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DIMAPUR, APRIL 30 (MExN): A cadre of the NSCN (K) was shot at and killed by unidentified miscreants today at Darogapathar, Dimapur. A press release from Dimapur Police identified the cadre as one Mughato, aged around 25 years. Police said that Mughato was found injured by the police at around 11:20am but succumbed to his injuries while being shifted to the hospital. The deceased bore three bullets wounds- two on his chest and one on his lower abdomen. The police found 2 (two) 9 mm empty shells from the site of the shooting. Dimapur Police stated that inquiry is on to obtain full particulars of the deceased.

DGU appeal for aid to Nepal quake victims Concert for Nepal on May 10

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DIMAPUR, APRIL 30 (MExN): The Dimapur Gorkha Union (DGU) has appealed to all people of Nagaland, Churches, Naga Political Groups, Masjids, Temples , Gurduwaras, NGO’s and student communities to come forward and donate for the earthquake victims of Nepal. A press note informed that DGU Chairman, Kumar Subba will be leading a team to Kathmanmdu, and hand over the relief fund to the Indian Embassy in Nepal. The DGU has also organized a Concert for Nepal on May 10 at Town Hall, Dimapur from 3:00pm onwards, which is being supported by Chenithung Lotha, Secretary, Development Authority of Nagaland and DJ Tali, Music Channel Nagaland. The concert will feature the band Sargam, Tshering Wongyal Lama, Chuba Jamir, Malavika, Nisha Sharma and Maya Chettri.

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peared both the HSLC and HSSLC exams showed an increase from last year. A combined total of 37296 candidates appeared the examinations this year. In terms of district wise performance for Government schools, Peren district topped the table with a percentage of 50.90 % followed by Kohima district at 46.39%. Kiphire district is at the bottom of the table with 1.94% followed by

Government schools in Nagaland failed to impress yet again, reaching a new low with regard to pass percentage in the HSLC examinations 2015. The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) today declared the results for the HSLC and HSSLC exams. In most parameters the results fared worse than last year, with a decrease in the overall HIGHS pass percentage and • 4 govt schools show 100% an increase in the pass percentage number of schools • One HSLC topper from showing zero pass government school percentage. • Number of schools with The HSLC results 100% pass percentage inshowed a decline in creases to 49 pass percentage • Girls outperform boys to 63.05% this year in HSSLC by 75.59% to from 65.19% last 67.28%. year. With regard to the HSSLC exams, the overall pass per- LowS centage decreased • Overall pass percentage decreases to 72.13% this year from 78.27% last • HSLC pass percentage decreases to 63.05% year. Out of 40 schools that showed • HSSLC pass percentage a zero pass percentdecreases to 72.13% age, 38 were gov- • Govt schools pass perernment schools centage decreases to while 2 were private 34.55% schools. • 40 (38 govt and 2 private) This year, the schools show zero pass number of governpercentage ment schools showing zero pass percentage increased to 38 Mon at 9.40%. In respect from 24 last year. The pass of private schools, Kohima percentage in government district is at the top with a schools also drastically percentage of 84.70% foldecreased to 34.55% from lowed by Phek district at 41.69% last year. 81.07%. The only saving grace While both the boys for government schools and girls performed at par was provided by a topper in the HSLC exams, the girls from GHS Tsurangkong, performed better at the Buddiman Chetri, who se- HSSLC exams, with a pass cured the top 5 position in percentage of 75.59% to the the HSLC exams and the 5 boys at 67.28%. 4 institugovernment schools who tions under the Arts stream showed 100% pass per- and 1 institution under Scicentage. These included ence stream secured 100% GHS Kubolong, GHS Long- pass result. Under the sa and GHS Sungratsu un- HSSLC, only one school der Mokokchung; GHS (private) showed a nil rePhusachodu under Phek; sult. 731 candidates seand GHS Gungki under cured 80% and above out of Peren. 14905 qualified candidates However, the number which come to 5%. Out of of schools securing 100% these, 721 candidates are qualified/pass percent- from private schools and 10 age rose to 49, up by 9 from candidates are from Gov2014. Meanwhile, the num- ernment schools. ber of candidates who apList of toppers on page 5

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HSSLC exams. The results were declared on Thursday. All the top positions from the HSLC; HSSLC Arts, Science and Commerce stream examinations went to girl students.

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work; he could achieve what he wanted,” she said. Suraja like Modi comes from a simple back ground. Her father Pappuchinnapane Rao is a driver at Dimapur Municipal Council. A student of SD Jain Hr Sec School, Dimapur, Suraja secured 90.16% with distinction marks in five subjects. “I normally studied

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SSLC Arts stream no-1 topper Nuksungmenla Jamir is a go getter. “I worked hard, right from the 11th standard to achieve this top position. I then doubled my working hours and efforts after the selection exam,” the student of Queen

Mary Hr Sec School, Mokokchung said in an interview with The Morung Express. “With tough competition from my friends, I always tried to be the best of the best. I want to continue my studies outside of Nagaland and compete with the rest of the world,”

Girls work harder: aanchal

calping the top position in the science stream HSSLC examination, Aanchal Verma of Pranab Vidyapith Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur who scored 91.67% with distinction in five subjects is an aspiring doctor. A jubilant Aanchal while talking to The Morung Express said her success is the result of hard work and belief in oneself, and of course her parents, teachers, god and goddesses. Aanchal’s father Vinod Kumar is a businessman and owns a paint shop in Dimapur. When asked on the raison d’être of girls having an edge over the boys at the recent HSSLC exam result, her response is simple, “Girls work harder than boys nowadays.” No argument to that.

the topper said in a firm tone. “Hard work coupled with God’s helping hand never go wrong,” is Nuksungmenla’s mantra. Daughter of Moasashi Jamir of Longmisa village, Nuksungmenla aspires to be a leader-not only lead the people of Nagaland but the world.

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or Nazneen Akhtar Tapadar, topping HSLC exam this year is more than a personal achievement. The 15 year old student of Holy Cross Higher Secondary School (HCHSS) created a record by becoming the first student of HCHSS CITIZEN UMBRELLA in its 50 years to emerge top at the HSLC roll Wholesalers may contact of honour. CITIZEN UMBRELLA MANUFACTURER LTD. In addition, she is also the first girl from the Muslim community of NagaH.O.: 147, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata-7 Ph. No. 033-2268-1396, 2271-2152 land to take the coveted position. Fax : (033) 2271-2151 “It’s a dream come true,” an ecstatic Nazneen told The Express at E-mailMorung : citizenkolkata@gmail.com her home at New Market today. The eldest of two siblings, Nazneen credits God and her parents, Abdus Subhan Tapadar and Meherunnessa, whom she said are very supportive. Nazneen has already chalked out her career. She aspires to become a doctor (cardiologist). “I like the fact that it is a life-saving profession,” she said. Nazneen will be awarded the NBSE Award and the Governor’s Award with a cash prize of Rs 25,000 each along with medal and citations.

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Buddhiman: Lone topper from Govt Schools

nly student from a Government school to figure among the 2015 HSLC top twenty merit list, Buddhiman Chetri from Government High School, Tzürangkong scripted history by securing the top 5 position.

His achievement is path breaking and a face saver for government schools since they seldom make it to the ‘elite’ merit list. “I feel proud to have set an example in our school and also to the world that success can

surely happen if one works hard. Credit goes to all the teachers of my school for their support and guidance,” Buddhiman told this Correspondent over phone. “I may be from a poor background but it never stopped me from chas-

ing my dream. If we work hard in spite of all the circumstances, success isn’t something we can’t achieve,” he maintained. Buddhiman‘s parents are illiterate and works in a rice field at Chungtia Yimsen under Mokokchung district.

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NPF reconciliation: Cock fight comes to an end Chizokho Vero Kohima | April 30

The more than three month old imbroglio within the NPF party was laid to rest today when both groups of the party decided to reconcile at the NPF General Convention in Kohima. The party reconciled by accepting Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu as the NPF president and extending unconditional support to TR Zeliang’s leadership as Chief Minister. In front of thousands of party workers, Noke Wangnao and Dr. Shurhozelie shook hands, symbolising reconciliation. The party further resolved to maintain the November 26, 2014 decision as irrevocably valid for a period of five years commencing from January 2015. The convention declared that all disputes, differences, conflicts and controversies created within

noke Wangnao and Dr shurhozelie liezietsu are seen shaking hands during the nPF General Convention at iG stadium, Kohima on April 30. (Morung Photo)

the party stands dissolved amicably in the overall interests of the party and the government. It declared that the unity

and integrity of the NPF’s political and legislature parties are intact. It also rejected and denounced any attempt to split the party. The conven-

tion further conveyed gratitude to the Election Commission of India for directing the party to find recourse to its own Constitutional provi-

sions for amicably resolving the State, he said. the issue. Zeliang further stated that only 12 members in the Let bygones be Council of Ministers includbygones: CM ing the Chief Minister can be Nagaland state Chief inducted into the cabinet. Minister, while speaking at He also pointed to the limthe convention expressed ited number of departments, hope that divisions or fac- especially the bigger departtionalism within the party ments, “which everyone is would be effectively buried eying for.” However, he refor good, “never to be ex- minded legislators that “we humed again in future.” are here to serve the people of “Let us accept that by- Nagaland, and not ourselves, gones are bygones and or our respective constituenwork for our people in the cies and Districts alone.” spirit of forgive and forget,” the CM said. Concessions have to be He further affirmed the made: NPF President NPF’s commitment to pave NPF President, Dr way, if need be, for any al- Shurhozelie Liezietsu ternative arrangement to meanwhile informed that usher in peace and final after the ECI’s directive to resolution of the Naga po- the NPF, concerned leaders litical issue. It is with a view met at Kohima and agreed to strengthen our collec- in principle for reconcilitive efforts towards this ation. “We have realised goal, that we are even open that concessions have to be to the idea of a consensus made in the interest of the Government, or opposi- party’s future and also for tion-less Government in the interest of our people.

Therefore, we can safely conclude that we have reconciled already,” he said. Lamenting that a lot of damage has been done to the party name, he stated that it is time for “all of us to come together and heal the wounds.” “Those who fail to understand the reality of purpose of the NPF party in depth, I will have no regret to grant them leave in future,” he cautioned. Affirming the party’s commitment to facilitate a solution to the Naga issue, the NPF President pointed out that “without peace, no development in any form can take place.” “With our concern for solution to the Naga political problem for our future development, we have to see that the system is brought back to the society for economic growth. If need be, strong hands must be applied for achieving the goal,” he said.

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Deputy Commissioner, Kesonyu Yhome IAS has called upon the inhabitants of Diphupar village to leave behind a legacy of protecting and preserving the environment for the coming generations. Addressing a culmination programme of the Diphupar Naga Students’ Union’s (DNSU) oneday programme of ‘Clean and Green: My Environment, My Responsibility’ at Diphupar local ground on Thursday, Yhome said that the initiative of clean environment should not end with one-day affair but must be made into an everyday affair by individuals. He said that the efforts to keep the environment clean would pay huge dividends. Yhome lamented that much was left to be desired towards protecting the environment owing to greed and selfishness. “Greed and materialism will not take us anywhere,” he said and added that the need for good and responsible citizens was felt in any initiative aimed towards evolving a progressive society. Yhome maintained that the personality of a person was reflected in how responsible he is inside his home and kitchen.

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DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS appends signature on Clean and Green Environment at Diphupar on Thursday. (Morung Photo)

Prior to his speech, the DC gave away prizes and certificates to winners and participants of various categories of the one-

day event. Altogether, 16 schools within the jurisdiction of Diphupar village participated in the programme.

WINNErS Of vArIOUS CATEgOrIES Greenathon: Boys First – Kongtha : Government High School, Diphupar Second – Longsha : Government Middle School (Tangkhul) Third – Othong : Ao community Greenathon : Girls First – Orenboni : Government High School, Diphupar Second – Veine : Highland Hall School Third – Vilasienuo : Christian Mission Higher Secondary School Painting First – Henry: Eastern Academy School Second- Ashim Paul: Christian Mission Higher Secondary School Third – Longyang Chang: Delhi Public School Cycling: Boys First – Yoto: Unity Christian Higher Secondary School Second – Temsumar: Vision Home Higher Secondary School Third – Viloto : Government High School, Diphupar Cycling: Girls First – Watimenla : Unity Christian Higher Secondary School Second – Kivitoli : Government High School, Diphupar Third – Kethosenuo: Unity Christian Higher Secondary School

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January to April to March took up the major portion of discussions. The second session, which was the Keynote session with interaction with the Chief Guest, Asano Sekhose, was presided over by Nini Sekhose, General Secretary ANPSA. Bithungo Kion, President, gave the welcome address. He exhorted the gathering about the importance of being a part of ANPSA and how together we could bring about positive changes in our society. He stated that leadership means responsibility and accountability. Asano Sekhose spoke at length about the educational system in the state and on the need to make education learner oriented. She emphasised on the duties of Heads of Schools,

especially in leading reforms that will raise student achievement. The role of the teacher and the role of the parent are equally important, she said. Students are spending 15% of their time at school and the rest of the time they spend at home. So without active participation of the parents students cannot become achievers, Sekhose stated. She stressed on the importance of teaching values like honesty, interiority, humility, dignity of labour, character building, discipline etc. She further encouraged the Heads of Schools to keep updating themselves in all areas, learn new things and improve the system so that our efforts can become fruitful products. There was also a brief

period of interaction. Keviseto, Principal Baptist High and Treasurer NPSA gave an uplifting solo, while Father George Rino read out the representation to the government. Dr Mechiehol Savi, Advisor ANPSA gave the invocation in the first session and Fr. Mathew said the closing prayer. Christina Neikhrienuo, Principal, Little Star Higher Secondary School played the piano. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks from Ashuli Joseph, Press Secretary, ANPSA. Nini Sekhose rounded off the meeting with a request to the NBSE Chairman to side with the ANPSA as she confers with all other stake holders on the matter of change of Academic Session as this was a very urgent need of the schools.

dled identity …we must not leave the world to the ‘prince of darkness’ and remain socially, culturally and politically inconsequential,” Rev. Aier said. He further said that the Christian engagement to mend the world, to foster human flourishing, and to serve the common good is nothing but the identity (kindled like) projecting itself outward in word and deed. Principal, R5, Meren Jamir, proposed vote of thanks. An initiative of the Sinai Ministry, R5 is a month-long residential school with the vision to disciple, train and release future leaders into all walks of life and to live the true Christian way. R5 stands for Revive, Restore, Recruit, Release and Reform.

Higher Education dept bids ‘Ignite the Spirit of Science’ farewell to Megono Liegise

The second graduation day of R5 Sinai Ministry Leadership School was held here at Life Spring Corner on Thursday with principal, Oriental Theological Seminary, Rev. Dr. Wati Aier, addressing the graduation day as the guest speaker. A total of 18 students including 12 boys and six girls who underwent a monthlong training in Christian leadership were conferred degrees on the occasion. Speaking on the theme “Kindled life – transformed world”, which is also the vision statement of R5, Rev. Aier in his message said the “secularization thesis” that the modern world can interpret and order life without recourse to belief in

R5 students presenting a special number on their graduation day held at Life Spring Corner.

God, has proven too weak. Asserting that Christianity has not withered away, Rev. Wati said on the other hand, Christianity has become one of the fastest growing world views today with over two billion followers. “Kindled by the spirit of God, Christians must seek

remember her for her role in initiating quality assessment under the National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC) . Under her initiative, today 10 Colleges are accredited under NAAC. Megono Liegise, retiring Jt.Director in her speech said that she is re-

social influence – responsibility to serve the common good must be inscribed into the very character of Christianity”, he said. Rev. Aier noted that Christianity in Nagaland has become institutionalized resembling a “monument and refusing to be a movement.”

tiring with a sense of fulfilment. She joined Higher Education services as a lecturer in 1982 through NPSC at Kohima Science College, Jotsoma in the Department of Zoology and after serving for several years transferred to the Directorate in 2008 as Jt. Director.

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lenge which needed to be addressed not only by the Schools alone but by the Government too. This can be done by introducing policy changes such as change in Academic Sessions which would add more working days to the School Calendar without singling out Classes 10, 11 and 12 only to take Classes for nine months in a year. In the new proposed Academic Session, the whole School would be having Classes for nine months a year which would improve our Teaching Learning process and thereby produce very good results. Various concerns of the private schools were discussed at length but the intensely felt need to change the Academic Session from December to

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(A ff ilated to Nagaland University and recognized under vide No. NU- CDC/C-66/2014/945 Dated 3rd June 2014)

Asano Sekhose, Chairman NBSE with Office Bearers and Executive members of ANPSA Central Body at De Oriental Grand, Kohima.

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KOHIMA, APRIL 30 (MExN): The Annual General Body Meeting (AGBM) of the All Nagaland Private Schools’ Association (ANPSA), Central Body was held on April 29 at De Oriental Grand Kohima. About 140 Heads of private Schools from all over Nagaland attended the meet. A press release informed that Asano Sekhose, Chairman, Nagaland Board of School Education, (NBSE) was the Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker for the occasion. The AGBM meeting was held under the Theme: “School Leadership in a Changing World.” The meeting was divided into two sessions. The first session was the Business Session which was presided over by Bithungo Kikon, President, ANPSA Central Body. At the outset, the goal and vision of ANPSA was reiterated once again. ANPSA is a body which provides a platform for all Heads of Schools to come together to share their ideas and practices, and to collective find out ways and means to effectively respond to the challenges being faced by schools today and also to make the best possible use of the opportunities presented. ANPSA stated that to inculcating the ability to think and apply in students was the main chal-

R5 leadership school holds 2015 graduation day

KOHIMA, APRIL 30 (MExN): The Directorate of Higher Education bade farewell to Megono Liegise, Joint Director on April 30, who retired from the services of Higher Education on attaining Superannuation. In a special programme held in her honour, Dr Norbert Noraho, Addl. Director, who chaired the programme described her as a fine and strong leading figure among the women folk. The Director, Higher education, C Khalong, in his speech congratulated Liegise on a successful career as a teacher and administrator. He described her as “a capsule of different virtues.” She played a pivotal role in the enhancement of quality education in higher education. Colleges will

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“More and more, in an increasingly pluralistic society, Christians will exert their influence less from the centre of institutionalized Christendom and more from the social margins of public arenas – meaning business, market places, politics, schools, colleges, offices etc.,” he

added. The OTS principal also said that kindled people will be able to survive and thrive in contemporary societies only if they attend to their “difference” from surrounding cultures and sub-cultures. “That is we must prayerfully and conscientiously safeguard our kin-

DIMAPUR, APRIL 30 (MExN): A series of workshops for the parents on the theme ‘Ignite the Spirit of Science’ concluded recently at Don Bosco School Dimapur. The workshops were conducted by Career CliniQ in association with the Directorate of Employment and Craftsmen Training, Government of Nagaland. Highlighting the opportunities that are possible in the field of Science, a four-day seminar was conducted for the parents of Don Bosco School Dimapur. A press note informed that this is a campaign that has been initiated in various schools in order to educate parents on the numerous non-traditional science careers that are available both in the private and government sector. Scores of parents attended the meet and interacted with the officials to discuss on various career related issues. Welcoming the audience and igniting the ‘Spirit of Science,’ Father Joshua, Principal of Don Bosco School expressed his happiness to be the first school to initiate the educative and informative campaign. He assured the parents on the school’s commitment

towards quality teaching. Addressing the occasion as a keynote speaker, Dr Anirban Choudhury, Director of Career CliniQ highlighted the various modern employment avenues that are available in the science stream. He elucidated that science and maths come naturally to all people in various forms in their day to day life and hence should be subjects that should be embraced. He explained Newton’s 3 Laws as examples to prove his point. A career handbook highlighting various career avenues in Science, namely Career track, was also made available to the parents along with the digital courseware of different classes. Parents were also urged to encourage scientific temperament amongst their wards through the use of modern day technologies such as computers, tablets and smart phones. Concluding the event with his vote of thanks, Fr Joshua thanked the parents for their active participation and assured that the activity would be extended to the middle and junior classes as well in the near future.

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An artistic concrete fountain head designed and created by Avito Miachieo, an upcoming Naga entrepreneur artist. The fountain with three bowls, weighs more than 2000 kg with the base bowl measuring five feet in diameter. Avito, a painter and sculptor, won awards in the state and zonal levels and is presently engrossed in making fountains and sculptures with concrete and other materials. Working in a small work shed in his residence at Kuda Village (Nagarjan), Dimapur, this unassuming artist’s ultimate goal is to create life (busts and sculptures) in bronze. The entrepreneur artist is training and employing two Naga youths at present.

DMC informs traders DIMAPUR, APRIL 30 (MExN): The Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) has informed all shopkeepers and trade license holders under the DMC jurisdiction that DMC officials are going to check/verify the DMC trade licenses from May 1 and remain in full force till further order. A press note from the DMC office has informed all shopkeepers/ trade license holders to cooperate with the DMC officials by producing their respective trade licenses. Further, it was cautioned that a penalty of Rs 500 will be imposed on traders who do not possess the license. The checking officials have been authorised to renew the license on spot with a late fine @ Rs 10% on trade license fees.

SDEO Kiphire informs schools KIPHIRE, APRIL 30 (MExN): The Sub Divisional Education Officer (SDEO) for Kiphire has informed all government and private schools under the district to collect post matric scholarship forms for 2015-16 for deserving candidates of class 1 to 10. The forms will be issued from May 4 to 16 and receipt of application will be on or before May 30.

TNAI supports UTNA demands DIMAPUR, APRIL 30 (MExN): The Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) Nagaland Branch has expressed support to the demands made by the UTNA which was submitted to the Government on Nagaland on April 20. The association stated that the need for post creation and upgradation in all District Hospitals CHCs, PHCs should be taken up as a genuine matter to solve stagnation and to pave the way for the unemployed trained nurses in the state and to fill up the vacant post in the higher cadre at the earliest. A press note issued by Khuniho, Secretary, TNAI, Nagaland Branch requested the department to review the present proposed Nursing Service rule of 50% A man is seen carrying coops for poultry to be sold at the weekly market at Super Market, Open Competition and 50% direct appointment as it is against the interest of Nurses in general. Dimapur on Wednesday, April 29. (Photo by Imojen I Jamir)

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Northeast Briefs VDF personnel manhandled, handed to police Our Correspondent Imphal | April 30

Five Village Defence Force (VDF) personnel were manhandled by an irate crowd and handed over to police here on Thursday after their alleged attempt to rob a driver. The VDF personnel who were on duty at Brahmapur Nahabam in Imphal East reportedly detained and robbed a van driver who was coming to the site after dropping a patient at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) here. The incident occurred around 5 pm when the VDF personnel brutally beat the driver, took Rs 1,300 and seized the vehicle key and driving licence after he refused to pay Rs 1000 to them. The victim was identified as Puyam Ngongo, 25, hailing from Langathel Maning Leikai in Thoubal district. A commotion soon ensued between the VDF and locals which later turned into a large crowd and manhandled the VDF personnel. They were later handed over to the police in connection with the incident. The VDF has been often accused of allegedly bullying commuters and taking money from them over trivial matters.

Zeliangrong Baudi (AMN) flays AR ‘high-handedness’ imphal, april 30 (mexN): The Zeliangrong Baudi, Assam Manipur Nagaland (AMN) has strongly condemned the “arrogant and high-handed”behaviourof25 Assam Rifles to a custom officer on April 28 near Kangpokpi. The Assam Rifles, under the commander Major Vinod and his jawans “frisked, detained, harassed, and grilled” the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, Dept of Revenue, Gaikhonlung Panmei IRS for an hour at a place between Tujang Vaichong and Chawang Kining, near Kangpokpi along IT Road, alleged a ZB (AMN) press note. “This incident is not the first time unruly acts of Assam Rifles in Manipur

state, even the MLAs and ministers are not spared” the press note maintained adding that such action shows “lack of discipline” as well as total disregard and discrimination to the people of tribal particularly and Northeast in general. The “unethical action of the Major Vinod and his jawans clearly showed that, “they are no longer protected and safeguard the life of the citizens,” it added. The ZB (AMN) further stated that such action must be condemned by all the rational thinkers of the democratic citizens of the country and urged the Chief Minister, Home Minister of Manipur, and concern authority to

take necessary action against Major Vinod and his foot soldiers immediately so that in the future no such incident takes place. It also alleged that Assam Rifles posting in different parts of Zeliangrong inhabited areas, particularly in Tamenglong district of Manipur, frequently harassed, detained, and frisked the Government officials and common man travelling on the road in the name of maintaining law and order. “Such unnecessary harassment and treatment of individual is unfortunate and highly condemnable” stated the press note appended by General Secretary, Zeliangrong Baudi (AMN). Dr. Gairiangmei Maringmei.

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HC sentences village chief to 20 days' imprisonment ShilloNG, april 30 (pti): The High Court of Meghalaya today sentenced a tribal village chief to 20 days' simple imprisonment for contempt of court after he was found to have issued NOC against the high court ruling here. A division Bench consisting Chief Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice T N K Singh in an order sentenced Wahkhen village headman Skhembor Khongjirem to 20 days' simple imprisonment and imposed on him a fine of Rs 1,000 to be deposited in two months.

In case of default in payment of fine, Khongjirem will undergo further 10 days' simple imprisonment, the Bench ordered. The headman was taken into custody yesterday after he appeared at the hearing conducted by the division bench of the high court headed by the Chief Justice. "We have held the contemnor guilty of committing criminal contempt under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 read with Article 215 of the Constitution," the Bench said.

‘Subansiri dam site is new theatre of Maoist activity’

Guwahati, april 30 (tNN): sive propaganda against mega dams the new theatre of Maoist activities. The project site of the controversial in Assam. Against this backdrop, As- There are also inputs about the links Subansiri lower mega dam, at Geru- sam-Arunachal border has emerged of CPI (Maoist) with insurgent groups kamukh near the Assam-Arunachal as another theatre of Maoist activity." in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. The minister said CPI(Maoist) was In 2013, the ministry of home affairs Pradesh border, has become the new theatre of Maoist activities in also trying to set up organizational for the first time formally declared the country. Union minister of state bases in the northeast with a view to Assam a Maoist-hit state and made for home affairs Haribhai Parathib- forge ties with other insurgent groups this one of the prime reasons for rehai Chaudhary informed the Rajya to meet its military requirements. "The newing the 'disturbed area' tag under Sabha on Wednesday that cadres outfit has developed close fraternal ties the Armed Forces (Special Powers) of Upper Assam Leading Commit- with northeast insurgent groups like Act, 1958, for the state. The state was first declared a 'distee (UALC) of the CPI (Maoist) are Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) being involved in anti-dam propa- of People's Liberation Army (PLA) of turbed area' on November 27, 1990, Manipur. Both the outfits have agreed by the Centre under the provision of ganda campaign. Anti-dam activists from different upon mutual cooperation in the areas Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Speorganizations of the state have stalled of training, funding, supply of arms and cial Powers) Act. The tag has been renewed every year since then. the work of the 2,000 MW project on the ammunition," he added. According to a notification issued The CPI(Maoist) has also esSubansiri river since December, 2011. In reply to a question by one tablished separate channels in the by joint secretary (northeast) ShambAnand Sharma, the minister said, northeast, particularly in Nagaland, hu Singh in 2013, a review of law and "The UALC is presently operating in for procurement of ammunition, the order in the state indicates that "Maoist presence in Assam and border arAssam and Arunachal Pradesh and minister added. Churches to hold One of the earliest warnings about eas of Arunachal Pradesh has been has been involved in the looting of prayers for earthquake weapons and extortion activities in the outfit spreading its wings in the re- noticed and hence their activities the local villages. It has also been en- gion was given in 2011 by then Union were observed in Golaghat, Dhemaji, victims in Mizoram gaged in recruitment and training of home minister P Chdambaram, who Lakhimpur and Tinsukia districts of aizawl, april 30 cadres for the outfit in Assam. These had stated in an annual report of his Assam and Namsai area of Lohit dis(pti): Presbyterian cadres have been involved in exten- ministry that, "Assam has emerged as trict in Arunachal Pradesh." Church of Mizoram Synod on Thursday appealed to all the local churches across Mizoram to hold TENDER NOTICE NO OUTSOURCING /02/2015-16 prayers for the victims of earthquake which ravaged Nepal and some VEH FOR GARBAGE LIFTING parts of the country. SecTenders are invited for garbage lifting from Dimapur & retary of the Mizoram Rangapahar Military Station to Municipal dumping ground. Synod Rev B Sangthanga said that all the MissionarRequirement 03 x Vehs with drivers 04 Ton (500 cft) capacity each vehicle ies working in Nepal, Uttar aizawl, april 30 timidation from the Mani04 x Labourers each vehicle Pradesh, Bihar and Rajas- (pti): The turnout in pur-based Hmar People's than were safe. Sangth- the election to the village Convention (Democrats), Wages of lab Wages not exceeding min Central/State Govt rates + EPF, ESI if any anga said that the Offi- councils in the six dis- while there was no need Work load Lift garbage from 99 vats in 50 KM circuit 01 June 2015 to 31 March 2016 cer's Meeting (OM) of the tricts of Mizoram and local for polling in seven villages Period In DD/Cash ` 100/Mizoram Synod asked all councils within the Aizawl as the candidates were al- Form Last date 23 May 2015 before 1000h Address : the local churches across Municipal Council (AMC) ready elected unopposed. Opening 25 May 2015 at 1100h Stn HQ Dimapur the state to have special held today was expected to The independent canof Tender prayer service on Saturday C/o HQ 3 Corps, be over 70 per cent, State didates in Mission Veng night for the victims of the Rangapahar Mil Stn Election Commission Sec- locality in Aizawl were also Nepal earthquake. Dimapur (Nagaland) declared as elected unopretary H Darzika said. Darzika told PTI that the posed in the election to the For inspection of areas and forms from 10 AM to 2 PM, contact Defence Minister to final figure on the poll turn- local council. Station Headquarters Dimapur. Ph: (03862) 249124 visit ArunachalPradesh out would be available late Of the 2,817 seats in Administrative Commandant Station Headquarters Dimapur New Delhi, april tonight due to communica- the elections to the village 30 (pti): Defence Minis- tion problems, specially in councils and local councils, ter Manohar Parrikar will the remote villages and also 743 seats were reserved for CONSERVANCY MANPOWER undertake a three-day due to the fact that polling women, Darzika said addvisit starting on Friday to continued in many places ing there were 7,129 candi- Tenders invited for provisioning of deficient conservancy Arunachal Pradesh, just even after 5 PM, the time for dates, of which 1,783 candi- manpower for Dimapur & Rangapahar Military Station. dates were women. days before Prime Minis- conclusion of the polling. The ruling Congress has ter Narendra Modi's trip Deputy Inspector GenRequirement 38 x Labourers to China. Parrikar will visit eral of Police (Range) L T the largest number of canWages Wages not exceeding min Central/State Govt rates + Army stations in the state Hrangchal said the polling didates at 2,625, followed EPF, ESI + Contractor’s Profit and will also attend the was completely peaceful by the opposition Mizo Work load Cleaning of Roads, drains, shrubs etc Tawang festival. Modi is without any untoward in- National Front (MNF) at Period 01 June 2015 to 31 March 2016 scheduled to travel to Chi- cidents. 2,151, while the Zoram NaForm In DD/Cash `100/na in May. China had obElections were held to tionalist Party (ZNP) fieldLast date 23 May 2015 before 1000h Address : jected to the visit of former 498 out of 536 village coun- ed 753 candidates. Opening of Tender 25 May 2015 at 1100h Stn HQ Dimapur Defence Minister AK Ant- cils and 82 out of 83 local The Mizoram People's C/o HQ 3 Corps, ony to Arunachal Pradesh councils in Aizawl city, Conference (MPC) put up Rangapahar Mil Stn earlier to which China lays Darzika said. 154 candidates and the Dimapur (Nagaland) its claim. Parrikar will visit Village council polls state BJP unit fielded 215. Army stations in the state The NCP had one candi- For inspection of areas and forms from 10 AM to 2 PM, contact and will also attend the could not be held in 31 vildate, while there were 1,230 Station Headquarters Dimapur. Ph: (03862) 249124. lages in the north eastern Tawang festival. Administrative Commandant part of the state due to in- independent candidates.

Questioning the powers of the traditional heads in the state, the High Court ruling had in December last year observed that a village/ locality headman did not derive any right from law and rule or from the Constitution to issue NOC for the purpose of birth/death or for registration of any document as well as for building permission and obtaining loan. According to the division bench, the tribal village chief had called the press conference and made the statement that he was issuing certificates in violation of the Court?s

order apart from addressing the media persons on other issues. The High Court had in an order issued on April 23 directed the headman to appear in person before the court today after taking cognizance on reports which alleged that he has violated the court?s order by issuing the certificates for bank accounts, bank loans. The village chief?s counsel, S P Mahanta admitted that the law will take its own course in case of any attempt by any person to defy the orders of the Court or scandalize the Court.

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nated in TVs with its own technology called Trinitron, which boasted such a reputation for image quality it won an Emmy Award in 1973. But Sony underestimated the industry’s switch to flat-panel TVs from CRT, or cathoderay tubes. Sony has lost money in its TV business for the past decade. Samsung of South Korea leads with about a third of the global TV market share, followed by LG Electronics. Sony trails with under a tenth of the market. Last year, Sony split off the TV division as a wholly owned entity. And it’s banking on 4K, with image quality superior to high-definition, or “ultra-HD,” each set costing as much as $25,000. The problem: Rivals are all working on the same. “Sony management keeps saying the electronics market is shrinking. But that’s a given. Sony in the past came up with products that created new product sectors,” said Yasunori Tateishi, who has written a book on Sony’s woes.

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nce at the leading edge of consumer electronics, Sony Corp. is now more lumbering giant than trend-setter after falling behind competitors such as Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. Sony watchers are urging the down-on-its-luck company to rediscover its pioneering ethos. Founded in 1946, Sony symbolized Japan’s rebirth after its World War II defeat, rising from humble beginnings. It had little else besides the smarts of founders Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, to come up with hit after hit: the transistor radio, home tape recorders, the Walkman portable recorder-and-player. In a sign of its travails, the Tokyobased electronics and entertainment conglomerate Thursday reported a net loss of 126 billion yen ($1.1 billion) for the fiscal year through March, almost as bad as the 128.4 billion yen loss it racked up the previous fiscal year. Annual sales rose nearly 6 percent to 8.2 trillion yen. Sony is forecasting a return to profit at 140 billion yen ($1.2 billion) for the fiscal year through March 2016. It is seeking to rebuild its operations around its strengths. Here’s what’s ailing and promising in Sony’s business areas:

ing aggressively into high-end video cameras and SLR, or single-lens reflex, cameras, underpricing powerful Japanese rivals Nikon and Canon. Sony’s latest cameras can take smooth video of fast-moving objects and shoot video where there is almost no light. Although smartphones have eroded Sony’s Cybershot digital camera business, Sony is now wooing professional and upscale amateur photographers. Sony also acquired a 20 percent stake in medical equipment maker Olympus Corp. in 2012, to develop endoscopes and other surgical tools packed with Sony technology, such as three-dimensional imaging and 4K. Kazunori Ito, analyst at Barclays in Tokyo, believes that image sensors, along with games, can be counted on to be the new profit drivers for Sony, at a time when restructuring charges are winding down. The cameras are drawing new fans, including Havard Ferstad, a 34-year-old IT consultant and Tokyo resident, who has bought a 200,000 yen ($2,000) Sony camera. “The thing is that Sony has high quality sensors in their still cameras, and they are giving it to consumers at a relatively low price,” he said.

Image Sensors Image sensors are used in devices such as smartphones, digital cameras, medical devices and self-parking cars, and translate the information of a pictorial image into digital signals. Sony’s sensor technology, known as CMOS, was years in the making and its development was expensive, causing the division to post years of Televisions losses. Sony might be finally ready to Back in the 1960s, Sony domi- cash in on the investment. It is mov-

Game Machines The first PlayStation video game home console, which went on sale in Japan in 1994 and in the U.S. in 1995, has been a hit. With three successors

already out, there is almost certain to be a fifth, or PS5. Sony has also delivered popular hand-held machines, starting with the PlayStation Portable, discontinued last year, and the PS Vita. Sony has only two major rivals in the game-machine business: Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp. The PlayStation 4 is at the top, and the PlayStation Network, which has more than 100 million registered accounts worldwide, relays content and services, including games, streaming video, TV shows and chats. The game-networking platform will extend to more devices, such as TVs and tablets. In the U.S., Sony recently entered the pay-television business with an online package of more than 50 channels starting at $50 a month, called PlayStation Vue, for PlayStation owners in three cities. “That’s the power of the PlayStation brand, a brand that has been cultivated over the course of 20 years as the core gamers’ system,” said Jeffrey Wilson, senior analyst with PCMag.com, who points to “Final Fantasy VII” and “Metal Gear Solid 4” as strong exclusives. “Right now, Sony needs to give gamers what they signed up for when they purchased a PS4 — a string of good games.”

lion, which was widely criticized as over-priced. Norio Ohga, president at that time, was a former opera singer and musical connoisseur, with a vision to make Sony an entertainment company. Whenever Sony had a hit movie, such as the “Spider-Man series,” or a popular musical release from artists like Beyonce and Daft Punk, that helped offset its losses in the electronics business. But striking the right balance between electronics and entertainment has been difficult. In 2009, Howard Stringer, then Sony chief, scoffed at a reporter’s question about whether Sony planned to produce material by Michael Jackson, a Sony artist who died that year, using 3-D technology. Sony later reversed course and produced 3-D versions of Jackson’s music videos, including the post-mortem “This Is It.” Recently, Sony Pictures suffered from a hacking attack over its movie called “The Interview,” which spoofs an assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The film was released in independent theaters and through Internet outlets in December. “Those interested in cinema and who watch Sony’s films are primarily judging the company by the quality of the films they produce and release, Entertainment so whether they sell electronics is not In 1995, Sony acquired Hollywood really on their minds,” said Maggie studio Columbia Pictures for $3.4 bil- Lee, a film critic for Variety. Lee said

World Bank arm to partner India puts financial overhaul IREDA for energy projects on hold after RBI pushback New Delhi, April 30 (iANS): The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private financing arm of the World Bank, has said it would partner the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) to provide infrastructure financing for energy projects in India. “This collaboration will help standardise steps that lenders take when co-financing projects with the IFC. The ultimate aim is to make local currency financing available in shorter time-frames and reduce financing costs for lenders and borrowers,” the IFC said in a release on Wednesday. IREDA, the financing arm of the renewable energy ministry, has become the second institution in India after PTC India Financial Services to sign IFC’s master cooperation agreement. “The partnership will help the IREDA increase its port-

folio in financing renewable energy projects to support the government’s plans to establish up to 175 gigawatts of renewable energy projects over the next seven years,” K.S. Popli, IREDA chairman and managing director, said in a statement. The IFC’s master cooperation agreement was created in 2009 for financial institutions to collaborate more closely to help meet the shortfall in private sector financing during the global financial crisis. “Since then, signatories have co-invested more than $3 billion with the IFC to support private sector development across the world,” it said. “Partnering with the IREDA will enable developers to speedily commission renewable energy projects while having a positive environmental footprint and creating jobs,” said Vivek Pathak, IFC’s director for Asia-Pacific.

New Delhi, April 30 (reuterS): India on Thursday put on hold its biggest overhaul of financial regulation in a generation, following pushback against its plans to strip the central bank of authority to regulate the government bond market and manage public debt. The climbdown, ahead of a vote in the lower house of parliament, marks a victory for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which opposed the changes, saying they would cripple it and interfere with monetary policy. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had proposed the changes when he unveiled India’s annual budget in February, with the aim of resolving a conflict of interest the RBI now faces between its formal mandate to control inflation and separately manage the government’s fundraising.

The government’s thinking was that the overhaul would help lower borrowing costs, expand bond markets by attracting retail investors and improve the transmission of monetary policy. On Thursday, even before the lower house began a discussion on the changes, Jaitley asked the speaker of the house to strike them out of the finance bill. But he also reiterated the need to set up an independent agency to issue, and manage, public debt. “(It) creates a conflict of interest between the RBI’s role of controlling inflation ... and its interest in keeping interest rates low to reduce cost of borrowing for the government,” he told lawmakers in the lower house. “(It) perpetuates the conflict of interest within the RBI from being a regulator of government securities and simultaneously being both a

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trader in government securities.” However, he didn’t offer any reason for the rollback. The government would now consult the RBI and come up with a detailed roadmap for a new debt management agency, Jaitley said, without offering any timeline. Although the regulatory overhaul was moved in parliament after consulting the central bank governor, Raghuram Rajan, it had become a source of friction between the RBI and the finance ministry. A group of RBI officials wrote to lawmakers and state chief ministers expressing concern over the changes ahead of a vote in parliament next week, media have reported. In a sign of a compromise, junior finance minister Jayant Sinha told Reuters on Tuesday the central bank would not lose its powers to regulate trade in government bonds.

the hacking woes actually drew more interest in “The Interview,” and she also had praise for “Coming Home,” directed by Zhang Yimou and Sono Sion’s “Shinjuku Swan” as strong recent offerings. Robots The Aibo entertainment robot, on which Sony pulled the plug in 2006 under a plan to cut costs, was a perfect example of the “synergy” that has been an elusive goal for decades, creatively bringing together two areas of Sony’s expertise: entertainment and gadgetry. The mechanical pets, costing about $2,000 each, were programmed with a disarming “personality,” drawing fiercely loyal fans. Never mind only 150,000 of the toy-poodle-sized toys were ever sold. They boosted Sony’s image as an innovator that was more than about just money-making. Stringer’s decision to kill Aibo set off an uproar from owners. “Sony became too Americanized. It used to be a different kind of company,” said Nobuyuki Norimatsu, nicknamed “Aibo doctor,” of A-Fun, a company of engineers who do repairs for discontinued electronics goods. Last year, Sony ended maintenance services for Aibo. Norimatsu has a Buddhist priest chant prayers for the robotic spirits before taking an Aibo apart. It’s that kind of caring and love Sony needs to reclaim, he said.

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea slash national roaming charges New Delhi, April 30 (AgeNcieS): India’s top telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular have announced they are cutting national roaming tariff, days after telecom regulator Trai reduced the ceiling tariffs. Airtel has made outgoing local SMS cheaper by up to 75%, whereas inter-circle SMSs will cost up to 74% less. Likewise, incoming call rates have been reduced up to 40%, whereas outgoing inter-circle call charges are now lower by 23%. Outgoing local calls will also be cheaper by up to 20%. Vodafone users will have to pay 25 paise on roaming for a local text message as compared to Re 1; and for STD texts, 38 paise from Rs 1.50 earlier in accordance with the new Trai guidelines, Vodafone India said in a statement. Outgoing local and STD calls will be charged at 80 paise and Rs 1.15 paise per minute as compared to Re 1 and Rs 1.50, respectively. Receiving calls on roaming for Vodafone users is also 40% cheaper now, down from 75p/min to 45p/min. Idea too will charge incoming

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STD CODE: 0370 100/2244279 2222222 2222111 2222952 2222916 2243339 2224202 08974997923

CHUMUKEDIMA: 03862 282777/101 (O) 9856158740 (OC)

MOKOKCHUNG: 0369 2226225/ 101 (O) 9436012949 (OC) PHEK: 8414853765 (O) 9862130954(OC) ZUNHEBOTO: 03867 280304/ 101 (O) 9856156876 (OC)

MON: 03869 251222/ 101 (O) 9436208480 (OC) KipHire: 8414853767 (O) 8974304572 (OC)

Toll free No. 1098 childline

Police Station 1:

DIMAPUR: 03862 232201/ 101 (O) 9436017479 (OC)

TUENSANG: 8414853766 (O) 8414853519

CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE

MOKOKCHUNG:

KOHIMA: 0370 2222952/ 101 (O) 9402003086 (OC)

WOKHA: 03860 242215/101 (O) 9862039399 (OC)

Chumukedima Fire 282777 Brigade Nikos Hospital and 232032, 231031 Research Centre

KOHIMA

FIRE STATIONS

STD CODE: 0369

2226241

Police Station 2 :

2226214

Civil Hospital: Woodland Nursing Home:

2226216 2226263

Hotel Metsüpen (Tourist Lodge):

2226373/2229343

TAHAMZAM (formerly Senapati) STD CODE: 03871 Police Station: Fire Brigade

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The Morung Express TOP 20 POSITIONS OF CANDIDATES IN 2015 HSLC EXAM Position

Name of candidate and school

Nazneen Akhtar Tapadar Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur a. Chentisangla Longkumer G. Rio School, Kohima b. Ponthungo Odyuo Mezhür Hr.Sec.School, Kohima Payal Kumari Sharma S.D.Jain Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur a. Nandita Biswas St.Paul Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Kitoka V Assumi Don Bosco Hr.Sec.School, Kohima Buddhiman Govt.High School, Tzurangkong a. Punam Kumari Ram Janaki Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Tolino Chishi Little Flower Hr.Sec.School, Kohima a. Sudeshna Das Pranab Vidyapith Hr.Sec. School, Dimapur b. Belle Poangmei Mezhür Hr.Sec.School, Kohima a. Shreyan Chabra St.Mary’s Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Akivikali Chophi Little Star Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur c. Loktimen Little Star Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Kesino Thorie Trinity School, Kohima Debasish Dutta Dimapur Railway High School, Dimapur a. Ankit Kumar Gupta Zakiesato Memorial Hr.Sec. School, Dimapur b. Imtijungla Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur c. Lanumongba Imchen Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur d. Birbal Dev Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Elanthung Tsanglao Modern Academy, Kohima a. Piklu Paul Dimapur Railway High School, Dimapur b. Mohit Agarwal S.D.Jain Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Radha Mohan Kumar Ram Janaki Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur a. Erenbeni Humtsoe Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Raynier M Yanthan Don Bosco Hr.Sec.School, Wokha c. Abiya Mariam George Holy Cross School, Tuensang a. Niky Kumari St.Mary’s Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Ingka T Woodland Hr.Sec.School, Zunheboto c. Imlilong Jamir Edith Douglas Hr.Sec. School, Mokokchung d. Bendangkokba R Jamir Fernwood School, Kohima e. Lekolo Ritse Mezhür Hr.Sec.School, Kohima f. Asuiliu Chawang Northfield, Khikha a. Tivinshi T Tikhir St.Mary’s Hr.Sec.School, Padampukhuri b. Clair Winchester Sinha Bethesda Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur c. Kusum Kumari Ram Janaki Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur d. Akumsenla Jamir Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur e. Tonchingsangla St.John’s Hr.Sec.School, Tuensang f. Ashik K Biju St.John’s Hr.Sec.School, Tuensang g. Keneiziengunuo Joice Rutsa Don Bosco Hr.Sec.School, Kohima h. Satyam Prasad Mezhür Hr.Sec.School, Kohima a. Bikas Kumar Jaiswal Pranab Vidyapith Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Akhrienuo Kiso Nagabazar Baptist School, Kohima c. Bendanglemla Imsong Mezhür Hr.Sec.School, Kohima a. Risulina Longkumer Little Star Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Itoki K Awomi Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur c. Aditya Basera Mezhür Hr.Sec.School, Kohima a. Aman Kumar Roy Little Star Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur b. Meyisunup Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur c. Mongyanger Longkumer Christian Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur d. Jyoti Pandey Baptist High, Kohima

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Roll No. Total perDistinction in Marks centage Nuksungmenla Jamir 1520510 532 88.67% Eng, AEn, His, Queen Mary Hr.Sec.School, Mokokchung PSc, Edn, Eco Merenlemla 1520073 521 86.83% Eng, His, PSc, Edith Douglas Hr.Sec.School, Mokokchung Eco, AEn, Edn Lichumthung Ezung 1510739 520 86.67% Psy, His, PSc, Ministers’ Hill Baptist Hr.Sec. AEn, Eco School,Kohima Keneizekho Zashümo 1512473 518 86.33% Eng, AEn, His, St.Mary’s Cathedral Hr.Sec. School, Kohima Sgy, Edn, PSc Bolito K Achumi 1581280 517 86.17% Eng, His, PSc, Little Star Hr.Sec.School,Dimapur Eco, AEn, Edn P Suraja S.D.Jain Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Jyotshna Kumari Nayak S.D.Jain Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Bitu Singh Shekhawat Christian Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Sanu Debnath Pranab Vidyapith Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur Komal Kabra Holy Cross Hr.Sec.School, Dimapur

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LOCAL ACAUT supports fight against anti-socials Lauds AYO’s ‘non-cooperation’ on NSCN (K), appeals for non cooperation on all factions KohiMA, APril 30 (Mexn): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has lauded and expressed full support to the initiative of all 19 wards and colonies in Kohima town to unitedly stand and fight anti social activities and elements. “Against the spate of bombings and firings at civilian populated areas of Kohima town, this united effort shall hopefully send out a strong message to the factions, particularly NSCN-K, that the Naga public shall not be cowed down anymore,” a press release from ACAUT Media Cell stated. ACAUT lauded the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Kohima, for “doing a commendable job in mobilizing citizens to keep vigil, help prevent untoward incidents and put in place sort of community policing.” ACAUT expressed hopes that DCs in other districts “replicate” similar measures too. ACAUT stated that the firing incidents and attack on Assam Rifles personnel right in the midst of Kohima town on March 26 and April 25 is uncalled for. “Since the NSCN-K has already admitted responsibility for the 25th April firing where one Assam Rifles Jawan was killed, the ACAUT can only conclude it was a sinister design to provoke unbridled reaction from the paramilitary forces against its own Naga civilian popu-

lation,” ACAUT stated. “For an organization professing sovereignty for the Naga people, such an abomination has never been heard of and Naga people should not forget this treachery,” it added. Questioning NSCN (K) for having no qualms about using innocent Naga civilians as baits for its selfish interest, ACAUT maintained, “It is the stand and belief of the Naga people that all the NPGs must come together to give a united and concerted effort to the decades old Naga political issue through dialogue and bring a lasting solution.” ACAUT further maintained that there is no room for violence in this era of heightened consciousness, “not of the kind brazenly carried out in Kohima town or the bombing campaigns being orchestrated.” It pointed to the recent Scottish referendum and stated, “Nationalism may not necessarily entail sentencing its people to undue hardships on account of conflict.” Expressing strong support to the Angami Youth Organisation’s (AYO) noncooperation resolution against NSCN (K), ACAUT appealed to the Nagas of Kohima to impose “non-cooperation” on other factions as well. “Any sort of compliance with the tax demands, irrespective of A, B, C, D factions will only serve their greed and nothing else,” ACAUT Media Cell stated.

Friday 1 May 2015

Dimapur

MEx FILE Awareness programme on NERPAP Peren, APril 30 (Mexn): In connection with the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) 2015, the Deputy Commissioner, Peren & District Election Officer, Peter Lichamo, has informed that there will be a sensitisation/awareness programme for migrant labourers and factory workers under Peren District on May 1 at Jalukie Town Hall at 1 PM.

NBCK special prayer for Nepal KohiMA, APril 30 (Mexn): The Nepali Baptist Church Kohima (NBCK) will be holding a special prayer for the Nepal Earthquake victims within the church premises at Midland on May 4 at 5 PM. In this connection, NBCK, through a press release, has invited one and all to join the prayer service and express solidarity with Nepal. NBCK has also urged upon the people of Nagaland to remember the country and the victims in their prayer.

NSCN (R) informs DiMAPur, APril 30 (Mexn): The NSCN (Reformation) has stated that it has not assigned any person to carry out tax collection in Naga inhabited areas so far and in this regard, has informed the public not to entertain any person/persons masquerading as NSCN (R). A press release from the MIP informed. For further information and confirmation, one may contact 9862876129, 8131929599.

Rano Shaiza remembered in LS new Delhi, APril 30 (Mexn): Former Member of Parliament (MP), Rano M. Shaiza, was remembered during a sitting in the Lok Sabha on April 20. Lok Sabha Speaker, Sumitra Mahajan, remembering the lone Naga woman

MP, called her an “educationist” and stated that Shaiza was associated with a number of women, children and youth associations and strove to spread education. Shaiza passed away on April 1 in Kohima at the age of 86.

CondolenCe GPrn/nSCn: The GPRN/ NSCN has expressed deep pain at the demise of N. Shoba, Rajapeyu of Shepoumarath Region, who expired on April 22. A condolence message from MIP called the late officer a “dedicated and sincere nationalist.” Extending condolences to the bereaved family, friends, and dear ones, GPRN/NSCN prayed for the departed’s soul to The Land Resources Department Dimapur organised Anti-tobacco Awareness pro- rest in peace.

mourned the demise of Late Mazui Iheilung. A condolence message from PTSA informed that Late Mazui was an aspiring teacher in Government Middle School, DC Colony, Peren, and an innovative member of the association. “He was a great father, a gentleman and a successful mentor,” the condolence message stated. Conveying condolences to the bereaved family members, PTSA prayed gramme for the staff in Honey Mission Conference Hall on April 29. A powerpoint that the Almighty would presentation on tobacco and health was presented by Dr C Tetseo followed by interactive session which was actively participated by the members. Participants PTSA: The Peren Town grant solace and strength to Schools’ Association has the bereaved family. also availed the “Smokelyser Test” which is now available with DTCC.

Malaria awareness DC Dimapur directs local authorities, GBs APril 30 to be appended in order to Deed. However, no fees seminar held at NEISSR DiMAPur, (Mexn): Taking note of authenticate the anteced- will be charged by the GBs DiMAPur, APril 30 (Mexn): A seminar on malaria awareness was held at North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research (NEISSR), Dimapur, on April 27, which was attended by the MSW (Master of social work) trainees and the staffs. The resource persons were Kikolul Khieya, Asst. Director, Urban Malaria Scheme (NUBDCP), and Vizo, Zonal Entomologist, Dimapur. A release from Student Council for Social Change, NEISSR informed that during the input session, Kikolul Khieya informed that Dimapur has the highest number of people diagnosed with malaria, with the percentage of 95 people being positive, registered from the month of January till March 2015. Officially, ten to fifteen thousand people die of malaria every year in India. He further spoke on the importance of conducting malaria awareness programmes in the state as it has become one of the most sensitive issues affecting the society. Malaria is one of the global problems and one of the major causes of preventable death in the world today. So, it is important to educate the people to prevent it before it affects the society in a larger scale, it was highlighted. Vizo meanwhile encouraged the MSW trainees to create awareness on prevention and control of spreading of malaria.

the instances of local authorities and GBs authenticating applicants applying for various certificates without proper verification, the Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome, has issued a circular on the guidelines to be followed while verifying the details and particulars of the applicant. The following guidelines are hereby issued for strict compliance by all concerned in Dimapur district and shall come into force from May 1, 2015: 1. Schedule Tribe/Indigenous Inhabitant Certificates will be verified and signed by both GB and Colony Chairmen in the Urban Areas after which the signature of the concerned Area Administrative Officer is

ents of the applicant. 2. It will be mandatory for GBs & Chairmen to maintain a register of certificates issued and verified by them. 3. In connection with certification of ST/Indigenous Inhabitant certificates, GBs and Chairmen are to thoroughly verify the antecedents of the individual concerned and not to append their signature and seal for children of NonNaga father's as well as Non-Naga children adopted by Naga parents etc., as per the P&AR Office Memorandum No. RCBT-5/87 (Pt-III) Dated: Kohima, the 1lth June 2012. 4. It will be mandatory to obtain the signatures of concerned GBs while executing land related documents especially Sale

for the services provided. 5. All Certificates issued by GBs will be charged a uniform prescribed fee. All the signing authority in both the urban and rural areas will use uniform format of all certificates issued by them, samples of which will be provided by the Deputy Commissioner's Office, Dimapur. 6. Certificate of Residential Proof for the purpose of opening bank accounts may be issued by the GBs without any fees and charges that is to be countersigned by an Administrative Officer. 7. GBs and Chairmen indulging in issuing of doubtful and false certification will be summoned and action initiated against them by the District Administration.

Dimapur Police Commissioner shifts to new office today

DiMAPur, APril 30 (Mexn): The office of the Police Commissioner shall be functional from the new office located near DC Office, Dimapur w.e.f. May 1, 2015. All associated offices and establishment will also be shifted there. A press release from the PRO inEng, Acc, Bus, formed today. Eco, Fbm, Hnd The Women Cell, DimaEng, Acc, Bus, pur has also re-located to the Eco, Fbm, Hnd Old S.P. Office. The former Eng, Acc, Bus, Women Cell will house the Eco, Inf, Fbm Office of the Deputy ComEng, Acc, Bus, missioner of Police (ZoneEco, Ent, Fbm II), the PRO informed. Acc, Bus, Eco, Dimapur district has Fbm, Hnd been divided into two zones – each headed by a Deputy Eng, Phy, Che, Hnd, Bio, Mat Commissioner of Police. Eng, Phy, Che, Zone-I is further divided Bio, Inf into A & B Divisions – each Eng, Phy, Che, headed by an Assistant Hnd, Bio, Mat Commissioner of Police. Eng, Phy, Che, Zone-II is further divided AEn, Bio, Mat into C & D Division – each Eng, Phy, Che, also headed by Assistant Hnd, Mat Commissioner of Police. DiEng, Phy, Che, vision-A includes East Police Bio, Mat (DIPR) Station and GRPS. Division-

B includes Diphupar Police Station and Medziphema Police Station. Division-C includes West Police Station and Niuland Police Station. Division-D includes Sub-Urban Police Station and Women Cell. The Traffic Control is also headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) and is divided into two zones – each headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police. Traffic Zone-I includes the Municipal district of Dimapur while Traffic Zone-II includes the jurisdiction beyond Dhansiri river upto Piphema. A separate Traffic Control has also been established at Chumukedima, the PRO’s press release informed. The PRO further informed that of the creation of Police Outposts at Piphema, Chumukedima, Purana Bazar, Marwaripatti, Lingrijan, and Dhansiripar. Following are the locations of other functional offices:

Sl.No Offices Name 1 Commissioner of Police Liremo Lotha 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Dy. Commissioner of Police (Zone-I) Dy. Commissioner of Police (Zone-II) Dy. Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police (Adm) Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police (SB) Assistant Commissioner of Police (A-Division) Assistant Commissioner of Police (B-Division) Assistant Commissioner of Police (C-Division) Assistant Commissioner of Police (D-Division) Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic-I) Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic-II) Assistant Commissioner of Police (Headquarter) Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime)

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Location of office Police Commissioner office, Near DC Office Old S.P. Office

Dr. KPA Ilyas

Old S.P. Office (Temporary)

Yet to be posted

Old S.P. Office

Chinese Chakhesang Police Commissioner office, Near DC Office Shouka Kakheto Police Commissioner office, Near DC Office Mhonyamo Tsopoe Old S.P. Office K. Khalo

NH-29, Near Chekiye Village Gate

Kaino. H. Sema

Near West Police Station

Akum Lam

Sematilla Colony

Seyiesezo Peseyie

Old S.P. Office

Kilemtoshi Jamir

NH-29, Near Chekiye Village Gate

Tsenpemo Kikon

Police Commissioner office, Near DC Office Police Commissioner office, Near DC Office

Tiakala Ao

IN-FOCUS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express FrIDAy 1 MAy 2015 voluME X IssuE 117

Guest editorial

Dr. sao Tunyi

Why Work?

orothy Sayers wrote an article ‘Why Work?’ during World War II. The piece is still relevant for our day and society. It is interesting that such a wonderful piece of writing should be available for about 70 years which could have revolutionized the way we work and yet we continue to have such poor attitude to work. She explained work as ‘a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself…for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing’. The reason we work should not be for the money the work will fetch, but for the sake of the goodness of the work. But the monetary returns of a work is so much ingrained in us that we cannot think in terms of the work being done. The worth of a work is not measured by how much money the person made but how worthy is the thing that is made. When we work on a hobby, we work for the pleasure of it. We don’t count the time and money invested on it because we love the work and has no expectation of financial returns. Our reward is the pleasure that we receive from engaging in that hobby. Our attitude towards work should be like working on a hobby. How do we measure the worth of a work? We try to monetize everything. When we see a beautiful flower, we ask the gardener, ‘how much is it worth?’ By that, we are asking the market rate of the particular species of the flower. But the absolute value of a thing is beyond economics. It belongs to religion. Therefore, as a Christian, she asks, ‘What is the Christian understanding of work?’ When the Christian asserts that he is made in the image of God, it means that the creature is made in the image of the creator. The Christian God is a working God and humans are to reflect that image. Work is ‘the natural exercise and function of man’. ‘Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do….the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God’. When the employer seeks for cheap labor and the worker seeks for the best paid job, often people are caught in the wrong job, where the type of worker is not suited for the type of work. One should not seek employment for mere employment but for the quality of the work. The work that we are engaged in ought to be something worth doing, something in which we can take pride. Our work should be marked by honesty, beauty, and usefulness of the goods produced. It is wrong that the Church should demand that secular workers neglect their work for the sake of church work like religious meetings and church bazaars. So often many government employees neglect their office work for so-called church building committee meetings, holy land tours, and revival crusades. The Church should recognize that secular work is sacred. A very important lesson Sayers has for us is that Church should not be only concerned about the morals of the worker but the worker’s work itself. It is not enough that the carpenter is asked not to drink and regularly come to church. What is required of a carpenter is that he should make good tables. Actors for a Christian movie are selected for their morals rather than for their acting ability, resulting in bad Christian movie. Sayers urges, ‘Christians are called to serve God in their profession and not outside it’. And we should be good at it.

lEfT WING |

Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D

The Value of Having Wise Men

What does God say? Read Proverbs 11:14; 24:6 David was a ruler who surrounded himself with wise men. His uncle Jonathan (not the same as Saul’s son) was a wise and intelligent advisor. Ahithophel and Hushite the Archite were two of David’s advisors. Jehoiada was the king’s advisor after Ahithophel, and later, Abiathar was his advisor (1 Chron. 27:32-34). Similarly, pagan kings would have men of wisdom surrounding them (Dan. 3:2-3; 4:36; 5:13-14; 6:7). The American Experiment Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. President (1933-45), came up with an economic plan called the New Deal and ended the Great Depression in America. Internationally, he personally determined the Allied military strategy during World War II. And yet he would always consider the great men around him as the reasons for all his great achievements. He said, “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” Listen to some of his inspiring statements: Freedom means the supremacy of human rights. We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is preeminently a place of moral leadership. A government, like a family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuance of that habit means the poor house. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Okay, so now what? It is the task of our generation, yours and mine. But we build and defend not for our generation alone. We defend the foundations laid down by our fathers. We build a life for generations yet unborn. We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. Ours is a high duty, a noble task -- FDR Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro

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arents in despair because they can’t pay the fees at the privatised neighbourhood school… Families left without healthcare because the mining company that pollutes their river also dodges the taxes that could pay for their treatment… Women getting four hours of sleep a night as they try to balance caring for their families and homes with earning income… Whole communities thrown off their land to make way for a foreign company… Workers paid so little by employers that they’re suffering malnutrition. These are just a few of the reports I’ve heard from my colleagues in recent months. We see people frustrated by the surge in the power of the plutocrats. Plutocracy is a society or a system ruled and dominated by a small minority of the wealthiest. The rich have always been powerful; some element of plutocracy has been present in all societies. But the degree of control being exercised now; the number of the ultra-rich essentially buying political power; the nearly impossible persistence required to overcome the legal, public relations, and technical resources controlled by corporations and the richest individuals; the much denser concentration of wealth in even the largest countries; and the global nature of the resources, power, and connections being accumulated have combined to foreclose meaningful democratic options and space for a life independent of the materialistic values of the plutocracy. The logic that undergirds all of this – the greed for money, power, and control – is antithetical to preserving an environment in which living things can thrive. Through most of human history we have endured various unbalanced political and social systems. Today’s market economy has roots going back centuries, but only in this one has it become so monolithic, with virtually the entire world under its spell. We are living in an age of hyper-capitalism: we have gone beyond industrialisation and value-addition to a point where the rules are written by the financiers, and the finance industry, rather than a sector that actually makes something, has become arguably the most politically powerful industry in history. A brief period of relative equality in the richer countries after World War II gave way from the late 1970s to a powerful ideology of competition, unending growth, and unhindered profit. This ideology was charted deliberately by institutes lavishly funded by aspiring plutocrats. The denial of limits, the privileging of competition and profit over cooperation and public goods, and the capitulation of governments to the power of money has made the modern plutocracy a dominant reality, and one that must be reversed. Commentators now routinely speak of how people can “contribute to the economy.” The economy no longer facilitates human society; humans live to serve the economy. “Freedom” has been reconfigured to refer to consumer choice rather than the ability to determine how to order one’s life. A few years ago there was considerable debate about the concept of “peak oil” – the possibility we were reaching the beginning of the end of usable petroleum supplies. We may be reaching a more dangerous point: peak plutocracy, where society and the environment can sustain no more concentration of power and resources.

t key anniversaries of the U.N., there have been calls for compliance with international instruments. In 1995, Secretary-General Boutros Boutrous-Ghali indicated support at the 50th anniversary of the U.N., in San Francisco, and, at the 55th Anniversary, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged states to sign and ratify international instruments. In 2015, with the confluence of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, COP 21, and the launch of International Decade for People of African Descent, there is an opportunity to again call upon states to sign and ratify international instruments, to determine what would constitute compliance with these and to undertake to comply with them through enacting the necessary legislation. This could also be the time to advance and reinforce the concept of peremptory norms as stated in Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of treaties: “A treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law. For the purpose of the present convention, a peremptory norm of general international law is a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of states as a whole.” Peremptory norms have been described as those derived from treaties, conventions and covenants which have been ratified by all states or by most states representing the full range of legal systems and the major geographical regions. Also, peremptory norms could be derived from U.N. General Assembly Declarations and Conference Action Plans. Ratifying key legally binding agreements International Covenants such as on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and its protocols, on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); Conventions

The land by Boegbor, a town in district four in Grand Bassa County, Liberia, has been leased by the government to Equatorial Palm Oil for 50 years. (Credit: Wade C.L. Williams/IPS)

So it is worrying to hear so consistently from colleagues around the world the extent to which the power of people is being curtailed by the people with power. We see the evidence of peak plutocracy in: • the so far largely successful efforts of business interests to prevent meaningful action on climate change; • the push for high-input, high-tech, restrictedownership agriculture that excludes smallholder farmers – a great portion of them women — who feed most of the world’s people; • the collusion of governments and companies in taking control of land and natural resources from communities in order to generate profits for privileged outsiders; • the “race to the bottom” among governments to sacrifice revenues through blanket “tax holidays” in order to lure foreign investment, even when the benefits are unclear or negligible; • the failure of governments to establish laws that protect workers from abuses ranging from trafficking to unlivable wages to unacceptably risky working conditions, with women workers in the most precarious, low-paid and inhumane jobs; • the failure to recognise the systematic abuse of women’s rights in many areas – but in particular the deep uncompensated subsidies women provide to all economies with their unpaid and low-paid care work that keep families and societies functioning; • the pressure put on countries – and more recently the collusion between governments and companies – to change commercial and consumerprotection laws so that foreign companies can dominate markets; • the use of coercion, including violence, by powerful elites in private enterprises, fundamentalist movements, and repressive regimes to control women’s bodies and sexual and reproductive choices, their labour, mobility and political voice; • the pressure to privatize schools at the expense of decent public education, despite the complete absence of evidence that the results will be beneficial to anyone beside the owners; • the unwarranted scorn directed at the public sector, and the pervasive recourse to the notion of

“private sector led development” by most donor countries and inter-governmental institutions, even in the absence of positive models • the fetishization of foreign direct investment in low-income countries despite compelling evidence that no country has achieved sustainable development with foreign capital; • the increasing congruence of interests among governments, corporations, and elites in limiting the freedom of action of social movements and public interest groups, constricting political space in all parts of the world; • the increasing domination of wealthy corporations and individuals in United Nations debates and processes. • the brazen ideological defense of inequality and massive concentration of power and resources by wealthy individuals and the institutes they fund; • the increasing number of disasters and emergencies are turned into profit opportunities, as affected areas are remade according to the plutocrats’ rules. • the refusal of governments to combat the global youth unemployment crisis with public jobs programs to address the widely-acknowledged looming crisis of deteriorating infrastructure; • the fallacy of scarcity revealed by the capacity of governments to find massive public financial resources for war and bank bailouts, but seldom for programs that would employ people, combat hunger and disease, and foster renewable energy. The hyper-concentration of wealth in the hands of the few has corrupted democratic systems, in rich countries as well as in poor ones. We need to democratise power. But that doesn’t mean just better monitoring of elections. It means making power more horizontal, more accessible to more people, the people who are affected by the decisions made. There is no one-off recipe for making this happen. It has to happen over and over again, every day, everywhere, with increasing connections so that we won’t be crowded out by those with money and influence. We have to occupy space and not leave it, and then occupy some more.

The UN at 70: A Time for Compliance Dr. Joan russow and lori Johnston Inter Press Service such as Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), on Torture (UNTC), on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its protocols, on Endangered Species (CITES), on Climate Change (UNFCCC), on World Heritage Convention / WHC), on Desertification (UNCCD), on Ozone (MP),on Rights of the Child (CRC), on Women (CEDAW) and its protocols, on Racial Discrimination ( (ICERD), on Genocide (CPPCG) on Rights of Migrant Workers, on Labour (ILO), on Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto (CTOC) on Persons with Disabilities(CRPD); Declarations such as Rights of indigenous Peoples DRIP; peace Treaties, such as NPT, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), Anti_PersonnelMine-(APM), Cluster Munitions (CCM), Arms Trade (ATT). Respect for the jurisdiction and decisions of the ICJ, and the ICC Rome Statute are paramount. If states comply with these many instruments, the global community will have more respect for the rule of international law, and more faith in the United Nations, including for the compliance with and implementation of the SDGs. Eradication of poverty and the provision for food security coalesced U.N. members behind the SDGs. Ratifying these instruments would be a step toward achieving all of the Sustainable Development Goals, as these instruments will further true security.

At Rio 2012, states were reluctant to address the need to determine what would constitute adhering to key Rio Declaration principles, including the precautionary principle and principle of differentiated responsibility, which needs financial investment in developing economies. “Innovative financing” for implementation of the SDGs From the 1969 to 1992, U.N. States affirmed the need to move towards disarmament and the reallocation of military expenses for the benefit of humanity and the ecosystem. In 1969, member states of the U.N. called for the achievement of general and complete disarmament and the channeling of the progressively released resources to be used for economic and social progress for the welfare of people everywhere and in particular for the benefit of developing countries (article 27 (a) XX1V of 11 December 1969 Declaration on Social Welfare, Progress and Development); and in 1992, They made a commitment to reallocate resources at present committed to military purposes (Article 16 e, Chapter 33, “Innovative financing”, of Agenda 21, UNCED).

WRITE-WING

Furthering true security, common security The SDGs need to redefine what

constitutes “true security.” True security is common security, not militarised security, collective security or “human security that has been used as a pretext for war: socalled “human security” (Iraq 1991, “Humanitarian intervention” (Kosovo, 1999), “Responsibility to Protect” (Haiti, 2004, Libya, 2011), “Article 51-self-defence” (Afghanistan (2003) and Syria (2015). In 1982, Olaf Palme, in the Commission Report on Disarmament and Security, introduced the concept of common security which could be extended to embody the following objectives: • To achieve a state of peace, and disarmament, through reduction of military expenses; • To create a global structure that respects the rule of law; • To enable socially equitable and environmentally sound employment, and ensure the right to development and social justice; • To promote and fully guarantee respect for human rights including labour rights, women’s rights civil and political rights, indigenous rights, social and cultural rights – right to food, right to housing, to safe drinking water and sewage treatment, to education and to universally accessible not for profit health care system; • To ensure the preservation, and protection of the environment, the respect for the inherent worth of nature beyond human purpose, the reduction of the ecological footprint and the moving to away from the current model of unsustainable overconsumption. Arriving at universal support of existing instruments will let the U.N. uphold the three pillars of the SDGs: economic development, social development and environmental protection. Human welfare, ecology and negotiation must be a priority over global supply chains and “profit-driven” development through coercion.

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PERSPECTIVE

7 A new narrative on human rights, security & prosperity Friday

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

1 May 2015

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

It’s up to us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and to say no impunity for the murder of Indigenous women Jennifer allsopp s I left the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference on women human rights defenders yesterday to head the conference of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), I was ruminating on an unresolved tension. How does the liberal conception of human rights, which places the individual are its core, sit with the collective consciousness that is necessary for peace? I found the answer in the women around me. In her opening address to the 1,000 women who had travelled to The Hague from 80 different countries, Jody Williams, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, declared that, like many of us, ‘when I hear anyone in a movement say “I” an awful lot, I get extremely nervous.’ She’s confident that the peace movement has to be about ‘we: us unarmed civilians coming together to change the world’. For Mairead Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work creating peace in Northern Ireland, the movement for peace and human rights is also a collective. ‘It’s a great mosaic’, she explains, ‘if once piece is taken away it can’t work. We are involved in an evolution of the human family, and a whole new way of living.’ Like a mosaic, the collective finds its strength in its individual parts, in the personal, and in individual dignity. This is a relationship, says Jody, that is best articulated in the concept of human security: ‘We women know what is security’, she asserts, ‘it’s food on the table, a house to live in, it’s access to medical care, it’s a dignified job so you can raise your children, it’s taking all that money put to weapons of death and putting in into welfare for a better world. That’s security’, she concludes, ‘it’s human security.’

Human security While security in the historical sense means a national security that protects the apparatus of the state and its structures of power, human security protects the integrity of citizens and the diversity of communities. It means a world where up to 2,000 people are not killed by arms every day. It means a world which calls on the United Nations to urge members to reduce military budgets by 10% and spend the saving on the social security of the people, says Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Judge and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This conception of security was something missed by the Dutch ambassador, Kees van Barre, on the first day of the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference when he proudly declared that ‘human rights, security and prosperity’ were at the heart of their international agenda. The Netherlands is frequently lauded as one of the countries that is doing most to support women human rights defenders internationally, but they seem to have missed the point. As Shirin reminded him, the genealogy of human rights is peace and human security, not militarism and capitalism. Jody confessed to us that the ambassador’s comments had stopped her sleeping, ‘the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I thought, more of this Western mythology! We need to ask what kind of human rights we are talking about’, she clarified. Is it the ‘name and shame human rights’ which, in the words of Mairead, are used to justify the undemocratic ‘taking out’ of dictators? Or is it the expansive view of human rights: social, economic and cultural rights? Beyond a liberal conception of human rights Discussions on the final day of the Nobel Women’s

conference centred on the fact that for communities facing environmental destruction at the hands of international corporations, an expansive, grounded view of human rights is fundamental. There’s an interconnectedness, says Tatania Cordero Velasquez, of the Urgent Action Fund Latin America, that stems from the sacredness of life itself. Indigenous women in particular often ‘want to be supported to stay in their territory as a collective’. Many of the strategies that Indigenous women have developed in Ecuador and Colombia to protect individual rights rely on linking the collective to land rights and the environment. ‘We’ve inherited the idea from the liberal approach to human rights that it’s us on top of the earth’, says Tatania, ‘this has been an important approach to modernity but there is a limit to these human rights…we need to remember the connection and have a more integral and whole approach to life.’ This integrated approach is a common feature of Indigenous and Afro-descent communities. ‘They do not speak of territories’, Tatania explains, ‘It’s not water alone, the river alone, the forest alone, the people alone, it’s everything. It cannot be broken up. The land cannot be seen in a fragmented way, nor human beings’ relation to the land.’ As a result of the involvement of Indigenous peoples in the constitutional process, Ecuador, like Bolivia, has enshrined this interconnected in their constitution by giving rights to nature as well as human beings. At the heart of this approach, explains Tatania is the notion of buen vivir, plenitude of life. This, she says, is the context for our human rights. Yet even in those societies with constitutional environmental rights, she warns, the threat of state defined notions of security and prosperity loom heavily in the form of foreign business. The Chinese have invested 20 billion dollars in what remains of the oil industry in Ecuador, and the debt means the government is doing everything to get the oil out, including silencing people. The future has already been written, says Tatania, and no one even asked us. On the ground Indigenous women are meeting this global domination with local resistance, and in Canada too, explains Melina Laboucan-Massimo, of the Lubicon Cree First Nation and Greenpeace, ‘we’re talking about localising solutions on the ground’. ‘We can implement new technology on our own. It’s a “fuck you” to the big corporations. It’s us self asserting energy sovereignty, food security. These are things we need to localise back into our community. Things that this capitalist system has taken away from us and imported back.’ The importance of the interrelation between women’s human rights and land rights becomes of critical importance in the context of conflict and violence, Melina continues. For ‘women’s bodies are territory also’. There are currently more than 370 socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America, and as Global Witness reports in their latest research, in the last four years being a defender of the environment has become much more dangerous as conflicts become more protracted and more violent. In Canada, a new law, Bill C-51 URL is being passed by the Harper government to criminalise those who defend the land. Meanwhile, defamation campaigns on the political Left and Right class Indigenous and Afro-descent people as against development. Legally they are now defined as a terrorist cell, the ‘anti-petroleum movement’. One of the most devastating human rights crises facing Indigenous and two- spirit women in Canada who are resisting their land dispossession is sexual violence and enforced disappearances. ‘Resource extraction, conducted with full complicity between the state and private corporations, is explicitly linked to deaths, violence and disappearances of women’ says Erin Konsmo from the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, ‘anywhere in the world where resource extraction is happening, fossil fuels, fracking, plantations etc, indigenous communities are seeing the link.’ Environmental

violence is the new term for this, coined by indigenous women. I ask Erin why this link exists between resource extraction and women’s bodies. ‘In many Indigenous communities women hold the power, so if you remove the women it’s easier to remove the power from whole nations’, she explains. ‘100,000s of men suddenly come to a community with the purpose of destroying the land. The same kind of attitude to the land is extended to women’s bodies, because we are part of that land. It’s a hetero-patriarchal model of extraction and entitlement. It’s extraction not just of resources, but of women from the earth’. I ask Melina, who lost her 25 year old sister Bella in suspicious circumstances in 2013, about the police response. The general attitude is one of indifference, she replies. ‘They said we’ve followed all our leads, sorry… to them now she’s a statistic, she’s aboriginal and she’s a statistic’. 1,017 Indigenous women were murdered between 1980 and 2012 in Canada, and 1000s more have been ‘disappeared’ in suspicious circumstances. Despite pressure from the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Women, the CEDAW Committee and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, the Canadian government is refusing to hold an independent inquiry. In a discussion of the issue over lunch, indigenous women activists - some coming together for the first time - agreed that at the heart of the struggle is the need to fight against big business which priorities prosperity as profit over the prosperity of people. An alternative to capitalism: prosperity for the people Prosperity, and its twin, development, agrees Jody, is an ambiguous and dangerous word in the mouths of state bureaucrats. ‘Real prosperity’, she chides, ‘is sustainable development that cares about the planet, that doesn’t destroy the Amazon to steal the resources out of it. It’s a prosperity that does not glorify the 1% and teach kids this is the greatest measure of success’. So how it is that we have let those in power define prosperity for us? It’s a humbling call to action from Edith Ballantyne who, at 93, is the oldest living active member of WILPF, having joined in 1942. Back then too, ‘the women were talking about what kind of society we need to build’, she tells us, ‘the women were saying that there must be an alternative system to capitalism. Today we know the system does not work…today it’s not even just an economic competition. We’re complete slaves of an economic casino.’ The logic of capitalism can never bring peace, echoes Madeleine Rees, Secretary General of WILPF. ‘Our founding sisters said if we privatised the arms industry we would let market capitalism into security and it would never work. And now, while we’re busy buying arms the economic system isn’t working. 1% own 48% of the world’s wealth. Next year it’s likely to be 52% and it will accelerate and accelerate until there’s no such thing as democracy because they will control our countries. And they will need security and they will need arms.’ She’s getting agitated. We’re all getting agitated. We’re sick of hearing the same old words. Enough of state definitions of human rights, security and prosperity, says Jody, ‘enough of the men in that UN sitting there and writing resolutions and telling us, granting us the right to be participants in defining our own security…nothing about us without us!’. ‘It’s up to us’, echoes, Leymah Gbowee, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development. It’s up to us to move beyond the phallic thrust of history and capital and war, to say no impunity for the murder of Indigenous women. We need to look back, pass on, preserve and restore, says Leymah. We’re fired up in the audience but with a humours flourish, Jody - unstoppable, unshakeable - re-grounds us and energises us so that we’re ready to act: ‘my mum told me not to use the phrase “F- bomb”’, she jokes, ‘it tarnishes the Nobel image…’

DISaSTERS, CaLaMITIES aND RELIGIOUS INTOLERaNCE

Chingya Luithui

Facebook post titled “Wherever Christian were persecuted in India or Pakistan, There was a retaliation from God’s creation”(sic) is doing the rounds among some Naga pages. Against the backdrop of persecution against Christians, it lists the Bhopal gas leak of 1984, the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, the deadly Paradip Super Cyclone of 1999 in Orissa, the 7.8 Richter Scale magnitude earthquake of 2013 in Pakistan, and of course, the recent earthquake in Nepal. It also says that because of the persecution of Christians in India, “the Consistent rainfall is creating havoc in India, affecting the agricultural Scenario causing too much loss to be suffered by the Indian economy” (sic). I am not sure whether this post originated from a Naga. What I am certain of is the fact that there are a lot of Nagas pushing their “like” button and making comments such as “will share a thousand tyms” (sic), “Praise the Lord” etc. For me such posts raise a number of questions. What do Nagas(or any Christians) mean when we say we are Christians? Is the focus on God as a jealous vengeful God an indication of the shallowness of our understanding of what it means to be a Christian? Where is the forgiveness, tolerance, love and humanity that Jesus preaches?In this particular case, what about persecution of Christians in other parts of the world, what does God do then? And what does God do when Christians persecute others? Is being a Christian the same thing as having faith in God? Are we praising the Lord because he is punishing the “others”? What ultimately are we trying to achieve by posting such things? Interestingly the Hindu right wing has blamed Christian missionaries and the eating of beef as the cause for the

earthquake! A quick perusal of Christian history shows us that Christ did not talk about “theChristian” religion. What he did talk about was a set of principles, values, and morality that people should adhere to if they wanted to enter the “Kingdom of God”. This implies that one should be very clear about differentiating Christianity as an institution, as a religion,from that of Christianity as a set of beliefs. The institution and beliefs may coexist but they are not the same. Therefore, being a “Christian” does not necessarily mean having faith in God. On a digressive note, if Jesus was alive today, or we were alive when he was, we would most probably condemn and dismiss him as a delusional vagrant! The point is, we are finding ourselves more and more focusing on the appearance of Christianity and not the values, principles and morality that Christ preached. This false focus and the inability to differentiate faith and religion is what drive religious fanaticism which is responsible for much of the violence around the world today. Fanaticism is fundamentally the absence of reason. The danger in religious fanaticism is that it can so easily use and take on other forms of hatred and discrimination: race, gender, geography, clan, nationality etc. Essentially it feeds on the idea of the “otherness” of those whoare not similar to “us”. As Bishop John Shelby Spong writes, ‘Many proclaim themselves "saved" by virtue of accepting Christ as their savior, but do not see the need to serve their fellow man and truly give of themselves. To the contrary, some practice violence and show overt and covert hatred to those that appear to be "on the other side" of issues they deeply believe in. They would readily deny the "opposition" their political and economic rights, not realizing that this very denial threat-

ens all, including their own...’ Such fanaticism is also a clear indication of the absence of tolerance; a value that Christ talked about extensively. The absence of tolerance further suggests the inability to find our moral compass that results in a myriad of social problems. This same logic of religious superiority and hatred is what perpetuated and rationalized slavery and discrimination in the US; the massacres during the Crusade from 11th till the 13th century; the colonization of much of the world by Europe; the violence and war in the Middle East today; the rape, torture, and genocide in Yugoslavia two decades back; the sexual enslavement of Yazidi women and children by ISIS presently. It is the same logic espoused by Hindu extremists in India today. As a rights activist, I have always believed that human rights is essentially about “doing unto others what you want them to do for you.” And this means respecting the faith, beliefs and opinion of others however disagreeable it may be for us, and being non-judgmental as long as it does not violate the rights of anyone. This is not about passively tolerating “evil” but about actively accepting that others may have opinions and beliefs which are different from ours. It also means, however difficult, to critically and objectively analyse, and attempt to understand why we believe what we believe. Having faith in God and being rational are not mutually exclusive. In response to the said post, some have mildly disagreed, and these have been met with angry and ruderesponses, sometimes bordering on menacing intimidations, by some who supposedly are defending Christian beliefs (so much for “the meek shall inherit the earth”!). On the contrary, many are very vocal about the greatness of God displayed through such destruction. Thankfully

there are sensible voices outside the confines of the Facebook world (and maybe within the Facebook world but which I have not yet seen). A friend studying theology remarked that this kind of posts is indicative of “fanaticism disguised as faith” and does nothing but discredit people of faith. “It is not a defense of faith; faith does not need defending. You either have faith or not.” I am certain that what I have written above will not go down well with many people but that is precisely what this piece is primarily about. Is our faith so shallow that we have to validate our belief through the suffering of others? Is our faith dependent on whether someone agrees with us or not? Is our faith so impersonal that we have to defend it openly every time it is put to question? Secondly, with the widespread reach of social networking sites, there is a pressing danger of fanaticism spilling over from the cyber realm to the real world; we have witnessed this over and over again. Thirdly, the person who originally posted this may have done so in good faith but again, not all acts done in good faith result in good outcomes. In 1934, an earthquake caused widespread devastation in Bihar and Nepal. MK Gandhi stated that it was a “divine chastisement”; Rabindranath Tagore very disappointedly responded that “this kind of unscientific view of things” and “elements of unreason” was the “fundamental source of all the blind powers that drive us against freedom and selfrespect”. There are lessons for us in Tagore’s statement. Finally, there are Christians who were also killed in the earthquake in Nepal. What about them? Who is God punishing? (The writer is a rights activist and can be reached at chinxwrites@gmail.com for any disagreements, brickbats, hate-mail, feedbacks, comments, or suggestions)

Subject Matters Thungdemo N yanthan

The Renaissance Thinking: DReam To Change

he study of Renaissance has always caught my imagination.It is in this period where ‘reasoning’ became the central figure. Renaissance simply means “Rebirth”. The Renaissance period is often considered as a bridge between the medieval period and modern period of Europe. The major impact through Renaissance were; Humanism, Art, Church and State, Adventure to outside world and science and technology. By humanism, the scholars engaged in an immense undertaking to understand, translate, publish, and teach the text of the past as a means of understanding and transforming their own present. They belief that in mastering the classical works it helps in reflecting the moral and ethical problems and can relate to a person social world which also helps them in their practical skills. The Renaissance of the arts coincided with the development of humanism. Artist were no longer regarded as mere artisans but for the first time emerged as independent personalities. They sought new solutions to formal and visual problems, and many were devoted to scientific experimentation. In this period the artist took their art to the level of noble expression.Church was impossible to separate from the practice of political authority before renaissance. During the Renaissance, nationalist theorists began to affirm that kings had absolute authority within their realms to rule on spiritual matters as well as secular ones. The corruption in Church practice led to reformation in the 16th century which completely shattered the institution of the Church. With the influence of individualism and new ideas, the European started to explore beyond Europe. The study of Geography became important. With the idea of exploration, it impacted the culture and economy of the communities. The printing press brought together art and science as never before during renaissance. Science received added impetus from the increased transmission of knowledge between east and west. The individual’s relationship in mind, body and environment were all transformed as a result of renewed scientific collaboration in the practical problem-solving exchanges of ideas between cultures and the impact of new technologies. This advancement of science and technology gave birth to industrial revolution in Europe in 17th Century. Renaissance period changed the complex and thinking of European States with new ideas. Those people not only kept on imagining but they applied in their realistic world. Today when we look in our society, we Naga’s have almost mastered building castles in the air. Our imagination are never brought in realistic world. We dream big but we never take a step forward. Maybe we are so afraid of being labeled as a failure, or being laughed by others or we are often discouraged by our society to do things of our own (which is true in many cases). In any civilization for its transition to take place, there undergoes a process, like in Europe, from ancient to the renaissance (medieval age) which gave birth to modern age or in Indian history there is a clear periodization (transition) from ancient, medieval and modern. But when we study Naga history we see a direct transaction from antiquity to modernity. With the contact of Western world our society drastically changed and simply followed the Western life-style which has made a big impact on us. With the influence, we care-less about ourselves and we love everything about western. I am not saying it’s bad but it has to be maintained at certain limit or balance. History cannot be changed but we can create a new history if we start working on our dystopian dreams. What I want from my Naga people is to start a ‘Renaissance’ in our thinking. From the Humanism point of view, we can start learning our past history. Take pride and feel proud of what our forefather had done for us. Still many of us have little knowledge of our own history. Start learning all the classical works that impact our society. In the modern understanding, art can be understood through music, sports, creativity works etc. We Naga has been richly blessed with immense talents. Take your passion out, aim high and start targeting your dreams to excel. The church should also start focusing in home evangelical rather than preparing Sunday’s sermonsonly. Let the people not lost their faith, because of your style in living. Be an example and encourage every believers. The Government should never neglect their duty lest the uprising of unsatisfied people will only cause chaos in society (best example read French Revolution). All ministers must know they are the servant of the people who elected them to rule the state and not to drain money. Most of the Naga feels there is no job apart from Government services. Start exploring and you will see the world has much better place to offer you. Learn the ideas and start bringing them to our society just like the European who went exploring and came back to their respective nation only to control the whole world through knowledge. Get rid of the notion ‘educated unemployed’ and do what you can. In science and technology our Naga’s are yet to catch a lot from others.It is a shame that our state does not have single medical college and only one engineering college till date. We should give up the habit of depending so much on other states or the Indian Government. We can progress once our state is filled with scientists and engineers for advance development.Better late than never, the government should set up sufficient medical and engineering colleges in our state so that the promising students or scholars does not get lost in studying other fields which are not meant for them. The problem with us is, we love to follow western living but our mind sets are still stuck between ancient and medieval ages. To be true, I don’t want our people to keep living in a ‘Western life style’ but rather I want our people to embraces on the ‘Western ideas’ which can change our society. Take heart my fellow Naga, for Renaissance started in a small town of Italy in Florence which later spread the whole of Europe. Nagaland maybe small state but we can inspire big states and nations. Come let us reason together for better tomorrow. Let us be bold and stand on what we dream. Create opportunity, take opportunity and let your dream flow in that. Instead of criticizing everything sitting on your comfort seat, learn to stand and start doing without any fear. Your sacrifice today to change, will lead a better future for the generations to come. Always remember your dreams can change not only our society but even to the whole world. Thungdemo N Yanthan, is a Phd Scholar at the Department of History, University of Hyderabad. His area of research interest is on the Colonial laws in North East India. 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Millions hit as buses, taxis stay off road across India

KolKata/New Delhi/ChaNDigarh/ thiruvaNaNthapuram, april 30 (iaNS): Millions of commuters across India were left stranded on Thursday as buses and taxis did not ply to protest a proposed law that makes punishment for traffic violations much more stringent. Passengers had to wait endlessly at railway stations in various cities as public transport went off the road. People were forced to trudge with heavy luggage and office-goers too were hit hard. The strike was part of the nationwide agitation by major trade unions demanding repeal of the Road Transport and Safety Bill, 2014, and alleged anti-worker policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government. The protest is against the hefty penalties that are proposed in the new bill such as Rs.50,000 for rash driving, Rs.10,000 for drunken driving and up to Rs.6,000 for over-speeding. The bill is to be put before the cabinet for approval. The bill also proposes a regulatory authority, not only to advise the central

Passengers who arrived in trains walk looking for other means of transport as cabs stayed off the roads during a strike in Kolkata on Thursday, April 30.The transport and general strike has been called by left front trade unions against Indian federal government’s Road Transport & Safety Bill 2014, as well as to protest the alleged political atrocities of ruling Trinamul Congress party in West Bengal state. (AP Photo)

and state governments on road safety, but also have the powers to ensure that the norms laid down are followed by all stake-holders. Transporters say the penalties, along with the proposed norms on test-

China, India, 11 others on US list for IP concerns waShiNgtoN, april 30 (reuterS): China and India remain on a U.S. priority watch list for lax rules on copyright, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights (IPR) violations in an annual review of trading partners published by the U.S. trade representative on Thursday. The trade representative office listed 13 countries on its priority watch list for 2015, including Russia and Ukraine as well as well as China and India, and another 24 on a lower-level watch list. China's new rules to promote the local technology sector were noted as a concern.

Boy with kidney disease becomes Jaipur police chief! Jaipur, april 30 (iaNS): A 10-year-old boy suffering from chronic kidney disease had one of his wishes fulfilled on Thursday when he was made the police commissioner of the Rajasthan capital for the day. Thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation of India and Rajasthan Police, Girish Sharma -- who is battling a lifethreatening kidney illness -- was able to fulfil his wish to sit on the chair of the police commissioner. "Dressed in the complete uniform of a police commissioner, the boy sat on the chair at the police commiserate here for over an hour. Later he went to the Gandhi Nagar police station where he spent some time. He was accorded a guard of honour and the smile on his face clearly showed how happy he was," said Smita Shah of the Foundation.As its website, it grants wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. "We generally ask for three wishes from a child suffering from a life-threatening disease. When we asked Girish about his innermost wish, he said he wanted to become the police commissioner. So we arranged this with the cooperation and support of Rajasthan Police," she said.

'BJP is world's largest party' New Delhi, april 30 (iaNS): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said on Thursday that the BJP was now the world's largest political party with 10 crore new members. "I take both pride and pleasure in informing that the BJP has become the world's largest political party. We had kept a target of crossing the 10-crore mark and we achieved it," Shah told the media here. "From Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat and from Kargil to Kanyakumari, our party workers put in hard work to make our membership drive successful," he said. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 1 last year, the membership drive notched up over 10 crore and 43 lakh members till April 30.

ing of vehicles, road-worthiness, licensing, among others, are too stringent. The ministry of road transport and highways however says this is necessary so as to reduce road accidents by at least 200,000 over the next five

years, as opposed to some 490,000 accidents each year - 25 percent of them fatal in nature. The stir had a partial impact in Delhi, where comparatively few autorickshaws and taxis were on the roads. There

were few buses running and each was jam-packed, leading to crowds at each bus stop. An office-goer in south Delhi said he saw just one DTC bus - going in the opposite direction - and no private buses for

over an hour. State roadways, private buses and taxis did not ply across Haryana, causing misery to thousands of passengers. Buses remained parked at bus stands or bus depots, and passengers were left stranded. Auto-rickshaws and cycle-rickshaws made a fast buck from people wanting to reach their destination on time. Normal life in West Bengal was thrown out of gear by the dawn-to-dusk shutdown. Most of the roads across the state, including in capital Kolkata, wore a near-deserted look. Passengers at the busy Howrah and Sealdah railway stations and officegoers had a difficult time with no taxi or bus service to avail. There were reports of buses being vandalised in several parts of Kolkata and Howrah. While most of the private schools remained shut, the attendance at government schools was negligible. "After struggling to get a conveyance to reach my child to school, I found it nearly empty. Most of the students and teachers and even the principal is absent. I do not support such

kind of politics of disruption," said a parent. Left Front major Communist Party of IndiaMarxist (CPI-M) activists took out rallies in many parts of the city and the state in support of the strike. Life in Left Front-ruled Tripura was affected as all means of public transport stayed off the roads. Commuters, office-goers and passengers faced inconvenience as buses, small and medium vehicles, auto-rickshaws and even battery-operated rickshaws remained off the roads. "The strike was spontaneous and total. No untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the state," Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) working committee member Tapas Datta told IANS in Agartala. The transport workers on Thursday also organised protest rallies across Tripura to denounce the new transport bill proposed. In Himachal Pradesh, employees of the state-run Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC), which has a fleet of over 2,200 buses, were on strike. The strike hit the com-

muters hard with connectivity between cities and towns affected. However, several private buses were on the road. The strike also had an effect in Kerala, with hundreds of people who arrived at various bus stands, railway stations and airports. The stir, however, evoked partial response in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Transport services were partially affected in Hyderabad as a section of autorickshaws, taxis and trucks remained off the roads. With major employees' unions in state-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) not participating in the stir, the public transport was not impacted by the strike in both Teluguspeaking states. Some unions of auto drivers organised a rally in Hyderabad to protest what they called anti-workers measures proposed in the central bill. The nationwide strike did not affect normal life in Tamil Nadu. State-owned buses plied as usual while some privately-owned buses and autorickshaws stayed away from the roads.

Mamata declares Nadia first 'open defecation-free' district in India KolKata, april 30 (pti): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday declared Nadia as the first Open Defecation Free (ODF) district in the country. “I feel proud to declare Nadia to be the first ODF district in the country. I congratulate Nadia district for achieving this feat and convey my thanks to World Bank and the UNICEF,” Ms. Banerjee said while speaking at the programme here. “We had started this on November 19, 2013 and within two years... yes we can... we have reached our

goal. We are totally successful,” she said. “I feel proud that the first three districts to be ODF are from West Bengal. We have Nadia, Hooghly and Burdwan and the fourth one is Rajasthan’s Bikaner. So it’s 3:1 ratio... We have bowled out everybody,” the Chief Minister said. Thanking UNICEF and the World Bank for helping the district achieve this feat, Ms. Banerjee declared April 30 as the “Nirmal Bangla Diwas” to be observed in the years to come. “Today we take the oath to keep West Bengal

clean and build a Nirmal Bangla. I ask everybody to take responsibility for that,” she said. The Chief Minister presented the Nadia district administration, a memento and a painting prepared by her, which was received by the DM. UNICEF India representative David Mcloughlin congratulated the people of the district for achieving the goal and said, “It’s a commendable job done by you people. It shows that ODF is absolutely achievable. Your achievement An Indian laborer who breaks pieces of coal for baking bricks at a brick-manufacturing unit will inspire others to make drinks water on the outskirts of Allahabad on Thursday, April 30. Friday marks May Day or their places ODF.” International Workers’ Day. (AP Photo)

Girl dies after being thrown from Badal family's bus; 4 arrested moga/ChaNDigarh, april 30 (iaNS): The death of a 13-year-old Dalit girl on Thursday after she and her mother were allegedly pushed out of a speeding bus for protesting against their molestation sparked outrage in Punjab, with the opposition demanding action against the ruling Badal family which owned the bus. Police said that four people, including the bus driver, conductor and helper, were arrested on Thursday, and a a case of murder, attempt to murder and molestation slapped on them. The incident took place Wednesday evening near Moga town, 180 km from here. The bus belongs to Orbit Aviation Company which is owned by Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who also holds the home portfolio, and his wife and union minister Harsimrat Badal. The victim, Arshdeep Kaur, was declared dead by doctors at

the Moga civil hospital while her mother, Shinder Kaur, was admitted in a serious condition. Shinder Kaur, 36, told the media from her hospital bed that they complained about the molestation to the bus driver but he mocked at them and started speeding the vehicle. She said that no one helped them inside the bus and alleged that she and her daughter were pushed out of the moving bus by the molesters. The family of three, including a 14-year-old boy, had boarded the bus at Moga town for Baghapurana town, which is 20 km away, on Wednesday evening. The mother and daughter were soon targeted with indecent gestures and molestation. Punjab Director General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini said in Moga that the accused had been arrested. The case was registered against bus conductor Sukhwinder Singh and helper Gur-

deep Singh. Two others arrested include driver Ranjit Singh and another person, Amarjit Singh. Saini said a probe into the incident will be conducted by Inspector General of Police Gurpreet Kaur Deo. Embarrassed by the incident involving the staff of a bus owned by his son, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said he was "deeply pained" by the incident. "I don't know anything about the bus company.. I have never been to its office," Badal told the media in Chandigarh. He admitted that Sukhbir Badal owned the Orbit Bus company. "Strict action will be taken under law against the guilty. The incident is deeply shocking and I am deeply pained by it," Badal said. In New Delhi, the Lok Sabha was disrupted when the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members sought a discussion on the death of the

teenaged girl. Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and AAP's Bhagwant Mann and Dharamvir Gandhi raised the issue but Speaker Sumitra Mahajan disallowed a discussion saying they can raise it only during zero hour. Furious, the rebuffed MPs trooped near the speaker's podium and started shouting slogans demanding an immediate discussion. The speaker, however, asked them to return to their seats and adjourned the house briefly. Condemning the incident, union minister Harsimrat Badal said in New Delhi that she would get it enquired if the bus belonged to the Badal family. Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh, a former Punjab chief minister, said the incident was a reflection of the lawlessness under the Badal regime. "I am shocked and ashamed

such an incident has happened in Punjab and nobody came to the rescue of the helpless mother and the daughter leading to the death of the girl," Amarinder said in a statement. Congress legislators demanded President's Rule in Punjab, citing deteriorating law and order situation. "The bus belongs to a company owned by the Badal family. The Dalit girl was molested by the staff of the Orbit bus. She along with her mother was thrown out of the fast moving bus by the molesters," they said in a statement. Punjab Congress president Pratap Singh Bajwa claimed that Orbit transport buses had unleashed terror on the state's roads and its staff was violating all laws. "Sukhbir Badal is directly responsible for this incident and a case under Section 304A should be registered against him as the bus is his liability," Bajwa said in Moga.

How Delhi’s shoeshine boys learn to read and write David Lalmalsawma

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t’s 8:30 am and office workers are streaming out of the Delhi Metro’s Gate No. 5 on Barakhamba Road, the capital’s central business district. Nearby, five shoeshine boys holding pencils and notebooks crowd around Firdoz Khan, who sits with them on the ground in her white salwar and is busy explaining the difference between 7 plus 2 and 7 multiplied by 2. Khan, 23, teaches math and other basic education to street children in the surrounding markets. Her goal is to meet the educational needs of these children who are too busy working to go to school, or

to children whose parents are too poor to send them to school. She doesn’t work for any organization – government or NGO. “I have worked with NGOs for the last seven or eight years (as a volunteer and employee). I noticed tunnamed3hat they don’t have accountability, transparency,” said Khan, who is in her final year of a master’s degree course in Public Administration. For the past six months, she has been teaching her class at Barakhamba Road, starting around 7 a.m. and lasting for two hours. She holds another class at the nearby Connaught Place market at 9.30 am. Her students comprise boys and girls aged 5 to 25 years. During the day, Khan visits street

children and their parents in the area and checks up on kids she admitted to a nearby government school, where there are no fees until the eighth grade. “A school has so many resources. If you can go to school, go, otherwise I will teach you,” Khan said. She said many children can’t go to schools even for free because they have to work during the day. A majority of her male students are employed in polishing shoes for a living for 20 rupees (32 cents) per pair, while the girls beg or sell ball-point pens in the streets for 5 rupees (8 cents) each. Khan, who grew up in Delhi, is the daughter of a bus driver father. Her mother is a homemaker. Khan’s expenses for books and sta-

tionery for her students are borne by her partner in the initiative, Shekhar Jain. Khan and Jain, a 25-year-old college teacher, met in 2013 at an NGO that works with the children of sex workers. Khan joined as an employee while Jain volunteered. After nine months, they quit, disillusioned by how the charity functioned. They decided to work on their own. They came to Delhi’s central business district, started talking to street children, asking if they wanted to learn to read and write. They ended up admitting a few children to a nearby government school after getting their parents’ permission, while the street classes started six months ago. “We are concerned

about teaching them to read and write at least one language,” said Jain. “We love kids, and this is the most interesting thing we can do.” Harjit Singh, an 18-year-old shoe polisher from Rajasthan, said he now can read and write in the Devanagari script of the Hindi language after attending Khan’s classes for five or six months. “I didn’t know anything before, but now I can write a little,” he said, giggling. Then he read out the name “Central Bank of India” written in Devanagari on a nearby advertisement painted on a metal sheet used to protect tree saplings. Twelve-year-old Ranbir said he never went to school in his native Ajmer,

a city in Rajasthan, and started learning only oneand-a-half months back after Khan asked him if he wanted to join her class. “I like her class. I am starting to learn a little,” he said. Khan mainly does the teaching and Jain provides the funds. For now, the duo can make do with little. Last year, they spent 40,000 rupees ($640) on sweaters, dresses and shoes for some of the children they admitted to schools, apart from stationery for the street classes, Khan’s everyday expenses and taking kids out a few times to visit landmarks in the city. They have not reached out to anyone for help so far. A few friends have contributed money and a couple of strangers also

donated books and cash. The metro station manager also helps by allowing them to conduct their classes on the premises and lets them use a locker to store books. Jain says they want to expand their “centres,” and is confident that people will readily donate to their cause if asked. Their target: a child must learn to read and write at least one language in a year. “And anyone who wants to contribute, we will ask them to come at least once (to see what they are doing), otherwise we will not accept the funds,” said Jain. “Right now, we are teaching 100 students, but if we want to teach 1,000 students, we need money of course,” said Khan. Her register shows the names

of 26 children in one of her classes, while the other had 30 names. They have admitted another 40 in a school, and they say they regularly follow up on how they are progressing in school or if they need resources like uniforms or stationery. For those children whose parents agree to send them to school, Khan and Jain buy the form (costing 40 rupees each), fill them up, get them notarized from a court, and take care of all the formalities in the school. “We are thinking about registering with the government because there are so many government resources we can avail if we are registered. After that, we want to start one more centre,” Jain said. “This is my happiness.”

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Behind Nepal’s Shangri-la image, poverty & misery KATHMANDU, April 30 (Ap): Even amid the misery, with entire neighborhoods sleeping on sidewalks for fear of a massive earthquake’s aftershocks, even with no running water, no electricity, and anger and frustration boiling over — even with all this, you can still find hints of the picture-postcard image of Nepal many foreigners hold in their imaginations. There, perhaps, is Shangri-la, off in the Himalayan foothills that loom up above the tiled roofs and arched gates of the colonial-era buildings that made it through Saturday’s earthquake. There’s the squeak of the rickshaw, the gentle calls of “Namaste,” the blissed-out backpacker stumbling down tree-lined boulevards. It was almost always more mirage than truth, and never more so than after the country’s worst disaster in decades. People here have long seen their struggles with crushing poverty, corruption and infrastructure failures, and with a political fecklessness almost Shakespearean in scale, overshadowed by the beauty of the land and its firm place in the collective popular romantic imagination. As Nepalese now dig out from a quake that has killed 5,500 and counting, there’s widespread pessi-

In this April 28, 2015, file photo, children peer out of makeshift shelter in destroyed village of Paslang near the epicenter of Saturday’s massive earthquake in the Gorkha District of Nepal. Even amid the misery, with no running water, no electricity, and anger and frustration boiling over it’s still possible to find examples of the picture postcard image of Nepal many foreigners hold in their imaginations. People here have long seen their struggles with poverty, corruption and infrastructure failures, and with a political fecklessness almost Shakespearean in scale, overshadowed by the beauty of the land and its firm place in the collective popular romantic imagination. (AP File Photo)

mism that these ugly truths will become any clearer to an outside world smitten with an image that doesn’t match the reality. There is even less faith that a government that many feel has consistently failed its people will rise to the occasion. “I am not confident. Not at all,” Sanjay K.C., a 37 year

old businessman who has been sleeping outside in a tent since his home was destroyed, said Wednesday. “For more than 10 years they cannot even make a bloody constitution. How will they rebuild our country? They knew a big one was coming for years. Just think if they’d done what a

normal government would have done and made arrangements?” Nepal is blessed with resilient people and some of the most stunning vistas on the planet. But even on the best days, electricity routinely dies in the heart of the capital, Kathmandu, where the hum of

thousands of generators is a normal soundtrack of life. There have been centuries of instability, oppression and bloodshed, and, in recent decades, a massacre of the royal family by the crown prince and a Maoist insurgency that killed thousands. And now comes a di-

saster many have long seen coming. Nepal sits near the colliding tectonic plates of India and Eurasia that mark the boundary of the Himalayans, and is ranked as the 11th-most earthquakeprone country in the world, according to Allen Clark, a disaster policy specialist at the East-West Center and former geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. The government tried to prepare for a quake, but political and economic turmoil over the last decade hurt the attempts to improve the national power, communications and social services infrastructure, and to organize the helicopters, train the workers and build the structures essential to being ready and responding effectively, he said. “As a result, they are now almost totally dependent on outside assistance,” Clark said, and the current response has been “piecemeal.” Government ministers have acknowledged they’ve been overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster. They simply don’t know what to do. Now, as parts of the capital dig out from the destruction, others try to get back to a semblance of normal life. Buses loaded with boxes of food from India and vans packed with the

injured fought their way through mud-choked streets clogged with traffic five cars deep in places. Enterprising drivers tried to forge shortcuts on the dirt paths that passed for sidewalks. Motorcycles and scooters — some laden with as many as five people, including small children — sliced through the gridlock. Whole families sat together on top of their bags and bedding, staring at the traffic. The air was a toxic mix of exhaust and dust and dirt, and many people covered their mouths and noses with masks in an attempt to filter the grit. A greasy sludge of mud and trash moldered in roadside ditches. When asked if the congestion was like this before the earthquake, a young Nepali man shrugged and said, “No. It was worse.” In hard-hit parts of the city, dozens stood around and gawked as foreign rescue workers searched rubble for the injured and dead; bulldozers pushed debris to the side of the road. Every now and then, a policeman with a long, thin stick would come and chase away the throng. The crowd returned minutes later. Sanjay K.C., the businessman, said he was impressed with the foreign aid groups and disaster teams

who’d come to help. “But I don’t see any evidence of my own government helping to rebuild and rescue.” In some neighborhoods, buildings stood cheek-by jowl, most of them upright, but some leaning on their neighbors like a drunk trying to sleep on his feet on a crowded train. Sometimes the damage was relatively minor, a balcony with one side tilting or giant cracks in the concrete. Sometimes it was a whole side wall or building facade crumbled into the street. This is the reality of Nepal today — at least, of this part of the country. Yes, myth endures, and sometimes it is based in reality. But the reality here, at this moment, is not one of legend or romance but of two difficult truths: that things will not be back to normal for a long time, and that normal wasn’t all that great to begin with. Afzal Ali, a 27-year-old Indian who has lived in Nepal since he was 7, is one of many who have lived without electricity or running water since the quake. He has slept outside with family and neighbors for fear of aftershocks. “Nepal was getting better before the earthquake, but now no one knows how far back this will put things,” he said. “Everything,” he says, “seems lost.”

Air pollution and Watchdog group issues dismal report on global press freedom poverty lower child’s IQ NeW YOrK, April 30 (iANS): Material hardship can increase the adverse affects of physical “stressors” like air pollutants as researchers have found that the toxic combination of air pollution and poverty could lower the intelligence quotient (IQ) of your kid. The findings showed that children born to mothers experiencing economic hardship, who were also exposed during pregnancy to high levels of PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), scored significantly lower on IQ tests at age 5 compared with children born to mothers with greater economic security and less exposure to the pollutants. “The findings support policy interventions to reduce air pollution exposure in urban areas as well as programs to screen women early in pregnancy to identify those in need of psychological or material support,” said senior study author Frederica Perera from the Columbia University in the US. PAH are ubiquitous in the environment from emissions from motor vehicles, oil, and coal-burning for home heating and power generation, tobacco smoke, and other combustion sources. Material hardship is a measure used to assess an individual’s unmet basic needs with regard to food, clothing, and housing. For the study, the researchers followed 276 mother-child pairs from pregnancy through early childhood in New York City. The researchers used the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children to assess IQ. Children of mothers who reported greater material hardship, and were exposed to high levels of PAH during pregnancy scored lower on tests of full scale IQ, perceptual reasoning, and working memory. The study appeared in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Challenging work tasks sharpen brain lONDON, April 30 (iANS): If your job requires more speaking, developing strategies, conflict resolution and managerial tasks, you may be better protected against memory and thinking decline in old age than your co-workers, says a study. “Our study is important because it suggests that the type of work you do throughout your career may have even more significance on your brain health than your education does,” said study author Francisca Then from University of Leipzig in Germany. “Education is a well-known factor that influences dementia risk,” Then noted. For the study, 1,054 people over the age of 75 were given tests that measured their memory and thinking abilities every one-and-a-half years for eight years. The researchers also asked the participants about their work history and categorized the tasks they completed into three groups: executive, verbal and fluid. Examples of executive tasks are scheduling work and activities, developing strategies and resolving conflicts. Examples of verbal tasks are evaluating and interpreting information and fluid tasks were considered to be those which included selective attention and analysing data. Among the three types of work tasks, high levels of executive and verbal tasks were distinctively associated with slower rates of memory and thinking decline. The study found that people whose careers included the highest level of all three types of tasks scored higher on the thinking and memory tests over people with the lowest level. People with the highest level of all three types of tasks also had the slowest rate of cognitive decline. Over eight years, their rate of decline was half the rate of participants with a low level of mentally demanding work tasks. “Challenges at work may indeed be a positive element, if they build up a person’s mental reserve in the long-term,” Then noted. The study appeared in the online issue of the journal Neurology.

WASHiNGTON, April 30 (Ap): Terrorists are targeting journalists, authoritarian governments are jailing them and some countries are tightening media controls, developments that help explain why global press freedom in 2014 fell to the lowest point in more than 10 years, a democracy watchdog group said Wednesday. Only 1 in 7 people live in

countries where coverage of political news is strong, state meddling in media matters is minor, and legal or economic pressures on the press are slight, according to the Freedom House report. The group analyzed 199 countries and territories. The worst offenders were Belarus, Crimea, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Turkmenistan

and Uzbekistan. Ranked highest were Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Finland and the Netherlands. The United States was 34th on the list, just above France. The report’s project manager, Jennifer Dunham, said the U.S. ranking partly reflected the rough treatment of journalists covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following last August’s shooting death of

Michael Brown. Another factor, Dunham said, was “continuing issues we saw with journalists having trouble accessing information from the Obama administration, on and off the record.” From the global perspective, Freedom House said press freedom faced increased pressure from newly passed or more heavily enforced laws restricting the media. The

report cited laws in Russia and Mexico that place new controls on bloggers. Physical violence and intimidation of journalists was a serious problem, especially in places such as Iraq and Syria, where Islamic State extremists have beheaded Western hostages, including American reporter James Foley and American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff.

Rescuers pull out survivor as Nepal capital remains on edge

Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and US rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu onThursday, April 30. Crowds cheered Thursday as a Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a 7-story Kathmandu building. (AP Photo)

KATHMANDU, April 30 (Ap): Thousands in Nepal’s capital lined up to board free buses Thursday to return to rural hometowns amid fears over continued aftershocks. On an otherwise dreary day, this quake-hit nation got a rare bit of good news — a teenager was rescued after being buried under rubble for five days. Crowds cheered as the 18-year-old, identified by police as Pemba Tamang, was pulled out of the wreckage, dazed and dusty, and carried away on a stretcher. He had been trapped under the collapsed debris of a seven-story building in Kathmandu since Saturday, when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck. Nepalese rescuers, supported by an American disaster re-

sponse team, had been working for hours to free him. L.B. Basnet, the police officer who crawled into a gap to reach Tamang, said he was surprisingly responsive. “He thanked me when I first approached him,” said Basnet. “He told me his name, his address, and I gave him some water. I assured him we were near to him.” When Tamang was lifted out, his face was covered in dust, and medics had put an IV drop into his arm. A blue brace had been placed around his neck. He appeared stunned, and his eyes blinked in the sunlight as workers hurriedly carried him away. The jubilant scene was welcome on a drizzly, chilly day in Kathmandu where many residents remained on edge over aftershocks that have rattled the

city since Saturday’s mammoth quake killed more than 5,500 people and destroyed thousands of houses and other buildings. More than 70 aftershocks stronger than magnitude 3.2 have been recorded in the Himalayan region by Indian scientists over the past five days, according to J.L. Gautam, the director of seismology at the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi. The strongest, registering magnitude 6.9, came on Sunday, he said. Rattled by the shaking and anxious to check on family members in outlying areas, tens of thousands of people have left the capital on buses this week. The government has been providing free bus service to many destinations.

Vietnam War 40 yrs on, former enemies now friends but still pain

Margie Mason Associated Press

his city once known as Saigon was festooned in red banners on Thursday that read “Long Live the Glorious Party of Vietnam,” 40 years after communist forces seized control of the country and America walked away from a divisive and bloody war that remains a painful sore. Thousands of Vietnamese, including war veterans in uniform, lined up to watch soldiers and traditional performers parade through the streets of what is now Ho Chi Minh City. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam. They crashed through the gates of the presidential palace and hoisted the communist flag. It was an incredible victory for the revolutionary forces that had waged guerrilla warfare against the powerful, better equipped United States. “The tank crashing the gates ... was a symbol of victory for the Vietnamese nation and the Vietnamese People’s Army, marking the end of the 30 years of national resistance against the French and then the Americans,” said Nguyen Van Tap, 64, who drove Tank 390 through the iron bars and reunited

with members of his tank company Wednesday. “For the Vietnamese, April 30 is a day of festivities and national reunification.” For the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies, the day was one of panic, chaos and defeat known simply as the fall of Saigon. After the government’s parade and celebratory speeches were over Thursday, a group of former U.S. Marines who helped Americans evacuate Saigon as it fell planned to gather at the site of the old U.S. Embassy, now the U.S. Consulate. They were dedicating a plaque to the two fallen comrades who were last two U.S. servicemen killed in the war: Cpl. Charles McMahon and Lance Cpl. Darwin Judge died April 29, 1975, when their post near the airport was hit by a rocket. Some 58,000 Americans were killed in the war along with up to 250,000 South Vietnamese allies and an estimated 3 million communist fighters and civilians. “We lost ... and I felt that way for a long time,” said Kevin Maloney, one of the last Marines out. “I was ashamed that we left people behind like that. I did what I could, so I’m satisfied with my own performance, but as a nation, I think we could have done better. And I hope we can learn

from that, but I don’t think we’ve seen that.” Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the south in the days and years following the war, with many taking rickety boats in search of freedom. The majority ended up resettling in the U.S. Many have since come home to visit family and to invest in the country, but some have remained feverishly anti-communist and have refused to return as long as the one-party government is in power. The country still tightly controls the press and cracks down on political dissidents. It jails those who dare to speak out for democracy, including in blogs on the Internet. But much has changed since the early days after the war when Vietnam was plunged into severe poverty and isolation during failed collective farming policies. The U.S. normalized relations with Vietnam in 1995. More than 16,000 Vietnamese students now study in America, and the U.S. has become one of Vietnam’s biggest foreign investors. Bilateral trade exceeded $36 billion last year. The two countries have also hosted high-level visits, and Vietnam has welcomed military cooperation and visiting U.S. naval

Vietnamese veterans gather for a parade celebrating the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War which is also remembered as the fall of Saigon, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Thursday, April 30. (AP Photo)

ships. China continues to spar with Hanoi and other neighbors over disputed islands in the South China Sea in what is viewed as a growing maritime threat in the region. Today, what is now called Ho Chi Minh City is alive with capitalism; many of the scars from the war are no longer visible on the surface. It is the economic muscle of the country, and re-

cent and ongoing construction projects have transformed its skyline into glassy high-rises bathed in neon lights. But much of the old traditions remain. The sidewalks are still filled with generations of families hustling out of small shops to earn money while elderly women peddle the country’s famous pho noodle soup from street stalls.

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Golden chance for MI to take revenge on high-flying RR

MuMbAI, APrIl 30 (PTI): Well-rested and rejuvenated Mumbai Indians would seek to turn the tables on travel-weary Rajasthan Royals when the two former champions cross swords in the Indian Premier League cricket contest at the Wankhede Stadium here tomorrow. MI had lost to RR when the two met in the first leg encounter at Ahmedabad a fortnight ago and the game offers a chance to the hosts to avenge that defeat at home. Mumbai have enjoyed a well-needed short break after stopping Sun Risers Hyderabad in a low-scoring seventh game through excellent seam bowling on April 25. The Royals, on the other hand, would enter the game somewhat tired after being on the road to play in the rainabandoned match against Royal Challengers Bangalore last night at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. It was their second successive rain-hit contest after the total wash-out at the Eden Gardens against defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders on April 26. Royals are well on

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target to take one of the four play-off spots in the tournament, currently lying second behind leaders Chennai Super Kings in the eight-team table, while MI's hopes of making the play-offs after five defeats in seven games hang by a slender thread.

The win over Sun Risers when they defended a total of 157 through some fine bowling from sling-arm Lankan pace spearhead Lasith Malinga and newly-inducted New Zealand all rounder Mitchell McClenaghan -- who has filled up well for his injured compatriot Co-

rey Anderson -- has re-ignited MI's fading hopes. But beyond these two, the pace bowling unit has not been impressive with none among R Vinay Kumar, the victorious Karnataka Ranji captain, Pawan Suyal and Jasprit Bhumrah, being really impressive in the

shortest format of the game. They have other issues to be sorted out too. One of the major ones is the lack of a good opening combination as Parthiv Patel, who opened in the previous game with Lendl Simmons, has not really been convincing despite getting some starts.

NEw DElHI, APrIl 30 (PTI): Smarting from a crushing defeat in their previous game, Delhi Daredevils have no option but to go all out when they take on Kings XI Punjab, who are also struggling in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League, here tomorrow. The jinx-breaking victory at home against Mumbai Indians was the kind of boost Delhi needed to bring their campaign back on track but what followed was a demoralising 10-wicket loss to Royal Challengers Bangalore. They have spent a mind-boggling sum to have Yuvraj Singh in their ranks but the left-hander has failed to fire even though collective failure is the prime reason for their miserable position in the tournament. The absence of Zaheer Khan due to injury has also hurt Delhi badly and if the left-arm paceman recovers for tomorrow's contest, as is hinted by the team management, it will be a big plus for them. They had some close matches in the beginning where the results could have gone in their favour but in this format, halfchances have to be grabbed and this is where the team has been struggling. Skipper JP Duminy and Shreyas Iyer are the only consistent batsmen for them, having scored 200 or more runs in seven matches and that tells the sorry state of their batting. The next best was Mayank Agarwal with an aggregate of 150 runs in his kitty. Their bowling performance has been better with leg-spinner Imran Tahir right there at the top with 13 scalps along with Chennai Super Kings paceman Ashish Nehra. Others have not taken too many wickets but more or less they have managed to put up a good challenge against rival batting line-ups.

Grizzlies beat Blazers to seal Juve defeats Fiorentina but left waiting for title place in West semifinals

Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33), of Spain, drives against Portland Trail Blazers center Meyers Leonard in the first half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball playoff series Wednesday, April 29, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo)

MEMPHIS, APrIl 30 (AP): The Memphis Grizzlies secured a berth in the NBA Western Conference semifinals by beating Portland 99-93 on Wednesday, completing a 4-1 series victory over the Trail Blazers. Five of the final eight teams in the playoffs have now been decided, while Atlanta took a 3-2 lead over Brooklyn in one of the three first-round series which are yet to be settled. Memphis' Marc Gasol had 26 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Griz-

zlies to victory. In the West semifinals for the third time in five years, the Grizzlies realize it's time to go further. "We wanted to go get the job done now, get some days of rest to get ready for the next tough series," Vince Carter said. "This is just a warm-up for the next one, and the next one and the next one." Memphis closed it out despite not having point guard Mike Conley for a second straight game as he recovers from surgery to repair broken bones near his

left eye. Courtney Lee scored 20 points for Memphis, Zach Randolph had 16 and Jeff Green added 10 off the bench. C.J. McCollum led Portland with a career-high 33 points. Damian Lillard had 22 points, and LaMarcus Aldridge had 14 before fouling out late as they combined to shoot 13 of 37. The Trail Blazers lost in the first round for the seventh time in their past eight postseasons after reaching the West semifinals last year. Memphis led only 68-66 at the end of the third, and the game was tied 72-72 before Carter put the Grizzlies ahead to stay with a fadeaway jumper. Aldridge got the Trail Blazers within 7675 with a three-point play before Memphis went on a 9-0 run, pushing its lead back to double digits. "We're one of the top offensive teams in the league, and we never felt that rhythm," Aldridge said. "That's disappointing for us. We know that this team is a lot better than what we played. I'm mad about going home so early." Atlanta won 107-97 at home against Brooklyn to take the upper hand in a 1st vs. 8th series that's closer than most expected. Al Horford shook off the discomfort of a dislocated finger and flew around the court in the fourth quarter when it looked like Brooklyn was on the verge of bouncing all the way back from an early 17-point deficit. In the final minute, Jeff Teague darted into the lane for a couple of baskets that sealed another hardfought victory. Horford and Teague both finished with 20 points.

MIlAN, APrIl 30 (AP) : Runaway Serie A leader Juventus beat Fiorentina 3-2 on Wednesday but its title celebrations were delayed by Lazio's 4-0 victory over a Parma side which is now certain to be relegated. Fiorentina took the lead through a Gonzalo Rodriguez penalty but goals from Fernando Llorente and Carlos Tevez turned the match around before Gonzalo missed a second penalty. Tevez, the league's leading scorer, sealed the result with his 20th Serie A goal of the season before Josip Ilicic netted a late consolation goal. Juventus remained 14 points clear of Lazio and will clinch a fourth successive title with a draw at Sampdoria on Saturday, as it holds the tiebreaker edge courtesy of a better headto-head record. The Serie A giant is also in the hunt for a treble as it faces Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals and Lazio in the Italian Cup final. "At this point it would be a miracle if we didn't win the title," said coach Massimiliano Allegri, who is in his first season in charge of Juventus. "We'll try to get the point we need at Genoa even if we have lost our last two away games and then we will focus on the Champions League and the Italian Cup. "Today I'm happy with how the match went and with the lads, who are having an extraordinary year. Today's match is important because it allows us to stay calm in the rest of the matches: when you still need a tiny piece to win there is always something, not anxiety, but the desire to reach your goal." Roma won 3-0 at Sassuolo to stay third, but is now mathematically out of

Juventus' Carlos Tevez scores on a header during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Fiorentina at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo)

the title race. Parma, which had been deducted seven points for financial irregularities, was relegated after Atalanta drew 2-2 at Cesena. Lying 17th in the standings, just above the relegation zone, Atalanta is 16 points ahead of Parma with five games left to play. Cesena moved level with Cagliari, which lost 1-0 at Chievo Verona and had two players sent off. The two teams are eight points behind Atalanta. Elswhere,

AC Milan was jeered off the pitch after losing 3-1 at home to Genoa, in a match that saw Milan's Jeremy Menez sent off for two bookings. Sampdoria also had a player sent off in a 1-1 draw against Hellas Verona. Palermo and Torino drew 2-2. Fiorentina was the only side to have won at Juventus Stadium since Bayern Munich more than two years ago, having beaten Juventus 2-1 in the first leg of the Italian Cup semifinal last

month. It had high hopes of doing so again when Andrea Pirlo tripped Joaquin shortly after the half hour and Gonzalo blasted the penalty into the top right corner. Fiorentina had missed all four of its previous spot kicks this season. However, Juventus leveled almost immediately when it was awarded a dubious free kick and Llorente headed in Pirlo's cross. Tevez put Juve in front on the stroke of halftime with a looping

header following Patrice Evra's chipped pass. Fiorentina had a chance to level after Joaquin was tripped for another penalty, this time by Giorgio Chiellini. However, Gonzalo blasted the spot-kick wide and Juve extended its lead minutes later, when Tevez ran from the center circle onto a great long ball from Claudio Marchisio before firing into the bottom left corner. Ilicic pulled one back in stoppage time with a wonderful free kick into the top left corner. In Rome, Lazio went into the match knowing that anything but a win would likely hand Juventus the title and three goals in six first-half minutes put the capital side firmly in control. Former Parma midfielder Marco Parolo opened the scoring with a fantastic long-range strike in the 10th minute. Miroslav Klose bundled over from close range minutes later after Stefan Radu's effort from a Felipe Anderson cross was parried and Antonio Candreva sprung the offside trap to score the third shortly after. Keita Balde Diao completed the scoring nine minutes from time. In the race for the final Champions League spots, Roma moved provisionally five points clear of Napoli which visits Empoli on Thursday. Seydou Doumbia got Roma off to the perfect start with his first Serie A goal in the sixth minute, heading in Alessandro Florenzi's cross. Florenzi got on the scoresheet himself with a stunning solo effort, skipping past two defenders before smashing a fine effort under the bar. Miralem Pjanic sealed the result in the 74th minute, tapping home Gervinho's cross.

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Criminals on brazen rampage A brief account on the achievements of our in Chumukedima area leader A.Z. phizo, Former president of NNc

f late, a spate of daring robberies – mostly petty thefts – has been plaguing and disturbing the otherwise quiet and peaceful Chumukedima area by what most suspect to be a well-organised gang of criminals. In particular, theft or rather dog-napping of pet dogs continues to ‘hound’ this locality with pet canines going missing almost everyday. The modus operandi this gang supposedly uses is to entice targeted canines with drugged meat after which they come in rented autorickshaws and whisk away the drugged canines for the slaughter-houses. The sheer audacity of these criminals has the entire residents of the area fuming as they have started carrying out their nefarious activities in broad daylight. For the record, even the pet dog of this writer, a German shepherd, was dragged inside a waiting autorickshaw which ultimately sped off. The story doesn’t end there. Residents of the area have been robbed in broad day-

light – their safes broken into, their houses ransacked and their houses stripped of all valuables on numerous occasions. However, the one thing that concerns the citizens most is the worry that at the rate that these criminal elements are brazenly carrying out their activities without none to deter them so far, children may also soon become easy targets for childlifters and perverts. Mention may be made that police presence in the area has been almost totally unnoticeable and the community has not been seen to be taking any initiatives to check such menaces thus encouraging the rise of such crimes. Interestingly, also, is the fact that the nearest police station, Diphupar Police station, is far too distant to respond emergencies in time. Hence, the residents of the area has strongly voiced need for the police and law-enforcing authorities to ensure safety of the public as their sworn duty. Eric Miachieo Journalist

ather of A.Z. Phizo, Krusietso had three sons and two daughters. He was one of the pioneer traders to neighboring countries, as far as Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Singapore in the late 19th century. By seeing some few money in his hand, his grandchildren asked him to buy some plot of land. But Krusietso replied his grandchildren and said, “we ourselves alone cannot make Khonoma, we need people to live in Khonoma, though we have enough money to buy the land of others”. If the concept of this thinking were in the mind of our present Naga leaders, there would not be greediness, corruption and hatred amongst the Nagas; rather love, peace and harmony would be the fashion of present Naga society. A.Z. Phizo, father of the Naga nation was born on 16th May, 1904 in Khonoma. He was the fourth President of the Naga National Council (NNC) from December

1950 – April 1990. He was born to lead the nation. Forgetting not his mother’s advice: ‘Be an honest man. An honest man dies, but his name lives forever’. Immeasurable suffering but the love of the nation by A.Z. Phizo was so high, so deep and so wide. The 25th Death Anniversary of A.Z. Phizo, the 30th April, 2015 is a day to remember our great leader A.Z. Phizo’s past deeds that he had done for the Nagas in delivering the Naga nation. In brief, I would like to let our people know some few remarkable achievements and extraordinary works he had carried out for the Naga nation as follows; 1. Declaration of Naga Independence on 14th August, 1947 was informed to United Nations, New York and the British India Government in New Delhi through telegram. 2. January 1, 1950, A.Z. Phizo wrote a letter to United Nations regarding the 16th May 1951 Naga Vol-

untary Plebiscite to remain sov- 3. Jawaharlal Nehru again asked ereign and a free democratic A.Z. Phizo to become a Minister nation. of the Indian Government, but 3. March 29, 1951 inviting the GovPhizo refused it. ernment of India in Delhi to send 4. Again, Shri Prakasa, the then delegates to witness the Naga Minister of Natural Resources Voluntary Plebiscite. and Scientific Research of India 4. May 16, 1951 Plebiscite was sucand former Governor of Assam cessfully conducted. in 1949 asked A.Z. Phizo, “Phizo, 5. March 22, 1956 formed the Fedwhatever you want, we shall give eral Government of Nagaland. you, make a list and give it to 6. July 26, 1960 held an Internationme. Money is not the question, al press conference in London. we shall give you anything”. But 7. October 8, 1960 submitted the Phizo refused it. memorandum entitled ‘The Fate 5. And again in 1952, Nehru asked Of The Nagas’ to the United NaA.Z. Phizo to become the Presitions Head quarters, New York. dent of India, but Phizo refused it. Let us give thanks and glory to Some few horrible waves of temp- the Almighty God for He has artations faced by A.Z.Phizo ranged a Moses to lead the Naga na1. Jawaharlal Nehru offered A.Z. tion making the world to know the Phizo to become the Governor right of the Nagas and making him of Assam, but Phizo refused it. to overcome all the horrible temp2. Then Jawaharlal Nehru asked tations to save the Naga nation. A.Z. Phizo to become the Chief URRA UVIE Minister of Assam, but Phizo reAcuyi Vadeo fused it. Joint Secretary, NNC, Nagaland

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Katy Perry has sparked controversy in Taipei by Wearing a Dress Adorned with Sunflowers, Which Were the Symbol of Taiwan's Anti-china Protest Last Year (14).

he Roar hitmaker brought her Prismatic World Tour to the capital city on Tuesday night (28 Apr 15), and appeared to show her support for Taiwan's independence campaigners through her fashion choices. Perry draped the national flag of Taiwan over her shoulders while wearing a glittery green frock adorned with large sunflowers, while her back-up dancers also wore sunflower - themed costumes. The dress has been a part of her tour wardrobe since last year (14), but many fans in the audience praised Perry for

lobal hit reality format The Voice is set for an Indian version. Indian TV company Zee TV's Hindi entertainment channel &TV will air The Voice India starting in June. The Voice India is produced and adapted by Endemol India. The show's coaches include leading Bollywood singers Himesh Reshammiya, Mika, Shaan and Sunidhi Chauhan. "We are excited to present viewers with The Voice, a show which is already a global sensation, as one of our biggest non-fiction offerings," said &TV business head Rajesh Iyer. "For the first edition, we have a formidable panel of coaches that includes the country’s best musicians who will mentor new talent." The singing competition show has seen 60 local productions in over 180 countries reaching 500 million viewers worldwide. "We are very pleased to be collaborating with &TV to bring The Voice to India," said Talpa Media global managing director Maarten Meijs. "The format has proven to be such a global hit that we’re fully confident viewers in India will also sit up and take notice."

Rihanna stars in first Puma campaign

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ihanna has starred in her first campaign for Puma following her appointment to creative director of the brand last year. The ‘Rude Boy' hitmaker - who is also a global ambassador for the sportswear brand - stuns in her debut campaign for label, a sneak peak of which has been unveiled by Puma on its Instagram account. The 27-year-old singer who was also rumored to be negotiating a $1 million deal to create a lifestyle collection with the German sportswear brand in November - teamed up with Puma ''to design and customise classic Puma styles as well as create new styles to add to the Puma product portfolio''. Puma's chief executive, Bjørn Gulden, previously said the Grammy Award-winner was the ''natural choice'' and the ''perfect ambassador'' for the sportswear company, who had been looking to sign on an ''inspiring partner for women's training''. He explained: ''Signing Rihanna is a fantastic step for Puma. Her global profile, her charisma and individuality, her ambition - all these things make her a perfect ambassador for our brand. With a strong portfolio in football, running and motorsport, finding an inspiring partner for women's training was very important.

‘Dum Laga Ke...' to be screened in New York

harat Katariya's directorial "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" has been selected as the closing night film at the 15th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF). It will be screened on May 9 as part of the Closing Night Gala Celebrations at the Skirball Theatre for Performing Arts here in the presence of the film’s director, read a statement. The celebrations will start with a welcome by Aroon Shivdasani, executive and artistic director and founding member of the Indo-American Arts Council, and will be followed by a post screening discussion with Katariya to be moderated by NYIFF director Aseem Chhabra. The Yash Raj Films' "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" stars actor Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar, who was previously a part of the company's casting division. "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" revolves around the life of a mismatched couple.

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daring to wear it in the country since the bright yellow blossoms were the symbol of the Sunflower Student Movement last spring, when groups protested against a Chinese trade deal that many believed was unfair to Taiwan. Tensions between the two nations have lingered for years as some see Taiwan as an independent nation, while others, including the U.S., have officially adopted a "One China" stance, in which the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government. Perry has yet to comment on the controversy.

nstagram might be best known for its photos and videos, but with a new initiative announced on Wednesday, the mediasharing service is hoping to shed light on the musical side of its app. Instagram CEO and founder Kevin Systrom announced the platform's increased focus on the music community using the newly minted @ music account, which already boasts over 19,000 followers. The new account is "dedicated to exploring music around the globe, from those who create it to the community around it," Systrom wrote in the post. Each week, @music will look at music on Instagram, sharing "a different side of artists you know and love" and exposing fans to new talent. The account will post six days a week and foster "community participation with a new, music-themed

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Monthly Hashtag Project." Vine has long been a feeding ground for musical stars, like chart topper Shawn Mendes, who got his start in 6-second increments. With the same mechanism for musical discovery present on Instagram, @music could easily tap into its existing community of celebrity users and shed light on new stars. Musicians make up more than 25 percent of the app's top accounts, according to Billboard. The account is also spotlighting international musicians, including the Japanese group Tricot.

Padma Lakshmi wants you to Scarlett campaigns to end child hunger go veg for a few meals a month S

t's easy to want to hate Padma Lakshmi. The "Top Chef" host and former model is so effortlessly beautiful it hurts. On top of that, she's not afraid of going up a few dress sizes while filming her Bravo television show. And she counts some of Hollywood's top celebrities as regular dinner party guests. But her Instagram account, filled with pictures of herself laughing in a white Tshirt and chowing down on greasy barbecue and other taboo diet foods, reveals a woman who believes that life and food are all about balance. Because obsessing about your diet is so not sexy, she says. Lakshmi, 44, has had a few unexpected flops at dinner parties, but says she simply rolls with it. The ice cream maker stopped working at a party she was hosting for Vanity Fair magazine a few years ago, so she served the ice cream base as chocolate soup. "It was delicious," she said in a recent telephone interview.

Through trial and tribulation, she's accumulated some basic entertaining advice. For example, don't experiment with new recipes, she warns. People are coming over for the company, not the food. Though Lakshmi loves exploring exotic foods on her show and in her travels, she grew up a strict vegetarian in India and follows a mostly vegetarian diet when she's not filming. In fact, the single mom recently partnered with MorningStar Farms to encourage others to go meatless a few meals a month for a Veg of Allegiance challenge. "The best thing you can do for your children is to cultivate an interest and appreciation in food, because a child who has a hand in making their own foods is more likely to eat that food because they have ownership of what they make." She follows a strict diet when not filming, but it takes her 12 weeks to lose what she gained in six weeks

Tilda Swinton isn't 'insulted' if she's mistaken for a man

ilda Swinton isn't 'remotely insulted' when she is mistaken for a man. The Oscar winner, who claims airport staff often think she is male, says she doesn't care about other people's opinions because she is comfortable with herself. The 54-year-old star said: 'Oh, I think they're very tired,they see somebody nearly six feet tall with short hair, and they just say, 'Male assist.'The blonde beauty also isn't worried about getting older. She explained: Aging is not something to be feared. I'm interested in wrinkles appearing ,I think it's kind of fascinating. And despite being the current face of Nars cosmetics, she rarely wears make-up. She told the May issue of US InStyle magazine: 'I don't wear make-up. I tend to look like a drag queen when I put all that stuff on. 'I will never be a bombshell. But I can dress up as one if I like.'

Chris Pratt and Anna Faris to quit Hollywood

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hris Pratt and Anna Faris want to quit Hollywood to lead a ''normal'' life with their two-year-old son Jack. The couple are keen for their two-year-old son Jack to have a ''normal'' life so are working towards a financial goal and will then turn away from acting in favour of other pursuits such as writing or painting. Though he wouldn't disclose how much they want to make, Chris said: ''I don't think we are the kind of people who need to be in a $50 million house, Jack needs to be in yelling distance.'' Until they reach the goal, the 'Jurassic World' star and his 'Mom' actress wife plan to keep working as hard as possible. He said: ''Most important for us now is to keep this train rolling. Anna with her TV show, me

with my movies and hopefully make it through to hit that number and then graciously exit stage left.'' The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' actor enjoys sharing life in the spotlight with his spouse because they have so much fun together. He told Glamour magazine: ''The Golden Globes this year were so fun, we had the best time. ''If I did it on my own, I might have an amazing experience talking to some A-list celebrity that I have never met before, or one of those friends I have who is not really a friend. ''But when I retell it, you sound like a name-dropper and you can't really articulate it to those close to you. ''It's nice to have someone to share it with - an inside joke we are both in on like, 'What are we doing here?' ''

because she wants to do it the right way. "If you were in my closet you would see things in a size 2 and you would see things in a size 12," she said. It took her 13 months to lose her baby weight through a healthy diet and lots of boxing; she's addicted to the mental clarity and focus it brings. "I didn't want to just have a crash diet," she said. "I don't want to live my life scared of food or what I'm putting in my mouth because that's not sexy either."

carlett Johansson has revealed her family used to survive on government handouts. Before she was earning $20million for her role in The Avengers movies, the 30-year-old's family relied on public assistance for food. 'My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family,' the actress said in a statement. 'Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.' Born in New York to a Danish-born father and a Jewish mother, Johansson has previously revealed her household had 'little money'. She was the jointyoungest of five children; she and her twin brother had an older sister, brother, and half-brother. Three decades later, she and Avengers co-star Jeremy Renner have become spokespeople for a new awareness campaign for Feeding America. The two

actors star in new PSA's from the charity, in which they point out just how much food goes to waste in the country every day, while vulnerable children go unfed. 'There are 16 million children struggling with hunger in America,' the actress says in the clips. 'That’s one in five daughters, sons, neighbors and classmates who don’t know where their next meal is coming from, yet billions of pounds of good food go to waste ev-

ery year. It’s time we do something about it. 'Feeding America is a nationwide network of food banks that helps provide meals to millions of kids in families in need,' she says, before encouraging viewers to go to feedingamerica.org to help out. 'Together we can solve hunger. Together we're feeding America,' she adds. Meanwhile in his clip, 44 year-old Renner accepts that child hunger may not be something people immediately associate with the United States. 'As an American, it's hard to hear that we have a serious hunger issue in our country,' he says. 'And as a parent it's even harder to hear one in five of our kids struggles with hunger, especially when billions of pounds of good food are wasted every year. Renner plays Hawkeye alongside Johansson's Black Widow in Marvel's Avengers sequel Age Of Ultron, which hits cinemas on Friday.

“CONCERT FOR NEPAL”

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The Dimapur Gorkha Union, cordially invites your kind presence with family & friends during the “Concert for Nepal “ on 10th May’ 2015 at Town Hall, Dimapur from 3:00 PM onwards, featuring renowned Band & various Artists of Nagaland. Your presence and generosity will make a change into the lives of the Earthquake Victims of Nepal.

“ There comes a time when we hear a certain call When the World must come together as one, There are people dying and it’s time to Lend a Hand to life The Greatest Gift of All” Supported by : Development Authority of Nagaland & Music Channel Nagaland

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Friday, 1st May 2015

Delhi Daredevils VS Kings XI Punjab

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Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi

Friday, 1st May 2015

Mumbai Indians VS Rajasthan Royals

8:00 PM IST

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Chelsea poised to celebrate first title in five years In Mayweather & Pacquiao

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LONDON, ApRiL 30 (REutERs): Chelsea have been accused of being boring but they will not mind one bit if they beat Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge on Sunday to win the Premier League title for the first time in five years. Jose Mourinho's side were jeered by Arsenal fans during last weekend's 0-0 draw after a season in which they have been devastatingly effective but occasionally short on sparkle. A 3-1 win against Leicester City on Wednesday, however, means the London club are three points away from a first league title since Carlo Ancelotti led them to the double in 2010. With a 13-point lead at the top, Mourinho is within touching distance of a third league championship at Stamford Bridge after back-to-back triumphs in 2005 and 2006 during his first stint in charge. And with the champagne on ice, the Portuguese coach is not worried about what people are saying about his team. "I know what I feel in relation to my work in the past two years, I don't need other people to recognise what we are," he told Sky Sports. "I know exactly what we are. We are what every team would like to be."

fight money is the big thing Tim Dahlberg

AP Boxing Writer

Leicester's Leonardo Ulloa, left, contest the ball with Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic during the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Chelsea at the King Power Stadium, Leicester, England, Wednesday, April 29. (AP Photo)

Arsenal, in third, remain the only side who can mathematically catch the leaders, having five games left to play to Chelsea's four. Arsene Wenger's team, who face a resurgent Hull City on Monday, are level on 67 points with last season's champions and second place Manchester City, who have played a game extra and travel to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. Fourthplaced Manchester United have suffered two defeats in a row but they host West

Bromwich Albion on Saturday hoping to cement their Champions League qualification bid. United's cause has been helped by fifth-placed Liverpool going off the boil and Tuesday's 1-0 defeat against Hull left Brendan Rodgers's side seven-points adrift of their north west rivals. Queens Park Rangers are the visitors to Anfield on Saturday and the 19thplaced side are in desperate need of a victory, although three points against Liv-

erpool would still not be enough to lift them out of the relegation zone. Seventeenth-placed Leicester, one point above 18thplaced Sunderland who host Southampton at the Stadium of Light, can condemn Newcastle United to an eighth straight league defeat on Saturday. Bottom club Burnley, five points behind Leicester, face West Ham United at Upton Park on Saturday having won one of their previous 13 league fixtures.

Real beats Almeria to stay 2 points behind Barca

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BARCELONA, ApRiL 30 (Ap): James Rodriguez scored a stunning goal to lead Real Madrid to a 3-0 win over Almeria on Wednesday that kept his side two points behind leader Barcelona in the final stretch of the Spanish league title race. Rodriguez snapped Madrid out of its lethargic first-half performance by volleying home a longrange strike seconds before the break at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Almeria defender Mauro Dos Santos deflected a pass meant for Cristiano Ronaldo into his own goal in the 49th, and defender Alvaro Arbeloa sealed the win from Javier Hernandez's pass six minutes from time. With four rounds left, Madrid next faces a tough visit at Sevilla on Saturday, while Barcelona plays at last-place Cordoba. Then both title rivals will turn to first-leg semifinals in the Champions League when Madrid visits Juventus and Barcelona hosts Bayern Munich next week. "We are now in a very important period of the season, and each game is important," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. "I will field the best lineup I can at Sevilla, even though we will then play at Juventus because it will be the match that matters the most." Sevilla extended its undefeated streak to 10 rounds after Carlos Bacca and Jose Antonio Reyes shone in its 3-1 win at Eibar on Wednesday. An audacious solo effort by Fernando Torres' gave Atletico Madrid a 1-0 win at Villarreal as the soon-to-be dethroned titleholders kept their hold on third place. Celta Vigo needed Manuel "Nolito" Agudo's 89th-minute winner to edge Malaga 1-0 at home, while Elche's fans enjoyed a convincing 4-0 victory over struggling Deportivo La Coruna. Playing without the injured Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Luka Modric, Ancelotti said that Bale may return to training on Thursday and he hopes Benzema will be ready for Juventus. Madrid looked set to take the stalemate into halftime when Rodriguez rushed forward to pounce on a clearance that fell outside the area and smashed a blistering strike over goal-

is middle name is Money, or at least it used to be before Floyd Mayweather Jr. stopped flashing $100,000 wads of cash every time he saw a camera. That doesn't mean money is ever very far from his mind. Certainly not now, when he's the richest man in the richest fight ever. Mayweather has spent as much time this week talking about the mansion in Las Vegas, the home in Miami and the private jet that seats 14 than he has about Manny Pacquiao. He even figured out the math when it comes to dividing it up among his kids. "Let's say I make $200 million," Mayweather said. "That means my kids for this fight will get $50 million apiece. I think I made a smart move." Indeed, Mayweather proved a smart businessman in signing for a fight that will likely earn him $180 million or more. But the smartest thing he may have done was delay the fight five years so it would be must-see TV, even at a record price of $99.95. "Five years ago this was a $50 million fight for me," Mayweather said, "and a $20 million fight for him." The frenzy for the boxing's biggest event of the century continued to build Wednesday, even if the two fighters themselves were very subdued. They appeared at a final prefight press conference with nothing bad to say about

Boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, and Manny Pacquiao pose with a WBC belt during a press conference Wednesday, April 29, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo)

each other, and couldn't even bring themselves to scowl for pictures. If the past five years were personal, with the two camps trading barbs, the fight itself is not. Pacquiao will be fighting for his legacy and a country desperate for him to win, while Mayweather will be fighting to add to his already substantial bank accounts. That was apparent when Mayweather was asked if being undefeated was the biggest motivation for him. "At the end of the day my daughter can't eat no zero," Mayweather said of his unbeaten mark. "She can't spend a boxing ring." Money shouldn't be a problem for the Mayweather family after this fight. Not with total revenue of some $300 millionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and possibly more if the pay-per-view is the hit that network executives privately think it will be. Mayweather won't be

the only one getting rich. Pacquiao will also share in the $120 million or so his side will pocket for the fight, beginning with a $25 million check from promoter Bob Arum the night of the fight. Pacquiao said he couldn't even conceive of the kind of money he makes now to fight. "I used to sleep in the street starving and hungry," the Filipino congressman said. "I can't imagine the boy who slept in the streets was raised to this level where I am today." Both fighters finished their major preparation earlier in the week, with both facing challenges unlike they have seen before. In Mayweather's case it's a southpaw who fights in spurts and comes from different angles, a style he will have to figure out early in the fight. For Pacquiao, it's a defensive wizard who has fought 47 fighters and

beaten every one of them. "I think we can outpoint this guy," trainer Freddie Roach said. "If a knockout comes it will be a bonus." Mayweather has been rather quiet about his strategy, preferring instead to talk about how he became the highest paid athlete in the world or promoting his websites. But he said his father, Floyd Sr., has crafted a game plan that will help him remain unbeaten after 19 years in the sport. He said critics of the way he fights don't really understand boxing, and that he doesn't need to be great defensively to beat Pacquiao. "I'm pretty sure it's going to be a very exciting fight," Mayweather said. "But sometimes I shut guys out and they call it a split decision or majority decision. My hands are always tied behind my back. The standards are always set higher for me."

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Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo kicks the ball after a team mate scored a goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Almeria at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, April 29. (AP Photo)

keeper Ruben Martinez. It was the Colombia midfielder's 16th goal in his first season with the defending European champions. Madrid's dip in form

early this year that cost it the league lead to Barcelona came when Rodriguez was sidelined with a fractured right foot. Without him, Ancelotti's team had

four wins, one draw and four losses. Since his return, it has won seven games and drawn one, with Rodriguez scoring four times in the last five rounds.

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