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Red beacons only for high statutory offices, rules SC
New Delhi, December 10 (iANS): The Supreme Court Tuesday said that red beacon lights without flashers would be used on the vehicles of only high constitutional functionaries and blue beacon lights will be used only on emergency services and police. The apex court bench headed by Justice G.S. Singhvi in its direction said that the sirens would only be used on the emergency and police vehicles but the sound should not be unduly harsh and shrill. The court said that both the central and state governments will within three months issue a pruned list of constitutional functionaries entitled for red beacon lights on official vehicles. The court added that any violations of its direction would attract exemplary penalty. The court ordered that the police will implement the provisions of Motor Vehicle Act without fear or favour.
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TVs, but the foul weather and public transportation problems kept many people away. The 95,000-capacity stadium was only two-thirds full. Addressing the memorial service for Mandela, who died Thursday at age 95, Obama pointed out that “around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or how they worship, or who they love.” Among the nearly 100 heads of state and government were some from countries like Cuba that don’t hold fully democratic elections. On the way to the podium, Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro, underscoring a recent warming of relations between Cuba and the U.S. In contrast to the wild applause given to Obama, South African President Jacob Zuma was booed. Many South Africans are unhappy with Zuma because of state corruption scandals, though his ruling African National Congress, once led by Mandela, remains the front-runner ahead of elections next year. Thabo Mbeki, the former South African presi-
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Images of Nelson Mandela through the years are flashed upon a screen during the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo)
dent who succeeded Mandela, got a rousing cheer as he entered the stands. French President Francois Hollande and his predecessor and rival, Nicolas Sarkozy, arrived together. United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon waved and bowed to spectators who sang praise for Mandela, seen by many South Africans as the father of the nation.
NSF for closure of three institutes
DimAPUr, December 10 (mexN): The Naga Students Federation has submitted a representation to the Chief Secretary of Nagaland urging for the immediate closure of the Indian Institute of Para Medical Technology, Kohima; Institute of Management of Medical Research, Health Science and School of Nursing, Singrijan and Para Medical Training Institute Industrial Estate, Dimapur. The NSF stated that as per a report submitted by an inspection team, the institutes lack the necessary infrastructure, faculty and recognition from competent regulatory bodies. The NSF reminded
that on January 11, 2014, the then Chief Secretary had directed the three institutes to obtain necessary approval/ permission from the concerned regulatory bodies within one year time, failing which the No Objection Certificate given by the Nagaland government would be withdrawn. The institutes were also directed not to admit fresh batches of students till necessary permission for running various courses is obtained. However, the NSF lamented that 10 months after the expiry of the deadline given by the government, no concrete measures or follow up action has been initiated by the
government, thereby allowing the Institutes to continue running at the expense of the students’ career. The NSF has urged the Nagaland government to immediately close down the 3 institutes till they obtain No Objection Certificates from the competent authority and provide the required infrastructure as per guidelines. NSF further appealed for the Nagaland government and the concerned department(s) to initiate rehabilitation measures or allow internship in some government institute for trainees/students of the three institutes and to legitimize their certificates.
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“I would not have the life I have today if it was not for him,” said Matlhogonolo Mothoagae, a postgraduate marketing student who arrived hours before the stadium gates opened. “He was jailed so we could have our freedom.” Rohan Laird, the 54-year-old CEO of a health insurance company, said in the stadium that he grew up during white rule in a “privi-
leged position” as a white South African and that Mandela helped whites work through a burden of guilt. “His reconciliation allowed whites to be released themselves,” Lair said. “I honestly don’t think the world will see another leader like Nelson Mandela.” Workers were still welding at a VIP area as the first spectators arrived amid an enormous logisti-
cal challenge of organizing the memorial for Mandela, who died Dec. 5 in his Johannesburg home at the age of 95. Mandela’s widow, Graca Machel, and former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela were at the stadium, and gave each other a long hug before the ceremonies began. So were actress Charlize Theron, model Naomi Campbell and singer Bono. Tuesday was the 20th anniversary of the day when Mandela and South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, F.W. de Klerk, received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to bring peace to their country. De Klerk, a political rival who became friends with Mandela, was also in the stadium. Mandela said in his Nobel acceptance speech at the time: “We live with the hope that as she battles to remake herself, South Africa will be like a microcosm of the new world that is striving to be born.” The sounds of horns and cheering filled the stadium. The rain was seen as a blessing among many of South Africa’s majority black population. “In our culture the rain is a blessing,” said Harry Tshabalala, a driver for the justice ministry. “Only
great, great people are memorialized with it. Rain is life. This is perfect weather for us on this occasion.” People blew on vuvuzelas, the plastic horn that was widely used during the World Cup soccer tournament in 2010, and sang songs from the era of the anti-apartheid struggle decades ago. “It is a moment of sadness celebrated by song and dance, which is what we South Africans do,” said Xolisa Madywabe, CEO of a South African investment firm. The soccer venue was also the spot where Mandela made his last public appearance at the closing ceremony of the World Cup. After the memorial, his body will lie in state for three days at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, once the seat of white power, before burial Sunday in his rural childhood village of Qunu in Eastern Cape Province. John Allen, a 48-year-old pastor from the U.S. state of Arkansas, said he once met Mandela at a shopping center in South Africa with his sons. “He joked with my youngest and asked if he had voted for Bill Clinton,” Allen said. “He just zeroed in on my 8-year-old for the three to five minutes we talked.”
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Diethono Nakhro, Member, Child’s Rights Commission, Nagaland , speaking on the occasion of 4th Annual Day cum 1st Graduation of Stepping Stones School, Dimapur said, “Just being in the midst of the innocence of children is enough to soothe the soul in this jaded times.” As the guest speaker, she touched upon how society places social, attitudinal barriers for a person/child living with disability. It is not just the disability limiting the person, but society that is not looking beyond the limitation, she added. Struggling with mobil-
Nakhro highlights society’s indifference to persons living with disability
ity impairment for seven years herself, she shared her concerns and said, “I was also a part of that indifferent society for the better part of my life. It was only after I began my chapter as a person living with disability that I also realized this concern.” She stated that her mission was to carry the message and spread awareness among people on, “I have a disability, but I am not disabled.” She also carried a strong message for those living with disability and general populace, “You may
have a disability but you must make the use of your abilities” Nakhro stated that Nagas view a person with disability, to be objects of charity needing welfare and assistance to survive. This, she said is a negative mindset about disability. Terming it as a vicious cycle, she stated that often persons /children with disability grow up feeling helpless and grow more dependent on others. There is no escape in this cycle unless we take a positive outlook to change our mindset, she
said and encouraged, “Look at person with disabilities, not only at what they cannot do but at what they can do”. My own philosophy is that if there is one thing I can’t do there are two other things I can do. She urged, “It is time for our society to change its outlook on persons living with disability especially our children living with disability so they can join their peers to study- workplay and eventually lead fruitful lives. For, persons living with disabilities are real people. They also have needs, desires, and dreams. And they need the chance from society to make it all come true.”
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DimAPUr, December 10 (mexN): The Ao Senso Telongjem Dimapur has informed that “some unscrupulous persons had attempted several times to arrest former ASTD (Dimapur Ao Unit) President and a senior citizen, Arep Changki without assigning any valid reasons.” A press note from the ASTD President, Supu Walling and General Secretary, C Onen Walling stated that in view of the incident, “the ASTD assigned the Dimapur Ao Youth Union to examine and ascertain the reason behind the incident.” While appreciating the efforts of the DALT, the ASTD asserted that “No citizen will be allowed to threaten without any rhyme or reason.”
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Visitors join in on the Unity Dance, performed by Naga tribes to mark the end of the Hornbill Festival 2013.
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Seventeen Naga tribes performing a ‘Unity Dance’ around a bonfire marked the spectacular closing ceremony of the ten day long Hornbill Festival, at Kisama on December 10. Displaying
various facets of Naga life and culture, the festival concluded amidst traditional fanfare and merry making. Thousands of people thronged Kisama to witness the grand finale, which was also marked by the lighting of lanterns by all the dancing troupes. Na-
galand Minister for Tourism, EE Pangteang; Miss Nagaland 2013, Benjongmenla and others lighted the ceremonial bonfire amidst beating drums and yells from dancing troupes in full traditional attire. Signaling the end of the festival, cultural troupes
from all the tribes performed a unity around the bonfire, where visitors also joined in later. The 14th edition of the Hornbill Festival witnessed 1, 86, 030 visitors in Kisama alone; which included 1457 foreign, 15, 881 domestic tourists and 1, 68, 700 local visitors. The Tourism Minister gave away a cash prize of Rs 2 Lakhs to the winner of the Hornbill Master Chef 2013Yanrhonthung Odyuo. Nyeitok Konyak was also recognized during as the best craftsman 2013. Alim (bearing ticket No 3827), Akali (bearing ticket no. 840) and Kuku Khana (bearing ticket no 861) were declared 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Hornbill Shopping Festival Raffle draw and received a Maruti 800 each. The Tourism Minister expressed his appreciation to the visitors, cultural troupes, the Chief Minister, Himato Zhimomi, Commissioner and Secretary for Tourism and Art & Culture and his officials, tribal Hohos, NGOs and all departments for making the event as successful one.
DMC office, toll booths Employees threaten to go on strike
DimAPUr, December 10 (mexN): A series of arson attempts were reported in Dimapur on the night of December 9 targeting Dimapur Municipal Council toll booths and the DMC office. The incidents occurred around 10:30 pm, informed DMC employees. The unidentified attackers targeted the toll booths near New Dhansiri Bridge, Burma Camp, NH 29; and Signal Basti, near Thahekhu Village gate. An attempt was also made to set fire to the Rate Control wing of the DMC office located at Kalibari Road. But it was doused before any significant damage could be made. At the Burma Camp toll booth, one toll attendant sustained mild burn injury. In the aftermath, DMC workforce, under the banner of DMC Employees Association, are contemplating to go on strike; while
demanding that the perpetrators be brought to justice. Addressing media persons on Tuesday at the DMC office, the association’s representatives stated that a police complaint will be lodged. The association further hinted at a tussle over ‘toll collection contracts’ as a reason behind the arson attempts. According to the association, DMC employees have been manning the toll booths since September 2013, following a court ruling. Prior to the period, toll collection was leased out to private entities, which was nullified sometime in September. The lease period was from July 2013 to March 2014. The issue ultimately landed in court. Meanwhile, a new set of lessees was contracted to take charge of toll collection. The newly contracted lessees were supposed to take charge from December 10, as per an order through a directive from the office of the Commissioner and Secretary, Urban Development.
However, the association has demanded that the order be cancelled. The association stated that the DMC has enough workers to care of toll collection, instead of it being leased out to private entities. The association, had in a representation to the Administrative Officer, DMC dated December 4, 2013 had apprised the same. In a handout, the association listed out a comparative assessment of tolls collected starting from September 21 till November 30. During this period, when DMC employees manned the toll gates, the DMC recorded toll collections of over Rs 1 crore. In November alone, it was Rs. 56, 74, 565; and in October, it was Rs. 47, 83, 540. The figures are in stark contrast to the monthly instalments deposited by the lessees prior to DMC employees taking charge of tolls, the association explained. The accumulated monthly instalment from lessees stood at a little over Rs. 25, 000 lakh.
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Tongpangkokba Longchar lifted the 1st Hornbill Snooker Championship trophy with a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 and also scored the highest Break point award Rs. 8000 with a certificate, which was held at the C.K Arcade, Top Floor, Kohima on December 9. In the first set, Seyiekhrielie played smoothly and won the set however, Longchar scored the highest points in the second break of the final round and easily won the remaining three sets and the match by 3/1, defeating Seyiekhrielie Zao with a big margin of 50 points (66/16). Chief Patron and Club President, Zhovi Kire who was the Guest of Honour awarded the Rs, 30,000 to runner-up, Zao. Both the semi- finalists Vezota and Khekaho were also awarded Rs. 10,000 each. All the 39 participants
of the three days event were also given certificate. Zhovi in his speech said that snooker is a gentleman’s game and has many characteristics, so he urged the players to build good character and to be neat and tidy. He said that sportsmen need to maintain good manners, controlled temperament, to practice hard and maintain good health and mental state. He congratulated all the winners and the participants for their success. Other highlights included special songs presented by a two female artistes, Menangnaro Jamir and the finalist Kids for Fame 2013, Sevi Khruomo. The programme was chaired by the member of club Area 51, Melvin Solo and the vote of thanks proposed by member club Area 51, Medo Yhokha. (DIPR News)
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by Pathso village cultural club, a display by Western Angami cultural society, Laomo by Angphang dancing group, Mon, Khup Sonte Khup Sonte by Kuki cultural troupe, Bungsang and Ham Teiik by Nanglang cultural troupe. This was followed by Trang Trang Chin Pah Khi by Kiutanso cultural club, Huker village, Tale Li by Phusachodu village cultural troupe, Ejan Sharii by N/ Longdang youth cultural troupe, Dim Dim Chong by Garo cultural society, Dimapur, Hebo cultural society, Tali Nona Dance by Lephori village cultural troupe, Sangpang by Longsalong cultural culb, Mokokchung and Hiina Pongpi by Sangsomong village Yangtsung cultural club. (DIPR News)
The Grand Finale of the 1st National Hornbill Dance Competition was performed on stage by four selected soloist and four Groups as the semi-finalists, which was held at The Heritage, (old DC bungalow) Kohima on December 9. In solo category, Andrew Dungel from Delhi, claimed the 1st prize in Contemporary & Hip Hop Genre, and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 70,000 with commendation certificate. The second prize of Rs. 50,000 with certificate was awarded to Dzupalu Clara Dukru. Charlie Sekhose, Contractor, the Guest of Honour gave away the Solo prizes. The Chief patron of this competition, President, NCSU, Pele Khezhie gave
away a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh along with certificates to the winner in the Group Category to Elemenz team comprising of Anung Walling, Temjenmoa, Sentimanen Jamir, Akehito Yeptho, Akhum Longkumer and Zack Swuro from Nagaland with their Fusion dance while The Funky Fresh Boyz - Jianpu, Pechyelo, Vitoka, Amos, Likhumse and Setsichen from Nagaland, bagged the 2nd prize and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 70,000. All the participants in both Solo and Group category were also given an opportunity to perform as a part of entertainment. Ameü Üsou & the Choir presented a special number while Setso Liegiese en-
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Sikkim takes a leap in healthcare for all
GanGtok, December 10 (IanS): Seventyone-year-old P.P. Bhandari from Samlick-Marchak in East Sikkim was for long suffering from frequent episodes of chest pain. In the absence of proper diagnosis and treatment for patients with coronary artery diseases and related problems, he had planned a trip to either New Delhi or Kolkata to get his heart back in shape. One sunny morning literally brought cheer to his heart when he discovered that Central Referral Hospital (CRH), a 500-bed multi-specialty hospital in Tadong, had set up a cath
lab and cardiothoracic facilities and was ready to diagnose and treat heart patients like Bhandari. With state-of-the-art medical facilities now in place and state health schemes reaching out to rural households, Sikkim, one of country's smallest states with a population of over 610,000, is today witnessing a surge in improving the overall health of its citizens. In the last 20 years, the state government has made substantial progress in the health sector. The critical indicators of health, including the infant mortality rate (IMR), maternal mortality
ratio (MMR), disease prevalence, morbidity as well as mortality rates have shown consistent decline. "The infant mortality rate (IMR) of 26 per 1,000 is far better than the national average of 44 per 1,000. The ultimate aim would be making Sikkim MDR free, drugs free and AIDS free," said Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling. "All health-related programmes are being carried out without any hindrance and I am happy to state that life expectancy ratio in Sikkim has increased by over 3-5 years on average compared to 1994," he added. "We will bring health care to the doorsteps of the people
and make Sikkim the healthiest state in India." The CRH's Super Specialty Wing is set to host Cardiac CT, state-of-theart anaesthesia machines, 1.5 Tesla MRI, Cardiac Cath Lab, ventilators, monitors and host of other diagnostic and therapeutic equipments. The CRH already has facilities in fields like Radiology, MRI, Digital X Ray, Cardiac Cath Lab, Ultrasonography, Color Doppler, while super-specialty departments will have Neurology Surgery, Urology, Gastroenterology, Skin and Cosmetology, Cardiology, Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Oncological
Surgery, and private wards. With over 37 years of experience and performing 7,000 surgeries, wellknown cardiovascular thoracic surgeon Sudheer Deodatta Palkar has joined CRH as a consultant. With this, cardiology facilities at the super specialty wing of CRH is now operational and open-heart surgery is now available in the state. "A state like Sikkim needs better and state-of-the-art facilities and I am proud to be associated with CRH. My aim is to serve people of this hilly state who were to travel to metros or abroad for treatment," Palkar told IANS.
Palkar has a vast range of experience in open-heart surgeries especially, coronary bypass surgeries. He has performed vascular surgery in abdominal and peripheral vessels, thoracic cases lung-tracheaesophagus-pericardium and permanent pacemaker implantation. He has also performed rare surgeries like mirror image Dextro Cardia with DORV (Double Outlet Right ventricle), Ebstein Anamoly with Dextro Cardia with TI (Tricuspid incompetence) and CCF (congestive cardiac failure), BENTLE's procedure and partial Ectopia Cordis with DORV.
ImPHaL, December 10 (nnn): The United Naga Council (UNC) has called for a 48 hour National Highway 37 (Imphal-Silchar road) bandh from the midnight of December 12. The bandh is being called in protest against the lethargic attitude of the government of India on the UNC's demand of an alternative arrangement for the Manipur Nagas. "In continuation of our press statement of December 6 to ban the construction works on all National projects in Naga areas should no positive response be received
from the Government of India(GoI) within one week’s time of that date, it has since felt necessary to register our strong resentment to the statement of Shambhu Singh, Joint Secretary(North East), Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI that the demand for an Alternative Arrangement is “quite hazy” and that the matter of upgrading the Alternative Arrangement talk to the political level has been left to the State Government to resolve with the UNC," the Naga body said today. "While the dialogue process is kept
“quite hazy” by such officials, the policies of the communal Government of Manipur (GoM) to usurp the land of the Nagas and tribal continues unabated. The assertion of the Zeliangrong Youth Front to protect the land of Nagas and opposition to slicing of huge chunk of our land to create Jiribam district has the support and endorsement of the Naga people," it added. According to UNC, after the submission of the postulates of the demand for an alternative arrangement on August 31, 2012 tripartite talk
at New Delhi and also after having attended all the 6 rounds of talks, Singh still disrespectfully maintains that it is “quite hazy”. Instead of facilitating a sense of direction in the democratic process of dialogue, Singh, who represents GoI, is creating confusion for reasons best known to himself, the UNC further stated.
It asserted that the Nagas in Manipur did not request for a tripartite talk but wanted the Government of India to intervene with an Alternative Arrangement outside the Government of Manipur. Government of India initiated the tripartite talk process on the alternative arrangement demand. The Government of India
representative, the facilitator in the dialogue has now asked the Government of Manipur, the respondent, to resolve the matter of political upgradation of the talk process with the Nagas, the petitioner. "This is absurd and a great disrespect for the democratic process and an insult to the Nagas, who in this talk process
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UGC-NET Exam Notification This is to inform all candidates who have registered online and opted for Nagaland University as Test Centre (Centre Code-64) for the forthcoming UGC-NET Examination for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Assistant Professor scheduled for 29th Dec, 2013 (Sunday) that the Venue of Test will be at Kohima College, Billy Graham Road, Kohima. Candidates are therefore informed to produce their Admission card with valid ID on the day of examination. Candidates are also informed to note their respective seating arrangements an hour prior to the commencement of the examination. It is also hereby informed that the list of candidates whose application forms has been rejected due to various reasons and other details to candidates whose Application forms/ Attendance slip has not been received by the Co-ordinating Institution may kindly visit the Nagaland University website or the Office of the UGC-NET Co-ordinator, Kohima Campus, Meriema, Kohima for further information. (DR. TIATOSHI JAMIR) Co-ordinator UGC-NET Examination
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morIGaon, December 10 (PtI): The Congress in Assam may go for an electoral alliance with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in the forthcoming general elections, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday. "If the party high command gives the green signal, we will have an alliance with the AIUDF in the state," Gogoi said while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting here. Though the AIUDF is an alliance partner of the Congress at the Centre, it is the single largest opposition party in the state. Claiming that other parties in the state
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would not be a challenge to the Congress, the Chief Minister said in the forthcoming parliamentary elections his party would have a direct fight with only the BJP. Asked to comment on the Congress' debacle in the just concluded Assembly elections in four states, Gogoi said his party chief Sonia Gandhi would be holding introspection meetings to rectify the drawbacks. On the "secret killings" (of ULFA leaders' relatives) during the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta government in the 90s, he said the state governmentcouldnotimplement the Justice Saikia Commission report due to lack of evidence.
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1. Traditional brewed drink 2. Handicraft & accessories 3. Nail art & leather accessories 4. Atsi haii 5. Sami Direct and Juvalia & You 6. Little store 7. Thailand collection 8. X-Mas carnival mela 9. Halloween costumes & mask 10. Seasons mood 11. Ramp fashion 12. Wings of love 13. Bomb wala 14. Karmart 15. Winter joy 16. Coffee shop 17. Fast food corner 18. Exotic fast Food 19. Agri & dry fruits 20. Fruity hut 21. Livi`s indian Fast Food 22. S.J kabab 23. Kelly`s indian Fast Food 24. Royal christmas cafe 25. Dhaba 26. Bamboo crafts 27. Fresh fast food 28. Kholar hut 29. Renglo`s Food Bank 30. Indigenous food 31. Continental spices 32. Christmas carnival tea & coffe 33.` Quick bites 34. Lone-ki 35. Sumi stall
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Friends Hotel Chophi Hotel Sumi Exotic cafe Hotel unity Ao indigenous Hotel Khasi stall 8 Sisters Stall Sumi Hotel Dj food Court Changki Cuisine Darjeeling Food Stall Bamboo Shoot Corner Naga Food Stall Chuvi Sea delights Trival delicacy Exocite Naga Cuisine American sweet corn kernels Bambusa Mendi clothing ltd. Drop - in-star Sweet art Authentic Masssage therapy Akato`s points Pieces of bangkok Home made wine Li-wu signature usha sewing machine Samaritian home weaving & tailoring unit T/shirt, mug printing Computer games Cherry Pink Pop sickle ice cream Footwear Mangal Enterprises
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency would like to express its profound gratitude to all the Self Help Groups/ individuals/Organisations/Musicians for making the HORNBILL BAMBOO CARNIVAL a grand success which was held from 6th-8th December, 2013 at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre, Dimapur. The Agency would like to make a special mention of the following: INDIVIDUALS/ORGANISATIONS: 1. Shri Neiphiu Rio, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland. 2. Dr. Longrineken, Hon’ble MLA & Advisor, Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency. 3. Shri H.K. Khulu, IAS, Addl. C.S., Development Commissioner & Mission Director, Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency. 4. Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur. 5. Superintendent of Police, Dimapur. 6. Shri Manoj Kumar, Airport Director (Dimapur), Airport Authority of India. 7. Sovima Village Council. 8. Sovima Village Youth Organisation. 9. Pastor Zhabu Nagi, Sovima Baptist Church. 10. Shri Lanu Jamir & Shri Manen Jamir, Zip Sound, Dimapur. 11. Shri Richard Belho, Zynorique Consultants. 12. Ms. Sarah Pongen, Jumping Bean. 13. Morung Express. 14. Eastern Mirror. 15. Nagaland Post. SELF HELP GROUPS/PARTICIPANTS: 1. Gloria SHG 2. Runguzu SHG 3. Naga Handicrafts, Chumukedima 4. Ranglong Art 5. Homegrown Crafts & Candles 6. Dziese SHG 7. Lida SHG 8. DIMUL 9. Unique Style 10. Grace Collection 11. Charity SHG 12. Daisy SHG 13. Pusa Craft, Jharnapani 14. Savino Craft, Kuda Village 15. Diezephe SHG
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Bamboo & Wood Craft Bade Honey Stall Lost & Found Art Studio Mad House Ling Constructions Pvt. Ltd. Smart Planters Lilium Corner Bamboo Boyz
FOOD COURTS: 1. Fusion Cafe 2. Velvet Cafe 3. Asano- Bbq Corner 4. Baskin Robbins 5. Sovima Galho Corner 6. Nikibo 7. LG Vino 8. Lija-u 9. Bambusa BANDS / MUSICIANS/ ARTISTS: 1. Semper Soul (USA) 2. Alobo Naga 3. Kevin Savino 4. B.K. & Dj Ina 5. Placid Pinch 6. D. Zara 7. Infinity On High 8. Joker’s Night 9. Minx Gals 10. No String Attached 11. My Cute Valentine 12. Still Rhyming 13. Skillz Obscene 14. Lengoi 15. Chuchang & Born Again (Purniken) The Agency would also like to thank the public for extending its support and attending the three-day carnival. Issued by: Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, Government of Nagaland
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The Morung Express
DIMUL registers turnover LPG cylinder price $290 mn fine imposed on Coal India of over Rs. 895.85 lakhs hiked by Rs.3.46
DimAPur, December 10 (mexN): Dimapur District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, better known as DIMUL, registered a turnover of Rs. 895.85 lakhs for the year 2012-13. The dairy group further recorded a 5.11 percent jump in sales turnover from the year preceding. “I believe this achievement has been attributed by sustained efforts from all... from the farmer producers to the retailers and consumers,” stated DIMUL chairman, V. Kehie during the 16th annual general meeting of the group held at Dimapur Central Diary, 7th Mile on December 10. Toned milk contributed a major share to the turnover followed by lassi (a derivative of buttermilk).
DIMUL has also witnessed significant improvement in milk procurement during the year. It recorded total procurement of 7.61 lakh kilograms, an increase of over a lakh, from 6.15 lakh kgs in 2011-12. “This is indeed a positive trend and an encouraging factor as we have seen that during the past few years, milk procurement has not improved due to many reasons including per capita small herd holding size by majority of our resource poor farmers, coupled with stagnancy in milk yield per lactation and displacement of farmers due to urbanization,” said Kehie. Kehie further informed that membership of dairy societies under DIMUL increased to 51 during the
year, while farmer membership increased from 1911 in 2011-12 to 1936 in 2012-13. DIMUL will strive to improve productivity, Kehie said, while adding that Artificial Insemination from proven breeds is a step in that direction. Aru Khate, chairman of Nagarjan SEMPCS highlighted the urgent need for investing in Embryo Transfer technology for boosting production. With the technology, production can be increased many fold, he said. At present, the breed of dairy cows Nagaland has, gives on average, 20003000 litres of milk per cow. Production can go upto 12,000 litres if the technology is employed, Khate added. Nagarjan SEMPCS is an affiliate of DIMUL.
New Delhi, December 10 (iANS): The government Tuesday announced a Rs.3.46 hike in the price of a 14.2kg domestic cooking gas (LPG) cylinder after it increased the commission paid to dealers by a like amount. “The commission paid to dealers has been increased by Rs.3.46 per 14.2kg cylinder to Rs.40.71. Consequently, the retail selling price of domestic LPG cylinder has been increased by the same amount,” a petroleum ministry official said here. The increase, effective immediately, means that the 14.2kg LPG cylinder will now be available at Rs.413.96 as against the previous Rs.410.50. The dealer’s commission on a 5kg LPG bottle has been increased by Rs.1.73 to Rs.20.36. The 5kg bottle presently costs Rs.353 in Delhi. LPG prices were last revised in October 2012 -- also because of a hike in dealers’ commission. There is, however, no revision in the additional distributor commission of 75 paise paid on the sale of non-subsidised LPG cylinder over and above the commission of Rs.40.71, the official said. The market price of non-subsidised LPG in Delhi is Rs.1,017.50 per cylinder.
mumbAi, December 10 (reuterS): The competition regulator has imposed a fine of 17.7 billion rupees on state-run miner Coal India for abusing its dominant position and imposing unfair conditions in fuel supply agreements with customers. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday issued a “cease and desist order” to the state miner and
directed it to modify clauses in its fuel supply contracts related to sampling and testing, transportation charges, and compensation on supply of stones. Officials at Coal India, the world’s largest coal miner by output, were not immediately available for comment. The company, which accounts for 80 percent of India’s coal output, changed its pricing system last year,
Flipkart.com launches ‘In-a-Day Guarantee’
mumbAi, December 10 (AgeNcieS): Flipkart.com has launched ‘In-a-day Guarantee’ service for its customers in select cities. The customers can place their orders before 6 p.m. on one day and get it delivered by the next working day. However, they need to pay an additional shipping fee of Rs 90 per item. This service has been launched in Delhi, Noida, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad and will soon be scaled to more cities. Speaking about the launch, Ravi Vora, Sr. VP – Marketing, Flipkart.com said, “We have
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From Betrayal to Integrity: Another Way
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istory has shown repeatedly that a morally corrupt person inevitably betrays in one way or another because corruption is the result of self-interest becoming more important than God in a person’s life. The betrayal of his family and the common good of his people and nation start with his betrayal of God and himself. As such divisions have weakened families and society at all levels. Our cities and towns reveal our character as a people. No wonder some foreigners have described them as ‘just mud and dust’ after visiting Kohima and Dimapur. There must be another way. One may have great ideas in the head and plans on paper to develop a state or country with sustainable economy or even to build a new world order. But without new people with unselfish motives that reject the corrupt ways that have become acceptable today, and with commitment to fight for change, the ideas cannot be implemented. We must see what ‘can be done’ to the present crisis and act rather than stay with it as it is. Ca-
rupt man will always try to achieve his personal goals or pleasures without first paying the price in pain or would not bother that his selfish actions jeopardize the ‘sacred right’ of another person. This is illicit pleasure, the product of unbridled liberty and absolute individual autonomy that undermine the moral convictions and ethical philosophies without which sustainable and fair growth of society is impossible. We the Nagas are too carelessly creating problems by not guarding our originality, integrity and culture which reveal and protect our identity. We do not care to evaluate and respect genuine God-fearing leaders, but promptly follow leaders who are guided by self- interest. We thus enable them to become stumbling blocks to positive change, progress and development. Naturally if you want anything for yourself selfishly, everything goes wrong with you in whatever you do. As such our problems - socio-economic, political and spiritual, health and education remain unsolved. And the core issue
pacity or ability is just our sincere and committed ‘state of mind’. How much good we can do for our society depends on how much we can wholeheartedly think we can do. When you really believe you can do more or better, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way. Believing in a solution paves the way to the solution. Eliminate the word “impossible” from your mind. Don’t let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to fresh approaches. God is interested in our crisis. ‘Know thyself’ does not mean to only know our negative selves but also to know the latent potentialities. The ‘We-can-do- or-livebetter’ philosophy works magic. In order that the new Naga society does not remain just a romantic vision, we must transform ourselves into a people who can truthfully trust and commit to each other. This confidence can only be built in a people of strict integrity and commitment who are not swept off by immediate selfish indulgence and moral corruptions. A morally cor-
seems to be our lack of integrity and our casualness about the consequences of illegitimate pleasures. There has to be another way if we are to survive as a people and a nation and go forward in the world with dignity and self-respect. The Naga society today seems to be under a famine of truth, mutual trust, fair play and justice. We hide behind a façade of arrogance displaying a soul-less culture of getrich- quick-by-any-method regardless of the harm done to our society and our own character. Highly questionable short-cuts adopted to draw money doing practically nothing are now accepted as normal, and too many have come to think we cannot survive without government jobs, contracts or extortion. This results in too many people chasing very few government posts and contracts, followed by fighting, rampant corruption, creating animosities among ourselves ending often in fratricide. What is most important in a situation like ours is to nurture the “human element” by healing the souls and hurts in individuals
allowing it to charge higher prices from some customers. However, it still sells domestic coal at discounts of between 45 and 70 percent to international prices. The CCI had launched a probe earlier this year after complaints from state utilities Maharashtra State Power Generation Co. and Gujarat State Electricity Corp against the miner and its units.
which enables them to find the right attitude and direction. The good news is that crisis means danger and opportunity as the ancient Chinese taught. If we will learn to apply absolute integrity and sincerity to deal with our weaknesses and failures which are producing our crisis, we turn our crisis into our opportunity for change and growth. And the danger is thus made our strength. So let us convert our crisis or weaknesses into our opportunities and strengths through reconciliation with courage, integrity and faith in God. In this connection the open air evening crusade launch by Sinai Ministry wef 1st Dec. 2013 to 10th Dec. 2013 at Kohima can be taken as a relevant example. Cure yourself of excusitis, the dangerous disease of character, believing fully that you can succeed and overcome whatever crisis you may be facing, and you will be surprised by the positive outcome. A person is a product of his own thoughts. Adjust your divine thermostat forward and making your mind work
for you and our Naga society wholeheartedly, instead of letting it work against you by self- devaluation. “Nagaland for Christ” our favourite declaration claims that all Nagas abide by the teachings and principles of Christ we call our Lord and Saviour. It is a covenant between God and us to which we are bounded without choice. How beautiful! But the question is are we true to ourselves or are we decadent and purposeless? Are Christians so unlike Christ as was claimed by M K Gandhi? Let us restore and retain transparency and make “Nagaland for Christ” genuine and a blessing. If not it becomes a curse for us. Truth and integrity cannot be borrowed or purchased; it will have to come out of our lives. Let truth be truth and lies be lies. A person of integrity seeks the truth in all things, and attempts to apply it all the time. Truth simply means that which explains life the best, the exact contrary of betrayal. Truth is that which best explains how life is to be lived, and what life is all about. Kuolachalie Seyie
had a lot of customers requesting urgent deliveries, for reasons ranging from occasionled gifts to pre-travel shopping. But given the large volumes that we handle it wasn’t feasible to address them on a case-to-case basis. We have now built the capability into our supplychain and can now offer it as a guaranteed feature. This value-added service is available to consumers who need it – making online shopping a viable option even for last-minute purchases. We hope this will further accelerate the adoption of e-commerce in the country.”
God’s revelation of imminent severe destruction to Nagas and its land 40 prayer warriors called to pray for the Nagas
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he Spirit of the Lord has revealed His servants on several occasions in the NCRC, PR Hill, Kohima (Nagaland Prayer Centre) that severe destruction to Naga and its land is imminent in the form of War, Bloodshed, Pestilence, Earthquake etc. As the destruction would be too severe, people wouldn’t be able to help one another. Forty prayer warriors from various Prayer Centre’s, Prayer Groups and some Reverends are called (Informations being sent to concern reverends, Prayer Centre’s and Groups separately individually) to fast and pray for the Naga for 40 days with effect from 20th December, 2013. The forty called prayer warriors wilt have their programmes in their respective places and last seven days together in NCRC PR Hill, Kohima (Nagaland Prayer Centre). It has also been revealed that anyone willing to do good works by extending financial support for this programme may do so voluntarily so that Almighty may protect them, their family members and relatives. The Spirit of the Lord has directed that the programme be published in the news papers for wide publicity. For further information you may contact the undersigned at any time. Church Secretary, NCRC, PR Hill Kohima Pastor, NCRC, PR Hill Kohima
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The Morung Express
Tiny tots of Stepping Stones get first graduation ceremony
Stepping Stones School children celebrate their ‘graduation’ during the joint celebration of 4th Annual Day cum 1st Graduation of Stepping Stones School, Dimapur held today. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News day, Stepping Stones School Dimapur | December 10
Tiny alumni dressed in purple satin gowns sang “Saying goodbye to my little world, going on to another world, we will cherish you in our hearts always,” a song composed by their teacher Hotoli. They were the UKG students of Stepping Stones, Dimapur celebrating ‘Graduation Day’ at the school premises. Diethono Nakhro, Member, Child’s Rights Commission, Nagaland presented the certificates to the proud graduates. It was also about accomplishments, as special awards were presented to all the graduating students. Stepping Stones School, Dimapur today hosted the 4th Annual Day cum 1st Graduation at its school premises. Akhono, Administrator of Stepping Stones School stated, “As the students finish their kindergarten stage here at Stepping Stone School, ready for Primary School, we are really proud of them. We hope their time here was a ‘stepping stone’ to the next phase in their life.” She also said that this
completed four years and it has been a fulfilling four years interacting and learning from the children. She iterated that in this fast changing world, the focus on early childhood education is increasing, and the first few years of a child is very important. She added, “We must give the children a chance to teach us. And we should aspire to leave a better world for them.” The Administrator acknowledged the time and efforts invested by the teachers for the students. It was also mentioned that the parents have been extremely supportive of the school endeavours and had even, in the most difficult times rendered support and provided encouragement which kept Stepping Stones moving forward. Also, adding gaiety and fervour, to the 4th Annual Day celebrations, “Little Bubbles” presented rhymes in costumes made under the theme ‘What I Want to be’, UKG students flaunted their reading skills with the story ‘The apple tree’, and LKG students danced to a Hawaiian song.
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Efforts to boost silkworm production in Nagaland DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): Parliamentary secretary for Sericulture, Cooperation and Women Development, Pukhayi Sumi, has said the intervention of Central Silk Board (CSB) beginning from the 9th Five Year Plan has boosted the activities of sericulture in the State. “At present, all the four types of silkworm are being reared in the state with production of raw silk at 300MT of Eri, Mulberry at 4MT followed by Muga and Oak Tasar at 1MT and 0.23MT respectively,” the parliamentary secretary said. Pukhayi also informed that since the bifurcation of Sericulture from the Industries department during 1988-89, the Sericulture department has presently 27 departmental farms at district levels. The parliamentary secretary was addressing the state level workshop on “Implementation of catalytic development programme (CDP) during XII Plan” held at the District Sericulture Office, Dimapur, on Tuesday.
Parliamentary secretary for Sericulture, Pukhayi Sumi, giving away awards to progressive seri farmers. (Morung Photo)
Pukhayi however said during his recent visits to departmental and private silkworm farms, he observed that most of the farm buildings, quarters, rearing houses and grainages built in the 60s and 70s are in dilapidated condition, needing immediate attention. He also said due to poor transportation network in the state, field officers of the department are finding it hard to reach the rural populace. Taking these factors
into account, he appealed the Central Silk Board (CSB) to find out ways to further help the State Sericulture Department in research and development activities. Joint secretary (Tech), CSB, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, Sarat Deori, in his address said the objective of the workshop is to create awareness on the modalities and guidelines on implementation of CDP in order to achieve the set target
DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): North East India Harm Reduction Network (NEIHRN) launched its website on December 9. NEIHRN secretary Teiso Solo and its treasurer W. Chenithung Humstoe, officially launched the web site at NEIHRN secretariat, Centre for Community Transformation, Walford, Dimapur.
A press release issued by Project Director Y Shasikumar Singh informed that NEIHRN aims to reduce the harm associated with injecting drug use in north eastern region of India, specially blood borne diseases through a process of networking, information sharing, advocacy, program and policy development and publication. According to the re-
lease, the launch of the website is part of NEIHRN’S current project – Building bridges, sharing knowledge: strengthening leadership and creating a repository of knowledge for harm reduction in North east India. The project is funded by AUSAID through UNAIDS. The website is a knowledge hub on researches, reports, and documenta-
rights, they are not fighting for their rights but asking what belongs to them. She pointed out that in many societies women’s rights are violated in the name of religion and tradition. “Customs and traditions does not remain static, and if changes in the rule book of the Village Councils are brought about, with regard to ban on hunting, on dynamite fishing, etc, women’s status should be considered,” she added. “Unless, women’s labour and contribution to society is recognized, society remains unjust.” Other highlights of the event included a role play on the theme by Chizami women group, a dance performance by Chizami youths, to the music ‘break the Chain’, which was the anthem of the One Billion Rising 2013. Folk melodies were sung by Mesulumi Women’s group and NEN team, and a duet was presented by Menuu and Wemelhiu.
DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): Peace Channel observed Human Rights Day along with advance Christmas celebration on December 10 at its conference hall with the Peace Club members of Dimapur district. Peace Channel in collaboration with NACR and People’s Forum for Peace organised the programme with the theme, “Protect the children and prevent child trafficking.” The event was supported by North Eastern Diocesan Social Forum (NEDSF) and Indian Alliance for Child Rights (IACR). Rev. Fr. C. P Anto, Director of Peace Channel elucidated the purpose of the gathering and highlighted that children’s rights were being violated and families employ children as servants and maids with the pretext of educating and helping them. However, in many cases the reality is completely different, he stated. “Our innocent children are being exploited in many ways.” He exhorted the youth, elders and the
club members to be the change and be the voice for those voiceless in the society. Peace and justice is the root of every human right, he said. The speakers urged the youths to play greater role in bringing peace. Keny, President of NACR speaking on the theme called upon the youths to be a partner in fighting against exploitation and atrocities meted out to numerous children and women in our society. She enlightened the gathering by citing number of cases where, many Naga children and women were victims of sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labour, domestic violence and human rights violations. She assured help whenever needed, and encouraged to speak up without hesitation and asked to make full use of the Childline Helpline, 1098. Meanwhile, Taku Longkumer, President of PFP urged the youths to promote peace and justice through understanding of other fellow beings. He
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KOHIMA, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): Incumbent Kohima Village Council Chairman, Vilhouzhalie Dzuvichu passed away at around 5:00 pm on December 10. He was taken to Oking hospital, Kohima after falling unconfor silkworm production scious, where he was proclaimed deceased. (46,000MT) in the country by the end of the XII Plan. NSCN (IM) against sale of crackers Informing that the DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): The NSCN whole world is looking for- (IM) has cautioned businessmen not to sell crackers, ward to healthy and eco- “as they are not safe for the innocent citizens.” A press friendly fabrics like silk, De- note from the Secretary, UT GPRN stated that crimes ori said Nagaland state, the are committed “under the shelter of bursting crackers third largest producer of and that it is sometime difficult to differentiate between silkworm in the North East firecrackers and guns.” It further cautioned that defaultRegion, and other NE states ers to this order “may face stern action.” The CAO of UT have potential to thrive in GPRN also wished all citizens to enjoy Christmas and silkworm production. New Year, in the spirit of Christianity. Secretary to Government of Nagaland, Sericul- Dimapur shops asked to keep open till 7 ture Department, Bendang DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): In view of Longchari, said NE Region the festive season, all shops within Dimapur Municipal has huge potential to uplift Council jurisdiction other than workshops/ motor gathe rural economy through rages have been asked to keep their respective shops sericulture as silkworms open till 7:00 pm everyday, including Sundays during can be harvested 4-5 times the month of December 2013. This was informed in a a year. He however said press release issued by Administrator DMC cum officithat to maximise silk pro- ating DC Dimapur K Tarep Imchen. duction, NE states should work as a “cohesive unit” Midland council informs on and not in isolation. buying & selling of land On the occasion, awards were also distrib- DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): The colony uted to progressive seri council of Midland, Dimapur has informed all confarmers of the state. Di- cerned to obtain no objection from the colony council rector, Sericulture Depart- and GBs for buying or selling land within the colony. ment, Chandan Basera, Informing this, Khehuto Zhimomi, GB Midland stated delivered the welcome ad- that the decision to issue no objection by the council dress and joint director, P was arrived in order to avoid any complication that may Demo, proposed vote of arise in the future. He further informed that the council thanks. Seri farmers from would not intervene in any dispute of the land brought different districts attend- or sold without the knowledge of the colony authority. ed the technical session. KMC inter-ward prize distribution
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KOHIMA, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): All wards under the jurisdiction of Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) are informed that the annual inter-ward prize distribution will be held on December 16, 3:00 pm at Zonal Council Hall, Kohima. KMC chief executive officer Elizabeth Ngully in a press release informed that the prizes for competition on cleanliness, beautification and nativity will be as follows: 1st prize with running trophy – Rs 50,000; 2nd prize with running trophy – Rs 30,000; 3rd prize with running trophy – Rs 15,000. All the panchayat chairmen/ women/ youth organizations and GBs in all 19 wards have been requested to attend the function positively.
ries on harm reduction carried out by various NGOs and individuals in northeast. Researcher, social workers, NGOs and people who want to know more about harm reduction in north east context may avail it free of cost. Generous financial contribution to NEIHRN for EDBA urges business furthering the cause is owners not to pay taxes welcome and appreciat- DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): East Dimapur ed, the release added. Business Association (EDBA) has reminded all the business owners of East Dimapur not to pay taxes to any organization, as per resolution adopted on November 23 meeting with Purana Bazar Village Council, Dorgapathar Village council, Padumpukhri Village Council stressed on forgiveness and Nahabari Village Council, and the resolution passed on October 31 ACAUT rally. EDBA in a press release isand reconciliation to bring sued by its Media Cell further wished everyone a merry peace and prosperity in the Christmas and Happy New Year. State. Rev. Fr. Mathew Thuniampral, director of Sha- Mkg DPDB discusses land lom rehabilitation Centre, acquisition of FAC shared Christmas message and passed valuable tips on MOKOKCHUNg, DECEMBER 10 (DIPR): The the meaning of the Christ- monthly meeting of Mokokchung District Planning and mas. He emphasised the Development Board (DPDB) was held on December need to change oneself pri- 9 at Deputy Commissioner’s conference hall, chaired by DC & Vice Chairman DPDB, Mokokchung Muroho or to changing the world. Peace Channel Club Chotso. In the meeting, the members discussed for the acquisition of land where Fazl Ali College is established. members also conducted On this, Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung informed extempore speech and the house that the district administration would hold a group song competition meeting with the landowners and try to complete the to mark the day’s impor- land acquisition process. With regard to the agenda put tance. The members spoke up by the Sub-Treasury Officer Changtongya, for enon the importance of Hu- hancement of the remittance at Sub-Treasury Changman Rights and topic of the tongya which has become insufficient, the Board apday. Samalika of St. Paul proved and recommended for upper limit. Members Higher Secondary School, from the Mokokchung District Farmers Union highDimapur bagged the first lighted its functions and activities in which the DC asked prize. Khetaka of Christian the union to take steps for registration of the union. The Higher Secondary School, Board also reviewed the last meeting minutes. Dimapur and Pooja Chetri of King David High School, NPF golden jubilee on Dec 12 Dimapur got second and KOHIMA, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): The Naga Peothird respectively. St. Paul ple’s Front (NPF) will celebrate its golden jubilee cum Higher Secondary School, general convention on December 12 at Kohima Local Dimapur bagged first in Ground from 10:30 AM onwards. Keynote address will the group song competi- be given by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, advisor NPF tion, Trinity High School, while presidential address will be given by NPF presiDimapur and King Da- dent Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu. Welcome address will be vid High School, Dimapur delivered by NPF working president Huskha Yepthomi came out second and third while Noke Konyak, minister and member working committee will exhort the gathering. Greetings will be respectively. shared by Soso Lorho, president Manipur State Unity, Tosham Mosang, president Arunachal state unit and Apong Pongener- working president. Secretarial report will be given by NPF secretary general K.G. Kenye. The programme will be chaired by T.R. Zeliang, minister and they can guide and lead our member working committee while vote of thanks will people with justice and can be proposed by Dr. Neikiesalie Kire, convenor COLA and gain respect.” parliamentary secretary. The occasion will also witness One of the speakers also adoption of resolution.
‘Women’s Rights are Human Rights’ Protecting child rights on Human Rights Day
CHIzAMI, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): To mark the Human Rights Day, and also the concluding day of the 16 days of activism protesting Violence Against Women (VAW), North East Network (NEN) organized an awareness raising event on the theme ‘Women’s Rights are Human Rights’ at NEN Resource Centre, Chizami on December 10, 2013. Dr. Temsula Ao, Chairperson of Nagaland State Commission for Women and Vechisalu Nukhu, President of Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS) were the speakers at the event. Around 400 persons from Chizami Town, Chizami, Enhulumi, Mesulumi, Thetsumi and Sumi comprising community leaders, pastors, women society representatives, Chakhesang Mothers’ Association, CWWS and women workers (weavers and farmers) attended. According to a press release issued by NEN programme manager, Nukhu
brought to light the various forms of discrimination and violence against women in different societies including the Naga Society. She lamented that societies have created inequalities between men and women though God has created both equally. She articulated that restriction on women’s mobility, exclusion of women to participate in political spheres, domestic
Human Rights Day observed at Chizami violence etc are also a violation of human rights, because women’s rights are human rights, and that the ‘freedom to live from fear should be the right of every human’. She appealed to the men to “be the protectors and not the violators of women’s rights.” Dr. Temsula, in her speech asserted “it is no longer acceptable to separate women rights from human rights.” When women claim for their
Khongjiri Cave in Kiphire explored Our Correspondent
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Known for its scenic beauty with serene environment and unique formation of limestone, Khongjiri Cave is believed to have formed out of “collision between Burmese plate and an Indian plate.” Khongjiri Cave is a limestone cave worth tracking for geologist, environmentalist as well as rural tourist. Deputy Commissioner of Kiphire, Kesonyu Yhome (IAS) accompanied by his administrative officer trekked the cave on December 6. Leaving the vehicles at Khonjgiri village, which is about 100 Kilometers from district headquarter Kiphire, the team trekked downhill for about two hours listening to barking deer, chipping birds and
DC Kiphire with administrative officers and the team at the entrance of Khongjiri Cave. (Morung Photo)
variety of insects. The team trekked until they found a cave above a chilled crystal river flowing between deep gorges - the tributaries of River Tizu that flows towards Chindwin River. Accompanying the
team, owner of the cave recollected times he spent at night in the cave cooking and storing his harvest during jhum season. He also shared about his great grandfather being eaten by snake in the same cave few
centuries back at the end of the cave, which is narrow. The Cave has four compartments and has a dimension of about 200 Sq ft and shows prominent mark of stalactite and stalagmite on it.
‘Treat daughters & sons equally’ KOHIMA, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): A special function was conducted on International fortnight observation of elimination of violence against women on December 10 at Zonal Council hall , Kohima organized by Angamimiapfu Mechu Krotho (AMK). Keynote address was given by Kakheli Jakhalu, member, Nagaland State Women Commission and the main speakers were K. Elias Lotha IPS, DIG (Human Rights & social justice) Nodal Officer, Nagaland Police and Ayo Jojo, Advocate. The speakers, besides many other vital points, emphasized on the need of giving equal treatment to the daughters and sons in education, in household chores and everything by the parents. “We must remember that daughters are not servants,” reiterated the speakers. “Our leaders should know God because only then
stressed on the widely prevalent tendency in our society to quickly hush up rape cases through various means of compromise and thereby evading due punishment as per the law. “This compromising attitude of wanting to protect our own relatives should be done away with,” the speaker stated. Earlier, the Southern Angami Women Organization entertained the gathering with a special cultural song. Kevinourheno Seyie, former president of AWO (AMK) said the invocation prayer and Mary Khrienuo Kesiezie, VP AMK pronounced the vote of thanks. About 300 women leaders participated from Angami women organizations and various women bodies of different Naga tribes in Kohima district.
Church observes Differently Abled Sunday
MOKOKCHUNg, DECEMBER 10 (MExN): The women ministry of Ungma Baptist Church organized ‘Differently Abled Sunday’ on December 8 at Ungma Baptist Church, Aolijen Fellowship and Lozutangkang Fellowship. The main speakers at the programme were Imchawati Kichu, Director C & SS, Moanungsang, LS Coordinator (C & SS) and Imnatemjen CBR Coordinator (C&SS). Other highlights of the program included songs, Bible recitation and instrumental plays by differently abled persons. The presentations brought cheers and tears of joy and encouragement to the congregation at large, said a press release issued by Ayangla, Associate Pastor (W) Ungma Baptist Church. “It is high time for the churches and societies as a whole to venture out more positively to uplift and work towards the welfare of the differently abled persons in our society,” Ayangla urged. She further expressed deep gratitude to Care & Support Society, Mokokchung and all the staff and wellwishers for enabling the programme to be ‘impactmaking’ one.
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ike many indigenous peoples around the world the Naga peoples’ rights continue to be relegated to the past, while the State system as Alfred Taiaiake puts it, “constrains the development of indigenous societies by allowing only those activities that supports its own necessary illusion.” S. James Anaya points out that “historical violations of self-determination do not necessarily entail a reversion of the status quo ante, but rather are to be developed in accordance with the present-day aspirations of the aggrieved groups, whose character may be substantially altered with the passage of time.” The Naga recovery of their language of self-determination therefore needs to be in accordance with present aspirations so that the exercise of their right responds to the people’s needs. Recovering their values, spirituality, stories and traditional wisdom is pertinent to the Nagas. The emphasis and focus may change and its understanding may alter, but the purpose to secure the destiny of the Naga people remains the same. The danger lies in self-doubt and the crisis of confidence. Robert W. July points out that African nationalist leaders realized that “self-respect was companion to self-determination, while economic growth and technological advance might falter among a people who lacked confidence in their destiny.” The process of rediscovering self-respect and self-confidence with self-determination builds a consciousness that translates to a dignity that is inherent in Naga culture and values. Naga life today is framed by two value systems that are fundamentally opposed to each other: one is rooted in traditional teachings, social structures and cultural relations and practices; while the other is carried out through State structures in the form of static culture, education and electoral politics. The protracted nature generated by this opposition has had consequences on the Naga mind and spirit at both the individual and collective level, as well as presenting a number of dilemmas. For instance, while Nagas are focused on the injustices from without, there is a parallel truth, that injustice is also being perpetuated from within. With this duality comes the apprehension that when self-determination is restricted to a remedial aspect of statehood, the “recognition of the Naga people’s right to self-determination may lead to resolution” of the political conflict but “not necessarily mean it will bring about peace.” This argument raises the imperative for Nagas to go beyond classical self-determination which is rooted in the state system, and one that needs to be transcended in order to recover the values and praxis of self-determination. Hence, the rights of the people cannot be limited to just the transfer of power which has been demonstrated during the decolonization process. This has been so clearly elucidated in India’s independence from the colonial power, which was reduced to transfer of power from the colonizers to the power class of the emerging Indian State. Perhaps, if Mahatma Gandhi’s call for emancipation not just from the colonial rulers, but also from the colonial system had been followed, maybe, India would be a different country altogether today. The Naga culture and way of life can be restored through evolving their own praxis towards a shared future. The praxis is also relational and embraces the values of mutual respect, non-interference and independence that are central peaceful co-existence.
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Fierceness and Forgiveness: Mandela's Greatest Legacy
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ince my teens years, I have looked to the antiapartheid movement as clear evidence that humanity - when it comes together and stands bravely and prays with its heart and sings with its soul - can overcome the greatest oppression. This alone would be reason enough to revere, mourn and celebrate one of this liberation struggle's great leaders, the late Nelson Mandela. But there was something even more remarkable about Mandela, and that was the capacity of this fierce warrior – flawed human being as he was – to stand for justice with such clarity and strength, and also hold so firmly that retribution against those who did him and his people wrong was not the answer. Even when he gained the upper hand, this man who had been imprisoned for so long, leading a people who had been brutalized for so long, stood as strongly for peace with white people as he did for freedom and justice for black people people. As apartheid fell, South Africa could easily have slipped into civil war. But it did not. Instead of pursuing vengeance against their former oppressors, under Mandela's leadership and other brave leaders like him, the country instituted ground breaking Truth and Reconciliation Commissions that had those responsible for apartheid and its enforcement own up to their wrong doings without being brutalized in return. For Mandela, this choice grew from a deeply personal revelation: “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison,” the great freedom fighter famously said upon his release. In its report on Mandela just hours after he passed, the BBC quoted FW de Klerk, South Africa's last white president, as saying Mandela had "a remarkable lack of bitterness." Mandela's greatest legacy, de Klerk said, "is that we are basically at peace with each other notwithstanding our great diversity, that we will be taking hands once again now around his death and around our common sadness and mourning.” Justice without vengeance. What a poignant and at one point unimaginable legacy to leave his nation and all of humanity. And it is the paradigm shift we so desperately need and I hope will one day soon learn to embody: how to stand strongly, fiercely even, for what is right – to defend without wavering against those who would attack people and the Earth - and at the same time to see the humanity in all people and to welcome everyone back into the village, even when they have done wrong. It takes a great, great heart to do that. And only that can bring the deep and lasting healing and transformation we ache for as a species. Thank you and blessings Madiba, you have shown us what is possible for humanity. We will miss you.
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elson Mandela lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. He was a political prisoner who became a free man, a freedom fighter who achieved reconciliation, and a president who fought for equality and development. "Mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world," U.S. President Barack Obama said on his recent trip to South Africa. For many, Mandela’s life is an enduring reminder that hope and activism can change history for the better. Yet South Africa is hardly an unqualified success story. The unemployment rate hovers just under 30 percent, and nearly a quarter of South Africans live at or near the poverty line. A United Nations report recently revealed that 1.4 million South African children live in homes that rely on dirty streams for drinking water, 1.5 million do not have access to flushing toilets, and 1.7 million live in shacks with neither washing nor cooking facilities. Almost six million South Africans have HIV/AIDS, and the country’s young population is growing rapidly: nearly 40 percent of the population was born after Mandela’s release from prison in 1990. Outside observers often try to separate Mandela’s past from South Africa’s present. If things have fallen apart, the argument goes, it is only because Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress (ANC), failed to follow him to the promised land. Even in his mid-nineties, Mandela was aloof yet omnipresent: a constant reminder of the nobility of South Africa’s anti-apartheid past and a yardstick that implicitly measured the shortcomings of today’s ANC leaders. Would another Nelson Mandela cure South Africa of its ills? This question is at the heart of the debate about Mandela’s legacy and South Africa’s future. But it is the wrong question. Although Mandela’s story has had many chroniclers, his grand strategy -- specifically, his role in the international fight to define what South Africa was and what it might become -- has been curiously underappreciated. It raises a fundamental and more important question: What is South Africa? It is impossible to understand South Africa today without appreciating the effects of Mandela’s complex answer.
A mural of former South African president Nelson Mandela at Regina Mundi church in Soweto, June 9, 2013. (Reuters Photo)
chology as it did on combat. Mandela’s stated objective was not to terrorize white society but to “destroy the legality of the government,” principally by shaping the consciousness of the masses and creating bridgeheads in the international arena. As a means toward this end, he wrote, the ANC had to cultivate itself as a “parallel authority in the administration of [South African] justice,” which meant different things to different audiences and required a message that smoothed the disagreements among apartheid’s critics. Mandela’s dexterity was especially obvious abroad. During his travels in the early 1960s, he preached nationalism across decolonized Africa, celebrated the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in conversations with Third World leaders, and lauded liberalism to audiences in London. He maintained this flexibility after his return to politics in 1990. Mandela’s antiapartheid movement was simultaneously a bulwark against neoimperialism (in Havana) and an extension of the U.S. civil rights movement (in New York). The “new South Africa” would be a “united, democratic, non-sexist and non-racial country,” he assured the Swedes in 1990. “Firmly aligned with regard to the fundamental and universal issues of human rights, the right and possibility of every individual to full and unfettered development, the right of every country to determine its future, protection of the environment and peace in a world that should be free of regional MANDELA’S GENIUS Mandela’s genius stemmed from the way in conflicts and the threat of a nuclear war.” It was a viwhich he talked about South Africa. As a young sion to satisfy everyone -- and a performance that culactivist in the ANC in the 1950s, he belonged to a tivated the ANC’s international legitimacy. community that was rife with disagreement. African nationalists sought black primacy within MANDELA’S PARTIAL TRIUMPH This strategy required a large support network. the freedom struggle, communists wanted capitalism’s end, and liberals hoped for true democ- And indeed, Mandela relied on an expansive group racy. Mandela navigated these ideological land- of supporters throughout his political career. After mines with unusual dexterity. In historian Tom his arrest in 1962, for instance, the ANC’s presidentLodge’s words, his approach was “primarily about in-exile, Oliver Tambo, rallied international audiencenacting stories ... and only secondarily about es with speeches and activism, carefully employing ideological vision.” Mandela did not proselytize a Mandela’s story to bolster the ANC’s pluralist mesviewpoint so much as build partnerships among sage. Within South Africa, Mandela’s second wife, Winnie Mandela, an influential organizer in her own different groups that wanted to end apartheid. Pulling this off was not an easy task in mid-twen- right, tapped into youth sentiment by recasting her tieth-century South Africa. Located at the meeting husband as a champion of black consciousness in point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the country the 1970s. In the early 1990s, as Mandela sparred was an unusually diverse place, shaped by the histor- publicly with F. W. de Klerk, the last president of ic confluence of African peoples, European settlers, apartheid South Africa, his subordinates within the and Asian migrants. This diversity made the country ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa and Thabo Mbeki, negotiated a microcosm of the human condition for some, a dy- South Africa’s first multiracial elections with the Nanamic investment opportunity for others, and an en- tionalist government. By the mid-1990s, Madiba -trepôt that sharpened the debate about colonialism the clan moniker that followed Mandela into public life -- was merely the outward face of an operation and nationalism for still others. In the face of this diversity, Mandela blended sto- moving in several directions at once. This strategy led to inevitable problems when rytelling and politics brilliantly. As early as 1962, he articulated a strategy that focused as much on psy- Mandela took the reins of government in 1994. As
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here are two stories about the property market in London. One is about the many thousands of households finding it hard to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, or struggling to get a home of their own, with long waiting lists for social housing, bidding wars for rental properties and house prices that exclude very many from buying. The other is about six-bedroom houses that cost more than £100m. Both narratives are contested and often seem not to connect with each other; yet it is clear that changes in the city are linked to both. The first narrative, of decline and stress, now predominates in discussions about what to do to improve London for its residents. Historically, sociologists have pursued methodological expedience and class biases to look down at the poor and how they cluster in urban areas. What are we to do about their presence? How are we to improve their lives, reintegrate them into social life, and develop urban economies, education and health systems capable of supporting them? Are the rich as big a problem? Sociologists don’t say much about the impact of profound wealth on society in London and Britain. There aren’t many ethnographic, survey-based or qualitative investigations into the top 1% of the wealthy — the billionaires who now live in London, or the merely profoundly rich, Ultra-high Net Worth Individuals (UHNWIs) who have, beyond their homes, yachts and other assets, investible wealth of £20m or more. Social discussions of wealth,
the journalist Patti Waldmeir has noted, local newspapers were not completely unjustified when they asked, “Will the real Mandela please stand up?” The president contradicted himself often in the mid1990s, in part because he faced an impossible task. Having designed a strategy that purposefully reflected the viewpoints of so many different groups, Mandela came to preside over a constituency that included unemployed squatters, wealthy businessmen, liberal intellectuals, and young nationalists. As a confidential ANC report admitted in 1991, the organization ran the risk of being “pigeon-holed within the confines of populist rhetoric and cliché.” Turning Mandela’s pluralism into a coherent governing doctrine was difficult. Mandela is remembered today mostly for his symbolic acts, gestures that “made South Africans feel good about ourselves,” in the activist Desmond Tutu’s words, such as embracing the country’s national rugby team, the Springboks, during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Mandela developed actual government policy slowly as he negotiated his country’s constitution between 1994 and 1997, taking a hard line on multiculturalism while relinquishing his commitment to wealth redistribution. In Mandela’s words, it was at a World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 1992, when he “realized, as never before, that if we wanted investments . . . we had to remove the fear of business.” Storytelling could only go so far. South Africa today is a reflection of Mandela’s presidency and the grand strategy that preceded it. By cultivating such a pluralist stance toward anti-apartheid activism, Mandela’s ANC successfully ended the legitimacy of South Africa’s minority white government. These efforts, however, cultivated unusually high expectations among the supporters who embraced the ANC for reasons as diverse as South Africa itself. The resulting dissonance has made South Africa a paradox: imbued with a rich vocabulary of civil, political, economic, social, and human rights, the country remains plagued by pervasive income inequality, structural unemployment, and widespread poverty. Another Nelson Mandela would not cure South Africa of these ills. To thrive in the twenty-first century, the country needs not hope and activism but technocrats and engineers who can develop workable solutions to the messy realities of urban blight and rural poverty. This perhaps would be Mandela’s message to the generation born after 1990. “There are good men and women in all communities,” he reflected shortly after his retirement in 1999. “The duty of the real leader,” he asserted, is not only to bring these people into the fold but also to “give them tasks of serving their community.” Modern South Africa needs a leader who can do the latter.
How do the rich live? Rowland Atkinson Le Monde diplomatique
inequality and economic change are uninformed (or unimpeded) by any work from social researchers who have tried to construct robust research approaches to the investigation of the very wealthy, how they live in our towns and cities, what contributions they make and what impacts they have on the areas they inhabit. UK television series like Meet the Russians and Made in Chelsea have popularised an idea of life inside the bubble of extreme wealth and privilege; many of us have impressions of the super-rich built around these shows, or anecdotes or journalism, and this has influenced the tone of the debate about what we should do. For sociologists, “society”, a holistic entity that includes all of us, tends to be a partial and skewed analysis of its institutions and of groups who are, in reality, just a small sub-section of the population. State-funded, intellectually driven work has tended to focus on the poor, the dangerous and the exotic. This means that people are not being offered evidence-based assessments of the full range of social experience, or insights building on real concerns that profound wealth and inequality
are in fact social problems. We need evidence in order to challenge inequities and drive public ambitions. In London, we have to get to grips with all the costs and impacts associated with dramatic changes to the fortunes of those who are already property owners, whether because of good timing in house purchasing or recent major investment. An expansion in the wealth of those at the top of the social pile has accelerated, despite a serious recession, and been transferred into the massive property holdings (and their dividends) of national and international investors and buyers. Much of the international property investment is driven by the sense that London is a safe bet, that its property taxes are among the lowest among competing cities, and that it is a place with globally important cultural events. London is now home to the most multi-millionaires, with 4,224 living within its boundaries (the most of any city globally) and around 130 billionaires, who have made enormous investments in London, yet have little need for real-time social use of the city. This, combined with historically low rates of homebuilding, seems
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to be changing the social character of the highest-priced neighbourhoods and affecting all London as prices ripple out and down through the hierarchy of desirable areas. There is potential in London for a perfect storm — it is a metropolis of housing stress that is also a city of opportunity for those who have profited from the global capitalist system. We need to investigate how the rich live, what their attitudes are towards (and aspirations for) the places they own, and what the deeper links are between their choices and practices and the complex outcomes they produce in cities like London. There are massive cuts to public spending in Britain, and reductions in support, including for housing costs, for those on low incomes, at the same time as there are unchecked gains for the wealthiest. Sociologists have to politicise their work by engaging with these issues. There is always a danger that social research that focuses on the middle classes or the rich can be dismissed as the selfinterest of an academic elite, yet there is a long history of sociologists pleading with their colleagues to engage, despite it being difficult work, with elites and wealthy groups who may both coordinate responses to social problems as well as potentially being part of those problems. The expansion of inequality amid social distress and economic decline is only the most recent feature of such problems; there is always a need for social researchers to measure, profile and understand the ways in which wealth, power and social life combine.
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Hijacked justice? Truth and reconciliation in Sri Lanka Niran Anketell s the dust settles on the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo, the press has reported that Sri Lanka may be considering the establishment of a South Africa style Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the assistance of the Commonwealth and South African government. The South African TRC (SA TRC) continues to possess an enduring appeal for Colombo-based, as opposed to North and East based, civil society NGOs. Very few, if any, conversations on reconciliation and transitional justice within Colombo civil society networks conclude without references to the SA TRC as the paradigmatic case of the ideal transitional justice model. The Sri Lankan government has also sought to draw parallels between its own attitude to postconflict justice, reflected in the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, and the SA TRC. As a preliminary observation, however, it is useful to note that contemporary Sri Lanka and post-apartheid South Africa are vastly different political and social contexts. The SA TRC model and amnesties were worked out after a formal transfer of power from the regime responsible for the vast majority of crimes under apartheid to the leaders of the liberation struggle. Moreover, the dominant religious belief system in South Africa— where Christian rituals of repentance and forgiveness have significant theological resonance—is fundamentally different to the religious beliefs of the majority of Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim victims. The SA TRC is widely known as providing amnesty from prosecution to perpetrators who came before the SA TRC and made full disclosure of all the relevant facts relating to their crimes. As such, it is perceived in Sri Lanka—wrongly—as the triumph of a spirit of reconciliation and restorative justice and a rejection of criminal accountability. Thus, the way in which the SA TRC experience has been understood in Sri Lanka is deeply flawed. In supporting my claim, I highlight the absence in Sri Lanka of three specific conditions for the functioning of the SA TRC, that would inevitably render any attempt to transplant that process in contemporary Sri Lanka harmful in the extreme. First, contrary to the way in which the SA TRC has been understood in Sri Lanka, the model as envisaged by its framers was not designed to exclude prosecutions. Instead, the conduct of prosecutions in respect of perpetrators who did not apply or did not qualify for amnesty was central to the working of the SA TRCs design. Institutionally, the success of the SA TRC depended on perpetrators confessing to their crimes. The threat of prosecution was precisely the tool necessary to push perpetrators to make full disclosure. In fact, empirical studies on SA TRC data demonstrate that applications for amnesty were low among state security groups whose members were not subject to investigation and prosecution. Conversely, groups that had members prosecuted or were under investigation—such as the ‘elite’ police task forces—had greater numbers of amnesty applicants. Thus, the threat and conduct of prosecutions enhanced the prospects of truth seeking, because information such as the location and nature of death of victims, which only perpetrators had access to, was made available to the SA TRC in applications by perpetrators for amnesty. This emphasizes the complementary nature of truth and justice and is an important reminder that the Sri Lankan government’s attempted dichotomization of ‘punitive justice’ and ‘restorative justice’ is flawed in practice. The SA TRC Report itself acknowledged that the appeal to the self-interest of prospective applications was well conceived. Moreover, the SA TRC’s final report recommended “a bold prosecution policy” in respect of those who did not apply or did not qualify for amnesty, “in order to avoid any suggestion of impunity or of contravening its obligations in terms of international law.” In fact, the South African govern-
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he Kingdom of Thailand has had seventeen constitutions since its shift from absolute monarchy in 1932. Since then the Land of Smiles has wrestled with its darker side, particularly throughout the reign of HM King Bhumibol (ascended in 1946; enthroned 1950), who celebrated his eighty sixth birthday this week. Recent history has asked hard questions about Thailand and its regional significance within the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). There are issues arising from instability within its neighbour, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and the refugee crisis emanating from there. There was also the recent ruling by the ICJ on Thailand’s long running border dispute with Cambodia over the Preah Vihear Temple. There is a nasty and protracted insurgency in its three southernmost provinces, which has largely escaped sustained international attention, even though it has claimed more lives in less than a decade than Northern Ireland’s conflict claimed in over thirty years. And above all there are the inherent tensions and flaws within the Thai social system and its body politic, which have only been held in check by the Thai populace’s universal adoration for its monarch and his unifying power. The King’s reign, now in its sixty seventh year, is drawing to a close. The passing of the monarch will be an unprecedented event in the living memory of most Thais. Through the relative stability of this long reign the Kingdom had always succeeded in maintaining its attractiveness as a commercial hub within a region that was bedevilled by horrific civil wars. Thailand was surrounded by nations that faced acute political and social crises. Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma) and the Philippines are not just fellow ASEAN members. This list of nations is also a list of trouble spots. Thai people pride themselves on never having being colonised and maintaining their national integrity despite the turbulence around them. But the contemporary
ment’s failure to follow up on the recommendations of its own commission by instituting a meaningful policy of prosecutions has been sharply criticized by many South Africans, including Bishop Tutu and other members of the commission. In Sri Lanka, the government itself has explicitly stated that it has no interest in pursuing what it deems ‘punitive’ justice and has ruled out a policy of prosecution in respect of crimes committed during and after the war. Thus, any attempt to institute a SA TRC style process would be flawed for the reason that there would be no incentive for perpetrators to make full disclosure. To be clear, conditional amnesty for full disclosure is not a sine qua non for every truth commission. Commissions in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Sierra Leone and Bahrain among many others focused on eliciting the truth through witness testimony and investigation, including through the use of forensic science. However, if the government opts to take the investigative route, it will have to demonstrate a change of heart and a willingness to investigate alleged crimes by its own leaders. Another sham commission in a long line of cover-ups will only serve to highlight impunity in Sri Lanka. Second, the SA TRC represented a political compromise of interests between the ANC and the National Party—the two main political parties representing the Black and Afrikaner communities respectively. While the SA TRC was bitterly criticized by many parties, including the ANC which attempted to block the release of the final report, the underlying political compromise securing the end of apartheid into which the TRC was locked—which all parties had come to accept as irreversible—permitted the TRC to function with at least a minimally sufficient degree of political legitimacy. Thus, even though studies show Black victims feeling betrayed by the TRC, the process had sufficient legitimacy to forestall political campaigns to undo compromises already made. Unlike in Latin America where political movements forced unilateral amnesties to be retrospectively withdrawn, the South African conditional amnesty compromise has withstood attempts to retrospectively invalidate it for the very reason that it was a compromise. The negotiations around the conditional amnesty deal evidence this political bargaining. By 1992, the findings of the Goldstone Commission, which inquired into human rights abuses committed by the government, together with the increasingly inevitable reality of impending change, drove the NP government to demand that indemnity offered previously to ANC functionaries must also be offered to state functionaries. However, the ANC maintained that apartheid era crimes must be prosecuted. Approaching 1994, the ANC’s position on amnesty softened. While the party remained doggedly opposed to blanket amnesty, they made critical concessions and appeared willing to consider conditional amnesties predicated on full disclosure. Indeed, the ANC’s position was driven by a deep realism. For one, the NP government began exerting tremendous pressure on the ANC to concede to its demand for amnesty by threatening to prosecute the ANC’s leadership for human rights abuses committed by the ANC in refugee camps overseas. More critically, as Louise Mallinder notes, “the ANC became convinced that peaceful elections would be impossible without the support of the security forces and the security services made it clear that the price of their loyalty was an amnesty.” As Dullah Omar—then ANC negotiator and later Justice Minister—acknowledged: “without an amnesty agreement there would have been no elections.” In Sri Lanka, the contrast could not be starker. Negotiations between the government and the TNA have been stalled with little indication from the government that it has any interest in pursuing a negotiated and permanent settlement of Sri Lanka’s lingering ethnic problem through direct negotiations with the
TNA. Thus, unlike in South Africa, where the SA TRC model represented and was a key feature of a permanent political bargain between the two major political forces on either side of the ethnic divide, a Sri Lankan effort to mimic the SA TRC process will merely represent the government’s unilateral attempt to manage its international pressures. As a result, a Sri Lankan TRC will not persuade the Tamil community that it is a genuine mechanism, and will alienate victims from the inception. In fact, it will likely exacerbate the tension and lack of trust between the Tamil and Sinhala communities and impede genuine reconciliation. Finally, the SA TRC was conceived and devised in the 1990’s, before the crystallization of the international legal principle deeming impunity laws illegal. The law, as it stands today, requires the pursuit of investigations and prosecutions for grave violations of IHL and IHRL amounting to international crimes. A number of multi-lateral treaties, resolutions of United Nations (UN) bodies, codifications of customary international law, best practices recognized by the UN and decisions of international courts have all unequivocally recognized that there is a legal duty to prosecute serious international crimes. Thus, domestic and international judicial decision makers alike have retrospectively declared amnesty provisions illegal. In Prosecutor vs. Gbao, the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone – of which Sri Lankan Judge Raja Fernando was a member – held that there is support for the claim that there is a “crystallized international norm to the effect that a government cannot grant amnesty for serious crimes under international law.” Given the illegality and the shift away from granting amnesty for serious international crimes, it is unlikely that the international demand for accountability in Sri Lanka will recede; even in the event the Sri Lankan government attempts to deal with the issue of accountability issues through the provision of amnesty. Further, any amnesties granted in domestic courts will not bind foreign or international courts from prosecuting the beneficiaries of local amnesty laws. More critically, the provision of illegal amnesties by Sri Lankan law will only confirm the prevalence of impunity in Sri Lanka, and will result in redoubled efforts for the internationalization of investigations and prosecutions. Thus, any unilateral attempt by the Sri Lankan government to grant amnesties to its own in an effort to stave off accountability is very likely to be counterproductive. For these reasons, any attempt to mimic a SA TRC process in Sri Lanka will not succeed. The Sri Lankan government’s unwillingness to consider—indeed the regime’s own self-interest to prevent—criminal investigation and prosecutions of those responsible for atrocities committed during and after the war forecloses the prospect of hidden truths being unearthed through a TRC. Further, in the absence of a permanent political deal on constitutional issues, a TRC that offers any amnesty—conditional or otherwise—to perpetrators will be perceived as illegitimate by Tamils and will exacerbate divisions between the state and the Tamil minority. Finally, even viewed from a narrow strategic lens, any attempt by the government’s leaders to clothe themselves with the protective shield of a local amnesty provision will likely be counterproductive and inspire greater internationalization of the pursuit of justice in respect of serious crimes. For these reasons, Sri Lankan civil society groups, Tamil political formations and the international community must unequivocally reject any attempt by the government to constitute a SL TRC, and communicate this message clearly to the government and to the Commonwealth. This piece contains material extracted from a longer article by the author titled “Selling Justice Short: Sri Lankan Civil Society and Individual Criminal Liability for Atrocity Crimes” presented at “Ethical Futures: Dialogues on State, Society and Ethical Existence”, a conference hosted by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in May 2013. Final publication forthcoming
Reds, yellows and the Fruits of Neglect Kenneth Houston
confluence of de-stabilizing sociopolitical forces, all of which are overshadowed by the proximate end of the King’s extraordinarily long reign, have arrived just as the rest of the world is once again questioning the various accepted premises of his rule. Thailand is a land of profound contradictions. Tradition and modernity, opulence and poverty are all in close proximity to each other in the capital Bangkok. These dichotomies are also confined to specific regional areas. The underdeveloped areas in the north and east of the country stand in sharp contrast to the central and southern areas. Welfare provision in the Kingdom is thin, and wages are markedly depressed compared to other Asian countries. The political system, though ostensibly democratic, has never functioned as an open democratic state. How could it, in a world region that rarely displayed such a luxury? The key cleavage currently apparent within Thailand – one that directly impacts all the other issues – opens up between those who have benefited under this ‘almost’ democracy and those who have been failed by it. The beneficiaries are primarily counted among the urban and middle class voters of Bangkok, along with the central and southern areas of the country. The more numerous rural poor, by contrast, are largely concentrated in the areas to the north and east of the capital. Here, public services and infrastructure tend to be patchy and many basic services are simply beyond the means of most impoverished Thais. Enter Thaksin Shinawatra, a former police officer turned telecoms tycoon
and founder in 1998 of the Thai Rak Thai political party. He campaigned on populist promises of accessible medical care, social services provision, micro credit schemes for farmers, and a promise to end corruption. It was a vote winner. Whether he was ever likely to deliver on his promises or not was irrelevant. Thaksin was swept to power in 2001 and did actually implement part of his program. So popular did he become, achieving almost cult-like status, that those close to traditional power centres saw him as a direct threat to the status quo. He was ousted in 2006, his party disbanded and Thailand’s political landscape since has been anything but stable. However, it is a testament to the salience of the deeper problems within Thailand upon which Thaksin capitalized opportunistically that the newer Pheu Thai party led by his sister, Yingluck, was similarly swept to power in 2011. She currently governs with a significant majority. The current political instability in Thailand, while apparently tallying with global protest movements mobilised around fiscal misgovernment and austerity in the west or opposition to corrupt autocratic regimes in the Middle East, should not necessarily be seen as a ‘liberation’ movement against corruption. It is not quite that simple. The Yellows, the colour around which the Thai middle class and anti-Thaksin supporters have mobilised, are not an oppressed minority. They are in fact the privileged of Thailand, distinct from the majority poor who have been neglected by their compatriots for decades at least. The dynamics of political conflict in Thailand, therefore, do not fall within the same framework as other
global protest mobilisations. In short, this politics of neglect has now returned to haunt those in Thailand who held power for a very long time, but failed to undertake necessary political reforms. Accusations of corruption levelled against Thaksin and the ‘Redshirts’ (the colour adopted by his supporters) could just as easily be applied to those mobilising against him and the current incumbent, his sister, Yingluck. Suthep, the figure spearheading the current protests, was deputy prime minister when the security forces cracked down on pro-Thaksin protesters in 2010, resulting in over eighty deaths on the streets of Bangkok. Suthep has demanded that Yingluck and her party resign and his protest movement have decided that Monday, December 9, is the final day of reckoning. If an election were to be called thereafter, however, the overwhelming majority of the rural poor would be likely to vote her party back into power. Knowing this, the protest leaders have proposed that the deeply respected King, who usually remains aloof from politics, appoint a ‘people’s council’ following dissolution of Thailand’s elected parliament. Notwithstanding the populist nomenclature, this would, in effect be a return to unelected and elitist government. What is happening in Thailand is the long overdue reckoning of the privileged with the needs of the underprivileged. Simplistic dichotomies of corrupt government versus exasperated populace do not reflect the reality here. The European philosopher Spinoza once wrote that the purpose of revolution is not the fight for justice, but the seizure of power. Numerically superior to the Thai middle class, Thailand’s poor – with genuine grievances – found an imperfect voice in the political opportunism of Thaksin’s quest for power, who in turn capitalized effectively on decades of complacency and neglect by the entrenched elites. Thailand’s protests differ from others in that it is the voice of the underprivileged that has propelled the current incumbent into power, and it is Thailand’s privileged minority who find themselves on the streets breathing teargas.
In Naga tradition, males are usually associated with headhunting, wood-carving or stone-pulling whereas females ought to know how to weave, cook and perform other household activities. Although genders are not merely confined to these activities alone, individuals adapt to comfortably fit into these norms. People veering away from societies allocated typical role are sometimes called “tom-boy” (for girls who behave like boys) and “sissy” (for men who behave like girls). Hiding behind the guise of preserving culture and tradition, the roles can actually disrupt progress and be used as a tool to subjugate the other. We take a closer look at what acting like a man and being ladylike means in different societies.
Gender constructions Thungdeno Humtsoe, Asst. Professor sociology ender stereotypes prevail in all societies. The notion of gender is taught to us from the moment we are born. Family and upbringing, culture, peers, community, media, religion and others are some of the factors that shape our understanding of identity. Gender is another. It is a socially constructed concept, closely monitored by society. How we learn and interact with gender as a young child directly influences how we view the world today. Accepted gender roles and expectations are so entrenched in our culture and society that most people cannot imagine having it any other way. Different cultures impose different expectations upon men and women who come from that particular society. Culture generally recognizes two basic gender roles - masculine and feminine. Socio-cultural expectations reveal what men and women are supposed to be like in a particular context. It highlights such expectations: “Men should be competitive; women are supposed to be cooperative. Men can be impatient; women must have boundless patience. Men are expected to express anger; women should never be angry or they should certainly never show it. There are also some common genders stereotypes like, ‘Men are insensitive’, ‘women are bad drivers’, ‘all men love sports and sex’, ‘all women love shopping and gossiping’. How often have we heard those comments in our culture? A woman like me may feel angry when gender based comments are made, while others may agree to the comments as genuine differences between the sexes or some others may just make light of this battle between the sexes and laugh it away. Much of our behavior as men and women is subject to cultural definition. If we are male, our society bends conduct in one way; if we are female, it bends another way. But how much of this difference is due to nature, how much due to culture? This is the question which everyone should explore. Let’s examine what acting like a man and being ladylike means in our society and notions of gender stereotypes in our Naga culture. “It’s a boy’’, says the nurse and from then on, subtle stereotyping begins. A conscious and unconscious motive of having the family blood continue through him brings joy. Guns and cars are bought for him, preferably black or blue and never pink! While growing up, if he cries he will be told ‘Don’t cry like a girl’. He perhaps learns to suppress his emotions as he thinks it is ‘girlish’ to express them. It’s likely that he would be encouraged to act strong or to act brave. He is likely to have lesser restrictions going out and coming home late. While choosing a career, he would be encouraged to be ambitious and discouraged from choosing careers like teaching, nursing, counseling or other similar professions. as they are seen to be ‘softer’ career opinions meant for a girl. The question of balancing home and family may not arise for him, as it is assumed that his gender defines his primary role as a bread earner. Contrary to this, good manners like talking and laughing gently, being submissive to elders, not ‘fighting like boys’, being sacrificial, caring etc. is most likely to be taught to the girls. She will most likely be encouraged to develop the ‘right female interests’ like cooking, tidying up the house or gardening. It is most often assumed that her gender defines her role and function at home to be primarily a homemaker and mother. Perhaps gender stereotypes are a result of ‘nurture’ more than ‘nature’. Behavioral differences between the sexes are not hard-wired at birth but are the result of society’s expectations. There may be several men who are soft and gentle in their temperament, and several women who are naturally extroverted, brave and tough. Exaggerated differences between men and women (most of which are individual differences) are glorified and generalized as gender differences and this needs to be challenged since there are greater similarities than differences between men and women. They both have the same desires, wants, fears and dreams. Based on anthropological studies or cross-cultural evidence, it also shows that gender traits of masculinity and femininity have no necessary connection to biological sex. Margaret Mead’s Study (1935) relating to three New Guinea tribes is worth mentioning here. In the Arapesh tribe, Mead found that both men and women conform to a personality type that we would consider “feminine”. Men and women were believed to have identical sex drives and both were responsible for child care. Next, is the tribe of Mundugumor. Here men and women were expected to be violent and aggressive. Both men and women act in ways which we would predominantly call “masculine”. These women dread pregnancy and dislike nursing their children. Third is the Tchambuli Tribe, where the women are domineering and energetic. They are the major economic providers of the family. They manage and perform major tasks for the family. The men, on the other hand, are artistic, gossipy, and expressive and look after the children. This study makes it evident that gender roles are highly influenced by culture and are not necessarily universal. They can change as culture adapts to new environments and social conditions. Our intellects are not prisoners of our genders and those who believe so are conditioned by society’s tendency to stereotype genders. Every culture has different perceptions about what is appropriate for gender, and family members tend to unconsciously raise babies along the dictates of society’s gendered ways. Every parent who strives to achieve a “less gendered” parenting style unconsciously reinforces gender roles. There is so much gender variety in our society, beyond a strict, imagined born-male versus born-female dichotomy. There is always a tendency to conform to the cultural notions of ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’. Stereotyping gender creates dangerous consequences that limit a person’s full potential and well being, forcing them to ignore their genuine personality traits, temperament and unique characteristics that make them who they actually are.
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‘Cong ready to give outside support to AAP’
neW Delhi, December 10 (agencies): The political future of Delhi is still uncertain as neither the Bharatiya Janata Party nor the Aam Aadmi Party are staking claim to form a government in the national capital. The BJP fell short by just four seats and AAP needs eight to reach majority in the 70-member Assembly. The Congress which won eight seats on Tuesday appeared to be extending an olive branch to AAP to form a government in Delhi even as Arvind Kejriwal ruled out giving any support to BJP for the same. Congress’s Delhi incharge Shakeel Ahmed said the party is prepared to give outside support to the AAP. “Many of our leaders feel that if AAP forms government, we should lend them unconditional support from outside. Nothing has been decided yet. We are speaking to our MLA,” he said. His remarks came shortly after Kejriwal ruled out support to BJP and termed as “personal opinion” the remarks of party leader Prashant Bhushan, who said that AAP may consider supporting BJP if the party gives AAP in writing that it will pass the Jan Lokpal Bill. Later, the noted lawyer clarified that what he had said on Monday night was in a rhetorical context.
Bhushan said the party will not stake claim to form government and prefer to sit in the opposition. “We cannot support BJP or Congress as AAP was formed as an alternative to them. People have supported us so that we can establish an alternative politics in the country,” Bhushan said. Ever since AAP’s spectacular debut in Delhi Assembly elections, Congress has gone soft on Kejriwal’s party. Rahul Gandhi had said on Sunday that AAP involved a lot of people who the traditional political parties did not and “we are going to learn from that”. A known detractor of Kejriwal, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh too termed AAP’s victory as “something good for the electoral politics of democratic India”. “It strengthens people’s belief in democracy, which they were fast losing. In fact, I was the first person to request Arvind Kejriwal that he should gather courage and participate in electoral politics if he wants to enact Jan Lokpal. “I was also the first one, who complimented him when he formed AAP,” he said. All eyes were now set on Lt Governor Najeeb Jung as he can either invite the BJP to form the government or put the Assembly in suspended animation.
No question of supporting any party to form govt in Delhi: Kejriwal neW Delhi, December 10 (agencies): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ruled out any alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that his team mate Prashant Bhushan’s statement was his personal view. Speaking a day after senior colleague Prashant Bhushan suggested giving issue-based support to the BJP, Kejriwal said: “Neither we will take support nor give support (to form a government). There is no question.” “It (was) his personal opinion,” Kejriwal said. “(What I am saying) is the party’s opinion.” Kejriwal’s clarification comes a day after Bhushan had hinted at aligning with the BJP. Bhushan was quoted by reports as saying, “If the BJP agrees to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill by December 29 and set up jan sabhas and other things in Delhi as promised by the Aam Aadmi Party.....and is willing to give this to us in writing, then we may
honest people to come forward and use this historic occasion and result to make a difference, to bring in a good administrative system, promote good governance,” said Kejriwal. Bhushan’s U-turn Bhushan, however, followed up on his remarks quickly by saying this was his ‘personal’ view that was yet to be vetted by his party. But, few hours later Bhushan today said there was no question of any alliance with any party. The hung verdict in Delhi Assembly polls has raised intriguing questions about government formation in the national capital. With 31 seats, BJP has emerged as the single largest party but is still short of the majority mark of 36 in the 70-member Assembly. The second largest party is the fledgling AAP with 28 followed by Congress with 8 seats. One seat each has gone to an Independent, JD(U) and Akali Dal, which is an ally of BJP.
Ready to fight election again in Delhi: BJP
neW Delhi, December 10 (Pti): BJP on Tuesday made clear its reluctance to form government in Delhi saying it did not have the numbers and that it is ready to face elections. Harsh Vardhan, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in the assembly polls, was on Tuesday formally elected as the leader of the legislature party at the first meeting of 31 party MLAs and one SAD legislator at Delhi BJP office. “It is a sad situation for us and residents of Delhi, but due
Parliament disrupted over 2G spectrum, Telangana
neW Delhi, December 10 (ians): The Lok Sabha was Tuesday adjourned for the day and the Rajya Sabha till 2 p.m. following an uproar over issues that included Telangana and the 2G spectrum allocation. In the Lok Sabha, the house was first adjourned till 12 noon, following protests over various issues that also included proposed creation of a Telangana state and the Joint Parliametnary Committee (JPC) report on 2G spectrum allocation. Later, Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the Lok Sabha for the day after treasury benches raised a ruckus when she said she has received notices for noconfidence motion against the government. In the Rajya Sabha, the question hour was lost as members raised various issues. When the house reassembled, ruckus started again as soon as the JPC report on 2G spectrum allocation was presented. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad raised a point of order, saying the dissent note given by his party members
consider supporting the party.” Commenting on the low possibility of government formation in Delhi, the AAP chief said that the BJP and Congress should come together and form the government as both parties have same ideology and are involved in corruption. Reacting to the molestation case filed against AAP’s newly-elected MLA Dharmendra Koli, Kejriwal said that the accusations are wrong. Commenting on V Narayanasamy’s statement that the government will pass the Lokpal Bill during the current session of Parliament, the activist-turned politician said the matter is what kind of ombudsman bill the Centre intends to bring. The remarks came even as anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare today started another indefinite fast at Ralegan Siddhi to press for Jan Lokpal Bill saying that this time it will be a do or die fight. “I am appealing to all people, all sections of society, all right thinking and
to present technicalities, government cannot be formed with a fractured mandate. We don’t have enough numbers to form a stable government and we are ready to fight the election once again, if such a situation arises,” Vardhan told reporters after the meeting. “We have emerged as the single largest party in assembly polls, but lack a few seats (for majority). We are neither eager nor even trying to form government by any immoral means. “Whether we form the gov-
ernment or not, we will continue serving people. I today promise that residents of Delhi will not regret electing us as their representatives,” added Vardhan. Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel also reiterated the party’s line. “As we have not got majority, we have decided not to form government by any horse trading and any illegal means. In every election, hundreds of crores of rupees are spent. We would have been happy, had any party formed the government,” said Goel.
Expressing confidence that BJP will be able to form government after a re-election, Goel said that the party was ready to sit in the opposition and also ready to face election. “I am confident that like this time, we will once again emerge as number one party in the election and will get majority to form the government,” said Goel, adding that the party is not seeking anyone’s support. On being asked about AAP’s leader Prashant Bhushan’s reported proposal to support his party to
was changed by the JPC chairman. “This report should not be allowed to be defended on the floor of the house,” Prasad said. Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley requested the chair to give a ruling if any committee chairman can “alter the substance of a dissent note”. Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien, however, said the he could not make a comment as he had not read the report. Kurien added that there is no rule “that permits discussion on a report before it is tabled”. Agitated BJP members trooped near the chairman’s podium as the report was tabled. The members started raising slogans, telling the government to “be ashamed”. Telugu Desam Party members also went near the chairman’s podium, raising “Save Andhra Pradesh” slogans. Members from the DMK were also seen making noisy protests from their seats. Members of Left parties, AIADMK, Trinamool Congress, and the Samajwadi Party also stood at their seats. Amidst Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with India’s President Pranab Mukherjee as Sonia Gandhi the pandemonium, Kurien adjourned looks on during the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg, on Tuesday, December 10. (AP Photo) the house till 2 p.m.
India’s mid-day meal scheme ranked Ganguly quit demand gets more shrill on rights day December 10 said. Asked whether justice in the guly’s resignation have been gain12th among lower-middle-income countries KolKata, (ians): The demand for former case was not being delayed, the ing ground after a Supreme Court
India has the largest programme, catering to over 114 million children bangalore, December 10 (agencies): A global report by the World Food Project (WFP) for 2013 on 169 countries has said that India has the largest school feeding programme in the world, catering to over 114 million children, but stands 12thamong 35 lower-middle-income countries covering 79 per cent of its total number of school-going children. The report titled “State of School Feeding Worldwide, 2013” draws from a global survey conducted by WFP in 2012 and a series of case studies and peer reviewed technical working papers undertaken in collaboration with partner countries. The report lauds India’s mid-day meal scheme as “a good example of a mixed implementation approach” with two procurement processes — one for food grains, which are subsidised Centrally through the governmentowned Food Corporation of India, and one for other items like fresh fruits or vegetables, procured at the State level. The report notes that gross primary enrolment grew between 2001-2002
Students of Government Middle School enjoying thier Mid Day Meal in Ranchi. (File Photo)
and 2007-2008 in India, following the implementation of the mid-day meal programme, particularly among Scheduled Castes and Tribes. The report adds an important rider — “school feeding can only help if the other major elements that are prerequisites for learning — such as teachers, textbooks, curriculum and an environment conducive to learning — are also in place.” It warns that care should be taken to avoid using teachers or education staff to prepare food, since this “merely taxes the system that schoolfeeding programmes aim to enhance.” The report also says that the nutritional impact of the programme is yet to be evaluated. “The
links with health and nutrition could be strengthened considerably by better coordination between sectors. Other weaknesses remain, such as insufficient allocation of budget for food transportation and infrastructure.” Late disbursement of government funds too has a negative impact. In a significant recommendation, the report proposes linking the programme to the agriculture sector which “can potentially benefit the entire community as well as the children.” Countries like Brazil, Chile and Scotland have demonstrated the effectiveness of purchasing school food locally in order to simultaneously “feed children better and stimulate the local economy.”
Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly’s resignation as West Bengal Human Rights Commission chief for alleged sexual assault became more shrill on Human Rights Day Tuesday. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, of which Ganguly is a general council member and honorary professor, said it has taken a “serious” view of the charge levelled against him by a law intern. Vice chancellor P. Ishwara Bhat said the university’s executive council would decide on the issue. “The executive council has taken the intern case very seriously into account. The intern has so far not filed any specific complaint,” he
vice chancellor said: “We have certain procedures to follow. He is not coming to university. There is no work at all. He has no work.” Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien said Ganguly should demit office on World Human Rights Day. “Former Supreme Court judge Ashok Ganguly is continuing as chief of WBHRC. Sir, please don’t mock your office,” O’Brien said on Twitter. Hounded by the media, Ganguly yet again lost his cool during the day. “I will not answer any question of yours. I will do whatever I have to,” said an enraged Ganguly to media persons. Demands for Gan-
judges’ panel probing the allegation of sexual harassment indicted Ganguly prima facie of an act of “unwelcome behaviour”. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written twice to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking urgent appropriate action against Ganguly. Meanwhile, a public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in Calcutta High Court seeking Ganguly’s removal as WBHRC chief. Before the division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, petitioner Rama Prasad Sarkar urged the court to take necessary steps so that people of the state do not lose faith in the rights panel.
form government, Goel said he was not sure whether it was his individual view or his party’s. “We cannot decide on such proposals,” said Goel. “If we get any invitation from lt governor, we will decide whether we can form the government or not,” said Goel to a query about their future strategy. Asked about allegation of molestation against AAP’s newly elected MLA from Seemapuri, Goel said AAP should see that party members do not further tarnish its image.
‘Govt taking sincere steps to pass Lokpal Bill’
neW Delhi, December 10 (Pti): Stung by Aam Aadmi Party’s spectacular performance in Delhi assembly polls, government on Tuesday said it was serious about passing the anti-corruption measure Lokpal Bill in the current session of Parliament. Minister of state for personnel V Narayanasamy, who has piloted the bill in the Rajya Sabha, blamed opposition for not allowing to run the house where the bill could be taken up. “As far as the Lokpal Bill is concerned I have given notice to Chairman Rajya Sabha for taking up the Lokpal Bill. ...government is taking all sincere step to pass the Lokpal Bill,” he told reporters. His comments come against the backdrop of spectacular performance in Delhi elections by Aam Aadmi Party whose main plank was enactment of Lokpal Act. Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal was a close aide and leader of Anna Hazare-led India Against Corruption which held agitation in Delhi for the Lokpal Bill. Later, Kejriwal turned the movement into a political force. Talking to reporters outside Parliament house, Narayanasamy said the government has accepted some of the recommendations given by select committee of Rajya Sabha. The controversial bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha, faced opposition hurdle in the Rajya Sabha on various provisions, including the one making it mandatory for states to set up Lokayuktas. In view of the sharp divide, the bill was referred to the select committee. “We have accepted some of the recommendations given by them (the select committee). The government is ready to debate and discuss and then to pass the Lokpal Bill,” Narayanasamy said.
‘Indo-Pak nuclear war will start famine, end civilization’
Washington, December 10 (aFP): A nuclear war between India and Pakistan would set off a global famine that could kill two billion people and effectively end human civilization, a study said Tuesday. Even if limited in scope, a conflict with nuclear weapons would wreak havoc in the atmosphere and devastate crop yields, with the effects multiplied as global food markets went into turmoil, the report said. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility released an initial peer-reviewed study in April 2012 that predicted a nuclear famine could kill more than a billion peo-
ple. In a second edition, the groups said they widely underestimated the impact in China and calculated that the world’s most populous country would face severe food insecurity. “A billion people dead in the developing world is obviously a catastrophe unparalleled in human history. But then if you add to that the possibility of another 1.3 billion people in China being at risk, we are entering something that is clearly the end of civilization,” said Ira Helfand, the report’s author. Helfand said that the study looked at India and Pakistan due to the longstanding tensions between the nuclear-armed states, which have fought three full-fledged wars since
independence and partition in 1947. But Helfand said that the planet would expect a similar apocalyptic impact from any limited nuclear war. Modern nuclear weapons are far more powerful than the US bombs that killed more than 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. “With a large war between the United States and Russia, we are talking about the possible-not certain, but possible-extinction of the human race. “In this kind of war, biologically there are going to be people surviving somewhere on the planet but the chaos that would result from this will dwarf anything we’ve ever seen,” Helfand said.
The study said that the black carbon aerosol particles kicked into the atmosphere by a South Asian nuclear war would reduce US corn and soybean production by around 10 percent over a decade. The particles would also reduce China’s rice production by an average of 21 percent over four years and by another 10 percent over the following six years. The updated study also found severe effects on China’s wheat, which is vital to the country despite its association with rice. China’s wheat production would plunge by 50 percent the first year after the nuclear war and would still be 31 percent below baseline a decade later, it said. The study said it was impos-
sible to estimate the exact impact of nuclear war. He called for further research, voicing alarm that policymakers in nuclear powers were not looking more thoroughly at the idea of a nuclear famine. But he said, ultimately, the only answer was the abolition of nuclear weapons. “This is a disaster so massive in scale that really no preparation is possible. We must prevent this,” he said. US President Barack Obama pledged in 2009 to work toward abolition but said that the United States would keep nuclear weapons so long as others exist. Nine countries are believed to possess nuclear weapons, with Russia and the United States holding the vast majority.
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A couple sits under umbrellas in the rain and clean a poster of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela with a towel before the memorial service for Mandela at the FNB Stadium in the Johannesburg, South Africa township of Soweto, on Tuesday December 10. (AP Photo)
JOHANNESBURG, DEcEmBER 10 (REUtERS): U.S. President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuba’s Raul Castro at a memorial for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, a rare gesture between the leaders of the ideologically opposed nations that reflected the anti-apartheid hero’s spirit of reconciliation. Castro smiled as Obama moved to shake his hand on the way to the podium before making a rousing speech in memory of the former South African president, one of the world’s great peacemakers, who died on Thursday aged 95. Torrential rain failed to dampen the spirits of tens of thousands of singing and dancing mourners at Johannesburg’s Soccer City, who gathered to say farewell to Mandela alongside 90-odd world dignitaries. The crowd emitted a huge roar as Obama took his seat, in marked contrast to the boos that greeted South African President Jacob Zuma, a scandal-plagued leader whose weaknesses have been cast into sharp relief by Mandela’s death. Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe also received wide applause from the raucous crowd in the half-filled 95,000-seat stadium. Speaking yards away from communist leader Castro and Chinese Vice-President Li Yuanchao, Obama chided those who embraced Mandela’s struggle against oppression yet suppressed opposition and critics in their own countries. “There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba’s legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality,” he said, referring to Mandela by his clan name. “There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba’s struggle for freedom but do not tolerate dissent from their own people,” he said. Relations between Cuba and the United States have been frozen since soon after Cuba’s 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro, who handed over to his brother Raul in 2008 because of ill-health. Washington has maintained economic sanctions against the communist-ruled island for more than half a century. The only previous known handshake between U.S. and Cuban presidents since the revolution was in 2000 at the United Nations, when Fidel Castro shook the hand of then-U.S. President Bill Clinton in a chance encounter.
AFRICAN BLESSING Coinciding with U.N. Human Rights Day, the memorial in the bowl-shaped soccer stadium - scene of the 2010 World Cup final - is the centrepiece of a week of mourning for Mandela, revered across the world as a symbol of reconciliation and forgiveness. “He was more than one of the greatest leaders of our time. He was one of our greatest teachers,” United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the crowed. “His boabab tree has left deep roots that reach across the planet.” Since Mandela’s death, Johannesburg has been blanketed in unseasonal cloud and rain - a sign, according to African culture, of an esteemed elder passing on and being welcomed into the afterlife by his ancestors. The atmosphere inside the stadium before the ceremony was one of joy and celebration, more akin to the opening game of the World Cup three years ago that pitted jubilant hosts South Africa against Mexico. Flag-waving whites and blacks danced, blew “vuvuzela” plastic trumpets and sang anthems from the long struggle against apartheid. The packed carriages of commuter trains heading to the ground swayed side-to-side with the rhythm. “I was here in 1990 when Mandela was freed and I am here again to say goodbye,” said Beauty Pule, 51. “I am sure Mandela was proud of the South Africa he helped create. It’s not perfect but no-one is perfect, and we have made great strides.” Celebrities included singers Bono and Peter Gabriel, film star Charlize Theron, supermodel Naomi Campbell and Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson. Francois Pienaar, captain of South Africa’s victorious 1995 rugby World Cup-winning side, was also in the stands.
Weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, DEcEmBER 10 (AP): Recalling the “burning, blinding and suffocating” horrors of chemical weapons, the head of a watchdog trying to consign them to history accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday. Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said such toxic tools of warfare have an “especially nefarious legacy,” from the trenches of World War I to the poison gas attacks in Syria this year. “You cannot see them. You cannot smell them. And they offer no warning for the unsuspecting,” Uzumcu said as he collected the $1.2 million award in Oslo on behalf of the group. The OPCW was formed to enforce a 1997 international convention outlawing chemical weapons. It worked largely out of the limelight until this year, when it received its most challenging mission to date: overseeing the de-
struction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. The Nobel Peace Prize was announced on Oct. 11, just days before Syria officially joined the OPCW as its 190th member state. “It is of course a huge challenge for the OPCW to manage to destroy all these weapons under the conditions of war and chaos prevailing in the country,” Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said. “The anonymous inspectors from the OPCW do an extremely important and difficult job.” Both Jagland and Uzumcu paid tribute to the late Nelson Mandela, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993. Jagland called on the U.S. and Russia to speed up the elimination of their own stockpiles and urged the six countries that have not signed or ratified the chemical weapons convention — Angola, North Korea, Egypt, South Sudan, Israel and Myanmar — to do so.
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2. Educational Qualifications. Qualified in 10+2 / equivalent examination with 60% or more marks in aggregate with Maths & Physics and atleast one of these subjects; Chemistry/Biology/Computer Science. 3. Age. Candidates should have been born between:- 01 Aug 1994 to 31 Jul 1997 (Both dates inclusive) PAY AND PERQUISITES 4. Pay & Allowances. The Artificer Apprentices Basic Pay Band is Rs. 5200-20200. In addition they will be paid Grade Pay @Rs.2000/- plus MSP @ Rs. 2000/- plus ‘X’ Group Pay @ Rs. 1400/- plus DA. 5. Promotion. Promotion prospects exist up to the rank of Master Chief Petty OfficerI (equivalent to Subedar Major) with pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 plus Grade Pay @Rs.4800/- Plus MSP @Rs. 2000/- plus ‘X’ Group Pay @ Rs. 1400/- plus DA. Opportunities for promotion to commissioned officer also exist for those who perform well and qualify the prescribed examinations. 6. Perquisites. (a) During the entire period of training and thereafter, sailors are given books, reading material, uniform, food and accommodation etc. free of cost. (b) Sailors are entitled to medical treatment, Leave Travel Concessions for self and dependents, Group Housing Benefits and other privileges. Sailors are also entitled to Annual and Casual Leave, Children education and house rent allowances. Post retirement benefits include pension, gratuity and Leave encashment. All perquisites are extended as per service conditions and their eligibility/admissibility is regulated as per government orders in force and amended from time to time. SELECTION CRITERIA 7. Selection of recruits is based on the order of merit on their performance in Written Test, qualifying Physical Fitness Test (PFT) and fitness in the Medical Examinations. Written Test 8. (a) The question paper will be bilingual (Hindi & English) and of objective type. (b) The question paper will comprise of four sections i.e. English, Science, Mathematics and General Knowledge. (c) The standard of the question paper will be that of 10+2 and the syllabus for the examination is also available on website www.nausena-bharti.nic.in. (d) Duration of question paper will be of one hour. (e) The candidates are required to pass in all sections and in aggregate. 9. Physical Fitness Test (PFT). (a) Qualifying in Physical Fitness Test is mandatory for selection. (b) PFT will consist of 1.6 Km run to be completed in 7 minutes, 20 squat ups (Uthak Baithak) and 10 Push-ups. Candidates undergoing PFT will do so at their own risk. 10. Medical Standards. (a) Medical examination will be conducted by authorised military doctors as per medical standard prescribed in current regulations applicable to sailors on entry.
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Johnson can bowl faster Impressive Blazers rout Jazz in Perth: Craig McDermott
Australia's Mitchell Johnson bowls during the fourth day of the second Ashes cricket test match between England and Australia, in Adelaide, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 8. (AP Photo)
ADELAIDE, DEcEmbEr 10 (AFP): Australian bowling coach Craig McDermott had a chilling warning for England on Tuesday -- Mitchell Johnson can bowl even faster on his home ground in Perth. The fearsome left-arm pacer grabbed his second consecutive man-ofthe-match award after a thumping win in Adelaide on Monday as the home side took a 2-0 lead in the five-Test series. If Australia win the third Test starting in Perth on Friday, they will reclaim the Ashes they lost in 2009 with Johnson tipped to take it to another level at a ground where he has claimed 36 wickets at an average of under 20. The imposing quick, who already has 17 wickets in this series at 12.70, has bowled at speeds above 150 kph (93 mph) and playing in his home Test should provide even more pace, McDermott said. "I'd like to see -- at his home ground, being in front of his adopted state, Western Australia -- what the adrenaline does to his pace," McDermott told reporters. "Not forgetting that it's not all about speed. It's about making sure that the ball is in the right spot and that is what Mitchell has
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done since his return to international cricket, both in the shorter form and in Test match cricket. "He has been able to bowl good line or length, mixed up with some very good short-pitched bowling." McDermott forecast more sustained shortpitched bowling at England, but the Test great stopped short of describing the tourist's batsmen as being fragile against Johnson. "I'm sure they think about it a fair bit. A bloke coming at you at 150 kph or 155 kph, with a slinging action, is not a lot of fun let me tell you," he said. Australia coach Darren Lehmann, who has helped mastermind Australia's turnaround after their 3-0 series loss in England earlier this year, said his key task was to keep the 32-year-old firing on all cylinders. "He's been impressive. He's confident. Our challenge is to keep him going and bowling that way. It's exciting for Test match cricket," Lehmann said. "It's exciting to see bowlers bowl fast, or spinners turn it square. You've got to adapt and improve your technique. It's always exciting to see guys bowl at those speeds." With momentum on their side,
Lehmann wants his team to keep on doing what they've been doing in Perth. "They're pretty driven this lot. I'm really pleased with what they're bringing to the table and how they've gone about it in the last few Test matches," he said. "Obviously changed a few things in England and they've been really good. They're trying to get the right goal for Australian cricket. That's not just the short-term, that's longterm." Lehmann said he expected all-rounder Shane Watson to bowl more in Perth after being used sparingly in Brisbane and Adelaide, where his focus was on his batting. "He's been under-bowled. He could have bowled more in the first Test and in Adelaide," he said. "From our point of view that's handy. But he's an all-rounder, so we expect him to bowl more. And he'll certainly have to in Perth if the weather is hot." The Australians have been dominant at the WACA, where England's only win came in 1978, but the tourists' captain Alastair Cook insisted the past was irrelevant. "We have to go there as this side in 2013 and deliver something very special or we're not going to do what we've come to do," he said.
POrTLAND, DEcEmbEr 10 (AP): The Trail Blazers had the perfect recipe for a record shooting night — nice ball movement, open shooters, a good rhythm, and one of the NBA's worst teams as an opponent. "We were feeling it," Wesley Matthews said after Portland set franchise and league 3-point records in a 13098 win over the struggling Utah Jazz on Friday. Matthews scored 24 points and LaMarcus Aldridge added 20 points and 15 rebounds for the surging Blazers, who have won four straight and 15 of 16. Portland made 17 of 23 shots from 3-point range for 73.9 percent, an NBA record for a team with at least 20 attempts, according to basketball-reference.com. Portland also surpassed its previous franchise mark of 16 3-pointers. Damian Lillard added 21 points and Nicolas Batum had 13 for the Blazers. Alec Burks had 16 points to lead the Jazz, who trailed by as many as 42. They have lost 10 of 11 games on the road this season. Gordon Hayward, Jeremy Evans and John Lucas III scored 10 apiece. "It wasn't a lack of effort," Hayward said. "It just started to snowball on us." With the best record in the Western Conference, the Blazers (17-3) have been one of the NBA's most surprising teams. After winning only 33 games last season, Portland has more than half that total. And after beating Indiana and Oklahoma City in their last two games, the Blazers have even received some national notoriety, including being the subject of a New York Times feature story Thursday. Aldridge has scored 20
Portland Trail Blazers' Mo Williams (25) drives pass Utah Jazz's Alec Burks (10) in the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Trail Blazers won 105-94. (AP Photo)
points or more in all but four games this season. He was serenaded with chants of "MVP! MVP!" after putting up 38 points and 13 rebounds in Portland's 111104 win over the Thunder on Wednesday. Portland's sharp jump shooting has required opponents to respect the outside shooters and not spend so much time containing Aldridge inside, which has led to his increasing dominance. "Last year I was getting doubled a lot. There's a lot more 1-on-1 play now," he said. While the Blazers
are leading the West, Utah (4-17) is in the basement. The Jazz entered with the least potent offense in the conference at 91.2 points per game. Utah shot just 41 percent Friday but it was defense that left coach Tyrone Corbin shaking his head. The Jazz were outscored 39-22 in the first quarter and 40-13 in the third. "If you give up 40 points in a quarter and 30 points in a quarter, it's like you're not even on the floor," Corbin said. Utah point guard Trey Burke struggled to contain
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LONDON, DEcEmbEr 10 (rEuTErS): Formula One is to award double points for the last race of the season in a controversial attempt to keep championships undecided to the very end after four years of Red Bull domination. The novelty, immediately dismissed by some angry fans as a needless gimmick, was the most eye-catching of several rule changes announced by the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) on Monday. The FIA said double points would "maximise focus on the championship until the end of the campaign" and had been unanimously approved at a meeting in Paris of teams in the F1 Strategy Group and Formula One Commission. Next year's season-ender is the day-tonight race in Abu Dhabi on November 23. With the points haul on offer, that often processional event becomes worth twice as much as Monza or Monaco - the glamour highlight of the season - and the same in scoring terms as classics like Spa and Suzuka combined. Fans were quick to express dismay and anger on social media, with a snap poll of 100 members on the f1fanatic.com website showing 92 percent opposed to the idea.
Others pointed out that bad luck in the final race would have a far greater impact on the title outcome than at any other point in the season. Vettel, 26, won the last nine races and wrapped up his fourth title in a row with three rounds to spare this year but he would not have been champion in 2012 had double points been awarded in the last race. Neither would Britain's Lewis Hamilton have been champion with McLaren in 2008 nor Michael Schumacher for Ferrari in 2003, when Brazilian Felipe Massa and Finland's Kimi Raikkonen would have taken the title instead. COST CAP The FIA also announced that the principle of a global cost cap had been unanimously approved, with the aim of introducing it from January 2015. The Paris-based body said a working group, made up of the FIA, commercial rights holder and team representatives, would be established so that regulations could be approved by the end of June next year. Formula One has tried before to implement a budget cap, with previous proposals bogged down in argument about what should be exempt and how to police any measures in a sport full of commercial secrecy.
Kings power past Mavericks
SAcrAmENTO, DEcEmbEr 10 (AP): DeMarcus Cousins had 32 points and 19 rebounds, and Derrick Williams scored a career-high 31 to pace the Sacramento Kings to a 112-97 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night. Using just 10 players, the Kings enjoyed one of their better games offensively all season. They led by 19 points after three quarters and by as many as 24 points in the fourth in winning their second straight. Earlier in the day, the Kings completed a sevenplayer deal with Toronto that brought them Rudy Gay, Aaron Gray and Quincy Acy. Greivis Vasquez, Patrick Patterson, John Salmons and Chuck Hayes went to the Raptors. Isaiah Thomas had 24 points and a careerhigh 12 assists, and Jason Thompson added 10 points and seven rebounds for the Kings. Sacramento has Kings forward Derrick Williams, left, blocks the drive of Dallas Mavericks forplayed 13 of its 19 games at Sacramento ward Shawn Marion during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., home this season, going 4-9. Monday, Dec. 9. (AP Photo)
Monta Ellis had 21 points for the Mavericks, who had won three straight, including the last two on the road. The loss also snapped a five-game win streak against the Kings. Dallas had won 15 of the previous 16 meetings and was 23-3 against the Kings dating to April 4, 2006. Dirk Nowitzki had 18 points, Jose Calderon scored 11 and Shane Larkin had 10 for Dallas. Coming off an impressive win Saturday at Portland, the Mavericks shot 40 percent and were 5 of 27 on 3-pointers. Gay was Toronto's second-leading scorer this season and has averaged 18 points and 5.9 rebounds in his eight-year career. The Kings three new players will make their debut Wednesday at home against Utah. They sat in a sky box and drew sizable applause when introduced in the opening half. "This is the NBA and I expect the unexpected," Kings coach Michael Malone said before the game.
Lillard early and scored seven points in 16 minutes. Burke, a rookie from Michigan, has given the Jazz a lift since moving into the starting lineup over the past seven games, and Utah is 3-4 during that stretch. There was talk of a "trap game" in the Portland locker room before the game, and the Blazers were wary of a letdown. It was clear from the beginning that wouldn't happen. The Blazers led by as many as 17 in the first quarter and, other than a lag when the Jazz cut the lead to 48-40 in the second, con-
trolled the whole game. Lillard scored all his points in the first half and the Blazers led 67-56 at the break. They scored the first 10 points of the third and extended their lead to 89-59 by the middle of the quarter. Portland led 107-69 entering the final period. "I think we came out and took care of business," Dorell Wright said. "They made their run in the second quarter, and I think we responded well in the second half as far as coming out and getting stops and making our shots."
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from Northern Ireland, is living in Los Angeles while he collaborates on Ed Sheeran's album. Ed, meanwhile, enjoyed Thanksgiving in the company of both Jennifer and Courteney. T h e c a m a ra d e r i e among this group also extends to One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles, who encouraged his fans via Twitter to vote for Courteney at the People's Choice Awards. 'Vote Courtney Cox. Rule number one.. Always vote Courtney Cox,' Harry wrote, obviously forgetting that the nominee spells her name with an 'e' after the 't.' Earlier this month, Sheeran put in own heartfelt bid for the Cougar Town star on Twitter - which McDaid retweeted on November 19. 'My friend Courteney is nominated for a People Choice Award for favou-
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duet on "We Can't Stop" and "Blurred Lines" was the year's most watched video on its websites. Similarly, the MTV artist site devoted to Cyrus had more visits than any other artist's. Besides "We Can't Stop," the song "Wrecking Ball" and album "Bangerz" were big hits for Cyrus, who also had notable appearances on "Saturday Night Live" and MTV's Eu-
ropean music awards show. MTV executives pick their top artist. One Direction won last year, and Katy Perry won the year before. This year, Cyrus was an easy choice, said Amy Doyle, head of MTV's music and talent programming strategy. "She dominated the music charts and critics' best-of lists while creating some of the year's most memorable moments," Doyle said.
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Justin Bieber, left, exchanges high-fives with children survivors of typhoon Haiyan during his visit December 10 to Tacloban city, Leyte province in central Philippines. The teen heartthrob Bieber arrived Tuesday in the Philippines, where he has launched a campaign to help victims of last month's killer typhoon. (AP Photo)
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scoop it on top of the apple pie? #WOW'But there is one thing Joey can't get his hands on Down Under, and he took to Twitter to plead with his TOWIE pals to have a portion of sticky toffee pudding ready for him when he gets back to Essex. He tweeted: 'Craving ' sticky toffee pudding with custard ' for a month now. Have it ready for me please @tompearce1 @ JamesBennewith @RealJamesArgent ?Joey is now heading home to the UK from Australia, sharing a picture of himself on the plane after leaving Oz. There was no sign of Amy in the shot, however, despite Joey confirming on Mon-
day that he and the beauty queen are officially dating - after weeks of flirtation in the jungle. He told the Daily Mirror: 'Our first date was amazing. I'm very happy. Look at her, she's beautiful.' Joey also shared a video of himself and Amy 'boppin' to the music coming from a nearby car as they headed t the airport to catch their flight.
destroying evidence and "resisting, obstructing and delaying a peace officer." Prosecutors claim the men took a roof panel from the tow truck which was carrying the wrecked car after it stopped at a red light. Prosecutors also say the men had been warned by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy not to tamper with the crime scene. If they are convicted, both Jameson and Anthony could face a maximum of four and a half years in jail. After his alleged irresponsible behaviour, Jameson, 18, is said to have posted pictures of the stolen car part on Instagram. Since Paul and Roger died in the accident when their vehicle smashed into a pole in Santa Clarita, California - thousands of tributes have been paid to them both by families, friends and associates. Paul's close pal, Vin Diesel - who played Dominic Toretto in the 'Fast and Furious' film franchise, opposite his character Brian O'Conner - wrote: "I wish you could see the world right now... and the profound impact, your full life has had on it, on Us... on me..."I will always love you Brian, as the brother you were... on and off screen. (sic)" Yesterday (08.12.13) an unofficial memorial rally was staged in the area where the pair tragically lost their lives.
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taken to meet Lady Gaga backstage, and proudly told her that their daughter is her biggest fan. 'They also said that even though she's only two years old, she already sings Gaga songs!' But it wasn't only Harper that was starstruck at the annual musical event. David and Victoria's eldest son Brooklyn, 14, is a such a big fan of boyband Lawson that he decided to watch the band's set from the side of the stage, along with two female friends who accompanied the Beckham family to the event. The trio were seen dancing along as the fourpiece band performed their hit track Juliet, before head-
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ing backstage to meet the boys face-to-face. Along with Lawson and Gaga, the Beckhams were also introduced to Jessie J and David's favourite act Dizzee Rascal during the secret meet and greet. They also met Capital FM's breakfast hosts Lisa Snowdon and Dave Berry, who they said they listen to every morning on the radio station. Speaking previously about passing on her musical talents to her children, Victoria said: 'We’re a musical family. 'The boys are in the choir and play guitar. I sing with them in the car like every mum. But I won’t sing professionally ever again.'
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offense at times. We came out with the win. That's all I really care about at this point." Curry, a Charlotte native who burst on to the national scene while playing at nearby Davidson College, said it was fun playing well in front of his family, including his father Dell, a former NBA player and now a broadcaster with the Bobcats. Even so, taking the loss was disappointing. "This one stings worse than it has stung in a while," Curry said. Curry was impressed with Walker's effort. "Hey man, the guy made big plays down the stretch," he said. "He got to the lane and made some tough shots. He kept them just ahead of us. I'm sure that is what they expect him to do, and what he expects to do every night." The Warriors (12-11) never led, but tied the game at 88-all on a pair of free throws by Curry. But Ramon Sessions scored on a pair of drives and the seldom-used Ben Gordon knocked down a 3-pointer to quickly push the lead back to seven with 6:50 left in the game. Walker hit a 3-pointer and a fall away in the lane to help stretch the lead to 11. But Curry kept coming. He knocked down a 28-footer with Walker's hand in his face to cut the Bobcats' lead to 111-109 with 11 seconds left. But the Warriors were forced to foul and Walker hit four
CENTURION, DECEmbER 10 (PTI): Having conceded the ODI series with humiliating back-toback defeats, India will aim to salvage some pride by winning the third onedayer against South Africa on Wednesday, in order to gain confidence ahead of the two-Test series. It will be redemption time for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men at the Super Sport Park after two embarrassing losses in the first two matches which also exposed the famed batting line-up's inability to cope with pace and bounce of the South African tracks. India suffered a 141run rout in the first ODI at Wanderers and then another 136-run defeat in the second ODI at Kingsmead. A contest that started with D.J Campbell. (AP File Photo) questions about the visiLONDON, DECEmbER Professional Footballers' tors' bowling line-up has 10 (AP): English football Association said. "We take turned into an uncomfortfaced renewed concerns the issue of integrity very able one about their young about match-fixing Mon- seriously and will continue day after Blackburn striker in our efforts to eradicate D.J. Campbell was identi- this evil from our game." Campbell has previousfied as one of six people arrested in the second police ly played in the topflight for investigation into rigged Birmingham, Blackpool and games opened inside two Queens Park Rangers. He's weeks. Campbell is one of been playing for Blackburn two former Premier League in the League Championplayers arrested after Brit- ship season, and the club ish newspaper The Sun un- confirmed Campbell's arcovered alleged spot-fixing rest on its website but said — where minor elements it was prevented from comof a game are rigged — in menting further because it the professional leagues. is an ongoing legal matter. The main allegations That follows another newspaper investigation by the don't center on players afDaily Telegraph, which led fecting the results of a game, to non-league players be- but rather on things like deliberately earning yellow ing charged. The latest probe is cards. Many bookmakers alseemingly more serious, as low people to bet on whethit involves games as high up er a certain player will be as the second-tier League booked. The Sun reported Championship, and with that officers were likely to claims by one player that he look at a yellow card Campcould even help rig Premier bell received for a tackle League matches. "These al- committed in the first half legations, if proven, unfor- of Blackburn's game against tunately demonstrate the Ipswich on Tuesday. Acreal issue football faces in cording to the newspaper, terms of corruption and former Portsmouth and Nihighlights the necessity of geria defender Sam Sodje the work carried out by the claimed he could fix PrePFA and other stakeholders mier League games and was in the game in educating capable of rigging matches players of these risks," the at next year's World Cup.
self-belief. That bit has now been wiped clear by some sensational fast bowling. It also reflects on how top-heavy this Indian batting has become. Ahead of the series, it was a celebratory fact that Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli, each of them had a thousand runs in ODIs this calendar year. Two matches later, it becomes clear that the onus of run-scoring now clearly rests on their shoulders alone (with Dhoni as a floater in the latter half of the innings "depending on situations", as put by vicecaptain Virat Kohli). There will be intense pressure on the Indian team considering they have to bear the brunt of the best pacer in world cricket up front as well as hinge the non-performing middleorder batsmen from the rest of a finely assembled bowling attack.
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free throws in the final 11 seconds to seal the victory. Henderson had 24 points and Josh McRoberts had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Bobcats (10-11), who won their second straight game. Walker finished 10-of18 from the field. "Kemba is A-1 competitor and that is a well-rounded game he played because he played tenacious, I don't care how many points (Curry) had," Bobcats coach Steve Clifford said. "... Some of Curry's shots were just unguardable." Curry was 3-of-11 in the first half, but got hot late in the third quarter and finished 14-of-32 from the field against a Bobcats team that hadn't allowed 100 points in 13 straight games. He was only 5-of16 from 3-point range, but was 10-of-12 from the freethrow line. Curry also had nine assists. The Warriors fell behind by 12 at the half after shooting 1-of-12 from 3-point range. Warriors coach Mark Jackson said before the game that Curry's play has been "spectacular" this season. "He's been playing at a whole different level," Jackson said. "He's playing and acting like he's the best player on the floor night in and night out, carrying us down the stretch, making plays, choosing when to take over offensively and he knows when to facilitate."
Blessing Crusade was conducted at RUDRAPUR of UTTARKHAND STATE from 22nd to 24th of November 2013 by Rev ZOTUO KIEWHUO Senior Pastor of Koinonia Baptist Church, Kohima. Rev Kiewhuo shared on the theme “Gods’ love... The Greatest of All... love one another as Jesus Loves Us... john 15:12”. Despite stiff resistance by some anti-Christian, Gods grace prevailed upon the people of Rudrapur and many people surrendered their lives to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Moreover, through the Healing grace of Jesus Christ many sick were healed and blessed. Publicity wing, Koinonia Baptist Church
TRANSFORMATION CRUSADE Theme: - 'Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD
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