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Morung Express News Kohima | September 5
Sedition, defamation charges can’t be invoked for criticism: SC NEw DElhI, SEPTEMBER 5 (PTI): Sedition or defamation cases cannot be slapped on anyone criticising the government, the Supreme Court on Monday said in a clear message. “Someone making a statement to criticise the government does not invoke an offence under sedition or defamation law. We have made it clear that invoking of section 124(A) of IPC (sedition) requires certain guidelines to be followed as per the earlier judgement of the apex court,” a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit said. The observation came as Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for an NGO, said sedition was a serious offence and the law on it was being grossly misused for stifling dissent. He cited examples of sedition charges being slapped on agitators protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and cartoonist Aseem Trivedi. To this, the bench said “we don’t have to explain the sedition law. It’s already there in the fivejudges constitution bench judgement in Kedar Nath Singh vs state of Bihar of 1962.” The court, while disposing of a petition filed by NGO Common Cause alleging misuse of the sedition law, refused to pass direction on plea that a copy of this order be sent to all Chief Secretaries of states and the Directors General of Police. “You have to file separate plea highlighting if any misuse of sedition law is there. In criminal jurisprudence, allegations and cognisance have to be case specific, otherwise it will go haywire. There can’t be any generalisation,” the bench said.
NGFB appeals to AR & NSCN (K) for resumption of ceasefire
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DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 5 (MExN): The Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) has appealed to both the Assam Rifles and NSCN (K) to restrain from armed confrontation. A press note from the federation stated that the “Nagas have suffered enough in the past, we have lost thousands of precious lives, now yearning for permanent peace and any sort of armed confrontations, may sabotage our hard earned peace process.” It appealed to both NSCN (K) and Assam Rifles to pay attention to the “humble voice of the Nagas and restraint from the act of violence,” while calling for resumption of ceasefire between the two sides.
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i take responsibility: edu Minister on teacher’s plight
Assures to see that such kinds of inconveniences do not happen to the teachers
It is I who work, but it is your kith and kin who get my monthly salary. Wonderful huh?
Pouille upsets Nadal to reach quarters
KDCC questions delay in completion of projects
Philippines: Many fear to talk about Duterte’s war
The Nagaland State Level Teachers’ Day Celebration organised by the Department of School Education was held on September 5 at the NBCC Convention Centre with Yitachu, Minister for School Education and SCERT as the chief guest. Chief Guest Yitachu said that many nil-result schools were converted to success stories because of good teachers. He, however, mentioned that despite much effort, the education system has many shortfalls, he cited instances like slow promotion for teachers, inability to get salary on time for teachers of Centrally Sponsored Schemes etc. “It pains me to see all those problems and I take responsibility. There are areas where we need cooperation and I’m with you, I shall see to it that such kinds of inconveniences do not happen to our teachers” he said.
Yitachu also lauded the efforts and sacrifices of the teachers who, despite meager salaries, contribute immensely in imparting education to the students with passion and dedication. In order to tackle the various challenges in the current education system in Nagaland Yitachu suggested the focus in the future needs to be, firstly, to give quality education to the students with special emphasis on primary education and secondly to instill the fear of God in students. Yitachu asked all the teachers and the Education Department to rededicate themselves and focus on primary education. The education system in Nagaland should be to provide jobs and not just to provide skills, he viewed and pointed the lack of ideas and innovations among Nagas. This, he said is one reason why developmental activities do not take place in the State. Yitachu also added that the success of the students will be the greatest gift to the teachers. Yitachu also deliberated on the shortage of Science and Math teachers. He mentioned that some of the posts for Science and Math were converted to other posts when there
responsibility thrust upon them by the parents and society. “It is our collective responsibility to teach and educate children. Because of the hard works of the teachers, Nagaland has made much progress in the field of education. We have been able to surpass the national average in terms of literacy,” said Solo.
Minister for School Education and SCERT, Yitachu with officials and the State Level Teacher’s Day awardees at the Teachers Day programme in Kohima on September 5. (Morung Photo)
was a shortage of Science and Math teachers but he expressed hope that, with the recent recruitment of RMSA teachers, a solution will be found. Nini Sekhose, General Secretary of the All Nagaland Private Schools Association, Nini Sekhose state that “A teacher is someone who has decided to dedicate the rest of his or her life to make a difference in the world. They are on the front lines of battle every day. This is a profession that demands everything that you have and therefore, should not be entered into lightly.” While congratulating the State Awardees, Sekhose also gave a ‘special congratulatory’ note to the teachers from the private
schools, who despite the fact that their remunerations are much lesser compared to their counterparts in the Government, their commitment and zeal to the cause of education has no parallel. More than 80% of the student populations in Nagaland are in private schools. Private schools are producing the best results at a fraction of the cost incurred by Govt. schools per child, added Sekhose which according to her is possible because of the low fees charged by most of the private schools who run their institutions with “missionary zeal.” “I would also like to take this opportunity to remind the Government, the Min-
ister of School Education, about a promise that was made on Teachers Day 2014. It was promised that Private Schools would be provided with Maths and Science Teachers, however we see that teachers for these two subjects are deficient even in Government schools, we truly sympathize with the predicament of the government for this sad state of affairs. In spite of the very good intention of the government this has not come to pass. The road to hell is said to be paved with roads of good intention,” concluded Sekhose. Meanwhile FP Solo, Commissioner and Secretary, School Education and SCERT exhorted the teachers to realize the enormous
Quality Education remains a matter of great concern Despite the mentioned achievements, FP Solo affirmed that quality education remains a matter of great concern to all. “Our achievements in areas like Gross Enrolment ratio, Net enrolment Ratio, Transition rate, Retention rate, Dropout rate, Pupil Teacher Ratio rate and Pass percentage of government schools are not at all satisfactory,” said Solo who also pointed out the lack of well trained and qualified teachers to impart quality education. There are nearly 12,000 government teachers in Nagaland and nearly 65 % of government school teachers and more than 70 % of private school teachers are still yet to be trained. While Nagaland’s score in the National Achievement Survey shows that
the students are doing fairly well in English language and social science, Solo informed that their learning outcome in Maths and Science is below national average. The ASER 2014 results indicated that 8% of our class VIII students could not read class II text and 33.2 % of them could not do divisions. The survey shows that the teaching learning process is not properly taking place in some schools. Therefore, Solo hoped that the CCE is strictly implemented in all the schools in the State. Solo further the recently held National Eligibility cum entrance Test (NEET) for admissions to MBBS and BDS course where no Naga student qualified. “Our children also should develop competitive spirit, work hard and compete with other children in other parts of the country. Besides that we need to build a stronger foundation for Maths and Science education in the State. It is a big challenge to all of us-policy makers, school managers, teachers, parents and students. But we cannot shirk our responsibility, if we want to build a better future for our children and our society,” concluded Solo. Related news on Page 5
Victory can only be achieved by Power transformer conks out for 3rd time honesty & truth: Gen Thinuoselie Morung Express News Dimapur | September 5
DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 5 (MExN): General (Retd) Thinuoselie M Keyho, President of the NNC today stated that when it comes to the Naga issue, “victory cannot be achieved through the use of arms and guns or physical strength but only by Honesty and Truth.” “Victory is not possible by adopting crooked or evil means,” he stated in his message commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the ‘Indo- Naga Ceasefire Day.’ “The solution of the Naga issue may be a challenge to the wisdom and statesmanship of the Indian leaders. The Government of India may appear good or bad. Let the Government of India make the choice,” General (Retd) Thinuoselie stated. On the 1964 ceasefire signed between the Government of India and
the FGN, he stated that “Nagas starting from zero to that of signing a Ceasefire Agreement with Government of India was regarded as ample rewards for our sacrifices and effort; they have indirectly given us recognition. On top of this, it has already granted the “Nagaland State,” and to supersede all these, was going to have dialogue with us. We also believed that India was really sincere and wanted to solve the issue positively attended the Talk.” On why the talks failed, General (Retd) Thinuoselie opined it was the “attitude of the Indians, their approach was not good.” “They were too proud and thought highly of themselves while they did not consider the Nagas as human beings and ill treated us,” he stated. He further opined that “had they understood the Nagas, the Naga issue
would have been solved long before, but the inability to solve the issue even after so many years is only because they do not understand the Nagas.” He further lamented that the present peace talk “is being held only with NSCN (IM).” “What does this mean? How many times or with how many people will they sign the Ceasefire with?” he questioned. During the 1964 Ceasefire, General (Retd) Thinuoselie said there was “unity among the Nagas. The people’s mandate was also there.” “How can the Issue be solved now in the absence of unity and mandate? The Government of India can neither fool the Nagas nor the world,” he added. Keyho, however stated, “we Nagas believe that righteousness and truth will ultimately triumph.” Full text on Page 10
Duncan Basti experienced yet another blackout after a 300 Kva distribution transformer conked out on the night of September 4. It was the third time in a space of little over a month the area has faced such a situation. The transformer placed near Carewell School supplies power to a part of Duncan Basti and an unspecified number of consumers across the river at Boro-Lengri. Initially, the area was being supplied by an ageing 250 Kva transformer, which broke down on July 21. It was followed by a blackout lasting over a day before a stand in was
put in place. Less than a week later on July 29, the replacement also malfunctioned resulting in another extended blackout. It was eventually replaced by a higher capacity 300 Kva transformer, which again broke down on September 4. This time, according to a department official, it was not a caseofmalfunctioningbutapowerlinesnapping and falling on the transformer. As per the official, an overhead 11 Kv line snapped around midnight causing its fittings to burn. The transformer was removed and transported to the repair centre but the problem was that no immediate replacement in the 250-300 Kva range was available. The official added that hopefully a spare will be made available at the earliest.
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Measure development on humanitarian values: TR 5th
DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 5 (MExN): Nagaland State Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today called upon global leaders to embark on reforms to ensure that global development and growth is sustainable and has a humanitarian aspect. Delivering his ‘Statement of Hope’ at the 4th Edition of the Pangkor Dialogue at Ipoh in the Malaysian State of Perak this morning, Zeliang said to achieve inclusive sustainable development, every progress would require change. He however lamented that development and growth have been measured by numbers so far. “Today, we should focus on humanitarian values as measurement for development and growth,” Zeliang emphasised. Questioning if the primary attention of humanity is to make maximum profits, he asked if it is acceptable that “1% of the world population should own most of the global wealth depriving the majority to live in wars, conflicts and violence.”
Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang with other Delegates at the 4th Edition of the Pangkor Dialogue at Ipoh in the Malaysian State of Perak on September 5.
Zeliang called upon global leaders to accept a higher and more promising call for reforms to create “an effective and implementable solution to sustainable development.” “The hope is there, we can see it everywhere; please join us now making the Pangkor Dialogue a platform for the voice of everyone to be heard. Let us unite together to make a better development to set pace of living for the younger generation without forgetting our ancestors,” the Chief Minister appealed. He also expressed his firm
belief that “every issue in the world can be resolved if the people who care would come together to fund solutions.” The Pangkor Dialogue is organised by the Institute Darul Ridzuan with the theme “Building Resilience for Inclusive & Sustainable Future.” Launched by the Chief Minister of the Malaysian State of Perak, Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, the keynote address at the inaugural function was delivered by Fredrik Haren of Sweden while leaders from Sri Lanka, Republic of Guinea, the Philippines,
Thailand and UAE delivered their statements of Hope along with Nagaland Chief Minister. The outcome of the dialogue is expected to provide actionable and impactful recommendations for the benefits of all stakeholders. Pangkor Dialogue also has been proven to be a venue for forming fruitful collaborations between international stakeholders. The event provides a platform that brings all the stakeholders under one roof. The Pangkor dialogue also aims to bring together leaders, academicians, researchers, policy makers, industry thinkers and personalities from around the world to shares ideas and to discuss issues related to development and sustainability. The event will serve as a unique platform to network, business match, share ideas, and to showcase investment opportunities in Nagaland. The Nagaland chief Minister is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Dialogue on Tuesday.
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SVUD celebrates Amongmong Festival KDCC questions delay in completion of projects
Imnajungla T. Longkumer
Born 29-09-1980 - Died 01-09-2016 We, the family members of late Imnajungla T. Longkumer (Waromung Village) express our profound gratitude and appreciation to every individual and organisations who have extended their support and solidarity with us through prayers, material contributions and physical support during the sudden demise of our beloved daughter on September 1, 2016. We are deeply humbled by your gracious kindness and acknowledge the sacrifices you have made to share our grief. May the Almighty God bless you abundantly. Family Members
Different groups participates in the Amongmong Festival organized by Seyochung Village Union Dimapur on September 3.
Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): The Seyochung Village Union Dimapur (SVUD) observed Amongmong Festival on September 3 at its Union Treasurer’s residence Chorise Anar Purana Bazar, Dimapur. The festive events were chaired by Seola Anar and Tsase C. Sangtam. The Union President
Thsisepi Sangtam delivered the welcome speech while Dr. Apise, Pastor Sangtam Baptist Church, Purana Bazar said the invocation. Kihoto Sumi, Executive Member of Steering Committee, NSCN (IM) also participated in the event. The significance of the Amongmong Festival was delivered by Alise Anar,
Retd. Relation Officer. A press note stated that the Festival also witnessed Sangtam traditional presentation- Longmi Khi by men and women folk, song by the female group followed by the Mongmong games and grand Mongmong Feast. More than 500 members attended the festival.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT No power in Emlo-To since May; The family of the late Seyiekhrietuo Keditsu (Neiu) would like to offer our thanks to the many people who showed great kindness and support during Neiu's illness and in the time since he left us on 31st August 2016. For the well-organised yet compassionate medical care ofNeiu,wearetrulyindebtedto the dedicated team of doctors and staff of Bethel Medical Centre, Kohima and in particular to our dear brother Dr. Kezhalezo for the care and love showered upon Neiu during his illness. Sincere thanks are owed to the speakers for orating with great distinction, and to the pastors of the Ministers Hill Baptist Church, Kohima for leading a beautiful service. We are sorry that we did not get the chance to speak with everyone at Neiu’s funeral but are so pleased and proud that you were part of such a special day. May God Bless you all. Son and relatives
Acknowledgement
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. II Timothy 4:7 As we grieve the sad demise of our father Late. Rev. L. Bizo, words are inadequate to express our deepest heartfelt gratitude and appreciation and our indebtnessto all Individuals, friends, well-wishers,Churches, Organisations, Associations, Councils, Fellowships, Groups, Unions, Doctors & Nurses of CIHSR for your unreserved contribution Physically, Clinically, Materially & Financially and unconditional moral support through words of comfort and encouragement during his illness and ultimate demise on the 28th August 2016. We would like to express from the depth of our heart that your prayers, presence, gifts and assistance have been an immeasurable source of help, encouragement, strength, comfort and consolation which will continue to enlighten and cherish our hearts for ever. Though there is little that one can say and do and we are unable to thank each and every one personally in person but it is our ardent prayer to almighty God that you be richly blessed. 1. His Excellency, P.B. Acharya, Governor of Nagaland. 2. Ato Kilonser and Officers, GPRN/ NSCN (IM). 3. Doctors and Nurses of Referral Hospital (CIHSR), Dimapur. 4. CBCNEI, Guwahati. 5. Fellowship of Naga Baptist Association (FNBA). 6. Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC). 7. Angami Baptist Church Council (ABCC) 8. Zeliangrong Baptist Church Council (ZBCC), Peren. 9. Dimapur Angami Baptist Church Council (DABCC). 10. Chakhesang Baptist Church Council, T. Cikri, Pfutsero. 11. Tangkhul Baptist Association, Nagaland (TBAN). 12. Khonoma Rüffüno Nagaland (KRN). 13. Centenary Mission Society, Khonoma. 14. Chakro Baptist Pastor Deacon Krotho. 15. Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS), Dimapur. 16. Shalom Bible Seminary, Zubza. 17. Nehemiah Bible College, Urra Village. 18. ChakhromaGazetted Officers, Krotho. 19. Naga Women Society, Winners Ministry, New Ministers Hill, Kohima. 20. Khonoma Baptist Church, Khonoma. 21. Meyase Thino Krotho 22. Dimapur Christian Forum
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Town Baptist Church, Dimapur. Kuda Village Baptist Church, Dimapur. Baptist Church ‘A’, Medziphema Town. Jakhama Baptist Church. Baptist Mission Church, Kohima. Khuzami Baptist Church, Chumukedima. Lierie Baptist Church, Kohima. Baptist Church, Medziphema. Mima Baptist Church. LEF Church, Dimapur. Sumi Baptist Fellowship, Darogapathar. Naga Bazar Baptist Church Phevima Baptist Church. Gorkha Union, Darogapathar Village. Mao Baptist Church, Dimapur. Chumukedima Village Baptist Church. Ruzaphema Baptist Church. Wungram Baptist Church. Poumai Baptist Church. Tangkhul Baptist Church. Chakesang Baptist Church, Tulazou. Kevijau Baptist Church, Dimapur. Naga Senior Citizens. Nagaland Conservatory of Music, Dimapur. DRDA, Kohima. NSRLM, Block Mission Management Unit (BMMU), Jakhama. NSRLM, District Mission Management Unit (DMMU), DRDA, Kohima. Kohima District MGNREGA Association, DRDA Kohima. NSRLM,Block Mission Management Unit (BMMU), Tseminyu. School Management, GMS Darogapathar. Darogapathar Village Council. Naharbari Village Council, Dimapur. Darogapathar Youth Organisation, Dimapur. VDB Women, Darogapathar. Business Association, Darogapathar. Love Care Home, Darogapathar. GMS, Kuda Village. GMS, Seithekhema ‘C’. TOT Union, Dimapur.
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Kohima, September 5 (mexN): The Kohima District Congress Committee (KDCC) today criticized the “inaction” of Department of Urban Development, Government of Nagaland regarding delay in completion of three particular projects for more than 5 to 10 years in capital Kohima. According to a press release from KDCC President, Kevi Vizo, the three projects are: Construction of Capital Cultural Hall near NSF Martyrs’ Park, for which, work order was issued on December 9, 2005 and was supposed to be completed within 18 months; Multilevel Parking at Old Medical Directorate Site, below Police Headquarters – work order was issued on March 30, 2010 with period of completion set for 24 months; and Multilevel Parking at NST – work order issued on April 12, 2010 and was supposed to be completed within 24 months. More importantly, it expressed surprise to observe that the government had dismantled the standing New NST in the heart of the town for construction of the Multilevel Parking, which would also house NST office. “But, even after the lapse of the scheduled date of completion, the poor passengers do not even have a roof to be protected from rain and sun and there is no space for public amenities in the makeshift NST office,” KDCC lamented. “The other two projects were
also started with high ambition, but are yet to see the light of the day.” Pointing out government’s pursuance to bring about Smart City Project for the State Capital, KDCC questioned “how will the government and department concerned balance timely completion of the Smart City Project” with major and important projects already remaining stalled even as payments for the projects are almost cleared. In this light, KDCC questioned the seriousness of the present NPF-led DAN government in the State towards achieving development on the ground and not just on papers. It also asked the department concerned to come out clear on the stalled projects and also what measures are being initiated to compensate the delay caused as per the contract orders. KDCC further maintained that the coming together of the 60 elected representatives in the State has “created a vacuum of developmental activities as the present state government having no opposition is concentrating more on their personal development instead of taking up welfare of the people who elected them.” This, it added, “is clearer with the seven elected representatives of Kohima district switching on to silent mode despite being an eye witness to such negligence.”
ETSU appeals to Chief Engineer Mentoring the leaders prog held
ZuNheboto, September 5 (mexN): Emlo-To Students’ Union (ETSU) has appealed to the Chief Engineer, Department of Power, Nagaland to restore power at Emlo-To Area, Asukhuto Town, and Kheloshe Polytechnic Atoizu (KPA) in Zunheboto. In a letter to the Chief Engineer, ETSU President, Vikato I. Chishi highlighted that the denizens of Emlo-To area (Suko, Litsa, Emlo, Yesheluto), Asukhuto, and KPA have been under “complete realm of darkness” since May 2016 and “the hardship being faced by the public is inexpressible and unimaginable as our very basic need has been deprived for long.” “We’re almost back to the age where phones, TVs and other electronic products seemed impossible. Inconvenience in communications and use of basic technological products has become unfeasible, the expense on candles & kerosene has become enormous,” it lamented. Besides, it stated, the students of KPA are studying without light, let alone providing them full electricity daily for practical and technical classes. The students’ union further stated that the miseries, anguishes, disappointments have become uncountable; nevertheless; the students’ union, councils, and general mass of the affected areas have co-operated with the power department by not showing their resentments and frustrations, understanding the due process involved in departmental works and had emphatically listened to the reasons provided for the failure. “However, this courtesy should not be taken for granted as the limit has already been crossed and we no more want any reason than power in our area.” The letter said that the obsolete 750 kv transformer which was taken for repairing never arrived. However, in August, a reportedly new 1600 kv transformer was installed in place of the former. “Sadly it lasted specifically for 2 days and never worked again. Later, we found out that the last arrived transformer was a repaired and painted, worn out one from Pfutsero,” ETSU pointed out. Considering the above circumstances, ETSU requested the Chief Engineer to have genuine concern and consideration for the oldest polytechnic in Nagaland taking in view the plight of the students and Emlo-To area by immediately sanctioning a new transformer with kb so that the problem will be solved once and for all.
Participants during the ‘mentoring the leaders’ programme organized by Ao Baptist Churches Dimapur Area Associated Pastor Youth Organisation on August 19 and 20.
Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): The Ao Baptist Churches Dimapur Area Associated Pastor Youth Organisation organised a combined programme on ‘mentoring the leaders’ based on ‘learning through experience’ at Land Resource Centre, Razaphema on August 19 and 20. The resource person for the programme was Imnatoshi Longkumer,
Youth Director, DABA and Moatemjen, Administrator, Nehemiah India (Dimapur). Altogether 18 Ao Baptist churches with 81 delegates from Dimapur area took part in the training. This was stated in a press release issued by I Bendang Walling, Associated Pastor (youth), Medziphema Town Ao Baptist Church.
Leprosy Case Detection Campaign launched
Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): The official launching of Leprosy Case Detection Campaign was held at Chief Medical Officer’s office, Dimapur on September 5. Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi, Chief Medical Officer, officially launched the campaign to be conducted from September 5 to 15 in Dimapur district under the initiative of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme. The programme was attended by Dr. Ahu Sekhose,
Participants and officials at the launch of the Leprosy Case Detection Campaign held at Chief Medical Officer’s office, Dimapur on September 5.
State Programme Officer, Kithan, ZLO Dimapur, DisDr. SK Dey, State Leprosy trict Programme Officers Consultant, Dr. C Yanpo and CMO staffs.
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HPC(D) delegation submits charter Committed to pass ILP bill: Ibobi Singh of demands to Mizoram govt Bid to storm Manipur Assembly foiled HPC (D) delegation leader Lalthalien told PTI over phone that the five-point charter of demands was sent by an e-mail yesterday AizAwl, September 5 (pti): Manipur-based Hmar People’s Convention (Democratic) peace delegation has submitted their charter of demands to the Mizoram government. HPC (D) delegation leader Lalthalien told PTI over phone that the five-point charter of demands was sent by an e-mail yesterday. The first round of talks between the HPC (D) and the Mizoram government was held here on August 10 and the second round was scheduled to be held during mid-September or third week of the month. Lalthalien said whether any member of the HPC (D) leaders would participate in the next round of talks was not yet known as the state government had not demanded the participation of the members of the outfit till date. As the parleys were held on mutual trust, the HPC
(D) delegation till today did not raise the issue of signing Suspension of Operation (SoO), the church leader from Imphal said. The charter of demands were drafted by the Demand Drafting Committee headed by John Pulamte, a social activist and member of the HPC (D) delegation in the talks. The eight-member Demand Drafting Committee was constituted in a meeting of leaders of different
Hmar organisations on August 13 at Churachanpur in Manipur. Both Mizoram government and the HPC (D) had made several efforts to find amicable solution to the Hmar imbroglio through negotiations and the last talks held in 2013 fizzled out due to disagreement over the period of extension of SoO. After that hostilities continued resulting in the deaths of three state police
personnel and one HPC (D) militant and also the arrest of several leaders of the outfit. State home minister R Lalzirliana, yesterday expressed optimism over the outcome of the current peace talks. Lalzirliana, however, made it clear the state government would never allow establishment of a separate autonomous district council carving out north eastern part of the state adjoining Manipur.
impHAl, September 5 (NNN): Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh today told the state assembly that his government "is committed" to passing a tough bill to safeguard the interests of all indigenous people but "the government needs consensus finding approaches after which it will consider passing the Draft Bill in a special assembly session." The Chief Minister’s statement came amid mounting protest by the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) calling for tabling and passing of a new ILP related bill in the assembly of poll-bound Manipur. Hundreds of pro-ILP protesters gathered in the vicinity of the assembly building and tried to storm it. A large number of slogan-shouting students and women volunteers of JCILPS Women Wing attempted to storm the assembly violating curfew but the police foiled the bid. Manipur Police made special security arrangements to deal with protesters on the last day of the House session. Curfew was imposed by the government in and around the state assembly
Two BJP workers hurt in police action
impHAl, September 5 (NNN): Two BJP workers were injured as cops fired tear gas shells in a bid to disperse hundreds of party workers who were attempting to disrupt assembly session here on Monday over the police constable recruitment controversy. Manipur government recently dropped results of selection tests of 2013 for recruiting 2000 constables. The state unit of BJP wants the government withdraw the cancellation order staging protest since then. Curfew was imposed in 1 km radius of the assembly complex at Chingmeirong by the government after the party threatcomplex on Monday in view of the announcement by the state unit of BJP to storm the assembly over the police constable recruitment controversy and also mounting demand for passing of a new bill to protect indigenous people by the JCILPS. Besides imposition of curfew by Imphal East and Imphal West District Magistrates within 1 km radius of the assembly complex at Chingmeirong with effect from last midnight till the end of the House session, the government declared holiday for all educational institutes as a precautionary measure. “All pros and cons of the Draft Bill furnished to the
ened to disrupt the House session in pursuit of the demand. Today, state BJP workers led by its president Kshetrimayum Bhabananda and other groups from several party mandals tried to storm the assembly building openly violating curfew. Large number police personnel were deployed at all vulnerable points in the vicinity of the assembly complex. They blocked roads and fired tear gas shells to quell the protesters when two workers of BJP were hit by shells.The injured were taken to RIMS. The state BJP vowed to continue their agitation over the issue.
government by JCILPS have to be considered. The government needs consensus finding approaches after which it will consider passing the Draft Bill in a special assembly session,” CM Ibobi assured the House while clearing his government’s stand on the ILP issue. He informed the House that only 89 individuals submitted their opinions on the government prepared Draft Bill till August 24 deadline. Ibobi was apparently trying to convince the House that the Joint Committee belatedly submitted its Draft to the government which was facing time constraints in the assembly held with only two sittings.
The Manipur Chief Minister added that the government’s earlier decision to table its proposed bill in the House was cancelled after Joint Committee preferred a Draft Bill on which the government will certainly take opinions from all stakeholders. He referred to the widespread tribal protests and the subsequent Churachandpur violence which killed nine protesters by security forces following passing of three ILP related bills in the assembly in August last year and said the President rejected one of the bills in the backdrop of the ‘unprecedented incident.’
ZYF on Jiribam 'full-fledged district' demand Trinamool elects tribal leader as legislature party leader in Tripura
impHAl, September 5 (mexN): While stating that it has no objection to “upgradation of present Jiribam Sub-Division as a full-fledged district,” the ZYF today expressed its strong opposition to “amalgamation of any village or merging of any part or areas of Tamenglong district” for formation of Jiribam district without the “consent of the people.” It will not bring positive result since the ZYF has been strongly pressing the State Govt. to resolve the issue of illegal encroachment into Tamenglong district by some individuals from Jiribam Sub-Division, asserted a press statement from Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF) President, Titus Kamei. While Jiribam District Demand Committee (JDCC), which is spearheading the demand, has announced its plan to launch series of agitations against the State Government in the coming days, till now the committee has not “make the details of list of villages to be included, its map and boundary of
the propose Jiribam district in public domain,” it added. ZYF, thus, demanded that the JDCC to come out clear picture prior to launching of agitation so that any sort of misunderstanding is avoided. There has been speculation that some Zeliangrong villages of Tamenglong district are going to amalgamate with Jiribam Sub-Division for formation of Jiribam as a full-fledged district, it added. In the past the State Government and ZYF had held two-three times joint meeting with the State Chief Minister along with other Ministers and MLAs at the Chief Minister Secretariat in the past and committee called “Inter District Boundary Dispute Committee” was also formed in this regard, ZYF maintained. Besides, an inspection and physical verification by enquiry team headed by by W. Arthur IAS, the then Deputy Commissioner, Tamenglong was also conducted, it said adding that ADC Jiribam and SDO Tousem and others
concern departmental officials of Revenue, Forest etc of Tamenglong and Jiribam also participated the enquiry in the early part of 2014. However, ZYF lamented that while enquiry report was submitted to the State Government for “further necessary action,” no positive step based on the report has been taken up so far “to bring solution regarding illegal encroachment.” “It is a clear indication of intentional delayed with deliberate attempt to conceal facts,” ZYF alleged. In this connection, the ZYF “strongly urged” the State Government and the committee constituted specifically for resolving the inter-district boundary issue to take up appropriate action based on the enquiry report submitted by the enquiry team “at the earliest in order to avoid any misunderstanding among the people.” “Any misunderstanding if emerged among the people shall be the responsibility of the State Govt. and Boundary Committee,” it further cautioned.
Single window clearance system for film shoots: Assam gUwAHAti, September 5 (iANS): Assam Tourism Minister Himnta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that the state government will introduce a single window clearance system for film shoots, to help promote the tourism potential of the state. Making the announcement while launching the new logo of Assam Tourism with the punchline "Awesome Assam", he said that aggressive publicity will be done so that film producers will be eager to shoot in different locations of the state. " Tour ism publicity should not be confined
alone within the state but should be visible outside the state. There is no sustained advertisement of 'Brand Assam' which has numerous potential to become a tourist destination. As such the government is taking all steps to further promote 'Awesome Assam' in the coming days," he said. The new logo, which was launched on Sunday, was designed keeping in mind and reflecting the state's main features - the one-horned rhino, Assam tea and the mighty Brahmaputra. Sarma also said the government has allocated Rs 15 crore for pub-
licity of the tourism sector. He also said that that some young foreigners are keen to visit the state in order to see places like the tea gardens, which were a workplace of their forefathers and other relatives. "About 500 to 700 houses will be constructed in some areas of the districts so that tourists can stay and relish the local dishes," he said, adding that places like Kamakhya and Majuli has huge potential to attract domestic tourists and Rs 33 cr have already been sanctioned for development of infrastructure at Kamakhya.
islature party in Tripura. TMC's Tripura unit chairman Ratan Chakraborty would communicate this decision to the state assembly speaker soon," Roy told the media. The six legislators after three-month long parleys were recognised as TMC MLAs by the Tripura Assembly Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath on August 29. The Speaker, citing rules and Supreme Court verdict, refused to give opposition party status to the TMC in the state assembly "TMC would get the opposition party status soon and the party would seek the position by referring to rules and the court verdict," the TMC parliamentarian said. Trinamool leader Su-
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g U wA H At i , S e ptember 5 (iANS): At least three persons were arrested for alleged involvement in child trafficking, officials said on Monday. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) also rescued five boys and seven means, and he was hopeful that monitor- girls from their clutches, ing of the progress of each of the projects be made available in the pictorial form. In fact the NEC had released about Rs 50 lakh of the Rs 144 lakh meant for the North Eastern District Resources Plan (NEDRP) which is aimed at strengthening governance policy through geospatial inputs. The NEDRP was started in 2011 in Meghalaya as a pilot project and in 2012, it got the NEC nod to develop geospatial data for 36 districts of all eight north eastern states, NESAC director P L N Raju said. He said it was one of the most successful programmes developed by the Centre and headed by programme director Dr D Chutia. Apart from project monitoring, the programme also provides geospatial inputs important for preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR), Master plan document and planning of various developmental activities in the districts covered, Raju added.
NESAC technology to monitor 700 NEC projects UmiAm (megHAlAyA), September 5 (pti): Around 700 government projects funded by the North Eastern Council, which are facing delay and cost over-run in eight states of the north east region, will soon get a near-to-real time monitoring using a satellite system developed by the North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC). The system which was first initiated in 2011 as a pilot project, got the North Eastern Council (NEC) nod in 2012 for an amount of Rs 144 lakh covering 36 districts across all states in the north east, officials said. "We are expecting that using the technology that is being developed by NESAC, we will be able to monitor the progress of over 700 projects funded by the NEC in the region," NEC Planning Advisor C H Kharshiing told PTI on the sidelines of 16th foundation day celebration at the NESAC premises here. He said at the moment, NEC was monitoring the projects using the conventional
AgArtAlA, September 5 (iANS): Veteran tribal leader and former Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee chief Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl, who along with six Congress lawmakers joined the Trinamool Congress in April, was chosen as leader of the TMC legislature party in the state, TMC all India Vice-President Mukul Roy said here on Monday. Six MLAs, led by former opposition Leader Sudip Roy Barman, resigned from the Congress on April 7 and joined the TMC on June 7 in protest against the Congress' alliance with Left parties ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections. "Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl has been choosen as leader of the TMC's leg-
a spokesperson for North East Frontier Railway said. The incident took place at Rangia railway station, about 50 km from Assam's main city Guwahati. "On interrogation, the traffickers revealed they were taking the boys and girls to Mumbai," the officer said.
dip Roy Barman said the six MLAs comprise the second largest legislature group of the party in India after West Bengal, where the party has been ruling since 2011. Roy, who came here on Sunday and addressed a gathering in southern Tripura's Udaipur, told the reporters that a large number of CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) and Congress members and leaders are keen to join the TMC. "The political situation in Tripura is same as it was in 2008 in West Bengal. Like Bengal, the ruling CPI-M is
rapidly losing its supports from the people. The TMC would come to power in Tripura in the 2018 assembly elections," he added. Before leaving for Kolkata, Roy said that party supremo Mamata Banerjee would soon constitute a full fledged state committee of the TMC to spearhead the party in the Left-ruled Tripura. The TMC would organise a rally in Agartala on September 23 as a mark of completion of one month of August 23 violent clashes here in which 24 persons, including five policemen,
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SIT asks RBI to share black money data with govt authorities New DelHi, September 5 (iaNS): The SIT on black money has asked the RBI to set up a framework for sharing the data on the outflow of illicit wealth from the country with the enforcement authorities, an official statement said on Monday. The Special Investigation Team Chairman, Justice (retired) M.B. Shah, in a letter dated August 11 to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has impressed upon the imperative need to establish the following institutional mechanism for sharing of data with the enforcement authorities to curb illicit financial flows, finance ministry said in a statement. “Access to this database would needs to be given to authorities like Enforcement Directorate and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, so that the above analysis could be done,” he said, as per the statement. Presently, RBI holds the information with respect to all types of foreign exchange transactions. The SIT on black money, ap-
pointed by the Supreme Court, is of the view that there should be effective sharing of information between various government departments, particularly of enforcing agencies, it said. The data can be shared only by having one agency such as Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) or any other agency, as a data warehouse, it added. “From the said data warehouse, various agencies can gather the relevant information for taking early appropriate action. This is so since the data available with one agency can be relevant to action expected to be taken by other law enforcement agency,” according to the statement. The SIT said that for controlling and tracking illicit financial flows out of the country, use of RBI data by various law enforcement agencies like Enforcement Directorate, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is of critical importance. SIT has suggested that Foreign
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Exchange Transactions Electronic Reporting System (FET-ERS) data should capture the PAN number of the importer or the exporter and that RBI take necessary steps for the same to get this done on an urgent basis. In the data provided by RBI to the SIT, huge amounts were found outstanding beyond a period of one year in violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). The SIT had noted that the possibility of the concerned companies having wrongly claimed duty drawback also cannot be ruled out. Further, the possibility of the companies concerned having availed of various export promotion schemes also cannot be ruled out. “SIT in the letter expressed satisfaction that Import Data Processing and Monitoring System (IDPMS) is being set up by RBI which is expected to be launched by the end of September which will enable cross checking of each advance remittance irrespective of value against the Bill of Entry,” it said.
mumbai, September 5 (reuterS): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed working with the government to introduce interest-free banking to tackle financial exclusion for religious reasons, potentially opening Islamic finance to the largest Muslim minority population in the world. India’s central bank made the proposal in its annual report last week, as departing RBI governor Raghuram Rajan hands over the reins to close ally Urjit Patel. The proposal marks a shift in stance by the RBI, which has previously said Islamic finance could be offered through non-bank channels such as investment funds or cooperatives. That has meant an estimated 180 million Muslims in India, the country’s second-largest religious group, have been unable to access Islamic banking be-
cause of laws that require banking to be based on interest, which is forbidden in Islam. The RBI said it would explore introducing interest-free banking products in consultation with the government, a key detail as this opens the prospects of supportive legislation. “This is definitely a significant development as it is the first time that the RBI has concretely mentioned that it will now work with the government to introduce Islamic banking,” said Saif Ahmed, managing partner at Bangalurubased Infinity Consultants, which specialises in Islamic finance. “For Islamic banks to function in India, separate parallel legislation or an amendment needs to be passed by Parliament and that can only happen with the active support of the incumbent government.” In 2015, a central bank
Airtel offers ‘Internet Jet launches in-flight mobile entertainment streaming tent while some of the content do not DelHi, September screens are still on the planes. for Full Month’ at Rs 29 New Without disclosing the quantum need even this, he said. 5 (pti): Jet Airways on Friday Aimed at first time and occasional mobile data users; will help get more customers online Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications services provider, today announced the launch of ‘Internet for Full Month’ prepaid data pack at just Rs. 29*. The new pack benefit of 75 MB 2G/3G/4G data with 30 days validity is an affordable option for customers to stay online through the month without having to worry about pack validity. This pack is aimed at first time and occasional data users, who have basic data requirement such as internet browsing and social media/IM. Commenting on the newly launched offer, Ajai Puri, Director – Operations (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel said, “Millions of Indians get online over their mobile phones through small denomination data packs that have limited validity. Our research has shown that these customers are looking for an affordable entry level product that allows them to stay online longer and not worry about pack validity. ‘Internet for Full Month’ is a proposition that enables customers to overcome the ‘validity barrier’ and for less than Re 1 per day stay online through the month. This product will be particularly relevant in the rural and semi-urban markets and help in improving data penetration.” Airtel offers affordable prepaid data packs at multiple price points and validity, giving customers the flexibility to choose packs that suit their respective needs.
Jio move set to boost digital marketing space HyDerabaD, September 5 (iaNS): Reliance Jio’s disruptive offer of free voice calls forever and data at just 5 paise per MB is expected to open up the digital marketing space in the country in a big way, a top expert has said. According to Suresh Reddy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lycos Internet Limited which is a pioneer in the digital marketing space, at $1 billion, the digital marketing in India currently accounts for a small pie of the global market pegged at $200 billion. “With this shift, the Indian market can have a significant portion of the huge global market,” Reddy, whose firm is into internet advertisement since 1998 and has global presence, told IANS. The Indian advertisers largely spend their money on television and hoardings. “The next generation of users will be mostly on mobiles. Everyone is looking at smartphones and nobody has time to look at hoardings anymore. So you need to go where they are,” Reddy added. Low internet penetration and the reluctance by customers to spend extra money for data plans is behind India being at the bottom of digital marketing spends. But with the latest development, said Reddy, there will be a shift towards more data-based work and, as a result, the market will grow. The US currently accounts for 50 percent of the digital market, Europe 20 percent and South America, 16-17 percent. What has happened with Jio was on the cards for almost five years. “Every phone line has a voice channel and a data channel. It was just a matter of time the two converge and become one,” Reddy told IANS. “Reliance has laid everything fresh. Their core is data and on top of it, they have given some voice as opposed to the other telecos like Airtel, Vodafone or Idea where voice was core and data was peripheral. This is a big shift,” he pointed out. How will Reliance make money by giving voice for free and charging only a little for data? “Exactly same question was propped up when internet first came in the 1998-2000 period. So far, they have been charging user per call per megabyte basis. Now you have common pricing,” Reddy informed. There will be multiple streams of revenue. Since Jio is a convergence of a telephone company and internet service provider (ISP), it is going to make money through advertising and subscriber service. This is only the beginning as other players will follow soon and it will ensure ‘reachability’ to the remotest places in the country. Lycos, which is in internet advertising since 1998 and forayed into Internet of Things (IoT) last year, believes that for internet-based players, this is perfect direction in which the industry is going. “Advertising is not a single person’s job. This is just a platform. It will not hurt anyone and the size of market will only grow. This will put the country on the global map if it works the way it should,” Reddy said.
launched an in-flight entertainment service under the ‘JetScreen’ label that allows fliers to stream 220 hours of digital content on smartphones, tablets or laptops for free. The airline claims the service is a first in the industry for domestic carriers and comes close on the heels of the civil aviation ministry hinting at allowing onboard Wi-Fi access. “As of today, JetScreen is live on six of our 75 narrow-body aircraft, and we hope to introduce the facility on all our planes (narrow-body) by March. These facilities are available on two of our Delhi-Mumbai flights, apart from one each on the DelhiBangkok and Delhi-Lucknow sectors and two in the Southern sectors,” Jet senior vice-president for sales & marketing, Colin Neubronner, told reporters in Mumbai. It can be noted that Vistara had such a facility in the beginning on one of its planes. But it was offering this using their own devices. Earlier, the now-grounded Kingfisher Airlines was the first to offer onboard entertainment on fixed screens on the domestic flights. It was later emulated by national carrier Air India but discontinued for long now, though the
of investment, Neubronner said the company has invested heavily into the service by way of hardware and content licensing but will not charge the passengers for using the facility. “It’s part of our service and delivers on our commitment to offer enhanced full-service experience to our guests,” he quipped and said the airline has no immediate plans to monetise it. JetScreen uses an onboard wireless streaming technology, licensed from the American company Global Eagle Entertainment, which is a global leader in media content and offers 220 hours of media library including movies, television shows, music and games apart from a special offering for the kids under the JetKids label, he said. Neubronner said the initial focus is on domestic flights as the airline already offers in-flight entertainment on fixed screens on its international flights using the wide-body planes, except on the short haul sectors like the Saarc and Gulf region, where the airline deploys narrow-body aircraft. All that a passenger has to do is download the ‘Airtime Player’ app, available for free in all major app stores, on their Wi-Fi enabled personal devices to access the full con-
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Lotha Hoho clarifies Wokha, September 5 (mexN): The Lotha Hoho today appreciated the Naga Hoho for clarifying that the former is currently not affiliated to the Naga Hoho as published in the Naga Hoho (NH) press statement on September 4. A press release from Mhao Humtsoe, Chairman and Er. Mhondamo Ovung, General Secretary of Lotha Hoho (LH) acknowledged that there was a rift between NH and LH in 2008 due to differences in the election of NH President at Phek Town. However, the erstwhile Kyong Hoho had nominated one person as its representative to the NH, “which was co terminus with the mass resignation of its office bearers and Executive members on 15/9/2015.” After the exit of the Kyong Hoho, the release said, the Lotha Hoho has not officially affiliated with the Naga Hoho. Hence, currently there is no representative of the Lotha Hoho to the Naga Hoho. “However, if there is anyone at the Naga Hoho falsely representing the Lotha Hoho, the same is self styled and such a person will be doing so at one’s own risk,” Lotha Hoho stated. Further, the LH asked such person(s) to gracefully withdraw from false representation, since the LH has not officially nominated any representative to the Naga Hoho. With regard to the Naga Hoho circular dated August 31, 2016 (said to have circulated on behalf of both NH and ENPO) for consultative meeting at Japfü Hotel, Kohima on September 7, 2016 to discuss on the Lotha Hoho PIL on NP&NG, the release pointed out that the circular has been officially endorsed to the president and colleagues of the Lotha Ex Parliamentarians Forum (LEPF). Therefore, Lotha Hoho clarified that since the Ex Lotha Parliamentarians no longer represent the people, the LEPF, as a body/forum can function for the welfare of its members and not on behalf of the Lotha community. Further, in compliance of the disassociation of CNTC from the Naga Hoho, the Lotha Hoho said it will not participate in the consultative meet and also clarified that anyone participating for consultation/ discussion with the Naga Hoho will be doing so as an individual and cannot represent the Lotha community, and such an individual will also be responsible personally.
ENCSU informs members tueNSaNg, September 5 (mexN): Eastern Nagaland College Students’ Union (ENCSU) today informed that with the intervention of the parent body ENPO, the Chief Secretary has assured to convene an emergency meeting regarding reservation for Backward Tribes in the recent NSEE exam on September 6, 9:30 am at his residence. “The Eastern Nagaland College Students' Union (ENCSU) will wait for the outcomes of the meeting which has been convened by the Chief Secretary with the department officials,” stated a press release from ENCSU Chairman, M. Longre Chang and Joint Secretary, Nokchem Angth. “However, if the outcome of the meeting is unsatisfactory the Union will go ahead with proposed agitation.” Therefore, the union has asked all its members and well wishers to gather at the Directorate of Technical Education at 9:00 am as directed. The ENCSU also requested the citizens of the capital to kindly cooperate.
PSU remembers ‘Matikhrü Massacre’ meluri, September 5 (mexN): On the eve of the ‘Matikhrü village Massacre’ anniversary, Pochury Students’ Union (PSU) today recounted the series of incidents leading to the deadly episode at Matikhrü village on September 6, 1960. In a press release, PSU said that on August 14, 1960, the Naga Army attacked Assam Rifles outpost at Thuda (Phor village) in Pochury area. During this time, an Indian transport plane (Dakota) trying to drop relief materials and ammunitions to the besieged post was shot down by the Naga Army on the 14th day of the siege and crash landed
at Zathsü, a paddy field of Meluri village. The Naga Army captured all the nine airmen, PSU said. This led to a heavy army operation in Pochury area by the Indian Army, who was on a mission to search and rescue the captured airmen. In the process of the army operations, many villages were burnt down and “untold atrocities and tortures” were inflicted upon the villagers, it was added. On September 1, 1960, six villagers from Phor village were tortured to death, the release said. Again on September 3, 1960, another three villagers from Yisi village were beaten to death. Two villagers from Mokie were also beaten to
death. In Laruri village, one person was buried alive after severe beating and two people of Meluri village were beheaded. Meanwhile, on September 6, 1960, the Punjab Regiment posted at Kangjang village reached Matikhrü village around 10:00 am, according to PSU press release. All the villagers were ordered to gather in one place; men folk were separated from women and children. “All the men were made to keep jumping and do sit-ups for more than 5 hours in the scorching sun.” Then just before sunset, Indian Army rounded up the men inside the village chief’s house and nine of them were be-
headed. For days together, the survivors of the village wandered in the deep jungle without proper food and shelter, the release added. They entered Burma and stayed with the Naga Army in their camp. They spent their lives in the wilderness for two and half years. In 1963, village reestablishment took place but normal life could not be restored for many years, PSU said. The Pochury people have ever since observed September 6 as Black Day “in memory of all those who had suffered and laid down their lives for the greater glory and freedom of the Nagas.”
Kma Police seize ganja worth Rs 55 lakh NPSC aspirants form kohima, September 5 resulting in the police personnel PSAN, support ACAUT (mexN): Kohima Police manning smashing the windshield of the veKhuzama interstate check gate recovered around 1,100 kg of ganja worth Rs. 55 lakh in the black market from an LPG/oil tanker on September 4. The tanker was being escorted by the armed C/78 CRPF Battalion NIDC Dimapur, informed a press release from Atu Zumvü, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (South) & PRO, Kohima Police. The PRO recounted that around 6:00 pm on September 4, the police personnel at Khuzama interstate check gate during routine checking and frisking of vehicles noticed “an unusual movement of an LPG/ Oil tanker B/R No. MN06T-0734 escorted by the armed C/78 CRPF Battalion NIDC Dimapur.” When the tanker was asked to stop, it sped away, the release said. However, the vehicle was intercepted at Phesama check gate. According to the release, the driver allegedly attempted to bribe the police personnel by offering money, but when the personnel refused to accept the bribe, he tried to escape
hicle in order to stop it. During the commotion, it added, the driver of the vehicle leaving behind the ignition key jumped out of the vehicle to a garbage ditch below the road. The Khuzama check gate duty personnel along with the Phesama check gate duty party trailed the driver through the blood stain left behind and found him hiding in the jungle below the road, the PRO said. He was found injured by broken glasses in the garbage, according to the release. The seized vehicle and the driver were brought back to Khuzama P.S after administering first aid from NHAK. Here, the vehicle was thoroughly checked and the police recovered the ganja. The driver identified as Thokchom Chakba Singh (38) of Manipur has been remanded into police custody for further investigation. Meanwhile, a regular case vide Khuzama P.S Case No. 0031/2016 U/S 20 (b)(ii)(c) NDPS Act has been registered against him.
Dimapur, September 5 (mexN):The Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland (PSAN), previously called the NPSC Aspirants today reaffirmed its support for ACAUT in their endeavor against backdoor and contractual appointments by appending signatures of core members along with a declaration of support in writing. A press note from PSAN said that this was done to provide “unflinching support to ACAUT in any way possible in their fight against the malpractices in appointment procedures in government offices which have become huge obstacles to the aspirations of thousands of educated young Nagas who deserve equality of opportunity in public employment as provided under Article 16 of the Indian constitution.” The PSAN further alleged that some departments are “hiding away facts and are not comprehending with the queries sought under RTI by its members.” It appealed to those departments that are yet to respond to RTIs filed by aspirants to provide accurate information.
Meetings & AppointMents NPC to commemorate Peace Day The Nagaland Peace Centre (NPC) will hold a ‘Thanksgiving Service’ in commemoration of the Peace Day on September 6 at NPC office premises, D’ Block, Kohima from 11:00 am. NPC Chairman, N. Theyo will speak on the occasion, while responsive reading will be led by G. Gangmei.
52nd Indo-Naga Ceasefire Day The 52nd Indo-Naga Ceasefire Day will take place at Chedema Peace Camp on September 6 at 10:00 am. Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) general secretary Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho will be the speaker. The programme will be led by Rev. Dr. Mechiehol Savi, School Coordinator, NBCC. Narration of event will be done by I. Temjen Longkumer, FGN representative.
ENPO, Naga Hoho meeting with Lotha Hoho The ENPO and Naga Hoho have convened a joint consultation meeting with Lotha Hoho, PIL petitioners on P&NG, Lotha legislators, and Lotha Ex-Parliamentarians on September 7, 11:00 am onwards at Hotel Japfü, Kohima. The ENPO and Naga Hoho have fervently requested all the above mentioned organizations to the meeting without fail in the larger interest of the Naga people as a whole, according to a press release from ENPO General Secretary, Manlang Phom.
One held for issuing demand note in Dmp Morung Express News Dimapur | September 5
One man has been arrested by the police for issuing demand note in Dimapur. The man, identified by the police as ‘Sgt’ Mughato Achumi (26 years) of the GPRN/NSCN, was arrested on September 4. As per the police, investigators were on his trail since August 16 when he issued a demand note of Rs. 2 lakh to a tea stall at the Dimapur railway station in the name of another Naga Political Group. He had reportedly stipulated a payment deadline of 3 days to the stall owner before disappearing. The police was alerted who tracked the
The arrested man in police custody.
man down on September 4. The police disclosed that during the arrest around 25 spasmo proxyvon capsules and demand slips were recovered from his possession.
NagalaNd celebrates teachers' day Dimapur schools honour teachers ‘Inspire, encourage and impact lives of students’ ChuChuChuyimlaNg, therefore the teachers should take igently working towards providing ration, be more dedicated and try to September 5 (mexN): The the profession very ‘responsibly’. the best means and infrastructure win the prestigious Immakmaynag Village Education Committee of She challenged the teachers to be for the students and the commu- Award for excellence in teaching. Meanwhile, the 2nd ImmakChuchuyimlang celebrated the an inspiration for the children so nity; therefore, she asked the stake55th Teachers’ Day cum 2nd Im- that they can become responsible holders – the VEC, the students, mayang Award for excellence in teachers and the department – for teaching was awarded to Sanentomakmangyang Award here today citizens in the days to come. To the students, Temjenanro re- working together so that the true la, a teacher from GPS Mongta. The in the presence of a host of digniatires from the Directorate of Educa- minded them that “school live is just a meaning of education would be award is sponsored by the family of phase”; what they would become to- achieved. Nonetheless, she con- Late Immakmayang, a pioneering tion, Kohima, and others. Speaking on behalf of the Edu- morrow depends on how they learn gratulated the Chuchuyimlang VEC teacher in Chuchuyimlang. Others who spoke at the procation Department, Deputy Di- and how they respect their teachers. for establishing the Immakangyang rector, I Temjennaro, while appre- Therefore, she urged the students to Award to recognize and felicitate gramme were SMA (SSA) Kohima, ciating the Chuchuyimlang VEC, respect their teachers and move on the exceptional teachers under the Nagaland, the chairman of Chuchuyimlang Village Council, Aochallenged the teachers to “inspire, with their higher studies. She added Chuchuyimalng EAC Hq. Teacher awardees along with guest of honour, Prof. Alongla P Aier and Deputy DEO that one can move on with life, but She urged the awardee to be an sanen Pongen, and others. Er DanDimapur, R Amongla Jamir, at the Dimapur district common ‘Teachers Day’ celebra- encourage and impact” the lives of inspiration to the students and col- iel Meren, Joint Director of NEILT the students. She said that teach- one cannot forget one’s teachers. tion. (Morung Photo) The Dy Director also said that leagues and at the same time encour- Chuchu town spoke on the signifiing, which is a noble profession, Morung Express News teachers, absentee teach- that influences learning is comes with a big responsibility and the Department of Education is dil- aged the other teachers to take inspi- cance of teachers’ day’. ers and others. the life and personality of Dimapur | September 5 “The big question is the teacher. The common ‘Teachers what can we do? Should “Teachers are role modDay’ celebration of schools we remain blind, silent, els that young people look under Dimapur district and ignore….because it’s upto. It is impossible not to was held at Covenant Hall, not affecting us directly?” influence the students we Morung Express News creating safer environment. Thus, he Christian Higher Second- Alongla asked and added teach-positively or negaopined that corruption free society must Mokokchung | September 5 ary School, which was there is no easy answer but tively. We make an impact be addressed with change of mindset and graced by Prof. Alongla P that the people as a whole upon their lives for better or Mokokchung commemorated Teacher’s asked the teachers to harness the power Aier of Oriental Theologi- cannot remain untouched. worse,” Alongla said. Day along with rest of India at Town Hall, of giving positive criticism in molding recal Seminary. “We must take seriously Deputy DEO Dima- organized by Ao Students’ Conference. sponsible citizens. Prof Alongla in her ad- our calling as teachers and pur, R Amongla Jamir, preGiving homage to the nation builders, the Director of Higher Education, I Alemdress said it is a big chal- that means going the extra sided over the honouring chief guest of the occasion, Merentoshi pokba speaking during the function as lenge to be a good teacher, mile to improve our situa- of teachers and presentaR Jamir, Advisor to Chief Minister of Na- guest of honour stated that teacher’s award especially in Nagaland, tion. Let us not forget that tion of awards. A total of 30 galand stated, “What they (students) will presentation system must be evolved to a where education is not far- we are accountable to God teachers from both Govbecome tomorrow is what you (teachers) higher spectra with more scientific and raing well if one is to believe Almighty what we do with ernment and private school do today.” He underlined that becoming tional evaluation system. by the report one reads. DC Kiphire Sedevikho Khro with the recipients of awards the influence and power. received awards for their a teacher should not be for employment During the function, a book title “Kishi on Teacher’s Day in Kiphire. (Morung Photo) Stating that quality edu- Let us not forget that we are dedicated services. Princisake and cautioned that whosoever de- Tezülen (Off the doorway)” written by T. cation in Nagaland remains in the business of making a pal GHSS Chumukedima, Morung Express News cides to work as a teacher must be ready Senka Ao, former Editor of Ao Milen was elusive, Alongla pointed generation, even a nation to Karen, spoke on behalf of Kiphire | September 5 to sacrifice everything for their students. also released. out that school dropouts rise or fall. If ever Nagaland the teacher awardees. Kiphire district celebrated Teacher’s Day at Hopongkyu He remarked that teachers are the The program was attended by Mokokin primary schools in Na- needs dedicated, skilled Students from vari- best stakeholder in nurturing younger chung Deputy Commissioner and other Memorial hall with Sedevikho Khro, Deputy Commisgaland are among the teachers, it is now”, she said. ous schools entertained generation with a change in attitude and officials and civil societies led by Ao Sen- sioner as chief guest. highest in the country. She The guest of honour the teachers with special mindset to face different challenges and “This is the time to retrospect as to why government den, Watsü Mungdang, MTLT. also highlighted on the un- also reminded that the sin- songs, dances and choreschools are not coming up to the standard of the private ending problems of proxy gle most important factor ography. schools in the district even if the government schools
‘Teachers must be ready to sacrifice’
‘Profess your profession religiously’ Morung Express News Mokokchung | September 5
Soyim Students’ Union, Ungma, Mokokhung celebrated Teacher’s Day at Babu Tzubu Amphitheatre, Ungma, under the theme ‘Mark of a Teacher.’ Alem Jongshi, NCS, Deputy Commissioner, Tuensang was the main speaker of the programme, where teachers from all Government and private schools in Ungma village attended. Alem Jongshi remarked that teaching is one of the most dignified and respected professions. He said that teachers of today’s generation should change their mindset with the change in time. The young generation and their thirst
for knowledge have become insatiable making the task of a teacher very hard, he said, adding the task is not impossible to fulfill. He appealed to the teachers to “profess your profession religiously to mankind so as to uplift the society” and to rededicate oneself as selfless and role model teachers who will contribute towards the creation of a sound and healthy society. Short exhortation was given by Alemtoshi Imsong, Chairman, Village Council Ungma and a special prayer for the teachers was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Noklen Lkr, Pastor, UBC. The prelude to the celebration was presented by kids of Dove Centre, a Montessori in the village.
Kiphire district celebrates Teacher’s Day
have better qualified teachers,” the DC stated. He questioned the gathering as to why government teachers send their children to private schools when they are serving in government schools. The DC also asked the gathering to think one’s institution as personal property and appealed to the teachers and the gathering to think once again and give one’s best in their profession as the future of the nation and generation rest in their hands. Acknowledging that to be in the profession as teacher is not an easy job, the DC said, “To get into this profession one has to have B. Ed, graduate and various trainings to get into this profession unlike other profession where one exam is enough…ask oneself where do I stand with all the qualifications.” The DC also handed over six district awards and four sub divisional awards. The Kiphire District Private Schools Society (KDPSS) HSLC highest mark scorer award 2016 was handed over to Daniel Rongli of Loyola Students of Immanuel College in Dimapur present a play during the Teachers' Day cel- Higher secondary school. He received a cash of Rs 5000/and certificate. ebration on September 5, 2016.
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Tuesday 06•09•2016
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THE MORUNG EXPRESS
The Power of Truth
The Morung Express volume Xi issue 245
A New Consciousness as a critical Intervention
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oday’s Nagas seem to be tentative about the current complexity of many issues including a failing state, systemic corruption, illegal immigration, a weak economy, a divided political discourse and emerging new power centers that is tribalizing the Naga peoplehood. Though the people are certain of their aspirations, changing them into reality remains elusive. The situation is compounded because the gap between aspirations and reality has created a disturbing cycle of confusion that is threatening the people’s very well-being and causing instability. In the current situation an ‘us versus them’ mentality is in place which is oppositional and promotes reactivity and victimhood. This is another wake up call for Nagas to recognize that the indicators reveal an urgency for unity in purpose. It calls for those well informed Naga ‘spec-actors’ to break their silence and speak out because they are the ones who can inspire and enable the people to break this destructive cycle. These ‘specactors’ can patiently and respectfully listen to the people so that together they can discover new ways forward that will build a cohesive and comprehensive pathway out of this status quo. A new consciousness will serve as an immediate intervention to the current situation. It is a call for self-realization, self-reflection and re-examination of the Naga way of life, culture and worldviews, and the Naga spirit, all of which are essential for attaining a shared future. This consciousness will be the panacea for introducing sweeping changes across Naga Land and bring to public expression the hopes and yearning that have been denied, suppressed and dormant for so long. This new consciousness can expose the hypocrisy of injustices and enable a new political imagination that empowers the idea of a shared humanity. In essence, this new consciousness has the ability to empower the people’s self-determining capacities to assume yet greater responsibilities that will emerge from it. The new consciousness can effectively examine the present brainkruptcy and work towards reviving genuine liberatory politics through an effective and democratic process of critical reflection and self-analysis. It can give rise to a political imagination that will maximize people’s participation effectively and meaningfully on issues that impact their lives. The changes that come about through the processes with which the new consciousness engages can usher a new era of accountability in Naga Land whereby the people themselves take responsibility for their political destiny and end this unhealthy deadlock. This new consciousness will both illuminate and connect the relevance of Naga history to the future, hence the present. In so doing its dynamism can weaken attempts by the powers to deliberately arrest Naga culture and perpetuate negative images of it. This will generate a cohesive and unifying energy which creates the space for Nagas to reconnect with their true self-image. Naga culture is vibrant and alive and can positively contribute to the political evolution of modern Naga Land. Finally, the new consciousness will reshape the social discourse from which a new understanding can emerge; an understanding which embraces differences through dialogue, which requires relational practice, is inclusive and is not oppositional. In developing a new consciousness, Nagas can maintain a solidarity that enables the people to resist all attempts to fragment their resistance and to nurture a culture of self-assertion that originates from a common heritage of shared values, common experiences and a common dignified shared future.
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Vikas Datta IANS
A quest to find out Jamaica's 'fast' secret
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hen Jamaica started participating in the Olympics in 1948, its first few medals came usually from long-distance track events like the 400m or 800m. But since 1968, there has been no edition where at least one Jamaican, man or woman, has not been present on the medal stand in the challenging 100m or 200m and in the 21st century, they have been dominating these events. How did a small tropical island achieve this? Usain Bolt, who has effortlessly and utterly dominated the 100m, 200m and Book Review: The Bolt Supremacy - Inside 4x100m relay in the Jamaica's Sprint Factory; Author: Richard Moore; Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press/Random last three Olympics, House India; Pages: 330; Price: Rs 499 several World championships and set a number of records to become the fastest man in the world, is well-known, but he is not the only speeding Jamaican. Recall the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics? The Jamaican contingent was led by a petite woman athlete, who had coloured her hair in the colours of her national flag, but Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who bagged the the 100 m gold in the previous two games, unfortunately could not become a "female Bolt" with a third medal and had to be content with a bronze. Moore, who has six books to his credit, mostly dealing with cycling and the Tour De France (he himself represented Scotland in the discipline in the 1998 Commonwealth Games) however shifted focus to athletics with "The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final" (2012). Having discussed this event, marking the nadir of sporting Johnson, who broke the world record and won gold, tested positive and was disqualified and the runners-up moved one step above but it later turned out two of the immediate ones were not spotlessly clean too, Moore is not shy to ask to ask questions with the dreaded 'd-word' (doping) in his latest work. In fact, he deals a lot with the subject, following up with those responsible for compliance and chronicling the demoralising effect on athletes when scandals broke or infractions were reported. However, Moore has far from a single-point agenda, and in his account, tries to understand, from across various disciplines like genetics, human and social evolution, social environment, physiognomy, and even diet - in determining what makes Jamaicans keep a pace ahead (several paces in cases of Bolt) in sprinting. Through discussions with various athletes (save Bolt, though he has many conversations with his father at the family home), coaches, sports administrators, aspiring athletes and students, and more, the author doesn't get a definite answer to his question but at least comes to understand what powers Jamaican athletes. There is a splendid description of an over-century-old national institution which is a give away in explaining the origin of Jamaica's athletic prowess - the Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships (known better as the Champs), a four day high school athletics programme which has created generations of athletes. Other reasons Moore finds out and tells us are a growing trend of training athletes domestically instead of letting them get sporting scholarships to US universities as the practice earlier, some maverick but inspired coaching, some determined athletes keen not only to make their name but ensure a better life for their family and neighbourhood, and a culture which respects but doesn't idolise sportspersons. Then there is also, as he discovers, a long sporting tradition (remember Michael Holding and Chris Gayle) but which other country can claim a founding father who was record-setting noted athlete (Norman Manley, though he couldn't become its first prime minister, but his record in the Champs lasted for over four decades). Packed with insights into life and training of Bolt, Fraser-Pryce and other meteoric runners, Moore's work is not
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C O M M E N T A R Y
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Foreign Policy In Focus
What Brexit and ISIL Have in Common Both phenomena are products of an idyllic restoration of a lost order, using regressive arcadias as a defense mechanism that can lead to radicalism and extremism
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n January 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged that if re-elected in 2015 he would hold an in/out referendum on the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. By June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU with a 72.2 percent turnout—the highest in a national election since 1992—and with 51.9 percent of the electorate in favor of Brexit. Many miles away, In April 2013, a terrorist group operating mainly in Iraq and Syria adopted the name: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIL proclaimed the creation of a global Islamic Caliphate in June 2013. From then onwards, a broad and brutal campaign devoted to intimidate, polarize, and terrorize took center stage. These two phenomena are vastly complex and distinctive occurrences, but they share some singular commonalities that deserve a more thorough evaluation. It is essential to avoid categorical conclusions. Asking why and how they happen is crucial. If we try to understand, rather than judge, we may improve and even refine the analysis of what has been going on. Both cases arise at a time marked by widespread and severe social, economic, and political malaise that has been expressed in both peaceful and violent ways. We are not witnessing an episodic or country-specific malfunctioning. Societal dissatisfaction, fear, and fragility are present and exacerbated worldwide. This negative matrix derives sooner than later into resentment, pugnacity, and even fantasy. Although data shows that there are more people leaving poverty, especially in Asia, the global reality is more intricate and dialectic than that. In fact, vast sectors of the citizenry feel neglected, abused, and helpless. A majority of economists are wrong when they insist, implicitly or explicitly, that people are merely blind to the benefits of globalization and that their actions through vote or force are irrational. A more nuanced perspective that takes into consideration sociological and psychological aspects is needed to explain both the Brexit and formation of ISIL. For example, the limits to integration and the potential to disintegration in the EU cannot be examined only with the tools of economics: class tensions, institutional stalemate, xenophobic propensity, and political corrosion are part of deeper and larger processes and dynamics. Likewise, the persistent bloodshed and recurrent instability in the Middle East are not new features. The place of force in local politics, the lack of a single powerful state, and Western involvement and power politics in the region have been customary. In this context it is important to introduce the concept of a regressive arcadia. It shouldn’t be confused with utopia: an imaginary and remote place in the future where an ideal of perfection in government, laws, and social conditions will prevail. Nor does it refer to a dystopia: another imaginary place where people are unhappy, alienated, and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly. Arcadia must be located in its poetic sense: a place in the past where splendor, simplicity, and harmony reign. Regressive implies a move backwards, to a time believed to be recoverable and where tensions dissipate completely: cohesion, communal life, and collective well-being are thought to be the rule here. Thus, a regressive arcadia is a defense mechanism
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ith the clock counting down towards the November climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco, where parties to the climate treaty agreed in Paris will negotiate implementation, it’s clear that managing water resources will be a key aspect of any effective deal. Here at World Water Week, which concluded on Friday, Susanne Skyllerstedt, programme officer for Water, Climate Change and Development at the Global Water Partnership (GWP), says her organisation is working with Sub-Saharan African governments to incorporate adaptation strategies into the partnership’s climate change programme. “For us, resolutions of COP21 are part and parcel of what we are implementing and those of COP22 (in Marrakech) will be embedded in our long-term agenda of ensuring water security in Africa and rest of the developing world in a bid to attain water-related sustainable development goals,” she told IPS. GWP is a Stockholm-based organisation that has been involved in fostering integrated water resource management around the world for the last 20 years. GPS has four regional offices in Africa covering Southern, Eastern, Central and West Africa. As an inter-governmental entity, GWP works with organisations involved in water resources management. These range from national government’s institutions, United Nations agencies to funding bodies. Other stakeholders include professional associations, research institutions, nongovernmental organisations, and the private sector. GWP has a water and
that can lead to radicalism and even extremism. In that sense, both Brexit and the Caliphate are regressive arcadias. Essentially, British voters faced two narratives. Proponents of leaving the EU insisted on the illusion of a return to the historical national greatness. They appealed to those aggrieved and alarmed by the economic and demographic changes of the last three decades. They blamed a dysfunctional political system characterized by the decline of the traditional parties and wide public cynicism towards politicians. A vision of imperial splendor and a reclaimed sovereign pointed to the passion, anxiety, and expectation of many Brits. Proponents of staying in the EU stressed the many evils that the UK would live if it renounced European integration and highlighted few benefits if it continued to belong. The Remain alternative was not particularly encouraging: there was never a clear and promising vision of the future. Not even regions like East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, that are highly connected by trade with the European Union, supported the status quo. The Leave vote in these areas was around 65 percent. In the end, the British decided to extricate themselves from the European Union. Without a hopeful prospect for the future, a vote in favor of a return to an imagined arcadia wasn’t so surprising. The Arab Muslim world is the epicenter of a series of dramas and traumas where internal oppression, exclusion, and external manipulation and aggression have become a regular trait. The succession of frustrations from North Africa to the Middle East — for nationalists and Marxists, reformists and moderates, secular and modernizing forces — has been eloquent. Grand pan-Arab proj-
ects from the 1960s to the 1980s undertaken by Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya were defeated. With a different ideal and on a more national scale, the Arab Spring was an opportunity for the people to push for liberalization and democratization. But its ultimate failure, in most countries, only reaffirmed a state of exasperation, pessimism and powerlessness among the masses. In this context, Al Qaeda first, and now ISIL, has sought to recreate the Caliphate. The first Sunni Umayyad Caliphate (661-750) with its capital at Damascus, followed by the Sunni Abbasid Caliphate that lasted until 1258, was the Muslim Golden Age. Several centuries after that grand Muslim era, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is attempting to reestablish that glorious past. Ignoring the sentiments of the vast majority of Muslims and resorting to violence, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is searching for its own regressive arcadia. For them, it’s as if going back to that Muslim Golden Age is the only antidote to a dark, chaotic, and unpromising present. Thus, Brexit and the formation of the Caliphate—notwithstanding their significant dissimilarities–are both products of an idyllic restoration of a lost order, of a pleasant community, and a glorious dignity. The means to get there are obviously quite different—referendum in one case and terror in the other—but their underlying, anxious outcry for a regressive arcadia is strikingly similar. Juan Gabriel Tokatlian is the director of the department of political science and international studies at Universidad De Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has published various books, essays, and op-eds on the foreign policies of Aregentina and Columbia, U.S.-Latin American relations, contemporary globla politics, and drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in the Americas.
At the Nexus of Water and Climate Change Justus Wanzala Inter Press Service climate change programme to support governments on water security and climate change resilience. Already, said Skyllerstedt, GWP has a programme that was started in Africa through the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) together with the African Union Commission and other development partners. The programme has been a key platform for supporting African governments. These include support on national climate change adaptation programmes more so in the sphere of policy formulation. For Sub-Saharan Africa countries noted for vulnerability to impacts of global climate change, the programme is key in supporting climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives. Through monitoring and evaluation programmes conducted in the recent past, GWP has learned vital lessons and is cognisant of areas that need more resources to achieve the desired goals. Already, she said, GWP is running a threeyear programme on climate change aimed at achieving sustainable development goals linked to water, energy and food through climate resilience. She said they are implementing ini-
tiatives aimed at enabling countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to acquire highly relevant technologies on sustainable water management. “We have demo programmes on new technologies being implemented by our partners in Africa but they need to be scaled up to have a major impact,” she said. GWP is also addressing the challenge of water pollution, to ensure availability of cleaner water for human consumption and other uses. It is collaborating with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to promote water security and hygiene. “The aim is to incorporate water, sanitation and hygiene component in climate resilience,” Skyllerstedt explained. GWP is also developing tools for better planning on water, sanitation and hygiene to help communities during calamities such as floods. “We have an urban planning project focusing on urban water systems and infrastructure we work with national government and other partners on issues planning putting into consideration matters of access to water and sanitation facilities as well as water related calamities.
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At the same time GWP collaborates with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on drought and flood monitoring. “We work with experts and stakeholders to ensure national plans take into account climate change-related hazards,” Skyllerstedt said. “Many African countries face challenges in fighting impacts of extreme weather such as floods and droughts, and here is where the adaption programme is relevant.” For the next three years GWP intends to widen its support to encompass not only national climate change adaptation programmes but also Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) on reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that countries published prior to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. “National Adaptation Programmes (NAPs) and NDCs should be merged to avoid duplications,” she observed. The biggest challenge to implementation of GWP programmes by its partners in Africa and elsewhere remains access to financial resources. “During the COP21 in Paris last year, there were lots of pledges on financing initiatives for enhancing water security and its access by the poor. Unfortunately, our partners are not able to access the money due technical bottlenecks,” she said. The situation has compelled GWP to embark on enhancing the capacity of their partners in Africa in the spheres of project design as well as making of investment plans and strategies. Skyllerstedt spoke to IPS during the World Water Week held in Stockholm, Sweden from 28 Aug. 28 to Sep. 2 and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute.
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uman intervention has been responsible for polluting and emptying water resources at a criminal rate. I love looking at lists of our culture’s greatest achievements. I’m always astounded, for example, to read of the stupendous effort that went into building the Pyramids of Giza: At least 10,000 people worked for 30 years to erect giant tombs for their leaders. And I don’t see how anyone could contain excitement when reading, to provide another example, that the Hoover Dam is “one of man’s greatest achievements” because it brought “order to the rampaging Colorado River, maker of the Grand Canyon and lifeline of the American Southwest.” And who could possibly disagree with sentiments like “Each time I see a building rise into the sky, the sight of the plumbing pipes—the final arteries of a marvelous lifesustaining system—evokes a special feeling of wonder and pride.” But one thing bothers me about these lists: They hold back from showing the most unbelievable and important accomplishments, the ones that really showcase this culture’s power, that get to the core of what this culture is about, the ones that make plumbing pipes seem trivial. So I’ve started making lists of my own. Here’s a list of some of this culture’s greatest accomplishments having to do with water. 10. THE ARAL SEA The Aral Sea, whose name means “sea of islands” because there used to be more than 1,100 of them, was once the fourth largest lake in the world, covering more than 26,000 square miles. But some brave souls—an entire culture of them—were able to see past the beauty and food and water supply for locals to the real value beneath. They recognized that this lake was, as they put it, a “mistake of nature” and a “useless evaporator.” They had the boldness of vision to construct dams and dig 200,000 miles of canals to divert water from rivers that used to flow into the Aral Sea instead into the desert to grow rice, melons and cotton. The plan has been a complete success, in that by 1988 Uzbekistan had become the world’s largest cotton exporter. Everyone knows that any water that reaches the sea is wasted. This line is said often by farmers across the world. It is said often by politicians and technocrats. It was said just this year by a US presidential candidate in a campaign speech. Water could and should be used to fuel the economy. So the 10th greatest accomplishment of this culture has been to make sure that almost none of the water that would have reached the Aral Sea is “wasted.” In the last 50 years, the Aral Sea has decreased to about 10% of its former size. Much of the former bed now constitutes the Aralkum Desert, with soil made toxic from farm waste run-off. But that shouldn’t be a long-term problem because the soil blows away in the wind, carrying the pesticides as far away as Antarctica, to be taken up by penguins, among others. Problem solved. This achievement—essentially dewatering the world’s fourth largest lake—as imposing as it is, is not unique. We’ve also been able to decrease Lake Chad in Africa by about 90% and to dewater lakes all over the world, from Tulare Lake—once the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi—to Lake Poopó in Bolivia, to what used to be the third largest lake in Italy, Fucine Lake.
3. PLASTIC The invention of plastic is an extraordinary accomplishment in itself: The creation of something that for all practical purposes doesn’t decay. Developed through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it entered mass production in the 1930s. Its production has been soaring since then, with the industrial economy now producing close to 300 million tons per year. Much of this plastic ends up in the ocean—enough each year that if it were all on the shore, you’d have five grocery bags full for every foot of coastline in the world. There’s enough plastic in the ocean to cause floating patches the size of large states. Enough plastics in the ocean to outnumber phytoplankton—the basis of life in the oceans, and indeed life on Earth, as they produce the oxygen for one out of every two animal breaths on this planet—by 10 to one. Enough plastic to cause one of every three seabird chicks in some rookeries in the Pacific to starve to death, bellies full of plastic. Enough plastic to choke the life out of the oceans. And it doesn’t decay. What an incredible accomplishment.
“dribbling to a meager end,” once again not wasted but used for agriculture and industry. The Rio Grande has been reduced by about 80% of its flow, so there’s still room for improvement. The crowning achievement is probably the Yellow River in China. It’s the sixth longest river in the world, at about 3,400 miles. A bit shorter now because its water is used instead of wasted, it has been known to not reach the ocean for up to 230 days per year. Twenty-five percent of rivers no longer reach the oceans. We have only three out of every four left until no river water is wasted. 8. DEWATERING AQUIFERS It’s a powerful achievement to dewater lakes and rivers, but it takes even more power to dewater aquifers—underground layers of rock or silt containing water. Aquifers can be immense. The Ogallala Aquifer in the United States, for example, underlies 174,000 square miles, and once had a volume of about 1,000 cubic miles of water. The question becomes: How do you drain something so vast and underground, at that? You can’t pull a gigantic plug. And since it’s recharged extensively by rain, you can’t simply dam inflowing rivers. The solution is both simple and elegant: You pump out the water. You make sure it’s not wasted underground, but use it to grow cotton and other crops. You turn it into money. Of course you can’t stop the rain, but as long as you pump out water faster than it goes in (and they pump out about 6 cubic miles per year just from that one aquifer), and as long as you keep at it, you can eventually achieve your goal. There’s still a lot of work to be done to drain the Ogallala aquifer but, so far, we’ve been able to pump out enough that in some places wells must be 300 feet deeper than prior to the beginnings of the withdrawal. And as with the Aral Sea, we’re accomplishing our goals around the world: 21 of the world’s 37 largest aquifers are in significant decline, with 13 of these verging on collapse.
9. DEWATERING RIVERS Many treaties made between the US government and American Indian nations stated that the treaties would remain in effect so long as the wind blew and the rivers flowed—in other words, in perpetuity. The ninth greatest accomplishment is the dewatering of great rivers. No longer can rivers be presumed to flow forever. For example, the Colorado River used to run almost 1,500 miles from the mountains to the ocean. No longer is that water wasted, merely acting as “the lifeline of the American Southwest,” but instead it’s used for agriculture and industry. The Colorado River no longer reaches the sea. Similarly, the Indus, once the 21st largest river in the world—with a flow of 50 cu- 7. TOXIFICATION OF GROUNDWATER bic miles per year—has been reduced to Technocrat billionaire Elon Musk and
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oday as we look around our Naga society in every aspect of our social life, it makes me feel so sad to be part of it for we are walking the road that leads nowhere. We use the tag, “Nagaland for Christ” and we find lots of social evils beyond human comprehension or measure. Every society to some extend go through all these and we ought to accept the fact. But are we really up to what we are supposed to be? Nagaland is a Christian majority state but where are the social teachings of the church? Is it in our pocket or in our foot to be stumbled upon? Are we really for Jesus Christ? I guess not, because I feel Jesus is for Nagaland and not vice-versa. Can we ponder upon ourselves and see deep within our hearts? I hope you got the answer looking around our Naga society. It’s a shame to all of us to call our state Nagaland for Christ.
others have written that one way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence is to search for polluted planets, since industrial processes inherently pollute, and intelligence—in their perspective—inherently leads to industrial processes. Therefore, one sign of intelligence is the pollution of one’s own planet. In this spirit, our seventh greatest water-based achievement is the toxification of groundwater worldwide. This accomplishment tested our abilities, in part because this water is underground, and so it’s harder in some ways to deliver poison, and also because these aquifers are so large. But any culture that could have 10,000 people work 30 years to erect giant tombs has shown a certain relentlessness of purpose, a relentlessness that continues to this day. We’ve all seen videos of people whose well water has been so polluted by fracking that they can turn on the tap and light the water on fire. But fracking isn’t the only way to pollute groundwater—although the idea of injecting toxic chemicals far underground, under high enough pressure to break up stable rock formations and infuse these rocks with chemicals, is ingenious. Storing toxic chemicals directly over aquifers also works, as the chemicals sink into the soil. Applying insecticides and herbicides works much the same. And it’s a success. Extraterrestrials searching for signs of intelligent life would surely recognize this as a sign of our intelligence. 6. SURFACE WATERS The aliens would also recognize our intelligence in our treatment of surface waters. More or less every body of water in the world—from the depths of the biggest oceans to the tiniest rivulets—is contaminated with human-made toxins. This is about 330,000 cubic miles of now-contaminated water. Even the contamination of only the fresh water on the planet would be an extraordinary achievement, especially when you consider that, until recently, all humans on
Earth drank from rivers and lakes. In China, some of the rivers have been so successfully polluted that they are toxic to the touch. We have also been able to put toxins in every being’s “biological water,” that is, the water held in every living being. It’s an absolutely stunning accomplishment. 5. DAMS IN INDIA The government of India is planning to make sure that no water in India is wasted by the natural world. The plan is to build 3,000 new dams and dig 9,000 miles of new canals in order to “redesign the natural flow” of 37 major rivers so the government can “relocate” more than 40 cubic miles of water each year. 4. OVERFISHING What is true of water is true of everything and everyone else on the planet: If it’s not converted into money—not converted into fuel to power the economy—it’s wasted. Environmentalist Farley Mowat wrote in Sea of Slaughter: “It is probably impossible for anyone now alive to comprehend the magnitude of fish life in the waters of the New World when the European Invasion began.” One explorer stated that the waters in the Grand Banks were “so swarming with fish [that they] could be taken not only with a net but with baskets let down [and weighted] a stone.” Another explorer noted that there were so many huge fish (in this case cod) “that at times they even stayed the passage” of ships. And another explorer: “Cods are so thick by the shore that we hardly have been able to row a boat through them.” That’s a lot of fish going to waste. Even worse, we could make similar comments about so many other fish who were just as common. Shad. Haddock. Halibut. Salmon. Flounder. Eel. Lots of fish going to waste. The skies were also full of birds who ate these fish, and the seas were full of whales and seals who ate these fish. So many fish, so many birds, so many whales, so many seals, all going to waste. So, accomplishment number four is the capture of all of this fuel for the economy. The great schools of cod are gone, the great flocks of seabirds, the great herds of whales
2. BYCATCH If somehow, in 1870, you weighed all the fish in the oceans and then you did the same today, the total weight of all fish would be about 10% of what it was then. And, of course, by 1870 we were already well on our way to making sure that no fish went to waste, so it’s safe to say this 90% reduction followed prior reductions as this culture has made its way around the world. Not satisfied with these reductions, we continue to kill fish to convert fish into money, and also to kill them and simply throw them back in the ocean for no reason at all. It’s called bycatch. Bycatch is when you haul up your net and find dead fish (or birds or whales or seals or turtles or anyone else) of a species different than the one for which you will be paid. About 40% of all fish caught commercially are killed and thrown overboard. In some industries, the bycatch to commercial catch ratio runs 20 to 1. The upshot is that stolid scientists are saying that, within 35 years, the oceans could be devoid of fish. It will have taken long and intensive effort, but it will be well worth it to make sure that no fish are ever again wasted, and that fish—who have been around for 450 million years and who have survived multiple mass extinctions—understand that their ability to survive is nothing compared to our ability to destroy. 1. KILLING THE OCEANS This brings us to our finest water accomplishment—unfortunately still a work in progress—which is the killing of the oceans on this water planet through toxification, through filling them with plastics, through overfishing, through blasting the oceans with artificial noise at up to 260 db (front row at a rock concert is 130 db; pain and damage inevitable to humans at 140 db; humans die at 160 db; 260 db is 10,000 times more intense than a nuclear explosion at 500 yards), through acidifying the oceans, through dredging them, through causing sea level to rise (killing biomes in the shallows and on the shore), and on and on and on. Pretend you went back 10,000 years and you asked the people you saw which would be a more difficult and arduous accomplishment between, on the one hand, erecting huge tombs (or, for that matter, putting a person on the moon) and, on the other, dewatering lakes, rivers, and aquifers and toxifying water across the world, as well as wiping out so much life in once-unimaginably fecund oceans (and rivers and lakes and wetlands) that you have effectively killed even the oceans themselves. The people 10,000 years ago would laugh at you and say: “What a silly question. Of course it would be harder to kill the oceans. No one could cause so much destruction. No one could turn the whole world into the largest tomb of all. And why would they be so stupid as to want to?” This article is reproduced with the permission of Fair Policy. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Fair Observer’s editorial policy. The original posting of this article may be viewed at: http://www. fairobserver.com/region/north_america/top-10ways-destroy-water-earth-90897/
WHERE ARE WE HEADING TO…?? Let me share a short story so as to have a clear understanding of what we are today. One day, the mother crab ask her son “why in the world do you walk sideways like that?”. You should always walk straight with your toes turn out. Show me how to walk mother dear, answered the little crab obediently. So the mother crab tried and tried to walk straight forward. But she could walk only sideways only, like her son. And when she wanted to turn her toes out she tripped and fell on her nose. Yes, my dear fellow Naga brothers and sisters, we are all walking in the direction of what is been taught in spite of seeing all the social evils that are around us. Who is responsible for this? Is it the parents or the
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children? I hope it is the environment in which the child is brought up and where we live in. Society is a whole system with many sub-systems and if one of the sub-systems is affected, the system breakdown and we are in that scenario. In the sociological perspective, Naga society has reached the stage of social revolution and we cannot deny it. The gap between the haves and have-nots have gone too far. The social evils like bribery, nepotism, favouritism, tribalism etc. is at its highest peak where no one can climb up and see. Indeed it’s a sad reality that we ought to accept and fight to bring change. Now is the time to create a classless and egalitarian society through social revolution as said by Karl Marx.
Sometimes with frustration, I think violence is a necessary evil which must be used in our society because mere criticism and sharing the word of God to turn away from all these have yielded no result. Let us remember that we are all Christians and anything that is against the commandments of the church is not acceptable in the eyes of God. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but losses his soul. A man with a pure heart and clean hands will climb the mountain of the Lord. So let us be humble and be pure in our heart as St. John states, “Where there is God there is humility and where there is humility there is God”. May we live in the ways of the Lord and never walk away from His sight to bring change in our lives. Be the change and you will see the change around you and that will be your greatest gift to God.
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Big deficiency in education quality despite IITs: President
New Delhi, September 5 (pti): Noting that there is a "big deficiency" in the quality of education in the country despite the presence of institutions like IITs and NITs, President Pranab Mukherjee today said the flow of Indian students to institutions abroad needs to be reversed. "Our IITs, our NITs are excellent so far as campus recruitment is concerned," he said, adding, there are 732 universities and 36,000 degree colleges in the country. Despite this infrastructure, there is a "big deficiency" in terms of quality of education, he said at an event here where National Teachers Awards were conferred upon 364 school teachers from across the country. "Unless we have the quality of education, you cannot build a knowledge society. Unless you build the knowledge society, you cannot occupy your rightful place in the comity of nations," Mukherjee said. He said from 6th century BC to 12 century AD-the heydays of Taxila to the collapse of Nalanda--India was the leading centre of higher education and Indian universities attracted mighty minds from all
across the globe in form of teachers and students. "Today, every year more than 60,000 students leave our country for higher education to Oxford, Cambridge, MIT etc. We shall have to make this flow reverse." This reversal of flow cannot be made only in the universities but a beginning has to be made at the primary level, Mukherjee said. He congratulated the teachers who were conferred the award and said primary and secondary education lays the foundation of higher education. He said teachers made a big contribution in terms of social responsibility for the country. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar and his deputies Upendra Kushwaha and Mahendra Nath Pandey were also present at the event. In his speech, Mukherjee said he was the Visitor of 114 central institutions, including 30 NITs, 16 IITs, 45 universities, management institutions etc. Javadekar also echoed Mukherjee's thoughts, saying while 27 crore students were enrolled and access of education had spread, it was quality which was the biggest challenge.
'Parliamentary democracy, Constitution major tasks'
President Pranab Mukherjee assumed the role of a teacher at a school in New Delhi on Teachers’ Day.
New Delhi, September 5 (iANS): India choosing to be a parliamentary democracy and drafting its own Constitution were a "major development that the country got to witness after Independence from British in 1947", President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday. Interacting with a group of students at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in President's Estate on the occasion of Teachers Day, Mukherjee said: "Drafting of the Constitution was a major task
done within three years after Independence." He said India's diversity is its strength and the Constitution helped it maintain all thorough. "(Maintaining) diversity has been possible because of our Constitution," he told the students of Classes 11 and 12 of the school. Speaking on "politics in India since Independence", the President underlined the challenges the country was facing during those early days of Indian nation."Communal harmony was a major challenge,"
he said, adding that people were troubled because of Partition and hence communal tension built up. Mukherjee, however, said that political leaders managed to maintain harmony among the people and expressed satisfaction that secularism was a part of life in India. "Yes, there has been terror attacks (in the country) but thankfully it (terror) is not home grown. We are attacked from outside. We are victim of cross-border terrorism," the President said. "We certainly face attack
but from cross-border terrorism. Success of our governance and administration lies in ensuring that home grown terrorism, which is the world's biggest menace today, is not yet there in India," he said, and added that "secularism is part of our life and it is still unfolding". Touching upon economic aspect of the country, the President emphasised on social performance for economic growth of India. "Overall social performance should grow, which includes health infrastructure, social infrastructure among others, which is the requirement. Social distribution and growth with equity is also required," he said. On being asked by a student if the country should have simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies, he said that there was an emerging idea within the political parties that the elections should be held together. He said the Election Commission can also put in their idea and efforts on holding the polls together. Mukherjee apprised the students of development of various political parties and fronts after Independence.
Special agency needed to protect kids from traffickers SC gives govt 4 weeks to respond CheNNAi, September 5 (thomSoN reuterS FouNDAtioN): Decades of neglect of Indian children's rights have created a breeding ground for children to be trafficked and abused, said a prominent lawmaker on Monday, calling for a dedicated agency to detect and prosecute child traffickers. Crime data released by the government last week showed more than 40 percent of human trafficking cases in 2015 involved children being bought, sold and exploited as modern day slaves. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who last year set up the campaign group the National Coalition to Protect our Children, said Indian society had long been in denial about child exploitation. "With child rights and safety being left unregulated for decades, we have created a fertile ground for their trafficking and abuse," said Chandrasekhar, a member of parliament from the southern Indian city of Bengaluru.
Homeless children reach out from behind a fence as they wait to collect free clothes at a local charity in Siliguri September 27, 2006. (REUTERS File Photo)
Government figures showed a 25 percent increase in cases of human trafficking in India in 2015, with 43 percent of the 9,127 victims below the age of 18. The crimes included inducing a young girl with the intent of sexual intercourse, buying or selling a girl for prostitution, and keeping a child as a slave. "Children cannot speak for themselves and neither can they organise themselves as an effective group. They depend on adults to get them justice, and we are failing them," Chan-
drasekhar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In a series of letters written to the government over the last year, Chandrasekhar has asked for a revision of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, clearer emphasis on child trafficking in the proposed Anti-Trafficking Bill and a child sexual offender register across police stations in India. "The depth and lack of sensitivity in government departments is startling," he said. "The existing laws are
India may have up to 3 times more TB patients than assumed New Delhi, September 5 (iANS/ iNDiASpeND): Ground zero of the global battle against one of humankind's deadliest diseases, India could have between two and three times more tuberculosis (TB) cases than currently assumed, said a recent paper released in 'Lancet', a medical journal. The study found that in 2014, the private sector treated between 1.9 million and 5.34 million cases -- or about double the cases handled by government-run hospitals. Before this study, India was believed to have about 2.2 million TB cases, a quarter of the global TB burden, thus far estimated at about 6.3 million. However, the private sector both helps and hinders TB treatment, the study implies. Although standardised tuberculosis treatment in India is delivered by the public sector, early diagnosis and treatment are hampered by the presence of a vast and unregulated private health-care sector, said the study, whose eight authors come from a variety of institutions, including London's Imperial College, the Indian government, the World Health Organisation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which funded the study. "Poor diagnostic practices in this sector prolong tuberculosis transmission by delaying diagnosis, whereas a general lack of counselling and support of treatment adherence hampers successful, relapse-
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free cure," said the study. "Moreover, most cases treated in the private sector are never notified to public health authorities." Analysing sales patterns of 189 drugs containing rifampicin -- a key anti-TB formulation -- over 2013 and 2014, the researchers estimated how many were sold to the private sector. In 2014, the WHO estimated that 800,000 TB patients escaped public-sector diagnosis, but these statistics were mostly compiled from expert opinion. So, the new study provides an empirical estimate that is independent of such opinion. "This study illustrates the need to address the burden of tuberculosis treated by the private sector and improve surveillance," the researchers wrote, acknowledging the paper's limitations, including the failure to capture TB patients who do not approach a doctor, use the informal sector or are being treated for multipledrug resistance. "This study also raises an urgent need to revise current estimates of tuberculosis burden, informed by more systematic evidence relating to tuberculosis management in the private sector," the researchers wrote. Although the incidence of TB in India has been declining, drug resistance and its interaction with other diseases, such as HIV, have slowed progress. Throughout history, TB has killed more humans than any conflict, disaster or disease known to mankind.
not working. Reporting crimes under these acts, proper investigations and evidence collection is also not happening. A rethink is urgently required." Chandrasekhar said poor regulation of India's orphanages and child-care homes had turned them into spaces for abuse and trafficking. "A couple of years back, a young urban couple came to me seeking justice. Their three-year-old child had been raped in her school. They lived in a modern Indian metropolis but had no access to justice. That feeling of helplessness for care givers and parents of victims has to change," he said. Justice eludes many children who are victims of these crimes. Activists blame a slow judicial process and poor use of funds by Indian states. "We need specialists who understand the laws that promise our children safety. We also need child friendly courtrooms and officials who understand that the child is a unique victim."
on triple talaq and other issues
New Delhi, September 5 (iANS): The Supreme Court on Monday gave the central government four weeks' time to file its response on the right of Muslim women in matrimonial matters relating to divorce, including triple talaq, and maintenance. A bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud accepted the request of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, who sought time as the government has been asked by the top court to respond to a suo motu writ petition filed on its direction on the issue of the right of Muslim women in matrimonial matters. A bench of Chief Justice Thakur and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar had said on June 29 that they "have to hear all of them and take a call to what extent courts can interfere in the Muslim personal laws if courts find they are in violation of the fundamental rights". The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) had in its response on September 2 defended both polygamy and triple talaq saying that courts have no jurisdiction to examine the issue as it relates to their religion based on the Quran and Sharia law. A bench of Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel had by their October 16, 2015 order issued notice to Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi Aand the National Legal Service Authority as it directed the separate listing of a PIL addressing the question of the rights of Muslim women. The court is examining the question of gender discrimination in Muslim personal law in the context of fundamental rights. In the hearing on June 29, 2016, senior counsel Indira Jaisinh appearing for two petitioners had contended that the personal laws should be subject to the regime of the fundamental rights and the court should address this question. In the same hearing, interveners Zakia Soman and Noor Jahan had said that triple talaq as is being practised has no sanction of Islam.
SriNAgAr, September 5 (iANS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday hit out at Kashmiri separatist leaders who refused to talk to some MPs from an all-party team, saying their conduct defied the spirit of "Kashmiriyat". The Home Minister, however, made it clear that MPs Sharad Yadav, Sitaram Yechury, D. Raja, Jay Prakash Narayan and Assaduddin Owaisi went to meet the separatist leaders in their individual capacity and not as part of the all-party delegation that was on a two-day trip to Jammu and Kashmir. "Some members of the delegation went to meet Hurriyat leaders. We had neither said 'no' nor 'yes' to their meetings. You know what happened. They had gone there in their individual capacity," he told reporters here before flying to Jammu. He was referring to the attempt by the national opposition leaders from the delegation to hold talks with top Kashmiri separatists on Sunday. While other separatist leaders did meet them briefly but refused to hold talks, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani shut his door on the MPs even as they kept waiting outside his upscale Hyderpora residence for about 10 minutes. This, Rajnath Singh said, "was certainly neither 'Kashmiriyat' nor 'insaniyat' (humane). "If you do not want to talk is a different thing. But what they did proves they have no faith in democracy." The all-party delegation arrived here on Sunday, nearly two months after a bloody unrest erupted in the aftermath of the July 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. At least 74 persons have been killed and over 12,000 injured in the weeks of the turmoil, the deadliest Kashmir has seen in six years. As the delegation left for Jammu, the Kashmir Valley continued to be tense amid curfew in some parts, shutdown and recurring anti-government and pro-freedom protests. Rajnath Singh said the government had left its options open for talks with anyone within the ambit of "Kashmiriyat, jamhooriyat and insaniyat". But he made it clear that there were no two ways about the fact "that Jammu and Kashmir was, is and will remain an integral part of India". Visibly disappointed, the minister hinted that any chance of talks with the separatists in the near future was impossible. He also dismissed any possibility of an India-Pakistan dialogue over Kashmir, rejecting a key demand of separatist leaders. "Everybody in Kashmir wants peace and normalcy to return. I am hopeful that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir will improve," he said after meeting some "300 people including students, teachers, traders" during the delegation's nearly 30-hour stay in the valley. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also retained hopes for peace and a dialogue process to engage all stakeholders, including separatist leaders. "Dialogue and engagement is a continuous process. It can't be expected to happen (by rubbing) a magic lamp," senior PDP leader and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar told reporters. Yechury, who faced a snub from Geelani on Sunday, said he had not given up on the mission to bring peace in Kashmir. "Please understand it was not a snub. We understand the ground reality and realize that there is a need for state and central governments to take the political dialogue forward with all stakeholders, including separatists, for peace in Kashmir. "The killings in Kashmir have pained me. We want the government to resolve this issue. There will be no solution without a political dialogue. You have to start a political dialogue, an unconditional political with all," Yechury told the media here.
Pak spreading terror, says Modi at G20 Summit hANgzhou (ChiNA), September 5 (iANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused Pakistan of spreading terror and using terrorism as an instrument of state policy. And as the G20 Summit ended, Modi met the leaders of Britain, Argentina and Turkey. Addressing G20 leaders, the Indian leader urged them to "isolate and sanction supporters of terrorism". At the two-day summit held in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, India raised the issue of terrorism at various sessions. Modi told Chinese President XI Jinping how the scourge of terrorism was affecting the region. "There are some nations that use it as an instrument of state policy. One single nation in South Asia is spreading agents of terror in our region," he said, without naming Pakistan. India's ties with Pakistan have soured after Islamabad declared Kashmiri terrorist Burhan Wani, shot dead by security forces, as a "martyr". "For us a terrorist is a terrorist," Modi said. He was speaking during his intervention at the last session of the G20 Summit. "India has a policy of zero tolerance to terrorism. Because anything less than that is not enough,"
Modi raises black money, tax evasion at G20 hANgzhou (ChiNA), September 5 (iANS): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday raised the issues of black money and tax evasion at the G20 Summit here, urging member countries to act against financial corruption. On the second day of the Summit here, Modi said: "Fighting corruption, black money and tax evasion were central to effective financial governance." Modi urged the grouping to show full commitment to action against financial corruption and said effective financial governance required action against the corrupt and elimination of safe havens for economic offenders. Making his intervention in the discussion on 'More Effective and Efficient Global Economic and Financial Governance at the G-20 summit', Modi called for further strengthening the global financial safety net. "We need a regular dialogue between the IMF, Regional Financial Arrangements and Bilateral Swap Arrangements. Important mechanisms like financial stability board should stick to their core mandate." On tax evasion, Modi reiterated India's support for Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) recommendations and calls on countries to commit to the timeline of 2017-18. India had earlier declared its commitment to implementing BEPS, which advocates avoidance of stateless income and plugging loopholes by which entities avoid tax in operating across borders. he said. On the sidelines of the Summit, Modi met new British Prime Theresa May here, Argentine President Mauricio Macri and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Modi said India viewed the UK as an important partner despite its decision to quit the EU. This was Modi's first bilateral with May, who succeeded David Cameron after the Brexit vote in June. They
discussed enhancing counter terrorism cooperation. He called for greater collaboration in the area of cyber security and intelligence sharing. May said she backed Modi's reform agenda and that the UK was keen to participate in Make in India, Smart Cities and the Skill India Programme among others. The two leaders discussed their defence partnership. Modi also met Argentina's
newly elected President Macri and invited him to visit India, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said. Modi thanked Macri for Argentina's strong support for India's membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). "The two leaders agreed to expand cooperation in areas such as agriculture, mining and hydro carbons," Swarup said. "The President invited Indian companies to participate in the exploration of gas reserves in Argentina. He also sought Indian collaboration in the area of food security." Speaking with the Turkish President, Modi raised the issue of India's membership to the NSG. In June, Turkey had teamed up with a group of countries to oppose India's membership to the 48-member cartel. In New Delhi, President Pranab Mukherjee said India was a victim of cross-border terrorism, not a homegrown one. "We certainly face attack but from cross-border terrorism. Success of our governance and administration lies in ensuring that homegrown terrorism, which is the world's biggest menace today, is not yet there in India," he told a group of students on the occasion of Teachers' Day.
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Philippines: Many fear to talk about Duterte’s war MANILA, SepteMber 5 (reuterS): The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience of his killers. Cellphone video footage circulating on social media purports to capture the moment Sison was killed last month when, according to local officials, police were looking for drug pushers in the Pasay township of the Philippines’ capital. A voice on the video, recorded by a neighbour according to newspaper reports, can be heard shouting “Don’t do it, I’ll surrender!”. Then there is the sound of gunfire. A poster near the coffin, which lies beside a stinking canal cut between ramshackle homes, demands “Justice for Eric Quintinita Sison”. A handpainted sign reads: “OVERKILL - JUSTICE 4 ERIC.” These are rare tokens of protest against a surge of killings unleashed since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines just over two months ago and pledged to wage war on drug dealers and crush widespread addiction to methamphetamine.
A relative carries the son of Eric Quintinita Sison during burial rites in Pasay city, metro Manila, Philippines on August 31, 2016. (REUTERS Photo)
Very little stands in the way of his bloody juggernaut. Last week the number of people killed since July 1 reached 2,400: about 900 died in police operations, and the rest are “deaths under investigation”, a term human rights activists say is a euphemism for vigilante and extrajudicial killings. Duterte’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this report.
OPPONENTS ASSAILED Reuters interviews reveal that the police’s Internal Affairs Service (IAS) and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) are so overwhelmed by the killings that they can investigate only a fraction, and there is scant hope of establishing many as unlawful because witnesses are too terrified to come forward. Meanwhile, the immense popularity of
Duterte’s crusade and a climate of fear whipped up by the bloodletting have together silenced dissent from civil society. Hardly anyone turned up at candlelight vigils in Manila recently to protest against extrajudicial killings. Even as the death toll rose, a July poll by Pulse Asia put Duterte’s approval rating at 91 percent. Anxious reminders by the Catholic Church of the
commandment ‘thou shalt not kill’ make few headlines in the predominantly Catholic country, with newspapers preferring to carry breathless accounts of the latest slayings. Duterte has delivered withering attacks on his chief critic, Senator Leila de Lima, accusing her of dealing in drugs herself and having an affair with her driver. “It’s only the president who can stop this,” de Lima told Reuters last week, deploring what she described as the “madness” that led in one case to a five-year-old girl being shot in the head. “How many more of these cases of collateral damage are we willing to bear before we can really start screaming about it?” she asked. As for critics abroad, Duterte pours scorn on them in language larded with curses. He lambasted the United Nations after it criticised the surge in killings and he turned down a meeting with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a summit in Laos this week. Duterte will meet Barack Obama in Laos on Tuesday, although he has made it clear in advance that he will take no lecture on human rights from the U.S. president, when in the
United States he alleged “black people are being shot even if they are already lying down”. “EVERYONE IS AFRAID” Duterte may intensify the crackdown after 14 people were killed on Friday in a bomb attack at a market in his hometown, Davao. Police blamed the Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic State-linked group Duterte has vowed to destroy, but his war on the drug trade is making enemies elsewhere and the attack quickened rumours of a plot to kill him. Duterte has declared a nationwide “state of lawlessness” after the blast that authorises troops to reinforce the police with checkpoints and patrols. He has managed with remarkable speed to nationalise a vicious model for fighting crime that he pioneered as mayor of Davao for 22 years. Rights groups documented hundreds of suspicious murders in Davao on Duterte’s watch and say death squads operated with impunity there. “The Punisher”, as some call him, denies ordering extrajudicial killings but he does not condemn them. Across the country now, lists of suspected drug pushers are being provided
to police by neighbourhood chiefs, adding to a sense of fear and distrust across communities. Politicians of all hues have gone quiet, and a Senate enquiry led by de Lima only has the power to propose legislation, not stop the killers in their tracks. INVESTIGATOR S SWAMPED Chief Superintendent Leo Angelo Leuterio, who heads the IAS, says it is his office’s responsibility to investigate every discharge of firearms involving police. But with only about 170 investigators nationwide, the IAS is able to deal with just 30 percent of the roughly 30 cases coming in every day. “Our resources are breaking at the seams,” said Leuterio. The IAS chief is supposed to be a civilian to ensure its independence but Leuterio is a policeman who spent 13 years of his career in Duterte’s hometown, Davao. He says he is unbiased and has a track record of dismissing hundreds of officers for misconduct. The CHR, for its part, is looking at just 259 of the 2,000-plus killings since July 1. Its forensics team of 14 is swamped and in their cramped office investigators probing possible extrajudicial killings are han-
dling just 12 dossiers. The commission says its biggest obstacle is that witnesses are hard to find. One person who did come forward is Harrah Kazuo, whose husband and father-in-law were severely beaten and shot dead in a police station, according to a CHR report. She told Reuters that when the police entered their home without a warrant they even removed her toddler’s underwear to search for drugs. Police have not commented on what happened in the home, but two officers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the case. Kazuo has been taken into witness protection by the CHR. She is a rare protesting voice in an environment where many are fearful. On Aug. 29, police told reporters they had opened fire that night on a drug suspect in Tondo, a dirt-poor and densely populated district of Manila. A Reuters reporter looked into the suspect’s one-room home and saw a mattress splattered with blood. He asked a neighbour how many shots had been fired, but the man replied: “Sorry, my friend. I didn’t hear a single shot,” and walked away.
Hunting pushing Eastern North Korea fires three Taliban attack in Afghanistan gorillas close to extinction ballistic missiles into sea capital Kabul kills at least 24 Four of six species of great apes are now rated “critically endangered”
Mountain gorillas from the Kabirizi family sit in Virunga National Park, just north of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, August 19, 2010. (REUTERS File Photo)
OSLO, SepteMber 5 (reuterS): Illegal hunting in Democratic Republic of Congo has wiped out 70 percent of Eastern gorillas in the past two decades and pushed the world’s biggest primate close to extinction, a Red List of endangered species showed on Sunday. Four of six species of great apes are now rated “critically endangered”, or one step away from extinction, by threats such as hunting and a loss of forests to farmland from West Africa to Indonesia, according to the annual list by wildlife experts. Eastern gorillas, revised from a lesser category of “endangered”, join their sister species, the Western gorilla, and both species of orangutan which were already on the list as critically endangered. The other two species of great apes, chimpanzees and bonobos, are rated endangered. “To see the Eastern gorilla – one of our closest cousins – slide towards extinction is truly distressing,” said Inger Andersen, director general of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) which compiles the Red List. Millions of people died in fighting in the mineralrich east of Democratic Republic of Congo from 1996 and 2003 and militias and miners often hunted gorillas for food. The main population of Eastern gorillas, the biggest primates weighing up to about 200 kg (440 lb), tumbled to an estimated 3,800 animals in 2015 from 16,900 in 1994, according to the report issued at an IUCN congress in Hawaii. A smaller branch of the Eastern gorilla family - the mountain gorilla - has fared better with the population rising to 880 from perhaps 500 in Rwanda, Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Chimpanzees were most able to adapt to a loss of forest habitats to oil palm plantations or other farms, while gorillas and orangutans were less flexible. “Chimps get by even if there is only a remnant of a forest,” Elizabeth Williamson, of the IUCN species survival commission for primates, told Reuters. “They can raid crops and steal fruit from farms - gorillas and orangutans don’t.” Among other changes, the IUCN said the population of plains zebra in Africa had fallen to about 500,000 animals from 660,000, also because of hunting for their meat and stripy skins. That put the species on a watchlist as “near threatened” after being of least concern.
SeOuL, SepteMber 5 (reuterS): North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, as the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies held a summit in China, the North's main diplomatic ally. The missiles were fired from a region south of the capital Pyongyang just after noon local time (0300 GMT) and flew about 1,000 km (600 miles), hitting Japan's air defence identification zone, the South's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. "We are still analysing details but this is a grave threat to our nation's security, and we express deep concern," the Japan Defence Ministry said in a statement. The missile launches were the latest in a series of launches by the isolated North this year in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, supported by China, that ban all ballistic missile-related activities by the North. Pyongyang rejects the ban as infringing its sovereign right to pursue a space programme and self defence. Shortly after the missile launches, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on the sidelines of the G20 summit and agreed to cooperate on monitoring the situation, a Japanese statement said. The South's military said the missiles were medium-range Rodong-class, launched as a show of force timed to coincide with the G20 summit.
In 2014, the North fired two Rodong medium-range missiles just as Park and Abe were meeting U.S. President Barack Obama at the Hague to discuss responding to the North's arms programme. The latest missiles were launched from a region called Hwangju and came just hours after the leaders of South Korea and China met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China. South Korea's Park told Chinese President Xi Jinping that the North's fourth nuclear test and its ballistic missile launches this year threatened regional peace and posed a challenge to South Korea's ties with China, Yonhap news agency reported earlier. During the meeting, Xi reaffirmed China's commitment to realising the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday. Xi also told Park that Beijing opposed the proposed deployment of a THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea, which Seoul and the United States have said is designed to counter an increasing missile threat from North Korea. Park said that a THAAD deployment would not threaten any other country's security interests and would not be needed if the North's nuclear issue was resolved, Yonhap news agency said. In July, the North launched three missiles in a single day from the western region that flew across the country and into the sea off its east coast, flying about 500 km and 600 km (300-360 miles).
KAbuL, SepteMber 5 (reuterS): A Taliban suicide attack near the defence ministry in Kabul killed at least 24 people on Monday, including a number of senior security officials, and wounded 91 others, officials said. Two blasts in quick succession hit a crowded area of the city near government buildings, a market and a main intersection, defence ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanesh said. Troops, police and civilians rushing to help victims of the first explosion were caught in the second, triggered when a suicide bomber blew himself up. “When the first explosion happened people crowded to the site and then the second blast occurred, which was really powerful and killed lots of people,” said Samiullah Safi, who witnessed the attack. The casualty total may increase as more information becomes available, said Mohammad Ismail Kawousi, a spokesman for the public health ministry. An army general and two senior police commanders
An Afghan policeman arrives at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 5. (REUTERS Photo)
were among the dead, a defence ministry official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said killed 58 officers and commanders. The militants have stepped up their campaign against the Western-backed government in recent weeks, following a brief lull after the death of their former leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour. The double bombing came less than two weeks after gunmen attacked the American University in Ka-
bul, killing 13 people. It was the deadliest attack in Kabul since at least 80 people were killed by a suicide bomber who targeted a demonstration on July 23. That assault was claimed by Islamic State. Government officials have been preparing for a conference in Brussels next month at which foreign donors, concerned about the ability of the Afghan security forces to withstand Taliban violence, are expected to pledge continuing support over coming years.
Radical democrats gain foothold in Hong Kong poll HONG KONG, SepteMber 5 (reuterS): Several pro-independence candidates won seats in Hong Kong’s legislative election which saw a record turnout in the Chinesecontrolled city on Sunday, a result likely to further strain ties with Communist Party rulers in Beijing. Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition also kept its crucial one-third veto bloc in the 70-seat Legislative Council over major legislation and public funding that has helped check China’s influence. The vote, which ushered in a new crop of legislators including a 23-yearold former protest leader who vowed to “fight” the Chinese Communist Party, underscores growing frustration with how Beijing has handled its “special administrative region” and marks a significant turning point. The former British colony was handed back to China in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” agreement that promised to maintain the global fi-
nancial hub’s freedoms and separate laws for at least 50 years, but gave ultimate control to Beijing. Beijing officials have repeatedly warned Hong Kong not to stray too far and Chinese leaders will now have to decide how to respond. There was no immediate reaction in official Chinese media to the election results. Despite the disqualification of six pro-democracy election candidates from the election in July on the grounds that they backed independence, at least five “localists” and younger democratic newcomers won seats, including one of the leaders from the mass democracy protests of 2014, Nathan Law. Localists put the interests of Hong Kong before those of Beijing. “I’m quite shocked,” said Law, 23. “We inherit some spirit from the movement and I hope that can continue in the future... We still have to unite in order to have stronger power to fight the Chinese Communist Party.”
Electoral officers check ballots at a vote counting center in Hong Kong on September 5, following the Legislative Council election. (REUTERS Photo)
“PEOPLE WANT CHANGE” Sunday’s vote was the first major election since the student-led “Umbrella Revolution” protests of 2014 that blocked roads for 79 days in which Beijing gave no ground. Since then, many disaffected youngsters have decried what they see as increasing Beijing interference stifling dissent and civil liberties, leading to a
radicalisation of the political scene and occasional violent protests. Several veteran democrats failed to retain their seats, as voters backed a new batch of younger democrats espousing selfdetermination and a more confrontational stance with China. “It’s a new era,” said Lee Cheuk-yan, a democratic lawmaker who lost his seat after more than two decades in public office.
“People want change, change meaning that they want new faces ... but the price is a further fragmentation (of the democracy camp). Ideologically they’re talking about independence and they want to assert themselves.” Hong Kong Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Raymond Tam said the government would do its best to “bring them around to a more centrist position”.
“But it’s too early to say if this will be an issue,” he said. Pro-establishment lawmakers like Elizabeth Quat said she hoped the issue of splitting from China wouldn’t enter the legislature or it could damage Hong Kong’s economic interests. “Independence is not realistic at all,” she said. “Hopefully this will not be their main objective.” Voters flocked to cast ballots in record numbers with some having to wait several hours after the close of polling past midnight at congested voting booths, leading to some delays in vote counting on Monday. “Hong Kong is really chaotic now. I want to do something to help,” said 28-year-old Maicy Leung, who was in a snaking queue of several hundred. “It’s to help the next generation and to help myself.” The Electoral Affairs Commission said 58 percent of the city’s 3.8 million eligible voters had cast their ballot, up from 53 percent in 2012 and the highest turnout for any legislative election since 1997.
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Teachers of Dimapur Mission Higher Secondary School during the celebration of Teachers’ Day at DABA Town Fellowship.
Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): The management and students of the Dimapur Mission Higher Secondary School organized Teachers’ Day event in honour of the teachers of the school on Monday at DABA Town Fellowship. Paying tribute to their
teachers, the students presented songs, plays, and talks on the values of teachers. Speaking on behalf of the management, Dr. Bendangjungshi, member of the School Governing Board said, “Teachers are special people in our society so they deserve special tribute from
all of us.” The School Governing Board chairman, K. Temjen Jamir announced the nomination of Mereninla as the “The Teacher of the Year, 2016” and the Award was given away by Dr. Maongkala Longchar, member of the School Governing Board.
Arms license holders informed Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): The Commissioner of Police, Dimapur through a circular has informed all holders of Arms License, which were issued/last renewed from the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur and subsequently from the office of the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur and whose Unique Identification Number (UIN) have not yet been generated, to produce their licenses to the office of the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur for generation of the same. According to a press release from Addl. Deputy Commissioner of Police/PRO, Dimapur Police, individuals having more than one Arms License have also been informed to produce all their existing licenses for consolidation into one UIN, as per Rule No. 15 sub clause (5) of Arms Rules, 2016. Any license holder who has changed his/ her place of residence, permanently or temporarily, for a period of six months or more will have to register their license from the licensing authority of the new jurisdiction where he/she is presently residing in accordance with Rule No. 17 of the Arms Rules, 2016, the release added. Further, all those Arms License holders are to obtain new license booklets from the office of the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur in accordance with Rule No. 26 of Arms Rules, 2016. For any enquiry, contact Arms Cell at 7085065057 (10 am to 3:30 pm).
public protest bloodshed in Aghunato
ZuNheboto, September 5 (mexN): Condemning the September 2 incident where Assam Rifles convoy was ambushed by NSCN (K), public of Aghunato Town held a public rally protesting any kind of bloodshed in and around Aghunato area on September 4. Speaking on the occasion, Hoito Achumi, Adhoc Town Committee Vice-Chairman urged the public to have transparency among them to restrain from troubles and take precautionary measures in such kind of incidents, according to a press release received here. Vihepu Yeputhomi, President, Eastern Sumi Students' Union encouraged the gathering to give more support and take initiatives
in such hours of conflict. Kuhozhe Achumi, President, G.B Hoho, Aghunato Area questioned the various factions as to what wrong the peace loving people of Aghunato did that they are bringing these kinds of armed conflicts in Aghunato, the release said. The participants, it added, strongly condemned the act meted out to the 5 Assam Rifles by NSCN-K when people are aspiring for peace. The public rally was organised by NGOs of Aghunato area, namely Sumi Totimi Hoho, Eastern Sumi Students' Union, GBs Hoho, and Aghunato Town Students' Union. The rally was attended by more than 5000 people, including from neighbouring villages and large number of students from various schools of Aghunato Town.
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The imaginary Truth of 15 Minutes peace day or black day? Nagaland Assembly Meeting 2016 S
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cclesiastes 3: 1-8 Say “1.There is time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2. A time to be born and a time to die, 3. A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4. A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6. A time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7. A time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to hate, 8. A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.” (NIV Bible) There is time for every individual in every group/party/organization to explode certain pressured elementshidden within the body, when it crosses limitation. Perhaps, which is why the scripture says “there is time for everything”. The predominant Nagas are still unknown to what takes place in every Nagaland Legislative Assembly meeting. As a result, they are in tears silently every day for experiencing political discrimination. In the unconscious act of every human being, many are swept away by the conscious vision. At the verge of coining achievement in new leadership of T.R.Zeliang, transgression emerges in uncertainty. It is neither failure nor mistake but drunkenness in pride of one’s own power. Such phenomenon makes ramifications to revelingtruth at certain point of time. The culture of politics inevitably embeds the sets of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments which produce order and meaning in the process of politics providing rules for member of legislative assembly (International Encyclopedia. 2008),that keeps every political member dumb from revealing truth within the majority corrupted members. Similarly, the current Naga People Front (NPF) political party must have suppressed any white sheep from becoming the messenger of the citizens from his/her constituency. The fundamental value of common people, spirit of democratic politics and the inclusiveness of every voice that emerges
from every distance of urban and rural areas are hybrid into white wash politics that fools the grassroots within and outside the Assembly. The current NPF political leadership must have escalated way beyond concealing injustice for own members. The process of socialization and politicization within and outside the Assembly went wrong; therefore, someone like an unknown member of legislative Assembly reveals the truth “Every time in the Assembly, we were not allowed to ask any questions to know something of the developmental works of certain departments in the State”. Continue “I, as a representative of my constituency, should be given an opportunity to ask questions to know the process of any developmental activities taking place in my Constituency. But if I do ask any questions in the Assembly, then I will be treated as indulging in anti-party activities” (Morungexpress. 2016). If such exposure is true then, the imaginations of everyday political meeting within the party members are always subjugating the minority voice, which is why every Assembly meeting lasts maximum for 15 minutes. On the other hand, the entire citizens of the State were curious of the 15minutes Nagaland Legislative Assembly meeting held on 12th July, 2016, that went viral on social media and newspapers like morungexpress, imphaltimes, theshillongtimes, oneindia, news google, and business standard news. Many anticipated that it would enter the Guinness world record as the shortest Assembly meeting in the world. Meanwhile, the current ruling political party – NPF perceived it as the greatest achievement in the history of any political party, perhaps in the entire globe, moreover, discerned as the only unopposed political party in the history of the state. The question is whether this revelation will affect the upcoming general election in the State? There is speculative anticipation that, collection of minor issues that may result into major issue at the end may appear as deadlock for the current NPF from winning the upcoming election. The brave initiative of the unknown man who revealed the internal discrimination
of the NPF government in a democratic State brings party mediocrity. The situation explicitly explicates the emergence of numerous opposition parties for the current unopposed party. There is no worstbigger image of the NPF than the publicly revealed of hidden discriminating politics.However, if the revelation is untrue, the party needs bigger and stronger evidences to convince the people to earn the trust. Subsequently, one important hesitation is that whether the Nagas would learn the wrong voting to right voting or would continue the same culture of voting in the coming election. Opportunity comes and goes; however, people who often missed it never see another opportunity again. Similarly, the whitewashing politics of the current NPF is revocable by the Naga citizens based on the poor performances, suppression of voice and discrimination of rights in the Assembly. Perhaps, Nagas must learn something from the man who revealed the discriminative politics of the Assembly and may follow to realize the scripture 3. “Atime to kill and a time to heal a time to tear down and a time to build”; it is the ongoing moment for the Nagas to kill the corruption and heal the painful wounds of the innocent the citizens who are becoming poorer.Time has begun to tear down the current political party and leadership and make it as time to build the broken and visionless society. However, if the Nagas missed it today, they would remain regretful for the next five years. It may be the opportunity which says “God is asking us to fix broken politics instead of complaining about it”. (Howell. 2016).If anyone misses this opportunity, you either regret upon the regret or regret not to regret again. Additional significance to fragment the current political party is to rationalize like what Howell says “the main culprit behind our broken government isn’t the political leaders, it’s the public to whom the members respond.” If the Naga political party depends on the public more than the political leaders then, every good and politics in the state is the choice of the common people. LemwangChuhwanglim Researcher & Activist
eptember 6 is being observed every year as Peace Day by the Nagas all over Nagaland, particularly in NBCC churches. Its significance is linked with the historical ceasefire agreement signed between the Government of India and the Federal Government of Nagaland on September 6, 1964. Being the most widely represented church body of the Naga family at that time, and also burdened with the need to stand up and speak out on behalf of the people, NBCC rose to the occasion and formed the Peace Mission to spearhead peace initiative with the following public figures as members: Jayaprakash Narayan, Bimala Prasad Chaliha, Rev. Michael Scott. A decision to this effect was taken during the NBCC convention which met at Wokha from January 31 - February 2, 1964. Through the tireless service of its peace emissary, NBCC was instrumental in bringing the two warring parties to sit across the table and ink the ceasefire agreement. This is no mean achievement by any standard given to understand the gravity of the situation during that time. Since then September 6 is being marked in the NBCC calendar and observed every year as Peace Day. This tradition is followed not so much to celebrate its achievement of having successfully brokered the peace deal as the need to impress upon its citizens to continue to work more sincerely and wholeheartedly towards the realisation of a realistic and tangible experience of peace. September 6 has another significance for some people living somewhere in the margin of the state. Less known among other Nagas but more solemnly observed by the Pochury Nagas with religious devotion on September 6 is the Black Day. Calling to mind the maiden speech of Jawaharlal Nehru on August 15, 1947, the first Prime Minister of free India, who, in the middle of the night, said, “...in the dead of the night when the world sleeps, India will rise to freedom...”, paradoxically it is a reality that when the rest of the Nagas sleep in peace on September 6, the people of Pochury shall wake up to another Black Day of sadness and suffering. Memories die hard. Memories of the sacrifice offered by the Pochury people at the altar of Naga struggle for emancipation from alien domination are relived and re-
membered with patriotic pride every year on September 6. Today many might not know the circumstances leading to the massacre of Matikhrü villagers on September 6, 1960 and the declaration of this day as Black Day. Consequent upon the attack by the Naga armies on the Indian army outpost at Thuda (Phor) on August 26, 1960 in which an Indian Air Force DC.3 carrying army supply was shot down, systematic torture and killing of the innocent villagers began to take place in the neighbouring villages beginning with Phor until finally its culmination was witnessed at Matikhrü on September 6, 1960. Every Pochury village has its own unique story to tell, but the cruel hand of the mighty Indian army that came heavily on the people of Matikhru on September 6, 1960 is beyond comprehension. Decapitated bodies, dismembered limbs, mutilated bodies beyond recognition abound the ghost village. Death, death everywhere and there was not a single soul to bury the death. Juxtaposing Nagaland Peace Day and Pochury Black Day today, two very significant events seemingly contesting for prominence in the calendar of one nation, one wonders whether these two contradictory contenders could in any way be reconciled. Black is emblematic of death and mourning. Peace means life and celebration. Can one die and live or grieve and rejoice at the same time? The question on one’s mind is should we or should we not commemorate Peace Day on Black Day. Like the Hebrews in exile who reasoned with their subjugators as to how they could sing the Lord’s song in a strange land, we too reason how we could forget the carnage of September 6 and betray the trust of our forefathers by not observing Black Day? The people of Pochury choose to observe Black Day on September 6 not in any sense to romanticise suffering or glorify violence. It is also not our intention to stage a protest and oppose peace. We observe Black Day lest we forget the value of peace that has been purchased with the blood of the martyrs. Very importantly, our intention and action is to affirm and make known to the Nagas and the other Indians that a repeat of the September 6, 1960 tragedy should not be allowed to happen again anytime anywhere in our land. Rümatho Nyusou
52nd Anniversary commemoration of Indo-Naga Ceasefire Day Dear Teachers, Now that Teacher’s Day is over…
Message Delivered by Gen, (Retd) Thin- the Nagas were compelled to rise up with arms uoselie M. Keyho, President NNC on 6th against the Indians. But it is said that in late 1964 when a proposSeptember, 2016. al for Indo- Naga Ceasefire was brought to him,
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am grateful to the Almighty God and I give all glory to Him for the life He has given me to be able to share about the Indo-Naga Ceasefire with our people today. The Indo-Naga saga is one of mystery and wonder. I have learnt from our leaders that in the past, the Indian Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi understood about the Nagas and wanted the Nagas to be free, but before this could materialise he was unfortunately killed by his own people. An opportunity was lost. The then Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru did not like the Nagas. He did not listen to the rights of the Nagas and tried to suppress it. It is said that once in the presence of a Naga delegation he angrily hit the table with his fist and said. “Even if heaven falls, or the earth breaks into pieces or blood flows throughout the whole of India, I or for that matter anyone, as long as there is a Prime Minister of India, Nagas will not be given Independence.” If he really said this it is not suitable for him. Can a Prime Minister of any country say such harsh words? May be God had hardened his heart. Nehru sent Indian soldiers to invade Nagaland, intrude our homes, persecuted and tortured our people without any valid reasons, our women abused and molested, wilful destruction of our goods and properties and took the lives of many of our people. Because of which
he gladly endorsed it. Not only this, it was said that he personally wanted to conduct the Peace Talk. This made the people to really wonder at the Prime Minister’s sudden change of heart. We thought since he had learnt something, we expected that he would decide something but he died before the Ceasefire came into effect. In this also we lost a very good opportunity. We were also very happy that the Government of India was going to have a Ceasefire with the Federal Government of Nagaland. Nagas starting from zero to that of signing a Ceasefire Agreement with Government of India was regarded as ample rewards for our sacrifices and effort; they have indirectly given us recognition. On top of this, it has already granted the “Nagaland State,” and to supersede all these, was going to have dialogue with us. We also believed that India was really sincere and wanted to solve the issue positively attended the Talk. In the First Round of Talks I was also one of the delegates of the Federal Government of Nagaland. Among the Three of us who attended I am the only one surviving today as my two friends, Mr. Zashei Huire and Mr. Isak Chishi Swu are no more with us. Why did the Peace Talk fail? There may be many reasons, but to me it was the attitude of the Indians, their approach was not good. They were too proud and thought highly of themselves while they did not consider the Nagas as human beings and ill treated us. There was no
sincerity nor do they seriously think it is necessary on their part to solve the issue, but for the time being just making things easy to make Nagas lazy and weaken us in order to control us, using divisive policy and delaying tactic. They do not understand the Nagas. This is both good and bad. Had they understood the Nagas, the Naga issue would have been solved long before, but the inability to solve the issue even after so many years is only because they do not understand the Nagas. After a gap of more than 30 (Thirty) years, in 1997 the Government of India first signed Ceasefire with NSCN (IM). Then in 2001, signed Ceasefire with NSCN (K), after that with NSCN (U) and NSCN (R) but the” Peace Talk” is being held only with NSCN (IM). What does this mean? How many times or with how many people will they sign the Ceasefire with? During the 1964 Ceasefire there was unity among the Nagas. The people’s mandate was also there. How can the Issue be solved now in the absence of unity and mandate? The Government of India can neither fool the Nagas nor the world. The Naga issue is different; victory is not possible by adopting crooked or evil means. Victory cannot be achieved through the use of arms and guns or physical strength but only by Honesty and Truth. The solution of the Naga issue may be a challenge to the wisdom and statesmanship of the Indian leaders. The Government of India may appear good or bad. Let the Government of India make the choice. But as for us: We Nagas believe that Righteousness and Truth will ultimately Triumph.
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ow that September 5, 2016 is past and we have joyfully accepted and acknowledged all the words of appreciation from our dear students, it is time to get back to serious work. We don’t really need a specific day in a year to feel valued but the day does deliver its own worth, sometimes in unexpected ways. It is good for our morale as teachers. It is worthwhile also simply because we get some breathing space and get to look at things from our students’ perspectives. As a teacher myself, I can easily slip into this mode of thinking that I can and should talk and my students should listen whether they like it or not. And of course, because teachers are teachers and students are students, many things continue to go on as they have always been. But again, could this be why the products resemble the manufacturers after the process sees completion? The many lapses in our educational system have been churning out more and more lapses and trespasses over the years. The irony is, we all share the brunt finally. As Nagas, we have amassed more educational degrees over the past few decades, our illiteracy rates have dropped, we speak and write better English, our private properties and personal possessions have undergone more modifications and accessorizations, and our towns now have big billboards announcing the presence of impressive shops, hotels, and projects. At a glance, some things look pretty good. But
again, has the quality of our lives in general improved? Are we living happier and more-fulfilled lives? How do we fare at our empathy levels? Has the “education” we acquired from various sources made us better human beings in the final analysis? Coming back to Teachers’ Day and its significance and implications, there are certain things that hover over my mind as I put away the nice Happy Teacher’s Day cards from yesterday. I am also re-reading a letter I read many years ago; a letter which moved me then and is doing now. It is a letter written by a holocaust survivor. There is no writer’s name. No date. Yet, the message is clear and timeless. It reads: “Dear Teacher, I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no men should witness: Gas chambers built by engineers; Children poisoned by educated physicians; Infants killed by trained nurses; Women and babies shot and burned by high school graduates. So, I am suspicious of your education. My request is: help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, Skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.” Buno Iralu, Sechü-Zubza
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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A DAN chairman Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu, Minister for Social Welfare & Parliamentary Affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie and others seen here with mascots at the launch of Jack ‘N’ Jill shopping mall at Kohima on September 5. (Morung Photo)
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ack ‘N’ Jill shopping mall was opened here today at Dr. Neilavinuo Building, PR Hill, opposite old medical directorate. It was formally inaugurated by DAN chairman Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu in the presence of Minister for Social Welfare & Parliamentary Affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie, parliamen-
tary Secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, Music Task Force and State Lotteries Khriehu Liezietsu and several other dignitaries. This shopping mall features household goods, footwear, crockery, cosmetic, toys, bag, garments etc. etc. Jack ‘N’ Jill was started in 1984 by Mr & Mrs Raju Dey with a small outlet in
Dimapur. Later, it was expanded from a small outlet to a multi-storeyed family store in Hazi Park road, Dimapur. In a welcome note, this shopping mall has provided job opportunity to more than 50 youth. Jack ‘N’ Jill will keep open from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM daily except Sunday. Morung Express news
ctress Parineeti Chopra, who is back from her Dream Team tour to the US, says she likes to perform in front of the camera as well as the audience. Asked what is tougher - performing live or on screen, Parineeti told IANS over phone from Mumbai: “Both have their own things. What you perform in front of the camera will last forever. There are many challenges to that... But live, you have only one shot and you can’t make mistakes. There are challenges in both and I enjoy both equally.” The “Ishaqzaade” star says there is a “high in performing live and also there is an excitement in performing in front of the camera”. Talking about the tour, where Parineeti performed with other Bollywood celebrities like filmmaker Karan Johar, rapper Badshah, actors Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapur, Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif, Parineeti says it was a “wholesome experience”. “We all bonded so well...so much so that at the end of the tour, we were hugging each other and missing each other so much. We keep talking to each other now. So, it has been a very wholesome experience unlike any other work experience I have had.” On the acting front, Parineeti is currently busy working with actor Ayushmann Khurrana for the film “Meri Pyaari Bindu”. Source: IANS
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ollywood superstar Sylvester Stallone found himself as a victim of a death hoax, but dismissed the rumour with a fun photograph. The “Rocky” star shared an image on Instagram holding up his fists with professional boxer Sergey Kovalev on Saturday, reports mirror.co.uk. Without referencing the hoax that quickly spread across social media, Sylvester brushed it off with a cheeky smile and boxing pose, proving he’s as fit as ever. He posted: “With the incredibly powerful unified light heavyweight champion, Sergey “Krusher”Kovzalev “…Whatever he hits, he destroys Sergey Kovalev (sic).” Fans of the “Rocky” and “Rambo” action movie legend were thrown into a state of shock this weekend as a rumour circulated on social media and appeared to confirm his death. A fake news story was being shared on Facebook, with fans clicking on the spam article, which then shares it on their page for their friends to see. However, Stallone, who has ignored the prank, has still been active on his own social media accounts. Source: IANS
Ranbir tops Pakistani Actress Mawra’s wishlist
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akistani actress Mawra Hocane, who was once rumoured to be dating Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor, says she would love to work with the Barfi! star as he is on the top of her wish list. Mawra, who made her Bollywood debut with Sanam Teri Kasam earlier this year, later denied the dating rumours. “On the top of my wishlist is Ranbir Kapoor. I hope I can get a chance to work with him soon,” Mawra told IANS. “If you ask me about directors, then I am ready to work with anybody and everybody because I don’t find myself in the position of choosing the directors. I hope that they choose me and find me worthy enough for their films. I really want to work more in India,” added the 23-year-old. When asked about film genres she wishes to be a part of, Mawra said she is attracted towards “period dramas like Bajirao Mastani or Umrao Jaan”. “I hope that I get offered one of those soon. And another one that really attracts me is the biopic genre. Particularly I want to do Nazia Hassan’s biopic. I heard her story when I was a child. My mother really likes her,” she added. Co-directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, Sanam Teri Kasam, which also starred Harshvardhan Rane, will premiere on &pictures on Sunday. Source: IANS
omething tells us this is one birthday Beyoncé won’t forget anytime soon. As the Budweiser Made in America festival continued Sunday evening, the “Halo” singer and husband Jay Z had a front-row seat to all the performances. E! News can confirm the birthday girl was able to take in the sounds of Chance the Rapper, Coldplay and more artists with close friends Kelly Rowland, La La Anthony and Carmelo Anthony. And yes, Bey’s husband was close by too. “They were acting very affectionate and dancing with each other near the stage,” an eyewitness shared with E! News. “Jay Z had his arms around her and kissed Beyoncé during the show. He was dancing behind her the whole concert.” In fact, the pair almost fit in with the crowd as Jay Z wore a Chicago Bulls jersey with a denim jacket. Meanwhile, Beyoncé looked stunning in ripped denim shorts, an amazon-themed top and a green beaded jacket while sipping on D’USSÉ. “They looked madly in love,” our insider shared. “She told Jay she loves him.” While moving and shaking to the hits, Beyoncé received a few special shout outs from the stage including one from Chris Martin. “We want to say happy birthday to Mrs. Carter who is out here somewhere,” he shared during his set. “Can you believe she’s 107 years old? Happy birthday Bey.” E! News has also learned that the birthday girl ran into Malia Obama and former President Bill Clinton during the Labor Day weekend music festival. Not too shabby for a Sunday night out. “Malia was dancing with Jay Z and she was smiling,” an eyewitness shared with us. “Beyoncé and Jay gave Malia a hug too.” Earlier in the day, E! News caught up with Kelly who was more than excited to ring in her close friend’s big day. In fact, the “Motivation” singer
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revealed the special gift she gave the Grammy winner. “Well, diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” Kelly told us exclusively. “I got her diamonds!” “I am super excited to be here and hear all the artists,” the former Destiny’s Child member continued. “We are all going to be celebrating this fes-
tival and Beyoncé’s birthday.” Fans got a little treat themselves early Sunday morning when the music video for “Hold Up” officially hit YouTube. In other words, 35 is starting off on a high note for all Beyhive members. Source: Eonline
ohn Abraham has been roped in as a brand ambassador for Arunachal Pradesh Tourism. BE Viacom18 in a first of its kind initiative, has partnered with the government of Arunachal Pradesh to provide strategic consultation services to promote the tourism in the state. John Abraham, who loves football, adventure sports, biking is the perfect fit for the state. Representing the state as a brand ambassador, he is of the opinion that the state has lot to offer to its tourist be it culture, heritage, adventure sports and music. Source: TNN
Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan to work together for first time in Yash Raj next Thug
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next year. Big B, who seems all excited for teaming up with the perfectionaist Aamir, said, “I don’t know if I can talk much about the film at this moment. I haven’t been given permission. All I can say is that it is a very exciting subject.” Big B is currently busy promoting Pink, also starring Taapsee Pannu and Aamir is wrapping up the production of his sports drama Dangal. The movie was first said to be offered to Hrithik Roshan who opted out of it. The news of having Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan in one frame in itself is exciting enough to expect a good movie coming our way. The project will be helmed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, who also directed Dhoom 3. The movie is based on the novel Confession of a Thug. The release slot is yet to be decided. Source: Indian Express
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia serves against Kyle Edmund of Great Britain (not pictured) on day seven of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. (Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports)
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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 5 (REUTERS): Top seed Novak Djokovic has been starved of competitive action at the U.S. Open but on Sunday the world number one feasted on unseeded Briton Kyle Edmund in a 6-2 6-1 6-4 romp that put him into the quarter-finals. Djokovic had a secondround walkover as Czech Jiri Vesely withdrew due to injury, and was leading 4-2 in his third-round match when Russian Mikhail Youzhny retired with a leg ailment, making it six days
since his last full match. The Serb kept himself busy on the practice courts but was happy to cut loose against an actual opponent, making 21-year-old Edmund the target of his arsenal of rifled groundstrokes, angled volleys, pinpoint passing shots, lobs and drop shots. "Feels great to play a match," Djokovic said in an on-court interview. "I haven't played much tennis. "Baseline shots, both forehand and backhand, were working very well. Think I was most pleased
with that." After two lopsided sets that Djokovic totally controlled, Edmund made the third set competitive, holding for 4-4 before the Serb closed out the set to end the match. Djokovic's victory put him into the last eight against ninth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a 6-3 6-3 6-7(7) 6-2 winner against American 26th seed Jack Sock. The world number one, who was bothered by a left wrist injury that may have been a factor in his thirdround exit from Wimble-
don and first-round loss at the Rio Olympics, had his right arm and elbow area treated during a medical timeout at 2-1 in the third set against Edmund, but Djokovic downplayed it. "I needed a little bit of massage," he said of treatment similar to that which he received during his opening-round match against Jerzy Janowicz of Poland. "I feel great at this moment physically; mentally as well. I'm motivated. So coming into the second week of a grand slam quarter-finals ... it's exactly where I want to be." Edmund, who entered the tournament ranked 84th and upset 13th seed Richard Gasquet of France in the first round and 20thseeded American John Isner in the third , was playing his first match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. "Just enjoyed the experience," the South Africanborn Briton said. "It was obviously a tough match. "Just a lot of learning to do from it, which is a really good thing. To play the world number one on the biggest tennis court in the world, doesn't get much better than that." "It's been a great tournament for me. Loads and loads of positives."
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 5 (REUTERS): Young Frenchman Lucas Pouille scored a stunning, five-set upset over 14-times grand slam singles champion Rafa Nadal, winning a climactic tiebreak 8-6 to reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals on Sunday. Displaying poise beyond his years, the 22-yearold Pouille took charge early and led two sets to one, then rebounded after sagging in the fourth set to win 6-1 2-6 6-4 3-6 7-6(6) in a four-hour struggle against the fourth seed. Playing his third consecutive five-set match, 24th seed Pouille, still looking for his first ATP Tour title, showed that his quarter-final advance earlier this season at Wimbledon was no fluke. "It's my first match on the center court, against Rafa," Pouille said in an on-court interview after dropping flat on his back in celebration after his forehand winner ended the marathon on his fourth match point. "I couldn't dream better than this." The see-saw battle carried all the way into the fifth-set tiebreak, reached after Pouille answered Nadal's opening game service break with one of his own in the eighth game. In the tension-packed decider,
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LONDON, SEPTEMBER 5 (REUTERS): England's Adam Lallana scored his first international goal with the last kick of the game as the visitors beat 10-man Slovakia 1-0 in their World Cup Group F qualifier on Sunday to get new manager Sam Allardyce's reign off to a winning start. With the referee checking his watch, Danny Rose sent a hopeful low ball into the area for Lallana, who jinked left past a defender and struck a low shot through the legs of goalkeeper Matus Kozacik for his first England goal in 27 games. However, for much of a lacklustre contest in Trnava it looked like England would be frustrated with a re-run of the goalless draw the teams shared in their last clash during the group stage at Euro 2016 in SaintEtienne in June. England struggled to shrug off familiar problems, controlling the game without looking like winning it even after Slovakia defender Martin Skrtel was dismissed for stamping on Harry Kane in the 57th minute.
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His departure signalled a period of intense pressure from England with Lallana hitting the post, and substitute Theo Walcott seeing a scrambled effort ruled out for offside, before the Liverpool midfielder snatched the last-gasp winner. "We didn't panic, that was the main thing," said captain Wayne Rooney, who played in his 116th in-
ternational to become England's most capped outfield player ahead of David Beckham. "We stuck to our plan and kept our shape. Adam scored the goal to get us off to an excellent start (in the campaign)." Before the game Allardyce, who replaced Roy Hodgson after England's shock Euro 2016 exit to
Iceland, said he would be happy with a point from what he expected to be their hardest qualifying game, so he was delighted with the win. "We got what we deserved," he said. "It looked like it wasn't going to be our night and it was pretty nerve-wracking at the end, but well done Adam. It was an important win."
"We controlled everything, we didn't allow Norway to get into the game and we didn't allow them any scoring chances," said Loew. "I'm happy with the performance. "It was good for Mueller to get the goal and good for us," he said, then added
jokingly: "I would have preferred him to have scored some goals in the European championship." Norway, who beat Germany 1-0 away in a friendly in 2009 when the teams last met, lacked ambition from the outset but any plans they may have had of frus-
trating the visitors were quickly torpedoed. The home defence twice failed to clear the ball and Mueller, who failed to hit the target in Euro 2016, managed to score with a deflected shot despite being off-balance in the 15th minute. A lucky bounce
the Frenchman rushed out to a 4-1 lead. Double U.S. Open winner Nadal drew within 4-3 but a forehand winner by Pouille made it 6-3 for triple match point. Nadal, who has made an extraordinary comeback from a wrist injury that forced him to retire before his third-round match at Roland Garros and withdraw from Wimbledon, fought them all off to make it 6-6. The Spaniard looked poised to reach match point himself when he came in on a short ball and looked set to unleash
a winner, but his forehand found the net and Pouille made no such mistake on his big swing that finished the match. "I learned that it's never over until the last point," said Pouille. "I was a break down in the fifth, I came back and led 6-3 in the tiebreak and he came back. Yeah, it's never done until the last point is over." Said Nadal: "I fight until the end, until the last ball. Was a very close match. I congratulate my opponent, he played with better decisions than me the last
couple of points. Nadal said Pouille has a very bright future. "He's a player that has all the shots. He's a potential top 10 and good fight for the big things the next couple of years, if he's able to keep playing well, keep improving." Pouille will play 10thseeded compatriot Gael Monfils in the last eight. Monfils advanced with a 6-3 6-2 6-3 victory winner against unseeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, and has yet to lose a set in the tournament.
MDFA Trophy set to kickoff from Oct 4
DiMaPUR, SEPTEMBER 5 (MExN): MDFA Trophy 2016 will commence tentatively from October 4 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, the association officials said today. In 2016 edition of the trophy, the official has also decided to allow only 4(four) non-habitant players of Mokokchung District. This is being implemented in order to promote
local players, informed Mokokchung District Football Association General Secretary Imkongsunep and Tournament Secretary Supongwati in a press note. MTFA further said that only registered club will be allowed to participate in the ensuing Trophy. Registration and renewal process of clubs have been extended till September 10 and thereafter no registration/renewal will
be entertained, it added. The application form for participating in the trophy will be available from September 6 at 3Kit Photo Shop, Alongmen Ward, Mokokchung. The form & complete players list can be submitted till September 24 to at MDFA Treasurer Residence. For any further information interested person can contact 9856699423/9612096312.
NEW DELhi, SEPTEMBER 5 (iaNS): The Supreme Court on Monday quashed a criminal case against India's limited overs cricket captain M.S. Dhoni for being depicted as Lord Vishnu on the cover of a business magazine. Abench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Prafulla C. Pant quashed the criminal case against Dhoni, holding that the procedure contemplated for initiating such a criminal case was not complied with. Petitioner Jayakumar Hiremath had filed the criminal complaint alleging that depiction of Dhoni as Lord Vishnu in commercial context has hurt the sentiments of the people as it was trivialising the revered god of Hindus. The cover page in question had a photo of Dhoni portrayed as Lord Vishu with multiple hands, each holding the products that were being endorsed by The Nagaland Sepaktakraw Junior Team Boys and Girls teams, who will participate in the him. The top court by its 20th Junior National Championship from September 9 to 13 in Karnataka. August 24, 2015, order had stayed proceedings in criminal complaint before a Bengaluru court and the notice was issued on October 12, 2015.
Mueller scores twice as Germany brush Norway aside
OSLO, SEPTEMBER 5 (REUTERS): Thomas Mueller put his Euro 2016 goal drought behind him, scoring twice to give dominant Germany an easy 3-0 win away to Norway in their opening World Cup qualifier on Sunday. Mueller took advantage of shoddy Norwegian defending to give the title holders an early lead and headed the third goal on the hour of the European Group C game. In between, he produced a superb pass to set up Joshua Kimmich for his first international goal. Germany made light of the absence of Jerome Boateng, Mario Gomez and Andre Schuerrle, plus Lukas Podolski and Bastian Schweinsteiger who both have retired from international football. They enjoyed 68 percent of the possession, spent nearly the entire game inside the Norway half and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, given the captaincy in place of Schweinsteiger, did not have to save a single shot on target.
Lucas Pouille of France hits volley against Rafael Nadal of Spain (not pictured) on day seven of the 2016 U.S. (Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports)
gave Norway a rare opening but Joshua King, given a free shot on goal, sent his effort high and wide. Germany, who had not played Norway in a competitive game since 1953, scored again on the stroke of halftime when Mueller threaded the ball to Kimmich who drove it into the far corner, leaving two Norway defenders on the ground. The second half continued in a similar vein and it was no surprise when Mueller added a third, heading in from Sami Khedira's cross for his 34th international goal. It was the perfect start for Germany in what appears to be one of the easiest qualifying groups. They were given another boost when the Czech Republic, who were expected to be their nearest rivals, dropped two home points in a 0-0 draw with Northern Ireland. In the group's other game, Ruslan Gurbanov's goal on the stroke of halftime gave Azerbaijan a 1-0 win at minnows San Marino.
Kohli retains no.2 spot, Rohit slips in ODI rankings
DUBai, SEPTEMBER 5 (iaNS): India's Test captain Virat Kohli on Monday retained his second spot while opener Rohit Sharma slipped a place to seventh in the latest One-day International (ODI) cricket batting rankings. Kohli has 813 points, a fair distance behind South African AB de Villiers (887) while compatriot Hashim Amla (778) is third. Rohit has 750 points just ahead of team-mate Shikhar Dhawan (737), according to a release by the International Cricket Council (ICC). England batsman Joe Root surged into the top five for the first time after a stellar performance against Pakistan, which earned him the player of the series award. The 25-year-old scored 274 runs in the series, which helped him leapfrog New Zealand's duo of Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill as well as Rohit into fourth position in the latest player rankings. England's Alex Hales has risen four places to reach 20th spot after aggregating 223 runs in the series, including a belligerent 171 in the third ODI. Captain Eoin Morgan has gained four places and is now 24th. The good news for Pakistan was the movement of its captain Azhar Ali and wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed. Azhar's 208 runs in the series has seen him move up 15 places to 33rd, while Sarfraz, who was the highest run-getter in the series from either side with 300 runs, has moved up 21 places to 39th position. Sarfraz had a productive series with the bat when he scored 55, 105, 38, 12 and 90 in the series. Azhar and Sarfraz are the only two Pakistan batsmen, who featured in the recent series against England, to figure inside the top 50. The next highest Pak-
istan batsman is Shoaib Malik in 67th spot. Australia, which scripted a 4-1 series win over Sri Lanka, saw Aaron Finch and George Bailey move up two and three places, respectively. Finch is now 15th while Bailey claims the 17th spot. The bowlers' table is led by Sunil Narine of the West Indies, while Trent Boult of New Zealand is in the second place. Australian Mitchell Starc jumped two rungs to be third. England's Adil Rashid has broken into the top 10 for the first time, while fast bowler Chris Woakes has carried his Test form into limited overs cricket by entering the top 20 for the first time. Rashid has been rewarded for his eight wickets in the series with a rise of six places that has put him in 10th position, while Woakes has climbed 13 places to 16th after finishing as the leading wicket-taker in the series with nine wickets.
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