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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes — Mark Twain Campaign for clean polls in Dimapur municipality

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Hoi bosti jaishe. Accha so I heard we’ve a new overgrown political party. Are we old enough to join the party?

The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) delegation called on the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on May 19. (PIB Photo)

Transfers are not punishment: CM Quality education, r&D,

NPS officers call for cadre review Morung Express News Dimapur | May 19

Proposal for railway connectivity to Tuli DIMAPuR, MAy 19 (MexN): A proposal for extension of a 15-mile railway track from 10th mile station Tuli to Tsumok under Merangkong village jurisdiction, Mokokchung district was submitted to the Union Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhu on Thursday.

A press note from state president, Narendra Modi Vichar Manch (NMVM), Nagaland Unit S. Lepzung Jamir who met the union minister termed the meeting as “fruitful” and that the railways minister agreed to “expedite the matter at the earliest.”

Tuli town is the biggest non- district town in Nagaland and the commercial hub of Mokokchung district and extension of the present railway track and providing of passenger train would have a positive impact on the economic activity specially for six major Districts namely Mokokchung, Longleng, Zunheboto, Tuensang, Kiphire and some parts of Mon district of Nagaland, the press note stated.

The state president of NMVM also urged the union minister to send a survey team at the earliest for preparation of Detail Project Report (DPR) for the said work. The minister reportedly assured that he shall take the necessary action to expedite the work.

Chief Minister Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsü addressing the annual conference of the Nagaland Police Service personnel on May 19 said that “transfers” should not be treated as “punishment.”

“Transfers and postings are not punishment. We want to put the right person in the right place,” said Dr. Liezietsü at the conclave while hinting of an imminent reshuffle in the Nagaland Police hierarchy.

The conclave - the 46th general conference of the Nagaland Police Service Association was held at the Police Complex, Chumukedima where Dr. Liezietsü was the chief guest.

While stating that the Nagaland Police has made a name for itself beyond the borders of the state, he warned against complacency creeping in. “I urge you to keep up the spirit of service, maintain a (robust) standard of work and physical fitness,” he said while adding that one cannot afford to remain content with “what you know.”

Image, he said, is also vital to effective policing and that he added can be earned only through the people who wear the uniform.

Pointing to the effort that goes into running the state police, Dr. Liezietsü said that the largest chunk of the state nonplan allocation goes to the police department.

With crime and its instruments becoming more sophisticated, he said that the Nagaland Police have to ultimately brace up to the challenge. In this regard, he said that the NPSA has a crucial role with it “boldly and enthusiastically embracing technology.

NPSA president Vekhosa Chakhesang while terming the conference as a time for NPS officers to congregate and introspect, said it also is an opportune platform to discuss issues confronting the NPS cadre and also those concerning the lower ranks.

Vekhosa pointed to a perceived apathy of the state government towards the NPS cadre, which has affected the morale of the NPSA members. Poor cadre management, little promotion scope and meagre allowances in comparison to other state cadres were some of the major

issues highlighted to the CM. Citing one alleged instance of apathy, the NPSA president recounted an incident when an NPS officer elevated to the rank of IGP (VG) was not given an office to function from. Stating “The long pending and much awaited NPS cadre review is still under process, he further called for a restructuring of the “police administration.” He further pointed to the practice of the NPS cadre confined to the police department alone.

In other states, he said that the state police service officers are given the opportunity to branch out to hold administrative posts in other allied services such as the Vigilance, Fire & Emergency Services, Transport, Disaster Management etc.

As regards allowances, he said that the state exchequer may incur huge expenditure on the police department “But as far as individual pay and allowances/ perquisites are concerned, Nagaland Police stands at the bottom among the Indian states.”

On an introspective note, he said that while the grievances remain, “It is also necessary to take corrective measures amongst ourselves and function as contributing agent of the state.”

my top priority: Vc Prof lal

New Vice Chancellor assumes office in Nagaland University Morung Express News Dimapur | May 19

Prof Pardeshi Lal, who assumed office as the 5th Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University on May 18 said quality teaching and focus on research and development would be his topmost priority.

The VC is appointed for the term of five years or up to the age of 70 years, or whichever is earlier.

“Since I am from within the system, I am thoroughly acquainted with the challenges and problems face by the university, the new VC told The Morung Express on Friday. Prof Lal was teaching under the Department of Zoology prior to current appointment and was also the Pro Vice Chancellor NU, Kohima Campus, Meriema.

In October 2016, the Naga Hoho had made a representation to Nagaland Governor P B Acharya regretting the university’s failure to become ‘at par with other progressive Central

Universities’ despite 22 years of its existence.

Agreeing with the Hoho’s contention, Prof Lal said that as a university, the expectations of all stakeholders are valid. “As a new VC, I can only say that I will work and discharge my duties to address every concern,” he added.

Since assuming office on Thursday, Prof Lal has been meeting different section of people related to the university as well as every stakeholders.

Educators from NU when contacted by The Morung Express attested Prof Lal to be a competent and an able administrator.

“I am confident that university will grow positively under his tutelage,” Prof. SU Ahmed, the Head of Department of Zoology & Dean School of Sciences, NU and former colleague of the new VC expressed.

A researcher in ICAR-NRC on Mithun, Dr Sosang Longkumer also described Prof Lal as a critical research observer and able administrator under whose guidance, the university’s R&D could flourish.

NU was running without of regular VC since September 8,

2016 after Prof BK Konwar demitted office on completion of his five year term on September 8, 2016. .

In accordance with ordinance of University Grants Commission (UGC), the senior most Professor in the university, Dr NS Jamir, Professor of Botany and Pro Vice Chancellor of School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development (SASARD), Medziphema was officiating as VC since.

Being a central university, the Ministry of Human Resources Development began the lookout for a new VC in April 2016 through an open advertisement.

The elevation of Prof Lal was reportedly confirmed in first week of May by the HRD Ministry.

NU, the 13th national and the sole Central University in Nagaland was established based by an Act of Parliament and received the assent of the President of India on October 20, 1989 and was formally inaugurated on September 6, 1994 having jurisdiction over the entire state of Nagaland.

“My only wish is to take the university into a new positive chapter,” the VC maintained.

WAYA withhold salaries of doctors Sweden drops Assange investigation, still faces arrest from UK police absent for four years from work

DIMAPuR, MAy 19 (MexN): With the expiry of the deadline given to PHC appointee doctors in Wakching area to be in their place of posting, the Wakching Area Youth Association (WAYA) on Friday informed that it was compelled to withhold their salaries from May 2017 onwards.

WAYA president Yonglong K Konyak and general secretary Adick Konyak in a press release informed that the association had already submitted a representation against the absence of the doctors in their duties to the principal director of health & family welfare and chief medical officer, Mon along with a deadline which expired on April 1, 2017.

With the department unable to ful-

fill this demand, the association has questioned as to why these said doctors who were given appointment in 2012 were still allowed to draw their salaries, when there has been a “vacuum of duties for the past 4 years and 5 month.”

The association said the issue has now become a lost cause because the department had failed to provide a positive response on their demand which was for the doctors to simply join their place of posting in Wakching and perform their duties in providing health care.

In this connection, the association has now warned of stern action against those supporting the absentee doctors to withdraw their salaries without the knowledge of the association.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, MAy 19 (ReuTeRS): Swedish prosecutors dropped an investigation on Friday of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a rape allegation, but British police said he would still be arrested if he left the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he has been holed up for nearly five years.

Assange, 45, took refuge in the embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over the rape allegation, which he denies.

He feared Sweden would hand him over to the United States to face prosecution over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents in one of the largest information leaks in U.S. history.

Swedish Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny said the investigation had not been abletoproceedbecauseoflegalobstacles.

“We are not making a statement about his guilt,” Ny said, adding that the investigation could be reopened if Assange came to Sweden before the statute of limitations deadline for the rape allegation in 2020.

British police said separately that it was still under obligation to arrest Assange if were he to leave the embassy.

“The Metropolitan Police Service is obliged to execute that warrant should he leave the Embassy.” Assange is a cyber hero to some for exposing government abuses of power and championing free speech, but to others is a criminal who has undermined the security of the West.

SEVEN YEARS While Assange may still not be able to leave Ecuador’s embassy in the swanky Knightsbridge area of London, the prosecutor’s decision to stop the investigation into allegations of rape brings to an end a 7-year stand-off with Sweden.

In a court document seen by Reuters, Ny said there were no further avenues to pursue to take the investigation forward.

“This is a total victory for us,” Assange’s lawyer Per Samuelson said.

“That’s because we finally were able to get the interview done and he could describe what really happened and also because we could show that the United States is hunting him, which we could not do before.”

Allow religion to flourish without interference: NBCC “We celebrate India’s diversities and the provisions enshrined in the Constitution for the members of these diverse groups the privilege to enjoy their basic civil and political rights, and freedom to pursue their beliefs. But unfortunately, that is not always the case,” it said.

The NBCC pointed out that Christians in states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are subjected to severe and complicated rules related to conversion and baptism as well as intimidation while formalizing “their identity as Christians by official registrations.”

Consequently, Christians or socio-culture minority are “feeling insecure” in a democratic and secular country with the rise of “suppression of faith and practice that are not in line with the main-

line practices,” it lamented.

Citing the instances as Good Governance Day on December 25, Easter Sunday as India Digital Day, Uniform Civil Code, mass yoga or “Surya Namaskar, Cow Vigilante, hate speeches and propaganda, the NBCC said that Christians as well as other religious minorities are expressing resentment across the country over such acts.

“Whatever reason has been given, the church has claimed that it is pure harassment and violated the fundamental religious freedom,” NBCC asserted. It said communal riots, hate speeches and propaganda have become alarmingly high and aimed at minorities leaving them to be defenseless even in the eyes the law.

cent Nagaland BJP unit resolution to “safeguard the Christian faith” as one of its kind for a political party to courageously come out in defense of Christians, NBCC however said “their (BJP) disappointment expressed over the church in defending her own faith stands contrary.”

“The secular credential of the party can only be trusted if it remains a purely political party and not motivated by any religious fundamentalists,” it pointed out.

Towards this, NBCC said the “stand of the church to defend her faith should not be construed as the church been against any political party, but said that it will stand to defend the Christian faith from any political party which “threatens the church with Welcomes Nagaland its political agenda.”

BJP unit resolution The church, NBCC said, beMeanwhile lauding the re- ing responsible for the “well-be-

ing and safety” of its members is only examining and educating its members of the plans and policies of any political party.

NBCC further said that it is not against any developmental program of the government.

“Our only message is to allow any religion to flourish peacefully without any interference and influence by the majority, maintaining the secular flavor as is guaranteed by the constitution.”

The NBCC also acknowledged the Nagaland Chief Minister for writing a “strong resentment” letter over the Indian Digital Day which was set to be observed on Easter Sunday and for assuring the church in Nagaland that such will not be observed in Nagaland on such a day which is considered by the Christians as a sacred day.

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DIMAPuR, MAy 19 (MexN): The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) on Friday expressed alarm over the recent attacks on Christians in India which it stated has considerably increased since 2011.

In a press statement, the NBCC wondered why such attacks are occurring when Christians constitute less than 3% of the country’s population. Apart from three Christian majority states in the North East -Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya only two other states such as Kerala and Goa have significant percentage of Christians.

India is home to diverse religions and the secular credential of any party can “only be trusted if it remains a purely political party and not motivated by any religious fundamentalists,” the NBCC has reminded.

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DCPU initiates open discussion on child protection mechanism

Wokha, May 19 (MExN): The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) Wokha, under the Department of Social Welfare held a one day open discussion on child protection mechanism on May 16 at Wokha Town Hall.

The DCPO, Sekho Dawhuo while welcoming all the dignitaries and participants highlighted the various mechanisms available within the district for the protection of the children.

He stated that the purpose of organizing the programme is to develop mechanisms within the district for protection of a child in need of care and protection.

Additional Deputy Commissioner, Wokha, Thavaseelan (IAS), in his keynote address thanked the DCPU for organizing such programme. He highlighted on the four Fundamental Rights of Children: Right to Survival; Right to Development; Right to Protection; and Right to Participation.

NIPReSA general meeting held kohiMa, May 19 (DiPR): The Nagaland Information & Public Relations Employees Services Association (NIPReSA) held its general meeting on May 18 at the DIPR Conference Hall, Kohima.

Delivering the presidential address, President, NIPReSA, Dzuvinuo Theunuo gave a brief background on the history of the department where she stated that IPR department is one of the oldest departments in the state. She also reflected on how the association came about where she said that NIPReSA was registered as a society on May 4, 1994 with Yanger as the first President who retired as deputy director.

She commented on the Cadre Review taken up for the department and also some of activities that took place relating to the association including positive developments that have taken place in the department. Stating that IPR department is growing in visibility and importance over the years she called upon all to rededicate ourselves as PR professionals and as public servants.

Director, IPR, Limawati Ao while speaking on the occasion said that the main objective of having an association was to look after the welfare and to safeguard the interest of the members. It is the best platform where we can discuss issues confronting the interest of its members besides evolving innovative ideas so as to improve the image and functions of the department, he stated.

He expressed hope that the association would maintain its integrity and promote unity and cooperation among its members. He also urged all the members to work hard with renewed vigour and asked to maintain consistency of regularity and sincerity wherever they posted.

The programme was chaired by General Secretary, NIPReSA, Siewatho Nyusou who also gave the general secretary’s report along with the report of the Treasurer, NIPReSA, Kepelhoutuonuo. Welcome speech was delivered by Executive member, NIPReSA, Asangla Imsong. The new office bearers for the 2017-2019 tenure were elected as follows: President: Asangla Imsong; Vice President: Ruopfulenuo Mepfhuo; General Secretary: Nongozo Rikha; Joint Secretary: Metevizo Sothu; Treasurer: K .Zeliang.

He also gave reference to legislations at International level, National, State and District level and urge the public to approach the concerns of times and avail the services of the bodies such as Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), Special Juvenile Police Unit (SJPU) in dealing with the Child in need of care and protection.

Raitale Zeliang, Programme Manager, State Child Protection Society, Nagaland spoke on the role of Village/Colony Level Child Protection committee in dealing with Children in conflict with law, Missing and found Children, Orphaned, abandoned and destitute children, children from families at risk etc. She stressed the need to report any ‘child in distress’ in time where the Village/ Colony Level Child Protection committee plays a very important role.

The discussion brought into view

the following points: Community Response; Psychological Intervention; Awareness programmes at Block level; Awareness in Educational Institutions; Church platforms to be used for awareness; Privacy of the child victims; and Strengthening of Existing Children Homes.

DCPU, Wokha Protection Officer (NIC) Mary Swüro in a press release said that the programme was chaired by Esther Sumi, Protection Officer (IC) and Counselor T. Pungoyi Nienu invoked God’s blessings.

CWC Chairman Yihamo Patton also spoke about the need to mobilize the community in dealing with Children in conflict with law, and in need of care and protection. Superintendent, Observation Home, Wokha Woben Patton gave a brief overview of the programme while Tsenpemo Jungi CWC member pronounced the vote of thanks.

Child rights sensitization prog at Kiphire Morung Express News Kiphire | May 19

With an aim to sensitize citizens on child rights District Child Protection Unit, Kiphire organized ‘sensitization on child rights’ programme with active participation from 11 wards chairman of Kiphire, Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), Woman Cell Police Department, Kiphire and Legal Service Authority, Kiphire at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall.

Delivering keynote address Rokokhrielie, Programme Officer, State Child Protection Society (SEPS) Kohima, said “child rights can be better ensured when all stakeholders such as NGOs, department and government work together.” He said the objective behind organising sensitization on child rights was to cover every child in need of help.

On various roles and help available un-

der the District Child Protection Unit he said “open shelter” will now be converted into observatory home and there are also provisions for adoption for childless couple.

Participants were also briefed about 181 toll free number available 24/7, which can be reached through call, text and internet. 181 is exclusively design to help woman affected by domestic violence.

Representing Legal Service Authority, Kiphire Likhase, Advocate, spoke on free legal help available to woman and children, he said that family with below 1 Lakh income can avail free legal service and he also assured the participants of any legal help in cases involving woman and children.

The programme was chaired by Puli Thurr and special number was presented

by Agape School, Kiphire and it ended with a vote of thanks by Bangdangwati Sangtam.

Campaign for clean polls in Dimapur municipality Morung Express News Dimapur | May 19

In another step forward towards Clean Election Campaign which was started by NBCC and emulated by various organizations, the Dimapur Urban Council Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) and GB Union Dimapur (Sadar) have come together to further the cause in the Dimapur municipality.

In this regard, the first coordination meeting of the two bodies on Clean Election was held at Lotha Hoho Ki, Dimapur on Friday. During the meeting, it was decided that a Core Group comprising of colony council members, GBs, women leaders, youth leaders, Church leaders and intellectuals would be formed in each colony with around 20-40 members. The Core Group would meet women, mothers and youth of its respective colonies and call for a general meeting of the colony to strategize on the Clean Election movement.

Some of the pledge points to be taken during the campaign included; not enrolling names in multiple constituencies, one man one vote, not to sell or buy votes, no proxy voting, no booth capturing, not to force anyone to vote against his/her wishes and no to use of alco-

DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS addressing colony leaders and GBs in Dimapur on Friday. (Morung Photo)

hol during elections.

The Joint Forum of the two bodies on Clean Election will also come up with a “Pledged Sticker” to be pasted at the main entrance door of every household which have taken the pledge. The Forum will also rope in various communities within the municipal business area.

Exhorting the gathering, DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS pointed out the system of election, which was quite simple as to go and vote as per one’s choice have been made very complicated by the public themselves who indulge in every possible means of electoral mal-

practices. “The Clean Election campaign itself reflects that election is not clean and it is time to cleanse it,” he said and noted that the campaign has been successful in some areas.

Yhome said that the people do not value their votes and do not bother whether their franchise has been exercised or not or if it was used by others. “The people do not have any right to blame the politicians after having indulged in unfair means during electioneering,” he added.

The DC also denounced the activities of government appointed GBs going around wooing voters and

politicking. He appealed the gathered leaders to sincerely work towards bringing back the simplicity of election process.

DMC Administrator, Moa Sangtam said that the first step towards achieving clean election was the change of mindset towards election. “Government is a reflection of the people and instead of blaming the policy makers, we should first change ourselves,” he said.

Having taken over the DMC office recently, Moa appealed for support and cooperation and community participation in effective functioning of the municipal body.

CECS holds felicitation prog for HSLC Batch 2017 93 students awarded NAGC certificate of excellence

Outgoing students with their parents, teaching faculty, Board Members and Director, CECS after the felicitation programme held for HSLC Batch of 2017.

DiMaPuR, May 19 (MExN): The Community Education Centre School (CEC School) Dimapur held a felicitation programme for HSLC Batch of 2017.

During the programme, Subonenba Longkumer, Director CECS congratulated the outgoing students on their success and

exhorted the students to aim for greater heights and strive for excellence in all of their future endeavors. He encouraged the students to have passion and zeal and to put all their heart in everything they do so that their future is build on the passion that leads to success. He challenged the

students to be ready to face different circumstances and even failures as they venture into the next phase of their life.

Short speeches were delivered by the teaching faculty, School Board members and the outgoing students followed by special song by students of

class 9. This was followed by presentation of awards and certificate by the Director.

The programme was attended by the parents, teaching faculty, Board members and administration staff of CECS and was chaired by Nukshi, teacher CEC School.

kohiMa, May 19 (DiPR): Nagaland Adolescent Girls’ Club (NAGC) under the aegis of the Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB) conducted a felicitation programme on May 17 under the theme ‘what you are looking for is not on the outside, it is within you’ at Oking Christian School, Kohima. A total of 150 students along with the teacher-in-charge attended the programme.

Altogether 93 students from different schools were awarded NAGC certificate of excellence for successfully completing HSLC and HSSLC exam 2017.

In her welcome note, Daisy Mezhür, Secretary NSSWB & Mission Director SRCW congratulated all the successful candidates of the recently held HSLC & HSSLC examination. In

her speech, she motivated the girls to dream tall and high, as they will eventually land somewhere worth the while. She also encouraged the girls to touch the sky and follow their dreams, not their hearts. She concluded her speech by telling the girls to stand tall and “Live the Promise”.

Bano Vinito Chishi, Chairperson NSSWB spoke on the topic “the Road to Success”. She asked the students to hold on to God and live in the fear of God. She said that in life nothing can take the place of knowing and fearing God and in doing so, that would give them the right perspective in life.

She further said that opportunity belongs to those who are willing to struggle and work hard. Money and wealth will come and go but education empow-

ers you, liberates you and brings about independence. She concluded by saying that the road to success is to fulfill God’s purpose in one’s life.

Devashree gave a brief insight on the theme “what you are looking for is not on the outside, it is within you”.

A short video on the journey of the outgoing NAGC girls was screened.

Ruovinuo Kiewhuo chaired the programme and Zhopota Rhakho, Administrator, Oking Christian School pronounced the invocation prayer.

Dancers United presented a dance with the rhythm of the music titled “Me without you” while NAGC Mewi School and NAGC Oking Christian School presented a special song. The vote of thanks was proposed by Medochiinuo Chielie.

3rd Yimchunger Women Org General Conference held

ShaMatoR, May 19 (DiPR): The 3rd Yimchunger Women Orgnization (YWO) General Conference was held at Chessore Village on May 19, with Advisor to Eastern Naga Women Organization, Naythei Pangyu as chief guest and Additional Deputy Commissioner, Satakha, Athrila as the guest of honour.

Exhorting the gathering, she appreciated the role they played in raising many leaders, officers and prominent people in the society.

Quoting a passage from the bible, she pointed that love and understanding is the need of the hour for a brighter future. Let us humble ourselves before God and be an example of peace and harmony in the society, she added. She appreciated the men folk and village councils of the region for

their support to the women and also congratulated the executive team for the success of the programme.

The programme was chaired by President, Yimchungberu Arihako, Pungro Unit, Suzana Yimchunger. Alula Z. Thsanso delivered the presidential address, while Kaisa Akiu pronounced the vote of thanks. Speeches were delivered by the Guest of Honour, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Sathaka, Athrila and the President, Yimchunger Tribal Council, Keozih. Other highlights of the programme included folk song by Yimchungberu Arihako Shamator Town, and a play on ‘Human Trafficking’ by executive members Yimchunger Women Organization Shamator Unit and special number by Western Yimchunger Women Organization.

MGM HSS organized a special meeting for the Class 12 science students at the school auditorium. The meeting was called with the intention to encourage the present higher secondary batch students to follow the example set by their seniors with their cent percent result.

Nagaland to observe Anti-Terrorism Day

kohiMa, May 19 (DiPR): Every year May 21 is observed as Anti-Terrorism Day with the objective to wean away the youth from terrorism and the cult of violence. This year May 21 falls on Sunday which is a holiday for state government offices. In order to organise the AntiTerrorism Day in a befitting manner, the state government has decided to observe the Day on May 20 where a pledge taking ceremony will also be organised in Secretariat Conference Hall at 1:30 pm.

All the officers and staff of the Nagaland Civil Secretariat have therefore been requested to make it convenient to participate in the Pledge taking ceremony.

Further, all government offices, public sector undertakings and other public institutions in the state have been requested to observe the pledge as notified by the Additional Chief Secretary & Home Commissioner Nagaland, Temjen Toy, IAS on May 19.

Participants along with the faculty members of The Global Open University, Nagaland during the one day workshop on the ‘art of cooking’ held for Sodzulhou Village, Dimapur organised by Department of Hotel Management as corporate social responsibility initiative.

DPS Dimapur celebrates Mother’s Day

Mothers participate in activities during the celebration of Mother’s Day held at DPS Dimapur on May 19.

DiMaPuR, May 19 (MExN): To celebrate the spirit of motherhood and the bond of love and affection between a mother and a child, DPS Dimapur organized a Mother’s Day programme for the mothers of Class LKG – Class V students, on May 19 in the school.

N. Atoni graced the occasion as the guest of honour. On the theme

of ‘Mother’s Love and sacrifice’, special songs, dances, drama and poetic recitation were presented.

The heartfelt and stellar performance of the students was a moment of reckoning for the mothers to introspect on the immense influence and pivotal role one has to play in a child’s life. Additional attractions of the day’s programme

were competitive activities conducted for the mothers and the selection of the ‘Star Mother.’

A press note from the school stated that Sarah won the title with her views on ‘Nation’s progress depends on the future citizens – Role of the Mother.’ Special gifts were also given to all the mothers present.

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Keep district creation order in abeyance: UNC Newmai News Network Senapati | May 19

The tripartite talks between the United Naga Council (UNC), the Government of Manipur, and the Central Government resumed today with the UNC insistent on its demand that the State Government put "in abeyance" the order for creation of new districts.

The UNC team insisted that no visible administrative works other than the developmental works should be taken up in those areas which fall under the new districts till such time the issue is resolved through dialogue. However, there was reservation from the State Government of Manipur representatives, according to sources.

Some participants of today's talks disclosed to Newmai News Network that the UNC team also asked the representatives of the State Government "whether they were politically mandated". The UNC leaders also expressed their resentment on the "activities" of the Manipur Government on the newly created districts.

Meanwhile, the tripartite talks reaffirmed the “focal point No 1 of agreement arrived at in the tripartite talks on March 19, 2017” between the three parties which states, “The grievances of the United Naga Council which led to the imposition of the economic blockade by them was recognized as there was non-adherence to the four Memorandum of

Ukhrul scribes boycott Shirui Fest UkhrUl, may 19 (mExN): The Ukhrul District Working Journalists Association (UDWJA) has resolved to refrain from giving coverage to the ongoing Shirui Festival.

A decision to this effect was taken during an emergency meeting of the association at its office on May 18 on the grounds “of the total sidelining of the association” by the organizing committee despite being apprised of the need for coordinating with the local media personnel, a press release from the UDWJA stated.

Accusing the organizing committee of ignoring the association, the UDWJA

stated that it takes “strong exception” to the manner in which the committee proceeded to conduct the festival without officially informing the members of the association about the scheduled events at different venues, “let alone extending an invitation”.

“Being left in the dark about all the upcoming events of festival, members of the association have been placed in a tight spot while covering the festival.

In light of the prevailing circumstances with respect to the association members, UDWJA has resorted to boycott of covering of the ongoing state festival,” the release stated.

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The Government of Manipur agrees to start consultation with all stakeholders to redress the same”.

Today’s talks were held at the DRDA Conference Hall in the district headquarters of Senapati with UNC President Gaidon Kamei leading the UNC team which included the council’s general secretary S. Milan, All Naga Students Association Manipur (ANSAM) President Seth Shatsang, Naga Women Union (NWU) President Asha Wungnam and few others.

Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary (NE), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) represented the Central Government while the Govern-

ment of Manipur side was represented by Chief Secretary O. Nabakishore Singh, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Dr .J. Suresh Babu and Commissioner (Works) K. Radhakumar Singh.

It was also agreed that the Government of Manipur would be represented at the political level in the next round of talks.

“Till such time an amicable settlement to the issue of creation of the new district is arrived at, the Government of Manipur and the United Naga Council will mutually respect the points agreed upon in the tripartite talks held on March 19, 2017,” one point of the agreement stated.

It was also agreed upon that the next round of talks will be held within a month.

Strike paralyses border trade, 4 Mnp commandos affects normal life in Manipur injured in IED blast Imphal, may 19 (IaNS): A 24-hour general strike called by groups belonging to the Kuki hill tribe paralysed the legal border trade and normal life at Manipur's border town of Moreh on Friday.

Police told IANS that there was no report of any untoward incident during the "total shutdown", which is in protest against a bomb blast in the border town on Wednesday night by suspected militants.

The suspected militants had detonated the powerful bomb at the Kut ground under Ward No. 2 of Moreh at 7 p.m. (local time). There were no casualties.

Effective from Thursday midnight, the general

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Employees of the School Education Department who had failed to show up during the time of GPS survey at their respective establishments are hereby informed that verification of absentees will be done from the 22nd May to 26th May 2017 in the Directorate as part of the GPS Survey of all Government Schools in Nagaland and Verification of information of all its Staff and Teachers under the Department.

The following documents are to be produced at the time of verification.

• 1 no. Colour Passport Photo • Government issued ID Card/ Passport/ Voters ID Card (Any one) • PAN Card/ AADHAAR Card • Appointment Order • Matric (HSLC) Admit Card • Those employees who had failed to show up during the survey at their posting places are directed to bring valid reasons for their absence during the verification.

(SMITA SARANGI) IAS, PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR Issued by: DIPR

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

We the Kacharigaon (Phevima) Village Council would like to extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to the PHED department, specially to the Engineer, SDO and J.E. of Dimapur Division, for their kind gesture looking into the village problems and need by constructing of 3 nos of Boring with reservoir Tank and fitter system at A, B and C Khels.

As we all know that Kacharigaon Village is on a hillock place, villagers are facing lots of problems to get sufficient drinking water. But as of now many families are getting much qualities of drinking water and feel very happy, as we are very thankful to them. May God bless them all.

Sd/- Mathovi Yhoshü, Chairman Kacharigaon (Phevima) Village Council Dimapur: Nagaland

Sd/- Neiboulie Mhasi, Secretary Kacharigaon (Phevima) Village Council Dimapur: Nagaland

OFFICE OF THE NAGALAND PHARMACISTS’ ASSOCIATION HEAD OFFICE: KOHIMA NAGALAND

Regd.No. AR/13/2/85 Dated 5th Oct..’85 No.NPA/Gen.Correspondence-6/2015-16/207 Dated Kohima the 18th may 2017

FELICITATION The Nagaland Pharmacists’ Association (NPA) heartily congratulates Mr. Khele Thorie on being promoted to the post of Chief Pharmacist/Deputy Director (Pharmacy), Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Nagaland.

The Association would also like to congratulate all the officers who got promoted as Deputy Chief Pharmacist/ District Pharmacy Officer, Head Pharmacist and Senior Pharmacist.

The NPA wishes them the very best for their future responsibilities and pray that the Almighty God Bless them with good health and wisdom and guide them so that they may be a blessing to the Nagas in general and to the Department in particular.

Sd/- Kethokhrienuo Vitso General Secretary

Sd/- A. Temjenchiba President

DIRECTORATE OF AGRICULTURE

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE JAKHAMA PB No. 39, Kohima, Nagaland – 797001

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MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS Qualification

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Reference to the Agriculture Department Advertisement No.AGR/KVKMP/2005-06/1292-95, Dated Kohima the 10th April’2017, the terms & conditions for the mentioned post shall be read as given below: Sl. No Name of the Post No. of Post 1.

Office Supdt. Cum Accountant, KVK Mon 1 Terms & Conditions: 1. The appointment is purely on temporary basis and shall stand terminated as and when ICAR stops funding.

2. The undersigned reserves right to terminate service of any incumbent without any notice, if the service is found unsatisfactory.

3. The qualification for the post is Master in Business Management/ Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management/ MA/ M.Com/ C.A or B.Com/ BA/ Bachelor in Business Management with minimum five years of experience of working as Junior Accountant or Senior Clerk dealing with Financial Accounts matter.

4. The scale of pay for the post is Rs.9300-34800/- (basic) plus Grade Pay Rs.4200.

5. The age limit of the candidate should not be below 20 years and above 35 years.

The interested candidates may apply with Curricular Vitae (CV) along with recent passport size photograph within a period of 15 days from the date of publication.

The application should be addressed to the Director of Agriculture, Nagaland, Kohima with envelop super scribed “APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF OFFICE SUPDT. CUM ACCOUNTANT SD/- (HELIE RUPREO) Director of Agriculture, Nagaland : Kohima

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Imphal, may 19 (pTI): Four Manipur police commandos were injured, two of them critically, in an IED blast triggered by militants in the state's Chandel district today. The blast occurred at around 12.45 pm on Imphal-Moreh road, some 10 kms from the border town of Moreh, when a police convoy was heading towards Imphal through Kwatha Khunou Lamkhai area in the hill district, police said. Following the blast, police reinforcements have been rushed to the spot, a senior police officer said. The seriously injured personnel were airlifted to Imphal in an IAF chopper for treatment, he said.

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at Tamu town, which is frequented by Indian traders and tourists.

Tombimacha, a trader who frequently goes to Moreh from Imphal, is one of the several persons stranded at Moreh. Talking to IANS, she said that it is sheer nonsense that bombs should be exploded in a peaceful area.

"It is understandable that people are protesting and the police should nab the culprits. The promise of the new government to make Manipur a strikefree state should be made meaningful," she said.

No militant group has taken responsibility for the bomb blasts so far.

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strike was jointly called by the Hill Tribal Council, the Kuki Students' Organisation and the Kuki Women Union and Human Rights.

"The international gate numbers I and II were not open on Friday as a precautionary measure. As a result tourists and traders from India could not go to Namphalong and Tamu towns. Traders from Myanmar also did not come to Moreh," police said.

Police sources said that two shops in Imphal west district were partially damaged on Thursday due to a powerful bomb blast.

While there has been no claim to this, on Tuesday another bomb exploded

EDEN BOARDING SCHOOL Aghunato, Nagaland The administration, staff and students congratulate passed out students of HSLC Examination – 2017.

OFFICE OF THE NAGALAND PHARMACISTS’ ASSOCIATION HEAD OFFICE: KOHIMA NAGALAND Regd.No. AR/13/2/85 Dated 5th Oct..’85

No.NPA/Gen.Correspondence-6/2015-16/208

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ACKNOwLEDGEMENT

The Nagaland Pharmacists’ Association would like to express our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the Govt. of Nagaland for approving and restructuring of Pharmacy cadres in the state which had been our long genuine demand. We extend our deepest appreciation to the staff and officers of all rank and file of Health & Family Welfare Department, P & AR Department, Finance Department and Cabinet cell for their dedication and contribution in the success of cadre review and creation of Pharmacy cell. We convey our profound gratitude to the following individuals for rendering extra-ordinary services and advice throughout the process of cadre review.

1. Shri. Pankaj Kumar, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland 2. Shri. ImkonglembaAo, Comm. & Secy., Govt. of Nagaland & Chairman Cadre Review Committee 3. Shri. Sentiyanger, Nagaland Commissioner, Govt. of Nagaland 4. Shri. Menukhol John, Comm. & Secy., Govt. of Nagaland 5. Shri. M. Patton, Comm. & Secy., Govt. of Nagaland 6. Shri. Nihoto, Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland & Member Cadre Review Committee 7. Shri. V. Kezo, OSD (Finance), Govt. of Nagaland & Member Cadre Review Committee 8. Smti. Chubasangla Anar, Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland & Member Cadre Review Committee 9. Shri. Ashi Khieya, OSD (Revenue), Govt. of Nagaland 10. Dr. Neiphi Kire, Principal Director (Retd), H & FW 11. Dr. Neikietuo Ciesotsu, Principal Director (Retd), H & FW 12. Dr. Nandira Changkija, Principal Director (Retd), H & FW 13. Dr. Watikala, Principal Director, H & FW 14. Shri. Kevishe Pucho, Joint Secy., Govt. of Nagaland 15. Shri. Nchumbemo Kikon, SRO (Dy. Secy.), Govt. of Nagaland 16. Shri. Tiatoshi Amer, Asst. Drugs Controller, H & FW, Member Secy., Cadre Review Committee 17. All Ex- Presidents and Office bearers of the Nagaland Pharmacist Association Sd/- Nagaland Pharmacists’ Association

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

SBI Q4 net profit more than doubles to Rs 2,815 cr KolKaTa, May 19 (ThE hinDu): The country’s largest lender, State Bank of India, has reported a 123%t jump in standalone net profit at Rs 2,815 crore for the March quarter. The net profit in the corresponding period stood at Rs 1,264 crore.

The PSU major beat street estimates with the stock reporting its 52-week high at Rs 314.90 at around 1 PM. Interest earned for the quarter climbed to Rs 47,393 crore, up by 10% from the Rs 42,942 crore it reported in the year-ago period.

Net Interest income increased by 6.50% Y-o-Y to Rs 18,071 crore (Rs 15,401 crore). During the quarter, operating profit improved by 13 % to Rs 16,026 crore. According to Siddharth Purohit, Senior Research Analyst, Angel Broking,

the numbers have been better than market estimates.

“There is a positive development, especially on the asset quality front. Details are still awaited.

However, the stock has moved up reacting positively to the result,” he told BusinessLine. For the full fiscal, standalone net profit was Rs 10,484 crore.

Asset quality In terms of asset quality, gross bad loans as a percentage of total loans fell to 6.9 per cent in the January to March quarter from 7.23 per cent in the October to December period. SBI alone accounts for nearly a fifth of the country’s total banking assets.

On an absolute basis, how-

ever, gross non-performing assets increased 14% year-on-year to Rs 1,12,343 crore (Rs 98,173 crore).

The gross NPA per cent increased to 6.90 (6.50).

Provisions for bad loans fell 9.4 per cent from a year earlier to Rs 10,993 crore in the March quarter.

Net NPAs during the fiscal stood at Rs 58,277 crore; net NPA per cent stood at 3.71.

Sector-wise NPA break-up Incidentally, exposures in large and mid-corporate portfolios continuing to turn bad has remained a worry for bankers. Of a Rs 3,41,990-crore exposure in the large corporate portfolio, approximately 10% or Rs 33,070 crore was reported as NPAs as on March

MuMbai, May 19 (Dna): IDBI Bank’s huge concentration of loans to troubled sectors like power and iron and steel sectors continued to plunge the bank into deep losses. For the quarter ended March 31, 2017, the bank reported a loss of Rs 3,199.76 crore and if it was not for a tax writeback of Rs 1620.02 crore the losses would have been higher. The bad performance battered the shares of the bank, which closed 7.77% lower than the previous day’s close.

Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) soared 80% to Rs 44,752.59 crore at the end of the March quarter from Rs 24,875.07 crore a year ago. The bank reported gross NPA of Rs 35,245.33 crore a quarter ago. Provisions jumped 39.54% to Rs 6,209.58 crore from Rs 4,450.15 crore year on year.

The only silver lining is the positive growth both in the net interest income (NII) and the Net Interest margin (NIM). The growth in the NII which is the core income of the bank grew 14.44% to Rs 1,633.29 crore from Rs 1,427.24 crore in the year-ago period. NIM for the full year climbed eight basis points to 1.75 % during the quarter. However, the other income which includes fees or the non-core income of the bank declined 21.17% to Rs 1,061.52.

Rating agency S&P said in a release, “We expect earnings to remain weak over the next 12-18 months, largely because of IDBI’s high credit costs (given its weak asset quality and low reserve coverage) and low net interest margins (NIMs).”

IDBI Bank’s performance has been weak over the past two years with stressed asset quality and high credit costs straining its earnings. Its NPLs spiked to 21.3% as of March 31, 2017, from 15.2% in the previous quarter. The bank reported a loss of Rs 5,070 crore for full fiscal 2017.

S&P said the Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) by the Reserve Bank of India will entail the latter’s frequent and focused monitoring of IDBI, as well as restrictions on distributing dividends, expanding its branch network, or undertaking any major capital expenditures.

PCA may accelerate capital conservation by shedding high-risk assets and reducing the concentration of loans to high-risk sectors. PCA may also be accompanied by asset quality reviews, which could lead to broader recognition of weak loans, accelerated provisioning and a tighter loan-review mechanism.

MuMbai, May 19 (Dna): The Labour Bureau's report has said that job growth plummeted in key sectors to its lowest levels in eight years in calendar years 2015 and 2016 at 1.55 lakh and 2.31 lakh respectively A labour report released by the labour bureau shows that while the economy is growing a 7%, jobs increased by 1.1% last year, which means that the government has been facing a growing employment crisis across the country.

As per reports in The Telegraph, statistics from the government's labour bureau show that job growth plummeted in key sectors to its low-

est levels in eight years in calendar years 2015 and 2016 at 1.55 lakh and 2.31 lakh, respectively, compared with a high of over 10 lakh new jobs created in 2009.

According to the same report, one of the reasons behind the jobless growth is that companies are increasingly turning to automation and digital processes "even as they pare other costs, including wage bills, to futureproof growth and profits in a competitive environment."

The report, which gives data for eight sectors for nine months in 2016 till end-December - manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, hotels

and restaurant, IT/BPO, education and health - shows low job growth in almost all sectors and jobs shrinking in construction and hotels and restaurants.

According to a Times of India article that cited the Labour Bureau report, Only 61% of people in the workforce were found to have year-round jobs with 34% working only 6-11 months even though they were willing to work for 12 months.

"The report also revealed that 68% households were earning only Rs 10,000 per month or less. In all, nearly 16 crore people in the workforce were under-employed in this manner," the article stated.

Yatri Ticket Subidha Kendra inaugurated Maligaon, May 19 (MExn): The first Yatri Ticket Subidha Kendra over NF Railway was inaugurated

by Promod Kumar Jain, Divisional Railway Manager, Lumding, NF Railway today at Athgaon in Guwahati. This is an outsourcing scheme of the Indian Railways and allows entrepreneurs to set up railway ticket sale counters and to sale both reserved and unreserved tickets following certain formalities.

The Ministry of Railways has come up with this scheme with a view to expand facilities for issue of railway tickets through Computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS)-cum Unreserved Ticketing Sys-

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tem (UTS) terminals which is called Yatri Ticket Subidha Kendra. In a move to reduce crowding at the reservation centres and to provide tickets to the passengers in the market easily instead of going to the station, this is an attempt

to decentralise the ticket dispensing process. Passenger obtained tickets through the counter of the Yatri Ticket Subidha Kendra can cancel anywhere of railway station of Indian Railways. The staffs of the Kendra are well trained

by the Railway authority.

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A gst trade Awareness meet was organized at hotel europia inn, dimapur by indian oil Corporation Limited, which was attended by higher officials of Department of Taxes, Dimapur on may 19. it was organized with the intent to educate the transporters, retail outlets, lpg Agencies and other associated business Chanel partners about gst (goods and Service Tax). They were educated about the benefits, need for registration and the process for the same. Also their queries were addressed by the officials of IOC and various Taxation Departments.

Government’s labour report cites major unemployment despite economic growth

IDBI Bank posts Rs 3,199 crore loss

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On a comparative basis, NPAs in the large corporate lending segment increased by 60 % on a year-on-year basis. Similarly, mid-corporate lending too saw an increase in NPAs. NPAs in the mid-corporate segment increased by 13% Y-o-Y to Rs 47,009 crore (Rs 41,515 crore). Over 19 % of its mid-corporate portfolio of Rs 242,947 crore was reported as NPA. In the SME, agriculture and retail segments, NPAs came down on a Y-o-Y basis. Meanwhile, State Bank of India has informed BSE it has declared a dividend of Rs 2.60 per share (260%) for the financial year ended March 31, 2017. The date of payment of the dividend is fixed for June 16, 2017.

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SATSU on restriction of taxis Morung Express News Kohima | May 19

The Southern Angami Tata Sumo Union (SATSU) has put a restriction on taxis plying between Kohima and Mao area after the alleged failure of the taxi bodies of Mao and Senapati to respond to an agreement.

Nozosal Zhotso, President of SATSU mentioned that the issue has a long complicated history dating back to 2010 when a Southern Angami driver was harassed in Senapati.

Following this, an agreement was made among the taxi bodies of Senapati, Mao and Southern Angami in July, 2010 that in case of any harassment or problem arising in future, each unit will provide security to the other.

Further, it was also agreed that the Mao taxis and Southern Angami taxis will ply from Dimapur to Mao Gate on first come first basis. However, the agreement also mentioned that the Mao taxis will not ply

DC office Kohima bids farewell to outgoing officers Kohima, may 19 (Dipr): Kohima district administration bid farewell to outgoing administrative officers including ADC Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi, SDO (C) Sadar Kethosituo Sekhose, SDO (C) Judicial Neilezo Tep, SDO (C) Estt.

Neikesono Kevichusa, SDO (C) Jakhama S. Athsangla, SDO (C) Sechu T Lanusenla Lkr, and EAC Sadar Kohima Thejavizo Nakhro on May 18 at DC’s conference hall .

Deputy Commissioner of Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan expressed gratitude to the outgoing officers and thanked them for their cooperation and contributions.

The programme was chairedbytheincomingADC T. Kiusumong Tikhir. Short speeches were delivered by Neibu Angami, Accountant, DC office and Keneilezo, Head DB Kohima, and Atu Zumvü, SDPO (South).

Will not let restriction sour relations: CMO Kohima, may 19 (mExN): The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) today asserted that the NPF led DAN government will not let the issue of restriction on taxis from Mao by Southern Angami Tata Sumo Union sour relations between the two traditional neighbours (Nagaland and Manipur), especially now that there is friendly/alliance governments in the two states.

A press release from CMO Media Cell stated “the differences that were there between the communities in the recent past were creations of politically vested interests, fueled by political leaders for their own selfish gains. But the present dispensations in the two states are determined that cordial relations shall be maintained.”

from Kohima to Mao Gate since it is the only lifeline for Southern Angami taxi drivers, it was informed. “With the rise in unemployment, many Southern Angamis taxi drivers are dependent on this route for their livelihood,” said Zhotso.

It reminded that during the recent Imphal visit, Chief Ministers of both the states discussed on mutual benefit and improvement of relations between the two neighbouring states.

“Government of Manipur under the new political dispensation is reaching out not only to the peoples of the hills districts of Manipur but also to the neighbouring State of Nagaland. And the Government of Nagaland is politically determined to reciprocate the kind gestures and ensure peaceful, neighbourly and harmonious relation between the neighbouring people irrespective of territorial and administrative demarcation like the peoples have maintained since time immemorial,” it added.

However, after the Dzükou imbroglio between the Southern Angamis and Maos, Zhotso claimed, “Mao Taxi drivers, taking advantage of the conflict started plying and taking passengers from Kohima to Mao.” During

Mao Town Committee laments restriction

mao, may 19 (mExN): Mao Town Committee has lamented that the restriction imposed by Southern Angami Tata Sumo Union (SATSU) volunteers on Zonal Taxi plying from Senapati to Dimapur and Mao to Dimapur/Kohima since May 8 has been causing serious inconveniences to the commuters coming from and going to Manipur and Nagaland respectively. “The restriction was imposed without any prior public notification or valid reason,” the Committee alleged in a press release. Therefore, it has appealed to the authorities/union concerned to “show empathy to the innocent commuters and solve this issue amicably for a conducive co-existence.”

the conflict, the Southern Angami Taxis had stopped plying in the route for months, however Zhotso claimed that the Mao taxis have been plying.

In order to settle the issue, SATSU convened a meeting on April 27, 2017

WDLSA and ZDLSA organize essay competition Z u N h E b o t o / WoKha, may 19 (mExN): With an aim to impart legal awareness among students, Zunheboto District Legal Services Authority (ZDLSA) and Wokha District Legal Services Authority (WDLSA) organized district level essay writing competition for students on May 19 and 18 respectively.

ZDLSA: ZDLSA organized the competition at Government Higher Secondary School Zunheboto.

Vikuto K. Aye was declared as the winner and Keto N. Assumi and Khelibo K. Assumi bagged second and third prizes respectively Earlier, Tovi Z. Yeptho, Retainer Lawyer ZDLSA highlighted the aims and objectives of Legal Services Authority and stressed on the importance of being aware of the legal services for the citizens, which are freely available in all the

ZDLSA members with students of the essay writing competition held at Government Higher Secondary School Zunheboto on May 19.

legal care and support centers in the districts across the state for the interest of justice.

He also apprised on the role of the legal services authority in organizing the programme at schools with an objective to impart legal knowledge and education among students who can play better role in the society for access to justice.

The panel of judges for

the competition comprised of Easter H. Yepthomi, Panel Lawyer ZDLSA and Longthai, PGT Political Science.

The winners of the competition were awarded with certificates and cash prizes, while gift hampers were also presented to all the participants from the District Legal Services Authority.

The programme ended

oral and dental health awareness for Youthnet Kohima, may 19 (mExN): Indian Dental Association (IDA), Nagaland State Branch members under Kohima district conducted a free corporate oral & dental health awareness camp in collaboration with YouthNet on May 19 at the latter’s main office in Kohima for the YouthNet staffs, families and trainees.

The camp was conducted as a campaign and in celebration of the 10th North East Regional Dental Conference which is going to be held on November 29-30, 2017 in Kohima. The awareness was also part of the IDA nationwide initiatives to focus on corporate employees; the aim to create awareness among employees about good oral health and hygiene and to attain the goal of zero oral disease and tooth decay in the organisation, informed a press release from Dr. Vichovol Temi, Kohima district representative, IDA Nagaland State branch.

Dr. Kholie Vupru shared that there are two categories of dental patients in Nagaland; one group comprises of those who are not

with the Senapati Taxi Unit and Mao Taxi Unit, where the SATSU reiterated the 2010 agreement and appealed to the other units to abide by the agreement, or choose to ply in its own respective states, SATSU president said. However, a

proper decision could not be taken because both Presidents of the Senapati and Mao units could not turn up, he added. “We waited till April 29 for their decision, but they did not give any response,” said Zhotso, who mentioned that the restriction has been going on for two weeks now, where representatives of SATSU are checking at Khuzama Check gate. “And later, instead of approaching us, they demanded for a meeting. But we felt that they should approach us because they are at fault. And instead of admitting their mistake, they blamed us.”

Meanwhile, Zhotso clarified that SATSU is not harassing the public and that passengers are permitted to travel but Mao taxis are not allowed. He also mentioned that the complication arose because many of the Mao private vehicles are used as taxis, which also led them to restrict all private vehicles carrying passengers.

with the closing remarks by the Rebecca Chophy, PLV, ZDLSA. WDLSA: In Wokha, WDLSA organized the contest on the topic ‘Fundamental Rights and Duties’ at DC conference hall. Altogether 17 students from 9 different private and government schools took part in the competition.

David Ezung, Panel

Lawyer in his short speech highlighted the various aspects and work of Legal Services Authority.

Delivering the vote of thanks, MA Lotha, Panel Lawyer acknowledged the principals and head of the schools for their co-operation and participation.

Libemo Kithan, Assistant Professor, Mt Tiyi College and Narotila Imchen, Assistant Professor, Mt. Tiyi College were the judges of the essay competition.

Narotila Imchen also gave a brief overview on the performance of the students and gave away the prizes to the winners.

First prize was bagged

by Areno Kithan, class 10 of Libemo Memorial School, second prize by Mhonyani O Tungoe, class 10 of Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, and the third prize was won by Tsuktinungla Longchar, class 10 of Libemo Memorial School.

Assam Rifles conduct cleanliness, afforestation drives pErEN, may 19 (mExN): 36 Assam Rifles conducted a mass cleanliness drive at Heningkunglwa village, Peren district on May 16. The event was conducted as part of the ‘Swacch Bharat Abhiyan’, a defence release stated. During the cleanliness program various activities including mass cleaning of roadside areas, cleaning of bus stops, public places etc. were conducted by the troops of Assam Rifles along with police representatives and local populace of Heningkunglwa village. The event was attended by a total of 53 local and youths of Heningkunglwa village, the release informed.

Afforestation drive The 36 Assam Rifles also organised a plantation drive with locals of Tening village in Peren district on May 13. According to an Assam Rifles release, the aim of the event was to spread awareness amongst locals At the free corporate oral & dental health awareness camp held at YouthNet office in about the importance of nature and to motivate them to achieve the mission of “Green Tening, Clean Tening”.

Kohima on May 19. aware of oral health and care; Oral Hygiene, Nutri- also trained in various spe- Approximately 500 saplings of various plants including mangoes and oranges were planted by locals and Assam do not have access to avail tion, Professional Cleaning, cialities now.

During the dental Rifles personnel. dental treatment; and the Preventive oral examinaother group is made up of tions, Caries Sealants and check up and screening, those who are not aware Varnish and Oral Cancer it was observed that most Zunheboto youths trained for recruitment rally 5 Assam Rifles flagged off local youth of Zunheboto but do have access to avail Screening. He maintained are suffering from gums that the standard in dental disease and dental caries. district to participate in the upcoming recruitment rally dental treatments.

PowerPoint presenta- treatment has improved Free oral hygiene kit and in Kohima on May 16. A total of 61 youth from Zunheboto tion was given by Dr. Pfuk- over the years due to glo- medicines were also given. have registered for the recruitment rally which is schedEarlier, Ebibeni Humt- uled to be held from May 18 to 23 in Kohima. The Assam rolo Koza, President, IDAN- balization where multinaSB on Oral & Dental Health. tional dental companies seo, HR YouthNet, who Rifles conducted a five-week pre-recruitment training He highlighted IDA recom- are reaching out to the Na- chaired the programme, for 42 local youth providing them requisite training for mendation for Preventive galand dentists and they are welcomed the doctors. the recruitment rally, a press release informed.

Forum appeals Zeliangrong organisations to reconcile Dimapur, may 19 (mExN): Zeliangrong Inter-Cities Presidents' Forum has extended support to the decision of All Zeliangrong Students’ Union (AZSU), Assam, Manipur & Nagaland and urged the Zeliangrong Baudi and Zeliangrong Union to reconcile and unite as one at the earliest.

“This is the voice of the Zeliangrong youth and students who strive to unite and move forward as a peaceful society and put an end to all disruptive ideas,” stated a press release from the Forum which comprises of ZSU Bangalore, ZSU Delhi, ZSU Pune, ZSU Guwahati, ZSU Chandigarh, ZSU Shillong, Zeliangrong Welfare Committee Chennai. “No matter what good might have done, we strongly believe that the Zeliangrong would not progress as long as this divisive society exists.”

As stated by AZSU in the press release published recently, the Forum stated, “it is true that it’s creating confusion and disharmony amongst the people. Therefore, in the name of civil society, for how long will this continue?”

Further, the Forum appealed to Zeliangrong Baudi and Zeliangrong Union to put aside all disruptive ideas, thoughts and unite as one at the earliest for the welfare, unity and interest of the Zeliangrong people.

MEx FILE ANPTA condemns alleged threat, insult Kohima, may 19 (mExN): All Nagaland Polytechnic Teacher’s Association (ANPTA) has expressed shock and condemned the “unruly behaviour” of Hekishe Chishi, who reportedly “offended and threatened” the faculty members of Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu (KPA) on May 18 around 4:00 pm while they were playing badminton in the institute’s multi-purpose hall.

“This is not the first time he has propagated such similar incident, intruding and creating disturbance inside the campus which hinders the working environment of the faculties and staffs,” alleged a press statement issued by ANPTA President, Lanusenla Longkumer and Vice President, Keduhiwe Kapfo. It maintained that such kind of insults and threats should neither become a norm nor condoned in a civilised society.

Meanwhile, ANPTA asserted it will not tolerate such kind of action in future.

Ganja worth Rs. 7 lakh seized Kohima, may 19 (mExN): Kohima Police manning Khuzama inter-state police check gate seized around 140 kg of ganja worth Rs. 7 lakh in the national market.

The contraband was being transported in a Chevrolet Sail bearing registration number NL07C-8600, informed a press release from Atu Zumvü, SDPO (South) & PRO, Kohima. In this connection, one person identified as B. Paona (21) of Tungam Afu village in Senapati, Manipur was taken into police custody and a regular case vide Khuzama P.S Case No. 007/2017 U/S 20 (b)(ii)(C) NDPS Act was registered against him for conducting further investigation, it added.

Governor condoles Kohima, may 19 (mExN): Governor of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, PB Acharya has expressed shock and sadness over the sudden demise of Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Daveon on May 18 in New Delhi. In a condolence message issued by his PRO, the Governor described Anil Madhav Dave as a devoted public servant who was tremendously passionate towards conserving the environment. His contributions to the cause of environmental protection shall always be remembered, Acharya stated. The Governor further conveyed deepest sympathy and prayers to the bereaved family and all near and dear ones.

AR apprehends alleged arms dealer ZuNhEboto, may 19 (mExN): Troops of 5 Assam Rifles apprehended an alleged arms dealer from DC Colony, Zunheboto on May 13 “along with warlike stores”.

An AR release claiming this identified the individual as one Hukheto Kiba (38 years), a resident of Ashukhomi village under Zunheboto district. The individual along with recovered items was handed over to Zunheboto Police Station on May 14.

MEEtIngs & AppoIntMEnts

Ememei to felicitate students Ememeis living in and around Kohima will be organizing felicitation programme for the successful Ememei students of HSLC and HSSLC examination 2017 on May 21, 1:00 pm at Model Christian College Auditorium, Lower AG colony, Kohima. All the Ememei students above class 8 along with their parents have been requested to attend the programme.

Drawing contest cum felicitation Hindu Yuva Sanga is organising 4th open drawing competition cum felicitation programme for HSLC and HSSLC 2017 Merit holders on May 21 at Pranab Jubilee Auditorium. The last date of registration for the contest is over but spot registration is available for all those who haven’t applied yet, informed a press release. The spot registration counter will remain open for interested candidates, while the competition for Category 1 and 4 will start from 9:00 am to 10:30 am and for Category 2 and 3 will start from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. Registration for the same is Rs. 100. A craft workshop for parents will be simultaneously organized free of cost by Kokuyo Camlin Ltd. The felicitation programme for HSLC and HSSLC Merit holders cum prize giving ceremony will be held from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm followed by a photo session.

ClariFiCation

Felicitation programme for first batch of students who passed HSLC from GHS Khaghaboto was held on May 19 at the school. Two out of six students, namely Aviti with 65.4% and Vevori K Chizo with 49.8%, passed the exam. A memento and cash was presented to the two students by Y Mughaho Zhimo, AHM.

Peren Students’ Union Nagaland (PSU) in collaboration with Peren Council, Peren Government Employees Union (PGEU), Peren Baptist Mipui Nkwa (PBMN), and Peren Youth Federation (PYF) held a felicitation cum career guidance for the HSLC and HSSLC qualified candidates at Peren Town Hall on May 18.

With regard to the news report of a murder attempt on a mother-in-law by one man in Kiyeto village under Dhansiripar sub-division of Dimapur district on April 29, Head GB of Khehoi village, Bohoi Aye has clarified that no resident of Khehoi village is in any way involved in the case. This clarification has been given to remove any doubts which might have been created in the minds of the general public, he said.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

NEET needs to be scrapped

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Garga Chatterjee

he highly controversial National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical and dental colleges in the Indian Union took place earlier this month. And immediately afterwards, the huge stream of complaints from all corners of the Indian Union showed the sheer incompetency, bias and insensitivity of the CBSE in conducting the exam.

After NEET started a few years ago, a Supreme Court bench headed by then Chief Justice of India Alatamas Kabir had scrapped the NEET. State medical entrance exams resumed and went on without a hitch. NEET was reinstituted after another judgment reversed the earlier one. The NEET exam replaces all state based medical entrance exams and has been opposed strongly by multiple non Hindi states. State board students form a stupendous majority of medical aspirants in every non Hindi state. When state medical entrances used to happen, state board students used to dominate the 85% state quota while CBSE/ISC students dominated the 15% All-India quota. The highly biased nature of the NEET will be apparent from the following prediction that I will now make – more than 50% SPOTS in the top 20 rank in NEET will be occupied by CBSE/ISC students even as they will form a tiny minority among the NEET exam taking student population. An exam conducted

by CBSE creates an unequal playing field for those students and dashes the career dreams of a majority to favour the tiny CBSE minority. Even then, it was steamrolled without caring about public opinion in these states.

The most serious complaints have come from West Bengal and Gujarat.

Firstly, both these states had to fight even to get Bangla and Gujarati language versions of the question papers in NEET in the first place. At first, CBSE didn't agree but only did so after a lot of popular pressure arising out of the student population, a huge majority of whom study in their Bangla and Gujarati mother tongue. Notwithstanding the huge disadvantage these students face due to the biased CBSE syllabus, they went forward and took the NEET exam. But CBSE had other plans. One would imagine that a common medical entrance test would also have a question paper that is common for all students. Not so for the CBSE organized NEET. They created question papers where the question sets were different in different langauges. Not just typographical differences; these were different question sets altogether.

The Bangla and Gujarati language question paper was much tougher than the Hindi language one, for instance.

This is a scandal of epic proportion that victimizes particular linguistic groups.

Is it accidental that Gujarat and West Bengal were also among the more vocal states that had demanded question papers in their own language? While CBSE gave in to that demand, no one

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had imagined that the question sets in those languages would be different and tougher from those that were printed in Hindi. CBSE had never mentioned that there would be different question sets for different languages. How can such a test be called “uniform”, that much touted principle that was given in support of NEET? The discrimination did not stop here. Even the number of questions in Hindi question set and Bangla question set were different. This means that each error would cost much less to a Hindi language exam taker than a Bangla language exam taker. What this means is that Gujarati and Bangla medium students will rank much lower or not at all in the NEET merit list. Now here is the catch. CBSE schools are not Gujarati medium in Gujarat or Bangla medium in West Bengal. Gujarati or Bangla medium schools are all state board schools.

Thus, whatever small chance they had in spite of the huge odds in terms of a biased CBSE syllabus was also systematically destroyed. But who gained from this vis-a-vis state quota seats of Gujarat and West Bengal? Obviously students in schools which are not Bangla or Gujarati medium. Which boards are these non Bangla or non Gujarati medium schools affiliated to? They are affiliated to Delhi headquartered boards, namely ISC and CBSE. It is a shame that such a dirty game was played with the future of lakhs of students whose only “fault” was they studied hard in Bangla or Gujarati in Bengal or Gujarat respectively in Bengal or Gujarat state board. They are the majority.

The West Bengal state government has taken very serious note of this. Not at all enthusiastic about NEET in the first place, the West Bengal government has declared that it will pursue this victimization issue and take it “as far as it needs to

Instagram 'worst for young mental health'

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nstagram is rated as the worst social media platform when it comes to its impact on young people's mental health, a poll conducted in the UK says.

The poll conducted Royal Society for Public Health (RCPH) asked 1,479 people aged 14-24 were asked a series of questions about whether YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter had an impact on their health and well-being, the BBC reported.

Participants were asked to score each platform on 14 health and well-being issues.

Based on these ratings, YouTube was considered to have the most positive impact on mental health, followed by Twitter and then Facebook.

Snapchat and Instagram were given the lowest scores overall.

The RSPH report warns that "social media may be fuelling a mental health crisis" in young people, reports the BBC. It can also be used as a tool for good, the report said, and companies should be doing their best to make platforms a safe place to be.

About 90 per cenr of young people use social media - more than any other age group - so they are particularly vulnerable to its effects, although it is not clear what these are on current evidence.

be taken”. West Bengal state higher education minister, Partha Chatterjee, has said that he will write to the CBSE on this issue and has perceptively pointed out that this different and tougher question paper was “an attack on the merit of the students of Bengal. Students from the state are being deprived deliberately. We strongly protest this discrimination on the part of the CBSE”. He also said that the West Bengal medical education directorate would be consulted and that West Bengal would seek re-examination. This intervention has Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's support. West Bengal had already pulled out of the Indian Union wide common engineering entrance test due to similar reasons. For West Bengal, this is especially shocking since West Bengal's Joint Entrance Board has a multi-decade long experience in conducting medical entrance exams without leaks or hitch.

It is unclear why West Bengal has to suffer due to centralizing whims of Delhi's agencies and for the benefit of students affiliated to Delhi-headquartered boards.

The problems with the NEET yesterday didn't end there. Question paper leaks were reported from the Hindi-states of Bihar and Rajasthan. This is a shocking level of incompetency, if not a conspiracy. Why is it that all-India exam question paper leaks never happen solely in a non Hindi state but always in Hindi states? Is this pattern accidental? These questions cannot be brushed aside when we look at Chatterjee's statement about the tougher Bangla question paper when he says, “The CBSE must have done this at the behest of somebody.”

Experts have claimed that the question papers themselves were flawed with some ambiguous questions (http://timesofindia.indiatimes. com/city/chandigarh/three-biologyquestions-unclear-in-neet-expert/ar-

ticleshow/58589976.cms ). If such is the state of matters, then what people have witnessed in the name of NEET is shameful. But the shame does not end there. Female students in Kerala have been forced to remove their underwear for the exam. Many of them have been psychologically traumatized and hence their exam preparation has been made completely useless. This has created an uproar in Kerala and the Chief Minister of Kerala P. Vijayan has taken serious note of this matter and tweeted “Complaints have arisen about the conduct of NEET exams. Condemnable conduct of invigilators amount to human rights violation. ” The NEET has created a booming business for CBSE schools and NEET specific coaching centres. Rajasthan's city of Kota has an infamous mini cottage industry in such exam preparations which is also in news for huge numbers of suicides among such coaching class students. NEET thus is anti-poor, antinon-Anglo-Hindi medium, anti-State board. That is basically the majority of students. That these issues have been brushed aside by Medical Council of India and CBSE so easily shows the intersectional caste-class-language elitism of the powerful who control these agencies. For the good of all, NEET needs to be scrapped. The Tamil Nadu government has already prepared a bill to exempt Tamil Nadu from NEET and sent it for Presidential assent. Given the recent alignment of the President of India in favour of centralization of all powers, the assent seems highly unlikely. NEET is a neat way to roll back the small gains that rural vernacular students of non Hindi states have been able to make in terms of career. It has to go. No institution or agency or their whims and conspiracies are more important than the people.

Associated Press

ost doctors did not discuss the cost of cancer treatment with patients, spent less than two minutes on it when they did, and usually did so only after patients brought it up, a study that taped hundreds of visits at several large hospitals finds.

Cancer patients are three times more likely to declare bankruptcy than people without cancer are, but many doctors are not having the conversations that might help prevent this and sometimes don’t know the cost themselves, the results suggest.

“That would not occur in any other industry I can think of” where a service or product is sold, said the study leader, Dr. Rahma Warsame of the Mayo Clinic.

Results were released Wednesday by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and will be discussed next month at its annual meeting in Chicago.

The study has some limitations — it’s not nationwide, and it includes newly diagnosed patients, where cost is most likely to come up, as well as others further along in treatment who may have discussed this earlier.

But the larger point is clear, Warsame said: The “financial toxicity” of treatments that can cost more than $100,000 a year is growing, and talks about that aren’t happening enough.

“I’ve had people say ‘no’ to really life-extending therapies” because of worries about bankrupting their family, she said.

For the study, researchers taped 529 conversations between doctors and patients with various types of cancer at three outpatient clinics — the kind of places chemo often is given — at Mayo, Los Angeles County Hospital and the University of Southern California’s Norris campus in Los Angeles.

Patients and doctors knew they were being taped but didn’t know why. Cost came up in 151 of the visits. Patients brought it up in 106 cases and doctors did in 45.

Appointments lasted about 15 minutes on average at the two California hospitals and half an hour at Mayo, but cost discussions ran only one to two minutes when they occurred at all.

Even when doctors acknowledged a cost concern, they rarely acted on it. Only six patients were referred to social services to seek help with affording care.

“Maybe a lot of patients don’t know to ask questions” about cost, said Karla Mees, 63, a nursing instructor from Rochester, Minnesota, who was treated for breast cancer at Mayo Clinic.

Doctors warned her in advance that she might have to pay $4,500 for gene tests on her tumor to help determine care, but she never knew how much chemo and radiation would cost until the bills came.

“I just remember thinking, ‘I need the stuff, I’ll worry about payment later,’” she said, thankful that her insurance capped her annual out-of-pocket costs at $2,500.

Doctors also may be reluctant to talk money and have to give medical issues top priority in the short time they have during patient visits, said Dr. Lowell Schnipper, a cancer expert at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and head of the cancer group’s panel on value in cancer care.

“Most of us are not very well skilled in bringing it up,” he said. “In school you’re trained to simply take the best care you can of your patient and not worry about anything other than doing exactly that.”

In 2015, the cancer society launched a tool to help doctors and patients decide whether a cancer drug is worth it — the amount of benefit it gives versus its cost. It’s a good starting point for money talks, he said.

From France to Srinagar: A Kashmiri Baker’s Journey Trisha Mukherjee

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Few doctors discuss cancer costs with patients, study finds

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clairs, macarons and authentic mille-feuille too..

Dusted with sugar and edged with the finest chocolate, Saqib Mir’s sweet dreams for Kashmir are made of these.

Srinagar’s Boulevard Road may be a far cry from Parisian boulevards with their outdoor cafes and bistros, but the pull of his homeland brought Mir back from France two years ago.

And though he has looked back several times since, he is certain that his decision to open a genuine French patisserie in the heart of volatile Srinagar is the correct one.

La Delice, which serves not just the best in French confectionery but also baguettes, quiches and the like, didn’t get off to the greatest start. The brand new workshop, set up to conjure the delicacies, was literally swept away in the Kashmir floods of 2014. But he built it up again, bought new machinery and opened in 2015 to great success.

And then in July 2016, as trouble erupted in the volatile Valley once again following the killing of militant leader Burhan Wani, Mir was forced to shut shop. But the Frenchtrained chef and entrepreneur is back in business, quite undeterred and determined to continue with his dream of opening a little window into France in Srinagar.

“When we started in 2015, it was a period when things were really, really peaceful in Kashmir. We reinvested again [after the floods] in machines and came up with a little store on Boulevard Road in Srinagar and it started with a boom.

“Everything was going well until the unrest in 2016. We had to go back to France again because everything was closed in Kashmir,” Mir told PTI during a recent visit to Delhi.

But the hope of lasting peace hasn’t dimmed. After a long lull of almost a year, the baker is back in Kashmir to restart his “dream project”. His wife, Melanie, and their sons, an eight-year-old and the other only seven months, are expected to join him in a few months.

Now 34, Mir says he left Kashmir when he was 18 to take his family business of handicrafts forward. He landed in Paris, where he was drawn to French cooking, particularly French breads.

“In France, I used to eat a lot of bakery food and slowly the idea of getting into food came to my mind. In 2012, I took a short training course in baking. It was not really a professional one, but it became clear to me that this is what I want to do. So later I also trained professionally,” Mir said.

His love for his homeland was perhaps even greater than

his love for food. So, 14 years, a French wife and a son later, he decided to return to Kashmir and open the tiny French cafe, which, Mir says, was flooded by tourists and locals alike.

While Melanie did not find it very difficult to adapt to the change in the environment, thanks to their frequent visits to Kashmir, his son did get a “culture shock” of sorts.

“It is not very different for my wife as she has been coming here since 2001, and every year we would spend at least a couple of months in India. But my son, who has grown up in France, is still reeling from a culture shock I think, especially because of things like a very different education system here,” he said.

“Kashmir is where I was born so my roots are here and I would like my children to grow up in this culture. Things are uncertain in

Kashmir and we cannot always keep on going back to France, but like any other Kashmiri, I also hope for a better future here.”

Other than the pull of home, Kashmir was his place of choice for the bakery because of the weather.

Though he’s now looking for opportunities in cities like Chandigarh and New Delhi, Mir says the cooler temperatures in Kashmir are suitable for the kind of food he makes.

“The climate is very suitable for French bakery products because normally we work in 20-25 degrees. In hotter places like Delhi you would need more sophisticated equipment,” he says.

Mir likes to start his day at five in the morning. “The cooler the climate, the better it is for preparing the food, and by ten, the shutters at Le Delice go up.”

However, he admits that doing

business is extremely challenging in a conflict zone like Kashmir, where something as basic as butter needs to be sourced from outside.

Often, the bulk orders for raw material that he sources from places like Delhi and different regions of Europe take over a month to be delivered.

“I get a lot of ingredients from Delhi and some things like chocolate, hazelnut and pistachio bases from Europe. But we need to organise ourselves well. It is not like you place an order today and you get it tomorrow.”

“You place an order, it can come in a month’s time and sometimes it takes more than a month.

The raw material is not readily available and it is not easy for us to work in this condition,” Mir said.

Invested in Kashmir’s future, that’s clearly a challenge he’s happy to face.

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Technology, Violence, Vendetta

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Samhita Barooah

uring a recent workshop on violence against women I participated in a discussion around technology as a cause of violence against women. Our growing dependency on technology within private and public spaces has enabled numerous choices for women but it has also paralysed their freedom of choice, movement and decisionmaking. Social media is a great connecting force but the same platform is breaking relationships, creating huge expectations and enslaving people to perform something which they are not meant for. Technology is a boon for saving time, energy and resources but in recent years such technology is only trapping people with time consuming activities, draining their mental energy and shrinking their resources. Technology is the new tool of control for patriarchy. Whether it is used to expose somebody or it is used to protect and paralyse someone, technology plays a huge role. It is easier to frame someone through the media, it is easier to take pictures of people without their knowledge in both public and sometimes within private spaces and use such pictures to blackmail for ransom. Knowledge of technology is also a privilege of patriarchy. There are very few producers of technology who are women and also almost 90 percent of the maintenance personnel are men when it comes to any form of technological equipment meant for household, public or community use. Women are the

soft targets through which technology is promoted, projected and produced.

Women have access to mobile phones not just for their own communication practices but it is also a tool of surveillance which tracks a woman’s mobility constantly. She has to keep on informing about her whereabouts through the phone. There are very common incidences, when working women do not respond to the phone calls of their families and intimate partners they have to face severe consequences at their respective homes. Such consequences invariably restrict them from working outside their homes. The access, availability and outreach of technology are becoming so widespread that people are still mesmerised by its glory and glamour in both urban and rural spaces. But in reality technology is indeed the new weapon of slavery, war, destruction and demobilisation.

When we discuss violence it permeates down to personal and public spaces.

Women are both at receiving end of being part of perpetrating violence and also surviving such violence. Now commenting on women’s choice of words, dress, habits, food and choice of partners is not new in today’s digitised world. Recently a renowned human rights activist Bondita Acharya was abused through the internet for raising her voice against religious fundamentalism getting high handed on personal food choices. Any woman who raises her head against the normative regimes becomes a misfit in the so-called educated, evolving and electronically advanced society. Bondita’s fault was that she critiqued the community from

Eating fruits, vegetables secret to looking good: Study

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IANS

ating enough fruit and vegetables could be the secret to looking good and having attractive skin, according to a study released on Friday by Australian researchers.

The researchers at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, investigated how young Australians viewed faces in terms of attractiveness, by being able to adjust settings to create the most attractive version of different faces, based on levels of melanin (tanning), or carotenoid coloration which occurs when you consume fruits and vegetables.

The author of the report, Kristine Pezdirc, told Xinhua news agency that the participants were given facial images to look at on computer screens, and then were allowed to adjust the axis to where they thought the image looked as "healthy as possible".

"They had three different experiments where they would look at the melanin axis, then they would look at the carotenoid axis, and then in the last experiment they were both combined, so that is where we got the result of seeing that they preferred the carotenoid to the melanin," Pezdirc said.

Fruit and vegetables contain certain pigments in them which according to Pezdirc, get absorbed by your skin when you are eating healthy amounts of them.

"If you eat a lot of carrots, or other orange fruits, your skin colour can actually change in hue, the carotenoid in the actual pigmentation that changes the skin colour when you are eating these fruits and vegetables," Pezdirc said.

The researcher hopes that the results will influence young people to eat more fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy diet, as research shows they currently aren't eating enough.

General expert consensus worldwide suggests that people should eat at least five servings of vegetables, and two servings of fruit per day, as part of a healthy diet.

Value Precious Vote, Lest Bausha (Pauwung) Buchem One vote, Precious Vote wisely Not for bucks Lest, what?

The one who bought you Will recoup himself In the first half Of seating tenure; O second half ‘Come justly’ ye long!

Aha…alas! he’s amassin’ To buy ‘you’ again For another attempt!

And you’ll be no right To blame its system For failed governance Because you are sold At first.

within and managed to question the cultural vigilantism which affected religious minority communities from the same society where she worked. Any woman and for that matter even men who have stood up for the choices of women, equal rights of women, trans persons, non-conforming women or men have always faced ruthless resistance from different directions. Comments get nastier, character gets assassinated, attitudes get deflated, personalities get crushed and even essence of being sensitive gets seriously distorted. Such factors lead to severe trauma, memory loss, skill distortion and have severe mental health conditions.

As a woman it becomes even more suffocating when women are used as vehicles of patriarchal domination and masculine chauvinism. Gender inclusive policies, practices and processes are largely used as a namesake parameter to ensure the politically correct disposition for institutions and individuals within positions of power and privilege. Recently I got a call from a so-called well-wisher who told me very subtly to be a vegan rather than being otherwise. She justified how it is important to be in the ruling majority and elitist policy decisions are fair.

She also said that ‘what is the harm in a one-God nation’ when all other countries are doing the same. She said that if I was a Muslim woman in a Muslim fundamentalist nation will I have the same freedom of expression as I have now in India. I argued is it a competition of showing how fundamentalist as a nation we are? We closed the conver-

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always say "please" and "thank you, Miss" when talking to Siri so that when the machines take over she won't kill me. "Spare the puny one. He was always polite."

You have to be cunning to make the best of life these days.

Another ingenious life-hack.

My wife bought an avocado last week I carried it around for a week so that I could eat it in the 10-minute period between "not ripe yet" and "horribly rotten".

That was the plan, anyway, and one day it will work.

But perhaps the biggest mass outbreak of cunning this year so far has been in India. Like everywhere else, hotels and other food and drink venues are conveniently located near major highways there, but Indian judges passed a law making it illegal for any alcohol-selling venue to be within 500 metres (in some places, 220 metres) of a highway.

Since it's tricky to pick up a hotel and move it, residents responded with a mass outbreak of

ingenuity.

One bar-owner built a long, winding maze in front of his roadside bar, so it became quite literally a long walk from the street.

Some hoteliers attached signs to their back gates saying: "This is Now The Front Gate". aOf course, ingenuity can also be used in the name of evil, I hear from my friends at Shanghaiist, a news website. Chinese companies are selling portable engines on long poles designed to thump walls and ceilings purely for the purpose of annoying neighbors.

One particularly irritating man turned on such a machine, called an Apartment Shaker, and then went away for the weekend. Of course, many of us already have free-of-charge apartment-shaking devices in our homes, but we call them "children".

A British correspondent sent me an example of evil ingenuity from the UK. A thief stole a car.

Instead of making a fake number plate, he found a car of the same make, age and colour, and copied its number plate. Thus any police officer who ran a comput-

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sation with discontent and major disagreements. But such issues are looming large in our personal and virtually social lives quite often. It becomes very easy to communicate through phones and get away with the violent thoughts.

Vendetta is also being spread through technology constantly. It is a world of differences and diversity but when people are homogenised to fight against the differences then the consequences are violent. Most of the social media platforms are these days spreading virtual vendetta against the intricate intersections of class, caste, tribe, race, gender, disability, linguistic and geographical vulnerabilities. They collectivise people on one ground but also alienates one from the other in most of the instances.

We are constantly struggling to find space within our own comfort zones and at times away from such zones. In such a struggle women’s dilemmas to negotiate increases manifold. Her existence gets enslaved within the contours of modern technology, acts of violence and manifestations of ruthless vendetta. Somewhere they are either part of such dynamic force to survive and in most cases they perish while resisting such forces. Technology becomes problematic when it caters to the needs of a privileged few and leads to violent effects on women specifically. In a progressive era of enormous possibilities through technology, women’s own understanding, use and practice of technology is far more impactful than women being used as the object of technological experiments.

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s the temperatures rise to unparalleled heights in India, travellers wish to be on the beachfront for rejuvenating or in the Himalayas for spiritual and mental upliftment. From Tawang, Ziro to Tirthan Valley, one can plan out summer holidays to these unexplored territories.

With over 45 percent of people booking their tickets 1-3 months in advance for summer holidays this year, Yatra, a booking portral, shares the list of most desirably active India/International destination for your reference.

Tawang Smallest district of Arunachal Pradesh, inhabited

by Monpa people, this place organises festivals and fairs which are mostly associated with agriculture and religion.

It is a popular destination for Tawang Monastery and the most important element of social and religious purposes.

Kalimpong It is a popular destination in West Bengal for travellers as the weather is mild and pleasant for most part of the year. The place is a melting pot of diverse cultures and traditions. It has magnificent views of the Kanchenjunga

erised check would find that everything seemed to be in order.

The only chance of exposure would be if both cars just happened to be parked in the same car park at the same time, and what were the chances of that in a country with a population of 60 million? The answer turned out to be not zero. A woman in the town of Coleshill phoned police to say that she was in a shop's parking lot and noticed a car exactly like hers, same brand, same colour, same licence number.

Gotcha.

Room for one last life-hack.

As you turn off the oven to go out, tell the oven what you are doing in a Mickey Mouse voice.

It's such a weird thing to do that there's no way you'll later forget that you turned it off.

Yes, people will think you are crazy, but who cares? Siri is still nice to me, and that's the relationship that counts in the long term, right?

Nury Vittachi is an Asiabased frequent traveller. Send ideas and comments via his Facebook page

Drinking diet soda? Beware, it may make you gain weight

and other Himalayas snow peaks, sweeping landscapes and lush greenery.

Ziro The town in Arunachal Pradesh has been travellers’ favourite destination if they want to explore World Heritage site. Paddy cultivation is a major occupation in Ziro and one of the top places to visit there is IANS Tarin fish farm where there ooking to shed those extra kilos? If so, stop drinkare two different varieties of ing that soda or other diet soft drinks that may rice grown with one variety cause people to pile on the pounds rather than of fish in the water. It has lose weight, a study has showed. a breathtakingly beautiful According to researchers, many people turn to carbonpine grove which is the perfect place for a picnic spot. ated spring water and low-calorie fizzy pop, believing these to be a healthy alternative to sugary drinks or alcohol.

Bir Billing and Khajjiar However, researchers led by the Palestinian Birzeit It is India’s popular site in University revealed that the aerated drinks actually cause Himachal Pradesh for para- people to feel empty. This may further lead to over-eating glider pilots and is frequently and thus aid in increasing their weight, express.co.uk revisited by Indians and tour- ported on Monday. ists from the world. It also ofThis may be due to the carbon dioxide, which gives fers hang gliding, trekking and such drinks their bubbles, that triggers a hunger hormone called ghrelin, the researchers said. camping for its visitors.

For the study, the team looked at the effect in rats and Tirthan Valley found those given flat sugary drinks alongside their norThe small valley in Himmal diet put on no more weight than those given still water. achal Pradesh is surroundBut those who were given fizzy drinks — including zeed by flowing rivers, lush ro-calorie versions containing artificial sweeteners — put green valleys, and lakes and on weight, significantly more than those given flat drinks this beautiful destination is and after a year, they also showed signs of chronic obesity, in the safeguard of the Great with fat building up around their vital organs, the researchHimalayan National Park. ers noted.

Visitors can enjoy trout fishIn addition, the levels of ghrelin were also found to be ing or rappelling or rock significantly higher in rats after ingesting a carbonated climbing and even stay with drink. local people at their homeA similar spike in ghrelin levels were found among hustays. mans who had sparkling water, the researchers noted.

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A suggestion for the Lawyers who are yet to be inducted into the "System" Atsung Imchen: I don't have much information on what is the process and what goes on underneath before you become a fully independent advocate/lawyer but as per what I am aware, right after your classroom stage is over all of you rush to find shelter under the wing of a well-known advocate/lawyer who is well experienced and part of the "system".

Regardless of whether this is mandatory to go through, this process seems too rigid because you literally do not get paid when you are going through this stage (depends on the person you're working for) and the fact that not everyone wants to go out of state (financial or personal reasons) nor everyone will get the opportunity to work under an experienced professional.

That being said, the only law college in the state which I am sure is in a pity state like any other Government run institution, though the condition it somehow manages to deliver new batches of aspiring candidates. As of now you guys fall under the category of resources which are not fully utilized.

The suggestion here is, instead of being part of the same old cycle which is going on for ages, I would suggest to take the example of how things are done in America where a nobody can take 'somebody' to the court. The same is applicable here too since the law is pretty much the same. Instead of making yourself available only for those hot shots or dreaming about landing a client who is going to make you a millionaire overnight you can exploit the area where it will not only be beneficial for you but for the general common man as well.

Currently the common man cannot afford you guys because you derive your concept of working from someone who has been part of the same old 'System' and that concept is basically waiting for the Gold fish. When you make yourself available to the common man it will contribute a lot in improving the pity situation we are all in. From Private run organizations to Govt. run institution there are lot of injustice that is going on, maybe it’s due to lack of awareness or high fees the common man do not see justice in Courts.

For example, tomorrow a person is denied a seat in a Taxi or NST even after he bought the ticket and has literally all the proof to show, this issue will die off without justice being served in Nagaland. If it was in the States, like the recent case with United Airlines, it will be a piece of cake for the victim to sue them and fairly compensated for the damage. All this is possible because availability of lawyers, advocates is not as hard as it is here. It’s not because the law does not provision us the same right, we have the same right it’s just because we are not utilizing it as they are.

If I am not wrong there is an Association for lawyers; thinking progressively on this subject matter will usher a better future not just for you but for the public also. Instead of concentrating on how much fees you will charge, it will be more beneficial if you look at the contingent fee. Through this you will not only help curb the menace of unfair treatments we see so often but also contribute a lot in controlling the cancer in our state that is Corruption.

Ati Chatilar: Just in brief let me highlight about NSLSA (Nagaland State Legal Services Authority). In every district we have the Legal Services Authority. In Dimapur, the DDLSA front office is in the ground floor of District Court, adjacent to DC office. Now there is around 16 panel lawyers and a retainer lawyer with the District & sessions judge as the chairman and the Chief Judicial Magistrate as the Secretary of the Dimapur District Legal Services Authority. Now what we panel lawyers do is we give free legal services to those people who cannot afford to hire an advocate. We don’t charge even a Rupee for any works done for the poor and needy & for those who seek justice. We also give legal awareness seminars/ programs the whole year round to different groups and societies within Dimapur jurisdiction. Under DDLSA there are Para-legal volunteers too. Trainings are provided to them from time to time. Members those who are interested can join too, if you can sacrifice a little time to work for the betterment of our society. You will be working hand in hand with the panel lawyers. You will be assisted by a panel when the need arises. Please do, anyone is welcome to come and give a visit to the DDLSA front office and get first hand information of our working system. When there are some who want to be rich over night by extracting money from clients there are still some few who work tirelessly sacrificing one’s own time and money for the happiness & betterment of another person. Please keep encouraging us by showing your support. Let’s work with one heart to uproot the dirt that’s eating away our Naga society. Visit us on working days for any assistance. We will be there to help you willingly. Good day everyone.

Action at work in times of hardships (Acknowledgement from the Naga blog team) Petevi Meyase: I really felt sorry for travellers who missed/ lost their way today with the ongoing repair work in the Highway 29 at Peducha (Lalmati). Today the travellers between Kohima and Dimapur were diverted from Peducha to Tsiesema and Zubza to Kiruphema respectively. This was published in newspapers too.

Today as I was on way to my farm from Zubza towards Sechuma village I met a lot of cars wandering along the jungle road trying to find their way to Dimapur, some innocently driving down towards the same diversion point where they were diverted from the highway. Those who I met I showed them the way, some I stop them and enquired and came to know that are going back to the diversion point. This must have happened to hundreds of cars, I assume, since I myself met 20, 30 cars in such situation.

Although the diversion was unavoidable the inconvenience can be avoided. As I went further up cars were still coming down the wrong way and had to turn back.

I reached the junction from where most cars were going down the wrong way, villagers themselves had put up some ordinary direction boards to guide the travellers but unless one is familiar with the roads and villages around here it will be hard to get the right direction from these sign boards to new travellers is what I found. Noticing this I tried to change the position of the sign boards and tried to give a direction sign for Dimapur bound travellers, luckily I found some charcoal and overwrote over a village name but with rains the charcoal easily got washed so as I found a name tag bag in my car with that small bag I made a safer small sign board. This is not to blow my trumpet in anyway, dear friends. I just want to request the department concerned and our government to be more responsible towards the public.

With most of monsoon rain ahead these small link roads have to be kept pliable for us. Just in a day the kacha link road from Zubza to Peducha has appeared dangerously slippery.

Some signboards urgently need to be put up in junctions to avoid similar inconvenience. These are our lifeline.

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Services to have 4-slab GST rates, no decision on gold GST raTeS finaliSed

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Srinagar, May 19 (ianS): In a move expected to bring prices down from the current levels, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Friday decided on a four-slab tax rate for services along with the novel concept of input credit for goods used.

The Council concluded its two-day meeting here with the decision to apply the same four tax rate slabs for services as for goods, but exempted healthcare and educational services from the purview of the GST. However, no consensus could be reached on the rate to apply on gold as well as beedi. The Council will meet again on June 3 in New Delhi for a decision in this regard.

Briefing reporters here following the meeting, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that under GST, services will get the benefit of input tax credit for the goods used, effectively making the real incidence of taxation lower than the headline taxation rate.

He said that while "luxury services" would attract the highest rate of 28 per cent, health and education services would be exempt categories. Jaitley said there would be a 5 per cent tax on carriage of goods by rail, road and air transport services because their main input is petroleum.

Work contracts currently attract central tax at 6 per cent, while state taxes vary between 1-5 per cent, but

no input credit is available for these services, the Minister noted. "Most of the inputs for work contracts... cement, steel are taxed at 28 per cent," he said.

"The uniform GST will be at 12 per cent, while the entire credit inputs will now be available and, thus the level of taxes will come down below the present level," he added. "Those paying service tax will not be able to take benefit of input credit as petroleum is not in GST," he said.

IT, telecom and financial services will be taxed at the rate of 18 per cent.

While five-star hotel services will be taxed at the highest 28 per cent, restaurants with a turnover of Rs 50 lakh and less would be levied at 5 per cent.

"Non-air conditioned restaurants will have 12 per cent, while air-conditioned restaurants will have a service tax of 18 per cent," Jaitley said. "Those restaurants located inside 5-star hotels will have same service tax as applicable to the 5-star hotels," he added.

He also said that entertainment tax will be merged with the service tax at 28 per cent.

Hotels, gambling, race club betting and cinema will all be levied GST at 28 per cent. "The net effect of GST will not be inflationary. There is a set of exemptions for services... we are grandfathering most of the existing exemptions be-

cause we don't want any adverse impact of taxation in those areas," Jaitley said.

"Once input credit starts, it will have a positive impact," he added.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that "not in a single case has there been an increase in taxes from before". The Council on Thursday approved the tax rates for 1,211 items, of which 7 per cent will be exempted, 14 per cent will be in the 5 per cent slab, 17 per cent in the 12 per cent category, 43 per cent in the 18 per cent segment, while 19 per cent of goods will go into the top tax bracket of 28 per cent.

Thus an overwhelming 81 per cent of goods will attract tax of 18 per cent or below. Only 19 per cent of items will be taxed at the highest rate of 28 per cent.

Jaitley said most of the work for rollout of GST from July 1 have been completed. "Six items still have to be decided and we need more time for discussions," he added referring to the 6 categories of goods.

Reacting to the announcements, industry said it may increase taxes for some stakeholders, but hoped to get benefits through the input credit system.

"Some of the key areas which would be discussed on June 3 would include GST rates for bio-diesel, beedi, footwear, textiles, agricultural implements

he GST regime will have five slabs including the zero-tax rate for items of basic needs. As result items like AC and refrigerator will become cheaper while SUVs will cost more after July 1.

From July 1, prices of items will change as the Goods and Services Tax is slated to be implemented from that day. The GST council has finalised the tax slabs for all the articles of consumption.

Under new tax regime, several items including air-conditioner and refrigerator will get cheaper while cars with big capacity engines and SUVs will cost more.

According to GST slabs, seven per cent of the items fall under the exempt list while 14 per cent have been put in the lowest tax bracket of 5 per cent. Another 17 per cent items are in 12 per cent tax bracket, 43 per cent in 18 per cent tax slab and only 19 per cent of goods fall in the top tax bracket of 28 per cent. This means that as many as 81 per cent of the items will attract 18 per cent or less GST.

NO GST SLAB Foodgrains, milk and other articles of daily use have been exempted from taxation under the GST regime.

These items are: foodgrains, gur, milk, eggs, curd, lassi, unpacked paneer, natural honey, fresh vegetables, fruits, atta, besan, maida, vegetable oil, Prasad, common salt, contraceptive, bread, bindi, vermillion, stamp, judicial documents, printed books, bangles and handloom products.

5 PER CENT GST SLAB The items that are used daily but are not considered articles of basic necessity are taxed at 5 per cent under the GST regime.

These items are: sugar, tea, coffee, edible oil, coal, skimmed milk powder, milk food for babies, condensed milk, packed paneer, newsprint, umbrella, PDS kerosene, LPG, broom, fish fillet, cream, frozen vegetables, spices, pizza bread, juice, sabudana, coal, medicines, stent and lifeboat.

12 PER CENT SLAB The items that are not essential but used by and gold," said Rajeev Dimri, Leader Indirect Tax, BMR & Associates in a statement here. Given that consensus is still elusive on the fitment of some items, Taxmann.com Senior Consultant V.S Datey said: "Thus the chances of introducing GST by July 1 appears doubtful."

large number of households and people will attract 12 per cent GST. These items are: butter, ghee, mobile phones, cashew, almonds, sausages, fruit juices, packed coconut water, agarbatti, frozen meat products, animal fat, mixtures, ayurvedic medicines, tooth powder, colour books and sewing machine.

the current tax incidence of 11.69 per cent. But, a clean energy cess will be levied on coal, lignite and peat production at the rate of Rs 400 per tonne.

ACs and refrigerators will fall in the 28 per cent tax slab. But, they are likely to be cheaper as they currently attract 31-32 per cent tax.

18 PER CENT SLAB

Aerated drinks and cars will be in 28 per cent bracket. On top of the peak rate, small cars will attract a 1 per cent cess, mid-sized cars will attract 3 per cent and luxury cars 15 per cent.

Pan masala gutka is in 28 per cent GST bracket. It will further attract a 204 per cent cess.

With regard to other pan masalas the cess will be 60 per cent.

In case of tobacco, the levy will vary from 71-204 per cent. Scented zarda and filter Khaini will attract 160 per cent cess over and above 28 per cent Filter and non-filter cigarettes not exceeding 65 mm will attract cess of 5 per cent plus Rs 1,591 per 1000 sticks.

Non-filter cigarettes exceeding 65 mm but not exceeding 70 mm will attract cess of 5 per cent plus Rs 2,876, that for filter cigarettes the levy is 5 per cent plus Rs 2,126 per thousand sticks.

For cigars, a hefty levy of 21 per cent or Rs 4,170 per 1000 sticks, whichever is higher, would be levied.

Branded gutkha will be slapped with a cess of 72 per cent, while smoking mixtures for pipes and cigarettes will attract a levy 290 per cent.

The consumers of aerated water will pay 12 per cent cess over and above GST while people buying large cars will to cough up 15 per cent cess from July 1.

While small petrol cars with engine less than 1200 cc will attract 1 per cent cess, that with a diesel engine of less than 1500 cc will attract 3 per cent cess.

Large cars with engine greater than 1500 cc and SUVs with length more than 4m and engine greater than 1500 cc will attract cess of 15 per cent.

Motorcycles with engine of more than 350 cc will attract 3 per cent cess and an equal amount of levy will be applying to aircrafts for personal use and yachts.

On gold, states demanded a 4 per cent tax even though the rate is not among the 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent approved bands.

Source: Agencies

The articles are considered to be used by middle class people will attract 18 per cent GST from July 1.

These items are: hair oil, soap, toothpaste, capital goods, industrial intermediaries, pasta, corn flakes, jams, soups, ice-cream, toilet paper, facial tissues, iron and steel, fountain pen, mineral water, camera, speaker, icecream, envelops and instant food items.

28 PER CENT SLAB Such items, which are considered as luxury goods or health hazards will attract 28 per cent GST under the new taxation regime from July 1.

These articles are: consumer durables, cars, cement, chewing gum, custard powder, pan masala, perfume, shampoo, make-up items, fireworks, motorcycles, paint, deodorant, shaving cream, hair dye, washing machine, vending machines, vacuum cleaner, hair clippers and dish washer.

WHAT BECOMES CHEAPER Foodgrains, cereals and milk will cost less from July 1 when the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is rolled out. Currently in many state VAT is charged on food-grains including wheat and rice and also on milk products.

However, sweets will attract five per cent GST but it will still become cheaper at places where VAT is charge right now.

Common use products like hair oil, soaps and toothpaste will be charged at 18 per cent GST instead of present 22-24 per cent tax.

Daily-use items like sugar, tea, coffee (barring instant coffee) and edible oil will attract the lowest tax rate of 5 per cent. So, there won't be much difference in pricing after GST is rolled out as these articles attract almost the same tax at present.

Coal will attract GST of 5 per cent as against

Rating agency ICRA's Senior Group Vice President Subrata Ray said the prices of relatively price sensitive small cars may increase marginally post GST, while original equipment manufacturers would pass on the benefit of lower taxes to customers on bigger vehicles and SUVs.

"GST rates are likely to be almost neutral for the commercial vehicles and two-wheelers, and would marginally increase for threewheelers. The automobile sector will also see some benefits by virtue of input tax credit norms," Ray said.

Sachin Menon of international accounting firm

WHAT WILL BECOME COSTLIER

KPMG in India said the increase in the GST rate for telecom and financial services will be negative for the sector. "Multiplicity of tax rates for services will add complexity to the compliance in GST regime," he said.

"Levying GST at the demerit rate of 28 per cent for 5 star hotels could be a dampener

for the tourism sector especially in cases of business travel," he added. CRISIL Research felt the benefits of GST on business practices and company strategies will only be seen in the medium term. "The extent of business efficiency is estimated to be higher in goods as compared to services," it said.

Lalu denies 'benami' land deals, vows to 'uproot' Modi government Aadhaar's architecture of state surveillance of the citizens, SC told

Patna, May 19 (ianS): RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday refuted reports of IT raids on alleged "benami" property deals involving him and his family, and vowed to "uproot" the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre before it completes its five-year term.

"Listen, BJP and RSS people, Lalu will drag you off your seat in Delhi, whatever be my situation. Get it straight..

Don't you dare threaten me," Lalu told reporters here, in

his first media reaction after the Income Tax Department conducted raids at 22 places in and around Delhi three days ago in connection with alleged "benami" property deals. Lalu said in chaste Hindi: "Ab hum kendra sarkar ko tabah karke hi chodenge, usko ukhad phenkenge (Now I will destroy the central government, I will uproot it)."

He said the BJP-led Narendra Modi government has completed three years in of-

fice now, but it is not going to complete its full tenure.

Lalu also cited a local saying from popular folklore to say that the "BJP's youthful age is over".

Lalu refuted reports that the Income Tax Department has conducted raids at 22 places related to him. "I want to ask the media as to how they have reported it without any verification and evidence. Please, I request the media to provide the names

of the 22 places where the IT conducted raids," he said.

Lalu said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been conspiring to tarnish Lalu's reputation among the people. "How can I and my family have become super rich and others are paupers? It is part of a political game."

Lalu said that BJP leaders have been shouting loudly about "ghotala" (scam).

"There is no such thing."

Lalu said he and his wife

Rabri Devi, former Chief Minister, his two sons Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, and Tej Pratap, Health Minister, have been filing IT returns and have submitted affidavits to the Election Commission about their assets. Asked about his proposed rally in Patna to showcase grand unity of non-BJP parties ahead of the 2019 polls, he said: "I have invited top leaders of all non-BJP parties for my rally in August.

All of them would attend it."

Centre favours peace in J&K, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE & LAW toughness with militants: Jaitley GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND NAGALAND: KOHIMA

NOTIFICATION

Dated Kohima, the 18th May 2017

No.LAW/MISC-27/2016 (Pt) :: The result of the written examination conducted on 10.03.2017 for recruitment to the post(s) of LDA-cum-Computer Assistant (District) is hereby declared and the following candidates have been shortlisted to appear for the viva-voce on 24.05.2017 from 10:00 am onwards in the office Chamber of the Commissioner & Secretary, Justice & Law Department, Civil Secretariat, Kohima.

Roll Numbers: 07, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 74, 76, 77.

The above listed candidates are requested to bring all their original certificates/documents during interview.

No individual call letters will be issued.

Sd/-(M. PATTON) Commissioner & Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland

Srinagar, May 19 (ianS): Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the government wanted peaceful lives for the ordinary people of Jammu and Kashmir, but asserted that the security forces will act "very tough" against the militants. The Minister complimented the Indian Army for its preparedness, and said soldiers were confident not to allow infiltration from across the border, and to give an adequate response to ceasefire violations from across the Line of Control. Jaitley, who arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon, reviewed security situation in the state. He visited the Army's forward positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Friday. He later said that all security agencies were on high alert to deal with militants.

"We will go very tough on the militants, especially those who have crossed over from the other side (Pakistan), because they are responsible for the situation (in the Kashmir Valley)," he said. He said the government's priority was to "restore normalcy" and law and order in the Kashmir Valley.

"There is a section which will have to be dealt with by security measures and there is a section which will have to be dealt by with citizen-friendly measures," he said. "Terrorism and militancy are both aimed against the Indian state, its sovereignty and also against the people of Jammu and Kashmir," he said.

"Violence eventually impacts security and life of ordinary residents of the valley; therefore, the violence is not only against security forces but also against innocents who are losing their lives." The Minister said those who have taken to arms will not be spared.

"With an average citizen, irrespective of their political views, we'd like them to be on the Indian side in this debate. But as far as those who are killing people -- we can't extend the same facility to them. They will have to be treated as serious insurgency problem and dealt with accordingly," he said. "Those who have taken to violence of this magnitude will certainly be (held) accountable for their actions," Jaitley said. "It is a great opportunity for us to communicate to the people here that India as a country will show full concern and compassion as far as the average peace-loving citizen is concerned.

We want you to have a peaceful and prosperous life."

new Delhi, May 19 (ianS): The Supreme Court on Friday was told that the entire architecture of Aadhaar scheme was that of state surveillance of the citizens as the government was in possession of entire electronic record of the citizens.

T h e b e n c h o f Ju s t i c e A.M.Khanwilkar and Justice Navin Sinha was also told that the central government was in breach of its earlier assurance that information (biometric details) furnished by the people at the time of applying for Aadhaar number would not be shared with anyone.

"They are in breach of it," senior counsel Shyam Divan told the bench as it inquired from Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi about the assurance given by the Centre that it would not share with anyone the biometric information given by people at the time of applying for Aadhaar card.

As Justice Khanwilkar asked: "You have made a statement that the information collected in the course of Aadhaar enrolment will not be shared with anybody," both Rohatgi and Divan made a near simultaneous response. Rohatgi said he was "taken over by law", referring to the Aadhaar Act 2016.

"Parliament passed the law and parliament can't be injuncted," he added. The Attorney General noted that the government was insisting on Aadhaar number for availing the benefits under various social welfare schemes to eliminate ghosts beneficiaries as had happened in the case of public distribution scheme and other schemes.

His contention came in the course of the hearing of petition by Shanta Sinha and Kalyani Sen Menon challenging series of 17 notifications issued by government since February this year making Aadhaar number mandatory for availing benefits under various social welfare schemes including mid-day meal and disability pensions as well as for victims of Bhopal gas tragedy.

Seeking the response on the plea

by Sinha and Menon, the bench gave three weeks time to Centre and one week time to the petitioner to file of their rejoinder.

Sinha was the first Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and a Magsaysay award recipient while Menon is a feminist researcher.

At the outset of the hearing, Rohatgi raised preliminary objections telling the court that even earlier, a petition with identical prayers and identical paragraphs was filed six months ago and in none of them, any interim relief has been granted and are pending hearing by the constitution bench.

He said this was an abuse of the process of court.

As Rohatgi said that even the present petition should be heard by the constitution bench, Divan wondered why he was fighting shy of hearing of the matter on merits.

As the pitch of the arguments on both the sides became high, Justice Sinha quipped that air-conditioning in the court room was good.

The bench however took exception to Divan saying that it should be cleared whether this petition can be heard by two judge bench or the constitution bench lest citizens are left to "grovel" before the court.

"Please don't say that common citizen is not heard by the court," said Justice Khanwilkar pointing out that the doors of the court were always open to people.

Also taking exception to the use of word "grovel", Rohatgi recalled that once he was summoned at 2 a.m. in connection with an urgent hearing.

Admitting that some of the prayers were same, Divan said that they have filed a number of applications and the same were not being taken by the registry.

At this, the bench said that it would be better if the petition by Sinha and Menon and earlier applications filed by other petitioners are heard together in one go and fixed June 27 for the further hearing of the matter.

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Japan cabinet approves bill to allow emperor to abdicate TOKYO, MaY 19 (ReuTeRs): Japan’s cabinet approved a bill on Friday that would allow Emperor Akihito to step down, paving the way for the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in nearly two centuries.

The 83-year-old emperor, who has had heart surgery and prostate cancer treatment, said in rare public remarks last year he feared age might make it hard for him to fulfil his duties.

Akihito has sought to soothe the wounds at home and abroad of World War Two, which was fought in his father Hirohito’s name, and to bring the imperial family closer to the Japanese people. He will be succeeded by Crown Prince Naruhito, 57.

The bill will be sent to par-

Japan’s Emperor Akihito makes appearance to open the ordinary session of parliament in Tokyo. (REUTERS File Photo)

liament, where lawmakers are aiming to pass it before the current session ends next month.

“The government hopes for the smooth passage of

the legislation,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.

While no definite plan for an abdication has been confirmed, media have said

it will likely take place in late 2018, which would mark nearly 30 full years on the throne for the emperor.

Abdication is not possible under current law and the last time an emperor stepped down was in 1817.

The bill is one-off legislation that would allow only Akihito to step down, with no provisions for future emperors.

It also makes no reference to the controversial issue of changing the system to allow women to inherit the throne, or to stay in the imperial family upon marriage, Japanese media said, although political parties are discussing a separate resolution on the topic.

Both steps have been suggested as ways to deal with a shortage of male heirs and a shrinking pool of royals gen-

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erally, a problem thrust back into the limelight this week, with news that Akihito’s eldest granddaughter will marry a commoner, after which she too must become a commoner.

There are only four heirs in the line of succession - Akihito’s two middle-aged sons, Akihito’s octogenarian brother, and Hisahito, the 10-year-old son of Akihito’s younger son.

The crown prince has one teenage daughter, Aiko, who cannot inherit the throne.

In 2005, with hopes for a male heir fading, then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi prepared to challenge a 1947 law limiting succession to male descendants of an emperor. But the proposal was shelved after Hisahito was born the next year.

Joe Lieberman one of top picks for FBI job: Donald Trump WashingTOn, MaY 19 (ians): The US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that former US Senator Joe Lieberman was one of his top picks to be nominated as FBI director.

Trump confirmed when he was asked if Lieberman, the Democratturned-independent senator from Connecticut was a top candidate, CNN reported.

He also announced he was “very close” to choosing a new FBI director to replace James Comey.

Trump met with Lieberman on Wednesday and found him “agreeable”.

For the new candidate who would lead the bureau, replacing Comey, Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have been interviewing various candidates.

Trump came under criticism for firing Comey as he was supervising the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election and any possible links between the Trump and Russia during the campaign.

“While Trump’s team initially claimed that the firing came after a review by Deputy Attorney General Rod

Rosenstein, laid out in a memo, that largely faulted Comey on his handling of the investigation into the private email server of Hillary Clinton, Trump later said in an interview he had already decided to fire Comey and cited the Russia investigation as being at the top of mind,” the report noted.

Lieberman was Democrat Al Gore’s vice presidential nominee in 2000 and unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.

Apart from Lieberman, other candidates considered included current acting Director Andrew McCabe, former Oklahoma Gov. and FBI Agent Frank Keating, career FBI official Richard McFeely and Texas Sen. John Cornyn and New York Judge Michael Garcia, who both withdrew their names.

According to the report, Lieberman has in past served as his state’s attorney general, while FBI directors traditionally have had prosecutorial experience, either as an FBI agent or as a member of the Justice Department. Lieberman is a devout follower of Orthodox Judaism.

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TENDER NOTICE TENDER NOTICE FOR HIRING OF READY BUILT OFFICE ACCOMODATION The Office of the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range invites offers / bids from legal owners in the form of two bid system i.e. Technical Bid and Financial Bid for hiring of office premises at Chumukedima for an initial period of 3(three) years which may be renewed from time to time, if required by the Department. The Net Carpet Areas should preferably be in a single independent building.

Sl. Net Carpet Name of the Office Place Preferred location No. Area (in sq. ft) The place should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and should be well connected by CHUMUKEDIMA 1 Chumukedima 377 public transport like buses, taxis etc. and should GST RANGE wide approach road with car parking facility.

TENDER NOTICE TENDER NOTICE FOR HIRING OF READY BUILT OFFICE ACCOMODATION The Office of the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range invites offers / bids from legal owners in the form of two bid system i.e. Technical Bid and Financial Bid for hiring of office premises at Dimapur for an initial period of 3(three) years which may be renewed from time to time, if required by the Department.

The Net Carpet Areas should preferably be in a single independent building.

Net Carpet Sl. No. Name of the Office Place Preferred location Area (in sq. ft) 1 DIMAPUR GST The place should be centrally located, suitable DIVISION including for use as office and should be well connected by Dimapur 4564 Dimapur –I and public transport like buses, taxis etc. and should Dimapur –II Ranges wide approach road with car parking facility.

Net Carpet Area means area of premises less toilets, passage, walls / columns, stair cases, verandah, lobby, balcony, kitchen, portico, sanitary shafts, lift arches, air conditioner ducts, lofts.

2. Interested persons / parties (PSUs, Govt. or Non-Govt.) who are legal owners can obtain the tender documents downloaded from the official website www.cexstshillong.gov.in or it can be collected from the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur on any working day between 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 3. The Tenders should be submitted in sealed envelope with distinct marking “Tender For Hiring of Office Premises for CHUMUKEDIMA GST RANGE” containing two separate sealed envelopes for “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid”. The Tender / Bid should be submitted directly or through Registered Post to the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, Khermahal, Naga Cemetery Road, Dimapur 797112 on or before 1500 hrs of 12.06.2017. The Tenders / Bids will be opened at 1200 hrs on 13.06.2017. No Tenders/Bids submitted after the last date would be entertained.

4. The premises should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and preferably be ready to be occupied with partitions, cupboards, toilets, lifts etc. sufficient parking space, water facility (drinking & non drinking), standby power facility, fire fighting equipments etc. should be made available according to the size of the building. The location of the premises should be within excellent mobile / network coverage. The premises should be legally free from all encumbrances, well connected by public transport and should have wide approach road.

5. If any person / party is interested to submit for more than one location, he/she may submit their offer separately for each location / places.

6. Finalization of rent, based on location and quality of construction, earthquake norms and other amenities provided, is subject to certification by CPWD/Rent Negotiation Committee and final approval / sanction by the Government of India as per the Rules framed in this regard.

7. The Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tenders without assigning any reasons.

Net Carpet Area means area of premises less toilets, passage, walls/columns, stair cases, verandah, lobby, balcony, kitchen, portico, sanitary shafts, lift arches, air conditioner ducts, lofts.

2. Interested persons/parties (PSUs, Govt. or Non-Govt.) who are legal owners can obtain the tender documents downloaded from the official website www.cexstshillong.gov.in or it can be collected from the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur on any working day between 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 3. The Tenders should be submitted in sealed envelope with distinct marking “Tender For Hiring of Office Premises for “DIMAPUR GST DIVISION” containing two separate sealed envelopes for “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid”. The Tender/Bid should be submitted directly or through Registered Post to the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, Khermahal, Naga Cemetery Road, Dimapur 797112 on or before 1500 hrs of 12.06.2017. The Tenders/Bids will be opened at 1200 hrs. on 13.06.2017. No Tenders/Bids submitted after the last date would be entertained.

4. The premises should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and preferably be ready to be occupied with partitions, cupboards, toilets, lifts etc. sufficient parking space, water facility (drinking & non drinking), standby power facility, fire fighting equipments etc. should be made available according to the size of the building. The location of the premises should be within excellent mobile / network coverage. The premises should be legally free from all encumbrances, well connected by public transport and should have wide approach road.

5. If any person / party is interested to submit for more than one location, he/she may submit their offer separately for each location / places.

6. Finalization of rent, based on location and quality of construction, earthquake norms and other amenities provided, is subject to certification by CPWD/Rent Negotiation Committee and final approval / sanction by the Government of India as per the Rules framed in this regard.

7. The Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tenders without assigning any reasons.

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Superintendent Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT CENTRAL EXCISE & SERVICE TAX

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT CENTRAL EXCISE & SERVICE TAX

NAGA CEMETRY ROAD (BULAH BUILDING) KHERMAHAL, DIMAPUR-797112 NAGALAND

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TENDER NOTICE TENDER NOTICE FOR HIRING OF READY BUILT OFFICE ACCOMODATION The Office of the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range invites offers / bids from legal owners in the form of two bid system i.e. Technical Bid and Financial Bid for hiring of office premises at Mokochung for an initial period of 3(three) years which may be renewed from time to time, if required by the Department. The Net Carpet Areas should preferably be in a single independent building.

TENDER NOTICE TENDER NOTICE FOR HIRING OF READY BUILT OFFICE ACCOMODATION The Office of the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range invites offers / bids from legal owners in the form of two bid system i.e. Technical Bid and Financial Bid for hiring of office premises at Kohima for an initial period of 3(three) years which may be renewed from time to time, if required by the Department.

The Net Carpet Areas should preferably be in a single independent building.

Sl. Name of the Office No.

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Place

Net Carpet Area (in sq. ft)

Preferred location

The place should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and should be well connected by 1 Mokokchung 377 public transport like buses, taxis etc. and should wide approach road with car parking facility.

Net Carpet Area means area of premises less toilets, passage, walls / columns, stair cases, verandah, lobby, balcony, kitchen, portico, sanitary shafts, lift arches, air conditioner ducts, lofts.

2. Interested persons / parties (PSUs, Govt. or Non-Govt.) who are legal owners can obtain the tender documents downloaded from the official website www.cexstshillong.gov.in or it can be collected from the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur on any working day between 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 3. The Tenders should be submitted in sealed envelope with distinct marking “Tender For Hiring of Office Premises for KOHIMA GST RANGE” containing two separate sealed envelopes for “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid”. The Tender / Bid should be submitted directly or through Registered Post to the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, Khermahal, Naga Cemetery Road, Dimapur 797112 on or before 1500 hrs of 12.06.2017. The Tenders / Bids will be opened at 1200 hrs. on 13.06.2017. No Tenders/Bids submitted after the last date would be entertained.

4. The premises should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and preferably be ready to be occupied with partitions, cupboards, toilets, lifts etc. sufficient parking space, water facility (drinking & non drinking), standby power facility, fire fighting equipments etc. should be made available according to the size of the building. The location of the premises should be within excellent mobile / network coverage. The premises should be legally free from all encumbrances, well connected by public transport and should have wide approach road.

5. If any person / party is interested to submit for more than one location, he/she may submit their offer separately for each location / places.

6. Finalization of rent, based on location and quality of construction, earthquake norms and other amenities provided, is subject to certification by CPWD/Rent Negotiation Committee and final approval / sanction by the Government of India as per the Rules framed in this regard.

7. The Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tenders without assigning any reasons.

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Place

Net Carpet Area (in sq. ft)

Preferred location

The place should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and should be well connected by 1 Kohima 377 public transport like buses, taxis etc. and should wide approach road with car parking facility.

Net Carpet Area means area of premises less toilets, passage, walls / columns, stair cases, verandah, lobby, balcony, kitchen, portico, sanitary shafts, lift arches, air conditioner ducts, lofts.

2. Interested persons / parties (PSUs, Govt. or Non-Govt) who are legal owners can obtain the tender documents downloaded from the official website www.cexstshillong.gov.in or it can be collected from the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur on any working day between 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 3. The Tenders should be submitted in sealed envelope with distinct marking “Tender For Hiring of Office Premises for KOHIMA GST RANGE” containing two separate sealed envelopes for “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid”. The Tender / Bid should be submitted directly or through Registered Post to the Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, Khermahal, Naga Cemetery Road, Dimapur 797112 on or before 1500 hrs of 12.06.2017. The Tenders / Bids will be opened at 1200 hrs. on 13.06.2017. No Tenders/Bids submitted after the last date would be entertained.

4. The premises should be centrally located, suitable for use as office and preferably be ready to be occupied with partitions, cupboards, toilets, lifts etc. sufficient parking space, water facility (drinking & non drinking), standby power facility, fire fighting equipments etc. should be made available according to the size of the building. The location of the premises should be within excellent mobile / network coverage. The premises should be legally free from all encumbrances, well connected by public transport and should have wide approach road.

5. If any person / party is interested to submit for more than one location, he/she may submit their offer separately for each location / places.

6. Finalization of rent, based on location and quality of construction, earthquake norms and other amenities provided, is subject to certification by CPWD/Rent Negotiation Committee and final approval / sanction by the Government of India as per the Rules framed in this regard.

7. The Superintendent, Central Excise & Service Tax, Dimapur Range, reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tenders without assigning any reasons.

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Sukhavi Achumi is Sumi Chess Champion Morung Express News Dimapur | May 19

Sukhavi Achumi emerged as the champion of the 8th Sumi Open Chess Championship, which concluded today at Tourist Lodge, Dimapur. The open chess championship was organised by the Sumi Chess Association from May 17 to 19.

Kughaho Kiho and Hekugha Yepthomi were declared the first and second runners-up. Other winners in the open category

were Pikuto H Chishi, Uka Chophy, Henito KIba, Kitolu Achumi, Tokiho Chishi, Yekhevi Sumi and Hito Chishi.

In the Under-17 category, Nipeto Hesso emerged as champion, while Pulonito Hesso and Shenikali Hesso, both from Coraggio School, Kohima, were declared first and second runner-up respectively.

Meanwhile, chess lovers of Dimapur have decided to form the Dimapur District Chess Club. The

decision to this effect was taken during a get-together cum meeting of the chess lovers with Hekugha Yepthomi as sessional chairman and Itokhu Achumi as sessional secretary.

It has elected Hekugha Yepthomi as president, SI Toshi and Er. Thrimhokiu Royim as vice presidents, Itokhu Achumi as general secretary, Manish Tiwari as organising secretary, and Akhilesh, Er. Kikheto Sumi and Vizheto Shohe as ex- Winners of the 8th Sumi Open Chess Championship pose for a group photo after the prize distribution proecutive members. gramme at Tourist Lodge, Dimapur, on May 19. (Morung Photo)

1st Open Futsal Tournament Day 2 (Quarterfinal) result Adroit Boys 4-0 Dream FC A Yhome FC 3-2 Zenith FC Viswema Legend Lads 4-0 Young Heroes Soccer Heroes FC 4-3 FC Tah Chapa

May 20 Fixture:

1st Semifinal: A Yhome FC vs Adroit Boys @ 9:00 am 2nd Semifinal: Soccer Heroes FC vs Legend Lads @ 10:00 am Final: Winner of 1st Semi vs Winner of 2nd Semi @ 1:00 pm

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Radicalization- A Major Security Challenge In NE?

Thepfulhouvi Solo

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read what the Home Minister said to the collected Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of the North East States at Delhi (Nagaland Page of 16 May 2017).

There are several surprising phrases and sentences ascribed to the Northeast that I quote the relevant ones for the perusal of the Public.

The Home Minister‘Cautioning that radicalization was fast emerging as big security challenge in the North-east, and it might soon turn into terrorism if not checked. He called for effective steps to chock their foreign funding.

He said the existence of radical

ideologies in the region surrounding the north-astern States had made the area very vulnerable.

That’s why it was a must to identify the agents, who were trying to win over the population to radical ideologies hiding behind propagation of religion.

He said some NGOs and individuals were also fanning radicalism on the pretext of working for socio-cultural and educational development of the region. The proliferation of illegal arms in such large numbers leads to more crimes. The home Minister urged the Bureaucrats to take preemptive actions against such bodies and individuals. (The Writer underlined the Phrases for comment).

I have always viewed the Home Minister as somewhat of a Centre-

Right Hindu, but did not expect him describe Northeast in such alarming terms.

The Northeast has been described asi. Radicalizing fast as to be a Security Challenge, ii. Radical ideologies hiding behind propagation of religion, iii. The radical ideologies surround the Northeast States, iii. The Agents must be identified, iv. Large numbers illegal arms in the Northeast, v. Crime rate very high, conviction case very low, vi. The Bureaucrats are urged to take pre-emptive actions against Bodies and Individals involved.

The People of Northeast are not radicalized to any Ideology or Party and live contentedly in their mountain Villages. They are naive, undeveloped, but friendly, hospitable, independent and not radicalized to any Party, Issue or Religion. They do not know of any “Radical ideologies surrounding the Northeast States”.

It is encouraging that the Union Government is seriously viewing Terrorism. It is encouraging it has decided not to negotiate with any Terrorist Organization. Known Terrorist Organizations need to be dealt sternly with the Law of the land.

However, the assumption that, “radical ideologies hiding behind propagation of religion”, needs to be investigated very thoroughly,

and pre-emptive Actions is taken only after it is found infallible. It is often by people from outside the Area who mean well for the region but have no deep understanding of the Northeast.

Initially, such allegation originated from Assam at the first few years of independent India’s first Prime Minister who was not exactly happy with the Province of Assam dealing unsuccessfully the political turmoil in boisterous Naga Hills, but finding no other satisfactory explanations for the vexatious situation in Naga Hills then, informed Delhi the foreign Missionaries of fomenting the Naga trouble.

The foreign Missionaries were promptly driven away giving 24 hours

time to leave Naga Hill. They left accordingly, but the political trouble of the restless Naga still continues. Actually the Naga trouble started from the time before William Bentinck, the Governor General of British India time since 1832 to 1946 and it still continues perhaps till God’s Good time comes. The Naga and India have moral and ethical imperatives to settle the Issue in Peace.

My fear is that the Home Minister has wrongly been informed about the Northeast.

Unless the Northeast is treated as the Assam Police treated the Naga of yore, it may not emerge a security challenge to the Country and no Minister at Delhi need waste any precious time chasing the Rainbow.

Subhas Bose and the Battle of Kohima -A

K. Puroh

Japanese in Kohima The Japanese had gathered sufficient forces around the corridor of India after they had swept the weakened British forces out of Burma in May 1942. General Kawabe, Commander of Burma Area Army had by then at his disposal Lieutenant General Mutaguchi, Commander of 15th Army at Maymyo, the main Headquarters; Lieutenant General Yanagida's 33rd Division in the Arakan, and Yamauchi's 15th Division and Sato's 31st Division toward the South East of Manipur and South East of Nagaland. The Japanese Army that crossed Chindwin River under Yamauchi's 15th Divisions and Sato's 31st Division , heading to Manipur and Nagaland respectively, was comprised of "100,000 men , all trained , equipped and burning with a fanatical desire for a victory."

This was sometime around the 15th march 1944.

Lieutenant General Sato's headquarters was located at Homalin, a town situated at the bank of Chindwin River, 75 miles as the crow flew or about 200 miles from Kohima on the Ground. He would be in Kohima within fifteen days time It was not mere chance that Sato hit the jeep track, built by British, running from Chindwin to Jessami and Kohima. Since December 1943, a Lieutenant Masa Nishida and a mixed party of Japanese troops and Indians( Nagas recruited by Keviyalley) had been operating in the country between the Chindwin and Kohima with orders to reconnoitre five routes for the 31st Division. All the men had been specially selected and trained at the Nakama School for espionage in Tokyo, and they accomplished their mission brilliantly, though not without some hair-raising escapes and adventures. The presence of Nagas with patrols apparently prelude intelligence reports from reaching D.C. Pawsey, in Kohima.

The plan was that, as they entered into Nagaland, the 31st Division ( with the 15th division of its left flank, Manipur ) should move in three columns. (1)The right-hand or northern column commanded by Colonel Torikai consisted of a battalion of the 138th Infantry Regiment, with the battery of the 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment, Engineers , signals, and medical attachments. It routes were:- Laruri, Meluri, Phek, Chazouba, Merema and Zubza. His orders were to stopped reinforcement from reaching Kohima. (2) The centre column consisted of an advanced guard of the 138th

Infantry Regiment with a Battalion of 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment, followed by the main body under Sato consisted of the Divisional headquarters, the 124th infantry Regiment, a battalion of the 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment, with engineers, signals , a field hospital and a transport unit. It routes were:- Jessami, Chizami, Kikruma, Chakhabama and Kohima.

His objective was Kohima. (3) The left hand or Southern column moved under the divisional second-in-command,Major General Miyazaki, and this included the 58th regiment and the remainder of the 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment. It routes were:-Ukhrul to Mao then turn north for Kohima, via Viswema.

Miyazaki's orders were also to blocked Kohima Imphal road , which he did it at 72 miles near Maram on 29th March.

The country facing Sato's man was "some of the wildest and the toughest in the world " .Vehicles ,even Jeeps, were out of the question and loads had to be carried on mules, oxen and elephants.... apart from the small arms, the regiments were to carry the infantry and antitank guns with upto 300 rounds of ammunition for each . There were also seventeen mountain guns to be carried by the ten elephants. The division had been allocated 3000 mules and 5000 oxen , the principal task of which was to carry ammunition and rations for the troops . Even so, every man had laden with as much rifle ammunition as it was thought he could carry, and food for three weeks,'Personal effects', Sato had ordered, understandably ,'must be kept to the minimum.'

Amongst the above mentioned preparedness of the Japanese forces , it may be that there was few personnel from the intelligence and field propoganda units of the INA to propagate and spread the message of Liberation of India as seen in the following two occasions during Japanese entry into Nagaland and during the battle of Kohima . Firstly , it was at Jessami when the Assam Regiment gave a surprised attack on the advance guard of the 138th Regiment of Japanese troops on 28th match 1944. The next morning , 29th march , an appeal was made in English and Hindustani ;'O Indian Soldiers , stop fighting for the British and come and join us we are freeing your country from domination' ;needless to say , there was no response to this invitation . Secondly, on the 7th night of April , at Kohima , the Japanese had brought another weapon into action , the Loudspeaker. It had been set up near the 'Treasury Hill'(old civil sec-

retariate, old Assembly Secretariate and present DC's office area), and an Indian of the INA probably, came on, speaking in Urdu: 'Hindustan Ki Jawan!' he called ,' "Soldiers of India , the Japanese army had surrounded you. Bring your rifle and come over to us. We are liberating India from the iniquities and tyrannies of British rule". One most important strategy during the war is searching the enemy corpse or bunker for items of identification and collection of information about their movement, reinforcement , position , etc. In all these from Jessami to the 64 day battle of Kohima , not a trace of INA was found, particularly under northern and centre columns.

The two principle villages where the Japanese had its base and gave strategic support to the Battle of Kohima and Sato's Headquarters at Chakhabama were Cheswezu and Kikruma.

During that time, fortunately , the two and its neighbouring villages were economically very sound , so for the greater part of the Battle at Kohima , without much problem the Japanese needs were provided . But towards the fag end of the battle , as Sato has signalled to MajorGeneral Tazoe, commander of the 5th Air Force Division on 27th May 1944, begging for assistance, "since leaving Chindwin we have not received one bullet from you, nor a grain of rice... please send us food by plane", the hospitality of the villages got exhausted which compelled the Japanese to use force and in the process one villager of Kikruma was murdered while preventing them from looting the village.

Meanwhile, Sato had decided to withdraw on the 30th May, and as the Japanese began to retreat , scouts from both the villages of Kikruma and Cheswezu were sent to Pawsey and through him they brought British forces and drove the Japanese out of their village . About 3000 perished, 4000 wounded at the Battle of Kohima and more died of starvation as they retreated. In order to avoid capture these men were usually forced to seek death at their own hands.

INA and Nagaland India National Army (INA) was mostly composed of Indians who went to the war under the British and Allied Forces and who had languished in the jails of South and Southeast Asian Countries, as Prisoner of War (POW). Its main objective was to liberate India from the British imperialism, for which they accompanied the Japanese Forces as they advanced into India from Burma. Considering the overall composition and formation of the INA, they

were not only to be engaged them in the front line of the Battle, but to be used mainly as the tools of political propaganda as they along with Japanese Forces entered in the mainland with an aim to liberate India 'where the whole population will rise, tearing the British Raj to pieces'.

Therefore , Subhas Bose sometime called the INA as men of "India's Army of Liberation," confidently predicting that revolt was simmering just beneath the surface and with one more British reverse nothing could stop it bursting into fury from Bombay to Calcutta, from Madras to Delhi. When Subhas Bose demanded to spearhead the advance, Field Marshall Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Commander of Japanese forces in South East Asia told him that "a campaign into India was being prepared".

The INA was divided into three divisions. The first division, some ten thousand soldiers were put under the Command of Mahammad Zainan kiani. It was divided into three regiments or brigades which Subhas Bose wanted them after Gandhi, Nehru and Azad, in deliberate effort to make common cause with the struggle at home. Most of these devisions were engaged in Chin hills and around Imphal. The INA selected the best soldiers from the three regiments and formed the No.1. Guerrilla Regiment. The regiment went into training under the command of Shah Nawaz Khan and sent to Burma in November 1943.

The soldiers themselves called it the "Subhas Brigade ". By the middle of May 1944, this regiment followed the routes of Major General, Miyazaki ; Ukhrul , Mao, Viswema and supposed to have been hoisted the Indian tricolour at a mountain top near Kohima. On 14th May, at G.P.T. ridge (present AIR and above) there was one extraordinary incident that took place where the Royal Norfolk while searching from one of the bunkers, found five of their regimental cap badges which was issued during peace time. They believed that it had obviously been taken from their men of the Royal Norfolk captured at Singapore. "stories of the Japaneses treatment of Prisoners had already reached them; and they were more eager than ever to take their revenge." But what was found in the incident was different because, a group of the INA were believed to be present in that area during that time , so they must have deliberately left those badges behind to apprised their former comrades that they were around. Apart from this incident,records available from Japanese, INA

and the British does not indicate any direct confrontation between INA and the British Indian forces in and around Kohima Battle . Even while retreating mentioned was not made about INA as far as Nagaland is concerned.

Subhas Bose (1943-1944 June) Subhas Chandra Bose left his comfortable life and joined the Indian Freedom Movement and became its tallest leader along with Gandhi and Nehru.

However, as the Second World War dragged on and having seen the motive of the British not granting Freedom to India soon, he decided to abandoned the policy of non-violence and take up arms in the form of INA and joined hands with Japanese Forces against the Allied Forces in which India was a party being under the dominion of British Empire.

On July 4, 1943, at Cathay Theatre in Singapore, Subhas Bose accepted the leadership of the INA from Rashbehari Bose, and on the next day while addressing INA soldiers with full military uniform gave the battle cry of 'Chalo Delhi ' After obtaining permission from the Axis power, on October 21, 1943, Subhas Bose proclaimed the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind ( free India ) in Singapore.

On January 7, 1944, the advance headquarters of the provisional government were moved forward from Singapore to Rangoon.

On April 7, 1944, Subhas Bose moved a small advance headquarters north, from Rangoon to Maymyo, 25 miles east of Mandalay, 220 miles south east of Homalin and about 420 miles or 30 days walk from Kohima. This was the headquarters of Mutaguchi's 15th Army. Having seen the development all the way from Singapore, Rangoon and Maymyo, on April 17th, The Time Magazine reported that 'Bose was with the Japs around Imphal". And indeed Imphal became their main objective after the failed campaign in Arakan and Chin Hills.

On April 16, 1944, "before crossing the frontiers" from Maymyo, he scribble a few lines to Bhramachari Kailasam of the Rama Khrishna mission in Singapore, saying that things were going "very well at the front" and that spirits were high", once he did so , he was not sure when he would be able to communicate with Kailasam again. Besides the INA soldiers, personnel belonging to the Reconstruction Department (provisional government ) from Singapore and Rangoon had gone

forward. "We shall be meeting them in free India " Bose wrote optimistically.

Around that time, Yamauchi's 15th Division and the INA forces were advancing towards Imphal; The Bahadur group of INA, commanded by Shaukat Ali Malik had fought extraordinarily well in the Bishempur sector, and hoisted the Indian tricolour in Moirang, a few miles short of Imphal. The Japanese hope the news of the fall of Imphal could be presented as a gift to Emperor, Hirohito, whose birthday fell on April 28, and Subhas Bose and the INA believed that there would be a "flood of defection"

by British Indian soldiers of the 4 Corps at Imphal. So by that time of the year , April last part, and first part of May, Subhas Bose was believed to have been somewhere around Imphal, waiting for the fall of Imphal so that, he could address the nation directly from the soil of India over the Radio and become the " non-violent soldiers of freedom inside the country, even though they fought with arms outside India".

However, because of the direct intervention of the Admiral Mountbatten , Supreme Commander of Southeast Asia Command, the American organised a continuous airlift of supplies into Imphal through out the seige which delayed its fall, and subsequently the town was saved.

In the meantime, Bose had returned to Maymyo, and on May 21, 1944, shifted his small advanced headquarters back to Rangoon. Because from Maymyo, he was finding it increasingly difficult to get accurate news from the front. If Imphal would fall he could just as quickly fly in from Rangoon using his small aircraft, the Azad Hind.

On 29th May , Bose had a successful public meeting at Rangoon where enthusiastic Indians contributed nearly five million rupees in cash and kind to help the war effect. By first week of June, Bose made a flying visit to his rear headquarters in Singapore and returned to Rangoon only towards the end of June.

Considering the over all scenario at that point of time, April to May 1944, when the Battle of Kohima was at its peak and the Japanese forces were thrusting towards the Indian territory and the possibility of advancing beyond the boundaries of Manipur, Assam and Bengal, Subhas Bose was expected to be available anytime , anywhere , whenever the penetration is completed . Therefore, the Head of the Azad Hind provisional government and the Supreme Commander of the INA was not expected to be in

a remote and vulnerable places like Kohima and it's surrounding villages where there existed hardly any anti-British feeling, rather , by then, Kohima District of Assam and it's people were very homely with the British government, particularly with its District administrator , C.R. Pawsey.

C.R.Pawsey, D.C. Kohima The impeccable relationship that Charles R. Pawsey, the Deputy Commissioner of Kohima, developed with the Nagas since 1922 and the part played by him both directly through his courage and indirectly through his influence on the Nagas, during the war was an important one . The Nagas were his children and they regarded him as their father. They trusted him completely; they knew that in no circumstance whatsoever would his word be broken; he after all conversed with them comfortably in their tongue . When the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942/43, and the Nagas found themselves in the front line , they looked to Pawsey for their salvation , knew that he would fight for them to the limit of his power .

So when Japan's thrust against Kohima began , the Nagas remained loyal to the British cause, despite the loss of their homes and territory, despite danger and death and consistently kept him informed about the movement and activities of the Japanese through out the Battle of Kohima and after . In fact it was the information he first recieved from his Nagas and passed it to the Allied Forces that the whole Division was advancing towards Kohima .

After the war, Pawsey, the D.C visited all the villages particularly the affected villages and recorded in detail the damages caused by the war in his official Tour Diary of the Deputy Commissioner. However, in the entire official Tour Diary till 1947, no mentioned has been made nor referred about the INA, particularly, the presence of Subhas Bose anywhere under his entire jurisdictions during the Battle of Kohima.

The government of Nagaland should therefore, refrain from walking the wrong side of historical facts as far as Subhas Bose's coming to Nagaland during the Battle of Kohima is concerned and unless historical evidence to the contrary of my claim is offered, it stands undisputed that Subhas Bose never set foot in Nagaland. It is also expected that the goverment of the day functions properly with all sincerity and seriousness while laying the foundation of future generation basing on the right perspective of our history.

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

Saturday 20•05•2017

EntErtainmEnt

Steve's ex sues him for damaging her 'soul'

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V host and comedian Steve Harveys former wife Mary Shackelford has sued him for $60 million, claiming he has "damaged her soul" after nine years of marriage.

According to court documents, Shackelford hasn't recovered after the split, reports tmz.com.

The document was not filed by Shackelford's lawyer but a woman who claims to be her "civil rights activist". Shackelford states that she has been suicidal and relies on self-medication in order to deal with the aftermath of their divorce battle. Shackelford has sued the "Little Big Shots" host for child endangerment, torture, conspiracy against rights, kidnapping, murder, breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She says she's physically and emotionally distressed.

"The plaintiff had (lost)

her son, had her businesses taken from her, nowhere to live, all Mother's Days had been painful and empty," the document reads.

Source: IANS

Leonardo DiCaprio splits from Nina Agdal

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scar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly parted ways with his girlfriend, Danish model Nina Agdal, after almost a year of dating. According to a source, their split was "drama-free". "Nina and Leo have parted ways. It is amicable. They remain friends," the source told people.com. DiCaprio was first romantically linked to Agdal in summer of 2016. Although they never posed for a red carpet together, the two often showed affection towards each other in public. They were last seen together in April. Nina Agdal previously dated The Wanted's member Max George. DiCaprio has earlier dated celebrities like Emma Bunton, Gisele Bundchen and Bar Refaeli.

Source: IANS

Screening at Cannes of Netflix's 'Okja' stopped due to heckling C M Y K

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he Cannes Film Festival stopped the world premiere screening of the Netflix movie "Okja" after five minutes on Friday after sustained booing and slow clapping from the audience. "Okja", starring Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal, is one of the hottest movies at this year's festival but divisive because U.S. videoon-demand company Netflix has refused to screen it in French cinemas. Audience members started heckling partly because of the dispute, and partly because the cinema had set the screen to the wrong ratio, cutting off the edges of the picture, said audience member Ernesto Garratt, a journalist with the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.

"They were booing for both reasons," he said. Staff adjusted the curtains at the side of the screen and restarted the film from the beginning shortly afterwards. The audience booed the Netflix logo when it appeared on screen for a second time then settled down and applauded at the end.

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MissioN: iMpossibLe 6

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ngela Bassett has joined the cast of 'Mission: Impossible 6'. The 58-year-old actress - known for her role as Tina Turner in the biopic 'What's Love Got to Do with It' - has reportedly jumped onboard the project alongside Tom Cruise and 'Supergirl' star Frederick Schmidt, according to Empire magazine. It's not yet known who the brunette beauty will play but Cruise will be back as Ethan Hunt, the globe-trotting secret agent who always finds himself in tricky situations, while director Christopher McQuarrie has also agreed to return to the instalment.

McQuarrie is producing alongside Tom, Frederick,

Don Granger, J.J. Abrams and David Ellison and Dana Goldberg from Skydance Productions. However, Jeremy Renner will not be reprising his role as IMF Field Operations Director William Brandt due to a scheduling clash with 'Avengers: Infinity War', in which he will be playing Hawkeye again. Big screen Superman Henry Cavill has also been added to the star-studded cast for 'Mission: Impossible 6'. Cavill's appearance in the movie was revealed during an Instagram exchange shared by director McQuarrie.

The 48-year-old filmmaker posted a photo of himself standing on some rocks with the caption: ''Say, @henrycavill. Had a thought. Curious if you're interested in a role in the 6th installment of Mission: Impossible. No pressure. (sic)'' Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin and Sean Harris are all returning for the next instalment of the franchise.

The film is scheduled for release in July 2018.

Source: Contactmusic

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SPORTS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Four-goal Kane helps Spurs punish Leicester

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LONdON, May 19 (REutERs): A rampant Harry Kane netted four goals and livewire Son Heung-Min scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur thrashed Leicester City 6-1 in an action-packed Premier League clash on Thursday.

The match was a effectively a dead rubber with Spurs already assured of finishing second behind champions Chelsea but Kane produced a superb individual performance to go top of the scoring chart as in-form Son also impressed.

Having taken his tally to 26 league goals to move above Everton's Romelu Lukaku (24) and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez (23), Kane vowed there would be no let-up in the final game of the season when Spurs visit relegated Hull City.

"I wanted to get one or two goals at least and take it (the battle for the Golden Boot) to the final game," the England striker told Sky Sports after firing Spurs ahead and rifling in a second half hat-trick.

"I am in the driving seat but there's still one more game. I am not resting on my laurels but I hope to get four more.

"Hopefully I can get the Golden Boot and hopefully (Tottenham goalkeeper) Hugo Lloris can get the Golden Glove (for the most clean sheets)."

Son set up Kane for a 25th-minute opener and made it 2-0 with a first-time shot on the turn in the 36th minute as the visitors dominated the opening half with some crisp passing.

Ben Chilwell pulled one back for

MPL: All Blacks thump Silver White KOhiMa, May 19 (MExN): Leaders All Blacks were back to winning ways as they registered a thumping 6-0 win over bottom of the league Silver White in the ongoing Morning Premier League at the Seikhazou Ground on Friday.

Following last week’s loss to Amur Falcons – their first loss of the tournament which had also brought to a stop their 9-game unbeaten run, the All Blacks had seen their lead atop the table reduced to a point. But on Friday, the leaders displayed no sign of slacking any further.

Azo opened the scoring in the 18th minute before converting a penalty in the final minutes of the first half as All

Blacks led 2-0 at the interval.

After the restart, Silver White dug deep in an attempt to prevent more goals but four goals in 10 minutes late in the second half meant they have now conceded 61 goals from their 11 matches – an average of 5.5 goals per match.

Weku netted a brace scoring in the 75th and 79th minutes before Azo completed his hat-trick in the 84th minute.

Akho then completed the rout two minutes later.

With 28 points from their 11 games, All Blacks pushed the lead on their nearest rivals, Power Comm, back to 4 points. Silver White remain bottom of the table with a solitary point.

Selection for Wushu senior team diMapuR, May 19 (MExN): The Wushu Association of Nagaland will hold a trial selection of its senior team for the 26th Senior National Wushu Championship on May 27. The national championship is scheduled to be held in the month of July. A press release from the association in this regard has asked all the instructors and senior players under the Wushu Association of Nagaland to report on or before May 25. For more information, contact WAN Coach @ 9612760987.

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Leicester's Wilfred Ndidi vies with Tottenham's Harry Kane. (AFP Photo)

Leicester after the break before Kane made it 3-1 with a close-range header and Son curled in the fourth with a neat low shot from 25 metres after some dazzling footwork.

The unstoppable Kane then put the icing on the cake with more clinical finishing in the closing stages, condemning Leicester to their first home defeat after five successive wins as Tottenham celebrated their 11th win in the last 12 games.

Spurs manager Mauricio Poc-

chetino heaped praise on Kane and stressed he was in no mood to sell him to potential bidders.

"He is great, he is one of the best strikers in the world," said the Argentine. "He will try to keep going in the next game and try to finish in the best way. "It is very clear we will keep the players we want to keep and we will maybe sell the players we want to sell.

We are so, so calm about our key players. They are happy here, we have an exciting project."

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Hayden 'extremely critical' after cycling accident ROME, May 19 (REutERs): Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has suffered severe brain damage and his condition is "extremely critical" after being hit by a car while cycling in eastern Italy, the American's Honda World Superbike team said on Thursday.

Honda quoted Cesena’s Maurizio Bufalini hospital as saying the 35-year-old had "a serious polytrauma with subsequent serious cerebral damage".

Doctors had placed the 2006 MotoGP champion, known as "The Kentucky Kid", into a medically in-

duced coma after the incident on Wednesday, the BBC reported earlier.

Hayden was taken to the hospital after being struck by a car while training on his bicycle along Italy's Adriatic coast following

a weekend Superbike race at the Imola circuit.

Honda said he was taken initially by ambulance to a hospital near the coastal resort of Rimini before then being transferred to Cesena.

Hayden's fiancee Jackie and team members had been joined at his bedside by brother Tommy and mother Rose who flew in from the United States.

Italian media quoted the hospital as saying on Wednesday that Hayden had suffered a cerebral edema and lower body fractures and surgery had not been possible immediately

because of his condition.

Italian great Valentino Rossi, who leads the championship and is racing in France this weekend, hailed his former team mate as "one of the best friends I have had in the paddock".

"Come on Nicky, we're all with you," added the 38-year-old.

Hayden last raced in the MotoGP championship in Spain in September 2016 as a stand-in for injured Australian Jack Miller at the privately-run Marc VDS Honda team. He started 216 races between 2003 and 2015, winning three.

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