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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity —Rollo May

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‘Halt’ construction of Mapithel Dam

AIPP, NPMHR, 95 individuals, 10 orgs send urgent appeal to the PM

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DiMaPuR, July 30 (MExn): The Pungro Town Students Union (PTSU) today informed that there has been no electricity at Pungro sub division for the past one week, following the damage sustained to one transformer. A press note from the PTSU, while expressing concern at the situation, lamented that “nothing was done till the transformer got damaged, leaving local areas in complete darkness.” The PTSU added that there were no alternative arrangements made after the damage to the transformer. Moreover, it regretted that students have also not been able to concentrate on their studies due to the power outage. The union appealed to the Power Department and the Nagaland state department for immediate installation of a new transformer at Pungro sub division as early as possible for the welfare of the public.

150 million Rs 1 notes to be printed every year nEw DElhi, July 30 (ianS): The Indian government has decided to print 150 million currency notes of Re.1 denomination every year from January 1, 2015, parliament was told on Thursday. “Government has issued gazette notification dated December 15, 2014 to print Re.1 currency notes with effect from January 1, 2015, under the provisions of the Coinage Act,” Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply. The government has, thereby, decided to print 150 million one rupee notes per year, he said. The minister also informed the upper house that printing of Rs.1, 2 and 5 denomination notes were discontinued by the Reserve Bank of India because of the high cost of printing involved. “At present, there is no proposal to issue Rs.2 and 5 denomination notes,” he added.

Chiang Mai/KohiMa, July 30 (MExn): The Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) have urged the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to “immediately halt” the construction of the Mapithel Dam (Thoubal Multipurpose Project) in Manipur, and “immediately decommission” the project. The Dam, “as planned” by the Government of Manipur (GOM) “affects and threatens the very survival of many Scheduled Tribes who solely depend on land and agriculture for their sustenance and livelihood, besides others, and has resulted in the violation of their rights,” noted the two bodies in a joint letter to the Prime Minister. It was signed by Joan Carling, SecretaryGeneral of AIPP and Neingulo Krome, Secretary-General of NPMHR. Copies of the letter have been sent to Jual Oram, Union Minster of Tribal Affairs, Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava, Union Minister of State (Tribal Affairs), the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. The letter has been endorsed by 95 individuals from 27 countries and 10 organisations based in 8 countries. It also demanded the “immediate withdrawal” and stopping militarisation of the area. It asked the Government of India to “respect” the right to Free Prior Informed Consent of the affected villagers “who have already articulated their opposition to the dam construction.” The letter also urged the PM to “urgently address” the “holistic needs” of those whose houses are submerged and are going to be submerged “as top priority.” The letter informed that the Mapithel Dam was approved by the Plan-

An aerial view of Chadong village. The village has been severely affected by rising waters due to the ongoing construction works at the Mapithel Dam project. Photo by Indigenous Perspectives

ning Commission of India in 1980 and was originally scheduled to be completed in 1987. “At its completion, the dam would affect more than 8,000 people in 22 villages,” noted the letter. Moreover, it stated, that the construction of the dam “has been accompanied by widespread militarisation of the area.” “The people who have been defending their rights against the construction, which has come without their free prior and informed consent, has been subjected to torture and illegal detentions. This has given rise to insecurity and fear among the villagers,” the note maintained. The construction of the dam, it informed, started only in the 1990s and “in clear violation of procedural and statutory requirements, the GOM applied for forest and environmental clearance only in 1998, almost two de-

cades after the approval of the project and almost a decade after starting the construction.” Further, the letter stated, while applying for the clearance, “no proper assessment” was done and none of the affected villagers were consulted as mandated by law. “Despite these glaring irregularities, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF) has given final clearance without any site assessments or visits to the affected areas. Under the Forest Rights Act and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, diversion of forestland without recognition of rights and consent of the villages is a crime. The actions of the GOM and the MOEF are also in direct violation of the Supreme Court’s order in Orissa Mining Corporation vs. Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ors. (the Vedanta case),” maintained the organisations

and individuals. It was also stated that in 1990, an R & R was formulated but “there were widespread protests against it.” Therefore, a Memorandum of Agreed Terms and Conditions (MOATC) was signed between some of the affected villagers and the Government of Manipur in 1993. However, this MOATC did not cover all the affected villages (none of the downstream villages were covered) and was also limited to private landowners within the submergence area. This left out many other villagers whose access to livelihood would be adversely impacted. In 1998, it informed, another R & R was formulated but this again was limited in terms of geographical coverage; only 6 affected villages are covered in this policy document leaving 16 affected villages out of its purview. This led to villagers demanding for a review of

the R & R and in 2008, an Expert Review Committee (ERC) was formed to look into the holistic needs of the affected villagers. “However, before the ERC gave any concrete recommendations, we are informed that the GOM has made it nonfunctional,” alleged the letter. Giving further information, the letter noted that on 10 January 2015, the GOM began filling up portions of the river which had been diverted for the construction of the dam. “This is despite the fact that the rehabilitation and resettlement process for the dam is not completed,” it confirmed. Further, “Many villages directly affected by the dam have not been taken into account and many families of those in the official list of affected are yet to be compensated. The social and economic impact assessment which is a requirement is not properly done yet. The affected peoples have made numerous submissions to the appropriate authorities but have not received any response.” There are also many people are still resisting the dam and refusing any package whatsoever, it stated. Meanwhile, informed the letter, about 20 houses (as of July 23, 2015) have submerged in Chadong including the Church, Community Hall and two school buildings and as the water level rises everyday the neighbouring villages too will be submerged soon. “In spite of such urgency and in complete disregard for the rights of the affected villagers the GOM has not come forward with any aid contrary to its resettlement policy that states that the resettlement plan would be completed 1 (one) year before the completion of the dam. The GOM instead issued notices in local newspapers to Chadong villagers to immediately evacuate the area, which is tantamount to forced eviction,” maintained the letter. It alleged that these facts, prima facie, point to “systematic abuse of power and illegalities committed by the GOM.”

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nlf to meet civil society ‘KMC is still in its nascent & transitional stage’ on the naga issue today our Correspondent Kohima | July 30

KohiMa, July 30 (DiPR): The Speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Chotisuh Sazo has convened the Nagaland Legislature Forum (NLF) consultative meeting with several NGOs on the Naga political issue, to be held on July 31 at 11:00 am. The meeting will be held at the Regional Centre for Excellence in Music & Performing Arts (RCEMPA), Jotsoma. Registration of the NGOs will commence from 10:00am onwards. Five member delegations of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, Naga Hoho, Eastern Naga People’s Organisation, Naga Mothers’ Association, Eastern Naga Women Organisation, Naga Students’ Federation and the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation have been invited. Two member delegations from each tribal hohos have also been requested to attend the meeting, which include the

Angami Public Organisation, Ao Seden, Chakhesang Public Organisation, Chang Khelei Setshang, Khiamniungan Hoho, Konyak Union, Kyong Hoho, Phom People’s Council, Pochury Hoho, Rengma Hoho, Sangtam Likkhum Pumji, Sumi Hoho, Yimchunger Tribal Council and the Zeliangrong Baudi (N). All members of the NLA and the Members of Parliament from Nagaland state have also been requested to attend the meeting. The Chief Minister, TR Zeliang will deliver the keynote address, while Speaker & Convener NLF Chotisuh Sazo will give the welcome address. Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, N Benjamin Newmai has informed that Chief Minister, TR Zeliang will address a press conference with the press & media fraternity on July 31, probably after 2:00 pm.

Expect 11.2 billion population by the end of the century: UN uniTED naTionS, July 30 (aP): Move over: The world’s population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, a new United Nations report says. And there should be 11.2 billion people on Earth by the end of this century. Meanwhile, India’s population is set to pass China’s in size around 2022, according to the report released Wednesday. The population estimates play a huge role as the international community tries to figure out how to slow the danger of global warming, while pursuing the ambitious goals of eliminating both poverty and hunger. The current world population is 7.3 billion. China and India each have more than one billion people. “While the global projections should not be cause for alarm, we must recognize that the concentration of population growth in the poorest countries presents a distinct set of challenges, making it more difficult to eradicate poverty and inequality, to combat hunger and malnutrition, and to expand edu-

cational enrolment and health systems,” John Wilmoth, director of the population division of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said in an email. Nine countries are expected to make up half of the world’s population growth between now and 2050: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the U.S., Indonesia and Ghana. The report says that by 2050 or so, Nigeria will pass the U.S. to have the world’s third-largest population, behind India and China. Africa has the world’s highest rate of population growth. Global aging is also noted. The report says the number of people age 60 and above should more than double by 2050. The report says Europe will lead the way, with more than 34 percent of people there expected to be over 60 years old by 2050. The U.N. report updates previous population estimates with new data from national censuses in 2010 as well as recent health and demographic surveys.

“The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) is still in its nascent & transitional stage and is yet to be a fullfledged Municipality (due to nondevolution of powers & functions),” said KMC Superintendent Zakiekhotuo Kiso in a power point presentation during the visit of the Parliamentary Secretary for Economics & Statistics and Municipal Affairs, R Tohanba to KMC on July 29. The KMC appealed to both the state government and public to cooperate, contribute and empower the urban local bodies with local self governing autonomy in bringing changes in public services and basic developmental activities. Under the 12th Schedule of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, there are 18 Powers and Functions which are to be transferred by the state government departments to the urban local bodies, he said. Subsequently, through a cabinet decision, the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001 was enacted, and notified on October 18, 2001. However, concerned line departments are yet to comply in transferring its powers and functions to the ULBs, Kiso said. Bereft of powers, resources & personnel, the KMC’s functions therefore, is limited basically to only collection and disposal of garbage’s. KMC started its first SWM Awareness Campaign in 2006, under a demo project in collaboration with NPCB & sponsored by CPCB. Since then, KMC along with various agencies, clubs, churches including SIPMIU under UDD, is continuing its propagation of SWM at household levels in all wards. KMC is the first urban local body in the state to introduce cesspool cleaners in 2003. It is also the first urban local bodies to ban using of plastic carry bags, which are less than 40 microns as per Plastic Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2011.

KMC has declared the month of May, each year, as its SWM awareness month since 2010. Under an awareness drive, KMC has initiated an Inter-Ward Cleanliness Competition with running trophies & cash prizes of Rs.50,000, Rs.30,000 & Rs.20,000 for first, second and third positions respectively, since 2011, informed the KMC superintendent. Under SWM awareness, KMC officials visited several countries including South Africa, Thailand, Bahamas, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and Indian cities like Thrissure, Kochi, Gangtok, Aurangabad, Jaipur, New Delhi, Shillong, Gauwahati etc. Under the Demo-Project, KMC has distributed about 18,000 dust bins to citizens in 2006 & about 6,800 under SIPMIU Pilot Project in 2014-15. Under this, the remaining wards/colonies under KMC will be covered for household, schools, colleges and commercial sectors in the 2nd phase. It also distributed free push carts to rag pickers. It has also purchased one JCB, 2 Mini Tipper Trucks, 2 Mahindra Pick Up & Wheel Barrows & Sanitary equipments for KMC Sanitary workers. A documentation report on the demo project was printed out & circulated for sensitization on basic Waste Management. A case study of Kohima waste was also officially surveyed & published by NPCB in 2001. Kohima became the first city in Nagaland to introduce community participation in waste management at the ward level through formation of Ward Sanitation Committees. Under this Project, 19 Tata mobile vehicles were given to all the wards specifically for waste collection purposes, which was sponsored by DPDB, Kohima & State Government. With the introduction of this project about 40 % of waste is being tackled by the Ward Sanitation Committees & 60% managed by KMC, said Kiso. KMC also provides some basic

public utility services like: public transport under the JNNURM project, cesspool service (since 2003), water Tanker service, JCB and garbage collection trucks for individuals/organization etc. Various sanitation structures like Pay and Use Toilets have also been constructed over the years. However, due to the lack of resources and free space within the town this has been a major challenge to the municipality, Kiso said. Although the city wastes are being collected, he said, management has always been a problem due to land availability and basic recycling infrastructures. For this menace, presently KMC is engaging & encouraging some rag pickers under its re-cycling drive by providing them some protection and assistance. Through the ADB-aided projects, various projects for efficient & scientific ways in management of wastes in the state capital are under implementation through SIPMIU, Kohima, which is an implementing agency with UDD as the nodal department. He also stated that a project on scientific landfill at Lerie is ongoing for scientific management of wastes along with a Re-cycling Plant for dry wastes. Meanwhile, a house-mapping drive under KMC jurisdiction is under implementation through the Implementing agency of ADB- aided project, SIPMIU, providing better planning/ services of Urban Utilities to its citizen, 95% i.e. About 20,000 household is completed. Kiso also revealed that the KMC will be launching its website within a week’s time. Among others, the website will feature KMC e-newsletter and Online Public Grievances Cell. Meanwhile, the KMC has urged co operation from all citizens for better urban facilities and waste management and towards a sustainable environment of growth in Kohima.

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The District Tobacco Control Cell (NTCP), Kohima today added another feather to its cap on tobacco control programme by certifying KROS College as the ‘free tobacco campus.’ With this, the KROS College, located at Lerie, Kohima figured as the first college in Nagaland to have declared as the first “free tobacco campus” in the state. A certificate in this connection was handover to the college authority by District Tobacco Control Cell (NTCP), Kohima. Meanwhile, the Antitobacco Cell, KROS College and Tobacco Control Cell, Health & Family Welfare today conducted community awareness programme on tobacco control “Choose life not tobacco” here at Lerie Panchayat Hall. Dr. H. Hotokhu Chishi, joint director, State Nodal Officer (NTCP), Directorate of Health& Family Welfare, Nagaland while touching on tobacco related referral cases of oral cancer in Nagaland, stated that a total of 243 tobacco related precancerous cases had been detected in Nagaland during the last three years (2007- 27 cases, 2008- 120 and 2009- 96) out of 99, 237

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KROS College is now ‘Free Tobacco Campus’ Nyaknyulum celebrated Our Correspondent

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Resource persons with faculty of KROS college, Lerie Panchayat, GBs and others during the community awareness programme on tobacco control on July 30 in Kohima. (Morung Photo)

total number of registered patients. He informed that 115 tobacco related oral cancerous cases have been confirmed and referred outside the state. Dr. Chishi said India has the largest number of oral cancer in the world and 40% of all cancers in India are due to tobacco. In the world, 90% of oral cancers are due to tobacco use. Dr. Chishi said one million of Indians die every year due to tobacco and 2200 Indians die every day due to tobacco use. In 2010 alone, nearly 1 million

Indians died due to smoking. He also informed the gathering that there are 1 billion smokers in the world and globally tobacco kills 5.4 million people every year. Dr. Chishi also called upon the youth to inculcate tobacco free lifestyle and become anti-tobacco activist. He also asked them to participate in tobacco control implementation and update knowledge on tobacco control laws. Dr. Arenla Walling, District Nodal Officer, District Tobacco Control Cell (NTCP), Kohima talked

on implementation of COTPA 2013. Under Section 4 of COTPA, she said, it ban smoking in public places which include- government buildings, public transport, hotels, restaurants, parks, hospitals, school libraries, auditoriums, railway station, work places, cinema halls, discotheques, airport lounges, prison etc. COTPA also ban on all forms of direct and indirect advertisement of tobacco products under Section 5. Under Section 6, it bans sale of tobacco products

to and by minor below 21 years and also ban on sale of tobacco and tobacco product within 100 yards of educational institutions. Dr. Walling also talked on Section 7, which deal with depiction of specified health warning on tobacco packages. The function was led by Keliihol Tase, lecturer, i/c of anti -tobacco campaign, KROS College while welcome address was delivered by Imsuinla Imti, principal KROS College. Vote of thanks was proposed by Shikato.

New YaoNgYimti (mokokchuNg), JulY 30 (mexN): Nyaknyulum, the premier festival of the Chang Naga community was celebrated with much pomp and gaiety at Yaongyimti (New) village with Dr Supongmeren Atsongchanger, Senior Specialist Department of H&FW as the chief guest. New Yaongyimti village, which falls under the Chuchuyimlang EAC HQ, is located some thirty kilometers away from Mokokchung town. The chief guest, Dr Supongmeren Atsongchanger, while speaking at the function, on the need to preserve our cultural practices and the rich heritage of our forefathers. While dwelling on the significance of the Nyaknyulum festival, Dr Supongmeren asserted that as Nyaknyulum signifies the triumph of light over darkness, he asked the present generation to take the Nyaknyulum festival to indicate towards enlightenment especially through Christianity and education. In this regard, he underscored the importance of education and said that education does not only mean book knowledge, but the knowledge gained from the elders, the parents etc.

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Chief guest Dr Supongmeren Atsongchanger, Sr Specialist Department of H&FW being felicitated at the Nyaknyulum festival at New Yaongyimti village on July 30. (Morung Photo)

Therefore, the chief guest asked the participants - especially the youths - to take education seriously so that the society can get from darkness to light as the festival of Nyaknyulum signifies. The chief guest was accompanied by Addl SP Mokokchung, Yanrenthung Ngullie (NCS) and other government officials and public leaders who partook at the grand celebration. The guest of honor, Aokumba – Personal Secretary to Parliamentary Secretary S Chuba (who is the representative from the constituency) – highly appreciated the youths of Yaongyimti New village for organizing such a grand Nyaknyulum programme.

While appreciating the youth for taking the initiative, the guest of honor asserted that the youths have to work as a bridge in different walks of life. The Pastor of Yaongyimti (New) Baptist Church invoked God’s blessings at the programme while the Village Council chairman welcomed the guests and participants. The significance of Nyaknyulum was delivered by N Chipen (in Chang dialect) and C Hongsa (in English). There was an “extravaganza of the festival” where the women men and womenfolk of Yaongyimti (New) presented different traditional items signifying the Nyaknyulum festival.

Population stabilization prog in Peren concludes PereN, JulY 30 (mexN): Population stabilization fortnight activity was launched on July 13 and successfully carried out till July 24 in Peren District. Fortnight Family planning camp was held at District Hospital Peren, CHC Jalukie, Athibung PHC, Tening PHC, Azailong PHC, Ntuma PHC, Mbaulwa PHC, Dungki PHC, Heningkunglwa PHC, Poilwa PHC, Bongkolong SC, Mhainamtsi SC, Samzuiram SC and Gaili SC. A press release issued by Pezanguno Celine Secii CMO Office, Peren said that publicity was made through mike and announcements were made through the church platform in the District and in the block level. Banners were placed block wise to create awareness. IEC personnel and ASHA coordinators conducted focus group discussion in

36 villages on Family Planning. IEC materials leaflets, posters and DVD’s on Documentaries and PSA’s were distributed to all the mentioned Health units. Dr. Ngangshimeren, CMO, Dr. Tiala, Dy. CMO and Dr. Khrielasanuo, District Program Officer DPO UIP/ RCH also carried out Monitoring and supervision to the Health Units. The Medical Officers and Nurses carried out counselling in their respective Health units. ASHA’s conducted Inter personnel communication in all the villages for intensive awareness at the grass root level. During the camp condoms, oral pills and emergency pills were distributed. A total of 11 laparoscopic ligation (permanent method) and 41 IUCD (temporary method) family planning services was performed during the Fortnight.

petition and hence only not be considered for kohima, JulY 30 short films should be this contest. If found (mexN): National level submitted, no doculater, will be disqualishort film competition on mentaries. The entries fied for the contest/ Voluntary Blood Donacan be short digital aniprize withheld. tion is being organized by mation films too on the 5. The films may be shot in Friends2support.org in topic. MPEG4 or AVI format. association with National The recommended raBlood Transfusion Council 2. The duration of the film shall not be more than tios are 16:9/16:9 Full (NBTC), Ministry of Health 3 (three) minutes (180 Height Anamorphic-in and Family Welfare, Govseconds), including the DV/HDV. ernment of India. beginning and end cred- 6. The participants need to Interested candidates its. Films exceeding this apply online first filling are encouraged to particitime limit are liable to be the prescribed form on pate in this competition. rejected. The minimum www.friends2support. Last date of entries submislength should be 30 secorg/shortfilm to get a sion is August 31. No entry onds including credit. unique code. The code fee required. must be mentioned on The grand prize for 3. The film should have been shot/completed the DVD to be sent to the winner are as follows: after 1st January 2015. Friends To Support, HyFirst 1,00,000; Second: INR derabad office and for 50,000; Third: INR 25,000. 4. The short films may be in their original lanfuture reference. The event will be held at A section of the paddy field destroyed by rainfall at Thezo village under Phek district. guage, but must be subHyderabad on October 1. titled in English. Films For more information P h e k , J u lY 3 0 fected paddy fields and Contractor M/s. V. Khamo submitted previously and queries, log in to www. Rules and Regulations: (mexN): The incessant irrigational channel own- who in the process of NEC to any other festival will friends2support.org. 1. This is a short film comers” , the chairman has apRoad development has rainfall during the last few days has caused massive peal to the “district author- dumped earth in an unselandslide in many part of ity, authority concerned cured area without proper the State mostly destroying and responsible Firm/ consultation/permission paddy fields and cutting Contractor M/s. V. Khamo from the village authority.” to take stock of the situ“As such, consequent down road connections. Reporting of landslide, ation for immediate re- upon this a manmade disaster, the affected owners kohima, JulY 30 (mexN): The DepartZapami Village chairman, dressal.” The chairman also are now left in high distress ment of Health & Family Welfare with the KoKedunyi Khutsoh informed that incidents oc- added in the press note needing immediate help,” hima Village Youth Organization (KVYO) is curred on July 17 at Meth- that along with rain- said the Village Chairman jointly organizing a Healthy Lifestyle Camp ari and on July 24 at Thezo fall, the landslides were while appealing the re- on August 1 at Kohima Village Panchayat Hall. and Thezuku at Zapami caused “due to negligence sponsible authorities to All are requested to come and avail the servillage under Phek district. and haphazard dumping make immediate interven- vices during the Health Camp from 9:30 AM. • As part of the camp, a morning walk at 7 On behalf of the “badly af- of earth by the said Firm/ tion for relief measures. AM is scheduled prior to the launching program at 7:30 AM on August 1. Any individual is requested to come and take part as a step towards positive and healthy lifestyle in staying physically active and prevention from chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, hypertension & stroke. • Services like measurement of BMI, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, etc, physical checkup, management of NCD cases, physiotherapy, counselling on healthy living, etc will be provided. The general public is re- Tagnyu village under Tuensang district is almost on the verge of a crisis in case the state government does not alarm itself. The incessant rainfall from July 23-25 has decimated the only road quested to take this opportunity and get link to Tagnyu village. The road has been completely destroyed beyond recognition. The people free health benefit and free medicines dur- of the village are without electricity and mobile connectivity and the closest road head is 11 kms ing the camp. away at Yimpong. (Photo courtesy/Yanick Martins)

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Appeal to avail free services during healthy lifestyle camp

Unity Village SBA conducts Vacation Bible School

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DimaPur, JulY 30 (mexN): The Unity Village Sümi Baptist Akukuhou conducted Vacation Bible School from July 15 to 19. The VBS theme for this year was based on ‘Triumph Always’ a syllabus prepared by the SIBS Ministries, Bangalore. Unity Village SBA Asso-

ciate Pastor Children Katoli K. Shohe in a press release stated that other devotional sub-themes including ‘Triumph over insecurity’, ‘Triumph over evil ways of the world’, ‘Triumph in Witnessing’ and ‘The Triumphant Reward’ were taught to the students.

Special classes like ‘Izatsa’ were taken by Inato Shikhu, Editor of the Sümi Zümülhu, ‘Gods’ Commandments’ by Gloria Tokali, a counselor by profession and ‘Work Culture’ by Atheli Zhimo, Director SiZero Events. The highlights of the

VBS included praise and worship, devotion, classes, activities, art class, sharing manna and so on. The first four days of the VBS were dedicated in teaching and training the students and it concluded with the Sunday devotional service where the participating

students were given away certificates for completing the course. The total enrolment for this year’s VBS was about 300 students. Apart from the regular Sunday School Teachers, youths in the village helped in conducting the VBS classes.

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Rivers overflowing, many While India mourns, Gogoi dances villages flooded in Manipur

Guwahati. July 30 (aGencies): Even as the entire nation was mourning the demise of "People's President" APJ Abdul Kalam, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi courted controversy by dancing at a tea estate. He was vehemently criticised for the act, forcing him to apologise later for displaying insensitivity. The chief minister was on a visit to a tea estate in upper Assam's Kaziranga, where he was dancing 'jhumoor' (a traditional dance) along with two girls of the tea tribe community. The footage, shown on many TV channels, went viral, triggering severe criticism that Gogoi allegedly breached protocol with his dance act at a time when the nation was observing a seven-day mourning. Taking a dim view of Gogoi's insensitive act, Sammujjal Bhattacharjya, adviser to the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), said it was 'shocking' and deserves to be 'condemned'. Assam BJP president Siddhartha Bhattacharya called it a 'shameful' act and was unbecoming of a chief minister. The Opposition lambasted Gogoi for not showing respect to the former President. "On Saturday, Gogoi lost his close friend and former Union minister BK Handique and,

Assam Innovation Centre to be named after Abdul Kalam

Our Correspondent Imphal | July 30

Many villages in Thoubal and Chandel districts of Manipur state have been flooded due to incessant rainfall in the past few days that led to the rise of water levels of almost all rivers on Thursday. Overflowed Sengmai river water inundated many homes and paddy fields disrupting normal life in many villages in Pallel and adjacent Thoubal district. Villagers had to flee to safer places as heavy monsoon rainfall continued to lash almost the entire state today, resulting in rising water level of major rivers including Imphal, Iril,

due to swollen river water. Wangjing river, a tributary of Thoubal River, has breached a bank stretch at Tentha Khunou leaving several villages and around 3,000 paris of paddy fields inundated. The flood waters continued to spread and submerge many adjoining villages. In Churachandpur, more than 200 homes on the Khuga river bank were displaced after a flash flood hit on July 23. The situation in the villages of Down Town Tuibong, Zomunnuam, Kamdou Veng and New Zoveng is still grim following the flood. Reports said the Khuga Dam water level is also swelling.

Guwahati, July 30 (aGencies): The Assam government on Thursday announced its decision to set up a Centre for Innovation after the name of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, chief minister Tarun Gogoi said. Gogoi said the proposed APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Innovation would help to engage young minds of Assam as well as other states of the North-eastern region in carrying out exercises in entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. “The proposed Centre named after the great scientist, super human being and a teacher par excellence would help to ignite the young minds towards entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity, thus helping to transform the lives of the common man and bringing smiles on their faces,” chief minis- imphal, July 30 ple-growing village. Since High School, Th Haupu Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi at the event in Hatikhuli tea estate at Kaziranga. ter Gogoi in a press release added. (tnn): Bunglon, a sleepy 2006, the school has been Gangte, talked about Ka(UB Photos) tribal hamlet in Manipur's celebrating October 16 as lam's visit to the school. Later, member of Khousabung on Monday, we lost our flashed across local TV this," ABP Live referred to version, saying no formal Churachandpur district, 'Dr Kalam's Day'. As news of Kalam's de- autonomous district council former President. Here is a channels. Later, a candid a newspaper that quoted 'jhumoor' dancing troupe joined the nation in mourning the death of former pres- mise reached, villagers Seilienmang and retired AI, was arranged. chief minister who is busy Gogoi said, "I did a mistake him as saying. gathered to mourn. "We still school administrative sec"Two girls tradition- ident APJ Abdul Kalam. But he still defended dancing and playing golf," by dancing at a function. For the youngsters of remember his visit to the retary S Lalpu issued conI should not have done it playing golf at the tea es- ally dressed had applied a said Bhattacharya. After dancing at the when we are mourning APJ tate, saying, "playing games tilak on his forehead and Bunglon and nearby vil- school. Through the two dolence messages. Many then bowed down to touch lages, especially students units gifted by him, a large students were seen to break inaugural function of an Abdul Kalam's unfortunate was not wrong." Incidentally, Gogoi's his feet. The Chief Minis- of the local Bunglon High number of students in Bun- down. Students, parents, vilamalgamated plantation death. I apologize for this. hospital at Hatikhuli in Go- Playing golf wasn't enjoy- close friend and veter- ter then in a spontaneous School, Kalam was an icon glon and nearby villages ac- lage chiefs, leaders of local an Congress leader B.K. act just danced a couple of who transformed their quired basic computer skills," clubs and ex-students who laghat district, Gogoi, an ment though." had met Kalam in 2006 ob"I was should not have Handique had passed away steps. The channels which dream of computer litera- said H G Gangte, a villager. avid golfer, opened a golf During Tuesday's con- served two minutes' silence showed the CM dancing, cy into reality. On October course at the new Misa danced. I had forgotten for four days ago. The tea garden man- never showed an entire 16, 2006, Kalam had visited dolence meet, the current as a mark of respect for the Club by teeing off. Imme- a moment about Kalam's the school on the invitation headmaster of Bunglon departed scientist. diately, the images were death and I apologis for agement had a different group of dancers." of the then headmaster Gin Gangte. Much to the delight of the students, school authorities and villagers, the 'Missile Man' had giftKOlKata, July 30 middlemen and retailers Our partnership with gov- ed a computer center and (et): Flipkart will soon in this industry make 4-5 ernment bodies such as a science laboratory to the start offering Indian re- times margin over the cost textile ministry and Devel- school. The computer cenHEPATITIS B & C Screening 72 hours. gional craft, art and handi- price of the artisans. We opment Commissioner of Chief Minister Mama- craft consumer products aim to break this by remov- Handlooms is helping us tre had ten terminals. From 28th July 2015 till 4th August 2015 The former President's ta Banerjee who cut short on its platform under the ing the middleman. The ar- to get artisans as sellers," Time : 10:00 am to 2:00 pm unexpected visit had also her five day Britain visit India Art House brand. tisans will sell directly here said Nagori. forced the state governPlace : Zion Hospital and Research Centre. and rushed back to KolFlipkart will sell wood The firm will initially of- and we would retain only a kata, said 26,000 people fer 10,000 such products from small per cent of the selling carving products from Sa- ment to develop the apFor further information, kindly contact the Reception: have been shifted to relief 100 sellers in 15 cities and price as commission," said haranpur; block printing proach road to this pineap 03862-227337, 224117 camps while state Disas- towns, chief business officer Nagori. and marble artifacts from ter Management Minister Ankit Nagori said. 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While 80-90 per handloom weaves from been sounded in all the dis- pay a premium on handi- cent of the products will be West Bengal; and MadhuEvaluation, Learning and Documentation of watershed tricts of south Bengal and craft and traditional art in the home segment, the bani painting from Bihar, development projects in Nagaland we are all prepared to tack- and craft products since balance will be in fashion. among others. le any emergency. So far we Requirement – Agronomy /Agriculture Expert (Based at Dimapur, Regional have received reports of 12 Office) deaths from across the state Eligibility - Graduate in relevant discipline with at least 3 years of experience. due to the flooding over the past few days," he said. Experience of having worked for at least 3years in livelihood sector preferred. Khan said relief camps new Delhi, July 30 Development and Ganga uisite powers which may be The organisation reserves the right to relax the eligibility norms to such extent and have been set up in the af- (pti): The central gov- Rejuvenation Sanwar Lal Jat necessary or expedient for subject to such conditions as it may consider necessary in a just and equitable fected areas across south ernment is considering a said in a written reply in the the purpose of performing manner. and northern Bengal and proposal to restructure the Rajya Sabha to a question by its functions for effective Candidates applying for the above post to indicate their present and expected disaster management per- Brahmaputra Board into BJP MP from Guwahati Bi- management and development of water resources in sonnel were working at war the North East and Brah- joya Chakravarty. salary. Recruitment for these posts are project based and on contract basis. "It is proposed that the the northeast and the Brahfooting to carry out rescue maputra River RejuvenaInterested candidates may mail their CV/resume to dimapur@nabcons.in tion Authority (NEBRRA), a authority shall have the req- maputra basin," he said. and relief work. by 14 August, 2015. Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview. "Our priority is to pro- minister said on Thursday. "The proposal to restrucvide relief to stranded people and carry on with ture the board into is under rescue operations. So far consultation with the state 26,000 people have been governments concerned shifted to relief camps," Ba- and the central government nerjee told media persons ministries," Minister of State for Water Resources, River at the city airport.

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Thoubal and Sekmai rivers. Reports said Chandel district headquarters has also been flooded wreaking havoc in many villages. Overflowed waters from the river Chakpi inundated many villages in the district headquarters. The water level of Chakpi River is also increasing due to incessant rainfall. Villagers have been stuck in flooded areas and many of them have been displaced. Flood affected villagers in Thoubal and Chandel have appealed to the Government to tackle the situation and provide relief materials. Meanwhile, the Heirok Bridge over the Thoubal River has been collapsed

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structure that we have," Shrivastava said. "But we have optical fibre network almost to the tune of 700,000 kilometres countrywide. The natural thing that comes to us is to utilise these resources. Then we found wi-fi is the new technology that is coming and taking on 4G area," he added. "So Wi-Fi became our obvious choice." The chairman explained that earlier the company was not investing on wi-fi roll-out and opting, instead, for a revenue sharing model with private players. "We floated expression of interest through which we asked private parties to install the wi-fi hotspots, maintain it for five years and manage the sales and marketing functions as well. We

at BSNL provide the backhaul connectivity through optic fibre -- at 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps," he said. The ballpark investment to construct five wifi hotspots in one place is around Rs.10 lakh. Shrivastava also expressed optimism that capital employed on wi-fi operations will be realised soon. "But for that, we have to reach certain threshold. The moment we complete this year's target of 250 locations, the revenue stream will start ploughing the investments back." Talking about BSNL's inherent strengths, notably as a landline service, Shrivastava said in the next twothree years even rural exchanges will become next generation network NGN) exchanges.

service experience – thus building a world-class 4G network infrastructure in these cities. Commenting on the launch of Airtel 4G trials in the city, Saurabh Goel, CEO – Assam and North East, Bharti Airtel Limited said, “As customers in India show an increasing propensity for consuming data services, we at Airtel are excited to take the lead in introducing the market to the power of blazing 4G speeds. Today, as we launch Airtel 4G trials for our existing

customers in Shillong, they will be uniquely positioned for a superlative 4G experience. We are committed to building a world class 4G network in the region”. Aimed at transitioning more and more customers to superfast 4G experience, Airtel has also announced go-to-market partnerships with Samsung and Flipkart for 4G devices. Select retail stores of Samsung India will shortly facilitate easy Airtel 4G SIM swap for customers buying 4G smartphones.

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that," he said, adding: "For our initiative with the private sector, we have set a target of 250 locations in 201516 with 2,500 hotspots." A Wi-Fi hotspot offers clients access to the Internet over a wireless local area network. The company has already rolled out Wi-Fi hotspots in 70-75 locations in the country. But these have not been fully deployed by BSNL. The state-run firm has roped in private players for the majority of the work. "When we did an analysis of BSNL, we found that we neither have 4G licence nor the money to buy spectrum. Yet we knew that 4G will be the in-thing for the future generation. We also realised that our biggest strength is the landline

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new Delhi, July 30 (iAnS): State-run telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will invest Rs.6,000 crore over the next three years to set up some 40,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country, its chairman-cummanaging director Anupam Shrivastava has said. "We are now thinking of rolling out wi-fi hotspot through capital expenditure model also. We are in the process of having our tender ready. We will be floating our tender and put our own equipment. We will be doing everything," Shrivastava told IANS in an interview. "We have a targeted to have 40,000 wi-fi hotspots in course of next A WAKE-UP CALL three years. We will be in• Around 2,000 cell sites vesting Rs.6,000 crore for have been closed in the last few months, with as many as 513 in Delhi itself • Industry veterans say in order to service the traffic Shillong, July 30 in Lutyens Delhi, at least (AgencieS): Bharti 210 cell sites are needed, Airtel Limited (“Bharti but currently only 110 Airtel”), a leading global sites are available telecommunications com• The 2013 guidelines de- pany with operations in 20 clared mobile commu- countries across Asia and nication an essential Africa, today launched 4G service and sealing of trials exclusively for its cusbase transceiver station tomers in Shillong. towers/disconnection Airtel 4G enables suof electricity may not be perfast internet speeds and resorted to without con- allows customers to enjoy sent capabilities like high defi• The guidelines on clear- nition video streaming with ance and setting up mo- zero buffering, downloadbile towers had been fi- ing up to 10 movies in less nalised for all states on than 30 minutes, uploadApril 16, 2013 ing entire photo albums in

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Struck by exceptional item charge of Rs 451.6 crore on account of withdrawal of stocks of Maggi noodles, Nestle India on Wednesday reported a net loss of Rs 64.40 crore for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015, — its first quarterly loss in at least 17 years. This comes on the back of a net profit of Rs 287.8 crore in the corresponding quarter last year and a profit of Rs 320 crore in the previous quarter ended March 2015. While Maggi accounts for close to 20 per cent of Nestle India’s revenue, Suresh Narayanan, MD, Nestle India, said that the company is doing everything to get Maggi back on the shelves. “Nestle India is making all efforts and will continue to engage with authorities to bring Maggi noodles back on the shelves,” said Narayanan. Maggi row has not only impacted the profits but also the revenue of the firm. Nestle India reported 20.1 per cent decline in net overall sales during the quarter. Stating the reason, the company said, “It is largely due to the impact of the Maggi noodles issue. Net domestic sales decreased by 20.6 per cent.” This comes as a setback to the firm that registered record profits in the last few DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:

quarters. While the company’s net profit crossed Rs 300 crore mark for the first time in September 2014, it hit an all-time high of Rs 326 crore in December. Quantifying the loss Nestle said, “In addition to loss of sales from the business disruption, ‘net sales’ worth Rs 288.4 crore has been reversed during the quarter in relation to Maggi noodle stocks already sold and withdrawn from the market.” It also said that the exceptional item relates to loss on account of stocks withdrawn. Earlier, in June this year the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) banned the sale of Maggi noodles saying it was “unsafe and hazardous” for human consumption after finding lead beyond permissible limit and presence of taste enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG). It is also important to note that the ‘prepared dishes and cooking aids (PDCA)’ segment (that mostly comprise Maggi) that contributes close to 30 per cent of the revenue for Nestle India has been the only volume driver for the company. For the year ended December 2014, while the gross sales quantity (in metric tonne) for Nestle in India contracted 0.6 per cent over that in 2013, the PDCA segment witnessed sales quantity rise 3.7 per cent.

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ACAUT condemns Wuzu killing Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): ACAUT Nagaland has condemned the killing of two school children and the injury of one woman, by the Assam Rifles in “unprovoked firing” at Wuzu Village under Meluri Subdivision on July 16. In a statement from the Media Cell, ACAUT Nagaland refuted the statement of the Assam Rifles blaming the innocent public and NSCN-K for the mayhem and termed it “unacceptable.” ACAUT reasoned that eyewitness accounts and reports by various organisations “clearly state” that there was no provocation from the public or the

NSCN (K). “When the villagers had only peacefully gathered to request the commanding officer Major Surinder Singh to hand over of the dead body of the NSCN (K) cadre to the villagers for burial, it is sheer cowardice that the Assam Rifles should have fired, whether pre-mediated or in panic, thereby, painfully costing the lives of innocent children,” ACAUT stated. Instead of dealing with the issue humanely, the army squarely blaming the villagers and NSCN (K) for the killings had deepened the emotional wounds further, ACAUT maintained.

tence, observed that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt. The court took into consideration the fact that the victim was his own stepdaughter, and observed that such heinous demonic behavior perpetuated under life threats after sending away two other younger children was “intentional” and “unbecoming” of a stepfather of 24 years. Such matured and married person does not deserve leniency, the court noted.

65 cases of IMFL recovered Kohima, July 30 (mExN): Personnel of Khuzama PS on receipt of information of a truck unloading liquor at a stone crusher located near Phesama Village on Thursday morning, rushed to the spot and recovered 65 cases of assorted IMFL. According to a press release from Kohima Sub – Divisional Police Officer & PRO, the assorted liquor comprising 39 cases of MC Dowel Rum, 4 cases of Officer Choice Blue, 3 cases MC Dowell Whisky

and 19 cases of Kingfisher Beer was recovered from the truck bearing registration No. AS-01GC-0992, Cha ssi s No. M AT457056F7A00044, Engine No. 497TC44PVY842878. Two persons identified as Raju Khaul (23 yrs), driver of the truck, and Amar Nath (24 yrs), a resident of Signal Bosti, Dimapur, were arrested for possession and transportation of the banned IMFL. A regular case under the NLTP Act is registered against the arrested persons.

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Calls for transparency in PMEGP selection WoKha, July 30 (mExN): Organisations from Wokha have strongly appealed for transparency in the selection of candidates in the ongoing Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) interview. The appeal was made following a joint meeting held on July 29 at Hotel Hornbill, Wokha. The meeting was initiated by Lotha Youth Hoho and participated by Lotha Hoho, Kyong Students’ Union, Wokha

District Entrepreneurs’ Association (WDEA), Team Metamorphosis and Kyong Youth Initiative. The members present after thorough deliberation on the PMEGP interview scheduled for July 30 and 31 strongly appealed to the selection committee/board to maintain transparency in the selection process. It also urged the committee to recommend only the genuine unemployed deserving applicants. “So far, any benefit(s)

and aid(s)/scheme(s) provided by the government agencies have not trickled down to the deserving unemployed individuals in the district. And therefore, the frontal NGOs no longer will stand and watch such practice of corruption whether intended or otherwise by any individual or groups,” a joint statement from the Lotha Hoho, Lotha Youth Hoho, Kyong Students’ Union, WDEA, Kyong Youth Initiative, Team Metamorphosis, ACAUT

23 'comrades' join NSCN (IM)

Rape accused gets 10 years RI Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): The District and Sessions Court, Dimapur, today convicted a rape accused and sentenced him to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. According to a press release from M. Glory Sema, Panel Advocate, DDLSA, Dimapur, the court passed the sentence on Mithun Prasad, who is accused to have raped his minor step daughter of 11 years on May 2, 2012. Neiko Kanuo, Ld. Judge, passing the sen-

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Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): NSCN (IM) has informed that 23 “comrades” have joined the “revolutionary mainstream.” Appreciating and salutSl/No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Name Toiho Achumi Zhukiye Awomi Nagato Yeptho Ahoyi Assumi Khumong Meyo Lhowoto Zhimomi Kiniho Kinimi Kheshito Ayemi Nagato Assumi Hevuto Jimo Vihoto yeptho Katoho Shohe Kakugha K. Sumi Phushito Awomi Khukugha Muru Kiyezhe Assumi Vihoto Aye Samuel Yimchunger Hokiye Aye Izheto Sumi V. Tokikhe Aye 2nd Lieut. Kaviho Aye Otto Tuccu

ing their “right decision,” a press release from the MIP further extended welcome with much prayer and wished them the best “as we henceforth shall fight Region UT-1 UT-I UT-1 UT-I Khiamniungan UT-1 UT-I UT-I UT-I UT-I UT-I UT-I Sumi UT-I UT-I UT-I UT-I UT-1 UT-1 UT-1 UT-1 UT-1 UT-1

together for our inalienable rights.” Following are the names and ranks of those who have join NSCN/ GPRN:

Group NNC N/A NSCN-U NNC N/A NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN U NNC N/A NNC N/A NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN(U) NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN-U NSCN U NSCN (U) NNC(NA) NSCN-U FGN NSCN-(U)

Designation Kilonser Dy. Kilonser Tatar Tatar Tatar Leacy Leacy Leacy Leacy Leacy Leacy Leacy Leacy Razou Peyu Razou Peyu Razou Peyu Razou Peyu Razou Peyu Razou peyu Razou Peyu Razou Peyu 2nd Lieutenant S.O

Wokha Unit, maintained. The organisations also urged the Selection Committee/Board to verify documents and project liability. “On failure to implement the stated demands put forth, the house resolve not to co-operate even if further misunderstanding arises and will make its stand clear voicing out strongly for the deserving applicants, until justice be brought as per the demand,” the organisations warned.

Deploy teachers based on linguistic location: WSSU Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): The Western Sumi Students’ Union (WSSU) has called for deploying primary teachers to primary schools based on linguistic location in the state. WSSU in a press release stated that it has been observed that the school education department is avoiding these important laid rules while deploying PTs “especially in Sumi village primary schools particularly under WSSU jurisdiction.” “WSSU being an apex student organisation shall not accept any such teachers deployed who are non conversant to our mother tongue,” the student union stated. In this regard, WSSU informed that it has already directed its unit and subunits not to accept any deployed or newly appointed teachers to primary schools who are deployed or appointed without following linguistic norms. “WSSU shall not be held responsible should there be any fallouts on the part of the department related to this matter,” the student body cautioned.

CoNDoleNCe K. thEriE: Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee President, K. Therie, has expressed shock to learn of the passing of Velaho Puro of Kikrüma who passed away on July 29. “He was a strong believer of Congress' ideologies and principles and associated with Congress through the most difficult

With a view to provide firsthand experience and re-enforce classroom knowledge, Christian Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, undertook an educational tour to Kolkata from July 19 to 25. A total of 33 students from High School section and Eco-Club members along with 3 teachers visited the Science City, Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, St. Paul Cathedral, Nicco Park, Missionaries of Charity and Digha Beach in Bay of Bengal.

times in shaping Nagaland State,” the NPCC president stated in a condolence message. Late Velaho led an exemplarily humble life, Therie stated before adding, “In the loss of Late Velaho, we have lost a friend and a councillor. Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee acknowledges his meaningful life and

joins his family members in mourning.” “I have faith that he will now rest with the Lord Almighty God in whom we believe,” Therie stated. Extending condolences, Therie prayed that God grant the bereaved family members strength and comfort to tide over this difficult time.

Agriculture Dept kicks off NeGP-A Kohima, July 30 (mExN): The kick-off programme of the National eGovernance Plan – Agriculture (NeGP-A) for Agriculture Department was held at the Directorate Conference Hall, Kohima on July 29 under the chairperson of Rongseninla, Joint Director of Agriculture.

According to a press release from the Information and Publicity wing, Directorate of Agriculture, a powerpoint presentation on “Overview of NeGP-A and project implementation plan” was given by Alongla Aier, SPMU, and was followed by interactions with

Agri-allied Departments viz., SASARD Medziphema, Horticulture, Fishery and other Department officials. State Informatics Officer NIC (Nagaland) was also present on the occasion. Earlier, the introductory speech was delivered by Bendangyanger, Director of Agriculture.

KVK Longleng trains practicing farmers loNglENg, July 30 (mExN): One day training for practicing farmers was organised by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Longleng, ICAR Jharnapani on July 28 at KVK office premises. Altogether twenty farmwomen from Dunkhao and Orangkong village atA retaining wall of KROS College, Lerie, Kohima affected due to incessant rainfall in the past few weeks. Morung Photo

tended the training. During the training, Dr. Patu Khate Zeliang, SMS (Plant Breeding) delivered a lecture on ‘Commercial importance of pulses cultivation in Longleng.’ Dr. P. Chowdhury, SMS (Soil & Water Conservation Engg.) delivered lecture on ‘Low

cost micro irrigation in Hill Agriculture.’ He depicted different methods of low cost micro irrigation systems and their advantages. Thungchano S. Ezung, Programme Assistant (Home Science) delivered a hands on lecture on ‘Beverage Processing for their commercial use.’

Dimapur-II & III A/C Congress appeals

Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): The Assembly Constituency Congress Committee (ACCC) of Dimapur-II and Dimapur-III have appealed to the District Congress Committee (DCC), Dimapur for revocation of suspension of Dimapur-II and Dimapur-III Assembly Constituency. In a joint statement, S.I. Tangit, president ACCC Dimapur-II and Wati Walling, president ACCC DimapurIII stated that the two assembly constituencies have never involved in any antiThe state capital Kohima has been facing violent windstorm for the past four days. Bill- Congress party activities boards and banners along the road sides and roof top are the worst affected. Morung Photo whatsoever. The presidents

also maintained that the two units have not disobeyed the AICC and NPCC order with regards to party discipline and principles. Clarifying to the higher ups in the Congress party, Tangit stated that the intention of signature campaign of the party workers of Dimapur-II A/C was solely to show the strength and unity of the party within the constituency and not for any other motive against the interest of the party. On rumours of Youth Congress of Dimapur-III conducting signature campaign, Walling clarified that

the Youth Congress of Dimapur-III have not conducted a signature campaign of any kind or involved themselves in anti-party activities. The two presidents asserted that the Congress party in the whole of the two assembly constituencies have upheld the ideology and principles of the party and added that it would continue to do so. The two presidents maintained that some individuals with vested interest have been trying to create confusion and misunderstanding between party high level and party at A/C level.

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MEx FILE No water supply in Dimapur Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): Consumers of Water Supply PHED Dimapur are informed that due to sudden breakage of 400 mm dia main supply line at Chumukedima, there will be no water supply till the damage is repaired. A press release from the Executive Engineer PHED Urban Division further informed that PHED officers and staff are making all efforts to rectify the same at the earliest possible time. Hence consumers are requested to bear with the department.

Terrace Field washed away ZuNhEboto, July 30 (mExN): Incessant rain on July 24 and 25 have resulted in the washing away of terrace fields of Asuto Village in Zunheboto District. According to a press release, the fields belonging to 8 individuals were washed away by the Tizu River following the deluge.

YSUD General meeting today Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): Yimchunger Students' Union Dimapur (YSUD) will be conducting its 24th Fresher social cum General meeting on July 31 at 10 a.m. at the Yimchunger Baptist Church, Kuda village, Dimapur. A press release from the union has requested all the students from the community to attend the program without fail. For further information, one may contact Lakiumong, President @ 9089857106, Lokhum, Exe. Chairman @ 8413873785.

Holy Cross alumni meeting Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): Holy Cross School Alumni, Dimapur has convened a meeting on August 1, Saturday, at 11 a.m. in the school premises to discuss about the forthcoming programmes relating to the school’s golden jubilee celebrations. A press release from Dilip Sharma, Member Secretary, Golden Jubilee Committee, has requested all alumni to attend the meeting and also bring suggestions/proposals, and present it to the Programme Committee.

Col Isak to handle Kiphire finance KiphirE, July 30 (mExN): During the interim period, financial issues under Kiphire District shall directly be supervised by "Finance Administrator Nagaland or as authorised by the Administrator, a press release from Col. Isak Sumi, PRO and Finance Administrator, NSCN/ GPRN, informed.

Sumi Council Dimapur meeting Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): The Sumi Council Dimapur, (SCD) has convened a meeting at 3:00 PM in the Conference hall of Hotel Jal Mahal on August 1. In this connection, all the office bearers and executive members of the council are requested to attend the same positively.

KMC informs Kohima, July 30 (mExN): KMC has informed that the daily night bazaar tax shall be enhanced to Rs. 50 (Rupees fifty) per day per vendor. A press note issued by Kovi Meyase, Administrator, KMC stated that the order would come into effect from August 1.

Tsungremong Festival on Aug 1 Dimapur, July 30 (mExN): The Longjang 6 Buba Zunga Dimapur is celebrating the Tsungremong Festival on August 1 at the State Stadium under the theme “Telongjem Benjongmong” with Maputemjen Jamir, IAS (Retd), as chief guest. A press release received here further informed that there will be a penalty shootout among the Lanu Zunga 12 sanger.

Seats vacant for BSc (Seri) at AAU Kohima, July 30 (mExN): All concerned are informed that due to non-acceptance of selected candidates and extension of last date, two seats in BSc (Seri) at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) have fallen vacant. All NSEE 2015 appeared candidates who have given BSc (Seri) as an option and are interested in availing BSc (Seri) seat at AAU are invited to submit fresh application on plain paper to the office of the undersigned on or before 12:00 noon of August 4. Further, they are required to report in person with two recent passport size photographs latest by 1:00 PM on August 4. Selection of student will be made on the basis of merit from among NSEE 2015 applicants received. This was stated in a press release issued by A. Kathipri, Director, Directorate of Technical Education, Kohima.

Mangkolemba SDPDB meeting maNgKolEmba, July 30 (Dipr): Mangkolemba monthly Sub-Divisional Planning and Development Board meeting will be held on August 5 at ADC’s office where programme and work distribution for the upcoming Independence Day celebration will also be chalked out. In an official notification, ADC Mangkolemba has directed all head of offices who have not submitted the department activities report and the employees data base to submit the same on or before August 3. The notification further informed all Head of Offices, NGOs, Students’ Leaders, Ward Chairmen and GBs to attend the meeting without fail.

ANDMSA general meeting Kohima, July 30 (mExN): All the Nagaland District Ministerial Staff of various departments under Kohima District are informed that a general meeting will be held at 11: 00 am on August 8 at PWD Guest House at PWD Complex Kohima. A press note issued by Shilumenba Alinger, President, ANDMSA has requested all the Departments to send at least five (5) members to attend the said meeting along with agendas and grievances etc positively.

SETA informs Kohima, July 30 (mExN): The Special Education Teachers Association Nagaland has informed all the Special Education Teachers (SET) to submit their Appointment Order /Latest Extension Order (Photo copy) to their respective district representatives or contact SETAN Officials on or before the 7th of Aug’ 2015. This is for further perusal for extension of service. The Association appeals to all concern to comply with the given directives. For more information contact +919089540422, +919856249221

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express FrIDAy 31 9July THursDAy July2015 2015volumE volumEXXIssuE IssuE207 185 By Dr. sao Tunyi

Living beyond our means

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Catherine Wilson Inter Press Service

The Future You Want Begins With You

hen the last State general election came knocking, there was talk that BJP might come to power at the Centre in the next Lok Sabha election. So, if the NPF wins in the State and BJP at the Centre, some believed that money will start pouring in again. One reason which people believed to be the cause of our perennial budget deficit was that NPF government in the State and Congress government at the Centre are opposed to each other. So, Nagaland was never given enough money. The expectations of positive change came through with thumping victories for both NPF and BJP. But from the first State budget (2015-16) since the BJP took over at the Centre, it seems like the financial situation has not changed. What could be the reason that money has not poured in as expected? One reason could be the factional fight within NPF which led to induction of Congress legislators into the ruling coalition. Nagaland earned the status of being the only State where BJP and Congress came together to form the government. The situation which led to the coalition suggests that it was not the Naga national issue which joined the two together although that is the reason being projected. But by the infighting, we managed to create a situation which will not win the favor of any government at the Centre. Another explanation could be that Nagaland is insignificant and whichever government takes over at the Centre, the funding would have remained the same and the budget deficit would have continued anyway. Ours is a small State and we neither have the numbers nor other resources to affect the Centre to look our way. We do have potentials but that is how things stand at the moment. Perhaps another reason could be some change in policy, where the BJP government has other priorities than caring for poorer States like Nagaland. Although I am not well versed on Niti-Aayog, it seems like the alternative to Planning Commission may adversely affect poorer States and States where there is poorer planning mechanism. Under the new central government, there has been budget cut in Health and Education and the effect of this has been felt. Is this a sign of the changes to come? In pursuit of a certain model of economic development, there is possibility of pursuing progress through a form of market capitalism which favors the multi-national companies and private players at the expense of social programs which favor the poor. During the earlier years of UPA, there was the MGNREGA and NRHM which were mega programs favoring the poor. But under Modi, except for appealing to give up LPG gas subsidy, promises of digitizing the nation and building smart cities, there is no innovative mega scheme or program for the majority poor. Every year, we hear of budget deficit of over a thousand crores. So, what are the plans to get rid of this deficit? The one thing we love to do is to go to Delhi with our traditional waist coats as begging bowls. One area which stood out from this year’s State budget is to increase taxes for revenue generation. But that will not be sufficient to cover up the deficit. Other major plans to increase revenue or pluck leakage were found missing. Instead, the budget session seems to have been dominated by discussions on the Naga political issue, which is being discussed over and over, in public forums, kitchen discussions and in the booze joints. Instead, the plight of our farmers from Pfutsero in Dimapur recently, their livelihood being affected by a syndicate run by unscrupulous agents in our own land, should have been a very hot topic of discussion, to cite an example. We keep on saying, ‘there is no fund’, ‘there is no fund’, yet we live like ‘high-profile beggars’. It is time to realize that we are living beyond our means, and we must start to think deep, plan and work hard to overcome the huge deficit. Dr. Sao Tunyi works as an Epidemiologist at Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima. Feedback can be sent to saotunni@yahoo.co.in, or visit his blog www.thatchhouse.blogspot.in

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Ranjana Narayan IANS

Pottery, beads retrace close links between India and Bali

emnants of ancient Indian pottery, beads and even Indian DNA found in human bones point to thriving trade and social contacts between India and Bali dating back to more than 2,000 years. Besides trade, Indian merchants brought with them their language - Sanskrit - and the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism, noted Indonesian archaeologist I. Wayan Ardika said. Fresh evidence of age-old close links between India and Southeast Asia has been found in the ancient port towns of Sembiran and Pacung in northern Bali, says Ardika. The major Indian port of connect with Bali in Indonesia and other places in Southeast Asia was Arikamedu, a thriving port located seven kilometres from Puducherry from where archaeologists have unearthed Roman artefacts too. "Trade between India and Bali can be traced from as early as the late 2nd century BC. A lot of evidence exists in Sembiran and Pacung, and also the ancient port town of Julah," Ardika told IANS on the sidelines of an international meet on Asean-India Cultural Links. The influence of Sanskrit and the ideology of Hinduism and Buddhism which the Indian traders brought along "stimulated the rise of early state formation of kingdoms (in Bali) with an Indian base", said Ardika, a professor of archaeology at Udayana University in Bali. He said Julah, located near Sembiran and Pacung, was a thriving port from between the 2nd century BC and 12th century AD - for 14 centuries. Archaeologists have found evidence of Sanskrit in the local script of the late 9th century AD. "In my research covering Julah, and Sembiran and Pacung, I found numerous artefacts, pottery shards, beads brought by Indian traders," the expert, who read a paper at the July 23-24 conference, told IANS. The burial sites at Julah (from late 2nd century BC to 12th century AD) showed up Indian DNA on the human remains. "We found Indian DNA on the human remains which indicates there was marriage; the Indian trader may have married locals," Ardika said. The inscriptions on the pottery also had the names of places located in India like Nalanda, Amravati and Varanasi. In those early times, high functionaries or priests in the Balinese kingdoms named their residences after Indian names like Nalanda, Varanasi, Senapati and Amravati, Ardika added. The names of some Indian places were adopted to the local ones too - between the 9th century AD to 11th century AD. Small clay Buddhist stupas, measuring 10 cm high, were found in Pejeng, in central Bali, a rich centre of archaeological remains. The small stupas, dated from the 8th century AD, show a lot of Indian influence, he said, adding that many stupas were also found in central Java, indicating the reach of Indian traders. According to Ardika, the Indian influence in Bali came in two surges - in the 2nd century BC and later in 8th century AD, which also brought with it Buddhism. "In the early times, Indian traders came and stimulated the social structures (with Sanskrit, and Hindu and Buddhist ideology). When Bali adopted Buddhism, the second migration from the 8th century AD to 11th century AD came to strengthen the Indian influence. It was the second massive contact with India," he said. Ardika said the finds in Sembiran, Pacung and Julah show that Balinese were in contact with not only India but China also. Ardika said the international AseanIndia Cultural Links conference was an "important start to do more research on the links between India and Southeast Asia and also China". The July 23-24 conference was the first such meeting of artists, historians and archaeologists from India and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Customary landowners in Papua New Guinea, a rainforest nation in the Southwest Pacific, are suffering the environmental and social impacts of illegal logging. (Photo: Catherine Wilson/IPS)

ibie Wari, a former teacher and founder of the Tropical Gems grassroots youth group in the town of Madang on the north coast of Papua New Guinea, has seen the hopes of many young people for a decent future quashed by the impacts of corruption and unfulfilled promises of development. Once known as ‘the prettiest town in the South Pacific’, the most arresting sight today in this coastal urban centre of about 29,339 people is large numbers of youths idling away hours in the town’s centre, congregating under trees and sitting along pavements. “You must have a dream, I tell them every day. Those who roam around the streets, they have no dreams in life, they have no vision. And those who do not have a vision in life are not going to make it,” Wari declared. “So, as a team, how can we help each other?” The bottom-up Tropical Gems movement, which is now more than 3,000 members strong, develops young people as agents of change by fostering attitudes of responsibility, resilience, initiative and ultimately self-reliance. The philosophy of the group is that, no matter how immense the challenges in people’s lives, there is a solution. But the solutions, the ideas and their implementation must start with themselves. There is a large youth presence here with an estimated 44 percent of Madang’s provincial population of 493,906 aged below 15 years. However, the net education enrolment rate is a low 45 percent, hindered by poor rural access with only a small number subsequently finishing secondary school. The youth bulge is also a national phenomenon and young people desperate for employment and opportunities are flooding urban centres across the country. But up to 68 percent of urban youth are unemployed and 86 percent of those in work are sustaining themselves in the informal economy, according to the National Youth Commission. While PNG has an estimated 80,000 school leavers each year, only 10,000 will likely secure formal jobs. The plight of this generation is in contrast to the Melanesian island state’s booming GDP growth of between six and 10 percent over the past decade driven by an economic focus on resource extraction, including logging, mining and natural gas extraction. Yet these industries have failed to create mass or long-term employment or significantly reduce the socioeconomic struggle of many Papua New Guineans with 40 percent of the population of seven million living below the poverty line. Export-driven development leaving millions behind Papua New Guinea is considered one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the boons of this progress are largely concentrated in the hands of government officials and private investors with little left for the masses of the country, which is today ranked 157th out of 187 countries in terms of human development. As the country surrenders its natural bounty to international investors – PNG has attracted the highest levels of direct foreign investment in the region, averaging more than 100 million U.S. dollars per year since 1970 – its people seem to get poorer and sicker. According to the National Research Institute, PNG has less than one doctor and 5.3 nurses per 10,000 people. The availability of basic drugs in health clinics has fallen by 10 percent and visits from doctors dropped by 42 percent in the past decade. Despite rapid population growth, the number of patients seeking medical help per day has decreased by 19 percent. Millions of dollars that could be used to develop crucial health infrastructure is lost to corruption. Papua New Guinea has been given a corruption score of 25/100 – where 100 indicates clean governance – in comparison to the world average of 43/100, by Transparency International. The generation representing the country’s future has also been hit hard by the impacts of endemic corruption, particularly the deeply rooted patronage system in politics, which has undermined equality. Large-scale misappropriation of public funds, with the loss of half the government’s development budget of 7.6 billion kina (2.8 billion dollars) from 2009-

11 due to mismanagement, has impeded services and development. “The [political] leaders are very busy [engaging] in corruption, while the future leaders of this country are left to fend for themselves. Many of these young people have been pushed out by the system. At the end of the day, there is a reason why homebrew alcohol is being brewed and why violence is going on,” Wari told IPS. “But the way to fight back corruption is to go out and educate our fellow country men and women. Let’s not sit down and wait, let’s stand up on our two feet and make a difference.” This is no easy task in a country where 2.8 million people live below the poverty line, where maternal mortality is 711 deaths per 100,000 live births, literacy is just 63 percent and only 19 percent of people have access to sanitation. But the Tropical Gems are empowering themselves with knowledge about the political and economic forces, such as globalisation and competition for resources, which are impacting their lives. And they are returning to core social and cultural values for a sense of leadership and direction. “We have gone astray because of the rapid changes that have happened in our country and because we were not prepared for them. When these influences come in, they divert us from what we are supposed to do. So, now in Tropical Gems, we do the talking,” Wari said. Away from dependency, towards self-reliance Their first step has been to reject the dependency syndrome and temptation to wait for others, whether in the state or private sector, to deliver the world they desire. Every day, dozens of ‘leaders’, as the group’s members are known, spend half a day out on the streets of Madang working, without payment, to clear the streets and coastline areas of litter and tidy up public gardens and spaces. Their visibility to the town’s population, including youth who remain in limbo, is that the future they want starts with them. And there is no shortage of people who want to be a part of this grassroots movement. While the group was formed by Wari in Madang in 2013 with less than 300 members, it has since grown to more than 3,000, ranging from teenagers to people in their forties, from provinces around the country, including the northern Sepik, mountainous highlands and far flung Manus Island. Many of those who have joined Tropical Gems have endured personal hardships and social exclusion, whether due to poverty, loss of their parents or missing out on the opportunity to finish their education. “My life was really hard before I joined Tropical Gems, but now it has changed,” 30-year-old Sepi Luke told IPS. He now feels in control of his life and has hope for the future. Lisa Lagei of the Madang Country Women’s Association supports the group’s endeavours and recognises the positive impact they can have on the wider community. “What they are doing, taking a lead is good. It is important to take the initiative. We can’t wait for the government, we have to do things for ourselves,” she said. Lagei has observed many issues facing youth in Madang, ranging from high unemployment and crime to an increase in young girls turning to prostitution for money and a high secondary education dropout rate primarily due to families being unable to afford school fees. While these problems are mainly visible in urban areas, they are increasingly prevalent in rural communities as well, she added. Wari believes there is a gap between the formal education system and the real world, and many young people in Papua New Guinea are seeking ways to cope with the complex forces that are shaping their lives. Tackling the toughest issues In March the group was visited by members of the civil society activist organisation, Act Now PNG, which conducted awareness sessions about land issues, such as how land grabbing occurs and corruption associated with the country’s Special Agricul-

ture and Business Leases (SABLs). Land grabbing has led to the loss of 5.5 million hectares – or 12 percent of the country’s land area – to foreign investors, many of which are engaged in logging, rather than agricultural projects of benefit to local communities. Papua New Guinea, home to the world’s third largest tropical rainforest, has a forest cover of an estimated 29 million hectares, but the rapid growth of its export-driven economy has made it the second largest exporter of tropical timber after Malaysia. The California-based Oakland Institute estimates that PNG exports approximately three million cubic metres of logs every year, primarily to China. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) predicts that 83 percent of the country’s commercially viable forests will be lost or degraded by 2021 due to commercial logging, mining and land clearance for oil palm plantations. “Within ten years nearly all accessible forests will be logged out and at the root of this problem is endemic and systematic corruption,” a spokesperson for Act Now PNG told IPS last December. This could spell disaster for the roughly 85 percent of Papua New Guinea’s population who live in rural areas, and are reliant on forests for their survival. Consider the impacts of environmental devastation and logging-related violence in Pomio, one of the least developed districts in East New Britain – an island province off the northeast coast of the Papua New Guinean mainland – where there is a lack of health services, decent roads, water and sanitation. Life expectancy here is a miserable 45-50 years and the infant mortality rate of 61 per 1,000 live births is significantly higher than the national rate of 47. How to address these issues are huge questions, but the Tropical Gems do not shy away from asking them. “We discourage, in our awareness [campaigns], the selling of land. Our objectives are to conserve the environment, to value our traditional way of living,” Wari said. Knowledge sharing also extends to livelihood skills and the group’s leaders who know how to weave, bake or grow crops hold training sessions for the benefit of others. Some have started their own enterprises. Barbara grows and sells tomatoes at the town’s market, for example, and Lynette, from the nearby village of Maiwara, has a small business raising and selling chickens. One of the next steps for Tropical Gems is to extend the reach of its activities into rural areas to help people see the sustainable development potential in their local setting, rather than migrating to urban centres. Indeed, rapid urbanisation has resulted in grim living conditions for many city-dwellers, with 45 percent of those who reside in the capital, Port Moresby, living in informal settlements that lack proper water and sanitation facilities. In Eight Mile Settlement, located on the outskirts of Port Moresby, 15,000 residents drink contaminated water from broken taps. Water-borne diseases are the leading cause of hospital deaths in Papua New Guinea. But tackling the particular issue or urbanisation may require more resources than the group currently has, even though they have sustained their projects to date without any external funding. “The fees that individuals pay to join are used to sustain Tropical Gems and we help ourselves,” Wari explained. In the meantime, word about the unique initiative has spread to the capital. This year, Wari and the Gems have been invited to give a presentation about their work to the Waigani Seminar, a national forum to discuss progress toward the country’s ‘Vision 2050’ aspirations, to be co-hosted by the government and University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby from 19-21 August. Papua New Guinea will face many hurdles in the coming decade, particularly environmental challenges as the country faces up to rising sea levels and the other impacts of climate change. Initiatives like the Tropic Gems are laying the groundwork for a far more resilient society than its political leaders have thus far created.

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ome decades ago, we looked at other communities or nations and despaired at the unabashed and immoral acts that transpired around us. But today, unfortunately moral uprightness is slipping through the varied strata of our own society. The recent discussions that went viral at different social media networks on the unfortunate unconfirmed scandalous pictures of individuals, who are supposed to be our leaders, are perhaps just the tip of the iceberg of the degrading culture of our present society. The once proud morally inclined Naga society is turning into the very kind of community that we dreaded and reviled. Our oral history tells us of the great legacy of our fore-fathers and their deep sense of moral inclinations and tradition. One of the many facts that the Nagas are proud of today is not the martial history of “HeadHunters”, but the rich sense of moral culture. Inato Yekheto Shikhu in ‘A Re-discovery and re-building of Naga Cultural values’ rightly affirmed the Nagas as one community that valued moral character over material possessions and wealth. Unfortunately, this has truly become a thing of the past. M. Horam in ‘Nagas Old Ways and New Trends’ also avers that the ancient Nagas were more morally sound than our so called evolved societies. I agree with our two Naga scholars here. As Horam points out, our fore-fathers were uneducated and cut-off fromthe so called civilized community, yet, they were morally upright and more so than the juxtaposed advanced society. As a matter of fact, at this present age, there are hardly a handful of Naga public leaders left to whom we can proudly look up with a deep sense of appreciation and respect. Nagas are known for their closely knit community within the spectrum of certain codes of conduct. These codes which were deeply ingrained in our culture in many ways can be read as having a sense of honor and above all, strong moral inclination. The idea of honor and morality are in many ways intertwined and can be read as a synonym within our societal life. Considering the reality of numerous tribes and linguistic diversity there poses the difficulty in claiming the uniformity of codes of conduct. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that even though the Nagas are scattered all over the North East India and even in some part of Myanmar, we thrive within certain parameters of moral codes and conducts. The sense of propriety within the clan and towards the elders and the chieftain are some of the basic examples. I remember, even as a child I was taught to address the ones who are older than me with the right nomenclature. This is one of the many cultural habits that runs parallel with moral inclinations. What I am trying to consider here is the plausible grounds for moral regeneration within our society that permeates the entire societal structure starting at the root, the individual. I am truly fascinated by the works of a great German scholar and philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Perhaps, he was greatly misunderstood by theologians of his time let alone laymen like his valet, Lampe. Nevertheless, Kant’s major philosophical discourses truly are works of a genius. Even today he is still considered to be one serious scholar not only in the philosophical arena but also in different academic disciplines. What is really fascinating about Kant is his great respect for humanity as purported in his ethical discourse. Kant believed that we human beings are the only rational species who are endowed with the capacity to will(Groundwork of the Metaphysics of morals). This will, he avers, is embedded in us which in turn act

nvestment banking doesn't rank highly on most people's lists of ethical career choices, but according to one of the world's most famous living philosophers, becoming a hot shot in finance may be the best way for a bright graduate to help the global poor. A high earner in the corporate world who is giving away large sums can create more social gain than if they did charity work, said Peter Singer, who teaches at Princeton University. "If they are able to live modestly and give a lot away, they can save many lives," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Singer is part of a movement of donors known as 'effective altruists', who demand concrete results from charitable donations, and often come from the business world. Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk will address the movement's global conference at Google headquarters in California in September. The growing community encourages people to give big chunks of their income, typically around ten percent but in some cases more than half, to charities that alleviate global poverty. LOW-HANGING FRUIT Matt Wage came top of his class at Princeton, where he was taught by Singer. There, he and his friends looked at research which said it costs "around $3,340" to save a life, and Wage looked at how best he could set about helping. Charity 80,000 Hours, named for the time a typical person spends at work during their life, helps people pursue ethical careers. "Some people have skills that are better suited to earning money than doing good directly," its website says. Wage decided this applied to him. He accepted a job, with a fat salary attached, in an arbitrage trading firm on Wall Street, with the explicit purpose of doing what

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The Moral Naga: A Perspective

Subject Matters Anthony Rimai

“Two things never ceases to amaze us…the starry heavens above and the moral law within” —Immanuel Kant

as the essence of the defining factor of our rationality. For his over emphasis of rationality in defining morality, Kant has been misconstrued and more often critiqued than appreciated within the theological arena. Having said that, the intention of this article is to consider the plausible reading of our moral inclinations through the lens of Kantian ethical theory. If Kant is right, then it took a rational moral Naga to have thrived within certain codes of conduct. A consideration of the strong moral inclinations within the Naga community suggests the fact that moral consciousness is embedded not merely at the community level but rather the individual essentially. The community perhaps at best act as the guardian that regulates in bringing out the best of the moral consciousness within us. One of my favorite leisure times in early boyhood was sitting by the fire and listening to stories my father would narrate. He used to narrate stories that are loaded with moral lessons. Sometimes he would narrate our culture in the form of stories mentioning many true incidents and great deeds of bravery, honor and above all moral uprightness. There is one particular story that still lingers in my head as though I have just heard it yesterday. It is about an honest Naga farmer. He was not rich nor educated but his spirit was never dull. He had a maize farm at which he toiled every season and survived with the earnings from the proceeds of the maize. During harvest he would collect all the good maize and pile them up in the barn of the maize field. One particular season, a considerably rich businessman from the valley came to buy his maize. He bought all of his maize and his neighbors’ too. Having loaded them in a truck he departed. After a while the farmer went back to the barn to pick up the left over maize and he noticed something that could change his fortune. He saw a big bundle of money! He picked it up, held on to it and ran after the businessman but he was nowhere to be found. Later that evening the businessman came with a dejected face enquiring if he could take another look at the barn of the maize field. The businessman did not tell him about the money. Even though the Naga farmer knew the reason behind the sad countenance of the businessman he enquired

why he was so desperate to go back to the barn when it is almost dark. The businessman replied saying, ‘I have dropped something valuable’. The Naga famer told him to wait and went inside the house. He then came out with the businessman’s money he had hidden for safe keeping. The Naga farmer handed over the money and asked him, ‘Is this the valuable object you lost?’ The businessman burst out in tears in affirmation. He counted the money and found that not a penny was missing. He then gave the Naga farmer some money for his honesty but the Naga farmer politely declined saying, ‘there is no need to pay me for such acts, anyone around here would have done the same’. The businessman then thanked him and went his way. That businessman from the valley narrated the incident to his grandchildren and even to this day they remember and have good rapport with the people of the hills. Today, they are among the few Christians in an Orthodox Hindu community in the valley. I am positive that there are many more selfless acts or deeds that we have encountered or heard of the morally upright Nagas. I would like to believe that Nagas are indeed morally upright people and it is somewhere deep down within us even though we failed to live it out most of the time. Our history tells us that we were not just brave warriors or head-hunters but extremely honest and morally upright men and women. Perhaps, it is high time that we look into the past, not into the headhunting legacy but the moral legacy and remind ourselves of the great need to imbibe this moral inclination of our ancestors to reclaim our identity as moral people. Questions, as to what is morality and its sources perhaps are redundant in the context of Nagas. This is because it is something that is already part of the definition of the Naga community, it is ingrained in our culture. Never the less, when we see it objectively it can be traced to two basic sources. The primary is the moral inclinations in the codes of conduct within our community. Our deeds are but the manifestation of moral seed within us. Kant in ‘Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason’ propagated three predispositions: the predisposition to animality, the predisposition to humanity and the predisposition

Young, smart and want to save lives? Become a banker, says philosopher Joseph d'Urso Thomson Reuters Foundation 80,000 Hours calls "earning to give". Rather than selling out his ideals on Wall Street, Wage is living up to them, giving around half his pretax salary to charities which, according to his research, are most efficient. "I find it very fulfilling," said Wage, who is now based in Hong Kong. Many people give to charities to which they feel a personal connection, but effective altruists are passionately unsentimental, seeking to send their cash where they think it will do the most objective good. This means focusing their attention on global health charities, targeting sources of misery which can be improved by cheap interventions, rather than looking for expensive cures for developed world diseases or funding arts and culture. "At the moment there's a lot of lowhanging fruit in terms of lives that can be saved cheaply," said Singer. The nascent movement already supports a coalition of organizations such as Giving What We Can, founded in 2009, which gets people to pledge ten percent of pretax income to "effective" causes. The Life You Can Save, set up by Singer, encourages people to pledge to give an amount which proportionally increases with income. GiveWell, a "metacharity", crunches through data to try to find the organistions which transform cash donations most efficiently into lives saved, extended or improved. It currently recommends the Against

to personality. It is in the ‘predisposition to personality’ where human beings manifest perfect reverence towards moral law. Considering our moral consciousness I believe this predisposition is evident even within the Naga community. We are a morally inclined community and our culture indeed, is rich in its own way. Having said that, I am not necessarily pulling down the Western cultural curtain here, for history will always echo the undeniable impacts of the West on us. But this does not mean we should forget our roots, of who we are. Bendanjungshi in ‘Confessing Christ in the Naga Context: Towards a Liberating Ecclesiology’ gave the needed nudge in affirming both the negative and positive impacts of the western culture and implored the need to consider the rich heritage of our culture and its implications. We cannot be freed of the changing patterns of the world, after all that is one constant fact and we are very much part of it. What we need is the root to what made Nagas a morally inclined rational beings. So, my reference to Kant is simply to suggest that we are rationally inclined moral Nagas because of who we are within our cultural codes of conduct. As Horam points out that the ancient Nagas indeed were morally inclined and this truth runs in the veins of our rationality. Moral inclination is not just embedded in our cultural milieu but rather in our very nature. It is within us. I dare say that the advent of Christianity is one amongst the best things to have ever happened to the Nagas. There is no doubt that the Church as an institution has failed at times to live out the best they could, still, I believe it is the one institution that acts as the idealregulatorof our moral grounds. It must continue to act as the guardian of our moral inclinations. There are contentions as to the contextual theological reading of our rich heritage. But I believe the moral inclination is lifted to its perfect harmony at the advent of Christianity. I am not really convinced with the parallel monotheistic claims of our ancestral belief with the Christianity monotheistic God by Eyingbei Humtsoe-Nenu in her book, ‘God of the Tribes: Christian Perspective on the Naga Ancestral Idea of the Supreme Being’. Nevertheless, I agree with her in respect to the importance given to the advent of Christianity as one crucial source that act as the ground for the perfect picture of moral consciousness within the Naga community. The Nagas are known for their bravery but beneath that warrior mantle lies the moral consciousness and it needs to be moulded by the truth of the Gospel. In conclusion, let us not be too quick either in emulating or pointing fingers at the Western culture or the so called evolved society. Rather let us learn to look into our hearts because we do have the moral inclinations within us and our fore-fathers lived it out to near perfection. The moral consciousness that is in our root is no less moral than the so called evolved societies. Secondly, the Church is not a safety-net rather it is our only ideal guardian in our morally degrading society. Yes, we, the individuals constitute the Church but we must not forget the head—Jesus Christ. It is imperative that we continue to let the institution of Church have its rightful place in our community. It will take therediscovery of our moral consciousnessand affirmation of the ideal guardianship of the institution of the Church to regenerate the moral Naga and eventually the morally upright Naga Community. Anthony Rimai, is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad. His Research interests include ethics, epistemology, and religious epistemology. His current research is engaged on “Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy of Religion.” He can be reached at anthonyrimai4him@gmail.com

coming into contact with other effective altruists while studying. "Earning a lot of money is another way of doing good in the world," he said. Worried of coming across as "preachy and tiresome," he was cautious about evangelising when he started the job, he said, but since then has had a positive reaction when discussing his giving with colleagues.

Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, and Deworm HOW TO SAVE A LIFE the World Initiative as the most effective Holly Morgan has been part of the charities for each dollar spent. movement since its early days in Oxford in Britain. She still subscribes to its prinOCCASIONAL INDULGENCES ciples, but is taking a step back for now. Christopher Smith, 24, works as a stratShe currently works for Oxfam, one of egy consultant in London earning over the world's biggest charities, but not one 50,000 pounds ($78,000) a year, a career he recommended by the number crunchers says he chose for its high earning, and thus at Givewell. However, she thinks it has adgiving, potential. vantages over smaller outfits, because of its "I did think about working directly in a campaigns and "rights-based" approach. charitable organisation," he said. "But I do Inefficient is a "really bad word to use" not, or did not when I graduated at least, when talking about charities, she said, as have the skills that would allow me to do it can alienate people. "I felt a bit trapped that very well." between the ivory tower Oxford walls," He donates a lot of his monthly salary she said of her time spent heavily involved to groups that fight malarial mosquitoes with the movement. and parasitic worms in the developing "I just had this general feeling that we world, living on less than his high-rolling were quite a young movement, I felt like I colleagues. "My personal tastes are not needed some real life experience." particularly lavish," he said. It is hard to know the exact number "Effective altruists in my experience of people who ascribe to effective altrudon't feel guilty about occasional indul- ism, said Singer, although thousands have gences," said Singer. "If they're doing it in made the Giving What We Can and Life the long run, they have to give themselves You Can Save pledges. a break now and again." "If someone isn't sure whether to make Aveek Bhattacharya works for the same the jump to effective altruism I would say firm as Smith, joining after completing a give it a try, do it for a year, see how you like masters degree in political philosophy at it," he said. the University of Oxford. "One person I know who's involved in "I was basically going to default to aca- The Life You Can Save said 'the life that I demia, I was pretty sure I was going to do saved is my own, because I now really feel a PhD when I started my masters," he told that I've got a purpose for my life, and its the Thomson Reuters Foundation. meaningful and I'm happy what I'm doHe eventually changed his mind after ing'," he said.

A Calamity of Heart

E.L. Doctorow

rtists in America don’t usually band together. They are independent entrepreneurs of their imaginations. They create universes of which they are the sole occupants. They may influence one another, they may be bundled by critics as members of an aesthetic movement, but they work alone and think alone, and if they gather on social occasions, like the members of any trade, it is for warmth, for they all know how few of them there are and how unseen by most of the population. But there are critical moments in our national life when artists do come together as a constituency. In the 1930s, with the country mired in poverty and with the ominous rise of European totalitarian states, artists were necessarily joined by their recognition of political and economic crisis. They disagreed on how to respond—some looked toward the antebellum past, others aligned their spirits with the available varieties of Marxian socialism—but whether doing fervently idealistic murals, machine art, art as political commentary or the art of American loneliness, all of them manifested an enlarged public presence in our national life. What they delivered was a kind of groundsong of a diverse, still vibrantly alive society, proposing by the outpouring of their creative work an underlying freedom, a constitutional identity that was, for all the difficulties of that moment, firm and enduring. So here now today, in a new century, is this assemblage of artists, poets, musicians and playwrights, and we must ask what is the crisis today that impels them, in all their brilliant individuality, to present themselves as a group show? The fact is that some terrible deep damage to the nation was done in the aftermath of 9/11. The government that swung into action misdirected its response and, with devious arguments to the American people, took us to war. In short time it had adopted the policies of an authoritarian state. Americans found themselves the sponsors of torture, and of the endless imprisonment without trial or counsel of presumed terrorists; they learned well after the fact that they themselves were subject to secret illegal surveillance by their government, and they saw their Constitution disdained with the unilateral abrogation of international treaties such as the Geneva Convention, though such treaties are constitutionally "the supreme Law of the Land." All these measures were claimed as wartime expedients and promoted with a propaganda of fear. At the same time, the scientific evidence of global warming was ignored, religious literalism was put in the way of medical advance, regulatory agencies were given over to the very industries they were to regulate and, rife with wartime corruption, this government left to wallow an American population severely alienated by gross economic inequalities, the forces of wealth thriving at the expense of the middle class and the shrill demagogues of right-wing radio and television shouting down all principled disagreement with what was happening. The resulting trauma to the American people’s sense of themselves and their country is still being felt. We have not wanted to believe that a sitting president and his advisers could have so given themselves to an agenda of social, economic and environmental deconstruction, and with such relentless violations of constitutional law as to render themselves, definably, as subversives. The artists, poets, musicians are gathered here in the presumption that a politics of selfcorrection may not be enough to heal us, to recover us from our spiritual disarray. There is a lingering miasma of otherworldly weirdness hanging over this country, the aftereffect of both the foreign terrorist attack on our land and the domestic political attack on our constitutional identity. A significant percentage of our population is given to hysteria of one sort or another. A mean spirited despair, a concoction of populism, nativism and racism, still disrupts and denigrates the political discourse. At the same time, our politicians are unable or unwilling to budge the seemingly unmovable structures of corporate wealth that hold in check our national priorities. The top-down flow of ideas and information still configures our debate, still organizes the issues for our edification, and the habitual weekend retreats of media and telecommunications moguls attest to their righteous intent to own the screens of cyberspace as they do the airways, the TV channels and the telephone frequencies. All of this together would seem to define a national identity crisis, a terribly weakened sense of ourselves as a proud citizenry in charge of our lives—a calamity of heart as bad as what America suffered in the Great Depression. Under these circumstances, our art, literature and music, all of which comes up from the bottom, uncensored, unfiltered, unrequested—the artists of whatever medium always coming out of nowhere—does tell us that something is firm and enduring after all in a country given to free imaginative expression that few cultures in the world can tolerate. Wildly different and individualistic in their political persuasions as well as their art, the artists, writers and performers here collected offer us the aroused witness, the manifold reportage, the expressive freedom, the ground song for our time of a diverse, still vibrantly alive society, that for all the difficulties of this moment would restore us to ourselves, awaken our stunned senses to the public interest that is our interest, and vindicate the genius of the humanist sacred constitutional text that embraces us all. E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) was an American novelist whose works are noted for their mingling of American history and literary imagination through the interaction of fictional and real-life characters.

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Memon hanged in Nagpur, buried in Mumbai

Nagpur/MuMbai, July 30 (iaNS): Yakub Abdul Razzak Memon, the lone death row convict in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail early Thursday, after a prolonged legal battle that continued till barely a couple of hours before his execution. The day also saw an unprecedented hearing being held at the Supreme Court at 3 a.m. when the court rejected Memon's plea seeking postponement of his hanging by 14 days. Hours later, Memon climbed on the gallows at 6.35 a.m., ironically, on his 54th birthday - and was pronounced dead at 7.01 a.m. by a medical team present there, along with a magistrate, a top prison official and others. No family member was allowed inside the temporary hanging yard, inside the jail premises where he was made to "hang till death". Later, the body was sent for an autopsy inside the jail hospital, performed by a team from a nearby government hospital. Memon was awarded the death penalty by a TADA court for 13 serial blasts that rocked several parts of Mumbai on March 12, 1993, resulting in the death of 257 persons and injury to 713 others. The brother of "prime conspirator" Tiger Memon, Yakub Memon was allegedly arrested by the CBI from New Delhi Railway Station in August, 1994, though he and his family members

disputed the official contentions and claimed he had "surrendered" to the Nepal police on July 28, 1994 in Kathmandu. Shocked by the execution, Yakub's brother Sulaiman and a cousin Usman, locked themselves up in a hotel room nearby, avoiding the media which had assembled in huge numbers there. Memon's wife Raheen and 21-year daughter Zubeida had also arrived in the city late Wednesday and were at an unknown location. Around 3.30 a.m., Memon was woken up and permitted to take a bath, offered fresh clothes, breakfast of his choice, as per laid down standard procedures. He was given facilities to offer 'namaz' and time to read religious books like Holy Quran, and then permitted a brief rest period. A team of doctors carried out the final medical examination and found him physically and mentally fit, before he was taken to the temporary 'phaansi yard' (the hanging area) created in the Nagpur central jail. He was hanged at 6.35 am and pronounced dead after 26 minutes at 7.01 hrs. Initially, the authorities planned to follow the jail manual and declined to hand over Memon's body to the family. Later, Sulaiman submitted a letter to the jail demanding that the body should be handed for performing the last rites in Mumbai. The body was released with stringent pre-conditions and brought to Mum-

Twitter storm follows Yakub's execution

People carry the body of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, outside his family residence during his funeral in Mumbai, India, Thursday, July 30. Memon, 53, an Indian accountant and the only person sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the country's worst terrorist attack â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was hanged Thursday on his birthday, after the president rejected a last-minute mercy plea amid a debate over the capital punishment. (AP Photo)

bai where, wrapped in a white shroud and covered under a black cortege, it was taken in an ambulance to the Bismillah Manzil building in Mahim, near his home in Al Husseini building, where family members and relatives had gathered and offered 'namaz'. Accompanied by family members

and a large posse of armed police, the body was then taken to the Bada Qabrastan near Marine Lines in south Mumbai and buried with full religious rites next to the graves of his parents. A massive crowd gathered for Memon's funeral. A huge media contingent was also present to cover the fu-

neral although because of a police gag order, they were barred from either photographing or videographing the proceedings. There was tight security all over Nagpur, Mumbai and sensitive pockets in the state, besides keeping Quick Response Team and anti-riot squads in full readiness.

However, any untoward incident was reported from any part. The legal battle was a long one. In 2007, Special Judge P.D.Kode of the Special TADA Court in Mumbai had found Memon guilty of criminal conspiracy, aiding and abetting, facilitating a terrorist act, illegal posses-

New Delhi, July 30 (iaNS): Twitterati took to the micro-blogging site to express their individual views about the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused Yakub Memon's execution on Thursday. While some of the tweets supported the decision, there were a fair amount of people who expressed their unhappiness with the hanging. #Yakubhanged, a hashtag used by twitterati to share their views about Memon's hanging, was a top trend on Twitter during the day. At least three out of the 10 trending hashtags -#YakubHanged, #IndiaKaInsaf and #Memon till 9.30 a.m. -- were related to Memon's execution. #YakubHanged remained the top trend till late afternoon. Politicians, journalists, social activists and students were among those who took to the micro-blogging site to express their respective viewpoints. "It's strange to see proud scions of Mao, Lenin, Stalin demanding abolition of death penalty citing human rights.. #YakubHanged," @dmalok tweeted. "APJ Abdul Kalam and Yakub Menon, two people of the same religion to be buried today. Choice is yours, how to live your life," @Dil_logical tweeted. The mortal remains of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam were laid to rest at his hometown Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on Thursday forenoon. Yakub Memon was hanged to death early Thursday in Nagpur prison. "Saddened by news that our government has hanged a human being. State-sponsored killing diminishes us all by reducing us to murderers too," Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted. Twitter has become very popular of late among social media users. At least 17 percent of the social network users in the country use the micro-blogging site, according to a report by market research firm eMarketer. sion and transportation of arms and ammunition and possessing explosives with intent to endanger lives, and awarded him the death sentence. Thereafter, Memon attempted all legal options from the Bombay High Court to the Supreme Court and Maharashtra governor

to the president, but failed to get a reprieve. The efforts continued till barely a couple of hours before the hanging on Thursday when a three-judge bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Prafulla Pant and Justice Amitava Roy, rejected a final plea, clearing the ground for his execution.

Coal block case: Court Rajnath holds Pakistan responsible for Dinanagar attack notice to CVC director

New Delhi, July 30 (iaNS): A court here on Thursday issued notice to the director of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) while hearing a closure report in a coal block allocation case allegedly involving Prakash Industries Ltd. Observing that the case was registered on the basis of a reference received from the CVC, Special Judge Bharat Parashar issued notice to the CVC director seeking his response. The court was hearing a case related to alleged irregularities in allocation of Chhattisgarh's Fatehpur coal block. The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a closure report requesting the court to close the case on the ground that neither against the private parties nor against any of the public servants involved in the coal block allocation process any incriminating evidence could come on record which may warrant their prosecution. "In the overall facts and circumstances of the case, and in view of the submissions made, before proceeding to pass any order

New Delhi, July 30 (iaNS): Holding Pakistan responsible for the July 27 Dinanagar terror attack, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said any attack by enemies will meet an effective and forceful response from the Indian security forces. Making a formal statement in the Rajya Sabha, the home minister said the central government was committed to rooting out terrorism from the country. "I take this opportunity to assure the house that

on the closure report, I deem it appropriate that a notice be issued to Keshav Rao, director of the CVC under whose signatures the reference from the CVC was received by CBI," the court said. However, the court clarified that in case Rao has since got transferred from the CVC or has been posted at some other place, then the officer succeeding him may be called. The court posted the matter for August 26 for consideration. According to the CBI, the Fatehpur coal block was allocated jointly to Prakash Industries and another company by the 35th Screening Committee and lodged a first information report against the company, its three officials, some officials of the coal ministry and others alleging that the firm misrepresented its net worth while applying for the coal block. The CBI booked them under various sections dealing with criminal conspiracy read with cheating and provisions of the raMeSwaraM, July Prevention of Corruption Act. 30 (iaNS): Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was laid to rest on Thursday here with full military honours in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other leaders who paid tributes to the man who strengthincrease their populations ened India's missile profive-fold or more by 2100. gramme and played a key Future population role in country's 1998 nugrowth is highly depen- clear test -- making him a dent on the path of future national hero. fertility, as relatively small The body of Kalam changes in fertility can, pro- warmly called the people's jected over decades, gener- president - was draped in ate large differences in total the Indian tricolour and population, the report said. brought to the burial site In recent years, fertility at Pei Karumbu here in a has declined in almost all flower-bedecked gun carparts of the world, while life riage, escorted by columns expectancy has increased of the three armed services. significantly in the poorest People in large numcountries, rising from 56 to Commuters travel on an overloaded truck on the outskirts 62 since the beginning of bers lined up along the route to catch a last glimpse of Allahabad, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the century. India, Thursday, July 30. (AP Photo) Declining fertility and of Kalam, the rocket and rising life expectancy mean missile scientist who was new global development lONDON, July 30 awarded the country's (ThOMSON reuTerS goals being launched lat- the world is getting greyer, highest civilian honour FOuNDaTiON): India is er this year to replace the and most regions will have set to overtake China and Millennium Development an ageing population, the Bharat Ratna - in 1997 starting with Europe where and bid him a tearful final become the world's most Goals. one third of the population good-bye. John Wilmoth, head of populous country in less Many had climbed atop than a decade - six years the U.N. population divi- is projected to be over 60 by an under construction sooner than previously sion, said the concentra- 2050, the report said. Globally, the number building and other buildforecast, the United Na- tion of growth in the poortions said on Wednesday. est countries would make it of people aged 80 or over ings to see their illustrious Fast-growing Nigeria is on harder to eradicate pover- - currently 125 million - is son-of-the-soil. People cutting across course to outstrip the Unit- ty, combat hunger and ex- projected to more than tripolitical, religious and ple by 2050 and to increase pand schooling and health ed States by about 2050 to more than seven times by other lines came in large become the country with systems. numbers to Kalam's native The world's two larg- 2100. the third largest populaBut populations in town to participate in his tion, the United Nations est nations, China and India, have well over 1 billion many regions are still last journey. Many could predicted. The current global people each and are likely young. In Africa, children scarcely believe that he population of 7.3 billion is to switch places by 2022 - under 15 account for two would no longer return to his hometown. forecast to reach 9.7 billion six years earlier than previ- fifths of the population. Kalam had died on "The large number of in 2050 and 11.2 billion in ously forecast. Experts predict Africa young people (in Africa) Monday in Shillong after 2100, slightly above the last will account for more than who will reach adulthood suffering a massive heart set of U.N. projections. Most growth will hap- half the world's population in the coming years and attack during a lecture he pen in developing regions, growth in the next 35 years. have children of their own, was delivering to students Ten African countries ensures that the region will of Indian Institute of Manparticularly Africa, according to the report World - Angola, Burundi, Demo- play a central role in shap- agement. cratic Republic of Congo, ing the size and distribuPopulation Prospects. A 21-gun salute was acThe demographic fore- Malawi, Mali, Niger, Soma- tion of the world's popu- corded to the former sucasts are crucial for design- lia, Uganda, Tanzania and lation over the coming preme commander of the ing and implementing the Zambia - are projected to decades," the report said. armed forces and a military

the government is firmly committed to rooting out terrorism from India. I also assure the house that the government will do everything possible to prevent cross-border terrorism aimed against India," Rajnath Singh said. The minister gave details on how the terrorists crossed the international border and entered India. "A preliminary analysis of the Global Positioning System (GPS) data indicates that the terrorists infiltrated from Pakistan through the area near

Tash in Gurdaspur district, where the Ravi river enters Pakistan," Rajnath Singh said. "It is also suspected that the same terrorists placed five Improvised Explosive Devices on the railway track near village Talwandi between Dinanagar and Jhakoladi which were subsequently defused," he added. Giving the statement amid din and anti-government slogans in the upper house of parliament, Rajnath Singh also lauded the Punjab Police

for neutralising the three terrorists. The union home minister said the Border Security Force was always on the alert though some terrorist might have succeeded in infiltrating due to heavy rains and swelling of rivers and nullahs on the border. The house was adjourned till Friday after an uproar by opposition members over the statement. Meanwhile, the main opposition Congress asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remain in the house when the issue

comes up for discussion. Addressing a press conference later in the day, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said Modi must make public what he discussed with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as India was still suffering terror strikes from across the border. "The prime minister should make a statement on the issue in parliament," he said, expressing concern over the terror attack in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab on Monday.

People's President Abdul Kalam laid to rest

India set to become world's most populous country by 2022 - UN

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, pays last respects to former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam during his funeral ceremony at the Pei Karumbu ground, in Rameswaram, India, Thursday, July 30, 2015.Tens of thousands of people gathered in the southern Indian town of Rameswaram on Thursday for the burial of Kalam, known as the father of the country's missile program. (R Senthil Kumar/Press Trust of India via AP)

band played the haunting 'Last Post'. After Kalam's body was lowered into the earth, prayers were held following which the grave was closed and then covered with flower petals. Modi, who arrived here, paid his last respects to the country's youth icon and popular president by laying a wreath. he then stood in silence before the casket for a while. The prime minister also went up to Kalam's eldest brother, 99-year old Mohammed Muthu Meeran Lebbai Maraikayar and offered his condolences. Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah, union Ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu, Manohar Parrikar and Pon Radhakrishnan, Tamil Nadu ministers O.Panneerselvam, and Natham R. Viswanathan and others also paid their last respects to Kalam.

Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam and Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy were also present, as was Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders also paid their last respects to Kalam. Earlier the mortal remains of India's eleventh president, who held office 2002-07, were taken to the family mosque for prayers. His family members also reached here. "All our relatives have also arrived to attend the last rites," A.P.J.M.K. Sheik Saleem, the former president's brother's grandson, told IANS. The Tamil Nadu government declared a public holiday on Thursday under the Negotiable Instruments Act. Banks, insurance companies, schools

and colleges were closed throughout the state. The government has also ordered closure of liquor shops and bars in the state. Around 30,000 jewellery shops remained closed, while petrol bunks stopped sales for an hour between 10 a.m.and 11 a.m. as a mark of respect to Kalam. Movie theatre owners too decided to shut down for the day while fishermen decided not to venture into the sea. In Chennai, shops in busy commercial areas like Pondy Bazaar and T.Nagar remained shut. Shops in other localities were closed as a mark of respect to Kalam. Political parties like the DMK and the AIADMK cancelled their functions. Born in Rameswaram on October 15, 1931, Kalam, as a boy, hawked newspapers to supplement his family's income. His fa-

ther owned a boat and his mother struggled constantly to keep the family fed and clothed. His sister pawned jewellery with a moneylender so that the studious Kalam could carry Rs.600 when he left Rameswaram to join the Madras Institute of Technology. In 1958, Kalam joined the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). He moved to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), where he was project director of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III), which successfully injected the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980 and made India a member of the exclusive space club. He was responsible for the evolution of ISRO's launch vehicle programme, particularly the PSLV configuration. He rejoined DRDO in 1982, and planned the programme that produced a number of successful missiles, earning him the "Missile Man" nickname. Kalam took up the responsibility of developing indigenous weapons as the chief executive of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP). He was responsible for the development and operationalisation of Agni and Prithvi missiles. From 1992 to 1997, Kalam was scientific advisor to the defence minister, and later served as principal scientific advisor (1999-2001) to the government with the rank of cabinet minister. Kalam played a prominent role in the country's 1998 nuclear weapons tests, PokhranII, which made him a national hero.

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Wreckage may be of missing MH370 Malaysian premier: plane debris to be sent to France

PARIS, July 30 (AP): A seacrusted wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation's most perplexing and expensive mysteries. Malaysia's prime minister said Thursday the debris found on the French island of Reunion will be sent to the French city of Toulouse for investigation. "We have had many false alarms before, but for the sake of the families who have lost loved ones, and suffered such heartbreaking uncertainty, I pray that we will find out the truth so that they may have closure and peace," Najib Razak said on his personal blog. Najib promised to make any new information public quickly. Air safety investigators — one of them a Boeing investigator — have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. "It's the first real evidence that there is a possibility that a part of the aircraft may have been found," said Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss, whose country is leading the search for the plane in a remote patch of ocean far off Australia's west coast. "It's too early to make that judgment, but clearly we are treating this as a major lead." Flight 370 had been travel-

ing from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but investigators believe based on satellite data that the plane turned south into the Indian Ocean after vanishing from radar. If the wing part is from the Malaysian plane, it would bolster that theory and put to rest others that it traveled north, or landed somewhere after being hijacked. The wing piece is about 2 meters (6 feet) long. Investigators have found a number on the part, but it is not a serial or registration number, Truss said. It could be a maintenance number, which may help investigators figure out what plane it belongs to, he said. A French official close to an investigation of the debris confirmed Wednesday that French law enforcement is on Reunion to examine it. A French television network was airing video from its Reunion affiliate of the debris. U.S. investigators are examining a photo of the debris. The U.S. and French officials spoke on condition that they not be named because they aren't authorized to speak publicly. Flaperons are located on the rear edge of both wings, about midway between the fuselage and the tips. When the plane is banking, the flaperon on one wing tilts up and the other tilts down, which makes the plane roll to the left or right as it turns. The piece could help investigators figure out how the plane crashed, but whether it will help search crews pinpoint the rest of the wreckage is unclear, given the complexity of the currents in the southern

In this photo dated on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie)

Indian Ocean and the time that has elapsed since the plane disappeared. A massive multinational search effort of the southern Indian Ocean, the China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand has turned up no trace of the plane. The last primary radar contact with Flight 370 placed its position over the Andaman Sea about 370 kilometers (230 miles) northwest of the Malaysian city of Penang. Reunion is about 5,600 kilometers (3,500 miles) southwest of Penang, and about 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) west of the current search area. It was well understood after the aircraft disappeared that if

there was any floating debris from the plane, Indian Ocean currents would eventually bring it to the east coast of Africa, said aviation safety expert John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. But the debris is unlikely to provide much help in tracing the ocean currents back to the location of the main wreckage, he said. "It's going to be hard to say with any certainty where the source of this was," he said. "It just confirms that the airplane is in the water and hasn't been hijacked to some remote place and is waiting to be used for some other purpose. ... We haven't lost any 777s any-

where else." In a statement Thursday, the prefecture of Reunion emphasized that the source of the debris has not been identified, nor has it been definitely found to be from a Boeing 777. Reunion authorities have asked France's aviation investigative agency, known as the BEA, to coordinate with international investigators, notably the Malaysian and Australian authorities. The discovery is unlikely to alter the seabed search, said Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan, who is heading up the hunt. If the find proved to be part of the missing aircraft,

it would be consistent with the theory that the plane crashed within the 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) search area, 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) southwest of Australia, he said. "It doesn't rule out our current search area if this were associated with MH370," Dolan told The Associated Press. "It is entirely possible that something could have drifted from our current search area to that island." Dolan said search resources would be better spent continuing the seabed search with sonar and video for wreckage rather than reviving a surface search for debris if the part proved to be from Flight 370. Robin Beaman, a marine geologist at Australia's James Cook University, said there is precedence for large objects traveling vast distances across the Indian Ocean. Last year, a man lost his boat off the Western Australia coast after it overturned in rough seas. Eight months later, the boat turned up off the French island of Mayotte, west of Madagascar — 7,400 kilometers (4,600 miles) from where it disappeared. "I don't think we should rule anything out, that's for sure," Beaman said. Beaman believes experts could analyze ocean currents to try to determine where the plane entered the water, though given the time that has elapsed and the vast distance the debris may have traveled, it would be very difficult. If the part belongs to Flight 370, it could provide valuable

clues to investigators trying to figure out what caused the aircraft to vanish in the first place, said Jason Middleton, an aviation professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. The nature of the damage to the debris could help indicate whether the plane broke up in the air or when it hit the water, and how violently it did so, he said. The barnacles attached to the part could also help marine biologists determine roughly how long it has been in the water, he said. A comprehensive report earlier this year into the plane's disappearance revealed that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane's flight data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished. However, the report said the battery in the locator beacon of the cockpit voice recorder was working. Over the past 16 months, hopes have repeatedly been raised and then dashed that the plane, or parts of the plane, had been found: Objects spotted on satellite imagery, items found floating in the sea and washed ashore in Western Australia, oil slicks — in the end, none of them were from Flight 370. The most infamous false lead came in April 2014, when Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said officials were "very confident" that a series of underwater signals search crews had picked up were coming from Flight 370's black boxes. The signals proved to be a dead end, with no trace of the devices or the wreckage found.

China accuses America of Trump brings golf trip into campaign Landslides bury Nepal villages, killing at least 30 'militarizing' South China Sea BEIJING, July 30 (AP): China's Defense Ministry on Thursday accused the U.S. of militarizing the South China Sea as Beijing makes increasingly bold moves to assert its claim to virtually all of the sea's waters, islands and reefs. Spokesman Yang Yujun's remarks were prompted by comments last week from the head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Harry Harris, criticizing Chinese projects to build up islands in disputed waters. Harris warned such work could undermine international norms that have long supported the global economy and political order. Speaking at a monthly news conference, Yang said China rejected such claims totally and accused the U.S. of ulterior motives. "The U.S. side disregards and distorts the facts and plays up China's military threat to sow discord between China and the littoral states in the South China Sea. We firmly oppose such actions," Yang said. U.S. close-in reconnaissance of the Chinese armed forces, strengthened military alliances with the Philippines and others, and frequent military exercises are raising tensions and creating risks of incidents in the air and at sea, Yang said.

"The Chinese side expresses its serious concern over U.S. activities to militarize the South China Sea region," he said. "Such actions taken by the U.S. side would inevitably arouse suspicion from others that, does the U.S. want nothing better than chaos in the region?" China and five other claimants have competing claims to all or part of the South China Sea, home to rich fishing grounds, potentially significant mineral reserves and some of the world's most crucial shipping lanes. Harris said last week the South China Sea was now "front and center in the tug-of-war between the majority of regional nations that want to maintain the status quo and China that wants to change it to suit its narrow self-interest." China accuses the U.S. of maintaining a double standard by not criticizing work by other countries on their South China Sea holdings. However, Harris said the amount of land reclaimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan over the last 45 years totaled a mere 40 hectares (100 acres), a fraction of the more than 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) reclaimed by China in the last 18 months alone.

TuRNBERRy, July 30 (AP): Donald Trump turned a brief trip to a golf tournament in Scotland into an extension of his presidential campaign trail when he attended the Women's British Open at his plush Turnberry resort on Thursday. The first round of one of the high-profile events in women's golf wound up being a mere sideshow from the moment the Republican arrived at the course with family members in his private helicopter, declaring "the world has asked me to be here." Questions to Trump were restricted to golf and his future plans for Turnberry, the world's media had been warned. It didn't turn out that way. Wearing a red hat emblazoned with his campaign slogan "Make America Great Again," the billionaire celebrity businessman spoke of how we would "get along very well" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and make the U.S military "so strong that nobody would mess with us" if he became president. Trump, whose grandmother was born in Scotland, also weighed in on British politics, saying he hoped there would

not be another independence referendum in Scotland for 50 years because of the "bedlam and confusion" created by last year's vote. Trump's provocative comments on topics like immigration have commanded lots of media attention and attracted rising poll numbers, and he said he would continue stating his strong views because "we're so politically correct in our country that people are sick and tired of things not getting done." For the golf industry, though, his comments have been problematic. The Women's British Open, the fourth of five major championships, is the biggest event to be staged at one of Trump's 18 golf properties since his disparaging comments about Mexicans during his presidential campaign announcement last month. Trump said that some Mexican immigrants bring drugs and crime to the U.S., and some are rapists. Golf authorities have distanced themselves from his remarks and an October tournament on one of Trump's courses in Los Angeles — the Grand

Slam of Golf — was moved. It was too late, though, for a potential change in venue for the Women's British Open, and Michelle Wie — one of the stars of the women's tour — said this week she believes Trump's presence at Turnberry will distract from the competition. Certainly, all eyes were on Trump when his helicopter circled Turnberry twice, above the morning starters out on the course, before landing in front of the hotel at the luxurious resort he purchased last year. "I was like, 'Man, that's a really nice helicopter,'" said No. 2-ranked Lydia Ko, who was playing the 16th hole at the time when she heard the whirring of Trump's helicopter. "I would love one." After his news conference, Trump headed out onto the course to watch some action. He is scheduled to leave Turnberry on Friday and return to his campaign trail. The way the polls are looking, Trump is set to be one of the 10 Republican candidates who will take the stage in Cleveland on Aug. 6 for the first debate of the Republican presidential campaign.

KATHMANdu, July 30 (AP): Landslides caused by heavy rains buried several mountain villages in Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 30 people, and bad weather was hampering the search for others, authorities said. Rescuers pulled out 19 bodies after the landslide in the village in Lumle, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Kathmandu, according to the National Emergency Operation Center. An Associated Press cameraman saw police and army rescuers digging through piles of debris in search of at least 11 more people. More rain was falling, and helicopters were grounded. The highway linking the village with Pokhara, the main city in the region, was blocked at several places, delaying rescuers. Another five bodies were recovered in nearby Dudhe village, where two bridges were washed away. One more person was killed in the neighboring Baglung district, where the death toll was expected to rise. There was also report of five others killed in three separate villages bringing Thursday's death toll from landslides to 30. Heavy rains during the seasonal monsoon in Nepal often trigger landslides in the mountains and flooding in the southern plains. The devastating earthquake in April that killed nearly 8,900 people had set off many landslides and officials fear that the heavy rainfall would trigger more.

chemical linked to Taliban confirm Mullah Omar's death Brain sleeplessness identified

KABul, July 30 (AP): Afghanistan's Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, who led the group's self-styled Islamic emirate in the 1990s, sheltered al-Qaida through the 9/11 attacks and led a 14year insurgency against U.S. and NATO troops. The Taliban Shura, or Supreme Council, chose Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who had served as Mullah Omar's deputy for the past three years, as its new leader, two Taliban figures told the Associated Press, saying the seven-member council had met in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Mansoor is considered close to Pakistani authorities, who hosted peace talks earlier this month, and his election could widen an internal rift between fighters who favor negotiations with Kabul and those who want to continue an insurgency that has gained speed following the end of

the international combat mission last year. The peace process was plunged into uncertainty earlier Thursday, when the Afghan Taliban indicated they were pulling out of the negotiations and Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said the talks, which were to be hosted by Islamabad, were postponed. The Taliban said Mullah Omar's family had confirmed his death and that he had died of an unspecified illness. In a statement emailed to media, the Taliban quoted Mullah Omar's brother and one of his sons as asking for forgiveness for "mistakes" he made at the helm of the militant group. The statement, issued in the name of Mullah Omar's brother, Mullah Abdul Manan, and his son, Mohammad Yaqub, came after the Afghan government announced Wednesday that Mullah Omar had died more than two years ago in a Pakistani hospital. Senior

In this undated image released by the FBI, Mullah Omar is seen in a wanted poster. An Afghan official says his government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead. The Taliban could not be immediately reached for comment on the government’s claims about Omar, who has been declared dead many times before. (FBI via AP, File)

Taliban figures told the Associated Press that Mullah Omar died. Yaqub also confirmed in a telephone call with the AP that his father was dead but did not pro-

vide any further details. In the statement, Mullah Omar's family praises his dedication to jihad, or holy war, against the international military coalition

led by the United States and says it is the "duty of all Muslims" to follow his example by establishing Sharia law in Afghanistan. "During 14 years of jihad against the U.S., Mullah Omar never left Afghanistan for one day, even to go to Pakistan or to any other country," the statement said, saying he remained in Afghanistan through two weeks of serious illness before passing away, without providing further details. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until they were overthrown in a U.S-led invasion in 2001. It is widely believed that Mullah Omar fled over the border to Pakistan, where he lived under Pakistani protection until his death. Following Mansoor's election, the Taliban chose Sirajuddin Haqqani as its new deputy leader, the two Taliban figures said. Haqqani has a U.S. government bounty of $10 million on his head as a leader of

the extremist Haqqani network, which is allied with al-Qaeda. His election to the leadership of the Afghan Taliban confirms the group's ties to the Haqqani network, which has been accused of staging numerous crossborder attacks from their base in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan, including a 19-hour siege at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in September 2011. Pakistan's foreign ministry said Thursday it was postponing the talks due to the "uncertainty" surrounding Mullah Omar's death but gave no new date for the negotiations. "In view of the reports regarding the death of Mullah Omar and the resulting uncertainty, and at the request of the Afghan Taliban leadership, the second round of the Afghan peace talks, which was scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 31 July 2015, is being postponed," said the statement.

loNdoN, July 30 (IANS): Researchers have identified a brain chemical absence of which can lead to hyperactivity and sleeplessness. In the experiments, mice without the GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) chemical developed characteristics similar to a medical condition called mania, in which patients experience restlessness and sleeplessness, the study noted. This discovery could help researchers to develop new drugs that promote better sleep, or control hyperactivity in people with the medical condition mania. "Sleep is essential for health. We have to do it every day. But nobody yet knows why," said one of the lead researchers Bill Wisden, professor at Imperial College London. The chemicals they studied, histamine and GABA,

are produced in a primitive part of the brain that is highly similar in mice and humans. The researchers found that GABA and histamine are made in the same brain cells, called histamine neurons. They altered the levels of the GABA produced by the mice's brains and measured what changes this had on their brain activity over the day and night. The scientists found that compared with normal mice, those without GABA ran twice as far and twice as fast, and maintained or even increased their overall activity over a 30 minute period. "What particularly surprised us was how little the mice were affected by sleep deprivation," Nick Franks, professor at Imperial College London, pointed out. The findings were detailed in the journal Neuron.

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Friday 31 July 2015

Naknyulüm - Festival of the Chang

he Chang believes that the entire Human Race emerged from “CHANGSANGMONGKO”. It is considered as one of the oldest settlement for the Chang and interestingly, many primeval stories of CHANGSANG are unique in its essence. Of all the festivals, Chang revere the “NAKNYULÜM” since it is believed that the whole world was engulfed in utter darkness for THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. The darkness was so intense and was considered as NAKSHOU NAKNYU or THE MOTHER OF ALL DARKNESS. The people in CHANGSANG were stranded in the fields, some in the jungle, some at the journey to their way back home and many were stayed up in homes or people were held up wherever they were in that course of events. It is also believed that during the course of such untold events, those remained inside their homes completely for the said consecutive days caused lots of difficulties and became short of everything. In order to keep the fire burning inside their homes they burnt out every available things and when nothing was left they were compelled to burn the horns of buffaloes, mithuns, cows and other animals that were hung inside or outside the houses. At such a time, when the people were striving hard to overcome the darkness, a man named NAMO MOLO happened to kill a double tailed Tiger amidst the darkness. At that instant, the entire darkness suddenly burst into daylight. In order to celebrate the victory of light, the forefathers in CHANGSANG resolved to please the heavenly Gods by celebrating the Naknyu Festival symbolizing ‘THE CONQUEST OF DARKNESS BY LIGHT’. The ancient Chang believed that, there were three heavenly gods, each God were having their own powers and blessings. During the festival, people offers prayers invoke God’s blessings with special rituals so that, the darkness doesn’t rule over them again. Naknyu festival is celebrated every year on the eleventh (11) month of Chang calendar that is in the last week of July during moonless night/ month (Daomou in Chang dialect) just before the new moon appears. The Naknyu festival is firstly pronounced by the elderly person of the Oungh Clan and is celebrated for three days and nights. NAKNYU festival is marked by many rituals and restrictions, for instance, if a guest happens to accidentally visit the home, he/she is expected to come the following year for the Naknyu festival so as to avert ill omens. On the first day of the festival i.e., ‘Wenshi’ or preparation day, the women folk prepare flour from sticky rice and freshly harvested millet to make steamed biscuits. The selected animals for the feast particularly mithuns and pigs are slaughtered. As a traditional practices of Chang Naga Tribe, the priest from the Oungh Clan initiate the process followed by aged male members of the respective villages engage in making Yan’s (tops) and Kongkin (mouth flute made of bamboo) for all. On

the remaining hours, the members of the whole villages put ‘Ngounam’ (Ezhehozea, a scented plant use in ritual) by decorating the surrounding of the house, at the water well and both inside and outside the house. Ngounam was believed to ward off the evil spirits. At night, after dinner and before sleep, three pieces of “Wei” (Saponaria, a wild nut which was used to shampoo the hairs in ancient days) is placed at the door step with some hot ashes placed over it and wait till it burst out because of heat. If the seeds burst and split inside the house, it was believed to be a bad sign and that the family would see famine and destruction but if the seeds burst and split outside the house, the event meant a good and prosperous year ahead. The second day of the festival i.e. ‘Youchem’ or rest day, is filled with indigenous games of competition, sharing and giving. In ancient days, early in the morning, women folk offer rice beer and traditional pickle made of meat to their brothers, cousins and relatives, near and dear ones. The youngest in the family would be busy doing errands distributing steamed biscuits made of sticky rice, millets cakes and cooked meats to relatives, neighbours and friends. This festive event plays a significant role in building up love, compassion, concern, respect and honour for one another in turn inspiring the sense of ‘We feeling’ among the mass of people. Through exchanging of gifts and food items people come closer or come to know each other’ consanguinial or marital affinity. And thereby, they build a strong bond of relationship. At the same day of festival, men and women of different ages wear Ezhehozeas’ (ngounam in Chang) as a kind of an ornament - especially by those who have their ears pierced to ward off Evil spirits, the women folk plays kongkin and the male plays yans. Biscuit made of sticky rice and millet is hung high on the pole and the young and old alike compete to reach and bite it with their mouth with hands fold behind. The competitors are rewarded with hordes of rice cakes and many goodies. It is believed that the gods during NAKNYU comes down to earth to collect yans (tops) and Wei (saponaria) and hence, one piece each of ‘Wei’ and yan is placed at the entrance of the house for the gods at night. The third day of the festival i.e., ‘Nakseng’ determined the fate of the villagers where young men beat log drum from dawn till sunrise that denotes ‘THE DECLARATION OF THE PEOPLE COMING OUT OF DARKNESS AND USHERING DAWN OF LIGHT’. The old men too sit together in the morung waiting in utter silence to listen to the first chirping bird of the morning. They wait in attention for the pronouncement by the bird. It was believed that the kind of bird to chirp would define the future. If it is the aoumeishou -A small bird with blue spots to chirp first, it is considered a good omen as it signifies that the harvest of the year would be plen-

tiful and an abundant crop was predicted. If the bird to chirp first is black with white spotted one then it confirms that there would be birth of many warriors in the village. But if the first bird to chirp is the shopangshou -a small bird with mixed red and yellow feathers ‘then it announces misfortune for the people and Village. After a day break, the villagers clean up their respective traditional wells and ponds where the rest of the day is spent clearing and constructing the roads & bridges to the Villages and the fields. In short, it symbolizes the approach of new season i.e., winter, as it is based on ancient days with deep underlying meanings. The last day of Naknyulüm is an important day where aged old traditional bond of agreement and Treaty Alliance or Peace Treaty- Lamshok (in Chang) were made between the neighbouring Villages. This celebration of Naknyu Festival is compulsorily marked by every individual household/family irrespective of status to avert evil spirits by pleasing the heavenly Gods. In sixth(6th)day, i.e., counting from the first day of Naknyulüm, a special festival called ‘Monyulüm’ is celebrated for the young children. During the celebration of this festival, sticky biscuits are made and distributed equally among the young children, six for the male and five for female, which signifies the strength of the male and female. Despite the fun and merriment during the Naknyulüm, the festival is signified by the rituals and many ghenna has to be observed strictly. Some significant observation and practices of the Naknyu festival are as follows: Chang do not folk dance and sing during the festival, if any guest visits a home then it is expected of him/her to visit the Naknyu festival again the following year as well. This is a solemn festival where men and women are also not allowed to stay and visit neighbouring Villages. All animals booked for this festival are not spared. No marriage and physical sharing is observed, even between the husband and wife during this month of Naknyu festival. If rain pours during Naknyulüm, it is believed that it will brings good harvest and fill granary. No house or granary is built during this season. People are restricted from even trimming ones hair. It is believed that any mistake in observation of the rituals shall cause famine and pestilence in the village. It is assumed that on the last night of the Naknyu festival, the soul of man or woman who is destined to die the coming year leaves the person. Weaving, handicraft and knitting should not be left incomplete/half done during this season. Exchange of uncooked meat during this festival is strictly prohibited. Before the festival, one’s own belonging such as household properties and cultivating tools from the fields or elsewhere are collected and kept at home, failing which a bad Omen will befall the family. On the 3rd dawn day, a chicken is released by the priest from Oungh clan at the entrance of the village to signify the conclusion of the festival. Thence, normal life begins the following day as usual. Ngakhu Thungti Chang, Kohima

My 25 Minutes with Sir abdul Kalam

he phone rings and the person on the other side says “Mr Chingmak, his Excellency the President of India wishes to meet you” and I respond, “Hello! Can you please repeat that again”. The thought of the President coming to a small non-descript town like Tuensang filled my mind with owe; and of the so many thoughts that went through my mind in those few seconds of the phone call, was just thinking of “how me, how did he get to me”. Besides Jesus, I feel Nagas can’t be underrated to perform miracles. Within just two weeks of the official announcement, the road from the helipad to the ECS office was black-

topped and metaled. Five kilometres black-topped in just one week’s time; this is nothing short of a miracle. The President unfortunately could not me make to the office since we were on the 3rd floor and so the venue had to be shifted. We are grateful to the President though, we had nice road for a year, the rains came next monsoon, the chicks along the road picked on the stone chips and the road is gone now. The President’s protocol officer calls me and cautions me about the ‘green book’. Apparently the green says that I should keep six feet distance from the President. However, Sir Kalam comes straight to me and holds me by the shoulder, he says “Ch-

ingmak I have read a lot about you, I thought you were older and I like your jeans” And I am by now sweating and starring at the protocol officer, as if to tell the officer, “look it’s not my fault, he only came and held me by my shoulder”. I wish the younger Ministers and MLAs take few lessons from him; his humility preceded his persona as the President. And his personality surpassed his relationship with all as equal human beings created in the image of God. But what really amazed me were his simplicity and the passion with which he does his work. He then looks to my wife Phutoli, pointing at the posters showing figures of HIV in

Tuensang, he turns to her and says, “Where did we go wrong”. I presume that as a leader we can foresee change happen only when we ask the right questions. To him we owe the nation’s attention to grave situation that Tuensang was grappling with HIV/ AIDS. As we remember him, to me I presume he remains to be the only leader after post-independence era to have left a vacuum in everyone. The Government can never produce good leaders; it is only when our homes and our schools are attuned to, and when all of us agree to ‘character building’ as the ‘primary’ mandate of the nation. . Chingmak Kejong

The MeaNiNg oF LiFe

t is quite perplexing that this question of life’s meaning has often been raised by well accomplished individuals who had all the things that the world can offer. This question has haunted every reasonable person that has journeyed through this planet. Many came to the conclusion that life had nothing to offer them and ended their pilgrimage prematurely. Some, amidst their sufferings, pain and ignominy still looked to that ray of hope and struggled to survive. “What’s the point of enduring it all? What’s the point of striving so hard to earn a livelihood? What’s the point of earning degrees after degrees and landing up somewhere which had nothing to do with our expertise? What’s the point of working laboriously to put the food on our tables day after day? Is this all that life can offer? Can there be a higher value that man can live for? What if there was nothingness after our existence on earth? ... ” Time and again philosophers, theologians and every intellectual cluster of humans have wrestled with these questions. A famous novelist, Jack Higgens, after attaining heights of popularity and wealth was interviewed with this question, ‘What do you know now that you wish to know when you started as a young man?” Without a pause, he uttered, “That when you get to the top, there’s nothing there.” In his pursuit for the ultimate bliss, he was left void and emptier than before. Boris Becker, the coach of the tennis player, Novak Djokovic, was a gold medallist

winning the Wimbledon Olympics twice. Yet this young man, Boris Becker confessed that, “He had no inner peace of heart and had suicidal tendencies.” Many suicidal notes left behind are related to the meaninglessness of life and the insignificance to all human’s striving. And we could go on with examples. What is more astounding is that the richest man in the Bible character too had this problem. Listen to him, “Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” So we ask, “Is there a meaning to all of life’s activities under the sun?” If so, what could that be that provides a sense of worth to all our works here on earth? One of the well-known American psychologists of the 20th century named (Orval) Hobart Mauer, who began his journey in college as a conservative Christian lost his faith as he adopted progressive and scientific views prevalent in academia and became a sceptical person on matters of God, eventually committed suicide at the age of 75. He wrote in one of his article, “For several decades we psychologists looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed our liberation from it as epoch making. But at length we have discovered that to be free in this sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also becoming lost… in becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest sense of selfhood and identity, and with neurotics,

themselves, we find ourselves asking: who am I, what is my deepest destiny, what does living mean?” In his journey without God, he discovered that human’s value and personhood becomes baseless once the vertical dimension is cut off. All of fundamental life questions stand unanswered and impossible to solve once God is out of the picture. It is only when a soul realizes that God has placed us on this planet for a specific task, then can that soul finds its true sense of worth to live happily. All our labours, strivings, business, studies, and activities become meaningful when our duties and responsibilities are carried out knowing that it has eternal significance. There are no answers to all of life questions without the name of “God.” Now, thesecond answer to life’s ultimate answer is to live not for ourselves but to live for someone else. All great men and women who have made a mark in the human history be it Jesus Christ, St. Paul, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Kalam, etc., have poured out their lives for someone else. Leo Tolstoy, one of the internationally acclaimed author, himself was disillusioned with this fundamental question and sought to find answers in religion and philosophical traditions and finally found out the truth and confessed in one of his book, “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” The quintessential of human life is not self-centred but selfless sacrifice laid

on the altar for someone else and that is where the true essence of the meaning of life lies. “The measure of a life, after all,” says, Corrie Ten Boom, is not its duration but its donation.” Finally, the cure to life’s worth depends on how you take it. You can either enjoy or endure it! It’s quite understandable that the harsh realities of life cannot simply be overlooked and live a facsimile life by chanting “All is well.” But the attitude on how we counter those things determines our joy in pain. Helen Keller, the deaf-blind American author might help us here, “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” This lady defied all odds in her life to become one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century. Today we live in a culture bombarded with the nothingness and the meaninglessness of life but if we were to honestly turn the pages of our history, you will be surprised to know that this question of life’s meaning have been solved through and through. So there is now no excuse on the part of humans to live life without a sense of purpose and meaning because time and history has revealed to us the riposte. On a final note, listen to King Solomon, “Let the conclusion of all these thoughts be heard: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this is what it means to be human (Ecclesiastes 12:14).” Vebu Khamo Kohima Bible College.

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Public awareness on Malaria

What is malaria? What are the types of malaria parasites found in Nagaland? • Malaria is a disease associated with fever which is transmitted by the bite of infected female anopheles mosquitoes • There are two types of malaria parasites found in Nagaland: Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum. Falciparum malaria is the more serious of the two. What are the common signs and symptoms of malaria? • 9-14 days after a bite by infected mosquito, the patient may develop the following signs and symptoms: 1. Fever with chills and rigor, sweating followed by intermittent relief of fever 2. Headache, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms 3. Anemia in severe cases, fits/convulsion and loss of consciousness 4. Parasite may go to the brain which causes cerebral malaria 5. Malaria in pregnancy could risk the life of mother and child 6. If not treated early and adequately, the person may die due to malaria How is malaria spread? • When a female anopheles mosquito bites a person who is already suffering from malaria, the parasite is picked up along with the blood. • The parasite matures inside the mosquito and when it bites other person in the community, malaria is spread. Where does the Anopheles mosquito breed? • Anopheles mosquitoes breed in wide varieties of clean stagnant water bodies such as over-head tanks, ponds, ditches, open water storage containers, flower vases, discarded tyres, irrigation channels, rice fields, slow moving streams, animal hoof marks, wheel tracks, water coolers, unused utensils and pots, etc. What do you do when malaria is suspected? • All health centres are covered with health workers such as Surveillance Workers/MultiPurpose Workers, ASHAs who are trained and provided with Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits and medicines for on-the-spot testing and treatment if found positive. Health Units with laboratory are equipped with facility for blood slide examination and treatment.

• Test all fever cases for malaria. There are two kinds of tests for malaria: 1. Slide Test: Blood smear in a glass slide is examined by a technician under a microscope. This method can detect both vivax and falciparum malaria. 2. Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT): A drop of blood is put on a test strip and result can be seen within 15 minutes. RDT at present is only for testing of falciparum malaria. • Chloroquine for 3 days and primaquine for 14 days is the treatment of choice for Plasmodium vivax malaria • Artesunate Combination Therapy (ACT) for 3 days is the treatment of choice for falciparum malaria. • Ensure that the treatment is completed. Incomplete treatment will result in relapse (P. vivax) or resistance to medicines. • For pregnant mothers and children below 1 year, Primaquine should not be given. Contact nearest health center. • Diagnostic tests and all medicines for malaria are available for free. How can you prevent malaria? • Prevent mosquito breeding near your houses: Remove all water stagnant bodies. Cover the water storage containers, put kerosene in coolers/containers or empty them once a week. • Prevent mosquitoes from biting: Always sleep under mosquito net, preferably under insecticide-treated nets (e.g. LLIN). Ensure that at least pregnant women and children sleep under mosquito nets. Wear long sleeve clothes, and use mosquito repellents. Put wire mesh in doors and windows. Avoid sleeping outdoors without protection. • Accept Indoor Residual Spray (IRS). DDT spray indoor is a safe and effective method for mosquito control. Spraying outdoor is ineffective (e.g. washed away by rain) and counter-productive (chases mosquitoes inside the house). • Put larvivorous fishes in water bodies which cannot be drained. Such fishes feed on mosquito larvae and reduce mosquito population. • Promptly test all fever cases for malaria. Ensure that appropriate and complete treatment is given. • Spread awareness on malaria prevention measures, diagnosis and treatment.

WHAT IS DENGUE?

PREVENTIVE & CONTROL • Dengue is a viral disease. MEASURES: • Dengue is transmitted by the • All water storage containers bite of Aedes mosquito. should be covered. • The mosquito bites in day time. • Man develops the disease after • Remove/ destroy all disposable, unused materials lying in and 5-6 days of being bitten by an inaround the house, like old tyres, fective mosquito. broken pots, crockery etc. • Dengue occurs in two forms: - Dengue Fever (DF) & Dengue • Dry all water storage utensils, water coolers, flower vases, waHaemorrhagic Fever (DHF) ter vessels for birds and animals, fridge trays at least once a week SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF DENbefore re-filling. GUE FEVER: • Fill up the ditches and other un• Sudden onset of high fever. wanted water collection sites • Severe headache. around the houses. • Pain behind the eyes which • Put insecticides, petrol, k. oil, in worsens with eye movement. coolers, containers etc once a • Muscle & joint pains. week, which cannot be emptied • Loss of sense of taste & appetite. or cleaned. • Measles like rash over the chest • Introduce Larvivorous fish in & upper limbs. stagnant water bodies, contact Asstt. Director UMS Dimapur. AGE GROUP & SEX AFFECTED: • All age groups & both sex are afPERSONAL PROTECTION fected. MEASURES: • Deaths occur more in children. • Wear clothes that covers the whole body in day time. TRANSMISSION FROM ONE • Use appropriate wire mesh in PERSON TO ANOTHER: doors and windows of the house. • Dengue fever is caused by the • Ensure that at least pregnant bite of Aedes mosquito. women and children sleep un• When the mosquito bites a perder mosquito net during day son with Dengue fever, it picks time, preferably insecticide up the germs of the disease treated bed nets. along with the blood. • This germ known as dengue vi- • Insecticide treated mosquito nets are more effective as they rus develops within the mosquikill mosquitoes as well as other to in a few days. bugs and insects. • When this mosquito again bites a healthy person, it introduces • Use mosquito repellent lotion, creams like good-knight, odothe germs into the blood. mos etc. • After a few days the person becomes sick with high fever and CONTACT ADDRESS: other symptoms of dengue. • If there is any suspected case which matches the signs and BREEDING PLACES: symptoms described above, • Aedes mosquito breed in any contact the nearest health unit or type of manmade containers or District Program Officer (Nationwater storage containers even al Vector Borne Disease Control having small quality of water Programme) of your respective like desert coolers, water storage district for collection and transcontainers, tyres, overhead tanks, portation of sample for testing. drums, jar, buckets, flower vases, Facility for testing is available at plant saucers, tanks, bottles, tin, District Hospital, Dimapur. roof gutters, refrigerator drip Issued for public information by pans, cement blocks, cemetery urns, bamboo stumps, tree holes National Vector Borne Disease and many more places where Control Programme (NVBDCP) rain water collects or is stored. Directorate of Health and • Eggs of mosquito can live withFamily Welfare out water for more than 1year. Nagaland: Kohima

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Couture in India is perfect:

eghan Trainor is joining Charlie Brown, Snoopy and others in the "Peanuts" movie. The singer reveals to PEOPLE that she has recorded a new song for the upcoming film slated for release this fall. Called "Better When I'm Dancin' ", the track was written by Trainor after director Steve Martino asked her to create a song about confidence. "They wanted a song about confidence and knew I was good at writing those. I feel better

he 'Dark Horse' hitmaker took to her Twitter account on Wednesday night (29.07.15) to reveal fans will be able to appear in the latest advert for the cosmetics' brand's Super Sizer mascara. She wrote: ''Wanna [star emoji] in ur own #COVERGIRL commercial to air during #VMA's? Let's advertise your eyes! (sic).'' Katy also included a link to a page on the CoverGirl website where budding models and fans of the star can upload images of themselves wearing the eyelash plumping product. The page reads: ''Supersize yourself #Lashfame Star in a video with Katy Perry and the Super Sizer mascara ''Upload a picture of yourself and your supersized lashes with #lashfame for a chance to be featured in a commercial during the MTV Video Music Awards. Scroll first to create your video with Katy. Then, register your creation for a chance to win.'' The 30-year-old beauty was first unveiled as the new face of CoverGirl earlier this year, although she previously appeared in ads for the brand in 2013. Following the announcement, Katy said: ''In addition to music, I've always considered make-up to be a powerful creative avenue for self-expression for me.''

when I'm onstage dancing and having fun, so I wrote about that!" she explains. Asked if she's a fan of "Peanuts", she says, "My grandma always had it on; she always had a lot of cartoons on. I was super-duper young, but I do remember when the show was on - it was huge!" Of which character she likes the most, she adds, "Charlie's sister [Sally Brown]. She's a cutie. I also like the new girl - no one knows about [her] yet, but I do! I can't wait for everyone

to meet her." The film's animator thanked Trainor for her song by creating a "Peanuts" version of the 21-year-old songbird in her "All About That Bass" costume. "Isn't it so cute?" she asks PEOPLE of the animated version of herself. "They sent me the first version and I said, 'Don't touch it, it's perfect.' It's the background on my phone!" The "Peanuts" movie is hitting U.S. theaters on November 6.

In this Wednesday, July 29 photo, a model displays a creation by Indian designer Sabyasachi on a stage at the Amazon India Couture Week 2015 in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo)

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Katy Perry is giving her fans the opportunity to appear alongside her in the latest commercial for CoverGirls' Super Sizer mascara.

31 July 2015

Meghan Trainor writes song about Confidence

Christian Louboutin ce French footwear designer Christian Louboutin feels Indian couture is at par with the high-end collections shown on the ramps of Milan and Paris. Louboutin, 52, who was in India to collaborate with designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee for his opening show at the ongoing India Couture Week, said this is how fashion should be. "This is the first time, I have attended a couture fashion show in India. If it is the way, then it's absolutely perfect. It is very nice. It's absolutely a pleasure and nothing more than that," Louboutin told reporters last night. Donning a red bandhgala, Louboutin walked the ramp alongside Sabyasachi with folded hands. "It was a very beautiful collection. Of course, I knew the work of Sabyasachi but I had never attended his show. To me it was a great experience. I barely attended any Indian fashion show and I loved the set and outfits. It was exactly the way things are done in Paris," he said. Louboutin, known for his red-lacquered soles, flew down to India on July 28 from Paris and said the "beautiful" collection took away all his jetlag. "I am so refreshed after watching the show. I came yesterday and was all exhausted. But now I feel absolutely revived and will be happy to fly back. Now, I have many little butterflies in my head because of the show," said the designer, whose clientele include Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker among many other Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities. However, the noted designer feels that the collaboration with Sabyasachi happened quite late. "I can only work with people whom I bond in a personal way and Sabyasachi is one of them. We both share same level of enthusiasm towards our work. I am happy with our collaboration. Now, I can sleep and even he can sleep peacefully," he said.

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apanese multimedia artist, singer and peace activist Yoko Ono teamed up with Irish band U2's Bono and The Edge to honour late singer John Lennon through a tapestry here. The John Lennon Amnesty International Tapestry was presented inside the Registry Room at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration here on Wednesday, reports dailymail.co.uk. The 24-feet by 10-feet tapestry depicts Manhattan as a yellow submarine with Lennon as its captain waving a peace sign. The artwork was unveiled on the 40th anniversary of Lennon receiving his green card allowing him permanent residency in the United States. The tapestry was commissioned by Art For Amnesty founder Bill Shipsey as a token of appreciation for Ono, 82, giving Amnesty International rights to record covers of Lennon's post-Beatles songs. While giving a speech, Bono noted that Lennon in the tapestry was shown giving the same peace sign that he famously flashed in front of the Statue of Liberty after succeeding in his immigration case.

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ittle Women will be coming to television in a 'gritty' adaptation of the 1868 novel. The CW network in an early script buy for the 2015-16 development season opted for an adaptation of the literary classic by Louisa May Alcott, according to an article on Wednesday by Deadline. The network has put Little Women in development with writer Alexis Jolly attached. The series was described as a 'hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation' of the novel with half-sisters Jo, Meg,

Beth and Amy banding together to survive the dystopic streets of Philadelphia. The sisters will attempt to unravel a conspiracy while trying not to kill each other. The series will be executive produced by Jolly and NCIS star Michael Weatherly. The novel followed the March sisters and their mother Mamee as they struggled amid poverty without their father during the US Civil War. The widely read novel was adapted as silent films in 1917 and 1987 and later was made into four more films. The BBC aired two Little Women series in the 1950 and two anime series were produced in Japan in the 1980s based on the story. A 1994 film version of Little Women featured Winona Ryder as Jo, Trini Alvarado as Meg, Claire Danes as Beth and Kirsten Dunst as a young Amy. Susan Sarandon played their mother Marmee in the film.

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Bono, right, and The Edge, left, of the Irish rock band U2, flank Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, at the unveiling of a giant tapestry depicting the island of Manhattan as a yellow submarine piloted by a waving Lennon at Ellis Island on Wednesday, July 29, in New York. (AP Photo)

Simon Cowell helps Zayn Malik bag RCA records deal

ooks like Zayn Malik is firing up his solo career after exiting One Direction, as the singer is now officially signed on with RCA records, a'' thanks to Simon Cowell. Sources revealed that the 55-year-old producer made things possible between the 22-year-old singer and the recording company as Cowell has been negotiating the deal for a couple of weeks, reported TMZ.com. Talking about the big deal, the singer, who is now competing labels with his former band, tweeted, "I guess I never explained why I left, it was for this moment to be given the opportunity to show you who i really am! #realmusic #RCA !!" Later, Malik also posted a picture of himself signing the agreement papers.

Garth Brooks named highest-paid country singer

arth Brooks has been named as the highest-paid country singer in the music industry, according to a new Forbes report. The veteran singer's comeback tour has helped Brooks come in at number one on the annual list, raking in an estimated USD 90 million over the past year. The feat also marks the largest sum for a country music act ever recorded by the money magazine. After taking a 13-year break from touring, Brooks, 53, returned to the stage in 2014, playing sold out arenas all over the US and selling more than 2.5 million tickets for his much-anticipated gigs. Brooks' impressive salary breaks Toby Keith's two-year streak on the list, as the Red Solo Cup hitmaker slips to second place, after earning USD 53 million over the past year.

John Cena suffers broken nose on Live Tv

en Affleck's lawyers are threatening legal action over a magazine article suggesting he has struck up a romance with his children's nanny following the breakdown of his marriage to Jennifer Garner. The Argo star hit headlines on Wednesday when an Us Weekly story alleged Affleck had started dating Christine Ouzounian, who was briefly hired in the spring to help care for the estranged couple's three children during a trial separation. The report alleged the Oscar winner began seeing the 28-year-old romantically before he and Garner formally an-

nounced they were divorcing in June after 10 years of marriage, but Affleck's spokesperson told the magazine, "All allegations of a romantic relationship are baseless and untrue." Editors ran the story anyway, quoting an unnamed source, who claimed Ouzounian believed she had found "true love" with the actor/ director. Now Affleck's representative is blasting the article's publication. A statement issued to the New York Daily News reads, "The story is complete garbage and full of lies. You shouldn't be able to hide behind 'blind sources.' We are considering legal options."

restler-turned-actor John Cena was hospitalised on Monday night after having his nose broken on live Tv in America during a Wwe Championship bout. The Trainwreck star faced off against Seth Rollins during the weekly World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Monday Night Raw event, but fans were given a shock as Cena took a knee to the face. Blood dripped from his broken nose, but the wrestling icon refused to give up, despite clearly appearing a little dazed, and battled on to successfully defend his United States Championship title. After the fight, Cena was hospitalised for treatment. WWE doctor Steve Daquino explained, "John suffered from a nasal fraction. He's got quite a bit of displacement, so we sent him over to the local emergency room so he can be evaluated by the ears, nose and throat doctor who's on call tonight and see what can be done to properly repair it." Cena has yet to comment on the injury.

PSG lifts International Champions Cup ASheS: Australia

Thiago Emiliano Da Silva holds up the International Champions Cup trophy after Paris Saint-Germain defeated Manchester United during the International Champions Cup soccer match on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Chicago.(AP Photo) Timothy Cronin C M Y K

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Paris Saint-G ermain claimed the International Champions Cup with a 2-0 victory over Manchester United on Wednesday night at Soldier Field. Off the field, PSG might be on the verge of scoring another victory over the Red Devils. Following the game, PSG manager Laurent Blanc said his squad is close to finishing a deal with Manchester United for talented midfielder Angel di Maria, who didn't make the trip to the U.S. for the four-match series.

"As Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain are very big clubs, negotiations can be difficult," Blanc said through a translator. "But I feel negotiations are close to the end." The transfer fee could be as high as $71.7 million for di Maria, who spent last season with Manchester United after the Red Devils picked him up from Real Madrid for an even larger fee. Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal wouldn't confirm that a deal is imminent. "I don't answer that question," van Gaal said. "I don't know. We'll an-

nounce something when it's done. It is not done. It's a process. I want to interfere with nothing." Without di Maria, Manchester United's attack sometimes sputtered, while Paris Saint-Germain was able to hold on after goals from midfielder Blaise Matuidi and forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the first 34 minutes. The victory, before 61,351 spectators, brought PSG the trophy for the series of summer exhibitions. They tied the New York Red Bulls with 10 points on 3-01 records, but took the tiebreaker on goal differential.

"There's a huge quality to this tournament, but we can't forget there's an official match (against Olympique Lyonnais in the French League) to win in a few days in Montreal." That match is Saturday. Matuidi opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Matuidi ran into the penalty area, fended off defender Phil Jones and sent a slow roller past charging goalkeeper David De Gea. Van Gaal found fault with De Gea on that play. "They created chances only on personal errors," Van Gaal said. "They can score out of these kind of

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The winners with organizer of open super six cricket tournament in Kohima on July 29.

PWOK annual get together cum sports meet Kohima, July 30 (mExN): The Poumai Women Organization Kohima (PWOK) will hold its annual get-together cum sports meet on August 8 at 9:30 AM at D. Khel Ground, Seikhazou, Kohima village. All the Poumai women residing in Kohima town have been requested to participate in the said event.

Former Nagaland Wrestling Champion no more

Vinocho Phinyo former Nagaland Wrestling Champion 1959 - 2015.

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errors, and they can finish the game." Ibrahimovic and Maxwell, the Brazilian defender, played a brilliant give-and-go for PSG's second goal in the 34th minute. Ibrahimovic came down the center, fed Maxwell on the left 25 yards out and took a return feed on the 6-yard line for an easy score. PSG goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was forced to make only three saves, the best of which came from midfielder Andreas Periera in the 76th minute. Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata had a goal wiped out by an offside call and misfired on another sure change. His 17-yard shot in the 22nd minute was negated after he was ruled offside. In the 55th minute, Mata failed to connect on a shot from the right doorstep that would have cut the Red Devils' deficit in half. In the 35th minute, Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney sent a rebound wide after Memphis Depay was saved from 10 yards out. Periera's chance in the 76th minute came as Manchester United was pressing the attack. His pointblank one-hop header was stopped by Trapp on the left side of the goal box. Manchester United beat Club America 1-0 in its opener, then rolled to 3-1 victories over San Jose and FC Barcelona. PSG beat SL Benfica and Fiorentina before losing to Chelsea on penalties. De Gea was replaced by Sam Johnstone in the Manchester United goal for the second half.

Kohima, July 30 (mExN): Vinocho Phinyo, former Nagaland Naga Wrestling Champion of 1982, passed away at Kidima village, his ancestral home on July 30. He was 56. Vinocho was the Champion in the 8th Naga Wrestling tournament of Nagaland in 1982. Vinocho won the freestyle wrestling IV category in Southern Angami Sports Association (SASA) Silver Jubilee 1984 and also won in the Naga style category in Angami Sports Association (ASA) tournament the same year. He also participated in the 3rd Mizo-Naga Wrestling Tournament held at Kohima in 1984. Vinocho also took part in the 14th All India Civil Service Wrestling tournament held at Delhi in 1986.

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BiRmiNGham, July 30 (REuTERS): England removed Chris Rogers and Steve Smith to leave Australia in trouble on the second day of the third test on Thursday as a compelling Ashes series ebbed and flowed again. Australia were 73 for two at tea in their second innings, 72 runs behind England who were bowled out for 281 in the afternoon session at Edgbaston. David Warner's belligerent 56 not out, made off 37 deliveries, gave the touring side hope while captain Michael Clarke, desperately searching for form, was unbeaten on two at the interval. Stuart Broad, bowling round the wicket, rapped Rogers on his back leg to trap the opener lbw for six. Smith then perished for eight when he top-edged Steven Finn to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler. England established a decent lead, despite losing their last three wickets for four runs, after an entertaining eighth-wicket stand of 87 between Moeen Ali and Broad. The pair added quick runs after lunch, Moeen again showing how valuable he is coming in at number eight. All at sea against his spinning counterpart Nathan Lyon before the interval, he smashed Mitchell Johnson for six boundaries including three in one over. But after Broad (31) skied Josh Hazlewood to mid-on, Moeen quickly followed and the innings ended tamely. A hostile Johnson had begun the second morning on fire, removing Jonny Bairstow and Ben

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Australia’s Mitchell Johnson bowls to England’s Joe Root during day two of the third Ashes Test cricket match, at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, Thursday, July 30. (AP Photo)

Stokes in his first over to pass 300 test wickets. Johnson steamed in and directed a bouncer that was homing in on Bairstow's throat, the startled batsman fending it off with his glove to be caught behind. Two balls later Stokes also got a taste of 'chin-music', unable to get out of the way of an-

other thunderbolt and falling in the same fashion. Joe Root kept his cool to compile 63 while Hazlewood and Lyon took three wickets apiece for Australia. The five-test series is level at 1-1 after England won in Cardiff and Australia hit back in the second test at Lord's.

Kohima, July 30 (mExN): The Kohima Baptist Youth Fellowship (KBYF) has successfully organized Open Super Six Cricket Tournament from July 28 to 29 last at Govt. High School ground. Altogether, 24 teams from various churches and clubs participated in the tournament. Silverback emerged the coveted champion title and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 10,000. Six Alians stood runners up and awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 5000. The prize money was sponsored by land resources department director Mhathung Yanthan.

Kaka helps MLS All Stars to beat Tottenham Pat Graham

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Team captains of various participating teams take oath during the inaugural programme of two-day Summer Sports Meet 2015 of Gorkha Students’ Union Dimapur at Government Higher Secondary School, Nagarjan, Dimapur on Thursday. Held under the theme, ‘Unity through Sports,’the inaugural programme was graced by President, Jain Samaj, Om Prakash Sethi. (Morung photo)

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The news kids in the league can play a little bit. Kaka and David Villa, a pair of 33-year-old international icons in their first season in Major League Soccer, showed they still have some panache to their games. Kaka scored on a penalty kick and set up Villa's goal minutes later in the first half to help the best players in MLS beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 on a blustery Wednesday night. The MLS improved to 9-3-1 against international competition in its All-Star Game. Kaka, who served as the team's captain, was selected the game MVP. "Not bad for my first All Star," said Kaka, a midfielder for Orlando City. "I didn't expect that for tonight. "Everybody is happy, because tomorrow in the soccer world everybody will talk about the MLS All-Star team beating a very good European team." Although the MLS players had just one real workout together, coach Pablo Mastroeni said everything flowed together because of Kaka. "His desire to be here was tremendous," said Mastroeni, who coaches the Colorado Rapids. "For a guy who's done everything you can pretty much do in a football career and still have this desire to come and participate in Colorado, in altitude, mid-week, and be excited and hungry about it? That speaks more about the human than the player. ... He rubbed off, even for a moment, on a lot of us." Harry Kane scored for the Spurs, who open the English Premier League season against Manchester United on Aug. 8. "As a team we could have done better," Kane said. "Our first tough game of the pre-

MLS All-Star midfielder Kaka, front, makes a penalty kick against Tottenham Hotspurs during the first half of the MLS All-Star soccer game Wednesday, July 29, in Commerce City, Colo. (AP Photo)

season, but we created some good chances in the first half." Especially Kane, who was stopped three times early in the game by keeper Nick Rimando of Real Salt Lake. "Have to say thank you to (Rimando)," Kaka said. "He saved the team." David Ousted, who plays for Vancouver, took over in goal for the second half. He preserved the lead in the 73rd minute when he made a sprawling save on a pointblank attempt by Josh Onomah. Kaka converted a penalty kick in the 20th minute after a hand ball in the box. Although Spurs keeper Michel Vorm guessed right on Kaka's kick, he couldn't stop the shot from the Brazilian midfielder. Three minutes later, Kaka set up another goal when he delivered a pass that Villa tapped in with his left foot. Villa, who plays for New York City FC, is Spain's ca-

reer scoring leader. U.S. national standout Clint Dempsey, a former player at Tottenham before going to Seattle, also was given an assist. Early on, it was a frustrating first half for Kane as he was stopped time and again by Rimando. But Kane wouldn't be denied in the 37th minute, when he juked defender Omar Gonzalez to create just enough space to unleash a line shot into the corner of the net. "The keeper was in top form," Kane said. "Delighted to see the goal go in and delighted to be out there." The MLS All Stars were without quite a few big names as Steven Gerrard (LA Galaxy), Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy), and Frank Lampard (New York City FC) all sat out due to injuries. Landon Donovan attended the game as a spectator. The U.S. soccer great retired last season after winning the MLS title.

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