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Small fire man’s wit or his negligence. sidered as of line one night, then one is a profession tha and manifestation st fire at Mount Japfü, con is also susllenge you ume and The recent fore ’s worst in recent history, of trekne's toe my res to the other and always cha on your toes. s l keep everyo g led one of the countrybeen caused by the carelessneslves warm. Based in Doha as a wil check. And one who is thin am today in Doha keep you ictability is the I pected to have have lit a fire to keep themse her, be- cabin crew with the Qatar on ntaneous ought to love here g as a cabin crew”, The unpred job, I feel”, she furt soul of this s into the kers, who might eventually spread much commu- ways, Ajung Jamir has spo bit of it”, she says. workin pse Air s. had ry That little fire of hundreds of volunteers and douse off ensively travelled the eve cribing her two she say she got into it, throws glim crew. ext Before a cabin re- Des yond the control o were trying their best to but has firmly her years’ journey with Qatar further recalls that life of ng Jamir would derld, wh wo ers mb she nity me te remark- profession to her was Aju self as a people ing mained grounded to qui sum as s con k, way e- Air a wee be her the fire. her, it is extrem s on to share this elabohad raged on for reports, pretty face, scri The forest fire flora and fauna. According to t the roots. For nt to know one’s able, she goe the privilege all about a smiling to person even as she peoorta d, ia tha “I love e had lot of along with it, a first time in the history of Ind the newly- ly imp and identity and she that, “I'v g some amazing looking goo s and doing rates by saying, h them, this is also the helicopters, none other than y utility- roots rly drawn valu- of meetin around the the passenger before take- ple,- working wit m, helpIndian Air Force Mi-17 V5 helicopter, a militarcombat the has clea ons from travel- people from about life, a bit of demo nion has talking with the being By Sandemo d to able lessNgullie n globe, learn growth, off. But that opi lot since ing them- I just love ng inducted Russianial mac hine are being use and s bei oss the globe eve da and-combat aer t tested in Nagaland. contained ling acr res that, “Trav- friendship bt I would clearly change n as she around people. Thi re are firs forest fire, also d news to have the raging fire end here. as she sha taught me about which I dou I been home she joined, eve o knew said, of course, the my While it’s goo issue of forest fire does not terms elling has respect- it have had, had people goes on to add, “wh ally times when I require st inion d in the and on the 7th day, make us think where we stan lly speak- humility to respect and just among le with.” about being profess , or se- "quiet space" (I’ll be is taught me how on board I am comfortab re- trained on first aid a sane without it), and this Rather, it should environment, which, technica ate and te and , she also y a cleaner of protecting our nt equall the CEO of my To this end of her pro- curing a certific is given the time I read, wri rece the in life. ity uld one one ers wo our v ore I ing, is members think.” ege, license bef ble loss of biodi eration as back from coll g the green card to fly? This When she is not flying, The unimagina ing the people of this gen con- company.” eth can in a company fessors t, ‘bein forest fire is somupon and think of how best wefrom hap- Working in crew from who told them tha us dis- job needs a lot of bra to she tries to achieve the bashould ponder such unfortunate incidents decades of almost 7000 she goes around people help and and will power. Brain sics first, such as catch on tribute to avert r future. What took years and n wildly all over the world, the first cover ourselves better with study and remember, the her sleep, do her laundry, bee pening in the nea servation in the area had how much on to say, “when r asks is I couldn’t agree more l- will power to take in ev- cook and sit for her famous con , of biodiversity a matter of days. Imagine sed by a question a strange ?", it him because I now rea as erything that is thrown at , dal and aloo fry dinrice cau from lved consumed in justtake us to rebuild the loss, "where are you nt to know ize how I have evo fes- you.” ch. Once these it re are ner or lun accomplished, this pro importa longer would . Apparently, the call upon is very ls are ntity, a person and fire small spark of t the state government had to of the lack one's roots and ide or sion has also helped me no normal days for a cabin goa is out and about Doha, ls.’ The fact tha the fire is also reflection y. That to remain grounded, ht is un- she a movie spree, of hone my PR skil tain mit crew. “Each flig it on the Centre to conhanism to deal with such cala ed we are else we will be just one m Yet, when she was a dictable in its own way, be ng, reading a book of our own mec the question of how prepar hanisms the faces that serve the kid, nobody would have pre nks to the passengers. shoppi room or just catchas cabin to mec tha t us her gs - in her ” . men in y are working also brin strike. Putting govern re- chicken with rice k the imagined her to be as It won’t matter to the pas up with her friends. and not only The to travel and to save y s dut ster the ause, o- s profession w uld thin had the ing it is also when disa saving the One wo attendant is shoes today. Bec d, I was sengers if you just of the She would also abs re Thi n avenues of meeting cre e enough money to go ething else but ht in place is som ry citizen to play a part in ope chil -sav ak mo a flig kbre a “as rt age of s, bac hea our n home life say eve h glamour she y, mischievous and biggest or you just had lutely enc to join a people from diversehelp in back to their ow up their sponsibility of ths y ve role in one filled wit ght t environment. can especially play a proacti diversity, and style, and while that nau enturous. I don’t have centur iod because what- Naga you like hers even grounds but alsos own per- country and star law firm, ate v pri own Young people e, our ecosystem, our bio first of y be true to a certain adv ries of owning a your per y be, you "have profession across that achieving one' y mo had the ver studies/ , by ma heritag fession is any me or a dress, I was out ever it ma to your pas- while putting to travel and sonal dreams. I ng with a finance for higher open up a preserving our in creating more awareness ves. nd s l extent, the pro and lead the way s, careful and aware themse forest. And tainly not without chal- Barbie ut exploring the fa- to" atte Period. You will this job pay she further privilege of flyi o, a micro- specialization or t, all, being cautioua little spark to burn an entire certainly cer ges. “When I get ready and abo ak river near our sengers. ies crying non- not only tha to spend on lawyer from Cair ran and clinic. 2 Teh Mil len get Contd. on page It takes only in the right direction can kok- have bab biologist from clueless of mous iday adds, “you e step for duty, I am out of that ward/colony in Mothers, stop, hyper active hol of yourself, help out here and also a Doctor from South therefore, a littl ll what to expect unpre- chung with my bro bing makers wanting a refi - there if required and then Africa (to name a few). save the world. tim The day or flight. job is playing marbles, clim(fruit), beers and wines, first s get to save in your personthis ton dictability of llenging trees, stealing plum sses, ers trying all the but n al bank account too. what I find chasame time. breaking school gla little on the handset, and the the the to at re and Fun t giving a sca tha ion fess This is a pro

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Dimapur | March 5

In a complete and total breakdown of law and order, Dimapur was a scene of utter mayhem ntre today as a man accused Ce b Jo d an al Nag Nagaland of rape became victim to Job Opening in (1 post) brutal mob justice as the 1. Cook State and the public at 2 n 10+ (1 post) 2. Hostel Warde Or Graduate large looked on. What ini(non-Local) 3. Receptionist in accounts (1 post)tially started as a protest 12 pass good demanding justice Centre/ d Jobrally Ayah! Don’t worry the situase call Nagalan more detail plea violent, eventualtion will burn itself out. ForWake into our office turned d, lan Mid k ICICI Ban Dimapur-Opp. -Old NST ly resulting in the lynchKohima r resume Please bring you ing of the accused in full glare of the State adminTORIALool PRinitIMiatiEveTUofistrative machinery. The Greenwood Sch An All press statements, Craaccused, ission who was arrestsh Course Adm e 2014) g cin oun (Main + Advanc students ND memorandums, arti- AnnForAIPssMTXII/JEEapped F NAGALAwas T O24, earing + passed on February for Cla GOVERNMEN USTRIES & COMMERCE h boys and cles, reports and news cialfeatures: under bot for tel judicial - Hos OF INDcustody Spe HIMA DIRECTORATE GALANDCentral ls related documents Girls and - Study materia lodged at the NA 14 Dated:KoKOhima, the 14thFebuary 2014 - Library facility lty 35/20 facu V/ rate AD t T/ Firs /ES should be sent to the Jail, le- of NO.IND pending TestDimapur NT - Weekly Mockpost ADVERTISEME March fill up 4 (Four) ce. gal proceedings. official email address: s of Nagaland to conducted on 1st ous inhabitant ctorate of Industries & Commerty with ance test will be ure 70% and above will igen form ind l per A loca a • ents who sec ted from Nag establishment of the Dire any recognized universi invi eby her 2014 and stud discoun from in morning, er the t. tions are the trict) und Applica any discipline 4. as morung@gmail.com • beClasgivsencom50%menfeecesonEarlier, er Assistant (Dis graduate from 3rd March 201 35 years of age LDA cum Comput imum qualification shall be not more than e government students civil stat n 21 years and 1424 along 1. 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The Applica& Commerce, and accompan mark sheet. h ies wit The mob which gathered at Clock Tower, Dimapur to lynch the rape accused on March 5 evening. Photo by Imojen I Jamir The Morung Express for a public rally. rector of Industr Cards of HSLC/P.U/Graduate • Admit ate Afterpetentthe Authority. tific • Birth Cer ous Certificate issued by Com Indigen proceedrally, the students ST/ 14 • 20 For batch AGE INCOME • ComputeratioCerntificCardate.of the employment exchange. the office of ll be received in istr hs. applications sha M. The last date for receiving ed to the DMC LIFICATION • Regoffice, 5000/- TO ily rejected. The sword photograp met uld 2: P. VACANCY QUA BELOW 26 RS. /- PER • 2 recent pas applications shall be summar office hours from 10:A.M to d date. The applications sho TO 10 20500 cifie . ing lete S TE OR YEAR 6. IncompdemandCommerce, dur s shall be received after the spe it will be summarily rejected the 59MALAdmistrator MONTH E / FEMALE GRADUA T ch of Industries & the Directorate ll be 24-04-2014.No application of the applicant without whi EQUIVALEN Address applications sha Number andissuing that the DMC stop details of Contact ietuoKire) Sd/-(Er.Thekrun ies & Commerce ILS CONTACT contain to ‘IBIs’. ustr ing trade FOR DETAlicences Morung Express News cause of death was possible punctur- ankle. John Patton was at home when Directorate of Ind A M HI Hordes OFFICER’S HILL KOof 7159students in ing of lung and heart. Inito leaves be- a bullet fell from the roof and landed Dimapur | March 5 8974998178 / 986266proceeded to uniform hind a wife and two children. on his left shoulder. Phone No.:then Several others including policeStaff at Nikos Hospital informed Morung Express News the Central Jail at 4th Mile. One person was shot dead while It was around noon. By 1:00 several others were wounded when men were also reportedly injured. that several others were also treated for Dimapur | March 5 pm, the students swelled Police personnel opened fire at a While three were admitted at Nikos minor injuries. Two injured persons A protest against the death in number assembling in mob that had gathered at ClockTow- Hospital, another two were admitted were also admitted at Metro hospital, at Metro Hospital. The injured admit- reportedly being treated for bullet inof a 15 year old boy on front of a seemingly well- er this evening. ted at Nikos Hospital were identified juries to their legs. Another minor, who The deceased was identified as guarded prison. Riot police February 28 along the Asformed a defensive perim- Inito (25), a resident of 4th Mile Di- as: Olivito (18) of Supply Colony with was hit by a bullet in his stomach, is cursam Nagaland border was eter in an attempt to push mapur hailing from Satakha. Four an injury from a lathi charge on the rently in Zion hospital in ICU. held outside the Naga- back the highly charged stu- bullet injuries were found on the de- forehead; John Patton (30) of Boro Police also informed that 52 poland House, Guwahati on dents, who tried to break in ceased’s body – two on the chest, one Lengri with a bullet injury on the left lice personnel including officers Wednesday. The deceased to the prison. A stone-pelt- pellet on forehead and one on the shoulder; and Boska (31) from Ag- were injured when protestors rewas reportedly shot at by ing episode ensued during left elbow. Sources indicated that the hunato with a bullet injury on the left sorted to throwing stones. unidentified miscreants which a few police personat Umriamghat along the nel got injured. through a third door leading main entrance. He was premises. Out on the road, gas at first and eventually reAssam Nagaland border It was followed by a brief to the prison compound. thrashed as the guards the students rallied around sorted to firing. The body of in Golaghat district. The lull by which time scores Let loose, the mob went tried to subdue him. The shouting slogans. the lynched man was then protest which took place of students made it to the on a rampage, vandalising crowd out on the road asA second intrusion oc- recovered and taken into on Wednesday at around outer perimeter of the pris- prison property while some sumed the man was one of curred which ended with their custody. 11:30 PM lasted about half on trying to tear down the broke open inmate cells us- them, who started throw- the mob locating the vicLater, groups of mob an hour. Assistant Commis- mesh-wire fence surrounding sledgehammers. All this ing stones in the direction tim in one of the prison went on the rampage at the while, the unarmed prison of the guards subduing the cells at around 4:40 pm. He Clock Tower junction and sioner of Police (Dispur) ing the high prison wall. The armed police per- guards looked on in fear. inmate. Three convicts es- was brought out, disrobed, at Khermahal. As many Guwahati, Suprotive Lal Baruah, informed that the sonnel looked on as the stu- Armed police personnel caped, of which two were thrashed and dragged till the as 11 police vehicles were protest was peaceful and dents took down a section of finally went in and chased serving time for NSA re- Clock Tower junction. Wit- burned in the violence. The that there was no vandal- the meshed fence and broke out the intruders firing in lated offences. While two nessessaidthathediedbythe official vehicle of the Comism involved. He added that through the main prison the air and shelling tear gas. were subsequently caught, time the procession reached mandant of the 10th NAP In the ensuing melee, one remains on the run. the Clock Tower. The police (IR) was also among the vethe student body have also gate, while the prison guards inside watched helplessly. The situation calmed a confirmed his death later. hicles, sources said. submitted a memorandum With the main entrance some of the inmates made attempts to escape. One inlittle after the intrusion was The police finally interSection 144 CrPC (Curaddressed to the Nagaland breached, the students, aidmate was caught by prison cleared while police pervened dispersing the asfew) still remains promuland Assam governments ed by other youths, broke guards as he crossed the sonnel secured the prison sembled crowd using tear gated in Dimapur. demanding security for everyone at the border.

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KOHIMA, MARCH 5 (DIPR): The state Nodal officer for the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Dr Tiasunep Pongener today announced that vaccine for H1N1 flu is now available in selected nursing homes/private hospitals/ pharmacies in Nagaland. The state Nodal officer also disclosed that all the five samples sent to ICMR, Dibrugarh on March 3 for confirmation of H1N1 flu has been reported negative. The results reached Nagaland on March 4. In view of the changing weather conditions, Dr Pongener further advised the public to take measures so as to avoid dust induced/related respiratory tract infection. As far as possible, he advised that small children below 5 years of age and adults above 65 years of age, and people with chronic underlying diseases should remain confined at home.

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nagaland government admits ‘total failure of law and order’ Morung Express News Dimapur | March 5

The Government of Nagaland has now admitted to the total failure of law and order in the State. Commissioner of Nagaland State, Sentiyanger Imchen, admitted that there was a lapse of law, order and governance as the State had not anticipated today’s chain of events. Addressing the media in a late night press conference at the SP office in Dimapur, the Commissioner of Nagaland said, “I take the blame” for today. The DGP of Nagaland State, AGP, DIG, Commissioner & Secretary of DIPR, a representative of the central security forces were among those present at the press conference though the DC andSPofDimapurremained conspicuously missing. “What has happened is unfortunate...The Government is not taking this lying down but those responsible will

be arrested,” stated Imchen. According to the State Government, “There is a sense of normalcy now.” On today’s incident, the State officials said that minimal force was used to contain the marauding crowd going from the Clock Tower to the Central Jail in order to “limit collateral damage” as the “motivated mob” consisted mostly of students. They acknowledged the presence of jawans who could have panicked in the situation, which is why stringent measures were not taken by State security forces. The Nagaland police put most of its personnel, stated the officials, at the Central Jail because they expected to negotiate with the students once they reached there. TheAGPalsosaidthatthe Assam Rifles was called in by the DC and placed on the “peripheries of Dimapur”— the DC did not confirm this “strategic decision,” however, and no central security forc-

es on the streets of Dimapur couldbeseenthroughMarch 5 barring regular rounds. The police resorted to firing tear gas only after the students had breached the Central Jail gates and entered its premises. For hours after most students in uniform left, youth who were not students went from cell to cell looking for the rape accused. The police got into action after the body had been paraded and lynched—here, the police resorted to firing in order to “retrieve the body” from the Clock Tower. The State Government also admitted that relaxation of the curfew for a few hours on March 5 was an “error,” which was made on the request of the NSF. The curfew, however, is still in effect. According to Commissioner Sentiyanger Imchen, “we learn from experience.” He also stated that “we never anticipated this and in hindsight we made mistakes.”

one held for molestation DIMAPUR, MARCH 5 (MExN): One person has been arrested by the police in Wokha for allegedly molesting a thirteen year old girl on March 3. According to the police, the accused had allegedly molested the victim in her residence at Officers’ Hill, Tsumang Colony, Wokha at around 2:30pm. The accused was identified as one Mhathung Ezung aged around 60 to 65. Meanwhile a press note from the Old Changsu Students’ Union and Old Changsu Union Wokha Town informed that the victim was “alone at home at the time of the incident as her parents went out for works and her siblings were at school.” The Old Changsu Youth Organisation, Wokha; Old Changsu Union Wokha town and the Old Changsu Students’ Unions have condemned the incident and urged law enforcing agencies to award befitting punishment as per the law of the land.

Muslim Council Dimapur affirms to live in harmony with Nagas

DIMAPUR, MARCH 5 (MExN): The Muslim Council Dimapur (MCD) today appealed to members of the Muslim community throughout the country to refrain from believing in “rumors and false propaganda” regarding the happenings in Dimapur. A press note from the A Rahman, Working President MCD, said that “no genuine Muslim citizens of Dimapur are harassed.” The MCD, while discouraging people from believing in rumors, also reiterated its appeal to the state government to “formulate laws to flush out IBIs and streamline the flow of migrants with special reference to temporary Muslim legal migrants.” “The Muslims have been peacefully living in Nagaland for the past hundred plus years as evident from the establishment of the Grand Old Mosque at Hazi Park (1906) and Town Burial Ground at A H Road (1930). But of late due to the continuous influx of legal as well as Illegal migrants, the genuine Muslims has

been reduced to minority within the community and it has become very difficult to preserve the dignity and honour of the community,” stated the MCD. The present crisis, the MCD regretted has “brought disrepute and disrespect to the genuine muslim community in Nagaland.” It further expressed support to the “movement started by the Survival Nagaland, NSF and other likeminded NGOs…” The MCD, it informed, had urged the Nagaland state government to formulate laws to streamline the flow of migrants in 2012 as well. It had also took certain resolutions through a general community meeting. It further informed people to contact the Muslim Council Dimapur for any clarification or visit the Muslim Council Dimapur Facebook page for updated information. The MCD also reaffirmed its commitment to “live with harmony and peace with the local Naga brothers and sisters.”

Violence is not the answer: Governor Nagaland state Governor, PB Acharya, while condemning the alleged rape, has appealed for the public to refrain from violence. “Violence is not the answer to any problem,” stated the Nagaland government in a press release. The Governor has also appealed that the law enforcing agencies to take necessary action against the culprits and book them as per the law.

KVC calls for calm KOHIMA, MARCH 5 (MExN): The Kohima Village Council has appealed to Nagas and all other communities, particularly the citizens of Kohima “which falls under our traditional boundary,” to remain calm and to allow law and order to take its own course of action. “Lets us never forget that - ‘an eye for and eye’ will make us blind,” stated a press note from the Kohima Village Council. “While condemning the very fact of rape, the Council condemns the break-in at the jail where some citizens took the law into their own hands,” the KVC said. It further condemned the failure of the government machineries that led to the situation going out of control. It also assured, “to the best of her ability, the protection of all citizens in Kohima so as to prevent similar incidents occurring in Kohima.”

Nagaland government institutes ‘high level inquiry’

DIMAPUR, MARCH 5 (MExN): The Nagaland state government, in an emergency meeting today, instituted a “high level inquiry committee” to probe into the March 5 Dimapur incident. As the Chief Minister was on a visit to Delhi, the meeting was chaired by Minister for Social Security and Welfare, Kiyanilie Peseyie. A press note from the Chief Minister’s Office informed that the committee has been constituted

to “find out the circumstances leading to the unfortunate happenings, any lapses or shortcomings on the part of any public servant in connection with the incident, and the person or group of persons responsible for the violence leading to the death of the said accused in the hands of the mob.” The committee will also suggest measures to avoid recurrence of such incidents in future, informed the CMO.

Muslim Union Delhi Section on Dimapur incidents DIMAPUR, MARCH 5 (AGENCIES):A report has appeared on NDTV regarding a statement maded by the Muslim Union Delhi Section (MUDS) on the recent incidents in Dimapur. The report quotes Sayed Alam, President MUDS as stating “We shall not fur-

ther negotiate religious abuse on pretext of any fault committed that reminates ones faith and crime as a wholesome…” The report further quotes the MUDS President as saying: “we shall revolt in and over India, the whole existence of humanity will turn futile…”

Noke led NPF condemns Dimapur violence DIMAPUR, MARCH 5 (MExN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) led by Noke Wangnao today condemned the incidents in Dimapur on March 5 “where people were allowed to take the law of the land into their own hands,” and “the brutal assault by the security forces on the students who were in school uniforms.” A press note from party termed “the lost of innocent lives, the

damage of government properties, and the breakdown of law and order,” as “very unfortunate” and urged the government to arrest and quell the situation at the earliest. “The perpetrators of such a heinous crime should be booked to face the law of the land immediately and we strongly appeal the general public not to panic by such an emergent situation,” it added.

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NSRLM to intensify focus on resource blocks

Ko h i m a , m a r c h 5 (mExN): With the objective to further strengthen the resource block strategy, the Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM) has come up with a comprehensive plan to intensify focus on the 9 Resource Blocks under the Mission. The plan includes creating a pool of resource persons from within the rank and file of the existing NSRLM staff with enough capacity building efforts to enable them in becoming master trainers. The human resource would be equipped with knowledge on every aspect of the Mission so as to ensure effective delivery of plans and projects. A key objective of the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) is to build strong institutions of the poor. In line with this, the NSRLM would concentrate on developing Model Self Help Groups, Model Villages and Model Village Organisations that would serve as inspiration for others and as support structures as the program scales

(From left) Menuoneituo Chadi, COO, NSRLM; Tsalito Sangtam, AMD, NSRLM and M. Rollan Lotha, COO, NSRLM during the 2nd State Level Review Meeting of the Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission.

up. This was informed during the 2nd State Level Review meeting held at Kohima on March 4 and 5 at the conference hall, RD Directorate. The State Mission Management Unit of NSRLM along with District Coordinators and Block Program Managers attended the meeting. Giving an opening remark,

Addl. Mission Director NSRLM Tsalito Sangtam emphasized on the need for better coordination both within the Mission’s units and with the parent department in order to ensure smooth functioning of the program. He urged the staff to constantly brief the authorities on the Mission’s plans and progress and remind-

ed that the ultimate goal is to work for the poor. Chairing the meeting, M. Rollan Lotha, Chief Operating Officer (COO) NSRLM stressed on the importance of such meetings so as to better understand the progress of the districts and blocks and address gaps. He further reiterated the importance

of capacitating SHGs, Villages and Organisations as model institutions if the Mission is to ensure success of the Resource Block Strategy and voiced that unless such viable institutions are built and nurtured, projected scaling up of the program would not be possible. Menuoneituo Chadi, COO NSRLM gave a presentation on the proposed Annual Action Plan and an interactive session was held based on the plan. Group exercises were conducted for better understanding of records books with M. Suresh, State Coordinator as moderator. On the second day of the meet, Annual Progress Reports were presented by staff of the respective districts and blocks with highlight on implementation strategies, achievements, issues and challenges, targets and plans for the coming financial year. A state visioning exercise for the Mission was also conducted wherein, prevailing good practices were shared and challenges were discussed.

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Ko h i m a , m a r c h 5 (DiPr): Brig KK Roy Choudhury, SM, VSM, Director, Sainik Welfare & Resettlement, Nagaland has informed that there will be ex-servicemen rallies. The first rally will be at Jakhama Military Station on March 17 for Dimapur, Peren, Kohima, Phek, Kiphire, Wokha and Zunheboto districts. The second rally will be organized under the aegis of 41 Sub Area at Jorhat on March 21 for Mon, Mokokchung, Longleng and Tuensang districts only as they are responsible for these districts as Station HQs. All ex-servicemen and

widows have been requested to register their names with respective Zila Sainik Welfare Offices or Zila Sainik Welfare Cells to facilitate in organizing the event in smooth manner and also cater to various administrative requirements. These two rallies are being organized in order to update ex-servicemen fraternity on various welfare schemes of State Government, Central Government and Army HQs and also redress grievances regarding pension and allied matters. Besides, number of stalls will be established in order to facilitate self employ-

ment, resettlement, and Order, Bank Account and medical assistance. Mobile Numbers. In view of the above, all Info on digital ex-servicemen and widlife certificate ows drawing pensions/ Meanwhile, Brig KK family pensions have been Roy Choudhury, & Reset- requested to provide the tlement, Nagaland also in- above details in the nearest formed that Ministry of De- Zila Sainik Welfare Offices fence has directed that all by March 10 positively. ex-servicemen and widows Thereafter, the Directorate drawing pensions/family will organize preparation pensions are required to ob- of Digital Life Certificate in tain Digital Life Certificate consonance with National to facilitate streamlining of Informatics Centre. Statpensions/family pensions ing that this is an imporand yearly renewal of Life tant aspect pertaining to all Certificate. In order to ob- ex-servicemen fraternity tain Digital Life Certificate, drawing pensions, the diit is mandatory to have Aad- rector requested to take achar Card, Pension Payment tion on priority.

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moKoKchuNg, march 5 (DiPr): Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel has launched North Eastern District Resources Plan-NEDRP at Mokokchung on March 5 with high hopes that the NEDRP would richly provide reliable information for effective and comprehensive planning of various developmental activities by the district administration and line departments in the district. Mokokchung district has become the second district in Nagaland state to have launched the NEDRP after Kohima district. The NEDRP is a joint initiative of North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) and North Eastern Council (NEC) which is an effort of transferring space and geospatial technology to the users for strengthening planning and development in the state. The usage of NEDRP will give leverage for preparation of DPR,

DC, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel launching the North Eastern District Resources PlanNEDRP at Mokokchung on March 5. (DIPR Photo)

master plan document. All information layers can also be customized and have printed options. A team of scientists from NESAC, Umiam, Meghalaya and Nagaland GIS and Remote Sensing Centre, Planning and Co-ordination department earlier highlighted the unique programme of the NEDRP, sponsored by the Ministry of DONER/ NEC with an objective to strengthen the E-governance policy in the entire

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ost excited life of my 63 years but who touched all of us in ways that can be fathomed only now that brought us closer to God and each other. Gone physically but the memories still remain fresh in our hearts. Through these inking, we the siblings and inlaws of our beloved Late. Chibeno W/o Rabemo Ezung of Longsachung Village of Wokha District Mrs. R. Chibeno Ezung W/o. Rabemo Ezung would like to thank each V/o Longsachung. District Wokha 02-09-1952---02-03-2015 and everyone who stood by and supported us spiritually, physically, materially financially during the sudden tragic Bomb Blast on February 24, 2015 that made her succumb to her injuries on March 2, 2015 at 3:20 am at Naga Hospital Authority Kohima till the last rite in her honour. We are indeed grateful and truly indebted and touched by the love, support, assistance and prayer in the true Christian charity and traditional practices. We would also like to extend our profound gratitude and to all the Reverends, doctors and nurses of Naga Kohima Hospital and Wokha M.M.M. Wokha, VIPs, Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, MLA, Ex-MLAs, Ex-MPs, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Theologians, Politicians, Church Leaders, Associations, Hohos, IRCS of Wokha and Kohima, Blood donors, colonies of Wokha Town, neighbouring villages, nieghbours, friends and all the well wishers who were kind and gracious to her as she went through hardships and struggles during her short span of life journey and for keeping vigil the whole night till her final resting place. It is our prayer that our good God bless each and everyone abundantly. Loving husband, children, grand children, in-laws, family members and relatives.

NE region and the major benefits from it. Launching the NEDRP Sushil Kumar Patel urged upon all the head of offices in the district to make best use of the NEDRP to ensure that all plan activities are accurate and result oriented. He also stressed the need to cope with latest technology available in the district. D. Chutia, Scientist-SE & PI-NEDRP, North Eastern space Application centre Umiam Maghalaya

presented power point on background and highlights of the NEDRP and Er. Mhathung Kithan Project coordinator, Nagaland GIS & Remote Sensing Centre delivered the welcome address at the launching programme. The programme chaired by Dr. C. Furkumzuk, Analyst, Nagaland GIS & Remote Sensing Centre was attended by district administrative officers and the head of offices in the district.

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DC Mon Angau I Thou IAS inaugurating the new office building of Chief Medical Officer Mon on March 5.

moN, march 5 (DiPr): The Deputy Commissioner, Mon Angau I. Thou IAS who is also the chairman of the District Health Society, Mon has formally inaugurated the new office building of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Mon on March 5. In her inaugural speech, the Deputy Commissioner said the Government is emphasizing on bottom up policy to provide better health care service to the people in their doorstep and called upon the authority to check and to do away with proxy ANMs and nurses. She asserted that keeping proxy ANMs and Nurses who are untrained could prescribe wrong medicines, which are unsafe for the patients. Pointing out that doctors and nurses are next to God concerning the life of a patient, she appealed to the medical staffs to rededicate to their profession and work sincerely for the service of the people. She also urged upon the staffs

to leave behind a good legacy of their respective occupation. She was optimistic that under the new building the staffs would work actively with dedication and cater to the needs of the people, and march along with the trends of development with others. In her short speech, the CMO, Mon Dr. UK Konyak briefed on the construction of the building and thanked the Deputy Commissioner for her support and cooperation extended to the department during her tenure. He asserted that the office building was constructed for the Nursing Hostel initially but was diverted to CMO’s officer under the guidance and supervision of the Deputy Commissioner. Bangchem Phom proposed invocation while Dedication Prayer was done by Pastor David, Chaplain, District Hospital. The programme concluded with vote of thanks by Bonnie Konyak, DPM, Mon.

Colony leaders sensitised on harmful effect of tobacco & COTPA Our Correspondent Kohima | March 5

A sensitisation programme for colony leaders under Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) on harmful effect of tobacco and COTPA took place here today at Conclave Conference Hall, LCS building under the aegis of District Tobacco Control Cell (DTCC), Kohima under Health & Family Welfare department. Dr. K. Rosy Yhome, junior dental specialist Naga Hospital Authority Kohima talked on burdens of tobacco while Dr. Arenla Walling, District Nodal Officer, NTCP, Kohima highlighted COTPA 2003 and enforcement. Burdens of tobacco Dr. Yhome told the gathering that Mizoram ranked as the highest consumer of Tobacco in India with 67% while Nagaland in the second list with 57% and termed it as alarming trend. She said tobacco is now the world’s leading single agent of death, killing 5.4 million people globally every year, adding that 90% of

oral cancers are due to tobacco use. She further informed that India is the second largest consumer of tobacco in the world, next to China, and that one million of Indians die every year due to use of tobacco. Dr. Yhome said India has the largest number of oral cancer in the world of which 40% of all cancers in India are due to tobacco. On burden of tobacco relating to health, Dr. Yhome said it increased heart rate and blood pressure, smelly hair, bad breath, stained teeth, damage to gum tissue, tooth decay, reduced sense of smell and taste, trouble breathing, increased sensitivity to cold and heat. In long term, use of tobacco use effects cancers: oral, lung, stomach, esophagus, bladder, liver, breast, head & neck, kidney, larynx etc, ulcers in the mouth, respiratory system: chronic cough, asthma, cardiovascular system: hypertension (high blood pressure), heart disease, eye: cataract, sexual organs: impotence in men and difficulty in bearing

children among women. COTPA 2003 and enforcement Dr. Walling said the main provisions of COTPA 2003 (Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products, Act 2003) included prohibition of smoking in public places, prohibition of advertisement, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco products, prohibition of sale of tobacco products to a person below 21 years of age, prohibition of sale of tobacco products near educational institutions, display of pictorial health warning on tobacco products packs, no smoking signage etc. Dr. Walling asked the colony leaders to spread awareness in their respective wards on harmful effect of tobacco and also effective enforcement of COTPA 2003. She also requested them to intimate the District Tobacco Control Cell or enforcing officers if they came across any violation of rules under COTPA 2003. She said shopkeepers selling tobacco products have already been asked to

display a signage declaring that “Sale of tobacco products to a person under the age of 21 years is a punishable offence.” Stating that the Cell and enforcing officers are going to monitor this matter soon, she also sought the support of the colony leaders in ensuring this signage is fully covered in their respective wards. She said under Section 4 of Tobacco Control Act, 2003, smoking in all "public places" is prohibited. The public place is includes auditorium, hospital buildings, railway waiting room, amusement centers, restaurants, public offices, court buildings, educational institutions, libraries, public conveyances and like which are visited by general public. Also stating that the sale of the tobacco products is prohibited near educational institutions, Dr. Walling called upon the colony leaders to check and report to the Cell or enforcing officers if found no display board outside the educational institutions declaring the same.

MEx File 10 arrested for sale of liquor in Peren

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PErEN, march 5 (mExN): Peren Police conducted raids and checking on illegal sale and stocking of IMFL at Jalukie and adjoining areas on March 2 and seized 297 bottles of assorted Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) from different locations. A press release from Peren SP, V. John, informed that 10 persons were arrested in this connection. Investigations are ongoing, the release added.

Alongphi Welfare Society informs SHGs TuENsaNg, march 5 (mExN): Self Help Group Promoting Institute (SHGPIS), Alongphi Welfare Society, Chare, Tuensang has informed all interested SHGs and Farmers clubs, which are engaged in ginger cultivation, cardamom farming, banana farming under Longkhim block and Chare block to enroll their group name and profile before March 31, 2015 to the Society for their co-ordination work. Selection of SHG will be done following the society norms and criteria, which will be final and binding, stated a press release issued by Alongphi Welfare Society chairman, Impumeren Sangtam. The Society further informed that from April 1, it will be giving consultancy services for publication of books to author both local and international books, i.e., thesis, social books and others with ISBN (International Standard Book Number), which will be useful in local, national and international level. For more detail, mail alongphiwalfaresociety@gmail.com

ANRPU for CWSN first general meeting held Kohima, march 5 (mExN): The All Nagaland Resource Persons under Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan (SSA) for Children with Special Needs (CWSN) Union (ANRPU) held its first general meeting on January 30 at Life Spring Corner, Dimapur. The members unanimously elected Kethamo Kath, Resource Person of Kohima District as the Union President and resolved to collect Rs. 200 from each member as a membership fee vis-à-vis for official expenses. A press note issued by Kethamo Kath, President, stated that after a long deliberation the members entrusted its president to convene a meeting for induction of other office bearers namely General Secretary, Information & Publicity and District representatives in order to let the union function smoothly. For queries on the union, one may contact 8014579237/897592522.

CVYS bans various activities

DimaPur, march 5 (mExN): Chümoukedima Village Youth Society (CVYS) has reiterated its stand to ban any kind of hunting, fishing within the village jurisdiction. In a press release, CVYS also informed the general public to refrain from jungle burning and warned that defaulters will be strictly dealt with. Further, the Society informed that it will ban outsiders from picnicking, trekking, door to door business, collecting dried firewood, collection fodder for cattle, while warning that no outsider will be allowed to roam freely after 8:00 pm within the village area without genuine and proper reason in order to prevent any untoward incident.

DPDB Phek meeting on March 10 PhEK, march 5 (DiPr): The Deputy Commissioner Phek, Muruho Chotso has informed all the district head of offices and members of DPDB Phek that the District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of March 2015 is scheduled to be held at Phek headquarter on March 10 and not as formerly proposed to be held at Meluri.

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Kohima, march 5 (DiPr): The Governor of Nagaland, has notified the demise of the Special Secretary, Nagaland Legislative Assembly, A.E. Lotha on the 27th of February. The official notification No. AS/ ESTT/PF-20/88/3007 was issued with regret on the 2nd March 2015, for official effects to all concerned and communicated by the Additional Secretary Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

KUK informs Kohima, march 5 (mExN): An inter-denomination Sunday Worship Service is being organized for all the people of Kuzhami residing in Kohima at Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kohima on March 8 at 1 pm. A press note issued by Neitshulo Kapfo, Publicity & Information Secretary, Kuzhami Union, Kohima (KUK) has requested all the Kuzhamis residing in Kohima to come and fellowship together as a community.

Marcofed LPG Service Kohima informs Kohima, march 5 (mExN): Marcofed LPG Service Kohima has informed their customers who do not have a bank account to join the DBTL Scheme to visit the office at Napo Building, Kezieke, Kohima in order to avail necessary assistance in opening a bank account. Customers can visit the office on March 9 and 10 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.

National Science Day observed Kohima, march 5 (mExN): With an aim to inculcate scientific outlook and interest in younger generation, Baptist Mission School, Jotsoma observed National Science Day, with the theme 'Science for Nation Building'. The highlight of the Day was the science quiz organised by the school’s science club. Vikelhou Nagi and Vizovono of Yellow house secured first place and Nourhevito Nagi and Ketholeno Nakhro of Blue house and Vitono Nagi and Kelenguno Nagi of Green house secured second and third places respectively. The importance of observation of Science Day was delivered by Asenla, Science teacher of the school, informed a press release received here.

TNAI Nagaland branch meeting Kohima, march 5 (mExN): The Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI), Nagaland Branch will hold executive body meeting on March 18 at 10:00 AM at Nurses Chapel Hall, Kohima. All the nursing officers/local office bearers have been requested to attend the same without fail. This was stated in a release issued by TNAI Nagaland branch president Yanbeni and secretary Khuniho.

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REgional Early repeal of AFSPA in Manipur ‘unlikely’

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Our Correspondent Imphal | March 5

The hope for repeal of the controversial AFSPA is not likely to be fulfilled any time soon in Manipur with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs rejecting the BP Jeevan Reddy Committee report. Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee recommends revocation of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958. Report of the Committee headed by the retired Justice Reddy was submitted to the Government of India in June 2005. Rights groups and other civil society organisations in Manipur have expressed strong displeasure at the rejection of the Committee

by the MHA. The Jeevan Reddy Committee recommends that the continuation of the present AFSPA, with or without amendments, does not arise. The Act is too sketchy, too bald and quite inadequate in several particulars.” A consultation meet on “Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, Democracy & Jeevan Reddy Committee Report” was jointly organized by rights groups such as United NGOs, Human Rights Alert, Human Rights Initiative, Women Action for Development, North East Dialogue Forum and several civil society organisations here at the Press Club. The meet had been held in the wake

Manipur Home Minister express concern at AR highhandedness Our Correspondent Imphal | March 5

Manipur’s Home Minister Gaikhangam has slammed the Assam Rifles for humiliating VIPs and harassing civilians on the Imphal-Moreh road section of National Highway-2 in Chandel district which borders Myanmar. “Higher authorities of Assam Rifles have been asked to curb their personnel who have been reportedly detaining even ministers and MLAs on the highway,” the Home Minister said in a response to a call attention motion raised by MLA L Ibomcha of NCP in the state assembly on Tuesday. Gaikhangam acknowledged that Assam Rifles personnel are conducting security checks at Khudengthabi check post along Imphal-Moreh road to arrest smugglers. However, he stated that harassing and humiliating VIPs and commuters while checking is “unacceptable.” “This type of checking leaves travellers harassed. VIP movement and people

are harassed daily at the check point. The Assam Rifles are stopping and detaining every vehicle passing the check post,” he said. Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Minister Francis Ngajokpa and Tengnoupal MLA DK Korungthang were detained by the Assam Rifles at the check post recently, which had enraged the Manipur Government. Villagers of Tengnoupal village in Chandel had enforced an indefinite bandh along Imphal-Moreh road in February last to register protest against the 24 Assam Rifles for allegedly prohibiting free movement of people in the area. The strike on the vital route had seriously affected the Indo-Myanmar trade. Gaikhangam further informed the House that consultations were on between the Manipur Government and the Ministry of Home Affairs on installing a hightech technology machine at the Khudengthabi check post to ensure proper vehicle checking.

of the rejection of Jeevan Reddy Committee report by MHA. Human Rights Alert (HRA) executive director Babloo Loitongbam who was one of the speakers at the consultation meet said serious caution should be given at the move of the BJPled NDA Government which has recommended rejecting the Committee report. Other speakers at the meet contended that the Government of India, which has been imposing the draconian law for nearly 57 years in the name of curbing insurgencies, is bias against the North East. They said the law like Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (POTA0) had been abolished by the Govern-

ment of India. The Reddy committee submitted its recommendations on June 6, 2005. The Committee was set up in 2004 during the previous UPA-I Government at the Centre following assurance by then Prime Minister Dr Manmohon Singh to consider the demand for revocation of AFSPA by the people of Manipur. Dr Manmohon Singh’s assurance came following public protest over the death of Thangjam Monorama in the custody of the Assam Rifles. Anti-AFSPA campaigner Irom Sharmila has been on a fast demanding the repeal of the Act from Manipur since November 5, 2000, after ten civilians were killed

in an 'encounter' by Assam Rifles personnel at Malom area near Imphal airport on November 2, 2000. Rights groups and civil society organisations in the state have accused the security forces of killing civilians and raping many women under the Act. Several cases of enforced disappearance have also been recorded in Manipur since the imposition of AFSPA in the state. In 2013, a Supreme Court appointed commission of inquiry found six encounters to be ‘fake’ after the Extra-judicial Execution Victims Family Association Manipur (EEVFAM) filed a petition in the apex court to investigate 1528 cases of extrajudicial killings in Manipur.

M'laya govt to clear 21 pending bills SHILLONG, MARCH 5 (PTI): Meghalaya government today assured to clear 21 pending bills, which include the Khasi Hills District (Village Administration) Bill, 2014 passed by the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) on a fast track mode. Chief Minister Mukul Sangma made the assurance to a delegation of the executive committee of the KHADC led by its Chief Executive Member Adelbert Nongrum at his chamber. "The CM and the District Council Affairs department has assured us that the pending bills will be taken up at the earliest to ensure quality in the service of district council members is strengthened," Nongrum told newsmen after the meeting. "We have also arrived at a consensus that there will be a close coordination between the state government and the district council in ensuring that the pending bills are process at the earliest," the KHADC chief said.

At present, there are 21 bills passed by the KHADC which are lying with the state government in past 21 years since 1994. Yesterday, while informing that he would

meet the KHADC today, the Chief Minister had also maintained that the DCA has been directed to point out the areas in the bill which are required to be addressed by the KHADC.

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Assam government to install the cable connections within five days of issuing of the order," said advocate Amit Goyal, who filed the PIL on behalf of the inmates. The inmates have mentioned in the PIL that at present there only Doordarshan is available inside the jail. "The inmates of the Guwahati Central Jail approached the Gauhati High Court after the jail authorities rejected their prayer to provide cable connection for World Cup matches," said Goyal. He added that they also sought the court's direction to link all the TVs in the jail with cable connections to enable the undertrial prisoners to have benefit of recreation, which will improve their mental condition.

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Dated Peren the 4th March 2015

NO.PRN/JUDL/SC-1/2015/47/ Smti. Ahingle Ipuing of Jalukie Town has applied for issue of succession certificate in her name to draw Gratuity/NPS/GPF/GIS/Pension/Pay/Bank Account (Saving)/Gas connection etc. of her husband late. Rock Jalukie Town, Peren District. Public are hereby invited to file claims / objections within 30 (thirty) days w.e.f date of publication in local papers. If no objection is received from the public within the stipulated time the succession certificate shall be issued in his/her name. PETER LICHAMO Deputy Commissioner, Peren: Nagaland

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AGARTALA, MARCH 5 (IANS): Sixteen of the 19 children rescued from the Guwahati railway station by the Assam Police CID and Childline, an NGO, belong to tribal refugees living in Tripura and will be handed over to their parents, an official said here on Thursday. "All the 19 children, rescued by the Assam Police CID and Childline from the Guwahati railway station on February 25, are now staying at a children's home run by the Assam government in Guwahati," Tripura social welfare department secretary M. Nagaraju told reporters.

Hesaid:"Ateamofofficials from north Tripura's child welfare committee would go to Guwahati and the children would be brought back to Tripura by March 10." Of the 19 children, all below 18 years of age, 16 belong to the Reang refugees of Mizoram who are currently living in seven camps in North Tripura and remaining three are inhabitants of Hilakhandhi of southern Assam. Childline officials in Guwahati suspect it was a case of child trafficking. The Assam police are still investigating the motive of the two adults accompanying the children. An official of Tripura

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Gauhati HC allows prisoners to watch cricket World Cup GuwAHATI, MARCH 5 (IANS): The Gauhati High Court Wednesday directed the Assam government to provide cable connections to TV sets in Guwahati Central Jail so that inmates can watch news, entertainment programmes and matches of the ongoing cricket World Cup. The direction came while the court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by seven prisoners, who had appealed to the jail authorities to provide cable connections for the television sets in the jail but whose appeal was rejected. "Seven inmates of the jail filed a PIL and Justice A.K. Goswami of the Gauhati High Court today (Wednesday) directed the

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Revolutionary budget sparks Rajan to cut rates

MuMbai, March 5 (iaNS): The second unscheduled cut on Wednesday - within two months - in the repo rate at which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lends to commercial banks was not as unexpected as the first in January. Indeed, it could even be called expected after the weekend’s historic announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his first full budget speech to the Lok Sabha of the government signing the Monetary Policy Framework Agreement with the RBI for controlling inflation. The agreement will become a law that will provide for a monetary policy committee, Jaitley said. Signed last month, the agreement is to “primarily maintain price stability while keeping in mind the objective of growth.” It says the RBI will aim to bring retail inflation below six percent by January 2016 and to around four percent by fiscal 2016-17. Perhaps RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan was being enigmatic in keeping with his “rockstar” image in deflecting spotters of Wednesday’s rate cut off his trail, when he said on Monday that though central banks everywhere are reducing interest rates to very low levels, the RBI is unable to do so quickly owing to “high inflation”.

Inflation targeting ‘credit positive’ for India NEW DELhi, March 5 (PTi): In a major boost to India’s sovereign outlook, Moody’s today said the new ‘inflation targeting’ mechanism is a “credit positive” move and it would make RBI’s monetary policy tools much more effective. Under the new ‘inflation targeting’ mechanism, the Government has mandated RBI to bring down inflation to below 6 per cent by January 2016 and then target a level of 4 per cent by March next year. RBI will have to explain the reasons if such targets are not achieved. Moody’s said the new mechanism would increase the predictability and effectiveness of RBI’s monetary policy, while the effectiveness of its monetary tools would increase because ‘inflation targeting’ would take into account future — rather than past — price trends. “A lot of that money is coming to us. We have got an avalanche of capital inflows. Our problem is we also have high inflation, we cannot cut interest rates very quickly to the bone in order to tell those countries - don’t come here expecting high interest rates,” Rajan told a group of students here. The consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation rose to 5.11 percent in January from 4.28 percent last December. Indeed, the impression

“Quantitative inflation targeting will foster transparency and predictability in monetary policy, as capital market participants, businesses and the public understand the drivers of central bank actions,” Moody’s Investors Service Associate Analyst Shirin Mohammadi said, adding the move was “credit positive” for India. Moody’s said since inflation targeting is forward looking, it would encourage a focus on future, rather than past, price trends. “All of this will anchor inflationary expectations and increase the effectiveness of monetary policy tools in achieving their desired results,” Mohammadi said, adding it would increase effectiveness of monetary policy. Also an increase in monetary policy transparency and effectiveness would lessen volatility in international capital

that Rajan’s statement Monday was deflecting attention from Wednesday’s cut by 25 basis points is strengthened by the text of the RBI release which said that “given low capacity utilization” and still-weak indicators of production and credit off-take, it is appropriate for RBI to be pre-emptive in its policy action to utilize the available space for monetary accommodation”. If anything, Jaitley, in his landmark budget, had provided the RBI governor some rea-

flows into India and support institutional strengthening via accountability, it added. Unchecked inflation would have a greater chance of hurting growth, Moody’s cautioned, adding between 2011 and 2014 inflation was largely driven by food and commodity prices but it ultimately compromised growth. “As the RBI implements its mandate to curb inflation regardless of its source, the government may heighten efforts to lower food inflation by reducing inefficiencies in food production, distribution and administered pricing,” it added. As per the Monetary Policy Framework agreement between the RBI and the Government, RBI will target to lower inflation to below 6 per cent by January 2016 and further to 4 per cent with a band of (+/_—) 2 per cent in 2016-17.

son not to cut interest rates by extending the target deadline for controlling fiscal deficit to three percent, reasoning that insistence on a timetable to contain the deficit would harm growth prospects. The targets for the next three years have been set at 3.9 percent for 201516, 3.5 percent for 2016-17, and 3.0 percent for 2017-18. Rajan, who in announcing the rate cut in January had stated that “the key to further easing are data that confirm

continuing disinflationary pressures and sustained high quality fiscal consolidation”, said on Wednesday after reducing the rate to 7.5 percent that “the fiscal consolidation programme, while delayed, may compensate in quality, especially if state governments are cooperative”. According to data released this week, the fiscal deficit exceed the budget estimate within the first 10 months of the current fiscal (April-Jan-

uary), crossing 107 percent at Rs.568,000 crore. It is here that the 2015-16 budget comes as a quasi-revolutionary measure in India’s economic history, signalling the shift in budgetary philosophy on subsidies from a rightsbased to a reformist one following changes made in their modes of disbursement. This occurs under the head of “Good Governance” in Jaitley’s budget speech, which sets out the changes being brought about through the cashless transfer of subsidy through the direct benefit transfer system. India was now ready to “take off” and “fly”, Jaitley said, its engines finding extra thrust from falling oil prices, but he as finance minister was being held in check by low tax buoyancy where the tax to GDP ratio is a measly 10 percent. Jaitley Saturday proposed to cut the corporate tax rate by five percent to 25 percent over the next four years while increasing the service plus education cess from 12.36 percent to a consolidated 14 percent. The indirect tax proposals would net Rs.23,383 crore while the direct tax proposals would see Rs.8,315 crore revenue forgone. Even as he announced a range of social security schemes there were heavy cuts

in social sectors ranging from agriculture, drinking water and sanitation, panchayat raj, water resources to the ministry of women and child development to the tone of Rs.439,192.25 crore, in order to keep to the fiscal deficit target. There is also a reduction in allocation to schemes for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Jaitley has attempted to realize multiple goals like higher growth, increase in investment and wider social safety nets in line with his philosophy about reforms in India being the art of the possible and not about a few “big bang” ideas. “In a country where 30 percent of people are living below the poverty line, your reforms cannot be one that you simply confront public opinion, or the sectors that you simply find a huge amount of reluctance for reformation,” Jaitley said last year at the World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit here. If the Goods and Services Tax is implemented from the start of the 2016-17 fiscal to usher in a common market, Jaitley, who learnt his economics in Delhi University, would be bringing to fruition the dreams of the nationalist bourgeoisie which sustained Mahatma Gandhi in his struggle against the British Empire.

IndianOil wins ‘Champion of Champions’ Award After 20 years, RBI to put Re 1 note into circulation

Shrikant Bapat, ED (CC & Branding), Mktg. HO, IndianOil, and Amresh Kapoor, ED (CC), CO, IndianOil, received the ‘Champion of Champions’ trophy at the 54th ABCI Annual Awards Nite held at Mumbai recently. Seen along are the Corporate Communications teams from across all Divisions of IndianOil.

MuMbai, March 5 (agENciES): IndianOil was bestowed with the ‘Champion of Champions’ Award (for winning the highest tally of awards) at ABCI’s 54th Annual Awards Nite held at Mumbai recently. The prestigious 11 awards in various categories were received by the Corporate Communications teams from across different Divisions of IndianOil, led by Amresh Kapoor, Executive Director (Corporate Communications), Corporate Office, IndianOil, and Shrikant Bapat, Executive Director (Corporate Communications & Branding), Marketing Head Office, IndianOil. IndianOil won 2 Gold, 5 Silver and 4 Bronze Awards for various publications

including, ‘Our Values Our Inspiration Table Calendar-2014‘, IndianOil Puja Guide Map, 19th IndianOil Art Exhibition-2013 Catalogue, Corporate Profile, World Environment Day Communiqué, internal house magazines IndOilWest, Sarathi and for the Corporate Film IndianOil - A Vision beyond Tomorrow. As India’s largest commercial undertaking IOC has built an enviable tally of ABCI awards, won over the last few decades, thus establishing its mettle as a leading business communicator of India. This was stated in an official press release issued by Shrikant Bapat, Executive Director (CC& Branding)

MuMbai, March 5 (PTi): One rupee notes are all set to come back into circulation as the government has decided to restart printing the currency after more than two decades. “The Reserve Bank of India will soon put in circulation currency notes in one rupee denomination. The notes will be printed by the Government of India,” Reserve Bank said in a statement today. RBI said the notes to be issued would be legal tender as provided in The Coinage Act 2011. “The existing currency notes in this denomination in circulation will also continue to be legal tender,” it added. Detailing about the dimensions of the rupee note, the RBI said it will be 9.7 by 6.3 centimetres made of 100 per cent cotton rag content. It will weigh 90 grams per square

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“The colour of one Rupee Currency Note will be predominantly pink green on obverse and reverse in combination with others,” RBI said. On the obverse, the note will carry bilingual signature of Finance Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi. It will contain words Bharat Sarkar

and Government of India with the replica of new rupee coin and rupee symbol of 2015 with Sataymev Jayate words printed on it. Capital insert letter ‘L’ will be in the numbering panel. Currency notes in India bear signature of RBI governor. The numbering will be

black at right hand bottom portion of the note, it added. On the reverse, it will contain Bharat Sarkar and Government of India words with the year 2015 on the representation of one rupee coin with rupee symbol having floral design, RBI said.

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UNTABA decries media NSCF expresses'dismay and fear' over prevailing situation report on border clashes Flays State Govt ‘muted silence’ on the issue Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) today decried the media reports alluding to Naga people as “miscreant,” and asserted that it was nothing but “utter disregard” to the very dignity of the Nagas as a community of people. “Nagas may be different but never a miscreant who kills” stated Hukavi T Yeputhomi, Chairman, UNTABA in a press note issued in response to the reply given by Assam State Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Rockybul Hussain to the query put forth by AIUDF (All India United Democratic Front) MLA Aminul Islam asserting that 161 people have been killed by ‘Naga miscreants’ since 1972. “It is regrettable to recount the clashes that very often occurred in the border areas wherein many pre-

cious lives have been lost from across the two States, yet such ugly incidences could have been avoided if only Assam Government could withhold such posture as maintained by Rockybul Hussain,” it added. Alleging that all the “unwarranted clashes” in the border areas occurred due to instigations, covert actions and policies adopted by the Assam Government to "claim all the traditional and ancestral land" of the Naga people in border areas, UNTABA asked the Government of Assam “must prepared to answer” the Naga people how to return back those ‘transferred’ Naga people’s lands to Nagaland and how to repay the destruction of rich forests resources and unaccountable mineral resources including oil and natural gases that were illegally extracted from Naga soil.

“The Assam Government’s claim in the Assembly that around 59,159.77 hectares in Golaghat, Jorhat and Sivasagar districts are under the encroachment of Nagaland is nothing but a complete negation of recorded history of the land and our people,” “On the contrary, the actual area of Naga people’s land under the illegal occupation of Assam is approximately 4,974.16 Square Miles accounted from the Notification of the erstwhile ‘Naga Hill Agency’ in 1852 headquartered at Asaloo, the records of which are readily available in Government Archives of both the States,” UNTABA further stated. Moreover, the Civil Suit No. 2 of 1988 filed by the Government of Assam against Nagaland Government which is under active litigation process in the Supreme Court of India is also

an excuse to grab more Naga lands by Assam, UNTABA argued adding that the Government of Assam with all its available Government machineries have "deforested" thousands of square miles of Reserve Forests that were traditionally, historically and politically belongs to Naga people while the case is still pending in court. The UNTABA also flayed the “complete silence” of the Government of Nagaland (GoN) over such an “important issue” for Naga people and accused the GoN “selling the history” of Naga people by maintaining a muted silence. “The UNTABA shall therefore strongly urge the Government of the day to be vociferous on the issue and prepared a ‘white paper’ and tabled the same in the forthcoming Assembly Session in the interest of all the Naga people”, it added.

Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): The Nagaland Senior Citizens Forum (NSCF) has expressed its “dismay and fear” over the “obnoxious acts” prevailing in Nagaland in recent times. In an emergency meeting to take stock of prevailing situation on Nagaland on February 27, the NSCF said that, “intimidating through gun culture and disturbing peaceful co-existence are all alien cultures of the Nagar and are antiChristian acts.” A press note issued by the forum president, Dr. SI Tushi Ao and Secretary, S Ghunakha Swu, while vehemently condemning the “senseless killing and arsoning” in the ChangYimchunger conflict and opined that nothing good would come out of these actions and appealed to both the tribes to restrain themselves. The Forum also urged the concerned administrative authorities and the police to carry out their duties without fear or favour to check the further escalation Further condemning in strongest possible term, the “firing and lobbing explosives incidents” that took place in February 18 and 21 in Dimapur and Kohima respectively, the forum further appealed the responsible Law enforcing agency to enquire the cases at the earliest and report its findings positively unlike in the past where no “final proved

Inter-College Fest at Tetso Arms peddler Farmer’s lackadaisical attitude Dimapur, march 5 coveted Overall Champi- arrested leads to 'low productivity' (mExN): An inter-college onship Trophy. It will feayouth festival, 'Pow-woW', will be organised at Tetso College on March 6 and 7. The Intercollege youth festival is jointly organized Tetso College and the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Ministry of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India, Tamil Nadu. According to a press note from the college principal, Dr. P.S. Lorin the event will witness participation from 15 Colleges in Dimapur and will vie for

ture competition on sports such as volleyball and basketball; and literary competitions such as extempore, debate and quiz competitions. YouthNet will also be declaring the winner of its Impact 5000 by 18: First Cut Inter Collegiate Entrepreneurship Competition on during the fest. The inaugural programme will be launched Prof. A Lanunungsang Ao, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University, on March 6 at 10:00 AM.

Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): An arms peddler was arrested from general area of Tenali, Dimapur on March 3 along with one pt.22 pistol.The accused identified as Sapenthung Lotha, a resident of Wokha, was arrested after troops of 29 Assam Rifles launched a search operation in the vicinity based on specific inputs. The accused along with recovered the weapon was handed over to West Police Station, Dimapur, informed an AR press note.

BJP special membership drive Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): A six-day special BJP membership drive will be launched nationwide from March 9 to 11 and March 16 to 18, before membership registration culminates on March 31. State Secretary (Media) and Convenor, Social Media, BJP Nagaland, Jaangsillung Gonmei, in a press release said that a joint state BJP membership drive and social media meeting was held in this regard on March 3 at the state party Head Office, Dimapur with State frontal and Dimapur district teams. This special membership drive is set apart entirely for college and university students and is meant to supplement the main membership drive efforts, the release informed. To enable the smooth functioning of the programme, the district BJMM

and BJYM have been directed to conduct meetings with the district party workers between March 5 and 8 in the presence of the district Membership Drive and Social Media Convenors positively. To date, the nationwide party registration has crossed the 6 crore mark. In Nagaland, the state unit has been enhanced to 75,000 from the earlier target of 50,000, according to the release. The National Convenor of Membership Drive, Dr. Dinesh Sharma has appealed to all the party office bearers and workers in every state, district, mandal and local level, to reach out to the people and enroll. He has also requested that every completed membership counterfoil booklets be submitted with the State Convenors immediately, the release stated.

Another highlight of the membership drive initiated is that the party MLAs and Ex-BJP candidates shall be issued separate membership enrollment forms that are also required to be completed and submitted within the stipulated time. A National Membership Drive meeting has been scheduled mid-March to monitor the ongoing progress, the release added. The State BJP unit has appealed to all to enroll into the party membership either by dialing 18002662020 with a missed call or by registering through filled forms available with the party workers in all the districts. Interested persons may also visit the webpage www.facebook.com/bjpsocialmedianagaland and obtain any related information they may require to register.

ICAR KVK Longleng conducted one-day animal health cum vaccination camp at Pongo village on March 2. During the camp, Dr. Lily Ngullie highlighted the uses of different medicines for treatment of common diseases in livestock and poultry and the importance of vaccination. A total of 154 pigs and dogs were vaccinated against swine fever and rabies. Medicines like vitamins and minerals, ointments, antibiotic powders and anthelminthic tablets were distributed to the villagers. Treatment against skin diseases in dogs and pigs were also carried out. Veterinary Field Assistants of District Veterinary Office, Longleng, assisted the camp.

Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): The Additional Director of Fisheries, Kevisa Kense has maintained that the “lackadaisical attitude” of farmers is one of the main reasons behind the low productivity. “Most farmers today depend solely on the facilities provided by the government and are not putting enough efforts to go the extra mile,” he added while speaking on the the fish farmers training programme on "Prospects of Aquaculture for grassroot levels" at Tuophema village on March 3. The program was or-

ganized by Fisheries department and funded under National Fisheries Development Board. The resource persons of the training programme were Ketusielie Angami, Assistant Director of Fisheries; Wapang Longkumer; Fishery Demonstrator; and Zakiesielie Fishery Demonstrator. Other highlights of the programme were distribution of key inputs (floating fish feeds) to the farmers sponsored under RKVY during 2014-15, informed a press note from Ketusielie Angami, Assistant Director of Fisheries, Nagaland.

were revealed publically.” It also expressed its “utter shock” over the over the reported recruitment of Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants in Naga Underground factions. “It appears to the FORUM that our NPG's seems to have lost the vision and principles of their stand which can ultimately bring self-defeating or purpose defeating,” it added. The Forum strongly appealed to the National workers to discontinue the IBIs recruitment endangering the life of the Nagas. The Forum also demanded the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate misappropriation of Rs. 12, 79, 50,000/- for differently abled children in School Education Department. It also expressed its appreciation to the then Chief Secretary, who is also the Vigilance Commissioner, for setting up of the SIT to prove the embezzlement, and also lauded the “dedicated and sincere” officer Shiwoto Wotsa Sr SP as team leader is heading the investigation. However, expressing its displeasures over the non-release of conclusive or final finding report on the State constituted committees or SIT in preceding years, it emphasised the need to give “all out efforts” by the investigation team till logical conclusion is reached.

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Governor extends Holi greetings kohima, march 5 (mExN): The governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya has greeted the people of Nagaland on the joyous occasion of Holi. “It is really an event of immense pleasure to convey my warm greetings and best wishes to the people of Nagaland on the auspicious occasion of Holi festival 2015,” the governor said in his message. “Let the festival strengthen the secular fabric of the nation and foster unity, fraternity, joy, reciprocity and togetherness of people. Just like the myriad colours of Holi, our Nation too is replete with diversity and let us learn to respect and protect the vibrant culture of ours,” he added. He further hoped that the joyous spirit Holi Festival will rejuvenate and strengthen the age-old bond of love, harmony and understanding in the society and keep all sections of the people united to march peacefully forward. Holi will be celebrated across the nation on Friday.

NPCC visit ‘vandalised’ sites

NPCC President, Sungit Jamir and MLA Khekaho visitng the sites of crowd "vandalism" at Dimapur on Thursday.

Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee, President (NPCC), Sungit Jamir has today vehemently condemned the rape incident and urged the authorities to award

befitting punishment to the accused. Sungit who along with MLA Khekaho visted the sites of “vandalism” at New Market and Hong Kong Market on Thursday, however, also described it as unfor-

tunate that such vandalism and looting of goods took place. The Congress President said that the state government should seriously take up the issue of February 23 rape incident and the incidents that followed.

St. Peter’s School, Longsa gets new building

Wokha, march 5 (mExN): A new two-storey RCC building of St. Peter’s School, Longsa in Wokha district was inaugurated in the presence of parents, Longsa village council and public on March 3. The building was inaugurated by Thungbemo Ezung, an innovative entrepreneur and son of late Nyamo Lotha, who hosted the first Catholic missionary, late Fr. Larea at the village. It was blessed by Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima. Thungbemo Ezung, ac-

cording to a release from the Bishop’s secretary, extolled the Catholic Church for completing the school building within a short span of time. He acknowledged the earlier missionaries who pioneered the mission in Lotha area. He also lauded people of Longsa for extending logistic support to the institution and also the staff of the school for the collaboration rendered to the school. With the new good infrastructure and facilities provided by the Church, he exhorted all present to work together for the growth and

development of the people in the area. He further urged Catholic Church to start more vocational training faculties to provide better employment opportunities for the young people. He advised the students to inculcate a work culture which is the key to success. Bishop James Thoppil, the head of all the Catholic schools in Nagaland, thanked all concerned for their collaboration and support for the development of the School. “It was a sort of miracle that the Church could invest over

two crores in the place, beginning with buying of the land,” he mentioned. He thanked the children of two parishes in Germany, who through their carol singing contributed financial support for the building. He further emphasized that the Catholic Church is able to build good infrastructure to provide quality education due to the great sacrifice and generosity of hundreds of Catholics all over the world. Meanwhile, he assured that “the Catholic Church is here to serve for the people and we shall

spare no effort to render the best service to the people of Nagaland.” The school children performed traditional dance and modern choreography. Welcome speech was given by Robin Patton, while Zayio Maran, the Village Chairman and Timothy Ezung spoke on behalf of the Village and Catholic community respectively. Rev Fr. Mathew Rhanben pronounced the words of gratitude to the people and Fr. Anto Tharakan, the Parish priest of Wokha pronounced the benediction.

Community Development Initiative prog at Peren Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): Coalition on Environment and Natural Resources (CENRs) - Nagaland Partner in collaboration with Zeliangrong Students’ Union Nagaland (ZSUN) conducted a programme on ‘Community Development Initiative’, a project initiative of CENRs at Peren Town Council Hall. All together 65 participants from across Peren district participated in the programme. According to a press note received here, the programme aimed at empowering local communities in this context to assert their rights and strengthen their ability to cope with growing development trends. The programme was directed to empower local communities in Peren district, to protect their land and its natural resources to sustain their livelihood. CENRs proposed activity in Nagaland for Community development initiatives and engagement in development of local community leaders including women leaders was touched accordingly. The programme, first of its kind in the district, was a

project initiative of CENRs, which stands for securing the peaceful co-existence and human sustainability ensuring equity and justice of the indigenous people. Educating local communities to protect land and its natural resources Azeu Namcyn Hau, Program Person & Nagaland Partner CENRS, chaired the programme while Bano Haralu, Dr. P. Ngullie, Apeuna Iheilung, Jonas Yanthan, and Humaningbo Chawang were the resource persons. P Ngullie, Chairman of Kohima Educational Society and Advisor to Kohima Lotha Hoho, opined that wherever wealth or natural resource was there, one would always find conflict. In order to do away with mental conflict, one must be aware of the kind of resources that one has and make the best use of the same, he said. Ngullie opined that wherever extraction of natural resources takes place, the local indigenous people were the ones who were most affected. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years back and the next best time is today,”

he stated. Bano Haralu, a recipient of Chameli Devi Award and Founder of Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust opened up her topic with the question “Are we at a stage where we are responsible enough to handle exploration of oil and natural gas?” Haralu stated that natural resources belong to humanity, not to any individuals and maintained that humans are affected by the way they treat nature. Stating that the Nagas are at a crossroad, she stated that the Nagas have to lay new foundations, as there were too many issues to be taken up. Jonas Yanthan, social worker, writer and newsreader AIR Kohima, gave an in depth presentation on the issue of oil exploration in Champang Area and on Article 371-A. He encouraged the participants to learn to speak the truth and to stand for their rights. Humaningbo Chawang, Founder of Soul Harvest Ministry was of the view that one should not oppose or reject any developmental projects without first studying the advantag-

es and disadvantages. “Oil and natural resources is nature’s gift from God and therefore we have to think what God would want us to do with it. We should utilise it purposefully,” said Chawang. A recipient of Governors’ Award and retired Educationist, Apeuna Iheilung stressed on women’s issues and education. Quoting a socialist adage that “A society that neglects a woman is a sickly society”, she maintained that though everyone talks about conflicts, everyone has a contribution towards the conflict, one way or the other. In order to make a better society, one must educate oneself and contribute in ones’ own little ways, she added. CENRS & ZSUN collaboration Since 2012, CENRs- a Coalition of affected communities of oil and gas exploration have initiated a number of programmes for communities living within the area of the oil-drilling plan in Manipur. For a year, the activities concentrated within Manipur. Initiatives have been extended to oth-

er three NE states of Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya. The press release stated that, “In Nagaland, ONGC activities in drilling oil and gas led to internal conflicts and confusion amongst the local communities and in Assam, there are controversial dams and mining activities by big industries.” In this context, CENRs felt the need to strengthen the Coalition and extend community development initiatives not only in Manipur but also in the three NE states of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Zeliangrong Students Union Nagaland has assessed its progress and resolve to assist other like-minded bodies in addressing massive problems not only in Peren district but also in the entire State in general. ZSUN believes that its response to emergencies and development must at their core; focus on strengthening the bonds between the public and private sectors alike. Its approach aims to build and improve societal relations based on the principle of peaceful coexistence, accountability and participation.

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…of the same material

n office peon steals milk powder from the office refreshment. A politician diverts fund from a poverty alleviation scheme to build his private mansion. Of the two, who did more wrong? The office peon harps about how corrupt our politicians have become. We agree. But how different are we from the ones we are pointing fingers at? A friend asked me why we blame our leaders all the time when we ourselves are corrupt. I replied that it is right and valid that we blame them. A politician and a peon are both individual human beings. But by virtue of their positions and spheres of influence, it is important that we have clean leaders. One decision or action of a single politician can affect thousands or lakhs of lives which is not so in case of the peon. The scale of corruption - of some milk powder lost and lakhs of scheme money lost - is so different. A good leader can motivate a lot of people through exemplary living and creating opportunities for better living through decisions which will make people not steal milk powders (in case the peon struggles to meet daily needs). But corruption isn’t a simple shirt that we wear or choose not to put on. In spite of the longing to be free from it, we all are somehow in it together. It is so pervasive that each one of us is directly or indirectly involved. It is possible that the problem of corruption is always blamed on our leaders looking at the scale of the corruption while in the root we might be the same. It is very much possible that the peon and the politician are made of the same material. The only difference is the lack of opportunity for the peon. Given the chance, the peon would have acted as the politician because they are made of one material. We want change but we are always waiting for others to bring it. It becomes a viscous cycle that we keep complaining about corruption while at the same time we want the scale to tilt in our favour; we want that shortcut, or that special connection which can manipulate the system to our advantage, and thereby promoting further corruption. Somewhere, we have to stop and start to be the change. It requires systemic and structural changes. We need laws, rules, legislation, etc and the enforcement of such measures. But even with a good system or structure in place, it becomes a very moral and personal matter, the evil of corruption. It is so hard to say that I contribute to the problem which ails our society. But from that uncomfortable and inconvenient place of meeting our own weaknesses, we must all begin. We won’t get it right overnight. It will be a process. Education or awareness is important and we need it. But to root out corruption calls for a change much more radical than increased knowledge. It calls us to change on the inside. It will be as difficult as a tobacco user trying to kick the habit. He is well aware of the health hazards. Each time he takes a cigarette out of the pack, he sees the terrifying warning signs. But it is so hard to overcome it. Fighting corruption will be that difficult. But if we don’t do it, we will continue to suffer from it.

What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it?

profit, is literally insane. Paton: So if we’re all living beings “born of a living Earth,” as you say, where does that start to show up in our lives? Korten: A big piece of it has to do with recognizing the implications of our dependence on money. This goes back to development as a process of separating people from their means of subsistence production. The more people become alienated from their self-production, the more they become dependent on money—and the more they become dependent on the people who control the creation and allocation of money. Paton: You mean when I’m dependent, I accept fracking. Korten: Yeah, you say, “I need that money. They’re going to pay me to frack my property.”

Dean Paton: Tell me how somebody who was an organizational management specialist, and then a new-economy thought leader, made this leap into what is as much a spiritual proposition as it is a political one—that Earth is a living organism, that we all are essentially a part of this one big life form. David Korten: It’s not that hard, actually—once you get into the living-Earth frame—to see that Earth is essentially this organization of living organisms creating and maintaining the conditions essential to life. If you’re an organizational expert, or theorist, that raises a really fascinating question: How do these millions of organisms work in concert to maintain life?

Paton: Do you really think Americans are going to be able to cast off the belief that money is king? Korten: I’d say a lot of people are casting it off. Paton: Most of us respond to a 10-dollar bill. Or a bonus at work. Or a new car. Korten: But we respond to that because we accept the “Sacred Money and Markets” story that money is wealth, a fabrication that is literally killing us.

Paton: As if everything has an intelligence and everything has a purpose? How is that relevant to your new book, Change the Story, Change the Future? Korten: The new book sets up the juxtaposition between the old “Sacred Money and Markets” story and an emerging “Sacred Life and Living Earth” story. They’re two totally different frames that lead to two totally different ways of thinking about organizing society. You either see life as a means to make money, or you see money as simply a number useful for keeping accounts in service to life, but of no value in itself. Buying into the “Sacred Money and Markets” story that money is wealth and the key to happiness locks us into indentured servitude to corporate rule.

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replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

avid Korten began his professional life as a professor at the Harvard Business School on a mission to lift struggling people in Third World nations out of poverty by sharing the secrets of U.S. business success. Yet, after a couple of decades in which he applied his organizational development strategies in places as far-flung as Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, Korten underwent a change of heart. In 1995, he wrote the bestseller When Corporations Rule the World, followed by a series of books that helped birth the movement known as the New Economy, a call to replace transnational corporate domination with local economies, control, ownership, and self-reliance.

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Paton: You’re saying it’s the traditional development model, or transnational capitalism, that damages Earth as a living community, including not just humans but all life forms. Yet we all depend on money, on the market economy. Do you really think we can just stop that dependence? Korten: We will still use money and markets, but strip away Wall Street’s control of money’s creation and allocation. There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it

t a military base outside Bangkok, soldiers stand guard over Buddha statues, showcases of Rolex watches and some very expensive French wine — a $4,000 bottle of Petrus and choice vintages of Dom Perignon. It all belonged to a man who led Thailand's equivalent of the FBI and is now serving 31 years in prison on corruption and other convictions. A fourday auction that opened Thursday features a small portion of the 27,000 items police say they seized from longtime Central Investigation Bureau head Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayapan. Authorities have expressed shock over Pongpat's misdeeds, but the Thai public is mainly astonished that someone so powerful actually got caught. Those who study corruption in Thailand say the case is a window into the graft that pervades Thai society and is particularly prominent in the police force. Pongpat's case is interwoven with the still-mysterious estrangement of Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn and his third wife, the former Princess Srirasm. Pongpat is Srirasm's uncle, and the couple's split was publicized soon after the police scandal emerged last year. But in a country where insulting the monarchy can bring a 15-year prison sentence, nobody is asking too many questions. Police accuse Pongpat of leading a network responsible for offenses including money laundering, extortion and taking bribes from oil smugglers, illegal gambling dens and police officers seeking promotions. Pongpat was also convicted of insulting the mon-

Paton: So you say that our choice is between working with Earth and working against her? Korten: It comes back to this: Are we a part of nature? Or apart from nature? was a much more democratic process. Paton: Like George Bailey’s building and loan in It’s a Wonderful Life. Korten: Exactly. If more of our money circulated in our communities rather than the Wall Street casino, it would facilitate people organizing locally to meet more of their economic needs with local resources. Control of money is the ultimate mechanism of social control in a society in which most every person depends on money for the basic means of living—food, water, shelter, heat, transportation, entertainment. This leads us into the voluntary simplicity movement: The less I’m dependent on money, the freer I am. Realize that the only legitimate purpose of the economy is to serve life, is to serve us as living beings making our living in co-productive partnership with living Earth. Paton: How does that translate into actions? If we get a thousand people to say, “I’m a living being born of and nurtured by a living Earth,” how does that stop fracking? How does that stop the Russians from pumping all the oil out of Kazakhstan and selling it around the world? Korten: It makes very clear that destroying the natural living systems on which our existence depends, in order to get a quick energy fix or a quick

Paton: Why do you insist we adopt this “Living Earth” story? Korten: Because we humans live by stories. Paton: And that means…? Korten: It means that to organize as ordered societies, we need a shared framework—basic values and assumptions—so that when I relate to you, I’ve got some idea of how you’re going to respond, because we share our basic story. Paton: Do we have a choice? Korten: Yeah, change or die. Quite literally. You really can’t grasp the new story—as a society—and continue to live the way we live. First you begin to move toward more voluntary simplicity, which is, literally, reducing your dependence on money. You start doing more things yourself. You pay much more attention to your relationships, to the gift economy. You perhaps get a deeper sense of being part of and a contributor to a living universe evolving toward ever greater complexity, beauty, awareness, and possibility. What would that mean for society, and then what does it mean for how I live? What is my contribution to the change society needs? I have a responsibility to be part of this change—which begins by changing the story.

Thai auction puts police corruption on view Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press archy because police said he claimed links to the monarchy to carry out the crimes. "This is a very, very unusual case. There could not be another one like it," said police Col. Seehanat Prayoonrat, head of the Anti-Money Laundering Office, which is organizing the public auction. The sale has been divided into two parts, each featuring 1,000 lots with items from the first auction valued at 50 million baht ($1.5 million). A second sale is scheduled for later this month. Since Pongpat and several other police officials were arrested in November, authorities say they discovered assets worth more than 1 billion baht, or $30 million, including 104 plots of land and a massive art stash that was hidden in underground vaults and safe houses. Much of it is not up for auction, including 12th-century Buddhist statues that have been turned over to Thailand's Fine Arts Department, and ivory tusks, gold bars, luxury cars and diamond jewelry held by the anti-money-laundering agency.

"It's frightening. Surprising, how one person can do a thing like this," said Seehanat, saying that police typically find smaller stashes in corruption crackdowns. "Usually we find 10 cars. This time we found more than 20,000 pieces." Pongpat had more time to accumulate wealth than many top-level Thai police officials, who typically rotate posts every two years. Pongpat held the top bureau job for several years, perhaps because of his family connections, according to police and other experts. Still, analysts including Jomdet Trimek, a police officer turned academic, cast doubt on police claims that Pongpat's actions were unique. "Was I surprised? I'm surprised there was eventually an arrest. A big general has never been arrested. But there was only an arrest because this was an order from up above that made it happen," said Jomdet, a professor of criminology at Bangkok's Rangsit University. "Corruption is part of our police culture. This is a known fact. It is the norm

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and everyone takes part in it," said Jomdet. "Not everyone has the chance to be as corrupt as Pongpat. But the big bosses have a lot of money — that doesn't come from their salaries." The junta that has ruled Thailand since toppling an elected government last May claims it is prioritizing the fight against corruption. Critics say the army's real goal is to cripple political allies of self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, also on grounds of corruption and insulting the monarchy. Senior police officials have started warning the lower ranks to clean up their act. Last week in a chandeliered ballroom at the National Police Club, Thailand's chief of police, Somyot Pumpanmuang, led an anti-corruption seminar that focused on the wellknown graft among lower-ranking officers. He dimmed the lights to show a video taken by hidden cameras of police extorting bribes from motorists and businesses. "We cannot deny the existence of bribery and corruption," Somyot told his audience of 600 rank-and-file officers. Then he opened the floor to questions and asked for suggestions on how to end corruption. Nobody in the audience raised a hand. "Please serve the people," Somyot told his officers. "And most importantly, obey the law." He never mentioned Pongpat but referred to him on the sidelines as "a unique case" and "an extraordinary case." He laughed off a question about whether corruption persists at the top levels.

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Women SHG shine with banana and pineapple fiber products

Extraction of Banana Fibre

Drying of the Fibre

Best Organized Group Award (2013-2014)

V.Kenny Rhetso, Vinika K. Aomi and Anamika Sharma KVK Dimapur, Icar research complex Jharnapani

oune Kro SHG was formed in the year 2008 with 15 female members at Jharnapani village. Initially the group started their venture with the membership amount of Rs 50/month for their activities. Different activities like working as daily wages labour, selling of new clothes, tea leaves and mushroom cultivation etc were carried out. The SHG members also received training on value addition in fruits and vegetables from time to time. Banana pseudo-stem and pineapple leaves generally considered as waste after harvesting the fruit, which can be easily utilized for extraction of fibre and weaving of different handicraft products. Banana fiber extraction from pseudo stem and pineapple fiber from leaf is a new and an innovative technology to the people of Nagaland, which can provide a platform for entrepreneurs to venture into the Fiber Production Industry. With the increasing environmental awareness and growing importance of eco-friendly fabrics, products made of banana and pineapple leaf fiber has been recognized for all its good qualities and now its application is increasing in other fields too such as apparel garments and home furnishings. With this background, KVK Dimapur have initiated and given all possible technical assistance to Noune Kro, SHG from Jharnapani village. The group was provided with one banana fiber extractor from Central Institute of Horticulture, Medziphema in the month of October 2012. KVK Dimapur trained the members on the extraction of fibers from different Banana and Pineapple cultivars. Training on making of different decorative items

Different Decorative items with Banana fiber prepared by Noune Kro SHG Jharnapani village

such as tea coasters, door and table mats, sling bags, hats and flowers was imparted by KVK Dimapur. The group received financial assistance of Rs 10,000/from ATMA, Dimapur, on 05/07/2014 as seed money. The amount is being utilized at present for purchase of materials like colour dyes & accessories etc. Now the group started preparing colored and good

quality handicraft items like decorative flower basket and Sunshade hats etc. The group was recognized as “BEST ORGANIZED SELF HELP GROUP AWARD (2013-2014)” on Independence Day Celebration 2014 from Dimapur district. The SHG is earning nearly Rs 15,000 to 20,000/annum from the preparation of fibre products.

The Pro Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University and his thoughts

n a Tuesday morning (17.02.2015) we had the opportunity to talk to an academician and an administrator the Pro Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University, Prof. Dr. N. S. Jamir. Born to a humble family at Changki village of Mokokchung, Prof. Jamir stood against all odds of the time and completed his schooling from Mokokchung and graduation from St. Edmunds’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya. Further he also pursued post graduation and a doctorate degree from NEHU, Meghahalya. He has the experience of working as an Orchidologist with the Botanical Survey of India for two years. In 1984, he joined School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development, Medziphema (SASRD) as a lecturer and served the university in different capacities for almost 30 years. As an academician he has so far guided 13 students for doctorate degree besides publishing a book entitled “Ferns of Nagaland” and fifty research papers in journals of international and national repute. He is the recipient of gold

medal from Ethnobotanic Society in 2008 for his distinguished and long term service in the field of Ethno-botany. In 2013 he joined as Pro VC in Nagaland University, SASRD campus. Here are some excerpts from the talk with the person who bear a simple, pleasing and positive personality, Prof. Dr. N. S. Jamir, Pro VC, SASRD, Nagaland University. Q. Sir how do you feel to head an agricultural institute? A. All throughout my profession I am associated with works related to plants and now I feel fortunate to be associated with an institute where in we work and try to contribute to agricultural development of the state in general and the nation in particular. Q. How do you view the agricultural scenario in the state? A. Most of our farmers rely on traditional way of agriculture for their livelihood which is not providing enough returns. Modernization and mechani-

ypertension is defined as persistently high arterial blood pressure, the force exerted per unit area on the walls of the arteries. World Health Organization has estimated that high blood pressure causes death worldwide making hypertension the third leading killer in the world (JAMA, 289 2003). Hypertension is often called a “silent killer” because people with hypertension can be asymptomatic for years and then have a fatal stroke or heart attack. To be defined as hypertension the Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), the blood pressure during the contraction phase of the cardiac cycle has to be 140 mmHg or higher ; or the Diastolic Blood Pressure(DBP), the blood pressure during the relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle has to be 90 mmHg or higher. Blood pressures of individuals are classified as under: Blood Pressure Classification

Systolic Blood Pressure D iastol ic Blo o d (SBP)mmHg Pre ssure (DBP) mmHg

Normal

<120

<80

Pre-hypertension

129-139

80-89

Stage I hypertension 140-159

90-99

Stage II hypertension ≥ 160

≥100

• individuals diagnosed with pre-hypertension are at the high risk of developing essential hypertension* and CVD *when the cause of hypertension is unknown it is called essential hypertension Many people with hypertension have no symptoms, however the symptoms of hypertension may include headache, dizziness, impaired vision, failing memory, shortness of breath, pain over the heart, gastrointestinal disturbances and tiredness. Dietary modifications and a healthy lifestyle help in the management of hypertension .Principle of dietary management for hypertension is a low calorie, low fat, low sodium diet with normal protein intake. 1. Energy • An obese hypertensive patient must be reduced to normal body weight with low calorie diet

zation of agriculture is the need of the hour. The technology so developed by ICAR, SAUs and such other organization should reach the farmers. In last few years, there has been lot of development in Agriculture in the state, but there is still scope for improvement. Q. Sir would you like to put forward your suggestions for improved agricultural practices? A. As I have already mentioned, institute and organizations relevant to agriculture and allied sector like the SASRD, ICAR Research Complex, NRC on Mithun, the State Agril. and allied departments etc. have developed or are aware of the improved technologies. The improved technologies like improved or hybrid seed materials or animal breeds, crop production technology, animal husbandry, post harvest technology etc should percolate to the farmer’s field. Scientists and farmers should always work together for the betterment and

overall development of agriculture and allied sector in the state. Q. What message do you want to convey to the youths and your students? A. I believe in honesty, simplicity, hard work along with discipline. We the Nagas are also very much competent and have the potential to prove ourselves in all sphere of life. To achieve still greater heights in the future we need to instil up on our youths and students sincerity, discipline and the culture of hard work. There is no alternative to hard work and with hard work we can hope to achieve anything and everything. Q. Sir will you please narrate your achievements as an administrator till now? A. We are trying to develop the infrastructure of the school and the academic activities in better way. Ours is an agrarian state, we should have a full fledged agriculture and veterinary college in the state for over all development. Thank you sir

Weather based integrated agro advisory for the month of March Advisories

 Early sowing of maize in March-april escapes the attack of most pests. crop rotation should be carried out with other crops as it reduces the pest infestation by interrupting the continuity of the food chain. Use resistant varieties in consultation with your respective agriculture department.  Nurseries of gourd, sponge gourd, bitter gourd, pumkin etc may be started  rain water should be harvested to grow off-season vegetables and earn higher returns.  The soil should be treated with mustard oil cake @ 150kg/ha as it helps protect the plants from root knot nematode and other pests during the initial 4-5 weeks of growth.  Propagation of citrus through cuttings or seeds should be started before the onset of hot weather. For young trees to encourage good growth, a weed free area should be maintained at least of 4 feet diameter around the young trees.  Early sowing of cucurbitaceous crops should be done to reduce infestation of Pumpkin beetle, they are active from the month of March to October and the peak period of activity is april to June.  In the high altitude region seed bed preparation should be done for sowing of chilies, capsicum and tomato.  Shoot and fruit borer cause serious damage to the brinjal fruits. continuous cropping of brinjal on the same piece of land should be avoided. as soon as the insect is detected, the affected parts should be clipped along with the insect and destroyed. Fruits showing any boring should be picked and destroyed.

Livestock

• Take preventive measures against swine fever; the disease can spread quickly when you have many animals living together, when they share the same food, water and housing facilities. Once a pig is infected, it has hundred percent fatality rate. check the herd for spotting out the sick animals and contact the veterinarian for necessary treatment • animals with disease conditions that have become chronic and require repeated treatments must be culled from the herd. • In case of poultry, dead birds which die due to different diseases should be disposed off safely so as to control the spread of infection. as the temperature is increasing, the animals should be provided clean water daily and the water troughs should be regularly cleaned. • Do not depend solely on rainwater to fill your pond as when it does not rain, there may not be enough water to keep your pond full and the fish may die.

Hypertension and dietary management

Agro Met Field Unit ICAR, Jharnapani. Medziphema

7. Fluid • Adequate fluid is recommended for hypertensive individuals. 8. The DASH diet The DASH diet is result of the successful dietary approaches to stop hypertension landmark study, which was able to lower blood pressure significantly by diet alone within a short period of 14 days. The DASH diet is recommended for individuals with high blood pressure, blood pressure in Vinika K Aomi the pre-hypertension range, and a family history of high blood pressure or Junior research Fellow, DBT project for those who are trying to eliminate the use of blood pressure medications Icar Nagaland centre Recommendations of the DASH diet: • About 20 kcal/kg of ideal body weight is prescribed for a sedentary • 4-6 servings of fruits per day worker • 4-6 servings of vegetables per day • About 25 kcal/kg of ideal body weight is prescribed for moderately ac- • 2-3 servings of low-fat dairy foods per day tive worker • Lean meats and high- fiber diet Some lifestyle modifications are also recommended to prevent and 2. Protein • A diet of 60 gram protein per day is necessary to maintain proper nutrition manage hypertension, such modifications are given below: • In severe hypertensive patients, protein restriction to 20 gram is advisAPPROXIMATE SBP able as advocated by Kempner as a temporary measure since protein MODIFICATION RECOMMENDATION foods are rich in sodium. REDUCTION (RANGE) Weight reduction Maintain healthy body 5-20 mmhg/10 kg 3. Fats weight (BMI= 18.5 -24.9) • Since hypertensive patients are prone to atherosclerosis, it is advisable to avoid a high intake of animal or hydrogenated fat adopt DaSh consume a diet rich in 8-14 mmhg • About 20 gram vegetable oil is permitted per day. eating plan fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products 4. Carbohydrate with a reduced content of • Easily available carbohydrate is of great help in the management of hysaturated and total fat pertension Dietary sodium 2.4 gm of sodium or 6 g of 2-8 mmhg 5. Sodium restriction sodium chloride • Moderate sodium restriction (2300 mg sodium daily or 6 g of salt) is recper day ommended for the hypertensive subjects,(NIH 2004) 30 minutes per day ,most 4-9 mmhg • To achieve nutrient adequacy, an adequate intake level of sodium has Physical activity days of the week been set at a 1.5 g/day (Institute of Medicine , 2004) M o d e r a t i o n o f Not more than 2 drinks/day 2-4 mmhg 6. Other minerals in men and not more than 1 • Evidence suggests that calcium, magnesium, potassium intake is ben- alcohol consumption drink per day for women eficial for those with hypertension

The Morung Express in collaboration with the ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Nagaland Centre will be publishing articles with regard to Agriculture and the farming community on the first Friday of every month.

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YouTube blocks access to controversial BBC documentary, Govt serves legal notice

New Delhi, March 5 (iaNS): YouTube on Thursday began blocking access to the controversial BBC documentary on the December 16, 2012 gang rape, citing court orders, while the government served legal notice to the top news channel after it ignored a court's restraining order and aired the documentary carrying an interview with one of the rape convicts. The documentary "India's Daughter", by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin, carries an interview with Mukesh Singh, one of the six men who brutally raped a 23-yearold woman on December 16, 2012. The documentary has kicked up a storm in India, with some women's groups demanding a ban. The BBC aired the documentary on Wednesday night, advancing the date from its scheduled March 8 broadcast. Support for the documentary has built up among people after they saw the documentary. Several women's rights activists on Thursday criticised the ban, saying the "knee-jerk" reaction constitutes an attack on freedom of expression. A home ministry official said legal notice was served to the BBC. "The notice says that they (BBC) had violated the contract on various fronts," a home ministry official told IANS. "They were supposed to take final approval from the Tihar jail authorities on the interview of the convicts but they did not do so, and according to the contract signed with the BBC, they were barred to use the documentary for commercial purpose, which they have violated too," he said.

Activists oppose ban on 'India's Daughter'

Indians wait for a bus at the bus stop where the victim of a deadly gang rape had boarded on Dec. 16, 2012, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. One of the four men sentenced to death for the high-profile gang rape of the woman in 2012 was quoted in a new documentary as saying that a girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy and he was repeating something community and religious leaders routinely say. Mukesh Singh, who was driving the bus for much of the time that the 23-year-old woman was being attacked, told the documentary film maker that the victim should have remained silent and allowed the rape, and that they would have spared her life. (AP Photo)

Earlier in the day, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the government was "examining all aspects" related to the documentary and would take action, if required. Before airing the film in Britain and some other countries, the BBC had assured the government that it would not be aired in India. They then went ahead and showed it, and the film was sub-

sequently uploaded on YouTube. "The BBC had planned to air the film on March 8, but they showed it on March 4, the home ministry said, wondering "what was the hurry?" The information and broadcasting ministry has directed Indian news channels not to telecast the documentary. On Thursday evening, the doc-

umentary was unavailable on several YouTube channels, with the message "This content is not available on this country domain due to a court order". The parents of the rape victim said they were against airing of the documentary. "I am surprised that BBC uploaded its documentary on YouTube in spite of the court's re-

straining order. The BBC has hurt the pride of India. The act of BBC clearly shows that they don't have fear of Indian law and our country," the victim's father told IANS. Women activists on Thursday strongly opposed the blanket ban. "I have seen the documentary. It is powerful and moving. It does not sensationalise anything," CPIM politburo member and women's rights activist Brinda Karat told IANS. The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) in a statement said it opposes the blanket ban on the documentary. Activist Kamala Bhasin said: "We are never for bans. That doesn't help anything." Writer Chetan Bhagat tweeted: "India's Daughter is a must watch. Anyone who watches will understand devastation caused by regressive attitudes. Face it. Fix it." Members of the film fraternity reacted strongly against the orders to restrain broadcast of the documentary, terming it a sign of "ostrich mentality". Filmmaker Kunal Kohli said "it's important to see the rapist hang rather than watch a documentary" and Hansal Mehta said it was difficult for him to comprehend the government's order and questioned why the government was restricting cinema from reflecting the truth of society. Hours after the BBC telecast "India's Daughter", the hash tag #IndiasDaughter became the top global trend on social networking site Twitter on Thursday. Two other hash tags #NirbhayaInsulted and #DontRapeAgain were also trending on second and fourth positions, respectively.

Uber rape victim 'traumatised' due to 'undue delay' in court trial New Delhi, March 5 (iaNS): The 25-year-old woman executive who was allegedly raped by a driver of the Uber cab company is "traumatised" due to the undue delay in court proceedings, a close associate said Thursday. The associate said she was traumatised by recalling the same incident again and again. The woman -- who appeared in court wearing a black burqa -- had to face a tough time again on Thursday while being quizzed by the defence counsel of the accused driver in court, the associate said. Her cross examination will continue on Saturday. Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja recorded the statement of the woman in an in-camera proceeding on Thursday. Testifying as a prosecution witness, the woman was recalled for further cross-examination after the Delhi High Court allowed the plea of accused driver Shiv Kumar Yadav to recall some of the prosecution witnesses, including the woman, for further cross-examination. The high court on Wednesday allowed Yadav's counsel to cross-examine 13 prosecution witnesses, including the woman, again "in the interest of justice". The court's order came on Yadav's plea challenging the trial court's February 18 order denying him permission to recall the witnesses. The prosecution had on January 31 completed recording of evidence in just 17 days. According to police, the woman executive was allegedly raped by 32-year-old Yadav on the night of December 5, 2014, in the cab she hired to head back home in north Delhi's Inderlok area. The accused driver took the woman to an isolated place with the motive to commit rape. The court had on January 13 framed charges of rape, causing grievous bodily harm and endangering the life of a woman, kidnapping a woman, criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt against Yadav under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Senior AAP leader speaks out PM seeks Opposition cooperation in RS on land bill against Bhushan, Yadav ouster KhaNDwa (MP), March 5 (PTi): Reaching out to the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he was ready to remove anything that was anti-farmer in the land bill and "publicly prayed" to the detractors not to stall the legislation in the Rajya Sabha where NDA is in a minority. "I have told all the parties in the Rajya Sabha that I am not anti-farmer. If there is anything anti-farmer in my statements then tell me. I am ready to remove it, but they don't tell (me). They don't want to allow the government to function and don't want the country to progress further. "It is a fact that we don't have a majority in the Rajya Sabha. It is not possible for us to carry out developmental works without your support. I publicly pray to you not to stop the country's vehicle of development through that majority," Modi said, after dedicating to the nation two units of 600 MW each of Shri Singaji Thermal Power Plant in the district. The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone of two units of 660 MW each under the project's second phase. Criticising the land bill earlier passed by the UPA government, Modi said, "The law that was passed by earlier government has no provision for allotment of land for schools, hospitals, houses, water and irrigation. I ask you whether you need all these facilities or not." He had asked the opposition to suggest ways to improve the current land bill, but it did not respond, he claimed. "I am not anti-farmer. We will never oppose farmers. I asked other parties to tell me what to improve, but they don't say anything," the Prime Minister said. The poor need hospitals, schools, roads, homes, water, power and irrigation facilities, he said, adding "...The previous government refused to give land for hospitals, roads, schools and houses. The previous government enacted a law that would not enable farmers to get irrigation.

'Tharoor did not influence Sunanda Pushkar's autopsy' New Delhi, March 5 (PTi): A CAT bench comprising members Raj Vir Sharma and Ashok Kumar dismissed the plea of Sudhir Kumar Gupta, Head of Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, alleging that AIIMS had illegally purged his seniority with "malafide intention" to punish him for refusing to act unprofessionally in the Sunanda Pushkar autopsy matter. "The email sent by Shashi Tharoor, the then Union Minister, to Dr Rajiv Bhasin, on January 26, 2014, and the notice dated June 2, 2014 issued by Dr Adarsh Kumar, Member Secretary, Medical Board, AIIMS do not reveal anything to show that any pressure was put on the applicant to submit a tailor-made autopsy report in Sunanda Pushkar's case," the panel said. The CAT, in its order, rejected Gupta's claim that one O P Murty, also a doctor, was promoted after purging his seniority with the purpose to obtain a tailor-made report in the case. "The decision having already been taken by the Governing Body on January 16, 2012 and April 14, 2012 to promote respondent no 3 (Murty) to the grade of Professor w.E.F. July 1, 2009, it cannot be said that the postmortem/autopsy of the dead body of late Sunanda Pushkar, who died on January 17, 2014, has any nexus with the process of consideration of respondent no 3's case for promotion... "Therefore, the malice attributed by the applicant to the then President and Director of AIIMS is baseless," the tribunal said. In his complaint before the tribunal, Gupta had claimed that he was asked to prepare tailor-made autopsy report giving clean chit, irrespective of his professional conclusions, after conducting autopsy of late Sunanda Pushkar. The Centre, however, had denied the allegations on August 27, 2014, stating that the matter regarding promotion of Murty was referred to the Department of Personnel & Training and he was promoted only after its clarification.

New Delhi, March 5 (PTi): Fissures in the AAP deepened today with senior leader Mayank Gandhi expressing shock and attacking the "manner of and intention" in removing Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) last evening. Gandhi, who abstained from voting yesterday in the National Executive meeting, said he was shocked when Manish Sisodia introduced a proposal for removing Yadav and Bhushan despite the duo voluntarily offering to step down. Gandhi, who is a senior party member from Maharashtra, also revealed that Kejriwal had earlier conveyed that he will "not be able" to work as the AAP National Convener if Bhushan and Yadav were part of the PAC. He said it was alleged that Yadav was

conspiring against Kejriwal and some evidence was also produced in the meeting. "That the PAC be reconstituted and new PAC members be elected through voting. PB and YY will not put their candidature. That PAC continue to function in the present form and YY and PB would not attend any of the meetings," he said. He further added that after the meeting reconvened after a break, "Manish and others conferred with the Delhi team of Ashish Khetan, Asutosh, Dilip Pandey and others". Gandhi said that he was "shocked" with the proposal introduced by Sisodia. "I was taken aback by the resolution of removing them publicly, especially as they themselves were willing to leave. Also, this decision to sack them was A girl closes her eyes as another applies color on her face during celebrations marking Holi, against the overwhelming sentiments of the Hindu festival of colors, at a school in Ahmadabad on Thursday, March 5. People across volunteers from all over the world. the country will celebrate Holi on March 6. (AP Photo)

Corporate espionage: Judicial custody of six accused extended During the hearing, the three accused Shailesh Saxena from RIL, Vinay Kumar from Essar and Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy moved their bail pleas which have been fixed for hearing on March 11

custody of six accused including five corporate executives, who were arrested in connection with the Petroleum Ministry documents-leak case. These six accused were produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal after the expiry of their judicial custody and the court extended the same by two weeks after the police said that probe into the case is going on. New Delhi, March 5 The investigating officer (IO) (PTi): A Delhi court today ex- told the court that they are anatended till March 19 the judicial lysing the documents seized

during the investigation and they have also sent some documents to the ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for scrutiny. "We are analysing the datas of mobile phones and laptops recovered in the probe," the IO said. During the hearing, the three accused --Shailesh Saxena from RIL, Vinay Kumar from Essar and Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy-- moved their bail pleas which have been fixed for hearing on March 11. Besides these three accused, Rishi Anand, DGM of Reliance

ADAG, K K Naik, GM of Cairns India and Virender Kumar, Defence Ministry's house-keeping staff member, were also produced in the court. During the hearing, the counsel appearing for Anand, moved a plea seeking permission to sign cheques in judicial custody for paying a credit card bill and EMI of his bank loan. The court allowed the plea. The Delhi Police had, on February 20, arrested the five corporate executives from top energy firms alleging that they

The modern Indian girl: Battling the stereotyping New Delhi, March 5 (iaNS): She is multitasking but doesn't know how to cook, she doesn't have the patience to deal with nagging in-laws, doesn't want children within a year of marriage and her focus is on building a successful career. Meet the new age 20-something Indian girl who's fighting the 'matrimonial ad' battle with her parents every day and shattering the stereotype of what is expected of a conventional Indian wife. It took one brave 'tomboy' Indhuja Pillai, a Bangalore-based 24-year-old, who calls herself 'not marriage material', to awaken the underlying frustration in many girls across the country on the issue of being pressurised by parents to find a groom via matrimonial websites. Sumesh Menon, co-founder and CEO of Woo, a women-centric matchmaking app that highlights women's expectations and concerns about marriage, says that Indhuja's plight echoes the sentiment of millions of Indian women, who don't subscribe to the idea of the 'ideal bahu'. "They long to be accepted for who they are and not forced

into any boring, uncomfortable moulds. Women now want marriages of equality, where whatever applies to the man is equally applicable to the woman - be it independence, social life or work," Menon told IANS. A string of regular surveys by popular matrimonial website Shaadi.com has indicated that marriage queries annoy single Indian women the most; that Indian girls are more forthright about their preference to meet a prospective groom before his family; and that meeting match-seekers due to family pressure tops the complaints of eligible women. That notwithstanding, their parents, in the endeavour to settle them down at a 'right age', resort to finding arranged matches, via relatives, friends, and now often through matrimonial sites. According to a news report, the very fact that Pillai's parents made her sound desperate to get married to a "good groom" in the "groom wanted" ad, drove her to create her rebellious "matrimonial CV" on a website - marry.indhuja.com -- to ensure that the right message reaches the 'right' candidate. The profile created by her

parents highlighted her education and occupation, while her self-created profile shared more insights about her personality, interests and expectations. This included her revealing: "I'm not a drinker and I hate smoking. An eggitarian, not a foodie. I play badminton, sing and dance. "I wear glasses and look dorky in them...NOT a womanly woman. Definitely not marriage material. Won't grow long hair, ever. I come with a life-long guarantee and I commit for life." Her partner preference is also as clear as it gets. Kudos to Pillai, says 28-year-old Trisha Naik, whose family sits with profiles of shortlisted candidates on a matrimonial site every weekend. "I thought of doing the same as Indhuja the moment I got to know my family has started searching for a groom for me. Indian families are patriarchal, and they believe in showing an unreal version of their daughters," Naik, who felt proud upon seeing a younger girl take a bold step and break the stereotype, told IANS. "Ultimately, it is us who face the complications later in our married life. So why not clear

things now rather than regretting it for the whole life," Naik added. Sujata Shekhawat, a 34-yearold single working woman, has been going through the 'matrimonial process' for a long time. "I was depressed and irritated after a few encounters with prospective grooms and their families. Questions like living with the family, cooking, as if it is women's only job, made me so furious that I decided not to settle down till the time I get someone who wants a soulmate, not a maid," Shekhawat told IANS. Relationship counsellor Jai Madaan says being your real self and honest is the key of any good relationship, and that's what Indhuja aimed at. "Honesty reflects from her talks. Nobody is 'perfect marriage material', else there had been no fights and divorces. So to be honest and vocal about yourself is very important so that nothing raises false expectations," Madaan told IANS. Alas, that for many Indian families, a "subdued", not a "rebellious", bride fits the bill of a 'bahu'. Still, Madaan feels that "sensible men get attracted to a woman's honesty and boldness."

used to procure documents from other accused Lalta Prasad and Rakesh, and they used to pay them. These documents were then supplied to the companies by these officials to benefit the firm, the police had said. Five days later, Virender Kumar, a Defence Ministry staff member, was arrested for allegedly stealing an identity card of an auditor at Indian Defence Accounts Service and providing the same to one of the accused, Lalta Prasad, in the case.

Union minister Danve resigns New Delhi, March 5 (iaNS) : Union minister Raosaheb Dadarao Danve on Thursday resigned from the council of ministers, Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a statement. President Pranab Mukherjee, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has accepted the resignation of Danve with immediate effect, the statement said. Danve was the minister of state for consumer affairs, food and public distribution.

One killed, 8 injured in Bengal KolKaTa, March 5 (iaNS): One person was killed and at least 8 injured in a clash between activists of the ruling Trinamool Congress and the CPI-M in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said on Thursday. The clash took place on Wednesday night following an argument over digging a pond in Kharagpur in the district. No arrest has been made so far.The man who was killed has been identified as Prabodh Patra, a Trinamool activist.

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China promises to open up industries BEIJING, MARCH 5 (AP): China announced a lower economic growth target for this year and promised to open more industries to foreign investors as it tries to make its slowing, state-dominated economy more productive. The growth target of about 7 percent, down from last year’s 7.5 percent, is in line with efforts to create a “moderately prosperous society,” said Premier Li Keqiang in a report Thursday to China’s ceremonial national legislature. Actual economic growth last year was 7.4 percent, the lowest since 1990. The ruling Communist Party is in the midst of a marathon effort to guide the world’s secondlargest economy to slower but more self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption and services. It is trying to replace a worn-out model driven by trade and investment in construction and heavy industry that has left China’s air and water badly polluted. “We need to maintain a proper balance between ensuring steady growth and making structural adjustments,” said Li in the report to the National People’s Congress. The full session of the 2,964-member NPC usually is limited to endorsing policy decisions already made by the ruling party

Hostesses pose for photos outside the Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the annual National People’s Congress in Beijing, on Thursday, March 5. China announced a lower economic growth target for this year and promised to open more industries to foreign investors as it tries to make its slowing, state-dominated economy more productive. (AP Photo)

but serves as a platform to publicize reform initiatives and set a tone for government work. Communist leaders say they are comfortable with the slowdown that President Xi Jinping, invoking an American phrase, has dubbed “the new normal.” But in a sign they are afraid

of a politically dangerous spike in joblessness, they have tried to spur activity with two interest rate cuts since November and a reduction in business taxes. Li promised to give entrepreneurs and foreign investors a bigger role in an economy that after three decades of market-orient-

ed reforms still is dominated by government-owned banks, oil producers and other companies. Beijing will cut in half the number of fields in service and manufacturing industries in which foreign investment is restricted, the premier said. He gave no details but the change

has long been sought by foreign companies that face a thicket of restrictions and feel increasingly unwelcome. China’s growth has declined steadily since peaking at 14.2 percent in 2007. Much of that reduction was intentional as Beijing tried to cool inflation and

a boom in construction and investment that fueled worries about rising debt. Efforts to promote consumer spending have been slower to gain traction at a time when many workers worry about their financial futures. Th e Int e r nat i o n al Monetary Fund says growth could decline further to 7 percent this year and a Cabinet think tank, the Development Research Center, has said it could fall as low as 6 percent next year. China’s slowdown has had global repercussions, cutting demand for iron ore and other commodities that helped to drive economic booms in Brazil, Australia and other countries. But if Beijing succeeds in building up a consumer market, that could boost demand for other imports from higher-quality food to Hollywood movies. In a separate report, the Cabinet’s planning agency promised to “improve the environment for consumer spending” by improving social welfare systems to reduce the need for Chinese households to save so much to pay for retirement and medical care. Li, the premier, warned China’s economy still faces problems including rising operating costs, a scarcity of credit for private companies and a low level of innovation.

“Maintaining stable growth is becoming more difficult,” he said. A key issue is the status of state companies that control industries including banking, telecoms, shipping and energy and benefit from subsidies, monopolies and other favors. Reform advocates say they are a drag on development but the ruling party has yet to take significant steps to trim their privileges. Li gave no indication government enterprises will lose their favored status but said projects led by them will be opened to private investment. He did not say whether outside investors would gain any voice in management. The premier announced a 6 percent target for growth in trade, an industry that employs millions of Chinese workers. Last year’s target was 10 percent but actual growth came in at just 3.4 percent due to weak demand, triggering a wave of factory closures and labor tension in China’s export-dependent southeast. Li also promised widely anticipated changes in China’s state-owned banking industry. He said qualified private investors will be allowed to set up small and medium-size banks, though he gave no details of who would be permitted to do that. Beijing will create a de-

posit insurance system for banks, Li said. That would force institutions to pay closer attention to management by raising the possibility that a badly run bank could be shut down without depositors losing money. Li also promised to cut pollution that is choking China’s cities and improvements in a range of other social areas, including education and poverty alleviation. The government aims to reduce carbon intensity, or emissions per unit of economic output, by 3.1 percent and will cut emissions of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants, Li said. In the countryside, authorities will try to bring electricity to the homes of the remaining 200,000 people who still lack it, the premier said. Li gave no update on the status of anti-terrorism crackdowns being waged by Beijing in restive ethnic minority areas in Tibet and the northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang. He repeated the Communist Party’s stance that has improved livelihoods there and is protecting traditional culture. Li said the government will make a priority of organizing celebrations of the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the start of communist rule in Tibet and Xinjiang, respectively.

Myanmar police drag away protesting factory workers Embattled Hillary Clinton urges State Department to release emails

YANGON, MARCH 5 (AP): Police say they have detained more than a dozen factory workers, who were demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in a protest that follows a crackdown on students outside Myanmar’s biggest city. The detentions came when about 100 workers tried to march from their factories into Yangon late Wednesday but were blocked by police. After some workers staged a sit-in, police dragged them away. The protest in two industrial

zones near Yangon came as police in an area 140 kilometers (90 miles) from Yangon were faced off with hundreds of students demanding education reforms. Since the country started moving from a half-century of dictatorship to democracy just four years ago, the government has found itself grappling with the consequences of newfound freedoms of expression. In both cases, authorities warned they would take action if protesters tried to march to Yangon.

The Ministry of Information said Thursday that 13 workers, many of them women, had been arrested. Protesters said the number was much higher. Two journalists also were briefly held, the government said. Workers from several factories in the industrial zones just outside Yangon have been protesting since last month to demand higher daily wages and overtime pay, but no settlements have been reached with the factory owners.

UN rights boss seeks campaign to “discredit ISIL” GENEvA, MARCH 5 (REUTERS): The top United Nations human rights official called on Thursday for an international campaign to “discredit ISIL”, and urged Muslims worldwide to defend their faith against misrepresentation by violent extremists. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, denounced murders, torture, mass beheadings and “genocidal” attacks on minorities in Syria, Iraq and Libya by Islamic State, also known as ISIL. “Any response to extremist violence must be targeted, proportionate and legal,” he said. “Military campaigns, financial sanctions and attempts

to staunch the inflow of weapons ... may be part of the solution. But other actions are needed to stem the root causes that feed into these conflicts.” Zeid, a former Jordanian ambassador who is the first Arab and Muslim to serve in the U.N. post, was making his first annual report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. He noted that much media coverage in the West was devoted to Islamic State’s abductions or killings of Westerners or Christian minorities. “The fact that the vast majority of ISIL’s victims are fellow Muslims receives far less publicity. A real campaign of ideas to discredit ISIL will need to mobilise such facts,” he said.

“It should also seek to infuse fresh courage into the overwhelming majority of peaceful and tolerant Muslims around the world, to encourage them to take a stand and voice the essential nature of their faith.” Zeid said the struggle to combat extremist violence must tackle the visions of injustice that fuelled it, as well as humiliation, inequality and discrimination. And he said decisionmakers should not abandon deeper principles. “The fight against terror is a struggle to uphold the values of democracy and human rights – not undermine them.” Counter-terrorism operations that are disproportionate, brutal or lack

oversight “risk handing the terrorists a propaganda tool – thus making our societies neither free nor safe”, he said. Referring to a U.S. Senate report last December that revealed the extent of CIA torture of security detainees during the administration of President George W. Bush, he said: “For a country that believes so strongly in human rights to have swiftly abandoned their fundamentals at a time of crisis is as astonishing as it is deplorable. And yet, few other countries have had the courage to likewise publicly investigate and publicly admit to rights abuses resulting from counter-terror operations – and many should.”

WASHINGTON, MARCH 5 (REUTERS): U.S. Democrat Hillary Clinton on Wednesday broke her silence over a budding controversy involving her use of personal email for work when she was secretary of state, saying she wanted the U.S. State Department to release them swiftly. Clinton’s statement was aimed at cooling a political firestorm over allegations that she inappropriately used her personal email for work while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. “I want the public to see my email,” the potential 2016 presidential candidate said in a tweet. “I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.” The controversy has suddenly put Clinton into trouble just as she is planning to launch a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. It has prompted some Democrats to wonder whether someone else should be their candidate to succeed President Barack Obama. The State Department said it will review the emails provided by Clinton “using a normal process that guides such releases.” “We will undertake this review as quickly as possible. Given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete,” spokeswoman Marie Harf said. Clinton’s tweeted statement came hours after a congressional committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, issued subpoenas for her emails. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Benghazi demanded all communications from Clinton related to the incident,

Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP File Photo)

in which a U.S. ambassador was killed. The panel also sent letters to Internet companies telling them to protect any documents relevant to the ongoing investigation, Jamal Ware, communications director for the Benghazi committee, said in a statement. Representative Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of the Benghazi panel, told reporters that within two weeks, he must either have the documents or a “really good explanation” for why not. Republicans have been scrutinizing Clinton’s actions and communications surrounding the Benghazi attack, when Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed during an assault on a U.S. facility. Republican lawmakers believe she did not do enough to ensure the safety of Americans in Libya.

Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi committee, said the Republicans’ actions have led him to believe they simply want to attack Clinton. He noted that Colin Powell, the secretary of state under former President George W. Bush, a Republican, had used personal emails. The email controversy appears to have caught the Clinton camp off guard when it erupted. In an appearance in Washington on Tuesday night, Clinton avoided the topic altogether in a 30-minute speech at a gala dinner for the Emily’s List political organization. The State Department has defended Clinton, saying that at the time there was no prohibition on using a personal email account for official business as long as it was preserved.

Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of US ambassador in South Korea

U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert leaves after he was slashed in the face by an unidentified assailant at a public forum in central Seoul March 5, 2015. (REUTERS Photo)

SEOUL, MARCH 5 (REUTERS): U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert underwent two-anda-half hours of surgery after

he was slashed in the face by a Korean nationalist in an attack at a forum held in Seoul on Thursday to discuss Korean reunification,

officials said. Lippert, 42, was bleeding from wounds to his face and wrist but was able to walk after the attack. Doctors said

later on Thursday his condition was stable after “very successful” surgery that required 80 stitches in his face. The assailant was caught and identified by police as 55-year-old Kim Ki-jong. In 2010, Kim tried to attack the Japanese ambassador to Seoul by throwing a piece of concrete and was given a suspended jail term, according to police. Witnesses and police said Kim used a small fruit knife in the attack, which took place inside a large government arts centre across the street from the heavily guarded U.S. embassy on the South Korean capital’s main ceremonial thoroughfare. “We strongly condemn this act of violence,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said. U.S. President Barack Obama called Lippert to wish him a speedy recovery,

a White House official said. The assailant was dressed in traditional Korean clothing and shouted that North and South Korea should be reunited just before he attacked Lippert. He also shouted that he opposed “war exercises”, a reference to annual joint U.S.South Korean military exercises that began this week. “I carried out an act of terror,” Kim shouted as he was pinned to the floor by event attendees. Kim said while in police custody he had acted alone. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that Kim also said he was part of a group that had cut and burned a U.S. flag on the embassy grounds in Seoul in 1985. Kim is a member of the pro-Korean unification group that hosted the event, police said. He also stages one-man protests against Japan over disput-

ed islands known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese. He was part of a small anti-Japanese demonstration on March 1 near the site of Thursday’s attack, according to his blog. “The guy comes in ... He yells something, goes up to the ambassador and slashes him in the face,” witness Michael Lammbrau of the Arirang Institute think tank told Reuters. Doctors at Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital said they treated Lippert for an 11-cm (4 inches) gash on the right side of his face and a puncture wound on his left wrist, causing nerve damage that was repaired. He will be hospitalised for three or four days, they said. ‘WRESTLED TO THE GROUND’ Police were at the venue as part of routine operations but not at the request

of the U.S. embassy or the organiser, a police official said. Lammbrau said Kim shouted about Korean independence while he was being restrained. “It sounded like he was anti-American, anti-imperialist, that kind of stuff,” he said. “ The ambassador fought him from his seat ... There was a trail of blood behind him,” Lammbrau said. South Korean President Park Geun-hye, speaking in the United Arab Emirates, called it an “attack on the South Korea-U.S. alliance.” Known for his open, informal style, Lippert is active on Twitter and can often be seen walking his basset hound, Grigsby, in Seoul. His wife recently gave birth to a son, who was given a Korean middle name. Thursday’s event was

hosted by the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation. The group later issued a statement in which it condemned the attack and apologised to the governments of the United States and South Korea. The annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises routinely provoke an angry response from North Korea, which denounces them as a preparation for war. A South Korean defence ministry spokesman said the drills, due to run for eight weeks, would continue as planned. Lippert was a U.S. Senate aide to Obama and served in the U.S. Navy in Afghanistan and Iraq, winning the Bronze Star. He was chief of staff for former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel before taking up his post in Seoul in November.

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Friday 6 March 2015

PUBLIC SPACE/SPORTS

The Pandemonium of Dissension

he present political quandary in Nagaland is yet another phenomenon which plainly certify that our government can do nothing right. Anything worth mentioning in the good book is either a coincidence or a stray event. Now, the blunt knowledge that cannot be questioned is, the desire to sleep with power is the sole interest of our ‘elected representatives’. Our politicians are the shrewdest of them all. They can concoct any means to slither in and out their despicable lives, and secure their futures from any harm. They perform this task in two insidious ways. Firstly, during the elections money becomes the sole mode of communication between the voters and the candidate. Alcohol does talk, but it requires ‘Gandhi’s head’ to procure alcohol too, so money it is. As if their names are engraved on the Forbes’s Billionaires List they splurge cash ‘here and there’ without any hesitation. Once they form the government this particular act of ‘buying votes’ becomes their trump card. They sit on their ‘pedestal’ seats like they are sitting inside a ‘sound proof’ room as the public choke on the election cash. Their mission accomplished! Public opinion is silenced and then they behave wildly without having to listen to those they should be listening. Secondly, and the foxiest of the two and which also can explain the first reason to a large extent is that, our leaders finely create an environment that offers nothing more than perpetual debts and underdevelopment. When a human life is in debt, in depleted condition, and with no proper means to basic livelihood, ‘real politik’ troubles the mind the least. How to feed the children and provide them proper education, where to get firewood and drinking water, how to pay for one’s

medical treatment; these are the imperatives. Our smart leaders’ brains do not miss this opportunity and they extensively use this trump card every now and again. The unpleasant conditions of frugal livelihood enacted everyday in the towns and villages in Nagaland keep the people’s mind preoccupied. As the public grapple with these ‘living’ issues, our politicians make decisions without including the common people in their agenda. Thus, with a poorly manned and substandard decision-making and implementation, the task of administration becomes a cakewalk for them as public opinion drowns in a sea of impoverishment. Also, the ‘here and there’ fast cash during the elections becomes the manna for the poor people. The objective is that by silencing the public opinion they can play the music of their choice and the public will dance accordingly. It is not in their interest to care about the well-being of the state if the people therein perish in such dilapidated conditions they have created. How cleverly the basic democratic ideals are guillotined! Shakespeare metaphorically likened human life to that of stage actors, wherein everyone comes to play a role and leave. The role played by our politicians should come as amusement for many of us. They play the role of deaf and dumb with élan. It’s like they have four instead of three wise monkeys to gesticulate; see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, but do all evil. They can see no ‘evil’ because their means to life are luxury cars, palatial buildings, ‘foreign countries’, and star hotels. How will they see what is really happening down below? They cannot hear anything ‘evil’, since public voice is quashed via the earlier mentioned causes. They can speak no ‘evil’. When there was the border issue with our neighboring state just last

year, did the government speak out on behalf of Nagaland and its citizens? In fact, some prominent leaders were on their way to one of their ‘foreign tour’ as the tension and killing intensified. They do speak a lot during the elections promising bridges where there are no rivers; therefore, once they are empowered they just have to shut up. The fourth monkey represents best our government. Need we engage in more discourses on this? It will be futile to do so. Even a newborn child in Nagaland can feel the pang of wretchedness, if not the immobility and nonchalant disregard for livelihood. As the nation celebrated its 66th Republic Day with pomp and a galore of power, wealth, and weapons, our state wallowed in shallow politics. Frivolous squabbles within the party resonated till New Delhi. Our state government is like a big family with no sense of discipline, and the worse, the family is excruciatingly poor with no objective. Since resources are limited, they have gobbled up everything in lightning speed- they even steal! And therefore they fight with each other to lay their hands on the little that remains. When we were young they taught us not to bite off more than we could chew. This lesson needs to be taught to all our leaders before they take their oaths. To be a minister, to be a Chief Minister, to be a Parliamentary Secretary, or to be anyone in high places requires passion to work, and a high sense of responsibility. Somehow, to our people the word ‘sense of responsibility’ is so foreign that the nearest character they can imbibe is ‘Remain latent!”It is understandable that corruption entails politicians and bureaucrats, but there can also be productive inputs if one so desires. Conventional mindsets and practices can be changed, if one

Discuss before it goes Assam way

or quite some time, the suspected Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants (IBI) have been allegedly indulging in various crimes in the state mostly in the commercial hub of Nagaland, Dimapur. An alleged illegal immigrant taxi driver had even flaunted by physically assaulting a local student leader two months back near Chumukedima Check gate. But the worst part is these alleged IBIs have scant respects for women. Today they could rape, molest and murder of women including minors in the state. The IBIs are today engaged in many activities ranging from manual works to major business establishments in the state. In fact, large areas of business activities have been in their hands today. It is understood that there have been genuine Indian Muslims in the state running successful business empires, but unfortunately, their future is increasingly at stake. It is largely because of their inactivity in playing their basic roles in checking those IBIs, because these people used to take their names and banners. Such development has made the issue more confusing and complicated today. The alleged IBI population in Nagaland is found abnormally swelling. In the last few years, there is a dramatic change in the socioeconomic feature of the State. On the part of the administration, they have measurably failed to check IBIs while on the other, the locals have regularly harbored most of these IBIs for employing them as farmers, drivers and domestic helpers. Is it not a mockery that, as per the statement issued by Survival Nagaland (SN) some time back, even a non-local was found possessing a GB association identity card, while there were many fake driving licenses allegedly issued from the DTO Tuensang, DTO Wokha and DTO Zunheboto and surprisingly none of these persons knew anything about driving a vehicle? All the manual works, construction works, taxi driving, rickshaw pulling, cultivation works, mechanical jobs, etc. are mostly done by these immigrants of doubtful identities today. They could run large number of business establishments in Dimapur, the biggest commercial hub of the State and the capital, Kohima. We should not forget that almost all the IBIs are illiterate, deprived of basic lives in their places and are desperate to do anything for their survival elsewhere. Surprisingly, the employers are hardly bothered of the identities of such people. The

undercurrent danger lies here. The large scale violence erupted in Dimapur yesterday in protest against the rape of a college girl by suspected IBI was only expected. In fact, various intelligent agencies had already warned of serious consequences if immediate attention to the illegal immigrant issue in the state was not tackled. Similar violence may occur in many places in the state too because for quite some time, there have been charged campaigns against the IBIs in the state. The seething anger is already there against the excesses committed by these IBIs. Any heinous crime such as rape would only give those who had vigorously campaigning to take on alleged IBIs hands down. The illegal Bangladeshi infiltration into the state has changed its demography and now it has become a serious threat to the future survival of the indigenous people and the internal security problem of the state as well.

wishes to. With no taunting intentions, but our mind gets drifted towards some ‘games and sports’ we played when technology was not so advanced and life was simpler- “Daku-Police” “Manu Touch” “Spy Thumba” “1…2…3… Goli Fire” etc. We played with such dedication from morning until parents call with ‘lathi charge’. The present doldrums, since some months back, closely resembles amateur games we played then. Firstly, the entire group will bifurcate into power camps with diligent method of “duck, duck, kis ko duck?” (I do not know from where, when, and how this method came and completely took over the dividing line). The only difference this time is that, the game our politicians are playing now can never end, sadly. Because they aren’t playing with the innocent minds ere we played with. Their minds are more convoluted, scheming, and crafty; games from such minds can be played incessantly. Like anyone of them can fit in the shoe of ‘saviour’ to our predicaments, they indulge in power mongering dirty-local-level-politics-not-playing-with-a-full-deck. The plights of the common people are set aside and ‘Naga-wrestling’ begins, entertaining not only the Nagas but the rest of the world. Should we clap our hands for them, or should we clap their faces all together? Apropos to this issue, I have mentioned earlier in my article how this present government was formed by renegades. They are generally people without integrity; they come and go as they please; they create ruckus whenever they think it necessary; they think they are answerable to none, and therefore, has the right to implant the seed of division and separation in their sweet time; if they are ‘un-satisfied’ the next best option is to dissent, leave, and form another purposeless group that still cannot do anything better….

etc. So, all these evident characteristics are out in the open. Will they realize that our primary education system needs to be re-vamped and the curriculum up-dated, so that it equips our children to tackle the challenges of the present world? Can our universities and academic institutions retain and attract the students’ and check the brain drain? With so much talent in sports and music, can the concerned department and officers’ in-charge open national level schools of Music and Sports to tap and hone the ‘wasted talents’? Will our policy framers and implementers care to up-grade the basic health-care units in the villages and towns? Can our administrative system be a model for other state? Will the government be able to establish institutions that could raise students’ to excel and contribute in science, technology, economy, academics, etc? Most of the primary and middle schools at home has never heard of school toilets. They get rotten maggi noodles for their mid-day meals, when they do get it. Is the government fighting over to rectify such anomalies? There is so much good to contribute, yet, our government is floundering in the puddle of the frivolous. President Obama would say “Yes, We Can!” But it requires dedication, an enterprising mind, visionaries, and those who are not scared to pioneer new innovative ideas. We really do not need any artificial complications and childlike temperaments as we strive to settle in these tempestuous days. Form the Government ASAP, whoever, and kindly do the needful. Let this not be the option between bad and worse, between who is the bigger thief, or between two pathological liars, or between two zombies. Let Nagaland March Forward! Kuknalim. Toshi Longkumer, New Delhi

Jalukie chief presages advent of Mlei-Ngyi Festival

he Jalukie Pumling Nko presages the advent of Mlei-ngyi festival, one of the most important festivals of the Zeliangrong people, usually celebrated during the month “Mdui” (March: beginning 9th March until 11th March), marks the advent of a new farming season and a time of self cleansing to invoke God’s blessings for a productive farming year. The festival is a 5 (five) day event involving a sequential day-by-day activities like traditional fire-making, merrymaking and traditional games and sports and which are highlighted as follows. The office of the Jalukie Pumling Nko Nagaland, while pronouncing observance of “Mleingyi” festival in its land from 9-11 March 2013, also coveys Mlei-ngyi greetings to its people Bottom line: It is still afresh in the minds and wishes everyone a bountiful of many people in the northeast blessings from the almighty God as to how the powerful All Assam for a prosperous year. Students Union (ASSU) had once launched a bloody campaign to Prelude to festival: Hengyi-sa: The village high push Bangladeshis back to their priest/ harbinger conveying all land. Indigenous people who feared they would be reduced to a minority good wishes to his community, in their own land massacred thou- proclaims the arrival of festive sands of Bangladeshis, including season and sets the date of the women and children, across the festival to enable for preparation of self, food, drinks, dressState of Assam. To identify the illegal Bangla- es etc. Preparatory agricultural deshis will not be very difficult activities such as jungle clearonce the citizens are properly ed- ing for current jhum and millet ucated but the issue is how to de- cultivation in fallow jhum arport them and where. Where is the eas are supposed to have been mechanism? What is the role of the completed well ahead of the state government in this? What is commencement of the event. Kecimpu: This is an act of the role of the Central government in this? Some of these areas need self cleansing and purification serious analyzing and studying, ahead of the festival and inbecause, New Delhi also should volves cleaning of clothes and be held equally responsible of the belongings, seed treatment so influx of illegal immigrants from that seeds sown after the festiacross the International border val are vigorous and healthy. Mlei zautau: This involves because of their abject failure to fence the long porous border with preparation of local rice brew especially meant to be served Bangladesh. The administration should im- to the traditional fire makers. mediately step in to engage in discussions with the representatives of Main Festival events: Muslim Unions/Bodies in Nagaland Day 1 Mlei-teu: This event and also with the representatives of marks the commencement of various civil societies specially SN Mlei-ngyi festival and is usuand student bodies to find immedi- ally performed by the clan ate means to douse the fire. At the headman (kizeu-pei) of each same time, they should immediately dormitory, who will make fire take the lead in working out to have by using strands of bamboo series of seminars as to how the IBI (mlei-ria) and bamboo fine fiissue will be resolved before it goes bres and keep the flame burnAssam way. ing until culmination of the Oken Jeet Sandham festival. During the entire fes-

tive period, the clan headman (kizeu-pei) will abstain from having any indulgence with wife and family and maintain a separate hearth. Heteu hebak dap/ Leidi: This event involves slaughter of domestic animals meant for food during festival in different dormitories. The evening also witnesses engaged couples being invited to their respective would-be-in-lows for dinner and blessing; boy invited to would-be-wife’s home and vice versa and this dinner invitation by village folks usually continues during the entire festive period. All male members usually with their cup of beer and meat preparations from home, while entering their dormitory usually make a howl as “Aoo...yieee… ketyei kesak ngyi, kehing kelia ngyi… aki, mlia pungla”…which means “festival of food and drinks, festival of prosperity and longevity”… Dreams were also interpreted the next day. Day 2 Rodi: In the early morning hours, some matured male members from the two major clan viz. Heu and Hau, forays into the jungle to make wooden totem (Herie) for each clan which is usually a 6-8 feet length wooden plank split and shared one each from a single tree. The plank is then brought to the village with each clan carrying their respective wooden totem and placed on a clean predestined location in front of each dormitory. Then all male members in traditional attires gather to howl around the totem thence proceed to play ground for traditional games and sports like Hedau (kicking the plank), Heram (high jump), Tsugi (shot put), Hesim (long leap), Hejo (long jump), Hepo (wrestling) etc… This event usually witness wide participation and stiff competition from capable youngsters and the event marks the best athletes of the village for the year. The sporting event culminates with a traditional howl (Nroh) by male members congregated around the field (Hejopung). Day 3 Bamsak: The day is significant with families sharing Hengyi-dom (festival food package) to family members living out of the village. The eve-

ning hours are occupied with male members visiting female dormitories and calling them out by name and having verbal exchanges. Interpretation of dreams follows the next day.

Day 4 Tsingpo nsa: The day is marked with different clan collecting firewood and piling in their respective dormitories and the headman serving dormitory wine to members. In the evening hours, female dormitory members, usually singing soulful ballets visits male dormitories and perform traditional Heba-lia (finger identification), Heriang teu (tug-o-war) and Tsingpo-nsa (firewood snatch). Day 5 Zausa: Merry making in respective dormitories prevails. Day 6; Gwangnim: The final day in which the clan headman (Hegwangme) douses the Mlei-mi (festival fire). Members of the female dormitories collected Kemniebi (sticky rice) from respective households and after cooking shares it with male dormitories as well as each female member including young girls. Post festival events: Regapa: The event after the festival when male members begin agricultural practices of burning their jhum fields and in the process any wild animals and birds killed or captured are gifted to female dormitories. Female members collect meat from their homes and cook in dormitories. Discarded pieces of meat and bones (Hailodum nsa) are collected by younger boys. Gaipia mna: Boys and girls together have recreation and merry making with bride-tobe by singing soulful ballets and conundrum. The bride-tobe along with friends from her dormitory selects a married man to lead during Nta (traditional dances) and gives him mouthful of salt and wine. Mtim: A day for facilitating and solemnizing traditional marriage ceremonies akin to Christian holy marriages and involves marriage feast for the entire village folks. Irai Hingleu, President Jalukie Pumling Nko Old Jalukie; Nagaland

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Open wrestling Championship publicity committee clarifies

Kohima, march 5 (mExN): The publicity committee of the 9th Open Naga Wrestling Championship 2015 clarified that the donor card amounting to Rs. 2000 be read as “Admit One” and not “Admit Two” as published in a certain daily.

Gasol buzzer beats lifts Grizzlies over Rockets

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook gestures after a basket in overtime of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Oklahoma City won 123-118. (AP Photo)

hoUSToN, march 5 (aP): Memphis' Marc Gasol made a jump shot with 0.1 seconds left to give the Grizzlies a 102-100 win at Houston on Wednesday, widening their lead over the Rockets atop the NBA Southwest Division to 2-1/2 games. The victory kept Memphis in touch with Western Conference leader Golden State, which returned home and beat Milwaukee in a tight game, while other key clashes of playoff contenders saw Portland win in overtime at the Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland defeat Toronto. Memphis went ahead with a minute remaining after Courtney Lee made a pair of free throws, but Terrence Jones tied the scores with a hook shot seconds later and Gasol missed at the other end to set up the climactic sequence. Gasol blocked James Harden's layup with 6.4 seconds left to give the Grizzlies the ball back and he had time left for his winner. Gasol finished with 21 points. Jones had 21 points for the Rockets and Harden scored 18 in his return after a one-game suspension. Portland's Nicolas Batum hit a 3-pointer that forced overtime, then set up three alley-oop baskets and added a clinching 3 in the final minute to rally the Trail Blazers to a 98-93 win at the Los Angeles Clippers. LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and Batum added 20 for the Northwest Division leaders, who have won four straight. Blazers guard Damian Lillard had a career-high 18 rebounds to compensate for a terrible night of shooting. He missed his first 12 shots and finished with only five points. Golden State returned from a six-game road trip and struggled to shrug off a persistent Milwaukee before beating the Bucks 102-93. Stephen Curry shook off a rough shooting night to make three straight 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter. He finished with 19 points and 11 assists while Draymond Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds on his 25th birthday as the Warriors improved to an NBA-best 25-2 at home. Gi a n n i s A nte to kounmpo and Michael Carter-Williams scored 16 points each for the Bucks, who went winless on a fourgame trip. Cleveland's LeBron James scored 29 points and matched a season high with 14 assists to lead the Cavaliers to a 120-112 victory over Toronto, moving into a virtual tie with Chicago for top spot in the Central Division.

Kevin Love had 22 points and 10 rebounds while Kyrie Irving scored 26 points for the Cavaliers, Jonas Valanciunas had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who remain 12 games clear atop the weak Atlantic Division despite having lost six of their past seven games. San Antonio recorded the biggest home win of the season by beating Sacramento 112-85. The Spurs, returning from a near month-long road trip as its home stadium is turned over to an annual rodeo competition, got 21 points from Kawhi Leonard while Tony Parker added 19. DeMarcus Cousins had 14 points for the Kings on 5-for-12 shooting. New Orleans' Anthony Davis had 39 points, 13 rebounds and eight blocks in his first game back from a shoulder sprain, leading the Pelicans to an 88-85 win over Detroit. Davis hit two jumpers in the last 1:14 to hold off Detroit in a frenetic game that was close throughout the second half. In only his third season, Davis set a Pelicans career-record 437 blocks, surpassing David West's mark of 435. Tyreke Evans had 21 points and nine assists as the Pelicans made it six wins in seven games. Jodie Meeks scored 20 points for the Pistons. Phoenix came from 15 points down to win 105-100 at Orlando, with Brandon Knight having 28 points and seven assists in his best game for the Suns. Markief Morris added 23 points and six rebounds for the Suns, who outscored the Magic 34-17 in the third quarter to take control. The Magic had the ball and a chance to tie with 5.2 seconds remaining, but Willie Green's inbounds pass was intercepted by Knight and the Phoenix newcomer made two free throws. Victor Oladipo led Orlando with a career-high 38 points. Charlotte easily won 115-91 at Brooklyn in a match of East playoff contenders, with Al Jefferson and Gerald Henderson each scoring 19 points. Boston's Tyler Zeller banked in a shot from under the basket as time expired to give the Celtics an 85-84 victory over Utah. Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook set career highs with 49 points and 16 rebounds, and added 10 assists for his fourth consecutive triple-double, helping the Thunder beat Philadelphia 123-118 in overtime. Miami's Dwyane Wade scored 25 points and added six assists to lead the Heat past the Los Angeles Lakers 100-94.

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11 Entertainment e n o t S a DaviD Walliams split: Lar e g a i r r a m d L s s ende o r c Friday

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Leonardo DiCaprio is single, not dating Rihanna

eonardo DiCaprio's representative says the actor is single and not in a relationship with singer Rihanna. Responding to swirling rumours saying that DiCaprio, 40, is romantically linked to Rihanna, 27, his representative told the Los Angeles Times that he “is single and has been for some time,” reports aceshowbiz.com. The representative added that DiCaprio had in fact “been focused on shooting” his next film “The Revenant” in Canada “for months". DiCaprio and Rihanna's dating rumours started swirling a few weeks ago, after they were spotted attending a birthday bash at the Playboy Mansion. They were seen again at another birthday party at a West Hollywood hotel shortly after. The duo also stepped out together at Rihanna's own birthday party last month.

ara Stone allegedly walked away from her marriage to Britain’s Got Talent star David Walliams because she didn’t like the talk about her husband being camp, it has been reported. The model and BGT judge have split after five years of marriage, and now a friend has reportedly told The Sun: "Lara didn’t like constant talk about him being camp". The friend is reported to have said: "She didn't really understand the humour of it." It was claimed that the Calvin Klein model hated his cross-dressing antics on TV as well as his perceived 'flirting' with good friend and BGT co-star Simon Cowell. There is no suggestion that David cross-dresses in his personal life. Earlier today, we reported that David is hopeful he can still win back his wife Lara Stone following their love split. The comedian was spotted out still wearing his wedding ring, hours after it was reported that he and his model wife had broken up. But sources close to the couple insist that David,

Chris Brown's girlfriend calls off relationship post baby news

hris Brown's on-off girlfriend Karrueche Tran has wished the R&B star the "best of luck" after ending the couple's romance following reports suggesting he secretly fathered a baby girl last year. The 25-year-old 'Kiss Kiss' hitmaker has yet to address rumours he is the father of a nine-month-old daughter, who was born to a 31-year-old model friend named Nia, but Tran appears to have confirmed the news by tweeting goodbye to the singer, reported Ace Showbiz. In her Twitter post, she wrote, "Listen. One can only take so much. The best of luck to Chris and his family. No baby drama for me." Nia and Brown have reportedly been friends for years and sources insist the pair is on good terms following the child's birth. The baby's mother is also no stranger to Tran. A photo obtained by TMZ shows Tran posing with her arm around Nia at a party in Las Vegas in May, 2013, months before the model fell pregnant.

Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty join hands for new venture

hen `Dhadkan` was released, the movie became a blockbuster because of the apparent chemistry between the then alleged couple Akshay Kumar and Shilpa Shetty who had set the silver screen ablaze. And now after almost 15 years, the hit on-screen pair have come together to launch their new venture in the home shopping industry, reports suggest. Shilpa's husband Raj Kundra has entered into a partnership with Akshay for a 24/7 celebrity-driven home shopping channel. It has also been learnt that Akshay and Shilpa have posed for a photoshoot together for the launch. While Akshay married Twinkle Khanna in 2001 (just a year after 'Dhadkan' release), Shilpa married Raj in 2009.

Shania Twain to embark on last ever tour Scientology documentary makers want ountry superstar of it... It's a celebration tour Tom Cruise, John Travolta to address Shania Twain is pre- for me... C paring to bow out of "I really feel that Las controversial claims touring with one last big Vegas, the Still The One trek across North America. The hitmaker wrapped up her two-year Las Vegas residency in December (14) and now she is getting ready to embark on her first road show in 11 years - but it will serve as a farewell tour for fans. Announcing the news on U.S. breakfast show Good Morning America on Wednesday (04Mar15), she says, "I'm finally, after 11 years, I'm going back on tour. It's been a long time... "This is going to be a big tour for me because it's going to be my last... so I'm gonna make the most

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show, was a huge mountain to climb for me. I took that challenge on. I not only got through it, I enjoyed it, it was a huge reward and I see the upcoming tour as a celebration of that and I just feel like I'm ready to hang my hat up in that regard. "I wanna go out with a bang... It's gonna be a kicka**, rocking show." The Rock This Country tour will kick off in Seattle, Washington in June (15) and take in 48 cities, wrapping up in Fresno, California on 23 August (15), five days before Twain's 50th birthday. Twain admits

Censor Board bans Fifty Shades of Grey in India

approaching the age milestone while touring will also impact her show, adding, "It's all gonna come together. I'll be an emotional wreck!" However, Twain will not be turning her back on music altogether - she is planning to release her long-awaited follow-up to 2002's Up! album after the tour. She promises, "I want it to come out when I'm 50, so it will happen."

The makers of controversial Scientology documentary want its actors Tom Cruiseand John Travolta to address the abusive claims after the documentary is facing the heat of Scientology. Scientology has slammed the documentary as "dishonest" and based on accounts by "admitted liars and professional anti-Scientologists", People Magazine reported. In a statement to the magazine, the Church blasts the film as "propaganda" and says it had long fought against the kind of bigotry and religious hatred that director Alex Gibney and writer Lawrence Wright aim to incite. Gibney explained why the actors were included in the documentary at a recent discussion panel saying that the fact was that the actors were the front of the church and they were the reason a lot of people joined, particu-

larly Cruise now. Gibney continued that the actors have a recruiting power that was enormous and to put in the film the fact that they are abusing the power they have by not talking out about the church or not even exploring the abuses he thought was absolutely necessary.

The Church calls claims that Travolta and Cruise were used to recruit members or hold any special recruiting power as "ridiculous". Pulitzer Prize winner Wright said that the reason they were calling out Cruise and Travolta was because they had the capacity, the power, to change it.

Emraan goes global with his upcoming film Mr X

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overnment censors have said they will not allow the big-screen adaptation of erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' to be shown in cinemas, a decision most had anticipated in the largely conservative country. The chief executive of the Central Board of Film Certification, Shravan Kumar, declined to say why the panel refused to approve the film adaptation, but said Universal Pictures, the Comcast Corp unit that released the film, could appeal the decision. A Universal Pictures source familiar with the review process said the board had objected to some of the film's dialogue, even after the studio made voluntary edits to the film to tone down its sex scenes and removed all nudity. The film first opened in February and has grossed at least $400 million in global sales. However, for some countries the kinky storyline was too much: Malaysia, Indonesia and Kenya have banned 'Fifty Shades' from their theatres, largely because of its sexual content. The film's distributor, Comcast Corp is also not pursuing a theatrical release in China, the

world's second-largest film market, where the censors tend to ban sexually explicit films. The Universal Studios source said the studio had already approached the relevant committee at the central board to make its appeal. The source declined to be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media about the censorship process. The movie version of the bestselling 2011 novel stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as a couple in a sadomasochistic relationship. India's censor has received much criticism in recent months. Leela Samson, who served several years as its chairman, quit in January after accusing the federal government of interfering in the board's decisions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government then unveiled a new-look censor board, which has since issued guidelines saying Indian films should not contain profanity. In the case of a new Bollywood movie 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha', the censor board asked that the word "lesbian" be purged from the film's dialogue.

mraan Hashmi dubs in English for the international release of Mr X. His last international film, Danis Tanovic’s Tiger, premiered at the To-

ronto International Film Festival last year and the makers of Emraan Hashmi’s next, Mr X, are now toying with the idea of an international release.

Mr X is being touted as a state-of-the-art sci-fi film and an international release makes sense given the genre’s popularity. A source close to Emraan says, “The

makers might release Mr X internationally. To facilitate that, Emraan will be seen dubbing for the film in English as well once the formalities are worked out. Currently, however, he is training for his next film, the Mohd Azharuddin biopic.” Emraan confirms, “Yes, I will be dubbing for Mr X in English. But I can’t speak much about the release in detail as yet.” The makers recently released the trailer of the film which looks quite promising. Whether Emraan manages to impress us with his science antics or not, is yet to be seen.

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43, wants to hold last-ditch talks with 31-year-old Lara in an attempt to woo her back. The Britain’s Got Talent Judge put on a brave face as he stepped out to film a sketch for Comic Relief. The couple, who have been married for five years, have not officially commented but a friend yesterday confirmed that they were having a “trial separation” and had not spent much time together in 2015. A source said: “It is only a trial separation at the moment and not a final split. “David still hopes they can get things back on track for him and their son Alfred. He still has a lot of love for Lara.” Lara did not attend any of the BGT auditions with David around the country, and has been away on modelling assignments,

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including posing with Justin Bieber in January, and spending time with her family in Holland. Recently Lara has posted more messages on her Instagram account about her friends including photographer pal Michael Angel than her husband. The supermodel has known Michael for over a year. Her most recent post to her friend was two weeks ago when she put up a snap of a couple dancing. And at the weekend, she uploaded a cartoon of a girl looking like herself in floods of tears, saying: “Mood.” News of their split has not come as a huge surprise as they have barely been seen together over the past six months. A spokesman for the pair declined to comment on the trial separation.

Kelly Clarkson 'had to cry' for music Kelly Clarkson ''had to cry'' to get her music released because her label wanted her to make soul not pop music when she first started out in the industry.

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he 32-year-old singer struggled to forge the career she wanted even after winning the first season of 'American Idol' in 2002 because her label wanted her to release soul music instead of pop when she started out. She explained: ''I wanted to do pop, because that means ''popular'', and anything that was soulful. But it was hard to get that across at first. With 'Miss Independent', I had to cry in my label's office to get it out [as a single].'' Despite having six successful solo albums, she found opposition towards her eagerness to be a pop singer difficult, although she soon managed to persuade her label to let her create the music she wanted to make. She said: ''They wanted

me to sing like the Aretha songs I'd done on the show, and I was, like: 'I'm 20 years old, I can do big ballads, but I also love guitars.' They didn't want to do a lot of production with me. It was the same thing that would happen with Adele - she does ballads with a piano. I said: 'That's beautiful, but can I do other stuff?''' However, the star who has eight-month-old daughter River Rose with husband Brandon Blackstock - believes it was her drive and vision which has led to her having such a long and illustrious career. She told The Guardian newspaper: ''I don't know why I've lasted - you focus on the music, and sometimes the stars align and sometimes they don't. I think it helped that I knew what I wanted to do from the start.''

Armaan Malik is India’s first teenage pop artist with over 30 Bollywood songs T he 19-year-old is India's first teenage pop artist with over 30 Bollywood playback songs to his credit, the prominent ones being 'Jai Ho', 'Chillar

Party', 'Bhoothnath' and 'Taare Zameen Par'. After making the nation swoon to his voice as a teenage playback singer for Salman Khan'

Jai Ho, Armaan Malik released his debut Album titled Armaan with Universal Music where he showcases his versatility and ability to compose and write songs in various genres. His recently released track Naina from Khoobsurat starring Sonam Kapoor and Pakistani star Fawad Khan is making waves. Armaan has gained popularity as a dynamic artist across multiple music industries, having sung for Marathi films and the recently released song Yehdo from the upcoming Telugu film Rowdy Fellow. Ar-

maan has been up on stage since he was 10 and performed in TV shows such as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee TV, Antakshari Lil' Starz on Star Plus,Ghazal Sara on ETV Urdu to the very recent Broadway & Beyond with Raell Padamsee's Ace Productions alongside Indian jazz maestro Joe Alvarez. Armaan has sung about 200 odd jingles for prestigious brands. He was also the voice of Salim inSlumdog Millionaire's Radio version on Channel 4 BBC which went on to win the Golden Globe. Armaan has just re-

leased the music video of the song Leja Zakhm Tere from his debut album. It is a song about heartbreak and has been shot in scenic desert locations in Dubai to give it a feel of loneliness and pain. The video was shot along the way while Armaan toured the UAE for live shows. It's more like his journey with the song and it depicts his feelings and emotions. He has also worked on Ungli with music composer duo SalimSulaiman and a track for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy in the film Ghayal Returns.

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B'desh beat Scotland by 6 wickets Tamim Iqbal scored 95 to steer Bangladesh’s largest successful run chase in one-day international cricket as it beat Scotland by six wickets to keep alive its quarterfinal chances at the World Cup.

naPier, March 5 (reUTerS): Tamim Iqbal came agonisingly close to scoring Bangladesh's first World Cup century as his side completed a six-wicket win over Scotland in their Pool A clash at Saxton Oval in Nelson on Thursday. Iqbal scored 95, while Mohammad Mahmudullah (62) and wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim (60) also contributed as Bangladesh achieved 322-4, their highest successful run chase in one-day internationals. Shakib Al Hasan (52 not out) and Sabbir Rahman (42 not out) guided Mashrafe Mortaza's side home with 11 balls to spare to cap off the perfectly timed run chase. The victory put all the pressure on England for their showdown with Eoin Morgan's side on March 9 in Adelaide, with Bangladesh now on five points and level with third-placed Australia, while England have two. Both have just two games remaining to play.

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Scotland had been well placed to achieve their first World Cup victory, days after throwing away the opportunity against Afghanistan, after Kyle Coetzer had scored a career-best 156 in his side's 318 for eight. The 30-year-old's innings was the first World Cup century by a Scotland batsman and also the highest score by someone from an associate nation at the global showpiece. It also ensured his team posted their highest score against a test nation. Coetzer, who was named man-of-the-match, shared in a 141-run partnership with captain Preston Mommsen (39) and 78 runs with Matt Machan (35) to anchor the innings. Scotland enjoyed their third 300-plus score in oneday internationals, having also achieved the mark against Ireland in 2011 and Canada in 2014. After Coetzer was dismissed in the 45th over with Scotland 269 for five, Richie Berrington (26) and

Matt Cross (20) combined for a quickfire 39 runs that saw their side past 300. Bangladesh's run chase was hampered before they even took the field with Anamul Haque ruled out after he dived to prevent a boundary in the 31st over and appeared to dislocate his right shoulder. He was immediately treated by medical staff but did not re-appear on the field during the remainder of Scotland's innings and was sent to hospital for scans. Television showed him in a sling with an ice bag strapped to his shoulder. He was not needed as his team mates never looked in desperate trouble against Scotland's attack despite some nervous moments after Mushfiqur holed out to Calum MacLeod at long-on with 72 runs still needed for victory. Shakib and Rahman however calmly ticked off the runs with the occasional big shot mixed with singles to achieve the win.

PAK vs SA IRE vs ZIM

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Gayle hints at retirement from Test cricket PerTh, March 5 (ianS): West Indies opener Chris Gayle has hinted at the possibility of retiring from Test cricket if his recurring back problem cannot cope with a tight international schedule. Gayle said he plans to assess his future after the World Cup when he meets with West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) officials. However, he says his passion for playing Test cricket remains, reports CMC. "I do (feel passionate about playing Tests), to be honest with you. It is just that lately this back problem has kind of pushed me away a bit from Test cricket. To be able to go five days, it has been tough," Gayle said. The West Indies are due to play three Tests against England in April-May, two against Australia in June, three against Sri Lanka in October and again against Australia in December. Unconfirmed reports even suggested that they might return to India to complete their abandoned tour.

“I haven't sorted my situation yet, which is the back problem. That is another concern because I've been playing cricket straight on the road and really didn't get a chance to spend the time and give the back as much time to heal," Gayle pointed out. Gayle, 35, has played in only 18 of the 41 Tests the West Indies have contested since March 2010. He could not finish his last match against Zimbabwe at home in September owing to the lower back injury which also ruled him out of the Test series in South Africa preceding the World Cup. "After the World Cup we will see what happens. Where Chris Gayle will actually head. Or you can sit and discuss and work out how we go about playing for West Indies cricket," he said. Gayle has played 103 Tests with an average of 42.18 including 15 centuries and 37 fifties. However, he will be seen in action against India in a World Cup Pool B game at the WACA here on Friday.

Chelsea maintains five-point lead

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India aim to make it four in four against unpredictable WIndies

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PerTh, March 5 (agencieS): Events over the last two days relating to a tiff between vicecaptain Virat Kohli and a senior Indian journalist have dominated news space, but Friday's Group B fixture against the West Indies presents India with an opportunity to shut out the distractions and continue their unbeaten run in the tournament. It was expected that whatever transpired in Perth over the past two days would be the talking point when an Indian player attended the media interaction ahead of their game at the WACA ground. But as has been the practice, India sent out to the Man of the Match from their previous match, R Ashwin, for the pre-match press conference. Ashwin's pragmatic interaction with the media meant the conversation largely focused on the game at hand and his performance in the previous game against UAE here, where he took career-best figures of 4 for 25. The offspinner's improving form in the tournament has given India more control in the middle overs where he has flourished by attacking the batsmen.

Pace bowler Mohammad Shami, who was rested for the previous game against the UAE continued to bowl at the nets, suggesting that he may return to take his place, but whether India would sacrifice Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who had returned from an injury to feature in the game last Saturday, remains to be seen. Bhuvneshwar boasts of a strong record against the West Indies, particularly Chris Gayle, whose threat continues to linger with the big Jamaican having recently smashed the first double century in World Cup history. Predictably, it should be the only area of selection where the Indian team management may have a long discussion about, as the rest of the bowling as well as the batting has impressed in the last three matches. While the top order have been amongst the runs consistently, the likes of MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja in the lower middle order haven't spent enough time in the middle, and against Pakistan and South Africa they were unable to kick on after the top order had set it up for them. But with head coach Duncan Fletcher having re-

joined the team, India would look to him as they hope to improve on that aspect of their game. The West Indies, on the other hand, have enjoyed a long rest since their arrival in the city, and save for the odd practice session, have been limited to watching the action from their Group. A heavy defeat to South Africa has meant the West Indies can't afford any more lapses to stay in contention for a spot in the quarter-finals and the game against India will put them under extra pressure. Gayle's back troubles have meant the batsman takes limited part in the team's practice sessions and after a light hit in the nets at the Murdoch University ground on Tuesday, he was seen having a long conversation with chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd, away from the rest of the team. Having given an interview about reconsidering his Test career, he may have been picking Lloyd's brains on reinforcing his belief after the mauling his team received at the hands of South Africa. West Indies captain Jason Holder has fond memories of the

WACA ground since he made his international debut here, but knows an opposition like India could easily trip them up. Holder was taken apart by AB de Villiers in the game at the SCG, and how the captain comes back after giving away 104 runs from his 10 overs will speak volumes about his character at the end of Friday's match. Kemar Roach was rested for the previous game but the conditions at the WACA may prompt the West Indies to include him in the side. On both days of the West Indies training, their bowlers were seen practicing death bowling with diligence with the likes of Roach, Jerome Taylor and Andre Russell sending down numerous deliveries to get their yorkers right. The West Indies have crossed the 300-mark in three out of their four matches but their bowlers have also consistently given away runs to make matters tough, and against India on Friday, they would be guarding against a repeat of their SCG performance. India would be mindful of that, and will look to target their bowlers, particularly their 23-year-old captain.

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West Ham United’s Kevin Nolan, left tackles Chelsea's Eden Hazard during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham United and Chelsea , at the Boleyn ground in London, Wednesday, March, 4. (AP Photo)

London, March 5 (aP): Chelsea eked out a 1-0 victory at West Ham to stay five points clear in the Premier League on Wednesday, with the top five winning on a night English football held its breath after another player collapsed at White Hart Lane. Eden Hazard headed in a first-half goal for Chelsea at Upton Park before the leaders rode their luck to stay on course for a second trophy this season to go alongside the League Cup they captured on Sunday. "My team were brothers on the pitch and that is important if you are to win the most difficult league in the world," Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said. Second-place Manchester City stayed in touch with Chelsea by beating Leicester 2-0, although goals by David Silva and James Milner masked an unimpressive display by the champions, who dropped captain Vincent Kompany. Chelsea has a game in hand. Behind the top two, the race for Champions League qualification remains tight following victories for Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool that kept the teams separated by three points. Seventh-place Tottenham also won, beating Swansea 3-2 in a match that started in alarming circumstances when Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis collapsed in the center circle in the seventh minute. White Hart Lane fell silent as Gomis received treatment by medical staff,

before being carried off and taken to hospital as a precaution. The France striker, who has a history of fainting during games, said hours later that he was "feeling well" and that he was stressed and suffering from fatigue because of his father's health. Gomis fell to the ground in a similar area of the field to where Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest playing for Bolton against Tottenham in an FA Cup match in 2012. Man United left it late against Newcastle as Ashley Young capitalized on goalkeeper Tim Krul's error to score an 89th-minute goal in a 1-0 win. The game was marred by an angry exchange between Newcastle's Papiss Cisse and United's Jonny Evans, during which the players appeared to spit at each other. United stayed a point behind third-place Arsenal, which beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 through goals by Olivier Giroud and Alexis Sanchez. Liverpool comfortably beat Burnley 2-0 at Anfield thanks to goals by Jordan Henderson and Daniel Sturridge to stay unbeaten since December — a run of 12 games — and within two points of United ahead of their meeting on March 22. Tottenham is six points off the top four. Elsewhere, Everton's woes continued with a 2-0 loss at Stoke, which climbed to eighth after a third straight win. Everton is winless in five matches and six points above the relegation zone. On paper, the trip to Ar-

senal on April 26 looks to be the only difficult away fixture left for Chelsea. With its home form imperious under Mourinho, Chelsea is closing in on the title and a trophy double in the Portuguese coach's second season in his second spell in charge. Hazard has been one of the team's best players this season and he was the difference against West Ham, meeting a cross by Ramires with a header from what looked to be from an offside position. Chelsea relied on some great saves from Thibaut Courtois to preserve the lead. "It was not the best game to play after the final," Mourinho said. "The final is more than a game, because of tension, pressure and emotions. Some periods (against West Ham), we had to defend with everything." Kompany started on the bench after a number of below-par displays at center back, but City still struggled against a team bottom of the standings. Silva pounced from close range to put City ahead after an unconvincing start at Etihad Stadium and Milner came off the bench to settle nerves in the 88th minute. After losses to Barcelona in the Champions League and Liverpool in the league, City manager Manuel Pellegrini said: "I think always when you don't have the result, you need the next game is very difficult. That is why the most important thing was to win the three points."

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