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‘Nagaland must have separate High Court’ Chizokho Vero
Kohima | November 9
Justice HK Sema, retired Judge, Supreme Court of InDear Readers, dia today advocated that the We would like to re- state of Nagaland must have mind you that Rejoin- its own separate High Court. ders to those statements/ Addressing the National news pieces that have not Legal Services Day here at been originally published Gauhati High Court Kohima by the newspaper will not bench under the aegis of the be carried either. This is Kohima District Legal Serin order to maintain im- vices Authority (KDLSA), partiality on an issue. We he informed that Article 214 seek your understanding of Constitution of India says and cooperation! every state will have High The Morung Express Court of its own. Pointing out that Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur have their own separate High Courts, he questioned why this is not the case in Nagaland. “Unless we have High Court, our generation have DimApur, Novem- no scope,” he said adding ber 9 (mexN): The Assam that a separate High Court Police took into custody two will open employment men, who were apprehended by the public of BoroLengri on November 8 for sexual assault and allegedly raping a six year-old minor girl. The two men identified woKhA, November as Hangkiumo Yimchung 9 (mexN): Nagaland state and Alex Jins were handed Chief Minister, TR Zeliang over to Khatkhati Police has asked the state’s Forest Station on Saturday night, Department, Tourism Dethe council chairman of partment and the Wildlife Boro-Lengri informed. The Trust of India to prepare a victim was taken to Diphu comprehensive conservafor medical examination tion action plan to save the Amur falcons and to declare on Sunday, the chairman the area as a tourist hot spot. informed, while adding Addressing a gathering that the medical report was at the Amur falcons roostawaited. The police will file ing site, the Nagaland CM, charges against the two ac- acknowledged the consercused only after receipt of vation efforts of the WTI, the medical report, it was the Forest Department, Village Councils and the informed.
2 accused of sexual assault handed over to police
scope to the young students of law and at the same time help improve subordinate judiciary, district and session judges and the bar. Justice Sema also called upon law practitioners to exhibit a missionary zeal in their approach, serve the people and speak for the voiceless. He called upon them to go to remote areas and propagate beneficial legislations and schemes. This, he postulated would ensure awareness and help the schemes become a reality. Sema also called upon the law practitioners to render free service to the poorer section of society. He however expressed regret that many people are still unaware of their rights and called upon the law practitioners to help them understand the legal
proceedings and enable them to assert their rights. Every citizen, he asserted is required and expected to know the law of the land. Public Prosecutor, Imtiakum in his speech raised the question of separation of judiciary from the executive which he said instead of moving ahead has taken a backseat. He questioned the legality of the notification dated 20.12.2013 by the Government of Nagaland which stated that separation of judiciary from executive will be affected only in Dimapur. Kohima Deputy Commissioner, W Honje Konyak and YM Imchen, District & Session Judge Kohima and Chairman of the KDLSA also spoke, while the event was chaired by Mezivolu T Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kohima and Secretary KDLSA.
New Delhi, November 9 (iANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday expanded his union council of ministers, inducting 21 new faces, including four with cabinet rank, with the average age being 56, seeking to consolidate party’s gains of the Lok Sabha elections by giving representation to various regions and communities. The total strength of the council of ministers now goes up to 66. The muchanticipated first ministry expansion was marred with ally Shiv Sena calling off participation in the government at the last minute, exacerbating their already strained ties. Congress leaders including former prime minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi stayed away from the swearing-in ceremony. Modi also brought into his ministry the party’s known Muslim face in Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, adding to Najma Heptullah, who is minority affairs minister. Naqvi is an MoS. He also added to the representation of women by inducting Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, BJP MP from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, taking the number to eight. The new ministry has most people in their 50s, with the oldest being Bandaru Dattatreya, MoS independent charge, at 68. The youngest is well-known singer Babul Supriyo Baral, the only face in the ministry from West Bengal. The Asansol MP, who was inducted as MoS, is 43, while Olympian shooter Col. Rajyavardhan
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, eleventh from left, poses for photographs with Prime Minister narendra Modi, twelfth left, Vice President Hamid Ansari, tenth left and the newly sworn in ministers at the presidential palace in new Delhi on november9. (AP Photo)
list of new Ministers Cabinet Ministers
2. Ram Kripal Yadav (Bihar, BJP) 3. Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary (Gujarat, BJP) 4. Sanwar Lal Jat (Rajasthan, BJP) 5. Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya (Gujarat, BJP) 6. Giriraj Singh (Bihar, BJP) 7. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir (Maharashtra, BJP) Minister of State (Independent Charge) 8. Ram Shankar Katheria (Uttar Pradesh, BJP) 9. Y.S. Chowdary (Andhra Pradesh, TDP) 1. Bandaru Dattatreya (Telangana, BJP) 10. Jayant Sinha (Jharkhand, BJP) 2. Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Bihar, BJP) 11. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Rajasthan, BJP) 3. Mahesh Sharma (Uttar Pradesh, BJP) 12. Babul Supriyo (West Bengal, BJP) Minister of State 13. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Uttar Pradesh, BJP) 1. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Uttar Pradesh, BJP) 14. Vijay Sampla (Punjab, BJP) 1. Manohar Parrikar (Goa, BJP) 2. Suresh Prabhu (Maharashtra, Shiv Sena) 3. J.P. Nadda (Himachal Pradesh, BJP) 4. Birender Singh (Haryana, BJP)
Singh Rathore is 44. The only National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally to get a berth in Sunday’s expansion was Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Rajya Sabha MP, Y.S. Chowdary as an MoS. Among those who were widely tipped to get a berth and were inducted are Rajiv Pratap Rudy, MoS independent charge, Ram Kirpal Yadav, a former Lalu Prasad aide who quit the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Jayant Sinha, son of BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha, and Vijay Sampla, BJP Hoshiarpur MP.
Sinha, IIT-Delhi and Harvard-educated Hazaribagh MP, is among the professionals inducted in the ministry to bring fresh talent. With Modi insisting on efficient delivery of government programmes, the ministers have their task cut out. The ministry expansion also signalled BJP’s efforts to consolidate its gains in the states it had done well in the Lok Sabha elections and give representation to various dominant castes and communities to expand its social base in view of the assembly elections
over the next few years. Keeping in mind next year’s elections in Bihar which are crucial for the BJP, the council has three new faces from the state - Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Ram Kirpal Yadav and Giriraj Singh, all belonging to different and numerically significant communities in the state. Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Ravi Shankar Prasad are also from Bihar. Uttar Pradesh, another state crucial for the BJP, got four new berths Details of Page 8
CM seeks comprehensive ‘conservation action plan’ WHO assures on health impact of mobile phones villagers for protecting the falcons. A press note from the WTI informed that the CM, was accompanied by Nagaland Home Minister, Y Patton, who also shared the same sentiments. Vivek Menon, Executive Director, WTI, informed that for the last two years, the WTI has been trying to stop the mass hunting of these birds and that these efforts have paid off. “We can proudly say that the combined efforts of Forest Department, WTI and Village Councils have
largely been successful in protecting these migratory birds,” he declared. The Nagaland CM with other dignitaries also visited the roosting sites of the Amur falcons near Wokha. Zuthunglo Patton, DFO, Doyang, then briefed the CM and other top officials about the conservation plan. She informed that the success of the Amur Falcon conservation initiative has put Nagaland on the global map and has helped to dispel the “general perception of Naga people being com-
pulsive hunters.” Dilip Deori, Project Lead for WTI informed that WTI will also carry out activities on human–elephant conflict mitigation and put in efforts to preserve the natural heritage of Nagaland. “We remain committed to our mission that all the visiting falcons always remain safe and not a single one is harmed,” said Jagdish Kishwan, Chief Advisor to the CEO-WTI and Principal Investigator of Nagaland Conservation Project.
North East community turns creative to elevate awareness
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New Delhi, November 9 (iANS): With drawings, pop songs and photographs, people from the northeast are displaying their creative side to sensitise the people of Delhi about their region and raise their voice against racial discrimination as they depart from the conventional sit-ins and protests. “It is mostly political and social caricatures that I make. The social cartoons deallargely on the subjects of discrimination against the people of the northeast. Such pun intended cartoons do provoke thoughts and help create a sense of awareness,” Partha Jyoti Borah, 32-year-old artist from Assam, told IANS. Cartoons drawn by
Borah are for display at the North East festival being held in the sprawling grounds of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) from Nov 7-11. The artist who has been drawing for over 20 years, also makes cartoons of political leaders, singers and musicians from the region. “People do not know much about our region so with cartoons of our union ministers and other famous personalities at least people can come and get little knowledge about us,” Borah added. The artist also draws on environmental issues. Musical bands from all eight states of the region are doing their bit too. “We speak different languages, so music can be treated and used as
a universal language, which will certainly bring us all together and promote feeling of oneness,” Wor Shon, of the all-girl band Minutes of Decay from Imphal, Manipur told IANS. Members of the band, started by three sisters in 2011, said through their songs they are trying to make people know about them and their region. “In our songs we talk about our background, the rootstowherewecomefrom. It is a small way, but it can go in a long way to create awareness about northeastern people and their culture and tradition,” added Shon. But members of the famous pop band Testeo Sisters felt that the veil of ignorance is lifting. “The people from the northeast also have prejudices just
like other people have about us. All of us are guilty of ignorance. But situation has improved since we started in 2001. “North Indians now at least acknowledge the northeastern region and their culture,” Mercy, a member of the band from Nagaland told IANS. The band started by four sisters - Mercy, Kuvelu, Alune and Azi Tetseo in 2001 - has performed globally. The sisters wear traditional clothes while performing. Lauding the social media for creating awareness about the region, Mercy said both sides have to make the effort to bridge the gap so that the integration of two cultures can happen smoothly. “We should leave the
sense of negativity...the situation has improved and it could be much better. Every incident should not be given a racial colour. The media also needs to be careful and act responsibly,” Mercy said. Though they sing in the Choki dialect the language spoken by the Chakheshang tribe in Nagaland - their songs highlight their culture and tradition. With music to sing to and cartoons to laugh at, there are also about 150 photographs that showcase the simple lives of the northeastern people. Collected from 100 photographers from and outside the northeast and curated by Vikramjit Kakati, the photographs give people a sneak peak into their lives.
New Delhi, November 9 (iANS): al body said epidemiological research has The World Health Organisation (WHO) mostly looked for a link between brain tuhas again sought to reassure billions of mours and mobile phone. It also said such mobile phone subscribers globally that cancers take many years to detect, and no adverse effect has been found till date that mobile phones were not in use widely before 1990s. “However, results of animal on an individual’s health by its use. “A large number of studies have been studies consistently show no increased performed over the last two decades to cancer risk for long-term exposure to raassess whether mobile phones pose a po- dio frequency fields.” According to WHO, several large multitential health risk,” the premier body on health in the United Nations system has national epidemiological studies have been completed or are ongoing, including casesaid in its latest fact sheet. “To date, no adverse health effects have control studies and prospective cohort studbeen established as being caused by mo- ies examining a number of health endpoints in adults. The largest retbile phone use,” the organisation said, seeking Says that till ‘date, no rospective case-control study to date, led by the to allay fears in several countries over the ill ef- adverse health effects International Agency fects of mobile phone have been established for Research on Cancer (IARC), was designed usage on health, includas being caused by to determine whether ing the triggering of cancer. The fact sheet speaks mobile phone use’ there are links between use of mobile phones of both short-term and long-term impact of mobile phone use. and head and neck cancers in adults. It said while the analysis of data from As per latest data, there are some 6.9 billion mobile phone subscriptions the world 13 participating countries found no inover. In the short-term assessment, it says, creased risk of glioma or meningioma with even as tissue heating is the primary con- mobile phone use of more than 10 years, cern of exposure to the human body, the some indications came from the highest frequencies of mobile are so low that they 10 percent cumulative hours of mobile result in negligible temperature rise in the phone use. “The researchers concluded that biases and errors limit the strength of brain or other organs. It also said a number of studies that these conclusions,” it added. Speaking about its own response to the used volunteers to probe the effects of radio waves on a brain’s electrical activ- issue as expressed by the public and govity, function, sleep, heart rate and blood ernments, WHO said it had established the pressure did not find any consistent evi- International Electromagnetic Fields Projdence of adverse health effects. “Further, ect in 1996 to assess the matter scientificalresearch has not been able to provide sup- ly. “WHO will conduct a formal risk assessport for causal relationship between ex- ment of all studied health outcomes from posure to electromagnetic fields and self- radio frequency fields exposure by 2016,” it reported symptoms, or electromagnetic said, adding it will also promote research and exchanges among its agencies, scienhypersensitivity.” As regards long-term affects, the glob- tists, governments, industry and the public.
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