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nagaland government bans all ‘We also want our children to progress’ appointments on contract basis In Viphoma Village, lack of teachers and infrastructure in the Government Middle School has caused massive drop in enrollment Morung Express News Viphoma | June 7
Viphoma village under Kohima district is about 70 kilometers away from the State Capital. No proper roads connect this village to the capital. Viphoma has a Government Middle School which was established in 1963 as a primary school and upgraded to middle school in 2010 by the then Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio. In recent years, the enrollment of students in the village has dropped down from 86 students to 37 students in 2016. A teacher passed away a few years ago yet, no replacement has been sent despite appeals made to the Department of School Education by the school and the village. The school has been functioning without a Science teacher for more than a year now. At present only seven teachers are tirelessly running the school all by themselves. Forget libraries or laboratories; the school does not even have a single non-teaching staff. “This is mainly because of the shortage of teachers,” says
Students of the Government Middle School, Viphoma. The school has been suffering with lack of teachers and basic infrastructure. (Morung Photo)
the Head Teacher, Thinovilie Nakhro. There are 9 teachers at present however two teachers are undergoing B.Ed training, while the remaining seven run the school which has nine classrooms. Due to the shortage of teachers, the school eventually had to drop Class 8. Further contemplations were made on discontinuing Class 7 too but after the request of the parents in the village, Class 7 has been continued. Three SSA teachers in the school were transferred to other villages and no replacements were provided. Among the transferred teachers included the sole Science teacher of the school. A Math teacher was sent
in as replacement. The School has continued to function without any Science teacher, whereby the Math teacher is now teaching both Science as well as Math classes. The Village Education Council (VEC) Chairman mentioned that even in the early years of the school, the VEC had to finance private tutors to teach in the school and that the teachers also collected money from their own salary to hire more teachers. “Teachers are needed for the school to progress. We complained to the officials but it all ended with verbal promises,” the Chairman lamented. To add to their grief, no maintenance or repairing grants for the school are given.
Because of the teacher shortage and discontinuation of Class 8, many parents now incur extra expenses for their children’s education outside the village. With great difficulty, parents in Viphoma village are sending their children for higher studies in Kohima and Medziphema. The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) which initiated an education tour in 2015 in the Angami regions to investigate on the quality of education in government schools mentioned that the most common grievances in all the villages has been the shortage of teachers, and particularly the lack of language teachers. “There is not even a single Language teacher in the schools,” lamented Dievi Yano, President of the ASU. Yano noted that despite the best and most qualified teachers employed in the government schools, the students do not receive any quality education. “The students are not able to compete with the rest. Despite being a part of the capital district, the students in the government schools are regressing,” added Yano. The ASU President informed that the report of the union’s education tour would be released next month. Meanwhile, the Government Middle School in Viphoma continues to suffer from shortage of teachers, and lack of infrastructure and funds. Lamenting over the condition of the school and the students in the village, an elder stated: “We also want our children to learn and progress.”
DIMAPUR, JUNE 7 (MExN): The Nagaland State Government today issued a notification through the Directorate of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) banning all appointments on contract basis. The DIPR notification stated that in modification of the P&AR Department’s O.M. No. AR-5/ASSO/98(C) dated 26.02.2001, “it has been decided that no appointment shall be made on contract basis, henceforth. In other words, appointment on contract basis is banned.”
Therefore, the notification stated that any post coming within the purview of NPSC can be filled up only by appointing a candidate recommended by NPSC on the basis of open recruitment and it cannot be filled up, even temporarily, in any other manner. “Any appointment made on contract basis, henceforth, shall be null and void,” the notification stated. It further informed that the administrative head of the department and the Head of the Department concerned “shall be responsi-
ble to ensure that no appointment is made on contract basis and disciplinary action will be initiated against them in case of any violation.” This notification has the approval of the Cabinet vide Memorandum No. CAB2/2013 dated 12th May, 2016. The notification observed that over the years, “the preconditions for making appointments on contract basis have not been adhered to in many cases, resulting in irregularities in such appointments and their extension.”
Voice out against AfsPA: naga Hoho
DIMAPUR, JUNE 7 (MExN): The Naga Hoho has urged all citizens to voice out for abolition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA). Condemning the “callous attitude” of the Government of India towards repeal of AFSPA in the NE in general and Naga areas in particular, a press note from the Naga Hoho lamented that successive Governments have decided to remain a mute spectator. It also expressed surprise at the recent statement made by the RSS declaring their support for extension/continuation of AFSPA in NE and J&K. It alleged that the policy of the RSS to support the Act speaks volumes of the “hatred towards the genuine cause of the Naga people.” It reminded the RSS that
the Naga people’s struggle for self-determination cannot be equated with “terrorism” or “secessionist” as the GoI has recognized the uniqueness of Naga political history and further recognizes the universal principle that in a democracy sovereignty lies with the people. The Hoho said it was making this statement in the background of ongoing political negotiation and peace process between the GoI and the Naga people. Stating that there is “peaceful atmosphere in Naga areas as of now,” it said AFSPA should be summarily repealed at the earliest. It further extended unconditional support to Irom Sharmila, who has been on a continuous hunger-strike since November 2000 for the repeal of AFSPA.
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We sing we dance, but in reality, we’ve lost our voice, lost our steps, we only dance to ministers’ tunes. Dash it. we need to dance to our own tracks..only!
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CMO Peren conducts dist review meeting Temporary wooden bridge at Peren, June 7 (Mexn): The Chief Medical Office, Peren District under the chairmanship of Dr. Tiala, Dy CMO held district review meeting on June 7 at Chief Medical Office Conference Hall. The meeting was attended by the District Program Officers UIP/RCH, Medical officers and Health workers, District and Block Program Management Unit Staff, NHM. Dr. Tiala, Dy CMO welcomed and informed about the awareness on heat stroke to be disseminated by all the health workers in the district. She
informed about the notice laid out in the RKS/HCMC/ VHC guidelines that all Health centers are directed to conduct RKS/HCMC/ VHC meeting at least once every year. With the release of RKS/untied fund to all health centers, it is mandatory that a meeting has to be held where fund utilization, key agendas and issues to be discussed and minuted and the report which is to be submitted to the concerned authority. She stressed on the point about the regularity of the staff requesting all to be sincere and be regular in
their place of posting. Dr. Lungkeiding, Pediatrics, CHC Jalukie, gave power point presentation on Management of DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN. He highlighted about three clinical types of diarrhea: acute watery diarrhoea causes dehydration, potassium loss; Bloody diarrhea causes tissue damage, toxemia, and Persistent diarrhea causes malnutrition. Dr. Anung, MO Poilwa PHC gave a brief session on heat stroke and its management. Aziu, District ICTC Supervisor, DAPCU Peren also gave a brief session on
the FICTC under Peren District saying that the monthly reports are not satisfactory. He highlighted that it should be made mandatory for all ANC to be tested for HIV. He requested all health workers to create more intensive awareness on HIV/ AIDS in the District. Addressing the gathering, Dr. Khrielasanuo, DPO RCH/UIP urged the health workers to follow the Open Vial Policy for DPT, T.T., Hepatitis B and OPV vigorously. She also requests all the health workers to segregate male and female in their reporting. She also highlight-
ed about HMIS report and pointed out the Health units who’s reporting are not good. She stressed on the point that immunization performance is getting worse and requested all to improve and be sincere in their duties. She also requested the ASHA coordinators to inform all the ASHAs to create awareness at the same time to inform the concerned Health workers under their respective villages about the importance of maternal health inorder to avoid maternal death. The next review meeting is scheduled on July 7.
Workshop on vector DC Kohima notifies on parking borne diseases held KohIMa, June 7 (Mexn): Deputy Commissioner and Chairman, Regional Transport Authority (RTA) Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor IAS has notified the following No Parking and Reserved Parking Areas in addition to earlier notified areas and locations: Old MLA Hostel Junction to KMC Office-Vehicles are allowed to park only on the right side of the road. The left side of the road is hereby designated as ‘No Parking Area’ to facilitate free and easy movement of the vehicles going
A beneficiary receives free LLIN (bed net) distributed during advocacy workshop cum awareness programme pertaining to prevention and control of vector borne diseases on June 4 in the SDRF camp Wokha.
Wo Kh a , J u n e 7 (Mexn): Staff of District Vector Borne Officer (NVBDCP) Wokha with the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) conducted advocacy workshop cum awareness programme pertaining to prevention and control of vector borne diseases on June 4 in the SDRF camp Wokha. The resource person Zuchamo (MTS) spoke on prevention and control of vector borne diseases, importance of blood slides examination, the Do’s & Don’ts of LLINs usage were also highlighted to the par-
towards Traders Road. Office of the Commissioner, Nagaland to Deputy Commissioner’s office, Kohima-the area between the Commissioner, Nagaland Office Gate to Deputy Commissioner, Kohima Office Gate is hereby designated as ‘Reserved Parking Area ‘for the Office of the Commissioner, Nagaland. The notification also stated that these rules are hereby brought into force with immediate effect and any vehicle found violating these rules shall be towed away by the Traffic Police and the cost of which in-
cluding penalties thereof shall be borne by the owner of the concerned vehicle. Deputy Commissioner and Chairman, RTA further informed that as and when checking is carried out, defaulters will be penalized as per law and ignorance or non pre-information of the same shall not be taken as an excuse. This notification was issued in the pursuance of the provision given under Sec 117 and Sec 127 of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 and Sec 34 of the Indian Police Act 1881.
The ttemporary wooden bridge at Langake River connecting Shamator Hq and Chessore sub-division inaugurated on June 7. (DIPR Photo)
ShaMator, June 7 (DIPr): ADC Shamator, Wonchio Odyuo inaugurated a temporary wooden bridge at Langake River connecting Shamator Hq and Chessore sub-division on June 7. In his speech, he congratulated the public, particularly from Y.Anner, Sangphur, Kuthur, Chasshir and neighboring villages for their cooperation. Stating that the bridge was the life line of the people of that area, he encouraged
the people to act as human bridges in connecting with all neighboring tribes which in turn will bring closer so that peace and harmony will reign in the area. He also thanked Parliamentary Secretary for Economic & Statistics and Municipal Affairs, R. Tohanba on behalf of general public for taking personal initiative in constructing the bridge. The programme was chaired by coordinator of bridge construction, Sho-
kum and was dedicated by Executive Secretary, Yimchungrü Baptist Boru Amukhungto (YBBA), Rev. Z. Thsankiu. A Short speech was also given by President, Yimchungrü Tribal Council, (YTC), Keozih. Host of public leaders lead by YTC, YAA, YBBA, STPF, neighboring village council members and public attended the programme. Shamator Town Council members and PWD officials from Shamator also attended the programme.
Pangteang calls for quality education Mon, June 7 (Mexn): Parliamentary Secretary, Civil Defence & Home Guards and Sericulture, EE Pangteang Konyak felicitated Apong Konyak, the lone successful HSLC candidate of GHS Angjangyang on May 30 at GHS Angjangyang. Speaking at the programme, Pangteang congratulated Apong and gave away cash award of Rs. 10000. Emphasizing on quality education, he exhorted the teachers not to keep proxy so as to impart quality education to
ticipants. He also stated that early diagnose and complete treatment is the key component of the programme. The Other staffs present were Chophao (SW), Nchumbemo (SW), Chumbeni (Lab. Technician) Dr. Zuben Kikon, DVBO (NVBDCP) Wokha in a press release stated that the department also appreciated the SDRF for the active participation during the World Malaria Day by carrying out cleanness drive. Malaria pamphlets and free LLIN (bed net) were also distributed during the programme.
RD Block Kuhuboto sensitizes on Aadhaar Seeding
Officials of RD Block Kuhuboto along with VDB secretaries of villages under Kuhuboto block at the sensitization programme on Aadhaar Seeding at BDO office Kuhuboto on Tuesday.
Kuhuboto, June 7 (Mexn): The Rural Development Block, Kuhuboto, under the direction of Ministry of Rural Development, government of India, conducted a sensitization programme on Aadhaar Seeding for villages under the block, at BDO office Kuhuboto Tuesday. The programme attended by the village development board secretaries of all 39 villages under RD Block Kuhuboto was chaired by Medonuo, Block Development Officer cum Programme Officer, Kuhuboto Block. Conducting sensitization on Aadhaar Seeding, Imkong Phom, APC, District Rural Development Agency, Dimapur highlighted the motive of the Ministry of Rural Development in initiating Aadhaar Seed-
Langake River inaugurated
ing and the important benefits of it. He informed the VDB secretaries to sensitize all MGNREGA job card holders on the importance of Aadhaar cards and to apply for the same. Also speaking on the occasion, Tokiho Chophy, JE, Kuhuboto Block informed that it was a must for all MGNREGA beneficiaries to have Aadhaar card as it is for their own benefit. Sakulemba, computer assistant, MIS Cell gave a data of Aadhaar card holders among MGNREGA beneficiaries under Kuhuboto Block. Orenthung Odyuo, BAPO, Kuhuboto Block proposed vote of thanks while Zhetovi, VDB secretary, Vihokhu said the invocation prayer.
Press note
The Nagaland College Principals’ Forum Executive Members led by the President Dr. Watijungshi meeting with the Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University and the Controller of Exams, Nagaland University on 2.06.2016 at Lumami
the students. He also encouraged the public and student community to inspect the school and see to the needs and affairs of the school and the students to ensure quality education. The SDO Civil, Angjangyang and EAC Mopong also spoke and exhorted the gathering on importance of quality education. It may be mentioned that Government High School, Angjangyang was upgraded in the year 2011. The felicitation programme was organized by the Parliamentary Secretary to ful-
fill his commitment made during his last school inspection tour in his constitution in 2015. The School is functioning with 6 subject teachers without head master and assistant head master with around 50 students. The school has appeared for the first time in HSLC Exam and out of 9 (nine) appeared one qualified. The programme was attended by the village leaders and educational functionaries of the Moka constituency and chaired by Shenyu, teacher.
Parliamentary Secretary Pangteang Konyak felicitates Apong Konyak, the lone successful HSLC candidate of GHS Angjangyang on May 30 at GHS Angjangyang.
Special Project under MGNREGS at Tethuyo Village KIPhIre, June 7 (DIPr): Special Project ‘Fishery Pond-cum-Percolation Tank with community building’ constructed under MGNREGS at Tethuyo Village Kiphire was inaugurated on 4th June 2016 by Project Director DRDA Kiphire, Azenuo Pienyii. Project Director also handed an award certificate to the Village Council Chairman. Azenuo Pienyu complimented the Villages and the Council of the Tethuyo Village for their un-ceasing support and Co-operation extended in the Project work. She also appealed to the Villagers to work collectively so that the Project should not be neglected. BDO Longmatra, Longshen in his brief report said that the Project was taken up after thorough analysis of norms and procedure of viability. He lauded Tethuyo Village for deserving to get the privilege of such special Project out of many village VDBs in the state. He also mentioned that if the Project maintained properly it could be one of the tourist spot. Executive Engineer Ghoshito Sumi, in his short speech said that the Village Council should implement various strategies to improve and maintain the Project. It is also beneficial for the irrigation purpose for the surrounding areas as well. EAC Longmatra Wangan Phom also spoke on the occasion. Earlier, the programme was chaired by DPO cum PO (MGNREGS); R. Vasa while Head GB Atsangju delivered welcome address.
The Phom Union Mokokchung observed the 64th Phom Day on June 6 where OP Phom, Civil Judge, Mokokchung exhorted the gathering to uphold the spirit of Phom Day in the larger interest of the people of the State. Khatlong Phom, pioneer of PUM was the speaker while PUM president delivered the welcome address. The programme was followed by a feast sponsored by N Chuba Phom and family.
64th Phom Day celebrated at Longleng
LongLeng, June 7 (DIPr): The 64th Phom Day was celebrated on June 6 at Longleng with Parliamentary Secretary Land Resource of Exercise, Nganlang Phom as chief guest. Addressing the gathering he applauded the pioneers of Phom Land for their keen initiative to declare Phom ‘a land of peace’. He also encouraged the people to remove “ism, hatreds, divisive attitude” which hampers the process of peace. In this modern life, we simply say peace, but in reality can’t remove our sentiments’
that lead to the downfall of this significant day. Lamenting on Government Developmental activities, he narrated that due to lack of workmanship, we become victim of our own creation. He also applauded the NGOs for their firm contribution for all round developmental activities. He also challenged the Youngster to be a change gentlemen and women so that this day can be celebrated throughout the world internationally through one effort and make it as an institution for research centre for scholars in
garnering peace. Nganlang appealed to every section of Society to nurture peace and set a good exemplary for the rest of the people. Welcome address was delivered by H. Leisha Phom President PPC and short speech was delivered by Deputy Commission Longleng, Y. Denngan Avennoho Phom. The other highlight light of the programme was Folk Dance by Hukphang Unionla Longleng, Yongshei Union Longleng. The function was attended by Govt. Officer, NGOs, DB, GB and General Public of the Longleng Town.
Child protection sensitization held at Samziuram
Peren, June 7 (Mexn): The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) Peren organized a one day sensitization programme on child protection, child trafficking and protection of children from sexual offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 at Samziuram village on June 6. The participants were village council, Church leaders, womens’ organization, students’ organisation, para lagal volunteers, anganwadi workers from the Samsiuram circle villages. A press release stated that the main objective of the sensitization programme is to connect law
with the rural peoples, so that the rural children can become the beneficiaries of the various schemes available under Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) provided by the Ministry of Woman and Child Development. The resource persons were Ruzonuo Rita Rutsa, Neinguvotuo Krose, Asungbe Legal cum Probation Officer and Nzwaheing Iheilung, Superintendant Observation Home Peren. The resource persons spoke on the topic duties and function of Village Level Child Protection Committee (VLCPC), Pro-
Participants with others during the one day sensitization programme on child protection, child trafficking and protection of children from sexual offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 at Samziuram village on June 6.
tection of Children from view of the Observation and invocation was proSexual Offences (POCSO), Home. The programme nounced by Pastor SamziChild Trafficking and over was chaired by Kevineiso uram Baptist Church.
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Economic Blockade in Manipur from June 9 Newmai News Network Imphal | June 7
The Joint Action Committee Against Anti-Tribal Bills (JAC), in its meeting today at Imphal with the Outer Manipur Tribals’ Forum (OMTF) – a tribal apex body of the Hmar Inpui, Mizo People Convention, Thadou Inpi, United Naga Council (UNC) and Zomi Council – jointly resolved to impose a 10-day economic blockade on all the National Highways passing through the "tribal territories" of Manipur, as well as a ban on all ongoing national projects in the tribal areas starting from the midnight of June 9. "This is in protest against the prolonged ill treatment of the tribal people that has recently been highlighted through the three anti-tribal bills passed by the ManipurLegislative Assembly on August 31, 2015," the JAC said. In this regard, the JAC has requested each and every tribal community in Manipur to take active part as a vigilante and ensure the effective execution of the said blockade. At this juncture, the JAC would like to reiterate that the tribal people will
not settle for anything less than a permanent and sustainable solution, and shall continue the fight for tribal identity and land rights till a solution that is acceptable to the tribal people is reached," a statement from the JAC said. The JAC while bringing notice to the tribal populace alleged that in addition to the three anti-tribal bills there are three other prominent demands by the "dominant valley community" in the pipeline which are perceived as the 4th, 5th and 6th anti-tribal ‘bills’ that have the potential to be more detrimental to the rights of the tribal people, viz., the Manipur Population Commission, the Manipur Land Reforms Commission and the demand for inclusion of Meiteis in the Scheduled Tribe list. According to the JAC, the above three demands are the exclusive designs of the "dominant valley community" to grab tribal lands and undermine tribal rights, and are also an integral part of the "communal" Manipur Government’s long-term policy of subjugation, marginalization and exclusion of the tribal people; "hence, the demands shall be opposed.
Transfer land records, rectify police encroachment Tahamzam, JuNe 7 (mexN): The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur today apprised Manipur Governor, V. Shanmuganathan, on the issue of Land records of the hill districts being “held in the custody of the valley districts” and “encroachment of jurisdiction” by the valley districts police stations. Stating that land records and encroachment of police jurisdiction are sensitive issues which can trigger “social upheavals and chaos”, ANSAM, in a memorandum, called upon the Governor to initiate “immediate and appropriate actions” for the transfer of all available land records of the Hill Districts from valley to their respective District Headquarters; and rectifying encroachment of police jurisdictions of the Hill districts and re-instatement of the same to their respective Hill districts police stations.
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Regd No. 784 I, Engau s/o Ilamluing, resident of New Jalukie Village bearing H/ no. 14 New Jalukie Village, PO & PS Jalukie Peren Dist, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under: 1. That the deponent is the permanent resident of the above mentioned address. 2. That the name of the father of the deponent is Ilamluing. 3. That ENGAU and INGOU NRING is the same person. The long name of INGOU NRING is ENGAU Deponent 1st Class Magistrate
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AffidAvit Regd. No. 785 I Ms. Thongmo K.R D/o John K.R a resident of Jalukie Town PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declared that: 1. I am the deponent of this affidavit. 2. That the name Thongmo K.R and Thongmo is of same person. 3. I hereby declared that my correct name is Thongmo K.R and shall be use for all official purposes in the future. Deponent 1st Class Magistrate
President withheld assent to 3 KOINONIA PRAYER CENTRE TSIESE BASA, KOHIMA anti-migrant bills a month ago Imphal/New DelhI, JuNe 7 (IaNS): President Pranab Mukherjee withheld his assent on May 11 -- nearly a month ago -- to three anti-migrant bills passed by the Manipur Assembly which are aimed at regulating the entry and stay of migrants in the state. An official document, a copy of which is with IANS, says that the President has remarked: "I withhold assent from the bills." No reason was furnished for the decision. This implies that the Chief Minister of Manipur and other political leaders were keeping this information as a closely guarded secret from the people who were in blissful ignorance as they took out demonstrations in the streets to demand implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Manipur, to protect the indigenous people of the state. The Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly Thokchom Lokeswor sent the bills to Governor Sayeed Ahmed on August 31, 2015, the day they were passed in the Assembly. The contentious bills are the Manipur Land Reforms and Land Revenue
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(7th Amendment) Bill, 2015, the Manipur Shops and Establishment (2nd Amendment) Bill, 2015 and the Manipur Protection of Peoples Bill, 2015. In view of the opposition from the tribal groups in the state, the governor did not give his assent to the bills but sent them to the President on September 16, 2015 with the remark: "I reserve the bills for consideration of the President." While the bills were pending in the office of the President there were various forms of agitation in Manipur. At least 10 persons -- one supporting the bills and nine opposing the legislations -- were killed and a few hundred others were injured in police crackdowns.
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Normal life has been thrown out of gear as a result of the continuous agitations. The nine dead bodies of the tribals have been lying in the morgue in Churachandpur district all these months. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state leaders called on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on the issue. The delegates of the political parties from Manipur also held a meeting with Rajnath Singh on Tuesday during which a memorandum was submitted. It is understood that Rajnath Singh has conveyed the impossibility of acting on the bills now that the President has withheld his assent.
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DIPR on publication of VIPs photo kohIMa, June 7 (DIPR): The Department of Information and Public Relations in a notification stated that the Supreme Court has reviewed its judgement dated 13th May, 2015 passed in Writ Petition (C) Nos. 13/2003,197/2004 & 302/2012, as a result of the Review Petition (C) Nos. 1879-1881/2015 and has made the following changes to the extent indicated below: 1. The exception in the aforesaid judgement dated 13th May 2015 permitting the publication of the photographs of the President, Prime Minister and Chief Justice of the country, subject to the said authorities themselves deciding the question, is now extended to the Governors and the Chief Ministers of the States. 2. In lieu of the photograph of the Prime Minister, the photograph of the Departmental (Cabinet) Minister/ Minister In-Charge of the concerned Ministry may be published, if so desired. 3. In the States, similarly, the photograph of the Departmental (Cabinet) Minister/ Minister In-charge in lieu of the photograph of the Chief Minister may be published, if so desired. 4. All other observations/directions in the aforesaid judgement dated 13th May,2015 shall continue to remain in force subject to the above modification. All concerned are hereby directed to adhere / comply to the guidelines with immediate effect. This notification was issued in supercession of this Department’s notification of even number dated 27th August, 2015.
Nagaland P&AR informs on Personal Info Management System kohIMa, June 7 (DIPR): Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department (Personal Information Management Cell) in an office memorandum stated that the Personal Information Management System (PIMS) was inaugurated on April 21. It is a comprehensive web-enabled personnel management system for the State Government to address the administrative requirement for managing its employee’s right from the date of their joining into service till they retire. PIMS will help in getting instant access and accurate information about State Government employees including details of transfer and posting details and service history. Availability of timely information is the key to efficient management of service matters of State Government employees. Therefore, all Departments may adhere to the following instructions with regard to PIMS. On the basis of the information supplied by the Departments, P&AR Department has made entries in the PIMS database and generated unique employee code tor each employee. Details of existing employee in PIMS database should be updated continuously on daily basis, including details of service confirmation, posting, promotion, retirement etc., by the Departments. In case of all appointments made after 15 April, 2016, a letter enclosing a copy of appointment order along with either post creation order or document showing vacancy against retirement, resignation, death etc., and filling up the 21 mandatory fields maybe submitted to the P&AR Department (PIMS Cell), for registering in the PIMS. P&AR Department will then generate a unique employee code. All Departments should regularly participate in training & capacity building exercise conducted by P&AR Department for their Nodal Officer for PIMS and other officials involved with the PIMS.
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Mkg DPDB proposes setting up of coaching institute
Applications from indigenous inhabitants of Kohima dist invited
Mokokchung, June 7 (DIPR): In line with the assurance given by the Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Jual Oram, Mokokchung District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) has forwarded a proposal to the state government urging it to pursue with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, (GOI) for setting up of a coaching institute at Mokokchung. The proposal was sent with a unanimous decision taken at the monthly meeting of the DPDB held in the conference Hall of ADC (Planning) on May 7. It may be recalled that the Union Minister for Tribal Affairs has given assurance for the coaching institute at Mokokchung town under the Skill Devel-
kohIMa, June 7 (DIPR): The Office of Deputy Commissioner Kohima invites applications in plain paper indicating contact address and phone no. with 2 (two) passport sized photographs from indigenous inhabitants of Kohima District for filling up the following posts of one (1) LDA, three (3) Dobashi, two (2) Driver and four (4) Peon under the establishment of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima. Candidates applying for the post of Lower Divisional Assistant-cum-Computer Assistant should have a Minimum Qualification of Bachelor’s Degree in any Discipline from a recognized University with Diploma in Computer Application. The age limit is 21 years (minimum) to 30 years (maximum) and further relaxable by 5 years for ST/SC and serving candidates. For the posts of Dobashi, Minimum Age should be of 25 years and above as on 0101-2016. For the posts of Driver, Candidates should possess a valid Driver’s License with an Age limit of 21 years (minimum) to 30 years (maximum) and further relaxable by 5 years for ST/SC and serving candidates. For the posts of Peon, Age limit should be 21 years (minimum) to 30 years (maximum) and further relaxable by 5 Years for ST/ SC and serving candidates. The Office also informed that there will be a written test for LDAs following which only those candidates securing a minimum of 50 % in the written test will be eligible to sit for the Computer Practical Test. Lastly, 1:3 ratio (No. of posts: No. of successful qualified candidates) shall be maintained for facing the interview. Exam fee of Rs.200/With regard to Dobashis, only oral interview will be conducted with an Exam fee of Rs.100/-. There will be a practical test for Drivers following which 1:3 ratio (No. of posts : No. of successful qualified candidates) will be maintained for facing the interview with Exam fee of Rs.200/-. For the post of Peon, only oral interview will be conducted with Exam fee of Rs.100/-. It is also informed that 50% of the posts are reserved for in-service candidates wherever applicable. The Office further informed that all candidates called for interview are required to produce the following certificates in original, namely: (a) Educational Qualification Certificates, (b) Valid proof of Age certificate, (c) Scheduled Tribe (ST) Certificate, (d) Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate, (e) Experience Certificate (if any), (f) Valid Driver’s License (for Drivers) and (g) Diploma in Computer (for LDA-CUM-Computer Assistant) The last date for receiving applications is 7th July 2016. Admit cards will be issued thereafter from this Office w.e.f 12-7-2016 to 15-7-2016. The exam fees for various categories of posts may be submitted while collecting the admit cards.
opment Scheme while addressing the Moatsu Festival at Kangtsung village under Mokokchung district on 5th May 2016. The meeting was chaired by Parliamentary Secretary, Commerce & Industries, Amenba Yaden, who is also the chairman of the Mokokchung DPDB. The meeting also discussed the problems faced by employees under Changtongya circle as the Treasury Office at Changtongya is non-banking Treasury. It was decided to forward its decision to the concerned department to convert it into BankingTreasury to ease problem in drawing payments to employees and the public. The meeting also approved LADP 2015-16
schemes in lieu of MNGREGA convergence fund. Application seeking grant-in-aid in respect of Head Start Montessori School, Tuli and upgradation of MS Anaki yimsen to GHS was also approved. During discussion on issues relating overall development of the district, Er. Yanger Pongen, Executive Engineer, PHED called for close coordination between line departments to ensure that development being done by a particular department are not damage /destroyed. He stated that due to lack of coordination between line departments many a time pipe lines laid by PHED department are damaged or destroyed while opening
State level ‘Awakening Consumers’ held at Mon Mon, June 7 (DIPR): State level ‘Awakening Consumers’ on the theme ‘An alert consumer is the need of the hour’ was organised by the Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection Department at Council Hall Mon Town, with N Thongwang Konyak, Advisor Department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection and DUDA as the chief guest on May 30. In his opening remark, Biso M. Kuotsu, Joint Controller and head of department, LMCP Nagaland, emphasized on the need to be aware and exercise on the rights of a consumer. He informed that such state level program on consumer awareness was organized for the first time since the inception of LMCP, and credited the
Advisor LMCP for such initiatives. He emphasized on checking the MRP, Seal, trade mark, manufacture and expiry date etc… and cash memo while buying goods. While thanking the LMCP department for organizing such programme at Mon, Manlip, President Konyak Union appealed the people gathered to learnt, disseminate and exercise their rights legally and do away with the traditional practice of taking law into their own hand. Asserting that the peoples’ participation and support is a must for implementing any act, the chief guess urged upon the people to learnt their rights and responsibility and exercise their rights by bringing their grievances to
their respective Consumer Redressal Forum for proper and full implementation of the Act. While speaking on the theme, Mayang Lima President, Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum and District Judge, Mon highlighted the historical background on the formation of the Consumer rights forum and redressal mechanism as per consumer protection act. The programme was attended by Members of Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum Mon, HOD, KU. KNSK, KSU, DB, Mon Town Chamber of Commerce, Ward GBs, Consumer club from five schools viz. St.Marry’s School, GHS ‘C’, Anghjong Mission School, Model School and Holy Cross School.
Kithagha students promote green environment
TseMInyu, June 7 was held as an effort of pro(Mexn): Kithagha Stu- moting a green environdents’ Union on held ment as part of its Golden a plantation drive pro- Jubilee year objectives and gramme on June 4 in- in commemoration of the volving the citizens of the World Environment Day Kithagha group of villages wherein thousands of sapnamely Nsunyu, Chun- lings and seeds of various likha and Likhwenchu vil- kinds were planted by the lages under the Chunlikha volunteers in and around RD Block, Tseminyu sub- the village including the stretch of NH-2 (59-62kms) division. PeRen, June 7 (Mexn): The monthly meeting of The plantation drive that runs through the terPeren District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) was held on June 6 under the chairmanship of DC & Vice Chairman DPDB, Zarenthung Ezung. The board directed the officers concerned (DFOs) and the police to enforce the order on ban of carrying round log and timber from Peren district. CROSSWORD # 3617 A DIPR report informed that regarding BSNL connectivity to the New HQ Peren, the General Manger of BSNL assured the District Administration in a communication to install the same at the earliest date. After reviewing minutes of the last meeting, the board discussed and recommended for up-gradation of United Christian School, New Jalukie to Class-8. The meeting also discussed and recommended for construction of retaining wall at playground, Athibung, re-casting of LADP 2015-16 convergences of MNREGA, and registration of society, Change Bowl Society Jalukie to the government for approval.
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Directives for recruitment of grade-III and IV kohIMa, June 7 (DIPR): Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department (Administrative Reforms Branch) in an office memorandum stated that in supercession of this Department’s Office Memorandum of even number dated 16th November, 2015, the Governor of Nagaland is pleased to make the following provision for recruitment of Grade-Ill & IV posts in the District Offices with immediate effect. 1. All direct recruitment vacancies occurring in Grade-IV posts in the District Offices shall be filled up by the indigenous inhabitants of the respective District. 2. All direct recruitment vacancies occurring in GradeIll posts under the establishment of Deputy Commissioners in district administration shall be filled up by the indigenous inhabitants of the respective District. However, vacancies in Grade-Ill posts in other district offices, other than the district administration, will continue to be filled up by the respective Heads of Departments by following the normal recruitment policy of the State Government. 3. The Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate may be verified with the help of the latest census records to rule out possibility of multiple Indigenous Inhabitant Certificates in the name of the same person. 4. All vacancies in the above posts occurring in the Districts, excepting the Grade-Ill posts to be filled up by Heads of Departments, shall be filled up through open advertisement and a District Selection Committee shall be constituted by the respective Deputy Commissioners. The Selection Committee will be headed by the Deputy Commissioner and will include two District level Heads of Office, an Administrative Officer, and the Principal or Senior Lecturer of local College to be nominated by the Deputy Commissioner. The Committee shall follow the reservation policy for persons with disabilities in respect of Grade-Ill & IV posts, and the reservation policy for backward tribes in respect of Grade-Ill posts, except in the case of Dobashi posts. However, all appointment orders in respect of Grade-IV posts excepting those under the District Administration, will be issued by the respective Heads of Departments on the recommendation of the District Selection Committee.
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‘Meeting with Neiphiu Rio held to deliberate on ongoing Naga issue’ new Delhi, June 7 (mexn): Apropos the press rejoinder headlined ‘NPF Youth Wing on Rio’s interactive meeting’, which was published on June 7, AC Kharingpam has clarified that the meeting on June 3 in New Delhi was called by likeminded individuals to discuss and deliberate on the ongoing Naga issue and various concerns in relation to the position held by Neiphiu Rio. “It is pertinent to note that the meeting was organized in an open minded manner to highlight the concerns of all Naga citizens. Enough time was given to ask questions and clarify doubts. No one was stopped from speaking,” stated a rejoinder from AC Kharingpam, the convenor of the meeting. Stating that NPF as a party was formed with the principle of upholding and safeguarding democratic culture in the Naga society, the rejoinder stated that
“to question the very idea of 'discussing' issues which pertains to the future of all Nagas by resorting to misinformation and misrepresentation only denigrates the aspiration and objective for which the NPF steadfastly stood for.” To question the locus standi of the gathering in discussing the validity and correctness of the suspension of the MP (Lok Sabha), Neiphiu Rio from the NPF party, the rejoinder added, “is a grievous revelation of a mindset that not only revels in reducing democratic ethos in its basest form, but it is also an undiluted exposure of a mind that is hell bent on stifling democratic ethos of open discussion.” It maintained that NPF as a party of the Nagas and for the Nagas cannot be reduced to a party of few people who define legitimacy through connections with leadership. Far from being an insular party that borders on exclusivity, the party must work to en-
large the democratic space by opening up voices from the grassroots and outside of the party, it added. Further, the convenor pointed out that reducing the role of the academics, intellectuals, media persons, bureaucrats, youths and social networkers to the four walls of their professional spare is “an ominous sign of a decaying mediocre mind. Such understanding of the roles of individual in the society can only be seen as a dangerous sign of intolerant ideology creeping into the national imagination.” Meanwhile, it reiterated that the meeting on June 3 was organized with the spirit of bringing understanding between different stakeholders within and outside the NPF party. The discussions of the meeting were emphasized on carrying forward the idea of Naga national cause to the highest level through dialogue and reconciliation, it added.
New team of Konyak Union officials mon, June 7 (mexn): A dedicatory prayer was conducted for the newly elected office bearers of Konyak Union (KU) by the pastor, reverends and deacons of the Konyak Baptist Church Mon (KBCM) during the 36th KU general session on June 5 at Mon Town. A press release informed that former KU President, Manlip Konyak was unanimously re-elected as the President and the General
Secretary of the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF), Honang M. Jessuhu was called back to serve in the Konyak Union (KU) as the General Secretary. Yuhwang Konyak, former Assistant General Secretary of KU and Kaipa Konyak, former Vice President of KU were reinstated as Vice Presidents for another term. Meanwhile, Nyangpong Konyak and Sheiching Konyak were
assigned as the Assistant General Secretaries (AGS). The post of the Finance Secretary was allotted to Chenngam Konyak with Wangkem Konyak as the Treasurer. The newly elected KU office bearers have been assigned to hold the office from 2016 to 2019, said the release issued by Manlip Konyak, President and Honang M. Jessuhu, General Secretary of KU.
thilixu Village Council refutes claims of MVC Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): Thilixu Village Council (TVC) today refuted the claims of the Mishikito Village Council (MVC) regarding the May 16 incident. In a rejoinder to the news report ‘Call for dispensation of justice’, which was published on June 2, TVC said that “there is no village or colony known by the name Mishikito within and adjoining of recognized Thilixu village.” Thus, it said, “claiming the land of Thilixu village Block III as jurisdiction of so called Mishikito without any locus standi and the question of
so called self styled Mishikito does not arise within the traditional boundary of the Thilixu village.” The rejoinder issued by TVC Chairman, Nikhevi Yeptho and Secretary, Atoka Achumi further said that on June 1, a group of “self interested people” residing at Thilixu village Block III had submitted the representation to the Deputy Commissioner in “one of the most void and illegal manner under the banner of unauthorized Village Council and bearing the signature of self styled Village Council Chairman of so called
Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Office of the Project Director in the eleven districts of Nagaland has called for a penMishikito Village Council.” down strike on June 8, 2016 to protest against the nonTVC stated that the matter release of salary to its employees. This was informed in should be viewed seriously separate press statements received on Tuesday from by the Government since the eleven DRDAs and appended by the respective “there is no recognized vil- project directors. The DRDA employees in the eleven lage known by the name districts said they have not received their salaries for 6 Mishikito within Dimapur -13 months. district. Moreover, it added, the Forest Dept on WED 2016 theme letter addressed to DC as published in the local dai- Dimapur, June 7 (Dipr): The Nagaland State Delies contains “malafide al- partment of Environment, Forest & Climate Change legation and deceiving in- has clarified that the World Environment Day 2016 was formation to mislead the dedicated to the girl child in Nagaland on the request concerned authority and made by the State Social Welfare Department through general public.” Hence, the the Nagaland State Social Welfare Board vide letter No. TVC appealed to reject the NSSWB/NAGC-1/Gen. Corr/2015-16/150 dated May representation made by 26, 2016. The NSSWB in its letter mentioned that “in the “unauthorized entity” order to create awareness of the Girl Child; her safety Mishikito Village Council. and education, the declaration and dedication of tree plantation to the girl child on Environment Day 2016 would effectively convey a positive message towards the protection of the environment and children for a better and healthier society.”
Seized liquor destroyed in Kohima Kohima, June 7 (mexn): Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth around Rs. 19 lakh, which were seized on different occasions during the period from February 24, 2015 to May 28, 2016 were destroyed at New KMC dumping site in Kohima today. Kohima Municipal Council, district administration, Superintendent of Police, Asst. Commissioner of Excise (Adm), Asst. Commissioner of Excise (enforcement) and NGOs were present. Asst. Commissioner of excise (Admn), Dimapur Imkong K Jamir informed that a total of 17,774 bottles of IMFL and beers of various brands had been seized. The seizure included
Chief Secretary instructs opening of SVEEP Cell Kohima, June 7 (Dipr): Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar has instructed all Nagaland State Departments, including Central Government Departments, to open Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) cell. The SVEEP cell will disseminate electoral awareness messages as well as the action plans to secure ethical and informed voting practices under the charge of one Nodal Officer and one Assistant as per the format and submit to the CEO, Nagaland for further action. SVEEP programme was launched by the Election Commission of India in 2009 with an action plan to increase electoral and qualitative participation, provide continuous electoral and democratic education to the people. Asst. Commissioner of Excise (Adm), Asst. Commissioner of Excise (enforcement) and Civil SDO Kohima destroying the liquor seized in Kohima.
3797 bottles (IMFL 750 ml), 145 bottles (open) of (IMFL 750 ml), 308 bottles (IMFL 375 ml), 8 bottles (IMFL 275
ml), 2375 bottles (IMFL 180 ml), 2012 bottles of beer (650 ml), and 9129 canned beer (500 ml).
RBCAN, BPFD condemn assault on pastor
Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): Rongmei Baptist Church Association Nagaland (RBCAN) has condemned the attack on the pastor of Dimapur Rongmei Baptist Church, Meingandai Gangmei on June 3 in Dimapur. In a press release, RBCAN Executive Secretary, Mathiuthai GonKumtila Subo speaking at Life Spring Corner, Dimapur, on the 7th day of the ongoing 40 Days of Revival on June mei denounced that the attackers assaulted the pas7. (Photo: Atsung Ajem)
tor even after identifying him as a pastor. “We know that it was the work of our local youths from Dimapur town who must be definitely members of certain churches,” said the release. “It saddens the hearts of all the fellow workers in church ministry.” It further informed that Pastor Meingandai is not only a pastor in Dimapur, but also the
present Chairman of RBCAN Mission Board. The association further prayed for speedy recovery of the victim. The Baptist Pastor’s Fellowship Dimapur (BPFD) has also condemned the “unprovoked attack” on Pastor Meingandai Gangmei, who is also a part of the BPFD. “Such action is a serious concern to all
the peace loving citizens,” stated the Fellowship in a press release. The Fellowship prayed for the speedy recovery of the pastor and also appealed to the investigation agency to take appropriate action. The BPFD further encouraged the citizens of Dimapur to practise true Christian ethics and maintain stability in the city.
More condemn police raid WED at Intanki National Park KPC executive meeting held Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): ACAUT Nagaland has expressed regrets over the “arbitrary raid” at the residence of a “respectable citizen” of Dimapur by the Dimapur Police without any search warrant. “Apart from the illegality, the police should realise that its action has caused undue embarrassment and mental agony to the family of Akashe Zhimomi, GB of Eralibill village,” stated a release from Media Cell, ACAUT Nagaland. ACAUT Nagaland further endorsed the demand of Joint Council DEEHA “so that it serves as a lesson to all police force that none is above the law.” Stating that the fragile fabric of democracy with its
check and balances must be guarded at all times, ACAUT Nagaland deemed the incident “very unfortunate which Dimapur police must acknowledge as serious oversight on its part.” It also requested the custodians of law and order to be mindful of civil rights. In a separate press release, Business Association Nagas (BAN) expressed sadness that one of its “esteemed” member’s house was raided by Dimapur Police in his absence and without any search warrant. “Nagas who are already traumatized by Armed Forces Special Act (AFSPA), the last thing it can wish for is the state police to emulate the Indian Army,” stated BAN.
Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): The Wildlife Division, Dimapur observed World Environment Day on June 4 at Forest Protection Camp, Intanki National Park with the theme “Zero tolerance for the illegal wildlife trade”. Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland, Wildlife Warden, Dimapur, Deputy Conservator of Forest, Intanki National Park staff, and neighbouring villagers attended the programme. The Chief Wildlife Warden of Nagaland, Satya Prakash Tripathi stressed on the importance of protecting the environment. He briefed the gathering about how the earth’s environment is gradually degrading with unplanned developmental activities. He also
exhorted the gathering to be pro-active participants in the fortnight long observation of Swaach Bharat Mission from June 1 to 15. Caroline Kaurinta, IFS, from the Wildlife Division urged the gathering to be a champion of environment by contributing and maintaining healthy environment in their own locality. She maintained that plants and animals can survive without human being, but human being cannot survive without them; hence, illegal activities towards wildlife and forests cannot be tolerated by any sensible person. Cleaning and planting of fruit bearing tree seedlings were also carried out in and around the Forest Protection Camp.
Kohima, June 7 (mexn): The first meeting of the Kohima Press Club (KPC) executive council for the tenure 2016-19 was held on June 6. During the meeting, the council decided to convene a general body meeting on June 17, 11:00 am at KPC conference hall. All the members have been requested to attend the same. According to a press release from KPC General Secretary, Alice Yhoshü, the audit report of KPC 2014-16 will be presented at the general meeting for approval, and matters pertaining to registration drive for new members and renewal for old members will also be part of the agenda. The registration fee for
new members has been fixed at Rs.1000 and Rs.500 for renewal, while the last date of the registration is fixed for June 30, the release said, adding the executive council may be contacted for more details. Meanwhile, the council has decided to set up Audit Committee for 201619, headed by Medou Dzuyie as the Convenor, Kuzhovesa Soho and Vishu Rita Krocha as members. It was also decided that Kopelo Krome (Ex-President) will be the sole advisor of KPC for the tenure 2016-19. The council also decided that the KPC conference hall will be rented out on a minimal charge of Rs.2000 for full day and Rs.1000 for half day.
NVCO President laments overcharging consumers
Kohima, June 7 (mexn): Advocate and President of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO), Kezhokhoto Savi has highlighted that several meat shops in Kohima are selling pork at the rate of Rs.250/- and Rs.240/- per kg while the rate fixed by the govt/KMC is Rs.180/- per kg. Speaking at the meeting of Price Monitoring Committee Kohima at DC’s office here on June 6, Savi pointed out the consumers’ complaints against butchers for shortage of measurement. He cited that the consumers never get the actual weight of meat though they are charged in full. Savi asserted that the Seen here is an image of a landslide which had cut off a foot- NVCO cannot tolerate the excessive charges in cerpath at Lower Mount Tiyi College Colony in Wokha Town.
DRDA in eleven districts pen-down strike today
tain essential commodities, according to a press release from Press & Media Cell, NVCO. “What is the public/consumers doing when few business community charges more than 1/3 (excessive) of govt/ KMC rate and that also without any permission?” he questioned. “What is the reaction of the District Administration and Kohima Municipal Council?” Most of the meat sold in the market, he claimed, may not be fit for consumption and there is no mechanism to ascertain the fitness. He stated that the problem can be solved only when there is a proper slaughter house. Meanwhile, he pointed out that the State government is already facing pressure from the Central government to comply with the
laws intended to prevent cruelty to animals in slaughter houses in reference to WP (C) 330 of 2001. Further, the NVCO President stated that removing the original/company printed price on motor parts, students’ text books/exercise books and replacing them with a price tag which is much higher than the MRP is illegal and amounts to exploitation of consumer rights as per the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. “Fund-raise by way of selling lottery ticket, raffle draw, buffet ticket, calendar, concert ticket, moudi, packed cooked meat/vegetable/ fruits, etc including selling local newspaper by way of donation is common in Kohima which affect the prices and also harasses the citizens,” Savi added. He la-
mented that no authority is taking any initiative to control the “nuisance.” Meanwhile, he asserted that the State Government, particularly the District Administration, must stop the illegal collection of cash in the check-gates/highways in their own district jurisdiction as it is one the major causes for price rise. Price Monitoring, he added, includes transportation charges and daily wages for skilled or unskilled labours, including motor workshop where charges are to be properly regulated in a reasonable and consumer friendly manner. He further pointed out the urgency to implement the transportation/ carriage charges depending on types of vehicles and distance.
NPCC asks Govt. to act on HPC recommendations Kohima, June 7 (mexn): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has placed a demand with the Governor of Nagaland that the Government of Nagaland act on the recommendations of the report of the High Powered Committee (HPC) on Illegal and Multiple Taxation. “Despite reasonable time for the Government of Nagaland to act since the High Powered Committee on Illegal and Multiple Taxation submitted its report on June 10, 2015, the Government has kept the Report and its recommendations in cold storage,” stated a press release from NPCC President, Therie. The NPCC has also demanded that the report be made public, the release added.
DEF Kohima seize liquor Kohima, June 7 (mexn): The Mobile Unit of DEF Kohima has recovered 25 cases of Mc Rum from a Maruti Wagon R bearing registration number NL-07C-4162 during routine frisking and checking of vehicles on NH2. The driver of the vehicle identified as Wilson Ao (37) was taken into police custody for possession and transportation of the banned IMFL, informed a press release from Atu Zumvü, SDPO & PRO, Kohima Police. In this connection, a regular case vide Kohima Chiephobozou P.S Case No. 0009/2016 U/S 44(1)(a)(e) NLTP Act has been registered against the arrested person for further investigation, the release added.
DGCSC condemns Dimapur, June 7 (mexn): The Dimapur Government College Students’ Council (DGCSC) has condemned the “desecration and pulling down” of the flex banner put up by the alumni of the college to commemorate World Environment Day on June 4. The banner was put up appealing to the citizens not to dump garbage on the site earmarked for waiting shed and canteen to be constructed by the alumni association of the college. “This act of miscreants has completely negated the efforts of the entire civilized world and the stakeholders of the DGC to keep the surrounding clean and environment friendly atmosphere…,” stated a press release issued by DGCSC General Secretary, Limaakum. The students’ council further appealed to the law enforcement agency to investigate the damage done and remain ever vigilant to thwart such anti-social activities in and around the college campus
Meetings & AppointMents NSEE-II form submission The Director of Technical Education, Er. Arjun Singh has informed all aspiring candidates of NSEE-II, 2016 that the last date for submission of filled application form is June 20.
ANHTU Wokha unit The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers’ Union (ANHTU), Wokha unit (2012-13 batches) has convened an emergency meeting on June 11, 11:00 am at ANSTA office, Wokha. Therefore, all the members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.
Chang Union Kohima Chang Union Kohima has informed that the first joint meeting of its new office bearers and Executive Council will be held on June 9, 4:00 pm at the union’s treasurer’s residence.
CorreCtion Apropos to the photo caption which was published on the front page of the June 7, 2016 issue of The Morung Express, it is hereby clarified that the name of the village should be read only as Viphoma and not as published.
The Morung Express “Public Space” is to provide space for diverse opinions to be expressed and heard. The opinions in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper nor the editor.
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express volume Xi issue 156 By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir
Criminalizing Defamation A setback to free speech & Press freedom
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t a time when free Speech should be viewed as a potentially revolutionary form of communication in the process of societal transformation beginning with governance, the recent May 13th verdict of the Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dipak Mishra and Prafulla C. Pant has further jeopardized the constitutionality of free speech as a fundamental right. The verdict dismissed the challenges to the constitutionality of the provisions in the Indian Penal Code (IcPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) that make defamation a criminal offence. Through different petitions, the High Courts and the Supreme Court were challenged on the constitutionality of Sections 499 and 500 of the IPC and Sections 199(1) to 199 (4) which deals with prosecution for defamation; and to declare such sections as unconstitutional. Coming to defamation, Section 499 of the IPC states that whoever makes accusations concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing that such accusation will cause harm to the reputation of such person, is said to be a case of defamation. Section 500 of the IPC maintains that the person defaming another shall be punished with imprisonment for a period that may extend up to two years, or with fine, or with both. However, there are provisions that provide certain exceptions to such cases of defamation, that, it is not defamatory if the statement is made for the public good or if it deals with public conduct of public servants. The lead petitioner in the case was filed by Subramanian Swamy (BJP) member of the Rajya Sabha along with Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. At the backdrop, in February 2014, Nitin Gadkari, a former President of BJP, had filed a case against Arvind Kejriwal for including his name in a list of India’s most corrupt politicians. Then, the RSS had filed a defamation case in March 2014 against Rahul Gandhi for his remarks that the RSS had a role in Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. Now, Swamy is in disagreement with the Central government that opposed decriminalization of defamation. He contends that the governments justification for retaining such provisions against defamation is not justified because a person accused of defamation may not be in a position to compensate the ‘victim’ and that, in order to defame someone, a person should have economic status to do so, thereby discouraging persons from economically weaker sections from free expression. But whatever the constraints from the economic point of view or for other valid reasons that comes within the exceptional provisions that demands warranted consideration, it the expression of truth, which becomes a limited defense and thereby a setback to free speech and expression. It is here that the exceptional provisions need to be pushed further as a case against criminalizing defamation. Beyond the ‘reasons and justifications’ given by the two member bench dismissing the challenges regarding the constitutionality of IPC and CrPC that make defamation a criminal offence, one can look into the issues related to defamation from the point of the provisions that specifies certain ‘exceptions to the rule’ thereby lending credibility to defamation. That, a statement is not defamatory, if it is made for the public good or if it deals with public conduct of public servants. When it comes to freedom of speech, media, especially the press, is an important sphere of consideration being a quasipublic agency in upholding the ideals of democracy. Often media is pitted within the danger of defamation, responsibility of reporting facts and moral obligation towards far reaching effects of any reporting. There is also the discursive curtailment of media activism by different levels of political agencies and can be charged with a lawsuit for defaming an individual or organisation irrespective of whether their ‘conduct’ was right or wrong. There are also ‘unwritten’ issues related to defamation beyond factuality and falsity irrespective of whether an ‘action’ is morally right or wrong. But, whatever the case maybe, any statement made ‘in the interest of public good’ holds substance towards decriminalizing defamation. In the great duty and responsibility of the press it acts not only as an agency for reporting news items but also for intervention in serious political, social, economic and other concerns that has serious implications that may have far reaching impacts on the life of the citizens and therefore, it is of paramount importance that the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and expression is not just maintained in black and white but also realized in spirit so that its independent functioning is in no way curtailed. (Dr. Asangba Tzüdir is Editor with Heritage Publishing House. He writes a weekly guest editorial for the Morung Express. Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)
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Fish have ability to distinguish between human faces: Study D
espite having a much simpler and smaller brain than that of primates, fish have the remarkable ability to distinguish between human faces, new research has found. “Being able to distinguish between a large number of human faces is a surprisingly difficult task, mainly due to the fact that all human faces share the same basic features,” said first author Cait Newport from Oxford University. “It has been hypothesised that this task is so difficult that it can only be accomplished by primates, which have a large and complex brain,” Newport noted. To test this idea, the researchers wanted to determine if another animal with a smaller and simpler brain, and with no evolutionary need to recognise human faces, was still able to do so. In the study, archerfish -- a species of tropical fish well known for its ability to spit jets of water to knock down aerial prey -- were presented with two images of human faces and trained to choose one of them using their jets. The fish were then presented with the learned face and a series of new faces and were able to correctly choose the face they had initially learned to recognise. They were able to perform this task even when more obvious features, such as head shape and colour, were removed from the images. The fish were highly accurate when selecting the correct face, reaching an average peak performance of 81 per cent in the first experiment (picking the previously learned face from 44 new faces) and 86 per cent in the second experiment (in which facial features such as brightness and colour were standardised). “Once the fish had learned to recognize a face, we then showed them the same face, as well as a series of new ones. In all cases, the fish continued to spit at the face they had been trained to recognize, proving that they were capable of telling the two apart,” Newport said. “The fact that archerfish can learn this task suggests that complicated brains are not necessarily needed to recognise human faces,” Newport noted.
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Aria Danaparamita Foreign Policy
Life After the MuD A t 6 a.m., Muslimah, 45, steams rice and fries tempeh for her husband and children. After they eat, she dons a baseball cap and heads to work. Like many others in East Java who were displaced by the mud volcano, she drives an ojek, or motorcycle taxi. Her passengers are tourists, who flock to look upon the blighted landscape she once called home. The mud now covers over 1,600 uninhabitable acres. It’s cracked dry in places, wet sludge in others. In the expanse’s distant center, white smoke rises from the crater. It’s been 10 years, but Muslimah still remembers vividly the quiet morning in May of 2006, when scalding mud and gas burst violently from the ground here in Sidoarjo, a small regency in East Java, Indonesia. “I was shocked,” she says. “It was terrifying: The mud soared like a black tower to the sky.” As the day wore on, the watery sludge, emanating from a single point, flooded homes, rice paddies, and factories, as villagers scrambled to collect their belongings and flee. The flow hasn’t stopped since. Within a month, Muslimah’s house was submerged entirely. The Sidoarjo mudflow is the longest continuous disaster Indonesia has faced. Every year on May 29, those who lost their homes mark the anniversary of the day the eruption began. For the first few months, the crater on average spewed 26 million gallons of boiling mud a day, according to the Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS), a government body formed in 2007 to oversee the disaster recovery. The rate has since slowed to 7-15 million gallons. Over the past decade, the mud has swallowed 12 villages, and displaced over 39,000 people, according to the government. At various sites around the mudflow, methane leaks are prone to combust at the careless flick of a lighter — although this problem has subsided with time. For the victims, the nightmare has become a new normal. Kick-starting her motorbike, Muslimah snakes past rice fields before joining the road that connects Sidoarjo to Surabaya and Malang, the nearest major cities. Along the way, hand-painted signs announce: “Mud Tourism.” Atop the levee that holds back the heavy muck, ojek drivers lounge in the shade of bamboo shelters as visitors take photos of the surreal scenery. “I don’t really understand why the tourists come, but I don’t mind,” Muslimah says. “I’m happy to meet visitors from all over Indonesia, from Malaysia, from America, from the Netherlands. Sometimes they give me foreign currency to keep as souvenirs. I ask myself, what am I supposed to do with 20 ringgits? So I exchange them.” And then there are the scientists, who come to take measurements and collect samples. To this day, experts debate the origin of the event. Indonesia is known for its high volcanic and seismic activity. Some say a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which struck the city of Jogjakarta 160 miles away just two days before the eruption, triggered the disaster. Another culprit seems likely: Lapindo Brantas, an oil and gas company that was drilling for natural gas about 800 feet from the rupture. “We’re now 99 percent confident that the drilling hypothesis is valid,” Mark Tingay — an earth scientist
muslimah points to the spot where her home once stood.
at the University of Adelaide and lead author of a report on the mudflow, published by the journal Nature Geoscience — told the New York Times last year. The family of the well-known former cabinet minister, tycoon, and failed presidential candidate Aburizal Bakrie controls Lapindo. In 2007, a year after the eruption commenced, the Bakrie family topped the Forbes list of richest Indonesians, with a net worth of $5.4 billion. Over the past decade, victims like Muslimah and her family have waged a protracted battle to demand compensation from Lapindo. In the face of public outrage, a month after the eruption, the company apologized and announced its commitment to fully compensate for all losses. At first, it promised to hand out cash and/or resettlement packages within two years of receiving any given claim. Then the 2008 financial crisis hit, and payments began to slow. “Sometimes it would stop for a month, sometimes three months. It was a very difficult time,” says Muslimah’s husband, Sadli. The 46-year-old had lost his job at a concrete factory when it, too, was buried under the mud. Many faced similar fates. Unable to afford new houses, the evacuees were forced to rent grimy apartments or take shelter in the homes of relatives. By the thousands, they staged marches and mass prayers. In December 2014, the national government finally stepped in. Newly elected President Joko Widodo loaned Lapindo $45.5 million to finance the outstanding compensations — fulfilling the campaign promise that won him Sidoarjo in the 2014 presidential election. Under the arrangement, the land that was once villages has been bought and paid for by Lapindo. The company will need to repay the government within four years — or forfeit those assets to the state. Over the course of 2015, most displaced villagers finally received full compensation, although dozens are still waiting for their papers to be verified by authorities. But earlier this year, outrage swept the community anew. Lapindo announced a plan to drill two new wells, just over two miles from the eruption site. Drilling was slated to begin this past March. Local protests halted the project.
“How can we not protest? We’re still traumatized,” Muslimah says. Before the mudflow, she had lived in a house in Siring village for her entire life. She had sold fried snacks and iced drinks. She has two children from a past marriage, and two more with Sadli. Their youngest was six years old when the mud came. Once the sludge reached knee level, the family abandoned their home, and, alongside Muslimah’s elderly father, took refuge in the new market in Porong, a neighboring district. Lapindo reported that 2,590 people sought shelter in the market’s vacant stalls. “We piled into a small stall with three, sometimes four families,” says Sadli. “We slept on mats, and when help started pouring in, we were given blankets and some food — rice, with fish or eggs on the side. It wasn’t much, but we lived.” Life was rough. “We couldn’t shower, we couldn’t wash our clothes,” Sadli says. “For every toilet, there were dozens of people constantly in line.” After nine months, the first compensation payment came. The family rented a two-bedroom apartment. Muslimah thought it would be temporary, just until the rest of the payments arrived. But they didn’t. “It was too much for my father,” she says. He passed away in 2008.The family even tually lucked out and found a house for just over $3,000 in Kedung Kampil village. “But it was just the walls, there were no tiles or anything,” Muslimah says. They painted the interiors bright pink, purple, and yellow. After the government stepped in, the family received almost $30,000 in compensation. For the first time in a decade, they can focus on moving forward. They bought a cart to sell banana pastries — manned by their second son — while their eldest raises fighting cocks in bamboo cages behind the house. Muslimah and Sadli both go to the mud field each day as ojek drivers, and Sadli picks up odd jobs in construction. Across the gray expanse where Muslimah parks her motorbike to wait for customers, the mud is wet and gleaming. A rough, steady motor roars. A dredger sucks up sludge, channeling it toward a spillway that drains into the Porong River. “Our understanding now is that the mud cannot be stopped. At the beginning, many tried. Researchers and
technicians wrote proposals, but none of it worked,” says Riko Aditya, head of the operations supervision subgroup at the BPLS. “Now, our aim is just to stop the mud from outflowing.” The disaster zone is ringed by levees made from packed soil that run for almost ten miles. Funded by Lapindo and the government, these barriers were built, then rebuilt and raised, as the muck continued to rise. In July 2015, the BPLS estimated that the area contained over 1.26 billion cubic feet of mud, compared to 1.1 billion in 2010. “The only current solution is draining the mud,” Riko says. The effect on the waterway has been drastic. Dewi Hidayati, a professor of biology at the Tenth of September Technological Institute in nearby Surabaya, has analyzed fish survival rates in the Porong River between 2010 and 2013. “Downriver from the effluent, the dominant fish are those who can adapt to the mud. The rest die,” she says. “The mud also alters their habitat. Now the riverbed is covered with mud, so for example, it’s not conducive for fish to lay eggs. They are stressed.” A number of studies have tracked changes to the environment around the mudflow, from biodiversity to land subsidence. Despite fears, the mud has shown no urgent effects on human health, though it still needs to be studied thoroughly, Dewi says. “For now, what’s evident is that the effect is indirect,” she says. “The mud contains a high level of aluminum, which in a normal pH, is perfectly safe.” But if the pH levels drop, due to household or industrial waste, for example, she says the aluminum will begin to pose a hazard. “There needs to be awareness, that although the ecosystem can adapt to a certain extent, if the conditions become extreme, then it could be catastrophic,” she warns. “People have begun to forget about the mud. Now they think of it as normal. But it’s not normal.” Muslimah and Sadli haven’t forgotten what they lost. Sitting on a wooden bench at home, Sadli notes that this year’s anniversary of the eruption falls a week short of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that ends with Idul Fitri, a festive celebration during which Indonesians traditionally return to visit their hometowns. “And us?” Sadly asks. “Where do we go?”
Global supply chains: what does labour want? sharan Burrow
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or the workers of the world, global supply chains are not and cannot be sustainable unless they are based on the principles of decent work Multinational enterprises (MNEs) constantly look to cut costs to maximise profits, putting considerable pressure on workers’ wages and working conditions. Cost pressures from global firms mean that employment within global supply chains (GSCs) is too often precarious and/or informal, involving frequent human rights violations. Though some companies have made public commitments to ensure the payment of a living wage and investment in safe and secure workplaces, this is by no means the norm and even then such promises are not always kept. Corporate and multi-stakeholder ‘corporate social responsibility’ schemes have had little if any positive impact on guaranteeing workers’ rights, and instead have deferred addressing underlying structural issues. With up to 94% of the workforce on whom our largest MNE's depend effectively ‘hidden’, there are serious global governance gaps concerning GSCs. While goods and services are produced by workers in multiple countries, most laws and international conventions
stop at the borders of each individual country. Today, voluntary guidelines such as the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, which incorporates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the ILO’s long-outdated MNE Declaration are among the few global ‘regulations’ of GSCs; but neither are effective in ensuring that companies respect workers’ rights across supply chains. A major problem for workers, even in places where there is substantive country legislation, is the lack of an adequate remedy for when their rights are inevitably violated. Local supplying companies are unlikely to face accountability because administrative or judicial processes are too slow, weak or corrupt. At the same time, lead firms are usually immune from any legal accountability, since there is no cause of action or jurisdiction over them in either the host country or the home country. The ILO can and must fill this governance gap, both through the adoption of a new standard on global supply chains and through complementary measures that position the ILO at the centre of global industrial relations for the new century.
A new convention An ILO convention on decent work in global supply chains can and should form the backbone of any new approach to labour regulation and enforcement at the international level, which builds on (and requires the ratification of) existing instruments, including the fundamental conventions. Central to this convention should be the obligation of states to pass laws and regulations that, in line with existing ILO standards, regulate the conduct of enterprises under its jurisdiction wherever the alleged harms may occur. Mandatory due diligence is another key component of such an instrument (which is already required when it comes to forced labour, as per the ILO’s 2014 Forced Labour Protocol). Transparency obligations too would ensure that both firms and workers know who forms part of the supply chain, which would in turn allow for greater oversight and ultimately accountability. Further key demands are to end the lawlessness of the ‘export processing zones’ which are so critical to supply chain productivity, along with the elimination of forced labour and the formalisation of informal work. A binding GSC convention should ensure the promo-
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tion of secure employment relationships, the removal of discriminatory practices, and the elimination of involuntary nonstandard forms of work. Finally, it should emphasise the power of social dialogue, including a framework for truly transnational bargaining. This could push industrial relations finally into the 21st century. As part of the immediate follow up to the ILC discussion, and as one of the main outcomes, the ILO should convene a tripartite meeting of experts in order to discuss these main elements of any new convention. That has to be the major outcome of ILC 2016. A 21st-century ILO The ILO must also position itself at the centre of the global governance of supply chains. The global economy needs an ILO that is equipped to respond to the global issues raised by supply chains. This would include, for example, research and technical support in the negotiation and setting of national and sectoral minimum wages; the establishment of labour inspection capacity at the global level to investigate and report to social partners and governments where exploitation and abuse is exposed; and the mediation and resolution of transnational disputes between workers and MNEs where requested by the parties. This is the ILO we would like to see emerge.
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grammar Wise: using articles what is an article? Basically, an article is an adjective. Like adjectives, articles modify nouns. English has three articles: ‘the’ and 'a/an'. ‘The’ is used to refer to specific or particular nouns and therefore defined as “definite article.” ‘A/an’ is used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns and defined as “indefinite article.” For example, if we say, "Let's read the book," it means a specific book. If we say, "Let's read a book, "it means any book rather than a specific book. Again, ‘The’ is used to refer to a specific or particular member of a group. For example, "I just saw the most popular movie of the year." There are many movies, but only one particular movie is the most popular. Therefore, we use ‘the.’ "A/an" is used to refer to a non-specific or non-particular member of the group. For example, "I would like to go see a movie." Here, we're not talking about a specific movie. We're talking about any movie. There are many movies, and I want to see any movie. I don't have a specific one in mind. indefinite articles: a & an "A" and "an" signal that the noun modified is indefinite, referring to any member of a group. For example: • "My daughter really wants a dog for Christmas." This refers to any dog. We don't know which dog because we haven't found the dog yet. • "Somebody call a policeman!" This refers to any policeman. We don't need a specific policeman; we need any policeman who is available. • "When I was at the zoo, I saw an elephant!" Here, we're talking about a single, non-specific thing, in this case an elephant. Usages of a and an • a + singular noun beginning with a consonant: a
boy; a car; a bike; a zoo; a dog • an + singular noun beginning with a vowel: an elephant; an egg; an apple; an idiot; an orphan Exception depending on Sound • For e.g. a user (sounds like 'yoo-zer,' i.e. begins with a consonant 'y' sound, so 'a' is used); a university; a unicycle, a European country • an + nouns starting with silent "h": an hour These rules apply is when acronyms start with consonant letters but have vowel sounds: For e.g. An MA (master of arts) student was used to record the data. An SPCC plan (Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures plan) will help us prepare for the worst. Here both MA and SPCC, both begin with ‘E’ sound. But a US Visa since it begins with a consonant 'y' sound. Remember, too, that in English, the indefinite articles are used to indicate membership in a group: • I am a teacher. (I am a member of a large group known as teachers.) • Brian is an Irishman. (Brian is a member of the people known as Irish.) • Seiko is a practicing Buddhist. (Seiko is a member of the group of people known as Buddhists.) Definite article: the The definite article is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is specific or particular. The signals that the noun is definite, that it refers to a particular member of a group. For example: "The dog that bit me ran away." Here, we're talking about a specific dog, the dog that bit me. "I was happy to see the policeman who saved my cat!" Here, we're talking about a particular policeman. Even if we don't know the policeman's name, it's still a particular policeman because it is the one who saved the cat. "I saw the elephant at the zoo." Here, we're talking about a specific noun. Probably there is only one ele-
phant at the zoo. Countable (count) and non-countable (non count) nouns 'The' can be used with non-countable nouns (refer to something that cannot be counted) or the article can be omitted entirely. • "I love to sail over the water" (some specific body of water) or "I love to sail over water" (any water). • "He spilled the milk all over the floor" (some specific milk, perhaps the milk you bought earlier that day) or "He spilled milk all over the floor" (any milk).
Hebrides, or the Canary Islands Do use the before: • names of rivers, oceans and seas: the Nile, the Pacific • points on the globe: the Equator, the North Pole • geographical areas: the Middle East, the West • deserts, forests, gulfs, and peninsulas: the Sahara, the Persian Gulf, the Black Forest,the Iberian Peninsula
'A/an' can be used only with countable nouns (refer to something that can be counted) Omission of articles • "I need a bottle of water." Some common types of nouns that don't take an ar• "I need a new glass of milk." ticle are: Most of the time, you can't say, "She wants a water," • Names of languages and nationalities: Chinese, unless you're implying, say, a bottle of water. English, Spanish, Russian (unless you are referring There are some specific rules for using ‘the’ with geoto the population of the nation: "The Spanish are graphical nouns. known for their warm hospitality.") • Names of sports: volleyball, hockey, baseball Do not use the before: • Names of academic subjects: mathematics, biol• names of most countries/territories: Italy, Mexico, ogy, history, computer science Bolivia; however, the Netherlands, the Dominican Source: Paul Lynch, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University Republic, the Philippines, the United States (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/) • names of cities, towns, or states: Seoul, Manitoba, Miami • names of streets: Washington Blvd., Main St. • names of lakes and bays: Lake Titicaca, Lake Erie except with a group of lakes like the Great Lakes • names of mountains: Mount Everest, Mount Fuji except with ranges of mountains likethe Andes or the Rockies or unusual names like the Matterhorn • names of continents (Asia, Europe) • names of islands (Easter Island, Maui, Key West) except with island chains like theAleutians, the
Quiz #12
know Your Districts: Phek takhi, Sükrünye, Tsükhenye, Yemshe and Yikhenye. Vital Statistics: An official Census 2011, Phek, had population of 163,418 of which male and female were 83,743 and 79,675 respectively and constitutes 8.26% of the State population. This translates its density of population (person per kilometer) at 81. The district has sex ratio (female population per 1000 males) of 951 female per. The overall literacy rate of the district was at 78.05% with 83.66% for male and 72.21% for female. Location: Covering an area of 2026 sq. km, Phek The district has 117 villages in are all inhabited. It has is located at the South-eastern part of Nagaland. It is two statutory towns, namely, Phek Town and Pfutsero Town. bounded by Myanmar in the East, Zunheboto and Phek town came into existence during the time of 1981 CenTuensang districts in the North, Manipur state in the sus while Pfutsero Town came up only after 2001 Census. South and Kohima district in the West. In terms of area, Administration: The district is looked after by a Depit represents 12.22 per cent of the total area of the state uty Commissioner under whom there are 14 Administraof Nagaland (16,579 sq.km) and occupies the second tive Circles each headed by either an Additional Deputy place among the eleven districts of the state. Commissioner/ Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil) or an Extra Phek was one of the sub-divisions under Kohima Assistant Commissioner. district till 1973. The Government of Nagaland apThe present names of the Administrative Circles are: proved Phek to be a separate and full fledge district vide Sekruzu, Phek Sadar, Khuza, Meluri, Phor, Phokhungri, Chozuba, Chetheba, Sakraba, Pfutsero, Zuketsa, khezhakeno, Chizami and Razieba. The district has 7 police stations and 2 police outpost. The police stations are Phek PS; Pfutsero PS; Meluri PS; Chazouba PS; Chizami PS; Khezhakeno PS; and Wazeho PS. Chetheba Police Outpost and Sekruzu Police Outpost are the two outposts. Flora and Fauna: Phek is blessed with evergreen subtropical and temperate coniferous forests which support a myriad of flora and fauna. There are three important rivers namely Tizü, Lhanye, Sedzü, Tsüsürü and Rüleri. The three important mountain lakes called Shilloi, Chida and Dzudü while Kapamodzu and Zanibou are important hills. The Geological Survey of Nagaland reports that there is one million tonnes of reserved limestone at Wazeho, decorative and dimensional stones, coal in Akhegwo, Yesi, and Molen. Brine is also found in Meluri sub-division in the district. This locally baked salt, as per medical experts, are goiter free and good for health). Crystalline limestone is also to be found in Moke and Satuza. The State's only Cement factory is in Wazeho, under Meluri sub-division. Did you know? • The Village Development Board (VDB) was initiated in Kütsapo Village in 1976 and implemented throughout the state in 1980. • Shilloi lake believe to be an ‘abode of the spirits’ is shaped in the form of a footprint. A “Book Fair”was organized by the Department of English, Unity College,inside the college campus on 7June 7. Renowned • Pfütsero located at an altitude of 2133.6 M above sea writer, EasterineKire took part in the event where she also signed autographs. A large number of books on different subjects level is considered the coldest place in Nagaland. and topics were put up for sale where hundreds of students and faculty members availed this unique opportunity. Notification No. APA 15/12/71 (HQ) dated 19th December, 1973. History and People: Phek is derived from the word "Phekrekedze" meaning watch tower. It is inhabited by the Chakhesangs and Pochurys. According to Phek District Human Development Report (2011), there are at least five main linguistic group in the district, namely the Chokri, Khezha and Pochury, Poumai and Sumi. The word "Chakhesang" is an amalgamation of the names of three sub-tribes - "cha" from "Chokri", "khe" from "Khezha (Kuzha)" and "Sang" from "Sangtam.” Many stories regarding the early stages of migration of the Nagas points to Khezhakenoma village which falls under one of the administrative circles of this district. It is said that Khezhakenoma is the dispersing place for further migration of the Amgami, Lotha, Sema, Chakhesang and Rengma tribe. Some of the significant festival of the district includes Ebuchüketomye, Enonye, Erünye, Kaputenyr, Nazhu, Sa-
PartiCiPate & win 1. which of the following countries has recently joined the Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC), a global initiative to prevent ballistic missile proliferation? [A] Palestine [B] Israel [C] India [D] Iran 2. according to a recent United nations report, how much money did criminal gangs earn in 2015 through illegal logging, mining, poaching, and other environmentally destructive trade? [A] $258 Billion [B] $257 Billion [C] $256 Billion [D] $255 Billion 3. which town in nagaland was recently declared as ‘plastic free, smoking free & eco-friendly’ zone? [A] Kohima [B] Mokokchung [C] Peren [D] Phek 4. novak Djokovic won his first French Open title this year completing a career Grand Slam and becoming the first man since rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams at once. How many Grand Slam titles has he won so far? [A] 10 [B] 11 [C] 12 [D] 13 5. which college in nagaland is celebrating its golden jubilee this year? [A] Dimapur Government College [B] Kohima Government College [C] Fazl Ali College [D] Wangkhao College Send in your answers to morunglearning@gmail.com or WhatsApp @ 8794005039/7085976283 Answers to Quiz#11 1.c 2.A 3. d 4.c 5.b Winner of last week’s contest: Dzuveyi Tetseo, duncan basti, dimapur consolation prizes: Shiluti, Medziphema & Thungcheo, dimapur First Prize- Rs. 300 + T-Shirt Two consolations – Rs. 100 + T-Shirt each Winners may collect the prize money from The Morung Express Office, H/No.4 Duncan Basti, Dimapur T-Shirt to be collected from G-Sports, Shop No 11, Joyce complex, 2nd Gate, chumukedima *Winners should bring along a valid Id to claim the prizes
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Our lives in Nagaland are strongly centred round society - the way it thinks, behaves, and functions. Besides our distinct tradition and culture, for many, the church is one of the institutions that plays a major role in creating the ideal society we wish to live in. We take a moment this week to reflect on the kind of society we have created for ourselves as the Church. What are the existing problems, how can we improve and what are our roles to be a positive change maker in our society?
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any churches: small, big, and mega churches, have been sprouting up in Nagaland. Most of these mega churches are led by missionaries and charismatic leaders and usually have a large number of people attending services that makes one feel good. The church is the lifeline of any society. It is a unique place that should instil a change in people’s lives. To understand why we gather each week, it is pertinent to ask what purposes and functions the churches have. How far are churches and religious organisations maintaining a positive social influence? In the world today more and more children are growing up in broken homes. Life is hard for single mothers. Alcoholics and drug-users are seen with prejudice. Corruption and crimes are on the rise. Human rights are being denied and there’s no justice for the poor. Many church goers are struggling to make ends meet in their everyday lives, and we feel the pang of reality just like everyone else. Does the church have any role to play at these drastic times?
-Thungdeno Humtsoe, HoD, Department of Sociology I remember a sermon conveyed by a pastor in a Sunday service. It was about demonstrating the greatest lesson of meeting the people’s needs when the Messiah fed the 4000 gathered to hear Him speak. Jesus showed by his deeds the church’s purpose and function. He gave us the blueprint for successfully meeting the needs of the people. Jesus did not just preach, he fed those who were hungry. Both the physical food and the spiritual food was imparted. Both their physical and spiritual needs were met. It is important to show by action rather than by empty words. Every community has its lost sinners who need to be recovered, has its downtrodden who need to be lifted up, and has its poor who need to be helped. The church is here to offer help and service, and to change the community. Our service is our action, and our actions form our service. Thus, the church has an active role to play in the community, lifting Christ up to a lost and dying world, preach His word, and most importantly, demonstrate true Christianity through their service to the needy. The church is responsible
for the community’s welfare. Churches are a public service to surrounding communities. I am not advocating that each church should have the expertise and know how to deal with all kinds of situations. However, the church should have access to resources needful to guide an individual in the proper direction. It should be able to meet the needs of the community because let’s face it, the church is truly about people. The problem for the church today is just what it has always been- reconciling the just aspect of Christian duty with a sense of evangelistic mission. Typically, churches are reluctant towards involvement in civic affairs and are timid regarding issues of societal change. While religion makes a much-needed contribution to society, sometimes it focuses on benefits towards the advantaged or the ’haves’ and against the oppressed or the ’havenots’. This I believe is contrary to the Biblical examples. The church should not discriminate. The Bible does not provide us a choice between offering the gospel, and lifting the burden of oppression, as if the two activities have a separate agenda.
Are we attempting to reach out to the world while ignoring our own people and community? Are we genuinely concerned for humanity? Let’s open the doors of our hearts to those around us so that others may see through our deeds the love of Jesus Christ, and glorify God. This should be the primary role of the church in our society- helping without discrimination. In the world, many people are seeking the truth, love and integrity. They do not know where to find it. They have not been able to find truth and love in the church as expected, in the representatives of Christianity, and in the parts of the community where they lived. The church must distance itself from the social system which harbours injustice and prejudice if it expects to hold on to the vitality, power of Christ, and the gospel He preached. The church began with an active role which should not die out today. It is inconceivable that any institution as financially strong as the church should exist without some role to play, some duties to perform, and some mission to accomplish.
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INDIA
THE MORUNG EXPRESS
India clears final hurdle to join Missile Technology Control Regime, diplomats say NEW DELHI, JuNE 7 (REutERs): The members of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a key anti-proliferation grouping, have agreed to admit India, diplomats said, in a win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he meets President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday. Diplomats with direct knowledge of the matter said a deadline for members of the 34-nation group to object to India's admission had expired on Monday without any of them raising objections. Under this so-called 'silent procedure', India's admission follows automatically, diplomats from four MTCR member nations told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Obama was expected to say he was looking forward to India's "imminent entry" into the MTCR when the two leaders address the press after their seventh bilateral meeting, sources aware of its agenda said. Admission to the MTCR would open the way for India to buy high-end missile technology, also making more realistic its aspiration to buy state-of-the-art surveillance drones such as the U.S. Predator, made by General Atomics.
ARMS EXPORTER India also makes a supersonic cruise missile, the Brahmos, in a joint venture with Russia that both countries hope to sell to third countries - a development that would make India a significant arms exporter for the first time. Membership of the MTCR would require India to comply with rules - such as a maximum missile range of 300 km (186 miles) - that seek to prevent arms races from developing. Italy had earlier objected to admitting India but, after an unrelated bilateral dispute was resolved, did not object this time within a 10-day deadline after the group's chair, the Netherlands, wrote to members suggesting India be welcomed. An Italian marine, held for four years at the country's embassy in New Delhi over the killing of two Indian fishermen in an anti-piracy operation in 2012, was recently allowed to return home. No formal meeting is required for India to complete its entry into the missile control group, which was set up in 1987 to limit the spread of unmanned systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
US backs India's bid for NSG membership
WasHINgtoN, JuNE 7 (PtI): Backing India's bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the US has said by becoming the member of the elite grouping the country would be in a stronger position to be a "good citizen" on proliferation- related issues. "Having gone down the path of the civil nuclear agreement with India, and having invested a significant amount of time in building up our cooperation with India as it relates to nuclear security," Deputy National Security Advisor Benjamin Rhodes told a Washington audience. Rhodes remarks on India came in response to a question about why some countries like China are opposing India's membership in the 48-member NSG. He said the US believed that engaging India and trying to bring it into international processes will be more effective in promoting the country's security protocols.
US returns ancient artefacts
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, US on June 6. (REUTERS Photo)
The MTCR is one of four international nonproliferation regimes that India - which in recent decades has gone from being a non-aligned outsider to a rising nuclear-weapons power - has been excluded from. New Delhi has also applied to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a
25 Indian students asked to leave US univ WasHINgtoN, JuNE 7 (IaNs): At least 25 Indian students in their first semester of computer sciences programme at Western Kentucky University have been asked to return to India or find placement in other schools, because they did not meet the admission standards of the varsity, The New York Times said on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a US visit. Some 60 Indian students were enrolled for the programme in January this year and the university was said to have used international recruiters to enrol them. James Gary, the chairman of Western Kentucky's computer science programme, told the Times that "almost 40" of the students did not meet the requirements of their admissions, even though they were offered remedial help by the university. Gary said permitting the students to continue would "be throwing good money after bad" because they were unable to write computer programmes, a necessary part of the curriculum. The university in a statement said it had altered its international recruitment efforts in India. The school will also send members of the computer science faculty to India to meet with students before offers of admission are made in the future.
20% Indian youth suffer from hypertension NEW DELHI, JuNE 7 (IaNs): Over 20 per cent of Indian youth suffer from hypertension problems due to their sedentary lifestyle, experts have said. The experts warned that hypertension and other complications were also leading to brain haemorrhage. "Most of the young working population face health problems due to anxiety, stress and the usual 'hurry' that prevails in their day-to-day life," said A. Muruganathan, President of the Hypertension Society of India. "Changed lifestyle, attitude, behaviour, erratic food habits, smoking, alcohol consumption and pollution lead to lifestyle diseases such as hypertension." According to Muruganathan, abdomen obesity was another major cause of hypertension. Hypertension is a major cause of cardiovascular problems in India which leads to 1.1 million deaths (uncertainty index 0.9-1.3 million) annually. Working youth hardly get time to exercise and to have proper diet which leads to hypertension. Diabetes is a common disease among youth in 20s and 30s age group. A sedentary lifestyle only exacerbates the situation, S.S. Das, head of critical care and cardiology at the Kolkata-based Mercy Hospital, told IANS.
48-nation club that governs trade in commercial nuclear technology and was originally set up in response to India's first atomic weapons test in 1974. Joining the NSG will be much more difficult because China is a member and has backed the membership aspirations of Pakistan, its ally and In-
dia's arch-rival. Still, the breakthrough on the MTCR will be welcomed in the U.S. Congress, which Modi will address on Wednesday. Congress ratified a civilian nuclear agreement with India in 2008 that seeks to build commercial ties, while at the same time binding New Delhi into
the global security order. Ahead of the summit, U.S.-based nuclear reactor maker Westinghouse, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp, has made progress towards a deal to build six reactors in Andhra Pradesh. A deal, if completed, would be the first to stem from the civil nuclear accord.
Smart Cities idea is wrong: Mamata KoLKata, JuNE 7 (IaNs): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the idea of Smart Cities is wrong. "Smart Cities idea is wrong and its theory is also wrong. "Under the Smart Cities mission, state governments will need to contribute Rs 500 crore in five years, i.e., Rs 100 crore in every year while central government will spend Rs 100 crore a year for five years. This is to be spent for setting up a building with A to Z facilities, not the entire area or the city. What about other areas or cities?" she asked. "It would be better not to spend Rs 500 crore. Instead, we can do much more if the money is with us," she said. Felicitated by all the leading business chambers on Tuesday, Banerjee urged busi-
nessmen not to be afraid while implementing development projects and advised them to take legal action if local 'agency' creates disturbances for various political reasons. "6 cities in Bengal are ready. These will be over the smart cities project. We have land banks, land map and land use pattern urging businessmen to take up projects," she said. "Please tell us what is easy and what is not. There is no point wasting time for preparing detailed project reports and follow the tendering process," she told the captains of industry. She also asked why the CREDAI (Confederation Of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India) was not taking up projects and why was it so silent.
UP sets up judicial panel to probe Mathura violence LucKNoW, JuNE 7 (IaNs): Facing flak for the inept handling of an anti-encroachment drive in Mathura by civil and police officials, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday ordered a judicial probe into the Jawaharbagh violence in the town. A one-man commission headed by the Allahabad High Court's retired Justice Mirza Imtiaz Murtaza has been set up following the decision, an official spokesman said. With the judicial probe, the ongoing investigation by the Aligarh District Commissioner into the Mathura violence has been scrapped. The judicial commission, which will have
its headquarters at Lucknow, has been asked to complete the probe vis-a-vis six broad points within two months and submit its findings to the state government. The commission will probe the reasons and circumstances leading to the violence in which 29 people, including two police officers, died. The panel will also look into the role of police and administrative officials and intelligence-gathering prior to the eviction of members of Swadheen Bharat Vidhik Satyagrahi from the public park in Mathura. The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Mathura violence.
WasHINgtoN, JuNE 7 (IaNs): From a bronze Ganesh to a Jain figure of Bahubali, the US has returned more than 200 pieces of rare cultural artefacts to India during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi expressed his gratitude for the return of the ancient artefacts during a ceremony on Monday night here. "Usually it's the present that brings nations together, but sometimes it's the heritage that brings two nations closer. Over the past two years, various countries have endeavoured to return India's stolen cultural heritage," said Modi who arrived in the US on Monday. Earlier, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup in Twitter posted along with pictures of the artefacts: "From a bronze Ganesh to a Jain figure of Bahubali, here are pics of some of the returned cultural artefacts." During her address at ceremony of Repatriation of Cultural Property, US Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said: "Today (Monday) we begin the process of returning more than 200 stolen cultural objects back to India.
SIT begins probe in Bihar exam scam
PatNa, JuNE 7 (IaNs): A Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Tuesday formally begun its probe into a scam involving the toppers in the 12th Board examination in Bihar. A case has been registered against these students, police said. "An SIT team has interrogated Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad, and seized some computers and hard disks," police said. "Experts will examine the computers and the hard disks to collect more information on the results of Class 12 Science and Arts examinations," an official said. According to a senior police official, preliminary investigation by the SIT suggested irregularities in the results of the toppers in the Science and Arts examinations. "Their original answer sheets have been changed with separate pages pasted containing answers," the official said. The case against the students was registered on Tuesday after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered that an FIR be lodged and the matter
be investigated. Confirming the development, Kotwali police station in-charge Ramsh Prasad Singh said: "Education department official Rajeev Ranjan Prasad Singh has lodged a case in the Kotwali police station in this connection." The case has been filed against Science toppers Saurabh Sreshtha, third topper Rahul Kumar and Arts topper Rubi Rai. All three are students of VR College. The case has been registered under sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. Meanwhile, an SIT team visited Vaishali district to interrogate the student who topped in Science examination. The development comes after the state government on Monday dissolved a committee constituted by BSEB to probe into alleged irregularities. The BSEB on Saturday had cancelled the results of the first and third toppers in the Science stream as both failed in their re-test, but decided to give another chance to the Arts topper to appear for a re-test on June 11.
Forest fires and logging threaten progress on climate goals Athar Parvaiz Thomson Reuters Foundation
Since the end of April, fires in parts of India's northern states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have destroyed or damaged 26,000 hectares of forests, and killed three people, officials say. The forest fires, touched off by timber smugglers, poachers and farmers, have been a particular problem this year as a result of high temperatures and low rainfall, experts say. Nationwide, the country is losing an average of a million hectares to fires each year, according to a 2014 report from the government's National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM). The losses, combined with those from surging illegal logging, mean India has lost 2,511 square kilometres of dense and moderately dense forest since 2013, according to the Environment Ministry's 2015 Forest Survey of India report. That loss is a significant
Bamboo logs are transported down the river Howrah near Chakmaghat village in Tripura. (REUTERS File Photo)
worry for a country trying to dramatically reduce its climate-changing emissions. As part of pledges made toward a new global deal to curb climate change, agreed in Paris in December, India has said it will increase its ability to store carbon in forests and land by up to 3 billion tons by 2030. But criminal activity, extreme weather and
flawed data all stand in the way of India's quest to go greener, experts say, and the problem in Uttarakhand illustrates how hard achieving those goals may be. NO ACCIDENTAL FIRES Experts and forest officials in Uttarakhand say that whenever drought settles in, the number of forest fires rises exponentially.
"Abnormally high temperatures for two consecutive years and low precipitation have made Uttarakhand's forest moisture deficient, thereby turning it into a tinderbox," said B.P. Gupta, a forest fire officer in Uttarakhand. Daytime temperatures from October to May were about 2 degrees Celsius higher than normal on 70 percent of days, said Bi-
kram Singh, the state's director of meteorology. The region also had below-average rainfall in 2014 and 2015, he said. With conditions perfect for setting forests ablaze, timber smugglers hoping to cover their tracks, poachers looking to drive out animals and farmers hoping to clear new ground see an opportunity. "There is no such thing as accidental fire," said Manoj Chandran, additional secretary for forest and social welfare in Uttarakhand. Almost all the fires are man-made, he said. "Sometimes timber smugglers (start fires) to wipe away evidence of treefelling. Contractors who don't get contracts for resin extraction also set parts of forests on fire out of jealousy," he said. Other culprits include farmers trying to extend their fields into forest areas, said Harsh Bhardan Naithani of the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun. According to the Na-
tional Institute of Disaster Management report, people today illegally occupy around 1.5 million hectares of forest land for agricultural purposes. The farmers often set fire to fallen pine needles to make the ground less slippery and encourage the growth of grass for their cattle, Naithani said. The Uttarakhand forestry department has 1,100 fire stations across the state, each manned by five or six fire fighters trained in spotting and stopping fires, said Jai Raj, the principal chief conservator of forests. About 12,000 village committees also help douse fires when they are discovered, he said. Even so, few suspects are ever caught. "It is difficult to identify the culprits and file cases against them because they run away from the scene," Raj said. "But we conduct inquiries and sometimes we get clues about the culprits that help us identify them." So far this year, the department has launched 10 court cases against people
alleged to have started fires. quite misleading," he said. Forest Survey of India MISLEADING MAPS? (FRI) authorities contend Lack of accurate data that their surveys are acis another problem in pro- curate. tecting India's forests, said "FRI prepares its forestShakil Romshoo, head of cover reports by comparing the Earth Sciences Depart- remote sensing images with ment of Kashmir Univer- ground sampling," said Musity. He believes that, at the kul Trivedi, the FRI's co-dimoment, inaccurate data rector of forest surveys. He diminishes the sense of ur- said the department's forest gency to tackle the issue. surveys are more than 90 "If you go by the maps percent accurate. and statistics of the ForBut continuing losses of est Survey of India, you forest are clear, Romshoo are given to understand said. If the country hopes to that forest cover in India is achieve its carbon storage increasing," he said. "But goals, it has to focus both we have observed that the on stopping the destruction technique used for this es- of its forests and replacing timation is flawed because what has already been lost. it doesn't make the distincIn a study published tion between less dense in Geocarto International and dense forests." in May, Romshoo and coAccording to Romshoo, authors calculated that, bethe technique used for for- tween 1980 and 2005, the est surveys in India doesn't Lidder forests of Indianrecord the illegal felling of administered Kashmir lost trees which has thinned around half a megaton of carout - but not completely bon stocks due to deforestadestroyed - many forests tion and forest degradation. across the country. "India needs to under"Since there are some take massive afforestation trees there, the survey programmes, (given) the maps treat them as forests, way forest cover in India is which make these surveys diminishing," he said.
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Presidents, billionaires drive battle against Africa’s deadliest creature ARUSHA, JUne 7 (THomSon ReUTeRS FoUndATion): Jakaya Kikwete, the former president of Tanzania, recalled arriving at his cousin’s house to find the family arguing about taking their feverish teenage daughter to hospital. “They were saying: ‘No, no, no, it’s not malaria’,” he said, describing how the family had sought advice from a traditional medicine man who said a jinni, or spirit, had invaded her body. “They said: ‘If you take this girl to the hospital, if she gets an injection, then that jinni (spirit)... will... suck all her blood’,” Kikwete said. Ignoring their protests, he took the girl to hospital but it was too late. She died from malaria. Kikwete, who also lost his brother to malaria as a child, is committed to eradicating the disease, which killed an estimated 438,000 people globally in 2015 - making the mosquito, which transmits it, the world’s deadliest creature. He and his wife even appear in television adverts, urging Tanzanians to prepare their bednets before they sleep. “We are looking at 2040
in Africa have fallen by 66 per cent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The most important investment was the roll out of one billion free bednets. Some 68 percent of malaria cases prevented since 2000 were stopped by these bednets, according to a study by the University of Oxford. Money was also poured into improved diagnostic tests, better drugs, indoor spraying with insecticide and educating the public to use these tools - rather than blaming witchcraft or buying medication blindly over the counter every time they got a fever. Workers look for holes in mosquito netting at the A to Z Textile Mills factory producing insecticide-treated bednets in Arusha, Tanzania on May 10. (REUTERS File Photo)
as the most probable date for a malaria-free Africa,” Kikwete, who stepped down as president in November, told reporters at a recent dinner in Dar es Salaam. “If we continue with the interventions that we have been doing here relentlessly, we should be able to get there.”
was seen as prohibitively complicated and expensive, despite success in eradicating the disease in the 1950s in parts of Europe, North America and the Caribbean. The “e-word” has been revived in recent years, with support from the world’s richest couple Bill and Melinda Gates and U.S. President Barack Obama, THE “E-WORD” who called malaria a “morGlobal plans to elimi- al outrage”. nate malaria were abanBill Gates, who Kikwete doned in 1969 as the goal describes as a “good friend”,
aims to eradicate malaria by 2040 and has called for a doubling of funding by 2025. His goal of permanently ending transmission of the disease between humans and mosquitoes is more ambitious than the Sustainable Development Goal of ending epidemic levels of malaria by 2030. Spending on malaria, mostly by the United States, surged to $2.7 billion in 2015 from $130 million in 2000, while death rates
EVERYTHING IS FREE In the Tanzanian town of Arusha, overlooked by the dormant volcano Mount Meru, donor-funded bednets and free tests and medicines have made a significant impact. In a country with a powerful faith in witchcraft and traditional medicine, health officials have worked hard to persuade people to adopt proven methods of preventing and treating the disease. “There are very few cases of malaria nowadays,” said Pius Dallos, the officer in charge of Kijenge Dis-
pensary, where women sat on wooden benches, cradling their babies. “Previously... if you didn’t have money, you could die from malaria. But nowadays, everything is free.” But donors’ ability to maintain - and increase funding is by no means certain given sluggish global growth and uncertainties over U.S. funding under a new administration. “The political will to go that final mile may be hard to sustain because it will remain expensive until the end,” Dyann Wirth, a tropical disease expert at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “It’s a question of priority.” It is unlikely that Africa, which accounted for nine out of 10 of the 214 million cases of malaria in 2015, according to the WHO, could foot the bill itself. On the edge of Arusha, Africa’s largest bednet manufacturer, A to Z Textile Mills, has been the main source of 50 million free bednets given to Tanzanians between 2009 to 2016. Giant, noisy warehouses produce insecticidetreated fibres which are wo-
ven into round and square blue bednets. Women in green T-shirts work in fastmoving pairs, folding and cutting panels ready for stitching. Donor funding drives production of the muchneeded nets, as many ordinary Tanzanians cannot afford them. “Demand is not driven by the need (but) by the funding,” said factory director Kalpesh Shah, sitting in front of framed photographs of visits by celebrity campaigners like Bono and Will Smith on the boardroom wall. Commercial customers account for less than one percent of sales, he said. The Gates-funded Global Fund To Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria is their main buyer, followed by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative. “The question of sustainability is on everyone’s mind,” said Daniel Moore, acting mission director for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Tanzania. “Right now, we are carrying the load.”
casts a shadow over the latest campaign. As mosquitoes and parasites developed resistance to insecticides and drugs in the 1960s, malaria rebounded in countries like Sri Lanka where once it had been virtually eliminated. Resistance is becoming a major problem again. But greater efforts are being made to invest in new products that will keep humans one step ahead of evolution. New tools are also required to eliminate the parasite from ‘asymptomatic carriers’ - people with a few parasites in their blood who don’t fall sick but can act as reservoir and spread the disease when they get bitten again by mosquitoes. As the number of malaria cases falls, it will become harder to maintain the momentum among donors, governments and ordinary people in endemic regions. “Without the long term investment of funds and the political commitment to continue the fight, we risk wasting the entire investment,” said Wirth. RISK “We are going to go The failure of the global back to the situation where eradication programme we are losing one million that began in the 1950s children a year in Africa.”
Refugees say Islamic State uses food to enlist fighters
Japanese boy left in forest was crying so hard, he walked the wrong way: media
Seven-year-old Yamato Tanooka, who was found by authorities in the woods nearly a week after his parents abandoned him for disciplinary reasons, waves as he leaves a hospital in Hakodate on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on June 7. (REUTERS Photo)
ToKYo, JUne 7 (ReUTeRS): The seven-yearold Japanese boy abandoned in a forest by his parents for being naughty meant to follow his parents’ car but was crying so hard he went the wrong way, a newspaper said. Feeling that the woods were “scary”, Yamato Tanooka kept walking along the road even after the sun set, eventually arriving at a military base where he
found an unlocked building and slipped in. The massive search for Yamato Tanooka, after his parents left him by the side of a road in northern Japan as discipline for throwing stones at cars, kept Japan riveted for nearly a week until his discovery on a Japanese military base. It prompted a flood of social media comment, much of it critical of the parents, but police said on
Monday that they would not file charges. The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said on Monday he was sobbing so hard he took the wrong direction. “I walked for about 5 hours, I think,” Yamato was quoted as saying. After finding the building, “I was cold so I went inside to sleep.” Wearing a baseball cap and holding a paper baseball, Yamato waved at journalists and well wishers gathered in front of the hospital on Tuesday. Asked how he was feeling, the boy said: “I’m all right.” He added that he was looking forward to getting back to school as his father took his hand and led him to a car. Yamato said he stayed in the unlocked building for the next six days with no food, although he drank water from an outdoor tap. Although he heard search helicopters flying overhead, he decided to stay where he was and await discovery, media said.
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“Flour, rice and cooking oil were no longer available at an affordable price.” A 50 kg (110 lb) sack of flour cost 500,000 dinars ($428.45), almost half an average Iraqi employee’s month salary. Abadi ordered the offensive on Falluja, which lies 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, after a series of bombings claimed by Islamic State hit Shi’ite
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GARmA, JUne 7 (ReUTeRS): Iraqis who fled Islamic State-held Falluja as government and allied forces advanced on the city said they had survived on stale dates and the militants were using food to enlist fighters whose relatives were going hungry. The ultra-hardline Sunni fighters have kept a close guard on food storage in the besieged city near Baghdad that they captured in January 2014, six months before they declared a caliphate across large parts of Iraq and Syria. The militants visited families regularly after food ran short with offers of supplies for those who enlisted, said 23-year-old Hanaa Mahdi Fayadh from Sijir on the northeastern outskirts of Falluja. “They told our neighbour they would give him a sack of flour if his son joined them; he refused and when they had gone, he fled with his family,” she said. “We left because there was no food or wood to make fires, besides, the shelling was very close to our house.”
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wednesdAY 08•06•2016
nagaland
THE MORUNG EXPRESS
public discourse
rebalancing our Future
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In commemoration of World Environment Day, the National Service Scheme (NSS) in collaboration with Eco & Beautification Club of Dimapur Government College organised a tree plantation programme and mass social work in and around the college campus on June 4.
Loyem Memorial Degree College and Third Eye Computer Institute, Tuensang centre jointly observed World Environment Day on June 5 under the theme, ‘Join the race to make the world a better place.’ The students and teachers conducted cleanliness as well as plantation drive in and around the college campus.
The student volunteers of NSS Unit, Mount Olive College Kohima with their Programme Officers and teachers observed World Environment Day on June 4 by planting trees at Cradle Ridge, Sethogei.
Members of NPF Women Wing, Phek with MLA Kuzholuzo Nienu during the cleanliness drive organised at its divisional office in Phek by the Women Wing on Saturday, June 4, 2016.
ecades of American strategic designing and military participation in Iraq, Afghanistan, political cooperation or collision with other Near and Middle East countries and a specially attached interest to Europe has presented a golden but unanticipated opportunity to aggressively emerging China to develop and re-orient its interest in vast expanse of South China Sea and its peripheries, said to house huge reserves of hydrocarbons besides minerals of manifold variants. Obama administration has lately realized this mono-threat which has forced the nation’s foreign policy to redirect and radically redefine its strategic interest to East Asia popularly known as “rebalancing American interest” as the phenomenal development and growth of China has not only disturbed America but also its partner states. Human is naturally flawed in judgment and vision by essence, either in temporal or in perpetual, while responding to the call of duty that we are fated. Civilisations stretching ages of time had both theoretically and pragmatically attested to this historicity and subsequent remedial measures were adopted so as to correct the wrongs. In many societies, the question of contesting a flawed policy is a major causal factor for conflict of interest where state, semi-state and non-state actors equally participate to vouch for authenticity and upholding of what is generally held ultimate truth and a due right of the people. A situation presents that a legal battle between the Naga Mothers’ Association and the Government of Nagaland has already, long gone, landed in the country’s apex court. For a majority of layman including this writer, such is construed as an unrewarding attempt to claim a right for the better half of the state’s population. In the name of thirty-three, the majority are inadvertently rendered irrelevant. In addition to withholding of elections and schemes meant for Urban local bodies, social problems are cumulatively accumulated as our attention has shifted from challenging social vices to getting a constitutional berth in a rather an alien institution by election which necessarily revolves around conflict of ideologies, questioning of our own integrity and is technically money-powered. According to data from the Kohima Police, 126 cases of crimes committed by women were reported from the period 2004 till March 2015 which is equal to the number of crimes committed by men against women during the said period. These crimes covers wide magnitude including murder (6 cases), Arms Act (13 cases), NLTPA (14 cases), Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (39 cases), besides forgery, cheating, theft, burglary, rape, abduction, et al. The phenomenal rise in crimes committed by women and that too pairing with men on equal footing require comprehensive revision in social, political, religious and economical policies to tackle the issues. While categorically not implying that men should commit more crimes comparatively and thus women’s involvement be curbed to give way to men, yet the presence of statistically high number of women in crime scenes in a small state of Nagaland alerted a red signal and heralded a trend that would render the morality and integrity of our future generations at stake. A question thus resurface as to how women could criminally stand on parallel ground with its male counterpart yet still they bitterly engage with men in a legal fight just to get represented. Biblically speaking, when a man is married to a woman, they are but one flesh which is to signify not just being one body but to mean representing each other in church, in politics, in family, and in principle. Diving deeper to our basic Christian dogma, it is textually explained that if a wife is a minister, a husband is; if a husband is an MLA, a wife is. They, therefore, share
same responsibility and same moral obligation to advise, guide, support and offer a refined critique to each other in any forays being undertaken, including decision-making and policy formulation which directly or indirectly have an effect on our social, political, administrative, economical or even religious affairs. Thus, a fervent endeavor to bait for reservation is, for the time being, secondary. Our primary focus should therefore premise on unearthing fundamental cause, comparing and contrasting the present context and mooring for solutions to the issues highlighted as above. Not to place blame on any individual thereto, the period ranging from 80s to early 2000s is transient in nature when Naga women organisations offered stiff oppositions to possession, smuggling, transferring and abuse of alcohol, narcotics drugs or other psychoactive substances. Up to thus far, women groups have been influential in arresting social maladies with their selfless participation alongside the administration. Yet, our failure to adapt with the changing world pattern evidenced in rise in women offenders underlies our response to the challenges that changes have been dictated. The silence of the apex mothers’ body in addressing these major challenges in public platforms and at organizational level is equally saddened. Speculation is also rift that ‘private’ prostitution is escalating in key urban areas in our state. The most recent report being the arrest of a lone ‘offender’ and her nine alleged regular clients in Kohima. This portrays a situation of our current social trending wherein excessive capitalism perfectly camouflaged in social commune and welfarism. As the slogan of the previous central government of ‘mitigating poverty’ has conversely resulted in accumulation of more poverty in volume, so also our much hype claim of welfare schemes, principle of socialistic distribution and egalitarianism gave birth to asymmetrical sharing of wealth in our state. Here, a new governing class emerged whose mysterious source of income and amassment of wealth drive the already ruled to emulate them covertly. As the politically deemed legal platforms are all frequented by this new class, the marginalized section ventured in areas that are politically ruled illegal, socially tagged ostracized and morally attached to bankruptcy. Furtherance of acceptance of new social order in haste underpinned our sweeping exodus from good old traditions which escalates deterioration of our self-esteem. Respecting advices tendered by the elders, functioning within our area of operation, discharging our duties accountably, even distribution of wealth (feast of merit), holding members of the society in high regards, special protection being offered to women and children, and collective responsibility inter alia are traditional values that passed down to us inter-generationally. Our logic ruined our very stability when we agree to disagree with these values only to be sacrificed at the altar of post-modern rationalism sans real application of our reasoning power. To protect our unique social equality backed by self-evolved administration, Article 371-A has been framed and invoked. By our short-term objectives, this article is being challenged from time to time. What good will we gain cumulatively when we lose our real identity? The intensity of crimes in our state will neither be countered by how we successfully offer resistance in court of law nor by questioning the authority of both the sexes. The answer lies in our perfect coordination between the two sexes in jointly catering to a viable overall environment to our people to progress freely. This entails overhauling our existing social institution so that a more responsible citizen is nurtured and tendered at home. During its early formative years of a child, a mother is regarded as his best teacher. Moth-
ers themselves generally admit that they are in control of home management far exceeding the capabilities of their male counterpart. A child reserves special natural attachment to his mother as a result of a long friendship starting from birth to nursing to dropping and picking as a nursery student. A person’s general intelligence and academic excellence is largely stemmed from how a child is conditioned to be developed, grown and formed including feeding, catering to the needs and giving due attention. Hence, our future rest on how we play our politics – politics of mutual cooperation or politics of perpetual conflict – as navigating the right alternative would tenably set a fitting environment for our children to excel unhindered which would be equivalent to judiciously tapping of human and social capitals. From the writer’s point of view, it would render the fight of NMA more rewarding once the battle is turned against the established authority to accede to legislate spirited policy in favor of our youth, fair delivery of services, sanctioning of more maternity leave (days) in aggregate to working women as well as ethical conduct in health and services sector. Though Industrial Training Institutes were ambitiously established, dearth of machineries coupled with lack of expert faculties have defeated the very purpose of skilling the youth. The proficient sportspersons were barely incentivize while both sexes of the trainees in sport academy hostels were without separate housing facility (as hostel for boys is frequented by the ‘officials’ as indicted in the CAG report) thus depriving freedom to privacy to female sports-students. Programs for welfare of the child students (eg. Mid Day Meal Scheme), funds meant for girl-child, schemes earmarked for women development and policy relating to caring of old age demand of us a well-designed strategy to check wastage of resources meant for their development. Envisaging laws that would better protect the lactating mothers to ensure a healthy relationship between motherchild for enhance physical, mental and spiritual growth. Considering these facts, we drastically need comprehensive policies across the spectrum of key elements to inclusively revamp our contemporary social pattern that heavily lean towards relative existence. The yet-to-explore women power could have generated a force to move the government to skill our youths, improve women working conditions, legislate a workable law on abatement and mitigation of domestic violence against women. The wives even possess a godly power to force their husbands to redistribute their unaccounted wealth to reduce unequal social status. A mother can emotionally read the feelings of her unemployed son/daughter, and as such a collection of mothers can act as pressure group to the government to dutifully adhere to the existing recruitment policies. To rebalance our future is a collective responsibility. Yet as Christ Himself, on the way to Calvary, instructed the women of Jerusalem to shed tears for their people, so also our mothers’ prayer will optimistically bear a positive result for our polluted society where sharp distinction between moral and amoral is dimmed. Women’s power, when thoughtfully tapped to be used, can lay a better structure for our future as this will ensure giving our due attention, time, love and care to our children, women old-age and youth leaving less room for committing faux pas. Nonetheless, the elected members ought to create more space by accommodating views aired by the unrepresented to holistically revamp the existing system. Whereas the Americans had rightly redirected their strategic interest to East Asia, our focus is still hung on miscalculated strategy that our right effort in abatement of rising crimes as well as upholding our interest is yet to take effect. Nukhosa Chüzho, Kohima
The Lotha Naga PIL and the ‘Hue and Cry’ of unfeigned
E World Environment Day 2016 was observed by NPF Minority Wing Office at Dimapur Division office complex. Minority wing Central President Bishnu Bhattacharjee, Dimapur Division Minority incharge Aonungkum, Working President Minority Wing Mahendra Thousan, Dimpaur division (MW) Prisident Suresh Paira, VP Sanjay Dey along with Dimapur Youth Wing President Phyobemo along with Youth Wing VP Khesheto Kiho planted saplings on the occasion.
Students of Pranab Vidyapith Higher Secondary School, Dimapur pose with their posters during a programme organized to observe World Environment Day.
ver since the Lotha Hoho filed PIL as redressal of Naga common grievances in regard to NPNG Rules and Regulations and subsequent backdrop of a High Court order terming the Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas (NPNG) Rules and Regulations, 2012 as “legally questionable,” there has been a ‘hue and cry’ from Nagaland Government, Several Organizations and of late the Nagaland GBs Association, with a catch word – to settle in and through “Naga Customary Law” has caught my serious attention, hence this article to shed what I know best. What we know of “Public-Interest Litigation” (PIL) is litigation for the protection of the public interest. In Indian law, Article 32 of the Indian constitution contains a tool which directly joins the public with judiciary. Therefore, a PIL may be introduced in a court of law by the court itself (suo motu), and not only the aggrieved party or another third party. For the exercise of the court's jurisdiction, it is not necessary for the victim of the violation of his or her rights to personally approach the court. In a PIL, the right to file suit is given to a member by the courts through judicial activism. The member of the public may be a non-governmental organization (NGO), an institution or an individual. And we see that the concept of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is in consonance with the principles enshrined in Article 39A of the Constitution of India to protect and deliver prompt social justice with the help of law. I repeat – “Filing PIL is to protect and deliver prompt Social Justice with the help of Law!” Yes, PIL, the litigants can focus attention on and achieve results pertaining to larger public issues, especially in the fields of human rights, consumer welfare and environment. So, then why there is such a commotion within and without when someone is
seeking protection and Justice where the public interest is at stake, hence approach the court seeking legal remedy? Can we say an acid test of our mindset is proven to be perverted and our knowledge of right or wrong is blurred? Nagas retains her time immemorial God given wisdom of customary practices even in the time of British India and now Nagaland as one of the States in India enjoys in the form of Article 371A of the Constitution of India, (however it does not guarantee the State Government to use this Article 371A as permit to become Land Owner and to transfer of land and its resources; and exploitative benefits thereof) and shall continue to hold and practice even after an Independent Naga Country is obtained. This unique rights and practices to which the Nagas holds in great esteem as admirable qualities – the Land Holding System, cannot be done away by any authority on earth except the Nagas themselves so discards it. In line with this, the Lotha Naga sees that the NPNG Rules and Regulations framed by the Government of Nagaland on the bases of Article 371A and the assertion of Naga special right and status under the provision of Indian Constitution conveyed to the Centre by Nagaland Government is heartily acknowledged and are absolutely on the right direction. However, some of the contents in NPNG Rules and Regulations were in total conceptual separation and utterly distortion of Naga long proud customary practices, especially the Nagas traditional Land Holding System. From those facts, the Lothas raised the issue to the Government of Nagaland to address wisely and truthfully from its inception of framing of NPNG Rules and Regulations. Time and again, the Lothas with all sincerity and respectfully appealed to the Government of Nagaland
and several representations were submitted and a multiple consultative meetings between Lothas and Government were held to redress the serious issue, yet to no avail but falls to a deafand-dumb. But to everyone's surprise, Nagaland Government has so far not carried out the basic due diligence till date but determinedly bulldozing its determination. Therefore, the Lothas has no option left but to seek the help of Law to protect and deliver prompt Social Justice, hence the PIL. And they have the conviction that as long as Nagaland is in India, bona fide litigants of India have nothing to fear but to trust the Judiciary. Lothas also sincerely advocates that while the Government of Nagaland gives strong signals to the Centre that the provision of Article 371A is undeniably her power in framing any law, the Nagas Rights of Naga’s Customary Practices of Land Holding System and Ownership; and any other noble practices should not be killed. But sadly there were many instances of undeniable arbitrary consequences of their actions. And therefore, it is unacceptable and Nagas, especially the Nagaland GBs Association - the custodian of Naga Customary Law, must stand together with all truthfulness and trust to protect her natural rights without any prejudice and not otherwise.. May I conclude citing Naga Customary Hunting! When Nagas perform a community hunting for a tiger, they always take an outmost care not only in killing the tiger but protect the valorous from all sites from injury. But sadly there were a time where instances of killing the valorous by some few jealous persons who were strongly wanting the valorous’ position and takes advantages of the Valour’s possessions. May the pure wisdom of the readers prevail! Rev. Dr. L. Tsanso
Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.
Wednesday 08•06•2016
EntErtainmEnt
ABBA celebrate 50th anniversary Cartoon Network launches with first performance in 30 years Mobile App for kids
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heir music is still celebrated by people all over the world. But it has been 30 years since the members of ABBA performed together - until now. The disco group joined forces on Sunday as they celebrated the date that Björn Ulvaeus, 71, and Benny Andersson, 69, first met 50 years ago, according to Expressen. To mark five decades of friendship, the pair apparently threw a private party at Berns Salonger in downtown Stockholm. The remaining members of the group AnniFrid 'Frida' Lyngstad, 70, and Agnetha Faltskog, 66, were also at the bash. The two women are said to have dedicated a performance of their 1980 song Me and I to the men, who then decided to join them on stage and perform with them. It marked the first time the four-piece had all performed together since 1986.
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The band broke up in 1982, and were last seen together at the opening of Mamma Mia! The Party back in January. Björn and Agnetha were previously married from 1971 to 1980, while Benny and Frida also
divorced in 1980 after marrying in 1978. ABBA, who are one of the most famous and successful bands of all time, released a slew of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.
In 1974, they won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo. ABBA's songs were used as the base of jukebox musical Mamma Mia!, which debuted in 1999 and has grossed over $2billion
worldwide. In 2008, it was adapted into a movie of the same name, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper and Julie Walters. Source: MailOnline
hannel Cartoon Network has launched mobile application 'Cartoon Network Anything' a new platform to engage and entertain children. The application serves up an array of micro 10-15 second snack-sized content specifically created for mobile phones, and these can be watched by children wherever and whenever on-
the-go. The content ranges from games and videos to memes, activities, quizzes and polls, along with engaging trivia and animated gifts. The young audience will have a variety of original content like "Roll No.21", "Adventure Time", "We Bare Bears", "The Powerpuff Girls", "Uncle Grandpa", "Regular Show", "The Amazing World of
Gumball", "Teen Titans Go!" and more. "CN Anything is our initiative that brings world class entertainment for our kids on their mobile phones and tablets," Siddharth Jain, Managing Director, South Asia , Turner India , said in statement. Cartoon Network Anything is available on all iOS and Android devices for free.
Source: IANS
'MasterChef Australia' contestant to debut on Indian TV
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ormer "MasterChef Australia" contestant Sarah Todd will soon make her debut on Indian television with "Serve It Like Sarah". Featuring Todd, the show will discover new and unexplored facets of Goa including its hidden culinary treasures, read a statement. Swati Mohan, Business Head for FOX Networks Group, said: "We're very pleased to be bringing a talented chef like Sarah to FOX Life. She has a very special connection to the country and passion for these food
adventures which has been well captured in the show. The viewers are in for a visual treat and will get a glimpse of a new, off beat side of Goa." Talking about her experience during the shoot and her association with FOX Life, Todd said: "Everyone has heard of Goa, most of us have been there for the sun and sand. But there is so much more to it. Working with FOX Life, gave me an exciting opportunity to showcase my 'home-awayfrom-home' in a way that I know it.
"I have been in awe of the place from the first time I saw it and since then, kept going back to it whenever I could. Moving to Goa has been an eye opener and I believe, one can spend an entire lifetime in Goa and still be unknown to so many things." "Serve It Like Sarah" premieres on FOX Life on June 13. Source: IANS
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nurag Kashyap, one of the producers of “Udta Punjab”, has compared the ongoing censorship regarding his upcoming film “Udta Punjab” to the dictator regime of North Korea. The “Bombay Velvet” director said there is no sense of freedom here.
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“I always wondered what it felt like to live in North Korea… Ab to plane pakadney ki bhi zaroorat nahin…,” he posted on Twitter. The 43-year-old filmmaker’s tweet came after Censor Board had purportedly raised certain objections regarding references to Punjab following which the
movie may have to go through some changes. “Udta Punjab”, starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh in a pivotal role, deals with the substance abuse in Northen part of the state and its effects on the youth.
“There is no film more honest than UDTA PUNJAB… And any person or party opposing it is actually GUILTY of promoting drugs,” Kashyap added. Directed by Abhishek Chaubey, the film is slated to release on June 17.
Wasn’t a conscious decision to stay away from big screen: Ileana D’Cruz
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ctress Ileana D’Cruz, who is set to make a comeback to the silver screen after a two-year hiatus with the Akshay Kumar starrer “Rustom”, says it was not a conscious decision to stay away from showbiz. Ileana, whose last major on-screen outing was in 2014 in “Happy Ending” starring Saif Ali Khan, says she was not happy with the kind of work she was being offered. “I know it is a cliched answer,
but I didn’t like anything that was coming my way… I wasn’t really happy about the work that I was being offered,” Ileana told IANS. “… I rather not do anything than do something half-heartedly… It was not a conscious decision to stay away (from the big screen) for that much amount of time,” the “Barfi!” star added. Ileana says she wanted to do something that makes her feel good at the end of the day. “I am okay with doing commercial mov-
ies and playing a role where I am a bimbette on screen, it’s fun doing it… But after a point and after doing certain amount of films, I wanted to do something that makes me feel good at the end of the day,” she said. The “Main Tera Hero” actress says when “Rustom” came along she actually felt “that this is something that I feel great doing…” Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, “Rustom” is slated to release on August 12.
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"I found anonymity, so I could have exchanges with people on a human level and be seen and heard, not be defined by this image that precedes me when I walk into a room,” she said. “You cannot be a good storyteller if you don’t have life experiences, and you can’t relate to people." Zellweger returns to the big screen this fall in Bridget Jones’s Baby, co-starring Patrick Dempsey and Colin Firth. When the first two films were released, the actress became famous for gaining and losing pounds to play the part. But Zellweger never understood the big deal. "I put on a few pounds,” she said. “I also put on some breasts and a baby bump. Bridget is a perfectly normal weight and I’ve never understood why it matters so much. No male actor would get such scrutiny if he did the same thing for a role." Source: Yahoo News
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enée Zellweger is back! The Oscar winner took a six-year hiatus from Hollywood after her film My Own Love Song was released in 2010. Now she’s opening up in the July issue of British Vogue about why she went off the grid. “As a creative person, saying no to that wonderful once-in-a-lifetime project is hard. But I was fatigued and wasn’t taking the time I needed to recover between projects, and it caught up with me,” the actress who starred in nearly 20 movies between 2000 and 2010 told the mag. “I got sick of the sound of my own voice: it was time to go away and grow up a bit." The actress continued to make headlines after her 2011 split with Bradley Cooper and then again when she started dating musician Doyle Bramhall in 2012. But eventually the dust settled and she began to "live a normal life."
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SAntA CLArA, June 7 (AFP): A grieving Angel Di Maria was the inspiration as Argentina shrugged off the absence of Lionel Messi to defeat holders Chile 2-1 in their opening Copa America Centenario game here Monday. Paris Saint-Germain star Di Maria -- reeling from the death of his grandmother only hours earlier -- scored one goal and set up another as the two-time world champions avenged their defeat to Chile in last year's Copa America final. Di Maria opened the scoring on 51 minutes and emotionally held a Tshirt up to the sky emblazoned with the message: "Grandma, I will miss you so much." Moments later Di Maria then set up Argentina's second for Ever Banega, to complete a man-of-thematch performance. "I had to play, I wanted to play, my grandmother was so proud that I played for the national team," Di Maria said during a postmatch television interview before breaking down in tears. Argentina coach Gerardo Martino revealed afterwards Di Maria had kept his loss a secret from him. "I just learned that five minutes ago that his grandmother died," Martino said. "He didn't tell me anything, he was feeling well to play."
Argentina’s Angel Di Maria, right, holds a t-shirt that reads "Grandmother I will miss you a lot" after he scored against Chile during a Copa America Centenario Group A soccer match at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Monday, June 6. At left is Argentina’s Ever Banega. (AP Photo)
Di Maria's virtuoso display secured a deserved three points for Argentina, who will now fancy their chances of topping Group D with games against Panama and Bolivia to come. Chile substitute Jose Fuenzalida scored an injury time consolation for the holders. Injured Argentina captain Messi watched from the substitutes' bench at Levi's Stadium after failing to recover in time from a sore back suffered in a friendly win over Hondu-
ras last month. But the Barcelona superstar's absence was barely noticeable, with Nicolas Gaitan slotting into Argentina's attack and making an instant impression, hitting the woodwork with a header after only two minutes. - Slick counter-attack Argentina dominated the early exchanges before Chile, fielding the core of their victorious Copa America side, gradually grew into the game. Chile came closest to breaking the first half dead-
lock in the 30th minute, when Alexis Sanchez burst onto a layoff from Arturo Vidal to go in on goal. The Arsenal forward picked his spot and shot low but Argentine keeper Sergio Romero was equal to the challenge, saving brilliantly to deny Chile. Sanchez drew another save from Romero in a bright Chilean start to the second half but it was Argentina who opened the scoring six minutes after the break. A swift counter-attack
saw Banega release Di Maria, whose quick low shot flew past Claudio Bravo and into the bottom corner as the Chile goalkeeper struggled to get his body into position. Eight minutes later it was 2-0, Di Maria turning creator this time with a deft pass to Banega whose low shot took a slight deflection off Mauricio Isla to deceive Bravo. The game continued to have an edge with Di Maria and Gary Medel both receiving yellow cards for an off-the-ball scuffle shortly afterwards. In injury time Fuenzalida grabbed a late consolation with a headed goal from a free-kick but it was too little too late. Chile's Argentina-born coach Juan Antonio Pizzi bemoaned mistakes which cost his team goals. Twice Chile ceded possession cheaply in midfield, leading to Argentina's two goals. "The mistakes were crucial," Pizzi said. "They cost us two goals." It was Chile's third straight defeat -- but Pizzi was bullish about his team's chances of coming back. "We believe we're going to get into the next round," he said. "I know we have difficult games ahead of us, but we're going to continue working hard and we have belief to move to the next round."
India's boxer MC Mary Kom listens to her coach during a training session at Balewadi Stadium in Pune, about 190 km (118 miles) from Mumbai, March 12, 2012. (REUTERS/Files)
BenGALuru, June 7 (reuterS): The lack of an effective Indian boxing federation has damaged the competitiveness of the sport and contributed to the decline of boxing in the country, women's Olympic flyweight bronze medallist M.C. Mary Kom said on Tuesday. With no athletes representing India in women's boxing at this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kom said not enough was being done to promote the sport in the country. "There is no federation (in India)... there is no proper organised national (event) for the last twothree years. So no competition. If we have more competition every boxer will train regularly," Kom told
Reuters. "Even other categories too but now the competition is getting tougher and tougher. It's not easy to qualify," added Kom, whose life inspired a Bollywood biopic in 2014. "Even men's boxing also. Last Olympics, seven qualified, now only one. They have a last qualification. If none qualify after that then we only have one." Kom, who won India's first Olympic medal in women's boxing in London four years ago, will not be able to represent India at the Rio Games as she needed to reach the semi-finals of the world championships but lost in the second round last month. The five-times world champion's only remain-
ing hope of getting to the Olympics was through a wildcard but AIBA spokesman Nicolas Jomard said there would be no wildcards for boxing events in Rio. [nL4N18T3H1] "It is very painful. The thing about the training time, the schedule, the struggle, three-four months away from the family... So all the hard work I would say has been wasted," said Kom, who was speaking at a CP Foods launch. Last year, Kom said she wanted to retire from boxing after the Rio Olympics but the 33-year-old has not decided on her future. "I have not yet decided. Maybe the plan can change. I have not announced whether I will retire or not," Kom said.
MMA fighter Kimbo Spain prosecutors seek Ex-Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro Slice passes away Neymar corruption trial settles case against Mourinho
CorAL SPrinGS, June 7 (AP): Kimbo Slice, the bearded street fighter who parlayed his internet popularity into a mixed martial arts career and worldwide fame, has died. He was 42. Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was taken to a hospital in Margate, Florida, near his home Monday, Coral Springs Police Sgt Carla Kmiotek said. Slice’s death was confirmed by Mike Imber, his longtime manager. “We lost our brother today,” Imber said in a text message to the Associated Press. The cause of death was still unclear. Kmiotek said there is no active police investigation, and no foul play is suspected. Slice, a Bahamian-born ex-football player and strip club bouncer, began competing in unsanctioned street fights in 2003. Videos of his violent knockout victories in those bouts became wildly popular online, both for his punching power and his distinctive, intimidating appearance. He studied MMA and eventually competed in several promotions, including the UFC and Bellator, which staged his two most recent fights. Slice’s death also was confirmed by Scott Coker, the CEO of Bellator, which promoted his return to MMA last year after a five-year absence. Slice beat Dhaffir “Dada 5000” Harris with a third-round knockout at Bellator 149 in February in Houston, but the result was overturned after Slice tested positive for steroid use. Slice was scheduled to headline the Bellator 158 show in London next month in a bout against James Thompson. American Top Team, the prominent South Florida gym where Slice trained for many years, also mourned his passing. “The ATT Family and South Florida community lost a legend today,” the team said in a post on its Twitter account.
MAdrid, June 7 (AFP): Neymar could follow Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi to court after Spanish prosecutors asked for the Brazilian striker to be tried over his murky multi-million-euro transfer to the Catalan giants. Prosecutors from Spain's top criminal court accuse the 24-year-old, his father, Barca's ex-president Sandro Rosell and the club itself of concealing the true cost of his 2013 transfer deal from Brazil's Santos to FC Barcelona, a judicial source said Tuesday. If the case comes to trial, Neymar will be the second Barcelona star to take the stand after Lionel Messi appeared in court earlier this month on charges of tax fraud related to income earned from his image rights. Brazilian investment fund DIS, which held 40 percent of Neymar's sporting rights when he played at Santos, claims it was cheated of its real share of the transfer due to parallel contracts that Barcelona and Santos allegedly used to hide the total
cost. They also believe a pre-contract agreement between Neymar and Barca impeded other clubs from making offers for the player, affecting the value of the transfer fee. The deal was originally valued at 57.1 million euros ($64.9 million) by Barca, 40 million of which was paid to the N&N company owned by the player's father. Santos -- where Neymar started his career -- received 17.1 million, 6.8 million euros of which went to DIS. However, Spanish judicial authorities have estimated the number of simultaneous deals in the transfer amounted to at least 83.3 million euros -- with the difference allegedly going to Neymar and his family, and Santos. Rosell resigned from Barcelona in 2014 over the affair. The club was also indicted for alleged tax fraud linked to the signing, and made a voluntary tax payment of 13.5 million euros. So far though no trial has been held.
Eva Carneiro (AP Photo)
London, June 7 (AFP): Former Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro on Tuesday agreed a deal to settle a case against Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho for alleged discrimination for an undisclosed sum.
"The parties agreed to the settlement of this dispute on confidential terms," a Chelsea representative said at the start of a brief hearing. Carneiro said she was "relieved" to have concluded the tribunal case, calling it an "extremely difficult and distressing time for me and my family," in a statement issued after the announcement. Chelsea said it was "pleased" that an agreement had been reached. "The club regrets the circumstances which led to Dr Carneiro leaving the club and apologises unreservedly to her and her family for the distress caused," said a club statement. The tribunal was examining a claim of constructive dismissal against Chelsea and a connected, personal legal action against Portuguese boss Mourinho, who left the Blues in December, for alleged victimisation and sexual discrimination. Mourinho made an unexpected appearance alongside Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck at the London South Employment Tribunal in suburban Croydon on Tuesday, shortly before the announcement of the settlement.
FA blocks England squad plans for Somme homage London, June 7 (reuterS): England coach Roy Hodgson's plans to visit the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing with a few members of his squad have been dashed by Dave Reddin, the Football Association's head of performance services, according to British media reports. The memorial stands as testament to thousands of British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme between 1915 and 1918 and is a three-hour round trip from England's European Championship base at Chantilly. The names of 37 footballers, including Evelyn Lintott, a former England player and the first chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), are also commemorated here. Reddin, along with the squad's sports scientists, said the trip would be too draining and likely to impact on the team's performance at the tournament, according to the Times. FA chief executive Martin Glenn will represent the FA and England at Thiepval later on Tuesday. Midfielder James Milner and goalkeeper Joe Hart made video messages after being blocked from travelling to the memorial. "Among those who died were football players -- professional and amateur -- and of course football fans. Others were so badly injured they could never again play the game I love," Milner said. England, who are in Group B, play their first match of the tournament against Russia in Marseille on Saturday. Wales and Slovakia are the other teams in the group. Published, Printed and Edited by Dr. Aküm Longchari from House No. 4, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur at Themba Printers and Morung Publications , Padum Pukhuri Village, Dimapur, Nagaland. RNI No : NAGENG /2005/15430. House No.4, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur 797112, Nagaland. Phone: Dimapur -(03862) 248854, Fax: (03862) 235194, Kohima - (0370) 2291952
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