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Dept of Forest lights up villages with solar lamp
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Smartphone app to help prevent heart attack
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NEw DElHI, MARCH 10 (IANS): A cardiologist at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Saket here has developed a smartphone app that can help people know the warning signs of a heart attack in advance and take corrective action. The “Heart App” developed by senior interventional cardiologist Rajeev Rathi has a set of questions. The questions that a cardiologist would ask in a case of suspected heart disease. A patient in any kind of chest discomfort, uneasiness or breathlessness can go through these questions selecting the options applicable to him/her. The app reaches a conclusion whether symptoms entered by the patient fall into high risk for heart disease. In addition to the questionnaire, the app has reading material about heart attacks, their warning signs, and treatment in a simple and concise manner which the users can quickly go through and if required, refer to in their time of need. Many a time there are warning symptoms even few days before the onset of heart attack, which if treated could even prevent a full blown attack. Unfortunately, the general population remains largely unaware of these symptoms and unable to recognise the warning signs. Rathi said this is what drove him to find a way to prevent people from ignoring the warning signs.
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Major power breakdowns loom over nagaland state
By Sandemo Ngullie
DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): Six apex organisations of Eastern Nagaland, including the ENPO have strongly urged the Nagaland State Government to book the culprits of the February 6 killing of a couple between Shamartor and Kiphire. In a joint statement, the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation, Chang Khulei Setshang, Khiamniungan Tribal Council, Konyak Union, Phom Peoples’ Council, United Sangtam Likhum Pumji, Yimchunger Tribal Council, Eastern Nagaland Women Organisation and the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation have reiterated their condemnation of the February 16 killing. The organisations asked the people of the area to maintain peace and calm until such a time when an amicable solution is arrived at between the communities. They further strongly urged the SIT constituted by the State Government to book the culprits at the earliest “so as to avoid any further ugly situations that are anticipated.
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A Naga kid holds her puppy as she sit in front of her house at Khongnem Thana Village which falls under Senapati district. Photo by Caisii Mao
GPrn/nscn denies Gen. Khole joining nscn (iM) Morung Express News Dimapur | March 10
A news report suggesting that GPRN/NSCN president Gen (Retd) Khole Konyak may have joined the NSCN (IM), which appeared in a Nagaland based newspaper, machinated a flurry of reactions from organizations on Thursday. The newspaper report, while citing NSCN (IM) sources, claimed that Gen Khole has been meeting NSCN (IM) leaders in New Delhi for the last three days and has joined the group. It however said there is no official confirmation to authenticate the claim. The GPRN/NSCN, meanwhile has denied the report. “We completely deny that our
president has joined NSCN (IM). He is currently in Delhi solely for his medical treatment and not for any other purpose. There are many rumours doing the rounds so we do not wish to believe in such reports,” highly placed sources within the GPRN/NSCN set up said. “However, since some local dailies carried reports that he (Khole) must have switched sides, it is expected that he clear his situation and position,” the official added. A senior functionary of the NSCN (IM) who is camping in New Delhi, when contacted said there was “nothing official about the report” and also termed it to be a rumour or mere speculation. “Yes, we have heard that he (Gen Khole) is here for treatment. Other-
wise there is nothing official about him joining our group,” the NSCN (IM) member maintained while adding that they were also trying to identify the origin of the report since it reportedly came from a member of their group. Sources said an ailing Gen Khole was airlifted by a chopper from Tobu village in Mon district to Guwahati and there on a flight to Delhi. He was reported to have been admitted to a hospital. The Konyak Union (KU) is also learnt to have had a meeting at Hotel Saramati on Thursday. A member of KU said they were not aware of such a development. “We were only told that he (Gen Khole) was sick and going to Delhi for treatment,” the KU member stated.
DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The Association of Power Engineers Nagaland (APEN) has expressed disappointment at the deficiency in allocation of funds to the State Power Department under Plan and Non Plan. In a letter to the Nagaland State Chief Secretary today, the APEN expressed apprehension of “major breakdowns” during the summer months with “no capacity addition, non purchase of transformers, spares for the last many years which has rendered the department helpless.” It cited recent events of power shutdowns in Mokokchung, Kiphire, Pfutsero etc due to damage of transformers, where power could not be restored for nearly a month and said that the incidents were not surprising. Prompt replacements could not be made due to the lack of funds, it added. The APEN further cautioned that such recurrence of similar incidents “cannot be ruled out if the present trend of funding continues.” It stated that since 2009-10, there has been deficient fund allocation to the department under State plan and non plan. It stated that under this
• Nagaland Power Engineers informs ‘No capacity addition, non purchase of transformers, spares for the last many years’ • Blames deficient fund allocation and criticises State Government for being unfair to the department situation, the generation, transmission, distribution, revenue, housing and communication elements of the department are going through difficulty for upkeep of its assets and related activities. The “biggest gap” it stated, is being felt in the major load centres of Dimapur, Chumukedimam, Kohima, Mokokchung etc, which are running under overloaded conditions, protective devices and materials in dilapidated conditions, conductors requiring upgradation, transformers starving for oil etc. The APEN pointed out the Central Government’s view that under the new dispensation of fund of the 14th Finance Commission, the State Government has been adequately provided fund for development. However, it lamented that instead of redeeming the Power Department’s plight, the State Government has meted out “step motherly treatment by
treating the Power Department as a least priority in terms of fund allocation without acknowledging electricity as an essential service.” Such apathy by the State Government has instilled a sense of insecurity in the minds of the APEN members who will be bearing all the public brunt and ire, it stated. The APEN further termed it “unfair” on the part of the Nagaland State Government to expect the department to deliver power to consumers without maintaining the lines and machines (transformers) and also to expect the department to perform on the revenue front without adequate support from the Government. It therefore asked the State Government to take serious note of the “avoidable impending worsening situation,” and accord “highest priority” regarding the allocation of funds to the department, under both plan and non plan.
indo-naga solution should be outside the Rilan village appeals DC Searches by individuals, MARCH 10 (MExN): The indian constitutional framework: nnc/fGn DIMAPUR, Rilan Village Council (RVC) has appealed groups illegal: Mkg DC to the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur to
DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): NNC/ FGN Kedallo (vice president) Zhopra Vero has stated that solution to the Indo-Naga conflict should come from outside the Indian constitutional framework. “If solution is sought within the framework of the Indian constitution, it nullifies all the values and principles; it would be like building houses on the tombs of those who sacrificed their lives for the Naga cause,” Vero emphasized in his speech at the recently held consultative meeting of NPGs convened by the NLF on March 9. Asserting that any solution would not be deemed honourable if it is done by negating the dignity and rights of the Naga people, the NNC/FGN vice president said if there is going to be any solution to the political conflict then “first of all the Indian state has to change its perception of the Nagas and the Naga struggle.” “There has to be honor and respect involved in the dialogue itself. It ought to be noted that we are not begging for any special favor from the Indian state,” he stated.
The NNC/FGN vice president also contended that honorable solution cannot be equated with what packages Nagas will get. “To be more precise, honorable solution cannot be treated like a bargaining chip – how much Nagas gain or how much the Indian state gains. It is not even about win-win situation,” he pointed out. Even if the negotiation is acceptable to us due to the offer which is so good, will it be honourable if it is done within the Indian constitutional framework? he questioned. Vero also posed a number of questions to the Parliamentary Working Committee (PWC), Nagaland Legislators Forum on Naga Political Issue on their position as “facilitator to the peace process,” as stated by NLF chairman, Chotisuh Sazo and the Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang on February 26. He also wanted to know “how far the Naga people can trust the NSCN (IM) with the Naga National cause if they cannot be transparent to the Naga people.” Full text on page 5
intervene over the alleged trespassing by Assam Police (AP) personnel into the village. According to the RVC, fully armed AP personnel have been repeatedly “visiting” the village without any pre-information or explanation. There have been three such instances this year alone with the latest occurring on March 10. The RVC, in a letter addressed to the Dimapur DC, stated the act of the Assam Police is creating “fear psychosis among women and children” of the village, which is located on the western fringe of Dimapur bordering KarbiAnglong Autonomous district. The Assam Forest department has a running dispute with the village over boundary demarcation, with the former taking a dogged stance over any sign of developmental activity on the site in question. While the unwelcome “visits” from the AP has passed off without incidents, the RVC termed it as “unwarranted” and urged the DC to take preventive steps. Failing to do so, the village will be “constrained to adopt its own measures,” the RVC in the letter said.
MokokCHUNg, MARCH 10 (DIPR): Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel in an order stated that searches made by any individual, Groups, NGOs etc. is not authorized as per law and such searches are “deemed illegal and ultra-vires”. The order which was issued on March 10, 2016 said as per the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) 1973, only police can search a place (Private or government properties) with prior Search Warrant. Sushil Kumar Patel informed that the persons aggrieved (private or government officials) by such searches may seek legal remedy under Sec 441 of Indian Panel Code, 1896 (Criminal Trespass) against the perpetrators of such illegal action.
termed the DC’s order as a “veiled threat” stating that the order was “in apparent reference to the ‘visitation’ by the Mokokchung youths to different schools has been termed as ‘searches’.” The MTLT clarified that there was no “searches” as alleged by the DC. It further questioned the “intention of the Mokokchung DC as to how he could threaten the bonafide youths with the CrPc 1973.” It asked whether the MLTL’s ‘visitation’ can be construed as ‘searches’ and whether the MTLT “cannot highlight such anomalies, especially the distribution of worm-infested rice to schools.” It also asked the DC if he was aware of the issue until the MTLT apprised him through their letter dated March 9. Meanwhile, it asserted that MTLT terms order as ‘veiled threat’ the MTLT would “continue to The Mokokchung Town Lanur work for the welfare of MokokcTelongjem (MTLT) meanwhile hung society.”
Seeds germinate into Biodiversity Festival in Chizami
Morung Express News Chizami | March 10
From seeds to biodiversity to communities—the Biodiversity Festival hosted every year by the North East Network in Chizami village, Phek district, Nagaland, has come a long way. What began at the village level, of women exchanging seeds and the knowledge therein, is now a solidarity of neighbourhood hills and the subcontinent at large. This year, women from various districts of Nagaland, and States of Manipur, Meghalaya and Telangana exchanged seeds—millets, maize, fruits, vegetables—from their respective fields at the Biodiversity Festival held on March 9 at the NEN Resource Centre at Chizami village as a symbolic to sharing life. “Through the seed exchange, we are reaffirming faith in our food systems,
facilitating communities to share knowledge as means to empower each other,” said NEN’s Wekowe-ü Tsuhah. Seeds contain the information to the food that secures life and livelihood. The wisdom to use them in the appropriate way has led humankind to reach where we are today. This year’s edition of the Festival was celebrated on the theme ‘Bonding Communities, Celebrating Diversity’ and saw women put up an exhibition on the biodiversity—crops, plants, wildlife, medicines, fibres, dyes—from their respective regions.
Promoting Agro Biodiversity
The agro biodiversity, of particularly the North East of the sub-continent, provides for a range of security by way of food, clothing, housing, medicines and fodder. Pushing for a “political agenda” on agro
Women farmers from Nagaland and Telangana are seen exchanging seeds from each of their regions at the Biodiversity Festival held on Wednesday, March 9 at the NEN Resource Centre in Chizami. (Morung Photo)
biodiversity, Amba Jamir, Executive Director of Sustainable Development Forum of Nagaland, urged communities to be more assertive about their land and biodiversity before casting a vote.
“Our culture revolves around our agriculture cycles,” he noted, as the keynote speaker at the Biodiversity Festival on Wednesday morning. “World over, it is the small and marginalised farmers
who are meeting our need for food. Small farmers also take care of the needs of nature’s pollinators, the birds, bees and butterflies, which makes for a healthy ecosystem,” he observed. And world over, small
farmers are mostly women. Often, home gardens are their “private labs” where seeds are tried and tested for results before being implanted on the fields. Taking lessons from them, thus, every polity, particularly villages, should keep a focus on food security instead of purely market production/profit while planning. “How should councils and the government look at development in society? It is very tempting to go all out for cash crops but only few can afford them. However, keeping food security as the core will meet the needs of the poorest of the poor,” highlighted Amba. By promoting sustainable and diverse practices, a culture’s language remains alive. “We are rapidly losing our language, and cultural roots, because we are engaging less with the biodiversity around us.” The government, he
said, should be aware that women are at the centre of sustainable agriculture practices. “Women think of the family’s requirements first and then earning out of surplus, as opposed to men who are easily attracted to cash crops. We need sovereignty on our fields before economic or political sovereignty,” observed the speaker, reiterating that women must be made a part of meetings and committees where land use policies are decided and made. As the Government of Nagaland still looks the other way on this critical issue, women farmers are forming solidarities strengthening food systems through seed banks, sharing knowledge and food from the fields with each other, exhibiting on a common platform and even singing their cultures alive—all seen germinating at the Biodiversity Festival at Chizami.
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Dept of Forest lights up Energy Conservation Awareness prog held at C-Edge College villages with solar lamp Dimapur, march 10 (mExN): Energy Conservation Awareness Programme organised by Nagaland State Designated Agency (NSDA), Government of Nagaland, in collaboration with Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BBE) Ministry of Power, Government of India was held at CEdge College, Dimapur on March 10. With such erratic cli-
matic conditions and climate changes which are becoming a threat to the earth, the topic of energy conservation has become an important issue which needs to be made known and discussed. The programme started with the introductory speech by Er. I. V. Chishi, Chief Electrical Inspector who stressed on the importance of having such awareness programme on Energy
Conservation. The initiative taken by the Chief Electrical Inspectorate, the State Designated Agency has been immense with the agency organising such awareness programmes at different schools and colleges in almost all the districts in Nagaland, as mentioned by Er. K T Wabang, Consultant, NSDA in his short speech. The main part of the
programme was the power point presentation on Energy Conservation in our daily life which was presented by S. Choudhary & Mr. R P Niranjan Bose from Novotech Environmental Engineering Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata. The presentation included short film clips, various points and discussions on how to save and conserve energy in our daily lives. The hour long
programme ended with an active interactive session between the resource persons and the students & faculty of the college. It is also to be noted that NSDA presented the college with some few LED light bulbs. This was stated in a press release issued by Wapangla Imchen, HOD of Management Studies, & IQAC Co-Ordinator, CEdge College.
MEx File BJP endorse Rajya Sabha candidature Department of Forest Range Office, Kiphire –Tuensang officials with the beneficiaries during the solar lamp distribution held on March 10. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Kiphire | March 10
The Department of Forest Range Office, Kiphire –Tuensang distributed solar lamp to 85 solar lamps to three villages that do not have electric connectivity. Distributing the solar lamps to the villagers on March 10 at the Forest Range office Kiphire, the Forest Range Officer Tsangli Tikhir thanked Dr Sentitula IFS, DFO Tuensang for taking personal initiative to make
KSCSU Golden Jubilee on March 16 Kohima, march 10 (mExN): The Kohima Science College Students’ Union (KSCSU) is celebrating its Golden Jubilee on March 16 at Kohima Science College (Autonomous), Jotsoma. TR Zeliang, Chief Minister of Nagaland as the chief guest. The Golden Jubilee Organising Committee has invited all alumni, associates and well-wishers of the College to be part of the celebration. The day’s events will start with the Commemorative Programme at 11:00 am which includes the release of the souvenir magazine Odyssey and the Launch of the Jubilee Trust by the chief guest. The Commemorative Programme will be followed by the Jubilee Feast (1:00 pm), the Jubilee Carnival (12 – 3 pm) and the Jubilee Concert (4:00 pm). The Carnival and Concert includes Old Photo Exhibit, Treasure Hunt, Kids Zone, Nula Sucking Competition, and special performances by Purple Fusion, Alumni Bands, Zuchombeni, Trinity Mob and many more.
this happen and said that the initiative is to promote the use of renewable solar energy where there is no electricity. He added that the objective of distributing the solar lamps is to lighten the burden of un-electrified villages that depend on alternative source for light which makes life very miserable. The Forest Range Officer also said that this is the first initiative where the department is distributing solar light to villagers and also said, “The lamp can be
used for five years and if it is fully charged it can give a backup of 72 hours.” Tsanlgi Tikhir also said that the distribution of solar lamp is made possible with the contribution by Eco Solution, a Mumbai based NGO founded by Yatendra Aggrawal. Meanwhile, the villagers of Nutsu, Lihtsauong and Ditanvong expressed gratitude to the department for taking initiative in providing solar lamp to the Teachers seen with others during the teacher’s retreat for GMS Peren Town held on March 10 with Izieteilung Terieng, Executive Secretary ZBCC as resource person. villagers.
Awareness Campaign at St. Edmund Hr. Sec. School
Dimapur, march 10 (mExN): Fingerprint-Design & Events continuing its Awareness Campaign (Conservation of Wildlife and Environment) of visiting 50 colleges and schools in Dimapur visited St. Edmund’s Higher Secondary
School on March 10. The team shared to the students about the effects of deforestation in amazon rainforest where 28,000 sq. Km of forest was cleared every year for business expansion. The devastation of rainforest have affected
the climate all around the world and changed the weather pattern.The Campaigners encouraged the students to stand up like those people around the world who have refused to buy or eat chicken which were fed from the soya
bean grown in the newly cleared Amazon rainforest. The Campaigner emphasize that the trees never grow old but they die because of insects, pest and human activities. Trees are doing their job of releasing oxygen and absorbing car-
bon-di-oxide their entire life without any grumble and now the time has come for us to do the same by saving and protecting trees. This was stated in a press release issued by Fingerprint - Design & Events Head Hongba Phom.
Training on large cardamom plantation held
Officials from the District Horticulture Office & District Rural Development Agency Mokokchung along with farmers during the training on large cardamom plantation held at Yesimyong on March 8. (DIPR Photo)
yisEmyoNg, march 10 (Dipr): Training on large cardamom plantation organized by District Horticulture Office & Dis-
trict Rural Development Agency Mokokchung under RD-Horti Convergence Scheme 2015-16 was held at Yesimyong on March 8.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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e the bereaved family members of Late Hanjila M. Yimchunger, a Final Year Student (Civil Engineering Diploma) of Kelhoshe Polytechnic, Atoizu(KPA) would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to one and all who stood by us at the time of grief and supported us physically, materially, financially and emotionally during the sudden demise of our beloved who died in car accident near Botsa on 29th February 2016. Amongst many, we would like extend our special thanks to:1. Shri. R.Tohanba, Parliamentary Secretary 2. Shri. Shelly Katiry, EAC, Tseminyu 3. Shri. Joel Kath, Shishunu Village 4. Shri. Paul P. Achumi Kenuozou, Kohima 5. Shri. Keduo-o Zumu Chairman, Kenouzou Colony Kma and well wishers of KNZ 6. Administration and Police Personnel's of Tseminyu and Chiephobozou 7. Doctors and Nurses of PHC, Botsa 8. Village Council and Public of Botsa and neighbouring villages 9. Botsa Village Women Society and GMS, Botsa 10. Sumi Baptist Church, Tseminyu Town 11. Principal, Lecturers and Students of KPA 12. Evangelical Union and Girls Hostel, KPA 13. Ao Students’ Union, Lotha Students’ Union and ENSU, KPA 14. Kohima Yimchungrü Baptist Borü, Women Society and Youth 15. YUK, YWO Kohima Unit and YSUK 16. YAA and PACSU 17. Soul Harvest Church, Kohima 18. Industrial Village Council, Dimapur 19. Yimchungrü Union Dimapur and Bor-Lengri 20. United Baptist Church, Choto Lengri 21. Pungro Public Forum and GBs Union 22. Laruri Development Council 23. Sutsu Village Christian Revival Church 24. Mutinkhong Village Council, Church, Women and CYE 25. Betang Village Council and Church 26. Mimi Village Council, Church and Students’ Union We regret our inability to thank each and every individual by name but it is our humble prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.
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Project Director, DRDA, Mokokchung, Liboni humtsoe while delivering the key note address, urged the farmers to take up the
Convergence scheme with utmost sincerity as large Cardamom farming is low input sustainable and highly profitable ven-
ture that can be taken up in the district in existing Forest areas located within an altitude of 600-1500 msl. The programme was chaired by DHO Mokokchung, Meyasashi, who also explained to the farmers about scientific method of large Cardamom plantation including site selection, planting techniques, crop management, harvesting curing and marketing of the produce. Resource person DR. D.K Chetri, Project Officer, SARS spoke on the use of organic input in Large Cardamom farming. Altogether 94 trainees comprising of VDB secretaries and farmers from 19 selected villages of Mokokchung District attended the training programme.
‘Save Tragopan, Save Pride’
puNgro, march 10 (mExN): Tragopan is from the group of heavy bodied ground feeding bird, with vibrant colours to male for territorial display and dull camouflaging complexion to female for better protection of nest and eggs. There are four out of five species of Tragopan found in India. Nagaland proudly hosts the Blyth’s Tragopan, a very rare and endangered bird. It is distributed in north east with highest population in higher hills of Nagaland like Khonoma-Pulibadze-JapfuDzukou, Satoi Range, Saramati-Fakim hills, etc. Tragopan is also the ‘State Bird of Nagaland.’ With the observation that if the Tragopan is to be conserved, whole forest along with holistic biodiversity is to be conserved, Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Nagaland with financial and organization help from Central Zoo Authority, Wildlife Trust of India and District Administration conducted ‘A day awareness programme on Blyth’s Tragopan conservation’ at Pungro under the theme ‘Save Tragopan, Save Pride.’ Total 120 people participated in the programme from fringe villages of Saramati-Fakim, NGOs, all students union, tribal union, town council, public forum, church bodies. The programme began with the invocation by Rev. Father Sajimon, Principal, Little Flower School, Pungro and chaired by Chonpenthung Ezung, EAC Pungro. He highlighted that Tragopan is a protected species under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and violation may lead to imprisonment and fine. He appealed to people to be responsible and protect forest and wildlife. The chief guest, Satya Praksh Tripathi, IFS, Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland highlighted about protection of wildlife for survival of human beings. He emphasized on creation of community reserves and eco sensitive zone in fringe areas of Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary. He also an-
Dimapur, march 10 (mExN): The BJP Nagaland State President Visasolie Lhoungu and P.Paiwang Konyak, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, IT&C, who are in Delhi, held consultative discussions with the central party leaders on the forthcoming Rajya Sabha Elections. The BJP central leaders have endorsed the candidature of K.G.Kenye for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from the state. BJP Nagaland Medi General Secretary, Jaangsillung Gonmei in a press release said that the BJP Nagaland wish him success and look forward to a phase of all round development and further strengthening of the DAN government and partners under his leadership.
Tseminyu SDPDB meeting today TsEmiNyu, march 10 (Dipr): Office of the Addl Dy. Commissioner Tseminyu has informed that the SDPDB meeting for the month of March will be held on March 11 at 11:00 AM in the conference hall of ADC Tseminyu. EAC Tseminyu, Shelley Katiry has informed all members to attend the meeting without fail.
AKTD presidential council on March 12 Dimapur, march 10 (mExN): Ao Students’ Union Dimapur (AKTD) has convened a presidential council on March 12 at its treasurer’s residence at 1:00 pm. All the village unit president and subunits are directed to attend the meeting without fail.
Kohima DPDB meeting on March 16 Kohima, march 10 (Dipr): ADC Planning & Member Secretary DPDB Kohima, Ketoho Luho has informed all the Kohima DPDB members that the monthly meeting of DPDB has been postponed to March 16 in view of ensuing Legislative Assembly on 15th March 2016. The circular also added that the place and time will remain the same.
Legislatures meeting on March 14 Kohima, march 10 (mExN): A meeting of the members of Legislature Party of Naga People’s Front (NPF) will be held at the State Banquet Hall at 10:00 AM on March 14 to be followed by the meeting of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) Legislature Party at 11:00 am. A press release issued by the Chief Ministers Office Media Cell has informed that the meeting is convened to discuss business matters relating to the Eleventh Session of the Twelfth Nagaland Legislative Assembly which will be held from March 15 to 19. All members are requested to attend the meeting.
NCCAF annual general meeting Kohima, march 10 (mExN): The Annual General Meeting of the Nagaland Community Conserved Areas Forum (NCCAF) will be held on March 16, 11:00 am in the conference hall of Hotel Japfü, Kohima. Therefore, all affiliated units have been requested to attend the meeting. Also, any functional CCA who are yet to be affiliated to the Forum are also welcome to attend the meeting, informed NCCAF Secretary, Heirang Lungalang in a press release.
NGBF ‘Dedicatory Program’ on March 15 Dimapur, march 10 (mExN): Nagaland GB Federation is organizing a ‘Dedicatory Program’ on March 15 at Circuit house, near super market, Dimapur. All the eleven Districts GB Association’s Presidents, General Secretaries including Tseminyu Unit, Meluri Unit and NGBF office Bearers are compulsory to attend the programme.
Phek village annual council meet A memento promoting the conservation of Tragopan bird in Nagaland. ‘A day awareness programme on Blyth’s Tragopan conservation’ was held at Pungro under the theme ‘Save Tragopan, Save Pride.’
swered queries of put forth by participants. Tsilie Sakhrie, Advisor, Khrokhotuo Mor, Chairman and Kuolhulie Kuotsu, CoChairman from Khonoma Nature Conservation and Tragopan Sanctuary Trust were main speakers. They shared success story of conservation from Khonoma. Adrish Poddar, Project Officer from Wildlife Trust of India, Delhi spoke on the topic ‘Know the Bird.’ WTI is doing scoping exercise and planning to launch community conservation programme with Forest Department, he stated. Atuo, Forester, Biologist from Tragopan Breeding Centre, Kohima shared the experience of working with bird in captivity. Kikumthong, President, Pungro Area College Students Union emphasized on resolution to protect wildlife and requested all to abide by it. He also requested to have separate wildlife range office stationed at Pungro. The programme concluded with distribution of memento and seedlings of horticultural fruit species namely Pecan Nut, Apple, Nectarine, Plum sentarosa and vote of thanks by Kamdi Hemant Bhaskar, IFS, Wildlife Warden, Wildlife Division, Kiphire.
Kohima, march 10 (mExN): The Phek village annual council meeting will be held on March 23, 9:00 am at Phek Village Panchayat hall. Three persons from each unit/khel and colony have been requested to attend the said meeting. This was stated in a release issued by Phek Village Council secretary Vepichi Keyho.
PTCWF appeals on water pipelines phEK, march 10 (mExN): The Pfutsero Town Citizens Welfare Forum (PTCWF) has clarified that the town water pipelines dismantled during the road widening works could not be refitted due to unavailability of materials with the department at Pfutsero. However, the lines would be restored as soon as the necessary materials are made available by the PHE department. PTCWF Convenor Murhaseyi Murao has appealed to all the affected consumers to bear with the inconvenience.
Veterinary Aid Camp held at Meluri village phEK, march 10 (mExN): 164 Infantry Battalion (Territorial Army) (Home & Hearth) NAGA and 14 Field Mobile Veterinary Hospital conducted Veterinary Aid Camp at Meluri village of Phek district on March 5 under Military Civic Action. A press release from PRO (Def), Kohima informed that a total of 380 animals were treated.
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ZRO signs ‘Deed of Commitment’ prohibiting recruitment of children DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The Zomi ReUnification Organisation (ZRO) signed Geneva Call’s Deed of Commitment protecting children in armed conflict on March 2. This was informed in a press communiqué from Geneva Call received today. “In signing this Deed the ZRO publicly asserts its commitment to respect the highest international standards in terms of child protection in armed conflict. It includes the prohibition to recruit child soldiers and use under-18 children in hostilities,” the communiqué stated. The ZRO is an ethnic armed movement operating in the province of Manipur with purportedly 400
fighters. “The ZRO is not reported to recruit or use children however; they used to have many in their rank in the past, especially before the signature of first “Suspension of Operations agreement” with the government in 2005. This commitment is therefore preventive and in line with ZRO declared will to align all their policies and practices towards the compliance with these humanitarian norms,” Geneva Call said. “We want to comply with international norms, and signing this Deed of Commitment is a positive sign that we are committed to upholding international law and respecting human rights” said Calvin, external
secretary of ZRO, after the signing ceremony. “Our internal policies will reflect the obligations of this Deed of Commitment” he concluded. “Children in northeast India have been exposed to armed violence in many ways, including through recruitment and use by armed non-State actors. This commitment is a signal to others armed actors to take similar measures” noted Katherine Kramer, Geneva Call’s Programme Director for Asia. In order to monitor their compliance with the Deeds of Commitment they have signed, and in addition to the self-monitoring reports sent by the ZRO, Geneva Call relies on
M'laya CM lambasts Centre for withdrawing special grants SHIlloNg, MARCH 10 (IANS): Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Thursday lambasted the central government for withdrawal of special block grants to the northeastern states. "The contention of the central government is that increasing the devolution of central taxes to 42%t to the special category states is enough. Therefore, they have withdrawn the special block grants," Sangma said, replying to a calling attention motion given notice by opposition leader Donkupar Roy. Sangma, who also holds the finance portfolio, said the withdrawal of the special block grants was like setting the same benchmark for the north-eastern states as that for the developed states.
Want a police job? Run 3 km in 7 minutes! SHIlloNg, MARCH 10 (IANS): Women wishing to join the Meghalaya Police armed wing must run three kilometres in seven minutes or less -- prompting an opposition leader to ask if the recruitment was for the Olympics. "Are we selecting police recruits or are we selecting athletes for Olympics?" United Democratic Party legislator Paul Lyngdoh asked in the assembly on Thursday. He said that records from 1975 to 1993 on international women athletes showed they run the same distance and become champions of their times in eight minutes. According to an advertisement for the job issued by the Meghalaya Police, female candidates applying for the post of an armed and unarmed branch sub inspector will get full marks if they finish the 3-km race in seven minutes or less. Home Minister Roshan Warjri admitted that errors had crept into the police advertisement and that these would be corrected.
The central government decided to accept the recommendation of the 14th Finance Commission, which gives states 42% of the central taxes from 2015-16 onwards, as against 32% suggested by the previous commission. Since higher devolution took into account all needs of the states, the central government reasoned, the sops for special category states like the northeastern states could be withdrawn. "There will be no other special dispensation left for the states of the NE to be able to have additional resources for various developmental programmes to be able to catch up with the rest of the country after the withdrawal of the special block grants," he said.
the monitoring of local human rights organizations. The ZRO will also disseminate the norms of the Deed of Commitment to their members. The ZRO has already signed Geneva Call’s two other Deeds of Commitment, namely the Deed of Commitment banning anti-personnel mines in 2009 and the Deed of Commitment prohibiting sexual violence and against gender discrimination in 2013. The ZRO is the third Indian armed non-State actor to sign the Deed of Commitment protecting children in armed conflict. The other two groups include the Kuki National Organization (KNO) and the GPRN/NSCN.
Train finally reaches Manipur IMPHAl, MARCH 10 (IANS): The first broad gauge passenger train from Arunachal Pradesh to Manipur arrived on Thursday afternoon at the Jiribam railway station. The train carrying mostly railway officials left the station at 4 p.m. "Efforts are being made to connect Jiribam with other important stations in the country and it will be of great help to the people of the region," said an official. Over 10 days ago, one goods broad gauge train transporting FCI items reached Jiribam from Silchar. There will be no shortage of food grains now that there will be regular train service, the official told IANS. The NH37 which connects Jiribam with Imphal was in a bad shape. Now the Manipur government has banned trucks from carrying goods more than 28 tonnes on the ground that the bridge over Barak river was shaky.
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Man critically injured in gun attack Our Correspondent Imphal | March 10
Police today found a man shot in the chest by unknown armed assailants inside his vehicle close to Pallel Police Station in Thoubal district of Manipur. The police sent him to a private hospital at Kakching from where he was referred to Shija Hospitals, Langol here. He is now in critical condition at the private clinic. The attack happened around 8am, police reports said, adding the assailants shot multiple bullets to kill him but only one bullet hit on his left chest. Ln Rengneisiak Aimol, 35, resident of Kombirei village in Chandel district, had a major operation at the hospital after the attack carried out by some three-four motorcycleborne men but his condition remains critical.
Aimol was sitting alone inside his four-wheeler which was parked at the site when the incident occurred. The assailants fled the area after the attack. Pallel police called in additional forces and cordoned off the area and carried out a massive hunt for the attackers. The police could not make any arrests. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Shop owners of Pallel bazar protested against the firing incident suspending all activities for the day. Besides, demonstrations were staged against the incident by a large number of members from several Pallelbased social organisations. Pallel is located on the fringe of Chandel district. Tension simmered in Aimol Satu and Molnom village in the border district of Chandel for days after a school teacher belonging to Aimol commu-
nity was beaten to death by suspected militants on February 19 this year. It is alleged that cadres of the NSCN (IM) were involved in the killing of the assistant teacher of Molnom Junior High School. However, the NSCN (IM) has subsequently denied any involvement in the killing. Four gun-runners arrested Meanwhile, troops of Assam Rifles posted at Behang in Churachandpur district held four gun-runners around 12:30pm yesterday. The illegal arms dealers were travelling in a mini truck when the personnel of 26 Assam Rifles, who were conducting frisking and checking in front of their post, seized one M4 carbine and one magazine of 5.56mm gun from their possession, sources informed. They have been handed to Singhat Police Station along with the seized arms.
Ensure activity in Brahmaputra doesn't harm downstream states: China told NEw DElHI, MARCH 10 (PTI): The government has urged China to ensure that interests of downstream states are not harmed by any activity in upstream areas of the Brahmaputra river, Lok Sabha was informed today. Union Minister of State for Water Resources Sanwar Lal Jat made the statement in reply to queries on whether China's dam construction in upper Tibet area is causing a drop in water level in Brahmaputra in Assam and said the government "carefully" monitors all developments on the river. "India has urged China
to ensure the interests of downstream states are not harmed by any activities in upstream areas," Jat said. The minister said, according to reports, China's Zangmu hydroelectric project was operationalised in October, 2015. The outline of the 12th Five Year Plan for the People's Republic of China indicates that three more hydropower projects on the mainstream of Brahmaputra river in Tibet Autonomous Region have been approved for implementation, he said. "These four projects are considered to be run of the river (RoR)
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hydroelectric projects. As a lower riparian state with considerable established user rights to the waters of the river, India has conveyed its views and concerns to the Chinese authorities," he added. The minister said in 2006 the two sides established an India-China Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) on trans-border rivers and in October, 2013, the
two governments signed a memorandum of understanding on strengthening cooperation on trans-border rivers, he said. Subsequently, Jat said, a joint statement was issued during the visit of Prime Minister of India to China in May, 2015 which stated, "The two sides will further strengthen cooperation through the expert-level mechanisms."
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is world’s Government will act against Mallya: Jaitley Singapore most expensive city New Delhi, March 10 (iaNS): The government on Thursday said “every possible action will be taken” against beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday also countered Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that the government has not acted against Mallya. Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour that Mallya, as of end of November 2015, owed about Rs.90 billion to the banks in the country. He was responding to the issue raised by Congress floor leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who wanted to know why the government did not “confiscate” the passport of the chief of the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines. The Congress leader
Vijay Mallya, Chairman of Kingfisher Airlines at a press conference in Mumbai. (Getty Image File Photo)
wanted to know why the government and State Bank of India did not act against Mallya on time, which helped him to flee. Jaitley said every member of the house shares the concern raised by Kharge, but said the sanction of money to Mallya was
made during the UPA regime. “The banks have started taking action against the companies to recover the debt. Certainly every possible action will be taken against all the defaulters,” Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha.
“Some cases were filed in different courts across the country and some counter-cases were also registered,” he added. Jaitley also said that as of end of November 30, 2015, the total dues compounding with interest stands to the tune of over
Rs.9,000 crore against Vijay Mallya’s companies. “As far as accounts are concerned, first sanction was made by the consortium of banks in September 2004,” he said, adding then again in 2008. “These dates speak for themselves,” he said. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said Mallya is “no saint” for the NDA regime. Dissatisfied with Jaitley’s reply over Mallya leaving the country, the Congress and the Left parties staged a walkout. Countering Rahul Gandhi’s allegation, Jaitley later told reporters: “Rahul Gandhi should understand that going away of Ottavio Quattrocchi and Vijay Mallya is not the same. When CBI had alerted government about Quattrocchi, it was a
criminal case and the then government did not stop him.” Quattrocchi was an Italian businessman who was sought until 2009 in India for criminal charges of acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal. Jaitley said there is a legal procedure on impounding a passport and action could be taken only based on the provisions of the Passport Act. “If Rahul Gandhi does not understand this, you can help him,” Jaitley told the media. On the actions the government will take in the Vijay Mallya case, the finance minister said: “According to me, let the banks take all steps to recover money. If somebody’s action or inaction is found, the government will look into it.”
Cabinet gives green light to India among most vulnerable nations to cyber attacks March 10 of Democracies in Washington on cleanup utilities) was far more prevaRs 8,000-cr rural LPG scheme waShiNgToN, lent in the US compared with other (iaNS): When it comes to vulner- Wednesday.
New Delhi, March 10 (PTi): The Cabinet today approved a Rs 8,000-crore scheme to provide cooking gas (LPG) connections free of cost to women members of poor households. The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana with an outlay of Rs 8,000 crore for three years, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told PTI here. The scheme aims to provide on a war footing LPG connections to women members of BPL families. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his Budget for 2016-17, had announced the plan, saying the poor do not have access to cooking gas. “Women of India have faced the curse of smoke during the process of cooking. According to experts, having an open fire in the kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour. The time has come to remedy this situation,” he said said in his Budget speech. He had stated that the government has decided to embark on a massive mission to provide LPG connections in names of women members of poor households. “I have set aside a sum of Rs 2,000 crore in this year’s Budget to meet the initial cost of providing these LPG connections. This will benefit about 1 crore 50 lakh households below the poverty line in 2016-17,” he had said. “The Scheme will be continued for at least two more years to cover a total of 5 crore BPL households. This will ensure universal coverage of cooking gas in the country.” The move is aimed at empowering women and protecting their health, Pradhan stressed.
Honda begins sale of zero-emissions car Tokyo, March 10 (iaNS): Japanese auto giant Honda Motor Co. on Thursday began the sale of its new Clarity Fuel Cell, the world’s first five-passenger sedantype fuel cell vehicle (FCV) which has zero carbon emissions as it runs on hydrogen. The Clarity vehicle features a cruising range of around 750 km, meaning a driver can drive for up to that distance on a full tank, which marks an increase of about 30 percent compared to the previous FCV model, the company announced. That range puts Clarity in the top class cruising range among zero-emissions vehicles, and its hydrogen tank takes about three minutes to refill, EFE news reported. Its priced in Japan at $67,510 and for the first year of Clarity’s launch, the company will aim for lease sales mostly to local government organizations or businesses Honda has earlier worked with in trying to popularise FCVs. Honda plans to begin selling the new vehicle in Europe and the US before the end of the year.
Kuwait puts ban on Indian poultry products import New Delhi, March 10 (PTi): Kuwait has banned imports of poultry products from India in the wake of incidents of bird flu virus in some states. In October only the gulf nation’s Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR) had lifted the ban on import of live birds, hatching eggs, one-year-old chicks for the egg laying hens and flesh hens from India. “In the wake of incidence of Outbreak of H5N1 virus in Tripura... Govt of Kuwait has imposed a ban on import of poultry products from India,” said an official notice. According to experts, as India mainly exports poultry products to the Middle East, this decision may impact exports prospects in the coming days. In 2014-15, Kuwait imported 24.2 tonnes of poultry products, valued at USD 120,000. India’s poultry products export during April-December period of the current financial year increased to Rs 584 crore from Rs 484 crore in the same period last year. Egg production was around 78.48 billion eggs in 2014-15, while poultry meat production was estimated at 3.04 million tonnes.
RS approves Real Estate Bill New Delhi, March 10 (iaNS): The Real Estate Bill, proposing a Real Estate Regulatory Authority, was on Thursday approved by India’s upper house of parliament after the government accepted as many as 20 amendments to the measure as proposed by a Rajya Sabha Select Committee. The Bill, pending before parliament since 2013, aims to protect the interests of property buyers from unscrupulous promoters and regulate the real estate sector. The legislative measure will now go to the Lok Sabha for its approval.
ability to cyber attacks, India along with China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Korea is most vulnerable, says research led by an Indian-American scientist. While the US is ranked 11th safest of 44 nations studied, several Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Norway and Finland were ranked the safest in the book authored by V.S. Subrahmanian, professor of computer science at the University of Maryland. “Our goal was to characterise how vulnerable different countries were, identify their current cyber security policies and determine how those policies might need to change in response to this new information,” said Subrahmanian, with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Damaging cyber attacks on a global scale continue to surface every day. Some nations are better prepared than others to deal with online threats from criminals, terrorists and rogue nations. Subrahmanian discussed the findings at a panel discussion hosted by the Foundation for Defense
The authors conducted a two- nations that have a similar gross doyear study that analysed more than mestic product, the authors noted. The results suggest that US efforts to reduce cyber threats should focus on education to recognise and avoid misleading software. “People - even experts often have gross misconceptions about the relative vulnerability (to cyber attack) of certain countries. The authors of this book succeed in empirically refuting many of those wrong beliefs,” said Isaac Ben-Israel, chair of the Israeli 20 billion automatically generated Space Agency and former head of reports, collected from four million that nation’s National Cyber Bureau, machines per year worldwide. in a foreword to the book. The researchers based their The co-authors on the book are rankings, in part, on the number of Michael Ovelgonne, a former UMImachines attacked in a given coun- ACS postdoctoral researcher; Tutry and the number of times each dor Dumitras, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineermachine was attacked. Machines using Symantec anti- ing in the Maryland Cybersecurity virus software automatically gener- Centre; and B. Aditya Prakash, assisated these reports, but only when a tant professor of computer science machine’s user opted in to provide at Virginia Tech. A related research paper was the data. Trojans, followed by viruses and worms, posed the principal presented at the 9th ACM Internathreats to machines in the US. tional Conference of Web Search However, misleading software and Data Mining in February this (fake anti-virus programmes and disk year.
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NScN (R) accuse GPRN/NScN Lotha Hoho issues declaration of human rights violation
DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The NSCN (R) today alleged that the Khehoi Designated Camp of the GPRN/NSCN “is being used as ‘concentration camp’ for NSCN/GPRNReformation workers.” A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (R) claimed that “almost thirty seven (37) Naga Armies arrested in Dimapur and Kohima” and kept in custody by the GPRN/NSCN. It alleged that those who were arrested by the GPRN/NSCN are “continuously punished in inhuman way reportedly beat-
AR constructs Borewell at Aboi MoN, MARCH 10 (MExN): Continuing its endeavour towards improving the living standards and providing basic amenities to locals in remote villages of Mon district, the Assam Rifles constructed Water Supply Scheme (Borewell) at Aboi village. A press release issued by the AR stated that people were facing acute shortage of water in the village. Villagers were also facing problems of water borne diseases due to unhygienic water sources. Water Supply Scheme will resolve the problem of non availability of safe drinking water to a large extent.
en and hit with rifles buds and fists as if they were their enemies.” Those who were released have displayed multiple bruises on their bodies, the NSCN (R) informed. It said that these “act of NSCN-Unification cadres in Khehoi camp totally violates human rights and deserve strong condemnation.” “Some of the perpetrators have been identified and the NSCN/GPRNReformation will take it as individual issue who will be paid with same coin what so ever,” the NSCN (R) stated.
The NSCN (R) asserted that it “will seek the Naga solution based on the political and historical rights of the Nagas but it believes unity before any single step is taken.” While affirming to stand for Naga unity and reconciliation, the NSCN (R) however stated that it cannot “just leave perpetrators unpunished.” It further lamented that Naga NGOs and civil society have chosen to “remain silent at the atrocities and human rights violation of NSCNUnification on NSCN/
G P R N- R e f o r m a t i o n workers.” “No one raise any voice against such violent action till date and even now four of NSCN/ GPRN-Reformation workers are being kept under their custody who experience rifles butts and fists every single morning…” it claimed. The NSCN (R) also said that the Government of India and the Cease Fire Supervisory Board (CFSB) have “kept mum and allowed ceasefire designated camp to be used as human concentration camp by NSCN-Unification.”
DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The Lotha Hoho today informed that it carried out “verifications” in the backdrop of “threat and intimidation by one LY Abemo, who claims to be from the NSCN (R).” A press note from the Lotha Hoho recalled that the said person had “indulged in intimidating members of the Lotha Hoho and others in the community.” It stated that “as per the
outcome of the clarifications and confirmations in the meetings of Lotha Hoho officials, with frontal organisations, Wokha, and the Wokha Village Council, it has transpired that the identity of one LY Abemo, is not established.” “This fact is also confirmed in a written Declaration, by the Wokha Village Council, vide NO.WVC-10/ MISC/2015-16/- Dated Wokha 18/12/2015, that there is no one, in Wokha
Archbishop of Calcutta calls on CM
Department vice T. Kiheto Sema retired. 3. Nikhashe Sema, NCS, Secretary, Science & Technology shall hold additional charge of Excise Department. 4. Kekhrieselie, NSS, Addl. Secretary, Labour & Employment is transferred and posted as Addl. Secretary, Home (Political). 5. Hokhuli K Chishi, NCS, Joint Secretary, Evaluation is transferred and posted as Joint Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department. 6. Bendangnaro, NSS.
Joint Secretary, Law & Justice Department shall hold additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs. 7. L. Adaha, NSS, Deputy Secretary, Geology & Mining is transferred and posted as Deputy Secretary, Evaluation. 8. Andrew C Imti, NCS, Under Secretary, SCERT is transferred and posted as Under Secretary, Finance Department. 9. W. Ravungo Lotha, NSS, Under Secretary, Land Resources is transferred and posted as Under Secretary, SCERT.
DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The Archbishop of Calcutta Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Dr. Joseph Mar Dionysius, visited Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang at his residence along with Fr.P.S.Varghese, Principal of MGM Hr.Sec. School, Dimapur. According to a press note, during the visit, the CM was briefed about the Malankara Orthodox
Student of Phek College enlighten on Gender Sensitive Legal Measures it affects in every walks of our life. It has made our life easy in many ways however there are lots of dangers that comes along with the benefits of the use of technology such as cyber crimes. Young people today use social media very aggressively and obsessively which should be avoided as indulging in irresponsible use of social media could amount to commission of cyber crimes which is punishable under IT Act & IPC, she noted. Longchar also explained that human trafficking is a way to make money by exploiting people and victims are often
trafficked from villages to towns and cities. Women and children are most vulnerable group for such trafficking and usually used prostitutions, forced labour, marriage, bar dancers, she added. She further cautioned the students to be wary about job advertisements, online job offer, online dating and be vigilant as traffickers may not necessarily be a stranger but it could be anyone who is well known to you. Presenting her topic “Gender Equality” & “Basic Legal Rights” Neiteo Koza said gender inequality is a global issue which does not only concerns women but
men as well and called for promotion of equality by everyone. Gender equality is enshrined in the preamble of the Constitution, Directive Principles of States Policies and is one of the Fundamental rights and duties where responsibilities lies on every person to uphold and take certain steps to help achieve gender parity, she further explained. She also said that equal opportunities should be given to women if “we want to witness total progression in all spheres of life” stressing that women constitute half of the population limiting her participation in
MEx FILE DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN has informed all the women members, wives and widows of the GPRN/NSCN members both civil and army set up that there will be an interaction with the Ato Kilonser, N. Kitovi Jimomi on March 14, 11AM at Council Headquarters, Khehoi. A press note from GPRN/NSCN Akheli Yepthomi has informed all concerned to attend the said programme without fail. Transportation will be provided and one can contact. Holitoly Aye, Chairperson, NSWW @ 9862153018 for further information, it added.
Church’s educational mission which not only aims at providing quality education but also believes in providing education to all strata of the society. St. Thomas Mission Society’s education mission in Nagaland is entering a new venture by opening B.ed College, it informed adding that Zeliang further assured all possible help to develop new educational ventures in the State.
Limiting women’s participation affects all round development DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The student of Phek Government College were sensitise on ““Gender Sensitive Legal Measures for Students” at a programme organised under the theme by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development ( RGNIYD) in collaboration National Service Scheme (NSS) at the college campus today. Two Lawyer Akumla Longchari and Neiteo Koza were the resource persons. Speaking on the topics “Online violence and exploitation of women and children” and “Human trafficking & Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, Akumla Longchar said technology has really revolutionised the world,
of the said person, if there is any such person within its organisation.” This declaration, it stated has been issued as resolved in the Hoho Meeting of March 9, 2016 and “that the misadventure, by Abemo, defaming wokha village or any other, and indulging in intimidation activities, is condemned and will not be tolerated. Any organisation sponsoring such a person will lose the support of the affected public.”
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Government orders transfer of IAS/NCS/NSS OFFICERS KoHIMA, MARCH 10 (DIPR): In the interest of public service the Government of Nagaland has ordered transfer & posting of the following IAS/NCS/ NSS officers with immediate effect as under:1. R. Binchilo Thong, IAS: Addl. Chief Secretary & Development Commissioner shall hold additional charge of Forest Department vice N N Zhasa retired. 2. Ramongo Lotha, IAS, Secretary, Excise is transferred and posted as Secretary, Food & Civil Supplies
Village, by the name ABEMO, who is with the NSCN (R),” it stated. The Lotha Hoho therefore declared that the identity of the said LY Abemo, “who claims to be a cadre of the NSCN (R), is not established. Hence the claim of the said LY Abemo, that he hails from Wokha village, Wokha district, Nagaland, is false, and that the concerned authority may take necessary action so as to establish the true identity
some sectors affects the all round development. In this regard, Koza urged the students give their support and work together for empowering women. “Laws are enacted to protect and not to dictate therefore we should be vigilant and be aware of our rights at the same time while exercising these rights and liberties one should not infringed and hamper others rights,” she further maintained. Kazo also called on the students to perform their duties as a good citizen in upholding the unity of the nation and promote peace and
harmony in the society at the same time take initiatives to protect the environment. Earlier, welcoming the gathering, Principal Phek Government College, Katoni Jakhalu said that education is useless without putting into practice what has being learned and do away with the age old customs and practices which is no longer relevant in the present society. The programme was chaired by Besungulie Venuh, Vice Principal, Phek Government College and the Introduction for the Programme was given by Zukhovelu. As the follow up, the College resolved to conduct an essay competition on the topics covered, a press note from the event informed.
AKTD presidential council DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The Ao Students’ Union Dimapur (AKTD) has convened a presidential council on March 12 at 1 pm at its treasurer’s residence. All the village units’ presidents and sub-units presidents have been directed to attain the meeting without fail.
KMC appeal citizens DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): Informing the specific timing assigned for dumping of garbage's at its collection points all across town is 6:00PM-4:00AM, the Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has once again appealed the citizens of Kohima to follow the timing given for the general benefit and cleanliness of the town. Certain individuals are in the habit of dumping wastes/ garbages immediately after the garbages are cleared every morning despite the timing given, a press note from KMC Administrator Kovi Meyase added.
SAKH Pughoboto meeting DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The Sumi Aphuyemi Kikami Hoho, Pughoboto has convened a general meeting on April 6 from 10AM at Pughoboto Town. A press note form Pughoboto SAKH President Suhoje Kiho GB said further requested its Associate members – SAKK and SATH to send their representatives to attend the meeting positively. A executive meeting of SAKH will also held on April 5 from 2PM. A membership of Rs. 100 per head will be collected from old members and Rs. 200 for new appointees, it added.
SBI Association condoles DIMAPUR, MARCH 10 (MExN): The State Bank of India Employees Association Nagaland has expressed its shock and grief to learn about the demise of their ‘comrade’ Debashis Nath, Special Associate of Golaghat Road Branch on February 29. The SBI staff of Nagaland shares its grief and sorrow with the bereaved family and pray to Almighty God to grant solace and peace to the departed soul, a condolence note from SBI Dy General Secretary, Jorhat South Module, A Lolly Moses stated.
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‘Solution to the Indo-Naga conflict should come from outside the Indian constitutional framework’ Speech delivered by Eno. Zhopra Vero, Kedallo, NNC/FGN at the consultative meeting of all the naga national political groups convened by the nagaland legislators’ forum on 9th march, 2016
Hon’ble Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly; Hon’ble Chief Minister, Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland and my esteemed colleagues.
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n this important occasion, I extend my warm greetings to you all. On 23rd February 2016, the Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) released a joint press statement to express our displeasure and disapproval with regard to the initiative and activities of the Parliamentary Working Committee (PWC), Nagaland Legislators Forum. We objected not because you have no right to speak on Naga issue but because your action has the potential of bringing about further misunderstanding and division amongst the Nagas on the one hand and on the other hand it indirectly legitimizes the forceful integration of Nagaland into the Indian Union and the Indian system that suppresses our right to live as free people of which you are a part. If you go to Delhi without taking into confidence the general will of the people or without knowing the content of the ‘Framework Agreement’ that may determine the future of the Naga people, how can we be sure that you are not acting only as the mouthpiece of the NSCN (IM) or that you are not trying to please Modi and his government? The Chairman of the NLF, Mr. Chotisuh
Sazo and the Chief Minister, Government of Nagaland Mr. T.R. Zeliang gave a rejoinder to the statement on 26th February 2016 whereby they stated that “all the Political parties in Nagaland have peaceful resolution of the Naga Political issue as one of its agenda. This is sought to be done, not by active participation in the Political dialogue between the GoI and the NPGs but by acting as facilitator to the peace process.” Now that you have made your position somewhat known to us, we would like to raise some more questions for you to think about, or better, to clarify now. In facilitating any discussion, it is extremely important that the facilitator is not influenced by any party in question. Are you free from being influenced by any party? As facilitators, enough groundwork should be done in order to bring together stakeholders or parties to the negotiating table; what have you done in this connection? To our knowledge, we have not been consulted. Are you of the opinion that the solution to the IndoNaga problem can be brought about only by some section of Naga people? How can you project yourselves as the facilitator if what you are trying to facilitate is only going to bring more confusion and division? It is important that you don’t take any party for granted; you should not be biased. Moving on to my next point, I would like to place before you some points that are a matter of concern. First, is there a mechanism to ensure the sincerity of Delhi Government? Do you trust the Indian systems or methods of solving problems? Why is Delhi still endorsing the ‘divide and rule’ policy to deal
with our national question? Why is the agreement or negotiation to solve the Indo-Naga problem still exclusive despite the repeated statements that it will be inclusive? To cite an instance, neither the Prime Minister nor the Indian interlocutor is yet to extend a formal invitation to us for a talk; not that we are complaining but that this explains their insincerity and hypocrisy. An informal meeting was held with R.N. Ravi on 7th December, 2015 at his request; however till date no follow-up nor further communication has been initiated. If this is the attitude of Delhi towards us in particular and Nagas in general, what kind of peace process do you think you are going to facilitate? Secondly, upto what extend do you trust the NSCN (IM) to conclude the Naga political solution with India? Since 2008, under the banner of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), the Naga National Political Groups has had several rounds of talks at various levels. Numerous documents and agreements have been drafted and signed together with the support of the people and with God as the witness. However, there is no commitment or desire on the part of the NSCN (IM) to strengthen the Naga national cause by joining hands with the other political parties even after these agreements. The leaders of the NSCN (IM) are too happy to be in the good book of Delhi government and to be on negotiating terms with it. Where is the integrity and the commitment to the cause of Naga nationalism? How far can the Naga people trust the NSCN-IM with the Naga National Cause if they cannot be transparent to the Naga peo-
ple? Is Naga nationalism owned by them that they can do whatever they want to without even the knowledge and consent of the people? What kind of peace process are you going to facilitate if the signatories of the “Framework Agreement” are not trustworthy? Thirdly, we believe any solution that is arrived at should be honourable and acceptable to the Naga people. We still have not learnt as to how our historic struggle can be separated from the historic declaration of Naga Independence of 14th August 1947 and the Plebiscite of 16th May 1951 in favor of a sovereign Naga nation. For us, they not only constitute as the foundations and pillars of our national struggle but they also continue to serve as inspirations to stand up for our rights no matter what. Thousands have given up their lives for the Naga Cause and nothing would be more dishonourable than to betray their sacrifices for want of money or power. Any solution would not be deemed honourable if it is done by negating the dignity and rights of the Naga people. If there is going to be any solution to the political conflict then first of all the Indian state has to change its perception of the Nagas and the Naga struggle. There has to be honor and respect involved in the dialogue itself. It ought to be noted that we are not begging for any special favor from the Indian state. On the contrary, we are just asking the Indian state to do what is right for her own sake – to honor the right of the Nagas to shape and determine our own destiny instead of forcefully imposing her will on the Naga people. Honorable solution cannot be equated
with what packages Nagas will get. To be more precise, honorable solution cannot be treated like a bargaining chip – how much Nagas gain or how much the Indian state gains. It is not even about win-win situation. Even if the negotiation is acceptable to us due to the offer which is so good, will it be honourable if it is done within the Indian constitutional framework? History will not forgive us if we are to compromise our rights and honor. The Nagas do not consider either the 16 Point Agreement or the Shillong Accord as honourable solutions. On the contrary, they have been widely condemned and termed as dishonourable and outright attempts to sell the rights of the Naga people and have been the cause of much division and bloodshed. Let us also not forget the fact that till date the signatories of the Shillong Accord have been branded as “Traitors” for accepting the Indian Constitution. Today if a Naga Political Group or Groups is to accept the Indian Constitution and hold talks with the GoI under the Constitution of India what should we call them? Therefore, any solution should be grounded in the truth of the Naga people’s dignity and identity on the one hand and on the principles of equality and mutual respect on the other. If solution is sought within the framework of the Indian constitution, it nullifies all the values and principles; it would be like building houses on the tombs of those who sacrificed their lives for the Naga Cause and also legitimizing the marriage of a rapist with the minor victim. In short, solution to the Indo-Naga conflict should come from outside the Indian constitutional framework.
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express volume Xi issue 68
Challenging Perception
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onflicts are natural and occur at all levels of human interaction within and between individuals, communities, cultures and countries. The general perception that conflict is negative emerges from the assumption that conflicts are inherently associated with violence, and the absence of any violence implies there must be no conflict. In actuality, whenever peaceful co-existence is interrupted or broken conflict exists. Unfortunately, perceptions of war and peace only reaffirm the status quo of ‘negative peace’ – a peace that focuses on ending violence without justice. This ‘negative peace’ perpetuates the conflict and does not allow for peaceful relations to be established because of its suppressive nature. Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen shares the view that, “what is important, is not whether conflicts themselves are good or bad, but how we deal with them.” Current approaches dealing with conflicts reveal that there is a tendency to focus too much on ending the violence by presenting selective short-term options without addressing the peoples’ aspirations and needs. Such approaches do not empower peace interventions for exploring settlements that are consistent with justice. The thinking, language and actions that contribute to long lasting change using nonviolent means have not replaced deep-rooted causes of the conflict. This effectively denies the spectrum of rights that is necessary for unrepresented peoples to experience rehumanization and dignity. Invariably, this prevents the people from determining its own destiny, and perhaps this is one of the reasons why self-determination conflicts have either spanned over an extended period of time or have reoccurred. In protracted conflicts, Frederic S. Pearson says “attitudes seem particularly resistant where the conflict has witnessed a long history of mutual attack and atrocity.” He points out that the process of transforming conflicts needs to create a “perception of common concern” so that trust-building can begin to take place helping attitudes to shift. Initiatives to mobilize and involve people need to be an ongoing effort throughout the course of the peace process in various peacebuilding activities such as, trust-building, peoples-to-peoples dialogue, trauma healing, reconciliation, to rehumanize the image of the ‘cultural other,’ to encourage and support leaders in making conciliatory steps, truth-telling and envisioning a shared future. John Paul Lederach calls for “cultivating an infrastructure for peacebuilding” which is not merely interested in ending something that is undesirable, but “oriented toward the building of relationships that in their totality form new patterns, processes, and structures.” Clearly, top-down approaches to peace-building, “peace imposed from above or from abroad,” and “resolutions by force or the threat of force”, will not lead to peace. Rather they may provoke the conflict causing further escalation. Any sustainable solution to peacefully transforming a conflict involves the peoples’ active participation at all levels of society, and a peoples’ values, needs and interests need to be integral in a peace process and upheld in a settlement. Attaining levels of transcendence requires empathy, creativity, sincerity based on nonviolence. There is no readymade, one-size-fits-all blueprint for addressing self-determination conflicts. In each case, the parties involved must consider their distinctive context of “historical and political circumstances” and find a balance among various interests and values to make transformation possible.
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An expert diagnosis of our violent world Book Review:: The World in Conflict; Author: John Andrews; Publisher: The Economist Books/Hachette; Pages: 320; Price: Rs. 499
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he human race's optimism would have been comic, had it not been frequently belied by tragedy - and their propensity to violence. After almost every major conflict - be it the two World Wars, the Cold War, or more recently, the Afghan and Iraq wars - or major paradigm shift, like the "triumph" of democracy, of globalisation, there has been hope that there would be abiding peace at last. Facts on ground argue otherwise. Even today, or rather, especially today, conflict - actual or latent - afflicts nearly a third of all countries across five of the six populated continents - and it always doesn't need to be between nation-states. The conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and Libya, the India-Pakistan standoff, the inter-Korean stalemate and the prickly Israeli-Palestinian issue have been going on quite some time, but there are many more, including in what used to be the Soviet Union and as the case of the happenings in Ukraine shows, they also have power to affect the regional and international order. Evolving superpowers may also plant seeds - China's increasing efforts to assert its offshore presence' worries a lot of its Asian neighbours. And then who can ignore the violence by transnational Islamist terror groups, chiefly Al Qaeda and now increasingly the IS, and their local proxies, or secessionist or revolutionary groups. Avid followers of news might know of the Kurds and the IRA, Yemen's Houthis, Boko Haram in Nigeria, or the FARC or Shining Path in South America or the IRA, but where does the Movement for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda operate or for that matter, the Informal Anarchist Federation? What are the goals of the Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces of Greece, or the Groups of Popular Combatants in Ecuador? This book will help you. Not only does it comprehensively list the "causes, contexts, participants, impacts and likely outcomes" of all existing conflicts, it also seeks to address "why global conflict is ever-present in our lives", as well as "where, how and why new conflicts might erupt". Andrews, "The Economist's most experienced foreign correspondent, with postings in Europe, Asia and America", notes the "word 'conflict' can be applied to everything from a playground squabble to the Second World War" and but for his book, he uses it as "a difference of opinion - between nations, peoples or political movements - that involves the use of deadly violence" with the yardstick is that such a conflict should still be happening - that is why the post-Yugoslavia wars and the Rwandan genocide get only a passing reference. But still Andrews says that "there is a sobering number of conflicts that satisfy my criterion" from the obvious cases of Iraq and Afghanistan to secessionist violence around the world and even violence by Latin American drug cartels threatening the state. He stresses "conflicts can have many, often overlapping causes, which makes it difficult to catalogue them by categories such as religion, race, territory, resources or ideology" and the simplest solution is presenting them "by geography and country, even though many conflicts, especially in Africa and the Middle East, cross national boundaries" - and that is what he has done. But adding to the wealth of information of conflicts across the continents is an insightful look at the causes of genesis of conflict, and its future which encompasses von Clausewitz, Mahatma Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Huntington and his "clash of civilisations", Fukuyama and his "end of history", Rummel and his "democracies do not fight each other", Steven Pinker, the "CNN-effect" and more. As a whole, as a compendium of incisive but accessible accounts of the world's trouble spots, the book more than holds its own.
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A global solution to a global refugee crisis
If implemented as intended, the UN Refugee Convention points the way to a truly global solution to the refugee crisis
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he UN’s Refugee Convention is increasingly marginal to the way in which refugee protection happens around the world. I believe that this is a bad thing—both for refugees and for states. When introducing the draft of the Refugee Convention some 65 years ago, the UN’s first Secretary General explained that “[t]his phase... will be characterized by the fact that the refugees will lead an independent life in the countries which have given them shelter. With the exception of the ‘hard core’ cases, the refugees will no longer be maintained by an international organization as they are at present. They will be integrated in the economic system of the countries of asylum and will themselves provide for their own needs and for those of their families.” Yet today, and despite the fact that 148 countries have signed onto the Refugee Convention, the reality is quite the opposite. Most refugees today are not allowed to live independent lives. Most refugees are maintained by an international organization. And most refugees are emphatically not allowed to provide for their own needs. Most refugees today do not enjoy the freedom of movement to which they are entitled under international law. In an especially cruel irony, the UN’s refugee agency—the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)—runs more refugee camps than anyone else. Not only is this response unlawful, it is absurdly counter-productive. Refugees become burdens on their hosts and the international community, and they are debilitated in ways that often make it difficult for them ever to return home, integrate locally or resettle. The risk of violence in refugee camps is also endemic— with women and children especially vulnerable to the anger that too often arises from being caged up. What went wrong? One thing that is not wrong is the Refugee Convention itself. Its definition of a refugee (“a well-founded fear of being persecuted” for discriminatory reasons) has proved wonderfully flexible, identifying new groups of fundamentally disfranchised persons unable to benefit from human rights protection in their own countries. At least as important, its catalog of refugee-specific rights remains as valuable today as ever. The underlying theory of the Refugee Convention is emphatically not the creation of dependency by hand-outs. It guarantees the social and economic rights that refugees need to be able to get back on their feet after being forced away from their own national community—for example, to access education, to seek work and to start businesses. And as was patently obvious to the states that drafted the refugee treaty, refugees could not begin to look after themselves, much less to contribute to the well-being of their host communities, if they were caged up. For this reason, as soon as a refugee has submitted herself to the jurisdiction of the host country, satisfied authorities of her identity and addressed any security-related concerns, the Refugee Convention requires that
she be afforded not only freedom of movement, but the right to choose her place of residence—a right that continues until and unless the substance of her refugee claim is negatively determined. Indeed, a recent study shows that those countries that do facilitate refugee freedom of movement are often economically advantaged by the presence of refugees. Why, then, are so many refugees subject to constraints on freedom of movement? Part of the reason is that setting up refugee camps is an easy “one size fits all” answer that can be quickly and efficiently rolled out by both the UNHCR and many of its humanitarian partners. When there is a political imperative to act, the establishment of camps is a concrete and visible sign of engagement. Indeed, even as the rest of the world largely ignored the regional states receiving most Syrian refugees, international donors stepped forward to finance the building and operation of refugee camps. Most fundamentally, though, denying mobility rights to refugees is a strategy that appeals to states that would prefer to avoid their international duty to protect refugees. While not willing to accept the political cost of formally renouncing the treaty, states with the economic and practical wherewithal have for many years sought to ensure that refugees never arrive at their jurisdiction, at which point duties inhere. Deterrent practices have, however, been increasingly and successfully challenged in courts. Of course, poorer states, as well as those with especially porous borders, have rarely been able to deter refugee arrivals at all. In this context, refugee detention—often accompanied by other harsh treatment post-arrival— is seen as a second-best means for a state to “send a signal” that they are not open to the arrival of refugees. But why are states so often unwilling to receive refugees? Safety and security are of course frequently invoked. While such concerns can be real, there is no empirical evidence that refugees present a greater threat of crime or violence than do the many other noncitizens routinely crossing borders, or indeed those already resident in the state—including citizens. In any event, the Refugee Convention takes a very hard line on such cases, requiring the exclusion from refugee status of any person reasonably suspected of being a criminal, and allowing states to send away those shown to pose a threat to their safety or security—even back to the country of persecution if there is no other option. The real concern is instead that most governments believe that refugees who arrive at their borders impose unconditional and indefinite obligations on them—and on them alone. The idea that the arrival of refugees can effectively subvert a state’s sovereign authority over immigration is understandably unsettling to even powerful states. For states of the less developed world, which receive more than 80% of the world’s refugees, the challenge can be acute. They are supported by no more than the (often grossly inadequate and inevitably fluctuating) charity of wealthier countries, and rarely benefit from meaningful support to lessen the human responsibility of protection. Of the roughly 14 million refugees in the world last year, only about 100,000 were resettled—with just two countries, the United States and Canada, providing the lion’s share of this woefully inadequate contribution. The challenge, then, is to ensure that refugees can access meaningful
protection in a way that both addresses the legitimate concerns of states and which harnesses the refugees’ own ability to contribute to the viability of the protection regime. The irony is that the Refugee Convention itself suggests the way forward. It rejects a charity-based model in favor of refugee empowerment. It is massively attentive to the safety and security concerns of states. It does not require the permanent admission of refugees, but only their protection for the duration of the risk in their home country. And perhaps most important, the refugee regime was never intended to operate in the atomized and uncoordinated way that has characterized most of its nearly 65-year history. To the contrary, the Preamble to the Refugee Convention expressly recognizes that “the grant of asylum may place unduly heavy burdens on certain countries”, such that real global protection “cannot therefore be achieved without international co-operation.” This is not just another tired call for states to live up to what they have signed onto. It is rather a plea for us fundamentally to change the way that refugee law is implemented. The obligations are right, but the mechanisms for implementing those obligations are flawed in ways that too often lead states to act against their own values and interests—and which produce needless suffering amongst refugees. How should we proceed? A team of lawyers, social scientists, non-governmental activists, and governmental and intergovernmental officials, drawn from all parts of the world, worked for five years to conceive the model for a new approach to implementing the Refugee Convention. We reached consensus on a number of core principles. 1. Reform must address the circumstances of all states, not just the powerful few. Most refugee “reform” efforts in recent years have been designed and controlled by powerful states—for example, Australia and the EU. There has been no effort to share out fairly in a binding way the much greater burdens and responsibilities of the less developed world, even at the level of financial contributions or guaranteed resettlement opportunities. This condemns poorer states and the 80% of refugees who live in them to mercurial and normally inadequate support—leading often to failure to respect refugee rights. It is also decidedly short-sighted in that the absence of meaningful protection options nearer to home is a significant driver of efforts to find extra-regional asylum, often playing into the strategies of smugglers and traffickers. 2. Plan for, rather than simply react to, refugee movements. The international refugee system should commit itself to pre-determined burden (financial) sharing and responsibility (human) sharing quotas. Such factors as prior contributions to refugee protection, per capita GDP, and arable land provide sensible starting points for the allocation of shares of the financial and human dimensions of protection. But, as the recent abortive effort to come up with such shares ex post by the European Union makes clear, the insurance-based logic of standing allocations can only be accomplished in advance of any particular refugee movement. 3. Embrace common but differentiated state responsibility. There need be no necessary con-
nection between the place where a refugee arrives and the state in which protection for duration of risk will occur, thus undercutting the logic of disguised economic migration via the refugee procedure. And rather than asking all states to take on the same protection roles, we should harness the ability and willingness of different states to assist in different ways. The core of the renewed protection regime should be common but differentiated responsibility, meaning that beyond the common duty to provide first asylum, states could assume a range of protection roles within their responsibility-sharing quota (protection for duration of risk; exceptional immediate permanent integration; residual resettlement)—though all states would be required to make contributions to both (financial) burden-sharing and (human) responsibility-sharing, with no trade-offs between the two. 4. Shift away from national, and towards international, administration of refugee protection. We advocate a revitalized UNHCR to administer quotas, with authority to allocate funds and refugees based on respect for legal norms; and encouragement of a shift to common international refugee status determination system and group prima facie assessment to reduce processing costs, thereby freeing up funds for real and dependable support to front-line receiving countries—including start-up funds for economic development that links refugees to their host communities, and which facilitate their eventual return home. Our economists suggest that reallocation of the funds now spent on domestic asylum systems would more than suffice to fund this system. And since as described below positive refugee status recognition would have no domestic immigration consequence for the state in which status assessment occurs, this savings could be realized without engaging sovereignty concerns. 5. Protection for duration of risk, not necessarily permanent immigration. We should be clear that this is a system for which migration is the means to protection, not an end in and of itself. Managed entry regimes should be promoted where feasible, though the right of refugees to arrive wherever they can reach without penalization for unlawful presence must be respected (thus undercutting the market for smugglers and traffickers). Some refugees—such as unaccompanied minors and victims of severe trauma—will require immediate permanent integration, though others should instead be granted rights-regarding protection for duration of risk. Creative development assistance linking refugees to host communities would increase the prospects for local integration, and many refugees will eventually feel able to return home. But for those still without access to either of these solutions at 5-7 years after arrival, residual resettlement would be guaranteed to those still at risk, enabling them to remake their lives with a guarantee of durable rights—in stark contrast to the present norm of often indefinite uncertainty. If we are serious about avoiding continuing humanitarian tragedy— not just in Europe but throughout the world—then the present atomized and haphazard approach to refugee protection must end. The moment has come not to renegotiate the Refugee Convention, but rather at long last to operationalize that treaty in a way that works dependably, and fairly.
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The Radical Work of Healing: A new kind of Civil Rights Activism "Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles" Sarah van Gelder
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ngela Davis and her sister Fania Davis were working for social justice before many of today’s activists were born. From their childhood in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, where their friends were victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, to their association with the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party, to their work countering the prison-industrial complex, their lives have centered on lifting up the rights of African Americans. In 1969, Angela Davis was fired from her teaching position at UCLA because of her membership in the Communist Party. She was later accused of playing a supporting role in a courtroom kidnapping that resulted in four deaths. The international campaign to secure her release from prison was led by, among others, her sister Fania. Angela was eventually acquitted and continues to advocate for criminal justice reform. Inspired by Angela’s defense attorneys, Fania became a civil rights lawyer in the late 1970s and practiced into the mid-1990s, when she enrolled in an indigenous studies program at the California Institute of Integral Studies and studied with a Zulu healer in South Africa. Upon her return, she founded Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. Today, she is calling for a truth and reconciliation process focused on the historic racial trauma that continues to haunt the United States. Sarah van Gelder: You were both activists from a very young age. I’m wondering how your activism grew out of your family life, and how you talked about it between the two of you. Fania Davis: When I was still a toddler, our family moved into a neighborhood that had been all white. That neighborhood came to be known as Dynamite Hill because black families moving in were harassed by the Ku Klux Klan. Our home was never bombed, but homes around us were. Angela Davis: Fania is probably too young to remember this, but I remember that strange sounds would be heard outside, and my father would go up to the bedroom and get his gun out of the drawer, and go outside and check to see whether the Ku Klux Klan had planted a bomb in the bushes. That was a part of our daily lives. Many people assume that the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church was a singular event, but actually there were bombings and burnings all the time. When I was 11 and Fania was 7, the church we attended, the First Congregational Church, was burned. I was a member of an interracial discussion group there, and the church was burned as a result of that group. We grew up in an atmosphere of terror. And today, with all the discussion about terror, I think it’s important to recognize that
there were reigns of terror throughout the 20th century.
bring an end to capitalism. And I think that I was fortunate to have been singled out at a moment of conjuncture of a whole number of things.
Sarah: So where were you when you heard the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing had happened?
Sarah: Your work since that time has centered on the criminal justice system. Are you both prison abolitionists?
Fania: I was attending high school in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. And I didn’t take no stuff from nobody. I was always talking about James Baldwin or Malcolm X, and always bringing up issues of racial equity and justice. I heard about the bombing when my mother told me that one of the girls’ mother had called her up—because they were close friends—and said, “There’s been a bombing at the church. Come and ride down with me so we can get Carole, because Carole’s at church today.” And they drive down there together, and she finds that there is no Carole, she’s been … there’s no body even. I think it fueled this fire, the fire of anger and just made me determined to fight injustice with all of the energy and strength that I could muster. Sarah: Can you say more about what everyday life was like for you growing up?
ida, and finally I was arrested in New York Angela: We went to segregated schools, li- in October. It was during the time that I was braries, churches. We went to segregated underground that the campaign really began to develop. everything! Fania: Of course, in some ways it was a good thing that we were very tight as a black community. When we went outside of our homes and communities, the social messaging was that you’re inferior: You don’t deserve to go to this amusement park because of your color or to eat when you go downtown shopping. You must sit in the back of the bus. At the same time, at home, our mother always told us, “Don’t listen to what they say! Don’t let anybody ever tell you that you’re less than they are.” And so I found myself—even as a 10-year-old—just going into the white bathrooms and drinking out of the white water fountains, because from a very early age I had a fierce sense of right and wrong. My mother would be shopping somewhere else in the store, and before she knew it, the police were called. Sarah: Let’s skip ahead to when it became clear that you, Angela, were going to need a whole movement in your defense. And Fania, you ended up spending years defending her. Fania: Yeah, about two years. Angela: In 1969, I was fired from a position in the philosophy department at UCLA. That’s when all the problems started, and I would get threats like every single day. I was under attack only because of my membership in the Communist Party. Fania: Angela had been very involved with prison-rights activism at the time, leading demonstrations up and down the state. And then she was all over the news: “Communist Fired From Teaching at UCLA,” you know, “Black Power Radical.” Angela: Then in August 1970, I was charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. And so I had to go underground. I found my way to Chicago, then to New York and Flor-
Sarah: So, Fania, when did you turn your focus to supporting your sister’s cause? Fania: The night before I left Cuba, I found out that she had been captured. So instead of going home to California, I immediately went to where Angela was in the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. Angela: All of my friends and comrades began to build the campaign. Once I was arrested and extradited, they all moved up to the Bay Area. We were active in the Communist Party, and, you know, whatever criticisms one might have of the Communist Party, we could go anywhere in the world and find people with whom we had some kinship, and people opened their homes. It was the Party that was the core of the organizing for my release, and the movement was taken up by students on campus and church people. This happened all over the world. Every time I visit a place for the first time, I always find myself having to thank people who come up to me and say, “We were involved in your case.” Sarah: Did you know that there was that kind of support happening? Angela: I knew, and I didn’t know. I knew abstractly, but Fania was the one who traveled and actually got to witness it. Fania: Yeah, I was speaking to 60,000 people in France and 20,000 in Rome, London, and East and West Germany, all over the world, and seeing this massive movement to free her. Angela: It was an exciting era because people really did believe that revolutionary change was possible. Countries were getting their independence, and the liberation movements were going on, and there was this hope all over the world that we would
Angela: Oh, absolutely. And it’s exciting to see that the notion of abolition is being broadly embraced not only as a way to address over incarceration, but as a way to imagine a different society that no longer relies on repressive efforts of violence and incarceration. Abolition has its origin in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and the idea that slavery itself was dismantled, but the means of addressing the consequences of that institution were never developed. In the late 1800s, there was a brief period of radical reconstruction that shows us the promise of what might have been. Black people were able to generate some economic power, start newspapers and all kinds of businesses. But all of this was destroyed with the reversal of Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1880s.
who has committed unspeakable acts of violence? If we simply rely on the old form of sending them to prison or the death penalty, I think we end up reproducing the very process that we’re trying to challenge. So maybe can we talk about restorative justice more broadly? Many of the campaigns initially called for the prosecution of the police officer, and it seems to me that we can learn from restorative justice and think about alternatives. Sarah: Fania, you told me when we talked last year that your work on restorative justice actually came about after you went through a personal transition period in the mid-1990s, when you decided to shift gears.
Fania: I reached a point where I felt out of balance from all of the anger, the fighting, from a kind of hypermasculine way of being that I had to adopt to be a successful trial lawyer. And also from around 30 years of the hyperaggressive stance that I was compelled to take as an activist—from being against this and against that, and fighting this and fighting that. Intuitively, I realized that I needed an infusion of more feminine and spiritual and creative and healing energies to come back Fania: Yeah, we abolished the institution of into balance. slavery, but then it was replaced by sharecropping, Jim Crow, lynching, convict leas- Sarah: How did that affect your relationship ing. The essence of the racial violence and as sisters? trauma that we saw in the institution of slavery and in those successive institutions con- Fania: My sister and I had a period—right tinues today in the form of mass incarcera- in the middle of that—when our relations tion and deadly police practices. were strained for about a year, due in part to this transformation. It was very painful. Angela: We’re taking up struggles that link At the same time, I finally understood that it us to the anti-slavery abolitionists, and needed to happen because I was forging my the institution of the prison and the death own identity separate from her. I had always penalty are the most obvious examples of been a little sister who followed right in her the ways in which slavery has continued footsteps. to haunt our society. So it’s not only about Yeah, and so now we are close again. getting rid of mass incarceration, although And she’s becoming more spiritual. that’s important. It’s about transforming the entire society. Angela: I think our notions of what counts as radical have changed over time. Self-care Sarah: How might restorative justice help and healing and attention to the body and with this transformation? the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles. That Fania: A lot of people think that restor- wasn’t the case before. ative justice can only address interpersonal And I think that now we’re thinking harm—and it’s very successful in that. But deeply about the connection between inthe truth and reconciliation model is one terior life and what happens in the social that’s supposed to address mass harm— world. Even those who are fighting against to heal the wounds of structural violence. state violence often incorporate impulses We’ve seen that at work in about 40 different that are based on state violence in their relanations; the most well-known is, of course, tions with other people. the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Fania: When I learned about restorative In South Africa, the commission invited justice, it was a real epiphany because it victims of apartheid to testify, and, for the integrated for the first time the lawyer, the first time ever, they told their stories publicly. warrior, and the healer in me. It was on all the radio stations, in all the newsThe question now is how we craft a propapers, it was all over the television, so peo- cess that brings the healing piece together ple would come home and tune in and learn with the social and racial justice piece— things about apartheid that they had never how we heal the racial traumas that keep reknown before. There was an intense national enacting. discussion going on, and people who were harmed felt vindicated in some way. Angela: I think that restorative justice is a That kind of thing can happen here, also, really important dimension of the process through a truth and reconciliation process. of living the way we want to live in the fuIn addition to that sort of hearing commis- ture. Embodying it. sion structure, there could be circles hapWe have to imagine the kind of society pening on the local levels—circles between, we want to inhabit. We can’t simply assume say, persons who were victims of violence that somehow, magically, we’re going to and the persons who caused them harm. create a new society in which there will be new human beings. No, we have to begin Angela: How does one imagine account- that process of creating the society we want ability for someone representing the state to inhabit right now.
How to help Arabs & Germans but forget locals: GoI style
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Garga Chatterjee
ew things capture the seat-at-bigtable yearnings of something as petty as Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan at the launch of the 12 language 24*7 tourist helpline launched on 8th February 2016 by Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture. As some aspirational browns want to look and act like whites while retaining Bollywood inspired Hindi-Hindu characteristics a.k.a. “Indian culture”, it’s important to understand the anti-people ideology than lies beneath some apparently people-friendly initiatives, such as the 12 language helpline. By adopting multi-lingual “global standards”, it projects an outward image of inclusiveness – the form. A close scrutiny of this, along with certain other signals and events, reveals the deep ideology of exclusion that lies beneath – the content. The question that lies at the heart of all this is – which humans does the Government of India consider as people, and by implication, which humans are considered less-people or non-people. It is true that information in their mother-tongue would help tourists have hasslefree travel. Hence, the logical focus of such enabling infrastructure should have been helplines in those languages whose speakers exist in the largest number among tourists but don't have tourist information in the form of signs, directions, boards in their language. In short, an unmet need. So, Hindi, having near universal presence in most tourist sites of note in the form of Government of India funded boards, signs and Hindi-speaking staff and in all trainstations and airports, is the language whose speakers have a huge tourism infrastructure already available to them, unmatched by none. This is true of English too. Among speakers of languages, Hindi and English
speakers should have the least problem in navigating within India, thanks to the already existing public infrastructure in the form of sign-baords, government websites and Hindi/English knowing personnel funded mostly using non-Hindi people's money and resources. In 2013, domestic tourists out numbered foreign tourists by about 163 to 1. Now, looking at the number of tourists (domestic and international), the top tourist's languages with minimal pan-India tourist friendly infrastructure are essentially subcontinental languages like Marathi, Bangla, Tamil, Malayalam, etc. If the government were to count number of tourists whose languages have minimal pre-existing pan-India tourism-help infrastructure and were to chose helpline languages based on that democratic criterion of unmet need, it would be a helpline with Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Bangla, Telugu, etc. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are among the top 5 source countries of foreign arrival in India. The tourist helpline that Minister Mahesh Sharma inaugurated with much fan-fare has Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese and Russian languages, none of which figure in the top 10 languages whose speakers do tourism in India. The other 2 languages of the helpline are Hindi and English, the two languages in which huge amount of information is already present in near all major tourist sites in India. In short, if the languages had anything to do with what kind of language assistance tourists in India mostly need but don’t get, the helpline completely bypasses that. Thus, the majority of Tamils or Bengalis or Telugu tourist will continue to be as clueless in areas outside his or her homeland. For Arabs and Germans, Government of India has a ready helpline. Even for the far more numerous but brown-skinned Bangla or
Tamil or Sinhala speaking foreign tourists, there is no helpline. So, what clues do we gain into Government of India's ideology and resultant policy from something as apparently mundane as a tourist helpline? One can summarize as follows. Firstly, all tourists may be tourists, but to external-image-conscious Government of India, concerns of foreign tourists are far more important, even if they are relatively fewer in number. Secondly, a Hindi tourist must not be inconvenienced anywhere in the Indian Union, even if that means adding more tourism infrastructure for Hindustanis in Hindi in addition to what already exists that already far, far-surpasses that of any other language, except English. Thirdly, if you happen to be a non-Hindi Indian citizen who doesn’t know English (that is, a majority of non-Hindi Indian citizens) but still would need information, the Government of India couldn’t care less. Fourthly, if you are a foreigner but happen to be brown-skinned, you don’t matter. It is from a certain diseased mentality that Government of India creates better equipped hostels for foreign students, erects visual barriers between poor people's housing agglomerations and roads that foreign dignitaries may ply upon and does not allow auto-rickshaws in Delhi's international airport. Such exclusion is not only about race and building a fake external image. It is also about class. When Air India has a Chennai to Kolkata flight where a majority of passengers naturally understand Tamil or Bangla, not a single Air India announcement is made in the Chennai airport, in the Kolkata airport and most crucially, on board while giving safety instructions, in either Tamil or Bangla. This is where class-discrimination and discrimination against non-Hindi peoples come together in a naked form.
The 'acceptable' Tamil or Bengali in board a Chennai to Kolkata flight is one who understands English, if not Hindi. A Tamil lady who does not know English or Hindi does not deserve to be fully serviced at the airport or on-board. She is made to feel inadequate and out of place. It is a sad, sad commentary on the diversity showcasing PR blitz called 'Incredible India'. Incredible indeed. It is similarly incredible that no local train ticket within West Bengal or Tamil Nadu has the station names printed in Bangla or Tamil. With its warped vision of what is tourism and who is a tourist, the Government of India has got its priorities all wrong. Nothing in the Constitution of India bans safety announcements in Tamil and Kannada for flights between Chennai and Bengaluru. It is the deep ideology of the Indian Union that does -an ideology that conceives the non-Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan peoples as ill-formed citizens, whose mother-tongues and concerns need to be suppressed, who need to be beaten into a new shape for cohesion and assimilation as equal citizens of the Indian Union. To a self-respecting Bengali like me, this is humiliation designed to show me my place with a hint of what about me needs to change so that I am 'acceptable'. That the funding for this discrimination actually comes largely from non-Hindi states via central taxation makes it even more disgusting. The rules about official languages that are incorrectly cited in support of Government of India's Anglo-Hindi formula doesn't become a hindrance when German or French or Arabic or Russian or Chinese or Japanese needs to be enabled. It’s only when non-Hindi subcontinental languages are excluded that a smokescreen of laws and logistical limitations is built. Servility to outsiders and dominating less powerful insiders seems to be the path of choice.
This post-1990 fetish about feeling sufficiently international by copying EuroAmerican scaffolds of homogeneity disregards the reality of tourism India. A large survey from 2002 by the Union Ministry of tourism shows that about half of all domestic tourists (excluding social travel), numbering more than 100 million, travelled for ‘religious purposes and pilgrimages’. Of the top 10 tourist destinations in India, 8 are religious and pilgrimage sites. Of total number of trips made by all domestic tourists, those whose are cultivators or agricultural wagelabourers contribute the largest proportion. More than 80% of all domestic tourists are not college-graduates. More than 70% of all tourist trips are made in buses. Let’s think about these numbers and realize how deliberately off-the-mark the highprofile tourism initiatives of the Government of India are. That would give us an idea about who it serves vis-a-vis who it ought to serve. That is the context in which Mahesh Sharma's multi-lingual helpline has to be seen. In the post-1990 scenario, when public utilities in the Indian Union are shrinking and the public space is becoming increasingly exclusionary, the Anglo-Hindi reshaping of the public space has the stamp of approval from big money and powerful urban cosmopolitan elites. While Ahomiyas, Meiteis, Maithilis, Bengalis, Tamil, Marathis, etc have no place in this new Indian ideology, it has no place for the “officially Hindi” poor Awadhi or Bhojpuri tourist either. These facts about India in general and about the tourism scene in particular may not be palatable to those whose idea of tourism is some version of firangi orientalism inspired “ethnic” exotica gawking or firang style backpacking “off the beaten path”. But however unpalatable it may be to certain miniscule yet powerful sensitivites and self-conceptios, it’s important to keep it real.
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INDIA
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India launches 6th navigation satellite in copy-book style
Sriharikota (andhra PradeSh), March 10 (ianS): India on Thursday successfully put into orbit its sixth navigation satellite called IRNSS-1F with its own rocket in a copy book style. With this success, India moved closer towards joining a select group of nations possessing its own satellite-based navigation system. Named as the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), the system consists of a constellation of seven satellites, of which the sixth was put into orbit on Thursday. Immediately after the 1,425-kg IRNSS-1F satellite was injected into space by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLVC32) rocket, scientists at the mission control centre clapped their hands in joy. "The sixth navigation satellite has been put into orbit successfully. The seventh navigation satellite is expected to be launched some time next month," A.S. Kiran Kumar, ISRO chairman said soon after. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will raise the satellite to its home slot over the next couple of days. The satellite, with a design life span of 12 years, has two
PSLV C32 Liftoff . (ISRO/Twitter)
payloads for navigation and ranging. The navigation payload of IRNSS-1F will transmit navigation service signals to the users. This payload will be operating in L5-band and S-band. A highly accurate rubidium atomic clock is part of the navigation payload of the satellite.
The ranging payload of IRNSS-1F consists of a C-band transponder (automatic receivers and transmitters of radio signals) which facilitates accurate determination of the range of the satellite. IRNSS-1F also carries Corner Cube Retro Reflectors for laser ranging.
Till date, India has launched six regional navigational satellites (IRNSS-1A, 1B, 1C, ID, 1E and 1F) as part of a constellation of seven satellites to provide accurate position information service to users across the country and the region, extending up to an area of 1,500 km.
Though the full system comprises nine satellites -- seven in orbit and two on the ground as stand-by, the navigation services could be made operational with four satellites, ISRO officials had said earlier. Each satellite costs about Rs.150 crore and the PSLVXL version rocket costs about Rs.130 crore. The seven rockets would entail an outlay of about Rs.910 crore. The entire IRNSS constellation of seven satellites is planned to be completed in 2016 itself. The first satellite IRNSS-1A was launched in July 2013, the second IRNSS-1B in April 2014, the third on October 2014, the fourth in March 2015, and the fifth in January this year. While the sixth satellite went up on Thursday, the seventh - IRNSS-1G - is expected to be launched in the second half of 2016. Once the regional navigation system is in place, India need not be dependent on other platforms. According to ISRO, even with the operationalisation of five IRNSS satellites, the proof of concept of an independent regional navigation satellite system over India has been
demonstrated for the targeted position accuracy of better than 20 metres over 24 hours of the day. The operationalisation of the sixth satellite, a better position accuracy will be provided, ISRO said. While ISRO is silent on the navigation systems strategic application, it is clear that IRNSS will be used for defence purposes as well. Indian space agency officials said IRNSS system is unique as it consists of only seven satellites while other systems in the world have more than 20 satellites. However, while other systems are global, Indian system is regional in nature. At 4.01 p.m. the PSLV rocket standing 44.4 metres tall and weighing 320 tonnes tore into the evening sky with a fierce orange flames at its tail. The rocket took off with a delay of one minute to avoid collision with space debris. Gathering speed every second, the rocked raced towards space amidst the cheers of the ISRO officials and the media team assembled at the rocket port here. At the rocket mission control room, Indian space scientists at ISRO were glued to their
computer screens watching the rocket escaping the earth's gravitational pull. Just over 20 minutes into the flight, the PSLV rocket ejected its sole passenger IRNSS-1F at an altitude of 488.9 km. Soon after the ejection into the orbit, the satellite's solar panels were deployed. The satellite's control was taken over by the Mission Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka. The MCF will manage the satellite's orbit raising operations and firing the on-board motors till it is placed in its slotted orbit. The IRNSS is similar to the global positioning system (GPS) of the US (24 satellites), Glonass of Russia, and Galileo of Europe as well as China's Beidou. While GPS and Glonass are fully functional global systems, the Chinese and the Japanese systems are offering regional coverage and Europe's Galileo is yet to be operational. The IRNSS will provide two types of services -- standard positioning service and restricted service. The former is provided to all users and the latter is an encrypted service for authorised users.
Headley to be cross-examined from March 22-25 MuMbai, March 10 (Pti): Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley will be cross-examined by key 26/11 plotter Abu Jundal's lawyer for four days in the 2008 terror attack case here, beginning from March 22. "We informed the court that Headley will depose from March 22-25 via video link from an undisclosed location in US, and the court passed an order," Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told PTI. He also said that if needed Headley might also be re-examined by the prosecution later. Headley, who has turned an approver, concluded his weeklong deposition through videolink on February 13 in which he re-
vealed the role and plans of LeT, ISI and Al Qeada to target India. Last month, on February 22, Judge G A Sanap had directed Nikam to contact US authorities for Headley's second round of deposition and inform the court by February 25, after which the dates of his testification were to be finalised. Jundal's lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan had then also sought four days to cross-examine Headley besides moving an application objecting to his being made an approver in the terror attack case. Earlier on February 13, the day on which Headley's week-long deposition ended, the court had adjourned the case for cross-examination by Jundal's lawyer for a
future date. Headley, who is serving a 35year jail term in the US in connection with the terror attacks case, had made some startling disclosures during his testimony which began on February 8. He spilled beans on how Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI provides "financial, military and moral support" to terror outfits LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen and how LeT had planned and executed the 26/11 attacks and the role played by ISI officials, involving him too. He also revealed that LeT had planned an attack at a conference of Indian defence scientists at Taj Mahal Hotel a year before the 26/11 strikes and had even pre-
pared its dummy. Deposing via a video-link from the US, the 55-year-old terrorist had told the court that --Ishrat Jahan--who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004 in Gujarat-was an operative of LeT. Headley had also revealed that Al-Qaeda was in touch with him to attack Delhi's National Defence College and unravelled the plot by LeT and ISI to target Mumbai airport, BARC and the Naval air station here. He also visited the Indian Army's Southern Command headquarters at Pune in 2009 on the instructions of ISI's Major Iqbal, who wanted him to recruit some military personnel to get "classified" Tibetan exiles shout anti-China slogans during a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delinformation, the court was told. hil. March 10 is the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against China's rule in Tibet. (AFP Photo)
Amid sedition row, JNU gets President's award 'Can't allow veto to have a veto over UNSC reform process' new delhi, March 10 (Pti): Amid a raging political row over sedition that has engulfed the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the prestigious institution has bagged the President's award for excellence in research and innovation. Tezpur University in Assam has won annual Visitor's award for 'best university'. President Pranab Mukherjee is the Visitor of central universities. "Tezpur University has won the annual Visitor's award for the best university and Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar as well as the Molecular Parasitology Group of JNU have won the Visitor's awards for 'research' and 'innovation' respectively," a press release issued today by Rashtarapati Bhavan said. Mukherjee will present the Visitor's awards for 2016 at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 14, as part of the 'Festival of
Innovations'. The President had announced institution of these awards at the Vice Chancellors' Conference in 2014 with the aim of promoting healthy competition amongst central universities and motivating them to adopt best practises from across the world. The Visitor's award for innovation will be given to Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar for development of a genetically engineered vaccine and a therapeutic antibody against anthrax, it said. The visitor's award for research will be presented to the Molecular Parasitology Group of JNU for its pioneering work in the area of molecular parasitology, especially anti-malaria, leishmaniasis and amoebiasis. The best university will receive a citation and trophy while winners of Visitor's award for innovation and
India signs treaty for conserving migratory birds The agreement, also called the Raptors MoU, covers 93 species of migratory birds of prey and extends up to 131 range states in the African-Eurasian Region new delhi, March 10 (dte): India has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals for protecting migratory birds of prey. The convention is an inter-governmental treaty under the United Nations Environment Programme. There are 122 Parties to it. The agreement, also called the Raptors MoU, covers 93 species of migratory birds of prey and extends up to 131 range states in the African-Eurasian Region. A range state means a state that exercises its jurisdiction over any part of the range of a particular migratory species. Range includes areas (both land and water) that a migratory species inhabits, stays temporarily and crosses or flies over any time on its normal migration route. Over 50 species of migratory raptors listed in the agreement occur in India which became the 56th signatory to the agreement on Monday. Around a million Amur Falcons (Falco amurensis) stop in Nagaland annually on their way to wintering areas in Southern Africa from breeding grounds in China and Russia, an official release said. This represents the largest concentration of any species of bird of prey anywhere in the world. The Raptors MoU will be in effect in India from April 1, 2016.
research will receive a citation and cash award of Rs one lakh. For selecting the winners, online applications were invited from all central universities for each category. A selection committee headed by Omita Paul, Secretary to the President, secretaries of department of higher education and department of science & technology as well as Chairman, University Grants Commission, Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, etc as members chose the winners. The week-long Festival of Innovations is being held at Rashtrapati Bhavan from March 12 to 19. It will commence with the inauguration of an exhibition of grassroots innovations on Saturday by the President. The festival will witness a number of exhibitions, round-table discussions on different topics related to innovations.
united nationS, March 10 (Pti): As differences persist among UN member states on the key issue of veto, India has asserted that the topic cannot be allowed to block the process of Security Council reform and called for consolidating the negotiating text on the basis of convergence reached so far. "The issue of veto is important but then we cannot also allow the veto to have a veto over the process of Council reform itself," India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin said here yesterday. Akbaruddin urged the chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) to consolidate the negotiat-
ing text on the basis of convergence reached on issues so far while also delineating the divergence and the contrarian view of some. He stressed that that chair should ask member states to build further on the consolidated and shortened text. Reiterating India's national position on the issue of veto, Akbaruddin said as long as the veto exists, it should be extended to new permanent members in a reformed Security Council. "The African Union (and this is understandable) does not wish to defer use. The difference, we see, as one of a degree than one of a kind," he said during the informal plenary meeting of the IGN on 'Question of Veto'.
Giving an elaborate historical perspective on the use of the veto in the 70-year history of the UN, Akbaruddin said from the time the Security Council was created in 1946 till today, 317 vetoes have been cast and as result 230 draft resolutions or parts thereof have been vetoed in total. In effect 10 per cent of the 2,271 resolutions adopted till date have been vetoed. He further underscored that apart from the use of the veto within the Security Council, there have been expansion of the veto to the Council's subsidiary bodies such as the Sanctions Committees. He said in these bodies the veto has been extended to all 15 members
of the Committees who can block, or object or place on hold any request of a Member State, thereby in effect killing the proposal on grounds that consensus is required. "As the well known idiom goes, 'if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck'. Yes...we have by a procedural stratagem expanded the veto to all members of the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council far from restraining its use," he said. Several other member states also support voluntary restrictions on the use of veto in situations such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and gross human rights violations.
Probe launched into missing Ishrat Jahan documents: Rajnath new delhi, March 10 (ianS): Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said key documents related to the Ishrat Jahan case have gone missing and the government is holding an internal inquiry over the change of affidavit and missing of letters and documents in connection with it. He also accused the previous Congress-led government of a flipflop over the controversial 2004 shootout that killed the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba woman operative. "Two letters from the then home secretary to the attorney general in 2009 have gone missing. The then attorney general had vetted two affidavits regarding the case. Those are also not available," Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha on Thursday, replying to a brief debate on the controversial June 15, 2004, shootout. He said that the government has launched an "internal inquiry" to find the missing documents "which will bring all the facts out" in the open. Without naming Congress leader P. Chidambaram, Rajnath Singh alleged that affidavits regarding the case were corrected on the intervention of the then home minister and reaffirmed that an
investigation has found that the Thane girl was a terrorist -- a claim also seconded by American-Pakistani terrorist David Coleman Headley in his deposition. "I am pained to say that there was a flip-flop on Ishrat Jahan case during the previous UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government," Rajnath Singh said, amid a pandemonium by some opposition members. "She was described as an LeT terrorist in the first affidavit filed in the Gujarat High Court but unfortunately the facts were given another dimension in an additional affidavit which was filed a month later. It seems an attempt was made to weaken the case." The minister also accused the previous government of hatching a conspiracy to malign the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and his government. "The affidavit was changed to malign the Gujarat government, the then chief minister. A conspiracy was hatched to drag him into the case." Rajnath Singh said that government was not relying solely on the testimony of Headley - a Lashkar operative who scouted terror targets before the 2008
Mumbai terror attack. Headley is currently in a US jail from where he was questioned by an Indian magistrate last month through videoconferencing. The Pakistani-American terrorist said he had heard his LeT handlers talk about a girl in India named Ishrat. He also accused the opposition party of playing cheap politics over Ishrat Jahan case. "Headley's deposition proved that Jahan was a terrorist and this fact was also mentioned in the first affidavit filed in Gujarat High Court," he said. The controversy over the case flared up again after Headley made the startling claim on February 11 this year about the 2004 Gujarat shootout -- the already murky Ishrat Jahan case has become even murkier. Rajnath Singh alleged that the previous government had tried to give a political and communal colour to terrorism in India and reminded the Congress of the "saffron terror" label given to describe acts of violence allegedly committed by Hindu nationalists. "Saffron terror was the previous government's term. Colour, creed and religion are not linked
to terrorism. They gave a communal colour to terrorism. This is opportunistic secularism." He said the whole world was battling "the menace of terrorism" and "there should not be politics over it". Earlier, Rajnath Singh said in his statement that the then union government in its seceond affidavit to the High Court did not mention the reason. "The notings on the concerned file do not provide any reason for filing of the affidavit on September 29, 2009. It has been mentioned in the affidavit that the further affidavit was being made in view of subsequent developments in relation to the issues connected with the petition and to clarify apprehensions expressed in regard to the affidavit filed by government on August 6, 2009, as well as to refute attempts to misinterpret portions of the affidavit." Participating in the discussion, BJP member Satyapal Singh, who had once headed the Special Investigation Team, alleged that one of the senior Congress leaders called him and allured if he does as per the desire of then Home Minister. "I got a call from one of the top
Congress leaders, who said that home minister has selected you especially for a mission and that mission is to prove the entire case a lie and have to reach up to Gujrat chief minister," he said. "I was allured. I told this to then Chief Minister of Maharashtra and his secretary," he said. Satyapal Singh also clarified why he left to continue as the chairman of the SIT. "Neither Congress nor BJP can pressurise me. I thought, whatever report I will submit, I will be targeted. So I made excuses of not knowing Gujrati and left," he said. "I even told the home minister that I can't work under such circumstances," he added. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) member Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo accused both the BJP and the Congress of doing vote bank politics over the case. "The UPA did vote bank politics and now the present government is doing the same. In all these credibility of IB and CBI was destroyed," he said. Terming the Ishrat Jahan shootout as extra judicial killing, the BJD leader said that she was killed in a fake encounter.
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Fukushima’s ground zero: No place for man or robot Aaron Sheldrick & Minami Funakoshi
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he robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima’s nuclear reactors have “died”; a subterranean “ice wall” around the crippled plant meant to stop groundwater from becoming contaminated has yet to be finished. And authorities still don’t know how to dispose of highly radioactive water stored in an ever mounting number of tanks around the site. Five years ago, one of the worst earthquakes in history triggered a 10-metre high tsunami that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station causing multiple meltdowns. Nearly 19,000 people were killed or left missing and 160,000 lost their homes and livelihoods. Today, the radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it has proven impossible to get into its bowels to find and remove the extremely dangerous blobs of melted fuel rods. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has made some progress, such as removing hundreds of spent fuel roads in one damaged building. But the technology needed to establish the location of the melted fuel
Members of the media, wearing protective suits and masks, walk after receiving a briefing from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) employees (in blue) in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at TEPCO’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on February 10. (REUTERS File Photo)
rods in the other three reactors at the plant has not been developed. “It is extremely difficult to access the inside of the nuclear plant,” Naohiro Masuda, Tepco’s head of decommissioning said in an interview. “The biggest obstacle is the radiation.” The fuel rods melted through their containment vessels in the reactors, and no one knows exactly where they are now. This part of the plant is so dangerous to humans, Tepco has been developing robots, which can swim under water and negotiate ob-
stacles in damaged tunnels and piping to search for the melted fuel rods. But as soon as they get close to the reactors, the radiation destroys their wiring and renders them useless, causing long delays, Masuda said. Each robot has to be custom-built for each building.“It takes two years to develop a single-function robot,” Masuda said. IRRADIATED WATER Tepco, which was fiercely criticised for its handling of the disaster, says conditions at the Fu-
kushima power station, site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in Ukraine 30 years ago, have improved dramatically. Radiation levels in many places at the site are now as low as those in Tokyo. More than 8,000 workers are at the plant at any one time, according to officials on a recent tour. Traffic is constant as they spread across the site, removing debris, building storage tanks, laying piping and preparing to dismantle parts of the plant. Much of the work involves pumping a steady
torrent of water into the wrecked and highly radiated reactors to cool them down. Afterward, the radiated water is then pumped out of the plant and stored in tanks that are proliferating around the site. What to do with the nearly million tonnes of radioactive water is one of the biggest challenges, said Akira Ono, the site manager. Ono said he is “deeply worried” the storage tanks will leak radioactive water in the sea - as they have done several times before prompting strong criticism for the government. The utility has so far failed to get the backing of local fishermen to release water it has treated into the ocean. Ono estimates that Tepco has completed around 10 percent of the work to clear the site up - the decommissioning process could take 30 to 40 years. But until the company locates the fuel, it won’t be able to assess progress and final costs, experts say. The much touted use of X-ray like muon rays has yielded little information about the location of the melted fuel and the last robot inserted into one of the reactors sent only grainy images before breaking down.
keep groundwater from flowing into the basements of the damaged reactors and getting contaminated. First suggested in 2013 and strongly backed by the government, the wall was completed in February, after months of delays and questions surrounding its effectiveness. Later this year, Tepco plans to pump water into the wall - which looks a bit like the piping behind a refrigerator - to start the freezing process. Stopping the ground water intrusion into the plant is critical, said Arnie Gunderson, a former nuclear engineer. “The reactors continue to bleed radiation into the ground water and thence into the Pacific Ocean,” Gunderson said. “When Tepco finally stops the groundwater, that will be the end of the beginning.” While he would not rule out the possibility that small amounts of radiation are reaching the ocean, Masuda, the head of decommissioning, said the leaks have ended after the company built a wall along the shoreline near the reactors whose depth goes to below the seabed. “I am not about to say that it is absolutely zero, but because of this wall ICE WALL the amount of release has Tepco is building the dramatically dropped,” he world’s biggest ice wall to said.
North Korea fires missiles, liquidates Seoul’s assets seOuL, MArch 10 (reuTers): North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday, Seoul said, as South Korea and the United States conducted massive war games. The North also announced it has scrapped all agreements with the South on commercial exchange projects and would “liquidate” South Korean assets left behind in its territory. North Korea has a large stockpile of short-range missiles and is developing long-range and intercontinental missiles as well. The missiles fired on Thursday flew about 500 km (300 miles) off its east coast city of Wonsan and were likely
from the Soviet-developed Scud series, South Korea’s defence ministry said. Japan, which is within range of the longer-range variant of Scud missiles or the upgraded Rodong missiles, lodged a protest through the North Korean embassy in Beijing, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. North Korea often fires short-range missiles when tensions rise on the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang gets particularly upset about the annual U.S.-South Korea drills, which its says are preparations for an invasion. The U.S. and South Korea remain technically at war with the North because the 1950-53 Korean
War ended in an armed truce instead of a peace agreement. Around 17,000 U.S. military personnel are participating alongside some 300,000 South Korean troops in what South Korea’s Defence Ministry has called the “largest-ever” joint military exercises. North Korea on Sunday warned it would make a “pre-emptive and offensive nuclear strike” in response to the exercises. “LIQUIDATING” ASSETS After the short-range missile launches on Thursday, North Korea announced it would “liquidate” South Korean assets left behind in the Kaesong
industrial zone and in the Mount Kumgang tourist zone. Seoul suspended operations in the jointly-run zone last month as punishment for the North’s rocket launch and nuclear test. Mount Kumgang was the first major inter-Korean cooperation project. Thousands of South Koreans visited the resort between 1998 and 2008. Seoul ended the tours in 2008 after a North Korean soldier shot dead a South Korean tourist who wandered into a restricted zone. North Korea is also livid about stepped up United Nations sanctions following its recent nuclear test and long-range missile launch.
MINIATURISED WARHEADS North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country has miniaturised nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles, state media reported on Wednesday, and called on his military to be prepared to mount pre-emptive attacks against the United States and South Korea. It was his first direct comment on the technology needed to deploy nuclear missiles. North Korean state media released photographs it said showed Kim Jong Un inspecting a spherical miniaturised warhead. State media has previously made that claim, which has been widely
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TOrONTO, MArch 10 (IANs): Climbing the stairs can not only help you stay physically fit but also improve brain health, suggests new research. “This study shows that these campaigns should also be expanded for older adults so that they can work to keep their brains young,” said Steffener. The study, published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, showed that the more flights of stairs a person climbs and the more years of school a person completes, the “younger” their brain physically appears. For the study, Steffener and his co-authors used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to non-invasively examine the brains of 331 healthy adults who ranged in age from 19 to 79. They measured the volume of grey matter found in participants’ brains because its decline, caused by neural shrinkage and neuronal loss, is a very visible part of the chronological aging process. Then, they compared brain volume to the participants’ reported number of flights of stairs climbed and years of schooling completed. Results were clear -the more flights of stairs climbed, and the more years of schooling completed, the younger the brain.
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questioned and never independently verified. South Korea’s defence ministry said it did not believe the North has successfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead or deployed a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Myanmar: NLD names Suu Kyi confidant as the prez candidate NAYPYITAW, MArch 10 (reuTers): Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, ending a four-month wait for the identity of the president expected to rule in her name. The NLD nominated Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower house candidate. Thanks to the party’s crushing parliamentary majority, that makes him near-certain to become titular head of the country’s first democratically elected government since the army seized power in 1962. The wildly popular Suu Kyi and the NLD won a landslide electoral victory in November, but she is barred from holding the presidency herself under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens. Suu Kyi has said that she would run the country regardless through a proxy. Until Thursday, she and the NLD leadership had kept the identity of their nominee a closely guarded secret even from rank-and-file MPs. Htin Kyaw runs a charity founded by Suu Kyi and has been close to her since the mid-1990s. He is not a lawmaker. NLD central executive committee member Han Tha Myint confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that Htin Kyaw was the party’s preferred presidential candidate. “I’m very happy,” said lower house NLD lawmaker Myint Myint Soe. “I believe our leader Aung San Suu Kyi chose the right people for these positions. I know U Htin Kyaw personally and I think he is a nice person.” In a statement on Thursday, before the nomination was revealed, Suu Kyi urged patience from her supporters. “I would like to appeal for people to support and stand by the NLD with wisdom and far-sightedness,” she said. “The NLD is determined to meet people’s expectations and will do its best.” INDIRECT ELECTION Under Myanmar’s indirect system for electing a president, three candidates are nominated - one by the lower house, one by the upper house, and one by the military bloc in parliament, who under the constitution hold a quarter of seats in both houses. After the candidates have been vetted by a parliamentary commission, both houses will come together to vote in a joint session, with the winner elected president and the two losing nominees becoming vice presidents. Because the NLD has a comfortable majority in both chambers it effectively controls two of the nominations. The NLD nominated Henry Vantriu, a member of the Chin ethnic group from Chin state in the country’s northwest bordering India and Bangladesh, as its candidate from the upper house. The party wants Vantriu to become a vice president to represent the country’s myriad ethnic minorities, said executive committee member Han Tha Myint. That is in line with Suu Kyi’s goal of forming a government for national reconciliation. She hopes to end conflict between state forces and numerous armed ethnic groups in the country. “I am happy and honoured personally, as well as as a Chin ethnic, to be selected to do the highest duty for our country,” Vantriu said as he left parliament. “We, the ethnic people, will do our best for every sector in the nationbuilding process.”
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DIRECTORATE OF ART & CULTURE NAGALAND :: KOHIMA
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Kohima, the th Mar.’2016.
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This is for the general information to all the Libraries enlisted with the Department of Art and Culture that books for 2014-2015 may be collected from the Directorate of Art and Culture from 14th March 2016 to 25th April 2016 during office hours. All the libraries must come with Library round seal and designation seal (President, Librarian or General Secretary) without which books will not be issued. On the expiry of the last date, books will be taken by the District Cultural Officer/Registering Officer to their respective District Headquarters except for Peren, Longleng & Kiphire which will be issued in the Directorate Office. (VEVO SAPUH), Director, Art & Culture, Nagaland: Kohima.
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WTa players stunned by sharapova's failed drug test IndIan Wells, March 10 (aFP): Tennis professionals rocked by Maria Sharapova's admission that she had failed a drug test are now waiting to see what sanction the Russian superstar will face. Sharapova's positive test for meldonium was the talk of the locker room as the hardcourt tournament at Indian Wells got under way on Wednesday. Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova said she was "shocked" and world number three Agnieszka Radwanska described it as a "sad day for tennis." Radwanska said she was in the locker room in Indian Wells with a group of WTA players getting ready to train for this week's tournament in southern California when she heard the news on Monday. "It is a sad day for tennis," Radwanska said. "Nobody expected that. We are all waiting to see what they are going to do about it." Czech Kvitova said Sharapova had made a "huge mistake" by not paying more attention to what drugs are on the banned list. "We should all know what we are putting into our body," she said. "It was a huge mistake and she is taking responsibility for it." Sharapova revealed on Monday that she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open in January, saying she had taken the circulation-boosting drug used to treat heart ailments since 2006, but had not spotted that it was added to the banned list as of January 1. Sponsors of the world's highest-earning sportswoman immediately distanced themselves, with Nike, Porsche and TAG Heuer all
halting their relationships with the former world number one. The five-time Grand Slam winner could face a ban of up to four years, although her lawyer John J. Haggerty told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday that he believed she can plead mitigating circumstances and receive a lesser punishment. "There is no evidence whatsoever that this was intentional on Maria's behalf," Haggerty said. Sharapova, whose on-court prowess and business savvy
have brought her an estimated personal fortune of $200 million (180 million euros), wrote on her Facebook page that she woke up early Wednesday morning determined to fight through the scandal and eventually continue her career. "New day, new start. It is fair to say that this day was not average," Sharapova wrote. "Nothing came to mind at 6am, except that I am determined to play tennis again and I hope I will have the chance to do so. "I
wish I didn't have to go through this, but I do - and I will." Spain's Rafael Nadal, who has won 14 Grand Slam titles, said Sharapova's positive test is a black eye for the sport. "It is terrible news for our sport," Nadal said. "It is terrible because our sport must be clean and look clean. "The good news is we have a good antidoping programme." The majority of the players who spoke to reporters on Wednesday chose their words carefully, most expressing shock but adding that it is up to the individual to check which drugs are on the banned substance list. The women's main draw at Indian Wells began Wednesday while the men kick off their first round Thursday in one of the biggest events of the season outside of the four Grand Slams. Kvitova said Sharapova's failed test shows that the doping control officials are on top of things. "This is an example that they are doing everything to have a clean sport. I think the system is working." Former US Open singles champion Svetlana Kuznetsova said Sharapova should not be tried in public and her fate should be left in the hands of tennis officials. "First of all, I want to say that Maria is a great athlete and even this 'strange mistake' will not be able to outshine all of what she has achieved in tennis," Russia's Kuznetsova said on her Twitter account. "And most importantly none of us, especially me, have no rights to comment on this story - not to criticize or evaluate Maria. The doping agency has to see this case not others."
Australia power to series victory
The Nagaland State boxing team which took part in the National Level North East Sports Competition held at Imphal from March 2 to 7 won 3 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals. The boxing team was lead by Boxing Coach K.K. Nagi (front row, extreme left) and Tsungchetrenla Tzudir (front row, extreme right).
All England C’ship: Praneeth stuns Lee; Saina, Srikanth progress
BIrMInGhaM, March 10 (aGencIes): Unheralded Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth scripted one of the biggest wins of his career, stunning two-time Olympic silver medallist and former World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in the opening round of the prestigious All England Championship here. In a match that lasted 50 minutes, Praneeth punched way above his weight as he eked out a 24-22 2220 win over three-time champion and second seed Lee Chong Wei in a men’s singles match late last night. He will next take on Denmark’s Hans-Kristian Vittinghus, ranked 26th in the world. Besides, ace Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma too entered the second round of the USD 550,000 tournament at the Barclaycard Arena here. World No. 2 Saina, who is mak-
ing a comeback after a long injury lay-off, dispatched Commonwealth Games champion Michelle Li of Canada 21-17 21-12 to set up a clash with Thailand’s Busanan Ongbumrungphan. World No. 10 Srikanth too showed the door to England’s Rajiv Ouseph, a silver medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2117 21-12. The Guntur lad will meet Japan’s Kento Momota, seeded fourth, here. Young Sameer also dished out a superb performance as he dismantled Hong Kong’s Hu Yun 21-10 2114 in another men’s singles match and will meet Chinese eight seed Tian Houwei next. For two-time bronze medallist at World Championship, P V Sindhu, it turned out to be yet another disappointing tournament as she lost 21-18 17-21 12-21 to Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thailand.
caPe TOWn, March 10 (aFP): Australia gained a confidence boost ahead of the World Twenty20 with an impressive run chase to defeat South Africa by six wickets in the third and final Twenty20 international at Newlands on Wednesday. Needing to achieve the highest successful chase at Newlands after Hashim Amla's 97 not out inspired South Africa to 178 for four, Australia achieved victory with four balls to spare, clinching the three-match series 2-1. Usman Khawaja (33) and Shane Watson (42) gave Australia a strong start, putting on 76 for the first wicket in 8.2 overs. Both fell to leg-spinner Imran Tahir in the space of three balls, but captain Steve Smith and David Warner made virtually sure of victory with a third-wicket stand of 79. Smith made 44 and Warner hit 33. Warner was run out and Smith was caught behind, but Glenn Maxwell made 19 not out off ten balls before Mitchell Marsh hit the only ball he faced for four to finish the match. It was the last match for both teams before they leave for the World Twenty20 in India on Thursday. Amla hit eight fours and four sixes in a 62-ball innings as South Africa posted a challenging total. It was the highest score by a South African in a Twenty20 international against Australia and the highest individual score at Newlands.
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very year, Good Friday is celebrated all over the World. In some countries, some of the Christian devotees physically torture themselves to imitate the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ. Every Christian is familiar of the event description of how our Lord Jesus Christ had gone through. Everybody criticised the action of Judas Iscariot. What made him so cruel to his Lord? Perhaps, his perception of the Messiah was wrong. He might have thought Jesus was not doing the way God’s Messiah was expected to do. He was going too slow. He might have wanted simply to force Jesus to do as he wished Him to do. Our lives are all stained by this way of thinking in our everyday life. Let us go back to the temptation of Jesus. He had to go through this test immediately after His baptism. It is essential for Him to go through this before He embark on His ministry. He had to choose His way or God’s way. We associate the word “temptation” as to entice others to do wrong. We understand it as to seduce somebody to sin. However, the original text of “temptation” as it is translated in English is not what it means. The English word of the original text means “Test”. To ascertain a strength. Jesus knew that He was God’s Messiah. He must decide what method He would use in His ministry to win men to God. In the World today, leaders, one after another, are trying to use material things to get their followers. But Jesus would not bribe them to follow Him. He would use persuasion by grace to follow Him. He said “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word which proceed from the mouth of God” Matt.4:4. Secondly, He would not use sensation with signs and wonders to win His followers. Those who depend on such sensations is not faith at all. Jesus answered “you must not put the Lord your God to the test.” Deu.6:16. Thirdly, the Devil wanted Him to compromise with the World. Put your standard to the level of the World. Then everybody will follow you. “Fall down and worship me and I will give you all the kingdoms of the World”. Jesus answered him “you shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only” Matt4:10. His way was not the way the devil had suggested. His only way was the way of the Cross. For Centuries, the Jews had been waiting, the coming of the Messiah. When Jesus came, they thought He was merely one of the Prophets. He asked the disciples, “who do you say I am”? Peter was quick to answer. All the three gospels tell us about this conversation. What Mark says is the shortest. But Luke’s description is the clearest (Lk.9:20) “You are the Christ of God.” Jesus told Peter “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonas, because flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you but by My Father Who is in heaven”. Still, they had not grasped the real meaning of God’s Messiah. Their perception was wrong. They thought of Him as a conquering Messiah, a warrior king, who would liberate them from the Roman Rule. Jesus cautioned them to be silent. If they went to the crowd and spread their own ideas, it would bring nothing but a tragic rebellion of violence. Before they go out to the people, they must learn the real meaning of the Messiah. He wanted to see the vertic of His disciples. He must go to Jerusalem and suffer at the hands of the orthodox religious leaders. Peter, as usual, try to prevent Him of taking that step. Jesus told him “get behind me, Satan”. Literally it means “Peter, your place is behind me, not in front of Me “. Your place is to follow Me in the way I choose and not the way you would like Me to go. He demonstrated to them that there was no other way but the way of the Cross. On that Good Friday, while Jesus was hanging on the Cross, the Devil was having a good time. He was dancing around, how successfully he had incited the crowd and how he had deceived the religious leaders of the day. How successfully he had orchestrated, manipulated and stage-managed everything. He thought he had successfully eliminated Jesus. What a dead man can do! But suddenly, Jesus cried out with a loud voice “It is finished”. The Devil was taken aback. He started asking all those who were standing there. what did He say? Did He say “I am finished”? Everybody answered, He did not say “I am finished” but “It is finished”. That very moment, the Devil realised that he was already a gonner. He was finished and not Jesus. What is that “IT”? It is the purpose of God for which Jesus came. The Devil thought, he was wise but what he had all along been doing was simply accomplishing the purpose of God. The whole World is in turmoil today but let us be courageous. God is accomplishing His purpose through all these things that are happening in the World today. Let us look beyond Good Friday. Focus on to the Resurrection and press on towards the prize of God’s high calling. Amen Dr. L.M. Murry
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or so long we have blamed our politicians. For potholed roads, for lack of infrastructure, for corruption, for being selfish, for seeking power; we have looked at them with disdain for their recommendation letters, and perhaps hated them for countless backdoor appointments. We have blamed them for so many wrongs in our society and hated them for turning a blind eye to what we consider important. The sight of them being led to the front pews in the church has also, probably put us off a lot of times or watching them drive past us with their escorts, has possibly been cursed more times than we can count. We have also blamed our politicians for the messy traffic. If not for their persuasive entries sometimes, it wouldn’t have been so bad. And given their status and power, why can’t our politicians bring the kind of development we desire as a society? Or do things in the interest of the public good, and in the least, improve roads, education, health, and other basic amenities? Year after year, they have carried our blame and many people continue to label them as ‘power mongers’. But what we, the public have often failed to put into consideration is the fact that a politician is only human. Just like everybody else- with thoughts and feelings. He has his bad days and good days and that, it
is humanly impossible even for a politician to please everybody in his party fold, let alone the entire state. You ask me why I care. Why, of all sections of the society, think of their side of the story when they literally steal headlines ever so often. I care because the majority of us have got it all wrong. While we blame the politicians for unfairness and illegal appointments, who do you think go to them asking for it? Because it’s certainly not the politicians who come to us with recommendation letters, offering us jobs and opportunities. Yes, we are talking about corruption, about illegal and dishonest means. But is it possible that only the politicians are corrupt? So much so that the whole state is under their influence and reeling under corruption? Who do you think willingly accept the money generously distributed during elections? Who do you think have associated election campaigns with money? Who do you think, maybe unconsciously, but largely contribute to the corrupt state of our society? We, the people. People from all rungs of the society. People in the village, the farmers, the students, the church, the educated, the government employees, and if not every member of every section of the society, it is still represented by somebody or the other. Go to the villages, back to your roots.
Ask them about the democratic process of election. Do they really know what they are doing during elections? Why do they vote? Do you know that most of them expect something to be done for them (a government service in most cases) in exchange for their votes? You wonder where all the funds for development disappear, but when you look deep into the heart of it, it’s not surprising that developmental works take a backseat. We live in a state where politicians are looked at as money minting machines. They are expected to carry money around, wherever they go. Politicians cannot afford to wake up late, get sick, have a day off, or be moody. When they do, they are in deep trouble. Imagine having to meet all kinds of people as soon as you wake up, to be really sick in bed but not to be trusted, thinking they are simply being avoided, to want some peace but to have endless list of people waiting and wanting a little of your time. Villagers or the so called party workers come to the capital all the time. They come with 1001 problems. Somebody is sick in the family, or their child has not got admission into a school, somebody’s car has met with an accident, somebody has died, somebody is getting married, somebody is without a job, and so on and so forth. While having problems is natural, dumping all these problems into a politi-
cian’s hands is not. As if he owes them a solution to all of their personal problems. Imagine a politician having to take care of every minute details of every household in his/her constituency. Where is the space for social development? Then, the ever increasing number of organizations with their endless needs. Right from the village level to the state level, who turn to the politicians for assistance. Monetary assistance, to be precise. Undoubtedly taking the easiest way out to take their whatever association/organization to a higher level. And because he is a politician, all of them expect a huge package. Mere thousands wouldn’t do. I am also told, and I do not doubt that politicians get the best delicacies available in the state. But it isn’t without a price that they enjoy it. Because they end up paying more than what the delicacy’s worth. There are several such instances. We have just too many people who are out there to extract and fill their own personal pockets. It’s just so sad that we have misinterpreted politics this way and that’s where we have really gone wrong- looking to be individually pleased and lifted, individually assisted and supported. We point fingers at the politicians for every wrong we can find, hardly realizing that we always get the government we deserve. Vishü Rita Krocha
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olitics defers from persons to context of regions. Normatively there are two types of politics: Politics of honest and politics of dishonest that people opt one or the other.Inseparably, development in society is associated with politics based on routinized authority and leadership style that power belongs to politicians. Even deacon and poor become rich as the wave of negative impact of political power remains obscurity for the development of State, once they indulge in politics. The mediocrities of power manipulation among political leaders have kept the state deadlock from development. There is no justification that explicates for predominant Nagaland Government officers in association with politicians to why the state remains behind neighboring states in development. It is not the insufficiency funds that India does not pour out in Nagaland; India has no partial funds for Nagaland less than other neighboring states for development works-the amount of sufficient projects to develop Nagaland. The imagination of misutilizing major projects fund which India gives to the state for development is beyond the amaze of materializing. Even the basic projects fundsare stolen and utilized it for personal, family and relatives’ benefits. For instance, (a) Indira AwaasYojana (renamed as PradhanMant-
riAwasYojana) fund meant for citizens in Nagaland for housing project given for the Urban and rural poor families, launched by Rajiv Gandhi as the major program of rural development remains unheard and unreached to the concern Naga families. The fund follows categories like Rs. 1.5 Lakhs for house renovation, more than 1.5 Lakhs (Loan) for new house construction available for land owners who have land without building. This fund is mandatory for poor people poor citizens to attain from State Bank of India. However, one of the cleverest robbers who are next to politicians and government officers are Gao Buras; GBs have concealed such fund within their authority which is utilized for their selfinterest. (b). BPL facility is meant for lower class citizens who have less daily wages and it functions to reach rice to almost every poor citizens with affordable price but GBs in wards have kept it hidden; moreover, BPL rice is sold to mainland Indian business people by GBs. In a recent policy of transferring ration card to BPL is unknown to many below poverty line people in the State. (c). Govt. of India has supplied approximately 9,20,000 LLINs (net) for needy people of high risk areas of Nagaland for free on January and February 2016.However, theculture of theft and money minded among the GBs haskept many families unaware of it. People in some colonies who have received have been charged
with Rs. 30/net by GBs. In a recent press release, the government issued notice to GBs and other concern distributersto return the day-robbedmoney from the citizens. How many GBs and distributers have returned the money to citizens who werecharged for central free mosquito net?Most significantly, it should reach citizen regardless of any political party for the scheme belongs to central scheme, not to any particular political party (d). Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) which was enacted by legislation on August 25, 2005, which aims to enhance the livelihood security of rural people (MRD Report. 2014) is deplorably stolen by many government officers in collaboration with Anghs, VDB secretaries and others. (e). Signature approved by Sachin Arora(Under Secretary to the Government of India), central has released five crore two lakh eighty seven thousand for the Mid Day Meal (MDM) for the period of 2015-2016, on May 1, 2015 (MHRD India. 2015). The preceding highlighted funds are the prototype to imagine the major funds that India release to Nagaland government every year for State development. Despite the honesty of India in supplying funds to Nagaland, political leaders, NGOs, Churches and Government officers have kept the state deadlock from development. The center has recently state that “Blame
Northeast States for failure in completion of project” (Nlive. 2016). It vividly indicates that Nagaland should blame Nagaland for being undeveloped state in the country, not India. On the other hand is the failure of Naga intellectuals and students who have seen such malpractices fund and failures but remain silent. Many young Nagas have effective and loud voices on social media everyday against corruption in the State but have silence in reality. Predominant intellectuals and educated Nagas remain intentionally blind to facility like Right to Information (RTI), which is one of the powerful means to investigate any illegal activities in the State. Nevertheless, there areemergences of few introspection citizens who start utilizing RTI to fight against corruption in the state; sooner or later, people who are indulge in degrading the State from development would bear fruits of their own. It is important to urge and appeal the State RTI to organize constant seminar or press release to encourage citizens to utilize RTI for claiming justice in the state. Moreover, the author encourages and urges every Naga citizen to come forward with facts finding on any misutilizing funds by any leaders within the community. Revelation of such hidden act is required at hand both in social media and print media. LemwangChuhwanglim Researcher & Activist
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Miss World Beauty India Jamaican top model is suing Donald Trump Imlibenla Wati visits slum
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n a beautiful gesture of humanity, by our very own reigning Miss World Beauty India Imlibenla Wati, who made history of being the first Naga lady to represent India at the Miss World Beauty Queen in South Korea, organised a charitable event on March 9 at the Slum areas of Dillai gate, Signal Basti and Railway lines in her humble effort of trying to light up the spirit of the underprivileged people who yearns for the basic things in life to survive.
Expressing her heart out with strong concern for the society, she appealed to the youths of Nagaland to make use of their time and come out of their comfort zone to explore the world of opportunities ahead. She pointed out that Naga youths should adopt work culture and put into practice dignity of labour and help develop the society. While making special appeal to the women folks, Miss Imlibenla Wati strongly advocated on
the beauty and strength of a women which shines more if education was provided to all. She highlighted upon the beauty and confidence of Naga women which is so commendable and high and emphasized on empowering every single women for proper and full development of the society in Nagaland. Miss Imlibenla Wati, who is also the Brand Ambassador of Tourism and Humanity is a perfect example of an ideal woman
of not just, “Beauty with Brain” but also “Beauty with Beautiful Heart.” With her remarkable climb up the ladder of success from Miss Mokokchung 1st runners up in 2012 to winning Miss Nagaland in the same year, she touched the National level and won the Prestigious title of Miss World Beauty Queen India at the Ru Ba Ru Miss India Elite Contest, her journey to fame and success of a determined yet humble lady will definitely bring laurels to the Nagas.
Kangana Ranaut named Reebok brand ambassador
agement from 2011 to 2013 and only received a total of $3,880 in pay over the three years after the agency deducted a 20 percent handling fee and various “insignificant expenses”. Reuters today reports that Trump’s lawyers have called the case "frivolous" and "without merit", with court documents showing that Palmer’s work via the agency only culminated in 10 days of assignments over the three years and that she was more than adequately compensated. “At the end of the day, this model just didn’t have a successful career, and we fully expect to win,” said Lawrence Rosen, a lawyer for Trump Model Management.
Palmer's lawyer, Naresh Gehi, says his client was cheated of earnings and seduced by a life of glamour that never materialised. "The visa application the company filed with the government requires that people are paid the full amount," Gehi said. "It’s a requirement.” It is not clear whether Palmer is now represented by a rival agency or still working in the industry. Controversial Republican Trump has pledged a three-point immigration reform plan to ‘make America great again’ if he becomes president. In it he states his mission to put American workers first by hiring them over illegal immigrants, and argues the
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arry Potter" author JK Rowling has been accused of appropriating the "living tradition of a marginalised people" by writing about the Navajo legend of the skinwalker in a new story. Rowling posted the first part of a four-part series, the "History of Magic in North America" on her website Pottermore, on March 8, depicting the magical history of America within her fictional universe of witches and wizards. The series of stories, titled "A History of Magic in North America", will give fans the historical background to the latest "Harry Potter" film, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", ahead of its November release, reported Guardian online. But it has upset a number of Native American writers and activists, who have objected to the new material's depiction of their spiritual beliefs. In particular, the inclusion of characters based on the Native American concept of 'skinwalkers' - humans who can transform into animals at will - in publicity materials and a video trailer have led to accusations of cultural insensitivity. Dr Adrienne Keene, a Cherokee scholar, called out the novelist on Twitter, posting, "You can't just claim and take a living tradition of a marginalized people. That's straight up colonialism/ appropriation @jk_rowling." Keene detailed her objections at length on her blog, writing, "Native spirituality and religions are not fantasy on the same level as wizards. These beliefs are alive, practiced, and protected. The fact that the trailer even mentions the Navajo concept of skinwalkers sends red flags all over the place, and that it s mentioned next to the Salem witch trials (in Massachusetts)? Disaster... Navajo writer Brian Young wrote on Twitter that he was "broken hearted" about the new piece of writing. "JK Rowling, my beliefs are not fantasy. If ever there was a need for diversity in YA lit it is bullshit like this, said Young. "My ancestors didn't survive colonisation so you could use our culture as a convenient prop." Rowling's representatives have yet to respond to a request for comment.
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amaica-born Alexia Palmer is accusing Trump Model Management - the talent agency founded by the billionaire businessman in Manhattan in 1999 – of racketeering, breach of contract, mail fraud and violating wage laws for immigrants. The lawsuit was originally filed in October 2014; a judge in the U.S District Court has until the end of the month to decide whether a pending motion by Trump’s agency to dismiss the case can go through. If the judge decides that Palmer’s case can proceed, it could put Trump’s immigrant employment practices under an unflattering microscope. Palmer, who was discovered in a Jamaican model agency’s Caribbean Model Search when she was a teenager and became the first Jamaican model to star in Vogue without being signed to an international fashion label, moved to New York in 2011. She claims that Trump’s company lied to the federal government by documenting on her work visa application that she’d be paid a yearly $75,000 salary while living in the US. Instead, Palmer states that she worked exclusively for Trump Model Man-
he "Queen" of Bollywood Kangana Ranaut was announced as the brand ambassador of Reebok India here on Tuesday. The actress also launched the new campaign of the brand titled "Be More Human". The new campaign featuring Kangana has been released on the occasion of "International Women's Day". It aims to inspire women to become better versions of themselves, not just physically but also mentally and socially. It is a tribute to the modern day Indian woman, telling her that she is fit to rise above stereotypes and carve out her own destiny. In the new campaign, Kangana will be seen challenging herself with various fitness activities including functional training, dance, yoga, kick-boxing and others, thereby communicating the overarching brand message - 'how fit you are defines how far you go'. "I have always been a Reebok fan. Their products and campaigns have always inspired me. When they came to me, it was a natural fit and I was extremely excited to be associated with them. I feel that anything in life can be accomplished if we believe in ourselves. Today's women should stay fit in all aspects, be it physically, socially or mentally," said the actress. "This ideology echoes with Reebok's overall positioning and I am delighted to be the face of the brand, helping them push this message further...," she added.
influx of foreign workers ‘holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class American.’ Opponents have already said such a policy is hypocritical, citing reports that suggest Trump’s vast network of hotels across America have favoured foreign workers for menial jobs over US-born residents. Palmer was briefly signed to Models1 in London in 2011 after being discovered. On the agency's blog, she revealed that before she was scouted, she harboured aspirations of being a bank manager: "I love accounting. I’m studying business and accounting at home." Source: Telegraph.co.uk
New 'Harry Potter' stories enrage Native Americans
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Fletcher to helm 'Ghosbusters' animated movie
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ersonal Care manufacturing company Vanesa Care has announced a strategic partnership with Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE), the licensing and merchandising arm of media conglomerate Turner International India Pvt Ltd, and launched a range of 'Denver Batman' deodorants. The company had earlier launched the 'Denver Superman' deodorants in August 2015. The 'Denver Batman' deodorant has been introduced in two variants Batman Urban Legend and Batman Night Warrior. After the successful launch of Superman deodorant, we didn't want to lose the momentum and the potential of bringing exclusive merchandise inspired by the world's greatest superheroes... It's a series targeted to the men who don't budge at the slightest sign of trouble, instead they go head on with them, Saurabh Gupta, chief managing officer Vanesa Care, said in a statement. Inspired from the Batman personality, the deodorant has been packed in all black cane with imported 'twist to turn' caps of 250 ml, which cost Rs. 249. I hope the deadly duo of Batman and Superman Series will draw consumer excitement and add fragrance to their lives, added Siddharth Jain, senior vice president and managing director, South Asia, Turner International India Pvt Ltd. Source: IANS
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lash of Clans director Fletcher Moules has been tapped to sit behind the lens for the upcoming animated version Ghosbusters. The animated feature is part of Sony's plan to turn the long dormant comedy series into a tent pole franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sony has been working on to expand the Ghostbusters universe with an all-female team starring Melissa McCarthy, Kate
Superhero fans can now own Batman AR Rahman ventures into filmmaking with ‘99 Songs’ deodorants
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aestro AR Rahman is all set to venture into script writing and movie producing with his new flick 99 Songs. Produced by his own production company YM Movies, 99 Songs is, predictably, a musical penned by AR Rahman himself. Taking to his Facebook account the Mozart of Madras unveiled the first poster. The poster looks dreamy and a bit poetic with two dancers in the air, hanging on by an airborne piano and flower petals making the title of the movie. Directed by Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, known for his TV docuseries The Dewarists, 99 Songs is set to release in 2017. The details about lead pair and the story are still under wraps. The movie is expected to go on the floors by the end of the year.
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McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones. Directed by Paul Feig, it will release on July 15. Another potential remake is also in development with Joe and Anthony Russo linked as directors and Channing Tatum as the lead star. In the meantime, the Russo brothers are still busy with Marvel films. They will helm Avengers Infinity War Part I and Avengers Infinity War Part II after finishing Captain America Civil War. Source: PTI
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NWA 25th Anniversary Tournament Brilliant Ibrahimovic leaves Chelsea feeling blue
LONDON, March 10 (reuters): Zlatan Ibrahimovic left Stamford Bridge last year under a cloud after his sending-off almost cost Paris St Germain their place in the Champions League. He walked out of Chelsea's stadium a hero on Wednesday, however, after scoring one goal and setting up another as the French champions knocked their English counterparts out of the Champions League 4-2 on aggregate. The 34-year-old Swedish striker, who also scored in the first leg in Paris, gave Chelsea's defence the slip in the 16th minute to provide a cross for Top four Naga wrestling winners of the 25th Anniversary NWA Tournament with others in Kohima on March 10. (Morung Photo) Adrian Rabiot to open the scoring. Then, in the 67th minute, with the Our Correspondent scores level at 1-1 and PSG ahead 3-2 on aggregate, Ibrahimovic volleyed Kohima | March 10 home from a cross by Angel di Maria hief Minister T.R. Zeliang today anniversary monolith was done at Phe- to kill off a Chelsea fightback and put Vechita Khesoh, representstressed on the need to popu- zhu, Jotsoma. PSG's place in the quarter finals being Chakhesang Wrestling larize the traditional Naga NWA president Neikhrolo Khalo de- yond doubt. Association (CWA), today "I was born old but I feel young. I emerged as champion of wrestling. livered presidential address. the 25th Anniversary TourHe said wrestling is one of the oldest The function was chaired by organiz- get younger as I go on and I am very nament of Nagaland Wres- sports in human history. “No wonder, ing committee convenor Nuzota Swuro happy young man tonight," the giant tling Association (NWA) wrestling is one of the most popular sports while lighting of tournament flag was pony-tailed striker told reporters. "It is a very different feeling to last here at Kohima Local in the world,” he said adding that it is a done by NWA former president Er. KeGround. simple sport which does not require any neilhoulie Keditsu with NWA reigning year. This is not revenge, it is success, Amidst thunderous expensive equipment, or big playfield. champion Atoto Kire as torch bearer. cheers from the capacIt can be played indoor and outdoor, NWA former president Keku Zeliang ity crowd of over 20,000, by the rich and the poor, by the young and released the25th NWA tournament anniVechita pocketed a cash the old, he said while addressing the inau- versary souvenir while NWA joint secreprize of Rs. 5 lakhs. gural of the 25th Anniversary Tournament tary Mosonyi Domeh administered oath Standing at 6’2 and of Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) to the wrestlers. weighing 120 kg, the 30 here at Kohima Local Ground. Meanwhile, free style wrestling (11th year old from Yoruba vilNaga wrestling is really a very good Senior & 3rd Sub-Junior) will take place lage overpowered another 30 year old – Vekuzo and interesting sport which equally on March 11 from 10am onwards. The closing ceremony has been Vezhii, of Khomi village demands a good combination of both strength and skill, he said before adding scheduled at 3pm with Parliamentary (CWA) – in the final to lift the championship title. On that it is a healthy sport with relatively Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, Music Task Force and State Lotteries his way to the final, Vechita less rate of injuries. Earlier, unveiling of 25th tournament Khriehu Liezietsu as the guest of honour. downed Visietso Krose of Medziphema Village (Angami Sports Association) of Phek village (CWA) in the Fourth place winner Krose (ASA), Ruovilhouin the pre-quarter and 2nd semifinal. Zumu, meanwhile, was lie Pier (ASA), Kiiveluto Vetazo Veswuh of Suthozu Surhonieyi Soho, 32, awarded a walk over in the Venuh (CWA), Vizobeilie Nagwu (CWA) in the quar- grabbed third place while pre-quarter after his op- Punyii (ASA), Visevo Zater final before downing Keduovilie Zumu, 30, came ponent Megosier Khate of shiimo (ASA), Vekutho Keduovilie Zumu of Tuo- fourth. They were awarded Khonoma Village (ASA) Soho (CWA) and Zasephema village (ASA) in the cash prizes of Rs. 2 lakhs suffered an injury. He then vikho Meyatsu (ASA) were first semifinal. and Rs. 1 lakh respectively. downed Venuzo Dawhuo awarded Rs. 10,000 each. Runner-up Vekuzo Meanwhile, the CWA Soho on his way to the of Thenyizumi village Vezhii bagged a cash prize semis defeated Visevo Za- (CWA) in the quarter final. with 168 points emerged as of Rs. 3 lakhs. Standing at shiimo of Phesama village Q u a r t e r f i n a l i s t s group champion and pock5’10 and weighing 96 kg, (ASA) in the pre-quarter Vevolhu Swuro (CWA), eted Rs. 25,000. ASA stood Vekuzo defeated Kiive- and Vevolhu Swuro of Venuzo Dawhuo (CWA), runner-up in group categoluto Venuh of Phek Village Thenyizumi village (CWA) Er. Mhasilhousie Nagi ry with 164 points. (CWA) in the pre-quarters in the semis before losing (ASA) and Vetazo Veswuh Over 60 top wrestlers and Er. Mhasilhousie Nagi out to the eventual runner- (CWA) were each award- representing ASA, CWA of Jotsoma Village (ASA) up in the semis. He then de- ed Rs. 15,000 while pre- and Zeliang Wrestling Asin the quarterfinals before feated Keduovilie Zumu in quarter finalists Mego- sociation vied for the covdowning Surhonieyi Soho the fight for third prize. sier Khate (ASA), Visietso eted championship title.
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a very sweet success against a very tough opponent." PSG coach Laurent Blanc said Ibrahimovic had been performing well in the French League this season but he had not managed to quieten his critics until now. "You guy always had your doubts because he was playing in Ligue 1, you asked if he was able to give a performance like that in the Champions League," Blanc said. "He gave us his answer tonight." "It won't necessarily give him confidence because he has enormous self-confidence, but he scored the decisive goal and made another and this performance will do him good," Blanc said. "We will get the benefit of that, me as coach, the players and the club." Defeated Chelsea coach Guus Hiddink paid tribute to Ibrahimovic too, saying his physical and mental strength as well as his tactical sense meant the striker would be in demand if PSG do not renew his contract at the end of this season. "He's not the youngest but even at his age, for a footballer he's doing well," Hiddink said. "He can adapt himself with his per-
sonality to any league in the world."
Makeshift Benfica cling on, snatch late win at Zenit
Benfica, helped by an excellent Champions League debut from goalkeeper Ederson, clung on desperately then scored two late goals to beat Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 and reach the quarter-finals on Wednesday. Hulk gave Zenit a 69th-minute lead with a controversial goal and the Russian champions were threatening a second against Benfica's makeshift defence when Nicolas Gaitan snatched an equaliser out of the blue with five minutes to go. With the Russians pushing forward desperately, substitute Anderson Talisca scored with the last kick of the game to complete a 3-1 aggregate win for Benfica that sent them into the last eight for the first time since 2012. Benfica, who had won only once in seven previous visits to Russia, were missing three central defenders through injuries and suspension. Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar was also sidelined, forcing his 22-year-old compatriot Ederson to be thrown in at the deep end.
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