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New Delhi, June 2 (IANS): The Arunachal Pradesh government can't brush aside the need to es-tablish an autonomous district council in the Naga-dominated areas of Tirap, Changlang and Longding, said various bodies as-sociated with the movement for a Patkai Autonomous Council for the three areas.

They said a Patkai Autono-mous Council for Tirap, Chang-lang and Longding (TCL) is the only solution for the region, al-leging it has been ignored by the state government and the centre for decades in terms of its socio-economic development.

The proposal to form an au-tonomous council to develop the Naga-inhabited areas was cleared by the Cabinet in 2013 and has been pending with the Home Ministry since 2014.

Various bodies associated with the movement such as Pat-kai Autonomous Demand Dis-

trict Council and the TCL Stu-dents Federation have threatened to hold an indefinite bandh in the three districts if the centre and the state continue to pay no heed to the matter.

"The successive chief min-isters of Arunanchal Pradesh hardly have any knowledge about the people of the Patkai region which has Tirap, Chang-lang and Longding districts. They neither know the way of life nor do they have any basic knowledge about the topography of the region. Based on these historical reasons, people of the three districts have demanded Patkai Autonomous Council," said a statement issued by TCL Students’ Federation.

Earlier, the bodies had also sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on for-mation of the autonomous coun-cil.

Patkai hills is also known as

the home of Wancho, Nocte, Tangsa, Tutsa Ollo - recognised as Naga by the Constitution. In 1914 they were part of North East Frontier Tract, which was later renamed North East Fron-tier Agency.

The Arunachal Pradesh gov-ernment data states that areas falling under Patkai region are the most resource-rich but not even one per cent has been tapped.

"In the absence of any proper infrastructure, we have also failed to develop the human resources. This has led to many unemployed youth taking to drugs, insurgency and many anti-social activities. Even after 30 years of association with the state, we have not seen any tangible change in the Patkai region," said the statement.

According to records, the demand for formation of Patkai Autonomous Council was passed by the Assembly in 2004 and 2007 and the Cabinet approved it

in 2013.The proposal was then sent to

the Union Home Ministry and a committee headed by Joint Sec-retary (North East), Ministry of Home Affairs, was constituted by the then UPA government, which visited the three districts in Feb-ruary 2014. Since then, there has been no communication from the Home Ministry.

Stating that while "brothers in Nagaland" are enjoying a full-fledged state with special status, the TCL groups said: "We have been left in the lurch to fend for ourselves. We feel dejected be-cause of the lackadaisical atti-tude of the government towards our grievances."

According to the community, their demand for an autonomous council, which would focus on the development of TCL areas, is deliberately being sidelined by the Pema Khandu government in Arunachal Pradesh.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Na-galand BJP today clarified that suspension of three members was made in conformity with the party’s constitution and not as claimed by them.

The State BJP issued this clar-ification in responds to the press statement issued by the three sus-pended members with a view to rectify any misconceptions on the party’s issues and procedures that might have been caused by the said press statement.

A party statement issued by its general secretary (Media), Jaangsillung Gonmei, said the

party’s seniority is determined by the years and contributions to the party’s development, growth and expansion and not by any achievements or age outside the party.

It clarified that suspension of the three party members were not in ‘flagrant violation’ of the party’s constitution as claimed but according to the constitu-tional provision under Rules Ar-ticles XXV: Disciplinary Action clause 3, wherein it states that the State President may suspend an indisciplined member and is-sue a show cause notice within a

week. It said disciplinary actions could be initiated under “Rules Breach of Discipline” for car-rying propaganda against any party unit or its office bearers. It added that the three members, having been suspended, were ac-cordingly issued show cause no-tices.

It said the claim that IK Sema was appointed by the centre as Advisor was ‘gravely mistaken.’ It rather stated the he was ap-pointed by the State President following a State office bearers meeting and he was bound to serve at the pleasure of the State

President, adding the suspension order served on him by the State President stands constitutionally valid. It said all the party officials in the State unit were appointed by the State President except that of the State President and the General Secretary (Organisa-tion).

As far as office records are concerned, it said the BJP State Office had not suspended office bearers but only issued show cause notices or relieved them from their official assignments and reallocated them with other responsibilities.

Agartala, June 2 (IANS): The Centre may consider any vital proposal on the new law on cattle trade and slaughter, Environ-ment Minister Harsh Var-dhan has said.

"If we get any accept-able and vital proposal, we might consider the new law on cattle trade and slaughter," the Min-

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): The governor of Naga-land PB Acharya has rec-ommended a number of suggestions encompass-ing issues in the health sector, connectivity; skill development and agricul-ture for the development of the northeast region.

Addressing the 66th Plenary of North Eastern Council (NEC) at New Delhi on May 29, Acha-rya said NEC, since 1971 as a forum, has been a significant and effective platform for discussing and deliberating upon the developmental issues of the region.

The Governor also briefed on the initia-tives undertaken by him towards preservation and protection of in-digenous tribal culture, tribal scripts, rituals and identity and urged the members to consider the proposal of renaming the council as ‘NAMASTE,’ an acronym represent-ing the names of all the north eastern states of the country.

Informing on setting up of a Medical College in Nagaland, Acharya said the State government had acquired 40.251 acres of land at Phriebagie, Ko-

hima. The project com-prises of administrative block, academic, hostel complex for students and residential complex for the faculty.

He said that the Min-istry of Health and Fam-ily Welfare, Government of India (GoI), under the scheme for upgrada-tion of District Hospital to New Medical College had approved to pro-vide one time grant of Rs 189.00 crores. Stating that GoI had already re-leased Rs 52.50 crore, he said construction works have started for 500 bed-ded hospital alongwith staff quarters. He also said the cost of equip-ments has been proposed under NEC with an esti-mated cost of Rs 500.00 crore. Presenting the breakup of the project cost, the Governor said Rs 233.76 crore was for the 500 bedded teaching hospital alongwith staff quarters and Rs 266.24 crore was for equipments.

Acharya has appreci-ated the GoI for allow-ing Air India and Indigo flights from Dimapur to Delhi via Kolkata. How-ever, he urged Air India to operate flights 7 days a week from Dimapur to

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): With the Government of India having recognised the sovereign rights of the Nagas and agreed to co-ex-ist with shared sovereignty, NSCN (IM) today said sovereignty has dawned upon the Nagas with the signing of historic Au-gust 3, 2015, ‘Framework Agreement.’

MIP statement has at-tributed the achievement to the selfless sacrifices of the Nagas under the dynamic and visionary Collective Leaderships of former Yaruiwo, Isak Chi-shi Swu and Ato Kilonser, Th. Muivah, in which the GOI and Nagas had final-ly agreed to co-exist with shared sovereignty.

It said GOI had rec-ognised and accepted the Nagas as a different entity having equal status, mean-ing, India is not above the Nagas nor Nagas are above India and to live as two dif-ferent friendly nations with absolute ownerships rights over their own lands and its resources both beneath and above the earth’s surface.

It said the framework agreement is political in nature, which is the pre-amble of the detailed fi-nal political agreement expected to be completed and signed very soon by the two different entities. It is without any unilateral powers unlike the Shillong Accord and the 16 Point Agreement which were to-tally under the provisions of the Indian laws and Indian Constitution, the

statement pointed out.It said with signing

of the historic framework agreement, Government of India has finally recognised and accepted that Nagas are not Indians but a differ-ent entity with equal status, having separate and dis-tinct identity, with unique history and cultures.

NSCN (IM) has also attributed on historic achievement to the dif-ferent Naga mass based organisations, civil socie-ties, tribal organisations, churches and the scores of individuals who had relentlessly and fearlessly worked for the last many decades for Nagas com-mon cause.

Meanwhile at this junc-ture when the Nagas are economically so poor and unsustainable, the state-ment said it will be wise to partner with India for larg-er economic growths, in-frastructural and all round developments of Nagalim.

‘To provide the road map towards a developed bright future along with In-dia will create larger oppor-tunities especially for the younger Naga generations. The acceptance to have shared sovereignty will surely take the Nagas much further forward along with the advancement pace of great India, which is rap-idly becoming one of the economic superpowers of the world,’ it added.

However, NSCN (IM) has taken umbrage at some forces emerging with their ‘treacherous game plans’

to sabotage and undo what have been collectively achieved by the Nagas. It resented that those organi-sations and individuals have now started uttering in different tongues by leaving aside the Nagas common aspirations and slogans for sovereignty.

It reaffirmed that Na-gas and the future gen-erations should not be doomed by their schemes of vested interests which are totally against the Na-gas national interests.

Stating that Nagas are of one nation, it said GOI cannot have numerous solutions in piece meals for the Nagas except one solution which is honour-able and acceptable to the Nagas. It said Nagas need to appreciate the GoI in recognising our sovereign rights and cautioned that it will be suicidal to make attempts to highjack the Indo-Naga political talks at this final stage.

It also stated that such activities are totally against the Nagas national interests as well as against the initia-tives of the GoI, which is committed to usher in per-manent peace and develop-ments in the Northeast and Nagalim in particular.

It, therefore, appealed to the people not to be misled by such elements but continue rendering un-flinching supports towards the political negotiations to reach the final solution in the common interests of the Nagas and Naga na-tion.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): A total 180 Community First Responders (CFR) under Peren district have been equipped with basic relief and rescue measures in the event of any disaster that might strike the area.

The training was con-ducted by Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Home Department in col-laboration with the Dis-trict Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) and the CD&HG (SDRF) Di-mapur. The training was conducted in four sub-di-visions namely Old Peren,

Ahthibung, Ngwalwa and Jalukie (Dungki village) from May 23 to 27.

The participants were trained on module devel-oped by the NSDMA cov-ering topics like first -aid, search and rescue methods, basic introduction to the human body, bandaging, CPR etc

The concept of the CFR is based on the fact that the community is al-ways the first responder in any disaster as they have an inherent capacity to re-spond immediately. How-ever, past experiences have shown that after every

disaster, response comes from well-intentioned but untrained personnel, who have little or no regard for personal safety. This at times escalates the after-ef-fects of disaster and further endangers the victims.

The realisation that re-sponse will be fastest and most effective if respond-ers are trained, has brought about a need to intensify the CFR training. Basing on this concept and also drawing from past experi-ences, NSDMA developed a module for training of the Community First Re-sponders.

Arunachal Nagas press for autonomy

BJP clarifies on suspension impasse

Centre may consider new law on cattle trade, says Harsh Vardhan

Acharya offers growth inputs for NER’s development

Framework Agreement ‘restored lost sovereignty,’ says NSCN (IM)

180 CFR trained in Peren

Delhi from the present 6 days a week. Stating that currently there were no flights from Dimapur connecting to Guwaha-ti/ Impha, he requested NEC to take up with the Ministry of Civil Avia-tion to include Dimapur in the Guwahati-Imphal route.

Also observing that India is grappling with the problem of employ-ability as a consequence of the prevailing educa-tion system, he under-lined the importance of skill development in the region. Mentioning that India’s population is young in relation to other developed countries, the

Governor said there is a huge potential to reap the ‘demographic dividend’ provided there is focused policy action. Also stat-ing that the global econ-omy is expected to wit-ness a skilled manpower shortage to the extent of around 56 million by 2020, he insisted that the “demographic dividend” in India needs to be ex-ploited to meet the skilled manpower requirements of India and abroad.

In this regard, the Governor appreciated NEC for taking cogni-zance on the imperative of skill development in line with the national pol-icies in the Regional Plan

for economic prosperity of the region. He pointed out that all universities should have skill develop-ment in the curriculum.

Acharya also request-ed NEC to bring into its ambit the role for promo-tion of organic farming in the region and brand “Make in Northeast.” In this regard, he suggested NEC to draw up a suita-ble scheme to emulate the success of Sikkim in the field of organic farming.

To put into prac-tice the Act East Policy, Governor has suggested identifying road and rail connectivity between In-dia and South East Asian countries besides air con-

nectivity. Urging to avail opportunity of the India-Japan strategic partner-ship, he urge NEC and Ministry of DoNER to work out modalities to avail such investment of-fers.

Governor also men-tioned of Dr. T Ao, who led the India national football team in the 1948 Summer Olympics, adding that under the initiative of NEC, an an-nual football tournament among NER States is being played since 2010 under the nomenclature “Dr. T Ao Memorial Football Tournament.” On the basis of NEC’s Regional Plan, he said Nagaland has proposed setting up of Dr. T Ao Football Academy to tap the football talents in the region.

Also stating that Na-galand with its rich cul-ture, tradition and cus-toms have some of the intricately and uniquely designed textiles and craftworks, he said Naga-land has immense poten-tial to export readymade apparel, handlooms, handicrafts and textile products to South-east Asian countries. In this regard, he requested NEC

to give due emphasis for development of loin-loom production of the NE States as a promotion of traditional industry.

‘Harnessing this skill commercially will pro-vide better means of in-come to womenfolk espe-cially in the rural areas,’ he added. Mentioning that the State had sub-mitted several proposals under various schemes of the Ministry of Textiles, GoI, but have not been considered due to fund constraint under NERT-PS, he requested NEC to assist the State in secur-ing the funds from the Ministry.

While encouraging on Private Public Part-nership (PPP) mode for positive participation in the field of education, health, agriculture Sec-tor etc, the Governor informed that the Medi-cal Science University of Mangalore, Nitte Uni-versity, has offered their full support to be the partner under Private Public Partnership for the State’s new Medi-cal College. He added that the Vice Chancellor, Registrar and other im-portant people have vis-ited Nagaland.

ister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change told reporters here on Thursday night.

Vardhan, who also holds the Science and Technology and Earth Sci-ences portfolios, said that there were some informa-tion gaps and misunder-standing on the issue.

The minister came here on Thursday night to attend a programme in connection with the third anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the centre.

The Environment Ministry had earlier no-tified the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Reg-ulation of Livestock Mar-kets) Rules, 2017, ban-ning sale and purchase of cattle from animal mar-kets for slaughter.

Tripura's Left Front government has already announced that it would not implement the new rules as it is against the interest of the people.

"The new cattle trade and slaughter rules framed by the central government are against

the interest of the peo-ple. We will not carry out the new rules," Tripura's Agriculture and Animal Resource Development Minister Aghore Deb-barma told IANS.

The ruling Com-munist Party of India-Marxist also vehemently criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government for promul-gating the new law on cattle trade and slaughter.

"A large section of people, especially those from the Dalit commu-nity, are engaged in the

business of cattle skin. Farmers engaged with cattle business; minori-ties depend on cattle for their source of protein would be directly af-fected," CPI-M's Tripura state secretary Bijan Dhar had told reporters.

"We have a federal democracy in our coun-try. The central govern-ment cannot do many things without involv-ing the states. The BJP government unilaterally framed this important cattle trade and slaughter rules," he said.

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ICFAI releases book on gender and politics of NE

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DLRB written exam result declared Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel has informed that the result of District Level Recruitment Board written exam which was conducted on May 27 has been declared in the forenoon of June 2. The lists of the selected candidates have been displayed on the notice board in the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

Mokokchung DPDB meeting The monthly meeting of Mokokchung District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) has been scheduled on June 6, 10 a.m. at the Conference Hall of ADC Planning, Mokokchung. The meeting will be held under the new chairman DPDB Mokokchung, Merentoshi R. Jamir. All the members have been informed to take note of the change in the timing and attend the meeting positively.

Mokokchung to celebrate World Environment DayThe Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Nagaland will be organising a programme under the theme “Connecting people to nature” at Town Hall, Mokokchung on June 5.The programme will be graced by the Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Dr.Imtiwapang Aier as chief guest. The programme also will be attended by Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Imkong L. Imchen; Parliamentary Secretary; Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and other dignitaries.

ENSF convenes presidential meetingEastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has convened a presidential meeting on June 8, 10 a.m. at DUDA Guest House, Kohima. CCSU, YAA, USSC, KSU, Konyak Students Union and educational secretaries of all the six federating units have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

NEwS IN BRIEF

NSCN/GPRN condemns custodial coldblooded killing

Unidentified body found Chakhesang national workers condole

Naga Hoho fetes NSF new team

CRPF 78th Bn celebrates raising dayDC Kohima notifies 2-laning affected beneficiaries

Tovihoto and others condole

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): The Department of Politi-cal Science, ICFAI Univer-sity on Friday released the book titled “Gender and Politics in India: Expe-riences from the North-

East.” The book was edited

by Kaini Lokho, Head of Department Political Science.

While releasing, Prof. C.P Alexander, Vice-

Chancellor, expressed his joy in releasing the book and said that the book has come at the right time when debate on gender is becoming a very important issue in the State.

He opined that the sce-nario of women’s status in the North-East is much better than that of other parts of the country, but there are certain gaps that need to be addressed very

WEathER FoREcaSt iN othER DiStRictS Max Min DP Rh RF

WoKha 20.8 17.2 17.1 92 3.2

ZBt 18.5 8.7 16 94 1.2

MoN 28.6 22.4 21.5 91 NIL

MELURi 22.5 17.2 18.8 93 13.4

tUENSaNG 22 17 21.1 84 7.2

MKG 19 14.2 16.3 73 4.1

KiPhiRE 26 17.2 20.6 96 2

tSEMiNYU 23.8 20 18 84 NIL

SEchÜ ZUBZa 24 19 18.7 91 2

JaLUKiE 24 15 17.3 62 NIL

MaNGKoLEMBa 27.8 23.8 22.8 86 NIL

*Dew Point (DP) *Relative Humidity (RH) * Rainfall (RF)

Source: Department of Soil & Water conservation, Nagaland

Vice Chancellor, Prof.C.P. Alexander, editor of the book and others releasing the book at ICFAI University on Friday.

CPRF officer paying a floral tribute to the martyrs on the ocassion of the unit’s raising day at Zubza.

Gnana Nirmala conducted one-day training for Pravishika course of hindustan Scouts & Guides at Government high School, Singrijan. a total of 109 scouts and 116 guides attended.

carefully. He also pointed out that the book gives out valuable information on gender sensitivity, and that the book can give a good reading to the students of politics, culture and literature.

Kaini Lokho, said that debates on gender is not a new thing in the North-East, but has been over-shadowed by discussions on nationalism, peace and conflict, etc. But, discus-sion on gender has taken a new turn with the events that has ensued with re-gard to the question of res-ervation in local bodies.

She also said the book brings together various scholars from different institutions and academic orientation which has at-tempted to discuss on how gender sensitisation should be disseminated at various levels of the society and different social institu-tions.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): 78th Battalion of CRPF celebrated its 32nd Rais-ing Day at its Zubza Head Quarters on June 1, with great pomp and gaiety. To mark the day, variety of programmes were organ-ized at the Zubza Camp from May 30 to June 1 under the leadership of Unit Commandant, Neer-aj Yadav.

Officers, Jawans & families and local peo-ple participated in great numbers in all the pro-

grammes. The celebrations began

by paying floral tributes to the brave martyrs of the Force who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty for the cause nation. Wreaths were laid by officers and men at the magnificently erected Jai Jawan Memo-rial structure at Unit HQ, which was followed by a ceremonial guard of hon-our and hoisting of CRPF flag at the Unit Quarter Guard.

Sapl ings were also

planted in the camp area by Commandant & senior officers to augment the already existing beautiful and awesome lush green landscape of Unit HQ.

On the occasion, three ‘Bambusa’ restaurants constructed at Unit HQ by local expertise for Jawans and local people visiting unit canteen were inau-gurated by Chief Guest, Niketu Eralu, Social Ac-tivist and renowned writer and resident of Village-Zubza.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Deputy Commissioner (DC), Kohima has noti-fied all beneficiaries af-fected by the widening of NH-61 (2) for two laning from KM 40.00 to KM 72.400 under the sub-divi-sion of Additional Deputy Commissioner, Tseminyu that compensation for the structures/buildings shall be paid in the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima on June 6 at 10 a.m.

Chairman/ex-chair-man/head GB/member of the concerned village coun-cils have been informed to be present physically for

identification of the land-owners and beneficiaries during the disbursal of cheques, failing which pay-ment shall be withheld.

DC also informed that the first phase shall cover only those beneficiaries whose names in the ben-eficiary list are the same with the names mentioned in their passbooks/bank accounts.

Beneficiaries were also asked to submit 2 passport sized photos, copy of bank passbook and to come in person. Payment to any other representative other than the concerned person shall not be entertained.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): The Cha-khesang Region NSCN/GPRN has expressed shock and sadness at the demise of late Medowe Kapfo leacy member, who passed away on May 27. In his demise, the region has lost an active and humble member who selflessly dedicated his whole life for the nation and his service to the nation would always be cherished and remembered, the condolence message read.

The region further prays that almighty God grant solace and comfort to the bereaved family members and the departed soul to rest in peace.

In a separate note, Chakhesange National Worker’s Welfare NSCN/GPRN, expressed sadness over the untimely demise of late Medowe Kapfo, leacy member of Pfutseromi village on May 27.

The Chakhesange National Worker’s Welfare described late Ka-pfo as a sincere, devoted man who served the organisation tirelessly in various capacities.

While expressing that his selfless contribution towards nation build-ing would always be cherished, it conveyed condolence to the bereaved family at this hour of grief and pray for the departed soul eternal rest.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Parliamentary Secretary Economics & Statistics, Tovihoto Ayemi has ex-pressed grieve over the demise of Late Vikiye Zhi-momi, on June 1 in Dimapur.

In a condolence note, Ayemi said hailing from Satakha village, late Vikiye’s prominence was not only confined to his native area but among the Sumi community and Naga people.

His entry into government service dated back to as early as 1957 when he joined NEFA service as base Superintendent before Nagaland attained Statehood. He went on to serve the Government of Nagaland in various capacities till the time he took voluntary retirement as Deputy Secretary, Home in 1986, stated Ayemi.

He also added that late Vikiye was one of the pioneers of Dimapur and his visionary leadership contributed to the town in numerous areas. Ayemi lamented that his demise has caused a huge loss to the Sumi community in particular and Nagas in general and the vacuum created would be difficult to fill.

At this hour of grief, Ayemi and his family ex-tended heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and pray that God grant them strength and solace to sail through the loss.SCD: The Sumi Council Dimapur (SCD) is saddened at the demise of late V.K. Sema (Vikiye Sema, Sata-kha). The council stated that he was an early settler of Dimapur and had involved in different social activities in Dimapur over the years.

SCD regretted that in his death the Sumis in particular and the Dimapur people in general have lost a senior statesman and the void created will be difficult to fill.

While conveying condolences, SCD pray for the eternal peace of the departed soul and also to give strength to the family members to overcome grief.MBF: Manik Bhattacharjee Foundation (MBF), Di-mapur has expressed grieve at sudden demise of late V. K. Sema (Vikiye Zhimomi). MBF described him as a renowned socio- political leader, versatile man, who was endowed with many humane qualities.

In a condolence message, Monoj Bhattarcharjee, fondly remember late Sema close association with late Manik Bhattacharjee and his co-operation in all the humanitarian activities. He was enthroned in the hearts of the people and his death has caused an ir-reparable loss for all and sundry, he added.

MBF shared grief with bereaved family members and pray for the departed soul to rest in peace.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): At around 12:30 p.m., East Police, Dimapur team have recovered an unidentify male body from Burma camp, near daily market Rongmai colony. The deceased age about 45-50 yrs, dark in complexion, height about 5’8”. On arrival at the spot police conducted inquest upon deceased but no injury was found and no suspect of any foul play,The police stated that the caused of death is not known, and is sus-pected due to illness.After necessary legal formalities the body has shifted to District Hospital Dimapur for post mortem examination.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): The Naga Hoho has congratulates the new team of Naga Student Federation (NSF) led by president Kesosul Christopher Ltu.

While congratulation them, Naga Hoho stated that NSF has been playing a very pro-active role in maintaining har-mony and goodwill between the people of different tribes, castes and communities all

these year. It also added that NSF has a vital role to play in bringing more understanding between people to people, and community to community in the Naga society.

“Together will pursue our vision col-lectively the process of unity, renewal of the glory of Naga family in days to come” the Naga Hoho quoted. Further, it wished the NSF new team a success.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): The NSCN/GPRN has strongly condemned the coldblooded killing of Khailun Haokip, Steer-ing Committee member NSCN by KNF (N).

NSCN/GPRN MIP stated that late Haokip was kidnapped by KNF(N) at Shijang Kuki village and soon after kidnapped, KNF(N) were informed by NSCN to immediately release him unharmed but the appeal of NSCN and the civil societies from Na-gas and Kukis communities were not even respected subsequently and he was tortured and killed.

The murder of Haokip by KNF (N) will be befit-tingly responded, it added.

Late Haokip, Steer-ing Committee member, NSCN/GPRN of KTU was enrolled on March 18, 2008 and served in certain capacities. True to his dedi-cation, he was trustworthy and unswerving compatriot to the sacred cause. He was a man of untiring courage with staunch nationalism in all his duty to the nation. The void created by his loss will be difficult to fill in times to come, which is not only lost to the family and Kuki community alone but also to the Nagas in

general, stated MIP.The NSCN/GPRN

also conveyed deepest con-dolences to the bereaved family and beseech to Al-mighty God to grant solace at this time of grief.

It also expressed that the nation shall remember his immeasurable service rendered for the cause and pray for the departed soul to rest in peace.

Meanwhile, the NSCN/GPRN expressed its grati-tude and appreciated the civil societies of Nagas and Kukis who took all troubles in retracting and retrieving the death body to the be-reave family.

Earlier, as part of the celebrations, an inter-coy volley ball/basket ball/ badminton tournaments were organized at Unit HQ on May 30 and 31. This was followed by an informal gathering of of-ficers and men during which grievances of men were also redressed.

A special Sainik Sam-melan was addressed by the Unit Commandant, wherein all officers and jawans were briefed about the significance of the Raising Day and the glo-rious history of CRPF in general and 78 Bn in particular.

A presentation high-lighting the major achieve-ments of the unit, list of medal recipients and mar-tyrs of the unit, prepared by the Unit Commandant, was screened. The Unit has a glorious and proud history of major opera-tional achievements and a list of seven recipients of President’s Police Medal for Galantry. Keeping in line with its glorious past, Unit Commandant has coined a new Motto for the Unit in Hindi – “Veer Nidar Athhathar” which means “Courageous, Fear-less 78 Battalion”

The celebrations cul-minated in a colourful gala event called ‘The Sangeeth Sandhya’ (The Musical Night/Cultural Programme) presented by 78 Bn. Prizes were distrib-uted to all participants in cultural programme and trophies were also pre-sented to winners of vari-ous competitions followed by feast.

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HRLN conducts program on benefit and rights ICSI launched in Dimapur; announces waiver

Peace Centre School inaugurated in Sakraba

Cyclone Mora’s ripples leave trail of destruction

New vice chancellor of Nagaland University visits SASRD

NPCC forms committee for by-elections

NSCW concludes anti-Human Trafficking advocacy

Outgoing president of the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) Subenthung Kithan (left) hands over the NSF’s flag to newly-elected President Kesosul Christopher Ltu on the last day of the 27th general conference of the organisation at Tzürang valley in Mokokchung district. The general conference was hosted by the Ao Students’ Conference and conducted with the theme ‘Amelioration,’ an update stated on Friday.

The Wokha Town Baptist Church’s youth ministry conducted a youth camp from May 26 to the 28th on the theme ‘Remember your Creator‘(Eccl. 12:1). The speaker for the camp was Rev. J. Thungjamo Lotha. Bible study was conducted by Dr. Eyingbeni Humtsoe Nienu. The program included practical sessions on the topic ‘Christian marriage,’ delivered by Rev. Dr. LL Kikon and Lichilo Odyuo. A seminar on health care focusing on the harmful effects of tobacco consumption was delivered by Dr. Meribeni Odyuo, it was informed. 140 campers and 30 youth leaders attended the youth camp. On the last day of the program, the members of the camp consecrated their lives to God, stated a press release by Y Chumbenthung Murry, youth director of WTBC, on Friday.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN):A two-day consultative event about ‘using the law to en-sure reproductive and sexual health rights,’ was organised by Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) during May 30-31 at the Jubilee Memorial Centre in Kohima town.

A press release from the organisers on Friday stated that the group provided the platform to discuss and deliberate on ‘reproductive rights’, maternal health care, and Family Plan-ning programs in the state with over hundred participants from various tribal student bodies, women’s associations, and final year students from Kohima Law College, the press release informed.

HRLN was stated to be a network of “lawyers, research-ers, and social activists working against human rights violations in India.”

In the session, advocate Kezhosano Kikhi was quoted as

having stated the objectives of the consultations. She explained the HRLN’s work in the state. Sarita Barpanda, director for the Reproductive Rights Initiative, spoke about maternal health and the need for ‘respectful and dignified care.’ She highlighted key schemes, benefits and en-titlements introduced by the government, and emphasized how the healthcare system was failing women in Nagaland, resulting in avoidable maternal and infant deaths and the ap-palling treatment of pregnant women.

Highlights were given also on health care services provided at sub-centres, public and com-munity healthy cares and dis-trict hospitals in the state as per Indian Public Health standards, with reference to the ‘acute lack of suitable facilities.’

Zahra Wynne, a researcher based at the Delhi office of HRLN, provided a situational analysis of reproductive and

sexual health in Nagaland, and evaluated the state’s National Health Mission. She noted that Nagaland’s high maternal mortality rate, unmet need for contraceptive information and services, and declining aware-ness of HIV, as a justification to improve public health services in the state.

Also, Kezhokhoto Savi, an assistant professor at Kohima Law College talked to the gath-ering about “Maternal Benefits Schemes” under the National Food Security Act of 2013 and its implementation in the state of Nagaland.

The need for the setting up of a food commission was also emphasized “as a way forward for the proper implementation of the Food Security Act and as a means to address numer-ous discrepancies existing in the public distribution system in Nagaland,” the press release stated.

On the second day of the

programme, issues about con-traceptives and services under Family Planning programs and highlights from Supreme Court petitions and judgments on unethical sterilization camps conducted in various parts of Indian states were presented. The topics were presented by Zahra Wynne and Sarita Bar-panda, the press release stated.

The lack of access to contra-ception and the continuing push for female sterilization in the country was noted as a human rights violation, it said.

Other important health and social issues featured during the event were problems and challenges faced by People Living with HIV (PLHIV) by Mr. Lanu, president of a local nongovernmental organization NNP+ highlighted the “levels” of social and personal stigma attached to PLHIVs, and its visible implications in contem-porary society.

He stressed also on the need

for ‘collaboration from church bodies’ and other civil society organisations in order to extend a helping hand in supporting, educating and sensitizing the public with regard to issues concerning PLHIV, the press release stated. Also, another speaker, Yanpvuo Kikon out-lined the use of social media and the Internet as a tool for social activism, the press release stated.

Further, deliberations on topics of sexual and reproduc-tive rights, and benefit entitle-ments, gaps and challenges, and plans of action to address them were part of exercises during which participants ‘actively contributed,’ the press release stated.

‘Many students, activists, and members of civil society groups highlighted their dis-content with public healthcare facilities in Nagaland, and ways forward were considered,’ it added.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Newly-appointed Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University Prof. Pradeshi Lal visited SASRD cam-pus on June 1. He was ac-companied by registrar of Nagaland University Prof. T Lanusosang and finance officer of the university, Prof. M.K. Sinha.

During the event, the vice chancellor inaugurated a sales counter organized by students. The vice chancel-lor and his team visited the departments and interacted with the faculty.

A formal reception was organized to welcome the 5th vice chancellor of Na-galand University, updates

informed this week. The registrar, in his

brief address, said that having the vice chancellor from the system itself was indicative of the capac-ity and leadership that was within it, it was informed. He was quoted as having expressed hope that the new vice chancellor would now take the university ‘in the right direction and also pave the way for others to follow in his footsteps.’

Also, Prof. M.K. Sinha exhorted the gathering and said that all stakeholders of the university (teachers, non teaching staff and stu-dents) can contribute much through discipline, deco-

rum and dedication. He emphasized on the

importance of money man-agement and most impor-tantly productivity in each unit of investment in the university because only then development can take place. He also expressed happiness of having his own colleague as the vice chancellor and hoped that under his dynamic lead-ership the stature of the university will be enhanced, the updates said.

In his address, Vice Chancellor Prof. Pradeshi Lal thanked SASRD for the warm welcome accorded to him. In his exhortation, Prof. Lal said that a vibrant

university can come about only by taking responsibili-ties sincerely and with dedi-cation. In order to produce a dynamic generation of students who are citizens of the global market, he said that all stakeholders must come up with a vision and with a clear perception of reality.

The vice chancellors said that Nagaland Uni-versity was now ‘our house and it is up to us whether we make it shine like a holy place for wisdom or whether we make a mess of it,’ according to the up-dates. He was informed to have stated that the ‘task ahead is clear and easy if

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): A ‘situation-al report’ of the Nagaland State Disas-ter Management Authority (NSDMA) of the Home department has offered updates about the case of four missing persons in the wake of storms attrib-uted to Cyclone Mora in Meluri under Phek district.

Two more bodies have been re-

trieved, the NSDMA informed. The report said that the dead body of a woman was retrieved from Shera vil-lage in Myanmar.

It has been reported that Phonkhuri village has been cut off from the rest of the state now that reportedly four bridges were washed away.

In Aghunato village, landslides are

reported to have occurred in the middle of the town just below an Airtel tower, posing a threat to the residents.

It was informed that the District Disaster Management Authority and the town committee were in contact with Airtel in Guwahati to take meas-ures to shift the tower. Further details are being awaited, it informed.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): The Na-galand Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has constituted a Pradesh Congress Committee Election Com-mittee for by-elections to 10 Northern Angami-I Assembly Constituency. The decision was taken during the NPCC’s meeting today at the Congress Bhavan

in Kohima town, information from the Media cell on Friday stated.

It was informed that Ayang Aonok has been appointed con-venor; the members are Seyiekuolie, Medokul Sophie, Yona Konyak and Kevi Vizo.

The NPCC stated also that in

view of the forthcoming assem-bly elections, the Central Election Authority (CEA) of the All India Congress Committee on May 30 had postponed the party’s organisational elections in the states of Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Meg-halaya, Nagaland and Tripura.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN) : A seminar on Human Trafficking was held in Tuli town in Mokokc-hung district on May 31. The event was organized by the Nagaland State Commission for Women in collaboration with the

National Commission for Women, updates on Friday said.

With this programme the Nagaland State Com-mission for Women con-cluded their project of holding 21 programs on said subject throughout

the state which began on March 21 this year. The commission issued a note on Friday offering updates about said event.

‘Wherever the pro-grams were held the public acknowledged the impor-tance of disseminating

awareness about this social evil and appreciated the efforts of the commission towards raising the con-sciousness of all the stake holders to work in a con-certed manner to eradicate this menace from society,’ the note stated.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): A newly-built “Peace Centre school building” has been in-augurated on June 2 at Sakraba village. The building was inau-gurated by Rev. Dr. Philip SJ, principal of Nazareth School in Pfutsero.

The building was dedi-cated by Most Rev Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Nagaland, updates from the Catholic au-thorities stated on Friday.

In his speech, the bishop thanked God for the blessing the people received through dedicated missionaries. He hoped that the people would ‘be more open to the Catholic presence in the area and the new school will be a source of great learning,’ the updates from the organisers stated. The bishop was also informed to have clarified that the church was not a merely social agency

for education, but fundamen-tally religious that continues the mission of Jesus.

It is not a government that has plenty of money, but its wealth is its committed priests and religious who have com-mitted their life and make great sacrifice in order to proclaim the message and values of Jesus by their lives, the updates stated him as having said dur-ing the event.

Staff ReporterDimapur, June 2 (EMN): The Institute of Company Secretar-ies of India (ICSI) announced limited time free waiver for stu-dents of Nagaland from June 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 where the students (with no age bar) can register for free for any pro-grammes under company secre-taries and executive programme with five years validity. This was announced by ICSI President Dr. Shyam Agrawal to media persons at a press conference at Unity College Dimapur.

With a vision to be a global leader in promoting good corpo-rate governance and a mission to develop high calibre profession-als facilitating good corporate governance, the first Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) study centre in Nagaland was launched on Friday at Unity College Dimapur.

ICSI is a premier national professional body established to

regulate and develop the profes-sion of Company Secretaries under an Act of Parliament (The Company Act 1980) under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India briefed Dr. Agrawal.

With a nationwide network with its headquarter at New Delhi, ICSI has four regional offices at Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, for Northeast re-gion at Kolkata and 69 chapters across the country. In Northeast region there are 14 study centres in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland with only 500 students registered.

“This study centre will be a great opportunity for students of the Northeast region par-ticularly for remote areas where students can enrol themselves after their Secondary or gradua-tion in line with the initiative of ICSI to create a regional balance in the entire country” said Dr. Agrawal.

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only we apply our minds and change our mindset.’

The vice chancel-lor urged upon the community to make Nagaland University ‘the way it should be’ and one which can be achieved only if all adhere to the motto reform, perform and transform.

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Human microbiome project launched in NE Rumour creates unrest in Karbi Anglong schools

Journalist’s residence raided in M’laya Ex-chief of IB appointed interlocutor for talks in Assam

FINER delegation meets Jaitley Manipur Legislative Assembly holds special session

AR provides assistance to flood victims

Doley inspects Sarusajai sports complex ahead of FIFA world cup

Matikhru Village Council appeals govt for protection

Ban on cattle trade will severely affect economy: Mizo MP

Congress office, vehicles damaged in Meghalaya

Assam’s old historic Cotton College becomes Cotton University

Assam Rifles personnel helping victims of flood on Friday in Manipur.

School children seen here in Theso Terang village in west Karbi Anlong.

Director NCCS and Director IBSD launching ‘Indian Human Microbiome’ Project on Friday at Imphal.

Our correspondentImphal, June 2 (EMN): In a move to explore new way of treatment to some of the human diseases, a multi-disciplinary initiative under the banner Indian human microbiome project was launched in North East region here on Friday.

The formal launching function of the five years project held at Institute of Bioresources and Sustain-able Development (IBSD)

premises here was attended by Director IBSD Prof Di-nabandhu Sahoo, Dr Shek-har C Mande, Director, National Centre for Cell Sciences (NCCS), Pune, Dr Yogesh S Shouche, Senior Micorbiologist, NCCS Pune and Dr Kanury V S Rao, Head, Drug Discovery Re-search Centre, Translational Health Science and Tech-nology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad. IBSD, NCCS and THSTI are all under

Department of Biotechnol-ogy, government of India.

Speaking on the occa-sion, Director IBSD Prof Sahoo said,“The micro-organisms, mainly bacteria, which are present in human body which is inhabited by 10 times more micro-organ-isms (mainly bacteria) than the total number of cells present in our own body, can be very good sources of new drugs which can cure several kinds of diseases.”

Our correspondentDiphu, June 2 (EMN): Rumour about forced ‘infertility vaccination’ allegedly by a medical team broke out on June 1 at Diphu, Dokmoka, Hidipi and other parts in the district of Karbi An-glong. It was reported that after receiving the false message, school children left classes at half-period from fear of receiving vac-cination.

A primary school stu-dent of Rengbonghom L.P School, Rongkhang under Kheroni Police Sta-tion said ‘in fear of force-ful injection, we ran in a group and hid in the sugarcane field.

The students’ parents informed that they re-ceived the message from Diphu over phone inform-ing that the students were

‘forcefully injecting the in-fertility vaccination.’ Af-ter hearing of the ‘messag-es we went to pick up our children from the school,’ added the parents.

In this regard, the dis-trict administration has made a clarification to the public that there was no such type of vaccination being conducted in the district.

Dr. Kareng Rongpipi, joint director of Health Service-member secre-tary, District Health So-ciety, Karbi Anglong through a press com-muniqué stated that ru-mours were spreading in the district of Karbi Anglong that some chil-dren had died after being vaccinated in schools in Dokmoka area under Howraghat Block Public Health Center (PHC).

However, a f ter con-ducting a thorough on-the-spot enquiry by the medical team led by Ad-ditional Chief Medical & Health Officer (Fam-ily Officer) and District Immunization Officer, Karbi Anglong, it was found that the alleged incident of deaths due to vaccination was false and baseless.

There is no vaccina-tion campaign going on in Karbi Anglong district. It is only Routine Immuni-zation (RI) which is going on at health institutions/VHND session sites. The health department also urged the public, students and teachers particularly, not to panic. They were also advised not to be-lieve in rumours and ad-vised them to contact the authorities.

Shillong, June 2 (PTI): Meghalaya police today raided the residence of a sen-ior journalist here allegedly without a warrant while he was away at his workplace.

The Shillong Press Club has condemned the raid at the residence of P Sohkhlet, also their general secretary, and termed it as “unprofes-sional behaviour” by the po-lice, who entered all rooms without any warrant from the court of law.

Defending the raid, city police SP Vivek Syiem said, “We acted on a specific in-formation that a wanted per-son was hiding there. How do we know it is a residence

of a journalist?” Asked if there was any

warrant for the raid, Syiem said the raid was conducted as soon as the information was received. A team was sent to the location.

Sohkhlet’s nephew is a Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) activist and was away in his native village when the raid took place. KSU had led an attack at a railway con-struction site in Ri-Bhoi dis-trict last month after which six of its leaders were ar-rested in connection with it.

Sohkhlet said the raid was “inappropriate” as there was no formal warrant is-sued to his nephew to ap-

pear in a police station in any case.

“How can they enter rooms occupied by women and even barge into the toi-lets? My entire family was shaken as I was not there,” Sohkhlet said.

Shillong Press Club President D O Laitphlang demanded action against those involved in the raid.

“The Shillong Press Club takes strong exception to this uncouth and unprofessional behaviour by the law keep-ers and demands stringent action against the concerned personnel with immediate effect,” Laitphlang said in a statement.

N ew D e l h i , Ju n e 2 (PTI): Former director of the Intelligence Bu-reau, Dineshwar Shar-ma, has taken charge as the interlocutor for peace talks with Assam’s insurgent groups, in-cluding the United Lib-eration Front of Asom (ULFA).

Sharma, a 1976 batch Kerala cadre IPS offic-er, retired as director of the IB on December 31, 2016.

He was appointed as the interlocutor for talks

with Assam-based insur-gent groups last week.

Sharma took charge yesterday, official sourc-es said.

Shar ma, who has been appointed for a ten-ure of one year, will hold peace negotiations with pro-talks factions of the ULFA, National Demo-cratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and a few other small groups based in Assam.

The last interlocutor P C Haldar had served till December 31, 2015.

Guwahati, June 2 (PTI): The Federation of Industry and Commerce of North Eastern Region (FINER) has urged the Centre to take up issues related to development and invest-ment promotion along with a focussed industrial policy for the North East.

A delegation compris-ing FINER President Pa-bitra Buragohain, immedi-ate past chairman R S Joshi and former vice-chairman Amit Kumar Jain called on Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi last night and discussed is-sues related to sustainable development and invest-ment promotion measures in the North East.

The delegation in a memorandum submitted to the finance minister wel-comed the central govern-ment’s initiative to take up as a priority the new indus-trial policy for the region,

a FINER release said here today.

The delegation urged that benefits corresponding to the refund of 100 per cent excise duty be paid, along with other incentives whcih should be retained in the new policy with suitable modifications.

The new industrial poli-cy for the Northeast is likely to be out later this month with industry bodies wait-ing for clarity from policy makers.

The FINER delegation also congratulated Jaitley, who is also the chairman of the GST Council, for the Goods and Service Tax (GST) which is being rolled out from July 1, 2017.

They drew his attention to issues related to banking in the region, which, they said, needs to be addressed in “right earnest” to ensure inclusive and sustainable development.

Our CorrespondentImphal, June 2 (EMN): The special session of Manipur Legislative As-sembly begins here by observing a two minute silence and moving a resolution on the sudden demise of former MLA Karam Thamarjit Singh of Keirao assembly constitu-ency. Former MLA Thamarjit who represents Keirao assembly constitu-ency in Imphal East district passes away on May 25 this year.

The first day of the two day sit-tings of the assembly on Friday also witnessed introduction of Manipur Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill 2017. Deputy Chief Minister Yum-nam Joykumar Singh who holds the finance portfolio, introducing the bill sought cooperation from the members of the assembly in passing

the bill. “It is very essential to pass the

GST Bill,” says Joykumar. “We can-not be part of GST If we fail to pass the bill in the house.” This will enable to maintain uniformity in taxing at the state and central government levels, he added.

The decisions of GST were taken in its council meeting which was chaired by Union Finance Minister. So far 14th GST council meeting had been organised the 15th council meeting will be held on June 3 in New Delhi.

It may be mentioned that Ma-nipur authority had been urging inclusion of state’s favourite Ngari or dried and fermented fish and beauti-ful Manipuri handloom products in the exemption list of GST when the

new tax system comes into force in country from July 1 this year.

Ngari is an important ingredient in making delicious Manipuris deli-cacies Chamthong/kangshoi (veg-etable stew), Eromba (a side dish) or Morok metpa (chilli chutney) or Singju (salad), Paknam (vegetable or fish cake) while locally consumed handloom products are popular be-cause of its comfortable quality and affordable rates.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, opposition leader Okram Ibobi Singh, consumers affairs min-ister Karam Shyam, works minister Th Biswajit, PHE minister L Dikho, Social welfare minister Nemcha Kip-gen and MLAs P Brojen, Rameshwar participated in the day’s obituary reference.

Imphal, June 2 (EMN): The units of 9 Sector As-sam Rifles (AR) under the

aegis of HQ IGAR (South) extended assistance to the villagers of Nungei, Uchi-

wa and Lilong in Manipur.Soldiers from Mayang

Imphal company post

Guwahati, June 2 (PTI): Assam Minister of State and Youth Welfare Naba Kumar Doley has visited the Sarusa-jai sports complex here and inspected the ongoing work at the stadium, which will be hosting FIFA Under-17 World Cup.

The minister was ac-companied by a team of sports and youth welfare de-partment and public works

(building) department, an official release said.

The minister inspected all the sites yesterday and instructed the PWD officials to expedite and complete the work within the stipulated time. Doley said that holding matches of FIFA Under-17 World Cup is a matter of pride not only for the state but for the entire north east region.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Matikhru Village Council (MVC) along with all its citizens has condemned the indiscriminate firing upon the innocent Matikh-ru villagers on the 27th of May, 2017 at around 4:00 to 5:00 PM while working at their paddy field border-ing the state of Manipur.

In a press release by MVC Chairman Masi Kat-iry said when the villagers after their hard day work were preparing to leave their paddy filed and walk back to their village, all of a sudden, they were fired upon by Jessami villagers with sophisticated weapon for more than half an hour, making them run like rab-bits in their own land and jurisdiction.

The chairman said none of the villagers were hit by the bullet except-ing minor injuries caused to them while fleeing the targeted place of occur-rence. Upon investigating by the concerned authori-ties along with the villagers on 28th May, 2017, on the place of occurrence, bul-let marks were all visible both inside and outside the hut, piercing through the walls causing damage to

their belongings, including utensils and even found the bullets which were fired by Jessami villagers he stated.

MVC has appealed to all the organizations, hohos, and likeminded person to come forward to act for such inhuman activities.

The council further stated that the villagers were rebuilding their vil-lage from the wrath of In-dian forces that annihilated and wiped out from the af-termath of 6th September, 1960. The council added this as insane and barbaric and said that Jessami vil-lagers have been continu-ously haunting them de-spite successive goodwill initiations from various agencies to recognise their age old boundary demar-cations respecting ones independent village.

MVC also reminds the Government of Nagaland, to kindly protect and uphold the territorial boundary of Nagaland and to expedite all the pending cases of destruction, encroachment and the firing incidents so as to deliver justice and dis-play a semblance of law and order even in a remote area like ours.

Aizawl, June 2 (PTI): Mizoram’s lone Rajya Sabha member Ronald Sapa Tlau today said trade involving beef and buffalo meat contributes to 18 per cent of the country’s GDP and prohibition of cattle trade would severely affect the economy.

Addressing party workers at the Congress bhavan here, Tlau said that beef ban by the BJP led NDA govern-ment at the Centre has been opposed by many states in the country as it in-fringed the federal structure of India.

The ban is also against the spirit of

the citizen’s right to eat as per his/her choice, he said.

“The radical moves by the BJP and the RSS would backfire,” the MP said, adding that demonetisation was also one of the “hidden agendas” of the ruling BJP.

Shillong, June 2 (PTI): Days after the arrest of five student leaders, unknown people set on fire a Con-gress office and damaged three vehicles in Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya, po-lice said today.

The Congress office was attacked in the wee hours yesterday and the main door of the build-ing was partially burnt, they said. A newspaper transport vehicle, a police requisition bus and another vehicle were attacked with petrol bombs in Nongmyn-song and Umiam Lake areas respectively in the district last night. All three vehicles were damaged.

The Ri-Bhoi district ad-ministration has imposed prohibitory orders under

section 144 CrPC prevent-ing assembly of five or more persons at a public place.

Security has also been beefed up in the state capi-tal here with the district police bringing additional forces to guard government property and installations.

The attacks came days after five Khasi Students Union leaders were ar-rested for allegedly leading an arson attack at a rail-way construction site last month in protest against the railway project in Ri-Bhoi district.

The KSU, an influential students body here, has aired their opposition to the railway project fearing influx of outsiders in the tribal-dominated state.

Guwahati, June 2 (PTI): The 117-year-old historic Cotton Col-lege in Guwahati today merged with Cotton College State Uni-versity to form Cotton University.

Assam Education Minis-ter Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma unveiled the new identity of the institute during a renaming ceremony.

Though the renaming cer-emony was held amid protests by Cottonians, the Cotton College Teachers Association (CCTA)

welcomed the decision and an-nouncement of the state govern-ment to upgrade Cotton College to a university with effect from today. Sarma at the ceremony said he wanted the new univer-sity to be not only a centre of excellence of the North East region but a front ranking uni-versity of South East Asia. The Cotton College had observed its last foundation day on May 27.

It marked the end of the jour-ney in the north eastern region of

India that began 117 years ago in 1901.

The Assam government had proclaimed Cotton College, the premier college of Assam and eastern India, as a full-fledged university under the name Cot-ton University in January 2017 by an Act and merged Cotton College and Cotton College State University together.

The year 2011 saw the decla-ration of the historic Act of the Government of Assam whereby

the institution was upgraded to Cotton College State University (CCSU) with Cotton College as its sole constituent college.

Cotton College was also de-clared as a Special Heritage Col-lege in 2015.

The journey of higher edu-cation in the north eastern re-gion had begun in 1901 with prominent public figure of the state Manick Chandra Barooah strongly advocating for setting up of a college in Guwahati with

suitable boarding facilities.Students of the province had

to go to Kolkata (Calcutta) for higher studies then.

According to historical re-cords, Manick Chandra in his letter (1899) to the British govern-ment had stated that Assam was the only province without a col-lege and it would be cheaper for people of Upper Assam to stay at Guwahati than in Calcutta (Kolkata).

On November 3, 1899 in

Guwahati, the then Assam prov-ince Chief Commissioner Sir Henry Cotton made the an-nouncement to establish a col-lege in Assam, the records state.

In a meeting, the public here had decided to name the newly established college after the then Chief Commissioner Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton.

He had formally declared Cotton College open under Cal-cutta University at a public meet-ing here on May 27, 1901.

Prof Fredrick William Sud-mersen then arrived at Guwahati on that day to take charge as the first principal of the college.

After establishment of Gauhahi University in 1948 as the first university of the prov-ince, the affiliation of Cotton College was transferred from Calcutta University to Gauhati University in the same year.

All departments of Cotton College were offering post radu-ate courses since 1994.

“The trillions of mi-crobes in and on our body contribute for many aspects of our health, from digest-ing different foods and mak-ing essential vitamins and also help in boosting our immune system and protect us from different patho-gens,” he added.

Realising the impor-tance of micro-organisms, United States of America launched ‘The Human Mi-crobiome Project’ at a cost of $215 million. A similar project was also launched in Europe.

Considering the diverse topographies of NE India which have more than 220 ethnic groups with diverse food habits, the project was launched in the region as it will have tremendous ap-plications in understanding how micro-organisms affect human health and disease.

The launching of the project is likely to provide fertile grounds for discovery

of new drugs, pharmaceuti-cals besides leading to a new understanding of the mu-tual relationship between humans and the associated micro-organisms, Prof Sa-hoo felt.

The idea of the pro-ject in common men’s language is to find other forms of treatment in case of diabetes,obesity and psychological disorders in particularly, says Senior Micorbiologist Dr Yogesh S Shouche of NCCS Pune.

We will be studying on various aspects as well as same micro-organisms can-not be applied to different individuals of a different community at a different location.The study needs in-puts from experts in diverse fields. On the other hand NCCS Director Dr Shekhar C Mande said that the pilot project in NE could be ex-panded across the country once it develops its sustain-ability.

of 5 Jammu & Kashmir Rifles responded to the call given by villagers of Uchiwa when the river embankment was breached resulting in flooding of the houses in the area. The troops also not only helped the locals in plugging the breach but also established an adhoc medical camp to provide medicines and relief to the needy.

Personnel from Lilong post of 6 AR reached out to help the locals when a sluice gate of the canal broke inundating the low lying areas. Villagers and AR troops worked against time and an adhoc gate was constructed thereby controlling the rapidly de-teriorating situation to a large extent.

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Organisers with the participants during the awareness cum open house discussion programme at Peren and Wokha.

Phek Forest Division officials along with the villagers during the installation of solar street lights.Branch manager, NSCB Mon, W Chemkai addressing women during loan release function to 32 SHGs at DRDA Mon on May 31.

DCPU conducts open house discussion on child protection programme

Two days workshop on mathematics learning kit

NSCB Mon releases loan to 32 NRLM SHGs

Awareness cum installation of solar street lights prog at Mutsale

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Dis-trict Child Protection Units (DCPU) organised an aware-ness programme cum open house discussion on Child Protection Mechanism at main headquarters of all the eleven districts of Nagaland from May 17 to 27.

The participants included stakeholders from District ad-

ministration, various commu-nity bodies, including village council chairman, members, ward leaders, tribal bodies, naga hohos, church representa-tives, women leaders, student community, representatives from various village level child protection committees and ward/colony level child protec-tion committees, child welfare

committees, juvenile justice boards, special juvenile police units, Childline 1098 and vari-ous NGOs.

The main objective of the programme was to bring awareness to the public about the various delivery structures that are under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme, edu-cating the community on the

various child protection mech-anisms and encouraging them to participate and safeguard their community children against various vulnerabilities. The programme aimed to seek measures for reduction of such cases by deliberating in the Open House discussion.

During the open house discussion, various issues on

children such as child labour, child abuse, adoption, custom-ary practices, children in con-flict with law, were deliberated, with child labour as one of the key issues that was faced by all the districts.

A brief overview of Women Helpline 181 and their services provided to women was also presented in the programme.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): A two-day workshop on mathematics learning kit on the theme, “Math-ematics may not teach us how to add happiness or minus sadness, but it does teach one important thing: Every problem has a solution: Lets make Mathematics simple” was held at EBRC-L Khel Kohima Village on May 29 and 30.

Training and research associate TRA, SCERT Kohima , Kethovilie Sachü was the resource person.

The workshop was conducted for in- service primary teachers from schools under EBRC-L Khel Block.

The workshop pro-gramme was chaired by Vizonielie Peinyü ToT, welcome and keynote concept delivered by Vi-sato Koso, Co- ordina-tor and exhortations by SDEO Kohima, Talin-gangla and Rokonieno, programme assistant of DMA, SSA, Kohima.

Exhorting the teacher

trainees both the speakers highlighted the important and effectiveness of teach-ing basic mathematics which is the need of the hour especially in Gov-ernment Primary Schools in Nagaland. While the former speaker SDEO, encouraged the trainees not to be afraid of math-ematics though many of them may not be with mathematics background, but to deliver good quality teaching patterns.

On the second day, review of day 1 pro-grammes was followed by practical classes and dem-onstrations of learning kits by the trainees to the students of classes 1 to 5 of GMS L. Khel, Model School of the training centre. All together 62 teachers attended the two day workshop.

The workshop con-cluded with a brief feed-back given by resource person advising the train-ees to take proper care of the learning kit materials to be provided for schools soon.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): Nagaland State Cooperative Bank (NSCB) Mon Branch released loan to 32 women SHGs in a function organised by DMMU NSRLM Mon at DRDA re-source centre on May 31. Altogether 60 SHGs from amongst 258 SHGs have availed loan from the Bank.

W. ChemkaiKonyak, Branch Man-ager, NSCB Mon Branch in his speech expressed happiness to grant loan to NRLM SHGs at 7% per cent, minimum interest, as per the directive of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Government of India. He reminded the women folk that loan money is the customer’s money which is deposited or kept with the Bank, and loanees failing to recover the money in time will fail the Bank to return to its customers. He said loving the bank is symbolized by good support from the public. Encouraging them, he said the amount availed from fresh loan is only for initial support but good re-covery by SHGs will enable higher level for bigger projects.

M Temjen Longchar, District Pro-gram Manager-cum Project Officer DRDA Mon, in his speech lauded the performance of the staff and community cadres for putting effort in bringing good SHGs. He said the rural women SHGs under NRLM are functioning very well and expressed hope that it will become the best and most successful programme in the State. He also grateful to the role played by the Bank Manager and for his cooperation and support in bringing changes within the grass-root.

Rajuselie Lhousa, District Coor-dinator (financial inclusion), in chair-man’s address said 32 SHGs got the op-portunity of availing loan through the good recovery reputation of the earlier loanees. He declared that every village under Mon Block is credit linked with one or more SHGs. He shared his plan to initiate another round of selection of SHGs by the respective Village Level Organization (VLOs) in the month of June to put up to State Bank of India (SBI) Mon Branch.

Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): An awareness programme cum installa-tion of solar street lights was held at Mutsale vil-lage, Phek organised by Phek Forest Division on June 1. Solar street lights were installed at several strategic locations in the village as part of entry point activity under the FDA programme.

The Nato Commu-nity Reserved Forest of Mutsale village forms one of the most impor-tant watersheds in the Tizu area that feeds Tho-zuru River, an important tributary of Tizu River. Under the FDA pro-gramme, JFMC, Mutsale and the village council has planted many varie-ties of fruiting and fast growing species covering an area of 10 Ha during the current year.

DFO, Phek, Rong-senlemla Imchen appre-ciated the village com-munity for cooperating with the department and stressed on the im-portance of efficient use of energy with special reference to forest and wild life conservation. She said that the depart-ment aims to offset some amount of GHG’s to mitigate global warm-ing through the efficient use of renewable energy such as solar energy with the cooperation of the villagers.

NO.M-223/17/22388-89 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Y.AMOMG (AMONGBA) CHANG -Vrs- NEILHOUTSU resident of PURANA BAZAR Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 01.7.2017.SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder: Y.AMOMG (AMONGBA) CHANGVillage/Block No: NAHARBARI, Patta No: 144Dag No: 274, Area: 01B-02K-12LsNorth: INAHO ROCHIL, South: Y. AOMNG CHANG, East: INAHO ROCHIL, West: Y.AMOMG CHANG

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICTHEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt. Dimapur the 01st May’ 17

Sd/- Deputy CommissionerDimapur: Nagaland

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NO.M-229/17/2442-43- Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Alemshiba Jamir -Vrs- Kezhaneilhou resident of Naharbari Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 01.7.2017.SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder: Alemshiba JamirVillage/Block No: Darogajan, Patta No: 360Dag No: 199/485, Area: 00-01-17

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICTHEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt. Dimapur the 01.06.17

Sd/- Deputy CommissionerDimapur: Nagaland

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

KOHIMA ::: NAGALANDNo. JUDL/SUCC/84/2017-III Dated Kohima, the 29th May, 2017

Whereas Smti. KEVILHOUKIE-Ü VIZO W/o LT. NEIPHREKHOLIE FELIX VIZO, ASI (INT) PHQ, Nagaland, Kohima resident of L. Khel Kohima Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925, Part X to draw/withdraw/operate/ transfer his/her late husband- Pension , leave encashment, NPRIS, G.I.S & G.P.F. Bank A/C No- 30147199538 SBI Bazar Branch, Kohima. Who expired on 28/04/2017.

Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/objection if any within 1 (one) month from the date of issue of this notice. (T.L.KIUSUMONG TIKHIR)

Additional Deputy CommissionerKohima: NagalandKG-1735

OBJECTION NOTICE

CONDOLENCE MESSAGELATE Mr. V.K. SEMA (VIKIYE ZHIMOMI)

I, on behalf of Manik Bhattacharjee Foundation, Dimapur convey my

heartfelt grief at the unexpected demise of Late Mr. V. K. Sema (Vikiye Zhimomi).

Late Mr. V. K. Sema was a man of versatile personality, who was endowed with many humane qualities. He was a renowned socio- political leader.

I fondly remember that he was a close associate of Late Manik Bhattacharjee and extended his utmost co-operation in all the humanitarian activities of Late Bhattacharjee, He was enthroned in the hearts of the people and his death has caused an irrepairable loss for all and sundry. Language fails to express our grief at the loss of such a distinguished entity.

M. B. Foundation shares the grief of the bereaved family members.

May his soul rest in Heavenly abode.

Dated at Dimapur,the 02nd June, 2017.

(Monoj Bhattacharjee)Organiser,

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TEACHER REQUIREDBachpan and Seven Star Convent School urgently required Male & Female Teachers for All Subject with Attractive Salary. Interested Candidates Can Apply. Interview in Guwahati -Hotel Vishwaratna, A.T. Road, Interview Date-6th June ‘17, Time-10 AM to 6PM. Interview in Jorhat -Hotel Sky Star, Nehru Park Road, Interview Date-5th June ‘17, Time-10 AM to 6 PM email: bachpanschoolmaulasar@gmail.com. Contact No-08432777771, 08432777772, 09772371996

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDDIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT, SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

NAGALAND: KOHIMADated Kohima, the 2nd June’ 2017

ADVERTISEMENTNO.DET-2/14/2001(Pt.1) : The Directorate of Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship in Technical Association with Emporium Training & Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. Announces Recruitment Drive for Indigo Airlines.Vacancies open for : Cabin Crew (only Female), Airport Operations & Customer Service Officers (Male/Female).

INTERVIEW DATES:Kohima: 19th & 20th June, 2017 Dimapur: 21st & 22nd June, 2017Venue: Multipurpose Hall, Symbios Creation Pvt. Ltd., IT Complex,Directorate of Employment, (Opposite Town Hall), Nagarjan junction,Skill Development & DimapurEntrepreneurship, Time: 10 AM onwardsHigh School Road, KohimaTime: 10 AM onwards

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Cabin Crew:

• Female Indian Nationals, with Indian Passport, between 18-27 years age.• Passed 10+2, from a recognized Board or University.• Fluency & clarity of speech in both English & Hindi.• Height: Minimum 155 cms, with proportionate weight, as per BMI.• Clear skin, positive body language and well groomed. No visible scars or tattoo.

Airport Operations and Customer Service Officer:

• Male & Female Indian Nationals can apply, between 18-27 years age.• Fluency & clarity of speech in both English & Hindi.• Positive body language and well groomed. No visible scars or tattoo.• Any Graduate from a recognized University or body.

Candidates are requested to submit the following to the undersigned : Two copies of resume, 4 passport size photos, 2 full length photos, Passport & other Photo ID proof, Employment Exchange Registration Card alongwith all educational documents as mentioned in the eligibility criteria’s.

Last date of submission of application:Kohima: 16th June, 2017Dimapur: 17th June, 2017For information & clarification:Contact No.: (1) 09830051555 (Emporium Training) (2) 9436062368 (State Govt.)

(MUTHINGNYUBA SANGTAM)Director,

Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship,Nagaland, Kohima

KG-1736

E-TENDER NOTICE NO.: LMG /Engg/10 of 2017 (Item No. 1 & 2)

DTD.: 30-05-2017Work tenders through E-Tende-

ring System for and on behalf of the President of India are invited for the works as detailed below:

SN 01. Brief Description of Item : At Dimapur-Provision of new foot over Bridge (FOB) connection to PF No.1 & 2/3 at Dimapur station. Tender Value : ` 3,51,26,101/-; Earnest Money: ` 3,25,640/-; Cost of tender documents: ` 10,000/-; Completion period of work : 08 Months.

SN 02. Brief Description of Item : At Lumding-Provision of 2 (two) nos. Escalator on PF No. 1 and on circulating area (Near Vivekananda Railway Stadium) and other related works. Tender Value : ` 75,09,471/-; Earnest Money: ` 1,50,190/-; Cost of tender documents: ` 5,000/-; Completion period of work : 06 Months.

Date & time of closing of above e-tender : 15.00 hours of 05-07-2017.

Date & time of opening of above e-tender :15.00 hours of 06-07-2017.

Note: The complete information with tender documents of above e-tender will be available upto 15.00 hrs. of 05-07-2017 in website http://www.ireps.gov.in. The tenderer requires to submit their e-tender on this website only.

In case of any difficulty, help desk available on the website of IREPS may be approached.

Eligibility criteria of the work will be Item No. (1) "Any Steel Structure Fabrication and Launching Works". Item No.(2) "Any building works with framed structure".

Divl. Railway Manager (Works) Lumding

NORTHEAST FRONTIER RAILWAYServing Customers With A Smile

I Aghatoli H Sema, am applying for a duplicate copy of 1st semester Admit Card as I have lost them.Name : Aghatoli H SemaF/Name : T. Honito SemaD.O.B.: 26.02.1994College : Patkai Christian College (Autonomous)

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The village council and local functionaries thanked the Nagaland Forest Department and appreciated the DFO and Phek Forest Division for raising environmental awareness in the village.

The department had earlier installed solar street lights in 7 villages through various schemes of the department and also distributed solar lamps to every house-hold in 20 villages in-cluding Mutsale village under Phek district in collaboration with Eco Solution.

KBBB organises seminar for VCCs and VDBsD i m a p u r , J u n e 2 (EMN): To enlighten thoughts towards better future, Konyak Bap-tist Bumeinok-Bangjum (KBBB) organised a sem-inar for Konyak VCC and VDB secretaries on May 29 to 30 under the theme “Authorities are from God” at Mission Centre Mon.

Dr. Achan Mungleng and Rev. Dr. Chingmak were the resource per-sons while Rev. M. Ton-long, Pastor KBCD & Peihwang Literature sec-retary of KBBB, and Rev.

Dr. Pongsing were the speakers. Rev. T. Hon-long Principal MTC and Ashim District Chaplain led the devotion service. DC Mon, W. Honje Kon-yak who also spoke at the seminar said Social change begins at home. He also urged the VCC and VDB secretaries to work with sincerity and dedication at their respec-tive village.

Konyal Union presi-dent, Manlip also ad-dressed the gathering.

More than 200 people attended the seminar.

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EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Saturday, June 3, 2017

ReadeRs’ Mirror Views & reViews

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said –

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

Nothing can be closer to the truth. The damaging effects of alco-hol are seen in every sphere of life, be it physical, mental or social. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that alcohol dependency affects 140 million people world-wide, inflicting damage onnumer-ous lives and economies. An esti-mated global mortality rate of 3.8% is ascribed to alcohol consumption alone. Further, alcoholic liver dis-ease is one of theforemost causes of alcohol-related morbidity and mor-tality.Excessive drinking has a sig-nificantly negative impact on public health as well.

We are all aware of the harmful effects that alcohol has on our body. However,amongst all your organs that bear the brunt of drinking too much alcohol, your liver is the most-ly badly affected.Under normal con-ditions, your liver breaks down alco-hol, so it can be removed from your body. As alcohol is broken down in

your liver, several potentially haz-ardous by-productsare produced in your body.Your liver is able to de-toxify only a certain fixed amount of alcohol over a period of time. Drink-ing more alcohol than your liver can process seriously injures and dam-ages your liver and leads to alcoholic liver disease.

Alcoholic liver disease gives rise to symptoms such as pain or discom-fort in the abdomen, liver enlarge-ment, jaundice, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, collection of fluid in the ab-dominal cavity, bleeding, and so on.

If you are suffering from al-coholic liver disease, don’t worry. Here’s what you can do to speed up your recovery –

Quitting alcohol is rough and tough but it is worth enough!

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• Regenerates liver cells: Punar-nava (Boerrhaviadiffusa), Sar-pankhaPanchang (Tephrosiapur-purea), Kalmegh (Andrographi

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• Improves liver function: Herbs likeBhumiamalaki (Phyllanthus-niruri)dramatically improve liver functionand restore elevated liver enzymes.

• Reverses alcohol-inducedliver disease: Punarnava (Bo-errhaviadiffusa), Bhumiamalaki, (Phyllanthusniruri), Kalmegh

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Disclaimer:-Ayurvedic medicine, helpful in men-tioned conditions. Seek medical ad-vice if symptoms persist.

The green and virgin forest of Nagaland provides pleasant habitat for wild life in Naga-land. Herds of animals and

flocks of birds that found their way into our forest are happy to dwell beside us. This is because Nagas are eco-friendly tribal people. The Nagas are closely associated with nature and its cycle of life.

Human civilization took its birth in the wild forest. Later, with the change of life style, the forest gave it-self up for the sake of human beings to develop and live as groups in vil-lages and towns. The vicinity of each other gave men a sense of security. Clearing of jungles and trees became necessary for human survival. Yet, there are lives besides human life. The forest, birds, animals and other reptiles also form ‘one life’. To de-stroy them would mean destroying a part of human life.

Therefore, the green forest must be protected before it becomes desert. The climatic change in this few decades has adversely affected both human and wild life. Realizing its negative impact, many organiza-tions and associations began to instil into the minds of the people the need for preservation of wild life. The good initiative taken up by many NGOs must be further encouraged. The Government must also see to the proper preservation of wild life in the forest and not only in the zoo.

Of late, there has been a clarion call with regard to restrictions of hunting and fishing. This is so be-cause every bird and animal that lives in our jurisdiction has a role to play for our well being. I am sure no one is disturbed by the barking of the deer, the chirping of the birds, the buzzing of the bees, the sound of the trees, the rushing of the river, etc. Flora and fauna add joy to the happi-ness of man’s life.

Sometimes, destructive actions

overtake our human goodness. We destroy all that does not belong to us. A small bird that sings happily in the morning is chased up and down and killed. Tiny birds with beautiful feathers that fly around are merci-lessly butchered. Wild animals that roam about peacefully are shot. As the saying goes, “Nagas eat all mov-ing creatures.” (from Assam dogs to the tiniest insect). Luckily vehicles and airplanes are not living creatures. If so, NST buses will be plying with bones alone, the flesh will be eaten soon after the inauguration (some-times it happens in Nagaland). Like-wise, many pots are washed clean to welcome Amur falcons and wild ducks. These birds are then anointed with costly scented perfumes of ax-one and bamboo shoots inside the kitchen. The killer finds satisfaction but the victim is shocked by the cru-elty of man. The selfish hand of man wants to gather everything for him-self, but later he may lose everything.

Even a reserved forest like Inkangki is losing its significance because of random cutting of trees and killing of wildlife by some peo-ple/groups. Lots of illegal business takes place in this forest. The forest’s wealth is sold to Assam for good sum of money. The rich Nagas intrude inside the forest to make themselves richer. After establishing themselves from such money, they come out of the forest and teach people to pre-serve forest. The talk of rich people seems higher value to many Naga ears.

Every individual must play the role of protecting wild life around us. By this we enhance the life of our planet. Let our forest give the best shelter to every reptiles, plants, birds and animals. They can be more hu-man than most human beings.

Yours Sincerely,G. L. Khing

Kohima

Of all the other social prob-lems in today’s modern life, human science has taken a great leap regarding the

study of human behavior and psychol-ogy. NPD or narcissistic personality disorder, according to Dr. Meyers, is “a mixture of formation of human behav-ior which can be related to personality trait, a flaw and heredity.” NPD can be within a family/families and social. In simple words it can be seen as “me, myself and I,” disregarding any other importance of others and mainly work-ing on own self-image.

According to analysis of Preston Li, narcissistic parent can be defined as “someone who lives through, is pos-sessive of, and/or engages in marginal-izing competition with their offspring.” Usually, the narcissistic parent assumes the independence of a child, including adult children, as a threat. These types of parents intimidate their children to the point of complete submission, hav-ing unreasonable expectations. In a narcissistic parenting relationship, the child is rarely loved just for being her-self or himself. William Blake (1757 - 1827) in his poem”The clod and the pebble” describes the NPD behavior.

Love seeketh only Self to please,To bind another to its delight,Joys in another’s loss of ease,

And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite.It's important to distinguish certain

parent-centric tendencies from chronic narcissistic parenting. Many parents want to show off their children, have high expectations, may be firm at times (such as when a child is behav-ing destructively), and desire their off-spring to make them proud. None of these traits alone constitute narcissism. What distinguishes the narcissistic par-ent is a pervasive tendency to deny the offspring, even as an adult, a sense of independent self-hood. The offspring

exists merely to serve the selfish needs and machinations of the parent(s) or narcissistic elders.

Some of the signs of narcissistic parents according to behavioral study are:

Narcissistic parents feel threatened by offspring’s potential, promise, and success, as they challenge the parent’s self-esteem. Narcissistic parents might discourage child in the effort of re-maining superior.

Many narcissistic parents have a false self-image about their own supe-riority and grandiosity.

They are very manipulative on sib-lings and perceive love as conditional reward rather than the natural expres-sion of healthy parenting. They show extreme lack of empathy to the child’s own thoughts and feelings.

Narcissistic parents expect their children to take care of them for the rest of their lives. This type of depend-ency can be emotional, physical, and/or financial. While there’s nothing wrong with taking care of older parents she or he may become extremely jeal-ous at any sign of the child’s growing maturity and independence.

These activities may provide the narcissist the stimulation, validation, and self-importance for she or he craves, and a case of mental disorder of bullying and false supremacy. It spreads its venom to every part of the family and destroys relationships.

There are individuals within these families, who grow up to be genuine, strong and productive human beings. The best defense is to learn as best as you can to know the narcissistic person and take good care of yourself.

NPD may be an unexpected and hidden psychological problem already deeply rooted in our families and social life with its multiple head speaking and professing in falsehood and superiority, in different tunes, which can be very destructive if not understood and dealt with in time.

How Livoerb Can Help Recovery in Alcoholic Liver Disease

Besides Human Life Narcissism in Our Society

The sea is calm tonight.The sky lit wit' stars bright.

My lonely Voyage continues,Guided only by heavenly

clues.

Captain of my own soul,I'd chosen to heed the call

Of my destiny from the deep;And I'd keep sailing ere I

sleep.

Deadly storms I've facedHad faith & hope replaced

By clouds of despair and rage;Proved too costly for my voy-

age.

Anchor'd for many moons;Idly living out cursed boons

In an island of vain pleasures.Bartered off life's true treas-

ures.

Wretched but still alive,Sought the Lord to revive

The soul of a wrecked vessel,That it may once again take

sail.

Adieu, island of vanity!I have regained my sanity.

Ye caused my sins to mature;Robbed my age, not my

future!

Thus I bid thee farewell,And leave wit' a tale to tell,

As I continue with my ventureThat would lead me to my

future.

The sea is calm tonight.My vessel casts a sore-sight.

The winds may turn un-friendly,

But I must keep on sailing bravely.

A. Anato SwuSatakha Town, Zunheboto

The Voyage Continues

Open letter to the Chief Secretary Cum Chairman Executive Committee NEMS, Govt of Nagaland

News Items Prove That Annoying

People Are Often Useful

I have an ethics issue. What do you do when you're having an argument on Facebook and an incredibly stupid, annoying

person joins in, but they're on your side? It's shocking that society has no answers for the huge moral di-lemmas of today.

It's an odd truth that annoying people often turns out to be useful. A case in point was sent to me by reader Ann Chin recently. A daring robber raided a bank in the US state of Vermont and got away.

Elsewhere in the same town, a woman who was the sort of annoy-ing person who gets called an "eco-Nazi" (my family is full of them) was throwing away a piece of gar-bage in her bin.

She noticed someone had thrown away a paper coffee cup in the LIT-TERBIN instead of THE PAPER RECYCLING bin. Outraged, she retrieved it and found it contained a crumpled piece of a paper with writ-ing on it: "This is a robbery give me the money and no one will get hurt." Police guessed it was the robber's practice note and immediately set off in pursuit of the woman's house-cleaner's boyfriend.

The moral of this story? Always put draft copies of criminal threats you write in the correct bin.

You can even make money being annoying. I remember the Inland Revenue Service in Karachi hiring hijras, persons of non-standard gen-der, to stand outside the homes of non-taxpayers and be as annoying as possible until people paid up. A Spanish debt collection agency em-ployed a dog with an annoying yap and a bagpiper for similar purposes.

More recently, the Minnesota police department in the US an-nounced that arrested people may be subjected to a really annoying Jus-tin Bieber video "all the way to the jail". There was no follow-up report on whether the crime rate fell, but I worry that there may have been an unexpected boom in crimes commit-ted by teenage girls.

Now the last time I mentioned this sort of thing, someone pointed out that there's a United Nations convention which specifically bans the repeated playing of unwanted music as torture. But apparently it only applies in war situations. My local police are running a "war on bad parking" but I don't think that counts.

The one group of Annoying People who I find Not Useful are folk who are Excessively Politically Correct. The British Medical Asso-ciation recently issued a guidance document telling doctors and nurses they could refer to mamas-to-be as "pregnant people" to include "trans-men who might become pregnant". This is a bit much. Of course it is possible that I may be swamped with angry letters from pregnant "transmen" but I will take that risk.

It would be annoying to lose the word "mama", a term you find in almost every language around the world. (The exception is Bucking-ham Palace in London, where the Queen's babies have to address her as "ma'am" or find themselves on the "to be beheaded" list.)

One day the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody will go: "Parent-Person, just killed a Person." Just not the same.

(Nury Vittachi is an Asia-based frequent traveller. Send ideas and comments via his Facebook page)

Respected sir, through this esteemed daily, I wish to draw your atten-tion as well as attention of all the concerned to one of the most

shameful practices of corruption commit-ted by the school education department recently. When the result of examination (Adv.no.RMSA/EXAM 2013-14 Dated 17th March 2016) for recruitment of sec-ondary teachers in the upgrade High school in Nagaland, conducted by Nagaland mis-sion education mission society Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA), was officially declared (Notification.no.NLD RMSA/ST-100/2016/434 Dated Kohima the 31st August 2016), it clearly imprinted my name in waiting list number one based on merit. As per the stated norm, if a can-didate from the selected list declines to ac-cept the post and as such vacancy is created in his/her place, the candidates in the wait-ing list, strictly in order of merit, should be called in to fill up the vacancy. But, unfortu-nately, although my name N. Renbeni Ezung

was positioned as waiting list number one in the result sheet given out by the concerned department, I was not called in to fill up the vacancy left by a candidate from the selected list who declined to accept the post. Instead, the candidate whose name was place in wait-ing list number two was invited to fill up the vacant post (Order No.NLD/RMSA/ST-100/2016/573 Dated Kohima 11th Novem-ber 2016).This absolutely reflects discrimina-tion of a qualified deserving candidate and consciously de-recognizing merit.

When I wrote a complaint letter to the concerned department against such anoma-ly, it was not entertained. My complaint let-ter was flatly rejected and I was told that my phone was not reachable when the depart-ment tried to contact me. Thus my plea has gone unheard till date.

A reply given by the department (No.NLD/RMSA/RTI/2015-16/62 Dated Kohima,the 1st May,2017), after I filed an RTI application seeking detail information on the issue, was the most ridiculous of all.

The justification made by the department (Part 1 & 2 of the reply) that “appointment was given to the next candidate” as the “Sl.1 of the waiting list failed to respond within the stipulated time” simply exposed the deliber-ate act on their part to manipulate the whole selection process and thereby denied me the post. How on earth can the department ex-pect me to respond or send an acceptance let-ter when in the first place itself I’m not at all served any prior notice? Part 3 of the reply is meant only for the selected candidate and not for those in the waiting list, as clearly stated in the reply, and therefore it is the responsi-bility of the concerned department to serve notice to those in the waiting list when any of the selected candidates declined to accept the job position. In fact the contents of the reply clearly show that it is just a face saving exer-cise undertaken by the department to cover up their clandestine act of manipulation.

What an audacious but frivolous excuse they gave? Any sane human being will find this forged reasons ridiculous. Is the appoint-

ment/recruitment system operated only through phone? I was not even given official call letter/dispatch official call letter to me nor did the concerned department officially published in the local dailies calling the at-tention of the qualified candidates in the waiting list on this matter. This is the height of audacity, unfairness and injustice meted out to a qualified candidate.

Education is the mirror of any society; when such corrupt practices eat up our bu-reaucratic and administrative systems, it will have irreparable harm to the already deterio-rating health of our society.

Therefore, I request you to peruse my grievance and expeditiously deliver justice to my cause, and take severe action against the offenders so that recurrence of such mal-practice can be stopped. I put my trust in a man like you who is wise and savant. I ex-press my heartfelt thanks to you as I antici-pate a positive response.

N. Renbeni Ezungezungrenbeni2@gmail.com

Nury Vittachi | IANS

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Jesus has made true love possible.

“I just can’t trust anyone,” my friend said through tears. “Every time I do, they hurt me.” Her story angered me—an ex-boyfriend, whom she really thought she could trust, had started spreading rumors about her as soon as they broke up. Struggling to trust again after a pain-filled childhood, this betrayal seemed just one more confirmation that people could not be trusted.

I struggled to find words that would comfort. One thing I could not say was that she was wrong about how hard it is to find someone to fully trust, that most people are completely kind and trust-worthy. Her story was painfully familiar, reminding me of moments of unexpected betrayal in my own life. In fact, Scripture is very candid about human nature. In Proverbs 20:6, the author voices the same lament as my friend, forever memorializing the pain of betrayal.

What I could say is that the cruelty of others is only part of the story. Although wounds from others are real and painful, Jesus has made genuine love possible. In John 13:35, Jesus told His disciples that the world would know they were His followers because of their love. Although some people may still hurt us, because of Jesus there will also always be those who, freely sharing His love, will unconditionally support and care for us. Resting in His unfailing love, may we find healing, community, and courage to love others as He did.SO

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Aries MAr 21 - Apr 19: You don’t have to be a genius or do something extraordinary in order for people to notice you, Aries. It’s time you abandon the notion that you can’t play a

musical instrument because you don’t have perfect pitch or that you can’t sculpt because you don’t have Michel-angelo’s genius! Dare to engage in any hobby or interest that you fancy.

TAurus Apr 20 - MAy 20: You aren’t free enough, Taurus. This is especially true in your relationships. With the current astral energy, you can expect to break free of your chains. It’s time

for you to participate more in life. Speak your mind. Tell people what you want and when you want it. Surely one of your desires is freedom. Overcome your fear of rejec-tion and ask for it! It really is as simple as that.

GeMini MAy 21 - Jun 21: If you were in charge of a company’s human resources depart-ment, Gemini, today you would begin to com-pletely overhaul the recruitment procedure. You

would focus more on the human element rather than any diplomas and awards people wave around as evidence of their abilities. Confidence in people combined with trust in your instincts could prove profitable in more ways than you imagine.

CAnCer Jun 22 - Jul 22: Cancer, the romantic side of your life may be rocked by a storm of emotion. You may go from in-tense rage to ecstasy in an instant. The day

may instruct you to get hold of your emotions. If you hope to build a stable relationship, it’s necessary to maintain psychological coherence and physical health.

leo Jul 23 - AuG 22: The day may be somewhat oppressive, Leo. It’s possible you will receive some unpleasant news related to your domestic life. Perhaps in the past few

years you haven’t been especially careful about your home budget. Or you may have postponed an impor-tant maintenance task for too long. While this may not be the day the roof literally falls in, it’s time to take care of repairs.

VirGo AuG 23 - sep 22: You seem frus-trated today, Virgo! There’s only one per-son who could possibly arouse your anger to such a degree, and that’s you. Today’s

aspect is favorable for crises of conscience that result in a change of attitude. You’re likely to re-member to choose your words more carefully from now on.

librA sep 23 - oCT 22: This is a contem-plative day, Libra. You seem to be developing new techniques, means, therapies, and methods to use in your main occupation. Today you’re

likely to question your underlying reasons for so much innovation. Why reinvent the world? Although you may not make any major changes in your activities, you could find new justifications for them.

sCorpio oCT 23 - noV 21: You will have to expect the day to be somewhat frustrating, Scorpio. Your friends may insist that you be more cooperative and less individualistic.

They could resent your refusal to be part of the team. In fact, your rebelliousness may be earning you quite a reputation! How you deal with these clashes will set the stage for your future. Think carefully before taking action.

sAGiTTArius noV 22 - DeC 21: You mustn’t expect to do whatever you like today, Sagittarius. Quite the contrary! You may be re-strained by technical limitations. Perhaps your

financial resources will be insufficient. In other words, you won’t be able to follow your usual pattern of taking refuge on a spiritual island and quietly contemplating your inner thoughts.

CApriCorn DeC 22 - JAn 19: Science, space exploration, and certain other fields re-quire the participation of all with a very strong team spirit. Stubborn as you are, it doesn’t make

you the greatest specialist in group dynamics. Certainly no one would ever accuse you of enjoying working in a group, unless you’re the one in charge. Just such a miracle is possible, Capricorn, provided you take the first step.

AquArius JAn 20 - Feb 18: What good does it do you to resist change, Aquarius? Ev-eryone knows that you have trouble adapting to change in the world around you. Unfortunately,

that’s life and you can’t do much about it. However, you aren’t powerless. You will find that life is more stable when you can surf the waves of change. Embrace change and make it work for you rather than resist it all the time.

pisCes Feb 19 - MAr 20: If you work in a helping profession such as psychotherapy, you’re probably breaking quite a few rules and protocols right now, Pisces. You may

even be going against theories that were a fundamen-tal part of your education. Don’t be troubled by your rebelliousness. It’s important that the status quo be challenged from time to time. It’s people like you who advance the field!

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Vishal Gulati | IANS

Clubfoot, one of the world’s most common physical deformities by birth (congenital deform-ity) that severely twists the foot

downward and inward, makes walking difficult or impossible. Clubfoot can be corrected with serial cast/plaster and a special shoe. Many children born with clubfoot deformity are misunderstood as polio affected children. Majority of them grow up with clubfoot deformity and live physically challenged all their life. Un-treated clubfoot children can’t walk, run or play and many of them never get an opportunity of education. From our ex-perience we learn that there is very less awareness among the public that clubfoot can be treated. Many children undergo expensive surgery that result is life time painful and non-shoeable foot. CURE In-ternational India is providing free treat-ment for Clubfoot children. The Pon-seti Method has been recognized by the WHO, the American Academy of Pediat-rics and the Pediatric Orthopedic Society

of India as the preferred method of cor-rection and is ideally suited for any devel-oping country because of its inexpensive, non-surgical approach

Two out of every thousand children born in every country in the world regard-less of race or geographical region suffers from clubfoot. Every 10 minutes a child is born with clubfoot in India, ie.,over 50,000 children are born with Clubfoot deformity every year (2 per 1000 birth). The good news is that clubfoot is curable and the treatment is less expensive com-paring to other disability.

CURE International India began its service from April 2009 with a goal to eradicate disability caused by clubfoot in India. At present more than 35000 chil-dren are enrolled in this program nation-wide in 29 states.

Ponseti International Association (PIA) has designated June 3rd as World Clubfoot Day. The date was chosen to commemorate the birth date of Dr. Igna-cio Ponseti, (1914 - 2009) the developer

of the Ponseti Method to treat Clubfoot (a birth deformity). Theme for the World Clubfoot Day is “World free of Clubfoot

Netaji Subhash Chandra Boss, the Commander-in-Chief of the In-dian National Army (INA) and his troops which was composed

of the Japanese and Indian Soldiers who fought in the II World War came to Chesezu Village (55 km away from Kohima) where Netaji is base during the battle of Kohima in April 1944. They temporarily stationed and camped at Chesezu according to the living eye witnesses & testimonies of Villagers who already attained 85 yrs-90’s of age. They said, Japanese soldiers came ahead and occupied the important places and then the Japanese Commander, (somebody called it Japanese King) appeared. The king (Netaji) came rid-ing on a brown horse. Villagers at that time did not know the man was Netaji who looks hand-some, wear cap, khakhi dress, carried bomb on each side of hip, a Sword on his waist and wore long boots and spectacle. They only hear his name Subhas Bose but Villagers pronounce it Sabo Boss. Later on by seen his Poster they rec-ognized that the man was Netaji. An old man seeing his poster, he says, is it still very young as those days? Another old man says, I had never seen anyone having masculine figure like him, he looks cheerful. Netaji used to come to the Vil-lage and sit on a Stone and address the Villag-

ers. He promised that when they win the war he will bring good school, good road, good hospital and good machines for agriculture. The Village incurred huge wealth to Netaji and his troops. His camp below I.B. Bunglow was constructed with tent and bamboo near a well. There were bunkers near it. Netaji stationed in this camp whereas the Indian Soldiers stay in I.B. Bungalow and a bulk of Japanese soldiers stayed at a small ground a few distance away from the camp (Zunyi Khudükü), where their horses are gathered and ratios collected from the village were stored there for supply. On the peak of a hill called Netaji peak where he monitored the battle of Kohima and surrounding areas. On this peak the paramount view of surrounding Villages and Kohima Town was clearly visible (it is about 250 metres higher than Kohima). His Associates like Mr. Purasho they called it Hikari Kikan (Liaison Officer) from Thenyi-zu Village, Mr. Vezo Swuro a retired School Teacher and other elderly people had related the stories and they still retain the memories of that soldier with a badge, kind and gener-ous, always smile on his face. He dressed like the one we see in poster, a Bengali appear-ance and fair complexion among others. The Villagers had still cherished his courtesy and

friendship in their heart. Writers says, Netaji came from Burma

campaign and advanced from Mandalay to Mowdak, the INA under Netaji became a powerful combating force in Manipur. He hoisted Indian national flag at Moirang 3 km from Imphal. Through Jessami as the desti-nation for accessing Chakhesang areas, they proceeded to Phek and enroute to Chesezu crossing several Villages along the British road by a mull tract.

Some writers specially like Shri. K. Puro a College Professor who is at his 60’s give statement on April 22 2017 from Nagaland Post and Eastern Mirror on 19.5.17 respec-tively stated that Netaji did not come this side from Dzulha to Kikruma, his view was concern only Japanese soldiers who entered to this region and neglected the traces of Netaji to these Villages had hurt the senti-ment of the people especially elderly people. As he happened to folded-up the beauti-ful relationship of Netaji and the Villagers of this region (Chokri area) and just wrote without deeper researches was regretted. Shri Fulutsu’s statement given on 16.05.17 which is a Censure of the history about the relationship of Netaji and Chesezu Village and his criticisn of the writer about the Dis-

covery of Netaji Subhash Chandra Boss and INA, the last Camp in Nagaland were ques-tionable. Rather these historians if they re-ally interested to write for the history on this subject they may learn the truth if they come and hear the narration of the aged people who were living eyewitnesses and testimo-nies about the scene. The elderly people who saw Netaji had related the stories and being documented while a documentary film was produce by the committee (CONHAT).

We are grateful; to Er. Vekho Swuro whose thesis book tittled the Discovery of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose ‘Delhi Chalo’, the last Camp in Nagaland and the battle of Kohima during April 1944. This book truly unfolded the forgotten heroes and event of the past memories of legend Netaji’s relation-ship with the Chesezu Village. Interestingly Er. Vekho’s and his team interviewed with the Villagers who are living eyewitnesses of Neta-ji Subash Chandra Boss and his Indian Na-tional Army and their last camp at Chesezu which enthuse the readers and draw attention to the historians as well as tourist including relatives of Netaji Memorial-Trust of India did visited the village. We are also grateful to the Nagaland Government under Depart-ment of Tourism graciously declare a Tourist

spot recently. As such the development activi-ties has been implemented since 2015.

The battle of Kohima had gone down in history as one of the fiercest battle in World War II which was fought in Nagaland be-tween the 31st division of Japan Imperial Army and the 2nd division of the British Allied forces. The Japan Imperial Army at Kohima lost the ground from a surprise ini-tiative, the allied force took upper hand eve-rywhere and advanced to pursue enemies and reached our village. The Allied forces (Britishers) then suddenly came and attack Dak Bungalow and the surrounding camp. They indiscriminately fired at the Dak Bun-galow and the camp, there was heavy ex-change of fire for 2 hours says one elder. The INA Soldiers dispersed but unfortu-nately two INA soldiers were wounded and succumbed to their injuries. The Villagers never have seen Netaji again after the Dak Bungalow attack.

Muleyi Khesoh, ChairmanVillage Council,Chesezu

(Chesezu);

Vetacho NienuChairman,

Committee on Netaji Heritage at Tsuswuzu

World Clubfoot Day

Netaji and Indian National Army Camp at Chesezu Village During the Battle of Kohima, a Historical Site

The Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate agree-ment on Friday drew global

criticism from environmental advo-cates who said India, China and the EU will now lead the battle against climate change.

The secretariat of the UN Frame-work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the foundational agree-ment under which the Paris accord was negotiated, clarified that the pact “cannot be re-negotiated based on the request of a single party”.

The US move to leave the Paris agreement will not stop its incredible momentum, UN Environment chief

Erik Solheim said. He said China, In-dia, the European Union and others were already showing strong leader-ship.

Committing to climate action means helping countries like Iraq and Somalia on the frontline of extrem-ism and terrorism, he said. “It means helping coastal communities from Louisiana to the Solomon Islands.”

Under the Paris Agreement, all nations have agreed to combat cli-mate change and to unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future that will keep a global average tempera-ture rise well below 2 degrees Celsius with the accepted international aim of working to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The UNFCCC said “it stands

ready to engage in dialogue with the US regarding the implications of this announcement”.

European Union Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said the Trump an-nouncement had galvanized the world rather than weaken it.

“The world can continue to count on Europe for global leadership in the fight against climate change. The EU will strengthen its existing partner-ships and seek new alliances from the world’s largest economies to the most vulnerable island states.

“This vacuum will be filled by new broad committed leadership. Europe and its strong partners all around the world are ready to lead the way. We will work together to face one of the most compelling chal-

lenges of our time,” Canete added.For Fijian Prime Minister and

incoming President of Conference of the Parties (COP 23) Frank Baini-marama, the decision disappointed everyone, especially the climate vul-nerable nations.

He said he was especially encour-aged by the commitment shown by China, India, the European Union, Canada, Mexico and the vast majority of other nations to lower emissions.

“They will continue to lead this process, with or without the support of the Trump administration, but with the knowledge and assurance that many ordinary Americans sup-port participation in the Paris Agree-ment.”

Tim Buckley of the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and

Financial Analysis foresees India and China as leaders to lead the world to-wards a low-carbon economy -- a step towards achieving the 2015 Paris pact aim of cutting greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.

“We view China and India as the two most important countries glo-bally in terms of momentum in en-ergy market transformation. Both are achieving economic growth rate of more than double the US; and both are looking to show global leadership in terms of clean energy technology deployment, investment and finan-cial capital,” he said.

UNEP Executive Director Sol-heim had previously said climate ac-tion would continue in the US even if Washington withdraws.

“There is the US private sector.

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Walmart and Tesla are true global leaders when it comes to bring-ing down their carbon footprints. Even coal and oil companies are stepping up their shift to renewables. They are doing so because it’s sound business and they want to remain competitive globally,” he told IANS.

“China and India do not depend on the US -- nor any other country -- to set their own policies.

“And what we are seeing at the moment is significant steps from both Beijing and New Delhi to put their economies on a path of sustainable, inclusive and low-carbon growth be-cause it makes perfect strategic and business sense to do so.”

(Vishal Gulati can be contacted at vishal.g@ians.in)

India, China, EU to Now Lead to Decarbonise Universe: Green Advocates

Kudos to all our Tall Visionary leaders who have given Nagaland a Literacy Rate higher than that of the National. And where does the stupid vision of the morons end? With the qualifications of many of our dear teach-ers. Under-Matriculates! Are you serious? Is this a cruel joke of the Tall Visionaries? It was so shocking to see the news on the front pages of the dailies (1st June 2017). Of course, the ruling dispensation will dis-pute the figures, which hardly matters as we all know that our State is in a very pathetic state. The river beds, oops.... streets of ‘The Mirror of Nagaland’ (Kohima), is pock-marked testimony.

The main concern of the Legislature and Bureaucracy is everything else except the welfare of the people. A small bunch of Tall Visionaries have siphoned off many

tens of thousands of crores of rupees (many billion dollars), just within the last 15 years or so, and left a trail of devastation behind. There was extensive corruption before that as well, but not of this magnitude; perhaps less money in that bygone era! And to add salt to our wounds these Tall Visionaries talk against CORRUPTION and the importance of UNITY, which is the only word missing in their dictionaries.

We have GHOST teachers, PROXY teachers and BOGUS teachers. We also have BACKDOOR-APPOINTED teachers. Added to this growing list we now know that we also have UNDER-MATRIC teachers. This does not bode well for our state. A few rogue elements have held the whole state to ransom. The common man hoped that, once unearthed, these dubious characters (teach-

ers) would be removed, but the government is least bothered. These elements are thriving with the blessings of their political masters, both over-ground and underground.

Good teachers will help build a strong and resilient society and help us advance rapidly. That is why advanced nations have invested in the best Teachers because of the simple fact that though ‘Good Teachers are costly, Bad Teachers cost more’ (Bob Tal-bert). But for us, it is a government job for the voter / post buyer (qualified or not) - to hell with the future generation.

It really is a pity that we do not see the importance of education. An appropriately educated society only can take us forward. Advanced societies have highly trained pro-fessionals (educators) right from the grass-roots. In Nagaland, it is a totally different at-

mosphere. Many of the Government school teachers are appropriately qualified (some of them not getting paid for months on end are an entirely different matter). Some of them are just too lethargic or find it beneath their dignity to enter a classroom regularly or on time. Many of them have unqualified Prox-ies doing their jobs for a pittance while they are onto other lucrative ventures (contracts, supplies, etc.). Then we have a whole load of the Bogus category, whom none dare touch for their links with Tall Visionaries and/or notorious elements. The non-existent Ghost teachers also regularly draw their salaries from Non-Ghost establishments. On the other hand we have a vast sea of unquali-fied teachers (apologies to the few qualified ones) in the private schools who are forced to produce good HSLC/HSSLC results or

face getting sacked. Though these people are ensuring the students pass the above exams, the children are not developed to take on the challenges of the modern world. There are too many inadequacies; these teachers are just not qualified for the job. Who will check this discrepancy? Do we have a Gov-ernment?

The vision of these Tall Visionaries has managed to drag Nagaland deep into the muck. Just a small bunch of self-centered, greedy and selfish individuals are the rea-son for this. NAGALAND IS RIPE FOR A REVOLUTION. But... Future Generations, you who have lost your jobs in the Education and other departments to the back-door ap-pointees, where art thou?

Prof. G.T. ThongNagaland University

Literate Nagaland - Hooray

Deformity.”The goal of World Clubfoot Day is to

raise awareness about clubfoot disability and

its prevention using the Ponseti Method, a non-surgical treatment that includes gentle manipulation of the feet followed by the application of plaster/casts and temporary bracing/shoe.Cure Clubfoot nagaland Helpline – 9615606161

CURE Clubfoot Nagaland program started on September 2012 at Naga Hos-pital Authority Kohima on every Tuesday (weekly). Till date 57 children have been enrolled in Nagaland for free clubfoot treat-ment. It is estimated that over 60-70 chil-dren are born with clubfoot in Nagaland every year. This program is attached with Orthopaedic Department. With the help of NHM, Health and Family Welfare, Gov-ernment of Nagaland and great support from the doctors and Hospital authority we can serve the treatment free of cost.

Tiarenla JamirState Program CoordinatorCURE International India

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Garbage dumped near Radhu Palace in East Delhi on Friday. PTI

News iN BriefTwo quakes nudge Delhi; parts of north IndiaNew Delhi, June 2 (PTI): Two medium intensity quakes today hit Haryana, tremors of which were felt in Delhi and other parts of northern India. The epicenter of the first quake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale, was Rohtak district in Haryana, said the Center for Seismology under the India Meteorological Department. The depth of the quake was 22 km and it occurred at 4:25 AM. The second tremor of 3.2 intensity was also felt in Rohtak at 8:13 AM at a depth of 10 kms. There were no immediate reports of any loss of lives or damage to property.

Four trampled to death by elephant in city outskirtsCoimbatore, June 2 (PTI): Four persons, including a minor girl, were trampled to death and two others injured by an elephant at Vellalore area in the outskirts of the city today. The 12-year-old girl was sleeping in the veranda of her house when the elephant, which strayed into human habitations some days ago from nearby Madukkarai forests, trampled her to death at around 3.30 AM, police said. The pachyderm then moved away from the area and attacked and grievously injured three more persons, including two women. The injured persons have been hospitalised.

Man sacrifices 7-month-old babyJamshedpur, June 2 (PTI): A man with the help of a tantrik allegedly sacrificed a seven-month-old baby to appease God, so that he and his wife could have a child in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, police said today. Bhadoi Kalindi and a tantrik, Karmu Kalindi were arrested by police yesterday from Chaida village under Tiruldih police station, said Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Chandil), Sandeep Bhagat. On the night of May 26, Bhadoi and Karmu abducted the baby girl, who was the daughter of Karmu s neighbour Subhash Gope, in her sleep and sacrificed her at a cremation ghat near a river at Tiruldih, Bhagat said. Both of them have confessed to the crime during interrogation on Thursday, the SDPO said.

Ahmedabad cops to use mobile app to penalise traffic violatorsAhmedabad, June 2 (PTI): In a bid to bring transparency in the collection of fine from traffic offenders, the city police have decided to do away with the system of collecting on-the-spot cash penalty and instead use a mobile app to issue e-challans. The project will be implemented on a pilot basis for a month starting tomorrow. The police are required to take photos of the traffic offenders and upload them on the app. The ATP (Ahmedabad Traffic Police) mobile application is directly connected with the police control room, which would then generate an e-challan to that offender.

PWD scam: ACB files three FIRsNew Delhi, June 2 (PTI): The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) today informed a Delhi court that it has lodged three separate FIRs on a criminal complaint filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others in an alleged PWD scam. Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra also directed the Assistant Commissioner of ACB to assess the threat perception on the complainant Rahul Sharma once again after he informed the court that two unknown bikers recently fired gunshots at him. The court said that the FIR lodged in relation to the recent attack shows that there were serious threat to the security of the complainant and directed the ACB to file a status report on June 8 in this regard.

Wipro receives second threat email, beefs up securityBengaluru, June 2 (PTI): IT major Wipro today said it has reinforced security measures at all its office locations after receiving a second threat email, but there was no impact on the company’s operations. However, Wipro did not specify the nature of the threat. Additional Commissioner of Police Hemant Nimbalkar confirmed reports that someone for the second time had sent an e-mail demanding Rs 500 crore in bitcoin and threatened a bio-attack on employees. Earlier last month, Wipro had said it had received a threatening mail from an unidentified source and filed a complaint with the local law enforcement authorities. After that threat mail, the company had augmented security at all its office locations.

‘100% penalty against cash transaction of over Rs 2 lakh’New Delhi, June 2 (IANS): The Income Tax Department on Friday warned of a 100 per cent penalty against receiver of cash of Rs 2 lakh or above. Section 269ST has been inserted in the Act with effect from April 1 to restrict acceptance of cash of Rs 2 lakh or more by any person. It disallows cash transaction of Rs 2 lakh or more by a person in a day in respect of a single transaction or in respect of transactions relating to one event or occasion from a person, otherwise than by an account payee cheque or account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account. The restriction shall not apply to any receipt by the government or any receipt by or from any banking company, post office savings bank or cooperative bank. The Income Tax Department also asked people to send any information on black money, ‘benami’ (proxy) or such cash transaction through email at blackmoneyinfo@incometax.gov.in.

Delhi HC raps civic bodies for garbage on city roads

Maneka Gandhi to undergo gall bladder surgery at AIIMS

Hazare backs Maharashtra farmers’ strike

Punjab CM asked to vacate govt bungalow on Janpath

Delhi govt behind fake CNG kits in 10,000 vehicles: Mishra

Jammu & Kashmir gears up to fight ‘’bedroom jehadis’’ in virtual battleground

New Delhi, June 2 (IANS): Upset at seeing video footage of garbage piling up on the city roads, the Delhi High Court on Friday issued show cause notice to the Commis-sioners of East, North and South Municipal Corporations, asking why contempt of court proceed-ings should not be initiated against them for defying its order.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar asked the three Commissioners to remain present in the court on June 21, after noticing “wilful violation and disobedience” of court orders to ensure garbage is collected and disposed of.

The bench said the municipal corporations have reduced the government of India’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ to a “complete nought” by their inaction and apathy.

The court’s order came after the video footage of a TV news programme was played in court which showed complete apathy in collection of garbage by the municipal corporations, especially east and north municipal areas.

“The footage is explicit in the fact that no effort has been made in picking of garbage... Dengue,

New Delhi, June 2 (IANS): Union minister Maneka Gan-dhi, who is being flown from Pilibhit to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here after she complained of stomach pain, will undergo a gall bladder surgery at the premier hospital, said a hospital official on Friday.

“Manekaji is being brought to Delhi and will reach the AIIMS around 6.30 p.m. She will be admitted under general surgeon Anurag Srivastava. She will be examined and undergo a gall bladder surgery

today (Friday) itself,” the of-ficial told IANS.

Earlier in the day, Union Women and Child Develop-ment Minister Gandhi-- who was in her parliamentary con-stituency Pilibhit -- suffered severe stomach pain, following which she had to be admitted to a local government hospital.

Gandhi complained of stomach pain around 3 p.m, after which she was admitted to the emergency ward of the local government hospital in Pilibhit, an aide told IANS over telephone.

Ralegan-Siddhi (Maharashtra), June 2 (IANS): Social activist Anna Hazare ex-tended his support to the indefinite strike of farmers which entered the second day on Friday.

But concerned over the violence wit-nessed on the first day, he urged farmers to carry out their agitation peacefully without causing damage to public or private proper-ties.

Over half a million farmers across Ma-harashtra, barring the coastal Konkan, have resorted to an unprecedented strike, which was marred by several violent incidents on Thursday.

Major cities like Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and others have started feeling the pinch of the strike with shortages looming ahead coupled with spiraling prices of essentials like milk, fresh fruits, vegetables and even foodgrains.

The farmers are demanding a com-

plete waiver of farm loans, free electricity, appropriate remunerative prices for their produce, grants for irrigation, pension for farmers who are 60 years and above, and implementation of the M.S. Swaminathan Committee recommendations.

They continued to hold agitations, protest marches and processions at various government and APMC offices to press for their demands even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said talks with the farmers leaders will continue to hammer out a solution.

On Thursday, Fadnavis accused the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party com-bine of allegedly inciting the farmers.

The Shiv Sena asked the Bharatiya Janata Party to heed the farmers’ demands and take urgent steps. Fadnavis said the government was “aware of its responsibil-ity” and expected the same from its ally, the Sena.

New Delhi, June 2 (PTI): Pun-jab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has been asked to vacate a government bungalow that was allocated to him when he was a Member of Parliament by a Delhi court, which termed him as an “unauthorised occupant”.

The court dismissed the ap-peal filed by the Congress leader against the March 24 order of the Estate Officer, asking Singh to vacate the Janpath bungalow.

“The appellant’s (Singh’s) contention that he could not have been termed as unauthor-ised occupant as his initial allot-ment was valid till 2019 and he has been paying market- rent, is untenable.

“Thus, it is evident that the appellant is in unauthorised oc-cupation of the said premises since December 23, 2016,” Dis-trict & Sessions Judge Poonam

A Bamba said.The court also rejected his

contention that his representa-tion before chairman (House Committee) Lok Sabha seeking to retain the premises on human-itarian grounds was still pending.

“Mere pendency of his rep-resentation does not in any manner confer any authority on the appellant to occupy the said premises.

“Admittedly, no further re-tention has been permitted,” the court said.

According to the Estate Officer order, the premise was allotted to Singh as an MP from the Amritsar constituency which was to expire in 2019.

However, Singh resigned from the Lok Sabha on No-vember 23 last year and the allotment of the bungalow was cancelled with effect from

December 23, 2016 and he was directed to hand over the bunga-low to CPWD.

Singh made a representation before the chairman (House Committee) Lok Sabha on February 10, 2017 requesting that he be allowed to retain the premises on humanitar-ian grounds as he was a heart patient and was also suffering from high blood pressure/sugar and that he was placed under Z plus security protection facing a constant threat.

While his representation before the chairman, House Committee was still pending, he received a notice dated on February 14 calling upon him to show cause on February 23 why an order of eviction be not passed against him.

The eviction order was later passed in March.

ED files money laundering case to probe Bihar toppers scamNew Delhi, June 2 (PTI): The En-forcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case to probe alleged irregularities in the 2016 Bihar toppers scam case related to the state school examination board.

Officials said the agency has booked a criminal case against a total of eight people, including former Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) chairman and four principals, under the Prevention of Money Laun-dering Act (PMLA).

The central probe agency took cognisance of a Bihar Police FIR and the findings of the Special In-vestigation Team (SIT) to register its own Enforcement Case Information Report, the ED equivalent of a police FIR. They said the agency will probe the possible ‘proceeds of crime’ gener-ated by the accused and the alleged subsequent creation of illegal wealth

by them. The scam had rocked Bihar in June last year after Ruby Rai, a student of Vishun Roy College in Vaishali district who had topped in the arts category, failed to answer ba-sic questions and went on to describe political science as prodigal science that taught cooking.

Embarrassed by the irregularities, the state government had ordered a SIT probe in the matter.

Former Bihar School Examina-tion Board (BSEB) Chairman La-lkeshwar Prasad Singh, his former JD(U) MLA wife Usha Sinha and Secretary cum Principal of Bishun Roy college in Vaishali Bachha Rai, alleged to be kingpins of the racket, are among 21 persons arrested in the case so far. The Enforcement Directo-rate is expected to soon record state-ments of the accused and also attach their assets under the PMLA law.

New Delhi, June 2 (IANS): Sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Friday accused the Delhi govern-ment of “cheating” people and al-leged that “10,000 fake CNG kits” were installed in vehicles plying on the capital’s roads.

“The AAP government made false claims that the CNG kits fit-ted in the vehicles were made in Canada, as the truth is that these kits were made in China and as-sembled at a unit at Dabri Chowk in west Delhi,” the suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader told reporters here.

He claimed that the company “TA Gas Tech India Pvt Ltd was blacklisted by the Delhi High Court” in 2012.

Srinagar, June 2 (PTI): After years of fighting armed militants with bullets and brickbats, security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir are now facing a new enemy bedroom jehadis who manipulate social media from the comfort of their homes to spread ru-mours and influence youths.

It’s a new battleground and a new battle, say senior officers. Far removed from conventional weaponry and the conventional fighting zones of the warren of narrow streets and forests, these new age jehadis use computers and smartphones to wage war from just about anywhere in Kashmir or outside, safe inside their homes or out on the streets, from a nearby caf or even just a convenient roadside.

An immediate worry for security agencies is the Amarnath Yatra that starts June 29. Armed with access to

platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter, there are fears that the new band of jehadis could instigate communal riots in the Valley ahead of the 40-day pilgrimage to the high alti-tude shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva.

“It is a virtual battleground where a bloody war is fought, but with words. However, this has an impact on the young minds,” said a senior police officer.

Many officers felt that false ru-mours could be floated in Jammu in the coming days, leaving authorities with little time to react.

“Anyone, while sitting on his bed or sofa, can plant this news in one of the thousand chat groups and the entire state can plunge into communal divide,” said a police officer.

The social chat groups are active not just in Jammu and Kashmir. They

are seeing participation from young-sters in the national capital, rest of the country and abroad as well.

Officers cite the recent example of a constable from the Kashmiri Pandit community to explain how difficult it is to tackle the unseen enemy. The constable went missing and his body was found in north Kashmir’s Kup-wara, about 90 km from here, after a thorough search.

But even before the investigations began, people in the Pandit commu-nity posted stories that he had been kidnapped by militants and had died a martyr’s death.

The impact of social media on the case was so profound that it began to be probed as a militancy-related case.

However, a Special Investigating Team (SIT), constituted by Director General of Police S P Vaid, later found

that the constable had been murdered by a fellow policeman whom he had allegedly sodomised and threatened to make it public.

Another instance of trouble be-ing engineered was a fake picture of a pond around the shrine of Goddess Ragnya Devi, also known as Kheer Bhawani, being shared on WhatsApp groups ahead of the annual Kheer Bhawani mela being celebrated today.

According to the post, the water of the pond had turned black, which according to folklore indicates inauspi-cious times for Kashmir. The govern-ment stepped in and released official photographs in an attempt to quell the rumours. They also tried to find those responsible.

“But it is like finding a needle in a haystack. Millions of people are

on social networking sites and is too difficult to locate that one person,” a police officer said.

In the Valley, social media access had been controlled to a large extent after authorities clamped down on 22 websites.

While many users in the Val-ley found a way out through virtual private networks (VPN), they found it difficult to share pictures or videos because of the clamp down on 3G and 4G networks.

A police officer recalled that many ‘hartal’ calls attributed to separatist leaders last year actually came from students or employees who did not want to attend work.

“The hartal calls used to spread like a jungle fire even leaving separa-tists wondering at times whether they actually had given them,” he said.

Most youngsters picked up for ques-tioning were let go with a warning.

Given the government s push for Digital India in other parts of the country and the rapid strides in technology, the state government has received severe flak for its ban on the world wide web.

Security agency officers feel it is necessary to keep ‘bedroom jehadis’ at bay so that they can concentrate on nabbing or eliminating terrorists with real guns.

The government has warned ad-ministrators of these chatting groups or social networking sites against hosting any incriminating material on their platform.

However, officers felt that a few more curbs and punitive action would help in reining in such ‘bedroom jehadis’.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao hoisting the National flag on the occasion of Telangana State Formation Day in Hyderabad on Friday.

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Chikungunya have resurfaced in Delhi even before the advent of the monsoon,” the court observed.

The footage showed piles of garbage in different areas in Delhi which had not been picked up by the municipal corporations for over five days. The court said it was forced to take on the Commis-sioners as they “don’t care about the public but care about saving their own skins”.

The court also directed that video footage of the ABP news channel programme be sent to

the Principal Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, so that cleaning of garbage in Delhi is taken up on the same war footing as ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.

It also directed that a copy of the video be sent to the Lieuten-ant Governor Anil Baijal so that he can ensure the needful is done.

Noting that Delhi, which once had the largest per capita forests, has been “consciously turned into an urban slum”, the court observed that the “right to clean environment cannot be compro-

mised”.“You need a court order to do

your basic duty of picking up the garbage,” the bench told the civic agencies, adding that “somebody has to be made accountable”.

The court also slammed cor-porations, saying the conversion of residential property for com-mercial activity as well as setting up of clinics and markets was being permitted without providing for more parking space or increas-ing the width of the roads.

“Consciously and callously without any concern for the envi-ronment, rampant conversion for commercial use has been permit-ted,” said the court.

The court also noted that not a single decision of disciplinary action has been taken by the civic bodies against any of their employees and nor has any citi-zen been penalised for violating municipal laws.

The video, which was played in the courtroom, also highlighted other issues faced by the EDMC workers, including non-payment of salaries and lack of proper shoes, clothing and other equip-ment for cleaning of drains and garbage.

Upset with wrong information

being given to it over collection of garbage, the High Court had on May 31 appointed a TV news re-porter as the local Commissioner to inspect various areas in Delhi for piling up of garbage. The High Court had taken suo motu cogni-sance of the ABP news channel’s report highlighting contradictions in the manner in which the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) was undertaking the task of garbage cleaning in areas under its jurisdiction.

The High Court asked the channel to conduct random in-spection on garbage removal and disposal in Delhi and submit a report before June 2.

On Friday, the reporter who was appointed local commis-sioner submitted a new video which showed no improvement in removal of garbage.

The court asked the news channel to continue its inspection.

The High Court has also been hearing PILs claiming the gov-ernment and civic agencies have not taken preventive steps against vector-borne diseases such as Chikungunya and dengue. The government and civic bodies had told the court that they have taken all steps to prevent these diseases.

Sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra ad-dresses a press conference in New Delhi on Friday.

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“Delhi government in an or-der had said that a Canada-based company Tech Gas will supply

CNG kits to Dashmesh CNG IMPEX Pvt Ltd, which had been authorised to fit the gas kits. Both these companies were set up by the director of the blacklisted company,” Mishra alleged.

“We found that there was no import of components like gas injectors from any part of the world, but as per certification, it had to be purchased from Tech Gas, Canada.

“These CNG kits were being imported from China and as-sembled at a workshop at Dabri Chowk in Delhi,” Mishra alleged.

He said that he would make public all details of all “scams” of the government at 5 p.m. at Con-stitution Club on Saturday.

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US quits Paris climate deal, accord only benefits countries like India, China: Trump

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Washington, June 2 (PTI): Presi-dent Donald Trump today de-clared that the US will withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate ac-cord, saying the “draconian” deal unfairly punished America but benefited countries like India and China, drawing strong condemna-tion from across the world.

“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump said, immediately trigger-ing global condemnation on the move by the world’s second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses.

“As president, I have one ob-ligation, and that obligation is to the American people. The Paris Accord would undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty, impose unacceptable legal risks, and put us at a permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world,” he said from the Rose Garden at the White House.

“It is time to exit the Paris Accord and time to pursue a new deal that protects the environment, our companies, our citizens, and our country,” Trump said while announcing the sweeping step that fulfills a campaign promise while acutely dampening global efforts to curb global warming.

“We’re getting out,” he said. “And we will start to renegotiate and we’ll see if there’s a better deal. If we can, great. If we can’t, that’s fine.”

The Paris agreement commits the US and other countries to keeping rising global temperatures “well below” 2C above pre- indus-trial levels and “endeavour to limit” them even more, to 1.5C. Only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign up to the deal.

The president said he made the decision as the Paris deal was unfair to the US and badly hit busi-

nesses and jobs.He said India would get bil-

lions of dollars for meeting its com-mitment under the Paris agreement and it - along with China - would double its coal-fired power plants in the years to come, gaining a finan-cial advantage over the US.

“Not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals,” Trump said.

“I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States - which is what it does the world’s leader in environ-mental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world’s leading polluters,” he said.

He then citied the example of China and said that under the agreement, the Communist giant will be able to increase these emis-sions by a staggering number of years - 13.

“They can do whatever they want for 13 years. Not us,” Trump said.

“India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dol-lars in foreign aid from developed countries. There are many other examples. But the bottom line is that the Paris accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States, Trump said.

Trump’s decision drew wide-spread condemnation from entre-preneurs, politicians, world leaders and environmentalist for aban-doning the single most important international effort to curb global warming.

The Paris Climate Agreement is a historic treaty signed by over 190 nations and cannot be renego-tiated on the request of a single na-tion, the United Nations’s Frame-work Convention on Climate Change has said.

The UNFCCC, under which the landmark Paris agreement was negotiated and adopted, said it “re-grets” the announcement by Presi-dent Trump that his government will withdraw from the agreement.

The leaders of France, Italy and Germany indicated in a joint statement that the US could not unilaterally renegotiate the agree-ment.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Trump had made a historic error by abandoning the Paris agreement.

Trump has “committed an er-ror for the interests of his country and a mistake for the future of our planet,” Macron said, adding: “The United States has turned its back on the world.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel today vowed “more deci-sive action than ever” to protect the climate after the US pullout from the landmark Paris accord.

“We in Germany, in Europe and the world will band together to take more decisive action than ever to confront and successfully surmount major challenges to humanity such as climate change,” she told reporters.

Former US President Barack Obama and other political leaders today slammed Trump’s deci-sion to withdraw the US from the historic deal, saying he has squan-dered America’s global leadership and put the country with “a small handful of nations that reject the future.”

“The nations that remain in the Paris agreement will be the na-tions that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created. I believe the United States of America should be at the front of the pack,” Obama said in a statement.

Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said pulling out of the deal was “abandoning America’s lead-ership in the fight against the cli-mate crisis.”

“If President Trump wants nations like China and India to take stronger and swifter action on climate, then he should do so through the accountability and

enforcement provisions in the Paris agreement, not by breaking our word and storming out of the room,” Pelosi said.

Tesla founder Elon Musk said he would quit White House ad-visory councils on business in protest. “(I) am departing presi-dential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk wrote on Twitter.

The much-anticipated decision was a culmination of one Trump’s most prominent election promises as he struggles to set aside the dis-tractions caused by accusations of his campaign’s ties with Russia in his first 100 days in office.

He has previously called cli-mate change a “hoax”.

But Trump said he was fight-ing for American businesses and American workers.

“I am fighting every day for the great people of this country. Therefore, in order to fulfill my sol-emn duty to protect America and its citizens, the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” he said, and vowed to stand with Americans against “draconian” international deal.

Trump, however, said he will stick to the process laid out in the Paris agreement - which could take the US four years to leave the deal coinciding with the next presiden-tial election, meaning Americans could have the final word on the decision.

The Trump administration said he had made phone calls to the leaders of France, the UK, Canada and Germany to explain his deci-sion. He had shrugged off pressure from them during the recent G7 summit in Sicily continue with the agreement.

Trump also said “not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals.”

In short, according to him, this agreement was “less about the cli-mate and more about other coun-tries gaining a financial advantage over the United States.”

News IN BrIefManchester area evacuated as police probe car linked to attackLondon, June 2 (AFP): British police on Friday evacuated an area in south Manchester after identifying a car that “may be significant to the investigation” into last week’s terror attack that killed 22 people. Greater Manchester Police said they had located the vehicle after tracking bomber Salman Abedi’s movements in the days leading up to the May 22 attack on a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. “This is a potentially significant development in the investigation”, said the GM0P’s Russ Jackson. Officers sealed off a 100 metre cordon around the Nissan Micra vehicle, around 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of the city centre. Police earlier released new CCTV footage of Abedi dragging around a blue suitcase, which is yet to be accounted for. Prince William on Friday visited the city, where he met some of the first officers on the scene. A total of ten men remain in custody following the bombing.

Indian-American girl wins 90th Spelling Bee with ‘marocain’Washington, June 2 (PTI): Ananya Vinay, a 12-year-old Indian-American girl, today won the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home a USD 40,000 cash prize after correctly spelling “marocain” to become the 13th consecutive winner from the community. A sixth-grader from Fresno, California, Ananya won the spelling competition after competing for 12 hours and spelled 35 words correctly. Her rival was Rohan Rajeev, another 14-year-old Indian- American student from Oklahoma, misspelled the word ‘marram’ which is a coarse grass found on sandy beaches. Ananya’s victory underscores the overwhelming dominance of Indian-Americans in the annual intense competition. “Congratulations to our 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion, Ananya Vinay. What a fantastic performance!,” the National Spelling Bee’s official account tweeted.“She played to win and win she did. Ananya Vinay takes home the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion title and trophy,” it said.

Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate Muslim travel banWashington, June 2 (PTI/AFP): President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate its controversial ban on travelers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts. “We have asked the Supreme Court to hear this important case and are confident that President Trump’s executive order is well within his lawful authority to keep the Nation safe and protect our communities from terrorism,” Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said following the government’s filing with the high court. “The president is not required to admit people from countries that sponsor or shelter terrorism, until he determines that they can be properly vetted and do not pose a security risk to the United States.”

Improvised refugee, migrant camp evacuated in AthensAthens, June 2 (IANS): Greek police on Friday started the evacuation of an improvised refugee and migrant camp located in an old airport here. A large police force converged at the Athenian Hellenikon international airport. The officers blocked all accesses and formed a security perimeter around the airport’s three main buildings, Efe news reported The evacuation operation began at around 6.30 a.m., and involved relocating over 650 refugees and migrants sheltered there, down from some 3,000 last year. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) arranged a nine-bus convoy to carry out the evacuation. According to the police, some 500 refugees will be transferred to the Thebes refugee camp, some 50 km from Athens, while the remaining 150 will be distributed in various refugee shelters in and around the Greek capital.

EU gives 300,000 euros to flood-hit Sri LankaColombo, June 2 (IANS): The European Union (EU) has allocated 300,000 euros in humanitarian funding to flood-stricken Sri Lanka, it was announced on Friday. “This contribution from the EU will allow our partners on the ground to provide relief to the most-impacted families. This is an expression of solidarity from the European people to the people of Sri Lanka,” Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, said in a statement. The EU aid will focus on the most pressing needs in the aftermath of the floods, including access to clean water and sanitation facilities, provision of essential household items and emergency shelter, Xinhua news agency reported. The death toll in Sri Lanka caused by floods and landslides reached 206 on Friday with 92 people still missing, the Disaster Management Centre said.

UN concerned over tense situation at LoCUnited Nations, June 2 (PTI): The UN is concerned over the tense situation along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan and the Secretary General is following the developments closely, his spokesperson said. “I think the situation that we’ve seen in that area continues to be of concern to us and, as I’ve said before, the Secretary-General is following the situation very closely,” UN Secretary General’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here yesterday when asked about the recent cross-border shelling. A civilian was killed and four others, including a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan, were injured when the Pakistan Army targeted forward areas along the Line of Control in Rajouri and Pooch districts of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting retaliation by the Indian troops. Five Pakistani soldiers were reported to have been killed while some others were injured in the Indian Army’s retaliatory action along the Nowshera and Krishnagati sectors.

Human error to blame for BA chaos: ReportLondon, June 2 (PTI): A maintenance worker who inadvertently switched off the power to a key supply unit led to the British Airways chaos that disrupted the travel plans of over 75,000 passengers from the UK airports last weekend, a media report said today. An internal email sent by Bill Francis, Head of Group IT at British Airways’ (BA) owner International Airlines Group (IAG), confirms that the shut-down had not been caused by IT failure or software issues, as claimed by workers’ union which blamed BA’s outsourcing of IT jobs to India for the crisis. The email reveals that an investigation had found that an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to a core data centre at Heathrow Airport was over-ridden on Saturday morning. “This resulted in the total immediate loss of power to the facility, bypassing the backup generators and batteries.

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Greenpeace protesters stand in silence with banners outside the U.S. embassy in Madrid, Spain, Friday, June 2, 2017. The protesters gathered at the gates of the United States embassy in the Spanish capital to protest President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the world’s second-largest carbon dioxide emitter out of the Paris climate agreement. Small banners read ‘Climate SOS’ and ‘We’ll go ahead without you’

Climate change undeniable: UN chief after US’ withdrawalUnited Nations, June 2 (PTI): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres today asserted that climate change is “undeniable” as he strongly urged all governments across the world to “stay the course” and remain committed to implementing the ambitious deal.

“(Climate change) is undeniable. And it is one of the biggest threats to our present world and to the future of our planet. On the other hand, climate action is unstoppable,” Guterres told the media in St Petersburg, Russia, where he is participating in the St Petersburg Interna-tional Economic Forum.

Guterres strongly urged all the govern-ments around the world to “stay the course, to remain committed to the implementation of the Paris Agreement to the benefit of all of us”.

Responding to President Donald Trump’s announcement to withdraw the US from

the Paris climate accord, Guterres said he is “deeply convinced” that states, cities, the busi-ness community and civil society will remain engaged, “will bet on the green economy, be-cause the green economy is the good economy, it is the economy of the future”.

“Because this is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do, and those that will be betting on the implementation of the Paris Agreement, on the green economy, will be the ones that have a leading role in the economy of the 21st century,” he said.

The US will now join only two other nations on the planet - Syria and Nicaragua - which are not part of the Paris climate agree-ment. Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the deal that aims to lower global green house gas emissions has been met with strong criti-cism from various quarters across the world.

The UN Environment Chief Erik Solheim joined other experts and analysts as saying that the US withdrawal will put India and China in leadership positions in the global fight to combat climate change.

The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise in this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The landmark agreement, which entered into force last November, calls on countries to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future, and to adapt to the increasing impacts of climate change.

Manila, June 2 (PTI/AFP): Thirty-six bodies were found inside a ca-sino in the Philippine capital today after a masked man burst in with an automatic rifle and set fire to a gaming room, authorities said, but insisted it was not a terrorist attack.

Dozens of others were injured in a stampede as they rushed to leave Resorts World Manila, which is across a road from the Philip-pines’ main international airport, after the man fired what police said was an M4 assault rifle and started the fire around midnight.

The burnt body of the gunman was found in a hotel room inside the complex about five hours later, police chief Ronald dela Rosa said.

Dela Rosa said the gunman only fired at a television screen and did not take aim at any people.

But police later reported finding 36 bodies in the casino who they said died from inhaling smoke that had become toxic because of the carpet on the gaming room floors.

“The victims who suffered from suffocation went up to 36,” Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde told reporters.

The gunman initially disap-peared into the chaos of smoke and running people, leading to a manhunt through the complex that ended just after dawn when he was found dead in a hotel room, accord-ing to Dela Rosa.

“He lay down on the bed, cov-ered himself with a thick blanket, apparently poured petrol on the blanket and burned himself,” Dela Rosa said.

Before the gunman had been killed and police had confirmed any motive, there was an unconfirmed

claim of responsibility from the Islamic State group. US President Donald Trump also branded it a “terrorist attack”.

Albayalde also said that the gunman appeared to be a foreigner.

But he and Dela Rosa insisted it was most likely a robbery gone wrong, saying the man did not shoot at anyone and appeared to be intent just on stealing gambling chips. “For now, we can say that this is not an act of terror.

There is no element of violence, threat or intimidation that leads to terrorism,” Dela Rosa said.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella also insisted that it was not an act of terror.

Dela Rosa said the man, acting alone, walked into one of the gam-ing rooms and fired the rifle at a large television screen, then poured gasoline onto a gambling table and set it alight.

He said the man then fired again at a stock room containing gam-bling chips and filled a backpack with chips worth 113 million pesos (USD 2.3 million).

The man left the room and went upstairs to the hotel section, but left the backpack, according to Dela Rosa.

The police chief said 18 of 54 injured people were in hospital. He said the others sustained only minor injuries. People inside the casino recounted a terrifying ordeal when the shooting broke out.

“I was about to return to the second floor from my break when I saw people running. Some hotel guests said someone yelled ‘ISIS’,” Maricel Navaro, an employee of Resorts World, told DZMM radio.

Kabul, June 2 (IANS): At least seven persons were killed as vio-lence broke out in Afghanistan’s capital on Friday after hundreds of protestors gathered near the site of this week’s car bomb at-tack to demand the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani’s government.

The mass rally was in pro-test against the government for failing to prevent attacks in Kabul city following Wednes-day’s deadly truck bombing in Wazir Akbar Khan area -- the diplomatic zone in the heart of the city.

At least 90 people were killed and over 460 injured in the at-tack.

The demonstration on Friday was aimed at pressuring the gov-ernment to bring reform in secu-rity agencies and take measure to ensure the safety of its citizens.

The protestors marched from several sides of the city towards the district where the blast took place. Several gunshots were fired by police into the sky after protestors tried to move towards the country’s presidential palace, Tolo News reported.

Police used water hoses to disperse the crowds. According to Tolo, police were firing above people’s heads. Officials said that among the dead, two were shot in the head and two in the chest.

At least eight persons were

injured during the protest and hospital officials said most of the wounded had been shot in legs and feet, said the report.

Angry protestors not only stoned security force vehicles but also chanted “Down With (Pres-ident Ashraf) Ghani”, “Down With the CEO (Abdullah Abdul-lah)” and “Down With The US”.

Mohammad Salem, son of the first deputy speaker of the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament), was also killed in the shooting.

Later, the Afghan authorities said that the government had put all necessary measures to tackle the increased insecurity and vio-lent attacks.

Islamabad, June 2 (IANS): Pa-kistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s younger son, Hassan Nawaz, on Friday made his first appearance before the Joint Inves-tigation Team (JIT) constituted by the Supreme Court to probe the Panama Papers case.

Hassan arrived at the Federal Judicial Academy accompanied by leaders of the Pakistan Mus-lim League (Nawaz) to record his statement before the JIT, Dawn reported.

A day earlier, Sharif ’s elder son, Hussain Nawaz, appeared before the JIT for the third time over the past five days to defend the money trail of the Sharifs’ London properties.

As he emerged from the JIT

secretariat, Hussain claimed that there was not an iota of evidence of any wrongdoing or illegal-ity committed by him, his father, brother and sister.

Hussain was summoned by the JIT for a fourth round of questioning but it was not speci-fied when he will make his next appearance.

The six-member JIT was constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the financial transac-tions of the Sharif family to buy four apartments in Park Lane, London.

The JIT had also summoned Qatari royal Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani. Two letters signed by the Qatari royal had been presented before the top

court by representatives of the Prime Minister’s children’s during the Supreme Court’s hearing of the Panamagate case.

In his first appearance before the JIT, Hussain had refused to answer questions put forth by the investigative body, saying that the JIT’s status was “sub judice” as he had already filed a petition before the apex court regarding two of its constituents.

Subsequently, the apex court rejected Hussain’s plea, seeking exclusion of the two JIT mem-bers. After each of the next two hearings, the elder son of the Premier told reporters that he answered all of the questions put forth to him by the members of the JIT.

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Kohima College all set for musical evening

Difficult to compete with juniors these days, says Salman Khan

I’m not as crazy as Lady Gaga, says Ranveer Singh

Big B begins work on KBC’s new season

Birthday Greetings

SRK addresses death hoax rumours on Twitter

The Kohima College Ko-hima is all set to stage a live concert

on June 3rd featuring the prominent naga musicians such as Mengu Suokhrie, Polar Lights and Seyiev-inuo Chüzho at KCK Auditorium Hall from 5 pm onwards.

The concert is organ-ized by Kohima College Kohima in association with the Music Gym under the theme “Flam-

ing Music Fame”, in aid of college sound system and golden jubilee cel-ebration. The College will be commemorating the golden jubilee in August this year.

The event also will be featuring upcoming talents like NT dote, Brainstorm Island, Exhibit (St. Joseph College and Inside Out.

Gugs Chishi, project director for Music Task Force to attend the pro-gram as the special guest.

EMN

Superstar Salman Khan says it is difficult to compete with the younger lot of actors on Friday but

his fans keep him going.

“My fans keep me going. The older you get the harder it is to keep going as you need to compete with your juniors and it is dif-ficult. Today competing with jun-iors is very difficult,” Salman told reporters here last night.

The interaction was held to an-nounce the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards-2017.

A regular at the award show, Sal-man will be performing at the movie extravaganza, to be held from July 13-15 at MetLife stadium in New York.

“I will be part of everything that happens with IIFA this year. I will be performing on stage on ‘radio’ (a song from his movie ‘Tubelight’)...and maybe giving away an award but not receiving one,” the 51-year-old actor said.

Salman has been nominated for the

Best Actor award for his performance as a wrestler in “Sultan” at IIFA this year.

He will be competing with Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid

Kapoor and Sushant Singh Rajput in the cat-

egory.

To a

poser as to who will

win the trophy,

Salman said, “Definitely

not me. I believe in

the rewards I get from IIFA and fans, but

awards are not my thing.”

Salman acknowledged the Indian diaspora in keeping Indian cinema alive abroad for decades.

“You have kept India and Indian cinema alive abroad because you all have kept us alive till today as you all have not left your roots. Respect to you all.”

His co-star from forthcoming film “Tiger Zinda Hai” Katrina Kaif was also present at the interaction.

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“Outrageous fashion” has been a part

of his life since school days. And actor Ranveer Singh, known for his eccentric style, says his craziest look is yet to come but it can’t be crazier than how pop star Lady Gaga dresses.

“In school and adoles-cence, I was known for my outrageous fashion. I was the first to sport baggy jeans and show off the top of my briefs as a fashion state-ment, the first to wear sports jerseys, use styling gel, wear

chunky silver jewellery. It’s how I have always been. People in my school

WhatsApp group are hardly surprised; they say it’s good

to know I haven’t changed,” Ranveer said in an interview to Vogue India’s June 2017 issue.

He admits he is a “bit far-out” with his fashion choices, but said: “My crazi-est look is yet to come. I think

Lady Gaga is outrageous and I love her, but I am not that

crazy.“For every

post-apocalyp-tic outfit I

wear, I also

have very normal clothes. I call it the goal-keeper syndrome: he makes nine good saves and no one comments but it’s the one he misses that’s remembered. I wear normal clothes all the time but it’s the one time I’m feeling whimsical that gets noticed.”

The actor, who is working on “Padma-vati”, recounted how when “Band Baaja Baaraat” happened, stardom hit him “head-on”.

“Suddenly, I was in the limelight without the tools to cope with the attention. And when you are unsure, your guard goes up. A part of that measured response was to dress conventionally. This was to continue through that initial phase of stardom. The change,

the empowerment, ultimately came from the validation I got for my performanc-

es,” added the actor, who got critical acclaim for “Lootera” and com-

mercial acclaim for “Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela” in 2013.

He describes it as a turning point.

“People recognised that I was good at what I did,” he said, remembering a time when he went to a chat show wear-ing an Ermenegildo Zegna suit, Kolhapuri chappals, a fedora and

retro facial hair.“I remember thinking that after

a long time I looked and felt like the guy I lost somewhere along the way.”

IANS

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has an-nounced that reality TV game show

“Kaun Banega Crorepati” will return to the telly world soon. He has already started recording registration questions for it.

Amitabh’s announcement comes at a time when there was a buzz that Aishwar-ya Rai Bachchan might come on board to host the new season of the widely popular general knowledge-based game show.

The show was first aired in 2000,

changing the face of Indian television and giving Amitabh a new lease of life in show-biz. Recalling the experience of being the host, Amitabh wrote: “KBC. The winner from its beginnings. To me at least was to mingle with them that come with ambi-tion and desire, with hope and will and of course the ultimate desire of spending those hours at the Hot Seat, with complete strangers who by the time it ends become your dearest friends.” (IANS)

Shah Rukh Khan is the latest celebrity to face a death hoax as a Eu-ropean news network reported that the Bol-

lywood star was “killed in a plane crash”.

A European news network called El Pais TV announced a ‘breaking news’ segment that SRK was “killed along with seven others when a private jet he was travelling in crashed.”

The superstar today talked about the hoax and a ceiling collapse on the sets his film with Aanand L Rai while sharing his

eventful week with fans on Twitter.“TGIF! Survived the week in

spite of a plane crash, fatal ac-cident on sets and yet another title of Imtiaz Ali film! (sic)” Shah Rukh tweeted alongside a funny photo of him with ‘Phew...!!!’ writ-ten on it.

On Sunday, a portion of ceil-ing collapsed on the set of Rai’s yet-to-be-titled project in Film City. Two crew members suffered minor injuries in the incident. The shoot-ing has reportedly been stalled for the time being and will resume later this week.

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Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCap-rio, who has often expressed concern over climate change,

has slammed US President Donald Trump for his decision to with-draw from the Paris Agreement.

DiCaprio took to social media to decry the controversial decision, reports vanityfair.com.

“The Revenant” star posted on Facebook: “Today, the future livability of our planet was threat-

ened by President Trump’s careless decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.”

“Our future on this planet is now more at risk than ever before. For Americans and those in the world community looking for strong leadership on climate issues, this action is deeply discouraging.”

He added: “Now, more than ever, we must be determined to solve climate change, and to chal-lenge those leaders who do not believe in scientific facts or empiri-

cal truths. It is time for all of us to stand up, organize, fight back, and channel our energy into grassroots political action.”

DiCaprio ended the post by pointing his followers to “organi-sations on the front lines of this fight”, including Indivisible Guide, NRDC, Stand Up America, and Before the Flood.

“Before the Flood” was also a 2016 documentary co-produced by him on climate change.

IANS

DiCaprio decries Trump’s move on Paris agreement

Actress Sunny Leone said Priyanka Chopra’s online trolling, over her dress during her meet-ing with Prime Minis-

ter Narendra Modi in Germany, was unfair.

Priyanka had recently met Modi in Berlin and shared a picture on her social media account. The actress, however, faced criticism from certain sections, who objected to her short dress and slammed her for not being ‘appropriately dressed’ for the meeting.

Leone said if Modi had a prob-lem with it, he would’ve expressed the same.

“We have elected a very smart man to be the prime minister of this country... If he had a problem with it he would’ve said something. But he didn’t and I don’t think anybody has the right to troll,” she told reporters here.

The “Jism 2” actress said Priya-nka is a smart woman who does a lot for the society.

“There’s enough hate, we should love each other more and not be

mean. I know she (Priyanka) gives back to the society, she is good to people. Let’s judge her based on her actions and not her clothes.”

Leone was speaking at an event of PETA last evening.

After the criticism, Priyanka took potshots at trolls with a cheeky photo on her Instagram page.

In the photo, the 34-year-old actress was seen flaunting her legs in a high-slit denim dress, along with her mother Madhu, who was seen in a black top and mini skirt.

PTI

Let’s judge Priyanka for her actions, not clothes: Sunny Leone

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Saina Nehwal defeated Japan’s Haruko Suzuki 21-15, 20-22, 21-11 while B Sai Praneeth clinched as easy 21-16, 21-17 win against Kantaphon Wangcharoen.

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AFPKevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors celebrates scoring against the Cleveland Cavaliers in game one of the 2017 NBA Finals, at ORACLE Arena in Oakland, California, on June 1

Shuttlers Saina, Praneeth reach Thailand Open semis

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Bangkok, June 2 (IANS): Indian shuttlers Saina Ne-hwal and B. Sai Praneeth stormed into the semi-fi-nals of the $1,20,000 Thai-land Open Grand Prix badminton tournament with contrasting wins in the women’s and men’s singles quarter-finals, re-spectively, here on Friday.

L o n d o n O ly m p i c s bronze medallist Saina was made to toil hard by Japan’s Haruko Suzuki before the Indian used all her experience to bounce back in the third game and clinch it 21-15, 20-22, 21-11.

On the other hand, Singapore Open cham-pion Praneeth had an easy outing, thrashing lower-ranked Thailand’s Kan-taphon Wangcharoen in straight games 21-16, 21-17 in less than an hour to sail into the semi-finals.

The third-seeded In-dian maintained his lead throughout the match and never gave his World No.102-ranked opponent

Durant powers Warriors rout over Cavaliers in NBA Finals openerOakland, June 2 (AFP): Gold-en State's Kevin Durant scored 38 points and sparked a smoth-ering defense that powered the unbeaten Warriors over defend-ing champion Cleveland 113-91 in Thursday's opening game of the NBA Finals.

The Warriors juggernaut matched the longest playoff win streak in NBA history at 13-0 and seized a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series with game two Sunday at Oakland.

Durant, seeking his first NBA crown after leaving Okla-homa City for Golden State last July, hit 14-of-26 from the floor and added eight rebounds and eight assists, his early domi-nation including six first-half dunks, more than in any prior full playoff game.

"If I see a lane, I just try to attack," said Durant. "Just tried to be aggressive to the rim and loosen them up a bit. But it all starts from getting stops. We worry about defense first and offensively we can move the ball around, drive and kick and try to find shots. I was more focused on defense."

Durant's defensive work helped frustrate Cleveland star LeBron James, who finished with 28 points on 9-of-20 shoot-ing with 15 rebounds and eight assists in the first game of his seventh consecutive finals.

But James also made eight of 20 Cleveland turnovers that led to 21 Warriors points, seven of them coming in the first half, the second most in any half of his epic career.

"We were victims of our-selves," James said. "There's no way you're going to win a game with 20 turnovers against this team and on the road. I pride myself on not turning the ball over and I did it too much."

The Warriors matched an NBA Finals record low with only four turnovers and struck for 56 points in the paint. Gold-en State had 11 first-half dunks in all, the most of any team in any Finals half in 20 years, Durant leading the way.

"He was amazing and I expect nothing less in the rest of the games," said Warriors forward Draymond Green. "He came out ready to go and it was huge for us."

Golden State's Stephen Curry, who had 28 points and 10 assists, sparkled in the third quarter, his two 3-pointers cap-ping a 13-0 run to start the

second half that produced a 73-52 lead. The Cavaliers never seriously threatened again.

"We have playmakers all over the floor. Just see who is

going to draw attention, find the open guy and knock down open shots. That's the formula for us," Curry said. "It's going to get harder and harder as we

go when the stakes rise, but you have to stay focused."

Golden State, trying to be-come the first unbeaten playoff champion, matched the record 13-game post-season win streak set by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1988 and 1989 and matched by the Cavaliers this year.

"They're the best I ever seen," Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said. The Cavaliers saw their nine-game playoff road win streak snapped. It was the second-best in NBA history af-ter the Los Angeles Lakers took 12 in a row in 2001-02.

Kyrie Irving added 24 points for Cleveland while Kevin Love had 15 points and 21 rebounds for the Cavs, who outrebounded the Warriors 59-50. Draymond Green led Gold-en State with 11 rebounds.

"There's no time to be dis-appointed," Irving said. "They capitalized on our mistakes, a lot of easy baskets we can't al-low going into game two."

James had 19 points and 11 rebounds in the first half, the first time in his career he man-aged a playoff double-double before halftime.

Andre Iguodala's 3-pointer to end the first quarter gave the Warriors a 35-30 lead and Golden State stretched it to 60-52 at half-time.

Curry's surge to open the second half pulled the Warriors away to stay. After another 3-pointer later in the third, Curry turned from the basket and kicked his feet into the air, celebrating his ability to seem-ingly score at will against the struggling Cavaliers.

Late in the fourth quarter, a steal from James by Ian Clark set up a no-look pass from Curry to Durant, who sank a 3-pointer and shook his head in awe of his hot hand.

Durant joined Michael Jor-dan, Shaquille O'Neal and Rick Barry in scoring 25 or more points in his first six NBA Finals games, the prior five with Oklahoma City in a 2012 loss to the James-led Miami Heat.

The Warriors beat Cleve-land for the 2015 crown but squandered a 3-1 lead last year as the Cavs made the great-est comeback in NBA Finals history.

Guha Resignation: Questions Kohli, Dhoni, Ganguly, GavaskarNew Delhi, June 2 (PTI): Indian cricket's "superstar culture", unad-dressed conflict of interest issues and BCCI's "insensitive" handling of coach Anil Kumble -- noted historian Ramachandra Guha has opened a pandora's box in his resignation letter to the Committee of Administrators.

Guha spared no one and ques-tioned skipper Virat Kohli's role in selection of coach, besides alleging conflict of interest on part of Sunil Gavaskar, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid.

The letter also questioned the move to give former skipper Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni a Grade A Central Contract despite not playing all three formats.

In a seven-page letter, Guha has expressed his disgust to Rai for the "extremely insensitive and unprofes-sional manner" that the speculated Kohli-Kumble fallout was handled by BCCI CEO (Rahul Johri) and the BCCI office-bearers (Amitabh Chaudhary).

He accused the COA of "silence and inaction", claiming that the panel was "unfortunately being complicit in this regard."

In his parting shot, he recom-mended Javagal Srinath's name as his replacement as a former cricketer in the Committee of Administrators.

While Guha, in his submission to Supreme Court cited personal reasons for quitting COA, his letter asks a lot of uncomfortable questions to the powers that be of Indian cricket.

Guha has directly questioned Kohli's "veto power" on deciding mat-ters like appointment of a coach and even the commentators' panel. It also makes it clear that Kumble-Kohli rift is a reality.

He writes: "If indeed the captain and the Head Coach were not getting along, why was not this attended to as soon as the Australia series was over in late March? Why was it left until the last minutes, when a major international tournament was immi-nent, and when the uncertainty would

undermine the morale and ability to focus of the coach, the captain and the team."

"And surely giving senior players the impression that they may have a veto power over the coach is another example of superstar culture gone ber-serk? Such a veto power is not permit-ted to any other top level professional team in any other sport in any other country," he categorically states.

In a veiled dig at Kohli, Guha writes that on Friday, players are interfering in matters pertaining to ap-pointment of coaches and commen-tators (Harsha Bhogle was removed for on-air criticism of Virat Kohli), tomorrow it may well be that they would like to have a say on office-bearers.

"Already, in a dismaying depar-ture from international norms, current Indian players enjoy a veto power on who can be the members of the com-mentary team. If it is to be coaches next, then perhaps the selectors and even office-bearers will follow?"

Guha lambasted the superstar culture prevalent in the Indian cricket-ing set-up that has allowed Dhoni to retain a 'Grade A' contract when he has given up on Test cricket in 2014.

"Unfortunately, this superstar syn-drome has also distorted the system of Indian team contracts. As you will recall, I had pointed out that awarding M S Dhoni an 'A' contract when he had explicitly ruled himself out from all Test matches was indefensible on cricketing grounds, and sends abso-lutely the wrong message," he wrote.

He was also severe on the likes of Rahul Dravid for having dual con-tracts with both the BCCI and IPL franchises.

"No person under contract with an India team, or with the NCA, should be allowed to moonlight for an IPL team too," he writes.

Taking an indirect dig at Dravid (India A coach), and R Sridhar (field-ing coach), the former COA member questioned BCCI for allowing them to have IPL contracts with Delhi Dare-

devils (Dravid) and Kings XI Punjab (Sridhar).

An excerpt of the letter states: "The question of conflict of interest, which had laid unaddressed ever since the Committee began its work, and which I have been repeatedly flagging since I joined.

"For instance, the BCCI has ac-corded preferential treatment to some national coaches, by giving them ten month contracts for national duty, thus allowing them to work as IPL coaches/mentors for the remaining two months."

"This was done in an ad-hoc and arbitrary manner; the more famous the former player-turned-coach, the more likely was the BCCI to allow him to draft his own contract that left loopholes that he exploited to dodge the conflict of interest issue," Guha wrote with fingers clearly pointed at Dravid, someone whose reputation till date has been unquestionable.

Apart from taking on Kohli and Dravid, Guha also had strong reserva-tions about Sunil Gavaksar's business interests in Professional Management Group (PMG) and his firm managing a current player -- Shikhar Dhawan. He, in fact, told Rai how he had apprised them of PMG signing up Dhawan's endorsements.

"Sunil Gavaskar is head of a company which represents Indian cricketers while commenting on those cricketers as part of the BCCI TV commentary panel. This is a clear conflict of interest. Either he must step down/withdraw himself from PMG completely or stop being a com-mentator for BCCI."

After Gavaskar, Guha then trained his gun on another former captain Sourav Ganguly, who is a TV pundit apart from being current president of the Cricket Association of Bengal.

"Conflict of interest is rampant in the State Associations as well. One fa-mous former cricketer is contracted by media houses to comment on active players while serving as President of his State Association (read Ganguly)."

Getting best out of Lionel Messi, Sampaoli's job as new Argentina boss Buenos Aires, June 2 (IANS): Getting the best out of Lionel Messi and reaching the 2018 FIFA World Cup are the two main goals for new Argen-tina football coach Jorge Sampaoli.

"I spoke with Leo and we're both excited," Sam-paoli was quoted as saying by BBC.

"It's a boost for us to see how excited he is with this new stage (for Argen-tina)," Sampaoli, 57, who took over the reins from Edgardo Bauza, said.

Sampaoli was in charge of Spanish club Sevilla for one season.

Messi, the star FC Bar-celona forward, announced his retirement from inter-

national football in June 2016 before reversing his decision two months later.

Argentina are currently outside an automatic quali-fying spot for next year's World Cup in Russia after six wins in 14 qualifying games.

Their last four qualifiers are against Uruguay (away) on August 31, Venezuela

(home) on September 5, Peru (home) on October 5 and Ecuador (away) on October 10.

"The South American qualifiers are very compli-cated. There are some very good teams trying to do the same thing as us," said Sampaoli, who has signed a deal until the 2022 World Cup.

a chance to get back in the match.

In the semi- f inals, World No.24 Praneeth will meet the winner between Thai duo of World No.11 Tanongsak Saensomboon-suk and World No.71 Pan-nawit Thongnuam.

In the women’s singles, Saina dominated the open-

ing game handsomely be-fore the World No.132 Ha-ruko bounced back quite well to take the second game 22-20 and level the game by 1-1.

T h e m a t c h w a s stretched to the decider but this time Saina gave the Japanese no chance and maintained her lead

throughout to take clinch the tie 21-11.

T h e Wo r l d N o. 1 1 Saina will now take on Thailand’s fourth seeded World No.13 Busanan Ongbumrungpan on Sat-urday for a place in the final. India’s campaign in all the doubles categories have already ended.

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Morning PreMier LeagueCT 2017: Williamson helps Kiwis to healthy total Bir mingham, June 2 (IANS): New Zealand rode on a century by Kane Williamson and excellent batting by Luke Ronchi and Ross Taylor to post a total of 291 runs in their Group A match against Australia at the Champi-ons Trophy cricket tour-nament here on Friday. Williamson led the Kiwi charge with a solid innings of 100 runs before being run out. His 97-ball innings included eight boundaries and three sixes.

Ronchi chipped in with a quick fire 65 off 43 deliv-eries which included nine boundaries and three sixes.

Taylor on the other hand, was unlucky to miss out on what would have been a well deserved half century as he was dismissed on 46, hitting six boundaries during his 58-ball stay at the crease.

Fa s t b o w l e r Jo s h Hazlewood produced an excellent display of pace bowling to return figures of 6/52, three of those wickets coming off four de-liveries in the penultimate over of the innings.

Fel low pacer John Hastings had figures of 2/69 while fast bowler Pat Cummins got one wicket.

Electing to bat first on winning the toss, New Zea-land were off to a steady start as openers Ronchi and Martin Guptill took the to-

New Zealand's Luke Ronchi plays a shot against Australia during the ICC Champions Trophy, Group A cricket match between Australia and New Zealand at Edgbaston, Birmingham. England Friday June 2.

Power Comm powers to victory, go top

tal to 40 runs in the sixth over. Hazlewood struck the first blow for Australia when Guptill was outfoxed by a bit of extra bounce and was caught by Glenn Maxwell at point.

A heavy drizzle led to suspension of play for around one and a half hours forcing the officials to reduce the match to 46 overs a side.

Williamson and Ron-chi however, did not let the break affect their focus, adding 77 runs between them off 60 balls.

Hastings brought the partnership to an end when

he sent Ronchi back to the pavilion, courtesy another excellent catch at point by Maxwell.

Williamson and Taylor

then put together 99 runs in 18.1 overs to put the Kiwis on course for a big total.

Taylor was dismissed

when he mistimed a slower ball from Hastings, offer-ing a simple top edge to Moises Henriques in the covers.

Williamson completed his century exactly five overs later, smashing Hast-ings for a boundary before taking a quick single to reach triple figures, his ninth in One-Day Interna-tionals and his first against Australia.

The right-hander was dismissed off the very next ball he faced when he was run out thanks to an ac-curate throw by Cummins.

Williamson's departure heralded a mini collapse by the Kiwis as they lost the remaining six wickets over the next six overs.

Hazlewood clinched the wickets o f Adam Milne, Mitchell Santner and Trent Boult in the 45th over to bring the curtains down on the New Zealand innings.

Kohima, June 2 (EMN): Viposa hat-trick and Hethanglo brace helped Power Comm beat Silver White 5-4 and moved to the top of the Morning Premier League here at the Kohima local ground on Friday morning.

Power Comm (28 points) lead Medi-cal XI on goal difference at the top of the Morning Premier League and League leader All Blacks slumped to the third place.

Power Comm and Medical Xi joined the title race along with All Blacks on 28 points who earlier suffered shocked defeat on Thursday against Morning FC.

During a goal-fest encounter that saw nine goals during the match, Viposa of

Power Comm completed his hat-trick in 8th, 38th and 47th minutes and Hethanglo found the net in the 26th and 75th minutes for Power Comm.

Silver White player Tesa found the net in the 33rd minutes through an assist from Mun and John converted a penalty in the 44th minutes; Tesa continued his good form in the second half as he scored twice again 65th and 77th minutes to complete the hat-trick but fall short of a goal to equalize the scoreline. Tesa hat-trick not enough for the Silver White as Power Comm hold on for a victory.

Silver White remained at the bottom of the league with one point.

Badminton camp underway in Dimapur Dimapur, June 2 (EMN): To tap the potentials of young badminton players and train them for competitions, a month long badminton coaching camp organised by the Dimapur District Badminton Association (DDBA) for the upcoming players got underway at DDBA Indoor sta-dium, united colony, Nagarjan on Thursday, June 1, 2017.

The camp is being conducted for all categories for both men and women. More than 30 players from Dimapur district are attending the intensive coaching conducted by retired national badminton umpire C. Tinu Pongen and assisted by former state players.

DDBA president Vikhugha Chophi informed that the camp will aim at training the young talents and groom them for participating in district, state and national level competitions. The association further informed interested players to come and join the camp.

Further he said the camp is also a preparation for the district team for the forthcoming 41st Inter District and State Open Badminton Championship 2017 to be held from July 11-14 at Chumukedima hosted by Nagaland Police.

DRI arrests national-level shooter Prashant BishnoiNew Delhi, June 2 (PTI): The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested national-level shooter Prashant Bishnoi, a key accused in multi-crore gun-running and wildlife smuggling case.

The arrest comes a month after raids conducted by the DRI at Bishnoi's residence in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut resulted in the recovery of about Rs one crore in cash besides over a hundred illegally imported firearms, 117 kg of nilgai meat, horns and skins of leopards and blackbucks.

Bishnoi is alleged to be the kingpin of a global syn-dicate involved in smuggling of fire arms and wildlife.

He appeared before the DRI officials yesterday in response to a summon issued against him. Following interrogation, Bishnoi was arrested, official sources said today. During the interrogation, he was confronted with evidence gathered during the probe. Bishnoi accepted to be the part of the global smuggling racket, the sources claimed.

Three accused including Slovenian national Boris Sobotic Mikolic have already been arrested for their al-leged involvement in the case.

The trio were intercepted after their arrival at the Delhi airport by a Turkish Airlines flight from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana via Istanbul on April 29.

They were carrying 25 illegally imported lethal weap-ons and other items worth about Rs 4.5 crore with them, according to a senior DRI official.

They had incorrectly declared the quantity and value of the arms and ammunition to the customs officials and tried to get these items cleared by misusing the scheme meant for renowned shooters, he said.

The rules permit professional shooters to import a limited quantity of arms and ammunition for practice.

The accused -- Amit Goyal, Anil Kumar Langan and Mikolic -- were arrested for allegedly violating customs rules to evade payment of import duty, the official said.

Following the detention of the accused, the DRI had carried out searches at multiple places including the house of the Prashant Bishnoi, son of a retired army colonel, and seized over hundred illegally imported fire-arms, 117 kg of nilgai meat, horns and skins of leopards and blackbucks, he said.

Unaccounted cash of about Rs one crore and two lakh cartridges were also seized during the searches, the official said.

The firearms of various make and models -- Glock (Austria), Italy-made Beretta, Arsenal, Benelle and Blaser (Germany) -- were seized along with expensive cameras, thermal imaging binoculars and cartridges during the raids.