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Nagaland Backward Tribes Commission Bill 2016 introduced our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today introduced the Nagaland Backward Tribes Commission Bill 2016 on the Floor of the NLA. The implementation of this Bill is likely to cause a recurring expenditure of Rs. 1,08,72,000 (approximately) annually and shall be charged from the Consolidated Fund of the state. The Bill aims to establish a Commission for Backward Tribes in the state to safeguard the rights of ‘backward tribes’ of the state, with special focus on the Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Phom, Sangtam and Yimchungru tribes, of the Longleng, Kiphire, Mon and Tuensang districts, and study and make recommendations on educational, employment and health aspects pertaining to them. NLA speaker Chotisuh Sazo informed that consideration and passing of the same will be taken up on March 19 and amendment if any can be submitted till 12:00 noon on March 18.
Ban on employment of domestic helpers from Yimchungrü tribe
Nagaland Legislative Assembly Budget News
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Nagaland Budget: Deficit reduced to Rs 1419.35 Cr • No new taxes introduced • Deficit cut by a ‘projected’ Rs 123.36 Cr • 2016 Annual Plan Outlay projected at Rs 3924.47 Crore • 2016-17 projected to end on positive balance of 225 crore, but deficit will still be Rs. 1194.35 Crore our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
Nagaland State Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, today presented a negative opening balance of Rs. 1419.35 Crore at the Nagaland State Budget presentation for 2016-17. The CM however chose to gloss over the deficit by presenting and lauding a positive balance of Rs. 71.62 Crore from the current revenue. With an opening deficit of Rs 1542.71 Crore, the CM reveled in the fact that the enormous deficit had been reduced by a “projected” amount of Rs. 123.36 Crore, resulting in a current deficit of Rs 1419.35 Crore. This was hailed as the “first time after many years” that the House has been able to present a full budget. This is the “first time in the recent history of our State where the deficit could be reduced to this extent during a single financial year,” he said. The CM attributed this to the replacement of the Planning Commission by NITI Aayog and the change in the pattern of fund flow from the Centre to the States. This, the CM stated, has enabled the State Government to release
all pending civil deposits in the current financial year. “With the new system, for the first time after many years we are presenting a full budget for 2016-17 in the month of March,” he said. The CM expressed hope that the current deficit would be further reduced by Rs. 225 Crore, which is the estimated positive balance by the end of 2016-17. He aimed to do this with better monitoring and control and various austerity measures being worked out. This however will be subject to the Government of India providing grant of Rs. 3016.31 Crore under share of Central Taxes as projected in the present budget. Even if the deficit is reduced, as estimated, 201617 would still end with a closing negative balance of Rs. 1194.35 Crore. Meanwhile, the gross total budget presented by the CM was Rs. 13658.75 Crore. Gross receipts for 2016-17 have been estimated at Rs. 13,870.98 Crore and gross expenditure at Rs. 13,645.98 Crore. The bulk of the estimated revenue depends on the Center releasing the State’s share in cen-
DIMAPUR, MARCH 17 (MExN): In compliance with the recent decision to ban domestic helpers/servants from Eastern Naga tribes in Kohima by concerned tribal hohos, Yimchungrü Union Kohima (YUH) while reaffirming the decision has banned employment of domestic helpers/servants from Yimchungrü tribe. However, for those who have already employed without knowledge of the Union have been asked to register their names within one month from the date of publication of this press statement, YUH president T. Kejingkhum and general secretary Kiutsuthong Yimchungrü informed. This directive has been necessitated after taking note of series of torturing/harassment cases being reported to this office in the past, it maintained. It has therefore asked the concerned guardians to co-operate with the Union so as to avoid future com- General Rtd MB neokpao Konyak being sworn in as the Presplication. For registration, ident of the GPRn/nsCn today at Khehoi Designated Camp. those concerned have been asked to contact the following numbers - 9862043255| 9862459292.
nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang presenting the nagaland state Budget 2016-17 at the nlA on March 17. (DIPR Photo)
A: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) Total B: (i) (ii) (iii) Total C:
Estimated gross receipts and expenditures for 2016-17 RECEIPTS: State’s Own Tax and Non-Tax Revenue State’s Share in Central Taxes Central Assistance (Grants & Loans) Internal Debt (including WMA from RBI) Recovery of Loans and Advances 13870.98 EXPENDITURE Non-Plan Expenditure (excluding Servicing of debts) Servicing of Debt (including repayment of WMA) Plan Expenditure 13645.98 Balance (A-B)
(Rs in crore) 776.90 3016.31 6775.69 3299.20 2.88 6129.32 3592.19 3924.47 225.00 Source: DIPR
tral taxes amounting to Rs. 3016.31 Crore; and central grants and loans amounting to Rs 6775.69 Crore. To this, the internal revenue collection of the state is being estimated at Rs. 776.90 Crore, receipts of internal debt (including WMA from RBI) at Rs 3299.20 Crore
and loans and advanced recovery of Rs. 2.88 Crore. The Annual Plan Outlay for 2016-17 has been projected at Rs. 3924.47 Crore. This consists of Rs. 2882.41 Crore as CSS, Rs. 117.06 Crore as NEC, Rs. 230.00 Crore as NLCPR, Rs. 115.00 Crore as EAP
and Rs. 580.00 Crore as untied or flexible fund. Out of this outlay, Rs. 1519.38 Crore (38.72%) has been allocated for the social sector; Rs. 1903.01 Crore (48.49%) for the economic sector; and Rs. 502.08 Crore (12.79%) for the general sector.
The CM specifically pointed out that necessary fund support has been given for introduction of post graduate courses at the Kohima Science College Jotsoma in Mathematics, Physics, Botany, Zoology, Geology and Anthropology from the next academic session. The internal revenue collection during the current year was put at Rs. 665.06 Crore as against last year’s target of Rs. 593 Crore, an increase of 12.15 per cent. However, because of “improvements made in some sectors,” this figure has now increased to Rs. 683.02 Crore in the revised estimates for 2015-16, an improvement of 15.18%. While the previous year’s budget had several tax increases, this year saw no new taxes. The CM however stated that the tax collection system in the State will be “improved.” Further, in continuation of the rationalization and codification of the Demand for Grants from 2015-16, more “improvements” have been made in the 2016-17 budget, where there is no separate column for Plan and Non Plan funds, but which can be identified by use of the classification code. He added that an abstract of head-wise detailed fund provisions has been indicated for easy and ready reference. This, he said, will facilitate the computerization of the transactions of all DDOs and Treasuries in the near future. He hoped
General Rtd. MB Neokpao Konyak Contractors seal GHSS and DFO office Wokha sworn in as GPRN/NSCN President Lotha Students’ DIMAPUR, MARCH 17 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN today held their Presidential swearing in ceremony of Gen Rtd MB Neokpao Konyak at its Tatar Hall, Khehoi Designated Camp in the presence of Ato Kilonser N Kitovi Zhimomi, Envoy to collective leadership and all rank and files from both civil and army. A press note from the MIP, GPRN/NSCN quoted President Gen Rtd MB Neokpao Konyak as stat-
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Referring to the Framework Agreement signed between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India, Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today said “although the detailed modalities for final agreement have still not been made public, there is no denying that it is a huge milestone, and a big step forward towards resolution of the long pending Naga political issue.” Zeliang in his budget speech on the Floor of the House today reiterated that the government is prepared to step aside, if necessary, to pave the way for any political settlement that is honourable and acceptable to the Nagas. He also requested all the Naga political groups to join the process of consultations being initiated by the interlocutor to the Indo-Naga peace talks. “We hope and believe that the final settlement arrived at as result of the present dialogue will be inclusive and cover all the Nagas wherever they are,” he said. “We are committed to find and facilitate a peaceful solution to the Naga po-
litical issue, and will continue to do so till we reach the goal.” Regarding the Parliamentary Working Committee’s meetings with various central leaders, the CM stated: “We are truly encouraged to see the positive response and assurances from various political party leaders, which has given us renewed hopes of seeing the long awaited final resolution of the Naga political issue.” The PWC, he informed had also met the various Naga political groups, at Chumukedima on March 9 this year, and exchanged views on the Naga political issue and its peaceful resolution. “As the parties to the dialogue continue to work out the final details of a comprehensive agreement, I appeal to all sections of the Naga society to support the peace process with a spirit of forgive and forget, so that collectively, we may be able to build a better future for ourselves and our children.” He assured that the PWC has no intention of undermining the efforts and sacrifices of any group, and that it is equally interested to engage with any group in its collective effort for a peaceful and final solution.
ing that “the Naga nation in the recent past has seen lots of defections and counter defections.” He added that “the problem of Nagas will not be solved by changing ones position or group but it will be solved only through a determined spirit, a mind that thinks for the future, and a heart that feels for its people.” “For unity and solution of Naga problem I will stand as President for the people of Nagaland,” he affirmed.
LSU questions shifting of TGOUN Wokha campus DIMAPUR, MARCH 17 (MExN): The Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) has reaffirmed its earlier representation to the Governor of Nagaland dated March 14, 2016 on the issue of shifting of Wokha campus, The Global Open University, Nagaland (TGOUN) to Dimapur headquarter. The LSU had, in its earlier representation, appealed the Governor to direct the Vice Chancellor of TGOUN to revoke the order issued by the Director of the University to shift the Wokha campus to Dimapur headquarter reportedly for the administrative convenience of the University. It had also requested the Governor to impress upon the functionaries of the TGOUN to immediately acquire/procure appropriate assets and infrastructure at Wokha and develop the Wokha campus and make it fully operational within one year from the submission of the representation. It further demanded that the university establish a permanent office at Wokha with an officer not below the rank of the Registrar or the Director to oversee and manage the Wokha Campus within six month. In this connection, the reminder note issued by LSU president, Amos Odyuo and general secretary T. Phyobemo Kikon on Thursday cautioned that in the event of failure to fulfill the demands of the students union, it would take own course of action after the expiry of the given time frame.
Union express concern; urges the government to take up the matter seriously
WOKHA, MARCH 17 (MExN): The Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) today expressed concern at the move by certain contractors to seal the GHSS building, Wokha and Divisional Forest Officer Office, Wokha due to non- payment of pending bills against the contract works executed. The LSU, in a press note today urged the concerned department and the government to take up the matter seriously and on priority to consider the grievances of the aggrieved contractors. It asked the issue be negotiated towards an acceptable settlement in the interest of the student community.
The LSU further stated that it does not endorse the adopting of “such primitive and irrational method of expressing resentment on the part of the contractors.” “The contractors are expected to take up proper and legitimate action to address their grievances and not by way of resorting to such illogical manner of sealing the Government establishments particularly and Educational institution,” it said. Stating that the LSU would not tolerate such unpleasant circumstances affecting the academic careers of the students, it asked for an early settlement of the issue. The LSU further cautioned that failure to address this concern within 15 days would compel the LSU to “take its own course of action to protect the rights and interest of the student community.”
that this would help improve quality of Accounts, improve monitoring and control of expenditure.
Measures to reduce overhead expenditure
To bring down overhead expenditures, the CM said various measures will be undertaken. He said departments having excess employees shall not be allowed to recruit new employees even against resultant vacancies as was done in the case of School Education Department. Another measure would be rationalization of man power management, and relocation of employees from departments that have surplus to departments that require more manpower. The State Government spends about Rs. 85.00 Crore annually for payment of leave encashment to retired employees. He observed that most of the retired employees get full benefits of 300 days of leave encashment although many may not be regular in their duties. “This has a huge financial impact on the State Government. The Government will, therefore, be examining the possibilities of either reducing the entitled number of days for leave encashment, or allowing retiring employees to avail the entitled leave before retirement,” he said. Meanwhile, NL A Speaker Chotisuh Sazo said the general discussion on budget presentation will be taken up on March 18.
ANSF condemn abduction of labours DIMAPUR, MARCH 17 (MExN): The Arunachal Naga Students’ Federation (ANSF) has condemned the abduction of two labour allegedly by members of the GPRN/NSCN from Longding district a week ago. While informing this, a press statement received from ANSF has appealed the authority of GPRN/NSCN to monitor its cadres and restrain them from “encroaching beyond the boundary of Nagaland state.” While stating that it respects “all the Naga freedom fighters,” the Federation said that “such act is totally unfit,” and appealed that “such situation should not be created again amongst Naga brethren in future, which may cause confusion among the Nagas.”
Jewellery workers in nagaland shout slogan against india Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, against the Centre’s decision to impose 1% excise duty on gold and diamond jewellery during a protest rally organized by nikhil nagaland swarna silpi samiti in Dimapur, nagaland on Thursday, March 17. Photo by Caisii Mao
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Book on ‘Critical Essays on Naga Nagaland GB Federation Poets & Fiction Writers in English’ calls for peace and unity
Kohima, march 17 (mExN): A book titled ‘Critical Essays on Naga Poets & Fiction Writers in English’ will be available soon at major book stalls in Kohima and Dimapur. The book is an anthology, which is a compendium of critical essays on contemporary Naga poets and fiction writers presenting their “Weltanschauung” of life which is an eyeopener to their personal philosophy of human life and the universe. The writers Temsula Ao, Easterine Kire, Monalisa Changkija, Nini Lungalang, Avinuo Kire and others explore contemporary issues in their society and human predicament in its multiple dimensions, coupled with lyrical exuberance. They have been very articulate in expressing their thoughts and feelings to instruct as well as to delight the readers. The author, Dr. Fr. AJ Sebastian sdb is former Professor and Head, Department of English, Nagaland Central University, Kohima Campus, where he taught the P.G., M. Phil & PhD students for 16 years. He has authored and edited 21 books and about 100 papers and articles for National and International Journals and Anthologies. His interests include Indian Writing in English with spe-
cial reference to the Literature of the North East India and Management and Motivational studies. He continues to minister to students and teachers through motivation programmes and by creating digital environment for them through the website: www. studenthelpline.co.in The book will be available at
Don Bosco College, Kohima Mobile 9436011884; Bosco College of Teacher Education Dimapur Mobile 9436431786; NEISSR Bishop’s House Dimapur Phone 03862-233435; Pastoral Centre at Holy Cross Dimapur and at major book stalls in Kohima and Dimapur. Price: Rs. 200/- ISBN 978-93-5258-465-9.
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): Nagaland GB Federation held a dedication programme cum executive meeting on March 15 at Circuit house, Dimapur. During the meeting, the house deliberated at length various agendas. While expressing appreciation to the state Government headed by CM, TR Zeliang and all apex organizations for relentless efforts in appealing for peace and unity. “The NGBF as a fatherly figure considering it very important and crucial resolved to strive for peace and unity among the Naga brothers and shall workout to achieve the goal,” stated NGBF in a press release. Keeping in view of mushrooming of local forces within Nagaland, the NGBF appealed the concerned tribal hohos and local apex organizations to initiate and defuse the tense situation.
Members of Nagaland GB Federation with others during the dedication programme cum executive meeting held at Circuit house, Dimapur on March 15.
The agenda related to the GBs Corpus Fund, it resolved to continue the demand with new revived system. The NGBF further resolved that the Red Blanket entitled by the GBs to be taken once in five years with good quality and the rest to be deposited in the Corpus Fund account to enhance more benefits to the GBs in the future.
Phek Town Youth Society resolves to beautify town
phEK, march 17 (Dipr): Phek Town Youth Society has resolved to sanitize and beautify the town with a slogan of "Operation Clean-Green Phek." While endorsing the SWACCH BHARAT launched by the Prime Minister Modi, the Youth Society will maintain a Clean and beautiful Town and make every possible means to save the environment. In this connection, the Committee resolved to fulfill the following : • To keep the town Clean and Green • To campaign on importance of balanced ecosystem through seminars, trainings, hoardings, pamphlets etc. • To impose garbage bags in all the vehicles. • To impose on maintaining waste bags/ sacks by every household while dumping domestic waste. • To restrict dumping of waste in the streams and nullahs. Vehicles pass through a wooden structure bridge near Shilloi Lake Lutsam under Meluri Sub Division of Phek district. As monsoon rain washed away several bridges in Phokhungri • To allocate waste collection at every accessible points in all the colonies. area in 2015, the residents of the area are looking forward for early construction of the news • To impose on biodegradable carry bags bridges. (Morung Photo by Chizokho Vero)
instead of non-degradable plastics • To restrict littering of the town with sweet covers, plastics and waste anywhere. • To ban smoking in public places by maintaining smoking zone. • To beautify the town at all junctions and hospital with flowers and decorative plants. • To plant Tree saplings on the roadside. • To conduct social works as and when situation arises. • To restrict spitting pan/tamul anywhere • To restrict excessive display and sale of Tobacco items. • To impose on clean pig sty. • To endorse the CYF resolution of complete ban on hunting. • To encourage the teachers to educate the children about the importance of sanitations and clean environment, so also initiate in the formation of Operation CleanGreen Club in all the schools and college. • To purchase a Tata Mobile for collecting of wastes.
Sensitization meeting on Treatment Literacy Program on Hepatitis C conducted moKoKchuNg, march 17 grammes, the basics of Hepatitis C, their concerns in making the services TB at Mkg and Wokha held (mExN): With an aim to provide its route of transmission, testing and and treatment facility available in their
Nagaland to observe World TB Day 2016 on March 24
moKoKchuNg, march 17 (mExN): Nagaland Users Network (NUN) conducted a sensitization meeting on Tuberculosis at Mokokchung and Wokha town on March 14 and 15 respectively. A press note stated that the programme was facilitated by Ketho, Coordinator NUN and a member of the global Community advisory Board (TB CAB) who highlighted the basic route of TB transmission, diagnostics and treatment and mentioned about the need for more response from the NGOs and Civil Society Groups in addressing this public health issue. The Coordinator NUN said that in India, inspite of the RNTCP implementing its program since 1997, India continue to be the highest burden of TB in the world which signifies the total failure of the programme. In Nagaland, the cases of Regular TB and
MDR TB also show a considerable increase both in detection and treatment while lauding the State RNTCP division for their commendable achievement. Ketho also spoke on some of the present challenges like Non release of Funds in time, Lack of proper diagnostics facilities, lack of Treatment for XDRTB cases etc, and the need for conducting mass public awareness and sensitization meetings at the grass root level, thereby engaging all sections of the community to partner together and unite to end TB in Nagaland. He said, “Unless the civil society is not part of decision making on policies surrounding TB, it is very unlikely that the program will be successful.” He also mentioned about the upcoming World TB Day 2016 on March 24 at the state Level and also further encouraged the NGOs, Drug Users and the other participants to collaborate with their District TB programme officers in observing the global event.
FELICITATION The MUSLIM COUNCIL DIMAPUR with immense Joy and Pride extend heartiest congratulations to REJINA YASMIN TAPADAR D/o A. Hannan Tapadar, President Muslim Council Dimapur for securing 2nd Position in LLM Final Exam (2013-15 Batch) from NERIM under Dibrugarh University. Rejina earlier Passed Matric from Christian Higher Secondary School Dimapur in 1st Div, Higher Secondary from SDJ Higher Secondary School Dimapur securing 2nd rank and LLB from NIRIM securing 2nd rank.
The Muslim Council Dimapur wishes her a bright future.
treatment education to people who use drugs (PUDs) and NGOs on the new treatment drugs for treating Viral Hepatitis C, NUN and HepCoN conducted Treatment Literacy Programs at Mokokchung and Wokha Town on March 14 and 15 respectively. The Mokokchung program was jointly organized with Mokokchung Users' Network (MKGUN) and the Wokha program was organized at the NUN Project office. The resource person for the programme was Ketho Angami (Coordinator NUN and Secretary HepCoN). During the pro-
diagnostics were deliberated. Ketho mentioned about the newly launched Drugs for treating Hepatitis C (HCV) which are Sofosbuvir with Ledipasvir or Daclatasvir and which showed a cure rate of 98% as per some clinical trials. He mentioned that the new standard of treatment as compared to the old standard of treatment with Pegylated Interferon is more effective with higher cure rates, shorter treatment duration, lesser side effects and considerably cheaper in price. During the course of both the meetings, the participants shared
respective districts. The resource person informed that the State Government is also exploring various means to implement programs on HCV in the state based on the recommendations submitted by HepCoN to the Chief Secretary on March 4, 2016. A press release informed that the meeting also discussed other means to make HCV services in the districts with support from the existing resources. The program was attended by members from Drug Users' Networks, TI NGO partners and was supported by NUN and HepCoN.
Zapami Village Sanitation Clean Day observed
phEK, march 17 (mExN): The Zapami Village, Phek district observed Sanitation Clean Day on March 15 as calendar events by PHED, Government of Nagaland under the National Rural Drinking Water And Sanitation Awareness Week from March 16 to 22 to accelerate in village across India Goal Swachh Bharat (Clean India) by 2019 Government of India, Ministry of Rural Development Department of drinking water supply. The WATSAN Com-
mittee, Zapami Village observed March 16 every year as ‘Village Sanitation Clean Day’ for achieving complete sanitation coverage status (NGP) first of its kind in Phek district during 2009-10 in Nagaland. Around 600 villagers took part in mass social work for sanitation and clean drinking water programme. “The main objective of the event is to observe Village Sanitation Clean Day to make aware the importance of sanitation and to have better civic sense, so
as to harness information and knowledge for Health and hygiene through sanitation,” said Kedou Wetsah, Chairman, WATSAN Committee, Zapami Village in a press release. The WATSAN Committee educate the rural villagers through Gandhian’s Principle that Gandhi’s Dreams is our dream, his vision must lead us through the challenges of the present day world towards a clean, green and self-sufficient India. The WATSAN committee also educates the rural people that
Gandhiji’s visualized cleanliness as having three dimensions… a clean mind, a clean body, and a clean surroundings. The WATSAN Committee also display some sign board like ‘Keep Your Village Clean’ ‘Keep your colony clean’ ‘Use dustbin’ etc. Kepe Colony emerged as the winner among five colonies in the competition for ‘Cleanest Colony’ of the village on the same day and packed away with many Attractive Awards bestowed by WATSAN Committee, Zapami village.
The meeting was presided by Shalem Konyak, President, NGBF and recorded by Shikuto Zalipu, General Secretary NGBF. Exhortation speeches were delivered by T. L. Angami, Founder of NGBF and Vikuto, former President, NGBF. The first session was dedicatory programme where Kakihe Yeptho, Vice
President NGBF was the chairperson. It started with invocation prayer by Rev. Dr. Weyite Lohe and presidential address was delivered by Sahlem konyak. The commissioning of the new office bearers was done by Rev. Dr. Wati Aier, principal, OTS. The first session concluded with vote of thanks by Shikuto Zalipu, General Secretary, NGBF.
MEx File UNTABA meeting today Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): All the members of executive committee of the respective Areas/Ranges and the advisory board members of the United Naga Tribes Association on Border Areas (UNTABA) are informed that a meeting will be held on March 18 at 12 Noon at Book Marc Conference Hall, opposite Naga Shopping Arcade, Dimapur to deliberate on the following agenda: Delhi campaign report and future course of action. All the members are respected to attend the scheduled meeting positively. No personal circular copy shall dispatch. For any information, the members may contact the following M/Nos @9436826698, 8974024949 and 9856326916. This was informed in a press release issued by UNTABA Richard Haolai, Media Incharge.
5th general meeting of PDGBA pErEN, march 17 (mExN): The 5th general meeting cum conference of the Peren District GB Association (PDGBA) will be held from March 29 to 30 at Tening Town with CL John, Minister for Rural Development as chief guest and Namri Nchang, MLA from 6th Tening A/C as chief host. Therefore, all the GBs under Peren district have been requested to attend the function positively. A press release from the Association President, Kainia Dilon further requested the delegates to bring light bedding.
ATI designated nodal centre on gender budgeting Kohima, march 17 (Dipr): Government of Nagaland has designated the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) of Nagaland as the Nodal Centre on Gender Budgeting for Nagaland. The Nodal Centre shall function as an institution for overall training needs of the State and provide necessary inputs on concepts related to Gender and Gender Budgeting to institutionalize Gender Sensitive Planning & Budgeting.
NCSU Phek division informs Kohima, march 17 (mExN): All members of Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU), Phek division have been informed that there will be a general meeting of the union by mid-April at Phek Town. All the members have been requested to attend the said meeting without fail. Earlier, the Phek division in its recent meeting asked the members who have not renewed their membership to do the same at the earliest. Those failing to renew the same shall be debarred from attending the meeting. For more information, contact NCSU Phek division President Kuzosheyi Alex (8974763829) and Secretary Razou Lohe (8731931124).
NNUD elects new office bearers Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The Natha New Union Dimapur (NNUD) has elected new office bearers with Bohoto S. Rotokha as Chairman, Tito V. Zhimomi - Vice Chairman, Ikato V. Zhimomi - General Secretary, Aron H. Yepthomi - Joint Secretary, Hekhuyi Zhimomi - Treasurer, Ghovishe Awomi and Inavi Zhimomi - Information Secretary, S. Rotokha Zhimomi, Commandant, Home Guard - Advisor.
NAPAD ‘Reaching Out’ to Differently Abled Persons
Kohima, march 17 (mExN): On March 14, 2016 the Nagaland Parents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) observed its 6th Foundation Day under the theme ‘Reaching Out.’ NAPAD along with Dr. Atha, Nagaland State Commissioner for the Disabilities, visited few Differently Abled Person homes that are being bedridden, as a token of love and care they were presented with a blanket and prayed with them. NAPAD has visited a total of 17 Differently Abled Person home who are being bed ridden. NAPAD has called upon all parents and guardian of Differently Abled Person within Kohima Town, who are being bed ridden and wants NAPAD to visit their home to have fellowship to contact the following numbers before April 14; Christina Mor- President, NAPAD – 9856713626; Kapochü-o NaleoSecretary, NAPAD – 9856683130; Keth- Nagaland Parents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) along with Kohima DC & Chairman Loolel Thapo- SNAC Coordinator, NAPAD cal Level Committee under National Trust Rovilatuo Mor on the first 6th NAPAD foundation Day.
– 9774906088. The Nagaland Parents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) was formed on March 14, 2010 through the initiative of affected parents and was appointed as the State Nodal Agency Centre (SNAC) under National Trust, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Person with Disabilities, New Delhi. The aims and objectives of NAPAD are: It endeavors to make the PWD’s to be self reliant to the maximum extent; To focus on the disability issues and trend and find ways and means by which PWD’s and their families can be integrated in the inclusive growth of the state and the communities; To focus upon the practical actions and innovative measures to further implement various legislations, international norms and standards concerning PWD’s and to further their participation in social life and all round development.
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CAN youth find a safe space to rebel? Morung Express News Dimapur | March 17
Technology has changed the world so much that we are unable to say what the future holds for us. In such a situation, how do we help young people? Dr. Fr. Jerry Thomas, Director of Bosco Institute, posed this here at Hotel Acacia today at the concluding session of the ‘Xchange Northeast Youth NGO Summit.’ “All that we can do is to help them walk into the uncertain future with as much certainty of themselves as possible so that they can take on the uncertainty of the future,” he stated, elucidating the concept of a 5th space. The Summit, organised by CAN Youth has leaders of 16 NGOs from Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya converged to examine range of issues that would help young people in their work with the community and listen to inspiring experiences from those in the field. Stating the concept of 5th space as a unique approach to youth development, Dr. Thomas said we restrict ourselves with four standard spaces - family, friends, career or
education and lifestyle. In trying to conform to these norms, young people often lose themselves and forgot the self, he noted. Taking forward the concept, he asked, “Have you at any time rebelled against what you see around; parents, law and order, authority, educational system?” “It is important for young people to find a safe space to rebel otherwise the rebellion is directed to one’s self, addiction, violence or against the society in ways that are destructive.” In this context, Dr. Thomas argued that “Every young person needs to break free of the oppressive thing they feel within themselves. It’s like a seed coming out. A seed does violence to itself by breaking free. It breaks its shell. Every young person needs the space to do that—breaking free without destroying oneself, without doing harm to oneself.” If there is no safe space, the whole community becomes unsafe. Safe space to rebel is essential and that is the 5th space, he further opined. In such a situation young people discover themselves. Dr. Thomas, however, cautioned against naming it within a
A panelist speaking at the ‘Xchange Northeast Youth NGO Summit’ which concluded at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur on March 17. (Morung Photo)
framework. The moment we name it, we restrict it within boundaries. This is not needed for young people, he pointed out. The essential essence to enable such space is – the youth him/herself and a trustworthy adult to mentor and guide them. “Instead of being a judge, we need to empathize. Can we mentor our people; Can we be a trustworthy adult?” he asked. The concluding session also included recognition of young people who were part of an initiative called ‘Changelooms With.in’ an inside out leadership journey a programme that
is jointly implemented by Community - The Youth Collective (CYC) and Pravah that encourages, recognizes, and supports young leaders (changeloomers) to achieve their potential to lead social change initiatives. Four young “changeloomers” Levi V Sumi of E Mind Computer Academy (Nagaland), Bhoitina Musharry of AIET (Assam), Indrijet Sinha, Way Foundation (Assam) and Merah Ahmed, NE Centre for Equity Action (Assam) were honored for their initiative. Felicitating the achiever, Deepjyoti Sonu Brahma, co-founder of
Farm2Food Foundation and an Asoka Foundation Fellow said that to start something one need not only a great idea but must be ready to face challenges along the way. For instance, he highlighted that the first challenge starts internally about writing proposals, budgets and also the perception of the society – from family to jobs consideration and so on. When conceptualizing something, we need to be pushed out of our comfort zone. We have to push ourselves beyond the zone. That’s the challenges ahead, he maintained. “To start a movement, everyone needs to have a dream, aspiration and hope, but we need to know who we are and grow within ourselves to change the society,” he stressed adding that all the challenges could be overcome with love – love for your work, family and beneficiaries. Speaking from experience, Jenpu Rongmei, a Change loomer himself, talked about how circumstances in life – like a domestic violence, dropping out of schools and losing brother to drug abuse—led him to consider undertaking criminal activities. Then he realized, “Life is not only
for the sake of being rich or having money but how much you contribute for a meaningful life.” It’s not about building a future for the community but giving hands and support to them when they are building their futures. In his concluding remarks, Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, Kesonyü Yhome noted that the idea of the Summit was to establish a platform for youth of Northeast in particular in NGOs to come forward and discussed long standing and emerging issues. Another primary objective was to bridge gap with agencies outside the government and the government itself, he noted. "To de-mystify the notion that NGOs and government cannot come together." I personally felt that this has been one of the main reason various schemes and policies has failed over the years, he added. Further exhorting the gathering, he noted that the journey ahead would be hard and filled with frustration and failures. “Sitting in a seminar hall and going to field work is different ball game.” “Keep inspiring yourself every morning. If you cannot inspire yourself, you inspire others,” he concluded.
North East culture enthrals London 15-hour total shutdown begins in Naga areas of Manipur London, March 17 (IanS/raY): The northeastern region of India entered London's cultural scene this week, with an exotic exhibition of organic textiles and trendy made-for-the-west designs, as well as lively music and dance from the region. The phenomenon was a refreshing change from the diet of garba, bhangra and Bollywood entertainment that pummels Londoners and is mistaken by the uninitiated as the 'be all and end all' of Indian arts. The four-day event was staged at the Nehru Centre, the cultural wing of the Indian High Commission in Britain. It included live weaving of silk cloth by a woman from a remote village in Meghalaya. She sells her creations to Daniel Syiem's
Ethnic Fashion House in Shillong. Syiem with his partner Janessaline Pyngrope designs niche western as well as Khasi style outfits. "We understand the hurdles faced by our artisans in sustaining their craft, therefore sharing their story with the world is our contribution to enable them to conserve their art," the couple said. Eri worms or silk worms are reared in the Khasi-Jaintia hills. Silk is then extracted from cocoons, leading to spinning and reeling, yarn production, dying and eventually weaving. Natural vegetable dyes provide the colour. The garment display was capped by music and dance from Assam, Mizoram, Manipur and Meghalaya and Nagaland.
AIUDF, RJD, JD(U) form grand alliance in Assam GUWahaTI, March 17 (PTI): AIUDF, RJD and JD(U) today announced a grand alliance of "secular parties" in Assam and invited Congress to join them to fight BJP in the forthcoming assembly polls. "We want a grand alliance in Assam of all secular parties on the lines of the recent Bihar polls to fight jointly against BJP and its communal politics," AIUDF chief and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal told reporters here. "We had discussion with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad in this regard and asked Congress to join us in our effort to fight against BJP and prevent the party from finding a foothold in Assam," he said. "In Assam we want Congress and AGP to join us along with JD(U) and RJD, but AGP went ahead with BJP and Congress did not act, maybe due to certain compulsions," he said. "We, however, once again invite Congress to join us even now. We are ready to welcome them to the grand alliance so that we can fight against the communal forces which have already taken roots in the state, Ajmal said. JD(U) general secretary and northeast in-charge Arun Kumar Srivastava said people of Assam were disturbed with BJP and its brand of politics and false promises. RJD state convenor Kanak Gogoi urged Congress to join the alliance as "Assam is a secular state
and we will not allow BJP to gain a foothold in the state". AIUDF will contest around 76 seats and announced a list of 19 candidates for the second phase today while a list of 23 candidates for the first phase has been already announced. Both JD(U) and RJD will contest around 12 seats and they announced a list of five candidates each today. Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Sharad Yadav are scheduled to campaign for the alliance partners for the ensuing polls. Alliance promises compensation Victims of communal violence and ethnic cleansing in Assam would be provided compensation at par with the victims of 1984 Sikh riots, said the Common Minimum Programme of the AIUDF, RJD and JD(U). Emphasis will be given to provide em-
ployment and bank loans to widows, orphans and people injured in these targeted violence, AIUDF Chief Badruddin Ajmal told reporters here. Pension will also be provided to the widows and children whose parents/husbands or relatives were killed in these violence, he said. The alliance will also ensure security of life and property of minorities and Hindi speaking people living in Assam.
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A 15-hour total bandh called by the United Naga Council (UNC) in all Naga-dominated districts of Manipur in support of a Churachandpur district total shutdown announced by the Churachandpur JAC as a mark of respect to nine ‘tribal martyrs’ kicked off on Thursday midnight. The Churachandpur JAC is all set to organise a mass prayer cum release of 200 flying lanterns tomorrow as a tribute to the martyrs who were killed in violent confrontations with security forces during protest erupted after passing of three ILP Bills by Manipur Assembly on August 31, 2015. UNC said passing of the three ‘anti-tribal’ Bills was followed by sudden spontaneous uproars by the tribals in Manipur as a culmination of the rage and resentment felt against decades of ‘subjugation, marginalisation and oppressive policies of the Government of Manipur.’ The JAC has refused to claim the nine bodies ly-
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India on way to becoming third-largest aviation market HYDErAbAD, MArCH 17 (IANs): With over 20 percent growth in domestic aviation market in 2015, India is well on its way to becoming the third-largest aviation market by 2020, says a FicciKPMG report. According to the report released on Thursday at the India Aviation 2016 here, with 81 million trips, the domestic aviation market grew at over 20.3 percent during JanuaryDecember 2015, the highest growth rate recorded in the world. The total passenger throughput grew by 17.1 percent in 2015-16, standing at 184 million till January 2016. Passenger throughput is expected to reach around 370 million by 2020, with domestic traffic constituting around 80 percent of the total throughput.
The report suggests that aspects such as increasing disposable incomes, fall in prices of Aircraft Turbine Fuel (ATF), increase in tourism, visa reforms, have placed India in a unique position. “This is bringing the country closer to achieving its vision of becoming the largest aviation market by 2030,” says the India Aviation 2016 report. According to the report, the Indian civil aviation industry has exhibited tremendous resilience to the global economic slowdown and ranks ninth in the global civil aviation market. This is attributed largely to the growing economy, increased competition among airlines, especially among low cost carriers, modern airports, greater use of technology, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and increased emphasis on
regional connectivity. The report highlights that the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP 2016) is likely to provide a significant fillip to the industry. The various fiscal and monetary incentives, liberal policies focused on ‘ease of doing business’ and enhanced push for regional and global connectivity are extremely positive. Steps taken to revive and operationalise around 160 airports in India, if chosen carefully, will improve air connectivity to regional and remote areas. PublicPrivate Partnerships (PPP) in the sector will get substantial support from the state in terms of financing, concessional land allotment, tax holidays and other incentives. “Enormous growth in domestic passenger traffic, substantial strengthening through government ini-
tiatives, decrease in global crude oil prices and airlines showing profits indicates a significantly positive transformation for the Indian civil aviation market,” said Harshavardhan Neotia, president, FICCI. “The positive impact of NCAP 2016, rise in disposable incomes and the fall in ATF prices are likely to help India leapfrog into the top three of the world,” said Amber Dubey, Partner and India Head of Aerospace and Defence, KPMGA. He hoped that the government can match domestic ATF prices with global levels for a three year experimental period. “MRO is likely to see a huge revival if the service tax is zero-rated. Growth of aviation and tourism can create a huge multiplier in terms of GDP growth and jobs,” he added.
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The report quoted International Air Transport Association (IATA) that passenger traffic on international routes showed an increase of 6.5 percent in 2015 compared to 2014. During April-December 2015, international passenger throughput at Indian airports grew at 7.7 percent. Middle East continues to lead in the growth of revenue passenger kilometre (RPKM) followed by Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Europe. North America and Africa showed sluggish growth. By 2034, it is expected that Asia-Pacific will be the biggest market for global aviation. The report strongly suggests that in order to ensure high-geared growth, it is imperative to broaden the base of domestic flyers through greater air connectivity in tier 2/3 cities.
NEw DELHI, MArCH 17 (IANs): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday declined specific comment if his government considered industrialist Vijay Mallya an absconder but sought to assure that every penny that is due from him to state-run banks will be recovered. Answering a specific question at the India Today Conclave on Mallya, who is said to owe Rs.9,000 crore to 17 banks, most of them in the state sector, the finance minister said every agency in India, be it for enforcement or investigation, was on the job regarding the case. “The facts are very clear: Every government agency will take strong action against him. Banks will go all out to recover every single penny,” he said about Mallya who left the country earlier this month amid charges of wilful default on bank loans worth thousands of crores. The finance minister said the bank loan defaulters who had “misconducted themselves”, without
Nike unveils futuristic, self-lacing shoes SBI inaugurates ATM in Chuchuyimlang NEw York, MArCH 17 (IANs): Many of us have wished for a shoe that automatically ties its laces when they get untied while we are running. American sports footwear and apparel brand Nike apparently heard us and on Thursday released the futuristic self-lacing sneakers. Launched at an event here, the shoes -- named HyperAdapt 1.0 -- resemble the sneakers that Hollywood actor Michael J. Fox wore in the 1989 movie ‘Back to the Future 2’. Put the sneaker on and it will tighten to the size of your foot using a heel sensor, Quartz reported. According to Nike, the real innovation is that you can quickly adapt your sneaker to the changes your foot undergoes when competing, using buttons on the side that let you tweak the fit. Laces, by contrast, may loosen up, or be tied too tight. Your foot may also change shape during exercise (expanding slightly, for instance). The HyperAdapt is meant to eliminate those problems, the report said.
Right now, an athlete has to make those changes manually but this new product has a goal that can make those changes automatically and create a “nearly symbiotic relationship between the foot and shoe”, the company said. The shoe has a sole that lights up -- maybe to make it look futuristic -- and it makes a slight mechanical wheezing noise when it tightens. The report pointed out that the sneaker, which runs on a battery that can keep a charge for about two weeks, has been in the works for around 10 years. The HyperAdapt 1.0 uses two recent Nike innovations, its Flywire filaments and Flyweave fabric, both of which make the shoes hold more firmly to the foot during sports. The HyperAdapt 1.0 will be available in three colours and expected to be released by the end of this year. At the moment, the shoe will be available only to members of Nike+, the new app that Nike wants to be a sort of one-stopshop for athletes
CHUCHUYIMLANG, MArCH 17 (MExN): Bringing a big sigh of relief to the public under Chuchuyimlang block and all the travelers of National Highway 2, the Chief General Manager (CGM) of State Bank of India, Northeast Circle PVSL N. Murthy inaugurated the ATM at SBI Chuchuyimlang Branch on Thursday. The CGM was accompanied by S. Sinha, the Circle Development Officer of SBI NE Circle, Guwahati, S. Malviya, the Deputy General Manager of SBI, Jorhat and G. Sekar, the Assistant General Manager of SBI Regional Branch Office Mokokchung. While delivering a short speech after inaugurating the ATM, the CGM expressed hope that all the public in the area will benefit by the ATM. He also disclosed that SBI will provide Swayam Machine in the ATM booth in near future where customers can update their passbook thereby bringing convenience to the public
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demand of the public in the entire area. He also said that the Council will continue to extend cooperation and support to the bank by way of providing security from all unwanted elements. Others present during the inaugural programme included Daniel Meren, joint director of NIELIT, I. Akang, DIS (Retd), Adhoc Town and Village Council members, and a host of public. The function was chaired by Zulutoshi, branch manager SBI Chuchuyimlang.
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MUMbAI, MArCH 17 (AGENCIEs): The SBI-led 17 banks’ consortium has started the e-auction of Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher House in Mumbai on Thursday. The 2,001.70 sq. ft. property is going under the hammer in a bid to recover a part of the nearly Rs 9,000 crore debt now due from Kingfisher Airlines and Vijay Mallya. The e-auction, carried out under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interet (SARFASI) Act, 2002, is taking place on e-auction property platform, Auction Tiger. The reserve price of the property has been kept at Rs 150 crore, with the bid increment amount at Rs 5 lakh and the deposit has been fixed at Rs 15 lakh.
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` 200 a month for beneficiaries under Destitute Women Scheme Legislators debate on motion of thanks to Governor’s address Our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
Destitute women with no source of income are provided a paltry sum of Rs 200 per month under the Destitute Women Scheme of the Department of Women Resource Development. This was stated in the annual administrative report 2015-16 of the Department of Women Resource Development tabled in the assembly session here today by Parliamentary Secretary for Women Resource Development, Land Revenue and Village Guards L. Khumo. Altogether, 3000 destitute women in the state who are divorced, separated, deserted or single and have no source of income are provided financial assistance under this scheme. The report stated that identification and verification of beneficiaries are conducted by the department’s partner NGOs, who also carry out post verification of existing status of beneficiaries (remarriage, death etc), while also verifying and recommending new beneficiaries for selection. The amount of Rs. 200 per beneficiary per month is provided and also disbursed through the partner NGO, the report stated. To continue the programme, an amount of Rs. 72.00 lakh has been sanctioned during 2015-16 under nonplan. Disbursement of the financial assistance will be carried out during the current calendar year, the report added.
47,786 beneficiaries under AAY scheme
Altogether, 47,786 beneficiaries in Nagaland have been covered under the Antyodayaanna Yojana (AAY) scheme. AAY came into force with effect from October 1, 2001 with a view to reduce hunger amongst the poorest of the poor segments of BPL families, according to the annual administrative report 2015-16 of the Department of Food & Civil Supplies tabled by Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang who is also in-charge of Food and Supplies Department. The District wise beneficiaries are as follows: Dimapur- 6366, Kohima4810, Phek- 4505, Wokha4270, Zunheboto- 4475, Mokokchung- 5500, Tuensang- 4185, Mon- 4665, Kiphire- 3590, Longleng2630 and Peren- 2786. Under Annapurna scheme, the report stated that there are altogether 6,727 beneficiaries. The report stated that the Ministry of Rural Development launched Annapurna scheme for indigent senior citizens aged 65 years and above who are not getting pension under the National Old Age Pension Scheme. The scheme envisages provision of 10 kgs of rice per month free of cost to the identified beneficiary. The district wise beneficiaries under this scheme are as follow: Dimapur- 1080, Kohima769, Phek- 563, Wokha460, Zunheboto- 535, Mokokchung- 871, Tuensang- 807, Mon- 825, Kiphire- 273, Longleng- 186 and Peren- 358. The report stated that
Status of Nagaland medical college Our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
The Department of Health and Family Welfare is steadfastly moving towards improving the health delivery system in the state and is developing a medical college in Kohima with 100 academic seats linked with the state’s capital District Hospital known as Naga Hospital Authority (NHAK). According to the annual administrative report of the Department of Health and Family Welfare 2015-16 tabled in the assembly session today by Minister for Health & Family Welfare P. Longon,
the upcoming Nagaland medical college will initially function from two campuses- administrative, academic, hostel complex for students and residential complex of faculty and staff at Phriebagie, while the teaching hospital campus at the NHAK. The report stated that the ongoing construction of District Hospital building at Phriebagie will be converted and utilize for the college. The report added that the state government has already invested Rs. 20.46 crore against this project. Meanwhile, the GoI has also released Rs. 7.50 crores as first instalment.
the allocation of foodgrains IAS Nagaland cadfor the period 2014-15 and re has authorised 2015-16 has not yet been received from the Ministry strength of 91 The Indian Administratill date. tive Service (IAS) of Nagaland Cadre has an autho15, 000 hectares rub- rised strength of 91. Out of ber plantation devel- 91 cadre strength, 64 are direct recruit posts and oped in Nagaland About 15,000 hectares the remaining 27 are proof rubber plantations have motional posts from SCS been developed in the state and non- SCS. This was stated in anat present with about 60 lakh standing trees at vari- nual administrative report 2015-16 of the Department ous stages of growth. During 2015-16, a new of Personnel & Adminisplantation of 3,000 hect- trative Reforms tabled by ares were developed in the Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang state, according to the an- who also holds the portfonual administrative report lio of that department. As on February 29, 2015-16 of the Department of Land Resources tabled 2016, there are 59 officers by Parliamentary Secre- in position out of which 12 tary for Land Resources are on deputation/study and Excise & Prohibition leave to central/state govB.S. Nganlang on the floor ernments/public sectors understandings. of the House here today. During the year 2015, The report stated that the department is promot- four IAS officers were aling rubber cultivation on lotted to Nagaland cadre. large scale in the state in These officers are now on view of the high economic probation and undergoing training at Lal Bahadur returns. As per the department’s Shastri National Academy estimate, the state has the of Administration, Musoverall potential to develop soorrie. Further, the Na4.60 lakh hectares of rubber galand Secretariat Service plantation, the report stat- (NSS) has an authorised ed adding that out of which strength of 637 which con1.00 lakh hectares has been sists of Secretariat Assistargeted to be covered in tant (Grade-III, Non- Gazetted) up to the level of Nagaland. The report stated that Secretary. At present, 400 officials rubber plantations have been developed with the are only in position, the resupport of Rubber Board, port added. state government and individual growers and the CM lays NSMDC, people of the state are high- NIC annual report ly motivated of the benefit of Chief Minister T.R. Zethe crop and thus the area liang today laid the annual under rubber is rapidly ex- report of the Nagaland State panding year after year. Mineral Development Corporation Limited (NSMDC) Augmentation of 2011- 2012 and 2012-2013 and Nagaland Information water supply to Commission 2014-2015. Kohima town The Chief Minister also The scheme for augmentation of water supply laid the Annual Administo the state capital, Kohima trative Report 2015-16 of is being taken up under Finance, Personnel & Ad90:10 funding pattern under ministrative Reforms, Legal the Ministry of Urban De- Metrology & Consumer Protection, DUDA, Food & Civil velopment, Govt of India. According to the an- Supplies, Urban Developnual administrative report ment and Co-operation. Later, the Chief Minister 2015-16 of the Department presented Supplementary of Public Health Engineering tabled here today in the Demand for Grants for the assembly session by Minis- year 2015-16. NLA speaker ter for PHE Tokheho Yep- Chotisuh Sazo informed thomi, the project involves that discussion and voting pumping of water from Za- in this regard will be taken rii stream to a reservoir in up on March 18. The Chief Minister also Kigwema village through laid a copy of the review of two stages of pumping. From this reservoir, wa- the trends in receipts and ter will be conveyed to the expenditure for the first, state capital by gravity, the second and third quarter report stated. The design of the year 2015-16 as recapacity of the project is quired under Section 11 of the Nagaland Fiscal Re3.80 million litres daily. The physical progress sponsibility and Budget is 85%. The project was Management Act 2005. Parliamentary Secretary scheduled for completion in 2014-15 but has been for Home Guards & Civil re-scheduled taking into Defence and Sericulture account of the delay in re- E.E. Pangteang laid the Service Rules of Home Guards lease of funds.
(Gazetted/Non- Gazetted) while the Nagaland Govt. Printing Press (Technical Service Rules, 2015) was laid by Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries, Printing & Stationary Shetoyi. Parliamentary Secretary for Labour, Employment Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Border Affairs Mmhonlumo Kikon laid a copy of the Nagaland Shops & Establishment Rules, 2015. Khriehu Liezietsu, Chairman of the Select Committee on Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Online Games of Skill Bill, 2015 presented a copy of the Report of the Select Committee. The recommendation of the Committee stated that it has thoroughly examined the Bill and deliberated on its social and legal implications and it is satisfied with the legalities and the revenue that would be generated. Accordingly, the Committee unanimously recommended that the said Bill be passed. The report of the Committee was considered an adopted on March 8, 2016. Minister for Social Security & Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie, Minister For Home Y. Patton, Minister for PHE Tokheho Yepthomi, Minister for Power C. Kipili Sangtam, Minister for Health & Family Welfare P. Longon, Minister for National Highways, Mechanical Engineering & Election Nuklutoshi, Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture, DBs & GBs Affairs Kejong Chang, Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism C. Apok Jamir, Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Coordination, Evaluation and Monitoring Cell Neiba Kronu, Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs, Economics & Statistics R. Tohanba, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, Music Task Force and State Lotteries Khriehu Liezietsu, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture Dr. Benjongliba, Parliamentary Secretary for Home Guards & Civil Defence and Sericulture E.E. Pangteang, Parliamentary Secretary for Land Resources Development and Excise B.S. Nganlang, Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Printing & Stationary Shetoyi and Parliamentary Secretary for Land Revenue, Village Guards, Women Resource Development L. Khumo also presented annual administrative report 2015-16 of their respective departments.
Our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
Legislators today debated on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address of March 15 at the eleventh session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly. While repetitious views on the need for early settlement of the Naga political issue were echoed by the legislators, concerns were also raised on the policies related to interest of farmers, the rural poor and combating climate change and global warming in the State. On Naga Political issue “Peace can only come to Nagaland if we genuinely and sincerely want it,” said Parliamentary Secretary for Housing, Levi Rengma who affirmed the belief that each Naga has a responsibility to bring peace and development in our land. It is the responsibility of not just the 60 MLAs but all the public of Nagaland, affirmed Rengma. Positing that it is the responsibility of the legislators to speak out the truth, PHED Minister Tokheho Yepthomi urged for the need to solve the Naga political issue when there is opportunity- the opportunity of a single party in the state because such kind of arrangements may not continue. Perhaps countering to the over emphasis on the much praised single party in Nagaland, Kaito Aye’s riposte “There is no money that’s why we are all together,” set the august house in laughter. Aye viewed that the financial constraints in the State had led to the unification of the parties, else had there been money all the parties will be fighting among each other. Meanwhile, MLA Imkong L Imchen impressed upon the need for the government to settle boundary issues with Assam. “We have nothing to lose if we settle boundary issues with Assam,” said Imchen positing that the boundary issues must be resolved between the two states
so that both can co-habit peacefully ginger plantation in Mokokchung which drove the farmers to huge and prosperously. losses due to failure from the part of the government in marketing the Need to prioritize rural areas MLA Kaito Aye urged the state to products, Dr. Aier pressed the need protect the interest of farmers and to to find markets once the products shift its priorities to the rural areas. are in surplus. To celebrate World Environment Review and renew policies and make new approaches that protect the in- day on June 5, Dr. Aier proposed that terest and well being of farmers, ex- all the 60 Legislators plant 1000 trees pressed Aye. Asserting that equal each in their own constituencies, treatment must be meted out, Aye in an effort to fight against climate mentioned that there is a need to re- change and global warming. Further sharing concern on the view the activities of the government. Parliamentary Secretary for monopoly of business in Nagaland Higher and Technical Education, where a few powerful business tyDeo Nukhu also shared views for coons control the whole market in the government to give priority to the State thus depriving the young the rural areas and remote districts. entrepreneurs to progress, Dr. Aier asserted that the State must protect and safeguard the Naga business people. Law and order Expressing concern over the “Our Naga brothers and sisters should law and order situation in the State, not be deprived and drained under Tokheho Yepthomi viewed that for- the monopoly of the few,” said Dr. Aier giveness is a must to live together. “It who recommended the setting up of a is not just the responsibility of the committee to study the different types administration and police but we all of market control in the state and immust give efforts to resolve this issue. plement a regulatory board to moniTime for us to look for a better way to tor business activities. live a better life but if we continue to think in a negative way we can never Lack of coordination live as peaceful citizens,” said Yep- among departments Lack of coordination among dethomi who also shared concerns on partments is a setback to progress the dangers of armed groups. “No tribe should form any kind of and development, viewed Toyang forces with an aim to defend them- Changkong Chang, Parliamentary selves. It will only destroy them. We Secretary for Fire and Emergency must encourage people not to have Services and New and Renewable that kind of arrangement for self de- Energy (NRE) Department. Expressing concern on the grim reality of struction,” Yepthomi maintained. unemployment in Nagaland, Chang pointed out that even in the governConcerns over ment sector, job opportunities has marketing, monopoly Bringing some new perspectives reached a saturating point. Education in Nagaland is exam oriand fresh ideas, Dr. Imtiwapang Aier, Parliamentary Secretary for Geology ented. Departments must move from and Mining suggested several poli- stereotyped curriculum to a more productive value oriented, he said. cies and measures. Legislators Vikho-o Yhoshü, On Agriculture, Dr. Aier suggested that the State focus on two Mmhonlumo Kikon, Dr. TM Lotha objectives - agro-products in State and B.S Nganglang also debated in market and value added products. the motion of thanks to the GoverCiting the example of ineffective nor’s address.
Legislators forego refreshment, newspaper, magazine allowances as ‘austerity measure’ Our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang today said that as an “austerity measure”, the Cabinet Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and senior officers have voluntarily decided to forego the allowances of refreshments, newspapers and magazines. Presenting the Nagaland budget for the year 2016-17 here today in the state assembly session, the chief minister said the government also intended to bring down the overhead expenditures with other measures such as departments having excess employees shall not be allowed to recruit new employees even against resultant vacancies as was done in the case of school education department and rationalization of man power management, and relocation of employees from departments that have surplus to departments that require more manpower. He said the government spends about Rs. 85 crores annually for payment of leave encashment to retired employees. It is observed that most of the retired employees get full benefits of 300 days of leave encashment although many may not be regular in their duties. This has a huge financial impact on the state government, he said adding that the gov-
ernment will, therefore, be examining the possibilities of either reducing the entitled number of days for leave encashment, or the option of allowing retiring employees to avail the entitled leave before retirement. About 50% of NPB spent as salary Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang today said the state government spends about 50.15 % as salary for the government employees and about 18.15% for pensions out of Non- Plan Budget (NPB). In his budget presentation for 2016-17, he said the ratio of government employees to the population is about 1:15 which is perhaps the highest in the country. Referring to resource mobilization, he said “We are making continuous efforts to increase our tax base and improve efficiency of the collection machinery,” adding that it has recently put in place a system of fixing the base rate of land under Dimapur so that mis-declaration and undervaluation of land transactions with the intent of evading stamp duty are checked. He expressed belief that it was a good time for the state government to tone up tax administration in the state, and to closely examine the collection and deposits of various tax and
non-tax revenue by the different agencies of the state government. “We will accordingly focus on special audit of revenue collecting departments during the coming financial year to ascertain correct deduction and deposit of various taxes such as VAT, forest royalty, works tax, royalty on coal, power tarrif etc. and take steps to recover those that are due to be deposited into government account,” he said. Further, he said the government also envisages introducing more efficient methods of revenue collections so as to plug leakages in the system. Later, addressing a press conference after the budget presentation, the Chief Minister said that he wishes to maximize the over-all development of the state but at the same time maintain strict financial management. He also maintained that for the first time, the accumulated deficit has been brought down through internal management which is a commendable achievement. He also expressed his gratitude to the 14th Finance Commission for awarding reasonable funds to the state, particularly with respect to the grants made to cover the revenue gap. The Chief Minister also stated that no new taxes will be imposed for the current
Financial year, however the tax collection system in the state will be improved. 2016-17 declared as “Year of Construction Workers” Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang today said the state government has decided to declare the year 2016-17 as “Year of Construction Workers.” Stating this in his budget presentation here today, he said this declaration was made in order to address the problem of lack of relevant skills and employability with focus on encouraging youths to take up construction work as a profession, and build their skills through appropriate institutions to be put in place shortly. Presently, he said, there are 72,415 unemployed youth in the Live Register in the state, many of whom are engineers, architects and diploma holders. The huge construction activity in the state where the presence of our youth is practically non-existent, which is unfortunate given the high levels of unemployment, he said. “The overwhelming dependence on migrant construction workers also leads to a huge outflow of financial resources from the state, which adversely affects our economy. There is also the ever present danger of such floating population on the demography of the state,” he said.
St. Joseph’s College Jakhama celebrates 3rd Spring Fest CAGSEA, GHSS Chukitong extend not to be veiled by narrow condolences on senior teacher’s death Jakhama, march mindedness. He added, 17 (mExN): St. Joseph’s College Jakhama celebrated Spring Fest under the theme ‘Unity in Diversity’ on March 12, where students representing every Naga tribe showcased their uniqueness paving a way to preserve the rich Naga culture and heritage, a press release said. Jonas Yanthan, Senior News Reader, AIR Kohima, exhorted the students to enjoy high standard of Students of St. Joseph’s College Jakhama take part in various competitions during the constitutional rights, and 3rd Spring Fest held on March 12.
“We need infrastructure and not superstructure.” Renowned local band “Polar Lights” thrilled the cheering crowds with their popular ‘Murder Machine’, the release said. Competitions were held in the field of folk dance, music and ethnic fashion show among the students. Naga Wrestling and Snail Eating competition added another layer of excitement.
DImaPUr, march 17 (mExN): Chukitong Area Government Schools Employees’ Association (CAGSEA) and GHSS Chukitong principal have through separate condolence messages condoled the death of GHSS Chukitong senior physical education teacher Nchumo Kithan on March 16 at Dimapur where he had gone for medical treatment.
CAGSEA President C. Chichanbemo Lotha and General Secretary Rhanthungo Kikon said the untimely demise of the senior physical education teacher was a great loss for the area’s schoolchildren. In a separate message, GHSS Chukitong Principal Y. Vungthungo said that the unfortunate and untimely demise of one of his senior colleagues has left a
big void in the school. The school principal informed that late Kithan was a talented physical education teacher who had won many meritorious awards in the course of his service. Extending condolences to the bereaved family, CAGSEA and GHSS Chukitong prayed that the Almighty grant eternal rest to the soul of the departed and comfort to the family.
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THE MORUNG EXPRESS
The Power of Truth
The Morung Express
C O M M E N T A R Y
Julia Buxton openDemocracy
Myths, moralism, and hypocrisy drive An interesting find the international drug control system volume Xi issue 75
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t a time when the violence of language is breeding intolerance, exclusion and fear - globally and here at home - thereby, creating a potential volatile environment, it is helpful to understand the relationship between over-confidence, narcissism and the arrogance of power. A 2006 research study found that over-confident people are more likely to wage war, but fare worse in the course of an ensuing battle. It suggests that ‘positive illusions’ may contribute to costly wars. Peter Turchin of the University of Connecticut in the US states that the study ‘supplies critically needed experimental support for the idea that a positive attitude – which is generally a [beneficial] feature of human behavior – may lead to overconfidence and [damaging] behavior in the case of war.’ Peter’s observation comes against the backdrop of scientific conclusion that mentally healthy people can have highly optimistic predictions, or ‘positive illusions.’ While this optimism offered evolutionary advantages in the past and allowed the ancestors to cope with the condition of their times, it is now argued by researchers that these very same optimism in the present day has the potential to wreak chaos on international relations. An analysis of a simulation organized by Dominic Johnson of Princeton University in New Jersey indicated that people with overconfidence tended to perform worse than they expected, and, that ‘positive illusion’ was suggested to be the cause. It has further been determined that men have generally tended to be more overconfident than women and raises the question of whether that’s the reason why men are more likely to wage war. While these aspects do contribute towards the collective behavior of people, the interplay between nature and nurture continues to reveal the various facets of human mind and behavior and their response to war and peace. None the less, the ego is actively involved in its display of overconfidence which is also arrogance and pride. Another interesting finding was that people, who were more prone in launching unprovoked attacks on others, demonstrated more narcissism, which is again the ego at work. This trait applies to both men and women as Bertram Malle from the University of Oregon in Eugene suggests that it is the level of ‘narcissism that makes some people overly optimistic and aggressive.’ In his response to the worrying question raised by the research about political leaders, Malle is categorical in his response that ‘perhaps most disconcerting is that today’s leaders are above-average in narcissism.’ Is this another overt display of arrogance? The crucial cause for concerns that has risen from these research studies has been the finding that people have a partial leaning to opt for war, rather than choosing careful negotiations with opponents to resolves issues. The decision to opt for war as a means is directly determined by the amount of investment a people have made in their military, and their calculated risk on the element of chance. This feature of behavior raises serious questions, and, in part, provides some crucial findings in the search for answers of peace. It further demonstrates the reliance on the war machine as being incapable of being defeated, indomitable, again is a testament to the arrogance of power. With the concept of global phenomena, and, especially with global educational institutions and training of human behavior in multi-national corporations, and, of course with the State being its most global institution there are many lessons to be learned. Perhaps the research findings provide an insight that responds to why countries which invest so heavily on military might rely more on the war machine as an option over peaceful negotiation. One crucial point is that the war machine is economically driven. Manufacturing weapons, making war makes money in the largest State economies on the planet. It does also sharpen the analysis on why over-confident governments and administrations are overly-optimistic and dependent on their militaristic policies, only to see it falter and ultimately fail.
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amaged tomatoes unsuitable for sale can be used as a powerful source of generating electricity, says a study involving Indian-origin sci-
entists. "We have found that spoiled and damaged tomatoes left over from harvest can be a particularly powerful source of energy when used in a biological or microbial electrochemical cell," said Namita Shrestha from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "The process also helps purify the tomato-contaminated solid waste and associated waste water," added Shrestha, who is working on the project with Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, an assistant professor at South Dakota and Alex Fogg, an undergraduate chemistry major at Princeton University. The research findings were presented at the 251st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society held in California's San Diego city on Wednesday. "The project began a few years ago when Alex visited my lab in Fort Myers, Florida, and said he was interested in researching a local problem, especially local tomatoes grown in our state and the large waste treatment issue," Gadhamshetty said. Tomatoes are a key crop in Florida. The project is important to the state because Florida generates 396,000 tonnes of tomato waste every year, but lacks a good treatment process. The team developed a microbial electrochemical cell that can exploit tomato waste to generate electric current. "Microbial electrochemical cells use bacteria to break down and oxidise organic material in defective tomatoes," Shrestha explained. The oxidation process, triggered by the bacteria interacting with tomato waste, releases electrons that are captured in the fuel cell and become a source of electricity. The power output from the team's device is quite small -- 10 mg of tomato waste can result in 0.3 watts of electricity. But the researchers note that with an expected scale up and more research, electrical output could be increased by several orders of magnitude.
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n April 2016, the international community will convene for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS). This event, held two years early due to the urgency of the drug situation and intensity of drug-related violence, presents an opportunity to question the fundamentals of international drug policy. Despite overwhelming evidence that a century-long quest to control human behaviour and drug markets through international treaties and national legislation has failed, there is little expectation of change. The vested interests in retaining the status quo are significant, with sclerosis legitimised through the recurrent exhortation to improve international co-operation. Major institutional and policy change is required and will ultimately be unavoidable. The treaty system and international drug control institutions stemming from the first international drug conference in 1909 have set us on an orientation within drug policy that does not reflect the dynamics of global drug markets or protect us from drug related harms. Control efforts and resources are skewed toward drugs such as cocaine and heroin, when synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine dominate markets. Enforcement is focused on countries of the global south, when the global north is the world’s key zone for the manufacture and export of illicit substances, and where the bulk of drug trade profits are realised. Framed by history From its initiation, the drug control system has responded to the perceived risk from narcotic plants grown in the global south. In 1909, the ‘great powers’ of the day met in Shanghai to discuss controls on opium, a freely traded commodity derived from opium poppy. The result was a seismic market shift, overturning centuries of colonial engagement in opium poppy cultivation in far flung empires of south Asia, and ending the popular use of opium for purposes of pain or pleasure. The resulting 1912 International Opium Convention of The Hague was the first international drug treaty. It set the intellectual and institutional direction for the drug control system, strategies and approaches that operate today. To put it another way, today we respond to the complex, transnational challenges of HIV/AIDS, internet-based drug sales and international organised crime through a framework devised by imperial powers at a time when women could not vote or wear trousers, when nose size and skin colour were seen to determine brain size and civility, and when addiction was understood as a problem of ‘godlessness’. Over the course of a century, the treaty system has evolved through to the most recent 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, incorporating into the control system a diversity of plants, weeds, shrubs and chemicals deemed “evil” and harmful to the “health and welfare of mankind”. At no point has the United Nations, which administers and oversees the treaty system, reconsidered first principles – as set out in 1912 and institutionalised in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs – that it is desirable or even possible for states to prohibit access to a selected range of intoxicating substances. Sovereign states remain locked into the goal of eliminating, or at least significantly curbing the production, distribution and use of drugs. They must cooperate on international control efforts and, in line with the 1961 Single Convention, they are required to treat participation in the drug trade as “punishable offences when committed intentionally”, and as “serious offences […] liable to adequate punishment particularly by imprisonment or other penalties of deprivation of liberty”. A legacy of failure These efforts to control human behaviour and to terminate the supply of harmful substances cannot succeed, even if recurrently stepped up, militarised and coercively enforced. According to the latest figures from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 1 out of 20 people between the ages of 15 and 64 years used an illicit drug in 2013. This is despite punitive national policies to prevent consumption, including by depriving users of illegal drugs of their freedom, access to their children, employment and medical care, and even their right to life.
Why are Colombia and Bolivia acceptable theatres for violent weaponised counter-narcotics operations, and not Poland or Canada? Our international drug policies reflect a damaging bias towards the global north The use of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines remains a ‘global habit’ in a borderless world, configured around a sophisticated, lucrative and innovative transnational market that supplies a diversity of ever cheaper drugs to an estimated 246 million people. The 1961 Single Convention looked to eliminate opium use within 15 years, with a 25-year schedule for cocaine and cannabis. In 1998, the UN promoted a “drug-free world”, to be achieved within ten years, and a host of cultivating countries have, over the decades, committed to achieving zero-cultivation of narcotic drug crops. But just as demand reduction targets have never been met, neither have those relating to supply. At over 7,000 tonnes in 2014, opium production reached its highest level since the 1930s. There was an estimated 120,000 hectares under coca bush cultivation in 2013 (with potential for the manufacture of 662 to 902 tonnes of cocaine). Meanwhile, as stated in the UNODC’s “World Drug Report 2015”, advances “in cannabis plant cultivation techniques and the use of genetically selected strains have led to an increase in the number of cannabis harvests, as well as in the yield and potency of cannabis”. As set out by Yury Fedotov, executive director of the UNODC, “we have to admit that, globally, the demand for drugs has not been substantially reduced and that some challenges exist in the implementation of the drug control system”. This acknowledgement has not led to any questioning of mission, or the plausibility of prohibiting access to certain drugs – even with evidence that nine out of ten users are not considered dependent or problematic. Neither has there been engagement with the reality that making certain substances illegal has made them more attractive to produce and supply. Criminalisation has converted freely growing plants into billion dollar crops, high profit margins incentivise illicit supply, while the ‘success’ of drug seizures serves only to elevate prices. A utopian goal is being pursued through a strategy that makes it unachievable. A northern bias In policy and implementation, drug control remains overwhelmingly preoccupied with opium poppy and coca leaf. International counter-narcotics efforts and assistance – both military and development – have focused on ‘producer’ states such as Colombia, Bolivia and Peru (coca leaf), Mexico (opium poppy) and south Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Burma and Laos PDR (opium poppy). However, as successive UNODC World Drug Reports demonstrate, opioids and cocaine are not the most widely consumed drugs, or arguably the most dangerous. Contemporary drug markets, measured in terms of seizures and reported use, are increasingly dominated by synthetic drugs: ‘Amphetamine Type Substances’ (ATS) such as methamphetamine and amphetamine, as well as Ecstasy (MDMA) and a raft of ‘New Psychoactive Substances’ (NPS) of which 450 were reported in 2014. The key manufacture and export zones for these drugs are not the global south, but west and east European countries and north America. Patterns of drug flows are the reverse of the dynamics envisioned in the treaty framework. The old delineation of consumer and producer states no longer exists, and the global north is now the key producer region, including for cannabis. This raises the more difficult question of accounting for the inconsistent application of counter-narcotics efforts, and the gross inequalities in terms of costs and impacts. An estimated 164,000 people were killed during the counter-narcotics surge of 2007 to 2014 in Mexico, a death toll higher than Iraq
and Afghanistan combined. But the thought of militarising supply control in the Netherlands – a leading producer country – on the level experienced by Mexico, is unconscionable. Why are Colombia, Bolivia and Afghanistan acceptable theatres for violent weaponised counter-narcotic operations, and not Poland or Canada? Moreover, the lack of high level violence in the drug markets of these northern producer countries signifies that illicit markets can be peaceful. From this perspective, it is the disruptive market interventions, weapons flows and training of paramilitary counter-narcotics units that are the drivers of violence in the global south, not the drug markets themselves. Similarly, in relation to northern interventions, how can it be the case that the EU and US fund cannabis eradication in the global south while legalising or decriminalising domestically? The north’s deflection of its leading role in the drug trade is institutionalised in the treaty system and international drug control institutions. The result is that we have remarkably little information about the evolving threats to mankind’s ‘health and welfare’ posed by synthetics. As set out in the preface to the 2013 World Drug Report, ATS use “remains widespread globally, and appears to be increasing in most regions”, with crystalline methamphetamine “an imminent threat”. Yet while we have each hectare of coca and opium meticulously researched, there is a paucity of data and information on the manufacture of synthetic drugs, or their consumption. It was not until 2008 that the UNODC launched dedicated ATS analysis through the UNODC Global SMART Program (Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends), with the aim of generating, analysing and reporting on the synthetic drug market, and improving global responses to the rise in ATS manufacture, trafficking and consumption. Drug control is constantly re-legitimised by a moral narrative of protecting health, welfare and security. Yet by downplaying the role of European and North American countries in the drug trade, and the historical salience of synthetic markets by default, the system is creating public health risks, it cannot anticipate change in dynamic markets, and it has an insufficient evidence base for policy. Indicative of this is the acknowledgement in the 2016 World Drug Report that, “the sheer number, diversity and transient nature of NPS currently on the market partly explain why there are still only limited data available on the prevalence of use of many NPS. Those difficulties also explain why both the regulation of NPS and the capacity to address health problems related to NPS continue to be challenging.” In 2012, the International Narcotic Control Board that monitors treaty enforcement, set out that, “dividing countries into the categories of “drug-producing”, “drug-consuming” or “transit countries” has long ceased to be realistic. To varying degrees, all countries are drug-producers and drug-consumers and have drugs transiting through them.” Despite institutional acknowledgement of market transformations, the new geopolitical realities of the drug trade are not reflected in enforcement activities, in the language of drug control institutions, or in the allocation of resources for research, education, treatment and rehabilitation. These remain concentrated on coca and opium poppy, cocaine and heroin. From the local to the global level, we are, with some small exceptions, locked into arcane, counterproductive and illogical policies that violate fundamental rights and freedoms, spread disease, exacerbate violence, and which impede development – in the view of other UN agencies. The UNODC, which sits in an institutional silo, uses the benign term “unintended consequences” to refer to the wholly negative impact of counter-narcotics policies and how these are disproportionately borne along stratified racial, class and geographic lines. The myths, Victorian moralism and hypocrisy that frame international drug policy need to be confronted if we are to progress to rights-based interventions that genuinely reduce harm. In other words, drug policies which are fit for the twenty-first century. This article is published as part of an editorial partnership between openDemocracy and CELS, an Argentine human rights organisation with a broad agenda that includes advocating for drug policies respectful of human rights. The partnership coincides with the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs.
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Decoding the Naga Babel Tower
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did my entire schooling in a school called Baptist English School and I appeared my matriculation exam in a school called Kohima English School (which was my examination centre for the HSLC exam). The common word in the nomenclatures of these two schools is the word ‘English’. Yes indeed there was a time when it was a proud thing for a Naga boy or girl to be going to an English school. Likewise Naga parents also took pride in sending their children to English medium schools. To be able to read, write and converse in English is associated with being an educated, informed and enlightened individual not only here in Nagaland but in many parts of India as well. However, probably somewhere in the mid 1990s, the Nagaland state government came out with an order that all the schools having the word ‘English’ in their nomenclatures should drop the word from their school name / nomenclature. Consequently, today both Baptist English School and Kohima English School are known by other names sans the word ‘English’. However, that does not mean that English has stopped to be the medium of teaching in these schools. But probably, studying in an English medium school or to be able to read, write and converse in English is no longer considered to be such a big deal like it used to be in the past. This may be because of a shrinking world brought about by rapid advancements in technology where English (a global language) has invaded every nook and corner of our society. Today we live in a society where even an illiterate or half-illiterate person is very familiar and comfortable with many English words, phrases and sentences though he /she may not be someone who is able to read, write or converse in English with proper grammar, diction, pronunciation or spelling. The very fact that Nagas has been associated with the English language for over a century now demonstrates the fact that the Nagas had been part and parcel of the globalized world as early as the latter part of the 19th century. Undoubtedly, Nagas’s tryst with the English language started when they encountered the English people and the American missionaries who came to the land of the Nagas in the middle and second half of the 19th century. And I guess our association, fascination and romance with the English language has not diminished a bit in all these years but rather it has only intensified over the last many decades. And it was no surprise that when Nagaland became a full fledged state of India in the 1960s, English was accepted to be the official language of Nagaland state of India. This was done not for fashion or decoration purposes but out of necessity to meet the challenges that lay ahead because the time had come for the Nagas to wake up from their slumber and communicate and interact with the outside world. Besides, the Nagas are comprised of numerous tribes with their own different dialects unintelligible to one another. So obviously the Nagas needed a common language which could serve as a medium of communication not only amongst themselves but also between the Nagas and India (as well as the outside world) as they awoke to a new world order in the Indian sub-continent. And in this new scenario, no other language could fit the purpose better than English because the educated Nagas were already familiar with it as they had been introduced to the English language by the English people and the American missionaries even before India got her independence in 1947. Another reason was because English was a glob-
al language and one of the most advanced (if not the most advanced) languages of the modern world. Yes in the emergent scenario, English was the only language with all the required ingredients to serve splendidly as a medium of communication between the Nagas and the outside world. The English people ruled over many parts of Asia and Africa for centuries and wherever the English empire went (be it in the 17th, 18th, 19th or the 20th century), the English language went with the empire and became a part and parcel of those nations and people simply because the English empire carried out all its personal as well as official dealings in English. Not only that, even English schools were opened in many parts of those subjugated countries with a view to strengthen the hold of the empire and make it more effective. And India also happened to be one such country which remained under British suzerainty for well over three centuries. And thus even Indians were no stranger to the English language. Thus, in the post-Indian independence era, English turned out to be the safest bet to serve as a medium of communication as far as communication between India and the Nagas was concerned. English could fit the bill perfectly both in the personal and official front. This was so because English being a global and a most advanced language, there was certainly no dearth of words, phrases or sentences through which one could not communicate one’s thought, ideas or aspirations satisfactorily - be it in the area of politics, economy, society or culture. Thus in the aftermath of 1947, English naturally assumed a paramount role in the Indian subcontinent as far as the Nagas and India (or the outside world) were concerned. And therefore, when Nagaland was created as the 16th state of the Indian union in the 1960s under extraordinary circumstances, English was naturally made as the official language of Nagaland in
the interest and for the benefit of both the Nagas as well as India. This was a positive move and an absolute necessity not only for the Nagas but also for the Indian government because there was no other language which could perfectly play the role of the official language of the new Nagaland state then….. or perhaps even now. And therefore, when English has been splendidly serving the Nagas as an official language for the last many years, what is the logic behind the attempt of some people to substitute this fantastic language with some other language which has no root, no origin, and no standard? Or what is the logic behind thinking about a second official language for the Nagas when we can converse and communicate all our thoughts, ideas and aspirations through English officially as well as personally? English is such a rich, advanced and vibrant language and all Nagas should feel proud and blessed that we were introduced to the language more than a century ago and that it is our official language today. Obviously there are still many in Nagaland who cannot communicate effectively in English and for these people, Nagamese is their only saviour when it comes to communicating with people belonging to other tribes. Nagamese is a combination of Assamese, Bengali and Hindi and Nagamese was inadvertently born when our forefathers came in contact with their neighbors in the past for whatever reasons. And many in Nagaland obviously have a soft corner for Nagamese today because they have grown very comfortable with it. And all will perhaps agree that the Nagas today cannot do without Nagamese and some very strong factors why Nagamese has been such an effective medium of communication amongst the Nagas are: 1) Nagamese is very easy to learn, 2) one can also easily express whatever he wants to express through Nagamese, 3) one can also supplement English or even one’s own tribal lan-
guage with Nagmese whenever one fails to find the right word in English or mother tongue. But Nagamese is still only a bazaar language with no history, origin or root. It is pidgin and has no script, no grammar, no alphabet and therefore no standard or class. Moreover, Nagamese is a topsy-turvy combination of Assamese, Bengali and Hindi only and is intelligible only to people living in or associated with Nagaland (whereas English is a global and advanced language covering the whole globe). Therefore, it would be sheer stupidity on the part of the Nagas if we are to accept Nagamese (a bastard and borrowed language with no grammar, no alphabet, no original vocabulary and no script and which is confined only to a very tiny portion of the Indian sub-continent) as our official language or second official language when English has already been splendidly and befittingly doing the job. If we are to do such a thing as this, we would only be limiting ourselves in many ways and also narrowing our outlook and horizon rather than widening it. On a personal level, I am a person who is literally obsessed with the English language and literature. Reading writing and conversing in English whenever and wherever possible is one of the most satisfying and gratifying thing that I believe I can ever do. And I believe that Nagas tryst with the English language was somewhat predestined and premeditated. I believe so because if we consider the manner and the times in which the Nagas were introduced to the language and how the English language served us during some of our most crucial and critical times, we would not fail to see the miraculous handiwork of destiny in the whole episodes. Indeed the very manner in which a global language from the west penetrated into the land and society of some tribal, backward and savage people living in the remote hills between India and Burma and became their mainstay language is nothing short of a miracle. Perhaps this is the reason why some Nagas are so adaptive to English. Yes, there are and there had been Nagas who spoke and wrote English as if English was their natural mother tongue and as if they were born with English in their mouth. Late Theyiechüthie Sakhrie (T. Sakhrie) was one such Naga. Upon reading a letter written by T. Sakhrie, Jawaharlal Nehru wrongly assumed that the letter could not have been written by a Naga and he suspected the hand of some missionaries in the letter. Nehru probably assumed so because he considered Nagas to be some savage, backward and illiterate tribal people and he never thought and knew that some Nagas could write English so well. To change and to evolve for the better is what we call life. Unless change for the better takes place no society can prosper. But when something we already have is good and serving us well and when change is not required, why change or try to replace the one that is good with something which can have unpleasant or disastrous effect on us and our society. During his visit to Nagaland in December 2014, even the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself admitted that Nagaland is very blessed to have a young generation who are well versed in English. And when the Nagas have the full potential to keep pace with the world, to forge ahead and even conquer the whole world with English as our official language, why take up some other lingua franca which may only degrade us and our society and make us a laughing stock in front of others………….?
Bhutan: one of the Most Sustainable Countries on Earth The country knows it needs to develop, but it's making sure the development doesn't come at the expense of its natural resources Jessica Leber
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y country is not one big monastery populated with happy monks." That’s the first thing that Tshering Tobgay, the charismatic prime minister of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan, wants you to know about his homeland. People are forgiven for thinking otherwise. For its beautiful forests and mountains and ancient Buddhist architecture, Bhutan—a poor, isolated country sandwiched between India and China that famously measures Gross National Happiness as its main economic indicator—has been called the last Shangri-la. But the prime minister knows that perception works against Bhutan’s efforts to develop economically along a truly sustainable path that has eluded many other equally beautiful nations. In Bhutan, many people still live in poverty, youth unemployment is rising, and pressures on forests are increasing. Its total GDP, $2 billion, is half that of Springfield, Ohio. But Bhutan has ambitious, long-term conservation goals. Its constitution requires a minimum of 60% of its land must be forested at all times; currently it's at 72%, with more than half the nation covered by a network of national parks, nature reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. And when it became the first country to commit to being carbon neutral in perpetuity in 2009, it was actually already carbon negative: Its forests absorb three times more CO2 than the whole country emits. All of this is easier in Bhutan than most nations. For one, its politics and culture are unusually cohesive. Governed under a series of monarchs who voluntarily let go of their power over the last two decades, the first democratic elections took place in 2008. And like Costa Rica—another small country within reach of being carbon neutral, Bhutan’s many rivers allow it to generate vast quantities carbon-free hydroelectricity.
ample, in Columbia, it is being tied to the ongoing peace process there. A big challenge, says Roberts, is that over the lifetime of any deal, governments change, and some could be less supportive. Right now, Bhutan for Life is about halfway to raising its goal, with the money coming from large and small foundations, institutions, and individual wealthy donors so far. The money would be released each year based on the government fulfilling protection requirements as part of the deal. Tobgay says the $40 million will be used to pay for things like more park rangers and scientists, building eco-tourism, and compensating for local communities who live in the parks. "People who live there look after cows, for instance,’ he says. "If the cow is eaten by the tiger, you would compensate them." (This prevents people from shooting A new financing model for tigers to protect their cows.) Eventually, the saving the world’s protected places government will do things like raise taxes Tobgay has been traveling a lot recent- and generate revenue from the parks to fund ly. He is courting donors to a new program this work on its own. called Bhutan for Life, an innovative financing plan devised by the World Wildlife Fund A balanced view of ecotourism to bridge the government’s gap in conservaBhutan for Life isn’t the only way that the country is remaining sustainable and tion funding. The model, formally called a project fi- carbon neutral. Rural farmers get free nancing for permanence plan, requires that electricity so that they won’t have to use Bhutan put a clear, realistic price tag on the firewood to cook food. The country is actumoney it needs to protect its forests and de- ally planting new trees through a program vise a strategy to pay the costs over time. A called Green Bhutan. And for a country transition fund is created to bridge the gap, that has been famously slow to incorpowhere donors give money in a Kickstarter- rate new technologies—it only lifted a ban like model, where the deal won’t close until on televisions in 1999—it is subsidizing the full amount needed—in Bhutan’s case the purchase of LED lights and electric ve$40 million over 15 years—is raised. hicles in a big way. With its cheap hydroWorld Wildlife Fund CEO Carter Roberts electric power, it hopes to become a world tells Co.Exist that the structure solves an en- leader in EVs and has suspended import during problem in conservation: a history of taxes on two EV car models. Bhutan is also a famously isolated counworking to save a place and only getting halfway there. try. It requires expensive tourist permits for "If [protected places] remain declared a fee of $250 a day, which include a mandaonly on paper and we don’t have the means tory guide. But it is working to develop this to actually manage them and secure them," part of its economy, with its employment he says, "the evidence is that we will lose and revenue potential, in a careful way. "We them gradually and sometimes dramatically can’t overdo tourism because it will underover time. This is one of the great challenges mine the very things we want to preserve for ourselves and share with the world. So it is a of our movement." The idea, first pioneered in British Co- fine balance," Tobgay tell us. lumbia and later repeated in Costa Rica, is Despite its uniqueness, Roberts hopes starting to spread. At a much larger scale, a that Bhutan can be a model for many other $220 million fund closed in Brazil in 2014. countries. "Every country is different. But The same year, WWF presented the concept every country is also hungry for models that at the World Parks Congress, and interest let them overcome the limits of traditional from other countries, including Bhutan, Co- models of conservation. There is no othlombia, and Peru flooded in such that WWF er Bhutan on Earth ... but anytime you do is limited by its own capacity. Each will take something that works on a scale that matits own unique twist in each country; for ex- ters, people are hungry to learn from it." Much of the excess is exported to India. Tobgay, a reformer who is only the second prime minister in the nation's history, knows none of this can be taken for granted. Even in Bhutan, he tells Co.Exist, forests face pressures from the outside in—from illegal logging, poaching, and mining—and the inside out—from poor communities who live in them. "Over the next few years, our small economy won’t have the resources to cover all the costs that are required to protect our environment," he said to a room full of wealthy people at the latest TED conference in February. "When we run the numbers, it looks like it will take us at least 15 years before we can fully finance all our conservation efforts. But we in Bhutan and all the world can’t afford to spend 15 years going backwards."
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None of Allah’s 99 names stands for violence: PM Modi Modi gets invite for SAARC summit in Pak
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the World Sufi Forum at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on March 17. (PTI Photo)
New Delhi, March 17 (iaNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming Sufism "the voice of peace", noted that none of the 99 names of Allah stands for violence. In his address at the World Sufi Forum here on Thursday, Modi said: "Sufism is the voice of peace, co-existence, compassion, equality and a call to universal brotherhood. "When we think of 99 names of Allah, no one stands for force and violence. The first two names
of Allah are compassionate and merciful. Allah is Rahman and Rahim. Sufism is the celebration of diversity and pluralism. "Sufis experience universal message of almighty that perfection in human life is reflected in qualities that are dear to God. For the Sufis, service to God meant service to humanity." Modi also hit out at people who spread terror across the world in the guise of religion. "Those who spread terror in
the name of religion are anti-religious. The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion. It cannot be," he said. Extolling the Sufis, he said: "At a time when the dark shadow of violence is becoming longer, you are the noor or the light of hope. "When young laughter is silenced by guns on the streets, you are the voice that heals." Invoking Punjabi Sufi poet, humanist and philosopher Bulleh Shah, Modi said: "In wis-
New Delhi, March 17 (ie): Pakistan foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz on Thursday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the SAARC Summit in Pakistan later this year. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met Aziz on the sidelines of the SAARC ministerial meeting in Pokhara on Thursday. During the meeting, Aziz handed over an invitation from Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to attend the South Association Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit. The two discussed a range of issues including the Pathankot terror attack. “We discussed issues pertaining to the Pathankot terror strike, Swaraj said after her talks with Aziz. She said a Pak Joint Investigation Team will reach India on March 27 and begin its probe a day later. This was the first formal meeting between the two leaders after the January 2 cross-border terror attack on the Indian Air Force base at Pathankot in Punjab that claimed the lives of seven Indian security personnel.
dom of Bulleh Shah, the lord exists in every heart. His values are the need of our times. This is reality of nature. We learn this wisdom in perfect balance and harmony that exists in vast diversity of our forests." He also stressed on Sufism’s "huge" contribution to poetry in India and "its profound impact" on the development of Indian music. "You have come from different lands and cultures, but you are united by a common faith.
All are creation of God and that if we love God we must also love all his creations. This is an assembly of those whose lives itself is a message of peace, tolerance and love," said Modi. "Welcome to a land that is a timeless fountain of peace and an ancient source of traditions and faiths. All our people, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, believers, nonbelievers, are an integral part of India," he added.
Deal with Myanmar, Thailand soon for road network: Nitin Gadkari New Delhi, March 17 (iaNS): India will soon sign an agreement with Myanmar and Thailand to provide road connectivity in the region, following a similar agreement with three other nations, Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. "The IMT trilateral highway project will be signed among three countries -- India, Myanmar and Thailand. The agreement is ready. We will sign it within 15 days so that there will be seamless connectivity to all these countries," Gadkari told the India Today Conclave here. "Connectivity between Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal to promote seamless movement of goods from border has been already signed," the minister said, referring to the agreement inked in June last year, as part of a larger plan to connect the Subcontinent with Asean members. "Now, 25 places from India have a bus service to Bangladesh." Dwelling on faster road network, Gadkari said work had started on eastern and western principal express highways. This apart, the Delhi-Panipat highway was being built at a cost of Rs.15,000 crore, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi setting a target of 400 days for completion. He also said that the 90-km, 14-lane Delhi-Meerut Express Highway will be a first of kind in India. Gadkari said the country's northeast region was also a top priority for his government and that Rs.1 lakh crore had been allocated for roads projects there. "Our target is to complete the project in the northeast by five years," he said. "Our 'Bharatmala' project is also on track," the minister said, referring to the plan for a major initiative for the national highways to improve road connectivity along the coast, borders, least developed regions, religious places, tourist spots along with bridges and road widening. Detailed project reports are already being prepared for 17,200 km of roads with 205 rail over- and underpasses and 1,500 major bridges along the national highways. In ports, modernisation plans are afoot, even as work is progressing fast on inland waterways, Gadkari said.
Bhujbal sent to 14 days judicial Baig acquitted in German Bakery blast, death sentence commuted ai, March 17 crowd, in which 17 people, in- blast case, had appealed against Supreme Court soon. We are pur Central Jail, through the efcustody for money laundering MuMb confident he will come clear forts of various social activists (iaNS): The Bombay High cluding five foreigners, were the capital punishment.
MuMbai, March 17 (iaNS): Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal was sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Special Court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act here on Thursday. He was arrested late on Monday by the Enforcement Directorate and sent to two days custody of the investigating agency, which is probing money laundering and other cases against him. Shortly after the Special Court ruled, Bhujbal was sent to the Arthur Road Central Jail where his nephew Samir Bhujbal is also lodged since his arrest on February 1 in related cases. Bhujbal had earlier pleaded innocence in the cases pertaining to the construction of Maharashtra Sadan, a government guesthouse in New Delhi and the Kalina (Mumbai) land grabbing cases. In a major embarrassment to the Nationalist Congress Party to which he belongs, Bhujbal was interrogated by ED officials for nearly 11 hours on Monday and then placed under arrest for alleged corruption. The ED action came after over a month after his nephew Samir Bhujbal was similarly summoned in February and arrested by the ED.
"Baig has been totally ab- from this too," he added. led by Rafi Anjum Inamdar. Court on Thursday commuted, killed. Another 60 were injured solved of all the major charges Eminent lawyer Ujjwal NiHe was brought to Mumbai to life imprisonment, the death including 12 foreigners. A division bench of Justice including conspiracy, murder, kam said he would not be able recently in connection with the sentence of IM operative Mirza Himayat Baig after acquit- N.H. Patil and Justice S.B. Shukre attempt to murder and other to comment on the develop- ongoing trial and lodged in Arting him any involvement in overturned the Pune sessions serious charges pertaining to ment without studying the high thur Road Central Jail, said Inthe February 13, 2010 German court verdict of April 18, 2013 the German Bakery blast," his court order, but said all charges amdar. lawyer A. Rehman told IANS against Baig were proved in the Baig, 35, hailing from Beed Bakery blast but upholding his sentencing him to death. "Aapko phaansi ki sazaa se shortly after the ruling. Pune court. district of Maharashtra, ran the conviction for possessing ex"He has only been convictOn February 19, 2015, an at- Global Internet Case in Udgir, plosives and forged documents. bari kiya jata hai (your sentence Baig was the lone accused of hanging has been remitted)," ed under the Explosives Act tempt was made on Baig's life adjoining Latur district. He was reportedly trained who was convicted for the blast the bench said as an emotional and for forged documents and when he was lodged in Pune's at the popular eatery near the Baig folded his hands in grati- awarded a life sentence. This Yerawada Central Jail, but he in terror acts by Fayyaz Kagzi is only the first step for us. We managed to survive. in Colombo in March 2008, Later last month, ED ques- Osho Ashram in Pune's fash- tude. Baig, the sole Indian Muja- will appeal against the Bombay In view of the threats to his and also trained in Bhatkal, tioned Pankaj Bhujbal, a leg- ionable Koregaon Park area and islator, and allowed him to go much frequented by the young hiddeen operative caught in the High Court verdict before the life, he was shifted to the Nag- Karnataka. even as his father Chhagan Bhujbal cried foul. The NCP termed it "political vendetta". The ED's probe follows a Bombay High Court ruling in January when it sought prog- New Delhi, March 17 have not even been told the specific dressing their concerns. ress reports from the Maha- (iaNS): The JNU Students Union charges against them. We will op"The students union has exrashtra Anti-Corruption Bu- on Thursday said it won't accept an pose any disciplinary action based pressed its concern over the com- rajkot, March 17 (Pti): Eight animal rights activreau and the ED within four inquiry committee report into the upon the findings of this partial and position, terms of reference and ists today allegedly attempted suicide by consuming poiweeks on their investigation happenings in the campus as the biased enquiry," the union said. functioning of the high level inquiry son in the district collectorate premises demanding that against the Bhujbals. The inquiry committee, set up committee. We have communicat- cow be declared as 'Rashtra mata' (mother of nation) and students' demands were not conThe ED had conducted sidered by the administration. by Vice Chancellor M. Jagadesh ed to the JNU administration how pan-India beef ban. Condition of all the eight persons is searches twice at nine premises A resolution to this effect, pro- Kumar, found 21 students guilty the committee has violated the prin- stated to be stable. belonging to the Bhujbal trio and posed by union vice president of violating the rules and norms of ciples of natural justice in the inquiry The activists allegedly attempted suicide by consumothers and subsequently served Shehla Rashid, was passed on the university when a meeting was process," a student leader said. ing pesticides, demanding that there should be a comattachment orders on three Wednesday after student demands held on February 9 to mark the anThe university suspended plete beef ban across the country and cow be declared as prime properties linked to the to expand the panel to include rep- niversary of the execution of Afzal JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar 'Rashtra Mata', Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Bhujbal family members worth resentatives of Scheduled Castes Guru, who was hanged for the ter- and general secretary Rama Naga Kalpesh Chavda said. "We had received information that over Rs.280 crore in Mumbai. ror attack on Indian parliament. as well as students Anant Prakash some cow (rights) activists are planning to consume poiand Scheduled Tribes. Simultaneously, the State The office of the Chief Proctor Narayan, Anirban Bhattacharya, son at the collector's office building, and (we) had, there"The accused students have not Anti-Corruption Bureau even been given the entire report issued show cause notices to the Ashutosh, Umar Khalid, Ash- fore, increased security there," he said. lodged a chargesheet against despite demands by the union," students. The deadline to reply to warya Adhikari and Shwetha Raj Despite the presence of police, the activists managed to the three Bhujbals and 14 oth- the Jawaharlal Nehru University the show-cause notice has been for allegedly raising anti-national consume poison and were immediately rushed to Civil Hosers in the Maharashtra Sadan Students Union (JNUSU) said in a extended to Friday. The JNUSU slogans. Their suspension was re- pital, he said, adding, "We are investigating as to how they case. managed to consume poison despite security presence." statement. "The accused students slammed the university for not ad- voked last week.
Won't accept JNU inquiry report: Student union Declare cow as 'Rashtra Mata'; Eight activists attempt suicide
Politicisation of public services has negative impact on society, says Governor N.N. Vohra New Delhi, March 17 (iaNS): Even as the post-retirement stand taken by former bureaucrats in the Ishrat Jahan case has re-exposed the chink in the politiciansbabus nexus, a new book by Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra says "politicisation of public services" has left a negative impact. "The politicisation of public services, with money and muscle power playing an increasing role, has negated the scope of orderly functioning," says the book 'Safeguarding India - Essays on Governance and Security' by Vohra, also a former union home secretary. "To remain in power at any cost, the political executives consciously select pliable officers," says Vohra, who in 1993 authored the famous Vohra (Committee) Report on the nexus among criminals, politicians and bureaucrats in India. "Over the years, governance through known poli-
cies, systems, rules and procedures has been vitiated by political interference and all kinds of extra-constitutional pulls and pressure," says the book (published by Harper Collins Publishers). Serving officials, on the condition of anonymity, agree to most of what Vohra says with a few stating that mostly the political class and hidden ambitions of the babus are to be blamed for the loss of credibility of Indian steel frame. "The latest instances suggest politicians of all hues believe in using and abusing the bureaucracy," said an officebearer of IAS Association in poll-bound West Bengal. "The instances of former Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi playing into political tune or former top babus like G.K Pillai coming forward turning the tables on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's known detractor P Chidambaram vis-a-vis Ishrat Jahan case is a point in case," he says.
The political class seems to agree about the rot. "If G K Pillai had an issue with the affidavit on Ishrat case, he should have complained then. I did not expect this from a senior officer," K C Tyagi, member of parliament of Janata Dal (United), told IANS. In 2011, a bizarre episode reflecting muscle-flexing by bureaucracy had come to light when a parliamentary panel probing the 2G scam found that former Telecom Secretary A. V. Gokak had "overruled" then Prime Minister I K Gujral in 1997 and referred the study on licensee fees to other fora instead of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) as directed by the then prime minister. "This was a major lacuna. This should not have happened. Prime Minister is the highest authority and any order from him should have been implemented in letter and spirit," then Joint Parlia-
mentary Committee chairman P C Chako had said. But complexities in Neta-Babu relations is nothing new as there have been several such instances of bonhomie and at times political arm twisting as well as kowtowing of the steel frame in front of the political class. Under UPA several babus and former military men thrived in post-retirement careers. Top brass in intelligence M K Narayanan was accommodated first as National Security Advisor and then as Governor of West Bengal. The likes of P C Haldar and R S Pandey were assigned as negotiators to deal with ultras in the northeast. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 3 during his reply to the debate on President Pranab Mukherjee's address to Parliament made terse remarks on babus in the Lok Sabha and said, "arbokharbo ka tankha ja raha hae (Crores are being given as sal-
ary of government servants)". True, Indian bureaucracy, known for its huge numerical strengths and peculiarity in performance, has grown from 1,232 in 1951 to over 5,000 in 1996. By 2011, according to officials in the Ministry of Personnel, total sanctioned strength of IAS officers as on January 1 was 6,077 and of these 4,488 were in position, thereby making a shortage of 1,589. The problems for babus mount once good work yields reprimand, say some. "I know of former Punjab DGP O P Sharma who worked in tandem with KPS Gill to curb the spinal cord of Punjab militancy. But once government changed in the state, he was hounded out by the Brar government," says a Punjab cadre official. Least to say, former Chief Election Commissioner T N Seshan, known for his maverick style, had acidly coined a phrase "I am sorry" for abbreviation of IAS.
20 percent people sleep deprived globally: Survey New Delhi, March 17 (iaNS): One in every five people across the world is sleep deprived owing to reasons ranging from lifestyle, odd working hours and personal obligations, a survey said ahead of World Sleep Day on March 18. The poll, conducted by Curofy India’s largest community of verified doctors - was part of an effort to raise awareness about sleep disorders on the occasion. "There is a large population suffering from sleep disorder and our agenda on the World Sleep day was to showcase these numbers and spread awareness about the bad effects of taking sleeping pills," said Dr Pawan Gupta, co-founder, Curofy, in a statement on Thursday. The poll found that due to frequent sleep disorders, which can also be triggered by anxiety, tension and nervousness developed due to work pressure, household issues or personal relationships, people start taking sleeping pills for getting a sound sleep. Researchers asked doctors about how much percentage of patients demand sleeping pills from them. The responses were than categorised into different levels indicating the percentage of patients asking for
sleeping pills. The results showed that on an average 20.3 percent patients examined by doctors ask for sleeping pills, which means that one out of every five patients suffers from sleeping disorder. Out of 910 doctors who took the poll, 619 responses lied between 0-20 percent, but shockingly 182 responses lied between 20-40 percent which indicates that for 20 percent of doctors the number of patients asking for sleeping pills is even more than 1 in 5. Besides, 60 responses lied between 40-60 percent which means that for almost 6.5 percent doctors more than two out of every five patients ask for sleeping pills. "There is a high level of sleeping disorders especially common in class of patients with night shift. These days a lot of time is spent on social media which does not have a shut down time," said Dr Anoop Kohli, senior consultant-neurology, from New Delhi's Apollo Hospital. According to Dr Gupta, high cases of sleep disorders can be controlled by combined efforts of both doctors and patients. "While people should put an effort in maintaining healthy lifestyle, doctors must also spread awareness about the same to their patients,” he said.
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Led by China, Mekong nations take on the Golden Triangle narco-empire THE MEKONG RIVER, MaRcH 17 (REuTERs): The Lao People’s Army patrol boat was custom-made in China with night-vision capability and two of the most powerful engines on this remote stretch of the Mekong River. Today, like most days, it sits idle for lack of gasoline, guarded by a single Laotian soldier in flip-flops. Even occasional patrols by boats like these, supplied by China to the Laotian army and Myanmar police, have successfully subdued the pirates who once robbed the Mekong’s cargo ships with impunity since Chinese-led joint patrols began in 2011. But there has been little progress on another objective - stemming the flood of illicit drugs - exposing the limits of China’s hard power in mainland Southeast Asia even as Beijing accelerates its militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea. While attacks on Mekong shipping have tailed off, drug production and trafficking in the untamed region, known as the Golden Triangle, is booming - despite the presence of Chinese gunboats and units of Chinese armed police along the Mekong. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that Southeast Asia’s trade in heroin and methamphetamine was worth $31 billion in 2013. “That’s bigger than the economies of some Southeast Asian countries,” says Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC’s Asia-Pacific chief. “It’s like having an undeclared sovereign state in your midst with no borders and lots of money.” Enter another Mekong
Thai soldiers stand guard at Ban Kaen Kai operation base on the Mekong river at the border between Thailand and Laos March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
boat, looking at first glance like a pleasure cruiser filled with middle-aged tourists. In fact, they are senior police and drugs experts from four countries, among them one of China’s top anti-narcotics officials, Wei Xiaojun. Arranged by the UNODC and lent further clout by Wei’s involvement, their recent voyage down the Mekong was aimed at mustering the regional collaboration needed to tame the Golden Triangle. Reuters was invited to join the four-day trip from the Chinese port of Jinghong through the heart of the Golden Triangle. Wei, who is deputy secretary general of China’s National Narcotics Control Commission (NNCC), called drugs the “main threat” along the Mekong. “All other types of organised crime are rooted
in the drug business, like human trafficking, money laundering and the illegal wildlife trade,” he said.
from Myanmar. Myanmar is the world’s second largest producer of opium, the bulk of which ends up in China as heroin. A recent report from the NNCC raised concerns about the involvement of some Chinese military personnel in drug trafficking, and said the number of registered drug users in China rose to more than 2.3 million in 2015. Increasingly Myanmar too has a drug problem, with police last year making record-breaking busts of both ya ba and ice. This could severely test the new government of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy party has yet to formulate drug policies, say experts.
CRAZY MEDICINE China is a favourite destination for Myanmar’s drugs, which are flowing through Asia in unprecedented quantities. More than 250 million methamphetamine pills, better known by their Thai name “ya ba” or “crazy medicine”, were seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2013, an eight-fold increase from 2008. Seizures of “crystal meth” or “ice” - a potent, crystalline form of methamphetamine dubbed “the poor man’s cocaine” - doubled during the same period. In 2015, China seized a record 36.5 tons of methamphetamine, said the “OFF THE GRID” UNODC, with most of the Many factors combine drug in pill form coming to help the Golden Trian-
gle’s drug industry prosper. The Myanmar-Laos border, which the Mekong delineates, is mostly unguarded. The terrain is rugged and hostile, with rebel armies holding sway in some areas and drugs and money-laundering flourishing in lawless enclaves on both sides of the river. Regional law enforcement agencies are often underfunded and ill-trained, and the intelligence they gather is not effectively shared with neighbouring countries. In October 2011, a gang led by a Mekong pirate called Naw Kham murdered 13 Chinese sailors. He was hunted down in Laos, then taken back to China to be tried and executed. Afterwards, Chinese gunboats began patrolling further downriver, extending China’s security reach far beyond its borders. This includes a riverside facility in Muang Mom in Laos, which Reuters visited, run and guarded by a 25-strong unit of Chinese People’s Armed Police. China conducts monthly joint patrols with its Laotian and Myanmar counterparts, who - gasoline permitting - do additional patrols by themselves. There have been successes. In 2013, a ChineseLaotian patrol found 580 kg (1,280 lbs) of ya ba, worth more than 100 million yuan ($15 million), hidden in a cargo ship. But more patrols were needed, said the UNODC’s Douglas, and Mekong countries also needed to coordinate and share intelligence to interdict more drugs.
Myanmar’s busiest port on the Mekong, but its government has no control over it. The port belongs to Special Region 4, a semiautonomous enclave famous for gambling, prostitution and narcotics. To the north is Special Region 2, also controlled by heavily armed rebels. The Special Regions were “off the political grid,” said Douglas, although he hoped Suu Kyi’s new government would engage with and secure better access to them. The UNODC boat could not get permission to stop at Hsop Lwe, where a Chinese cargo ship was unloading SUVs as it passed. Reuters reporters also spotted unofficial Mekong ports in Laos, which this year chairs the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Landlocked and impoverished, Laos shares a border with all the Mekong countries, which also include Vietnam and Thailand, making it an important smuggling hub for both narcotics and the chemicals that make them. From Vietnam, for example, comes tons of caffeine, used in methamphetamine production and spirited through Laos and across the Mekong in rice bags. Other lawless areas were being created by the Mekong itself. The ever-shifting river created islands where drug shipments were hidden, said Colonel Patpong Ngasantheir of the Royal Thai Army. But according to a treaty negotiated while Laos was still a French BLACK HOLES colony, these islands were Some areas remain deemed neutral. intelligence black holes. “We’re not allowed to Hsop Lwe, for example, is search them,” he said.
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War & disasters disrupt education of 80 million, more aid needed: Experts LONDON, MaRcH 17 (THOMsON REuTERs FOuNDaTION): At least 80 million children living in areas affected by war or natural disaster had their education disrupted last year, leaving them prey to child labour, trafficking and extremism, experts said on Thursday. Many humanitarian aid appeals for 2015 ignored education, and aid appeals for education were only onethird funded. Overall, education received 1.4 percent of all humanitarian funds, British charity Theirworld said in a report. “The new analysis ...(confirms) 2015 was a disastrous year for children who had their education disrupted by wars and natural disasters,” said Susan Nicolai, head of development progress at the London-based think tank Overseas Development Institute. “World leaders need to urgently guarantee that there isn’t a future humanitarian emergency response where education isn’t seen as critical,” said Nicolai, whose institute’s research produced the 80 million figure featured in the report. “Without this we will continue to see short-term crises result in multi-generational disasters,” she added. Schools help new generations develop the skills they need to build their lives and their countries, and also offer a safe place to learn and play which in turn can help children deal with trauma in the aftermath of a crisis, Theirworld said. Education during emergencies also protects children from exploitation and poverty, it said. “Out-ofschool children are at greater risk of being coerced or exploited by extremists, traffickers and criminals,” it added. Theirworld was set up by Sarah Brown, wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and launched a global education campaign in 2013. Although the number of children affected by crises is rising, humanitarian aid for education has almost halved since 2010, leaving an annual funding shortfall of $9 billion, the charity said. The report looked at funding in 28 countries hit by emergencies, including natural disasters, conflicts or health crises like the Ebola outbreak. “In the face of increasing needs and the immense cost of not investing today, it is shocking that less than 2 percent of all humanitarian aid goes to education,” said Tom Fletcher, global strategy advisor at Theirworld. “Humanitarian aid must provide children with a safe school, a future and hope,” he added. U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and others, including the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF), are calling on world leaders to set up a multi-million dollar humanitarian fund for education in emergencies, that can be mobilised quickly when needed. The leaders are meeting for the first ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May. The report’s funding data was drawn from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Financial Tracking Service, which monitors all humanitarian aid.
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ZTYO bemoans absence of Math teacher at GHSS, Zunheboto
ZuNhEboto, march 17 (mExN): The Zunheboto Town Youth Organization (ZTYO) has bemoaned the absence of Post Graduate Teacher (PGT) in Mathematics at GHSS, Zunheboto. The ZTYO, in a press release, informed that during a visit to GHSS, Zunheboto, it had discovered that the school has been functioning without a mathematics teacher for past two years. “Despite PGT (Mathematics) being appointed on paper, there is none actually discharging duty in the appointed subject, and it is other subject teachers who has to bear the additional burden. This practice severely affects the performance of the students in examinations, while also heaping extra classes on other teachers,” the ZTYO stated in the release. In this regard, the ZTYO has appealed to the concerned department
to address the issue at the earliest as new academic sessions are already underway. “Absence of a core subject teacher greatly affects the learning of the student, and prolonged absence shows the incompetence of the department in dealing with truant teachers, which in turn greatly hampers the students in their studies,” the youth organisation maintained. Meanwhile, the ZTYO has also expressed dismay over the inadequate number of examination centres in Zunheboto town. According to the organisation, this has led to overcrowding of existing centres and inconveniencing normal school hours for other classes during the HSLC/ HSSLC examinations. The ZTYO appealed to the concerned department to lighten the load by either providing more centres, or rotating the centres on recognised schools.
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Phek DPDB meeting held
phEK, march 17 (Dipr): The monthly meeting of Phek District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) for the month of March was held in its conference hall under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner & Vice Chairman DPDB, Phek, Murohu Chotso, on March 16. After review of the last DPDB meeting minutes, Project Director DRDA Phek, Razouvolie Dozo (NCS) presented his departmental activities where he stated that almost all the thatch roof in the district have been replaced by CGI roofing under Rural Housing Programme (IAY). Phek Town Youth Society emphasized on the Prime Minister’s Programme regarding Swachh Bharat and said that their tour to Sikkim has impressed them of the cleanliness of the town and surroundings. In order to keep the town clean and
green, the youth society has brought out the innovative programme “Operation Clean-Green Phek”. In this connection, the PTYS appealed to all the Head of Offices to morally support the society. The youth also requested the Heads of Offices to inform their staff to keep their office premises clean. The Deputy Commissioner appreciated the noble deed undertaken by the PTYS and ensured all possible help from the administration. DPRO, Phek was entrusted to widely publish the aims and objectives of the said programme initiated by PTYS. DFO Phek expressed her concern on dumping of waste into the nullahs and drains as it damages the environment. She assured them to depute staff as resource persons during seminar. The CMO, while supporting the PTYS objectives, suggested some penalty to be imposed on
defaulters. EE, PWD (R&B) informed the house of the road marking process undertaken at Phek Town and sought help of the administration for its success. He said that the inauguration of the welcome gate at Phek Town will be tentatively held immediately before or after the next DPDB. DPO Planning asked the PTYS to avail all technical advice from the relevant departments, especially, Power department, PHED, PWD, Forest before initiating the project on tree plantation and beneficiaries. The Board also resolved to request the state government to open one NSCB Branch at Meluri. On the approval of the elected representative, the next DPDB meeting may be held at Shilloi Lake. DPO, Land Resource Department was asked to present the departmental activities in the next meeting.
National seminar on Education underway
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): A three-day national seminar on Education commenced at Patkai Christian College (Autonomous) on March 17. Under the theme “Impact of Commercialization and Communalization of Education in Naga Society,” the seminar is being organized by the All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) in collaboration with Patkai Christian College, and Nagaland University’s Department of Edu-
cation – the latter offering academic support as well, a press release informed. Principal Emeritus of the college Dr. Tuisem Shishak, delivering the inaugural speech, spoke about the Right to Education Act of 2009. He underlined the various concepts and ideas of democracy. Stating that free education was no education, he emphasized on privatizing education or to take policies put of the educational system. He also spoke
about the need for teachers to demonstrate integrity, honesty and sincerity. Dr. Anil Sadgopal, member of the AIFRTE’s presidium and former faculty of Delhi University’s Education department, presented a historical overview of how policies of commercialization and communalization worked in tandem to destroy India’s educational system and exacerbated inequality, discrimination, and exclusion.
Underlining the need for respecting the democratic strength and visions of every state, he emphasized on social justice, equal opportunity and respect for diversity. He also presented a concept of an alternative vision of statefunded free mother tonguebased common education. This system should be from kindergarten to postgraduate, he said. This is the only alternative vision in consonance with both the aspiration of the people and the
constitutional imperatives. The inaugural event was chaired by education activist Zhatsu Terhuja. Students of the college also presented a special song during the event. The technical session of the first day was chaired by Prof. Buno Liegise, Dean of the School of Humanities and Education of Nagaland University. The session covered various themes on education perspectives in Nagaland besides issues about teacher education.
National Rural Drinking Water IGNOU Study Centre inaugurated at C-Edge College and Sanitation Week launched Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): Er. T. Sangtam, Superintending Engineer, Dimapur Circle has urged village leaders, students and public to help conserve water for the future generations by taking small steps as water is integral for survival. Speaking as chief guest at the launch of the National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness Campaign Week (March 16 to 22) at office of EE, PHED, Rural division, Dimapu, he said that the purpose of such programmes by the government of India, if analysed properly, is to bring about a mindset change. He also informed the WATSAN committees to carry out mass cleaning of the village, water sources and distinguish between safe water and contaminated with paints, red and green. After the inaugural function, students, PHED officers and staff, village representatives took part in a rally with placards displaying message on water and sanitation and raising slogans.
62 from State qualify CAPF Exam Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): 62 candidates – including 5 women – from Nagaland have qualified the CAPF Exam 2015, a press release from the BSF today informed. The 62 qualified candidates were among a group of 218 aspiring candidates who were provided pre-recruitment training by the 111 BN BSF at BN HQ Satakha under Zunheboto District. According to the press release, the pre-recruitment training was launched as part of the flagship programme to provide training in order to prepare youths for recruitment into Central Armed Forces like BSF, CRPF, ITBP, SSB, CISF and Assam Rifles. The 111 BN imparted rigorous physical training as well as theoretical classes to different batches which started from October 2014 onwards, the press release informed. A total of 218 aspiring candidates – comprising 26 female and 192 male – from various Districts of Nagaland enrolled themselves and underwent the training at the BN HQ in Satakha. Out of the 218 candidates who appeared for the post of CT (GD) in CAPFs conducted by Staff Selection Commission in the month of May/June 2015, 134 candidates qualified the Physical Test, the release stated. Further these 134 qualified candidates were put through a Systematic and Rigorous Coaching at BN HQ Satakha by a dedicated team of instructors which finally culminated on March 15 last with the Staff Selection Commission declaring the final result. Out of 134 candidates who appeared in the final written exam, 62 candidates – including 5 women – qualified the CAPF Exam 2015, the release further informed. Meanwhile, the unit has encouraged the youths of Nagaland to get in touch with the recruitment cell functioning at BN HQ Satakha for more awareness on recruitment matters.
ANCSU emergency TSUM General Conference Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The meeting today Tenyimi Students Union Mokokchung
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The All Nagaland College Students' Union (ANCSU) has informed all the Presidents/General Secretaries of affiliated colleges that an emergency presidential meeting will be held on March 18 at 1pm at ANCSU office to discuss about the next phase of agitation against the irregularities and loopholes in the department of Technical Education. A press release from the union has asked all concerned to assemble at ANCSU office at 1pm positively.
(TSUM) will be holding its Annual General Conference on March 19 at 11am at Cosmos Hall Mokokchung. A press note received here has requested all TSUM members to attend the programme positively. Students are also requested to come with a traditional touch. The Union has invited seniors, parents and well-wishers to grace the occasion.
FGN issues ‘Ahza’
Kohima, march 17 (Dipr): Sub Divisional Officer (C) Sadar Kohima, Kethosituo Sekhose has informed that complaint has been received from Nagaland University Kohima Campus Meriema that unwarranted activities such as damaging boundary fencing, felling of trees, jungle burning, hunting, partying, random gardening etc are taking place inside the University Campus. The University, being an institution of higher learning, it is essential to maintain a peaceful environment conducive for academic pursuit and its sanctity revered by all. Hence, all concerned have been refrained from indulging in such activities disturbing peace inside the University campus. Anyone found indulging in such activities will be dealt strictly as per relevant sections of law.
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The Kedahge of the Federal Government of Nagaland has issued an ‘Ahza’ (Directive) directing all Federal Government machineries to continue to function as has been functioning until further orders “due to the unfeasibility to hold the Tatar Hoho Session before the NNC General Meeting.” A press release from FGN Kedahge, Brig. (Retd) S. Singnya, informed that the ‘Ahza’ was issued “as decided and advised” by the Council of Kilonsers.
GPRN/NSCN terminates one
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The GPRN/NSCN today discharged Major Naro Mero from active service for committing “Anti Social activities”. The “Force Discharge” order released to the media by MIP stated that the office of the General Staff Officer- (GSO-I Admin.) was constrained to terminate Major Naro Mero (bearing A/No. 19219) S/O Neizu-u, Chizami village of Chakhesang region from active service of Naga Army “for breaching the Azha of the Nation by committing Anti Social activities.”
JSUN call off ‘indefinite bandh’ temporarily
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The Jalukie Students’ Union Nagaland (JSUN) has temporarily called off the “indefinite bandh” imposed on the Community Health Centre, Jalukie. The JSUN in a press release stated that the decision was arrived at subsequent to the receipt of a written assurance from the Chief Medical Officer, Peren. The letter dated March 17 and written on behalf of the Principal Director, Health & Family Welfare Department appealed the JSUN “to give some more time to the department to resolve the issue of appointment to the post of Medical Attendant in the CHC Jalukie within 31st March 2016.” It also assured of resolving the issue based on the demand of the JSUN.
Unwarranted activities reported at NU Kohima Campus
Workshop for Science Teachers
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): A three day residential ‘hands on science workshop’ for science teachers of Nagaland will be conducted from March 19 to 21 at the premises of the Development Association of Nagaland at 4th Mile in Dimapur. The objective of the workshop is to orient and help teachers to impart science education to students in a more interesting manner. The main resource person for the workshop will be Dr. B.N.Das, a science activist from Kolkata who has conducted hundreds of workshops on science popularization all over India. The workshop is being organized by the Nagaland Institute of Health, Environment & Social Welfare, Kohima (NIHESW) and Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Noida (UP).
YGOA General Session on Mar 24
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The Yimchunger Gazzetted Officers’ Association will hold its General Session on March 24 at 10am in Old Showuba Village. A press release from the association general secretary has requested all the members to attend the meeting positively.
NNC, FGN to jointly observe 61st Naga R-Day AR organises medical Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The camp in Peren district Naga National Council and the Federal C-Edge College faculty with Dr. N. Tiameren Ao, Associate Professor and Head, SASRD, NU (right) during the inauguration of IGNOU Study Centre was inaugurated at C-Edge College, Dimapur.
Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): IGNOU Study Centre was inaugurated at C-Edge College, Dimapur on March 16, with Dr. N. Tiameren Ao, Associate Professor and Head, SASRD, NU as the inaugural speaker. He spoke on the importance of education and congratulat-
ed the college on its new venture. The welcome speech was given by Dr. Chubatola Aier, Principal of C-Edge College. It was followed by a presentation by Dr. T. Iralu, Regional Director, IGNOU, Kohima. He presented in details about IGNOU and its courses, achieve-
ments, evaluation system, and the convenient provisions available at IGNOU. There was a special song presentation by BA IInd Semester of C-Edge College. The programme concluded with the closing remark and benediction by Aloli H Kinny, IGNOU CoOrdinator, C-Edge College.
Government of Nagaland will jointly observe the 61st Nagaland Republic Day on March 22 at 10am at Chedema Peace Camp. FGN Kedaghe Gen. Viyalie Metha will unfurl the national flag and address the nation while NNC President Adinno Phizo will deliver the presidential message. A press release from FGN Secretary Thihu Khamo informing this has invited all “countrymen” to participate in the function.
Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) were distributed at Kigwema village on March 9. Dr. Bendangsenla Ao, DMO, Kohima District, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) handed over the LLINs to the villagers. Two sets of LLINs were handed over to each household in the village. The LLIN programme has also been taken up at Sechu-Zubza PHC on February 29; at Sechuma Village Panchayat Hall on March 11; and at Old Minister’s Hill Panchayat Hall on March 4.
Azo addressing the general session of the Chokri Chakhesang Literature Committee on March 17 in Kohima.
confined in one’s own language. Confinement in one’s speaking language results in lack of uni-
ty and also hampers the development of education, economics etc., Nienu asserted. Rev. Dr. P. Dozo, Rev. Dr. Nuvocho Dzüdo, Zachilhu R. Vadeo, Chief Advisor CCLC, Kekhwengulo Lea, President Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) and Dr. Ditsolo Mero, President, Khuzhami Chakhesang Literature Board (KCLB) were among others who spoke during the day long programme. Earlier, Zaveyi Nyekha, Vice Chairman, CCLC chaired the opening ceremony, Rev. Thupu-o Nyekha invokes God’s blessing, Chakhesang Cultural Research Institute and Phusachodu youths enthralled the gathering with their indigenous tune, reports was given by general secretary Dr. Zokho Venuh and treasurer Pusazo Venyo respectively. CCLC chairman Ariyi Nienu chaired the discussion session where Pusazo Venyo proposed words of gratitude and closing prayer was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Nuvocho Dzüdo.
pErEN, march 17 (mExN): 18 Assam Rifles, under the aegis of HQ 6 Sect AR and Headquarters Inspector General Assam Rifles (North), conducted a medical camp as part of Assam Rifles Day 2016 at Ikiesingram and surrounding villages of Ikiesingram on March 12. The medical team led by a lady Medical Officer of 18 AR provided free medical aid to the residents of Ikieshingram, Khelma and Nsenlwa. A total of 174 villagers (43 Male, 90 Female and 41 children) were provided free medical checkup and free medicines.
RMSA 2016 appointed teachers under Zbto informed Tsg DPDB meeting held ZuNhEboto, march 17 (mExN): RMSA 2016 appointed teachers under Zunheboto district are informed to send the detail information including name, educational qualification/professional qualification and current place of posting and date of joining the work place immediately to the District Education Officer office through the given mobile number: Co-ordinator RMSA Zunheboto 8974242299, Deputy District Education Officer Zunheboto (DDEO).
Tangkhul Hoho annual meeting
‘Language is a beautiful gift from God’
Kohima, march 17 (mExN): “Discovering and doing researches of language is the Almighty’s way of opening windows of heaven and pouring out His blessing to His people,” MLA Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu stated today. Nagas must realize that our true wealth lies in our weather, climate, soil conditions, rivers, mountains, culture, traditions and not forgetting our languages, Nienu added. He was addressing the 5th general session of the Chokri Chakhesang Literature Committee (CCLC) at Zonal Council Hall as the chief guest. Nienu urged upon the Chokri speaking people to utilize the beautiful language as a wonderful asset provided by God. Further stating that being multi-lingual is the need of the hour, Nienu called upon the Chokri speaking community to interface with other fellow Khezha (Khuzhami) and Sapu speaking languages thereby avoiding being
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Dimapur, march 17 (mExN): The Tangkhul Hoho Nagaland (THN) will have its annual meeting on March 19 at 10:30am at Tangkhul Baptist Church premises, Diphupar. A press release from the Hoho has informed all members to attend the said meeting positively.
tuENsaNg, march 17 (Dipr): Tuensang District Planning and Developmental Board meeting for the month of March 2016 was held on March 17 at Deputy Commissioners Conference Hall Tuensang under the chairmanship of DPDB Vice Chairman and Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, Alem Jongshi. The meeting started with review of the last meeting minutes, where the construction of CDPO office in Sangsangyu was finalized. Registration of society namely, Tuensang District Rifle Association and Phalak Rifle Club, Yongpang Rifle Club and Yaung Foundation was discussed. Agenda for renewal of society registration in respect of Vision school society Noklak and Living Hope Society Shamator Town was also agreed by the Board to be forwarded to the Government. For construction of Chessore to Huker Road, which is about 20 kms, the Board decided to write to the Chief Engineer R & B for approval.
Tokheho calls for Public Forum Pungro peace, unity, harmony assures cooperation Kohima, march 17 (mExN): Minister for PHED Tokheho Yepthomi has said that Nagaland is too small a state to be divided and urged Nagas to live in peace, unity, and harmony. He said this during a meeting with the team of Philanthropic Association St. Joseph’s College Jakhama on March 3 at his residence. A press release received here informed that the minister also lauded the association for its noble task. Meanwhile, he lamented the present scenario of the State, asserting “Take what is earned by your sweat”. He enlightened the student members to be God fearing and said that philanthropic institutions should have a vision to serve humanity. Therefore, the student leaders have gigantic task to perform to particularly transform Naga society for a better future, he said. The association was led by its president, K. Chumseli Anar.
KiphirE, march 17 (mExN): The Public Forum Pungro Sub-Division, GBs Union Pungro Sub-Division, Pungro Area College Students’ Union and other organisations under Pungro SubDivision have assured fullest cooperation and support of the present DAN Government for establishing 1 MW Ponglefo and 36 MW Lower Tizu Hydro Projects under Pungro Sub-Division. The Forum has extended full support and assistance in the management and administration of the Likimro Hydro Electrical Project and any other developmental projects under Pungro SubDivision in the near future. Meanwhile, the Forum also appreciated the Government for the creation of the long awaited SDO (Electrical) office at Pungro under Kiphire district.
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'indiana Jones' to return with Ford and spielberg
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ndiana Jones" is swinging back into theaters with Harrison Ford reprising the iconic role and Ste-
ven Spielberg directing. The Walt Disney Co. announced today that the fifth film in the action adventure series will open July 19, 2019. The last "Indiana Jones" movie was 2008's poorly received "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which co-starred Shia LaBeouf as Indiana's son. It followed a
nearly 20-year gap in the franchise after 1989's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." A n o t h e r " In d i a na Jones" film has long been rumoured, occasionally with whispers of different actors taking over the role from the 73-year-old Ford. But Spielberg has repeatedly insisted Ford would never be replaced.
The actor's return as his famous fedora-wearing archaeologist comes shortly after reprising his equally iconic Han Solo in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." "Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can't wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019," said Alan Horn,
chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. "It's rare to have such a perfect combination of director, producers, actor and role, and we couldn't be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven." The film, not yet titled, will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. Source: AP
Frank sinatra Jr dead
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inger-actor Frank Sinatra Jr has died following a heart attack. He was 72. The singer died on Wednesday afternoon, reports tmz.com. The son of the legendary singer Frank Sinatra was due to perform a concert of his father's songs at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach, Florida on Wednesday night, but the event was cancelled after he fell ill. He had cancelled his show after complaining of feeling light-headed and was later admitted to hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest. His sister Nancy shared the news of his death, and posted on Facebook: "The Sinatra family mourn the untimely passing of their son, brother, father, uncle, Frank Sinatra Jr., of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona, Florida. Sleep warm, Frankie." Sinatra Jr was famously kidnapped in Lake Tahoe in 1963, when he was 19 years old for a ransom of $240,000. He was released two days later after his father paid the amount demand-
ed by the kidnappers, who had also demanded all communication take place via untraceable payphones. He is survived by son Michael Sinatra and sisters Nancy and Tina Sinatra. Singer Tony Bennett led the tributes, tweeting: "I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Frank Sinatra Jr and send my sympathy to Tina and Nancy and the Sinatra family."
The UnTold STory teaser unveiled
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ith the onset of the World T20, actor Sushant Singh Rajput unveiled the teaser of his new Bollywood film "M.S. Dhoni The Untold Story", a biopic on Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Directed by Neeraj Pandey, the film stars Sushant essaying Dhoni. The link to the 48-second video which
shows Sushant working as a ticket collector in Indian Railways. Sharing the link, Sushant tweeted: "The journey of his untold story has begun. In the teaser, one can hear Sushant's voiceover as he takes orders from his seniors as a ticket collector, and also can be heard is former Indian cricketer and director for the Indian
cricket team Ravi Shastri's commentary during the final of the 2011 World Cup when Dhoni won India its second World Cup. Produced by Fox Star Studios, the film also stars Kiara Advani, Anupam Kher and Herry Tangri. "M.S. Dhoni - The Untold Story" is set to release on September 2. Source: IANS
Forever 21 is slammed Cops halt Kareena Kapoor Khan's academy CeO for rapey slogan t-shirt party after noise complaints apologises
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Karen Lafferty, Musicianary at YWAM and Missionary at Youth With A Mission (YWAM) teaching at the worship workshop held at Lighthouse Church, Dimapur on March 17. Lafferty is the author of the praise and worship classic “Seek Ye First.” The two days worship workshop will conclude on March 18 with a combined worship which is open for all interested. The workshop will be held at Lighthouse Church, opp SETAM NU, Dimapur from 4:00 in the evening.
orever 21 is the latest brand to be slammed for an offensive (and rather creepy) slogan t shirt. Twitter users have called out the high street chain for a £16 men's t-shirt which reads: 'Don't say maybe if you want to say no' across the front; an eyebrow-raising joke which seems to make light of rape and consent. After the image was circulated on Twitter, Forever 21 removed the product from its website and issued the following statement: "Forever 21 strives to exemplify the highest ethical standards and takes feedback and product concerns very seriously. With regards to the t-shirt in question, upon receiving feedback
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from our customers, we took immediate action to have it removed from our website. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by the product." In July 2015, a Twitter user called out another Forever 21 t shirt for 'promoting rape culture'. Although we're scratching our heads as to how a tshirt like this ever made its way into production, this certainly isn't the first howdid-this-ever-get-made controversy in the industry. This is the latest on a long list of culturally offensive fashion items: Dolce & Gabbana had 'slave sandals,' Adidas created 'handcuff' sneakers and Urban Outfitters made a 'eat less' t shirt. Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Mariah Carey lands own reality series
opn star Mariah Carey will be the subject of a new eightpart E! reality series, the network has announced. "Mariah's World" will give an up-close-and-personal look at Carey's life both on and off stage. It will follow the singer as she begins her Sweet Sweet Fantasy tour and plans her wedding to billionaire James Packer, reported Variety. "I'm excited to bring my fans into my life for the next journey I'm about to embark on. I'm already having so much fun with this documentary and I know you will too. There is nothing like capturing these moments," Carey, 45, said. Along will tracking Carey on her upcoming tour across the United States, Europe and Africa, the series will also give fans a glimpse into her personal
life, showing how she manages to juggle her career alongside raising twins. "I thought it would be a good opportunity to kind of, like, show my personality and who I am, even though I feel like my real fans have an idea of who I am. A lot of people have mis-perceptions about this and that," Carey said. But Carey's children won't feature heavily in the series. "I don't want to do anything that's exploitative. They haven't been filmed at all yet. There might be a couple of moments, but it's not about making them the stars of the show. They are too young to make that decision." The show is being produced by Bunim/ Murray and began filming two weeks ago when she wrapped up her Las Vegas concert series. Source: PTI
n Monday night, Kareena Kapoor Khan held a private screening of her upcoming film Ki And Ka at her residence and invited her friends Amrita Arora Ladak, Sonam Kapoor, Karan Johar and sister Karisma Kapoor to watch it. After the film, everyone was in a mood to party and they did till the wee hours. Says a source, "It was an impromptu bash after the film. Kareena is busy travelling to promote the film. She managed to take a break and was eager to show the movie to her friends. She called some of them over and after watching the film, everyone stayed on to party." However, it is said that the actress' neighbours got upset because of the loud music on a week night and cops were summoned. "The cops came after the neighbours complained and the party was halted for a while. However, once the cops informed the actress about the neighbours being disturbed,
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cademy CEO Dawn Hudson has issued an apology to 25 members, including Ang Lee, George Takei and Sandra Oh, who signed a letter of protest against "racially insensitive jokes" in last month's Oscars ceremony. Hudson called their concerns "valid" and promised that "future Oscar telecasts (will) be more culturally sensitive," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The brief response that was emailed to the members, acknowledged their criticisms, which centered on a skit in which host Chris Rock introduced three Asian children as Academy accountants and some comments by presenter Sacha Baron Cohen. Hudson emphasised that it "was never the Academy's intent to offend anyone" and that the organisation "will be exercising more oversight" going forthey turned the volume Kareena Kapoor Khan ward "to ensure that matedown and even wrapped up remained unavailable for rial in future telecasts (will) be more culturally sensithe party in a while. It was no comment. big issue," says a source. Source: Mid day tive." Her personal apology follows a statement issued by an Academy spokesperson earlier that expressed "regrets that any aspect of the Oscar telecast was offensive. Source: PTI
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Barca's terrific trio down Arsenal to reach last eight
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BARCELONA, MARCh 17 (REutERs): Barcelona's dynamic attacking trio of Neymar, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi were too strong for Arsenal as all three scored in a 3-1 victory on Wednesday that sent the Spanish side into the Champions League quarter-finals 5-1 on aggregate. Brazil's Neymar opened the scoring in the first half as the home side dominated the early play, but Arsenal's Mohamed Elneny curled in an excellent finish to spark life into the visitors after the break. Su a rez , h ow e v e r, launched himself into the air to meet a Dani Alves cross and send a superb volley into the top corner to deflate the English side, who have now been knocked out of the tournament in the last 16 for six successive seasons. The mercurial Messi rounded off the scoring with a trademark chipped finish two minutes from time as the defending champions extended their record-breaking unbeaten run to 38 matches in all competitions. "We know we need to attack and defend at the same level if we want to win," Barcelona coach Luis Enrique told reporters. The La Liga leaders remained on course for a second successive treble and their coach is not concerned about who they face in the last eight of Europe's most prestigious club competition. "The only team I want to keep away from us is
Barca and I think we have no chances to meet them," he joked. The defeat will increase the pressure on Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, whose side are 11 points adrift of leaders Leicester City in the Premier League and exited the FA Cup last weekend. "We had our chances, but we couldn't take them," Wenger said. "But we have to say well done to Barcelona. They have two or three players who transfer normal life into art." Barcelona served notice of their intent when Arsenal keeper David Ospina was forced into a superb save to deny Messi, but the reprieve was short-lived as the hosts took the lead through Neymar's side-footed finish after 18 minutes. Arsenal had lost possession playing out from the back before Suarez angled a perfectly-weighted pass into the path of Neymar to slide the ball past Ospina. Former Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez fluffed the visitors' best chance when he headed wide, but Arsenal continued to press and levelled six minutes into the second half when Elneny bent a sweet finish into the top corner from 20 metres. Just when it looked like Arsenal might spring a surprise, however, Suarez's acrobatics finished the tie before Messi burst into the box and lifted the ball calmly into the net to cap another superb individual display.
Five-year old Palestinian boy, Ahmed Dawabsha, who survived a firebombing by Jewish extremists that killed his parents and brother, arrives at Adolfo Suarez Airport near Madrid on March 16, prior to meeting Real Madrid football stars. (AFP Photo)
Luis Suárez brilliantly volleys in Barcelona’s second goal after Mohamed Elneny’s equaliser had briefly given Arsenal hopes of an unlikely Champions League comeback. (Reuters)
Bayern fight back to beat Juventus
MuNICh, MARCh 17 (REutERs): Bayern Munich staged a sensational comeback, scoring twice in extra time after battling back from two goals down to beat Juventus 4-2 on Wednesday and march into the Champions League last eight with a 6-4 aggregate victory. Thiago Alcantara drilled in after 108 minutes and Kingsley Coman curled in their fourth goal as Bayern, who needed a 90th-minute equaliser from Thomas Mueller to force extra time, finished stronger to keep up their treble hopes. In a reverse of the first leg when Juve came back from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2, Bayern dug deep to score twice in the second half. "This was a game that affects your heart rate," said Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. "It was a very emotion-
St. John School, Razeba Sports underway
DIMAPuR, MARCh 17 (MExN): The Annual Games & Sports week of St. John School Razeba got inaugurated on March 16 with Captain Rahul, Post Commander, 9th Assam Rifles, Pfutsero as chief guest. Reynald Pyngrope, Prin-
cipal of TMT Hr. Sec. School, Pfutsero in his exhortation urge students to never give up but instead learn from failures. The highlights of the Inaugural programme included March Past, Aerobics, dance and choreography.
al game, a case of deja-vu but with a different outcome from the first leg. But it must be said that Juve are a bit unlucky to go out like that." It was a bitter defeat for last season's runners-up Juve, who ran out of steam in extra time to leave domestic titles as their only potential silverware this season. It was the Bianconeri who drew first blood with Frenchman Pogba capitalising on a David Alaba mistake to beat Manuel Neuer. Bayern, who had not let in a firsthalf goal in their previous seven games in the competition were rattled and keeper Neuer almost gifted Juve another after sending the ball straight to Alvaro Morata, whose looping effort was ruled offside. Spaniard Morata, however, made a 40-metre run past four Bayern players to send Cuadrado
through for their second goal. Poland striker Lewandowski then launched the comeback, heading in at the far post for his eighth goal of the campaign in the 73rd minute, triggering a dramatic finale in which Mueller scored in almost identical fashion. Substitute Thiago put Bayern ahead in extra time and Coman, on loan at Bayern from Juve, completed a memorable comeback as coach Pep Guardiola maintained his hopes of a Champions League title in his last season in Munich. "Football results depend on chances," said Juve keeper Buffon. "They attacked a lot in the second half and they took advantage of their chances. This is a defeat that should make us understand that we are better than last season. We are going out with our heads held high."
Our Correspondent Kohima | March 17
Kohima Hornbills, Street Boys Wokha and Sparks Cricket Club today registered wins on the second day of the 7th edition of Silver Cup T-20 Cricket Tournament organized by the Nepali Baptist Church Kohima Youth Department on the theme ‘Peace and unity through cricket’ at Jakhama Ground. In the first match Kohima Hornbill B defeated FHCC by 153 runs. Winning toss, Kohima Horn-
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Kohima Knights were all out scoring 62 runs while Street Boys bowlers Albert, Nchumbemo and Runchunlo claimed two wickets each. Albert was declared man of the match. Playing the third match, Sparks CC Dimapur defeated Merhülietsa by four wickets. Winning the toss, Merhlietsa elected to bat and set a target of 154 runs losing all wickets. Moa contributed 34 runs and Siddhant 27 runs. Sparks bowler Mire claimed three rival wickets. Chasing the target, Sparks CC achieved it in 16 overs losing 6 wickets with Raktim alone scoring 73 runs and was declared man of the match.
FIFA reports $122M loss
ZuRICh, MARCh 17 (AP): FIFA says it paid Sepp Blatter $3.76 million in 2015, and the governing body reported a loss of $122 million for a year blighted by scandal. After years of secrecy about presidential pay, FIFA finally revealed Blatter's salary in its latest annual accounts published Thursday. Blatter, who was suspended on full pay last October and later banned for unethical conduct, had a base salary of $3 million but received no performance bonus in 2015. FIFA's loss, it's first since 2002, was expected after failing to sign any new World Cup sponballs before before Mo- sors. Despite the corruption crisis, FIFA's total income hammed Nabi gave the first was $1.152 billion in 2015. Expenses of $1.274 billion included spending $61.5 million on ''legal matters.'' FIFA's breakthrough. Young legspinner reserves fund fell by $183 million to $1.34 billion. Rashid Khan did well in the middle but Dilshan held his nerve at the other end. Earlier, Stanikzai led from the front with a half century as Afghanistan M O s C O W , overcame a slow start to MARCh 17 (AP): post a challenging total. Russian swimmer The Lankans stifled Af- Yulia Efimova faces ghanistan top-order by re- a possible life ban afducing them to 51/4 after ter being provision11 overs before Stanikzai ally suspended for a and Samiullah Shenwari second doping viola(31 off 23) built the innings. tion. The 23-year-old The duo stitched 61 off 33 Efimova, a breastballs for the fifth wicket and stroke specialist who Stanikazai got a life twice, on has won four world 34 and 44 respectively. titles and an Olympic Stanikzai was at his ex- bronze medal, is the plosive best towards the latest high-profile later stages and hit Thisara name caught up in Perera's widish full length the series of doping delivery over long on with scandals that have one foot, reminding one of dogged Russia over the trademark helicopter the past two years. shot of Indian skipper MS She was considered Dhoni. one of Russia's top After Stanikzai's depar- medal hopes for the ture, left-hander Najibul- Olympics in Rio de lah Zardan also had some Janeiro in August. In a brief statement, the Russian Swimmeaty blows with a four ming Federation said it had received documents from and six against Nuwan Ku- international governing body FINA stating that Efimova lasekara in the last over. Af- was suspended ''in connection with a possible breach of ghanistan added 59 runs anti-doping rules.'' Efimova was stripped of five Eurofrom the last five overs to pean championship medals after testing positive for the set up competitive total. banned steroid DHEA in 2013.
Russian swim star Efimova suspended over doping violation
1. Pirates CC (Wka) vs Kohima Hornbills @ 7am 2. Esa Warriors (Dmp) vs Missionshires @ 10am 3. Blue Star CC (Dmp) vs Kohiam Capitals @ 1pm bills took the bats and scored 207 runs losing 2 wickets in 20 overs with Probin and Mrinmoy scoring 61 runs each and Tapitu 54. Chasing the target, FHCC were all out scoring 54 runs in 12 overs. Hornbill bowler Debojit claimed 5 rivals wickets. Probin was declared man of the match. In the second match, Street Boys Wokha defeated Kohima Knights by 78 runs. Electing to bat first, Street boys scored 140 runs with Mhonyamo and Nchumbemo scoring highest 29 and 20 runs each. Kohima Knights bowlers Abhishek claimed 3 wickets and Tokemi 2 wickets. Chasing the target
MADRID, MARCh 17 (AFP): A Palestinian boy who survived a firebombing by Jewish extremists that killed his parents and baby brother was greeted by Real Madrid's stars, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, on Thursday. Five-year-old Ahmed Dawabcheh has been recovering from his injuries over the past eight months. Moved by images of the bandaged boy wearing a Real Madrid jersey, Palestinians campaigned for months on social media to persuade the team to meet Ahmed. And his dream came true as he posed for photos and had a Real shirt christened with own name on the back signed by the club's Galacticos, including threetime World Player of the Year Ronaldo and Welsh star Bale. "The Real Madrid team met him and took photos with him and gave him a shirt and ball signed by the whole team," Madrid said in a statement. "Clearly moved, the boy ran around the facilities before witnessing his idols train." After meeting the players at Real's training ground, Ahmed was then given a tour of the club's Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Palestinian Football Association head Jibril Rajoub said Real Madrid were "restoring hope for a child who lost his entire family".
Dilshan stars in Sri Lanka's win
7TH SILVER CUP T-20 CRICKET TOURNAMENT
Kohima Hornbills, Street Boys Wokha and Sparks CC wins
Palestinian firebomb survivor meets hero Ronaldo
Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan hits the ball during their match against Afghanistan at the ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket tournament in Kolkata on March 17. (AP Photo)
KOLKAtA, MARCh 17 (AGENCIEs): Afghanistan posed a spirited challenge before the seasoned Tillakaratne Dilshan guided Sri Lanka to a six-wicket win in their opening match of the ICC World T20 on Thursday. Dilshan (83 not out off 56 balls) steered Sri Lanka to victory in 18.5 overs after Afghanistan put up a competitive 153 for seven, courtesy a captain's knock from Asghar Stanikzai (62). The Afghans fought till
the end but the Associate Nation's inexperience let them down. Dilshan led a successful chase and was in his elements very early into his innings, producing his signature 'Dilscoop' against Dawlat Zardan in the third over when he hit the Afghan bowler for consecutive sixes. With Dinesh Chandimal (18 from 17 balls; 2x4, 1x6), the Sri Lankan opening duo gave them a brisk start, racing to 41 from 32
Rival India-Pak cricket fans switch sides on Facebook
NEW DELhI, MARCh 17 (AFP): Rival cricket fans from India and Pakistan have switched sides on social media ahead of a hotly awaited World Twenty20 clash, in protest over long-running tensions between the nuclear-armed countries. Fans from the cricketmad nations have swapped support for their teams on Facebook, with Indian and Pakistani users posting profile pictures with their rival's colours. The hashtag "ProfileforPeace" was trending on Facebook ahead of Saturday's match, whose buildup has been mired in controversy over security arrangements for the Pakistani team. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said he had been bowled over by the move. "Something pretty
interesting is happening in India and Pakistan on Facebook right now," Zuckerberg said in a post. "Hundreds of thousands of Indian cricket fans are putting the Pakistani frame around their picture. And Pakistani fans are doing the same thing -- showing support for India." Mumbai-based artist Ram Subramanian, who changed his colours to those of Pakistan, said he hoped the trend would make both governments realise that many Indians and Pakistanis do not hate or mistrust each other. "India and Pakistan need to have a conversation. How long are they going to keep this (tension) going?" the 37-year said. Subramanian said he started a ProfileforPeace trend last October after a right-wing Hindu group
forced the cancellation of a visiting Pakistani singer's concert in Mumbai. His changed his profile picture to one of himself holding a note that read "I don't hate Pakistan". The trend comes after Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi was criticised over his declaration that Pakistan's cricketers receive more love in India than back home. The comments raised eyebrows as Pakistan's buildup to the tournament has been embroiled in controversy over whether they would be allowed to travel to India because of security concerns. They agreed to make the trip only after negotiations with India over security arrangements and the shifting of their match against the hosts to Kolkata from Dharamsala.
India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947 and diplomatic relations remain tense. India suspended bilateral cricket with Pakistan after the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks which New Delhi blamed on militants based across the border. Ehsanullah Shah, a lawyer from Lahore, said changing his profile picture to India was a chance to promote peace. "I have a lot of friends who're Indians, I love them to bits, and I'm all for peace between us as countries," the 30-year-old told AFP. "So if I was given the opportunity to show these two things, my love for my friends and for peace; well I'm not one that lets these opportunities get by."
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