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Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project … to colonize earth with the life of heaven 61% households practice shifting cultivation in Nagaland annually

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Mid Day Meal scheme starved by ‘pilferage’?

• CAG report says “possibility of pilferage of the food grains cannot be ruled out” • School education dept in their response claim “poor maintenance of records & lack of training” • CAG recommends conduct of “independent investigation and take administrative actions against officials found guilty” Morung Express News Dimapur | March 26

under the MDM from two firms. However, the same was not disbursed and the utensils were stored in two official go-downs of the Directorate of School Education (DSE), Kohima.

As per the position of stock and value as on the date of verification (August 2015), the two go-downs had 1000 big sized aluminum cooking pots at a bill value of Rs 20.40 lakh, around 25,000 steel plates of standard size at a bill value of Rs 13.25 lakh and 25,000 steel cups of standard size at a bill value of Rs 8.50 lakh.

The sum total of the bill which amounts to Rs 44, 15,000 when added with 13.25% Value Added Tax (VAT) of Rs 5, 84,988 come to a grand total of Rs 49, 99,988.

In a critical remark, the CAG report said non distribution of MDM cooking utensils not only blocked central assistance funds but had “adverse effect on implementation of the scheme as 72 schools reported insufficient cooking pots/plates during physical verification.”

On this, the department

The quality and health of primary school educaI took the money, but I didn’t tion as envisaged by the keep it for myself. I used it to Mid Day Meal Scheme, a bribe some of my staff!!! centrally sponsored programme covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013 is being sacrificed under the altar of middlemen’s greed.

In a disconcerting revelation, hoarding of cooking utensils, short receipt of food grains by schools CITIZEN UMBRELLA indicating possible pilferage, deducted honorariCITIZEN UMBRELLA MANUFACTURER LTD. H.O.: 147, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata-7 ums for cook-cum-helpPh. No. 033-2268-1396, 2271-2152 ers have been detected in Fax : (033) 2271-2151 E-mail : citizenkolkata@gmail.com the Mid Day Meal (MDM) Scheme under the School Education Department, Nagaland by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) as mentioned in its report on the social, economic, revenue and DIMAPUR, MARCH general sectors of Naga26 (MExN): Council land State. of Nagalim Churches The damning report (CNC) has invoked all highlighted that the decitizens, pastors of all partment procured (Januchurches, leaders of all ary and November 2013) church organizations, kitchen utensils valued at associations, synods, Rs 50 lakh for distribution parishes, councils, leaders of all civil societies, among schools covered NGOs, missions to hold formal fasting and prayer on April 3, 2016 seeking God’s guidance in the ongoing Indo-Naga political talk. In a press statement, CNC through its general secretary, Rev Morung Express News Seksim Kasar has apDimapur | March 26 pealed all concerned to earnestly plead for God’s presence and interven- “Peace is the absence of dition in every sitting of rect/personal violence and Indo-Naga political talk the presence of social justice.” and that an honourable This definition of peace by Joand acceptable solu- han Galtung was highlighted tion arrives in 2016. It by Dr. Achan Mungleng, Inalso called for prayers dependent Researcher, while that the remaining Naga discussing the core concepts Political Groups (NPGs) of peace and the importance are united in the solution of peace education, during a process for peaceful liv- workshop on Equality and Eming of the Nagas; that all powerment.

It was organised by IndigNagas are able to come together and live to- enous Women Forum North gether as one nation and East India (IWFNEI), Naga pray for the well-being Women Hoho and Naga Inof Meitei people, Assam digenous Women Association and Arunachal people (NIWA) in collaboration with so that they may also live Henry Martyn Institute (HMI), peacefully with the Naga Hyderabad, from March 22 to as good neighbors.

26 at Don Bosco Center, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur.

Dr. Mungleng asserted that peace is the absence of direct, organised and physical violence as well as the absence of structural violence, and emDIMAPUR, MARCH phasized the promotion of hu26 (MExN): NSCN-Ref- man rights to ensure a compreormation has informed hensive notion of social justice.

The core idea of peace eduall workers-both civil and military to observe cation is to learn about peace March 28 as ‘Black day’ and to learn for peace leading to mark the “betrayal act to change in mindset/thought of SS Khaplang.” An MIP process. Calling for education statement stated that on to be a transformative process, March 28, 2015, SS Khap- Dr. Mungleng stated that “it cullang, one time father of tivates knowledge base, skills, all “betrayed all his loyal attitudes and values that seek to workers by unilateral transform people’s mindset, attiabrogation of ceasefire tudes and behaviour that, in the with the Government of first place, have either created or India without consulting exacerbated violent conflicts.” his cabinet and NSCN Transformation can be imparty.” “All the ranks and plemented by building awarefiles of NSCN-Refor- ness and understanding (cogmation should not for- nitive), developing concern get the living God who (affective) and challenging perrestored lost kingdom. sonal and social action that will Hence, everyone should enable people to live, relate and kneel down and thank create conditions and systems the creator,” the state- that actualise nonviolence, jusment also read. tice, environmental care and

Pray and fast for Indo-Naga political talks on April 3: CNC

T R u T H

Short-receipt of food grains in Metric Tonnes Quantity in kilogram

Total quantity Total quantity Number of distributed as received as Short receipt Schools per SDEO’s per records of by Schools record the Schools 1 Kohima 15 1,68,654 63,671 1,04,983 2 Chiephobozou 7 59,814 22,440 37,414 3 Dimapur 21 3,09,854 1,35,600 1,74,254 4 Niuland 6 88,852 35,950 52,902 5 Mon 20 4,65,379 81,414 3,83,965 6 Aboi 8 1,06,563 92,278 14,285 7 Shamator 6 49,201 32,250 16,951 Total 83 12,48,317 4,63,563 7,84,754 As published in the CAG report and sourced to: Departmental and School records Name of the SN SDEO

Short-receipt of cook-cum-helpers honorarium in lakhs

Amount received as per Name of the Short receipt records of SN SDEO

by Schools the selected Schools 1 Kohima 14 4,40,000 1,00,560 3,39,440 2 Chiephobozou 6 2,81,000 88,000 1,93,000 3 Dimapur 7 4,41,951 1,74,000 2,67,951 4 Niuland 20 8,00,000 1,04,400 6,95,600 5 Mon 19 9,75,156 2,34,000 7,41,156 6 Shamator 7 3,58,000 1,08,000 2,50,000 Total 73 32,96,107 8,08,960 24,87,147 As published in the CAG report and sourced to: Departmental and School records Amount Number of distributed as Schools per records of SDEOs

contended that the delay in distribution of the materials was due to non-receipt of replacement list. However, the CAG report pointed out that the materials were procured without assessing the field requirements.

It should be mentioned that the MDM scheme envisages assistance for provision and replacement of kitchen devices in a phased manner, at an average cost of Rs 5000 per school. Financial Rules provide that purchase of stores shall be made in ac-

cordance with definite requirements and care shall be taken not to purchase stores much in advance of actual requirement.

83 schools received only 463.56 MT food grains against 1248.31 MT

The CAG report has also revealed short-receipt of food grains by selected schools. The scheme guidelines envisage that food grains as per norm should be released to the schools expeditiously for smooth imple-

This means, 784.75 MT of food grains valued at Rs 44.34 lakh was short received by the selected 83 schools which adversely impacted in providing mid-day meal to the eligible school children, the CAG report noted.

The report said 15 schools under SDEO Kohima, 7 under Chiephobozou, 21 under Dimapur, 6 under Niuland, 20 under Mon, 8 under Aboi and 6 under Shamator were short-receipt of food grains.

The shortfall in estimated coverage of MDM on account of non-disbursement of food grains for eligible school children work out to 63%, the report calculated.

Also pointing out that the “possibility of pilferage of the food grains cannot be ruled out,” the report stated that the “matter requires further investigation.”

The department claimed that the “short receipt was due to poor maintenance of records by the school teachers who were not properly trained and frequent changes of MDM teacher-incharge.” The CAG in apparent disbelief of the response pointed out that - “yet again an attempt to cover up the lapse of maintenance of records does not require any extraordinary skill and training.”

mentation of the scheme so as to enable serving of good quality of cooked meal to the eligible children on all school working days.

Examination of records of 120 schools under eight selected Sub-Divisional Education Officer (SDEOs) revealed that 83 schools, during 2010-2015, received 463.56 Metric Tonnes (MT) Rs 24.87 lakh honorarium of food grains against re- for cook-cum-helpers corded disbursement of deducted from 73 schools 1248.31 MT as per records Even the honorariums of the SDEOs concerned, meant for cook-cum-helpthe report stated. ers of Rs 1000 per month

have not been spared.

The CAG revealed that 73 schools in six SDEOs (out of 8 selected) received “less” cook-cum-helpers honorarium than shown as disbursed by the SDEOs. The honorarium was disbursed in cash by the SDEOs to the schools in contravention to the provisions in the guidelines which envisages etransfer of fund.

The short-receipt amount of Rs 24.87 lakh by the selected schools, which is 75.56% of the total honorarium, had “adversely affected in implementation of the scheme as the cooks did not perform their duties on all school working days due to non/less receipt of honorarium, as reported by the schools authorities during joint physical verification,” the CAG reported.

Again, the department, in the report, blamed the short receipt of the honorarium as “due to poor maintenance of records by the school teachers who were not properly trained and frequent changes of MDM teacher-in-charge.”

Recommendations

CAG has recommended that an independent investigation be conducted to find out the reasons for short receipt/discrepancies in receipt of cooking cost, transportation cost, food grains and honorariums for cook-cum-helpers across the State and take administrative actions against those officials found guilty.

‘Peace’ is the absence of personal Collective approach needed for violence, presence of social justice Indo-Naga political solution: YTC

March 28 to be observed as ‘Black Day’: NSCN-R

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DIMAPUR, MARCH 26 (MExN): The Yimchungrü Tribal Council (YTC) on Saturday appealed to all the Naga Political Groups (NPGs) to bear in mind the collective approach in order to find an honourable solution acceptable to all and which must be sincerely explored exclusively with all crosssections of the Naga people.

Stating that “this public appeal as stakeholders also carries a political mandatory statement which should not be overlooked and surpassed,” YTC president, Keozih in a press statement said a consensus political approach

Ramesh Moon from the Henry Martin Institute, Hyderabad sharing a point on the concluding day of the 5-day workshop at the Don Bosco Center, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

other peace values (active), highlighted Dr. Mungleng.

A dialogue initiative between men and women in relation to women’s role in social, cultural, and economic governance issues where representatives from Naga Missionary Movement, Naga Hoho, Dimapur Naga Council, NPMHR, DNSU and women members from various organizations participated on March 24. The dialogue was moderated by Ramesh Moon from HMI, Hyderabad.

The dialogue deliberated upon the areas where Naga women’s participation or engagement has increased over the last decades, the changes in the roles women and their participation in economic, social, political, cultural, and religious lives. The representatives were divided into four groups and given time to discuss given concerns. Further deliberations ensued in the sectors that have less women’s participation or engagement- media, male dominated organisations, politics, and the position taken by indigenous peoples

forum internationally related to women’s participation in economic, social, political and religious areas.

Viewing that considerable progress has taken place over the last few decades, the representative cited the various areas such as education, religion, administrative, security, traffic police, entrepreneurs in various fields, both in urban and rural areas, has seen the progress of women in the past few years. Women are faring “much better than” men in the hospitality sector, tourism, and activism viewed some of the representatives. Others viewed that Naga women involved in civil society are better in peace process, peace activities and good in decision making.

Apart from the various examples in entertainment, sports, music and professions where Naga women are excelling, the dialogue highlighted the absence of women in some of the most important institutions of society such as the Nagaland State Assembly or most decision making bodies in towns or villages.

and a model build upon it should be a base for the different political groups in broad-based consultations with all stakeholders. “And for which the different standards of positive and unbiased opinions, stands, and initiatives of the different groups should not be politically ignored,” it added.

The YTC pointed out that working in contradiction to the above approach and adopting the policy of exclusiveness amongst the different NPGs may lead to repeating the painful and unpleasant past, and to which the Nagas must not succumb.

“Devoid of political consensus and broad-based consultations amongst all sections of the Nagas would be self-inflicting and may consequently compel into leaving the socio-political fate and future of the Nagas at the hands of uncertainty of dark clouds hanging over our heads like the Sword of Damocles,” it maintained.

The Government of India is fundamentally reminded in good faith that the opinions and voices of the common people should be seriously considered in a democratic and republic country like India, the YTC also stated.

Part 1: Financial performance of Nagaland State during 2014-15 • CAG finds 307 incomplete projects in 24 departments • CAG recommends ‘timely & effective’ implementation of projects Our Correspondent Kohima | March 26

During the current year, the fiscal deficit decreased due to the combined effect of decrease in capital expenditure and increase in revenue surplus. As a result, the primary surplus also increased as compared to the previous year.

Besides, during the last five years the fiscal deficit continued with a fluctuating trend.

This was stated in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on State Finances for the year ended 31 March 2015 which was tabled in the recently concluded State Assembly session in Kohima.

Revenue receipts: During 2014-15, out of the total revenue receipts of Rs. 7648.67 crore, 91 per cent of the total revenue i.e. Rs. 6991.72 crore came from the Gov-

ernment of India as central transfers Rs. 1062.68 core (14 per cent) and grants-in-aid Rs. 5929.04 crore (77 per cent). The State, however, achieved the total revenue collection target fixed by the XIII Finance Commission 2014-15.

Revenue expenditure: The overall revenue expenditure of the State increased by Rs. 1012.07 crore (17.60 per cent) over the previous year. The revenue expenditure constituted 86.85 per cent of total expenditure while the expenditure incurred under capital head constituted 13.14 per cent and loans & advances constituted 0.01 per cent.

The report stated that there were 307 incomplete projects (estimated cost Rs. 2881.53 crore and actual expenditure incurred Rs. 1319.87 crore as of March 2015) pertaining to 24 departments.

Out of the 307 incomplete projects, 213 projects (estimated cost Rs. 1990.40 crore and actual expenditure Rs. 863.09 crore) were due to be completed by March 2015 but remained incomplete as of October 2015 and 2 projects (estimated cost Rs. 10.93 crore and actual expenditure Rs.

8.63 crore) had been suspended/ abandoned.

The report stated that due to delay in completion of the projects, the intended benefits from those projects did not reach the beneficiaries in the State. The date of completion in respect of 43 projects could not be furnished by the departments and in respect of the remaining 49 projects, completion is not due as on March 31, 2015.

The report also stated that development expenditure of Rs. 3254.56 crore in 2010-11 had increased to Rs. 4491.58 crore in 2014-15. However, its share in aggregate expenditure had shown a fluctuating trend during 2010-15.

The ratio of development expenditure as a proportion to aggregate expenditure had decreased by 0.44 per cent in 2014-15 as compared to the previous year.

The share of committed expenditure on the non-plan revenue expenditure was 85.60 per cent of the revenue receipts.

It recommended that Nagaland State needs to ensure timely and effective implementation of incomplete projects.

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Nagaland festival in Bhopal

A cultural troupe performs at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under the celebrations of its 40th Foundation Day.

Ko h i m a , m a r c h 26 (mExN): The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under the celebrations of its 40th Foundation Day organised

various programmes and activities at its premises from March 21 to 23 last.

Sangrahalya in continuation of four decade long tradition celebrated foun-

dation Day with various programmes with Nagaland state as theme.

The chief guest of inaugural ceremony was Professor BK Konwar, ViceChancellor, Nagaland University, Nagaland.

On this occasion, a new gallery on Ethno Music at Veethi Sankul was inaugurated. Followed by inauguration of Nagaland Prasang: Cultural Festival of Nagaland under Celebration of Regional Cultures where music from Nagaland was presented by the famous band—Tetseo Sisters, and traditional dances of various Naga Communities were performed at the Open air stage of Charaiveti premises.

On March 22, a special exhibition on ‘Cultural Heritage of Nagaland - The Nagas’ at Avritti Bhawan was inaugurated. Followed by opening of a new exhibition entitled as “The Last of the Tattooed Headhunters: The Konyaks” at Veethi Sankul.

March 23 event commenced with “Colloquium on Oral and Literary Traditions of Nagaland” with key speaker - Prof. Temsula Ao at Rock Art Centre with traditional presentations from Nagaland in the evening.

61% households practice shifting cultivation in Nagaland annually Our Correspondent Kohima | March 26

About 61% of the total households of the state practice shifting cultivation in about 1.00 lakh hectare of land annually thereby exposing about 5.65% of the total geographical area of the state to soil erosion hazards.

At this rate, it is estimated that over 70% of soil depletion, degradation of land and deterioration of water resources are due to extensive practice of shifting cultivation, without proper conservation measures, according to the annual administrative report 2015-16 of the soil & water conservation department 2015-16 tabled in the recently concluded assembly session here.

The net result is, the report stated, low level of agricultural production per unit area with farmers remaining the poorest of the poor among the society and the vital land and its natural resources in peril.

The report stated that jhuming is one of the key drivers of degradation of forest ecosystem in Na-

galand, and also often the most suitable form of agriculture for the agro-climatic condition and steep terrain cultivation like Nagaland. However, in recent years, due to shortening of jhum cycle which is insufficient for regeneration, the yield has been successively declined over time and families that were once

secure for food now cannot meet their requirements.

In this respect, a Sustainable Land and Eco System management in shifting cultivations area of Nagaland for livelihood and ecological security, has been formulated with the goal to maintain ecosystem services while also meeting livelihood needs.

“It is introducing participatory planning process and is prioritizing activities identified through the involvement of the entire community in the development of community resource management plans which reflect more productive and sustainable use of available resources,” the report stated adding that

the project is contributing to the overall goal of the SLEM programme, that is, “to promote sustainable land management and use of biodiversity as well as maintain capacity of ecosystems to deliver goods and service while taking account of climate change.”

Specially, the project envisage to develop, demonstrate and upscale sustainable land management practices for the conservation of jhum land in Nagaland through an ecosystem approach providing policy, regulatory interventions, adopting sustainable jhum cultivation and enhancing capacity of stakeholders to replicate the lessons in the neighboring states. The project is a state initiated project in collaboration with the UNDP country office, New Delhi.

The report stated that the Government of Nagaland has sanctioned Rs. 450.00 lakhs as co-finance to support a follow up on phase of the project providing much needed funds to consolidate experiences to data and plan for future replication during 2015-16.

Don Bosco Tech graduation day held Muga and Eri Krishi Vigyan Mela concludes

Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): Graduation ceremony of 16th batch of skill development training by Don Bosco Techat AIDA in Don Bosco School campus was held on March 24. Total 85 trainees received the graduation badge from Fr. CT Varghese, Rector and administrator of Don Bosco campus, Dimapur in the presence of Fr. Joshua Principal of Don Bosco Higher secondary school, Dimapur, parents and Don Bosco Tech team.

Speaking on the occasion Fr. Varghese called upon the trainees to be professionals as they will have to work along with various types of people at their work place. He said “every individual trainee has changed remarkably in all aspects after joining the institute. Here one has to undergo rigorous training by following tight schedule; they are followed up by the trainers at all time.” He encouraged the trainees to explore opportunities instead

The graduating trainees during the graduation ceremony of 16th batch of skill development training by Don Bosco Techat AIDA in Don Bosco School campus held on March 24.

of remaining idle.

Bro. Sunny Joseph, director of Don Bosco Tech, Dimapur region congratulated the trainees for successfully completing the skill development training at Don Bosco Tech. He reminded the trainees that “from today your status is changed from village citizens to global citizens, from trainees to employees and from being ordinary individuals to professionals.”

The batch began on

January 20, 2016 with 91 trainees in three domains of Food and beverage service, beauty and wellness and beauty and hair dressing.

The trainees will soon join the industries at various places in the country.

Earlier in the day during the parents’ meet the training faculty explained to the parents the job profile of the trainees at work place and shared the terms and conditions mentioned in

the offer letters.

The highlights of the programme included welcome song by trainees, welcome speech by Rouba Jonah and special song by ZinliangPanmei. Velu proposed the vote of thanks on behalf of the trainees.

The next batch of training will start on April 11, 2016. The training is offered in three domains such as food and beverage service, beauty and wellness and beauty and hair dressing.

Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): The Department of Sericulture Nagaland conducted the ‘Muga and Eri Vanya Krishi Mela’ and the ‘Eri and Muga Awareness camp’ organized by the Central Silk Board at the District Sericulture Office, Dimapur on March 23 and 24 respectively.

During the inaugural programme, Dr. BK Singh, Scientist- D & Head MSSO, Central Silk Board, Guwahati delivered the welcome address and felicitated the dignitaries on the dais.

The Director of Sericulture Nagaland, Chandan Basera, who was the chief guest for the occasion encouraged the farmers to maintain sufficient host plant plantation to facilitate rearing of silkworms throughout the year. In his brief speech, he also urged the farmers and the department to coordinate well for synergistic growth and motivated the farmers to focus on large scale production.

Participants with resource persons during the Eri and Muga Awareness camp’ organized by the Central Silk Board at the District Sericulture Office, Dimapur on March 24.

Chubameren, Joint Director, encouraged the farmers to learn from such programmes and to apply the knowledge gained to their field activities. Asangla Alinger, Deputy Director stressed on technical know-how and sincerity of the farmers, while T. Sanny Pongener, Deputy Director, asked the farmers to

put in their best effort and use their knowledge of sericulture to earn an income. District Sericulture Office, Dimapur, Yashimeren offered words of gratitude to the organizers and the attendees for making the programme a grand success.

During the technical session, Dr. B.K. Singh was

the resource person. The topics covered were package of practices for cultivation of host plant and rearing of Eri and Muga silkworms. Other invitees included Sericulture Officer Vikehelie Pienyu, Assistant Supervisors SR Das and BC Deb. A total of 120 farmers attended the programmes.

Workshop on research Governor for awareness and ‘Unite to End TB’ Army recruitment rally in Kohima methodology culminates

Kohima, march 26 disease should be brought the disease.

The Governor added (mExN): On World TB to zero,” Acharya said in a Day, the Governor of Naga- message on World TB Day. that India is considered He said that World Tu- as one of the highest TB- Kohima, march 26 qualification: - Should have land and Assam PB Acharya has appealed to all con- berculosis Day is celebrat- burdened countries ac- (mExN): Army Recruit- secured 40% in compulsory cerned departments, civil ed at international level on counting for one-fifth of the ment Rally would be held subject (Physic, Chemistry, society, NGOs, student or- March 24 to raise the com- global incidence. Each year at Indira Gandhi Stadium, English and Bio) and 50% ganisations, etc. to create mon public awareness 2.2 million people develop Kohima from April 6 to 7 for in aggregate in class 12th or awareness and ‘Unite to about the epidemic dis- TB in India and an estimat- enrolment of male candi- B.Sc degree (Botany/Zooloease of tuberculosis as well ed 2,20,000 people expire dates into the Indian Army. gy/Bio Science and English End TB.’ “People must know that as get their efforts in order due to the disease which is According to a defence (simple pass). Stipulation it is a completely curable to totally eradicate this dis- mostly caused due to lack of release, the recruitment of marks laid down at 10+2 disease at very low-cost ease. Tuberculosis, or TB, is awareness and timely treat- rally is primarily for the level will not be applicable. through the DOTS treat- an infectious bacterial dis- ment. Studies reveal that youth of Nagaland only.

However, the candidates ment administered by the ease caused by Mycobac- five percent of TB patients Vacancies are also avail- should have studied the all government. Its treatments terium tuberculosis, which die in North East annually. able for Soldier Nursing As- the four specified subjects “These data clearly in- sistant category. Qualitative in class 12th also. and diagnostic tests should most commonly affects be accessible by each and the lungs. It is transmitted dicate that we need to take Requirement are as under:Candidates are directevery person affected by from person to person via more steps to eradicate this Age - 17 ½ to 23 years. (born ed to apply online which Mijito Vinito Chishi IFS (second from right) with others during the valedictory function of the the tuberculosis all over the droplets from the throat killing ailment from the after 01 Oct 1993 and before has now been extended till Research Methodology workshop held on March 23 in NU Kohima Campus. world and death rate of this and lungs of people with world,” Acharya added.

01 Apr 1999). Educational March 28.

Kohima, march 26 (mExN): The under special component plan (SCP) and 10-day ICSSR sponsored workshop on Re- the University authority for providing the search Methodology for Ph.D. students in much needed fund and for the logistics.

In the valedictory function, Mijito ViSocial Sciences organized by the Department of Commerce, Nagaland University nito and his wife gave away the certificate has successfully concluded on March 23 at to all the 30 participants pursuing Ph.D. programme in different universities. The Kohima Campus, Meriema.

The workshop drew resource persons participants thanked the organizers for and participants from different States of the hospitality and the excellent arrangeIndia and from Central-State Universi- ment of the workshop.

While commenting on the impact of ties such as Lucknow University, Aligarh Muslim University, Rajiv Gandhi Univer- this workshop, the participants showered sity, Gauhati University and from various praises on the Department for conducting departments under Nagaland University efficiently such a crucial workshop. They found the workshop helpful and highly (Faculty of Social Sciences).

The valedictory function of the work- productive. The expert opinions, deliberashop was held on March 23 in the Univer- tions and other matters related to organisity Kohima Campus with Mijito Vinito zation of the workshop were highly appreChishi IFS, Second Secretary (Commer- ciated. Many among them characterized cial and Information) Embassy of India, the workshop as “the most memorable Seoul, Republic of Korea, as the Guest of academic oriented workshop”. Finally, Dr. honour. He was accompanied by his lady Martina Solo, Convener & HoD, congratuwife. The Course Director, Dr.Kaurinta, lated the Course Director, Dr. Kaurinta for exemplify the workshop as a successful successful completion of the workshop. academic exercise which can be best ex- She also thanked Mijito Vinito IFS, Second plained in terms of academic input from Secretary (Commercial and Information) the resource person and the resultant out- Embassy of India, Seoul, Republic of Korea put in terms of impact on the participants. and his lady wife for gracing the valedicHe expressed the positive feeling that this tory function as guest of honour, Pro-Vice workshop has fulfilled its major academic Chancellor, University administration, re- KTM bike stunt show in Dimapur: Motorcycle sports lovers on Saturday thronged ISBT, Purana Bazaar, Dimapur to witness a bike stunt show organized objectives. He went on to thanked the In- source persons, departmental colleagues, and presented by Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen (KTM) Bikes. KTM is an Austrian motorcycle company and has its showroom located at Walford, dian Council of Social Science (ICSSR), research scholars, students and office staff Dimapur. The KTM official stunt riders were Monty and Jassi who were the winners of MTV Stunt Mania – 3. Regional Manager KTM, Ningam Wangshul New Delhi for sponsoring the workshop for their help, support and cooperation. said that the stunt show was a part of KTM Bikes promotional campaign and to entertain the people. (Morung Photo)

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Fight is against poverty, not Gogoi, says Narendra Modi Tinsukia, March 26 (ians): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday his fight is not with Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, but against poverty, corruption and the devastation of Assam.

"Gogoji says that his fight is against me. But I do not have any fight against Gogoiji... We have a tradition here not to fight with the elders but to respect them," said Modi, addressing a massive public rally at Borguri in eastern Assam's Tinsukia district, ahead of assembly polls in the state.

He said he has respect for Gogoi, "but I have fight against poverty, corruption and against the destruction of Assam."

Gogoi had said earlier this month that the Congress party's fight in the forthcoming polls will be against Modi for his wrong policies and injustice towards Assam and other parts of the northeastern region.

The prime minister said Assam

used to be known as one of India's richest states after Independence, but has since been reduced to poverty.

"Now Assam is recognized as one of the poorest states in the country.

Who is responsible for this transformation from one of the richest states to a poor state? We were never in power in Assam," he said while highlighting the development agenda of the BJP-led central government.

"The people of Assam are still craving for electricity even after 60 years of Independence. Who is responsible for this?"

Modi said all the problems of 60 years under Congress rule will be solved in five years of BJP rule headed

by Sarbananda Sonowal, the party's chief ministerial candidate.

"I can only see that Assam is going to have a young chief minister after the election," the prime minister said, appreciating the mammoth gathering of people in Borguri.

He promised the gathering that once a government is formed by the BJP and its alliance partners in Assam, development and progress will follow in the state.

"I want to assure you that if BJP is voted to power and a government is formed by the party and its allies, kids in the schools will not be taught 'A' for apple but 'A' for Assam," he said.

"When I became the prime minister I asked the government officials to tell me how many villages are there without electricity. They told me that there are 18,000 villages where even the electric posts have not gone. Out of this 18,000 villages about 2,000 are in Assam. We have taken it up immediately and process is on to electrify 1,000 such villages in Assam while the rest will follow," he said.

Modi is set on Saturday to also address public rallies at Majuli, Bihpuria, Bokakhat and Jorhat in the state, the BJP said earlier in a statement.

BJP election office at Rengma Gaon inaugurated DiMapur, March 26 (MExn): BJP election office was inaugurated at Rengma Gaon for the five polling stations under Boro Lingri Sakti Kendra by Dr. Numal Mumin BJP candidate of 16 Bokajan A /C under Diphu Dist Assam.

Johny G Rengma, National Vice President BJP ST Morcha along Chairman and GBs area BJP leaders and public attended the inaugural programme.

Dr. Numal Mumin BJP candidate appeal the public of this area to vote for the development of this border areas which is neglected over the years.

Johny G Rengma National Vice President BJP ST Morcha expressed his confidence that BJP and its alliance in Assam will surely win upcoming Assembly election and install Subrananda Sonowal as Chief Minister in Assam.

David Rengma Vice President BJP ST Morcha Karbi Anglong Autonomous District also spoke at Dr. Numal Mumin inaugurates BJP election office at Rengma Gaon. the function.

Two killed, over 100 hurt in Manipur Holi revelry iMphal, March 26 (ians): Two people have died and over 100 injured, including 20 critically, in the fiveday Holi revelries in Manipur that would last till Sunday night, police said on Saturday.

Over 100 injured people have been admitted in government and private hospitals in the state.

Police sources told IANS on Saturday that at least 20 persons are battling for their lives in intensive care units of hospitals.

The police in the Imphal East and the Imphal West districts launched special drives to book people found violating the Motor Vehicle Act. "Till date we have booked 2211 offenders who had to fork out Rs.2,61,700 as fines. Police drive is continuing and we hope that some more offenders will be booked and fine collection may cross Rs.5 lakh," a senior official said.

There have been reports of dozens of minors and youths holding up traffic on busy streets in the city areas for carrying out motorbike antics for hours.

Some of them met with accidents during these antics.

However, no passerby was injured.

When asked about this and police inaction, an officer admitted to IANS about shortage of manpower.

Meanwhile, youngsters are celebrating Holi during the day time. At night there are folk dances in almost all localities which continue till midnight or later.

17 waterway projects for NE: DoNER Minister agarTala, March 26 (ians): The central government has undertaken 17 waterway projects to improve links between north-east India and the adjoining countries, union minister Jitendra Singh said here on Saturday.

The proposed waterways are in addition to railway, air and road links being developed in the eight north-eastern states, said Jitendra Singh, who is Minister of State for Development of the Northeastern Region (DoNER).

"As part of the BJP-led central government's Act East policy, development of connectivities in all spheres in the north-east are priority areas," Singh told reporters.

He said: "Over a hundred waterways are being developed across the country and 17 such projects planned for the north-eastern region.

Multi-modal connectivity in the region has been undertaken on a priority basis to boost trade and to increase the movement of people."

"While waterways are recognised as a fuel efficient, cost effective and environment friendly mode of transport, it has received lesser investment as compared to

roads and railways."

Parliament earlier this month passed the National Waterways Bill, 2015, seeking to add 106 inland waterways to the existing six National Waterways on the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture.

Jitendra Singh, who came here on Saturday met Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and addressed a BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) booth level workers meet, said one or two of the 17 waterway projects would link the Bay of Bengal with the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam.

Jitendra Singh said his ministry has thought about developing a dedicated airline that would operate flights within the region and also connect it with the rest of the country.

The minister said the Road Transport and Highways Ministry had formed the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd with a corpus fund of Rs.150 crore to develop roads in the region.

He said currently 17 km of roads were being built every day, which would increase to 30 km per day.

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Unidentified actors reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ during Good Friday in Guwahati on March 25. Christians are marking the solemn period of Easter. (AP Photo)

ZB (AMN) holds seminar on oil exploration DiMapur, March 26 (MExn): The Zeliangrong Baudi, Assam, Manipur & Nagaland (ZB AMN) organized a seminar on the topic “Oil Exploration in Zeliangrong inhabited areas” on March 26 at Hall, RNBA Development & Relief, Tarung, Imphal.

According to a press release received here, Zeliangrong frontal organizations leaders, seniors, church leaders, women society leaders and well wishers attended the seminar.

The resource persons for the seminar were Dimguang Rongmei, Secretary General, RNBA Development & Relief Centre, Tarung, Imphal and Pamei Tingenglung John, former President of AZSU. Both resource persons dwelled on the background and present status of the oil exploration in Zeliangrong inhabited areas particularly in Tamenglong District of Manipur.

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against the initiation of Government to survey and explore the oil in Zeliangrong inhabited areas till proper arrangements are made for the indigenous people,” he maintained.

The two resource persons recommended setting up a committee to do a proper research on legal aspects, land & resources, and land acquisition in regards to the oil explorations.

Further, the ZB AMN resolved to conduct more awareness campaigns for the public in all the Zeliangrong inhabited areas in regards to survey and drilling oil explorations in Zeliangrong lands. The Baudi also appealed to all the Zeliangrong people, village authorities and other concerned organizations not to give No Objection Certificate (NOC) to any agency or Government to conduct survey and oil exploration in “our lands”.

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Dimguang pointed out that the Zeliangrong frontal organizations have played a successful role to block the public hearing meeting conducted by the State Government in Nungba and Jiribam, the release stated.

Pointing out that the State Government conducted public hearing on oil explorations in improper ways without wide consultations with the local people, he stated, “Zeliangrong community must continue to oppose the survey and drilling oil exploration in Zeliangrong inhabited areas till terms and conditions are properly made for the local people.”

Meanwhile, Tingenglung stated that the Zeliangrong people will not be silent spectators of the Government’s initiation to oil explorations in Zeliangrong lands. “Zeliangrong people will continue to protest

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Nagaland Wrestling Association would like to extend it’s heartiest gratitude to the Chief Guest Shri.

T.R.Zeliang, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland, Guest of Honour Shri. Khriehu Liezietsu, Parliamentary Secretary, the prize sponsors and Patrons, who generously contributed towards the 25th Tournament Anniversary & 50 years of Association activities (1966 – 2016) celebration, which was held on 10th - 11th March 2016.

Prize & other sponsored:-

(1). Mr.Pelie Khezhie, Class-1 Contractor, President, NCSU (2). Mr. Neikhrolo Lasuh G.B. Netaji Colony, Dimapur.

(3). Mr. Mutsezo Tetseo,(Japan) (4). Lt. Velahu Puro, wife & children, for Championship trophy & cash award (5) Jotsoma Sports Association, Donor, Monolith stone.

PATRONS. 1. Neiphiu Rio, Member of Parliament (Lok sabha) 2. Chotisu Sazo, Hon’ble Speaker (NLA) 3. Kiyaneilie Peseyie,Hon’ble Minister 4 .Dr.N.Nicky Kire, Hon’ble Minister 5. Yitachu, Hon’ble Minister 6. Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary 7. Neiba Kronu, Parliamentary Secretary 8. Dr.Neiphrezo Keditsu, Hon’ble MLA, Chairman 9. Kuzholuzo Nienu, Hon’ble MLA 10. Zhaleo Rio, Hon’ble MLA 11 .Er.Kropol Vitsu, Hon’ble MLA 12. Er.Vikho Yoshu, Hon’ble MLA 13 .K.G.Kenye, Advisor to CM 14. Kelei Zeliang, IAS, Secretary 15. Er.kevisekho Kruse, Chief Engineer (PWD) 16. Viu Belho, Class-1 Contractor 17. Vilelie Khamo, Class-1 Contractor 18. K.Francis Zeliang, P.S. to CM 19. Besusayo Kezo, IPS, Rt. DGP 20. Er.Krosu Rhetso, Addl. Chief Engineer (PWD) 21. Vevo Sapu, Director, Art & Culture 22. Kevisa Kense Addl. Director, Fishery 23. T.Haralu, Director, Women Development 24. Murohu Chotso, NCS, D.C Phek 25. Thepfuneituo Rio, Class-1 Contractor 26. Sobounhie Rame, Class-1 Contractor 27. Akhrie Yhome 28. Er.Kezhazelhou Theunuo, S.E. (PWD) 29 .Er. Kevide Nakhro, E.E, Housing 30 .Er. S.Meru, E.E. (H) 31. K.C.Angami, Class-1 Contractor 32. Keneizhakho Nakro, Class-1 Contractor 33. Pfukrulhou Koza, Dy. Project Director, RD

34. Rokolhou Angami, Class-1 Contractor 35 .Er. Vizodel Angami, E.E. (H) 36. Vipralhou Kesiezie, Director, SCERT 37.Neilasa Sopfu, DIG (Fire) 38. Er.Ketouzo Peseyie, E.E.(H) 39. Er. Thepfusalie Guozi, E.E, Irrigation 40. M.Charlie Sekhose, Class-1 Contractor 41. Avituo Sekhose, Class-1 Contractor 42. Rolavituo Mor, IAS, D.C.Kohima 43. Kevipodi, Project Director DRDA 44. G.H.Ramlia, Session Judge 45. Kezholel Rhetso, E.E. (H) 46 .Er.Akho Angami, E.E. (H) 47. Mengutuo Rio, Class-1 Contractor 48. F.P.Solo, IPS, Commissioner & Secy.

49. M.K. Mero, ITS, Commissioner & Secy.

50. Mhalelie Rio, Class-1 Contractor 51. Theyiekielie Tachu, Class-1 Contractor 52. Vibilietuo Kets, Class-1 Contractor 53. K.Neibu Sekhose, Joint Director, R.D 54. Lungriading, IPS, DGP 55. Benjamin Newmai, Commissioner & Secy.

56. Er.Vikedosie Kehie, C.E. (PWD) 57. Zenohol Angami, Director, Fishery 58. Pausui Zeliang, Director, IPR 59. Er.Rokozhalie Gwerie, Addl.C.E. (Power) 60. Vekhosa Kotso, NPS, Commandant 61. Rothihu Tetseo, NPS, Commandant 62. Lakha Koza, NPS, Commandant 63. Er.Kevilietuo Yiese, S.E. (Power) 64. Kewetso Mero, IPS, IGP 65. P.F. Zeliang IPS, IGP 66. Er. Krupi Natso, C.E. (PWD)

The Association also convey it’s sincere appreciation to all who had taken active participation and extended their invaluable contributions, that made the event a successful and a memorable one. May the Almighty God bless each and every one of you in abundance.

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India among top 10 investors in renewable energy; pledges up 22% in 2015, says UN United nations, March 26 (Pti): UN report says, in 2015, renewable energy investments by developing countries surpassed developed countries' pledges for the first time.

India was also among the top 10 investing countries in renewable energy, with its commitments rising 22% to $10.2 billion (nearly Rs 67,800 crore) in 2015, a United Nationsbacked report has said. .

The report 'Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016' by

the UN Environment Programme said, "The investment (in India) took place against a backdrop of prorenewable policies introduced by India's BJP government. These include a target to almost- triple wind capacity to 60 GW by 2022," the report said.

The report said India enjoyed a second successive year of increasing investment, breaching the $10 billion (nearly Rs 66,527 crore) for the first time since 2011. It added that the highlight of India's performance in 2015

was a jump in utility-scale solar financing to $4.6 billion (nearly Rs 30,602.65 crore), up 75% on the previous year, although still a little below the 2011 re-

cord of $4.9 billion (nearly Rs 32,598.47 crore).

Among the big projects getting the financial go-ahead were the NTPC Kadiri PV plant phase one,

at 250 MW, and the Adani Ramanathapuram PV installation, at 200 MW. India and China lead developing countries in renewable energy investments The report said that the developing world including China, India and Brazil committed a total of $156 billion (nearly Rs 10.4 lakh crore) in new renewables capacity last year, up 19% on 2014. India and China led developing countries in investments made in renewable energy in 2015 when for the first

time commitments in solar, wind, and other renewables capacity by emerging economies surpassed those by wealthy nations, a UN-backed report has said.

Investments by developed countries were down 8% in 2015 to $130 billion.

The year 2015 was the first time when investment in renewables in developing countries outweighed that in developed economies, the report said.

A large part of the record-breaking investment in developing countries took place in China, which

Jewellers' strike intensifies:Industry body IDBI Bank staff ordered to to hand over shop keys to Arun Jaitley cancel March 28 strike call new delhi, March 26 (Pti): AIBJSF said representatives of more than 375 Jewellery trade associations from different states "unanimously decided to intensify the strike" till the government rolls back the imposition of 1% excise duty.

Jewellery industry body AIBJSF on Friday decided to continue their strike for an indefinite period against imposition of 1% excise duty on non-silver jewellery and announced plans to hand over keys of their shops to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

All India Bullion, Jewellers, Swarankar Federation (AIBJSF), which had organised a big rally at Ramlila maidan in the national capital on March 17, is continuing their strike, though three major associations -- GJF, ABJA and GJEPC -- had called off strike last Saturday after government's assurance that there would be no 'Inspector Raj'.

AIBJSF and other local associations, particularly those in Delhi- NCR, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,

Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, were against calling off the strike.

"Nothing less than a complete roll back of excise duty levied on jewellers is acceptable to us," AIBJSF President Praveen Goel said in a statement issued by CAIT. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), which is supporting the jewellers protest, has urged the government to initiate the process of dialogue with protesting traders to end the logjam.

In a meeting held on Friday, AIBJSF said representatives of more than 375 Jewellery trade associations from different states "unanimously decided to intensify the strike" till the government rolls back the excise duty.

A large number of jewellers and bullion traders across the country continued their strike for the 24th day on Friday, despite the government constituting a panel to look into their demand.

AIBJSF said it will hold

a series of protests beginning next week including "handing over keys of shops to the Finance Minister, blowing whistle in front of buffalo, ringing bells at district headquarters, gherao of MPs and presentation of memorandum, forming of human chain and transfer of registration papers of shops in the name of Finance Minister." Meanwhile, the government has constituted a panel under former Chief Economic Advisor Ashok Lahri to look into the demands of jewellers.

The panel, which has been asked to submit its report in 60 days, will look into issues related to compliance procedure for the excise duty, including records to be maintained, forms to be filled, operating procedures and other relevant issues.

The government in the Budget for 2016-17 had proposed 1% excise duty on jewellery without input credit or 12.5% with input tax credit on jewellery excluding silver other than studded with diamonds and some other precious stones.

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The company OLO 3D based in San Fransisco, US found something completely new, which is currently named "daylight resin." This photopolymer is designed to react to white light emitted by smartphone screens, curing as a result of exposure.

All of the software processing is handled by the OLO app, available for iOS, Android, and Windows. There is no manual levelling or calibration required, the company said.

Once an object has been loaded and printing commenced, the app instructs the smartphone to light up specific pixels for a set amount of time.

Resin affected by the light transforms from a goo-like substance into hardened material, they said.

The OLO smartphone 3D printer continues this process, layer by layer, until the object is finished and resin consumed.

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new delhi, March 26 (Pti): A US-based company claims to have created a portable device that lets users create 3D prints by using the light from their smartphone screen.

The gadget called OLO is designed to be simple, consisting of three plastic pieces, one chip, and one motor, all operated by four AA batteries.

It measures 720x1150x1480mm and weighs 780 grams and is compact and light enough to fit in satchels or backpacks, 'Gizmag' reported.

Once an object has been loaded on the OLO mobile app, users then place the smartphone in the base, the company said.

The resin chamber, which offers 400 cubic centimetres of printing volume, rests directly above to hold the desired resin of choice, they said.

The top piece is set in place for a complete seal

MUMbai, March 26 (agencies): The Karnataka High Court has asked the bank's employees not to go on a strike; they'd called for a nationwide strike to protest against's government's plans of diluting stake.

The Karnataka High Court, in an order, has restrained IDBI Bank staff from going on a strike.

The bank's employees had called for a four-day strike starting March 28-31, however, the HC has asked the employees to cancel the strike call with the financial year-end looming.

Employees of the bank had called for a nationwide strike from Monday to oppose the government's plans to dilute its stake in the troubled staterun lender.

Employees and officers of the lender under the banner of United Platform of IDBI Bank Unions have given the strike call.

Justice Raghvendra S. Chauhan said in his order "Needless to say, banking operations are essential to the functioning of a nation and fundamental to the lives its people. If the operations

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In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced plans of divesting the government's stake in IDBI Bank to below 50%.

"The process of transformation of IDBI Bank has already started. The government will take it forward and also consider the option of reducing its stake to below 50%," Jaitley said in the February 29 Budget speech.

Earlier, the United Platform of IDBI Bank Unions had demanded a written assurance from the government that "their shareholding in IDBI Bank will not be less than 51% at all times as assured on the floor of the Parliament".

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Among developed countries, investment in Europe was down 21%, from $62 billion (nearly Rs 4.12 lakh crore) in 2014 to $48.8 billion (nearly Rs 3.25 lakh crore) in 2015, the continent's lowest figure for nine years despite record investments in offshore wind projects.

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India, Myanmar should acknowledge Nagas’ right to self determination: NISC Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): Naga International Support Center (NISC), a human rights organization based in Amsterdam, today asserted that India and Myanmar should acknowledge that Nagas have the right to self determination, that they have never been conquered and act on the same. Then only real peace and harmony will be achieved between the peoples of India, Myanmar and Nagaland, the Center said in a press release issued to the media in Nagaland, while stressing that peace is the key.

But even when peace has been achieved, both nations should also serve the Nagas justice, the justice they deserve, it said. Real healing, according to NISC, can begin when Indian and Myanmar’s authorities ask to be forgiven and ask for redemption plus offer extensive compensation for

the losses Nagas had to suffer. “This can be in the form of financial cooperation in developing Nagaland: all of Nagaland so Nagaland Myanmar Nagaland India and parts of the states of Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh not just Nagaland State.” There should be funding available to compensate individual Nagas who have been hard hit by the Indian Armed Forces and there should be institutes specializing in war trauma so affected people can be treated well. Restoration of mental health, goods, farms, buildings, and everything purposely destroyed should be a priority for the Governments of India and Myanmar, it added. A redemption plan to do justice to the Naga Peoples has to be worked out and published, NISC said.

In the release, NISC highlighted that the 60-year-old war between In-

dia/Myanmar and the Naga Peoples has left psychological scars beyond imagination. During the course of the 60 years, several generations have grown up with constantly soldiers around them. Due to laws of impunity like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) since 1957, the soldiers are not accountable for what they inflict on the people, it said. “Consequently arbitrary arrests, threats, torture in many forms, maiming and even killing are the order of the day rather than exceptions.

Though the ceasefire between India and Nagaland brought some solace, the basics of this physical and psychological warfare remained firmly in place; they are still in use by the Armed Forces of India as well as the paramilitary force the Assam Rifles.”

Stating that for the Nagas, in de-

ENSF meeting with parents of EEI students TuENsaNg, march 26 (mExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has convened an emergency meeting of parents of all the students under ENSF Education Initiative (EEI) 2013 in Tuensang on March 28, 11:00 am at the ENSF conference hall.

A press release from ENSF informed that the meeting will solely be confined to the issues pertaining to the following: Non adherence to the MOU

by the institution and the AASA; Delay of scholarship and non clearance of the tuition fees by the AASA; Students’ career and academic attendance/performance issue; Affidavit authentication on the family’s annual income; Future and fate of the students under EEI 2013.

Hence, all the concerned parents/guardians have been requested to attend the meeting without fail. “The Federation might

be compelled to initiate further extreme steps apropos the aforesaid agendas/issues in which the presence and the wisdom of the concern parents/ guardians would be very much appreciated,” stated the release issued by ENSF President Shahsha L Menhahu and General Secretary Honang M Jessuhu.

The Federation has appealed to all the parents/ guardians to be physically present during the meeting.

252 ‘comrades’ from different Naga Political Groups join NSCN (IM) Konyak and Phom region of Apao Designated Camp and Kilo Kilonser of GPRN/NSCN among those who joined NSCN (IM) Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): The NSCN (IM) held a felicitation programme welcoming 252 ‘comrades’ which included 245 from Konyak and Phom region of the Apao Designated Camp, 4 from GPRN/NSCN, 2 from NSCN (K) and 1 from NSCN-Reformation on Saturday.

An MIP release from NSCN (IM) stated that the felicitation programme was led by Qhevihe Chishi, Convenor Steering Committee and Kilo Kilonser Rh. Raising with attendance by Steering Executive Members and the Cabinet.

Vitoi Aye, Kilo Kilonser of the GPRN/NSCN who was among those who joined the NSCN (IM) said it is God’s will that the appropriate moment for Naga people is at hand under the competent leadership of Th. Muivah and Isak Chishi Swu. He declared that “he has not

come home to seek position but to contribute his best to the final Naga political solution which is imminent.”

Kilonser Athrom recalled the vision of Gen (Retired) Kholi Konyak to unify the Nagas for solution and expressed great hope that the coming together of great leaders is the realization of such vision. He declared the support of all the people of the region both civil and army since ‘Baba’ Kholi has joined hand with Isak Chishi Swu and Th. Muivah.

Lt. Gen. Kosham, in his speech declared that Apao designated camp is intact and will follow the footsteps of ‘Baba’ Kholi.

Convenor, Steering Committee, Qhevihe Chishi who welcomed the ‘home comers’ extended appreciation to the leaders and all the officials. He praised Gen. Kholi for taking the right decision at the right time.

Kilo Kilonser, Rh. Raising, in his address, expressed immense happiness with the positive development taking place within the Naga family.

He maintained that NSCN (IM) is the home of the Nagas and not faction and appealed to all the Naga brethren to ‘come home.’

“It is a house where all the Nagas shall live together. That is how comrades from every corner have come home today to seek our future together,” he stated while adding that NSCN (IM) will not fail in seeking the future of the Naga people.

The Kilo Kilonser also appraised the gathering on the necessity to have clarity in "our" perspective and objective. He also pointed out that the peace talk with the Government of India is in good stride and that at the end “Naga people will have our right because we have clarity of our objectives.”

fending their right to self-determination, the long war of invasion has caused deep wounds both physically and psychologically, NISC pointed out that around 300,000 deaths and many more injured victims were counted.

In such a situation, experiencing violence, abuse, harassment as common in life changes the psyche because fear is normal. “One can lose one’s mind or one develops hatred against the perpetrators, a sense to pay back but it can also develop a practical sense of feeling the need to cooperate and in doing so getting rewarded. Consequently resistance and cronyism are created and generations have been pulled towards these extremes.” This then in turn gave cause and momentum to the process which led to a great divide in the Naga society, the release pointed out. “This

great divide initiated differences between tribes also and was fortified by creation of a divide and rule plan with specific purpose; the Government of India distributed money and guns,” it added. This changed the perspective of many a Naga as this divide and rule plan deflected attention on the real situation namely living in an occupied nation. Money and guns also led to another fear when the Naga Peoples were confronted with fratricide, it was stated.

Meanwhile, NISC said that even as the triggers of fear have ceased to exist, living in fear has a long-term impact. For the Nagas to eradicate the realistic fear, it suggested the Nagas first have to do their utmost to secure peace amongst themselves and when united again to come to terms with the Government of India.

Governor, CM wish on Easter Kohima, march 26 (mExN): Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya has extended greetings to the people of Nagaland on the occasion of Easter, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. “Easter is a time of thanksgiving and rejoicing, it is a time to remind us of the blessings that we have, our families, our friends and our lives, we should all remember the true meaning of Easter and the sacrifice that has been made out of love, it is a time of great anticipation as we expectantly wait for the resurrection of our saviour,” Acharya said in a message.

He further hoped that the occasion will bring renewed hope, faith, love and joy.

The Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang has also extended warm greetings to all the people of Nagaland on the joyous occasion of Easter. He stated that Easter Sunday reminds of the victory of Christ over death through His resurrection, and the believers' victory over death through Him, and the assurance of life eternal. He hoped that the joy of Easter renew in all the assurance and hope of everlasting life and wished all a blessed and joyous Easter.

Kohima Police arrest one for public nuisance Kohima, march 26 (mExN): Kohima Police arrested one person on charges of creating public nuisance and criminal intimidation in a public place on March 24. The accused identified as Melesayi Kezo (39) was reported to have been moving around the town openly brandishing a pistol, which was later discovered to be a toy pistol.

The Kohima South Police Station received information of the incident on March 24 around 11:00 am, following which, its personnel along with city mobile party started investigation and arrested Melesayi from South Point Market, Kohima on the same day around 4:00 pm, according to a press release from PRO, Kohima Police.

At the time of arrest, the pistol used for committing public nuisance was not recovered, however as divulged by the arrested person, the pistol was recovered from his residence during house search. During inspection, it was ascertained that the pistol used by the arrested person for "creating public nuisance and criminal intimidation"

Stolen truck recovered Kohima Police has recovered one truck bearing registration No. AS01CC-0497, Chassis No. 373341LWZ129543, Engine No. 697TC45KWZ119285, which was stolen from Assam in 2015 and is presently wanted in connection with Noonmati Guwahati City P.S Case No. 0026/2015. PRO Kohima Police informed that the stolen truck has been allotted another registration number - NL03A-2412 by DTO Tuensang on February 18, 2016. The said truck was plying with registration number NL03A-2412 when caught by the police. was a toy pistol made of plastic, the release said.

The police personnel took custody of the said toy pistol along with seven packets of rubber pellets.

In this connection, the arrested person has been charged for creating public nuisance and criminal intimidation in a public place and a regular case vide Kohima South PS Case No. 0014/16 U/S 290/336/506 IPC registered against him.

Vehicle seized with forged smart card In another incident, one white colour Bolero bearing registration No. NL07C-2948 was seized by the Kohima Police for plying with fictitious smart card. During investigation, it was ascertained that the original registration number NL07C-2948 is allotted to a Ford Figo Titanium (1.4)

by DTO Dimapur and not to the seized Bolero which is presently in police custody.

Youth camp held for Workshop appeals for equal treatment of women Welhipe-u Medo, conmarch 26 ty levels, enable women to the challenges.

Burmese refugees in Delhi Kohima, Mezivolu T. Therie, venor of the Attire Com(mExN): A workshop on have access to information,

NEW DElhi, march 26 (mExN): Divine Bridge Ministries (DBM) Delhi organised youth camp for the youths of Delhi Burmese Christian Fellowship (DBCF) in New Delhi from March 22 to 24. Held under the theme “The Born Identity”, the youth camp was attended by around 70 youths.

Supongchiten Longkumer, Founder and Director of DBM was the camp director, while Alemmar, Director, Guilt to Grace Ministry, Dimapur was the main resource person. He was accompanied by his team which included worship leaders and counsel-

lors. Other visiting speakers were Pastor Ross and Cobus from South Africa, Matsung (Associate Pastor Youth, Delhi Ao Baptist Church) and Wati Joshua (Director, Campus Youth Mission, Delhi).

In line with the vision and mission of DBM and realising the need of Burmese refugee youths in Delhi, the youth camp was held under the youth ministry of DBM, a press release received here said. The camp inspired the youths in re-dedicating and re-committing their lives through word of God, anointed worship and infilling of the Holy Spirit, it added.

CORRIGENDUM Apropos the news item “TYSWO condemns” which appeared on March 25 issue of this paper, the word “condemnable” has been inadvertently written as “commendable” in the second line. The actual line should read as: “Any such act which disturbs the peace and security of the community especially under the jurisdiction of Thenyizumi is highly condemnable and will be dealt with accordingly…” The error is sincerely regretted.

social and cultural rights was organised by Kuzhalhu Zawe supported by North East Network on March 24 at Baptist College, Kohima.

136 participants from 12 Kuzhami speaking villages attended the workshop, where certain resolutions were adopted appealing to all Kuzhami community institutions, village councils and women agencies to enforce adequate measures to ensure equal treatment, social justice and create cultural spaces which are not discriminatory towards women and girls in the community. They also made appeal to endorse respectful justice delivery mechanism for both men and women, encourage and ensure girl-child/ women’s education from primary to professional levels and reduce dropout rates, adopt measures to ensure equal wages for women and men, include women in all decision making bodies at the communi-

right to choices and participate in institution building and sustainable development at the community level, and uphold the cultural heritage, values, linguistic traditions and Kuzhami ethos which signify the indigenous identity of the Kuzhami community.

Welcome and introduction was given by Seno Tsuhah, Women Co-coordinator, Kuzhalhu Zawe. Mikha Lomi, Recie Kuzhalhu Zawe shared his greetings and focused on protecting the Kuzha speaking community identity through language, usage of good cultural practices and strengthening unity amongst the community.

Rev Dr K Kapfo shared that from the time of Jesus, he struggled for the rights of women which are being enjoyed by the women in today’s time. She also focused on girl child education, building women’s leadership and encouraged women to rise up to

Chief Judicial Magistrate in her session on basic legal rights with special reference to women emphasised on special laws created for women within the constitutional framework. She asserted that any cultural practices which are discriminatory against women should be removed. She also raised awareness on domestic violence, child marriage, human trafficking and sexual harassment of women at the workplace, targeting single women as witches.

Dr. Kewepfuzu Lohe, Vice Principal, Kohima Baptist College raised some pertinent issues related to the concept of righteousness, cultural values and taboos which exist in Kuzhami communities.

He focused on the integral linkage between Kuzhami social values and Christian values which leads to the notion of right action which conforms to a social norm.

mittee of Chakhesang Women Welfare Society explained the significance of every motif, symbol and use of such attires in various social and cultural occasions. Kekhrongulo-u Kapfo, convenor of Cuisine Committee CWWS shared about three kinds of foods - daily food, occasional food and special diet food for specific health needs.

She focused on the food diversity which is acquired from homesteads, farms, forests and water bodies which can be made available to both urban and rural communities. Practices of value addition, cooking and processing methods will definitely cater to the changing palates and authentic culinary tastes of the Kuzha community, she said.

The different sessions were moderated by Vechulo-u Kanuo, Executive Director, CWWS, Kewekolo-u Ritse, Women Co-ordinator, Kuzhalhu Zawe.

Dwelling on the long term psychological damage to six generations of Nagas, NISC said there are still approximately 200,000 soldiers in Indian Nagaland plus an unknown number, but quite a few in Nagaland Myanmar. The atrocities continue to be committed, be it to a lesser extent, and it is no surprise that lawlessness remains an everyday fact, it stated.

“What you direly want is peace. You yearn for it. You want to be sure nobody will enter your house without a warrant, you don’t want to be frisked, arrested, beaten up or even tortured.

You don’t want to be threatened by any of the other factions who walk around in your village, gun in hand.

You want to live your life in freedom, freedom you heard about, read about but a freedom you have never experienced.”

Kohima Easter sunrise service Kohima, march 26 (mExN): The Kohima Easter sunrise service will be held on March 27, 5:00 am at World War II Cemetery. Chief Minister TR Zeliang will share greetings, while Rev. Dr. Atsi Dolie, Executive Director, Angami Baptist Church Council will be the speaker.

The service will be led by Pastor Moba Konyak, Vice President, KBBF. All have been invited to attend the service.

Training on oil palm cultivation held in Wokha WoKha, march 26 (mExN): Department of Agriculture, Wokha conducted training on oil palm cultivation on March 22, which was chaired by Eyingo Tungoe, AO. District Agriculture Officer, Wokha C Peter Yanthan highlighted the programme and also spoke on the uses of oil palm, while resource person Mhathung Odyuo, AO gave a lucid explanation of the various cultivation practices and its management. This was followed by interaction, where the DAO and the resource person responded to the queries of the farmers. The programme concluded with vote thanks by Nzanbemo T Erui, AFA.

ZRSU meeting in Zunheboto ZuNhEboTo, march 26 (mExN): Zunheboto Range Students’ Union (ZRSU) has convened a meeting on March 28, 1:00 pm at SKK conference hall in Zunheboto. Therefore, all executives and jubilee planning members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Training for PMEGP beneficiaries in Tuensang Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): Training on Entrepreneurship Development Programme for PMEGP beneficiaries (2014-2015) is being held in Tuensang. More than 100 participants are taking part in the programme, which was inaugurated on March 21 by T. Lipokwati Ao, General Manager, District Industries Centre, Tuensang at CKS Hall, near DC Complex, Tuensang. The training, conducted under the joint effort of Multidisciplinary Training Centre - Kuda Village (Nagarjan) Dimapur, NKVIB Tuensang District, DIC Tuensang and sponsored by Commission for Khadi and Village Industries, will end on March 29.

Chen Union Dimapur meeting Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): The Chen Union Dimapur (CUD) will hold its 20th executive meeting on March 27, 2:00 pm at its treasurer’s residence at Half-Nagarjan, Dimapur. A press release from CUD President, Chenlip has informed every registered household of the Union to depute at least one representative to attend the meeting without fail. It also informed every household member to contribute donation for the festive event to be held on April 2 by March 27. Registration for the new household will be open from March 27 – April 2. Meanwhile, every member has been requested to clear the membership fee of Rs.20/for the year 2016 in the same period. Further all the individuals who are to contribute towards the fund for Chen Village, Dimapur have been requested to clear the balance and booking by March 30, 2016.

AR recover explosives; three arrested Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): 32 Assam Rifles along with police representatives recovered explosives from Kashiram Nepali Basti here on March 19 morning leading to the arrest of three persons. A press release from Assam Rifles informed that based on specific information regarding presence of “suspected persons” in Kashiram Nepali Basti, a searched was carried out by the AR troops along with police representatives. At around 5:00 am, the troops searched the house and recovered 11.875 kg explosives, 286 detonators and 265 metres of safety fuse wire which were kept hidden in the garden in three bags. The three persons were consequently arrested from the house. All three persons with the recoveries were handed over to West Police Station.

The arrested persons have been identified as HT Vela, Josnalhmathuoi Pangamte, and Lalrochan Pangamte.

BJP State executive meeting Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): The BJP State executive meeting scheduled for March 29 in Kohima at 11:00 am will be held at Hotel De Oriental Grand. All the party executive members have been requested to be at the venue an hour before the meeting and get registered.

37 Assam Rifles apprehend cadre Dimapur, march 26 (mExN): 37 Assam Rifles apprehended one armed NSCN (IM) cadre during an operation at Ward No-1 of Chumukedima Town on March 22.

A press release from AR informed that the operation was launched based on information regarding presence of an armed NSCN (IM) cadre and his probable indulgence in extortion/ arms peddling activities in the area of Chumukedima. One .22 Pistol, eight rounds of assorted live ammunition and one Kenwood Radio Set was recovered from the apprehended person identified as Kivipu Swu (33). The apprehended cadre along with recovered items was handed over to Diphupar Police Station.

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_____________________________ Because Children Matters

Color by number sheets

Once Upon a time ...

The Crab and his Mother ne day, a Mother Crab and her baby were walking together. The Baby Crab was walking a little ahead of the Mother.

After a while, the Mother Crab said, “Why do you bend towards one side when you walk, my child?”

The Baby Crab turned back and looked at its Mother and asked, “Why

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Mother, what is wrong with the way I walk?”

The Mother Crab replied, “It does not look good.”

You look much better when you walk straight and forward.” The young Crab said, “This might be quite true, Mother.

But I do not know how to walk straight. So, if you will show me how to walk straight, I will promise to do so, too.”

His Mother readily agreed and said,

“Look carefully now When the Mother tried to walk straight, it was impossible for her also to walk that way.

She kept trying, but she could not walk straight. Tired, she said to her son, “I am sorry for scolding you. I myself cannot walk in a straight manner.

How can I ask you to do so?” She then told her son, “You continue to walk the way you do!”

Example is more powerful than speech.

Being Special Use photos to customize special needs Hidden pictures swimming tools and toys Terri Mauro

Children With Special Needs Expert

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ith the popularity of digital photography and the availability of software that helps users easily manipulate those images, parents of children with special needs have lots of fun opportunities to customize the tools and toys their kids need.

Try these five ideas for starters.

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How Babies Learn

- Birth to 8 Months Old Activities and ideas for babies

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istening and Talking: Young babies make sounds and move their bodies. Learn to read activity Listen and talk to your baby throughout the day. Get to know the meaning of your baby's cries and gestures. Listen to the sounds the baby makes and watch the way the baby's body moves.

Take your time while feeding, diapering, and bathing your baby. Sing songs, say nursery rhymes, and smile and coo back at the baby's smiles and coos. In this way your baby will learn that you think what he or she says is important and that people take turns when talking with each other.

Young babies listen to the sounds and voices around them.

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alk to your baby about what you both are doing and what he or she sees and hears. "I see you looking at your mobile. I'll touch it gently to make the faces move back and forth."

Tell your baby through your words and actions how much he or she is loved and valued.

Give your baby simple directions with words and gestures. Point, look toward something, or hold out your hand while talking to the baby. Ask, "Are you hot?" Then, lift up your arms and say, "Please lift up your arms so I can take off your sweater."

1. Print Your Own Money I think it was in one of my favorite parenting books, Transforming the Difficult Child, that I first saw the idea of making funny money with your child's picture in the middle to use as credits in a behavior management system. I designed my own "bills" in a computer design program, in various denominations of credits, and pulled a digital photo into the middle so that each of my kiddos could have personalized currency. But you could just as well print a digital photo at the right size (or snip down an existing snapshot), place it in the

middle of a piece of play mon- com guide to Family Crafts, has ey, and use a copy machine to some instructions for making customized stickers using your do your money-printing. own photos and clip art, and printing them onto label paper.

2. Make Your Own A sticker with your child's face Children's Book The blog NonToxicRe- on it might be a cool reward for views.com has a great idea for a job well done. Stickers with a do-it-yourself children's book your picture and a reminder -- take photos of yourself per- might be useful to ensure that forming your morning routine, oft-forgotten tasks don't fall affix sound effects from a .pdf by the wayside, while stickers file provided (like the "squees" with a picture of the foods your at left), and place the images child is allergic to might be a in a small photo album. Adapt good thing to stick on a shirt this idea for your family's spe- during parties or activities. cial needs by taking photos of What uses can you think of for your child's morning routine, photo stickers? or the steps needed to do a task, or the experience of going to 4. Form Your Own the doctor, or whatever issue Flash Cards Sure, you can purchase flash your child will most benefit from reading about repeatedly. cards with photos on them to Depending on your photo soft- help your child learn words or ware, you may be able to add practice sounds, but you may captions, sound effects, or oth- find ones customized with imager text right in the computer to es from your home and environment to be more fun and motiprint together with the photo. vating. Print out a photo and glue 3. Design Your Own Stickers it to the front of an index card, Sherri Osborn, the About. then write the target word on the

back. If you're in need of flash cards that illustrate basic math concepts, your child may be enticed into practice by little pictures of familiar items illustrating different amounts. An Old Maid-style card game with pictures of friends and family members might be just the way to get some interactive play going.

5. Issue Your Own Badges My son is crazy for those ID badges that seem to hang around everybody's neck these days.

So I ordered some blank white plastic cards and an I.D. card hole punch from an office-supply place, and at his direction I take pictures of friends and family members, print them at the right size, and tape them onto the badge. Cheap lanyards, which I've found available at sports stores and party stores, complete the look. It makes for some nice pretend play -- and if you're going to be away for a while, hanging a picture of yourself around your child's neck might also be a nice way of staying connected.

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INSPIRATIONAL STORIES, MESSAGES, POEMS & SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES

ot very long ago, in the foothills of Nagaland there lived a pig who knew that his ultimate destiny was to end up in the butcher’s shop, where his meat would be displayed, bargained and sold, and that made him sad. His owner was a robust and hardworking bus driver who threw banana peels at him, his favourite food. The owner’s wife was a skinny woman who hardly entertained guests. The owner had three children, two sons and a daughter, the youngest son was a monster.

Every Friday after the school, he threw his bag on the ground, stripped his clothes and only with his red shorts on, he pulled the poor pig to the muddy pit for wrestling. Pigs like mud, but not him. On the other hand, the daughter was a cute and funny, unlike her brother, she avoided mud. She tied colorful ribbons in on his tail, smeared lipstick and eyeliner and smiled with contentment. Between the wrestling and the fashion parade, he liked the later more. He rated the stupid giggles of the young girl higher than the boisterous laughter of her brother. The eldest child was his favourite, he was a gentle soul; he brought the leftover food for the pig in a large rusted tin can, poured it down on his plate which was made from a tree trunk.

And while he ate, he kept looking at him with tender care till he finished the last of morsel. He was also the one who bathed him, sang for him and shared his dreams with him. But suddenly the eldest son stopped coming. It was his mother who brought his meals, the pig missed him; he kept on wondering what must have happened to his favourite little master.

Then one evening, he stepped from the back door looking pale and terribly weak. He walked straight towards the pig and whispered, ‘I’ll be leaving this world in a day or two, but I’ll not let you undergo the same feeling I am undergoing, counting one’s days on this earth is painful. Though you cannot speak to me, I can

How a pig found its way Ayangti Longkumer understand you, you fear the butcher shop, don’t you?

So I am letting you free,’ said that he opened the sty’s door. The pig did not move, he did not know what to do, but he did not want to disappoint him by turning down the opportunity he offered. Before he took the first run, he had a good look of him; he was like the palace in the sky which many people called Heaven.

He ran and did not look back, he ran never knowing what might come, he did not know the route, but he kept on running trying to find the nearest forest. He walked for days like an aimlessly stone rolling down from the mountain to find salvation in a river. One evening, the setting sun gave him the courage to walk even in the middle of the road. He was a fool to consider himself immune from the human’s greedy diet. Just then a police jeep stopped right in front of him.

Three men in uniform shouted with joy, ‘Wow! Whiskey and pork tonight.’ Hearing that he ran, they ran along with him, basically, there were chasing him.

Suddenly, it started to rain; they were more concerned about their uniform, they cursed the rain and got into the jeep. As for the pig, he took the narrow road which led to a brook. He felt cold, hungry and miserable, he took shelter in a bush and longed for the comfort he had in his owner’s home.

Then he met a wild boar. The boar was full of himself, he boasted about his survival skills, his ability to hunt and about the numerous times he escaped from the hands of the hunter. He was generous, he shared whatever he had gathered that day with the pig. Next

morning, he left him alone while he went for what he said as work. The pig slept the whole day, when the night showed its face, he was worried for the host, so went in search of him. Kilometers were covered, but there was no sign of his presence. His attention was caught by the laughter and shouts of people coming from a distance. He walked further, hide myself behind a big tall tree. The sight shook his whole existence, his new friend was killed, shaved, tied and was being roasted on a fire.

Shivering he run as fast as he could to the cave.

The whole night, he could not sleep. He stayed inside the cave for three more days, neither thirsty nor hungry. On the fourth day, he summoned up his courage and walked out from the cave for some fresh air. The walk made him contemplate on many things; he wondered how his life would have been if he had not left his owner’s home, knowing that he will eventually end up in a butcher’s shop was one thing, but his life in the forest too was predictable, he could either die or would be hunted down. He stopped and said to himself, ‘If I am killed in the butcher’s shop, my death will be of no waste as my owner will get the money depending on how much I weight. My owner and his family was always kind to me especially the eldest son. He fed me good meals, gave me medicines when I was sick; took care of me. Yes, I owe them; I have to show some gratitude. But, if I live here, wandering and running, then either the hunters or people with sheer luck will find me, and even if I die and not be killed, the flies will have the benefit. The hunters, people with sheer luck and the

He is risen from the dead!

Selie Visa Seeking the Christ: An anonymous author wrote about Jesus: "He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never travelled two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness. He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is central figure of the human race and leader of mankind’s progress. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of man as much as that One Solitary Life."

That is a striking statement. At the very least, everyone looking for someone to follow should consider the person and life of Jesus Christ.

The first Easter Sunday: On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? (Luke 24:1-5) When the body of Jesus was laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, there were women watching the proceedings. Matthew names "Mary Magdalene and the other Mary".

They had good reason to watch. They had their traditions and routines to follow too. Jesus was put to death on the eve of the Sabbath - and a

Passover Sabbath at that. There was no time to complete all the burial procedures before the Sabbath begun. Besides wrapping the body in linen cloths, there had to be spices, myrrh and aloes to complete the embalming. It would be necessary for someone to come back after the Sabbath. The Sabbath finished, of course, on Saturday evening, but it was early Sunday morning that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary returned to the tomb. Mark and Luke both record that their reason was to complete the embalming. When the women arrived at the tomb, they found the stone rolled away, and the body of the Lord was not there.

The Christian day of worship: All four gospels specify the first day of the week as the day of the Resurrection. This became the day of Christian worship. The change from the traditional and biblical Sabbath is in itself a strong evidence of the Resurrection because it shows the strength of the disciples' conviction about what happened on that day.

The two angels: Luke speaks of "two men" in the tomb who address the women; this mention of two men. Two witnesses are the minimum number required for validation according to the Old Testament legal rules. That Luke understands that the two "men" were angels is evident from his description of their clothes as gleaming like lightning. Not only were the women frightened, but in their fear they bowed facedown to the ground (fear is a typical response in the presence of a supernatural visitation). "The living" stresses the factual aspect of the Resurrection.

The three passion predictions: He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: “The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again." Then they remembered his words. (Luke 24:6-8) The angels show the meaning of the empty tomb by repeating the essence of the three passion predictions.  And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law,

and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." (Luke 9:22)  And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus did, he said to his disciples, "Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men." But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it. (Luke 9:43-45)  Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again." (Luke 18:31-33) The unexpected happened: While the witness of women was not acceptable in those days, nevertheless Luke records their testimony. The apostles, in their incredulity, were unable to comprehend the reality the women were trying to convey. This reluctance to believe has an important relation to the evidences for the Resurrection. The disciples were not expecting that event. Thus they cannot be called fit subjects for hallucination or fabricating the Resurrection, as some would have them be.

The strips of linen in the tomb used in the burial of Jesus bear their silent but eloquent testimony to the absence of Jesus' body.

Jesus is alive!

Let this extraordinary fact sink into your awareness -- Jesus is not dead! Jesus is alive!

Nobody can be left unaffected by the amazing fact that Jesus is not dead but alive. He has the right over your life! Jesus is alive! "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" In the midst of your busy life, acknowledge that he is here, your Saviour and your Lord! Welcome him! Trust him! Love him! Obey him!

He is alive! He is seeking you!

He says, "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3.20)

On God, Life and Death

Book Review On God, Life and Death..and other things in between; Author: Lothunglo Mozhui; Publisher: Heritage Publishing House; Pages: 43; Price: Rs.270

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Eastrine Kire

othunglo Mozhui has a degree in English Literature from Delhi University, and she is a graduate of Delhi School of Music. That in itself is a perfect combination for making a beautiful product, and the result has been a marvellous little book that is honest, intimate and a blessing sprinkler. I have lent out my copy only once, and since then have jealously replaced it on my book shelf. Everybody else should get their own copy and be blest by it.

The book contains many biographical and personal experiences, and the most personal experience of all, her walk with God. By virtue of that, it has the quality of resonating in readers’ hearts, and pulls them away from the tendency to moan, “Why me Lord?” Although the author has suffered two strokes as an SLE patient, this is not a Why me Lord book.

It is cheerful and thankful, while being honestly inclusive of the tough times she went through.

“God makes all things good,” she writes. “I thank Him first of all, for using me even when I felt unusable. I thank Him for the troubled times He made me pass through. The result is this little book.

She calls the book, a collection of thoughts that drifted through my mind during the period of my recovery. These are thoughts that emerged to the surface when faced with times of heavy trials. I think it is at times like these that you hear the voice of God much clearer.

Matthew 10.27 (Voice): “And you should proclaim in the bright light of day everything that I have whispered to you in the dark. Whatever whispers you hear – shout them from the rooftops of houses.” Yes a mere whisper then becomes more distinct and clear as it spoken through a megaphone. Some of what God spoke to me in soft murmurs during my darkest hours are in this book. This is my way of shouting them from the rooftops. It is a gentle book that whispers rather than shouts. The biggest element of the book is gratitude: gratefulness for her earthly existence, ‘and the chance to live, to be alive.’ Life becomes even more precious when threatened by a severe haemorrhage.

I suppose only when we come that close to losing it, will we truly appreciate it.

Lothunglo writes that in this period of sickness, she learned to listen, “really listen and take time to understand what He is trying to tell me.“

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flies had done nothing for me. I have to go back to my owner’s home.’ He made up his mind.

He took the route to his owner’s home, not even being sure where it might lead. Meanwhile, a group of school boys in uniform secretly followed him. They had catapult, one of them hit his tummy with a stick; it was so painful. The tallest boy aimed his catapult at him, he closed his eyes with the thought that his death has arrived. There was an intervention; he considered it as the ‘Holy Intervention!’ He heard someone coming and shouting at the boys, ‘What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be in the school. Get back or else you all will be rusticated.’ It was the village Headmaster. The pig was left alone, this time, he was grateful to be alone.

When he reached his owner’s home, an unknown joy filled his heart; it was greater and heavier than the happiness which he felt while running away from the sty. He was hesitant, yet, with his head down walked towards the gate. Someone’s dirty feet stopped him, looking up he saw the owner’s face glowing with delight. He bended down and said, ‘Where have you been? We missed you.

You know what? If ever you return to us, my son on his death bed made me promise never to send you to the butcher’s shop. Now go to your sty.’ He gently obeyed.

Later that night, the owner flashed his torchlight on his face. His wife and the two children stood with unknown emotions written all over them. The wife came forward and uttered, ‘You are a wonderful animal, so considerate that you came back. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to make Ben happy, wherever he is, we are sure he’ll be glad to see us all here.’

That minute, the pig’s only regret was his inability to converse in the language which could be understood by them. It was he who owed them. Nevertheless, he was glad; there was still room for mutual gratitude in this world. But above all he knew, he could never repay the mercy the eldest son had shown on him.

SOME EASTER THOUGHTS ON EASTER 2016 Kaka D. Iralu f Jesus wanted to establish his kingdom in heaven, he need not have come to this world to die on a wooden cross under such human cruelty and agony. If he wanted to establish his kingdom in heaven, he could have died a more merciful death in heaven surrounded- not by cruel Roman soldiers and a reviling crowd- but surrounded by sympathetic Angels sharing his pain and agony? But he chose to put on the flesh and blood of the reviling crowd and died on a cursed Golgotha so that his Kingdom can be established on earth till his return in glory.

Yes, Jesus died on the cross to redeem us from sin and give us eternal life. But is that all that is to it? Does not his resurrection also signify a new life with new principles that has to be lived here on earth until his return?

His resurrection and his Commission to us to preach his salvation to the ends of the earth bind us with a spiritual mission to this world. But Jesus also clearly gave us a material, social, economic and political mission to establish his kingdom here on earth.

At the beginning of his earthly ministry, what did Jesus mean when he opened the scriptures in the Synagogue and after reading Isaiah 61:1&2 said, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your eyes.” (Lk.4:16-21). The words in Isaiah of course read “The spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord had anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor…to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prisons to those who are bound.”

Jesus’ mission to earth was not just the preaching of the good news to the poor but also included the setting at liberty them that were held in various human, social and political captivity on earth. I say social and political liberty on earth because after all, there surely would be no social or political captives in heaven that needs to be set free from their heavenly captivity!

Social and political captivity are things of this earth. And Jesus had clearly mentioned that the setting at liberty of such victims was a part of his mission on earth. And when Jesus said, “As the father had sent me, so send I you” (Joh. 20: 21), it is clearly implied that we

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She gives a beautiful example using images from music. According to her, melodic music played in major chords can end up sounding boring. But it is the minor chords and diminished chords, and ‘a dash of dominant and augmented chords’ and the ‘suspended and borrowed chords’ which give a piece a fascinating quality. Her own life has had more than sufficient of such chords to the extent that the music threatened to turn into discordant cacophony. But she bravely maintains that, “happiness is not always a major chord.”

Going through what she calls mean and rough times, her own ‘refiner’s fire’ this is what she has to say about metal that goes through the refining process.

The metal is burnt. The dross is removed. And notice, the refiner has to keep a close and constant watch on it, for it if is left too long, the metal is harmed. When it is taken out of the furnace, it is gold, pure gold.

What a truly inspiring lesson to get out of the refining that life puts us through. Her wise notes on family, friendship, mistakes, honesty, tears, pain and death are beautifully illustrated by Naga artist Canato. Lothunglo brings a new perspective to these subjects, and for her, the glue that keeps it all together is the love of the Father, the restorer, the one who makes sense of it all. This is not a grim book on suffering and pain. It has so much other to offer.

Laughter, Freedom, and Hope are the last pieces in the book. What a carefully executed movement by a musically sensitive writer. The book ends with a letter from God to his ‘dearest child, the apple of his eye’ reassuring her in the most tender language of his constant love and presence in her life.

Lothunglo’s gift is meditative and thoughtful, but also makes you break out into a smile of empathetic understanding at the writer’s inner journey, and the shared emotions that accompany it.

Each piece could have been an aria that could be played or sung. They would surely have sounded like the exquisite music she writes about. These are the ‘songs’ she has generously shared with us.

May your spirit hear them.

are commissioned not with just the spiritual salvation from sin but also the material salvation from social and political oppression.

If we look into the gospel records, we will discover that part of Jesus preaching of the good news into the world of his time involved the healing of the sick, the blind, the deaf and even driving out of demons from demon possessed persons (Lk. 40, 41). It also included challenging the established religious order of his day to throw the first stone at the woman who was caught in adultery (Jn. 8:1-11). It also involved sitting down with sinners and tax collectors (Lk.4:30) and even telling a Reverend (Ruler) of his times that he must be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God (Jn. 3). It also involved upturning the tables of the money changers in the temple and telling them that God’s temple was for prayer and not for a “den of thieves” (Lk.19:45-47). It also involved calling the religious leaders of his day as “ brood of vipers” and “whitewashed tombs” because they practiced only the outward forms of religion while neglecting the weightier matters of the law which were JUSTIC ,MERCY and FAITH (Matt.23: 23). Justice, mercy and faith are clearly therefore, part of his ministry (and our ministry) here on earth.

Indeed the preaching and practice of the kingdom of God by Jesus turned the world of his times upside down. It ultimately led to his crucifixion on the cross because perhaps man wanted the will of God to be done only in heaven and not here on earth.

But the liberating power of the gospel through which he came to establish his kingdom here on earth has made man free from not only slavery to sin but also slavery of man from man. It is a kingdom that calls for God’s will to be done not just in heaven but also here on earth. This was clearly affirmed by Jesus when he taught us to pray: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matt. 6:10).

Man rejected him on Good Friday because in his life he had preached about the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth.

Will we reject him again on Easter Sunday so that man’s will (and not God’s will) can only be done on earth in our times?

Easter: A time to revitalize Niekhoyi Rhakho Stephen

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one are the days when life was wedged in wear and tear.

Some had an idea that life to live forth has no implication and does not suffice in any way out. If you have that idea about life, you’re wide of the mark. Christ, who came in the form of human became our brother and friend. He came not to show off His pride or charisma but rather to save our souls from the sins of death. Jesus loves the sinners but not sin clearly illustrates that our sins are forgivable.

There were times when we had to lose hope for to carry the burden thrown unto us was excruciating. We become nothing less than being wrecked. These tragedies -I believe- will ultimately pave the way to a new level of hope in the long run.

The resurrection clearly proves that He’s still living in our hearts and within us. The blood and thirst of Jesus saved us from sorrows and snares of our enemies. The thesis of Jesus is to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Let us take a flashback in the sands of time in

Galilee and various places when our Lord was with His disciples sharing the word of God; His theories were never wrong in whatsoever way. He always advocated for love, peace, charity, piety, chastity, patience and so forth.

We’re called to be renewed on this day of resurrection. Let us pray for peace in the world and war torn countries that such responsible citizens may shun violence and return to the path of truthful life. If Jesus was such a human to endure whips and torture for our betterment, don’t we have the right to fulfill His desire by our deeds? On this day of new hope and rejoicing, let us give up our egocentric life and invite Christ to be the centre of our life. Gossip and hatred can be of another grave menace against the fulfillment of His aspiration; to be holy or pious is next to impossible for many, but it is in practice that perfection comes. May the good Lord bless us with richness of soul, to live forth propagating his teachings and bringing back the lost souls here on earth.

Happy Easter!!!

Readers may please note that, the contents of the articles published on this page do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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Uttarakhand: Rebel MLAs release sting accusing CM of horse-trading BJP using shameful tactics by releasing fake sting: Congress New Delhi, March 26 (iaNS): Rebel Congress MLAs of Uttarakhand on Saturday released a sting video of Chief Minister Harish Rawat here and alleged that he was indulging in horse-trading to save his government, prompting BJP to call for dismissal of the state government.

The sting released by rebel Congress MLAs showed CM Harish Rawat, where he is seen allegedly offering money to legislators to vote for his government in the vote of confidence mandated by governor KK Paul, before March 28.

Releasing the video, rebel Congress MLA Harak Singh Rawat said that the chief minister was trying to bribe the nine rebel Congress MLAs and few other BJP MLAs. He also alleged that the rebel MLAs have been receiving life threats.

Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal had served notice to nine rebel Congress legislators, seeking their responses by March 26 (Saturday) on why they should not be disqualified from membership of the house under the antidefection law for violating the party discipline and

Harish Rawat (IANS Photo)

aligning with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

"There is an attempt by the CM to bribe the nine rebel MLAs and few other BJP MLAs. The Uttarakhand government is indulging in horse-trading of the MLAs," said one of the rebel MLAs Harak Singh Rawat.

He also said that the sting video clearly showed that the chief minister was talking of offering Rs 5 crore to each legislator to return to the party and was also heard saying "chalo maamla saste mein nipat gaya" (The issue has been settled at a cheap price).

"We have expressed concern over our security to the government of India as we are getting threats.

We've asked them to make arrangements for us. We have also requested the governor to immediately dismiss such a corrupt government of the mafias," he added.

Rawat further said: "We have also written a letter to the President Pranab Mukherjee to take objec-

tion to the whole situatiom.

There is a constitutional crisis in the state."

Soon after the sting was released, CM Harish Rawat held a press conference and accused the journalist, who conducted the sting, of conniving with opposition parties to "destablize his government and bring a bad name to the state."

The BJP and the people behind the sting operation, he charged, were "immoral and greedy".

Nine Congress legislators led by Harak Singh had rebelled against the chief minister couple of weeks back when they sought a vote division on the floor of the house. The speaker rejected the demand.

Before the crisis, the Congress had 36 legislators in the 70-member assembly. The ruling party also has the support of six members of the Progressive Democratic Front, while the opposition BJP has 28 legislators.

Meanwhile, the BJP on Saturday sought dismissal of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat after

rebel Congress legislators of the state released the sting video.

"After the release of the sting video, Rawat has no moral right to remain as chief minister even for a minute. His government must be dismissed. We are going to meet President in the evening and will ask him to immediately dismiss the state government," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said here at a press conference.

However, backing Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Saturday, the Congress blamed BJP of releasing a fake sting and using shameful tactics of defaming the state government.

"After Uttarakhand High Court's decision to dismiss the petition filed by the rebel Congress MLAs challenging the notice issued to them by assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal, the BJP is now resorting to dirty politics of releasing a fake sting to defame the state government," said Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala.

Former chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, who is heading the rebel Congress legislators, however, sought imposition of president's rule in the state saying, "Rawat has lost all the moral grounds to remian in power."

Hyderabad varsity incidents rock Telangana assembly hyDerabaD, March 26 (iaNS): The incidents at Hyderabad Central University and Osmania University rocked the Telangana assembly on Saturday with the opposition stalling the proceedings to demand full-fledged debate.

The house was adjourned thrice since morning as the opposition Congress and the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) insisted on a debate on the police brutalities on students at Hyderabad Central University (HCU).

As soon as the house met for the day, the two parties demanded their adjournment motions on the issue be taken up but Deputy Speaker Padmadevender Reddy rejected this.

Members of Congress and MIM rushed to the well of the house, seeking an immediate debate. They wanted the government to respond to their demands for withdrawal of cases against students.

The Congress party also raised the issue relating to the attack on its legislator Sampath Kumar's car in Osmania University and demanded action against those involved. The MLA's vehicle was damaged when he visited OU campus on March 23 when students were staging a protest after recovery of a body of a man from a sump.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government, however, suggested that the debate on the university incidents be taken as part

Students protest at HCU demanding VC's removal

hyDerabaD, March 26 (PTi): Activists of Progressive Democratic Students Union (PDSU) today held a protest in front of the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) demanding immediate arrest and removal of Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao Podile over the death of research scholar Rohit Vemula.

The security personnel at the HCU, however, foiled the attempts of PDSU activists to force their way inside the campus by stopping them at the main gate itself, university's Chief Security Officer T V Rao said.

The PDSU activists later held a demonstration and squatted on the road raising slogans demanding arrest of Appa Rao and his removal from the VC's post.

They also demanded immediate release of 25 students and two faculty members arrested in connection with vandalisation of VC's Lodge and stone pelting on of the demand for grants for home department.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao termed as 'unfortunate' the incidents that occurred at the two universities. "The death of a student at HCU is unfortunate," he said referring to the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula.

He said that the attack on MLA's car in Osmania University is condemnable. The chief minister, however, wondered as to why the Congress MLA did not lodge a complaint with police.

KCR, as the chief minister is popularly known, told the house that the government is ready to discuss all the issues. He took objection to the manner in which

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Rohit's mother Radhika again tried to enter the campus today, but was stopped by the security, Rao said adding, "We stopped her and sent her back."

She was subsequently shifted in an ambulance to a private hospital, the security official added.

On March 23, Radhika had gone on a sit-in protest in front of the main entrance of HCU, after she was denied entry inside the campus to meet students who were injured in a police lathicharge on March 22 near VC's Lodge. The students were protesting against Podile's resumption of duty.

Prof Podile had gone on a long leave at the height of students' agitation seeking justice for Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, who had committed suicide on January 17 at a hostel room on HCU campus.

the opposition was raising the issue and alleged that they are only interested in taking political mileage.

MIM leader in the house, Akbaruddin Owaisi said the chief minister's suggestion that the issue be discussed as part of the demand for grants is an insult to Dalits. He condemned the arrests of students on HCU campus and the police atrocities on them.

Owaisi demanded that the house pass a resolution to urge the central government to recall HCU Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao. He also sought an inquiry into the beating up of students by police and university security.

Police arrested 24 students and two faculty

members of HCU on March 22 when they were staging a protest over P. Appa Rao resuming charge as the vice chancellor. The protestors alleged that Appa Rao is responsible for Rohith's suicide in January.

Student groups alleged that police beat up students after arresting them and also assaulted them in police stations.

Meanwhile, Congress party's Telangana unit president Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that police attacked the vehicle of MLA. He said student and youth leaders of the Congress party were being harassed by police by summoning them to police stations.

Crime against women rising Supported by BJP, Mehbooba on a daily basis: Court stakes claim to power in J&K

Christians pray during a procession to mark Good Friday in Jammu on March 25. Christians all over the world are marking the solemn period of Easter. (AP Photo)

Forex reserves at all-time high of $355.9bn

MuMbai, March 26 (PTi): The country's foreign exchange reserves surged by USD 2.539 billion to touch an all-time high of USD 355.947 billion in the week ended March 18, on account of rise in foreign currency assets (FCAs), the Reserve Bank said on Friday.The reserves had touched a high of USD 355.46 billion in the week ended June 19 last year.

FCAs, a major component of overall reserves, increased by USD 2.505 billion to USD 332.504 billion in the reporting week,

RBI said in a release here.FCAs, expressed in dollar terms, include the effect of appreciation and depreciation of non-US currencies, such as the euro, pound and the yen, held in the reserves. Gold reserves marginally rose by USD 0.6 million to USD 19.325 billion in the week. India's special drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) increased by USD 12.1 million to USD 1.498 billion, while the country's reserve position with the Fund was up by USD 21.1 million to USD 2.618 billion, RBI said.

New Delhi, March 26 (PTi): There is no fear in the minds of perpetrators of crimes against women which have been rising on a daily basis, a Delhi court has said while sending a 20-year -old youth to jail for a year for outraging the modesty of a woman.

Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal handed over a one-year jail term to Central Delhi resident Abhimanyu while setting aside a magisterial court's order acquitting him.

The judge held that the convict "had assaulted the victim and also outraged her modesty when she questioned him as to why he was following her on daily basis".

"No ground for probation is made out in the present case, as Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the IPC was amended...to curb this menace, as the crimes against women are increasing on daily basis without any fear in the minds of

Yoga-based cure for cancer within a year: AYUSH minister PaNaJi, March 26 (iaNS): A cancer treatment through Yoga that does away with the need for chemotherapy to arrest and cure the disease is just a year away, union Minister of state for AYUSH Shripad Naik said on Saturday.

Speaking on the sidelines of the AYUSH expo organised by the central ministry near Panaji, the minister said his ministry is in the process of vetting documentation submitted by a Bengaluru-based deemed yoga university, which is said to have cured patients suffering from cancer using yoga.

"There is an institute in Bengaluru. They have found a yoga technique for prevention and cure of cancer. We have collected all documentation and

the process is going on," Naik told reporters.

Naik said that prima facie he was confident about the "cancer cure" claimed by the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, a deemed university headed by H. R. Narendra, a mechanical engineer who has worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1970 and subsequently had a stint at Harvard University.

Asked how long it would take for the AYUSH ministry to vet the documentation submitted by the Samsthana related to cancer cure, Naik said: "I think it will take about a year. The documentation should be perfect."

Dentist beaten to death: Court sends 5 accused to JC

New Delhi, March 26 (PTi): Five persons including a woman, who were arrested for allegedly beating to death a 40-year-old dentist at his West Delhi house, were sent to judicial custody till March 28 by a court here today.

Duty magistrate Jitender Singh remanded the five accused to judicial custody as they are yet to undergo Test Identification Parade (TIP).

The accused, Naseer, Amir, Ameer and Gopal, all aged around 20 years, were arrested yesterday. Naseer's mother Maesar was arrested today by the police.

The police has also arrested four juveniles who were pro-

duced before the Juvenile Justice Board today.

According to the police, the incident took place late on March 23 night when dentist Pankaj Narang was playing cricket with his eight-year-old son and a nephew in a small space outside his house when the ball allegedly hit two men who were passing by on a motorcycle.

This led to a scuffle between the doctor and the two bike-riders -- Naseer (23) and a minor.

After the scuffle, the duo, both residents of a nearby slum cluster, left the spot, abandoning their motorbike there, while the doctor returned home with the children, police said.

The duo, however, returned

with at least 10 other people in a few minutes and the group allegedly attacked the doctor with bats, sticks and rods at his residence, it said.

They allegedly assaulted everyone who came to his rescue and severely thrashed the doctor's brother-in-law, it said.

The neighbours informed the police around 12.45 AM but the accused fled by the time the police team arrived.

The doctor and his brotherin-law were rushed to a hospital, where the former succumbed to his injuries. A case has been lodged for the alleged offences of murder, attempt to murder, house trespass and rioting against several persons.

persons perpetuating the said crimes," the court said.

In its order, the court also considered the fact that the convict was only 20 years of age at the time of the incident and was the only bread-earner of the family, saying, "interest of justice would be met if the convict is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year."

Besides, the court also held the convict guilty under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) IPC and imposed a fine of Rs 1,500 on him.

According to prosecution, the woman had filed a complaint on December 9, 2013, that she was working as nursing orderly and the youth had abused, assaulted and outraged her modesty.

She had claimed that for one year, the convict used to abuse her whenever he met her on the way.

The youth, however, had claimed innocence saying he had been falsely implicated in this case.

JaMMu, March 26 (iaNS): The die for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir was cast on Saturday with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti staking claim to power and the BJP supporting her claim before Governor N.N. Vohra at the Raj Bhawan here.

After meeting Vohra, both Mehbooba Mufti and Nirmal Singh, leader of the BJP legislature party, told reporters the process of government formation by the two alliance partners had begun after Mufti claimed to form the next elected government in the state and the BJP supported her claim before the governor.

Addressing the media after she came out of Raj Bhawan, Mehbooba Mufti said: "The vision of Mufti Muhammad Sayeed will be fulfilled with renewed vigour by our government.

Mufti Sahib's vision of development and peace will

Mehbooba Mufti (IANS Photo)

be fulfilled by the coalition government to be headed by me".

Asked whether there had been any last minute hitch over portfolio sharing with the BJP, she said: "Portfolios are not important. That is something we can sit together and sort out."

Nirmal Singh said his party had supported Mehbooba Mufti's claim to power and the new government would take office in the state soon.

Asked to specify the

date when the oath taking ceremony of the new government would be held, Singh said no date had been decided yet for the oath taking ceremony and the same would be mutually decided during the meetings of the two parties in the coming 2-3 days.

Jammu and Kashmir was placed under governor's rule on January 8, a day after then chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed passed away in New Delhi.

Headley videographed Indian Army HQ in 2009 MuMbai, March 26 (iaNS): Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Saturday said he recced the Indian Army Headquarter in New Delhi in March 2009 after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

The stunning reply came in response to a specific question posed during his cross-examination by lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan, whether he (Headley) had recced the Vice-President of India's house in New Delhi.

Denying that he surveyed the VIP residence, Headley revealed that he had recced and videographed the entire road between the Sena Bhawan - the Indian Army Hq - till the National Defence College (NDC), with the Vice-President's House falling somewhere midway.

On February 12, during his examination-in-chief by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, Headley had admitted that he visited the NDC campus once in 2007 at the instance of his Lashkar-e-Taiba handler, Sajid Mir, since the terror group Al-Qaeda felt it was "a good, high-value target".

On February 13, Headley revealed how, post-26/11, he had surveyed the NDC, Chabad Houses in Goa, Pushkar and Pune, besides the Indian Army's Southern Command HQ in Pune (March 16-17, 2009) in an attempt by the Pakistan spy agency ISI to infiltrate the military establishment, recruit army officers and get 'classified information' from them.

On Saturday, Headley revealed and elaborated about the survey and videography conducted of the entire high security route between Sena Bhavan and

David Headley (File Photo)

NDC, with the Vice-President's house inbetween, in the national capital.

"No personal knowledge about Ishrat Jahan" operation Earlier in the day, Headley said though he was aware of the Thane college girl Ishrat Jahan episode through the newspapers, Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi had informed him about the 'operation.'

He said he had informed India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) about "a female member who had died in an encounter in India Ishrat Jahan" and other related things, but was clueless why the NIA did not record his statement accurately.

However, he admitted before Special Judge G.A. Sanap that he had "no personal knowledge about Ishrat Jahan" operation, on the last day of his cross-examination by lawyer Khan, who represents Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, one of the prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai ter-

ror strikes.

Elaborating on his earlier stance, Headley said he did not tell NIA about Lakhvi informing him that the Ishrat Jahan module was a "botched-up operation" and claimed he 'thought' it was a failure.

He said he had given details on various aspects to the NIA officials when they interrogated him in the US in July 2010, but his statements were not read out to him.

He did not seek a copy of his statement nor was it provided to him by the NIA, Headley said, raising serious doubts on the NIA statement. Headley referred to certain statements he made to the NIA on LeT ex-commander Muzammil Bhatt and Ishrat Jahan who was killed in an encounter by Gujarat Police along with three other male aides near Ahmedabad in 2004.

He said that he had informed NIA that "Ishrat Jahan was an Indian and a LeT operative", but had no explanation why this was not recorded by the NIA. Headley had first brought up Ishrat's name, a 19-year girl studying in a Mumbai college in February during his examination-in-chief by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. But on Friday, he said, the NIA had not prompted him in any manner to say her name.

He also claimed to have informed NIA that the LeT's operations were spread all over India but concentrated in Maharashtra and Gujarat, which was not recorded by the NIA team.

The four-day cross-examination of Headley via video-conferencing from an undisclosed location in the US, by Khan ended here on Saturday afternoon.

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Syrian army pushes into Palmyra BeIruT, MArcH 26 (reuTerS): Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra on several fronts on Saturday with support from air strikes and artillery bombardment, state media and a monitoring group said, and live television showed waves of explosions inside the city.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described it as the heaviest assault yet in a threeweek campaign by the Syrian army and allied militia fighters to recapture the desert city from Islamic State fighters.

Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman said Syrian soldiers and allied militias had taken control of one-third of Palmyra, mainly in the west and north, including parts of its ancient Roman-era ruins.

Soldiers were also fighting on a southern front, he said.

State-run television also said the army was advancing inside Palmyra, recapturing several neighbourhoods.

Television footage from the slopes of the medieval citadel, which was seized by the army on Friday and overlooks the city, showed tanks and armoured vehicles firing into Palmyra.

Waves of explosions hit buildings, and smoke could be seen rising from many locations. Earlier, the Observatory said that Islamic State militants had launched counter-attacks - including car bombings against advancing soldiers.

UN presses Iraq on national reconciliation to defeat IS

Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad gesture as they advance into the historic city of Palmyra in this picture provided by SANA on March 24, 2016. (REUTERS Photo)

The recapture of Palmyra, which the Islamist group seized in May 2015, would mark the biggest reversal for Islamic State in Syria since Russia's intervention turned the tide of the fiveyear conflict in President Bashar al-Assad's favour.

The group, and al Qaeda's Syrian branch the Nusra Front, is excluded from a month-long cessation of hostilities agreement that has brought a lull in fight-

ing between the government and rebels battling Assad in western Syria.

The limited truce has allowed peace talks to resume in Geneva. But progress has been slow, with the government and its opponents disagreeing fundamentally on the terms of such a transition, including whether Assad must leave power.

military presence in Syria but has strongly supported the Palmyra offensive, carrying out dozens of air strikes this week and acknowledging that a Russian special forces officer was killed in combat near the city.

Palmyra had a population of 50,000 according to a census more than 10 years ago. Those numbers RUSSIAN SUPPORT were swelled hugely by an Russia has reduced its influx of people displaced

by Syria's conflict, which has raged since 2011, but most fled when Islamic State took over.

Recapturing the city would open up eastern Syria, where Islamic State controls most of the Euphrates Valley provinces of Deir al-Zor and Raqqa, to the army.

"Our heroic forces are continuing to advance until we liberate every inch of this pure land," a soldier

BAGHDAD, MArcH 26 (reuTerS): U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on the Iraqi government on Saturday to step up efforts to foster reconciliation between the nation's Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim communities in order to combat Islamic State.

"National reconciliation is an important part of the strategy to defeat Daesh (Islamic State), who have ruthlessly exploited divisions and targeted the marginalized and disenfranchised," he told a joint news conference in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

The U.N. chief was referring to the country's minority Sunnis who say they were marginalized under the Shi'ite-led government installed after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and some of whom have joined the militant group which seized swathes of Iraq nearly two years ago.

World Bank President Jim Young Kim and president of the Islamic Development Bank Ahmad Mohamed Ali joined Ban in the rare visit to Iraq's capital and were expected to accompany him to the northern Kurdish city of Erbil later in the day.

Ali said the bank would contribute to the reconstruction of areas destroyed in fighting between Islamic State and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seeking to recapture them.

The World Bank lent Iraq around $2 billion last year for reconstruction, infrastructure, and emergency budget support to help it deal with the economic effects of the fight against Islamic State and the low price of oil, which accounts for around 90 percent of government revenues. told state-run television in a broadcast from slopes of the citadel, which overlooks the city's monumental ruins.

In August, Islamic State fighters dynamited two ancient buildings, the temples of Bel and Baal Shamin, which had stood as cultural landmarks in Palmyra for nearly two millennia. The United Nations described their destruction as a war crime.

Television footage in the last 24 hours from the edge of Palmyra has shown some of the city's structures and famed colonnades still standing, although the extent of any damage was impossible to assess.

Syrian officials said last year they had moved hundreds of ancient statues to safe locations before the city was overrun

by Islamic State.

Belgian prosecutors charge Chinese activist says family “taken away” over letter calling for Xi to quit three men with terrorism BruSSelS, MArcH 26 (reuTerS): Belgian federal prosecutors on Saturday said they had charged three men, including a suspect Belgian media believe is a man captured on security footage with two suicide bombers at Brussels airport on Tuesday.

This man, named only as Faycal C and who media say was the man wearing a hat and a light jacket in the picture at the airport, was charged with taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder.

The prosecutor's statement said no weapons or explosives had been found during a search of his home.

Two other men, Aboubakar A. and Rabah N., were also charged with terrorist activities and membership of a terrorist group.

Rabah N. was wanted in connection with a related raid in France this week that authorities say foiled an apparent attack plot.

Prosecutors also said they were holding a further man, Abderamane A., for an extra 24 hours. He was detained following a series of

raids after this week's bomb blasts at Brussels airport and on a rush hour train.

Another person, Tawfik A., taken in for questioning on Friday, was released.

Earlier on Saturday Belgian media had named the third man seen at the airport with two bombers on Tuesday as Faycal Cheffou and said he was a freelance journalist.

Le Soir newspaper said Cheffou was identified by a taxi driver who drove the attackers to the airport. Earlier it had quoted police sources as saying it was highly likely he was the third man seen at the airport.

Nine people in total have been arrested since Thursday in Belgium and two in Germany, as European authorities swoop on Islamic State militants they link to the bombings at the airport and the metro in Brussels that killed 31 people and to the attacks in Paris last November that killed 130.

The brother of one of the two suicide bombers who died at the airport killed himself in the bomb on the metro.

NeW YOrK, MArcH 26 (reuTerS): A New York-based Chinese Internet activist told Reuters on Friday that China's authorities have detained three members of his family in connection with an open letter calling for the resignation of President Xi Jinping.

In an interview in New York where he lives, Wen Yunchao said his parents and younger brother were "taken away" by the authorities on Tuesday and have disappeared, days after the government "harassed" his family to investigate his suspected involvement in distributing the letter.

Wen denied writing the online letter, which was signed by "a loyal Communist Party Member" and circulated widely at the beginning of China's parliament session this month. Wen also said he did not help distribute the letter, and had only linked to it on his Twitter account after the letter had been published by a Chinese news website.

Reuters was unable to independently confirm Wen's account about the disappearance of his relatives or to determine if he had any broader involvement in producing or publicising the letter.

Calls to the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing seeking comment went unanswered.

"There is no reasonable excuse for them to take away my parents

Wen Yunchao

and my brother, no matter how you look at it," Wen said, referring to authorities in China's southern Guangdong province where his family lives.

"I've told them very clearly I'm not the author of the letter, I did not aid anyone in broadcasting the letter, and third, that I did not post the letter on any website," he said.

The online letter had called for the immediate resignation of Xi and blamed him for "unprecedented problems."

The Chinese government has consistently and strongly denied any complicity in human rights abuses, but says those who break the law must be punished.

Wen said the authorities visited his family after Liu Gang, a former student activist of China's 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protest, wrote in a blog post that Wen had authored the letter.

Liu could not be reached for comment.

On Monday, the lawyer of a well-known Chinese columnist, Jia Jia, said police "took away" the columnist after he had warned former colleagues of the danger of republishing the letter.

Amnesty International called for China to end its "manhunt" of those it thinks had something to do with the letter.

"The authorities should call off

the political hounding of those suspected to be behind the open letter and release all those detained in connection with it," William Nee, China researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement on Friday. Nee did not specifically name Wen or his family, but issued the statement soon after reports of the detentions.

Wen said his parents told him by phone earlier this month that the authorities promised to stop harassing them if Wen disclosed to the government who wrote the letter and how it was published.

He said his sister-in-law told him on Thursday night that his family had been "taken away" three days ago.

His sister-in-law did not explain why he was not informed immediately, did not identify the people who took his relatives away, and did not take his phone calls, Wen said.

He said he inferred from his family's previous conversations with the authorities that their disappearance was related to the letter calling for Xi's resignation.

President Xi has embarked on an unprecedented effort to clamp down on the Internet and censor opinions that do not reflect those of Communist Party leaders, including by imposing tougher penalties for what the Chinese government calls spreading rumours.

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Post-quake, cracks and holes develop in Mount Everest KATHMANDu, MArcH 26 (IANS): The world tallest mountain, Everest, has developed several cracks and holes due to the devastating April 25, 2015 earthquake, 'ice-fall' doctors who are installing ropes and aluminum ladders from base camp to top of the mountain have said.

These ice-fall doctors prepare the route from the base camp to the summit, paving the way for climbers to ascend the peak.

Several media reports in Kathmandu said that although a week has passed since the ice-fall doctors began their work, the highaltitude specialists have not yet reached Camp 1 due to difficulties in installing the equipment.

"There are several cracks and holes along the Everest route this year," said Ang Kami Sherpa, adding that tbe earthquake might have caused the cracks.

"As a result, we need more aluminum ladders this year compared to previous years to navigate through the cracks and holes."

The climbing season for Everest will being next month, one the most adventurous and dangerous efforts in the world due to a lot of risk that are associated with it.

Khumbu region where the Mt Everest is located, is well-known for difficult ice-pits but due to new cracks and holes this time, ice-fall doctors are facing new challenges in fixing the route.

After 19 climbers and porters were killed in 2014, the remaining had abandoned their expeditions en masse and last year too, there was no expedition to Everest due to the earthquake.

It is difficult to summiyt Everest only after fixing ladders in-between small peaks in between the routes and ice-pits. Nepal has just seven such ice-fall doctors who are trained for fixing the route.

According to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), more than 40 ladders have been installed below Camp 1, and the number could hit 200 by the time the ice- fall doctors reach Camp 2. The SPCC manages the icefall doctors and has been launching garbage clearing campaigns on the mountain.

There is a small window for climbing Everest in early May and there is a huge rush of climbers and porters. When the weather is clear, climbers rush to ascend the mountain. At that moment, Everest sees a traffic jam. This time, to avoid overcrowding, the ice-fall doctors are making a two-way route."

"The move is aimed at reducing crowds and ensuring the safety of climbers," said SPCC administrator Nishan Shrestha.

Cruz, Trump spar over tabloid charges of affair Brussels airport to remain WASHINGTON, MArcH 26 (reuTerS): Republican Ted Cruz on Friday denounced an article in the National Enquirer tabloid claiming he had extramarital affairs as "complete and utter lies" and accused rival Donald Trump of being the source of the story.

The story took the Republican presidential race to a new level of personal rancor and Trump issued a statement saying he was not responsible for it.

"I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer and unlike Lyin' Ted Cruz I do not surround myself with political hacks and henchman and then pretend total innocence," Trump said.

Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, addressed the Enquirer story at a news conference in Wisconsin, saying, "Let me be clear. This National Enquirer story is garbage. It is complete and utter lies. It's tabloid smear

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) smiles as rival Ted Cruz looks on during the Republican U.S. presidential candidates debate sponsored by CNN at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida on March 10, 2016. (REUTERS Photo)

and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen."

Trump's statement pointed to other articles the Enquirer, a tabloid known for its gossip and unflattering celebrity photos, had been correct about in the past.

"Ted Cruz’s problem with the National Enquirer is his and his alone, and while they were right about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and many others, I certainly hope they are not right about Lyin’ Ted Cruz," the billionaire New York developer said.

Trump and Cruz have sparred in recent days about their wives as they battle to be the Republican nominee in the November 8 election. Earlier this week Trump accused Cruz of posting a nude photo of Trump's wife, Melania, on Twitter. Cruz denied hav-

ing any role in the photo being circulated on the Internet and Trump responded by threatening to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife.

Cruz said the Enquirer story was evidence that Trump is unfit to be president. "This man would be an embarrassment," he said.

The Enquirer published blurred images of five women with whom it said Cruz has had affairs but did not name them. Two women who appeared to be pictured in the Enquirer stepped forward on Friday and called the article false.

The National Enquirer could not immediately be reached for comment on the story.

Cruz' wife, Heidi Cruz, was campaigning with him on Friday and he gave her a hug and kiss before he began a town hall event. She sat off stage smiling while he spoke.

This is not the first time a presidential candidate

has been accused of extramarital sex.

During the 1992 campaign, Gennifer Flowers came forward to detail an affair she had with Bill Clinton. Subsequently, more women admitted to having affairs with him, including then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, had his 1988 presidential campaign derailed when reports surfaced that he was having an affair.

Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards admitted to having an affair with a campaign photographer during his 2004 campaign, although the public did not learn about the romance until after he was defeated.

The Enquirer's Cruz story exploded on the social media site Twitter overnight on Thursday. By Thursday afternoon, #CruzSexScandal was a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.

closed till March 29

BruSSelS, MArcH 26 (IANS): Brussels international airport will not reopen before March 29, authorities said on Saturday, following terror attacks in the Belgian capital that killed 31 people.

According to a statement issued by the airport authorities, the Zaventem airport is now "studying a temporary solution to partially resume passenger flights, and considering new security measures at Belgian airports, decided by the federal government."

Zaventem airport was the first target on Tuesday, with two suicide bomb explosions in the departures hall killing 11 people. An hour later, 20 people died in the suicide bombing of a metro station, BBC reported.

A team of airport engineers and technicians is being given access to the

terminal building for the first time since the attack.

They will assess the damage and stability of the building. The airport authorities will also install new security measures.

The airport check-in area suffered severe damage when two blasts seconds apart hit opposite ends of the departures hall.

Police in Belgium on Saturday continued operations to search for members of the terror cell, in particular the missing man from the airport image and a man suspected of aiding the metro attack.

The two suicide bombers were identified by DNA as Najim Laachraoui and Brahim el-Bakraoui. They were pictured in an airport CCTV image.

Twelve people were arrested on Thursday and Friday in Belgium, France and Germany.

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SunDAY 27•03•2016

SPORTS

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barcelona pays tribute 10-Northeren Angami T20 bash Brief Scores: to cruyff at camp Nou Knights – 171/4 in 20 overs [Imli 55, Thejakhrienyü (51); Neitseizo 2/37] Lions – 157/7 in 20 overs [Kongba 38, Yandang 36; Eden 2/34] Man of the match – Imli Royals – 176/5 in 20 overs [Amhalie 60, Renjamo 28] Sixers - 149 all out in 19 overs [Kamal 24; Mhachamo 3/19, Saroj 2/32] Man of the match – Amhalie A fielder attempts a catch during the 3rd 10-Northeren Angami T20 Bash 2016 at Kohima Village Ground, Ziekezou on March 26. (Morung Photo)

Challengers – 110/8 in 15 overs [Medokhrielie 41; Vithozo 4/21, Neihezo 2/13] Strikers - 80 all out in 12.4 overs [Kezhavizo 18, Neihezo 18; Neipfhelie 4/19, Viketou 2/12] Man of the match – Neipfhelie

KohiMa, March 26 (Mexn): Tsütuo avü Lions by 14 runs in the first match of Knights, Peraciezie Royals and RS Chal- the day, while Amhalie (60 from 46 balls) lengers won their respective games on helped Peraciezie Royals to a mammoth Saturday in the ongoing 3rd 10-Northeren score of 176 runs and helped his team to March 28 matches: Angami T20 Bash 2016 being held at Ko- a comfortable 27 run victory over Upper Lower Bayavü Giants vs North Block Warriors @ 7am Bayavü Sixers. In the day’s third match, RS Zienuobadze Highflyers vs High School Daredevils @ hima Village Ground, Ziekezou.

Led by half centuries from Imli (55 Challengers defeated Chede Strikers by 30 10:30am Barcelona's football fan pays tribute to late Dutch football star Johan Cruyff in a special condolence area set up at Camp Nou stadium, in Barcelona on March 26. (AFP Photo) from 30 balls) and Thejakhrienyü (51 from runs in a match which was reduced to a 15 Lower L. Khel Vikings vs Mission Dukes @ 2pm Barcelona, March 26 (aFP): ber 14 shirt was left empty in the VIP stand 65), Tsütuo Knights defeated Middle Bay- over contest.

Barcelona fans, players and officials paid at a game which saw the Dutch slip to a 3-2 tribute Saturday to the memory of for- defeat against the hosts of the Euro 2016 mer player and manager Johan Cruyff in tournament this summer.

It was the first time that an internationfront of a memorial space set up inside the al has been halted for such a gesture. club's Camp Nou stadium.

KohiMa, March 26 (Mexn): A general assembly of "It was special," said France coach Di- the Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) will be held The eulogies for the Dutch legend, who died from lung cancer on Thursday at the dier Deschamps. "A great man like Johan on April 22 at The Heritage, Kohima at 11:00 AM. All NWA age of 68, were led after a minute's silence Cruyff deserved such a tribute and the sta- officials, advisors, constituent unit members and senior by club president Josep Maria Bartomeu. dium responded to him."

Leading football figures have mean- members of the NWA have been requested to attend the Standing in front of a giant photo of a while continued to pay tribute to the the said meeting positively. The agenda for the assembly will smiling Cruyff, Bartomeu said that it was a sad day not only for everyone who loved Dutch star and highlight the importance be election of new office bearers of NWA for the tenure 2016-2020 and other relevant matters relating to the assoBarcelona football club, but also for every- of Cruyff's impact on the game.

"I knew nothing about football before ciation will also be discussed. This was stated in a release one who loved football.

"In agreement with the Cruyff family knowing Cruyff," said Pepe Guardiola, the issued by NWA General Secretary Rangsam N. Hau. we set up this memorial to allow everyone Bayern Munich coach who played under to express their feelings and say a final Cruyff at Barcelona and later became its most successful coach. farewell to this legend," he said.

"He helped us to understand football Hundreds of people of different naChampions and runners-up of the 7th Silver Cup T-20 Cricket Tournament along with Brig M tionalities, many in tears, filed past the ... and he encouraged you to trust your memorial, which was bedecked with flags instinct, your nose. To make decisions," KohiMa, Mach 26 (Mexn): Gulf Oil Lubricants S Nikam, Joint Director Dr. B. Lama, organising committee and officials at Jakhama Ground on March 26. (Morung Photo) and bouquets of red roses, and signed a Guardiola told Catalan radio station Rac1.

India Ltd (GOLIL) today announced that its parent "He revolutionised football and, in condolences book.

Our Correspondent during the tournament. He was also awardJohan Cruyff "came to Barcelona when particular, he embodied everything about company Gulf Oil International, a part of the Hinduja ed the highest run scorer prize.

Group, has entered into its largest ever single long term Kohima | March 26 Barcelona was winning nothing ," said one Barcelona's playing philosophy," said Organised by Nepali Baptist Church of them, Ignace Mosengo, a 45-year-old Joachim Loew, coach of the German team partnership with the world’s leading football club, Kohima Youth Department, the tournaBlue Stars Cricket Club Dimapur today Manchester United, to become its global sponsor and from the Congo who was on holiday in who won the 2014 World Cup. A one-time heavy smoker who gave up official lubricant cum fuel retail partner till the end of emerged champions of the 7th Edition of ment was held under the theme “Peace Barcelona with his wife.

Silver Cup T-20 Cricket Tournament held and Unity Through Cricket”.

"He gave them a new style of game, with after double heart by-pass surgery in 1991, the 2019 football season.

Group Commander of NNC Group The multi-year partnership was signed by Frank Rut- at Jakhama Ground. intricate passing, to keep possession of the Cruyff revealed in October last year that he Headquarter, Brigadier M S Nikam and In an exciting final match, Blue Star ten, Vice President, Gulf Oil International and Jamie ball. What we admire in the current Barce- had lung cancer.

Joint Director of Veterinary and Animal Husdefeated Kohima Hornbills ‘B’ by 20 runs The Cruyff family said it was arranging Reigle, Commercial Director, Manchester United at Aon lona team all harks back to him," he said. to lift the Silver Cup trophy for the second bandry Department, Dr. B. Lama attended The memorial will remain in place un- "a private farewell to Johan." But they did Training Complex, Manchester United’s official training time. The champions of 2014 (5th edition), the prize distribution ceremony as chief til Tuesday evening with Barcelona foot- not say when it would be held. ground in presence of the First Team Players and Man- Blue Stars winning the toss chose to bat guest and guest of honour respectively.

The family also said it would soon an- chester United Legends. ball club observing a period of mourning The champions received cash award of and set a target of 149 runs losing 7 wicknounce a public memorial for the player until April 2.

“Gulf Oil’s association with the world of sports has ets in 20 overs. Imliwati top scored with Rs. 70,000 with glittering trophy and citaFans as well as tourists had already who won three European Cups as a player been phenomenal right from motorsports to cricket, 38 runs while Muzibur chipped in with 32 tion while runners-up received Rs. 25,000 placed tributes at the entrance to the with Ajax Amsterdam and European play- where we have partnered with the best of the best. It was runs. Hornbills ‘B’ bowlers Sanjeev and with trophy and citation. The player of the Camp Nou stadium on Friday, including er of the year titles in 1971 with Ajax and therefore logical for us to team up with Manchester Unit- Probin picked two wickets each. tourney bagged Rs. 3000 with trophy while 1973 and 1974 with Barcelona. roses and lollipops.

In the run chase, Kohima Hornbills ‘B’ other individual awardees bagged Rs. 1500 ed in order to reiterate our brand’s core values of endurCruyff, who is considered to be one Cruyff often patrolled the touchline ance, quality and passion. We look forward to leverage fell short of balls even despite having five each with trophies. The two semifinalist sucking on a lollipop which became his of the greatest players of all time, moved this interesting mix of football and cricket and leverage wickets in hand at the end of the innings. teams received Rs. 5000 each while the 24 prop after he stopped smoking cigarettes. from Ajax to Barcelona in 1973 and stayed this partnership to increase consumer engagement with Angshuman contributed 26 runs while participating teams also received tournaOn Friday night, the Netherlands' in- there until 1978.

Probin scored 25 runs for the team. Blue ment allowances of Rs. 2000 each.

He returned 10 years later to coach the the brand, create new & exciting communication plat- Stars bowlers Bharat and skipper Vicky ternational against France in Amsterdam was halted in the 14th minute as a mark Spanish side. They won four consecutive forms that will emphasis the customer value proposi- claimed two rival wickets each.

Individual award winners: league titles and their first ever European tions,” said Ravi Chawla, Managing Director, GOLIL. of respect.

Bharat Newar of Blue Star CC was de- Highest wicket taker - Imliwabang of The deal will give Gulf Oil International access to clared man of the final match for his con- Blue Star CC (9 wickets) A huge portrait banner showing Cruyff Cup in 1992 at Wembley.

Cruyff helped end an era of dour de- Manchester United assets including the club crest and tribution of two wickets with the ball and Best Wicket Keeper - Raktim Bonia of and his familiar Dutch orange number 14 shirt was hauled across one end of the Are- fensive football, inspiring the Dutch team player images and Gulf’s distinctive orange disc will fea- 18 runs with the bat.

Sparks CC Dimapur nA stadium in his home city as fans and in their Total Football offensive that took ture on the Club’s digital perimeter boards during PreAnga of Kohima Hornbills ‘B’ was award- Emerging Player of the tourney - Nirban them to the 1974 World Cup final where mier League, FA Cup and League Cup matches at Old ed Player of the Tournament for his all round Rai of Royal Tourniquet players applauded.

Trafford.

A seat covered with flowers and a num- they were narrowly beaten by Germany. effort picking 5 wickets and scoring 196 runs Fair Play team award - Kohima Hornbills ‘B’

NWA general assembly

Blue Stars CC lifts 7th Silver Cup

Manchester united inks partnership with Gulf oil

public discourse

A message to the youth of Nagaland

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here comes a point in time in the history of every civilization when people cannot bear injustice anymore and say that enough is enough.

They confront the powers that be and work together in bringing about positive changes for the betterment and advancement of society. This is how many societies and civilizations have progressed in due course of time. They were able to realize that people united together as one are a source of strength and also the real source of authority; the power lies with the people. Sometimes, the transitions are violent and sometimes they’re peaceful. Change, nevertheless, is an assured thing.

Nagaland is a curious case.

Maybe we are too Christian and too forgiving. Maybe we are too ignorant and arrogant. I don’t think God put us here on earth just to praise him and worship him.

Think about it. So much injustice has been going around and yet we turn a blind eye, hoping and praying that God will take care of everything at the end of the day. While we wait for God, thieves and robbers are stealing from us in broad daylight and making merry. We must do something on our part too and that something is doing the right thing. We can’t pretend that everything is alright, not least when our future is at stake and in the hands of the few elite.

The world is moving ahead leaps and bounds. People are scaling new heights. And us? We’re stuck in this rat hole, cursing our fate and luck, and as long as we remain so, change will never occur. We are the youth of Nagaland, we are the promise of the future and the future belongs to us.

We cannot be robbed of our future.

For too long, we have been conditioned to believe that things will remain the same (and ever mundane) and that we should mind our

own business, but I say we have to break out of this false and fractured belief system. Every decision that the government makes affects us, more often than not in a negative way. Just take a look at the recently concluded Nagaland Legislative Assembly session from March 1519, 2016. Nothing of substance was actually ever discussed. Instead of deliberating on serious problems and issues confronting the state of Nagaland, the Naga legislators turned a blind eye. They did not even bother to discuss or debate on the CAG report on Nagaland (given the fact that they’re the culprits and why would they discuss anyway?).

They have mistaken themselves to be representatives of Utopia. You see how we’re taken for a ride and how we’re used as mere pawns in their hunger games? They decide our future and politics. Do they even know what the ground situation is in this pitiful state of ours?

This is most contemptible by any standard. We cannot simply allow this to continue anymore. The government harps on the fact that the present Nagaland government is an opposition less government and that they have come together for Naga unity and for an early solution to the Indo-Naga political issue. However, even if the Indo-Naga political issue is solved (supposedly, and it should, hopefully), the state of affairs will remain the same, more or less. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Things are looking bleak if we peek into the future unless we stand up and tear down the walls of hypocrisy that engulf Nagaland. Nagaland is so much in debt that any day from now, the Union Government of India might come down here some day and on the pretext of recovering debts, explore our state’s oil, gas and natural resources, easily overriding Article 371A and making it irrelevant. Believe me, this is a possibility in the

future. We need to pull up our socks.

The so-called leaders of Nagaland go around building palaces and castles while the common man is treated like dirt and we are all very much aware of this despicable phenomenon in particular. We can’t run away from it. We all know how agitated we get when we talk about the impunity of the government and government officials. We must channel our anger into something positive which is by starting to do right by people and according to the law.

One of the funniest things (forgive my bad sense of humor) the Nagaland government tells the youth is to learn how to stand on our own feet and not to depend only on government jobs. How we wish it was as easy as it sounds! Can somebody please tell the government to first advise the NPGs to stop collecting taxes from us and only after that will we go about starting our own businesses and realizing our ambitions of becoming entrepreneurs?

For sure, one can argue that there are a few Nagas who are making it big in the private sector industry but let’s be honest (with all due respect to them), they’re usually the well-off ones. Sons and daughters of political big shots and what-not, who can afford to pay multiple taxes unlike the ordinary Naga who can hardly make both ends meet. Let us assume for a moment that I’m earning Rupees 10-/ month out of which I have to pay Rupees 7 as taxes after which I’m left with Rupees 3. Now what am I supposed to do with it?

Work harder and pay even more?

There are many problems, small and big, confronting Nagaland. In the end, the ordinary people end up paying the ultimate price for the sins of the people at the helm of power. Salaries are paid late or haven’t been paid for a number of months, our roads are a joke, our educational system is an

insult to us, funds meant for development are diverted to God knows where, small time contractors are not paid their due share of money for months and years. Almost everything is in shambles. We can’t afford to remain silent anymore.

There’s so much going on which are starting to slowly overwhelm us. Just look at the swelling number of Bangladeshis in our state. I bet you the government doesn’t have a proper mechanism to check this almost impossible to check trend.

The CAG report on the Youth Resources & Sports Department, Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, SARDP-NE and fraudulent fund withdrawals by officers of various departments all point to the fact that the people of Nagaland are being toyed around with.

The CAG report is nothing new but it sure is a damning revelation.

We have to start at some point and we have to start now. The future is calling and we must wake from our slumber. We cannot wait for God to come down and take action. This would only make things worse than ever. We have to take action on our part too. Let me be very clear that I’m not advocating for a violent revolution (only time will tell) but all I’m saying is that CHANGE is of utmost necessity at this juncture of Naga history. Let’s start with the small things.

Changes often come from the most unexpected and smallest of places.

We, the youth of Nagaland, have a duty to safeguard our interests, we have a duty towards the well-being of Nagaland, a duty towards God and most importantly, we have a duty towards our future Naga generations who will judge us on the amount of good work that we have done and the kind of world we leave behind for them.

“When politics decides our future, we decide our politics” Long Live Nagaland!

I Longkumer, Dimapur

Nagaland Backward Tribes Commission, Bill 2016 a ploy to woo ENPO people in view of 2018 elections

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he recent 11th Session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly had passed the “Nagaland Backward Tribes Commission (NBTC), Bill 2016.” There is no objection to such Bill in its name and style. But one surprises after going through the contents of the Bill which now becomes legislation as it has been passed in the just concluded Nagaland Assembly Session.

When I have studied the contents of the NBTC, 2016 with full of curiosity, to my amaze, a lot of loopholes and highly questionable nature of the Act (NBTC, 2016) have been found. And I have come to a conclusion that without proper debates and discussions in the Assembly when the Bill was tabled, the Assembly, which has no Opposition, might have hurriedly passed it. The manner in which the present TR Zeliang-led Opposition-less Government in Nagaland had passed the NBTC Act 2016 is questionable. It appears to be a ploy in view of the 2018 State General Elections to woo the electorates of the Eastern Naga areas.

Why I said so?

The NBTC Act 2016 has mainly focused on the six tribes of ENPO areas namely Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Phom, Sangtam and Yimchungru belonging to Longlen, Kiphire, Mon and Tuensang districts of Nagaland. And when Chief Minister TR Zeliang was asked before passing the NBTC Bill 2016 as to how such Bill was moved to pass, his simple reply was it was done on the basis of a Memorandum submitted by the ENSF. How could a Chief Minister say that such NBTC Bill 2016 could be drafted on the basis of a Memorandum submitted by the ENSF without properly examining the commissions and omissions and any other would-be consequences if there were any overlapping points in the Bill. Because you introduced the Bill as “Nagaland Backward Tribes Commission (NBTC), Bill 2016” and mentioning only six tribes of Longlen, Kiphire,

Mon and Tuensang districts of Nagaland, whereas there are other backward tribes in Nagaland who have also been enjoying “backward tribe reservation quotas.”

What will the Chief Minister do if Tenyime students submit a similar Memorandum as a precedence has already been created? We will have no option but to accept it and make it a “Law.” I would like to inform the Chief Minister of Nagaland that we already have DUDA and also other Schemes meant for the development of the backward regions in the State. The people particularly living in the ENPO areas have been struggling to catch up with the rest of the State in education and employment sectors. There are 25% job reservations for the people of the ENPO areas but how far the State Government has done justice to this. It has been 52 years of Nagaland Statehood and if one carefully examines, there are unimaginable gaps between the people of ENPO areas and the rest of the State in areas of employments and educations. Now the Government will take the excuse that because this failure in implementing the job reservations, a Bill such as NBTC Bill 2016 has come up. It is nothing a ploy not only woo the people of the ENPO areas in view of the upcoming 2018 Nagaland General Elections but also consuming fund meant for the ENPO areas. It is also time-buying mechanism and the people of the ENPO areas will only suffer at the end.

The Government of Nagaland can simply fulfill the 25% job reservations for the people of ENPO areas. There are also various Schemes flowing in from the Center for the development of the backward regions in the State and such funds hardly percolate down to the targeted. They do not need a Commission to implement it.

This controversial legislation has to be reviewed in an acceptable manner, or else it has to be retracted.

T Methna Konyak Mon Town, Nagaland

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Sunday 27•03•2016

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Changing lives through PAWF Morung Express Entertainment

Akangchila Longchar

Talien and Talitemjen envisions working

towards a future where the PAWF Club is an established and thriving brand.

Zumba Kids: PAWF Club is organizing an exciting and fun event for less privileged children and their parents at The Garden (Super Market, Dimapur) called “Zumba Kids” on April 2.

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erforming Arts with Fitness or PAWF Nagaland Club came to the limelight in 2015 when they organized a fitness programme to create public awareness. This was met with huge success! The PAWF Club is now extremely popular for its fitness programmes GX (group exercise) like Zumba Fitness, Dance and Martial Arts.

Currently, GX classes are being held at the Ana-Ki Conference Hall, Khermahal, Dimapur every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The PAWF Club has members as young as 4 years old to many active and energetic moms and dads. Beyond fitness, the PAWF Club also offers services like Creative Chore-

ographies, Mentoring and Events.

The founders behind the PAWF Nagaland Club originally were Talien Pongentsur and Talitemjen.

With rising popularity, presently, the team is expanding and now includes a Creative and Production Team headed by Akum Den, and a group of likeminded people who are solely dedicated to bring about changes in the society.

Talien is a product of Fitness First Platinum Delhi and a certified Zumba fitness instructor. Having worked with many world class fitness trainers, she is a Zumba Zin Member Worldwide, meaning she is certified to teach worldwide.

Talitemjen is a Certified Choreographer from

PAWF Club believes in the growth of the individual, building a positive community and increasing productivity, promoting good health, acting as a channel to opportunities and employment.

Mumbai under 3 Idiots choreographed the open- the younger generation. where our heart and mind Production and one of the ing and closing ceremony Beside fitness, it also strives lives and these two phefirst Choreographer of Na- of Hornbill 2015. Talitem- to promote Dance and nomenal activities help galand to represent Naga- jen is also the chief instruc- Martial Arts in Nagaland us to define who we are. If land State to the National tor of Japan Karate Associa- to show dance and Martial we are healthy enough we level dance competition tion of Nagaland.

Arts lovers the right chan- will be able to worship bet(Naach Challenge 2009).

The PAWF Club be- nel and mentor their career ter, reach out better, inspire He is trained under the lieves in the growth of the as well. better, teach better and guidance of international individual, building a posiTalien says, “Our body work better for the Creator.

Choreographer Lindsay tive community and in- is our Church, our Temple, With us at PAWF we work Lorell (CANADA). He is creasing productivity, pro- our Gurudwara, and our you out, make you forget trained in Ballet, Jazz, Salsa, moting good health, acting Mosque. Our body is the stress, give you positive enContemporary, Hip-Hop as a channel to opportuni- small place where the wor- ergy and make your proand Bollywood. He also ties and employment for ship begins because that’s ductivity increase.”

Meanwhile, Talitemjen elaborates the PAWF motto ‘Change your life with us’. “Our tree of Life starts from the Root. The Root is Me. I am constantly changing and therefore I am progressing. Change is Good, it is risky yet it leads to growth. When I change definitely I am inspiring my families and friends and the community starts to grow based on what I am now which is lead by positivity. We are trying to feed the community with positivity and good energy.

We get the exact response of what we put out there and that is when we talk about the positivity of Universal Energy. We see our friends changing, our student changing and family changing. This is when we came up with this ‘change your life with us’.”

The PAWF Club is currently working on charity events in hopes of ‘generating something good’. On the 2nd of April, 2016 it is organizing an exciting and fun event for less privileged children and their parents at The Garden (Super Market, Dimapur) called “Zumba Kids”. Soon after this, the PAWF Club also has plans to reach out to

some 400 Church youths.

Simultaneously, the PSWF Club is also working with Nagaland Manhunt in collaboration with Embolden Group, taking care of their fitness activity and choreographing the show.

On April 7th, 2016 the PAWF Club will be celebrating the World Health Day in collaboration with the Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (Referral Hospital) in partnership with the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland.

Talien and Talitemjen envisions working towards a future where the PAWF Club is an established and thriving brand, which will provide opportunities and jobs to the younger generation. These two creative and inspiring artistes also aim to provide employment opportunities to upcoming dancers and mentor the artistic career of the youngsters as well.

“We are working hard, harder than ever. We are trying to build the community we always dreamed up. We have goals and we keep ourselves equipped with positive energy which helps us deliver,” they say.

Fabric plus and Runway Nagaland buyer-seller meet held

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abric Plus’, a Guwahati-based garment manufacturing firm in collaboration with ‘Runway Nagaland’, organized a buyers’ and sellers’ meet and fashion show here at Hotel Acacia on Saturday.

Jayanta Thakuria from Fabric Plus said the objective of the meet–cum-fashion show was to link the gap between manufacturers, sellers and buyers of textile products of the North East Region.

Thakuria said Fabric Plus manufactures garments including wrapper, stole, shawl, bed throw and other garments using exclusively erie and muga silk. He said Fabric Plus produces 150 metric tonnes of erie silk annually and impacts some 40,000

on a “benevolence mission” to Mon

Models displaying ethnic designs and textiles of the North East at Hotel Acacia, Saturday. (Morung Photo)

people including providing livelihood to silk farmers of the North East.

Proprietor, Runway Nagaland, Nengneithem Hengna, said Runway Na-

galand is mainly focused on promotion of handloom and handmade products of Nagaland.

Customers of Nagaland can now avail Fabric Plus

products from Runway Nagaland.

A fashion show on the fabric and textiles of the North East Region was also held.

Rolling Stones deliver historic concert in Cuba

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he historic concert of legend- fans not only from Havana, but other ary British rock band The Roll- provinces and even countries, who ing Stones in Cuba has drawn huge were eager not to miss the chance to crowds to Havana's Sports City. The band was greeted at the free show on Friday night by tens of thousands of

The Rolling Stones perform in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 25, 2016. The Stones are performing in a free concert in Havana Friday, becoming the most famous act to play Cuba since its 1959 revolution.

see the rock icons, Efe news agency reported.

At the start of the concert, lead singer Mick Jagger greeted the audience in Spanish, saying Hello, Havana. Good evening my people of Cuba before opening the set with 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'. Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, bassist Ron Wood, and drummer Charlie Watts, arrived in Havana on Thursday to perform the show, which has been dubbed the Friendship Concert.

The concert will be filmed for a documentary about the tour of the band responsible for hits like 'Satisfaction' and 'Start Me Up'. The first Rolling Stones concert in Cuba has a special significance in a country where foreign rock, though not expressly forbidden, suffered censorship during the sixties.

ali Angh and Fingerprint-design and event, will be visiting schools and college of Mon district on a benevolence mission from March 28 to April 1.

Tali Angh, a renowned contemporary Christian music artist, performer, singer-songwriter, worship leader have been visiting schools and colleges in several parts of Nagaland spreading the message of “Love Life and Liberty” to the youngsters. He is also the Brand Ambassador for the Adoption of animals in the Nagaland Zoological Park.

The Fingerprint-design and Events who are known for their designing and organizing events are also involved in social awareness campaigns like the road campaign of DhobinalSignal-Thahekhu, Adoption of animals in Zoo (in collaboration with Castle

group, Kohima) and visiting schools and colleges of Nagaland to spread awareness on conservation of wildlife and environment in collaboration with Dept. of Environment, Forest and climate Change.

Tali Angh and the Fingerprint team will collaborate together for this benevolence mission with a

common goal to encourage the young people to care for the Environment and to become active agents of love to transform the society.

The entire mission will be hosted by Grace Ministry, Mon. The team will also collaborate and organize a concert on April 1 at the Mon council hall which will be performed by Tali Angh.

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Hugh Jackman rescues children from drowning

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ctor Hugh Jackman rescued his children and other swimmers from a rip tide, a stretch of turbulent water in the sea, at Bondi Beach here on Saturday.

In a video obtained by a news channel, "The Source: IANS Wolverine" actor could

be seen grabbing the arm of a man and pulling him around, as the man held onto his daughter, reports aceshowbiz.com. Jackman then helped his son Oscar, 15, from the same rip.

The “X-Men: Days of Future Past" actor, who donned a black swimsuit, was also seen waving at

other swimmers in a bid to attract their attention and get them to come ashore.

Lifesavers also launched into action, using boards and jetskis to make several other rescues.

Peter Adam, the man who was grabbed by the actor, told the news channel that he was helping the actor's daughter at the time. "He wasn't rescuing me, I was assisting him to get his daughter up to the sandbar. He then grabbed my hand to get us up. He then went to get his son,” Adam said.

The North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club took to Instagram to thank Jackman and the surf lifesavers on duty for their actions.

Source: IANS

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Cruyff remembered as France beat Netherlands 3-2 Kiwis crush Bangladesh,

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AMSTERDAM, MARch 26 (REuTERS): France captain Blaise Matuidi struck late to snatch a 3-2 win over the Netherlands in a thriller as fans and players paid tribute to Johan Cruyff's memory with a minute's applause in Friday's friendly.

Early goals from Antoine Griezmann and Olivier Giroud had put France in control at the Amsterdam Arena, but Luuk de Jong pulled one back just after halftime and substitute Ibrahim Afellay equalised with a long range shot five minutes from time.

Matuidi’s 86th minute goal handed France a deserved victory as they continued their preparations ahead of hosting Euro 2016, which the Netherlands surprisingly failed to qualify for. Griezmann fired home a sixth minute free kick before fellow forward Giroud reacted quickest to a loose ball in the penalty area to extend the visitors' lead in the 13th minute.

The referee then stopped the game for 60 seconds as the players led the crowd in loud applause for threetime European Footballer of the Year Cruyff, who died on Thursday aged 68. The break in the 14th minute was a homage to Cruyff, who wore the No. 14 shirt,

top World T20 Group 2

A minute of silence in tribute to Johan Cruyff, who died on Thursday after a five-month battle with lung cancer. (REUTERS)

but France disappointed home hopes of remembering the Netherlands’s most famous player with a win.

Cruyff, who was a runnerup in the 1974 World Cup final, scored 33 goals in 48 games for his country and won three European Cups with Ajax Amsterdam in the early 1970s as well as taking Barcelona to the European title as manager in 1992.

EARLY BREAKTHROUGH Griezmann slammed his free kick into the net for the early breakthrough

before Giroud added the second when the Dutch defence failed to clear a corner and Matuidi’s header back into the area saw the striker swivel sharply on to the chance.

Home goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen needed sharp reflexes to keep out Griezmann’s glancing header in the 25th and France's Dimitri Payet struck the base of the post on the hour after a strong run and shot from midfield.

In between, the Dutch got a goal back when a curl-

ing free kick from halftime substitute Memphis Depay was bundled home by De Jong, who missed with an attempted header but scored with a combination of chest and arm, unseen by the referee.

Depay's Manchester United team mate, France striker Anthony Martial, also came on at the break along with Leicester City midfielder Ngolo Kante, who made his debut for the visitors.

Afellay, a late call-up to the Netherlands squad, hammered home the level-

ler from distance after a corner that was pulled back to him outside the penalty area.

But Dutch hopes of a comeback were quashed within 60 seconds when Martial set up Matuidi, wearing Cruyff’s favourite No. 14, who squeezed the ball in at the near post for the winner.

France play Russia at Stade de France on Tuesday as they continue their warm-up for the Euros, while the Dutch travel to Wembley Stadium to face Euro 2016 finalists England.

KolKATA, MARch 26 (AFP): New Zealand bowled Bangladesh out for a record low of 70 as they cruised to a 75-run victory at cricket's World Twenty20 Saturday, maintaining their perfect record at the tournament.

Allrounder Grant Elliott took three wickets for 12 runs in his four overs while Ish Sodhi chipped in with three for 21 as Bangladesh's quest for a consolation win ended in tatters.

The Black Caps, who had already qualified for the tournament's semi-finals, had earlier made 145 for eight at Eden Gardens with Mustafizur Rahman taking five for 22.

But what had appeared to be a modest total soon proved to be too much for the Tigers who lost their leading batsman Tamim Iqbal in the second over, run out for just three.

Bangladesh were all at sea against New Zealand's quartet of slow bowlers and their top score came from tailender Shuvagata Hom who made 16. Only two others reached double figures.

After 11 overs they had made 45 for six and then had to sweat it out in the dressingroom after a floodlight failure brought a halt to procedings for more than 10 minutes.

After the resumption, they continued to find the Black Caps' bowlers pretty much unplayable and their innings only featured one six, a late blow from Rahman.

The total was the lowest for Bangladesh in any T20 international, with the record previously standing at 78.

It heaps more misery on a Bangladeshi team who failed to win any of their games at the tournament and suffered an agonising one-run defeat against India on Wednesday.

But it means that New Zealand go into the last four in good heart, with skipper Kane Williamson beginning to find form after scoring a brisk 42 off 32 balls at the top of the order.

Williamson was the second New Zealand wicket to fall to Rahman, who finished with figures of five for 22.

The opener Henry Nicholls, who was brought in to give Martin Guptill a rest, was the first to go, bowled by Rahman off a slower cutter with the score on 25.

Wiliamson had looked in good nick in an innings that included five boundaries and a six before he was also sent back to the Eden Gardens' dugout at the end of Rahman's first spell.

He was one of a number of the Black Caps' top order who promised to post a big score but were out just as they had finished building their platform.

Colin Munro had been warming up for his first substantial knock of the tournament. But three balls after lofting Al-Amin Hossain into the stands, he had his middle stump removed by the same bowler.

The veteran Ross Taylor also contributed 28 off 24 balls before being caught by Mohammad Mithun off Hossain.

No other batsman got into double figures and Rahman bowled both Mitchell Santner and McCullum in his final over although his last ball was hammered for six

by Mitchell McClenaghan.

The victory ensures New Zealand top their pool and they are now likely to play one of England, Sri Lanka or South Africa in the first semi-final in New Delhi on March 30. The second semi-final is in Mumbai on March 31 while the final is at Eden Gardens on April 3.

Uruguay draws against Brazil

Luis Suarez (R) of Uruguay and Luiz Gustavo (C) of Brazil. (REUTERS)

SAo PAulo, MARch 26 (REuTERS): Luis Suarez ended his nine-match biting ban in fine style on Friday, grabbing the secondhalf equaliser that gave Uruguay a 2-2 draw in an enthralling battle with Brazil in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.

Playing his first competitive international since being banned for biting Giorgio Chiellini in the 2014 World Cup Finals, Suarez, along with striking partner Edinson Cavani, dragged Uruguay back into the game after they went 2-0 down after 25 minutes.

"As always, we showed character," the Barcelona striker said after the game.

Playing in front of a capacity crowd at the Pernambuco arena, Brazil took the lead after just 39 seconds thanks to Douglas Costa.

Willian whipped a cross in from the left and the Bayern Munich striker nipped in between two defenders to poke the ball home with the sole of his boot.

Brazil got a second 24 minutes later thanks to Renato Augusto. Defender Mauricio Victorino could not quite cut out a long pass from Neymar and the loose ball fell to the Beijing Guoan midfielder who wrongfooted the goalkeeper with a sublime dummy and knocked the ball into the empty net.

The home side were dominating the game but Uruguay got back into the match after 31 minutes when Carlos Sanchez

headed a ball down to Cavani and the Paris St Germain striker hammered home from 10 yards out.

Uruguay came out for the second half looking the hungrier of the two sides and Suarez got the equaliser with the help of slack marking by David Luiz.

Luiz stood off the striker and allowed him to fire home an angled drive that Alisson got a hand to but could not save.

Suarez, who was booked for stamping, almost grabbed a winner with five minutes to go when a loose header from Luiz left him free on goal but Alisson got down well to save with his feet.

"I think that when we were winning 2-0 we had the game in the hand but we let them get back in the game," Renato Augusto told reporters.

"And when they scored they closed us down and played on the counter attack. Our big mistake was conceding the first goal."

The result means Uruguay retain second place in the 10-team South American qualifying group three points behind Ecuador, who lead with 13 points.

Brazil are in third place with eight points.

The top four teams qualify for Russia 2018 and the fifth place side go into an intercontinental play off.

Brazil now go to Asuncion to face Paraguay on Tuesday, and will be without captain Neymar, who was booked. Uruguay will be at home to Peru.

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