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Vehicle involved in April 30 hit and run seized DImapur, may 3 (mExN): Dimapur Traffic Police have seized the vehicle involved in the hit and run incident of April 30, where three people were killed. A press note from the PRO, Dimapur Police informed that the vehicle is a Tata Mobile, which was found abandoned by the driver in a paddy field near the Chathe River. The driver is still absconding and police informed that necessary enquiry and investigations are on.

Hearing on fuel adulteration continues DImapur, may 3 (mExN): The first examination in chief and cross examination of complainants by the defense council in connection with the fuel adulteration case of June 2016 was held on Wednesday, May 3 at the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Dimapur. Two complainants testified before the court and Public Prosecutor (PP) Hutoi Yeptho said today’s hearing was in connection to the case filed at West Police Station Dimapur. Five of the six accused persons were present at the hearing. Considering the nature of the case and 42 witnesses yet to be testified, the PP said “the case may go continue till next year.” He said it cannot be predicted if the case will come to a conclusion by this year though some issues have been disclosed by the complainants and had materialized in today’s hearing. The next hearing is fixed for May 25 where three witnesses— one police and two seizure witnesses—will testify before the court of CJM, the PP informed.

NBSE Class 10 and 12 results on May 8

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DImapur, may 3 (mExN): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) today informed that results for the HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2017 will be declared on May 8 afternoon. The results will be made available at www.nbsenagaland.com, www.exametc. com, www.indiaresults. com and www.examresults.net. The results can also be checked through SMS. For HSLC (Class 10) Examination 2017, text NB10<space>ROLL NUMBER to 54242. For HSSLC (Class 12) Examination 2017, text NB12<space>ROLL NUMBER to 54242. In printed form, the provisional Result Gazettes will be issued to all the registered institutions of the Board. The results will also be available on the notice board of the office. The NBSE has meanwhile informed the heads of registered institutions to collect the mark sheets and other documents from the afternoon of May 8 to 10. If the head of institution cannot come, duly authorized persons should be deputed to collect the same, it added.

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Clean Election Campaign is apolitical: NBCC Says campaign will not be used to oppose any particular politician or party Chizokho Vero Kohima | May 3

Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) General Secretary, Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho today said that clean election movement is an apolitical campaign.

“NBCC as a church body is neither a political party nor is influenced by any political agenda within or without. The movement is not against or for any political party,” he said at the state level seminar on Clean Election here.

It is also not against politicians, not to pull them down or to raise them up, he said, adding that the movement is aimed at doing at “what is right and what is meant to be.”

It is a movement against the system that has gone weary, Keyho stated. The Church, he added, will not point fingers to any individual or party but will educate/speak against the corrupt system of election in our state and appealed to the conscience of the public to use their “God given birthright without monetary or any other means of

Participants of the State Level Seminar on Clean Election organized by the NBCC in Kohima on May 3.

(Morung Photo)

influence to overrule God given wisdom and conscience to distinguish what is right and what is wrong.”

The NBCC General Secretary also stated that the Church, being a religious institution, must remain that way without influence or setting any political agenda, or be influenced by the political agenda of any political party.

“Clean election campaign

should not make us a mute angel to accept whatever comes our way namely, political ideologies with vested interest to entice us to compromise our Christian faith and beliefs. This may be construed as a political statement of the NBCC but we must underline that the church must always stand against any element that seeks to infringe on our faith with religious ideologies in the name of politics or

political party,” he said.

“To this we will always be on guard and be vocal to speak against such design and this should not be construed as going against the CEC code of conduct,” he added.

He continued that Clean Election Campaign is not a movement that came into being with any instigation from without but is a movement that originated from within.

“NBCC is clear that she has taken up herself CEC as her spiritual responsibility to be prophetic and stand against any form of evil and corrupt practices so that holiness is not only talk in the church but lived in the public square in spirit and in deeds. It is a holy discontent movement, a movement that says something is not right with us as a Christian majority society like ours. That, cleaning any system that is corrupt is the responsibility of the believing community based on our faith, the teaching of the Bible that has taught us to distinguish what is right and what is wrong,” he said.

Keyho also placed before the House to initiate a disciplinary committee who will biblically, theologically, an ethnically empower the church to execute action that is suitable to those who violate the CEC “code of conduct” initiated by NBCC. He also informed that the Clean Election Campaign shall not be used to oppose any particular politician.

“The church cannot define

who should and who should not contest in election,” he said, adding that the clean election campaign is not a license for a community/village to select a particular candidate over the other. Rather, it is to allow individuals to vote freely based on his/her conscience without any influence from anybody, be it politician /village authority and any other.

Calling for the Clean Election Campaign to become a people/mass movement, Keyho also proposed to the House that it write to the Election Commission of the state to judiciously work hard on cleansing the electoral roll in Nagaland.

NBCC President, Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger, who is Convenor of theClean Election Campaign stressed on the need to come us a group from different disciplines and move in one direction, which he said will give momentum in the approach of clean election in the state.

He called upon each and every individual to dive deeper in the Clean Election Campaign.

Nagas have every right to determine Electricity crisis plagues Meluri Town their own future, reaffirms NSCN (R) Morung Express News

DImapur , may 3 (mExN): The NSCN (R) today reaffirmed that Nagas “have every right to determine their own future” and have a “very strong basis for demanding their right to self determination.”

A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (R) however questioned why it is taking so long to resolve the Naga issue.

“Is it because of the reluctant attitude of the GoI or is it because we have failed to put our case at the right perspective?” it asked.

It lamented that Nagas are “speaking in different tune and tone.” All Nagas count, the NSCN (R) stated, and called upon all Naga leaders that “every step we take must be as per Christ.” While acknowledging that “cent percent people cannot be

brought on board to accept or reject, partially or wholly on any issue,” it however stated that “majority of the people must agree and accept.”

“In recent past, we have seen many critics in groups and in person, who were very critical on the likely solution,” it pointed out. The NSCN (R) however termed it a “common phenomenon for when a man in the form of Christ was also rebuked by the man of this world whom he came to save, this much of criticism is acceptable.”

“It is also true that, the Naga leaders used their wisdom and chose what was right for them at the time when Nagaland state was created as they were under tremendous pressure or there were serious humanitarian crisis but, it is also equally

true that acceptance of Nagaland state as a 16th State of the Indian Union, was the first nail in the Naga coffin. Let us not allow our prejudices to become another nail against the long cherished desire of the Naga people for self determination,” the NSCN (R) said.

It meanwhile cautioned that if the Naga people fail to raise their concern in unison “we must consider that it is a lost battle we are fighting.”

The Naga people, it advised, “need to think seriously as we Nagas cannot waste our time and energy for eternity.” The NSCN (R) encouraged that all Nagas must “strive and think what we can do for the sake and cause of the Nagas and not, what we can take or make for ourselves from the Naga cause.”

Govt of India ‘creating chasm and fomenting division,’ says NSCN (K) DImapur, may 3 (mExN): The NSCN (K) has accused the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of the Government of India (GoI) of “creating chasms” between Naga national workers and the Naga public.

In the wake of the NIA arresting three Nagaland State Government officials for ‘providing funds’ to the NSCN (K), an outfit that is ‘banned’ by the GoI, the Naga armed group has questioned the alleged “anti-Naga and anti-people” policies and actions of the NIA. On the other hand, it observed, the GoI has not taken up a single case of corruption, rampant in “every public establishment,” for investigation despite public outcry against it.

It is a “conspiracy,” of the GoI, it claimed, to “foment divisions” and “create several criminal gangs” that torment the “economically challenged state of affairs.”

“Arresting of several state government officials by NIA for alleged nexus with NSCN is but a desperate attempt to veil off its frustration and failure to stem the Naga struggle and to coerce the patriotic and freedom loving Nagas to abstain

from performing one’s obligation towards national cause,” the NSCN (K) stated in a press release from its MIP today.

In the same breath, the NSCN (K) warned that it will “not tolerate any departmental authorities collaborating with NIA.” It will thus take “punitive action” against “conniving traitor officials individually,” a consequence for which the NIA will be held accountable, it maintained.

Taxation The NSCN (K) press release today affirmed that taxation is a “conscious political exercise of the Naga people that legitimises the mandated national aspiration for sovereign independence.”

“The common Nagas are ever supportive and finds common ground with NSCN/ GPRN’s self-governing mechanism of taxes, donations, stipulations etc,” noted the NSCN (K). “Taxation always formed an integral part of Naga selfgovernance.”

Thus, the NSCN (K) will continue levying “reasonable and affordable” taxes which, it stated, the people had been “willingly subscribing to not

only for the sustenance of our national struggle but in preservation of the inherent rights to self-govern and self-determine our destiny as practised for centuries by our forefathers in an independent sovereign village republics.”

Alien authority The GoI, it alleged, has created and sponsored “several anti-Naga factions” to “combat” the NSCN (K) and “mislead” the Naga people, thus “discrediting the genuine people’s mandated struggle.”

Urging Nagas to “rise against an alien authority persecuting the upright Naga public servants while massive corruption in public offices remains unchecked and criminals roams scot free,” the armed group asked the Naga people to “seriously ponder over the free reign and patronage being accorded to certain group by NIA and GOI to publicly enforce exaction of 12% taxes on State’s public servants when it is an open fact that the group has acceded to the condition ‘acceptance of Indian constitution’ as repeatedly affirmed by top Indian political leaders.”

Kohima | May 3

For almost a month now, residents of Meluri Town have spent their night in total darkness after the town’s transformer broke down last month. However, for the sprouting town of 5191 people, with 1154 households, the electricity crisis is nothing new.

“Time and again, the electricity goes off. It has become very frequent. We are so used to it that we have even stopped demanding,” said C Nyuthe, a resident of Meluri town who mentioned that this crisis has been going on for more than three years now. Further, the resident added that the Power Depart-

ment has not replaced the transformer despite repeated demands, but instead keeps repairing the old one. The consumption is beyond the capacity of the transformer.

“It’s nothing new for the residents. Every year, for at least two months (once in summer and once in winter) Meluri town spends it in darkness,” stated a government administrator, mentioning that the transformer allotted to the town has very less capacity and that due to the rapid expansion of the urban area, the problem will continue until they install a new transformer with higher capacity.

An official source has informed that the transformer ca-

pacity is only 500 kVA for the expanding town and will require another 250 kVA. Further, in order to repair the transformer, it has to be transported to Dimapur which takes days to fix.

The Power Department has connected the power line of the public institutions such as the hospitals, banks and administrative offices to the Meluri village power line, which has a different transformer. However for the residents, most of them go to the village to charge their phones and other electrical appliances. “We have to go to the village to charge our phones, invertors. All our demands are falling on deaf ears,” lamented another resident.

Students and teachers suffer due to non-completion of RMSA classrooms Morung Express News Kohima | May 3

Despite being upgraded in 2012 under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) mission, students and teachers of the New Market Middle School Kohima continue to face inconvenience due to the delay in the construction of the upgraded school.

A report published last year in February in The Morung Express, mentioned about the delay in construction and non-deployment of teachers. Immediately, constructions began. However it has been put to halt, compelling the students and teachers to conduct classes in makeshift rooms provided by the ward Panchayat.

“The environment of the (temporary) classrooms is not good for the students,” said one of the RMSA teachers, who mentioned that due to the lack of classrooms, the school sought the help of the ward where classes are currently being held at the New Market Panchayat hall and the ward Youth Building.

After the upgradation of the school to Class 9 and 10, the 10th class did not begin due to the lack of teachers and classrooms. However this year, the school has begun its first batch of Class 10, where 20 students have enrolled. Further 67 students have been enrolled in Class 9 this year.

The school being one of the oldest schools in Kohima town, has an enrollment of 414 students from Class A to Class 10 out of which over 80 students are left without any

Students of New Market Middle School Kohima attending their classes in makeshift rooms. (Morung Photo)

classrooms.

“Because we cannot teach in one proper location, controlling the students becomes a problem. The Class 7, 6 and 10 are staying in the makeshift classrooms,” mentioned another teacher who informed that the School had approached the RMSA several times since last year but no action has been taken till date.

Members of the School Management Committee (SMC) New Market also informed that they met the RMSA Mission Director where the Director is said to have mentioned that the money had already been released since last year for the construction of upgraded classrooms.

Further assurance was given to pressure the Contractors in charge to expedite the building constructions.

“The RMSA assured that they will talk to the Contractors to complete the constructions but till now, there is no construction taking place,” said a member of the SMC. “Sometimes fund concern is there but as far as we know, the fund

had already been released last year. I don’t know what is their problem for delaying the constructions,” stated another teacher.

Six RMSA teachers were deputed in the school last year. Besides the problem of non-payment of salaries for six months, the teachers too have to adjust in the computer room of the middle school. Further, teaching aides and other equipments for the Science lab has not been provided. “We find it difficult to teach without the aides especially while teaching math,” lamented another teacher.

“The whole school is affected because of the non completion of school. We are not blaming anyone but whoever is responsible must own up. They must perform their duty on time,” expressed an SMC member.

While the construction of the classrooms are on the verge of completion, drainage, toilet and water tank constructions have not even started.

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Opportunities and challenges in foreign trade Two books authored by Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo released

Dimapur, may 3 (Dipr): Seminar on opportunities and challenges in foreign trade was held on May 3 at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur under the aegis of Confederation of Indian Industry.

Parliamentary Secretary, Higher & Technical Education Nagaland, Deo Nukhu graced the inaugural session as the chief guest.

He urged upon the entrepreneurs and traders to focus on the challenges of export and import for development of Nagaland State and the North East by making quality local products which can compete with others on a global level.

Towards this, he requested the concerned departments and agencies to find global markets for export of such products. While informing that the policy of Government was to connect India to Thailand via Myanmar with international highway and better air connec-

Deo Nukhu addressing the seminar on opportunities and challenges in foreign trade held at Hotel Acacia Dimapur on May 3. (DIPR Photo)

tivity, Deo Nukhu felt that the far away for potential entreprospect of growing the volume preneurs and traders. Terming of trade and commerce was not the ongoing seminar as an eye

opener, Deo was hopeful that it would create an interface with key stakeholder for general awareness on the issues which could provide the much needed impetus towards the growth of international trade, particularly in the South East Region.

Commissioner and Secretary, Vety & Animal Husbandry Government of Nagaland, M.K. Mero who also addressed the gathering observed that N.E has plenty of fertile soil for cultivation of various agri and horti products and felt the need for focus in these areas with proper cold storage.

General Manager Export Import Bank of India, Deepali Agarwal delivered the key note address while member, CII and Managing Director, Clairvoyance Technology, Neisakholie gave the welcome note. Regional Head EXIM Bank, Anirudha Barooah proposed the vote of thanks.

Our Correspondent Kohima | May 3

Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) president Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger today released two books authored

by Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo here.

The books included ‘A Journey of Nagaland into the next millennium: An evaluative study with a prophetic recommendation’ and ‘Salvation beyond religion.’

A book on “A Journey of Nagaland into the next millennium” brings a panoramic and a comprehensive view of the Nagas from their genesis till date.

Looking the roads ahead, the author incites Nagaland to prepare for challenges as scientific and modern age, and as a part of global community.

Some useful recommendations are furnished to both the church and state toward restoration of Naga values and for

Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) president Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger releases books authored by Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo in Kohima on May 3. (Morung Photo)

a united effort toward a better Nagaland as a common goal.

Towards survival and success, an executive summary under 12 points is humbly proposed for favor of consideration

by Nagaland. “It is the time for youth to continue the legacy of the past and strive hard to inherit the earth only by a life worthy of the biblical principle,

hard work, and having a selfidentity in the Creator,” stated author Rev. Dr. Dozo.

The author expects the readers of this book to act as a volunteer to redeem, heal, and restore the beauty and value of Nagaland without waiting for another person to act as “we continue a journey towards the next generation.”

Street play on ‘Smoke Free Dimapur’ Students attend wildlife protection programme at Tsiepama

Students of Government Higher Secondary School, Dimapur enacting a short play on harmful effects of tobacco at DC office complex, Dimapur on Wednesday. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | May 3

The Dimapur District Tobacco Control Team under the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) on Wednesday organized street plays at various locations in the town under the theme, “Smoke Free Dimapur.

Enacted by the students of Government Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, the short

play at the premises of DC Office Complex, sought to put across the message on the harmful effects of smoking on the smoker, his surroundings and the society.

Through the play, the actors presented a message that smoking in public places such as government offices, eateries, bus stations, parks etc was an offence.

Prior to the enactment of the play, SDO (C), Dimapur, James Swu urged upon the

youngsters to be ambassadors of making the society, tobacco free. He urged the audience to not merely watch the play and forget about it but to carry the message of the skit and sensitize people in their areas of influence about the harmful effects of tobacco.

Later, the NTCP, Dimapur team also staged plays at Railway Station and NST Bus Station, Dimapur.

Dimapur, may 3 (mexN): The Wildlife Division, Dimapur conducted an awareness programme on wildlife protection at Tsiepama village on May 3 on the theme, ‘one by one until there are none.’ The awareness programme is part of Wildlife Division’s continuous campaign, “maximum awareness with effective enforcement”, with the objective to instill in young minds, “the importance of Wildlife at an early age”, to solicit the support and cooperation of the public in protection of wildlife and to optimize their participation and involvement in effectively curbing the wildlife crime.

The officials of the department appealed to the participants to be informed, be a custodian and contribute towards protection of wildlife from the threat of extinction. Lamenting that despite dedicated efforts of NGOs, government officials and agencies, the future of many wildlife could not be secured and that it is not possible to reverse the gear of time and

Student participant with the Wildlife Division, Dimapur officials during the an awareness programme on wildlife protection held at Tsiepama village on May 3.

undo what has been done. But sincere efforts should be made by all towards securing the future of what we have now.

The officials also explained the implication of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and other similar Acts of the State govern-

ment and stated that Wildlife Crime is as serious as any other crimes and violation would amount to stringent action under WL(P) Acts.

The representatives of the village assured of fullest cooperation to the department in

Neingupe Marhu honoured on Labour Day

CREATIVE CRAFTS USING DAILY WASTE MATERIALS: Inspired by craft videos he had seen on YouTube and combining those with traditional weaving methods, Sashi Walling, a resident of Lengrijan Colony Dimapur has come up with imaginative and creative ways to recycle old calendars and newspapers. In two months, he has handmade table centerpieces, shelf, baskets, spoon stand, flower vase, table coasters etc.

(Morung Photo)

phek, may 3 (mexN): Neingupe Marhu, the traffic cop who collects trash and helps the society in and around Pfutsero town was felicitated by the Phek District Legal Service Authority (PDLSA) at Pfutsero ADC office on the occasion of International Labour Day, May 1.

The Phek district session judge, Longshi gave away the certificate and cash award to motivate him and let him continue his work. Neingupe Marhu says that he is happy with what he is doing and he will continue to serve the society.

On May 2, at the inaugural service of the PTSA Inter ward football tournament, (Pfutsero Town Sports Association), the MLA Neiba Kronu acknowledged Neingupe Marhu for his selfless contribution to the society.

Kalos society Pfutsero town Director Kupelhi Losou in a press release informed that Neiba Kronu donated rupees 30000 toMarhu (left) receives certificate wards his mission and encouraged him to Neingupe and cash award from the Phek District carry on the good work. session judge.

Kohima Science College awarded A Grade with 3.42 CGPA by NAAC

A cultural troupe performs at Ungma village on the last day of Moatsü festival organised by the Kosasanger Putu Menden with Temjen Toy, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary & Finance Commissioner, Government of Nagaland as the special guest. (Photo Courtesy/Sashi Jamir)

New team inducted to Sumi Hoho office ZuNheboto, may 3 (mexN): The Sumi Hoho office bearers handing and taking over of office programme was held at Sumi Hoho Ki, Zunheboto on May 2. The Programme was chaired by Vihoshe Muru, Vice President. The programme started with a prayer of blessing

by Vikali, Assistant Pastor, Sumi Baptist Church Zunheboto.

Short speeches were delivered by Toniho Yepthomi, President (outgoing), Vihuto Asumi, General Secretary (outgoing), Ghokhevi Chophi, Finance Secretary (outgoing) and Kakuto Chishi, Secretary (outgoing) exhorting and encouraging the newly elected officials.

Officials of Sumi Hoho during the handing and taking over of office programme held at Sumi Hoho Ki, Zunheboto on May 2.

After handing and taking over of office formalities were done, short speeches were delivered by Hekhushe Shikhu and Nikheto Jimomi, the newly elected president and general secretary.

A press note stated that the

outgoing officials reassured their cooperation to the newly elected officials and for which, the newly elected officials expressed their gratitude. The programme ended with a mass spoken prayer.

kohima, may 3 (Dipr): In the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, held on May 2, Kohima Science College, Jotsoma (KSCJ), was awarded A grade with 3.42 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). The CGPA is as per the revised grading system which took effect from July 1, 2016.

Since then, 1235 colleges have been assessed by NAAC all over India. Out of these, 343 colleges have been graded A or above with 302 colleges in A, 39 colleges in A+, and 2 colleges in A++ Grade. As per the present list issued by NAAC, Kohima Science College, Jotsoma, stands at 46th rank in the entire country which falls within the top 4% colleges of India. Further it may be mentioned that at present KSCJ stands 6th in the whole Eastern and North-Eastern region of India and 3rd in the North-East after Cotton College, Guwahati, and Pachhunga University College, Aizawl.

According to the revised grading system of NAAC, a college obtaining CGPA of 3.013.50 is graded A, 3.51-3.75 is graded A+ and 3.76-4.00 is graded A++. Those colleges obtaining below 3 points are graded B++, B+, B, C or D. The NAAC Peer Team visited the college during 11-12 April 2017. The Peer Team consisted of Prof. Mohammad Raziuddin from Jharkhand, Dr. K. N. Guruprasad from Madhya Pradesh, and Dr. Gourang Chandra Mohanty from Orissa.

effectively tackling the wildlife crimes. As part of awareness programme, drawing competition was held where 23 students participated in three category of sub-junior, junior and senior and winners were given prize.

Butchers directed to slaughter animals from DMC modern abattoir Dimapur, may 3 (mexN): All butchers along National Highway-29 are informed to slaughter all animals from DMC modern abattoir, old Khatkati Road, Burma Camp, Dimapur. The DMC has established a unit of Modern Slaughter Houses for cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats and pigs.

DC Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome, IAS informed in a press release that in this regard, the Supreme Court and MOFPI has also given directive to centralize slaughter of all food animals and implement the Slaughter House Act and prevention of cruelty to animals as mandatory.

Therefore, all butchers operating along the NH-29 are directed to bring their animals to the authorized Modern Slaughter Houses in order to conduct proper ante-mortem and post mortem inspection of the livestock and meat for safe healthy and hygienic meat for human consumption.

“This order is for strict compliance and comes into immediate effect,” the DC added.

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Mizoram HSLC topper caught Tripartite-talks with UNC likely next week unaware giving friend haircut Newmai News Network

Guwahati, May 3 (ht): The results of the Mizoram High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) or Class 10 exam did not throw up any surprises. The outcome, though, caught the topper unawares.

The 2017 HSLC results, declared on Tuesday, registered an “expected” pass percentage of 72.17 – a marginal increase from the 71.17% last year.

Laldintluanga, a student of Mariana High School in eastern Mizoram’s Serchhip town, topped the exam with 474 out of 500 marks. A farmer’s son, he did what few before him had done – break the monopoly of Aizawl schools on top.

But the 16-year-old had no idea of having “exceeded the expectations” of his teachers and friends.

He was pursuing his passion – experimenting with his friend’s hair with an electric trimmer – when neighbours broke the news.

It took Laldintluanga some time for the news to sink in.

“I have never really giv-

Senapati | May 3

Laldintluanga, a student of Mariana High School in eastern Mizoram’s Serchhip town, topped the exam with 474 out of 500 marks.(HT photo)

en my career a thought,” he said, appearing more focused on hair-styling.

Laldintluanga scored letter (minimum 80 out of 100) marks in all the subjects – English, mathematics, science, social science and Mizo.

Akash Jyoti Sahoo of St Paul’s HS School in state capital Aizawl was second with 473 marks and Janam Supriya, also from an Aiza-

LOST NOTICE

NAGA ENTREPRENEURS APPRECIATES We, the Naga Entrepreneurs of Supermarket, Dimapur appreciates the officials of UT-1 I-M for settling the issue regarding the press release dated 26th April 20167 issue by BAN. Further we would like to thank our association, BAN for intervening and helping us promptly.

Thereafter, no further case will be pursued by both parties.

ICAR – NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON MITHUN

Medziphema, Dimapur-797106, Nagaland (India)

Date: 03.05.2017

Engagement of Light Vehicle on Annual Rate Contract Basis

The Director, ICAR- National Research Centre on Mithun, Medziphema, Nagaland invites sealed quotation/bid for hiring a vehicle (Preferably Bolero/Scorpio or any similar types of vehicles), for a period of 12 months from the date of the engagement. Interested agencies may download the Format, Terms & Conditions and other relevant documents from the official website www.nrcmithun.res.in .

The last date of receipt of tender is 02.06.2017 upto 2:30 PM. Administrative Officer, For Director

Eden Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur Churches Colony, Near City Tower ADMISSION NOTICE

 Admission forms for class-XI (Arts) are being issued at the School Office during office hour.

Subjects offered: 1. English 2. Alternative English 3. Lotha 4. History

5. Political Science 6. Sociology 7. Economics

Admission will be given on first come first served basis.

Vacancy: Science teacher – 1 post Qualification: B. Sc Interested candidates can submit handwritten application along with Xerox copy of academic documents to Principal’s Office on or before 5th May 2017.

Principal

AFFIDAVIT Regd. No 44

in the state achieved 100% success but on the flip side, all the students of 26 schools failed,” an officer of Mizoram Board of School Education said, seeking anonymity.

This year’s Class 10 exam saw more girl candidates (7,683) than boys (6,945).

Date 02/05/2017

Change/Rectification of Self, father’s names & DoB I, Smti Ami Tϋnyi D/o Shri Zϋhϋto Tϋnyi resident of Midland colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my previous name was Aloni Chishi, my father’s previous name was Akhavi Chishi and my correct date of birth is 15.05.2009 (15th May 2009), however, I have been renamed as Ami Tϋnyi and my father’s name has renamed as Zϋhϋto Tϋnyi and in my birth certificate my date of birth has been inadvertently recorded as 15.05.2009.

3. That henceforth I herewith declares that my official that my official name will be Ami Tϋnyi daughter of Zϋhϋto Tϋnyi born on 15.05.2009 (15th May 2009) by completely renouncing and abandoning the above given names and date of birth and the same will be use for all official and references.

4. That the above statement made are true to the best of my knowledge and no material facts has been concealed herein and I signed this affidavit before the competent authority on 2nd May 2017 at Kohima, Nagaland.

DEPONENT Sworn before me by the deponent on 2nd May 2017 Magistrate/DC Office Kohima

Regd. No. 142 I, Smti. Lamnem d/o Shri. Lt. Gautalak of Jalukie, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the name Lamnem and Lamnem Zeliang refers to one and the same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is LAMNEM and shall be used for all official purpose in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No. 172 I, Smti. Deisuale Nriame d/o Shri. Namrangbe resident of New Beisumpui, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the name Deisuale Nriame and Deisole Nriame refers to one and the same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is Deisuale Nriame and shall be used for all official purpose in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

AFFIDAVIT Regd. No: 276

Date: 03/05/2017

I, Nungshi Toshi S/o I Yapang Longkumer, resident of House No- 247, United Colony, Nagarjan, DimapurNagaland, hereby declare that I was previously called N. Toshi S/o Imna Yapang.

From hereafter I will be called and known by name Nungshi Toshi and my father’s name as I. Yapang Longkumer in all official records and correspondence.

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Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

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Paurambe of Heningkunglwa village, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the name Ilampeung and Ilampeung Iralu refers to one and the same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is Ilampeung and shall be used for all official purpose in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

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Regd. No. 159 I, Smti. Iluzule d/o Shri. Dising Hau of Jalukie Town, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the name Iluzule and Iluzule Hau refers to one and the same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is ILUZULE and shall be used for all official purpose in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

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sue whatever it is,” Kamei asserted adding, “We are not going to compromise our position.”

Meanwhile, a separate source said that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is likely to intimate the Manipur Government and the United Naga Council pertaining to the next tripartite talks by Thursday.

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AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No. 168 I, Shri. K. Gaidinlung Roingmai s/o Shri. K. Gaihiamlung of Samziuram village, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the name K.Gaidinlung Roingmai and K.Gaidinlung refers to one and the same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is K.GAIDINLUNG ROINGMAI and shall be used for all official purpose in the future.

Deponent 1st Class Magistrate

to the four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and assurances, “we have no choice but to initiate necessary movement to defend our rights and lands”, Kamei cautioned.

“Our position is clear on the issue. The Government must honour the four MoUs and the assurance to the Nagas on the is-

We are honoured to announce that THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC) has, in the first cycle, accredited Model Christian College, with a B++ grade and a 2.77 grade-point. Model Christian College is grateful to all the Stakeholders (Teaching Staff, Non-Teaching Staff, Students, Parents/Guardians, Alumni and Prominent Citizens) and well-wishers associated with the College directly or indirectly

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I, Shri. Osanglemba B. Pongen am applying for a duplicate copy of my B. Com, 4th Semester Admit Card (Hounours) as I have lost it on 5th April 2017 from B.O.C. area, Kohima. The Admit Card bears Roll No: CH15070473 and Regd. No: 15070116 of 2015

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wl school, was third with 469 marks.

Poor connectivity was one of the reasons why students beyond Aizawl could not access their results in time. There were log-in issues too.

State education officials expressed satisfaction with the overall performance of 14,628 students who appeared for the Class 10 exam.

“This time, 73 schools

The tripartite talks on the district creation issue involving the United Naga Council (UNC), the State Government of Manipur and the Central Government are likely to be held early next week.

Sources informed Newmai News Network this evening that the “exact date” for the talks will be fixed in a day or two.

In the last tripartite talk on March 19 in Senapati it was agreed upon that the “next round of tripartite talks will be resumed within a month’s time at political level”.

The one month’s time had lapsed on April 19.

Meanwhile, UNC President Gaidon Kamei said the council was "closely observing" whether the Biren Singh Government has wavered from its earlier position. "Let us hope that the Manipur Government does not indulge in double-talks while dealing with the is-

sue," Kamei stated.

During the March 19 tripartite talk, “grievances of UNC that led to the imposition of economic blockade were recognised as non-adherence to the four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and the Government of India’ assurance on the matter”.

In that talk, “the Manipur government agreed to start consultation with all stakeholders to redress the same”. Following this, the UNC lifted the four and a half month long economic blockade on the National Highways linking Manipur from the midnight of March 19.

In the event of the failure from the part of the Manipur Government to keep its commitment to adhere

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2. Direct Admission through oral interview for students scoring 55% and above.

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6. For further information, please contact school office 0369-2226319 Sd/- S.K. Maiti Principal, J. M. School

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• Written test in Science & Maths for Science Stream and Eng & SS for Arts Stream (40% - 54%).

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IN GRATITUDE

The Principal, Staff and students of Kohima Science College, Jotsoma would like to convey our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all our well-wishers and stakeholders who supported us in various ways in our times of difficulty that arose due to the burning down of the laboratories of the departments of Physics and Chemistry. Your help and moral support has not only helped us tide over this immense loss in many ways but has also given us a strengthened resolve to continue to give our best in our endeavour as an educational institution.

An educational institution in inextricably interwoven with the society and it is on this line we remind you that your varied contributions to us will invariably go towards the students of the State even in ways unseen. May God’s bountiful blessings be on all of you!

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LPU confers Honoris Causa degree upon President JALANDHAR, MAy 3 (AgeNcies): Lovely Professional University stood tall and proud when it conferred its honoris causa doctorate degree upon President of India Padma Vibhushan Pranab Mukherjee at its 8th annual convocation held today.

It was indeed a rare occasion for any of the universities when first citizen of the country acknowledged its honoris causa doctorate degree. It is 7th such a bestowing, and prior to this six great leaders of the world including Presidents and Prime Ministers of Afghanistan, Mauritius, Kingdom of Lesotho, Commonwealth of Dominica, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatsosix have also been recipients of honoris causa doctorate degrees of LPU. On this occasion, President Mukherjee also bestowed PhD Degrees, 38 gold medals and 164 Awards upon meritorious LPU students. Governor of Punjab

Chancellor LPU Ashok MIttal conferring Honorary Causa degree to President of India.

VP Singh Badnore presided over the convocation.

While delivering convocation address President Mukherjee lauded the diversity at LPU campus. He said that both national and international students at LPU are blessed to study in such a great campus, with top teachers amid diverse

student community. In fact, international students at LPU are ambassadors of carrying Indian culture and values to their own countries when they go back.

Prior to this, President also inaugurated the largest convention center of India ‘Unipolis’ at LPU campus, which can cater to

more than 30,000 peoples’ gathering at a single given time. Lovely Group Chairman Ramesh Mittal welcomed President and Vice Chairman Naresh Mittal welcomed Governor Badnore. On this occasion, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla; Cab-

inet Minister for Irrigation and Power, Punjab State, Rana Gurjit Singh; Chairman Ramesh Mittal; ViceChairman Naresh Mittal; LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal; Pro Chancellor Rashmi Mittal; and, Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Ramesh Kanwar also shared the main dais along with the chief guest Mukherjee and Governor Shri Badnore. A large number of other elite guests including industrialists from all over the country, ambassadors, ministers, MPs, MLAs, leaders, Company CEOs, Heads, and parents of 16,000+ degrees and awards recipient students also witnessed the convocation ceremony.

Ashok Mittal, Chancellor, LPU said, “LPU has constantly added value by incorporating the best practical and technical practices in the curriculum to bridge the gap between education through books and the realities of the outside world, so the students are fully equipped to deliver their best.

AIIB approves $160 million India may make local steel mandatory loan for Indian power project in government infrastructure projects BeiJiNg, MAy 3 (iANs): The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a loan of $160 million to finance a power project in India, the bank said on Wednesday. The project, co-financed with the World Bank, is part of the government’s “24x7 Power for All programme” and will strengthen the power transmission and distribution system in Andhra Pradesh, Xinhua news agency reported.

The 24x7 Power for All is an initiative by the government to ensure availability of 24x7 power supply to all households, industries, commercial businesses, public needs and any other electricity consuming entity and adequate power to agriculture consumers by 2019. AIIB PresidentJinLiqunpraisedthemultilateraldevelopment bank’scloseworkwithIndia,AIIB’ssecond-largestshareholder, in energy and other infrastructure sectors.

“AIIB supports its members in their transition toward a low-carbon energy mix by promoting the improvement of energy efficiency, such as upgrading the existing transmission and distribution networks,” he said. The bank expects the Andhra Pradesh-24x7 Power for All project to be the first of many projects AIIB invests in India, said Jin. The AIIB was set up in 2015 and started operation in January 2016 to provide financing for infrastructure improvement in Asia. Its membership has increased to 70, with 13 new countries approved in March.

NeW DeLHi, MAy 3 (ReuteRs): The Indian cabinet may clear a proposal on Wednesday to make usage of local steel mandatory for government’s infrastructure projects, an official with direct knowledge of the matter said, aimed at boosting sales of local companies and global steel makers’ investments.

The ministry’s flagship National Steel Policy, which seeks to outline a roadmap to increase the country’s annual steel production to 300 million tonnes by 2025, is also expected to be passed in the cabinet, the official told Reuters. The policy is broadly seen as a continuation of India’s protectionist stance against countries such as China and Russia.

A steel ministry spokesman was not immediately available to respond to telephone calls from Reuters seeking comment. It also comes in the backdrop of a trade probe launched by U.S. President Donald Trump against cheap imports into the United States, in a move that could aggravate trade friction among global producers.

India wants to nearly triple its produc-

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Under the initiative of Anglers Association nagaland (AAn) and Anglers Association Mokokchung (AAM), the state fisheries department released fingerlings at Amoklushi Lake, Chuchuyimpang village today. Amoklushi is the biggest natural water body in Mokokchung and is one of the most popular destinations for anglers in the district. the release of fingerlings today compliments ongoing development of the lake as a natural water body conservation project by the state PHED. AAM is grateful to the District Fisheries Officer, Imtisunep for providing the fingerlings free of cost and AAN for facilitating the initiative.

taking a new initiative on livelihood and sustainable development in the perspective of both promoting traditional herbal medicine values and resource generating avenue for unemployed people, the Indigenous Cultural society (ICs) has opened a new International Marketing Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (IMC) outlet under the name Indigenous Herbal India, at its office, 2nd Floor Jakhalu Building, City Tower Junction Dimapur. The outlet was opened by Ajay Jaiswal, senior Associate member of IMC.

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tion capacity by the next decade and acquire technology to produce higher value products including automotive steel. The government policy will also provide a guiding light for Indian steel companies that are seeking to expand while saddled with huge debts.

In March, Reuters had reported the steel ministry was considering a move making it mandatory to use local steel - pitching it as a WTO-compliant move. India is also expected to soon announce long-term duties on some steel products imported from China, Japan and Russia, despite complaints from some of the targeted countries.

Between April and March, India’s steel imports fell 37 percent year-on-year, data from a government body showed, primarily due to measures announced by the government. The proposed National Steel Policy, which was floated in October by Niti Aayog, an influential government think-tank that replaced the Planning Commission, recommended measures to also reduce dependence on imported coking coal, lack of which recently crippled production after heavy rains in Australia created shortages.

the Mao town weekly Market was inaugurated on May 2 by L dikho, Minister of PHed, Printing & stationery, Manipur, in the presence of Athem Muivah, IAs, deputy Commissioner, senapati district and other dignitaries from the district. organised by the town Committee, Mao Bazaar Union and Youth Group, the inaugural of the market witnessed 77 farmers selling fresh local vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, flowers, craftwork etc.

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NAGALAND

Extortion in Dimapur, 8 land in police net Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): All together eight persons have landed in Dimapur Police net for various charges of extortions in the past nine days, an official release informed today.

The first arrest was made on April 25 when one person was held on charges of extortion from Sangtamtilla area, Dimapur, the Addl. Dy Commissioner of Police/PRO Dimapur stated in a press release.

He was identified as NagatoYepthomi, a resident of Thahekhu village, Dimapur.

Yepthomi was caught collecting money from vehicles in the name of NSCN (IM), it said.

On April 26, two persons were also arrested from Station Road area, Dimapur on charges of extortion. The arrested persons were identified as Vikiho Aye, a resident of Niu Colony, Dimapur; and Toluka Chophy,

1 held for attempted murder in Dmp Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Dimapur Police today informed that one person was arrested on April 29 for allegedly attempting to murder a lady with firearms at Kiyeto village, Dimapur. He was identified as one Kakuto Zhimomi of Khehoyi village, Dimapur. “The victim, reportedly his mother-inlaw, was critically wounded and admitted in the Hospital. A case has been registered and investigations underway,” the Addl. Dy Commissioner of Police/PRO Dimapur informed in a press note. a resident of Thahekhu Village Dimapur, the release said.

Both were reportedly ‘Khapur’ in the NSCN(R), it added.

On April 27, one person identified as Zakato Ayemi, resident of Thahekhu village, Dimapur was also arrested from Murgipatti area, Dimapur while demanding illegal taxes from business houses.

“Incriminating documents

NSCW continues fight against human trafficking ZuNhEboto, may 3 (Dipr): A one day legal awareness on human trafficking organized by Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) in association with National Commission for Women (NCW), New Delhi was held at Town Hall, Zunheboto on May 3.

Speaking at the seminar, Chairperson, Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW), Dr. Temsula Ao said, human trafficking is a global menace that affects not only the poor nations but also more affluent nations too. Lamenting that bulk of trafficked population comprised of those who are absorbed as labourers, slaves and workers in various mines factories, industries and brothels, she said, the issues involved in trafficking are many; legal, moral, political and financial.

Exhorting that human trafficking may sound like something which is happening only in other states because not much is heard of such cases in our state, Dr. Temsula said, the menace of trafficking of Naga girls is on rise which is threatening our youths insidiously and silently. Keeping this in mind, the NSCW is conducting awareness programme all over the state to warn the youths not to be lured by extravagant promises of touts and traffickers for better life outside the state and encourages Nagas to be always alert and beware of the ulterior motives.

While pledging to participate in global fight against human trafficking, “The NSCW works to create awareness in our own societies and pledge to fight against human trafficking so that as envisaged by world bodies, we will also be able to eliminate trafficking from our societies by 2020,” stated Dr. Temsula.

Short speeches were also delivered by Addl. SP, Relo Aye and legal consultant, NSCW, Khriesinuo Kire where they spoke on the role of police in seeking justice and legal aid and also provisions of judicial system in our country. ADC, Nungsangmenla Imchen, women from all sectors, students, public leaders, GBs and DBs attended the programme. Earlier the program was chaired by Asangla Cholong, Member, NSCW, while welcome address was delivered by President, Sumi Totimi Hoho (STH), Kitoli.

Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The BJP Nagaland today scoffed at the Congress Party by maintaining that the “intolerance statement of NPCC towards BJP shows the real frustration of the party. ” The frustration, according to a press note from Media Cell, BJP Nagaland, was instigated by the fact that “the Congress is diminishing by the people mandate in all election fronts.”

The world and the nation knows that and the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) is getting ‘restless’ witnessing the rapid growth of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Nagaland and all over the country, it said.

“The Congressmen are deserting the party knowing that it is sinking and shall be drown ultimately,” it added.

Responding to NPCC contention that “just a resolution is not enough” to attest its secular credential, the BJP Nagaland maintained that it believe in “providing good governance and free from corruption.”

“The BJP has emerged as the largest secular political party in the world and want the State of Nagaland to witness the pragmatic approach for all round development in the near future,” it asserted.

It further distanced itself from alleged influence of the RSS stating that, “The BJP is a secular political party for good governance and registered under the Election Commission of India whereas RSS is a cultural organisation.”

While the Government of India has declared former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee’s

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He is a former principal of KSC and Sao Chang College Morung Express News Dimapur | May 3

Braj Bihari Kumar, also known as BB Kumar, the former principal of Sao Chang College, Tuensang and Kohima Science College, Jotsoma has been appointed as the new Chairman of prestigious Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). He succeeds noted economist SK Thorat who was heading the council since April 2011.

ICSSR was established in the year of 1969 by the Government of India to promote research in social sciences in the country.

“The HRD Ministry yesterday took the decision fi-

nalising his name for the top post for a period of three years,” stated a PTI report on the appointment.

"The ministry finalised his name from a shortlist prepared by a selection panel. Others in the shortlist were I K Bajaj and PM Kamath," it said quoting a senior HRD Ministry official.

According to an author’s information in one of his book, Kumar, born 1941, has an M.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Anthropology, M.A. (Hindi), and Ph.D. (Anthropology).

Among many other organisations, he was founder Secretary of Nagaland Bhasha Parishad and Thinkers Forum, Nagaland and Gov-

erning Body Member of the Nagaland Peace Centre, the organization founded by Jai Prakash Narayan, it said.

Kumar has written/edited/co-authored 136 books and more than 100 papers.

Some of his English language publications are India; Caste, Culture and Traditions; A Macro Perception of the Tribal Societies of India; Small States Syndrome in India; Naga Identity; Tension and Conflict in NorthEast India; Illegal Migration from Bangladesh (Ed.), Modernization in Naga Society (Ed.); Ethnic Movements in North-East India; and India and Central Asia: Classical to Contemporary Period (Co-edited).

Presently, 76-year-old Kumar has been serving as the editor of the two quarterly journals - Dialogue and Chintan Srijan - published by a society called Astha Bharati, of which he is a founding member.

According to the Indian Express, Astha Bharati in its official website states that it aims to promote unity and integrity of the country and “work towards correcting/ righting the distortions and colonial misinterpretations of India’s past and present, its traditions, culture, social structure and social institutions, racial interpretations of society, colonial myths of exploitations and hegemony”.

First complete ‘LED Village’ declared in Peren pErEN, may 3 (Dipr): New Peren Village in Peren District has been declared the first complete LED village in Peren District. The Energy Efficient Peren under UJALA Scheme and initiative of District Administration Peren in collaboration with EESL, the Deputy Commissioner Peren adopted New Peren village and distributed free LED Bulb to every household in the village.

Speaking on the occasion the Deputy Commissioner, Peren stated that the use of LED Bulb will consume less electricity which would drastically reduce electricity bill and save power consumption in the District. The Deputy Commissioner hoped that the beneficiaries would extend the fullest

birthday on December 25 as Governance Day, BJP Nagaland and the State Government have been observing the same “either before or after” December 25, it added.

It also pointed the celebration of April 14 as Digital Day honouring Dr. Ambedkar, on Good Friday this year was just a coincidence. “Good Friday dates keep changing every year and this year it happened to coincide.”

The International Yoga Day on the June 21 was also declared by the United Nation, it added.

In this regard, the BJP Nagaland urged the people not to be swayed by the “rumours or cheap political propaganda but to have confidence in the Indian constitution as it provide protection and guarantee to freedom of religion or faith to every citizen.”

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BB Kumar is the new ICSSR chief

Notice to register & renew shops, commercial establishments Kohima, may 3 (mExN): The Office of the Assistant Labour Commissioner, Kohima, Nagaland has informed all owners and employers of those shops, commercial establishments and amusements except those exempted by the Act to get registered/renewed their establishments in the Assistant Labour Commissioner's office, Kohima District at New Secretariat Complex (As required under Sub-section (1) (2) and (3) of section 36 of the Nagaland Shops and Establishments Act, 1986).

If any employer carry on business without a valid registration certificate, s/he shall be liable to pay penalty equal to the fee prescribed for registration or renewal of registration, as the case maybe, plus an additional penalty of Rupees two per day of continued default as per sub-section (6) of Section 36 of the Nagaland Shops and Establishments Act, 1986. This was informed in a press release issued by Azuto Semy, Deputy Labour Commissioner, Kohima District.

in the form of demand slips of the GDRN/FGN (NA) were seized from his possession,” the release informed.

It further said that the same day, another person identified was as Dildar Hussian of Signal Angami, Dimapur was arrested after the citizens of Residency Colony, Dimapur apprehended him while demanding “yearly taxes of some NPGs.”

Incriminating documents in the form of challans, slips, etc., were seized from his possession, it added.

According to the police, another ‘Khapur’ of the NSCN(R) identified as Akivito Awomi of Surumi Village, Zunheboto was arrested on April 28 from Diphupar area on charges of extortion.

“He was arrested while serving demand slips to the business establishments,” the PRO release said.

The final arrest was made when two persons identified as Takendar Singh, a resident of Chatteswari colony, Dimapur and Babul Ali, a resident of Burma camp were arrested from Netaji Colony, Dimapur on April 29.

“They were found collecting illegal taxes from the commercial establishments in the area,” the PRO release stated.

NPCC’s ‘intolerance’ a result of restlessness: BJP Nagaland

Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Dimapur Police, on April 29, seized approximately 2 kg of Opium and arrested one person in this connection, an official informed today. The Addl. Dy Commissioner of Police/PRO Dimapur said in a press note identified the person as one Seirou Poumai of Phaibung Khurou village, Senapati, Manipur. In this connection, a case is under investigation in the Sub Urban Police Station, Dimapur, the PRO added.

Narcotic Cell registers 139 cases in April Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Narcotic Cell of the Excise Department has registered 139 offences under the NLPT Act 1989 during the month of April, a department official informed today. All cases were compounded and the seized articles consisting of various Indian Manufactured Foreign Liquors (IMFL) and beer were confiscated for destruction, Superintendent of Excise (NC) S Phyobemo Kikon stated in a press release. The Cell also seized a total of 43 kgs of contraband ganja (cannabis) and 228 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon as well as 9 tablets of Nitrosun during the same period, it said. In this connection, two cases were registered under sections of NDPS Act 1985 and Drungs & Cosmetics Act 1940 and forwarded to judiciary, it added.

MI 3rd Round from May 8 to 15 Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Mission Indradhanush 3rd Round 2017 will be observe from May 8 to 15 in all districts across the state. Dimapur, Chief Medical Officer Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi has informed that the MI will be observed in Dimapur district for which all parents are requested to bring their children to immunization sites in their respective colonies/villages and immunize to prevent from vaccine preventable disease.

Deputy Commissioner, Peren with the villagers of New Peren Village during the declaration as the first complete LED village in Peren District. (DIPR Photo)

DEO Zunheboto informs schools

Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The District Education cooperation for effective implemen- er also adopted Christian Servant- Officer, Zunheboto has informed all the head of institation of the scheme. hood Ministry Centre (Orphanage) tutions of Government and Private schools under ZunFurther, the Deputy Commission- and distributed free LED bulbs. heboto district to collect the application forms of PostMatric Scholarship for Schedule Tribe students studying in Class IX & X. The forms can be collected from May 4 onwards during office hours and the completed PMS application form should be submitted to the DEO office on or before May 25, DEO Zunheboto L Kheholi Assumi said erment of Persons with Dis- Retardation and Mental Ill- poser required to pay only in a press note. abilities, Ministry of Social ness (Persons with multiple 10% of the total premium of Justice and Empowerment, Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy Rs.3100/- + Service Tax under Power Minister in Delhi for conference Government of India pro- and Autism are not covered the Scheme i.e. Rs. 360/- ( Rs. vides affordable health insur- under this Scheme) to avail 310/- + Service Tax); Canance cover to persons with the scheme. The forms are celled Cheque copy or Bank Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Minister of Power disabilities through the New available at the NAPAD Of- Account No. with IFSC Code; Nagaland, C Kipili Sangtam along with Secretary (Power), KI Yanger IAS and Chief Engineer (D&R), Er. Khose India Assurance Co.Ltd. fice, below Sakhrie Park, AG and Disability Certificate.

In this regard, the Com- Colony, Kohima. The docuThe last date for sub- Sale is attending a two-day conference of the Ministers missioner of Disabilities, ments required are: duly mission of Proposal Form of Power, NRE & Mines underway at New Delhi from State of Nagaland and the filled and signed Proposal along with all the required May 3-4. The conference will focus on inclusive develNAPAD informed all the Form; 2 (Two) Passport documents is May 20, 2017. opment of 100% household and village electrification eligible persons with dis- size Photographs for each For more information con- as per 2011 census, informed a press note from Chief abilities like Blindness, Low family member and copy of tact Kapochu-o, Secretary, Engineer (D&R). “It will also address commercial susVision, Leprosy –Cured, any Government ID Proof NAPAD at 9856683130 and tainability of the state power sectors and robust transHearing Impairment, Loco- i.e. Aadhar Card, Voters ID, Phisalu, Office Assistant, mission planning, promotion of renewable energy and conservation initiatives,” it added.

Motor Disabilities, Mental Driving License etc; Pro- NAPAD at 8974658119.

Insurance cover for differently-abled people Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): The Commissioner of Disabilities, State of Nagaland in collaboration with the Nagaland Parents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) today drew attention of persons with disabilities and parents/ legal guardians / relatives / NGOs of persons with disabilities of Kohima District to a health insurance cover scheme of the government.

A notification informed that the Swavlamban Health Insurance Scheme under the Department of Empow-

SASRD NU students organizes cleanliness drive AR crackdowns on ‘illegal’ liquors continues mEDZiphEma, may 3 (mExN): In an effort to bring awareness about cleanliness and civic sense, SASRD NU under the initiative of the Students’ Union organized a mass cleanliness drive in the campus on May 3.

The students in collaboration with the entire teaching and non-teaching faculties joined hands to partake in cleanliness drive, a press note informed.

A short programme was also held with the noted cyclist of Nagaland, activist, innovator, proprietor of Go Travels and initiator behind Project 72 Hours as with Sievituo Solo (Chevy) as the resource person, it said.

He emphasised the fact that civic sense and change of attitude is the prime need in the context of the

Naga Society, it informed adding that he also motivated the youth to embrace the trials of life and become better individuals who can contribute to the society.

A short speech was delivered by the Dean of NU: SASRD where he encour-

aged the audience to maintain an evergreen and everclean campus, it added.

Shortly afterwards, students, teaching and nonteaching staff carried out the cleanliness drive with the assistance of the Medziphema Municipal Council.

Dimapur , may 3 (mExN): Different units of Assam Rifles stationed in Nagaland have reported seizure of ‘illegal’ Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) from various locations across the state.

According to an AR press note received here, the Troops of 28 Assam Rifles, on April 30, captured huge cache of illegal IMFL being smuggled into Nagaland from general area of Doyang road.

The liquors, found hidden in two Boleros, include 1182 bottles of Rum, 1432 cans of beer, 144 bottles of whisky and 3 bottles of Breezer approximately amounting to Rs. 3 lakh rupees in open market, it said.

A total of four persons allegedly the owners of IMFL, including one woman were arrested in this connection, it added.

The AR identified them as Yanrosumthung (28 yrs) of Chukitong village, Susomo (46 yrs) of Wokha village, Aifrig, (40 yrs) of Lakhuti village and Pni, (34 yrs) of Chukitong.

In another search operation in general area Foothill road junction Bhandari on April 29, the 28 AR recovered another huge haul of IMFL worth Rs. 7, 50,000 from a Tata Sumo vehicle. The seizure included 1862 bottles of Rum, 432 bottles of Whisky, 456 cans of beer and 144 bottles of Vodka, the press note further informed.

The driver and the copassengers were apprehended along with the liquor, it further said identifying them as Apenthung Lotha (28 yrs) of Lunying village, Y Lotha (38 yrs) of Wokha, and Thingchio (27 yrs), Lidemo Lotha (25 yrs)

and Longshipemo (26 yrs), all three from Merapani.

AR nab NSCN (K) cadre

41 AR recovers illicit liquor The 41 Assam Rifles, on May 1, has recovered 205 cases of illegal IMFL worth approximately Rs 2 lakhs in the open market, according to another AR press note.

The liquors were recovered when 41 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) along with police representatives launched an operation in general area 7th Mile, Dimapur based on specific information, it said.

One person identified as Artha Angami (30 yrs), a resident of 7th Mile was arrested in this connection, it added.

The apprehendee was later handed over Diphupar Police Station, Dimapur along with the recovered items for further investigation, the press note further said.

Dimapur, may 3 (mExN): An armed person, allegedly a cadre of NSCN (K), was arrested during a search operation launched by 41 Assam Rifles along with police representative in general area of 5th Mile, Dimapur on May 1.

He was arrested along with one Pt 22 mm Pistol with magazine, three live rounds of assorted ammunition and one blank cash receipt of NSCN (K), stated a press note from Lt Col Amitabh Sharma PRO, HQ IGAR (North).

The apprehendee identified as one Inovi Avika Assumi (32 yrs) alias Max was a ‘Finance Secretary’ NSCN (K) of Dimapur & Kohima region and a resident of Akuluto village, Zunehboto District, it said.

According to the press note, the apprehendee confessed of serving “extortion notice” to various vehicle showrooms in Dimapur, Chumukedima and Kohima over the past few days and admitted that he was working under, ‘Brig.’

Akhao Zhimo, Finance in charge of NSCN (K), Dimapur region.

The apprehendee individual along with the recovered arms and items were handed over to Diphupar Police Station, Dimapur, it added.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xii issue 119

By Aheli moitra

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he ‘North East’ is one of the many strange terms the Indian Union conveniently borrowed from the British Raj. Little did we imagine that Mr. India would one day rise from these politically marginalized peripheries to “speak truth to power” (The Caravan).

In this landscape of tribal myth and brute militarization, some of the most significant phenomena of our times have occurred. One of them has been the development of contemporary pidgin languages. Among these, Nagamese and Haflong Hindi stand out; both have connected peoples of the South Asian region in uncanny peripheries.

When political satire is projected in one of these languages, it captures not just the dark side of contradiction and nuance of life here, it also tickles your ribs thin.

Last year a friend forwarded a video of a young man singing profanities about unholy political alliances—the guy wore eye glasses that had two plastic hands covering the eyes, a self imposed blindness many can connect with.

The video was understood to be a onetime joke by a young man expressing angst, and promptly forgotten.

A year hence, Mr. India reappeared on an update from Raiot, a webzine produced from Meghalaya. A Mizo-Dimasa man from Haflong, who lives in the terrific times of the North East and ironically calls himself Mr. India, is a riot.

He urges ‘warmonger’ chetan (ji) bhagat to die, and rounds it up with a ‘bharat mata ki jai,’ he shies naught from throwing profanities at political parties, he musically personifies ‘gau rakshaks’ as they must be and is not scared to pull out the ‘acting’ in the name of ‘desh bhakti’ so rampant in India today. Local issues don’t escape his medium either.

He pokes at what has become of ‘indigenous people’ in a post colonial North East and sings ‘chinky songs’ in front of blue skies reminding us how ‘God still loves a Big Church!’

Call the Bangladeshi hands to build it brick by brick.

Mr. India’s ‘political pop’ is also about celebrating life experienced by the youth of the region; of cycling around town or leading an independent married life (he and his wife run another channel called ‘Haflong Vlogs’). These are the sound of souls rising from the seriousness, the doom and the daily experiences of marginalization, imposing a deliberate calm in their commentary.

When one of Mr. India’s songs was removed from social media platform Facebook after it parodied a farcical ‘anthem’ on the Brahmaputra that sought to hinduise and commercialize the river, bypassing political issues, it got other funnybones to his aide. Another Haflong-youth run YouTube channel called ‘Chugli TV’ featured Mr. India as ‘one the most dangerous people on earth right now.’

Protest is certainly not new to the North East nor is the word dangerous. But here, new tools—language and medium—are used, by claiming ownership, to bring previously unspoken truths to the fore in creative ways at a time when they can get you excommunicated, beaten or even killed.

In this environment, Mr. India is giving us all a voice from his home base, armed with a camera, guitar (at times electronic), eye glasses and some wit—a musical, accessible, relatable way to speak the truth and wage nonviolence.

You can find Mr. India on YouTube & share similar stuff on moitramail@yahoo.com

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Karmapa, youth and interdependence

Book Review: Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society; Author: Tibetan religious head and 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje; Publisher: Simon and Schuster India and Wisdom Publications; Pages: 264, Price: Rs 375

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is latest book, "Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society", reflects the historical moment in which this young spiritual leader, who heads a 900-year-old lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, has come of age as a thinker.

The 31-year-old Karmapa, who has lived most of his adult life in the 21st century, portrays a world where global integration has centred on economic and technological connectivity but without moving sufficiently beyond an atomistic vision of who we are as human beings.

As a result, globalisation has led to greater competition, conflict and isolationism, rather than compassion, sharing and collaboration.

Drawing on the Buddhist teachings on interdependence, the Karmapa describes the personal and social values that we urgently need to develop so that we can create a global society that recognises our inner as well as our material interconnectedness.

Interestingly, this book anticipates the current turn towards isolationism, although it is based on discourses the Karmapa gave four years ago in Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India where he resides in a monastery.

The world is hardly united in welcoming this new reality, even if information technology and global economic integration make our interdependence harder to deny.

For his part, the Karmapa -- whose literal meaning is "the one who carries out Buddha activity" -- argues that we must move not backward retreating behind walls, but forward, joining together to build a global society that acknowledges and draws on our fundamental inner connectedness.

He shows that we need to recognise interdependence, not just as a theory but also as a feeling.

The Buddhist monk, who not only paints but also pens poems and books, urges us to move from our head to our hearts and then to our hands.

The book is structured in three parts to take readers from intellectual understanding to emotional awareness to action -- seeing the connection, feeling the connection and living the connection. The Karmapa points to human beings' inherent capacity for empathy as a natural basis for the values that naturally flow from our interconnectedness, values such as equality and diversity, compassion and social responsibility.

In its final section, "Interconnected" explains how we can apply such values at the personal, community and global levels. This book articulates the Karmapa's vision of a compassionate and caring society built through collective action.

As a spiritual leader with a deep commitment to action, the Karmapa does not merely call for real change; in this book he offers the essential guidance we need to bring it about.

"Interconnected" reflects the Karmapa's deepening thought over the years and presents a more substantial exploration of the ethical and social ramifications of our interconnectedness.

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Tharanga Yakupitiyage Inter Press Service

Repression 2.0: An Updated Global Censorship

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ensorship tactics have become more complex, posing new challenges for journalists and non-journalists alike, a new report finds.

In its annual “Attacks on the Press” report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented a range of censorship cases from around the world and revealed a new world of media repression. “[Censorship] is definitely becoming more sophisticated and complex and is occurring at a variety of levels,” CPJ’s Advocacy Director Courtney Radsch told IPS. CPJ’s Executive Director described these new strategies as “repression 2.0” in the report, stating; “Repression 2.0 is an update on the worst old-style tactics, from state censorship to the imprisonment of critics, with new information technologies including smartphones and social media producing a softening around the edges.”

At the end of 2016, there were almost 260 journalists in jail, the most CPJ has ever documented.

Turkey is the world’s leading jailer of journalists with over 145 imprisoned journalists, more than China, Egypt, and Iran combined.

The country’s media crackdown deepened following the July 15, 2016 coup attempt and the subsequent imposition of a state of emergency which the Turkish government allegedly used to shut down over 50 newspapers, 30 TV channels, and three news agencies.

The government also reportedly used anti-terror laws to imprison journalists, including the chief editor of Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet Can Dündar who was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, espionage, and aiding a terrorist group. Most recently, life sentences are being sought for 30 people with ties to Zaman newspaper, which is associated with Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen whom the government accuses of organising the coup attempt. The newspaper has since been under government control.

In Kenya, authorities are increasingly using a new mechanism to control the media: money.

“As revenues drain away from traditional media due to the inroads of digital technologies, the use of financial-induced self-censorship, or ‘fiscing’, can also ensure that journalists are more ‘reasonable’ in their reporting,” said journalist Alan Rusbridger in the report.

“Murder is messy. Money is tidy,” he continues.

However, the control of information is not unique to developing countries, said Rasch.

In the U.S., President Donald Trump has raised anti-media hostility to levels “previously unseen on a national scale,” said journalist Alan Huffman in the report.

President Trump has consistently described some media organizations as “fake news,” most recently reiterating the claim that media fabricate stories during

A Free and Diverse Media is Essential to Protecting Democracy in the 21st Century

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mages of protestors flooding the streets – whether in Caracas, Bucharest, Istanbul or Washington DC – send a powerful message to those in power, especially when they are plastered across newspaper front pages.

In far too many countries, the response has been to shut down the space for citizens to organise and undermine the ability for dissent to be reported. Even in the most mature of democracies, the ability of citizens to organise and mobilise, and the freedom of journalists to report when they do, are being undermined. In an era of rising populism and spreading curbs on fundamental freedoms, we need to do more to protect civic rights and press freedom.

When people hit the streets to express dissent, headlines are not always guaranteed.

In some countries, journalists risk imprisonment, disappearance or death for reporting on voices of dissent. In other places, the few powerful interests that control mainstream media channels are in cahoots and play down the scale or importance of protest. And the world over, independent and smaller media outlets – that are critical to diverse media – are struggling to stay afloat.

The first, and most worrying reason why protests don’t make the nightly news is because in many countries around the world journalists who cover protests are putting themselves at risk. In countries where civic participation is restricted or closed, journalists, like activists, risk losing their jobs, their freedom and even their lives reporting on protests.

According to the CIVICUS Monitor attacks on journalists are one of the three most commonly reported violations of civic space, alongside the detention of human rights defenders and the use of excessive force during protests. The Monitor, which measures the openness of civic space in 195 countries, found that journalists are most often attacked as a result of their political reporting on protests, conflict reporting, and for exposing government corruption.

Civil society and media exist in an ecosystem where attacks on one are likely to have an impact on the other. Where human rights defenders and civil society organisations find their freedoms under threat, so to do journalists. Policing media coverage is just one of the ways that governments close or repress civic space.

While social media and citizen journalists and bloggers have made it more difficult for mainstream media outlets to ignore mass demonstrations, some media outlets actively seek to undermine the renewed interest they generate. Media Matters for America, a monitoring agency, has recorded

the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “They have no sources, they just make them up when there are none,” he told attendees.

Trump’s rhetoric often emboldened his supporters who would boo journalists. Huffman described one case in the report where a Trump supporter wore a T-shirt that suggested the use of lynching, stating: “Rope.

Tree. Journalist. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.” The president has also restricted and even denied access for reporters perceived as unfriendly, including those from Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post, and the Washington Post, and has threatened to change libel laws to make it easier to sue journalists and news agencies.

In one chapter, Christian Amanpour noted the similarities in such “poisonous” trends in the U.S. and around the world.

“The same dynamic has infected powerful segments of the American media, as it has in Egypt, Turkey, and Russia, where journalists have been pushed into

repeated instances of corporate media in the United States making false claims, such as that protests are staged or protestors are paid. Instead of interviewing citizens participating in the marches, cable news programs turn to their usual group of pundits for comment. For example, after the recent Science March, some cable television shows hosted panels featuring climate change deniers and no actual scientists.

In some cases journalists have forgotten that the voices of ordinary citizens, are just as important, if not more important, than the voices of powerful politicians and wealthy elites. And even where journalists do seek to quote representatives from civil society they too often turn to the same narrow set of voices for comment, since smaller non-governmental organisations often lack the media resources of larger international organisations.

Another important reason why journalists do not cover protests is because they do not have the resources to do so. The economic pressures on commercial media are also harming press freedom. Independent, diverse media often lack the financial resources of media owned by wealthy corporations or governments with their own political agendas.

Many media outlets now rely on donations or membership models to survive.

All of these restrictions have led many activists to turn to reporting on protests themselves. Some of the most powerful journalism now comes from citizen bloggers, often providing invaluable news from closed political spaces and behind the battle lines.

As the boundaries between citizen and professional journalists blur it is becoming increasingly important to protect the space for all of those people who seek to inform, expose and educate.

Whether it is protestors, journalists, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, or climate scientists we need to protect the ability for people to be able to express dissent.

And we need to stand together.

Without journalists, scientists marching in the street, would not be able to be able to share their messages with the world. Without photojournalists, vast underestimates of crowd sizes from officials may continue to be used to undermine popular movements.

Asking questions, speaking truth to power, shining a light on corruption. These simple actions carry increased risks in 2017, as powerful elites seek to cement their positions of power. In this febrile political environment, civic space and press freedom feel more important than ever.

Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah is the Secretary-General of CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance

political partisan corners, delegitimized, and accused of being enemies of the state. Journalism itself has become weaponized. We cannot allow that to happen,” she stated.

In Ecuador, the government has allegedly used social media as a way to suppress journalists.

After tweeting that Ecuador’s former Vice-President Lenin Moreno had not paid income taxes, journalist Bernardo Abad’s twitter account had been blocked for violating its terms of service. By the end of the week, nine accounts had been temporarily suspended after also tweeting about Moreno’s taxes.

Radsch told IPS that with the internet and social media, there are now “more outlets for repression and threats.”

China has taken this to the next level, making plans to link journalists’ online posts to their finances.

Under the country’s proposed social credit plan, journalists who write or speak critically of the government could face personal financial consequences including decreased credit score or a denied loan. Such censor-

ship goes beyond the business as usual tactics of shutting down reporters’ social media accounts to affecting journalists’ daily activities.

Rasch highlighted the need to advocate for an open internet and the rights of journalists. “[We must] remember the importance of the press that continues to help us make sense of all the information that we are bombarded with all the time,” she told IPS. She also recommended journalists adopt secure communication practices in order to maintain their privacy and their sources’ privacy.

Most importantly, journalists must stand strong and commit to fact-based reporting.

“This is the best and most important way to fight back against the new censorship,” said Simon.

“Journalists cannot allow themselves to feel demoralized. They need to pursue their calling and to seek the truth with integrity, honestly believe that the setbacks, while real, are temporary,” he concluded.

Trolling of Women Journalists Threatens Free Press manipadma Jena

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t’s not what you say that prompts it—it’s the fact that you are saying it,” says Mary Beard, a Cambridge University classics professor about online trolling. “If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is the many ways that men have silenced outspoken women since the days of the ancients.”

Women professionals in many countries across Asia and the Pacific have increased their number in the newsrooms, according to a study, but they still represent only three out of ten news staff.

Even with this low representation, they have now breezed into the male bastion of hard stories, among them politics, corruption, conflict, governance, environment with confidence and impact.

They speak their mind, put forth their opinion and debate knowledgeably and vigorously with readers on matters of import on social media platforms.

Societal images of women have remained largely conservative.

Shammi Haque, a Dhaka blogger, received death and rape threats and an email from an Islamic extremist group that claimed the killing of six Bangladeshi bloggers which said, “Since the Islamic Sharia (law) views working of women outside their homes without purdah (head cover) as (a) punishable offense, their employers are guilty to the same degree. We are urging the media to release their women from their jobs.”

In India, as part of an anti-trolling campaign by national daily Hindustan Times, Harry Stevens and Piyush Aggar-

wal set out in April to demonstrate how hard it is to be an outspoken woman on Twitter. They gathered a week’s worth of tweets sent to four prominent Indian women journalists. Out of these Barkha Dutt, a television veteran, received 3,020 abusive tweets, and Rana Ayyub, a Muslim, received 2,580 hateful tweets, often coloured by Islamophobia.

Internet trolls have had a free run in the region for at least six years now.

Women journalists who tackled trolling and abusive comments on social media by ignoring or blocking the persistent trolls, now find that stalking and direct threats of attack have increased, forcing them to seek legal recourse or police protection.

“Journalists’ safety is a precondition for free speech and free media,” says the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

“Online media today allows for the fast flow of information and the public’s active participation in sharing ideas, news and insight. An open, free and safe Internet is essential for public debate and free flow of information and therefore should be duly protected.”

Female journalists, bloggers and other media actors are disproportionally experiencing gender related threats, harassment and intimidation on the Internet, which has a direct impact on their safety and future online activities.

Twitter threats like “I’m going to cut off your head and rape it” have been directed even at the sexagenarian Mary Beard.

About the vitriolic abuse she faces,

Dutt asks, “Why isn’t anyone discussing the marriages, divorces, and affairs of my male colleagues? Why the fixation with my private life? Because the public scrutiny of women – and especially those of us who are proudly ambitious and fiercely independent – is very different from the standards used to measure men. And the subtext is always sexual.”

“Cyber bullies are the same as goons who threaten in real life,” psychiatrist Samir Parikh says.

The personalized online abuse women journalists get for doing only what is expected by their professional job “can make them feel traumatized, helpless, angry and very frustrated,” says Parikh.

“In some, it can even cause self-esteem issues, affect social life and lead to symptoms of depression, anxiety and panic attacks. For women, the abuse and threats of violence are often openly sexist and sexual, which makes them tougher to deal with.” “(Online) it is possible to cloak one’s identity and attack individuals in the most unethical and harmful manner,” says Dilrukshi Handunnetti, an editor in Colombo. “Shaming and harming women is an age-old practice, except that real time information sharing through technology makes the outreach far greater and the damage huge.”

It does little to ease the trauma for journalists to know that trolling correlates with psychopathy, sadism, and Machiavellianism, according to a 2014 empirical personality study. Other studies found boredom, attention seeking,

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revenge, pleasure, and a desire to cause damage to the community among motivations for trolling.

But some interviewed trolls viewed their online comments not as harassment, but as a needed counterweight to opinions and news items they believe are flawed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

As threats get too dangerous to ignore, women journalists are being forced to seek recourse from the law, despite their misgivings about how the law is framed and doubts about whether lawenforcing agencies can ensure speedy and sensitive investigation.

An Online Harassment Social Media Policy drafted March 2016 by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) lays out a road map for media houses to protect journalistic voices, create safe online spaces for open and respectful debate, and deal with abuse and harassment faced in particular by female staff.

Among the mechanisms to ensure digital safety and freedom from harassment, the road map calls for a special cyber cell in media organizations that equip women journalists particularly, with legal awareness and resources.

When the harassment is extreme, measures must also include physical security, legal hand-holding, and support to pursue police complaints and psychological support and trauma counseling.

Meanwhile, a Byte Back handbook for women journalists being cyber-bullied gives out handy advice – ignore, filter, block, report and if it gets worse, nameand-shame, shout it out, and don’t forget to save and document abuse.

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Why is Venezuela Spiraling Out of Control?

Opposition violence and the government’s increasing authoritarianism are both to blame Gabriel Hetland

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very day the news about Venezuela seems to get worse.

On March 29th the Supreme Court dissolved the National Assembly. The partial reversal of this decision days later did not prevent the outbreak of a new wave of deadly protests in the beginning of April. The death toll now stands at thirty, and is rising by the day.

Both opposition and government supporters have been killed. Government offices have been looted and set aflame, and government officials murdered. No end is in sight.

The Organization of American States (OAS) is set to hold yet another emergency meeting of foreign ministers to discuss Venezuela’s crisis. Venezuela has declared it will leave the OAS, possibly to preempt being suspended from the organization. In the eyes of many this action will make Venezuela even more of a pariah nation than it already is.

Venezuela’s deep economic and social crisis shows no signs of abating, and will likely get worse amidst the chaos and violence wracking the country. The opposition has shown its willingness to sacrifice possibilities for economic recovery to achieve its goal of removing President Nicolás Maduro from office, with the Associated Press reporting that oppositionled National Assembly head Julio Borges recently contacted over a dozen leading international banks, urging them not to do business with Venezuela. The government, in turn, faces increasing criticism for its seemingly complete inability to solve, or even admit the full severity of, the nation’s socioeconomic crisis, and what many see as its slide into authoritarianism.

How should we make sense of all of this?

There are two contrasting narratives currently circulating about Venezuela’s crisis. The first, prominent in mainstream western media, portrays the government as a dictatorial regime engaged in ruthless repression of a heroic opposition peacefully seeking a return to democratic rule. The second, put forward by the government and a small (and likely dwindling) group of international solidarity activists, portrays a democratically elected government besieged by a violent, unhinged opposition that (a) represents a small minority of wealthy elites; (b) enjoys full support from the US empire; and (c) will stop at nothing to achieve regime change, regardless of the legality or morality of its actions.

Both narratives contain elements of truth, but neither does justice to Venezuela’s crisis.

The idea that Venezuela is authoritarian has been repeated ad nauseam for nearly the entire eighteen-year period of Chavista rule, which began when Hugo Chávez was elected president in 1998.

Until recently, it has been relatively easy to refute this claim, which ignores the fact that Venezuela’s ruling party has been re-

peatedly affirmed at the polls, winning 12 of 15 major elections between 1998 and 2015, and conceding on the three occasions when it lost (December 2007, September 2010, and December 2015). On the five occasions Chávez stood for office between 1998-2012 he won by substantial margins (his lowest margin was 5544 percent in 2012, and his highest was 63-37 percent in 2006). Venezuela’s current president, Nicolás Maduro, was also democratically elected. Regularly repeated charges of electoral fraud are baseless, as fraud is all but impossible in Venezuela’s electoral system, which Jimmy Carter has called “the best in the world.”

Yet, while previous claims of Venezuela’s authoritarianism have had little merit, this is no longer the case. A series of government actions since early 2016 has made it increasingly difficult to challenge claims that Venezuela is moving in an authoritarian direction.

First, throughout 2016 the Supreme Court, which is clearly and even openly subordinate to the executive branch, blocked the opposition-controlled National Assembly, which won the legislative majority in December 2015, from passing any major legislation. In some cases, the legislature was attempting to act beyond its authority, for example, in seeking to grant amnesty to prisoners like Leopoldo López. Yet the Supreme Court’s systematic blockage of the National Assembly effectively rendered the opposition’s newly-captured legislative majority—and thus the December 2015 election results—null.

Second, after months of dragging it feet, the government cancelled a constitutionally allowed recall referendum process in October 2016. Third, the government indefinitely postponed municipal and regional elections that should have occurred in 2016, according to the constitution (although Maduro recently moved to set a date for the elections).

Fourth, as noted, the Supreme Court issued a ruling dissolving the National Assembly in March, before partially reversing itself days later, after Maduro asked the Supreme Court to review its decision.

Maduro was spurred to action when his own attorney general, Luisa Ortega, took the unprecedented step of publicly condemning the Supreme Court decision as “a rupture in the constitutional order.”

Fifth, in April 2017 Henrique Capriles,

a leading opposition figure and two-time former presidential candidate (in 2012 and 2013), was banned from participating in politics for fifteen years, on highly dubious grounds.

By cancelling the recall referendum, suspending elections, and inhibiting opposition politicians from standing for office, the Venezuelan government is systematically blocking the ability of the Venezuelan people to express themselves through electoral means. It is hard to see what to call this other than creeping authoritarianism. But it is also hard to agree with characterizations of Venezuela as a full-scale authoritarian regime, given the opposition’s significant access to traditional and social media and substantial ability to engage in anti-government protest, notwithstanding certain restrictions (some if not all of which appear justified; such as limiting protesters’ access to parts of Caracas appear reasonable in light of repeated episodes of destruction of government property).

The government deserves strong criticism for its authoritarian actions, and its continuing failure to take meaningful action to resolve the country’s socioeconomic crisis. Yet, the opposition is far from the blameless victim mainstream media reports so often make it out to be. A particularly egregious example of the mainstream media’s whitewashing of the opposition’s past and present embrace of violence appears in an April 19 New York Times article, which miraculously transforms the violent 2002 military coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez into a seemingly peaceful “protest movement”: “While past protest movements by the opposition have often sought to topple the leftist government — one in 2002 even briefly deposed Hugo Chávez, the president at the time…”.

There is ample evidence the opposition’s willingness to use violent and unconstitutional means against the government is not confined to the 2002 coup, but continues into the present, as I discuss elsewhere. In April 2013 the opposition refused to recognize Maduro’s victory, despite zero evidence of fraud, and engaged in violent protests that led to at least seven civilian deaths. 41 died in another wave of opposition-led violence between February and April 2014.

It is widely agreed that these deaths were

a result of the actions of both opposition activists as well as state security forces, with some reports indicating that each side was responsible for approximately half the deaths, although it is challenging to collect fully reliable information on this contested issue.

The opposition has engaged in numerous acts of violence during the current round of protests. In an on-theground report from Venezuela on April 23, Rachel Boothroyd Rojas, wrote: “A catalogue of the violence over the last 18 days is shocking – schools have been ransacked, a Supreme Court building has been torched, an air force base attacked, while public transport, health and veterinary facilities have been destroyed. At least 23 people have been left dead, with many more injured. In one of the most shocking cases of right-wing violence, at around 10 PM on April 20th, women, children and over 50 newborn babies had to be evacuated by the government from a public maternity hospital which came under attack from opposition gangs.”

One of the more tragic recent deaths occurred Sunday April 23 when Almelina Carillo, a “47-year-old nurse was on her way to her afternoon shift when she crossed paths with [a] Chavista march [in downtown Caracas] and was critically injured by [a frozen bottle] presumably thrown [from a high-rise apartment] by an opposition sympathizer.”

It is not clear when, or how, Venezuela’s downward spiral will end. In the face of this, the task for anyone who cares about Venezuela, and particularly left-ofcenter activists, scholars, and journalists who have applauded and documented the many important achievements of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” is threefold.

First, to tell the truth. This means, of course, documenting and publicizing the opposition’s brutal and deadly use of violence against government officials, grassroots Chavistas, and innocent bystanders. This issue deserves far more attention than it receives in mainstream news accounts of Venezuela. Yet, the Left cannot turn a blind eye to the government’s slide into authoritarianism, nor its inept policies. This is not out of an unwarranted blind faith in liberal, representative democracy, but because authoritarian rule is incompatible with the beautiful-albeit-contradictory-and-flawed project of building “participatory and protagonistic democracy,” which Chavismo helped advance.

Second, to reject any and all calls for imperialist interventions aimed at “saving” Venezuela. Attempts to do so will not only fail, but are likely to transform a difficult situation into a tragic one, as the horrors of Iraq and Afghanistan show all too well.

Third, to stand in solidarity with the majority of Venezuelans who are suffering at the hands of a vengeful, reckless opposition, and an incompetent, unaccountable government. If any slogan captures the current mood of the popular classes living in Venezuela’s barrios and villages it is likely this: Que se vayan todos. Throw them all out.

Gabriel Hetland is an assistant professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at University at Albany, SUNY. His research examines participation, politics, and protest in Latin America and the United States.

Chaos & confusion, but some foreign policy wins for Trump Peter Apps

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hen U.S. President Donald Trump ordered cruise-missile strikes on a Syrian air base shortly after this month’s chemical weapons attack, some Obama administration veterans were openly impressed. “[We] never would have gotten this done in 48 hours,” one of them told Politico.

The strikes were the starkest demonstration so far of one of the paradoxes of the Trump White House, particularly on foreign policy. The administration has often projected a chaotic image and put out wildly mixed messages on topics such as U.S. support for NATO. Some of the president’s preoccupations – such as the U.S.-Mexico wall – and his sometimes confused speaking style continue to unsettle enemies and allies alike.

But at the same time, particularly on national security, the administration appears to be building a system that has proved much more effective than many expected.

Central to this has been Trump’s national security adviser, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, viewed within the Beltway as one of the U.S. military’s leading strategists. He is also seen by many as the most successful individual to emerge from the Trump presidency: the administration’s key figure on foreign policy, even more influential than Defense Secretary James Mattis or Secre-

U.S. President Donald Trump is shown in an official White House handout image meeting with his National Security team and being briefed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford via secure video teleconference after a missile strike on Syria while inside the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2017. (REUTERS)

ing a military response to Syria’s chemical weapons attack, McMaster and U.S. military planners reportedly gave Trump three options. The first was a “decapitation” strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which would have obliterated his palace.

The second was similarly drastic, an attack on Syrian air bases that would have almost certainly killed Russian advisers and aircrew.

The severity of those options seems to have pushed Trump towards the third – a strike against the single air base responsible for the chemical attack. The United States gave Russia enough warning to get its own personnel out of the way.

Compared to some of the messier approaches from the

to Syrian rebels without providing them with enough combat power to seriously alter the war – the one-off strike was limited and well-defined. The White House and McMaster were quick to signal that it was a response to the chemical attack, and the United States would probably not respond to the ongoing conventional onslaught on rebel areas.

With Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting Mar-a-Lago at the time of the strike, it was also an opportunity for Trump to send a message about his willingness to take military action against North Korea. Beijing responded by further reducing its orders of North Korean coal and preventing its diplomats from participating in a massive parade in Pyongyang.

North Korea will likely continue with its missile launches, apparently believing it can do so without incurring U.S. military action.

But Trump stumbled soon after. In an interview following the Syria strike, he appeared to forget which country the United States had bombed, saying that the missiles had been “heading to Iraq.”

Then came the media briefings and statements about the U.S. “armada” supposedly heading to the Korean Peninsula.

When it emerged that the USS Carl Vinson had not, in fact, sailed from Singapore to Korea and was still on pre-planned exercises with the Australian Navy at the other end of Asia, the White House looked as though it had lost touch with reality.

The administration can avoid these blunders in the future, but the bigger problem is that none of the geopolitical conflicts have improved. Assad remains in power in Syria, and suggestions from McMaster and others that Russia might be prepared to abandon him have so far come to nothing. The North Korean weapons program continues to move forward, and while its recent missile launch failed, Pyongyang’s rhetoric – and military capabilities – continues to intensify.

The same is true for the ongoing conflicts in which the United States remains involved, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya and Yemen. Under the Trump administration, there have been increased U.S. airstrikes in Iraq,

cases, mounting.

The White House didn’t directly order all recent action – the much-publicized dropping of the U.S. military’s largest conventional bomb on Afghanistan appears to have been the decision of regional commanders. The Trump White House seems to place fewer restrictions on what the military can do in conflict zones than the more micromanaging Obama administration – but that approach also brings risks.

There’s also the issue of how much attention the administration can devote to other, secondtier issues – it still has a shortage of deputy and assistant secretaries of state and defense who normally do much of the heavy lifting.

In its first 100 days, the Trump White House has done better than many expected in handling some crises, and proved surprisingly adept at the strategic signals it projects to the world. But it has also developed the alarming habit of turning to military force, particularly bombing or the threat of it, as a first – not last – resort. It’s an approach that may work sometimes for individual crises in the Middle East, perhaps even North Korea. But it can also go wrong – and in an era of rising tensions with Russia and China, it could prove catastrophic.

Peter Apps is Reuters global affairs columnist. He is founder and executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century; PS21, a non-national, nonpartisan, non-ideological think tank in London, New York and Washington. Before that, he spent 12 years as a reporter for Reuters covering defense, political risk and emerging markets. Since 2016, he has been a member of the British

A Call for Value-Driven, Moral Leadership in Politics

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ivorced from ethics, politics is reduced to mere techniques of fighting for power.

That’s why Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. President (1933-1945) said, “The presidency is preeminently a place of moral leadership.”

Moral leadership in politics is not about preaching, or the uttering of pieties, or the insistence on social conformity. Moral leadership is always value-driven. It is about doing what is right and living it, so that others can be influenced to do the same thing. This emerges from the fundamental values and aspirations of the followers—I mean the kind that will satisfy the followers’ real needs. As such, the relationship between this kind of a leader and followers is less about power and more about mutual values, shared aspirations, and real needs. In fact, such a leader takes responsibility and assumes commitment to bring about a certain kind of economic, social, and political change.

Sometimes followers may not be conscious of their real needs. In such a situation, the first task of leadership is to bring to consciousness the followers’ sense of their own needs, values, and life purposes. But how can one make the people conscious of what lies unconscious? What would they accept as being durable and valid rather than false and transient? The answer, according to philosophers and psychologists, is conflict, because conflict produces consciousness. For example, consciousness may surface in the mind of the populace when they are faced with danger from outside, as from an invasion, or from inside, as in social breakdown, civil war, or natural catastrophes. Additionally, according to a research conducted on four nations (India, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the United States), it was discovered that consciousness could dawn on people and thus lead to change “If inefficiencies and corruption of governmental and social leadership go beyond ‘normal,’ if demands are constantly frustrated by incapacities … if all of this is compounded by a rising consciousness of discrimination and sense of justice.”

The essence of leadership in any polity is the recognition of real needs, the uncovering and exploiting of contradictions between values and practices, the realigning of values, the reorganization of institutions where necessary, and the governance of change. The leader’s task is to induce people to be aware of their true needs, because without awareness, nothing matters—that is, people cannot be moved to purposeful action without being conscious of their own needs.

Indeed, moral leaders could help people to see contradictions or imbalances within the system. Or they might actively arouse a sense of dissatisfaction by making followers aware of contradictions in values or inequalities in the sharing of public goods and services. Such dissatisfactions are the source of changes that moral leaders can exploit. For example, they can appeal to deeply held values, such as justice, liberty, brotherhood, equality, dignity, order, peace, security, property rights, and progress. These are much more important than talking about reducing poverty, fixing bad roads, winning elections, ensuring backward quotas, creating government jobs, building alliances with a ruling national party, securing more central funds, or the like.

Now let’s look at a few real needs, or values, to illustrate our point. Mahatma Gandhi, for example, could have succumbed to the cry of the Hindu majority of his time and left out the Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs to be part of greater India. But he chose national unity over narrowed politics. By doing so, he exemplified moral leadership. Similarly, President Roosevelt devoted so many addresses to sermon-like calls for transcending differences and behaving as one nation and one people.

In drafting the Constitution of the United States, the founders inserted three specific values in the Preamble: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” First, what does the right to Life mean? Obviously, it doesn’t just mean bare existence. Rather, it means people coming together for self-preservation, especially in times of unrest and violence. After all, the very lives of the people make the very life of a nation. Failing at this supreme value, no other thing is possible. The second core value for the Americans is the right to Liberty. This was at the heart of the early Americans’ outcry against the British Colonial power which had denied them the liberty to be a self-governing republic. The third value mentioned in their Constitution is the right to the pursuit of Happiness. This implies that leaders of a nation have a moral obligation to guarantee to all its citizens the conditions for pursuing happiness.

Values by themselves are mere words, unless backed by government. But when they are applied by leaders and followers alike, they have the power to transform society. This has been demonstrated to be true by nations such as the United States, U.K., Germany, Japan, Israel, South Korea, Singapore, to name a few.

Now what about Nagaland and its people? Are we value-based as a society? For that matter, are our leaders—who are supposed to know better—believe in values, such as justice, equality, dignity, order, peace, security, private property rights, unity, selfgovernment, freedom, and progress? Or, are they only after power and wealth accumulation for themselves? If indeed our leaders are destroying all our values, but our people are too naïve to realize it, then I’m afraid we are becoming a totally confused and lost lot.

To be able to see a transformed society, we Nagas must wake up from our current state of slumber. We must all repent from our pursuit of short-term, selfish benefits. And most importantly, we must respond to

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India submits ‘evidence’ on soldier mutilation New Delhi, May 3 (iaNS): India on Wednesday said it has "actionable evidence" of the Pakistan Army's involvement in the mutilation of two Indian soldiers' bodies. The collected blood samples of the slain personnel and a blood trail clearly showed that Pakistani soldiers returned beyond Line of Control after committing the crime.

The actionable evidence was given to Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit by Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar, who summoned him to the Foreign Office and conveyed India's outrage over the barbaric act.

Jaishankar demanded that Pakistan takes appropriate action against the soldiers and commanders responsible for it.

"The blood samples of the Indian soldiers that have been collected and the trail of blood on Roza Nala (the attack site) clearly shows that the killers returned across the Line of Control (LoC). They returned to PoK from where they came," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay told the media on the meeting the Foreign Secretary had with Basit.

"There is a clear trail of blood. It is an indication that people who came from across the LoC went back

India sends back 50 Pakistani students

Family of Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh, one of the Indian soldiers that the Indian Army alleges was killed by the Pakistan army.

to PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir)," the spokesperson said.

"It is significant that the attack was preceded by covering fire from Pakistani posts in Battal sector in the vicinity of village Battal. Blood samples of the Indian soldiers that have been collected and the trail of blood Roza Nala clearly shows that the killers returned across the Line of Control. The Indian side has sufficient evidence that

this act was committed by personnel of the Pakistan Army who crossed the Line of Control in the Krishna Ghati sector," Baglay said.

He said India has demanded that Pakistan take immediate action against its soldiers and commanders responsible for this heinous act.

Army's Naib Subedar Paramjeet Singh and the BSF's Head Constable Prem Sagar were killed and their bodies mutilated in Krishna

Ghati sector of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. India says that a Border Action Team (BAT) of Pakistan was behind the incident close to the Line of Control.

Asked repeatedly whether the blood samples and the trail included blood of Pakistani soldiers and how the government was sure these belonged to the Indian personnel, the spokesperson repeated the written formulation on the involvement of

Pakistani soldiers on their return to PoK. "Nobody is disputing this. One, the incident and two, we have told the High Commissioner that we have enough evidence. It was obvious that they returned to where they came from," Baglay said.

Providing "actionable evidence" of the involvement of the Pakistan Army, Jaishankar said that the attack on the Indian soldiers was "preceded by covering

'Ailing Sonia should appoint Rahul Congress chief' PaNaji, May 3 (iaNS): An ailing Congress President Sonia Gandhi should quickly appoint her son Rahul Gandhi as party chief since the delay is only helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi achieve his ambition of a Congress-free India, a Congress leader said on Wednesday.

"If Sonia Gandhi is sick, she should not make (the) Congress sick and thus help Modi to ensure a Congress-mukt Bharat," former

Goa Congress President John Fernandes said.

"If she wants to give leadership mantle to Rahul Gandhi, she should do it quickly because she is sick," Fernandes added.

He also faulted the Congress high command for not holding an All India Congress Committee session for three years, after the defeat in the 2014 General Elections which, he said, was only harming the party.

"The Congress should not be sick. The Congress can bounce back if there are workers like me and we work together. The Congress will come back because the people want the Congress. And the Goa election is an indicator," the two-term Rajya Sabha MP said.

Fernandes was appointed state party chief in 2013 after the Congress rout in the 2012 assembly elections. He was subsequently replaced by Luizinho Faleiro in 2014.

Reacting to Fernandes' statement, Goa Congress spokesperson Sunil Kawthankar said the comments had been taken seriously by the party and would be "reviewed" at an upcoming state executive committee meeting.

"Fernandes's opinion about whether the honourable Congress President should continue in the post or not is not binding on the party and her," Kawthankar quipped.

Embrace cleanliness for disease free India: PM Modi

hariDwar, May 3 (iaNS): Stressing the importance of preventive healthcare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged people not to litter so as to make India clean.

"I am sure the day the 125 crore people take a pledge to make India clean, the day won't be far when the entire country will become clean,"

he said here.

The Prime Minister was speaking at the inauguration here of a state-of-art, multi-crore research facility run by Baba Ramdev's Patanjali group.

Modi also found fault over what he said was the neglect of India's traditional forms of medicine like Ayurveda.

"While pre-independence period witnessed attempts to destroy India's indigenous and traditional arts and forms of healthcare like Ayurveda, a large part of post-independence period was spent in neglecting them." Modi lamented that the indifference led to foreign countries acquiring patents.

"The world now is not just content with curing diseases but there is more emphasis on wellness and preventive healthcare. The best way to ensure and promote preventive healthcare is cleanliness," he said.

"If we resolve to be clean, if we resolve not to

CBI nabs Mumbai IT commissioner, Essar MD in bribery case MuMbai, May 3 (iaNS): In a major swoop, the CBI on Wednesday nabbed an Income Tax Commissioner, a top official of Essar Group, and four others in a bribery case, and recovered Rs 1.50 crore, officials said here. The arrested IT officer is B. B. Rajendra Prasad, an IRS officer of 1992 batch who is currently IT Commissioner (Appeals - 30) in Mumbai.

The others nabbed include: Pradip Mittal, Managing Director of Essar Group of Companies, and Vipin Bajpai, an accounts officer in that company headquartered in Mumbai. Three others, a Chartered Accountant Shreyas Parikh working with M/s. G.K.Choksi, and a realtor Suresh Kumar Jain and his relative Manish Jain have also been arrested.

The CBI said that Prasad had recently passed an order in an appeal matter favouring a private trust belonging to the Essar Group. For passing the favourable order, the Prasad allegedly demanded a bribe of around Rs 2 crore and said it should be delivered to Manish Jain, who in turn would transfer it to Suresh Kumar Jain in Visakhapatnam.

The Income Tax Commissioner took leave and went to Visakhapatnam and demanded that a part of the money should be delivered to his residence in Visakhapatnam.

Acting on a tip-off, the CBI laid a trap and caught Prasad receiving a part of the bribe amount - Rs 19.34 lakh - from Suresh Kumar Jain.

Both were arrested. The CBI said it had recovered the remaining amount of around Rs 1.50 crore from Suresh Kumar Jain. The CBI sleuths conducted raids in Mumbai and Visakhapatnam at the offices and residences of all the accused leading to recovery of several property investment documents, details of bank accounts, three bank lockers and other incriminating papers. The accused will be produced before a designated court later, officials said.

litter or spread dirt and filth, we can save more lives than a doctor does. Cleanliness is the way ahead to make India disease free.

"Our ancestors spent their lives making innovations and turning these innovations useful for humanity. "We must never forget that innovative spirit and continue making efforts to develop our traditional techniques and methods," Modi added.

The Prime Minister remarked that he felt blessed to have prayed at the Lord Kedarnath temple earlier in the day. He lauded the efforts of Ramdev in popularizing yoga and Ayurveda.

"I am fortunate I have seen Baba Ramdev from close quarters. I can say that his real wealth is his commitment to people's health."

While not much research was done in other fields, Modi said work done by the new generation in IT had indeed drawn global attention towards India.

New Delhi, May 3 (PTi): Around 50 Pakistani students, visiting India at the invitation of an NGO, were sent back today after the government advised it against hosting them at a time which was not “appropriate” in the aftermath of beheading of two Indian soldiers. “An NGO had invited Pakistani school students here. They came to India on the same day when the barbaric and inhuman act of killing and mutilating our soldiers happened.

“The ministry advised the NGO that it was not an appropriate time for such exchanges after we learnt that the children had crossed over to India on May 1,” Gopal Baglay, a spokesperson of the MEA, said.

Routes2Roots, a Delhi-based NGO, had invited 50 students from Pakistan as part of their Student ‘Exchange for Change’ Program.

The students from Pakistan were scheduled to go on a day-long trip to Agra today and participate in an exchange of experiences with Indian students tomorrow at the Pakistan Embasfire from Pakistani posts in Battal sector (in the vicinity of village Battal)".

Baglay said the High Commissioner denied the Pakistan Army was involved in the mutilation incident but gave an assurance that he would convey India's outrage to his government.

"It was conveyed that the government considers this as a strong act of provocation and in contravention to all norms of civilised conduct," the spokesper-

sy here.

Expressing regret over the return of the delegation, Routes2Roots said that the trip had to be shortened and the students and teachers have been sent back to Lahore.

“Around 50 students aged between 11-15 years along with their teachers arrived in Delhi from Pakistan on May 1 and were supposed to meet their Indian pen friends and hosts of other programs which had to be cut short.

“Keeping in view the security and sentiments of fellow Indians the delegation has been sent back to Lahore safely,” Rakesh Gupta and Tina Vachani, founders of Routes2Roots, said in a statement.

In October last year, a similar programme by the NGO was cancelled after the announcement of surgical strike by India along the LoC in September.

“Even then as a precautionary measure we cancelled the exchange programme and now the same thing has recurred. If things go well, we will again bring the students, possibly within a month or two,” Rakesh told PTI.

son said.

Asked whether India would reconsider the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status given to Pakistan in the wake of the mutilation incident, Baglay said it was given under obligation to the WTO. Similarly, asked whether India would review the Indus Waters Treaty, he said the treaty which was signed in 1960 is handled by the Permanent Indus Commission.

The spokesperson once again ruled out any third party involvement in attempts to resolve the Kashmir issue. He said there is no ambiguity on India's policy that the issue should be resolved between India and Pakistan bilaterally.

He was replying to a question on India's stand on the suggestion of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a multilateral dialogue on resolving the Kashmir issue.

Kumar Vishwas remains in AAP, his MLA critic suspended New Delhi, May 3 (iaNS): Delhi's ruling AAP averted a major crisis on Wednesday when its disgruntled founder leader Kumar Vishwas agreed not to quit while an MLA who took him on was suspended from the party.

After indicating a day earlier that he may quit the Aam Aadmi Party, Kumar Vishwas on Wednesday attended a meeting of the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence.

"The PAC has decided to suspend Amanatullah Khan from the party," Deputy Chief Minister and Kumar Vishwas' childhood friend Manish Sisodia told reporters.

The decision came three days after Khan alleged that Kumar Vishwas was conspiring to break the party and plotting a coup against Kejriwal at the behest of the BJP and RSS. The AAP also announced a threemember committee of party leaders Pankaj Gupta, Atishi Marlena and Ashutosh to determine why Khan made the allegation against the poet-politician.

Appearing before the media with Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas said he was happy a dialogue among party members had resumed.

"I want to assure all the workers that whenever there is a need to brainstorm and discuss, we will sit together even if we have differences," he said. "No one should have an impression that it was a power struggle."

Kumar Vishwas again insisted he had no desire to become the Chief Minister or convener of the party.

After the PAC meeting, Sisodia went to

meet Khan, the Okhla MLA. While the party said he went to communicate the PAC's decision, informed sources said it was meant to placate the suspended legislator.

Khan said he was pained by the party's decision but would not comment on the Kumar Vishwas issue. He added he would speak only in party forums.

Also on Wednesday, Kumar Vishwas was named the AAP in-charge of Rajasthan, where assembly elections will be held next year. Sisodia said Kumar Vishwas had been given the task of strengthening the AAP in Rajasthan and the party "will fight election in the state under his leadership".

The BJP and Congress slammed the infighting in the AAP. BJP leader Vijender Gupta called the AAP a "team of losers" and said the party was facing infighting as it had lost the municipal elections.

Congress leader Ajay Maken called the AAP the B-team of the BJP and said not just Kumar Vishwas, even Kejriwal and Sisodia had an understanding with the BJP. On Tuesday, Kumar Vishwas alleged a conspiracy against him and indicated his possible exit from the party.

He dubbed Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan, who accused him of being a "BJPRSS agent", as a "mask" behind those ganging up against him.

After his public outburst, Kejriwal called on Kumar Vishwas on Tuesday night and the two drove to the Chief Minister's residence to discuss the unprecedented rift between them.

In 41 yrs, as economy grew 2,100 per cent, infant mortality dropped by just 68 per cent Swagata Yadavar IANS

Over 41 years to 2016, a national health programme for children has led to a 68 per cent drop in India's infant mortality rate (IMR), but the IMR of 41 deaths per 1,000 live births is still worse off than poorer neighbours like Bangladesh (31) and Nepal (29).

It is now 42 years since the integrated child development scheme (ICDS) -- the world's largest integrated early childhood programme -- was launched, and its successes and failures mirror the country's inability to improve health services to match the growth in its economy, which grew 21 times -- or 2,100 per cent -- between 1975 and 2016.

The scheme, launched on October 2, 1975, was a response to the challenge of providing preschool and non-formal education and to break the cycle of malnutrition, morbidity, reduced learning capacity and mortality.

ICDS has reached 99.3 million beneficiaries and has 1.4 million anganwadi centres (AWCs) across the country, as of December 2016, the Women and Child

Development Ministry told the Lok Sabha in March.

India has reduced its infant mortality rate (IMR, deaths per 1,000 live births) by 68 per cent, as we said, in the last 41 years -from 130 in 1975 to 41 in 2015-16, as data from the National Family Health Survey 2015-16 reveal.

Yet, India's IMR of 41 deaths per 1,000 live births is worse off than poorer neighbours Bangladesh (31) and Nepal (29), and the African nation of Rwanda (31). Even its under-five mortality rate of 50 deaths per 1,000 live births is worse than Nepal (36), Bangladesh (38) and Bhutan (33).

Also, India is home to more than 40 million stunted (low height-for-age) children under the age of five -- more than any country in the world, and in spite of a 200 per cent increase in spending on child health between 2005-06 and 2014-15.

There has been a 4.7 per cent increase in the ICDS allocation in Union budget 2017-18 -- from Rs 14,560 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 15,245 in 2017-18. But this was after a bigger reduction in the allocations during 2015-16.

Yet, "...more allocations need to be made both at the Union and state level, considering the severity of malnutrition in India. Also, decreasing the work load of the overburdened anganwadi workers and improving their capacity to support the various services under the programme calls for an enhanced budget allocation," the budget analysis by Centre for Governance and Budget Accountability noted.

The ICDS is aimed at the holistic development of children under six and providing nutritional and health support to pregnant and lactating mothers.

There are six services that fall under ICDS: Supplementary nutrition, immunisation, referral services, health check-up, preschool non formal education, and health and nutrition education.

Three of these -- immunisation, health check-up and referral services -- are delivered through the public health system by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The others are delivered through the Women and Child Development Ministry. The idea was to integrate the services to-

gether to improve overall impact.

From not actually covering all eligible children to having infrastructural gaps, many deficiencies of the ICDS have been documented by various reports over the years.

Around 50 per cent of the total eligible children were found to be enrolled at anganwadi centres and the effective coverage as per norms is only 41 per cent of those registered for the ICDS benefits, according to this 2011 evaluation of ICDS by the erstwhile Planning Commission across 100 districts in 35 states.

"Anganwadi workers are overburdened, underpaid and mostly unskilled, which affects the implementation of the scheme," the report noted.

Sixty percent of the AWCs did not have their own building, and 25 per cent were functioning in semi-pucca/kuccha buildings or partially open space, a 2012 audit on ICDS by the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India -- the government's auditor -- found.

Fifty two percent of AWCs did not have a toilet and 32 per cent did not have drinking water facili-

ties -- which led to sanitation and hygiene problems -- the CAG's report noted.

Besides the infrastructure issues, the auditors found 33 to 47 per cent of children were not weighed from 2006 to 2011, and the data on nutritional status of children had discrepancies.

The auditors found that the funds were not released for critical aspects of the scheme and a large portion of the funds released were for salaries; they also noted that "the follow-up action on the internal monitoring and evaluation by the ministry was not adequate".

Nearly 60 per cent of AWCs were still awaiting their flexi funds of Rs 1,000 per annum for meeting emergency costs such as referral arrangements, shortage of medicines and utensils, a 2016 survey across 300 AWCs, spread across 10 districts in five states, by Accountability Initiative, a public research initiative at Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, found.

Fourteen percent AWCs reported a shortage of grains and 41 per cent reported a delay in getting grains or money to buy grains the survey found.

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Japan voters split on As U.S. and China find common ground revising pacifist constitution on North Korea, is Russia the wild card?

SEOUL/VLADIVOSTOK, MAy 3 (REUTERS): When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent Lunar New Year greetings this year, the first card went to Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of leaders from China and other allies of the isolated country, according to its official news agency.

Some academics who study North Korea argue Kim could be looking for Russia to ease any pain if China, which accounts for about 90 percent of North Korea’s trade, steps up sanctions against the isolated country as part of moves to deter its nuclear and missile programmes.

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping last week for Beijing’s assistance in trying to rein in Pyongyang. A day later, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pressed the United Nations Security Council to impose more sanctions to further isolate Pyongyang.

There is no sign of any sustainable increase in trade between Russia and North Korea, but business and transport links between the two are getting busier.

A new ferry service starting next week will move up to 200 passengers and 1,000 tonnes of cargo six times a month between North Korea and the Russian port of Vladivostok. Shipping data on Thomson Reuters Eikon shows there has been a recent steady flow of oil tanker traffic from Vladivostok into North Korean east coast ports.

Last Thursday, five North Korean-flagged oil

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un watches a military drill marking the 85th anniversary of the establishment of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in this handout photo

by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) made available on April 26.

(REUTERS File Photo)

tankers had loaded up at Vladivostok-area ports and identified North Korean ports as their destination. It was not known what products they were carrying.

Earlier this year, Russian government officials visited Pyongyang to discuss more cooperation in rail transport, according to media reports.

A Russian-built railway link between the Russian eastern border town of Khasan and the North Korean port of Rajin has been used to carry some coal, metals and various oil products.

“North Korea does not care about China’s pressure or sanctions because there is Russia next door,” said Leonid Petrov, a North Korea expert at Australia National University. “Pyongyang has been playing off Beijing and Moscow for half a century, letting them compete for the right to aid and influence North Korea.”

Russia, especially Vladivostok, is also home to one of the largest overseas com-

Hillary says Comey’s letter & Russian hackers cost her the election

yang regime could bring economic benefits for Moscow. It would demonstrate Russia was “a loyal partner to anti-Western regimes facing international isolation and sanctions”, he said.

“As Russia has close economic links with other countries at odds with the West, like Iran, Venezuela and Syria, this symbolic dimension of the RussiaNorth Korea relationship has strategic significance.”

The United States is calling for an embargo in oil sales to North Korea, which imports all its fuel needs.

China, North Korea’s main supplier, is unlikely to agree because that would be potentially destabilising for the Pyongyang regime, but it may impose curbs on the trade, experts say.

China exports about 500,000 tonnes of crude and 270,000 tonnes of products each year, oil industry “LOYAL PARTNER” Samuel Ramani, a Russia sources in China say. Rusexpert at Oxford University, sia, the other major supplisaid support for the Pyong- er of oil to North Korea, exmunities of North Koreans in the world, and they send home tens of thousands of dollars in much-needed hard currency each month.

Speaking at the United Nations last week, Tillerson called on states to sever diplomatic and financial ties with Pyongyang and suspend the flow of North Korean guest workers. The Security Council has not yet agreed on any course of action.

While Russia has not indicated it will oppose U.N. sanctions or seek to dilute them, its ties with the United States are fraught, which could complicate its joining any U.S.-led initiative on North Korea.

Trump and Putin spoke in a telephone call on Tuesday and discussed North Korea, among other issues, both sides said. There was no word of any agreement.

ported about 36,000 tonnes of oil products in 2015, the latest year for which figures are available, according to U.N. data. Russia has already taken over the supply of jet fuel to North Korea after China halted exports two years ago, according to the industry sources in China.

Russia is also the source of foreign exchange for North Korea, mostly from Vladivostok. The city of 600,000 people, just about 100 km (60 miles) from the border with North Korea, is home to thousands of North Koreans who mainly work on construction or do home renovations. A city web site advertises “Korean Professional Contractors” and says they work “Cheaply and Fast”.

One North Korean man, who works as a handyman, told Reuters he was obliged to hand over a portion of his income $500 – to the North Korean state each month. Thin and in his 30s, he did not disclose his monthly income, but said he charged 4,000 roubles (about $70) for a day’s labour.

The man said he had worked in Russia for 11 years, leaving his wife and daughter back home whom he only saw on rare visits. Like all North Koreans, he wore a badge on his lapel bearing the portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung.

“It’s better here than in North Korea,” said the man, who did not want to be named. “It’s a very difficult life there. Here you can make money.” But the most symbolic upturn in ties between Russia and North

INAUGURAL FUNCTION OF INDUCTION TRAINING FOR TECHNICAL SERVICES (ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL OFFICERS)

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes part in the Women for Women International Luncheon in New York City, New York, U.S., May 2, 2017. REUTERS John Whitesides Reuters

Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she was on the path to victory in the 2016 presidential election until late interference

by Russian hackers and FBI Director James Comey scared off some potential supporters. In her most extensive public comments on the Nov. 8 election, Clinton told a New York conference she was derailed by Comey’s Oct. 28 letter informing Congress the Federal Bureau of Investigation had reopened a probe of her use of a private email server and by the WikiLeaks release of campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, allegedly stolen by Russian hackers.

“If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president,” she told a women’s conference moderated by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “It wasn’t a perfect campaign, but I was on the way to winning until a combination of Comey’s letter and Russian WikiLeaks,” the Democrat said of the loss to Republican Donald Trump.

“The reason why I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days.”

Clinton, who said she is going through the “painful process” of writing a book dealing in part with the election, also said misogyny played a role in her defeat. Becoming the first woman U.S. president would have been “a really big deal,” she said.

Clinton took personal responsibility for the campaign’s mistakes, but did not question her strategy or her staff. “I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had,” Clinton said.

She said she had no doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to influence the election for Trump, and bluntly criticized the new U.S. president for some of his foreign policy views and for tweeting too much.

“I’m back to being an activist citizen - and part of the resistance,” she said.

Clinton said broader negotiations involving China and other countries in the region were critical for convincing North Korea to rein in its nuclear program. She questioned Trump’s recent suggestion he would be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un under the right circumstances.

“You should not offer that in the absence of a broader strategic framework to try to get China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, to put the kind of pressure on the regime that will finally bring them to the negotiating table,” Clinton said. She also said she supported the recent missile strikes ordered by Trump in Syria but was unsure if they would make a difference. “There is a lot that we don’t really yet fully know about what was part of that strike,” she said.

Korea is the start of regular trips of the Mangyongbong ferry from Monday between Vladivostok and the North Korean town of Rajin.

Vladimir Baranov, the head of Vladivostok-based Investstroitrest company, told Reuters his company had chartered the Mangyongbong and would be the general agent for the ferry route. The ageing boat used to ferry tourists between Japan and North Korea, but Tokyo banned its visits in 2006 as part of sanctions against Pyongyang.

An editorial in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper described the ferry service to Russia as “a move that puts a damper on international efforts to strengthen the encirclement of North Korea aimed at halting its nuclear and missile development.”

Still, despite the differences with the United States and the existing links with North Korea, experts say Russia is unlikely to sharp increase trade with Pyongyang because of its low foreign exchange reserves and general unreliability.

“All trade with North Korea has to be subsidised,” said Andrei Lankov, a Russian North Korea expert at Seoul’s Kookmin University. “I do not see the Russian government spending its dwindling currency reserves to support the regime they despise and see as incurably ungrateful, and also prone to risky adventurism”.

TOKyO, MAy 3 (REUTERS): Voters in Japan are deeply divided over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign to revise its 70-year-old pacifist constitution, according to a poll released on Wednesday, against a backdrop of growing tension in the region, particularly over North Korea. The Nikkei Inc/TV Tokyo survey, published on the anniversary of the constitution’s enactment, showed support growing for Abe’s push to revise a charter written by the United States after Japan’s defeat in World War Two and never amended.

About 46% of respondents favoured keeping the constitution as it is, four percentage points lower than a similar poll last year. The number favouring a change stood at 45 %, up 5 percentage points from a year ago. Nuclear-armed North Korea has over the past year stepped up missile tests, the most recent of which was a failed launch on Saturday.

It has also threatened to attack Japan. North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese air forces. Under the constitution’s Article Nine, Japan forever renounced its right to wage war, leaving it open to interpretation whether it should maintain forces and how they could be used.

Successive governments have interpreted the constitution as allowing a military for “self-defence” only, and Japanese troops have taken part in international peace-keeping operations, as well as a non-combat reconstruction mission in Iraq during 2004-2006. Abe, in a video message to a gathering celebrating the charter’s anniversary, proposed making explicit reference to the existence of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the constitution, Kyodo reported. The document currently does not make any mention of the SDF. “By making explicit the status of the SDF in the constitution during our generation’s lifetime, we should leave no room for contending that (the SDF) may be unconstitutional,” Abe said. Abe said he hoped to see the first-ever change to the constitution enacted by 2020, Kyodo said, the first ever public mention of a date. Under Abe’s watch, parliament in 2015 voted into law a defence policy shift that could let troops fight overseas for the first time since 1945, but any constitutional revision would require the backing of two-thirds of members of both houses of parliament and a majority of voters in a referendum.

In March, Abe’s Liberal Democrat ruling party formally proposed that the government consider acquiring the capability to strike enemy bases and beef up missile defence in the face of the North Korean threat. Acquiring such weapons would likely anger China, where bitter memories of Japan’s wartime aggression run deep.

A separate survey released by Kyodo News on Saturday showed 49% of respondents said Article Nine needed to be revised, against 47% opposing a change.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION NAGALAND: KOHIMA PRESS RELEASE Dated Kohima, the 2nd May 2017

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Written Test will be for a duration of 3 (three) hours Written Test for both GT & PT will include General Studies, English, Essay, Science, Social Science & Mathematics.

For others in PET/LT/DT/Lab. Asst /HT/CI/KI category, written and practical test will be assessed on respective subject matter only.

4. All Adhoc Employees to collect the 'Admit Card' from 16th - 19th of May 2017 during office hour from the Directorate of School Education along with Rs. 500 (five hundred) as examination processing fee.

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celtics win, Warriors rip Jazz

'Gutless' Italian authorities slammed for Muntari ban London, May 3 (ReuteRs): Britain's Kick It Out anti-discrimination group called Italy's football authorities "gutless" following Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari's ban for walking off the pitch at Cagliari after being subjected to racist abuse from the crowd.

Former Tottenham Hotspur striker Garth Crooks, an independent trustee at the organisation, urged black players in Italy to go on strike this weekend unless the ban is withdrawn, the campaign group said in a statement.

Muntari was booked for dissent after complaining to the referee about the abuse on Sunday and left the pitch in protest during stoppage time, leaving his team to play the last few minutes with 10 men.

The Ghanaian was shown a second yellow card for leaving the pitch without permission, which the Serie A's disciplinary committee confirmed had triggered an automatic one-match ban.

The committee also said no action would be taken against Cagliari because only around 10 supporters

were involved in abusing Muntari.

"The gutless failure to not take action by the Italian authorities should not be allowed to pass," Kick It Out said in a statement on Wednesday.

"It's unbelievable that Cagliari escaped punishment as 'only 10' fans were involved. This situation should never be allowed to happen again.

Italy and other countries have struggled to stamp out racist chants at games. In 2013, the AC Milan team left the pitch during a friendly in the town of Busto Arsizio after home fans insulted midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, another Ghanaian.

Under guidelines introduced following that incident, the referee is supposed to alert the fourth official who should in turn contact authorities policing games.

Everton's Lennon being treated for 'stress-related illness' Washington Wizards forward Otto Porter Jr. breaks up a drive to the basket by Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas. (AP Photo)

Washington, May 3 (aFP): Isaiah Thomas scored a career-high 53 points and dedicated the effort to his late sister as the Boston Celtics defeated the Washington Wizards 129119 in a second-round NBA playoff game Tuesday.

Thomas scored 20 points in the fourth quarter and nine more in a game-closing 15-2 over-time run that gave the host Celtics a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference series, which shifts to Washington for game three on Thursday.

Thomas attended his sister Chyna's funeral Saturday after she died in a car accident and has also had to overcome having had a tooth knocked out in a game-one victory Sunday.

"My sister, everything I do is for her, and she's watching over me," Thomas said.

On what would have been his sister's 23rd birthday, Thomas connected on 18-of-33 shots from the floor and 12-of-13 from the free throw line.

"The least I can do is go out there and play for her," Thomas said.

"There was no way I couldn't play on her birthday. I wanted to win for her."

He did more than that, eclipsing his former career-best 52 points in a regular-season victory over Miami this season and his former playoff best of 42 last year against Atlanta.

In the Western Conference, NBA season wins leader Golden State beat

visiting Utah 106-94 in the opener of their second-round series.

Celtics center Al Horford contributed 15 points and 12 rebounds while Jae Crowder and Avery Bradley each added 14 points for Boston.

Thomas spent six hours with a dentist on Monday to repair his teeth and played with a custom-made dental guard.

"What else is there to say?" Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "There was a point today where he was not feeling good at all. He's had a tough day and I thought he was going to really have to gut this one out.

"Not only guts it out, he ends up with 50. Pretty impressive."

John Wall led seven double-figure scorers for the Washington Wizards with 40 points and 13 assists, but 19 of those points and six assists came in the first quarter.

The Wizards, who led 42-29 after the first period, became the first team since the NBA introduced a shot clock in 1954 to lose the first two games of a playoff series after leading each by 10 or more points at the end of the first quarter.

"It was a hell of a basketball game," Wizards coach Scott Brooks said. "Two teams played their hearts out. Two great players played well. I thought both teams competed, nothing to be ashamed of."

Otto Porter's 3-pointer put Wash-

ington ahead 114-112 with 32 seconds to play in regulation but Thomas was fouled by Marcin Gortat and sank two free throws with 14.4 seconds remaining to pull Boston level again. Wall and Beal missed in the dying seconds to send the game into over-time.

- No layoff woes for Warriors In Oakland, California, Stephen Curry scored 22 points while Draymond Green and Kevin Durant each added 17 points and Klay Thompson had 15 as the Warriors showed no rust from a week off after a firstround sweep.

"Seven days can get a little bit tough," Green said. "We were a little beat up. It was good we got our guys healed up. We came out and showed good rhythm."

The Warriors scored the first nine points and would surge ahead 58-46 at half-time. Curry scored 16 first-half points while Durant and Thompson each added 10.

Utah stayed within 84-73 entering the fourth quarter, but the Warriors opened it with a 8-0 run as the Jazz missed their first six shots of the final period and Golden State pulled away to stay.

The Warriors were coached by assistant Mike Brown as Steve Kerr remained sidelined by complications following back surgery.

LiveRPooL, May 3 (ReuteRs): Everton winger Aaron Lennon is receiving treatment for a "stress-related illness", the Premier League club said after local media reported the player was detained by police over concerns for his welfare.

The 30-year-old England international, who joined Everton from Tottenham Hotspur in 2015, has not featured for the Merseyside club since the goalless draw at Middles-

brough in February.

Earlier last month, Everton manager Ronald Koeman said Lennon was "not in a physical way to be part of the team".

"Aaron Lennon is receiving care and treatment for a stress-related illness," the club said in a statement.

"The club is supporting him through this and his family has appealed for privacy at this time."

Responding to a call in nearby Salford, the Greater

Manchester Police said a man taken to hospital for "assessment" on Sunday.

"Police were called at around 4:35 p.m. to re-

ports of a concern for the welfare of a man on Eccles Old Road," a police statement said.

"Officers attended and a 30-year-old man was detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for assessment."

Base Soccer Agency, which represents Lennon, tweeted: "Everyone at Base Soccer sends their support to @AaronLennon12 -- get well soon and stay strong."

Wimbledon keeps Sharapova guessing on wildcard entry London, May 3 (ReuteRs): Former champion Maria Sharapova's hopes of playing at this year's Wimbledon championships will hinge on a June 20 meeting of tournament organisers unless the Russian hits form in forthcoming events in Rome and Madrid.

Sharapova, who returned last week after a 15-month ban for an antidoping violation, could still climb high enough in the WTA rankings to earn a spot in the Wimbledon qualifying tournament at Roehampton.

Failing that the 2004 champion would need a

wildcard, either into the main draw or the qualifying event a week before the championship begins.

"We have a long-standing tried and tested process (for awarding wildcards) in the week before qualifying and this year is no different," All England Club chairman Philip Brook said at a news conference on Wednesday.

"First we will see if Maria applies for a wildcard and if so we will consider her case alongside everyone else's."

Sharapova reached the semi-finals in Stuttgart last week as a wildcard entrant, playing her

first tournament since her ban for taking the prohibited substance Meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open. Her world ranking rose to 262.

The cut-off date to enter Wimbledon's main draw is May 22, the day after the conclusion of the Rome tournament in which Sharapova has been handed another wildcard.

A string of wins there and in Madrid the following week, where she also has a wildcard, could squeeze her into Wimbledon qualifying on merit.

That would potentially spare the All England Club a tough decision, which al-

ready faces the absence of defending champion Serena Williams who is pregnant.

While at pains to say any application by Sharapova for wildcard would be treated like any other, Brook hinted that reputation could influence the committee which includes himself, Wimbledon tournament referee Andrew Jarrett and former British number one Tim Henman.

"We will also consider what might add interest to the tournament. If someone has a strong record at Wimbledon that would be taken into consideration."

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The crucial facts of the Shillong Accord of 1975 Kaka D. Iralu

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obody can deny that an Accord called the Shillong Accord was signed between the “Representatives of the underground organizations” and L.P. Singh the Governor of Nagaland on Nov.11, 1975 at Shillong. Nobody can either deny that the officials who signed the document were sent by Zashei Huire, the then President of the Federal Government of Nagaland. Nobody can also deny that as a result of the accord, 150 guns of the Naga army were “deposited to the Peace Council team” and are still kept at the locked Federal Armory at the Chedema Peace Camp. This action on the part of the FGN was in implementing clause 2 of the Shillong Accord.But the crux or crucial issue of the Accord is however- whether Zashei and his colleagues accepted Clause 1 and 3 of the Shillong Accord.

These two clauses states that that the underground organizations would of their own volition, accept the Constitution of India and that final settlement would be concluded after giving sufficient time to the underground organization to formulate issues for discussion. The implications of the above stated facts are the following: If President Zashei and his colleagues have accepted Clause 1 and 3 of the Shillong Accord, then they have indeed betrayed the Naga nation and have become traitors who could be shot to death on charges of treason to the nation. If however, Zashei and his colleagues have not accepted clause 1 and 3 of the Accord, then some Naga leaders have twisted the Shillong Accord and murdered thousands of

their own people, so that they could topple the NNC and take over political power without the mandate of the Naga nation.

Therefore, let every Naga read President Zashei’s statement on the Shillong Accord and find the facts for themselves. As President of the FGN, Zashei’s statement was given on behalf of every Naga citizen and it is reproduced here in its original form.

Federal Government of Nagaland Statement of Zashei Huire on the Shillong Accord WHEREAS a Resolution was adopted by the Naga Federal Emergency Meeting held at Urra-Dihoma on 2nd December 1975: Quote“An understanding that is officially known as the Shillong Accord between the Representatives of the underground Organizations and the Representatives of India was delivered to the Naga Federal Emergency Meeting on Saturday, the 29th November 1975 and the discussions spread over Tuesday, the 2nd December 1975.

The Shillong Accord is as follows: 1. The Representatives of the Underground Organization conveyed their decision, of their own volition, to accept the Constitution of India; 2. It was agreed that the arms, now underground, would be brought out and deposited at appointed places. Details for giving effect to this agreement will be worked out between them and representatives of the government, the security forces, and the Members of the

liaison Committee; 3. It was agreed that the representatives of the Underground Organizations should have reasonable time to formulate other issues for discussions for Final Settlement.

A careful study along with the implications of each item has been made and the decision taken is as follows: 1. The Naga Federal Emergency Meeting, having received the REPORT from the Federal and NNC Representatives on the Shillong Accord, and having made a serious study of the matter, urged that the Accord be forwarded to A.Z. Phizo, President of the Naga National Council and Representatives of the Federal Government of Nagaland Abroad, for his consent, and hereby re-affirmed that the Talks between the Government of India and the NAGAS be conducted by him, so that the Final Settlement that could be reached with the Government of India might NOT leave any trail of bitterness among the Nagas.

2. Whereas a warfare has been going on in the Naga country for a long period of twenty years, it is the non-combatants who are suffering more than the combatants, because the village areas and the fields are all unprotected areas. Therefore all forms of violence and bitterness shall have to be brought to an end.

adopted at the Naga Federal Emergency Meeting during the opening days of December 1975, the present effort is taking place for the speedy restoration of peace in the Naga Homeland, and to settle the Indo-Naga issue.

On this urgent matter, the progress we have so far achieved and consistently making further to keep the Members of the Liaison Committee fully informed, and who, in turn, are to convey the exact situation to the Government of India.

The Shillong Accord No. 2: It has been impressed upon us that the Shillong Accord No. 2 should be implemented without delay, so that the Government of India can take positive steps in the following Army and Police actions:a) Withdrawal of Military personnel from the Operation theatres; b) The release of political prisoners; c) The withdrawal of Cases that are pending in Courts; d) The withdrawal of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act; e) The revision of Police activities and Collective Fines against the village communities, etc.

In this respect, we have already taken measures to construct Open Camps and to implement the No. 2 of the Shillong Accord according to the Plan that was first agreed upon between the Naga Federal representatives on one side AND the Members of the Liaison Committee on the other side, who are the recognized body to THEREFORE, in pursu- assist in the works of collection.

Since our talks on the restoance of the Resolution that was

ration of peace began, first with the go-between Liaison Members and then, with the officials of the Government of India, the strong pressures exerted upon the Naga Federal Representatives have been only on the item of the belief that it is the guns that is the sources of war. The collection of arms is going to be a contribution toward disarmament and the restoration of the Rule of Law.

The other issues: The Shillong Accord No. 1, and No. 3 We now bring the other two items of the Shillong Accord into our consideration. We are involved in a human problem.

In the inside Nagaland, we have called a halt to the SERVICE of the Naga Army. And now, we have to take the Naga National Council into our account.

The Naga National Council is an established Naga institution and therefore an independent organization. It is holding the Naga cultural, social and political interest.

In the political field, the Federal Government of Nagaland is functioning under its direction. The Articles 139 and 140 of the Constitution of Nagaland, reads: Art. 139. The Naga National Council shall be the only political institution in Nagaland.

Art. 140. The Naga National Council shall work on the following principles: 1. There shall be a Central Executive Council which will guide and control the political policy and decisions of the Nation.

2. Regional and Range Council will deal with organizational activities and problems in the re-

Concluding remarks of the presenter of the facts: A copy of this statement on the Shillong Accord by President Zashei was handed over to the Governor on the 3rd of January 1976 at Shillong. In the ensuing talks, the Governor realizing that the “Representatives of the underground organizations” had cleverly run away from the implications of Clause 1 and 3 of the Shillong Accord and that even the arms collected had been simply deposited at the Federal Armory at Chedema, threatened the Naga delegation that he would once again resume all military operations.

But when Rev, Longri countered him with the question “Governor, after achieving peace with such great efforts, are you going to be the first to start the war again?”

The Governor, after a long silence finally said: “The political process will have to be delinked from the Peace process. The political process will be handled by the Indian politicians and the Central Executive Council of the NNC.” Forty two years have passed since that day, but so far the Indian Government had neither ratified the Shillong Accord in their Parliament nor approached the Central Executive Council of the NNC for a final settlement of the Indo Naga conflict which was never settled by the Shillong Accord. As for the 150 arms that were deposited in the Chedema armory, the Indian Army later on seKUKNALIM. Sd/cretly damaged all these arms (Zashei Huire) by drilling the barrels of the President Federal Government of Nagaland guns without informing the Federal Government of NaDated Oking: 30-12-1975. galand.

spective Regions.

It is in this national observance and behavior that the Naga National Council has a firm foundation, and the people as a whole, have a common foundation here.

We, the Naga Federal representatives have labored ourselves to explain this position to the members of the Liaison Committee already that we have tried to reach A.Z. Phizo.

We have been informed that there is a technical aspect that would take some time to allow some of us to go to LODON or to let A.Z. Phizo come nearer home.

As our understanding and our communications are bound to improve after the implementation of the No. 2 of the Shillong Accord, we leave the No. 1 and the No. 3 of the Shillong Accord to the Central Executive Body of the Naga National Council where A.Z. Phizo is also the Chairman, to receive his consent.

THEREFORE, the Naga Federal authority is morally and legally not competent to include the Number One (1) and the Number Three (3) of the Shillong Accord until this subject is taken up by the competent authority.

We are only competent to carry out the No. 2 of the Shillong Accord. We would expect that the Government of India will come to appreciate our present position.

The Federal Government should aim to bring about a durable PEACE for the whole of Nagaland.

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

Thursday 04•05•2017

EntErtainmEnt

launched in Dimapur!

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Young entrepreneurs Soyingo Ezung and Alem Longchar, proprietors of “House of Candy” at the launch today. (Morung Photo)

He’s back!

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rad Pitt is making his comeback after a stressful past year. The 53-year-old actor graced the cover of GQ magazine, the first time he has appeared on the cover of any magazine since his split with Angelina Jolie last August.

The actor appeared on three different covers for the magazine, gazing soulfully at the camera in each one. His piercing blue eyes are the focal point of each cover and the actor isn't smiling in any of the three cover photos.

Brad and photographer Ryan McGinley travel to White Sands National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, and Everglades National Park and the photos are a result of that trip.

He then sits down for a personal interview, which GQ describes as a 'raw and

he best assortment of candies from around the world is now available in Dimapur!

House of Candy, popular in several cities in India offers all kinds of beautiful shaped candy creations in various flavors.

Giant lollipops, marshmallows, gummy bears, giant cola bottles, fruit jelly, fizzy peaches, sour melon slices, raspberries, milk chocolate almonds, chocolate butterscotch, jellybeans, candy necklaces, mini multicolor pencils, are some of the most popular candies found at the store. Lollipops are priced at Rupees

'If you love someone, set them free'

tween him and his family as it was reported last week that his six children stayed with him at his Los Feliz home in Los Angeles for the first time in seven months.

rad Pitt has compared his split from Angelina Jolie to 'a death' and hints the road to the breakup of his marriage was 'self-inflicted'.

Jolie stunned the world in August 2016 when she filed for divorce, just two years after they married in front of their six children in France.

Now in his first interview about the shock separation, he admits that he blames himself for the marriage crumbling.

He told GQ Style magazine: (It was) self-inficted... If you love someone, set them free. Now I know what it means, by feeling it 'It means to love without ownership. It means expecting nothing in return. It doesn't mean f*** all to me until, you know. Until you live it.'

When asked if the last few months had felt like he was grieving a death, he curtly replied: 'Yeah.'

The Fight Club star - who noticeably looks much trimmer in the three

cover shots - reveals he has cut out alcohol from his life, admitting it had become a 'problem' during his life with Angelina.

Now he insists he's ready to restart his life in a new way, explaining: 'I do remember a few spots along the road where I’ve become absolutely tired of myself. And this is a big one. These moments have always been a huge generator for change.

'But me, personally, I can’t remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn’t boozing or had a spliff, or something.'

The actor goes on to brand his vices as 'pacifiers' which meant he could run 'from feelings'.

'I mean I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know —things I wasn’t dealing with. I was boozing too much. It’s just become a problem.'

‘Baahubali’ star Prabhas becomes first South Indian actor to get a wax statue!

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o you want to see Prabhas in his Baahubali avatar forever? Well, your dream just came true as the actor has become the first South Indian actor to get his wax statue at the Madame Tussauds’ Bangkok edition in his Baahubali look. Ever since trade analyst Ramesh Bala broke the news, the stills of Prabhas have gone viral leaving his fans in a frenzy. The Baahubali mania has engulfed the entire globe. Not only in India but people across the world have been talking about the SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus.

What makes this news even bigger is the fact that no one in

160 and candies at Rupees 150 for 100 grams.

Drawing a large crowd at its launch today, the candy store is setup by young entrepreneurs Soyingo Ezung and Alem Longchar. Explaining the motive behind this sweet deal, the duo stated, “It’s a one of a kind venture in Dimapur. So we decided to go ahead and invest in the House of Candy. Also, it’s not just for kids but for everybody. Candies also make ideal gifts because of the colorful packaging.”

House of candy is open throughout the week, and located opposite VIP Tent House, Duncan Basti, Dimapur.

Brad Pitt does his first magazine shoot since Of passion, Angelina Jolie split as he stars on THREE GQ covers aspiring & trying

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reflective' conversation about 'love, loss, fatherhood, and how to move forward after things fall apart.'

But it does appear as if things are improving be-

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the history of South Indian cinema, not even superstars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal or Mammootty, has ever got a waxed. The feat has been attained only by Bollywood’s Alisters who have had the opportunity to become immortal through their statues at the several Madam Tussauds’ museums across the world.

Earlier, announcing the news, SS Rajamouli had declared, “Very happy to announce that Madame Tussauds is making a wax statue of our PRABHAS… First South Indian to be honoured thus. The statue will be unveiled at Bangkok and subsequently will be toured

all over the world,” Rajamouli added.

Prabhas starrer Baahubali: The Conclusion has minted over Rs 600 crores breaking every box office record which is coming in its way. In fact, it became one of the few films to be showcased in Russia and according to a recent update by Ramesh Bala, the film, on popular demand is getting more shows in the country there.

Prabhas has given five years to the franchise, and it seems it is all worth it. He has become one of the most popular actors whose film has broken the barriers of film industries across the globe.

Source: Indian Express

Source: Mail Online

Yenili Zhimo releases debut single

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enili Zhimo, a young and upcoming singer-songwriter from Dimapur, Nagaland released her debut single titled ‘Try’ at indihut.com recently.

At 20, she says that she is committed to music and is currently pursuing music at Hills Praise Music Academy, Dimapur. She lists her hobby as music – singing and song-writing; in her words, a “passion which can’t be restrained.”

Her music taste covers a wide genre – from pop, R&B to rock and metal, while she ardently follows Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Shakira and the likes. “I started singing from an early age.

It is my kind of hobby and a comfort,” Zhimo says of her fascination with music. She spends her leisure time writing - jotting down

beautiful lines, putting melody to it.

She says that though she is still at the learning stage she is grounded on making music her profession, a career choice which has put her “through a lot of commotion.” “Music is an art of expression and I will express it. What’s wrong in believing and giving it a try?”

With that commitment in mind, she says that she joined Hillspraise Music Academy in 2015 to fine tune her “passion.” Two years on, she says that she has learned a lot at the academy under the guidance of her gifted music teacher.

The debut single ‘Try’ speaks of a woman’s unconditional love. Download for free at>> http:// indihut.com/yen-zhimo/

‘Face of Dimapur’ audition on May 6

Eddie Redmayne looked fresh faced on Tuesday after reportedly being turned away from Rihanna's Met Gala afterparty the night before in New York. The Oscar winner and his wife Hannah were refused entry to the singer's event at 1 Oak nightclub in New York because of overcrowding - with the British heartthrob being seen making calls from outside as they navigated the crowds. But all was well again as he and Hannah enjoyed a stroll in the Big Apple the morning after the big night before looking in good spirits. (Photo Courtesy/Mailonline)

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thnic Trendzanda is coming up with second season of Face of Dimapur after a successful season in 2016. Face of Dimapur winners will get cash prize, gift hampers and a chance to represent Nagaland in higher platform with Ethinc Trendzanda. The audition will be held on May 6 at Cafè Hideout, Supermarket (next to post office).

Interested candidates have to be 17-26 Years of

age, height: 5'6” and above.

The documents required incudes ID Proof (PAN Card/Aadhaar Card, College/School ID Card).

Forms are available at Amber Departmental store, choice mart, world of titan church road, Gift Galore T. S Arcade and Cafè Hideout supermarket.

For further information contact 8974848165/+91 84 15 989097 or Email: faceofdimapur@gmail.com

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Totti to retire at end of season

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Rome, may 3 (ReuteRs): AS Roma's all-time appearance record holder and top scorer Francesco Totti is to call time on his 24-year career with the club and retire from soccer at the end of this season, the club's new sporting director Monchi said on Wednesday.

Totti, 40, has been at Roma since he was 13 and made his debut in 1993.

He captained the team to the 2001 Serie A title and back-to-back Coppa Italia triumphs in 2007 and 2008.

He is out of contract at the end of the season.

"There is an agreement with the club that this will be his last year and then he will continue as a director.

I want him on my side because he is Roma and can teach me what Roma is," Spaniard Monchi, who became the club's sporting director in April, told a news conference on Wednesday.

Totti, who also won the 2006 World Cup with Italy, has seen his playing time greatly diminish in the last two seasons, during which he has made just three Serie A starts. He was expected to retire last season until he signed a one-year extension.

Totti has made 15 sub-

stitutes' appearances this campaign and came on in Sunday's 3-1 defeat to local rivals Lazio in the Rome derby, which left Roma nine points adrift of Serie A

leaders Juventus with four games remaining.

He scored his 307th goal for Roma in a Coppa Italia game against Cesena on Feb. 1.

MPL: Silver White registers first point

Ko H I m a , m ay 3 (mexN): Silver White registered their first point in the Morning Premier League after holding MRH Sunrisers to a 2-2 draw at the Seikhazou Ground on Wednesday.

Bottom of the league, Silver White took 9 games

to register their first points.

Sunrisers remain 7th on the table with 10 points.

Asat had given an early lead to Sunrisers scoring in the 3rd minute. However, substitute Gaynon equalised for Silver White in the 35th minute – four minutes after coming off the bench.

Oorja - CAPF U-19 tournament Results of Day-III Girls (IG Stadium) Young Girls Club, IG Academy 6-0 GHS Khonoma [Imlimerenla 34’, 37’; Arhoni 48’, 52’, 58’ and 59’] Girls Sports Hostel, Dimapur 4-0 Soccer Damsels, Kohima [Watijungla 15’, 58’, 60’; Pelevonuo 48’] Sweet Poison Club, IG Academy 9-0 KV, Dimapur [Neichutuo 2’, 8’, 22’; Lito 5’, 13’, 58’; H. Shangki 18’; Rokoseno 26’; Tsarola 48’] Boys (Local Ground Kohima) SAI -STC, Dimapur 6-0 Christ King HSS Kohima [Monton Konyak 28’; Viki M Awomi 35’, 43’; Thaihapi 48’ and Huvesu 73’ and 74’] Don Bosco, Kohima 1-0 KV Dimapur [Mezhukhrietuo Solo 20’] KV Kohima 1-0 KV Rangapahar [Stephen Kape Ritse 69’] May 4 matches Girls – IG Stadium Christ King HSS vs Bayavü HS Kohima @ 7:00 am Soccer Damsels vs GHS Khonoma @ 10:00 am Young Girl IG Academy vs Girls Sports Hostel Dimapur @ 1:00 pm Boys – Local Ground State Boys Hostel vs State Sports Academy @ 7:00 am KV Dimapur vs SAI – STC Dimapur @ 10:00 am Christ King HSS vs Don Bosco Kohima @ 1:00 pm

Silver White then pulled ahead after the restart with Tesah finding the back of the net in the 68th minute. But it was Chuba who had the final say as he scored the equalizer for Sunrisers in the 78th minute as both teams had to be content with a point each.

Ronaldo puts Real on verge of Champions League final

maDRID, may 3 (ReuteRs): A ruthless Cristiano Ronaldo scored a dazzling hat-trick to lead Real Madrid to a crushing 3-0 victory over city rivals Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday.

The Portuguese forward put his team on the verge of their third final in four years and took his tally to 103 goals in the competition as he helped Madrid vanquish their neighbours at the Santiago Bernabeu.

It was another demoralising European defeat for Atletico at the hands of Real, who had beaten Diego Simeone's side in two of the competition's last three finals.

The plaudits, however, belonged once again to the extraordinary Ronaldo, who followed up his hattrick against Bayern Munich in the quarter-final second leg at the Bernabeu with another superb treble, his 42nd in all for Madrid.

"It is great to have a player like Ronaldo. You need someone to score to get the result and he is unbelievable," Real midfielder Toni Kroos said, praising his team mate on BT Sport.

Ronaldo headed home in the 10th minute after Casemiro’s bouncing cross caught out Atletico’s defence, before putting his team on the verge of another final appearance after the break.

Karim Benzema set

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo scores their second goal. (Reuters)

him up to smash home his second on the half-volley in the 73rd minute and he finished from close range with four minutes remaining as Atletico offered little resistance.

"We are very happy with the game, with the three goals and above all keeping a clean sheet at home," said Real's coach Zinedine Zidane, after taking a huge step closer to guiding his side towards becoming the first to successfully defend the European Cup since AC Milan in 1990.

Yet the prospect of a La Liga-Champions League double was also on his mind with his side currently lying in second place in the Spanish title race on the same

number of points as Barcelona but with a game in hand.

"I’m very proud of everyone. We are going to enjoy it, rest, and then tomorrow start thinking about our game in La Liga (at Granada on Saturday)," Zidane added.

The visitors' best chance came during an intense first half, when Kevin Gameiro broke through after 17 minutes but was foiled by Keylor Navas as he tried to round the Madrid goalkeeper.

Diego Godin lunged in to divert an Antoine Griezmann free kick inches over the crossbar as Atletico sought an equaliser but after that it was one-way traffic as Madrid imposed their

dominance on their neighbours once more in European competition.

Madrid captain Sergio Ramos was lucky to escape punishment after crashing his forearm into the back of Lucas Hernandez’s head shortly before halftime, but Atletico’s headache after this defeat will last longer than the Frenchman’s bruise.

Simeone’s side did not offer their usual fight in the second half as Madrid killed the game off, and perhaps the tie, with Ronaldo, playing in a centre-forward role alongside Benzema, the executioner.

His unstoppable strike from the edge of the box doubled Madrid’s lead and

he completed his hat-trick shortly before the end after good work by substitute Lucas Vazquez.

Ronaldo also scored all three goals as Madrid beat Atletico by the same scoreline at the Vicente Calderon in La Liga last November and Tuesday's treble means Atletico's final European game there next week is now likely to be a sombre affair.

Yet the irrepressible Simeone has not given up hope of the most improbable of comebacks quite yet.

"Football is wonderful, it’s impossible and unexpected things happen. It’s wonderful. Until the last chance expires, we will play (to reach the final)," the Argentine told reporters.

I-League champions Aizawl Throttle Thrust II concludes FC threaten 'fast unto death'

NeW DeLHI, may 3 (ReuteRs): Surprise I-League winners Aizawl FC have threatened to "fast unto death" after finding themselves in the bizarre position of staring at relegation next season despite winning India's top division title on Sunday.

Based in India's northeast state of Mizoram, Aizawl pulled off a massive surprise when they upstaged centuryold powerhouses Mohun Bagan and East Bengal to win their first I-League title in only their second season in the top flight.

Of late, India's national league has been steadily losing ground to the franchise-based India Super League (ISL), which is promoted by billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries and Rupert Murdoch's Star India TV. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) plans to retain all eight ISL teams and add a handful from the ILeague in a merged, expanded league and Aizawl, a club with a modest budget and a passionate fan following, are unlikely to make the cut.

"Aizawl FC has submitted its formal claim to AIFF to continue in the

top league even after proposed merger of the existing top league with ISL," the club said in a statement.

Aizawl would approach the prime minister and the Asian Football Confederation if the club did not get a "positive response" from the AIFF, they said.

"If all these steps fail, the club ... will resort to worldwide protests, sitting demonstrations near AFC/FIFA offices, picketing of AIFF Office, mass hunger strike/fast unto death protests," the club added.

AIFF secretary Kushal Das did not take call from Reuters, but he told the newspaper DNA that Aizawl may have to play in the second division in the new league next season.

"Look, even if Aizawl FC do not play in the country's top league, it doesn't mean that the road ends for them," Das said.

"They can still play in the second division, and continue to grow their club there. We will show even the second division matches live on television, and not just the top league. So, Aizawl FC need not lose heart even if they are not part of the league," Das added.

Winners and participants of the Throttle Thrust II along with officials of Spearhead Motorsports Initiative and chief guest Temjen Toy at Longmisa Village, Mokokchung.

moKoKCHuNg, may 3 (mexN): The two day motorsport event – Throttle Thrust II – organized by the Spearheaad Motorsports Initiative, concluded today at Longmisa Village, Mokokchung.

The participants competed in autocross for the final league of competition.

Temjen Toy, IAS, Addl.

Chief Secretary & Finance Commissioner, Govern-

ment of Nagaland who was the chief guest on the second day of the event, gave away the prizes at the prize distribution ceremony.

Toy in his brief speech said that motorsport in Nagaland is here to stay and encouraged all motorsports association in Nagaland to take it to a higher level so that Nagaland becomes a destination for motorsports.

Winners:

Below 1300cc 1st: Brandon Bazely 2nd: Babit Lyngdoh 3rd: Tomito Shohe Above 1300cc 1st: Ruokuobeituo Kense 2nd: Bento Swu 3rd: Jason Sinha SUV Category 1st: Sandeep Sharma 2nd: Anguzo Sekhose 3rd: Amanpreet Ahluwalia

Bridge The gAP: dABA’s Youth ABBA set to appear at football tournaments Ministry brings families together ZuRICH, may 3 (ReuteRs): A new penalty shootout system similar to the tennis tiebreak will be tested at the European under-17 championship, which began in Croatia on Wednesday, UEFA said.

Known as ABBA, the system is designed to prevent the team that goes second from being put at the psychological disadvantage of always having to play catch-up.

Currently penalty shootouts see team A and team B take five penalties each in an

alternating pattern with sudden death used after that if the scores are level.

Soccer's rule making body IFAB, which approved trials of the new system in March, says research proves the team taking the first penalty have a 60 percent chance of winning, giving them an unfair advantage.

Instead, IFAB want to try a new sequence that replicates the switch of serve between tennis players in a tie break.

It involves team A taking the first penalty, team B the

second and third, team A the fourth and fifth and so on until each team had taken five. The sequence would continue if the shootout then goes to sudden death.

"The hypothesis is that the player taking the second kick in the pair is under greater mental pressure," said UEFA. "If the opposition's first penalty in the pair has been successful, a miss by the second penalty-taker in the pair could mean the immediate loss of a match for his team,

especially from the fourth pair of penalties onwards."

UEFA said.

UEFA said the system was also being tried at the women's European under-17 championship, which began in the Czech Republic on Tuesday.

As with the existing system, the referee will toss a coin to decide at which end of the pitch the shootout takes place.

The referee will then toss the coin for a second time and winners can decide whether to take the first or second kick.

Wimbledon organisers hike prize money DImapuR, may 3 (mexN): In a bid to bring parents, children and youth together, the Youth Ministry of DABA Duncan Fellowship organised an event mingled with cultural activity, recreation and sports at the Don Bosco High-

er Secondary School Ground on May 2.

Themed “Bridge the Gap”, the event was organized primarily to bring together families, old and young on a common ground “with the good news of the gospel as the main base”, a press release

stated.

Football and volleyball matches between the married versus the unmarried, were the highlights of the day.

Associate Pastor of DABA Imnatoshi Lkr, Rev. Dr. N. Tzudir and members of DABA Duncan Fellowship

took part in the events.

Meanwhile, the fellowship has extended its gratitude to the authorities of DBHSS for allowing the fellowship to utilize their ground for the event and also to all the participants and members for their presence.

LoNDoN, may 3 (ReuteRs): This year’s Wimbledon singles tennis champions will receive 2.2 million pounds ($2.84 million) each – a hike of 200,000 pounds for both the men’s and women’s winner, organisers said on Wednesday.

Tournament chiefs unveiled the increased winners cheques among an increased total prize pot of 31.6 million pounds, up from 28.1 million pounds last year.

The bigger pot benefits

players throughout the draw, with first round singles losers set to walk away from the All England Club with 35,000 pounds.

In percentage terms, it is those first round losers who benefit the most - their 35,000 pounds prize being almost 17 percent up on last year, reflecting the club's commitment to the lower reaches of tennis.

"We are proud of the important leadership role that Wimbledon plays locally, na-

tionally, and internationally, and are committed to continuing to invest to secure the future of The Championships, and of our sport, for the years to come," club chairman Philip Brook said.

Brook said the club had "taken into account" exchange rates, but that the "Brexit effect" had not been instrumental in their calculations.

"Exchange rates go up and go down over time," he said. "In my time with the club I think all

four grand slam tournaments have led on prize money, and now the U.S. dollar is particularly strong."

The pound has fallen 14 percent against the dollar since Britain's vote to leave the European Union last June.

The U.S. Open has yet to announce its 2017 prize money.

The grass-court grand slam tournament takes place on the fringes of south-west London from July 3-16: the latest start for the tournament since 1895.

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