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Implement Women Reservation Bill: NPMCC DimapUR, may 23 (mexn): The Nagaland Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee (NPMCC) today asked that the Women Reservation Bill be immediately implemented. A press note from the NPMCC President, N Lucy, expressed appreciation that the NLA has passed the Women Reservation Bill.

“Since the Supreme Court has given its ruling, there can be no second opinion leaving room only for implementation or else face contempt of court,” it stated. The NPMCC further demanded that there should not be any more delay in announcing elections to the town and municipal councils.

Law enforcement sensitized on HIV/AIDS and drug users

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have no ill feeling 21,000 teachers to go on ‘iagainst neiphiu rio’ 3 days mass casual leave NPF president Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu seek to dismiss rumours

• Teachers’ agitation to

affect 2069 government schools across Nagaland state • Demands bifurcation of Secondary/Elementary Education from Higher Secondary

Morung Express News Kohima | May 23

Morung Express News Kohima | May 23

From May 24 to May 26; 21,000 teachers in Nagaland will be availing three days mass casual leave in protest against the State Government’s failure to bifurcate Secondary/ Elementary Education from Higher Secondary in the Department of School Education.

The agitation which has been spearheaded by the All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) and Nagaland Secondary Schools Field Officers Forum (NSSFOF) demands separation of the two cadres in order to produce quality education. The demand has been going on for 13 years, said ANSTA President Ponchulo Wanth.

He said in order to shape and mould the destiny of the future generation, a peaceful environment and good coordination is needed. Wanth however lamented that there are clashes and tussles between the two cadres.

And despite many requests, appeals and memorandums served to the government for 13 years, the demands have not been fulfilled. “Till today we didn’t get any response from the

Members of the All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) and Nagaland Secondary Schools Field Officers Forum (NSSFOF) who are set to head a protest of 21000 teachers across the state starting May 24.

higher ups,” stated Visato Koso, General Secretary, ANSTA. In the last meeting this year on April 26, an ultimatum was served where the agitators gave 20 days to the government to fulfill their demands. However with no response; the teachers have been left with no option but to launch the agitation. If no action takes place in the first phase, the second phase will start from June 1 where the teachers will cease work.

“We are demanding for segregation of the two cadres so that we can function independently without encroaching in each other’s areas or interfering in each other’s affairs. We are hopeful that we can bring quality and systematic education. We are fighting for what is due to us,” affirmed Wanth. Although the agitation will affect the students, the committee is of the view that its primary concern is for the welfare of the students and to produce quality education.

Branch manager arrested for fraudulent withdrawal DimapUR, may 23 (mexn): Branch manager of Vijaya Bank, Tseminyu has been arrested for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 88, 94,000 (Eighty-eight lakh ninety four thousand).

The Kohima Police, in a press statement through the Sub-Divisional Police Officer (South) & PRO said a fixed deposit of Rs 1, 01, 71,504 (One crore one lakh seventy one thousand five hundred and four) at Vijaya Bank, Kohima was transferred to Vijaya Bank, Tseminyu without the consent or knowledge of the owner.

Against this fixed deposit, the accused branch manager, identified by the police as one Yichanpemo Yanthan, who hails from Baghty, Wokha and presently residing at Oriental Colony is alleged to have forged the signature of the individual, applied for loan against the term deposit,

and sanctioned the loan against the term deposit amounting to Rs 87, 50,000.

A Savings account was then opened at the Tseminyu Branch without the knowledge or consent of the owner by forging his signature and this was used in transferring and withdrawing the loan amount.

When the owner eventually came to know of the transfer, he asked for withdrawal of his fixed deposit, which was transferred to Kohima and withdrawn.

With no security for the loan taken, the branch manager was told to clear the loan (totaling Rs 88, 94,000 with the interest).

After some delay, the loan was ‘seemingly’ cleared, police said.

However, upon checking, it was detected that the loan was cleared only on paper but the cash amount was missing in the chest, police said.

“So many times we have been fooled by the Government,” said one teacher. The teachers have tried to reason why the Department of Higher and Technical Education was created when it had only three institutions.

Meanwhile, the government has failed to bifurcate the Higher Secondary section, when there are already 41 Higher Secondary Schools in Nagaland with over 600 employees.

The problems, as outlined by the ANSTA and NSSFOF in a memorandum submitted to all concerned agencies appear to be quite a handful. The different academic sessions has hampered the smooth functioning of the school where academic sessions, examination schedules and co curricular activities cannot be conducted together.

“On a close observation of the past 6 years academic results of the HSLC & HSSLC examinations, it is found that in almost all the Government Higher Sec-

Gov approves transfer of Yimchunger govt employees displaced from Kiphire Kohima, may 23 (DipR): The Home Department General Administration Branch-I in an office memorandum informed that the Governor has allowed transfer of Government Officials belonging to Yimchunger Community who have been displaced from Kiphire Town due to the prevailing law and order situation. The memo stated that these officers may be attached to other offices outside Kiphire temporarily by the department concerned till the situation normalizes.

Further, the Principal Director of the Treasuries & Accounts Nagaland has allowed pensioners to draw their monthly pension from their personal bank account from a designated Government Treasury outside Kiphire district. The memorandum has also directed all the AHODs/HODs of the displaced Government employees to take immediate and appropriate action.

GPRN/NSCN cautions against callous write ups

DimapUR, may 23 (mexn): The GPRN/NSCN today voiced out against “callous and factually incorrect write-ups...”

A press note from the MIP of the GPRN/NSCN alleged that the NSCN (IM) “continues to feed the people of Nagaland with outrageous political assumptions more so, post August 3 Accord 2015.” It accused the NSCN (IM) of trying to subject the tribes of Nagaland to “ever changing political terminologies with a hope that a lie told many times over would, in the end, be taken as the truth.”

It stated that it required the “prompt response from GPRN/ NSCN because the future of the Naga people cannot be built upon lies and deceit.

It further refuted allegations that the Ato Kilonser of the GPRN/NSCN, N Kitovi Zhimo-

mi has “changed tracks in the Naga Reconciliation process.”

Stating that the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), with the signing the Covenant of Reconciliation by Naga political groups, has “officially recorded all highest level meetings for posterity,” the GPRN/NSCN asked the NSCN (IM) to check visual and audio recordings of speeches made by NSCN (IM) General Secretary, Th Muivah and GPRN/NSCN Ato Kilonser, N Kitovi Zhimomi at 4th Mile Dimapur Agri Expo meeting in February 2012. It further asked the NSCN (IM) to look at recordings of the Niathu Resort meetings in 2012-13, and the Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS) meetings in 2013-14.

The Naga Reconciliation process, it lamented, “lost its momentum because of the non-

disclosure of the charter of demands of NSCN (IM) despite repeated appeal for honest deliberations on the subjects by Naga leaders from other political groups.”

The GPRN/NSCN further reminded the Government of India that the present Nagaland state is “not a discarded land inhabited by fools to allow every Toni, Dick and Harry to claim ownership.” “It belongs to indigenous Naga tribes with clear demarcated boundary with great loyalty to their ancestral homeland. Naga tribes live in peace and harmony and co-exist with communities of neighbouring states...the parties trying to decide the future of Nagaland without the consent of the people should clearly know the ramifications,” it cautioned.

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ondary Schools, the result of HSSLC is far better than the results of HSLC, which may be due to the lack of management experiences of Head in lower classes and the differential treatment towards the two cadres,” stated the memorandum, which further adds that the issue is affecting the teaching-learning process and academic performances of the students of the composite Government Higher Secondary Schools.

The different entry points into service have given a higher advantage to Higher Secondary teachers in matters of promotion, which is disproportionate. The demands also mention that since ‘the cadre, seniority and promotional channel of the two cadres is different, they cannot be clubbed up together to work under one roof and there can be no meeting point in the service journey.’

The mass casual leave agitation will affect 2069 government schools across the state.

Naga People’s Front (NPF) President, Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu on Monday sought to dismiss ‘persisting’ rumors doing the round that the ongoing ‘crisis’ in the NPF camp was the outcome of power tussle between him and Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio. “I have no ill feeling or grudge against him (Rio) and also I think no one was having any animosity against him,” Dr Liezietsu maintained while addressing a press conference at the NPF Central Office after a conference with office bearers of the 11th Northern Angami II party, which is Rio’s constituency.

The main objective of the conference was to brief and clear the confusion arising out of the suspension of Neiphiu Rio, Dr Shurhozelie said.

Rio was suspended from primary and active membership of the NPF on May 17, 2016 for alleged anti-party activities. Both Dr Shurhozelie and Rio are senior leaders and front-runners of the NPF party and credited for bringing the regional party to power by ousting the Congress.

Rio, had however denied the charges against him in his reply to the show cause notice served to him, even asking for withdrawal of the same.

Pointing out that the decision to suspend Rio was taken by the Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) of the NPF, Dr Shurhozelie asserted, “I am

only protecting the Constitution of the Party.”

Dr Liezietsu also reiterated that Rio will continue as Lok Sabha MP and he therefore will have to follow the directives of the party. Without naming any, he however hinted that, “Sooner or later they are going to form a new party. We cannot stop them also.”

Meanwhile commenting on NPF’s prospects at the 2018 general election, Dr Liezietsu said the party was still expecting some kind of solution from the ongoing political negotiations between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) before the election. “We still believe that the NSCN (IM) group is doing their best while trying to hammer out a solution,” he said.

“In the event nothing comes out from the ongoing political negotiations before the coming State General elections, then we as a political party will be prepared to face the elections,” he said.

Also remarking on Manipur election, Dr Liezietsu predicted that Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh might not be coming to power in the 2017 assembly election. He said that BJP will do well in valley and NPF will get at least 14/15 seat out of 20 in the hill areas. There will be coalition government in Manipur next time, he predicted.

Dr Liezietsu also informed that Chief Minister TR Zeliang and Rajya Sabha MP KG Kenye would be attending the swearing –in –ceremony of the new government in Assam where Sarbananda Sonowal will take oath as Assam Chief Minister on Tuesday in Guwahati.

Restore citizenship and freedom of movement to Luithuis: ANSAM

Tahamzam (SenapaTi), may 23 (mexn): The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has stated today that it is “not too late” for the Government of India (GoI) to “take a more responsible approach” in the continued persecution of Naga human rights activists Luingam Luithui and his wife, Peingamla Luithui.

Luingam’s passport was “impounded” by the Indian government in 1995 and Peingamla was denied a duplicate passport after hers was stolen in 1994. This forced them into “virtual exile” ever since.

“It is time that the GOI demonstrate its duty towards individuals it is responsible for and fully restore their citizenship and their right to freedom of movement,” asserted the ANSAM in a press release today from its President, Seth Shatsang and General Secretary, Alexander Hutten.

The statement has come in the light of an upcoming hearing regarding the case at the Delhi High Court on May 25. A petition was filed in 2014 to restore their citizenship rights.

The ANSAM recalled that Luingam Luithui has been one of the “most inspiring figures of our time” in mobilising organised struggles against militarisation when state repression was “brutal and heavy.” This was at a time when Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in India were “still largely ignorant” of state repression in independent India.

It was only the Emergency period in India that revealed these experiences for the first time. Luingam, as a student activist, “actively worked side by side” with civil rights activists from mainland India for the rights of ordinary citizens during this period, noted the ANSAM.

A file photo of Luingam Luithui and Peingamla Luithui

“For the first time, it also drew the attention of the mainland CSOs to the gross violation of human rights taking place in Naga areas.”

Eventually, the ground was prepared and the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) was formed in 1978 which anchored the civil rights movement in the Naga areas.

This was the precursor to several “path-breaking initiatives” concerning the social and political movement of the Nagas in which Luingam was “instrumental.”

“He and his colleagues took several notable cases of military excesses to the Court of India for the first time making the ‘sovereign’ act of the Indian army judiciable,” the Association observed.

Noting that his “commitment to human rights and justice extended beyond his own people,” the ANSAM described how Luingam played a “crucial role” in helping Late Laldenga, the leader of the Mizo National Front, and his family after he was arrested and detained on July 6 while in Delhi for peace

talks with the GoI in 1979, including arranging his lawyer Swaraj Kaushal.

Starting civil society initiatives for the Naga cause in India led to “exploring the possibility of political solutions to the IndoNaga issue instead of viewing the conflict as simply a ‘law and order’ problem.” This was a critical turning point in the issue for both India and the Naga people.

“Before he was exiled by the Indian state, he took the initiative of bringing into public discussions the issue of self-determination as basic human rights of all peoples and societies for a dignified existence,” explained the ANSAM. Luingam also played a crucial role in the formation of several mass-based platforms at the local, regional and international levels, including the International Alliance of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP).

Luingam Luithui, the ANSAM maintained, “is truly a person deeply committed to Universal Human Rights and Peace and Justice for all.”

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Law enforcement sensitized IPHA Nagaland Branch meeting held on HIV/AIDS and drug users Morung Express News Kohima | May 23

A State level workshop on HIV/AIDS with law enforcement department was held at the Conference Hall PHQ, Kohima on May 23 with Dr. Bitra George, Country Director, FHI 360 New Delhi as the resource person and LL Doungel, DGP, Government of Nagaland as the chief guest.

The workshop organised by Kripa Foundation, FHI 360, NSACS and Nagaland Police Department was held to sensitize the police department of issues relating to HIV/AIDS and drug users.

The programme was chaired by Dr. P. Ngully, Chairman, Kripa Foundation who gave the introduction of the workshop.

The overview of HIV/AIDS programme in the state was shared by Dr. Meguosilie Kire, Project Director NSACS. Resource person, Dr. Bitra George who gave the introduction to FHI360 Project Sunrise and its objectives stated that the menacing issue of drug addiction is not just confined to the North East alone but spreading across the country with Punjab in recent news.

“Drug dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder

Dr. Bitra George, Country Director, FHI 360 New Delhi speaks at the State level workshop on HIV/AIDS with law enforcement department held at the Conference Hall PHQ, Kohima on May 23. (Morung Photo)

and it requires proper prevention and treatment services,” asserted Dr. George who pointed out that the Injecting Drug Users (IDU) populations are the most marginalized and criminalized population in the society. Therefore, the need for the law enforcement officials to understand and look at the issue from a public health perspective and humane approach was highlighted.

The drug routes in North East India, drug administration in India, major agencies, drug control regulation (Narcotics Drugs and Pyschotropic Substances Act 1985) were

also underlined.

Sensitisation is crucial because the police forces come in direct contact with the criminalized and marginalized sections of society which offers a unique opportunity for the police forces to play a facilitators role in reducing their vulnerabilities to the risk of HIV infection.

Dr. George further urged for the need of the law enforcement to work in coordination with the civil society and other stakeholders, to create a platform to exchange views on harnessing partnerships between law enforcement, public health and civil so-

ciety organizations.

Further, giving a brief overview of Sunrise Project, Dr. George stated that the project aims to build institutional and human capacity to improve and scale-up the quality of comprehensive package of services for people who inject drugs in NE region of India.

DGP LL Doungel mentioned that that stigma revolving around HIV/AIDs and drug addiction has reduced over the years due to the realization that it is a social issue which needs to be dealt collectively because it is a disease which is transmitted within the society.

“In recognizing that this is

a social problem, the remedy has to be a social burden for everyone,” asserted Doungel.

The DGP also exhorted the police officials to treat the issue of IDUs holistically “How do you prosecute a man who is already a victim?” questioned Doungel expressing the dilemma where the person is already an offender but at the same time a victim. Doungel also advocated the need to address the problem within the police department where curriculums of related issues are being included in the training. Asserting that while sensitizing, it becomes very essential to understand the roots of the problems, Doungel stated that the problem of substance abuse goes further towards the domestic environment.

An open discussion on the action plans for the way forward in Nagaland was moderated by Dr. Bitra George where participants suggested on the establishment of a working group where ideas can be exchanged. This establishment can further be taken to the district level. Further, recommendations on exposure trips to international and national counterparts and studies of similar issues and success stories were further suggested.

Kohima, may 23 (mExN): A meeting of Indian Public Health Association, Nagaland Branch was held in the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Nagaland on May 20 where the members of the Indian Public Health Association Nagaland Branch had an academic session followed by business session.

IPHA Nagaland Branch General Sectary Dr Zathung in a press release stated that in the academic session, Dr Aonungdok presented an original research article on the topic ‘Prevalence of Non Communicable Disease risk factor in the Tribal population in Mokokchung District, Nagaland dt 2015’ and Dr K. Sophie also presented an original research article on the topic, ‘Temperature Monitoring of Vaccine Cold Chain in Nagaland, dt 2014.’

Dr Aonungdok’s research shows high prevalence of non communicable disease risk factors in Mokokchung district.

There is high burden of behavioral risk factor such as tobacco use, alcohol use, and low fruits and vegetable intake and high prevalence of undetected hypertension (high blood pressure) which requires immediate intervention.

It was also found that high awareness only does not lead to behavioral changes.

Further treatment seeking rate for hypertension were

Team Metamorphosis begins Operation Clean Wokha

WoKha, may 23 (mExN): Team Metamorphosis’ awareness campaign in the institutions for the Operation Clean Wokha has started on May 23 with Mt. Sinai School Wokha.

Thungdemo Kyong, Chief, Team Metamorphosis with James Tungoe, Wonchio Odyuo and Mhathung Lotha visited Mt. Sinai School and presented the concept with a PowerPoint presentation. Thungchibemo T Lotha, Deputy Chief of the team and the Headmaster of the school after a brief welcome note and introduction handed over the time to the Team Metamorphosis.

Around three hundred students attended the meeting at the end of which, the headmaster challenged all the members present there to a pledge for making ‘Cleanliness our lifestyle’.

Operation Clean Wokha is just a dot in the mega project of Team Metamorphosis ‘Love Earth, Love Life’. Operation Clean Wokha is a mechanism in creating a system for making Wokha town clean and beautiful’.

It is a community focused and community based project. An approach to incorporating in the minds of every individual the sense of responsibility in keeping our town clean, green and

healthy, motivating and mobilizing one another in making cleanliness our lifestyle. “It is a system/mechanism for developing change of our mindset/ attitude,” he added.

Targeted activities under this programme are cleaning and maintaining of roads, footpaths, side drains and Culverts, Planting of trees at Mt. Tiyi and within Wokha town, Making pockets for depositing rainwater (underground Water recharge/harvesting) at Mt. Tiyi, Check to ensure proper usage of Electricity and against its thefts, Concerned colony Youth to ensure peace and tranquility in all colonies and Power point presentations to be made by the different colonies and institutions periodically for self motivation as well as mass mobilization.

To encourage the community, the Team Metamorphosis has announced rewards which will be given at the end of the year. The rewards are as follows: First prize; Trophy, Cash and Citation: colonies - 20,000/- and institutions - 7,000/-, Second prize: cash and citation: colonies - 10,000/and institutions - 5,000/-, Third prize: colonies – 5,000/- and institutions 2,000/-.

• Need for vaccine cold chain highlighted • High prevalence of non communicable disease risk factors in Mkg dist • Encourages original research works done in Nagaland

observed to be low.

Dr K. Sophie’s research work shows the need for vaccine cold chain to be improved by way of comprehensive assessment of vaccine cold chain infrastructure and logistics. He has also done pioneering works in putting up proposals for the formation of Disease Control Centre in Nagaland and has also put up proposal for upgrading the health statistical wing into State Bureau of Health Intelligence with the available manpower.

The IPHA Nagaland Branch stated that public health in Nagaland cannot improve without upgrading these basic needs with the available Public health post graduates and hopes that Government will look into these areas.

It also informed that pioneering research work in public health done by Dr Aonungdok and Dr K. Sophie is being used as reference materials.

“We encourage the other public health post graduates to come forward with more original research works done in Nagaland in the near future because only locally done research works can improve Nagaland,” IPHA Nagaland Branch added. It also re-

quests the Masters of Veterinary public health from Veterinary Department and Masters of Sanitation Engineering from PHE Department to contribute articles in the local dailies on public health for the welfare of the people of Nagaland. Without proper public health plan designed collectively by post graduates from Medical Public health, Veterinary Public health and Engineering Public health there cannot be a healthy smart city or town or village.

Contact person of Indian public Health Association Nagaland Branch regarding Scientific paper presentations and press releases is Dr Sao Tunyi, Directorate of Health & FW, Kohima.

Another session of the Indian Public Health Association, Nagaland Branch is scheduled on June 9 starting at 2:00 pm in the Directorate of Health & FW Kohima. In-service post graduates in public health who could not attend this session are requested to attend the coming session and book time for scientific paper presentation for future sessions and secondly for conducting election of new office bearers of IPHA Nagaland branch.

District Planning Machinery informs on convergence fund Kohima, may 23 (Dipr): All the Elected Members of Legislative Assembly under Kohima District have been informed that the Convergence Fund of Rs.70.00/- lakhs towards MGNREGA could not have been materialized due to technical reasons and the fund has been reverted to LADP. In this connection, the concerned Elected MLAs have been requested to prepare schemes not exceeding Rs.10.00/- lakhs each for execution of works within their respective Assembly Constituencies and submit to the DPDB Kohima on or before May 25. It is also informed that a special meeting in regard to the Convergence Fund is being fixed on 27th May 2016 at DPDB’s Conference Hall at 12:30 pm. Therefore all the concerned members of DPDB have been requested to attend the meeting. This was informed by Assistant Development Commissioner, District Planning Machinery, Kohima, Ketoho Luho.

HSSLC 2016 result analysis

A barking deer facing forward bemused stare at the camera at Süngkotenem Deer Park, Mopungchuket. The Deer Park is community sponsored and maintained by the Mopungchuket Community Tourism Society. Perhaps a first in the state, the Deer Park was opened to public on July 6, 2013 and has since become one of the most visited sites in the village. (Morung Photo)

Kohima, may 23 (mExN): The Nagaland Government Higher Secondary School Employees’ Association (NGHSSEA) is organizing a seminar cum HSSLC-2016 result analysis under the theme “Managing Government Higher Secondary Schools for holistic improvement” on May 27, 10:00 am at de Oriental Grand, Kohima. Minister for School Education & SCERT Yitachu will grace the occasion as the chief guest. The Association has requested Additional Director (HOD), School Education, Joint Director, Deputy Director and Assistant Director from Directorate of School Education, all the Deputy District Education Officers, all the Principals and Vice Principals from Government Higher Secondary Schools and two PGTs representatives from each Government Higher Secondary School to attend the seminar positively.

Kohima College launches website SKK honours students and achievers

Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education Deo Nukhu and others during the re-launching function of the Kohima College website on May 23. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | May 23

The website for Kohima College Kohima has been re-designed and developed to deliver faster, reliable, and transparent administration through e-Governance to the citizens.

It was officially relaunched by parliamentary secretary for higher & technical education Deo Nukhu here today Kohima College, Kohima.

The link to the website is www.kohimacollege. in. With this, student who wishes to join the college is provided with the necessary information regarding admission, activities, scholarship and all about the college functioning

were uploaded and can be accessed from the website.

Nukhu was optimistic that the website will facilitate the students and citizens of Nagaland to a great extent.

He also said the website will facilitate the teachers and assist officials from key departments like the MHRD, UGC, and the higher education department, etc to be informed about Kohima College and to assess its growth.

He appreciated the Kohima College, Principal, Dr. Watijungshi for the initiative.

Dr. Eunice Alinger, Convenor, Mass Media Cell said the Kohima College website was first launched in 2007 under the National Informatics Center (NIC)

domain. In 2011, the website was lying static for some time until it was redesigned and upgraded.

The new website has an easy structure and navigation with an approachable and understanding content. It has incorporated certain new features.

The website application has been developed for helping a prospective student make a value judgment of the college. The student who wishes to join Kohima College is provided with the necessary information regarding admission, scholarship, meritorious awards and lots more through the website, she added.

The website was designed by Ramietech Solutions, Kohima.

Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) felicitated achievers and successful candidates of HSLC, HSSLC 2016 at Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church on May 21.

Guest of honour, Akito Zhimomi, Advocate, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench reminded the successful candidates the importance of having right aims as they have to face many new challenges. He also encouraged the students to work harder, stating there is no shortcut to achieve success. He further blessed the gathering with the words of God.

All the students were awarded with certificate and cash sponsored by Himato Zhimomi, Commissioner Secretary, Work and Housing. The toppers and subject toppers received Rs. 10,000 and Rs 5,000 respectively.

Kikali Achumi, who secured Rank 1 among the HSSLC toppers, also received a cash award of Rs. 15,000 sponsored by Khevishe Achumi, former president, SKK. SKK also felicitated other achievers – Dr. Elika Assumi in cultural studies; Lashili G Chishi, Assistant Professor (NPSC); Sukhalu Chishi, EAC (NPSC); Ake-

Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu officials with others during the felicitation of successful HSLC, HSSLC candidates and achievers at the felicitation programme held at Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church on May 21.

to Chisho, DSP (NPSC); Hotoshe Sumi, Global Teacher Award Bangkok (Thailand); and Tokheho H Sumi for achieving Padma Shri award.

The programme was chaired by Dr. Major Mughavi Yeptho, Tribunal SKK, while invocation prayer was said by Rev. Svitoshe Swu. Also ttended by

Sumi Hoho, former SKK officials, and church leaders, the programme ended with a prayer by Rev. Hevukhu Achumi, Executive Secretary, WSBAK.

NSDMA conduct demo on basic first aid at Hollotoli School Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Home Department held a one day school awareness programme at Hollotoli Higher Secondary School Dimapur on May 20.

Resource persons for the programme included. Khrolo-u Koza and Mrs. Keren Rose who spoke on the topics Disaster Management Plan for schools, Do’s and Don’ts on earthquake, fire and Structure of NSDMA. Thungbemo Patton, EAC Chumukedima attended the

programme on behalf of the District Disaster Management Authority.

Demonstration on basic first aid was conducted by personnel from the Civil Defence & Home Guards.

The personnel also surveyed the school building and identified ‘safe zones’ and ‘exit routes’ for the school. Later an evacuation drill on earthquake was also conducted. Pamphlets and other IEC materials were also distributed during the programme.

Personnel from the Civil Defence & Home Guards conduct demonstration on basic first aid at Hollotoli Higher Secondary School Dimapur on May 20.

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No respite for Manipur as SDSA concern over the state of affairs in Govt offices rains aggravate flooding Imphal, may 23 (IaNS): Manipur was on Monday on the verge of being cut off from the rest of the country after rockslides hit the Imphal-Dimapur highway (NH-2) near Kohima in Nagaland, even as torrential rains continued to wreak havoc in the state.

The Imphal-Silchar highway (NH-37) is already blocked due to multiple rockslides.

Besides, a portion of the Imphal river bank, measuring over 100 ft, was breached near Kyamgei in Imphal on Sunday night, washing away and submerging hundreds of houses. Villagers told IANS that when they went to the Irrigation and Flood Control department to take flood control materials, the officials told them there was nothing with them that they could give for flood control. The government has been maintaining that flood control materials were well in stock and available for the people.

Meanwhile, water also entered the power substation at Mayang Imphal forcing the officials to shut it down. An official said: "The power supply will be stopped till the situation improves."

Due to rockslides, the

Vehicles stranded in Nagaland after incessant rains

Imphal, may 23 (IaNS): Scores of vehicles were stranded on different state and national highways near Kohima, the state capital of Nagaland, due to landslides following incessant rains, authorities said on Monday. More rains are forecast in the next two days.

Goods-laden trucks, passenger buses and private vehicles bound for Imphal were among those stranded.

Traffic agencies in Imphal said: "A number of vehicles are stranded. There is a fear of fresh rockslides along the highways including NH-2 which connects Dimapur to Imphal."

Manipur was likely to be cut off from the rest of the country if more landslides hit NH2, halting traffic movement completely.

Many consumer items vanished from the markets as transportation of rice, fuel and other items to Manipur was disrupted. border town of Moreh was already cut off.

Tamenglong district is also cut off from other parts of the state and has been without power for several weeks as transmission lines were brought down during cloudbursts.

Farmers have incurred staggering losses as the standing crops and vegetables were destroyed. Some fish farmers said: "The flash floods have destroyed our farms. Fish worth lakhs of rupees swum away in the

Manipur markets were also affected by repeated shutdowns, observed to demand creation of a price fixation committee in Manipur. One consumer said: "In absence of the committee, wholesalers are fixing prices whimsically."

"The other lifeline of Manipur, NH-37 was already impassable. In fact, Tamenglong district through which NH-37 passes was inaccessible," officials said.

The Border Roads Organisation which looks after the national highways in the northeastern region was working to clear the debris on both the highways. However, sources said it will take several days before traffic movement could be restored.

Hundreds of persons, including students and candidates who are to appear in some examinations, were unable to leave Manipur and Nagaland due to the landslides.

flood waters."

Due to overflowing and breaching of banks of major rivers in Thoubal district many villages were now submerged.

Some displaced villagers said: "The government has not come to our rescue.

Evacuation and relief centres are yet to be opened. We are facing problems in arranging food since everything is under water now." There were demands for providing food packets since cooking was difficult in view of the

surging flood waters.

An official told IANS that members of the state disaster response force were being rushed to the areas where there were major floods. "But the members faced obstruction from those who had blockaded the road," said the official. The protesters were demanding the arrest of three Muslim youths who had opened fire at some women and students at Nungrei on April 17, injuring 14 of them.

People bear the brunt of loopholes in Employment Exchange Office and Transport Office in Senapati

Tahamzam (SeNapaTI), may 23 (mexN): The Senapati District Students’ Association (SDSA) today has expressed its serious concern over the prevailing state of affairs in District Employment Exchange Office and District Transport Office, Senapati and said that it detected “loopholes of highest degree” in these offices.

A press note from SDSA General Secretary, Newman Polah informed that having “bombarded” with phone calls to address the grievances of the public with respect two offices, the student body had undertaken inspection at intervals to assess the situation and found the loopholes. “It has intimated its displeasure through telephonic conversation with hope the department would take necessary measures to remedy the same,” it said but the concerned department conveniently neglected and failed to seriously follow SDSA request.

Consequently, it informed that SDSA President, Pungdi. P Celestine and his colleagues make an anony-

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aIzawl/aGarTala, may 23 (IaNS): The Mizoram government has taken a fresh initiative to take back the tribal refugees sheltered in seven north Tripura camps for the last 19 years, officials said here on Monday.

"Mizoram government submitted to the union home ministry last week a detailed plan for repatriation of tribal refugees from Tripura to Mizoram," Lalbiakzama, who is additional secretary in Mizoram's home department, said in Aizawl.

"After the union home ministry approves the roadmap, a fresh initiative would be undertaken tobring back the Reang tribal refugees to their villages in western Mizoram," he said.

About 31,300 Reang tribals, who call themselves "Bru", have been living in seven makeshift camps in northern Tripura's Kanchanpur areas adjoining Mizoram since October 1997. They had fled ethnic violence in Mizoram following the killing of a Mizo forest officer at the Dampa Tiger Reserve.

Several Mizo organisations have demanded deletion of names from the voter list of those tribals who are unwilling to come back to the state.

On the directives of the Supreme Court and the union home ministry, the Mizoram government has taken several initiatives to take back the refugees, but they were reluctant to go back to their villages unless their demands for food and security were met.

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mous visit at the Employment Exchange Office few days ago and saw “painful” picture human chain under the scorching sun waiting desperately for official even after the schedule of office hour’s had lapsed for an hour.

“When the office opened, only few staffs were present against the total strength of its staffs. When questioned, it was learnt that many of its staffs retired and their vacancy left void,” it added.

The daily affairs of the office is been managed only by a lower division clerk with no supervisors to monitor and despite computer revolution, an office whose mission is to curb unemployment in the district has no such system

and all process of documentation done manually, SDSA further lamented.

In this regard, the student body said that there is an “urgent need for installation of suitable electronic system to speedy the official proceedings in time.” At the District Transport Office, the SDSA officials also detected similar lacuna with the functioning of the district Motor Vehicle Department.

It is regrettable to note that that while it take few days to get the document done elsewhere, a person needing driving license in the district has to wait for months, it highlighted. SDSA also informed that while seeking explanation for the long waiting period, it found out that the

officer-in-charge had kept himself busy with other official work in the state capital (Imphal) ignoring the duties assigned to him. “There were acute shortages of man power for performing the chores of the office.” Due to such delay and inefficiency, students pursuing higher studies outside the state have to suffer the brunt as such document is used as alternative gateway for rent, jobs, passport and other amenities, SDSA further maintained.

In this regard, the students’ body expressed disappointment at the “deliberate absenteeism” of the concerned officers and disloyalty in the performance of their duties and called for rectification.

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‘Consumer awareness in Nagaland & success stories’ Kohima, may 23 (mExN): During the two days training programme of Para Legal Volunteers conducted by Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) on May 21 and 22 at State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) Kohima, Kezhokhoto Savi, President of NVCO and Convenor ACAUT Nagaland (legal cell) presented a topic on ‘Consumer awareness in Nagaland & success stories.’

Savi said consumer awareness in the state is still lacking and in order to create more awareness to educate the citizens we are to take advantage of the two important event which observes every year namely ‘World Consumer Rights Day’ on March 15 and ‘National Consumers Day’ on December 24.

Press & Media Cell, NVCO in a press release said that the Nagaland State Consumer Helpline Toll Free No. 1800 – 345 – 3701, which is a central project under the ministry of consumer affairs is providing advises and guidance as to how to solve the consumer problem or disputes through telephone and the Helpline office is situated at Old Assembly Secretariat, Kohima jointly run by NVCO and the department of consumer protection & legal metrology. While calling to Toll Free one requires introducing their identity and the call charges would go to Consumer Helpline office.

MON AND KIPHIRE: Consumer awareness is still very low in these four districts especially in villages/rural areas and these districts have similar consumer problems such as bad roads, prices of essential commodities and transportation/carrying charges are comparative high and the markets are equally runs by non-local and some are mostly dominated by non-locals. The supply of various items of Public Distribution System is poor.

The charges of price in medicine was highest in Kiphire more than ten years ago where 35% was charged above the printed price and slowly came to 15% and now as per the correct price in all district no pharmacies is allowed to charge any percentage but just on the printed price. Selling of expiry goods were common especially the category of ‘Best Use before Six Months’ or more.

The unfair means of weightment/scale/ balance by the traders is common in Mon including the non-local traders. Longleng is one district yet to have any voluntary consumer organization.

Highest rate of fuel adulteration could be Tuensang where several vehicle owners especially government employees posted at Tuensang normally get fuel tank full at Mokokchung and even buy extra.

The president of Pharmacies’ NVCO district-wise observa- Union Tuensang declared that tion on consumer grievances from now medicine would be sold only on the printed price/ and awareness TuENSANg, LONgLENg MRP admitting that charging

above the printed price/MRP is wrong and illegal keeping in mind that the relevant government orders were available in the 2nd Edition-NVCO Booklet.

Illegal collection of cash in the check gates continues despite of government standing order in banning all these illegalities including monthly fees. The truck drivers are to give at least Rs.20/to Rs.50/- per vehicle to traffic police while unloading the goods to avoid unnecessary harassment.

ZuNHEBOTO: Multiple taxation is common in Zunheboto and the public suffers from bad roads. The civil societies had formed Steering Committee against price rise and unabated taxation in Zunheboto to fight against the illegality where citizens especially business community were served with letters demanding Rs.70,000/- and the following week another faction served a demand letter amounting to Rs.1,20,000/- . The practice of illegal syndicate and dealership system in trade was one of the main causes for price-rise in the district. In 2013 the price of one kg of potato at Rs.25/- has brought down to Rs.15/- per kilo after the ban/boycott of certain necessary essential goods being relaxed for open market. “Of late the civil societies had detected that the Town Council had been charging/taking the sum of Rs.36,000/- per month from Petrol/fuel Pump owners which was never practice by other councils,” Press & Media Cell, NVCO al-

leged in the press release.

MOKOKCHuNg: Consumer awareness is comparative better in Mokokchung town but require doing more in village levels. As soon as the Govt. of India had directed all the states to charge the prices of medicine on the printed prices only, Mokokchung was the first market to follow as the pharmacies began to charge only on the printed price.

WOKHA: Imposing taxation by underground factions is common in Wokha. The prices of cold drink have different prices such as chilled and not chilled. Citizens suffer from bad roads. Consumer awareness is low especially in rural areas/villages.

PEREN: Having major problem in water supply. The roads are bad especially via Sainik School and taxation upon local products is common. The project for public utility was done with poor workmanship and some are not even completed. Consumer awareness is low.

PHEK: Service charges such as Photostat, etc are exorbitant in Phek. The prices of fuel both petrol and diesel are not properly regulated which encourage the out-let to charge in an exorbitant manner.

Consumer awareness is still low especially in rural areas/villages.

DIMAPuR: The practices of illegal collection of cash and imposing of multiple-taxation in Dimapur as the commercial hub of the state are one major cause to price-rise. Every now and then temporary rise of prices in es-

sential commodities including building materials is common in Dimapur. Too many pay-counters besides the two main Nagaland check-gates situated at the entry point to state/Dimapur. Several organisations/federation/associations/unions including underground factions, DMC several Toll tax collection points, pay-counter maintained by government department including Nagaland Police especially at the check-gates, etc were huge harassment to public especially transporters and business community.

KOHIMA: As the state capital, Kohima is the best place for fund-raise and of course several ways of fund-raise spoiled the market price and also amounts to public harassment. The unfair means of weightment/scale/ balance especially practice by the butchers is common.

The State Government especially the District Administration and Municipal Council has failed to regulate/control the prices of several meat shops in selling much above the KMC rate to the extent of Rs.40/- to Rs.60/- per kg. The original price tag on motor parts are removed and sold at an exorbitant rate. The workmanship in construction is poor especially roads where it does not last long including the BRTF where the causes of poor workmanship includes the uses of sub-standard and expiry materials. With just one rainy season the roads are almost spoiled and full of potholes.

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PEREN, may 23 (mExN): ATMA Peren block conducted one day training on cultivation practices of Large Cardamom at Peren village on May 21. Resource person, Vinatoli BTM dwelt right from selection of site till harvesting.

Stressing on the importance of maintaining spacing at the time of planting, she reminded the farmers that proper spacing is very important for healthy growth of the crop which eventually will lead to bountiful harvest. Timely gap filling, weeding, irrigation, mulching and beheading of shade trees regularly at a height of 4-5m are some other important aspects which need to be followed for successful harvest of the crop, she added. Farmers were also trained on the method of Curing, another important post –harvest operation to remove moisture from the freshly harvested capsules which contains up to 85% moisture.

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Certificates were distributed to all the participants along with reading materials. The participants expressed their gratitude to the organizers for conducting such practical oriented training programme and also requested to help them provide planting materials so that interest can be created among the farmers. Altogether 15 Kiwi growers attended the programme.

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moKoKchuNg, may 23 (DiPR): For enhancing the yielded and profitability of Horticulture and Agriculture production in Nagaland a one day seminar on Agro- Textiles was held at SARS, Yisemyong on May 20 which was jointly organized by the Ministry of Textiles (GoI), Centre of Excellence, SASMIRA, Mumbai and the department of Horticulture, Government of Nagaland.

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CIH Nagaland organizes exposure visit cum training for Phek farmers PhEK, may 23 (mExN): Two days exposure visit cum training on ‘Production technology of Kiwi fruits & its Management practices’ was conducted for Phek District farmers by Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), DAC & FW, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Medziphema on May 18 and 19 at Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh.

The programme was organized to equip the farmers with the advanced production technologies and post harvest management practices of Kiwi fruit for better income generation.

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Rengma GB body supports demand for Tseminyu district TsEmiNyu, may 23 (mExN): The Rengma GB Association has extended support to the Rengma Hoho’s demand for creation of Tseminyu district.

President of Rengma GB Association, Kehoga Kent in a press statement apprised the State government that Rengmas played major role, politically and administratively, for the formation of Nagaland State. “Our (Rengmas) participation and contribution have presented the present state of Nagaland,” it stated.

Lamenting that a district for Rengma people remains overdue, the statement pointed out that Tseminyu stands as the oldest administrative centre in Nagaland

since the time of British rule.

“Rengmas have the right to have a district at the time of the State implementation, but we were politically betrayed and snub in spite of our sacrifices for the identity and the integrity of the Nagas. Though political consideration has been granted to others, Rengmas have been deprived of district till today, which is our political and historical right,” it added.

The Rengma GB Association also expressed confidence and trust in the DAN Government under the leadership of Chief Minister TR Zeliang and DAN Chairman & NPF President Shürhozelie to bring justice to the demand.

Meetings & AppointMents Naga Students’ Federation Emergency Presidential Council Meeting of NSF has been convened on May 26, 11:00 am at NSF office, Kohima. Therefore, all the federating units & sub-ordinate bodies’ presidents have been asked to attend the meeting positively.

BJP celebration

As a mark of solidarity and support to the Nagaland Foot Hill Road Co-ordination Committee, 28-member team from Ao Senso Telongjem Diphupar visited the construction site of Doyang bridge on May 21. The team expressed satisfaction over the progress of the work and encouraged the contractor concerned for timely completion. The team also appealed to the state government in particular and people as a whole to extend all possible co-operation to the NFHRCC for the success of the project without any hindrance.

NPF 48 Moka A/C issues clarification Truck hijacked; KADTA warns of ‘chakka jam’ moN, may 23 (mExN): With regard to the news item ‘Appeal to retain Mopong EAC headquarter’, NPF of 48 Moka A/C in Mon district has clarified that A Yangkon Konyak, who issued the statement, is not the Vice Chairman of Adhoc Town Committee of Mopong Town (ATCM) as he claimed.

A release from 48 Moka A/C President, EY Pongtau and General Secretary, H Langkham stated that W Shamlau Konyak is the present Vice Chairman of

ATCM. Stating that it views seriously the statement of Yangkon and for taking the general public for granted, the NPF requested the district administration to take necessary action for “tarnishing the image of ATCM thereby creating unwanted situation in the area.”

The NPF said it is well aware of the State Government’s decision in restructuring the administrative jurisdiction of Angjangyang SDO (C), Longching EAC HQ and Mopung EAC HQ

Vide order dated Kohima, October 31, 2014. “Moreover since it is the prerogative of the Government, we are confident that the State Government promulgated this order for administrative convenience towards the service of the people.

Hence, there is no issue of the people going against the decision of the Government which was done after observing the necessary formalities,” the release said.

Meanwhile, the party called upon all not to mislead the innocent public.

CGBU for smooth implementation of Kohima-Dimapur 4-lane project Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): The Chakroma GB Union (CGBU) has requested all to co-operate with the authorities for smooth implementation of the 4-lane Kohim-Dimapur road project. The Union considered it a privilege that the proposed project falls under Angami traditional land.

“As it is the practice and tradition of the Angami Nagas that there should be no blockage for roads and waterways, even the present NH 29 was constructed without any compensa-

tion or objection from the traditional land owners,” CGBU General Secretary, Atso Gwizan and President, Thepfukedo Kuotsu said in a press release.

The union has requested the villages, in whosesoever jurisdiction the highway crosses, to assist in the works undertaken in whatever ways possible without any impediment, provided the government clears all pending land compensations or other dues payable to the land owners as per the present practices.

The union, at the same

time, opined that “it will be well for all of us if our local contractors under the aegis of NCSU, not to hamper the developmental programs, gracefully initiated by the Government of India, as we do not have the requisite equipments to take up such project, and also to enable quality works to be executed, unlike the cosmetic applications, which we have seen so far.”

It added, “We should be far sighted and not to look for narrow-minded and immediate, short term gains.”

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao awareness prog

Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): A sand loaded tipper truck (10-wheeler) parked at Lahorijan Sunday market was hijacked on gunpoint by miscreants after threatening the driver and handyman on May 20 between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm, according to a press release from Anil Toppo, President, Karbi AnglongDimapur Transporter Association (KADTA).

The release said that

the miscreants, including Augustine Kramsa, took away the vehicle (NL 07 A 6571) and till date its whereabouts is not known.

The vehicle has been reportedly taken away by the miscreants for not paying money demanded at the Weighbridge and the Karbi Anglong Truck Owners Welfare Association, it added.

The Karbi AnglongDimapur Transporters As-

sociation has requested Diphu police to trace out the vehicle and book the people involved in the crime at the earliest. Further, it requested Diphu SP and district administration of Karbi Anglong to enquire who had issued the authorization of illegal collection to the said Weighbridge and KATOWA. Failing to do so, KADTA warned, it will initiate “chakka jam” on NH-36 and 39 respectively.

Congress in Mon carries out protest rally moN, may 23 (mExN): District Congress Committee (DCC), Mon in collaboration with the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee conducted protest rally on May 20 against “murder of democracy, murder of constitution, and murder of freedom of religion by the NDA government at the Centre.” The rally started with a formal programme at Private Bus stand, Mon Town.

In his keynote address, Chingwang Wangsa asserted “today is the right time to change our mentality by upholding politics for change and development rather than to chase after money. The present politics are inculcated with full of corruption and manipulation restraining progress and development.”

A press release from Moba Konyak, Secretary, Press & Media, DCC Mon further informed that Y. Mankhao Konyak, PCC

member stated, “Government of Nagaland with absolute power is governing with absolute corruption.”

Speaking on the topic of religion, P. Manang, DCC member said many Christians were forcefully converted to Hinduism in various states during NDA rule. He also pointed out persecution of Christians in the recent past. He lamented that even the important days of Christians were declared working days or some other national events.

Meanwhile, Lanpha Konyak, PCC and AICC member, speaking on the topic, ‘Murder of democracy and constitution’, accused that the NDA govt. is going against every right and freedom contained in article 15 and 25 of the Indian constitution. He maintained that imposition of President’s Rule in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh without conducting floor test assassinated

the rights of the people in the states. He further highlighted the activities of the NDA government, the policies against the Christians and other minorities, the release added.

P. Angtong, President, 46th ACCC spoke on MGNREGA and alleged that the State government has misused, mismanaged and misinterpreted the Act by way of: “Pressurizing VDB secretaries and VCCs to sign on blank cheques, not conducting social audit, misinterpreting the meaning of Convergence fund by diverting 50% of MGNREGA money as VIP share, not implementing 100 days wages as guaranteed in the Act.” After the formal programme, the protestors displayed placards, some of which read, “Do not rob poor men’s money”, “We demand immediate release of MGNREGA fund”, “Immediate construction and connectivity of roads”.

Shooting incident condemned

Amardeep Bains, President, Assam Rifles Wives Welfare Association (ARWWA), Hq 5 sector and Meenakshi Tyagi, President, ARWWA, 9 Assam Rifles with women of Tsiesema Basa during a campaign for Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao at Tsiesema Basa on May 22. (Morung Photo)

Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): To create awareness on ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, 9 Assam Rifles organized a programme at Tsiesema Basa village of Kohima district on May 22. The aim of the programme was to educate the local women on the ill effects of female foeticide, importance of education

of girl child, and women empowerment through professional education, according to a press release received here. Amardeep Bains, President, Assam Rifles Wives Welfare Association (ARWWA), Hq 5 sector and Meenakshi Tyagi, President, ARWWA, 9 Assam Rifles interacted with the women, young

girls, and children of the village. The two women gave information about Government of India’s policies on ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme during the programme. They also assured them medical assistance and any help regarding primary and professional education of girls in the village, the release added.

Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): Western Rengma Students' Union Nagaland (WRSUN) has condemned the May 21 incident at Blue Hill station, Dimapur, where one auto rickshaw driver, Gwahilo Seb, was shot on his leg by Kihoto Yeptho, a GPRN/NSCN cadre, “without provocation of any kind.”

In a press release issued by its President, Aga Rengma, WRSUN supported the 10-day deadline issued to the GPRN/NSCN demanding immediate termination of the accused from national service and giving befitting punishment.

The students’ union further appealed to all Naga Political Groups to refrain their cadres from carrying fire arms in public as

“it jeopardizes the peaceful atmosphere and shakes the faith of innocent citizens on their claim as national workers". Wishing the victim a speedy recovery, the union also hoped that the authorities responsible help and compensate his medical expenses.

Meanwhile, it lauded the Tenyimi Youth Organisation Dimapur and Dimapur Police for timely action to provide justice to the victim.

Chakhroma Youth Organisation (CYO) has also condemned the incident and appealed to all the right thinking people and peace loving citizens and organizations to come forward and condemn such activities. A press release

from CYO President, Neizelie Keditsu and General Secretary, Thejangulie Metha further requested all the national workers not to create any inhuman activities in the future.

Denouncing the incident, the Tenyimi Students' Union Dimapur (TSUD) has also expressed shock that “some unscrupulous elements in the name of freedom fighters openly brandish guns and shoot at innocent civilians.”

Terming such incident a cause of serious concern, TSUD has appealed to the law enforcing agency to give befitting punishment to the accused. TSUD further endorsed the ten-day ultimatum served to the GPRN/NSCN.

Intrusion at residence of HM’s son: Demand for arrest of accused

Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): Lotha Hoho Dimapur today stated that the unlawful intrusion into the residence of Nagaland Home Minister Y. Patton’s son at Sovima late Saturday night appears to be well planned and serious crime that calls for immediate action.

The armed man intruded into the house with criminal motive as is clearly evident from his behaviour and acts as narrated

by Jackson, the victim, a press release from LHD Chairman, TL Merry and General Secretary, Renathung Ezung said.

It asserted that such crime needs to be curbed with utmost austerity by authorities concerned and befitting punishment awarded to the perpetrators to root out all such crimes and lawlessness. Condemning

the incident, the Hoho warned that the accused should not be given chance to escape under any circumstances, and that no such “dangerous, excessive social menace” should be taken as a stray incident.

Considering the degree of the crime, which also involved indiscriminate firing at the building and theft of two licensed weapons, Lotha Hoho Dimapur, an affiliate member of Naga Council Dimapur, appealed to all law abiding citizens to condemn the crime and help initiate stern action at the earliest.

In a separate press release, Village Council Sovima (VCS) and Sovima Village Youth Organisation (SVYO) condemned the incident and added it is suspected that the armed man might have entered the residence to intimi-

date or kill Jackson. In this light, the two organizations have requested the authority concerned to consider the case seriously and book the accused at the earliest and award befitting punishment.

They further assured to extend full cooperation to the authority.

The NPF Central Hqs. Kohima has also denounced the incident and stated that no stone should be left unturned to apprehend the accused. A press release from NPF Press Bureau said that according to the victim and complainant Jackson, it was “not a case of robbery but assassination bid or intimidation.” NPF Dimapur division also condemned the episode and reminded the authority concerned to take swift action and apprehend the person (s) involved.

Condemning the incident,

the Wokha Town Old Riphyim Union has in a press release also appealed to the law enforcing agency to bring the culprit(s) to book at the earliest and award befitting punishment according to the law of the land.

The Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has also condemned the incident and appealed to the law enforcing agencies to book the accused at the earliest possible time and take action according to the law of the land so that the motive behind it will be brought to the knowledge of all.

Meanwhile, the Lotha Students’ Union (LSU), Wokha termed the incident “very abusive not only to the concerned person and family but a direct insult to the community in general.”

The union cautioned that it will not tolerate against anyone com-

mitting such “atrocious crime” on innocent citizens. It also called upon every right thinking citizens to condemn the incident and remain vigilant to do away with such transgressions in Naga society. Further, LSU urged the competent authority to thoroughly investigate and book the accused immediately.

Taking serious note of the crime, the Old Riphyim (Monamoni) Association has also urged the Police and administration concerned to give their best effort to arrest the accused at the earliest. The association also condemned the incident and chided the perpetrator(s) for “using innocent citizens as soft target for their self vested interest.” It appealed to all sections of society to remain vigilant and jointly aid in uprooting such crime.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nagaland has convened a meeting of all the state office bearers, district presidents, frontal presidents and office bearers to celebrate the two years completion of BJP led NDA Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 25, 1:30 pm at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur. The National Secretary and in-charge of Nagaland, BJP, Farooq Khan, will address the meeting.

Zeliangrong Christian Revival churches All the Zeliangrong Christian Revival churches have been informed that Rev. Achunbo and License Pastor Zinthui, ZCRCC will be ordained on May 28 at Prayer Centre Nchangram by Rev. Dr. Neikedozo Paphino, President, NCRCC. Therefore, the pastors and church leaders under ZCRCC have been asked to attend the ordination programme positively.

EE PWD (R&B) Peren Executive Engineer, PWD (R&B) Peren has convened departmental review meeting for all SDOs and JEs posted under Peren division on May 26, 10:30 am at EE PWD (R&B) office (Old Peren). The SDOs and JEs are to bring status report of all ongoing works, status of roads and bridges, and maintenance requirements etc.

Chakhroma Students’ Union Chakhroma Students’ Union (CSU) is organizing a career guidance seminar at Medziphema Town, Chumukedima Town, and Kuda (Nagarjan) on June 28, July 4, and June 11 respectively. Therefore, all the CSU units have been asked to send delegates from among higher secondary, college, and post-graduate students. For further details, contact 9089247803.

AZSU AMN The All Zeliangrong Students' Union Assam, Manipur & Nagaland (AZSU AMN) will hold its 3rd Dimki (Assembly) for the session 2016-18 on May 27, 10:00 am at Lodiram village, Dima Hasao, Assam. Therefore, executives, federating units, tribunals, and seniors of AZSU have been requested to attend the Dimki (Assembly) positively.

Pughoboto Area Public Organisation, Kohima The Aphuyemi Sümi Küqhakulu, Kohima (Pughoboto Area Public Organisation, Kohima) will celebrate its 10th anniversary cum general meeting on May 27, 10:00 am at The Heritage, Old DC Bungalow, Kohima. Therefore, all the advisors, executive members, presidents/ chairmen/ representatives of the respective village welfare and members have been requested to attend the programme.

DC Kohima Deputy Commissioner & Chairman DLCC, Rovilatuo Mor has informed that there will be an emergency DLCC meeting on May 26, 1:00 pm at the DC’s conference hall, Kohima in connection to the declaration of ‘Smoke Free Kohima City’. The DC has requested all the DLCC members to attend the meeting positively.

MEx FILE Torechu offers condolences Kohima, may 23 (mExN): MLA & Chairman, Nagaland Khadi & Village Industries Board, T Torechu has expressed shock and sadness at the sudden demise of Nikheto Sumi, Head Dobashi of Pungro Town, on May 21. In a condolence note, Torechu remembered Nikheto as a sincere and committed government servant who was posted as Head DB of Pungro ADC HQ since 2014.

“His death is indeed a great loss for the people of Pungro sub-division in particular and his immense contribution for the welfare of the people of Pungro Town will always be remembered,” he stated. The MLA further expressed condolences to the bereaved family and also prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.

Dimapur DDEO informs Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): The press release which appeared in local dailies for submission of format of teachers and students enrolment was meant for government schools only and not for private schools. Dimapur Deputy District Education Officer, R Amongla Jamir in a press release has expressed regret for the inconvenience caused due to incomplete information.

More endorse Rio’s suspension Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): NPF divisions of Kiphire and Dimapur have endorsed the suspension of former Chief Minister & present Lok Sabha MP, Neiphiu Rio from the NPF party.

Wokha Police arrest one WoKha, may 23 (Dipr): Acting on a complaint lodged by bank official in connection to missing items from ATM booth in two locations, Wokha Police have arrested one person identified as Mhalamo Ngullie (34).

All the stolen items, including four batteries and one UPS, were recovered from the accused. In this connection, a case was registered under Wokha Police Station NO.23/2016 under section 457/380/34 IPC. OC Wokha, Benrio Shitiri also informed that further investigation is on to arrest the co-accused.

ANGPTA Dimapur informs Dimapur, may 23 (mExN): Members of All Nagaland Graduate Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) under the establishment of SDEO Dimapur, whose salary were deducted for ANSTA membership have been informed to come collect the same (cash) as the deducted cash have been handed over to the Association. For further details, contact 8794540546.

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IN FOCUS The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 141

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Values

s participants of this global evolution, Nagas need values which uphold that we are the products of many cultures, traditions and memories having overlapping identities, all of which unites our shared humanity. This means having values of mutual respect that allows us to study and learn from other cultures, and to gain strength by combining and adjusting the unfamiliar with the familiar. As a people, Nagas have the right to take fulfillment and ownership in our particular faith, heritage and destinies, and learn to love what we are, without hating what and who we are not. Nagas are in need of values that enable us to prosper in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

It is at this particular point that Nagas, like any other young society in this world needs to engage with the dilemmas of truth, and the truth about dilemmas. Today, real borders are not between divided states. The real borders are between human hearts and human values. They are between the powerful and the powerless, the free and the bonded, the privileged and the unprivileged, the rich and the poor, and the equal and unequal. Today, no one can claim ignorance of the cost that this divide imposes on those who are no less deserving of human dignity, fundamental freedoms, security, food and education.

The values of inclusiveness are essential for human life to thrive.

However, Nagas continue to be raised in an environment of degenerating values, where the most basic value to respect human dignity and human worth is being challenged. Invariably, the manner in which our values and our culture collectively address these challenges will define and shape the future of our collective destinies. Which values are Nagas pursuing and nurturing? Are we feeding and nurturing the forces that will consolidate a humanity of respect, dignity, justice, freedom and hope. Or, are we only fueling the forces of prejudice, hatred, oppression and the ‘isms’ that destroys human dreams and hopes? The reality remains that one cannot begin building a future founded on ‘fear’ ‘hate’ and ‘exclusivity?’

This period of human crisis is a time for Nagas to engage in self-criticism and to truthfully examine our present values.

The idea that there is one group, tribe or organization that possesses the truth, one answer to our tribulations, or one solution to our needs, has caused more harm. Today, we need values – the ethos – embracing a human diversity that is both the reality that makes dialogue necessary, and the very basis for that dialogue. Our individual and personal respect and dignity is essential to a shared humanity.

Nagas need values that teach us that the human-security and well-being of any one tribe, community, or group is connected and interdependent with the well-being of all others, requiring mutual respect, understanding, cooperation, and investment in our mutual destiny. A value-based future invariably means, defining our own destinies.

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Anastasia Moloney Thomson Reuters Foundation

Colombia’s challenge: Child soldiers, a scourge of the past?

Some facts about children forced to work as child soldiers in Colombia

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olombia is the only country in the Americas where children are forced to work as child soldiers.

Thousands of boys and girls have been used as child soldiers by Colombia's largest leftist rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in its five-decade war against the government.

But it is hoped that child soldiers will soon be a scourge of the past as they will no longer be part of guerrilla ranks.

Earlier this month, FARC commanders agreed to release soldiers under 15 from their ranks as part of peace talks the rebels are holding with the Colombian government.

The two sides have been negotiating a peace deal for more than three years in a bid to end half a century of war .

A deadline for a final peace deal was missed in March, but Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said this month that his government hoped to conclude a peace deal with the FARC rebels "in the very near future".

There are currently 170 children in FARC ranks, of which 70 are girls, according to Colombia's defence minister, Luis Carlos Villegas. He said on May 19 the FARC will soon release the first of 20 child soldiers aged under 15.

Here are some facts about child soldiers in Colombia: • All illegal armed groups, including criminal gangs, rightwing paramilitary groups and Colombia's second largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), have forcibly recruited teenagers or taken on under-age volunteers.

• The FARC recruited 11,556 children into its ranks between 1975 and 2014, according to latest figures from Colombia's attorney general's office.

• Since 2013, around 1,000 children have been used or recruited by illegal armed groups, including the FARC, according to the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF).

• Children as young as nine are known to have been recruited by the rebels.

• Most child soldiers join FARC ranks around the age of 12 and spend on average 14 years fighting. Some give themselves up, often after escaping. Others are rescued by government security forces, usually after clashes with rebels.

• Children are trained to fight in combat, use grenades and mortars and to plant landmines. They are also used as cooks, messengers, informants and porters. Other duties include digging trenches, collecting firewood, and clearing paths in the jungle.

• Girls are used as sex slaves and undergo forced abortions carried out by the FARC, according to human rights groups.

• The FARC have long been accused by human rights groups and the government of forcibly recruiting children, especially from indigenous groups, in remote areas where there are few job opportunities.

• Former child soldiers sometimes say they voluntarily joined the FARC and were not forcibly recruited. Many come from broken homes and join to escape abuse and poverty at home.

• Many child soldiers leave rebel ranks when they become adults. If they join a government reintegration programme, they can receive a monthly allowance of up to $140 provided that they attend school or university, undergo psychological counselling and vocational training, and do community service.

• Often illiterate and traumatised, former child soldiers find it hard to reintegrate into society and face significant obstacles as many have known only a life of war.

SOURCES: The U.N. children's agency (UNICEF), Colombia's reintegration agency (ACR), Colombia's attorney general's office.

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Walden Bello Foreign Policy in Focus

People Are Likening the Next Philippine President to Donald Trump. Here’s Why! A hapless elite, an angry electorate, and a brash front-runner with little regard for democratic norms: The latest Philippine election sounds a lot like America's

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nternational reports about the recent election in the Philippines invariably refer to its result as a “political earthquake.” The metaphor is accurate.

A year ago, few believed that Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of Davao, would be the next president of the Philippines. Duterte had achieved a reputation as a Filipino “Dirty Harry,” a strongman who boasted that he got rid of criminals and drug pushers by wiping them off the face of the earth. When questioned about the 1,000-plus extrajudicial executions alleged to have taken place under his watch, he simply growled that criminals had no human rights and were not entitled to due process.

He was the outlier in Philippine politics, the one who didn’t buy into liberal values and liberal democratic discourse. He seemed to take perverse delight in peppering his talks with curses like putang ina (“son of a b***”) and calling people who irritated him bakla (gay) or cono (c***t) — his special term for people coming from elite families.

Not surprisingly, many have likened him to another political outlier: Donald Trump.

Underestimating Duterte A year ago, the contest seemed to be between Vice President Jejomar Binay and Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, the secretary of the interior who was outgoing President Benigno Aquino’s anointed successor.

Aquino’s Liberal Party machine felled Binay by exposing the various ways Binay’s family had siphoned off billions of pesos from their bailiwick, the city of Makati. It may have been a political demolition job, but it was all true.

Next to suffer the ruling Liberal Party’s wrath was Grace Poe. A neophyte senator, Poe was thrust into the presidential race by people who thought her name would translate into political gold. Poe’s father was Fernando Poe, Jr., a beloved action star widely believed to have been cheated out of the presidency during the 2004 elections. In the Liberal Party’s calculation, a Roxas-Poe tandem would be unbeatable.

When Poe refused to run as Roxas’ vice president, her candidacy became the object of legal challenges.

One disputed her being a natural-born Filipino — a qualification to run for the presidency — owing to her being a foundling. Another asserted that Poe, who returned to the Philippines after living in the United States, did not meet the necessary period of residency in the country. The cases against Poe went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which — after a bitter struggle — refused to disqualify her. But the damage had been done, and the fingerprints of the presidential palace were all over the place.

Meanwhile, Duterte’s star was on the rise.

He was, however, going ballistic. To his boasting about killing criminals without due process, he now added threats about killing workers if they went against his development plans, which alarmed the labor unions. With his mouth seemingly running ahead of his mind, many partisans of the administration thought Duterte was on the road to self-destruction.

They were wrong.

A Difficult Sell Yet if the ruling Liberal Party could demolish two of its leading opponents, it had a harder time selling its chosen candidate.

To a great extent this was Aquino’s doing, since he’d convinced Roxas to make his campaign theme the continuation of the administration’s “Straight Path” initiative. Aquino wanted Roxas to be seen in the public eye as the inheritor of his anti-corruption campaigns. Instead, the administration burdened Roxas with two major millstones.

One was the scandal surrounding a secret, multibillion-peso slush fund concocted by the administration that involved the arbitrary, illegal, and unconstitutional management of public funds.

The other was the disastrous Mamasapano raid, where 44 members of the National Police’s Special Action Force were killed, along with 17 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. It was a bungled counterterrorist raid, done mainly to serve Washington’s interests rather than Manila’s — and for which Aquino refused to accept command responsibility. It hung like a specter over his administration.

But Roxas had his own share of problems. Though regarded as personally clean, he was widely seen as inept, if not a klutz.

Put in charge of the recovery effort following the catastrophic Typhoon Hainan (or Yolanda), he was blamed for the massive mismanagement that attended the effort. Having served as head of the Department of Transportation and Communication, he was also seen as responsible for the administration’s failure to untangle metropolitan Manila’s mass transit and traffic mess. “Analysis paralysis” became the scornful description of his management approach.

Meanwhile, Duterte’s trash talk wasn’t leading, as the Liberal Party hoped, to self-destruction.

While there were five candidates, the media largely structured the contest as being between Roxas and Duterte. And, in a style befitting Donald Trump, Duterte found his rival’s number: a tendency to react quickly and hotly to real or perceived slights.

Thus Duterte needled Roxas on the latter’s claim to be a Wharton graduate in his official biography.

Technically, Roxas was right — he had an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylva-

Philippine presidential candidate and Davao city mayor Rodrigo 'Digong' Duterte (C) is flanked by his relatives during a "Miting de Avance" (last political campaign rally) before the national elections at Rizal park in Manila in the Philippines May 7, 2016. (REUTERS Photo/File)

nia’s Wharton School of Business. But Duterte was also right that Roxas was guilty of misrepresentation, since the common assumption is that a “Wharton graduate” is one who has an MBA from the school.

No amount of explanation from Roxas could deter Duterte from continually bringing up the issue of misrepresentation.

And the more angry and exasperated Roxas got, the more he lost points with Filipinos, who think that the one who loses his cool in a debate (pikun) loses the argument.

An Electoral Insurgency While Roxas, a man with a lily-white upper class background, stumbled, Duterte found himself becoming the medium of an electoral revolt.

This first became evident on the Internet.

Seemingly out of nowhere, an army of Duterte netizens emerged when it became apparent that he was considering a run for the presidency. Euphoric and aggressive by turns, they waged war on those who expressed reservations or criticisms of their idol. While some engaged in spirited debate, others resorted to threats. One female environmentalist and Duterte critic, for instance, was threatened online with rape.

The response was often similarly base. Some anti-Duterte netizens retaliated against attacks, for example, by calling the Duterte camp “Dutertards.” Philippine politics had never before seen a cyberwar this fierce.

Surveys showed Duterte drawing support from all classes. His anti-crime message obviously resonated with the upper and middle classes, but it also found fertile ground in poorer, drug-ravaged neighborhoods, whose residents didn’t think Duterte was exaggerating when he said the drug problem in the Philippines was worse than in Mexico.

But it was the candidate’s railing against corruption and poverty, his obvious disdain for the rich — the conos, as he called them — and above all, his coming across as “one of you guys” that acted as a magnet to workers, the urban poor, peasants, and the lower middle class. From mid-March on, he had the momentum, climbing to the top of all the surveys and not yielding the lead once he got there. In city after city, thousands attended his rallies, often waiting six or seven hours in sweltering temperatures to hear the man.

Traveling throughout the country during this period in my own campaign for the Senate, the excitement was palpable to me. I encountered the same story everywhere, and it was not apocryphal: As one campaigner put it, “People are making their own posters and tarpaulins. Dirt-poor tricycle drivers are paying for Duterte stickers. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“Spontaneity and improvisation and grassroots momentum have been the hallmarks of the Duterte campaign,” I observed in a Facebook post during the campaign. “Duterte, more by instinct rather than plan, simply set fire to emotions that were already just below the surface. … I am disturbed by the Duterte movement and fear a Duterte presidency, but we risk gross misunderstanding of its dynamics and direction if we attribute its emergence to mass manipulation. It is, simply put, a largely spontaneous electoral insurgency.”

As the campaign moved to a climax, Duterte seemed to make a fatal mistake when he joked about the gang rape of an Australian missionary during a prison uprising in Davao in 1989. Instead of condemning the violence, Davao quipped that “the mayor should have been first in line” to violate the woman. This triggered fury in many quarters, especially among women’s groups, and censure from the Australian and U.S. ambassadors. But the incident barely dented his numbers.

Then Roxas brought out the heavy artillery: Senator Antonio Trillanes, the same administration ally who’d spearheaded the demolition job on Vice President Binay. He claimed that Duterte had stashed billions of pesos in multiple accounts that he hadn’t disclosed. Yet the polls simply shrugged that revelation off.

ple wished him to be: the bearer of their fears and hopes, and the sword that would bring about the radical measures they felt were necessary to contain the rot of the system.

In panic mode three days before the election, President Aquino staked all the moral authority he thought he’d built up over six years on publicly branding Duterte a “dictator” and calling on Filipinos to reject him. “For some reason,” I wrote at the time, Aquino “doesn’t realize that people see him not as part of the solution but as part of the problem, and that the more he exhorts the people to behave in a certain way, the more they will go in the opposite direction.”

The disconnect between the upper-class president and the electorate, in short, was deafening.

On May 7, the last day of the campaign, while his rivals struggled to bring mere hundreds to their final rallies, close to one million people jammed Manila’s Luneta Park to hear their idol Duterte. He was in fine form, peppering his speech as usual with curses, but also burnishing his populist appeal. As one observer, social critic John Silva, wrote: Now I get it. The media’s relentless attacks, besmirching Digong Duterte for his looks, his vulgarity, his shameless sexuality, his death threats for criminals who prey on children and the poor, actually all this has a lot to do with the threat he poses for the forty richest families who control most of the country’s gross national product and the media. It’s the scary threat of spreading the wealth threatened by a candidate whose house in Davao is about the size of a Forbes Park [an exclusive residential area for the super-rich] pool cabana… So, it’s class war, at least for now, in print, on the airwaves and in cyberspace.

The Coming Fury?

So, in the aftermath of Duterte’s smashing victory, where he gained over 38 percent of the vote, what’s in store for the Philippines?

When it comes to foreign policy, no one really knows. During one of the presidential debates, he said that his solution to the Philippines’ territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea would be for him to go — alone! — to one of the reefs claimed by the Philippines but occupied by China. He’d plant the Philippine flag, he promised, and then leave it up to the Chinese to deal with him, even kill him.

Many thought he wasn’t joking. (One thing is certain, though: Influenced by an anti-imperialist outlook since his student days, Duterte trusts the Americans even less than the Chinese.)

And economic policy? He said he’d be content with copying the blueprints of his rival candidates, since “I’ve been copying from my seatmates since I was in Grade Three.” And again, many did not see this as a joke.

What’s not in doubt is that the country is in for draconian policies when it comes to drugs and crime. There’s also no doubt that, with all the expectations he’s aroused, there will be populist measures promoting income distribution and less talk about promoting economic growth, since the electorate is visibly tired of rapid growth without poverty reduction. His announcement that he would appoint people connected with the Communist Party to head up the departments of agrarian reform, the environment, labor, and social welfare, for example, was received by many to be an opening salvo in a move to the left.

With the anger, frustration, and resentment that accumulated under a succession of corrupt or inept administrations dominated by competing dynasties now bursting into the open, the Philippines is headed for stormy seas. Social warfare is on the agenda, and the country is likely to experience something akin to the Yellowshirt versus Redshirt conflict in Thailand in the years leading up to the military coup of 2014.

This realization was brought home to me shortly before the election, when I ran into a former student who was a Roxas partisan. “I hope that migrating will not be the only option for people like me,” he said. Lower-level staff at the international agency he worked at had gone for Duterte “because they want to get up there right A Class Disconnect now. I can’t tell them that it took two generations It became clear to me then that what Duterte for my family to reach white-collar status because actually stood for was drowned out by what peo- they won’t listen to me. They want it right now.”

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My cultural revolution: a child’s memory China in the mid-1960s plunged into a social ferment lasting a decade. The experiences of those directly affected may be complex, as this recollection shows Temtsel Hao

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ifty years ago, on 16 May 1966, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily published an official statement which would come to symbolise the start of the decadelong mass convulsion known as the "Great Cultural Revolution". The "5.16 resolution", as it was later known, called for a purge of the so-called "capitalist roaders" within the party, in order to avoid a repeat of the "revisionist" path taken by the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev's abandonment of Stalinism following the death of Stalin himself in 1953.

The cultural revolution, usually dated as lasting from 1966 to 1976, has been compared in its atrocities to what took place in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa. It has become a stereotyped image of communist evil and craziness. Frank Dikötter’s new book, The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 (Bloomsbury, 2016) uses evidence from Chinese archives to illustrate how ordinary Chinese were affected by the political turmoil.

I asked professor Dikötter, when he came to London recently to launch the book, whether it portrays a darker and grimmer picture of the event than most people who had personal experience in the decade after 1966 in China might themselves recall.

After all, suppose a person went to browse the criminal archives or records kept in official registers or Scotland Yard, and writes a book about life in London decades ago. The result, targeted on one short period, may intensify the person’s feeling and views on the subject. Apart from this, a child’s observation and childhood memory can offer a different and also useful supplement to the collective memory of a historic event or period.

A purge and its ripples I was born in 1965 in Inner Mongolia, China, and the cultural revolution started as I began to be aware of the world around me. In 1968-69 both my parents (doctors working in different hospitals) were accused of being members of a non-existent Mongolian nationalist party and put in detention for a year, during which they experienced interrogations and torture. My father lost his hearing as a result of physical torture. The purge affected our extended family too. My mother’s father was tortured to death, my mother’s elder brother committed suicide in detention when the torture was too hard for him to bear.

I remember the bitterness and suffering, and have no reason to sanitise the leftist, radical, political furies of the time. But like most other children at the time, my boyhood memories were not completely without joys and excitement. I remember after my father was released from detention and was restituted, I felt a bit disappointed to know he was not actually a spy for the revisionist Soviet Union and Mongolia as he had been accused, because it meant he did not have a pistol hidden somewhere secretly at home.

I grew up in a hospital compound; some of my childhood friends’ parents served in the Chinese army and experienced war. One kid’s father fought in Korea, going to Seoul with his army unit in the Chinese army’s third campaign. Those kids all felt very proud of their fathers’ military past, and showed off what army souvenirs they got, such as a leather pistol holster, Soviet Russian-style army cap, or medal. I had nothing to show off; my father had been educated in outer Mongolia and worked as a doctor all the time, without any relations with the Chinese military. For a boy in the time of revolutionary fervour and worship of the military, even a father who worked as a special agent for the enemy would be still something better than a complete civilian.

The purge of Mongolian 'nationalists' stopped in 1969.

The official death-toll among Mongolians is 50,000, but many Mongols believe the true figure is much higher. To pacify the discontent of the Mongol victims of the purge, the authorities at the time gave various forms of compensation to their families. My parents received a family trip to Beijing and Shanghai for a health check and treatment.

I spent a few months living with them in a hotel in Shanghai, where we met many other long-term resident guests,

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ife on the remote Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana has all the ingredients for sex trafficking - poverty, isolation, joblessness and violence, topped with an epidemic of crystal meth addiction.

Drug users are selling their babies, daughters and sisters for the potent stimulant that is ravaging Native American communities such as the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes living on the desolate plains of Fort Peck, say community leaders, experts and federal authorities.

"We're in crisis mode," said Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure. "We have mothers giving their children away for sexual favors for drugs. We have teenagers and young girls giving away sexual favors for drugs."

No numbers record specific rates of local sex trafficking, which can often be buried in crimes of sexual assault, abuse, prostitution, abandonment or kidnapping. But it is a crime, poorly documented and fuelled by drug abuse, plaguing Indian reservations across the United States.

The rate of meth use among American Indians is the highest of any ethnicity in the country and more than twice as high as any other group, according to the National Congress of American Indians.

The number of drug cases on Indian lands nationwide rose seven-fold from 2009 to 2014, and crime rates on some reservations are five times higher than national averages, according to a federal Drug Enforcement Administration report.

On Fort Peck, a reservation of some 10,000 people, six newborn babies tested positive for meth in just two weeks in April and were taken to a hospital 300 miles away, said Howard Bemer, the Bureau of Indian

many of whom who, permanently maimed in industrial accidents, were on medical trips paid by the state. At the time, Shanghai was the only big city where the radical leftists had taken complete control, while in other places they were checked by the army. I remember walking past the Shanghai workers' militia headquarters and seeing militia sentry standing outside holding automatic rifles with shiny bayonets.

Among those work-related-injury cases was a pretty young woman who, as a factory worker in a faraway northwest province, had lost her sight in an accident. She always wore sunglasses with her pink or purple blouses.

One day an official from the factory came to visit her. During his stay of several days in the hotel, this child-loving middle-aged man became friendly with me, 6-years-old at the time. One day he kindly offerred me a piece of the watermelon he had bought. Instead of saying "no thank you", I jokingly said his offer was “sugar-coated bullets”, using a well-know political term at the time. (The slogan read: “the bourgeoisie's sugar-coated bullets are of two kinds: material and spiritual…”).

Looking back, it made him really nervous. I could have given the poor man a heart-attack. Imagine that a factory official was accused of having "bourgeois" influence on a 6-year old boy, a living example of the standard propaganda plots of the time. After the incident, the man went to see my father and seriously explained he did not have any bad intention at all. My father admonished me, and said politics was never a joking matter.

Some memoirs of the cultural revolution comment that the line between victim and perpetrator was often blurred. I myself briefly played the role of perpetrator as a pre-schoolaged boy. Once, three of us little kids were playing together.

Suddenly one of my companions wanted to share his enlightened views with us. He pulled us aside and said confidentially: “I will tell you both a secret. You know what Chairman Mao really is? He is actually nothing but a fur ball!" ("Mao" in Chinese can also mean "fur" or "hair").

At the time, Mao’s name was everywhere, all day, on the radio, blaring from public speakers in every propaganda outlet. This must have puzzled the little kid, and set him thinking. But in trying his best to understand, he had come out with a risky piece of wordplay that gave me handy leverage over him. Whenever our friendship soured, I would threaten to report him to the authorities over this defamatory remark about the great Chairman Mao. The kid was so scared of being revealed as a counter-revolutionary, that he gave in before me every time.

Later, we all grew up a bit and came to know better that, even in a time full of political slandering and defaming, small children were unlikely to be held responsible for innocent quips about political leaders.

During those days, my parents sometimes told us about their suffering in detention. My father told me the most feared interrogator was a Mr Zhang, a worker in the same hospital and a member of the so-called "worker propaganda team" which helped to guard and interrogate detained ethnic Mongols. Mr Zhang was feared for his ingenuity in finding effective torture methods. He sometime put tiny wooden blocks between my father’s fingers, then squeezed the fingers, causing unbearable pain.

After my parents' release and restitution, Mr Zhang –

who lives not far from us – apologised to my father. He was forgiven. He was a keen gardener, and often visited our courtyard to admire our garden's flowers. Sometimes he came to trade some pot flowers with us.

I remember a boy a few years older than me, Liu Junior, who came from a worker family living in a house behind ours. I heard that he was taken away for punishment by the red guards at the start of the cultural revolution, after someone informed them that Liu had put two thumbpins on a portrait of Chairman Mao, one on each eye. Liu explained to the red guards that he had placed the shiny thumbpins on his eyes because he had heard the official propaganda saying that “Mao has a clear vision and heart”.

Nothing serious happened to Liu Junior, probably because of his youth and his background. It could have been different if he was from a so-called bourgeois family. The kid later suffered much worse in a non-political encounter. One day his father asked him to return a butcher knife to the lender, after the father had butchered a pig he had raised himself. Liu Junior forgot to return the knife in time, and put the sharp blade in his schoolbag intending to return it after school. That day, he had a fight with another boy in the class, and responded to the latter's threat to kill him by handing over the knife and daring him to do it. The other boy backed off, and carelessly threw the knife back, piercing some vital organs.

A layered past During the early 1970s the leftist political slogans were as loud as before, but the revolutionary fervour was running out of steam. Most high-school students had been sent to the countryside to learn from peasants. Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, since November 2012 the heads of China's party and government, were among the generation sent from the cities to become (in Mao’s words) “morally, intellectually and physically well developed socialist workers”.

I was then still a primary-school pupil, and like most of my peers at the time spent few hours at school and had little homework to do. We spent most of our spare time fooling around. It was a happy time for kids, except that we all lived on low rations, with each household able to buy only one or two kilos of meat each month. We always craved food, and meat and sweet treats meant paradise for us. Often we collected or even stole pieces of metal and glass to sell to the recycle-collection point for much needed pocket-money.

Once I stole some metal parts with another boy called Pan from the large-scale boileryard which provided central heating and hot water to the local hospital, medical college and residence compound (Pan's father was the electrician in the hospital). Each of us carried a heavy pipe elbow, trying to make it to the recycling place. We managed to carry them to the fenced wall of the hospital compound. We had to begin by pushing the metal parts through the sewage holes underneath the wall before crawling through ourselves.

Pan went first, but just as the electrician’s son protruded his head on the other side of the wall, I saw his head being stepped on by a big suede leather shoe, and heard an adult's shout: "You little scoundrels, stealing state property…!" Immediately I retreated and ran away without know what happened to my little comrade after he was caught by the man from the worker militia.

I still remember the diary entry I wrote that day in panic: "Pan was arrested". In fact he was not. I guess he was brought to a local police station or militia headquarters, before Pan’s father was summoned to take his son back. The worst Pan received would be a beating from his father after they got home.

My boyhood memories of the cultural revolution, like many of my generation, contain adventures, sometimes falling victims to bullies, occasional mischievous behaviours, and even excitements and joys during those hard times. Looking back, my parents have much more bitter memories of the period. They suffered far more. Yet there were no less craziness and absurdities in adult politics than in our childhoods.

Moreover, just as it is hard to separate the good memories from the bad, it is hard to paint a black-and-white picture of the period. It is hard to imagine the Chinese setting up a Nuremberg-style trial to judge the cultural revolution. Fifty years on, what Deng Xiaoping said after he took power in the late 1970s – let bygones be bygones – has almost worked, but mainly for the Chinese authorities. To forget probably is the easiest way to handle this sensitive and controversial period of history.

Fueled by drugs, sex trafficking reaches a 'crisis' on Native American reservation Ellen Wulfhorst Thomson Reuters Foundation Affairs Superintendent for Fort Peck.

Meth use and other crime exploded with the tapping of reserves in the Bakken oil fields to the east and south of the reservation in the last decade. The boom brought tens of thousands of workers, flush with cash, to the region.

With the drop in world oil prices, many of those workers are gone but the crime has not, said Melina Healey, a trafficking expert at the Child Law Policy and Legislation Clinic at Loyola University Chicago. "The boom brought problems that don't disappear when the boom disappears," she said.

The drug trade helps incite sex trafficking, as people exchange themselves, family members or friends to get high, she said.

"If someone is addicted to meth, they're not in their right mind. It is much easier to get them to do things that they never would have done if they weren't addicted," she said at a recent anti-trafficking conference in Poplar, the reservation's tribal headquarters.

Drug debt is a forceful driver of trafficking, and dealers threaten users to pay up by any means, said Sgt. Grant Snyder, a trafficking investigator with the Minneapolis Police Department.

"Maybe it's your 12-year-old daughter, maybe it's your 5-year-old daughter," he said.

FAMILY A harrowing number of victims are trafficked by their own family members.

"Traffickers are not just scary men who drive around in Cadillacs in their leather trench coats," said Healey. "A trafficker can be a parent or guardian. A trafficker can be an aunt or an uncle or it can be a boyfriend or another friend."

The often close relationships between abuser and abused present a web of problems such as forcing victims to leave home for their protection, experts said.

Victims may fear the community and authorities won't believe them and will instead defend the trafficker, said an Indian Health Service social worker who did not want to be identified. "Nobody wants to go after a family member," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

On the bleak, windswept reservation along the Missouri River just 20 miles from the Canadian border, more than half the children live in poverty and jobs are scarce.

Most people work in ranching, mining and farming, but one in three is unemployed. The largest communities are Wolf Point and Poplar, rundown hamlets that are little more than crossroads with a smattering of stores, gas stations, bars and fewer than 4,000 residents between them.

Technology Integration In Education Sanjib Katuwal Assistant professor Department of Chemistry St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama

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echnology integration is defined as the use of technology to enhance and support the educational environment. Technology integration is using computers effectively and efficiently in the general content areas to allow students to learn how to apply computer skills (e.g., web, PowerPoint, excel, digital photography, SMART board and so on.) in meaningful ways. Discrete computer skills take on new meaning when they are integrated within the curriculum. Integration is incorporating technology in a manner that enhances student learning. Technology integration is using software supported by the business world for realworld applications so students learn to use computers flexibly, purposefully and creatively. Technology integration is having the curriculum drive technology usage, not having technology drive the curriculum. Finally, technology integration is organizing the goals of curriculum and technology into a coordinated, harmonious whole.

Technology contributes to global development and diversity in classrooms and helps to develop upon the fundamental building blocks needed for students to achieve more complex ideas. In order for technology to make an impact with the educational system, teachers and students must access to technology in a contextual matter that is culturally relevant, responsive and meaningful to their educational practice and that promotes quality teaching and active student learning.

Technology has become integrated in the classroom in so many ways, that we often don’t even think about how we are using it. The Education World Tech Team offers lessons and activities to help educators make better use of technology tools for instruction, and to help students improve their technology skills within the context of the regular curriculum.

In many schools/colleges today, technology is recognised as an instructional tool, not as a subject of instruction. In many schools/colleges use of technology in the classroom is becoming easier for teachers. Still, many educators, less familiar and less comfortable with technology than their students, struggle to seamlessly integrate a growing list of technology tools into their regular curriculum.

Benefits of Technology Integration: Here are a few but important benefits of integrating technology: • Correctly designed, more depth into the content-area curriculum is possible.

• Students are motivated by technology, thus increasing academic engagement time.

• While working in more depth with the content, students are able to move beyond knowledge and comprehension to application and analysis of information.

• Students learn where to find information in an information rich world.

• Students develop computer literacy by applying various computer skills as part of the learning process.

• Technology Improves the Quality of Student Work.

• Technology acts as a catalyst for change.

Technology Prepares Students for the Future: The future workplace will require students to have skills related to technology including the technical ability to use spreadsheets, word processors, databases and such. By having and working with technology in schools/colleges, students gain the skills that they will need to be marketable in the future workplace and to operate in a high-tech world.

However, these technical skills are not enough. The modern workplace requires that one have less tangible skills including the ability to collaborate with others, interpersonal skills, creativity, and problem solving skills, to name a few. Technology, combined with a student centred constructivist mode of learnOutside of town, dirt roads link the ing, has the potential to provide students with these weathered houses and tumble-down higher-level cognitive and interpersonal skills. trailers that dot the seemingly boundless Conclusion: grasslands.

Technology in education is neither a novelty Demand for foster care for children nor is it a fad. It is a part of the modern world, and removed from homes due to substance is becoming more and more ubiquitous in our lives abuse is showing a sharp increase, said every year. It is also a proven method for improvCourage Crawford, a program director ing learning. There is strong evidence pointing toat the Spotted Bull Recovery Resource wards technology leading to better results on stanCenter in Poplar which offers rehabilitation programs. "There aren't a lot of dardized tests; however the real emphasis should places in the country that have a perfect not be on how it improves test scores, but on how it storm of both being this rural and this benefits student learning; how it enables those who under served of basic services ... and are not able to perform at their peak in traditional also such high rates of poverty and also classrooms to do better; how it motivates students to learn and gives them a more positive attitude such rates of abuse," Healey said.

Last month, the reservation was mourn- towards education; how it can individualize learning the death by beating of a 13-month-old ing by giving feedback; how it can act as a catalyst girl. A woman responsible for caring for for change towards more student centred learning; her, while the child's mother was in jail, has and how it better prepares the youth of today with pleaded not guilty to murder. A memorial technical, communicative, interpersonal and creservice program showed a photograph of ative skills. The question we should be asking is not the smiling chubby-cheeked girl with shin- whether or not technology should be in education, ing eyes and a flowered headband. "With the but what can we do to remove barriers so as to furloss of this child I think we've hit the bottom ther the integration of technology into our schools/ of the barrel," said Azure, the tribal chief. colleges. Hence, one area in which more research Also this year, a Wolf Point man was must be done is on how to best move towards more accused of kidnapping and sexually as- student centred learning with technology and how saulting a 4-year-old girl grabbed at a lo- to best overcome barriers to doing so. Another sugcal playground. gested area for research is on how to provide stuMeth is blamed for 40 percent of dents with special needs and students who are atcrime on native land, and most tribal po- risk with more access to technology since they in lice say domestic violence and assault particular benefit from using technology. has increased as a result of addiction, acThus, a new mindset of teaching through techcording to the NCAI. nology must emerge, which depends on a vital shift Just thirteen tribal police patrol Fort in teacher/student roles. This helps both teacher Peck's 3,200 square miles, according to the and student simultaneously. We as a teacher should local Journal newspaper.

Across the country, fewer than 3,000 instruct students to complete the assignments on tribal and federal officers patrol more than the computer rather than the normal pan and paper. This helps students to explore more.

56 million acres of Indian country.

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INDIA

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With Gandhis at rock bottom, Cong comeback a daunting task NEW DELHI, May 23 (Reuters): Prashant Kishor, the election campaign manager brought in by Congress party to reverse its declining fortunes, knew his real work would begin when the party hit rock bottom. It looks like that moment has come.

The party run by the fabled Gandhi dynasty, which has led the world's largest democracy for most of its existence, suffered humiliation last week when it lost Assam to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a state election.

Congress had controlled Assam since 2001, and for the nationalist BJP it was a first. The race was not even close, underlining the crisis facing the mother-and-son team of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.

Two years ago they were eclipsed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a landslide national ballot won on promises of economic growth and a strong, modern India.

While the euphoria of that time has faded and Modi's agenda has been slowed by stalled reforms, other state election setbacks and devastating droughts hitting rural India, he remains comfort-

Congress party president Sonia Gandhi (L) and her son and the party’s vice-president Rahul Gandhi, arrive at a court in New Delhi. (REUTERS File Photo)

ably the most popular politician.

The challenge for Rahul Gandhi, the public face of Congress' comeback, is to make up lost ground in time for the biggest test before a 2019 general election - the state vote next year in Uttar Pradesh, home to around 200 million people.

That, and the state of Punjab, will go a long way to defining who is the next prime minister; in 2014, the BJP won 71 of 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh and only Sonia and Rahul Gandhi held

theirs for Congress.

Rahul Gandhi declined to be interviewed for this article, but, in a series of public appearances that have become more frequent in recent months, he sought to target Modi directly.

INSIDE KNOWLEDGE In an intriguing twist in the race for Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi has invited Kishor to help coordinate Congress' strategy, the same man who aided Modi's march to New Delhi with a campaign that embraced

modern electioneering techniques and wowed voters.

Kishor now plans to bring those, and an intimate knowledge of the way Modi and the BJP operate, to a party that is widely seen as old-fashioned and overly reliant on the Gandhis.

The 38-year-old, who largely avoids the public eye but engages the press and senior party figures with increasing confidence, has a backroom team of researchers analysing census data to more

effectively translate votes into seats.

That may mean targeting a particular caste or religion, for example.

Sources close to Kishor, who worked in health activism before being taken on as policy adviser to Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat state, said Kishor had "24/7" access to Gandhi, although he did not decide his dayto-day movements.

Kishor is determined to move away from a system of patronage, inject a sense of urgency and bring in fresh faces from the grassroots level upwards, even if it means upsetting the Congress establishment.

And, reflecting a growing interest in politics rather than focusing on number crunching, Kishor wants to portray Congress as the only inclusive national party in India, the sources said.

The BJP has been accused of stifling free speech and promoting a Hindufirst agenda to appeal to the country's majority at the expense of significant minorities, including around 170 million Muslims.

Separately, a party source said this week that Gandhi's long-awaited promotion to take over

Congress from his moth- to Modi. Congress loyaler might happen "sooner ists say Gandhi returned a changed man from a sabthan you think". batical in a secret location in early 2015.

RAHUL RELAUNCH? "He ... discovered his inIn a party steeped in tradition, secrecy and def- ner politician," said Shashi erence, enthusiasm for Tharoor, a prominent Congress lawmaker. "He's acKishor is not universal.

"Indian politics is not tive in parliament. He's susceptible to modern, more confident. His repprofessional analysis," said artee shows he can think one former Congress cabi- on his feet." Since Kishor net member. "You get it joined Gandhi's team a few right, you're lucky; you get months ago, the leader has it wrong, you're unlucky." set a frenetic pace, joinMedia have also re- ing student protesters on ported on the campaign the barricades, showing manager's frustration at solidarity with droughtGandhi's reluctance to hit farmers and hitting take quick decisions, and the campaign trail up and on speculation that Kishor down the country.

He has landed rhetoriwould resign. Kishor's organisation, Indian Political cal blows on Modi, taking Action Committee, pub- the floor of parliament in lished two tweets to ad- March to liken a tax amnesty announced in the budget dress the rumours.

"Question of quitting is to a skin-lightening cream nothing but wild specula- that turns black money tion. We are deeply hon- white. oured by the responsibility and totally committed to ANY CHANCE IN UTTAR PRADESH? the job," one said.

The latest state polls, "Grateful for the opportunity and the trust shown which also included Kerby the Congress, its lead- ala, Tamil Nadu and West ership and each & every Bengal where regional parworker for their faith in us," ties expectedly dominated, suggest that Gandhi's imread the second.

As Kishor works be- pact has been limited so far.

State polls are espehind the scenes, Rahul is re-emerging on the na- cially important for the BJP tional stage to take the fight because state legislators

elect members of the upper house of parliament where Modi's goods and services tax bill is stuck because it does not have a majority.

Some of Modi's closest advisers say they are more worried about Kishor's involvement with Congress than about Gandhi, given his impact on Modi's victory and inside knowledge of the way he thinks.

But political analysts say Modi should not lose too much sleep for now.

The BJP vote is expected to hold up relatively well in Uttar Pradesh as things stand, and the two main regional parties are well placed to fend off Congress, said Sanjay Kumar at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi.

"They can't in their wildest imagination form a government in Uttar Pradesh.

The race for Congress is not to be a distant fourth."

As for Gandhi, BJP leaders are dismissive.

"What do you relaunch?" asked M.J. Akbar, a former Congress spokesman who joined Modi's BJP before the 2014 election. "He's already been launched.

He's been in an active leadership position since before the 2014 election."

'Cancer-causing chemicals found in top bread brands' India, Iran to combat terror; ink strategic Chabahar port pact new delhi, May 23 (PTi): Bread samples of virtually all top brands in Delhi contained cancer-causing chemicals, a study released on Monday said, prompting the Union Health Ministry to order a probe.

Nearly 84 percent of 38 commonly available brands of pre- packaged breads including pav and buns, tested positive for potassium bromate and potassium iodate, banned in many countries as they are listed as "hazardous" for public health, the report by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said . It claimed that while one of the chemicals is a category 2B carcinogen (possibly carcinogenic to humans), the other could trigger thyroid disorders but India has not ban their use.

The bread samples which were tested in-

cluded brands such as Britannia, Harvest Gold and the fast food chains - KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino's, Subway, McDonald s and Slice of Italy. Britannia, KFC, Domino's, McDonald's and Subway denied that these chemicals were used in their products. Other brands did not comment despite repeated attempts.

Reacting to the CSE report, Health Minister J P Nadda said,"We are seized of the matter. I have told my officials to report to me on an urgent basis. There is no need to panic. Very soon we will come out with the (probe) report."

CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory (PML) tested 38 commonly available branded varieties of pre-packaged breads, pav and buns, ready-to-eat burger bread and readyto-eat pizza breads of

popular fast food outlets from Delhi.

The study found that 84 per cent (32/38) samples were found with potassium bromate or iodate in the range of 1.15-22.54 parts per million (ppm). Around 79 per cent (19/24) samples of packaged bread, all samples of white bread, pav, bun and ready-to-eat pizza bread and 75 per cent (3/4) samples of ready-to-eat burger bread were positive.

CSE has urged food regulator FSSAI to ban the use of potassium bromate and potassium iodate with immediate effect and prevent their routine exposure to Indian population.

Reacting to the issue, Britannia denied using Potassium Bromate or Iodate and said,"All Britannia breads products are in 100 per cent compliance to the existing food safety regulations as stipulated

by FSSAI." Echoing similar reactions, KFC said,"The safety and health of our customers is our top most priority and we are committed to following the best international standards and serving the highest quality products to customers.

McDonald's India also strongly denied the "claims and accusations" and termed it "completely baseless". Subway meanwhile said that there seems to be a "confusion" as there is no such item as "Subway Subz Burger", (which was analyzed by CSE) on its menu.

Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, which owns Domino's, said that it adheres to the highest quality standards and Indian food laws and follow all process to maintain the highest level of food safety across all our restaurants.

Tehran, May 23 (PTi): India and Iran today pledged to combat terrorism and radicalism as the two nations signed 12 agreements including a "milestone" pact on developing the strategic Chabahar port, giving a boost to economic partnership in the post-sanctions era.

India committed around USD 500 million for the important port in Iran's southern coast, which will serve as a "point of connectivity" between India, Afghanistan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and East Europe.

"We have agreed to consult closely and regularly on combating threats of terrorism, radicalism, drug trafficking and cyber crime. We have also agreed to enhance interaction between our defence and security institutions on regional and maritime security," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here.

Modi, who is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the Islamic nation after 15 years on a bilateral visit after Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was addressing a joint press conference with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani after one-on-one talks.

Terming terrorism as a "big prob-

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (L) and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi review the honor guard during an official welcoming ceremony in Tehran, on May 23. (REUTERS Photo)

lem running rife and rampant in the region", Rouhani said that both the nations have discussed the issue and agreed to share intelligence to combat the menace.

"Due to the importance of stability and security in the region and especially in the countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen and because a big problem called terrorism is running rife and rampant in the region.

"The two countries discussed

about political issues as well and how they can cooperate on intelligence sharing and how they can get closer to each other in the fight against terrorism and extremism and how they can contribute to peace and stability in the whole region," Rouhani added.

Besides developing the Chabahar port, the two sides also signed agreements in diverse fields like trade credit, culture, science and technology as well as railways.

Hunger, child marriage, prostitution - India 3 Kashmir policemen killed in shoot-and-run attacks drought hurts women, low-caste Dalits more Srinagar, May 23 the old Srinagar city. They were taken to the hos- shot wounds and was taken MUMBai, May 23 (ThoMSon reUTerS FoUndaTion): India's worst drought in decades is hurting women and lower-caste Dalits disproportionately, with impacts ranging from malnutrition to early marriage to prostitution, activists say.

The government estimates the drought has affected more than 330 million people - almost a quarter of India's population - across 13 of the country's 29 states.

"Women are the most vulnerable during drought because it is their duty to fetch water and provide food for the family," said Varsha Deshpande, a lawyer and women's rights activist in Maharashtra, one of the worst hit by the drought.

"She is the first to wake up, she walks the farthest to fetch water, she eats last - and probably the least, and she sleeps last. This takes a toll on her health, her menstrual cycle, and affects her reproductive cycle," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

As crops wither and livestock perish, tens of thousands of people are migrating in search of food, water and jobs, leaving behind women, children and older family members who are vulnerable to human traffickers.

Girls are being pulled from school to help fetch water or to take care of younger siblings while the mother gets water. Men are abandoning their families to search for jobs, and some men are marrying multiple times just so there is someone can fetch water.

Polygamy is illegal in India, and these "water wives" - or 'paaniwaali bai' in the local language - have few rights. "Abuses against women increase during drought - women forced to become prostitutes, men demanding more dowry to compensate for lower farm incomes, and more dowry deaths if the women

(ianS): Three Kashmir policemen were killed by suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants in two separate shoot-and-run terror attacks on Monday, tearing through a lull in Srinagar that last witnessed such a strike three years ago.Police sources told IANS that two motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire from a point-blank range at two "unarmed" policemen in

The policemen, the sources said, were regulating traffic at a busy crossing near the crowded Zadibal area, some 10 km from the city centre Lal Chowk. The crossing leads to the only multispecialty hospital, SKIMS, of Srinagar and is usually crowded throughout the day.

Assistant sub-inspector Nazir Ahmed and Head Constable Bashir Ahmed were shot in their heads.

pital where they were declared brought dead, the sources said.

Barely an hour later, militants struck again and shot dead a policeman in the upscale Tengpora area, some five km from the city centre.

The attackers ran away with the dead cop's service rifle, a police officer said.

The policeman, who was guarding an unnamed politician, received severe gun-

to a hospital where he succumbed, the officer said.

The Hizbul Mujahideen that has terror bases in Pakistan-administered Kashmir claimed responsibility for the twin attacks that comes nearly three years after militants killed two policemen on June 22, 2013, at the crowded Hari Singh High Street market - the city's main business hub near Lal Chowk.

India's 1st indigenous space shuttle launched A dog drinks water from a puddle of water next to the cracked soil at Manjara dam in Osmanabad on April 17. (REUTERS File Photo)

cannot conceive because they are malnourished," said Deshpande.

"We are also seeing an increase in child marriage, as parents try to ensure the safety of girls. And a big increase in child labour because they need the extra money," she said.

MARGINAL SPACES obel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the drought a national emergency, saying that the lives of more than 160 million children are at stake. The Supreme Court recently criticised authorities for delays in responding to the drought, saying that some states had an "ostrich-like attitude" towards the calamity.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has urged banks to lend to small farmers, and asked state officials to step up relief measures to ensure no one is left out. However, relief measures are not reaching some of

the most marginalised people in the country: landless low-caste Dalits.

Dalits are more vulnerable to disasters because of their marginal social standing and discrimination.

They also tend to live in settlements segregated from mainstream society, according to National Dalit Watch.

"Most Dalits are sharecroppers whose names are not in the records of the landowners, so they miss out on government relief," said Rajesh Singh of National Dalit Watch.

The lobby group has tracked discrimination against low-caste villagers after disasters since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, and including the December floods in Chennai.

"They are neglected by default and by design, as they are not counted in the census and they are denied coping mechanisms such as government jobs and subsidised rations by high-caste villagers and local officials," Singh said.

S riharikoTa (andhra PradeSh), May 23 (ianS): India on Monday successfully tested its home-grown winged reusable launch vehicle (RLV), demonstrating its space technology prowess, a senior official said.

"We have successfully accomplished the RLV mission as a technology demonstrator. The lift-off was at 7.00 a.m. from the first launch pad here," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director Devi Prasad

Karnik told IANS. The sleek 1.7-tonne RLV was latched on to a 15-tonne rocket with a booster and launched from the spaceport here in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 km north of Chennai on the east coast.

The rocket booster released the aircraft-shaped vehicle at an altitude of 65-70 km above the Earth in the sub-orbital space.

The maiden mission has qualified India to enter the elite club of space-

faring nations like the US (NASA), Russia (Russia), France (European Space Agency) and Japan (Jaxa), which developed and have used RLVs for their space missions over the years.

The seven-metre RLV prototype was used as a flying test bed to evaluate technologies the state-run space agency has developed to reduce the cost of launching satellites into the Earth's polar and geo-stationary orbits in the next decade.

Jaya announces 5 schemes on first day of assuming office Chennai, May 23 (ianS): AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa, 68, was on Monday sworn in for the sixth time as the Tamil Nadu chief minister in a packed hall in Madras University as thousands lined up on the roads outside.

Soon after assuming office for the sixth time, Jayalalithaa on Monday signed orders writing off farm

loans, and free power for first 100 units for domestic consumers and 750 units for handloom weavers -- to fulfill her poll promises.

In a statement here, the government said Jayalalithaa signed the orders to waive off the farm loans, medium- and long-term loans from cooperative banks. She also signed the orders to offer free power

to domestic users up to first 100 units.

The government would provide an additional subsidy of Rs.1,607 crore to the power utility per year for this. Jayalalithaa also passed orders to provide eight gram gold -- earlier four gram gold -- to poor girls on their marriage.

The ruling AIADMK also promised phased im-

plementation of liquor prohibition in the state. Liquor is retailed in Tamil Nadu by a state government undertaking popularly known as Tasmac outlet.

Jayalalithaa passed orders to close down 500 liquor outlets in the state and curtail the working hours of these outlets from12 noon and 10 p.m. instead of between 10 a.m.- 10 p.m.

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US lifts arms ban on old foe Vietnam

HANOI, MAy 23 (ReuteRs): The United States announced an end to its embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam on Monday, an historic step that draws a line under the two countries’ old enmity and underscores their shared concerns about Beijing’s growing military clout.

The move came during President Barack Obama’s first visit to Hanoi, which his welcoming hosts described as the arrival of a warm spring and a new chapter in relations between two countries that were at war four decades ago.

Obama, the third U.S. president to visit Vietnam since diplomatic relations were restored in 1995, has made a strategic ‘rebalance’ towards Asia a centrepiece of his foreign policy.

Vietnam, a neighbour of China, is a key part of that strategy amid worries about Beijing’s assertiveness and sovereignty claims to 80 percent of the South China Sea. The decision to lift the arms trade ban, which followed intense debate within the Obama administration, suggested such concerns outweighed arguments that Vietnam had not done enough to improve its human rights

“In one fell swoop, President Obama has jettisoned what remained of U.S. leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam – and basically gotten nothing for it,” he said.

Obama told the news conference with President Quang Washington would continue to speak out for human rights, including citizens’ right to organise through civil society.

Obama is scheduled to meet with a group of activists on Tuesday.

Quang, who actually announced the lifting of the U.S. embargo before Obama could do so, was until recently minister of public security, which activists say harasses and arrests dissidents.

Dissent was once the domain of just a few in Vietnam, but while the party has allowed more open criticism in recent years, it is quick to slap down chalU.S. President Barack Obama (R) and his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang walk out from a bilateral meeting lenges to its monopoly on at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam on May 23. (REUTERS Photo) power. record and Washington to China.

The sale of arms, might have had to spur powould lose leverage for re“The decision to lift the Obama said, would de- litical reform in the Com- LEVERAGE ON ARMS DEALS forms. ban was not based on Chi- pend on Vietnam’s human munist party-ruled state.

Though the commuObama told a joint na or any other consider- rights commitments, and Phil Robertson, the news conference with Viet- ations. It was based on our would be made on a case- watchdog’s Asia director, nist parties that run Chinamese President Tran Dai desire to complete what by-case basis. said in a statement that na and Vietnam officially Quang that disputes in the has been a lengthy process even as Obama was lifting have brotherly ties, China’s South China Sea should of moving towards nor- HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP the arms embargo Viet- brinkmanship over the be resolved peacefully and malisation with Vietnam,” OUTRAGED namese authorities were South China Sea - where not by whoever “throws he said. Obama later addHuman Rights Watch arresting a journalist, hu- it has been turning remote their weight around”. But ed his visit to a former foe reacted with dismay to man rights activists and outcrops into islands with he insisted the arms em- showed “hearts can change Washington’s decision to bloggers on the street and runways and harbours has forced Vietnam to recabargo move was not linked and peace is possible”. toss away a critical lever it in their houses.

librate its defence strategy.

Security analysts and regional military attaches expect Vietnam’s initial wish list of equipment to cover the latest in surveillance radar, intelligence and communications technology, allowing them better coverage of the South China Sea as well as improved integration of its growing forces.

Washington has allowed sales of defensive maritime equipment since 2014. Hanoi’s military strategists are expected to now seek drones, radar, coastal patrol boats and possibly P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft from the United States.

Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam’s military at Australia’s Defence Force Academy, said the steep costs of U.S. arms would remain a factor for Hanoi, pushing it towards its traditional suppliers of missiles and planes, particularly long-time security patron, Russia. On the other hand, the lifting of the embargo will provide Vietnam with leverage in future arms deals with those suppliers.

China sees U.S. support for rival South China Sea claimants Vietnam and the Philippines as interference and an attempt to establish hegemony in the region.

Washington insists its priority is ensuring freedom

of navigation and flight.

However, China’s response to the announcement in Hanoi was muted.

The foreign ministry said it hoped the development in relations between the United States and Vietnam would be conducive to regional peace and stability.

Underlining the burgeoning commercial relationship between the United States and Vietnam, one of the first deals signed on Obama’s trip was an $11.3 billion order for 100 Boeing planes by low-cost airline VietJet. China is Vietnam’s biggest trade partner and source of imports. But trade with the United States has swelled 10-fold over the past two decades to about $45 billion. Vietnam is now Southeast Asia’s biggest exporter to America.

In the commercial hub, Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, Obama will on Tuesday meet entrepreneurs and tout a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal he has championed.

Obama said at the news conference he was confident the trade pact would be approved by U.S. legislators, even though it is an election year. He said he had not seen a credible argument that the deal, which will group 12 economies, would hurt U.S. business.

Philippines’ Pres-elect to defy Church with 3-child policy Blaze at Thailand school for poor hill-tribe girls kills 17 MANILA, MAy 23 (ReuteRs): Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he will defy the Roman Catholic Church and seek to impose a three-child policy, putting him on a new collision course with the bishops a day after he called them “sons of whores”.

The southern mayor has yet to be declared the May 9 poll winner, but an unofficial vote count by an election commission-accredited watchdog showed him ahead over his four rivals, three of whom conceded defeat.

Duterte assumes office on June 30.

Duterte’s often outrageous comments have won him huge support and his tirades about killing criminals and a joke about a murdered rape victim do not appear to have dented his popularity in the largely Catholic country.

“I only want three children for every family,” Duterte said on Sunday in Davao City. “I’m a Christian, but I’m a realist so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.” About 80 percent of the Philippines’ 100 million population are Catholics, the largest concentration of any Asian country, who oppose abortion and contraception.

On Saturday, he criticised the Church as the “most hypocritical institution”, meddling in government policies and said some bishops were enriching themselves at the expense

President-elect Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte speaks during a news conference in his hometown Davao City in southern Philippines. (REUTERS File Photo)

of the poor. “You sons of whores, aren’t you ashamed? You ask so many favours, even from me,” Duterte said in an interview broadcast by TV station GMA. Monsignor Oliver Mendoza, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Lingayen, whose head is the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, said the Church respected Duterte’s opinion but that it would continue to speak against government policies that are contrary to Church teaching.

“Because if we fail to do that, if we close our eyes, if we close our lips, we close our ears, what will be the role of the Church?” he said. Political ana-

lysts said they were not surprised at Duterte’s statements because some bishops spoke out against him during the election campaign.

“Like most liberal, secular politicians, Duterte is a deist,” said Joselito Zulueta of the University of Santo Tomas. “This in itself is a self-serving position conceived out of human conceit.

He will do as he pleases except when he’s stopped by public criticism.”

He said Duterte’s government was expected to clash more with the Catholic Church not only on population issues, but on the restoration of death penalty, legalisation of divorce and planned distribution of contraceptives.

WIANG PA PAO DIstRICt, MAy 23 (ReuteRs): Fire swept through a school for girls from poor hill-tribe families in Thailand, killing at least 17 in their dormitory, police said on Monday, and leaving charred remains of metal bed frames and wooden school chairs.

The fire broke out late on Sunday as the girls, aged five to 12, slept at the Christian school in the northern province of Chiang Rai. Investigators are looking at the possibility of faulty lighting on the floor below.

Charred wooden rafters opened to the sky at the Pitakiatwittaya School in the Wiang Pa Pao district of Chiang Rai. “Most of the losses were because the children were asleep,” said district police chief Colonel Prayad Singsin. Two of five injured children were in critical condition, he said.

Forensic experts sifted through the debris and ashes inside the concrete shell of the building. Preliminary indications sug-

Forensic experts inspect a burnt building at the Pitakkiat Wittaya School in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand on May 23. (REUTERS Photo)

gested a faulty fluorescent light on the ground floor may have been the cause, Sant Sukhavachana, a senior regional forensics officer, told Reuters.

A hot fragment fell on to a pile of clothes and started the fire, he said. The children likely died due to smoke inhalation.

“There was a lot of smoke and the room where

it happened was right below where the children were sleeping,” he said.

A total of 36 children of the 142 that attend the school were in the dormitory when the fire started, school head Pim Wasana told Reuters.

The alarm was raised by a school cleaner, she said.

“I am at a loss for words,” she said. “I don’t

know what I should do, but the only thing on my mind now is to try to find a way to ease the parents’ suffering.”

Namae Patikiri, a 57-year-old member of the Hmong hill tribe, lost six grandchildren in the blaze.

“Five of them had only moved here a year ago,” she said, crying. “The other one had only been here for two weeks.”

Obama confirms Mansour dead SKorea rejects NKorea talks proposal as ‘bogus’ UN chief Ban calls for a message over a military hotline as Taliban meet on his successor halving of numbers on Monday expressing regret over the North’s proposal and asking it HANOI/KABuL, MAy 23 (Re- the movement, at least temporarily. of displaced by 2030 to state its position on denucleariAlthough some individual TaliuteRs): U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Monday that the leader of the Afghan Taliban had been killed in an American air strike, an attack likely to trigger another leadership tussle in a militant movement already riven by internal divisions.

Obama, who started a three-day visit to Vietnam on Monday, reiterated support for the government in Kabul and Afghan security forces, and called on the Taliban to join peace talks.

The president authorised the drone strike that killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a remote region just within the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, and Afghan authorities have said the mission was successful.

But U.S. officials had held back from confirming that the Taliban leader had been killed in the attack until intelligence had been fully assessed.

Obama said in a statement that Mansour had rejected peace talks and had “continued to plot against and unleash attacks on American and Coalition forces”.

“The Taliban should seize the opportunity to pursue the only real path for ending this long conflict - joining the Afghan government in a reconciliation process that leads to lasting peace and stability,” he said.

The Taliban has been pushing Afghan security forces hard since the launch of their spring offensive in April, but the attack is likely to disrupt

ban members have been quoted in media reports saying that Mansour was killed, the movement’s leadership, keenly aware of the need to limit damaging splits, has not issued its own confirmation.

“The leadership is being very careful because one wrong step could divide the group into many parties like former mujahideen,” one Taliban official from the eastern province of Nangarhar said, referring to the guerrilla leaders who fought the Soviet in the 1980s and ‘90s before splitting into warring factions.

A shura, or leadership council, has already begun meeting to choose a successor, a task that will be vital to protecting the unity of the movement.

One senior member of the shura based in the western Pakistani city of Quetta said that the choice appeared to be shaping around Mansour’s deputy, Sirajuddin Haqqani, or a member of the family of the Taliban’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, such as his son, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob.

Haqqani, leader of an affiliated network blamed for a series of highprofile suicide attacks in Kabul, had the backing of Pakistan, while Yaqoob had support among members of the Afghan Taliban, the shura member said.

“We prefer someone from Omar’s family to put an end to all internal problems,” he said.

A picture of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears on the big screen during a celebratory concert marking the end of the 7th Workers’ Party Congress in Pyongyang, North Korea May 11. (REUTERS Photo)

seOuL, MAy 23 (ReuteRs): South Korea dismissed on Monday a North Korean proposal for military talks as “a bogus peace offensive” and said it was formally rejecting the overture because it lacked a plan to end the North’s nuclear programme.

North Korea’s proposal on the weekend for talks between the two Koreas, a repeat of a call by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a congress of his ruling party this month, came after a period of heightened tension on the peninsula.

North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket in February, triggering tougher international sanctions and the adoption of a more hardline position by South Korean President

Park Geun-hye.

North Korea said dialogue between military officials from the two sides was urgently needed to reduce tension, and suggested they be held in late May or early June. South Korea said the offer was insincere.

“The dialogue proposed by the North does not mention its nuclear programme, which is the fundamental issue for peace on the Korean peninsula and SouthNorth ties,” South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sanggyun told a briefing.

“Proposing dialogue without an expression of its position on denuclearisation is a bogus peace offensive for bogus peace that lacks sincerity.”

Moon said the South had sent

sation.

This month, at the first congress of North Korea’s Workers’ Party in 36 years, Kim declared his country a nuclear weapons state and vowed to press on with nuclear development, which he said was defensive.

In the run-up to the congress, North Korea test-fired a series of missiles including a submarinebased ballistic missile. It also attempted a launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles political ties with the North, said Pyongyang’s intention may be to sow discord among the public in the South and create a rift in the international commitment to sanctions.

“Let me repeat: Now is not the time for dialogue,” said ministry spokesman Cheong Joon-hee.

North Korea came under tougher international pressure with the March adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution that was even backed its lone major ally China, which disapproves of its nuclear arms programme.

South Korea has also cut off all commercial contacts with the North. The two Koreas have remained in a technical state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

IstANBuL, MAy 23 (ReuteRs): U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on governments, businesses and aid groups at the U.N.’s first world humanitarian summit to commit to halving the number of displaced civilians by 2030. The two-day conference in Istanbul seeks to develop a better response to what the U.N. has called the worst global humanitarian situation since World War Two, with an estimated 130 million people now in need of aid. “We are here to shape a different future,” Ban said in a speech at the start of the summit.

“I urge you to commit to cutting (by) half (the number of) internally displaced people by 2030 and to find better long-term solutions for refugees and displaced people based on more equal sharing of responsibilities,” he said. The summit aims to mobilise funds and get world leaders to agree on issues ranging from how to manage displaced civilians to renewing commitments to international humanitarian law.

But it risks falling short of ambitions. Aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres pulled out in May, saying it lost hope the conference could address weaknesses in emergency response.

Ahead of the opening, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his criticism of the West for not doing enough to help the people of war-torn Syria.

“The extent to which the international humanitarian system lies broken is alarming,” he wrote in an opinion piece published in the Guardian newspaper. “The international community in particular has largely ignored its responsibilities toward the Syrian people by turning a blind eye to Bashar al-Assad’s crimes against his own citizens.”

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Kane & Vardy inspire England to friendly win over Turkey hundred lies Do Not Make

LONDON, MAY 23 (REUTERS): England's Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy struck in a 2-1 friendly win over fellow Euro 2016 finalists Turkey on Sunday as the home side warmed up with a performance that highlighted their potency in attack and defensive limitations.

Kane put England ahead after two minutes when he pounced on a neat pass from Tottenham Hotspur club mate Dele Alli to record his 32nd goal of a prolific season. Although Kane missed a late penalty, Vardy was on hand to score the winner in the 83rd.

Ten minutes after Kane's opener Turkey had equalised through Hakan Calhanoglu after Vakan Sen got behind full back Danny Rose and, as goalkeeper Joe Hart came hurtling out, crossed for the visitors to net their first goal against England in 11 meetings.

England manager Roy Hodgson was pleased by some parts of the performance, saying: "There were

some positive aspects. For large swathes of the game we played reasonably well.

But there is still work to be done. "The next three weeks will be vital for us to make sure we make life easier for ourselves defensively."

With England struggling to capitalise on their positive start at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium,

Hodgson switched his formation in the second half by partnering Leicester City's Vardy, who had begun wide on the left, with Kane up front.

The switch worked and Vardy soon won a penalty when he drew a foul from defender Mehmet Topal but Kane spurned the chance by firing his spot

kick against the outside edge of the post.

Vardy continued to relish his new position, though, and grabbed the winner -- his third goal in three games for England -- from close range after a header from Gary Cahill had been parried by substitute Ismail Koybasi on the Turkish line.

England's Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, back in the side after an injurydisrupted season, said: "We have to be able to hang on to wins in a tournament.

We did well today. I feel good, I'm 100 percent. I've been training for seven or eight weeks now. I'm looking to improve with every game."

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will join the England squad on Monday despite suffering a knee injury in the FA Cup final win over Crystal Palace on Saturday.

England play Australia in Sunderland on Friday, a game Vardy will miss because he is getting married on Wednesday.

Hodgson named a 26man provisional squad for the European Championship whih he must cut to 23 by May 31 ahead of the month-long finals which kick off in France on June 10.

England are in a group with Russia, Slovakia and Wales, while Turkey face holders Spain, Croatia and Czech Republic.

15th Nagaland state chess challenger 2016 underway

Tapan Deb Kanungoe coach cum Instructor of Royal Dynamic Taekwondo Academy recently participated in the 2nd Goodwill TFI Taekwondo Championship cum North East Level Championship at Amguri, Sivsagar, Assam. He secured 7 Gold and 4 Bronze medals in each individual sparring category. The team was lead by Tapan Deb Kanungoe as Team coach and Anirudra Pandey as Team.

Our Correspondent Kohima | May 23

A four day long 15th Nagaland State Chess Challenger 2016 under the aegis of Nagaland Chess Association (NCA) got underway here this morning at Red Cross Society Conference Hall.

Altogether, 34 participants registered for open category and another 11 Under 16 category. KohiMembers of the Assam Rifles Taekwondo Academy, Medziphema who participated in the recently held Dimapur District Inter School Taekwondo Championship. The team won 12 ma DRDA project director Kevipodi Sophie graced Gold, 5 Silver and 1 Bronze medals in each individual sparring category.

the inaugural function as the chief guest. Earlier, Hekugha Heka Yeptho compered the inaugural function while welcome address was delivered by NCA president K. Sekhamo. Sulivi Assumi presented a special number while vote of thanks was proposed by NCA general secretary Denis Angami. The event is assist by Mugaho Awomi as chief arbiter and Kevilekho as deputy arbiter. The event will go on till May 26.

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oday we are living in a very critical time when we need the right kind of politics to address the issues and problems facing our society. The political consciousness of every Naga needs to be awakened, not only for better governance and politics at the state level but also and more importantly for finding a way to pursue our national aspiration.

We must restore and put politics in its rightful place in order to harness its power to serve the common interest of our people.

Whether we like it or not the creation of Nagaland state is a reality today and it cannot be wished away. Though all of us cannot be full time national workers, we all have a role to play as responsible and patriotic Nagas towards finding an honourable and acceptable solution to our political struggle. There is a place for each one of us in politics and we cannot afford to ignore this fact anymore. The remark of A. Kevichusa when statehood was given to Nagaland is noteworthy: “Let us try to make the best use of the bad bargain”. It was in this spirit and vision that the first regional political party in Nagaland and the entire North East Region was born, the Democratic Party of Nagaland.

However it ought to be noted that the priority of the regional party in Nagaland was not to enjoy power or to rule the people. On the contrary, the founders of Democratic Party of Nagaland decided to fight for the cause of our people in a democratically through non-violence with the motto: FIDE NON ARMIS, meaning “By faith, not by arms” which is still the motto of NPF. Against this backdrop, the difference between the two broad political parties in Nagaland can be clearly brought out. The Congress, including its forerunner NNO (Naga National Organization), has always worked against the Naga national issue. They joined the Indian media and intelligentsia in propagating that Phizo and NNC were misleading the Naga people, that they were rebels and misguided. It has always been their motive to form the government to finish or dismiss the Naga national movement, their sole motive being to enjoy power.

In contrast, the regional party never joined the state politics to run the government, motive not for enjoying power but their primary aim is to solve the Indo-Naga issue. Let me spell out the first aim and objective of NPF, for instance: “To work and assist in any possible manner

on any approach for a peaceful solution of the Indo-Naga political issue.”

The regional party has never projected itself as the champion of the Naga national issue but has always worked to pave the way or to assist in solving the Indo-Naga political issue. As such, it was always prepared to sacrifice its interests for the sake of the greater interest of the Naga people. It not only resigned en masse, but also dissolved the party, for instance, in 1964 to pave the way for peace talk. Again in 1998, in response to the call of the Naga public, it boycotted the general election on the slogan “solution, not election”.

After boycotting the 1998 general election, the congress was in power with absolute majority where 59 out of the total 60 were congressmen. Mr. Mavil Kheya was the lone independent MLA then. The regional party was in a very bad shape. In 1999, Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu had to resign from the party, including his presidential post and contest the parliamentary election as an independent candidate. When Congress was at its peak in the state politics serious differences arose with Mr. Jamir on the publication of the BEDROCK OF NAGA SOCIETY. Mr. Neiphiu Rio, the then Home Minister, resigned and along with his friends decided to work together under the banner of the regional party resulting in the formation of the NPF. Mr. Vizol was elected as the President and I was also elected as one of the two Working Presidents. NPF succeeded in forming the government in 2003 under the leadership of Mr. Rio. Rio, the Chief Minister and I as the Home Minister worked closely together to bring about peace and reconciliation and normalcy was restored in our state.

The NPF has failed miserably to live up to expectations as the party has ceased to be subservient to the interest of the Nagas. It has failed to respect the will and mandate of the people by suspending the elected representatives and also ignored the voice of the majority of the elected representatives within the party. In the functioning of major political parties, suspension is used as a tool to keep party workers in check. However it appears that the NPF under Dr. Shurhozelie as its President has developed the habit of suspending the democratically elected MLAs and even the lone MP in total disregard to the will and wishes of the people to whom they represent. And if that is not enough,

the NPF has become a political party of contradictions. While 3 NCP MLAs who merged with the BJP were unceremoniously disqualified, the 8 Congress MLAs who joined NPF were whole-heartedly welcomed. A tacit understanding appears to exist between the present NPF leaders and the Congress party. On the one hand if the NPF is ready to welcome any elected member to its party without their acceptance of its Party constitution or ideology, on the other hand it is ready to suspend members from the party who are working hard for the party ideology and the Naga national cause.

If we all recall, at an event, before the gathering of thousands of party workers, the President of NPF announced reconciliation amongst themselves, the background of which is not unfamiliar with any of us. However, despite this official and public announcement, the president and his colleagues are working to increase the line of division within its own party and continuing to discriminate and marginalize those who do not always share the same view with the President. Though the party is calling for peace and reconciliation, it seems to be doing everything that goes against the spirit of peace and reconciliation, integrity and unity of our people.

In my opinion, the NPF has compromised with its original commitments and principles to work for the Nagas. By using suspension as a tool the NPF has undermined the right of the electorates in the state of Nagaland. The IndoNaga peace process is also in danger of being derailed. The action of the NPF in suspending Mr. Rio, MP the sole spokesman of Nagaland in the Lok Sabha is similar to what Jamir did to sabotage peace in 1963 when the Prime Minister of India, Nehru made a clear statement in the Lok Sabha on 19th March, 1963 that he was going to meet Phizo in India with one condition, “to stop violence in Nagaland” for finding a solution to the Indo-Naga Issue and Jamir strongly objected to the Prime Minister’s statement on 20th March, 1963 and wrote a letter to P. Shilu Ao, the Chief Executive Councillor on 22nd March, 1963 the contents of which is well known to all of us. Having noted all these, I however, leave the matter to the public to decide as to whether or not the NPF leaders are working for the interest of the Naga people.

Thenucho Tunyi Former Working President, NPF

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he GPRN/NSCN, under the Leadership of Chairman Gen. (Retd.)

M.B Neokpao Konyak and General Secretary N Kitovi Zhimomi has restrained itself from responding to callous and factually incorrect write-ups in order to avoid allegations within the Naga family, yet the NSCN (IM) propaganda department called the MIP, continue to feed the people of Nagaland with outrageous political assumptions more so, post August 3 Accord 2015. The habitual footin-the-mouth syndrome and the bizarre ritual of crowning and garlanding itself at every media release, undermining all past historical milestones of our forefathers, makes the acknowledged audience grimace and chuckle in sheer embarrassment and shame. Their agenda is to bombard the tribes of Nagaland with ever changing political terminologies with a hope that a lie told many times over would, in the end, be taken as the truth.

Indeed the truth must be told with regard to the publication on 18th 2016, which implicated the Hon’ble Ato Kilonser of GPRN/NSCN N Kitovi Zhimomi as having changed tracks in the Naga Reconciliation process. God does not punish sinners instantly even those who use His Glorious name for political gain yet mere humans as we are, it requires prompt response from GPRN/NSCN because the future of the Naga people cannot be built upon lies and deceit.

The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), with the signing the Covenant of Reconciliation by Naga political groups, officially recorded all highest level meetings for posterity. The MIP of Hebron camp should check visual and audio recordings of Mr. Th. Muivah, at 4th Mile Dimapur Agri Expo meeting in February 2012, who announced in front of almost fifty thousand Naga people gathered there that Sovereignty was not possible and Integration of Naga areas was out of question at a present time. Ato Kilonser N. Kitovi Zhimomi later said in the same meeting that even dogs, cows and pigs in Nagaland wants independence however the present circumstances and difficulties of Mr. Th. Muivah, should be understood by all Nagas and therefore it requires Nagas of Burma, Nag, of Manipur, Nagas of Nagaland, Assam and Arunachal to consult the people and seek the best solution for our people in our respective domains while maintaining our rich culture and traditions through emotional integration. This is the position of the GPRN/NSCN. Should the MIP of Hebron Camp requires more proof, the audio-visual recordings of Niathu Resort meetings, in 2012-13, Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS) meetings in 2013-14 are available. Mr. Th. Muivah consistently maintained that Naga Sovereignty and integration is not possible. In other words Nagas of Nagaland cannot decide the future of Naga, living in Myanmar or in Manipur likewise other Nagas cannot decide the future of Nagas of Nagaland.

Naga Reconciliation process also lost its momentum because of the non-disclo-

sure of the charter of demands of NSCN (IM) despite repeated appeal for honest deliberations on the subjects by Naga leaders from other political groups. All the FNR members are alive and know the fact.

Conventional wisdom says Mr. Th. Muivah rightly did not disclose the contents of the charter of demands to the Naga people at FNR meetings because Naga political groups and all rational thinking Nagas would never endorse such an arrangement. Naga Reconciliation process and Naga unity denotes open mind and heart to jointly pursue a clear political goal. To NSCN (IM), it implies all Naga political groups either surrender or unconditionally support their talk. A number of gullible and garrulous honey chasing civil society leaders and national workers have been trapped and appointed cheap spokespersons of Hebron camp in a chameleonlike existence. This is very unfortunate because Naga history will jeer and taunt their children.

GPRN/NSCN, over the years has noticed that the name of Mr. Isak Chishi Swu is used only to seek credibility in Nagaland and to cover up diabolic policies of the group. It is foolish to sell his moral integrity to the people. He is a prayerful elderly man desiring true unity and reconciliation of all Nagas while the rest of the IM leadership plots how to enslave or destroy Nagaland. All should remember that Nagas are capable of rejecting treacherous accords and documents that do not correctly reflect their history and political right. Mrs. Eustar Chishi Swu, one of the longest serving women national workers and wife of Chairman Isak Chishi Swu, on 25th November, 2015, issued a press statement seeking forgiveness for the 'sins of omission and commission committed before God and the Naga people' and for 'signing wrong documents, which have caused havoc and disturbances in the life of the people and the nation' This was a genuine attempt of a Naga mother, a faithful wife and a true patriot seeking reconciliation from the heart. Unfortunately the next day, the MIP issued a statement rubbishing the lady's heartfelt appeal.

GPRN/NSCN reminds the Government of India (GoI) that the present Nagaland state is not a discarded land inhabited by fools to allow every Toni, Dick and Harry to claim ownership. It belongs to indigenous Naga tribes with clear demarcated boundary with great loyalty to their ancestral homeland. Naga tribes live in peace and harmony and co-exist with communities of neighbouring states. Nagaland's future and existence cannot be decided by a friendly neighbour or a group of immigrants supported by local thugs.

The parties trying to decide the future of Nagaland without the consent of the people should clearly know the ramifications.

The GPRN/NSCN exists because Nagaland has a future and the younger generations of the soil shall live in their God given land with pride.

Ministry of Information & Publicity, GPRN/NSCN.

The Great NPF Reconciliation – Suspension Of Rio

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io should not be demeaned below his actual status. Will NPF please believe that till 2002 NPC was a chicken flu ridden, featherless, non crowing penniless cock..? The sick cock, some disgruntled congressmen, fractured NDM and some frustrated political leaders merged and re-structured the then NPC into NPF. All this trading took place under the initiative of late Khekiho Zhimomi (MP/ RS). He made huge monetary contributions, most consultative meetings took place at his Zhimomi Mansion-Chekiye and joint party meetings were held at his Chekiye market complex presently Zhimomi Tata showroom. The beautiful speeches of our great orators like Rio, Khekiho, Thenucho, K. Theria, E.T.Ezung etc are still ringing in my ears even today. In November 2002, Rio was unanimously named to be the party legislature’s leader and to lead the 2003 elections campaign. His leadership in NPF made a huge impact of bringing the party to power for 3 successive terms and not forgetting his leadership enabled NPF to spread its wings to all over Naga inhabited areas and today

NPF have MLAs in Manipur too. This is a remarkable feat no Naga leader could achieve till date. I have this on record since I was press secretary to our late leader Khekiho for 21 years and this transition in Nagaland regional party took place while I was on duty performing various typing and paper works.

But sorry, I had to give up my membership from NPF in 2008 because of its growing communalism, autocracy, pessimism and rampant corruptions under the nose of the present party leadership Henceforth, whoever or whichever party comes to power should have the will and determination to do away with egoism, nepotism, pessimism and scale down corruptions. Rome was not built in a day so if Naga people starts hating all evils for a prospective land, it’s never too late.

But, I guess NPF should have given peace a chance instead of passing death sentence to its own life support systems which means sure suicide!! This is the mind of an independent citizen, no offence intended towards anybody or group please.

Samuel Sumi, Diphupar

BiBle or Theology

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eople not in the realm of theological circles tend to have a very simple opinion about theological students. What do they do in a seminary? What do you study in a Bible College? For sure, only Bible dayin and day-out. Seminarians must know the whole Bible from cover to cover. Any question about the Bible and it’s at the tip of their fingers. Yes, yes, we know the background and the art of interpretation and a whole bunch of some this and that theology. But wait, what do you mean by theology? Simply, it means, “study or discourse about God.” But not according to the Bible, only human opinion or study of God. So, it’s only human theology, not Bible.

Today, if you ask an average Bible college student to quote some Scripture verses from the Bible. Hardly 20 to 30 references and the memory run out. Did you say you’re a Bible college student? What subjects are taught in your lecture halls? I think you must be studying all the 66 booksof the Bible and that too, in a detailed form, from book-to-chapters-to-verses. Sorry, that’s not taught. Only cover, and very less ofits

seed... “This is not a Bible study class,” says a professor. Aye, then what are we studying? If not the Bible, then what are we devoting ourselves to? They say, theology, theology, theology.

We’re baffled to know that seminaries teach more of worthless theologies rather than God’s book. Maybe, that’s one of the reason why there is so very little of God’s word in our pulpits. What about entertainments and functions? They’re prospering. But the word of God lacks.

Therefore, there need to be a serious deliberation, an evaluation and reassessment of the subjects taught in theological schools around the globe. The Bible-centred and prayer-focused theological seminaries is the need of the hour because we believe that God’s book is the same yesterday, today and forever.

“While some books inform and others reform; only the Bible transforms.”- Billy Graham “Only the Bible has the answer to the problems of today’s world.”-John Haggai Pavi Pao and Vebu Khamo Kohima Bible College

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.

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nce again the young and talented fashion designer, Khrielasier Liezietsu successfully displayed his original collections at the ‘Spring Summer/16 Collection Fashion Show’ on May

21 at Capital Convention Centre, Kohima.

20 models walked for the collection with Miss Nagaland 2009 Esther Natso as the Showstopper.

Caroline Sangtam was the offi-

cial hair and makeup artist; Lipok Tzudi was the photographer and it was cinematographed by miiza. NE Goodtimes magazine was the official media partner. The SS/16 Collection Fashion Show was a house

Taylor Swift's Squad ‘Targeted

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full show and it was attended by supermodel Ketholeno Kense, entrepreneur Lezo Putsero, Zedino Seyie and other music and fashion icons like Theja Sekhose, Megu Suokhrie and Cynthia.

The show sponsored by Seasons Cafe, Runway, Decibel and Regalia Entertainment, also featured live performances by the Kevizenuo Kire, LC Sekhose and Virie.

Madonna, stevie Wonder pay homage to Prince at 2016 Billboard Music Awards

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dele took home the top prize at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards, though she was unable to attend the ceremony. The annual awards show had performances from Madonna and Stevie Wonder, who sang a tribute to Prince, Kesha, Celine Dion, Britney Spears and more. See below for a complete list of winners.

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he internet troll allegedly targeted the Twitter accounts of a number of female celebrities, including Taylor and model pals Cara Delevingne and Gigi Hadid, with abusive messages threatening murder. According to TMZ.com, the Blank Space singer received a message which read, "I will kill some of you." While Gigi, 21, was told, "people gon (sic) die they're gon die die die die!"

A tweet reportedly sent to Cara, 23, even explicitly threatened her friends. "I will kill your friends and I am excited about it," the message read. Editors at the gossip

site report that police officers have launched an investigation into the threats, and have obtained a search warrant enabling them to look through the social media company's records in an attempt to find the culprit.

The investigation was allegedly sparked after the director Kyle Newman, 40, reported threats sent to his wife, Jaime King, 37 to the police. Chrissy Teigen, 30, the model wife of R&B star John Legend has also reportedly been targeted.

In addition to her own superstar status, Taylor, 26, has become known for being at the centre of a close-knit group of fa-

mous friends, dubbed her 'squad', which includes Cara, Gigi, fellow model Karlie Kloss, 23, and pop star Selena Gomez, 23.

The pals have often publicly displayed their friendship, with a number of 'squad' members appearing on stage with Taylor during her The 1989 World Tour last year (15). The 'squad' also joined forces to star in the video for the musician's 2015 hit Bad Blood.

At the time of WENN going to press, police officers had yet to name a suspect who they were looking to speak to in connection with the investigation.

Source: Contactmusic

Blue's Duncan James set to star in Hollyoaks

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e's best known as a member of the hit boyband Blue, but Duncan James has been enjoying success of late as an actor and is now set to join teen soap Hollyoaks. The singer-songwriter began his reinvention after starring in the West End productions of Chicago and Legally Blonde.

Clearly excited about his new role on the popular soap, Duncan said: 'I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the Hollyoaks team.

'I'm looking forward to working with the fantastic on and off screen talent on the show and bringing the character of Ryan to life.'

His character will debut on the show - set in a fictional suburb of Chester and on screens since 1995 - later this year.

A Hollyoaks spokesperson said: 'Ryan is a good guy in a committed relationship who will move into the

village. 'He is a grounded family man with principles and integrity but who will fight tooth and nail for what he believes in.'

In recent months he has been touring the UK in the lead role in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and has appeared in Grease: The School Musical on TV. On social media, Duncan has posted numerous pictures of him in drag starring in the hit stage musical, which has been touring this year.

After a hiatus between 2005 and 2008 Duncan's band Blue has been going

from strength to strength and last year brought out a popular new album, Colours, and embarked on a UK-wide tour.

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adonna paid homage to Top Artist: Adele Top Hot 100 Song: Wiz Top Country Song: Pr ince by Thomas Rhett, "Die A Khalifa ft. Charlie Top New Artist: Fetty Wap wearing his Happy Man" Puth, "See You Again" Top Male Artist: Justin signature color and bringTop Rock Song: Walk the Top Selling Song: Adele, Bieber ing another icon - Stevie Moon, "Shut Up And "Hello" Top Female Artist: Adele Wonder - onstage to sing Dance" Top Radio Song: Adele Billboard Chart Top Latin Song: Nicky Jam the classic "Purple Rain" "Hello" Walk the Achievement Award: & Enrique Iglesias, "El at Sunday's Billboard MuMoon, "Shut Up And Rihanna sic Awards. Sitting atop a Perdon" Dance" purple throne, Madonna Top Billboard 200 Artist: Top Dance/Electronic Top Streaming Song kicked off the tribute with Adele Song: Major Lazer & (Audio): The Weeknd, a version of "Nothing ComTop Hot 100 Artist: The DJ Snake Featuring "The Hills" pares 2 U," which Prince Weeknd MØ, "Lean On" wrote and Sinead O'Connor Top Song Sales Artist: The Top Streaming Song Top Christian Song: (Video): Silento, recorded. She as teary-eyed Weeknd Hillsong UNITED, "Watch Me" as she sang the song, videos "Oceans (Where Feet Top Radio Songs Artist: and photos of Prince proTop R&B Song: The May Fail)" The Weeknd jected behind her.

Weeknd, "The Hills" Top Gospel Song: Kirk Top Streaming Songs Wonder, in a purple Top Rap Song: Wiz Khalifa Franklin, "Wanna Be Artist: The Weeknd scarf, later joined her for ft. Charlie Puth, "See Happy?"

Top Social Media Artist: "Purple Rain" as the audiYou Again" Source: AP Justin Bieber Top Touring Artist: Taylor Swift Top R&B Artist: The Weeknd Top Rap Artist: Drake Top Country Artist: Luke Bryan Top Rock Artist: twenty one pilots Top Latin Artist: Romeo Santos Top Dance/Electronic Artist: David Guetta Top Christian Artist: Hillsong United Top Gospel Artist: Kirk Franklin Top Billboard 200 Album: Adele, "25" Top Soundtrack: "Pitch Perfect 2" Top R&B Album: The Weeknd, "Beauty Behind The Madness" Top Rap Album: Meek Mill, "Dreams Worth More Than Money" Top Country Album: Chris Stapleton, "Traveller" Top Rock Album: twenty one pilots, "Blurryface" Top Latin Album: Juan Gabriel, "Los Duo" Top Dance/Electronic Album: Zedd, "True Colors" Top Christian Album: Lauren Daigle, "How Can It Be" Top Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin, "Losing My Religion"

ence at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas sang along.

"Most of all, thank you Prince Rogers Nelson for all that you've given us," Madonna said after the performance.

Prince died on April 21 at age 57. The icons collaborated on "Love Song" in 1989 and Madonna was met with criticism online when Billboard announced she would be the one to pay homage to The Purple One. Some felt she should not do the tribute alone, and others said a black artist should be involved.

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Manchester United

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Van Gaal out, Mourinho in

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LONDON, MAY 23 (AGENCIES): Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, with former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho set to be named as his replacement. Van Gaal, 64, leaves after two years of a threeyear contract and is discussing severance terms.

The former Netherlands boss is believed to earn around £6.4m a year.

Mourinho's appointment is expected to be confirmed after the 53-yearold Portuguese meets with senior United officials on Tuesday.

United have made an offer to Ryan Giggs, Van Gaal's assistant, for him to stay at Old Trafford, but it is not known what role he would have and whether he would accept.

BBC Sport reported on Saturday that United's FA Cup win over Crystal Palace would be Van Gaal's last game in charge.

Jose Mourinho

He arrived at Manchester United's training ground at 08:45 BST on Monday.

Forty-five minutes later, League Managers Association lawyer Paul Gilroy QC also drove into Carrington.

Gilroy is the same employment barrister who acted for David Moyes when he was sacked as manager by United in 2014.

He arrived at about 09:30 and was initially refused entry before being allowed in about 15 minutes later, refusing to answer questions about the reason for his presence.

According to his profile page on the Nine St John Street Chambers website, Gilroy has advised and acted for a number of football clients, including Roy Hodgson, Martin O'Neill, Sir Alex Ferguson, Harry Redknapp, Roy Keane, Roberto Martinez, Sam Allardyce, Brendan Rodgers, Alan Pardew, Nigel Pear-

son and Steve McClaren.

Van Gaal took control of United after leading the Netherlands to the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Old Trafford club finished fourth in the Premier League in his first season in charge to qualify for the Champions League.

But they finished fifth this term and will play in the Europa League next season.

They only scored 49 league goals - their lowest total since 1989-90.

Saturday's FA Cup success at Wembley gave United a first trophy since Sir Alex Ferguson won the Premier League in 2013 in his last season before retirement, but it was not enough to stop Van Gaal from losing his job.

Mourinho was sacked

by Chelsea last December, just seven months after leading the London club to the Premier League title.

Barca claim double with King's Cup win over Sevilla

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MADRID, MAY 23 (REUTERS): Ten-man Barcelona retained the King's Cup with a 2-0 victory over Sevilla to complete a domestic double thanks to extra-time goals by Jordi Alba and Neymar at the Vicente Calderon stadium on Sunday. Luis Enrique's La Liga champions had Javier Mascherano sent off in the 36th minute but kept the score at 0-0 before Sevilla had Ever Banega dismissed in added time at the end of 90 minutes.

With both teams down to 10 men, Barcelona began to take control in the extra period and left back Alba burst down the wing to score in the 97th after a superb chip from Lionel Messi. Sevilla were then reduced to nine players when defender Daniel Carrico was sent off for dissent late on and Neymar doubled Barcelona's lead after also being set up by Messi. It was the 28th time Barca had won the trophy but they had to battle as Unai Emery’s side, who won the Europa League for the third time in a row last week, piled on the pressure. "It was difficult, especially playing for so long with 10 men against a side like Sevilla," Alba told Spanish television. "I’m happy to have scored and done the double. "We couldn’t play the game we wanted but the side showed guts and we did what was needed."

Barca captain and man of the match Andres Iniesta said the triumph sealed a great season for the club despite some suggesting their Champions League elimination, and thus failure to repeat the treble of 2015-16, spoiled the campaign. "It was a nice final, intense and exciting," he said. "It was a last push for the club to complete a magnificent season. All finals are hard, but this was great, both we and Sevilla played well."

DYNAMIC CHANGES The game’s dynamic changed drastically when Kevin Gameiro, whose pace troubled Barca all night, was brought down when Mascherano grabbed his shirt on the edge of the box. Referee Carlos del Cerro Grande sent the Argentine off and Sevilla began to take control. Barca keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen tipped Banega’s free kick over the bar and then watched the midfielder’s next effort hit the inside of the post.

Barca top scorer Luis Suarez limped off injured just before the hour mark, with the Uruguayan crying on the bench.

Sevilla wanted a penalty when Barca right back Dani Alves tangled with Vicente Iborra but their appeal was waved away, while Sergio Rico saved Messi’s free-kick. Argentine Banega tripped Neymar just before the game went to extra time and was sent off, handing Barcelona the momentum.

Seven minutes into the extra period, Messi lofted a perfectly weighted ball over the defence for Alba who ran through and fired a shot across Rico into the bottom corner. Then Carrico was shown two yellow cards, the first for a foul on Messi and the second for arguing about it, before Messi played in Neymar, who rolled the ball home to end the contest.

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