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A south Korean soldier watches a TV broadcasting a news report on seismic activity produced by a suspected north Korean nuclear test, at a railway station in seoul, south Korea, september 9. (REUTERS)

SEOUL, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): North Korea tested its most powerful nuclear device on Friday, but the more worrying aspect for its rivals was Pyongyang’s claim that it had advanced its ability to make a nuclear weapon, by miniaturising and mounting a warhead on a missile. Its KCNA news agency said the test had used a nuclear warhead that had been “standardised to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets”.

“The standardisation of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of high-

er strike power,” KCNA said.

There is little scientific evidence to verify that North Korea has perfected the science of creating a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a ballistic missile and withstand the physics of atmospheric re-entry. But it may be getting closer.

In April, a South Korean official said the North had accomplished miniaturisation of a warhead, although the Pentagon said it did not necessarily share that assessment.

In March, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met nuclear scientists working on miniaturisation. He was photographed at the visit looking at a small,

ball-like device which KCNA said was a miniaturised nuclear warhead.

“They called the A-bomb they displayed ‘small-type’ or ‘miniaturised’, but it might be better to say ‘compact’,” said Joshua Pollack, editor of the Nonproliferation Review. “It looked bigger than what we would call miniaturised, but they wanted to show us that it would fit into an ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile) nosecone.”

“If it fits that nosecone, it ought to fit on a Scud or Rodong as well,” said Pollack. The Rodong is a North Korean medium-range missile tested earlier this week that can fire a 1 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles).

That would bring all of South Korea and Japan within range. After Friday’s test, however, experts were more focused on the intensity of the blast. Earthquakes triggered by North Korean nuclear tests have gradually increased in magnitude since Pyongyang’s first test in 2006, indicating the isolated country is steadily improving the destructive power of its nuclear technology.

After Friday’s test, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) measured a magnitude of 5.3. In terms of energy, the USGS estimation translates to a nuclear blast potentially 2.8 times stronger than the estimation given by the South, according to a USGS tool used to calculate earthquake strength.

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PSAN allege it was provided ‘wrong & incomplete’ RTI info

DImApUr, SEptEmbEr 9 (mExN): The Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland (PSAN) today alleged that it has been provided with “wrong and incomplete information” by the Legal Metrology and Consumer Protection Department against the RTI filed by the organization.

A press note from the PSAN stated that the in-

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formation provided in response to the RTI was “in contrast to the information provided to the Chief Information Commission, Nagaland by the Department in 2015.”

The PSAN further claimed that the department had failed to provide information of 5 employees. The PSAN cautioned that it would take further

course of action by writing a complaint letter to the Chief Information Commissioner to “take action against the department for providing our wrong and incomplete information.”

“At the same time, we caution other departments to sincerely furnish the information sought from them so as to avoid further complication and the

wrath of thousands of educated unemployed young Nagas,” it added.

The PSAN further reminded all departments that the information sought by the PSAN through RTIs is only for those posts which are to be recruited through NPSC (Class-I, Class-II & ClassIII Grade Pay of 2800 and above).

nearly a tenth of wilderness lost since 1990s, says study

tOrONtO, SEptEmbEr 9 (IANS): An estimated 3.3 million square kilometres -- almost 10 per cent -- of wilderness area has been lost over the last 20 years, finds a study that shows catastrophic declines in wilderness areas around the world. The alarming losses comprise a tenth of global wilderness since the 1990s -- an area twice the size of Alaska and half the size of the Amazon basin.

The losses have occurred primarily in South America, which has experienced a 30 per cent decline in wilderness, and Africa, which has experienced a 14 per cent loss, the study said.

“The amount of wilderness loss in just two decades is staggering,” Oscar Venter from the University

of Northern British Colombia in Canada. “If we don’t act soon, there will only be tiny remnants of wilderness around the planet, and this is a disaster for conservation, for climate change, and for some of the most vulnerable human communities on the planet,” added James Watson from the University of Queensland in Australia.

For the study, the researchers mapped wilderness areas around the globe, with “wilderness” being defined as biologically and ecologically intact landscapes free of any significant human disturbance. The findings underscore an immediate need for international policies to recognise the value of wilderness areas and to ad-

dress the unprecedented threats they face, the researchers noted.

“Without proactive global interventions we could lose the last jewels in nature’s crown. You cannot restore wilderness, once it is gone, and the ecological process that underpin these ecosystems are gone, and it never comes back to the state it was. The only option is to proactively protect what is left,” Venter noted.

The United Nations and other international policy mechanisms have ignored globally significant wilderness areas in key multilateral environmental agreements and this must change, the researchers concluded, in the paper published in the journal Current Biology.

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Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs, Economics & Statistics, R Tohanba today said the department is targeting upto 1 lakh beneficiary coverage under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or Housing for All (Urban) Mission.

The housing for all mission is being implemented in all the 23 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in Nagaland at present. With the declaration of more towns being notified as statutory towns, Tohanba hoped that the Ministry will agree to include those new towns too.

Informing that a plan of action is under preparation and recently 7 more town councils have been recognized and notified, he said there are now 27 town councils and three municipal councils in Nagaland.

The scheme will continue till the year 2022 covering all the recognized urban areas/towns. He said this during a state level consultative meeting with urban local bodies for implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Housing for All (Urban) under Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

Tohanba added that in recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in the trend of urbanization in Nagaland state, with the urban population growth rising, and rural population declining.

He said that a decade ago the 12th Year Plan used to emphasize upon rural development, however with the increasing de-

144 CrPc imposed in Model Village Dimapur DImApUr, SEptEmbEr 9 (mExN): The Dimapur district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under 144 CrPc prohibiting assembly of 5 or more persons at Model Village from 3:00pm of September 9 for 48 hours. In an order, the District Magistrate and officiating Commissioner of Police stated that the situation in and around Model Village “is critical with tension arising out of land dispute between Model Village and R Sopu Angami and party.” It added there is “apprehension of danger to human lives, property and disturbance to public tranquillity if 5 or more persons congregate or assemble.”

KU stands by 33% women’s reservation

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DImApUr, SEptEmbEr 9 (mExN): The Konyak Union (KU) in an emergency meeting today resolved to stand by its support to the state cabinet’s decision on 33% reservation for women in urban local bodies.

A press note from the KU informed that the meeting was attended by all the KU Units, advisory board members and prominent leaders from Naginimora, Tizit, Mon, Aboi and Tobu at Mon Town.

The meeting, it said “resolved to endorse its support for the emancipation of the women folk/ women reservation based on gradual observation and perseverance amongst Naga society.”

It welcomed the declaration of the State Government for conducting Municipal and Town Council election in the state of Nagaland, and “fully endorsed” its support to the State Government for conducting the election for municipal and town council as proposed or declared “so as to foster on in developing those long neglected and deprived urban towns in the state.”

It was also resolved that in order to avoid confusion within Naga society, the Konyak Union (KU) “had agreed to propose for 25% reservation for the women folks in the nomination that guarantees equal voting rights and status as empowered to those elected members.”

The Konyak Union (KU) appealed to all the political parties to immediately set up eligible women candidates for the upcoming municipal and town council election whereby empowering the women folk with equal political rights, status and dignity.

While fostering out for development and growth in the State, the KU appealed to the ENPO, Naga Hoho, ENWO, NMA and all the Naga tribal organisations and leaders to resort by 25% reservation for women in the nominee with empowered voting rights. “A gradual and careful beginning will definitely facilitate in delivering positive outcome. Hence, such motives and understanding

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amongst the Naga civil society will deliver long awaited justice for our Naga Women folk,” the KU stated.

Stating that a “sudden and immediate change in the system would rather lead us into total state of chaos and confusion,” it urged that “in order to avoid such confusion, Naga society needs to uphold utmost perseverance based on gradual observation while allocating and empowering our women folks with rights and responsibility.”

“Our dream vision can be only be achieved when in the process of empowering the women folk, our political will should truly reflect the real taste of humanity,” the KU added.

Parliamentary secretary for Municipal Affairs, Economics & statistics, R Tohanba speaking in Kohima on september 9.

mand and growth trend in the urban sector, even the central government has started focusing on the urban sector, thereby coming up with many flagship programmes like the JnNURM and National Urban Livelihood Mission, besides the normal infrastructure development projects.

He stated that the Housing for All scheme is an initiative to curb urban homeless by providing subsidy to the beneficiaries who are without a house or who have a small house for enhancement of rooms.

He expressed hope for successful implementation of this mission in the state.

Meanwhile, Tohanba also informed that election to the ULBs has been approved by the state cabinet with 33% women reservation in ULBs governance and that this would very shortly be notified by the state election commission.

He said that the 33% reservation would enable wom-

• Beneficiary led construction: GoI will extend grant-in-aid of up to Rs. 1.50 lakh per beneficiary.

• Affordable housing in partnership: ULB will build house for those beneficiaries who do not have land. The grant in aid from GoI is Rs. 1.50 lakhs. The remaining amount spent for construction will have to be borne by the beneficiary.

• Credit link subsidy: Here the beneficiary can apply for bank loan at subsidized rate of 6.5% per annum upto Rs. 6 lakh. The repayment period will be up to 15 years.

en to take an active part in decision making at local bodies, namely municipalities and town councils.

Acknowledging concerns from certain quarters that women’s reservation will undermine the special constitutional guarantee accorded to the Nagas under Article 371-A, protecting the unique social practices and Naga customary laws, land ownership etc, the Parliamentary Secretary however said: “We should feel that with women reservation, the Naga women are empowered to actively participate in the important decision making bodies which will enhance quality of governance and will not in any way dilute nor infringe the privileges guaranteed under the constitution given to the Nagas.”

He said the ULBs are concerned for making the urban areas/towns a clean and eco-friendly area with proper sanitation, electricity, water supply, safety of

the people and good governance.

“The ULBs are not involved in rural areas or in village councils matter nor take part in Naga customary laws, so women when involved in ULBs in decision making process will give boost in good governance,” Tohanba said. He continued that women’s involvement as equal partners with men would be a great asset to Naga society.

Commissioner & Secretary for Municipal Affairs, Menukhol John meanwhile stressed on the need to provide better housing facility to the people of the state. He said the department will formulate an action plan and submit it to the centre.

Later, Municipal Affairs Assistant Director, Kevilenuo Solo gave a power point presentation on PMAYHFA(U) while Municipal Affairs Secretary, Kevekha Kevin Zehol wrapped up the programme.

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Villages gear up for sustainable ecotourism

Kiphire, September 9 (mexN): As a follow-up to what had already been planned, the District Administration of Pungro Sub-Division organized ‘training cum orientation programme on ecotourism and hospitality’ at Pungro on September 7.

The programme was carried out in collaboration with the Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Department of Rual Development, Kiphire. This initiative lays one of the formidable and crucial steps in aligning the villages of Pungro to seal their mark as some of the promising Ecotourism destinations in the country and around the world.

To give this vision of Ecotourism an anchoring start, six viable villages namely Fakim, Thanamir, Salomi, Mimi, Moya and Khonjiri were selected, all

of which are known for their unique flair that has managed to woo their visitors in more ways than one.

Wenyei Konyak, ADC Pungro in his welcome address, emphasized on the tourism potential that had largely remained untapped till now, thereby denying the locals of the economic benefit that comes along with it.

This was followed by a talk

by Chonpenthung Ezung, EAC Pungro on the topic ‘Concept of Ecotourism & HospitalityTourist attraction and activities’.

He talked about how each of the villages present were unique destinations for tourism- Fakim for its wildlife and serene landscape; Thanamir for the majestic Mt Saramati and Apple Festival; Salomi and Mimi for their extensive and fascinating caves; Khonjiri and Mini for being one

Participants at the flagging off the first batch of Saramati trekkers from Pungro town on September 7.

of the only places in the world known for rock bee honey harvesting on cliffs, Moya for its beautiful pearl white beaches along Zingki river where also, an anglers dream catch- the

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magnificent Golden Mahasheer is found.

He highlighted that the District Administration Pungro in collaboration with Nagaland Association for Adventure

Mountaineering and Education (NAAME) and Global Adventure Association (GAA) is actively promoting trekking of Mt. Saramati.

The first batch of Mt. Saramati climbers were flag off from Pun-

gro town on September 6.

Speaking on Tourism Entrepreneurship, Makezho, President, Pungro Ecotourism Tour Association explained the need to start low when it comes to expectations and pricing, a much needed aspect to ensure a sustained growth of tourism.

BDO Khongsa while acknowledging the remarkable initiatives of District Administration Pungro in promoting ecotourism also highlighted the contribution made by the concern villages through MNREGA wages to make the ecotourism programme successful. He further directed the village council to judiciously make use of the outdoor equipments and to generate income by hiring the tents and sleeping bags to the tourist.

Lansothung Lotha, RFO, Kiphire Wildlife Division shared on ‘Sustainable Eco-

tourism’ and demonstrated on how to set up camping equipments that were to be provided to the villages. On Sustainable Ecotourism, he advocated that it is all about conserving the natural resources and protecting our culture and tradition that forms the basis for a sustained economic benefit out of tourism. He also invoked the idea of how tourists can be attracted throughout the year by streamlining different activities for visitors in different seasons.

Following this, equipments such as tents, sleeping bags, sleeping mats, trekking shoes, rain coats and head lamps were distributed to the six villages.

The programme was chaired by Samuel Thyug, EAC Kuisam while the vote of thanks was delivered by Shelemthong Yimchunger, Executive Chairman, YTC.

Mt Olive College gets new building Morung Express News Kohima | September 9

Participants of the Heads of School Conference organised by School Education Ministry of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council on September 8 and 9 at the Platinum Hall, NBCC Office Kohima.

Kohima, September 9 (mexN): The School Education Ministry of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council organized Heads of School Conference on September 8 and 9 at the Platinum Hall, NBCC Office Kohima under the theme ‘Challenges and Prospects of School Administrator.’

A press release stated that the resource persons for the program were Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, General Secretary, NBCC, Sashila Ozukum, Administrator, Hope Academy Dimapur and Ravolü Tetseo, Administrator, Life Foundation School, Chümukedima.

The topics dealt were ‘Church and Education: Meeting the Challenges,’ ‘Challenges and Prospects of School Administrator,’ and ‘Counseling Issues.’ The Conference started with a report and presentation of vision by Rev. Dr. Mecheihol Savi, School Coordinator which was followed by key note address by Keviseto, Principal, BH and School Board Chairman.

The first day ended with an evening service which was chaired by Thungchibe-

mo, Headmaster, Mt. Sinai School, Wokha followed by a prayer by Dr. Botoholi, Secretary, Education and Communication.

Moatemsü, Principal, CHSS shared his experiences in school and Naga Bazar Baptist School presented a special music.

There was an offering for the underprivileged scholarship student which was blessed by. Vikuo Rhi, Youth Secretary, NBCC. The speaker for the service was Rev. Dr. Z. Keyho. On the second day there was session on ‘NBCC prescribed Text books: Academic Standard and Relevancy’ where Ms. Apele Thoü, Administrator BHS Peren, Sangmong, Headmaster, CHS Noklak and Surendra, Headmaster, Christian School Pungro spoke on the topic. The Conference ended with a time on ‘Recommendation of School Education Ministry.’

The moderators for the sessions during the programme were Alemtushi, Principal, Mission Higher Secondary School Dimapur and L. C. Phom. Altogether 43 participants of NBCC member schools attended the conference.

Mount Olive College Kohima (MOCK) on Friday held its new building Dedication cum Freshers’ Social at the college auditorium with a host of invitees and dignitaries.

The dedicatory prayer was conducted by Pastor of Sumi Baptist Church Kohima (SBCK), Dr. Hokheto Chophi after unveiling the plaque of the building named as “Gnosophia Building” (Knowledge and Wisdom).

It may be mentioned that Mt. Olive College is sponsored and run by the SBCK. Speaking at the programme, Chairman, Board of Deacons, SBCK, Y. Kikheto Sema IAS made a clarion call for the Church-

Pastor of Sumi Baptist Church Kohima (SBCK), Dr. Hokheto Chophi unveiling the plaque of the college building. A view of the newly dedicated college building. (Morung Photo)

es and communities to invest in social sectors. He said SBCK established in 1925 was perhaps the oldest Church in Kohima

besides the Mission Compound Church which was established by the American missionaries.

He said that SBCK was

‘Reading the past, writing the future’ Vidima is world’s second ‘Tobacco Free’ village

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY of our beloved LT. KHRIETUOLIE PFÜKHA 12th September, 2015.

“Your presence we miss, Your absence we feel” Though a year has passed by without your presence, not a single day has gone without feeling your absence. The sweet & short memories that we have shared still linger in our hearts vividly and miss you dearly.

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more inclined towards providing quality education and values of life through qualified faculty and proper infrastructure

rather than earn profit from running the college.

Kikheto said there should be good coordination between the faculty and the students. He advised the students to seek wisdom from God to achieve success in life. He said the dedication of the new college building was another milestone and a day of huge hope for the institution.

Convenor, Building Construction Committee, MOCK, Shiwoto Wotsa presented a brief report of the construction. The 4-storied building was constructed at a cost of Rs 4.36 cr approximately.

Later, in the second session, Dr Hokheto exhorted the freshers to be the salt of the college and be a leader for tomorrow.

Students of Nagaland University, School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development (SASRD) celebrated the 50th International Literacy Day on September 8.

NU SASRD celebrates 50th International Literacy Day Dimapur,September 9 (mexN): Nagaland University, School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development (SASRD) on September 8 celebrated the 50th International Literacy Day. A press release stated that to mark this celebration, an Inter-class competition was held and the participants included the batches from B. Sc. (Ag) 1st year to Ph.D. scholars with the caption ‘Reading the past, writing the future’ as

the theme as per UNESCO official declaration for the year 2016.

The programme was organised by the students’ union of SASRD. It comprised of different events such as an essay competition under the topic ‘Ethical and informed voting for all round development’ as directed by the Office of the Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer, Dimapur, followed by poetry writing, extempore, a debate under the trending issue ‘Social Networking sites and Messaging applications – a reliable guide for the society’ that concluded with a critique by Prof. R.C Gupta, Dean NU: SASRD and a drama competition

Dimapur, September 9 (Dipr): Chief Medical Officer Dimapur, K. Vikato Kinimi inaugurated the Health Sub Centre at Vidima village on September 9. This center becomes the 12th Health Sub Centre under Chumukedima Primary Health Centre.

The village also observed ‘no tobacco free village’ during the function and the CMO Dimapur remarked that this would further enhance the health status of the villagers. He said that “Vidima village is the second village in the world to be declared as tobacco free village.” Certificates were handed over to the village council by the Chief Tobacco Control Cell which is under the National Tobacco Control Programme.

Additional Director IPR, Dominic Yazokie in his short speech expressed gratitude to the Health and Family Welfare Department for creating the health facility and on behalf of the village assured to take care of the facility with a sense of ownership and responsibility. He made an appeal to the Department for providing adequate manpower to man the centre so that the services rendered would benefit the villagers.

Dedicatory prayer of the health centre was offered

by Pastor Vidima Baptist Church, AkhobuNagi while the proceeding of the programme was led by village council chairman Pelezo. Welcome address was delivered by former Secretary Vidima village council and founding member of the village Thepfuselie. Neigbouring village council members also attended the function.

on the theme of the 50th International Literacy Day. The panel of Judges included Dr. Pauline Alila, Associate Professor, Dr. Pankaj Kumar Shah, Assistant Professor and Moanungsang, Assistant Professor. A final remark was deliberated by Moanungsang, Assistant Professor stressing upon the importance of communal harmony through literacy. The M. Sc (Ag) 1st Years emerged as the overall champion class followed by the B. Sc. (Ag) 2nd Years.

Special title for the best debater was bagged

by Jonah Dakho, a Ph.D. scholar and the best actor for drama was awarded to Certificates handed over to the village council by the Chief Alemshilu Longkumer of B. Tobacco Control Cell during the observation of ‘No Tobacco Sc.(Ag) 1st year.

Free Village’ at Vidima village on September 9.

Training on Eri silk spinning through Motorized Spinning Machine On this occasion, the 38th Anniversary of NPMHR Foundation Day, 9th of September 2016, we express our deepest appreciation to Lt. AHU SAKHRIE, one of the Founding Member of Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, on whose legacy we stand with dignity today.

On this day, with great fondness, we remember you and miss your laughter and vibrant spirit and recall your love for the Naga People. We remain committed to strive for our shared vision.

Kohima, September 9 (mexN): A four day skill development training programme on Eri silk spinning through Motorized Spinning Machine (MSM) was conducted at Chiechama village from August 30 to September 2.

The training was jointly organised by the DPDB Adoption Committee A/C 11-Northern Angami-2 and Department of Sericulture as a part of activity of the Committee, stated a press release.

Dr. Neiprhezo Keditsu, Chairman NSMDC Ltd also Advisor to the adoption committee graced the valedictory session as the chief guest. He expressed

Dr. Neiprhezo Keditsu, Chairman NSMDC Ltd with the participants during valedictory session of the skill development training programme on Eri silk spinning through Motorized Spinning Machine was conducted at Chiechama village.

his gratitude to the adoption committee and Sericulture Department for introducing a new trade to the village farmers. He encouraged and advised the farmers to develop the

culture of practicing their skills and utilize the machines judiciously in generating more income.

Total of 16 beneficiaries from 8 khels of the village took part in the train-

ing and 10 numbers of Motorized Spinning Machines (MSM) were distributed by the Chief Guest to the farmers. The programme was chaired by M. Meyase DSO Kohima.

Ruopfűkuotuo EAC Botsa (Convenor Adoption Committee) gave the welcome address and Neitso Sogotsu, VCC Chiechama pronounced the vote of thanks.

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Villagers fix 19km road stretch in Senapati District Senapati, September 9 (ani): Villagers in Senapati District of Manipur have shown a great example of perseverance and sends out a strong message to the policy makers by repairing the 19 kms long stretch dilapidated roads by pooling in fund and manpower by themselves.

Located in Senapati district, the Maram-Purul-Phaibung road is a state highway which connects Ukhrul district. It is also an important lifeline for nearly 60 villages to connect to

the main town.

As the state highway has been lying in a very deplorable condition for long enough despite numerous petitions to concerned authorities by the villagers, residents of the villages under the aegis of Purul Union and Khoide Union have started road improvement work more than ten days back within their respective areas after a directive was issued by to this effect by the Lupao Naga Union.

Around 2000 men and women of Senapati district

have volunteered to repair the road as the condition has become unfit for travel.

The stretch is dotted with hazardous potholes, while the black topping has decayed.

Mudslide during rainy seasons has been one main cause for accidents. Many fatalities have occurred in the past while availing of medical attention has become an arduous task because of the worsening condition.

“We have submitted numerous petitions to concerned authorities. However, the road

OMTF, JAC-AATB asserts need for ‘sustainable and acceptable’ solution imphal, September 9 (nnn): The Outer Manipur Tribal Forum (OMTF) and the Joint Action Committee Against Anti Tribal Bills (JAC-AATB) held a meeting with Manipur Governor Dr Najma Heptullah at Raj Bhavan in Imphal today and "detailed the political marginalisation and developmental exclusion faced by the indigenous tribals in Manipur".

The delegation asserted to the Governor the need for a solution that is "sustainable and acceptable to the tribals". The Governor was also apprised of the "plight" of the tribal people, which it claimed has “magnified with the passing of the infamous anti tribal bills" by the Manipur legislative assembly last year.

"Neither the Union Government nor

the State Government show any genuine interest to address the issue including the mortal remains of the nine tribal martyrs still awaiting an honourable burial," the delegation maintained.

The team submitted a memorandum to the Governor where it asserted that no new bill or resolution would be accepted by the tribal people unless appropriate and satisfactory steps are taken towards the total nullification of the "two pending anti tribal bills", and unless the matter of the "nine martyrs" are resolved to the satisfaction of the tribal people.

With the "three anti tribal bills being political in nature, only an acceptable political solution for the tribals will meet the need of the hour," the memorandum maintained.

has been left to decay for the past 7 years. Finally we decided to generate fund from villagers to repair it all by ourselves. We no longer believe the State government or any authority will come to help us,” said secretary of Khoide Union, Haile Phillip. He added that it was unbelievable that an MLA from the valley, Th Shyamkumar, representing Andro Assembly constituency readily donated Rs 50,000 for the work.

“He has our blessings and his (Shyamkumar) gesture will

go a long way in fostering ties between the hill and valley. We are indebted to his kindness,” Phillip added.

As a Good Samaritan, Director of NEC, Kh Siile Anthony also donated Rs 50,000 for the cause. Altogether, the road repair initiative has collected a sum of Rs 2,39,388. President of Lepao Naga Union, RT Daiho, who is the authority of 32 villages, is also involved in the repair works. He said villagers have been suffering for long due to apathy of the State government.

“We have no further trust in the administration. We have come out to do the work ourselves. I have notified villagers to volunteer for the repairing work and we have overwhelming response from the people.

We will complete the work in a week’s time,” he said. Villagers complained that the designated SDC never comes to his office located at Purul. It was also pointed out that the local MLA, Alexander Pao has not once come to look into the work done by the villagers.

Manipur Forensic Departments examine nearly 300 cases of ‘sexual assault’ annually, many of them children imphal, September 9 (nnn): Nearly 300 victims of "sexual assault" undergo examinations every year at the Manipur Department of Forensic at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal and among them many are children, Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam disclosed on Friday.

Attending the CME

(Continuing Medical Education) programme at the Auditorium of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal, the Deputy CM also said crime against women (CAW) has hampered the development pace of the state.

“Such crimes violating human rights pose a serious threat to the current generation as well as the future,” stated Gaikhangam who was the chief guest of the open-

ing function of the programme held on the theme “Investigation of Rape: A Multi-disciplinary Approach.”

He assured the upgrade of the present Forensic Lab located at Pangei in Imphal East by procuring more advanced equipment to help deal with increasing crime rate effectively in the state.

G a i k h a n g a m e xpressed concern that nearly 280-300 cases of sexual assault victims in the state

Swine fever outbreak M'laya Speaker admits resolution against him is not allowing the legislature to funcSeptember 9 confirmed in Manipur Shillong, tion properly and effectively which is (pti): Meghalaya Assembly Speaker

imphal, September 9 (ianS): Animal health experts in Manipur on Friday confirmed the outbreak of swine fever in Moreh on the India-Myanmar border.

Disclosing this to reporters, officials said that preventive measures have been taken to ensure that the killer disease does not spread to other areas.

However they dodged questions on the so-called preventive measures since veterinarians have been telling the tribal pig owners at Moreh that there is no vaccine and the only refrigerator has been out of order for more than 4 years.

The officials said that there have been some deaths of pigs while many others are now ill. One official said,"This is a common disease among the pigs kept in various parts of Manipur. The pigs lose appetite, feel drowsy and then eventually die. If timely medicines are administered the pigs could be saved".

Though there is no official announcement, the district administration is not permitting import of pork from the other side of the international border leading to a sharp decline in the sale and consumption of pork.

Some bootleggers selling illicit country liquor told IANS that they have stopped serving fried and curried pork.

The tribals of the area have no idea of how to cope with the losses they have suffered. The government has also not assisted them in any way.

There are also increasing complaints from local residents against people keeping pigs in residential areas in view of the outbreak of the fever.

Officials told IANS that the situation is not so dire as yet as to start culling the pigs.

Meghalaya ratifies GST Bill

Shillong, September 9 (ianS): Meghalaya on Friday became the 21st state to ratify the Constitution Amendment Bill on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as the assembly unanimously gave its assent.

It is the fifth Congressruled state after Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh to ratify the GST Bill.

Law Minister Roshan Warjri moved the resolution seeking approval of the House to ratify the Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014, which was approved by a voice vote.

Before putting the resolution for approval of the constitution amendment, Speaker Abu Taher Mondal asked if any of the members were interested in the discussion, but none came forward.

However, Opposition Chief Whip James Sangma said that they could not participate in the discussion as the government did not supply the necessary papers before the session.

"Time and again, we have been asking that MLAs should be supplied with necessary papers. When we were not given those papers, how you expect us that within half an hour after seeing the papers lying in-front of us today, we can discuss about this," Sangma told journalists.

"A bill is not an ordinary document, it has a lot of nuances that need to be

understood, and then go ahead and debate," he further added.

Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said that GST will bring in much needed transparency and higher investments in the coming years.

State Taxation Minister Zenith Sangma said: "After GST is implemented, the state like Meghalaya will benefit a lot. There will be one rate fixed which is not yet been done, that is called revenue neutral Rate so all the state is looking at 18 percent to be the RNR which may be acceptable for the manufacturing as well as consuming state and when this is implemented, consuming state like Meghalaya will be benefitted a lot."

On Thursday, President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the landmark Bill.

The government targets to implement the GST system, which envisages a single indirect tax that subsumes most central and state taxes like VAT, service tax, central sales tax, excise duty, etc, from April 1, 2017. The central government will have to pass the Central GST and Integrated GST Bills, while the states will need to approve their respective GST legislations.

The states will, however, be able to adopt a GST structure that is different from that recommended by the GST Council, whose recommendations will not be binding on the states.

Abu Taher Mondal today admitted a resolution seeking his removal and posted the matter for discussion on September 16, the last day of the session.

The resolution was moved by opposition National People's Party legislator James K Sangma who accused Mondal of curtailing the vibrancy of the legislature and delaying construction of the Assembly building.

Sangma moved the resolution under Clause(c) of Article 179 of the Constitution and Rule 135 of the Rules and Procedure of Business in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly on the first day of the autumn session.

"Whereas, Speaker A T Mondal has failed to carry out his duties and responsibilities as a Speaker. Now therefore, this House expresses its want of confidence in him and hereby resolves to remove him from the

Opposition NPP legislator moved the resolution accusing the speaker of 'curtailing the vibrancy of the legislature'

office of the Speaker," the resolution said.

The Speaker allowed the motion after 12 opposition MLAs stood up in support of the resolution. He had survived a similar move by the Opposition in March.

Sangma said the resolution was moved in view of the short duration of session despite repeated requests.

"By doing this, the Speaker is curtailing the vibrancy of the legislature. He

why we feel it is high time we give a strong message in the form of this resolution seeking his removal."

There are many other issues and the one on construction of Meghalaya assembly building has been pending for the past 12 years. "It is very unfortunate and very shameful that we as people of Meghalaya, specially we as legislators, as law makers and members of this august house don't have an assembly building even till date," he said.

Mondal announced that the letter received from Chief Minister Mukul Sangma informing about the resignation of Congress MLA W D Sangma from the post of Parliamentary Secretary was accepted.

Meanwhile, the Speaker also nominated four MLAs--Dikkanchi D Shira, W D Sangma, Titosstarwell Chyne and Witting Mawsor-- to the panel of chairmen.

Students in Imphal injured in police crackdown imphal, September 9 (ianS): Several students holding a demonstration to demand a special session of the Manipur Assembly to pass an anti-migrant bill were injured here on Friday in when police resorted to firing tear gas shells.

Some of the injured students were rushed to hospital. The monsoon session which had just two sittings was adjourned sine die on Monday without passing the bill.

On Friday the government announced that all schools, colleges, government offices, banks and other commercial institutes, law courts shall be closed on September 13 on the occasion of the Muslim religious festival.

This was not included in the government holiday list.

The villagers use the money for hiring an earthmover and a truck for lifting rocks and transport them. The food and tools are brought by the villagers and moreover, no money is paid to labourers. A woman worker Louniru, holding a spade in hand quipped, ‘God help those who help themselves. We are united in our work and we will pave the road.’

Lupao Naga Union president RT Daiho said that they have been overseeing the road repairing work.

Sources said the government is declaring the holiday in a bid to derail the students' campaign.

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh said, "The government is committed to passing the bill to regulate the entry of the migrants to Manipur. We had drafted a bill and nearly 100 opinions and suggestions were received."

The Inner Line Permit activists had submitted a draft bill. After examining it the government said it shall invite public opinion.

For passing the bill the government was to summon

a special session to pass it. In line with this demand the students' wing of the JCILPS has been agitating.

Tribals in Manipur oppose all "anti-tribal bills".

They have been refusing to bury the nine bodies of the agitationists killed while protesting against the bills passed by the Manipur Assembly on August 31,2015.

Since Manipur goes to polls in February next year observers feel there is no time for passing the proposed bill and obtain assent of the Governor and the President.

are yearly examined by the Department of Forensic at JNIMS and Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). He said many of the victims are minors.

“Manipur has not been spared by rape cases, the heinous form of crime. If crime against women is left unaddressed, this poses a serious threat to the society at large," he said.

Citing the latest report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCB), the Mani-

pur Deputy CM noted that in the country one crime takes place every 17 seconds, one crime against women every 3 minutes, one molestation case every 15 minutes, one rape or sexual assault every 27 minutes and one dowry death every 77 minutes.

Besides, JNIMS Director L Deben Singh and Head of Forensic Medicine Prof S Fimate, the programme was attended by doctors, nurses, police and lawyers.

Government of Nagaland Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Nagaland, Kohima.

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In continuation to this office letter No: DHFW-5/23/ TRG/NSG/2009-10/ 3560-67 Dt. 31st May 2016, the seats of GNM has been increased by 5 (five) and FHW by 20 (twenty) for the academic session 2016-17 in compliance to Indian Nursing Council.

Accordingly, 65 (sixty five) candidates for GNM and 40 (forty) candidates for FHW has been selected.

The counselling for GNM will be held on 13th Sept 2016 and FHW on 14th Sept 2016 from 11.00am onwards at the directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima. All candidates are to bring their Admit Cards and Original Documents: HSLC, HSSLC, Indigenous & ST Certificate. If any candidate fails to attend the Counselling, it will be treated as “None Acceptance”.

Sd/(DR. L. WATIKALA) Principal Director Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Nagaland, Kohima.

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Seminar held on constructions workers’ welfare scheme at Peren

Peren, SePtember 9 (DIPr): In order to sensitize the public about the workers’ welfare scheme (NBOCW) a seminar was organized by the Labour Department at Peren on September 9. As part of the Year of Construction Workers’ 2016 as declared by the State Government, a Welfare Scheme for different Construction Workers’, under the aegis of- Regulation of Employment and Condition of Service Act 1996, was constituted known as the Nagaland Building and other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board (NBOCW) under the Department of Labour Government of Nagaland.

ADC Peren, S. Tainiu in her keynote address stated that every scheme that the Government undertakes is to benefit its citizens. She said that they should reach the targeted individuals as

Section of the participants during the seminar organized by the Labour department at Peren on September 9. (DIPR Photo)

this particular scheme is to uplift the economy and life of the people. She also assured the gathering and the team of Labour Department of her cooperation to facilitate on behalf of the administration for the success of the program.

Project Officer and

Secretary NBOCW Welfare Board, T. Chubayanger explained the features of the Construction Workers Welfare Scheme where he stated that this scheme is aimed at reaching the unreached wage earner of construction workers such as masons,

plumbers, carpenters, electricians, painters etc.

The beneficiaries of this scheme should be a genuine one, he added. He also emphasized on certain benefits available under the scheme such as grants for tools, LIC, medical assistance, children educa-

tion allowances, maternity benefits etc.

The program was followed by interaction and question hour. The GBs Ward Chairman of Peren Town and the VCC, GB’s and VDB Secretaries of the Sadar also attended the programme.

Phek DPDB meeting conducted Phek, SePtember 9 (DIPr): The monthly meeting of Phek District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) was held on September 8 under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner and Vice Chairman DPDB, Phek, Murohu Chotso. The DC welcomed new members Levi Bennet, DPO, Land Resource and Imsunaro, District Development Manager, NABARD, Phek. He requested all the Heads of Offices to attend the public reception along with subordinate staff during the Governor’s visit to the district at Town Hall on September 12.

The Board reviewed the minutes of the last DPDB meeting. Dr. Denis Hangsing, Medical Superintendent, Phek presented his departmental activities where he highlighted on Respiratory Tract Infection in the young children and viral and other infectious diseases which are common diseases during the current season. He also

said that lifestyle related diseases such as hypertension, diabetics etc are on the rise.

During the year 2015-16, District Hospital Phek registered 8683 OPD patients, 776 indoor patients, 1475 emergency patients and conducted 29 major operations and 182 minor operations, he added.

The Board expressed concern over non availability of Surgeon in the District Hospital Phek for many years. Upon learning that one post of Orthopedic Surgeon from District Hospital is attached to District Hospital, Dimapur, the Board resolved to write to the government to detach the officer concerned to be reposted to the District

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Dr. Khrielasanuo, DPO RCH/UIP highlighted the immunization status in the District and gave a brief session on the schedule of immunization. She also highlighted about the importance of booster doze and hand washing. She stressed on the four key messages on Immunization and requested all the BPM’s to generate timely UID numbers to the respective Health workers. Resource person Dr. Sabino Kuotsu, District Nodal Officer, NTCP presented a power point presentation highlighting about the Tobacco Health Problem and the burdens of tobacco. The training for all the Medical Officers underPerenDistrictonTobaccoControlisscheduleonSeptember14.ThenextreviewmeetingisfixedonOctober5.Thiswas stated in a press release issued by Peren, Chief Medical Office, District Media Officer Pezanguno Celine Secii.

Pangti village. Dr. Meribeni Murry (Tobacco Control Board) while highlighting the activities undertaken by the board, said that so far the board has covered 24 Schools under the district imparting awareness on the harmful effects and use of tobacco. He also informed that more of such aware-

trict Planning and Development Board meeting was held on September 9 at Deputy Commissioner Conference Hall, Wokha under the chairmanship of Vice Chairman DPDB Wokha and DC Wezope Kenye.

The board approved registration of Lt.Thungchamo, Thun-

in the coming days on the ill effect of tobacco use.

With regard to Tokhu Emong celebration, SDO (C) Wokha requested all head of offices under the district to extend support towards the Hoho for the successful conduct of the festival. Project Director, DRDA, Thungdeno Mozhui

Guinness records on his name. An ex-Indian Air Force officer, he is recipient of many service honours and awards like; Chief of Air Staff Commendation, Sword of Honour and other recognition across the globe.

The training was divided into four different sessions which was highly motivating, educative and entertaining for the staff and cadets of Sainik School Punglwa. He demonstrated and taught the art of enhancing memory powerword meaning, dates, numbers etc. and the skills of speed reading.

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Speed reading, memory skill & motivation workshop at SSP Punglwa, SePtember 9 (mexn): Speed reading, memory skill andmotivationworkshopwasconducted at Sainik School Punglwa (SSP) by SquadronLeaderRJayasimha(Retd)on September 7 and 8 at the school premiseswasattendedbythecadetsandstaff.

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‘Need to adopt paradigm shift to address issues of PWDs’ Morung Express News Dimapur | September 9

An awareness-cum-sensitization workshop on rehabilitation of persons with disabilities (PWDs), organized by Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai, DEPwD, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, GoI in collaboration with Nagaland State Social Welfare Department and Prodigals’ Home, Dimapur, was held here at Town Hall on Friday.

Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome, who was the chief guest, stressed on the need to adopt a paradigm shift in addressing issues relating to PWDs, adding that the “bureaucratic approach” had not been able to deliver the desired results. The DC said the approach should be to shift from “just rehabilitation” of PWDs to their empowerment so that the PWDs can live normal lives and with dignity.

DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome, addressing the awareness-cum-sensitization workshop on rehabilitation of PWDs at Town Hall, Dimapur, on Friday.

Additional Director, Social Welfare Department, Kewe Kenye, in her address presented an overview of scenario of PWDs in the state and the various programmes undertaken by the government for welfare of PWDs. Earlier, HoD, SocioEconomic Rehabilitation Department & Nodal Offi-

NSCN (Reformation) member defects with Rs. 30 lakh Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): the NSCN/ GPRN (Reformation) today alleged that its former member, Abel Zingru Thuer Pochury, who was the Deputy Kilonser and Member Cease Fire Supervisory Board (CFSB), has defected to GPRN/ NSCN with Rs. 30 lakh in cash and government files. The money was meant for Ceasefire related meetings’ expenditures, stated a press release from MIP, NSCN (Reformation).

“Therefore, NSCN (Reformation) on humanitarian ground gives 15 days time with effect from September 10 to Abel Pochury to return the amount and government files. Failure to do so, the NSCN (Reformation) will take its own course of action,” the release read.

Meanwhile, NSCN (Reformation) requested the leaders of GPRN/ NSCN not to interfere in this issue as “Nagas are unable to come together for one good reason due to attitude and mentality of such people amongst Nagas.” The NSCN (Reformation) expressed belief in the maturity and understanding of NPG leaders.

cer-North East (AYJNIHH, Mumbai), R Bhattacharya, highlighted the activities of AYJNIHH. In the plenary session, the Deaf Biblical Ministry, Dimapur, in their presentation, ‘Overview of hearing disability in Nagaland’, informed that as per the National Programme for Prevention & Control of

Deafness (NPPCD), about 1,25,284 persons in Nagaland with a population of 19,88,636 have Hearing Impairment (HI).

Drawing attention on the society’s approach towards such disability, the Ministry said that till the 1980s hearing impaired people were called “mad or crazy” and were the object of ridicule and even considered a curse from God. “Families hid them from the society and it took many years for society in Nagaland to accept the deaf people as contributing members of the society,” conveyed the Deaf Biblical Ministry.

However, with the change of mindset, between the years 2010-2016 there has been immense development where the persons with HI after their education, have become independent and are involved in different professions. A good number of them, it added, are working in government offices,

Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): The NSCN (IM) today stated the sufferings of Naga people and their ability to undergo such prolonged militarized state “truly represent the vision of non-violent resistance as is seen through the Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) and its founding members and their offspring...”

A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) congratulated the NPMHR for its completion of 38 years

Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): 32 Assam Rifles conducted four operations between August 28 and September 3 in Dimapur leading to apprehension of high ranking cadres of FGN, NNC (Non-Accordist), “Over Ground Workers” of NNC (Non-Accordist), and “armed peddlers”, according to a press release from PRO, Assam Rifles. Two .22 pistols, cash and “incriminating documents” were recovered in the operations, it added.

The first operation was launched at Ghorapati on August 28 following information regarding extortion in the area. In the operation, the 32 Assam Rifles personnel apprehended two per-

sons identified as Rajapeyu Ashika Achumi (33) of FGN and Captain Nitoho (33) of NNC (Non Accordist) with slips of FGN and NNC (Non-Accordist), the release said. Both along with the recovered items were later handed over to East Police Station, Dimapur for further investigation.

In the second operation at Naharbari on August 29, various incriminating documents and rubber stamps pertaining to NNC (NonAccordist) along with “extortion money” amounting to a Rs. 65,500/- were recovered during a search from a suspected house, according to Assam Rifles.

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Rotary Club of Dimapur members with the teacher awardees.

International Literacy Day at Phek Govt College pheK, September 9 (mexN): Commemorating the International Literacy Day on September 8, the Phek Government College conducted various literary activities like quiz, extempore speech, slogan writing, essay writing, singing competition etc. at the college. Handsome prizes were given at the end of the programme to the winners, according to a press release received here. The following day, motivational talk on Skill Development was held with Gideon L Sumi, District Employment Officer, Phek as the resource person followed by interactive session at the end of the talk. Mhashevolu Medeo Asst. Professor, chaired the programme, where the college Principal gave the welcome note, and Dr. Atoholi Sema, Asst. Professor pronounced the concluding remarks.

NPA creates awareness on physiotherapy

Members of Nagaland Physiotherapist Association on World Physical Therapy Day, September 8.

Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): On the occasion of World Physical Therapy Day, Nagaland Physiotherapist Association (NPA) visited several traffic police stands on September 8 creating awareness about physiotherapy as well as distributing some goodies and exercise pamphlet. The awareness programme, based on the theme ‘Movement for Health’ and with the message ‘Add life to years’, highlighted the important role that physical therapists play in healthy ageing. NPA in a press release stated that there was a very good response and feedback from the traffic personnel, and the free treatment in hospitals, centres and clinics was well received by the patients.

uals were identified as Kiumukam Yimchunger (52), President of NNC (Non-Accordist), Hanjikhuing (24), Philip (29), “Over Ground Worker” of NNC (NonAccordist). All the apprehended were handed over to East Police Station for further investigation.

The third operation was launched at Walford on August 29 based on information regarding presence of armed cadres. The AR troops carried out spot search of a vehicle and recovered one .22 pistol. The occupants of the vehicle were immediately apprehended and handed over to East Police Station along with recovered items, it was

moKoKchuNg, September 9 (Dipr): Moitree, a festival celebrating friendship between two neighbouring districts of Mokokchung (Nagaland) and Sivasagar (Assam) was held at Amguri Tea Estate Playground on September 8, organised by the Sivasagar district administration on behalf of the Govt. of Assam.

This event is an initiative of both the two districts’ administration to foster unity, peace, friendship and human understanding through socio-cultural activities between the two places.

Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel was accom-

informed. Identified as Selithre Sangtam (43), Home Secretary of FGN, Lakimong (26), Hoveto (46), and Kughavi (49), the apprehended persons were handed over to Dimapur Police for further interrogation, the release said.

The fourth operation was launched at Notun Basti on September 3, where troops of 32 AR intercepted a suspect and recovered one illegal pistol. The apprehended individual was identified as David Zhimo, Aged (45), Tatar in FGN. He along with the recovered items was later handed over to West Police Station, Dimapur for further investigation, it was added.

‘GDRN/NNC (N/A) is intact and running smoothly as before’ Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): GDRN/NNC (N/A) under the leadership of its President, Kiumukam Yimchunger has stated that the allegations made against the President in the recent days are “all malicious to downgrade the image of a true and reliable leader.”

This clarification comes few days after a press release informed that Kiumukam has been “impeached” on “charge of extortion, which was visible in his recent arrest by Assam Rifles.”

A press release issued by MIP, GDRN/NNC (N/A) today maintained that “the present situation is created through some workers who were recently inducted and given authority and opportunity by the Government in good sense believing they can serve the nation and deliver their knowledge and selfless sacrifice, instead in order to topple the Government, their wisdom was contained with only flirty and greedy minded which is unacceptable to the humanity.”

The erstwhile Kilonser In-charge of the MIP, it alleged, “is misled by the power mongers and irresponsible persons and is now following in their lines and succumbed to their flirty game.” Therefore, he is terminated and the President appoints Hetoi Chophy, Deputy In-charge of MIP, the release stated. All Govt. related correspondence should be made through him as authorized, it added.

Meanwhile, the release affirmed that “the GDRN/ NNC (N/A) is intact and running smoothly as before with constitutional right and there is no other establishment or organization and shall not be accepted.”

Be ambassadors against corruption and bribery: NPCC President tells students pfütSero, September 9 (mexN): NPCC President K. Therie has urged students to be ambassadors against corruption and bribery. Addressing the students of Pfütsero Government College, he affirmed that all rank and file of the NPCC will continue to fight against corruption and bribery, according to a press release received here.

Therie further said that sense of belonging and participation of all stakeholders in making a vibrant State Assembly is the need of hour so every corner’s problem is discussed in the State Assembly and addressed through its directives. He also stated that sense of belonging of public funds is of utmost importance towards curbing corruption and ensuring that funds are optimally utilized for the intended purposes.

Maintaining that bribery and corruption have become a vicious cycle in Nagaland and the youth being the most important stakeholder in the state have an impor-

tant role in changing society and the Electoral College towards electing a “clean God-fearing Government,” Therie said that the future of the state and every individual are interdependent and therefore another wrong step will be a fall to be stamped upon by the 7.4 billion He further urged the gathering to be ambassadors in changing the present perception people have of Nagaland, by exhibiting and living the true Christian spirit.

Therie also exhorted the students to set goals and work towards achieving them. For this, he said, it is important that they venture out but with skill and competency. He asserted there is nothing to stop them if there is determination and hard work.

“We deserve equal and ample opportunities. When you are done with education and come back home and you don’t find a job; when ‘free and fair’, justice and equality are found missing; when

on September 9. “It was indeed a humble and humiliating beginning when the entire Naga populace intensely felt the ardent need to represent and address the sufferings of Naga people under harsh military campaigns. In the course of Naga's outstandingly long quest for justice and recognition, NPMHR began with full of disappointments and yet glorious existence as it is today,” the NSCN (IM) stated.

It recalled that the

founding members of the NPMHR “did endure immense difficulties and trying moments in order to be heard and recognized.”

The NPMHR, it stated, has “now carried across oceans and mountains the message of collective responsibility to ensure global security necessity today in upholding the essence of human rights.”

The NSCN (IM) further wished NPMHR “success in its endeavour to cross the line and triumphal ending.”

Moitree – festival of friendship celebrated

32 Assam Rifles apprehend NPG cadres

Rotary Club awards Government school teachers Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): Rotary Club of Dimapur celebrated International Literacy Day on September 8 by felicitating and awarding 5 outstanding teachers of various Government schools in Dimapur at Rotary Centre, Midland, Dimapur.

The function was organized under T-E-A-C-H Program of Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM), informed a press release from Sanjay Sethi, Chairman, Rotary Club of Dimapur.

The following awardees were honoured with RILM Certificates & Rotary 4-way Test Mementos: Temsunaro Jamir of Govt.High School, Lengrijan; Akato of Govt.

Middle School, Zeliangrong; Esther of Govt. Primary School, Lengrijan; Yondella Ovung of Govt. Primary & Middle School, Duncan; Moala Panger of Govt. Middle School, Midland.

some self employed, while few of them involved in teaching, others actively involved in sports (some even winning awards).

Maong Jamir, Assistant Director, Prodigals’ Home, who spoke on ‘Scenario of disabilities in Nagaland’, also commented that society considers PWDs as a “curse from God and do not count their abilities while considering them to be an object of charity.” Jamir therefore advocated for effective implementation of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) Act 1995, and Nagaland State Policy for PwDs while recommending that the state should have State Resource Centre (SRC)/District Resource Centres’ (DRCs) for PwDs, employment and livelihood alternatives for PwDs and intensive/ extensive awareness covering all districts by Office of Disability Commissioner, responsible Government Departments, NGOs and FBOs.

NPMHR truly represents vision of non violent resistance: NSCN (IM)

bias and backdoor appointment are the only way; you will realise the reality of the situation. You will regret but it may be too late,” he added.

Meanwhile, he stated that given an opportunity, the Congress will create opportunities for employment and accelerate growth of the economy in a free and fair environment.

Pointing out that Pfütsero area, surrounded by virgin forests, enjoys a super, nature gifted climate with vegetation and inhabited by hardworking people, the NPCC President said the region has immense potential to develop various types of tourism which in turn could stimulate the growth of other allied sectors in the service industry.

Therie also touched on aspects of the NPCC Roadmap and said if provided an opportunity, the Congress will deliver the vision as declared therein and in the Election Manifesto for the upcoming 2018 General Election.

panied by Superintendent of Police Mokokchung, Aotemsu, Addl. Deputy Commissioner Tuli, Sentiwapang and other Govt. officials, while from Assam, DC of Sivasagar, Narayan Konwar, Superintendent of Police, Subudh Sonowal and other officials attended the daylong event.

The dignitaries expressed confidence that events like these will go a long way in strengthening the strong ties and trusted bonds between the people of Assam and Nagaland. They also expressed desire of peaceful co-existence as brothers and sisters by settling small differences through the spirit of friendship.

MEx FILE CRPF clarifies Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): With regard to the seizure of 1,100 kg of ganja by Kohima Police on September 4 from an LPG oil tanker, which was being escorted by a CRPF Battalion, Commandant 78 BN, CRPF has clarified that all civil/IOCL etc vehicles being escorted by the CRPF are handed over to CRPF by department concerned i.e., IOCL/FCI with an undertaking that no contraband items are being taken in any of the vehicles.

CRPF has no authority to further check the escorted vehicles, the Commandant said in a clarification note. It stated that the vehicle caught on September 4 was not checked by department concerned, i.e., IOCL.

School Education HoD informs Kohima, September 9 (mexN): Additional Director of School Education (HoD), Wothungo Tsopoe has informed all the Higher Secondary Cadre officers of School Education Department from Vice-Principal and above to submit the missing APAR during the period 2010-11 to 2014-15 for considering regularization of officiating promotion on or before September 17.

The missing APARs for the mentioned period may be confirmed and submitted in Room No-37 of Higher Secondary Section of the Directorate of School Education, he added in a press release.

KSU urges to fill vacant nurse posts moN, September 9 (mexN): In support to the grievances highlighted by the Unemployed Trained Nurses Association, Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) has pointed out that there is major lack of Staff Nurses in the various health centres in Mon district, “which is against the INC norms and it is causing immense problem to the working staffs due to lack of manpower.” Therefore, KSU through its President, Loungai Wangnao and General Secretary, Mantong Konyak has appealed to the department concerned to rectify the anomalies and fill up all the 33 vacant posts under the INC norms at various places as allotted at the earliest.

Dimapur Police arrest bike lifter Dimapur, September 9 (mexN): Keeping surveillance on unknown bike lifters, Dimapur Police arrested one person from Marwaripatti area, Dimapur at around 8:00 pm on September 7 when he was driving away with a stolen bike. The arrested person has been identified as Awoto Awomi, informed a press release from ADCP/PRO, Dimapur Police. Two keys were also seized from his possession pre-supposedly used for such crimes, the release added. A case is under investigation at the Sub Urban Police Station.

Meetings & AppointMents AHoDs & HoDs meeting A meeting of the Administrative Head of Departments (AHoDs) and Head of Departments HoDs) will be held on September 14, 11:00 am in the Secretariat conference hall, Kohima. A circular from the Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar (IAS) has informed all AHoDs and HoDs to attend the meeting positively. Following are the agenda to be discussed: Review of the minutes of AHoDs & HoDs meeting held on July 4, 2016, Release of SIRD souvenir book, Recent instructions of P&AR department to ban contract appointments etc, requisitions to NPSC and revised rules of executive business, Planning and Finance departments' issues, if any.

Tobu SDPDB Tobu SDPDB meeting will be held on September 14, 11:00 am at ADC conference hall. The Chairperson Naiba Konyak has requested all the heads of offices under Tobu and Mokha sub-divisions to attend the meeting without fail.

AYO presidential council meeting The Angami Youth Organization (AYO) has called a presidential council meeting on September 14, 11:00 am at APO Hall, Kohima. The meeting will deliberate on the upcoming AYO silver jubilee. All kicha presidents and office bearers and village unit presidents and general secretaries have been asked to attend the same without fail.

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Apple jack axe ushers in a voice-driven world Jeremy Wagstaff

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evant information based on weather, outside events and your calendar.

Valencell has focused on putting biometrics in the earbud, such as measuring the user's heart rate. Its technology can be found in over a dozen products so far, says LeBoeuf.

Bragi has worked on solving some of the problems connecting two wireless buds with a device and with each other, and wants to "bring intelligence to wearables," says Hviid.

But there are still teething problems.

Hviid says Bragi's latest earbuds, launched this week, resolve many of the issues that drew criticism in the first generation product. Others say artificial intelligence is still not there, though it's much better than even a few years ago. "Apple's AI is not ready now," says Gonzalo Tudela, CEO of Vandrico Solutions, an enterprise wearables software company.

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he new Apple iPhone has something missing: the small socket millions of us have used for years to plug in headphones.

While some fans opposed the widely anticipated move - one online petition urging Apple to keep the headphone jack drew more than 300,000 signatures - equipment suppliers and experts heralded a change in how users will interact with their devices.

Axing the jack, they say, paves the way for discreet, bean-sized earbuds that can simultaneously translate, filter out unwanted noise or let us control other devices by voice - and drive up the value of the so-called 'hearables' market to $16 billion within five years.

It's the vision of the futuristic 2013 movie "Her", where a human has a love affair with a disembodied voice in his ear. But some who follow the industry say it's closer than many think, noting improvements in wireless technologies, materials, artificial intelligence and battery life.

"It's surprisingly close," says Nick Hunn, a UK-based consultant who works with manufacturers and a group defining the short-range wireless Bluetooth standard.

UN-WIRED Apple justified the removal of the jack as a courageous move to ditch a 100-year-old technology and make more space inside the iPhone. It offered as alternatives a lightning cable earphone and an adapter for the old type, but touted new wireless earphones.

"It makes no sense to tether ourselves with cables to our mobile devices," said Phil Schiller, senior VP of worldwide marketing, announcing the launch of AirPods, Apple's own wireless earbuds using the firm's new wireless W1 chip, and costing $159.

"We're just at the beginning of a truly wireless future we've been working towards for many years," added chief design officer Jonathan Ive. And that great uncabling has already begun.

Speakers were first: more than 100 mil-

lion wireless speakers will be sold this year, most of them using Bluetooth, according to SAR Insight and Consulting.

Now it's headsets: spending on wireless headsets overtook wired ones last year, says Steven LeBoeuf, founder of Valencell, a developer of biometric sensor technology for wearable devices.

The next step is to make those earphones smarter.

German wireless earbud start-up Bragi, for example, last week announced a partnership to hook up its earbuds with IBM's artificial intelligence engine, Watson. IBM said users would be able to communicate, monitor vital signs, receive and give instructions and translate from one language to an-

other using Bragi's smart earphones.

Firefighters would be better able to hear and locate victims and colleagues, and co-workers could collaborate using both hands, said Bragi CEO Nikolaj Hviid.

"This is not about making headphones," he said. "It's about taking the user interface from your eyes and hand and having a much more discreet one when needed. It's part of a bigger puzzle."

INTELLIGENT ASSISTANCE That bigger puzzle includes improving how computers understand human commands.

Apple pointed to improvements in its Siri voice control software, which can be ac-

tivated by double tapping the AirPod. Other major technology companies are also making strides, with Amazon.com Inc's Alexa software letting you control an Internet-connected speaker with your voice. Alphabet's Google has its own version.

Among China's technology leaders, Baidu is working on improving transcribing speech, and says its Deep Speech 2 system can transcribe English and Chinese about three times faster than a human. It says the number of voice interactions with its products has tripled since the start of last year.

Start-ups, too, are forging a path. New York-based Scarlet, funded by Samsung Electronics, this year launched an intelligent assistant app that briefs the user on rel-

The Age of the Wordless Logo ‘Consumers are jaded about advertising in a way they weren’t several decades ago’ Kalle Oscari Matilla asterCard unveiled its new logo earlier this summer, and as far as rebrandings go, the tweaks were subtle: The company kept its overlapping red and yellow balls intact, and moved its name, which was previously front and center, to beneath the balls, while making the text lowercase. With increasing frequency,MasterCard said, it would do away with using its name in the logo entirely. The focus would be more on the symbol than the words.

MasterCard’s move reflects a wider shift among some of the most widely recognized global brands to de-emphasize the text in their logos, or remove it altogether. Nike was among the first brands to do this, in 1995, when its swoosh began to appear with the words “Just Do It,” and then without any words at all. Apple, McDonald’s, and other brandsfollowedasimilartrajectory,gravitating toward entirely textless symbols after a period of transition with logos that had taglines like “Think Different” or “I’m lovin’ it.”

This shift is ostensibly in accordance with a more streamlined approach to design, as well as certain features of the modern economy: Symbols work betterthan long names on computer screens and apps, and they allow for greater flexibility if a company wants to dabble in multiple industries at once. For instance, names like Starbucks Coffee and MasterCard are tied to specific products in ways that symbols are not, which can be a disadvantage at a time when it’s perfectly plausible for a company that makes phones tomakecarstoo.Additionally,visualcuescan travel across borders more easily, because they eliminate the need for translation.

But perhaps the most powerful impetus for these slimmed-down logos is that it’s increasingly more difficult to reach buyers when so many of them are skeptical of big corporations. A recent survey by the public-relations firm Cohn & Wolfe found that four-fifthsofglobalconsumersnowconsider brands neither open nor honest. “Consumers are jaded about advertising in a way they weren’t several decades ago,” says Adam Alter, an associate professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, via email. “It is harder to appeal to them thanitusedtobe,andtheytendtoseethrough overt marketing pitches.” That has in turn led to a new arsenal of branding tactics. “Companies have had to learn subtlety,” Alter says.

Among that arsenal is what’s called “debranding” or “decorporatizing”—a strategy based on paring down that can only be deployed by the most identifiable of brands.

Somemarketersbelievethatdebrandingcan make global brands appear “less corporate” and “more personal” to consumers. Nameless logos can evoke more personal and immediate reactions—which is important in a media environment with plenty of possible distractions and diversions. “Researchers have demonstrated that the use of visual

NO VOICE NEEDED But many, including some major hardware players, sense the time is near.

Samsung last month launched its IconX wireless earbuds, which include biometrics, while Sony's Xperia Ear promises to deliver weather and message notifications via voice, and to recognise input either by voice or head movements. LG Electronics said last week it was including Alexa in its SmartThinQ Hub, a device used to connect home appliances over the Internet.

And some are already pioneering the next step - where voice commands are unnecessary.

U.S. start-up Emotiv Systems is selling a $300 headset that allows the user to control software with the mind and face. This, says David Vivancos, an adviser to the company, is part of a shift "to custom apps that learn from your usage. Your app and my app will soon not be the same."

In the "Her" movie, the operating system becomes more and more personal. "There's a case to be made for a hearable OS," says Mari Joller, Scarlet's founder and CEO, "which capitalises on the combination of sensors, mobility, context and privacy to enable experiences that are in many ways even more intimate and powerful than the smartphone."

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imagery (vs. verbal imagery) in advertising increases consumers’ attention and challenges them to interpret and understand the ad’s message in a more active manner than words do,” wrote Jill J. Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, in an email.

“This process of interpretation or ‘elaboration’ produces a higher quantity of mental images and, in many cases, a more personalized understanding of the ad’s message.” In short, it is easier to make associations based on two bright, primary-colored balls than it is with the word MasterCard.

The need to get personal and friendly is particularlygermanetoyoungpeople,thetargetmarketofmanyglobalconsumer-product enterprises. It’s likely that this factored into MasterCard’s decision to rebrand. As an increasing number of consumers—especially

younger ones—prefer to make transactions on their phones rather than using cash or cards, and shy away from racking up creditcard debt, one worry for MasterCard’s investors is that the company hasn’t fully broken into the mobile-payments market yet. By contrast, PayPal—another brand that carried out a visual refresh a few years ago in which it de-emphasized its name on its logo—enjoys a substantial Millennial user base, a good portion of which is loyal to Venmo, a popular mobile-payment app it acquired.

The benefits of debranding can be huge.

One of the most successful executions of it has been the “Share a Coke” promotion, for which Coca-Cola replaced its name on bottles with people’s first names, like Sarah and David, and other everyday monikers, like Mom and Dad. The campaign

increased Coca-Cola's U.S. sales by more than 2 percent and, in doing so, helped reverse more than 10 years of decline in Coke consumption in the U.S. The advertising industry likes to call this type of marketing “authentic.” Cohn & Wolfe compiles an annual list of the “world’s most authentic brands,” drawing on surveys of nearly 12,000 consumers in 14 countries.

This year’s Top 20includes Paypal and MasterCard, as well as Coca-Cola. Authenticity, of course, is a funny thing when it comes to marketing: Asserting one’s authenticity feels, well, inauthentic. At a time when consumers are placing more and more importance on companies that feel genuine rather than corporate, it makes all too much sense that marketers would start trying to make it more difficult to distinguish between the two.

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op: You were doing 20 kilometres an hour over the speed limit. Me: Yes, but you're standing there telling me this on a planet spinning at 1,000 kilometres an hour moving around the sun at 107,000 kmph in a solar system that travels at 789,000 kmph through a galaxy moving at 1,000 km a second.

Let's talk about you." (Cop doubles penalty.)

So much for science. Life is so ironic these days. In a bookshop recently I saw Blink, a tome that says the key to success is making snap decisions. I couldn't decide whether to buy it.

Later that day, I saw a news clip in which an energy minister's speech about 24x7 electricity supply was interrupted by a power cut. He continued to talk in the dark, although I think it's fair to say that his point was undermined. That incident in India was solid proof of the truth of my long-held belief that irony is The Guiding Principle of the Universe.

We live in a world where a kite-flying event in Hong Kong is cancelled after weather forecasters predict "a windy day"; a world where my silly friends try to organise an Animal Rights barbecue; a world where a woman wearing a Stop Domestic Violence T-shirt in the US was arrested for hitting family members.

Indeed, there could be a whole sub-category of incidents involving offenders wearing ironic or apt T-shirts, says reader Joshua Poulson, who collects police mugshots. He sent me one of a cold, unsmiling villain with "DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE?" on his shirt. Women are much more likely to blame themselves for problems, and his collection includes a mugshot of an arrested female wearing a T-shirt saying: "I'm sorry, it's my fault". If she pleads not guilty in court, the shirt is going to be a problem.

This can also be said about a man arrested with "I'M PROBABLY LYING" emblazoned across his chest. Smart prosecutor: "Did you commit this crime, and can you tell us what your T-shirt says?" Suspect: "I'm not guilty, and 'I'M PROBABLY LYING'."

Apt slogans are seen less often where I live in Asia, since our goods tend to have random, surreal sentences on them, such as: "So happy is my cucumber wind."

And, of course, there are the many unintentionally ironic people who comment "your stuped" (sic) on the web versions of my articles.

Someone sent me a picture of a bumper sticker from a car in the US: "Your in America speak English." We need to pass a law now, before the climate change apocalypse, that allows us to legally eat anybody who writes "your" for "you're": Who's with me on that? Everybody. I thought so.

A few days ago, my news feed reported that insurance agents told the pastor of a storm-damaged church in Pennsylvania that they would get no money as floods are classified as "acts of God".

The pastor took it in good humour, which seems wise. You can't win so you might as well smile.

Meanwhile, I need a judge who will listen when I explain that the movement of the Earth means it is scientifically impossible to move at less than 1,000 kilometres a second. And not double the penalty.

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

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Let’s give it up for ilandlo.com!

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hadn’t heard of online shopping in Nagaland before ilandlo.com. The very enterprising duo, Lipokjungla Ozukum and Imtisunep Longchar have steadily worked at their home grown business and now it has become a household name as more and more entrepreneurs have learned to use their services with very satisfactory consequences. As ilandlo.com says it so succinctly, our business is to grow your business. My personal experience has been very good at ilandlo where they supplied books to remote places in the Northeast as well as dispatched overseas orders.

Whether you want to buy things or sell things, this is our very own version of Amazon.com. Dimapurians even get the privilege of CAD, house deliveries with cash on delivery offers. Support it. Vouch for it. It is worth it.

How does anyone make an online shopping enterprise work in Nagaland with all its technological limitations? Let’s hear it first hand from the people who are behind this enterprise which is a godsend to any entrepreneur trying to reach a market within Nagaland and beyond.

1. What are the products you sell? Can you give a comprehensive list?

Ilandlo: We have categorized our products in a very generic way for any visitor or customer to understand and browse easily. Our categories include “Clothing and Accessories” where we have men’s and women’s clothing and accessories, and this category includes a special category for ethnic accessories, Ethnic Women and Ethnic men sub categories, where we currently have mostly Naga men and women shawls, stoles, wraparounds and jewelry.

“Home and lifestyle” caters to handicrafts of wood and bamboo, decorative mugs, household items, toys, art works and paintings, organic herbal soaps and showpieces.

Under “Food and Gourmet” we have lots of pickles both veg and nonveg, like pork, beef, fish, prawn, chili, fruit and bamboo shoot pickles. We also have vegetables, and delicacies like fermented soyabean, bamboo shoot, and various dried vegetables and fruits.

The “Books & Stationeries” sections have a variety of educational books for colleges and schools, for all the three streams of studies, and we have a huge collective shelf of books written by our talented Naga authors.

“Business Supplies” category mainly caters to the packaging of needful items for small and medium enterprises, which help them in getting packaging materials at a very reduced rate as well as at a very low minimum quantity (MoQ).

“Gadgets and Accessories” is a new line of product that will bridge the gap to bring in gadgets at a very competitive reduced rate from vendors from different parts of the country.

2. Are there some problems with selling bottled goods?

Ilandlo: Bottled packaging looks really standard and it always stands out on the shelf, and over the years of experience with different vendors we have seen that it has really done the trick to attract customers to buy their product. There are some problem areas in bottled goods, for instance, bottles are much heavier than the actual weight of the product, and there is a high risk of breaking, and it also takes the majority of the weight for shipping which also needs a lot of care. In addition, the product would be travreached them within two consecutive months this year, and we are in the elling for days, changing many hands. However, we do not refrain ourselves process of fulfilling orders from UK and Singapore as well. from selling bottled goods on our website from any seller.

6. Can you deliver goods to any district in Nagaland? If not, would you 3. Do you have any limitations on what you can sell? care to state the reasons?

Ilandlo: We designed the website model in such a way that any genuine Ilandlo: We were skeptical about delivering goods to districts in Nagaland, individual, manufacturer, SHGs, small businesses, groups, craftsmen or particularly the interiors, because of the transportation system and the handloom enterprise can sell their products on our website with total concourier services which were not up to the standard for an ecommerce sertrol over pricing, display, packaging and stock by themselves. It’s a platform vice. However, we chose Speed Post as an alternative and now we are able where the sellers have control over what they want to display for customers to deliver to all parts of Nagaland where Speed Post can reach. They are doto see. Our main role is to host the website and act as a customer and teching a good job so far. We run after their lives, if there is any delay in service nical support provider for the sellers and the buyers. Thus, we don’t have or mishandling of parcels. any limitations on selling any product on our website except the ones that are illegal and the ones that need proper licensing to sell, like pharmaceuti- 7. What are some of the problems you have faced in your business? cal products, arms, and liquor.

Ilandlo: There are lots of them, starting from basics like electricity, transportation, resources, office space etc. The list could go on, but all these 4. Can you tell me which states in India have you done business with?

Ilandlo: We are very fortunate to have been able to deliver products from problems are opportunities where we can find possibilities and make them the small and medium businesses to the cities all over India. We have cov- work. We realize that complaining does not help us, but if we can find ways ered almost all the states in India, delivering products to Tamil Nadu, Kar- to solve those issues, we can build more opportunities out of those probnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Orissa in the south up till lems. Everyday we face different ways of challenges to make people underHimachal, Delhi, Haryana and Uttarakhand in the north and from far west stand what we are doing and to make them believe in us. We want people Gujarat, Rajasthan, Mumbai and Goa till Arunachal, Manipur, Meghalaya, to understand that our idea is created to benefit the small and medium size Assam and Tripura in the neighboring states. It’s been a spectacular re- business, and the farmers in the village, where they would get the maxisponse over the service that we are able to provide with our small team and mum benefit of their hard work. Having said that, we would not have been with the little acquired knowledge and understanding doing e-commerce doing what are we doing today, if there wasn’t any problem to face in people understanding our idea. business so far.

5. What are the international countries you have so far done business with? 8. Any plans of expansion in the future?

Ilandlo: The start of the website came as a blessed one. Our first Interna- Ilandlo: We are always looking forward to meeting people who would tional order came in the first six months of launching the website. A cus- want to work with us in expansion, funding and creating opportunities in tomer from Canada contacted us saying that she wanted to purchase from and around the state or outside. We are open to ideas and directions that our website. We are still grateful for her trust and store it as one of our most anyone among us can bring for expansion. We like crazy ideas and young valuable customer experiences; that she trusted us blindly in transacting minds pouring out opinions, logics, beauty and values, who can show us her Dollars in a bank account, in a small town, in a small state in Nagaland areas of improvement, show us our shortcomings and teach us what we just over the internet, that was the power of internet technology. We did don’t know or even would like to be a part of ilandlo’s team for improvereceive orders afterward from the US and Spain which we delivered and it ment and expansions.

9. Would you recommend this line of business for young entrepreneurs?

Ilandlo: Yes, but only to those who are extremely passionate about what they do, who are crazy yet very connected to their roots and want to help the society, who would still not take payment for years, yet pay their staff for their expenses, but who would work to take nothing less than success. Because it’s a long journey, where one has to be very strong emotionally and mentally because your close ones might lose faith in you and stop believing in you.

It’s not a lucrative business where you would earn more than you spend.  It’s more of a strategic business and one should have a clear logic and understanding of e-commerce industries. There are many other e-commerce business or ideas not necessarily retailing goods B2B (Business to Business) or B2C (Business to Customer), there are services e-commerce industries as well where one can bring out a spectacular idea to sell online.

10. I am of the opinion that you have changed the face of online shopping in Nagaland. What are your views on that?

Ilandlo: It’s a dream, but we still have a very long way to go. We have a lot of hard work to be done, and we need the right people to work with us, who believe in our dreams and ideas. We still have endless nights to go without sleep and work on building a platform for the people, because we want to scale up our local businesses and be the strongest pillar to support them. We have not even touched the tip of the iceberg, we are still in the vapor state, yet to become a drop of liquid. Talking about Nagaland online shopping, we are still learning ABCs, we have a very long way before we sit for the IAS exams.

11. Any information from your side not covered by this interview.

Ilandlo: Our Business is to grow your business. We are focused on helping small and medium businesses, designers, authors, publishers, artist, craftsmen, handlooms to grow using technology, because ilandlo.com is built for the community to be able to support their business and do business freely and be able to link with buyers and sellers. It is a platform where we share data information about small businesses and give them access to the local and international markets. Products which have never been sold outside the state will get an export opportunity. We are focused on small businesses, groups and entities giving them a free platform, a free service where they can grow their business and start exporting.

What changes in the colour or texture of your nails tell about your health

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ometimes, little changes in your body can Yellow and brittle nails could also be a sign of a Change in the texture of nails signify a change in the status of your health. condition called psoriasis in which skin cells build Brittle and pale nails do not just signify anaemia, For instance, your nails. Nails happen to be up and form scales and itchy, dry patches. but also fungal infections and Staphylococcus bacone of the most overlooked parts of our body, but Unnaturally white nails are significant in de- terial infections. In addition, a deficiency of Vitamin also happen to be a prominent teller of one’s A, B and C is also detected by brittle health. Other than the obvious signs that nails nails, according to Dr Pahwal. Crackshow about a person’s hygiene and cleanliing and splitting of brittle nails can ness, the nails can also show signs of fatal also lead to the detection of thyroid health disorders, even skin cancer. Talking to disease, particularly hypothyroidism. indianexpress.com, Dr Pankaj Pahwal, Chief Clubbing is a nail condition in Medical Officer of Sitaram Bhartia Institute which case, fingernails curve inof Science and Research, explained how the wards and get enlarged. Dr Pahwal change in the colour and texture of nails are said that it is a sign of respiratory actually significant symptoms of acute illproblems, including chronic bronnesses. chitis and lung conditions.

Beading of the nails is another Change in colour of nails condition that is a common sympIf the colour of the nails is yellow, the tom of rheumatoid arthritis, diabecondition commonly signifies anaemia. tes and thyroid.

“This condition of thick and yellow nails The doctor suggested that it is imalso signify fungal infection under the nail portant to maintain the hygiene of the beds,” Dr Pahwal said. In addition, yellownails by cleaning them from time to time ing of nails is also a sign of respiratory diseases, tecting liver and kidney diseases and doctors im- to avoid fungal infections like onychomycosis, which if diabetes and thyroid —although less often. Brit- mediately send the patient for a kidney/liver tests, not taken care of, could prove fatal. Vitamin A, Vitamin B tle and yellow nails are most commonly seen in in that case, said Dr Pahwal. Dark stripes’ forma- biotin and Vitamin C rich foods like most fruits, vegetawomen, because they are more prone to anae- tion on the nails may sometimes be a form of skin bles and dairy products must be consumed in adequate mia biologically, and fishermen, because of be- cancer that affects the nail bed and is called subun- proportions to have healthy and clean nails.

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Clashes in Kashmir, army to be deployed in valley

Srinagar, September 9 (ianS): Dozens of civilians were injured in clashes with security forces in continuing protests in the Kashmir Valley on Friday as the army was set to be deployed in the restive southern districts.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in Panaji that the situation in the valley was "under better control than earlier" and "will be under complete control" in coming days.

The comments came as government sources in Srinagar told IANS that more paramilitary troopers were being sent to the valley and the army was being deployed in south Kashmir, the hub of the ongoing unrest on the streets.

However, the army, which is neither trained in nor equipped with nonlethal weapons, has been told not to get into mob control and react only in "self-defense" if their pickets and camps are attacked by stone-pelting protesters.

The sources said the army would launch a major offensive against militants believed to have crossed over from Pakistan and are fanning trouble in the aftermath of the July 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahi-

Senior leader of the hardliner faction of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Syed Ali Shah Geelani waves to his supporters outside his house. (AP File Photo)

deen commander Burhan Wani. At least 76 persons have been killed and over 12,000 injured in the violent unrest.

Also at Panaji, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said the increased deployment of troops was for anti-terror activities as the "army does not act in internal matters unless asked by the local authority".

"The local civil administration will have to ask (for) the army there like it happened in Haryana, where the (Jat) agitation took place. When the local administration called the army in, we went there

only then and followed the orders of the local administration. We don't operate anywhere internally on our own," Parrikar said.

Significantly, Army chief General Dalbir Singh on Friday reviewed the security situation in the valley, especially in the south, defence sources said here.

He also visited forward areas along the Line of Control in Kupwara district.

The street agitation, security restrictions, and separatist-called shutdown have disrupted normal life in the valley for 62 days now. Shops, businesses, schools and private and

government offices have remained closed since July 9 - a day after Wani's killing.

The curfew, largely removed since the beginning of this week, was re-imposed on Friday as the authorities feared more violence. But people at various places in Srinagar, south and north Kashmir regions defied the restrictions to march on the streets, shouting anti-government and pro-freedom slogans.

The protesters threw stones at security forces at these places. The forces retaliated with pellet guns, leaving dozens of protesters injured.

The authorities also didn't allow congregational midday prayers at Srinagar's Jamia Masjid the largest mosque in Jammu and Kashmir - for the eighth Friday in a row.

Police said curfew was imposed in the old city that houses the mosque to prevent post-Friday prayer stone-pelting protests in the volatile areas around Jamia Masjid.

Police also foiled a scheduled press conference of hardline separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his Hyderpora residence.

Geelani later issued a nearly 2,000-word press statement to the media in which he thanked Pakistan and China for their support to Kashmiris "in their fight for the right to self-determination".

The separatist leader vowed to carry on with the agitation as the "spirit of the struggle for freedom has been seamlessly passed on to the next generation.

"No fight is possible without people willing to sacrifice their lives and livelihoods," he said, hinting that the shutdown won't be called off even as the Muslim festival of Eid is being celebrated on Tuesday.

Govt throws open nomination of Padma Awards to general public new DelHi, September 9 (pti): Any Indian can now recommend any achiever for the prestigious Padma Awards, with the government throwing open the nomination process to general public to make it transparent and curb the crony culture of influence and lobbying.

The nominations can be made online but the nominators would be required to furnish their Aadhaar details for authenticity and accountability.

"For the first time, government of India is encour-

aging the people of India to nominate achievers for the Padma Awards," sources said.

It is a step towards transforming the national awards into a truly people's award which will no longer remain restricted to elite rulers, they said.

Opening up of the nomination process to the general public will also help in identifying unsung or lesser known people of excellence, the sources said.

"Simple online nomination encourages and facilitates all Indian citizens

to participate," the sources added.

They said the changes in the nomination process is aimed at curbing the crony culture of influence and lobbying.

"Online application portal plus electronic management system harnesses technology to make processing of nominations efficient and transparent," the sources said.

The government has already received over 1700 nominations and the last date of nomination is September 15.

19 killed, 43 injured as bus falls off bridge bHubaneSwar, September 9 (pti): At least 19 people were killed and 43 injured, many of them critically, when the bus they were travelling in fell 40 feet off a bridge in Odisha's Angul district today. The mishap took place near Deulijhari when the bus from Boudh to Athamallik fell off the bridge at Puruna Manitri, DGP KB Singh said.

"So far, 19 persons have lost their lives in the incident. While 16 persons died at Athamallik, including 14 on the spot, three others succumbed during treatment at the district headquarters hospital at Angul," Dr Bidyadhar Sahu, Chief District Medical Officer, Angul, told PTI. He said of the 43 injured admitted at the district headquarters hospital at Angul, three died while 23 others were shifted to SCB Medical College Hospital and four of the critically injured persons were airlifted to Cuttack.

State Health Minister Atanu S Nayak

was camping at SCB Medical College to monitor the situation there.

"We have formed special teams of doctors and a special ward for the treatment of those injured. They have been provided medical assistance for free as per the decision of the state government," Nayak said.

Expressing grief and shock over the mishap, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced free medical treatment for the injured and ex-gratia of Rs two lakh each for the next of the kin of those killed in the accident.

Some of the surviving passengers of the bus claimed that the driver was talking on his mobile phone when the mishap took place even as state Transport Minister Ramesh Majhi has ordered the RTO to probe the matter.

The death toll is likely to go up as the condition of some of the injured is stated to be critical, officials said.

Himachal pulls petition blocking tribal challenge to power project Rahul Gandhi visits Ayodhya, first mumbai, September 9 (tHOmSOn reuterS FOunDatiOn): Himachal Pradesh has withdrawn a court petition challenging the right of indigenous people to oppose a power plant on forest land, ending a seven-year tussle that highlighted the fight for land in the country.

Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation, a state enterprise, had appealed against an order by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directing it to seek consent from four village councils for the hydroelectric project, in accordance with the Forest Rights Act. The case was due to be heard in the Supreme

Court on Friday.

The petition had said that the order was not practical, as indigenous people were unskilled and incapable of taking informed decisions on technical matters.

India's Forest Rights Act of 2006 gives indigenous people and forest dwellers the right to manage and govern their traditional forests and resources. Any infrastructure or development project that requires forest land to be cleared needs the consent of the gram sabha, or village council.

"We have to move away from the idea of the gram sabha as illiterate people plotting to derail development," environment lawyer

Ritwick Dutta, representing community organisations against Himachal Pradesh, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"Around the world, free and prior informed consent of communities is being seen as necessary for businesses," he said.

The village councils in Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh had said they were concerned about environmental damage from the power project. Activists said the area, known for growing apples, was fragile and that the plant could ruin livelihoods.

The state's petition was seen as an embarrassment for the opposition Congress party, which controls

the state government.

The party, which had passed the Forest Rights Act when it was in power, has criticised the current central government for its weak implementation of the law.

Conflicts over land in India have increased as one of the world's fastest growing major economies expands, and land is sought for industrial use and development projects.

While several laws have been introduced in the past decade to protect the rights of farmers and indigenous people, some laws have been diluted in their implementation and not always helped the vulnerable, activists say.

Govt to make rear view sensors mandatory in all cars soon new DelHi, September 9 (pti): Government will soon make rear view sensors or backup cameras mandatory in all new vehicles to avoid mishaps.

Even though cars come equipped with rear view mirrors which are adequate for looking at vehicles behind, they are inadequate in detecting small children or objects close to the ground, falling in car’s blind spot.

To rectify this, “the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will soon issue a notification to make rear view sensors mandatory in all vehicles”, Joint Secretary of the Ministry Abhay Damle said.

Addressing the curtain raiser

event for World Roads Meet (WRM 2017) organised by International Road Federation (IRF), he said more than 50,000 fatal accidents take place in the country due to over speeding and hence the government is planning to make audio warnings mandatory in vehicles. “Government is also planning to make audio warning mandatory in vehicles on similar lines of seat belt wearing sign. At the speed of 80 km/hr small beep sound warning will come and after the speed of 90 km/hr a continuous beep will alert the speeding driver,” Damle said.

He also said that the government has already made it compulsory for all two—wheelers, which account for

the highest share of accidents, to either have the anti—lock braking system (ABS) or the combined braking system (CBS) by April 2019.

Apart from rear view sensors and speed warning, air bags will also become mandatory in all vehicles soon, he said adding, from October 1, 2018 vehicles will have to go in for automated inspection and fitness certification test with hardly any human intervention.

He said in the proposed Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, which will be introduced in the Winter session of Parliament, provisions have been made for legal protection of Good Samaritans who help accident victims.

by Nehru-Gandhi member since ’92

aYODHYa, September 9 (pti): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday offered prayers at the Hanuman Garhi temple here, becoming the first member of the Nehru-Gandhi family to visit Ayodhya since the demolition of the disputed structure in 1992.

Before embarking on the fourth day of his ''maha yatra'' in Uttar Pradesh, where elections are due early next year, the 46-yearold leader met Mahant Gyan Das, who is known for his anti-Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stance, before having ‘darshan’ at the temple.

As a convoy of cars, buses and open trucks rolled into the temple town, people rushed out of their houses to have a glimpse of the Congress leader.

Much significance is being attached in political circles to Rahul’s visit to Hanuman Garhi, which is about a kilometre away from the Ram temple at the disputed Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid site.

Gandhi also stayed away from the site of ‘shilanyas’, the foundation stone that was laid there in 1989 for the construction of a Ram temple.

Old-timers recall that 26 years ago, Rahul’s father

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi waves at supporters during his Kisan Yatra in Basti, UP. (PTI photo)

and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi planned to visit the Hanuman Garhi temple on a trip to Ayodhya during his ‘Sadbhavna Yatra’ in 1990, but he could not make it because of paucity of time.

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated the next year, on May 21, when Rahul was 20 years old.

Political observers see a soft Hindutva agenda in the Ayodhya visit at a time when Congress appears to follow a Brahmin-centric campaign in Uttar Pradesh

prescribed by election strategist Prashant Kishor, who is designing every move of the Congress scion.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s visit to Varanasi last month had to be cut short before she could offer prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple as she fell ill. Sonia has not visited Ayodhya since 1992, though she has visited its twin town of Faizabad for election campaigns.

After his brief visit to Hanuman Garhi temple,

Rahul returned to the Circuit House before starting his road show to culminate with a visit the Kichaucha Sharif Dargah in the adjoining Ambedkar Nagar, apparently to play a balancing act.

His election strategist is of the view that the Congress must win its original constituencies of Muslims, Brahmins and a section of the non-Dalit Other Backward Castes (OBCs) as it makes a serious attempt at an impact in UP, which it last won 27 years ago.

K'taka shuts down over sharing Cauvery water Modi Graft CoMplaiNt:

bengaluru, September 9 (ianS): Karnataka shut down on Friday to protest against the release of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, with hundreds of IT firms and multinationals crippled in India's technology hub Bengaluru.

Global software firms and many start-ups declared holiday for thousands of techies in support of the shutdown, which crippled life across the state. Buses, cabs and autos stayed off roads while hotels, pubs, shops and banks remained closed.

"We will work on the next weekend to make up for the loss," an Infosys spokesperson told IANS. A Wipro spokesperson said the company was closed on Friday but would work on Saturday, which is normally an off day.

About 500 Indian and overseas IT firms have closed for the day due to the absence

of public and private transport, an official of the Electronics City Industrial Township Authority said.

Though the protest did not affect trains and flights, hundreds of passengers who alighted at the international airport here and at railway stations were stranded in the absence of buses and cabs.

"We have been caught unaware by the shutdown and are stranded at the railway station since morning," said a passenger who came from Pune with his family.

"It is unfortunate Bengaluru is facing many shutdowns over some or the other issue," lamented S.N. Murthy, a techie with a leading IT firm.

State-run Bengaluru Metro Rail Corp suspended its service till late evening.

The Karnataka government declared a holiday for all schools and colleges to avoid inconvenience to students

and teachers in the absence of transport.

Similarly, factories, offices, banks, markets, shops, malls, hotels, eateries, pubs, bars, theatres and petrol bunks closed in support of the shutdown.

"The shutdown is in protest against the Supreme Court's order and to express resentment over the government releasing the Cauvery water when we don't have it for drinking and irrigation," said a strike leader, Vatal Nagaraj.

There were also huge protests by farmers, traders and youth in the Mysuru region.

Hundreds of people staged demonstrations and took out rallies in Bengaluru, Mandya, Mysuru and other cities and towns.

About 5,000 people, including Kannada film stars, producers and directors, marched in a procession from

Town Hall to Freedom Park in Bengaluru and urged the government to stop releasing water to Tamil Nadu.

Though the shutdown was peaceful, protesters burnt tyres in the centre of roads and highways to prevent movement of even private vehicles. Mock funerals of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Tamil Nadu counterpart Jayalalithaa were conducted in Bengaluru, Mandya, Davangere and Tumakuru.

Posters and placards carrying pictures of Siddaramaiah and Jayalalithaa were garlanded and slapped with footwear and carried on donkeys to express anger.

"We will give our blood but not Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. How can the government release our water to grow crops in another state when we don't have enough of it for drinking?" asked an activist, Pravin Shetty.

BJp, Sena take on Kapil Sharma

mumbai, September 9 (ianS): The BJP, the Shiv Sena and the MNS on Friday took on comedian-actor Kapil Sharma who complained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he was asked to pay a bribe by a municipal officer.

"I am paying Rs 15 crore income tax from last five years and still I have to pay Rs 5 lakh bribe to BMC office (every year) for making my office. Is this your 'Achhe Din'?" Sharma tweeted to Modi.

Stung by the 35-year-old popular comedian's allegation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis immediately called for "strictest action" and asked him to provide all information regarding the bribery allegation.

"We will not spare the culprits," Fadnavis said. But within hours, accusing fingers were pointed at Kapil. And by late

evening, he had virtually retracted his morning allegations with a tweet: "I just voiced my concern on the corruption I faced with certain individuals. It is no blame on any political party be in BJP, MNS or Shiv Sena."

The Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party control the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

BMC's Chief of Vigilance Department Manohar Pawar said it had taken a serious view of the allegation and told Kapil to lodge a formal complaint and identify the officer who allegedly demanded bribe for speeding up the work on his under-construction office.

Later, the BMC revealed it had slapped a notice on July 16 this year, accusing Kapil of usurping 16 feet of government land by indulging in an illegal construction of his office in And-

heri West.

Some of his neighbours and local activists also joined the chorus alleging that the comedian used his star status to bulldoze opponents and indulging in questionable activities.

Kapil came out with a fresh allegation that local Shiv Sena and MNS activists also demanded money from him and that he had earlier complained to the civic body but no action was taken.

Though Shiv Sena youth leader Aaditya Thackeray earlier lauded Kapil, hours later the party alleged that an "outsider" was trying to defame the BMC, India's biggest and richest municipal body.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) Chitrapat Sena President Amey Khopkar dared Kapil to prove his allegation or they would bar him from conducting his shootings in the city.

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North Korea conducts fifth and largest nuke test SEOUL, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.

The blast, on the 68th anniversary of North Korea’s founding, was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to some estimates, and drew condemnation from the United States as well as China, Pyongyang’s main ally.

Under 32-year-old dictator Kim Jong Un, North Korea has accelerated the development of its nuclear and missile programs despite U.N. sanctions that were tightened in March and have further isolated the impoverished country.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in Laos after a summit of Asian leaders, said Kim was showing “maniacal recklessness” in completely ignoring the world’s call to abandon his pursuit of nuclear weapons.

U.S. President Barack Obama, aboard Air Force One on his way home from Laos, said the test would be met with “serious consequences” and held talks with Park and with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the White House said.

China said it was resolutely opposed to the test and urged Pyongyang to stop taking any actions that would worsen the situation. It said it would lodge a protest with the North Korean embassy in Beijing.

North Korea, which labels the South and the United States as its main enemies, said its “scientists and technicians carried out a nuclear explosion test for the judgment of the power of a nuclear warhead,” according to its official KCNA news agency.

It said the test proved North Korea was capable of mounting a nuclear warhead on a medium-range ballistic missile, which it last tested on Monday when Obama and other world leaders were gathered in

China slams nuclear test but unlikely to do much

A sales assistant watches TV sets broadcasting a news report on North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, in Seoul, South Korea on September 9. (REUTERS Photo)

China for a G20 summit.

Pyongyang’s claims of being able to miniaturise a nuclear warhead have never been independently verified.

Its continued testing in defiance of sanctions presents a challenge to Obama in the final months of his presidency and could become a factor in the U.S. presidential election in November, and a headache to be inherited by his successor.

“Sanctions have already been imposed on almost everything possible, so the policy is at an impasse,” said Tadashi Kimiya, a University of Tokyo professor specialising in Korean issues. “In reality, the means by which the United States, South Korea and Japan can put pressure on North Korea have reached their limits,” he said.

UNPRECEDENTED RATE North Korea has been testing different types of missiles at an unprecedented rate this year, and the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile is especially worrisome for its neighbours South Korea and Japan.

‘Scotland will not hold independence vote for 5 yrs’ EDINbUrGH, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): Scotland will not hold another vote on independence in the next five years because there is no sign it can be won, but the risk of secession from the United Kingdom is growing, a former Scottish first minister predicts.

Henry McLeish said Scotland’s future would depend on the deal struck by British Prime Minister Theresa May in divorce talks with the European Union and its impact on the overwhelming majority of Scots who had wanted to remain in the bloc.

That carried more weight than any fresh independence offer from the Scottish National Party (SNP) which runs the country’s devolved government, he said.

“The (Conservatives) are playing Russian roulette with Scotland and its role within the UK,” McLeish, a Labour Party first minister from 2000 to 2001, told Reuters in an interview.

“The grave danger is not of another (Scottish) referendum in the short term, but that (May) continues to alienate Scots who are not born-again nationalists or even traditional nationalists, but are the people who the SNP is now trying to reach out to win 60-40 or even 65-35 in another referendum.”

Scots rejected independence by a 10 point margin in 2014. But while Britain as a whole voted to leave the European Union in June, Scots backed remaining in the bloc by 62 to 38.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to honour their vote by whatever means necessary, including via a possible new referendum on independence although she has also named a “Brexit” minister, Michael Russell, to ensure Scotland’s voice is heard during negotiations.

Broadly speaking, polls show increased support for independence since 2014, but not enough to win. “There won’t be another referendum in the next five years because Nicola won’t win,” McLeish said.

McLeish, a professional soccer player before becoming a politician, dismissed an SNP campaign launched last week to survey Scots’ desire for independence as a “delaying” ruse to win the SNP time while Britain’s new trading and political partnerships are worked out, a process that he calculates could take at least five years.

Scotland seceding from the United Kingdom would end a three-centuries-old union.

Sturgeon has indicated that maintaining EU single market access for Scottish goods and services is a red line for Scotland. On Wednesday she said that May did not have a mandate to take the United Kingdom out of the single market.

McLeish said that gave his own Labour party, currently suffering internal disarray, an “open goal” to develop a federal or home-rule alternative for Scotland, in which power is shared with the national government in London.

However, with the Labour split between members who supported leader Jeremy Corbyn and senior party lawmakers who did not, it meant the party had “yet to come out onto the pitch”, he said. “(Nevertheless) it will be the Labour party who decides whether we stay in the UK or become independent because the Labour party vote is still sizeable,” he said.

“The standardisation of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power,” KCNA said, referring to the country’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

It was not clear whether Pyongyang had notified Beijing or Moscow of its planned nuclear test. Senior officials from Pyongyang were in both capitals this week.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she had no information to provide when asked if China had advance warning of the test, and would not be drawn on whether China would support tougher sanctions against its neighbour.

Although Beijing has criticised North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, it has repeatedly expressed anger since the United States and South Korea decided in July to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system in the South.

China calls THAAD a threat to

its own security and will do nothing to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table on its nuclear programme.

Jeffrey Lewis of the Californiabased Middlebury Institute of International Studies said the highest estimates of seismic magnitude suggested this was the most powerful nuclear test conducted by North Korea so far.

He said the seismic magnitude and surface level indicated a blast with a 20- to 30-kilotonne yield.

Such a yield would make this test larger than the nuclear bomb dropped by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War Two. “That’s the largest DPRK test to date, 20-30kt, at least. Not a happy day,” Lewis told Reuters. South Korea’s military put the force of the blast at 10 kilotonnes, which would still be the North’s most powerful nuclear blast to date.

“The important thing is that five tests in, they now have a lot of nuclear test experience. They aren’t a backwards state any more,” Lewis said.

bEIJING, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): China criticised North Korea’s nuclear test on Friday but Beijing is unlikely to follow up with strong action because its influence is limited and it believes the United States and South Korea share responsibility for growing tensions in the region. China, Pyongyang’s main diplomatic ally, is key in any effort to rein in North Korea’s nuclear programme. But it has been infuriated by the isolated nation’s nuclear and missile tests and has signed up to increasingly tough United Nations sanctions.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China would lodge a diplomatic protest with North Korea at its embassy in Beijing for conducting the test.

Beijing has also repeatedly expressed anger since the United States and South Korea decided in July to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system in the South to counter missile and nuclear threats from North Korea. China says this is a threat to its own security and will do nothing to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table on its nuclear programme.

China’s official Xinhua news agency, in a commentary after North Korea confirmed the test, said it was shocking and unwise and would only “add oil to the flames”.

But it added that nobody benefited from chaos or war in Korea and all parties in the international community should exercise restraint and avoid doing anything that is “mutually irritating”.

“Not long along, South Korea ignored the strong opposition of neighbouring countries and decided to deploy the THAAD system, which is diametrically opposed to efforts to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula, has seriously damaged regional strategic balance and caused a rise in tensions on the peninsula.”

Previous recent comments from China following North Korean missile tests, including one on Monday when China was hosting the G20 summit, have pointedly not mentioned North Korea by name.

One senior Beijing-based Western official, who has worked in Pyongyang, said

World Vision lays off contractors in Gaza after Israel allegations GAZA, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): Christian aid group World Vision has laid off about 120 contractors in the Gaza Strip following allegations by Israel that the agency’s operations manager in the territory had diverted funds to the Islamist group Hamas.

In an Aug. 29 letter handed to contractors at a meeting in Gaza, the NGO said its bank accounts in Jerusalem had been frozen by Israeli authorities and it was no longer able to transfer money to Gaza, making it impossible to pay them.

The letter said World Vision was living through a big crisis and its sources of funding had been affected. It was written in Arabic and a copy was sent to Reuters.

“Because of the crisis, we have frozen all our activities in Gaza. Our bank accounts in Jerusalem were frozen by the (Israeli) authorities, which also prevented us from making any transfers to Gaza.

“Because of these conditions that are beyond the control of World Vision, we will not be able to keep your job at the present stage because we will not be able to transfer any salaries or any other payments.”

A spokesman for World Vision spokesman would not confirm that

the contractors had been laid off, saying only that the agency’s operations in Gaza had been suspended following the accusations against the operations manager, Mohammad El Halabi.

“Due to the seriousnes of the allegations laid against Mohammad El Halabi, World Vision has suspended operations in Gaza,” the organisation said. “We are conducting a full review, including an externally conducted forensic audit.”

Israel arrested El Halabi in June and last month accused him of funnelling tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, the Islamist militant group that has controlled the territory since 2007.

Halabi has denied any wrongdoing via his lawyer. He has been charged and has appeared at a pre-trial hearing held in secret.

World Vision and Amnesty International have called on Israel to ensure he receives a fair and transparent trial.

Israeli officials accuse Halabi of siphoning off more than $7 million a year since 2010 to pay Hamas fighters, buy arms, pay for the group’s activities and build fortifications.

World Vision has disputed the allegations, saying in a statement on

Aug. 8 that its total operating budget in Gaza over the past 10 years was around $22.5 million, making the alleged diversion of nearly $50 million “hard to reconcile”.

Some foreign diplomats have expressed concern at Israel’s presentation of the case and sought clearer evidence for the numbers. Since the allegations emerged, however, Australia has suspended funding to the aid group.

One of the contractors laid off told Reuters World Vision had emphasised the situation was out of its control.

“They said it was about the freezing of transfers and nothing else, when we asked them if that had to do with Halabi’s case,” he said, asking not to be named because he did not want to jeopardise the payment of funds he is still awaiting.

The termination letter informed contractors World Vision was looking at ways to pay all amounts owed to them through legal channels and “we hope this happens in the near future”.

The statement asked signatories to hand over belongings that they had received from the aid group including mobile phones, work identity cards and computers.

China had little influence and no control over North Korea, despite the popular perception in Washington. “The North Koreans don’t like the Chinese and certainly don’t listen to them,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

It’s also a misunderstanding to think that the North’s youthful leader Kim Jong Un is unhinged, he added. “The North Korean leadership knows exactly what they are doing and how far they can push things. They know it would be the end of their country if they really provoked a war as the Americans would just flatten them.”

ADVANCE WARNING Michael Madden, an expert on the North Korean leadership, said he was fairly confident that North Korea would have given Russia and China advance warning of the test. Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s negotiator for the stalled talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, visited Beijing this week, while Yun Tong Hyon, the vice chief of the Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces, led a North Korean military delegation to Moscow this week.

“Both would have direct knowledge about a forthcoming test and would be tasked to pass along a heavily implicit message,” said Madden. Hua, the Chinese spokeswoman, said she had no information to provide on whether Beijing received advance warning. She would also not be drawn on whether China would support further sanctions, saying only that it has fulfilled previous U.N. resolutions and would continue to take a responsible and constructive attitude towards talks at the Security Council.

Another Beijing-based diplomatic source said the level of Beijing’s anger with South Korea could be seen with what he termed as the unusually strong public comments about THAAD by President Xi Jinping when he met South Korea’s president this week on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

“Mishandling the issue is not conducive to strategic stability in the region and could intensify disputes,” Xi was quoted by China’s Foreign Ministry as saying.

Mistrust of vaccines is greatest in France LONDON, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): Public confidence in immunisation varies widely across the world with the French the most sceptical about the safety of vaccines, according to a survey published on Friday.

With outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other infectious diseases occurring in recent years in places where the take-up of vaccinations has been low, the scientists behind the survey said its insights could help policymakers tackle such problems.

The study took views from almost 66,000 people across 67 countries about whether they consider vaccines important, safe, effective and compatible with their religious beliefs.

France - the birthplace of immunology pioneer Louis Pasteur - was the country least confident of vaccine safety, with 41 percent of those surveyed disagreeing that vaccines are safe, more than three times the global average of 12 percent.

Europe had six other countries among the 10 least trusting - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Ar-

menia and Slovenia.

Publishing their findings in the journal EBioMedicine, researchers led by Heidi Larson of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said negative attitudes may be due to controversies over suspected side-effects and hesitancy among some family doctors.

Public trust in immunisation is an important global health issue, with lack of trust leading people to turn down potentially life-saving vaccines.

Vaccine refusal has been linked to outbreaks of diseases such as measles in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Pacific and Africa in recent years, and has also caused serious setbacks to global ambitions to eradicate polio.

“It is vital to global public health that we regularly monitor attitudes towards vaccines so we can quickly identify countries or groups with declining confidence,” Larson said. “This gives us the best chance of preventing possible outbreaks of diseases.”

Duterte says he told Obama he never insulted him, thinks UN’s Ban a fool JAKArtA, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Barack Obama he never called him a “son of a bitch”, he said on Friday, but he maintained a defiant stance on his war on drugs, saying U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was a fool for bringing up human rights.

U.S. President Obama cancelled a planned meeting with Duterte at this week’s ASEAN summit in Laos after the Philippine leader’s alleged insult in his native Tagalog, but the two met briefly later as they waited to take their seats at a banquet.

On a visit to the Indonesian capital on Friday, Duterte told a group of Filipinos that the slur was not directed at the U.S. president and that he had told him so.

“I was ready (for Obama).

I was waiting for Obama to respond. Lawyer to lawyer, we are both lawyers anyway... I said I never made the state-

ASEAN leaders & US told not to lecture Philippines on rights

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to members of the Filipino community in Jakarta on September 9. (REUTERS Photo)

ment. Check it out. “...I said that, but not in relation to Obama,” he said. “I’m not fighting with America.”

Obama and Duterte shook hands and had a brief chat on Wednesday, officials said, easing the standoff. Duterte had his outburst

on Monday when he was defending his war on drugs that has killed at least 2,400 Filipinos.

Duterte on Friday said he thought U.N. Secretary-General Ban a fool for bringing up the issue of human rights violations weeks before the

VIENtIANE, SEptEmbEr 9 (rEUtErS): Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday defended his country’s human rights record at a regional summit in Laos, urging East Asian leaders and the United States to help Manila eradicate the scourge of illicit drugs. Duterte swept to power in May on promises to wipe out crime and corruption within six months, pledging to wage a war on drug dealers and crush widespread addiction in a country of 100 million.

The toll in his government’s two-month war on drugs reached 2,400 last week, with police saying about 900 people died in police operations, and the rest were “deaths under investigation”, a term human rights activists call a euphemism for vigilante summit in Laos.

“Even Ban Ki-moon weighed in,” Duterte said.

“Also gave a statement before, several weeks ago, about the human rights violation. Sabi ko, isa ka pang tarantado (you are another fool).”

and extrajudicial killings. Setting aside a prepared speech, Duterte spoke for more than five minutes about human rights and his campaign against drugs during the East Asian Summit in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, according to one Indonesian diplomat at the meeting.

“Let me tell you about human rights,” the diplomat quoted Duterte as saying while displaying a picture of Filipinos killed

by American soldiers about a century ago.

“This is my ancestors being killed, so why now we are talking about human rights?

We have to talk of the full spectrum of human rights.” Duterte spoke after Obama had delivered a speech that referred to human rights.

Duterte also said he would try to boost security for ships using the waters between Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, where there have been several kidnappings and other attacks.

The Philippines would let Indonesian forces pursu-

ing pirates enter its waters, he said. “”This time we make it clear that if the chase began in Indonesia, then crosses in international waters, and inside Philippine waters, they can go ahead and blast them off.”

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two others facing FIFA Serena crashes as Pliskova, Blatter, investigation over salaries Kerber set-up US Open final duel ZUriCh, September 9 (reUterS): Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and ex-secretary general Jerome Valcke, already banned from football for ethics violations, are facing a fresh investigation, this time over the salaries and bonuses they received in office.

FIFA's ethics committee said that its investigators had opened formal proceedings against both men, along with former finance director Markus Kattner, for possible ethics violations which included "bribery and corruption."

It said the suspected violations were "in the context of salaries and bonuses paid to Mr Blatter, Mr Valcke and Mr Kattner as well as other provisions included in the contracts of these three individuals."

They were also suspected of having breached rules concerning general conduct, loyalty, conflicts of interest and "offering and accepting gifts and other ben-

efits." Blatter, Valcke and Kattner could not immediately be reached for comment, although the three have in the past denied wrongdoing. FIFA said in June that an internal investigation revealed that the three officials had received 79 million Swiss francs ($81 million) in compensation over five years, calling them "massive payouts".

Blatter, who led FIFA from 1998 until 2015, has already been banned for six years, following an appeal.

The ban was imposed for ethics violations related to a payment of two million Swiss francs that FIFA made to then European soccer boss Michel Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011 for work done a decade earlier.

Valcke was fired in January and has since been banned for 10 years for ethics violations which included using FIFA expenses for sightseeing trips and destruction of evidence.

Real, Atletico, Barcelona united in criticism of FIFA transfer ban ruling

(LEFT) Serena Williams reacts after a missed shot against Karolina Pliskova during the 2016 U.S. Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept.

8. (USA TODAY Sports) (RIGHT) Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic had never made it past the third round of a Grand Slam in 17 prior attempts (AFP Photo)

New York, September 9 (AFp): Karolina Pliskova shattered Serena Williams's bid for a recordbreaking 23rd Grand Slam title Thursday, her 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) win setting-up a US Open final against new world number one Angelique Kerber.

The win for Czech 10th seed Pliskova meant the 34-year-old American was deposed as the world's top player, losing her chance to stay at the peak for a record 187 weeks.

In Saturday's championship match, Pliskova will tackle second seed Kerber who marked her coronation as the new world number one with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over two-time runner-up Caroline Wozniacki.

It will be Pliskova's first appearance in a Grand Slam final while Australian Open champion Ker-

ber will be in her third of the year having finished runner-up to Williams at Wimbledon.

Williams, who also lost in the semi-finals last year which ended her bid to claim a rare calendar Slam, said she had been suffering from a knee injury in the run-up to the semi-final.

"When you're hampered you're thinking of other things," said the American, a six-time US Open champion.

"Like I was making errors that I never make, and definitely I didn't make in this tournament in particular.

"So many simple, simple shots that I easily could have made. I just blame that on just mentally thinking about my leg and just not thinking about the shot."

Pliskova, the first Czech woman in the US Open fi-

nal since Helena Sukova in 1993, said she had not noticed that her opponent was carrying an injury.

The 24-year-old preferred to focus on finally making a Slam championship match after never making it past the third round of a major in 17 prior attempts.

"I knew I had the chance to beat anyone if I played my game. I am excited to be in the final and to beat Serena as she is such a great champion," said the 6pht 1in (1.86m) Czech who had also beaten Venus Williams in the fourth round.

"Even when she was down a set and break she was still fighting. I had to fight hard to win."

Despite the injury, Williams admitted Pliskova earned her victory.

"Karolina played great today. I think if she had played any less then maybe

Yao, Shaq, Iverson set for Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement

New York, September 9 (AFp): Chinese star Yao Ming and fellow former NBA icons Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson will be among 10 people enshrined Friday into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Joining the elite trio will be four-time Women's NBA champion Sheryl Swoopes, 27-year NBA referee Darrell Garretson, Michigan State University coach Tom Izzo, racial barrier-breaking coach John McLendon, Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf as a contributor and pioneer stars Zelmo Beaty and Cumberland Posey.

The complete lineup chosen by the selection committee to be inducted at the sport shrine in Springfield, Massachusetts, was announced in April with Yao, who retired in 2011, becoming the tallest Hall of Famer at 7-foot-6 (2.29m).

"I can't thank the committee enough," Yao said Thursday. "This is first time I feel so small as I look around at the pictures in the Hall of Fame."

Yao, who turns 36 on Sunday, was helped in donning his Hall of Fame jacket

by O'Neal, his former NBA rival for the Los Angeles Lakers and at 7-foot-1 about the only one who could lend one final assist to the NBA's biggest Asian star.

Yao played for the Shanghai Sharks from 1997-2002 before joining the NBA's Houston Rockets, who now boast the tallest and smallest Hall of Famers in Yao and 5-foot-9 Calvin Murphy.

Yao averaged 19.2 points and nine rebounds in eight NBA seasons. He was an eight-time NBA AllStar center before a series of foot injuries forced him to retire. His work off the court as a global ambassador for the sport has also contributed to his standing.

O'Neal, 44, played for six teams in a 19-year NBA career that saw him win four NBA titles, three with

2016 class of inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame Shaquille O'Neal, left, helps Yao Ming, right, of China, with his jacket during a news conference at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Thursday, September 8, in Springfield, Mass. (AP Photo)

the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000 through 2002 and the last with Miami in 2006.

He was a 15-time NBA All-Star but won his only Most Valuable Player award in 2000. O'Neal, twice an NBA scoring champion, was voted the NBA Finals MVP in all three title runs with the Lakers. O'Neal, who also won Olympic gold in 1996 at Atlanta, averaged 23.7 points, 10.9 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots a game playing for Orlando, the Lakers, Miami, Phoenix, Cleveland and Boston.

He ranks seventh on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 28,596 points and 14th in rebounds with 13,099.

"It means I put in a lot of hard work and it means a lot to be mentioned with the elites," O'Neal said. "It means people were able to appreciate how I played."

O'Neal also had four rap music albums and a movie and television career.

- Guy 'that gave everything' Iverson, 41, was a nine-

time NBA All-Star and fourtime scoring champion during his 14-year career.

His only trip to the NBA Finals came in 2001, when he was named the league MVP but the Philadelphia 76ers lost the final to O'Neal and the Lakers.

Iverson averaged 26.7 points, 6.2 assists and 3.7 rebounds a game.

"I want my legacy to be the guy that came out and gave everything he had," Iverson said.

"It's not just about playing so hard. It's why I played so hard. It's what I wondered would happen to me if I didn't."

Izzo has guided Michigan State to the US college semi-finals seven times and won one title in 21 seasons.

Swoopes was a six-time WNBA All-Star and threetime league MVP who averaged 15 points over 12 seasons.

McLendon was the first African-American coach in a pro basketball league.

mAdrid, September 9 (iANS): Spanish club football's leading trio Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and FC Barcelona expressed their disagreement on Friday with the recently-confirmed transfer bans imposed on Atletico and Real by world football governing body FIFA for breaking rules protecting underage players.

Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane said the ban was "absurd" and "unfair" at a Madrid press conference on Friday focused on the aftermath of the FIFA sanction, reports Efe. "I don't understand anything. It's unfair, absurd. We're going to wait and hope the issue gets resolved," the French manager said. Zidane's sons Enzo and Luca, both players in Real Madrid's youth teams, were involved in the FIFA investigation due to alleged irregularities in their registration.

The football authority had argued that Zidane's children had been officially registered as already living in Madrid when they entered the club, but their actual place of residence at the time was outside Spain. Real Madrid disputes these claims.

FIFA maintains a strict control over transferring minors across international borders. When asked about how the ban had affected him personally, Zidane said: "It bothers me. The club will do everything in its power to overturn this sanction. I hope things get fixed quickly."

Atletico coach Diego Simeone at first declined to comment on the FIFA sanc-

tion during another press conference on Friday but later conceded it was "difficult to determine" whether his current roster would hold up for almost two years.

Atletico and Real have been banned from signing any new players until the end of the 2016-2017 season, although they cannot register them to play until January 2018. FC Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, on the other hand, harshly criticised FIFA's ban on the Catalan team's two main league rivals, describing it as "unfair".

"I can't remember what I said about our own sanction... that it was unfair? If I said that, I maintain that line," Enrique said at a Barcelona presser ahead of Saturday's La Liga match against Alaves.

Barcelona suffered the same two-term ban in the summer of 2014 that prevented the club from signing any new players until January 2016. In February 2013, FIFA found that Barcelona had violated regulations governing the transfer of minors when it signed 10 players under the age of 18 to its renowned academy La Masia.

"We overcame the ban and won titles.

This is how it works, you just have to accept it; but still, both clubs have great teams," he added. Real Madrid and Atletico lost their appeals to FIFA's Appeal Committee on Thursday when the governing body issued a verdict upholding the sanctions.

Both Spanish teams have announced they would bring a further appeal to the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

I would have had a chance," said Williams.

Kerber, the 28-year-old left-hander, is the first German woman to reach the final since Steffi Graf in 1996.

Graf is also the only other German woman to achieve the top ranking.

"It's incredible to be in the final and to be the world number one, it's a great day," said Kerber, who has made the final without dropping a set.

- Number one dream "To be the number one in the world, that was always a dream for me. I was trying not to think about it too much the last few weeks."

The German leads Pliskova 4-3 in their head to heads, but the Czech won their most recent meeting in the Cincinnati final last month.

Wozniacki, down at 74 in the world after missing almost three months of

the season with an ankle injury, had refused on the eve of her fifth semi-final in New York to dampen speculation that she was on the brink of announcing her retirement.

But she certainly appeared to have her mind elsewhere throughout the match.

"I'm a little disappointed not to win today, but at the end of the day it's been a good tournament, something I can be proud of," said the Danish player.

"I came into this tournament ranked 74 in the world and probably people ruled me out, but it's nice to prove people wrong once again."

At least she has the consolation of knowing her surprise run to a fifth semifinal in the city where she keeps a second home will translate to a place back in the world top 30.

NTA to conduct Taekwondo exam

Kuchohii is Kohima College wrestling champion

kohimA, September 9 (mexN): The Nagaland Taekwondo Association (NTA) under the aegis of Taekwondo Federation of India (TFI) is organizing Black Belt Dan Promotion Test on September 15 at IG Stadium, Kohima. Interested individuals must be holders of Red-1 Belt Certificate and should report on September 15 before noon at IG Stadium for spot registration. Theja Keretsu, Black Belt Vth DAN would be the Black Belt examiner. For any further detail information, one may contact Theja Keretsu, Technical Director, NTA @9436845163 or Visabeiu Peseyie, Vice President, NTA @9436061480.

Our Correspondent

Kohima | September 9

The 49th annual sports week of Kohima College Kohima (KCK), which started on September 5, culminated today with a Naga wrestling meet.

Kuchohii Curha, a student of 3rd semester and belonging to Khomi village, and Megovilie Miasalhou, also of 3rd semester from Mezoma village, emerged as champion and runnersup and pocketed cash prizes of Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 4000 respectively.

Pfudilhoukho Chiisi, of 5th Semester, and Vedukho Shijo, of 3rd semester, bagged 3rd and 4th position and received cash priz-

The winners with referee. Morung Photo

es of Rs. 3500 and Rs. 2000 respectively.

Kohima College vice principal Thinuokhrienuo said that wrestling is included as one of the events

in its annual sports week to promote the indigenous games.

She recalled three past pupils of the college - Vekhriyi Chuzho, Neibu Rio

and Megosier Khate – who went on to win the Naga wrestling championships and encouraged the students to follow the footstep of the three former pupils.

Golovkin eyes Mayweather mantle in Brook bout

LoNdoN, September 9 (AFp): Gennady Golovkin's career has run a hypnotic and grimly relentless course for boxing fans worldwide and evidence suggests that will not change on Saturday.

Viewers in over 100 countries are expected to tune in live to see the Kazakhstan punching machine defend two of his three world middleweight titles against British challenger Kell Brook.

Despite Golovkin being heavily favoured to retain his WBC and IBF belts, there is still great interest in the fight at the O2 Arena in London. For many, the 34-year-old is the most exciting boxer in the world, who is rapidly becoming the sport's biggest global superstar following the retirement of Floyd Mayweather Jr. This fight represents the biggest threat to Golovkin's run of 22 consecutive knockout wins, according to the champion himself.

Brook, the reigning IBF welterweight champion from Sheffield with an unblemished record, is stepping up two weight divisions and Golovkin considers him his toughest test yet.

"I understand it's not an easy fight for us so I'm more serious and more focused," he said. "He's my biggest fight and my biggest challenge. It's my biggest step. I have a different plan and a more serious plan. Right now it's my biggest

Kell Brook

fight." California-based Golovkin is the biggest overseas boxer to fight in the United Kingdom since Russian-Australian Kostya Tszyu lost to Ricky Hatton in 2005.

Earlier this week, his presence at a public workout brought London's busy Covent Garden to even more of a standstill than usual.

That is because Golovkin, known as 'Triple G', arrived in London with a reputation of producing exciting knockouts in an unbeaten career that has seen him stop 32 of his 35 opponents.

It has made him the most feared fighter in the world and none of his world title fights since 2010 have gone the distance. Rival champions such as Mexican Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez have declined the chance to fight the world middleweight number one. The Kazakh's

Gennady Golovkin (AFP Photo)

promoter, Tom Loeffler, believes Golovkin's appeal is also down to his personality and friendly image outside the ring.

- 'Bigger than Turpin' "It's the Mike Tyson effect. Fans just want to see him," Loeffler told AFP. "A lot of great boxers aren't that likeable, but Gennady is exciting inside the ring and he's likeable outside the ring.

"A big part of it, even if he doesn't speak perfect English, is his personality and respect for opponents and the sport. It's why people generally like to cheer for him."

The odds and statistics are stacked against Brook, who is unaccustomed to the role of underdog after stopping 25 of his 36 opponents and completing three low-risk defences of his IBF belt.

Brook, 30, believes beating Go-

lovkin would surpass any achievement by a British boxer, including Randy Turpin's 1951 points win over the great Sugar Ray Robinson for the world middleweight title.

"I don't think anyone in Britain has done what I'm going to do," Brook told AFP. "I don't think it has been done before. Randy Turpin is the only one, but because I'm going up from welterweight to fight the most feared fighter on the planet, it's even bigger than that.

"It's debatable, but that's my opinion. Whatever Naz (Naseem Hamed) has done or any other British fighter recently, like Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, Lennox Lewis, it will blow it out the water.

"It would put me with all those greats and I would be top of the pile." Brook says he feels more comfortable as a middleweight than a welterweight and also insists he is not intimidated by Golovkin's fearsome reputation.

"I just know what I can do and anyone can be beat," Brook told reporters at a news conference on Thursday.

"He's got to opponents before he has fought him, like a young Mike Tyson's opponents were beaten before they got in the ring with him.

"My mindset and determination are different from everyone else's and that's why I’m going to win this fight."

Saturday 10•09•2016

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Anil Kapoor proud of Priyanka Chopra’s international success

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nil Kapoor is proud of international success of Priyanka Chopra and the actor says he is happy with the way the actress is working on her career. Priyanka has been creating waves on the international scene since her American TV debut “Quantico”.

Heaping praise on his 34-yearold “Dil Dhadakne Do” co-star, Anil

Meryl Streep, J.J. Abrams team up for TV series

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scar-winning actress Meryl Streep and filmmaker J.J. Abrams are collaborating for a new TV show “The Nix”. Streep and Abrams will produce the limited series based on author Nathan Hill’s novel of the same name. The Oscarwinning actress is likely to play the lead role in the project, reports aceshowbiz.com. “The Nix” follows a mother who sparks buzzes nationwide for her campaign protests and her estranged son who capitalises on her fame and digs into her secretive past to pen her profile and ends up writing a scathing story about her.

Streep was last seen on the big screen in “Florence Foster Jenkins” and will next star in “Mary Poppins Returns”.

Source: IANS

told reporters here, “Whatever I say about Priyanka will be less. I am so happy that today not only Indian audience but the whole world is singing her praise. She has become a global star today.” The 59-year-old actor was speaking last evening at the launch of a song from Priyanka’s maiden Marathi production “Ventilator”.

Anil said he came to launch the track for the actress and her mother Madhu Chopra. “I am here for my friendship with Priyanka and her mother. Madhuji called me and I knew I had to come. Some bonds are like that, you don’t need to talk daily, but they are strong enough...,” he said. “I got to know Priyanka closely after working on ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ and I realised, she is not just a huge star hut a fantastic human being. It’s my honour to be here,” he said. “Ventilator” will reportedly have a cameo

by Priyanka. It will feature several veteran Marathi film and theatre actors. The film has been helmed

by Rajesh Mapuskar, who previously directed “Ferrari Ki Sawaari”, starring Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani.

Source: IANS

Lady Gaga releases new single ‘Perfect Illusion’

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he arrival of Lady Gaga’s ‘Perfect Illusion’ is a divine sign that it’s finally time to go gaga over some fresh music. The 30-year-old pop-star dropped her first solo single in three years on Friday, reports E! Online. Titled ‘Perfect Illusion,’ the new single sets the tone for the singer’s fifth studio album. The Grammy winner tweeted lines from the lyrics of her ‘Perfect Illusion’, which read, “I don’t need eyes to see/I felt you touchin’ me/High like amphetamine/Maybe you’re just a dream.”

Along with this, the ‘Born This Way’ singer had instagrammed quite a number of collaged photos, including one where she is seen alone jumping into the air wearing a black tee and frayed denim shorts with a pair of white-laced combat boots while rocking out with a mic. This would be the first time, after a year-long-gap, Gaga has revealed the cover art for her latest work. According to

BloodPop, who co-wrote ‘Perfect Illusion’ with Gaga, the song is “soul-rooted, [but] pop at heart.” “It’s a big rock song that makes you want to dance,” he added.

Source: ANI

KABA: Creating Awareness for Restoration of Environment

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endering unconditional service, youth volunteers painted the Capital town of Nagaland with beautiful art works. This work of creativity and taking ownership of caring Kohima town was done by the Kohima Ao Baptist Church under the project ‘Creating Awareness for Restoration of Environment’ (KABA CARE).

The KABA CARE project was made possible with support from different

corners. The Naga Blog team rose up to encourage and strengthen the KABA team to go further with the message of care and love. “Your initiative to preserve and protect the little things that we have created, gives us immense joy and more accountable to care for God’s creation no matter what the challenges are,” mentions KABA CARE Ministry Media Committee.

With the support from such right minded people, KABA CARE is all set

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he 1st Nagaland Songwriting contest 2016 would be held today at Green Park, 4th Mile, Dimapur. The Organizing team, DKs Entertainment Group (DKsEG) reported a total entry of 86 participants from various districts of the state. All the participants were informed to make free registration from 9:00am onwards. Supongnukshi, IFS, Chief Conservator of Forest has consented to be the chief guest during the inaugural programme who would also unveil the song title of the contest on the spot. According to the Programme Coordinator, Khrievotuo Sekhose, the event was organised under the theme, “Tapping the untapped Talents”.

The Event Manager of DKsEG, Alebu informed that the participants would be provided with writing materials. The judges of the event also informed that the structure of the song should contain a minimum of two verses, a pre chorous, chorous, bridge and an outro where points will be allotted basing on the consistency of the theme, style and simplicity, creativity and appeal of the song. The Founder and Managing Director of DKsEG, Senti Longchar (DK) in a press release said that the Organization is totally a non-profit organization and aims to bring Peace and Harmony in the minds and hearts of the people through music and related activities who also strongly belief that music industry is another solution to unemployment problem in the state.

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he Greendale family based in Mokokchung, is embarking on a venture set on bringing about a fitter and healthier society. In collaboration with Project Greendale, PAWF is powering an Event on September 10 which will be totally for the Cause i.e. #fitternagaland. This Fitness awareness programme will be at Multi-Purpose Sports Complex, Mokokchung. The Organisers have announced that it is the first of its kind not only in Nagaland but also in the North-east as well.

PAWF (Performing Arts with Fitness) started with a team of two individuals Talien Pongen and Talitemjen a.k.a CRT with a mission #fitternagaland. They are now a group of people fully dedicated for a cause which is #fitternagaland, a group of people solely dedicated to bring about something different and break the orthodox stereotype system of life style in Nagaland. And with the motto “The Power of Universal Energy,” the team is headed by CRT (creative researcher Talitemjen) and Talien Pongen. The Purpose of PAWF fitness programme is to create a higher awareness, to understand fitness, to facilitate and to help develop Positivity in our society plus to educate our people that Fitness is way of Life. PAWF will in- cooperate Les Mills - Body Combat (Mixed Martial Arts workouts) and take fitness to the next level and make History yet again with the First Ever Les Mills- Body Combat work out in North- East during the Mokokchung Event.

to proceed to Mokokchung on a three day mission with the same message of brotherly care and sharing God’s love.

A team of 35 KABA youth members will be in Mokokchung from September 9 under the banner KABA CARE Mokokchung Chapter.

The three day clean environment campaign in Mokokchung town plans to have an action oriented cleanliness drive, painting works at key points of the town, a green concert, and book-

The foot bridge at Ao Church junction: Theme- “Singing people.”

mark and car sticker campaign. “We also propose to conduct worship service in Mokokchung town area churches,” the media representative stated in a press release.

On September 10 (Saturday), the KABA CARE team would be organising a Green Marathon from Süngkomen to Imkongmeren Sporting Complex (Public ground) at 6:00 AM. Mokokchung citizens and those interested are invited to participate.

Mel Gibson ‘sorry’ for past bad behaviour in past

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ctor-filmmaker Mel Gibson has opened up about his past misdemeanours and controversial statements. He is “sorry” for his actions.

The 60-year-old’s public image reached rock bottom in 2006 when he hit the headlines for calling a female police officer “sugar t**s”.

He was branded a racist for anti-Semitic comments he made during the same drunken rant and then had domestic abuse claims made against him by his former partner Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his six-year-old daughter Lucia. Gibson says he has battled to rid himself of his inner demons and beat his alcoholism and he knows he “screwed up” big time. “I’ve done a lot of work on myself these last 10 years.

I’ve deliberately kept a low profile. I didn’t want to just do the celebrity rehab thing for two weeks, declare myself cured and then screw up

The marathon will be followed by cleanliness drive Süngkomen BOC Area, Main Police Point, Imkongmeren Sporting Complex and Ngati Sewak Gate.

Later, a Green Concert will be held at the Town hall Mokokchung on September 10 at 6:00 pm.

KABA CARE Youth Ministry invites everyone from Mokokchung Town and also from nearby places to participate and experience the joy of coming together for a good cause.

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again,” Gibson told deadline.com. “I think the best way somebody can show they’re sorry is to fix themselves and that’s what I’ve been doing and I’m just happy to be here. He who tries, gets. If you try, you get somewhere,” he added.

Source: IANS

upermodel Naomi Campbell, who is amongst the most iconic names in history of modelling, was once told she would never “make it”. It happened when she was starting her career, reports femalefirst.co.uk. During an interview on a TV show, Campbell shared what she was told. “You’re going to be nothing, you’re never going to be a household name, you’re never going to make it.” However, she refused to reveal who had made the cutting remark. “It don’t matter no,” she said. Campbell also shared that the biggest diva moment she had witnessed from another model was when someone deliberately stepped on her dress to rip it so she wouldn’t be able to walk in the second show - but she had the last laugh. “With the second show, opened it and closed it,” she said.

Source: IANS

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Acid attack survivor redefines beauty at NY Fashion Week

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eshma Qureshi, an Indian model who was scarred in an acid attack, challenged perceptions of beauty as she strutted down the runway at New York Fashion Week to promote a ban on the sale of corrosive substances used to maim thousands of women and children each year. A smiling Quereshi, 19, opened the FTL Moda show on Thursday to applause in a long-sleeve, white gown with embroidered appliques by Indian designer Archana Kochhar during her first trip to the United States. The buzz and glamour of the event was a world away from Allahbad, India, where she suffered severe facial burns and lost an eye two years ago after being attacked with sulfuric acid by her estranged brother-in-law and two men. Quereshi never thought she would be going abroad, much less modeling in New York. After enduring numerous skin graft surgeries and contemplating suicide, she met the founder of Make

Love Not Scars, a group that helps survivors of the gender-based crimes.

Quereshi is the face of the group’s online video campaign, which has been viewed by 1.3 million people and led to her appearance in New York. “I couldn’t believe it was happening to me,” Quereshi said about the trip through a translator. “In that moment I felt extremely happy.” She said she hopes her turn on the catwalk will

inspire hope and confidence in other acid attack survivors and spur countries to regulate the sale of cheap and easily available acids. “No one else understands what an acid attack is except the survivors themselves,” she said. “I do not want this to happen to anyone else.” About 1,500 acid attacks are reported each year, but Jaf Shah, the executive director of the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust Inter-

national (ASTI), said the real number is many times higher. “There are whole swathes of regions across the globe where acid attacks are occurring but are not being recorded,” he said in an telephone interview.

“It is not reported for fear there might be reprisals from the perpetrators due to the fact that survivors and their immediate family have no confidence in the police or the judi-

ciary to take action.” India has the highest number of recorded attacks, which are often a form of revenge by jilted husbands or rejected suitors. ASTI describes it as a global phenomenon that occurs in countries ranging from Afghanistan and Iran to Nigeria and Colombia. Shah said limiting the sale of acid, punishments for attackers, and compensation and care for survivors, are needed. People like Quereshi speaking out is also very important, he said. “Victims coming forward are defying the perpetrators of the attacks,” he added. Increasing diversity on the catwalk has been an aim of FTL Moda. The production company has featured models with disabilities, in wheelchairs, on crutches and amputees.

Australian model Madeline Stuart, who has Down Syndrome, made her runway debut at the FTL Moda show last year. “I think this is a powerful tool,” said FTL Moda founder Ilaria Niccolini. “I think it can make a change for the better.”

Source: Reuters

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INDIAN NAVY

INVITES UNMARRIED MEN AND WOMEN TO JOIN THE INDIAN NAVY AS SHORT SERVICE COMMISSIONED OFFICER IN PILOT / NAI ENTRY FOR THE COURSE COMMENCING JUN 2017

DATE OF OPENING – 10 Sep 2016

LAST DATE FOR ONLINE APPLICATION – 30 Sep 2016

1. Applications are invited from unmarried male/female candidates for Short Service Commission (SSC) in Pilot/ /NAI entry for course commencing Jun 2017 at the Indian Naval Academy Ezhimala, Kerala.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

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2. (a) Age for Pilot. (i) General Candidates. 19 to 24 years, born between 02 Jul 1993 and 01 Jul 1998; both dates inclusive. (ii) CPL Holders. 19 to 25 years, born between 02 Jul 1992 and 01 Jul 1998; both dates inclusive.

Note: - Applicants who have FAILED in PABT (Pilot Aptitude Battery Test) earlier are not eligible for Pilot Entry. (b) Age for NAIC – 19 ½ - 25 years, born between 02 Jul 1992 and 01 Jan 1998; both dates inclusive.

3. Educational Qualifications. (i) For Pilot. Candidates should have passed BE/ B.Tech degree or in the final year of Engineering Course in any discipline with physics & maths at 12th standard. (ii) For NAIC. Candidates should have passed BE/ B.Tech degree or in the final year of Engineering Course in any one stream i.e. Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Production, Instrumentation, IT, Chemical Metallurgy and Aerospace Engineering. (iii) Ser Entry Minimum % Gender (a) Pilot 60 Male/Female (b) NAIC 60 Male/Female Note: - (i) Only one application is to be filled by a candidate. (ii) Candidates must have minimum of 60% overall aggregate on completion of BE/B.Tech. The candidates failing to meet minimum cut off percentage will not be permitted to join INA Ezhimala. (iii) Candidates who are eligible for more than one branch/cadre should mention their preference in the application. (iv) Candidates will be shortlisted for SSB based on their first preference. However, if not shortlisted for first preference they may be considered for alternate branch/cadre subject to availability of spare slots in SSB batches of that branch/cadre. Once shortlisted for a branch/cadre subsequent stages of selection process (SSB, medicals & meriting) will be exclusively for the branch/cadre only. (v) Women candidates will be inducted as Pilot in to MR stream only.

4. PHYSICAL STANDARDS. Ser (a)

Branch/ Cadre Pilot

(b)

NAIC

Eye Sight

Height & Weight

Distant Vision 6/6, 6/9 Correctable to 6/6, 6/6 Should not be colour blind/night blind Distant Vision 6/60, 6/60 Correctable to 6/6, 6/12 Should not be colour blind/night blind

Height – 162.5 cms With correlated weight, leg length, sitting height and thigh length.

Male – 157 cms, Female – 152cms With correlated weight, as per age and height.

(c) Tattoo. Permanent body tattoos on any part of the body are permitted to candidates belonging to tribal communities as declared by the Government of India. For other candidates permanent body tattoos are only permitted on inner face or forearms i.e. from inside of elbow to wrist end on the reverse side of palm/back (dorsal) side of hand. Details in this regard are available on the naval recruitment website: www. joinindiannavy.gov.in Note: - There will be no relaxation in Physical Standards.

THE NAVY OFFERS YOU 5. Pay Scale & Promotions. The promotion from Sub Lieutenant to Commander is on time scale basis and thereafter on selection basis subject to fulfilment of requisite service condition. The Pay Scale and promotion criteria is as follows (being revised as per 7th CPC):RANK SUB LIEUTENANT LIEUTENANT LIEUTENANT CDR COMMANDER

PAY BANDS/SCALE PB-3/15600-39100 PB-3/15600-39100 PB-3/15600-39100 PB-4/37400-67000

GRADE PAY 5400 6100 6600 8000

MSP 6000 6000 6000 6000

6. Allowances (as applicable). The rates of allowances applicable to officers are as follows (being revised as per 7th CPC):Allowances

To whom granted

Rate Per Month (in Rs)

Flying Instructional Uniform

Qualified Pilot/Observer All officers posted as instructor All Officers

Hard Area

All Officers posted in Hard Area as declared by Govt.

To Officers not provided Govt.

Accommodation All Officers Qualified as Marcos Clearance/Ships Diver

13500 - 21000/pm 2700/pm 24000 (Initial grant) & 7500 (Every 3 Yrs) 25% of BP+GP+MSP

House Rent Transport Marcos Diving

10-30% of Basic (Pay Band+Grade Pay+MSP) 1600-3200 (+DA thereon) 13500 – 21000/pm 600/1200pm

7. Cost to Company (CTC). The CTC for a sub Lieutenant would be approximately Rs. 87,600 to 90000/-. This includes Basic Pay, DA, Grade Pay, Military Service Pay, Flying Allowance, House Rent Allowance and Transport allowance. These rates are not statutory and are subject to change. There rates are likely to revise post implementation of 7th CPC. 8. Privileges. In addition to the CTC mentioned above, Navy provides Free Medical Facilities for Self & dependents, Canteen Facilities, Entitled Ration, Mess/Club/Sports Facilities, Furnished Govt. Accommodation, Car/Housing Loan at subsidised rate.

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION – 10 Oct 2016

9. Group Insurance & Gratuity. Insurance cover of Rs. 57 lakhs for pilot and Rs 50 lakhs for NAIC (on contribution) and gratuity will be granted to the officer as per the latest rules in force.

10. Leave Entitlements. On Commission, officers are entitled to 60 days annual and 20 days casual leave every year (subject to service exigencies).

They are also entitled for 40% rail concession to any place and free travel (as per extant rules) for self and dependents. They are entitled to encashment of leave up to 300 days. Leave during training period will be as per the extant policy in force.

11. Sports & Adventure. The Navy provides facilities to pursue any sport of your liking. In addition, one can learn and participate in adventure sports, such as river rafting, mountaineering, hot air ballooning, hand gliding, wind surfing etc.

DUTIES OF PILOT OFFICER

12. On completion of basic flying training and on award of ‘wings’ after commission, you would have an opportunity to fly Fixed Wing Aircraft or helicopters. You would be flying machines at the cutting edge of technology.

You would actively participate in all facets of Naval operations, i.e. Air, Surface and sub-surface operation. An honourable exciting and adventurous life awaits you as a pilot in the Indian Navy.

DUTIES OF AN NAIC OFFICER 13. As a Naval Armament Inspection officer, you will be responsible for inspection of the armament supplied to the Navy by various agencies. You will also be responsible for in house Research & Development, leading to indigenisation, and will have to ensure the quality, safety and reliability of Naval Armament and Stores procured by the Navy. In no other career, an officer gets exposed to such a wide spectrum of opportunities to keep abreast of modern and latest technological development in the field of armament. To enable you to perform your duties diligently, The Navy will provide you with some of the finest training facilities which will turn you in to a skilled professional, mentally agile and a physically fit officer.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

14. (a) Candidates will be issued call up for Service Selection Board (SSB) interviews based on their performance in educational qualification.

Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy) reserves the right to shortlist applications and to fix cut off percentage. No communication will be entertained on this account. (b) SSB interviews for short-listed candidates will be scheduled from Dec 16 to Mar 17 at Bangalore for pilot entry, SSB interviews for NAIC will be scheduled at Bangalore/Bhopal/Coimbatore/Visakhapatnam. Shortlisted candidates will be informed about their selection for SSB interview on their e-mail or through SMS (provided by candidates in their application form). (c) The total duration of SSB interviews is five days consisting of stage I (Day one) and stage II (Four days). Stage I Tests, consist of Intelligence Tests, Picture Perception and Group Discussion Tests. Candidates who fail to qualify in Stage I will be sent back on the same day from SSB Centre. Stage II Tests consists of Psychological Tests, Group Task Tests and Interview. Successful candidates will undergo medicals examination (approx 3-5 days). Candidates of Pilot entry are also required to undergo PABT (Pilot Aptitude Battery Test) followed by Aviation medical examination. (d) Candidates recommended by the SSBs, cleared PABT (for Pilot Entry) and declared medically fit will be appointed for training based on merit list and depending on the number of vacancies available. (e) Any correspondence regarding change of SSB dates be addressed to the President of the SSB on receipt of call up letter. (f) No compensation will be paid in respect of any injury sustained to a candidate during SSB tests. (g) Return First Class (AC III Tier/AC Chair Car) rail fare is admissible for the SSB interview, if appearing for the first time for this Commission on production of railway ticket.

SHORT SERVICE COMMISSION 15. (i) For Pilot. Short Service Commission is granted for a term of 14 years.

No extension will be given beyond 14 years. (ii) For NAIC. Short Service Commission is granted initially for 12 years extendable by 2 years. No extension will be given beyond 14 years. (iii) Officers inducted under these schemes will not be given extension beyond fourteen years and will not be eligible for Permanent Commission. The Officers will be on probation for a period of two years or till completion of their initial training (whichever is later), during which they are liable to be discharged if their performance is unsatisfactory on professional/medical/disciplinary grounds.

Training.

16. The training is tentatively scheduled to commence in the month of Jun 2017 at Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala. Full pay and allowances are admissible to the officers whilst under training. Only unmarried candidates are eligible to undergo training. If an officer voluntarily withdraws from initial training, or resigns during the probationary period, he/she shall be required to refund the cost of training in whole or in part, as may be determined by the Govt, and all money received by him/her as pay and allowances from the Govt. together with the interests on the said money calculated at the rate enforced for Govt. loans.

17. Pilot Entry. Pilot candidates will undergo 22 weeks of Naval orientation course (NOC) at INA, Ezhimala followed by Stage I and Stage II flying training at the Air Force Academy/Naval Establishment/Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udaan Academy (IGRUA). On successful completion of training, the candidates will be awarded ‘wings’. The candidates will be entitled for flying pay and allowances only after award of ‘wings’.

18. NAIC Entry. Candidates will undergo Naval Orientation Course at the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala followed by professional training at various Naval Training Establishments/Units/Ships. Full pay and allowances are admissible to officers whilst under training.

How to Apply 19. Candidates are to fill in ‘e-application' (Online). Online (e-application) from 10 Sep 16. The online application registration will cease on 30 Sep 16. The procedure for applying online is explained in Paras 20 & 21 below.

IMPORTANT - Please read the instructions given on the website carefully before submitting your ‘e-application’ 20. Online (e-application):- Whilst filling up the eapplication, it is advisable to keep the relevant documents readily available to enable the following:(a) Correct filling up of personal particulars. Details are to be filled up as given in the Matriculation Certificate. (b) Fields such as e-mail address, mobile number are mandatory fields and need to be filled.

21. Filling up of e-application. For filling up application

Online visit our website www.joinindiannavy.gov.in and proceed as follows:(a) Click on Apply Online Officer on the Home Page. (b) Fill the online registration form. Tips to assist in filling up fields have been provided as you highlight each field. (c) After filling the form click on Preview and check if all the information entered by you is correct. (d) Before clicking the Print Application button it should be checked whether all the details entered in the form is correct as you will not be able to make any corrections after saving the record. Candidates can take the print of the application form by entering the relevant details. (e) Before clicking the instructions for SSB Button, it should be checked whether all the details entered in the form are correct as you will not be able to make any corrections after saving the record. Candidates can read the instructions on conduct of SSB by clicking on the instruction for SSB button and can take the print of the application form by entering the details from the download sections under officer entry. (f)Print two copies of the online Application Form having the system generated Application Number. (g) Paste recent passport size colour photograph at the space provided and self attest the same. (h)One copy of this Application Form is to be duly signed and mailed (posted) to Post Box No. 02, Sarojini Nagar PO, New Delhi - 110 023 along with the following documents:- Self attested photograph, Self attested photo copies of 10th & 12th class certificates along with Mark Sheets, other educational certificates and mark sheets of all semester/years. In case CGPA, candidate is required to attach certificate issued by the university for conversion of CGPA in to percentage. Application to be sent by ordinary post only. Speed post/courier and Registered post will not be accepted. (j) A superscription is to be made on envelope: ONLINE APPLICATION NO. __ APPLICATION for Pilot/ /NAIC JUN 2017 COURSE Qualification______ Percentage _____%.

NCC ‘C’ Yes/No. Application and requisite enclosures must be properly tagged/stapled; IHQ MoD (Navy) will not be responsible for loss of enclosures, if sent loose.

Note:(i) Final receipt of the printout of the Online Application Form with system generated Application Number and all documents as mentioned in sub para (e) above if received by 10 Oct 16 will be the final CONFIRMATION of receipt of your Application at IHQ MoD (Navy). Hence, only filling the application Online/generation of Application No. does not imply that the candidate has fulfilled all the criteria given in the advertisement. (ii) Your application is subject to subsequent scrutiny and the application can be rejected, if found INELIGIBLE/INVALID at any point of time. (iii) The applicants are advised to regularly check naval website www.joinindiannavy.gov.in and their mail box for SSB call ups. (iv) Disclaimer - Information given in the advertisement and on the website are guidelines only. Incase of any ambiguity, the existing policies, rules and regulations of Indian Navy/Govt of India will be final.

The terms and conditions, given in this advertisement, are subject to change and should, therefore, be treated as guidelines only Details are also available on website:

www.joinindiannavy.gov.in

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