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Al Qaeda urges lone wolf attacks in India

NEW DElhI, July 4 (REutERs): A regional branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims in India to revolt and carry out lone wolf attacks, a U.S. monitoring site reported, days after the rival jihadi movement Islamic State claimed responsibility for Bangladesh’s worst militant attack. The call by al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) follows warnings by security officials and experts that the two groups are trying to outdo each other in the region and claim the mantle of global jihad. An online audio message purportedly from Asim Umar, the head of AQIS, said Indian Muslims must follow the example of youths in Europe and strike against Indian police and senior officials, holding them responsible for communal violence. “Start Jihad with the strength which Allah has already granted you. A sister and brother duo is seen playing at Mopungchuket Village in Mokokchung District. The village is a 17 km drive Kill the senior officers of institutions and administrative departments that from Mokokchung Town, Nagaland’s third largest urban centre. (Photo by Manen Aier)

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Naga Hoho & NPO propose larger consultative meeting KohIma, July 4 (mExN): The Naga Hoho and the Naga Public Organisation (NPO), the apex body of the Naga people in Myanmar (Burma), held a consultative meeting on July 4 at Hotel Japfu. The meeting was held in keeping with “our zeal and aspiration to share a common ground and interest and to build a cohesive Naga society across the Naga homeland,” stated Mutsikhoyo Yhobu, General Secretary of the Naga Hoho in a press release today. In order to “reach an understanding and to promote peaceful co-existence in all Naga inhabited areas,” the meeting proposed to have a larger consultative meeting in the later part of the year, comprising of Naga Hoho and its units in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur alongside the NPO, elected representatives to the Government of Myanmar and various Naga civil societies and leaders from all walks of lives. The Naga delegation from Myanmar (Burma) was led by NPO Chairman, Harti Yang Li, and General Secretary of the Naga Students’ Organization, Mankhat Konyak.

get (people to) start these riots,” AQIS said, according to U.S. intelligence group SITE. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the recording. In it, AQIS said Muslims were present in every part of India and must use their strength to reclaim power in a country they ruled for centuries. “Even if you come out carrying merely knives and swords then, history bears witness, Hindus cannot withstand you,” Umar said. Since its formation in 2014, AQIS has been trying to incite attacks, but India’s Muslims, who number more than 160 million, have been largely unmoved. Only a handful are known to have tried to join Islamic State, according to Indian officials. An Indian interior ministry spokesman said he had seen media reports about the latest warning from al Qaeda, but he had no immediate comment to offer. Security agencies

were aware of the matter, he added. Both Al Qaeda and Islamic State have claimed a series of killings in Bangladesh over the past year, attacking liberals and foreigners. On Friday, militants stormed a restaurant in Dhaka and killed 20 people, most of them foreigners, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Bangladesh’s government has long denied the involvement of foreign Islamist groups in the violence, but some security experts said the restaurant attack undermined that position. “I think it demonstrates that competition between AQ and the Islamic State isn’t necessarily a good thing, as Islamic State in Bangladesh clearly planned an attack that would outdo al Qaeda in terms of carnage and international attention,” said Thomas Joscelyn, a senior editor at The Long War Journal that tracks global jihadi groups.

NNC: Nothing to do with Panglong Agreement Positive gesture reflects bond of

KohIma, July 4 (mExN): The Naga National Council has stated that the Naga people have “nothing to do” with the Panglong Agreement or the 21st (century) Panglong Conference in Burma. Any Eastern Naga leader’s participation in the Conference will, thus, be deemed as an “act of treason against the Naga nation.” The Panglong Agreement was reached between the Burmese government under Aung San

and the Shan, Kachin, and Chin peoples on February 12, 1947, with the objective to lead a united struggle against British colonisation as well as to recognise autonomy of the ethnic peoples. A second Panglongstyle conference is set to be held soon to address issues pertinent to Burma in the 21st century, particularly between the government and signatories of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement.

Reminding that the Nagas have always lived as a “free and independent people since time immemorial,” a press release from W. Shapwon, Joint Secretary of the NNC, noted that even as Burma gained independence, the NNC stood firm in remaining an independent nation. In those days, he maintained, the Naga national stand was “clearly made known” to the Burmese leaders as well as the Indian leaders by Naga leader

AZ Phizo. The Nagas therefore, “did not involve in the Panglong agreement of February 1947 nor signed to join the Indian Union.” “When the neighboring countries had disregarded the will of the Naga people and sent their Army to Nagaland in an attempt to invade Nagaland, the Naga had been relentlessly and tenaciously defending their sovereignty at all cost in the last nearly seventy years,” Shapwon maintained.

Modi all set to recast ministerial council today, 18 new faces likely NEW DElhI, July 4 (IaNs): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to reshuffle his council of ministers on Tuesday by axing six ministers and inducting 18 new faces in the maiden such major exercise since he took power in May 2014, party sources said. Some of the to be ministers who flew into the capital on Monday from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Uttarakhand confirmed to IANS that they were summoned by BJP President Amit Shah. All of them met Shah over tea in the afternoon. Frank Noronha, the government’s principal spokeperson, tweeted earlier in the day that a cabinet expansion would take place on Tuesday at 11 a.m. but did not go into the specifics.

Bharatiya Janata Party sources said two dozen names were doing the rounds for induction, promotion or ouster. The sources said over 15 new faces -- one source put the figure at 18 -- could find a place in the ministerial council and four ministers of state with independent charge were likely to be promoted to the cabinet. A highly placed source told IANS that none of the new ministers would get the cabinet status. Ministers with independent charge likely to join the cabinet are Piyush Goyal (Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy), Dharmendra Pradhan (Petroleum and Natural Gas), Nirmala Sitharaman (Industries and Commerce) and Mukhtar Abbas

Naqvi (Minority Affairs). The likely new faces are Lok Sabha members Arjun Ram Meghwal, P.P. Chaudhary and Subhash Chandra Baheria (all Rajasthan), Anupriya Patel, Mahendra Nath Pandey and Krishna Raj (all Uttar Pradesh), Ajay Tamta (Uttarakhand), S.S. Ahluwalia (West Bengal), Mansukh Bhai Vasava and Jaswant Sinh Bhabhor (both Gujarat) and Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi (Karnataka). The likely new ministers from the Rajya Sabha are Anil Desai and Ramdas Athawale (Maharashtra), Purushottam Rupala (Gujarat), Faggan Singh Kulaste, M.J. Akbar and Anil Madhav Dave (all Madhya Pradesh) and Vijay Goel, the former Delhi BJP president who represents Raj-

asthan. All of them met Shah soon after the government announced that a cabinet reshuffle would take place on Tuesday. “At least six ministers may be dropped,” a source told IANS. Presently, there are 64 ministers in the union cabinet including the Prime Minister. There can be a maximum of 81 ministers. This time, instead of the to be ministers getting calls from the Prime Minister’s Office, it was BJP President Shah who informed them about their likely induction. Tuesday’s exercise will come 27 months after Modi led the BJP to a sweeping win the Lok Sabha polls and months ahead of the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh which the ruling party is determined to win.

love, concern and camaraderie NSCN (IM) expresses gratitude for solidarity

DImapuR, July 4 (mExN): The NSCN (IM) has expressed gratitude to the Naga people for paying their last respect to Late Isak Chishi Swu in the “most deserving and befitting manner.” “At this most tragic moment the love and sympathy extended by our people and the solidarity being shared by friends from different walks of life gives huge relief to us,” stated the MIP of the NSCN (IM) in a press release today. In a long list of acknowledgments, the NSCN (IM) “truly appreciated” the solidarity extended by other Naga nationalist groups like NSCN (K) for their condolence

message, Kitovi Zhimomi, Ato Kilonser of GPRN/NSCN, Gen. (Retd.) Thinoselie Keyho, President of NNC, Wangtin Naga, President of NSCN (Reformation) and Zhopra Vero, Vice President of FGN for attending the condolence program at Agri –Expo, Dimapur, and “showing the utmost respect to our departed Chairman.” “The positive gesture in times of grief reflects the bond of love, concern and camaraderie within us despite of all the differences in our political journey,” stated NSCN (IM). It believed that the spirit of the Yaruiwo, Late Isak Chishi Swu, will “continue to guide the Naga people and his commitment to the Naga political principle, forgiveness, reconciliation and unity shall always be the guiding light for all.” Full text on page 5

Kohima police launches website Our Correspondent Kohima | July 4

Nagaland’s Director General of Police (DGP) LL Doungel IPS today formally launched the Kohima district police website to a global audience in its stride to deliver better services to the people. One can now click on www.kohimapolice.com to access basic information and also share suggestions to improve the performance of the Kohima district police. Various forms can also be downloaded from this site and submitted online. The website features history of Kohima district police, police stations, directory, traffic control, special

units, gallery, vehicle inquiry, child line India, roll of honour, district crime records bureau, foreigner’s registration office cum passport cell etc. Doungel was optimistic that the launching of the Kohima police website, after Dimapur police, will usher in better service delivery to the community and also build trust and confidence with the people. In this fast changing world, he said, it is essential for all DEFs in Nagaland to use emerging technology to reach out to the people in an efficient way. The first police post in Kohima was established in 1914, during the First World War, stated a background

note. In 1933, the first police station was established at the present Kohima North Police Station location. In December 1958, Kumar Randip Singh, IPS became the first SP of Kohima District, Naga Hills, and till now 35 SPs have been posted to the unit. Kohima Sr. SP Joseph Hesso, IPS stated that a Facebook page have also been opened and requested concerned citizens to give their “valuable and constructive” suggestions so that the Unit can serve the people better. The function was chaired by Puzoto Khatso, NPS, SDPO (North) while vote of thanks was proposed by Igwangheing Hemang, NPS, Additional SP Kohima.

NPRAAF to begin phase-wide agitation Phonetics method in all govt schools in Nagaland?

DImapuR, July 4 (mExN): The Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) will begin a phase-wise agitation to get the Department of Food & Civil Supplies (DoFCS), Government of Nagaland to take actions against backdoor appointments. The agitation will also address issues of irregularities in PDS such as rice, wheat, kerosene etc and irregularities in the appointment system of stockists/ sub-stockists and power of attorney system. The NPRAAF also appealed to the Chief Minister, who holds charge of DoFCS, to intervene into the matter. The Information & Publicity Cell of the NPRAAF

stated today that this action is being taken after the deadline given to the DoFCS on the same issues expired on July 2, with “no substantial action taken by the Department.” Thus, the NPRAAF has decided to stage a “series of democratic and non-violent agitations in the office premises of F&CS Dimapur within a few days time.” The Forum reminded the DoFCS that the NPRAAF “will not be held responsible for any eventuality that might arise out of such democratic protest.” Meanwhile, the NPRAAF also took “serious note” of the allegedly “unbecoming language” used by the Director of the DoFCS during a “telephonic conversation with

a NPRAAF office bearer on 20th May 2016.” According to the NPRAAF, the Director called the said NPRAAF activist on the phone and said he has taken the issue raised by NPRAAF “personally.” “Such attitude is unbecoming of an officer heading a Department since NPRAAF is not targeting any individual but taking up the issue for the welfare of the public,” stated the Forum. The NPRAAF has now demanded that the Director clarify why he has taken the matter “personally.” “Failure to give satisfactory clarification or public apology will compel NPRAAF to take its own course of action,” the Forum reiterated.

Our Correspondent Kohima | July 4

If everything goes well, Nagaland would become the first state in India to get the method of phonetics to all government schools. “Phonetics is an art and skill. We need to learn it,” said Wonthungo Tsopoe, additional director (HoD), Directorate of School Education (DoSE), adding that it would provide opportunity to Naga youth to serve abroad. Stating that there is scarcity of industry or other avenues in the state, Tsopoe said “But once we are well trained in phonetics, our services can be utilized beyond our state, venturing out to other countries too.” Stating that countries like Korea, China and other

South East Asian countries are in huge demand of English teachers, he said there is big prospect for the state in this respect. Addressing the inaugural function of a three-day ‘Phonetics training’ for government teachers of Kohima and Dimapur districts here this morning, Tsopoe subscribed such platform as “important” for many to enter into a new generation in line with teaching. He said that English is a medium of communication “but we are lagging behind in our pronunciation.” Whenever a person from a particular tribe speaks English we come to know which tribe s/he belongs to because of the way they speak, he noted. “As a teacher we need to

improve and learn a lot,” he said, adding that the state’s DoSE in collaboration with Jolly Phonics, UK has been conducting seminars and workshops to explore all possible means to equip teachers with the basics of phonetics. “As a teacher, we need to learn many things. Our normal academic qualification alone is not sufficient to transmit knowledge,” he said, stressing on the need to disseminate the right knowledge to the people and children. Shainaz Jussa, Principal & MD Phonickids, Mumbai (Jolly Phonics UK) said, “It is my dream to take phonetics method to various parts of the country.” “We want to take this programme to all govern-

ment schools especially in Nagaland so that each child is able to read well, speak well, understand the language well and pronounce the word well,” said Jussa. “I want Nagaland to be the first state in India to get this (Phonetics) method to all the government schools,” she said. She said that Jolly Phonics is a world leader in the literary programme of synthetic phonics. ‘Synthetic phonics’ is a method of teaching reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blend these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words. Altogether, 70 teachers are taking part in this training programme. It will go on till July 6.

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Bringing rural populace into banking fold Financial Literacy Camp conducted at Yoruba Village

chozuba, July 4 (Mexn): The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. Chozuba Branch organized Financial Literacy Camp (FLC) on June 26 at Yoruba Village. The camp was supported by FIF and managed by NABARD. The programme was chaired by Gaijulung, Accountant Chozuba Branch, while Pukrolhu Lohe said the invocation. Vesolhu Veswuh, Council Chairman while delivering the welcome address expressed gratitude to both NABARD and NStCB Ltd officials for conducting the camp in their village in spite the deplorable road condition. PP Bose, Manager, PR Hill branch in his keynote address explained about

Participants with resource persons and others during the Financial Literacy Camp held on June 26 at Yoruba Village.

the role and functions of NStCB and apprised the participants to approach the Branch for availing of any credit facilities available since the NStCB Ltd mostly target the rural poor

farmers to develop their living economy through Banking. S. Kevi Hibo, Assistant BM & I/C Nodal Centre Kohima briefing about the concept and purpose of

conducting FLC in the rural villages said that it is to financially include the rural poor populace in the banking fold since majority of the rural poor people of India have no bank accounts.

They are deprived of receiving any benefit payable to them by GOI/agencies directly to their personal accounts, formation of JLG, SHG, Farmers club, opening of various types of ac-

KLBC Vacation Bible School follow-up prog

RSU issue directives for student’s welfare

KohiMa, July 4 (Dipr): The Kohima Liangmai Baptist Church Sunday School Department will organize the follow up programme of the Vacation Bible School at their church premises on July 6. The Sunday School Superintendent Talaknaro Newmai stated that the Sunday school children are so enthusiastic to learn many things, and approached the department to extend Vacation Bible School at least to five days which was held from June 14 to 26. With that eagerness of the children, the department is organizing one day VBS follow up programme for the Kohima Liangmai Sunday school children to develop more experience in Christian faith, and to encourage younger generation to renew their relationship through this follow up programme and thus build their faith stronger and closer to God. The Sunday school department has requested all the responsible parents to send their children to one day VBS Follow up programme, and the pro- Nagaland’s Director General of Police (DGP) L.L. Doungel, IPS and others during the launching gramme will be sponsored by Achakbo Newmai& family. of Kohima district police website – www.kohimapolice.com on July 4 at Kohima. (Morung Photo)

Zunheboto DPDB resolves to select model village

counts in the bank and social security such as PMJJBY, PMSBY and APY, Hibo added. Lhuveyi Lohe requested the Chozuba area people to bank with the NStCB Ltd as is more convenient and customers friendly and also it is equipped with all facilities available with the other advancing banking institute. Lohe also highlighted the Branch profile and challenged the area people to give more efforts in loan recovery. In the interactive session, Hibo responded to the queries raised by the participants. The programme was adjourned with vote of thanks from Mudhi GB and benediction by Cekhwuruh Chaplan, Village Council Yoruba.

NBCC Youth Day observed at Zbto

zunheboTo, July 4 (Dipr): Department of Youth Ministry, Sumi Baptist Church Zunheboto (SBCZ) has observed NBCC Youth Day on July 3 in all 11 sector prayer fellowship at Zunheboto town under the theme “Abundant Life in Relationship: Youth.” Speaking as speaker at North Point Prayer Fellowship, Asst. Pastor, Kaliho said the purpose of observing Youth Day is to exhibit talent among youths and to let youth have strong relationship with God. Exhorting the congregation that today many young people don't know the existence of parents because of misuse of social media, she encourage youth to have strong relationship with parents to live a healthy and harmony lives. Toli Chophy, B.D. also spoke on the present youth culture and said Youth are an asset to society. She exhorted the gathering to contribute to the society through activities like Cleanliness drive, charity to Orphanages home, Parliamentary Secretary Pukhayi Assumi addresses the monthly Zunheboto DPDB Meeting hospital, Churches and to the needy people. Earlier the held on July 4 at DC Conference Hall. (DIPR Photo) program was chaired by Kiyekali Chishi, special presentazunheboTo, July 4 (Dipr): The tee with SDO (C), Zunheboto, Hollohon tion by youth fellowship and benediction from Khegholi. monthly Zunheboto DPDB Meeting was as Convenor, HODs of Agri and Allied Secheld on July 4 at DC Conference Hall un- tors, DCO (Culture) and DFO (Forest) as der the chairmanship of Parliamentary members. The board approved registration of VK Secretary, Soil and Water Conservation, People Organization, Green Club, ZunhePukhayi Assumi. The meeting decided to adopt one vil- boto and opening of Kids Home Academy lage from each constituency under Zun- at Tokiye town. ADC, Zunheboto, Nungsangmenla heboto district to be selected as model village to encourage economic growth and Imchen also suggested for joint DPDB to boost production for which members Meeting with neighbouring districts so as to exchange views and also to see the funcwere constituted to select villages. Pukhayi also spoke on the need of hav- tioning of other districts. Department of ing separate logo for Zunheboto District Forest, Environment and Climate Change Planning Board. The members after thor- and Education Department will present ough deliberations constituted a commit- power point in the next meeting.

TseMinyu, July 4 (Mexn): Rengma Student Union has drawn the attention of all the shop owners located within 100 metres of school premises under Tseminyu Sub-division that selling of tobacco, gutkha, talab and other similar products will invite suspension of trade license and impose fine. RSU President RN David Magh and General Secretary Kegwalo Kemp in a press release informed all concerned that the private tuition fee should not exceed beyond Rs.400 per student and the number of students for each tuition class should be limited up to seven. RSU said that taking serious note of the poor result of all Government Schools under the Sub-division, any teacher found absent for long period in Government run schools without any valid reason will be dealt as due to them. Besides teachers who keep substitutes will be stringently taken into account. The Union also informs that any student loitering around during Class hour in school uniform and found taking any intoxicated drinks or consuming tobacco, talab and the like will be strictly dealt with.

Farmers attend demo prog on King chilli

MEx File Transformer damaged at Tsg Tuensang, July 4 (Mexn): The consumer affected by the damage of 1.6MVA, 33/11KV power transformer, located at 3rd NAP Check Post, Tuensang town are informed to bear with the inconvenience. Tuensang Electrical Division, Executive Engineer Ahoto Aye informed in a press release that the department is putting all effort to replace the damaged transformed with the higher capacity of 2.5MVA, 33/11KV on or before July 15.

DDLSA Lok Adalat on July 9 DiMapur, July 4 (Mexn): Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) is organizing Lok Adalat with regard to electricity/water/telephone/ public utility dispute on July 9, at District Court, Dimapur. The general public as well as the concern departments is invited to settle any dispute, if any during the Lok Adalat. For further information approach the front office, DDLSA, at the District Court.

DIPR informs media personnel KohiMa, July 4 (Dipr): For media coverage during the twelfth session of the twelfth Nagaland Legislative Assembly proceedings, all the press and media personnel are directed to submit their names and particulars to the Directorate of IPR before July 8 in order to obtain media and car passes.

Mkg DPDB on July 15 MoKoKchung, July 4 (Dipr): Member Secretary & ADC Planning, Mokokchung has informed that the monthly meeting of District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) for Mokokchung district which usually holds on 7th of every month has been differed to July 15. All members are informed to take note of the change of date.

NCRC PR Hill Kohima CYE Bible study held KohiMa, July 4 (Dipr): Christian Youth Endeavor NCRC PR Hill, Kohima held one day Bible study at Khadi Nagi resort, Lieva valley, Jotsoma on June 30. Kenipfenuo Rüpevo, Researches Road Board university, Nijmegen Netherland brought message from James 3 and said that tongue is a small part of a body and boasted great things. Out of the same mouth can invoke blessing and cursing but the wisdom from above is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and hypocrisy. The programme was chaired by Avono Yhokha, short speech was given by Adi Sothu Advisor C.Y.E. Benediction was said by Thepfükelie Seyie Chairman CYE. Altogether around 30 youths took part during Bible study.

PCC Science Education prog DiMapur, July 4 (Mexn): The Patkai Christian College will be organising a programme on July 30 to commemorate 25 years completion of Science Education. The 1st batch of Science Stream, Class of 1991 is endeavoring to attend the program. Therefore, all classmates of the 1991 batch are informed to attend and further requested to contact the following numbers for coordination : #9436011140 #9612950075 #9436110493 #9436028636

PTWWS new building inaugurated pheK, July 4 (Dipr): New building of Phek Town Women Welfare Society was inaugurated by Murhohu Chotso Deputy Commissioner, Phek. Speaking on the occasion Murhohu Chotso highlighted the importance of women in a society, for the upliftment of the generation. He also encouraged the women to unite and work for the betterment of the society. The programme was chaired by Zaposhelu Venuh Chairperson PTWWS, while invocation was pronounced by Moze Nyekha, brief history of PTWWS was shared by Neichulou Tsuzu and vote of thanks was tendered by Vekrolu Khamo General Secretary PTWWS and benediction by Veposolu Soho

RMSATA Tuensang Unit supports Tuensang, July 4 (Mexn): The RMSA Teachers Association 2016 Tuensang Unit while supporting the 'ultimatum' served to DoSE by the Nagaland RMSA Teachers Association 2015-16 (Central Forum) for the immediate release of pending salaries of RMSA teachers. The unit affirms that it will fully cooperate to its central body and asserted that the RMSA Tuensang unit is ever ready to take any move as per the direction of its apex body. Further, it stated that the demand of the teachers is quite genuine pertaining to the hardships being faced by us and strongly appeal the concern department to address to our grievances with prompt before the served deadline of the ultimatum.

Tesophenyu Group Public Union informs Farmers with resource persons during the demonstration programme conducted by ATMA Kobulong Block, Mokokchung on July 4.

MoKoKchung, July 4 (Mexn): Demonstration programme was conducted by ATMA Kobulong Block Mokokchung on King chilli variety, local at Integrated Farm School, Longpha village on July 4 with recourse person Nuksunginla Jamir. ATM Kobulong Block demonstrat-

ed on soil preparation on raised bed, sowing technique, seed inoculation for faster generation rate, solarization of soil before sowing and organic nutrients management to enhance greater yielding and production. The programme was chaired by Moanaro, ATM Kobulong Block.

KohiMa, July 4 (Mexn): The handing and taking ceremony of Tesophenyu Group Public Union (Central) new executives and office bearers for the tenure 2016-2018 has been convened on July 9, 11 :00 am at Ziphenyu Community Hall. There will be discussion hour after the ceremony. Meals will be co-hosted by the four village council. All the units, village administrators, leaders of various unions and organisations, outgoing executives and incoming executives are requested to be present for the event.

Workshop on disaster management KohiMa,. July 4 (Dipr): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority, Home Department and the Sustainable Development Forum of Nagaland will be organizing a two day workshop on “Disaster Risk Reduction” on July 7 and 8 at 0900 hours at the Capital Convention Centre. The Chief Minister of Nagaland T.R. Zeliang has consented to grace the opening cere- The Dimapur Area Ao Churches observed ABAM Youth Sunday on July 3 at Dimapur Ao Baptist Church with Rev Dr Wati Aier, mony as the chief guest Principal, OTS as the speaker on the theme ‘Truth in the Face of Deception.’ (Photo Courtesy: Tiya Jamir 3D Photography)

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Monsoon Havoc: Over 57000 people PCI delegation to assess status of Manipur scribes affected in Assam, Tripura rations fuel Morung Express News Dimapur | July 4

Heavy rains in last 2 to 3 days over Northeast India have flooded the low-lying areas of several places in Assam and affected more than 57000 people, Skymet reported today. More than 100 villages have been damaged and 1500 hectares of crop land have also been spoilt, the private weather forecaster informed in an update on its website. It said that a cyclonic circulation is persisting over Assam and Meghalaya and this has enhanced rainfall activities over the region, leading to flood over northern districts of Assam including North Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur districts. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority, on July 4, also

issued flood alert in Jorhat, Nagaon, Golaghat & Barpeta districts. During last 24 hours, Silchar received 24 mm of rainfall and Cherrapunji in Meghalaya also received 174 mm of rainfall, Skymet added. Assam, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh will continue to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on July 5 but there will be a slight reduction in rainfall intensity will be observed during the second half of the week in the North East, it added. Meanwhile, Tripura continues to bear the onslaught of monsoon as a long stretch of the Assam-Agartala (NH 8) at Lowerpoa in Karimganj district of Assam were badly damaged due to rainfall and water logging. Thousands of trucks carrying essential commodities and fuel are stranded for almost a month and

ten trucks carrying fuel could enter the state every day but the state requires more than 20 trucks or oil tankers every day, PTI had earlier reported. As a result, the Tripura government has imposed rationing of fuel since July 3 and the petrol pumps in the state were instructed not to sell fuel worth more than Rs 200 at a time to vehicles like motorbikes and small cars. As per the new system, a biker is allowed to buy petrol amounting to Rs 200 per day, Rs 300 for autorickshaw and Rs 500 for four-wheelers, it said. The government has also made arrangement to get food, fuel via Bangladesh through Inland Water Transit and Trade Protocol, Tripura Revenue and PWD Minister Chowdhury told reporter in Agartala yesterday.

Mahanta seeks central policy on Bangladeshi Hindus

GuwahaTI, July 4 (IaNS): Former Assam Chief Minister and senior Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has urged the central government to formulate a policy for rehabilitation of the Bangladesh Hindus who are waiting to enter Assam due to unrest there. Mahanta said this here while addressing a press conference on Monday and added that about 1.7 crore Hindus residing in Bangla-

desh are living in fear due to recent attacks on them. He said they (the Hindus) will try to migrate to India at the earliest and their first choice is always Assam. "The order of the central government in New Delhi to allow minorities in those countries to live in India without documents will only hasten their arrival to India and if we go by history, their first choice is always Assam," said Mahanta. He added that he wants the NDA government to

clearly formulate a policy for the rehabilitation of these people so that Assam is not made a victim again for short political gains by any political party. He also said that Assam is already over-populated and the central government must formulate a clear policy to settle and rehabilitate these people from the other side of the border elsewhere in India, excluding Assam. Mahanta also took up the issue of central government's decision to auction

12 small oil fields in Assam to private parties and said that when the oil prices are falling globally, it is bad business to sell our own oil reserves to multinationals at this time as the state will not get right price for the state's natural resources. Mahanta also slammed the central government's recent decision to set up the proposed All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) at Baihata Chariali in Kamrup district instead of Raha in Nagaon district.

Imphal, July 4 (NNN): A three-member delegation of Press Council of India (PCI) arrived in Imphal on Monday in a two-day visit state to assess the current status of journalists. “The recent NIA action against the Manipur scribes triggered our visit to the state,” Convenor of the PCI team, Rabindra Kumar told pressmen upon their arrival at Imphal Airport. A team of All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union (AMWJU) led by its president Wangkhemcha Shamjai received the PCI team at the airport. Rabindra expressed concern over the frequent disturbances meted out to working journalists here by both state-actors and non-state actors. Rabindra proposed for framing a guideline to ensure proper functioning of the media. National Investigation Agency (NIA) had recently summoned all editors of media houses here as part

of its ongoing probe into the killing of 6 Assam Rifles personnel in a militants ambush at Zoupi of Chandel district along Indo-Myanmar border on May 22 this year. It came exactly a year after the biggest ambush on the military took place at Paraolon in Chandel, in which as many as 17 sol-

diers of the 6 Dogra regiment were killed and another 16 injured. AMWJU has lodged a complaint with PCI over the NIA action which the union feels has caused serious apprehension that could interfere in the freedom of the press. The visiting PCI team is likely also to call on Chief

Minister Okram Ibob Singh, Deputy CM Gaikhangam and Chief Secretary Oinam Nabakishore Singh. The team will hold discussion on the current problems faced by the state scribes and also their safety. AMWJU sources said a full session of PCI may take place here this year.

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FELICITATION The Viswema Gazette Officers’ Krotho (VGOK), with immense pride and honour would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to its following members on their achievements; 1. Er. Krosü Rhetso, on his promotion to Chief Engineer, PWD (Roads & Bridges) 2. Khrupi Sothu, on his appointment as Secretary, Nagaland Public Service Commission. 3. T. Anenla Sato, Managing Director, Food Corporation of India. 4. Vikeyie Kennao, on his appointment as Secretary, PWD (Works & Housing) 5. Dr. Sweyievisa John, on his promotion to Director, Health & Family Welfare The Krotho, wishes them more success in all their future endeavours.

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Zoramthanga leaves for India, Bhutan discuss possibility Thailand to broker peace of road linking Tawang-Assam aIzawl, July 4 (pTI): In an effort to broker a peace deal between the ethnic-based insurgent groups of Myanmar and the Myanmar government, former Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga today left for Bangkok to meet representatives of 16 such militant groups. Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front (MNF) underground leader, told PTI, "The militant groups are in the process of formulating their demands to the Myanmar government for continuation of parleys and wanted to learn about the Mizo Peace Accord signed between the Indian govern-

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ment and the erstwhile underground MNF in 1986." He said his meeting with the representatives of the 16 militant groups would mainly be held in Chiangmai and Bangkok in Thailand. The ethnicbased militant groups including Kachins, Karens, Chins, Was, Arakanese and Shans have been fighting for regional autonomy for years and a few groups recently signed a ceasefire agreement with the government. The MNF chief had been involved in the Myanmar peace process at the invitation of the ethnic-based militant groups and the Myanmar government.

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1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India. 2. That in some of my documents my name and my father's name have been written as Ms. Imrongsungla Lkr, D/o Talilemba and in other documents as Ms. Imrongsungla, D/o Talilemba. 3. That, Ms. Imrongsungla Lkr, D/o Talilemba & Ms. Imrongsungla, D/o Talilemba refers same and one person. Henceforth, now onwards I shall be known as Ms. Imrongsungla Lkr, D/o Talilemba for all official and correspondences. Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent. Notary Public, Nagaland

ThImphu, July 4 (pTI): India and Bhutan have discussed ways to improve security along the international border and the possibility of opening a road, linking Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang with Assam via the Himalayan country. Better security coordination along the Indo-Bhutan border, more trade between Bhutan and Indian states like Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal, cultural exchange and a host of other issues were discussed by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju with the top Bhutanese leadership, including Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, during his two-day visit here that ended yesterday. During the meeting, the Bhutanese Prime Minister is believed to have cited various concerns of the people of Bhutan because of which the country is not yet ready for proposal like joint security along the border, sources said.

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Spiritual and moral aspects being the integral parts of all round development among the students and also as it is the tradition, Bethesda Higher Secondary School organised Spiritual awakening programme for different categories of students on different themes like, "Our God is Big Great God," "It is My Father's House" and "Running the Race." keeping in view that the needs, interests and aptitudes of children at a different levels vary, the programme was stretched from 27th June to 2nd July '16. It was interesting to notice children involving in extra-curricular/non-scholastic activities happily after hectic preparations for 2nd Quarterly/Mid-Term Examinations just before the summer break. Children participated enthusiastically in non academic and spiritual activities like Praise & Worship, Bible games, songs, workshop on creativity and sharing of word of God. Young children listening to relevant Bible stories with great curiosity was one of the additional activity during this year's programme. A good number of ex-students fully motivated the children by assisting in various activities throughout the programme. While Mrs. Esther Murry, Administrator of the school led and guided the children in all activities, Rev. Moses Murry, Chairman, Bethesda Hr. Sec. School and Resource person Mr. David shared word of God for all groups of children at the end of each day's session. The children of different levels were highly enlightened spiritually and blessed. It was wonderful to observe children involving in non academic activities. Each day the programme culminated in sharing refreshment among all children and other participants.

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Millenials ditch the idiot box, prefer YouTube instead Paris, July 4 (aFP): Millennials and their successors are shunning oldschool television in favour of watching what they want whenever they wish on Google-owned YouTube or other video platforms like Dailymotion or Facebook. “Young people don’t really watch TV anymore; they watch online videos that are shorter and more talent-driven,” says Fabienne Fourquet, a former executive at A&E Television and France’s Canal+ who now heads the multichannel network 2btube. “They don’t want to be Hollywood stars when they grow up, they want to be YouTubers. There is this whole other world.” The new multichannel networks, or MCNs, are talent agents of sorts for creators of videos shared at online venues. They help creators, often referred to as YouTubers, with video production and promotion along with finding partners or sponsors in return for a percentage of revenue. Fourquet said popular subjects include music, comedy, sports, video games, fashion and beauty.

She noted that threequarters of her viewers were younger than 34 years of age, and half were under 25. “There are very few of us old people,” Fourquet quipped. World tunes in Self-described YouTuber Caroline Artiss has been a chef for 20 years, but opted out of restaurants and went to work for herself in catering in 2008. Then, a friend showed her how simple it was to make videos for YouTube. “It was just me and a tripod in my kitchen,” Artiss told AFP. “Then people starting

Jabong sale likely to be finalized in 6 months: Report New Delhi, July 4 (NDTV): Online fashion retailer Jabong.com, which has been looking for a buyer for some time now, may not get its asking price of $250 million to $300 million, according to media reports. However, the sale process is likely to be completed in the next six months, the reports added. Mint newspaper, citing sources, said on Monday that Snapdeal, Flipkart and Aditya Birla Group are among some of the suitors for Jabong, owned by Global Fashion Group (GFG). “Snapdeal and Aditya Birla are front-runners for Jabong... Flipkart is believed to be interested in the deal since it owns leading online fashion retailer Myntra, which competes with Jabong,” the newspaper said, citing sources. Jabong co-founder Praveen Sinha had last year admitted that the company was not making money, even though sales had doubled to $600 million in 2014 from $300 million in 2013. Jabong was aiming to grow in a balanced way by paring down losses, he had told NDTV Profit. Launched in 2012, Jabong gave tough competition to Myntra, before scaling down discounts to focus on bottom line. It cut down its losses to Rs 46.7 crore in 2015 from Rs 159.5 crore in 2014. Jabong’s story reflects the ongoing consolidation in the domestic e-commerce industry, where the focus has shifted from raking up higher gross merchandise value (GMV) to profitability. “Companies are focusing on turning unit economics positive (if not already done so), as opposed to primary focus on GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) earlier. We believe this may be a function of limited availability of capital, leading companies to focus on cash generation,” said Kawaljeet Saluja of Kotak in a report published last month. Earlier this year, the government notified new rules, prohibiting marketplaces from offering discounts and capping total sales originating from a group company or one vendor at 25 per cent. “Post government regulations that curtailed discounts, companies seem to have done away with the same; most discounts being seen online are being offered by sellers/brands themselves. Most companies we spoke to are also evaluating other revenue streams such as advertising and online content to better leverage their platform,” Saluja added.

Kingfisher Airlines executives can be jailed over loss of company accounts MuMbai, July 4 (ageNcies): Executives of Kingfisher Airlines, including its chief financial officer and company secretary, could be face criminal cases if the airline’s books of account are not produced before the the Serious Fraud Investigation Officer (SFIO). Mint reported on Monday that the airline’s books vanished after a technology vendor, whose dues were not paid, took away computers and servers that housed the company’s accounts. Mint, quoting SFIO officials, said the airline claimed it did not a back-up of the files. “A company has to maintain proper records of accounts, register and muster rolls under Companies Act and various labour laws, contravention of which can result in penalties or imprisonment. A company cannot say it does not have records because it has not paid its IT vendor. This cannot be a defence. A lenient view can be taken if the company premises were damaged in a fire or earthquake,” says Ravi Kini, managing partner, Kini & Co. Kingfisher Airlines founder Vijay Mallya is on a “selfexile” in the United Kingdom after the government turned the heat on him over fraud and alleged fund diversion to offhsore accounts. “It is a crime. The executive team is liable to be punished,” says Shriram Subramaniam, founder at proxy advisory firm InGovern Research Services Pvt Ltd. Mallya has been declared a proclaimed offender by a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai over money laundering charges. The Enforcement Directorate, the Central Bureau of Investigation are seperately investigating these charges. Mallya also faces cases in the Karnataka High Court, the Debt Recovery Tribunal in Bengaluru and the Supreme Court, over nonpayment of dues of over Rs 9,000 crore he had taken to run the now-defunct airline. Kingfisher Airlines, launched by Mallya in 2005, redefined luxury air travel in India before it was grounded in 2012 due to losses.

tuning in from all over the world.” She recounted cooking her way across the United States for a multi-episode show after catching eyes at BBC America and a television network in Malaysia. Artiss said she approaches her cooking videos from the perspective of a single mom -- short on money and time but needing to feed a family. She was signed on by a video network that describes itself as being tailored for a mobile generation and focused on “tastemakers” sharing passion for food and travel. “It still blows my mind,” Artiss said. “I am coming

from a single mom, living in London, struggling to pay my bills to having an opportunity to start my own TV channel in a way.” Artiss teamed with other chefs to open Gorgeous Kitchen restaurant at London Heathrow airport. She has a cookbook due out later this year and works with Youth Policy Institute to raise money to get fresh produce to lowincome families. Television tomfoolery An annual Vidcon gathering in Southern California has become a hot venue for YouTubers to connect

with business opportunities and ecstatic fans. Some 25,000 people were reported to have attended this year’s Vidcon, which took place in June. “With the onset of digital video platforms and the fact that everyone has a smartphone in their pockets, we have democratised being a creator,” said Paladin co-founder James Creech, whose California company specialises in technology for finding budding stars in a vast universe where anyone can post content online. “A 17-year-old in his or her own bedroom can compete with the likes of CBS and build an audience that would rival a major media company.” Keys to hit online videos include being creative and regularly posting content, according to Creech. Amateurs can outshine polished professional content with authentic connections that make viewers think of them as friends, he said. “Regular TV is about cartoons and YouTube is about real people and the games I like,” 11-year-old California boy and online

video fan Henry Crawford told AFP. Paladin indexes millions of channels, providing analytics that can narrow down videos by popularity, topic, language and more. The YouTube channel with the most subscribers is that of Swedish video maker and comedian PewDiePie, who provides captivating commentary while playing video games. Hot online video trends include “unboxing,” in which people film themselves or others opening packages with unknown contents. A popular YouTube channel called Hydraulic Press features videos of things being crushed by just that piece of equipment. Amazonowned Twitch on Friday announced that it is experimenting with a new “Social Eating” category in which people streaming broadcasts on the service socialise with viewers over meals. Traditional media companies would be wise to be worried by the trend, according to Creech. “It’s a huge disruption,” Creech said. “We are in the midst of a revolution in media and it is very exciting.”

No big impact of Brexit on PE flows into Indian realty siNgaPore, July 4 (iaNs): Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will not have much impact on private equity (PE) investments in Indian property market, said Anuj Puri, Chairman and Country Head of real estate services firm JLL, on Monday. “Out of total overseas PE investments into Indian realty, UK accounts for just $500 million (about two per cent) while the whole of Europe (including UK) accounts for $1.9 billion (about eight per cent). Europe-based funds have only a small influence on FDI in realty,” said Puri. “Brexit will not make big impact on PE flows into Indian realty. It is possible that money from UK and from rest of Europe gets invested in Indian realty as FDI (Foreign Direct investment) through PE funds headquartered in the US and Asia Pacific; both categories have invested heavily in Indian realty,” he said. According to experts, the Brexit decision could bring short-term op-

portunities for international investors, although market sentiment will remain cautious. In the Asia Pacific, local occupiers of property and multinational companies serving domestic economies will help to insulate the region from volatility. After Brexit, the markets are volatile and the value of the pound has declined sharply. With considerable uncertainly and no real precedent, Asia Pacific real estate investors and corporate occupiers are looking to mitigate risk. “The repercussions are being felt around the globe and we are likely to see a temporary slowdown in demand from Asian occupiers with operations in the UK. However, in the long term, once clarity emerges about the UK’s exit negotiations, we expect a resumption in confidence,” said JLL’s Asia Pacific CEO Anthony Couse. For property markets, there would be a correction but that should be followed by an upturn as opportu-

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Cyber firm cautions mobile users against ‘rogue’ apps New Delhi, July 4 (ageNcies): Cyber criminals are now turning to application stores, traditionally considered a safe destination for downloading mobile apps, to plant malware in phones. Recently, cyber security solutions provider Symantec had detected an application on Google Play Store — Beaver Gang Counter — that masquerades as a score keeping app for a popular card game. However in reality, once installed on the device, this application secretly starts searching media files related to Viber. Once it finds them, it sends them to a remote server. While applications are mostly verified before being published on the official Android store, some manage to slip past the store’s upfront security checks. Viber “Viber is an extremely popular social media app with over 500 million installs on Google Play alone. The data stolen by the malware could be used for a number of nefarious purposes such as identity theft, blackmail, fraud, or pornography,” Symantec said in a blogpost. Symantec had alerted Google about this issue and in response they removed this app and developer from Google Play Store. The discovery of this app, it added, demonstrated that having photos stolen from devices is also a risk Android users needed to be aware of. Some time ago, private photographs of some celebrities were leaked online, with reports suggesting that the attackers gained access to their Apple iCloud accounts. “Mobile devices connect us to the world, storing our most personal and valuable information in digital form. However, this freedom complicates our security, and in fact mobile apps may present significant challenges to protecting our privacy. It might surprise you to learn that most threats to sensitive information on mobile devices are hidden in plain sight — in apps,” Ritesh Chopra, Country Manager, India, Norton by Symantec, said. He added that many apps accessed or shared private, sensitive data without the users’ knowledge or full understanding. Norton researchers recently found that globally, of the 10.8 million apps analysed by them, almost 3.3 million were classified as malware, a 230 per cent increase from 2014. The study suggested that close to 40 per cent respondents granted permission to access their camera, bookmarks and browser history in exchange for free apps. “Thus, while apps are fun, boost your productivity and make your life easier, certain “rogue” apps can carry significant risks,” Mr. Chopra added. Meanwhile, a Google spokesperson said: “While we don’t comment on specific apps, we can confirm that our policies are designed to provide a great experience for users and developers. That’s why we remove apps from Google Play that violate those policies.” To stay protected from such mobile threats, Symantec recommends that users refrain from downloading apps from unfamiliar sites and install apps only from trusted sources. Besides, close attention should be paid to the permissions that apps request. Anti-virus updates Users should avoid apps with a poor or non-existent reputation and any app that no one knows about should not be trusted. It is also important that mobile software, including anti-viruses are kept updated. Earlier, Symantec had also found a bug in a popular local food and restaurant recommendation site Burrp, which ultimately allowed cyber criminals to take over users’ system to encrypt files and later demand ransom to decrypt the same files. Most of the users who have been impacted by this attack are based in the U.S. and India. dImAPUR Civil Hospital:

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eNsF adopts strong resolution against sRF SDEO Mangkolemba picketed over failure to act Tuensang, July 4 (Mexn): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has resolved that no Sovereign Republic of Freeland (SRF) office should be established within Eastern Nagaland. In the 15th ENSF Federal Assembly held on June 26 at Tuensang HQ, the Federation adopted a resolution, popularly known as ‘Shopilak Declaration 2016’, to maintain and safeguard the interest and aspiration of the people which were duly endorsed by all the councils of Eastern Nagaland villages under the four districts of Tuensang, Mon, Longleng and Kiphire. In accordance with the Shopilak Declaration, ENSF ordered the ban on establishing SRF office. It also declared that no SRF flags should be hoisted within Eastern Nagaland.

SRF members or ID card holders appealed In a press release issued by its Speaker, NC Mongko Chang and Assembly Secretary, Lokhum Yim, ENSF appealed to the citizens currently “enticed” into the fold of the SRF to immediately denounce their membership and join hand into the mandated stream of the masses. “It may be noted that many innocent public were treacherously flattered into the group by assuring glamorized benefits such as: (i) Registered & ID card holders will be directly recruited into military once its target is achieved; (ii) The value/ amount of Registration determines the rank & profile of the member; (iii) Many innocent elders were falsely enticed by offering magnificent ranks and assuring glamorized benefits,” the release said The Federation further warned the SRF group “not

to confuse the innocent public by assuring early political solution while they themselves are being in tuned with utmost forms of corruption and game.” ‘Instigators’ warned The Federation also warned individuals/ bureaucrats/ groups involved in instigation to immediately abstain from such destructive act. ENSF said it has already listed some people who are “treacherously” involved behind the screen. Appeal to all factions ENSF appealed to all the Naga Political Groups (NSCN-IM/ NSCN-K/ GPRN/NSCN/ NSCN-R/ FGN/NNC etc) to refrain from accommodating any such element/ group into their system so as to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. Any factions doing so shall be doing at their own

risk, the release warned. ENSF empowers federating units In accordance to the “Shopilak Declaration”, all the 6 Federation units under ENSF have been directed to immediately start executing the resolution within its respective jurisdiction by July 5, 2016. The Federation shall not be held responsible if the “Shopilak Declaration” is not being adhered to, it stated. Respective village level students have been assigned to thoroughly investigate in upholding its endorsement.

MangkoleMba, July 4 (Mexn): Around 130 volunteers of Mangkolemba Ao Youth Organization today picketed the office of the SubDivisional Education Officer (SDEO), Mangkolemba to protest the Department and States Government’s failure to act against one of the erring officers. The officer concerned, a Head Assistant (HA) in the SDEO establishment in Mangkolemba, the organisation said, has failed to join office since his detachment from May 23 from the District Education Office, Kiphire.

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Parliamentary Secretary for Labour & Employment, Skill Development and Border Affairs, Mmhonlumo Kikon today encouraged civil societies to conduct researches on environmental problems and conduct campaigns to evolve a holistic environmental perspective. Speaking at an environment awareness seminar for civil societies in Dimapur, organized by Save Environment Network under the theme,

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NSCN (IM) General Secretary Th. Muivah condolence message for Isak Chishi Swu

was changed by God to grant freedom to the Israelites. Our joint strategy and calculation to bring about such changes bore fruit. We praise God and we give him the glory and honour. And throughout the political negotiation we understood together that the history of the Naga people must be recognized as the Nagas were not lost people. We agreed that we will not submit and surrender our history to India at the negotiating table. God helped us again and it was during his leadership that the Government of India recognized the "Unique history and situation" of the Nagas by the Amsterdam Joint Communique on July 11, 2002. It was the first ever official recognition of our history and situation. The recognition acknowledges the fact that the Nagas were never a part of Indian Union either by conquest of the Indian armed forces or by consent of the Naga people and the situation was also unique because it was created by India when they sent thousands of government troops to the Naga areas that led to unaccountable human right violations including torture, rape, killings, burning down of Naga villages. Subsequently, after a lengthy negotiation, on the 3rd of August, 2015, the "Framework Agreement" was signed between the GoI and the NSCN in the presence of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and many other important dignitaries of the government of India. Chairman lsak Chishi Swu gave his signature to the "Framework Agreement. The GoI reaffirmed the recognition of the unique history and situation of the Nagas and also recognized the universal principle that sovereignty lies with the Naga people. Both the parties also agreed that in the spirit of mutual respect they

exist peacefully. We praise the Indian leadership and the Nagas must appreciate them for their wisdom and statesmanship. Countrymen, these significant steps were achieved during Chairman Isak Chishi Swu's leadership. He was steadfast for the Naga cause and the right of the Naga people. I want the Naga people to understand this on this solemn occasion of his untimely death. It is beyond our control, but God is there and He will lead us through. We are proud of our leader Isak Chishi Swu. Our leader Isak Chishi Swu before he left to be with the Lord declared that we must forgive each other. He appealed to the Naga people for forgiveness of each other because deep in his heart he loved the Naga people and our cause. He knew that there was a danger of self-destruction, so he took the issue of forgiveness very seriously. At this juncture I also take the opportunity of thanking the Naga people in general both from the east and the west and elsewhere, people of Assam, Meiteis, Zomis, Boros and others for showing your solidarity to the Naga people after the untimely demise of our Chairman lsak Chishi Swu. We are one if we value the principle of supporting each other to the end. We are with you till the end. Our leader Isak Chishi Swu is not here with us but the best opportunity is still there before us, to make the right stand and to make the right choice as our leader had made in his life time. The Naga people and also the Sumi people in particular must praise God that he produced one of our finest leaders and in whose lifetime so much had been achieved for the Naga Nation. Kuknalim. Th. Muivah

proposed indefinite picketing of SDEO office after the Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Mangkolemba Imtiwapang Aier assured them on behalf of the Di-

Kohima and below Para Medical where half portion of the road is already damaged and may deteriorate if there is continuous rainfall. Mud was seen continuously sliding from above the road at old KMC dumping site. On the other hand, disruption of traffic on NH-29 has badly affected commuters particularly those plying between Kohima and Dimapur. Due to slow vehicular movement in the affected roads, heavy traffic jam occurred from TCP gate to bypass police check gate and from NHK junction to Tinpati here on Monday Mudslides were also reported in many areas of the state capital Kohima. In Phek district, vehicular movement along Losami village junction to Phek district headquarters has been affected due to landslide. The commuters are now taking the main road via Lanye.

identified as Dhonu was found at Tongtentsüyong Ward in Mokokchung by the police on July 3. Parents or any other relative can claim the girl from the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) Mokokchung. Call the CWC officials at: Dr. Arenla (Chariperson) – 9436647076 and The girl who was found at Imchawati Kichu (CWC Tongtentsüyong Ward, Mokokchung on July 3. Member) – 9436017611.

Meetings & AppointMents ANGPTA The All Nagaland Graduate Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) Central has informed all its district units that there will be an important general meeting on July 6, 11:00 am at CANSSEA office building, Kohima. It is compulsory for all the district units’ presidents and general secretaries to attend the meeting along with other office bearers, according to a press release from Imchanuchet Jamir, Press and Information Secretary, ANGPTA.

SPCC Tesophenyu golden jubilee St. Peter's Catholic Church (SPCC) Tesophenyu golden jubilee coordination meeting has been convened on July 10, 12:00 noon at the church premises. All the subcommittees have been requested to participate actively and be ready with report for presentations.

Public sPace Letter of gratitude and acknowledgement

“Teach me freedom so that I may have my reality.” ur Chairman Isak parable to the days of Mo- will share sovereign power Chishi Swu left us ses when Pharaoh's heart with each other and co- Chairman, Isak Chishi Swu.

to be with the Lord on 28 June, 2016 and it is too much of a pain for me because I have known him and we stood together for all these 52 years. I know that through all these years of struggle together God has a purpose for both of us. I thank the Lord almighty for giving us a leader in the person of Isak Chishi Swu from Chishilimi village in Pughoboto sub-division of present Nagaland. He left behind an honourable history for the Naga people and the legacy he left behind will exist till the end of this world. We worked together and took decisive decision on all important issues by making serious analysis into any problems we faced. We could understand each other and he had the wisdom to understand me and I know that God helped us. I can say that he was a right leader at the right time. My friend, Isak Chishi Swu was a God fearing person and he never failed to acknowledge the necessity of God's intervention in our struggle. Together, throughout the struggle we realized the purpose of God. We were united in one single mission, the fear of the Lord and that Nagaland will be for Christ. After the demise of many good Naga leaders he became our leader. Situation changed and he was chosen as God knew who he was. During his leadership God changed the hearts and minds of the Indian leadership when they declared that military solution to the Naga issue is not possible, it is political and must be resolved through political dialogue. From shouting condescending statement of crushing the Nagas in a day towards seeking political solution, this fundamental change in policy was com-

The youth organisation’s President, Imjong Longkumer and Asst. Gen. Secretary, Tinuniken Langu in a press note said that it had earlier called off a

Incessant rain damages Girl found in Mokokchung July roads; causes traffic jam Mokokchung, 4 (Mexn): A 6-year-old girl

Final appeal The Federation once again earnestly appealed to all the individuals currently enrolled in SRF to come forward openly with clear Our Correspondent conscience so as to strive Kohima | July 4 jointly in finding a peaceful solution for all. Following the incessant downpour for the past few days, mudslides and sinking of certain areas along NH-29 are posing grave threat to the commuters between Kohima and Dimapur. Morung Express News Yet, vehicles are plying Zunheboto | July 4 as usual. The main concern is A one day seminar on climatic change and global warming was the sinking areas below held at VDB Hall, Zunheboto on Naga Hospital, below Para July 4 with resource persons Toka- Medical, old landslide ho Kinimi, District Forest Officer, area at old KMC dumpZunheboto and Mughavi A Tuccu, ing site and near Dzuza Research Scholar, Nuclear Physics Bridge on the stretch of (Lovely Professional University, road from Kohima to Dimapur. Punjab). The major landslide During the seminar, a group discussion was held on the role of indi- which occurred last year viduals, church and schools towards in Phesama village along climate change and global warming. NH 29 is also posing threat Tokaho Kinimi encouraged more as there is continuous tree plantation, less use of plastics, mudslide from above the proper waste management, flower road in the area. BRTF personnel were gardening in schools and church seen clearing the road at compounds etc. The seminar was organized by several places, including the Green Club Zunheboto (GCZ). right below Naga Hospital

'Holistic environmental perspective' Seminar on climate ‘Role of Civil Society in environment protection’ at Unity Hall, Naga Council here, Mmhonlumo also called upon the youth to inculcate deep understanding and concern on environmental issues. Further, the Parliamentary Secretary called upon Dimapur Naga Students’ Union to create awareness among the public on current environmental issues. Dean of Science, Patkai Christian College, Angel Sonari was the resource person. Angel pointed out that vast areas of rich bio-diversity have been affected owing to activities in the name of development. In this regard, she called upon the civil societies to play its part in negotiating with the government and assist in reducing the effect of development on bio-diversity. The programme was attended by civil societies of Dimapur, environment conscious citizens and other invitees.

Volunteers of Mangkolemba Ao Youth Organization outside the office of SDEO, Mangkolemba on July 4.

rectorate of School Education, Nagaland that a disciplinary action will be taken against the HA and a new HA would be allotted. It also submitted an ultimatum to the Chief Secretary, Nagaland through the Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Mangkolemba demanding disciplinary action be initiated against the “disobedient” HA and also to post one HA to SDEO office, Mangkolemba on or before July 18. The organisation will take up befitting steps in the event of failure to meet its demands, it added.

s the sun set upon the life of our most respected and beloved Chairman late Isak Chishi Swu, Naga people did not fail to pay the last respect in the most deserving manner and does so befittingly. At this most tragic moments the love and sympathy extended by our people and the solidarity being shared by friends from different walks of life gives huge relief to us. NSCN is truly humbled and wish to say thank you to all who have participated together with us at the most difficult time. 1. Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi for his words of solidarity and condolences 2. Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress for her condolences 3. RN. Ravi, Interlocutor to Indo-Naga peace talk for his comforting message and solidarity 4. Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor, Government of India for his solidarity. 5. BP Acharya, Governor of Nagaland for his message of condolence 6. TR. Zeliang, Chief Minister of Nagaland for his support and solidarity 7. Nagaland state Cabinet & MLAs who attended the condolence service at Agri-Expo 8. Neiphiu Rio, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for his support and solidarity 9. KG. Kenye, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for his support and solidarity 10. Swaraj Kaushal, former Interlocutor for his condolence message 11. Naga community Delhi led by Neiphiu Rio for the solidarity and conducting a Condolence service in Delhi 12. Government of India for providing Chartered Flight from Delhi to Dimapur Airport 13. Naga Hoho and ENPO for the reception and conduct of massive condolence service at Agri -Expo, Dimapur. 14. APO for showing great love and respect by conducting reception and condolence program at Kohima 15. NPMHR for condolence message and solidarity

16. NSF for condolence message and solidarity 17. ENSF for solidarity and condolence message 18. Naga Students’ Union Delhi for showing all the possible solidarity while in Delhi. 19. Forum for Naga reconciliation (FNR) for solidarity and condolence message 20. United Naga Council (UNC) for condolence message and solidarity 21. All Naga Students’ Association Manipur (ANSAM) for condolence message and solidarity 22. Tangshang Naga Students’ Association (TNSA) for condolence message and solidarity 23. Naga Students’ Organisation, Hq. Khamti Town for condolence message and solidarity 24. All the Naga tribe frontal organisation for condolence message and solidarity 25. Council of Naga Affairs, Zingkaling Khamti (H.Q) for the condolence message 26. Sumi Hoho for conducting the funeral program at Chishilimi 27. Western Sumi Hoho for providing Sumi traditional escorts from Airport to Agri Expo Dimapur and again from CHQ Hebron to Chishilimi on 1st July 28. Chishilimi villagers and its neighbouring villages of Pughoboto area for extending all their gathered resources to make the last journey of Chairman late Isak Chishi Swu a memorable journey. 29. Sumi Gazatted Union for ushering and their generous supply of bottled drinking water. 30. Rengma Hoho and its frontal organisation for organising a public reception at Phenwhenyu and Pughoboto junction. 31. Sumi Aphuyemi Hoho & Sumi Aphuyemi Kukami for providing two Pick-Up vehicles which make it possible to carry the large wreath presented to our Late Chairman Isak Chishi Swu 32. Organising Committee of the Funeral program also thank CPO for the fervent request to bring the body remain of

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our Late Chairman Isak Chishi Swu in their headquarters however it is deeply regretted that things could not be materialised due to the inconvenience Un-represented Nations People’s Organisation (UNPO) for solidarity and condolence message Dr. Micheal Van Walt Van Praag for the condolence message and solidarity Geneva Call, Katherine Kramer & Chris for condolence message and solidarity Naga International Support Centre for condolence message and solidarity Pastor Prayen from Thailand for condolence message and solidarity Dr. Sukhato of the Faith Hospital Dimapur, for his generosity by providing Ambulance services throughout the last journey of our departed Chairman Nagaland police department for extending security measures Nagaland Traffic Police for the smooth arrangement of traffic during the passage of our Late Chairman entourage Business communities of all the Naga territories for expressing their love and solidarity by voluntary shutdown of business activities Private Schools in Naga of all the Naga Areas for taking a day off in honour of our departed leader. ULFA Chairman Arabindo Rajkowa for attending the Memorial Service at Agri Expo, Dimapur and sharing condolence Mizo National Front for condolence message and solidarity His Highness the Maharaja of Manipur for condolence message Outer Manipur Tribal Forum for condolence message Zomi Re-Unification Organisation (ZRO) for the condolence message and solidarity Vaiphei Tribal Council for the condolence message and solidarity Dimasa Public Organisation for solidarity and condolence message President Dhirender Boro National Democratic Front

of Bodoland (Progressive) for Condolence message and solidarity 51. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Ranjan Daimary) for condolence message and solidarity 52. Nagaland Motorcycle Club for the unprecedented showcase of warm gesture for providing Royal Enfield escorts from CHQ Hebron till Phugoboto 53. Meetei National Front Kangleipak for condolence message 54. Chairman, Autonomous District Council, Ukhrul district for condolence message 55. Chairman, Autonomous District Council, Senapati district for condolence message 56. Leaders and citizens of all Naga territory who initiated candle light condolences in respect and honour of the tallest Naga leader late Isak Chishi Swu. 57. Media fraternity for covering the events and publishing in the best way. We truly appreciate the solidarity extended by other Naga nationalist groups like NSCN-K for the Condolence message, Kitovi Zhimomi, Ato Kilonser of GPRN/NSCN, Gen. Retd. Thinoselie Keyho President NNC, Wangtin Naga, President of NSCN (Reformation), Zhopra Vero, Vice President of FGN for attending the Condolence program at Agri -Expo Dimapur and showing the utmost respect to our departed Chairman. The positive gesture in times of grief reflects the bond of love, concern and camaraderie within us despite of all the differences in our political journey. NSCN believe that the spirit of His Excellency, the Yaruiwo late Isak Chishi Swu will continue to guide the Naga people and his commitment to the Naga political principle, forgiveness, reconciliation and unity shall always be the guiding light for all. We thank all the Naga citizens once more for the tremendous love and honour that has been sufficiently displayed at the demise of the Chairman which the Naga people will dearly missed. For any inadvertent left out in the list of gratitude and acknowledgement the Organising Committee shall deeply regret.

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MIP NSCN (IM) Kuknalim.

Tuesday 05•07•2016

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 183

Reflecting on the National Workers

oes each and every generation bear a duty to accomplish what is possible within their time? And like a relay race, is each generation expected to pass on the lighted torch to the next generation? World over, many people’s struggle for justice, freedom and peace reflects this almost obligatory inter-generational passing of the torch. The journey of the Naga national movement is not any different. Let us reflect on these questions, at this crucial moment in time. Isak Chishi Swu was a leader in the traditional revolutionary mold. With compatriots of his generation they navigated through one of the most difficult and violent times in the modern history of the Naga people. He belonged to an older generation of Naga political leaders who found strength and comradeship in their simplicity, straightforward mannerism and unwavering commitment to the cause of justice, peace and liberation. Armed with deep political consciousness and inspired by a lucid understanding of the Naga vision, this older generation remained unfazed and uncorrupted by the allures, challenges and half-measures that come with leading a movement. To the older generation, having respectful relationships with all people was at the heart of the struggle. Theirs was a humanistic approach driven by a political, spiritual and moral discipline. Thus, even in the face of grave danger they persevered, endured, and resiliently bounced back stronger, drawing strength and unity from the people. Why do we need to reflect on the legacy of the older generation? Today, the Naga people and their leaders find themselves at yet another decisive crossroad. The present generation of national workers can draw from the lives and times of the older generation. In this regard, a few reflections are being shared here. First, the older generation of national workers had a deep capacity to acknowledge the humanity of their opponents. Like the fish that knows it can survive only in water, they were aware that their personal survival and that of the movement was dependent on a respectful relationship with the people, as well as their ‘adversaries.’ Second, their political astuteness – with a deep sense of patience and humility – was fundamental in building a political movement in solidarity with the people. In this way, the political character of the struggle was constantly at the core. Indeed, the humanistic values of the older generation of national workers ensured that the Naga struggle always retained a human face even in the midst of fierce turmoil. Third, how does the younger generation respond to the nature of the protracted Naga conflict? Do they follow the tragic path of many liberation movements in the world and resort to short term reactive measures that only provide form but very little substance? Do they, as it seems to be happening, succumb to an institutionalized, engineered and corrupt system that is devouring the Naga movement? Fourth, how best do they constructively respond to the emergent divisions, factionalism, internal violence and counter-violence, past hurts and bitterness, personal acrimony, suspicion and distrust, issues of taxation and polarized understandings of political events? Finally, like the older generation, are they able to look inward and engage in constructive self-criticism, listen, respect and responsibly respond to the collective will of the people. This is essential for rediscovering the core Naga values and principles in order to courageously and imaginatively reorient and redefine themselves in the quest to build a dignified and inclusive future. The stark reality is that the protracted nature of armed conflict has taken a toll on the Naga people, the movement and its national workers. It is not an exaggeration to say the Naga movement is in danger of losing its humanity. Despite their unwavering personal sacrifices and political commitment, the current generation of national workers is surrounded by a context of degenerating social norms and moral values. This is self-evident, particularly in the presence of adversaries who seem to thrive on a divide and rule strategy. The contemporary challenges threaten the vibrancy and dynamism of the Naga movement and the society, and specifically their capacity to be dreamers and makers of their own destiny. At this point of time the younger generation needs to ask themselves, what legacy, what lighted torch have been passed on by the older generation? It is vital for the younger generation of national workers – to look back at the signposts left by the older generation. In that not-too-distant history, one can reconnect with a rich legacy, draw lessons from past mistakes, rediscover the wellspring of creativity and nourish the soul as the march towards a more just and peaceful Naga land goes forward. The older generation of Naga national workers laid the foundation for the struggle and confronted their own exceptionally distinct challenges and opportunities. The present generation too has an obligation to constructively confront the current challenges and seize opportunities for nonviolence, forgiveness, reconciliation, unity, justice and peace along the course of the struggle. And, that is not a task this generation can postpone!

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Power may cause distrust

oes your boss always punish you? If so, he or she may be afraid of losing the power and position, reveals a study. The findings showed that distrust is the main reason why leaders impose punishments on the people over whom they have power. Afraid of losing their power, the leaders use punishments as deterrents and to ensure that similar rule-breaking behaviour never happens again. “Leaders expect other people not to obey the rules and punish them on the basis of this distrust,” said Marlon Mooijman, psychologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Further, leaders are afraid that if they are too trusting of others, this trust can be abused. This would then, of course, threaten their position. Unfortunately, punishments of this kind do not have the desired effect. "We see that some power systems can actually exacerbate the problems. This particularly relates to issues such as unethical behaviour, plagiarism and fraud," the researchers explained. "When people feel distrusted, they are less likely to obey the rules. They see this assumption on the part of the leaders as a sign of disrespect. It also violates an implicit social contract: If you treat me well, I will act accordingly," Mooijman added. For the study, the team conducted experiments with groups of students, who were temporarily assigned to a manager position. They were asked to write about an incident in which they felt very powerful, or conversely very powerless. They then had to decide how someone who had committed plagiarism should be punished. Students who had been made to feel powerful were found to favour punishments designed to make an example of the offenders. The deterrent aspect was important, and some were even prepared to publicly name the people who had committed plagiarism.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Garga Chatterjee

A farcical federalism at work in the Indian Union

n 2016, with another round of elections to the Rajya Sabha coming up in various state assemblies, the continued abuse of the idea of the Rajya Sabha by so-called “national” parties has come to the fore. A large number of Rajya Sabha members, past and present, have been representing states with which they really have no connection at all, thus undermining the very principle of representation that is supposed to be the bedrock of representative democracy. The present Rajya Sabha and the nature of nominations put forward by the BJP and the Congress (I) shows that they care more about representing their respective high commands. The state assembly members are a rubber-stamp for their masters from Delhi. The states and their people are simply an excuse for this elaborate charade, as far as “national” parties are concerned. This is nothing short of a betrayal of the people of states and the sacred concept of federalism, a basic feature of the constitution. The Rajya Sabha, whose official English translation is the Council of States, is the upper-house of the Parliament of the Indian Union. Why does the Indian Union have a council of states? As the Rajya Sabha's official website says, “because a federal system was considered to be most feasible form of Government for such a vast country with immense diversities” and “It was meant to be the federal chamber i.e., a House elected by the elected members of Assemblies of the States and two Union Territories.” Given that Lok Sabha elections often happen around issues that have relevance across states, the Rajya Sabha, being elected by members of state assemblies, ought to represent issues of state interest that may be marginal in Lok Sabha elections. Additionally, the staggered nature of the Rajya Sabha elections also seeks to ensure a more temporally representative nature of the parliament, beyond the typically once-in-fiveyear dip-stick representation of the Lok Sabha. Also, in a nation of nations system like the Indian Union, the component ethno-linguistic nations, in the form of states, the Rajya Sabha ideally should look out for the interest of states when it comes to legislations. How has this system worked? Let us take the case of Venkaiah Naidu, the present Union cabinet Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and, most tragically, Parliamentary Affairs. Mr. Naidu, a Telugu born in Andhra Pradesh, was educated in Andhra Pradesh, was associated from a young age with the RSS in Andhra Pradesh, was elevated into political prominence via the ABVP in Andhra Pradesh, was elected multiple times to the state assembly of Andhra Pradesh, was the leader of the BJP legislative party in the state assembly of Andhra Pradesh, was from 1985-1993 successively General Secretary and President of the BJP unit in Andhra Pradesh, before going “national”. Since 1998, he has been elected 3 times to the Rajya Sabha, but never from Andhra Pradesh. That fortune or misfortune has been of Karnataka alone, whose BJP MLAs dutifully chose a man from Andhra Pradesh to represent Karnataka's voice in the Rajya Sabha, for obviously, a suitable Kannadiga could not be found instead. He has represented Karnataka for 18 years in the Rajya Sabha – enough time to make Karnataka his own, out of gratitude or posturing. What has he done? He participated in 86 debates in Rajya Sabha from 9 June 2009 to 21 February 2014. Not one was related to Karnataka. However, the debates he participated in, included - The Andhra Pradesh reorganization Bill, Fire accident in Andhra Pradesh's Vishakapatnam, Formation of Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, Twin blasts in Andhra Pradesh's Hyderabad, threat to 18,000 Andhra workers in United Arab Emirates, Rail accident at Andhra Pradesh's Penneconda, Killing of an Andhra MBA student in London, Untimely heavy rains in Andhra Pradesh and so on. With his MPLADS fund, he adopted the Chepala Uppada village of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district. After severe criticism in Karnataka, he took up a village in Bangalore rural. Known to be a fiery speaker when in his elements, he is now a known votary of Hindi imposi-

tion on non-Hindi states. Himself a native Telugu speaker, he made the effort to learn Hindi to work his way up through his Hindi dominated party. In spite of 18 years of political support, the few speeches he ever made in Karnataka, he preferred to make them mostly in Hindi and has shunned Kannada or at least has not shown much effort to embrace Kannada in public. While he was being considered for a fourth term, a large group of self-respecting Kannadigas of Karnatak launched a campaign against his renomination from the state. The Venkayya Saakayya (enough of Venkaiah) stir seems to have been partially successful. BJP has now given Naidu the task of “representing” Haryana in Rajya Sabha! However, Naidu's replacement in Karnataka is another politician from Andhra Pradesh, the Tamil Nadu born Nirmala Sitharaman. BJP high command's Kannadiga MLA soldiers will dutifully ensure her victory, without an iota of shame. After all they are known to be obedient soldiers of the party who don’t disobey orders from Delhi, except when they did last time around and cross-voted for an independent candidate from Karnataka to the Rajya Sabha. His name was Vijay Mallya. Venkaiah Naidu and Karnataka are not an exception. About 20% of the present Rajya Sabha MPs of the BJP are not from the states they supposedly “represent”. They include luminaries like Delhi-MumbaiDelhi's Smriti Irani representing Gujarat, Delhi victorious – Punjab loser Arun Jaitley representing Gujarat, Maharashtra's Suresh Prabhu representing Haryana, Kolkata-Delhi's M.J. Akbar representing Jharkhand, Maharashtra's Prakash Javdekar representing Madhya Pradesh, Kolkata-Delhi's Chandan Mitra representing Madhya Pradesh, Delhi's Vijay Goel representing Rajasthan, Mumbai-Delhi's Ram Jethmalani representing Rajasthan and such. Congress has Uttar Pradesh's Mohsina Kidwai representing Chhattisgarh, Kashmir's Karan Singh representing Delhi (in a literal, representational and political sense), Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai's Raj Babbar representing Uttarakhand while the Andhra-JNU-Delhi revolutionary Sitaram Yechury has represented West Bengal since 2005. Other parties have rarely engaged in such “representation.” The abuse of the system has been deep and bi-partisan and is largely a reflection of how national parties treat state legislators as servile peons for their parliamentary games, without minimal regard for the rights of states. Since June 2004 till date, the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha has not been a person who really belongs to the rajya or state

he represents in that Council of States. Before “Gujarat's Arun Jaitley”, that vaunted post was occupied by “Assam's Manmohan Singh”, the two-time Prime Minister of the Indian Union. To satisfy the domicile clause of Rajya Sabha representation, Manmohan Singh produced papers that showed his “domicile” to be of Assam! The present President of the Indian Union, Pranab Mukherjee during his “representing” Gujarat in Rajya Sabha days produced LPG connection documents to establish Gujarat domicile! This domicile irritant was then altogether removed by the ganging up of Congress and BJP, leading to the explosion of Andhraites representing Karnataka, relieved from the task of producing LPG connection documents. The joke is on us, the people of states. Perhaps this is to be expected in a fake-federal system like the Indian Union which considers the nation as some eternally preformed entity with the states being arbitrary administrative units. The US Congress is analogous to the Lok Sabha. Federalism in USA more than a semantic charade. Its upper house, the US Senate, isn’t analogous to the Rajya Sabha. In the US Congress and Lok Sabha, the numbers of seats are roughly proportional to population. This gives precedence to the whole, which is a historical, legal instrument, though much time and money is spent to create a fictional past for this legal form. The US Senate represents that strand where past compacts and differing trajectories and identities are represented in the form of states. States form the "United" States of America. Hence in the US Senate, the unit is the state, not the individual citizen and each state, irrespective of population, has two members. This respects equality of states and acts as a protection against the domination by more populous states. In the Rajya Sabha, the seats allotted to each state are roughly proportional to its population. It doesn’t acknowledge equality of states. In the Rajya Sabha, the Rajyas aren’t the unit. For Rajya Sabha to be truly so, it has to be constituted on a fundamentally different paradigm than the Lok Sabha. Concerns, aspirations and visions of the future differ based on a region's perceived attitude towards a monolithic "whole". A federal democratic union is one that does not discriminate between aspirations and is flexible enough to accommodate differing aspirations. Rather than chanting "unity in diversity" as an anxious mantra of a paranoid monolith, we have to creatively forge unity through an honest assessment of diversity by admitting that the Indian Union is a multi-national super-state. Power must flow from truth.

Teaching Can Change Lives — And Threaten Empires

ould St. Justin Martyr recognize us as Christians? After reading his, “Discourse to the Greeks,” I have my reservations. I doubt he would recognize me. Addressing a class full of seniors in an urban public high school, I quote Aldous Huxley: “It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.” Then I ask them where he is borrowing from. I, the instructor, am uncertain whether to bring up religious references, nonbelievers are uncertain about the allusion’s origins in John 11, and believers are insecure about mentioning their faith. A veil of silence sits over the room as we wallow in our discomfort. This is not the image of courage and clarity that St. Justin Martyr presents. The second century saint’s common rejoinder seems to be, “Look at what you worship. Look who you honor.” He then observes that his listeners’ chaotic existences are a natural byproduct of their misappropriated honorifics. “With such a mass of evils do you banish shame; and you fill your minds with them, and are carried away by intemperance, and indulge as a common practice in wicked and insane fornication.” Was this really written almost two millennia ago? His words could describe us today, a culture steeped in lust, which Justin Martyr says is the door “through which

Justin Redemer Sojourners every ill is begotten — hatreds, strife, envy, emulations, anger, and such like.” Our whole system encourages us in that direction: Sexual lust, lust for power, lust for wealth. Is it any wonder that our own culture resembles not so much the gospel as a Greek Bacchanal? I wonder in what way Justin Martyr would recognize the Christian life played out in mine. Like him, I was educated at institutions that provided no theological or metaphysical foundations for life. Studies were always geared toward the “how,” rarely the “why.” I became proficient at it, but I was unsatisfied. At home we read Scripture and memorized verses. At church we talked about the gospels and the Old Testament prophets, but at school we never engaged those texts. Instead, my spiritual instructors in education were Sartre and Camus. Existentialism, the metaphysical practice of the materially comfortable, became the defining ethic of the academy. Sure, one could find solace in one’s work or pretend that what one knew to be true was not. Perhaps one could

maintain private religious practice or a personal faith. But such things could not be brought to bear in my educational context. About a century after Jesus’ death and resurrection, before Justin was a saint, a martyr, or even a Christian, he visited a series of philosophers and teachers, from Stoics to Pythagoreans to Platonists in search of the truth, only to find an aged Syrian Christian who opened his life up to the truth of the gospel. He then dressed as a philosopher and founded a school in Rome, the center of Hellenistic hedonism, instructing students on a unifying theo l o g y t hat equally embraced Plato and Aristotle along with Jesus Christ and the Torah. After an open debate with a cynic philosopher, he was reported to the authorities and condemned to death with six of his students. I returned to faith in a green 1996 Honda Accord while traveling across the country. My brother accompanied me, and though he was not a Syrian Christian (how apropos given our current cir-

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cumstance), his fledging involvement with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship intrigued me. He seemed so sure of the truth that was Jesus. My brother’s life had mission, which gave him fulfillment and purpose. In contrast, I was a hollow man, empty of all but the knowledge that the pursuits of men were meaningless — even absurd — in the face of a brutal, uncaring universe. Seeing him overflowing with such inner substance sparked a dormant faith which has unified my learning and my belief. What better way to share that unity than through teaching? I want to expose my students to the continuing conversation from ancient Sumer through modern America, from paganism to Christianity, from the objective good through the subjective turn, to give them the fullness of thought and mission that was missing from my education. It’s a daunting task, given our historical illiteracy and the delicacy of the subject matter, but it is the one God has placed before me. I dare not bury it in the ground. At St. Justin Martyr’s trial, Junius Rusticus, the presiding judge declared, “Those who do not wish to sacrifice to the gods and to obey the emperor will be scourged and beheaded according to the laws.” And on some level, I hope my curriculum would be equally disturbing to those comfortably in power. And on some level, this terrifies me.

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A Case of Too Many Hands Spoiling the Curry

am a person who loves proverbs and wise sayings and over the years I have been touched and even inspired by many proverbs and this includes both biblical as well as secular proverbs. As such, whenever I ponder about the crisis and dilemmas that frequently crop up in the school education department, the proverb that always comes to my mind is “Too Many Hands Spoil the Curry”. I not only fully concur to this proverb but also believe that this is a universal truth. In the context of the school education department, the curry is the education system and the hands are the too many employees (officers, ministerial staffs and the teachers) with never-ending conflicting interests and egoes who frequently come to loggerheads simply because the school education department has become too over-crowded with no clear-cut definition and demarcation of functions, powers, responsibilities and lines for career advancement (promotions) amongst its many employees spread over the length and breadth of the state. All will agree that the school education department is one of our biggest and most vital departments. It was one of the first departments to be set up after Nagaland became a full-fledged state in the 1960s. And it is vital because it deals with imparting education (academic as well as cognitive) to our children so that they become responsible citizens and contribute towards our society in the future. As such the frequent conflicts and controversies that we get to see in this most vital department is certainly not a good phenomenon. These issues are going to have a disastrous effect upon the lives of our school-going students unless immediate reasonable adjustments are made to address the root-causes of these crisis and dilemmas. At present the school education department oversees the functioning of the very important stages of academic education namely Primary, Elementary, Secondary and Higher Secondary. The needs and requirements of all these stages of education are different and each stage needs special handling. However, each stage is equally important and no stage can be deemed as less significant or more important than the others. These stages of academic education are complementary to one another but they certainly need differential handling and nurturing. As per the present scenario in the school education department, the Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs) who teach the higher secondary section are comparatively placed in a very advantageous position when compared with the other teachers. Firstly, they join teaching profession as Class II Gazzetted officers and since their number is comparatively lesser than the Graduate and Primary Teachers, they have much greater chances of promotion and career advancement. And once they reach the level of VP or Principal, they are given administrative power over the whole higher secondary school thereby reducing the school headmaster to a mere figurehead and also completely demoralizing senior GTs who have much longer and greater teaching experi-

ences. Of course, there is no denying the fact that the PGTs might have spent more years and resources in their academics pursuits than a mere graduate or a mere P.U. Passed. But let us also recall that most of the graduate and primary teachers are also holders of post-graduate degrees from reputed universities. So the question of the higher secondary teachers being more qualified than the graduate and primary teachers does not hold much water. The only irony was that time and tide did not favour some people and they ended up getting appointed as graduate and primary teachers even though they were more than qualified to teach even at university levels. Therefore, there is no reason for the higher secondary teachers (PGTs) to look down on the GTs and Primary teachers. They got appointed as PGTs simply because they turned out to be luckier than the others with similar qualifications. Thus, all teachers (whether PGTs, GTs or PTs) should be treated as equally important and given equal opportunities for career advancement, job satisfaction and the needed space to work independently in their own sections. Yes, it is really not fair when the elementary and primary teachers despite their qualification, seniority and experiences are made to serve under the shadow and ego of the higher secondary teachers all through out their teaching career even though they also play equally important parts (if not more important parts) in moulding the future and career of the students. The Graduate Teachers (GTs) teach the secondary (class 9-10) and elementary classes (5-8). Under the present system, a graduate teacher’s post is a class III non-gazzetted post and it would take a GT usually more than 25 years to get promoted to a Class II level officer. Thus, when a person is made to do the same old thing over and over again for many years without any chances for career advancements, naturally the potency and patience of the person is put to the ultimate test. It is like walking in a long dark tunnel without seeing the light for many years. In such situations, naturally the ego, patience and potency of the person are adversely affected. The plight of the Primary Teachers (PTs) is even more pathetic and unfortunate. A person who enters teaching profession as a primary teacher is al-

most sure to retire as a primary teacher. A primary teacher has no avenues at all for any sort of career advancement apart from the yearly shoestring increment added to their salary. The word ‘Primary’ by the way means ‘of chief importance’. Thus it is the primary teachers who are entrusted with the responsibility to impart education to the pupils in the most important stage. But unfortunately, under the present system, these teachers who introduce the most basic cryptograms of academic education to the children are treated in such a dismal and stepmotherly manner. I have even heard that in some foreign countries, the primary teachers are the ones with the best salary and the best opportunities for career advancements amongst the teaching fraternity. But here in Nagaland their lot remains miserable from one end to the other despite the fact that they are the ones who deal with the most indispensable and foundational elements of academic education in the initial stage. In the elementary stage, it is the elementary teachers (the GTs in our case) who introduce the basic nature and fundamentals of the different disciplines to the pupils thereby enabling them to have a general idea of all the disciplines of academic studies. (The word ‘Elementary’ by the way means ‘relating to the most basic aspects of a subject’). Thus if we go by these parameters, we can safely conclude that each stage of academic education is equally vital and important with its own unique and dynamic roles to influence and inspire the lives of the pupils. Thus the question ultimately arises, “Is it really fair to treat some teachers as more important than the others by providing them with not only higher salaries, better job opportunities and better chances of career advancements but also making them rule over the other teachers in administration despite the fact that all the teachers make equally important contributions?” I believe these are the reasons which have compelled the sidelined teachers to demand for bifurcation of the school education department. Wherever mammoth people with conflicting interests and divergent natures of work are made to work under the same roof, conflicts and clashes of egoes are bound to arise sooner or later unless fair and reasonable adjustments are made to accommodate the

needs, interests, requirements, desires and the career-advancing opportunities of the different sections of the employees. And the school education department is no stranger to these issues. Moreover, with the passage of time, the school education department has grown into gigantic size both in terms of the number of its employees as well as in terms of its functions, powers and responsibilities. To effectively deal with these new realities, we certainly require newer strategies and policies to meet the emergent challenges. The system or the arrangement which used to work well in the past might have already become outdated. These are some of the reasons why I also feel that the demand of some teachers for bifurcation of the school education department is quite genuine and very reasonable. If the government can bring about total bifurcation of the secondary section from the higher secondary section, I believe that it can help in mitigating the present mess in the department to a great extent. Of course, the primary objective of academic education remains the same i.e., to bring about the overall personality, intellectual, cognitive and academic development of the pupils and thereby making them not only socially responsible citizens but also socially aware citizens who will be able to make contributions to the society and fellow human beings. However, the specific aims and objectives of the different stages of academic education can be met more productively if the teachers manning the different stages are given more free hands to deal with their respective stages without any unnecessary intervention from the other sections. I also believe that positive results will be there for all to see if the primary and elementary teachers are treated as equal contributors in the education system and not as some under-qualified or under-achiever teachers who are manning some lesser important responsibilities than the higher secondary teachers. Desirable outcome will dawn on us all the day we realize and treat all PGTs, GTs and Primary teachers as equal contributors in imparting education to our future upcoming generation. All these teachers have their unique, special and equally important roles to play and they can certainly perform better if unnecessary overlapping of duties, functions, responsibilities and powers is avoided and a clear cut definition and demarcation of these is brought about. When even the GTs and primary teachers are provided with equal opportunities for career advancements and promotions like the higher secondary teachers, their interest and enthusiasm will be kept alive and they will certainly perform better with greater vigour, dedication and commitment. So why just bifurcation, if possible the govt. can even think about bringing trifurcation of the school education department with separate directorates for primary education, elementary education and secondary education. Lastly, since I began the article with a proverb, allow me to conclude with another proverb “I rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself rather than sitting on a crowded cushion”………..

BETWEEN THE LINES – Quality of journalism

Kuldip Nayar The Daily Star, Bangladesh

hen l was studying in a journalism school abroad, l was told by my professor that a news story should be like a skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be attractive. Over the years, the story has assumed the shape of pontification and inevitably padded. When senior journalists are kicking the bucket, the question that stares at us is what kind of journalism will be there in future. Of course, this is not confined only to India. All countries, whether in the West or the East – barring the totalitarian regimes – are asking the same question: which is the lakshman rekha (boundary) that journalists should not cross? Or should there be any lakshman rekha at all? Individuals are increasingly posing the question about why journalists pry into their private affairs. Journalists in turn defend themselves on the grounds that if they didn’t probe, the skeletons would not come out of the closet. The government has a standard reply: some things cannot be disclosed in public interest. In this way, even big scandals are covered up. I recall that when l wrote against the supersession of three Supreme Court judges, K.S. Hegde, A.N. Grover and J.M. Shelat, l was criticised by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who argued that journalism did not mean preaching about the “commitment” of judges. She did not elaborate what that “commitment” was. I can understand the judges’ commitment to the Constitution, but not to a person, however high their position might be. What Mrs. Indira Gandhi was demanding from the judges was a commitment to follow her way of thinking. That is the reason she appointed Justice Ray, a junior judge in the Supreme Court, as the Chief Justice, ignoring the seniority of three others. She did not even inform them regarding this development beforehand. They heard the news on All India Radio. This kind of political manipulation runs contrary to the transparency that a democratic system cherishes. Indeed the structure of democra-

cy stands on the pillars of both the division and limitation of power. For example, the army does not interfere in the affairs of the government because it is a force under the civil administration. Some countries like Pakistan have gone under because the military, although it has recently gone back to the barracks, is still very active in the political proceedings. Democracy expects all its wings to function independently, but in a way that allows sovereignty to stay with the people. It is another matter that rulers themselves become authoritarian and behave like the worst of the Mughal emperors. Those who ensure that democracy functions in the interest of the people are the judges who have the power to go into the pronouncements of the legislature. The debate about whether the judiciary or the executive is supreme is an ongoing discussion. If there is criticism of what judges do, or even the manner in which the legislature functions, that comes from journalists. It is the duty of journalists to do so. If they are afraid of carrying out what is expected from them, it is unfortunate for the system. I have experienced how during the Emergency – June 26 this year will be its 41st anniversary – the entire press industry caved in. Initially, there were protests and a large number of journalists – including editors – assembled at the Press Club in Delhi to pass a resolution that Press censorship, an integral part of the Emergency, was not acceptable to them. Yet, as days went by, fear gripped them and they became part of the system, even accepting the orders of Mrs. Gandhis’s son, Sanjay Gandhi, an extra constitutional authority. I recall that as a member of the Press Council of India, I went to its then chairman, Justice Iyer, to urge him to summon a meeting of the Press Council, an apex body. I did not know by then that fear had also made him subservient. He told me there was no use of summoning a meeting of the Press Council because there would be no publicity about its proceedings. My argument was that if there were no protests then many years later, when the archives would be opened of this shameful chapter, there wouldn’t be

any record about any protest by the Press Council, the journalists. He then reluctantly convened a meeting of the local Press Council members. To my horror, I saw in the white paper issued after the lifting of the Emergency that he had written to then Information Minister, V.C. Shukla, explaining how he (Justice Iyer) was able to stall the efforts by Kuldip Nayar to convene a meeting of the Press Council! The same question about the independence of journalists comes before us again and again in different situations. And I find that increasingly, we, the journalists, are failing in the standards required from us. None of this has been helped by the new digital technology that promotes very short stories or sound bites. In fact, things have deteriorated to such an extent today that news columns can be bought. It is an open secret that several stories are nothing more than paid news. Some leading newspapers feel no shame in selling the space to whoever wants to buy it. For them, it is purely a question of revenue. How low have we sunk from the heights that we once enjoyed? There was a time when we were able to bring before the public scandals, such as the Mundhra insurance scam during the time of Finance Minister T.T. Krishnachari. Jawaharlal Nehru, then the prime minister, forced him to resign from the cabinet. But even when I subsequently met TTK, he did not seem to realise the harm he had done to the polity. India is oblivious to the privations of individuals. In contrast, the UK media has in the past been prepared to take up the cudgels on behalf of innocent victims from different walks of life. For example, the Sunday Times, for which I was a stringer, is still remembered with affection and gratitude for the work it did on behalf of those parents whose children were born handicapped because of the Thalidomide drug prescribed to the patient. Public pressure eventually forced the drug manufacturing company to pay out the needed compensation. Can we emulate those examples today when our very integrity as journalists is being questioned, not to speak of the high standards we once followed?

Multiple Intelligences And Our Teaching Approach Vemedo Kezo

Department of Education, St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama PROLOGUE Every human person is endowed with gifts for the enrichment of his or her personality and to the society. This gift is varied and unique and as unique to the person himself or herself. Therefore, the goal of education is nurturing and developing this gift of a person to unfold into creative and constructive contribution to the world. Socrates argues that education is drawing out what is already within the student. The very word of education itself comes from the Latin root word, educere ‘which means to bring out what is within’. However, in today’s context of formal education, the cognitive aspect is emphasized and the other dimensions of affective and psychomotor domain of a person are sidelined. This article attempts to highlight how we can nurture different skills and talents of an individual which form as the different intelligences of a person. These different intelligences or multiples intelligences was first theorized by a Harvard University Professor, Howard Gardner in 1983 in his Frames of the Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. He gives different types of intelligences that an individual has. Through this theory Gardner points out the limits of traditional IQ testing and its application. However, before, discussing the topic, the need to clarify the word intelligence is in order. CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATION The word intelligence comes from the Latin word intelligentia which means understanding or the power of discerning and understanding. The word was popularised by the German Psychologist William L.Stern in 1912 in his research on human reasoning and thus coined the word, intelligenz quotient (I.Q). In his words, “intelligence is a general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements: it is general mental adaptability to new problems and conditions of life. In the words of Gardner, it is the ‘ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.’ Thus we can see that the word intelligence is a complex concept and definition depends upon the vantage point in which we define. If intelligence is smartness of dealing with the environment we have Howard Gardner who gives various types of intelligences that every human person contributes to his or her survival and relating with the social milieu. WHAT IS MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE? Thus Gardner gives the different types of intelligences apart from the traditional attributes of intelligence. Thus the following are the attributes of multiple intelligences. 1. Linguistic Intelligence: This intelligence is related to written and spoken language. They have well developed skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythm of words. 2. Mathematical Intelligence: This intelligence focuses on the ability to reason, calculate and handle logical thinking. 3. Visual intelligence: A person with this type of intelligence has the capacity to think in images and pictures, and visualize accurately and abstractly. 4. Kinaesthetic intelligence: This intelligence is related to physical movement and it is the ability to control body movement and handle objects skilfully. 5. Musical intelligence: This intelligence is related with the ability to produce and appreciate music. 6. Interpersonal intelligence: This intelligence operates primarily through person-to-person relationships and communication. 7. Intrapersonal intelligence: This intelligence relates to inner states of being, self-reflection and inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes. 8. Naturalist intelligence: This intelligence deals with making connections with elements in nature. A person with this gifted can recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature. According to Gardner, all human beings possess the varying degrees of intelligences. Therefore, a teacher needs to discover, the different learning styles on the students in order to make the teaching learning process, interesting, meaningful and effective. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE AND THE CLASSROOM The traditional approach of intelligent quotient labels a person by taking into consideration only the mathematical and linguistic intelligences. In this way a person’s intelligence is narrowed down to these two skills. This type of approach of labelling a person’s holistic aptitude is unfair nay it destroys the basic self confidence of a child to blossom his or her potentialities. The multiple intelligence approach on the other hand, recognizes the gift of a child and tries to nurture and affirms so that the child grows in a healthy positive self image. In this way, students begin to understand how they are intelligent. When students understand the balance of their own aptitude, talents and skills, they begin to manage their own learning, they value their own strengths and they develop a sense of responsibility to grow and learn. When teachers become sensitive to the different abilities of students in the class, teaching becomes a source of empowering students to learn and become deeply aware of their own strengths. The students can now foster deep understanding about the essential questions of life, such as, what I can become after my studies in relation to my strengths and skills, how can I live a good life? MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE: A NEW PARADIGM FOR TEACHING LEARNING The word paradigm signifies the pattern or example in which a new set of ideas or concept is based upon for the explanation of a theory. Thus multiple intelligence theory gives a new paradigm of teaching learning experience. In this paradigm of teaching and learning the cognitive aspect of learning is not the sole criterion but all the three aspects of learning: cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains are given equal emphasis. Drawing a picture, composing a music, writing a story, performing acrobatics etc, all these activities can be a vital door to learning as important as writing and solving mathematics. In the new paradigm of teaching learning, the teacher is now the builder of the strengths of the students. Here the teacher is not only giving the information taken from the text book, but facilitating the students to learn in the way they can learn best. The way the children learn depends upon the capacity of the teacher to enhance their learning ability by virtue of affirming their strengths and recognizing their gifts. EPILOGUE What is striking in this approach of learning is that, students demonstrate multiple ways of understanding the lesson. And the teacher affirms the talents of the students in maximising the instructional goals. The focus is now to creating more personalized and diversified instructional experiences. Students’ self esteem and self confidence levels rise as learners become aware of their own intrinsic gifts, talents and aptitudes. Each student develops an appreciation of self and also appreciates other’s gift. They are not threatened of one another but value and recognize each others’ talents and unique gifts. The urge to outdo or outsmart the other is not a big issue here anymore because; students learn and discover their own unique intelligences and their own gifts.

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TUESDAY 05•07•2016

INDIA

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'Put uniform civil code draft in public domain' hydeRABAd, JUly 4 (PTI): The Muslim community would accept a uniform civil code if there is a fair discussion of its draft and their issues are addressed, Abid Rasool Khan, Chairman of State Minorities Commission, which serves the twin states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, has said. Speaking to PTI, he noted if the government, which had last week asked the Law Commission to examine the issue of implementation of such a code, was serious, it has to first put a draft on it in public domain so that it can be discussed. Underlining the "divergent characteristic" of the country, Khan stated that "religion is the most important factor in every community, whether it's Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and other". "We do every thing based on religion, including our voting, dietary life. When its such a case, the government has to tread very carefully," he said. Pointing out that there had been debates over such a code for many years without any concrete outcome, Khan said the draft

Implementation of Uniform Civil Code is 'national work': Sena MUMBAI, JUly 4 (PTI): Having a separate law for Muslims is like encouraging formation of another Pakistan, the Shiv Sena today said, even as it termed the implementation of Uniform Civil Code a "national work" and urged ally BJP to fulfil its poll promise at the earliest. The Union Law Ministry has asked the Law Commission to examine in detail all issues pertaining to the Uniform Civil Code and submit a report to the government. "India may have an all inclusive culture, but politicians have wreaked havoc in the name of secularism in the past 60 years. There is a different law for Hindus and Muslims. The truth is, having a separate law for Muslims is like encouraging the formation of another Pakistan," the Sena said in an editorial in party policy has not been placed in public domain nor was the uniform civil code discussed in any forum. "My point is if the government is serious I personally and I think most of my community would not object to it as long as there is a fair discussion on it, and the points are addressed and opinions are taken from all walks of life from Muslims," he said. "But before that, let

mouthpiece 'Saamana'. It claimed that the past governments did nothing to change the situation in the country while continuing with their appeasement politics. The Sena said that if the government has referred the matter to the Law Commission keeping in mind the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections next year, it is not good for the country. "Not withstanding the opposition from Muslim leaders, the government should go ahead with the implementation of the (Uniform Civil) Code, which is a national work. The Modi government has absolute majority. This needs to be respected by them," the Sena said. The code, if implemented, would mean a set of common civil laws for all citizens in place of multitude of personal laws for different religious groups.

the government come out with a draft and place it in public domain what they want to do, because its not only going to affect Muslims as is being made out.. its going to affect Hindus where there is a Succession Act...Hindu Undivided Family Act would be hit, child marriages would be hit, 'Sati' would be hit, then its going to affect the Jains.. its going to affect the Sikh community.

"Its going to affect the Coorgis where their firearm law has to be repealed and its going to affect most of the tribal communities because tribals have their own laws and they are not going to follow this law (uniform civil code). And in Nagaland, you have given special status for Nagas and North-East people.. then you need to repeal that also. Consensus must for im-

plementing uniform civil code: DMK Meanwhile, DMK today said Centre taking up the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) amounted to "stirring up a hornets nest" and claimed it was not easy to implement such a code in a country of diversities. In order to bring a uniform civil code, "a consensus must have to be created" among political parties and various other stakeholders in the country, DMK President M Karunanidhi said. In a letter to his partymen, he said that it was not easy to bring about such a code in a country where different faiths and castes followed different practices for generations. "At a time when the there are thousands of issues waiting to be addressed, when economic and judicial reforms are increasing, taking up UCC, a problem sans any priority, amounts to stirring up a hornets nest," he said. Karunanidhi said veteran RSS leader Guru Golwalkar had reportedly argued against implementing such a code. "The BJP rulers at the Centre should keep this in mind," he said.

1st Indian couple to scale Mt Everest faked photos, Nepal to take action Officials said the couple would lose their climbing certificates and be banned from mountaineering in the Himalayan nation in future.

Rathod with the Indian flag at what he says is the summit of Mount Everest. (Photograph: Facebook)

KAThMAndU, JUly 4, (IAns):The Nepal government will take action against an Indian couple who allegedly altered their photographs to falsely depict themselves on the Mount Everest summit, an official said on Monday. The couple allegedly altered their photographs to show as if they had climbed the summit of Mount Everest, and action will be taken against them

as per existing laws, Xinhua news agency quoted Sudarshan Dhakal, chief of the Nepali Department of Tourism, as saying. A probe was launched into the claim by the Indian couple Dinesh Rathod and his spouse Tarakeshwari of having climbed the world's tallest peak on May 21. Nepal's Tourism Department had issued climbers certificates to the couple after they sub-

mitted a photograph of themselves on the Mount Everest. "Their climbing claim has turned out to be false," Dhakal said adding that the government will form a committee to decide further action against them. Officials said the couple would lose their climbing certificates and be banned from mountaineering in the Himalayan nation in future.

Stop defaming China, A conspiracy to paralyse the CM's office, AAP on Secy arrest Chinese daily tells India new delhI, JUly 4 (IAns): Central bureau of Investigation ing of the Joint Cadre Authority," Rajendra Kumar, principal secre- rectors of Intelligent Communi(CBI), which raided Rajendra Kumar's office on December 15 last year, on Monday announced his arrest along with four others in a corruption case. Sisodia pointed out that the CBI could not produce "even a single proof in the court even to prove the authenticity of the raid. But today, they suddenly arrested Rajendra Kumar". Simultaneously, the Assistant Secretary to the Chief Minister had been transferred to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Sisodia, a long-time confidant of Kejriwal, added: This is the lowest levels to which a central government has stooped from the time Delhi had an elected government in 1991. "Eleven senior officers have been transferred out of Delhi on a single day, that too illegally without a meet-

BeIJIng, JUly 4 (IAns): India must figure out how to earn international trust to get into the NSG instead of defaming China for its failure to do so, a Chinese daily said on Monday. "India needs to perceive China objectively," the Global Times said in an editorial, commenting on how many in the Indian media were blaming Beijing for keeping India from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). "The Indian public seems to be having a hard time accepting the outcome of the Seoul plenary meeting of the NSG late last month," it said. "The country seems to be still stuck in the shadow of the war with China in the 1960s and many still hold on to the obsolete geopolitical view that China does not want to see India rise. "However, New Delhi may have misunderstood Beijing, which can make a big difference in its strategic decisions," said the daily, which reflects the thinking of the Chinese leadership. China, it said, no longer viewed India simply from a political perspective but far more from an economic one. The Global Times said any country wanting to join the NSG would have to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) "but India is not a party to the NPT. "The only exception is if India can obtain consent from all 48 NSG members, but several countries apart from China hold reservations in this regard. "India had better put more efforts into figuring out how to obtain international trust rather than misinterpreting and defaming China," the editorial said.

The arrests of two Delhi government officers, including the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and the transfer of many others is aimed at paralyzing the AAP government, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday.Terming the arrests of Rajendra Kumar and Tarun Kumar, the Principal Secretary and Deputy Secretary to Kejriwal respectively, as "a conspiracy to paralyse the CM's office", Sisodia said the Narendra Modi government was rattled by the AAP's popularity in pollbound Punjab and Goa. And "today one of our ministers, Kapil Mishra, was called for questioning by ACB (Anti-Corruption Branch)," he added. "This is clearly an attempt to paralyse our government." The

Cheating scam: Court accepts Class 12 'topper' as minor

without a captain" as it hit back at Congress for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a 'poster boy for broken promises', saying the opposition party was speaking out of frustration as Modi's work was being "hailed" everywhere. "Congress is today like a sinking ship without a captain. It is facing rebellion in its ranks in many states and has faced electoral defeats everywhere in the last three years. The Modi government in its two years has lived up to its promise of being pro-poor and pro-farmers. "Congress is targeting the Prime Minister out of frustration as people have torn apart its posters everywhere. It is now reduced to ruling only 5 per cent of the country's population. It is now a party of sycophants of a family," BJP national secretary Shrikant

PATnA, JUly 4 (PTI): A district court here today accepted that the controversial Humanities 'topper' in the Bihar Intermediate Examination, who has been arrested in connection with an examination cheating racket, is a minor. Special Vigilance court judge Raghvendra Kumar Singh accepted that the girl is a minor on the basis of her matriculation certificate which mentioned her date of birth as November 15, 1998, paving the way for her shifting from Beur model jail to a remand home. The girl along with the Science stream topper had come into limelight after they gave ridiculous answers to questions on their subjects in a video which went viral, prompting an inquiry. She was arrested by Special Investigation Team (SIT) as she emerged from a re-test of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on June 25 and sent to Beur jail. But, as per her matriculation certificate she is 17 years, 3 months and nine days old and cannot be sent to jail. Former member of the Juvenile Justice Board K D Mishra, who appeared in the court in favour of the girl, presented her matriculation certificate to claim that she is a minor. The lawyer of the Bihar School Examination Board also did not oppose the matriculation certificate of the girl in the court today. With the court accepting her as a minor, it meant that she would be shifted to a remand home from Beur model jail of Patna.

South Africa supports India's NSG membership: Official

new delhI, JUly 4 (IAns): Contrary to reports appearing in the media, South Africa is actually quite supportive of India's bid for membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a senior official said on Monday ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to that country later this week. “They have been very supportive of India in the NSG,” Amar Sinha, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, said at a pre-departure media briefing here. During the NSG plenary in Seoul last month, though China's name figured prominently for opposing India's membership bid, there were reports that some other countries like Austria, New Zealand and South Africa were also against the Indian bid. “Let me tell you before you ask me the question, that they (South Africa) have actually been quite supportive,” Sinha said. India formally applied for membership in the 48-member group on May 12 this year.

he said. These, he said, included a senior officer handling unauthorized colonies and another overseeing an ambitious project of installing CCTV cameras in all government schools. Both were shunted out to Andaman. "All this is happening because AAP is winning elections in Punjab and Goa and garnering massive support in Gujarat," Sisodia said. The AAP leader added: "Modiji, let me tell you, we have been elected by people of Delhi. We shall run an effective government for them despite all your attacks on us.” "We want to tell you, Modiji, that even if you leave only peons with us, we will work for the people of Delhi. We will not let your conspiracies to succeed." The CBI on Monday arrested

tary to Delhi Chief Minister, and four others, including former assistant director of VAT department Tarun Sharma, in a corruption case. It also arrested two directors of Endeavour Systems Private Limited Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar Gupta, and another person Ashok Kumar, an official said. The CBI had on December 14, 2015 registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Rajendra Kumar for allegedly abusing his official position in awarding contracts from the city government to private firm Endeavour Systems Private Limited. 6 others were also named in the FIR by the CBI on a reference by the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government. The others booked in the case include two former managing di-

cation System India Limited (ICSIL) A.K. Duggal and G.K. Nanda, the present managing director of ICSIL R.S. Kaushik and the two arrested directors of Endeavour Systems Private Limited. According to the FIR, Rajendra Kumar promoted a company, Endeavour System Pvt. Ltd. from 2007, by allegedly misusing his official position and facilitated tenders worth Rs 9.5 crore to it. The arrest also had provoked Kejriwal to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a series of tweets where he called the Prime Minister a psychopath and alleged that the real target of the CBI raid was he himself. "When Modi cudn't handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice. Modi is a coward and psychopath," Kejriwal had tweeted.

Congress a sinking ship: BJP Owaisi defends decision to give new delhI, JUly 4 (PTI): BJP Sharma told reporters. legal aid to five terror suspects He accused Congress of being today called Congress a "sinking ship obsessed with negative politics and claimed that the Central government was successful on all fronts. "It has lived up to its promises. Its all projects are dedicated to the welfare of farmers and poor. Over 3.3 crore people have benefited from its Mudra scheme and over 14 have enrolled for various social security measures initiated by it," he said. He also played down the reported plan of Congress to use Priyanka Gandhi in a big way for the UP polls, saying whatever experiment it may do in the crucial state elections it won't success. "There is a cocktail of SP, BSP and Congress in UP. The two regional parties have supported Congress at the Centre and while it has supported them in the state. People now want a change and will vote for BJP," he claimed.

hydeRABAd, JUly 4 (PTI): AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday strongly defended his decision to provide legal aid to the five city-based youths arrested by NIA on charges of being involved in an alleged ISIS terror module, saying there is nothing wrong in it. "If legal aid is fundamental right, then why should these people have trouble or why are they in so much pain?" the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP told PTI, hitting back at critics who slammed his move. "If we as a nation can provide lawyer to a Pakistani dreaded terrorist (Ajmal Kasab), why not these Indian citizens who have been definitely charged, but it's now for NIA to prove beyond

reasonable doubt their involvement. I don't know why they (his critics) are so much in pain when I am talking about fundamental rights," Owaisi said. "Why isn't the same argument being used for the lawyers who are representing Aseemanand (Mecca Masjid blast case), Pragya Thakur (Malegaon blast case)? Are you trying to say that those lawyers (representing Aseemanand and Pragya) are nationalists? And what I am doing it anti-national?" he asked. Owaisi alleged that after Mecca Masjid blast in 2007, more than 80 Muslim boys were picked up, tortured, and kept in illegal detection for a week, and later on it emerged that they were not involved,

and the then state government was forced to give Rs one lakh compensation to each of them. He asked as to why the NIA had not appealed against the bail that was given to Aseemanand, who is "still an accused" in the case. On BJP's allegation that he is giving "oxygen" to terrorists and he is "seen as standing with extremists", Owaisi said: "To me it's quite perplexing that the latest video of ISIS shows me as a supporter of Hindu nation which India is not. And it calls me a nonMuslim. And then these people also call me names that I am supporting (terrorists). "So, it's good. It clearly shows that I am a thorn for both Sangh Parivar and also ISIS."

India's first human trafficking law: draft falls short, campaigners say MUMB AI, JUly 4 (ThoMson ReUTeRs FoUndATIon): Charities and activists have criticised the draft of India's first anti-human trafficking law, saying the proposed legislation is flawed and does not address all aspects of the fast-growing crime. The Trafficking of Persons bill, unveiled in May, seeks to unify India's existing anti-trafficking laws, prioritise survivors' needs and provide for special courts to expedite cases. Consultations on the draft bill ended last week, and women and child rights campaigners have demanded numerous revisions. "The new law will only create confusion among those working on the ground because it doesn't A 16-year-old girl with her hand decorated with henna stands list out all trafficking ofinside a protection home on the outskirts of New Delhi. (RE- fences, and does not take into account existing legUTERS File Photo)

islations," said P.M. Nair, chair professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and an expert on human trafficking. "The bill in its current form is a disaster. It needs to be re-drafted completely," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. South Asia, with India at its centre, is the fastestgrowing and the secondlargest region for human trafficking after East Asia, according to the U.N. Office for Drugs and Crime. While there are no official figures on the number of people trafficked within South Asia, activists say thousands of mostly women and children are trafficked in India, as well as from its poorer neighbours Nepal and Bangladesh. Many are sold into forced marriage or bonded labour to work in fields, fac-

tories, brick kilns and as domestic servants, or are brutally confined in brothels. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, there were 5,466 human trafficking cases registered in India in 2014, an increase of 90%over the past 5 years. Activists say this is a gross underestimate. The bill does not define terms including "trafficking" and "sexual exploitation", and does not go far enough to ensure prevention of the crime or the rehabilitation of survivors, the National Coalition to Protect our Children (NCPOC) said in a letter to Maneka Gandhi, the minister for women and child development. "The Bill in its present form does not create a deterrence for the crime of trafficking," it said in the letter. The draft also does not

include bonded labour as a form of trafficking, and ignores the important role of the anti-human trafficking units set up nationwide from 2006 to fight the crime, human rights group International Justice Mission said in its recommendations. There must be coordination with existing laws such as the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, the Juvenile Justice Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act to make sure the new law is effective, IJM said. The deadline for feedback on the bill was June 30, although some campaigners have called for an extension. It will now go to government ministries for their recommendations. A final bill could be brought before the parliament by the end of the year, Gandhi has said.

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LONDON, JuLy 4 (ReuteRs): Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has left the country’s universities with a problem to solve -- how to plug a funding gap and maintain prestige if the flood of students from across the EU slows to a trickle. Before the June 23 referendum backed a British exit, or Brexit, the heads of about 80 percent of British universities issued a joint appeal to “Remain” in the 28-country bloc. Since the vote, universities have been trying to calm their overseas students and to reassure applicants from abroad that nothing will change -- at least for now because the process of leaving the EU is expected to take at least two years. In the longer term, they fear their funding, attractiveness to foreign students and academic prestige will decline. “I cherish European values,” said Bettina Sakiotis, a 17-year-old Greek living in Luxembourg who has been offered a place by two English universities from October. “Voting for Brexit shows ... we are not on the same page.” After the referendum, she considered taking a place instead at Italy’s Bocconi University in Milan. In the end, she decided on Britain but she still has doubts. “I think (Brexit) will have serious political consequences for the UK,” she

A group of graduates gather outside the Sheldonian Theatre to have their photograph taken after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University, Oxford. (REUTERS File Photo)

said. “I feel the UK is isolating itself.” Universities in Britain do not know yet whether the outcome of the referendum will affect international student admissions for the coming academic year. Places will largely be allocated in August, when this year’s school exam results come through. But much is at stake for some universities. One in three people studying for a first degree at the universities of Essex and Kent, for example, are international students, according to

The Complete University Guide, a publisher of university league tables. There are 125,000 students from the EU in higher education in Britain, about 5.5 percent of the total, and the proportion is much higher at some universities -- rising to about 16 percent at Cambridge, for example. The battle has begun to hang on to those already planning to come to a country that hosts three of the world’s top 10 universities -- Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College Lon-

don, according to The Times Higher Education World University rankings. Six of the other seven are in the United States. EU students currently pay the same fees as British students but many fear the cost of attending a British university will soar if they are treated as overseas students after a British exit from the EU. “There will be no changes to the immigration or fee status of EU students entering Newcastle University in 2016 entry,” Chris Brink, vice-chancellor of Newcas-

tle University, wrote on the university’s website. “You will pay the UK rate of fee for the full duration of your programme of study.” He made no promises for future intakes. QUESTIONS OVER FUNDING Higher education was not a big issue outside academia during campaigning for the referendum, but the Leave campaign said that money saved from leaving the EU could be channelled into whatever Britain wants, including science

research. It is not just students’ fees that could be affected. Universities UK, which represents university heads, says their institutions received more than 836 million pounds ($1.11 billion) in research grants and contracts from EU sources in 2014-15. Such research funding generates more than 19,000 jobs across Britain and translates into 1.86 billion pounds for the British economy, it said. “More than 60 percent of the UK’s international research partners are from other EU countries,” Universities UK said in a statement. “This is growing faster than any of our other collaborative research relationships.” Among the areas of concern are Britain’s participation in the Erasmus+ programme which funds exchanges of students and teachers across EU higher education institutions. More than 27,000 EU students came to study or train in Britain with an Erasmus grant in 2013-14 as well as more than 3,500 staff. While Erasmus has a number of non-EU members, Switzerland was effectively suspended when it voted to limit the free movement of people from the EU, an important issue in Britain’s exit from the bloc. British universities are also looking at a status change among a large pro-

Thirty killed in four days Two-state Israeli-Palestinian in Philippine war on drugs solution is slipping away, says UN MaNiLa, JuLy 4 (ReuteRs): Thirty “drug dealers” have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as Philippine president on Thursday, police said, announcing the seizure of nearly $20 million worth of narcotics but sparking anger from a lawyers’ group. Duterte won the election in May on a platform of crushing crime, but his incendiary rhetoric and advocacy of extrajudicial killings have alarmed many who hear echoes of the country’s authoritarian past. Oscar Albayalde, police chief for the Manila region, said five drug dealers were killed on Sunday in a gun battle with police in a shanty town near a mosque near the presidential palace. Four guns and 200 grams of crystal methamphetamine were recovered. Three others were killed in other areas in Manila on Sunday and 22 were killed in four areas outside the capital. Edre Olalia, secretary-general of

the National Union of People’s Lawyers, said the killings must be halted. “The drug menace must stop... Yet the apparent serial summary executions of alleged street drug users or petty drug lords which appear sudden, too contrived and predictable must also stop,” he said in a statement. “The two are not incompatible.” In the north of the main island of Luzon, drug enforcement agents and police seized a shipment of 180 kg (400 lb) of “shabu” (methamphetamine) worth about 900 million pesos ($19.23 million), national police chief Ronald dela Rosa said. The shipment was unloaded at sea and brought to shore by small fishing boats before delivery to Manila’s Chinatown, he said. On Sunday, the Maoist-led New People’s Army rebels issued a statement supporting Duterte’s all-out war against drugs, saying it might conduct its own drug operations against soldiers, police and local officials.

JeRusaLeM, JuLy 4 (ReuteRs): A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away, the U.N. special coordinator for Middle East peace warned on Sunday, after both sides shrugged off criticism by international mediators. A report released on Friday by the so-called Quartet - United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia - called on Israel to stop its policy of building settlements on occupied land and restricting Palestinian development. Israeli policy “is steadily eroding the viability of the twostate solution,” it said. It also urged the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited selfrule in the West Bank, take steps to end incitement to violence against Israelis, condemn “all acts of terrorism” and do more to combat them.

“The Quartet report sounds an alarm bell that we are on a dangerous slope towards a onestate reality that is incompatible with the national aspirations of both peoples,” wrote Nickolay Mladenov, U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, in a commentary emailed to journalists on Sunday. He also addressed Palestinian and Israeli criticism of the Quartet report. “Who will make the argument that more cannot be done to end incitement?” he asked. “Can anyone question that illegal settlements ... are not undermining the prospect for a two-state solution?” Israel welcomed parts of the Quartet report but signalled no change in settlement building, saying the document “perpetuates the myth that Israeli construction in the West Bank is an obstacle to peace”.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Palestinian refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state is at the heart of the impasse. A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed disappointment that the Quartet did not call for full Israeli withdrawal to lines that existed before the Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in a 1967 war. The Palestinians want an independent state in those areas and in the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave controlled since 2007 by the Islamist Hamas group. Peace talks collapsed in April 2014 and Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged in recent months. Mladenov appealed to Israeli and Palestinian leaders to implement the report’s recommendations, offering the help of the international community to do so.

Bangladesh says some attackers were well off & educated DHaKa, JuLy 4 (ReuteRs): Bangladesh police sought more information on Monday from friends and family of the men suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on a restaurant in the capital, and some are believed to have attended top schools and colleges at home and abroad. The gunmen stormed the restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone late on Friday and killed 20 people, most of them foreigners from Italy, Japan, India and the United States, in an assault claimed by Islamic State. It was one of the deadliest militant attacks to date in Bangladesh, where Islamic State and al Qaeda have claimed a series of killings of liberals and religious minorities in the last year while the government says they were carried out by local groups. Whoever was responsible, Friday’s attack marked a major escalation in the scale and brutality of militant violence aimed at forcing strict Islamic rule in Bangladesh, whose 160 million people are mostly Muslim. Islamic State posted pictures of five fighters it said were involved in the atrocity to avenge attacks on Muslims across the world. “Let the people of the

A relative wipes her tears after seeing the coffin of a victim who was killed in the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery and the O’Kitchen Restaurant, during a memorial ceremony in Dhaka on July 4. (REUTERS Photo)

crusader countries know that there is no safety for them as long as their aircraft are killing Muslims,” it said in a statement. Posts on Facebook identified the men, pictured on an Islamic State website grinning in front of a black flag, as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Andaleeb Ahmed and Raiyan Minhaj. Most went to prestigious schools or universities in Dhaka and Malaysia, officials said. One of them was the son of a politician. A police officer said the

pictures of four of the attackers matched the bodies, although he gave a different name for the fourth. Rohan’s father, a midranking leader of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling party, had lodged a complaint in January that he had gone missing since Dec. 30, 2015, a police officer said. On Monday, there was nobody at the family apartment in an affluent neighbourhood of Dhaka, and a security guard said the parents had left the house on Sunday.

“A majority of the boys who attacked the restaurant came from very good educational institutions. Some went to sophisticated schools. Their families are relatively well-to-do people,” Bangladeshi Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told India’s NDTV. TRACING ROOTS Several posts on social media said the man identified by police as Nibras Islam attended Monash University in Malaysia. A friend who knew him while

he studied at Dhaka’s North South University told Reuters that Islam later went to Monash. Two others went to an elite public school in Dhaka called Scholastica. Saifaul Islam, another investigator, said police were holding two people suspected of involvement in the assault, including one detained soon after the attack. “We have two persons with us, but we don’t know if they are victims or suspects. They are currently undergoing treatment and we’d get to know about their role in the incident only after they recover.” Rohan Gunaratna, a professor of security studies at Singapore’s Rajaratnam School of International Studies, said the Dhaka gunmen’s background may have helped them mount the attack at the Holey Artisan restaurant, popular with the city’s well-heeled and foreigners. “As they were well educated and young, they could blend into and operate in the upmarket diplomatic enclave without evoking red flags,” he said. “The IS attack team was also technologically savvy and they uploaded the photos during the attack both to (the) IS command cell in Bangladesh and IS central in Syria.”

gent, has urged alumni to post testaments on Facebook to trumpet the institution’s EU diversity. EU students generated 3.7 billion pounds for the British economy in 2011-12 and supported more than 34,000 jobs, according to Universities UK. Independent factchecking charity Full Fact estimates British higher education providers get at least 2.6 percent of their total income from the EU, or around 16 percent of their research income. “The impact of our universities on our local communities and economy should not be underestimated,” university vicechancellors wrote in their joint appeal for Britain to remain in the EU. The government has not managed so far to give much succour to the institutions or potential students like Sakiotis. “There are obviously big discussions to be had with our European partners, and I look forward to working with the sector to ensure its voice is fully represented and that it continues to go from strength to strength,” Jo Johnson, Britain’s university minister, said in a statement. Universities in the EU are unlikely to wait to take advantage of the uncertainty in British academia. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has already proposed the EU grant citizenship to British students enrolled in EU countries.

portion of their students. University admissions service UCAS said that for the coming undergraduate year, the number of British applicants declined by 0.3 percent, reflecting demographics, while those from EU countries rose 0.6 percent. Undergraduate fees for British and EU students are a maximum of 9,000 pounds a year. They can be much higher for non-EU international students, depending on the university and the course. At the University of Kent, international students pay up to 15,900 pounds a year. Studying medicine at Imperial College London will set them back 37,100 pounds a year. TESTAMENTS ON FACEBOOK Such a shift could be devastating for British universities if the cost overcame the attractiveness of the study. Michael Arthur, president of University College London, has estimated it could put about 40 million pounds of tuition fee income at risk. While some of Britain’s most celebrated centres of learning may be able to battle through any trouble from Brexit on their reputations, they are not immune to the fears over funding, faculty and appeal. The influential London School of Economics, which has an overall 18 percent EU student contin-

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caves if necessary—but never under a tree! ightning is defined or understood as, the occurrence of a natural electrical 4 Stay off the telephone: Avoid contact with Software Defined Radios (SDR), toasters, discharge of very short duration and hairdryers and any electrical appliance high voltage between a cloud and the which has electrical wirings. In your home, ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder. It literally means, "A tremendous flash of lightning". If the time delay between seeing the flash (lightning) and hearing a thunderclap is less than 30 seconds, you should be in, or seek a safe location. Whenever you hear or see lighting, it’s a reminder that you are at risk and need to take precautionary measures. It is learnt that a large number of people have been killed by lightning strikes across Northern and Eastern India just in the last few days due to torrential rains in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. In Bihar itself, 57 people died and 37 others sustained severe injuries. There is an urgent need to provide information to the people about the steps to be taken when indoors, outdoors and if infected by a lightning strike. Following are a list of do’s and don’ts for Lightning Safety. 1. When thunder starts to strike: Take shelter in a home, large building or substantial fully enclosed building. Stay indoors and avoid travel if possible. Prevention is better than cure. 2. Avoid areas where you will be the highest object: If you are caught in an open field with no nearby shelter drop down and crouch with hands on knees, rocking up on the balls of your feet. (The idea is to make as little less contact with the ground as possible). Never lie down flat or place your hands on the ground. don’t stand near open windows, doorways or 3. Certain locations are extremely hazardous metal piping. Stay away from the TV, plumbduring thunderstorms: No place is absolutely free from a lightning threat; however, some ing, sinks, tubs, radiators and stove. places are safer than others. Avoid lakes, 5. Wait at least 30 (thirty) minutes after a lightning storm has passed to resume outdoor acbeaches or open water, fishing from a boat or tivities. dock, riding on farm equipment, motor cycles or bicycles. If caught on high ground or in 6. Unplug unnecessary electrical appliances (to isolate them from the main power supply an open area, seek shelter in a low area. Take which may conduct a power surge during a shelter in tunnels, subways, even ditches or

lightning storm). 7. If at work: Look for darkening skies and increased wind. If you hear thunder then you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Keep on monitoring local media for updates and warning instructions. 8. If at home: Close windows and doors, and secure objects outside the home (eg. Furniture, bins patio etc). Ensure that children and animals (domestic pets) are inside proper shelters. 9. Avoid taking bath or showers the time of lightning. This is because lightning can travel through metal pipes. 10. Avoid staying near communication towers (TV dish or Mobile towers). 11. If on foot: Response- To go to a safe shelter immediately. Avoid contact with metal structures and constructions with metal sheeting. Ideally find shelter in a low lying area and make sure that the spot chosen is not likely to flood. Do not shelter under trees as these conduct electricity. 12. If travelling: Response - Get off bicycles, motor-cycles or farm vehicles. Get to a safer shelter. During a storm, remain in your vehicle until help arrives or the storm has passed. (The metal roof will provide protection, if you are not touching metal inside; windows should be up; park away from trees and power lines. If there is a tornado involved in a storm, evacuate the vehicle and seek shelter). Treatment for Lightning: If at all possible, give basic first aid to the injured and rush to the nearest hospital. People struck by lightning carry no electrical charge and can be handled safely. Check for broken bones, loss of hearing and eyesight. A victim of lightning strike can suffer varying degrees of burning. Check the impact point and where the electricity left the body. Many lightning casualties occur because people ignore these precursors. Educate yourself and educate others too. Be safe. Issued in public interest by Media Wing Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority

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ny volunteers? Anyone? Please? Could anyone please volunteer in order to save time? Is there no one? Uhm....... For this to work I need ten volunteers from each side. This was the scenario inside a church on a youth Sunday service. The one in-charge was calling out for volunteers to take part in a recreational activity. In spite of her alluring promise of unadulterated fun and unforgettable moments it appeared the youths inside the church numbering around ninety were disinterested, they dramatically developed an unhelpful attitude. The look in their eyes confirmed and betrayed their wonderment about the word ‘volunteer,’ everyone was looking hither and thither, front and back and finally locking their sights on to the floor and made it a contest about who can stare at the floor for the longest duration. A solid five minute went into the first call out for volunteers

and only a couple of volunteers were to be seen on the stage. Now the one in-charge has to resort to drastic measures. She had to call out names, point out a few from odd places along the row of pews and lastly requesting some of her friends so that she has ten volunteers on each side. A whole thirteen minute went into assembling a score of volunteers for a recreational activity that uneventful Sunday afternoon. I am certain everyone who refused to be of help that fateful afternoon had their own reason. But to think that the remaining seventy youths did not have the courage to participate on their volition gives cause to believe that there must be something wrong with the perception or the ideas of a volunteer for the youths in general. From this fact, genuine personal reasons for inability to be a volunteer could be easily ruled out. It certainly has got something or everything to do with one’s idea of who is a volunteer or who could be a volunteer.

According to Oxford dictionary, the word Volunteer is derived from the French word ‘Volontaire.’ A volunteer is a person who freely offers to do something, a person who works for an organization without being paid or a person who freely enrolls for military service rather than being ordered to do so. I am sure the youths did not volunteer not for the reason that they were going to do it for free, they weren’t expecting wages. Rather it is one tragic and pointless reason. It has got something to do with one’s pride, the failure to overcome the fear of the thought that if one readily agrees to be a volunteer when called upon then one would be seen as an ‘overly smart.’ It is not the case that they don’t want to be helpful but because they lack the spirit of cooperativeness, it is not the case that they don’t want to be resourceful rather they lack the willingness to be helpful. Sometimes it’s alarming to think that if no one readily

volunteers for such an easy task then in what state will the community be in when participating just for the sake of doing it won’t be enough. In all honesty to be a volunteer on the long run is not as easy as it sounds, moreover in the life of a youth when there is so much to do, to study, to pursue a career. At times the idea of a volunteer seems suicidal because one has to give so much for nothing. And this is the sole reason the spirit of a true volunteer is rare but when one overcome these obstacles, not only does one rise above others it awakens the humanity in people. If only everyone could overcome their own pride, their fears and come forward when called upon. Not only would the Church benefit from such initiation but the civil society as a whole would be one of vigour and the change everyone is whispering about. As Lt. Col. Doolittle, a volunteer himself rightly said, there's nothing greater than the heart of a volunteer. Temjenyanger, Kohima

Goats The mystic rainbow in the woods of Chishilimi OfandGod, Sheep

The rainbow in the Naga National Flag

he rationalists would argue that a rainbow is nothing but a coincidence of nature. But every myth, legend and story of a nation need not always pass the test of scientific accuracy. A mystic rainbow appeared at Chishilimi in the evening of 28th June, 2016, when the news of the demise of the mighty Naga national leader, Assu Isak Chishi Swu, Chairman of the NSCN (I-M), reached the hills of the great Naga nation. A halo of rainbow encircling around the sun unusually appeared again above Dimapur Airport as the special chartered flight carrying the mortal remains of the veteran nationalist was about to land on 30th June, 2016 and the rainbow appeared for the third consecutive day till the mortal remains of the great leader was finally laid to rest on 2nd July, 2016. To a meteorologist, a rainbow is a phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets. But to the Nagas, a rainbow is more than its scientific explanation and the Nagas have their own legends and stories to tell. Nagas have a firm believe rooted in Christianity that the tricolour rainbow in their national flag is given by the Almighty and is not a mere idea originated from mundane imagination. Nagas believed for a reason that rainbow has a mystical connection with the last rites of their great nationalist leaders. On the 10th of May, 1990, when the mortal remains of AZ Phizo was brought back to Dimapur from London, Nagas were awestruck by a sudden appearance of rainbow across Dimapur Airport and it reportedly appeared not less than ten times during the condolence and funeral

services of the great Naga nationalist. The first Naga national flag was woven by Mrs. Lothong and Mrs. Keshenle and it was first hoisted at Oking Parashen, near Sendenyu village, Rengma Region, Nagaland, when the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) was formed on 22nd March, 1956. In the month of May, 1946, A.Z. Phizo upon entering Kohima town on his return from Rangoon was suddenly struck by a rainbow stretching across Kohima town. A.Z. Phizo had an unusual vision that it was a sign from God. A.Z. Phizo resolved to choose the rainbow as the emblem of the Naga national flag to symbolize that “Nagas are the children of God”. Not that rainbows are unusual, but that there was always an unseen force of divine revelation. In the year 1955, when the Naga national leaders were deliberating on the design and inscription of rainbow on the Naga national flag at Oking Parashen, the Naga national leaders were awestruck by a sudden appearance of rainbow right in front of them, whereat the Naga national leaders unanimously proclaimed, “It is a sign that God is giving us this rainbow to inscribe on our national flag”. In the year 1972, Ms. Yahoi, a 12 year old Konyak girl, who was dumb from birth, saw an unusual vision in a jungle. A rainbow appeared around her and she saw three men in white clothes approaching towards her. In the sight of this frightening vision, she yelled out, “Pull me out! Three men are coming” and the dumb girl for the first time began to speak. The three men in white clothes then spoke, “This rainbow is the Naga national flag which I have given to the Nagas. Tomorrow your chicken will crow three times.”

Rev. Vevozo was once asked in Jerusalem, “How is it that the Nagas have a rainbow flag with a six-pointed star when other nations have only five-pointed star on their flags?”, to which he simply replied, “It is given by the Lord our God to the Nagas”. Then God spoke to them through an American woman, “I have given the rainbow flag to the Nagas. It is not inscribed by the Nagas on their own accord. I have given two flags to mankind, one to the Israelites and the other to the Nagas”. Some scholars accused Israel that the six-pointed star, the hexagram, is the supreme symbol of satanic tyranny and it is demonic. The Jews, however, believed that the symbol is not a hexagram, but the "Star of David", the “back part of David’s protective war shield”. King Solomon was the one who selected the symbol. Perhaps, the Nagas and the Israelites are the only two nations to adopt a sixpointed star as the emblem of their national flags. Every nation for that matter has its own myths, legends and stories and every flag has its own history. The Scottish legend goes that the night before the Pictish King Angus II, led his forces into battle against the English King Aethelstans of Angles and Saxons, King Angus had a vision in which he saw St. Andrew promising triumph in the battle. King Angus’ troops were struck in the next morning by the sight of a huge white Saltire shining across a bright blue sky. The Scottish believe that this omen led to their victory against the English King and the Saltire accordingly found its place in the Scottish flag. Sira Kharay, Advocate New Delhi

pray for our freedom movement whenever I can. To those freedom fighters who are genuinely fighting for our nation, you are remembered in my prayers. As of now there are only a few of you who are honestly and genuinely fighting for our nation. Keep striving hard, your dreams will come true one day. There are Nagas who are praying for you. To those who have joined the freedom movement just for selfish interests; power, money, status and other selfish motives. I pray for you too, please repent. Ask God for forgiveness and come back to the track. Lift of the veil of greed and fight for the nation in true spirit. We need you too and people are praying for you. Matthew 25:31-33 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. " The Sheep are followers of Christ and the Goats are hell bound. So my NPG Brothers, choose which one you like to be ; to be a Sheep or to be a Goat. Kevitho Kera

A COLOSSAL NAGA ICON

he final bell tolls for Isak Chishi Swu precisely at 12 hours 11minutes 28 seconds after midday declaring his last triumphant moment on earth. He had come into this world empty handed and departed empty handed like every other great mortals before him, leaving behind a broken-hearted family as it always does... and in the process another memorable chapter of a volatile unsettled Naga History gently closed on 28th June 2016 with him. Ino Isak Chishi Swu, arguably a legendary colossal Naga icon journeyed on to his afterlife as predestined by the Almighty God on whom he so unwaveringly anchored his faith throughout his humble life. Granted, no force on earth can stem the inevitable tide of change... nevertheless an overwhelming atmosphere of uncertainty now envelops every anxious mind in the absence of a delicate tribal balance that squarely rested on his aging shoulders within his organization and beyond. The worrisome fact that his is a fast fading committed generation being replaced by an indifferent one that looks at all the sacrifices made by Naga fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters from every tribe during the inhuman mid nineteenfifties and sixties like it was just another fairy tale... is a serious cause for concern. Nevertheless let us remind ourselves once more and never forget that Naga history was written with sacrifices such as these: In 1968, Ino Isak Chishi Swu was assigned a mission to China as a Special Envoy to plead for the Naga cause. Imagine, prayerfully placing his fate solely in the able hand of God to guide him through the labyrinth of impenetrable, inhospitable, unchartered jungles without a compass, took some faith of a very special kind which, to mere mortals, would have been written off as an absolutely foolhardy escapade bordering on stupidity. Both Ino Isak and Ino Th. Muivah separately traversed the entire Naga and Myanmar territories spending unimaginable months of gruelling trekking. They battled against nature and enemies every step of the way before finally reaching their destination 'China' in 1968. At a nascent struggling stage of the Naga political movement, drawing China's favourable disposition towards the Nagas was a monumental achievement by any stretch of imagination. But to salvage this, they went through indescribable ordeals of being ambushed and shot at, at regular intervals both by the Indian and the Myanmar Armies. Both of them, along with their committed band of brothers and sisters inarms braved dangers of all description losing more than 80% of their comrades, who started out together and perished in the hands of the enemies and nature along the long torturous way. Heartrending stories abound... of patriotism and camaraderie

faced by each of them along the testing road, experiencing astounding miracles of God all throughout their journey, be it at the time of coming face to face with the enemies in mortal combat or facing weeks of starvation hopelessly lost in a nowhere jungles, all for a cause they firmly believed in..."Freedom for the Nagas". Those were the early years of innocence when "Nagaland for Christ" did mean something real. Even nature acknowledged the passing of a great soul the same day with a rainbow over Chishilimi sky... his native birthplace... and continued the amazing phenomena of a rainbow encircling the sun in the subsequent couple of days before his mortal remains was interred. The Nagas of all shapes and sizes, young and old representing all Naga Tribes from all Naga inhabited areas, diligently converged at Agri Expo, Dimapur, on 30th June 2016 creating a kaleidoscopic hue of ethnic colour... silently filling the solemn arena in their thousands that pictured a Naga rainbow of unity. Even if for a transient moment the factions... NSCN (U); NSCN (R); NNC... buried their differences and paid glowing tributes to a departed leader that they each had respected in their own intimate way. A raw uncontaminated sentiment was expressed when Ino Muivah stood beside his friend's coffin and brokenheartedly said that brother Isak was his soul mate these past fifty years+ wading through thick and thin, making every critical decision together without betraying the trust of each other. The Nagas bid a genuinely heartfelt farewell to Isak Chishi Swu for the very last time with calm dignity and honour. At Chishilimi too, nature shared its grief with thousands of mourners with a bright pleasant day throughout the formal function followed by a short burst of shower immediately after the burial formality was completed on the evening of 2nd July 2016. God manifested with blatant clarity through nature that even as mortals mourned Isak Chishi Swu's departure... Heavens rejoiced. History will remember him kindly as he leaves behind an honourable legacy of peace towards all and malice towards none for the emulation of the present generation and the ones to come, worthy of praise and respect. Now that you are upstairs ...entreat with your God to let your brothers -in -arms left behind learn that egoistic self-perpetuation is a futile exercise and that each of them will depart planet earth in their own unknown time empty handed as they came...as you did. This is an opportune time to work as equals and leave behind a lasting peace as a final gift to the people that they profess to serve. Farewell dear Elder Brother...you truly were a colossal Naga icon. Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd), Kohima

Our Asu

ometimes we have to put aside issues and differences and view the big picture. This is exactly what the thousands did when they turned out to pay tribute and homage to our dear Asu Issak Chishi Swu. It is safe to say every Naga felt they lost someone or experienced emptiness on hearing the news of his passing. Some just felt it but many decided they have to say goodbye in some way or the other and fare thee well they did. Just a few generations back we Nagas were still so primitive. No Naga knew paper even centuries after Shakespeare had written all his great works. No Naga heard music even hundreds of years after Mozart died. Most Nagas had not even seen a bicycle even after the Wright brothers invented the aero plane nor would there have been many Nagas who switched

on a bulb when the television was already invented. So you can imagine the sudden transit for the Nagas as a whole from Stone Age straight into the twenty-first Century. This transition required special care and attention lest we lose our heritage and even more so our identity. For an educated, selfless God fearing man and someone who simply loved his people it would have been hard to ignore this fact. So our Asu started his movement with likeminded friends. Whatever happened there after and over the years there is no denying we have an identity today. Imagine if you googled Naga and no information came out. I look in the mirror and thank God for this life and thank my parents for giving this face a name and our Asu for giving this name and identity called Naga. Ayeto Ayemi Fine things, Dimapur

Death, be not proud!

hrough the agents of haters, murderers, lethal weapons, accidents,diseases, wars, natural calamities and the like, death has reduced humans to shreds. Death laughs uncontrollably while the living wail and cry ceaselessly. The sleep of death evokes a strong sense of emptiness upon the lives of those affected by it. Sleepless nights of pain and tears continue to haunt the living for the dead. Death sweeps over the race of human mercilessly. It has spared none. From the newly born child to the ripe old age, from the least to the greatest, from the fools to the wisest, from the poorest to the richest, the aroma of death has bewitched them to sleep. Death is mysteriously real as it has ravaged generations under its power. It comes knocking on every door of our homes. Humans hate to think or talk about death. We try to push it out of our minds. Too many young people have optimistic feelings about the longevity of their lives. Nobody wants to die young. But an awful lot have been snapped off too early. The beauty of human is destroyed by death and decay. Some face death right in the eyes with glowing victorious disposition while some face it with the gloom and doom of despair and terror. What makes the difference? Why do humans shudder and tremble at the thought of death? Is there an escape from it? Is there nothingness to life after all?The well-known British atheist writer Bertrand Russell, just two days before Einstein died issued a joint statement with the famous physicist, confessing his own state of despair that “those of us who know the most are the gloomiest about the future.” The anguish of hopelessness in that honest confession is the absence of God in the picture of human lives. Death is feared so much because God is feared so little. The idea of an afterlife seems a fairy land for a post-modern sceptical intellec-

tual world. But it’s a reality that cannot be eluded with nonsensical arguments. The famous sonnet written by John Donne, “Death, be not Proud!” tells of death as a defeated enemy. Though some have called him mighty and dreadful, he is not so! One short sleep past and we all wake eternally. And death shall be no more; death shall die.This holy sonnet was a direct allusion to 1 Corinthians 15:26: “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” The captivating picture of death as portrayed in the Bible doesn’t fall short of our notice as Apostle Paul plainly states, “Death is gain for me, I desire to depart and be with Christ.” He anticipated death with a supernatural undying hope. This longing and desire of hope is only possible in the ultimate intimate union with Christ. The King George VI of Britain, just before he died of cancer gave this famous speech about his own predicaments: “I said to the man at the Gate of the Year, “Give me a light that I may walk safely into the unknown.” He said to me, “Go out into the darkness, and put your hand in the hand of God, and it shall be to you better than the light, and safer than the known.” What confidence! What boldness in the face of death! It was God that gave him such an un-daunting voice. In relation, Godwas the anchor of his soul. The conviction of forever-ness in human hearts points to the reality of life after death. Death and decay are inevitable. Generations come and go. It will never pass by again. Death tells us to look at the world temporarily. Death teaches us to cherish life and people around us. Death removes pride and reminds us that humans are nothing but mortal beings. Death is not the end but the inauguration of the forever-ness of life. Therefore, we sing with confidence, “Where, O Death is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Corinthians 15:55). God bless. Vebu Khamo, Bible student.

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Donald Trump becomes Marvel villain ‘Game

resumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has got animated on the latest Marvel comic book. The GOP frontrunner, 70, inspired a villain

named M O D A A K, which stands for "Mental Organism Designed as America's King" as an apparent sly reference to the politician's presidential bid, reported Ace Showbiz.

M O D A A K is originally Marvel's iconic baddie MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing). MODOK will become M O D A A K in "Spider-Gwen Annual #1"

which follows Peter Parker's one-time crush as a Spider-Woman after getting bitten by a radioactive spider. MODOK is famous for having a gigantic head. His real name is George Tarleton. He transformed him into a big-headed being after subjected to horrifying experiments. In his Trump-inspired incarnation, his face resembles the Republican politian but his distinctive physical appearance remains the same. In a sneak peek, M O D A A K proclaims, "If America will not act, M O D A A K must!" In the story, he also reportedly shouts at brown-skinned people, ordering them to get back on their feet.

of Thrones’ to get gallery exhibition

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SRK reacts to his daughter's bikiniclad pictures being splashed online

t was not long after a bikini-clad Navya Naveli's dance video were splashed across the internet, while they (Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan's son and Navya Naveli) were partying after their graduation, that another star kid's picture has gone viral online. It was only recently when Suhana Khan posted a picture on Instagram where is dressed in a bikini and posing cutely with younger brother AbRam, while on their holiday. However, SRK has reacted to this picture being circulated online as well as pictured by the media,

and captioned as, "SRK's daughter flaunts her body". The actor found it a little cheap, as he says that it only because of his stardom that his daughter had to pay this price. He went on to add that Suhana was a little awkward and also stressed on the fact that she is just 16. Although they are a liberal family and they had a hearty laugh on the same, he still feels it shouldn't have made it to the news. He feels it is only because of his stardom that this picture made it to the news, and that it wouldn't have, had it been anyone else but SRK's daughter.

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has launched the "Game of Thrones" fan art competition, giving fans the chance to have their art displayed in a special GOT exhibition in London. Drawings, paintings, graphic

designs, sculptures and embroidery are all eligible for submission, with entrants above 18 years are invited to upload an image of their fan art to the HBO website, reported Digital Spy. A short list of 20 entries will be

Find Studioz tie up with International Production Ranbir Kapoor gets inspired by Jharkhand's YUWA Girls house

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anbir Kapoor is creating awareness about setting up a school for girls in Jharkhand with YUWA -- a social development platform for girls -through a five-part video series. The actor says he is inspired by their never-dying spirit of turning failure into success. He said these bunch of football players from a little Jharkhand village "are some extraordinary girls. These are girls with goals". Ranbir along with global PC and smartphone maker Lenovo is creating awareness about set-

find some way or the other to meet this team from a little village in Jharkhand who are conquering the world of football. They are the awesome, inspiring, beautiful girls of YUWA," Ranbir said in a statement. Supported by Lenovo and YUWA, an organisation that uses sports as a platform for social development, the girls from Hutup created history in 2014 when they returned home as the second runners up in the Under-14 Gasteiz Cup in 2014 in Spain. Ranbir is also cheering the YUWA girls who are competing at the

Sunidhi Chauhan set for acting debut

inger Sunidhi Chauhan is making her acting debut with a short film, “Playing Priya”, which has been helmed by “Lekar Hum Deewana Dil” director Arif Ali. “Playing Priya” is a fantasy thriller based in an urban landscape, which will be released on the digital platform soon. The 32-year-old “Sheila ki Jawani” hitmaker shared her excitement about her new stint. “I always wanted to act but never thought that I would enjoy it so much. The whole experience was just awesome,” Sunidhi said in a statement. “Sunidhi has a thing for thrillers, dark films and twisted characters. So when I narrated this idea to her, she loved it and agreed to act in it,” said Ali. The film is being backed by digital content studio, Humara movie. Source: PTI

Aamir Khan suffers from death anxiety

any celebrities harbor phobias but very few come out in the open to actually talk about it in public. Aamir Khan certainly falls in the latter category as the actor recently confessed

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to having a death anxiety while shooting for his films. Death anxiety is also referred to as thanatophobia (fear of death) which is a specific fear of dead or dying persons and/or things. In his latest interaction,

Mr. Perfectionist spilled the beans on having this peculiar tendency of fearing death while he's shooting for a film. So, to prevent any disruptions in the ongoing proceedings of the shoot, Aamir makes a note in which he clearly specifies the dos and don'ts if anything happens to him. During 'Dangal's' shoot, Aamir had a 5-month break between his schedules and he told Niteish Tiwari, the director of the film that if anything happened to him in the meanwhile, everything would still be on and that the director would just have to find a person to play the character of young Mahavir Singh Phogat. He is said to have even suggested the names of Varun Dhawan, Shahid Kapur, Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor. Source: TNN

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ind Studioz in Mumbai has tied up with International Production house (French/ Japan/ Canada). The Proprietor of FIND Studioz, Rebecca Changkija said it was worth the wait, “It took us 4 years and yes I was never in hurry.” For this achievement she gives all the credit to God and her Team and family members and friends for their unconditional love and support. After releasing her first movie, ‘The Dark secrets of Tonhi’ all over India in 2014, she is coming up with next release. Rebecca Changkija completed 5 movies and 1 was shot at Meghalaya, Cherrapunji and Assam in 2012 with the best support artist from 8 states and from Bollywood. She wants to promote the local artist and Northeast through Source: IANS her movie.

ongoing Donosti Cup in Spain. The "Barfi!" star added: "The YUWA girls are an inspiration for every girl in India to take control of their destiny. They are not afraid to fail. Because failure is just a way forward to success." Ranbir has also started the #KickForABrick campaign urging communities and individuals to work towards YUWA teams’ bigger dream. With every kick contributed and shared on social media, the YUWA girls get closer to their dream of building a school in Hutup.

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ting up a school for YUWA girls. These girls are from Hutup, a remote village in Jharkhand. YUWA is looking to change mindset on pressing issues through violence against women by empowering them to speak up and find their confidence through sports. The actor says that he felt compelled to meet the girls after hearing their story. The first video became live on June 30. "Recently I heard this story of a young bunch of players who have turned failure into success, learning from their losses and adapting their game every day. I knew I had to

voted before winners will have their entries displayed in a special "GoT" exhibition in a London Art Gallery in November, alongside professional graffiti and street art team "The Graffiti Kings".

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Rihanna drops appearance over Zika virus concerns R&B

singer Rihanna has reportedly pulled out of the inaugural Lollapalooza Colombia festival in Bogota over concerns about contracting Zika virus. The Barbadian beauty, 28, was scheduled to headline September's two-day music festival, but recently dropped out, leaving the show's organizers without sufficient time to find a suitable replacement, reported Us magazine. "The organizers wish to express their deep appreciation to all the fans who supported the festival since day one, as well as the sponsors and the media partners," a statement (written in Spanish) on the official Lollapalooza Colombia. The concert was also scheduled to feature performances from Lana Del Rey, Disclosure, Wiz Khalifa, The Chainsmokers and among others. Lollapalooza which first started as an event in Chicago, has since expanded to other locations, including Brazil and Argentina, in recent years. The September 17 and 18 festival in Colombia would have been the first in the country. Organizers said in Friday's statement that they hope to hold the event in Colombia in the future. Source: PTI

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France end Iceland's dream run to reach semis

PaRis, July 4 (REutERs): France swept emphatically into the Euro 2016 semi-finals and brought Iceland's fairytale run to a crushing halt as Olivier Giroud scored twice in a 5-2 win on Sunday to set up a mouth-watering lastfour clash with Germany. Paul Pogba, Dimitri Payet and Antoine Griezmann were also on target in a one-sided romp at the Stade de France that proved a nightmare end to war-weary Iceland's improbable Euro dreams. Having fairly comfortably eased past England into the quarter-finals, Iceland, the smallest nation ever to have qualified for the European Championship, with a population of 330,000, were 4-0 down inside the first half. They tried to rally after the break with a goal from Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, and added a late consolation through Birkir Bjarnason, but the damage had already been done. France, who had not been past the quarter-finals since they won the tournament in 2000, eased C M Y K

off and cruised home and will no doubt feel they are warming up nicely ahead of Thursday's semi-final against world champions Germany in Marseille. "I am delighted for the players as they deserve this, and for these fans who have been behind us for months," said France coach Didier Deschamps. "To be able to offer them something to make them smile and feel happy and have another week in it -- I’m delighted about that." INCREDIBLY PROUD The French boss will also have been happy to see midfield powerhouse Pogba finally stamp his authority on a match, having struggled in the early games, while striker Giroud silenced some of his critics with a man-of-the-match performance. For Iceland, a revvedup France team, packed with attacking talent and aggressive running, proved a game too far, but they leave their first major tournament with their heads held high. "We're disap-

Jakhama village open shooting competition

Kohima, July 4 (mExN): The Jakhama village open shooting competition is scheduled to take place on July 16. The Jakhama Youth Organisation while informing that the 12” Bore/Muzzle Loader/Air Gun shooting competition will be organised at Yokhatsüzou, added that neighbouring villages can also take part provided the total number of participants are more than ten.

Nagaland Wrestling Association Kohima, July 4 (mExN): The first Emergency General Meeting of the Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) 2016-2020 tenure will be held on July 7, 2:00 pm onwards at Hotel Japfü. Therefore, all the NWA office bearers and two representatives from each unit have been informed to be present in the meeting without fail. The meeting will discuss matters pertaining to participation of NWA team in the forthcoming National Traditional Wrestling meet from July 22–24 in Pune, Maharashtra and other issues. Unit Presidents have been requested to ensure their unit’s attendance in the meeting.

France's Andre Pierre Gignac in action with Iceland's Birkir Saevarsson. (REUTERS)

pointed but still incredibly proud," said captain Aron Gunnarsson. "It's been such an amazing experience, it's been a lot of hard work and the supporters have been fantastic. They're still singing, it's unbelievable." Coming into the game, Iceland were praised for a rigidly well-organised defence while France had found first-half goals hard to come by, with their pre-

vious six coming after the break. It was a matter of minutes, however, before both of those traits were swept aside, as France set about picking their way through gaping holes in Iceland's previously solid rearguard. Having defended so admirably against England, Iceland were 2-0 down inside 20 minutes through two of the oldest and simplest tricks in the football playbook.

LONG BALL The opener came after 12 minutes from a hopeful long ball which found Giroud with acres of space to run through and then drive a low finish beneath keeper Hannes Halldorsson. The second goal was a simple corner to the far post that the soaring Pogba headed emphatically home. It seemed as though the contest was already effectively over when Pay-

et turned the screw two minutes before halftime, sweeping home a low leftfoot strike from the edge of the area for his third goal of the tournament. Yet worse was to come for Iceland as Griezmann twisted the knife on the stroke of halftime, latching onto a through ball after Giroud's dummy to race clear and chip the advancing Halldorsson to become tournament top scorer with four goals. There was a brief respite for Iceland as they clawed a goal back 11 minutes after the break when Kolbeinn Sigthorsson slid in at the near post to convert Gylfi Sigurdsson's low cross, but their raised spirits were swiftly doused. A simple lofted free kick from Payet three minutes later allowed Giroud to dart in front of the keeper and flick his header into the unguarded net. With six minutes remaining, Bjarnason pulled another goal back for Iceland with a header but the tie, and Iceland's hopes of extending their dream run, were over.

4th KDVA tourney in November Kohima, July 4 (mExN): The 4th Kohima District Volleyball Tournament will be held by the second week of November. A press release from the Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) stated that the tournament, for both men and women, will be organised at the Kohima local ground under the theme - Transcending Through Sports. Interested teams (villages/blocks/wards/colonies) within Kohima district “are encouraged to participate in the tournament,” the release informed, adding, “The details of the tournament will be soon made available in media soon.” The KDVA further informed that it will hold its 11th foundation day on September 3. While stating that its next general body meeting will be held on July 27 at 3:00 pm at the KPC conference hall, it added that enrolment fee for new members will be Rs. 500 and Rs. 200 for renewal, which should be paid on or before September 3.

Federer floors form player Johnson

loNDoN, July 4 (REutERs): Roger Federer felled high-flying Steve Johnson at Wimbledon on Monday, knocking the wind out of the powerhouse with a 6-2 6-3 7-5 win in the fourth round. Despite considerable pre-match hype about Johnson, fresh from victory at the Nottingham grasscourt event, there was to be no Independence Day party for the burly American, as Federer showed more than enough to suggest he remains on track for Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrates winning the second a record eighth Wimbledon set in his match against USA's Steve Johnson. (REUTERS) men’s singles crown.

While Andy Murraysupporting Brits have been rubbing their hands with glee over Novak Djokovic’s shock third-round defeat, the biggest beneficiary of the Serb’s removal may yet prove to be third seed Federer, who on Monday drew level with Martina Navratilova on a record 306 grand slam singles match wins. In the quarter-finals, Federer will play Croatian ninth seed Marin Cilic who advanced after his opponent, Japanese fifth seed Kei Nishikori, retired injured while trailing 6-1 5-1.

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