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Petrol hiked by Rs 3.38/ litre, diesel by Rs 2.67

ENCSU alleges anomalies in selection of MBBS, BDS seats

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Russia to hold alternative ‘Paralympics’ for banned athletes

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‘Myanmar has unique chance to forge peace’

Five-day long Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong begins

Look at their dress. ... Utterly ridiculous!

CNTC disassociates from the Naga Hoho DImApur, August 31 (mExN): The Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has resolved to disassociate from Naga Hoho since its 30day “deadline” served to the Naga Hoho to “withdraw its endorsement” for Rongmei tribe recognition in Nagaland State has expired. This decision was resolved on July 22 and re-affirmed on August 24 jointly by three apex bodies, Ao Senden, Lotha Hoho and Sumi Hoho.

This was informed in a press note from CNTC President Hokiye Yeputhomi and General Secretary Imtinochet Kubzar. From September 1, 2016 the three bodies “withdraws its support and participation in the Naga Hoho,” and asked all its representatives to “gracefully exit” with immediate effect by “respecting the moral authority of the apex bodies which sent them to the Naga Hoho.”

NAYpYItAW, August 31 (Ap): Myanmar has a unique opportunity to end decades of ethnic rebellions in various parts of the country, leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday as she promised that her government will guarantee rebel groups equal rights and respect in historic peace talks that her government organized.

Suu Kyi was speaking at the start of the five-day negotiations aimed at ending decades of separatist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives. The talks are being attended by representatives of 17 of the 20 major ethnic groups, including the Karen, Kachin, Shan and Wa, who make up 40 percent of the country’s population.

“This is a unique opportunity for us to accomplish a great task that will stand as a landmark throughout our history,” said Suu Kyi, whose official title is state counsellor although she is the real power in the government, above the president. “Let us grasp this magnificent opportunity with wisdom, courage and perseverance and create a future infused with light.”

Also speaking at the conference, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted that “every transition takes a risk.” “But refusing to

suu Kyi appeals for unity, reconciliation

NAYpYItAW, August 31 (rEutErs): Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi launched a major push to end decades of fighting between the military and myriad rebel groups with an appeal on Wednesday to the country’s ethnic minorities to overcome their differences to achieve peace.

Suu Kyi has made the peace process a priority for her administration, which faces sky-high expectations at home and abroad after sweeping to power in an election last November to end more than half a century of military-backed rule.

Delegates in elaborate ethnic costumes, sporting silver Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an opening speech during necklaces and hats adorned the Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong, at the Myanmar International with peacock feathers, mingled and took photographs Convention Centre on August 31, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo) embark on transition may carry the greater risk of all.

We see tragic evidence of this around the world. I urge you all to continue to face up to your responsibilities, particularly to the youth and children of Myanmar, the future of this wonderful country,” he said.

The peace talks are called Union Peace Conference -- 21st Century Panglong, a reference to the Panglong Agreement brokered in 1947

by Suu Kyi’s late father, inde-

pendence hero Gen. Aung San, in the town of Panglong, when Myanmar was still ruled by Britain.

The deal granted ethnic minorities autonomy and the right to secede if they worked with the federal government to break away from Britain together. But Aung San was assassinated the following year and the deal fell apart. Since then, ethnic groups have accused successive, mostly military, governments of failing to

honor the 1947 pact.

The first uprising — launched by ethnic Karen insurgents — began shortly after independence. Since then other ethnic groups have also taken up arms with roughly the same aim -- to fight for autonomy while resisting “Burmanization,” a push by the Burman ethnic majority to propagate its language, religion and culture in ethnic minority regions.

The rebel armies con-

with military officers, mainstream majority Bamar politicians and diplomats at the start of the conference.

“If all those who play a part ... in the peace process cultivate the wisdom to reconcile differing views for the good of the people ... we will surely be able to build the democratic federal union of our dreams,” said Suu Kyi in her opening remarks. “Only if we are all united, our country will be at peace. Only if our country is at peace, will we be able to stand on equal footing with other countries in our region and across the world.”

Myanmar has been torn by fighting between the military, which seized power in a 1962 coup, and ethnic armed groups almost without a

trol a patchwork of remote territories rich in jade and timber that are located mostly in the north and east along the borders with China and Thailand.

Suu Kyi said her National League for Democracy party’s aim has always been to hold political negotiations “based on the Panglong spirit and the principle of finding solutions through the guarantee of equal rights, mutual respect and mutual confi-

break since the end of the Second World War. The focus on Wednesday was on the symbolic, with few concrete proposals likely to emerge from this week’s talks.

Delegates expect to meet every six months to discuss issues ranging from security, political representation, language and culture to control of Myanmar’s rich mineral resources.

“It’s the Tatmadaw [military] members and our brethren members of ethnic armed groups, who have been directly suffering from ... the lack of peace in the country, sacrificing their limbs and lives,” said army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. “I firmly believe that we will be able to accomplish this great process with our unity and efforts.”

dence between all ethnic nationalities.”

“The government that emerged after the 2015 elections is determined to uphold the same principles,” she said, referring to the landmark elections that brought the NLD to power after decades of military rule.

The previous militarybacked government brokered individual truces with various insurgent groups and oversaw a

cease-fire covering eight minor insurgencies last year that fell short of a nationwide deal.

Skirmishes, particularly in northern zones where Kachin insurgents are fighting the army, have displaced more than 100,000 civilians since 2011 alone.

At least 100,000 more have sought refuge in squalid camps in neighboring Thailand, and are unlikely to return home until true peace takes hold.

‘Nagaland State is already Konyak Union to ‘preserve, protect, prevent’ an abrogated agreement’

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DImApur, August 31 (mExN): The NSCN (IM) has stated that Framework Agreement is a “prolonged, dedicated and prayerful outcome” between two parties that have “submitted themselves” to settling the “final question” of the Naga people, not just the “current Nagaland State.”

“Nagaland State is never the best thing to have happened for the Naga people,” stated a press statement from NSCN (IM) Vice Chairman Gen. Retd.

Kholi, and Collective Leadership Members AK Lungalang, Tongmeth Wangnao and Q Tuccu.

They reminded that the State came about in a “defining moment and a treacherous situation” which the Nagas were facing then. When Government of India (GoI) leaders say they now “well understand” the “Naga’s situations,” the leaders stated that this does not mean the “present Nagaland State and its ridiculous situation.”

Also, when successive Indian Prime Ministers say the case of the Naga people is “unique,” the term “Law and Order has been completely ruled out now,” stated the leaders.

“The realization that seeking military settlement has proved its own futility explicitly asserts that the case between the Naga people and GoI need be settled politically. Section of our own people, groups and individuals who have stated different narratives about the current political situations try to further confuse” the people, they asserted.

Reminding that Nagaland State is an “abrogated agreement,” the NSCN (IM) leaders noted that the 16th State of India was an arrangement that was “severely condemned” by the NNC, and particularly by AZ Phizo. No matter the “benevolent provisions” under Article 371-A, the NSCN (IM) observed that “vital clauses” from it have been “knocked out.”

Further, many efforts have been made by the GoI and Naga leaders in collaboration with internationally renowned legal experts, constitutional experts, on legal matters and conflict resolution, people committed to peace around the world, have worked this far to allow permanent settlement between the GoI and the Naga people wherever they are today, they reminded.

Nagas who were “forced to live un-

der politically tormenting situations inside different political structures of India and Myanmar are not as happy and comfortable as those” who have reaped the benefits from the “quick fix” 16th State of India.

“These groups who have incessantly asserted on safeguarding the sanctity of Nagaland state had also at the same time ridiculed the framework agreement as being devoid of Naga sovereignty and Naga integration,” observed the leaders, wondering if the “so called NPGs” want “Naga integration” or the protection of the 16th State of India.

Nonetheless, they appreciated the efforts put forth by the Nagaland State Government, Naga civil societies, Church groups, senior citizens and everyone else who is “deeply dedicated to bringing about an inclusive settlement and to whom the framework agreement put in place is accredited to.”

The NSCN (IM) reminded that there are many Nagas who are not “partakers of the benefits” of this Indian State “that was celebrated in 1960” in order to announce to the world that the Naga problem had been finally settled. While the GoI never accomplished its job of “settling” the “final question” of the Naga people, the leaders asked if the Naga people can “pretend to forget those harsh battles fought, involving bloody and loathsome situations leading to serious and highly unusual human rights questions outside the present state even after announcement of a State called Nagaland?”

“These groups who demand inclusiveness, integration or Naga sovereignty, and at the same time outrageously uphold the integrity of present Nagaland, befool themselves other than confusing the Naga people at large. The case between India and the Naga people need be negotiated to settle the conflict permanently,” the leaders maintained.

The Naga people, the NSCN (IM) leaders said, have reason to be content with the GoI recognizing the “legitimate and sovereign” rights of the Nagas as a “free people” by stating that “Naga integration is a legitimate right of the Naga people.”

“Nagas were never divided on the line of Nagaland state and outside Nagaland state. There is no first class Naga and second class Naga; all Nagas are equal,” they asserted.

moN, August 31 (mExN): The Konyak Union (KU) has decided to ban any substance in its jurisdiction that will prove to be hazardous to the environment and health from September 1, which will be observed as a ‘Declaration Day’ for the same.

This was stated in accordance to the resolution adopted during the KU General Session and the subsequent deliberation on the issues pertaining to “preservation, protection and prevention of environment,

health hazard and other aquatic species etc within its jurisdiction.”

Thus, the KU will restrict the “commercial use” of polythene bags, bleaching powder or any chemicals in the river or in any perennial streams, use of pesticide in any agricultural purposes and sale of non-iodized salt in any commercial market within Mon district, informed a press release from KU President S Manlip Konyak and General Secretary Honang Konyak.

“The stern move for restriction had

been initiated so as to protect the hazardous effects caused by those chemical in our day to day life,” stated the KU. It appealed to its 11 units to “organize and observe” September 1 by “disseminating the concept on preservation, protection and prevention of environment and health.” The KU further directed all Village Councils, Konyak Loung and Anghs to observe this day in their respective villages by convening public meetings. The Union also appealed to all churches

to “carefully disseminate” the objectives and goals of the same to the public.

The September 1 Declaration Day will be held at Mon town under the aegis of the KU, which all its frontal organizations, District Administration, HODs, College and School Students, Ward Presidents and general public have been requested to attend. The KU also appealed to all citizens to “comply efficiently” with the restrains.

Despite challenges, groups send relief to Naga areas in Myanmar Morung Express News Dimapur | August 31

As the disease that spread among the Naga people living in Burma (Myanmar) still remains to be contained, two Naga initiatives have made sure that medical aid of some kind has reached their Naga brethren beyond the border.

It may be recalled that a measles-like disease has been spreading through several Naga villages in Myanmar resulting in the death of 82 persons, with the probability of the toll rising. The disease has predominantly affected the Lahe and Nanyun townships in the Naga Self Administered Zones.

Times such as these signify how international boundaries have become barriers to be scaled with special will and the ability to organize.

Angami Baptist Churches Council (ABCC) In early August, the ABCC became the first organization to attempt to reach out with antibiotics and fever medicines. A few ABCC workers were sent to Noklak with the medicines in order to transport them to Lahe, but they were stopped by the Myanmar police. “We were asked not to move in and out of the border areas at the moment,” said Atsie Dolie, General Secretary of the ABCC. Finally, the ABCC workers arranged for the medicines to be picked up from Ponyu, the first village in the Lahe Township of the Naga Self Administered Zone after crossing the Indo-Burma border from Noklak in Tuensang district. “Some NGOs had talked about sending help, so we

‘Frustrated’ by NLD govt response to Naga crisis: CNA

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he Council of Naga Affairs (CNA) that has been at the helm of organizing relief for the disease hit people in Myanmar has stated that it is “frustrated” by the attitude of the elected NLD government in Myanmar towards the Naga areas.

CNA Spokesperson, Ke Jung, informed The Morung Express that despite the outbreak of the epidemic as early as in April, authorities in Myanmar responded only by the first week of August. The Health Department confirmed on August 28 that Lahe Township has been affected by Measles but the disease in Nanyun is yet to be diagnosed.

“There is no medical staff or clinics in the Naga villages. The new government is weak in management. They can’t even form an emergency committee to combat this situation. Either that or they are neglecting the Nagas,”

he maintained.

It may be noted that during a sharing session with the visiting team to Longwa, members from the Naga Yuya mentioned that different types of diseases break out during the monsoon season in the Naga areas every year. The lack of hygiene and sanitation was stated to be one of the main reasons for the spread of such diseases, coupled with malnutrition.

“For now people need urgent humanitarian assistance in terms of medical care and effective treatment, but in the long run a separate budget for rural healthcare. A food crisis has also hit the region since March. It is difficult for us to reach the people on time due to the condition of the roads—these conditions can only be resolved by the government,” asserted Ke Jung.

The CNA stated that it had also appealed to the Government of Nagaland

for help but did not receive a response on the matter. “It is very unfortunate that our brothers and sisters from west cannot come inside to help our people due to the complexity of diplomatic process and unwanted feeling from the elected government,” noted the CNA Spokesperson, acknowledging the initiative of the Tangkhuls for Nagas in Myanmar. To make it easier, “We asked Sagaing Region Government to allow our people from west to provide medical aid. But it has been so difficult for them consider this option. Besides, the fighting between NSCN-K and para commandos inside Burma had made things more difficult.”

Asking also for the Myanmar army to be “airlifted” out of the region as they were a “hindrance to relief work,” the CNA advocated for the government to allow international aid organizations to work in the Naga areas.

waited, but since nothing was happening we hurriedly put forward our efforts,” said Dolie. He was later contacted by one other group, as mentioned below, of people who had been on stand-by with their efforts ever since the news spread.

Tangkhuls for Nagas in Myanmar OnAugust23,agroupofyoungjournalists, activists and missionaries from Ukhrul set out with several cartons full of medicines and nutrition packs to the affected people in Myanmar.

Put together as an emergency response to the epidemic, the ‘Tangkhuls for Nagas in Myanmar’ reached Longwa in Nagaland’s Mon district on August 25. They acted in

response to a call for help from the Council of Naga Affairs (Myanmar) and Naga Students and Youth Federation (Myanmar).

Due to the omnipresent “law and order” situation at the border areas, the medicines were received by members of the Naga Cultural Committee (Yuya) at Longwa who came on bikes to collect the medicines across the border to be delivered to a dispensary in Lahe. This was arranged by the CNA—the whole operation was carried out with advice from the Eastern Naga People’s Organisation and extensive support of the Konyak Union as well as the Eastern Naga Students’ Association,

making it a unique collaboration.

(Detailed report on page 3) We can go only if GoM invites us officially: Nagaland Govt Meanwhile, the Government of Nagaland said that it is prepared to tackle the disease—only if it crosses the border. “Our department is fully prepared to tackle the situation if it comes to our side of the border,” said P Longon, Nagaland State Minister for Health and Family Welfare. “We can go only if the Government of Myanmar invites us officially,” he noted, however, acknowledging the lack of both medical facilities and roads would have made it difficult to reach the affected areas in Myanmar anyway.

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Land Resources director Students urged to identify talents and strengths retires; dept bids farewell Morung Express News Dimapur | August 31

Morung Express News Kohima | August 31

A solemn and befitting farewell programme was organized by the Land Resources Department for its outgoing Director, Mhathung Yanthan in Kohima on Wednesday.

In his farewell speech, Mhathung described the day as the “biggest and most memorable moment of my life” and thanked the Department for organizing the programme in a dignified manner.

Recalling his service in the Department, Mhathung said there were lots of challenges and turbulences especially in implementation of projects, yet the department withstood all such times and learnt good lessons.

He appealed to the employees to thoroughly understand the motto of the Department, ‘Waste to Wealth’ and work sincerely towards achieving it. He expressed regret that he was retiring at a time when the Department was faced with many challenges. However, Mhathung expressed hope that under the leadership of incoming Director, Hoto Yepthomi, the Department will be able to turn its visions into reality.

Mhathung, who served as the Director for three years and two months, urged upon the employees to extend the same support and cooperation as they had given him to the new Director.

He also thanked God for the blessings bestowed upon him and also thanked his family for

Mhathung Yanthan speaks at the farewell programme at Directorate of Land Resources, Kohima on August 31. (Morung Photo)

standing by his side and supporting him throughout his service.

Mhathung also expressed gratitude to Parliamentary Secretary for Land Resources, B.S. Nganlang Phom and Secretary, Land Resources, Y. Kikheto Sema IAS for their constant guidance.

Nganlang recalled his association with Mhathung for four years in the Department and described him as a sincere, humble, efficient and dedicated officer. “Many officers wish to retire like him having completed all official responsibilities efficiently but not all gets it done,” the Parliamentary Secretary complimented the retiring officer.

He said that Mhathung was always well informed of what should be done in a certain given situation and handled matters efficiently and diligently.

Describing the outgoing Director as “ever smiling, joyful, sincere and dedicated,” Land

Resources Secretary, Y. Kikheto Sema IAS said that a wide vacuum has been created with the retirement of Mhathung, who has thoroughly trained his junior officers effectively.

However, Kikheto added that he saw no reason as to why the incoming Director will not be able to take up the responsibility.

In a rare happening during farewell programme, the outgoing Director, Mhathung handed over promotion order to Additional Director, Hoto Yepthomi, who will take over as the new Director.

In his speech, Hoto lauded Mhathung for being a strong captain of the ship, who knew the tactics of sailing through a stormy weather and safely bringing the ship ashore.

Hoto said that the initiative of Special Programme for Environment & Economic Development which benefitted many farmers was the brainchild of the retiring Director.

A host of other officers spoke highly of the outgoing Director and all those who spoke wished him a happy retired life. Watershed Development Team members presented special number honouring the retiring officer during the programme, which was attended by officials from other departments, invitees and well wishers.

Deborah, daughter of the outgoing Director, also spoke briefly describing her father as an “achiever” and thanked the departmental employees for their support and cooperation extended to her father.

Student bodies in Peren reiterate stand on teachers appointed from outside the district

Peren, August 31 (Mexn): The Zeliangrong Student’s Union (Nagaland) and Kuki Students’ Organisation (KSO) have expressed resentment towards the State Education Department for its inaction regarding the appointment of 16 Primary Teachers in Peren district who are “non-indigenous” of the district.

A press release from ZSU(N) President, Amonbo Zeliang reminded that ZSU(N) and KSO had submit a Charter of Demand to the department, which was widely published in local media in July. However, it stated, the Education Department has turned deaf ear to their demand till date.

The release lamented that the Education Department, while clearly an-

nouncing for quality education system in the state, is appointing non-indigenous people of the district in primary schools, where local language/dialect is the basic requirement to teach the students.

“We claim our education system and environment is dirty and manipulated in the District, for which we hold the Department responsible,” it asserted.

According to the release, the 16 teachers were appointed in 2015 and 2016 in the following primary schools – GPS Saijan, GPS Nsenlwa, GPS Lower Sinjol, GPS Upper Sinjol, GPS Pelhang, GPS Lilen, GPS Upper Sinjol, GPS Mechangbung, GPS Old Nkio, GPS Nbackam, GPS Lalong, GPS Beisumpuiram, GPS Tening, GPS

New Chamcha, GPS Jalukie Lower, and GPS Tepun.

Besides the 16 teachers, the student orgnisations alleged, Education Department violated the demand of ZSU(N) and KSO and appointed a person from Phek district as Primary Teacher in Nsenlwa, bringing the number to 17.

The press release further cautioned the appointed teachers “not to enjoy the share of others” until the Department concerned give a concrete solution. Meanwhile, it appealed the VEC of the villages concerned not to entertain their appointment orders and informed the VEC Members of every village in the district to be aware of such “illegal appointment” from the department.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Mount Mary Higher Secondary School & Mount Mary College observed ‘Freshers Meet’ at Chumukedima Town Council hall on Wednesday with Director of Higher Education, Nagaland, Alempokba Imsong, as the chief guest.

The chief guest in his address impressed the students to value their time as time is of essence, especially for students. Imsong also said students should give enough time and thought in identifying their talents and strengths so that they can choose the right profession or career.

He said most of the students choose three categories while setting their future goal or career: the first category are students who resign themselves to work petty jobs in the state itself, the second are those students who plan to move outside the state and work in other cities. The last category is students who are bold and confident enough to compete in the global job market. Encouraging the students

of Mount Mary HSS & College to strive for the third category, Imsong said students should never reduce themselves to mediocrity but aim for the stars to get their dream job or career.

The chief guest also urged upon the school and college authority to introduce vocation courses such as computer, horticulture and floriculture as students should be skilled from their formative stages if they are to forge ahead in life. He also exhorted the teachers to initiate more extracurricular activities and intensify literary activities for wholesome development of the students. Principal of Mount Mary College, Teeya Imsong, delivered the welcome address.

The Freshers Meet was marked by a keen participation from the students who presented a variety of items including special songs, dances and other entertainments. The highlight of the Freshers Meet was the Mr and Miss Freshers competition, Director, Higher Education, Nagaland, Alem- where Lichamo (B.A 1st semester) and pokba Imsong, addressing the ‘Freshers Meet’ Mughaholi (Class 11 Arts) were crowned Mr Fresher and Miss Fresher respectively. of Mount Mary HSS & Mount Mary College.

Domestic Violence Act: Orientation held for officers

KohiMA, August 31 (DiPr): The Department of Social Welfare in collaboration with Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB) and State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) conducted orientation training on Domestic Violence Act, 2005 for the District Welfare Officers, Protection Officers, and District Programme Officers on August 31 at State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), Kohima.

Director, Social Welfare, Merang T. Aier gave an introduction to domestic violence and role of the Department of

Social Welfare in implementing the Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Highlighting the menace of domestic violence in the society, he said domestic violence is misery, pain, anguish, suffering, grief, sorrow and tears. “It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, gender, race, religion or nationality.”

Domestic violence, he added, is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior that is only a fraction of a systematic pattern of dominance and

control. He asked the officers posted in the districts to be more proactive and vigil in addressing the issues related to domestic violence.

Legal Aid Counsel cum Trainer, Nagaland State Legal Service Authority, Esther K. Aye spoke on Domestic Violence Act, 2005- legal perspectives; role of the protection officers and judiciary under Domestic Violence Act. State Coordinator, SRCW, Gracy Aye and Assistant State Coordinator, SRCW, Juliana Medom spoke on handling victims of domestic violence- psycho so-

Dimapur district has around 64 leprosy cases

DiMAPur, August 31 (DiPr): There are around 64 leprosy cases in Dimapur district, informed Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dimapur, Dr. Vikato during a meeting of the district coordination committee for Leprosy Case Detection Campaign (LCDC) on August 30.

He further said that the LCDC to be held from September 5 to 18 will show the number of leprosy cases. To carry out the campaign which is basically a house to house campaign, doctors and ASHAs in

all the medical blocks have been sensitized on how to diagnose leprosy cases, the CMO added.

State Leprosy Officer Dr. Ahu Sekhose, while addressing the meeting held at Deputy Commissioner’s office here, said that 163 districts covering 20 states in the country have been selected for LCDC and Dimapur district has been shortlisted in Nagaland. Dr. Ahu informed that although Nagaland happens to be the first state in the country to have achieved Leprosy eliminated

state, owing to the fact that there is a number of migrant population, the prevalence rate of leprosy in Dimapur district is above the elimination status. For this reason, he stated, Dimapur district has been selected for conducting LCDC. He further said that LCDC is basically an intensive survey exercise for detecting hidden cases of leprosy. He was of the view that people do not come forward for voluntary checkup of leprosy cases due to the stigma involved. Dr.

Members of the Nagaland Law Students’ Federation at the Federation’s 4th federal assembly on August 31 at AKM conference hall, Mokokchung.

Morung Express News

The 4th federal assembly of the Nagaland Law Students’ Federation (NLSF) was held on August 31 at AKM conference hall, Mokokchung.

The assembly was attended by representatives from Mokokchung Law College, City Law College, Dimapur, and Kohima Law College. Different agendas were discussed and deliberated at the assembly, including those pertaining to the forthcoming 7th

biennial general conference of the NLSF to be held from September 2122 in Kohima and the amendment of NLSF constitution. Thungbeni Kikon, Speaker NLSF chaired the assembly, while Lanusowa, President NLSF delivered the welcome address.

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Born on: 23.05.1961

Died on: 26.08.2016

Loving wife, childre n & relatives

Ahu said that leprosy is completely curable if detected within 6 to 12 months and informed the public that leprosy treatment is available free of cost in all the Government health centres in Nagaland.

Deputy Commissioner Kesonyu Yhome assured to render all possible help from the district administration for successful conduct of LCDC. He also urged upon all the departments to take it as a social issue and to give in their best effort for the benefit of the public.

4th NLSF federal assembly

Mokokchung | August 31

e the bereaved family and relatives of Late. I. Aomeren. Imsong would like to express our profound and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, families, friends, neighbours, church, organization and well wishers who stood and supported us physically, financially, materially and unceasing prayer during the sudden demise of our beloved on 26th August 2016.

We Convey Our Special Thanks to: 1. Tuli Lenten Baptist Church.

20. Phom (Kangching Kinunger).

21. Luyong Baptist Church.

2. Shri. Amenba Yaden, Parliamentary Secretary, Industries & Commerce Govt. 22. Molungkimong Baptist Church. of Nagaland.

23. Molungkimong Mejensanger Putu 3. Shri. Sentiwapang, ADC Tuli.

Menden.

24. Molungkimong Fellowship Tzudikong.

4. Shri. Arikumba, SDO Civil Tuli.

25. Molungkimong Milak River Rubber 5. Shri. Vikhoto Richa, EAC Tuli.

6. Shri. Imtitoshi Jamir, Assistant Society.

Commandant CRPF 26. Little Garden School Tuli.

7. SDPO Tuli 27. Govt. High School Tzudikong.

28. Govt. High School Yajang.

8. OC Tuli 9. Tuliyong Ward Tuli Town.

29. D E O Mokokchung.

30. S D E O Changtongya.

10. All Ward Union Tuli Town.

11. Tuli Area Joint Council Forum.

31. Nagaland School Administrative Officer Association Mokokchung.

12. GHSS Tuli Principal, Staff and Students.

13. GHSS School Managing Board.

32. Chuchuyimlang Senso Union Tuli.

33. Milak Valley S H G Tuli.

14. Merangkong Senso Telongjem Tuli.

15. Merangkong Medemsanger Putu 34. Molungkimong Senso Union Tuli.

Menden.

35. Longkitsuyong farmers Club Tuli.

16. Merangkong Senso Telongjem Dimapur. 36. Doctors & Staffs, Civil Hospital, Golaghat, Assam.

17. Marangkong Students Union Tuli.

37. OC Dergaon, Assam.

18. Merangkong Senso Employees Union.

19. Merangkongtsur Telongjem Tuli.

We deeply regret our inability to mention each and every individual, but it is our sincere prayer that Almighty God bestows His blessings upon each and everyone abundantly.

cial perspective and schemes and its relevance to Domestic Violence Act, 2005 with special emphasis to Beti Bachao Beti Padhao respectively.

Meziwang Zeliang from Women Helpline shared on “One stop centre and women helpline (181) and the role of DWO and DPO”.

Ice breaking session and documentary on domestic violence were presented by SRCW. Chairperson, NSSWB, Bano Vinito proposed the concluding remarks, while Mission Director, SRCW, Daisy Mezhür moderated the programme.

e, the family members of Late. Rangtalak Rangkau, Assistant Pastor, Christian Church, Jalukie Town, would like to express our profound gratitude and appreciation to all those individuals and organisations who extended their support and solidarity with us by way of material contributions and physical support during the untimely and sudden demise of our beloved Rangtalak on August 24, 2016.

We are overwhelmed by the words of comfort and expressions of sympathies, and also by the physical presence at the funeral service by the thousands of people who came from near and far to mourn his demise despite the sweltering heat. We appreciate and acknowledge the sacrifices you have made to share our grief and we are deeply humbled by your gracious kindness.

We apologise for not being able to acknowledge each individual and organization but we pray that the Almighty will bless you abundantly.

Wife, Childre n, and relatives

No helicopter service on Sundays

DiMAPur, August 31 (Mexn): The State helicopter service will not operate on Sundays with effect from September 1, 2016 to facilitate proper maintenance of the helicopter and rest for the crew members. This is in pursuance of the flight safety measures of the helicopter which made it mandatory for maintenance of the helicopter once in a week, stated a press release from O Elhibemo Yanthan, General Manager, Nagaland State Transport.

Workshop to develop district SBCC strategies on RI underway

KohiMA, August 31 (Mexn): As part of its ongoing efforts to improve the health of the children, Nagaland State government in partnership with UNICEF has undertaken new initiative of Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) to increase the demand for immunisation.

In this regard, a three-day residential state level participatory workshop on developing district SBCC strategies on routine immunization (RI) is being organised from August 31 to September 2 at Hotel Vivor, Kohima.

Addressing the participants on August 31, Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM), Nagaland Dr Yankho Lotha requested them to take full advantage of the workshop and identify the core problem in their respective district and seek for solution during the workshop. He also mentioned that Nagaland’s immunisation coverage is very low as compared to the other States and called upon the health workers for

stronger willpower in delivering the health services to the people, especially at the hard to reach areas.

Dr. Yankho also expressed gratitude to UNICEF for focusing on Nagaland in their endeavours to improve the immunisation program in the country. Dr. Pravin Kumar, Regional Consultant, SBCC, while sharing the objective of the workshop, stressed that it aims to identify the barriers in the people failing to fully immunise their children and find ways to create demand generation for health services among people, especially at the grassroots level. With this initiative, an increase in the demand and coverage is expected in the due course of time, stated a press release from NHM, Nagaland.

Dr. Pravin accompanied by Dr Subhash, Regional Consultant, RI and Marykali Yepthomi, Consultant, SBCC System Strengthening RI and Child Health, Nagaland and Manipur, will be facilitating the three-day workshop.

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Tangkhuls for nagas in MyanMar: strengthening bonds over boundaries

UkhrUl, AUgUst 31 (MExN): The Nagas, divided over the years by political boundaries, have time and again stood “united like a rock through thick and thin.” With news of the recent outbreak of measles in the Naga areas of Myanmar that claimed numerous lives, the Tangkhul community decided to take action. A team of student activists, social & human rights activists, missionaries and journalists decided to work under the banner ‘Tangkhuls for Nagas in Myanmar (TfNiM): Emergency response to measles outbreak.’ They decided to raise funds and use it to buy medicines and nutritional food and take it to the border areas so that it could be transported from there and also used in the border areas for pre-emptive measures. The team got in touch with Naga civil societies and friends from Myanmar, especially the Council of Naga Affairs, and took their suggestions and advise while planning for the venture.

According to a press note by the ‘Tangkhuls for Nagas in Myanmar,’ the team began work from August 15 by distributing ap-

peal letters to all Tangkhuls near and far, effectively using social media. Having raised sufficient funds, the team went about acquiring medicines, food, etc., and set out for Longwa village in Mon district, Nagaland on August 23. The team first set up camp in Dimapur where the team had a short interaction with Advisor to the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation, Toshi Wungtung, who provided insight on the ground reality of the border areas which helped the team in firming up the exact plan.

Longwa village has a unique identity with some households falling under Myanmar territory and some under Indian terri-

Tribal bandh withdrawn in Manipur IMPhAl, AUgUst 31 (NNN): The Outer Manipur Tribals' Forum (OMTF) and Joint Action Committee Against Anti Tribal Bills (JAC-AATB) informed Newmai News Network late August 31 that their decision to call a 4-day general strike in all the "tribal areas" in Manipur from the midnight of September 1 has been withdrawn.

Both OMTF and JAC-AATB cited the reason for reviewing their decision as "appeals from various organisations not to go ahead with the general strike." On August 28, both OMTF and JAC-AATB had announced to call bandh as “a mark to show our displeasure to the Government of Manipur's intent to introduce the 'Regulation of Non-Local People of Manipur bill-2016' in the coming assembly despite repeated requests from tribal civil organizations not to introduce any new bill until and unless the issue of 3 anti tribal bills passed by the Manipur assembly on August 31, 2015 is fully resolved and the 9 tribal martyrs see justice and their last rites performed."

Army refutes claim of personnel killed in ambush kohIMA, AUgUst 31 (MExN): The security forces today refuted the claim made by some “terror groups” that they have been successful in killing ten Army personnel in an ambush at Ruling in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district on August 29. “It is clarified that this claim made by these terror groups is absolutely devoid of any empirical facts,” stated a press release from Col C Konwer, PRO (Defence). “The fact of the matter is that two Army personnel suffered minor injuries yesterday in a skirmish with the members of one of the outlawed groups in Changlang, which is due to the fact the Indian Army is carrying out extensive Area domination to prevent these anti national groups from carrying out there activities with impunity and preclude any possibility of allowing them to create trouble in the region,” it added. The false narrative, the release stated, has been “spread by these terror groups with an ulterior objective of undermining the security forces and to create terror and panic among the peace loving populace of the region.”

tory, “which is a classic example of how man-made boundaries have divided the Naga family for decades.” The choice for the consignment of food and medicines to be dropped off at Longwa village was due to its proximity and accessibility to the affected villages in Myanmar and is also a village likely to be affected if the disease spreads to this side.

The team set off for Longwa with about 600 sachets of nutritional food, clothes and medicines worth almost Rs. 3 Lakh.

The journey took the team through Dimapur, Assam and finally to Mon town.

The initial journey from Ukhrul Town to Dimapur

was without a glitch. The second part of the journey from Dimapur town to Mon took the team almost 18 hours. The Konyak Union President S. Manlip Konyak surprised the team with his concern and gesture by waiting up for the team which reached Mon at 1am of August 25.

The President of Eastern Nagaland Students’ Association, Reego, Secretary of the Tangsha Students’ Union, Pongwang and the founding President of the Eastern Nagaland Students’ Association, Michael, also accompanied the team. The team had to undergo a Karbi Anglong bandh, several vehicle breakdowns and numerous stops by Assam

Rifles and Para Commando teams along the way. Following keen coordination

by Brig. Sandeep Mohla, Commander of 10 Sector AR, Ukhrul with his counterparts Col. Bhutia was gracious enough to allow the team safe passage when the team entered Mon district from Assam although his juniors were initially reluctant. The team set up camp at Walo Guest House in Mon and rested the night there.

The team set out for Longwa village on August 25 and had an interaction with 8 bikers coming from the affected villages in Myanmar at the residence of the Chairman of Longwa village which is situated

eye opener in healing the strained relationship between the Tangkhuls and the Konyaks, and would go a long way in fostering better relationships. The TfNiM team remained grateful to S Manlip Konyak and to the Konyak community for being gracious hosts. After handing over the relief materials, the team paid a visit to the Angh (chief) of Longwa at his Anghnok (ancestral palace). As a gesture to the warm reception of the Angh the team presented him with a Tangkhul traditional comforter, renewing the bond of brotherhood.

The TfNiM team, on behalf of the Tangkhul community, conveyed their gratitude to the Konyak community for all that they have contributed in making the mission a success. The team was overwhelmed by the love and support that came from all quarters of the society. The team was hosted for dinner in Dimapur by two families and for dinner at Mon by one family. Contributions/ donations poured in from various quarters and from people from all walks of life in various forms-in cash and in kind (medicines, food and clothes).

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shIlloNg, AUgUst 31 (NNN): The North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) on Wednesday condemned what it termed as the unprovoked attack on people belonging to the indigenous peoples of Tripura who were part of the rally in Agartala on August 23, 2016.

“The NESO is deeply disturbed by such violence to the already marginalised and disenfranchised indigenous community by members of non-indigenous population which resulted in the injury to scores of people

and also the failure on the part of the state government to give protection to people conducting peaceful rallies,” NESO Chairman, Samuel Jyrwa said.

NESO has demanded that the state government should conduct a judicial inquiry into the incident and that adequate compensation is extended to victims of the “unprovoked” violence.

In this respect, NESO along with the Twipra Students’ Federation (TSF), Gauhati Unit, will organ-

ise a sit in demonstration in Gauhati on September 2, 2016 as a “mark of solidarity to the indigenous peoples of Twipra and also to give a strong message to the non-indigenous communities of Twipra that the people of Twipra are not alone in their fight for their right but the entire indigenous peoples of the North Eastern Region are with them and encourage the indigenous peoples of Twipra to never back down but to keep on fighting for their right.”

UNC on Manipur govt proposed bill

sENAPAtI, AUgUst 31 (NNN): The Given this reason, the UNC posited its earlier United Naga Council (UNC) has termed stand that the state government's concern is another attempt of the Manipur govern- "limited only for the valley people and not for ment to pass a "similar bill" in the Manipur the indigenous tribal people."

The UNC stated that the tribal people assembly as "nothing but another manifestation of state government's apathy to- of the state will oppose any bill that would wards the right and concern of the tribal affect the hill areas unless the Manipur Assembly is democratised. "How can we expeople" of the state.

Re-affirming its strong opposition to the pect any bill passed in Manipur Assembly Manipur government’s attempt to pass a to be democratic when the tribal represen"similar bill that has led to the killing of 9 trib- tatives are under-represented against the al people last year while protesting against Constitutional Guideline of Article 332?" the 3 anti-tribal bills and resolutions," a it questioned. According to the UNC, the UNC statement which was made available root cause of many problems in the state to Newmai News Network today in Senapati lies in the "fact that the value of one valley stated that the act of Manipur government vote is equivalent to 3 tribal voters". The in attempting to pass a new bill (Manipur UNC demanded that the Government of Regulation of Non- Local Bill 2016) in the India addresses "this critical issue" in orforthcoming Manipur State assembly ses- der to achieve its goal for lasting peace and sion without resolving the outstanding is- development in the region.

The UNC also expressed apprehension sues that involved the loss of nine "precious lives and untold miseries clearly indicates that the indigenous tribal people will conUkhrUl, AUgUst 28 (MExN): A peaceful sit in pro- the Imphal valley centric government's in- tinue to be "suppressed and will be further test was staged at Ukhrul Gandhi Chawk today against the tention to completely suppress and silent marginalised" if the above pressing issue is bomb attack on August 28 midnight inside the residence the voice of the tribal people of the state". not addressed or resolved. of 44-Ukhrul AC NPF MLA Samuel Risom. Organised by the Ukhrul Central NPF unit, the protest was participated by all elected NPF ADC members, party workers, and general public. The protestors condemned the incident and vowed that the “cowardice and alien design targeting the Nagas would not be even in an inch distance to deviate the on-going peace aspiration process of the Nagas with New Delhi,” stated a report received here.

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gUwAhAtI, AUgUst 31 (IANs): Tension gripped Assam's Dibrugarh town on Wednesday following an assault and robbery of a girl student of the Dibrugarh University. A large crowd of students from the university and general public took to the streets here protesting the Tuesday incident and demanding exemplary action against the accused. The Assam Police has already arrested two of the six men allegedly involved in the crime. A search is on for the other four, as they are on the run. The police has also recovered the Tata Sumo vehicle, which was used to abduct the victim. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning when a group of six men whisked away the student and physically assaulted her before dumping her in another part of the town.

According to the complaint lodged by the victim with the police, the incident took place around 4 a.m. after she got off a bus at Borpathar area. She was forcibly shuffled into the SUV and taken towards Chowkidingi area. The FIR said that the six men assaulted her physically and snatched away her money, gold earrings and other belongings before dumping her at Chowkidingi area.

on the Myanmar side. The bikers comprised of officials from the Naga Cultural Committee (Yuya). The officials narrated how the outbreak began and then spread. According to them, the outbreak started from Thangkhu Langma which is also the worst affected village with the highest casualty of 20 plus. This village, as per the officials, is one of the most neglected and least accessible village from all sides. The negligence by the Myanmar government of this area is also the worst with no proper infrastructure.

The outbreak was reported to the authorities of the Naga Self Administered Zone on July 19, well after it

began. Symptoms included boils on the skin, warts/ swelling all over the body and coughing up of blood.

The affected villages are those with very low levels of hygiene and sanitation as per the officials’ narration. Stool, blood and urine samples were collected and sent to Nay Pi Taw which confirmed the outbreak to be measles. The officials also informed that doctors from Lahe Township were doling out medicines in the neighboring villages as a pre-emptive measure to check the spread of the outbreak. The issue of accessibility is the main stumbling block to early containment of the outbreak. The officials also invited the team to visit Lahe in better times.

President of the Konyak Union, S Manlip Konyak, played a vital role in the success of the team’s mission. During the interaction at Longwa, he thanked the team for the effort and the officials who had travelled on rugged terrain on bikes—he hoped that they would ensure that all the relief materials reached the affected villages without fail.

He also stated that this act would act as an

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Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju paid respect to legendary freedom fighter Rani Gaidinliu during a function at Chingmeirong in Imphal on Wednesday.

Rijiju arrived here today to pay homage to Rani Gaidinliu at her native village of Nungkao in Tamenglong district. The visit to the village had to be cancelled due to inclement weather. Officials said the weather did not permit helicopter landing at Kamai in Tamenglong district.

Rijiju’s visit to the state was part of the month-long celebration marking the remembrance of the lives of freedom fighters who gave their all for the nation.

At the function held at Tingkao Rangkao Temple, Chingmeirong, Rijiju along with the state BJP leaders paid floral tributes to Rani Gaidinliu. He announced that in honour of the freedom fighters of the country, the pension paid to their relatives and families has been increased by 20 percent.

Gaidinliu (1915-1993) was a Naga spiritual and political leader who led a revolt against the British rule in India.

and many of them survived who must be remembered and respected. Why the credit should be taken by a few people and a few families. It cannot be happened,” the Union Minister stated. “History must be told and history must be respected and those who have share in history must be recognized.”

The state unit of BJP later accorded a warm welcome to Rijiju at the party head office here at Nityaipat Chuthek. Party president Ksh Bhabananda, prominent partymen like Thounaojam Chaoba Singh and a host of party workers were present at the event.

Commenting on the current issue of the All Manipur DPC Completed Constable (Male) 2013, Rijiju told newspersons that the movement was genuine. A series of strikes including bandhs and indefinite economic blockade along NHs launched by the over 2,000 cop aspirants has disrupted normal life in the state for many days.

Two BJP MLAs Thongam Biswajit Singh and Khumukcham Joykishan were detained by the police while the party along with agitating members of the

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attempted to disrupt a fresh police constable recruitment rally here yesterday.

The MLAs were remanded to 15-day judicial custody after their arrest but were released today without any condition.

BJP also called a state wide 12-hour bandh today in protest against detention of its MLAs. The strike was shortened and ended at 1 pm.

Rijiju said, “BJP has stood for justice. The movement is genuine. The state government could have handled the issue in a much better way. The government has not done things smoothly.”

He said he was briefed about the issue by DGP of Manipur Police, Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Home) who told him that the situation was normalised.

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From big oil to big data: inside mukesh ambani’s $20 billion start-up MUMBAI, AUgUst 31(ReUteRs): At the vast open-plan headquarters of Indian telecoms start-up Jio, billionaire oil tycoon Mukesh Ambani stands in short sleeves beneath a digital tracker that logs every new subscriber to his service.

The 59-year-old is India’s richest man, and his Reliance Industries oil & gas group is the country’s most profitable.

Now, though, he’s betting at least $20 billion on building, from scratch, a national digital empire stretching from phones and hardware to home entertainment and custommade apps.

The ambitious Jio project could make Reliance the most comprehensive provider of telecom and internet services across India - and give it unprecedented access to the country’s untapped ‘big data’: how millions eat, shop and have fun.

“For Reliance... data is the new oil, and intelligent data is the new petrol,” Ambani said in March, explaining his drive to move

closer to India’s consumers.

Reliance has said little publicly about Jio, and even less about the potential for wide-scale data mining in a country where consumers have not, to date, made a big deal about online privacy. But top executives are clear on the opportunity.

“It’s called Deep Packet Inspection, and what you can do with the analytics of that is mind-boggling,” said a senior Reliance executive, referring to a practice that digs into ‘packets’ of data created by computers for efficiency, mining them for information.

Jio is unlikely to contribute significantly to Reliance profits anytime soon, but is hugely significant for its future. Reliance has dabbled previously in consumer sectors, yet Jio is seen as an opportunity for Ambani to set a new course for a company still dominated by his late father, its founder.

Jio is also a potentially landmark opportunity for India, where smartphone usage has ballooned and services like mobile pay-

ments and online entertainment have become commonplace.

The prospect of Jio, which has not yet been commercially launched, has raised hopes of cheaper, more reliable data for Indian users. It has already drawn queues at some stores by offering free connections with unlimited data for a three-month period, allowing it to test its network.

That has stirred rivals.

India’s largest wireless provider Bharti Airtel <BRTI. NS> this week cut its 3G/4G data tariffs on prepaid connections by more than 40 percent, after halving them a month ago.

provided a specific date or figure, and declined to respond to specific queries for this article.

According to filings at the Commerce Ministry, Jio has more than 325 billion rupees ($4.9 billion) of long-term debt, and other liabilities topping 580 billion rupees, as of March.

In addition, Reliance has spent over 290 billion rupees on Jio and is expected to invest more - all adding up to more than what it has been spending on its core refining and petrochemicals business. Reliance says its oil business is pumping out cash, and any investment in Jio has to be ambitious.

Two-thirds of India’s 1.3 billion population are not online, and Jio hopes to capture 100 million users - nearly half of India’s current smartphone users - within a year of launch.

Ambani, who employees say taught himself to code, ran Reliance’s nascent telecoms operations in the early 2000s, before a feud with his younger brother Anil triggered a split and a bitter non-com-

ALL ABOUT AMBITION But Jio - named from a Hindi exhortation to ‘live on’ - is behind schedule and over budget, say several former employees, who, like current staff interviewed by Reuters, did not want to be named. It was initially expected to launch by end-2014, with total capital expenditure within $15 billion, they said.

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pete deal. Mukesh took the family’s energy business and Anil the communications assets, setting up Reliance Communications (RCom).

Before long though, Mukesh was laying fibre cables again and set up a subsidiary, Rancore, to build its own mobile telephony technology.

In 2010, Mukesh’s Reliance Industries bought Infotel Broadband - on the day Infotel won nationwide spectrum - and decided it needed to offer more than a high-speed 4G network service. Instead, it would pitch an all-internet service, where even voice calls would be carried as data, cheaply, beating its rivals Airtel, Vodafone and Idea on quality and speed, according to Jio officials.

Airtel, Vodafone and Idea declined to comment on Jio. RELIANCE CITY At Jio’s biggest campus, a sprawling cluster of glass buildings, manicured lawns and giant Jio logos outside Mumbai, the scale of Ambani’s vision is evi-

dent. Reuters was offered a rare opportunity to visit the site earlier this year.

The campus has 15,000 employees working for Jio alone, plus hundreds of consultants and service providers working alongside the group. There are large guest houses and hotels.

In a single hall, Reliance has put on show everything from its e-payment mechanism and music-streaming app to its messaging app, sleek Jio smartphones sold at a fraction of the cost of an iPhone connected cars, and even a replica home.

On campus, Ambani, who flies in by helicopter once a week, was flanked at his desk by his eldest son, Akash, who is Jio’s head of strategy, and by Manoj Modi, a long-serving adviser, and a reminder of the influence of trusted employees, most from the oil business.

One company insider said the Jio logo is actually a mirror image of the word ‘oil,’ reflecting in a way Reliance’s journey from oil drilling to data mining.

India accords residency Lavazza launches first training centre in India AUgUst 31 (Bs): and seminars for barista, bartenders its first training centre in India. status to foreign investors CHeNNAI, Evolved from the Coffee Research Lavazza India on Wednesday an- and caterers.

NeW DeLHI, AUgUst 31 (ReUteRs): India approved a plan on Wednesday to allow foreign investors to settle, emulating a policy in countries such as the United States and Singapore to woo investment from abroad.

The proposal, aimed at giving a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” programme, was first announced in February’s federal budget.

Foreigners need to invest 100 million rupees ($1.49 million) over 18 months, or 250 million rupees over three years, resulting in jobs for at least 20 resident Indians every fiscal year to be allowed to settle, the government said in a statement.

Those who meet the criteria would be eligible to stay for 10 years. The residency permit can be extended by a decade.

Up to now, such investors have been eligible for business visas lasting up to five years.

The cabinet approval comes months after the government unveiled sweeping reforms to rules on foreign direct investment, clearing the way for Apple to open stores and announcing easier terms for investors in sectors ranging from civil aviation to pharmaceuticals.

Modi has urged global businesses to come and manufacture in India since he took office two years ago.

His government has pointed to a 23 percent rise in foreign direct investment to $55.5 billion in the fiscal year to March as proof the policies are gaining traction.

Investors with the permanent residency status would be free to buy one home, and spouses and dependents would be allowed to take private jobs and study, the government said.

nounced the launch of its first training centre in India. The new centre located in Chennai is spread across 800 sq ft, and will provide training and information on the Italian coffee culture to Barista. It will also provide training on the perfect coffee preparation, according to Italian tradition.

Speaking to reporters after inaugurating the training centre, Mauro Mantovani, group chief commercial officer at Lavazza said that India is an important market for Lavazza, globally. With the growing network of training centres around the world and since it is the largest coffee study center of its kind, we shall bring the world class Italian coffee culture of Lavazza to Indian coffee lovers.”

The training centre will showcase the art of preparing coffee and will also offer coffee roasting workshops

IT will also organise various courses in coffee tasting, coffee cultivation and processing, espresso preparation, cappuccino, latte art and coffee design. The company said it will not charge anything for the course, which will cater mainly to its customers, bloggers, journalists and others.

With 8 branches in Italy and more than 50 centres all over the world, the Lavazza Training Centre is the largest coffee school in Italy and internationally, said Silvio Zaccareo, managing director, Fresh and Honest (Lavazza India).

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Right to work is fundamental right: Kerala Rights Commission tHIRUvANANtHApURAM, AUgUst 31 (IANs): The September 2 all-India strike by trade unions must not come in the way of those who want to work that day, the head of the Kerala State Human Rights Commission said on Wednesday.

J.B. Koshy, a former Chief Justice of the Bihar High Court, said the Kerala government should ensure that the fundamental right to work of any citizen was not taken away by such strikes.

“While the right to strike is legally right, the right to work is a fundamental right and none should stop that,” Koshy told the media here.

“The responsibility of the state government is to see that they make necessary arrangements for people who wish to work to be able to reach their work place,” he said.

Koshy’s five-year term as Chairperson of the Kerala State Human Rights Commission ends next week.

He said shutdowns cause innumerable miseries to the common man and the courts have done their duties to prevent them but now the governments need to act.

“In West Bengal, recently Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a strong stand against a bandh. It worked. It’s only in West Bengal and Kerala that nothing happens during a shutdown,” added Koshy.

He said he was leaving the Commission with a lot of happiness as he had been able to provide succour to numerous people, especially the weakest in the society.

“When I took over in 2011, the total number of cases that were handled was just 5,000. In 2015 it had touched 13,000, and this calendar year till now we have handled 8,800 cases,” added Koshy.

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Honorarium to chairpersons of PSUs KoHIMA, AUgUst 31 (DIpR): The Finance Department (Budget & Monitoring Cell) has in supersession of the Department’s earlier notification informed that: i. The honorarium of the Chairpersons appointed to head the Public Sector Undertakings shall be fixed at Rs.25,000/- only per month, or equivalent in pay and status of Parliamentary Secretaries. ii. Such Chairpersons shall also be entitled to a monthly allowance of Rs.30,000/- only per month to meet the costs of vehicle maintenance, POL and salaries for fixed pay drivers. iii. The honorarium of such Chairpersons shall be paid from and out of the budget of the concerned Public Sector Undertakings, for which, financial support shall be provided by the Government in the form of additional grants-in-aid.

Renewal of Class B Homoeopaths KoHIMA, AUgUst 31 (DIpR): The Nagaland State Government in consonance with Section 24 of the Nagaland Homoeopathic Medicine Act. 1996 (Act IV of 1997) has invited for renewal of Class B Homoeopaths registered in the Board of Homeopathic System of Medicine, Nagaland within three months starting from August 2016.

They are to come personally for verification with all required/relevant documents of qualification and practice.

Section 10 Clause (i) of the Nagaland Homoeopathic Medicine Act 1996 (Act No.4 of 1997) states that the registered homoeopaths shall receive licenses to practice homeopathy in the State of Nagaland provided the Class B practitioner qualifies the following: a) Those who are presently practicing homoeopathy in Nagaland. b) Those who were residing in Nagaland during the time of their registration by providing the following original documentsasproofoftheirresidencyintheState–PermanentResidenceCertificateissuedbytherespectivedistrictadministrative authority of the Government of Nagaland; Address proof of their clinic/place of practice by the colony/locality Goanbura or local authority; Trade license from the local authority.

Further, all the practitioners have to bring a Character Certificate duly signed by a First Class Magistrate (in prescribed format). All the candidates will be put through an eligibility/efficiency test before renewal is considered.

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ThursdAY 01•09•2016

NAGALAND

alleges anomalies in SN issues clarification on ILP issue ENCSU selection of MBBS, BDS seats ‘Shocked at penalty for reporting ILP defaulters’

DimApur, AugusT 31 (mexn): Survival Nagaland (SN) today expressed “utter shock” at one of its members being summoned and penalised by a village council for reporting to the administration about the presence of ILP defaulting residents.

In a rejoinder to the Chungtiayimsen Village Council’s statement that appeared in local dailies on August 25 wherein it claimed there were no “illegal immigrants” residing in the village and that one Talisunep Longkumer who reported the matter to district administration, had admitted to furnishing wrong information, SN in a statement to the media alleged that he was made to “sign a self declaration statement (pre-typed in their own words)” that his report was false and baseless on August 23.

This was later sent to local media for publication, it added.

The SN in its statement claimed that on August 22, Talisunep was summoned to Chungtiayimsen Village Council (CVC) on August

22, made to pay a penalty for informing the administration without firstly informing the Council and “made to type message and sent to two SN whatsapp chat groups that the report he made was “reported without valid proof and is now confirmed to be baseless.”

The SN stated that it has no objection to the Village Council practising their customary law under their village jurisdiction as empowered by Article 371(A). It, however, reminded the CVC of the Village Council Act 1978 which has laid down provision for village administration to deal with offenders under section 15 (1) b, wherein it states "such person should be handed over to the nearest Administrative Officer or police station" and Section15 (1)d, "to inform the presence of strangers, vagabonds or suspects to the nearest Administrative Officer or police station".

Instead of appreciating him for dutifully reporting the illegal entry and residing without valid documents as per the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, SN is “dumbstruck and concerned” at the imprudent jurisprudence of the CVC. All this when Village Councils of other North East states are earnestly demanding for the implementation of ILP, it added.

“Influx of illegal immigrants is a national concern and ILP, a state issue,” SN maintained and listed out

the names of what it claimed were 8 ILP defaulters residing in the area.

SN informed that while the District Administration had intervened upon its request to the Deputy Commissioner, the village council summoned Talisunep on August 22, “defying administration directive”.

The SN reiterated the allegation that Talisunep was brutally assaulted on August 19 and was also forced to sign a bond of agreement “under duress” compensating the “owner of Rs 9,20,000/- in case the fled labourers (ILP defaulters) fail to report back to work.”

In this regard, SN informed that it had lodged an FIR with the police against the assault.

Taking a serious note on the issue, SN said that it would not rest until “such time the bond is declared null and void” and the person/s responsible for the unlawful action is held and its culpability accounted.

“The multiple harassments inflicted upon one of our member for no fault of his, is unacceptable and incomprehensible,” SN maintained.

“Laws are made to protect individuals or groups in a society and discipline the wrong doers. In this case, it seems the law enforcing power has been handed to mistaken keepers,” it opined and further appealed to the Deputy Commis-

sioner, Mokokchung to intervene.

SN expressed regret over its earlier claim that the village where the incident occurred falls “in an area of Longtho under Mokokchung district” clarifying that the incident occurred not “in Longtho area but beyond it”. “This was an inadvertent error and Survival Nagaland would like to express our deepest regret and tender apology to Longtho Council. It was not the intention of SN to publicly publish any particular village name,” SN stated.

SN also expressed regret if the incident has caused any inconvenience to the apex Ao Students’ body AKM, which “has been working and preparing on screening the area clean of people residing illegally and without valid documents.”

“We assure better coordination and hope that AKM and SN will be a combined force in future as the nomenclature of Survival Nagaland itself was extracted with inspiration from Survival Mokokchung” it maintained.

Further stating that it is high time Nagas – as individuals and groups, especially the law enforcing agencies and other stakeholders in both urban and rural areas – comprehend the “impending threat that the laxity in implementing ILP beckons”, SN urged that the Naga people “foresee with rightful insight to safeguard our land, our future; for our children.”

Stolen pick-up recovered ANGPTA Beneficiaries of SDRF peren, AugusT 31 vehicle was reported lost Tuensang informed (mexn): Acting on a tip- from Marwaripati in Di- Zunheboto off, Peren Police person- mapur and is wanted in TuensAng, AugusT have been asked to collect nel manning the Mhain- connection to an FIR for a informs 31 (mexn): Deputy Com- the amount from the DC’s amtsi Inter-District Check missing vehicle at the East missioner of Tuensang office on Mondays, TuesGate intercepted one Bolero Pick-up B/R No. NL-07N-5370 and apprehended one person in this connection. According to a press release from the Peren Police, the seized

Police Station in Dimapur.

After completion of all necessary legal formalities, the vehicle along with the accused has been handed over to Dimapur Police for further investigation.

Public prosecutor expresses inability to appeal CJM’s order Morung express news Dimapur | August 21

The ACAUT today approached the public prosecutor for filing a petition against the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dimapur order on August 10, 2016 which issued a directive to release 8 of the 11 oil tankers impounded from a petrol pump in relation to the fuel adulteration.

However, the Public prosecutor told the ACAUT that it was not possible for him to appeal against the CJM’s order. Instead, the public prosecutor told us approach to the High Court, an ACAUT member said.

He also “advised” us to file the petition through the investigation officer, an impossible task, the member added.

On August 30, the police had met utmost public resentment in Chumukedima when they went there to carry out the Court’s directive and release the impounded trucks.

It resulted in a daylong impasse between the police and the public spearheaded by the Chumukedima Town Youth Organisation (CTYO).

Police said it was only carrying out an order to release and hand over to the owners, 8 of the 11 oil tankers, which were found at Nagame Petrol Pump when ACAUT carried out an inspection of suspected adulteration sites on June 27 leading to the exposé.

The public anger had forced the police to withhold executing the magisterial directive.

ZunheboTo, AugusT 31 (mexn): The All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers' Association, Zunheboto Unit has informed all the Primary Teacher's “irrespective of nature of appointment” serving under Zunheboto District that Rs. 200 will be deducted from the August salary towards membership fee for 2016-17.

In this connection, the ANGPTA (Z) has stated that if any Primary Teacher has any problem(s) and do not want to associate or be a member of ANGPTA, he/she may sign undertaking and get the membership fee refunded.

“It should be noted that the undertaking which once signed will forfeit all claims of benefit that are achieved through the ANGPTA, Nagaland,” the ANGPTA (Z) stated in a press release.

The ANGPTA (Z) further requested the SDEO establishments under Zunheboto District to provide the data of Primary Teachers as and when required for preparing the Seniority list.

For any queries, one may contact – 8974242299 / 9863512525 / 9856244780

CondolenCe Messages NSEAOA: The Nagaland School Education Administrative Officers’ Association has expressed deep shock at the demise of former Director of School Education, Senthang Wanth on August 30 at Padumpukhri, Dimapur.

The association described late Senthang as “a simple, straightforward and outspoken” person who served the department in various capacities in different places. “As head of department, we found him fair in file dealing which shows his honesty and integrity,” the message from the NSEAOA read.

The association also mourned the demise of late Aomeren Imsong, Headmaster GHS Tuli, who met with an unfortunate accident in Assam on August 26 while on the way to Tuli.

He died on the spot.

“A dedicated and sincere officer,” Imsong’s passing at his prime is a great loss to the department, the association stated in its message.

The Association conveyed heartfelt condolences to the two bereaved

families and prayed to the Almighty to grant them strength and solace. It also prayed for the departed souls to rest in peace.

ANSTA: The All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA) has expressed deep sadness at the demise of former Director of School Education, Senthang.

Referring to the late Senthang as a humble and simple man, ANSTA in a message stated, “The legacy that late Senthang has left behind shall be cherished and continue to inspire the younger generation of the teaching fraternity.”

ANSTA conveyed its condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

PTSU: The Pungro Town Students’ Union has mourned the sudden demise of its President Y. Solomon Yimchunger.

Terming late Solomon as a person “with a com-

bination of all experiences – sincere and dedicated,” the PTSU stated that it is indeed a great loss to the Union as he was “a true leader and an asset to the society”. “His guidance and contributions will be remembered,” the union stated in a message.

The PTSU extended deepest condolences to the bereaved family and relatives and prayed that the Almighty grant them strength and solace.

AAUD: The Aghunato Areami Union Dimapur (AAUD) deeply mourned the sudden demise of its Vice Chairman, Vinito Chophy who passed away on August 29 at Zion Hospital.

“A dedicated and trusted leader loved by all the people,” late Chophy’s contribution towards the union will always remembered, the AAUD stated in message.

The union extending condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that the Almighty grant strength, courage and solace to bear the loss.

has informed that the district has received the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for the year 2014-16 from NSDMA, Home Department. The list of beneficiaries is made available at the Deputy Commissioner's office, Tuensang.

Therefore, the beneficiaries

days and Saturdays during office hour from September 1 to October 1, 2016.

The DC further informed all the beneficiaries to produce a photocopy of the SDRF application form (Annexure -1) and either their Aadhaar Card or EPIC for identification purpose.

DimApur, AugusT 31 (mexn): The Eastern Nagaland College Students' Union (ENCSU) has alleged that the Department of Higher & Technical has committed anomalies in the selection process of the candidates for MBBS and BDS seats of state quota in the NSEE II 2016.

Highlighting the entry point for NSEE (as per the Medical Council of India) is 40% of marks in PCB (Physic, Chemistry, Biology) at 10+2 for ST/SC/ OBC candidates, the union informed that the H&TE department subsequently issued a notification NO. HTE/RESERV/231/2012(Pt) on May 30, 2016 in partial modification of the earlier notification no HTE/RESERV/23-1/2012 dated March 16, 2016 which stated that the 15% of the total seats per course are reserved to candidates belonging to Backward Tribes of Nagaland. The notification also states that "Not More than one seat per tribe per course will be allotted to any BT in a year out of 15% reserved seats."

However, the ENCSU claimed that the results declared by the Department on July 15 is a “record in the history of any examinations” wherein exactly 50 candidates were selected – 45 seats of MBBS and 5 seats for BDS – “without any waiting list”.

The union further questioned the H&TE Department as to how counselling for 8 BDS seats has been called on September 2 when only 5 candidates have qualified as per the results declared and when no 15% reservation of seats for BTs was maintained at

School Education HoD informs kohimA, AugusT 31 (mexn): Wonthungo Tsopoe, Additional Director (HoD), Directorate of School Education has informed all Elementary and Secondary Section Officers to check their position in Seniority list at DEO and SDEO office and submit claims and objec-

tion if any to Room No. 19, Directorate of School Education on or before September 30. SDEOs & DEOs have been informed to collect the Seniority list from the Directorate starting second week of September 2016. Meanwhile, all officers who are yet to submit APAR from

2010 onwards and B.Ed Pass Certificate have been asked to submit the same immediately before September 15. The HoD further directed all G/T to submit bio-data immediately to respective DEO & SDEO for finalization of G/T Seniority List 2016 before September 15, 2016.

Wokha Police clarifies on NSCN (IM) report WokhA, AugusT 31 (mexn): Reacting to the claims by the NSCN (IM) that two of its cadres were assaulted by an “unruly mob” in Wokha Town on August 12, the Wokha Police has clarified that the cadres were apprehended by the police and not by the public and that “no manhandling or atrocity took place.”

The NSCN (IM) had on Monday alleged that “its officially assigned tax collectors were assaulted while on duty by a group of persons with vested interest.”

A clarification issued today by the PRO Wokha Police stated that on the abovementioned day, i.e., August 12, personnel of the Wokha DEF police were conducting regular MVCP under the command of SDPO Wokha. “While doing so, information was received from sources that some people were extort-

ing money from commercial vehicles plying on the highway at Santsuphen (Lotha - Rengma boundary),” the release stated.

Immediately, a party led by SDPO Wokha rushed to the spot to apprehend the perpetrators. “On seeing the police convoy they tried to flee and after a good chase in the jungles they were apprehended by the police and not by the public as stated in the local dailies,” the Wokha Police stated.

“The public inadvertently had gathered, but by then the two accused were in police custody and all measures were taken for their safety while being brought to Wokha Police Station for further necessary action,” it further stated and added, “No manhandling or atrocity took place as noted in the press release.”

It may be noted that

along with cash of Rs. 9240, the following items were seized from their possession: Three Mobile Handsets, 6 coupons in the name of Dimapur Truck Owners Association, One coupon in the name of JCB Excavator carrying Agency, One Coupon in the name of Dimapur Taxi Owners Association, Two ATM Cards (Central Bank and Axis Bank), and One wallet.

Further, the Wokha Police informed that the two accused persons confessed that they were “extorting/ collecting money” under the direction of one Maj Nrikhon, ZCO and Town Commander of Wokha, who is wanted in another case under the Wokha Police Station. An FIR with documental proof has been lodged and the police are on the look-out for the absconder to ensure justice as per law, the Wokha Police informed.

Rengma organisations: Honour & protect Naga interests and rights

Tseminyu, AugusT 31 (mexn): The Rengma Hoho and its frontal organisations held a consultative meet on Naga political talks with the NSCN (IM) at Tseminyu town on August 30.

According to a press release from the Rengma Hoho, participants comprised GBs, student Leaders, mothers, youths and members from different Village councils.

The team from NSCN (IM) was led by K. Chawang, Convenor CFMC, and

Zarzie Nyuthu, Tatar Hoho Speaker, and included a host of Kilonsers who also addressed the gathering.

The gathering discussed in length the ongoing political issue and the framework agreement, where the gathering felt the necessity of settlement of the Naga political issue will be in the interest of all the Nagas.

Giving its endorsement to continue the talks, the Hoho reminded the negotiating party to 'honour and protect' the Nagas’ interest and rights in the final

settlement.

The gathering appreciated the Government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sincerely taking the Naga issue on top priority and also expressed confidence on the interlocutor RN Ravi and the Naga negotiating team.

The gathering further appealed the negotiating team to take into account all stakeholders and sections of society pointing out that this “will fulfill the desires of the people for inclusiveness in the final settlement”.

BDS category.

“As per the Govt. Notification mention earlier, the Backward Tribes were to get 7 seats at MBBS as per the 15% reservation of total seats. But only 3 candidates (Chang-1, Chakkesang-1, Zeliang- 1) were accommodated at MBBS denying 4 seats which is a complete deprivation,” the union maintained.

The ENCSU further informed that it has subsequently submitted several representations demanding “justice in the seat allocation” in MBBS and BDS as per 15% reservation of the seats.

As a result, there was a meeting on the issue at Chief Secretary's level on July 30 at Conference Hall of Chief Secretary where the Secretary Law and Justice, opined that as per the MCI guidelines in regards to the cut off marks, "the state may explore possibilities with the MCI/GOI for relaxation of marks in the entrance exam for BT Candidates" to fill up the reserved seats.

However, the Department has overlooked the opinion of the Law and Justice Secretary and “also murdered the very guidelines of MCI and its own notification” on 15% reservation of seats, “where no required minimum qualifying mark in the entrance examination is mentioned at all,” the ENCSU stated.

The union also pointed to the Department of H&TE overruling the Govt.

Notification No. RCBT5/87(pt.II) Dated July 23, 2008, and its partial modification issued on September 4, 2015, “which has totally banned the so called

de-reservation system in the state for BTs”.

Moreover, the ENCSU stated, clause 5(5) of Medical Council of India (MCI) regulations on graduate medical education, 1997 Amended up to August 8, 2016, clearly states that "Provided when sufficient number of candidates in the respective categories fail to secure minimum marks as prescribed in National Eligibility-cum- Entrance Test held for an academic year for admission to MBBS course, the Central Government in consultation with Medical Council of India may at its discretion lower the minimum marks required for admission to MBBS course for candidates belonging to respective categories and marks so lowered by the Central Government shall be applicable for the said academy only."

“Therefore, since the Central government has given a liberty to the state government to conduct its own exam in the form of NSEE, the reserved seats should be filled up by the BTs only by lowering the minimum marks required,” the ENCSU insisted.

In this regard, the union on behalf of aggrieved Backward Students of the NSEE II 2016, appealed to all right thinking citizens to support in uplifting and improving educational and social condition of Backward Tribes of the state.

Till justice is given to the backward tribes of the state, the Union will take steps to safeguard our rights, for which the department will be held sole responsible, it warned.

Mex FIle AR ex-servicemen rally today kohimA, AugusT 31 (mexn): The Assam Rifles ex-servicemen rally will take place on September 1 from 8:30 am onwards at HQ IGAR ground, Kohima.

The event will be attended by ex-servicemen Veer Naris, war widows from Kohima, Wokha, Phek and Kiphire districts and all ranks of Assam Rifles fraternity. The event is being organized to honour the sacrifice and patriotism of ex-servicemen and extend gratitude to the veterans. The rally will be marked

by CGHS lecturer, open session, stalls, motivational song for veterans etc.

LIC 60th anniv today kohimA, AugusT 31 (mexn): The Life Insurance Corporation of India will be commemorating its 60th anniversary on September 1 at 11 am at LIC Kohima Branch office. MLA and former minister Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu will be the chief guest.

IGNOU extends last date for admission kohimA, AugusT 31 (mexn): The last date for submission of filled in admission forms for different programmes (except BCA, MCA, PGDWGS, MAWGS, PGDIS and DBPOFA) offered under Common Prospectus (Masters, Bachelors & Diploma programmes) at IGNOU for July 2016 Session has been extended up to September 15 with a late fee of Rs.300. The Student Handbook & Prospectus can be obtained from IGNOU Study Centres in Kohima, Dimapur, Mon, Tuensang, Mokokchung, Zunheboto, Longleng, Kiphire, Jalukie, Phek and Wokha or from IGNOU Regional Centre, Kohima. Interested candidates may send their filled in application forms to IGNOU Regional Centre, Kohima.

Meetings & AppointMents

Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Harm Reduction Kripa Foundation under its Project Sunrise will conduct a sensitization workshop on HIV/AIDS and Harm Reduction with the law enforcement agency of Zunheboto district on September 2, 9:30 am at the conference hall of SP office, Zunheboto. The program will be graced by Tridibesh Roy, Deputy Commissioner and Krodi Rhetso, Superintendent of Police, Zunheboto as Special Guests. Jointly organised by Kripa Foundation, FHI 360, District Police, Administration and NSACS, the workshop will mostly emphasize on drug use, HIV/AIDS scenario, and Harm Reduction programs in the state.

NFHRCC meeting Nagaland Foothill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) will have a meeting on September 2, 5:00 pm at its treasurer’s residence. A press release from NFHRCC Convenor, Supu Jamir has informed all the members to attend the meeting without fail.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 240

By Aheli moitra

An analogy, across the world

T

he United States of America has a proud history.

Emancipation and democracy are buzz words that have become closely knit to popularly held ideas of America.

Yet, many are aware that North America is a story tied to colonisation—of white migration to the lands of Native Americans, plundering and stealing that land, bringing slaves to the continent to build a robust capitalism and finally bullying migrants of any other colour from entering and benefitting from that system.

A small state in the continent’s north east, the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, still retains colonial colour in its name, with only parts of the State attributed to its ancestor, the Narragansett. The motto of the State is ‘Hope,’ with its symbol being a ship’s anchor. It is no co-incidence that up until the 18th century, shipping of black slaves by white merchants was a favoured mode of capital exchange and control—a ship called ‘Hope’ remained a violator of emancipation laws well after they were enacted.

The indigenous people of the space now called Rhode Island were treacherously pitted against each other till most of them became too weakened to protect their lands. In the modern democratic State, the native Narragansett people gained recognition as a “tribe” only in 1983 after a strenuous battle with the white run government.

The University of Rhode Island has a football ground at its centre that is said to be atop a Narragansett Indian burial ground—a University legend pits this unregistered guilt as the reason behind the University’s football team never quite reaching the mark despite its good players, training facilities or prayer. The land, on which the University stands today, narrated a white person from Rhode Island, was “owned” by a white family that grew potatoes on it. When potatoes began to give unreasonable capital returns, they were replaced by grass—acres of it was grown to be exported for capital till finally sold to provide for education. Few Americans of indigenous origin study at this University.

Struck by poverty, and made completely dependent on the State, Native Americans have little choice but to either take the unfair opportunities created for a few of them by the white government or just remain in their underdeveloped reservations run to the best of their capacity by Tribal Councils.

Farther across the world, another indigenous people have fared far better, particularly due to a strategy that came to be called Naga nationalism. Very early into their battle against colonisers, the Naga people came together to articulate, and fight for, their dignity as a free people. Today, however, this sense is being increasingly replaced by an airtight notion of State driven identity brought about in 1960—an ever expanding political umbrella for the (physically, socially, politically, culturally) marginalised has been reduced to “us” and “them” questions.

These cases stand to be compared not because the indigenous people of the lands may have been similar but the processes of colonisation are.

Today, violent repression has been replaced by the seemingly docile Aadhar card; wet terrace rice cultivation has been replaced by rubber. Any scheme pushed by the centre is gobbled up for monetary returns—formal education has been marching down the same path, as is informal education through television, internet or radio.

300 years ago, perhaps the Native American did not find any harm in collaborative raids with the much stronger white militia. In-fighting, disharmony or land exchanged for other capital may have been seen to be a natural process of coexisting with the new coloniser. Alas, this has not paid off for the indigenous American community in the long run. Farther across the world, will the Nagas continue to fare better in the upcoming future?

To discuss, please write to moitramail@yahoo.com

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'Brainjacking' could become a reality, warn researchers

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ulnerability of brain implants to cyber-security attacks could make "brainjacking", which has been discussed in science fiction for decades, a reality, say researchers from the University of Oxford.

Writing in The Conversation, an Australia-based non-profit media, Laurie Pycroft discussed brain implants as a new frontier of security threat.

The most common type of brain implant is the deep brain stimulation (DBS) system.

It consists of implanted electrodes positioned deep inside the brain connected to wires running under the skin, which carry signals from an implanted stimulator.

The stimulator consists of a battery, a small processor, and a wireless communication antenna that allows doctors to programme it. In essence, it functions much like a cardiac pacemaker, with the main distinction being that it directly interfaces with the brain, Pycroft explained.

DBS is widely used to treat Parkinson's disease, often with dramatic results, but it is also used to treat dystonia (muscle spasms), essential tremor and severe chronic pain.

Targeting different brain regions with different stimulation parameters gives neurosurgeons increasingly precise control over the human brain, allowing them to alleviate distressing symptoms.

However, this precise control of the brain, coupled with the wireless control of stimulators, also opens an opportunity for malicious attackers.

"In light of recent developments in information security, there is reason to be concerned that medical implants are vulnerable to attack," Pycroft and his colleagues wrote in a recent paper published in the journal World Neurosurgery.

Examples of possible attacks include altering stimulation settings so that patients with chronic pain are caused even greater pain than they would experience without stimulation.

Or a Parkinson's patient could have their ability to move inhibited.

A sophisticated attacker could potentially even induce behavioural changes such as hypersexuality or pathological gambling, or even exert a limited form of control over the patient's behaviour by stimulating parts of the brain involved with reward learning in order to reinforce certain actions.

Although these hacks would be difficult to achieve as they would require a high level of technological competence and the ability to monitor the victim, a sufficiently determined attacker could manage it, Pycroft said.

"Researchers, clinicians, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies should cooperate to minimize the risk posed by brainjacking," the researchers wrote in the journal.

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Daniela Pastrana Inter Press Service

Mexico, a Democracy Where People Disappear at the Hands of the State

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o and tell my dad that they’re holding me here,” Maximiliano Gordillo Martínez told his travelling companion on May 7 at the migration station in Chablé, in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. It was the last time he was ever seen, and his parents have had no news of him since.

Gordillo, 19, and his friend had left their village in the southern state of Chiapas to look for work in the tourist city of Playa del Carmen, in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo. It was a 1,000-km journey by road from their indigenous community in the secondpoorest state in the country.

But halfway there, they were stopped by National Migration Institute agents, who detained Maximiliano because they thought he was Guatemalan, even though the young man, who belongs to the Tzeltal indigenous people, handed them his identification which showed he is a Mexican citizen.

When his friend tried to intervene, he was threatened by the agents, who said they would accuse him of being a trafficker of migrants. The young man, whose name was not made public, was terrified and fled. When he reached his village he told Arturo Gordillo, Maximiliano’s father, what had happened.

It’s been over three months and the parents of Max, as his family calls him, have not stopped looking for him. On Monday, Aug. 22 they came to Mexico City, with the support of human rights organisations, to report the forced disappearance of the eldest of their five children.

He had never before been so far from Tzinil, a Tzeltal community in the municipality of Socoltenango where four out of 10 local inhabitants live in extreme poverty while the other six are merely poor, according to official figures.

“The disappearance of my son has been very hard for us,” Arturo Gordillo, the father, told IPS in halting English. “I have to report it because it’s too painful and I don’t want it to happen to another parent, to be humiliated and hurt this way by the government.”

“The Institute ignores people, their heart is hard,” he said, referring to Mexico’s migration authorities. At his side, his wife Antonia Martínez wept.

The case of Maximiliano Gordillo is just one of 150 people from Chiapas who have gone missing along routes used by migrants in Mexico, the spokesman for the organisation Mesoamerican Voices, Enrique Vidal, told IPS. They are added to thousands of Central American migrants who have vanished in Mexico in the past decade.

According to organisations working on behalf of migrants, many of the victims were handed over by the police and other government agents to criminal groups to be extorted or used as slave labour.

The only official data available giving a glimpse of the extent of the problem is a report by the National Human Rights Commission, which documented 21,000 kidnappings of migrants in 2011 alone.

But the problem does not only affect migrants. In Mexico, forced disappear-

ances are “widespread and systematic,” according to the report Undeniable Atrocities: Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico, released by the international Open Society Justice Initiative and five independent Mexican human rights organisations.

The study documents serious human rights violations committed in Mexico from 2006 to 2015 and says they must be considered crimes against humanity, due to their systematic and widespread nature against the civilian population.

The disappearances are perpetrated by military, federal and state authorities – a practice that is hard to understand in a democracy, local and international human rights activists say.

“One single forced or politically motivated disappearance in any country should throw into doubt whether a state of law effectively exists. It’s impossible to talk about democracy if there are victims of forced disappearance,” said Héctor Cerezo of the Cerezo Committee.

The Cerezo Committee is the leading Mexican organisation in the documentation of politically motivated or other forced disappearances.

On Wednesday, Aug. 24 it presented its report “Defending human rights in Mexico: the normalisation of political repression”, which documents 11 cases of forced disappearance of human rights defenders between June 2015 and May 2016.

“Expanding the use of forced disappearance also serves as a mechanism of social control and modification of migration routes, a mechanism of forced recruitment of young people and women, and a mechanism of forced displacement used in specific regions against the entire population,”

the report says.

Cerezo told IPS that in Mexico, forced disappearance “evolved from a mechanism of political repression to a state policy aimed at generating terror.”

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged Mexico in March to acknowledge the gravity of the human rights crisis it is facing.

The report presented by the IACHR after its visit to Mexico in 2015 denounced “alarming” numbers of involuntary and enforced disappearances, with involvement by state agents, as well as high rates of extrajudicial executions, torture, citizen insecurity, lack of access to justice, and impunity.

The Mexican government has repeatedly rejected criticism by international organisations. But its denial of the magnitude of the problem has had few repercussions.

The activists who spoke to IPS stressed that on Aug. 30, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the international community has an opportunity to draw attention to the crisis in Mexico and to hold the government accountable for systematically disappearing members of certain groups of civilians, as documented by human rights groups.

But not everything is bad news with respect to the phenomenon of forced disappearance, which runs counter to democracy in this Latin American country of 122 million people which is free of internal armed conflict.

This year, relatives of the disappeared won two important legal battles. One of them is a mandate for the army to open up its installations for the search for two members of the Revolutionary Popular Army who went missing in the southern state of Oaxaca, although the sentence has not been

enforced.

Meanwhile, no progress has been made towards passing a draft law on forced disappearance under debate in Congress.

“The last draft does not live up to international standards on forced disappearance nor to the needs of the victims’ families, who do not have the resources to effectively take legal action with regard to the disappearance of their loved ones. There is no real access to justice or reparations, and there are no guarantees of it not being repeated,” said Cerezo.

In the most recent case made public, that of Maximiliano Gordillo, the federal government special prosecutor’s office for the search for disappeared persons has refused to ask its office in Tabasco to investigate.

For its part, the National Human Rights Commission issued precautionary measures, but has avoided releasing a more compelling recommendation.

The National Migration Institute, for its part, denies that it detained the young man, but refuses to hand over the list of agents, video footage and registries of entries and exists from the migration station where he was last seen.

Aug. 22 was Gordillo’s 19th birthday. “We feel so sad he’s not with us.

We had a very sad birthday, a birthday filled with pain,” said his father, before announcing that starting on Thursday, Aug. 25 signs would be put up in more than 60 municipalities of Chiapas, to help in the search for him.

As the days go by without any progress in the investigations, Gordillo goes from organisation to organisation, with one request: “If you, sisters and brothers, can talk to the government, ask them to give back our son, because they have him, they took him.”

Names have meanings: how Kolkata built Calcutta

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Garga Chatterjee

ecently, the judges of the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata rejected the Union cabinet decision to the change the name of the first high court in South Asia to Kolkata High Court. The Union cabinet had decided to change the names of Bombay and Madras High Court too, to Mumbai and Chennai High Courts. The Union cabinet decision was made on 5th July. Thereafter, on 11th July, judges of the “Calcutta” High Court unanimously opposed the name change idea. Nevertheless, the Union government went ahead and moved the bill in the Lok Sabha – the High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill.

For Kolkata, it proposed that the 'High Court of Judicature at Calcutta' is renamed to 'High Court of Judicature at Kolkata'. Symbolism aside, names have meanings. So do name changes and the names to which they are changed.

As far as names of such entities go, the naming and more crucially, renaming, represents some kind of a project. Calcutta was a colonial project, a project whose extended beneficiaries also include me and my ancestors. The processes due to which this bit of land became “Calcutta” helped us and we helped ourselves through

the opportunities it provided. Unfortunately, Calcutta also, was designed a thoroughly exclusionary project for the vast masses of Bengal. The greatest city on this great delta spanning the Bengals, was built by those who have always called this megalopolis as Kolkata but they largely built it for the benefit of those who called it Calcutta. And then there were the janus-faced Anglo-Bengali elites (like my family) who called it Kolkata, when with their own folk, and called it Calcutta when among Anglicized. That is something that is not as odd as it seems. As Ashis Nandy often states, all cosmopolitan geographies have multiple names. Calcutta, Kolkata and Kalkatta might be geographically similar, but they reflect differently poised parts of the city and, indeed, different cities within the city. Indeed, they represent different takes on the city – not necessarily in contest, but not necessarily frictionless either. And this brings us to the crucial issue when discussing name changes for anything – whose is it, who is it for? Kolkata decided that it is a city by sheer sense of numbers (for in a democracy, numbers should matter), Kolkata much, much better represented the urban

imaginary of a far greater number of its own people of the city than Calcutta ever did or even wanted to.

Who was the Calcutta High Court for when it was created? It was by the elites, for the elites, of the elites and their interests. The situation is only marginally better now. And if it is a good idea to aspire to a society where the situation has to get better than it is, more representative than they are now, its best that names of institutions and their ways of functioning also reflect that.

Self-serving elite groups tend to have interests which are, well, selfserving. Thus, defending its decision about rejecting the name change of Calcutta High Court to Kolkata High Court, one RK Khanna, president of the Incorporated Law Society of Calcutta (ILSC) said, “This (Calcutta) is the first high court in India, there is a sentiment attached. Also, worldwide, in shipping, banking and other commercial businesses, it is only known as Calcutta High Court. Changing it would mean changing to Kolkata worldwide.” Yes, there is sentiment. But whose sentiment is this? Is this the sentiment of Calcutta or the sentiment of Kolkata?

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Which is more widely shared? Why is it that brown once-colonized people can’t name themselves and have to continue to be presented “worldwide” in the same package in which Whites packed them during their colonial rule? This “sentiment” always opposes proposals that deliberations in the High Court at Kolkata be done in Bangla, the language of the vast majority of the people falling under that High Court's jurisdiction. Or for that matter how Tamil is not allowed in the High Court at Chennai. And how, Hindi is allowed in the Allahabad High Court because Hindi and English are the language of the first class citizens of the Indian Union while others are second class who don’t deserve first class treatment or full rights or full participation in their legal affairs.

Unfortunately, Calcutta-not-Kolkata cliques still control much of Calcutta's economy and through sympathetic expatriate alliances of the rootless, have a disproportionately loud voice.

The basis of that lies in the marginalisation of the rooted majority. Celebrating Calcutta over Kolkata is celebrating distributive injustice. When the commonly used name isn’t the ‘internationally’ used name, it tells us more about elite-minority clout than anything else.

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Listening to the “voices” in August 1991, or the media we need today Mikhail Kaluzhsky

The events of August 1991 weren’t just an unexpected win for democracy. They were a reminder of the role of mass media for people who suddenly lost access to information

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he friends who spent the night at my apartment on 18 August, 1991 woke up in dribs and drabs the next day — lazily beating back the collective hangover with coffee. We were in our early 20s, most of us were about to graduate from Novosibirsk state university, and the world was changing all around us. Life was exciting in a way it hadn’t been before. We read a lot and talked nonstop.

Someone turned on the wireless — a fairly useless device used for short news reports and finding out the time. My wife, the only one of us even listening to the plastic box’s incoherent mumbling, suddenly said: “It seems Gorbachev’s been murdered.” We cranked up the volume.

The announcer — who spoke in tones that had disappeared from the airwaves a few years ago — was halfway through a statement on Mikhail Gorbachev’s ill health and the creation of a State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR. The TV said exactly the same thing.

We started to look for the radio — a proper one, not connected to any wires in the wall — which was in a closet somewhere. We hadn’t used it for some time.

We no longer needed foreign radio stations: Soviet mass media now broadcast real news reports.

By the end of the 1980s, Soviet TV and newspapers had become so interesting that radio was, in effect, marginalised. In 1989, I remember a music video for a song “Radio” in which the musicians broke apart old radios and sang energetic nonsense you could dance to. There was nothing ideological about it. It was absurd and fun.

Hearing “voices” on the radio I don’t remember, when the silver-andblack VEF radio appeared in our home — it’s as if it was always there. I later found out that the radio model was the same age as me: the VEF-12, made by Riga’s Valsts Elektrotehniskā Fabrika, was first produced in 1967.

This radio was great for shortwave frequencies — the same frequencies that western radio stations used to reach the USSR. Soviet mass media did not provide enough information about world affairs.

My grandfather subscribed to two newspapers, Pravda and Izvestiya, and they seemed identical. Later, when the fateful word “perestroika” was announced, but nothing had yet changed, the rock band Televizor (literally: Television) sang: “The evening won’t bring anything / The programme remains the same.”

During the Brezhnev era, when I was a schoolboy in Novosibirsk, I began to get a sense of reality not just from conversations between adults, but also Literaturnaya gazeta (which didn’t just write about literature), the foreign press digest Za rubezhom, and the Mezhdunarodnaya panorama programme. In any case, Soviet newspapers and shows were only good for learning to read between the lines.

This is why starting at age 12 I began to listen to the “voices” — the Soviet slang term for foreign broadcasters such as the BBC, Voice of America and Radio Liberty.

They had jazz, as well as news you actually wanted to listen to — incredible news of Soviet losses in Afghanistan, arrests of dissidents, martial law in Poland, the Falklands war, terrorism.

On a July night in 1980, Voice of America announced that the popular singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, who had a difficult relationship with the authorities, was dead. The next day, my friends wouldn’t

believe me, Soviet radio and TV hadn’t said a word.

This isn’t to say my parents encouraged my desire to take the radio to my room for the night, but the habit of listening to banned stations was a kind of unspoken norm in our house — as well as criticism of Soviet power.

Of course, there were things we didn’t say out loud. But I understood the code phrases. When grandma said: “So and so has got a trip over the ocean coming up,” I understood that “so and so” was not going on a business trip to Cuba, but emigrating to the United States. I wasn’t surprised: our eighth floor neighbours, who spent years asking for permission to travel to see relatives in West Germany, asked for political asylum as soon as they were allowed to leave. Their apartment, which had a grand piano and all the other attributes of Soviet prosperity, was simply left abandoned.

I was lucky with school, which was, for the early 1980s, very liberal. I wasn’t afraid to discuss what I heard from the “voices” with some of my classmates. For us, finding a new radio station to listen to was a competition. Everything depended on how dedicated you were and how good your radio was. You could listen to Chinese station on our enormous valve radio at the dacha — they praised their leaders even more fervently than ours praised Brezhnev, and they played unusual music.

Others were even able to listen to Canadian radio.

A friend of mine insisted that he heard Russian-language programmes on “Philippines Christian Radio”, but I’m still certain that he either made this up or made a mistake (maybe it was Radio Vatican instead). My Minsk-based grandmother told me while I stayed with her that she was able to listen to Voice of Israel. In the European part of Soviet Russia, the various voices could be heard much better. I could never get a hold of Radio Liberty or Deutsche Welle in Novosibirsk, and only occasionally could I listen to the BBC. Bits of news were exchanged the way samizdat publications were exchanged.

The fact that this could be dangerous went unnoticed by us teenagers.

The ease with which I discussed news I heard in the night changed my life radically. After graduating from high school, I went to medical school, and continued to share news that I picked up via Voice of America. It was 1984, and many of my classmates were eager to discuss what I heard. One of them turned out to be an informer, and my medical career was suddenly over. I was thrown out of the Komsomol (the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) and med school for “violating the social norms of socialist life by sharing bourgeois enemy propaganda.”

My attachment to my VEF-12 radio didn’t lessen after. But I didn’t know that in four years, censorship in the USSR would practically disappear and western radio stations would no longer be jammed. In Novosibirsk, the old jamming base, otherwise known as “Station Three,” was turned into a facility for the city’s first local inde-

pendent TV company in August 1991.

Radio’s return On the first morning of the coup, the VEF-12 worked superbly. The antenna was falling apart, but somebody was smart enough to stick a metal wire into the jack, and tie the other end of the wire to the radiator. The sound quality was even better than it was a decade before.

Within an hour, we learned from Voice of America, the BBC and Radio Liberty that Gorbachev was trapped in his dacha in Crimea, that tanks were headed to Moscow, and that Muscovites were gathering next to the monument to Yury Dolgoruky and the Supreme Soviet, better known as the White House.

We wanted to know what was happening in Novosibirsk. The radio was helpful here too — via local frequencies and Microforum, the region’s most popular radio programme. Microforum was a classic product of glasnost. Some young journalists founded it in March 1987 and it went on to share the waves with various meaningless news programmes about how much milk local cows were producing.

On 19 August, the second day, Microforum announced that a group of deputies from the city council would rally against the State Committee on the State of Emergency, the coup organisers, on the evening of 20 August in front of Novosibirsk’s biggest library.

The situation with Novosibirsk’s local media was unclear, and this lack of clarity was the natural extension of the country’s political chaos.

Panorama, the main local news programme, which didn’t strike us as the sort of programme that would be sympathetic to the democrats, did not air that evening.

By contrast, the Evening Novosibirsk newspaper, considered to be “democratic”, suddenly published the statement of the State Committee on the State of Emergency.

The Novosibirsk city council said it supported Yeltsin, refused to obey the putschists and flew the Russian tricolour flag over city hall. The regional council asked everyone to stay calm and said that the harvest was what was really important now. The newspaper of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences came out with a big white space on its front page, and we could only guess what kind of article the journalists could not or would not publish there.

Two newspapers, the Komsomol’s Youth of Siberia and the independent Siberian newspaper decided to come out with special joint publications to inform people on what was happening, but the printing house, which belonged to regional and party leadership, refused to print them. Youth of Siberia and Siberian newspaper had to go back to samizdat traditions. On 20-21 August, they published two semi-legal special editions, which were printed at some research institute.

Red prospect, Novosibirsk’s first tabloid, which had several journalists with dissident pasts, was the most radical. Every hour, it published flyers with constantly updated information as it came in via local and national sources.

Drop the stone… ... because, to embarrass the rest of us into caring, Kashmiris must use fresh methods, free of radical Islam, free of violence

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he following statements in relation to Kashmir are bound to vex one side or another. But I believe they are undeniable.

One, India does not rule in Kashmir with the consent of the governed or by Kashmir’s demonstrated choice. Two, the killing and blinding of Kashmiri demonstrators has hurt India’s image worldwide. Three, the Indian people are not likely, in the foreseeable future, to allow the secession of Kashmir. Even if a government in New Delhi were to be open to the idea, the Indian public can be expected to tie the government’s hands.

Four, Kashmir Valley is the heart of the matter. The majority of the people of Jammu and of Ladakh are not alienated from India. Five, nowhere in the real world is self-determination absolute. Even large countries cannot do all that they wish. A Kashmir independent in name may be imagined but not a Kashmir factually independent. In practice, Kashmir cannot successfully defy India and Pakistan.

Six, while Pakistan claims Kashmir because of its Muslim majority, its Muslim majority has also been a reason for India’s attachment to Kashmir. When, in the late 1940s, Kashmiris led by Sheikh Abdullah opposed the attack from Pakistan and seemed eager to join India, they were welcomed as opponents of the two-nation theory.

This statement carries an exception. Sections in India would want to hold on to Kashmir’s land but have no feel-

but is eager to exploit it. This is something that all Kashmiris, especially those concerned with human rights, should recognise and prepare themselves for.

Eight, any sincerely meant agreement on Kashmir that India and Pakistan can reach will probably be accepted by Kashmir. Given Pakistan’s political realities, however, such an agreement is not at present visible on the horizon. Nine, the most that can currently be hoped for is an agreement between New Delhi and a Kashmiri political coalition to bring genuine and substantial selfgovernment to Kashmir. Forces in Pakistan and elements in Kashmir and in India will do their utmost to prevent such an agreement and, thereafter, to undermine it, but such forces and elements can be overcome.

Which is less likely, a will in New Delhi to reach such an agreement, or a will for it in Kashmir? This is a toss-up.

If India is serious about its prestige in the world, about being a major global player, and about getting a permanent Security Council seat, then it will have to summon the will to find an agreement with genuine representatives of the people of Kashmir. If Kashmiris are serious about wanting a decent future for their children, they will have to think of fresh methods, free of radical Islam and free of violence, for protesting excesses and demanding azadi. And they will need to forge a united leadership.

Once non-violent weapons make the headlines from Kashmir, and a united team speaks on behalf of the Kashmiri people, public opinion in India can compel New Delhi to offer handsome terms to Kashmir.

Instead of running away from realities, we must face them, whether we see ourselves as Indians or only as Kashmiris. Over Tibet, for instance, we know that it is not just the Beijing government or the Chinese Communist Party that denies autonomy to the people of Tibet. The

Soldiers and news from Moscow On 19 August, nothing special was happening in Novosibirsk, but people began to gather in the city centre, on Lenin square. When a bunch of us came to rally against the putsch the next day, we saw soldiers from the internal troops stationed at street crossings.

Many bystanders came up to the soldiers to ask what’s going on. The soldier we spoke to was shy, and said that he was there to regulate military traffic, that military hardware was on its way, that he didn’t know anything. We had a small radio that we let him listen to. He was grateful, but said he would obey his orders.

The military hardware did arrive, as did trucks full of soldiers, but they didn’t go to the centre, they went north. Some young people went to picket the headquarters of the Siberian military district.

We went too, and saw a lot of people gathering. There news from Moscow and other towns were read aloud in between calls of protest against the coup. There was still little information.

We spent the last day of the coup, 21 August, sitting around the radio and on the phone with friends. What should we do if the putsch is successful? Will there be martial law? Censorship again? We’d have to emigrate then, for sure. Maybe it won’t be as bad as before perestroika? Toward the evening it became obvious that the putsch had failed and troops were withdrawing from Moscow.

On the morning of 22 August, the TV showed Gorbachev returning to Moscow, while my great uncle in Leningrad, whom I called to say happy birthday, screamed: “What birthday, what are you talking about?! Just look at what’s happening!” He also spent a lot of time out of the loop, but didn’t have the habit of listening to various “voices.”

It was overcast in Novosibirsk that day.

Lenin square was blocked off for traffic — thousands turned out to support the government, which had withstood the putsch.

A similar “rally of the winners” in Moscow was shown on Soviet Channel One. We returned to normal life. Cigarettes were still scarce, there were lines in front of the beer kiosks. In a week’s time, I would start my final year at university.

We decided to keep the VEF forever.

We also kept the radio wires, just in case.

Life after news The last time we had to turn on the VEF-12 was during Russia’s constitutional crisis in October 1993. But this was done mostly out of curiosity, not necessity.

By autumn of 1993, a new information age was upon us. The story of the internet and mobile would soon begin.

Gathering around the VEF-12 in August 1991 could have been just a sentimental memory of youth long passed, of a story that was over. But the experience of trying to get information is more relevant now than we could have imagined back in 1991, when the coup failed and journalism seemed to have arrived.

Analogies are often misleading. Today’s authoritarian Russia is far more open than Brezhnev’s USSR. You can get around internet censorship easily. Information is relayed by many media outlets and bloggers.

The residents of the former USSR are better at foreign languages, while finding out news of the world in Russian is easily done via the constantly updating InoSMI site. Nowadays, Russian-speaking media outlets exist all over the place.

For Russian news consumers today, there is a lot of news out there. But there is little in the way of good opinion. And when I think about the reader that I work for, I think of a person from a town like Novosibirsk, who needs those same “alternative sources of information”.

Today, “alternative sources of interpretation” would be more accurate. We need them now more than ever.

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leaders in New Delhi who are against Kashmiri independence. The people of India seem to have set their face against it. Moreover, while opposition to Indian rule in Kashmir is palpable and persistent, Kashmiris do not appear to be in any position to remove that rule.

The history of violent rebellion against overwhelming might is not encouraging. It usually fails, it invites greater repression, and rebels and their families end up as the worst sufferers. This is what happened in India in 1857. It is what happened throughout Africa in the 20th century.

In all cases, the power of the dominant state was strengthened and consolidated by unwise rebellion. Contemporary Palestine offers confirmation of this history. So does Kashmir over the last several decades.

What is the way out for spirited Kashmiris (or Tibetans and Palestinians)? Do not infuriate the Indian people (or the Chinese people, or the Israelis). Shame and embarrass them, instead.

Influence world opinion, as well as Indian (or Chinese or Israeli) opinion, by adopting unexpected and non-violent methods of showing rejection of uninvited rule. And thereby save precious Kashmiri, Tibetan and Palestinian lives, and restore a semblance of normal life for old, sick, and very young Kashmiris (and Tibetans and Palestinians).

To eschew violence is no betrayal of your dream. No rejection is stronger than the one harboured behind a calm face. No arms are stronger than those — empty of gun, grenade or stone — that swing freely, with faith in the ultimate triumph of a pure goal. Is there a will for such a resistance in Kashmir?

And Indians with a conscience must ask themselves if they will be proud, come 2047, of virtually a century of coercive rule over Kashmir.

The writer, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is research

John D. Rockefeller: Dominating the Market to Create Wealth

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ominating a market is a highly effective strategy for accumulating wealth.

It has produced multi-billionaires like John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil Company and Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, among many others.

Strictly speaking, market dominance is not the same as market monopoly. Monopolists limit production and raise prices above the level most customers can afford to pay---that is, they often use predatory means and extract artificially high prices from their customers. On the other hand, dominating a particular market does not confer unlimited economic power, given the interdependence of producers, suppliers, and customers. Market dominance is measured by the strength of a brand, a product, or a service a firm can control in a given geographical area, relative to competitive offerings. The most common strategy to gain market dominance is through market leadership. As a strategy, it generally focuses on: (1) expanding the market by finding new users or new uses of the product, and (2) protecting market share by developing new product ideas, improving customer service, or improving distribution effectiveness.

Market leaders enjoy many advantages that non-leaders can only dream of. These advantages are: lower product costs due to ‘economies of scale’ (benefits of size), more public awareness of the product due to the company’s leadership status, and better prices due to less competition. These are just a few of the advantages to prove why winning market leadership must be a company’s goal.

Even when market dominance is achievable, it is also important to remember that competition and innovations from other firms can suddenly appear and chip away the market share of a dominant company. The highprice approach may produce high profits for a dominant producer for a short time, but it can also attract new companies to get into the market to compete. As such, the new entrants will, sooner or later, cut their prices in an attempt to gain market share. For such a likely possibility, it is best that a company sells its products at a reasonable price from the get-go. That way new entrants will not be able to match your production costs, because you enjoy a huge advantage through economies of scale. In other words, by producing a larger number of units, you can achieve a lower cost per unit and gain a higher profit per unit.

As long as a business company can find a way to assert market dominance, it can make a lot of money. Let’s look at this point more closely from the example of John D. Rockefeller who came to control most of the petroleum refining industries in the United States in the last half of the 1800s. It did not take him long to recognize the benefits of size and exploit the power of market share. His company, Standard Oil, gradually gained almost complete control of oil refining and marketing in the United States through horizontal integration. That is, he lured in many new players, replaced competition with coordination, and forged alliances with other similar companies in the industry.

Among his tactics was granting his potential rival companies a peek at how he conducted business. Once they realized his operations were so efficient that he could sell below their costs and still make profits, they lost their inhibitions about joining him.

In the kerosene industry, Rockefeller replaced the old distribution system, which was plagued with too many layers. He supplied kerosene by trains that brought the fuel to local markets and then delivered it to retail customers by tank trucks, thus bypassing the existing networks of middlemen. In addition to improving the quality and availability of kerosene products, he was also able to greatly reduce the cost to the public as the price of kerosene dropped by nearly 80% over the life of the company. But because of his strategy of market dominance, he was really the one who gained the most.

As for building a business organization, Rockefeller consistently sought alliances that benefited both parties. Unlike those who would always look for bargained prices, he would often acquire assets at prices reasonable to sellers. On the other hand, sometimes he was known to have played to win at any cost. For example, he once wanted to increase the seclusion of his Pocantico Hills estate in New York by acquiring a small adjacent property. So, Rockefeller made a generous offer to the owner of that property. But having been turned down, Rockefeller instructed one of his workers to enclose the neighbor’s property by planting gigantic cedar trees. Seeing he would be condemned to perpetual darkness, the owner finally yielded.

But lest anyone thinks of Rockefeller as merely a cut-throat, self-centered businessman, we must also point out some of his contributions to society: he gave away vast sums to charity. His generosity was responsible for the establishment of the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, Spelman College, the Peking Medical College, the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as the development of a yellow fever vaccine and the eradication of hookworm disease. He also helped to propel no fewer than five other men onto the list of the wealthiest Americans of all time. No wonder, Rockefeller is well-known for having said: “I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow men according to

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2.4 mn more nurses required: FICCI new delhI, AUgUst 31 (IAns): India needs 2.4 million more nurses to fulfill the burgeoning demand in the nursing sector, says a report published on Wednesday

by FICCI-EY (Ernst & Young) during the former's annual health conference FICCI HEAL 2016. According to the report, 'Nursing reforms: Paradigm shift for a bright future', the demand for more nurses owes to better medical facilities, increased life expectancy, bigger geriatric (elderly) population as well as rising medical tourism among others. India ranks 75th among 133 developing countries regarding the number of nurses, with only 0.7 doctors and 1.7 nurses available per 1,000 people. Despite being a leading supplier of nurses to the rest of the world, its own healthcare industry is suffering from a wide gap. The report also mentioned that the country's public health expenditure remains bleak at 1.4 percent of GDP, which is lower than many low income countries. Of the 30 recommendations the report ends with, revision of the Indian Nursing Act, 1947, to make it more in tune with contemporary healthcare; and an even distribution of nursing training programmes, are two major recommendations which seeks to address the skewed demand supply ratio.

Maharashtra scraps 'regular parole' for convicts of serious crimes MUMBAI, AUgUst 31 (IAns): The Maharashtra government has amended prison rules to henceforth bar convicts of serious crimes like dacoity, rape, murders and other major offences from getting regular parole, an official said on Wednesday. Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) B.K. Upadhyay said a notification to the effect has been issued on the amendments to the Maharashtra Prisons Rule, 1959. As per the amended rules, a convict with an appeal pending in a higher court or in any other cases filed either by the Centre or the state are pending for which he/she has not been granted bail by a court would not be eligible for furlough. Similarly, a convict of unsound mind according to a medical report shall also be denied furlough leave - which is the right of every convict.

CCI slaps over Rs 6,700 crore fine on 11 cement companies new delhI, AUgUst 31 (PtI): Competition Commission today imposed more than Rs 6,700 crore penalty on 11 cement companies, including ACC and Binani, for cartelisation. Apart from penalising the Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA), the fair trade regulator has directed all the entities to "cease and desist" from indulging in any activity relating to agreement, understanding or arrangement on prices, production and supply of cement in the market. In a release, Competition Commission of India (CCI) said Rs 6,715-crore penalty has been imposed on 11 cement companies and the CMA. The latest order has been passed by the watchdog following directions issued by the Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat), which had remanded the matter involving the cement companies to CCI for passing fresh order. A fine of Rs 1,147.59 crore has been imposed on ACC, while penalties on Jaiprakash Associates Ltd and Ultratech are Rs 1,323.60 crore and Rs 1,175.49 crore, respectively. The fines on other companies are Rs 274.02 crore (Century), Rs 187.48 crore (India Cements), Rs 128.54 crore (J K Cements), Rs 490.01 crore (Lafarge), Rs 258.63 crore (Ramco), ACL (Rs 1,163.91 crore) and Binani (Rs 167.32 crore), according to the release. CMA faces a fine of Rs 0.73 crore. Penalising the companies, CCI said the actions of the companies and the CMA are not only detrimental to the interests of consumers, but also to the whole economy as cement is a critical input in construction and infrastructure industry and vital for the economic development. Through a separate order, the regulator has slapped Rs 397.51 crore fine on Shree Cement Ltd, for unfair businesses practices.

GDP growth slows down to 7.1% new delhI, AUgUst 31 (PtI): Indian economy grew at the slowest pace in last six quarters at 7.1% in the AprilJune period of current fiscal mainly on subdued performance of mining, construction and farm sectors. GDP had recorded 7.5% growth in the April-June quarter of last fiscal and 7.9 % in January-March quarter. The previous low was 6.6% GDP growth in the October-December quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal. According to the data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Gross Value Added (GVA), which is estimated at the basic (rpt) basic price, showed a growth of 7.3% in the first quarter of 2016-17. Growth in agriculture; forestry and fishing; mining & quarrying and construction is estimated to be 1.8%, (-) 0.4%, and 1.5% respectively.

Supreme Court calls Singur deal for Tata Nano factory a 'farce' MUMBAI, AUgUst 31 (thoMson ReUteRs FoUndAtIon): India's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that land acquired by West Bengal state for a Tata Motors factory must be returned to farmers, the latest twist in a decade-long battle that came to symbolise conflict over land in the country.

The process by which 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of land in Singur was acquired in 2006 was "shocking" and "a farce", the top court said, quashing an earlier order by a Kolkata court that upheld the acquisition.

The land could not be deemed to have been acquired for a "public purpose" and must be returned to the farmers within 12 weeks, the Supreme Court ruled.

"We are very happy with the verdict," Kalyan Banerjee, lead counsel for the state, told reporters in New Delhi.

"People had suffered a lot," he said.

Tata Motors, one of India's top automakers, was allotted the land by West Bengal's previous government for a factory to build the low-cost Nano car.

After violent protests by farmers who did not want to surrender their land, Tata Motors moved the operations to Gujarat

Tata Motors to study Singur judgment

KolKAtA, AUgUst 31 (IAns): After the Supreme Court set aside the land acquired by the previous Left Front government in West Bengal for the Nano plant, Tata Motors on Wednesday said it would pass its comment after studying the judgment. "The case in which the judgment was delivered today, related to the acquisition of land by the state government (West Bengal government), before it was leased to Tata Motors. Our case relating to Singur Act of 2011, is yet to be heard by the Supreme Court," the company said in a statement. "We will study today's judgment in detail before commenting further on the same," it said

A private security guard walks outside the closed Tata Motors Nano car factory in Singur on April 27, 2011. (REUTERS Photo)

state in 2008.

The company has sought compensation from West Bengal for its investment of more than $300 million, and said it would not give up the land.

"We will study today's judgment in detail before commenting," a Tata Motors spokeswoman said by e-mail.

'LANDMARK VICTORY' 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.

Between 1950 and 2005, about 65 million people were displaced in India by dams, highways, mines and airports, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Less than a fifth have been resettled.

Mamata Banerjee, who led protests against the Singur deal, won state elections in 2011 to become chief minister and made the return of land to farmers a central plank of her campaign.

"The Supreme Court

verdict is a landmark victory for us," Banerjee said at a press briefing in Kolkata on Wednesday.

"It is a historic verdict which acknowledges the right of the farmers over forcible acquisition of land," she said.

The protests in Singur came to reflect the wider standoff between industry in India and villagers unwilling to part with land in a country where two thirds of the population still depends on agriculture for a living.

Earlier this week, two people were killed in Jharkhand state when villagers protesting the loss of their homes to a power plant clashed with police.

India, US speak in one voice on South China Sea, NSG, terror new delhI, AUgUst 31 (PtI): Nearly two months after an international court ruled against China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, India and the US today called for "utmost respect" for global law, maintaining that there must be "unimpeded lawful commerce" throughout the disputed region.

The two countries, which held their annual Strategic and Commercial Dialogue yesterday, also said they will "redouble" efforts towards India's early entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)

which was opposed by China. The US urged the NSG member countries to support India's bid for their "common interest".

In a joint statement issued today summerising outcome of Tuesday's meeting, the two strategic partners condemned terrorism in all its forms and reaffirmed their commitment to dismantle safe havens for terrorist and criminal networks such as IS terror outfit, Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaishe- Mohammad, D Company and its affiliates, and also the Haqqani Network.

About South China dispute, the two sides "stressed the importance of maintaining freedom of navigation, freedom of overflight, and unimpeded lawful commerce throughout the region, including in the South China Sea. Calling for "utmost respect" for international law, as reflected in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), they reiterated that States should resolve disputes through peaceful means, and exercise selfrestraint in the conduct of activities that could complicate or escalate disputes.

Most complaints against policemen in BJP-ruled states, shows NCRB data

new delhI, AUgUst 31 (IAns): While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states received the most number of complaints against police personnel in 2015, the rate of prosecution was quite low in all the states, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows. Madhya Pradesh tops the list with 10,089 complaints made against the police personnel, followed by Maharashtra at 8,004 cases. Uttar Pradesh comes third with 4,659 complaints lodged against policemen, followed by Kerala (4,634 complaints), Punjab (3,107), Rajasthan (2,947), Chhattisgarh (2,806), Haryana (1,900) and Gujarat (1,025).

Among these states, only Uttar Pradesh and Kerala are not ruled by BJP or a BJP-led coalition.

Among the Union Territories, Delhi tops the chart with 12,913 complaints made against policemen in 2015. Notably, Delhi Police administratively works under the Union Home Ministry and not the state government. As many as 6,189 of the total complaints lodged against police personnel in Madhya Pradesh were found false or unsubstantiated.

In Maharashtra, the number was 3,962, followed by Uttar Pradesh (2,257), Chhattisgarh (1,999) Rajasthan (1,831), Punjab (1,319), Kerala (599) and Delhi (346).

I have tears of joy, now I can die in peace, says Mamata KolKAtA, AUgUst 31 (IAns): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court's verdict in the Tata Motors' Nano project case as a "landmark victory", adding she had "tears of joy" on learning about the decision and can now "die in peace". "This is a landmark victory. This is a victory of the people, victory of Ma, Mati Manush (Mother, land and people -- Banerjee's pet slogan)..." an elated Banerjee told media at the state secretariat Nabanna.

"The people of Singur suffered so much, they endured so much torture, but they never left me. I have tears of joy in my eyes. Returning land to the farmers of Singur was one promise my government could not fulfil so far," said Banerjee.

Then the state's principal opposition leader, the Trinamool Congress chief had undertaken a 26-day hunger strike in Kolkata in December 2006 against the "forcible land acquisition" by the erstwhile Left Front government in Singur, and demanding 400 acres taken from farmers unwilling to part with their land be returned to them.

She later travelled to the rural pocket and laid siege on the factory for 14 days in 2008. After the Singur movement, followed by a similar agitation in Nandigram, the land acquisition agitation snowballed into a major issue in the state and brought the Trinamool to power in 2011.

Teenager killed as fresh violence erupts in Kashmir sRInAgAR, AUgUst 31 (IAns): A teenager was killed and over 100 persons were injured in firing by security forces as fresh violence erupted across the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday, prompting the authorities to re-impose a curfew that was lifted two days ago for the first time in nearly two months after improvement in the security situation. Police and witnesses said Danish Manzoor, 18, was killed after he sustained bullet injuries in a clash between stone-pelting protestors and the security forces in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, some 60 km from here.

Kashmir's Divisional Commissioner Baseer Khan said in a statement that a mob "of more than 900 people attacked an army convoy" with stones at Baramulla's Ladoora village. The army opened fire as the protestors refused to disperse after tear smoke shells and pellets were fired at them.

6 others were also injured in the clash.Khan said the police has initiated a probe into the incident. Anti-government and profreedom protests also took place in various areas across the valley,

including the Srinagar city.

A police spokesperson said security forces stopped demonstrators from marching on the main streets by firing tear smoke shells and shotgun pellets at the stone-throwing protestors. Nearly 100 protestors, including 60 in south Kashmir, were said to have been injured in the clashes.

Protestors set ablaze the house of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Rajya Sabha member, Nazir Laway, in Chawalgam village of Kulgam district in south Kashmir, some 60 km from here.

Police said the incident took place hours after security forces fired pellets at protestors shouting anti-government and pro-freedom slogans in nearby Katrusoo village. The fresh violence came two days after the authorities partially lifted the curfew following improvement in the situation in the Kashmir Valley that has been on the boil since the July 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. The curfew restrictions were re-imposed on Wednesday with heavy presence of police and security forces on the main roads. But there was no official announcment about it.

From Sister to Mother to Saint: The journey of Mother Teresa Vikas Datta IANS

Known to many generations of Indians as a diminutive but determined woman in a blue-bordered white sari who cared for the poor and destitute, Mother Teresa, who is due to become the Roman Catholic Church's latest saint, also holds pride of place among the emissaries of compassion and service who have flourished and spread out from India, even if born elsewhere.

"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus," once said the Mother, who came to India in 1929 after deciding on a religious life the previous year and stayed the rest of her 87-year-long life mostly in Calcutta/Kolkata where she founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1948.

Starting small with one of its earliest ventures -- a home for the dying -- coming up in an abandoned

Mother Teresa's canonisation is on September 4

REUTERS File Photo

Kali temple, it is now active in 133 countries, running homes for HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis patients, soup kitchens, dispensaries and mobile clinics, orphanages, schools and counselling centres.

And her contribution

to alleviating suffering and pain has made her name famous throughout the world -- though, despite many legions of admirers, there is also a cohort or two of critics and detractors.

Born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje town (capital of the independent

country of Macedonia now but then part of the Ottoman Empire -- and then under Serb, Bulgarian and then Yugoslav rule during her early life) as Anjeze (or Agnes, more commonly) Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, she was always religiously inclined.

According to a 1988 bi-

ography ("Mother Teresa"

by Joan Graff Clucas), she was fascinated by stories of missionaries serving in Bengal and, even before her teenage years, decided on a religious life. She left home in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland to learn English, with a view to becoming a missionary, and never saw her mother or her sister again (her father had died in 1919).

In India, she was initially based in a convent in Darjeeling where she learnt Bengali and taught at the nearby St. Teresa's School.

As a nun, she chose to be named after Therese de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries, but because another nun there had already chosen that name, she opted for the Spanish spelling of Teresa.

Taking her solemn vows in May 1937 while a teacher (and subsequently headmistress) at the Loreto Convent in Calcutta's Entally, she enjoyed teaching but was greatly concerned at the poverty and pain around, especially after the

1943 famine and the 1946 communal riots. It was in September 1946 that she experienced what she later termed "the call within the call" on a train from Calcutta to Darjeeling, urging that she "leave the convent and help the poor while living among them" (as recounted to Clucas).

Replacing the nun's habit for the sari, she began missionary work with the poor in Calcutta in 1948 after taking Indian citizenship and spending a few months in Patna for basic medical training. Initially, she started a school but soon started taking care of the destitute, and was, in 1949, joined by a group of young women, which later became the Missionaries (Vatican approval was accorded in October 1950).

Though it faced initial problems, the organisation soon went from strength to strength -- with her contribution recognised by both India (she was conferred the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980) and the world (especially

after British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge's 1969 documentary "Something Beautiful for God") with the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1962, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and many others.

And it was not only in India that she was active -- she personally rescued three dozen children from a Beirut hospital in 1982 after arranging a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas, tended to starvation victims in Ethiopia, radiation-afflicted at Chernobyl, and earthquake victims in Armenia.

However, her health slowly started failing from 1983 when she had her first heart attack and when further complications arose in 1991, she offered to step down but her offer was declined. She finally demitted office in March 1997 after a spate of other injuries and illnesses and died on September 5 the same year.

The same year the process to canonisation started with the beatification process, the third and penulti-

mate step before being declared a saint, and requiring a miracle to be attributed to her. Normally, the first step itself begins five years after the person's death, but in her case, the waiting period was waived by then Pope, John Paul II. In 2002, she was 'beatified', becoming 'Blessed Teresa' after the Vatican recognised a miracle attributed to her - a locket containing her picture curing the tumour of an Indian woman. The second miracle - needed to become a saint - was recognised in December 2015.

But it was not praise always for her -- she had her detractors, specially polemic essayist Christopher Hitchens, who also testified during her beatification process, right-wing Hindu outfits, and more recently, Indian-origin British author and "militant atheist" Aroup Chatterjee, who have criticised her methods, motives and management, as well as adherence to church dogma on issues like abortion, divorce and contraception.

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North Korea makes progress on missiles, but no evidence of nuclear weapons yet SEOUL, AUgUSt 31 (REUtERS): North Korea has made considerable progress this year on weapons technology, including testing a submarinelaunched missile for the first time, but it’s still not clear if the isolated nation has developed a nuclear warhead.

It also does not yet have a fleet of submarines that can launch the newly developed missile.

Nevertheless, concerns about the threat posed

by North Korea have spiralled since it conducted its fourth nuclear explosion in January and followed it up with a series of missile tests despite severe United Nations sanctions.

Also, three major factories known to produce machine parts for North Korea’s sanctioned nuclear and missile programmes have been modernised or expanded, according to analysis of recent satellite imagery seen

by Reuters, a further sign of its commitment of scarce resources to weapons.

“North Korea has dramatically increased the pace of missile testing and invested heavily in modernising its factories that produce them, something we can see in satellite images,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

“These investments have paid off with the recent test of a solid-fuelled submarine-launched missile, but North Korea has not yet completed development of a submarine to carry that missile.”

NKorea executes vicepremier in latest purge

A view shows the January 18 General Machine Plant in Kaechon, North Korea, in this satellite image taken on August 22, 2016 and provided by Planet Labs, Inc on August 24. (REUTERS Photo)

In April, a South Korean official said the North had accomplished miniaturisation of a nuclear warhead to mount on a missile, although there was no direct evidence it had done so.

The United States has said the North’s claim that it had miniaturised a warhead had to be taken as a credible threat.

“I think North Korea is capable of miniaturising nuclear bombs,” said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum and a policy adviser to the South Korean navy. “But they don’t have any standardised warhead yet to put on missiles. They keep gathering data through

nuclear tests and working to standardise a warhead.”

Experts have predicted that the delivery vehicle for the North’s first nuclear warhead would be the medium-range Rodong missile, which can fire a 1 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles).

Despite threats to strike the mainland United States, the North is seen as several years away from building an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry a nuclear warhead.

throughs in unprecedented detail.

Although some of it was bluster, international experts have concluded North Korea’s missiles have flown higher and for longer than previously, indicating progress in the country’s banned missile programme.

In June, after repeated failures, it successfully launched an intermediaterange missile, which can fly up to 3,500 km (2,100 miles).

Analysis of satellite imEXPANDED ages shows that the North PRODUCTION has recently expanded facIn the past year, North tories known to contribute Korea has boasted of nu- to its nuclear and missile merous weapons break- programmes.

Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people’s home tOKYO, AUgUSt 31 (REUtERS): Nine people were killed when floods inundated an old people’s home in Japan, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11. Police found nine bodies on Wednesday in the nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi, in Iwate Prefecture in the north of Japan’s main island of Honshu, but it was not clear when their home was flooded.

It was also not clear why people there had not been taken to safety before the storm struck. The nursing home is located near a river and was partially buried in mud and debris when the river overflowed its banks. “The area is in a state of chaos. We are not sure what preparations the facility had taken,” said a prefectural government official who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The town issued evacuation preparation information on Tuesday morning, which is to inform elderly or disabled people who take time to evacuate. That, however, was not as strong as an evacuation warning, according to another prefecture official. More than 1,000 other people were forced from their homes by the flooding brought

by Typhoon Lionrock.

The body of a man was also found near a river in Iwaizumi and a dead woman was found in Kuji city, police said. Television pictures showed flooded rivers with cars and homes partly submerged, while rescuers picked up stranded people by helicopter. Several people were also missing on the northern island of Hokkaido, police said.

Iwate, the worst-hit prefecture, was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

SEOUL, AUgUSt 31 (REUtERS): North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea said on Wednesday, which, if true, would mark a new series of measures by leader Kim Jong Un to discipline top aides.

Kim took power in 2011 after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, and his consolidation of power has included purges and executions of top officials, South Korean officials have said.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said the government had confirmed the execution of the education official, Kim Yong Jin, “through various channels” but declined to provide details.

Kim Yong Chol, the influential head of the North’s United Front Department which handles inter-Korean relations, was made to undergo “revolutionary measures,” Jeong told a briefing.

Another ruling party official in the propaganda department was also reprimanded, Jeong said.

It is difficult to independently verify news about top officials in the North or the inner circle around the leader. Some previous reports of executions and purges in the reclusive state have proven inaccurate.

An Aug 22 image of a sprawling plant in a rural area 60 km (37 miles) north of Pyongyang appears to show several new structures, extensive refurbishment of existing buildings and a new entrance to a probable underground facility, according to data from satellite imagery provider Planet that was analysed by Lewis.

The January 18 General Machine Plant has long been used to produce engines for tanks, missiles and other military vessels, according to experts.

“This represents an enormous investment in North Korea’s missile production infrastructure,

something that is consistent with the propaganda offensive we have seen and the spike in missile testing,” said Lewis. The Kanggye General Tractor Plant, believed by arms control experts to assemble North Koreans munitions, was also upgraded in the last year, according to imagery analysed by Lewis.

The plant is the country’s “main weapons production base,” a defector who worked in North Korea’s secretive munitions industry told South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper in 2010. For Pyongyang, however, building a new submarine fleet seems to be a top priority. A new con-

BEIRUt/WASHINgtON, AUgUSt 31 (REUtERS): Islamic State said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas.

A U.S. defence official told Reuters the United States targeted Abu Muhammad alAdnani in a Tuesday strike on a vehicle travelling in the Syrian town of al-Bab. The official stopped short of confirming Adnani’s

struction hall has come up at North Korea’s Sinpo submarine base on the east coast, according to images collected by Planet.

An image from Aug 10 shows a new structure being built beside a refurbished pier within the base, although it was not clear if the new hall would house a new class of submarine.

Perfecting submarinelaunched ballistic missile (SLBM) technology and having a fleet of submarines that could deploy the weapons would raise North Korea’s threat to Japan and U.S. interests in the Pacific to a new level, given the ability of submarines to escape a land attack

and evade missile defence shields.

Leader Kim Jong Un proclaimed the SLBM test the country’s “greatest success” and said North Korea was at the “front-rank of nuclear powers”.

Moon Keun-sik, a retired South Korean submarine captain and squadron leader, said North Korea’s conventional diesel-powered submarines were a persistent threat despite their age but its SLBMcapable craft could be a game-changer. “North Korea will be or is already in the process of building a newer, bigger submarine that may happen as early as next year,” he said.

Philippines’ President: Obama China promises humane, lawful must listen to me on human rights treatment of detained Canadian MANILA, AUgUSt 31 (REUtERS): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss any issues with Barack Obama when they meet in Laos next week, but added that the U.S. president must listen to him first before bringing up the question of human rights.

Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drugrelated killings since Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation.

Asked if he would be willing to discuss human rights at his meeting with Obama on the sidelines of an East Asia summit on Sept. 6, Duterte told reporters: “Depends to what degree.

“They must understand the problem first before we talk about human rights. I would insist, listen to me: this is what the problem is, then we can talk.”

In a statement, the foreign ministry said the meeting would be an opportunity for the president to “communicate his advocacy to improve the peace and order situation in the country, especially towards eradicating the scourge of illicit drugs”.

Police data released on Tuesday showed that the number of drug-related killings since Duterte took office now stands at around 2,000, nearly half of them in police operations and the rest in shootings by unidentified gunmen.

Duterte has been unapologetic over unleashing the police on drug users and dealers and has responded robustly to criticism from the United Nations and other countries over his campaign.

Recently he lashed out at Washington’s ambassador to the Philippines, branding him a “gay son of a whore”.

The White House said on

Monday that Obama would raise concerns about some of Duterte’s recent statements when the two meet.

However, it said there were also important security issues for the two closely allied countries to discuss, particularly tension over navigation in the South China Sea. China has been incensed by a ruling against its claims in the South China Sea by an international court, a case initiated by Manila.

The two leaders were expected to discuss ways to strengthen the security alliance after Manila allowed the U.S. military to rotate its forces in five local air and army bases, foreign ministry spokesman Charles Jose said.

Duterte said he would also hold talks with China, which will be represented at the Laos meeting by Premier Li Keqiang. Media reports said he would also meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Key Islamic State leader killed in Syria

IS spokesman and head of external operations Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is pictured in this undated handout photo, courtesy the U.S. Department of State.

(REUTERS File Photo)

Vice Premier Kim Yong Jin was executed for not keeping his posture upright at a public event, a South Korean government official later told Reuters. Kim Yong Chol was punished for his overbearing demeanour, the official added, but gave no details.

The execution, by firing squad, took place in July and Kim Yong Chol was re-educated at a rural farm for a month until mid-August, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said.

The South’s comments follow a news report on Tuesday that the North had executed two high-ranking officials for disobeying leader Kim Jong Un. Kim Yong Jin was promoted to vice premier in 2012 after serving as education minister, according to a South Korean government database on key officials of the North.

Army general Kim Yong Chol headed the North Korean intelligence agency before taking his current position this year.

News of the reclusive state’s new purges comes after the South said North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London had defected and arrived in the South with his family, dealing an embarrassing blow to Kim’s regime.

death, however. Such U.S. assessments often take days and often lag behind official announcements by militant groups.

Adnani was one of the last living senior members, along with self-appointed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who founded the group and stunned the Middle East by seizing huge tracts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

As Islamic State’s spokesman, Adnani was its most visible member. As head of external operations, he was in charge of attacks overseas, including Europe, that have become an increasingly important tactic for the group as its core Iraqi and Syrian territory has been eroded by military losses.

The group reacted by saying his death would not harm it, and his killers would face “torment”,a statement in the group’s al-Naba newspaper said, according to the Site Intelligence monitoring group. “Today, they rejoice for the killing ... and then they will cry much when Allah will overpower them, with His permission, with affliction of the worst torment by the soldiers of Abu Muhammad and his brothers,” the statement said.

Advances by Iraq’s army and allied militia towards Islamic State’s most important possession of Mosul have put the group under new pressure at a moment when a U.S.backed coalition has cut its Syrian holdings off from the Turkish border. Those military setbacks have been accompanied by air strikes that have killed several of the group’s leaders, undermining its organisational ability and dampening its morale.

A U.S. counter-terrorism official who monitors Islamic State said Adnani’s death would hurt the militants “in the area that increasingly concerns us as the group loses more and more of its caliphate and its financial base ... and turns to mounting and inspiring more attacks in Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere”. Under Adnani’s auspices, Islamic State launched largescale attacks, bombings and shootings on civilians in countries outside its core area, including France, Belgium and Turkey.

The official said Adnani’s roles as propaganda chief and director of external operations had become “indistinguishable” because the group uses its online messages to recruit fighters and provide instruction and inspiration for attacks. Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency reported that Adnani was killed “while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.” Islamic State holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces. Amaq did not say how Adnani, born Taha Subhi Falaha in Syria’s Idlib Province in 1977, was killed. Islamic State published a eulogy dated Aug. 29 but gave no further details.

INROADS INTO ISLAMIC STATE Adnani was a Syrian from Binish in Idlib, southwest of Aleppo, who pledged allegiance to Islamic State’s predecessor, al Qaeda, more than a decade ago and was

once imprisoned by U.S. forces in Iraq, according to the Brookings Institution. He was from a well-to-do background but left Syria to travel to Iraq to fight U.S. forces there after its 2003 invasion, and only returned to his homeland after the start of its own civil war in 2011, a person who knew his family said. Adnani had often been the face of the Sunni militant group, such as when he issued a message in May urging attacks on the United States and Europe during the holy month of Ramadan, and as in Sept.

2014 when he called on supporters to kill Westerners throughout the world.

AIR STRIKE Among senior Islamic State officials killed in air strikes this year are Abu Ali al-Anbari, Baghdadi’s formal deputy, and the group’s “minister of war”, Abu Omar al-Shishani. Adnani had joined the group under its founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

A senior Syrian rebel official said Adnani was most probably killed in the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in an air strike.

Citing unconfirmed reports, he said Adnani was in the Aleppo region to raise morale in the face of mounting pressure.

The United States designated him a “global terrorist” this year and said he was one of the first foreign fighters to oppose U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq since 2003 before becoming spokesman of the militant group. There was a $5 million reward on his head under the U.S. “Rewards for Justice” programme.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, August 31, 2016. REUTERS

BEIJINg, AUgUSt 31 (REUtERS): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised on Wednesday that a Canadian man held in China for two years on suspicion of spying would be treated humanely and lawfully, but the man’s family expressed frustration and called for his release. China indicted Canadian citizen Kevin Garratt in January on charges of spying and stealing state secrets. He was detained in August 2014 near China’s sensitive border with reclusive North Korea.

Asked about Garratt, Li told a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Beijing that China and Canada would continue to communicate on the issue. “As for the individual case you have raised, I want to say that China is a country with rule of law and our judicial authorities will handle it in strict accordance with the law, and give the relevant case humane treatment,” Li said in rare public comments by a top Chinese leader on such a touchy issue.

With Trudeau by his side, Li said China would grant consular access in such cases if they involved foreigners. “For these cases, the departments of both sides will continue to remain in touch and we believe it’s essential for our two countries to remove disturbances and work together to uphold the other interests of China-Canada relations.”

Garratt’s family said in a statement released by their Beijing-based lawyers they were “extremely frustrated and disappointed” by the lack of progress in securing his release. The family “implores the Canadian and Chinese leadership to set aside their differences and reach a resolution to allow Kevin to exit China and obtain critically needed medical treatment and to return to his family”, they said.

“We appreciate the fact that both governments recognise Kevin’s fragile medical condition and that his further incarceration would be detrimental to his health.”

Trudeau did not provide details on his talks with Li about Garratt. “The foundation of a strong relationship is being able to be frank and open about concerns, questions and issues to work on together,” he said.

“That’s part of why every time I’ve had the opportunity to sit down with the Chinese leadership I’ve highlighted a number of consular cases, including the Kevin Garratt case, and I continue to look forward to collaborating closely on these issues,” Trudeau said, without elaborating.

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Europe prepares to kick off World Cup qualifiers ZURICH, AUgUst 31 (AP): Europe finally kicks off its 2018 World Cup qualifying program on Sunday, as the last of FIFA's six continents to join the road to Russia. Defending champion Germany and European champion Portugal head 54 teams - including new FIFA members Kosovo and Gibraltar - in European action from Sunday through Tuesday.

They are competing for 13 qualifying places in world sport's biggest event. Each will play 10 matches in one of the nine six-team groups over the next 14 months.

Among intriguing homeand-away games ahead: ItalySpain; France-Netherlands; and, the oldest international rivalry, England-Scotland.

Who will join the 32-team lineup in Russia? Group winners and the winners of four playoffs in November 2017

involving the eight best runners-up. There are no second chances for third-place teams, unlike in the European Championship qualifying groups and final tournament groups.

Here are some things to know about World Cup qualifiers in Europe: HISTORY REPEATING History is against a repeat Germany title: No European team has won back-to-back World Cups since Italy in 1934 and 1938. Still, history also says that the Germans have never failed to qualify for a major tournament.

Coach Joachim Loew's begins its defense against Norway in Oslo on Sunday, and without two veterans. Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and forward Lukas Podolski are retiring from the national team.

The group includes two other Euro 2016 teams, Northern Ireland and the Czech Re-

Group A: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, Luxembourg Group B: Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Faeroe Islands, Latvia, Andorra Group C: Germany, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Norway, Azerbaijan, San Marino Group D: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Ireland, Moldova, Georgia Group E: Romania, Denmark, Poland, Montenegro, Armenia, Kazakhstan Group F: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Malta Group G: Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, Liechtenstein Group H: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus, Gibraltar Group I: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland, Kosovo. public.

NO RONALDO Newly crowned European champion Portugal is without star forward Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ronaldo was left out of the squad to play Switzerland in Basel as he seeks full fitness after injuring his left knee in the Euro 2016 final.

Portugal landed in one of the tougher groups with three Euro 2016 teams, including Hungary. The Hungarians led Portugal three times, and Ronaldo equalized twice, in a thrill-

ing 3-3 draw when they met in Lyon in June during the European Championship.

Portugal is top-seeded but has no cause to panic if it finishes second. It advanced to the past two World Cups via playoffs.

EURO REUNIONS Of several quick rematches after Euro 2016, Italy vs. Spain on Oct. 6 in Turin is the most attractive. Italy picked apart the two-time defending European champion to win 2-0 at Stade de France in the round of 16.

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england hit world record 444-3 to crush pakistan

NOttINgHAm, ENglAND, AUgUst 31 (REUtERs): England amassed a world record one-day international total of 444 for three as they crushed Pakistan by 169 runs at Trent Bridge on Tuesday to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the fivematch series.

Jos Buttler struck the last ball of the innings for four to take Eoin Morgan’s men past Sri Lanka’s 443 for nine against Netherlands in July 2006.

Hales plundered 171, the highest individual limited-overs score by an England batsman, before Buttler reached his fifty off 22 deliveries, another record for his country.

The hosts passed their previous highest total of 408 for nine, made against New Zealand last year, while captain Morgan got to his half-century off 24 deliveries as he and Buttler shared an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 161.

“Quite a monumental knock from Alex Hales,” said Morgan. “To score 171 in any form of the game is remarkable and our innings was based around that. “Records are hugely important, it emphasises we’re not just a chasing side. We probably have 17 or 18 players who have

ever, is a tough sell on Sunday in Trnava. It has to be better than a drab 0-0 draw in Saint-Etienne in June when Slovakia knew a point was enough to advance from the group in third place.

New England coach Sam Allardyce has promised his players will have more fun on his watch.

Croatia vs. Turkey on the opening weekend of Euro 2016 was lit up by Luka Modric's volleyed shot to settle the match.

They meet again on Monday, with Modric now captain after Darijo Srna's retirement,

though in an empty Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb.

FIFA ordered Croatia to play two home qualifiers in empty stadiums as punishment for persistent incidents of racism and offensive behavior by fans.

ICELAND, HUH? Iceland fans' memorable Viking clap salute won't be seen in its first two away qualifiers.

The surprise Euro 2016 quarterfinalists visit Ukraine on Monday, and Kiev's Olympic Stadium will be empty because of a FIFA punishment for racist fans. Iceland goes to Zagreb on Nov. 12 to face Croatia - which will be serving its second match of a similar FIFA sanction for racism. The World Cup homecoming for Iceland - at the 10,000-capacity Laugardalsvollur stadium in Reykjavik - is against Finland on Oct. 6.

Iceland has a tough task to become the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup.

It is in Group I which seems the deepest pool of talent with four Euro 2016 teams plus Kosovo, which is likely the best of the minnows pot of No. 6 seeds.

DEBUTANTS Like all new FIFA members, Kosovo and Gibraltar - both accepted in May and fast-tracked into 2018 qualifying - start their international careers at the bottom of the seeding. Kosovo makes a World Cup debut at Finland on Monday, and hosts Croatia on Oct. 6. Three days later, Kosovo will play at Ukraine which does not recognize it as an independent state.

Gibraltar is in perhaps the weakest group of the nine, with only top-seeded Belgium having played at Euro 2016.

Gibraltar kicks off with a home game - in Faro, Portugal, while its own stadium is being built - against Greece on Tuesday.

I was lucky I wasn't good in studies, says Gopichand

NEw DElHI, AUgUst 31 (PtI): Chief badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, who guided Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu to Olympic medals in the successive Games, says he was lucky that he wasn't good in studies and it was a flunked IIT exam that paved his way to be a successful sportsperson.

"My brother and I both played sports.

He was fantastic in sports and now I feel that I was lucky I wasn't good in studies," Gopichand said while discussing how sports requires commitment from both parents and sacrifices and sometimes luck also plays a part.

"He was a state champion. He wrote his IIT exam and passed. He went to IIT and stopped playing. I wrote the engi-

neering exam and failed and I continued in sports and this is where I stand now," the 42-year-old said.

Gopichand went on to become only the second Indian to win the All England title in 2001 and soon after he retired and decided to open his own academy.

The journey to set up the academy was not an easy one as he faced many rejections when he went to ask for help from different quarters to arrange the finance.

In the last 12 years since setting up his academy in Hyderabad, Gopichand produced two Olympic medallist and he said he never thought his dream to see India win an Olympic medal in badminton would come true so soon.

csA executive Meeting on sep 3

DImAPUR, AUgUst 31 (mExN): The Chakhroma Sports Association will be convening a meeting on September 3 at 10 am at the CPO Hall, Chümukedima. A press release in this regard from the CSA has requested all the office bearers of CSA, representatives of Group -A, representatives of Group -B, representatives of Group -c and representatives of Group -D to attend the meeting.

Yogeshwar's sample will be tested before upgradation to silver

England's Jos Buttler and Eoin Morgan celebrate at the end of the innings after breaking the world record for the highest ODI score. (Reuters)

played in the last year and a half and could come into this side.”

Hales flayed four sixes and 22 fours in his 122-ball knock to surpass Robin Smith’s 167 not out against Australia in Birmingham in 1993. Caught off a no-ball on 72 and dropped on 114, the 27-year-old right-hander passed Smith’s score by pulling Hasan Ali to the mid-wicket boundary.

stand of 248 with Joe Root, who fell soon after for 85, but the pain was far from over for the Pakistan bowlers.

Buttler hammered six sixes and three fours to get to his half-century and finished 90 not out off 51 balls while Morgan ended unbeaten on 57.

Hales and Root’s partnership was also England’s third-highest in one-day internationals.

PAKISTAN PAIN Pakistan, in reply, were The bowler trapped bowled out for 275 in 42.4 him lbw with the next deliv- overs with paceman Chris ery to end a second-wicket Woakes the chief destroyer,

taking four for 41.

Opener Sharjeel Khan hit 58 but wickets fell at regular intervals until Mohammad Amir smashed 58 in 28 balls to share an unlikely last-wicket stand of 76 with Yasir Shah (26 not out).

Amir’s half-century was the first by a number 11 in ODIs. “It was very tough today,” said Pakistan skipper Azhar Ali. “I think they were exceptional innings from Hales and Buttler. “On a wicket like this you really need to support the bowlers and that didn’t happen.”

NEw DElHI, AUgUst 31 (PtI): Star India wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt will have to wait to know whether his bronze medal from the 2012 London Olympics is upgraded to silver till the time his sample is cleared by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Reports emerged that the grappler's bronze would be upgraded to silver after second-place finisher of the London Games -- late Besik Kudukhov of Russia -- was stripped off his medal for failing a dope test.

An official confirmation is still awaited and a top Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) official today told PTI that even Yogeshwar's dope test from the 2012 Games has to be cleared before he could be handed the medal.

"Yogeshwar's tests are also being conducted and

once his dope test comes out clean, then only he will be handed the silver medal," the official said on the condition of anonymity.

As per WADA's revised norms, samples taken for dope tests from international tournaments are now been stored in deep freeze up to 10 years in order to allow the use of advanced technology, avail-

able with the passage of time, to catch the dope cheats to ensure that "the clean athletes get justice even if it comes a bit late".

The IOC has been retesting the samples collected at London as well as 2008 Beijing Olympics, besides other international tournaments, keeping in view of the new rules.

As per Russian agency,

flowrestling.org, the fourtime world champion and two-time Olympic medallist Kudukhov, who had died in a car crash in 2013 in southern Russia, was found to have used a banned substance in a test conducted by the WADA. As a result, Yogeshwar, who had bagged a bronze medal in men's 60kg freestyle category in London, is now set to join Sushil Kumar as the other Indian silver medallist wrestler from the 2012 Olympics.

Yogeshwar, who had bowed out in the first round of men's 65kg freestyle at the recently concluded Rio Olympic Games, had lost to Kudukhov in the pre-quarterfinals at London. But once the Russian advanced to the final, Yogeshwar got another chance in the repechage round and went on to win bronze.

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How to Control the Growth of Naga Educated Unemployed Youth?

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here is an old tale among Tangkhuls about a son whose IQ below average and is incapable of doing anything that can earn him convenient livelihood. His father knows about his son’s potential from the inside out, better than anyone. One day his father called his son home and promised saying, “my son, now that I’m aging, I have to make sure my inheritance dividends are properly allotted to you and your elder brothers because no one can predict the day of any man’s last breathe. So I have kept something in that wooden box for you which will sustain your life if you use that well.

You are the youngest, so my dearly gift and inheritance are being kept there for you secretly.”

“Can I open now and see that gift, Ava?” interrupted the son his father’s inheritance rhetoric.

“No” said the father, “it is meant to be open only after I die. And if you dare opening that box while I breathe, I will curse you in the name of Ameowa (god).” So the impatient son waited and waited for the day he can unfold the gift box. Eventually, his father passes away. Although he is depressed upon his father’s death, his curiosity to see what kind of his father had kept for him in the wooden box exerts him to run with gay to the dark room. With all excited face, he opened the box. On seeing the much hyped gift, there was complete silence in his mind; his ear could not hear any noise from the noisily grieving people out of extreme shock. His heartbeat nearly comes to a standstill. He could not believe his own eyes to see what his father has inherited him. The long awaited gift was a ‘Spade No. 5’, an iron implement for tilling agricultural field. Father knows so well that it is the only source of livelihood for his youngest son and if he uses it well, he will be very rich. So the son follows accordingly in complete submission and thrives his life very well.

Now leaving the story aside, the real situation of Naga society is rising unemployment rate rapidly at an alarming pace. The reason for this doomsday is the belief that any other profession

apart from being a government employee is not sustainable and is risky. Normally, we assume that being in government offers us no risk of losing job whether we are efficient or not, because the system is evolved in such a way that an employee’s skills and efficiency are not priority, nor it gives space for creativity and innovation. People have the credulity that any non-governmental employment means proportionate amount of payment and work. Therefore, the race for attaining government jobs has overshadowed the credibility and popularity of entrepreneurship and non-governmental jobs. Consequently, the capacity of survival by self as well as creativity of a person is faded naturally.

If we look at the ever increasing rate of educated unemployed in Nagaland state, the speed of increase is fearfully alarming. In order to accommodate this large number of educated unemployed youth, it’s high time for our govern-

ment to start stretching the strategy towards creation of jobs. Prior to that we have to develop skills for our educated unemployed youth in our state to fit into the jobs to be created. And prior to that again, we have to revise our curriculum for colleges and universities to remain synced with the market demands for skills. A skill set has to be imparted to all students apart from their regular and conventional curriculum. The prevalence and imposition of obsolete curriculum on our growing youth populace will result into nothing but only just dumping of unemployable, unskilled youth every year who will have no option in life other than attempting NPSC/UPSC until the time they become overaged. Let’s take a quick look of the growing trend of educated unemployment rate in Nagaland.

The figure shows only in terms of educated unemployed who are registered. Yet, there must still be thousands who have not registered as

educated unemployed. It demands a paradigm shift in the policy making of our government from mere education to skill-based education and from imparting of random skills to market demands-based skills. Therefore, it is indispensable on the part of government to tie up with genuine NGOs, private companies for skill development for youth on Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Effective PPP mode policy implementation can be a refreshing quick relief for our ailing employment issue, as while government will do funding the private professionals will do the work of skilling with proven efficiency. For instance, National University Student’s Skill Development (NUSSD) programme has done a commendable job by giving career-oriented skills for undergraduate college boys and girls. NUSSD is a flagship programme on skill development undertaken by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in collaboration with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to enable for graduating youth from underprivileged background to acquire employment oriented skills while pursuing their usual degree programme. This programme has spread over 9 Indian states in 11 universities aiming to reach 50,000+ students by 2016. This kind of strategy is the need of the hour for the Nagas as well. If our government can request to Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for such initiative, it can surely begin the spark of change even in a small way because it has been proving successful in many other states.

Due to paucity of time and money, students cannot afford to separately acquire skills while pursuing their studies. Therefore, the likely solution to this problem is imparting skills right there in the colleges and universities itself. The youth of the state will be ever grateful to people who advocate public policy that addresses the crux of the issue – increasing educated unemployment rate.

Ransom Lungleng, Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India.

Rev. L. Bizo was a real friend

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real friend Rev. L. Bizo is no more physically but memory will continue. For the past several years, we did not meet but he used to talk to me over phone and whatever he said was always out of deep thought.

When he was the Treasurer of CBCNEI at Guwahati, they used to host us whenever meetings were held there.

In 1970 when a team of Naga Baptists attended Baptist World Alliance held at Tokyo, he was our team leader. It was for him too a maiden oversea tour but I admired him that he was smart as if he had past experiences.

In 2006, we three Dr. V. K. Nuh, Timikha and myself were supposed to go to Bangkok with the help of our Chief Minister but we had to cancel our programme on ground of a documentary problem. So I took late Rev. L. Bizo and late P. Inaho with me and we three went to Bangkok and had meetings with NSCN(I-M)’s collective leadership over a matter of “Not to open fire unless first fired upon.”

Rev. L. Bizo was a real learned man, a dedicated servant of the Lord and a man who had always the burden with the love for our people. As he left to be with the Lord whom he faithfully served, May God grant solace to his family.

Rev. L. Suohie Mhasi.

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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Not a single Indian film in BBC's list of Best 100 Films

Miley Cyrus' homeless

date is SELLING her Award

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he BBC recently published its list of top 100 films of the 21st Century, but not one Indian film made itself to the list. As per the BBC, for determining 100 greatest films, they received 177

film critics, except Antarctica.

There were a handful critics from India, but to everyone's disappointment, not a single Indian movie got selected. Although three Asian films made

themselves in top 10- Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love' stands second, Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning 'Spirited Away' in the fourth place and Edward Yang's 'Yi Yi' gets eighth position.

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is unexpected appearance at the MTV VMAs alongside pop star Miley Cyrus drew attention to the sensitive issue of homelessness.

But two-years after acting as the controversial singer’s surprise date, Jesse Helt is selling off the highly coveted Moonman trophy he accepted on her behalf after hit single Wrecking Ball was named Video of the Year.

An advertisement placed on online auction site ebay starts the bidding at a flat $10,000, with a Buy Now option available to anyone willing to pay $15,000 outright. However with only nine days of bidding left the trophy is yet to attract interest from potential buyers, with no offers placed as of Tuesday morning.

TMZ claim Jesse, 24, is selling the award, engraved with both his and Miley’s names, to raise funds after discovering his partner is expecting their first child. The trophy competes with another original Moonman award, received by rock band Guns N' Roses for Sweet Child O'Mine in 1989 and available on ebay from a separate seller for a whopping $15,132.77.

Miley stunned fans by introduc-

ing Jesse, a former aspiring model who fell on hard times and ended up living on the streets of Los Angeles, as her date at the MTV VMAs in 2014.

Orchestrated to raise awareness of homelessness charity My Friend’s Place - an organisation close to the singer's heart - the move saw him collect Miley's award before delivering a moving speech.

The star wanted Jesse’s speech to draw attention to 1.6million homeless youths and raise money for charity. But several weeks he was led away in handcuffs by officers at Polk County Courthouse in Dallas, after violating the terms of his probation.

He was originally arrested in October 2010 after he tried to break into an apartment where he said a man had sold 'bad marijuana' to him. He was charged with burglary, criminal mischief in the third degree and criminal trespass in the first degree. The burglary charge was later dropped.

On November 23 of the same year, he was given 30 days in county jail, placed on supervised probation for 12 months, fined $572 and ordered to pay restitution, according to Polk County Circuit Court.

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Gisele easily triumphed her nearest competitor, Adriana Lima- her fellow countrywoman is a distant second with USD 10.5 million.

The 36-year-old supermodel, who announced her retirement from the runway in 2014, continued to reign over Forbes magazine's annual earnings list, Banking USD 30.5 million

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University professor, credited as 'special guest.'

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ture women, where the average age of the 14 actresses is 44 years old, an anomaly in an industry that is renowned for its obsession with youth and beauty.

Speaking about then line up for 2017 calendar to Vogue, photographer Peter Lindbergh said it is 'a counter message to [the industry's] fake beauty ideal.'

In selecting his 2017 models, Lindbergh says he gathered 'all the big names of actresses who are not known to do bimbo movies, but are known to do sensible films-most of them have got Oscars-and then let them be them.' Last year's 'a different kind of women' line up had women like Serena Williams, Yao Chen, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Ava DuVernay, and a strippeddown Amy Schumer.

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Selena Gomez cancels tour amid depression in the year from June, 2015, thanks to lucrative fashion deals with brands like Chanel and Carolina Herrera, and sales of her own lingerie and skincare line.

Kim Kardashian's halfsister Kendall Jenner is tied with Karlie Kloss for third place with USD 10 million, while another social media favourite, Gigi Hadid, made her debut on the countdown, at five, sharing the spot with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley with USD 9 million.

Others featured in the top 20 include Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne, and Lily Aldridge, and together, the stunners earned a whopping USD 154 million over the past year, and boast 200 million followers on Instagram.

Gisele has dominated the Forbes countdown since 2002. She recently lit up the Rio Olympics in her native Brazil by returning to the runway for a oneoff appearance during the Opening Ceremony.

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op star Selena Gomez has decided to cancel the remaining dates of her "Revival" tour as she is planning to take a break. The announcement comes after the 24-yearold singer-actress got into an online spat with her ex Justin Bieber, but she cited depression stemming from Lupus as the reason of her hiatus, reported People magazine.

"As many of you know, Source: TNN

around a year ago I revealed that I have lupus, an illness that can affect people in different ways. I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges," Gomez said in a statement.

"I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decided that the best way forward is to take some time off. Thank

you to all my fans for your support. You know how special you are to me, but I need to face this head on to ensure I am doing everything possible to be

my best. I know I am not alone by sharing this, I hope others will be encouraged to address their own issues.

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NAAC PEER TEAM VISIT

The NAAC Peer Team, comprising of Prof. Mohammad Raziuddin, Former VC, Ranchi University (Chairperson) Prof. E. Ramganesh, Registrar/Prof & head, Dept. of Educational Technology, Bharathidasan University (Member Co-ordinator) Dr. M. Naga Raju, former Principal, Silver Jubilee govt. College (Member) visited the college on 29th,30th & 31st August, 2016 for Assessment and Accreditation of the institution.

The immanuel College would like to acknowledge Mrs. Kuholi, Addl. Director, higher Education, Mrs. Atula, oSD. higher Education, Prof. B.V. Rao & Mr. Chenlip Yakha, Nagaland University, Parents Association, Alumni Association, Teaching & Non-Teaching Staff, Students and all the stakeholders and wellwishers. we are grateful to them and pray for god’s blessing upon them.

Principal, Immanuel College

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PArIs, August 31 (AFP): The cashloaded English Premier League led a record-breaking raid for talent by Europe's top clubs before the transfer window slams shut Wednesday, with Arsenal alone paying more than 60 million euros for German defender Shkodran Mustafi and Spanish striker Lucas Perez.

More big names were lined up for moves Wednesday with Liverpool's outcast striker Mario Balotelli having a medical at French club Nice. England midfielder Jack Wilshere was expected to leave Arsenal on loan.

The Premier League's TV riches have fuelled transfer inflation across the continent, with Inter Milan and Barcelona paying top dollar for Brazil's exciting Olympic gold medal-winning striker Gabriel 'Gabigol' Barbosa and Valencia goal-scorer Paco Alcacer respectively.

About 50 million euros were spent on the pair and most analysts predict European spending will easily be the highest yet when the two-month transfer window closes -- between 1600 GMT for the Bundesliga and 2200 GMT for the Premier League.

Spending by England's 20-club Premier League alone was expected to bust the one billion pounds (1.17 billion euros, $1.3 billion) barrier after Manchester United set a new world record with the 89 million pound purchase this month of French midfielder Paul Pogba.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was one of the late big-spenders. The Gunners, eighth in the early standings, spent an estimated 35 million pounds (42 million euros) to bring German international defender Mustafi from Valencia.

Man City clear decks Manchester City allowed Joe Hart, Samir Nasri and Wilfried Bony to leave on season-long loan deals on Wednesday as the transfer deadline approached across Europe. England goalkeeper Hart completed his move to Italian side Torino, French midfielder Nasri joined Europa League champions Sevilla and Bony pitched up at City's Premier League rivals Stoke City.

(AFP)

Sunderland pay record fee for Ndong Shkodran Mustafi

Lucas Perez

Paco Alcacer

"He is at the right age," Wenger said of the 24-year-old, who was in Germany's 2014 World Cup-winning squad and in the team that reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals.

Arsenal paid another 17 million pounds for Deportivo La Coruna striker Perez, according to media reports.

Wenger has already bought Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka, Japanese forward Takuma Asano and young English centre-back Rob Holding.

"He’s not only a goalscorer, he’s a guy who combines well with partners, who can give a final ball and makes good runs," said Wenger of Perez.

Arsenal defender Serge Gnabry returned to Germany with Werder Bremen.

- Premier prices Inter Milan confirmed the signing of Barbosa on his 20th birthday late Tuesday.

"Gabigol is an Inter player," the Serie A giants said in a statement, announcing a five-year contract.

Inter did not release financial details

but Gazzetta dello Sport website reported Inter paid the Brazilian club 27.5m euros for 'Gabigol', who has drawn comparisons with Neymar.

Spain international Alcacer joined Barcelona from Valencia in a 30 million euro, five-year deal, the Catalan side announced.

The 20-year-old, who scored 13 goals in 34 appearances for Valencia last season, will heighten competition in the Barcelona frontline already led by Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.

Other big-name deals are likely as top players seek a regular game in increasingly competitive squads.

Chelsea let French international striker Loic Remy go on loan to Crystal Palace for one season.

Balotelli, 26, who has been told he is not wanted at Liverpool, was expected in Nice for a medical amid talks over a permanent transfer or loan, l'Equipe newspaper reported.

PalaceandACMilanarealsoamongcon-

tenders to take Arsenal's Wilshere on loan.

Manchester City's out-of-favour England goalkeeper Joe Hart was set to complete a move to Torino in Italy.

But the English Premier League's £5.14bn (6.9 billion euro), three-season television deal has set a pace that few other championships can keep up with.

Christian Heidel, sporting director for German club Schalke said the Premier League has forced up prices everywhere.

"If English managers are on the phone, then the (transfer) sums are automatically higher," Heidel said on a talk show for Kicker magazine.

"If the negotiations are within Germany, then it is often difficult to exclude the higher sums from England."

Schalke this month sold Germany winger Leroy Sane, 20, to Manchester City for a reported 43m euros. With additional fees, the figure could rise to 50 million for a player who had made just 47 Bundesliga appearances before City signed him.

Australia beat Sri Lanka, clinch ODI series

DAmbullA, August 31 (AFP): John Hastings claimed six wickets before Aaron Finch and George Bailey's attacking half-centuries powered Australia to a series clinching sixwicket win over Sri Lanka in the fourth one-day international in Dambulla on Wednesday.

Australia rode on Finch's 19-ball 55 and an unbeaten 90 from Bailey to chase down 213 in 31 overs and take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.

Hastings career-best bowling figures of 6-45 helped bowl out Sri Lanka for 212 after electing to bat first despite Dhananjaya de Silva's fighting 76.

It was Finch's 19-ball 55 that gave Australia a rocket start against a Sri Lankan attack that missed skipper Angelo Mathews' medium pace after the allrounder hurt his calf while batting.

Earlier, Sri Lankan skipper Mathews was badly shaken after a bouncer smashed into his helmet and broke a protective strap designed to safeguard the back of his skull.

Play was stopped for several minutes while Mathews recovered from the impact of the ball from fast bowler Scott Boland which evoked memories of the on-field death of the

Sri Lanka's captain Angelo Mathews is hit on the helmet by a ball off the bowling of Australia's Scott Boland during their fourth One Day International (ODI) match in Dambulla on August 31. (AFP Photo)

Australian batsman Phillip Hughes in 2014.

Mathews was struck after losing sight and then turning his back on a rising delivery from Boland which thudded into the base of the helmet, just above his neck.

The 29-year-old could be seen rubbing the back of his head vigorously and was given the once-over

by Sri Lankan physio Paul Klarenaar.

The umpires called an early drinks break but Mathews then carried on with his innings before retiring hurt with an unrelated calf injury, having made 28.

Finch, who equalled the record for the fastest fifty by an Australian, struck eight fours and three sixes

as he carted the Sri Lankan spinners to all parts of the ground.

Left-arm spinner Sachith Pathirana's triple strike in the space of five deliveries checked the visitors' surge but only for a brief while.

Pathirana got the wickets of danger man Finch and Usman Khawaja for nought in his opening over of the innings. He then bowled skipper David Warner for 19 on the first ball of his next over.

Bailey, who registered his 21st ODI fifty, carried the momentum forward as he anchored Australia's chase with his 85-ball knock, laced with 11 fours and a six.

He got the perfect partner in Travis Head, who scored 40, as the duo put on 100 runs for the fourth wicket.

Head was trapped lbw off Dilruwan Perera but Matthew Wade, who remained unbeaten on eight, joined Bailey at the crease to hit the winning six.

The victory comes as a welcome relief for the visiting side after it suffered its first series whitewash against Sri Lanka in the three Test matches.

The fifth and final match of the ODI series is scheduled for September 4 in Pallekele.

Gabonese international midfield dynamo Didier Ndong signed for Premier League side Sunderland from French outfit Lorient on Wednesday for a club record fee of £13.6 million (16 million euros, $17.8m). The 22-year-old -- capped 18 times since making his debut in 2012 -- signed a five-year contract with the 'Black Cats', ending a stay of just under two years with Lorient where he scored twice in 46 appearances.

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David Luiz to undergo medical with Chelsea Paris Saint-Germain defender David Luiz is set to undergo a medical ahead of a shock return to Chelsea. Chelsea have made a bid of £30m to bring the Brazilian defender back to Stamford Bridge, but PSG who bought him from the Blues for £50m - do not want to make a £20m loss on the player. While the clubs continue to thrash out a deal, Luiz has flown to London and will have his medical. The 29-year-old Brazilian left Stamford Bridge for France two years ago for what remains a world record fee for a defender and it is understood he is keen to return to the club.

(Sky Sports)

IOC sanctions six Olympians for failing dope tests at Beijing Games

ZurICH, August 31 (reuters): The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it had disqualified six sportspeople, including three Russian medalists, for failing doping tests at the Beijing 2008 Games.

The sanctions come amid a crackdown on Olympic athletes' use of banned performance-enhancing substances that has now spilled over to the Paralympics Games as well.

Controversies over doping overshadowed the build-up to this year's Rio Olympics and flared anew as U.S. and Australian competitors branded their Russian and Chinese rivals drug cheats.

In the latest move, the IOC disqualified Russian bronze-medalist weightlifter Nadezda Evstyukhina, silver-medalist weightlifter Marina Shainova, and Tatyana Firova, who

finished second with teammates in the 4x400m track event.

The Russian Federation team was also disqualified from the women's 4x400m relay. All the sanctioned athletes were ordered to return any medals, pins or diplomas they had won in Beijing.

Bronze-medal-winning weightlifter Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia and fellow weightlifters Alexandru Dudoglo of Moldova and Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan were also disqualified, the IOC said in a statement. It called on sports federations to modify the results of the Beijing Games that were affected and consider what other steps they found appropriate.

The IOC stores athletes' samples for a decade to test with newer methods or for new substances, and has in the past stripped medal winners of their prizes.

Nadezda Evstyukhina (REUTERS)

Russia to hold alternative 'Paralympics' for banned athletes

mosCow, August 31 (AFP): Russia will hold a two-day competition next week for its Paralympic squad banned from Rio, the country's committee chief said Wednesday, just as the official Games start in Brazil.

"We're planning to hold on September 7-8 a series of tournaments for the country's Paralympic athletes at the training bases in the Moscow region," R-Sport news agency quoted Russia's Paralympic Committee head Vladimir Lukin as saying.

Russia looks set to miss the Para-

lympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport last week dismissed an appeal against a blanket ban over allegations of state-run doping.

The country has appealed to a federal court in Switzerland against the ruling but there appears little hope of overturning the suspension before the start of the Paralympics in Rio on September 7.

Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out against the ban on the country's Paralympians, calling the decision "outside the law,

morality, humanity".

Putin pledged that Russia instead would organise competitions for the banned Paralympians "to show all their skills".

A Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday that it was still to be decided if Putin would attend the event.

Russia's Olympic squad narrowly escaped a total ban from the Rio Games, but its track-and-field team was suspended over evidence of state-sponsored drug cheating and corruption in the country.

Murray, Serena ride strong serves into US Open second round

New York, August 31 (AFP): Wimbledon champions Andy Murray and Serena Williams powered into the second round of the US Open as the stars came out on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.

Williams, launching her latest bid to rewrite the record books, started strong and didn't let up in a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 29th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova.

The US world number one appeared untroubled by the balky right shoulder that has hindered her in recent weeks, delivering a dozen aces and 27 winners overall in the 63-minute contest.

"I knew today I needed to be focused because I've played her. She's gotten to the semi-finals. She goes deep in majors," Williams said of the Russian lefthander who beat her in the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open.

"She knows how to play big matches on big courts.

She's not intimidated. I knew I had to really come

out today. It was my only option really." Williams said she wouldn't know until she'd slept on it how her shoulder might respond to the effort.

"Every day, I'll just see how it goes," said Williams, who is chasing a record seventh title on the hardcourts of Flushing Meadows where she first triumphed in 1999.

A victory would see her break the Open Era record of 22 Grand Slam titles she now shares with German Steffi Graf and close in on Margaret Court's all-time mark of 24 major titles.

While Williams has struggled since Wimbledon, Murray went from claiming a second title at the All England club to a successful defence of his Olympic gold in Rio. Vying to become the fourth man in the Open Era to reach all four major finals in a calendar year, Murray, too, produced a dominant service performance in a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Czech Lukas Rosol.

Andy Murray (USA Today Sports)

"I don't think I had any break points against me, which is very good," the Scot said.

Before the floodlights came up, Serena's elder sister Venus claimed a Grand Slam record of her own as her 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Ukraine's Kateryna Kozlova marked her 72nd ap-

pearance in the main draw of a major.

The 36-year-old Venus, enjoying a resurgence in a 2016 season that includes a WTA title in Taiwan, survived 63 unforced errors against the rising 22-yearold, although she was pleased that her aggressive approach also yielded 46

Serena Williams (AFP Photo)

winners.

"The good part is I'm playing the game I want to play, I'm playing aggressively and moving forward," Venus said.

"It's just about making a few less errors and it's a completely different story."

Fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, try-

ing to make it to the quarter-finals in New York for the first time, breezed past US qualifier Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-1 and fifth-seeded Romanian Simona Halep also eased through with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Belgian Kirsten Flipkens.

Men's third seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland,

a two-time semi-finalist, reached the second round with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-4, 6-4 win over Spain's Fernando Verdasco.

Kei Nishikori, who became Asia's first men's Grand Slam finalist in New York in 2014, when he fell to Marin Cilic in the final, also advanced, downing Ger-

man Benjamin Becker 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

- A lot of aces Eighth-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria needed five sets to secure his second-round spot, downing Australia's John Millman 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.

Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion whose career was nearly ended by three wrist surgeries, advanced with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victory over fellow Argentine Diego Schwartzman.

There was a little record-setting on the men's side as well, with Croatian Ivo Karlovic belting a US Open record of 61 aces in a 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 win over Taiwan's Lu Yen-Hsun.

Karlovic, 37, beat the previous best of 49 aces for one match in New York established by Richard Krajicek in 1999.

"I knew there were a lot of aces because there was a period when almost every serve was an ace," Karlovic said.

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