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Time of India
4 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Five tribes rally against job quota policy in Nagaland
Dimapur: Hundreds of people from five Naga tribes – Sumi, Ao, Lotha, Angami, and Rengma – under the banner of the 5 Tribes Committee on Review of Reservation Policy (CoRRP), took out rallies in five district headquarters of Nagaland on Thursday against the state govt's alleged inaction on their demands to review the Nagaland job reservation policy. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Defying the inclement weather, protesters gathered in Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung, Tseminyu and Wokha, demanding either a complete scrapping of the 48-year-old indefinite job quota for seven backward tribes, introduced in 1977 for an initial period of 10 years, or the exclusive reservation of the remaining unreserved quota for their five tribes. In Dimapur, a large number of protesters, both young and old, convened at the DC court junction, before marching to the deputy commissioner's office to submit a memorandum. Leaders of the three tribe organizations, who were present, affirmed their unwavering commitment to continue the agitation until their demands were met. They announced their plan for the second phase of the stir, which will be a peaceful sit-in (dharna) outside the Nagaland Civil Secretariat starting June 2nd. This will be followed by a total shutdown in all districts inhabited by the five tribes, commencing on June protesters then proceeded to the DC office to submit an "ultimatum reminder" to the state government. The memorandum, addressed to the chief secretary, reiterated that the 5 CoRRP, representing the apex bodies of the five tribes – Angami Public Organisation, Ao Senden, Lotha Hoho, Rengma Hoho, and Sumi Hoho – had previously submitted a memorandum to CM Neiphiu Rio on September 20, 2024, followed by a 30-day ultimatum on April 26, 2025, to address their demands. The memo expressed disappointment that the state govt's response, conveyed through a letter from the home commissioner dated May 25, 2025, had failed to address the core concerns and issues raised in their initial memorandum. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The 5 CoRRP stated that they were resorting to democratic agitation through public protest rallies in all districts inhabited by the five tribes and submitting an ultimatum reminder regarding their "legitimate demands." The committee further declared their intention to intensify the agitation in various forms until their grievances are adequately addressed.
CBS News
23-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Sacramento Zoo welcomes new Masai giraffe, named Henry, from Virginia
SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento Zoo recently welcomed a new male Masai giraffe from the East Coast. The giraffe, named Henry, is 1.5 years old and arrived in the capital city from the Virginia Zoo on April 26. The Sacramento Zoo said Henry has already fully integrated into the existing herd of Masai giraffes, which are considered vulnerable to endangerment. Henry the Masaii giraffe Sacramento Zoo Henry will be about 19 feet tall once fully grown, making him the tallest in the zoo's herd. He is the lightest colored giraffe in the herd. The zoo said Henry came to Sacramento on a breeding recommendation and is a genetic match with all the female giraffes it currently houses. "The arrival of Henry marks an exciting milestone in our ongoing commitment to giraffe conservation. ... We look forward to his integration and the potential for future offspring, further contributing to the conservation of this iconic species," said Matt McKim, the zoo's chief animal programs officer. At the beginning of March, a new Masai giraffe was born at the Sacramento Zoo. In April, its name was announced as Sumi. Also in April, the Sacramento Zoo welcomed two new clouded leopards, named Serai and Rajasi
Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
To review reservation policy, Census data needed: Nagaland govt
Kohima, Nagaland government has expressed its inability to move forward with any review of the job reservation policy without accurate and up-to-date population data, reiterating that such a move must be based on the national census figures. Responding to queries about demands by tribal bodies seeking a re-evaluation of the job reservation system, Nagaland government spokesperson and minister K G Kenye said, "We cannot move blindly. We need a basis—and that basis is the census". On April 27, representatives of the five major tribes of Nagaland - Angami, Ao, Lotha, Rengma, and Sumi - submitted a letter to the chief minister giving a 30-day ultimatum to the state government, demanding immediate action on their September 2024 request to review the Nagaland job reservation policy for backward tribes. However, talking to reporters at the state civil secretariat here on Wednesday, Kenye noted that the census process in Nagaland has been mired in legal disputes. "Our census has been challenged. Tribal organisations have approached the high court, and now the matter has reached the Supreme Court," he said, adding that there is disagreement over which census year as to whether 2001 or 2011, should be considered valid. "Now, we have already crossed 2021, which should be the reference for the current decade, but even the 2011 census has been challenged," he remarked. In light of these disputes, "We've decided to hold off until the new census data is available. Only then can we address these sensitive issues," Kenye asserted. He also clarified that conducting a census is under the purview of the Central government and not within the powers of individual states. "Unless the Centre announces and authorises it, we cannot undertake any census independently. It is a nationwide exercise," the minister explained. "We hope our tribal leaders and citizens understand that this is beyond the state's control. We are waiting, just like everyone else," Kenye added.
NZ Herald
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Auckland Restaurant Review: Sumi in City Works Depot is Auckland's ‘Hottest Ticket'
This new Japanese restaurant from chef Jason Lee has made Jesse Mulligan's heart come alive. There is a precise and wonderful chemistry to Sumi, a new Japanese eatery next to Tacoteca in City Works Depot. They've taken over the space from a hairdresser, but you would never know it. An
New York Times
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Designers Who Turned Their Apartment Into a Stage for Their Neighbors
THE FIRST TIME the 40-year-old French designers Agathe Labaye and Florian Sumi met, they were in high school in Dijon, forced to work together in art class on an amateurish painting of a dead fish that they still have in storage. They had crushes on each other, Labaye says on a dreary March morning while the couple sit at an oval black glass dining table in their third-floor apartment in Paris's Haut Marais. But they didn't reconnect for another 18 years, after finishing what Labaye calls 'first life' — full of 20-something relationships, homes and jobs — and then deciding to co-create a line of industrial wood, leather and steel furniture (sold at London's Charles Burnand gallery), a collaboration that established their professional and romantic partnership. The next year, in 2019, they completed their debut full-scale project, the renovation of Hotel de Pourtalès, a pale-toned Eighth Arrondissement refuge that, as Labaye explains, needed a fresh sense of calm. Three years before, it had been where Kim Kardashian was held up at gunpoint. Back then, Sumi considered himself an artist who produced steampunkish metallic furniture meant less for sitting on than for looking at. Labaye was an architect who worked with French designers like Pierre Bonnefille. As their company, Labaye-Sumi, grew to seven people and took on commissions, the pair decided they were neither of those things — and both, too. In each of their independent practices, they had long been interested in exposing handmade techniques and artisanship, whether joinery, wiring or literal nuts and bolts, which often resulted in objects and rooms that, almost like theatrical set pieces, could be disassembled and reassembled in various ways. So, not long after they started making spaces together, they invented a shared philosophy of sorts: 'Furniture makes architecture.' As she explains this, Labaye points above to the bespoke oak railing that borders much of the mezzanine-like loft of the 1,290-square-foot, three-bedroom apartment: 'A friend recently asked whether that balustrade was architecture or design, and I couldn't answer,' she says. 'With the ceiling lamps and lecterns [attached to it], it creates architecture because the shape fills the void.' THEIRS, INDEED, IS a world of in-betweens: He likes to stand and work all day, she prefers to be horizontal in bed; he likes sofas, she forbids them; he's most interested in form and materials, she obsesses over light and colors (which in this home alternate between moody jewel tones and soft beiges, all lit in buttery hues by custom LED bulbs they manufacture themselves). As they're brainstorming, one will sketch, the other will make 3-D renderings from those drawings and then they'll bring the results to their atelier outside the city in Saint-Denis, where they manufacture most elements for this and other projects. When they host dinner parties, often several times a week, Sumi does the cooking while Labaye refills drinks and smokes cigarettes with friends, all of them leaning out the window. Most of the home, in fact, is oriented around having people over for hours, the space adjusted as needed: The middle of the residence is the kitchen and dining room, where in lieu of rigid wooden seating they've placed four vintage burgundy velvet armchairs that encourage visitors to stay and relax. For extra guests, they'll pull squat stools from the rest of the dwelling, which unfurls down a snaking 55-foot window-lined corridor through a cavernous central sitting area, the primary suite and up to the interior balcony, with a semi-exposed study and rooms for their two young children. Everywhere you look, there's contemporary portraiture on the walls, and chaises and divans that inspire crouching and conversation beneath dramatic hanging pendants. 'We are not against the typical Parisian apartment,' says Labaye. 'But this kind of place gave us the ability to really push hard —' 'To invent something,' Sumi adds, finishing her thought. Perhaps it makes sense, then, that just as they never intended to design apartments, this was never meant to be an apartment in the first place. It was built in the 1870s as the chapel of a convent, and they've maintained this vernacular by delineating rooms, some with beamed 15-foot ceilings, across three distinct naves, with the living area occupying the middle. Until the couple renovated the place in 2023, a single woman had lived here for four decades, growing old among her collection of ashtrays and vintage Le Corbusier chairs. Long before she arrived, the upstairs level had been a church attic where Jews hid after the Nazis invaded. The duo wanted to pay tribute to the house's architectural legacy however they could — for example, by hanging rough jute curtains they felt were humble and vaguely magisterial. They also installed curved sliding wood-and-glass doors along the corridor that allow each downstairs space to be cloistered or opened up, exposing it to the original arched windows opposite the hall. 'Our flat is a big diorama for the neighbors,' says Sumi, gesturing to the many who live around the building's courtyard. 'It's a real stage. So we just play.'
