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state govt will implement 7th rop for employees: governor Our Correspondent Kohima | March 21

He nearly killed you all with his reckless driving?

Accha toh, you have any valid reason for demanding his arrest?

Dead body found, murder suspected Morung Express News Dimapur | March 21

In an incident suspected to be a case of murder, an unidentified youth was found dead in Dimapur on March 21. As per the police, the dead body of a male, aged 25-30 years was found by the side of a road near the Deputy Commissioner’s office this morning. Of medium build, the deceased unidentified man bore multiple traumas on the head and face. The police said that post mortem was conducted and the body kept at the morgue for identification. A case of murder was further registered, it was added.

The 15th session of 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) commenced here today with Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya highlighting the policies and programs, achievements and plans of the state government.

Highlighting the various initiatives and achievements of the state government during the last one year, he said “much has been done for the uplift of the state and the people; however much more remains to be done.”

The Governor announced that the state government has decided to implement Revision of Pay for state government employees following implementation of recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission by the central government.

“While this will bring much needed relief to the state government employees, the additional financial burden should draw our attention on the need to raising revenue and economizing on government expenditure to the extent possible, “he said.

“Transparency, efficiency, and accountability, with promotion of cashless transactions and direct

benefits transfers, will also help us in achieving these objectives,” he viewed.

Govt to hold consultations with stakeholders on ULB issue He also informed that the state government will hold consultations with all stakeholders, civil societies and the tribal bodies and work towards arriving at a consensual approach towards the Urban Local Bodies elections, and matters related to this.

Recounting the string of events and the turmoil caused in relation to ULB polls with 33% reservation, the Governor expressed sadness at the loss of lives in the ensuing violence. He further extended condolences to the bereaved families. He reminded that a judicial enquiry has been set up to inquire into the matter.

Effort to ensure no further border fencing Regarding the border fencing issue, the Governor said that the recent initiation of fencing on the Indo-Myanmar border along Pangsha in Noklak Sub Division by the Myanmar government has caused deep concern in the state.

“Such a move on the part of the Myanmar Government has the potential to adversely affect the free movement regime, besides

2018 will be presented on March 28.

The assembly session will continue till March 30.

Meanwhile, talking to media persons, the NLA Secretariat clarified that refusal to submitting questions by members at the assembly session does not arise. “We shall have questions hour” said Commissioner & Secretary, N Benjamin Newmai, adding that 5 each of starred and unstarred questions have Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya addressing the 15th session of the NLA which began on been received so far.

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the traditional social and economic ties that exist between the people in these areas on both sides of the border,” he said.

He expressed happiness that through the collective effort of the civil society organizations, the state government and the Government of India, it has been possible to impress upon the Myanmar government to stop the border fencing work.

“The state government will continue to make efforts to ensure that no similar fencing works are carried out in the international border areas in Nagaland,” he told the floor of the House.

state government supports the political dialogue between the GoI and the NSCN (IM). He meanwhile also appealed to the NSCN (K) to resume ceasefire with the GoI. “My Government supports the ongoing political dialogue between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) and would continue to strive to work for a final solution to the more than six decades old Naga political issue in a peaceful, inclusive and honorable manner,” Acharya said.

He informed that the state government has also recently constituted the Political Affairs Mission to spearhead the governReiterates commitment ment’s efforts in this area, to solve Indo-Naga issue replacing the erstwhile PoThe Governor mean- litical Affairs Committee. while also said that the He also made an appeal

to the NSCN (K) to resume ceasefire with the Government of India in the larger interest of the Nagas.

After the Governor’s speech, MLA Dr Longrineken moved the motion of thanks, which was seconded by MLA Neiphrezo Keditsu. NLA Deputy Speaker, Imtikumzuk said amendment if any on the Governor’s address can be submitted till 2:00pm on March 22.

He said discussion on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address will take place on March 23 and 24. Presentation of Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) Report will take place on March 24 while Supplementary Demands for Grants for the year 2016-2017 and Demand for Grants for the year 2017-

Dr. Imtiwapang Aier is 17th Speaker of NLA Dr. Imtiwapang Aier was elected unopposed as the 17th Speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) here today during the first day of the 15th session of the 12th NLA. Dr. Aier hails from Sungratsu village under Mokokchung district and represents 23-Impur Assembly Constituency. He is the first person from Ao community to occupy the chair of NLA Speaker.

The proposers for his candidature included Health & Family Welfare Minister, P Longon and Roads & Bridges Minister, Y Vikheho Swu. The proposal was seconded by PHED Minister, Chotisuh Sazo and Parliamentary Secretaries Khriehu Liezietsu

and Er Levi Rengma.

Congratulating the new Speaker, Chief Minister Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu said the NLA has always been known for maintaining the decorum and dignity of the House from the very beginning till date and hoped that this tradition will continue during Dr Imtiwapang Aier’s tenure as well.

Dr Aier will also function as the Chairman of the Nagaland Legislators’ Forum on Naga Political Issue and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Working Committee of Nagaland Legislators’ Forum on Naga Political Issue.

“I am sure that you will do justice to these extra responsibilities as well, and contribute your best towards facilitating the peaceful resolution of the Naga political issue,” the CM said, while assuring the new Speaker of “whole hearted support and cooperation” in the discharge of his duties.

Dr. Aier in his acceptance speech expressed gratitude to all the members of the House for electing him to the office. Later, Dr. Aier told the media persons that he will soon consult with the Parliamentary Working Committee of Nagaland Legislators’ Forum on Naga political issue and do the necessary.

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on naga republic Day, call for reneweD commitment Let us look forward, not backward: NSCN (IM) Morung Express News Dimapur | March 21

NSCN (IM) Vice President, Gen (Retd) Kholi Konyak, today assured that the future of the Naga people is safe under the Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) on August 3, 2015.

“Let us look forward, not backward. The past has gone never to come back. Let us dwell on the present keeping the future in mind. Rest assured our present and future are safe in the Framework Agreement”, Kholi said in his presidential address on the occasion of the Republic Day celebration at Camp Hebron.

Kholi said that after decades of conflict, the Indian leadership finally realized that the Indo-Naga issue is political not military, which led to signing of the Framework Agreement. He said the agreement was signed on the basis of respecting the rights of the Nagas and the security of India.

“It embraces all Nagas and their territories, not a part of the people and a part of the territories. It is an issuebased agreement, rejection of which will pull the Nagas back to decades behind others. It is made in the best interest of the two peoples at this given point of time”, he added. Stating that people and nations move and change through revolutions, Kholi said Nagas too must move and change in tune with the changing world.

Kholi at the same time reminded that the mushrooming of factions to fight against each other would only magnify problems and take Nagas further away from solution.

Representatives from Naga civil societies including the Naga Hoho, NGBF, ENPO, UNC and NSF also extended greetings and reiterated the need for an early and honorable solution.

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‘Integration within ambit of Framework Agreement’ NSCN (IM) General Secretary and Chief Negotiator of the Indo-Naga Peace Talks, Th. Muivah asserted that integration of Naga inhabited areas and people is very much alive and within the ambit of the Framework Agreement.

“Even the Indian leaders agreed that without integration there will not be solution but that it (integration) has to be worked through peaceful and democratic means”, the NSCN (IM) General Secretary said in his address.

Muivah stated that the Framework Agreement is based on mutual respect for separate sovereign rights of India and the Nagas. “Solution is at sight. Now Nagas will have their own rights, we have worked out a path for our future”, he said.

Muivah however said that even as solution is at sight, a section of Nagas are trying to create division and asserted it will not be India or any other country but Nagas themselves who would be responsible for their own downfall.

The NSCN (IM) leader cautioned that Nagas shall all perish together if they do not know “who we are and where are we going?” and God’s purpose for the Nagas.

‘forge ahead together with pride and dignity’

DIMAPUR, MARCH 21 (MExN): The Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) today marked the Naga Republic Day by asserting that the Naga people “chose to determine, forge and shape our own destiny with dignity, integrity and freedom and we have withstood the tides that sought to weaken and destroy our spirit.”

Brigadier (Retd) S Singya, Kedahge, FGN, in his speech stated that from the beginning, “powerful forces opposed to our cause have sought to weaken us by following the policy of divide and rule.”

“Naga country was not only divided up between India and Myanmar but also the Naga population in India had been

scattered in the four different states of Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The demarcation of the IndoMyanmar boundary on the Naga territory was done arbitrarily and without the consent of the Naga people,” he said.

He further pointed to the recent border fencing issue as a move to divide the Nagas “without any consultation and in total disregard to the rights of the traditional land owners.”

Brigadier (Retd) S Singya meanwhile cautioned that “our traditional culture and values, our faith and beliefs are being eroded and being supplanted by alien cultures and practices.”

“We are plagued by modernism ideology that says ‘the world is changing and we too must change.’ But let us remember that in the process of nation building there is no room for politics of convenience.

Knowledge and adaptation are important but we must take care not to import knowledge that may destroy the very fabric of our national identity,” he added.

He also said that the FGN is “aware of the fact that we must travel back to the past to reclaim our rights that was declared in unity and trust and forge ahead together with pride and dignity.”

Brigadier (Retd) S Singya reaffirmed the commitment of the FGN to “uphold

the pledge of our people to be a Sovereign Nation, free from the interference of any foreign power to decide, determine and shape our own destiny.”

While stating that the division of the Naga National workers was a “direct result of India’s sinister designs and strategy to weaken our cause,” he asked Naga National workers to be “extremely cautious and not become the tools and weapon of our enemy.”

He meanwhile called for the celebration of the “courage and lives of those who have guided us with their vision and rededicate ourselves to follow the same path.”

us put our minds ‘Nation-building is a never ending process’ ‘Let and souls together’

DIMAPUR, MARCH 21 (MExN): President of the NNC/ GDRN (Non Accord), Kiumukam Yimchunger today stated that the coming together of six Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) and the subsequent formation of the Working Group on December 14, 2016 is a step in the right direction.

In his speech to mark Naga Republic Day, he expressed “optimism that other Naga Political groups outside our fold would

join us in the coming days.”

“I appeal to all the Nagas for your goodwill and prayers towards the betterment of the Working Group. Posterity and history will perhaps be kinder to us where others have failed for the leap of faith we have taken,” he stated.

Yimchunger further said that every Naga may not become a national worker or be expected to render a national service; nevertheless, irrespective of one’s

station and calling in life, every Naga is equally responsible in the building of nationhood— economically, spiritually and aesthetically. “We may not have achieved our aspiration to live as a free nation; however, building of a strong and sound nation must not await for the ultimate victory ofourstruggle,asnation-building is a never ending process.”

Pointing out the present age of globalization, he stated, “we are adapting and embracing the

ideals of consumerism andmaterialism at a very fast pace, yet, our national effort towards productivity is on a snails’ pace. To make our nation strong and stand tall, let us all endeavor towards qualitative contribution as opposed to quantitative.” He urged every Naga—Churchworkers,contractors,businessmen/women,technicians, scientists, teachers, doctors, workers’ skilled or unskilled, government servants— to give their best service.

‘naga history of transition stands unique’

DIMAPUR, MARCH 21 (MExN): General (Retd), Viyalie Metha, Kedahge, FGN today stated that the Naga history of transition stands unique and unrivalled by any other nations in the entire world.

“Most other countries in the world have developed from some tribal savage pasts or an oppressive Monarchical rule into modern republic states. In the unique case of Nagaland, we simply transited from ancient democratic village Republics into a modern national Democratic Republic. In this transition, unlike our neighbors India or Burma, we simply adopted a homely and familiar

Yehzabo (Constitution) which was rooted in our ancient democratic customs and laws,” he stated to mark the occasion of the Naga Republic Day. General (Retd), Viyalie Metha also asked the Naga people to “take note of the stupendous strides and developments that were achieved in Naga history within a very short period under the able leadership of AZ Phizo and his colleagues.” All Nagas, he urged, “must remember the pioneer leaders of the NNC and salute their splendid services rendered to the nation.

The entire nation must remember that it was these patriotic leaders who laid down the foun-

dations of our nationhood.”

He further reminded of the “events that followed the inauguration of the Federal Republic of Nagaland in 1956.” He pointed to the mass burning of villages all over Nagaland and the forced dispersion of people into the jungles where hundreds of thousands of Nagas “perished from bullets, starvation and diseases between 1956 and 1957 alone.” “In the end, more than 645 Naga villages were burnt to ashes. The fields of the villages also could not be cultivated for years due to the relentless army operations in their lands,” he recalled.

He however said that de-

spite all these trials, “God on his part has faithfully preserved our republic which was in the first place dedicated to His name and glory on 22nd March 1956.”

Metha meanwhile cautioned that if the present generation betrays the sacrifices and achievements of the past, “then this generation will have to live the rest of their lives in shame and infamy.” “May our republic, dedicated with the commitment of Nagaland for Christ and established with the blood of so many martyrs finally become a beacon of light for Asia and even the whole world,” he hoped.

DIMAPUR, MARCH 21 (MExN): Z Royim, acting President of the Naga National Council, on Naga Republic Day, asked the Naga people to “fully support the cause and present unity of Naga National Political Groups without any reservation for the best political solution in the interest of regional peace and development.”

In a statement, he reminded that the “forceful occupation of Naga country was a political crime committed by the Governments of both India and Burma (Myanmar) against Naga people,” and called for a renewed zeal to “come forward for National duty to stand together to achieve our freedom as the time and year is right and ripe.”

The recent “chaos” in Nagaland, he added, had shown the “strength and unity of Naga tribal Hohos in opposition for conduct of Urban & Local Body Election with 33% reservation for women as infringement of Article 371(A) of the Indian constitution in total unison.”

“If the tribal Hohos come forward in this strength of unison for Naga freedom of recognition, the Naga people will surely achieve our Goal without much difficulty,” he added.

“Let us put our mind and soul together in unison to work out the best political solution for our people for freedom of seven decades. In response to the call and urge for unity, the Naga National Political Groups are now in unity for the cause of our freedom,” he stated.

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Nagaland governor Acharya on Nagaland Vision 2030 State water policy under active consideration Our Correspondent

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Kohima | March 21

agaland’s governor P.B. Acharya today said the state government has taken a major step towards charting a clear road map for development by bringing out the Nagaland Vision 2030 last year.

“My government would strive to aligns its various programs accordingly so that we accelerate the development activities in the state with focus on creating employment for the educated unemployed youth and ensure that the fruits of development percolate equitably to all parts of the state,” Acharya told the Floor of the House here today.

He said the Vision 2030 emphasizes growth of the agriculture and allied sector.

Stating that the state is deficit in rice production by 24%, he said the priority of the state government is to increase production and productivity with suitable technologies in farming systems and achieve food security.

“Our bountiful natural resources in the form of land, water and vegetation need sustainable interventions,” he said adding that towards this end, the detailed Jhum Land Survey of the state has been already completed and published and the State Water Policy is under active consideration of the government.

He informed that the department of land resources has taken up springshed development in 11 springs as a pilot project of the watershed program with technical support input from People’s Science Institute, Dehradun targeting one village in each district during 2016-17.

300 hectares have been developed under rubber plantation and 13.40 lakh coffee seedlings have been distributed to farmers, with coffee plantation covering 670 hectares during 2016-17.

He said the department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services is focusing on enhancing meat, milk and eggs production through people’s participation.

“Major thrust is given on piggery development for pork production,” he said adding that for enhancing milk production in the state, over 35,000 number of breedable female cows are being covered with artificial insemination.

Under RKVY, the department is assisting farmers in taking up scientific backyard piggery, poultry and goatery farming in collaboration with the Tata Trust.

Mithun and local cattle rearing is being promoted in 153 villages under the National Bovine Breeding and Gokul Gram programs.

The fisheries sector in Nagaland has witnessed notable growth from a subsistence traditional activity to a diversified economic activity.

“Enhancing local production to about 8,500 metric tons is envisaged during 2016-17,” he said adding that the department of fisheries has established a Chocolate Mahseer Hatchery Unit at Suteplenden (Longkong) in Mokokchung district during 2016-17.

The department of sericulture is imple-

I will do justice: NLA new speaker Dr. Imtiwapang Aier Our Correspondent Kohima | March 21

Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) new speaker Dr. Imtiwapang Aier today assured that he will try his best, work with zeal and do justice.

“I will also spare no effort to up-hold the cherished traditions and the non-partisan character of the office that I have embarked upon, Aier said after he was elected unanimously as the new speaker of NLA. He thanked all the members of NLA for electing him “which I accept heartily and with humility.” “We must avoid political apathy and depression that has happened and experienced in the recent past. The electorates expect so much from us, through this opposition-less government, and we have to deliver to them,” he told the floor of the House.

PROFILE DR. IMTIWAPANG AIER Born on 22.01. 1973. Place of birth:

from GHS Mokokchung, 1989; pre-university (Sc) from NEHU, 1991: B.Sc (Hons), NEHU 1994; M.Sc (Geology), NU 1997; Ph.D, NU 2005; Married to Kieuhungle, 4 daughters.

Joined government services as Lecturer, Kohima Science College, Jotsoma, 2000-03; Guest lecturer, Nagaland University 200607, Resource person, ATI (Nagaland), 2009, Senior Research Fellow (DST), New Delhi under Nagaland University, 2006-08.

He was involved in various activities: Finance secretary Kohima Science College Ao Students’ Union, 1992-93; president Kohima Science College Ao Fellowship, 1992-94.

He published a 4 National Papers and 2 International papers , one at Germany and other at Netherlands. Awarded “Young Scientist of the world 2011: IBC award from Dr. Imtiwapang Aier Cambridge University, London.

Elected as Congress (I) candidate from Mokokchung. Father’s name: Sashituba.

23- Impur Assembly Constituency to the Tribe: Ao. Dr. Imtiwapang Aier did his schooling 12th NLA held on 23rd February 2013.

menting Intensive Bivoltine Silk Develop- guidelines of MHRD, the government is conment project in Dimapur district covering sidering adding courses on skill knowledge in 1000 women beneficiaries under Mulberry the degree courses.

He said the endeavor of Higher & Techcultivation, he said. nical Education is to improve the quality of Concern over Global warming, climate change state’s human resources.

In the era of global warming and climate He said Kohima Science College Jotsoma change, Acharya, said the Department of is the only government college in Nagaland Environment, Forests & Climate Change is that offers degree and honour courses in all taking several steps to successfully face the science disciplines. multi-dimensional challenges not only in “The Government plans to focus on inbiodiversity and wildlife conservation, but vesting in institutions of higher learning with also the climate change concerns. a balanced regional spread so that students of He told the Floor of the House that under all parts of the state are able to receive quality the National Afforestation Program, the de- higher education,” he said. partment has brought an area of 2,130 hectHe also said the state government will also ares under afforestation in 2016-17. try for the tie up and have MoUs with other uniHe said a major loan agreement under the versities from other parts of the country and have Overseas Development Assistance of Japan exchange of teachers to strengthen faculties.

International Cooperation Agency (JICA), “Such initiative and step will not only susGovernment of Japan, has been signed by tain our endeavor towards better higher educathe department which would significantly tion but also reinforce emotional and national contribute to the sustainable forest and envi- integration,” he told the Floor of the House. ronmental management and livelihood imAcharya said through his initiative a good provement. beginning has been made by inviting the repRecently, it has been decided to create resentatives of educational institutions like two Forest Divisions - one each for Kiphire NITTE, Dr. M.S Moodithaya, the registrar; and Longleng districts.

Health Science University, Dr. Ramananda Shetty, the vice-Chancellor and Vivek Alva, Govt to provide solar lighting the managing trustee of Alva’s Educational to 253 GHS in Nagaland Foundation, Moodabidri as state guests.

Nagaland’s governor P.B. Acharya today Expressing concern over unemployment said the government proposed to provide 2 problem, he said that establishing instituKW solar lighting in all the 253 Government tions which encourage entrepreneurship, High Schools in the state. employment generation and skill developStating that education is a priority area for ment and in creating an eco-system, which the government, he said “while the accessi- nurtures private enterprise, will be one of the bility and availability of the schools has been highest priorities of the state government. addressed to a great extent by suitable interAcharya informed that the Regional Emventions over the past many years, the em- ployment Exchange Kohima is being upgradphasis now is on the quality education. ed to Model Career Centre.

“The department, by putting stress on The Ministry of Labor and Employment training of teachers, their redeployment in a has approved for establishment of one vocamore rational manner and by doing school tional rehabilitation centre for persons with rationalization exercise, is trying to address disability in Nagaland. the quality issue,” he said.

National Food Security Act covers Govt considering skill knowledge 14.06 lakhs persons in Nagaland in degree courses Nagaland’s Governor P.B. Acharya said Acharya said to make our graduates em- the department of Food & Civil Supplies has ployable or entrepreneurs in line with the successfully launched the National Food Se-

hurdle for economic progress, he said the department of cooperation has initiated steps for recovery of outstanding loans and is in the process of implementing Integrated Cooperative Development projects in the districts of Kohima, Tuensang, Kiphire, Longleng and Peren for which preliminary activities has been initiated.

Govt paying stress on accelerating roads construction Governor P.B. Acharya said that one of the key impediment which has hindered economic growth in the state is the absence of robust connectivity.

“This has a direct impact on inflow of private investments as well as movement of tourists. My government hence pays a lot of stress on accelerating the construction of roads throughout the state,” he told the Floor of the House today.

The total length of National Highways in Nagaland is 1, 497 kilometers, out of which 1, 201 kilmeteres is with the Nagaland Public Works department, while the remaining 296 kilometers is with the Border Roads Organizations.

Under PMGSY, out of 56 roads sanccurity Act, covering 14.06 lakh persons in the tioned, 28 roads have been completed while state as beneficiaries. work is in good progress on the remaining 28 The department of social welfare is cov- roads, Acharya said. ering 3.5 lakh children in the age group of 0 to 6 years and 50,000 pregnant and lactating PHED to provide water mothers through 3, 455 Anganwadi centres. supply to 42 not covered habitations Further, 27, 890 adolescent girls in the Governor said the department of Public age group of 11 to 18 years are being covered Health Engineering will provide to drinking under Sabla scheme being implemented on water supply to 42 not covered/partially covexperimental basis in the district of Kohima, ered habitations under National Rural DrinkMon and Tuensang. ing Water programme.

Acharya said under the National Social 18 habitations having water quality probAssistance program, old age pension is being lems will be provided with water treatment provided to 51, 750 persons in the age group units to ensure safe drinking water under the of 60 to 79 years @Rs. 200 per month and to same schemes, he said.

5, 650 persons above 80 years @ Rs. 500 per Under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Gramin) month. the target is for building 44,000 units of IndividFurther, financial assistance to 4, 464 wid- ual Household Latrines and a target of 300 units ows and to 1, 276 disabled persons is being each is fixed for Community Sanitary Complex provided @ Rs. 300 per month. and Solid-Liquid Waste Management.

He said the project for augmentation of Govt for gender equality water supply to Kohima town is nearing comand women empowerment pletion. Water supply schemes for Wokha Governor said another focus area of the Town and New district headquarter Peren state government will be gender equality and are in active progress. women empowerment.

Acharya said in line with the state indus“While the principle of gender equity in trial policy, the department of industries & the workplace is generally accepted, discrim- commerce has formulated a package of ininatory practices persist in many places. It is centives for promoting and setting up of inimportant to create an open and friendly at- dustrial units and revitalization of sick indusmosphere with a holistic view involving all tries in the state. sections of the society to eliminate the gender biases, particularly those embedded in our tra- CM, Deputy Speaker ditions and culture,” he said adding that, this, makes obituary references in turn, will assist in women empowerment.

Chief Minister Dr. Shurhozelie Lezietsu Ensuring the rightful and dignified status today made obituary reference on the passof mothers, sisters and daughters will pro- ing away of late Jayalalitha at the Fifteenth vide a solid foundation to nurture the inner session of the Twelfth Nagaland Legislative strength, creativity and self-esteem of women Assembly. from all walks of life, Acharya stated.

Dr. Liezietsu stated that Late Jayalalitha was born on 24th February 1948 and she died Steps for recovery of on 5th December 2016. outstanding loans initiated Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) In Cooperation sector, Governor said a deputy speaker Imtikumzuk made obituary crucial factor hindering the progress of coop- references on the passing away of late Mhonerative movement in the state is the presence shan Murry, former MLA, late K.V. Pusa forof non-functioning cooperatives. mer MLA and late Tokheho Sema, former He said a step has been taken in this direc- MLA. tion by cancelling the registration of 342 nonTwo minutes silent prayer was observed functioning cooperatives. in the House as a mark of respect to the deStating that poor recovery of loans poses a parted souls.

‘Building a Strong Community: Church in Managing conflicts’ Morung Express News Kohima | March 21

The fifth Pastoral Leadership Development Training of the Institute for Development of Leadership (IFDOL) is currently underway with over 80 leaders from Eastern Nagaland participating in the 8 days training from March 14 to March 22. Organised by the Baptist Associations in Eastern Nagaland (BAEN) in partnership with Clark Theological College and Global Lead Alliance, and sponsored by Kohima Ao Baptist Arogo (KABA) the theme for the training is ‘Pastoral Leaderships in Local Context with Global Perspective’.

Speaking on the topic, ‘Building a Strong Community: Church in Managing conflicts’ on March 21, Dr. Aküm Longchari, Edi-

tor of The Morung Express, engaged the participants on activities reflecting on building a shared future and strengthening relationships within the society.

“All of us has interpreted and created the world around us based on our understanding. Is there one truth or several truths? That is one of the challenges we face today.

We are challenged by the notions of truth and fact,” said Dr. Longchari stressing that dialogue is needed to tackle such dilemmas, to build strong communities, and strong relationships between people.

To listen to the hopes and dreams of the people who you are representing, as Dr. Longchari pointed out, is a responsibility which he referred in the Naga context and viewed that if Nagas uphold to the dreams,

nurture these dreams, the situation would have been much different than it faces today.

“To build a nation starts by nurturing relationships,” said Dr. Longchari, emphasizing that time is an essence in the process of nurturing hopes and dreams. The building of a society often follows the timeline of understanding the past first, followed by the present and then the future. When talking of the past, everyone has different interpretations, narratives and understanding despite being the same story, therefore Dr. Longchari pointed out the difficulty of coming together and the danger of being trapped in the past.

“Because we are chained in the past, we find it very difficult to move forward.

Can we re-conceptualize time? Rather than starting

MODEL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE Lower AG Colony, Kohima, Nagaland NAAC PEER TEAM VISIT

from the past can we start with the future?” asked Dr. Longchari.

Using the analogy of walking into an empty room and filling up the empty space, Dr. Longchari said, “It is for you and me to fill it up. The future cannot be build by one village, by one tribe or an individual.

It can only be build together as opposed to the past. Because the past becomes exclusive we are not able to move to the future.

If we can agree on what our future will be like and form a consensus, then we can deal with our past in a meaningful way. When the future meets the past, then we will know what to do in the present. You and I will know what we need to do today. For too long we have tried to go from the past to the present but we have been chained to the past.”

Section of the participants attending the fifth Pastoral Leadership Development Training of the Institute for Development of Leadership underway at Kohima. (Morung Photo)

munity (Y.Kiketo Sema), Christian leadership in proactive social amity-the need of the hour (Geoffrey Yaden), Building strong community: Church in Managing conflicts (Dr. Aküm Longchari), Biblical Foundations (Rev. Dr. Atsi Dolie), Building

a strong church administration (Rev. Asangba), Role of the Church in Nation Building (Rev. Dr. Chingmak Kejong), Leadership in the expansion : 21st Century model (Rev. Dr. Takatemjen), Leadership and wholesome mental health (Dr. Ngully), Baptist

Distinctiveness (Chingong Phom), Church History and overview (Toshi Aier), Pastoral Ministry in the local context with global outlook (Sentisashi), Church and networking missions (Arenla Longchar), and Spiritual Formation/ Church and Environment, Y.Nuklu Phom.

‘Time to prioritize on education sector’ Morung Express News Dimapur | March 21

A three member peer team constituted by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) visited Model Christian College, Kohima on March 20 and 21, 2017. The honourable team comprised of Prof. Anand Deb Mukhopadyaya, Former Vice Chancellor, Vidyasagar University, Kolkata, West Bengal as the Chairman, Prof. Mohammed Abdul Kalam, Former Professor University of Madras, Chennai as Member Coordinator and Dr. L Birendra Kumar Singh, Principal, S. Kula Women’s College, Kongkhampat, Nambol, Manipur, as Member.

The College extents its heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the Peer Team, to all the members of the Governing Body, Teaching Staff, Non-Teaching Staff, Students, Parents/Guardians Forum, Alumni and all its well wishers associated with the College.

Sd/- Principal, Model Christian College, Kohima

In order to move forward into the future, the significance of reconciliation was highlighted. Translating the Spanish version of Psalm 85: 10, ‘Truth and Justice have met, Peace and Mercy have kissed’, Dr. Longchari said that the place where truth, justice, peace and mercy meet is called reconciliation.

The IFDOL programme was initiated in 2014 with a special focus on bringing church leaders in Eastern Nagaland together, strengthening their capacities, and enhancing their contribution towards social change. The intense training which devotes 75 hours in 8 days for the participants have witness impacts in the churches and communities.

The fifth training focused on the topics: Envisioning a sustainable com-

Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS has lamented on the infiltration of politics and personal agenda in running the affairs of educational institutions in the state.

He was addressing a strong gathering of government school teachers, members of School Management Committees and School Management and Development Committees under Kuda & Dhansiripar at Kuda Youth Hall, Nagarjan, Dimapur where Community Mobilization programme for District Mission Authority – Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Dimapur was held on Tuesday.

“Educational sector is supposed to groom and mould children in their formative years but people do not seem very worried about it,” Kesonyu said and added that leaders were worried whether they would be able to retain themselves as the chairmen of various committees in schools.

He said it was time to stop blame game and revive the education sector by prioritizing it. The DC pointed out that parents choose to send their child to private run institutions which spoke volumes about the decimating quality education in the state.

He said the 80% literacy rate of Nagaland does not in any way reflect on the quality education adding, “we

DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS addressing a gathering during Community Mobilization programme in Dimapur on Tuesday. (Morung Photo)

are yet to start as far as quality education is concerned.”

Kesonyu impressed upon the community to take equal and moral responsibility by addressing issues confronting the education sector.

Deputy District Education Officer (DDEO), Dimapur, R. Amongla Jamir admitted that the achievement of government schools have been low despite the number of facilities provided by the centre.

“The targets have not been achieved and enrolment is declining instead of increasing and authorities are thinking that we are not doing our part,” she said and appealed for community support and participation in delivering quality education to students.

She denounced the practise of some SMC chairmen remaining in the same position without giving chance to others even if they have run out of ideas to run the school.

Amongla urged upon teachers to put in all efforts to diligently deliver their services to the schools and contribute their part to the society.

The DDEO informed that there were 3594 teachers for 49273 students in 291 government schools including primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools in Dimapur. She also informed that 3-4 nonfunctional government schools have been closed down in Dimapur.

During the training programme, speakers including Freda Angami, ADCSSA and SSA Programme Assistants including Itwadu Thou, Vikali Shikhu, Solomon and others spoke on various topics.

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Supporting BJP with party's permission, Meghalaya assembly summons officer Governor promises I'm still in Trinamool Congress: Robindro for breaching privilege of legislator blockade free Manipur to back the ruling alliance, he said people in Manipur wanted a change.

"The Congress ruled for 15 years at a stretch. So there was no change. After hearing the voice of the people, I have supported those who are forming the government. With the permission of my party high command, I have taken the step," he said.

Manipur's new Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, heading the state's first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, on Monday won the floor test in the assembly by

voice vote.

The floor test took place 11 days after assembly elections threw up a fractured verdict and five days after the Biren Singh ministry was sworn in.

In the 60-member house, the BJP won 21 seats and the Congress 28.

But the BJP joined hands with the Naga People's Front (NPF) and the National People's Party (NPP), which have four legislators each, and was backed by an Independent and a member each from the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the TMC.

Dalai Lama to visit Assam, Arunachal in April GUWAHATI, MARCH 21 (IANS): Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit Assam's main city Guwahati on April 1 to deliver a series of public talks and then go to Arunachal Pradesh to spread Buddhist teachings.

While the Dalai Lama will deliver the first public talk at Guwahati on April 1 as part of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of The Assam Tribune, he is expected to deliver the second public talk at IIT Guwahati on April 2 jointly organised

by Lawyer's Book Stall and IIT Guwahati.

During his second

day's programme, the Dalai Lama is also expected to inaugurate an Assamese translation of his book, "My Land and My People".

Officials said the spiritual leader will give talk on world peace.

The Tibetan leader will visit Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh from April 5 to 7 and teach on Kamalashila's "The Middling States of Meditation" and Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo's "37 Practices of a Bodhisattva".

He will confer the Rinzin Dhondup Initiation at Yiga Choezin. The Dalai Lama will also speak on Geshe Langri Thangpa's

"Eight Verses of Training the Mind" and "Guru Yoga" and confer the Avalokiteshvara Permission at Thupsung Dhargyeling Monastery at Dirang on April 10.

China has bitterly opposed the Indian government hosting the Dalai Lama and is particularly against the Tibetan leader's visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Beijing considers Arunachal a part of Tibet.

India says the Dalai Lama is a revered guest and is free to visit any place in the country.

The Dalai Lama has lived in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959.

To curb poaching, Kaziranga staff can use firearms sans sanction NEW DELHI, MARCH 21 (PTI): The Assam government has taken a series of steps to curb poaching at the Kaziranga National Park, including empowering the forest staff to use firearms without prior sanction while providing them immunity from prosecution, the Centre today said.

The park was recently at the centre of a controversy over a BBC documentary which claimed that it employed a "shoot-to- kill" strategy in dealing with poachers.

Following this, the Environment Ministry had suggested "blacklisting" of a BBC producer for "grossly erroneous" reporting on the government's anti-poaching strategy in Kaziranga.

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha today, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said 10 poachers have been arrested this year at the Kaziranga National Park and the number of anti-poaching camps have been increased to ensure effective surveillance.

He said Assam has also taken a number of steps to strengthen rhino protection including deployment of 423 forest protection force personnel equipped with arms, 175 armed home guards, enhancing punishment of offenders through an amendment to Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (Assam Amendment 2009), and empowering the forest staff to use firearms while providing immunity from prosecution without prior sanction among others.

Dave said that one rhino fell victim to poaching this year while in 2016, 18 cases of poaching were reported from the national park. The number of rhinos as per latest census in the country is 2909.

"A special task force headed by Additional Director General of Police has been constituted to curb rhino poaching.

Number of anti-poaching camps has been increased in Kaziranga National Park to ensure effective surveillance," he said.

He said while ten poachers have been arrested so far this year, 59 such offenders had been arrested in 2016 at the park.

"The Assam government has constituted fast

track court for speedy disposal of wildlife cases," he said.

"For developing cooperation among fringe villagers around the park and assistance in curbing rhino poaching, 38 Eco-Development Committees have been registered through which development work of villages are being taken up.

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ANGAMI PUBLIC ORGANISATION KOHIMA, NAGALAND

CONGRATULATION

The Angami Public Organisation (APO) would like to congratulate Mr. Sievituo Solo on completion of his journey across 24 countries on a bamboo cycle. APO applause this adventurous spirit and feels that the local community can benefit from his experience. APO also congratulates the team of people who supported him in every way possible.

APO further applaud the initiatives undertaken by team project 72 hrs for a healthier and cleaner living. APO wishes Mr. Sievituo Solo and his team the very best for their future endeavours, may God bless you and may you find success in everything you do.

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TRANSFORMATION CRUSADE 2017 Theme “Arise and Shine” Venue: Kohima Local Ground: Time: 4:30 PM

MARCH 22ND PROGRAMME

Praise & Worship: Avi Yongo, Koinonia Baptist Church worship team.

Leader: Mr. Neisapi Ltu, Director, KBNK. Pianist: Mrs. Seyieno Neo. Cantor: Mr. Vizosietuo Neo. Vision of Transformation Crusade : Mr. Khotuo Yaotsu, Convenor.

Invocation & Offertory Prayer: Pastor Kugavi Chishi, NCRC Sumi.

Speaker: Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, Sr. Pastor KBCK.

SHILLONG, MARCH 21 (IANS): The Meghalaya assembly on Monday summoned a top municipal officer to appear at the Bar of the House on March 23 after he was found guilty of breaching the privilege of an Independent legislator, John Leslee K. Sangma.

Zenithsky J. Sangma, the Chief Executive Officer of Tura Municipal Board, was summoned after the house adopted a report of the Privilege Committee tabled by Independent legislator, Saleng A. Sangma, who is also the Chairman of the committee.

"I have carefully perused the report of privileges committee presented in the house on March 16 and have found that the committee after strenuous exercise and deliberation has come to an irresistible conclusion that Zenithsky J. Sangma is guilty of committing breach of privilege of John Leslee and the house," Assembly Speaker Abu Taher Mondal told the legislators.

Mondal said a warrant will be issued with a direction to the departments concerned and to bring Zenithsky to the house on

March 23 as provided under Rule 171 and Rule 172 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the assembly.

Zenithsky will be the second person to appear at the Bar of the House after Prof. Kapila Chatterjee, who was the Editor, Publisher and Printer of YoungIndia, an English weekly for publishing a libellous news item, "The bark of ignorant mischievous politicians", and an equally defamatory editorial, "Privileges of legislators and assemblies".

Chatterjee appeared at the Bar of the House on April 4, 1973 and later withdrew it by bowing to the Speaker's chair and to the two sides of the house.

In its report, the committee unanimously recommended summoning and reprimanding the municipality officer in the house.

"He (Zenithsky) has to tender his apology in the house, failing which strong disciplinary action may be taken including termination of his service," the Privileges Committee report stated.

"The punishment proposed by the committee to be meted out to him should

AFFIDAVIT Regd. No: 235/17

I, Shri. Jangthoungam alias K. Angam S/o, Late Jeichungrei hereby solemnly affirms and declares on oath as under:1. That, my name is used as Shri. Jangthoungam in all my documents whereas, in my elder son’s name Meithuandai educational and others documents my name is recorded as K. Angam and in my younger son’s Victor educational and other documents my name is recorded as Shri. Jangthoungam. 2. That, Shri. Jangthoungam and Shri. K. Angam are the name of one and same person i.e me. 3. That, I made this affidavit to declare that the names Shri. Jangthoungma and Shri. Angam are my names and I shall use both the name in all my future correspondence and for official records.

Solemnly affirmed before me by the deponent

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Dated: 19/11/2015

I Smti. S. KAHOLI YEPTHO D/o SHIHOTO permanent resident of Baimho Village under Zunheboto District, Nagaland do hereby solemnly swear an oath and declare as under: 1. That I am the bonafide citizen of India, resident of the above mentioned address. 2. That my actual name is officially record and entered as S. KAHOLI YEPTHO in all official document. 3. That due to clerical error/mistake in my pan card, SBI Pass Book my name was inadvertently entered and recorded as KAHOLI SUMI respectively which should be written as S. KAHOLI YEPTHO. 4. That through this declaration I shall rectify the use of my name as S. KAHOLI YEPTHO for all official and legal process and in all proceedings. 5. That the above mentioned name refers to one and the same person. 6. That the statement made in para 1-5 are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing has been concealed herein.

Deponent

Solemnly affirm and declare on oath before Zunheboto on this day 19/11/2015 at Zunheboto, Nagaland.

1st Class magistrate, Zunheboto: Nagaland

also serve as a deterrent to other erring officials while discharging their duties," the report said.

The municipal officer had filed "concocted" FIRs against the Independent legislator and summoned him to appear before the Tura Police Station.

"Summoning a member to the police station without proper justification is a breach of privilege of the member. Issuing press statements against the elected legislator has crossed all limits of decency and shown contempt for his superiors and for the established rules and procedures which is highly unbecoming of an officer," the report stated.

On February 19, 2015, Zenithsky had filed a first information report against the Independent legislator accusing him of preventing and obstructing the enforcement staff of the Tura Municipal Board on official duty and inciting mob violence.

Newmai News Network Imphal | March 21

Manipur Governor Dr Najma Heptulla in her address on the first day of the threeday budget session of the State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday assured a bandh and blockade free state.

“My government is fully committed to establishing a pro-people government for the service and welfare of all the people of Manipur. Towards this end, my government will make efforts to ensure a bandh and blockade free Manipur and an unhindered all round development,” Dr Najma said.

She added special focus will be given on improving the current specialised skills of the state police force in tackling the present law and order in Manipur. “To address the issues of unemployment and insurgency faced by the state, my government will utilise resources of the state in creation of unemployment for the youth through skill

development and capacity building in both the organised and un-organised sectors,” she said.

The Governor was also thankful to the state police force for ensuring a peaceful assembly polls.

The BJP had stormed to power after the 11th Manipur State Assembly elections 2017.

Making policy statement during her speech in the House, Dr Najma said the state government was mulling providing free education to girl students up to graduate level.

The Governor further expressed her wish to maintain utmost transparency in implementation of the National Food Security Act in the state.

Chief Minister N Biren Singh tabled an interim budget meant for four months in the House. The budget estimate amounting to Rs 11,0484 crore is for 2017-18. The Plan Size of the state was fixed at Rs 5255.27 crore.

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IMPHAL, MARCH 21 (IANS): Manipur's only Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker T. Robindro Singh, who sided with the ruling BJP-led alliance during the trust vote on Monday, said he had taken the step with the permission of his party.

Singh said he was still with the TMC. "I am still with Trinamool Congress... This is state politics. There are some differences between central politics and state politics," Singh told television channel Star Ananda.

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Farmers-scientists interaction prog at Kandinu held Kohima, march 21 (mExN): Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Wokha and ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre conducted a day long training cum farmers-scientists interaction programme at Kandinu Station village of Kohima district on March 17.

Around 200 farmers, rural youth, farmer group leaders and village headmen and chairmen attended the programme.

Johny G Rengma, National Executive Member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the key person behind organising the programme, a press release informed. During his welcome address, he requested the agricultural scientists of ICAR and KVK

to educate the farmers in such a way that they can obtain their required food from their own area organically without hampering the natural resources.

Joint Director of ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland centre, Dr. DJ Rajkhowa in his address pointed out that the human population is increasing day by day but the cultivated area remains the same. Hence, the underlining challenges for the society are the production of good quality nutritious food, economic security of the rural community and maintenance of natural resources and environment for sustainable development of agriculture. He also stressed on the use of quality seeds and

planting material, timely sowing and early weeding, better nutrient management by recycling crop residue and weed biomass through composting and vermicomposting technique, adoption of integrated farming system (IFS), and judicious utilization of water for winter crops to make the farming more sustainable and self sufficient.

Meanwhile, Dr. Santosh Kumar Baishya, Senior Scientist and Head, KVK Wokha said KVK is a unique institute where basket of technological options are available for transferring into the farmers’ field for agricultural development. He also highlighted KVK activities like soil health card distribution, demonstra-

tion of rainwater harvesting structure (Jalkund), seed production, crop diversification, popularization of good quality breeds of pig and poultry, processing and value addition of fruits and vegetables and marketing of agriculture produce.

Dr. L.K. Baishya, Senior Scientist (Agronomy), ICAR Nagaland Centre mentioned that weed is the major problem observed during jhum cultivation and therefore 1/3 period of crop period should be free from weed. He also asked the farmers to plant a right crop (medicinal/ fruits) at right time at right place to restore forest diversity and environmental security.

Further, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Ray, SMS (Soil Science), KVK

Wokha explained about the present soil condition of Nagaland as well as Kandinu areas and the feasible management techniques of soil pH, soil primary, secondary and micro-nutrients organically.

He also talked about the negative impacts of salt application on soil and plant growth system and urged the farmers to avoid salt application and suggested some alternative weed management practices.

Joint Director, ICAR, Nagaland centre also distributed agri-inputs such as seeds of ridge gourd, bitter gourd, maize, cucumber, bhindi, French bean, rice bean and some weeding tools to the participating farmers.

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Speaking at the programme, the DC stated that the programme has been launched to create a platform for integrated land use planning and management, for sustainable management of jhum cultivation and its resources, for ecological and livelihood security through the integration and linkages of different stakeholders as ATMA, Agriculture and Allied Departments of KVKs, ICAR, SARs, universities etc., and to act as a technical advisory body in land use planning, resource management at district, block and village levels. He encouraged the ATMA team to play a vital role through interaction with the farmers, raising awareness, imparting skills and sharing experiences to promote community participation in environmental management, social and economic activities in the district.

Briefing on the roles and responsibilities of the JRMC, DFO Kohima, Yhunsenlo Kent said that, the main objective of the Committee is to promote crop diversification and building resilience for farmers to climate change and ensure food security, to protect and develop hill slopes of Jhum areas through soil and water conservation, to promote sustainable fallow management practices in Jhum areas, to coordination and felicitate linkages with local, national and international programmes, to provide a platform to share learning and experiences for an integrated approach of sustainable management on Jhum land and its resources etc.

(mExN): A one-day seminar on modern agriculture technology was organised by the Japukong Senso Senden on March 16 at Longchem Town in Mokokchung District. The seminar was sponsored by the Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland.

Dr. Benjongliba Aier, Parliamentary Secretary, CAWD & Taxes, who was the chief guest of the seminar emphasised on the importance of agriculture in Nagaland in the absence of industrialization in the State.

He said that the bulk of the rural population depends on the agriculture. However, in spite of modern agriculture technology, the rural farmers are reluctant to adopt the new technology but still adopting the methods of cultiva-

Kohima, march 21 (Dipr): The District Consultative Committee (DCC) Meeting of Kohima District was held on March 18 at DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima.

Chairing the meeting, Deputy Commissioner Kohima, Rajesh Soudararajan, IAS interacted and discussed on various issues with the bankers and district officials for activities and improvement with regard to the banking services. He further suggested the bank-

ers to conduct Financial Literacy Program in the rural areas to provide a platform for the beneficiaries to avail various schemes and to create awareness about the digital transactions. The DC also requested the bankers to expedite mobile and Aadhaar seeding on priority and asked them to achieve 100% seeding of Aadhaar and mobile number by 31st March 2017 and submit a report.

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who also shared his views and experiences said that NABARD has been extending support in conducting programs and added that Financial Literacy programs have been organised in 24 villages in the district for the benefit of villagers. He also urged the bankers and officials to make a target to help out the farmers in providing loans and other facilities.

Assistant Director, Food and Civil Supplies, Dr. Kapenlo Thong highlighted the

several issues faced by the villagers and requested the bankers to set up easily accessible area in Jakhama and Sechu-Zubza as an urgent need where villagers could come for transactions.

An annual brochure “Milestone” on Entrepreneurs journey, published by District Industries and Centre Kohima was also distributed in the meeting. Vote of thanks was pronounced by Chief Manager Lead Bank, Seikhohao Sitlhou.

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Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) carried out various activities in different districts of Nagaland recently.

35 Assam Rifles inaugurated the RCC water storage tank (5000 liters), which it constructed for the residents of Wakching village, on March 14.

A lecture was conducted by 9 Assam Rifles on lifestyle diseases, health and hygiene at Chizami village on March 15.

The lecture, organized with the help of Village Council Members at village community hall, saw medical representative discuss about various lifestyle diseases and preventive measures, informed a press release from Assam Rifles. He also threw light on basic health and hygiene practices which need to be implemented for healthy living. A total of 50 villagers attended the lecture.

In Jalukie, 36 Assam Rifles conducted an interaction session with ex-servicemen (ESM) of Army and Assam Rifles on March 14 with an aim to resolve problems faced by the ex-servicemen. The event was attended by eight ESM from Assam Rifles and Army. The participants, an AR press note said, expressed desire for regular updates on new schemes for ex-servicemen and their children.

Meanwhile, 15 Assam Rifles presented two computer sets along with printers to Government High School, Shamator on March 15. Colonel Vineet Jaiswal, Commandant, 15 Assam Rifles presented the computers to the principal and staff of the school in the presence of around 215 students.

44 Assam Rifles also organised a medical camp at Longmisa village in Mokokchung district on March 15. Assistant Commandant Jubin Henry, Medical Officer, 44 Assam Rifles and paramedical staff of 44 Assam Rifles treated 148 patients - 44 males, 74 females and 30 children - and distributed free medicines to them.

Locals from far flung area who are deprived of medical treatment also turned up for treatment, Assam Rifles informed.

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duction training of newly recruited group B and C employees under Dimapur district, the trainees were taken to Bade and Ura villages under Dhansiripar block on a day long field visit on March 18.

The trainees interacted with the members of Farmers Producers Association (FPA) at Bade village, where the Association’s members shared their experiences, activities, grievances and also highlighted the history of FPA. They also offered locally made banana chips and organic fruits to the trainees and the trainers. The participants were also taken to the field to see the banana and maize cultivation.

At Ura village, the trainees had fun by netting fishes in fishery ponds. The master trainers who accompanied the trainees included SDO Civil (team leader) Albert Ezung, District Education Officer Amongla, District Public Relations Officer Dimapur Lolano Patton and SDAO Dimapur Rhonjamo Kikon. The training, which began on March 14, will culminate on March 24.

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and sanitation, it added.

On March 16 in Pfutsero, 9 Assam Rifles conducted an interaction with 18 Village GBs and Council Chairmen of villages under Pfütsero sub-division. The interaction focused on local issues of health, education, employment and skill development towards furtherance of peace and harmony in Pfutsero region, stated a press note from AR. The village leaders shared their views and urged the AR to continue its efforts for development of the region, it added.

As part of Civic Action Project, the Assam Rifles Training Centre and School (ARTC&S) has provisioned a computer lab at Shokhuvi village in Dimapur. The computer ancillaries and furniture was handed over to the people of Shokhuvi village by Brig Gurjap Singh, Commandant, ARTC&S on March 17. The problem of non availability of a computer lab at the village was highlighted by the Chairman of Shokhuvi Village Council through an application to the ARTC&S, according to a press release.

Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters IGAR (N) continues to carry out civic action programmes in Nagaland.

On March 18, 32 Assam Rifles handed over the toilet block it had constructed for the people of Lengrijan in Dimapur. The toilet block will be beneficial to the community and will contribute towards improving hygiene and sanitation in the village, AR expressed in a press note.

32 Assam Rifles also installed solar street light at S Hetoye village, Niuland and handed over the same on March 17. The project, AR said, was undertaken on behest of the local populace to brighten the pitch dark area of the village and alleviate the problem of regular power supply.

Meanwhile, 36 Assam Rifles conducted a medical camp at Heunambe village of Peren district on March 16 with an aim to provide basic medical amenities to remote area of Heunambe and neighbouring villages. Medical staff of 36 Assam Rifles provided medicines and free treatment to 148 people - 53 males, 37 females and 58 children, Assam Rifles informed.

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Nagaland records zero human trafficking in 2016: Report Our Correspondent Kiphire | March 21

Dr. Temsula Ao, Chairperson of Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) today informed that in 2016 there was not a single record of human trafficking in Nagaland as per Nagaland Police source.

She believed people did not lodge complaints due to many societal compulsions. In this context, he asked a gathering in Kiphire to overcome the stigmas so the victims are awarded justice and perpetrators are punished.

The NSCW Chairperson was speaking at a legal awareness programme on human trafficking organized by the Commission at Zisaji Presidency College auditorium here, which was attended by the students, stakeholders, GBs and faculty of the college.

Dr. Temsula stressed that hiding incidents of human trafficking for fear of

Dr. Temsula Ao, Chairperson NSCW speaks at the legal awareness programme on human trafficking organized at Zisaji Presidency College in Kiphire on March 21. (Morung Photo)

social stigma or retaliation only enlarges the perpetrators’ trade and earning and put more people into miserable broken lives. She called upon the gathering and especially girls and parents not to hide. She

Meetings/AppointMents Peren Students’ Union election The Peren Students’ Union has convened its 55th general assembly cum election for the new tenure 2017-2019 at Peren Kipeujang village on March 25.

Therefore, all the bonafide members, former students’ leaders, elders and well wishers have been requested to attend the session positively.

HoDs in Zunheboto informed EAC Zunheboto, Kemciyile has informed all heads of departments that the induction training for the newly recruited Group B non gazetted and Group C state government employees under Zunheboto district is scheduled for March 27 at DC's conference hall, Zunheboto. Therefore, all the HoDs have been directed to nominate employees under their establishment to attend the induction training program before March 22.

also encouraged the gathering to pledge to join the fight against human trafficking so that it is eliminated by 2020 as envisaged by the world bodies.

Dr. Temsula highlighted that despite stringent

trafficking unit is set up in the police station attached to the women cell, but so far there has not been any complaint lodged from the day it was set up. However, the officer said, the law enforcing agencies are doing their best to assist the citizens if there is any issue related and also called upon the gathering not to shy away to pass information relating to human trafficking. She also disclosed that the law enforcing agencies across the district and the state are working hand in hand to tackle the issue and also appealed to give full co-operation to curb the menace.

Khriesenuo Kire, Legal Consultant, NSCW highlighted the provision in judiciary system relating to human trafficking. Asangla Cholong, member NSCW shared on the works of the NSCW. The programme was followed by interaction and discussion.

BJP Nagaland responds to NPCC Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nagaland state unit in response to the NPCC today maintained that BJP has memberships from all communities and religions, including Christians, and none are opposed to Christianity nor working against it.

Stating that BJP Nagaland and BJP (national) have nothing to do with the NPCC’s “obsession” of ‘trishul’, it clarified that the lotus, the party symbol, and not the ‘trishul’ is planted in the BJP Nagaland and in Nagaland for the last three terms of 14 years. “The NPCC should not use the trishul and lotus inter-alia according to its whims to hammer its weightless points,” stated a rejoinder from Jaangsillung Gonmei, General Secretary (Media) & Spokesperson, BJP Nagaland.

It also accused the NPCC of “dwelling on the religious lines to wash off its dirty linens for elections.” The “presumed

GST deadline: Taxes Commissioner asks dealers to enrol on or before March 31 Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): Commissioner of Taxes, Nagaland, Asangba Chuba Ao has informed that the last date for enrolment of dealers under Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been fixed for March 31 for the whole country.

In a press release today, he conveyed the information of CEO of Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) that the process of enrolling for GST will only be available upto the afore-

NPCC demands to cancel allocation of CMRDF Kohima, march 21 (mExN): NPCC today demanded that the entire process of Chief Minister’s Road Development Fund (CMRDF) allocation be cancelled and started afresh by giving equal distribution to all districts as per the laid down rules in transparent manner.

In a press statement, it declared the whole process of CMRDF allocation a “sham exercise” in addition to TR Zeliang putting his signature as Chief Minister on March 8, 2017.

Stating that the CMO Media Cell’s clarification “does not hold any substance”, NPCC Media Cell said the previous CM owes an apology to the people of Nagaland. “Blatant abuse of power has been exhibited starting with the beneficiaries of CMRDF,” it added.

As per the notification issued by the State Planning & Coordination Department, NPCC said, the Road Board is

laws and amendment passed from time to time, human trafficking, a global menace, has affected both the poorer and affluent nations. Traffickers, she said, have better network and are well organized than government institutes and “they play with human life like commodity in the market.”

She pointed out that human trafficking, which is a modern form of slavery, is increasing globally with 21 million people trapped in it, creating a profit of 150 billion dollars profit per annum for the perpetrators.

She called upon all to condemn it, which is a violation of human right. “Child, sex, labor, force marriage and organ trafficking are some of the types of trafficking,” she informed, adding government is taking various measures to combat the human trafficking.

Razulule, Addl SP Kiphire, who also spoke on the occasion, said anti human

‘BJP members not working against Christianity’

constituted with CM as Chairman to manage the CMRDF and proposals exceeding 50 lakh are not to be considered.

However, for Peren district two proposals amounting to Rs. 140 Lakhs for improvement of approach road to Saijang Rubber Farm to Innovative Construction and another Rs. 300 Lakhs for repair of hospital approach road at Jalukie Town to M/s HiTech Construction are listed, it highlighted. “Moreover, unequal distribution was evident with Peren district alone getting 3 projects amounting to Rs. 490 Lakhs out of Rs. 1250 Lakhs.”

Meanwhile, the Congress criticized TR Zeliang occupying the “unconstitutional post” of Advisor (Finance).

It also asked that Chief Minister Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu issue a public statement as to whether “he endorses the dual power centre since his deafening silence will not wish away the misuse of CM’s office.”

mentioned date.

Dealers failing to enroll themselves within this period may face deregistration under the current VAT law and have difficulties to register afresh for GST. This will affect smooth transaction of business under the GST regime which will likely come into effect from July 1, 2017, the release cautioned.

It was further informed that the Department of Taxes has set up facilitation centres in all its offic-

es across the state to assist dealers for enrolling in the GST portal with facilities such as computers with internet, scanners, printers as well as trained staff to assist in the enrolment process.

The dealers who have still not received their provisional IDs and passwords issued by GSTN are to log in to the state VAT portal using their current credentials or immediately contact their respective tax office and collect

the same. Those who have enrolled but have not submitted details should also do so within the timeframe using Aadhaar e-sign or Digital Signature Certificate, the Commissioner stated.

A helpdesk has also been set up with phone number 0124-4688999 for assistance and queries may be sent by email to helpdesk@gst.gov.in. More details may be found in the departmental website www.nagalandtax.nic.in

Normal weather condition: NSDMA Kohima, march 21 (mExN): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Home Department today said that recent weather condition across the state is nothing unusual but occurring “due to the withdrawal of the South West monsoon 2016.”

In a press statement issued in public interest by Comm. & Secy. to the Government of Nagaland Khrienuo Metha, NSDMA said that as per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) half hourly updates at 2PM on March 21, “The withdrawal of the South West monsoon 2016 is receding towards western disturbance over North Pakistan.”

As per the forecast of the IMD validating with the local weather stations of the NSDMA and Soil & Water Conservation Department, there will be clear weather up to March 25, it added.

MEx FILE RSZ to hoist Naga national flag today

Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): To impart basic field training required for the population census of elephants in Nagaland, one day state level training on ‘All India Synchronized Elephant Population Census 2017’ was conducted on March 21 at the conference hall of Forest Office Complex in Dimapur.

The training was conducted for the staffs under Intanki National Park, Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary, Tuensang Forest Division, Zunhe-

participated in the training.

The training, conducted by the Wildlife Wing of Nagaland, Department of Environment, Forest & Climate, Government of Nagaland, was sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India.

It was informed that the resource persons will also be imparting the basic field training to the staffs under Wokha Forest Division and Mokokchung Forest Division on March 22 and 23 respectively.

TsEmiNyu, march 21 (mExN): In commemoration of the 61 years of the “Naga independent flag hoisting day” at Parashen, the Rengma Selo Zi (youth organization) will on March 22 hoist the “Naga National flag” at the same place at 7:30 am. A press release from Press and Media Cell, RSZ informed that the first Naga independent flag of the then newly formed Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) was hoisted by Gen. Thungdi Chang (Commander-in-Chief) in the presence of AZ Phizo and other Naga patriots at Parashen in Rengma territory on March 22, 1956. Also known as Naga National Park, one can travel towards Parashen via Sendenyu through Sendenyu Bio Diversity Forest and via Phenshunyu through Whenha Memorial Sports Complex.

GPRN/NSCN, NSCN(R) cadres apprehended in Arunachal

AR apprehend NSCN (IM) Kilonser

Ko h i m a , m a r c h 2 1 (mExN): The Longding Battalion and Changlang Battalion under the aegis of DAO division apprehended one GPRN/ NSCN and two NSCN (R) cadres in Arunachal Pradesh’s Zedua village and Changlang Town respectively on March 20.

The Longding Battalion apprehended Khampai Wangsu of GPRN/NSCN with a pistol and live ammunition, Col C Konwer,

boto Forest Division and the staffs from the Wildlife Wing to be deputed for the elephant census activities, a press release informed.

Dr. Surendra Varma, Research Scientist from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Prof. Eishwar N. Mannay from BNMIT, Bangalore were the resource persons.

Caroline Angami, IFS (Wildlife Warden, Dimapur), Heneilung (Director, Intanki National Park), and Samom Khelen Singh, IFS (Wildlife Warden, Kiphire) also

PRO (Defence) said in a press release. The release added that Khampai admitted allegiance to GPRN/NSCN and further divulged he has been an active part of the group since October 2001 and received extensive weapons training for six months at its training camp in Nagaland.

Meanwhile, Kampong and Longkam Tunghang of NSCN (R) were apprehended by the Changlang Battalion. Kampong, accord-

ing to the PRO, revealed he was previously in NSCN (K) and defected to NSCN (R) in June 2015 and has been acting as its Revenue Secretary (Industries). Further, Longkam Tunghang confessed to joining the group in August 2016 and receiving extensive weapons training for three months at NSCN(R) training camp in Nagaland, the release added. “The duo was responsible for extortion activities in Changlang,” it alleged.

The resource person with participants at Nerhe Model Village on March 20.

He also spoke on few social security schemes like Atal Pension Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Suraksha Yojana (PMJSY) etc., which he said will secure the financial future of the family and also result in improvement

Naga issue as leverage for their electoral gains. Evidently, the non seriousness of the Congress on the Naga issue could be summed up in the terms of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 who committed to the Nagas at Dimapur local ground to talk on Naga issue without pre-condition if voted to power,” the rejoinder stated.

With regard to the allegation of EVM tampering, BJP responded, “it is faultless as substantiated by the Supreme Court and ECI and only losers complain.

However, improvements to continually assure its efficiency are being undertaken.”

Further, it was asserted that the BJP Nagaland is serious about bringing positive developments in the state at par with the rest of the country on the principles of “Sabke Saath, Sabke Vikas” or “Together with all, Development for all” and will not be deterred from the aim and purpose.

Training for population census of elephants in Nagaland

Significance of banking, maintaining family budget Kohima, march 21 (mExN): A Financial Literacy Programme was held on March 20 at Nerhe Model village and Teichüma village respectively organized

by Poorna Shakti Kendra in collaboration with Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB), NMDFC and SRCW supported under FIF, NABARD. J.K Shimray, Senior Branch Manager, Bank of Baroda, who was the resource person, shared the significance of banking and stressed on the importance of maintaining a family budget. He asked the womenfolk to maintain a proper household budget which will have a great impact on their financial lives.

Budgeting, Shimray stated, helps the family members to spend responsibly and be accounted for every penny spent, according to a press release.

fear” of the NPCC President, it added, “is only a pretension trying to harp on the peoples’ mind which would not materialize into anything fruitful.”

“If the NPCC President wants to feign so much concern for Christian welfare elsewhere, it should be noted that a Christian is not deterred by external threats... What is most important is to spiritually strengthen one’s own self and society with good works and actions which thus safeguards the believers,” the BJP added.

On Naga political issue, the BJP Nagaland told NPCC that till date in the post Independence era, the Congress had 8 Prime Ministers and ruled for 64 years while the BJP had 2 Prime Ministers for 8 years running. “Considering the long innings, there was not much of a Congress milestone in the six decades reflecting that the Congress leaders were not as serious as the BJP leaders but used

of the quality of life. The resource person further spoke on the Self Help Group and challenged the women to change their mentality of only relying on subsidy from the Government when they are blessed with all the available resources in the village. Citing examples of various successful stories of some SHGs in the country,

he said by providing fund to increase investment in agriculture to raise productivity will improve the quality of agricultural products and will ultimately increase farmers’ income.

Vekhwusalü Dawhuo, NSSWB, introduced the Joint Liability Group (JLG), which is a concept under National Bank for Agricul-

ture and Rural Development (NABARD) to provide institutional credit to small farmers. She briefed about its features and necessary requirement to form a Group and avail loan from the bank. She also spoke on the importance of digital payment and cited some of the benefits like keeping one aware of what

is happening in their bank account through the new cashless policy. Dawhuo also said that with the digital payment almost all the banking facilities can be availed through digital media from home and likewise people from the village can access same functions as urban people do.

Keduokhonuo Belho of 181 spoke on Women Hepline 181, One stop Center and Childine-1098. She shared on how the Women Helpline181 came into being and why the present society needs to be aware of the helpline. She also highlighted that these helpline numbers work 24/7 and are toll free.

Earlier, Ajabu Tungoe, District Coordinator, PSK, NSSWB chaired the programme and gave a brief introduction on the purpose of conducting the programme.

Kohima, march 21 (mExN): Troops of 41 Assam Rifles apprehended a Kilonser of NSCN (IM) with arms and ammunition during an operation launched along with police representative at D Khel, Kohima on March 18. The items seized from the apprehended person identified as N Kire (57) were one .22 mm Rifle, one .22 mm (GSG5) Rifle, one AK47, one magazine .32 mm, 87 live round of assorted ammunition and 10 fired cartridges, according to a press release from Assam Rifles. The individual was handed over to Kohima North Police Station along with the recovered arms and ammunition for further investigation.

Directive to vaccinate livestock Kohima, march 21 (mExN): Addl. Director of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services, Dr. Viral Yore has directed all the livestock and poultry farmers in the state to approach the nearest veterinary hospitals, dispensaries, health centres and veterinary farms to get their animals vaccinated for prevention of poultry and animal diseases like Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Block Quarter (BQ), Haemorrhegic Sepliceamic (HS), Enterotoxaemia (ETX), Classical Swine Fever (CSF), Canine Rabies and Poultry Disease like Ranikhet and Fowl Pox, Brucella Abortus Vaccine, Raksha PPR vaccine for Sheep & Goat etc. In a press release, the office informed that vaccines have been sufficiently procured under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme- Assistance to State for Control of Animal Diseases (ASCAD) for the year 2016-2017 and ready for implementation in Nagaland state. All the officers in-charge of the veterinary health centres and farms have been directed to keep vaccines ready without fail for convenience of the livestock and poultry farmers.

Govt Polytechnic Kohima informs Kohima, march 21 (mExN): The parents/guardians of the students of Government Polytechnic Kohima, Nagaland have been informed that they can now check their wards’ attendance report of each subject for the current academic session from the institute’s website (www.gpkkohima.org) with immediate effect.

This information was released by Principal, Er. Vipulhou Lhoungu.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express VOLUME XII ISSUE 78

By Dr. Asangba Tzüdir

The Right to Question

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he silence in the previous Nagaland Legislative Assembly sessions that had almost ‘nothing’ to discuss’ with sincerity and seriousness is a symptom of the process of ‘normalisation’ that dawned in under the banner of “Fide Non Armis” ‘opposition-less’ fold and it became the very means through which power was realized to their advantage and staged by way of enforcing the ‘will’ of the government contrary to the ‘will’ of the people and thereby privileging a selected few. This harmonious ‘normalisaton’ was finally disturbed bringing to life skeletons in the cupboard through ‘uncomfortable’ questions that demanded the ‘truth’ of the matter which happened right under their eyes, ears and nose.

The starred questions at NLA which was submitted to the Commissioner and Secretary by one MLA for which he was ‘allegedly’ threatened to withdraw, needs to be taken with much seriousness because the questions raises issues related to the functioning of the government, and for which the general public has a right to be informed and to know. The questions which were directed at various ministers that included School Education, Home, Health and Family Welfare, Food and Civil Supply, Roads and Bridges brings to fore the need to be democratically ‘accountable’ especially to those whom they govern. Good governance is all about transparency and accountability where every citizen of the state is given equal respect and concern for their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Sadly, the existing power structure in the government comes contrary to democratic ethos that includes values of justice, rights and equality.

The legislator in raising the questions has rightly exercised not only a democratic right but a unalienable right in context.

In an ‘opposition-less’ government it takes courage to raise such questions relating to ‘truth’ and accountability, and selflessly the right thing was responsibly done by the legislator because it concerns good governance and the overall welfare of the people. The truth therefore needs to be pursued further. In the exercise of a legitimate and democratic right to question, the questions put forward should not be left unanswered and hopefully these uncomfortable questions are taken up in the right spirit and earnest in the ongoing Assembly budget session. A greater responsibility not rests on the public to ensure that the truth is allowed to surface because these questions are not about creating propaganda but questions concerning rights and for the welfare of the people, and that as a responsible citizen, they have a right and an obligation to be well informed especially on matters of public importance and to carefully watch how their political leaders and representatives exercise their powers and then act upon accordingly.

A foundational aspect of democracy is the idea that government exists to secure the rights of the people and must be based on the “consent of the governed.” In this strain, these questions definitely serve as a litmus test for the government to go beyond the oral proclamation of good governance, accountability and transparency. The questions raised are solid and more solidified by the courageous effort. It may be uncomfortable especially for those privileged few but these are the right questions that can shake Nagaland towards a progressive change. Thus, addressing these questions in the right spirit is a way forward towards ensuring good governance that respects human rights; goes by the rule of law and one that calls for people’s participation towards ensuring a ‘qualified life.’

(Dr. Asangba Tzüdir contributes a weekly guest editorial to the Morung Express. Comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

LEFT WING |

IPS World Desk

Women and Girls, One Third of World’s Drug Users

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omen and girls comprise one-third of global drug users yet are only one-fifth of those receiving treatment, a UN-Backed independent expert body warned.

Citing a significant rise over the past year in the number of women dying from drug overdoses globally, the Viennabased International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) warned that women and girls comprise one-third of global drug users.

“Yet [they] are only one-fifth of those receiving treatment, as significant systemic, structural, social, cultural and personal barriers affect women’s ability to access substance abuse treatment.”

Further, they are also more likely to be prescribed narcotics and anti-anxiety medication than men, and are thus more likely to abuse these medications, according to the latest INCB report.

For example, Germany and Serbia have reported that fatal overdoses from prescription drugs are more frequent among women.

The UN-backed independent expert body, which monitors governments’ compliance with international drug control treaties, has called for the implementation of gender-sensitive drug policies and programmes.

Additionally, countries such as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have seen larger increases in overdoses, of all substances, among women than among men, it informs.

These are among the key findings in the 2016 Annual Report that the INCB launched on March 2, stressing that Governments should prioritise providing health care for drug-dependent women, in addition to more funding and coordination to prevent and treat drug abuse among women.

“We want to change perceptions and remind people, particularly policymakers, of the importance of protecting the rights of women who use drugs or who have committed drugrelated offences and the rights of their families,” said the organisation’s President, Werner Sipp.

The report also highlights the importance of targeting prevention programmes to specific populations, such as prisoners, pregnant women, people living with HIV/AIDS, and sex workers. It also notes that women prisoners and sex workers are at “particular risk” of drug use.

“Countries are also encouraged to seek alternatives to imprisonment for drug-related offences, such as treatment, rehabilitation and social integration.”

The INCB repeated its longstanding call for countries to abolish the death penalty for drug-related offences.

Among its other observations, it noted with “great concern” recent reports in some countries of the targeting of individuals suspected of involvement in drug-related activity, including drug use, who have been subjected to violent acts of reprisal and murder at the hands of law enforcement personnel and members of the civilian population.

In some instances, those acts have been committed with the express or tacit approval, or even encouragement, of political forces and, in many cases, have gone unpunished, said INCB. It also emphasised that it condemns such practices, including the extrajudicial targeting of persons suspected of drug use, “in the strongest possible terms,” and denounced them as a “serious violation of human rights […] and an affront to the most basic standards of human dignity.”

C O M M E N T A R Y

Christine Ahn Foreign Policy In Focus

War Is Not An Option for Korea

Attacking North Korea now would undermine the very reason U.S. troops have been stationed on the peninsula for seven decades: to protect the South Korean people

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et me be very clear: The policy of strategic patience has ended,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters at a news conference in Seoul, South Korea. “All options are on the table,” Tillerson continued, including “an appropriate response” to any North Korean threat.

The United States and North Korea are like two “accelerating trains coming toward each other,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned last week. North Korea test-fired four ballistic missiles off the coast of Japan as thousands of South Korean, Japanese, and U.S. troops, backed by warships and warplanes, are currently engaging in massive military exercises, including the deployment of the Navy SEALS that killed Osama Bin Laden.

With no communication other than military posturing, Pyongyang is left to interpret Washington’s maneuvers as preparation for a pre-emptive strike.

Given the political vacuum in South Korea following President Park Geunhye’s impeachment, all tracks are heading towards one destination: war.

At a Council of Foreign Relations discussion on March 13, Mary Beth Long, a former assistant secretary of defense, advocated for “aggressive movement” given the failure of the Obama administration’s strategic patience, which depended heavily on sanctions to further isolate and foment the collapse of the Kim Jong Un regime.

Yet as hawks call upon President Trump to deal with North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs through the use of force, they’re undermining the very reason the U.S. military has allegedly been stationed on the Korean peninsula for seven decades: to protect the South Korean people.

Although the fantasy of surgical strikes to topple brutal dictators has long intoxicated American military officials, they’ve been restrained by the sobering reality of such reckless action. In the 1990s, when President Bill Clinton considered a first strike on North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the Pentagon concluded that even limited action would claim a million lives in the first 24 hours — and this was well before Pyongyang possessed nuclear weapons.

President Obama, too, considered surgical strikes targeting Kim Jong Un and weapons sites. But as David Sanger reported in The New York Times, obtaining such timely intelligence was nearly impossible and “the risks of missing were tremendous, including renewed war on the Korean peninsula.” Any military action by Washington will undoubtedly trigger a

How to win a presidential election with the help of your personal sorcerer Sarah Khatry Himal Southasian

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aldivian domestic politics have made global headlines again, this time for censorship and black magic. A documentary about the personal sorcerer of Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen was banned in the Indian Ocean archipelago. The documentary, first aired on 5 February 2016 by the pro-opposition television channel RaajjeTV, features secretly recorded conversations between Yameen and Sri Lankan national Asela Wikramasinghe, prior to the 2013 presidential election.

Yameen can be heard discussing how to use black magic to remove his opponent, former President Mohamed Nasheed, by making him go “temporarily crazy” or taking his life. Yameen, in the recordings, ultimately rejects murder as an option, protesting, “But Asela, human life is so precious. So precious.”

Traditional Maldivian black magic practices, such as sihuru and fanditha, merge elements of animism and voodoo with Quranic verses and Islamic rituals. Yameen’s belief in fanditha has been long suspected. In August 2015, he abruptly ordered the rerouting of traffic around the main mosque and Islamic Centre in Malé, and the uprooting of two 20-year-old pine trees in Republic Square. At the same time, a monument in Sultan Park was also taken down. Rumours spread about how Yameen be-

counter-reaction from Pyongyang that could instantly kill a third of the South Korean population.

“North Korea will surely conduct a nuclear attack against South Korea and the U.S. by using all of its various methods of attack such as long-range artillery,” said Suh Choo-suk, a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses at a symposium in Tokyo earlier this month. “There is no South Korean leader who thinks the first strike by the U.S. is okay.”

Yet with the political vacuum in South Korea following Park Geunhye’s impeachment, the South Korean foreign minister Yun Byung-se appears to be following Washington’s hardline stance that “military deterrence would be one of the pillars.”

It may be the Park administration’s last-ditch effort to foment regime collapse before a more progressive administration reverses its hardline policy. The leading candidate to replace Park, Moon Jae-in, is poised to win the May 9 snap elections, barring any surprises. He has promised to visit Pyongyang before Washington, re-open the Kaesong Joint Industrial complex that Park closed last year, and re-consider the installation of THAAD, the U.S. missile defense system Washington deployed ahead of schedule before a progressive administration takes over the Blue House in Seoul. The deployment of THAAD has angered China, which views it as a U.S. surveillance

tool, and has dealt a blow to South Korea’s economy by boycotting many goods and services.

Perhaps that’s why the Trump administration is considering military action now. With a liberal proengagement president in South Korea, Washington will have to change its tune from beating the drums for war. Moon isn’t a novice either; he was chief of staff to Roh Moo-hyun, the last liberal South Korean president, who called for continuing the sunshine policy towards North Korea and renegotiating wartime operational control away from Washington into Seoul’s hands.

If the Trump administration is indeed planning a military first strike, it must consider the 28,500 U.S. soldiers and their families stationed in South Korea, not to mention the tens of thousands more in Okinawa and Guam, which are within striking distance of North Korean missiles. It will be their blood on his hands.

The feasibility of such pre-emptive strikes hinges, of course, on the accuracy of U.S. intelligence, which the global intelligence firm Stratfor believes is at best questionable. “Though the United States can be reasonably certain of its ability to destroy the nuclear infrastructure in a single strike, it would require an extremely accurate intelligence picture — far beyond what is likely — for Washington to be reasonably certain of having hit and destroyed all available

Black magic blackout

lieved Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) had laid a spell on the trees and monument to make him ill. The official explanation for rerouting traffic was that it would facilitate mass prayer sessions with 25,000 or more people at the Islamic Centre.

The Maldives is a country where the death penalty is rarely carried out, but the last person to be executed was Hakim Didi in 1953 for the crime of attempting to assassinate the president with black magic. While black magic, according to the penal code, is no longer explicitly a criminal offence on the islands, since November 2015 nearly a dozen alleged ‘sorcerers’ have been arrested. Police arrested a 66-year-old man on the island of Villingili in Gaafu Alif Atoll on 25 January 2016, and confiscated as evidence 90 of his books.

His daughter explained to Maldives Independent that the books taken were prayer books written in Arabic, which the Dhivehispeaking police had probably not been able to decipher.

The 2013 presidential elections in the Maldives made international headlines after coconuts with spells written upon them in Arabic were found near polling stations, purportedly to influence swing voters. One imposter coconut, found on Guraidhoo Island, was ‘detained’ until it had been judged harmless by a white magic practitioner.

In another instance, a courier charged with delivering five cursed coconuts hid them temporarily under his bed sheet, where his wife found them. She immediately reported them to the police, who confiscated the coconuts and refused to return them when the courier complained.

detention of cursed-until-proveninnocent coconuts was played in Western media mostly for laughs, though it did bring much-needed global scrutiny to a troubled electoral process.

The banned documentary, the latest addendum to the story, is a little less funny because it showed the lengths Yameen, the half-brother of Maldives’s former dictator, was willing to go to capture power. He eventually went on to win the 2013 election with 51 percent of the vote and soon had Nasheed, his opponent, convicted of terrorism in a sham trial. The UN condemned his detention and called for his immediate release. Following international pressure and the intervention of multiple Western governments, Nasheed was permitted to seek medical treatment in the UK in February 2016. But the court ruling that convicted him has not yet been overturned, clouding his future in the Maldives, should he decide to return.

However, Nasheed and the MDP have begun to stir things up, looking towards the 2018 election.

The MDP last week announced evidence of an USD 80 million (MVR 1233 million) embezzlement scandal with direct ties to Yameen, and documents implicating the state bank in industrial-scale money laundering.

Yameen’s private sorcerer Asela Wikramasinghe came forward not because of the MDP, but because the Yameen administration had delayed his payments for two months. But it was the MDP-aligned RaajjeTV that picked up and sensationally publicised his story through the documentary that is now under fire. The government justified the ban on the basis

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weapons and delivery vehicles.”

The prospect of war on the Korean peninsula is simply inconceivable.

My father’s entire family in Chuncheon, two hours northeast of Seoul, would be among the millions of Korean civilians instantly killed, not to mention all the innocent lives that would be killed in the crossfire. As U.S. intelligence estimates, a seemingly surgical military action could devolve into a regional war that could well draw in Japan, China, and Russia.

When considering the massive destruction of a U.S. military action, it’s clear to the sane and sober that military intervention is not an option. In this perilous hour, diplomacy and engagement should be the only consideration on the table.

Last week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a proposal: “As a first step, North Korea should suspend nuclear activity, and the U.S. and South Korea should also suspend large-scale military drills.” Calling on both sides to de-escalate and return to talks, Yi proposed a dual track of denuclearization and establishing a peace mechanism to resolve concerns of all parties.

Trump, who fashions himself a shrewd businessman, should know a good deal when he sees one — and take it.

Christine Ahn is the founder and international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing for peace in Korea.

that a repeat airing “would cause serious adverse impact on society”.

Black magic, censorship and other forms of state-supported political violence is an ongoing story in the Maldives. On 14 February, a RaajjeTV sports journalist was forcefully picked up from the broadcasting station, allegedly without a warrant, and questioned by the police before being let go a few hours later. While he was in custody, RaajjeTV tweeted: “We continue to live in an atmosphere of fear & uncertainty”.

One consequence of this use of black magic rituals in Maldivian politics is undeniable – it throws a temporary spotlight on the island nation. In recent weeks, while Nasheed has been on public platforms in the UK, the Maldives’s representation of itself as a tropical resort island for the very wealthy has become complicated. Stories of the current government’s corruption, concrete ties to terrorist organisations in West Asia, and the violations of due process in order to imprison opposition leaders is making headlines in Western news outlets. When global coverage is provided to the electioneering coconuts or a disgruntled personal sorcerer, the question is, does the media attention to such novelty ultimately benefit the democratic process in the Maldives? Or does it merely trivialise it, while human-rights violations and allegations of millions of dollars laundered through state institutions pass under the international radar?

Sarah Khatry is an intern at Himal Southasian. She is a Physics and English student at Dartmouth College. She is an editor of 40 Towns, a longform student magazine covering New Hampshire and Vermont.

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Budget Talk: Some basic jargons simplified Morung Express Feature

What is Budget?

Budget is an Annual financial statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Government for the financial year stipulated under the Article 112 of the Constitution in India. This statement is the annual financial statement. Till 2017, the budget was presented on the last working day of February by the Finance Minister of India in Parliament. Once passed by both the houses of parliament and approved by the President of India, the Budget comes into effect from April 1.

The period from April 1 of a particular year to March 31 next year is, thus, counted as the financial year in India.

All the state and union territories, more or less, follows the same pattern.

Why do we need Budget?

The Budget is formulated to optimally allocate the Government’s resources to different sectors and schemes, so that the broad objectives of the government could be achieved.

It presents government’s proposed revenues and expenditure for the coming financial year. It also determines how adequately the financial and resource management responsibilities have been discharged in the last financial year and ensures accountability of the Government to the Parliament or Assembly.

How Budget is categorised?

Budget is usually categorized into receipts and expenditure.

RECEIPTs are the income receipts of the government from all the sources in a particular financial year and further into are divided: a) Revenue receipts: Revenue receipts are those receipts, which neither create liability nor reduce

the assets of the Government. These include revenue received from taxes, cess, interest payments, dividend on investments etc. They are generally recurring in nature. b) Capital Receipts: Capital receipts are those which either create liability or reduce the assets of the Government. These include Government borrowings, disinvestment etc.

EXPENDITURES are the cost incurred on goods and services already received and paid for by the government in a particular finincial year and categorized in two ways: a) Revenue Expenditure: Expenditure that does not lead to creation of any assets or any reduction in existing liabilities of the government.

This includes Salary payments, Pensions, interest payments, other administrative expenditures etc. These are generally recurring in nature and deal with day-to-day administrative costs of the government. b) Capital Expenditure: This refers to the expenditure that leads to creation of assets or reduction in liabilities of the Government. Examples include infrastructure building, acquiring assets, repayment of loans etc.

Types: In simple words, when revenue and expenditure are equal, it is called a Balanced Budget. When anticipated expenditure is greater than revenues, it is called a Deficit Budget and when anticipated revenues exceed expenditure, it is a Surplus Budget.

Fiscal Deficit: When the government’s non-borrowed receipts fall short of its entire expenditure, it has to borrow money from the public to meet the shortfall. The excess of total expenditure over total no borrowed-receipts are called the fiscal deficit. Financing of

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What are Supplementary demands for grants?

Supplementary Demands for Grants are normally presented in each session of the Parliament when: a. Amount authorised during curWhat are the categories rent financial year is insufficient of Government Account? b. Need arises for additional expenThe Government account is catditure on existing service or exegorized into the following penditure on new service.

Consolidated Fund: Under Ar- c. For recouping Contingency find ticle 266(1) of the Constitution of advance India, Consolidated Fund of India is the most important of all govern- What are Revised Estimates? ment funds. All revenues raised by Revised Estimates are mid-year government, money borrowed and review of possible expenditure, taking receipts from loans given by govern- into account the trend of expenditure, ment flow into it. All government New Services and New Instrument of expenditures other than certain ex- Services etc. Revised Estimates are not ceptional items met from Contin- voted by the Parliament, and hence by gency Fund and Public Account are itself do not provide a35ny authority made from this account. No money for expenditure. Any additional projeccan be appropriated from the fund tions made in the Revised Estimates except in accordance with the law. need to be authorized for expenditure Contingency Fund: Any urgent through the Parliament’s approval or or unforeseen expenditure is met by Re-appropriation order. from this fund. It is constituted under Article 267 of the Constitution of What are Excess grants?

If the total expenditure under a India. It is a Rs.500cr fund which is Grant exceeds the provision allowed at the disposal of the President of Inthrough its original Grant and Supdia. Any expenditure from this fund plementary Grant, then, the excess requires subsequent approval from the Parliament and any amount requires regularization by obtaining withdrawn must be returned to the excess Grant from the Parliament Contingency Fund from the Consol- under Article 115 of the Constitution of India. It will have to go through idated Fund of India. the whole process as in the case of Public Account: Under provithe Annual Budget, i.e. through presions of Article 266(1) of the Constitusentation of Demands for Grants tion of India, Public Account is used and passing of Appropriation Bills. in relation to all the fund flows where Government is acting as a banker.

(Compiled with additional input Examples include Provident Funds from, “Citizen Guide to Budget,” and Small Savings. This money does Ministry of Finance, Government not belong to government but is to be of India. For additional info, check, returned to the depositors. The ex“Morung Classroom: Budget Talk” http://morungexpress.com/ penditure from this fund need not be morung-classroom-budget-talk/) approved by the Parliament. eral Budget, called Interim budget.

This is done because a new Government will be formed after the elections, which will then prepare a Budget for the rest of the financial year.

development through such measures ceeding two months. are called Deficit Financing.

What is meant by “charged" expenWhat is meant by the diture on the Consolidated Fund? term ‘Vote on Account’?

Charged expenditure includes the Since Parliament is not able emoluments of the President and the to vote the entire budget before salaries and allowances of the Chairthe commencement of the new fi- man and Deputy Chairman of Rajya nancial year, the necessity to keep Sabha and the Speaker and Deputy enough finance at the disposal of Speaker of Lok Sabha, Judges of SuGovernment in order to allow it to preme Court, Comptroller and Audirun the administration. A special tor General of India and certain other provision is, therefore, made for items specified in the Constitution of "Vote on Account" by which Govern- India under Article 112(3). Discussion ment obtains the Vote of Parliament in Lok Sabha on ‘charged’ expendifor a sum sufficient to incur expen- ture is permissible but such expendiditure on various items for a part of ture is not voted by the House. the year. Normally, the Vote on Account is taken for two months only. Can the budget be But during election year or when it is passed more than once in a year? anticipated that the main Demands Yes, Budget can be passed more and Appropriation Bill will take lon- than once in a year. During an elecger time than two months, the Vote tion year, the ruling government on Account may be for a period ex- presents a shorter version of the Gen-

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he University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education, on March 20, released on its website a list of 23 fake universities and 279 fake technical institutes across India. Delhi tops the list with 66 fake colleges while Telangana, Uttar et your dreams take flight' - with Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra also have a huge this tagline, Internshala, the internnumber of such institutes. ship and training platform has anAccording to the UGC, these institutes don't have the authority to grant degrees without its permission. nounced the launch of Online Summer Internship Fair (OSIF) 2017. With an aim List of fake universities by UGC: 1. Maithili University/Vishwavidyalaya, Darbhanga, Bihar to help students find their dream internships, 2. Commercial University Ltd., Daryaganj, Delhi Internshala has partnered with 15 globally ac3. United Nations University, Delhi claimed companies. To participate in OSIF 4. Vocational University, Delhi 2017, students can register at http://bit.ly/OSIF5. ADR-Centric Juridical University, New Delhi Morungfrom 20th March to 31st March.

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2. How much money does Nagaland spend annually on import of livestock? a) 120 crores b) 231 crores c) 355 crores d) 396 crores 3. Between 2013 to 2017, how many students dropped out or did not get enrolled in schools in Meghalaya? a) 90,789 b) 97,089 c) 98,079 d) 99,087 4. According to a recent United Nations report, India is ranked 122nd in the global list of happiest countries. Which country takes the top spot? a) Denmark b) Finland c) Norway d) Sweden 5. According to the All India Council for Technical Education, out of the eight lakh engineers graduating from technical institutions across the country every year, what percentage of graduates remain unemployed? a) 40% b) 50% c) 60% d) 70% This contest is open ONLY for students. Send in your answers to The Morung Express Office (address given below) or email to morunglearning@gmail.com or WhatsApp/SMS @ 7085976283 Answers to Quiz #51 – 1-d, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d, 5-a This Week Winner: Hendok Namdakly Errabill Colony, Dimapur Each week, one lucky winner will be given a prize of Rs. 500. The winner may collect the same from The Morung Express Office, H/No.4, Duncan Basti, Dimapur within two weeks. *Winner should bring along a valid ID to claim the prize.

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Are you Employable?

Education is not merely acquiring a degree. To be able to practically apply one’s learning correctly to the needs of one’s environment and job requirements is the other measure of success. Some major problems in Nagaland, identified by Amar Ranjan are the lack of practical knowledge, employability and life skills amongst job seekers. So while we may be complaining about the number of qualified unemployed youths in our society another important question we might want to ask ourselves instead is – Are you employable?

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ternship is tough and to get one with a leading brand, tougher. To demystify this myth and help students launch their career, Internshala has come up with this initiative. Internships allow students to gain insight into the corporate world even before they complete their graduation. College students get to solve real-world problems, build a network of professionals, put the theories into practice, and learn new skills through an internship experience. The opportunity to work with a leading brand would help their resumes to stand out from the competition. The handsome stipend is, of course, the additional benefit.

On the launch of the Online Summer Internship Fair, Sarvesh Agrawal, the founder & CEO, of Internshala said, "At Internshala, we have a mission to build a culture of meaningful internships in India and we hope to take this a step ahead through this initiative. Students have a lot of fire in them to prove themselves and work hard but are not able to find the right channel. A leading brand would give them a great platform and a holistic development. Also, students will be able to learn and work with the teams which built these brands."

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he strength of a state is dependent on the intellect and skills of its citizens. Without quality human capital, a state will be weak as there will be an insufficient human factor to take on new initiatives and challenges. Quality human capital comes from a quality education process.

A carefully designed and well planned educational system is critical in developing such human capital. The term “employability skills” is here referring to those skills required to acquire and retain a job. In the past, employability skills were considered to be primarily for vocational jobs; they did not include academic skills. Current thinking, however, has broadened the definition of employability skills to include not only many foundational academic skills but also a variety of attitudes and habits. These transferable skills include the ability to solve complex, multidisciplinary problems, work successfully in teams, exhibit effective oral and written communication skills, and practice good interpersonal skills.

As we go through local dailies, we come across similar statements being made by our local leaders, MLAs, and even our Governor when they visit educational institutions. They urge that educational institution should emphasize on skill development and add job oriented courses besides the general courses. Nagaland Governor Shri. P. B. Acharya, while addressing the gathering on the occasion of Tetso College’s, Scholastic Day 2017 programme, expressed serious concern over an everincreasing number of educated unem-

Amar Ranjan Dey, HoD - Commerce ployed youths in our state. He wondered if everyone was too engrossed with academic education, all the while neglecting the crucial aspect of equipping youths with practical knowledge and life skills. He also asserted that we need to develop work culture besides book knowledge; otherwise, our youth could be misused by any unwanted social evils prevailing around us.

So, the institutions of higher learning play a vital role and the teaching and learning processes in institutions of higher learning should provide such knowledge and skills to future graduates.

With the needs of modern man keep changing, it is education that helps him survive through difficult situations in life, earn a respectable living, and fulfil his dreams. A job and its associated benefits, such as a handsome pay package, perks such as a plush lifestyle and acclaimed social standing, is what drives the youth these days. But to attain this, some specific skills like entrepreneurship, communication skills, and use of tools and technologies are required, besides the basic academic and technical skills. It is important that educational institutions, specifically colleges, improve the employability of their graduates by focussing on reducing these important skill gaps through improvements in curriculum and teaching methods.

To meet these emerging skill requirements, many educational institutions are now collaborating with various technical and vocal training institutes. An article published in The Telegraph informed that the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, has in-

cubated the school of International Law & Diplomacy (SoILD) and the school of Public Policy & Governance (SoPPG). BA and MA programs offered at these schools have been conceived with the vision to groom young leaders ready to take up roles in set-ups as diverse as posts in the government sector, public service, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and businesses. Keeping in view the career aspirations of the new generation, UPES has embedded Civil Services Examination coaching along with the regular course curriculum for these B.A and M.A programs. UPES is the first private university in India to offer such an embedded test preparation component. Therefore, we should evoke similar thought process to impart such add-on courses beside the general academic courses.

Each institution should define the set of skills or courses a graduate ought to have during weekdays or after each examination. Besides, colleges need to change their teaching methods and go from being teacher-centric to studentcentric. More assignments for students should be included which will equip them to independently analyse and apply tools to real life problems. Studentcentered learning puts students’ interest first, acknowledging students’ voice as central to the learning experience. In a student-centered learning space, students choose what they want to learn, how they want to learn, and assess their own learning. This is in contrast to the traditional ’teacher-centered learning’ which situates the teacher as the pri-

marily “active” role while students take a more “passive”, receptive role. In a teacher-centered classroom, teachers and the concerned board or supervising university decides the curriculum and methods of evaluation. In contrast, studentcentered learning requires students to be active, responsible participants in their own learning and with their own pace of learning.

Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and practices that enable lifelong learning and independent problemsolving. In my opinion, only through such changes in the education system can we ensure that students become employable after leaving college. As a state where the unemployment crisis is rampant, we really need to scrutinize our priorities and re-evaluate the content being taught to our students. Is the very education being provided to them hampering their growth as individuals and potential employees?

While the traditional approach can be used as a reference point, education in the current scenario must depart from old methodologies and content. All of this will enable our youth to find the jobs they deserve, thereby improving the economy of Nagaland as well.

Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College. The editors are Dr. Hewasa Lorin, Anjan Behera, Dr. Salikyu Sangtam, Nivibo Yiki, and Kvulo Lorin. For feedback or comments please email: dot@tetsocollege.org.

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men more aware about HiV/aids, yet more affected

By Devanik Saha IndiaSpend/IANS

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en are more likely than women to have comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS; yet the disease is more prevalent among men, an analysis of government data shows.

The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4) takes comprehensive knowledge to mean knowledge regarding consistent use of a condom during every sexual intercourse. Nationwide, 21 per cent of women and 32 per cent of men have comprehensive knowledge of HIV/ AIDS, the survey showed.

Among other conclusions, the survey emphasised that mutually-exclusive relations with one partner can reduce one's chances of getting HIV/AIDS; a healthylooking person can have HIV/AIDS, so using a condom is a must for every sexual encounter; and Indians must reject common misconceptions about transmission or prevention of HIV/AIDS. Some such misconceptions include: Sharing food, cutlery, and clothes spreads AIDS; both partners have HIV, so no protection is needed; and you cannot have sex with an infected person without acquiring HIV/AIDS. In 31 of the 35 states and Union territories (UTs) surveyed, more men display comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS than women. Only in Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Puducherry and Daman and Diu was there greater awareness among women.

About 49 per cent of women in Punjab have comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the highest among all states.

The lowest figures are 9.3 per cent in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and 9.4 per cent in Assam.

Despite higher levels of awareness, men are more affected than women -both in absolute numbers and proportionally. Of the 2.1 million HIV/AIDS affected people across India, 1.26 million (60 per cent) are men, according to National AIDS Control Organisation's (NACO) India HIV Estimations Report 2015.

The HIV prevalence rate among adults nationwide is 0.26 per cent -- 0.30 per cent for men and 0.22 per cent for women. This puts the number of HIV cases in India behind only those in South Africa and Nigeria. Yet 56 per cent of infected Indians do not get the drugs they need.

However, the trend between the sexes seems to be reversing -- infections among men declined three per cent from 1.29 million in 2012 to 1.26 million in 2015, while infections among women rose 1.38 per cent from 0.84 million to 0.85 million over the same period.

Infection rates have been on the increase among women and infants in some states, especially in rural areas, for a while. One possible explanation of this rise is migration. There are an estimated 7.2 million migrant workers in India, of whom 0.99 per cent has HIV, according to a NACO estimate. Three in four women testing positive have a husband who is a migrant labourer, according to a 2014 report by UNAIDS India.

This trend may worsen with faster migration -- 2016 reported faster rural-to-urban migration due to a collapse in rural jobs.

Barring Daman and Diu, across 35

states and UTs, more men than women are aware that consistent condom use can reduce the chances of getting HIV/AIDS. Yet, over the eight years to 2016, the use of contraceptives has declined almost 35 per cent, as abortions and consumption of emergency pills -- both accompanied with health hazards and medical side-effects -doubled.

Social awkwardness, often induced by lack of privacy in stores, hinders condom use, a 2011 study among unmarried men from rural Madhya Pradesh showed.

A perceived link between masculinity and risky sexual behaviour also impacts condom use. Socially constructed masculinist ideals of "sexual conquest", experimentation and entitlement are major contributing factors to risky sexual behaviours which include unprotected sex and sex with multiple partners, according to a 2005 study conducted in Uttar Pradesh by University of North Carolina researchers.

However, the category "men" is heterogeneous -- it includes heterosexual and homosexual men, as well as men who have sex with men (MSM, regardless of whether they identify themselves as male or female). There are 0.43 million MSM in India, and 4.3% of them are living with HIV, according to NACO's 2015-16 annual report.

MSM, truck drivers, sex workers and injecting drug users are classified as vulnerable groups in India, although HIV/ AIDS prevalence in these groups has declined over the past few years, thanks to longstanding targeted interventions focusing on behaviour change and increased condom use.

HIV prevalence rate highest in Manipur, but Andhra Pradesh reports maximum cases At 1.15 per cent, Manipur has the highest estimated adult HIV prevalence rate, followed by Mizoram (0.8 per cent) and Nagaland (0.78 per cent). However, in absolute terms, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have the maximum number of cases (0.39 million) of people living with HIV, followed by Maharashtra (0.3 million) and Karnataka (0.19 million).

HIV prevalence at the national level has declined from an estimated peak of 0.38 per cent in 2001-03 to 0.26 per cent in 2015, which can be attributed to largescale implementation and high coverage of India's AIDS programme.

In October 2016, the Union cabinet approved amendments to the HIV-AIDS Bill 2014 to safeguard the rights of people living with AIDS or recently affected by HIV. According to the proposal, every HIVpositive or AIDS-affected person below the age of 18 years has the right to reside in a shared household and enjoy its facilities. The bill also prohibits any individual from publishing information or advocating feelings of hatred against HIV-positive persons and those living with them.

However, certain aspects of the bill have received criticism. For instance, it lacks clarity on whether the new bill contains provisions for free or complete treatment of patients, a longstanding concern for HIV-affected groups.

The bill only said state governments would provide HIV treatment "as far as possible" -- leaving much room for interpretation -- and patient groups have been demanding that this be changed.

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SC advises to settle dispute outside court

New Delhi, March 21 (PTi): The Supreme Court on Tuesday said fresh attempts must be made by all parties concerned to find a solution to the Ayodhya temple dispute which is a “sensitive” and “sentimental matter”.

A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said that such religious issues can be solved through negotiations and offered to mediate to arrive at an amicable settlement.

“These are issues of religion and sentiments. These are issues where all the parties can sit together and arrive at a consensual decision to end the dispute. All of you may sit together and hold a cordial meeting,” the bench also comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul said.

The observations came after Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy mentioned the matter seeking urgent hearing of the issue. Swamy said that it has been over six years and the matter needed to be heard at the earliest.

The Rajya Sabha MP told the court that he had approached the Muslim community members who told him that judicial intervention was required to solve the matter.

“You must make fresh attempts to arrive at a consensual decision. If required, you must choose a moderator to end the dispute. If the parties wants me to sit with mediators chosen by both the sides for negotiations, am ready to take up the task. Even the services of my brother judges can be availed for the purpose,” the CJI said.

The top court said that it may also appoint a principal negotiator if the parties want.

The bench then asked Swamy to consult the parties and inform it about the decision on March 31.

On February 26 last year, the apex court had allowed Swamy to intervene in the pending matters relating to the Ayodhya title dispute with his plea seeking construction of Ram temple at the site of the demolished disputed structure. The BJP leader had earlier moved the plea for

Devotees stand near graffiti which reads, "Hey Ram" on the premises of Pashupatinath Temple during the Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu. (REUTERS File Photo)

a direction to allow construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya at the disputed site and had mentioned it before a bench headed by the then Chief Justice T S Thakur for an urgent hearing. In his petition, Swamy had claimed that under the practices prevalent in Islamic countries, a mosque could be shifted to any other place for public purposes like constructing road, whereas a temple once constructed cannot be touched.

He had also sought directions to expedite the disposal of several petitions challenging the Allahabad high court verdict of three-way division of the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya on September 30, 2010. The BJP welcomed the Supreme Court’s suggestion and said aggrieved parties should keep in mind its ‘sensitivity’ while discussing the matter.

“The Supreme Court has called for an out-ofcourt settlement between the aggrieved parties. The parties should resolve the issue amicably by talking to each other.

“We welcome this step and I believe they should

have talks outside the court,” BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said in New Delhi. The party will study in detail the observations made by the apex court, which has said the issue is sensitive and sentimental and is related to faith of millions of people, he said.

BJP MP Vinay Katiyar also welcomed the Supreme Court’s view, saying there will be a ‘positive’ initiative now that the saffron party has a government in Uttar Pradesh.

Speaking to reporters, Katiyar added that the Yogi Adityanath government, which is barely two-dayold, should be given time to deal with the issue.

“It is a very good view that the Supreme Court has taken. Our party has a government in Uttar Pradesh.

Now, there will be a positive initiative, which was negative until now.

“I think the problem will be solved. But the government is just two-dayold. It should be given time to deal with the issue,” Katiyar told reporters.

Wondering that ‘if the Ram Temple is not built here, would it be built in Pakistan’, Union minister Giriraj Singh said, “All

(parties) should take the initiative now. Lord Ram is at the centre of faith of crores of Hindus. Muslims should also come forward, let there evolve a cordial atmosphere.” “Will the temple be built in Pakistan or Bangladesh, if not in India?

I am confident that the minorities will take the issue forward in a cordial manner,” he added.

Another Union minister Uma Bharti, who was associated with the Ram Janmabhoomi Andolan in the 1990s, insisted that the issue of ownership of the disputed site be settled through talks. She said whosoever owned the land should proffer it to Lord Ram as a ‘gift’.

“There can’t be a bigger gift than this...we should arrive at a solution which will be remembered for thousands of years,” she said.

Bharti also suggested that a ‘huge’ Ram temple be built at the site on the lines of the Somnath temple in Gujarat. The apex court said today that fresh attempts must be made by all the parties concerned to find a solution to the dispute which is a ‘sensitive and sentimental matter’.

RSS leader says issue

should be resolved at the earliest The Ayodhya issue should be resolved at the earliest and a temple built with the involvement of all Indians, a top Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader said. RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale said that the Hindutva outfit will support the decision taken by ‘Dharm Sansad’, which organised the Ram Janambhoomi movement.

"It (Ram temple issue) is to be decided by the Dharm Sansad as they are the people who organised the entire Ram Janambhoomi movement and the parties who went to the court.

"The RSS will not decide. The RSS will go by the Dharm Sansad’s decision.

The issue should be settled at the earliest and a grand temple should be erected through the involvement of all Indians,"Hosabale said.

RSS Prachar Pramukh Manmohan Vaidya said a Ram temple at Ayodhya should be built either through dialogue or through a legislation.

"Ram temple should be constructed either through a dialogue process or a legislation," he said.

63 million indians do not have Will auction Aamby Valley if you fail to access to clean drinking water deposit Rs 5,092 crore, SC warns Sahara New Delhi, March 21 (ageNcies):The warned the Sahara group on Tuesday that it would auction its Aamby Valley project in Pune worth Rs 39,000 crore if the company failed to keep its promise to deposit Rs 5,092 crore by April 17 with market regulator SEBI. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra also directed the international real estate firm, which showed willingness to buy Sahara’s stake in New York-based Plaza Hotel for $550 million, to deposit Rs 750 crore with SEBI in the refund account and not

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ndia has more people in rural areas–63.4 million–living without access to clean water than any other country, according to Wild Water, State of the World’s Water 2017, new report by WaterAid, a global advocacy group on water and sanitation.

That is more than the combined population of Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand. Compared globally, that is as many people as live in Australia, Sweden, Sri Lanka and Bulgaria–combined.

“With 27 out of 35 states and union territories in India disasterprone, the poorest and the most marginalised will bear the brunt of extreme weather events and climate change and will find it the hardest to adapt,” said V K Madhavan, chief executive , Water Aid India.

With 67% of India’s population living in rural areas and 7% of the rural population living without access to clean water, India’s rural poor are highly vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events and climate change.

The report was released to mark the World Water Day on March 22, and it warns of the implications that extreme weather events and climate change may have for the world’s poorest people.

16% of India’s rural families have piped water Only 26.9 million out of 167.8 million households (16%) in rural India have piped water, according to data provided by the ministry of drinking water and sanitation to the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) on February 6, 2017.

Of 1.7 million rural habitations provided drinking water under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, 1.3 million (77%) habitations are fully covered–defined as having at least 40 litres per capita per

day (LPCD)–that is nearly two standard buckets–of safe water; 330,086 (19.3%) habitations are partially covered (safe water is available but below 40 LPCD) and 64,094 (3.73%) are “water-quality affected habitations”– meaning those with contaminated water–in the rural areas as on March 15, 2017, according to this answer to the Rajya Sabha on March 20, 2017.

Iron, which is known to cause respiratory system haemorrhage when mixed with drinking water, according to the World Health Organization, was found in water supplied to 30% or 19,720 rural Indian habitations, according to an answer to the Lok Sabha on March 16, 2017. Arsenic, known to cause skin lesions and cancer, was found in the drinking water source of 21% of such habitations.

The goal: piped water for 90% of rural households by 2022 The government plans to provide 50% of all rural households with piped water and 35% of rural households with household taps by the end of 2017, according to the strategic plan for rural drinking water, 2011-2022.

The goal is to provide 90% rural households with piped water and 80% of rural households with household taps by 2022.

Water availability per capita has

been declining in India due to the increase in population.

The average annual per capita water availability in 2001 and 2011 was assessed at 1,820 cubic metre (m3) and 1,545 m3, respectively.

Over this period, India’s population rose 17.6%, from 1.02 billion to 1.21 billion. The water available may decline to 1,341 m3 and 1,140 m3 by 2025 and 2050, respectively, according to this 2013 report by the ministry of environment and climate change, indicating the widening gap between demand and availability of water.

Scanty rain directly affects water availability. Water levels at 91 major reservoirs were at the lowest in a decade to 2016 because of a nationwide drought, IndiaSpend reported on March 22, 2016.

“With the per capita availability of water continuing to decline, the nation hurtles towards water scarcity,” the environment ministry’s report said. “Climate change, which might bring in its wake increased temporal and spatial variation in availability of water, is likely to exacerbate the water situation.”

“Along with access to safe water, it is critical that communities have the necessary tools, infrastructure and preparedness to deal with the effects of extreme weather events and climate change,” said Water Aid’s Madhavan.

the apex court registry as it suggested.

The amount should be deposited to show its bonafide, the court told the company’s counsel.

“We will auction your (Sahara) Aamby Valley project if the money is not deposited within the stipulated time period as promised,” the bench, also comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and AK Sikri, told the company counsel.

The SC has already directed attachment of Sahara’s prime property for realisation of money to be paid to its investors.

The top court had also asked the group to provide a list of “unencumbered properties” that can be put for public auction to realise the balance of Rs 14,000 crore that Sahara owes to the public after its financial schemes were declared illegal.

Sahara boss Subrata Roy was granted parole on May 6 last year to attend the funeral of his mother. He walked out of jail two years after he was sent to Tihar for allegedly evading the top court’s summons requiring his personal presence. His parole has been extended from time to time.

Now, Aadhaar a must to file income tax returns and apply for PAN card

New Delhi, March 21 (ageNcies): The government decided on Tuesday to lower the legal limit on cash transaction from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 2 lakh, and make Aadhaar number mandatory for filing income tax returns and while applying for a PAN card through amendments to the finance bill.

The amendments specified that failing to provide Aadhaar will lead to the PAN becoming invalid.

The Budget 2017 had proposed cash transactions of more than Rs 3 lakh value be banned but the finance bill tabled on Tuesday lowers the ceiling, said revenue secretary, Hasmukh Adhia.

“The difference between demonetisation and this is that the former is used to destroy the stock of black money while the ban will prevent the future flow of black money. If you cannot transact beyond a limit in cash, where will you use your black money? This limit will also reduce the

quantum of cash transactions in the economy” Adhia had told HT. And to ensure that this law acts as a deterrent, the penalty for violation is equivalent to the amount transacted.

The finance bill also makes Aadhaar must for tax returns and PAN applications beginning July 1. Sources suggest that having an Aadhaar enrolment number while filing ITR could also be accepted.

The move is likely to roil activists who say the Aadhaar programme – the enrolment to a national database with biometric information such as fingerprints and iris scans – is meant to be voluntary, as declared by the Supreme Court in September last year.

“Aadhaar has been optional for ITR for the past few years. The challenge will be for foreign nationals who pay taxes in India. We will have to see the amendment to understand its implications,” said Kuldip Kumar, leader, personal tax at PwC India.

The amendment also specifies

that the government will notify those who are exempted from this law.

The finance bill carries an unprecedented 40 amendments, according to PTI, and will also impact other laws such as RBI act and representation of people act. Political parties hit out at the tweaks, saying they were being done as ‘backdoor entry’.

The finance bill is classified as a money bill, which does not require bicameral approval and can be approved by the Lok Sabha alone where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP has a majority.

The Budget presented in February proposed a Rs 3-lakh limit on cash transactions, in keeping with recommendations of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money.

In addition to this limit, the Income Tax Act prohibits making or accepting payment of an advance of Rs 20,000 or more in cash for purchase of immovable property. PAN is also mandatory for any purchase of above Rs1 lakh.

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FBI head confirms Russia election probe, says Moscow backed Trump

WASHINGTON, MArcH 21 (reuTerS): FBI Director James Comey on Monday confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 U.S. election.

Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, made clear that their investigation of Moscow and November’s U.S. elections could last for months.

Appearing before a congressional panel, Comey also publicly challenged Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his 2016 campaign headquarters in Manhattan’s Trump Tower.

The two officials spent 5-1/2 hours before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee in testimony marked by starkly partisan divides between the panel’s majority Republicans and Democrats.

Comey refused to back away from his claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not simply want Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to lose the election; he wanted Donald Trump to win.

Trump created a controversy in early March

FBI Director James Comey (L) and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers take their seats at a House Intelligence Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 20. (REUTERS Photo)

when he tweeted without giving evidence that Obama had wiretapped his campaign while the businessman competed against Clinton.

“With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets,” Comey said.

Leon Panetta, a former U.S. defence secretary and

CIA director during the Obama administration, said in an interview that Trump should “acknowledge that he made a mistake, apologise to President Obama.”

The committee is one of several in the U.S. Congress investigating whether Russia tried to influence the election, mostly by hacking Democratic operatives’ emails and releasing embarrassing information.

Russia denies the allegations.

Comey confirmed the FBI has been investigating since July possible Russian efforts to interfere in the election, including any cooperation between Trump’s campaign and Moscow. He said that while the Russian government wanted to hurt Clinton’s campaign and help Trump’s, intelligence agencies made no judgement

on whether the efforts influenced the outcome.

Comey gave no details of the classified investigation and said the fact that it exists does not mean charges would be filed.

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia tried to help Trump by hacking leading Democrats.

PUTIN’S PREFERENCE “I think that was a fairly

easy judgement for the (intelligence) community,” he said. “Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much.”

Asked about Comey, White House spokesman Sean Spicer read a series of quotes from officials - some from the Obama administration - who have said they have seen no signs of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

In a tweet before the hearing, Trump wrote: “The Democrats made up and pushed the Russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign.”

Spicer said he was unaware of any White House official being under investigation by the FBI. Trump has frequently urged better relations with Russia, which has been at odds with the United States over Ukraine and the Syrian civil war.

Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, detailed activities

by Trump associates with ties to Russia, including former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, who was forced out as Trump’s national security adviser after talking to the Russian ambassador

and then misrepresenting the conversation to Vice President Mike Pence.

“Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and nothing more than an entirely unhappy coincidence? Yes, it is possible,” Schiff said. “But it is also possible, maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected and not unrelated.”

NO ‘PHYSICAL’ WIRETAP Trump’s March 4 tweet about wiretapping pulled attention away from the claims of Russian election interference. He issued his tweet two days after Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who met with Russia’s U.S. ambassador at least twice last year, said he would recuse himself from any investigation of the matter.

The White House has contended in recent days that Trump’s claim of wiretapping referred to general surveillance of the campaign. The White House has not provided evidence of surveillance of any kind.

“Let me be clear: We know there was not a physical wiretap on Trump Tower. However, it’s still possible that other surveillance activities were used against President Trump and his associates,” said Representative Devin Nunes, the

committee’s Republican chairman.

Last week, Trump’s spokesman cited a media report that British intelligence was behind the surveillance, prompting ridicule in London.

Rogers said the allegation had strained relations with London. “I think it clearly frustrates a key ally of ours,” Rogers said.

Comey warned that Russia would attempt to influence the next U.S. presidential election in 2020 and perhaps congressional elections next year.

“They’ll be back in 2020.

They may be back in 2018.

And one of the lessons they may draw from this is that they were successful because they introduced chaos and division and discord and sowed doubt about the nature of this amazing country of ours and our democratic process,” he said.

Clinton’s fellow Democrats feel Comey played an inappropriate role in the 2016 presidential contest by issuing a statement shortly before Election Day reviving an investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server. Then, just two days before the election, Comey announced the FBI was sticking by a decision made months earlier that no criminal charges were warranted.

US bans electronics on flights from 8 Muslim countries Sourth Korea’s Park apologises, promises cooperation in graft probe SeOuL, MArcH 21 (reuTerS): Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologised to the country on Tuesday as she arrived at prosecutors’ offices for questioning as a criminal suspect in a widening corruption investigation that has already cost her the presidency.

Park, 65, became South Korea’s first democratically elected president to be removed from office when the Constitutional Court, on March 10, upheld her impeachment by parliament in December. She has been accused of colluding with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure big businesses to donate to two foundations that backed her policy initiatives. Park and Choi have both denied wrongdoing.

“I am sorry to the people. I will faithfully cooperate with questioning,” Park said in front of media at the steps of the prosecutors’ office building, her first comments directly to the public since she was dismissed.

Park has not been charged but could face more than 10 years in jail if convicted of receiving bribes from bosses of big conglomerates, including Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee, in return for favours.

Park’s fate and the widening corruption investigation have gripped the country at a time of rising tension with North Korea and China. Hundreds of Park’s flag-waving supporters gathered outside her home in Seoul’s upmarket Gangnam district to see her off, and later gathered outside the prosecution office.

Television cameras followed her as she was driven in a black sedan to the office, a few minutes away from her home, escorted by police who cleared the road.

Earlier, media saw Park’s hairdresser arriving at her home. She was dressed in a dark navy coat and trouser suit with grey shoes, and looked sombre as she stood to deliver her brief remarks.

‘EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW’ Park, who was accompanied by two of her lawyers, was given tea before going in for her first session

of questioning by two prosecutors and an investigation official, prosecutors said in a statement. One of her lawyers, Yoo Yeong-ha, is known as her “Bulletproof Vest” and has been her legal voice since the beginning of the scandal in October.

Park declined to have her questioning recorded by video camera, prosecutors said. She had a lunch break after less than three hours of questioning some seaweed rice rolls and a sandwich - one of her lawyers said. The questioning is expected to last late into the night and another of her lawyers, Sohn Bumkyu, told a television channel Park would choose whether it would go be-

yond midnight.

Park had practised answers to certain questions with her lawyers, Sohn said, adding that Park’s health was not at its best. “She is receiving check-ups between questioning sessions as her health isn’t looking well,” said Sohn. The scandal has undermined support for Park’s conservative ruling party. A prominent liberal opposition politician, Moon Jae-in, is leading in opinion polls and is expected to win a snap presidential election on May 9.

Park’s supporters and opponents have held rival protests in the capital, Seoul, for months but police have managed to keep them apart and no serious violence has broken out

between them. A spokesman for Moon, asked about Park’s questioning, said uncovering the truth would help to heal divisions.

“We want former President Park to tell the truth and ask for forgiveness.

All are equal before the law,” said the spokesman, Park Kwang-on. “Finding the truth is a first step for the unity of the people.” A senior official from Park’s party urged prosecutors not to be swayed by public opinion but to find the truth and give Park the cordial treatment a former president deserved.

“Everyone, not only me, is feeling miserable and distressed,” the party leader in parliament, Chung Wootaik, told a meeting.

WASHINGTON, MArcH 21 (IANS): Passengers travelling to the US from eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa will be prohibited from carrying electronic devices in the cabin, according to new security restrictions by US President Donald Trump’s administration.

Passengers will have to check in any devices bigger than a smartphone, including iPads, Kindles and laptops before clearing security or boarding, US officials said, citing terrorism concerns, CNN reported on Tuesday.

The ban will affect over 50 flights from 10 airports, including major global hubs like Dubai and Istanbul, according to senior administration officials. Crew

members are not included in the device ban.

Officials said the airlines affected by the ban will have 96 hours to comply with the restrictions.

Carriers that fail to follow them risk losing their authorisation to operate in the US. The airlines affected are Egyptair, Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, Kuwait Airways, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines and Turkish Airlines.

The 10 international airports covered by the ban are in Cairo (Egypt),

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The method of submission of tender, amounts of Earnest Money/Security Deposit and General Terms and Conditions applicable to contract has been mentioned in Annexure-I. The proforma for submission of tender has been given in Annexure-II (for technical bid) and Annexure-III (for financial bid). Tender documents can be collected from O/O Director Postal Services, Nagaland Division (Kohima Head Office complex) on any working days.

The schedule of Tender is given as under :Schedule of Tender:(i) Tender No : D-1/DPS Office/Shifting-I (ii) Cost of Tender (iii) Last date and time of receipt of tender (iv) Amount of Earnest Money Deposit as per clause-3 of Annexure-I (v) Date and time of opening of Tender

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Initially, US officials declined to comment on the report, saying only that they would provide an update “when appropriate”, said the report. Royal Jordanian Airlines told passengers that medical devices were still allowed.

The US officials said intelligence “indicates terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation” by “smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items”.

“Just evaluating all the intelligence, we believe that the threat is still prominent against aircraft and airports,” an official said.

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Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE), Istanbul (Turkey), Doha (Qatar), Amman (Jordan), Kuwait City, Casablanca (Morocco), Jeddah and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Officials said the airports were selected based on the “current threat picture”.

The officials said US carriers are not affected because none of them fly from the airports in question to the US. Word of the ban was first made public Monday afternoon -- not by US administration officials, but in a tweet sent out by Royal Jordanian Airlines, reported the Washington Post.

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Training on forest fire risk mitigation underway

Kohima, march 21 (mExN): Training on ‘forest fire risk mitigation and emergency response’ is underway in Administrative Training Institute, Kohima, jointly organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi and ATI, Nagaland.

The inaugural programme was graced by Lithrongla G. Chishi, IAS, Secretary to the Government of Nagaland Cooperation Department and Director ATI as the guest of honour. Topics that are to be taken up in this three days Program are, “Disas-

ter Management Concept and Framework”, “Ecological aspect of Forest Fire Risk ManagementIntegration with holistic framework”, Role of Geo-Informatics for predicting forest fire- Forest fire risk modeling”, Forest fire alert system and Pre-warning”, “Climate Change and Forest Fire”, NDRF roles in Forest Fire preparedness and Emergency response based on Uttarkhan forest fire 2016”, “Community participation in forest fire Management” etc.

The resource persons for the

programme are, Dr. Anil. K. Gupta, NIDM, Dr. A. D. Kaushik, NIDM, Sh. Bhupendra Mehar, Dy. Commandant, NDRF, Johny Rongmai, NSDMA, Jonjibemo, NSDMA and Dr. Hovithal Sothu, ATI. ATI in a press release stated that total of 43 officials from Administration, Forest Department, Home Guards and Civil Defence and Fire and Emergency Services are participating in the program. The programme is jointly directed by Dr. A. D. Kaushik, NIDM and Dr. Hovithal Sothu, ATI, Nagaland.

‘Energy Efficient Peren’ scheme at Jalukie B village The YouthNet team with other delegates at the Acumen Global Gathering held in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): As part of the Acumen Global Gathering which is held in Nairobi, Kenya, YouthNet conducted development workshop. Young impact leaders, organizations and Funders from across 32 countries attended and participated in workshops and sessions.

Some speakers included Chris Anderso, Founder- Ted Talks, Ned Tuzon, CEO- D. light, GE Africa, CEO MasterCard, Royal Dutch shell, Africa Lead - Ford Foundation, and more. The gathering brought 400 people which included funders, impact leaders, CEO’s and orga-

nizations that work on social impact.

A press release from YouthNet informed that in partnership with Godrej CSR, YouthNet conducted a workshop on development by Lezo Putsure, Director YouthNet. The topic focused on how organizations need to look deeper into the root causes of the problems rather than bringing quick fix solutions.

The after effects of development and how these must be human centric designed by building systems without which development can also lead to loss of identity, culture,

ecology and exploitation.

Designed to stimulate intellects, forge relationships and challenge assumptions, the Acumen Global gathering brought together the experience and wisdom from some of today’s most dynamic and creative entrepreneurs and emerging leaders with select partners and leaders from business and civil society with the goal of building and strengthening a diverse global network committed to solving the toughest issues of our time.

The three-day journey included specific talks focused on where markets succeed

and fail to bring critical goods to the poor, partnerships, key lessons around specific sectors (energy, agriculture, water), fighting corruption, crossing lines of difference, building businesses for the poor in post-conflict zones, and more. It also included a fair amount of values-driven work, a mix of storytelling, adaptive leadership exercises and “Good Society” discussion sessions.

Nagaland was represented by Acumen Fellows Lezo Putsure and Shiroy Lily Shaiza, Program Manager of Entrepreneurs Associates.

pErEN, march 21 (Dipr): The District administration Peren in collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Service Limited (EESL), a public sector undertaking of Government of India, launched the ‘Energy Efficient Peren’ under UJALA scheme at Jalukie B village on March 17.

D C Peren, Zarenthung Ezung speaking as the chief guest on the occasion stressed that the power problem plaguing the district due to constant breakdown of transformer can be avoided with the use of energy efficient LED Bulb and Tube light. This in turn will drastically reduce the electricity bill of the consumer. He highlighted that with the expansion of Ja-

lukie town, there is a rapid rise in the populace with maximum energy consumption in these areas and as such, the use of LED bulbs and Tube light has become inevitable. The village, due to its close proximity with the town faces high energy consumption and hence the scheme was launched for the first time to effectively reduce consumption especially in the valley. ‘Energy Efficient Peren’ was undertaken with the vision that all villages under Peren district would receive 100% power coverage under the UJALA scheme.

The DC expressed hope that the scheme would have a positive impact on climate change which is the need of the hour,

and also solicited full co-operation of the village functionaries for effective implementation of the scheme. Further, the DC asserted that two to three far flung villages under Peren district would be adopted under this scheme, where free distribution of LED bulbs will be done in the selected villages.

The programme was chaired

by SDO (C) Peren, D.Robin, while vote of thanks was pronounced by SDO (C) Jalukie, Roshietho Ngouri and short speech by Namki Chairman Jalukie B village. The programme was attended by the village council members, Jalukie Valley Youth Organization, Student bodies and the public of the area.

C-Edge and Tetso colleges Farmers Scientist Interaction at Rusoma and Tuophema held participate in NE NSS festival

Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): NSS volunteers of C-Edge College Dimapur along with College NSS Program Officer, PP Dukpa participated in the 15th North East NSS Festival in Arunachal Pradesh from March 6 to 10 at Don Bosco College Itanagar. The theme of the festival was ‘Ek Bharath ,Shreshta Bharath’.

A press note informed

that C-Edge College NSS volunteers along with Tetso College NSS volunteers represented Nagaland, showcasing the rich culture of Nagaland through traditional dance and folk song and also learning the cultures of other North Eastern States.

It was a rich learning experience with various speakers and resource persons who spoke on various

relevant fields for the NSS Volunteers. The volunteers had a chance to visit Jawaharal Nehru Museum and the Buddhist Monastery in Itanagar. Some of the Volunteers donated blood in the festival.

C-Edge College NSS has meanwhile acknowledged State NSS Officer, C Theyo for the opportunity to be a part of the Festival.

Healthy lifestyle camp held

Kohima, march 21 (mExN): Kohima ATMA team along with KVK Tesophenyu organised a Farmers Scientist Interaction at Rusoma and Tuophema Village under Kohima district on March 14.

During the interaction, KVK scientist Micheal Pienyü, Plant Pathology and Zhiete, Soil Science suggested the use of Neem oil to control pest and disease outbreak such as leaf curl disease of citrus. It was also learned from the farm school teacher, Lhoutsolie of Touphema village that there are total number of 2000 orange plants in the orchard and bearing of oranges and harvesting have commenced since the 4th years of planting. He also highlighted about the im-

Farmers interact with scientist during the programme held at Rusoma and Tuophema Village under Kohima district on March 14.

portance of Bordeaux paste The importance of clipping of the plant and to maxito protect the plants from the water sprouts branches mize the bearing capacity diseases in Orchard farm. to promote healthy growth of the plants was highlight-

ed along with demonstration and the farmers were encouraged to go for Half Moon terracing in order to control soil erosion.

The team also visited the FIG Medze krotho at Rusoma which was formed in 2016. The FIG consist of 12 members undertaking various crop and vegetable cultivations such as potato, maize, leek, ginger and other seasonal crops.

During the interaction the ill-effects of DDT usage was explained in detail. Use of bio fertilizer was encouraged. In regard to the new upcoming government policies the KVK scientists highlighted about gender mainstreaming that focus to promote and improve the women condition in agriculture.

Observation home for children in Tuensang TuENsaNg, march 21 (Dipr): Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, Alem Jongshi inaugurated Observation Home at Tuensang on March 21.

Speaking on the occasion as the chief guest, the DC appreciated the Social Welfare Department for taking the initiative in opening the much needed the observation home for children. He added that with the rise juvenile delinquency or juvenile The medical team with others during the healthy lifestyle camp held at Niuland PHC on crime the observation home should a correction March 18.

Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): NPCDCS, NCD Clinic Dimapur organised healthy lifestyle camp on March 18 at Niuland PHC to screen Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) for early detection, control and treatment of these diseases.

The common non communicable diseases are diabetes, hypertension, stroke, cardiovascular diseases and cancer which are the result of tobacco use, sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy food habits. Early detection is crucial for treatment of these NCD diseases, stated a press release.

The healthy lifestyle camp was lead by Dr. Temsusashi, Senior Specialist cum Nodal Officer NCD Clinic Dimapur and assisted by medical officers and staff under Niuland PHC and Doctors from Dimapur. Beneficiaries who availed the services during the camp were screened for Diabetes, BP, Stroke cases etc along with other general OPD check up. About 200 patients were screened and given free medicines along with leaflets on awareness and prevention of these diseases.

Dr. Temsusashi ad-

vised patients on the danger of tobacco use and also informed beneficiaries that these common non communicable diseases can be easily prevented by changing our lifestyle, being physically active and reducing intake of unhealthy food habits. The beneficiaries were also informed on the resources and services available in our District for further checkups and for future references.

Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi, Chief Medical Officer Dimapur along with staff also visited the camp for monitoring and supervision.

Centre for juvenile in conflict with law. Referring to the rise of drug menace among children, he called upon the civil societies to come forward and support those children. He requested the Department to provide facilities to the Observation so as to create a homely atmosphere for children stay.

Additional Secretary Social Welfare and Society Director SCPS, Z. Nyusietho Nyuthe in his keynote address spoke about the aims of the observation

home and the Constitution provided Child Rights.

He added that observation home is aimed at providing protection and care for children who are in need and in conflict of law.

Pastor ABC Tuensang, Moatoshi Longkumer said the invocation prayer, DCPO Tuensang, N.S Khaikho proposed the welcome address and vote of thanks was pronounced by Richard Thong. A special number Chief Minister of Nagaland, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu calling was presented by Kodhi on the Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya at Raj Bhavan on Children Home.

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Nagaland govt employees under Mkg undergo training

SBCK youth dept conducts evangelistic camp

Dimapur, march 21 (mExN): SBCK Youth Department conducted four days evangelistic camp at Hokhezhe Farm, Niuland Dimapur from March 15 to 18 on the theme ‘Rooted and Build’.

Rev. Aheto Sema, Secretary, Dept of Youth Ministry, WSBAK was the main speaker for the camp. The Reverend urged the youths to strengthened one’s faith as one have been taught and overflow with thankfulness.

A press note stated that

the camp is an initiative of the SBCK Youth Department to bring youth together in order to promote their spiritual faith further and develop in them love and care for Christ. “This camp not only moulds the faith amongst the youth but it also enhances their leadership trait and develops a sense of togetherness. Perhaps it is the opportunity to explore the meaning of life from the Bible. Perhaps it is also the great friends you make, the fun leaders and

the cracking atmosphere,” it stated.

Guest speakers, Khekiye Sema, IAS (Rtd) deliberated on the topic ‘I am a responsible individual’ and Dr. Hotoka Hesso, Sr. M.O. Art Centre D.H Dimapur highlighted a lecture on ‘My Health, my Responsibility.’

N. Suhuto Chishi Youth promoter, Department of Youth Ministry WSBAK was the camp director and Kashito Aye, Associate Pastor Youth SBCK was the codirector.

Trainees with others during the inaugural of the two week induction training programme on the March 21 at Commissioner’s Guest House, Mokokchung. (DIPR Photo)

moKoKchuNg, march 21 (Dipr): A two week induction training programme for the 40 (forty) newly recruited Group “B” & “C” employees of Nagaland government under Mokokchung district began on the March 21 at Commissioner’s Guest House, Mokokchung.

The training programme is being sponsored by Department of Personal & Training, Government of India and organized by Administrative Training Institute, Kohima in collaboration with District Administration, Mokokchung.

The objective of the training is to guide the newly recruited employees to deliver ‘people centric governance’ by empowering group B & C employees with the knowledge essentials for the same. Trainers from ATI and officers selected from the district will provide training on subjects such as motivation, personal effectiveness, qualities of an excellent employee, organizational values and problem solving/ management and decision making and citizen’s centric behavior.

Training on service matters such as service book, conditions of ser-

vice, fixation of pay, Pension and NPS, Medical attendance rule, GPF, APAR, promotion and seniority and Secretariat Service Manual on Office procedure will be provided by trainers from ATI. The inaugural programme, attended by District Administrative officers and Head of offices, was graced by Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel.

In his inaugural speech, Patel said about two hundred nomination from various departments for the training were received and 40 employees have been selected for the

first batch training programme. He called upon the trainees to consider themselves as fortunate to be in the first batch and appealed them to equip themselves with rules and procedures and skill up-gradation.

He hoped that the current training programme would help them to become a vehicle of change in the governance.

The inaugural programme was chaired by Vetoka Yepthomi EAC (P) while Course Coordinator for ITP, Mokokchung District, Imlibenla Jamir gave the introduction to the programme.

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n March 30th, for one spectacular night only, Gucci will open the doors of its Milanese headquarters to the public for an electronic music event.

Named #C2CMLN, the mini music festival is a satellite event of the 2017 Club to Club Festival, which kicks off in Turin, Italy, on November 4th.

The bulk of the event will take place in the hub's largest warehouse space - a 41,441-square-foot former aircraft hangar.

Leading the lineup is experimental Venezuelan producer Arca, who has collaborated with big names such

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as Kanye West, Björk and FKA Twigs, whilst visuals will be provided by artist Jesse Kanda, who has previously worked with the fashion houses Maison Margiela and Comme des Garçons.

Other acts added to the carefully chosen lineup include Berlin-based duo Amnesia Scanner, Gaika, Toxe and new Stockholm collective, Staycore, proving that the fashion house is wellversed in the electronic scene.

And if the plexiglass tunneled setting for Gucci's AW17 collection is anything to go by, we're expecting a memorably trippy and psychedelic affair.

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ngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's romantic relationship might be over, but that hasn't stopped the duo from putting on a united front — at least when it comes to the business side of things.

The Hollywood pair, who own a $60 million chateau in France together, have just launched their own bottles of olive oil direct from their French estate.

According to Vanity Fair, 'Chateau Miraval' already produces the awardwinning Miraval rosé wine, so it makes sense that Jolie and Pitt would want to further exploit the rich soil and foray into olive oil.

If you think the news is slightly bizarre, rest assured the couple appear to be maintaining their business relationship for the sake of their children.

"Miraval is an investment for their family and their children," Charles Perrin, the vintner on the estate, told French publication Agence France Presse. "We have long-term projects and have just released the latest vintage of rosé with our names: 'bottled by Pitt, Jolie and Perrin' on it."

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Free Entry and Free Coffee. All are welcome for an evening of music and coffee. Worship will be lead by the youth worship team and guest band will be The Gluttones.

The Coffee House TBC is a platform for some of the coolest local bands to teach out to the youth of Dimapur through Music and the Message of God. Speaker will be Pastor Wabang from The Lighthouse Church Dimapur and the youth director of TBC, Nividi Kevichusa states that in previous years renowned bands such as 24/7, Tali Angh and the Band, ANTB, We the Giants, Divine

Connection, Incipit have all willingly volunteered to play for this cause to reach out to young people through their music and positive message and challenge from the Word of God. The Gluttones is an alternative pop/ rock, synth pop and label their genre as “Schizophrenic pop” (also known as Schizoid pop) originating from Dimapur, Nagaland. The band was formed in the mid September 2015 with Sholo Thong on the vocals, Nesavoyi Vese on guitars, Katovi Sumi (Alex) on the drums, Mulong Lkr on the bass and Binto Semy on the keys/synth, Imli Ao on synth 2 /music producer.

The Gluttones were one of the selected bands at the Hornbill International Rock Contest, 2015 and the very next year on 2016 was invited as the guest band, they gained

a lot of fans for their on-stage performances. They were also featured on The Northeast Today magazine three times. TNT included them in their list of “10 Northeast bands to be watched out in 2016” The band was also selected to perform for first edition of Summer Beats Version 1.0, initiated

by Blend Productions.

Apart from their show at the Hornbill International Rock Contest 2015, the band also performed at the Magnum Opus, a music and Art Festival organized by Act of Kindness in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC), Jesus Generation, HisPop, Abiogenesis’ Bumhum 10th anniversary celebration and Rough Road Session at Makers market and almost all the schools, colleges and universities in Dimapur.

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ctor Tom Cruise spent a year training for a sequence in the upcoming action spy thriller film "Mission: Impossible 6", says producer David Ellison. Ellison said it was "the most impressive" thing Cruise had done in the movie franchise, reports aceshowbiz. com.

"What Tom is doing in this movie I believe will top anything that's come before," Ellison told news portal Collider. "It is absolutely unbelievable - he's been training for a year. It is going to be, I believe, the most impressive and unbelievable thing that Tom Cruise has done in a movie, and he has been working on it since right after 'Rogue Nation' came out. It's gonna be mind-blowing," he added. Explaining the reason behind Cruise's willingness to undergo the extensive training and many practical stunts by himself, Ellison said: "It all comes from the best place. It is all about entertaining an audience".

The filming of "Mission: Impossible 6" will begin on April 10 in Paris, London A video on creative drama entitled “DAO OF ZEVITUO” by the D.El.Ed 1 Year Pre-service and New Zealand. "Mission: Impossible Teacher Trainees of District Institute of Education & Training (DIET) Chiechama, Ko- 6" is set to release on July 27, 2018. hima was released by Vechisa Venuh Vice Principal on 20 March 2017 at the conference hall, DIET Chiechama, Kohima.

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Robert Downey Jr to play lead in 'Doctor Dolittle' Rani Mukerji reveals ctor Robert Downey Jr has been roped in why no pics of adira have to play the title role in upcoming film "The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle", which is based been made public on the classic character who can talk to animals.

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ctor Jake Gyllenhaal says he believes in aliens and thinks the extraterrestrial beings could even be living among us. The 36-year-old, who plays an astronaut in the upcoming space-based sci-fi horror film "Life" thinks there is a lot more in space that is still not explored. "I believe there's so much yet to be explored," Gyllenhaal told nydailynews.com. "I think absolutely, there is no doubt in my mind -whether or not they're friendly or already here -- I think there's a lot left to explore," he added.

Directed by Daniel Espinosa, "Life" features a crew aboard the International Space Station, which has captured a sample from Mars, which backfires when the organism begins to grow stronger and smarter. The film is slated to release in the US on Friday.

ctress Rani Mukerji, who is celebrating her 39th birthday, said in a Facebook live chat on Monday that pregnancy and motherhood have been the 'happiest years of (her) life' and explained why we've seen so little of her daughter, Adira. Rani, star of films such as Black and Bunty Aur Babli, married filmmaker Aditya Chopra in 2014. Adira was born in 2015. The family is fiercely private and Adorable has been carefully shielded from the public gaze. Rani Mukerji, who is not on social media, used Yash Raj Films' Facebook page to chat with fans, answering questions about her personal and professional life. Rani is having a quiet birthday at home with her family and her interaction with fans on Monday was one of those public moments that have become increasingly rare and brief since she married and had a baby.

Rani revealed that the lack of pictures of Adira is at the behest of her famously reclusive husband.

"I am not on social media. I don't post pictures of my daughter because my husband is a very private person and I respect that. Also, I don't like saying no to my fans, especially when they ask me to post pictures," she said.

In response to a question on motherhood, Rani said, "It feels great. The last two and a half years - nine months of pregnancy and one and a half years of motherhood - have been the happiest years of my life. I enjoy seeing Adira grow, reach new milestones each day."

"It's amazing being a mother; you change overnight because the experience teaches you on a daily basis. I have become stronger and I have also mellowed down. But a lot of things come with being a mother. I'm looking forward to my journey of raising Adira, so it's going to be fun," she said.

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The film will be directed by Stephen Gaghan, reports variety.com. British author Hugh Lofting created Doctor Dolittle in the 1920s series of children's books, in which a Victorian-era physician opts to treat animals instead of humans because he is able to speak with them. The character was portrayed by Rex Harrison in the 1967 musical "Doctor Dolittle", which won Oscars for Best Original Song and Best Visual Effects. Eddie Murphy starred in the 1998 film "Doctor Dolittle" and the 2001 sequel.

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Thompson, Curry outshine Westbrook BCCI and CA to partner for exchange programs

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mate Thompson who got on top, raining down threepointers as the Warriors recorded a 111-95 victory.

Thompson poured on 34 points -- including seven three-pointers -- while Curry weighed in with 23 points, also contributing seven three-pointers.

"I've been playing well the last few games. Got a lot of great looks today. It's as simple as knocking them down," Thompson said afterwards.

Westbrook meanwhile brushed off the defeat as a bad day at the office.

"Just one of those nights," he said. "Shots didn't fall.

They made shots as well. A

18th LSU Martyrs’ Trophy from April 17

few mishaps defensively. to 56-14 with the win as the But we'll be all right."

Thunder fell to 40-30.

The Houston Rockets - Shoving match cemented their grip on The Thunder star had third place in the Western been at the center of an Conference standings with ugly shoving match with a thrilling victory over the Curry in the second quarter Denver Nuggets. when tempers flared.

Harden settled the duel The flashpoint trig- 125-124 with a last-gasp gered a melee that ended coast-to-coast layup after with Westbrook, Curry and pouncing on a loose shoot two other players receiving from Nuggets guard Jameer technical fouls.

Nelson.

"Ain't nothing going It was the final act of anthrough my mind but to other virtuoso display from protect my teammates," Harden, who finished with Westbrook said when 39 points as the Rockets imasked about the scrap. proved to 49-22.

"That's what was going "I was running so fast, I through my mind." felt like Usain Bolt," Harden The Warriors improved said of his electrifying late

Chicago Fire sign Schweinsteiger

wo k h A , M A r c h 2 1 (Mexn): The 18th Edition of LSU Martyrs’ Trophy football trophy in memory of Late Chumdamo Tungoe and Late Thungkhomo Ezung will commence from April 17 onwards at Public Ground Wokha. A press release from the union informing this has asked interested teams/clubs to collect the entry form from Nongos Publication/IACT, Opposite SBI Main Branch Tsumang Colony, from March 23 onwards.

The last date of form submission is April 15. For further details, contact Games & Sports Secretary Longshithung Tung- chicAgo, MArch 21 (reuTers): Manchester United midfielder Bastian oe @ 9856321381/7005587169.

Schweinsteiger has agreed a deal to join Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire, Inter-District Veter- the Premier League club confirmed on an Football Tourney Tuesday.

The 32-year-old German, who kohiMA, MArch 21 signed for United at the start of last sea(Mexn): The 8th edition of the son, has fallen out of favour since manNagaland Inter-District Veter- ager Jose Mourinho arrived at the club at an Football Tournament 2017 the start of the current campaign. will be held in Phek Town from "I am sad to leave so many friends April 6 to 11. A press release at Manchester United," Schweinsteiger from the association informed told the club website.

"But I am grateful to the club for alall the District Veteran Football Associations under the NVFA lowing me the chance to take up the to take note of the new dates as challenge at Chicago Fire.

"I have enjoyed working with the the previous notification of the tournament dated April 3 to 7 manager, the players and staff here and wish them all the best in the future. But I stands corrected.

new DeLhi, MArch 21 (PTi): The National Cricket Academy (NCA) has undertaken an initiative to conduct a refresher course for the existing accredited coaches of the BCCI in conjunction with Cricket Australia.

"In pursuance of this objective, the BCCI and CA have partnered to conduct this course and CA was gracious enough to readily accept and depute their faculty to conduct the Level 2 coaching courses at the NCA from March 21 to April 1, 2017," the BCCI said in a release today.

"During this period two batches of 25 coaches each will participate and moves

are afoot to have more such courses in batches, to recertify all the BCCI qualified coaches."

The first batch has 25 women coaches attending the program and the second batch has 25 men coaches participating in this course.

"The opening session of the program detailed the approach and methodology in coaching, which has seen a paradigm shift, and this proves that the initiative to update the coaches on the contemporary methodologies, is a move in the right direction.

"The curriculum of the course will stress upon the importance of exchanging

information and widening the knowledge base by way of multiple interactions with the coaches," the Board stated in the release.

The BCCI is confident that the coaches will benefit immensely from this program, apart from gaining more insights about the latest methods in coaching.

"A number of such initiatives are being chalked out in the future, wherein BCCI and CA will work toward a common goal where top cricketing countries can combine their intellectual abilities and contribute towards the development of the game," the release said.

Podolski to captain Germany on farewell against England DorTMunD, MArch 21 (AFP): Lukas Podolski will captain injury-hit Germany on his farewell international appearance in Wednesday's friendly against England, the team's head coach Joachim Loew has confirmed.

Podolski, 31, will make his 130th and final appearance by wearing the captain's armband against Gareth Southgate's Three Lions in Dortmund.

"It's sensational, you can't ask for more," said Podolski, who will join Japan's Vissel Kobe next season, upon hearing he will captain his country on his farewell. "My final appearance will be a lovely, but also a sad moment for me.

"I'm pleased I will get a chance to say goodbye to the fans," added the Galatasaray striker, who made his international debut in 2004.

However, world champions Germany are missing a host of first choice players.

"As well as our captain

Manuel Neuer, Mario Gomez, Mesut Ozil and Julian Draxler are also injured," Loew told a press conference in Dortmund.

With both attacking midfielders Draxler of Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal's Ozil out, Real Madrid's Toni Kroos is most likely to fill the role.

With Gomez, 31, missing, RB Leipzig's Timo Werner, 21, is set to make his debut having hit 14 goals in the Bundesliga so far this season.

In the absence of firstchoice goalkeeper Neuer, who has a calf injury, Bar-

celona's Marc-Andre ter Stegen, PSG's Kevin Trapp and Bayer Leverkusen's Bernd Leno will be vying to start between the posts.

Loew is already without injured defender Jerome Boateng and winger Marco Reus while World Cup winner Mario Goetze is sidelined until next season with a metabolism disorder.

Germany's head coach will be hoping to have some of his stars back for Sunday's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan in Baku with his side five points clear in their group.

have to reserve special thanks to the United fans -- whose support has been a very special part of my time in Manchester."

Schweinsteiger's move was first reported by the Chicago Tribune, with the Fire's general manager Nelson Rodriguez telling the newspaper that the club were getting a proven winner in the German midfielder.

Schweinsteiger spent 13 seasons with Bayern Munich before joining United, winning eight Bundesliga titles, seven German Cups and the Champions League in 2013.

He was also part of the 2014 World Cup winning squad and represented his country 121 times before announcing his international retirement last July.

Chicago have finished last overall in MLS for the past two seasons.

Jadeja pips Ashwin to top ICC Test bowler's chart

DubAi, MArch 21 (iAns): Indian players continued to rule the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Test rankings as Ranchi double-centurion Cheteshwar Pujara gained four spots to a career-best No.2 spot while his teammate Ravindra Jadeja consolidated his stay on top of the bowler's list after pushing fellow tweaker Ravichandran Ashwin to the No.2 spot.

Jadeja, who grabbed nine Australian wickets in the drawn third Test, gained seven points after starting joint-first with Ashwin at 892 points. The leftarm spinner has become only the third Indian player after Ashwin and Bishan Bedi to top the bowling charts on his own.

Jadeja, who grabbed five for 124 and four for 52 in Ranchi, has also closed in on a major landmark as his tally of 899 rating points puts him on the brink of becoming only the second India bowler after Ashwin to

touch the 900-point mark.

Ashwin, who had a highest rating of 904 points, has slipped 37 points behind Jadeja to 862 points after finishing with only two wickets in Ranchi.

India pacer Umesh Yadav also gained three places to find himself at a career-high No.26 while South Africa spinner Keshav Maharaj has risen 15 places to reach a careerbest 37th spot after taking eight wickets against New Zealand in Wellington while Mustafizur Rahman of Bangladesh jumped 20 spots to be positioned at No.47.

Meanwhile, in the Test rankings for batsmen, Australia's top-ranked Steve Smith reached a careerhigh rating of 941 points after scores of 178 not out and 21 in the Ranchi Test. The Kangaroo skipper's tally is the joint-fifth highest ever along with Peter May. Only Don Bradman (961), Len Hutton (945), Jack Hobbs and Ricky Ponting (942)

have achieved higher rating points.

Among the Indians, while Pujara replaced New Zealand captain Kane Williamson to take the second spot, the other Ranchi centurion Wriddhiman Saha vaulted 14 points to No.51.

Opener Murali Vijay also rose four spots to No.31 while skipper Virat Kohli retained his No.4 position with England's Joe Root at No.3. Williamson dropped to No.5 after a poor outing in the Wellington Test against the Proteas.

Indian middle order bat Ajinkya Rahane, however, dropped two rungs to No.17 while Aussie opener David Warner's poor run pulled him three spots down to No.8.

The Bangladesh pair of Shakib Al Hasan (21st) and Mushfiqur Rahim (28th), Australia's Peter Handscomb (35th) and New Zealand batsmen Jeet Raval (43rd) and Henry Nicholls (45th) also achieved career-best rankings.

Shakib, who took six wickets against Sri Lanka in Colombo, displaced Ashwin from the top rank in the list of all-rounders after the two players inter-changed positions two times last week.

Meanwhile, the race for the second spot in the ICC Test Team Rankings has become interesting as Australia and South Africa compete ahead of the cutoff date of April 1, on which India is assured of finishing first and a cash award of $1 million.

Australia will finish second and get a cash award of $500,000 with at least a draw in the fourth and final Test in Dharamsala while South Africa can finish second if Australia lose and South Africa either win or draw the last match against New Zealand in Hamilton.

The third-placed team on April 1 will receive $200,000 while the fourthplaced team, which will be England, will get $100,000.

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Los AngeLes, MArch 21 (AFP): Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry outshined Russell Westbrook as the Golden State Warriors romped to victory against Oklahoma City on Monday, while James Harden produced another heroic display to hand Houston a dramatic win over Denver.

Triple-double machine Westbrook was effectively stifled by the Warriors' potent offense and defense, restricted to only 15 points in front of an expectant home crowd at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

Instead it was reigning NBA MVP Curry and team-

break effort that clinched victory with 4.2 seconds on the clock.

Ha rd e n ' s h e ro i c s left Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni singing the Houston star's praises.

"He gives you an example every night," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said of Harden, one of the leading candidates for season MVP. "If something's better out there, I've never seen it and I've been around. I'm old and I've been around and never seen anything better."

Harden also had 11 assists while reserve Eric Gordon weighed in with a useful 18 points, which included back-to-back three-pointers at the start of the fourth quarter to give Houston the lead.

In the Eastern Conference, Boston scored a bruising 110-102 win over Washington to remain comfortably in second place overall behind Cleveland.

Isaiah Thomas scored 25 points for the Celtics as Boston improved to 4526 to stay in front of third placed Washington (42-28) in the standings.

Thomas admitted there was little love lost between the teams following a fractious encounter.

"Those guys don't like us, we don't like them, that's what it is," Thomas said.

The two teams' three previous meetings this season had been dogged by physical altercations and trash-talking.

Monday's encounter was no different, with players regularly exchanging barbs throughout.

"We knew it was going to be one of those games.

We knew it," said Thomas.

"With that team, it's always going to be a physical game, always going to be trashing talking and things like that."

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