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March 5 violence: Police issue ‘look out notice’
• One more arrested; takes total to 48 arrested • ‘Many have gone absconding or are in hiding’ Morung Express News Dimapur | March 11
A girl looks at lanterns during a special memorial event for the March 11, 2011 tsunami victims to mark the fourth anniversary of the disaster at Yuriage Junior High School in Natori in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, March 11. Small clusters of survivors, bundled up against a chilly wind, gathered along Japan’s northeast coast Wednesday to remember the nearly 19,000 lives lost in the tsunami. Letters on lanterns in the middle read: “A smiling face” and “Good.” (AP Photo)
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Nagaland (Dimapur) Police have arrested one more person on Wednesday in connection with the March 5 violence. Inspector General (Range) Wabang Jamir informed the media today that with this, the total number of arrested has risen to 48. The IG (R) also informed that two members of Survival Nagaland— identified as Jonah Achumi and Akum Pongener—were arrested but let go as they had applied for anticipatory bail. Their bail was set at Rs. 50,000 and was connected to all the three FIRs filed in the case. The police will, however, request the court for their custody for further interrogation. Other SN persons who sought anticipatory bail were K. Yepthomi and Z. Yeptho, though they were not arrested by the police. Meanwhile, Dimapur Police have given a lookout notice for 12 persons involved in the March 5 incident. “Many have gone absconding or are in hiding,” Jamir stated, while informing that police have conducted raids on their houses and houses of their relatives. Jamir also informed that the police have not yet found any involvement of Naga political groups with regard to the mob violence on March 5. On the other hand, the police have not yet received the post mortem report of the
Dimapur | March 11
With the final hearing of the NPF party leadership and party symbol recognition issue slated on March 13 by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Noke Wangnao led NPF party comprising of twenty legislators left for Delhi on Wednesday from Dimapur. The trip to the Capital is believed to be a move to show the party’s strength as a majority in body count on Congratulation sir, you’re the first pothole victim of the eve of the ECI hearing. When contacted, the year.
spokesperson for Noke’s group Imkong L Imchen however maintained that the trip was ‘nothing political’ but just a ‘recreation trip’ for the members. “Not necessarily concerned with the March 13 hearing. We are making a recreational trip…just to pass a few days in Delhi,” he quipped while speaking over phone from Dimapur airport. In contrary, other sources at Noke’s camp revealed that the reason for the legislators flying down to Delhi was indeed in connection with the March
no problem partnering with BJP & congress, says Yitachu Dimapur | March 11
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DAN spokesperson and parliamentary secretary Yitachu today said the NPF party led by Dr Shurhozelie Leizeitsu and TR Zeliang has no problem working with the Congress and the BJP as partners at the State level, despite objection from the BJP at the National level. Yitachu gave this remark when queried on the recent disclosure made by the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) that arrangement for placing Congress MLAs in the government would be discussed right after the budget session which is scheduled from March 17 onwards. The BJP at the centre had earlier expressed indignation over the developing ‘bizarre arrangement’ of a BJP-Congress alliance in Nagaland when they were bitter foes in Delhi. In Nagaland, BJP is already a part of the DAN coalition with one parliamentary secretary. Evidently, the Dr
Dimapur Police issue Look Out Notice (Details on Page 5)
The Dimapur district administration has informed that prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC will continue to be enforced in Dimapur in order to maintain law and order. However, there will be further relaxation from 6:00am to 9:00pm from March 12 till further notice. Educational institutions, businesses
establishments will remain open and public and vehicular movement is allowed.
Ban on SMS to be lifted on 6:00pm March 12; Mobile data to remain blocked IG (R) Wabang Jamir informed today that the blockade on mobile data services (internet) and
SMSs has been extended for 24 more hours, and will be lifted at 6:00pm Thursday. However, restrictions will remain on the number of SMSs that one can send. The Dimapur district administration has decided to ask the government to continue the blockade of mobile internet for some more time.
DGP surprised at media reports ruling out rape The Nagaland Police chief on Wednesday expressed surprise over a section of the media reporting that the union home ministry had ruled out the rape of the woman by the man who was later lynched in Dimapur. “The preliminary investigation, which was based on prima facie evidence, indicated it
to be a case of rape. We have sent some samples for forensic tests and we are waiting for the forensic report,” said Director General of Police L.L. Doungel. “I am surprised to see a section of the media ruling out rape while quoting a home ministry report over the incident on March 5,” he said.
Nagaland govt refutes media reports The Nagaland state government has refuted reports in some sections of the media that the state government’s report to the Ministry of Home Affairs says there was no rape. A press statement from the Nagaland Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar clarified that the state government report makes no such mention. “The report brings out that on receipt of FIR from the complainant on February 24, 2015 on the assault and rape by the accused (Late Syed Sarif Khan) on February 23, 2015, a
case was registered by Dimapur Police U/ S376/344/363 IPC for investigation. Statements of the complainant, the accused and the suspected accomplice were recorded. The complainant and the accused were medically examined and samples have been sent to CFSL, Guwahati for examination,” informed the Chief Secretary. As the case is under investigation, he requested the media to refrain from reporting based on speculations “in the interest of justice and peace.”
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lynched person from Kohima, whose autopsy was done at the Naga Hospital in Kohima, informed Jamir. The IG (R) refuted news items on national media where it was reported that there was “no rape” of the alleged victim. Jamir informed that the Nagaland Government report to the Home Ministry contained three statements – one each from the victim, accused, and co-accused. “Certain media agencies have picked up certain aspects of the Government’s report to the MHA and given a very different colour to the report/incident,” Jamir stated. He said that samples of swabs taken from the alleged rape accused and victim have been sent to Kolkata today for DNA sampling. The swabs were sent to Guwahati earlier, but DNA sampling methods are not available there, due to which the samples were sent back to Dimapur, from where they were sent to Kolkata again on March 11. The victim was allegedly raped once in Showuba, and twice at a hotel in Dimapur on the night of February 23 in an allegedly intoxicated condition (the victim has stated that she was allegedly forced to drink three pints of ‘Bacardi’ before she was allegedly raped). The police are yet to examine CCTV footage from the hotel pertaining to the case.
Prohibitory orders relaxed from 6:00am to 9:00pm
Shurhozelie led NPF party believes this affiliation can be made to work in the state. “We have no problem here at the state level. If it’s good for the state, why should any party at the national level object,” Yitachu reasoned. The arrangement to accommodate the Congress who otherwise were confined to the opposition bench is a recompense for the eight MLAs who voted in favour of TR Zeliang during the floor test held on January 20 special assembly session. According to a source from the Congress side, their portfolio demand includes cabinet posts of Urban Planning and Road & Bridges among others. The state BJP is yet to decide over this development which in actuality was anticipated since the day of the floor test in the Assembly. BJP spokesperson James Vizol when contacted, said the state unit was waiting for instructions from Delhi and therefore would not be able to comment on the issue at the
moment. State BJP president M Chuba is also slated to leave for Delhi Wednesday in order to consult with national leaders. Vizol also indicated that any decision made by the BJP at Delhi over the Congress-BJP coalition would be done after consultation with the state BJP unit. Meanwhile, in connection to the March 13 Election Commission of India (ECI) final hearing on the issue of NPF party leadership and party symbol recognition, Yitachu said none of them would be leaving for Delhi but stay put in Kohima. While Chief Minister TR Zeliang is in Delhi in connection with some other official duties, he may also return before the hearing, Yitachu informed. At present, the Dr Shurhozelie led NPF party has 18 legislators including Deo Nukhu and Dr Benjongliba who recently switched party allegiance; while the Noke led NPF party has 22 members including MPs Neiphiu Rio and Khekiho Zhimomi.
13 ECI hearing, as well as to physically show their strength in numbers. And with a reminder of the gateway of two legislators - Deo Nukho and Dr Benjongliba from Sovima camp to Dr Shurhozelie Leizeitsu led NPF group in Kohima, decision was made that no one would stay behind in Dimapur, the sources added. The Noke led NPF party has at present 22 supporters including Nagaland MPs Neiphiu Rio and Khekiho Zhimomi. Rio and Zhimomi are also reported to be in Delhi.
DIMAPUR, MARCH 11 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) today called for a thorough investigation into the violent events in Dimapur on March 5 “so that the truth behind the entire incident will be revealed.” A press note from the NSF condemned the alleged rape and the barbaric act of the mob. The NSF further clarified that it was “in no way involved in the mob action at Central Jail Dimapur.” The NSF said that its officials had travelled to Dimapur on March 4 afternoon “with good inten-
tion to pacify” protestors who had marched from City Tower junction to the DC office. The agitators, NSF informed had “insisted that there will be a rally the next day, for which they themselves fixed the date, time and place and insisted on an assurance of NSF presence in the rally.” It reasoned that “since there was no one to take initiative, the NSF informed the district administration to relax 144 CrPc specifically for the rally and also informed the recognized civil societies based in Dimapur to attend the rally.” “In a democratic so-
ciety everyone has the right to express their resentment but not taking law into their hands. Therefore the peaceful rally should not be linked with the mob action at the central jail under any circumstances,” the NSF said. “The NSF wonders who instigated the minds of the agitators that the accused should be handed over to them? What made the agitators so reluctant to hand over the matter to Naga apex organizations?” it questioned. This, the NSF said “is a serious matter as there seems to be some external elements involved
behind the scenes.” The NSF has meanwhile directed all members under the respective unit not to participate or take part in any kind of rally, function or public gathering without permission from the parent students’ body. Any member defying the directives shall be doing on at his/her own risk and responsibility, it cautioned. It also appealed to people across the country not to misinterpret the incident in communal lines. The NSF further resolved to take every measure to ensure safety of people from outside the state.
How an ex-inmate led lynch mob to rape-accused in jail Smita Nair The Indian Express
The judicial inquiry into the lynching last week of a rape accused in Nagaland is yet to begin, but an internal probe by state police has found key “turning points” in the crucial hours during which the mob took over Dimapur Central Jail and dragged him out. Crucial to the episode is a “sequence of events” when personnel in the short-staffed jail kept shifting the accused, Syed Sharif Khan, to different cells and hid him from the crowd, said senior officials. “But there was at least one former inmate among the mob who was familiar with the jail’s layout and that changed everything,” Wabang Jamir, IGP (Range) told The Indian Express. A senior official described the two hours of violence that ensued as a “dance of death” and added that jail staff refrained from firing at the crowd because the courtyard was filled with students, including girls who were mostly
minors. Of the 43 arrested by police for their alleged involvement in the attack, 25 played a “very important role” in the lynching, officials said. Police will now submit these findings to the official inquiry, they added. According to officials, the probe was initiated after the state police — with a new bunch of officers officiating the investigation — felt the need to understand if there was any “complacency” on the part of jail authorities while handling the situation on March 5. It also followed questions that were raised on the “absolute lawlessness” and “lack of any police resistance when the mob went hunting inside the jail”, officials said. As part of the probe, officials reconstructed the incidents that took place from the time the mob reached the jail, to when it crossed the gates, till the moment the accused was lynched, stripped and dragged outside “the gates of judicial custody”.
According to them, when reports of the alleged rape first surfaced on March 4, eight days after the victim had lodged her complaint, students — including those from the college where the woman studied — joined a protest march to the District Collector’s office. Spurred by false reports that Khan was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant, the protesters dispersed only after receiving an assurance that they would be allowed to hold another march the next day at the City Clock Tower Area between 9 am and 11 am. On March 5, after the protest, the Naga Students’ Federation appealed to the students to disperse. But an “outraged” section incited the rest to move towards the jail. By now, the crowd appeared to have swollen to at least an estimated 9,000 which also included bikers, onlookers and a “bunch of new people” who are unrelated to any student body. According to police, eight companies of state
police, with one company constituting 80 constabulary, walked on both the sides of the mob. “At best, the assumption was that like March 4, the crowd would protest and walk away,” said an officer. “The road that the mob took was the lone highway to Manipur, blocking all traffic. There was at least one group that also set up blockades to stop reinforcements, including a water cannon, at least one and-a-half km away from the jail,” said Jamir. The outnumbered jail staff tried to stop the mob at the main gate, but a few sneaked in through a small gap before the rest pushed their way in. “Our initial findings suggest that even as the crowd barged in, the jail staff was constantly improvising and moving the accused from one cell to another, hiding him at places,” added Jamir. The first bunch of protesters kept moving between cells before calling the search off and leaving with their bikes towards the
market, while the rest stood in the courtyard, waiting to follow. “It was then this former inmate in the mob recalled that the jail courtyard also led to this separate row of cells at the north-eastern corner behind the common barracks. The mob returned and found Khan hidden by the jail staff in one of the toilets in that separate cell,” said Jamir. The door was broken and Khan taken out, stripped in the courtyard and taken away. At the time, the jail had 50 police constabulary inside —- a few had been redirected to track the bikers who had left towards the market while the reinforcements were stuck at the other end of the mob. Another finding, based on statements and eyewitness accounts, is that the “highly restless, outraged young crowd of students did not have a leader”. Without a direction, they were like a “blazing herd, just going with the flow, completely outraged”, said an officer.
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The Morung Express 2 LocaL DABA Women Ministry supports positive people Nagaland State Social Dimapur
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12 March 2015
Appoints Missionary Counselor to Dimapur Network of Positive People
DimaPur, march 11 (mExN): Dimapur Ao Baptist Church Women Ministry (DABAWM) appointed a Missionary Counselor Supongtoshi to DNP+ on February 9 and a formal appointment fellowship was held on March 11 at Dimapur Network of Positive People (DNP+) Office. DNP+ board members along with Amongla, Associate Pastor Women, Achila, Secretary of DABAWM and Maong Jamir, Asst. Director, Prodigals’ Home attended the fellowship. “Spiritual needs of all the believers cannot be ignored, however reaching out the members of DNP+ with the needs was one responsibility that the church have neglected for so long,” stated Amongla. The objective of sending Missionary Counselor is to deliver spiritual health services to the members. She encouraged the board members to be spiritually filled and make the best use of the Missionary Counselor for their spiritual growth and other purposes of the network. Moa Phom, President of
Missionary Counselor Supongtoshi to DNP+ (seated center) with members of DABA WM, Prodigals’ Home and DNP+ during the induction fellowship held on March 11.
DNP+ acknowledged constant support from DABA in the form of education support to four infected and affected children since 2011, onetime nutritional
support to DNP+ in 2010 and the current project of Missionary Counselor by DABAWM. Moa pointed out that more than 1800 positive
people are registered to DNP+ and majority of them are in BPL category. He also rued about increase of positive rate in the district. According to Moa, about 40
to 50 persons are detected positive monthly in Dimapur. However, due to huge number of positive cases, the counselors in ART centers cannot manage to provide quality counseling and constant follow up. Hence, an additional counselor to DNP+ can somehow reach out to few who come to access the service from DNP+. He also stated that one of the urgent need is spiritual guidance of the members and appointed of Missionary Counselor will help them attain their spiritual thirst. Maong Jamir, Assistant Director of Prodigals’ Home also stated that the present HIV prevention program is limited to Health services and it is not a mandate of the government or NGOs to provide spiritual services. He strongly remarked that HIV programme could be successful only when the churches participate in the fight. He also stated that it is biblical to fight against stigma and discrimination and hence, church can play the best role to eradicate this issue.
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Security Board constituted
Kohima, march 11 (DiPr): The Governor of Nagaland in exercise of the power conferred under sub-section (1) of the Sec 6 of the State Social Security Act under Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008 has constituted the Nagaland State Social Security Board. Minister of Labour & Employment, Government of Nagaland will act as the Chairman (Ex-officio) and Commissioner & Secretary/Secretary, Labour & Employment department will be the Member Secretary (Ex-officio). The following will represent the Unorganised Workers: Sanjay Singh, Sanjay Bricks Kiln, Dimapur; L. Kakheto Swu, K. Sumi Motor Garage, Circular Road, Dimapur; Neifu Khrau, Self Employed Women Association Nagaland, Kohima; Ate, Nagaland Flower Growers Society, Niethu Garden, Sectt Road, Kohima; Theyiehu Rutsa, Kohima Hotel & Restaurant Union, P.Khel, Kohima Village, Kohima and T. Jabou Sekhose, Presi-
dent, Kohima Chambers of Commerce & Industries, Kohima. Employers of Unorganised Workers will be represented by Pikuto. K. Kiho, Proprietor Angels Bricks Co. Dimapur; Apok Jamir, Apok's Auto Mobile Engineering Service, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur; Atanu Theyo, Hotel Pine, Midland, Kohima and Akhrieu Mor, Proprietor, Lilliput Shop, Shop Owner, Kohima. Two Members of Nagaland Legislative Assembly, while eminent persons from Civil Society will be Represented by Xavier Rutsa, President Kohima Press Club, Kohima; Kuovizo, Youth Net, Kohima and Wekoweu Tsuhah, Programme Manager, North East Network, Phek. The following will represent the State Government Departments as Members: Director, Urban Development Department; Director, Social Welfare Department; Secretary, Justice & Law Department; Director, Health & Family Welfare; Director, Rural Develop-
ment Department; A representative from Finance Department and Labour Commissioner. The State board shall Recommend the State Government in formulating suitable schemes for different section of the unorganized sector workers; Advice the State Government on such matters arising out of the administration of this Act as may be referred to it; Monitor such social welfare schemes for unorganized workers as are administered by the State Government; Review the record keeping functions performed at the District level; Review the progress of registration and issue of cards unorganized sector workers; Review the expenditure from the funds under various schemes; and Undertake such other functions as are assigned to it by the State Government from time to time. The term of the State Board shall be three years. This was issued in a notification by Commissioner & Secretary Labour & Employment, Wepretso Mero.
Kohima bids farewell to outgoing DC Honje Eastern Nagaland orgs visit KMC informs Our Correspondent Kohima | March 11
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The outgoing Kohima Deputy Commissioner W. Honje Konyak was accorded befitting farewell at a function held here today at DC’s Conference Hall. Honje served as DC Kohima for two and half years and will now take over charge as DC Mon. Rovilato Mor will take over charge as new DC Kohima on March 12. Honje in his address said that after serving two and a half years he is leaving the district with satisfaction over the works achieved. He shared the credit for all the good initiatives during his tenure to all the support and cooperation he received from all corners including all his administrative officers. He said that he received unprecedented love, affection, sincerity and cooperation from all authorities concerned during his tenure as the DC Kohima for which he expressed his utmost gratitude. Further, he called upon all to rededicate themselves and also to give the same cooperation to the new Deputy Commissioner as he had received during his tenure. He also called upon the officers to be always alert, watchful and vigilant and also to ensure that the policies and programme of the government is carried out upto people’s expectation. Thanking the outgoing DC for rendering valuable
Outgoing Kohima DC W. Honje Konyak
services to the district, Vilhousa Seleyi, president Angami Public Organization (APO) said that among all the works done by the outgoing DC, the most commendable job done was the construction and rectification of drainage system in Kohima. He described Honje as “dynamic and intellectual quality.” The Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) expressed gratitude to the outgoing DC for being very helpful and for which seminars and programmes had been conducted in successful way through common initiatives. Rengma Hoho described Honje as a man of honesty, sociable and hardworking officer and thanked him for doing his best for the state capital, particularly for the Angami and the Rengma communities. Terming outgoing DC as “fatherly figure” for police, additional SP, Kohima said that the later guided
them in many ways to perform their duties smoothly. He described Honje as a man of action, adding that through his effort most of the situations could be tackled without much difficulty. Speaking on behalf of the outpost officers ADC Tseminyu Vikweno Meratsu said that they have learned a lot from him through his approach to administration and working with him has been beneficial in all aspects. She said that Honje has leadership qualities and the discipline of a civil servant with vast knowledge. Calling him as “Engineer DC,” SDO (C) Estt, Kethosituo Sekhose said the outgoing DC has undertaken a lot of developmental works during his tenure like widening of roads, construction of drainage, road safety measures, construction of pedestrian footpath etc. “Kohima losses, Mon gains,” he said. Outgoing SDO (C), Sechii Md. Ali
Shibab said that he has started a ‘silent revolution’ by taking all stakeholders into account for initiating a lot of developments. He maintained that Honje is a man of vision and a source of motivation who has the courage to stand up for the right thereby being a role model for all concerned. KMC administrator Kovi Meyase expressed his profound gratitude to Honje for all his support and guidance and said that as an officer he has been greatly influenced by his unorthodox way of solving problems. APO advisor Keneingunyii Sekhose described Honje as a man of integrity, sincerity and a man who stood by his word. Kohima head DB Khunyii Rino said that Honje had done many good things for the welfare of the DBs and appreciated his initiative on re-modelling of District Customary Court Kohima into traditional way. DRDA project director said Honje is a person who can really carry forward the programme of the government. He said many developmental activities have been brought out and so many unwanted elements were corrected. A team of Nagaland Contractors & Suppliers Union (NCSU) led by its president Pele Khezhie also attended the function. Kohima ADC Lithrongla Tongpi chaired the function. (With inputs from DIPR)
affected areas in Tuensang on plastic
TuENsaNg, march 11 (mExN): Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) along with Eastern Nagaland Women Organisation (ENWO) and Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) visited the affected areas concerning the situation and incidences occurring in and around Tuensang town. The team led by the new ENPO President S. Khoiwang visited the victim families and the displaced people who are camped in temporary makeshifts and handed over donations collected from the well-wishers. ENPO President S Khoiwang Konyak and General Secretary Manlang Phom in a press release stated, the team observed that the situation is slowly improving after the signing of bond of peace agreement at Longleng on February 24, 2015 to which the ENPO thanked the CKS and VIC for upholding the agreement by controlling their respective public. It also observed that the victim family members and displaced masses were ready to forgive the perpetrators, and are yearning for peace and wanting to come back and re-settle in their homes, and for which they strongly urged the government for an early settlement of the issue. The ENPO is of the view that the unfortunate situation and conflict could have been avoided had the government tackled and
ABAM supports NBCC peace mission
Meanwhile, the Ao Baptist Church Association (ABAM) has expresses profound appreciation to NBCC for the tireless effort to bring peace to the tension torn Tuensang issue. “In spite of how hard the task may be, it is encouraging to see how NBCC continue to work for peace, advocating love, brotherhood and peaceful co-existence among Naga communities,” said ABAM Executive Secretary, Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger in a press release. He said that the NBCC bold call upon “contending parties (Chang and Yimchungru) to refrain from violence and to exercise maximum restrain” as one Naga Christian family is highly commendable. “NBCC as the apex Church body in Nagaland is befitting and should continue to spearhead the people’s aspiration for peace and healthy co-existence among Naga tribes, which we strongly believe is our primary responsibility, in a time such as today,” added the Executive Secretary. While extending support to the initiatives taken by the Council, the Executive Secretary added that ABAM is “ever ready and willing to support and work together as when our assistance is required, because it is our shared responsibility.” The Association also expressed happiness and satisfaction to the whole Chang and Yimchungru for respecting the peace initiatives taken by various organizations, as spearheaded by the NBCC. “We believe and have strong faith that something good is happening through all these efforts. We believe that our labor will not be in vain,” the Ao Baptist Church Association added. addressed the situation seriously in the initial stages i.e. in the month of August 2014, or even the simmering tensions prevalent in and around Chendang village and C. Saddle areas prior to the August incidence 2014. “The present government too being bogged down in the tussle of leadership in the state had also not taken the issue seriously when the situation seriously resurged in the months of November and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Preparations underway for
26th ASU general conference
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A most heartfelt humble “Thank You” to one and all near, far and wide – families and friends, neighbors and colony Bodies, various village Councils/ Unions, Civil Bodies and NGOs, the Churches and concerned organizations, Hon’ble Legislative Members and Govt. Officials, those Offices and Govt. Departments, individuals and so forth, for ‘being with us’ during our painful hours at the sudden home-going passing away of our dearly beloved mother, Mrs. L. Imsutola Jamir (Mrs. L. I. Atola Jamir) on 18.02.2015. We remain profusely indebted to you, ever. We can only submit an earnest prayer that our gracious God abundantly bless you all in lieu. Children, In-Laws & Grand-Children.
Kohima, march 11 (mExN): Hectic preparations are underway for the 26th biennial general conference of the Angami Students’ Union (ASU) scheduled from March 13 to 15 at Chiephobozou, under Kohima district. The three-day conference, to be hosted by the NASU, will be held under the theme “Engaging Challenges”. The introductory session on March 13 evening will be graced by N. Neitsalie Zhasa, Principal Secretary, Forest, Ecology & Environment, Government of Nagaland as the speaker, while the inaugural session on March 14 will be graced by social & peace activist Niketu Iralu as the speaker. The speaker for the devotional service on Sunday is Rev Zotuo Kiewhuo, senior pastor Koinonia Baptist Church & principal, Kohima Bible College and the valedictory session will be graced by Kesonyü Yhome, IAS, additional secretary, finance department, Government of Nagaland & deputy commissioner, Dimapur. The conference on day-two will also feature Naga style wrestling and volleyball championship for both men and women, to be competed among the regional units. All the regional units have
been asked to prepare a volleyball team for both men and women and two participants each for extempore, debate as well as for Naga wrestling. ASU has also informed all the units to submit two standard size flags and further to come with qualified candidates for the election to the various posts in the ASU executive council & union assembly for the tenure 2015-17. The organizing committee has also invited all the Angami frontal organizations, civil society, neighbouring villages and well wishers to attend the conference. The organizing committee has requested all the units to arrive at the venue before 1 pm on March 13 for registration. On arrival, a registration fee of Rs 50 would be realized from each delegate. The delegates are also informed to bring light bedrolls. Around 1500 delegates from the four regional units - Western Angami Students’ Union (WASU), Southern Angami Students’ Union (SASU), Northern Angami Students’ Union (NASU) and Chakhroma Students’ Union (CSU) are expected to attend the conference which will culminate on Sunday evening.
December last, and whereby some precious lives had been unfortunately and tragically lost and properties damaged since then,” the ENPO added. Meanwhile, the ENPO thanked the present Tuensang district administration led by the DC and district police for their sincere efforts to bring normalcy in the region, and further requested to continue to put extra efforts for bringing peaceful and lasting atmosphere at the earliest.
carry bags Kohima, march 11 (mExN): The KMC has reminded the public and business establishment within the jurisdiction of Kohima Municipal Council that the plastic (Waste Management and handling) Rules 2011 as notified by the ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF), Government of India under the environment (protection) Act, 1986 is enforced in the Capital city whereby the thickness of plastic carry bags made of virgin or recyclable or compostable plastic shall not be less than 40 microns in thickness. A press note issued by Kovi Meyase, Administrator further stated that KMC would continue with the checking. If any shop is found selling/using polythene plastic bags below 40 microns, defaulter will be penalised as under: for the first offence, fine will be imposed varying from 2500 to 5000; for the next offence, trade licence will be cancelled as per provision of the Labour Act; Any stockiest/firms may apply for import permit to bring the products of virgin plastic of 40 microns after approval from Kohima Municipal office.
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CHK general session on March 14 Kohima, march 11 (mExN): The Chakhesang Hoho Kohima (CHK) will be holding its general session on March 14 at the Mount Sinai Higher Secondary School, Old Ministers’ Hill Kohima at 10 am. Under the theme “Honesty begets Dignity”, the session will be graced by Chotisüh Sazo, Speaker, NLA as the Guest Speaker. The program committee has requested all the President of village units along with at least 5 members to attend the session compulsorily. Further it cordially invited the public leaders, church leaders and well wishers of the Chakhesang Community to attend session.
KSSU career guidance rescheduled Kohima, march 11 (mExN): The Kohima Sumi Students’ Union (KSSU) has postponed the proposed seminar on career guidance scheduled to be held on March 14 to March 21. However, the programme, time and venue shall remain as same. The concerned persons are requested to contact the president in case of any query. KSSU President Zakato Chishi in a press release has expressed regret for the inconvenience.
Reporting Day at Naga United Village DimaPur, march 11 (mExN): The Naga United Village Council has informed all the general public of Naga United Village that there will be a ‘Reporting Day’ of the entire department on April 11, 10:00 am at the village local ground. Therefore, all have been informed to attend it without fail. This was informed in a press release issued by Naga United Village Council secretary, L Lokho.
Mon DPDB on March 16 moN, march 11 (mExN): The monthly Mon District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) Meeting for the month of March will be held at Conference Hall of the Deputy Commissioner, Mon on March 16 at 11 am. A press note issued by Those Angami (8974009924), Assistant Development Commissioner, Mon has requested all the Board members to attend the meeting without fail.
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World Bank to provide fund for power projects in Tripura agartala, march 11 (IaNS): The World Bank would provide Rs.1,376 crore to create infrastructure in the power sector in Tripura, an official said here on Wednesday. State-owned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) would execute the World Bank-aided projects in the state which shares its border with Bangladesh. "A meeting of senior officials of PGCIL, World Bank, Central Electricity Authority, Tripura State Electricity Corporation and Tripura power department would be held here on March 13," an official of
Tripura power department said. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, Power Minister Manik Dey will also be present in the meeting, which will discuss a strategy to implement the project. The official said: "The Rs.1,376 crore Tripura project is a part of the Rs.8,150crore 'North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project' meant for Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura." The World Bank in consultation with the union power ministry so far approved the Tripura project
Northeast Briefs Three killed, 21 injured in Manipur blast Imphal, march 11 (IaNS): Three people were killed and 21 others injured in a powerful blast at a market here in the Manipur capital on Wednesday, police said. "An IED (improvised explosive device) that was planted near a chicken shop at Khwairamband Keithel exploded killing three people and wounding 21 others, including women," Inspector General of Police Clay Khongsai told IANS. He said the injured were rushed to the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital. The condition of some of the wounded was critical. Among those killed, two were non-locals. One was identified as Mithu Yadav, a resident of Bihar, while the identity of the other person was yet to be ascertained. The third person killed in the blast was identified as Md. Suman Khan, a resident of Kshetri Awang Leikai of Imphal East district. Police officials along with additional security forces have rushed to the spot and launched a combing operation to nab those responsible for the blast. No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the blast. Manipur Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh condemned the blast.
Encroachers' camp dismantled in Arunachal ItaNagar, march 11 (ptI): In all 25 temporary camps and four dwelling huts, built by Chakma refugees in Tengpani and Manabhum forest areas of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh , were dismantled in a twoday eviction drive. The eviction carried out by forest and administrative officials early this week, an official communiqué said here today. The Operation was led by Namsai DFO (divisional forest officer) Rini Riba, Chongkham EAC (extra assistant commissioner) O Lego while SDPO K Padu led the police team. Officials had received a tip-off that some Chakmas had set up residence within the reserved forests. While the team did locate 25 temporary camps and 4 dwelling huts, they were found to be deserted. The officials quickly dismantled the residences and also cleared around five hectares of land occupied by the encroachers at different locations. The team informed that its work was compounded by the fact that the encroached areas were highly inaccessible due to bad roads. Orders for regular patrolling in the area have been issued, the communiqué added.
while talks are on to implement the project in other northeastern states. "The World Bank aided infrastructure development project in the power sector would begin in the forthcoming fiscal year (2015-16)," the official added. The PGCIL and World Bank officials earlier held talks and studied the power transmission scenario in Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura for implementation of the 'North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project'. The official said: "The
World Bank would provide a major portion of the Rs.8,150 crore ambitious project as loan. Under this project, power transmission lines, transmission sub-stations and related works would be done in a phased manner." The PGCIL, a "Navaratna" power transmission company, would also provide technical and managerial support for interstate transmission and distribution systems. The official said the union government has recently decided to implement a new 'Smart Grid Projects (SGP)' in 14 cities across the
country on pilot-basis at a cost of Rs.200 crore. The 14 cities include Agartala, the only city in the northeastern region, where the SGP will be executed. The SGP will be a digital technology that allows for two-way communication between the utility and its customers, as well as monitoring of the transmission lines for efficient use of electricity. The official said the Tripura State Electricity Corporation would soon undertake preliminary work to lay underground power transmission lines in the capital city and its outskirts.
in the nine-month-long cultural extravaganza, the 'Discover North East Yatra'," NEZCC spokesman Ranjan Kumar Biswas told IANS. He said that the unique and colourful festival had begun in May last year through a cultural show in Nagaland and then the festival travelled to Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura. Biswas said: "'Discover North East Yatra' was organised to develop and promote the rich diversity and uniqueness of various arts and cultures of the north-east, especially the indigenous dance and music of the region, mostly performed in the rural
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At least three Assam Rifles personnel were wounded in a major attack carried out by suspected ZUF cadres in Haochong area under Noney Police Station of Tamenglong district on March 10. According to reports, cadres belonging to Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) triggered two powerful IEDs targeting a foot
patrol party of 8 Assam Rifles near a bus waiting shed in Haochong around 8 am. Then, the heavily armed cadres fired indiscriminately at the Assam Rifles team from a hill side, injuring three of the jawans. An exchange of fire ensued between the two sides following the attack. The encounter lasted for about half an hour. But no casualties on the ZUF side were reported in the
encounter. The ZUF cadres fled the spot towards Nungtek, a dense forest area after the encounter. The injured jawans were airlifted to Military Hospital, Leimakhong near Imphal. They have been identified as Rajiv Kumar, Puiya and Chirmani Jaimata. Sources said the three Assam Rifles jawans sustained injuries in the legs and arms in the attack. Separately, an encounter took place be-
ItaNagar, march 11 (ptI): Arunachal Pradesh is close to realising universal enrolment with the percentage of children in the age group of 6-14 enrolled in school at 95 or above, five years in a row, according to a survey report. The percentage of children out of school in the age group of 6-14 years recorded in 2014 in the state is the lowest ever at 2.1 per cent, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) facilitated by Pratham, recently released in New Delhi said. ASER is the largest annual household survey of children in rural India that focuses on the status of schooling and basic learning.
Although enrolment levels are very high for the age group covered by Right to Education Act (6 to 14 years), the proportion of 15 to 16 year olds not enrolled in school is on the higher side, with 8 per cent of boys and 7.5 per cent girls in the same age group, currently out of school. But it is comparatively lower than the national average of 15. 9 per cent for boys and 17. 3 per cent for girls in this age group, the report said. The proportion of children enrolled in private schools in the state has increased from 2010. Last year, 24.5 percent of all 6-14 year old children in rural Arunachal were found to be enrolled
in private schools. This is a big jump from 16.7 percent in 2010. Compared to the neighbouring states of Manipur and Meghalaya, the private school enrolment rates in the elementary stage in the state are low, but the figure is increasing every year. ASER 2014 reached 9 districts and 229 villages including 4,928 households and about 9,086 children in the age group of 3-16 years in the state to conduct the survey. According to the report, the situation with basic reading continues to be extremely disheartening in Arunachal. In 2014, only 29.6 percent of standard III chil-
market," Singh said during a discussion in the House. Earlier, former Chief Minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta raised the issue of not decreasing fares, freight charges and food items despite drastic fall of petrol and diesel prices in the last couple of months. Singh informed the House that last increase in passenger fares took place on November 7, 2012 when the diesel rate was Rs 50.68 per litre. On August 31, 2014, the diesel price was Rs 61.79 a litre and there was no increase in passenger fares since November 2012, he added.
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BDFM member sentenced to Swine Flu death life imprisonment by court in Manipur aIZaWl, march 11 (ptI): Bru Democratic Front of Mizoram (BDFM) member Lochiram Reang has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for abducting five persons in 2013. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Aizawl District, in his order yesterday said the convict deserved harsh punishment for his act against fellow human beings and sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs 10,000. 38-year-old Reang and other members of the (BDFM), backed by the NLFT militants, had abducted five persons working under the Mizoram Environment and Forests department within Dampa Tiger Reserve near Bangladesh border on February 19, 2013. Reang was arrested by
tween a team of 24 Assam Rifles and suspected militants at Kwatha village close to Border Pillar-81 in Chandel district around 2 pm of March 6. No casualties were reported in the gun battle, sources said. On the same day, a Territorial Army personnel was shot dead by one of his colleagues at the 57 Mountain Division barrack, Leimakhong. Reports said accused AK Singh shot
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Imphal, march 11 (mExN): One woman died of Swine Flu in Manipur Wednesday at a private hospital here. The 35-year-old woman from Imphal East district was tested positive for Swine Flu on March 5 and was undergoing treatment at Shija Hospitals and Research Centre where she died this morning. Another woman from the same district, who was admitted to the hospital with Swine Flu-like symptoms also died this morning. The test result of whether she had Swine Flu was still awaited. Meanwhile, an 11-yearold girl, suspected to have the H1N1 virus, has also been admitted to the same hospital after suffering from high fever. Principal Secretary (Health) Dr Suresh Babu informed that sufficient drugs have been procured to contain the disease in the State. Addressing the media at the Old Secretariat conference hall here yesterday, Dr Suresh Babu also said the State government has already arranged separate wards which have ventilator facilities at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here for treating people infected with Swine Flu.
the Mizoram Police on April 16, 2013 from the Asapara relief camp, the second largest of the six Bru relief camps in North Tripura district. Eight others involved in the abduction were still at large. The court held Reang guilty under section 364 (A) of the IPC (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) on March four and announced the sentence yesterday. There had been ten incidents of abduction in Mizoram since 2011 till date in which a total number of 38 people were kidnapped, and except for a single case of kidnapping at Mizoram-Assam border Kolasib district, all the abductions occurred in Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura border Mamit district by the BDFM and NLFT combine who held their hostages inside the Bangladesh jungles.
dren could read a standard I text fluently and only 44.4 percent of standard V could read a standard II level text. Even in standard VIII, only 73 percent children can read standard II level text.
dead KW Singh with his service INSAS rifle following an altercation inside the barrack. A police case has been registered in connection with the incident. In another incident, suspected armed group exploded a bomb at the main gate of MM Higher Secondary School, Wangkhei in Imphal East around 7am of March 7. But no one was injured in the blast. The police are investigating the incident.
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and remote areas." In each show, 130 to 140 artistes of different ethnic groups showcased their distinctive arts, music and dance. Tripura assembly deputy speaker Pabitra Kar, who was present at the closing function, said: "The NEZCC in association with the other state cultural bodies must organise such festivals every year and should reach out to the artistes in remote, rural and inaccessible areas." The mountainous north-east region has more than 150 different tribes besides a considerable number of Bengali speaking people. Over 28 percent of the north-east's 45.58 million population are tribals.
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Food prices not dependent on petrol, GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND diesel only, says Assam Transport Min OFFICE OF THE DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER: DIMAPUR DIVISION gUWahatI, march 11 (ptI): Assam government today said food prices were not solely dependent on petrol and diesel rates, while justifying not cutting the passenger fares of buses despite fall in crude oil prices. "Price rise of essential food items do not depend on rising petrol and diesel rates alone," Assam Transport Minister Ajit Singh said at the Assembly here. He said fluctuation in petroleum products' prices did not result in the rise or fall in passenger fares. "That is why, passenger fares are at a justified level despite falling rates of crude in international
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‘Discover North East Yatra' ends agartala, march 11 (IaNS): The first ever nine-month-long cultural extravaganza, the "Discover North East Yatra" ended here on Wednesday, having created a cultural bonding among the artistes and the common people of the eight north-eastern states, an official said. Dimapur-based (Nagaland) North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC), operating under the union ministry of culture, organised the festival to preserve, innovate, promote, project and disseminate the arts and culture of the northeastern region. "Over 1,000 artistes and performers, comprising men and women, took part
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To promote ‘ease of doing business’, Lab ministry simplifying procedures
New Delhi, March 11 (iaNS): In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directive to simplify procedures, especially to promote the ease of doing business, the labour ministry is clubbing together nearly 35 central laws in four new bills, one of which may be introduced during the ongoing budget session of parliament, officials said. The officials told IANS on condition of anonymity that the new bills will consolidate the existing laws under four heads: wages; safety and working conditions; social security and welfare; and industrial relations. “Once the new bills are framed and passed, it will lead to ease of compliance. Rather than registering with authorities separately under existing laws, one will have to fill a single form for various labour laws. It will be like a single window service,” an official, who did not want to be named, told IANS. He said the four bills that will amalgamate laws under codes
were a “top priority” of the Modi government and are a key part of the “labour reforms”. “The issue is being monitored at the top level,” the official added. This is the second exercise being undertaken by the Modi government to lighten the statute book. Last year, it had begun the process of repealing 323 laws, most of them dating to the British colonial era. A bill is already pending in parliament to repeal 32 of these laws. Consolidating the different labour laws will reduce multiplicity and ensure better enforcement and compliance, another official told IANS. He said single window clearance for labour laws will also be in line with the government’s Digital India policy. The labour ministry has prepared a preliminary draft of the wages bill. “It will be deliberated at various levels and then go to the cabinet. The bill is expected to be introduced in the second half of the
budget session,” the official said. The wages bill is likely to club four laws, while the one on social security and welfare is expected to stitch together 18 laws. The one on safety and working conditions would put together 12 laws and the one on industrial relations is likely to club three different laws. He said the new bills will not dilute the provisions of the existing laws but will give a fillip to the ease of doing business. “Rather than going to ten different places, a person can file one form,” the official added. The procedure for simplifying and rationalizing labour laws will require them to be examined individually and provisions that have outlived utility would be deleted. Some laws that have outlived their utility may also be repealed, said an official. He said there were 44 central labour laws. The second National Commission on Labour had recommended that labour laws should be broadly grouped into four-five
LIC to invest Rs.150,000 cr Indian Rlys New Delhi, March 11 (iaNS): In line with the the funding programme outlined in last month’s Railway budget, state-run Life Insurance Corp (LIC) on Wednesday committed Rs.150,000 crore to Indian Railways for development of various commercially viable projects. “LIC has taken the task of supporting Indian Railways. It is a commercial de-
cision. LIC will invest Rs.1.5 lakh crore over a period of five years,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here after signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the finance and railway ministries. The investment would be done in bonds issued by various railway entities such Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC), beginning next fiscal.
The railway ministry described it as “one of the largest funding for the Indian Railways” and “yet another fulfilment of the railway budget’s commitment”. Following his presentation of the Railway budget for 2015-16, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had said that in view of the difficult fiscal situation, the Railways had lower expectation of union budgetary support.
Government approves Rs 98.2 cr for creating email infrastructure New Delhi, March 11 (PTi): The government has approved Rs 98.2 cr for building email infrastructure under which IDs will be created for 50 lakh users, as the use of private email services by its personnel has been restricted. The Government had notified the email policy, which said email service provided by NIC should be used for all official communications. According to a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: “The government of India has also approved a project for Rs 98.2 crore to strengthen the email infrastructure. Once implemented, the new
email system will provide for 50 lakh email ids for government users across the country.” As per the email policy, government personnel have been barred from using private e-mail services for official communications. The new policy also bars officials from using the forward option in emails to non-government e-mail services. This policy is applicable to all employees of central government and employees of those state or union territories governments that use the e-mail services of provided by central government. Government officials will be allocated 2 e-mail Ids, one based on designation and the other on name.
ShaNghai/ M u M b a i , March 11 (reuTerS): Alibaba is in talks with Indian online marketplace Snapdeal over a potential cash investment, a source familiar with the negotiations said, in what would be the Chinese e-commerce giant’s first direct investment in India. Snapdeal competes in India with bigger rivals Flipkart. com and Amazon.com, and media reports have said it is seeking $1 billion in its latest funding round to fuel growth. In October last year, Snapdeal secured a $627 million investment from Japan’s Softbank (9984.T), itself an early backer of Alibaba. The source, who declined to be named as talks are not public, said on Wednesday that negotiations were “ongoing”, confirming Indian media reports. The source said Alibaba was “looking, but there’s still no deal”. A second source familiar with the matter confirmed the two sides had spoken in the past and said investor interest was “high”, but gave no detail on any current negotiations. Snapdeal declined to comment. Alibaba has been eyeing India for months, but has yet to invest directly in the e-commerce space. Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba controlled by senior Alibaba executives, bought a 25 percent stake in the Indian payment services provider behind Paytm last month.
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ocratic Alliance (NDA) government had last October unveiled the Shram Suvidha portal to simplify compliance with 16 labour laws through a single online form. Officials said the three industrial relations laws likely to be consolidated are the Trade Unions Act, the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act and the Industrial Disputes Act. The safety and working conditions laws likely to be clubbed include those relating to weekly holidays, factories, plantation labour, mines, dock workers, building and other construction workers, contract labour, child labour and working journalists. The social security and welfare laws to be put together include those concerning employees’ compensation, Employees State Insurance Act, employees’ provident funds, maternity benefit, gratuity, unorganized workers, beedi and cigar workers, iron ore mines workers and cine workers.
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categories, he said. The report of the Working Group on Labor Laws and other Labour Regulations for the 12th Five Year Plan had also recommended clubbing together of laws. It said that consolidation of labour laws and “harmonization of key definitions in select cognate groups” would lead to better adherence, reduce the cost of administration and help improve implementation as fewer register logs would need to be maintained. The report also said that simplifing the rules would have a positive impact on boosting regular employment. Modi has repeatedly laid thrust on simplifying government procedures. He has also said that ease of doing business was the most important component for success of the government’s Make in India initiative. As part of its moves towards labour reforms and ease of doing business, the National Dem-
‘Bill on black money likely in ongoing Par session’ cheNNai, March 11 (PTi): Government is likely to bring a new law on black money during the ongoing Parliament session to effectively deal with the menace, Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das said today. “It is our endeavour to introduce the bill in the first leg of the Budget Session...Before Parliament goes for recess,” he said while addressing a CII event here. The first leg of the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament ends on March 20. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech had announced that the government would come out with a new law to effectively deal with the black money stashed abroad. The proposed law will have a provision of 10-year rigorous imprisonment for concealment of overseas assets. Elaborating on the proposed law, Das said, “The (revenue) department will be empowered to attach assets of equivalent value in India. As a country, we need to curb this.” The new law, he added, would plug loopholes and strengthen the hands of revenue department in dealing with the assets stashed abroad. Referring to the efforts being made by the revenue department to obtain information about persons mentioned in the HSBC list from Swiss authorities, Das said, “They have agreed to provide information in respect of cases which are independently investigated by our tax authorities and income tax department.” The Swiss authorities have also promised to provide all information in a time-bound manner, he said, adding “for the first time (they have agreed) to commence negotiations with India with regard to automatic exchange of information. “...They have also agreed to validate any information with regard to banking or non-banking information.
Draghi: Europe recovering, stimulus will lift inflation Low oil prices have been a key factor in Europe falling into negative inflation rates
FraNKFurT, March 11 (aP): European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the economic recovery in the 19-country eurozone is gaining momentum and that recent stimulus measures will succeed in preventing a damaging period of falling prices that can hurt growth and jobs. Draghi told a conference Wednesday the recovery should “gradually broaden and, hopefully, strengthen.” In the fourth quarter of 2014, the eurozone grew 0.3 percent from the previous quarter, more than many economists predicted. Recent economic indicators have been encouraging with the eurozone seemingly benefiting from low oil prices and a falling euro. Retail sales were particularly strong at the start of the year. “The slowdown in growth has reversed,” Draghi said in his speech. Draghi said the bank’s recent stimulus measures “will stabilize inflation in line with our objective.” In February, consumer prices were 0.3 percent lower
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than the year before, well off the bank’s goal of inflation just under two percent. Draghi said the bank’s measures, including a 1.1-trillion euro ($1.2 trillion) program of bond purchases that started Monday, “have significantly decreased the likelihood” that low inflation would become a chronic downward price spiral that can weigh on an economy as consumers put off spending in the hope of bargains down the line and businesses fail to invest and innovate amid falling profits. Low oil prices have been a key factor in Europe falling into negative inflation rates. Draghi said stimulus measures were preventing low or negative inflation from becoming ingrained in people’s expectations for the future. The ECB is using newly printed money to buy government and corporate bonds. That is intended to raise inflation by increasing the quantity of money in the economy, lower bondmarket borrowing rates, and spur growth and employment. The bond purchases are set to run through September, 2016. One effect of the program has been a fall in the euro’s exchange rate, which should help exporters. The euro traded at $1.0655 on Wednesday. That is down from almost $1.40 in May, 2014.
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ASU conference from March 13 Our correspondent Kohima | March 11
The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) is all set to hold its 26th Biennial General Conference from March 13 to 15 at Chiephobozou, 20 kms away from Kohima. The three-day conference, to be hosted by the Northern Angami Students’ Union (NASU), will be held under the theme “Engaging Challenges.” The introductory session on March 13 evening will have N. Neitsalie Zhasa, Principal Secretary, Forest, Ecology & Environment as the speaker. He will speak on the topic “Our Environment-Issues & Challenges.” Social & peace activist Niketu Iralu will be the speaker during the inaugural session on March 14; he will speak on the conference theme “Engaging Challenges.”
Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) president Tongpang Ozükum will also share greetings. The academic session on Day 2 will touch on “Our present world-issues & challenges,” “Our fragile ecosystem- issues & challenges” and “Our responsibilities- issues & challenges.” Pheluopfhelie Kesiezie, administrator, Northfield School, Kohima, Dr Vizovol Mekro, associate professor & honorary director, NIHESW and Kekhrielhouto Nakhro, coordinator (IT), NBSE will act as panelists and Kezhazer Angami and Keviyie Yalie as moderators. The speaker for the devotional service on Sunday will be Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, senior pastor Koinonia Baptist Church & principal, Kohima Bible College. He will speak on “… And do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord…”Deut 6:18. Extempore speech,
business hour and election will take place at 12:00 noon. Kesonyü Yhome, IAS, additional secretary, finance department and DC Dimapur will be the speaker at the valedictory function at 2:00 PM. He will speak on the topic “Success.” The conference will also be graced by Angami frontal orgnisations as special guests for the respective sessions - introductory session (Angami Sports Association), inaugural session (Angami Public Organization), academic session (Angamimiapfü Mechü Krotho), devotional service (Angami Gazetted Officers’ Krotho) and valedictory session (Angami Youth Organisation). The conference on day-two will also feature Naga style wrestling and volleyball championship for both men and women while ASUvaganza nite will
also be held on Saturday evening at 6:00 PM. For this, all the regional units have been asked to come prepared with volleyball team for both men and women and two participants for Naga wrestling. All units have also been requested to come prepared with two items for ASUvaganza nite. A debate competition on the topic “We are using Technology in the right way” will also be conducted on March 13 evening with Keviphotsii Khwükha as the critic. All the units have been asked to send two participants for both debate and extempore competition. ASU has also informed all the units to submit two standard size flags, and to come with qualified candidates for the election to the various posts in the ASU executive council & union assembly for the tenure 2015-17.
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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE DIMAPUR: NAGALAND. No: DEF/ DMR/ ESSTT-63/2015/
Dated, Dimapur, March 2015
LOOK OUT NOTICE
NESO calls for maturity, Dimapur Police informs Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): The trust and understanding Dimapur Police today informed that
Dimapur , march 11 (mExN): The North East Students’ Organization (NESO), while condemning alleged rape of a college girl, has also denounced the violent incident in Dimapur. A press note from the NESO urged the people of Assam and Nagaland not to drag the incident into communal line “as it will have huge ramification in our society, particularly at a time when north east people are trying to stand together as
a family in every issues that is confronting our people today.” It called for a collective effort to make sure that such incidents do not happen again. The present issue, it stated, “should be addressed with sincerity, trust and understanding.” The NESO also appealed that people living across the states should not be harmed and urged both Assam and Nagaland to exhibit maturity, “honoring the good relationship they have maintained over the years.”
Shouka Kakheto, NPS has been posted as the Addl. Superintendent of Police, Dimapur and is designated as the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of DEF Dimapur. All official information, data and press releases pertaining to Dimapur Police will be provided only through the Public Relation Officer (PRO), informed a press note from, the Dimapur Police. It further informed that the PRO can be reached at 03862-227129/9436603583/spdmpngl@nic.in
Forged list submitted to ECI: 45th NPF Tehok A/C Dimapur, march 5 (mExN): Clarifying its stand on what it called the formation of a “fake” NPF party in the constituency, the 45th NPF Tehok A/C, Mon district today claimed that the list of office bearers submitted by NPF “dissident group” to Election commission of India (ECI) was bogus and baseless. The list was given without the consent of the concerned person with bogus father name and forged signatures, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) 45th Tehok A/C contented in a press note appended by its president,
L Wangnok Konyak and general secretary, K Chingkai Konyak. “It is to kind information to one and all that so far there is only one NPF party in 45 Tehok A/C,” the press note stated, adding that it had given mandate to CL John during the last assembly election and had constant allegiance with Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu leadership. “Hence, the existence of a ghost NPF party... [and] exploitation of innocent office bearers name without the consent their consent is a big question and tantamount
to summon in customary court to deal as per customary law,” it further argued. It also urged the authority concerned to consider the same and declare the “highly objectionable and baseless” list submitted by NPF “dissident” group as “null and void.” For further information and clarification regarding the constituency, the general public can contact the president and secretary of 45th NPF Tehok A/C at 9436830990 and 8414848010 respectively, the press note added.
Based on concrete and credible evidences which is in the possession of Dimapur Police, the individuals featured in the following photographs have been identified as being directly involved in the March 5, 2015 incident at Dimapur. More sets of photographs will be published in subsequent days on the basis of available evidences against each person. The following course of action is advised to the concerned stakeholders mentioned below. 1) The individuals featured in these photographs are advised to present themselves at their respective police stations under whose jurisdiction their localities fall under. 2) If the individuals do not voluntarily turn themselves in, the parents or wards of these individuals are to produce them in the respective police stations. 3) If the above two courses of action are not fulfilled, the student unions/ GBs/ Colony Chairmen under whose jurisdiction these persons live, or under which student body these students are affiliated to, are to produce them in the police stations. In case the above course of action is not acted upon, Dimapur Police will continue to look out for the featured individuals and detain them as per the law as and when they are tracked down. In case of such an eventuality, the stakeholders mentioned above should not intervene and make any representations/petitions to the Police on behalf of the featured individuals. Addl. Superintendent of Police/PRO, Dimapur, Nagaland
KDLSA conducts seminar on Nagaland MP calls for PTCSU writes to Principal social welfare & social schemes solution to Naga issue Director of School Education
KOhima, march 11 (mExN): The Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) today conducted a seminar on “Social welfare & Social Schemes” cum release of a Documentary CD of the National Legal Services Day Celebration here at NSLSA Conference Hall. The seminar was attended by judicial officers, lawyers, police officers and para legal volunteers with Mayang Lima, NJS, Member Secretary, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) & District and Sessions Judge, Mon as the resource person. Mayang Lima released the documentary CD on the Legal Services Day held on November 9, 2014 and congratulated the KDLSA for bringing out this multi media project for the first time in Nagaland and encouraged them to work on furthermore multi-media projects on legal awareness programmes so as to disseminate information to all the people to know of the laws and their rights. The programme continued with the seminar topic “Social Welfare and Social Security Schemes” where he highlighted various centrally sponsored schemes which are being implemented by the Government of India and how to avail those schemes for the welfare and security of the poor and the marginalised. He urged participants to be alert and active and help those who are in need of such services so that the schemes get implemented in-toto. Some of the schemes and its benefits which have been highlighted included; National Health Mission (NHM), Old Age Pension,
Mayang Lima releases documentary CD in Kohima on March 11.
Schemes for Workers in the Unorganized Sector, Victim Compensation Act & Motor Accident Claims. He also drew the attention on the subject of the Social Interest Litigation and urged upon the participants to use it for the interest of the society. While highlighting on the victim compensation scheme, he highlighted that a person who is a victim in motor vehicle accidents should be granted compensation and urged the police to submit the report to Motor Accident Claims Tribunal for filing
of a suo-moto case. Earlier, highlighting the documentary CD, Mezivolu T Therieh, NJS, Chief Judicial Magistrate Kohima & Secretary KDLSA stated that this is the first time that the KDLSA under the aegis of the Nagaland State Legal Services Authority has ventured into such a multi media project which she hopes it will act as useful tools in spreading legal awareness to the people. Medohonu Kharutso, Panel Lawyer, chaired the programme and highlighted the activities of the KDLSA.
CHK condoles KOhima, march 11 (mExN): The Chakhesang Hoho Kohima (CHK) has expressed shock and sadness over the death of Late Swudüveyi Dawhuo, hailing from Thenyizu village, who was hit by a vehicle and left unattended near Assam Rifles camp, Kohima on March 9 at 7 PM. The CHK strongly condemned such rash driving and requested drivers not to ignore human life, but maintain the “Good Samaritan” attitude even when committing mistakes. A press note issued by CHK President Vethikhoyi Khamo appealed to the authority concerned to thoroughly investigate the incident to bring peace in the society. The CHK further conveyed their condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that the Almighty God strengthens them.
Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): Nagaland state’s Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha, Khekiho Zhimomi has stated that it is high time that the Naga political issue be addressed. In a speech made to the Rajya Sabha, the Nagaland MP lamented that successive governments have failed to cover the “growth of insurgency” in the North East. The Naga political issue, Zhimomi stated, “is a national political issue” and slammed the previous UPA government's failure to address it. While appreciating the Prime Minister of India, Nara-
ndra Modi for recognizing the “uniqueness and genuineness” of Naga history, he also stressed on the need to treat people of the border areas equally. The Nagaland MP stated that the Disturbed Areas Act of 1985 is one such example “where it is not applicable in all border areas whereas Nagas are born into it.” He urged that the “fear psychosis” on the part of the border areas “should be compensated” and “be brought to the mainstream.” Zhimomi called upon all members of the Rajya Sabha to help in jointly working out a solution to the vexed Naga issue.
NAPAD foundation Day on March 14 KOhima, march 11 (mExN): All the inclusive schools, parents with disabled children, people with disability (PWD) and NGOs working in the field of disabilities have been requested to be a part of observance of the 5th Foundation Day of Nagaland Parents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) on March 14 at 10:00 AM. The event will be held at Hotel URA Conference Hall, Kohima, stated a press release issued by NAPAD general secretary.
KOhima, march 11 (mExN): The Phek Town Chakhesang Students' Union (PTCSU) has brought to fore the hardships and difficulties students at Government High School (GHS) Phek and Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Phek are facing due to shortage of teachers. In a letter addressed to the Principal Director of School Education, the PTCSU stated that despite several memorandums/representations submitted to Department of School Education, Kohima, the department authority turned a deaf ear towards the grievances and difficulties of the students. The letter released to the media was signed by PTCSU Gen. Secretary Nukuto Shijoh and President Kudukhoto Tetseo. Stating that GHSS Phek is the only higher secondary school in Phek Town, PTCSU added that for years now, there has been a dearth of teachers. It pointed to a shortage of 5 Graduate Teachers to take up various subjects in high school section and 5 Post Graduate Teachers (Arts)
and 4 Post Graduate Teachers (Science) for Higher Secondary section. PTCSU further pointed out that GHS Phek, which has classes up to class 9, is running in a “pathetic condition” with just one Graduate Teacher (B.Sc Maths). PTCSU questioned how one could expect quality education if the department concerned and the government failed to pay heed to the hardships faced by the students. “This clearly manifest the callous attitude and negligence on the part of the department authorities and government for students future,” the student body stated. Further stating that it is high time the concerned department authorities take necessary steps to redress the grievances at the earliest, PTCSU warned, “If the authority concerned fails to do so, the students will reserve full rights to resume its own course of action against the department, and the government shall be solely held responsible if any untoward incident arises out of this issue.”
ENPO, CSUD condemns March 5 Dimapur incident Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): The Eastern Nagaland Peoples' Organisation (ENPO) has stated it is appalled and shocked at the alleged rape of one Naga girl (student) and the “gruesome killing” of the accused, Syed Farid Khan, in the most ‘brutish’ and ‘barbaric’ manner. While rape is condemnable as a serious offence and a crime both morally and legally, it is contemporarily and unfortunately occurring routinely in and around the state and the rest of the country, ENPO stated in a press release issued by its President S Khoiwang Konyak and General Secretary Manlang Phom. Shockingly though, the
duo claimed “By traditions and customs, Nagas are conventionally indifferent to rapes,” before adding “and hence should be addressed and dealt firmly both morally and legally.” ENPO expressed regret in the manner in which the “intolerant and frenzy mob” took law into their own hands and broke into Dimapur central jail where the accused was lodged, dragged out forcibly and lynched in full public view. The accused deserved a fair trial, ENPO stated. While extending condolences to the bereaved family members, ENPO urged the government to find out the facts, deliver justice and restore normal-
cy at the earliest. Further, ENPO appealed to all non-Nagas residing in Nagaland, irrespective of religious or cultural background, to feel safe and secure. “However, as constitutionally mandatory, all non-Nagas and fellow Indians must ensure for possessing and acquiring appropriate and qualified documents (ILPs) etc. as may so be required by administrative and legal norms and provisions,” ENPO stated. CSUD: Condemning the atrocities and sexual assaults against women, the Chakhesang Students' Union Dimapur (CSUD) equally condemned the March 5 incident, where
Sayed Farid Khan, accused of sexual assault, was “lawlessly” taken out of Central Jail by a mob, paraded naked, and tortured to death. While rapists deserve the highest exemplary punishment permissible by law, however, taking law into one's own hand or going to such extent of “barbarism, havoc action and murder” is totally condemnable, CSUD stated. The mob violence has, besides the death of Sayed Farid Khan, caused “numerous physical injuries, loss of property, brought about mistrust and apprehension within and outside the state,” it stated. It added that in the process of upholding law and
trying to save lives, three officers have been suspended. “It would be further blunder if more hard working law enforcing personals suffer similar misfortune,” CSUD added. In the light of the above, CSUD urged the judicial enquiry headed by District and Session Judge (Rtd.) to bring out the truth for delivering justice without prejudice. The union expressed sympathy towards those departed and affected and appealed to all sections of society within and outside the state to maintain restraint and allow the law to take its own course of action and prevent such reoccurrence.
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Leilani Farha Open Democracy
THursDAy 12 MArcH 2015 voluME X IssuE 68 By Moa Jamir
A dangerous precedence
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he notoriety of the March 5 incident has forever stigmatised and reaffirmed a stereotyping of our society by others. A heinous act deserving utmost condemnation, it also reflects the fragility and decaying moral fabric of the society. Without going into detail of the incident, if we take recourses to historical precedence, an act of such intensity and abhorrence can result from certain undercurrents. Politically, there are several examples in history where mobs used their power to conquer or control the decisions taken. Unsatisfied with the rule of governance and general discontentment with the existing dispensation, it leads violence usurpation of power that was or created massive social unrest having dramatic repercussions. Mark Anthony oratorical incitement of the crowd at Caesar’s funeral in ancient Roman Republic and dramatic societal and political change of the French Revolution can be cited here. Socially, mob justice was used, erroneously, as a means of social control. For instance, author James E. Cutler, who is credited with the first scholarly investigation of mob violence and lynching in America argued that, it was necessarily a cruel combination of racism and sadism utilised primarily as the most effective “means of control”. “Instilling fear” to supposed assumption that certain community have proclivity to commit crimes acquired a strategic position in the defense of such practices, he stated. Religiously, the tendency for “scapegoating” is much innate in leading world religions. S Mark Heim, a theological professor, has argued that Christians have always been as inclined as others toward it and have too rarely overcome that inclination. According to him, the French philosopher, Renè Girard who advances the term used it as “an allusion to the ancient religious ritual where communal sins were metaphorically imposed upon a he-goat and this beast was eventually abandoned in the desert, or sacrificed to the god’s.” A mob need not necessarily be a crowd of frenzied vigilantes for violence usurpation of power or baying for the blood of someone. It can bring changes in society and revolutionise a nation if organised correctly. Mahatma Gandhi's non-violen agitation can be cited as the nearest example. In the context of Naga society, the present incident shows the political ineptitude of the ruling dispensation which has lost credibility in the eyes of everyone; the decaying influences and moral dilemma of the social organisations; the inability of the religious institution to instill morality; and a populace devoid of any direction. It also reflect the fragility of instant gratification, be it technology or mass movement, without any principle framework or ideological backings. We as a society should know better that the demand for Jesus’ Crucifixion was done at the behest of the fervent mob. While there is genuine concerns about outside influxes and apparent disdain for any ‘heinous’ crime in our society, ‘scapegoating’ as a means to purge these concerns will never work. We as a society should go beyond such labeling and must innately introspect holistically to our path of atonement. The process must begin by acknowledging our frailty. If not, genuine movement will never appear and backfire upon us as the tragic March 5 incident has clearly illustrated. For any comment, drop a line to moajamir@live.com
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Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D
Struggling with Unanswered Questions Thought-Provoking Question: Could God be using India to punish us for our collective sins? What does God say? Read Habakkuk 1:1-11 Habakkuk served just before the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon in 605 B.C. During this period, the kingdom of Judah was ruled by Zedekiah, Shallum, Jehoiakim, and Jehoiachin. They were wicked and corrupt (see Jer. 21:3-22:30). They wanted power and wealth but not God. They felt no need to seek God’s will. In fact, Jehoiakim even burnt Jeremiah’s writings and threw him into a prison (Jer. 36:23; 37:15). All these rulers ignored God and did everything He told them not to do. The people too followed in the wicked ways of their leaders. Violence and corruption affected everyone, everywhere within the society. Yet God seemed silent and thus indifferent to the rampant evils in the land. So the prophet Habakkuk asked God to intervene and end these social evils in Judah. Then, he got a totally unexpected answer: Yes, but God would do it through the Babylonians. If Judah was bad, Babylon was worse! Habakkuk knew about the Babylonian sadistic reputation-chariots and horsemen trampling defenders; armies laying siege and starving cities into surrender; soldiers raping women, torturing pregnant mothers and killing infants. Therefore, Habakkuk complained: How could God deliver His own people over to a pagan nation? How could a holy God use evil Babylon to punish Judah? Eventually God enlarged Habakkuk’s perspective. Then, he understood that God is always in control even when it appears as though He is not. He uses people and nations, often without their knowledge, for His good purposes. At times the events may seem evil, but God’s severity, like a surgeon’s scalpel, is working not to hurt, but to heal. God would punish Babylon in due time, but not during Habakkuk’s lifetime. In the meantime, Habakkuk was to live by faith that everything would eventually work out for good. Okay, so now what? We Nagas have a bad habit of blaming India or the Western culture for many of our social ills. But we fail to realize that no power or culture can force us to do evil unless we first give our permission. Next time when a nation or some other people group comes crushing on us, let us ask ourselves if God is using it as an instrument to punish us for our sins. Or, maybe we can altogether avoid God’s disciplinary stick if we learn to do what is right. Prayer: Lord, sometimes it seems like circumstances dictate that You can never solve our problems. Yet You can do and I trust You. So Lord, help me to live by faith. Amen. (Or pray Habakkuk’s prayer for our land, Hab. 3:2) Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro
Cities: the new guardians of human rights I
n monitoring the human rights performance of states, the UN human rights mechanisms engage mostly with central government. Too often, the role of municipal authorities is overlooked despite the crucial role they play in realizing housing and many other rights. In October 2014, at the invitation of civil society organisations, I visited Detroit with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation. We met with people whose water had been shut off, and with many others struggling to pay expensive bills to avoid losing their water supply. Emerging from bankruptcy and still heavily indebted, the city of Detroit stopped providing water to people who couldn’t pay their bills. The right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and to adequate housing are enshrined in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Detroit visit underscored for me the importance of local governments in protecting these rights. But how often are city authorities actually brought into human rights discussions? And how can these local governments be made more accountable when they ignore rights? In a report presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, I examine these questions. In the last few decades, some initiatives began to engage local, municipal governments on the right to housing, in particular through the concepts of the “human rights city”, and “the right to the city”. These efforts come out of recognition that local governments have critical responsibilities, not only in preventing forced evictions, but also to take positive steps to realize the right to adequate housing: infrastructure development, land-use planning, upgrading of slums, and so on. There have been some positive advances in this arena. Seoul, for example, declared itself a human rights city in 2012, and has since adopted housing rights measures. Brazil’s City Statute Law demonstrates the importance of shifting urban design to focus on people, with local governments playing a central role. In the US several cities have developed innovative human rights practices in the area of housing. Madison, Wisconsin has adopted a resolution requiring the city to adequately fund a ‘responsive housing strategy’ that ensures adequate housing for those in need. And Detroit itself has a City Charter that includes a chapter on human rights and is being used to support litigation challenging the water shut-offs. But
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ver a decade ago, psychologist Barry Schwartz published what might be the ultimate psychological life-hacking tome, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. In it, Schwartz argues that the modern world's smorgasbord of options—Brawny or Bounty? Coke Zero or Diet? Major in sociology or anthropology?—makes us less happy, not more. "Choice overload," as he calls it, makes us question our decisions, set our expectations too high, and blame ourselves for our mistakes. The book spawned the usual TED talks and counterintuitive Internet takes. More recently, Schwartz has been interviewed in a variety of publications and platforms about how his advice holds up 10 years later. The rise of social media, he argues, has only heightened the agony of decision-making through phenomena like FOMO (fear of missing out). One of my favorite Schwartzisms is this: If you ever aren't sure if you attended the very best party or bought the very best computer, just settle for "good enough." People who do this are called "satisficers," and they're consistently happier, he's found, than are
in many other cities, similar efforts are a long way off. Yet, the general trend worldwide since the 1990s has been the decentralization of responsibilities to local governments, especially with respect to housing. Decentralization has been promoted on the basis of “subsidiarity”, which asserts that public responsibilities should be exercised by the elected authorities that are closest to the people. In regards to housing, decentralization has been encouraged as a way to enhance participatory democracy, transparency and to allow for local innovation. However, this process has often focused on economic and political efforts, excluding human rights in the discussion. When this happens, there is no way to ensure that the right to adequate housing is embedded in the way policies and programmes are delegated. At the same time, local governments are often hampered from implementing human rights by lack of resources, knowledge, and know-how. National governments rarely see it as their role to ensure local governments have the capacity to implement human rights obligations. Ultimately, it’s the most vulnerable who suffer the consequences, including: slum dwellers, homeless people, people with disabilities, migrants, minority groups, and others. But international human rights mechanisms haven’t always been much better at engaging the key responsibilities of subnational bodies like cities, instead choosing to mostly address the national level government. Indeed, subnational governments are often not even made aware of the conclusions or recommendations the treaty body or other human rights mechanisms make that could be essential for their own actions. Although the mandate on the right to adequate housing receives many allegations complaining about the actions of subnational governments, it’s unclear whether states consult local authorities prior to responding. Though difficult, we must find ways to better include subnational level governments in the international system that monitors human rights compliance. Some countries do engage local authorities in the Universal Periodic Review process and the Special Rapporteurs and other procedures established by the UN Human Rights Council can, and sometimes do engage directly with subnational governments in their regular activities. At the national level, domestic courts are playing an increasingly important role in clarifying the obli-
gations of subnational governments. For example, in the well-known Grootbroom case, the Constitutional Court of South Africa recognized that local governments also have obligations to progressively realize the right to adequate housing. The Colombian, Egyptian, and Indian courts have also upheld aspects of the right to adequate housing in cases involving the actions of local governments. But if the right to adequate housing is going to take hold, more needs to be done to encourage and support local and other subnational governments to engage human rights. International human rights bodies have a number of opportunities to reinforce the human rights obligations of different levels of government. Recommendations and their implications need to be communicated to local and subnational governments, with requests for responses and follow-up action. They must ensure that decentralization in relation to housing is guided and informed by human rights, in particular the right to adequate housing. National level governments should guarantee access to justice and effective remedies for violations of the right to adequate housing at the local as well as the national level. They should also ensure subnational governments have the resources and the capacity to meet their human rights responsibilities which could prevent municipalities from taking decisions that are contrary to the right to adequate housing. At the municipal level, cities should consider adopting charters that explicitly guarantee the right to adequate housing and related rights. Additionally, civil society and community organizations, as well as human rights institutions, could establish better links between international, national and local initiatives to monitor the implementation of the right to adequate housing. These combined efforts would ensure that the obligations of local and sub-national governments feature prominently in submissions to human rights bodies. In the end, putting economic and social rights into treaties and national laws only makes sense if the bodies actually enforcing the action—in this case subnational and municipal governments— have the information and resources to do so, and can be held to account when they don’t. Leilani Farha is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to housing. She is also the Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty, an NGO based in Ottawa, Canada.
The Power of ‘Good Enough’ How settling can make people happier and more satisfied than gunning for "the best" olga Khazan "maximizers," people who feel that they must choose the very best possible option. Maximizers earn more, Schwartz has found, but they're also less satisfied with their jobs. In fact, they're more likely to be clinically depressed in general. The reason this happens, as Schwartz explained in a paper with his Swarthmore colleague Andrew Ward, is that as life circumstances improve, expectations rise. People begin comparing their experiences to peers who are doing better, or to past experiences they've personally had that were better:
As people have contact with items of high quality, they begin to suffer from “the curse of discernment.” The lower quality items that used to be perfectly acceptable are no longer good enough. The hedonic zero point keeps rising, and expectations and aspirations rise with it. As a result, the rising quality of experience is met with rising expectations, and people are just running in place. As long as expectations keep pace with realizations, people may live better, but they won’t feel better about how they live. Schwartz' solution, as he recently explained to the psychology blogger
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Eric Barker, is just to settle for something that's acceptable—even if you know there's likely something better out there: Whenever you need a new laptop, call up one of your maximizer friends and say, “What laptop did you buy?” And you buy that laptop. Is it going to be the perfect laptop for you? Probably not. Is it going to be a good enough laptop for you? Absolutely. It takes you five minutes to make a decision instead of five weeks and it’s a “good enough” decision. In a Q&A session on Reddit last year, Schwartz said people can generalize this concept by arbitrarily limiting the number of choices they'll consider— five colleges, not 25—and "decide that all you need is a good enough X, not the best X," he said. "'Good enough' is almost always good enough." It's helpful information to keep in mind right after, say, the debut of a dizzying array of shiny, new iterations of a popular consumer tech product. It can be hard, in our culture, to force yourself to settle for "good enough." But when it comes to happiness and satisfaction, "good enough" isn't just good—it's perfect.
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t starts with a drum, a line from the bass, or a few notes from the oud. At some point there is saxophone and guitar, the riq tambourine, and the cane flute known as the kawala. More instruments and voices join in, weaving one song from many elements. People in the audience are grinning, and by the end of the evening they're on their feet, dancing. Large musical collaborations usually contain some talents that are more polished than others. Not so here—every one of the 13 musicians in this performance by The Nile Project is in top form. The women are particularly dazzling—this iteration of the musical collective boasts five fabulous divas. There's Ethiopian singer Selamnesh Zemene, in a blue mermaid gown, getting the house moving with dance and vocals influenced by her Azmari family tradition. Alsarah, from Sudan and Brooklyn, rightly hailed by The Guardian as "the new princess of Nubian pop and Sudanese retro." Sophie Nzayisenga, Rwandan singer and virtuoso of the inanga, a stringed instrument that, in her hands, produces mellow tones and enchantment. Ethiopian-American Meklit Hadero, Nile Project co-founder, bringing a pure voice and jazz/hiphop/folk aesthetics to her own compositions. Dina El Wedidi, a youth favorite from Egypt, where her powerful vocal performances range from classical epics to an Egyptian Revolution anthem. And then there's Jackline Kasiva Mutua, the first woman to break into Kenya's male drumming tradition. Her high-energy rock star performance makes us glad she did. The band members sound as if they have been playing together forever, but in fact The Nile Project is made up of musicians from different countries, musical genres, and traditions. Highly accomplished in their own fields, they've had to learn foreign scales, tunings, and rhythms to collaborate. Their purpose? To promote cooperation and cultural understanding among the diverse peoples of the Nile. Flowing through 11 countries and four climate regions, at 4,160 miles the Nile is the world's longest river. It may set another record for world rivers—as the most geopolitically challenging to manage sustainably. The Nile's headwaters in tropical Rwanda and Burundi eventually feed into vast Lake Victoria, which is shared by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. From there the White Nile, so-called for the clay clouding its waters, spreads out through the Sudd marshes of South Sudan before gathering again to flow north toward Khartoum. There it meets the Blue Nile, rushing from the wet highlands of Ethiopia. Now one river, the Nile flows north through the Sahara Desert in Sudan and Egypt, drains into the Nile Delta and, finally, the Mediterranean. For thousands of years, Nile Basin cultures developed food systems to suit conditions on their part of the river. But today human activity demands more from the environment, with increased water consumption and pollution from expanding cities, industry, and industrialized farming. At present rates, the current population of Nile Basin countries is projected to double over the next 30 or 40 years— to 945 million. Experts fear the Nile just won't have enough water for all those people. Then there's climate change. Four of the Nile Basin countries are water scarce. Prolonged periods of drought and floods pose a real threat to human life where water is already a precious resource. All these pressures mean that Nile Basin countries have to work together to manage their interdependent ecosystems. The Nile Basin Initiative, signed by nine countries in 1999, was formed to create a platform for regional intergovernmental dialogue. But in 2010, five upstream countries signed a Cooperative Framework Agreement to access more water from the Nile. Political progress has been slow, and undermined by distrust between nations. Meanwhile, populations grow and economies become more complex and globalized. Ethiopia, for example, now the second most populous country in Africa, is emerging as an "economic lion" in need of energy. What is done upstream is of great concern downstream—Egypt is dependent on
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the Nile for 97 percent of its freshwater resources—and environmental impact statements are contested in the context of highly charged political rhetoric. Reacting in 2013 to the start of construction for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia's major hydroelectric project, Egypt's then-President Mohammed Morsi threatened military retaliation if building the dam reduced Egypt's water supply, "even by one drop." Building cultural understanding is a starting point to preventing conflict, according to Mina Girgis, cofounder and CEO of The Nile Project. "And music can be a tool,” he says. “You can use music to change the nature of the conversation before the conflict reaches a flashpoint. But it has to happen before people have reached the point of conflict." An Egyptian ethnomusicologist based in San Francisco, Girgis visited Cairo in 2011, where he was inspired by spending time in Tahrir Square as the Egyptian revolution unfolded. Shortly after returning to the Bay Area, Girgis attended an Ethiopian funk band concert and was struck by the fact that he hadn't heard Ethiopian music when he was growing up in Egypt, even though the two countries share an important river. Over a beer, he and Ethiopian-American friend Meklit Hadero talked about the lack of cultural knowledge that prevents countries with common interests from working together. They sketched out the beginnings of The Nile Project—a big plan to use music to promote cultural understanding and environmental sustainability in the Nile Basin. After a scouting trip to find top musicians to take part, Hadero and Girgis launched the first Nile Project gathering at Aswan, Egypt, in January 2013. The site was significant—the iconic dam, built in the 1960s, had tremendous political, cultural and ecological impacts on the region. One of these impacts, the displacement of 100,000 Nubian farmers in southern Egypt and Sudan, is the type of issue considered at that first Nile Project gathering. So far there have been two more gatherings: at Kampala, Uganda, in early 2014, and Minya, Egypt, in November 2014. Then there is the music. Working in small groups using a participatory leadership process, 18 musicians at the first Nile gathering learned entirely new musical forms and created new songs in just two weeks. The collaboration worked so well that Aswan, the live album of their first concert, garnered international praise. "We became aware that this idea, this cultural project, is something people have been looking for," says Girgis. "When we first started the project, the people most excited about what we were doing were people working on water conflicts. They found it to be really relevant. In order to promote the sustainability of the Nile Basin, you have to first address the question of how people treat each other, how they relate to their ecosystem. If we can’t solve our problems as people living in the same ecosystem, we’re not going to be able to make this ecosystem more sustainable. "We found that the musicians we’re working with have a lot of leverage in changing the nature of the conversation and getting a wider base of the public to change the way they feel about each other." During its first Africa tour, in February and March
2014, the project performed in eight cities along the Nile and offered river-related workshops at universities in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Egypt. They're following up on growing interest among young people with a suite of Nile Project university programs, including a Nile Fellowship, student chapters, and a Nile Prize to incentivize innovation for solving some of the developmental challenges facing the region. "Even governments themselves," says Girgis, "are excited about what we’re doing.” Now on their first American tour, the group is performing and holding workshops at universities and colleges across the United States. Topics discussed with academics and activists along the way include civic engagement and the management of water resources, the role of musicians in social movements, and female perspectives on the Nile. The group has also performed for K–12 audiences. The Nile Project's U.S. tour is aimed to help build a network of global Nile citizens, people across disciplines and geographies interested in contributing towards the creation of a sustainable Nile Basin. But the project also provides extra value as a cultural learning opportunity for Americans. The U.S. mainstream media does a poor job of covering aspects of African life other than war and disaster. The Nile Project offers an innovative example of citizen-led, cross-cultural dialogue and environmental action— in a continent Americans should know more about. As collective member Alsarah points out, "Africa has always done grassroots, always. All change in Africa has always happened at the grassroots level. We’re building off of something that has already existed in Africa. I feel like what we’re doing is turning back to an older way, a more traditional way of truly conversing with each other, and rebuilding a knowledge that I think has been lost in time." One grassroots solution conveyed by The Nile Project is universally easy to tap into. In the words of saxophonist, Ethiopian Jorga Mesfin, "For me, living and working as a musician in Africa is different because most of the music is functional … it has to have a role in the society. There are work songs, wedding songs, songs of critique. We didn’t just invent the songs and melodies we play for this project; they exist in the population, as either love songs or songs of historical narrative. "The project is really different and unique because we’re not just coming together to play music, we’re on tour for four months living together. So it’s really an experience of Africans living together. I’m living with an Egyptian, a Sudanese, a Rwandese. That’s really what the whole project is about—it’s about living together and sustaining life. The audiences feel the love more than they feel the music, you know? We’ve been performing in many countries—Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Tanzania—and regardless of the background of the audience, they get it. And that’s what’s been amazing. And I think they get it because they feel the love is genuine. If these countries do as much as we do to live together, to understand each other, then we’d have a better place. A better life.”
Progress against Undernutrition is Uneven
n 2014, an estimated 805 million people – one in nine people worldwide – were estimated to be chronically hungry. All but 14 million of the world’s hungry live in developing countries, i.e., 791 million are in developing countries, where the share of the Jomo Kwame sundaram hungry has declined by less than half – from 23.4 per cent (1990-1992) to 13.5 der five years of age were underweight in derweight prevalence declining from 23 per cent (2012-2014). 2012. This represents a fall of 38 per cent per cent in 1990 to 17 per cent in 2013, Progress uneven from an estimated 160 million under- while in Asia, it fell from 32 per cent to 18 Overall progress has been highly weight children in 1990. Yet, 15 per cent, per cent, and in Latin America and the uneven. Some countries and regions or about one in seven, of all children un- Caribbean, from 8 per cent to 3 per cent. have seen only slow progress in re- der five worldwide are underweight. This means Asia and Latin America ducing hunger, while the absolute East Asia has led all regions with the and the Caribbean are likely to meet number of hungry has even increased largest decrease of underweight chil- the MDG target for underweight, while in several cases. Marked differences dren between 1990 and 2012, followed Africa is likely to fall short, achieving in reducing undernourishment have by the Caucasus and Central Asia, Latin only about half of the reduction target. persisted across regions. America and the Caribbean, and West And although Asia as a whole is likely There have been significant reduc- Asia. While the proportion of under- to meet the MDG target, underweight tions in both the estimated share and weight children was highest in South rates remain very high in South Asia (30 number of undernourished in most coun- Asia, the region has also experienced per cent). With its large, growing poputries in South-East Asia, East Asia, Central the largest absolute decrease since lation, South Asia will be home to 53 Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean – 1990, contributing significantly to the million underweight children in 2013. where the target of halving the proportion global decrease over the period. of the hungry has been reached, or nearly Despite a modest reduction in the One in four children reached. Progress in sub-Saharan Africa proportion of underweight children, under five are stunted Stunting is a better indicator than has been more limited, and the region Sub-Saharan Africa was the only renow has the highest prevalence of under- gion where the number of undernour- underweight for capturing the cumulanourishment. West Asia has seen a rise in ished children increased, rising from tive effects of child undernutrition and the share of the hungry compared to 1990- 27 million in 1990 to 32 million in 2012. infection during the critical thousand 1992, while progress in South Asia and In 2013, about 17 per cent, or 98 mil- day period from conception through Oceania has not been sufficient to meet lion children under five years of age the first two years of a child’s life. Stuntthe MDG hunger target by 2015. in developing countries were under- ing is also more common than underIn several countries, underweight weight. Underweight is most widespread weight, with one in four children glob(low weight-for-age) and stunting (in- in South Asia (30 per cent), followed by ally affected in 2012. Stunting is caused by long-term inadequate length or height for age) per- West Africa (21 per cent), Oceania and sist among children, even when under- East Africa (both 19 per cent) and South- adequate dietary intake and continunourishment is low and most people East Asia and Central Africa (both 16 per ing bouts of infection and disease, often have access to sufficient food. Nutri- cent) and Southern Africa (12 per cent). beginning with maternal malnutrition, Underweight prevalence was be- which leads to poor fetal growth, low tion failures are due not only to insufficient food access, but also to poor low 10 per cent in 2013 in East, Central birth weight and poor growth. Stunting health conditions and the high inci- and West Asia, North Africa and Latin causes permanent impairment to cognitive and physical development that dence of diseases such as diarrhoea, America and the Caribbean. Globally, the proportion of under- can lower educational attainment and malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. weight children under five years of age reduce adult incomes. Although the prevalence of stunting declined from 25 per cent to 15 per cent One in seven children between 1990 and 2013. Africa experi- in children under five fell from about 40 under five are underweight An estimated 99 million children un- enced the smallest decrease, with un- per cent in 1990 to 25 per cent in 2012,
an estimated 161 million children under five in 2014 remained at risk of diminished cognitive and physical development due to chronic undernutrition. Nearly all regions in the world have seen declines in the number of children affected by stunting. The exception is sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of stunted children increased by a third, from 44 million to 58 million between 1990 and 2012. Lessons In countries where low undernourishment coexists with high malnutrition, specially-designed nutrition-enhancing interventions may be crucial to address early childhood stunting. Improvements in nutrition generally require complementary policies, including improving health conditions, hygiene, water, sanitation and education. More sophisticated and creative approaches to coordination as well as adequate resources are needed. The Second International Conference of Nutrition in Rome in November 2014 articulated coherent bases for accelerated progress to overcome all types of malnutrition (undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, obesity) and defined pathways to international cooperation and support for integrated national nutrition efforts. The international community, including those in the U.N. system, must come together to improve coordination for a sustained effort against malnutrition over the next decade. But with high levels of deprivation, unemployment and underemployment continuing and likely to prevail in the world for the foreseeable future, poverty and hunger are unlikely to be overcome without the extension of universal social protection to all in need. Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization and received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
hose who are apprehensive about free trade are really afraid of market competition. They think that established foreign companies can sell certain products at a lower price and drive domestic producers out of business before they gain enough experience to compete. After World War II, the governments of many developing countries thought that they could protect their “infant industries” by adopting a policy of protectionism. The instrument for this was a trade barrier called tariffs, which were taxes imposed by a government on goods imported into a country. Unfortunately, most of their infant industries never grew up and they continued for years as inefficiency drained on their economies. Let’s consider an example of a tariff on lumber inIndia. Suppose an Indian lumber firm could sell up to 700,000 cubit feet of lumber a year at Rs.550percubit foot. At this high price, they could have unhappy customers or the lumber firm could face the problem of low demand. But what if India could import lumber from Burma or Thailand at Rs.350 per cubit foot. In this case, Indian consumers would benefit from the import of lumber. Or even if the Indian government charges a tariff of Rs.100 per cubit foot, and thereby raises the total price to $450 per cubit foot, the international trade would still help Indian consumers. At this rate, the Indian lumber firm could possibly compete with outside firms and be able to increase the quantity of supply up to 900,000 cubit feet. In such case, the Indian firm won’t suffer profit loss or end up with unhappy customers. But if it remains inefficient or uncompetitive, it could be pushed out of business. In such a scenario, these Indian lumber firms and their workers couldattempt to influence the government to establish trade barriers so as to protect themselves from foreign competition. Another form of protectionism is the use of quota, a numerical limit imposed by the government on the quantity of goods that can be imported into a country. The main purpose of most quotas, like that of tariffs, is to reduce foreign competition faced by domestic firms. But the problem of quotas is putting a numerical limit on the quantity of goods a foreign firm could supply and therebydriving up the price on the imported goods. As a result, the consumers are the losers again because they have to cut back on their purchases or pay at a higher price. In addition, by reducing the ability of other countries to produce according to comparative advantage, protectionism reduces incomes. Does protectionism really protect jobs? It is true that some domestic jobs are lost when more efficient foreign firms drive less efficient domestic firms out of business. But jobs are also lost when more efficient domestic firms drive less efficient domestic firms out of business. After all, this is how the market works: jobs are being lost and new jobs are being created continually in any vibrant economy. For example, the United States imposed tariffs in 1991 on flat-panel displays used in laptop computers. This was good news for U.S. producers of these flatpanel displays but bad news for the main computer companies like Toshiba, Sharp, and Apple. Because of the imposition of tariffs, the production facilities of these computer companies were closed in the U.S. and forced to move overseas. As a result, American jobs were lost as well.In other words, tariffs and quotas may give job protection in one industry but they couldalso cost jobs in other domestic industries. Of course, elimination of tariffs and quotas doesn’t mean that the government should remove all trade restrictions. When it comes to national security or health safety, governments should impose certain restrictions. But in general, trade barriers are not good for economic growth. Even within a nation, established business firms always try to influence governments to erect trade barriers so that they can dominate the market and keep competition out. In India, for example, many powerful business executives form nexus with politicians to pass laws in their favor. They getthe government to limit the number in the issuance of business licenses or permits, plus levy a special tax on businesses once they start operating. This is how the government generates revenue. However, consumers are the ones who suffer because they not only have to pay higher prices for the goods but also have fewer alternative sources of supply from which to choose. Another group of losers are the potential businesses which are prohibited entry into the same industry. They are forced to go into lower-paying pursuits for which they are not suited. The net result is also an overall loss to society as a whole, because the limit on competition reduces the total extent of mutually beneficial exchange. Now, let’s take an example of protectionism in Nagaland as it relates to the public transport system. Obviously, our government has a system of requiring anyone who wants to get into the transportation business to have a proper license or business permit. This is good as long as it is for determination of the operators’ professional qualification. But sometimes this requirement, I suspect, is used as a tool to suppress market competition. In addition, some ofour government transport authorities would allow the private transport operators to ply only within a very limited number of routes. Of course, they would tell us that these requirements are for the purpose of reducing traffic congestion and air pollution. But these problems are fixable if the government can build more roads that are bigger, plus strictly enforce a better traffic control system. Even in the private transport business, we have many unions and associations trying to prohibit market competition. These could be All Nagaland Taxi Association, Auto Rickshaw Drivers’ Unions, Town Buses Association, among others. Once the drivers/owners gain entry into the market, they want to dominate that local industry so that they canincrease their profit by keeping competition out. Unfortunately, Nagaland still lacks a market-friendly environment. To illustrate my point, allow me to use an experience I encountered six months ago. With the goal of providing employment to young people, I came up with an idea of letting them run a fast food mobile restaurant in Kohima. So, I bought an old bus, turned it into a mobile restaurant, and put eight prospective workers through basic training on culinary arts, cleanliness, and customer service. Indeed, they were excited and ready to launch the business, starting at our 10-day long Hornbill Festival. But then they were told that they would have to pay Rs.5000 to be able to participate. Another plan of theirs was to be able to provide onsitecook-and-eat food servicesto any part of Kohima. But they couldn’t do that either because both our government and some private communities would not allow it. Whether we like to admit it or not, our Nagaland is still under a market-suffocating climate. So, what’s the point of all these above-mentioned arguments? It’s simply this: We all would do well to focus on fostering market competition instead of suppressing it.
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Coal block case: Court summons Manmohan Singh
New Delhi, March 11 (iaNS): A special court here on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary P.C. Parakh in a coal block allocation case, terming it a "criminal conspiracy" with the objective to "do an illegal act". Manmohan Singh said he was "upset" but was sure that "truth will prevail". The court summons triggered a flurry of reactions with the Congress coming out in strong defence of Manmohan Singh. Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the former prime minister was paying for the "sins" of the Congress party. Special Judge Bharat Parashar, after taking cognizance of the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) final report in the case, also summoned officials Shubendu Amitabh and D. Bhattacharya of Birla-owned Hindalco on April 8. Manmohan Singh, also the then coal minister, despite not being named as an accused by the CBI in the original first information report (FIR), was summoned by the court for the alleged offences under criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and provisions under the Preven-
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New Delhi, March 11 (iaNS): Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday he was "upset" by a court here summoning him in a case relating to the allocation of coal blocks, but was "sure truth will prevail." "Of course, I am upset but this is part of life. I have respect for the judicial process. I have stated my position before the CBI. I have issued statements also justifying what we did," he told reporters when asked about the summons issued to him by a special court here. “I have always said I am open for legal scrutiny…I am sure the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts,” Manmohan Singh said, adding he will discuss with his legal counsel on contesting the summons.
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In this Wednesday, May 21, 2014 photo, outgoing Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh leaves after paying homage to former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary, in New Delhi. A special court on Wednesday, March 11, charged Singh with corruption and criminal conspiracy for his alleged role in a multibillion dollar scandal over the sale of coal fields. Judges ordered Singh and five others to appear in court on April 8. (AP File Photo)
tion of Corruption Act. All the six accused have been summoned as accused in a case related to allocation of the Talabira II coal block in Odisha to Hindalco in 2005. Manmohan Singh, who headed the United Progressive Alliance government for 10 years, said he had already stated his position before the CBI. "Of course, I am upset
but this is part of life. I have respect for the judicial process. I have stated my position before the CBI. I have issued statements also justifying what we did," he told reporters. "I have always said I am open for legal scrutiny. I am sure the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts," Manmohan Singh said, adding that he
will discuss with his legal counsel on contesting the summons. The court said a "wellplanned and well-designed exercise" was initiated to accommodate Hindalco in the Talabira-II coal block by involving various public servants at different levels in the ministry of coal (MoC) and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). In the process, the rec-
ommendation of the 25th Screening Committee was nullified by adopting a procedure contrary to the approved guidelines and rule of law, the court remarked. "The proposal to accommodate Hindalco in the Talabira-II coal block with a share of 15 percent was approved without amending or relaxing the approved guidelines... by assigning a share of 15 per-
October 2013: CBI registers FIR against K.M. Birla, P.C. Parakh and others on charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption in the allocation of coal blocks. August 28, 2014: CBI files closure report in the case, saying evidence collected during probe did not substantiate the allegations levelled against the people named in the FIR. October 21: CBI files revised closure report in the case. December 16: Court rejects closure report, orders further probe and to record statements of the former prime minister who was then holding coal ministry portfolio. January 2015: Manmohan Singh was questioned by CBI in connection with the case. January 27: CBI files progress report of investigation. February 19: CBI files final report in the case. March 11: Court summons Manmohan Singh, Birla, Parakh, Hindalco company, its officials Shubendu Amitabh and D. Bhattacharya in the case for April 8.
cent instead of 7.5 percent... Hindalco was allowed to dishonestly misappropriate excess amount of coal and the MoC and PMO did so in complete disregard to the public interest involved," the order said. "Such a well-planned exercise, which, I may also say, was so meticulously carried out, can be prima facie termed only as a criminal conspiracy and the object of the same was only to do an illegal act," it read. The court noted that the PMO showed "extra undue interest" in the matter by giving repeated reminders -- written as well as telephonic -- to the MoC to expeditiously process the allotment of the Talabira-II coal block to Hindalco in view of letters received from Birla.
"In the present case, Manmohan Singh chose to keep the coal portfolio with him, and thus prima facie he can not claim that being prime minister, he could not be expected to personally look into the minute details of each and every case," the court said. "It will be also not wrong if I say that while coming to such a conclusion about prima facie involvement of the then prime minister in the present matter, this court had to act with a heavy conscience and with full realisation, the present order or the observations/conclusions being made here will have over the morale of the country as a whole," the court remarked. On the role of Birla in the case, the court said he, being the chairman of a
leading industrial house of the country, played an "active role by tapping his bureaucratic and political channels" along with Bhattacharya and Amitabh in order to secure allocation of Talabira-II. The court on December 16 last year, while refusing to accept the CBI's closure report, had directed the agency to record the former prime minister's statement. Defending Manmohan Singh, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the party was confident that examination of full facts will establish fairness and transparency in the allocation. Congress leader Kapil Sibal said he was "saddened" at Manmohan Singh being summoned by a court.
Paperless assembly will save Supreme Court upholds life term India, Seychelles ink four Rs 15 cr: Himachal governor for six in Manjunath murder case agreements during Modi visit ShiMla, March 11 (iaNS): Himachal Pradesh GovVictoria (SeychelleS), ernor Kalyan Singh on Wednesday praised the successful New Delhi, March 11 able doubt the complete chain of minor discrepancies should March 11 (iaNS): India and the not come in the way of the othevents which points at the guilt of Modi arrives in (iaNS): The Supreme Court on implementation of India's first paperless e-Vidhan Sabha Wednesday upheld the life sen- the accused," said Justice Rama- er strong circumstantial evi- Indian Ocean island of Seychelles that will help the state save Rs.15 crore every year. Mauritius dence, cumulatively taken to- strengthened their ties as Prime "It is a matter of pleasure to inform the members that tence of six people convicted for na, speaking for the bench. Minister Narendra Modi arrived the e-Vidhan Sabha system was started from August 4, 2014, in the Vidhan Sabha to ensure paperless work of the house and the various committees. Approximately Rs.15 crore will be saved every year, apart from saving the environment," the governor said in his address on the first day of the assembly session. The Rs.8.12-crore e-Vidhan Sabha project, commissioned in the last monsoon session, was funded by the union communications and information technology ministry. The month-long session will have 22 sittings and conclude on April 10.Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh will present the budget on March 18.
Bihar CM wins trust vote
the killing of Indian Oil Corporation's sales officer S. Manjunath after he hauled up a petrol pump dealer for malpractices and irregularities in the operation of the petrol pump. An inspection by Manjunath resulted in the suspension of supply to the said petrol pump in Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh. The supply of petrol was restored only after the owner paid a fine of Rs.75,000. Manjunath again inspected the pump suspecting that the owner was continuing with the malpractices Agreeing with the findings of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court and the trial court convicting and awarding life imprisonment to six people, the apex court bench of Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Justice N.V. Ramana said: "The nexus between the accused to do away with the deceased has been established by the prosecution beyond all reasonable doubt." "In the present case, on scrutiny of evidence on record, we are convinced that the prosecution had established beyond reason-
PatNa, March 11 (iaNS): Bihar Chief Minister on Wednesday proved his majority in the state assembly, while the opposition BJP walked out of the house during the confidence vote. Nearly a dozen rebel Janata Dal-United legislators, considered close to former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, voted in support of Nitish Kumar. Manjhi was not present in the assembly during the vote, citing ill health. Apparently convinced that the JD-U government has adequate support to win the trust vote, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Dal members walked out of the house. The BJP also accused Nitish Kumar of insulting Mahadalit leader Manjhi by removing him. Soon after Governor K.N. Tripathi concluded his address to the joint sitting of the state legislature, Nitish Kumar moved to seek trust vote. He sailed through with 140 votes in his favour and zero against. In the 243-member assembly, the JD-U has 115 legislators. The party has the support of 24 Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislators, 5 of the Congress, 2 Independents and 1 CPI member. The BJP has 88 legislators and is supported by 3 Independents. Earlier, the JD-U's allies RJD and the Congress issued Ajit Solanki whips to their legislators to support Nitish Kumar during the confidence vote. The JD-U also issued similar whip to Associated Press its assembly members. Nitish Kumar last year resigned as chief minister after the JD-U's rout in the Lok Sabha The pilots of a solar-powered polls. Manjhi, who was made chief minister in May 2014, airplane on a historic round-theworld journey said Wednesday resigned on February 20 after a political crisis. that they want the people of India to support their campaign for clean energy to save the global environment. Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg spoke to reporters luckNow, March 11 (iaNS): Violence erupted in in the western Indian city of AhAllahabad on Wednesday after a police official shot dead madabad a day after Piccard flew a lawyer and injured another outside the high court, po- the single-seat plane there from lice said. Angered over the incident, lawyers went ber- Muscat, Oman. serk and attacked policemen, pelted stones at them and Piccard said their goal was to torched many vehicles. spread the message of adopting While heavy reinforcement was sent to contain the clean technologies and improvviolence, the lawyers continued with their rampage. Six ing the quality of life of India's companies of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) 1.2 billion people. He said they and one company of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) have chose to demonstrate this with been rushed to Allahabad. a solar-powered airplane "beAccording to information, the incident was triggered cause this is what captures the when a verbal spat turned violent after a lawyer bumped imagination of people." into Sub-inspector Shailendra Singh. Singh allegedly reThe fuel-free aircraft, called buked the lawyer and when he reacted, the policeman the Solar Impulse 2, is powered pulled out his service revolver and shot at him. by more than 17,000 solar cells on While one lawyer was killed on the spot, another its wings that recharge the plane's was rushed with serious injuries to a medical facility batteries, enabling it to fly. where his condition is said to be grave. The area has virThe round-the-world trip betually turned into a fortress and all shops have downed gan Monday in Abu Dhabi, with their shutters. A home department official said a de- Borschberg piloting the first leg tailed report has been sought about the incident. The of the trip. Uttar Pradesh Bar Council said it will go on a strike from "It was an incredible experiThursday, protesting the shooting. ence," Borschberg told reporters
Brushing aside the contention that the number of bullets used in the crime was not proportionate to the number of bullets hitting the deceased, the court said: "In every case of gun firing, it is not required that each and every bullet should hit the target." "There may be attempts by the deceased or the victim to save himself from the raining bullets, and in which case, the bullets may not hit the target. Merely because all the bullets fired from the gun did not hit the target and were not recovered from the scene of offence, is no ground to conclude that the incident did not take place." Addressing the contention that there were contradictions in the evidence tendered by the prosecution witnesses, the court said: "No true witness can possibly escape from making some discrepant details. But courts should bear in mind that it is only when discrepancies in the evidence of a witness are so incompatible with the credibility of his version that the court is justified in jettisoning his evidence." The court said: "We are of the considered opinion that such
gether, forms a complete chain of events, pointing towards the guilt of the accused in the commission of the crime." The court said that "in the instant case, the evidence on record is trustworthy and consistent, and there is only one view, which points to the guilt of the accused". Manjunath earned the wrath of the accused Pawan Kumar alias Monu Mittal for twice inspecting the petrol pump that was owned by his father. Monu Mittal along with Rakesh Kumar Anand, Shivkesh Giri, Devesh Agnihotri, Rajesh Verma, Sanjauy Awasthi, Harish Mishra and Vivek Sharma planned the killing. The trial court awarded the death sentence to Monu Mittal, and life imprisonment to the others. However, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court by its December 11, 2009, order commuted Monu Mittal's death sentence to life imprisonment and acquitted Sanjay Awasthi and Harish Mishra, giving them benefit of doubt. The high court upheld the life imprisonment of the other five convicts.
here for a brief visit, the first by an Indian prime minister in 34 years that saw the inking of four pacts, including one on boosting maritime security. Modi, who arrived Tuesday night, was warmly greeted at the airport by Seychelles President James Michel, Vice President Danny Faure and members of the Indian community. Addressing the media after holding talks with President Michel, the Indian prime minister said their bilateral ties is "nurtured by a common purpose - progress of our people and peace and prosperity in the Indian Ocean Region". "Our security partnership is strong. It has enabled us to fulfill our shared responsibility to advance maritime security in the region," said Modi as he announced another Dornier aircraft for Seychelles and also a Coastal Surveillance Radar Project as a symbol of bilateral cooperation. Earlier, Michel said Modi's visit was a "symbol of the excellent ties between our two peoples" and that India is a close friend of the Seychelles. The two sides inked four agreements, including on cooperation in
Port louiS, March 11 (iaNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived in Mauritius on the second leg of his three-nation visit. Modi, who arrived from Seychelles, will meet President Rajkeswur Purryag and Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth during the day. Modi will be chief guest at the Independence Day celebrations in Mauritius. Modi is to address the Mauritian Parliament on March 12. He will visit to the Ganga Talao and Appravasi Ghat,associated with the arrival of Indian indentured labour to Mauritius. He will also visit the Mahatma Gandhi Institute.
hydrography, renewable energy, infrastructure development and sale of navigation charts and electronic navigational charts. Modi also thanked Seychelles for supporting India in international fora, including endorsing India's permanent membership of an expanded UN Security Council. Modi also said both sides have strong convergence of views on climate change and are committed to combating this.
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Violence in Allahabad as policeman shoots lawyer dead
at a temporary hangar at Ahmadabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport, where the plane remains parked. Borschberg said he practiced yoga to prepare himself for the rigors of flying solo for long hours during the trip. For the second leg, from Muscat to Ahmadabad, Piccard was at the controls of the aircraft. Piccard said flying to India was a long-cherished dream. "Sixteen years ago, I flew around the world nonstop in a balloon and I flew over India. Today, I am very happy to be back," he said. He said they chose to land in Ahmadabad because some of the material used in the plane was sourced from companies near the city. During their stay in Ahmadabad, Borschberg and Piccard are scheduled to meet with Indian government officials, environmental groups and students to speak to them about sustainable energy. On Saturday, if weather conditions are suitable, the plane will fly to the northern Indian city of Varanasi to lend support to efforts to clean up the heavily polluted Ganges River. The Solar Impulse 2 is slated to make 12 stops during its
Swiss pilots and founders of Solar Impulse 2 Bertrand Piccard, left, and Andre Boschberg pose for media in front of the solar-powered airplane which landed Tuesday night in Ahmadabad on March 11. The pilots of the solar-powered airplane on a historic round-the-world journey said Wednesday that they want the people of India to support their campaign for clean energy, a day after the aircraft landed in the country. (AP Photo)
35,000-kilometer (21,700-mile) journey, including in China and Myanmar, before it crosses over the Pacific Ocean. It will then land in Hawaii and the U.S. Midwest and East Coast before flying over the Atlantic Ocean. It may also stop in southern Europe or North Africa, depending
on weather conditions. Some legs of the trip, such as over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, will mean five days and five nights of flying solo. The fuel-free aircraft's flight has excited people across the world who see solar energy as the fuel of the future, providing a source
of clean, renewable energy. One drawback of using the sun's energy was the high cost of solar electric panels. But in recent years, solar panels have become 70 percent less expensive and are expected to become cheaper still as newer, more energy-efficient materials are developed.
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Hillary Clinton trying to put likely presidential bid back on track
UNITED NATIONS, MARCH 11 (AP): Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to get the rollout of her likely presidential campaign back on track by admitting she should have used a government email address while serving as the top U.S. diplomat, an admission that sought to quell a political furor that even some Democratic allies said she could no longer avoid. The focus on Clinton’s emails has jumbled what had been expected to be a smooth glide toward the kickoff of her presidential campaign next month. The former secretary of state has been considered the overwhelmingly favorite for the Democratic nomination, even though she has not officially entered the race. Clinton had planned to spend March promoting her work on women’s equality, a signature issue for someone who could become the first female U.S. president. Instead, questions about her email habits have dominated her activities in the past week, following revelations that she used a personal email account at the State Department and did so via a private server kept at her home in suburban New York. The practice has raised questions about whether she was complying with regulations requiring government officials to pre-
Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions at a news conference at the United Nations, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Clinton conceded that she should have used a government email to conduct business as secretary of state, saying her decision was simply a matter of “convenience.” (AP Photo
serve written communications involving official business. During a news conference Tuesday at the United Nations, after she had delivered a previously scheduled speech on women’s rights, Clinton pledged that all her work-related email would be made public “for everyone to see.” But she
also acknowledged that she deleted tens of thousands of emails related to personal matters. She refused calls from Republicans to turn over the email server she kept at her home to an independent reviewer. “The server contains personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all
of my responsibilities, and the server will remain private,” Clinton told reporters who crammed into a hallway to ask questions at her first news conference in more than two years. While Democrats have dismissed the notion that Clinton’s emails are something voters will care about come Election Day 2016, her
silence — aside from a latenight tweet sent last week — had led several to Democratic senators to urge her to tell her side of the story. For Republicans, the email controversy represents an opportunity to tarnish Clinton’s image at a time polls show her leading all the likely Republican presidential contenders. Not long after Clinton spoke, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said he was “left with more questions than answers” and that he planned to call Clinton to appear before his committee at least twice. Gowdy said one appearance from Clinton would be needed to “clear up” her role in using personal email, while the second would be to answer questions related to the Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Republicans have criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks and its aftermath, centering much of their complaints on Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time. Clinton said Tuesday she had exchanged about 60,000 emails in her four years as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat, about half of which were work-related. None contained classified
information, she said, and her private email system did not suffer any security breaches. But since the emails were sent to and from her personal server, there is no way to independently verify her assertion they were, as she said, “within the scope of my personal privacy and that particularly of other people.” Clinton does appear to have violated what the Obama White House has called “very specific guidance” that officials should use government email to conduct business. She said that in hindsight it would have been “smarter” to use a government account as well as her personal one. Republicans needled Clinton for her explanation that she used the private email account out of “convenience” — a way to avoid carrying one device for work emails and a second for personal messages. They pointed to Clinton’s appearance last month in California’s Silicon Valley, when she said she uses multiple electronic devices. “I have an iPad, a miniiPad, an iPhone and a BlackBerry,” Clinton said. Clinton brushed off suggestions that the email controversy might hurt a presidential campaign. “I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters,” she said.
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Ex-Italy premier Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in ‘bunga bunga’ sex case
ROME, MARCH 11 (AP): Italy’s highest court upheld Silvio Berlusconi’s acquittal in his infamous “bunga bunga” case Tuesday, giving the former premier a welcome legal victory as he tries to rally his Forza Italia party ahead of regional elections in May. The Court of Cassation rejected prosecutors’ appeal and confirmed Berlusconi’s acquittal on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute during raunchy, sexfueled “bunga bunga” parties at his Milan villa, and used his influence to cover it up. A lower court had convicted the three-time former premier of both charges, and sentenced him to seven years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office. But an appeals court reversed the verdict last year — a decision that was confirmed by the Cassation Tuesday. The high court, which deliberated for more than nine hours before releasing its decision just before midnight, will issue its written ruling detailing its reasoning within 90 days. “It’s a great success,” said defense attorney Michaela Andresano. “The court accepted our arguments and rejected the prosecutors’ appeal.” Prosecutors had alleged that Berlusconi paid Karima el-Mahroug, better known as Ruby, for sex while she was a minor and then intervened with police in 2010 to have her released when she was picked up on suspicion of theft. Both Berlusconi and el-Mahroug, who was 17 at the time, denied ever having had sex. Berlusconi has long maintained his legal woes were the result of left-leaning magistrates. During closing arguments, prosecutor Eduardo Scardaccione had argued there was no way Berlusconi didn’t know el-Mahroug’s age. He charged that a police official “couldn’t resist the pressure” to release the girl after Berlusconi called him at home near midnight after she had been detained. Lead defense attorney Franco Coppi argued there was no proof Berlusconi knew el-Mahroug’s age and that Berlusconi’s call to the police official contained no threats, “explicit or implicit.” Berlusconi last week completed his community service stint for a tax fraud conviction that also cost him his seat in parliament. Despite Tuesday’s high court victory, Berlusconi’s legal woes aren’t over: Milan prosecutors are also investigating him for allegedly paying off witnesses in the “bunga-bunga” case, and he’s still on trial in Naples for alleged political corruption.
Islamic State video claims killing of ‘Israeli Arab spy’ Bangladesh police stood Nemtsov suspect tortured, close by during US blogger forced to confess, activist says
LONDON, MARCH 11 (BBC): Islamic State (IS) militants have posted a video online which appears to show a young boy shooting dead an Israeli Arab prisoner. The man, identified as Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam, was accused by IS of working for Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service. The 19-year-old left his home in East Jerusalem for Turkey last year, apparently intending to fight in Syria. Israeli officials and Musallam’s family denied he was an Israeli spy. The video footage has not been independently verified and Israeli officials said they could not confirm its authenticity. ‘Own initiative’ Musallam’s family said he had left for Turkey four months ago without telling them. Soon after his departure, he told his brother that he planned to join IS in Syria. A spokesman for the Shin Beth security service also told the AFP news agency that he had left home “on his own initiative”.
According to Musallam’s father, Said, he had later contacted them online from Raqqa, the de facto capital of the “caliphate” proclaimed by IS last year, and told them he wanted to return home. The family subsequently received a telephone call from a man who said Musallam had been caught at a checkpoint on the Turkish border and put in an IS jail. “They did not want to let him leave because if he comes back, he might be caught by the Israelis and tell them what he had seen. So they wanted to get rid of him,” Said Musallam was quoted as saying by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “I know my son. I am sure he’s not working for the Mossad.” In February, the IS magazine Dabiq carried a long interview with Musallam which contained what purported to be a confession that he had been sent by Israel to infiltrate the jihadist group. The BBC’s Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says the article contained sketchy detail about his alleged training and mission, but its publication was a
Parents of former Thai princess jailed for two and half yrs BANgKOK, MARCH 11 (REUTERS): The parents of a former Thai princess were jailed for 2-1/2 years on Wednesday for defaming the monarchy following investigations into the actions of several family members accused of corruption and misusing their royal connection. Srirasmi Suwadee, formerly known as Princess Srirasmi, is divorced from Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn. Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand`s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison. “Both accused are guilty of royal defamation and are sentenced to 5 years in prison reduced to 2 years and six months,” a judge said in delivering the verdict. Last month they confessed to charges including misuse of their royal connection that led to a former neighbour being jailed on a bogus fraud charge 12 years ago. Last year several of Srirasmi`s relatives were arrested in a purge of officials allegedly involved in corruption. Some were also accused of defaming the monarchy. Srirasmi relinquished her royal title in December following weeks of speculation over her future. The imprisonment of her relatives comes at a sensitive time in Thailand, including heightened anxiety over the health of the revered but ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 87, and nervousness about what a royal succession might bring. Thailand`s monarchy is protected by some of the world`s strictest lese-majeste laws. Rights groups say lese-majeste prosecutions have spiked since the army seized power in May, as the military burnishes its reputation as the defender of the royal family.
clear signal that he had fallen foul of the group and was in clear danger. On Tuesday evening, Islamic State’s Furqan media outlet published a 13-minute video showing a young man, identified as Musallam, sitting in a room wearing an orange jumpsuit, talking about how he was recruited and trained by Israeli intelligence. He is later shown kneeling in an empty field, facing the camera. Behind him stand two figures in camouflage fatigues, one of whom appears to be a boy. The boy appears to shoot the kneeling figure in the head with a handgun and then to fire further shots into the body. The video then carries a warning from an older, Frenchspeaking militant aimed at the Jewish people. French media and IS supporters identified the older militant as Sabri Essid. He is reportedly a relative of Mohamed Merah, who killed three unarmed French soldiers, a rabbi and three small children at a Jewish school in south-western France in 2012.
attack: victim’s wife
DHAKA, MARCH 11 (REUTERS): The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police stood nearby when the couple were attacked on a university campus in the Bangladesh capital. Avijit Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants when returning from a book fair. His wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, suffered head injuries and lost a finger. “While Avijit and I were being ruthlessly attacked, the local police stood close by and did not act,” Rafida told Reuters. “Now, we demand that the Bangladeshi government do everything in its power to bring the murderers to justice.” Mohammad Masudur Rhaman, a deputy police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said authorities were investigating Rafida’s claims. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is also helping with investigations. Avijit’s killing follows a string of attacks on secular bloggers in recent years in the Muslimmajority nation. Media group Reporters Without Borders rated Bangladesh 146th among 180 countries in a ranking of press freedom last year. Rafida urged the government to “stop a legal culture of impunity, where writers can be killed without the killers being brought to trial”. Bangladesh’s antiterrorism unit said last week it had arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman in connection with the attack.
MOSCOW, MARCH 11 (AP): The main suspect in Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov’s killing has signs of torture on his body and was forced to confess to the shooting, a human rights activist said Wednesday. Investigators didn’t confirm or deny the accusations made by Andrei Babushkin, a member of a Russian human rights commission. But they said Babushkin may have broken the law by making the comments. Babushkin told The Associated Press that he visited the detention center where main suspect Zaur Dadaev had been held on Tuesday. Babushkin said there were abrasions on Dadaev’s body and that he had been “tortured by those who detained him” and later taken to the Investigative Committee, where “he was forced to confess.” Five people have been detained in connection with Nemtsov’s shooting on Feb. 27. Dadaev was the only one who, according to a judge, confessed to the killing, though in court he didn’t admit guilt. The commission that Babushkin belongs to is an unofficial advisory body to the president. It operates under the auspices of the Kremlin, but many of its members are respected activists with decades-long careers in human
rights work in Russia. Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement that Babushkin and a journalist accompanying him had been allowed to visit Dadaev’s prison cell only to see the conditions under which he was being held, but had broken the law by publicizing details about the case. “Such actions may be regarded as interference in the investigation,” the statement said. The committee said that this was “a violation not only of the rules (of visiting rights) but also of the law,” and said that both Babushkin and the journalist would be questioned by investigators. The committee, however, didn’t confirm or deny Babushkin’s claims that Dadaev had been mistreated. In an interview published with the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets by journalist Eva Merkacheva, Dadaev said that he had been detained for two days with a bag over his head. “They shouted at me all the time: ‘Have you killed Nemtsov?’ I told them, ‘No,’” he was quoted as saying. When investigators told him that a friend who had been detained “would be released if I confessed, I agreed. I thought they would save him, and that I would be brought to Moscow alive.”
Afghanistan’s only woman taxi driver steers change MAzAR-I-SHARIf (AfgHANISTAN), MARCH 11 (AP): Sara Bahai’s decision to become Afghanistan’s only known female taxi driver was motivated less by ideals of equality than by the need to support an extended family — and a love of driving that has confined her conservative detractors to the rear-view mirror. She still remembers her first time behind the wheel, shortly after the Taliban were driven from power in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. “I felt like I was in the sky, and I totally fell in love with driving,” she said. There was no turning back. Bahai, now around 40 years old, had already spent much of her life defying taboos in Afghanistan, where women are widely regarded as inferior to men and discouraged from working outside the home. She never married, she said, because she had to support her parents and siblings and feared a husband would prevent her from working. With no children of her own she adopted two boys, now
both in high school. When Taliban insurgents shot and killed her brother-inlaw, she took in her sister and seven nieces and nephews. She now supports a dozen people. To put food on the table, she drives around the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in a spotlessly clean yellow and white Toyota Corolla with sparkly woven seat covers and a good luck talisman in the front window. “I receive threats from unknown callers who tell me to not drive in the city because I am a woman, because it is against Islam. Some tell me that if I continue to work as a taxi driver they will kill me,” she said. “Male passengers are very jealous and often abuse me, but I don’t care what they think of me, I am not afraid. I will change the country with whatever ability I have to do so,” she said. She got her driver’s license in 2002 and is also a mechanic. She earned a university degree in education and now teaches other women to drive so they can be more independent. Attitudes about women have
been slowly changing in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, and gender equality is enshrined in the constitution. But local authorities have been slow to adopt change, and outside major cities deeply conservative traditions prevail. Domestic violence goes largely unpunished and girls are still married off against their will, often to much older men, as payment for debts or as swaps for property. At the same time, millions of girls are today attending school, and many graduate from university. Maternal mortality rates are falling as health services improve, and it is no longer unusual for women to travel abroad alone, or even to live alone in major Afghan cities. A recent spike in rape reports reflects the effectiveness of public education campaigns, according to Najia Nasim, country director for a women’s rights organization called Women for Afghan Woman, which also runs shelters. Afghanistan’s First Lady Rula Ghani has adopted a
In this Tuesday, March 3, 2015 photo, taxi driver Sara Bahai, 40, right, waits for customers, in Mazar-i Sharif city, capital of northern Balkh province, Afghanistan. For Sara Bahai, becoming Afghanistan’s first and only woman taxi driver in living memory was a pragmatic step rather than a brave one. But in a country where women are regarded as inferior to men and often suffer horrific abuse simply because of their sex, she has also become a breadwinner, trailblazer and role model who believes women must stand up for themselves if her country is to achieve peace, prosperity and happiness. (AP Photo)
rare public profile since her husband, President Ashraf Ghani, took office in September. She is the first wife of an Afghan leader to routinely appear in public and has campaigned for women’s issues and poverty alleviation. In a speech to mark International Women’s Day on Sunday, she said “women should be re-
spected both inside and outside their homes and play an active role in society as doctors, engineers, soldiers, police officers.” She also called on the world to rethink the widely held view of Afghan women as victims. Bahai would agree. The pioneering taxi driver sees more and more young women attending
school, graduating college and living their own lives, as she has done. “They are building the confidence to live independently. Step by step everything is going to be all right,” she says. “My message for Afghan women is to stand up for yourselves, set goals and achieve them, and help to make Afghanistan a happy place to live.”
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porto trash basel 4-0 No headband, no problem: James helps cavs rout Mavs
Basel's Mohamed Elneny, left, challenges for the ball with Porto's Yacine Brahimi during the Champions League round of sixteen second leg soccer match between FC Porto and FC Basel at the at Dragao Stadium in Porto, Portugal on March 10. (AP Photo)
PORtO, MARCH 11 (AP): FC Porto trounced Basel 4-0 on Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time since 2004, when the Portuguese club won the title. Goals from Yacine Brahimi, Hector Herrera, Casemiro and Vincent Aboubakar in the last-16 return leg built on a 1-1 draw in Switzerland two weeks earlier to give Porto a convincing 5-1 aggregate victory. Porto, a two-time European champion, is on a strong run of form. In the group stage it was one of three clubs, with Real Madrid and Chelsea, to complete the first phase unbeaten. "We gave a fantastic performance," Por-
to coach Julen Lopetegui said. "We're among the eight best teams in Europe and we deserve to be there ... We never sat back, we kept attacking. We are showing a lot of ambition." Basel, which last appeared in the quarterfinals of Europe's top-tier tournament 41 years ago, was strong in midfield but created few goalscoring chances over the two legs. In Tuesday's other last16 game, Schalke beat Real Madrid 4-3 on the night at the Bernabeu, but lost 5-4 on aggregate to the holders. Porto was the dominant team in Portugal as Basel worked hard to shut down the hosts in midfield but struggled in attack. Brahimi opened the
Chelsea racism victim declines Mourinho's invite to London match
PARIS, MARCH 11 (ReuteRS): The black man blocked from boarding a Paris Metro by Chelsea fans chanting racist slogans said he was still traumatised and would not accept an invitation from the soccer club to attend the Chelsea-Paris Saint-Germain match in London. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho had invited the French man named only as Souleymane to Wednesday's second-leg match at Stamford Bridge. "I won't go. They can't buy me with a little piece of paper. I'm not a child," Souleymane told RTL radio. "I don't want to sit in that stadium next to those people who pushed me." Last month, a group of Chelsea fans chanting "We're racist and that's the way we like it" pushed Souleymane back as he tried to board a metro train before
the 1-1 Champions League draw against PSG. Mourinho said he was disgusted by the behaviour of the fans, five of whom were suspended from attending matches after being identified through amateur video footage. Souleymane said he was no longer sleeping at night. "I still hear the voices of those people who pushed me because of the colour of my skin," he said. "I can't go to work anymore. I live with racism but it's the first time I've had to go to a doctor to ask for pills to calm myself down." Following the incident, London and Paris police launched investigations and Chelsea has said the club could issue banning orders for life. "I want these people to be prosecuted and justice to be done," Souleymane said. "Racism must stop."
scoring in the 14th, curling an expert free-kick from just outside the area over the Basel wall that goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik didn't even attempt to stop. Soon after, Casemiro saw Vaclik off his goal line and fired a powerful shot from long range that went just over the bar. Porto cranked up the pressure as Aboubakar struck a thundering volley that flew just wide of Vaclik's left post, and Cristian Tello got behind Basel's defense before Walter Samuel cleared. Marco Streller's wayward effort from outside the Porto area in the 32nd and Shkelzen Gashi's low left-foot shot past the post just before the break were the visitors' only first-
half efforts on goal. Herrera extended Porto's lead two minutes into the second half with a shot from the left of the area that went into the far corner. Less than 10 minutes later, Casemiro scored from a free-kick 30 meters out, and Aboubakar sealed it in the 76th with another longrange shot. Porto goalkeeper Fabiano saved from Luca Zuffi at close range in the 60th and kept out Streller's effort in the 83rd as Porto recorded another clean sheet. Porto has won its last six Portuguese league games without conceding a goal — its best run since the 2010-11 season. Samuel was shown his second yellow card and sent off in added time.
DALLAS, MARCH 11 (AP): Even without his trademark headband, LeBron James had 27 points and took over sole possession of the Cavaliers' career assists record as Cleveland beat the Dallas Mavericks 127-94 on Tuesday. James was one of four players with more than 20 points for the Central Division-leading Cavaliers, who have won 12 of their last 13 games against Western Conference opponents and broke a 14-game losing streak in Texas. Kyrie Irving scored 22 points, while Kevin Love had 21 points and 14 rebounds. J.R. Smith also scored 21 points and Timofey Mozgov, the other starter, had 17. Chandler Parsons led Dallas with 18 points, while Monta Ellis had 17 and Amare Stoudemire 15. Dirk Nowitzki scored 13 points on only 3-of-10 shooting. San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard had 24 points, 11 rebounds and matched a career high with five steals, as the Spurs withstood a second-half letdown to beat the Toronto Raptors 117-107 for their sixth straight victory. Tony Parker added 23 points and nine assists, and Danny Green was 5 for 6 on 3-pointers in scoring 19 points for San Antonio. Toronto lost its fourth straight despite 32 points from Kyle Lowry and 21 for DeMar DeRozan. Amir Johnson had 16 points and 14 rebounds. In Indianapolis, reserve Rodney Stuckey had 34 points, six rebounds and seven assists as the Indiana Pacers beat the Orlando Magic 118-86 for their sixth straight victory. Damjan Rudez scored 17 points, and Luis Scola
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James reacts after dunking during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks, Tuesday, March 10, in Dallas. (AP Photo)
added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the surging Pacers (29-34), who moved into sole possession of seventh place in the Eastern Conference. Tobias Harris had 22 points and six rebounds, and Elfrid Payton finished with 14 points for the Magic, who have lost five of seven games. New Orleans Pelicans moved within percent-
age points of eighth place in the Western Conference after Alexis Ajinca and Quincy Pondexter each scored 17 points in a 111-91 win over the Brooklyn Nets. Omer Asik had 12 points and 15 rebounds for the Pelicans in their third straight victory. Anthony Davis scored 15 points, a night after tying his career high with 43 in a win at Milwaukee.
Brook Lopez had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Nets, who broke to an early double-digit lead before losing their fourth straight. In other games, Derrick Favors had 29 points and 12 rebounds as the Utah Jazz beat the New York Knicks 87-82, while the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Detroit Pistons 93-85 to end a fivegame losing streak.
79 wrestlers to vie for Open Naga Wrestling C’ship today Our Correspondent
welcome address. CWA vice president Neitshupe Wetsan will administer oath to the wrestlers. Referees will comprise Hangcheu, Kezhazelie Keretsii and Lhiivenu Phesao. Field judges includes Puilung N. Hau. Kwetzibe, Neingulie Nagi, Zehoto Kikhi, Wezhiepe Wetsa and Veciipa Swiiro. Runners: Rudayi Ciirhah and Thiipuve Resiih. Assistant referee & waist blinder: Pekruneito Krose and Riidasa Ciirhah. Entry tickets have been set in three categories: Donor- Rs. 2000, Chair- Rs. 400 and Gallery- Rs. 100.
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The 9th Open Naga Wrestling Championship 2015 under the aegis of Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) with Chakhesang Wrestling Association (CWA) as host and managed by Chakhesang Baptist Church, Ministers’ Hill Kohima will take place on March 12 at Kohima Local Ground. Altogether, 79 wrestlers belonging to Angami, Chakhesang, Zeliang, Mao, Ao, Poumai and Assamese will vie for the coveted champion title. The inaugural function, starting from 8:40 AM onwards, will be graced by Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker Chotisuh Sazo as the chief guest and Khriehu Liezietsu, Parliamentary Sec-
Preparation for 9th Open Naga Wrestling Championship at Kohima Local Ground on March 11. (Morung Photo)
retary for Youth Resources and Sports, NRE and MTF as the guest of honour. Isaac Kronu, 1st Class Contractor & Supplier will sponsor the first prize (Rs 1,50,000), Vevo Sapuh,
Director Art & Culturesecond prize (Rs 1. lakh) - Zaveyi Nyekha, Director School Educationthird prize (Rs .70,000), MK Mero, Commissioner & Secretary, Industries-
fourth prize (Rs. 50,000). All quarter finalists will be awarded with Rs 8000 each sponsored by Dr. Neisatuo Mero and all the pre quarter finalist will get Rs. 4000 each sponsored by
Atei-u Keditsu. N WA president Neikhrolo Khalo will deliver presidential address at the inaugural function while CWA president Thepusayi Nienu will deliver
FORMER CHAMPIONS *Hukhonieyi Soho 1994 *Huvesu Puro 2001 & 2003 *Kezhalelie Keretsii 2005 *Vekhriyi Chiizho 2007 *Surhoneyi Soho 2009 & 2011 *Pfusato Tetseo 2013
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CAN reading the sign of times in Nagaland The shooter with a silencer gun
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xamining the social conscience and reading the sign of the times in Nagaland, the Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN) is deeply pained to see what is happening in the Naga Society today. The contemporaneous signs we have been witnessing in the recent times in Tuensang ethnic conflict and in Dimapur are the intelligible reminder and clarion call to all of us especially to the Churches in particular that there is a dire need to revitalize for New Evangelization with a sense of urgency. We read it in the papers and hear it on the air of killing and stealing and crime everywhere in Nagaland. Many of us sigh and we must have said as we notice the trend, “the Naga Society .....where will it go?” The despondency we see in our Youth today reflects the moral and ethical void at the heart of our Naga Society. But who is to be blamed? We the Parents, Elders, Leaders (Political and Churches) should and must be guilty of the delinquent behaviours of our young people today. Instead of placing the blame on the young
people for the delinquent behaviour, let’s fix the cause, and remember as we pause; that in so many cases-it’s sad but it’s true, the title DELINQUENT fits the leaders of today. It is time for our Naga Society to be more worried about the Breakdown of the value system in the families than the Breakdown of law and order situation in Dimapur in the recent times. Reflecting and resounding the principles of Catholic Social Teaching on Human Dignity, with a belief that Human Dignity originates from God and is of God because we are made in God’s own image and likeness and is not based on any human quality, legal mandate, or individual merit or accomplishment. And it is grounded in the idea that Human life is sacred because the human person is the most central and clearest reflection of God among us. The human dignity is the starting point for a moral vision of society, which provides principles for reflection; criteria for judgment; guidelines for action; tools for conscience formation. In a society that exalts individualism, Catholic tradition teach-
es that human beings grow and achieve fulfillment in community. The rights & responsibilities of individuals must be integrated into the achievement of the common good for all. The rights and needs of others must always be respected. In the light and spirit of Catholic Social Teaching on Human Dignity, Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN) urges the leaders of Naga Society to become responsible custodians of the Next Naga Generation. Presently, in reviewing the dynamics of Naga Society, our society is suffering from DEFICIT OF THINKING in all fronts (at political front, tribal organization and community level). And the DEFICIT OF THINKING seems to have locked our Naga Society into a Prison of our Own Making, a Prison Dominated by Fear, Disorientation and Competition for scarce Resources. The Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN) through this press note profoundly solicits people of all faith and religion, leaders, elders and parents in Nagaland to live above eagerness for our own personal gain and become a responsible cus-
todian of Naga Next Generation. Certainly, we cannot prepare the future for our Naga Next Generation but we can certainly prepare our Naga Next Generation for the future by contracting in them values that includes an understanding of the simple difference between right and wrong, a belief in God, the importance of hard work and education in the light of the Christian faith. CAN affirms that an honourable Nagaland will emerge when Nagas build their character with right attitude and genetic value system in the Family, in the Community, in the Churches, in the tribal organization and in the Political parties. Let God the Creator of all beings be Merciful to us. With contrite heart let’s pray for the Forgiveness of our many FAULTS during this Lenten Season and let the dawn of Easter brings New Hopes to Nagaland. Elias T. Lotha, President Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN) Johnny Ruangmei Secretary General Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN)
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am writing this article to express my concern relating to shooting of dogs that is taking place in Kohima recently. I would like to question– What is the purpose of shooting dogs? Who gave the authority to do so? Is this the only mechanism to prevent dogs from roaming freely in the street. The shooter might claim that, it is to make the street clean from animal waste and to domesticate the dogs from going outside the house. But if this is the opinion and argument of the shooter, do you think that Kohima town and streets are unclean because of dogs waste and urination. I don’t think so and so does the general civic minded public alike, because the street or town is unclean due to lack of civic sense in humans. If dogs urination make the street dirty and smelly, what about peeing in every corner of the town or where there is a wall. We think there is a similarity in the behaviour, even though one is an animal with no rational instinct and one
with rational instinct but with no civic sense. Moreover, if we look around Kohima, there are no proper facilities for nature needs as well. Who is to maintain and provide such facilities? In many cities, there are lots of pay and use toilet, why don’t we have such kind of facilities around Kohima town? I think it will not be a problem to maintain such facilities as through the income generated can use for maintenance purpose. The second question is, who has the authority to decide it is the right thing? Even if so, there should be proper and well administrative channel to administer such activities. As in the name of authority, there are so many people with vested interest to carry on such activities for personal gains and carvings. Thirdly, and the final question that I would like to question is, Is this the only mechanism and solution? If the “SHOOTER” really wanted to prevent the dogs from defecation in the streets, why not adopt a preventive measure
instead of barbaric method of prevention? There are ways of preventing such problem like why not have a Pet Control Unit to tackle such issues, where they can use a Pet Control Van to catch the dogs but not to SHOOT. The Pet Control Unit can demand a fine to the owner for not obeying the rules. In this way, this will in turn develop a civic culture among all the people in general. Nevertheless, all things above said are ‘said to be undone’ if we are to remain ignorant to such activities in our home town and leave a deaf ear to it. It is high time, we all need to realise our ignorance and not to remain silent, whether this may be a small act, there are many big issues in Nagaland that we all need to be concerned and raise our voice. In my opinion, it is not the animals that needs to be trained and domesticated but it is humans that need to have a civic sense and use our rational mind to make a clean and better Kohima town. Meyijungla Ozk, Kohima
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Williams and Thicke lose Winslet on Blurred Lines copyright case the Pressures
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Attorney Mark Levinsohn, far left, walks with the late singer, Marvin Gaye’s family members, from left, daughter, Nona Gaye, ex-wife, Jan Gaye, and son, Frankie Gaye, outside the Los Angeles U.S. District Court after a jury awarded his children nearly $7.4 million after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father’s music to create “Blurred Lines,” Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Gaye died in April 1984, leaving his children the copyrights to his music. (AP Photo)
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jury in the United States has ruled that the writers of Blurred Lines - one of the best-selling singles of all time - copied a Marvin Gaye track. The family of the late soul singer has been awarded $7.3m (£4.8m) in damages. Thicke and Williams denied copying the hit, and their lawyer said the ruling set a “horrible precedent”. Meanwhile, the Gaye family’s lawyer told Rolling Stone he wanted to stop the sales of Blurred Lines. “We’ll be asking the court to enter an injunction prohibiting the further sale and distribution of Blurred Lines unless and until we can reach an agreement with those guys on the oth-
er side about how future monies that are received will be shared,” attorney Richard Busch said. Gaye died in April 1984, leaving his children the copyright to his music. His children - Nona, Frankie and Marvin Gaye III - sued Thicke and Williams in 2013. Nona wept as the verdict was read in court. “Right now, I feel free,” she told reporters after the ruling. “Free from... Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.” In court, Williams had told jurors that Gaye’s music was part of the soundtrack of his youth but he insisted it was not on his mind when he wrote the song. But the
musician recognised a likeness between the songs and agreed he was “channelling... that late-70s feeling” when he co-wrote the song. Thicke testified that he had contributed little to the writing of the song. “While we respect the judicial process, we are extremely disappointed in the ruling made today, which sets a horrible precedent for music and creativity going forward,” the pair’s lawyer Howard E King said. “We are reviewing the decision, considering our options and you will hear more from us soon about this matter.” The hit, which earned a Grammy nomination, generated more than $16m (£10.8) in profits and made more than $5m (£3m) for both stars.
Sarah Brightman to become first singer to croon in space
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oprano Sarah Brightman has performed on Broadway, London’s West End and at two Olympics, but there has always been one final frontier for the space enthusiast. The 54-yearold music icon announced Tuesday that she will jettison herself into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station on Sept. 1. In the process, she will become the first professional singer to croon outside Earth’s atmosphere. “I would like to sing something from space,” Brightman told reporters, according, of her plans to reteam with ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber to write a new song that’s appropriate for the historic first. “We’re trying to work out all the technical details, obviously it’s quite a complex thing to do.”
Equally hard is getting ready for the journey, run by the private company Space Adventures, training for which began in January in Moscow. The former “Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats” star described the centrifuge experience — simulating the g-force she’d experience at launch — like having “an elephant on your chest.” She’ll be part of a three-person mission that will spend 10 days onboard the space station, which is roughly the size of a six-bedroom house. Brightman says she’s looked to the stars ever since she watched the moon landing as a child. “I think that moment, it was pivotal in my life,” she said, according “I never really talked about it as it could never be a reality, it was all very abstract. But it was always my ambition to fly to space.”
Zoolander and Hansel upstage Valentino’s blockbuster show
Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller were a surprise addition to the splendidly serene Valentino show
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‘It’s Not Fair’
“Having a baby is amazing and not fitting into your jeans, it just doesn’t matter,” said Kate
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ifteen months after giving birth to son Bear Blaze, Kate Winslet told “Extra’s” Renee Bargh, “To be honest, I’m probably, kind of only just actually back to what I was before and, you know, that’s really okay.” In the one-on-one interview, Kate spoke out against the pressures new moms feel to lose weight. “I do think it is because the media do rush to put… women on the cover of a magazine, or even… grab a paparazzi shot of them… eight weeks post-baby and say, ‘Oh look, eight weeks postbaby, doesn’t she look amazing?’ You know, looking amazing eight weeks post-baby is having huge boobs because they’re full of milk, and a belly that still looks, you know, like you’ve got a baby inside it because guess what, that’s what actually happens,” said Kate. The star of “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” added, “It bothers me… I think it’s not right and it’s not fair. Having a baby is amazing and not fitting into your jeans… it’s kind of a pain in the ass for awhile, but ultimately, it just doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t matter, and that time of being at home with that little newborn and not having to… wear a pair of jeans or slip into a red carpet dress, it’s so fantastic… I wanted it to go on and on forever.” Kate has three children. Her oldest daughter, Mia, is 14, and Bear’s older brother, Joe, is 11. Believe it or not, none of them really understand how big a star their mother is. “I’ve been able to navigate the way quite stealthily so that, to be honest, they aren’t really exposed to it… It might sound ridiculous, but it’s really true. They’re fairly unaware of that side of it.” They do, however, know that mom plays the evil Jeanine in “The Divergent Series” and that makes Kate “the coolest mom in the school playground.” Kate told “Extra” she really enjoyed playing Jeanine, but had trouble relating to her. “I don’t sympathize with her in the slightest,” said Kate. “People keep asking me… ‘What did you channel to sympathize with Jeanine?’ Nothing… I don’t feel anything for her at all.” Next up for Kate is “Steve Jobs.” The film, directed by Danny Boyle, is about the late Apple co-founder, but Kate is quick to point out it’s not a biopic. “People don’t know much about it, actually, which is really quite cool,” said Kate. That film is slated for an October release. “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” hits theaters Friday, March 20.
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ive Salman Khan fans have set up a restaurant called Bhaijaanz in Mumbai. Any resemblance its name may bear with the fact that Salman’s next film is titled Bajrangi Bhaijaan could seem coincidental. ‘Bhaijaan’ has been a popular nickname the actor has acquired over the years. The restaurant located on Carter Road in Bandra is the brainchild of five friends -Rahul Kanal, Tabrez Shaikh, Sohail Siddique, Kursheed Khan and Zafar Sayed Yusuf. Its entrance draws inspiration from Salman’s Galaxy Apartment in Bandstand. His past films and favourite things add to the interior ambience. The actor’s choicest dishes find mention in the menu that has been assembled by Tabrez Sheikh, former chef of Radisson London. A huge painting of Salman as the Hulk hangs prominently inside while the walls carry some of his favourite dialogues, including Ek baar jo maine commitment kardi and Dosti ka ek usool hain madam no sorry no thank you.
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exican actress Stephanie Sigman has been roped in to play Estrella in the next James Bond movie “Spectre”. The 28-year-old has joined previously announced stars Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in the film, reports aceshowbiz. com. The news was announced on the official James Bond Twitter account, where the post read: “We are pleased to announced that @SigmanStephanie has joined the cast of #Spectre as Estrella.” Sigman will play the mysterious character in the 24th James Bond film, with further details being kept under wraps. She has appeared in films like “Miss Bala” and “Pioneer”. Meanwhile, Daniel Craig will reprise the role of James Bond for the fourth time, alongside director Sam Mendes and returning co-stars Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Rory Kinnear as his MI6 colleagues. New cast members included in “Spectre” are Andrew Scott, Christoph Waltz and Dave Bautista. “Spectre” is slated to release on November 6.
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ndian actor-producer Farhan Akhtar performed at a star-studded event here organised by the UN’s body on women empowerment where leaders made a clarion call to end gender inequality by the year 2030. The event ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality’ was a UN Women-hosted celebration for 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. It was attended by President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The event saw electrifying performances that brought the message home and the audience to their feet, including a song and poem by Akhtar, UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador and Founder of Men Against Rape and Discrimination (MARD). “Gender violence and gender inequality is not just a women’s issue. It’s also a man’s issue. It’s not just because we have mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. We’re here because it’s a human rights issue and we are all human beings,” he said in a message. Akhtar, 41, had also attended the US premiere of the documentary “India’s Daughter” in the city on Monday with his wife Adhuna. Following the screening, he had posted on Twitter that he humbly appeals to the concerned ministry that they lift the ban on this film. “It’s only effect is that of introspection.” Akhtar, who also met the UN Chief and head of the UN Women tweeted that he “represents millions of Indian men who are concerned about gender equality.” The event, attended by about 2,000 people, commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing that set the ground-breaking agenda for women’s rights in 1995, UN Women said in a statement.
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Neil Zaza set to tour Nagaland & Manipur
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ierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri, the joint creative directors at Valentino, have always been popular for their mastery of couture techniques and their ability to combine that with a strong fashion sensibility. Today however, a huge surge of love for them swept across the catwalk after they allowed their blockbuster collection of gossamer dresses to be upstaged by Hansel and Derek, aka Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller, who closed their show. Predictably the crowd erupted. Fashion folk go out of their way to show they can take a joke, even when they’re not sure whether the joke’s working in their favour or not. It’s 14 years since Zoolander was released, which makes it only marginally younger than some of the models. Derek and Hansel appear to have aged surprisingly well, although Hansel’s modelling skills have not improved - his shoulder-robing is hopeless and his coat ended up on the catwalk. The audience was instructed to tag its Instagrams and Tweets #Zoolander2, confirming years of waiting are finally to end with a sequel slated for
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2016. There will be plenty of new material. The advent of social media has made the circus surrounding shows more freakish than Stiller could possibly have imagined when he wrote the first Zoolander. The paparazzi outside the Valentino show for instance, were almost more numerous than those inside - and even more uncouth, as they stampeded in herds after their street style quarry. Meanwhile, like a beautiful deed in a crazy, chaotic world, the Valentino ateliers produced dress after stunning dress. What began as a relatively straightforward monochrome statement of beautifully engineered high-waisted, checker-board print dresses and 7/8th trousers, leather trimmed capes and pussy-cat bow blouses, gradually blossomed into the kind of wardrobe Sleeping Beauty must have
dreamed about - and she had a long time to dream. Highlights included princess-line dresses composed of patchwork guipure and Chantilly lace; velvet dresses with dropshoulder voile inserts and feather print silk skirts. What makes these two designers so exceptional is their ability to juggle any number of highly crafted plates - viz a black leather and voile shift dress, with leather fringes - without any of them crashing to the floor. Think tough doing battle with tender, and deciding to draw up a peace accord. Or Sir Simon Rattle conducting traffic and avoiding a multiple pile-up. But perhaps the very best looks were the (seemingly) simple: a floor length liquid, ivory coloured dress with a double layer yoke at the back.…and that moment when Hansel’s pale blue coat slithered onto the floor.
eil Zaza is a melodic instrumental guitarist who has become well known for his technical accuracy and adaptation of classical works by Bach and Mozart into his own blend of neo-classical, melodic, guitar instrumentals. He has also shared the stage with notable guitarists such as Joe Satriani and Michael Angelo Batio. He holds an annual concert called One Silent Night at the Palace Theater in Cleveland with the backing of the 60 piece Cleveland Rock Orchestra and features his adaptation of popular Christmas songs to his melodic style. Zaza is known for dramatic entrances, often suddenly appearing from behind projector screens to provide his signature brand of neo-classical guitar virtuosity. Asa Vero from Nagaland will be the supporting artist for Neil Zaza’s India Tour 2015. Artist is managed by Sky Entertainment and the Event is managed and promoted by SOMA (school of music and arts) for Dimapur, Kohima institute of
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• Dimapur: April 10 • Wokha: April 13 • Kohima: April 14 • Senapati: April 15 • Imphal: April 16
Music for Kohima, King’s sound for Wokha, JK construction for Senapati and 7 sisters entertainment for Imphal. The event is sponsored by Wings of Love, AFC Dimapur and Citi Soft solutions.
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NZ vs BAN ENG vs AFG
Seddon Park, hamilton Sydney cricket Ground
Real advance in CL despite loss to Schalke
Schalke's Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, center, scores his sides fourth goal in between Real Madrid's Pepe, right, and Real Madrid's Raphel Varane, left, during a Champions League soccer match round of 16 second leg, between Real Madrid and Schalke 04 at Santiago Bernabeu stadium, in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, March 10. (AP Photo)
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MaDrID, MarcH 11 (aP): Cristiano Ronaldo rescued Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday with two goals in a pulsating 4-3 defeat to Schalke that saw the holders squeeze through to the quarterfinals with a 5-4 victory on aggregate. Madrid's first scare of the night came when Schalke's Christian Fuchs opened the scoring in the 20th minute, only for Ronaldo to head an equalizer for the hosts five minutes later from Toni Kroos' corner. Madrid then made three defensive errors in a row that culminated in Klaas-Jan Huntelaar hitting the post in the 40th and scoring seconds later after connecting with Madrid 'keeper Iker Casillas' clearance of a Max Meyer shot. Ronaldo headed home again five minutes later to set an all-time record of 78 goals in UEFA club competitions, one more than former Real Madrid forward Raul Gonzalez, and settle nerves at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. It was also his 75th goal in the Champions League, where he joins Lionel Messi as the top scorer between the group stage and the final. France striker Karim Benzema then dribbled past two defenders before calmly steering home Madrid's third goal in the 53rd minute. However, Schalke's Leroy Sane curled a superb shot over Casillas in the 57th to level on the night before former Madrid player Huntelaar made it four
for Schalke in the 84th. One more goal for the German side in the final minutes would have sent it through on the away goals rule with a sensational result. "We had problems in all aspects of our game," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. "We have to say it clearly, we are playing very badly. It's almost incomprehensible considering how we were playing before Christmas." Ancelotti said the return from injury of Sergio Ramos will help the team because the defender provides a "sense of responsibility and character." Schalke coach Roberto Di Matteo was meanwhile stoical in defeat. The night's other last 16, second leg game saw FC Porto hammer Basel 4-0 to complete a 5-1 victory on aggregate. Ancelotti began with Ronaldo, Benzema and Gareth Bale in attack and German internationals Sami Khedira and Kroos in midfield alongside Francisco "Isco" Alarcon. Midfielder Luka Modric was on the bench after having been sidelined for four months with a torn thigh muscle, but the playmaker was loudly applauded by fans when his name was called out before kickoff. Schalke missed a clear chance to score when 19-year-old Meyer raced up the left and crossed to Eric Choupo-Moting, who shot wide from close range in the 10th minute. Meyer once again sprinted clear of Madrid's defense in the 18th but
missed the target with his shot. Fuchs scored when he connected left-footed with a cross supplied by Tranquillo Barnetta, with Casillas getting a touch on the ball but being unable to stop it ricocheting into the net. With Schalke determined to take the game to the defending champions in the early stages, Ronaldo's initial equalizer from a Kroos' corner was Madrid's first shot on goal. Sane came on for Choupo-Moting in the 29th after the Cameroon international picked up an ankle injury in a clash with Khedira. Ronaldo was shown a yellow card in the 31st for a reckless challenge on Marco Hoger before adding his second goal of night after again being left unmarked in the area. After Benzema restored Madrid's lead, Modric came on in the 58th minute to cheers from the crowd. Though Sane's barreling drive from outside the area was too good for Casillas, the Madrid keeper did manage to block Barnetta's shot in the 62nd, while Timon Wellenreuther saved Alvaro Arbeloa's effott from a Bale cross three minutes later at the other end. Huntelaar ensured a tense finale, but Madrid managed to hold on for a place in the last eight. Di Matteo said his team has often been criticized for being too defensive but the performance against Madrid proved that a wellorganized defense can be offensive as well.
WC: Record-breaking Sangakkara leads Sri Lanka rout of Scotland
Hobart, MarcH 11 (aFP): Kumar Sangakkara became the first batsman to score four consecutive oneday centuries as Sri Lanka thrashed Scotland by 148 runs in the World Cup in Hobart on Wednesday. The left-hander hit 124 off 95 balls and Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 104 as the Islanders piled up 363 for nine and then bowled Scotland out for 215 in 43.1 overs in the Pool A match at the Bellerive Oval. Skipper Preston Mommsen (60) and Freddie Coleman (70) put on 118 for the fourth wicket but they provided the only Scottish challenge as seamers Nuwan Kulasekara and Dushmantha Chameera grabbed three wickets each. Sangakkara also took two catches to overtake Adam Gilchrist as the most successful World Cup wicket-keeper with 54 dismissals. The Australian had 52 victims to his name. Sri Lanka ended the league with four wins from six matches and now await an undecided opponent in the first quarter-final at the Sydney Cricket Ground on March 18. Scotland's fifth successive defeat means they will take an early flight home after their final league match against Australia at the same venue on Saturday. Sangakkara, 37, who will retire from one-day cricket after the World Cup, had made 105 not out against Bangladesh, an unbeaten 117 against England and 104 against Australia. He is the the leading scorer in the ongoing tournament with 496 runs from six games, followed in second place by 38-year-old Dilshan with 395 runs. The pair put on 195 for the second wicket after La-
Mathews begs on his knees for Sangakkara not to quit Hobart, MarcH 11 (aFP): Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said Wednesday that he has gone down on his knees to beg record-breaking batsman Kumar Sangakkara not to quit after the World Cup. Sangakkara, 37, will call time on his ODI career at the end of the tournament but he is still in a rich vein of form — on Wednesday he became the first batsman to score four consecutive one-day centuries as Sri Lanka thrashed Scotland by 148 runs. The left-hander hit 124 off 95 balls and 38-year-old Tillakaratne Dilshan made 104 as the Islanders piled up 363 for nine and then bowled Scotland out for 215 in the Pool A match at the Bellerive Oval. Sangakkara had also made 105 not out against Bangladesh, an unbeaten 117 against England and 104 against Australia. He is also the leading scorer in the ongoing tournament with 496 runs from six games. If that wasn’t enough, Sangakkara also took two catches to overtake Adam Gilchrist as the most successful World Cup wicket-keeper with 54 dismissals. The Australian had 52 victims to his name. “I’ve been on my knees asking Kumar not to retire but we have to respect his wishes because we are thankful for all the times he has represented the
hiru Thirimanne had been snapped up in the slips off Alasdair Evans in the sixth over after Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. Scotland had to wait till the 35th over for their next success as Sangakkara and Dilshan toyed with the bowling in good batting conditions. Both batsmen reached their centuries off successive balls from Kyle Coetzer in the 34th over, Dilshan taking a single to record his second hundred in the tournament before Sangakkara followed next ball with two runs.
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country,” said Mathews. The skipper added: “The boys played really well and credit should go to Dilshan and Sangakkara, they are getting better and better with age. “We have to take one game at a time and play positive cricket. If we can improve our bowling and fielding, it will be great but the batters have posted 300 four times in a row. That is never easy.” Despite his form, Sangakkara, who has played 403 ODIs and made over 14,000 runs, insisted that there will be no going back on his decision. “Retirement is not about form, it is about time and place and whether it feels right. It is never about whether
Sangakkara leap frogged six players who had scored three ODI centuries in a row -- Zaheer Abbas and Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, the South African trio of Herschelle Gibbs, AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock, and Ross Taylor of New Zealand. Dilshan followed his unbeaten 161 against Bangladesh with his fourth World Cup century before he holed out in the deep off seamer Josh Davey. Davey struck two quick blows soon after, getting rid of Mahela Jayawardene and Sangakkara off suc-
you can play or not,” he said. Sri Lanka had already qualified for the quarter-finals and will likely face South Africa in the last eight while Scotland have now lost all five matches. But the Scots made a fight of it with skipper Preston Mommsen (60) and Freddie Coleman (70) putting on 118 for the fourth wicket. “Today was a huge learning experience, especially watching some of the best batsmen in the world. We saw how they kept calm under pressure, so we could learn a lot,” said Mommsen. “Sangakkara is definitely No. 1 in terms of the players we have had to play against.”
cessive balls as Sri Lanka slipped from 216 for one to 244 for four. Jayawardene, 37, who will also retire after the World Cup having already quit Test cricket, made two when he was caught at midoff by Calum MacLeod. Sangakkara edged the next delivery to the wicket-keeper, sparking wild celebrations among the Scottish supporters in the stands. Skipper Angelo Mathews smashed 51 off 21 balls at the end, slamming four sixes in a row off spinner Matt Machan before being caught next
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ball on the mid-wicket fence. Sri Lanka, who were 216 for one at one stage, lost eight wickets for 147 runs as the later batsmen attacked the inexperienced Scotland attack. Sri Lanka go into the knock-out rounds beset with injuries, with seamer Dhammika Prasad ruled out of the tournament before it started and Jeevan Mendis, Dimuth Karunaratne and Dinesh Chandimal sidelined during it. Veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath is yet to recover from a finger injury.
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