacks on three Arunachalees and torching of their vehicles by a mob at Serelia village in Assam's Sonitpur district on June 5 last as "cowardly acts" and condemned it in strongest terms. He also condemned the "unfortunate" killing of Kolai Orang, an adivasi, and conveyed his deep condolences to the family of the deceased, according to a Raj Bhawan communique. Rajkhowa also appealed to both electronic and print media to exercise their restraint so that communal harmony and peace could be maintained and the law could take its own course. The governor also volunteered to take up the matter with the Centre for any additional assistance, should the state chief minister so required, based on realistic assessment of law and order situation. The government was glad to know from senior police and civil officials that normalcy was fast returning in the bordering areas and the economic blockade, which was launched by some organisations on Assam side, was lifted, the communique said.

democratic rights and curtailing fundamental rights of the people. The Mission meanwhile agreed with Irom Sharmila that “the invocation of the AFSPA, 1958 is more responsible for the tense situation prevailing in Manipur with occasional absurd fatal response from groups, which instead of simmering the volatile situation, are acting to increase military occupation and rule in the State and run counter to the very struggle to achieve peace and justice through constitutional, democratic and non-violent means.” It further lauded the prompt response of the national media in giving consistent coverage to the unfortunate incident, where 18 security personnel were killed. Also, it said it would be appreciated if national media (both print and electronic) delegate their personnel to spend time in Manipur, experience life under

AFSPA as ordinary citizens, i.e., without media IDs and also take a road trip to Moreh from Imphal to experience the travails of the travelling public on a daily basis at the military check posts. UNMM also appealed to all concerned, including Prime Minister, insurgent leaders and Dalbir Singh Suhak, Chief of the Indian Army to prepare for political peace negotiation with honest and sincere preparation with the participation of civil societies, NGOs, intellectuals etc in a transparent manner for long lasting peace process. “People in the north east have lost faith on the role played by GOI on peace negotiation. The Ceasefire process between GOI and NSCN (IM) is far from encouragement." The consequence of such "negligence", the organisation stated, resulted in the June 4 attack by NSCN (K) and its allies.

guwhatI, June 7 (ptI): Public sector undertaking Indian Oil Corporation plans to invest around Rs 1,500 crore in the Northeast to strengthen its various divisions, including storage and retail, over the next three-four years. IndianOilAOD, the company's Northeast division, is scouting for land in states such as Assam, Tripura and Mizoram to increase storage capacities of petroleum products. "Northeast is very important for us and we are focussing more to provide optimum services to the people of the region. One of the most important issues is availability of products, keeping in mind the geographical disadvantages of the region," Indian Oil Corporation Executive Director (IndianOil-AOD) Dipankar Ray told PTI here. Common people of the region, especially in hill states, suffer a lot whenever there is any natural calamity or political or social dis-

turbances, he added. "To mitigate this problem, we have decided to increase our storage capacities of petroleum products and LPG in every state of the region in a big way. "For this, we will invest around Rs 1,500 crore over the next three-four years in the seven states," Ray said. Out of this amount, about Rs 1,250 crore will be put in to ramp up the storages of petrol, diesel and kerosene, while Rs 150 crore and Rs 50 crore will go for enhancing LPG storage capacities and increasing the number of retail outlets, respectively, he added. Ray said the company is looking for land in Assam, Tripura and Mizoram to increase its petroleum products' capacities. "We have a depot at Missamari in Assam with a capacity of 19,000 kilo litre (kl). We plan to increase it to 25,000 kl at an investment of Rs 160 crore. "The depot is surrounded by the Army canton-

ment and we are discussing with the Army for more land to enhance storage," he added. In Tripura, the company plans to invest Rs 175 crore to have a new depot at Agartala with a capacity of 45,000 kl by closing its existing 9,500 kl depot at Dharmanagar. "The Tripura government has identified a land parcel and we have seen it. We are at an advanced stage of negotiation for the land with the government," Ray said. He also said that the company is in discussions with the Mizoram government over land to set up a new storage depot at Sairang with a capacity of 12,122 kl, entailing an investment of Rs 150 crore. On the timeframe to complete these expansions, Ray said: "Usually it takes 24-30 months of construction time, excluding the period in inviting tenders. So we hope, these three projects will be completed in the next three-four years.

Tripura CM welcomes growing Senior AGP leader Indo-Bangla relationship Jagadish Bhuyan joins BJP new DelhI, June 7 (anI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Sunday welcomed the growing relationship between India and Bangladesh, hailing the historical Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) signed between the countries, as well as the bus service between Agartala and Kolkata, that will travel via Dhaka. "[The LBA] is a positive development. This was a long-pending dispute and problem that has been sorted out. Both countries will benefit from this and the people who have been suffering since independence will primarily benefit. It will also strengthen the bonds between the people of the two countries," Sarkar told ANI. "We have been asking the governments of both India and Bangladesh to allow the run of a bus from Agartala to Dhaka to Kolkata. It took a long time but ultimately it materialised. It is a matter of joy for all of us," he added. Prime Minister Naren-

Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala bus reaches Tripura agartala, June 7 (ptI): The Kolkata-Agartala bus service via Dhaka reached Agartala last midnight amid warm welcome from people of Tripura. Senior state officials received the bus at the Indo-Bangla border of Tripura. People waved at the bus as it passed through different areas and halted at the state capital terminus. "This has been made possible by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina," one of those present at the site, said. Marking Modi's maiden visit to Bangladesh, two bus services connecting key cities in the two countries were flagged off yesterday in Dhaka by the three dignitaries to boost connectivity and enhance people-topeople contact. "I wish you all a very happy journey," Modi had said after jointly flagging off the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala and Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati bus services with his Bangladeshi counterpart and West Bengal Chief Minister. During the flag off ceremony on the first day of his visit yesterday, Modi handed over a symbolic ticket of the Agartala-Dhaka-Kolkata service to Hasina and in return, she handed over a symbolic ticket of Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati service to him. Banerjee gave Hasina a symbolic ticket of the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala service. dra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Saturday exchanged instruments of ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) settling the 41-year-

old land boundary dispute on Saturday. The two Prime Ministers also flagged off two transboundary buses linking Guwahati to Dhaka via Shillong and Kolkata to Tripura via Dhaka.

guwahatI, June 7 (the InDIan express): Senior Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader and former Assam minister Jagadish Bhuyan on Sunday joined the BJP, with leaders of the saffron party saying more leaders and workers of the regional party were joining in the next few weeks. Bhuyan, two times legislator from Sadiya LAC in Tinsukia, who had also served as tourism minister in the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta government in 1996-2001, said he had lost faith in the regional party and had found that the BJP was the right party that could help solve burning problems of Assam, the most important being influx from Bangladesh. “I have lost faith in the AGP which has become directionless and was shrinking each passing day. The BJP on the other hand is the right party to fight for the cause of Assam,” he said.

Bhuyan also took several senior members of the AGP from Tinsukia district to join the BJP. Bhuyan is the fourth former AGP minister to have joined the BJP in the past one year or more. While former AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowari had joined the BJP in early 2014 and also contested, though unsuccessfully for the Barpeta Lok Sabha seat last year, other former AGP ministers who joined the BJP in recent months include Atul Bora and Hitendra Nath Goswami, apart from former Guwahati mayor Queen Ojah. Meanwhile, BJP officials in Assam said some top former leaders of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and AJYCP were also joining the party in the next couple of weeks. AJYCP president Manoj Barua on Sunday resigned from his organization and announced his decision to join the BJP.

Country's biggest floating solar plant to come up at Manipur's Loktak Lake KOlKata, June 7 (tnn): With the country's first floating solar power panel installed at a waterbody in Rajarhat New Town by the city based Arka Ignou Community College of Renewable Energy already yielding encouraging results, the institute has been engaged by the Manipur Renewable Energy Development Agency (MANIREDA) to work as a consul-

tant for installing a 100KWP floating solar power plant at Loktak Lake in Manipur that would become the country's largest and only second floating solar panel installation. Loktak Lake is the largest fresh water lake in North East India. The floating solar panel will be installed at the lake near the Sendra tourist resort of Loktak Lake. The project is to be

implemented under the programme for off-grid and decentralized solar applications of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. MANIREDA sent a letter to the NB Institute for Rural Technology (NBIRT) which is headed by solar power expert S.P Gan Chaudhuri on May 26. Gan Chaudhuri said that the Arka Ignou Commu-

nity College of Renewable Energy that comes under NBIRT will give technical assistance to the floating solar panel installation project in Loktak Lake in Manipur. "It will be the country's largest floating solar panel installation with 100 KWP capacity. The floating solar panel at Rajarhat is of 10KWP capacity. This is a giant leap towards de-

veloping more and more floating solar panel installations in the country. Only two other countries in the world- Japan and Australia," Gan Chaudhuri said. Arka Ignou renewable energy collage will be working in fixing the detail design parameters, drawings, specifications and will also assist MANIREDA in finalization of tender and issue of work order.

About 10 lakh people expected in GOC 3 Corps harps on night Ambubachi at Kamakhya temple curfew along int’l border guwahatI, June 7 (ptI): At least 10 lakh pilgrims from across the country, besides a considerable number of people from abroad, are expected to visit the Kamakhya temple on the occasion of Ambubachi Mela later this month. "We are expecting at least 10 lakh people this time. We are making all arrangements to take care of the pilgrims in the city," Kamrup Metropolitan Deputy Commissioner M Angamuthu told PTI here. He said Kamrup Metropolitan Authority, whose jurisdiction primarily comprises the Guwahati city, would provide accommodation at four places near the temple for the visitors during the Mela, beginning on June 21 and ending on June 26. The camps will be set up at temple premises, near

At least 500 secuirty personnel to be provided in the temple area during the mela Kamakhya railway station, near Pandu river port and Sonaram High School field. "We are expecting a huge number of visitors from West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and North East along with other parts of the country," Angamuthu said, adding the district administration had geared up to welcome a considerable number of foreign pilgrims. The DC said around 300 volunteers would be engaged during the Mela

days for hassle free visit to the temple. When asked about the security aspect, Angamuthu said "we will have adequate number of security personnel in those days. We have planned to post at least 500 personnel for a strong vigil in and around the temple area." The DC along with the officials from Assam Police, PWD, Guwahati Municipal Corporation Public Health Engineering and Tourism Department today visited the temple and other sites to take stock of the preparedness. For a comfortable stay in Guwahati, Angamuthu said the pilgrims' all aspects such as cleanliness, distribution of food items, supply of drinking water, power supply, coordination with Railways and medical facilities would be properly streamlined in association with other agencies.

Imphal, June 7 (tnn): Taking serious note of the unfenced India-Myanmar border, which allows militants from the northeast to take shelter in the neighbouring country while carrying out subversive activities on Indian soil, GOC 3 Corps Lt-General Bipin Rawat underscored the need to impose night curfew along the porous border. Manipur alone shares a 380-km porous border with Myanmar. Owing to a recent border dispute after the Myanmarese Army encroached on Manipur's Haolenphai village, construction of a 10-km border fence along the Moreh sector was stopped midway. Following the recent killing of eight security personnel by suspected NSCN-K militants in Nagaland's Mon district, night curfew has been imposed along the porous India-Myanmar border from 6pm to 5am. It has also been imposed along

the interstate boundary between Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event to accord military honour to the slain Dogra regiment soldiers at Imphal airport, Rawat said the border issue lies with the Centre and the Myanmar government. "We literally have an open border with Myanmar. We have a 16-km free-crossing stretch. Some insurgent groups are taking advantage of this," the senior Army officer said. "The only option is to secure the border. We have already asked the state government to impose night curfew along the border. The state government has accepted this," he added. He said, "Our aim is to conduct people-friendly operation. We do not want to cause hardships to civilians." On the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, he said the

act is only an enabling provision that is helping the Army operate. Commenting on Thursday's attack, he said an operation is on. He added there was no security lapse on the part of the unit.

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Northeast Briefs Mizoram govt: Process to bring back Bru tribals will go on aIzawl, June 7 (ens): The Mizoram government will move ahead with the planned roadmap for the repatriation of displaced Bru tribals back home from Tripura in spite of no one having turned up for the verification process in one of six relief camps where it was held earlier this week. “There will be no facilitation centre for returning Bru tribals at Kanhmun (at the inter-state border) because no one appeared for the three-day verification process in Kaskau relief camp between June 2 and 4. As already outlined, an identification team will stay at Khakchangpara relief camp for the identification process between June 15 and 18,” the government said in a statement. Tens of thousands of Brus fled Mizoram in 1997 following ethnic violence sparked by the murder of a Mizo official by Bru militants. They have since lived in six designated relief camps in Tripura where they survive on meagre rations and little avenues of employment or education. The Union Home Ministry, Tripura and Mizoram had agreed earlier this year and told the Supreme Court a final repatriation process for about 30,000 displaced Brus would be undertaken before September ends. It was also agreed that those who do not return in that time would be removed from Mizoram’s electoral rolls and the camps disbanded. Various phases of the repatriation process have been undertaken since 2010, but they have all met with limited success because of opposition by relief camp leaders who continue to demand higher compensation packages. More than a thousand families have however breached apparent instructions to not return home by either returning during these formal repatriation processes or on their own outside the repatriation timeframe and reporting to the Mizoram authorities later on.

Meghalaya hamlet dedicates forest for conservation of bats pynurKba, June 7 (ptI): A tiny hamlet in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district has dedicated its forest for the conservation of an extremely rare Wroughton's free-tailed bats, considered to be a critically endangered species. The decision in this regard was taken last month when the village elders were informed of the presence of these extremely rare bats, who are facing loss of habitat due to human encroachment, in their forests. "The village council decided to declare 'sacred' a small forest which is roughly about one square kilometer for the conservation of these bat species," Pynurkba village secretary Phillip Rymbai told PTI. The decision followed after a long negotiation with the elders of the village because the forest belongs to the community and not a protected area of the government. Though there are three caves in Lakadong area that these bats have made them their homes, biologist and researcher D K B Mukhim said the bat clusters at Pynurkba is the largest with over 55 individual bats spotted lately. First discovered in 1913, these bats are confined to the Western Ghats area of the country and in a remote part of Cambodia besides the colony here which were discovered last year, according to the researcher.

Tripura suspends 3 cops for custody death agartala, June 7 (tnn): Three policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), were suspended for their alleged negligence of duty following a custodial death at Kamalpur police station in Dhalai district on Friday night. The family members of the victim, Bijoy Deb (36), alleged that the deceased was tortured in the custody which led to his death. One of the family members said Bijoy was arrested in Noagoan village, Kamalpur, for allegedly creating nuisance in public under the influence of alcohol on Friday night. Around midnight, the sentry on duty noticed that Bijoy had collapsed inside the lockup and was immediately shifted to Kamalpur hospital where doctors declared him dead. Dhalai SP Bijoy Debbarma said, "The exact reason for his death cannot be ascertained before the postmortem and inquiry reports are submitted. We have handed over the body to the family on Saturday after doing the necessary formalities. We have placed officer Manik Lal Mahanta and two other constables, on duty, under suspension. Also, we have started a separate inquiry." Debbarma pointed outthat the lockup is not under CCTV surveillance and so footage of the sequence of events is not readily available with the police. Necessary action will be taken once the medical and investigation reports are prepared, he added. This is the second such incident in the state in a month. On May 1, Noor Islam (42), a resident of Chanban village in Udaipur, died inside the lockup at R K Pur police station in South Tripura. Noor Islam was arrested last month on the allegations of creating trouble in a public place in an inebriated state. CCTV footage of RK Pur police station did not show any torture on Noor by the cops. In his case, the postmortem report indicated that he died of cardio respiratory arrest. Civil society groups and Noor's family members did not accept the reports. They are still fighting a legal battle believing that Noor died because of the torture either inside or outside the lockup.

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Airtel data packs become Greece and Ukraine crises costlier for pre-paid users drown out G7 summit agenda GARMiSCh-PARTeNKiRCheN (GeRMANY ), JuNe 7 (ReuTeRS): Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations meet on Sunday in the Bavarian Alps for a summit overshadowed by Greece’s debt crisis and ongoing violence in Ukraine. Host Angela Merkel is hoping to secure commitments from her G7 guests to tackle global warming to build momentum in the run-up to a major United Nations climate summit in Paris in December. The German agenda also foresees discussions on global health issues, from Ebola to antibiotics and tropical diseases. But on the evening before the German chancel-

lor welcomes the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, she and French President Francois Hollande were forced into their fourth emergency phone call in 10 days with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to try to break a deadlock between Athens and its international creditors. The 2 sides have been wrangling for months over the terms of a cash-for-reform deal for Greece. Without aid from euro zone partners and the IMF, Greece could default on its loans within weeks, possibly forcing it out of the currency bloc. An upsurge of violence in eastern Ukraine will also play a prominent role at the

meeting at Schloss Elmau, a luxury hotel perched in the picturesque mountains of southern Germany near the Austrian border. European monitors have blamed the bloodshed on Russian-backed separatists and the leaders could decide at the summit to send a strong message to President Vladimir Putin, who was frozen out of what used to be the G8 after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea last year. Ahead of the gathering, thousands of anti-G7 protesters marched in the nearby town of GarmischPartenkirchen on Saturday. There were sporadic clashes with police and several marchers were taken to hospital with injuries, but the vi-

olence was minor compared to some previous summits. The Germans have deployed 17,000 police around the former winter Olympic games venue at the foot of Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze. Another 2,000 are on stand-by across the border in Austria. Merkel is due to hold talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday morning before the summit gets underway, with Ukraine, Middle East turmoil and the TTIP free trade agreement being negotiated between Washington and the European Union at the top of the agenda. Obama may also be keen to hear the latest from Merkel on the Greek talks.

Officials in Washington, worried that a so-called “Grexit” could hit the world economy, have stepped up pressure on their European counterparts in recent weeks to clinch a deal. “I think waiting until the day or two before whatever the deadline is, is just a way of courting an accident,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said at a meeting of G7 finance ministers in the eastern city of Dresden last week. On Monday, the summit is also due to discuss militant threats from groups like Islamic State and Boko Haram with the leaders of Nigeria, Tunisia and Iraq, part of an “outreach” group of non-G7 countries.

New Delhi, JuNe 7 (PTi): Bharti Airtel’s mobile internet packs, both 2G and 3G, sold online will cost more for pre-paid customers across the country. The company has withdrawn discounts that it was offering for online purchase of mobile data packs, bringing the prices at par with internet packs sold offline through retailers. “There is a slight change in few of our online prepaid data packs owing to the discontinuation of discounted offers on these,” an Airtel spokesperson told PTI. Also, sources said that Airtel has raised prices of 10 data packs. For instance, earlier, the company used to offer 2 GB of 2G data for Rs 199 with a validity of 30 days if the recharge was done online. It has now been changed to 1.25 GB of data with 28

days validity. In case of 3G, the company is now offering 1 GB of 3G data with 28 days validity for Rs 255 against charge of Rs 249 for the same data usage with 30 days validity. Last week, Idea Cellular hiked mobile data rates by up to 100 per cent for prepaid customers in the NCR region, becoming the first telecom operator to raise the tariff after Rs 1.1 lakh crore spectrum auction in March. In a bid to improve profitability, telcos have been cutting back on discounts and freebies. Last year also, firms including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea had increased data as well as call tariffs. After the March spectrum auction, industry associations had said there would be hike in tariffs as operators have to meet the commitment to the government.

ONGC to Invest Rs 41,678 Lunch with Warren Buffett auctioned for $2.35 mn ‘India failed to occupy space ATlANTA, JuNe 7 (ReuTeRS): The chair- “We were overjoyed when the count came in.” vacated by China on jobs front’ Crore on New Fields The winner can invite up to seven friends to man of a Chinese company that develops online New Delhi, JuNe 7 (PTi): State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) will invest Rs 41,678 crore for bringing to production newer oil and gas fields and redeveloping ageing fields as it looks to boost output. The company, which produced 25.94 million tonnes of crude oil and 23.52 billion cubic meters of gas in 2014-15, is boosting investment to reverse the declining trend in output at bulk of its old and ageing fields. ONGC will invest Rs 24,188 crore in development of six projects both on the east and west coast. Another Rs 17,490 crore will be spent on redeveloping its prime Mumbai High fields as well as Heera-South Heera fields in western offshore, a top company official said. The biggest project is the western offshore Daman field development where Rs 6,086 crore is being invested to produce 27.67 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas by 2034-35. “Production is expected by July 2016 at the rate of 2 million standard cubic meters per day and peak output of 8.35 mmscmd of gas and 9,286 barrels of condensate per day is likely by 2018-19. There is an upside potential of 10 mmscmd,” he said. In the neighbouring South Bassein field, Rs 4,620 crore is being invested in additional development by April 2017 for an incremental gas production of 18.83 bcm by

2030-31. Also, Rs 2,477 crore additional development of Vasai East will give 1.83 million tonnes and 1.97 bcm of gas by 2029-30. The project will be completed by December 2018, he said. The official said ONGC is investing Rs 1,881 crore in developing the Gamij oilfield near Ahmedabad. Of the east coast, ONGC is investing Rs 4,124 crore in developing the Vashista and S-1 gas fields in Krishna Godavari basin. The project will be completed by April 2017 and give an incremental gas production of 15.96 bcm, he said. Another Rs 5,000 crore is being spent on Krishna Godavari basin field of agyalanka which will start production from September next year. The official said ONGC is investing Rs 5,813 crore in redeveloping the Mumbai High North field with a view to enhance recovery factor and increase the longevity of the prime asset. “This project will also help to monetize untapped reserves,” he said, adding that incremental production of 0.43 million tonnes of oil and 0.63 mmscmd of gas has already started and this will rise to almost 1 million tonnes of oil and 1.64 mmscmd of additional gas by FY18. Similarly, Rs 6,069 crore was being spent on Mumbai High South fields and another Rs 5,608 crore in redeveloping the Heera and South Heera oil and gas field in the western offshore, he added.

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New Delhi, JuNe 7 (PTi): India could not take advantage of job opportunities vacated by China in sectors like textile, gems & jewellery and leather in absence of appropriate policies, a top Labour Ministry official said. “Jobs in manufacturing such as textile, gems and jewellery and leather that were vacated by China, we could not take advantage of that. “And that went to countries like Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh primarily becuase...We did not have appropriate policies for those sectors, be it textiles, gems and jewellery, leather and like that,” Labour Secretary Shankar Aggarwal said at a seminar on Compliance of Labour Legislations-Issues and Concern. He said job opportunities in these sectors will aid in growth, encourage setting up large number of enterprises and help inexports of related products. India added about 10 million people into the workforce earlier, however, now about 5-7 million join the workforce, as growth in the past few years has mainly been “jobless”. “If we got to create jobs, we got to encourage services sector as well as manufacturing. We were adding almost 10 million people every year in the workforce. This number has come down. However, today we are adding only 5-7 million people every year,” Aggarwal said.

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the food ministry. The claim, made on behalf of Indian consumers, was not filed through the courts but with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which has semi-judicial powers and will decide on the merits of the case and the size of any damages. The officials said Nestle was being accused of unfair trade practices, adding this is the first case in which the Indian government has sought damages from a multinational.

A Nestle spokesman in India said the company had not received any official notification as of Sunday, and could not comment. The food ministry sources said NCDRC would notify the company when the case comes up, likely next week. Nestle has been under fire in India since one regional regulator said in May that it had found evidence of excess lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) in some packets of Maggi instant noodles, a cheap

and hugely popular snack. Since then, several state regulators have followed, and Nestle said early on Friday that it would temporarily withdraw all Maggi noodles from the country’s shelves, though it reiterated the products were safe. Total Maggi sales in India, including sauces and condiments, account for less than 1 percent of Nestle’s group annual sales, but brand damage could be significant in a country where the noodles are ubiquitous, in homes and

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60. Murres 61. Self-denial 63. Actors in a show 64. Secluded valley 65. Implied 66. If not 67. Chair 68. Cubic meter

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31. Constellation bear 33. Labor group 34. Sense 36. Mortgage 37. Beige 38. Beams 42. Adorable 43. Cheat 45. Queasiness 47. Armistice 48. Not urban 49. Awry 51. Lyric poem 52. Pipsqueaks 54. Labels 56. French for “State” 57. Agreeable 58. French for “Black” 59. Initial wager 62. Explosive Ans to CrossWord 3259

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roadside eateries. Nestle fielded its global chief executive on Friday to help quell one India’s most high profile food scares in a decade. Indian newspapers reported separately on Sunday that the national food safety agency planned to inspect all Nestle’s manufacturing facilities across India as a result of the scare. Nestle has eight factories in India, though not all produce Maggi. Calls to the agency’s office went unanswered on Sunday.

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MEZHUR shows the way Igniting the 'Spirit of Science' in parents and students

Kohima, June 7 (mexn): The ongoing Career CliniQ’s series on ‘igniting minds’ to choose science after matriculation reached Mezhur HS School, Kohima on June 5 with a daylong seminar for the parents of the school’s class 9 and 10 students. It was conducted in association with the Directorate of Employment and Craftsmen Training. According to a press note, the event was elaborately organised by the school authorities witnessing large scale participation of the parents making the Education Officer, Career CliniQ Kevisetuo Rhitso to comment that the Mezhur’s parent participation was the best compared to all the schools it had visited so far in Nagaland. During the seminar, noted speaker Dr. Anirban Choudhury highlighted the audience on the various job opportunities

Parents of Class 9 & 10 of Mezhur School attending Ignite the Spirit of Science Seminar conducted by Career CliniQ and DECT, Government of Nagaland.

available in the science stream. He also apprised the crowd about various government schemes and scholarships introduced to promote science among the students. Information on the prestigious Kishore Vaigyanik Pratsohan Yojana (KVPY) and the Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) scheme under the Ministry of HRD were also provided to the participants. Meanwhile, Andrew

Tsanglao of Career CliniQ, assured regular interaction with the students on various education and career related issues, including skill education. Robin Thapa, Headmaster of Mezhur HS School, Kohima expressed his gratitude to the parents who turned up in large numbers for the event and assured them to conduct more such sessions in future. Retd Joint Director of Department of School

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Education and Advisor of Career CliniQ, R Angami in his vote of thanks encouraged parents to actively participate with their wards in the process of career decision making. The participants also appreciated the school’s effort in organizing a first of its kind event resulting in producing some concrete solutions to the problem of fear of maths and science amongst the students, the press note added.

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Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): An Inter Battalion Debate Competition on Human Rights with the topic, ‘Protection of Human Rights Helps In Combating Terrorism’ was organised at ARTC & S, Shokhuvi on June 6. A total of 16 speakers from three Training Battalions and one women recruit training company of ARTC & S debated on

the topic in both Hindi and English, with ‘FOR’ and ‘AGAINST’ the motion. Brig K Narayanan was the chief guest on the occasion. According to AR press note, the main aim of this debate was to sensitize the troops about Human Rights and importance of their strict observance while dealing with the public. ARTC&S team for AR Inter Sector Debate Com-

CM to inaugurate new deptt today Kohima, June 7 (mexn): A new department of municipal affairs will be inaugurated by Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang on June 8 at 9:00 AM at the Directorate of Municipal Affairs, AG Colony, Kohima. Parliamentary secretary for municipal affairs & economics & statistics R. Tohanba will deliver welcome address. The function will be chaired by Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar, IAS. Brief account of the department will be given by municipal affairs secretary Imjung M Panger, IAS while vote of thanks will be proposed by Dr. Toshimanen Ozukum, Additional Director, Municipal Affairs.

petition scheduled to be held on June 22-23 was also selected during the debate competition. In Hindi debate Hav Umesh Kumar Yadav and Recruit Sandeep Saini were adjudged the best speakers FOR and AGAINST the motion respectively while Recruit Aditya Kumar Singh and Recruit Krishna were declared the runners up. In English debate, Re-

Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): The Institute for Children Ministry (ICM), sponsored by Toluvi Baptist Church (TBC) was inaugurated on June 5 at Toluvi village with Rev. Dr. Kethozelhou Keyho, General Secretary, Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), as the chief guest. Rev. Keyho in his speech stated “if we nurture the children only for the sake of the church we will lose the battle. We must care and nurture the children to the next generation to face the world that is cruel.” He also appealed to support ICM through prayer, financially and materially. “For ICM to survive and exist, it is ought to be your involvement, my involvement; your

Children seen during the inaugural programme of the Village Development Board (VDB) Watch Tower in the first VDB village, Kütsapo, which was recently inaugurated by minister for rural development & REPA CL John. The watch tower was initiated by Nagaland State VDB Association (NSVDBA). (Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero)

doctors, nurses and medical staff in all the places visited, Longon expressed his outmost respect and honour for the doctors and nurses, it said. He also cautioned that absenteeism will be seriously viewed. Meanwhile, he exhorted all the medical staff to be more dedicated, sincere, honest and to execute their professional duties impartially, keeping in mind their call of duty professionally assigned to them. The minister also met all the in-patients and wished them speedy recovery.

BsF observes world No Tobacco Day

peren, June 7 (mexn): A one day training of Medical Officers & GNM/ANM for district Specific Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Campaign, Peren District was held at Chief Medical Office Conference Hall on June 6. The training was organized by the District AIDS Prevention Control Unit (DAPCU) Peren with Deputy Director, DAPCU/STI (NSACS), Dr. Ruokuobinuo and Senior Medical Officer & i/c DSRC District Hospital Peren, Dr. Lhoukhovi as the resource persons. The training was attended by District Program Officers UIP/RCH, NVBDCP, Senior Medical Officers, Medical Officers, Health workers. The campaign is an also initiative done with the collaboration of the Health & Family Welfare Department and District Administration Peren, informed a press note from District Media Officer, CMO Office Peren, Pezanguno Celine Secii. While the present STI campaign, a pilot project in Peren and first in India to be funded by ‘District innovated fund,’ was launched in Peren district

on April 25, 2013, it could not be implemented immediately due to ‘untimely release of fund’ and could start only now, the press note added. The District Specific STI campaign was proposed seeing the prevalence of STI cases at DSRC (STI clinic) at District Hospital Peren. However, the DSRC caters only to the populace in and around Peren town and the service delivery in the other health centres across the district was poor. “Realising the need to scale up STI service delivery in the Health Units and creating more awareness among the people but with no specific fund for such activities,” the DMO further stated, “The District Administration and Medical Department, Peren came together and collaborated to meet the need of the district, making this campaign a possibility.” Chairing the training program, Dr. Tiala, Dy. CMO welcomed the participants and gave an overview about the District Specific STI Campaign - 3 months (June- August); IPC on STI Awareness once every

cruit H Tongsin Anal and Recruit H Chingkhansuan were adjudged the best speakers FOR and AGAINST the motion respectively while Recruit Nokdo Tekwa and Recruit Rollen Topno were declared the runners up. The team of No. 3 Training Battalion was adjudged the best team with highest points and accumulated ranking and was awarded the Champion Trophy.

participation and my participation is going to be very important,” he stated. “This institution with our help and with our support will bring hope not only for the generation to come but also in our world in every area of our existence." He further assured that NBCC will extend help in every possible way to see ICM stay strong, purposeful and focused in the ministry. Meanwhile, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi, Executive Secretary, Western Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu, Akuvuto, Thahekhu, also assured its help for the survival of ICM in every possible way to see that the institution stand strong for the benefit of the generation.

Health minister visits Phek, Kiphire

Training on specific STI campaign held at Peren

The OM Books Dimapur contributed books to The Builders Hostel, Mokokchung, to set up a library for the boarders. The library is also open to anyone interested. Hostel proprietor, Talinungsang Pongen said he had the desire to open a library for the benefit of the students as well as anyone who wants to come and read for free. The initial book donation from OM Books had made it possible. The manager of the OM Books Dimapur, Buruga Sridhar, said that OM Books has provisions to donate books as an act of mission.

Children ministry inaugurated in Toluvi

Zunheboto, June 7 (mexn): The 111 BN of the Border Security Force along with the rest of the world marked the World No Tobacco Day on May 31 at BN HQ Satakha under the supervision of YM Upadhyay Commandant 111 BN BSF. Various awareness programmes and preventive measures were shared and discussed by the unit medical team on Tobacco and its hazardous effects. All troops present at the BN HQ participated in the event and were greatly benefitted by the awareness programme, a press release stated.

Kangtsung Theological Association (KLT) held its 10th general conference from May 29 to 31 at Aopenzu Baptist Church, Aopenzu. The members of the association expressed gratitude to Aopenzu Church for hosting the meeting.

Dimapur

ARTC & S conducts debate competition on human rights

Kohima, June 7 (mexn): Minister for Health & Family Welfare P. Longon paid his first visit to Phek and Kiphire districts on June 4 and 5. He was accompanied by Commissioner & Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Principal Director, Mission Director (NHM) and officials from the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare. A press release informed that the team visited Pfutsero CHC, Phek District Hospital, Meluri CHC and Kiphire District Hospital. Interacting with the Cultural performance by Konyak Nagas during the visit of home minister Y. Patton for official programme recently at Longching village under Mon district . (Morung Photo)

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month with different groups of people by MO and ANMs; and Review of the month’s activities and achievements during CMO review meeting (1st week of every month). Speaking at the training Dr. Ruokuobinuo highlighted about the Disinfection & Standard precaution/cross referrals and linkages. She also emphasized that effective counselling is the most important and so also detailed line listing of the clients. She urged all the health workers to intensify the awareness during the campaign. Dr. Lhoukhovi gave an overview of STI/RTI & Syndromic case management and highlighted about the importance of Syndromic management. Other training topics included Education & counselling in STI program by Atalii, counsellor, DSRC Peren; RPR testing by Aojungla, Lab Tech, DH Peren; and Reporting system and Reporting formats by Khriethonuo, DPO DAPCU Peren. Later, Kits, medicines and IEC materials were distributed to all the centers, the press note informed.

KsUD reminders Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): All the Khiamniungan people residing in and around Dimapur are reminded to get themselves registered in the either in the Khiamniungan Union Dimapur or Khiamniungan Students’ Union Dimapur (KSUD), in case of students. A press note from KSUD president, P Shingnya further requested the guardian of any such person to kindly ensure that their domestic helper or wards are duly registered. For further details, contact 9436431034/9862928874.

Hindi Teachers’ Union, Kohima elects new team Kohima, June 7 (mexn): The Hindi Teachers’ Union, Kohima unit has informed that general meeting cum election of the union was held on May 23. Kekhrieneilie Tsikhano was elected as the new President, Agwale Khing as vice President, Vizothal Zhotso as General Secretary, and Hinsenlo as Treasurer. A press release from Nelson Yhokha, Info & Publicity Secretary, ANHTU Kohima unit informed that the tenure has been extended from 3 years to 5 years period. Further, it informed there will be an executive meeting and taking over on June 13 at Bharat Scout & Guide hall, Bayavu at 10:00 am. It is compulsory for all the new and old executive members to attend the meeting as action will be taken against the absentees, the release said.

Jakla (character) – a book in Ao Naga released Zenohol Angami, Director of Fisheries and Mhabemo Yanthan, Addl. Secretary, Fisheries accompanied by SDO(C) Wokha and Sanis and officers from Department of Fisheries visited Doyang hydro reservoir on June 5. Fish fingerlings were released in the reservoir and ice boxes were distributed to the fishermen during the visit.

Members of Dream Foundation of Nagaland (DFoN) visited Rev. Longsa Memorial Orphanage Home in commemoration of its Foundation Day on June 5. In a gesture of sharing love and affection, DFoN members contributed edible items and cash towards the home besides having prayer fellowship and interaction with the children of the home.

moKoKchung, June 7 (mexn): A book entitled, Jakla (character) written by Imnaonen in Ao Naga language was released by Executive Secretary ABAM Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger on the sideline of ‘World Environment Day’ celebration at Mongsenyimti Compound on June 5. It was organised by Mongsenyimti Compound Baptist Church in collaboration with Ao Baptist Church Council (ABAM) with the theme ‘Save Creations, save Planet.’ Releasing the book, Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger lauded the writer, who is over 92 years of age, for authoring such resourceful book at such an advance age and hope that the readers will be blessed abundantly by reading his book. Though basically Akhoya Village, the writer Imnaonen, was

born in Mongsenyimti Village in 1923 and had an illustrious life and his works bear testimony to the fact that he was an educated man and true leader of his time. He was founding member and president of Akhoya Students’ Union; Headmaster Suruhoto M. E. School; Office Assistant, National High School, Mokokchung; General Secretary, NNC; Chairman, Ao Tribal Council, 1st Convener and Sessional President, Akhoya Senso Mungdang; founding member of Konyak Tribal Council, Phom Tribal Council, Fazl Ali College, Tuli College and Clark Theological College. The book is based on how each individual should utilized his character in the right way as far as possible and the writer has beautifully and artfully tried to capture the diverse characters of

(R-L) A Chuba Ozüküm, Administrative officer Law & Justice; Maongkaba Imchen, District & Session Judge; T. N. Jamir, IFS, DFO; K. Temjen Jamir, Editor, Tir Yimyim; I Anungba Sanglir, Asst. Director, Food & Civil Supplies; and the author, Imnaonen and wife and Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger, Executive Secretary, ABAM at the release of the book, ‘Jakla’ (Character) at Mongsenyimti Compound on June 5.

an individual. Besides, it has been exquisitely exhibited in the form of storytelling technique. Moreover, he uses several instances of strong and deep Ao

word in his writing which adds beauty both to his work and will go a long way in generating curiosity as well as preserving the language among the youngster.

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Danny Dorling

Now is the time when Security Blueprint? I we most need hope P MonDAy 8 JunE 2015 voluME X IssuE 155

By Along longkumer

t was just waiting to happen—the latest attack on security forces at Chandel, Manipur in which 20 soldiers were killed in an ambush by a combine force of the SS Khaplang led newly formed United Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (UNLFW). The breakdown of the ceasefire agreement between the Government of India and the NSCN-Khaplang is a major setback for peace in the northeast region especially those areas bordering India and Myanmar, including States like Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. At a time when the BJP led government at the Centre is giving the much needed impetus to the ‘Act East Policy’, armed confrontation between India’s security forces and the ethnic armed groups in the northeast and beyond will only make the region and its people prone to more violence and insecurity. A disturbed situation in the region is therefore not good for trade, commerce and development—the centre point of India’s economic diplomacy in the region. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally cultivating good neighbourly relation in South and South East Asia, the return to arms by the Khaplang group of the NSCN will have a bearing on the security environment, especially along the borders with Myanmar even though the security establishment in India may brush aside such a threat perception. In fact, a number of violent incidents have taken place between the NSCN (K) and the Indian army not just in one place but across a wide expanse of territory thereby pointing to the former’s ability to target the security forces through its spheres of influence. And as is the case in any conflict situation, it is the common people who will be the worst affected as they will get caught in the cross-fire. Against this backdrop, there is the report of Delhi preparing a security blueprint for the northeast with inputs from security experts. The Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region (DONER) along with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will jointly prepare this blueprint. Now it is worrying as to the kind of security plan that may emerge, especially if the whole exercise is military centric, which usually is the case if we go by past experience. Indian policy makers including the present National Security Advisor (NSA) will be well aware about how the Indian Army had realised the futility of an armed conflict with the Naga armed groups and as a result, the ceasefire and subsequent peace process started. The latest abrogation of the ceasefire by the NSCN (K) and the failure of Delhi to manage this fallout, including at the political level with the former, points to a flaw in India’s policy. It also shows the complete lack of communication between the mandarins who run the security establishment and the political leadership in India on how to deal with the ceasefire and peace process involving the various Naga groups. Coming back to the proposed security measures for the northeast, the recent statement of India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar where he asserts that “terrorists have to be neutralised only through terrorists” is probably going to be part of this new security blueprint in works of the Modi government. Speaking candidly, the Minister used the Hindi phrase “kante se kanta nikalna” (removing a thorn with a thorn) and wondered “why Indian soldiers should be used to neutralise terrorists”. He said the proactive steps could include pressure tactics. Off course the Defence Minister was replying to a question on the government's reaction if a repeat of Mumbai attacks or a Parliament attack takes place. Yet, the prospect of more ‘divide and rule’ in the Naga situation cannot be ruled out if Indian security forces use the Naga armed groups against each other. The State government and Naga civil society must remain on guard against any attempt to create more fissures in the social and political fabric of the Naga landscape. If indeed the new security blueprint for the northeast region aims to exploit the differences between armed outfits or even amongst the indigenous community, for the purpose of intelligence-gathering and military strikes, this will only aggravate ongoing conflicts. It will also reverse the big gains made in the last few decades to bring back peace in the region. Rather the present government in Delhi should focus on working out a political blueprint as opposed to a security one. Prime Minister Modi should demonstrate the political willpower to solve problems in the region. (The writer is a former Editor and currently member of the Morung Express Board. Feedback can be send to alongnews@yahoo.com)

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Jens Erik Gould The Financialist

Water is scarce, but the profits aren’t

ater shortages are hardly unusual in the developing world. Consider China, which holds 7 percent of the world’s water resources but uses 16 percent of the planet’s water. But in India, the problem is even worse. The country contains about 18 percent of the world’s population but only 3 percent of the planet’s fresh water. That, combined with poor resource management, has yielded a situation in which the per capita availability of water is one-fifth of the global average: 1,200 cubic meters per year compared with 6,000 cubic meters worldwide. Agriculture accounts for 90 percent of the current demand in India, but increasing urbanization is boosting municipal needs, while improving economic growth is also boosting industrial demand. In Indian cities, only 64 percent of residents have their own water hookups—compare that to 91 percent in China and 80 percent in Brazil—and water often only runs for 1 to 6 hours a day. And when there is water, its quality is often poor. About 9 percent of homes in India have water that is contaminated with chemicals such as arsenic and nitrate, according to the government. Water is also frequently contaminated with bacteria during the rainy season. Fixing such problems is an imperative for the country’s people, but it also provides an opportunity for investors. The three main ways to mitigate the shortages are to improve efficiency, reduce pollution and create alternate supply sources. One key area of investment is water treatment: the country currently treats only 30 percent of wastewater compared with between 70 and 100 percent in developed countries. There are also opportunities in desalination, since the country’s current capacity is miniscule. A project to clean the Ganga River, which flows through 11 states is estimated to cost 1 trillion rupees ($15 billion). The project is expected to generate an estimated 10 billion liters per day in additional treatment capacity over the next 10 to 15 years. All told, India needs some 13.5 trillion rupees (USD $220 billion) of investment in urban water supply and sewers over the next 20 years, and that creates a major opportunity for water industry players, according to Credit Suisse. The government will supply much of that funding, but the involvement of the private sector—which consists of some 25 large companies and a handful of multinational companies—will grow as well. Water treatment companies—including equipment suppliers, plant operators, wastewater treatment companies, and desalination firms—are expected to find enough new business to support average earnings growth of 15 percent annually over the next few years. “Significant investments are required,” says Anantha Narayan of Credit Suisse’s India equities team, “to correct the mismatch in water resources.”

eople on both the left and the right construct their stories, testaments and beliefs as to the way to behave. On the right, what is key is survival of the fittest (the most selfish?) and apparent market efficiency (blindness?), not being held back by the weakest (the feckless?), not believing that humans are capable of organising themselves (leave it to the ‘price mechanism’?). On the left there is too much faith in the ability of all of us to see sense and to rationally organise ourselves, too much faith that the majority will succumb to good argument when they hear it. There is too much harking back to defend previous success, defending council housing estates, comprehensive school uniformity, or clinical authority over patient inclusion. The left needs to regain the imagination it once had – it needs a metamorphosis. The left still underestimates the extent to which the minds of many in power have been closeted by upbringing, and the huge disadvantage caused by each generation having to learn the world anew. But there are a few certainties. One certainty we can be quite sure of is that the near future really will be very different, because, for at least the last five human generations, the near future has changed radically with each one. Don’t despair that there won’t be change. Don’t assume it will be for the better, nor necessarily for the worse; it may simply just be different. The very least we can do is describe clearly the crux of our present predicament; namely, that much that is currently wrong is widely seen as either inevitable or justifiable – despite not even being sustainable. As 2014 drew to a close, a protest took place in Mayfair at the London headquarters of the landlord Westbrook Partners. Some 60 tenants of the New Era housing estate took to the streets outside Westbrook’s plush offices to complain that they would soon be evicted because the rents were to be raised. One mother brought her two children, Angel, then aged 10 and Alfie, aged 11. The public mood had changed. There was no way that this eviction was going to be permitted. Within 20 days a deal had been done, and the tenants could stay. The news was announced on 19 December and spread around the world. You can no longer evict children at Christmas, not in front of the cameras, not if the world is watching, and not when people have stopped being so afraid to act. In Britain, the vast majority think it is obvious that the NHS, state education and benefits matched to needs are good things; that ignorance, want, idleness, squalor and disease are bad things needing to be tackled, not accepted as inevitable. However, there is still a small, but rich and powerful, minority who are appalled at the amount of taxpayers’ money that goes into the NHS and push for more privatisation in the name of efficiency, the end result of such false efficiency often meaning that they can make a personal profit out of the NHS. They also think that

OR decades, researchers have interviewed criminals to find out how and why they break the law. But the accounts are not always accurate: Narrators manipulate, suffer from faulty memory or justify actions rather than recount facts. For psychologists, it’s best to observe actual behavior, in real time, and afterward interview research participants. Yet for obvious ethical and safety reasons, it’s almost never possible to observe a crime as it happens. Still, in years of studying the field in the United States and Britain, my colleagues and I have come up with ways of getting closer to what happens at the scene of a crime, from interviewing active street robbers about how they appraise potential victims to using maps and slides of residential neighborhoods to see how burglars pick their targets. But recently the video game industry and simulation technology gave us another idea: Could we use simulated environments to “observe” offending behavior? After all, virtual reality has been used to train fighter pilots and surgeons. For a recent study in the journal Psychology, Crime and Law, we devised a simulated environment and got willing, experienced ex-burglars to commit a mock burglary in it. To establish “proof of concept,” we had to show that experienced exburglars would burgle a simulated house the same way they burgled a real house. So we had to have them actually burgle a house. This presented two challenges. We needed a residential house that would be popular with burglars (e.g., as we’ve

An extract from "Injustice: why social inequality still persists"

as little as possible should be spent on welfare, state education and social services. They aim to shrink the state, and some of them will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying taxes at all. It is obvious that elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed, despair and the inequality that binds them all are harmful and need to be tackled. We need to beware the small, but rich and powerful minority who feel that they personally benefit from inequality, and who preposterously try to claim that in the end everyone else benefits, or who say that rising inequality is inevitable because of market forces and globalisation, or that the ‘riff-raff’ do not deserve any more whereas they are so very deserving. We only have to look around the world to see that many other affluent countries are not behaving like Britain and the US are behaving today. Injustice is not inevitable. What

is important is not getting to some arbitrary goal, but the direction in which we are travelling. The current levels of inequality in the US and the UK would have been unimaginable a few decades ago. We do not know by how much it will be possible to reduce inequality, but we will easily know if we are heading in the right direction, which will be when the share of the richest 1 per cent falls. When I started to work on this new edition, I was expecting to just update the facts and figures with more recent statistics. What I found in the numbers surprised me. Following the 2008 economic crash, the US Federal Reserve Board was floundering over financial statistics that it had been updating quarterly since 1980, and in retrospect they had to revise their recent statistics substantially. What had been published was fiction. The UK government preferred to avoid producing statistics where possible, even proposing to stop the national census that had been undertaken every 10 years since 1801 (other than in wartime). Statistics from non-government sources showed that the poorest were getting poorer and the richest much richer. In the US and across Europe, we moved from an atmosphere of ‘the bankers should suffer for this’ to ‘we are all in this together’. We then began to realise that the richest, including the bankers and financial institutions that had created the crash, were actually not in it with us, but were making a bonanza for themselves, and the bottom 99 per cent were paying for it. The poorest were suffering the most gratuitous hardship, gratuitous because the cuts to their standards of living hardly dented the deficit but destroyed so many lives. There was an element of sadism in the new UK government policies. Many of the unemployed accepted zero hours contracts, low wage (below living wage) employment or registered as self-employed, despite little prospect of financial benefit but so as to avoid the ritual humiliations of the ‘job’ centres. While inequalities have increased within most nations in the last five years, there was some evidence of increasing equality between nations, but between individuals worldwide there was still rapidly increasing inequality. Those in power were being more careful over how they chose their words, but their actions showed no change in their attitudes to the very rich and how many they thought were undeserving. The elite are reluctant to do anything about that which is morally wrong, but still technically legal, while they are happy to pillory ‘benefit cheats’. The UK MPs’ expenses scandal, first publicised by The Telegraph newspaper in May 2009, revealed just how upright and honourable many of our political leaders actually were. The wealth of those in government and of their friends revealed their probable allegiances: ‘All great political action consists of and begins with, speaking out about that which is. All political pettymindedness consists of being silent and covering up that which is.’ To that we should add: ‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.’ Now is the time when we most need hope.

Inside the Mind of a Criminal Claire nee

NYT learned from previous research, a our experienced ex-burglars. semidetached three-bedroom house At the real house, participants wore with side and rear access). But not head-mounted cameras and were many homeowners want to allow even asked to start at the front gate, enter the ex-offenders to mock-burgle their house and burgle it in their own time home. by touching the items they would take A local police department provided in a real burglary. We then replayed the a house in a quiet residential area that video recording of their “burglary” to they used for interviewing traumatized them and asked them to talk through victims of crime. My collaborators, Dr. their decisions during the task. They Martin White and his team from the then completed a second mock burcreative technologies department at glary using the simulated environment the University of Sussex, created a sim- on the laptop. ulated version of From previthe house on a ous interviews laptop that could and experimenbe navigated ustal studies, buring a mouse or a glars had alludgame controller. ed to what we Items (of value call “dysfuncand otherwise) tional expertise” were placed in identical spots in the in the way they approach the environreal house and in the simulated house, ment, select their targets and navigate and in the latter could be “stolen” by around the property, and it was fasciclicking on them. nating to see this unfold in real time. The second hurdle was to find exEx-burglars approached the task offenders. We had to be convinced in a dramatically different way from that our participants had truly ended the students. Burglars entered and extheir criminal careers and would not ited the house at the rear, while stube tempted back into it by our ex- dents, unaware of the cover that the periment. A charity supporting ex-of- side and rear of the house afforded, fenders became our source. We also entered at the exposed front. Burglars recruited a comparison group of post- spent significantly more time in areas graduate students, of a similar age as of the house with high-value items and

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navigated it much more systematically than the students did. They also showed greater discernment, by stealing fewer but more valuable items. Most important, all participants burgled the real and the simulated houses almost identically. We concluded that using simulations can be a robust way to study crime, and in studying it this way, we will not be limited to just burglary. This paradigm will expand our understanding of decision making in and around the crime scene — for example, a burglar’s heightened awareness of vulnerable entrances, locks and window types. We can also learn how emotion (arousal, reward, anxiety) connects with the thought processes characteristic of expertise, which will have a strong effect on how difficult it is to give up crime. This has been largely ignored in the field. A better understanding of criminal behavior will help us reduce opportunities for crime in our neighborhoods. By knowing what the burglar is looking for — what signals wealth, occupancy, ease of access and security in properties — we can make adjustments in awareness and protection. And by better understanding the decision-making sequence of a crime (which often starts days before and at a distance from it), we can address this in rehabilitation by helping the offender to become more conscious of these decisions at an early stage (when it is easier to abandon the idea). This innovation could have a big impact on the way we address criminal behavior. Claire Nee is the director of the International Center for Research in Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth in England.

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The Power of Man

Mirembe!

by Babu Ayindo

y grandmother, Dana Josephina Ongecha Nyo’ Tenda, was a storyteller. It is in her stories that I found most of the inspiration of doing what I do today. Her stories educated me. Her stories inspired me. Her stories provided comfort during difficult seasons. As I grew up, I looked forward to those evenings when my Dana would be in the mood to yarn a story or two, provided I would be keep awake. Of course, I also heard lots of stories from my grandfather, Kwara Odera K’Ogwande. But it is the stories from my grandmother, with all their symbolism, that have found their way into my justpeacework. Take the example of the story of the story of the Lion. I love this story and I have told re-told it so many times, in so many workshops and meetings around the world. And, because my grandmother never cared about such things as copyright, I have even published a version of that story. Others have also stolen that story and published it elsewhere. My grandmother would not mind that because for her it was most important that a story to be retold, as many times as possible. Then there is this other story that I also really like. I have titled it the ‘Power of Man.’ let me retell this story, that my grandmother told us many years ago: “Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, the animals in Kwetu forest used to hold an annual power celebration. Every year, they would celebrate who they were and, more importantly, who they were not. With their colorful costumes, musical instruments and dance movements, they expressed and competed about power. And so it was for hundreds of years, with each year a different animal winning the power competition. However, in the last three years, the celebration had become very competitive. The old style competition was mixed with the new. New winners emerged because of new techniques. Some dance moves were unknown the village of Kwetu. Some animals arrived with strange musical instruments which they claimed had been borrowed from neighboring islands. So, last year Monkey was pronounced the winner by consensus. Imagine! All the animals agreed that the monkey had succeeded in demonstrating new techniques of power and merited the first place. The giraffe, whose opinion was considered as

academic, supported the vote for the monkey saying that of all the books he had read, there was no record, in the history of animal kind, of such innovative dance moves. And, as the animals in Kwetu forest allowed new and innovative ways in the competition, they had to deal with another kind of animal: This year a new animal joined the race—Man. Yes, a two-legged animal had joined the race. Most animals had not given him any chance but he had sailed through the preliminaries. You see, the animals had seen Man around but since he rarely bothered with them, they also did not bother with him. When he invited himself in the competition, they did hardly paid attention at first. But when he won, or bulldozed his way through the preliminaries, then a good number of animals began paying attention. And it so happened that Man was part of the finalists. As usual, the finals were held up the hill of Kwetu Forest overlooking the waterfall of Hope. The five finalists were the Lion, Elephant, Monkey, Giraffe, and Man. As usual, the competitors arrived with their supporters. Monkey was the first to arrive. No one quite saw how Monkey arrived because he was jumping from branch to branch. It looked spectacular as the entire Monkey family arrived like a well-choreographed circus. Next was Lion who dislikes ceremony and arrived with only his wife. He looked around proudly as he stepped into the arena. Elephant and Giraffe are rather close friends and arrived almost at the same time. Elephant arrived chewing a branch while Giraffe nibbled some sweet leaves. Man arrived last – of course! He came alone, with an object dangling from his waist and chewing some kind of leaf rather arrogantly. He looked around with a tinge of disdain, the kind of look that tell you that cannot even understand why he is there in the first place, why he should not have been awarded the medal so long ago. The master of ceremony, Squirrel, announced that the competition should begin. According to the rules, the competitors could step intothe arena as soon as they felt ready and demonstrate – through song, dance and movement – their idea of power. Elephant went first and demonstrated her power by digging a large hole, throwing lots of dust around and making a lot of trum-

peting noise. She danced around the hole in conclusion. Satisfied that everyone had witnessed what power was all about, Elephant rejoined the circle of cheering animals. Giraffe came next and did a poor modification of her last year’s dance of power but the melody sounded nice. She danced around gracefully then walked around the arena just to confirm that all other animals present had witnessed hear feat. Monkey weighed in next with his acrobatic jumps from branch to branch but few animals seemed impressed. Monkey sang his old acrobatic song as he swung from one branch to the next. Very few animals seemed impressed. Lion was next. He roared to demonstrate his power. Few animals were afraid since they had heard this roar many times before. Even the diminutive Ma’Rabbit stood askance, wondering why Lion would use the same strategy year in, year out. Last came the new competitor – Man. He stepped into the arena and looked around. The animals fell silent. Slowly he untied something from his waist and raised it to his shoulder. Loud bangs followed. Suddenly almost every other competitor was bleeding. Lion was limping, and Monkey scampered with blood oozing from his ear. Even Elephant seemed helpless! He sat there with a bleeding trunk doing something that was between laughing and crying. Man laughed and slowly walked back into the forest. That night all the animals met. Man was not invited. The animals wondered what had become of Man. Who was this animal Man? Why did he attempt to kill the animals even when he did not want to eat them? Some animals thought Man is different because he walks on his two feet, while others said he could be suffering from that rare disease, “superiority simplex.” The consensus was that the animals decided to investigate Man further. To investigate man deeply they needed to send one or two of their own to live with man. Dog and Cat volunteered to go ‘take the risk’ investigate Man even if it mean living with him for a while. The animals decided that no other competition about Power would be held until they received the report from dog and cat. To date, the animals are still waiting for the report from Dog and Cat...” (A revised version of this story was published in When You are the Peacebuilder)

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Fair to boycott Israel? Global momentum grows dan Perry Associated Press

n boardrooms and campuses, on social media and in celebrity circles, momentum seems to be growing for a global pressure campaign on Israel. The atmosphere recalls the boycotts that helped demolish apartheid South Africa a quarter century ago. Israel and its partisans can be expected to mount a ferocious defense, but their public relations Achilles' heel may be the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The boycott notion has been around for years. Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has long called on fellow artists to avoid performing in Israel, with limited success. A new spur appears to come with the March re-election in Israeli of the hard-line Benjamin Netanyahu — despite extraordinary opposition both internationally and domestically, among the country's security, academic, artistic and media establishments. Last week, Israelis saw FIFA, the world's main soccer body, consider their country's expulsion at the request of the Palestinians, who at the last minute withdrew it. This week they heard that the French telecoms giant Orange wants to terminate its relationship with the Israeli company that licenses its brand. Then came testimonies by academics suggesting they were already facing an undeclared boycott — a big deal in a place that prides itself on its Nobel prizewinners. Increasingly prominent is the socalled "BDS" (boycott-disinvestment-sanctions) movement, run by Palestinians and leftist activists from around the world. In Israel, politicians have lined up to offer responses, and the talk of the town is how to defend against the boycott peril from abroad. Comparisons of its treatment of Palestinians to the former South African apartheid system have long been rejected by Israel and its supporters. They also ask why the world focuses so much on Israel and the Palestinians when there are so many oppressive regimes around the world. They argue that opposition to Israel's occupation of lands the Palestinians want for their future state often masks a more farreaching aim of destroying the Jewish state as a whole. In some cases, actually, it openly does so. The key part of the Israeli defense rests on Israel's democratic credentials: the country's Arab minority, sharing an ethnicity with its enemies, has citizen rights, and in fact, an Israeli Arab political party just posted the third-best result in the election. Critically, however, this argument excludes discussion of the lack of rights for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Over 2 million Palestinians live in the territory, which along with Gaza was seized from Jordan in a war that began exactly 48 years ago, on June 5, 1967. They face an array of difficulties, from limits on movement, to a moribund economy, to arrests and indignities at checkpoints. Israel's defense, when it claims it is a democracy, is that the West Bank is not part of Israel — just as Iraq was not part of the United States after the 2003 invasion.

But there are key differences. Israel builds towns there: about a halfmillion Israelis live either in West Bank settlements or in former West Bank land incorporated into east Jerusalem, also occupied in the 1967 war. The Israeli settlers can vote in Israeli elections and serve in government as if they live in Israel, but the Palestinians living in the territory cannot. Israel also controls the West Bank's only external border, with Jordan, which has renounced its claim to the land in favor of the Palestinians. The West Bank's other border, with Israel, is a border mostly for the Palestinians; Israelis can freely cross, except for crossings into several Palestinian autonomous zones where Israelis are generally restricted. The Palestinians have voting rights in these autonomous zones and cast ballots for their own leaders, but general elections have not been held for about a decade; and the Palestinian Authority, which rules the islands of autonomy, is far less powerful than Israel. For decades, most diplomatic efforts have been geared toward moving toward a separate Palestinian state in defined borders living in peace side-by-side Israel. But some Palestinians by now have despaired of the so-called "two-state" solution, concluding after two decades of failed on-and-off peace efforts that the sides will never agree on terms. The alternative, they say, is a single state in all of former British Palestine. That would mean Israel annexing the West Bank and giving its Palestinians the right to vote. Counting Israeli Arab citizens, Arabs then would make up about 40 percent of the population. Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip — the other part of the would-be Palestinian state — in 2005. But "one-staters" see Gaza, with another almost two million Palestinians, as part of the equation. And so, down this path, the Arab-Palestinians and Jewish-Israeli populations would be roughly equal in a unified state. Such a scenario would be frightening to the Israeli Zionist left, which wants Israel to remain "the Jewish state" but also be democratic, requiring a large Jewish majority. So many Israeli Zionists would be extremely eager for Israel to back off the settlement project and create a greater partition now, with or without the Palestinians' consent to the borders and other parameters. Such a unilateral move by Israel would certainly not placate the Palestinians, especially since it would not include east Jerusalem and the walled Old City, key to their ambitions for their own state. But it could possibly take a lot of the zip out of the boycott movement. Most Palestinians would no longer be occupied by Israel; what remained would be a border dispute with much less potential to stir hearts globally. This would be opposed by religious Israelis who oppose a pullout from the West Bank because they see it as biblically part of Israel — and right-wingers who emphasize the security risk. For now these groups combined keep winning Israeli elections. For this reason, ironically, at least some Israelis support the threat of boycotts: to convince their fellow citizens that that they have a problem that must, somehow, be addressed.

POLL RESULTS

Are you aware of the seriousness of the HIV/AIDS situation in Nagaland? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Yes, many awareness, seminar in school, public place, and many advertisement pasted along the streets…that is much more enough .. to me the department does well in giving awareness but it’s the people failure. • Yes.. We need to discuss the issue openly. There is nothing to be ashamed to talk about HIV and AIDS and sex. Our youths feel shy to ask or talk about condemn but never do the feel shy when coming to unprotected sex. • Personally Yes. But many are still not aware of the gravity of this deadly disease. I would like to congratulate the MEX for taking up this issue. Glad to read it in the front page and the editorial. Many programmes and initiatives have been taken but we still need to do much more. I have been conducting a small research with the People living with HIV in Kiphire. From the personal interactions with them I had derived some conclusions. Of course the research is just in the nascent stage. Here are some of the findings: PLHIV suffer from both self and social stigma. Many churches have come forward But many churches are reluctant to come forward and give space to them. Economically, they are not in good condition. Due to greater risk of physical illness, they cannot do physical work like others. The government and ngos need to create some schemes and programmes specifically for them. It is also found that most of them are educated. Most common cause of transmission is unprotected sex. Found that the ART, DAPCU, are helping the patients. But it is difficult to reach the rural areas especially in the villages nearby the international border. These are some of the findings. Greater details afterwards. Let us all do what we can do to help spreading the issue and the PLHIV. Kuknalim • Yes but the department seems less concerned

by misusing the fund. Here in our state misuse kind of publicity is not helping and is not actueven the money for differently abled person. ally creating real awareness. It is not effective. • Yes. All Across North East India Nagaland Publicity does not mean educating the public state is peaceful state where every thing stay on this disease. normal but HIV/AIDS effected 88% coz most • No, there is no adequate information to deof youth they had unscribe this. Many are protected sex. So as yet to be tested. per my concern over • No. Most of the HIV Nagaland issue I wul awareness campaign like to advice AIDS is not reaching the control society to set grassroots. It is focused up a condom box in only in preventive meaevery knock and corsured and does not rener. there are some ally help us in knowing citizen who feel shy to the overall seriousness buy condom in pharof the issue. macy and there are • No. In the real sense some who do not have people are not aware money to buy. about how serious • Recent record shows the situation is. Most the critical stage of bepeople do know about ing HIV infection. the HIV/AIDS and we • Yes very much. It see a lot of posters is rather getting very around, but they are late. If we really love not adequate in creatand care our people ing real awareness. then we should be fully • No. Just putting equipped and educate up posters and banour young siblings and ners and doing some push forward. May He workshops will not help us. help because they • It has invaded the are usually confined general population... to only a select auYES very challenging to dience. It does not no OTHER keep track. Figure reach the most imcould be more staggering than the actual re- portant areas that it should reach. flections. Some of those who voted Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: NO had this to say: • We should conduct more open health edu• There is no denying that there has been a lot cations.. This year data shows higher rate of of publicity regarding HIV and AIDS. But this HIV transmission from mother to baby.. Health

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workers/staffs can play a vital role in educating people..during health check ups/screening and counselling.. Public should know what HIV AIDS really is and its various mode of transmission. • Every body need to check out and go for HIV testing as the sooner the better. • Yes/no. what does it matter ....,all funds to hiv is used by the concerned officers in building their own house ....becoming rich day by day..... • Being worked in this issue for the past 2,3 years in Delhi came across many PLHA and till last year Nagaland comes on the 5th in line to highest infected state but its sad to hear that it has increase massively. The main route cause to HIV/ AIDS is through sexual relations as well blood transfusion. I would therefore suggest churches has an important role to play in this as well the schools should be given compulsory values of education on sex and the society, the values of life. As I find out that Churches too are not aware of this. Why am writing and pointing out churches is that church need to be aware and sensitized where they can play an important role with regard to this issue. Last year I came to Dimapur to give seminar on Values of education on HIV/ AIDS to youth leaders and education directors of churches in Dimapur. According to the analysis taken from the interaction and the responses we get, I found out that many were not aware of it. So it will be good to make the churches sensitize on this that Church be the agent of change through counseling and conducting awareness camp. The medical department too should make compulsory HIV testing in the hospitals and clinic when the patient comes for treatment that those who are detected positive should start and given ART treatment which of course is free for People Living with HIV and AIDS.(PLHA). By imparting value education and sensitizing the church I trust people will become aware and abstain from all this which in turn will lower the rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in our land.

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India, Bangladesh not just 'pass pass' but 'saath saath'

dhAKA, June 7 (iAns): India and Bangladesh are not just "pass pass" (close to each other) dhAKA, June 7 (iAns): For- We are witnessing a process of his- Bangladesh in 1971. but also "saath saath" (to- mer Indian prime minister Atal Bi- tory being written," Modi quoted VaHe described himself as one of gether), Prime Minister hari Vajpayee was on Sunday con- jpayee as saying. the millions of Indians who wanted Narendra Modi said here ferred the Bangladesh Liberation "Fate has put parliament and this vision to be realised. on Sunday.Addressing in- War award for his contribution to the country in a role that not only Modi said the honour was being tellectuals in Dhaka at the the liberation of the country from are we fighting alongside those bestowed on a leader who was an inend of his two-day visit, Pakistan. who are sacrificing their lives in spiration for him and who had proModi said not just Asia but Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the fight for liberation but we are vided guidance during the war for the entire world "will do a who is on a two-day visit to Bangla- also trying to give a new direction the liberation of Bangladesh in his detailed post-mortem" on desh, received the award on behalf to history. role as an opposition leader. India-Bangladesh ties fol- of Vajpayee from President Mo"Today, the blood of people of "An inspiration for so many peolowing his visit to see what hammad Abdul Hamid at a func- Bangladesh fighting for their free- ple like me, Bharat Ratna Shri Atal has been gained." dom and that of Indian soldiers is Bihari Vajpayee is being honoured tion in Dhaka. But if in one sentence Modi said it was a moment of flowing together. This blood will cre- by Bangladesh," Modi said. I am to describe the ties, pride for the people of India. ate such bonds which will not break "If Atalji's health permitted and people will think that we Recalling Vajpayee's speech of under any pressure, who will never he was present here, this occasion are 'pass pass' but now the December 1971 in parliament, Modi fall victim to any diplomatic foul would be very different," Modi said. world will have to accept said the former prime minister had play. Liberation of Bangladesh has Bangladesh Prime Minister that we are not just 'pass said friendship between India and now come near," he said. Sheikh Hasina highlighted Vajpaypass' but 'saath saath'," he Bangladesh was like a bond which On a personal note, Modi said ee's contribution to her country's said to loud applause.He would not break under any pressure, that though he entered politics Liberation War. said his two-day visit has and would never be the victim of any quite late in his life, he was one of the "As a politician, Shri Vajpayee's ended, but "I feel that ac- foul play of diplomacy. many youth activists who came to unstinting support to Bangladesh tually the yatra (in ties) has "Even if late, a right step has been Delhi in response to Vajpayee's call played an important role in mobilisjust begun". taken by recognising Bangladesh. for 'satyagraha' for the liberation of ing support for our cause," she said. "I have an emotional attachment with BanglaModi complimented relations between Bangla- gratitude India's enormous firmed their commitment desh," he added. contribution to the glorious to cooperate in tackling ex- Hasina for her support in desh and India". She sought assistance Liberation War. India-Bangladesh ties tremism and terrorism and enhancing sub-regional Modi conveyed apprenot to allow their territory cooperation and connec- from India in bringing have entered new phase India's Prime Minister for any activity inimical to tivity and appreciated her back the mortal remains ciation for conferring the commitment to the bet- of valiant freedom fighters 'Bangladesh Liberation Narendra Modi and his the other. According to an ex- terment of bilateral ties of Bangladesh who were War Honour' on former Bangladeshi counterpart buried in Indian soil dur- prime minister Atal Bihari Sheikh Hasina on Sunday haustive joint statement is- with India. Hasina "expressed her ing the 1971 War of Lib- Vajpayee for his outstandnoted that India-Bangla- sued by both countries on desh ties have entered a Sunday, both sides agreed firm belief that Prime Min- eration. Modi agreed to ing contribution to the Libnew phase with a "prag- to enhance cooperation in ister Modi's leadership extend necessary coopera- eration War. The two prime minismatic, mature and practical the fields of energy, trade would bring in fresh impe- tion in this regard. Hasina recalled with ters gave directives to the tus to the excellent bilateral approach" and both reaf- and connectivity.

Bangladesh confers Liberation War Award on Vajpayee

concerned officials on both sides for expeditious implementation of the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) and its 2011 Protocol on the ground. The two leaders also reaffirmed their commitment to extend all facilities to the residents of the enclaves and ensure that the rights of all citizens are protected. The historic instruments of ratification of the 1974 LBA and its 2011 Protocol were exchanged and modalities for ensuring smooth implementation of the said Agreement and Protocol were worked out under an exchange of letters. The two prime ministers recalled the "Framework Agreement on Cooperation for Development" of 2011 and stressed on taking stock of the achievements and charting ways for future cooperation. It was agreed that the fourth meeting of the Joint Consultative Commission led by their foreign ministers would be held in 2015 in Dhaka. The two prime ministers expressed satisfaction at the unparalleled level of cooperation between the two countries on security related issues and reaf-

firmed their unequivocal and uncompromising position against extremism and terrorism in all forms and manifestations, as well as their commitment to cooperate with each other by sharing information about groups and persons indulging in terrorism. They reiterated their commitment that their respective territories would not be allowed to be used for any activity inimical to the other. Modi expressed India's appreciation for the cooperation extended by Bangladesh in security related matters. The two prime ministers expressed satisfaction at the conclusion of the MOUs on Prevention of Smuggling of Fake Currency Notes, Cooperation between Coast Guards and Prevention of Human Trafficking, all of which will augment security cooperation. The two leaders stressed the need for effective implementation of the Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP) for better border management so as to prevent cross border criminal activities, irregular movement, incidents of violence and tragic loss of lives.

They agreed on the need to free the borders from criminal activities. Both prime ministers also welcomed the finalisation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for allowing usage of Indian border roads for construction and maintenance of Border Out Posts (BOPs) of Border Guard Bangladesh as well as use of Indian medical facilities in difficult areas in the border area by Bangladeshi personnel, who are deployed in vicinity. Both prime ministers reiterated that the number of deaths at the border must be brought down to zero and directed the concerned authorities and border guarding forces to work to that effect. They welcomed the holding of the first round of meetings of deputy commissioners/ district magistrates of clusters of bordering districts and put emphasis on regular holding of meetings. Hasina invited India's cooperation in jointly developing the Ganges Barrage on the river Padma in Bangladesh. Modi conveyed that he would have the matter examined by the concerned agencies in India, according to the joint statement.

J&K nomadic community demands IT Madras revokes ban on Dalit students group APSC June 7 (dnA): IIT Professor K Ramamurthy as well as cussion on June 8 to hear their side the students' group to present their immediate help from government ChennAi, Madras has revoked the ban on the Ministry of Human Resource of the incident and to resolve mat- stand. the Dalit students group Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle, according to media reports. Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC) students held a meeting with the IIT Madras director on Sunday to discuss the ban on the group. Tge group reportedly said that circulars were issued 4 days after their meet. Earlier, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) criticised the de-recognition of the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle in IIT Madras, adding that it has invited the institute's acting director

Development (HRD) to discuss how the incident can be resolved at the earliest. "The incident that occurred at IIT Madras, the way they deregistered the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle, and have been barred from carrying out any activities is shameful. The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has intervened in matter and have received reports from the IIT Madras director and the HRD Ministry," NCSC chairman PL Punia told ANI. "We have called them for a dis-

ter," he added. IIT Madras had earlier de-recognised the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle over an anonymous complaint to the central government that it was trying to spread hatred towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies by distributing provocative pamphlets and posters in the campus, igniting a massive controversy. Ramamurthy said the group had not been working according to the guidelines issued by the represented body. He also added that the Dean of the institute has asked

Following derecognition the APSC was not allowed to use the auditorium, official email and even the notice board. The crisis struck a chord with student communities and political parties across the country. Over the last week police detained several hundred protesters from the DMK, VCK and other outfits that demand reinstatement of APSC. Among other demands APSC wants are equal space and access for all student associations in IITMadras. They have alleged 'right wing patronage' by IIT Madras.

RJD, JD-U announce alliance for Bihar polls

A Kashmiri Bakarwal nomad woman, center plays with her son Mohammad Maroof, as her daughter joins her inside a temporary camp on the outskirts of Srinagar on April 1, 2015. Bakarwals are nomadic herders in Jammu Kashmir state, who wander in search of greener new deLhi, June 7 (iAns): The Rashtriya Janata pastures for their cattle. (AP File Photo)

JAmmu, June 7 (PTi): Jammu and Kashmir Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation today demanded for the immediate rescue of members of Gujjar and Bakerwal communities who have been stranded on various mountain ranges due to unseasonal snow and rainfall in the state. "A large number of Gujjars and Bakerwals were stranded on various mountain ranges due to heavy snow and rainfall in the area and we demand that the government must come forward to help those people," Dr Javaid Rahi, Secretary Tribal Research and

Cultural Foundation said. "They are stranded at Pir Panchal, Shivalik, Trikuta and Zojila mountain ranges besides some other ranges of north western parts of the Himalayas," he said. Gujjars, Bakerwals moved to the upper reaches as a part of their seasonal tribal migration, in search for pastures for livestock, during the first week of April, Rahi said. The communities have also suffered huge losses as large number of their livestock and other domestic animals have perished due to the unseasonal snow and rainfall prevailing in

the valley and other adjoining areas, he said. Rahi said that more than four lakh members of the two communities including women and children along with a large number of livestock were directly affected due to the recent vagaries of the weather. "They are also facing acute shortage of medicines, food, water, blankets and fodder for their livestock," he said. Rahi urged the state government to take urgent steps for restoration of confidence among nomads in the administration through relief and rehabilitation.

Dal (RJD) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will contest the coming Bihar assembly elections together, it was announced on Sunday. "It has been decided that RJD and JD-U will contest the Bihar polls in alliance," Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said after a meeting between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad at the official residence of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav here. Mulayam Singh -- who has been named chief of the new party to come into existence when six former constituents of the erstwhile Janata Dal reunite -- and JD-U chief Sharad Yadav also participated in the meet. A six-member team, three from each party, will be constituted to work out the seat-sharing formula between the two, said Ram Gopal Yadav. On the contentious issue of chief ministerial candidate which had threatened to derail the alliance, he said: "There is no dispute. These things will be taken care of later." Six parties which emerged out of the erstwhile Janata Dal -- including the JD-U, the RJD, the SP, the Indian National Lok Dal and the Janata Dal-Secular -- in April announced a merger to revive the old party.

Health, childcare tips will be on phone, web new deLhi, June 7 (iAns): With the Modi government's thrust on a digital India, the union health ministry is trying to devise interactive web portals and mobile apps for most of its flagship programmes like immunisation drives and mother and child care. Officials in the health ministry said union Health Minister J.P. Nadda has asked for the digitisation of almost all services being provided by the government in the sector. The ministry has set up a web portal in pursuance to the decisions of the National Knowledge Commission to provide healthcare related information to the citizens of India and serve as a single point of access for consolidated health information. The National Health Portal (www.nhp.gov.in) was launched by Nadda in Shimla last week. A special Centre for Health Informatics has been established by the National Institute

of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW) for managing the activities of the portal, Rakesh Kumar, joint secretary in the health ministry, told IANS. "The portal aims to make this a single point access for authenticated health information for citizens, students, healthcare professionals and researchers," Kumar said. It will collect, verify and disseminate health and health care delivery services related information for all citizens of India. Listing other such initiatives, Kumar said nearly 50 percent of the 565 Special Newborn Care Units (SNCU) established across the country have been brought on an online platform. "Our aim is to make 100 percent of these special units covered in the online system," he said. The ministry has also launched a mobile application for its mass immunisation drive which is called 'Mission Indradhanush'. "Under this, field workers

would be required to fill up all details of vaccinations of children, who have been covered or are yet to be covered. Managers would then pass on the information to the state governments which will in turn pass on the information to the central government," he said. Apart from this, the government will soon begin a service which would inform citizens about due vaccinations and check-ups of newborns and pregnant women. A simple mobile phone text message would tell a parent that their children are due for vaccinations or even remind an expecting mother that she has completed six months of her pregnancy and needs to go for a scheduled check-up. All this would be a part of the health ministry's new 'Kilkari' scheme on mother and childcare in August. For pregnant women, messages would include reminders about routine check-ups, blood tests, tetanus vaccinations and a host of other things.

The government also plans to expand the scheme to include adolescent girls in the future. In the beginning, messages would be sent in six languages -- four north Indian and two south Indian. Later, more languages can be added as the programme expands. A total of 78 specific messages have been identified as of now and more will be added. All stakeholders -- like doctors, midwives, state health officials and service providers -- are in the loop and technical issues are being worked out. Kumar said the ministry was also planning to go online with the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK). The RBSK aims at early identification and intervention for children from birth to 18 years to cover four 'D's -defects at birth, deficiencies, diseases, development delays, including disability. "All information relating to this initiative will also be available online soon for better tracking," the official added.

An Indian army soldier holds four years old Janvi, daughter of his colleague Randeep Singh, who was killed in Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rebel attack in northeastern Manipur state after his body was brought to Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, June 7. A group of rebels using rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons ambushed a military convoy in India's insurgency-wracked northeast on Thursday, killing more than a dozen soldiers in the latest major attack in the region in recent months. (AP Photo)

India's first transgender college principal overcomes taunts & abuse KOLKATA, June 7 (ThOmsOn ReuTeRs FOundATiOn): India's first transgender college principal says her struggle to be recognised as a "third gender" was not easy in the largely conservative country and urged the government to provide jobs for sexual minorities who often face discrimination and abuse. Manabi Bandyopadhyay, 50, hit the headlines last month when the professor of philosophy and Bengali was appointed principal at Krishnagar Women's College in West Bengal. But Bandyopadhyay, who underwent a sex change operation in 2003 to become a woman, says her two-decade long journey to the top of academia was fraught with jibes and harassment and called on authorities to do more to support transgenders. "In schools, colleges, all my life I was ridiculed for my effeminate ways," said Bandyopadhyay, who was born under

the male name of Somnath and brought up in a village in Nadia district. Due to their lack of access to jobs and education, many of India's male-to-female transgenders - also known as "hijras" - are forced to work as sex workers or beg on the streets. "Many of the transgenders are on the streets begging in the absence of a job. The Supreme Court of India has ruled in our favour and the government should think about their employment," Bandyopadhyay told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In April last year, the Supreme Court recognised transgender as a legal third gender in a landmark ruling and ordered the government to ensure their equal treatment. The court ruling recognised the community as a marginalised group and directed authorities to implement policies to improve their socio-economic status. This means all identity doc-

uments, including birth certificates, passports and driving licenses must recognise the third gender and the government must allocate a certain number of public sector jobs, seats in schools and colleges to third gender applicants, say lawyers. But while the judgment was been welcomed by campaigners, it is not being implemented across the country. Activists say the ruling is contradicted by the court's reinstatement of a gay sex ban that does not recognise their right to sexual relationships. Bandyopadhyay said she suffered emotional and physical abuse from her family and peers when she was a college student and was even suspended by college authorities due to her refusal to behave as a heterosexual. "My father was never happy with my femininity and he always taunted me. But I never gave up," she said. "It has been a long struggle for me and I overcame it somehow."

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Asia’s human smugglers go to ground SITTWE, JunE 7 (REuTERS): The rickety internet huts have fallen silent in the crowded camps of displaced Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar, no one comes anymore to bargain for the release of loved ones being held for ransom in Thailand and Malaysia. “Before, every day at least 10 to 15 people would come here to negotiate with human traffickers,” said Tun Win, a young man who offers a video-call service from one of the bamboo and thatch huts, “Now, it’s nothing.” For now at least, the smugglers who preyed for years on the misery of Myanmar’s Rohingya appear to be going out of business, and Asia’s most acute migrant crisis since the ‘boat people’ exodus at the end of the Vietnam War is ebbing. Until last month, their grim trade ran like clockwork. Rohingya and their neighbours in Bangladesh, dreaming of a life free of persecution and poverty, were lured on to primitive boats in their thousands, taking perilous voyages from the southeast corner of the Bay of Bengal that they hoped would end with safety and jobs in Malaysia. For many, though, the journey ended with brutal captivity in secret camps dotted along the junglecloaked border between Thailand and Malaysia. From there, smugglers made demands for their prisoners’ return, often haggling with relatives in those now-empty internet huts.

A refugee from Bangladesh, who was rescued by the Myanmar navy, is seen at a Muslim religious school used as a temporary refugee camp, at the Aletankyaw village in the Maungdaw township, in Rakhine state May 23, 2015. (REUTERS File Photo)

That chain was broken early last month when Thailand ordered a crackdown on trafficking after the discovery of 33 bodies in shallow graves near the border. Weeks later, Malaysia found 139 graves in abandoned jungle camps on its side. “Everyone has run away,” said Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, a police major general investigating trafficking in Thailand. Supply Chain Disrupted The crackdown sparked a humanitarian crisis at sea. Smugglers jumped ship and left thousands of migrants adrift rather than risk being caught in the widening net of Thai and Malaysian investigators. More than 3,000 aban-

doned migrants have come ashore in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in the past month, and hundreds have returned to Myanmar and Bangladesh, but the United Nations estimates that some 2,000 are still adrift at sea. The disruption of the smuggling supply chain has led to a sharp drop in boat departures, said Chris Lewa, whose Arakan Project tracks boat movements from Myanmar’s Rakhine State and southern Bangladesh. Just over 300 boarded boats in May, down from around 5,000 in April and an average of 7,000-8,000 per month in NovemberMarch, she estimated. Most of the would-be migrants of

the last two months never sailed in the end because of the crackdown, she said. They were kept offshore and many were subsequently taken back - for a fee. Even if the Thai government has dealt a blow to the smuggling trade, many argue that only by tackling the root causes will Southeast Asia’s cycles of migration stop. U.S. President Barack Obama called last week on Myanmar to end discrimination against its 1.1 million Rohingya minority. Myanmar denies it discriminates against the Rohingya. The government does not recognise them as an ethnic group and denies them citizenship. It classifies them as Bengalis,

implying they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, even though many have lived in Myanmar for generations. With the onset of the monsoon, which makes sailing even more risky, migrant departures normally slow around this time of year. So the real test of whether the business has been broken will come in several months. Lying Low The Arakan Project’s Lewa is sceptical that the events of recent weeks have entirely wiped out the extortion business. “I think smaller groups of people are still being kept. Maybe not in the jungle,” she said, adding that

criminals may be holding migrants to ransom in safe houses. At the Rohingya displacement camps near the town of Sittwe, locals said ransom demands have suddenly dried up. Kyaw Hla, a well-to-do member of the community who worked for distraught relatives as a fixer, said the camps really do seem to have closed. “Two months ago a lot of people were coming to me and the other rich men to sell their land and their homes to release their relatives. Such activities have already stopped,” he said. Many of the agents who lured, sometimes drugged and dragged, people on to boats were Rohingya themselves. Kyaw Hla believes that only small-time traffickers have been arrested so far and kingpins of the business have fled to Bangladesh or are lying low in their homes. In the village of Pen Daw Pyin near the border with Bangladesh, 55-yearold Se Tara said a local ‘broker’ told her about two months ago to prepare money for the release of her son and daughter, who had set out to sea in February. Then came news of traffickers being arrested in Thailand and boats abandoned at sea, but no word of her children’s fate. Se Tara and another son, Rahamat Ullah, walked again to the broker’s home, but he had disappeared. “The people in his village say they don’t know where he is,” Rahamat said. “I think they’re lying. He’s hiding somewhere.”

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Israeli PM says world silent on rocket attacks JERuSALEM, JunE 7 (AP): Israel’s prime minister on Sunday slammed the international community’s silence over recent rocket attacks from Gaza and warned that a strong reprisal could be forthcoming. Benjamin Netanyahu said he hasn’t heard a word of condemnation from the world about three rocket attacks from Gaza over the past two weeks. The rockets did not cause any injury or harm but disrupted the quiet in southern Israel that has mostly prevailed since last summer’s war between Hamas and Israel. “It will be interesting to see if this silence continues when we use all our strength in exercising our right to defend ourselves,” Netanyahu said at his weekly Cabinet meeting. “It should be clear: the hypocrisy that is sweeping the world will not chain our hands from defending the citizens of Israel.” The Israeli military carried out an airstrike in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in response to the latest rocket attack from the Hamas-ruled territory. The projectile landed in an open area and there were no injuries or damage reported from the rocket attack or the airstrike. A local jihadi organization that supports the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks. The group is mired in a struggle with Hamas and has said its recent attacks are in retaliation for a Hamas crackdown.

Powerful people respond to injustice selectively nEW YoRk, JunE 7 (IAnS): Powerful people respond quickly to unfair treatment when they are the victims. However, they are less likely to notice injustice when others are victimised, says the study. “The findings help explain the persistence of income inequality and ‘white privilege’,” said lead researcher Takuya Sawaoka, a doctoral student in psychology at Stanford University. In one online experiment with 227 participants, the high-power group wrote about a time when they had power over someone else while the low-power group wrote about an experience when someone had power over them. Each participant then played a computer game where their reaction times were measured in deciding the fairness of the distribution of coins between the participant and two computer-generated players. The high-power group responded more quickly than the low-power group when they were the victims of unfairness but not when they benefited from an unfair distribution of the imaginary wealth. “Our findings also suggest that powerful people are slower to notice unfair situations that victimise other people. This converges with other research demonstrating that the powerful are less empathetic to the plight of others,” Sawaoka said.

SKorea: 5th person dies of MERS virus 55 more bodies pulled out in quake-hit Nepal

Passengers wear masks as a precaution against MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus upon their arrival at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 7, 2015. A fifth person in South Korea has died of the MERS virus, as the government announced Sunday it was strengthening measures to stem the spread of the disease and public fear. (AP Photo)

SEouL, JunE 7 (AP): A fifth person in South Korea has died of the MERS virus, as the government announced Sunday that it was strengthening measures to stem the spread of the disease and public fear. Sixty-four people in South Korea have been infected by Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since last month in the largest outbreak outside the Middle East. Hundreds of schools have closed and more than 2,000 people are isolated at their homes or in facilities after having contact with patients infected with the virus, health officials said. Acting Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan said Sunday that there was no reason to believe that the virus would significantly spread further in the country. “So far, all the MERS cases have been hospital-associated, and there has been no case of an infection in other social settings. We think we have a chance at putting the outbreak under total control,” Choi told a news conference. While the virus has no vaccine, health experts say it

spreads through close contact with infected people and not through the air. Departing from its earlier policy, the government announced the names of the 24 hospitals where the MERS patients have been diagnosed or had been treated before their condition was confirmed. This will allow people who have visited those facilities in recent weeks to report themselves if they are showing symptoms similar to MERS-related illnesses, Choi said. While the government had earlier identified one hospital in a city south of Seoul where the first MERS case was confirmed, and another in southern Seoul that has been a significant source of infections, it had been reluctant to release the full list of hospitals over concerns that it would cause a disruption in services if people started avoiding them. Choi said the government will also strengthen its monitoring of the hundreds of undiagnosed patients who are quarantined at their homes because officials believe they might have contracted the virus.

kAThMAndu, JunE 7 (IAnS): As many as 55 bodies, including of four foreigners, were recovered by the Nepal Army and villagers in a joint effort in Nepal’s Langtang valley on Saturday and Sunday, police here said. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Pravin Pokhrel, the rescue teams of Nepal Army in coordination with local residents recovered 55 human skeletons from the village. As many as 128 people

were rescued from the village during the first phase of the rescue operation after the disaster. Residents in Langtang area, in Rasuwa district and famous for trekking, said over 190 people were reported missing following the massive avalanche which swept away the entire village in the wake of the powerful April 25 quake that hit Rasuwa district. Rasuwa was one of the worst hit districts in the

quake, where 597 people died and 771 were injured. The worst-hit area was Langtang trekking area, one of the busiest and most admired trekking routes in Nepal. Rasuwa district authorities have imposed a ban on travel to Langtang area, fearing landslide and avalanche. It was reopened on Wednesday following residents’ demand to visit their habitation areas to search for their kin and other relatives.

The missing people include 10 Nepal Army personnel, according to Nepal Army’s Laxman Thapa of Narayan Battalion posted in the area. Officials said the search started late, as the area was cut off by road and the weather was inclement. Search continues for scores of other villagers and tourists presumed to be missing in the region, according to the District Administration Office (DAO), Rasuwa.

A diabetes-free world in next 50 yrs: Scientists WAShIngTon, JunE 7 (IAnS): Although the way diabetics test their glucose levels has gone through dramatic changes over the past 50 years, there is still a long way to go, say researchers. Earlier, the only way to assess diabetes control was by testing for the presence of sugar in a person’s urine, today there are numerous, far more accurate ways to test blood glucose levels. It including the non-invasive A1C method which measures average blood glucose levels over a three-month period. “This gives us a nice marker for showing whether a person is on the right

road or not,” said Fred Whitehouse, division head emeritus at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. There has been a lot of change, most of it for the better. But what people want is a cure and we don’t have that yet, he added. “Despite the enormous growth in our understanding of diabetes and its complications, we are still only able to manage the disease,” noted Robert Ratner, chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association. The reason diabetes is a serious health problem is because of the complications. “If there were no complica-

tions, diabetes would be like hypothyroidism and other easily managed diseases. You would take a tablet to replace the hormone and everything would be fine,” said Michael Brownlee from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Diabetes Research Centre. New treatments must provide optimal glucose and metabolic control without the risk of hypoglycemia and complications of diabetes should become historical memories. Also, every person with diabetes needs to create a system for remembering and dealing with his or her own treatment.

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes China: Rescuers & families bow in silence to honor dead Yemen’s army Headquarters SAnAA, JunE 7 (AP): A series of predawn Saudi-led airstrikes on Sunday targeted the headquarters of Yemen’s armed forces in the rebel-held capital, killing at least 22 people, security and hospital officials said. They said the dead were mostly soldiers and that the airstrikes damaged several nearby homes and shook the entire city. Residents said the armed forces’ headquarters, a short distance away from the city center, was hit by at least three airstrikes. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The U.S.-backed coalition began launching airstrikes on March 26 against the Iranian-backed Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and their allies in the military and security forces. The Houthis seized Sanaa in September and later captured much of northern Yemen before advancing on the south in March. Their advance on the south forced internationally recognized President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the southern port city of Aden to neighboring Saudi Arabia. He had earlier fled Sanaa to Aden.

Sunday’s airstrikes came one day after the Houthis fired a Scud missile into Saudi Arabia, a dramatic escalation of the conflict. The attack indicated that despite more than two months of coalition airstrikes the rebels still pose a threat to cities across the border inside Saudi Arabia. The official Saudi Press Agency said two missiles launched from a Patriot missile battery shot down the Scud before dawn near the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait. The agency did not report any casualties in the attack, the first use of a Cold War-era Scud by the rebels since the airstrikes began. Yemen’s state news agency SABA, now controlled by the Houthis, acknowledged that the rebels fired the Scud. Khamis Mushait is home to the King Khalid Air Base, the largest such facility in that part of the country. The Yemeni military was widely believed to possess around 300 Scud missiles, most of which fell into the hands of the rebels. In April, the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Saudi Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri, implied that the airstrikes had seriously degraded the Scud arsenal.

JIAnLI, JunE 7 (AP): Nearby ships blared horns for three minutes Sunday and rescuers bowed in silence to honor the more than 430 victims of the Yangtze River capsizing, as specialists began working on DNA samples from relatives to identify the dead. The toll from last Monday’s overturning of the Eastern Star cruise ship rose to 431 dead with 11 people still missing, said Hu Kaihong, the vice director-general of the press bureau of the State Council Information Office. Fourteen people survived, mostly by swimming or drifting. Three were pulled by divers from the overturned hull Tuesday. After the ship was pulled upright by cranes and thoroughly checked by Saturday, the search for additional bodies turned to the river downstream, Hu said. Authorities planned to expand the search from the Hubei province disaster site as far east as Shanghai, more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) away. Transport Minister Yang Chuantang presided over the ceremony Sunday on the huge crane vessel that had been used to pull the Eastern Star up, saying simply, “Please

observe silence.” Hundreds of military and police personnel and others took off their hats and bowed as vessels blared their horns. State broadcaster CCTV showed some relatives also bowing as they watched the event on television from where they were staying nearby in Jianli county. Authorities have tightly controlled access to the site and said relatives would be taken there when necessary arrangements had been made. Dozens were driven to a part of the riverbank about 2 kilometers (a mile) away from the disaster site on Saturday to lay flowers, too far away to see the boat. Sunday marked the seventh day since the tragedy, the first commemorative event in the Chinese cycle of mourning. Authorities have attributed the overturning of the cruise ship late Monday to a freak storm with tornado-like winds, but also have placed the surviving captain and his first engineer in police custody. The boat was carrying 456 people, many of them elderly tourists, for a cruise from Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing. Wang Hua, who lost her parents

Rescuers work on the raised capsized ship Eastern Star on the Yangtze River in Jianli county of southern China’s Hubei province Sunday, June 7. China’s state broadcaster reports the death toll from the cruise ship disaster has risen above 400, as teams expand the search of the Yangtze River for dozens more missing in China’s deadliest maritime disaster in nearly seven decades. (AP Photo)

in the disaster, said the couple had been enjoying their retirement. Her 77-year-old father, a former judge, made sure they traveled each year, and they had been all around mainland China and to Taiwan. “They were just ordinary people. Their biggest concern was causing trouble for others,” Wang said in

an interview organized by the local propaganda bureau. Another relative at the interview, Fu Hongli, lost his brother and nephew. “My brother traveled all the time. There’s no point just milling about at home when you’re retired,” Fu said.

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Longleng district observed World Environment Day at DC’s Office Complex Longleng. The programme was organized by District Implementation & Monitoring Committee National Green Corps (Eco Club) and attended by members of Eco Club from different schools, NGO’s, Phom Student Conference. After the programme tree saplings were planted by members of the School Eco Club, Phom Student Conference along the road side of the New Town Extension area towards Bhumnyu Village. Land Resource Department, Longleng and Imna Yaden ACF, Changtongya provided the tree saplings.

Hollotoli School observed World Environment Day under the theme “Sustainable Consumption and Production”, in the school auditorium. Various competitions were held for the students basing on the theme.

Pretty Petals School, Chukitong under Wokha District observed the World Salesian College students plant trees on World Environment day with the Environment Day by organising social work cum tree plantation in and objectives to “Plant Trees, Save Mother Earth.” around the School campus and the roadside along the National Highway-2. In view of the World Environment Day, the 5th NAP BN, Phek in collaboration with Holy Care School, Phek observed the day by planting 1000 saplings of vivid type in and around the Battalion and the School premises. All ranks of the unit, school staff, students and the DFO Phek participated in the plantation.

The students of ITMS Jalukie observed the World Environment Day along with the rest of the world.The members of Eco club of the school visited the Civil Hospital Jalukie and cleaned the whole hospital compound.All the wastes in an around was collexted and separated as bio waste and non bio waste and disposed off safely.The SMO of CHC Jalukie Dr.Mr.D.Newmai encouraged the students and briefed about the importance on observing world environment day.The Eco s club team was lead by Mr.Heinkalak ,the Conveno

Salt Christian College of Teacher Education observed "World Environment Day" on the theme "Sustainable Consumption and Production" as a part of the activities incorporated in the one year course curriculum. The trainees divided into 5 different clubs as Heath Club, Natures Club, Ethnic Club, Sports Club and Wisdom Club and in different locations carried out cleanliness drive, SON members, coaches and special children joined hands with Dimapur poster campaign and planting tree saplings. In the college premises, signature sports department and Dimapur SAI to give a healthier - Greener Earth by campaign and tree the lecturers and the trainees initiated planting. A small planting about 50 number of trees in and around Dimapur Stadium on ac- pledge as "Start today...Save Tomorrow" was made by the trainees to practice in their daily life activities. Natures Club organized the programme. count of World Environment Day.

St. Peter’s School Toulazouma organized a mass social work on June 6 to commemorate World Environment Day and to create awareness of the Environmental issues among the student and teacher. All the students and teachers participated in the cleanliness drive and cleaned the whole school compound and the surrounding areas of Toulazouma Village.

Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency observed World Environment Day by planting assorted varieties of bamboo and trees at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre, Dimapur. Khrienuo C. Metha, Secretary to the Government of Nagaland and Team Leader, NBDA led the drive to spread awareness on the significance of trees and plants on our environment. All officers and staff of the Agency took part.

NSS GHSS Medziphema Unit observed World Environment Day on the theme "Only One Earth, Save It." NSS volunteers led by the Programme Officer and teachers organised social work and planted tree saplings in the school campus.

The Nagaland Entitlement for Empowerment and Development Society (NEEDS) in collaboration with Peace Channel Commemorated the world environment day by distributing tree and fruit saplings to different individuals, Govt. offices and educational institutions and also conducted awareness program at Lotha Colony together with the Quality Peace club at their Panchayat hall. The NEEDS and Peace Channel also thanked the Forest, Land Resource, and Horticulture Department for providing the saplings and also to the DC Court Lotha Fellowship for sponsoring the refreshment for the programme.

Eco Club members with Teacher –in charge of Stella Higher Secondary School, Kohima during the World Environment Day 2015 held on June 5.

The Eco- Club members of St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, Chumukedima carried out a plantation drive on World Environment Day to be part of world saving volunteers. Planting hundreds of trees and flowers in an around the campus on June 5

Longthonger the green village under Kiphire district joined the rest of the world in celebrating world environment day with A.Chumremo Odyou Deputy Commissioner as chief guest which was attended by civil societies, NGOs and student leaders. Speaking at the program the Chief Guest said, quality of life depends on the healthy environment and stressed on the need to preserve and protect environment. SDO (c) who also spoke on the occasion highlighted the adoption of Longthonger as green village and also called upon the villagers to live with example. Hemant Bhaskar IFS wild life warden and K.Tsilise V/P USLP also spoke on the occasion. Land Resources department Kiphire demonstrated on judicious use of forest fuel by way of using ‘Earthen economic Chula”. This was followed by tree plantation and also environment awareness thorough cycling.

Ungma Baptist Church Youth Ministry, Mokokchung launched World Environment week (May 31 to June 5) on May 31 on the theme “Valuing the Creations of God”. During the weeklong observance the Youth Ministry pledged to be good stewards and made a handprint tree. There was an environment marathon run with a message to praise and adore the beautiful creation of God, where along with the youth ministry, the village council, students union and all the church members participated in running around the village spreading the message of care towards Creation. To mark the significance of the day, Ungma village council declared to switch off electricity for five minutes in the village. Cleanliness drive was undertaken under this initiative where, youth Ministry cleaned some significant places. All this initiatives during the week was to be a witness of good steward towards God’s Creations.

11 Entertainment Comparisons are misogynistic, Zoe Saldana's husband takes her last name Monday

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ctress Gwyneth Paltrow finds comparisons to Jessica Alba or Blake Lively "misogynistic". The three Hollywood actresses run their own lifestyle websites, but Paltrow, the founder of Goop, has termed questions about the others' brands as sexist, reports femalefirst.co.uk. In response to a question about Alba's Honest Company and Lively's Preserve, she told Time magazine: "This is a very interesting question, because I wonder if George Clooney would be asked about Puff Daddy's ancillary liquor line. I'm fascinated how the media in particular are so confounded by entrepreneurial women doing something outside of their box. "People are grasping at straws to tie us together and I get it, because it makes a good story, but I'm slightly offended by this sort of generalisation that happens with myself and Jessica and Reese (Witherspoon) and Blake." When questioned further about the comparisons, the 42-year-old actress added: "I wrestle with it. I feel there's something slightly misogynistic about it. This is a common theme. I think Reese and Jessica and I don't know Blake Lively, and I don't know if Jessica and Reese know

merican actress Zoe Saldana's husband Italian artist Marco Perego has taken her last name, in a surprising departure to the age-old practice of a girl taking her husband's surname after marriage. Zoe, who got married to Perego in 2013 and has twin sons, Bowie Ezio and Cy Aridio with him, said she had reservation about his decision, reported E! Online. "I tried to talk him out of it. I told him, If you use my name you are going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world. But Marco looks up at me and says, 'Ah, Zoe, I don't give a damn'," she said. "Since I have been with Marco, I have been lowering my guard. Finally when we had our boys I looked at my husband and I realized I was meant for you and you were meant for me" she added. The 36-year-old "Infinitely Polar Bear" actress said she was always comfortable around men till they were friends but with Perego, she has finally found comfort of being with a lover. "Now I finally feel comfortable with my lover. I do not want to be separate. I want my church. I want to live inside the relieach other -- I'm friends speak to both of them and can to support their busi- gion of our own little family." she said. with both of them and I I want to do everything I nesses."

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ritish human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has reportedly been taking acting classes so that she can land a cameo in one of her husband George Clooney's films. "George asked her ages ago if she ever wanted to give her family a thrill and do a cameo. (She won't just) walk into a job without doing her research. She's been taking weekly acting classes with a private coach and loving every minute of it," a source told OK! magazine, reports femalefirst. co.uk. While Amal has no plans to make a move from law to the film industry, she is "intrigued" by the idea of taking part in a movie. The insider added: "She'd never change careers, but she's certainly intrigued by George's industry and thinks it could be something fun to do." Amal is likely not to need too many lessons as George previously admitted she was the "smart one".

Jason Statham slams action movies for using stunt doubles

he much awaited trailer will be finally unveiled on June 10. A lot has been said about the smashing posters of Karan Johar’s Brothers. Directed by Karan Malhotra of Agneepath fame, the film boasts a starry cast including Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez and Jackie Shroff. While this remake of Warriors will hit the screens of August 14, the trailer of the film will be finally out on June 10. With just few days to go for the grand trailer launch, the makers have come up with a countdown to the most awaited trailer. After revealing a cool brand new poster of Akshay and Sidharth, the makers have come up with a unique video to up your excitement. The trailer countdown video, released three days before trailer launch, teases your cinematic senses and keeps you intrigued. The video just gives us a glimpse of a boxing ring where two fighters are engrossed in an epic battle. This short video of just six seconds is enough to tell you that it is going to be some solid kickass fun. Touted to be an all out action film, we can’t wait to get a sneak peek of the trailer.

Aamir Khan in legal trouble for using National Emblem as TV show title

n activist has sent a legal notice to Bollywood actor and director of popular television show 'Satyamev Jayate', Aamir Khan, for using the emblem of the country as the title of the programme allegedly without the Central government's permission. The name 'Satyamev Jayate' is a part of the national emblem, says Manoranjan Roy, the activist. The notice, sent by advocate Manoj Singh on Roy's behalf, demands that producers of the show furnish a copy of government permission. "Otherwise our client has given us peremptory instructions to initiate legal proceedings against you," it says. The notice's recipients are Aamir Khan, his wife Kiran Rao (both producers) and the show's director Satyajit Bhatkal. The title 'Satyamev Jayate' is a part of the State Emblem which cannot be used without permission as per State Emblem of India (Prohibition of Improper Use) Act 2009, it says. No authority has the right to register or grant patent which contains the State Emblem or its part, the notice says, adding that "it cannot be used to get monetary benefit or for the purpose of advertisement."

Leonardo DiCaprio sues magazine over baby rumours with Rihanna

he Transporter" actor Jason Statham has slammed the use of stunt doubles and computer generated imager (CGI) in action movies. The 47-year-old star said action scenes should be performed by the actors themselves rather than being digital, reported Aceshowbiz. "Any guy can do it. I have no ambition. I mean, I could take my grandma and put her in a cape and then put her in a green screen, and they'll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action," said the "Fast and Furious 7" star. The actor said that these kind of techniques are effortless. "Anybody can do it. They're relying on stunt doubles and green screen and USD 200 million budget. It's all CGI created," he said.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DEPARTMENT OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS INAUGURATION OF NEW DEPARTMENT OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, NAGALAND

Mariah Carey's brother fears she will die like Whitney Houston

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Date: 8th June, 2015. Time 9:00 AM. Venue: Directorate of Municipal Affairs, AG Colony, Kohima

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ariah Carey's brother Morgan has recently claimed that he is worried for the American singer, who may die just like Whitney Houston. According to The National Enquirer, the 'Butterfly' artist's brother revealed that his sister was spiraling out of control and was surrounded by "yes men," the Mirror reported. Despite not having been in direct contact with Mariah for two years, Morgan claims that "she does not have a support system and she drinks far too much. Morgan also took aim at Carey's ex Nick Cannon, who she was married to for six years and alleged that the 'America's Got Talent' star had an agenda by marrying his sister, moreover he "was never good for her".

ollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has filed a lawsuit against a French magazine, which claimed he was having a baby with R&B singer Rihanna. He has sued Oops! for its May 28 cover story, which also said that the 40-year-old "Inception" actor would not recognise the baby as his, reported TMZ. DiCaprio's lawyer has called the story "pure fantasy." The actor is apparently demanding over USD 20,000 in damages and attorney fees. The amount is the maximum allowed under French law. Sources said the star's

team recently contacted Oops! and informed the people running the magazine that the story was false. The magazine reportedly responded that they did not care. Another source claimed the magazine just wants publicity. DiCaprio and Rihanna, 27, first sparked dating rumours when they attended a birthday bash in February. They were seen together at other parties too, fuelling speculations. The actor dismissed the rumour in March but the duo continued to be linked to each other.

Chief Guest: Shri T. R. Zeliang, Hon’ble Chief Minister Nagaland

ORDER OF PROGRAMME 1.Chairman

Shri Pankaj Kumar, IAS Chief Secretary, Nagaland

2.Dedicatory Prayer

Rev. Kuzeirang Thou State Chaplain, Nagaland

3.Welcome Address

Shri R. Tohanba Hon’ble Parliamentary Secretary, Municipal Affairs & Economics & Statistics

4.Brief on the Department

Shri Imjung M Panger, IAS Secretary, Municipal Affairs

5.Special Number

6.Inaugural Speech

Shri T.R. Zeliang Hon’ble Chief Minister Nagaland

7.Vote of thanks

Dr. Toshimanen Ozukum, Additional Director, Municipal Affairs

Slick Barca wins Champions League

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Xavi ends Barca career in style

AP Sports Writer

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arcelona's mighty attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar won the Champions League on Saturday with a 3-1 victory over Juventus that showed the beauty of fluent and attacking football after days of scandal that have tarnished the sport. The Spanish champion dominated the game, but the Italian team played its part by fighting back from a goal down and seeking to match the complex spells woven by Barcelona's talented players. But Juventus could not hang in there when Barca accelerated into an unmatchable rhythm. Watched by more than 70,000 people in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, Juventus striker Alvaro Morata canceled out Ivan Rakitic's early opener, Messi set up the vital second for Suarez, and Neymar secured Barcelona's fifth European Cup deep into stoppage time with the last kick of the game. The Messi-SuarezNeymar axis complete the season with a combined 122 goals — and now European winners' medals to join their league and cup ones. Three years after Pep

Barcelona players celebrate with the trophy after winning 3-1the Champions League final soccer match between Juventus Turin and FC Barcelona at the Olympic stadium in Berlin Saturday, June 6. (AP Photo)

Guardiola left Barcelona and after last season ended without a trophy, Luis Enrique matched Guardiola's 2008-09 feat of winning a treble in his first season in charge, suggesting the Catalan giants could be ready for a new period of European domi-

nance. With a first Champions League triumph since 2011, Barca has won European soccer's top trophy four times in the last decade. Andres Iniesta has featured in each final and the midfielder is also celebrating his second tre-

ble. Iniesta played a deep defensive midfield role in Berlin as the strikers caused havoc in the panicky Juventus defense. Few will be enjoying the victory more than Suarez. The Uruguay striker began the season in shame, signed from Liverpool for

$110 million despite being handed a four-month ban by FIFA for biting an opponent at the World Cup. He powered in Barcelona's second goal in the 68th minute after Messi's shot was palmed away by goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. Suarez is rarely far

Wawrinka stuns Djokovic to lift French Open C M Y K

PaRIs, JuNE 7 (aFP): Stan Wawrinka destroyed Novak Djokovic's dream of a career Grand Slam as he produced arguably his finest ever display to win the French Open. Wawrinka used his superb one-handed backhand to devastating effect, hitting flat groundstrokes that wore down eighttimes grand slam champion Djokovic, who was looking to complete a career grand slam in Paris. He sealed victory on his second match point with his 60th winner, a flashing backhand down the line. The Swiss hit back from a set down to stun the world number one with a 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 success to add the Roland Garros crown to his 2014 Australian Open title. Djokovic had been aiming to become only the eighth man in history to land all four majors but he struggled to combat Wawrinka's barrage of winners throughout an absorbing three hour and 12 minute encounter. It means Wawrinka becomes the second Swiss player in history to win Roland Garros after Roger Federer in 2009 and sees him emerge as the first man to win both junior and senior championships

here since Mats Wilander in 1988. A sensational start to the proceedings saw the players engage in some outstanding rallies, setting the tone for a pulsating affair full of twists and turns. Djokovic upped the ante in game eight and needed just that one break to go on and serve out the opening set in 43 minutes. Wawrinka had big chances to turn the momentum in his favour by piling on the pressure throughout the second set and it finally paid dividends when he ended Djokovic's extraordinary defences to break at 5-4 and square the match. The pattern continued in the third with the Swiss leaving the top seed in his wake with some extraordinary shot-making. A break to love in game six put him in complete control and the eighth seed went on to take the set. Djokovic is notorious for his recovery powers and broke in the second game of the fourth but Wawrinka roared back from 3-0 down to secure two breaks of his own and serve out the title. The eighth seed, who handed Serbian Djokovic his third defeat in three Roland Garros finals, now has two grand slam titles to his name after clinching the Australian Open last year.

from controversy, however. Twice he writhed around in agony, winning free-kicks and feigning serious injury. Juventus fans yelled derision when he recovered miraculously after wasting minutes. Just like Suarez, Neymar has collected the top prize

BERLIN, JuNE 7 (REutERs): Xavi brought his glittering Barcelona career to a fitting and emotional end when he hoisted aloft the European Cup following a 3-1 victory over Juventus in the Champions League final on Saturday. Considered one of the finest midfielders of all time, Xavi announced last month he was leaving after more than two decades with the club he joined at the age of 11 during which he has won 25 trophies including four Champions Leagues and eight La Liga titles. He was welcomed with a huge roar by the Barca fans thronging one end of Berlin's Olympic Stadium when he replaced Andres Iniesta in the 78th minute of his 767th and final outing for Barca before he joins Qatari club Al Sadd. Pulling on the captain's armband for the last time, the 35-year-old set a record of 151 appearances in Europe's elite club competition, one more than Real Madrid goalkeeper and close friend Iker Casillas. "Not even in the best possible dream could I be so happy," Xavi told Spanish television. "There are no words, I can't ask for any more, to leave this way is perfect. "There is already a feeling of nostalgia. Knowing that you won't play for this team again is tough." Xavi was close to leaving Barca when they failed to win a major trophy last season and he decided to retire from internationals following Spain's first-round exit at the 2014 World Cup. Barca coach Luis Enrique, a former team mate, persuaded him to stay on and he has made a vital contribution as the club became the first to win La Liga, the King's Cup and Champions League in the same season on two occasions. Along with club mates Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Gerard Pique, Xavi has equalled former Netherlands midfielder Clarence Seedorf's record of four Champions League triumphs. in club soccer for the first time after two years at Barcelona. Neymar had a goal disallowed for handball but, with the final going into a seventh minute of stoppage time, the Brazil striker found space to score again as Juventus desper-

ately sought a leveler, leaving its defense bare. This time it counted. For Juventus there was no third European title, just the unwelcome record of being the first team to lose six finals. Still, the season ends with a domestic double.

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Willing to take up added responsibility as coach: Shastri

KoLKata, JuNE 7 (IaNs): Indian cricket team's director Ravi Shastri on Sunday said he is willing to take up added responsibility of being the head coach of the team but insisted that there was no need to have a coach for the Bangladesh tour. "We have got three coaches. I can double up and do the job of a coach if needed. There is no need of another head coach for the tour," former Indian captain Shastri told media persons here. Asked if he was willing to take the added responsibility of being both the coach and the team director and continue with it, Shastri said: "When we come back, I will have a chat with the board. I don’t rule it out at all. I might be there a lot

longer than you think." He also said that he would be open to suggestions from the recently made advisory committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) which comprises India greats Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman. "Look at the people in the advisory committee... they come with a lot of quality. They have been around for a long time and they can only contribute and take Indian cricket forward. So, when we come back from Bangladesh I will have a chance to sit with the board and take things from there," he said. "Time is short and the players have to very quickly get into the frame of mind (for playing in Tests). The good

thing is we have got experience, there is youth but there is experience and now we have Harbhajan in the side. He is a world-class operator and he will bring plenty to the plate. It is a question of working as a unit. "Nobody will be the leader of the pack... it is about the India bowling outfit. How quickly the bowlers adapt to the conditions will be crucial and beneficial for the side,” he said. The 53-year-old also welcomed the decision of making Rahul Dravid the coach of the Under-19 and India 'A' teams and said the youngsters are going to benefit hugely from his vast experience. Dravid was named the coach on Saturday as confirmed by BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur.

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Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka lifts the cup after defeating Serbia's Novak Djokovic in their final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, Sunday, June 7, 2015 in Paris. Wawrinka won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. (AP Photo)

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