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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
‘Human Rights and Social Justice de-valued in Naga society’
‘They will marry!’ BCCI
Jaitley stirs anger by making light of rape case [ PAGE 8]
–Alfred Adler
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irom is rearrested despite resistance
reflections
By Sandemo Ngullie
Ripple effect? I don’t know, but now all the senior party members want to tour USA, UK, RUSSIA and Mt Everest.
ImphAL, AuGust 22 (IANs): Activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who is on an indefinite fast in Manipur for nearly 14 years seeking repeal of a law giving sweeping powers to the armed forces to deal with terrorism, was again arrested Friday, two days after she was released following a court order. A police contingent arrived at Sharmila’s protest site Friday morning and took her to a government hospital in a police van before arresting her despite resistance from Sharmila, her mother and few supporters. “Sharmila re-arrested on charges of attempt to commit suicide. She was arrested by the police after she refused to undergo medical check-up or be force fed following her release from hospital prison Wednesday,” additional director general of Manipur police Santosh Macherla told reporters. He said: “The court in its order had said the responsibility of Sharmila’s health would remain with the state government. After she refused to be force-fed and undergo health check-up following her release, the police again arrested her.” A Manipur health department official said a doctor accompanied by paramedical staff with police arrived late Thursday night at the temporary shed here, which is now Sharmila’s protest site, but she was sleeping. Later, she refused to undergo a medical check-up. Manipur Deputy Chief Minis-
ter Gaikhangam, who also holds the home portfolio, said the government is taking care for her safety and health. The entry of media and others inside the heavily guarded Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences here, where Sharmila has been lodged, has been barred. The 42-year old human rights activist was released
demanding repeal of the AFSPA after the killing of 10 people allegedly by the paramilitary Assam Rifles at Malom near the Imphal airport Nov 2, 2000. She was charged under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code (attempt to commit suicide) that provides for a year’s custody at a stretch. In view of her ill-health, Sharmila was lodged in a special ward of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal where the room in which she was confined was declared a sub-jail. Sharmila, who has been released and arrested again after every 364 days, is force-fed thrice a day. Despite her request to the Election Commission, she was not allowed to vote in the polls because the law does not allow those in custody to cast their ballot. The AFSPA provides unlimited powers to the security forces to shoot at sight, arrest people without a warrant or carry out searches without hindrance. It also insulates the security forces from legal processes for any action undertaken under the act. The AFSPA, described by critics as a “draconian law”, also allows the army and the paramilitary forces operating in areas declared as “disturbed” by the home ministry to take whatever action they deem fit against terrorists. The AFSPA is in force in whole or in parts of Manipur, Tripura, Assam and Nagaland, as also in Tirap and Changlang districts of Arunachal Pradesh and in Jammu and Kashmir.
Court order says responsibility of Sharmila’s health would remain with the Manipur state government
India’s wettest state, to go dry - in 10 years
BANGALORE, AuGust 22 (REutERs): India’s wettest state is planning to dry out, drop by drop. The tropical state of Kerala, which has the country’s highest alcohol consumption per capita, is moving to become alcohol-free within 10 years. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, quoted in local media, said the state government was in favour of “total prohibition”. From next April, only 5-star hotels will be granted bar licences. A resident of Kerala typically drinks about 8.3 liters of alcohol per year, more than double the national average. Rum, whiskey and brandy are the state’s favourite tipples. Tourism officials worry the ban might hit the most successful industry in a state that markets itself as “God’s Own Country”. Tourism revenue totaled about $3.8 billion last year. Though hundreds of bars will close in the next few months, government-run liquor stores will be phased out more gradually over the next decade - a long time in politics.
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In this aerial photo, rescuers search for survivors in the rubble in a mud-ridden residential area following a massive landslide in Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Heavy rain showers forecast are raising the risks of further landslides in Hiroshima, hindering efforts to locate the dozens of people missing after hills in several areas collapsed earlier this week. (AP Photo)
nagaland press body concerned; affirms principles of impartiality
DImApuR, AuGust 22 (mExN): The Nagaland Press Association (NPA) held a meeting on August 21 and discussed in details the present conditions under which the Fourth Estate is being perceived as a soft target by various individuals and groups. After thorough deliberation on the matters concerning the Fourth Estate, especially the recent accusations issued by the NNC (Royim Yimchunger) on Nagaland Post, the NPA has put on record its resentment and it protests against the language and manner in which the former had
‘Any threat or caution to a particular member of the media is a direct threat to the entire media fraternity’
publicly expressed itself. The NPA in a press note issued by its Vice President H. Chishi and General Secretary Along Longkumer has stated that “any misunderstanding can be addressed through dialogue” and therefore urged the NNC leadership to retract their statement against Nagaland Post. “Any threat or caution to a particular member of the media is a direct threat to the entire media fraternity”, the NPA
press note stated. Pointing out that the media fraternity in Nagaland has been working in the midst of many challenges and difficulties, the NPA asserted, “despite the constant pressures, threats and circumstances, the media has stood firm to the principles of impartiality.” “In its thirst to strengthen democracy in Nagaland, the print media in particular has created sufficient space for press statements,
rejoinders and counter-rejoinders to be published to support public discussions. It has also at times after due consideration withheld publications of materials, which it thought would be detrimental and inflammatory”, stated the NPA. The NPA also expressed that when the Fourth Estate is striving hard with limited resources and human resources to serve the society and upholding the values of truth, the recent intimidation by individuals, organizations - both overground and underground group - have discouraged the media fraternity as a whole.
Wednesday, a day after a district sessions court asked the Manipur government to free her from the makeshift jail set up in a hospital since November 2000. The “Iron Lady”, as Sharmila is known in Manipur, immediately after her release vowed to continue her fight to end the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA). She told reporters: “I will continue my struggle until the tough act is repealed. My struggle proves that I am right, justice has been upheld finally.” “I need people’s support,” said Sharmila. Imphal East District Sessions Judge A. Guneshwar Sharma while passing the judgment on a petition filed by Sharmila said it was just a claim that she wants to commit suicide. “No proof was established against the allegation of the authority. Hence, she cannot be kept under arrest and should be freed immediately,” the judge added. Sharmila has been on an indefinite hunger strike since Nov 4, 2000,
Border Row: Nagaland govt response is ‘very negligible’ Now, Pay and Use Toilet • RALH decides not to Wokha Police arrest Curfew lifted in offers gum for ‘change’ allow resettlement of Golaghat district Adivasi tenants in Ralan • RALH demands lifting of 144 CrPc from Lotha villages Morung Express News Dimapur | August 22
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Ralan Area Lotha Hoho (RALH) today stated that Ralan people are not fighting against the Ahoms. “We are not fighting with the Ahoms. We are defending against the attacks of Adivasis,” RALH officials asserted, while reiterating that the recent conflict is not a territorial issue, but one between landowners and tenants. The Hoho, in its meeting held in Dimapur, also affirmed that it will not allow the Adivasi tenants to resettle in Ralan. The resolution was made following news reports of Assam chief minister stating that one of the priorities in resolving the Assam-Nagaland tension was to send back the displaced people to their respective homes. The Hoho cautioned that the governments of Assam and Nagaland and individuals concerned will be solely responsible for eventualities created by resettlement of the displaced tenants. The Hoho officials, speaking to The Morung Express, said that around 500-600 Lotha villagers belonging to Wochan, S Wochan, Tchuchanphen, Yanlum, Soshan, Lishayan, Likyayan, L Chekhayan villages have been displaced. Wochan village
15 in Ralan incident
The Wokha police have so far arrested 15 persons in connection with the violence in the disputed Ralan border belt. The Wokha police today disclosed that the arrests were made on three different days. The first arrest occurred on August 14, two days after unrest gripped Uriamghat and Ralan sectors. According to the Wokha police, three people were arrested on August 14, six on August 15, and the remaining six on August 19. Fifteen criminal cases were registered at Ralan Police Station under the IPC and other special Acts, including the Arms and Explosives Acts. One unlicensed 12’ bore gun along with five cartridges was confiscated,
the Wokha police added. Three of the arrested people were forwarded to judicial custody pending investigation. On the situation in the border area, it was stated that security forces have taken control with the deployment of an additional 7 companies of Central forces in Sector C (Uriamghat), Sector D (Merapani) and Sector B (Ralan) on Friday. Night curfew continues to be in place in the Disputed Area Belt while NAP personnel are keeping round the clock vigil on the Nagaland side of the interstate border. With Assam pointing fingers on the involvement of Naga Political Groups in the border dispute, the Wokha police said that the reports cannot be substantiated as it cannot make allegations based on hearsay.
GuwAhAtI, AuGust 22 (IANs): Indefinite curfew imposed in Assam’s troubled Golaghat district, along the border with Nagaland, was lifted Friday for 12 hours as it remained calm with no protestors taking to the streets, officials said. The curfew was imposed in the district Wednesday after three people died when police opened fire at protestors, who took to the streets in Rongajan and Arengapathar areas in the district to denounce “police atrocities”. “Curfew was lifted for 12 hours Friday,” a senior district police officer said. The situation improved after union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju held discussion with Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang here Thursday.
was completely razed down and schools in the area have also remained closed since August 12. The officials lamented that the Nagaland state government’s response is “very negligible”. They also stated that the security in the area is inadequate. Further, it decried that 144 CrPC is imposed only in Lotha villages and therefore demanded that the government should lift it. The officials alleged that Nagaland Police have been arresting Naga villagers “randomly” and asked the government to stop that.
Stating that for the last 20-30 years, the villagers of Ralan area had been maintaining very cordial relationship with the Adivasi tenants until the arrival of “Maoists” (All Adivasi National Liberation Army), RALH alleged that due to the “instigation/pressure” of AANLA, the Adivasi tenants stopped paying due share of paddies to the landowners. “They are instigating our tenants to wage a war against the Nagas under the guise of protecting them,” asserted one of the officials.
DEMANDS RALH has demanded the Nagaland State government to immediately provide relief to the displaced Naga villagers and compensation to those whose houses have been destroyed. It also demanded protection to the villagers, while the CRPF in the area be brought under the direct control of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. It also demanded additional State security forces to be stationed at Wochan, Yanlum, and Tchuchanphen villages.
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“Even in hotel and cafes, after a meal, some amount is casually deducted for a gum packet or sweets before the Of late it is not only shopkeeprest of the change is handed ers and pharmacists who emover to customers,” she further phatically hand out chewing revealed. gum and cough drops to cusAccording to the observatomers in lieu of change after tion of an officer from a reputa purchase is made. In what ed Banking institution here, may be a first in India, literone of the main reasons ally speaking, a Pay and for scarcity of coin in NaUse toilet here in Digaland might be because mapur has caught on of hoarding of coins in the drift and has been places of worship. handing out lotte chew“Church, temples, ing gum and coupon as mosques here are known substitute for five rupee to hoard coins offered by change to people using worshippers and they its toilet. keep it in sacks in their Much to the constertreasuries instead of nation and surprise of circulating them,” he customers, in-charge of said adding they could the pay and use toilet at always make some arOld NST, Dimapur has rangement either with been handing out the alternate items from a Chewing gums and coupons: A fair ex- traders or the bank to exchange the coins with table drawer full of it, change for using toilet? (Morung Photo) and retorting to protesting ever, unlike other states where currency instead of just hoardcustomers to “bring change if the issue is usually about one ing them. or two rupee change, customWhile this may be a partial they wanted change.” If not the gum, the coupon ers here in Dimapur are ev- reality, there is also no denywhich bears the seal ‘Old NST eryday deprived up to rupees ing the allegation of hoarding Toilet’ (suggesting it had the eight change and even more of coins by traders as another blessing of the transport de- for a handful of unwanted reason for creating an artificial partment) can be substituted cough drops or a mouthful of shortage. Moreover, even if business for a cigarette or an item from chocolate in most shops. A government high establishments do swear that the line of shops outside the school teacher, Akumla said acute coin shortage is not their Old NST station. Cheekily, one of the shop- the ‘toffee for coin’ scenario intentional doing, the artificial keeper revealed they have “an in Dimapur has turned so scenario created in making it understanding for keeping incredibly customary that if customary for almost every the chewing gum and coupon customers protest and de- shop in town to nonchalantly at the pay and use toilet to be mand for change, they are offer an item in lieu of change substituted for rupees five.” only given a condescending cannot be justified and deThe NST department charge ‘don’t be so cheap’ look from serves intervention from appropriate authorities. Rs 5 per use of the toilet, which most shopkeepers. Dimapur | August 22
means people without the exact amount would have another unwanted item in their pocket for want of change. A ruse to earn double profit, offering sweets or certain items to customers as substitute for change on the pretext of coin scarcity is not a new story around the country. How-
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“The responsibility of ensuring dignity of life to the citizens lies on you and me,” said Liremo Lotha DIG (R/ NAP), Kohima to the police department during a debate on the topic “Human Rights and Social Justice are de-valued in Naga society” which was held on August 22 at the SP Office, Kohima. The debate, which was held among the Nagaland police department in the Kohima range (Wokha, Kohima, Phek and Zunheboto), was divided between the motion and against team and covered issues ranging from women’s rights to corruption and inequality in the Naga society. “Today, corruption is pervaded to a very large extend that Nagas have been silenced to all malpractices,” said Asst. Commandant Seyiesezo Peseyie, Kohima
who was of the view that human rights and social justice are devalued in Naga society. On the contrary, UBSI Athiubo Zeliang, Wokha (against) stated that one cannot blame corruption in Naga society when ‘the society cannot be defined as a society unless it is intrinsically connected with people’. Zeliang further questioned why courts or law enforcing agencies (which provides free services to the less privileged people) exists if social justice and human rights are de-valued?. “If such ideals are devalued than the whole Naga society will be in chaos,” added Zeliang. UBSI Vetsulo Koza, Wokha (motion), affirmed that social justice and human rights are devalued to the extent that even the basic right to vote has been taken away in the Naga society. “When policy makers and the government itself does not recognize the
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COCO Area Ahuna Festival 2014
Dimapur, august 22 (mExN): As per the request made by COCO Area Students Union (CASU) for hosting Ahuna Festival on November 8, the COCO Area Joint Council (CAJC) and Akuhaito Area Union Dimapur has unanimously approved the CASU to host AHUNA FESTIVAL at Dimapur consisting of all the members from COCO Area. Therefore, CAJC has requested all the bonafide members from COCO Area including Zunheboto, Kohima, Wokha and Dimapur to cooperate with the students for programme. Dimapur, august 22 (mExN): The Dimapur Urban Colonies Council Chairmen Federation (DUCCCF) has informed all the members of the federation to mobilise council members, women leaders and youth leaders of their respective colonies to attend the public rally against social elements, organised by The Watchman and supported by Naga Council Dimapur on August 23, 8:00 am at clock tower.
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Participants with the panel of judges and other guest during the debate on the topic “Human Rights and Social Justice are de-valued in Naga society” held on August 22 at the SP Office, Kohima. (Morung Photo)
rights of the people, it gives more space for people to continue to violate the rights of the citizens,” concluded Koza who also added that the real representation of a community needs to be examined further because the rights of the minority are often suppressed. Constable Yutsomong Sor, Phek (motion), stated
that there are so many acts, amendments and bills for civil rights, economic rights and human rights which are not materialized in the society and are neither put into accountability. UBSI Longkumonen, Wokha (motion), there is no social justice in Naga society because government employees are still denied their
salary despite agitations and appeals. Longkumonen further cited the example of inequality where the martial arts group Faith in Action were denied sponsorship because of the deficit budget whereas the government spent crores for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Hinoto UBSI (against) was of the view that Naga
customary laws are based on social justice and the emergence of ACAUT and its success story are examples of social justice. In no section of laws does it devalues human rights. Citing the example of Mukalimi incident, Hinoto further state that the incident go to any extent to protect and promote human
Puomai and Chakhesang leaders’ conference held
Dimapur, august 22 (mExN): Troops of 31 Assam Rifles recovered IMFL being smuggled into Longnak on 19 Aug 2014. According to a press release received here, the AR recovered 264 bottles of MC Dowell Rum (750ml), 24 bottles of Kingfisher Cane Beer and 96 bottles of MC Whisky (180ml) at check post at Dessoi. The liquor was being smuggled in a Maruti Alto White Colour bearing Regd No AS-03M-3976 from New Sonowal village to Longnak. Two civilians named Dharma Mili and Rajiv Mili who are the residents of New Sonowal village have been detained for the same alongwith the vehicle. The detained personnel alongwith seized vehicles were handed over to Longtho Police Station. The seizure of IMFL by AR has been widely lauded by the public in Longtho.
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GHSS Thangjan classroom inaugurated
tuENsaNg, august 22 (Dipr): Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, T. Mhonbemo Yanthan as the chief guest on August 22, inaugurated the inaugural function of newly constructed classroom for class 11 Arts and Commerce of Government Higher Secondary School Thangjan. The chief guest in his speech encouraged the students to be sincere in their studies and acquired quality education and be a prospective person in the future. The programme was chaired by Kivitoli PGT. Welcome speech was delivered by Headmistress GHSS Thangjan, Temjenkala Sangtam. Brief report of the newly constructed classroom was given by SDO (C) Tuensang, Tiameren Chang. The programme ended with a word of thanks by Principal GHSS Thangjan, Tzutilepzuk.
KMC informs on registration of labourers
Kohima, august 22 (Dipr): The Administrator, Kohima Municipal Council, Lithrongla Tongpi has informed all concerned that the Office of the Kohima Municipal Council is taking up the registration of Labourers. All concerns are directed to collect the registration forms from the office of the KMC. Registration cards and uniform along with Redg. No. for labourers would be issued with effect from 1st September, 2014. All ward chairman, members and concern citizens are requested to directed the labourers residing in their respective house and wards as tenants, to get it registered for better management and service to the public.
SDEO Zunheboto informs
ZuNhEboto, august 22 (Dipr): For the final compilation of graduate teachers seniority list which will be carried out on August 30 at the Directorate of School Education, Nagaland, Kohima, Ghokiho Zhimo Sub-Divisional Education Officer Zunheboto notifies to all the graduate teachers under Zunheboto district to collect their seniority list format from SDEO Office, Zunheboto on the 26th of August and resubmit it on August 28. The SDEO Zunheboto also informed that the department shall not be held responsible if any individuals fail to collect the same.
rights. On the contrary, Dy SP (Prob) Henthai Phom (Kohima) said, “In customary laws, murder, rape or any heinous crimes are compromised. Any issue in Nagaland becomes a tribal issue.” Phom further stated that though Article 371 A protects the rights of the Nagas it fails to protect the rights of women. However, Vekato, Dy. SP (prob), Kohima, was of the view that in Nagaland, the law gives us two options to either choose the customary laws or the Indian Law. Chief Guest, Liremo Lotha, stated that the police department is the most visible department in Nagaland which is closely associated with the public and further commended the participants that their progressive thoughts and arguments indicated the level of awareness among the police department especially on the issue of hu-
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man rights. The debate was chaired by Dr. Tiamenla Phom, Dy. SP (E), Kohima with Liremo Lotha DIG (R/NAP), Kohima as the chief guest. The panel of judges consisted of Jatila, SP (Narcotics, Nagaland, Kohima, Akum, Public Prosecutor, Kohima and Narian B. Sagar, Journalist, Eastern Mirror. The debate was won by the motion team with Seyiesezo Peseyie and Athiubo Zeliang bagging the first position and Hinoto (Against) attaining the second position. While asserting that even in the 21st Century the vision of the Nagas remains myopic and that Nagaland is in a state of moral crisis, Seyiesezo who bagged the first position concluded his argument with a quote by Dan Brown, “The darkest place in hell are reserved for those who maintained their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
Third Super Saturday of U-Link Program today Kohima, august 22 (mExN): The Third Super Saturday of U-Link Program initiated by the Education and Communication Department of Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) will be held on August 23.
Chakhesang and Puomai community leaders during the conference held at Phek Town on August 19 and 20.
phEK, august 22 (mExN): A leaders’ conference of Chakhesang and Puomai community was held at Phek Town on August 19 and 20. An initiative of Poumai Naga Baptist Association and Chakhesang Baptist Church Council, Phek Town Baptist Church hosted the conference, which was also the 4th Session of PNBA and CBCC Fellowship which began in 2003. A press release stated that the meeting was held with the theme “Oneness
in Christ” and was participated by the leaders and public leaders from both the communities. The main speakers of the session included Dr. Joseph Kennedy Principal, Christian Heritage College Manipur, Rev. Dr. V.K Nuh General Secretary, FNBA, Rev. Khrütsoyi Luruo, State Chaplain Nagaland. Paper presentation of committee on cultural was held during the session where it reaffirmed its committee to do further research on the vari-
ous aspect of the origin of socio-Cultural heritage of both the communities. During the meeting, a cultural exhibition was held where both the communities were represented with colorful cultural troops. It was resolved during the meeting that further research to be continued to find out the commonalities similarities and differences of the culture of Puomai and Chakhesang. It also decided that the leaders’ conference/ fellowship of PNBA and
CBCC will continue as has been in practice i.e. triennially (once in three year) and the research works of the committee on cultural documentation be published in book form after proper scrutiny and approval. Altogether 72 delegates from PNBA and 75 delegates from CBCC participated in the meeting, which was co-ordinated by Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, Executive Secretary CBCC and Rev. Gideon, Executive Secretary, PNBA.
Highlights of the program are as follows: A. Growth Group 1 (G-g1) – Praise and Worship; Venue – Peraciezie Baptist Church, Highschool, Kohima; Time – 10:00 am; Contact – 9862705348/9089203554 B.Growth Group 2 (G-g2) – Choreography & Dances ; Venue – Sumi Baptist Church, Daklane, Kohima; Time – 9:00 am; Contact – 9436646492/9774493080 C. Growth Group 3 (G-g 3) – Arts & Crafts; Venue – Zeme Baptist Church, Midland, Kohima; Time – 1:00 pm; Contact – 9436607475 D. Growth Group 4 (G-g 4) – Bible Trailers; Venue - City Church Kohima; Time – 1:00 pm; Contact – 9402635363 E. Growth Group (G-g 5) – Games & Sports; Venue – Government Highschool Ground Kohima; Time – 10:00 am; Contact – 9856185990 F. Growth Group 6 (G-g 6) – Music & Music; Venue – Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kitsubozou; Time – 10:00 am; Contact – 9436063838 G. Growth Group (G-g 7) – Creative Worship; Venue – Konyak Baptist Church, Midland Kohima; Time – 12:00 noon; Contact – 9862039555 H. Growth Group 8 (G-g 8) – Brainteasers; Venue – Rengma Baptist Church, below new NST Kohima; Time – 10:00 am; Contact – 9856231789. Super Couples will support all the Growth Groups. For more information regarding each Growth Group, contact the numbers given above.
National Role Play held Mount Mary celebrates 10th Freshers’ Day
moKoKchuNg, august 22 (Dipr): Senayangba Government Higher Secondary School, Dilong High School and Mayangnokcha Government Higher Secondary school participated at the District Level National Role Play & Folk Dance Competition 2014, held at Mayangnokcha Government Higher Secondary school Auditorium, Mokokchung. Senior Academic Officer, SCERT, T.Lima Longkumer in his keynote address said that the period of adolescence is the most important period to be taken care of, as it is the transitional period between puberty ad adulthood in human development where children undergo physical and psychological changes. In Role Play competition MGHSS was declared winner followed by Dilong High school and Senayangba Government Higher Secondary school, while in the Folk Dance competition MGHSS and Senayangba GHSS were adjudged as winner and runner-up respectively.
Kohima DPDB exit conference on Aug 25
Kohima, august 22 (Dipr): The Kohima District Planning and Development Board Exit Conference will be held on August 25 at 11:00 a.m. at DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima under the chairmanship of Chairman DPDB, Kohima, Khriehu Liezietsu. At the outset, there will be Power Point presentations from six visiting teams, namely, Kidima Team (15th Southern Angami), Kitsubozou Team (14th Southern Angami), Phekerkhrie Bawe Team (11th Nothern Amgami), North Block Team (10th Nothern Angami), Po-
terlane Team (9th Kohima town) and Daklane Team (8th Western Angami). There will be announcement of the best two teams and selection of the member of the year. Minister for Forest, Dr. Nicky Kire will give away the awards to the winners and also tokens of appreciation to all the members. ADC Planning, Ketoho Luho will give a presentation on adoption of yearlong activities 2014-2015. Special numbers will be presented by Cultural Vibrant and Sieviü Khruomo. All the DPDB members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.
Dimapur, august 22 (mExN): Mount Mary Higher Secondary School and Mount Mary College celebrated their 10th Freshers’ Day today at the college premises. The highlight of the day was the Mr and Miss Fresher event. The judges for the competition were Lucy Sumi, Moa Longchar, and Kezha Kromu. The function began with the evangelical union performing a choreographed dance on “When you believe.” As the contestants of the Mr and Miss Fresher came on stage in traditional attires, introduced themselves, and spoke about their aim in life, it drew much applause from the students. While some fumbled in their introductions, it did little to
dampen the visible excitement in the students. In addition, when the Vice Principal of the college Onen Temjen came on to give a brief speech on the theme of the event ‘Dream to pursue,’ his exhortation only complimented the inaugural choreography. “If you have a dream, hold on to it and never let it go,” he advised and added, “Never let anyone distract you.” The gathering was serenaded with songs from Shalo Kent – who apart from two other songs sang an original of his ‘And we say’ – with Akum Jams on the guitar, while Thunglamo Ngullie awed the gathering with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful’. Lima Mongro, guitarist, We the Giants, also performed an
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Mount Mary Mr and Miss Fresher 2014 choosen during the 10th Freshers’Day at the college premises onAugust 22. (Morung Photo)
instrumental. The pick of the event was a performance from final year students which
had the gathering in a roar of laughter as they danced and swayed ‘Bollywood style’ to old Hindi tunes.
JESON Schools conducts literary competition
Students present a dance item during the literary competitions for the juniors organised by Jesuit Schools of Nagaland held at Khuzama.
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Kohima, august 22 (mExN): The Jesuit Schools of Nagaland (JESON) organized literary competitions for the juniors at Sacred Heart School, Khuzama. Vilboto Hibo, President of Southern Angami Students Union (SASU) was the chief guest. In his address he stressed on the all round development of the
students and shared his views on the present education scenario in the state. Highlighting the performance of HSLC students in our state, he pointed out that the current trend of failures may affect our state adversely. He opined that ‘No Detention Policy’ of RTE is one of the reasons for many failures in HSLC exams. He also wished the
students to take active part in the literary events and exhorted the JESON management for conducting such confidence building events. Pastor of the Revival Church Khuzama blessed the programme with a prayer. Rev. Bro. Anthony SJ, Headmaster of Sacred Heart School Khuzama welcomed everyone. The students of the host school
performed few items to welcome the participants from different schools. The events included poem recitation, action song, group singing, spell bee and traditional dance competition. The Jesuit Schools of Southern Angami and Pfütsero area participated in the competition, which concluded with the prize distribution.
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Manipur says no to the Mary Kom Biopic Preetam Kaushik Business Insider
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ho says a movie is just a movie? Nowadays, every movie seems to raise the hackles of some group or individual or the other. Manipur refuses to relax the 15-year ban on Hindi movies and the Hindi language imposed by the Revolutionary Peoples Front in 2000 and will not relent even for the biopic on famous Olympic medallist Mary Kom, a Manipuri. One would expect Manipur would be proud to celebrate the success of its boxer Mary Kom, whose story is an example of how an individual, more so a woman, can overcome all odds and triumph in a male bastion such as boxing. Where she should have been held up as an example of grit, determination and women empowerment for the whole country and more so for Manipur, her biopic is being derided for apparently what one can only call 'ridiculously silly reasons.'
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and Indian boxer Mary Kom pose for a picture during a promotional event for the upcoming movie Mary Kom in Mumbai. The movie is based on the life of the Mary Kom, and is scheduled for release on 5th September. (AP Photo)
Objections have been raised on the fact that a non Manipuri acts as Mary Kom. Actor Priyanka Chopra essaying Mary Kom's role in the biopic obviously does not have the same physical features of Mary Kom. A flat nose and the epicanthic folds over the
eyelids are the defined genetic features of the real Mary Kom. How far can Priyanka duplicate them with prosthetics? Her taller and, of course, desirable figure is also being objected to. Why not a Manipuri actor, is the question being raised. They assert there is
plenty of talent and Manipuri cinema is active with several national award winners in its fold. Other reasons for the protests include the statement that the story should be more important and a star is not really needed to sell the movie. Of course, as usual in
India, everything will have a racist angle. Manipuris accuse their fellow countrymen of racism, bigotry and insensitiveness. It is high time we do away with "statism" and think as a country. The objectors perhaps have forgotten that the picture is slated for national viewing. Producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who had always stuck to his guns despite several colossal flops at the box office and maintained that the story and artistic reality was important in his films, is being accused of a volte face in this case. However, having enjoyed a stupendous box office success with his recent movie, he would naturally want to ensure the commercial success of his next venture. Kudos to him for undertaking a biopic of the travails and success of a woman boxer - something which the majority of Indians may not view as their cup of tea. How many of us are interested in boxing? Entertainment is not just making a movie, it has
to be marketed. You create interest through the story and if it is offbeat, rope in recognised stars to create audience interest in seeing them in a different light. This is what Bhansali did when he signed up Priyanka Chopra - a star in her own right - a versatile and accomplished actress. Chopra, to her credit, went the extra mile to bring as much authenticity to her portrayal as possible. Let us not forget movies are big money businesses, the producer and the director have to work to ensure its financial success and artistic acclaim. Last but not the least, why did Manipur not make a biopic of its illustrious daughter? Mary Kom has been, of course, striving to see if the ban can be lifted. It is hoped better sense will prevail and the authorities and political organisations will relax the Hindi movie ban at least for the Mary Kom biopic. The feisty and wonderful lady deserves better. Why not let the picture have the last word?
ANSAM urges GoI to replace interlocutor Inquiry panel reveals severe AFSPA abuses Newmai News Network
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The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has urged the Government of India (GoI) to replace RN Ravi, the newly named interlocutor for the Naga peace talks. ANSAM said that driven by the expedient need for resolving the ageold Naga issue, GoI had entered into a historic 'Ceasefire' pact on 1st August, 1997 with the NSCN (IM), the oldest movement for Self- determination in Asia, bringing to an end an era of conflict and bloodshed. According to the Naga students' body, since then, both the entities have had engaged in several pathbreaking rounds of high-level negotiations. The talks are certainly heading
on the right track with the GOI finally acknowledging the genuineness and uniqueness of Naga Issue. However, at a juncture where the talks have entered a very crucial and defining stage, the appointment of RN Ravi (former Special Director IB) as the new Interlocutor for the IndoNaga talks has certainly cast deep aspersions on the Government of India's self-professed assurance to finding an honourable solution to the decades-long Naga political Issue, ANSAM added. "The Government of India, by placing at the helm of affairs a former IB officer like RN Ravi, who in the past had the audacity to term the current 'Ceasefire' as 'Reckless" and ‘Illogical', has not only revealed itself India government's 'reckless' policies but cer-
tainly put its intentions and pretentious commitment under serious doubt. The move to depute RN Ravi who had the distinction of prophesying a 'Chekhovian' fate for the current talks and going overboard to call his would-be negotiating partner- the NSCN a 'Militia' - in all perceivable aspects, is nothing short of an attempt to derail the hardearned Peace Process, if not to engage in a ‘waste game’. Mr. RN Ravi's appointment can only be seen as creating a vitiated scenario which has the imminent possibility to throw the peace talks off-gear," ANSAM stated. In the light of the current development, it appeals the newly-installed NDA-led Government to replace the currently named Interlocutor to pave way for smooth dialogue, the ANSAM press note stated.
With eye on China, India Assamese girl lured into deploys Akash missiles in NE employment trap & raped
NEw DElhi, August 22 (tNN): After basing its most potent Sukhoi-30MKI fighters at Tezpur and Chabua, India has now begun deploying six Akash surface-to-air missile (SAM) squadrons in the northeast to deter Chinese jets, helicopters and drones against any misadventure in the region. Defence ministry sources on Thursday said IAF has started getting deliveries of the six Akash missile squadrons, which can "neutralize" multiple targets at 25-km interception range in all-weather conditions, earmarked for the eastern theatre. "IAF has deployed the first two Akash squadrons at the Mirage-2000 base in Gwalior and Sukhoi base in Pune. The next six squadrons, as approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security, are to guard against any threat from the northern borders," said a source. This long-delayed but finally successful induction of the Akash systems, developed by DRDO and manufactured by defence PSU Bharat Dynamics, has also led to scrapping of the protracted discussions to develop the 'Maitri' short-range SAMs with France at a cost of around Rs 30,000 crore. The Akash deployment in the northeast is in tune with the overall plan to progressively achieve "meaningful and credible deterrence" against China along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Families dependent on mining in M'laya unable to get food
shillONg, August 22 (iANs): An organisation for coal miners and owners has said families dependent on mining have been finding it difficult to get two square meals a day following the National Green Tribunal's ban on mining in Meghalaya. "Some families are finding it difficult to get two square meals a day in the coal-belt of Meghalaya in view of the NGT's ban on coal mining," said Erwin K. Syiem Sutnga, vicechairman of Movement for Indigenous People's Rights and LivelihoodMeghalaya (MIPRL-M). The ban has crippled the lives of 1.5 lakh families who are dependent on coal mining-related activities across the state, he said Thursday. "The employment opportunity is nil for those people dependent on coal mining and the Meghalaya government itself is deprived of revenue generation in
terms of royalty from the mining-related activities," Sutnga said. On Aug 1, the tribunal upheld its ban on coal mining in Meghalaya, contending that right to life was far more significant than economic interest and the latter cannot be allowed to gain preference. Meanwhile, the MIPRL-M has urged the Meghalaya government to roll out a rehabilitation scheme for coal miners and owners and those dependent on mining in order to alleviate the economic sufferings of the people in the coal-belt areas. The April 17 order came after the All Dimasa Students' Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee filed an application before the tribunal alleging that the water in the Kopili river was turning acidic due to coal mining in Jaintia Hills. The tribunal will conduct its next hearing here Oct 7 and 8.
iNDORE, August 22 (tNN): A 15-year-old girl from Assam's Doipang area near Guwahati, was rescued from the clutches of alleged human traffickers and rapists on Wednesday. Dewas police arrested 6 accused including district president of BJP Hamid Sadar, Dewas Municipal Corporation’s revenue inspector Sabir and employee Rohit Jalodia, Yakub Khan and a woman Mumtaz and Indore-based Rakesh. About a month back, the victim was taken to
Mumbai with the promise of employment and was raped several times. She was then allegedly sold to Rakesh who in turn sold her to Mumtaz. Mumtaz, then struck a deal with the four accused for two days for Rs 4,000. According to the police, the accused took the girl to secluded UjjainDewas road and raped her. However, while they were returning, a dispute broke out between the four accused over the girl. On the basis of suspicion, police took accused into custody.
NEw DElhi, August 22 (thE iNDiAN ExPREss): In what is bound to add intensity to the struggle of activist against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), inquiry commission reports submitted by the Manipur government in the Supreme Court have revealed at least 10 killings in alleged fake encounters by the armed forces. The reports, submitted on court orders, have stated that people were killed by several security forces such as the CRPF, Assam Rifles, Manipur Police Commandos and Thoubal Police Commandos. The Manipur government, which has been defending the armed forces personnel in the court, had been directed to adduce the reports of inquiry commissions instituted on the orders of the high court or on its own. As per the reports, there have been instances when people were picked up for allegedly being extremists and killed on the spot. In other cases, civilians were killed in a fit of rage by the personnel. As per one report, Yumnam Robita Devi was waiting at a bus stop on April 9, 2002 when she was killed, allegedly because CRPF
personnel decided to vent their anger on civilians after their convoy was attacked by extremists who fled. Soubam Boucha and his friend Salam Gurung were allegedly killed by a joint team of Manipur Commandos and 23 Assam Rifles in December 2009, while L Satish and Pebam G Singh were allegedly killed by Assam Rifles and Thoubam Police Commandos in their custody in cold blood, according to the reports. In one case, the inquiry commission was wrapped up by the state government after the family of the deceased requested that the state and the police wind up the inquiry. In August 2013, The Indian Express had reported about six other cases of extra-judicial killings in the state, quoting from a courtmandated panel. The report of the panel, led by former judge Santosh Hegde, had said the six sample cases considered by it were “not genuine encounters” and that “maximum force” was used.
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North East Briefs Drafting of Lokayukta Bill 2014 completed in Mizoram AizAwl, August 22 (Pti): Mizoram's Lokayukta Drafting Committee has completed the draft Lokayukta Bill, 2014 and uploaded the bill in the state law department's website, officials of the state law and judicial department today said. The officials said that anyone who has suggestions for changes, deletion and addition could submit to the Law Secretary within a month. Meanwhile, state law minister Lalsawta told PTI that formation of the state Ombudsman could take time as the state government was waiting for the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission for expenses for creation of the Lokayukta. "We are fully dependent on the fund to be allocated by the 14th Finance Commission for creation of the state's anti corruption body", Lalsawta said.
ULFA leader Chetia wants to return to India DhAkA, August 22 (iANs): ULFA leader Anup Chetia, now in a Bangladesh jail, has reportedly expressed a desire to return to India where he is wanted for murder, abduction and extortion, bdnews24.com reported Friday. An Indian diplomat, identified as J.P. Singh, reportedly met Chetia at the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail Thursday, the report said. Asked if he was interested in repatriation to India, Chetia said "yes". Jailor Jannatul Farhad was quoted as saying that the Indian diplomat spoke to Chetia in the presence of jail superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman. "During the 45-minute discussion, Chetia said he was interested (in going) back to India if there were no legal complications," bdnews24.com said. A prominent leader of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Chetia was arrested Dec 21, 1997 in Mohammadpur area here. He was sentenced to three, four and seven years in jail for illegally entering Bangladesh, possessing a forged Bangladeshi passport and foreign currency, and for having a satellite phone respectively. His prison term ended Feb 25, 2007 and he has been kept at the Kashimpur prison since 2012. Paresh Barua, who heads the outfit’s military wing and is said to be in hiding in Bangladesh, is opposed to peace talks between the Indian government and ULFA. Barua faces death penalty in Bangladesh for his involvement in trying to smuggle 10 truckloads of weapons into Chittagong in 2004.
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By this deed I, the undersigned Liremo Tsopoe Lotha previously called Liremo Lotha doing Government Service and resident of Chumukedima solemnly declare: 1. That for and on behalf of myself and my wife, children and remitter issue, I wholly renounce/relinquish and abandon the use of my former name of Liremo Lotha and in place thereof, I do hereby assume from this date the name Liremo Tsopoe Lotha so that I and my wife, children and remitter issue may thereafter be called, known and distinguished not by my former name, but assumed name of Liremo Tsopoe Lotha. 2. That for the purpose evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceeding, dealings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever, use and sign the name of Liremo Tsopoe Lotha as my name in place and in substitution of my former name. 3. That I expressly authorize and request all person in general and relatives and friends in particular, at all times hereafter to designate and address me, my wife, my children, and remitters issue by such assumed name of Liremo Tsopoe Lotha 4. In witness whereof l have here unto subscribed my former and adopted name of Liremo Tsopoe Lotha and affix my signature and seal, if any, this 22nd day of August 2014. Deponent Signed seal and delivered before me by the above name on this day the 22/08/2014. 1st Class Magistrate Kohima, Nagaland
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NO.DET-7/20/2001 (Vol-V): Trainees admitted for undergoing training at various Govt. Industrial Training Institutes for the session 2014-15 are hereby informed that Classes/ Training will commence from 1st September 2014 instead of 25th August 2014 as notified earlier due to postponement of All India Trade Test Exam. Sd/(MUTHINGNYUBA SANGTAM) Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland, Kohima. Gram: Agricomplex Medziphema
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NOTICE INVITING TENDER Sealed quotations are hereby invited for supply of 10 to I 1 nos. of Jersey or Holstein Friesian cross milch cows in the age group of 4 to 5 years having 350 to 400 kg body weight and having the capacity to produce 8 to 10 litres of milk per day per cow preferably in the second lactation stage along with the calf. The bid should reach the office of the Joint Director on or before 2.00PM of 10th September, 2014. Interested bidder may submit the competitive rate to the Joint Director, ICAR Complex, Jharnapani. For details, please visit our website www.kvkdimapur.nic.in or Office during Office hours, on or before 2.00 PM of 10th September, 2014. SdAsstt Administrative Officer i/c.
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NO.DET-7/8/2010: It is hereby notified that All India Trade Test (BBBT & Advanced Module) under “Centre of Excellence Scheme” will be held from 03/09/2014 to 12/09/2014 as per the Ministry’s letter NO.DGET-18011/3/2014-TTC dated New Delhi 13/08/2014. Therefore, candidates willing to appear the AITT (BBBT & Advanced Module) Exam may contact Govt. Industrial Training Institute, Kohima / Govt. Women Industrial Training Institute, Dimapur for detail information and submission of application forms on or before 28/08/2014. Sd/(MUTHINGNYUBA SANGTAM) Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland, Kohima.
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The Morung Express
Indian Constitution Article 47 precedes NLTP Act 1989
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ur great Indian Republic and the State of Nagaland, being democratic and secular, give us the freedom to be responsible citizens. Many have used this responsibility to freely express their concerns regarding the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 (NLTP) and I also join them to express few personal thoughts straightaway as the history has been shared by many already. It is interesting to observe how people would argue their point of view and the same would be true with mine here! In one of the past publications, I noticed that there was a particular person who would argue that the God gave wine/alcohol to His people, Israel, for enjoyment as a sign of blessing when he wrote: “I feel it worthy citing some Bible verses for public consumption that wine or alcohol in itself is not considered detestable even in the
Bible” (Wine in/and the Bible) by quoting few selected verses from the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. I immediately concluded that the writer had not read the Bible well enough to understand what the Bible says. The writer’s method of quoting only some selective verses is a grave misuse of the Bible because it is crystal clear that it was done in order to support a personal self-indulging agenda—a classic case example is the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness where the father of lies, Satan, (mis)used the scripture to tempt Jesus. In our case here, even if the writer had read only the Old Testament well, he would have noticed what God’s actual will is for His people—abstinence, condemnation and woes (Numbers 6:2f; Judges 13:7f; Proverbs 20:1f; 21:17; 23:2021, 29-35; Isaiah 5:22; 22-1314; Jeremiah 35:5-14; Daniel 1:8). In case the writer read the
New Testament, he would not have mentioned that “wine or alcohol in itself is not considered detestable even in the Bible” even if he is not a Christian because the New Testament paradigm of being God’s people is being filled with the Holy Spirit rather than being filled with self-indulging alcohol (Ephesians 5:18) as implied in his word “for public consumption”. However, if the writer is a Christian then I like to remind him that in the New Testament—with the new covenant and new birth in Jesus Christ, the sign of God’s blessing is His presence in the person of the Holy (Jeremiah 31:31f; Luke 5:37-39: 22:20; Hebrews 8:813; 9:15; John 14:16f; 20:22; Acts 1:8). Therefore, I observe two BIG flaws with the writer of the “Wine in/and the Bible” and make these two following statements: it is NOT “worthy citing some Bible verses” and reading them out of its context and it is NOT worthy to have
hibition of the consumption except for medicinal purposes of intoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health.” In other words, the Article 47 may be known as Indian Intoxicants Total Prohibition Act and by this I intend to say that the Article 47 is more wholesome than our NLTP Act 1989 as it is inclusive of any intoxicating drinks and drugs which are injurious to health. Now, as sincere citizens of the great Indian Republic and the State of Nagaland, we have been given the freedom to be responsible law abiding citizens. The Article 47 and the NLTP Act 1989 need to be sincerely and responsibly implemented by both the responsible citizens and government of Nagaland in particular. If you have notice carefully, it is not the Church in Nagaland per se who is responsible for the NLTP Act 1989 in the first place but it is the Constitution of India which had already laid down this no-
ble value and law for the life of its citizens. There is a saying that “two wrongs can’t make a right” so even if the majority states of India do not enforce the Article 47, that does not make them right. History testifies that the prosperity of nations hangs on the decisive vision of its leaders and citizens as in the events of the fight against social and cultural menaces like slavery, apartheid, communism, sati, child marriages and so on. So if other nations are known for their determined fight against their own social and cultural menaces, Nagaland has her own issue. The good news is that the fight for Nagaland has been already won as the Bill has been already passed in the past and now it is only a matter of being committed and not being swayed around by any self-indulging agenda and propaganda. What we only need to do is to see that, instead of the
blame game, especially at the church for no fault of theirs, the responsible law enforcing agencies do their duties more committedly. Bootleggers need to be penalized and so also drunkards in public square need to be booked. The law enforcing agencies, while respecting their own offices and code of conduct, need to device befitting disciplinary measures for all defaulters. We have seen many, whether individuals or church organizations, expressing their views on this matter and since I also have shared mine too, may I appeal to all the responsible Students’ union, Mother’s association, Hohos, Youth organizations, Village councils to retrospect and introspect and then share their unbiased visionary and sensible voices as sincere and responsible stake holders of our nation! Peter T. Kent Tseminyu, Kohima
God’s revelation to the Naga nations On NRHM Employees Agitation
businEss Gap enters India with Arvind MuMbai, august 22 (agencies): US apparel retailer Gap entered the country with a franchise agreement with Arvind Lifestyle Brands, a unit of textile and retail major Arvind. Arvind is looking to open 40 stores in the next five years and looking at a business opportunity of Rs 1000 crore from the venture. “For many years, we supplied clothing to Gap. Now we are partnering them for retail operations,” said Sanjay Lalbhai, chairman and managing director of Arvind. Gap, a mass premium brand, will
a biased preconceived selfindulging opinion and make the Bible say what you want for your own agenda. At this juncture, I also feel that it is noteworthy to mention that even in the New Testament wine/alcohol has been used and commended for medicinal purposes (Luke 10:34; 1 Timothy 5:23). So the fine determining factor which sets God’s people away from the consumption of wine/alcohol is due to our self-indulging nature and the sinful potential which the substance could unleash. It is also worth mentioning that the people who had drafted our great Indian Constitution had captured this biblical wisdom when they wrote the Article 47: “The State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties and, in particular, the State shall endeavour to bring about pro-
fit in between licensed premium brands of Arvind such as Calvin Klein, Nautica and Tommy Hilfiger and mid brands such as Arrow and US Polo, said J Suresh, managing director and CEO, Arvind Lifestyle Brands. “Gap will strengthen our menswear and kidswear portfolio,” Suresh said. The company’s stock went up 1.25% today to close at Rs 255.90. Gap has 3500 stores worldwide in 50 countries, out of which 300 are franchise owned stores and competes with Zara, H&M, Uniqlo and others globally. A pair of Jeans cost $ 70 apiece or Rs 4000. While Zara is present in India through a JV with Trent, H&M is planning to open stores by year end. Uniqlo is also keenly looking at Indian market with its head meeting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently. “Any brands company would love to get a partnership with Gap. Arvind getting it is a big thing. Now others have to get Uniqlo to compete with them,” said Harminder Sahni, managing director of Wazir Advisors. In March this year, Arvind enered into a JV with US based brand Calvin Klein for Indian venture. Arvind also has a JV with Tommy Hilfiger. Arvind also has agreements with Gant, Nautica, Arrow, US Polo, Ed Hardy, and Hanes among others.
Dated: August 10 (Sunday) large number of Elephants will come into Nagaland and destroy damage properties. For this destruction not to take place in Nagaland, prayer partners, prayer houses, pastors, reverends, Evangelist, Missionaries and Church Leaders have to pray and fast for three days to overcome these evils and ask for God’s Blessings and peace. A. HOSEA: 61:3. 1. Come and let us return to the Lord; for He has torn, but I le will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. 2. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in his sight. 3. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth in established as the morning. He will come to us like the Rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth. B. PSALM 127:1-2. 1. Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep. C. 2 CHRONICLES 20:15 And He said, “listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, Kin Jehoshaphat! Thus, say the Lord to you; ‘Do not be afraid not dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not your, but God’s. D. ZECHARIAH: 4:4-6 1. So I answered and spoke to the Angle who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my Lord”? 2. Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are”? And I said, “No, my Lord.” 3. So he answered and said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel”. “Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,” says the Lord of hosts. E. MATHEW 17:21. 1. “However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
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eflecting on the news item, NRHM EMPLOYEES BEGIN AGITATION (The Morung Express, 22nd August 2014), the ongoing agitation by the NRHM staff for nonpayment of salaries from April 2014 is yet another instance of callousness on the part of the government. Blaming the “funding pattern” for the delay seems a lame excuse because the delay has been stretched over four months. What is more provoking is that, though the Commissioner & Secretary highlighted the unfair act in which only the DoH & FW staff at the Directorate in Kohima has been paid their dues, it brings to light the government’s act of unfair ‘privileging’ and ‘prioritization.’ Within such negation there is a process of categorization of the citizens which involves physical elimination of those who cannot be integrated into the political system. Does it have to do with their contractual employment? Government must ensure equal treatment and concern rather than privileging a ‘selected few.’ What the state seem to be doing is not just merely controlling its subjects but has reached a point where life and death of its citizens lies in their hands. The DoH&FW has been applying pressure on the NRHM to refrain from agitating saying that “patients will not wait for the release of funds to get sick” and asking the workers to bear toPhelutso Angami gether. Now, what does it mean to bear? Pastor Isn’t that as good as saying, seek your Hindi and Nagamese CRC Dimapur own means of survival??? Malcolm
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Bull puts it more aptly, “States don’t really mind their citizens dying (provided they don’t all do it at once)…” More pressing concern is the states control technique wherein one’s right or even to protest is negated. This is clear from their ‘cautioning notice.’ “Taking matter in their own hand without apprehending and appreciating the common problem may be doing so in his or her own risk and may result into undesirable termination of service from their date of their joining such movement or absenting from duties.” Within the tension of differing ideas on ‘good life,’ the state in enforcing their own vision of the ‘good life’ (or bad life) for its citizens comes in the way of equal concern and respect wherein privileging the rights of its citizens is further entrenched. Let it be known that human beings are capable of suffering and frustration, and also with the potential of forming and acting on intelligent conceptions of how lives should be lived and how to struggle for one’s rights. Thus, the agitation by the NRHM employees can be understood as the resultant effect of prolonged suffering and frustration. Governed by a survival instinct which is encrypted in our conscience, we seek justice and order but such an order today seems to come only with the price of dehumanization. Dr. Asangba Tzudir Dimapur
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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nity in diversity has always been the charm of Indian democracy. Imperfect in many ways, yet India has been standing as the largest democratic country with a population of over 1.2 billion and about 2 dozen major languages, over hundred dialects and different belief systems all coexisting together in relative harmony. The national anthem beautifully narrates these multi-faceted characters in composite clusters. In spite of so many hurdles in homogenisation and unification of varied interests, God ordained to bring the birthing of India as a great nation – a nation founded on principles of equality and unity and the Father of our Nation, Mr Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was His key instrument. Gandhiji was motivated to use a unique message and a principle he sought to live by which rose to become the capstone of the whole freedom movement – the principle of Non-violence. A principle he borrowed and modified from the Sermon of Mount message given by Jesus Christ some 2000 years ago. Divided racially, in language, in beliefs, interests and in geography –
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Bharat, India or Hindustan?
India as a unified country was a practical impossibility. Many kings and rulers in the past tried to establish and annexe the country as a single empire or part of a larger kingdom through force, prosperity and even religion but they all failed including the known “great” - Asoka. The inherent problems and weaknesses of the empires ruling India was well displayed when the East – India Company stepped on to the shores in the 1800s. The constant warring and selfish motivations of different kings and the general dissatisfaction were easily exploited by the traders and military leaders under the Company. With a few soldiers and determined craftiness, each king was subdued and kingdoms played into the hands of the traders. The rulers could not see the British as a common enemy or the game they were trying to play. The few who did were brought down using force. Yet divisions continued and thrived in many forms. The improper understanding of Hinduism fed the
evil of casteism and propagated terrible acts of treatment by those of higher caste. Untouchability- the worst kind of oppression remained uncondemned and uncontrolled. All these were reasons enough for the British to keep India as a divided empire rather than unified. However Gandhiji, through his principle of nonviolence and respecting every human being as God’s creation, changed the hearts of the oppressed and those seeking a change, leading to a wave of unification across various barriers throughout the country. And while history was being written in 1947 and a country being born, the early fathers of this nation agreed that India would remain a nation of unity in the midst of all its differences, founded on principles of equality, secularism and freedom of expression. India would never be under one ideology or one religion or one community’s property. And this is how this country continued for the last 68 years. And this wonderful improbability
of India still continues to try, to learn and improve from its mistakes. Yet there still persist those deep rooted sentiments of casteism and divisive tactics shown by our ancestors manifested today in the form of racial and religious intolerance. Every day we hear and read reports of human rights abuse, gender violence, caste attacks, bonded labour and other forms of violence. At a time when India is looking to consolidate her strengths and to find solutions for long standing problems of poverty, social injustices, regional divides, the country is rocked by news of venomous statements made by Mr Mohan Bhagwat during his speech in Mumbai on 17 August 2014 inciting unwarranted malice and fervour. His statement on the cultural identity of all Indians being Hindutva and Hinduism incorporating other religions is as absurd as it is dangerous. Is this what our country is to expect the coming years? What happens to all the principles our country lives by?
Such statements may gather great applause and motivation from certain groups but before any further belief or action is taken, I would like to challenge Mr Mohan Bhagwat and our “Indian” Hindu brothers of the RSS to first accept the diversity of the people in India – irrespective of caste, creed, colour, wealth, influence, religion rather equal and worthy of respect. No one is to be looked down upon based on a differing ideology or belief system or means of living. And anyone propagating such methodology brings upon himself the very judgement he seeks. Whatever unity and progress we have achieved so far would be undone and irreversible damage will be the result if Mr Mohan Bhagwat and followers of such toxic notions have their way. These statements are akin to trampling the very values and principles which our nations’ revered fathers and leader who sacrificed so much stood on to see this nation as one. And that is travesty indeed. Instead of uniting all as “hindus” to
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drink from one well, it will be the sinking of this country in different wells; instead of all “hindus’ praying in one place it will be a nation facing against each other; instead of being cremated in one place after death it will be the cremation of this great country in the furnace of India’s disintegration. However God forbid such a tragedy should be brought about by blind bigots and fanatics, for I am confident that this is not going to happen. I will see Indians of different religions, backgrounds uniting together standing against such fanaticism and show that the foundation of India remains on the principles of democracy, secularism and equality. Hindustan will remain what it is - a misnomer unfit to represent the proud diversity of India. 5 years is not too long a period to wait and watch: Watch the events unfold. Watch the end of bigots and all divisive propagandists. Watch the progress. To watch India shining? Redemption for the ruling BJP and NDA beckons. Dr. Nelson Vashum Comprehensive Health Services & Research Centre Hamleikhong, Hungpung Ukhrul District
Chendang village council questions ‘press rush’
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he Chendang Village Council (CVC) while appreciating the Government of Nagaland and District Administration for initiating every possible measure to prevent outbreak of law and order in the area, further invites their attention to the excited press rush of the Yimchungru Communities after our August 7 mild punitive action on the perpetrators. Keeping the truth and reality behind, all the major organisations of Yimchungru tribe are involved in telling blatant lies, random allegations and unfounded statements contradicting their own expressions among themselves. They must be having some serious misconception for such modus operandi of going to press so that they get the others’ land in exchange. It is now time to realize that the more one goes to the press in such alarming rush, the more humorous image appears to the world. The CVC have issued only one press note and this second one is just to remind all concerns once again that Chendang Village shall stick to its word and will not hesitate to take any action against the perpetrations. So far not a single press note has been issued by any Chang Organizations and we don’t necessarily invites them unless otherwise.
Yungbho (YTC army who was captured) must be in conscious about his revealed statements, the video footage of which are now ready to submit to the Government and upload to the media any time. If he is to give positive clarification, he should bear in mind with constant mental balance why YTC is maintaining unfamiliar silent and eagerly waiting for his precious clarification, the only way that can save himself and the skin of YTC. He has given the same statement in the presence of CVC to the District Administration represented by the EAC who visited the Village on 8th August along with the Police Officers. We sincerely advise him further not to forget in his clarification the question of where the 8 live cartridges he has alleged our Villager have taken because the Nagas and the world have the bigger question on him why and how can the Chandang Villagers withheld the few cartridges when they lawfully and truthfully handed over the high priced arms and ammunition to the Government. He alone is the only person who have the definite answer to it. What is his answer to those detail names of 8 YTC armies, the “Shot at Sight” order to shot Chendang people and so called Mithun (infact there is not a sin-
gle Mithun within the Chendang soil) and other directions and guidelines from YTC, the resolutions and plans of Yimchungru Union Chendang Saddle and many more gravious plans against our Village. The alleged “mob of Chendang Village led by Mr. Lachumong and Mr. Yanchu armed with 303 Rifle” was the creation of his owns imagination, because such names are very common among Chang but there was no such leader on that night. Farther, if the mob were armed with such 303 Rifle why didn’t they fire at Thranshimong who escape on that night? The Chendang Villagers were armless not even with muzzle loader and did not shot even a single fire. The Yakor ArihAko Dimapur (YAAD) who’s articles published in Nagaland post on 17th August and the Yimchungru Tribal Union Kiphire (YTUK) published in Morung Express on 18th August should not felt humiliated in front of Mr. Yungbho who will never agree to their blatant lies by claiming “3 fleeing persons from Chendang mob” were “fired upon by the Assam Rifle” unbelievably in the mid night. Because his clarification published in Eastern Mirror on 16th August clearly speaks of 2 persons of which one escaped. On 8 August at around 7 am Mr. Daniel (one
who is said to be taking medication at Referral Hospital, Dimapur) S/o Mr. Tangsoi, armed with Rifle, was on his way for shooting the innocent and unaware Chendang Villagers when coincidently the 23 Assam Rifle D Coy, shamator who were on their way to Tuensang HQ, appeared before him. He received a shot for trying to run away with the dangerous weapon. Now he must have learned a lifetime lesson that what they are doing are against the will of God in who’s strength the Chendang Villagers stands. He must be very happy, rather felt indebted to the Commandant Assam Rifle D coy for bearing all the medical expenses for his treatment right now at Referal Hospital, Dimapur. All the Yimchungru organisations whether existent or nonexistent, who’s articles were published in different local dailies on different dates, claimed of yimchungru customary norms with regards to the damage of crop being tantamount to life attempt and insult but did mention about the customary norms on playing treason and grabbing others land. According to Chang customary norms the later point was counted more gravious and bloody then the former. The sangphur, the parent Village of Yakor
Village, should be very careful to issue statements such as “Chendang land belong to yimchungru”. They must not forget to let down the genuine history even to their future generations that their Village was established as a treaty Village (boundary Village) in between the Changs and Khiamniungan tribes with an agreement to remove it if its settlers commit any offence against or against the wishes of the owners. Again there is no history which relates the kuthur as our parent village. The Kuthur and Chendang, according to our ancestral history, were parallelly established as a branch from Tuensang Village who is regarded as our parent Village till today and from whom we have our boundant right to take any advise and help but the Kuthur Village should not insult our Village by claiming parenthood on us. From the beginning of the yimchungru interference on our land since 1972 till date the Chendang Villagers won in every court including District Customary (DBs) Court and District judicial Magistrate’s Court many times. All the related documents are available not only with us but in all these competent courts and District Administration. This made the compe-
tent authorities more aware of who are the law breakers and who are the lawful citizens. The Chendang villagers never ever tried to claim ownership beyond traditionally and lawfully accepted boundaries starting from 18 KM till 38KM along NH 202 from Tuensang to Kiphire road. The location of the August 7 action (crop damage) is at 30 km which is very much within the heart of our integral jurisdiction. We know the land grabbers are after our land. But here within the demarcated jurisdiction we are the owners and we will never ever compromise no matter what. The Chendang Village, while assuring its full cooperation to the Government and the Distract Administration, further request to conduct thorough investigation against the YTC sponsored armies and those dangerous arms and book the culprits under the law of the land and consficate those arms at the earliest so that peace in the area was no longer vulnerable in their hands. Let the peace be given a chance to prevail in our land. S. Benglang Chang GB Chendang Village Bambou Chang President Citizen Union C.B Yongkhong Chang Chairman, Chendang Village Council
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‘Public Rally Against Social Evils’ today
YSU hopes Govt will keep assurances mokokchuNg, august 22 (mExN): The Yaongyimsen Students’ Union (YKT) has stated that it hoped the Chief Minister and his government will keep its assurance made to the people in the presence of ACAUT and YKT to take corrective measures against the erring officials in connection with the deliberate injustice meted out to the merit and deserving Naga student without any further delay. A press release from the union General Secretary Asangla Longkumer and President Alem Imsong stated. The release stated that, owing to the deliberate in-
justice meted out to one of the meritorious Naga student, Watinaro A Imsong, who is also a bona fide member of YKT, many concerned Nagas have been made to suffer humiliation and experience mental and emotional trauma in their struggle to fight against corruption and nepotism from day one till the day the victim of injustice, Watinaro, staged a Gandhian sit-in protest in Kohima on August 19. “This was a tough struggle against the power and corruption in our land, which would never have been won by us alone without the selfless support of the people
who have shown their unflinching support and contributed their best to ensure justice for Watinaro in particular and upcoming generation as a whole,” the union stated. The union acknowledging civil societies, student and youth organisations, ACAUT, concerned citizens and media for their “candid, fearless and selfless support in our fight against injustice and suppression of weaker section in our society,” stated, “Their selfless effort and contribution inspired everyone of us to fight against the corruption without fear and favour in making the future of Naga students secured.”
Dr. Nicky inaugurates forest office complex Our Correspondent Kohima | August 22
Minister for Forests, Environment & Wildlife Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire today formally inaugurated the newly constructed forest office complex here at Old Ministers’ Hill. Speaking on the occasion, the minister stressed on the need to have better coordination amongst the officers and staff of the department so as to serve and deliver good to the people in an efficient manner. The minister called upon them to work in unison and discharge their assigned duties in responsible manner in the best interest of the people. He also asked them to be transparent in whatever they do. Dr. Kire wanted to see that the department growth from better to better and better to the best. He reminded that working for the sake of getting awards from GoI should not be the
Unidentified persons vandalized 13 cars at Wokha town in the wee hours of August 21. Police have inspected all the damaged vehicles but so far no one has been found arrested in connection with the crime.
SBI Lerie donates computer to school Our Correspondent Kohima | August 22
The State Bank of India (SBI), Lerie Branch, Kohima under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) today donated computer to Public School Dzüvürü here in the
presence of minister for forests, environment & wildlife Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire. Dr. Nicky formally handed over the computer to the school. Earlier, the function was compered by A. Lolly Moses, DGS, SBISA while welcome
sole purpose but the focus should be on the aspect of beneficial for the people. In the meantime, he was appreciative of the department for working in a coordinated manner, which he said represents the good atmosphere of the department. He also stated that blame game should be stopped within the department. Expressing concern over the seniority list in the
department, he assured to take up the matter with urgency so that it does not affect the deserving one. Parliamentary Secretaries Y. Vikheho Swu, Er. Vikhoo Yhoshu and Er. Picto were also present on the occasion. Earlier, welcome address was delivered by M. Lokeswara Rao, PCCF & HOFF Nagaland while vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. K. Kire, CF (STC).
ert Kikon informed. The parking allotted is Holy Cross School compound for all buses and private vehicles, it informed and added car passes issued for the rally speakers and dignitaries will be allowed inside. The release further informed that the rally will end with the signing of a memorandum and then meet the Chief Minister at his residence in Dimapur.
Clarification to news item
kohima, august 22 (mExN): Apropos the news item under the caption “Legal rights awareness campaign at Modern College” on August 13 published in The Morung Express on August 17, Kezhokhoto Savi, President NVCO and Lecturer Kohima Law College, in a press statement has clarified that the team he led was solely responsible for the news item and the college should not be blamed. “The team is solely responsible for any blame and not Modern College, Kohima as the program was solely initiated and conducted by the team and Forest minister Dr. Nicky addressing the gathering during the inauguration of forest office complex in Kohima on August 22. (Morung Photo)
address was delivered by Abalie Medoze, headmaster Public School Dzüvürü. Short speech was delivered by Watikumla Ao, chief manager PBD SBI Lerie while vote of thanks was proposed by L. Hangsing, chief manager SBI Lerie.
Dimapur, august 22 (mExN): An “Open Public Rally Against Social Evils” is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 23 at 8 am at City Tower. The rally will have speakers from the NBCC, Naga Council Dimapur, Naga Woman Hoho Dimapur, Dimapur Christian Forum, N.C.R and WSBAK. A press release from Rev. Ademo, Rev. Dr. Chishi, Rev. Dr. Lohe, Rev. Akho, Rev. Rob-
even the press release was done by the team,” Savi’s statement read. It stated that the conduct of the 2014 Legal Rights Awareness Campaign was solely at the initiative of President NVCO with the objective to educate college students on various topics related to rights which would safeguard them and also to equip the final year law students with knowledge and to become a good orator. Further, apologising for being “very outspoken,” Savi stated, “it must have hurt the sentiment of many for which the team leader personally asked for apology.”
Dimapur Government College’s Mr. Fresher Imliyanger of BA I and Miss Fresher V. Ahoni Sumi of BA I during the Freshers’ Meet on Friday at the College premises.
Hopeful of early & permanent solution of border dispute: MCCI PDSA emergency Dimapur, august 22 (mExN): The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MMCI) today expressed optimism that the present border conflict between Assam and Nagaland will soon be resolved and a permanent solution acceptable to both sides will be arrived at the earliest. In a press note received here,
MCCI President Moasangba Jamir emphasized that, the Naga and Ahoms have been coexisting harmoniously as good neighbors since time immemorial and it would be a blunder to destroy such bonding over the recurring but unresolved border issue. Urging for mutual respect and engaging in dialogue at the earliest, he
maintained that, dragging the issue will only encourage “opportunist adversaries to exploit and benefit” from the situation. Appreciating the Union government for their timely intervention to contain the conflict, the MCCI said that, the violence would have escalated further if such steps were not implemented. While expressing relief
over the lifting of economic blockade imposed on Nagaland by various Assambased organisations, MCCI contended that, such blockade by “non-state actors”, apart from causing huge monetary loss, is a “serious violation of human rights” and urged the concerned authority to take necessary steps to prevent such occurrence in future.
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kohima, august 22 (mExN): The Phek District Sports Association has convened an emergency meeting on August 26 at 3 pm at the finance secretary Kunezo Puro’s Kohima residence. A press release from the PDSA press secretary has requested all the office bearers and advisory board members to attend the meeting.
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People, life, etc... Saturday | 23 auguSt, 2014
India’s civil services and the English Language Amit Ganguly
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ndian students in recent weeks have protested the use of English in the country’s difficult civil service examinations. The students, usually from Hindispeaking regions of India, say that the exams reflect a class divide: if you speak and write English well, you are seen as part of the educated, urban elite. If you do not, it’s because you are one of the disadvantaged, usually from smaller towns or villages. English is a tricky subject in India. A language imposed by colonists who exploited the people and resources of the land for centuries, it also was the one language that people seeking independence from the British could use to speak to one another. It remains one of two official languages across India, though many people do not speak it well or at all. I spoke to some of the civil service aspirants who have complained about the language requirement and the structure of the exams, and learned about the role that they hope the exam will play in their lives. Ashutosh Sharma is a 25-year-old psychology graduate from Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, who has been camping in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar neighbourhood for the past two years, hoping that he will crack the examination one day. “The entire protest is presented as a language issue. It’s much more than that. It’s about how a group of elite people in the country want to govern the things. How they cannot digest that a villager, who doesn’t match their lavish lifestyle, rises to the ranks on the basis of his knowledge and hard work,” he said. Ashutosh said he comes from a village, and is better acquainted with the problems the country faces in these places. “When I was in the village primary school, I remember that
Class divide puts English to the test in India’s civil services examination
CSAT row: Out with English? Not a prudeNt choice Swapan Dasgupta Source: tNN
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the teacher would hardly come to take classes. There was no accountability. As a district magistrate, I would know better how the problem can be fixed and I can deal with the problem regardless of whether I speak English or not.” One of his friends who cleared the civil services examination in 2012 and comes from Rajasthan, said he did not face bias during the selection interview, but some others who chose to take the examination in Hindi were humiliated. “They said they were asked to give the answers in English, despite the rule that allows you to answer in the language in which you took the written exam [knows as 'mains'],” said the man, requesting anonymity because he was selected for a job and speaking publicly could hurt his prospects. For Santosh Chaurasia, a 23-year-old man from Buxar district of Bihar, the civil services examination is more than a government job. For him, it’s a tool for social empowerment. “I was 12 or 13 years old at that time. My family was involved in a land dispute
with our neighbours. Our land was encroached by them. But the local police officers not only stood by them, they also humiliated my father. All this happened because my neighbours were rich, influential,” he said. “If I clear this examination, one day, I can become the superintendent of police of a district. I would have the power to ensure that nobody in my district has to face the things I experienced in my childhood.” Ranjan Kumar Tewari, who came to Delhi from his village in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh in 2011, said it is important to learn English for career success, but it should not become grounds for elimination in a country where the state of English education is “pathetic” except in metropolitan towns. “We all cannot come to big cities to study in convent schools. It is practically impossible. A lot of village youth won’t even have money for that. Are you going to punish us for a fault which is not ours?” he said. “It’s wrong to say we don’t want to learn English. We have to pass it in the mains
examination to finally qualify as a civil servant, right?… More than language skills, the exam is about knowledge of country’s socio-economic problems, the laws of the land et cetera. The persons who have an understanding of these things are now eliminated on the basis of language.” For 24-year-old Rashmi Kumari, a woman from the Koderma district of Jharkhand, it was not easy to convince her parents to allow her to come to Delhi to prepare for the exam. “For a girl student who hails from a village, it’s not easy to come to a metropolis to study. The list of people to be convinced for that is long – parents, relatives, neighbours, everyone who knows you,” she said. “Imagine a woman taking control of all the administrative affairs of her jurisdiction. It may appear to be very normal, but in our society, it’s not so easy for a girl to make it. Civil services examination gives you that authority.” Manish Pandey, a 27-year-old with a postgraduate degree in English from Allahabad University, believes that command
over English language is necessary, but at the same time, doors should not be shut for those aspirants who were forced to take up education in local languages due to lack of facilities. Even after more than six decades of the end of British rule, a “colonial mentality” persists among top policymakers, Pandey said. “British left the country in 1947, but their traditions, the colonial mentality didn’t. It is still widely perceived that you cannot grow without English,” Pandey said. “When China and Japan can grow without English, why can’t we?” Ashutosh noted that the exam does not make such strong demands for knowledge of other Indian languages as it does for English, even though it sends bureaucrats all around the country. “Suppose a guy from a Hindi-speaking state is allotted Karnataka cadre [which means he will serve as a civil servant in Karnataka state], he is imparted basic knowledge of local Kannada language so that he can easily work in that state. Same can be done in case of English also.”
t is more than likely that the overwhelming majority of those 'students' that have been agitating to scrap the CSAT paper in the civil services examination won't end up as tenured babus. However, the vocal minority appear to have succeeded in one part of their mission. They have convinced the political class that fair competition involves the acceptance of the lowest common denominator. Under the guise of anti-elitism, the agitators have tried -and may yet succeed -in collapsing the distinction between the deserving and the undeserving. This is not to suggest that the civil services examinations, as they are presently structured, are faultless. From all accounts, there is a scope for improving the translations from English into Indian languages in the question papers. There are also grounds for believing that the present system is loaded in favour of science and engineering graduates -just as earlier versions favoured those steeped in the liberal arts. Yet, the misgivings are over the UPSC's shoddy attention to detail. What was never questioned was the fundamental philosophy of the selection process: to ensure that the most intellectually alert were selected for the premier services. The ongoing agitation challenges that basic premise. It threatens to turn a 150-year-old system on its head. It may be politically incorrect to invoke the legacy of the Indian Civil Service -the legendary `steel frame'in today's debates. The ICS, at least till the late 1920s, was heavily weighed against Indians. Apart from the costs of travelling to England to write the examination, even the curriculum was tailored to select those who had been groomed in the public schools and Oxbridge. In particular the language skills of candidates was rigorously probed - in service all ICS officers had to learn one or more Indian languages. Going by the pedagogic assumptions then prevalent, this meant being tested in the classics - the assumption being that those who mastered Latin and Greek had the mental agility to learn other languages and imbibe cultures. There were other systems of recruitment to colonial bureaucracies that also existed. The East India Com-
pany secured administrators who were trained in Haileybury on the strength of recommendations, a system that perpetuated family continuity; and the Sudan Political Service shunned examinations altogether, preferring interviews to select sporty types best suited to outdoor lives. However, in the hierarchy of importance, the ICS ranked above all others, including the civil services in Britain. The reason was obvious: the ICS officers were chosen for their intellectual rigour and not on account of class and social graces. In his seminal study of the ICS, historian Clive Dewey juxtaposed the skills demanded and the job requirements: "If they were going to reduce complex socio-economic situations to their essentials and compare the probable effects of alternative policies...they needed a firm grasp of the forms of social analysis currently in vogue, the stamina to marshal masses of miscellaneous data, the dexterity to sustain a case through a forest of objections, and a flair for lucid exposition. The most elaborate minutes, hundreds of pages long, were intellectual tours de force." Looking back, the Empire can be debunked for its exclusionary approach and political insensitiv ity. But judged within the framework of imperial control, the ICS sought to give India the best talent Britain was capable of nurturing. It was the larger nobility of purpose that prompted the founding fathers of the Republic -and Sardar Patel in particular -to retain the ICS and bequeath its inheritance to the successor IAS. In the six decades since Independence, the requirements of administration have changed, as have the skill sets for effective governance. The lucidity of file notings are no longer at a premium, but problem-solving approaches are; the lofty detachment of the old district officer has to make way for a more connected officer; and the Oxbridge St Stephen's camaraderie of assumptions has yielded way to demands for babudom being more socially representative. The civil services must change with the times and be fit for purpose. Yet, the larger principle of mental alertness and intellectual rigour remains, as do linguistic skills. If candidates complain of simple passages being too difficult, the answer doesn't lie in diluting standards but in looking for better candidates to write the test.
NoodLEs: Friend or foe? S. Koreans defend diet Foster Klug and Jung-Yoon Choi
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im Min-koo has an easy reply to new American research that hits South Korea where it hurts — in the noodles. Drunk and hungry just after dawn, he rips the lid off a bowl of his beloved fast food, wobbling on his feet but still defiant over a report that links instant noodles to health hazards. "There's no way any study is going to stop me from eating this," says Kim, his red face beaded with sweat as he adds hot water to his noodles in a Seoul convenience store. His mouth waters, wooden chopsticks poised above the softening strands, his glasses fogged by steam. At last, he spears a slippery heap, lets forth a mighty, noodle-cooling blast of air and starts slurping. "This is the best moment — the first bite," Kim, a freelance film editor who indulges about five times a week, says between gulps. "The taste, the smell, the chewiness — it's just perfect." Instant noodles carry a broke college student aura in America, but they are an essential, even passionate, part of life for many in South Korea and across Asia. Hence the emotional heartburn caused by a Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital study in the United States that linked instant noodles consumption by South Koreans to
some risks for heart disease. The study has provoked feelings of wounded pride, mild guilt, stubborn resistance, even nationalism among South Koreans, who eat more instant noodles per capita than anyone in the world. Many of those interviewed vowed, like Kim, not to quit. Other noodle lovers offered up techniques they swore kept them healthy: taking Omega-3, adding vegetables, using less seasoning, avoiding the soup. Some dismissed the study because the hospital involved is based in cheeseburger-gobbling America. The heated reaction is partly explained by the omnipresence here of instant noodles, which, for South Koreans, usually mean the spicy, salty "ramyeon" that costs less than a dollar a package. Individually-wrapped disposable bowls and cups are everywhere: Internet cafes, libraries, trains, iceskating rinks. Even at the halfway point of a trail snaking up South Korea's highest mountain, hikers can refresh themselves with cup noodles. Elderly South Koreans often feel deep nostalgia for instant noodles, which entered the local market in the 1960s as the country began clawing its way out of the poverty and destruction of the Korean
In this, 19 August, Tuesday photo, Japanese instant ramen noodle expert Masaya “Sokusekisai” Oyama, 55, slurps noodles at a shop and restaurant specialized only in varieties of instant noodles in Tokyo. Oyama knows a lot about the instant noodle. He eats more than 400 instant noodles a year, and he usually goes by his nickname “Sokusekisai,” which means “instant.” He agrees eating only instant noodles is not good for your health, because eating one thing all the time isn’t healthy, no matter what it is. “You need nutritional balance,” he said. “You should eat other things, too.” (AP Photo)
War into what's now Asia's fourth-biggest economy. Many vividly remember their first taste of the onceexotic treat, and harddrinking South Koreans consider instant noodles an ideal remedy for aching, alcohol-laden bellies and subsequent hangovers. Some people won't leave the country without them, worried they'll have to eat inferior noodles abroad. What could be better at relieving homesickness than a salty shot of ramyeon? "Ramyeon is like kimchi to Koreans," says Ko Dong-ryun, 36, an engi-
neer from Seoul, referring to the spicy, fermented vegetable dish that graces most Korean meals. "The smell and taste create an instant sense of home." Ko fills half his luggage with instant noodles for his international business travels, a lesson he learned after assuming on his first trip that three packages would suffice for six days. "Man, was I wrong. Since then, I always make sure I pack enough." The U.S. study was based on South Korean surveys from 2007-2009 of more than 10,700 adults aged 19-64, about half of them women. It found that
people who ate a diet rich in meat, soda and fried and fast foods, including instant noodles, were associated with an increase in abdominal obesity and LDL, or "bad," cholesterol. Eating instant noodles more than twice a week was associated with a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome, another heart risk factor, in women but not in men. The study raises important questions, but can't prove that instant noodles are to blame rather than the overall diets of people who eat lots of them, cautions Alice Lichtenstein, director of the cardiovas-
cular nutrition lab at Tufts University in Boston. "What's jumping out is the sodium (intake) is higher in those who are consuming ramen noodles," she says. "What we don't know is whether it's coming from the ramen noodles or what they are consuming with the ramen noodles." There's certainly a lot of sodium in those little cups. A serving of the topselling instant ramyeon provides more than 90 percent of South Korea's recommended daily sodium intake. Still, it's tough to expect much nutrition from
a meal that costs around 80 cents, says Choi Yong-min, 44, marketing director for Paldo, a South Korean food company. "I can't say it's good for your health, but it is produced safely." By value, instant noodles were the top-selling manufactured food in South Korea in 2012, the most recent year figures are available, with about 1.85 trillion won ($1.8 billion) worth sold, according to South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. China is the world's largest instant noodle market, according to the World Instant Noodles Association, although its per capita consumption pales next to South Korea's. The food is often a low-end option for Chinese people short of money, time or cooking facilities. Japan, considered the spiritual home of instant noodles, boasts a dazzling array. Masaya "Instant" Oyama, 55, who says he eats more than 400 packages of instant noodles a year, rattles off a sampling: Hello Kitty instant noodles, polar bear instant noodles developed by a zoo, black squid ink instant noodles. In Tokyo, 33-year-old Miyuki Ogata considers instant noodles a godsend because of her busy schedule and contempt for cooking. They also bring her back to the days when she was a poor student learning to become a filmmaker, and would buy
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two cup noodles at the 100 yen shop. Every time she eats a cup now, she is celebrating what she calls "that eternal hungry spirit." In South Korea, it's all about speed, cost and flavor. Thousands of convenience stores have corners devoted to noodles: Tear off the top, add hot water from a dispenser, wait a couple minutes and it's ready to eat, often at a nearby counter. Some even skip the water, pounding on the package to break up the dry noodles, adding the seasoning, then shaking everything up. "It's toasty, chewy, much better than most other snacks out there," Byon Sarah, 28, who owns a consulting company, says of a technique she discovered in middle school. "And the seasoning is so addictive — sweet, salty and spicy." Cheap electric pots that boil water for instant noodles in one minute are popular with single people. Making an "instant" meal even faster, however, isn't always appreciated. At the comic book store she runs in Seoul, Lim Eun-jung, 42, says she noticed a lot more belly fat about six months after she installed a fast-cooking instant noodle machine for customers. "It's obvious that it's not good for my body," Lim says. "But I'm lazy, and ramyeon is the perfect fast food for lazy people."
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Parents opt to keep babies off Facebook Barbara Ortutay AP Technology Writer
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ehold the cascade of baby photos, the flood of funny kid anecdotes and the steady stream of school milestones on Facebook. It all makes Sonia Rao, a stay-at-home mother of a 1-year-old in Mountain View, California, "a little uncomfortable." "I just have a vague discomfort having her photograph out there for anyone to look at," says Rao. "When you meet a new person and go to their account, you can look them up, look at photos, videos, know that they are traveling." At a time when just about everyone and their mother — father, grandmother and aunt — is intent on publicizing the newest generation's early years on social media sites, an increasing number of parents like Rao are bucking the trend by consciously keeping their children's photos, names and entire identities off the Internet. Reasons for the baby blackout vary. Some parents have privacy and safety concerns. Others worry about what companies might do with their child's image and personal data. Some simply do it out of respect for their kids' autonomy before they are old enough to make decisions for themselves. "I have a no tolerance policy," says Scott Steinberg, a St. Louis-based business and technology consultant who has more than 4,800 Face-
In this Saturday, August 16, 2014 photo provided by Wasim Ahmad, Ahmad, left, and his wife, Lakshmi Ramsoondar-Ahmad, pose with their newborn son in Merrick, N.Y. Two days after his son was born, Ahmad bought the website domain with his son’s name. “I’m going to make it a private website with a password so family can log in” to see updates, he says. “When he gets old enough, I'll probably give him the keys.”(AP Photo)
book friends. Steinberg says he shares no photos, videos or any information about his child. "If I don't want somebody to know about my child, to take an active interest in them, to recognize them in a city street or as they are leaving the schoolyard, the easiest way to do that is to not have any identifying information out about them," he says. As for Rao, she says she is otherwise active on Facebook, and even had an Instagram account for her dog before the baby was born. She's happy posting photos of the canine, but not the many snapshots of
her daughter and the dog together —no matter how cute they are. Rao does share baby pictures, via email or text, but only with close friends and family. Facebook, for its part, encourages parents to use the site's privacy setting if they want to limit who can see their baby photos and other posts. It's possible, for example, to create a group of close friends and relatives to share kid updates with. But that's not enough for some users. New parents Josh Furman and his wife, Alisha Klapholz, are "very protective" of their newborn. The Silver Spring,
Maryland couple believes it's in their daughter's best interest to limit her Internet presence for as long as possible. As such, they haven't posted her legal name on Facebook and don't post photos of her on the site. Instead, they share her Hebrew name and also came up with a nickname to use just on Facebook. They ask friends and family to do the same. "In 2014 we sort of feel like the repercussions of sharing private data are totally unpredictable," says Furman, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Maryland. Like his wife, Furman is very active on Facebook.
Even so, he says "our child isn't capable of making decisions about what details of her life she'd like to share or not." So they are waiting until she can. A big reason parents are wary, even if they use social media sites themselves, is that the companies "have not been very transparent about the way they collect data about users," says Caroline Knorr, parenting editor at the nonprofit Common Sense Media, which studies children's use of technology. "Facebook's terms of service and privacy (policies) — no one reads it, it's too obscure." Some parents look back to their own childhoods, when they were able to make mistakes without evidence of those blunders living on —forever— online. "I had the choice of what I wanted to reveal publicly," says Wasim Ahmad, journalism professor at Stonybrook University and father of a newborn son. "I'd like to, as much as I can, retain the possibility of choice for him." Two days after his son was born, Ahmad bought the website domain with his son's name. "I'm going to make it a private website with a password so family can log in" to see updates, he says. "When he gets old enough, I'll probably give him the keys." The parents hasten to make clear that they have no problems with other people who post their own baby photos. "Many of our close friends put up photos of their kids and we love seeing them," says
Furman. "This is just a decision that we made for our child, and people have been respectful." People have shared baby photos since the dawn of the camera, and stories about kid's shenanigans long before that. Parents who decide to keep photos of their children and other data off social media say they still want to share those things, but they are bothered by the idea of online permanence. "I think my parents told embarrassing stories about me as a child at cocktail parties, no doubt. But those can't be brought back up now — or if they are, it's to a small audience and not the whole world," says Amy Heinz, who regularly shares anecdotes about her three children on her blog, usingourwords.com. To protect the privacy of her children, she refers to them in blogs by nicknames — Big, Little and Pink. At first, she didn't use photos of their faces, but she's eased up. "I am always conscious that what I'm posting is affecting more than myself," she says. Parents who enforce strict blackout rules are still very much in the minority. In a 2011 survey, 66 percent of Generation X parents (people born in the 1960s and '70s) said they post photos of their children online, while more than half said they have shared news about a child's accomplishment online. The poll was part of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Aisha Sultan, a fellow at
the institute when the poll was conducted, thinks the results might be different if the same questions were posed to respondents today. "Back (then) there wasn't a lot of conversation about this," says Sultan, who is a nationally syndicated parenting advice columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "When parents first started joining Facebook in large numbers it wasn't the primary concern. We felt like we were in control of information we were sharing with friends and family." Facebook's privacy blunders over the years, not to mention frequent updates to its confusing privacy policies, changed all that. Now, Sultan says, parents are much more aware of the little control they have over their personal data online. Lawmakers have begun to pay some attention to the issue, too. A new California law requires online services, websites or apps that collect personally identifiable information to remove content that minors have posted, if requested. The measure goes into effect next year. "It's a good start, but I don't think it replaces a lot of parental conversation, regulation and oversight," Sultan says. She should know. Recently, her sister had a baby. Not thinking about it, Sultan posted a photo of her newborn niece on her Instagram account, which is locked and only includes close friends and family. "I got in big trouble with my brother-in-law," she says. "He said... 'Please ask before you do that.'"
Voice, image give clues in hunt for Foley's killer Jill Lawless
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he Islamic militant in a video showing the death of American journalist James Foley took great care to disguise his identity, dressing head-to-toe in black, with a mask leaving only his eyes visible. But police and intelligence services in Britain and the United States have a plethora of clues as they scramble to identify him, from image analysis and voice-recognition software to social media postings and testimony from former captives. Prime Minister David Cameron
has said the masked jihadi pictured holding a knife to Foley's throat is likely British, and linguists say his accent suggests he is from the London area. Britain's Metropolitan Police is involved in the hunt for him, as are British intelligence agencies and the FBI. The Guardian newspaper on Thursday quoted an unnamed former captive who was held by the Islamic State group in Raqqa, Syria, as saying he appeared to be one of several British militants — nicknamed "The Beatles" by hostages — charged with guarding prisoners. Peter Neumann, director of the
I Wonder Why? I wonder why? The Nagas are price tag than priceless; Monetary than virtue.
International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London, said it was likely Foley's beheading had taken place in Raqqa, a stronghold of the Islamic State militant group and the base for many of its foreign fighters. He said investigators would use basic detective techniques to narrow down the field of suspects before turning to voice recognition software and other sophisticated technology. Neumann said most of the hundreds of Western militants in Syria have Facebook or Twitter accounts, on which they post pictures of themselves and give away other clues to their origins, such
as a favorite soccer team. "Just because they are Islamic extremists and behead people doesn't meant they don't talk about football clubs," he said. Neumann said online photos could be analyzed to determine height, weight, eye color and other information. He said that even though the militants, most in their teens and 20s, know they should be careful, they are so ingrained in online culture that "they let their guard down." "These are all young guys," he said. "It's a habit. It's very hard for them to be disciplined." Language experts say the
masked killer sounds like a man in his 20s who was raised or educated in Britain. John O'Regan, a linguist at the University of London's Institute of Education, said the militant spoke with a "multicultural London English" accent but with more formal standard English pronunciation, suggesting that his words denouncing American actions in the Middle East had been carefully scripted. He said that even though the speech differs from the man's normal speaking voice, "there are enough features in the accent" to provide strong clues to his identity. British spy agencies have access to voice-recognition technolo-
gy that can try to match features of the killer's voice to a pre-existing recording, such as an online video or intercepted phone call. So-called "voiceprinting" isn't perfect — voices can change over time and the technology isn't as reliable as fingerprinting or DNA. But Western counter-terrorism officials have long made use of it — including in Britain, where surveillance aircraft have flown over cities in a bid to match recordings of terrorist suspects against live phone conversations. Human intelligence may be at least as important as technology in tracking down the masked man.
Nagaland what a Pity for the Nagas!
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t the outset, I would like to request all the readers not to take these views personally as am I wonder why? not pointing it to any particular Politicalhailstonespromises than fulfill; individual but am just expressGambleawaythan Serve; ing my views on certain issues that have been bothering me a Grab than share. lot in my heart. Firstly, Everyday in the daiI wonder why? ly local papers in Nagaland I Nationalist fearedthan loved; have been coming across imNation to perish than to progress; mense corruptions and unfair Historywashedby the shore. means, innumerable Agitations, Bandhs and intimations, series I wonder why? of public Rallies and Strikes Furnished homes than offices; shouting slogan for justice to Yearns hefty pay than perform duties; almost all the Depts. And conMore recruitsyet desolate workplaces. cern political Leader portfolios but unfortunately they have I wonder why? never taken heed to any of the Police rush after all done and left; demands rather only when the situation goes bad to worst they Fire brigade alertwhen the embers are ashes; are forced to intervene. As for Municipal visualize roads as parking lots; me what strike in my mind for Sellers right than consumers right. such delay immediate remedies or responds from the so I wonder why? called concern Leaders or DeReligion materialistic than spiritualistic; partments i.e. after being choSeek donations unbothered of channels; sen as Leaders, some of them Mighty, wealthy and learnedpulpits than honest souls; consider themselves as they are Cleansing surroundings whilecobwebsdomain. the KING of the CHAIR because of the higher position which inI wonder why? stantly leads them to Mr. know Students’ politicsthan knowledge; All, Mr. Perfect of all area, Mr. Teachers’ knowledge than wisdom; Excellence of every aspect, Mr. Hallucinatory Leaders’ than visionary; Self-centered etc, they never consider themselves as they are Corrupt than account. the King of Development, King of Prosperity, King of EQUALI wonder why? ITY, King of architecture, King Nagas’ can’t be like the other creations ofGod; of Economic growth and King Sun rises in the east and sets in the west dutifully; of nation building, King of upSeasons comes in its on course faithfully; liftment for needy societies and God created them too. communities etc may be due to their egoistic manner they could I wonder why? achieve only a handful solution Nagaland is for Christ than Christ is for Nagaland; and hardly bring any concrete solution to the desperately in I still wonder! need. Therefore, instead of remaining arrogant they should Mhieneitsilie M. Gwezantsu first Sit, Listen, Understand and
Respond to the needed cry of audience. Secondly, countless Issues that are confronting our society everyday, issues like NLTP Acts, Border issue, poor students Scholarship, Nagaland Special Development Zone (NSDZ), Tribe Recognition, Illegal Immigrants and pending salaries etc these are certain burning issues which should be taken up seriously bringing a permanent solution. But there seems to be any botheration at all from our concern Leaders could maybe, it be, because there is no profit or benefit if they give their time and effort or either that they have lack of Vision and coordination to each other. But whatever reason it maybe, it’s high time for our Leaders and bureaucrat to wake up and see a big prospective way for pleasant solution before worst will occur and ultimately all the curses and blame will be upon your shoulder in future from our younger generation. Thirdly, our TOP Govt Officials always bluffing our public by merely blaming about the irresponsibility of the Political leaders with regard to the work on projects, schemes and files for not moving from their tables, in fact some files that are kept in their drawer takes a month or a year to process treating it like “Taboo”. So sometimes stupid person like me use to think that if Government can introduced some new policies of working system in all Depts, system like 24-hrs studying on files, 24-hrs working on files and within 24hr to give explanation to higher authority giving remark on why/how could not be done and could accomplished the job if Government can implement such policy, quite sure
that Nagaland will be the first BEST Model State in Indian in terms of Development, Economic Growth, infrastructure, accountability, integrity and advancement etc in our society. Fourthly, Regarding the Naga Political Groups (NPGs) in terms of lakhs we Naga people are watching each and every work and Plan of Action, one need not say/let know that you are national worker but one should prove through your actions and exemplary way that you are working for the cost of Nagas than surely everybody will contribute in some ways or the other. At present scenario what the public desire from all the NPGs is that if it can come under one umbrella for one common goal, Vision, Task and Responsibility only then 69-years of pending unfinished task of the Nagas can be settled or come to solution within a year. It’s high time instead of criticizing each other FORGIVE and FORGET all the past and come to one common table and unites together for earlier solution for our Nagas legitimacy from the hand of adversary. Fifthly, I see some civil societies, organizations, Associations, Unions (NGO’s) initially they will take up any issues or ultimatum with a well plan strategy to Govt in order to get favor or support from the public at the same time blaming the Govt and Top Govt officials for denying public rights, share or working for self-interest but the moment they get bundle of money their Lips get zipped up and they forget all about their stand towards justice and settle any Issues or Demands on spot no matter without knowing whether its Right or Wrong. In fact they are the main traitor. We should take
examples of ticks on Dog, we are all aware that ticks never fall until unless it sucks blood satisfactorily. Likewise NGOs should set examples because you are the Mouth-piece and Peace-maker of society and public trust you fully and have confidence on you to deliver justice for those that are totally suppressed and victimized. Sixthly, I appreciate ACAUT movement in Nagaland if at all they have committed to work according to the objectives which they have published on 12th August 2014 in a daily paper. I have come cross from all sections of people in Nagaland from Rich to Poor, Reverend to Believers, Educated to illiterate, Businessmen to Consumer, 1-star hotel to Pan shop level, Govt to NGOs and mere Public and top officials to Laborer if you ask about ACAUT from bottom of their heart they will express that ACAUT Movement is long cherish prayer which our almighty God answered today. Therefore I think our move is hour of needs, so ACAUT teams shouldn’t ever alter for any political and monetary gain and ease the exceptional common cause. Seventhly, I have been observing our Religious Leaders in our society today, many leaders and believers they compromise on activities, programmes, pattern of worship and systematic order of service, moreover confine and concern Report on dedication of new houses and vehicles, birthday service and marriage ceremony or church Development and proudly give baptism to Bio-christians who is already Christians by birth etc. I don’t mean these are not important or we should not perform, but beyond that Church
and Leaders, should ask themselves whether they have been able to involve themselves in winning souls, and how many reached/ unreach and NonChristians are converted and given Baptism till today through our Mission involvement, I think these are the top priority for the Church and Religious leaders to understand because Mission is God’s Heart, God is Mission and building is not the church but people are the church which God give us the Task of Mt28: 19-20 to involved and partake for His Mission. Secondly, I can see our churches administration system fully base on traditional, orthodox and rich men decision which leading us to Death Church today because many churches today they don’t take decision of leading by Holy spirit or godly man decision and advice because due to many reasons. Thirdly, we can see by our own nake eyes the present scenario by so called God servant doing partiality among the church believers basing on economical status. In conclusion, I just want to quote Mt13:28-30 which says, “The servants asked the master. Do you want us to go and pull the weeds but the Master answered No because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them, let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into barn. Therefore, brethrens, Gods Judgment will be upon everyone for our deeds and actions. N. Mhonbemo Patton Dimapur
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After big win, Narendra Modi faces backlash
NEW DELHI, August 22 (AP): When Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power in India’s most resounding election victory in decades, he promised to revive the sluggish economy, rein in rising food prices, tackle corruption and overhaul his predecessor’s lackluster foreign policy. Many Indians, long accustomed to political stagnation, believed him. But in recent weeks, critics — and even many supporters — have started to accuse him of squandering his powerful mandate in this boisterous country of 1.3 billion people, where such overwhelming election victories are exceedingly rare. While acknowledging that Modi only took office in May, they say they see no change, just more of the same. Despite Modi’s declarations to engage archrival Pakistan — and inviting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration — ties between the two nations remain stuck where they have been for at least a decade. The recent national budget announcement — despite promises of urgent reforms — failed to provide new direction to India’s listless economy. And Modi’s pledge to clean up the political system has been tainted by the appointment of Amit Shah, a longtime adviser,
to a top political post even though he is facing murder charges. “For a government that promised a new narrative, the adjustment to old ways is striking,” Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who heads the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, wrote in the Indian Express newspaper recently. The grumbling can be seen on newspaper opinion pages and heard in the bazaars of New Delhi, where Indians from all walks of life shop for food. Staples of the Indian kitchen like potatoes and tomatoes continue to cost well over a dollar per kilogram, exorbitant for many people. Under the campaign slogan of “Better Days Ahead,” Modi’s party had promised to control food prices, among other things. “Who can afford to eat tomatoes these days?” asked Sunehri Devi, a 70-year-old who says she’s learning to cook without the key ingredient in almost every Indian curry. “If I buy the tomatoes I won’t be able to buy anything else.” As she filled her shopping bags with potatoes and pumpkin, Devi said the new government has dashed her hopes of a quick fix to the surging living costs. “These politicians all make big promises before elections,” she said. “And now not a squeak out of
In this August 15, photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the media as he leaves after addressing the nation from the ramparts of the historical Red Fort to celebrate Independence Day in New Delhi, India. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power in India's most resounding election victory in decades, he promised to revive the sluggish economy, rein in rising food prices, tackle corruption and overhaul his predecessor's lackluster foreign policy. (AP File Photo)
them.” Some say Modi’s government should be given some breathing room. “You can’t start attacking it from day one because it hasn’t really done anything worthy of attack,” said Ashok Malik, a political analyst and journalist. “But within four or five months I expect more regular criticism to start.” Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party says the government is only three months old and that addressing India’s many
complex problems will take time. “We have had to deal with a lot of problems left behind by the previous government. There are challenges like inflation, and we will tackle them strongly,” said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, spokesman for the BJP. “One must remember that this is not a verdict for two or four or six months,” he said. “We have a mandate for five years and our work will be judged over five years. We have only just started working.”
Still, voters are dismayed by Modi’s initial steps — or lack of them. During the campaign, he had played up his economic credentials, pointing to the industrial revival of Gujarat state during his time as governor there. He stressed his vision to transform the nation’s economy. But the national budget announced July 10 was widely panned as being little more than an extension of the previous government’s populist — and enormously
expensive — policies. Modi retained programs subsidizing grains, sugar and fuel, as well as caps on foreign direct investment, which limit fresh capital to fuel business ventures. Last week, in a speech commemorating India’s independence from Britain, he referred to some campaign promises, including accelerating economic reforms, which lifted India’s benchmark stock index to a record. But it was mostly a ceremonial
speech and didn’t spell out more specifics. And after the grand gesture of inviting Pakistan’s Sharif to his inauguration, ties between the two countries remain strained, particularly over the disputed northern territory of Kashmir, which the two nations have gone to war over twice. Modi’s first foreign trip was to India’s tiny and least controversial neighbor, Bhutan. “After that big start, inviting Nawaz Sharif to the swearing-in, people are already likening him to Manmohan Singh,” Modi’s subdued predecessor, said Neerja Chowdhury, a political journalist. Just this week, a diplomatic spat with Pakistan put the brakes on renewing the peace process over Kashmir. On Monday, India canceled talks with Pakistan after the country’s ambassador to India met with Kashmiri separatist leaders. Modi’s government had warned the envoy to avoid such a meeting, but analysts said India overreacted by calling off the talks entirely. “Pakistan has held meetings with separatists before; it is not necessary for India to allow itself to be provoked in this manner,” said Neelam Deo, director of Mumbaibased think tank Gateway House. And given Modi’s loud promises to crack down on the corruption and cro-
nyism associated with the Congress-led government, his decision to name Shah head of the Bharatiya Janata Party appears oddly inconsistent. Accused of ordering the illegal police killing of a small-time criminal and his wife, Shah was arrested and spent three months in jail in 2010. He denies the accusations and has been out on bail while the cases against him make their way through India’s painfully slow court system. The two men go way back. Shah was the main architect of Modi’s electoral victory and the two men have worked closely since the 1980s when they were volunteers with the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Dal, or the National Volunteers Association, a militant Hindu movement and parent organization of the BJP. “Amit Shah’s elevation also shows that loyalty is above the principles he’s been espousing,” Chowdhury said. For all his fiery stump speeches, Modi has been conspicuously quiet since taking office. “He’s gone into a shell after so much visibility in the last few months. He’s already become invisible and inaccessible,” Chowdhury added. “If he won’t keep the dialogue with the people then it’s going to be hard for him to keep their sympathy.”
Kerala liquor policy to make state ‘dry’ in a decade WHO tells India to strengthen infection control against Ebola NEW DELHI, August 22 (IANs): India needs to further strengthen its infection control mechanism and surveillance to prevent an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) like the current one in western Africa, the World Health Organization Friday said. At a technical briefing here on the disease and how to prevent it, WHO said that in affected countries it does not advise families or communities to care at their homes for individuals who have symptoms of EVD. Rather, they should seek treatment in a hospital or treatment centre staffed by doctors and nurses qualified and equipped to treat EVD, the WHO said. The list of affected countries is currently limited to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, they added. Asheena Khalakdina, Team Leader, Communicable Diseases, WHO Country office for India said further strengthening of infection control, practising special surveillance and better communication would be important for which the government plans to hold special training on EVD for medical personnel in various states of the country over the next one month. People are infectious as long as their blood and secretions contain the virus. For this reason, Ebola-infected patients receive close monitoring from medical professionals and undergo laboratory tests to ensure the virus is no longer circulating in their systems before they return home, she said. The WHO informed that during an outbreak, those at a higher risk of infection are health workers, family members or others in close contact with infected people and mourners who have direct contact with the bodies of the deceased as part of burial ceremonies.
tHIRuvANANtHAPuRAm, August 22 (IANs): The Kerala government’s intention to bring about prohibition in a phased manner has begun with a new liquor policy that will turn the state into a dry one in a decade. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who Friday finalised the new liquor policy, told reporters it will be submitted to the Kerala High Court Aug 26. The United Democratic Front (UDF) arrived at the decision following state Congress president V.M. Sudheeran’s tough stand when he, citing a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, argued that 418 bars with poor infrastructure in the state should not be given new licences this fiscal. The issue reached the Kerala High Court which asked the government to come up with a new liquor policy, and also directed a two-member government committee to submit its report Aug 26 on the condition of these bars. “Not only will the 418 bars that are closed now will
not open, but the 312 bars that are open will be closed at the earliest. We have to settle their outstanding amounts and we have got legal opinion that we need not wait till this fiscal-end to close down these bars. From next year, only five star hotels will be serving liquor,” said Chandy. Kerala’s sole liquor wholesaler is the state-owned Beverages Corporation and in all, there are 383 retail outlets. “Starting Oct 2 this year, 10 percent of the retail outlets will close down and apart from the existing dry days, all Sundays will now be dry days. In 10 years’ time, total prohibition will be in place in Kerala,” said Chandy. However, CPI-M politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said: “This is just an eyewash as total prohibition is not going to be practical and this sudden decision is just meant to settle down the issues in the Congress party.” Finance Minister K.M. Mani when asked if Chandy has usurped all the glory in his one stroke, said: “If the glory is there for the
chief minister, we being his cabinet colleagues will also get the glory of this very excellent decision.” “No finance minister will like to become poorer, as there will be an estimated drop of Rs.1,811 crore this fiscal following the closing down of all the bars and 39 retail outlets. But the cause is more important as there has been a pending demand for bringing down liquor consumption,” he told reporters. After Chandy came out with the new policy, Hindu Ezhava leader Vellapaly Natesan was the first to tell reporters that some religious institutions (Christian churches) use wine and that should also be banned. “Some churches even sell wine and this should also be stopped,” said Natesan. mHowever, Syro Malabar Catholic Church spokesperson Paul Thelekkat said the wine issue was being given a “communal colour”. “The response of Natesan is not a criticism of the use of wine for the Holy Mass by the church but a type of lampooning which
is distasteful as everyone knows of the sacred use of it. The excise department of Kerala knows it,” said Thelekkat. Chandy said the real concern will be to tackle the illicit liquor trade once the new policy comes into effect. m“This is a concern that we are having and it’s for that we have decided to impose a five percent cess on all liquor that will be sold and this money would go into a corpus fund set aside for running anti-liquor campaigns -- to educate on the ill-effects of liquor and for rehabilitating employees who are as of now working in bars. “We are giving a call to the people to contribute one day’s income to a new fund which has been named as the Kerala Alcohol Education Research Rehabilitation Compensation Fund to be used for all these activities,” said Chandy, adding he has already received the first contribution of Rs.1 lakh.m Friday evening, Chandy’s office staff handed him Rs.1 lakh as their one day’s salary towards the fund.
that it would lead to disruption of public order,” she said. “The film is double trouble. It glorifies Indira Gandhi’s assassins who took the law into their own hands and it glorifies the hanging of the two men,” Samson said. The film is based on the lives of three Sikh men, including two bodyguards who shot and killed Gandhi against the backdrop of an insurgency that gripped the northern state of Punjab through the late 1970s and early 1980s when Sikh militants demanded a separate Sikh nation. Gandhi ordered the June 1984 army operation to flush out hundreds of heavily armed Sikh separatists barricaded inside the Golden Temple. The attack outraged Sikhs and led to a catastrophic breakdown in communal relations. Later that year, Gandhi was assassinated and the country was swept by a wave of anti-Sikh rioting which resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Sikhs. Officials said the recent arrest of India’s chief film censor on accusations that he solicited bribes to speed the clearance of films drew attention to the clearance given to “Kaum De Heere.” Certification board CEO Rakesh Kumar was
arrested Tuesday after a sting operation in which two of his associates sought 70,000 rupees, or about $1,050, on Kumar’s behalf to speed up the censor’s clearance for a film. During questioning, Kumar revealed that he had accepted a bribe of 100,000 rupees ($1,666) from the makers of “Kaum De Heere” to approve its censor certification. The film’s producer Pardeep Bansal and its director Ravinder Ravi have denied the charges. Meanwhile, leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the main opposition Congress Party have called for the banning of the film, saying it would offend people’s religious and community feelings. Bansal said the film was based on historic events and that he would soon seek a review of the film board’s decision. “It is a balanced film. Some people are unnecessarily trying to create a controversy,” Bansal told reporters. Samson said the film had not been banned and could be reviewed after suitable changes to the script and cuts were made. “The film’s producers can always file an appeal to the film certification appellate tribunal and seek redress,” she said.
Rescuers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in Srinagar, India on August 22. Police said six workers have been pulled out of debris of residential house after it collapsed during a repair work. (AP Photo)
Jaitley stirs anger India blocks film on Indira Gandhi assassination by making light of rape case
In this November 6, 1984 photo, members of the Indian Sikh community, whose house were attacked, burned and looted by mobs of Hindus, collect their looted property at a police station in New Delhi, India. India has blocked the release of a film on the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, saying it glorifies her killers and could trigger violent protests, officials said on August 22. India's film certification board said the film glorified the two Sikh bodyguards who killed Gandhi to avenge her suppression of an insurgency that culminated in an army assault on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine. (AP File Photo)
NEW DELHI, August 22 (AP): India has blocked the release of a film on the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, saying it glorifies her killers and could trigger violent protests, officials said Friday. India’s film certification board said the film glorified
the Sikh bodyguards who killed Gandhi to avenge her suppression of an insurgency that culminated in an army assault on the Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine. “Kaum De Heere,” or “Diamonds of the Community,” was scheduled to be released in theaters across
northern India on Friday. Certification board chief Leela Samson said panel members saw the film and decided it could not be released as it posed a threat to public order. India’s Home Ministry had expressed concern about a clearance earlier given to the film and had
asked the panel to review it, Samson said. The ministry had received intelligence reports that the film could trigger feelings of enmity between India’s Hindu and Sikh communities, she said. “We saw the film and decided it could not be released as it was, due to fears
NEW DELHI, August 22 (REutERs): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley faced criticism on Friday for making light of the gang rape of a Delhi woman in 2012 and her subsequent death by saying it was a small incident that had cost India billions of dollars in tourism. Jaitley, who is also defence minister and a key lieutenant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, denied he was trying to lessen the magnitude of the crime which shook the country and turned the spotlight on women’s safety. “I am sensitive to these issues myself, no question of trivialising any incident,” he said after his comments sparked outrage including from the victim’s mother, who said politicians had a tendency to forget. Five men and a teenager lured the 23-year-old physiotherapist and a male friend into an unlicensed bus and repeatedly raped and tortured her. She later died of her injuries, provoking an outpouring of anger and soul-searching about the place of women in Indian society. Four men have been sentenced to death while a fifth suspect committee suicide. The teenager
was remanded to a judicial reform centre. While laws relating to assault on women have since been toughened, the crime also exposed social attitudes in a country where the victim has often ended up being found responsible. Jaitley, addressing a conference of state tourism ministers, said improving law and order was necessary to help bring visitors to India. “One small incident of rape in Delhi advertised world over is enough to cost us billions of dollars in terms of global tourism,” he said. The assault and several similar attacks in Delhi and around the country have helped reinforce the image of India as unsafe for women visitors. About 50 members of the youth wing of the main opposition Congress shouted slogans against Jaitley outside the office of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The victim’s mother said the government minister’s remarks had hurt her greatly. “When they needed votes, they would take my daughter’s name and that such a big incident had happened. But once they got into power, they call it a small thing.”
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Amid outward calm, climate of fear cements Thai Military rule
Thailand's new Prime Minister Prayuth Chan–ocha salutes upon arrival to attend an establishment anniversary of the 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard, in Chonburi Province, Thailand on August 21. Three months after overthrowing Thailand's last elected government, this Southeast Asian nation's junta leader is stepping out of his army uniform for good - to take up the post of prime minister in a move critics say will only extend his time at the helm and consolidate the military's grip on power. (AP Photo)
BANGKOK, AuGust 22 (ReuteRs): “Is she dead yet?” Thai opposition activist Kritsuda Khunasen said she was blindfolded and struggling to regain consciousness when she heard this chilling query from one of her interrogators. She was detained for nearly a month by the Thai military after it toppled the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on May 22. Kritsuda said she was beaten by soldiers and hooded with a plastic bag until she blacked out. “That was the moment I thought I’d died,” she told Reuters via Skype from a secret location in Europe, where she is seeking political asylum. Junta chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha has dismissed Kritsuda’s claims as “totally untrue” and ignored United Nations calls for an investigation. But allegations of abuse in military custody, plus signs of defiance on Thai campuses, undermine Prayuth’s claim that the junta is - to borrow the title of his Friday-night TV address to the nation - “returning happiness to the people”. Prayuth has sought to reassure tourists, foreign investors and fellow Thais that the military has restored calm after months of divisive and sometimes deadly street protests. But anti-coup activists and human rights monitors say that calm is sustained by a climate of fear, selectively but ruthlessly applied against opponents of a military eager to avoid its past
mistakes. Its 2006 coup, which overthrew the protest-besieged government of telecoms billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, led only to further unrest that culminated in the military’s bloody crackdown on Thaksin’s “red shirt” supporters in 2010. His sister Yingluck was elected by a landslide the following year. This time round, the junta - formally called the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) - has worked systematically to snuff out all challenges to its authority, no matter how small, said Sunai Phasuk, senior researcher for the New York-based Human Rights Watch. “They don’t blink,” he said. “They have power and they use it. They don’t care about criticism from the outside world or human rights groups.” The NCPO has detained hundreds of activists, academics, journalists and politicians, and set about purging the bureaucracy of Thaksin sympathisers. Red shirt leaders told Reuters their movements were monitored, their phones tapped and their families harassed. “We are very afraid. Most of our members have gone into hiding or are laying low,” said a prominent red shirt activist on condition of anonymity. “There are people lurking outside our children’s schools.” The junta has silenced other political opponents by publicly threatening to seize their assets. Dissenters living abroad have had their Thai
passports revoked. The military has also shut down websites and exploited draconian laws that forbid all criticism of Thailand’s royal family. Martial law remains in place nationwide. “People who disagree with the coup still live in fear,” said Human Right Watch’s Sunai. He believed a long period of oppressive military rule could backfire by triggering the very unrest it was designed to suppress. “Then there will be a very serious threat of violent confrontation,” he said. Campus Crackdown On Thursday, General Prayuth was elected prime minister by a junta-appointed national assembly, whose members are mostly acting or retired soldiers and police. He has promised to hold elections by the end of 2015. With the protests that crippled parts of Bangkok over, consumer confidence in July hit an 11-month high. On Monday, the assembly rubber-stamped the junta’s 2015 budget bill. But tourism, which accounts for about a 10th of Thailand’s economy, is struggling: the number of foreign visitors in July fell 10.9 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the Department of Tourism. The military has hailed its own efforts to foster unity through so-called “reconciliation centres” and campaigns to educate red shirt members, particularly in pro-Thaksin rural strongholds in the north
and northeast. “In red shirt villages leaders told them twisted information which led them to being brainwashed,” General Kampanart Ruddith, assistant army chief of staff, told Reuters. “We must tell villagers what correct democracy is.” Kritsuda, the alleged torture victim, was also a red shirt activist. She was released without charge in late June, then fled Thailand, telling Reuters her interrogators had threatened to kill her if she spoke about her detention. A spokesperson for Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Aug. 5 for an “independent and detailed investigation” of Kritsuda’s allegations. NCPO spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree said it had released all detainees, referred to as “war captives” by the military. “Nobody was ever mistreated or harmed and we have never kept anyone beyond seven days,” he said. “We can assure you that nobody is being detained still.” Yet reports of abuse persist. A student at a Bangkok university told Reuters how he and three friends were interrogated by soldiers and police for putting up anti-coup stickers around campus. After a night of questioning at a police station, he said the four students were ordered into an unmarked van with no licence plates and blindfolded by soldiers carrying subma-
chine guns. The soldiers told the students the van was heading for a military base, where four graves would be dug and a last meal served. The students were released unharmed the next day, but were now too “spooked” to protest against the junta, said one of them, who asked to go by the nickname Gai. “It’s not like I want to die,” he said. Elsewhere, students are growing bolder. On Aug. 8, a group called the League of Liberal Thammasat for Democracy (LLTD) at Bangkok’s Thammasat University were warned by the military authorities to cancel a seminar on the interim constitution, which gives the junta sweeping powers. The group ignored the order. “People are testing the water to see what they can and can’t do,” said Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of the independent news website Prachatai. In another small sign of dissent, hundreds of leaflets, some bearing the words “No Coup,” were scattered outside the army’s Bangkok headquarters in mid-August. A junta spokesman called the act “unacceptable”. The Elite’s Weapon Another powerful tool for silencing dissent is Thailand’s lese-majeste law, which imposes heavy sentences for even mild criticism of the monarchy. General Prayuth is a staunch royalist. On Tuesday, a spokesperson said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was “seriously concerned about the prosecution and harsh sentencing” of suspects for lese-majeste. At least 13 new cases have been opened since the May 22 coup, while older cases have been revived, with “chilling effects on freedom of expression,” said Ravina Shamdasani in a statement. On Aug. 14, Bangkok taxi-driver Yuthasak Kangwanwongsakul, 43, was sentenced to two years and six months in jail for talking about social inequality with a passenger, who secretly recorded the conversation on his mobile phone and filed a lesemajeste complaint with police. On the same day, Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, a student from Khon Kaen University, was arrested for appearing in a play featuring a fictional monarch.
The play’s student director, Pornthip Munkong, 25, was arrested the following day. The play was performed in October but the complaint was lodged only last month by a soldier who police have not identified. “The lese-majeste law is the last weapon left in the elite’s legal arsenal to suppress pro-democratic sentiments and movements,” David Streckfuss, a Thailand-based scholar who monitors lese-majeste laws. Thailand has been divided for a decade between the royalist establishment, backed by the military and the conservative middle class, and the mostly poorer, rural supporters of the Shinawatra family. Fuelling the crisis is a deep anxiety, particularly among the traditional elite, about the future of the monarchy. King Bhumibol Adulyadej is widely revered but his heir, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, has yet to command the same devotion. The junta insists that laws protecting the monarchy are necessary to maintain order. Cleaning Up Online Website managers say censorship is more heavyhanded now than after the 2006 coup, thanks in part to the Computer Crimes Act. Passed in 2007 by the previous junta-appointed assembly, the vague and arbitrary law has been used “to pressure and intimidate online journalists, editors, and political activists,” said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. A Thai website editor said the authorities have developed new ways to access personal information from anyone who clicked on one of hundreds of blocked websites. “Users are redirected to a state web landing page and asked to log in through a fake Facebook, for example, and asked to submit personal information,” said the editor, who asked not to be named for fear of violating the junta’s orders. The state’s Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) explained its rational on June 20 on its Facebook page. Collecting user data is “supported by Article 26 of the Computer Crimes Act (2007),” the TCSD said in a statement. “This way, the TCSD can manage more witnesses which could lead to more prosecutions and make the online community clean.”
Ebola doctor ‘thrilled to be alive’
AtLANtA, AuGust 22 (AP): An American doctor infected with Ebola left his isolation unit and warmly hugged his doctors and nurses, showing the world that he poses no public health threat one month after getting sick with the virus. Dr. Kent Brantly called Thursday a “miraculous day.” Brantly and his fellow medical missionary, Nancy Writebol, who was quietly discharged two days earlier, are still weak but should recover completely, and no one need fear being in contact with them, said Dr. Bruce Ribner, who runs the infectious disease unit at Emory University Hospital. Brantly’s reappearance was festive and celebratory, a stark contrast to his arrival in an ambulance under police escort three weeks earlier, when he shuffled into the hospital wearing a bulky white hazardous materials suit. “I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family,” Brantly said, choking up as he read a written statement. Then he and his wife turned and hugged a parade of doctors and nurses, hugging or shaking hands with each one. For some, it was their first direct contact without protective gear. After Brantly, 33, and
Writebol, 59, were infected while working with Ebola victims in Liberia, their charity organizations, Samaritan’s Purse and SIM, reached out to top infectious disease experts for help. Working connections, they obtained one of only five courses available worldwide of an experimental drug known as Zmapp, and Brantly and Writebol split the doses before being evacuated to Atlanta. The other four were later given to a Spanish priest, who died, and three doctors in Africa, who have been improving. Writebol’s son, Jeremy Writebol, spent two weeks at the hospital with her but left Tuesday morning. “I haven’t given her a hug yet, I am anxious to do that, but we are waiting for the right time and for her to be able to be with us,” he said in a telephone interview. He said his mother is able to move around, eat and drink normally. Brantly didn’t take questions at Thursday’s news conference, but he did briefly describe how they confronted Ebola back in Liberia. He said aid workers had begun “preparing for the worst” after learning of the outbreak in March, and saw their first
patient in June. Soon, many more arrived. He said his team took all the precautions they could. After his wife and children returned to the U.S. for a family wedding, he focused on work, moving patients to a bigger isolation unit. Three days later, he woke up feeling sick, and was diagnosed with the disease. “As I lay in my bed in Liberia for the following nine days, getting sicker and weaker each day, I prayed that God would help me to be faithful even in my illness,” Brantly said. “Through the care of the Samaritan’s Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life.” His doctors cautioned that it’s unclear whether the drug or a blood transfusion Brantly got from a young Ebola survivor in Africa was helpful or hurtful. The drug is so novel that it hasn’t been tested in people, and might not have made any difference at all. “Experimental means exactly that. They are the very first individuals to have received this treatment and frankly we do not know,” Ribner said.
Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly, right, hugs a member of the medical staff that treated him, after being released from Emory University Hospital on August 21, in Atlanta. Another American aid worker, Nancy Writebol, who was also infected with the Ebola virus, was released from the hospital Tuesday. (AP Photo)
Both patients were discharged after their medical team made sure they won’t infect others. Their blood tested clean of the virus, which is spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of sick people experiencing symptoms. Ebola survivors generally are not contagious once they’ve recovered. Neither survivor is saying what they’ll do next. Ribner said there’s no concern of a relapse, “and in fact we would anticipate immunity from this virus if they were
treating patients during this outbreak.” There is a huge gap between the top-flight care these Americans got at Emory, where a crew of five infectious disease experts and 21 nurses provided rigorous care, and West Africa, where the virus has killed more than 1,300 people and counting, and even such basics as sterile fluids can be in short supply. Treating these two patients has already given doctors insights into how to better care for Ebola patients anywhere. For example,
they now believe common fluid-replacement measures may not have enough of certain nutrients patients need to recover. Emory physicians say they have begun sharing their findings to other doctors, and hope to publish in a medical journal. At least 2,473 people have been sickened in this outbreak — more than the caseloads of all the previous two-dozen Ebola outbreaks combined, according to the World Health Organization.
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UN rights chief rebukes Security Council inaction uNIteD NAtIONs, AuGust 22 (AP): In her last address to the Security Council, the U.N. human rights chief sharply criticized the body for its ineffectiveness on Syria and other intractable conflicts, saying its members have often put national interests ahead of stopping mass atrocities. “I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” said Navi Pillay, whose term as high commissioner for human rights ends Aug. 30. Pillay said Syria’s conflict “is metastasing outwards in an uncontrollable process whose eventual limits we cannot predict.” She also cited conflicts in Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Congo, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza. “These crises hammer home the full cost of the international community’s failure to prevent conflict,” Pillay said. “None of these crises erupted without warning.” Pillay spoke at a meeting where the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution promising more aggressive efforts to prevent conflicts. The resolution acknowledged that the United Nations has not always used the tools in its charter for preventing conflict. It prescribed several steps for improvement, focusing on addressing human rights violations earlier and recognizing that such abuses are often warning signs of looming conflicts. The resolution encourages the secretary-general to bring any matter that he believes threatens international peace to the attention of the Security Council and promises to promptly consider those cases. The resolution said little about the political differences that often paralyze the Security Council, where sharp divisions between veto-wielding members Russia and the United States have often thwarted action on Syria and Ukraine. mPillay touched on the problem in her remarks. “Short-term geopolitical considerations and national interest, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of — and long-term threats to — international peace and security,” she said. The human rights chief said the use of veto power on the Security Council “to stop action intended to prevent or defuse conflict is a short-term and ultimately counter-productive tactic.” Pillay offered her own solutions. She proposed that the council adopt a menu of new responses, including “rapid, flexible and resource-efficient human rights monitoring missions.” And she suggested building on the Arms Trade Treaty by requiring that, in countries where there are human rights concerns, governments accept a small human rights monitoring team as a condition of purchasing weapons.m In his own address to the council, U.N.-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was milder but said “it is the time for a new era of collaboration, cooperation and action from the Security Council.” He cited the consensus on removing chemical weapons from Syria as a success case for the Security Council. But he said when “our actions come late and address only the lowest common denominator, the consequences can be measured in terrible loss of life, grave human suffering and tremendous loss of credibility of this council and our institution.”
Malaysia mourns as bodies of MH17 victims come home
Malaysia Airlines crew members react as hearses carrying victims' bodies of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 leaving Bunga Raya Complex at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia on August 22. The bodies and ashes of 20 Malaysians killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in July have arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the first repatriation of victims from the flight to the country. (AP Photo)
KuALA LuMPuR, AuGust 22 (ReuteRs): People across Malaysia held a minute’s silence and wore black on Friday as the Southeast Asian country observed a day of mourning to mark the return of the first 20 bodies among its citizens killed when a jetliner was downed last month. Malaysian Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 crashed after apparently being struck by a missile over war-torn Ukraine on July 17, worsening a year of tragedy for the country following the baffling disappearance of another MAS flight in March. Flags flew at half mast and newspapers daubed their front pages in black to honour the 20 victims, among 43 Malaysians who were on the flight carrying a total of 298 passengers and crew, most of them Dutch. Malaysian King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and Prime Minister Najib Razak joined grieving relatives and sombre Malaysia Airlines staff at a ceremony at Kuala Lumpur International Airport to greet the special flight from Amsterdam that brought home the remains. “Today we mourn the loss of our people. Today, we begin to bring them home,” Najib said in a statement. mIn the multiethnic country where tension between different groups and religions can run high, mourners united in grief with Muslim ethnic Malays and ethnic Chinese standing side by side and reciting prayers for the dead. “We see Malaysians uniting for one cause today. But there is no absolute closure until the perpetrators are brought to justice,” said Anthony Loke, an opposition parliamentarian. Bodies and wreckage from MH17 were strewn across sunflower fields in the rebel-held region of Donestk for almost a week before the dead were transported to Amsterdam. Russian-backed rebels are suspected of shooting down the jetliner in the mistaken belief it was a Ukrainian military plane. Fighting between the pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces has hampered attempts for a swift investigation and the search for more remains. The ceremony on Friday was muted except for the plane’s engines as eight men, dressed in traditional Malay attire, carried each coffin out. Hearses and helicopters lined up to transport the victims home for burial. mThe loss of MH17 came just four months after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people on board. No trace of that aircraft or its passengers has been found since it went missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.m “It has been a tough year but life goes on and we’re here to continually support each other,” said an MAS air stewardess in uniform, holding a white rose.
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5 things to know about the Spanish league
BARCELONA, August 22 (AP): The Spanish league opens this weekend with the three main title contenders - Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, and Barcelona- all facing smaller clubs they will be expected to beat. Defending champion Atletico Madrid has the most challenging matchup, playing at Rayo Vallecano, while the two traditional powerhouses start the competition at home. The new season features a number of high-profile signings for the top clubs and several coaching debuts. Here are five things to know about the first round of the Spanish league, which kicks off with Athletic Bilbao at Malaga on Saturday: BULLISH BARCELONA Barcelona can't wait to put this summer behind it and start playing football. This week, Barcelona lost its appeal against FIFA's one-year transfer ban for violating rules regarding the signing of youth players. It also had the delicate task of presenting Luis Suarez after it signed the hot-headed Uruguay forward despite his latest suspension for biting an opponent, which will sideline him until Oct. 25. Now the club is eager to erase last season's failure to win a major trophy for the first time in six seasons. Barcelona hosts Elche on Sunday at Camp Nou. It will be the debut of several other new players, like Ivan Rakit-
Atletico can't compete with Real, Barca: Simeone
MAdRid, August 22 (iANs): Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone insists that despite its winning success last season, it's impossible for the team to compete against economic powerhouses FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Last season saw Simeone lead Atletico to the BBVA Primera Liga title and to the final of the Champions League, where they were seconds away from a historic win over Real Madrid, reports Xinhua. Tuesday saw Atletico draw 1-1 at the Santiano Bernabeu Stadium in the first leg of the Spanish Supercup against Real, a result which makes them favourites to lift the first domestic trophy this season, however, speaking ahead of Friday's return Real's Karim Benzema from France, centre, competes with Atletico's Gabi, left, and Atletico's Joao Miranda, from Brazil, right,leg, Simeone repeated his during a Spanish Supercup first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadiummantra that the 'big two' were favourites to sweep in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, August 19. (AP Photo) ic, and coach Luis Enrique, a former player brought back to get the most out of a highly talented squad that fell short last campaign. "When you start a season your hope is renewed," said Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano. "Our obligation is to fight for all the titles we can."
playing in Spain's third division. Now, after a spectacular rise inspired by coach Gaizka Garitano, the tiny club is set to play its first game in the top flight in its 74-year-old history. Eibar hosts Real Sociedad in a Basque Country derby on Sunday at its Ipurua Stadium, which has a capacity ITTY-BITTY EIBAR of just 5,200 spectators. "It Two years ago Eibar was will be a new experience for
everyone," said Eibar goalkeeper Xabier Irureta. "We want the day to finally get here when we play Real (Sociedad). There will be a lot of partying." SUPERCUP STRAGGLERS Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid will not player their respective matches until Monday in order to give them an extra day of
rest after they play the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup on Friday. Madrid has only won the league once in the last six seasons and launches its bid to change that against promoted club Cordoba. New arrivals James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos could get their Spanish league debuts. Rodriguez scored in his first official
game at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Tuesday in the first leg of the Super Cup, which the teams drew 1-1. Cordoba is coached by former Barcelona and Chelsea player Albert Ferrer. ALMOST FORGOTTEN With all the hype generated by the transfer activity at Barcelona and Real Madrid this offseason, it's
the board this time around, despite matching the duo in the transfer market over the summer. "We are putting the finishing touches to the squad and the team has changed, especially in attack," he said Thursday. "I see this season as starting from scratch because the team is different. (Mario) Mandzukic, (Raul) Jimenez and (Antoine) Griezmann are different players than (the departed) (Diego) Costa, (David) Villa and Adrian (Lopez). We have held on to the solid base on which the team is built, but we are looking for the style that best fits what we have," he said, dismissing his club's title hopes. "Atletico are the champions, but the players are not the same. We are in a different league to Barcelona and Madrid because the money spent on new play-
ers is a direct result of other players being sold," he said, adding that "nothing," had changed in regard to Real Madrid and Barca. "We do not have a financial structure that lets us spend 80 million on one player, we've spent almost 100 million on everybody," he explained, before comparing Atletico to their main rivals. "(Leo) Messi, Neymar and (Luis) Suarez are three of the five best players in the world, and Real Madrid have brought in James (Rodriguez) and Toni Kroos, while (Gareth) Bale is much stronger now and they have improved over the last year." "I understand our fans want to repeat the success of last season but they should remember that last year was the first time we'd won the league for 18 years and its not something we can win every year," he concluded.
easy to forget that Atletico is still the team to dethrone in La Liga. Diego Simeone's team opens its title defense at crosstown rival Rayo Vallecano on Monday night.
manager, Portuguese Nuno Espirito Santo, who has to take his team to Europa League champion Sevilla. Other managers to debut are Sergio Gonzalez for Espanyol, Joaquin Caparros for Granada, Jose Mendilibar for Levante, Javi Gracia for Malaga, Eduardo Berizzo for Celta Vigo and Victor Fernandez for the promoted Deportivo La Coruna.
BRING IN THE COACHES Eight coaches will make their debut for their new teams this weekend. The toughest introduction will likely be for Valencia's new
Squads named for 2014 Phelps 4th in 1st final back at international meet Champions League T20 NEw dELhi, August 22 (AgENCiEs): The 12 teams competing in the 2014 Champions League Twenty20 have named their 15-man squads for the start of the lucrative tournament on September 13. Twelve teams will be entered into the qualifying stage from September 13 to 16, from which ten teams will progress to the group stage September 17 to October 4. The top two sides from each group will then contest the semi-finals, to be held in Hyderabad on October 2. The final will he played in Bangalore on October 4. Group A comprises current IPL winners Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Perth Scorchers and Dolphins and one qualifier while Group B is made up of losing IPL 7 finalists Kings XI Punjab, Cape Cobras, Hobart Hurricances, Barbados Tridents and the other qualifier. The four teams attempting to qualify are Lahore Lions, Mumbai Indians, Northern Knights and Southern Express. The winners will pick up a cheque worth $US 2.5 million and a total of $US 6 million prize money is available for the tournament. As many as eight international players have opted to represent their IPL franchise over their domestic teams. They are Corey Anderson, Lasith Malinga and Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians), George Bailey and David Miller, (Kings XI Punjab), Jacques Kallis and Pat Cummins (Kolkata Knight Riders) and Dwayne Smith (Chennai Super Kings). "Like previous seasons, players who have been named by more than one team have been asked to nominate which side they are going to represent. Players are free to make any decision they wish. Teams are then allowed to replace any player that has withdrawn from their squad and elected to play for another side," said CLT20 governing council member Dean Kino. "CLT20 regulations state that when a player elects to play for their 'away' team, that team must pay the 'home' team $150,000 compensation per player. A 'home' team is classified as a team from the country a player is eligible to represent in international cricket."
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Jonathan David Vandiar, Keshav Athmanand Maharaj, Prenelan Subrayen, Cameron Scott Delport, Andile Lucky Phehlukwayo, Bongumusa Sibonelo Makhanya. BARBAdOS TRIdENTS: Shane Dowrich, Jeevan Mendis, Jason Holder, Ashley Nurse, Jonathan Carter, Neil Mckenzie, Akeal Hosein, Ravi Rampaul, Rayad Emrit, Raymon Reifer, Kyle Mayers, William Perkins, James Franklin, Elton Chigumbura, Dilshan Munaweera LAHORE LIONS: Mohammed Hafeez, Ahmad Shahzad, Umar Siddique Khan, Muhammad Umar Akmal, Nasir Jamshaid, Muhammad Salman Ali, Asif Raza, Muhammad Mustafa Iqbal, Wahab Riaz, Aizaz Bin Ilyas Cheema, Imran Ali, Saad Naseem, Adnan Rasool, Muhammad Saeed, Ali Manzoor. HOBART HURRICANES: Tim Paine, Jon Wells, Evan Gulbis, Xavier Doherty, Ben Hilfenhaus, Dom Michael, Sam Rainbird, Travis Birt, Doug Bollinger, Aiden Blizzard, Cameron Boyce, Joe Mennie, Ben Laughlin, Ben Dunk, Shoaib Malik. SOUTHERN ExPRESS: Kusal Janith Perera, Danushka Gunatilake, Angelo Perera, Jehan Mubarak, Niroshan Dickwella, Dilruwan Perara, Prasanna Seekuge, Ishan Jayaratne, Farvees Maharoof, Kasun Madushanka, Yasoda Lanka, Charith Jayampathi, Sachith Pathirana, Sandaken Lakshen, Dilshan T.M. CAPE COBRAS: Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Justin Kemp, Rory Kleinveldt, Charl Langeveldt, Richard Levi, Aviwe Mgijima, Justin Ontong, Robin Peterson, Vernon Philander, Dane Piedt, Zakhele Qwabe, Omphile Ramela, Stiaan Van Zyl, Dane Vilas. KINGS xI PUNjAB: George Bailey, Thisara Perera, Mitchell Johnson, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Akshar Rajesh Patel, Karanveer Singh, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Manan Vohra, Mandeep Singh, Rishi Dhawan, Virender Sehwag, Wriddhiman Saha, Anureet Singh, Parvinder Awana.
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ashish Nehra, Mithun Manhas, R Ashwin, Ishwar Pandey, Pawan Negi, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohit Sharma, Dwayne Smith, Dwayne Bravo, John Hastings, Brendon McCullum, Samuel Badree, Francois Du Plessis.
MUMBAI INdIANS: Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Aditya Tare, Jalaj Saxena, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Mike Hussey, Kieron Pollard, Corey Anderson, Lasith Malinga, Marchant De Lange, Lendl Simmons.
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIdERS: Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Sunil Narine, Jacques Kallis, Ryan Ten Doeschate, Morne Morkel, Patrick Cummins, Andre Russell.
NORTHERN KNIGHTS: Ish Sodhi, Jono Boult, Brad Wilson, Kane Williamson, Daniel Flynn, BJ Watling, Graeme Aldridge, Anton Devcich, Tim Southee, Scott Kuggeleijn, Daryl Mitchell, Daniel Harris, Scott Styris, Trent Boult, Daniel Vettori.
dOLPHINS: Daryn Smit, Daryn Miles Dupavillon, Cody Chetty, Vaughn Bernard Van Jaarsveld, Khayelihle Zondo, Robert Frylinck, Morne Nico Van Wyk, Kyle John Abbott, Craig John Alexander,
PERTH SCORCHERS: Ashton Agar, Yasir Arafat, Michael Beer, Cameron Bancroft, Jason Behrendorff, Hilton Cartwright, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Brad Hogg, Simon Mackin, Mitchell Marsh, Joel Paris, Craig Simmons, Ashton Turner, Adam Voges, Sam Whiteman.
Michael Phelps of the U.S. runs to get out of the rain while wearing his gold medal won in the men's 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay, following the end of competition on day 2 of the Pan Pacific swimming championships in Gold Coast, Australia, Friday, Aug. 22. (AP Photo)
gOLd COAst, August 22 (AP): Michael Phelps placed fourth in his first international final since coming out of retirement, with Cameron McEvoy upstaging the most decorated swimmer of all time to take the 100-meter freestyle title at the Pan Pacific championships. The 20-year-old McEvoy of Australia won in 47.82 seconds in rainy conditions Friday night at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre's outdoor pool, edging Olympic champion Nathan Adrian of the United States into second place at 48.30 and world champion James Magnussen into third at 48.36. "What more could I ask for?" McEvoy said. "I just felt great the whole way. It was an honor to be in a race with such great men - so much those guys have accomplished. It's just good to be there." Adrian said he wasn't surprised by McEvoy's win, saying competition is intense in the 100 freestyle. "It's silly to think that it's just going to be James and I winning every time," he said. "It's definitely not a two-man game anymore." Phelps, the 18-time Olympic gold medalist, opened his program in the morning heats and qualified third fastest, and went
marginally slower at 48.51 in the night final. He was swimming a freestyle relay later Friday, and has butterfly and medley events over the weekend as he seeks to qualify for next year's world championships and the 2016 Olympics. Australian sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell finished 1-2 in the women's 100 free, with Simone Manuel earning her first international individual medal when she held off US teammate Missy Franklin for bronze. Cate Campbell swam the fastest time of the year to qualify fastest for the final in 52.62 seconds, and went a shade slower to win the gold at 52.72. In the earlier 100 breaststroke finals, former 50 breaststroke world champion Jess Hardy won her first Pan Pac title over the 100 when she touched in 1 minute, 7.74 seconds, beating Kanako Watanabe of Japan by four-hundredths of a second. Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki won the men's gold medal in 59.62, edging Brazil's Felipe Silva and New Zealander Glenn Snyders into second and third. American swimmer Kevin Cordes was disqualified for removing his goggles during the race.
Djokovic, Federer favored for grand slam sequel
NEw YORK, August 22 (REutERs): Top seed Novak Djokovic and number two Roger Federer are favored to wage another title showdown in the last grand slam of 2014, although some emerging young guns have other ideas for the U.S. Open starting on Monday. Djokovic and Federer's path to a championship clash could be less troubled than usual with the absence of last year’s winner Rafa Nadal due to a wrist injury, and the subpar form of 2012 champion Andy Murray since last year’s back surgery. If the leading men star in the Arthur Ashe Stadium final, it would provide a sequel to their five-set thriller at the All England Club in which a teary-eyed Djokovic hoisted the Wimbledon trophy. Both claim to be overdue for another taste of triumph at Flushing Meadows. Djokovic counts just one U.S. title (2011) in his haul of seven grand slams despite reaching the Flushing Meadows final in each of the last four years and five times overall. Federer, 33, has five successive U.S. Open
crowns from 2004 but has gone without since. He extended his grand slam title record collection to 17 by winning the 2012 Wimbledon, which stands as his only slam triumph in his last 18 tries. Lying in wait for another chance to spring a surprise and trumpet their arrival on the main stage are promising players who made a big splash in London. Seeded fifth is hardserving Canadian Milos Raonic, a Wimbledon semi-finalist along with fellow 23-year-old Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, seeded seventh in Flushing Meadows, where girlfriend Maria Sharapova will likely be seen cheer-
ing him on. Also hoping to follow up the fireworks he set off at the last major is 19-yearold Australian Nick Kyrgios, who ousted Nadal in the fourth round before falling to Raonic in the quarters at Wimbledon. Among the veterans, Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is seeded third ahead of Spaniard David Ferrer, with Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic at number six, two places ahead of Murray, who has shown hints of a return to form of late. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, who beat Federer in the Rogers Cup final in Toronto, holds the ninth seed while Japan’s Kei Ni-
shikori rounds out the top 10 seeds. Family Men T h e 2 7 - y e a r- o l d Djokovic has made some life changes since his last appearance in New York, joining Federer as a family man four days after his Wimbledon triumph when he married childhood sweetheart Jelena Ristic, who is expecting their first child. The honeymoon, however, may have affected the Serbian’s preparation as the outstanding hard court player, who owns four Australian Open titles on the surface, has had a lackluster run-up to the Open with a pair of fourth-round exits this summer.
World number one Djokovic has a long way to go to catch Federer both on the grand slam wins chart and on the family front. In May, Federer’s wife, Mirka, gave birth to their second set of twins. Leo and Lenny were born almost five years after the arrival of twin sisters Myla Rose and Charlene Riva. Federer has enjoyed strong results this hard court season as runner-up in Toronto and champion in Cincinnati, and the absence of Nadal should improve his chances of getting back to the winner’s circle. Nadal has been like Kryptonite to Federer, who has lost nine of their 11 career meetings in grand slams and trails in their overall head-to-head by 23-10. Djokovic and Federer have had a much closer ledger with each player winning six times in their grand slam encounters and the Swiss holding a scant 18-17 edge in career meetings. Federer has won three tournament titles in 2014, bringing his impressive career haul to 80 victories, while the Serbian has claimed four tournaments this year for 45 career tour wins.
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James Basnet
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usic has long characterised beautiful stories of people who were able to fight adversities and struggles, for James Basnet, music was not just a driving force after losing both his parents at a tender age, but it was a life changing decision and as I talked to the man who is the only Indian to be nominated for the IMEA Awards 2014, it was a wonderful experience listening to the story of James who lost his parents when he was an infant, and grew up with his grandparents and relatives. Turning to Music as his fortress, James started writing songs by the age of 14 in addition to involving himself in the Church, James decided to go for a short term bible course at the age of 17. It was at the Bible School that he decided to serve God full-time and dedicated his talent of writing songs for the Lord. In the year 2005, he felt God telling him to move to Bangalore. With nothing more than God’s direction, James moved to Bangalore by faith and although the first few months were difficult, he finally found the joy of being in the right place at the right time. Having seen promise in him, James was given offers to become a recording artist, which somehow never worked out. However, James recollecting his days in Bangalore as a worship leader believes that God had His own good time and after 10 years of writing songs, not giving up on his dreams, everything seems to be in place for James today, as his independently produced album “Brand new day” which he released in the year 2013 and the song under the same name will be going up against some of the world’s best independently produced songs and artists like Nicole Thomas and Linda Clark. Having also opened for the Planet Shakers concert in Dubai in September 2013, James is ecstatic to fall under such category after IMEA’s recognition realizing he will now be spoken of on the same level as the other nominees. James’s nomination has been possible through consistent top three stays under the gospel category for more than three months in Reverbnation, which is the biggest online portal for inde-
pendent music with 3 million musicians and over 30 million unique visitors every month. The IMEA awards 2014 under the International Music and Entertainment Association Inc. will be held on October 4th at Winchester Avenue, Ashland, Kentucky. On being nominated in three categories, James who is married to Imlinaro Longchar and has a 3 year old son named Nicholas, says; “This is big step closer to my ultimate goal of having my songs sung in churches worldwide. I am so grateful to God for the way He has blessed me so much. I am also grateful to all my family members for the love and support all those years. I am especially thankful to my wife Imlinaro for believing in me and also my in-laws Mr. and Mrs. Temsu Longchar for encouraging me to pursue my dreams.” Having shifted to Nagaland and presently working at Faith harvest Church, Kohima James is currently working on his second album to be released by the end of this year. James believes writing simple songs which can be sung by anyone. He wants his songs to be sung in the churches all over the world His ultimate goal is for people to be blessed and to come to know God intimately through his songs. To vote for James one can log onto http://www.imeaawards.com/ vote/music/ voting closes on Aug 27, 2014.
urple Fusion will be releasing their debut album “Folk Reminiscence” on August 23. The Band comprises of Lamtsala H Sangtam- Lead Vocal; Imsanger Lkr – Guitar; Mhathung Odyuo – Bass; and Temsu Kichu – Drummer. Purple Fusion is a Folk Fusion band from Nagaland, India that delves and experiments in Naga traditional as well as other Folk music. The Band was formed officially on 28th August 2012 with an aim to promote the rich tradition and culture of Nagaland ,India in the form of fusion music. PF incorporates indigenous ethnic music with genre of the west like Blues, Jazz, Funk, Reggae and rock to create a blend of music which is different and unique from what we usually get to listen to in this modern electronic age. Purple Fusion’s debut music video “Tring TringMarks of War “which was released on 4th Jan’ 2013 has been featured in some of the country’s leading music channels like VH1 and MTV. The song is being used for many documentary’s and presentation at USA. They have collaborated performing with some of the biggest names in the international music industry as well as India (country own) like with John W Schlitt - Petra(Grammy award winner) , Rahul Ram – Indian Ocean , Rabbi Shergill etc. PF in this one year span of time has performed Abroad and has toured in some major cities of India like Bangalore , Delhi, Kolkata and have toured almost the whole of NE states . They were the only band from Northeast
India to have performed at IIFI (International Film Festival Of India) . They are also the Finalist of The Hornbill International Festival 2013. PF has worked with very successful National Music channel under MTV India for a music program call Mtv SoundTrippin S2,Bollywood Music Producer – Sneha khanwalker, where the lead singer Lamtsala was the main act for one entire episode. They have even contributed there music as the main act for a documentary film’ called “Songs of the Blue Hills” by a National Award winning director which had been selected this year to be screened in some countries Like Switzerland, Warsaw, Gotheburg- Sweden, USA- New York, Italy.
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amtsala H Sangtam has made a comeback to the music scene after about a gap of ten years. She is Known as one of the most dynamic and powerful live performer. She is a self thought vocalist. She has performed with some of the biggest names in the country like Rahul Ram of Indian Ocean , Rabbi shergil . Have been featured in MTV Soundtrippin-2 with Sneha Khanwalker. Among the few folk singers from the region who has delved into folk and been successful she has made a mark in the region inspiring and motivating many youngsters to dig deep into their culture and to give the world something new and refreshing rather than just singing popular numbers to make a living.
hathung has been the long time Bass player of the Band DivineConnection (winner of MTV RockOn 2011). He has performed all over the country as well as abroad. He had been the driving force of DivineConnection composing, arranging and writing songs for the band. Having a desire to shy away from the mainstream rock and metal scene Mhathung has joined PF and is experimenting with Naga Folk music fussed with Jazz, funk,blues, raggae and rock. Mhathung won the title of Best Bassist at Yamaha Music India-Asian Beat 2008 and Hornbill Rock contest etc. He is also known as the first Indian Bassist to have an online bass tutorial on Youtube.
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emsu is one of the leading drummers from Nagaland who has played for bands such as Diatribe(winner of Hornbill National Rock 2008), Grafitti, Oleanders etc. He has won numerous awards in the state as well as outside the state.
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xcuses have been given an entirely new dimension by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). If allowing girlfriend Anushka Sharma to stay with Virat Kohli in England for the first two Tests wasn’t enough to raise eyebrows, the pretext the BCCI used to convince the team management is mind-boggling. The BCCI told the management that the duo will get married very soon. Speaking to Mail Today, a BCCI official said that while there was a bit of a dilemma as to how the touring Indian media would react, the Board told the officials travelling with the team that it was just a matter of time before the duo ties the nuptial knot. “The team management was slightly taken aback when the BCCI approved Kohli’s plea of letting Anushka stay with him. But they were told there was no reason to worry as the two were planning to
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get married. And this isn’t the first time such a thing was happening. A captain’s girlfriend had travelled with the team in the past as well,” he said. In fact, the BCCI also told them that Kohli was smart enough to handle the situation and the media wouldn’t even get to know of Anushka’s presence - a definite error of judgment. “When the management enquired on how to handle the media if they questioned her presence with the vice-captain, they were told that Kohli can handle the media attention and wouldn’t let the cat out of the bag,” he said. On the view that Anushka’s presence had nothing to do with Kohli’s poor form, the official said: “Unlike football, Test cricket is played for eight hours. And when the mind is on picking and dropping friends, the result will be visible on the field itself. Off-field activities definitely play on the mind.”But another official said that the sole reason behind the ruckus is the relationship status. “If the duo was married, nobody would have said a word. We all know how Indian culture is. And the lack of form ended up serving as fodder for the media. If he had scored runs, they would have ignored the whole issue,” he said.
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techniques and martial art. It’s time that women realise that they no longer need a man to protect them. Rather, there should be so much fear in men that they should watch out before illtreating or insulting a woman,” Rani said while unveiling the ‘I am Shakti’ logo along with Pooja Garg of PC Jewellers at India Today Mediaplex. The country-wide campaign aims at empowering women, helping them fight injustice and making their stories of plight heard. Inspired by her character of a fearless cop in her forthcoming film Mardaani, Rani stressed how the term mardaani should not be equated as “being manly”. “It is the spirit of being courageous that is being referred to with this word. Long back when poet Subadhra Kumari Chauhan wrote in her famous poetry Khoob ladi mardaani, she did not equate Rani Laxmi Bai with men, but saluted her spirit of bravery,” said Rani. Dressed in kosa silk kurta teamed with jari work blue jacket and denim jeans, Rani cheerfully interacted with the audience and earnestly heard the stories narrated by a few brave hearts present at the venue. “Speak up,” she asked the girls, stressing Indian mothers should instill gender equality at home right from the beginning.
“The era of being coy, shy and being in a veil is gone. The minute people around us realise that we have to power to react and put our foot down, it discourages their illintentions,” Rani said. Successfully pulling the crowd by sprinkling some humour, Rani also urged men “not to stop looking at women.” “Look at them with respect. Problem is that men change their opinion and become lenient in their approach if the woman in question is not his mother, sister, spouse or daughter,” she added. Rani recalled picking up the roles of strong women right from the beginning of her career, starting with her debut Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat, Mehendi, VeerZaara or No One Killed Jessica, but, her character of Shivani Shivaji Roy in Mardaani is distinct. “Whenever I read story of acid attack or rape in newspaper, I think of the girls who faced it or live with it. I may not have done enough to come out and do something for the victims. The collective anger got a vent through this film,” added Rani. Sandeep Bamzai, Editor, Mail Today, elaborated on the ‘I am Shakti’ initiative, as a “campaign to nurture the dignity of women.” “It is about conditioning the society and change their mindset where they learn to treat women as another human being with an equal right to live with dignity,” he said.
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Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg of Germany steers his car into the hairpin, during the first practice session ahead of Sunday's Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, Friday, August 22. (AP Photo)
Hamilton Dominates Second Practice Session of Belgian F1 Spa, auguSt 22 (aFp): Lewis Hamilton topped the times ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in Friday's twice redflagged second free practice session ahead of this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix. The 29-year-old Briton, who was second behind Rosberg in the morning session, clocked a best lap of one minute and 49.189 to finish clear at the top of the times on a typically incident-filled day at the old Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Belgian Ardennes. Rosberg was six-tenths of a second slower than Hamilton to finish second ahead of two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, Felipe Massa and Jenson Button of McLaren on a rare dry
day at the track. Valtteri Bottas was sixth for Williams ahead of Russian rookie Daniil Kvyat of Toro Rosso, Australian Daniel Ricciardo for Red Bull, Danish rookie Jan Magnussen in the second McLaren and Nico Hulkenberg for Ford India. The session began under a heavy black cloud and produced two major 'red flag' accidents, but nobody without anyone being injured. The first came when Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado lost control of his Lotus car in the approach to Pouhon and hit the barriers heavily. He was quickly in communication with the team via radio to say he was unhurt, but his car was seriously damaged and he was out for the rest of the session.
The second red flag came when Mexican Esteban Gutierrez spun off at Blanchimont in his Sauber. "Can you get back to the garage?" the team asked him. "It is the gear box...Something break completely," he replied. In the intervening periods of on-track action, Alonso clocked 1:51.693 to go top before Hamilton, who was second behind Rosberg in the morning practice session, regained the ascendancy by taking half a second out of the Spaniard's best time. Ricciardo, Red Bull's sole representative in second practice as four-time champion Sebastian Vettel waited for an engine change, also ran off the circuit without causing any damage.
With 40 minutes to go, all the leading drivers switched to softer tyres and Hamilton stayed on top while Frenchman Romain Grosjean reported that his Lotus was "all over the place" and difficult to drive. Rosberg then swept to the top of the time-screens with a lap in 1:49.793, but was swiftly replaced as Hamilton responded in 1:49.189, the way it stayed until the flag. Earlier, Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff gave an insight into how the team had rebuilt rapport after their discord in Budapest. He said the situation, after Hamilton had ignored team requests to allow Rosberg to pass him, had "needed a little bit of mediating, management, caressing, hard words..."
Indian Grand Prix excluded from 2015 season
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ormula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone confirmed that the 2015 season will not feature the Indian Grand Prix. The GP was removed from the schedule for the 2014 season after previously hosting the race for three seasons. Surrounded by tax issues amongst other financial troubles, the Indian GP had to be excluded from the calendar for the second successive season. Ecclestone said that the organisers had ran out of time to stage the race. “It is too late for 2015. We (Formula One Management and Jaypee Sports International Limited) are looking at 2016 now and hopefully the tax issues in India will also be sorted out by then," Ecclestone told PTI. "The organisers also need to settle the existing contract before we get back. I am expecting to see them next week,” he said. The 83-year-old was adamant that the F1 community wants India to host a GP. To soothe the Indian fan’s pains, Ecclestone pleaded them to continue following the races on television. “As I have said in the past, we and the teams want to go back to India, irrespective of how busy the calendar is. I hope the environment for our return gets better. Until then, my message to all the F1 fans is that keep watching the sport on television."
Tennis player Victoria Azarenka attends the 15th Annual Taste of Tennis Gala on August 21 in New York. (AP Photo)
BCCI approaching Dravid Kvitova reaches New Haven semis for mentor role: reports
New Delhi, auguSt 22 (ageNcieS): Rahul Dravid, who joined the Indian cricket team for the tour of England as a batting consultant, is apparently being convinced to take up the role of a team mentor, reports The Indian Express. According to an official BCCI source, who played a key role in appointing Ravi Shastri as the Director of the Indian cricket team, told the newspaper on Wednesday that the BCCI was expecting coach Duncan Fletcher to resign after the England tour. As a matter of fact, Dravid was the first choice, ahead of Shas-
tri; but since it couldn't materialise into anything substantial because of a short notice, the nod was given to the former Indian allrounder. "Fletcher himself has to decide what his future will be. He is a professional and we are paying him a good amount. So it is natural to expect big results from him. We don't doubt his cricketing knowledge but we need someone who can also communicate well with the boys and also motivate them to become mentally tougher. We have options when it comes to appointing new coaching staff.
Enough feelers have been sent to Fletcher in the last meeting and the BCCI will be expecting him to resign after England tour. "Dravid is attached to the Rajasthan Royals for the upcoming Champions League. However, we have big plans for Rahul. We want him to be the permanent mentor of the Indian team. He understands these players like nobody else and the players respect him also. We will ask him to take up the role during the home series against West Indies and also when the team travels to Australia for the Test series."
New haVeN, auguSt 22 (aFp): Reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova advanced to the semifinals of the WTA New Haven hard court tournament Thursday with a 6-4, 6-1 triumph over Czech compatriot Barbora Zahlavova Strycova. Fourth-ranked Kvitova next will face Australia's Samantha Stosur, who ousted Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the final warm-up event for the US Open, which begins Monday. Second seed Kvitova, the 2012 New Haven winner who lost to Simona Halep in last year's final, will be the third seed at the year's last Grand Slam event and will open her Flushing Meadows fortnight next week against France's 73rd-ranked Kristina Mladenovic. Kvitova, a 24-year-old left-hander, won their first meeting in 2008 at Paris but lost to Mladenovic, 21, last year in Paris. Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova defeated American Alison Riske 7-5, 0-6, 6-4 to book a semifinal berth against the later winner between Italy's Camila Giorgi and Spain's Garbine Muguruza. Giorgi ousted Petra Kvitova, of the Czech Republic, hits a backhand during a quarterfinal four-time New Haven champion Caroline match against compatriot Barbora Zahlavova Strycova at the New Haven Wozniacki, the Danish fourth seed and former world number one, in the second round. Open tennis tournament in New Haven, Conn., on August 21. (AP Photo)
Tendulkar pays tribute to late yoga guru Iyengar
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New Delhi, auguSt 22 (pti): Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has paid rich tributes to late yoga guru BKS Iyengar, saying that practising his asanas helped him a lot in his glorious career. Iyengar, who was credited for taking the ancient practice to the West, died in a hospital in Pune on Wednesday morning at the age of 95 following kidney failure. In his condolence message, Tendulkar recollected his first meeting with Iyengar and said the yoga guru had a big role to play in his illustrious international career. "My first detailed interaction with Guruji was way back in the year 1999, when Kiran More introduced me to him for a backache which was giving me much trouble. His serene, light hearted approach struck me and I spent a week under Guruji's care," the batting legend said in a statement. "I will always be thankful for the wonderful asanas he taught me. Practising those asanas helped me a
lot throughout my career. "Over a decade later, I was faced with a peculiar problem in my foot causing immense pain and discomfort. I was advised surgery for the same which I was not too sure of. At that time, Zak (Zaheer Khan) suggested that I seek Guruji's advice. His positive spirit and guidance helped me to recover to an extent that the surgery was not needed," Tendulkar said. Terming Iyengar's demise as a big loss, Tendulkar said "the smile and healing touch" of the noted yoga guru will remain with the world forever. "Guruji (BKS Iyengar) left for his heavenly abode and left us with fond memories of how he touched our lives with his unique ways," Tendulkar said in his condolence message. "Guruji maybe not around anymore, but the warmth of his smile and his healing touch will remain with us forever. May God give us all the strength to overcome this loss and May His Soul rest in peace!" he said.
20TH CLASSIC CUP 2014 DAY 5 (AUG 22) RESULT Junior Anchor defeated Young Creeper FC by 3-2 via tie-breaker Eagles Club defeated The King’s FC by 5-4 via tie-breaker Billy Graham FC (B) defeated Epitome FC 4-0 Young Boys FC defeated Boyz United Club 2-0 Matches for Aug 23 Tiema Jhe Kidima vs Luminous SC @ 10:00 am Twenty 14 FC vs Street Hawks FC @ 11:40 am Hurricane Boys vs Ablaze FC @ 1:30 pm Mele FC vs Bill Graham FC (A) @ 3:30 pm
Champions Leicester not to be under-estimated, says Mourinho
loNDoN, auguSt 22 (ReuteRS): After beating one promoted club in Burnley, Chelsea must avoid the mistake of underestimating another in their home game with Leicester City, manager Jose Mourinho told a news conference on Friday. Chelsea received widespread praise for their performance in winning 3-1 at Burnley on Monday, when Mourinho described Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas as a "maestro" after his first Premier League game for the club. But ahead of Saturday's visit from Leicester, last season's Championship (second tier) winners, the manager warned: "It's difficult. They're champions, they come with a winning mentality, high expectations and motivation to play in the Premier League." He said he was impressed with the Midlands club's performance in their first game last Saturday, when they drew 2-2 at home to Everton, who finished fifth last season.
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"They had a difficult start, but managed to equalise and gave a good game to Everton. I don't think it will be different (on Saturday)." Asked about goalkeeper Petr Cech, who was left out at Burnley, where Thibaut Courtois made his debut, Mourinho said: "Petr's behaviour (has been) fantastic and that's important. "Is he totally happy? I don't believe so. This period is hard for them and for me because it's a period with only one game per week. "In September, with three games per week, ro-
tation and everybody playing, it's an easy period for them and for me." He refused to comment on his former Inter Milan player Mario Balotelli, or the controversy surrounding former Cardiff manager Malky Mackay, but did have words of support for Tony Pulis, who left Crystal Palace last week, two days before the start of the new season. "I hope Pulis comes back to football quickly because he did fantastic work and deserves to be in the Premier League as soon as possible," he said.
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