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‘MISSION POSSIBLE’ [ PAGE 02]

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By Sandemo Ngullie

Morung Express News Dimapur | November 9

Nagaland sells over 10 crore worth of brooms KohimA, November 9 (mexN): Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and Chairman NSAMB Dr. Benjongliba Aier on Friday said that it is estimated that every year, “our state sells more than Rs. 10 crores worth of broom.” Broom is natural gift of God for the Naga farmers, he said adding that by nature, broom is found all over the state. “We only have to collect and sell it,” he said adding that this business as of now is carried out by the non–Nagas only. Speaking at the workshop of Naga People’s front (NPF) farmers’ wing policies and programmes for central office bearers here, the parliamentary secretary also said Nagaland has a lot of horticultural crops which can be feasibly taken on commercial scale.

One held with pistol

DimAPUr, November 9 (mexN): The Special Branch, Dimapur on Saturday nabbed one man, in the process of selling off a country-make small arm.

The man, identified as W. Tachangkhum Yimchunger (28) was arrested from the inter-state bus station, Golaghat Road at around 3:30 am. One .22mm calibre pistol with two rounds of ammunition and a magazine was seized from the man.

According to the Special Branch, the man revealed during interrogation that he had procured the weapon at Tuensang for a sum of Rs. 15, 000. He had reportedly made a deal to dispose the pistol in Dimapur for Rs. 20, 000. It was to be handed over to an unidentified “non-local” contact in Dimapur. However, he was arrested before the transaction could be made, the Special Branch said.

SC stays Gauhati HC verdict holding CBI unconstitutional

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New Delhi, November 9 (iANS):TheSupreme Court Saturday stayed a Gauhati High Court order holding the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) unconstitutional after quashing the April 1963 home ministry resolution setting up of the agency under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. An apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai stayed the high court order after a 19-minute-long hearing at the former’s residence Saturday evening.

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Two days back, on November 7, the Amnesty International India called for the immediate repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA). Now, former home secretary to the Government of India, GK Pillai, has called for a “rethink” of the same.

“We need a real rethinking on security in the North East. Why in Nagaland where there is no killing, the AFSPA is in force. It needs to be debated,” said Pillai during a panel discussion at the North East Festival held on November 8-9 in New Delhi.

The Assam Tribune has reported that the discussion on ‘North East India as Central Focus of India’s Look East policy and Internal Security’ heard from other panelists such as Joint Secretary Shambhu Singh. GK Pillai and Shambhu Singh were reported to have been engaged in an “interesting debate” over the logic of continuing the Act in Nagaland, which has not witnessed any major militantrelated killings in the last couple of years.

While “rethinking” of the security paradigm is essential, comments from retired officials like Pillai Former guitarist for Michael Jackson, Jennifer Batten performing at the Agri Expo, mean little without simulDimapur on November 9. Photo by Manen Aier. taneous action. “It [Pillai’s

Questions around logic of continuing AFSPA in Nagaland State

comment] means nothing.

You can say many things when you are retired that you have not said when you were in power, when you could have changed things,” comments Xonzoi Borbora, who teaches at the Guwahati chapter of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Civil society activist, Dr. Pangernungba, agrees.

“He would never say this in official capacity. It is a face saving gesture for him to say this after retirement,” he reflects. The AFSPA, according to Dr. Pangernungba, is part of the “nation state ontology,” an essential part of India’s nation state security paradigm and structural adjustments need to be made to change this. “The AFSPA is part of a colonial legacy and unless India stops classifying the North East in its security category, such comments will change nothing.”

Pillai is also reported to have said that the Disturbed Area tag should not be applied to Nagaland but “even the State Government of Nagaland does not want the AFSPA to be withdrawn from the State.” The Nagaland State Government has expressed reser-

vations about Pillai’s statement. “There has been no official intimation from the Government of India to the Government of Nagaland asking for the withdrawal of the Disturbed Areas Act or the AFSPA. There is nothing on record to suggest that the State Government does not want them withdrawn,” clarifies Chief Secretary of Nagaland State, Alemtemshi Jamir. For Borbora, passing the onus of a central Act on to the State Government is a “backboneless act.”

Pillai rationalized that “We don’t take great pleasure in doing it, but it is a compulsion. Our efforts will be to see that something is done to bring peace in the region.” Joint Secretary Shambhu Singh has justified the Act on the ground that “inter-tribe clashes in Nagaland were on the rise.”

While people’s voices have been drowned by the mainstream narrative, former officials who have worked with the legal and political mainstream using the “language of peace” has befuddled some. For the Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), which has documented

and protested abuse by the armed wings of the Indian State under the protection of the AFSPA, such statements signify India’s approach to peace. “They talk the language of peace and security through dialogue, but keep up the violence simultaneously through the use of AFSPA; this is a hypocritical approach towards peace,” says Tungshang Ningreichon, an NPMHR activist. The last two years, she highlights, have seen peace due to civil society initiatives such as the reconciliation process.

And it is such internal processes, through a unified voice from the North East region, that could strengthen the campaign against the security legislation, suggests Dr. Pangernungba, hopeful that new forums like pan North East political parties should bring the discussion up at the parliament. On the international level, organizations apart from, and along with, Amnesty International should take this up at the United Nations with renewed vigour and seriousness. “Irom Sharmila is tired, people-to-people dialogues have not worked and special commissions have faltered. We need to reimagine the campaign to repeal AFSPA,” offers Dr. Pangernungba on a concluding note.

Domestic Workers: Myth & reality no tax till one Govt is a reality: AcAUt Morung Express News Dimapur | November 9

Under the pretext of adoption, promise of education and a better life, countless under-privileged children from far-flung villages in Nagaland make their way to the towns. In most cases, the towns favoured are Dimapur, Kohima or Mokokchung. For some, it turns out well, while for many; it proves otherwise, working as bonded labours with no remuneration.

For the unfortunate, who more often than not happen to be from the region dubbed as ‘Eastern Nagaland’, little do they know of the fate that awaits them, in the asylum (or family) they found shelter. Child rights activists emphasis the need to dispelling the myth surrounding the so called gracious practice of Naga families adopting children with the promise of giving a decent education, in exchange for petty household chores.

Assisi Centre for Integrated Development, development wing of the Ursuline Franciscan Sister of North-East, is one of few organisations in Nagaland working for empowerment of marginalised people, especially women and children. One of its primary concerns is working for rights of domestic workers and children forced into domestic work.

On November 9, ACID held a consultative meeting with Eastern Naga Students Union, Dimapur aimed at chalking out strategies, with special regard to children from eastern Nagaland employed as domestic helps. Child rights activists from Nagaland Alliance for Child Rights, Childline India, Dimapur and Prodigals’ Home were also party to the consultative meet.

ACID coordinator, Sister Therese stated that a majority of child domestic helps in Dimapur are from eastern Nagaland. “We have observed that children from eastern Nagaland adopted by families on the pretext of providing education mostly end up as domestic helps. This is the common concern of all of us.”

She stressed on the need to clear the myth that these children are leading decent lives than they did

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here is a myth, which goes something like this, “We accept that there are some terrible human rights abuses of domestic workers. But most are treated well by their employers.

We can’t make standards or legislation too detailed just to deal with a minority of cases.” The testimony of 13 year-old Meena (name changed), who shared her story at the meeting today, will tell otherwise. Losing her mother as an infant, Meena’s father sold her off to an undisclosed family in Dimapur at the age of three.

The life that followed, in her own words was “one of untold hardship”. She was forced to do every household chore and in return did not even get a proper bed when she fell sick. Her ‘adopted family’ treated her well in front of guests but in private, it was the opposite. Some five to six years passed, before she finally decided it was unbearable. In 2008, she escaped. Loitering in the streets, she was found by the police, who tried to send her back to the home she escaped from. But she refused. She eventually found shelter in the form of an NGO, under whose patronage, she is now going to school.

in the village. “To begin a systematic change, we need to clear the clouds and myths and accept the reality that they are not helpers, not maids, not servants but they are workers.

Failure to acknowledge the unequal power relationship that exists between the ‘adopted family’ and the domestic worker only promote abuse and exploitation to continue.”

While the battle against domestic help abuse continue, having in place a binding social security scheme or legislation for such workers is also necessitated. Legislation will not only secure a steady income but also act as shield against abuse.

“With you and other stakeholders we would like to see Nagaland too implement welfare schemes and legislation enforced for domestic workers,” said Sister Therese.

DimAPUr, November 9 (mexN): The Action Committee against Unabated Taxation has reiterated the resolutions adopted during the public awareness rally on October 31.

A press note from the ACAUT reaffirmed the call for “one government one tax.” It said that every individual who took this pledge on the 31st October rally “is morally bound not to pay tax in any form till one government is a reality.”

ACAUT asserted that “every government servant from the senior most bureaucrats to the humble peon shall not pay salary tax unless one govern-

ment comes to fruition.” It added, “This slogan shall mean that no Naga businessmen or entrepreneurs or any non-local businessmen residing in Nagaland shall pay tax to any factions unless one government becomes tangible.” It stated that “unless the factions unite the people will continue to suffer.”

ACAUT further re-affirmed its support for the “Naga movement and strongly urged the government of India to settle the Indo-Naga imbroglio at the earliest.” It stated that “If the NPGs are responsible for the sorry state of affairs of our state the GOI is also

NSCN (K) issues warning

DimAPUr, November 9 (mexN): The NSCN Khaplang today issued a warning to “other Naga political groups to be cautious while expressing political words” and also warned the Government of India (GoI) “that any solution with I-M group will be a mockery and miserable failure because they have been abandoned by the Nagas.”

The NSCN (K) in a statement through its MIP stated that the “warning is mainly on Isak-Muivah group for their anti-Naga attitudes and actions whose main target is to annihilate other Naga political groups.” The NSCN K pointed out that it is “never concern for the present ceasefire” since “nothing will come up and hence the question of “Law of land” or Indian constitution” does not arise. It further said “any time anything may happen in regards to cease-fire with G.O.I if the latter fails to understand who the Nagas are.”

While questioning the NSCN (IM) as to “when the Naga people gave their mandate for I-M solution,” said they “should either stop talks or surrender before GOI.” The NSCN (K) went on to say that “the said group who are no more fighting for Naga sovereignty has no right to collect taxes from Naga country and ACAUT should not be afraid of half surrendered group.”

The NSCN (K) advised the Naga people “to be bold and brave to face any situation if NSCN is compelled to abrogate present cease-fire with G.O.I unless New Delhi change their motive and attitude towards the Nagas.”

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equally guilty of abandoning its citizens.”

It also reminded of the demand that the government of Nagaland should constitute a high powered committee within 15 days of the rally “to study the whole gamut of unabated taxations and illegal collections involving the NPGs and government agencies/ departments.” ACAUT also alleged that “MRP tax (another ingenious tax) is levied by underground cadres ostensibly on goods without MRP labels.”

Stating that MRP tag “cannot be tagged on pipes, nails, nylon ropes, CGI sheets, Chi-

nese toys, etc,” ACAUT stated that, “this hasn’t stopped the cadres from accusing businessmen of unfair trade practices and levy tax.” “This is the form of harassment experienced on daily basis by the businesspeople and common man,” it added.

It iterated that the state government is responsible for the security and lives of its citizens and added that “no amount of justification can wish away the fact that the government has done nothing to address the issues raised by the ACAUT.” Full text on page 5

Taxation for Naga political cause, asserts NSCN (IM) DimAPUr, November 9 (mexN): The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) today said that it “is ever ready and even more willing to reason and understand together with the Naga people at all times and see no confusion before us as long as everyone stride unbeaten in the national principle.”

While stating that taxation is for the Naga political cause, the NSCN (IM) identified four “main” reasons for taxation. In a statement issued through the MIP, it stated that the imposition of tax is “to show loyalty to NSCN authority and legitimacy, to sustain our movements and achieve Naga political solution through peace process, mobilizing of support and solidarity across the world, to feed and supply basic requirements for thousands of standing NSCN cadres and to protect the rights of the Naga people and her territory occupied and divided by India and Burma.”

However, the NSCN (IM) lamented, “It is very unfair on the part of some speakers and writers questioning taxation by NSCN and using derogatory language and terminology.” It added,

“Though we will never claim perfection while executing our national interest yet fairness and some decency are expected from those who speak and write.”

The NSCN (IM) also recognized the “burden caused due to various groups collecting taxes” and stated that “the cry of the Naga people to unify at the earliest is well acknowledged.” It said that they have “followed the path of reconciliation with utmost sincerity” and will continue to embark on the principle of “unity and reconciliation” based on the principle of “historical and political rights of the Nagas”.

On what it termed as “NSCN bashing” in the media and the internet, the statement said that “Many of our Naga youth seem to have forgotten that we are still in the revolutionary period and exercising certain level of restraint is the best policy for the struggling people like us.”

Calling for reason and understanding, it asserted that “The fight for rights and freedom should not be limited in what NSCN can do but what Naga people can do in every fields.”

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New book on mission released

Rev. David Ralte, Interserve:

“This Mission Fair has been very well-organized and I laud the NBCC and NMM for making such a good move. It is a great platform to spread the message of unifying together to impact the spreading of the Gospel. It is good for Missions to know more about each other. I hope this trend will continue. I will definitely do my part in spreading the news.”

Aloysius, from YWAM, Gujarat:

“I am really happy to be here and meet so many missionaries. I am thrilled and inspired by the vision of the speakers. I believe that greater things are ahead. I’m also planning to pioneer something in Gujarat.”

Suraj Rai, Accountant of NMM:

“This Mission Fair is a good avenue for young people. We should continue to organise similar fairs to encourage young people and create a bigger platform with more options.”

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Nagaland Missions Movement and Interserve India signed a partnership agreement on November 9, 2013 at Dimapur, Nagaland, to fulfil the common vision of transforming the lives of the neediest peoples of Asia and the Arab world through encounter with Jesus Christ.

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book titling “Revolution of Mission: Calling the Naga Churches to Marketplace of Mission” by a Naga author, Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo, Ph. D. was released on November 8 at the Mission Fair 2013 of Nagaland Missions Movement at Rengma Baptist Church, Dimapur. The 370 paged book is with a Foreword by Rev. I. Wati Longkumer, Director of NMM and was released by him, and a blurb by Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, Executive Secretary of the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council.

Evaluating mission performance of the churches, the au-

thor addresses various aspects and issues of mission relating to Nagaland context in particular including historical development, reaffirming Scriptural priority, prophetic voice to the churches, insights for crosscultural context and relevance, and a guide to the 21st Century mission. It is a timely and practical book to guide our churches, missionaries, theological training, and even active lay people in mission development and undertaking. It also deals with key pertaining issues which are revolutionary and hard shell breaking.

Planting into the Kingdom of God

Interview with Narong

National Director, Bible League Thailand Foundation (BLTF).

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3. How do you decide your area of operation or your target group?

When local churches come with their own vision, about a particular area that needs churches, BLTF helps them with available resources in carrying out surveys and getting as much information as possible.

Many areas with new Christians don’t have their own local church so we tend to focus on these areas and also in areas that lack Christian population.

ible League International is headquartered at Chicago, USA, with branches in Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.

Narong’s wife teaches in a church-run international school in Chiang Mai. His eldest daughter, born in Nagaland is now in her third year degree course at Baltimore City Community College, USA. The second daughter is in 4. Mention some difficulties that crop up during church-planting and ways to avoid grade 11, Woodstock, Mussorie. hostilities.

So far, there has been no serious persecu1. Tell us a little about yourself and your tion in our areas of operation but we do face ministry.

I have been in Thailand for about thirty years; difficulty in the attitudes of people. Workers are often viewed with suspicion but when my ministry operates in three main areas: • providing Bibles to locals for evangelism they see the Christian life of the workers and that they come in peace, they slowly open up. and discipleship Planters are usually equipped with spe• training local church members to be cial skills before they are sent out into their evangelists or in the field of evangelism • we run a church-planters training insti- fields of operation. For instance, if the target tute which focuses on training lay leaders to community is a farming or rice-planting one, become church planters and later to become we make sure that the Christian worker that we send out has some knowledge of agriculpastors of the churches they plant. ture or rice-planting. Thus, it is better to go 2. Please elaborate on this third area of as someone who they can familiarise themselves with and not as a stranger without the operation.

The church-planters training institute means of practical contribution. help evangelists working in different target areas to go beyond evangelism, to help them 5. How difficult is it to find missionaries or become church planters. Planting of new individuals dedicated to missions?

Very difficult, to say the least. Cross-culturchurches helps to cater to the needs of new believers because when we evangelise and al missions are always challenging. A prospecbring new believers to Christ, sometimes tive missionary needs to prepare in terms of proper follow-up is not given. Therefore, the language, culture, and have at least a general idea of them having a church to facilitate their knowledge of the target community he/she needs seems to be a more viable and long- will be serving in. Coming to Thailand, one of the requirements is to be trained with the lanterm alternative.

guage and culture for four to six months.

The question of dedication is also a valid one. When young people come forward to serve in missions they come with a lot of enthusiasm. However, in a mission field like Thailand, with different avenues available career-wise, some of them feel they are overqualified for the job at hand and either shift or completely abandon their first priority. So we make sure that the workers registering with us have a contract period for at least a year.

that LIFE has two sides – the physical and the spiritual. Both are equally important and neither should be neglected. In keeping with this belief, our ministry provides chemical-free food to churches as we see that eating habits are not very healthy in general. Besides taking good medicines, we emphasize on the intake of chemical-free food. I see that cancer is the number one affliction of many retired professionals from the city followed by BP problems and other lifestyle diseases. So I am glad to be able to see God’s guidance in using 6. Tell us about your association with Na- my knowledge in enriching my mission work. galand?

I have lived in Nagaland for six years. I was 9. What potential do you see in Nagas and first here in 1991. I studied in the Oriental Nagaland?

Theological Seminary from 1993 to 1996. I Nagas are innately talented. They have went for my practicum to the U.S. and returned various abilities, three of which are – in 1997. My wife is from the Rongmei commu1. The ability to pick up languages quicknity. We met as Agricultural Science degree ly. The good news is that Naga people are alstudents in Japan and got married in Dimapur. ready familiar with many languages. I find that they pick up languages better than Euro7. How do you maintain a cross-cultural peans or other Asians. In Thailand, to serve family at home? in local churches, language training takes at I was trained early in a cross-cultural set- least four to six months which I’ve seen Nagas up during my years as a student in Japan. My do effortlessly. institute comprised of students from diverse 2. In terms of food, Nagas are very pasnationalities. Another training ground for sionate. They seem to enjoy foods from all me was the US which is the biggest of melt- around the world. ing pots in itself, but, moreover, I lived with a 3. Nagas don’t mind going around the community of Mennonites and Amish people. world. They are not afraid to be exposed to My eldest daughter speaks Nagamese, my other cultures. younger one speaks Thai and we as a family Nagas are fast learners, quick to adjust communicate in English. to changing situations, and can easily attach themselves to the heart of a community. Per8. As an Agricultural Science specialist, sonally too, I have never faced any issue in how has that complemented your mis- hosting them at home. sion work?

Nagas have government officers and I still farm; my focus in on integrated or NGOs that are doing very well in India and organic farming using Japanese technology. abroad besides missions. The only thing that My wife also being a graduate in this field, Nagas need is better opportunities; we need equally supplements in this work. I believe to help the younger Naga generation by pro-

Nagaland Conservatory of Music

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MISSION The mission of Nagaland Conservatory of Music is to prepare students as musicians, scholars, teachers, and to provide the community and Churches with performance, scholarship, and education.

Leader: Rev. Vilodi Sakhrie Speaker: Rev. D. Simon Ponniah Venue: Dimapur Rengma Baptist Church Time: 4:00 pm 1. Call to worship: Leader 2. Hymn: We have heard the joyful sound 3. Invocation 4. Praise and Worship: Worship team 5. Special item: Master’s Beauty, Hong Kong 6. Announcement: 7. Special song: Solo: Mr Kashito Kiba 8. Group song: Nagaland Conservatory of Music 9. Message and Benediction: Rev. D. Simon Ponniah

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‘Separated at birth’

“Brothers” were re-united at the Mission Fair Aloysius, Gujarat

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Leader: Rev. Andrew Semp Speaker: Dr. Cunn*ingham Venue: Dimapur Rengma Baptist Church Time: 9:00 am C M Y K

1. Call to worship: Leader 2. Invocation 3. Announcement: 4. Hymn: 5. Special item: Master’s Beauty, Hong Kong 6. Special song: Miss Chubala Chang 7. Offering collection 8. Group song: RBC 9. Message and Benediction: Dr. Cunn*ingham

10. Any plans to bring Bible League to Nagaland?

A branch already exists in India but it is located in the South. Discussions have been on to partner with Nagaland but have not materialised yet.

However, with many Bible schools and societies in Nagaland, the churches have still been able to do well in mission work.

Back in Thailand, churches are small and few in number and Christians are a minority.

Missions cannot be done by local churches themselves; we need outside resources, contrary to churches in Nagaland.

Naga people are highly qualified in terms of education. People in Thailand find it a task to have a graduate degree but in Nagaland, youth with Master’s degrees are hanging around unemployed. Human beings are the best resources. If there are insufficient avenues for employment, they can always look beyond the state or even the country. We need more team-work.

There are Nagas doing missions work outside but there should be someone to come back, educate and equip them with the know-how in working for missions. Youngsters can make a great impact outside. A mission fair like this one presents the needed opportunities.

Suraj, Dimapur

4 Rev Ralte, Mizoram Narong BLTF, Thailand

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11. A word of encouragement for the aspiring missionaries of Nagaland.

I would like to encourage especially the younger generation to look out and prepare themselves to meet the needs of the world around them. In a place like Thailand, we need educators and theological graduates. A bachelor’s degree in Education is mandatory to get a teaching license in Thailand. These two areas of education are well within the ability and scope of young people in Nagaland.

MISSION FOCUS By: Richard S

Trends and opportunities in World Missions Main Points

AIM AND OBJECTIVE Nagaland Conservatory of Music offers a full fledged Bachelor of Music (B. MUS) degree; a four year curriculum, designed and committed to helping students into the finest musician/teacher possible by allowing students ing them leadership skills Currently, we have Nagaland, besides visiting students from Meghalaya, students from countries achieve highest musical necessary to guide the mu- highly qualified teachers faculties from Norway.

Manipur, Mizoram and Na- like Cambodia, Laos, Myanpotential while impart- sicians of tomorrow. from the Philippines and At the moment, we have galand and hope to attract mar, Thailand etc.

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viding them with appropriate opportunities to do well.

Trends in Missions 1. Massive Challenges a. The challenges of discipleship b. The leadership bottleneck c. The post-Christian west d. The revival of fundamentalism 2. Signs of hope a. The realisation of the scope b. The globalisation of the task force c. The incredible shrinking world d. Unprecedented partnership 3. The Daniel Resolution (Dan. 1:8) Daniel said no to the Babylonian lifestyle but helped their society with his skills a. When is it appropriate for us to listen to ‘the world’? b. What ‘world study’ skills are required?

4. Nine global challenges What is the future of the global church? a. Population b. Migration c. Urbanisation d. Health and disease e. Ciimate change f. Economy g. Energy resources h. Politics and freedom i. Water resources 5. The Church and missional structures a. The ministry of Jesus or the early church b. The medieval catholic church c. The church after reformation d. The protestant church in the 20th century e. The missional church model f. A 21st century missional church/congregation 6. What is a missionary a. A support for others b. A witness for Christ c. A church planner d. Trained e. Should have specialist ministries f. Should be a leader 7. The sending church The cost in preparing and sending missionaries to the unreached should be borne by this church 8. Ways of going a. Mission boards-Hired b. Church support-Missional business c. Church can send directly d. Mixed-Church support plus business

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oPPortunities

1. What is God saying?

Matt. 28:18-20. We need to open our spiritual ears to listen to what he is saying 2. We should know the Govt. Systems of the different countries we want to send missionaries to and find out their policies towards the gospel. What does the country want? Is it Education, Business, Health care, Science? Can I be that person 3. Have we done enough for His glory?

God has blessed us thus far, so we should also bless others

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139 candidates file 'Delhi Police Biggest hydro project in Arunachal nominations in Mizoram here to help inaugurated by PM, killed by his govt NE people' NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 9 (ThE INDIAN ExPRESS): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki is said to have erupted in anger at a recent meeting to underline how the foundation stone for the 3,000 MW Dibang hydro project — billed as the nation's largest — was laid by no less than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh way back in February 2008 and has yet failed to move an inch.

Reason: red flags raised by just one wing of his government, the environment ministry, that has denied forest clearances to the project being implemented by state-owned NHPC Ltd.

The minutes of the latest hydro task force meeting on September 10 record Tuki asking for "necessary steps to be taken by the GoI (government of India) to re-consider forest clearance to the project". This comes at a time when the Centre is desperate to try and make up for lost time in setting up hydroelectric projects on the Brahmaputra's Siang basin in Arunachal Pradesh, with the China factor looming large.

Officials who attended the sixth meeting of the task force on hydro project development on September 10 here said the

Northeast Briefs

NWU condemns IED attacks SENAPATI, NOVEMBER 9 (MExN): The Naga Women’s Union has condemned the series of IED bomb blasts at public places in Manipur, where many innocent people have been killed or injured. NWU in a press note termed the blasts as an “inhumane act” and said that they are gross Human Rights violations. “It brings with it an array of social, economic and psychological problem. When a family loses its main bread winner the resulting long term consequences are often more difficult to overcome than the grief. IED victims suffer well beyond the recovery period of their injury. It destroys their social life; a lifelong disability becomes a lifelong problem for the victims and the entire family,” stated the NMA. It called upon the government to put an end to this terrorist act by seriously checking the procurement of IEDs and its uses.

CPI(M) to continue efforts for a non-Cong, non-BJP alternative

Agartala, November 9 (PTI): CPI(M) would continue to fight against both Congress and BJP to form a viable alternative at the Centre with its alternative policies, party Politburo member Brinda Karat today said. "A fight against Congress and BJP would be continued by the CPI(M) to form a viable alternative at the Centre with its alternative policies. "Recently we had organised a conference of 12 non-BJP non-Congress parties in Delhi in our continuous endeavour for an alternative," Brinda said while addressing a gathering at the Khowai district town, about 45 kms from here. The tribals are the most neglected and exploited in the Congress and BJP-ruled states in the country with the only exception of the Left-ruled Tripura, she said at the inaugural session of the 20th conference of Tripura Upajati Ganamukti Parishad, the party's tribal wing in the state. The tribal people in the state got maximum land title (patta) for successful implementation of the Forest Right Act and alternative tribal policies of the Left Front government in the state, Brinda said, adding that the rate of tribal literacy is better in Tripura than many states like Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.

President to visit Sikkim on 11 Nov

New Delhi, November 9 (agencies): President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Sikkim on November 11, an official statement said on Friday. First, the President will attend the 125th year celebrations of St Joseph's School, North Point on November 10 in Darjeeling, West Bengal. In Gangtok, he will inaugurate the 40th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science, Mathematics and Environment Exhibition on November 11.

would be held in Mizoram on November 25. Following instructions from the Election Commission, the polling of Bru voters would be conducted by election officials sent from Mizoram.

As per the arrangements made by the EC, the Bru voters would exercise franchise at the Postal Ballot Facilitation Centre where they would receive

Of the 25 projects totalling over 11,000 MW allotted to developers in Arunachal Pradesh, most of them over the last decade, construction work has not begun on even a single project.

This despite the need for urgency in stepping up the pace of setting up projects in Arunachal Pradesh as India needs to fast-track building dams on the Brahmaputra to establish its "lower riparian right" and create a strong bargaining position to detract China from building mega hydel projects on the upper reaches of the river.

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hand, is reportedly constructing a 38,000 MW dam at Motuo (Metog in Tibetan) almost on the India border, on the bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo, the Tibetan name for the Brahmaputra.

India's success rate so far at harnessing hydro potential in Arunachal Pradesh is dismal.

According to analysts, just two projects, stateowned NEEPCO's 600 MW Kameng and NHPC's 2,000 MW Lower Subhansiri, have a realistic chance of coming up on the Brahmaputra over the next five years, that too if all roadblocks are ironed out.

‘NDTV misquoted Irom Sharmila’

IMPhAl, NOVEMBER 9 (NNN): The Just Peace Foundation on Saturday threatened that it would sue NDTV for inciting hatred between Irom Sharmila and the foundation in a news report on November 7 that the civil rights activist had hit out at people within her own organisation, saying they threatened her with honour killing over her relationship with social worker Desmond Cutinho.

Desmond is stated to be a social worker and journalist of British origin who has been in a relationship with Sharmila for close to three years. “We’ll send a legal notice to the New Delhi based

TV channel NDTV for its misquoted report that has tried to rouse hatred between Sharmila and the organisation,” said Anandi, managing trustee, Just Peace Foundation during a press meet at Hotel Classic here.

The NDTV report came barely two days after Sharmila’s fast-unto-death entered its 14th year. In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Sharmila had said that they (trustees of Just Peace Foundation) were acting like the Taliban and they did not understand that her love had nothing to do with religion or politics.

“I have even received honour killing threats.”

Anandi further said the

forms from the Nodal Officer of the centre.

They would again approach the desk officers of their respective polling stations for postal ballots and submit the postal ballots in the drop boxes.

Though the student bodies and the civil societies objected to the Bru voters casting their votes outside Mizoram, chief

election commissioner V S Sampath said that the Bru voters were allowed to vote for the Mizoram polls from outside the state following Gauhati High Court order in 1999.

At least 11,500 Bru voters in the relief camps have votes in nine Assembly constituencies covering three districts Mamit, Kolasib and Lunglei.

Meghalaya rebels take 14 lives in a week

ShIllONg, NOVEMBER 9 (IANS): Rebels from Meghalaya have gunned down 14 people within a week, the latest being two Border Security Force troopers killed Friday in the South West Khasi Hills.

A group of suspected rebels of the breakaway faction of the A'chik National Volunteers Council (ANVC-B) attacked the Kathakona Border Outpost in Bagli, killing a trooper, Sashit Biswa, on the spot, BSF spokesman Mahendra Singh said. Another trooper, Pappu Kumar Yadav, who was airlifted to Guwahati succumbed to his injuries.

The ANVC-B rebels also decamped with two INSAS rifles and a wireless handset from the slain troopers. "Preliminary investigation indicates the ANVC-B had carried out the attack on our BOP (Border Outpost) and a manhunt is on to nab the killers," Singh told IANS. Friday's attack on the BSF troopers came as a surprise for the Meghalaya Police since there were no intelligence inputs on any rebel outfit planning to attack the paramilitary force camp in the South West Khasi Hills. "Unlike the two incidents (South Garo Hills and Assam's Goalpara districts) where we have intel-

Front (MDF), all local parties, formed a pre-poll alliance under the banner of Mizoram Democratic Alliance (MDA) and have fielded candidates in all the 40 seats.

According to political observers, the triangular contest would be held between the MNF-led alliance MDA, ruling Congress and the Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) led by police officer-turned-politician Lalduhawma. The Congress has fielded candidates in all 40 seats with 31 sitting legislatorsseekingre-election.

Former minister and party's sitting legislator Nirupam Chakma did not get a party ticket to contest this time.

The ZNP also nominated candidates in 38 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party fielded candidates in 11 constituencies.

NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 9 (IANS): The Delhi Police is always there to help people from northeast India, Joint Commissioner of Police Robin Hibu said here Saturday.

“People come here for study, job or tourism or business. We have massive responsibility. We try to reach out to them through email or sms. We want to tell them, 'Don’t be lonely and we are here for you',” Hibu said here on first day of the North East Festival.

He is the first Indian Police Service officer from Arunachal Pradesh.

“We are the only police force in the country, who have started standing order procedure on how to deal with northeast citizens,” he added. Hibu also said volunteers are welcome to assist them too. “We have 10 advocates who volunteered to assist northeast people when in trouble. They will console (people) while filing FIR and more. The advocate's details are given on Delhipolicefornortheast.com,” he said.

Help is also at hand for women, who fail to find transport post sunset. “Dial 100, and we will send a PCR van and drop the lady home," he said. There is also a system called Aapka Update. If your case doesn’t proceed, you can ask for update on why it’s still pending. Hibu also urged students from the northeast region to mingle with people from other states by celebrating and participating in north Indian Devotees perform rituals to the setting sun in the River Brahmaputra during Chhath Puja festival in Guwahati, Assam on Friday, November 8. Chhath festivals for increased comprayers, an ancient Hindu festival popular amongst the working class, is performed to thank the Sun God for sustaining life on earth. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) munication and support. outburst by Tuki had taken the participants, including Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and several chief ministers, by surprise.

The Forest Advisory Committee of the Union environment ministry has held back clearances to the Dibang project on the ground that felling of over 3.5 lakh trees was likely to have an "adverse impact on the general ecosystem of the area" and that the ecological, environmental and social costs of diversion of forest land will "outweigh" the benefits likely to accrue from the project.

Tuki's exasperation is not restricted to Dibang.

Bru voters to vote for Mizoram assembly polls

AIzAwl, NOVEMBER 9 (PTI): Bru voters lodged in the six relief camps in north Tripura district, who are bona fide residents of Mizoram, would cast their votes through postal ballots in the camps on November 19 and 20, state election department officials said.

Elections to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly

AIzAwl, NOVEMBER 9 (IANS): A total of 139 candidates, including three women aspirants, have filed nominations for the Nov 25 elections to the 40-member Mizoram assembly, officials said here Saturday. "The overall picture would be clear after withdrawal of the nominations Monday. Scrutiny of nominations will take place till Saturday," an election department official told reporters. Friday was the last date for filing nominations.

Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla filed nomination in two constituencies - Serchhip and Hrangturzo - while former chief minister Zoramthanga of the main opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) has sought re-election from the East Tuipui seat. MNF, MPC and Maraland Democratic

ligence inputs about rebels planning to carry out hit-and-run operations, today's (Friday's) attacks on the BSF was a surprise since there were no alert," a Meghalaya Police official, said on condition of anonymity.

Reacting to the spate of killings, Meghalaya Home Minister Roshan Warjri said: "The government is making efforts to tackle the rebel activities in the Garo Hills."

Though the BSF accused the ANVC-B for the incident, the ANVC-B, a splinter group of the ANVC, which has been observing a tripartite ceasefire with the central and the Meghalaya governments for nine years, accused the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) for the killing of the two Indian border guards.

"Last (Thursday) night, an GNLA-ULFA group numbering 10 entered the West Khasi Hills area via Moheskola in a vehicle to cross over to Bangladesh.

They also killed two BSF personnel and took away two weapons," ANVCB spokesman Doang D. Shira said. He said the GNLA is being backed by foreign elements, ULFA is one of them.

The GNLA, outlawed by the central government, forged an opera-

tional alliance with the United Liberation Front of Asom and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, gaining access to arms and ammunition.

On Diwali night, the United A'chik Liberation Army (UALA) rebels killed seven tribals of the Rabha community and wounded nine others in Gendabari village of Assam's Goalpara district.

On the other hand, the BSF troopers under the Faqirkona Border Outpost Thursday night recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the Angratoli reserve forest near the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills.

"Our troopers observed that some intruders crossed the international border and were infiltrating into the Indian side. But, when challenged, they took advantage of the darkness and fled from the area," Singh said.

During the search operation, the BSF troopers stumbled on the arms and ammunition - a 9 mm carbine machine, one 7.65 mm Italian-make Beretta pistol, one Chinamake 7.65 mm pistol, all with ammunition, wireless set with signal booster, two mobile phones, sports shoes and other items - supposedly left behind by the intruders.

NDTV has misquoted the human rights activist who has just completed 13 years of her fast. She accused the TV channel of asking questions without a break and making the false report.

“It appears that NDTV had planned the story beforehand,” Anandi charged. She said that the national media in the past had done such things and this time NDTV is attempting to undermine the Sharmila’s campaign against the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) which has been joined by Amnesty International with a mass campaign.

Anandi also said Just Peace Foundation has

always done anything that Sharmila wants, but sometimes she has to feel sad when it fails to fulfill her demand that cannot be practical. “However, the foundation has never interfered with her personal life.” Sharmila had also claimed to NDTV that her protest against the AFSPA which gives the Indian army sweeping powers in disturbed areas, had been hijacked by the very people in-charge of her campaign. The activist had also said that she was not even allowed to donate money from her international prizes to causes like the Uttarkhand flashfloods tragedy.

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Taxation For Naga Political Cause: NSCN (IM)

Who will save the Naga nation?

Is it the adversaries or the national principle which will save the Naga nation? This question makes no sense to those who have no concern for the kind of existence the Naga people must have. But for men of mission, this is most decisive and crucial and to him life has meaning. The competency of men to prove oneself the way one should be must be realized together. Right and wrong, good and evil, friend and foe, freedom and slavery exist on this earth and the question is to whose account they shall be?

The way of life and the way of death are therefore set before us leading into two different worlds, and the fight is between them. Neither can we be neutral on this account meaning we cannot be both at the same time.

Whichever way we turn out to be is to become a contributing factor to the defeat of other.

The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) is ever ready and even more willing to reason and understand together with the Naga people at all times and see no confusion before us as long as everyone stride unbeaten in the national principle.

Every Naga must embrace on this line of political thinking, for to us Naga freedom (Nagalim) is sacrosanct. The door of NSCN is wide opened to all.

NSCN never doubts the unflinching supports rendered by the Naga people including payment of taxes.

We have done the best we could to streamline the policy of taxation by issuing order from the Ato Kilonser “Rules and Guidelines for protection of the general public against illegal tax” dated 14/06/2013 and we will all the more try to understand our people.

Nobody wants to be taxed. Even animals don’t want to share their food with other fellow animals and that is one of the many common character-

our commitment to reconcile and unite and continue to explore every possible ways to realize this vision.

NSCN is the only Government manning the entire Naga boundary with regional offices and staff in every Naga district; Brigades and Battalion spread out throughout Nagalim to protect and safeguard the rights of the Naga people and her territory. Hundreds of our forces are in Alee Command and in various foreign countries for mobilization and sensitization purposes. Peace process has been going on since 1997 and more than eighty three rounds of talks have been held in different part of the world. Socio-Cultural promotion and political activism through different channel has been continuing constantly. Various coordination offices are established across the world. Also NSCN is a member of quite a number of international bodies having obligation to contribute and support. Taxations as levied from Nagalim are used for the above stated reasons besides many classified areas of investment.

Therefore it is very unfair on the part of some speakers and writers questioning taxation by NSCN and using derogatory language and terminology. Though we will never claim perfection while executing our national interest yet fairness and some decency are expected from those who speak and write. Rather you should have the guts to question those who TAXED YOU AND DO NOTHING in the name of Naga political cause! Those who continue to silently tax under the shadow are nothing but illegitimate collector and the tax payer should note this.

NSCN has always been and will always listen to the voice of the Naga public as we know better as to how we have come together this far through peoples support and prayer.

istic shared between humans and animals. However, human beings being superior and different from other animals; think and reason out to be the ruler of this planet with certain set of standard and governance which requires contributions and involvement to achieve goals and aspirations. Paying tax is but giving allegiance to the government program and policies. Taxation is imposed mainly for the following reasons: • To show loyalty to NSCN authority and legitimacy.

• To sustain our movements and achieve Naga political solution through Peace process, mobilizing of supports and solidarity across the world.

• To feed and supply basic requirements for thousands of standing NSCN cadres.

• To protect the rights of the Naga people and her territory occupied and divided by India and Burma.

The burden caused due to various groups collecting taxes and the cry of the Naga people to unify at the earliest is well acknowledged and that should be the way. It is for this very reason that NSCN has encouraged the FNR to work out the possibility since the very beginning of its inception. We have followed the path of reconciliation with utmost sincerity till today and we will continue to embark on the principle of “unity and reconciliation” based on the principle of “historical and political rights of the Nagas”. Yet, it is also true that the path to reconciliation is not easy and smooth as we dearly wish it should.

Reconciliation cannot take place when “sell out peace” failed to face the truth and move forward; when enemies are harboured and given a safe haven; when certain group failed to see beyond the Indian state Nagaland.

However, we will remain steadfast to

Omission and commission on our part while carrying out the national interest cannot be denied. It is a testing time for all of us to understand and reason out together! But the bottom line is we should never compromise nor let any suspicious environment come close to or disturb the blood soaked “Indo-Naga Peace Process”. If any organisation, groups or Committee could fathom and respect our sensitivity on this particular subject then the space for discussion on any matter are without limits. When ACAUT approached us for discussion on the matter of unabated taxation, we warmly welcome them, and had a couple of healthy discussion in Council Headquarters, Hebron and most importantly we listened to every of their grievances and thus come out with our own Guidelines on the matter of taxation which was widely published in all the leading newspaper in Nagaland and neighbouring states! If at all there had been any discrepancy or negligence while implementing/ executing the said Guidelines, they should have come back to us and settle it! Instead they choose to play in the high gallery with some big mouth and tried to reduce the Naga political issue into some cheap taxation issue, projecting and defaming the Naga freedom fighters as greedy money mongers; this is the crux of the present commotion which is not acceptable to us!

NSCN bashing in the print media and social networking site like facebook (The Naga Blog) has crossed all limits without any editing/monitoring from the creators of such blog; this is also unfortunate. Many of our Naga youth seems to have forgotten that we are still in the revolutionary period and exercising certain level of restraint is the best policy for the struggling people like us. Nobody is hurt by throwing mud in the facebook but

ultimately the Naga issue. The active net users amongst the Naga youth could be more productive if instead of negative campaign; constructive ideas are shared and discussed.

Freedom from all bondage is what NSCN ultimately sought for.

However, we must be realistic in pursuing such lofty target. NSCN doesn’t define freedom, democracy, justice, rights and liberty, socialism etc at our whims and fancy but in consonance with the universal standard and acceptance in conformity with the Naga polity. Those with reason will concur that NSCN has practiced the maximum level of tolerance on the matter of “freedom of speech and expression” if we with all fairness and justice examine how our own people are exercising uncontrolled liberty in the social networking site; unconstructive and unhealthy propaganda devoid of any substance or vision are discussed and hurled upon us without any compunction.

Yet, NSCN silently bear the brunt hoping that things will change for good! We are well aware and so are the rest of the net users of how the enemy has intruded even in the virtual world to shape and change the mind of the Naga youth in their own liking. They come today in support of the emotion and argue for division and enmity but only to leave us in permanent chaos and difficulties.

The youth must stand down from becoming the tools of the enemies.

The nation needs you more than anything. The fight for rights and freedom should not be limited in what NSCN can do but what Naga people can do in every fields. Let us always reason and understand together.

May God bless and guide the Naga nation and her people to the bright future that awaits us.

Kuknalim.

MiPNsCN/GPRN

NSCN (K) warns other Naga political groups

The NSCN under the ablest leadership of SS. Khaplang strongly warns other Naga political groups to be cautious while expressing political words. The warning is mainly on Isak-Muivah group for their anti-Naga attitudes and actions whose main target is to annihilate other Naga political groups. This group signed ceasefire agreement with G.O.I during 1997 not for anything other than to destroy the NSCN (K). The GOI approached the NSCN (K) for ceasefire at least two to three times during 1995-1996 which NSCN turned down only on the condition that, there should be consensus among the Nagas before dealing with either G.O.I or Myanmar govt. Thus the NSCN took heavy risk of attending Atlanta peace meeting convinced by American Baptist Church during 1997.As a matter of fact, the Isak-Muivah group was at the verge of extinction after the arrest of all their Kilonsers and Workers by Indian security forces in Bangladesh border and else where which com-

pelled them to accept ceasefire term with G.O.I. The only Choice that haunted the Isak-Muivah group is to accept either Atlanta peace talk of 1997 or ceasefire term with G.O.I. Even the G.O.I also played the divisive role during that period of time by offering ceasefire to Isak-Muivah group mainly to refrain from attending Atlanta peace talk of 1997.Had I-M participated in the said peace talk at Atlanta instead of accepting G.O.I offered ceasefire ,the political situation of Naga country could have been a different history. After the signing of ceasefire agreement with G.O.I, Mr. V.S. Atem the then chief of the Army staff of I-M group entered into most devastated military pack with Maj. Gen Nanavadi, the then core commander of Rangapahar Military HQ and began to launch (I-M & Assam Rifles) join operation against NSCN (K) which compelled NSCN to sign Cease Fire pact with G.O.I, the history of which could be told by anybody and the NSCN can have even press con-

ference in this regards.

The entire situation became complete hostile under the joint operation of Assam Rifles and I-M group prompted the NSCN to sign ceasefire agreement with G.O.I to save the situation and not for talk as G.O.I clearly stated that, there will be no issue of sovereignty or integration. The NSCN under the leadership of S.S. Khaplang never concern for the present ceasefire as nothing will come up and hence the question of “Law of land” or Indian constitution is hardly arise. The NSCN time and again stated that, any time anything may happen in regards to cease-fire with G.O.I if the latter fails to understand who the Nagas are. The NSCN demands from Isak-Muivah group as to when the Naga people gave their mandate for I-M solution?

Even if any solution comes, it will not be Naga solution, it will be purely I-M solution and it will be nothing to do with Naga politics. The Naga people should be aware of what I-M is playing

their hidden agendas with G.O.I and time has come for the Naga people to come forward to tell the I-M group as to why they should continue talks with G.O.I while the latter rejected both sovereignty and integration. The I-M group should either stop talks or surrender before G.O.I. The said group who are no more fighting for Naga sovereignty has no right to collect taxes from Naga country and ACAUT should not be afraid of half surrendered group. The NSCN strongly warns G.O.I that, any solution with I-M group will be a mockery and miserable failure because they have been abandoned by the Nagas. Hence, the NSCN advised Naga people to be bold and brave to face any situation if NSCN is compelled to abrogate present cease-fire with G.O.I unless New Delhi change their motive and attitude towards the Nagas by dealing them in international standard.

M.i.P NsCN/GPRN

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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Washington, november 9 (Pti): The US business body has welcomed the new RBI rules governing access for foreign banks operating in India, describing the move as a positive step and called for opening up of other areas in particular the insurance sector.

The central bank on Wednesday permitted wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) of foreign banks to acquire domestic private sector banks as well as set up branches anywhere in the country. It also allowed foreign bank subsidiary to list on local stock exchanges.

"I am pleased India has begun the process of liberalizing access to its banking sector for foreign institutions," Senator Mark Warner, Co-Chair of the Senate India caucus said.

"While I have concerns about some of the prerequisites accompanying the reforms, it is a positive first step towards boosting foreign direct investment that will be beneficial for both India and the United States," Warner said.

"I look forward to additional reforms from the Indian government and central bank in the months to come," Warner said as the new RBI regulations lift the restriction on the number of branches foreign banks can open annually in India if they set up a separately capitalised subsidiary with at least Rs. 500 crore of equity.

Additionally, the Reserve Bank mandates rules governing the composition of boards of directors of the subsidiary, requiring at least one third of directors to be independent of the bank and at least half to be Indian nationals, with one third residing in India.

The liberalisation applies only to banks from countries offering Indian institutions comity.

The US India Business Council (USIBC) appreciates that the reform momentum continues full speed ahead.

"With banking subsidiaries now open for investment, if only we could see the Insurance Sector lift FDI caps to at least 49 per cent, USIBC remains convinced this will bring much-needed capital to the country and help excite investor interest," USIBC president, Ron Somers, said.

The announcement comes on the heels of a hearing Senator Warner chaired in the Senate Banking Committee entitled, "Assessing the Investment Climate and Improving Market Access in Financial Services in India," on September 25, 2013.

The hearing explored the burgeoning economic relationship between the United States and India, and opportunities for growth and investment in India's financial services sector.

Less than a month earlier, the RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan, had alerted the Washington audience about opening of India for foreign banks.

"That is going to be a big opening because - one could even contemplate taking over Indian banks, small Indian banks and so on," Dr Rajan had said.

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5 LOCAL NeiMuN preps for uN Model conference Titan Eye Plus launches new Sunday

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Dimapur, November 9 (mexN): Intense preparations are currently on for the first ever Model UN Conference in North East India to be held at Kohima from December 16 to 18.

In a press conference held today at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur, Secretary Members of the North East India International Model United Nations (NEIMUN) informed media personnel that the application dates have been extended to November 15.

Secretary-General, Limabenla Jamir expressed hope that through the conference, young leaders from the region and neighbouring areas are brought forth. She also shared that young people from the region need to understand the importance of diplomacy and current social affairs. We aim to facilitate youths to make the conference a springboard to equip themselves and aid in mak-

10 November 2013

Secretary Members of the North East India International Model United Nations (NEIMUN) during a press conference held today at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

ing valuable issues of global concerns. Through participation in the conference, a critical analytical mind apart from diplomatic skills that will ultimately be honed, she said.

Also, Limabenla felt that young people from Nagaland will all the more be able to identify to the issues NEIMUN have chosen. We hope to equip young people to express their thoughts and ideas and be able to express them creatively and confi-

Mkg shops directed to open by 6:30am till 5:30pm

mokokchuNg, November 9 (mexN): All shop keepers in Mokokchung have been directed to open their respective shops by 6:30 am till 5:30 pm till further order. A press note from the ADC and Administrator, Mokokchung Municipal Council directed all shops to white wash their respective buildings on or before November 30 without fail, in view of the Nagaland state golden jubilee celebration on December 1 and the Christmas and New Year festivals.

MMC shall conduct checking and defaulters shall be fined, stated the note. It informed all beef/ pork stalls to open their stalls by 7:00 am and ensure that all portions of meat are available at the rate fixed by the MMC. Shop keepers under MMC jurisdiction have also been directed to keep trade permits in their respective shops and not in their home. MMC shall check them at any time without further notice, stated the note. It further requested all shop keepers to decorate/illuminate their shops for beautification of the town during the forthcoming festive season. MMC informed that it will conduct checking with effect from November 18 and cautioned that anyone found not complying with this order shall be liable for appropriate action.

dently, she said. She also added, “We believe through support of UN we will be able to impact young citizens to be effective citizens”.

In this regard, Imkumsungla Longchar, Under Secretary-General Communication also stated that the main objective is to train and equip participating delegates with skills on public speaking, negotiating, policy analysis, conflict resolutions, group communication, lobbying, and leadership with

the assistance of keynote speakers. During the three days Model United Nations Workshop cum United Nations General Assembly Simulations will be held. She also informed that participants should come prepared to discuss and deliberate draft resolutions on topics of international importance with focus on the UN’s 3 pillarspeace and security, sustainable development and Human Rights.

Likokba Sangtam, Under

Secretary General, Delegate Affairs also shared his experiences participating in the UN and how the skills he learned were helpful. Opining that what affects globally affects locals too, he said, “Global issues are very much practical and applicable locally”. He shared that his friends often ask him on the purpose of being involved in global issues, and said that Professions are for one’s survival but knowledge is for the self. He encouraged, “This if the platform for you to get educated.

And the more you participate the more you will learn”.

Adding to this, Secretary General, Limabenla also acknowledged, “This is a very new concept, and we understand people’s scepticism but we want people to understand the benefits and we hope to receive participation from all colleges and individuals in this first UN model conference in NE”.

collection “Trendz” in Dmp

(Right) Bandhubrata Banerjee, Regional Marketing Executive, and (Left) Manoj Kashliwal, Business Associate, displaying the latest collection from Titan Eye Plus “Trendz”. (Morung Photo)

Dimapur, November 9 (mexN): In view of the forthcoming festive season, India’s largest eyewear retail chain, Titan Eye Plus has launched a new collection of frames “Trendz” in its retail store located at Circular

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Road, Dimapur today.

In a press conference held today, Bandhubrata Banerjee, Regional Marketing Executive, stated that the latest collection has over 100 stylish frames from price range Rs 995 to 1995. He also

said the collection caters to value conscious consumers, who seek contemporary and fashionable eyewear products. The frames would be available in over 100 styles in myriad festive colors like red, blue, purples, for the fashion forward as well as colors like gold, silver, black and brown for those with a subtle taste.

Bandhubrata Banerjee and Titan Eye Plus Business Associate representing Nagaland, Manoj Kashliwal, business associate informed that the frames are made with acetate, colourful TR 90’s and metals in contemporary as well as traditional style options for both men and women. It caters to both single and bifocal consumers. “The new looks are sporty as well as stylish, and that is one thing our NE consumers are known for,” Banerjee said.

'ultimate Hornbill choir' to GPS Lengrijan celebrates 50 years of accomplishment add flavor to hornbill fest Our Correspondent Kohima | November 9

Adding flavor to the festivity of the much hyped Hornbill Festival of Nagaland, an event management groupUnlock Productions with the initiative and support of the Music Task Force and cosupported by Nagaland Post is organizing the first “Ultimate Hornbill Choir” competition this year.

Unlock Productions head Julian T. Jasokie said the whole concept of the “Ultimate Hornbill Choir” is to promote classical and choral music. He added that under the aegis of MTF and Khriehu Liezietsu, advisor MTF, the Unlock Productions will be working hand in hand to bring the best out of this competition.

Jasokie said the event is an open competition. It can be school, music school, churches, any organizations or any individuals who wish to perform.

Vizoto Sakhrie, technical management said through this event they are also aiming in promoting choral arrangement of our own folk music in a larger scale and to present into bigger arena.

He was hopeful that through this event, Unlock Productions will be able to bring choirs together from

Unlock Productions officials briefing media persons at Dream Café, Kohima on November 9. (Morung Photo)

different places and bring awareness about our own folk music and also to be able to embrace our own culture.

“We are expecting 20 choirs from different place,” Sakhrie said.

Neitho Khamo, research and development announced that the winner will pocket a grand prize of Rs. 1 lakh while runners up will receive Rs. 50,000. Attractive prize will also be awarded to the best choir conductor, best choir uniform and best choir presentation and discipline.

He said there will be three rounds. Preliminary round (Choice of music style) have been scheduled for November 28 to 29 at the State Academy Hall, Kohima.

In preliminary round, participants can bring their own song regardless of language and anything.

The second round

(Genre- classical) will take place on December 5 at Music Academy, Jotsoma while the final round (Genre-folk & classical) have been scheduled on December 6 at Music Academy, Jotsoma.

Tolto Vizol, public relations and marketing said they will not be rejecting any participants, adding “If we get any participants from outside they are most welcome.” He added that the number of the choir should be 20 and above.

Judges for the event include Visahu Peseyie, Ajeen Longchari and James Swu Last date for submission of forms is November 20. Registration forms can be downloaded from www.facebook/ groups/576980799002654.

For further information, contact: info.unlockproductions@gmail.com or dial Central Helpline: +918414800800.

Public SPace

Dimapur, November 9 (mexN): Established in the year 1963, the Government Primary School, Lengrijan Dimapur today achieved a milestone with the celebration of its golden jubilee. Offering reverence to the many teachers who have rendered their best service throughout the last 50 years, the GPS Lengrijan golden jubilee celebration paid rich honour for their contribution and sacrificial hard work. The celebration gave priority to reflect on what the School has accomplished within the 50 years.

Dimapur SDEO S. Atomi Swu graced the occasion as the chief guest. At the outset, the SDEO lauded the support of the Lengrijan village and said, “True to its motto ‘strive for excellence’ GPS Lengrijan performance is impressive and the function was more than expected.”

He said, “There cannot be any celebration without achievement and accomplishment and GPS Lengrijan has reasons to celebrate the golden jubilee. As maturity comes, responsibilities also increase. It is time to look back, feel proud for the success and make up for the mistakes. Jubilee is a time to renew our strength and the right time to forgive and forget.”

Challenging the gathering on importance of education, Swu said, “The nation India is striving to become a super power by 2020. No country can become a super power unless it had the best of everything.

And, the best of everything comes from the schools. School is the manufacturing place for producing the best of the people.”

Encouraging the students to respect teachers, Swu said that teachers are the best and the most special.

Students of Government Primary School, Lengrijan performs a short play ‘The Cagic Mup’ during the golden jubilee celebration on November 9. (Photo Courtesy/Purkumzuk Longkumer)

They are well equipped, they are people who can guide the society and built the future, “therefore, I call upon all to take advantage and let the teachers mould you into the best.”

Earlier, SMC Chairman Zelhou Angami in his welcome address stated that the School started with a strength of about 30 students that has now grown to 503. Council Chairman, Lengrijan L Supong Ao in his jubilee greetings said that the GPS Lengrijan is striving for better education system and teaching skills and planning to upgrade the School. He also appealed to the chief guest to move forward the final installment of fund for construction of School infrastructure. Lipok Pongen, ex-DMC member encouraged the gathering to work for upgrading the School to higher secondary level.

He appreciated the teachers and others for their keen initiatives for hosting

The ACAUT Clarion Call to Naga People

he Voice of the People is the Voice of God: Unknown The 31st October “Public Awareness Rally” organised by the ACAUT was an outcome of the felt need to gauge public mood on the issue of unabated taxation and illegal collections levied by the Naga Political Groups (NPGs) and government agencies/departments respectively and carry forward the ACAUT movement to the next level. That it turned out to be one of the biggest rallies in recent memory is voice enough that the Naga people are tired of the present state of affairs and the verdict for change is crystal clear. Given the circumstances, the ACAUT had to take to task all the 3 entities responsible for the welfare and security of the Naga people, namely, the Naga Political Groups (NPGs), the Government of India (GOI) and the Government of Nagaland (GoN) and therefore, a 3 (three) point resolution was passed by the tens of thousands of concerned citizens at the rally which we believe is representative of the opinions of the citizens of the whole state.

Resolution 1: THE NAGA PUBLIC RECOGNIZES “ONE GOVERNMENT ONE TAXATION” ONLY AND THE NAGA PUBLIC HAS DECIDED TO PAY ONLY ONE TAX TO ONE ENTITY. THIS ALSO MEANS THAT AS LONG AS FACTIONALISM EXISTS, THE NAGA PUBLIC SHALL NOT PAY TAX. This point is self-explanatory. The Naga people insist that as long as the NPGs are divided, no tax shall be paid.

This also means that every individual who took this pledge on the 31st October rally is MORALLY BOUND NOT PAY TAX IN ANY FORM till “ONE GOVERNMENT” is a reality. In plain terms ONE

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GOVERNMENT ONE TAX means that every household in every village (and towns) in Nagaland shall NOT pay HOUSEHOLD TAX unless ONE GOVERNMENT is a reality. It also means that every government servant from the senior most bureaucrats to the humble peon shall not pay SALARY TAX unless ONE GOVERNMENT comes to fruition. This slogan shall mean that no Naga businessmen or entrepreneurs or any non-local businessmen residing in Nagaland shall pay TAX to any factions unless ONE GOVERNMENT becomes tangible. The ACAUT appeals to every individual in Nagaland to do his or her duty and comply with this resolution at all cost. The phrase “ONE GOVERNMENT ONE TAX” has been the clarion call of the Naga people for a long time. The signatories of the Naga Concordant themselves have dedicated themselves to “One Naga National Government” which taken to its logical conclusion means ONE TAXATION only. Therefore, any organisation party to Naga Concordant feigning ignorance as to the real meaning of the term “ONE GOVERNMENT ONE TAX” is amusing. All said and done, the ACAUT is not concerned with how this One Government is to come about. It’s also not propagating that the such and such groups should come together and this and that group should be left out since this is not our lookout and beyond our scope but it is the bounden duty of the NPGs to come together and form this ONE GOVERNMENT. The ACAUT is simply saying in plain simple English that: a) Factionalism is the cause of unabated taxation and unabat-

ed taxation the cause of factionalism. b) Factionalism is the cause of turf war (over taxation) and bloodshed. Factionalism is the reason why the GOI is not interested in solving the Indo-Naga problem much less an honourable one. c) Factionalism has all but destroyed the Naga movement irrespective of the debate about the legitimacy and illegitimacy of this and that faction.

Therefore, the ACAUT is simply saying that unless the factions unite the people will continue to suffer and since the people have been suffering for a long time, the time has come to say ENOUGH is ENOUGH. If ONE GOVERNMENT ONE TAXATION cannot become a reality, the NPGs should understand that their inaction is anti-people in nature and they shall be solely responsible for killing the Naga movement and the peace talks, not the ACAUT. Members of the ACAUT and Naga Council have been branded as traitors and anti-Nagas for undertaking the task of reforming this land but the Naga people shall know who the real traitors are and shall be branded as such in due time.

Resolution 2: THE NAGA PUBLIC RE-AFFIRMS ITS SUPPORT FOR NAGA MOVEMENT AND STRONGLY URGES THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA TO SETTLE THE INDO-NAGA IMBROGLIO AT THE EARLIEST. Probably no government in the world is unmindful of the plight of its citizens as the Indian state is. Is it surprising that the only nation in the world to have an institutional form of racism in the form of caste system has al-

lowed the Naga conflict to drag on for more than 60 years putting untold misery on ordinary folks? The people in this region yearn for peace but the noncommittal attitude of the GOI is blatantly racist. Isn’t Nagaland a part of India? Is this how its citizens are treated in the so-called world’s largest democracy? If the NPGs are responsible for the sorry state of affairs of our state the GOI is also equally guilty of abandoning its citizens.

If the Indian government has taken advantage of the ACAUT movement, too bad but what did the NSCN (IM) expect? Is the GOI is really serious about solving the Indo-Naga imbroglio? Why is the GOI-NSCN (IM) peace talk dragging on for 16 long years?

As touched upon, isn’t factionalism in the movement the only plausible reason which India has gleefully seized upon? Is it a co-incidence that India is probably asserting itself in every fore including undermining Article 371A? Perhaps, the day is also not too far off when the GOI is ready to throw Art. 371A into its constitutional dustbin and reduce Nagaland to an ordinary state minus its special status?

Resolution 3: THE GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND SHOULD CONSTITUTE A HIGH POWERED COMMITTEE WITHIN 15 DAYS TO STUDY THE WHOLE GAMUT OF UNABATED TAXATIONS AND ILLEGAL COLLECTIONS INVOLVING THE NPGS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES/DEPARTMENTS. THE COMMITTEE SHALL CONSIST OF ATLEAST 5 (FIVE) MEMBERS HEADED BY A RETIRED JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OR HIGH COURT WITH

ATLEAST 2 MEMBERS FROM THE ACAUT. THE COMMITTEE SHOULD SUBMIT ITS REPORT WITHIN 2 MONTHS WITH ITS FINDINGS PUBLISHED IN ALL THE NEWSPAPERS. IN THE EVENT OF THE GOVERNMENT FAILING TO CONSTITUTE THE COMMITTEE WITHIN THE SAID PERIOD, THE ACAUT WILL INITIATE FURTHER ACTION IN CONSULTATION WITH PUBLIC. MRP tax (another ingenious tax) is levied by underground cadres ostensibly on goods without MRP labels. It is obvious that the MRP tag cannot be tagged on pipes, nails, nylon ropes, CGI sheets, Chinese toys, etc. However, this hasn’t stopped the cadres from accusing businessmen of unfair trade practices and levy tax. This is the form of harassment experienced on daily basis by the businesspeople and common man. Does the GoN still believe that cracking down on day-light robbers and extortionists will lead to break-down of peace talks? Does it still believe that enforcing the rule of law will undermine the Naga political issue? Is streamlining DMC and stopping the police and government departments from undertaking illegal collections related to ‘fragile’ Naga peace talks?

At the end of the day, the state government is responsible for the security and lives of its citizens. No amount of justification can wish away the fact that the government has done nothing to address the issues raised by the ACAUT. It’s obvious the Naga people are taken for fools by all the 3 entities, the NPGs, the GOI and the GoN. Issued by Media Cell, ACAUT.

a successful golden jubilee celebration.

Chubaienla, Rtd Jt Director, School Education and Tinukumla, former teacher I/C GPS Lengrijan, delivered short speeches. They both mentioned about the fire incident that gutted the whole school building in the year 1992 and acknowledged all those who contributed material and financial support for rebuilding the School.

The programme was hosted by Mhoncorhoni, while the opening and welcome song and ‘The Cagic Mup’ was performed by the GPS Lengrijan students. The invocation was led by Lima Jamir, Associate Pastor, DABA Lengrijan, and a special presentation performed by ARIA. The felicitation was given by Moayangla, the vote of thanks by Toshimenla and the benediction by N Wati, GB. The programme concluded with a jubilee feast.

Musicians urged to be independent and original

Dimapur, Novem“I think just as much as ber 9 (mexN): Mhonlu- performing music is beaumo Kikon, MLA, Chairman tiful, and just as much as MACROFED, Government writing original music is of Nagaland today stated wonderful, can we have that the State government’s uniformity in the kind of initiative in music has been music we produce and can huge and it has started to we make it universally apreciprocate and benefit not pealing,” he suggested. He only the artistes but those also shared his dream of a involved in the music in- Nagaland, to be known as dustry. He however also the place where the best ascertained that the Musi- music is made. cians in the State have not The elimination round reached of the a l eve l 9th edi5 bands selected for w h e r e t i o n they are 9th edition ‘Best of the ‘Best of indepenthe Best’ dent from Best’ Nagaland Art N a g a the supland Art port of Fusion Contest 2013 F u s i o n family and Contest the government.

2013 was organized today Speaking as the chief by the Mind Blowers Club, guest at the Nagaland Art Dimapur. The panel of Fusion Contest 2013, held judges included Anupam at IMC Hall, Dimapur, he D.Moran, musician, Akokla stated, “I come today as an Imchen, teacher and singer, ambassador of young Na- Bendang, music teacher.

Eight bands particigas who intent in changing every aspect of our talent pated in the contest, where for the benefit of Nagaland.” the band “Lines of Note” To this, he encouraged won Best Guitarist, Best artistes to start being seri- Vocalist, and Best Drumous in their involvement with mer. “Blind” won best bassmusic. He also opined that we ist and variant Kohima won still live in an age of medioc- best original song. The five rity where artistes still “copy- bands selected for the cat” the music of somebody grand finale are: Variant living in USA or the UK. To the (Kohima), Infinity on High participants of the Art fusion (Dimapur), Unicorn (Dicontest, he took reference mapur), Blind (Dimapur), from popular fusion band Lines of Notes (Dimapur).

The event is an annual from Nagaland “Abiogenesis” contests and grand finale and said that the band has will be held on December been able to maintain a distinct identity in their music 20, 2013. and still market well in NagaMore Local News in Page 9 land and outside.

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Think you really know Mike Tyson?

Tim Dahlberg aP Sports Writer

M

ike Tyson's life story is the gift that keeps giving.

And giving.

And giving.

At one time he was the baddest man on the planet, a heavyweight champion who terrorized anyone who got in his way, inside the ring or out.

More recently he's unburdened himself as perhaps the most tortured soul on earth, with a one-man show on Broadway.

It turns out that Tyson didn't tell us everything.

Not to worry, because he's taken care of that in a hefty autobiography that might be the most soulbaring book of its genre ever written.

The title is "Undisputed Truth," and the truth is that Mike Tyson is one messed up dude. He's desperate to put his demons to rest, but the book needed an extra epilogue written just before printing to talk about him falling off the sobriety wagon once again.

And though things might be better these days in Tyson's world, he constantly warns that he's not far from slipping off the edge, or slipping back into a strip club to party with drugs and women.

"Sometimes I just fantasize about blowing somebody's brains out so I can go to prison for the rest of my life," he writes.

"Working on this book makes me think that my whole life has been a joke."

If so, Tyson has yet to figure out the punch line.

Though he has reinvented himself in recent years as a family man and vegan with

enough comedic talent to act in movies, he says he lives daily with the dark past of a junkie who loved to snort cocaine and drink and was constantly preoccupied with finding women to bed.

The sex is detailed in almost clinical terms, and the many women in Tyson's life flow in and out of the pages like they did in his life. One big exception is Desiree Washington, the beauty pageant contestant who Tyson was convicted of raping in Indianapolis — a charge he heatedly denies — and spent three years in prison.

"How do you rape someone when they come to your hotel room at two in the morning?" he asks.

Even in prison he got his fill, he says, first with visitors and then with a prison drug counselor who suddenly became available after Tyson had $10,000 sent to her home to fix her roof.

"I was having so much sex that I was too tired to even to go the gym and work out," Tyson wrote. "I'd just stay in my cell all day."

The book, in Tyson's voice but written by Larry Sloman, offers a fascinating look into a life that up until now had already been well chronicled. It's raw, and so profane that Tyson needs to explain some of the terms he uses for women and blacks in a separate chapter at the end. But it is also quite funny in parts, like the time Tyson forgot about a suitcase that contained $1 million in cash, only to have one of his minions find it a week later.

"I had had a rough night in the city and had forgotten where I left it," Tyson said.

Or when Monica Turner finally tired of his ways and filed for divorce. "I guess

she had had enough of my fooling around because I sure did a lot of it," Tyson said. "Calling to tell her I had AIDS probably didn't help either."

Tyson is brutal on himself throughout the book, despairing of his lack of self-control and feelings of inadequacy. But he's equally brutal about the people around him in a career that made him more than $300 million, yet left him so broke today that he says he will never be able to pay off his tax debts.

He calls first wife Robin Givens a manipulative shrew who made him act like a trained puppy, says Evander Holyfield was a serial head-butter with ties to steroids, and claims the late referee Mitch Halpern was drunk in the ring during his first fight with Holyfield in 1996.

And while he tells an epic tale of beating up British promoter Frank Warren in a London hotel room in 2000 for not paying his $800,000 jewelry bill, he saves special venom for the havoc Don King wreaked in his life.

Tyson was an equal opportunity fighter when it came to beating up promoters, detailing several times he bloodied King, including once on a Miami highway when he tried to strangle him in the car from behind. "When I think about all the horrific things that Don has done to me over the years I still feel like killing him," Tyson said.

There's more, much more. Tyson knows how to tell a story, and he tells them about people you In this November 22, 1986, file photo, boxing promoter Don King lifts new heavyweight champion Mike Tyson after Tyson defeated don't expect, like the day Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas. At one time he was the baddest man on the planet, a heavyweight champion who terrorized anyone who he found actor Brad Pitt at got in his way, inside the ring or out. Now he's got a new autobiography that might be the most soul baring book of its genre ever Givens' house. When Tyson confronted them, he written. The title is "Undisputed Truth," and the truth is that Mike Tyson is one messed up dude. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac/File)

said Pitt begged, "Dude, don't stroke me. Don't stroke me. We were just going over some lines."

He talks about money as dispassionately as he does about sex, though it was difficult for him to hold on to any of it. When he fired everyone and got new accountants in 2000 they prepared a statement showing he started the year $3.3 million in the hole but made $65.7 million. "The problem was that I spent $62 million that year," Tyson said, including $2.1 million on cars.

And the Maori tattoo he got on his face? It was supposed to be some little hearts instead, but the tattoo artist talked him out of it.

By the time his career ended with a loss to journeyman Kevin McBride in 2005, Tyson was fat and more interested in partying than fighting. He would go on to bloat up to 380 pounds (173 kilograms) and continue to drink, smoke and snort his way through strip clubs and bars.

"I just said to myself, Wow, this is over. Now I can go out and really have fun."

The book was supposed to have a happy ending, with Tyson slim and happy in his new life with wife Kiki, who he credits for his attempt at sobriety. But Tyson had to write a new epilogue after acknowledging in August that he had gone out drinking again.

He's back in Alcoholics Anonymous and he's trying to stay sober, he says. But life for Tyson has always been a constant struggle.

"I desperately want to get well," he says. "I have a lot of pain and I just want to heal. And I'm going to do my best to do just that. One day at a time."

‘Israel only suspect in arafat death’ What are trans fats?

A Palestinian child works at a shop across from a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, November 8, 2013. The writing on the poster, part of a quote from one of Arafat's speeches, reads, "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." Israel is the only suspect in the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, Tawfik Tirawi, the chief Palestinian investigator in the case, said Friday, a day after Swiss scientists said the Palestinian leader was probably poisoned by radioactive polonium. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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srael is the only suspect in the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, the chief Palestinian investigator in the case alleged Friday, a day after Swiss scientists said the Palestinian leader was probably poisoned by radioactive polonium.

The investigator, Tawfik Tirawi, said the probe would continue, but did not say what more the Palestinians could do to try to solve the mystery.

He did not present evidence of Israeli involvement, arguing only that Israel had the means and motive to do so. Israel has repeatedly denied it was behind Arafat's death, and did so again Friday, in light of the new allegations.

Arafat's widow, Suha, has called on the Palestinians to seek an international investigation or legal action, but Tirawi said such a decision is up to the Palestinian leadership.

Arafat's successor, President Mahmoud Abbas, has so far not commented on the substance of the Swiss team's findings.

Arafat's grave was opened earlier this year, enabling Swiss, Russian and French scientists to take samples of remains and burial soil for separate investigations.

At Friday's news conference, Palestinian

investigators summarized the findings of the Russian experts, whom Abbas had asked for a separate probe.

Dr. Abdullah Bashir, the medical expert on the Palestinian team, said the Russian scientists did not find sufficient evidence to determine that "polonium-210 caused the radiation that led to the death." He did not elaborate.

However, both teams determined that Arafat did not die of disease or old age, "but rather, by poisonous material," Bashir said, adding that "this supports our theory."

The Russians were also looking at the possibility of other poisons, Bashir said, adding that more study was required.

Tirawi, meanwhile, was evasive when asked repeatedly whether he believed Arafat was killed by polonium.

"It is not important that I say here that he was killed by polonium," he said. "But I say, with all the details available about Yasser Arafat's death, that he was killed, and that Israel killed him."

At another point, Tirawi described Israel as the "first, fundamental and only suspect in the assassination of Yasser Arafat."

Israel has denied any role in Arafat's death, saying it had politically isolated him at the time and had no reason to as-

sassinate him.

"Let me state this as simply as I can: Israel did not kill Arafat," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Friday.

"The Palestinians should stop this nonsense and stop raising these baseless accusations without any shadow of proof," Palmor added.

Arafat died on Nov. 11, 2004 at a French military hospital, at the age of 75, a month after falling ill at his West Bank compound.

At the time, French doctors said he died of a stroke and had a blood-clotting problem, but records were inconclusive about what caused that condition.

After his death, Palestinians launched their own investigation, questioning dozens of people in Arafat's headquarters, including staff and bodyguards, but no suspects emerged.

Security around Arafat was easily breached toward the end of his life, a time when he was holed up in his Israeli-besieged compound. Aides have described him as impulsive, unable to resist tasting gifts of chocolate or trying out medicines brought by visitors from abroad.

Tirawi said Friday that the investigation encompassed hundreds of statements from Palestinians and non-Palestinians in the West Bank and around the world.

The investigation was dormant until the satellite TV station Al-Jazeera persuaded Arafat's widow last year to hand over a bag with her husband's underwear, headscarves and other belongings.

After finding traces of polonium in biological stains on the clothing, investigators dug up his grave in his Ramallah compound.

The Swiss scientists said Thursday that they found elevated traces of polonium-210 and lead in Arafat's remains, and that the timeframe of Arafat's illness and death was consistent with poisoning from ingesting polonium.

"Our results reasonably support the poisoning theory," said Francois Bochud, director of Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics.

France is conducting its own investigation into Arafat's death at the request of his widow, but no results have been released.

Polonium is rare and lethal even in minuscule amounts, and nine years on, it would be difficult to track down anyone who might have slipped it into Arafat's food or drink.

Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.

It can be a byproduct of the chemical processing of uranium, but usually is made artificially in a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator. Israel has a nuclear research center and is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal, but remains ambiguous about the subject.

In this January 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce on November 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski/File)

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ou may not even know you are eating them, but trans fats will eventually be a thing of the past in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration says it is phasing them out, saying they are a threat to public health. Some questions and answers about the dangerous fats: Q: What are trans fats?

A: Trans fats, also called partially hydrogenated oils, are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil to make it more solid. They can contribute to heart disease and are considered even less healthy than saturated fats, which also cause heart problems.

made a preliminary decision that trans fats no longer fall in the agency's "generally recognized as safe" category, which is reserved for thousands of additives that manufacturers can add to foods without FDA review. Once trans fats are off the list, anyone who wants to use them would have to petition the agency for a regulation allowing it. Such a petition would be unlikely to be approved since the FDA has determined that trans fats are a threat to public health. The agency hasn't yet said what the timeline will be for eliminating them.

Q: Haven't a lot of trans fats already been phased out?

A: Yes. A series of local laws, starting with New York City in 2008, has already prompted the food industry to find alternatives. The industry estimates that almost three-fourths of trans fats are gone already. According to Q: How do I know if I am eating them? the FDA, trans fat intake among Americans A: You won't be able to taste them, but they declined from 4.6 grams per day in 2003 to do help give a more solid texture to certain around one gram in 2012. foods, like baked goods and ready-to-eat frostings. Some restaurants use them to fry Q: If many are gone already, then what food and they are also used in microwave are the benefits of phasing them out? popcorn, biscuits and pie crusts. You'll know A: The FDA is aiming to get rid of those you are eating them by looking on the nutri- trans fats that are left in the marketplace. tion label of a packaged food — the FDA has Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks required labeling of trans fats since 2006. and 7,000 deaths a year.

Q: Why are they so bad for you?

A: Trans fats can raise "bad" cholesterol Q: Will it be hard to find substitutes? and lower "good" cholesterol. That can A: In some cases, no. Frying oils are easily contribute to heart disease — the leading substituted and food scientists have already figured out how to substitute other fats for cause of death in the United States. trans fats. In other cases, it will be harder.

Q: Are all fats bad for you?

Ready-to-eat cake frosting, for example, gets A: No, but they should be eaten in modera- some of its solid shape from trans fats. Comtion. Saturated fats found in nuts, vegetable panies will have to figure out how to keep oils and fish are the best for you. Saturated the item the same without them. fats mostly derived from animals are less healthy and should be less than 10 percent Q: Will I notice the change? of a person's daily calories. Total fat should A: Probably not. Trans fats don't have any make up no more than 35 percent of calo- particular taste, and in most cases other fats ries a day, according to the federal Centers will simply be substituted. Your heart might notice, though. Michael Jacobson of the Cenfor Disease Control and Prevention. ter for Science in the Public Interest says the Q: How will the trans fats be phased out? prohibition is "one of the most important A: The FDA announced Thursday that it has lifesaving actions the FDA could take."

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orld Orphans’ Day, celebrated every second Monday of November, initiated by the Stars Foundation celebrates children displaced by poverty, war and AIDS through a variety of grassroots efforts led by students, churches and businesses that include prayer walks and vigils, prayer balloon lifts, candlelight vigils, concerts and more -- all designed to encourage the public to celebrate local proclamations in honor of World Orphans’ Day. “Mission Love” is not just any event organizer but the enabler. We aim to enable the Orphanages to bring forth their needs and hardships to the people and at the same time create awareness among the people that charity doesn’t stop at cash and kind but also involves devoting time to the children, interacting with them, sincerely upholding them in prayers and creating avenues where these children displaced by their circumstances are given a chance to live their dreams. And it is our sincere supplication that through this collaboration of the Team and the Orphanages, we can start the “charity revolution”.

Mission Love is about breaking barriers, destroying boundaries, pushing for peace and spreading compassion. It is not about protecting the weak and oppressed from the strong and superior, but motivating and inspiring the weak and oppressed to breakthrough barriers, boundaries, bondages, and limits. Its task is to break through the fear of stigma to reaching into people’s capacity for love in this drought and famine of love and compassion.

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The organizers of World Orphans’ Day 2013 are Zedino Seyie, Kevi Kiso, Imtirenla Sayer, Tali Angh, Jungtina Angh, Ringo Odyuo and Robert Longkumer, and the said event will take place at Town Baptist Church, Dimapur, on November 11 at 2.30 p.m. Total 18 orphanages will attend the event.

How to lead worship without an instrument

’ve been leading worship for quite a few years now and have never led with an instrument on any of those occasions, so it really doesn’t have to be a hindrance to you. It also doesn’t have to hinder you if you are playing with a different band each Kate Simmonds | Churchleaders time, even though there are benefits to having a regular band and being a C-shape for chorus; my hand held you want to change from the default able to develop a repertoire together. downward in a fist to signal the end of arrangement, then you just need to call the song; a little mini C-shape to signal it out clearly so both the congregation Arranging a turnaround where you might repeat and the band know where you are goI will run an arrangement for a a line (e.g., “Nothing compares to the ing. I will often give spoken instructions song with the band in rehearsal which promise I have, nothing compares to as well as signal the band as I think it I would call the ‘default arrangement.’ the promise I have in you”). I have one can be helpful for the congregation.

This would probably be something odd signal for the bridge or Middle 8, like Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, which is that I discreetly point to my Leaving space for Bridge, Chorus, Chorus. But the band belly button (it’s my "middle"), but free singing/playing understands that I may wish to deviate I’m really not sure how that one came The other thing you can practice from that in response to the congrega- about so feel free to make up your own! in rehearsal is an ‘open section’ where tion and, of course, to what God is doing The important thing to develop in you might want to leave room for the among us. That is easily done with hand rehearsal is the band looking to you congregation to sing out freely to God. signals and also just by speaking out, for a signal at the key moments when If I want to signal this, I wiggle my fin“Let’s sing that verse again,” and so on. decisions need to be made (e.g., are gers—again, feel free to make up your we repeating this chorus?). So you own signal! The thing I would do in Signals need to be clear and decisive with my preparation is try to identify a key It’s important that you have a sight your signals (e.g., give them, say, a line place in the worship where I think the line to all the members of the band so before the section is going to end) and congregation is most likely to respond they can see your signals (and also so they need to look up and see them. in this way. Then, in rehearsal, I would that they can hear you clearly in their This is a good thing to practice in re- tell the band that I might open the monitors, so always check if they can hearsal so you can all get used to it. song up at this point and decide with hear you in your soundcheck). The the band a chord sequence so that evsignals I use are a V-shape with my Call it out eryone is playing the same thing. You fingers, pointing downward, for verse; If they’re not looking at you, but might choose just to play between two

Refuse the Cup A of Bitterness Jen Wilkin | Crosswalk.com

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young woman asked me to meet with her recently to help her learn how to deal with bitterness. She had suffered harm at the hands of a fellow believer in the form of hurtful accusations and outright hypocrisy. Though months had gone by she found that bitterness toward this person kept creeping back into her thinking.

I could relate. Several years back I found myself in a similar situation when my integrity was called into question unjustly by a fellow believer. I had always thought that the enemies Jesus commanded me to love were people I labeled as such, either because they were unbelievers or because they drove me crazy. I believed an enemy was someone I chose.

Most days I didn't have anyone on that list. Suddenly I found myself confronted with the truth that my enemy could choose me, out of the blue, as I went about my life - that despite my best efforts to live at peace with all men, someone could still choose to walk in enmity toward me. And that someone could even be a believer. This was a new kind of hurt for me, the kind that tempted me to drink deeply of bitterness.

Here is what I wanted during that time: I wanted my adversary to be brought to justice. I wanted my side of the story to be heard and my hurt to be acknowledged. I wanted to be vindicated in front of those who had heard my integrity questioned – not tomorrow or next year – today.

That’s not what happened. Because God is better to me than I deserve, no opportunity came for any of those wants to be met.

And in that season of wormwood and gall He taught me truths I would otherwise never have sought. Here are

chords, or you could have a longer sequence if you wish.

Bring the best out of your band The final thing I would add is that you don’t have to be a star musician on an instrument yourself to bring the best out of your band. I usually have an idea in mind of the dynamics of the song, so even if I can’t execute it on an instrument myself, I know that others can, so I give them some clear guidelines of what I have in mind. I’ll give them clues such as, “I’d like this to be majestic,” or “Let’s have a strong introduction then drop down a little in verse one, building to the chorus,” or I might invite them to add some interest in verse 2.

You are the worship leader, but that doesn’t mean that you have to have all the musical ideas. I always encourage the band I’m playing with that (while you’re the one making the decisions), as lead worshippers, you’re all leading the people in worship together, it’s a team effort and their musical gifts are making a huge contribution to that.

Kate Simmonds is a worship leader and songwriter based in Sydney, Australia, where she and her husband Miles serve at Grace City Church.

For many years, in the late 90’s and early 2000’s she was on the worship leading team along with Stuart Townend at the Church of Christ the King in Brighton, England, and also led worship at events throughout the UK, many of which became hallmark worship albums of that era.

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y parents were a dashing, young military couple, and life was good. Father tells stories and smiles wistfully when he speaks of it now, a half-century later. My memories unfortunately began when it was horribly wrong. I was born in 1959. I was the second of five children.

We soon discovered Mother was a problem. When Father learned he was to do a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1965, he took the precaution of moving us to Louisiana to be near his family so they could help. While Father was in Vietnam, we were fighting another war at home. Mother’s abuse and neglect surfaced. She drank more and often left us alone at night. When she was there, she would be entertaining one of our many “uncles,” as she called them.

At the ages of 5 and 6, I found myself trying to be mother to the rest of my brothers and sisters. I was the oldest female and was given the responsibility of taking care of the younger ones, as well as overseeing my older brother, who Mother never thought could take care of himself.

We were living in Louisiana the first time Mother left us alone for days. I can still smell the urine-soaked bedding and laundry permeating those overcast days. The baby, Kelly, was still in diapers, and Brian and Sissy both had trouble with wetting the bed.

I remember being desperate enough to use the bathtub as a washtub to attempt to provide clean sheets and clothing for us.

Somehow I felt if we were clean, we would be safe. I could never quite get us clean, and we were never quite safe either.

Though I was given the responsibility of caring for all the children when Mother was gone, I had very little control over what my older brother did. Consequently, Brian crawled out of his bedroom window when I wasn’t looking and found himself in a near-fatal accident. I can still hear the screeching tires outside. I threw open the front door to see Brian laying in the street covered in blood.

I was unable to make a sound; the shock of what had just happened overtook me. A truck had hit Brian! Terror gripped me. I quickly herded Sissy, Robbie and Kelly into a bedroom closet.

After the screaming sirens stopped, I remember a knock on our front door and a man’s voice calling for us: “Open the door!” Kelly was afraid of the dark and would not stay quiet. I finally opened the closet door to find a house full of police officers wandering through, trying to find our parents. One police officer said he was going to take care of Brian and that he would be OK. I overheard them ask each other how anyone could live in such filth with no food in the house. They kept asking where our parents were. I told them that Mother had gone to get milk and bread at the grocery store. The officers wanted to know how long she had been gone, and I just told them not very long. If Mother had only been gone a day or two, that would have been the truth to me.

They told us we should just stay put until they returned. I heard one of the officers say he was going to get an order to remove us from our home. After the ambulance had taken Brian to the hospital and the police had left, I took Sissy, Robbie and Kelly, and we set out walking down the road away from the house.

I remember wondering where to go and knowing that I was not going to let them take us away. We walked several miles and eventually came to Great-Uncle Ernest’s house. He greeted us at the screen door, cursing our mother. He sat smoking angrily at the kitchen table and told us we were welcome to stay the night or however long it took to find our mother.

Mother was later found at a local bar and returned to us at Uncle Ernest’s house drunk and inconvenienced by the near death of her son. I hated to leave with her drunk, but I knew that someone had to look after my brothers and sisters. In the car, she screamed at me, saying I should have seen to it that Brian didn’t crawl out of the window. “You are a very bad girl!” she yelled.

“Now your father’s family will have something to gossip about!”

Brian returned in a couple of days. He still bears a very frightening scar as a reminder.

Mother rewarded us for our behavior by leaving us in the car night after night while she caroused at the local bars. We spent many cold nights waiting in the car outside of bars. I can still hear Kelly crying from hunger or a wet diaper. Robbie would be bouncing from one end of the car to the other, Sissy would be off in a corner sucking her thumb, and Brian would be cursing Mother for keeping us imprisoned in the car night after night.

My primary thoughts were of getting Kelly to stop crying and somehow getting us cleaned up from the smell of urine. The best I could do was to settle for letting Kelly suck on my hand and silently praying for Mother to come soon.

Not long after that, we got word that Father would be returning home from Vietnam. The day he was to come home, Mother got into a huge fight with one of her man friends. This seemed to have little effect on my anticipation of Father’s return. I just knew that now we would be fed, clothed and safe.

Excerpt from A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest by L.A. (Lynnann) Muse.

Muse might never have imagined her broken childhood would become a testimony of hope to others. In searching for God’s plan for her life, she was led to share her story in her new release (Innovo Publishing, LLC, August 2013).

a few bitterness-barring realizations I gan asking God to show me my own sins learned to cling to: against others.

There is only one person who has ever Realization 1: God knows the real story. suffered unjustly in the purest sense, and Every justification I wanted to raise was that is Christ. The rest of us may indeed already known to God. Every misconcep- be wronged by another, but never withtion I wanted to correct was not miscon- out the guilt of having caused harm ourceived by God. He knew both sides of the selves at some point in our lives. So when story perfectly, and more importantly He we suffer unjustly, insofar as that is huknew the truth that lay somewhere be- manly possible, we can be instructed by tween. My sense of urgency to clear my the way in which Christ endured. When name was misplaced and self-reliant. So falsely accused and convicted by his own instead of fighting to make my side of the people, he remained silent. 1 Peter 2 says story known, I learned to let my words be he “continued entrusting himself to him few. And I asked God to show me where who judges justly.” When at last he did I had shaded the truth to mollify my hurt speak (after the unjust verdict had been or downplay my own sin. passed) it was to cry out not against, but on behalf of his oppressors.

Realization 2: God sees the heart of my adversary. God sees my heart. As my hurt Think about this: At no time are we blossomed I began to take comfort in more like Christ than when we suffer unthe knowledge that, if God’s word can be justly at the hands of those who should trusted, one day my adversary’s sin would have loved us best. We claim that we be called to light. I found peace in knowing want to be conformed to the image of the justice would eventually be served, even if Son. What if it takes this kind of suffernot in this lifetime. It took awhile for me to ing to accomplish just that? So instead of realize that on that day my own sin would asking why God would let this injustice also be fully revealed. We can all rely on happen, I began asking Him to use every the Just Judge to do His job. One day my bit of the hurt to mold me into the likeadversary’s sin will be known, and so will ness of the Savior. mine. On that day I will cling to the mercy of my Savior. I will beg for it, though I do Realization 4: I must refuse the bitter not deserve it. If I do less than this for my cup. The Bible speaks of our times of hard adversary I am a hypocrite of the highest trial as seasons of wormwood and gall, order. So instead of taking comfort that of bitter herb and bile, times that leave justice would be served, I began praying us with the lingering taste of resentment for my enemy to receive mercy. in our mouths if we drink deeply of their vintage. Perhaps the greatest temptaRealization 3: I have caused hurt as tion in a bitter season is to drink in the well. I may have done nothing to de- gall that besets us, to take it into our very serve this particular hurt, but I have cer- souls and harbor it there, crying for justainly caused similar hurt (known and tice to be done. Bitter trial may surround unknown) for others. So instead of feel- us, but we need not internalize its acid ing superior to my adversary, I began sting. We can choose to refuse the bitter to develop empathy for them. And I be- cup when it is brought to our lips.

We see a picture of this truth at Golgotha. As the death sentence passed on him by those who should have loved him best was carried out, Jesus cried out in thirst and was offered gall to quench it.

He turned his face away. Scholars are divided on why this is so. Either the cup was offered to mercifully shorten his life by poisoning him or it was offered as an analgesic to lessen his physical anguish. But Christ was unwilling to shorten or diminish his appointed suffering by the smallest amount. He had come single-mindedly to do the will of the Father. In the bitterest trial of his incarnation, Christ refused the cup of bitterness raised to his lips.

You and I mistakenly believe that drinking deeply of bitterness will satisfy our hurt, but Christ has shown us the better way. In all suffering, the cup of gall will be offered to our lips. We who have drunk from the cup of Life must seek no comfort in that caustic drink. Like Christ, we must refuse it. The bitter thirst of injustice is only quenched with the Living Water of the gospel. In our seasons of wormwood and gall may we drink deeply and often from its streams, exchanging bitterness for the hope and portion of steadfast love, of mercies that never come to an end – for us and for our offenders.

Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!

My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” (Lamentations 3:19-24) Jen Wilkin is a wife, a mom to 4 great kids, and an advocate for women to love God with their minds through the faithful study of His Word. She writes, speaks, and teaches women the Bible.

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SC stays Gauhati HC verdict holding CBI unconstitutional

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, attempts a hand gesture used in Indian classical dance as she poses with students during a visit to the Asha Sadan children’s home in Mumbai in Nov. 9. Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are on a nine day visit to India. (AP Photo)

Six detained in Bihar serial blasts case

PATNA, NOvEmbER 9 (PTI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has detained six people and seized hundreds of bank passbooks, ATM cards and other documents in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district in connection with the Patna serial blasts, police said on Saturday. The NIA conducted raids at two places in Lakhisarai Friday night

on the basis of information provided by other intelligence agencies, a district police official said.

“In the raid, the NIA detained six people and recovered 300 passbooks, 30 ATM cards and other documents related to money transaction,” the official said. The NIA suspects that those detained have links with terrorists in and out-

Peace on LoC necessary to engage with Pakistan: India

NEW DELhI, NOvEmbER 9 (IANS): India on Saturday reiterated the need for peace and tranquillity on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir if India and Pakistan were to engage. External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters that Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s foreign affairs adviser, would be meeting external affairs minister Salman Khurshid on the sidelines of the Nov 11-12 Asia-Europe Meeting. He said their talks would “take up the outcome of the last meeting - that for India and Pakistan to engage it is important, as a precondition that there should be peace and tranquillity on the Line of Control... And where to go forward based on their assessment on the situation elapsed.” Aziz has also sought a meeting with the prime minister during the visit. The Pakistani minister is reportedly meeting with some Hurriyat leaders in Delhi. Sources in the pro-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) told IANS in Srinagar that JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik has received an invitation to meet Aziz when the latter arrives in New Delhi Nov 10.

side the country. “The NIA and intelligence officials have been interrogating the six detained people to get more information,” police said.

In the last three days, the NIA has conducted raids at several places in Bihar in search of suspects involved in the serial blasts in Patna Oct 27, police said.

Earlier this week, Bi-

har Police formally handed over investigation of the serial blasts to the NIA. The NIA also raided Muzaffarpur and Motihari in search of suspects. Six people were killed and nearly 100 injured in the serial blasts in Patna ahead of a rally addressed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

NEW DELhI, NOvEmbER 9 (IANS): The Supreme Court Saturday stayed a Gauhati High Court order holding the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) unconstitutional after quashing the April 1, 1963 home ministry resolution setting up the agency under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946.

An apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai while staying the high court order after a 19-minute-long hearing at the former’s residence Saturday evening said: “We have to stay the order. You have read today’s (Saturday’s) newspapers. Two people accused in sensational cases are seeking stay of their trial.

What will happen?”

The court observation came as counsel L.S. Chaudhary appearing for Narendra Kumar sought the dismissal of the petition as it was being filed by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) which was not a party to the proceedings before the high court.

The court said: “We can’t dismiss it... CBI too is filing a petition challenging the high court order.

We are not rejecting your objections. You file your objections. Your objections will be considered at an appropriate time.”

“We want to know whether you read today’s newspapers. Within a day, two of the accused in sensational cases they prayed for stay of the trial,” the court told Chaudhary.

The order came after Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati faulted the high court verdict, saying the court “asked wrong questions, preceded on wrong premises and gave wrong answers”. The attorney general told the court that the “order has far reaching consequences. It has been passed on a completely wrong premise”. “They (the high court) proceeded on the basis that the source for setting up the CBI was not there in the statute. And that it was done by a mere executive order.”

“The court says as far as CBI is concerned it is not constituted by any statute but set up by an executive order. This is a case which requires court’s consideration,” the attorney general told the court.

He told the court that there are five judgments of the apex court which say

Goldman Sachs should not comment on political matters: Montek Singh Ahluwalia

NEW DELhI, NOvEmbER 9 (PTI): Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said US investment bank Goldman Sachs should not be commenting on political matters. “I don’t agree with Goldman Sachs. Lots of people have said they should not be pronouncing on these things,” Ahluwalia said on the sidelines of a function organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses here.

Goldman Sachs had in a

recent report upgraded the Indian markets on the likelihood of Narendra Modi coming to power. “The truth of the matter is we are perfectly aware what needs to be done, at least as far as the Planning Commission is concerned.

We have laid out a very bold agenda, which has been approved by the Cabinet, NDC (National Development Council) and so on,” he said.

“In the last six months before a general election, that’s not when all these things are implemented. So, I have no idea what Goldman Sachs

means,” he added. Goldman Sachs,inareporttitled“Modifying Our View: Raise India to Marketweight,” upgraded its outlook for domestic equities and revised its end-2014 target for the Nifty index to 6,900 points, implying a 9 per cent rise from current levels.

The report attributed the optimism to the opposition BJP-led alliance gaining ground in opinion polls in the past few months, suggesting a higher probability of a BJP-led alliance forming the next government. The 18-page report

described the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate as more business-friendly.

Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma had said the report was “most inappropriate and objectionable.” Goldman Sachs stood by the report, saying it was based on investor sentiment and does not reflect political bias.

Talking about the poor, Ahluwalia said there is no serious possibility of reducing poverty if the country doesn’t get back to 8 per cent growth.

‘India stepping up surveillance on social websites’

LUCKNOW, NOvEmbER 9 (TNN): In clear signs of the Indian government increasing its online surveillance, not all of it necessarily tenable, Apple’s first transparency report, released globally on November 5, suggests India made 27 “law enforcement device requests” regarding 65 Apple devices between January 1 and June 30, 2013.

In contrast, the global transparency report released by Facebook shows that the Indian government sent over 3,200 requests for “some” information related to 41,44 user accounts.

Microsoft and Skype, during the same period, received accountspecific details for 413 Microsoft accounts and 102 Skype accounts by the Indian government.

While Apple supplied data in 41% cases, Facebook says it complied with the requests in nearly 50% cases and supplied user

data to the Indian government.

Microsoft and Skype, in the transparency reports, have said 80.6% and 79.1% data was released, respectively.

In its report, Apple explains device-based requests include specific requests by a government agency or court, including those seeking customer contact information or the date on which Apple services were first used on a device, in cases where thefts are reported. In case of India, one of the 41 countries that sought such information, Apple received 65 requests for specific devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac. The report also clarifies Apple supplied “some” data in 11 cases, amounting to 41% compliance to the total requests received. This information, the report suggests, includes purchase information or relevant device information such as device registration, sub-

scriber, service, and repair in response to a “valid legal process”.

India does not, however, feature in Apple’s list of 31 countries that sought more specific account details of users, personal data and their use of online services, including customer identifying information like email, stored photographs, or other user content stored online.

Though Apple has only released sketchy details of the number of account-related details sought by various governments, the United States tops the surveillance lists in both categories; the US government made 3,542 requests for a total of 8,605 devices in the law enforcement requests category. Though exact numbers have not been released, the US government also sought account specific information regarding 2,000-3,000 users. Apple does not specify the exact percentage

of accounts it gave out data for in the US. Even in India, the extent of online monitoring is only expected to go up. Already, the Indian government is getting ready to set up a Centralized Monitoring System across telecom operators and ISPs, which will not only allow it to monitor internet traffic, not just without approval from courts but also without the knowledge of telecom operators.

It will, however, have to seek information from companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google, where user information is encrypted.

Already, India ranks second in the world - after United States - for seeking account specific details from Facebook between January 1 and June 30, 2013. In contrast, US generated between 11,000 and 12,000 such requests. While Facebook supplied information

for 50% of the total accounts in India, Facebook released 79% data for US-based user accounts.

Twitter, in the meantime, has also released its transparency report saying the Indian government requested for the removal of one tweet through a court order and another removal request though a government or police order. Between January 1 and June 30, 2013, Twitter was asked to withhold three tweets.

Though no accounts were barred during this period, Twitter says it received 60 removal requests between January and June 2013 for 104 user accounts and it complied with 38% of these requests. The company also received fewer than 10 requests for disclosure of user information from the Indian government but did not, its transparency report says, comply with any such requests.

that CBI is a creation of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946.

As the apex court asked the attorney general to point to the portion of judgment they are objecting to, Vahanvati said: “It is very clear that there is a power under Section 2 of the DSPE Act for setting up the CBI.” “The only two reasons are given (by the high court) that you have not mentioned the DSPE Act. Non-mention or even wrong mentioning of a provision does not invalidate it (CBI) as long as there is a legislation,” he said.

At this, Chief Justice Sathasivam said: “The resolution (April 1, 1963) very unfortunately did not notice it (Section 2 of DSPE Act, 1946). But it is there in the Act. We take it that there is a mention in section 2.” Assailing the high court of “complete misunderstanding” of the creation of CBI under the DSPE Act, 1946, Vahanvati told the apex court that the high court verdict was being taken advantage of by people being investigated by the agency or being tried by special CBI courts.

Vahanvati said: “We want the order to be stayed for the reasons that there

are thousands of pending cases. About 9,000 cases are being probed. Six thousand people are working for the CBI”, and people (being tried/accused) were taking advantage of it.

Chief Justice Sathasivam said: “We read in the newspapers that many people are seeking stay of their trials on the basis of the (high court) judgment.”

The ministry of personnel and training, the CBI’s administrative ministry, moved the court challenging the high court order and seeking stay of its operation. The government Saturday morning filed a petition challenging the high court order and seeking an ex-parte stay. The government sought an urgent hearing of the matter.

While staying the high court order, the apex court issued notice to Narendra Kumar on whose petition the high court pronounced its verdict. The notice has also gone to the home ministry and the CBI. Directing the next listing of the matter Dec 6, the court gave the respondent Narendra Kumar two weeks time to respond to the DoPT petition and gave the government another two weeks to file its rejoinder.

NEW DELhI, NOvEmbER 9 (PTI): External affairs minister Salman Khurshid will head the Indian delegation at the CHOGM to be held in Sri Lanka next week with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deciding against undertaking the visit in view of the opposition by parties in Tamil Nadu as well as a section in Congress.

The decision on level of Indian representation and Singh skipping the meet will be communicated to the Lankan government by Sunday, sources said.

“The Prime Minister is likely to write to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa by Sunday regarding his decision,” government sources said.

However, there was no official announcement over Singh’s decision to skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit on November 15-16.

Political parties in Tamil Nadu and several other outfits have opposed India’s participation at any level in the CHOGM alleging that the Sri Lankan government had committed gross violation of human rights and had no plans to devolve powers to the ethnic Tamils.

However, Khurshid has been favouring Singh’s presence in the CHOGM scheduled on November 15, maintaining that it was vital as it will reflect India’s interests. According to MEA, it is also paramount

to the nation’s strategic and security interests.

Asked if there was a possibility of Vice-President Hamid Ansari representing India at the CHOGM if Singh decides not to go, MEA spokesperson did not give a direct reply.

He, however, said in 10 summit level meetings since 1993, the Prime Minister represented India five times while on four occasions, ministers had headed the Indian delegation.

There was one instance of the Vice President representing India.

“So what you can summarize from this is that what we have followed in terms of participation in the CHOGM is an approach of something akin to horses for courses.

“We focused on what is required for our national interest, our foreign policy priorities and our international obligations. Taking those into account we have our delegations led by different people,” he said.

PM not to attend CHOGM; Khurshid to represent India

Bill Gates lauds India’s accomplishment in eradicating polio

NEW YORK, NOvEmbER 9 (PTI): Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has described India’s accomplishment in eradicating polio as the “most impressive global health success” he has ever seen.

In an essay titled ‘What I Learned in the Fight Against Polio’, the billionaire philanthropist lauds the extensive work undertaken in India by the “army” of more than two million vaccinators, who covered the length and breadth of the country in the effort to ensure every child is vaccinated against the disease.

“Indeed, India’s accomplishment in eradicating polio is the most impressive global health success I’ve ever seen,” Gates said in the essay adapted from his contribution to ‘Re-imagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower’ edited by McKinsey and published online in the Wall Street Journal. “India’s success offers a script for winning some of the world’s most

difficult battles in every area of human welfare,” he added.

Gates attributed India’s success in eradicating polio to the “crucial extra step” of enlisting support of the full sweep of Indian society, including health workers, ordinary citizens and some of the poorest people in the most impoverished regions of the country.

“I didn’t know nearly as much about India as I do now.

I saw India’s obvious talent and energy, but I missed its hidden strength, the rich, the powerful and the poor working together toward a common goal,” he added. India has been polio-free for more than two years now but Gates said the accomplishments of India’s vaccinators does not end with the eradication of polio alone.

“Now that they have found India’s children, they can bring them and their families other vaccines, clean water, education, advice on maternal and child health, and support for agriculture, all the things that

people need to live healthy and productive lives,” he said.

Sending a caution note, Gates said the fight to end polio is not over, “not even in India. “New polio cases emerging in the Horn of Africa and Syria underscore the importance of maintaining funding and commitment to eradicate the disease globally within six

years,” he said. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began working in India a decade ago, when the Microsoft co-founder said many feared the country would become a flashpoint for HIV/AIDS. “Melinda and I have seen many examples of India’s poor making dramatic contributions.

Experts predicted that polio

would be eliminated in every other country before it was eliminated in India,” Gates said in the essay.

“But nowhere has this power been demonstrated more clearly than in the fight to end polio, “ Gates said recalling that he first began travelling to India in the 1980s, drawn by a fascination with this ancient coun-

try that cherishes its history and harbours great ambitions for the future.

“By the mid and late 1990s, the Americas were polio-free followed by China and in Europe but India was one of the last nations left that still had polio cases. This was no surprise.India’s urban centres are among the world’s most densely populated. Its rural communities are dispersed across a vast and often inaccessible terrain. The country suffers from poor sanitation, he said in the essay.

“But India surprised them all. The country has now been polio-free for more than two years. The key has been the participation of the humblest, most vulnerable members of the Indian population,” he said.

Gates said for any campaign of this magnitude to be successful there has to be a “clear goal, a comprehensive plan and precise measurements of progress.

“The heart of the plan was a simple and inspiring mission, to

find the children. To defeat polio, it is essential to achieve up to 95 per cent vaccination coverage in afflicted areas.

“There is no way to measure whether you’re meeting that mark unless you know how many children there are, where they are and whether they’ve been vaccinated,” he said.

According to Gates, India responded to the challenge with an army of more than two million vaccinators, who canvassed every village, hamlet and slum. “Vaccinators took the best maps they had and made them better. They walked miles every day and worked late into the night.” “They found children in the poorest areas of Uttar Pradesh and in the remote Kosi river area of Bihar, an area with no electricity that is often flooded and unreachable by roads.

They found the sons and daughters of migrant workers in bus stations and train stations, accompanying their families on their way to find work,” Gates said.

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GHSS Dimapur annual literary day conducted DimAPur, NOvemBer 9 (mexN): GHSS Dimapur on its annual literary day conducted a competition programme with Watisangla Aier, Principal GHSS Dimapur as the main speaker on October 31.

She said that through different literary competitions one could acknowledge the hidden talents of the student. It is a platform where a student can develop self-confidence in moulding his/her younger life into a fully social wellbeing. She also added that a student, besides their bookish knowledge, must be fed with proper guidance and encouragement for their capacity-growth, especially in government schools.

Neizevotuo Nakhro, Member, Literary Committee in a press release said that the function was compered by Lephizo Apon, Sr. GT and Renchibeni, PGT and welcome address was proposed by Lima PGT, Convener Literacy Committee.

Altogether, 63 participants took part for competing in easy and poem writing, debate, extempore speech and solo. The principal of the School gave prizes and certificates away.

Naga Chef ‘Knowledge Round’ held

Participants at the ‘Knowledge Round’ of Naga Chef season 1 in Kohima.

KOhimA, NOvemBer 9 (mexN): A week after the very successful Group round, Naga Chef Season One Round 4; the “Knowledge Round” was held at Hotel Vivor today. The twelve contestants were assigned to cook a vegetarian and non-vegetarian item belonging to a Naga tribe which the contestants had no affiliation to.

The competition saw two batches of contestants giving their best in what was unanimously agreed as un-

known territory given the diverse nature of the Naga community.

The judging panel, Rovi Chasie, Chef Chenti Phom and Chef Joel Basumatari, could see that the contestants were well out of their comfort zone in this round as they had trouble pronouncing the names of the ingredients. However, it was obvious that the contestants had done their research in familiarising themselves with the tribe they were assigned, which

by all accounts was voiced out as a learning point. The tribe dishes that were presented included Rengma, Lotha, Chakhesang, Zeliang, Ao, Kuki, Sumi, Phom, Sangtam, Angami , Yimchungur and Konyak.

A renowned entrepreneur from Mumbai, Bhairavi Jani, the Director of SCA Group visited the show today and expressed her delight to know that Naga Cuisine is making such good progress. Her opinion of the show in one

UNEP closely observing safe passage of Amur Falcon WOKhA, NOvemBer 9 (mexN): Nick P Williams, Program Officer, Birds of Prey, UNEP who has been monitoring the conservation and scientific activities including the tagging of satellite transmitters at roosting site informed Dr. TM Lotha, MLA Wokha that the UNEP was closely observing the safe passage of the migratory birds. On hearing the news of the mass massacre last year here at Nagaland, the executive secretary (UNEP) wrote to the Minister of forest and environment, Government of India. He also informed the MLA that three birds have been tagged with sophisticated satellite transmitter in order to have a better study of the birds. In addition, around 30 birds have been tagged with a special identification ring of which the MLA also released one such bird during his visit.

Dr. TM Lotha, MLA Wokha visited the roosting site of Amur Falcons at

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Dr.TM Lotha releasing amur falcon tagged with a special identification ring at Doyang.

Doyang on November 7 and had an interaction with the department officials, scientists and volunteers camping there at the roosting site at Doyang, Pangti Village under Wokha district.

The forest officials briefed the visiting MLA

about the activities that the forests protection force has been doing since October 1, 2013. They also informed that Amur Falcons started visiting the place since October 8 and with the cooperation of the surrounding villag-

es and the NGOs the officials informed the MLA that trapping and hunting of birds has been totally controlled.

The MLA lauded the efforts of the state forest department for taking preventive measures for conservation, including the awareness programs that the department has undertaken long before the arrival of the birds. He attributed the success of Amur Falcons conservation to the forest officials and personnel stationed there led by Supongnukshi (IFS) DFO Wokha and the Public of the nearby village and the sincere efforts of Natural Nagas and WTI. Also during the visit, the MLA expressed discontentment on the rampant use of explosive at the Doyang reservoir by locals to catch fish. He appeal to all concerned to stop the use of explosives or chemicals as such methods of harvesting fish resource were destructive and unsustainable.

word was, “Outstanding!”

The Home Commissioner, Temjen Toy, also made a surprise visit and was highly impressed with the set-up and the food prepared by the contestants.

Out of the twelve contestants who took part in the challenging Knowledge Round, eight were selected to face the next round which is the Pressure Round, to be held at The Legacy on the 16th of November.

The selected contestants include Imnanunsang Longkumer, Asi Kera, Aketoli Zhimomi, Hahao Chongloi, Gilbert Humstoe, Asano Angami, Jenny Kath Thong and James Chemben Ngullie.

Naga Chef Season 1 is conceptualised and organised by the team at Synergy Group Enterprise and supported by the Government of Nagaland. The event partners are, Organic Nagaland who is managing the Naga chef Pantry, Salon Blue for make-up and hairstyling, Precious Me Love (PML) for wardrobe styling, bamboo shelves and baskets from Uniqraft products (Zynorique Initiatives) and commercial gas cylinders from Eastern Gas.

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36th All India Nagri Script Conference was held here at Rashtra Bhasha Hindi Training Institute, Hindi Nagar, Padumpukuri, Dimapur from November 8-9, 2013 under the aegis of Nagri Lipi Parishad, New Delhi. The conference deliberated upon the importance and convenience of using Nagri script in India. K.Temjen Jamir, the Editor of Tir Yimyim, An Ao-Naga Daily was the guest of honour during the valedictory session of the conference. The Editor (2nd from the left) alongwith the leaders of Nagri Lili Parishad during the function seen here.

‘Strengthen values of friendship through festival’ KiPhire, NOvemBer 9 (DiPr): A festival is a time to celebrate with merry making, giving and reciprocating to strengthen the value of friendship and a time to introspect for any community to progress said Medical Superintendent (MS) Kiphire, Dr. Nrithüng Lotha. He was the chief guest at the post harvest thanks giving premier festival of Lotha community,” Tokhü Emong” at Kiphire on November 7.

CDPO Pungro, N. Ralamo Lotha who highlighted the significance of the celebra-

tion said, “in the past decades our forefathers who were hard working and progressive community had celebrated Tokhvü Emong for ten (10) days. However, with the passage of time now a days the community is celebrating Tokhvü Emong for one day only after post harvest in the month of November 7 as a sign of thanks giving for bountiful harvest in that particular year.”

Ralamo said the community have no documentary records but with verbal passage the Lotha community in the past has

celebrated Tokhü Emong in four stages, post harvest, youth festival, decease/ pass spirits and autumn festival. During the celebration the village priest (Pvüti) play a significant role, as he was the only one who had the privilege to perform the rituals to signal the arrival of the festival.

Pastor LBC Kiphire, Renben Ovüng invoked God’s blessings for the celebration, Chumthungo Kikon enthralled the gathering and the vote of thanks was proposed by SDO (C) T. Lankonsen Tsanglao.

Participants during the 8th Aloino Widows’ Fellowship are seen here outside the office premises of Aloino Centre in Chekiye Village on November 9. Widow participants during the fellowship were drawn from different parts of Dimapur irrespective of tribes. Director of Aloino Centre, Anshely led the fellowship while Ruby Kent and Kanili Swu have delivered speeches on the occasion.

JRC unit established in Bethel Baptist School DimAPur, NOvemBer 9 (mexN): Junior Red Cross (JRC) unit was officially established in Bethel Baptist School at Old Showba Village in Dimapur on November 6, 2013. Chovuo Pfuzeh, Co-ordinator, IRCSN chaired the function while Lucy J. Tungoe, APO,

IRCSN administered the JRC Pledge.

The programme began with invocation by a Deacon of Showba Baptist Church which was followed by welcome address by A.K. Jha, Headmaster, Bethel Baptist School. Zakie Kire, General Secretary, IRCSN

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in his keynote address acquainted the students about the origin of the Red Cross movement and apprised them of the role of JRC in uplifting humanity.

Vijay Shah, Headmaster, Vidya Bhawan School, Dimapur had a short interaction with the students

wherein he congratulated the newly established JRC Unit and motivated the students to bring about innovative ideas to promote health and friendship. Muzung, Deacon, Showba Baptist Church pronounced benediction at the end of the program.

Typhoon Haiyan continues to pound Philippines 'Massive destruction' as typhoon kills at least 1,200: Red Cross TACLOBAN, PhiLiPPiNes, NOvemBer 9 (reuTers): One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1,000 people in one city alone and 200 in another province, the Red Cross estimated on Saturday, as reports of high casualties began to emerge.

A day after Typhoon Haiyan churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west, rescue teams struggled to reach farflung regions, hampered by washed out roads, many choked with debris and fallen trees.

The death toll is expected to rise sharply from the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam.

Among the hardest hit was coastal Tacloban in central Leyte province, where preliminary estimates suggest more than 1,000 people were killed, said Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross,

as water surges rushed through the city.

"An estimated more than 1,000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Cross teams," she told Reuters. "In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing."

She expected a more exact number to emerge after a more precise counting of bodies on the ground in those regions.

Witnesses said bodies covered in plastic were lying on the streets. Television footage shows cars piled atop each other.

"The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, head of the U.N. Disaster Assessment Coordination Team sent to Tacloban, referring to the 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

"This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris."

The category 5 "super typhoon" weakened to a category 4 on Saturday,

In this aerial image, damaged buildings and houses are seen on Saturday November 9 as powerful typhoon Haiyan hit Tacloban city in Leyte province in central Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

though forecasters said it could strengthen again over the South China Sea en route to Vietnam.

Authorities in 15 provinces in Vietnam have started to call back boats and prepare for possible landslides. Nearly 300,000 people were moved to safer areas in two provinces alone - Da Nang and Quang Nam - according to the government's website.

The Philippines has yet to restore communications

with officials in Tacloban, a city of about 220,000. A government official estimated at least 100 were killed and more than 100 wounded, but conceded the toll would likely rise sharply.

The national disaster agency has yet to confirm the toll but broken power poles, trees, bent tin roofs and splintered houses littered the streets of the city about 580 km (360 miles) southeast of Manila.

The airport was nearly

destroyed as raging seawaters swept through the city, shattering the glass of the airport tower, leveling the terminal and overturning nearby vehicles.

"Almost all houses were destroyed, many are totally damaged. Only a few are left standing," said Major Rey Balido, a spokesman for the national disaster agency.

Local television network ABS-CBN showed images of looting in one of the

city's biggest malls, with residents carting away everything from appliances to suitcases and grocery items.

Airport manager Efren Nagrama, 47, said water levels rose up to four meters (13 ft) in the airport.

"It was like a tsunami.

We escaped through the windows and I held on to a pole for about an hour as rain, seawater and wind swept through the airport. Some of my staff survived by clinging to trees. I

prayed hard all throughout until the water subsided."

Across the country, about a million people took shelter in 37 provinces after President Benigno Aquino appealed to those in the typhoon's path to leave vulnerable areas.

"For casualties, we think it will be substantially more," Aquino told reporters.

Officials started evacuating residents from lowlying areas, coastlines and hilly villages as early as three days before the typhoon struck on Friday, officials said. But not all headed the call to evacuate.

"I saw those big waves and immediately told my neighbors to flee," said Floremil Mazo, a villager in southeastern Davao Oriental province.

Meteorologists said the impact may not be as strong as feared because the storm was moving so quickly, reducing the risk of flooding and landslides from torrential rain, the biggest causes of typhoon casualties in the Philippines.

Ferry services and airports in the central Philippines remained closed, hampering aid deliveries to Tacloban, although the military said three C-130 transport planes managed to land at its airport on Saturday.

At least two people were killed on the tourist

destination island of Cebu, three in Iloilo province and another three in Coron town in southwestern Palawan province, radio reports said.

"I never thought the winds would be that strong that they could destroy my house," LynLyn Golfan of Cebu said in a television interview while sifting through the debris.

By Saturday afternoon, the typhoon was hovering 765 km west of San Jose in southwestern Occidental Mindoro province, packing winds of a maximum 185 kph, with gusts of up to 220 kph.

The storm lashed the islands of Leyte and Samar with 275-kph wind gusts and 5-6 meter (15-19 ft) waves on Friday before scouring the northern tip of Cebu province. It weakened slightly as it moved westnorthwest near the tourist island of Boracay, later hitting Mindoro island.

Haiyan was the second category 5 typhoon to hit the Philippines this year after Typhoon Usagi in September. An average of 20 typhoons strike every year, and Haiyan was the 24th so far this year.

Last year, Typhoon Bopha flattened three towns in southern Mindanao, killing 1,100 people and causing damage of more than $1 billion.

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Spurs win tight one against Warriors

San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker (9), of France, drives on Golden State Warriors' David Lee (10) during the first half of an NBA basketball game onNov. 8 in San Antonio. (AP Photo)

san antonIo, noveMber 9 (aP): The previous time the Spurs and Golden State Warriors squared off, it was all about sharp shooting from both teams. That was in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs last season, which San Antonio won in six games. On Friday night, defense took over, particularly in the final 2:23, when the two teams were a combined 0 for 8 from the field. Tony Parker provided a late surge for the second consecutive game by scoring 18 points, including the last seven for the Spurs as they held off the Warriors 76-74. "Again, Tony made some huge buckets to keep the lead when we were dry," Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. Parker, who scored 15 of the Spurs' final 16 points in a victory over Phoenix two nights earlier, left the AT&T Center immediately after the win and was not

available to the media.

Golden State star guard Stephan Curry did not play after bruising his left ankle Wednesday night against Minnesota. Minus him, the Spurs won their 30th straight regular-season home game against the Warriors. But they still had a chance to end the streak after Parker missed two free throws with 16.4 seconds remaining. Andre Iguodala drove to the basket and tried a layup that rolled off the rim at the buzzer. "I got a decent shot off," Iguodala said. "Tim (Duncan) did a good job of making me alter the shot a little bit." After Golden State's David Lee hit two free throws with 2:23 left, both teams failed to find the basket. "We're two teams that lay a solid foundation of solid defensive principles," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said.

Blazers cruise to victory over Kings

PortLanD, noveMber 9 (reuters): The Portland Trail Blazers' defense was porous their first four games. Coach Terry Stotts liked the improvement he saw in the Blazers' 104-91 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night at the Moda Center. "The things we emphasized the last couple of days -- transition defense, defensive rebounding, points in the paint -- we did a good job with for most of the game," Stotts said.

The Blazers allowed opponents to shoot 47.6 percent from the field, fourth-worst in the NBA through their first four games. But the Kings shot only 41.9 percent Friday night and had only five fastbreak points. At the other end, guard Damian Lillard and forward LaMarcus Aldridge combined for 42 points for the Trail Blazers (3-2), who led almost from start to finish.

Center DeMarcus Cousins collected a season-high 35 points and nine rebounds for the Kings (1-4), who have lost four in a row since an opening-night victory over Denver. Lillard scored 22 points along with eight rebounds and seven assists. Aldridge contributed 20 points and seven rebounds.

Guard Wesley Matthews added 18 points and seven rebounds for Portland, which got double-figure scoring from six players.

Forward Nicolas Batum had 14 points to go with seven rebounds and eight assists while center Robin Lopez scored 11 and forward Thomas Robinson came off the bench for 10. "We got a lot of good things from a lot of people," Stotts said.

Portland gave up 54 points in the paint and 19 fast-break points to Houston in a 116-101 loss last

'I could play three more Ashes series'

sYDneY, noveMber 9 (reuters): Australian captain Michael Clarke has dismissed the idea of being driven into retirement by a degenerative back problem and believes he could play three more Ashes series over the next five years. Clarke will start his sixth Ashes series on November 21, but with the back problem certain to return at some point and his captaincy the subject of a media debate, there has been speculation he might soon call time on his test career.

"I won't be retiring, not for a long time," the 32-year-old told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "I feel as fit and healthy as I've been for a long time and my love and drive to have success and be a part of this Australian team and New South Wales team is as strong as ever. "As long as I'm performing, I think I've got a good four or five years left in me." There has been little wrong with his performances with the bat in the two years since Clarke took up the captaincy. Although his record against England (1,746 runs at an average of 46

per innings) does not quite match up to his overall stats (7,656 runs at 52), Australian cricket fans will be delighted their best batsman is going nowhere.

Another five years would take Clarke through the 2015 tour of England as well as the 2017-18 series Down Under and to an age close to that of his predecessor Ricky Ponting when the Tasmanian retired. "My love of the game is stronger than it has ever been.

The older you get, the more you experience the highs and lows," Clarke said.

"It makes you enjoy the good times and enjoy the wins, and also realise that when you're not winning hard work will turn that around. "I'm as excited as I've been at the start of any summer." After losing the last Ashes played in Australia 3-1 in 2010-11 and going down 3-0 in England just a few months ago, Clarke's team are in the rare position of going into a home series as underdogs.

"If I didn't think we could win I wouldn't take the field," Clarke said. "You want to win every game you play. That's part of playing for Australia."

Sacramento Kings' DeMarcus Cousins, center, shoots against Portland Trail Blazers' Robin Lopez (42), Mo Williams (25) and Thomas Robinson (41) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Friday Nov 8, 2013. Portland beat Sacramento 104-91. (AP Photo)

Saturday. That was a focal point of the Blazers practice session Monday. "We had a couple of drills that were harder than any transition defense in a real game," said Lillard, who was only 5 for 13 from the field but 4 for 9 from 3-point range and 8 for 8 from the foul line.

"Tonight, guys got back on the shot. We didn't stand and watch. We got back right away when the ball was in the air. We played physical, even in transition. We might have got

away with a few fouls, but we did what we wanted to do." Portland shot 48.8 percent from the field, 43.5 percent from 3-point range and 88.9 percent from the line. The Blazers ruled the backboards 47-31 and had 28 assists on 39 baskets.

"We put (the Kings) in scramble move," Lillard said. "We moved the ball and guys knocked down shots."

"No defense," Sacramento coach Mike Malone said.

"We scored (points), but we didn't defend anybody. They

Ist Pughoboto open badminton c'ship

KohIMa, noveMber 9 (Mexn): The Ist Pughoboto Open Badminton Championship organized by Pughoboto Sub Division Badminton Association will take place from November 13 to 14 at Pughoboto indoor stadium. The championship will feature veteran and sub veteran categories. Y. Vikheho Swu, parliamentary secretary for irrigation and flood control will grace the inaugural function as the chief guest. Minister for youth resources and sports Merentoshi Jamir will be the chief guest at the closing function while MLA Khriehu Liezietsu, advisor new & renewable energy and Music Task Force will grace Ahuna Nite. For further information, contact 9436001510, 9436609880.

Hornbill Snooker Championship

KohIMa, noveMber 9 (Mexn): The Club Area 51, Kohima will be hosting the Ist Hornbill Snooker Championship during the Hornbill Festival from December 6 to 9 to be held at CK Arcade, Kohima in collaboration with tourism department under the theme “Play Green” commemorating the 50th years of statehood celebration. Club president Tolto Vizol said the main purpose of this championship is to provide an even platform for all snooker and billiards enthusiasts irrespective of age, gender, playing skills to encourage and promote friendship and sportsmanship while enjoying the game of snooker and billiards and also to promote our youngsters to enhance their playing skills professionally to national as well as international levels.

Monaco draws 1-1 with Evian

Monaco, noveMber 9 (aP): Radamel Falcao scored to help Monaco salvage a 1-1 draw with Evian and pull within two points of leader Paris Saint-Germain in the French league.

Evian midfielder Daniel Wass outpaced the Monaco defense to open the scoring in the 21st minute before Falcao fired into the bottom corner in the 27th for his ninth league goal this season. "It's a good point for us," Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri said. "We played poorly and Evian would have deserved to win 3-1 tonight."

Evian threatened in the opening minute with a free kick from midfielder Cedric Barbosa that took a deflection off the wall but Monaco goalkeeper Danijel Subasic made the save. However, the hosts soon put Evian on the back foot. Evian goalkeeper Jesper Hansen palmed away a bouncing volley from Yannick Ferreira Carrasco in the 17th before Monaco winger Lucas Ocampos wasted a good chance in the 20th by unleashing a low drive wide while an unmarked Falcao was waiting for a

low cross at the far post.

A goal kick from Hansen helped Evian score against the run of play. Evian striker Pape Amodou Sougou redirected it toward Wass, who held off a challenge from Layvin Kurzawa to shoot past Subasic. Evian came close to doubling the lead in the 25th when Sougou skipped past Monaco midfielder Jeremy Toulalan but Subasic quickly came off his line to deny the Evian striker. Monaco dominated possession but it equalized on a counterattack. Colombia international James Rodriguez slipped a through ball to Falcao, who scored with a diagonal shot.

Evian was dealt a blow in the 33rd when Barbosa picked up a shoulder injury and was replaced by Nicolas Benezet. Rodriguez took the Evian defense by surprise in the 43rd by sending a corner outside the area for Toulalan, whose low volley sailed wide.

Monaco pushed for the winner in the second half by playing with two strikers, as Emmanuel Riviere replaced Ferreira Carrasco in the 68th. But it was Evi-

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an which created the best chances. Sougou charged down a clearance from Monaco centerback Eric Abidal to be clean through on goal in the 65th, but Subasic stopped his effort with his right foot. Subasic also parried long-range strikes from Evian substitute Dan Nistor in the 74th and the 84th. The Monaco goalkeeper was lucky to see Sougou fire over the bar from 10 yards in the 82nd.

Despite Evian's pressure, Monaco nearly netted the winner in the 88th when Ocampos struck the post from 18 yards.

"We have a lot of regrets," Sougou said. "But we should not be ashamed of our performance. If we had converted our chances, we could have won this match." Evian provisionally moved into 12th place.

On Saturday, it's: Paris Saint-Germain vs. Nice; Bastia vs. Rennes; Guingamp vs. Lille; Lorient vs.

Reims; Toulouse vs. Ajaccio; and Valenciennes vs.

Montpellier. On Sunday, Saint-Etienne hosts Lyon, Monaco's Falcao of Colombia, down, jumps for the ball with Nantes visits Bordeaux and Evian's Jonathan Mensah of Ghana during their French League One soccer match, in Monaco stadium on Nov. 8. (AP Photo) Marseille faces Sochaux.

killed us from the 3-point line. It's a broken record until we buy in and try to defend for 48 minutes."

Portland held a fivepoint halftime lead despite the play of Cousins, who had 18 points and six rebounds to keep the Kings close. Matthews hit 5 of 8 shots from the field, including 2 of 3 from 3-point range, for 12 points and Lillard bombed in 3 of 4 3-point attempts for nine for the Blazers, who shot 53.7 percent in the half and 46.7 percent (7 for 15)

on 3's. The Kings had the difference down to 58-55 when the Blazers, led by Matthews, used a 10-0 spurt to go ahead 68-55.

The lead rose to 72-58 before Portland settled for a 77-66 advantage going into the final period. Sacramento, behind reserve guard Isaiah Thomas, kept after it, cutting the Portland lead to 87-81 with 6:42 to play.

The Kings were still within six when Aldridge knocked down three jumpers to push the Blazers ahead 98-

86 with 2:02 to go.

Portland broke loose from a 20-20 tie, with reserve forward Dorell Wright and Lillard sinking in back-to-back 3-pointers as the Blazers closed the first quarter on a 9-2 run for a 29-22 lead. The Blazers hiked the margin to 37-26 before Sacramento rallied, getting to within 4138. Matthews then heated up, scoring 10 points in a four-minute period to send Portland intermission on top 54-49.

Joachim Loew calls up Weidenfeller

berLIn, noveMber 9 (Ians): Germany coach Joachim Loew called up his squad for the upcoming friendlies to invite Weidenfeller for the first time. Weidenfeller earned his first call up Friday for the "Nationalmannschaft" as Loew invited the 33-year-old goalkeeper for the upcoming international friendlies against Italy and England, reported Xinhua. Besides the Dortmund goalkeeper, Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer and Hamburg's Rene Adler were appointed.

"Manuel Neuer is currently our number one. We have observed good performances by Roman Weidenfeller on club level for a long time," Loew said. Weidenfeller could set a new record as the oldest goalkeeper debutant in German national soccer history. On other positions Loew relies on tried and tested personnel. Only midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger will be off the list owing to a relapsing right ankle injury. "I wish and hope that Bastian can perform free of complaints after the second ankle surgery. He is a constant in terms of a spot for the World Cup in Brazil."

However, Dortmund's Marcel Schmelzer and Lazio's Miroslav Klose return into the squad after their recovery. "It's good

for us that Miroslav returned. He is an enrichment for any team." The following players are still on the injury list: Arsenal's Lukas Podolski, Fiorentina's Mario Gomez and Dortmund's Ilkay Guendogan.

The Germans face their bogey team Italy in Milan Nov 15. At the same time Loew will record his 100th match as the head of the German national soccer team.

Four days later they play at Wembley to see the "Three Lions" on the road. "Italy play on a world class level from a tactical point of view. Their national team always perform efficiently. The matches against our English friends are prestigious. They live by the atmosphere and explosiveness," Loew explained.

‘Early to say Arsenal are EPL title contenders’

Manchester, no veMber 9 (Ians): Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs believes it is still early to pick Sunday's opponent, Arsenal, as the English Premier League title contenders. Arsenal, who returned with a morale boosting victory over Dortmund in mid-week, are five points clear of the English top flight table after 10 rounds and eight points ahead of Manchester United. "It's still relatively early in the season," the veteran player told Xinhua Friday, when a three-year partnership was launched between United and Bulova, the club's official timekeeper and global partner.

"I think around Christmas, around the new year historically, you see where you are and where other teams are, then try to push on for that." The 39-yearold admitted that it would be a tough match especially after the Gunners started the month with two big wins. "It is the big match.

Arsenal is the form team.

They had a very good week, beating Liverpool, beating

Dortmund." Though starting slower than the London rival this season, Giggs believes the defending champions still have time to catch up with the leaders.

"As the reigning champions, our aspiration is to try to win the league. That's what this club is all about.

Try to win things." "We haven't got a great start.

But it is still early in the season. If we win Sunday, go into two-week international break, we will be ok." The managerial role of Man United was regarded as "big shoes to fill in" after

Alex Ferguson retired at the end of last season.

But Giggs, with both player and coach role in the team, showed his belief that under David Moyes, the current manager, they can get the job done. "I enjoy working under the manager. Myself is a player-coach as well.

He is a very good manager, very good coach. We are on a good run. We feel like eventually we will get there."

Giggs was joined by Wayne Rooney and several other teammates at the launch ceremony at the training complex in the morning.

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he 1st Elimination Recording will be telecast in all local cable networks across the North East. Telecast for Dimapur and Kohima will be every Saturday at 6 pm onward. The winner of this contest will walk away with the cash prize of Rupees One Lakh along with a chance to work with Find Studio Mumbai future project. The winner will also partake in a promotional tour to London and the runner up will walk away with the cash prize of Rupees Fifty Thousand and a promotional tour to London as well.

The next Elimination Round will be held in Aizawl on November 29.

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Parliamentary secretary for irrigation & flood control Vikheho Swu graced the occasion as the chief guest. (Morung Photo)

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An Opinion haCh PATTON It’s magical, powerful and awesome. Nagas and their love for music are but a tapestry. It is inherent to both the old and the young. It is inexplicably intense. I still remember one fine morning the guitar maestro, Ren Merry telling his music students at Patkai Christian College about the Nagas love for music and its prospects.

In his words. “I find that Nagas are incredibly talented in whatever they do. But as of now I can assure you that, if we are to complete with the rest of the world.

Its’ through our music”. That was circa 1994. Almost 20 years down the line he has not been proven wrong.

Naga musician have taken their passion for music all across the world and have made great impressions. Some mention can be made about the indomitable spirit of the Abiogenesis, Divine Connection, Alobo Naga, Neise Meruno, Nagaland Chamber Choir and the new teenage sensation the Polar Lights. Talk about Goa and Jamaica and you think of music and good times. So, Naga ‘musicos’. You have taken Nagaland to the world. Now, it is about time you bring the world to Nagaland and let them feel our love and passion for good music.

Nagaland here we come. Tis the land of music and festivities.

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im Kardashian has hit back at 'claims' she belongs to a cult. Earlier this week, Kim celebrated her friend Brittn Gastineau's birthday by posting a collage - which some claimed resembled the Illuminati, that use shapes to represent the all-knowing evil eye and Satan. The collage featured an eye-shaped photograph inside a triangle, but Kim took to her Twitter when some questioned she might be a Satanist.

Kim ranted: 'I posted a IG collage for my bff @BrittGastineau & people say its the illuminate! What is the illuminate? A religion?...I'm a Christian.' 'A cult?...not into that sorry! It had an eye on it, which reminded me of Britt bc her company "eye on glam" & reminds me of against evil eye bracelets we wear.' She added: 'So sorry guys it was just a cool design I saw on one of those IG collage apps.'

However, Kim might soon become a cult of her very own after it was revealed Kanye West is convinced he and Kim will become the most powerful A-list couple in the world. The 36-yearold rapper wants to be more popular than Jay Z and his wife Beyonce Knowles, who were named the globe's top couple by Vanity Fair magazine last month.

A source told gossip website Radar: 'Kanye has emphatically told Kim that he believes they're going to be the biggest power couple

on the planet.' 'He genuinely thinks they will be more popular than his close friends, Jay Z and Beyonce.

The Blood On The Leaves hitmaker, who has a four-month-old daughter, North, with Kim, has been helping the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star to revamp her image and is taking tips from Beyonce.

The source said: 'It's one of the reasons why Kanye told Kim to change her hair colour, he thinks it elevated Kim from just being a reality star to an international i was born with Music inside me... superstar.' 'Beyonce is very a young boy of eight months playing selective with how she presents herself in public with his instruments. and social media.'

PhOTO By - VeVOZO VeRO 'Kim is now following Evil eye: Some Twitter users accused Kim Kardashian of in Bey's playbook. Kim only worshiping the devil after she posted this picture releases very limited pictures of North and those are with Kanye's approval. He's orchestrating it all, behindthe-scenes.' Kim, 33, is allegedly having issues with many of her old friends because they think she has "become so stuck-up" since she started going out with Kanye 20-months ago, and is desperate to become close pals with Beyonce.

The insider said: 'Perhaps Kim thinks she's going to be best friends with Beyonce, but she needs to realise they're not friends and never will be!' 'Beyonce is in a completely different place than Kim, is in a different star zone and they aren't going to be besties or hang out unless November 24, 2013 it is with their husbands... or at events.'

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Ashwin becomes numberone ranked Test all-rounder

DUBAI, NOVEMBER 9 (PTI): India's Ravichandran Ashwin has jumped to the numero uno position in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders by virtue of his stellar show in the first Test against the West Indies at Kolkata.

Ashwin scored 124, his second Test century, and also recorded match figures of 40-11-98-5 to help Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia perform India register an emphatic during the pairs free skating of the NHK Trophy Figure Skat- innings and 51-run victory ing in Tokyo, Saturday, Nov. 9. (AP Photo) over West Indies with more than two days to spare.

The performance at Kolkata not only im-

Nigeria wins FIFA Under 17 World Cup

Khanglai FC ousts defending champ Aiwal FC to enter finals

proved Ashwin's batting and bowling rankings, but also helped him to leapfrog Shakib Al Hasan and Jacques Kallis into the number-one spot in the allrounders' list.

Ashwin has earned 81 ratings points and now leads second-placed Shakib by 43 ratings points.

In the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, Ashwin has moved up 18 places to the 45th position, while in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers, the 27-yearold off-spinner has gained two places and is now sit-

ting in sixth position.

Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma and fast bowler Mohammed Shami, who made impressive debuts in the Kolkata Test, have also entered the Reliance ICC Player Rankings.

Sharma, who became the 14th Indian batsman to score a century on debut when he struck 177, lies in the 63rd spot in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, while Shami's figures of nine for 118 - the most by an Indian fast bowler on debut - has helped him enter in the 53rd place in Test bowlers chart. West Indies offspinner Shane Shillingford and India fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the other bowlers to improve their rankings.

Shillingford's figures of six for 167 has put him inside the top 20 in the 17th position for the first time in his career (up by four), while Kumar's two wickets have helped him move into 87th place (up by 13).

The batting chart continues to be headed by AB de Villiers of South Africa, while his team-mate Dale Steyn is the number-one ranked Rafael Nadal of Spain holds his award forATP World Number One tennis player after being presented bowler. with the trophy at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on London on Nov. 9. (AP Photo)

'Sachin quitting will leave huge void in world cricket'

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KARACHI, NOVEMBER 9 (PTI): Former Pakistan players Mohammad Yousuf and Saqlain Mushtaq on Saturday paid tributes to Sachin Tendulkar, saying that world cricket will be left with a big void after his retirement.

"There is going to be a big void because I don't think we will ever see a champion batsman like him again in cricket," Saqlain said of Tendulkar who will retire from Test cricket after playing in his landmark 200th match later this month.

"There is only one Tendulkar, I don't see anyone surpassing his feats.

I can say for me taking his wicket in the Chennai Test in 1999 remains my most prized wicket even today," 36-year-old Saqlain, who took 208 wickets from 49 Tests and another 288 in 169 ODIs, told 'Geo Super' channel. Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf

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The Nigerian team celebrates with their fans at the end of the World Cup U-17 final soccer match between Nigeria and Mexico at Mohammad Bin Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Nov. 8. (AP Photo)

ABU DHABI, NOVEMBER 9 (AP): Nigeria beat Mexico 3-0 in the Under-17 World Cup final on Friday to win the tournament for a record fourth time. Nigeria went ahead in the ninth minute through Erick Aguirre's own goal before Kelechi Iheanacho doubled the lead in the 56th. Nigeria captain Musa Muhammed scored from a free kick in the 81st minute to complete the victory as the country surpassed Brazil's three titles at the U17 level.

In what was a rematch of Nigeria's 6-1 win in the opening Group F match, Mexico had the better

chances early. Alejandro Diaz's close-range effort was just wide of the target and minutes later Nigeria goalkeeper Dele Alampasu tipped Ivan Ochoa's header over the bar. However, Nigeria then went on a counterattack and Musa Yahaha's shot deflected off Aguirre and past Mexico goalkeeper Raul Gudino. The remainder of the opening half was played at a frenetic pace and saw both sides squander opportunities. Alampasu made another good save in the 30th minute from Ulises Jaimes' header after a lovely ball from Mexico captain Ulises Rivas.

Khanglai FC, Manipur today ousted defending champion Aizwal FC, Mizoram to move into the finals of the prestigious 22nd Royal Gold Cup 2013 here at the Kohima Local Ground.

In the exciting 2nd semi final match, Khanglai FC, Manipur blanked Aizwal FC, Mizoram 2-0 and confirmed the finals berth.

The match witnessed scoreless draw till the first half. Thangjoylen’s scintillating kick fetched a goal for Khanglai FC in the 73rd minute. Nine minutes later, Thangjahao netted another goal for Khanglai FC. Referee Hiren Barman cautioned and showed yellow cards to Paomin Sei, Janggoulen and Thangjoylen of Khanglai FC for unsporting behavior.

Khanglai FC will now face Kohima Komets in finals on November 11 at 1:00 PM. Minister for youth resources and

also lauded the contribution of Tendulkar to Indian and world cricket.

"I belong to the old school of batting skills and for me watching him (Tendulkar) bat has always been a pleasurable experience even if when we were on opposite sides," he said.

Yousuf said that if India had produced a host of quality batsmen it was only because of the undeniable influence and imprint left

by Tendulkar. "I don't think anyone has made such a big imprint on Indian cricket and all the praise he is getting now is deserved."

Yousuf said he had always found Tendulkar to be a very nice human being. "He always had time for cricket discussions and batting. I picked up a few things from him," said 39-year-old Yousuf who had scored 7,530 runs from 90 Tests and 9,720 runs from 288 ODIs.

Khanglai FC and Aizwal FC players in action. Morung photo

sports Merentoshi R. Jamir will grace the grand finale as the chief guest. Keneido Peseyie will compere the function while short speech will be delivered by

Atuolie Mepfüo, president Royal Club, Kohima.

The Royal Gold Cup, organized by the Royal Club Kohima, is an All India football tournament, affiliated

to the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

The champion will fetch a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakh while runners-up will pocket Rs. 1 lakh.

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VALENCIA, NOVEMBER 9 (AP): MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez will start ahead of defending champion Jorge Lorenzo in the decisive Valencia Grand Prix after he won pole position in Saturday's qualifying session.

Marquez pushed his Honda through a flying lap in 1 minute, 30.237 seconds on the 4-kilometer (2.48 mile) Cheste Circuit to set a track record and make sure Lorenzo will start Sunday's season finale from second place on the grid.

Marquez leads Lorenzo by 13 points entering the 18th and final race of the season. The 20-year-old Marquez needs a top-four finish to become the first rookie to win the championship since American Kenny Roberts in 1978.

Marquez had a wobble near the end of the session, and he said he took that as a sign of what could happen Sunday if he lets his guard

MotoGP Honda rider Marc Marquez from Spain rides his motorbike during the free practice ahead of Spain's Valencia Motorcycle Grand Prix, the last race of the season, at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Cheste near Valencia, Spain on Nov. 9. (AP Photo)

down. "I had a small scare on the last lap when I was a little relaxed and it made me see that I can't lose my concentration tomorrow," Marquez said. "Jorge has a

little more speed right now, but we will stay focused on our race." Lorenzo made a good start with a blistering first lap. But he returned to the paddock with four

minutes left to change to another Yamaha, throwing his arm up in frustration as he got off his first bike.

"I was feeling confident going out with soft

tires, but suddenly the bike stopped working well and lost half its power," Lorenzo said. Lorenzo would defend the title if he wins the race and Marquez finishes fifth

or worse.

"It's very tough with 13 points. They're a lot," said Lorenzo. "Seeing Marc finish fifth or sixth or worse is difficult to imagine, but anything can happen so we have to be ready." Marquez's teammate Dani Pedrosa will start from third, followed by Lorenzo's partner Valentino Rossi in fourth ahead of British pair Cal Crutchlow and Bradley Smith. Spanish riders can sweep all three categories at the track which has reportedly sold out its 100,000 seats for the highly anticipated race.

In Moto3, Alex Rins took pole position for Sunday's race when he will duel with fellow Spaniards Luis Salom and Marc Vinales for the title. Salom leads the Moto3 standings with 300 points.

Vinales has 298, and Rins has 295. "I'm very calm and satisfied with the work of my team this season," Rins said.

"Let's see if my nerves don't betray me tomorrow."

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